February 12, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Yankees manager Aaron Boone saying the Yankees will have 'more class' than the Dodgers if they win the World Series, chatter that Joel Embiid's contract is not tradeable right now, and more!
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Boom, Shaka laka. It's our numbbertu our number two like
a HOGI ready to go here on this Wednesday hump day.
And here in hour number two, can you parse the
words of a longtime manager, Aaron Boone when he says
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the Yankees will have more class. That's the quote, more
class quote than the Dodgers if they win the World
Series in twenty twenty five. Also to pro bouncy ball,
there is chatter that Joel Embiid's seventy six ers contract
is so obscene it's not tradable right now because of
his injury woes, believe it or not, and the Lakers
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have added Alex lenn to fill the center position. Does
that hit you in the right spot there? How does
that hit you? We'll talk about that as well. All
of it's coming your way right now here it is.
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this hour from baseball. Well you talking to baseball? What's
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wrong with you? Have you lost your mind? No? I've
not lost my mind. But we have a mantra on
this show. We start out every day looking for the
things that are interesting to talk about. I thought this was.
Several of my compadres sent me the story, including the
bus driver Roberto, who's a friend of the show forever,
Roberto who left drive a bus. But our lead is
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from spring Training, Arizona and Florida. The content city. Yeah wow.
Sports Chatter filling up with Bronx Bomber angst, Bronx Bomber angst.
If you didn't see this or hear about it, maybe
you're not into the baseball stuff yet. I get it.
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I thought this was a good story, and I have
atorial control, so I am going with his story. Yankees
manager Aaron Boone, who is like a tenured professor at Harvard.
You can't get rhythm, Aaron Boone. So Aaron Boone was
spitting mad as the Yankees get ready to start spring training.
Here get spring training underway in Florida. Aaron Boon very
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upset after hearing the criticism directed to his Yankee team
that was levied by the Doyers after they bludgeoned the
Yankees in last year's World Series. Boone, as the Yankees
begin spring training camp in Florida, said, the Yankees will
quote handle things with a little more class if New
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York wins the Fall Classic in twenty twenty five. Keep
in mind that you're in high school now and the
last if you're in high school right now, like as
a freshman or a sophomore in high school, when you
were like born, the Yankees last one World Series? How
about that? Yeah? Yankees last one in nine? My computer
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like brain tells me that sixteen years ago. And the
way the Yankees are going, Uh, it's the big apple.
You say, it's a big rotten apple. They're not going
the right direction. So let us discuss good story. Right,
So it's after the World Series. Months and months have passed.
World Series was what late October, early November. World Series ends,
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you go through December, January. Now we're into February and
still still this is an issue. So the question can
you parse the words? Can you parse the words of
manager Aaron Boone when he says the Yankees will have
more class than the Dayers if they win the World
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Series in twenty twenty five? All right, so buckle up, buccaroo.
I've got Kremlin, Suckersville, and Blues Brothers. We will combine
all of these things together and we're going to make
a slice of authentic key lime pie from this local
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key Lime pie shop in Florida. And so that's that's
what we're gonna do. We're gonna make some key lime pie.
So n burn. Yeah, Aaron Boone is seeing ghosts. He's
like Sam Darnold, right, it's a Poulter Guy situation. He's
being haunted by Yankees of years gone by, and the
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fact that the Yankees did the old slip and fall.
I've fallen, I can't get up in the World Series,
from Freddie Freeman's iconic walk off Grand Slam to begin
the Fall Classic to the performance that ended it, the
bloopers and practical jokes in Game five of the World Series.
This performance has opened the oozing puss from the Yankees.
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Now Aaron Boone annoyed, and he's really upset with two guys,
Chris Taylor and Joe Kelly, who criticized the Yankees and
their inability to field the baseball, their inability to run
the bases. They're just blatant lack of fundamentals the bedrock
of baseball in the Bronx, and even though they're getting
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paid a lot of money, there's not good at that.
And these comments came out in the aftermath of the
World Series and saying that the New York's issues in
those areas were well known. I believe Chris Taylor had
said that, and Joe Kelly just went scorched earth and
said that the Yankees just essentially poopied down their leg.
They poopied down their leg. So Aaron Boone. After a
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minutes long Mallard deliberation, I have determined that Aaron Boone
is like the Kremlin. He supports online censorship. He does
not want the truth to get out. He wants to
silence the opposition. And spoiler alert, spoiler alert, both Chris
Taylor and Joe Kelly were spot on. No lies detected.
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The Yankees were a mediocre to bad defensive team that
had been their kryptonite. They were not a fundamentally well
schooled team. And Joe Kelly is also right that the
Yankees did. I don't know they pooped down their leg.
I think they urinated down their leg. It was a
massive failure what the Yankees did in Game five of
the World Series. And in case you've forgotten, because we've
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gone through a few months here since the World Series,
Garrett Cole was on the mound. He was working on
a no hitter. It was the fifth inning. He had
a five run lead, highest paid pitcher in baseball, Garrett Cole,
five run lead at home the Boogeynown Bronx Yankee Stadium.
And then there was not one, not two, but three
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egregious boners by the Bronx Bombers. Beginning with that Aaron Judge,
El Kapitan, Aaron Judge who muffed the fly ball in
center field. Then you had the next jeter, Anthony Volpi,
who had a throwing error. And the cherry on top
of the poopy Sunday was Garrett Cole, the highest paid
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pitcher in baseball, too lazy to cover first base on
a ground ball to Anthony Rizzo. And the way I
look at this, and then the main reason Aaron Boone's
upsets why defending the pride of the Yankees and all that,
That's not what this is. Aaron Boone at his core
realizes he failed the Yankees, that he did a bad
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job as Yankee manager, and he kept his job because
the ownership of the Yankees don't care that much. Now,
that's not the old man Steinbrenner. It's the kids, and
the kids just run it as a business and as
long as Cashman's there, Boone will be there. But it's
the same concept we use in football, we use it
in baseball. And Aaron Boone knows this. You're either coaching
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it or you're allowing it to happen. But either way,
it's on Aaron Boone. Either Aaron Boone is allowing it
to happen, meaning he's not doing the fundamental drills and
trying to improve the Yankees defensively, or or you know,
he's kind of looking the other way. Either way, it's
not good. Now we move from baseball and we go
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to Philadelphi huddle around the radio, but we go to
Philly for a little basketball talk. There were some whispers
out I thought this was intriguing around the NBA that say,
despite all of these wild trade rumors and some of
the big trades that have actually happened, like Jimmy Butler
traded and Luca not really a trade more of a giveaway,
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make a wish for the Lakers. So Joel Embiid in Philly,
his injuries are so massive combined with his contract he
has three years and one hundred and ninety two million
dollars on the contract extension that the seventy six Ers
even if they tried to trade Joel Embiid, they wouldn't
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be able to. He is not a tradable commodity for Philadelphia.
That is the money quote that report making the rounds here.
The chatter is that Joel Embiid, with all of the
injury woes and his contract. He is not tradeable by
the Sixers right now, believe it or not. Believe it
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or not, so I believe it to a point. And
with all of these trades, the NBA trade deadline outs
it's over. Doesn't mean no more trades until the off season.
But Joel Embiid, we know he's still in Philly, and
that tells me this is very deep. That is a
dead giveaway, dead giveaway. Joel is in the same category
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as Ben Simmons, as Kawhi Leonard. Just two seasons ago,
he won the Most Valuable Player Award. Now, I shouldn't
have won it the last year. It should have gone
to Jokic again, but they gave it to Embiid and
they felt bad for him because he bitched a lot,
and so they gave Embiid the MVP award that year. However,
he continues to be more unreliable and is a diminished asset.
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I was actually watching some of the the Sixers game
because I got nothing else going on on Tuesday, and
it was about a minute to go before halftime, and
Embiid goes down. And every time he goes down, it's
like Anthony Davis or Kawhidi. All these guys are the same.
They're all frauds, right, They're so fragile. It's like Humpty Dumpty,
Humpty dumpty fell down and you're like, oh, hit me out,
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and he's like so dramatic, grabbing, Oh my god, my arm,
the whole thing. It's it's so pathetic. Now, as far
as the question at hand, and I said, I am,
I believe it to a point. The reason I only
believe it to a point that Joel Embiid is not
tradable right now by the Sixers is in order for
the seventy six ers to get out from under Joel
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Ebeid's deal, they would have to visit a town called Suckersville,
and sucker You're never that far away from Suckersville. You're
never that far away. So far they've been unable to
reach Suckersville. Maybe the moat around Suckersville, the drawbridge is
up around Suckersville, and they can't get into Suckersville. But
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you just have to find a team dumb enough to
take Embid. I'm worried the Clippers are going to take Embid,
that they'll trade for Embiid and they'll make some kind
of wild deal and they'll reunite Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid.
But if you're a poker player and you're at the
table playing poker, right, and if you look around the
table and there's like three or four other people at
the table, you play poker and you don't see the
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sucker at the table, the suckers you, right. So that's
a generally pretty good rule of thumb. And so Joel
Embid the Sixers are the sucker to this point, trust
the process. They trusted the process. They haven't won anything.
And now they've got this guy that can't either can't
stay healthy or it's just not that into it and
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has some issues. Got into it with a Philadelphia media
guy because he can't control his emotion, Joel Embiid. And
so there you are, all right now, final point to
the high Speed Sports Wire. We go the high speed
Sports Wire, the wire burning up. The Lakers have made
a move. They've acquired their guy. Move over Wilt Chamberlain.
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Move over Kareem abdul Jabbar, move over Wilt Chamberlain. The
Lakers have added a center. The Lakers have made their move.
They have completed the team. They are now championship ready,
the LA Lakers. I don't know if you're ready for
this or not. They waived Christian Wood and they did
a roster buyout edition. Roster buyout edition. The LA Lakers
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adding to their legacy, writing another chapter the greatness of
Laker basketball. They have added Alex Lenn. The LA Lakers
have added Alex Lenn. That is their new center. Congratulations Lakers, congratulations,
tremendous pick up. Unbelievable. The entire NBA is shocked. How
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could the Lakers have gotten this guy? It must be rigged.
So Alex Lenn was supposed to sign with the Pacers,
but he decided he'd rather just live in LA and
have all the historians lick his toes. And so the
Lakers they needed somebody because Charlotte waived that guy. Or
Charlotte traded Mark Williams and the Lakers decided they didn't
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want him because he was damaged Goods. So he went
back to North Carolina and the Lakers have added Alex
Lenn to fill the center position. Does that hit the spot?
Oh yeah, it definitely hits the spot. I could not
stop laughing when I saw this that this is the solution,
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This is the answer. You know what that is. It
is a Blues Brothers tune. Rubber biscuit. It is a
rubber biscuit. It is a wish sandwich, the kind of
a sandwich where you take two pieces of bread right
to put them together and you wish you had some
meat about Wow. Wow Wow. Alex Land has played in
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thirty six games for Sacramento this season. And I got
to tell you, I know my basketball. This guy's a stud.
And I don't know how the Lakers got him. I
don't know how they did it. Alex lann averaged in
Sacramento this year one point four points per game, one
point eight rebounds per game. Very impressive. Another solid move
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by the Skinny Suits GM there of the Lakers, the
Wizards had acquired Alex Lynn from Sacramento. It was a
three way trade that happened last week before the deadline,
and it was the Marcus Smart trade. He went from
Memphis to the Wizards and then they bought Alex lenn
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out and so the Lakers making their move. What a move.
It was Alex Lynn roster spam and now he is
a like a great moments in Laker history from Chamberlain
to Kareem and to Shaq and even before that George
Miken and now a great Alex Lenn How do they
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keep doing it? How do they get it done? I
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drug Tester says, who would you give? Who would give
you better answers for a radio interview? A dog show
winner or a Little League World Series champion? Well a
great show knowledge. Late Night Drug Tester one of the
all time worst moments in the history of the Fox
Sports Radio There was a kid for the Hawaiian Little
League team that was the pitcher and the top hitter
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hit like a Grand Slam to win the Little League
World Series. This probably goes back, I don't know, fifteen years.
The kid's probably like almost thirty now. But we had
him on and I demanded, I said, that kid's the hero.
We got to get the kid on, and I asked
open ended questions one after another, and the kid had
stage fright. He was nervous to be on the radio
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and was an app solute disaster. It was so oh my.
I must have asked. I'm doing this for memory, so
I'll probably get it wrong. If I heard it again,
it would be much different than my memory. But my
memory is I asked him maybe eight or nine questions
in about two minutes, about two and most of it was.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Trying to get him to reply at all.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, just trying to get him to open up. And
who's your or who's your favorite place.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
For just have one answers like yeah, I don't know,
but you asked.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I'd be like, well, i'd ask a non open question.
To ask an open question. You be like, all right,
so who's your favorite baseball player? So he's Derek Jeter.
Why do you like Derek Jeter? He's good, you know
that kind of thing. And it was, Yeah, it's one
of those deals. And yeah, great moments in broadcasting, good
knowledge by the Late Night Drug tester Daniel writes in
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he says, can you explain how the Lakers signing Alex
Lane is broadcasting not narrow casting? Well, he's got broad
shoulders and it's a story, I'm told.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
But Ben loves the Lakers. It's his favorite sports radio.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Tells me Cooper Loop tells me that anything involving the
Lakers I must talk about. They're better people. And uh,
this is the next great Lakers center.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
From worldwide story seven seven seven footer, big big body
to clog the lanes.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Tremendous pick up by the Lakers. I don't know how
they keep doing it. I mean, a guy averaging less
than two points a game, we don't need him to score. No,
you don't. He doesn't need twenty rebounds a game.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
What do you think we don't need him the rebound either. No,
Luca averages ten rebounds a game. Lebron averages like ten
rebounds a game. We're good.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I cannot wait for the playoffs. When the Lakers get eliminated,
they got to build the team around Luca. Ryan writes
in says, are we sure that Aaron Boone was managing
as the needs in the front office manage and Boone
is a yes man of the nerds. I think he
meant this. They said needs, but I think he met nerds. Yeah. Well,
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that's always been the argument for both Dave Roberts and
Aaron Boone, that they are just middle managers and they
just are merely repeating, merely repeating what the front office
tells them to do, following them like Manchurian candidate or
something like that. They're just following instructions and that's how
it's going. Ferg Dog writes in from that winter wonderland
in Fullerton and says, what are your final grades on
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the Lakers trade deadline performance? I give them a D minus.
I'm not impressed. Yeah, well, it's malfeasans. The Lakers traded
for a guy who's injured, and that was their big
move in. They tread for a fat guy and a
guy that's injured, and they had to rescind that trade.
That's that's the Lakers right there. Tremendous GM worked by
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the Lakers. Unbelievable. We go to the phones and we'll
take some calls. Here. Let's see who do we have
aie miney mall. Let's say hello to Andrea, who's in
Berkeley and she's got the star chart out right now,
Hello Andrea.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Welcome, Hello Ben.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
How are you the astrology lady? Is there a cosmic event?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
On the calendar, there is certainly is.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
I can tell by some of the callers. We've got
a full moon going.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Oh, yes, sweet moon. What kind of moon is this?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
You know how much we like the Farmer's Almanac.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Yes, I love it.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Snow moon and that makes a lot of sense. I
just spoke to some friends and family in New York
and it's definitely a full snow moon in February, and
it's actually in Leo. The Son's in Aquarius and it
is full at I believe it's five sixty five am.
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So when we get off the phone and the show shortly.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
After, Okay, we got a full moon going.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
So we're feeling the energies now it's on the horizon now, yes,
so yeah, we got a full snow moon in Aquarius Leo,
and it's called the snow moon because of obviously the weather,
and it can be seen by most people, so feel
free to look out the window and howl at the moon.
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And it rises in one of the most snowiest months
in February. That's why it's called the snow moon. And
it reaches its peak at five point fifty five am,
so soon enough, and it's just really a.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Snow moon and it's awesome. All right. Well, yes, we
have the snow moon going on, and then there's always
crazier callers when there's a full moon. And as you
pointed out, Andrea, it's not just the night of the
full moon. It's a couple of days before and a
couple of days after. It's a whole week of fun, exactly.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
I always liking it to a cold you feel it
about two days before the day of and about two
days after.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
There you go, all right, well, thank you, Andrea. I
appreciate that. The virgo in service on actually want to
say hello to Andrea. She's got all the star charts
out and she's got her newsletter comes out a few
times a year, and she's a big supporter of the show,
big friend of the show, and obviously very into the
cosmic events. Our friend Andrea checking in, so I wanted
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to go back to the dog show because we had
to cut this off because we ran into a hard
network out at the top of the hours, they say
in the business, so why don't we play this again.
This is the biggest event in the dog world. I mean,
this is the night for the dogs. And it was
the Westminster Dog Show in midtown Manhattan there and they
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announced the winners best in Show, Best in This is
the highest honor, the highest honor a dog can win
in a dog's life. You have reached the mecca. And
again if you missed it earlier, let's play the whole thing.
My Man a guy I did radio with back in
the former Fox Sports Radio guy part of the Alumni Association,
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Chris Myers. He had the play by play on FS one.
And this is much bigger than the super Bowl and
much more competitive than the super Bowl. But listen to
how the Westminster Kennel Dog Show ended. Take a listen.
It's great.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
For beston Show at the ninth annual Westminster Kennel Club
Dog Show, I choose the giant Schneuzy Monty.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
He did it three years A final one's best in Show.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
What an incredible moment for Katie Bernard in Money the
Magnificent of your twenty twenty five the show, the Giant Schnauzer.
Congratulations Sandra Nordstrom, Katie Bernardon, and Sherland Ambrose. Great win
for all of you tonight in Credible the Dog Parents, Ben.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Who wins?
Speaker 8 (26:05):
You joked about a three peat, but nothing like winning
at all. Ask anybody who's been there, who's championship of
being on top of things like me.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
All right, there's the great Chris Meyers on the call,
and congratulations to the full Monty the giant Schnauzer.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
You know when they say giant, Ben, it makes me
think of like a giant sloth.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
No, it's not a giant. I thought the sheep dog
was bigger than this dog.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
That sheep dog was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
The sheep dog we saw the other day yesterday, I
think it was. That was a good looking dog. That
was like a mop, like a mop with legs. It's beautiful. Yeah,
just a good looking schnauzer. But I'm biased. I like
the bulldog, the English bulldog. That's my dog. I'm biased
that I like the shitsu, but I don't like I
don't not like the shitsho's in the dog show because
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they're all dulled up, and I don't I don't like that.
You know, that's not my dog, Bella, who died a
couple of years ago. But Bella was disheveled, Bella was frazzled.
That's to me how shitshu should look. Not all dressed up.
And they look like they've had a tough night out.
They've been out all night, all week, they haven't slept.
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That's the kind of dog I want, not one of
these all fool food dogs and all that. And so
they mess up the ships who's and the dog shops?
Bad job by them. But the giant shower Snauzer, that's fine.
It's okay. Now who finished in second? Do we know
who finished in second?
Speaker 6 (27:31):
And that?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Do we know?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
But now I'm curious on who our top dogs are.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Let me check, all right, we'll get to the bottom
of that there because there's many different groups there. There
was the Bourbon the whipp It whipp It Good was
the winner of reserve best in Show. That was the
backup I guess best in Show, mister Whippett. So congratulations
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to the whip it. It's a wonderful name for a dog.
Absolutely wonderful name.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Isn't that what people do out of the writer?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Okay, yeah, it's a family show. There's a lot of
people listening right now. In family. Let's go out to
the phones and we'll say hello to he's got a
weed man hippie. I'm gonna do a wellness check on
weed Man hippie. This guy had so much invested in
Kansas City. He was talking about a new religion if
on the Bowl on Sunday, And now there's no new religion?
(28:26):
And are you now going to become atheist now because
the chiefs lost?
Speaker 6 (28:31):
Unbelievable. I can't believe that.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, your phone is a whole new world. I know,
could have been amazing.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
Patrick Mahony.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, is it only my headphones? It sounds like weed
Man's phones a little bit.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
No, he sounds absolutely horrible.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
And what's wrong with your phone? Is you're Obama phone dying?
Weed Man? Do you need a new phone?
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Every good?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Nah, you don't sound very good. I'll hear you all right.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Yeah, Past mahon drew in that day.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah, oh we made did you see while I have
you on the phone, did you see the f around
and find out story, CJ. You know who CJ. Gardner
Johnson is, no, you don't. You have no idea, You
have no idea. So he's a football players, a big
football player for the Philadelphia Eagles, right. The guy is
a big trash talking guy and the Eagles domaged you
know dominated we know that in the Super Bowl. And so, uh,
(29:35):
this guy decided to unload on Taylor Swift and and
took some shots. Wow, and uh and whatnot c J.
Gardner Johnson. So it's uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, it goes
by the the name c D. Deuce is a nickname there.
But on on Instagram, c J. Gardner Johnson, Uh, he
(29:59):
referenced one of tras Travis Kelsey's like ex girlfriends, and
he made a comment that he should have stayed with
that thick blank is what he said there. He apparently
Kelsey's former girlfriend had a big caboose and CJ said
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that Kelsey should have stayed with her and not Taylor
swib anyway, and there were some other stuff. But the
reason I'm bringing this up is because the Taylor Swift
marching in chatter society became unhinged and they have weaponized
they have formed Voltron, and they found out that CJ.
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Gardner Johnson's mother has a restaurant, and so they have
been attacking online the restaurant, writing fake reviews about how
terrible the restaurant is. They've I guess called authorities to
try to get cops out there, ice or whatever to
the restaurant. It's like a whole big mess. Yeah, how
about that. It's the restaurants in in Florida, Rockledge Florida,
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which I don't think is near. You right, you're not
your Rockledge Florida, are you? No? I know you're not.
You're not there. But they've been giving it a bunch
of one star reviews saying the service is bad. And uh,
they've been webinars that don't mess with the Swifties. The
Swifties are not happy. They are not happy. So anyway, okay, jokes,
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Oh yeah, sending Joe lame jokes are coming up. Lame
jokes are coming up on Friday. Weed Man's got his
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care of Benmahlers Show at gmail dot com, benmallor Show
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Any luck on finding finding your own place to stay.
I will pack to send me a place. I gotta
send you a place again. Okay, well all right, all right,
I gotta go. Thank you, we man. Let's say hello
to helmet man. We go from weed man to helmet
and there's a lot of man on this show. It's
a very manly show. Hello, helmet man. I'm actually on
the live air. Yes you're on. Yeah, you're on the
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live are Hello helmet man.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Mister, how about the raisin? How about the how about
the oils?
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Yes, that's just some hot origon my.
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Obama phone working better.
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Look at that. See everyone's out there, and without Obama,
we would have no one calling the show. Everyone's got
an Obama phone. No one's got their own phone. It's
all Obama phones. Amazing.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
Well, one of them bird teams beat those Cancas City.
They wasn't. I said they couldn't get to the stop
the Eagles offensive, lind.
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Do you support all bird teams, helmet.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
Man, Yeah, at least the bird team deeps them. I
think they wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Three picks. If you're a Ravens fan, you're not an
Eagles fan? Why you Why are you're happy about that?
Speaker 6 (33:12):
No, because if the Ravens couldn't beat them out, I said,
at least one of those bird teams.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
But yeah, no, I heard you.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
I heard, and uh I couldn't watch the game.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Because, uh, why everyone else was watching the game. Why
couldn't you watch the game?
Speaker 6 (33:30):
I started out late. I went out to Hollywood and
try to sell Steff only made sixteen dollars the whole time. Everybody,
most of the business was not doing good because they
said everybody was watching the Super Bowl. Yeah, when I
went around, it wasn't hardly no customers.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
You gotta you gotta pick your spots better, helmet man.
That's a bad job by you. You gotta you gotta
pick your spots better. Yeah, the Super Bowl. Everyone's watching
the game. They're not gonna go out and buy stuff.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
Yeah, but they're box stuff like I went to Bonnie's
and Deaneryes do what Hollywood? I didn't. I didn't make
anything up there.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah, yeah, I've been to before. When are you coming
by to see us, helmet Man?
Speaker 6 (34:19):
Thursday? Wednesday? Maybe Thursday? You said that's the TV day.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, there's a last show, so
next week it'll be a little different. So let me
know last shows tomorrow. All right, I gotta go. All right,
thank you helming Man. All right, I mean you got
the ten TV shows on the background. There's all kinds
of stuff going on. It's wild and crazy, wild and crazy. Alright.
It is the Ben Mallord Show, the Ben Mallor Show.
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As we are rolling through the overnight hours, and we're
gonna have Mallard of the third degree time now though,
for the instant trivia, and here it is. In his
fifty games this season, Oka sees shade Yogis, Alexander has
sixteen hundred and thirty three points and has a free
throw percentage of eighty nine point nine to eight. Blank
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is the only other player to do that through fifty
games of an NBA season. That's the insta trivia. The answer.
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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fifty games this season, okay sees Shade Gilgis Alexander, a
former Clipper, has sixteen hundred and thirty three points and
has a free throw percentage of eighty nine point nine
to eight. Blank is the only other player to have
those numbers through fifty games in NBA history. Only one
other player has done it. That is the question. What
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is the answer, and let's see does anyone know the answer?
Miguel on Fire says Loraina's favorite NBA player or a
relative of Kobe Bryant, Chubby Cox? Who else do we have?
Mister nice guys going with Randy Ballarde As his answer
not a fan, Kobe's uncle. No, who else? Do we
have a minute bowl? From the Bishop? You know it's
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big of minute bowl, is the answer. Elaine Bennis from
Alf the Alien Opiner, Brad Kislowski NASCAR legend, who's forty
one today? Wilt guest by King Rory the Washington General's
entire roster from legally Blind Christopher helmet Man peddling his
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wares from Milkman, Mike in Colorado, Uncle Teddy Teddy Lightner
who's retiring from play by play broadcasting at the end
of the Aztec basketball season. Well, that guy owns Sandia.
When I started in San Diego, that guy was the king.
He did the news. He had a nighttime afternoon drive
talk show. Ted Lightner was the boss, like old school
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TV guy radio guy from a different generation, Ted Lightner,
and he always said my podres He would always say
Team Wolf guest by JT the Wingman. All right, Loraina,
do you have an It's all raina Larry Bird Ben
That is incorrect. The correct answer is Rick Berry, Rick Serry.
Speaker 9 (38:07):
Yeah, I've determined because yeah, due to timing reasons, I
want to let the third degree breathe a little bit,
So I think we're we're going to push back for
ratings purposes.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Mallard of the third degree, you're going to push that back.
But Rick Barry back with the Warriors in nineteen seventy four,
seventy five, so it's been a minute, been fifty years.
The last player to do it in Shae Yogas Alexander,
who at this point, not that we're paying that close
attention to the NBA regular season as it goes on
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and on and on and on. It's a house of mirrors,
but at this point, Shae Yogas Alexander is the favorite
to be the MVP, which will not not be approved
by like Madison Avenue. They're not gonna like that because
you know, it's Oklahoma City and all that. But good
for the people of Oklahoma City and a good job
by them. Bad job by Kawhi Leonard, who demanded the
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Clippers trade shay go Gos Alexander because he had to
get that turd podcast p to come over from OKAC
and otherwise he wouldn't have joined the Clippers, and that
seemed like a good idea at the time, and in hindsight,
I'd like to punch someone is what I'd like to do.
Boom, Shaka laka. It's our numbbertu our number two like
a HOGI ready to go here on this Wednesday hump day.
And here in hour number two, can you parse the
words of a longtime manager, Aaron Boone when he says
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the Yankees will have more class. That's the quote, more
class quote than the Dodgers if they win the World
Series in twenty twenty five. Also to pro bouncy ball,
there is chatter that Joel Embiid's seventy six ers contract
is so obscene it's not tradable right now because of
his injury woes, believe it or not, and the Lakers
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have added Alex lenn to fill the center position. Does
that hit you in the right spot there? How does
that hit you? We'll talk about that as well. All
of it's coming your way right now here it is.
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this hour from baseball. Well you talking to baseball? What's
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wrong with you? Have you lost your mind? No? I've
not lost my mind. But we have a mantra on
this show. We start out every day looking for the
things that are interesting to talk about. I thought this was.
Several of my compadres sent me the story, including the
bus driver Roberto, who's a friend of the show forever,
Roberto who left drive a bus. But our lead is
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from spring Training, Arizona and Florida. The content city. Yeah wow.
Sports Chatter filling up with Bronx Bomber angst, Bronx Bomber angst.
If you didn't see this or hear about it, maybe
you're not into the baseball stuff yet. I get it.
(02:57):
I thought this was a good story, and I have
atorial control, so I am going with his story. Yankees
manager Aaron Boone, who is like a tenured professor at Harvard.
You can't get rhythm, Aaron Boone. So Aaron Boone was
spitting mad as the Yankees get ready to start spring training.
Here get spring training underway in Florida. Aaron Boon very
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upset after hearing the criticism directed to his Yankee team
that was levied by the Doyers after they bludgeoned the
Yankees in last year's World Series. Boone, as the Yankees
begin spring training camp in Florida, said, the Yankees will
quote handle things with a little more class if New
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York wins the Fall Classic in twenty twenty five. Keep
in mind that you're in high school now and the
last if you're in high school right now, like as
a freshman or a sophomore in high school, when you
were like born, the Yankees last one World Series? How
about that? Yeah? Yankees last one in nine? My computer
(04:04):
like brain tells me that sixteen years ago. And the
way the Yankees are going, Uh, it's the big apple.
You say, it's a big rotten apple. They're not going
the right direction. So let us discuss good story. Right,
So it's after the World Series. Months and months have passed.
World Series was what late October, early November. World Series ends,
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you go through December, January. Now we're into February and
still still this is an issue. So the question can
you parse the words? Can you parse the words of
manager Aaron Boone when he says the Yankees will have
more class than the Dayers if they win the World
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Series in twenty twenty five? All right, so buckle up, buccaroo.
I've got Kremlin, Suckersville, and Blues Brothers. We will combine
all of these things together and we're going to make
a slice of authentic key lime pie from this local
(05:08):
key Lime pie shop in Florida. And so that's that's
what we're gonna do. We're gonna make some key lime pie.
So n burn. Yeah, Aaron Boone is seeing ghosts. He's
like Sam Darnold, right, it's a Poulter Guy situation. He's
being haunted by Yankees of years gone by, and the
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fact that the Yankees did the old slip and fall.
I've fallen, I can't get up in the World Series,
from Freddie Freeman's iconic walk off Grand Slam to begin
the Fall Classic to the performance that ended it, the
bloopers and practical jokes in Game five of the World Series.
This performance has opened the oozing puss from the Yankees.
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Now Aaron Boone annoyed, and he's really upset with two guys,
Chris Taylor and Joe Kelly, who criticized the Yankees and
their inability to field the baseball, their inability to run
the bases. They're just blatant lack of fundamentals the bedrock
of baseball in the Bronx, and even though they're getting
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paid a lot of money, there's not good at that.
And these comments came out in the aftermath of the
World Series and saying that the New York's issues in
those areas were well known. I believe Chris Taylor had
said that, and Joe Kelly just went scorched earth and
said that the Yankees just essentially poopied down their leg.
They poopied down their leg. So Aaron Boone. After a
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minutes long Mallard deliberation, I have determined that Aaron Boone
is like the Kremlin. He supports online censorship. He does
not want the truth to get out. He wants to
silence the opposition. And spoiler alert, spoiler alert, both Chris
Taylor and Joe Kelly were spot on. No lies detected.
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The Yankees were a mediocre to bad defensive team that
had been their kryptonite. They were not a fundamentally well
schooled team. And Joe Kelly is also right that the
Yankees did. I don't know they pooped down their leg.
I think they urinated down their leg. It was a
massive failure what the Yankees did in Game five of
the World Series. And in case you've forgotten, because we've
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gone through a few months here since the World Series,
Garrett Cole was on the mound. He was working on
a no hitter. It was the fifth inning. He had
a five run lead, highest paid pitcher in baseball, Garrett Cole,
five run lead at home the Boogeynown Bronx Yankee Stadium.
And then there was not one, not two, but three
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egregious boners by the Bronx Bombers. Beginning with that Aaron Judge,
El Kapitan, Aaron Judge who muffed the fly ball in
center field. Then you had the next jeter, Anthony Volpi,
who had a throwing error. And the cherry on top
of the poopy Sunday was Garrett Cole, the highest paid
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pitcher in baseball, too lazy to cover first base on
a ground ball to Anthony Rizzo. And the way I
look at this, and then the main reason Aaron Boone's
upsets why defending the pride of the Yankees and all that,
That's not what this is. Aaron Boone at his core
realizes he failed the Yankees, that he did a bad
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job as Yankee manager, and he kept his job because
the ownership of the Yankees don't care that much. Now,
that's not the old man Steinbrenner. It's the kids, and
the kids just run it as a business and as
long as Cashman's there, Boone will be there. But it's
the same concept we use in football, we use it
in baseball. And Aaron Boone knows this. You're either coaching
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it or you're allowing it to happen. But either way,
it's on Aaron Boone. Either Aaron Boone is allowing it
to happen, meaning he's not doing the fundamental drills and
trying to improve the Yankees defensively, or or you know,
he's kind of looking the other way. Either way, it's
not good. Now we move from baseball and we go
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to Philadelphi huddle around the radio, but we go to
Philly for a little basketball talk. There were some whispers
out I thought this was intriguing around the NBA that say,
despite all of these wild trade rumors and some of
the big trades that have actually happened, like Jimmy Butler
traded and Luca not really a trade more of a giveaway,
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make a wish for the Lakers. So Joel Embiid in Philly,
his injuries are so massive combined with his contract he
has three years and one hundred and ninety two million
dollars on the contract extension that the seventy six Ers
even if they tried to trade Joel Embiid, they wouldn't
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be able to. He is not a tradable commodity for Philadelphia.
That is the money quote that report making the rounds here.
The chatter is that Joel Embiid, with all of the
injury woes and his contract. He is not tradeable by
the Sixers right now, believe it or not. Believe it
(10:21):
or not, so I believe it to a point. And
with all of these trades, the NBA trade deadline outs
it's over. Doesn't mean no more trades until the off season.
But Joel Embiid, we know he's still in Philly, and
that tells me this is very deep. That is a
dead giveaway, dead giveaway. Joel is in the same category
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as Ben Simmons, as Kawhi Leonard. Just two seasons ago,
he won the Most Valuable Player Award. Now, I shouldn't
have won it the last year. It should have gone
to Jokic again, but they gave it to Embiid and
they felt bad for him because he bitched a lot,
and so they gave Embiid the MVP award that year. However,
he continues to be more unreliable and is a diminished asset.
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I was actually watching some of the the Sixers game
because I got nothing else going on on Tuesday, and
it was about a minute to go before halftime, and
Embiid goes down. And every time he goes down, it's
like Anthony Davis or Kawhidi. All these guys are the same.
They're all frauds, right, They're so fragile. It's like Humpty Dumpty,
Humpty dumpty fell down and you're like, oh, hit me out,
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and he's like so dramatic, grabbing, Oh my god, my arm,
the whole thing. It's it's so pathetic. Now, as far
as the question at hand, and I said, I am,
I believe it to a point. The reason I only
believe it to a point that Joel Embiid is not
tradable right now by the Sixers is in order for
the seventy six ers to get out from under Joel
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Ebeid's deal, they would have to visit a town called Suckersville,
and sucker You're never that far away from Suckersville. You're
never that far away. So far they've been unable to
reach Suckersville. Maybe the moat around Suckersville, the drawbridge is
up around Suckersville, and they can't get into Suckersville. But
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you just have to find a team dumb enough to
take Embid. I'm worried the Clippers are going to take Embid,
that they'll trade for Embiid and they'll make some kind
of wild deal and they'll reunite Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid.
But if you're a poker player and you're at the
table playing poker, right, and if you look around the
table and there's like three or four other people at
the table, you play poker and you don't see the
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sucker at the table, the suckers you, right. So that's
a generally pretty good rule of thumb. And so Joel
Embid the Sixers are the sucker to this point, trust
the process. They trusted the process. They haven't won anything.
And now they've got this guy that can't either can't
stay healthy or it's just not that into it and
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has some issues. Got into it with a Philadelphia media
guy because he can't control his emotion, Joel Embiid. And
so there you are, all right now, final point to
the high Speed Sports Wire. We go the high speed
Sports Wire, the wire burning up. The Lakers have made
a move. They've acquired their guy. Move over Wilt Chamberlain.
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Move over Kareem abdul Jabbar, move over Wilt Chamberlain. The
Lakers have added a center. The Lakers have made their move.
They have completed the team. They are now championship ready,
the LA Lakers. I don't know if you're ready for
this or not. They waived Christian Wood and they did
a roster buyout edition. Roster buyout edition. The LA Lakers
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adding to their legacy, writing another chapter the greatness of
Laker basketball. They have added Alex Lenn. The LA Lakers
have added Alex Lenn. That is their new center. Congratulations Lakers, congratulations,
tremendous pick up. Unbelievable. The entire NBA is shocked. How
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could the Lakers have gotten this guy? It must be rigged.
So Alex Lenn was supposed to sign with the Pacers,
but he decided he'd rather just live in LA and
have all the historians lick his toes. And so the
Lakers they needed somebody because Charlotte waived that guy. Or
Charlotte traded Mark Williams and the Lakers decided they didn't
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want him because he was damaged Goods. So he went
back to North Carolina and the Lakers have added Alex
Lenn to fill the center position. Does that hit the spot?
Oh yeah, it definitely hits the spot. I could not
stop laughing when I saw this that this is the solution,
(14:51):
This is the answer. You know what that is. It
is a Blues Brothers tune. Rubber biscuit. It is a
rubber biscuit. It is a wish sandwich, the kind of
a sandwich where you take two pieces of bread right
to put them together and you wish you had some
meat about Wow. Wow Wow. Alex Land has played in
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thirty six games for Sacramento this season. And I got
to tell you, I know my basketball. This guy's a stud.
And I don't know how the Lakers got him. I
don't know how they did it. Alex lann averaged in
Sacramento this year one point four points per game, one
point eight rebounds per game. Very impressive. Another solid move
(15:35):
by the Skinny Suits GM there of the Lakers, the
Wizards had acquired Alex Lynn from Sacramento. It was a
three way trade that happened last week before the deadline,
and it was the Marcus Smart trade. He went from
Memphis to the Wizards and then they bought Alex lenn
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out and so the Lakers making their move. What a move.
It was Alex Lynn roster spam and now he is
a like a great moments in Laker history from Chamberlain
to Kareem and to Shaq and even before that George
Miken and now a great Alex Lenn How do they
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keep doing it? How do they get it done? I
don't understand. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. If you
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The kid's probably like almost thirty now. But we had
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We got to get the kid on, and I asked
open ended questions one after another, and the kid had
stage fright. He was nervous to be on the radio
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and was an app solute disaster. It was so oh my.
I must have asked. I'm doing this for memory, so
I'll probably get it wrong. If I heard it again,
it would be much different than my memory. But my
memory is I asked him maybe eight or nine questions
in about two minutes, about two and most of it was.
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Trying to get him to reply at all.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, just trying to get him to open up. And
who's your or who's your favorite place.
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For just have one answers like yeah, I don't know,
but you asked.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I'd be like, well, i'd ask a non open question.
To ask an open question. You be like, all right,
so who's your favorite baseball player? So he's Derek Jeter.
Why do you like Derek Jeter? He's good, you know
that kind of thing. And it was, Yeah, it's one
of those deals. And yeah, great moments in broadcasting, good
knowledge by the Late Night Drug tester Daniel writes in
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he says, can you explain how the Lakers signing Alex
Lane is broadcasting not narrow casting? Well, he's got broad
shoulders and it's a story, I'm told.
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But Ben loves the Lakers. It's his favorite sports radio.
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Tells me Cooper Loop tells me that anything involving the
Lakers I must talk about. They're better people. And uh,
this is the next great Lakers center.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
From worldwide story seven seven seven footer, big big body
to clog the lanes.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Tremendous pick up by the Lakers. I don't know how
they keep doing it. I mean, a guy averaging less
than two points a game, we don't need him to score. No,
you don't. He doesn't need twenty rebounds a game.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
What do you think we don't need him the rebound either. No,
Luca averages ten rebounds a game. Lebron averages like ten
rebounds a game. We're good.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I cannot wait for the playoffs. When the Lakers get eliminated,
they got to build the team around Luca. Ryan writes
in says, are we sure that Aaron Boone was managing
as the needs in the front office manage and Boone
is a yes man of the nerds. I think he
meant this. They said needs, but I think he met nerds. Yeah. Well,
(21:07):
that's always been the argument for both Dave Roberts and
Aaron Boone, that they are just middle managers and they
just are merely repeating, merely repeating what the front office
tells them to do, following them like Manchurian candidate or
something like that. They're just following instructions and that's how
it's going. Ferg Dog writes in from that winter wonderland
in Fullerton and says, what are your final grades on
(21:28):
the Lakers trade deadline performance? I give them a D minus.
I'm not impressed. Yeah, well, it's malfeasans. The Lakers traded
for a guy who's injured, and that was their big
move in. They tread for a fat guy and a
guy that's injured, and they had to rescind that trade.
That's that's the Lakers right there. Tremendous GM worked by
(21:49):
the Lakers. Unbelievable. We go to the phones and we'll
take some calls. Here. Let's see who do we have
aie miney mall. Let's say hello to Andrea, who's in
Berkeley and she's got the star chart out right now,
Hello Andrea.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Welcome, Hello Ben.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
How are you the astrology lady? Is there a cosmic event?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
On the calendar, there is certainly is.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
I can tell by some of the callers. We've got
a full moon going.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Oh, yes, sweet moon. What kind of moon is this?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
You know how much we like the Farmer's Almanac.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Yes, I love it.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Snow moon and that makes a lot of sense. I
just spoke to some friends and family in New York
and it's definitely a full snow moon in February, and
it's actually in Leo. The Son's in Aquarius and it
is full at I believe it's five sixty five am.
(22:44):
So when we get off the phone and the show shortly.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
After, Okay, we got a full moon going.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
So we're feeling the energies now it's on the horizon now, yes,
so yeah, we got a full snow moon in Aquarius Leo,
and it's called the snow moon because of obviously the weather,
and it can be seen by most people, so feel
free to look out the window and howl at the moon.
(23:15):
And it rises in one of the most snowiest months
in February. That's why it's called the snow moon. And
it reaches its peak at five point fifty five am,
so soon enough, and it's just really a.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Snow moon and it's awesome. All right. Well, yes, we
have the snow moon going on, and then there's always
crazier callers when there's a full moon. And as you
pointed out, Andrea, it's not just the night of the
full moon. It's a couple of days before and a
couple of days after. It's a whole week of fun, exactly.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
I always liking it to a cold you feel it
about two days before the day of and about two
days after.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
There you go, all right, well, thank you, Andrea. I
appreciate that. The virgo in service on actually want to
say hello to Andrea. She's got all the star charts
out and she's got her newsletter comes out a few
times a year, and she's a big supporter of the show,
big friend of the show, and obviously very into the
cosmic events. Our friend Andrea checking in, so I wanted
(24:20):
to go back to the dog show because we had
to cut this off because we ran into a hard
network out at the top of the hours, they say
in the business, so why don't we play this again.
This is the biggest event in the dog world. I mean,
this is the night for the dogs. And it was
the Westminster Dog Show in midtown Manhattan there and they
(24:42):
announced the winners best in Show, Best in This is
the highest honor, the highest honor a dog can win
in a dog's life. You have reached the mecca. And
again if you missed it earlier, let's play the whole thing.
My Man a guy I did radio with back in
the former Fox Sports Radio guy part of the Alumni Association,
(25:05):
Chris Myers. He had the play by play on FS one.
And this is much bigger than the super Bowl and
much more competitive than the super Bowl. But listen to
how the Westminster Kennel Dog Show ended. Take a listen.
It's great.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
For beston Show at the ninth annual Westminster Kennel Club
Dog Show, I choose the giant Schneuzy Monty.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
He did it three years A final one's best in Show.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
What an incredible moment for Katie Bernard in Money the
Magnificent of your twenty twenty five the show, the Giant Schnauzer.
Congratulations Sandra Nordstrom, Katie Bernardon, and Sherland Ambrose. Great win
for all of you tonight in Credible the Dog Parents, Ben.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Who wins?
Speaker 8 (26:05):
You joked about a three peat, but nothing like winning
at all. Ask anybody who's been there, who's championship of
being on top of things like me.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
All right, there's the great Chris Meyers on the call,
and congratulations to the full Monty the giant Schnauzer.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
You know when they say giant, Ben, it makes me
think of like a giant sloth.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
No, it's not a giant. I thought the sheep dog
was bigger than this dog.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
That sheep dog was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
The sheep dog we saw the other day yesterday, I
think it was. That was a good looking dog. That
was like a mop, like a mop with legs. It's beautiful. Yeah,
just a good looking schnauzer. But I'm biased. I like
the bulldog, the English bulldog. That's my dog. I'm biased
that I like the shitsu, but I don't like I
don't not like the shitsho's in the dog show because
(26:54):
they're all dulled up, and I don't I don't like that.
You know, that's not my dog, Bella, who died a
couple of years ago. But Bella was disheveled, Bella was frazzled.
That's to me how shitshu should look. Not all dressed up.
And they look like they've had a tough night out.
They've been out all night, all week, they haven't slept.
(27:16):
That's the kind of dog I want, not one of
these all fool food dogs and all that. And so
they mess up the ships who's and the dog shops?
Bad job by them. But the giant shower Snauzer, that's fine.
It's okay. Now who finished in second? Do we know
who finished in second?
Speaker 6 (27:31):
And that?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Do we know?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
But now I'm curious on who our top dogs are.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Let me check, all right, we'll get to the bottom
of that there because there's many different groups there. There
was the Bourbon the whipp It whipp It Good was
the winner of reserve best in Show. That was the
backup I guess best in Show, mister Whippett. So congratulations
(27:55):
to the whip it. It's a wonderful name for a dog.
Absolutely wonderful name.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Isn't that what people do out of the writer?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Okay, yeah, it's a family show. There's a lot of
people listening right now. In family. Let's go out to
the phones and we'll say hello to he's got a
weed man hippie. I'm gonna do a wellness check on
weed Man hippie. This guy had so much invested in
Kansas City. He was talking about a new religion if
on the Bowl on Sunday, And now there's no new religion?
(28:26):
And are you now going to become atheist now because
the chiefs lost?
Speaker 6 (28:31):
Unbelievable. I can't believe that.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, your phone is a whole new world. I know,
could have been amazing.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
Patrick Mahony.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, is it only my headphones? It sounds like weed
Man's phones a little bit.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
No, he sounds absolutely horrible.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
And what's wrong with your phone? Is you're Obama phone dying?
Weed Man? Do you need a new phone?
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Every good?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Nah, you don't sound very good. I'll hear you all right.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Yeah, Past mahon drew in that day.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah, oh we made did you see while I have
you on the phone, did you see the f around
and find out story, CJ. You know who CJ. Gardner
Johnson is, no, you don't. You have no idea, You
have no idea. So he's a football players, a big
football player for the Philadelphia Eagles, right. The guy is
a big trash talking guy and the Eagles domaged you
know dominated we know that in the Super Bowl. And so, uh,
(29:35):
this guy decided to unload on Taylor Swift and and
took some shots. Wow, and uh and whatnot c J.
Gardner Johnson. So it's uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, it goes
by the the name c D. Deuce is a nickname there.
But on on Instagram, c J. Gardner Johnson, Uh, he
(29:59):
referenced one of tras Travis Kelsey's like ex girlfriends, and
he made a comment that he should have stayed with
that thick blank is what he said there. He apparently
Kelsey's former girlfriend had a big caboose and CJ said
(30:19):
that Kelsey should have stayed with her and not Taylor
swib anyway, and there were some other stuff. But the
reason I'm bringing this up is because the Taylor Swift
marching in chatter society became unhinged and they have weaponized
they have formed Voltron, and they found out that CJ.
(30:39):
Gardner Johnson's mother has a restaurant, and so they have
been attacking online the restaurant, writing fake reviews about how
terrible the restaurant is. They've I guess called authorities to
try to get cops out there, ice or whatever to
the restaurant. It's like a whole big mess. Yeah, how
about that. It's the restaurants in in Florida, Rockledge Florida,
(31:03):
which I don't think is near. You right, you're not
your Rockledge Florida, are you? No? I know you're not.
You're not there. But they've been giving it a bunch
of one star reviews saying the service is bad. And uh,
they've been webinars that don't mess with the Swifties. The
Swifties are not happy. They are not happy. So anyway, okay, jokes,
(31:28):
Oh yeah, sending Joe lame jokes are coming up. Lame
jokes are coming up on Friday. Weed Man's got his
own segment Lame jokes of the Week. Send jokes in
care of Benmahlers Show at gmail dot com, benmallor Show
at gmail dot com. And uh, any any luck on
finding your teeth, weed man, No, I wish no no teeth.
(31:50):
Any luck on finding finding your own place to stay.
I will pack to send me a place. I gotta
send you a place again. Okay, well all right, all right,
I gotta go. Thank you, we man. Let's say hello
to helmet man. We go from weed man to helmet
and there's a lot of man on this show. It's
a very manly show. Hello, helmet man. I'm actually on
the live air. Yes you're on. Yeah, you're on the
(32:14):
live are Hello helmet man.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Mister, how about the raisin? How about the how about
the oils?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Yes, that's just some hot origon my.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Obama phone working better.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Look at that. See everyone's out there, and without Obama,
we would have no one calling the show. Everyone's got
an Obama phone. No one's got their own phone. It's
all Obama phones. Amazing.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
Well, one of them bird teams beat those Cancas City.
They wasn't. I said they couldn't get to the stop
the Eagles offensive, lind.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Do you support all bird teams, helmet.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
Man, Yeah, at least the bird team deeps them. I
think they wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Three picks. If you're a Ravens fan, you're not an
Eagles fan? Why you Why are you're happy about that?
Speaker 6 (33:12):
No, because if the Ravens couldn't beat them out, I said,
at least one of those bird teams.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
But yeah, no, I heard you.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
I heard, and uh I couldn't watch the game.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Because, uh, why everyone else was watching the game. Why
couldn't you watch the game?
Speaker 6 (33:30):
I started out late. I went out to Hollywood and
try to sell Steff only made sixteen dollars the whole time. Everybody,
most of the business was not doing good because they
said everybody was watching the Super Bowl. Yeah, when I
went around, it wasn't hardly no customers.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
You gotta you gotta pick your spots better, helmet man.
That's a bad job by you. You gotta you gotta
pick your spots better. Yeah, the Super Bowl. Everyone's watching
the game. They're not gonna go out and buy stuff.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
Yeah, but they're box stuff like I went to Bonnie's
and Deaneryes do what Hollywood? I didn't. I didn't make
anything up there.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah, yeah, I've been to before. When are you coming
by to see us, helmet Man?
Speaker 6 (34:19):
Thursday? Wednesday? Maybe Thursday? You said that's the TV day.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, there's a last show, so
next week it'll be a little different. So let me
know last shows tomorrow. All right, I gotta go. All right,
thank you helming Man. All right, I mean you got
the ten TV shows on the background. There's all kinds
of stuff going on. It's wild and crazy, wild and crazy. Alright.
It is the Ben Mallord Show, the Ben Mallor Show.
(34:51):
As we are rolling through the overnight hours, and we're
gonna have Mallard of the third degree time now though,
for the instant trivia, and here it is. In his
fifty games this season, Oka sees shade Yogis, Alexander has
sixteen hundred and thirty three points and has a free
throw percentage of eighty nine point nine to eight. Blank
(35:13):
is the only other player to do that through fifty
games of an NBA season. That's the insta trivia. The answer.
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio
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Speaker 1 (35:35):
Miller and you reminder it is the Ben Maler Show,
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You can also see behind the radio. Be sure to
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you'll always have instant access to those mal monologues and
the other blowhards and gas bags at Fox Sports Radio
to put videos up on the Uto. Back to it
we go and time nowt for the insta trivia. In
(36:22):
fifty games this season, okay sees Shade Gilgis Alexander, a
former Clipper, has sixteen hundred and thirty three points and
has a free throw percentage of eighty nine point nine
to eight. Blank is the only other player to have
those numbers through fifty games in NBA history. Only one
other player has done it. That is the question. What
(36:44):
is the answer, and let's see does anyone know the answer?
Miguel on Fire says Loraina's favorite NBA player or a
relative of Kobe Bryant, Chubby Cox? Who else do we have?
Mister nice guys going with Randy Ballarde As his answer
not a fan, Kobe's uncle. No, who else? Do we
have a minute bowl? From the Bishop? You know it's
(37:06):
big of minute bowl, is the answer. Elaine Bennis from
Alf the Alien Opiner, Brad Kislowski NASCAR legend, who's forty
one today? Wilt guest by King Rory the Washington General's
entire roster from legally Blind Christopher helmet Man peddling his
(37:27):
wares from Milkman, Mike in Colorado, Uncle Teddy Teddy Lightner
who's retiring from play by play broadcasting at the end
of the Aztec basketball season. Well, that guy owns Sandia.
When I started in San Diego, that guy was the king.
He did the news. He had a nighttime afternoon drive
talk show. Ted Lightner was the boss, like old school
(37:49):
TV guy radio guy from a different generation, Ted Lightner,
and he always said my podres He would always say
Team Wolf guest by JT the Wingman. All right, Loraina,
do you have an It's all raina Larry Bird Ben
That is incorrect. The correct answer is Rick Berry, Rick Serry.
Speaker 9 (38:07):
Yeah, I've determined because yeah, due to timing reasons, I
want to let the third degree breathe a little bit,
So I think we're we're going to push back for
ratings purposes.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Mallard of the third degree, you're going to push that back.
But Rick Barry back with the Warriors in nineteen seventy four,
seventy five, so it's been a minute, been fifty years.
The last player to do it in Shae Yogas Alexander,
who at this point, not that we're paying that close
attention to the NBA regular season as it goes on
(38:41):
and on and on and on. It's a house of mirrors,
but at this point, Shae Yogas Alexander is the favorite
to be the MVP, which will not not be approved
by like Madison Avenue. They're not gonna like that because
you know, it's Oklahoma City and all that. But good
for the people of Oklahoma City and a good job
by them. Bad job by Kawhi Leonard, who demanded the
(39:05):
Clippers trade shay go Gos Alexander because he had to
get that turd podcast p to come over from OKAC
and otherwise he wouldn't have joined the Clippers, and that
seemed like a good idea at the time, and in hindsight,
I'd like to punch someone is what I'd like to do.
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