February 15, 2025 • 43 mins
Big Ben talks about the Chiefs getting blown out by the Eagles in Super Bowl 59 and who carries the most blame for the domination situation, Luka Doncic's first game with the Lakers vs. Anthony Davis' with the Mavericks, Maller's Mountain of Money: Michael B. Jordan Edition, a visit from Eddie Garcia, and more!
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Is going on.
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They're having a grand time, amazing, amazing, So we'll see,
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One topic radio, one time. You know what that topic is,
the superbo Yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Right, all right, So our lead here lights camera action.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
There was in Norland Super Bowl fifty ninety crescendo of
the twenty twenty four season.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Here in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
A champion has been crowned, and this is the game
we all watch.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Right, you're listening to sports talk radio late at night.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Chances though you probably watched the game the Eagles and
Chiefs wrangling in a neutral field, the neutral field right.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
There, and how did that turn out? How did that
turn out? Well?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Jalen Hurt threw for two touchdowns, he also ran for
a score, and the Vic Fangier Uncle Vic defense getting
it done. A domination situation. The Eagles did not even
need Sequon Barkley to flex his muscles. He did not,
and Philadelphia certainly did forty to twenty two the final.
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They take home the Lombardi Trophy. It was a Harvard
boat race.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
That means that the Eagles jumped out early and never
looked back.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Right the game was.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
It was closed at the end of the first score
seven to nothing, and halftime was twenty four to nothing,
and later on oh my thirty four nothing before the
Chiefs scored. However, the better story is in the losing
locker room. So we asked the question, as we discuss here.
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We asked the question choked up here.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
We asked the question, Hey, sound cool, we have any
sound we do? All right?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Anyway, I asked the question who gets the Dunce cap?
Who gets the Dunce cap? A blame for the Chiefs
losing and not just losing It's one thing to lose
on a late field goal or a late touchdown.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
They lost.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
The game was over at halftime, twenty four to nothing
at halftime, So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
My thoughts on this.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I've got torts, folk song and Yiddish and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a cough lozenge, is what we're going to make.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
So a It obviously.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Starts at the top, and Patrick Maholmes deserves all the
praise he's gotten, but he also deserves to be criticized
for this performance that was unbecause of Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
In this game.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And people are gonna defend Mahomes, are gonna blame other
people for the outcome of the game. But to me,
it starts with Mahomes. He was bad.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
He was bad, bad, bad, bad bad.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Now he had some garbage time stats, but when the
game was in the balance, which it really was only
for a quarter here, Mahomes did not step up. He
did not get her done, did not get her done
at all. And there's the saying, you sometimes you're the windshields,
sometimes you're the bug. And we know that the Mahomes
that played on Super Bowl Sunday. There that was a
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torts performance. As the great hockey coach John Tortorella has
pointed out, he sucked at a time you cannot suck,
which was the balance of the game. The balance of
the game there. Now many people are gett passing the buckets. Well,
the defense wasn't good, the offensive line wasn't good, and
since the offensive line could have been better, Mahomes. Several
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of those sacks were on Mahomes, though the sack is
a quarterback stat.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Holmes held the ball for too long.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I thought I was watching Caleb Williams playing the Super
Bowl as long as he was holding the ball. Bad
job by Mahomes, bad job by him here, And there
were so many negative plays, and that poured gasoline on
the fire. Here a pair of backbreaking interceptions. There was
also a fumble by Mahomes here, But whichever courter.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Typically, it's not that.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I mean, we spent a lot of time to do
a TV show during the football season handicapping NFL games,
and it often comes down to who makes the fewer
negative plays, who makes the fewer negative plays, And in
this game now negative plays are interceptions, interceptions, incompletion, sacks
and fumbles.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Those are considered bad plays. Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
You know how many negative plays Mahomes had When you
can bind fumbles, sacks, incompletions, interceptions, Mahomes had twenty. He
had twenty negative plays in the Super Bowl. And he's
getting a pass because he's Mahomes, not on this show.
He's not getting a pass. And Jalen Hurts, who to
his credit, he only had eight. There were eight negative plays.
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He did throw an interception, but it was deep inside
Kansas City territory, so Chiefs took over inside their own
five yard line on that play. But hey, listen, a
plus twelve negative play ratio for your quarterback versus the
other team's quarterback, you should win forty to twenty two,
which is exactly what Philadelphia pulled off here. Now, what
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was the turning point? I was looking for the turning
point for the Eagles that flipped the game right in
their direction. Now this game, you said, well, the turning
point was? I know exactly when the turning point was.
It's an American folk song and we can all sing
along here. The wheels on the bus go round and round,
The wheels on the bus go around and round. The
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moment the Chiefs caravan showed up, the buses showed up
to the super Dome. They were cooked, right, they were done.
You had Travis Kelcey walk out there, and he showed
up wearing that you see what he was gonna have
that burnt orange suit, the wide lapel suit on. He
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had the matching trousers there, a little burnt orange. He
had the patterned buttoned up shirt as well. He was
doing cosplay, it's what he was doing. Well, Kelsey was
doing some cosplay there. He looked like he had just
pulled up out of the hot tub time machine and
he was out of the time machine there, and he
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was from like nineteen seventies. He was doing like a
nineteen seventies cosplay thing. And he said, well, that's not
a good sign. And Kansas City, it proved not. Could
have turned out the other way, but it turned out
that you saw that, you said, well that's not good
and they were cooked.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yeah. What happened to the championship pedigree we.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Hear so much lead up to these games, Well that
disappeared because the out didn't go that way. The Chiefs
did not win. They they don't lose games like this,
Well they did.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
They just lost. The Chiefs just lost.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
But the moment that was the turning point was when
they showed up to the stadium and the Eagles stomped
all over. That's an understatement, a domination situation. And do
not let the garbage time numbers in the fourth quarter
sway the outcome. I mean, I don't have to say
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you didn't watch the game, but maybe you tuned it out.
And a lot of people watched the Super Bowl at parties.
It's a social event and you're not really paying that
close attention.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Well, if you weren't.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Paying close attention, you say, well, what happened twenty to
twenty two?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Mahomes?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You had some made some plays? Well, yeah he did.
When the game was over. The game was over, he
made made a few plays. That was take out the
trash time out. Now the last word here, So what
adjustments could Andy Reid have made better? Shall we say
better adjustments in Super Bowl fifty nine. So the obvious
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one is, I don't know, it's not that deep. Bret's
Ockham's razor. The simplest solution is the obvious one. Don't
fall behind thirty four to nothing in the Super Bowl
thirty four to nothing in the Super Bowl, And the
obvious one is you got to find some early offense
and there was nothing there. And you know, don't telling
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me all the Eagles. Washington was able to score against
that Eagles defense. The La Rams scored the ball against
that Eagle defense. Kansas City should have been able to
score the ball when it mattered against the Eagles defense,
and they did not. So excuse my yad iss year.
The entire Eagles offense they were klutzes. That's how they looked.
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And in the early part of that game there, and
maybe they passed out before the game. Everyone took the
same stupid pills before the game there. But they were
playing uphill the entire day. They were playing uphill here,
and they really stumbled out of the get. It was
only seven to nothing at the end of the first quarter.
So if you weren't paying attention, because maybe you were
having some of those little appetizers, you weren't paying attention.
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Seven nothing, it was not that big a deal. However,
it was actually much worse than that. The Eagles had
one hundred and fifteen yards of offense. The Chiefs had
nineteen at the end of the first quarter. Several of
you pointed out the main thing the Chiefs had overcome
was the curse of Poppy, as our guy Poppy picked
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Kansas City, and I knew I was doomed. I knew
I might pick on the TV show was cooked because
of Poppy and that jinx. And sure enough that played
out there, but the floodgates really opened up. You know,
you played bad. You're like, oh, it's a bad quarter,
but you're only down seven nothing. And then Patrick Mahomes
stepped out there and just kept handing the ball away
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and that the floodgates opened up in that second quarter,
and it was one hundred and seventy nine yards to
twenty three. At halftime the Eagles had thirteen first as
the Chiefs had won and said, well, it was just
the box score, but it actually looked worse than that
watching the game looked worse than that. If that's if
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that's possible, all right, anyway, it is the Ben Malord Show.
Here is Patrick Mahome less there's some postgame flavor for you.
Here's Mahomes on the many mistakes. Mention those negative plays.
Mahomes had twenty of them. Jalen Hurts only had eight.
Here's Mahomes talking about sucking in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Obviously, the turnovers hurt, and I mean I just kind
of take all the blame for that. I mean, just
those early turnovers swing the momentium of the game. And
then they capitalized on them and they scored. I mean
they scored on the one and then they got a
touchdown immediately after. So that's fourteen points that I kind
of gave them. And it's hard to come back from
that and the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
And you didn't.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
You didn't come back all but wait, there's more. Here's
Mahomes and he wants you to know that this is
going to follow him around. He is going to turn
a negative into a positive.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Anytime he lose the Super Bowl, it's sort of worse
stow in the world. They'll stick with you the rest
of your career. I mean, he will be the two
losses that will motivate need to be even better to
the rest of my career, because you only get so
a few of these and you have to capitalize on these,
and they hurt probably more than the wins.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Feel good.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Okay, Well, didn't you learn from the last time you
lost in the Super Bowl the Tampa Bay a couple
of years back. Come on, all right, here's one more
Andy Reid, who is chasing the legendary Bill Belichick and
still on track, Andy Reid, if his health is there
and he keeps going here to set the all time
wins record, he's chasing Don Shula's record. But this is
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about Super Bowl wins, and this was a golden opportunity
going into the game. The Chiefs favored by a point
and a half and could have added another one of
those Lombardi Trophies. They obviously did the opposite. Here's a
Andy Reider what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
We'll learn from this. Okay, most games here when you
don't do very well. Yeah, you learn from it as
a coach. You learned from it as a player, and
you move on. Okay, just keep learning.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
How come the bad teams never like the teams that
suck in the NFL, They never like Tennessee is the
worst team in the NF. They must have learned a
lot this year, the Tennessee Titans, because they had the
worst records, so they must have learned like the Patriots
must have learned a lot also, Yeah, learned from losses,
so I have nothing to say, So I'm going to
fall back on my sports cliches, is what I'm going
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to do.
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Speaker 1 (14:35):
I'm told this is a big deal. I'm told this
is very important. So our lead story this hour is
from skid Row. That's where the Lakers play. Believe they
play in skid Row, Yes they do. It's a dump
down there, but that was where the big night game
was in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Oh Man Ball Night. It was ball Night. The story
the night well very important, very very important that we
talk about this. So here we are you and I together.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Talking about this. Everyone hyped off the much ballyhood beginning
of Theca Donzig era with the Lakers. Now, will it
be a long term relationship that blossoms into glorious moments
or will it be a cautionary tale where people say
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the Mavericks were right, the crazy wackadoodle Mavericks were right
about Luca all along. If you were betting, you'd likely
bet on the Mavericks not being right based on history, but.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Let us discuss.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
So.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I don't know if you saw the game or not.
It was broadcast nationally. It was a late pickup. Normally
the Lakers and Utah Jazz not there. You'd rather watch
an actual jazz band than the Utah Jazz at this
point in fact, I think if you put an actual
jazz band on the court, they would be more competitive
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than the NBA variety of the jazz. So he had
the usual Hollywood f's out there, will Ferrell Adele.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I guess she's engaged to Lebron's agent. What about that?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, she's all about that action Adele. So there are
all a bunch of other people. Don't EVE know who
these people are anymore, but they were all hanging out
watching and Luke.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
How did he do?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Did he score fifty points? Did he have the greatest
Laker debut of all time?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Did he score thirty points and have like seventeen rebound?
Speaker 5 (16:27):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
How about twenty five points? Did Luca score twenty five
points his late against the Jazz?
Speaker 5 (16:36):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
How about twenty?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
He had to get twenty, right, come on, twenty points
to do that blindfolded?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
He got twenty?
Speaker 6 (16:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Oh my god? How about fifteen Did Luca get fifteen points? No,
fourteen points, fourteen points. All these people dressed up, They
gave out T shirts for a guy who scored fourteen points.
T Shirt Night, fourteen points twenty three minutes. The Lakers
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end up vaporizing the once proud Utah Jazz, Karl Malone
and John Stockton not walking.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Through that door there.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Lakers led by as many as thirty four points in
a game that was much like the Super Bowl. Over
at halftime. No need to watch the second half, So
let us discuss how did Luka? How did Luka Doncik
look in his Laker debut? So I've got Catwalk, Morgana,
the Kissing Bandit, and Morton's Kosher Salt, and we will
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combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a migraine headache, which the hearty and loyal
minions of the Dallas basketball team are likely suffering from
a migraine headache.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
So as far as they answer the question, how did
Luca look.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
You've got the micro and the macro in the micro
in the moment he looked blobby? He did he didn't
shoot the ball with Gusto. He was five of fourteen.
Really what stood out was how bad he was from
three point range, one of seven, one of the all
time great three point shooters, Luca one of seven from
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three point range. Most of those shots were wide open.
Mind you, maybe they cranked up the ac at the
crypt where the Lakers play, but the Jazz weren't playing
much defense.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
They never played defense. That's why they blow. They're terrible.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
And then you got the podcaster JJ Reddick, the coach there,
who put Luca this is great on a minutes restriction.
Is there anything stupider than a minute's restriction in the NBA?
Isn't that one of like the five stupidest things you
can possibly do? And I know the podcast is not
that bright, mister Reddick, but podcaster Reddick probably doesn't realize this.
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You're feeding the narrative that Luca needs to go to
a fat farm, that he can't play more than an
x number of minutes. I mean, he was seeing him
on the court. He was strutting like he was going
down the catwalk there, and he did a pirouet in
his new laundry and it did look And this always
is the case when you know someone in one uniform
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And then they switch uniform it looked like.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
A glitch in a video game.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
So I remember Tom Brady put on a buccaneer uniform
for the first I'm not comparing Luca to Tom Brady,
but just we're used to seeing Luca in the Mavericks
laundry and then you see him in that Laker uniform,
like that doesn't seem right. And it's like, you watch
these people in certain uniforms and then they switch it up,
You're like, well, what's going on with that. That's not
the same way when O'tani went from the Angels to
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the Dodgers. Although not many people watch him with the Angels,
but it's still odd when you switch, when you switch uniforms.
But as far as the overall game, opening night here
and you talk about a soft launch the Lakers, and
they did it right. They knew there was no chance
of losing that game. That was a show up, collect
a win type game. They were dining al fresco at
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a mom and pop pizza rea, a startup.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Where there was just nobody there.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I mean, the Jazz are everyone's homecoming opponent in the NBA.
And yet again that's the way it turned out and
where have you gone thorough Bailey and Greg oaster tag,
They're not walking through that door. Now turn the page.
Will these ingredients? Will these ingredients with Luka and Lebron
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work when we get to the playoffs, which I think
will start in like seven months.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
The NBA playoffs season goes on forever.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
So will Luca and Lebron work for the Lakers in
the playoffs and in twenty twenty five? My vote is no,
it will not work. You're asking me today. We do
the show today. Now, do I think at some point
it's going to work?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Sure? But today ask me this year, I don't see it.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
The Lakers will be one of these teams that's gonna
score a bunch of points, and they'll have great offensive numbers,
and they'll beat a bunch of tomato cans up and
all that. But I'm gonna use the analogy here. It's
a data analogy, so you're gonna have to google it.
And the Lakers are built right now like MORGANA the
Kissing Bandit. They're top heavy, and they know that they
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tried to correct that problem. They attempted to correct that issue.
They tried to get a center, and then that that
went sideways because they know they're not good enough. And
Lebron and Luca are designated hitters and they don't play defense.
And Lebron will do one or two defensive plays a game,
so he gets some the highlights, but the rest of
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the time he's just kind of lollygags on defense. So
neither one of those are defensive dynamos. And when they're
both on the court at the same time, you have
a tremendous liability. You will be on the power play
on offense, you will be shorthanded on defense at two positions.
So the only way that would work is if Lebron
and Luca can combine for ninety to ninety five points
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a game, which is not realistic on a regular basis
in a seven game playoff series.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
It's not sustainable.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Therefore, the long term or ice short term in this case,
this year does not look particularly promising.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Uh where are you at?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Also on the on the chatter here that the Lakers
cowtowed to Luca that he hand picked Hornet center Mark Williams,
that he Luca wanted the Lakers to trade for Mark Williams,
and then the trade ended up being rescinded. But that
came directly from the mouth of Luca, So it's not
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that shocking.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I believe it, all right. My first thought is I
believe it.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
My second thought is this again confirms our suspicions that
Rob Polinka doesn't.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Really do anything.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
He just is a middle manager, Rob Polinka, and he's
a sock puppet for whoever the Lakers choose to make
the decisions, whether it's you know it was Lebron James,
I guess they've now pivoted to Luca and they get
Luca dropped in in Polenka's life.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You think that was some kind of amazing.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
GM war work by Rob skinny suit, skinny jeans Polinka.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I don't think it was that at all.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I think what happened is whether it was Adam Silver,
if you buy into the grand NBA conspiracy that phone
calls were made, or whether the Mavericks ownership wants to
move to Las Vegas and they want to undermine the
fan base in Dallas, one of those two, or maybe
a combination of both. But it wasn't like Rob Polinka
just massage Nico Harrison and that is what led to
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that particular transaction, and it just dropped like manna from
heaven dropped into their lap, and so Rob Polinka he
had Lebron as the GM by proxy, and now you've
got the shadow GM Luka Doncik making moves here, and
the trade for Williams was rescinded, although apparently there's more.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
To that story. That story is not over yet.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Now last word, So what can the Dallas Maverick fan.
I would say fans, but I think we're down to one.
I think there's one fan left that likes the Mavericks.
So the Dallas Maverick fan, what can the Dallas Maverick
fan take away from Dirk Nowitzki attending Luca's debut with
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the Lakers. It's a couple of things here. If you're
the ownership in Dallas, you would look at that as treason,
wouldn't you? If I'm not mistaken. The street outside the
Mavericks Arena is named Nowitzki Way. He's the franchise legend,
and he was at a fork in the road. He's
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royalty for the Mavericks. The city honored him by renaming
one of the streets outside the arena in his name,
and Dirk, in a moment of weakness at a crossroads.
The Mavericks were playing their own game on Monday, I believe,
but Dirk was not there at the American Airlines Center. Instead,
he was in La watching Luca. So Nowhisky, what he
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did is on he went to the airport. Then he
got into La and he stopped by There's a grocery
store near Lax. He went there and he bought some
Morton's kosher salt and he poured the salt in the
open wound, is what he did. Standing with the insurgency,
the uprising of the fan base. And you juxtapose the
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Lukka debut with it being announced that Anthony Davis is
not out a couple of days, He's not out a
couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
He's out indefinitely.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
That Luca, the guy that he was traded for Anthony Davis,
has been KOed. He is out indefinitely. After his Maverick debut,
he talked about twisting the knife. That is a knife
twist situation.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Let's welcome in. Our contestants said, real quick, we'll set
the game up. We have Jed, who fled? Who's gonna play?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Hello, Jed.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
The NFL is successful because Walter dam a number of
skull and bones.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
All right, who do you want to partner up with? Quickly?
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Tustin? Juper?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Okay, hold on a sec.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
And Tyler is in Boston?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Hello, Tyler? You're gonna play Mallard's mount of Money? You
want to partner with me? Or Lorena?
Speaker 5 (26:19):
I think it sounds like me and you, but that's right?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
All right? Sorry, Lorraine, you gonna sit this one. I'm
gonna crack Coop quickly. What are the categories here? Coop?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
We'll get that set up. Then we'll have the game
in its entirety with a big.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Highly produced open all right, this is Malard's Mountain of Money,
the Michael B. Jordan edition. Oh I've heard of him, Yes,
not the athlete, the actor.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
The actor.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Yeah, he turned thirty eight years old on Sunday, an
old fart. The categories are the Wire, Fruit, Veil, Station,
Fantastic four, and creed.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Uh Jed? What category would you like?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Jumping the numbers across the dow was one of the
greatest things I've ever seen.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
To have the number of the wire Okay, and Tyler,
which where would you like?
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Creed? All right, very good? Everyone, Hold on, no, do
not hang up, Do not hang up. Stay right there.
We were gonna have Malord's Mountain of Money in its entirety.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
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what it takes to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Not?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
All right, let's do it right to the game.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Jed, who fled is with Coop and I am teamed
up with Tyler in Boston and the Michael B.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Jordan edition. Coop, you're going first. You have the wire.
I believe that is correct.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
These athletes were all born in the Greater Baltimore area.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
We'll put forty five seconds on the clock. Are you there, Jed?
Speaker 5 (27:54):
I love Creed.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
All right, let's go. Here we go. The great Bambino favorite.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Uh, the swimmer that won a bunch of Olympic medals. Michael, Yes, Uh,
this guy has an Ironman streak in baseball. Yes, this
guy was running back for the Rams. His his last
name is very female like Eric. No, uh, not even
either one of those guys, the opposite. All right, past uh,
(28:24):
we're gonna go with this guy. Was an ugly basketball player.
He looked like an alien. He won championships on the Rockets,
he was on the Clippers. He's an assistant on the Celtics.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
No, the shortest NBA player of all time.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, you didn't get when you Coop said a female
You said, Eric Dickerson.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
What what kind? I mean?
Speaker 7 (28:49):
Maybe that's a modern definition, but but all right, Todd
Todd Gurley.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Bugs because I think he got that. It count.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
All right, we are up there, Tyler. What's going on?
Tyler in the Boston area?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
What you got?
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Man?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Right?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Are you working?
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Stop that? What are you doing? Play the game?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
What are you talking about? All right, let's play the game.
You picked that creed. These athletes all had or have
famous fathers. Are you ready, Tyler?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
His father was Del He's a splash brother from the Warriors. Yes,
Balco with the Giants, the San Francisco Giants home run King. Yes,
his father was a wide receiver for the Colts with
Peyton Manning's with the Cardinals. Now Yes, linebacker, blonde haired,
(29:44):
flowing walks linebacker for the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
He's now yes.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Slugger's dad was cecil for the Tigers. His son, Yes,
former Celtic coach Doc. His kid played in the NBA. Yes,
exposed manager Philippe's son was an outfielder for the Cubs
and the Giants, and the bunch of teams was in
the apartment game.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
I know Malvin Harrison's and I know Junior. Junior lives
down the road.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
For me, it's about you're not playing the category you
didn't get. You got everyone except moyses alou so good
job by you.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
And that means what's the math on that? Lorena forty? Alright?
So to forty to sixty? All right? Coop didn't trust
your math? So sexist? Jed? Would you like Jed? Like
fruit Vale Station or Fantastic four?
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Fantastic four?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
You're probably gonna regret that one.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
I don't know, all right. These athletes all wore number
four at some point.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Hey could if you do it all right, you start the clock, start.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
The start the damn clock. The quarterback for the Green
Bay Packers Hall of Famer. Yes. Uh, he is the
current coach for the Chargers.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Targer Chac.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yes, this guy called the time out when he didn't
have any for Michigan.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Chris whatever.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Yes, this guy played for the Brewers. He was the
manager for the Twins. Also Hall of.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Famer Gret Cantl Gret Caunsel Nope, all right.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Leading scorer for the Utah Jazz in the eighties.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Wow, John and noone.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
No, you've you've lost your touch on these games. Oh wow?
Coop taking shots at.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Jed eight times?
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Whenever?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yeah, yeah, Jed, you've done so many drugs you don't
even used to be good at these games.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
You gotta change.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
I'll come back around. I'll do it. Shots, I'll come
back around. Was in the Landown second round. Not gonna
get stop.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
We're gonna run up the score.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Stop.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Paul Molitor, paul A Danley.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
That was a tough one. Adrian Dantley, that was hard.
All right, let's run up the score. Are you ready, Tyler?
Speaker 5 (32:05):
That was hard? It was hard.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
I'm not talking to you. Are you ready, Tyler?
Speaker 5 (32:10):
I'm ready to go?
Speaker 3 (32:11):
All right?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Here we go, Fruitville Station. These athletes were all born
in Oakland. Star with the Milwaukee Bucks. Came over from
the Trailblazers, all right. Uh, bast Mode for the Seattle
Seahawks back in the day. Yes, the Globe for the
SuperSonics and his heydays. Yes, uh he starred for the Celtics.
(32:37):
He out of ingle Wood, I guess, but I guess
he was originally from Oakland, went to Kansas was.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yes. Uh shortstop for the Phillies when they won the
World Series. Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Yes, running back with three names for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Yeah, we're out of time. We did very well.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
We shut up Jed. It's Tyler's moment in the sun.
Tyler and Boston is the stud of studs.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Art Puffin says, games of note, how dare you tease us?
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah, you dare me? Art Puffin, you think I'm daring you.
Let's go now to the hotline, and right now, a
man that we miss. We love this man and he's
chiming in on a random Valentine's Day because he wants
to spread love. I say hello now to a man
(33:39):
that you all know you might think you know this guy,
but maybe you don't. I don't know Edmund Dallas, Diego Steamboat, Willie,
what a cabana boy? Knat Joe Daddy, the Merman, the
Bad News Bears, Judas, Solid Gold Corporate nine to five,
jar Jar. I'm trying to remember Mad f Bomber, sports fodder,
(34:01):
A triple A, gated Garcia, Games of No Class. No,
I can't even remember the ball.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Hi, Eddie, did you say great Zamboni?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Oh? Yeah, great? Well, no, what's the one that you hated?
I called you the shuttle cock.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
No, I'm not going to remind you of that one.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Of sports talk that was the one you hated? That one?
Speaker 5 (34:22):
I do still hae that one.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Well, Uh, I'm all right, I'm I'm working on about
two and a half hours sleep. But there are worst
problems to have. There are worst problems to have.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Uh not having a job, Well.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
That would be one, yes, but uh but no, we
we love you, Ida, and uh I know you're the
hockey guy, right See, NHL is kind of they get
this weird what's going on. Everyone's wrapping themselves in the
flag in hockey right now?
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Right, Yes, I can't believe you haven't pontificated on these
four nations face off and the big win for the
United States over Finland.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I'm wrapping myself, I mean the I'm in the flag.
I wrapped myself in the flag right now, Eddy I did.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
Yeah, I'm sure that's coming up in a future segment.
But no, I just wanted to call in it, check in, uh,
say hello to everyone and just see how things are going.
And UH as good.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
How's your how's your podcast going?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
You got you're doing like like seven hockey podcasts, right,
You're all about how can people find the hockey podcast?
How can they track you down?
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Well, you know you can look on Apple Podcasts, Spotify
search Puck podcast and you can find that there. And
if you're into the Los Angeles Kings like I am,
I've got a daily show that I do called Locked
on l A King. So it's keeping me busy. It's
keeping me talking into a microphone. So you know, I'm
keeping the uh the mechanism moving or whatever. But at
(35:45):
least it's given me something to do. But yeah, no,
I appreciate I want to say, I do appreciate all
the support of the Mala militia. Uh. Subscribing got the
YouTube channel podcast TV. You can check that out. So yeah,
I've had a lot of support it and obviously a
lot of love. I've kind of disassociated myself from from
Twitter or X or whatever, you know, but I still
(36:09):
the show is still in my thoughts. I still uh
connect with some of the listeners, and while I haven't,
this is the first time I've called in since uh,
you know, since I've LEFTY. I've definitely been thinking about
the show and thank you Ben for every once in
a while busting off the text and just see how
things are going. But just wanted to call in and
say hello.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Everything, well, that's great and you are are missed. Now
are you off? Are you on Blue Sky now? Is
that why you got off X? Are you just you
don't want the toxicity of X you've just done with?
Speaker 5 (36:37):
No? No, No, I'm still on it. I haven't. I
haven't joined anything else. I'm still there. I just haven't
been that interactive on it. I have been every once
in a while, I'll just pop on there and see
what we can see. But don't don't anybody in the
militia take that for me not not caring or not
wondering what's going on with the show, just kind of
you know how it is, you're kind of just disassociate
(36:58):
from things for a little while, and now it is
a little bit melancholy for you to think that the
show is somehow still going on without me. I don't
know how that's possible, but apparently it still is.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
So.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
But no, I'm still still thinking about everybody in the militia,
and of course you guys and Lorraine and Coop and
I will get in there in studio and come for
a in person visits there in the very near future.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Well have you come coming out with us?
And berg Dog says, is that Eddie on the phone?
I thought he passed on to the great beyond. No, No,
Eddie's very much right there, alive, alive, And well are
you not. Have you already planned your Charger trips for
next year? I guess the schedule's not out. Yes, you
have to wait on where you're going to.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
Oh, you know, missus Garcia is always on top of everything.
So that is one thing I have been thinking about, because,
as you well know, there is any Charger going into
the Pro Football Hall of Fame this year, that would
be the great tight end Antonio Gates and so we
will will be going who can't Ohio for the induction,
(38:03):
And so I assume that justin Cincinnati and Dick and
Daton are still with us, I hope. Uh So, if
I'm going to be in Ohio, I'm gonna have to
connect with them and anybody else who wants to meet up.
I know, I'm not officially a staff of the show.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
But you're you're part of the show. You're an alumni member,
an actor. You paid your dues the other day Fox
Sports Radio alumni member right there with Richarrera. So congratulations
on that. But uh but no, absolutely, And I don't
know when that is going to be the Hall of
Fame game. I assume it's sometime in August. Yeah, I
am trying to get to Ohio myself because we're going
(38:42):
to try to do a Mallord meet and greet in Ohio.
But I don't have a date on that. I'm not sure.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Well, why don't you make it for the Pro Football
Hall of Fame all we.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Can all get together and hang out with the Dixter
He called in yesterday. He called in. Yeah, he's still
he's still around and concerned about the Browns concerned. He
likes Andrew or old buddy Andrews Sian who's the Browns
played by play guy. But he's not as good as
Jimmy Donovan, not as good as well.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
I mean that those are big shoes to fill from
Jimmy Donovan. I mean we all know that. Yeah, I
understand that. But I will much miss you guys, and
miss miss all the listeners. I do not miss the
NBA one bit. It has been so wonderful to not
have to think or look at or I did happen
to hear about a trade the Lakers made.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
He it was not a trade, Eddie, it was a gift.
It was not a trade.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
A trade is when you you put a player on
the auctioning block and team's bid on the player. When
you just give a player.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
To another team, that's a gift. That's not a trade.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
They just gave their top player to the Lakers and
said here, you can have them. We don't want him anymore.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
It was shocked to hear that Anthony Davis is already hurt.
I could not believe.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Well that never, it never happens in that league. That
never happened, mister Luisiano, right, since says great to hear
from Eddie, are puffins promoting Puck podcast, Anthony Anahean, They're
all the regulars Eddie, They're all there, all the stars
of the show. They love you. They're happy to hear
your voice again. They love you, Mane.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
I appreciate that, and I also would be remiss and
I don't need to be bring the show down, but uh,
there was some very sad news. I got texted by
our friend Manuel and Gardina who unfortunately suffered a terrible
tragedy and his family. He lost his son, you know,
just I mean, how awful obviously is that. And I
(40:30):
just want to send out all my thoughts and prayers
to him. He came in studio and not not long
before you know, I was gone there and we got
to meet him, and he's been a longtime supporter of
the show, and so I was very obviously sad to
hear about that, and hope everybody sends out their best
wishs to him because obviously he's going through a tremendously
difficult time right now, so thoughts and birds out to him.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Absolutely. I actually just saw that man well has been
I mean, he's been with me I mean, we go
back to the nineties. He was he's been listening when
I started doing like local radio in l A. And
I don't I don't know the details on that, but
it's it's terrible. There's a goalfund me. I'll I'll send
that out. Also, there's a GoFundMe for our friend Manuel
and Guardina, his his son who passed away at a
(41:14):
very young age. So tragedy. For sure. We love Manuel,
we wish him that he gets through that. There's no
easy way to get through that stuff, for sure, but okay,
lots are there, so uh all right, well you know
we do. Uh I've seen it the Charging games a
few times. When I was actually telling the wife there,
I said, we got to get together sometimes, so we
will have to plan something and probably and.
Speaker 5 (41:35):
I know, yeah, I do want to let everybody know
that Ben Maller has a big heart and that every
time he would come visit me at the Charger game,
he'd come down from the Ivory tower in the press
box and he would bring me he would bring me
a pocket full of candy bars the press box. Yes,
and I and I really I appreciated that. That was
so nice for me to cats.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
And for me that was from Dan Kronkey or whoever
you know, the charges over. It wasn't my you know,
it was there. They felt they wanted to give that
to you, Eddie. And yeah, there's nothing quite like media
free loading for sure. But all right, well Eddie again, Eddie,
if you want to hear Eddie and hopefully we'll get
him back here on the show at some point, but
until then you can hear him on the podcast, his
(42:17):
Hockey podcast, which is available wherever you get your podcasts,
and you can saylo and Eddie'll Eddie all right back.
You'll get back on the X a little bit or
whatever it might be.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
But we need something.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
This Bill Miller is a douche, the guy that's been
doing the Rejoin total douche. So we do need you
to come back there. Robert Mariner fan checks in Eddie,
giving you some love. Goat Man right there as well,
milk Man, Mike. I'm telling you all the legends, they're
all listening, and they all they all miss you Eddie
so well.
Speaker 5 (42:51):
I miss you guys too. I appreciate it, and thank
you to everyone of the mall and militia for the support,
and especially you Bean and Lorraine and miss you guys
a lot. But I'm gonna get in there and hang
out and say hi.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Yes, miss Loreno was uh you know any want to
say other? I mean you you in particularly we all
miss Eddie, but.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
You mean you missed than I was an emotional reckon.
Sometimes I still see your shadow in the hallway and
it's weird. The ghost of Eddie real I have to
keep the light off in there also makes me super sad.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Yeah that she gets sad when she sees that. And
the cockroaches they're still there.
Speaker 5 (43:29):
Oh well, I can't wait to come visit them too.
I missed the cockroaches as well.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
So you know, we'll get off.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
We'll get off there and hang out here sometimes soon.
But thanks, thanks everybody for all the support, miss you guys,
and uh you can join the show and keep doing
what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
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Is going on.
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They're having a grand time, amazing, amazing, So we'll see,
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One topic radio, one time. You know what that topic is,
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Speaker 3 (02:38):
Right, all right, So our lead here lights camera action.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
There was in Norland Super Bowl fifty ninety crescendo of
the twenty twenty four season.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Here in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
A champion has been crowned, and this is the game
we all watch.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Right, you're listening to sports talk radio late at night.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Chances though you probably watched the game the Eagles and
Chiefs wrangling in a neutral field, the neutral field right.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
There, and how did that turn out? How did that
turn out? Well?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Jalen Hurt threw for two touchdowns, he also ran for
a score, and the Vic Fangier Uncle Vic defense getting
it done. A domination situation. The Eagles did not even
need Sequon Barkley to flex his muscles. He did not,
and Philadelphia certainly did forty to twenty two the final.
(03:31):
They take home the Lombardi Trophy. It was a Harvard
boat race.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
That means that the Eagles jumped out early and never
looked back.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Right the game was.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
It was closed at the end of the first score
seven to nothing, and halftime was twenty four to nothing,
and later on oh my thirty four nothing before the
Chiefs scored. However, the better story is in the losing
locker room. So we asked the question, as we discuss here.
(04:06):
We asked the question choked up here.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
We asked the question, Hey, sound cool, we have any
sound we do? All right?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Anyway, I asked the question who gets the Dunce cap?
Who gets the Dunce cap? A blame for the Chiefs
losing and not just losing It's one thing to lose
on a late field goal or a late touchdown.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
They lost.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
The game was over at halftime, twenty four to nothing
at halftime, So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
My thoughts on this.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I've got torts, folk song and Yiddish and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a cough lozenge, is what we're going to make.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
So a It obviously.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Starts at the top, and Patrick Maholmes deserves all the
praise he's gotten, but he also deserves to be criticized
for this performance that was unbecause of Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
In this game.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And people are gonna defend Mahomes, are gonna blame other
people for the outcome of the game. But to me,
it starts with Mahomes. He was bad.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
He was bad, bad, bad, bad bad.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Now he had some garbage time stats, but when the
game was in the balance, which it really was only
for a quarter here, Mahomes did not step up. He
did not get her done, did not get her done
at all. And there's the saying, you sometimes you're the windshields,
sometimes you're the bug. And we know that the Mahomes
that played on Super Bowl Sunday. There that was a
(05:34):
torts performance. As the great hockey coach John Tortorella has
pointed out, he sucked at a time you cannot suck,
which was the balance of the game. The balance of
the game there. Now many people are gett passing the buckets. Well,
the defense wasn't good, the offensive line wasn't good, and
since the offensive line could have been better, Mahomes. Several
(05:55):
of those sacks were on Mahomes, though the sack is
a quarterback stat.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Holmes held the ball for too long.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I thought I was watching Caleb Williams playing the Super
Bowl as long as he was holding the ball. Bad
job by Mahomes, bad job by him here, And there
were so many negative plays, and that poured gasoline on
the fire. Here a pair of backbreaking interceptions. There was
also a fumble by Mahomes here, But whichever courter.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Typically, it's not that.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I mean, we spent a lot of time to do
a TV show during the football season handicapping NFL games,
and it often comes down to who makes the fewer
negative plays, who makes the fewer negative plays, And in
this game now negative plays are interceptions, interceptions, incompletion, sacks
and fumbles.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Those are considered bad plays. Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
You know how many negative plays Mahomes had When you
can bind fumbles, sacks, incompletions, interceptions, Mahomes had twenty. He
had twenty negative plays in the Super Bowl. And he's
getting a pass because he's Mahomes, not on this show.
He's not getting a pass. And Jalen Hurts, who to
his credit, he only had eight. There were eight negative plays.
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He did throw an interception, but it was deep inside
Kansas City territory, so Chiefs took over inside their own
five yard line on that play. But hey, listen, a
plus twelve negative play ratio for your quarterback versus the
other team's quarterback, you should win forty to twenty two,
which is exactly what Philadelphia pulled off here. Now, what
(07:31):
was the turning point? I was looking for the turning
point for the Eagles that flipped the game right in
their direction. Now this game, you said, well, the turning
point was? I know exactly when the turning point was.
It's an American folk song and we can all sing
along here. The wheels on the bus go round and round,
The wheels on the bus go around and round. The
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moment the Chiefs caravan showed up, the buses showed up
to the super Dome. They were cooked, right, they were done.
You had Travis Kelcey walk out there, and he showed
up wearing that you see what he was gonna have
that burnt orange suit, the wide lapel suit on. He
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had the matching trousers there, a little burnt orange. He
had the patterned buttoned up shirt as well. He was
doing cosplay, it's what he was doing. Well, Kelsey was
doing some cosplay there. He looked like he had just
pulled up out of the hot tub time machine and
he was out of the time machine there, and he
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was from like nineteen seventies. He was doing like a
nineteen seventies cosplay thing. And he said, well, that's not
a good sign. And Kansas City, it proved not. Could
have turned out the other way, but it turned out
that you saw that, you said, well that's not good
and they were cooked.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yeah. What happened to the championship pedigree we.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Hear so much lead up to these games, Well that
disappeared because the out didn't go that way. The Chiefs
did not win. They they don't lose games like this,
Well they did.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
They just lost. The Chiefs just lost.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
But the moment that was the turning point was when
they showed up to the stadium and the Eagles stomped
all over. That's an understatement, a domination situation. And do
not let the garbage time numbers in the fourth quarter
sway the outcome. I mean, I don't have to say
(09:28):
you didn't watch the game, but maybe you tuned it out.
And a lot of people watched the Super Bowl at parties.
It's a social event and you're not really paying that
close attention.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Well, if you weren't.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Paying close attention, you say, well, what happened twenty to
twenty two?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Mahomes?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You had some made some plays? Well, yeah he did.
When the game was over. The game was over, he
made made a few plays. That was take out the
trash time out. Now the last word here, So what
adjustments could Andy Reid have made better? Shall we say
better adjustments in Super Bowl fifty nine. So the obvious
(10:04):
one is, I don't know, it's not that deep. Bret's
Ockham's razor. The simplest solution is the obvious one. Don't
fall behind thirty four to nothing in the Super Bowl
thirty four to nothing in the Super Bowl, And the
obvious one is you got to find some early offense
and there was nothing there. And you know, don't telling
(10:25):
me all the Eagles. Washington was able to score against
that Eagles defense. The La Rams scored the ball against
that Eagle defense. Kansas City should have been able to
score the ball when it mattered against the Eagles defense,
and they did not. So excuse my yad iss year.
The entire Eagles offense they were klutzes. That's how they looked.
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And in the early part of that game there, and
maybe they passed out before the game. Everyone took the
same stupid pills before the game there. But they were
playing uphill the entire day. They were playing uphill here,
and they really stumbled out of the get. It was
only seven to nothing at the end of the first quarter.
So if you weren't paying attention, because maybe you were
having some of those little appetizers, you weren't paying attention.
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Seven nothing, it was not that big a deal. However,
it was actually much worse than that. The Eagles had
one hundred and fifteen yards of offense. The Chiefs had
nineteen at the end of the first quarter. Several of
you pointed out the main thing the Chiefs had overcome
was the curse of Poppy, as our guy Poppy picked
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Kansas City, and I knew I was doomed. I knew
I might pick on the TV show was cooked because
of Poppy and that jinx. And sure enough that played
out there, but the floodgates really opened up. You know,
you played bad. You're like, oh, it's a bad quarter,
but you're only down seven nothing. And then Patrick Mahomes
stepped out there and just kept handing the ball away
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and that the floodgates opened up in that second quarter,
and it was one hundred and seventy nine yards to
twenty three. At halftime the Eagles had thirteen first as
the Chiefs had won and said, well, it was just
the box score, but it actually looked worse than that
watching the game looked worse than that. If that's if
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that's possible, all right, anyway, it is the Ben Malord Show.
Here is Patrick Mahome less there's some postgame flavor for you.
Here's Mahomes on the many mistakes. Mention those negative plays.
Mahomes had twenty of them. Jalen Hurts only had eight.
Here's Mahomes talking about sucking in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Obviously, the turnovers hurt, and I mean I just kind
of take all the blame for that. I mean, just
those early turnovers swing the momentium of the game. And
then they capitalized on them and they scored. I mean
they scored on the one and then they got a
touchdown immediately after. So that's fourteen points that I kind
of gave them. And it's hard to come back from
that and the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
And you didn't.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
You didn't come back all but wait, there's more. Here's
Mahomes and he wants you to know that this is
going to follow him around. He is going to turn
a negative into a positive.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Anytime he lose the Super Bowl, it's sort of worse
stow in the world. They'll stick with you the rest
of your career. I mean, he will be the two
losses that will motivate need to be even better to
the rest of my career, because you only get so
a few of these and you have to capitalize on these,
and they hurt probably more than the wins.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Feel good.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Okay, Well, didn't you learn from the last time you
lost in the Super Bowl the Tampa Bay a couple
of years back. Come on, all right, here's one more
Andy Reid, who is chasing the legendary Bill Belichick and
still on track, Andy Reid, if his health is there
and he keeps going here to set the all time
wins record, he's chasing Don Shula's record. But this is
(13:38):
about Super Bowl wins, and this was a golden opportunity
going into the game. The Chiefs favored by a point
and a half and could have added another one of
those Lombardi Trophies. They obviously did the opposite. Here's a
Andy Reider what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
We'll learn from this. Okay, most games here when you
don't do very well. Yeah, you learn from it as
a coach. You learned from it as a player, and
you move on. Okay, just keep learning.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
How come the bad teams never like the teams that
suck in the NFL, They never like Tennessee is the
worst team in the NF. They must have learned a
lot this year, the Tennessee Titans, because they had the
worst records, so they must have learned like the Patriots
must have learned a lot also, Yeah, learned from losses,
so I have nothing to say, So I'm going to
fall back on my sports cliches, is what I'm going
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to do.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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Speaker 1 (14:35):
I'm told this is a big deal. I'm told this
is very important. So our lead story this hour is
from skid Row. That's where the Lakers play. Believe they
play in skid Row, Yes they do. It's a dump
down there, but that was where the big night game
was in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Oh Man Ball Night. It was ball Night. The story
the night well very important, very very important that we
talk about this. So here we are you and I together.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Talking about this. Everyone hyped off the much ballyhood beginning
of Theca Donzig era with the Lakers. Now, will it
be a long term relationship that blossoms into glorious moments
or will it be a cautionary tale where people say
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the Mavericks were right, the crazy wackadoodle Mavericks were right
about Luca all along. If you were betting, you'd likely
bet on the Mavericks not being right based on history, but.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Let us discuss.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
So.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I don't know if you saw the game or not.
It was broadcast nationally. It was a late pickup. Normally
the Lakers and Utah Jazz not there. You'd rather watch
an actual jazz band than the Utah Jazz at this
point in fact, I think if you put an actual
jazz band on the court, they would be more competitive
(15:57):
than the NBA variety of the jazz. So he had
the usual Hollywood f's out there, will Ferrell Adele.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I guess she's engaged to Lebron's agent. What about that?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, she's all about that action Adele. So there are
all a bunch of other people. Don't EVE know who
these people are anymore, but they were all hanging out
watching and Luke.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
How did he do?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Did he score fifty points? Did he have the greatest
Laker debut of all time?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Did he score thirty points and have like seventeen rebound?
Speaker 5 (16:27):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
How about twenty five points? Did Luca score twenty five
points his late against the Jazz?
Speaker 5 (16:36):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
How about twenty?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
He had to get twenty, right, come on, twenty points
to do that blindfolded?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
He got twenty?
Speaker 6 (16:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Oh my god? How about fifteen Did Luca get fifteen points? No,
fourteen points, fourteen points. All these people dressed up, They
gave out T shirts for a guy who scored fourteen points.
T Shirt Night, fourteen points twenty three minutes. The Lakers
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end up vaporizing the once proud Utah Jazz, Karl Malone
and John Stockton not walking.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Through that door there.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Lakers led by as many as thirty four points in
a game that was much like the Super Bowl. Over
at halftime. No need to watch the second half, So
let us discuss how did Luka? How did Luka Doncik
look in his Laker debut? So I've got Catwalk, Morgana,
the Kissing Bandit, and Morton's Kosher Salt, and we will
(17:36):
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a migraine headache, which the hearty and loyal
minions of the Dallas basketball team are likely suffering from
a migraine headache.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
So as far as they answer the question, how did
Luca look.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
You've got the micro and the macro in the micro
in the moment he looked blobby? He did he didn't
shoot the ball with Gusto. He was five of fourteen.
Really what stood out was how bad he was from
three point range, one of seven, one of the all
time great three point shooters, Luca one of seven from
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three point range. Most of those shots were wide open.
Mind you, maybe they cranked up the ac at the
crypt where the Lakers play, but the Jazz weren't playing
much defense.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
They never played defense. That's why they blow. They're terrible.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
And then you got the podcaster JJ Reddick, the coach there,
who put Luca this is great on a minutes restriction.
Is there anything stupider than a minute's restriction in the NBA?
Isn't that one of like the five stupidest things you
can possibly do? And I know the podcast is not
that bright, mister Reddick, but podcaster Reddick probably doesn't realize this.
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You're feeding the narrative that Luca needs to go to
a fat farm, that he can't play more than an
x number of minutes. I mean, he was seeing him
on the court. He was strutting like he was going
down the catwalk there, and he did a pirouet in
his new laundry and it did look And this always
is the case when you know someone in one uniform
(19:11):
And then they switch uniform it looked like.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
A glitch in a video game.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
So I remember Tom Brady put on a buccaneer uniform
for the first I'm not comparing Luca to Tom Brady,
but just we're used to seeing Luca in the Mavericks
laundry and then you see him in that Laker uniform,
like that doesn't seem right. And it's like, you watch
these people in certain uniforms and then they switch it up,
You're like, well, what's going on with that. That's not
the same way when O'tani went from the Angels to
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the Dodgers. Although not many people watch him with the Angels,
but it's still odd when you switch, when you switch uniforms.
But as far as the overall game, opening night here
and you talk about a soft launch the Lakers, and
they did it right. They knew there was no chance
of losing that game. That was a show up, collect
a win type game. They were dining al fresco at
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a mom and pop pizza rea, a startup.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Where there was just nobody there.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I mean, the Jazz are everyone's homecoming opponent in the NBA.
And yet again that's the way it turned out and
where have you gone thorough Bailey and Greg oaster tag,
They're not walking through that door. Now turn the page.
Will these ingredients? Will these ingredients with Luka and Lebron
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work when we get to the playoffs, which I think
will start in like seven months.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
The NBA playoffs season goes on forever.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
So will Luca and Lebron work for the Lakers in
the playoffs and in twenty twenty five? My vote is no,
it will not work. You're asking me today. We do
the show today. Now, do I think at some point
it's going to work?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Sure? But today ask me this year, I don't see it.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
The Lakers will be one of these teams that's gonna
score a bunch of points, and they'll have great offensive numbers,
and they'll beat a bunch of tomato cans up and
all that. But I'm gonna use the analogy here. It's
a data analogy, so you're gonna have to google it.
And the Lakers are built right now like MORGANA the
Kissing Bandit. They're top heavy, and they know that they
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tried to correct that problem. They attempted to correct that issue.
They tried to get a center, and then that that
went sideways because they know they're not good enough. And
Lebron and Luca are designated hitters and they don't play defense.
And Lebron will do one or two defensive plays a game,
so he gets some the highlights, but the rest of
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the time he's just kind of lollygags on defense. So
neither one of those are defensive dynamos. And when they're
both on the court at the same time, you have
a tremendous liability. You will be on the power play
on offense, you will be shorthanded on defense at two positions.
So the only way that would work is if Lebron
and Luca can combine for ninety to ninety five points
(21:53):
a game, which is not realistic on a regular basis
in a seven game playoff series.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
It's not sustainable.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Therefore, the long term or ice short term in this case,
this year does not look particularly promising.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Uh where are you at?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Also on the on the chatter here that the Lakers
cowtowed to Luca that he hand picked Hornet center Mark Williams,
that he Luca wanted the Lakers to trade for Mark Williams,
and then the trade ended up being rescinded. But that
came directly from the mouth of Luca, So it's not
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that shocking.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I believe it, all right. My first thought is I
believe it.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
My second thought is this again confirms our suspicions that
Rob Polinka doesn't.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Really do anything.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
He just is a middle manager, Rob Polinka, and he's
a sock puppet for whoever the Lakers choose to make
the decisions, whether it's you know it was Lebron James,
I guess they've now pivoted to Luca and they get
Luca dropped in in Polenka's life.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You think that was some kind of amazing.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
GM war work by Rob skinny suit, skinny jeans Polinka.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I don't think it was that at all.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I think what happened is whether it was Adam Silver,
if you buy into the grand NBA conspiracy that phone
calls were made, or whether the Mavericks ownership wants to
move to Las Vegas and they want to undermine the
fan base in Dallas, one of those two, or maybe
a combination of both. But it wasn't like Rob Polinka
just massage Nico Harrison and that is what led to
(23:30):
that particular transaction, and it just dropped like manna from
heaven dropped into their lap, and so Rob Polinka he
had Lebron as the GM by proxy, and now you've
got the shadow GM Luka Doncik making moves here, and
the trade for Williams was rescinded, although apparently there's more.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
To that story. That story is not over yet.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Now last word, So what can the Dallas Maverick fan.
I would say fans, but I think we're down to one.
I think there's one fan left that likes the Mavericks.
So the Dallas Maverick fan, what can the Dallas Maverick
fan take away from Dirk Nowitzki attending Luca's debut with
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the Lakers. It's a couple of things here. If you're
the ownership in Dallas, you would look at that as treason,
wouldn't you? If I'm not mistaken. The street outside the
Mavericks Arena is named Nowitzki Way. He's the franchise legend,
and he was at a fork in the road. He's
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royalty for the Mavericks. The city honored him by renaming
one of the streets outside the arena in his name,
and Dirk, in a moment of weakness at a crossroads.
The Mavericks were playing their own game on Monday, I believe,
but Dirk was not there at the American Airlines Center. Instead,
he was in La watching Luca. So Nowhisky, what he
(24:56):
did is on he went to the airport. Then he
got into La and he stopped by There's a grocery
store near Lax. He went there and he bought some
Morton's kosher salt and he poured the salt in the
open wound, is what he did. Standing with the insurgency,
the uprising of the fan base. And you juxtapose the
(25:19):
Lukka debut with it being announced that Anthony Davis is
not out a couple of days, He's not out a
couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
He's out indefinitely.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
That Luca, the guy that he was traded for Anthony Davis,
has been KOed. He is out indefinitely. After his Maverick debut,
he talked about twisting the knife. That is a knife
twist situation.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Let's welcome in. Our contestants said, real quick, we'll set
the game up. We have Jed, who fled? Who's gonna play?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Hello, Jed.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
The NFL is successful because Walter dam a number of
skull and bones.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
All right, who do you want to partner up with? Quickly?
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Tustin? Juper?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Okay, hold on a sec.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
And Tyler is in Boston?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Hello, Tyler? You're gonna play Mallard's mount of Money? You
want to partner with me? Or Lorena?
Speaker 5 (26:19):
I think it sounds like me and you, but that's right?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
All right? Sorry, Lorraine, you gonna sit this one. I'm
gonna crack Coop quickly. What are the categories here? Coop?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
We'll get that set up. Then we'll have the game
in its entirety with a big.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Highly produced open all right, this is Malard's Mountain of Money,
the Michael B. Jordan edition. Oh I've heard of him, Yes,
not the athlete, the actor.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
The actor.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Yeah, he turned thirty eight years old on Sunday, an
old fart. The categories are the Wire, Fruit, Veil, Station,
Fantastic four, and creed.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Uh Jed? What category would you like?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Jumping the numbers across the dow was one of the
greatest things I've ever seen.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
To have the number of the wire Okay, and Tyler,
which where would you like?
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Creed? All right, very good? Everyone, Hold on, no, do
not hang up, Do not hang up. Stay right there.
We were gonna have Malord's Mountain of Money in its entirety.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to
listen live. Now Malor's Mountain of Money? Do you have
what it takes to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Not?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
All right, let's do it right to the game.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Jed, who fled is with Coop and I am teamed
up with Tyler in Boston and the Michael B.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Jordan edition. Coop, you're going first. You have the wire.
I believe that is correct.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
These athletes were all born in the Greater Baltimore area.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
We'll put forty five seconds on the clock. Are you there, Jed?
Speaker 5 (27:54):
I love Creed.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
All right, let's go. Here we go. The great Bambino favorite.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Uh, the swimmer that won a bunch of Olympic medals. Michael, Yes, Uh,
this guy has an Ironman streak in baseball. Yes, this
guy was running back for the Rams. His his last
name is very female like Eric. No, uh, not even
either one of those guys, the opposite. All right, past uh,
(28:24):
we're gonna go with this guy. Was an ugly basketball player.
He looked like an alien. He won championships on the Rockets,
he was on the Clippers. He's an assistant on the Celtics.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
No, the shortest NBA player of all time.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, you didn't get when you Coop said a female
You said, Eric Dickerson.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
What what kind? I mean?
Speaker 7 (28:49):
Maybe that's a modern definition, but but all right, Todd
Todd Gurley.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Bugs because I think he got that. It count.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
All right, we are up there, Tyler. What's going on?
Tyler in the Boston area?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
What you got?
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Man?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Right?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Are you working?
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Stop that? What are you doing? Play the game?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
What are you talking about? All right, let's play the game.
You picked that creed. These athletes all had or have
famous fathers. Are you ready, Tyler?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
His father was Del He's a splash brother from the Warriors. Yes,
Balco with the Giants, the San Francisco Giants home run King. Yes,
his father was a wide receiver for the Colts with
Peyton Manning's with the Cardinals. Now Yes, linebacker, blonde haired,
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flowing walks linebacker for the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
He's now yes.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Slugger's dad was cecil for the Tigers. His son, Yes,
former Celtic coach Doc. His kid played in the NBA. Yes,
exposed manager Philippe's son was an outfielder for the Cubs
and the Giants, and the bunch of teams was in
the apartment game.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
I know Malvin Harrison's and I know Junior. Junior lives
down the road.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
For me, it's about you're not playing the category you
didn't get. You got everyone except moyses alou so good
job by you.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
And that means what's the math on that? Lorena forty? Alright?
So to forty to sixty? All right? Coop didn't trust
your math? So sexist? Jed? Would you like Jed? Like
fruit Vale Station or Fantastic four?
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Fantastic four?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
You're probably gonna regret that one.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
I don't know, all right. These athletes all wore number
four at some point.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Hey could if you do it all right, you start the clock, start.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
The start the damn clock. The quarterback for the Green
Bay Packers Hall of Famer. Yes. Uh, he is the
current coach for the Chargers.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Targer Chac.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yes, this guy called the time out when he didn't
have any for Michigan.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Chris whatever.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Yes, this guy played for the Brewers. He was the
manager for the Twins. Also Hall of.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Famer Gret Cantl Gret Caunsel Nope, all right.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Leading scorer for the Utah Jazz in the eighties.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Wow, John and noone.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
No, you've you've lost your touch on these games. Oh wow?
Coop taking shots at.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Jed eight times?
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Whenever?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yeah, yeah, Jed, you've done so many drugs you don't
even used to be good at these games.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
You gotta change.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
I'll come back around. I'll do it. Shots, I'll come
back around. Was in the Landown second round. Not gonna
get stop.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
We're gonna run up the score.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Stop.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Paul Molitor, paul A Danley.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
That was a tough one. Adrian Dantley, that was hard.
All right, let's run up the score. Are you ready, Tyler?
Speaker 5 (32:05):
That was hard? It was hard.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
I'm not talking to you. Are you ready, Tyler?
Speaker 5 (32:10):
I'm ready to go?
Speaker 3 (32:11):
All right?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Here we go, Fruitville Station. These athletes were all born
in Oakland. Star with the Milwaukee Bucks. Came over from
the Trailblazers, all right. Uh, bast Mode for the Seattle
Seahawks back in the day. Yes, the Globe for the
SuperSonics and his heydays. Yes, uh he starred for the Celtics.
(32:37):
He out of ingle Wood, I guess, but I guess
he was originally from Oakland, went to Kansas was.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yes. Uh shortstop for the Phillies when they won the
World Series. Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Yes, running back with three names for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Yeah, we're out of time. We did very well.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
We shut up Jed. It's Tyler's moment in the sun.
Tyler and Boston is the stud of studs.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Art Puffin says, games of note, how dare you tease us?
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah, you dare me? Art Puffin, you think I'm daring you.
Let's go now to the hotline, and right now, a
man that we miss. We love this man and he's
chiming in on a random Valentine's Day because he wants
to spread love. I say hello now to a man
(33:39):
that you all know you might think you know this guy,
but maybe you don't. I don't know Edmund Dallas, Diego Steamboat, Willie,
what a cabana boy? Knat Joe Daddy, the Merman, the
Bad News Bears, Judas, Solid Gold Corporate nine to five,
jar Jar. I'm trying to remember Mad f Bomber, sports fodder,
(34:01):
A triple A, gated Garcia, Games of No Class. No,
I can't even remember the ball.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Hi, Eddie, did you say great Zamboni?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Oh? Yeah, great? Well, no, what's the one that you hated?
I called you the shuttle cock.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
No, I'm not going to remind you of that one.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Of sports talk that was the one you hated? That one?
Speaker 5 (34:22):
I do still hae that one.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Well, Uh, I'm all right, I'm I'm working on about
two and a half hours sleep. But there are worst
problems to have. There are worst problems to have.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Uh not having a job, Well.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
That would be one, yes, but uh but no, we
we love you, Ida, and uh I know you're the
hockey guy, right See, NHL is kind of they get
this weird what's going on. Everyone's wrapping themselves in the
flag in hockey right now?
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Right, Yes, I can't believe you haven't pontificated on these
four nations face off and the big win for the
United States over Finland.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I'm wrapping myself, I mean the I'm in the flag.
I wrapped myself in the flag right now, Eddy I did.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
Yeah, I'm sure that's coming up in a future segment.
But no, I just wanted to call in it, check in, uh,
say hello to everyone and just see how things are going.
And UH as good.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
How's your how's your podcast going?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
You got you're doing like like seven hockey podcasts, right,
You're all about how can people find the hockey podcast?
How can they track you down?
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Well, you know you can look on Apple Podcasts, Spotify
search Puck podcast and you can find that there. And
if you're into the Los Angeles Kings like I am,
I've got a daily show that I do called Locked
on l A King. So it's keeping me busy. It's
keeping me talking into a microphone. So you know, I'm
keeping the uh the mechanism moving or whatever. But at
(35:45):
least it's given me something to do. But yeah, no,
I appreciate I want to say, I do appreciate all
the support of the Mala militia. Uh. Subscribing got the
YouTube channel podcast TV. You can check that out. So yeah,
I've had a lot of support it and obviously a
lot of love. I've kind of disassociated myself from from
Twitter or X or whatever, you know, but I still
(36:09):
the show is still in my thoughts. I still uh
connect with some of the listeners, and while I haven't,
this is the first time I've called in since uh,
you know, since I've LEFTY. I've definitely been thinking about
the show and thank you Ben for every once in
a while busting off the text and just see how
things are going. But just wanted to call in and
say hello.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Everything, well, that's great and you are are missed. Now
are you off? Are you on Blue Sky now? Is
that why you got off X? Are you just you
don't want the toxicity of X you've just done with?
Speaker 5 (36:37):
No? No, No, I'm still on it. I haven't. I
haven't joined anything else. I'm still there. I just haven't
been that interactive on it. I have been every once
in a while, I'll just pop on there and see
what we can see. But don't don't anybody in the
militia take that for me not not caring or not
wondering what's going on with the show, just kind of
you know how it is, you're kind of just disassociate
(36:58):
from things for a little while, and now it is
a little bit melancholy for you to think that the
show is somehow still going on without me. I don't
know how that's possible, but apparently it still is.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
So.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
But no, I'm still still thinking about everybody in the militia,
and of course you guys and Lorraine and Coop and
I will get in there in studio and come for
a in person visits there in the very near future.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Well have you come coming out with us?
And berg Dog says, is that Eddie on the phone?
I thought he passed on to the great beyond. No, No,
Eddie's very much right there, alive, alive, And well are
you not. Have you already planned your Charger trips for
next year? I guess the schedule's not out. Yes, you
have to wait on where you're going to.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
Oh, you know, missus Garcia is always on top of everything.
So that is one thing I have been thinking about, because,
as you well know, there is any Charger going into
the Pro Football Hall of Fame this year, that would
be the great tight end Antonio Gates and so we
will will be going who can't Ohio for the induction,
(38:03):
And so I assume that justin Cincinnati and Dick and
Daton are still with us, I hope. Uh So, if
I'm going to be in Ohio, I'm gonna have to
connect with them and anybody else who wants to meet up.
I know, I'm not officially a staff of the show.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
But you're you're part of the show. You're an alumni member,
an actor. You paid your dues the other day Fox
Sports Radio alumni member right there with Richarrera. So congratulations
on that. But uh but no, absolutely, And I don't
know when that is going to be the Hall of
Fame game. I assume it's sometime in August. Yeah, I
am trying to get to Ohio myself because we're going
(38:42):
to try to do a Mallord meet and greet in Ohio.
But I don't have a date on that. I'm not sure.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Well, why don't you make it for the Pro Football
Hall of Fame all we.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Can all get together and hang out with the Dixter
He called in yesterday. He called in. Yeah, he's still
he's still around and concerned about the Browns concerned. He
likes Andrew or old buddy Andrews Sian who's the Browns
played by play guy. But he's not as good as
Jimmy Donovan, not as good as well.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
I mean that those are big shoes to fill from
Jimmy Donovan. I mean we all know that. Yeah, I
understand that. But I will much miss you guys, and
miss miss all the listeners. I do not miss the
NBA one bit. It has been so wonderful to not
have to think or look at or I did happen
to hear about a trade the Lakers made.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
He it was not a trade, Eddie, it was a gift.
It was not a trade.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
A trade is when you you put a player on
the auctioning block and team's bid on the player. When
you just give a player.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
To another team, that's a gift. That's not a trade.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
They just gave their top player to the Lakers and
said here, you can have them. We don't want him anymore.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
It was shocked to hear that Anthony Davis is already hurt.
I could not believe.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Well that never, it never happens in that league. That
never happened, mister Luisiano, right, since says great to hear
from Eddie, are puffins promoting Puck podcast, Anthony Anahean, They're
all the regulars Eddie, They're all there, all the stars
of the show. They love you. They're happy to hear
your voice again. They love you, Mane.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
I appreciate that, and I also would be remiss and
I don't need to be bring the show down, but uh,
there was some very sad news. I got texted by
our friend Manuel and Gardina who unfortunately suffered a terrible
tragedy and his family. He lost his son, you know,
just I mean, how awful obviously is that. And I
(40:30):
just want to send out all my thoughts and prayers
to him. He came in studio and not not long
before you know, I was gone there and we got
to meet him, and he's been a longtime supporter of
the show, and so I was very obviously sad to
hear about that, and hope everybody sends out their best
wishs to him because obviously he's going through a tremendously
difficult time right now, so thoughts and birds out to him.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Absolutely. I actually just saw that man well has been
I mean, he's been with me I mean, we go
back to the nineties. He was he's been listening when
I started doing like local radio in l A. And
I don't I don't know the details on that, but
it's it's terrible. There's a goalfund me. I'll I'll send
that out. Also, there's a GoFundMe for our friend Manuel
and Guardina, his his son who passed away at a
(41:14):
very young age. So tragedy. For sure. We love Manuel,
we wish him that he gets through that. There's no
easy way to get through that stuff, for sure, but okay,
lots are there, so uh all right, well you know
we do. Uh I've seen it the Charging games a
few times. When I was actually telling the wife there,
I said, we got to get together sometimes, so we
will have to plan something and probably and.
Speaker 5 (41:35):
I know, yeah, I do want to let everybody know
that Ben Maller has a big heart and that every
time he would come visit me at the Charger game,
he'd come down from the Ivory tower in the press
box and he would bring me he would bring me
a pocket full of candy bars the press box. Yes,
and I and I really I appreciated that. That was
so nice for me to cats.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
And for me that was from Dan Kronkey or whoever
you know, the charges over. It wasn't my you know,
it was there. They felt they wanted to give that
to you, Eddie. And yeah, there's nothing quite like media
free loading for sure. But all right, well Eddie again, Eddie,
if you want to hear Eddie and hopefully we'll get
him back here on the show at some point, but
until then you can hear him on the podcast, his
(42:17):
Hockey podcast, which is available wherever you get your podcasts,
and you can saylo and Eddie'll Eddie all right back.
You'll get back on the X a little bit or
whatever it might be.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
But we need something.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
This Bill Miller is a douche, the guy that's been
doing the Rejoin total douche. So we do need you
to come back there. Robert Mariner fan checks in Eddie,
giving you some love. Goat Man right there as well,
milk Man, Mike. I'm telling you all the legends, they're
all listening, and they all they all miss you Eddie
so well.
Speaker 5 (42:51):
I miss you guys too. I appreciate it, and thank
you to everyone of the mall and militia for the support,
and especially you Bean and Lorraine and miss you guys
a lot. But I'm gonna get in there and hang
out and say hi.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Yes, miss Loreno was uh you know any want to
say other? I mean you you in particularly we all
miss Eddie, but.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
You mean you missed than I was an emotional reckon.
Sometimes I still see your shadow in the hallway and
it's weird. The ghost of Eddie real I have to
keep the light off in there also makes me super sad.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Yeah that she gets sad when she sees that. And
the cockroaches they're still there.
Speaker 5 (43:29):
Oh well, I can't wait to come visit them too.
I missed the cockroaches as well.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
So you know, we'll get off.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
We'll get off there and hang out here sometimes soon.
But thanks, thanks everybody for all the support, miss you guys,
and uh you can join the show and keep doing
what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
Thank you. Eddie the Great, Eddie Garcia Eddie on Fox
on x I see malaprop Guy our front, Tammi in Vegas.
King Rory King Roy says when will Eddie start as
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