February 22, 2025 • 31 mins
Big Ben talks about the lackluster All-Star Game Weekend and the criticisms coming from Draymond Green, reports that the Bengals plan to use the franchise tag on Tee Higgins for the 2nd straight year, Maller's Mountain of Money: Dr. Dre Edition, and more!
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That was the scene of a starry night.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
The NBA's mid Midsummer Midwinter Classic, the All Star Game
or whatever that was this round robin. It was like
an AAU tournament, but it was All Stars. Wee, do
you watch any of this? Were you captivated by the
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All Star Game? They played a mini tournament between four teams.
This is to avoid anyone scoring two hundred points in
the All Star Game. You just cap each team at
forty points first to forty and that's it. But if
you did not watch, and you probably didn't, perhaps you
missed it. They had comedian Kevin Hart was the MC
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of the event. And you know, you need a stand
up comedian to host your All Star Game because you
don't have big enough stars to carry the event. And
we found out a few hours before the game that
the event was not worthy of Lebron James Lebron deciding
to tap out of the All Star Game, ending a
twenty year streak of All Star performances.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
A coop has arrived, by the way.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Steph Curry, Steph Curry took home the Kobe Bryant All
Star NVP honors who Yes, he had a way listen, it.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Was in the Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You got to give the local guy the All Star
Game MVP. A twenty year streak of All Star Games.
Stephgre's had been twenty years, but he's been there a
lot most of the last twenty years. And Steph Curry
was a Team Shack, the ogs of Team Shack. They
called me a Team Shack. O G's beat Team Chuck.
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That would be Charles Barkley in the final of the
first of forty first of forty point tournament in the
All Star Game. Now for me, and I watched this,
I was not captivated. This is not really for me.
I'm not sure who this was for. I don't really know.
It certainly wasn't for me, But I did enjoy the
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back and forth with Draymond Green, who was not playing
in the All Star Game was not selected to the
All Star Team.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
But Raymond Green was.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Working the studio set for TNT and he was asked,
on a scale of one to ten how much he
liked the new format of the All Star Game, and
he responded with a zero as.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
His response, he had thought it was a zero. That
was it now?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Charles Barkley, who was coaching, as we mentioned and also
commentating the game that he did not coach in Charles
Barkley responding to Raymond Green, and he said, the reason
the NBA is doing what they're doing to the All
Star Game is because of Raymond Green's generation of players
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in the NBA that have destroyed the All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
So that was.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Barkley's response, some saucy commentary, The commentary more worthy of
conversation than the game itself. That is the NBA All
Star experience in a nutshell. So let us discuss the question.
We'll go back and forth here. Draymond Green again. Draymond
Green was asked on a scale of one to ten
what he thought of the new All Star format while
plausibly being paid to commentate on the All Star Game,
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and Draymond said it was a zero, while Charles Barkley,
who was being paid to participate as a sham coach
in said All Star Game, says that the reason they're
doing this is because of Draymond Green's generation.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You make the call whose side are you on? Whose
side are you on?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
So I've got bastardized hotel, pitchman, and Wizard of Oz,
and we will combine all of these things together, and
we are going to make a nice night taking a nap.
That's what we're gonna make because there's not much going on.
Let's you're like college basketball, not much going on. I
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think it's a little hockey. Get a little hockey, all right.
So again, I've got bastardized hotel, pitchman, and Wizard of Oz,
and we'll combine all these things together. So naber I said, Nah,
my answer is, am I gonna go a Draymond Green
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or b Charles Barkley. My answers actually see all the above.
I'm gonna go see all of the above. No lies detected.
The All Star Game round robin tournament was capital l lame,
capital l lame.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Uh. It just was right.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
And when your customers, the most passionate people for your business,
your product, have to google the rules on what the
f is going on, you've done something wrong. And Draymond
was complaining about the fact that the team from the
Saturday Rookie or Young Stars of the Amba, whatever they're
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calling it, got to participate because they needed a fourth team.
They had to get a fourth team in there. So
like Dalton Connect of the Lakers who was traded to
the Hornets and then he came back to the Lakers,
he's kind of a nomad's He was on one of
the teams of the Future Stars that was playing in
the All Star Saturday or also Sunday tournament from Saturday.
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So I would have chosen to go with the kiss method,
keep it simple, stupid, the NBA chose to crank it
up a couple of notches and they decided to bastardize
the All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
It's lower in quality now.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It's been unwatchable for years, so it's just a different
kind of unwatchable. But Draymond is correct, Now, how did
we end up here? Well, that's the part where Charles
Barkley enters the chat. Charles Barkley is also spot on.
No lies detected from Sir Charles, because it's Draymond Green's
generation of grab Ass and Huggy Huggy during the All
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Star Game that created the mess that we have today now.
To be fair in all sports, the All Star Game
sucks when thing's changed in my lifetime, used to be
a highlight of the year to see all the great
players united together, and it was wonderful. Now it blows
in the NBA game in particular, and there's different theories
the AAU tournament. All these guys know each other from
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the time they're first tag for greatness, and they all
hang out together at the same tournaments and travel the
same circuit, and so they all know each other. So
they don't really have any competition with any of these
people because they're all buddy buddy, and they're all filthy
rich in the NBA. But what has happened to the
bug ridden NBA All Star Game? It has affected all
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of the All Stars right. The contaminations is widespread contamination.
It's highly infectious. And the headliners, they make so much
money in the professional ranks that they cannot be troubled
to provide a proper night of effort and focus and
have that competitive spirit. They just can't. And this is
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a result. You play stupid games and win stupid prizes.
So in a perfect world for me, it will never
likely happen this way. But you go back old school
style where I first when I I love watching basketball.
When I was younger, back in my day, it was
East versus West it's gonna shock you. What I'm about
to say is a boomer take East versus West teams
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wearing their home uniforms, meaning that if you wear a
Celtic uniform, you're wearing your Celtic uniform during the All
Star Game or a sixers or bowls or Suns or
whoever you got your home uniform on.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And that's it.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
And then the Shenanigans and you actually put some effort
into that, And that's too much to ask. It's way
too much, all right now, Page two to the trade
that still has legs, The trade that still have legs.
A few weeks after the Dallas Mavericks landed Luka and
traded him, they said, ye, we're gonna trade Luca. We're
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gonna land him in La They traded him to the
Lakers on a silver platter. The Commissioner over the weekend
addressed the chatter Adam Silver over the weekend, shooting down
the widespread conspiracy theories that the Mavericks decision to give
away Luca.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Old not a Signey put.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
The decision to give away Luka to the Lakers is
to move the franchise to Las Vegas, right, people that
own the Mavericks now are gambling people.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
They thought they were going to get a law.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Passed in Texas to allow sports wagering and casinos, and
they wanted to build an a reno at the casino
and all that stuff. But Adam Silver shooting down that
conspiracy theory that the Luca trade was to upset the
fan base so much so they could relocate the franchise
to Vegas. Does this end the storyline? So I'm shaking
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my head. No, not by a long shot. And my
response is the hotel pitchman. My response is the hotel
pitchman here, Captain obvious. Remember those commercials from years ago,
Captain Obvious, why didn't you expect Adam Silver?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Si?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Can you imagine if the commission had gotten up there
and said, but by the way, yeah, we absolutely we
hope the franchise will move to Las Vegas.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
We want to leave Dallas and.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
We want to go to Vegas because of the gambling
money in Vegas. Of course, he's not going to say that.
You can't admit that. He would never admit that. But
there's something that just doesn't smell right about the whole situation.
No matter what Adam Silver says, and the fact that
Adam Silver gave his blessing here on the trade, which
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makes you believe that Adam Silver, the commissioner of the NBA,
either orchestrated that Luca ends up with the Lakers. The
heist is allowed, or either orchestrated or allowed it to happen.
But either way, he's the commissioner of the NBA, and
this is a conspiracy theory. Unlike the NFL's fixing games
for the Chiefs, this is one I can get behind.
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Either Adam Silver. The NBA is like, well, listen, we
got to get a bigger star in Lebron's hold. We
need the Lakers to have a star at all times.
That's the way we've done business for the past fifty
years in the NBA. So we've got to keep that
street going and we've got to make sure we get
a star with the Lakers. And so we'll have Luca
go there and TV you'll be happy. Either that or
the Mavericks want to relocate to Las Vegas. But back
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when the NBA had a commissioner with hair on his chest,
and back when they had a man that wasn't from
somewhere else out in the cosmos, in the Milky Way
as commissioner, a real commissioner in the late David Stern.
That was when Commissioner Stern stepped in and veto lopsided trades,
at least one in particular, that Chris Paul trade. He
put his foot down said no, Moss, Chris Paul, you're
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not getting traded. That's a giveaway trade. You're not going
to the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Silver never says he never considered such a move, claim
that they don't really have the power to do that,
even though it has happened in the past.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Now, as far as the idea that the.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Mavericks would would never be allowed to relocate to Nevada,
of course, the Maps have admitted they've They've never or
at least they say they never shopped Luca around.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
They only wanted to give him the Lakers. It's not trade.
A trade is.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
When you see what the item is worth, you put
it up for bid at an auction, even if it's
a silent auction, and see what you can get, and
then you give the item to the highest bidder. That
was not what happened, but the idea that the NBA
would not ever allow a team leaving a bigger market
for a smaller market is fugazi and here's why. It
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has happened in other sports multiple times in recent years
and over the last like thirty five years, it's happened
many times. There were teams that left Los Angeles in
the NFL for smaller markets, mainly the Rams who left
for Saint Louis years ago, and then they came back
to LA. The Raiders left LA went to Oakland. They
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then left Oakland, a bigger market the San Francisco Bay
Area for Las Vegas, a smaller market. The Athletics and
Major League Baseball have also done that as they went
to a smaller TV market. The San Francisco Bay Area
market number six in the United States and the the
city of Las Vegas market number believe it's number forty
two now. Dallas is the fifth biggest media market in
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the United States. So you'd move from number five to
number forty two, but you'd make up for that in
gambling revenue. And don't be naive to think that that
would not be allowed to happen.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
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Speaker 1 (14:27):
We're going to start out with a topic of conversation
that will be near and dear to my heart and
in your heart as well for the coming days, coming weeks.
That would be tag you're it, Who's getting tagged, who's
not getting tagged? NFL free agent. It's always an important day,
the tag day. I don't know about you, but in
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my house we circle that day.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
It's very important.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Who's getting tagged and who's not getting tagged?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Oh my, the So.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
There are reports out of Cincinnati that a decision hasn't
been made on the future of T. Higgins. Many anticipating T.
Higgins changing teams. Well, if you didn't see this, maybe
not a surprise. Surprise, not a surprise, say what? So
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we are told the Ben Gals, the Ben Gals plan
to use the dreaded franchise tag on T. Higgins. If
that sounds like a doppelganger of a year ago, that
is because that is exactly what happened last year. That
would be the second straight offseason that the Cincinnati football
team has used the franchise tag on T.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Higgins.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Now, the story says that the Higgins camp, now you
know you're big when you.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Have a camp. I don't have a camp. There's no camp.
There's no Mallard camp. I don't have a camp. You
know you're important. You have a camp, You've arrived. If
you have a camp. How many people are in a camp?
Could you have like two people in a camp? Does
it have to be three? How about how many? Four?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Five?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
How many people in camp?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I'd like to know when does one become a camp
because I don't have a camp. I'd like to have
a camp, but I don't have a camp. How do
you get a camp? How do people know when you
have a camp? Do you announce you.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Have a camp?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Do you say, hey, I have a camp? Like who
determines the camp? And what if it's a fake camp?
What happens then? I need answers. Anyway, So Higgins expects
to be tagged, and that would be mean that he
would play yet again in Theory in Cincinnati and would
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not hit the free agent market. Now the reason today
is an important day. This is our Tuesday show. It's
still late on the West Coast on Monday, but we
live in the world of Tuesday because this our Tuesday show.
So the tag window officially opens. Is everyone ready? Four
pm Eastern, one o'clock Pacific?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Whoa yeah, woo man alive. Tag Day. It's Tag day, kids,
It's Tag. No one go to school.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It's Tag Day now. That begins at four pm. It'll
last until March fourth. Wow, that's all. That's a big
period of time. March fourth at four pm. So you
can do the math on that. But that's the period
of time. So let us discuss the question the Bengals
planning to use the non exclusive, non exclusive franchise tag
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on wide receiver T Higgins for the second consecutive year.
Can you decipher what this actually means? So I've got vegetables, Batman,
and paradise and we will combine all of these things together.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
And we'll take a dive off a boat, is what
we're going to do.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
So ay, I will saw all the Rubik's cube, I
have all of the powers invested in me by the
mighty powerful microphones of Fox Sports Radio. And I will
use football jargon. I will keep it simple, stupid. I
will relate to the common man. And here's the story
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on T. Higgins and the franchise tag with the Bengals.
The Bengals are proudly accepting the yellow flag for delay
of game.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Delay of game in.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Football jargon a five yard penalty, move the chains back.
It is a procrastination situation for the Cincinnati football team.
Now what reports say that they want to extend T.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Higgins.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I'm sure they do wink wink, nod nod, and they
would like to have him under contract long term. We
are skeptics. I much like the Great State of Missouri,
may show me state of mind. It is more likely
than not that there are ulterior motives in play here.
That the Bengals are doing what I did when I
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was a kid. My mom would yell at me to
finish my food, and I would play with my vegetables.
The Bengals are playing with their vegetables. They are more
than content to go year to year to year to
year with Higgins, and Cincinnati would love for a team
like the Chargers or the Patriots to step in there
and negotiate a long term contract with T. Higgins and
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work out a trade. Now, they're not going to get
two first round picks for T.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Higgins.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
The way this usually works in the past is you
agree to a contractor Higgins finds a team he wants
to play for and then they drop the tag, and
then Higgins gets traded for less than two first round picks,
and there'll be some kind of compensation agreement. They'll work
out some kind of goodie bag that will go to Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Now, as for the play, you talk about hardship.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I don't know about you, but man, can we all
say a prayer for T Higgins because this now guarantees
him if this does happen the way it's said to happen,
and his camp things that's going to happen, that means T.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Higgins will make at the.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Very worst, twenty six point one million dollars in twenty
twenty five on the franchise tag. So he's he's buying eggs.
He's buying the eggs, and he'll buy eggs for everybody.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
All right.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Now to Minunesoa, we go, home of an epic Malard
meet and greet a couple of years back. There it
was wonderful The Mermaid met so many great supporters of
the show that night.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
But we go to Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That as where a star wide receiver, Justin Jefferson is
publicly recruiting a new teammate which is not his teammate yet,
but he is making the effort to acquire Brown's defensive star,
Miles Garrett wants him to come to the Viking. So
how much juice does that have? How much juice does
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that have? So if you look at the glass of juice,
the glass is ep date, it is p date. And
from the Great Batman cartoons, the character known as the Joker,
if you might remember that back in the day, the
Joker would say something along the lines of zero zip, zilch, nada. Yes,
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it is nothing more than wishful thinking by Justin Jefferson.
And the reason I bring this up is because I
was contacted by more than one die hard Minnesota Viking
fans say hey, you should talk about this ton in
the show and clearly not paying attention. Every other time
an athlete says I'm going to public recruit another athlete, and.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I roll my eyes in the back of my head.
No different here.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
All Jefferson does is win some Brownie points with the
electorate in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Good for him.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Other than that, it is meaningless, meaningless, meaningless, meaningless. I mean,
I'm sure it's cool if you're Miles Garrett to get
some kind of handwritten note, maybe a FaceTime call from
Justin Jefferson kissing your ass and saying how wonderful you
are and you feel the love and admiration, and that's
great public displays of affection.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Wonderful, wonderful, very flattering. It's very flattering.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
But there's this in between bizarro world where some people
are convinced that this stuff actually matters. I am not,
I am not. Ultimately comes down to money, money, money.
It's always about money. That's number one. Number two would
be the location. Some people actually say they want to win,
but really just want to be closer to some relative
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or something like that. So there's other variables in play there.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
We know that.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
And why would you want if you're Miles Garrett, you
got one spin of the wheel, one shot, why would
you pick them in a soda?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Vikings?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It's not the Vikings are bad. They're not bad. The
Vikings are a playoff team. However, the Vikings also don't
have a quarterback. They didn't have one last year. They
won a bunch of games, but they were exposed when
they played down the stretch against the Lions and then
Rams and the playoffs, and now they're going to turn
to another question mark from Sam Darnold. They go to
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JJ McCarthy, who did not play it down what was
supposed to be his rookie year, and he takes over
center in Minnesota. So the Great Unknown. So if you're
Miles Garrett, why would you sign up for that, the
Great Unknown? You wouldn't You'd go to the Lions or
the Eagles, or the Chiefs, maybe Buffalo. But who knows
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what Cleveland would would and wouldn't do in terms of
the trades. But all the indications are also that the
Cleveland Browns think that Miles Garrett is lying and they're
going to call his bluff. The Cleveland Browns. There's some
chatter the streets are talking. The Browns seem to think
that Miles Garrett is full of crap, much like the
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Cleveland brown locker room, and that if they just throw
money at him, he'll just shut off and agree to
playing Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
For the rest of his career.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
That they'll offer him some monstrous amount of money and
then all of a sudden, I'll say, well, I really
want to go from Cleveland to Canton. That's really what
I want to do. Stay tuned developing hot dot dot
dot be sure.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
To catch live editions of The Ben Malor Show weekdays
at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now, Malor's Mountain
of money? Do you have what it takes to get
to the top?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Probably?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Not?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
All right, let's do it. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
It's Malard's amount of money. And let's welcome in our
contestants for this game. We have Kyle in Boston, who's
going to play. Hello, Kyle, welcome, he's going on. Good
to have you, Kyle. You sound like you're driving around
you ready to play the game here, Kyle?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
What are you up to? You working? You driv to work?
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, I'm just.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Getting out of work.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I work at the at the car dealers, so I'm
just getting out all right. Look at that people out
there playing some cards and this guy was helping them out.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
All right? Who do you want to partner up with? Kyle?
You got me Ben Or the Kobaloop.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I'm gonna partner up with you, all.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Right, Kyle. That's a good choice. We're in it to
win it. Kyle.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Hold on a second, and we have let's go see
you now. I think we're go with Isaiah. Isaiah?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Are you there? Isaiah? I am, look at that unbelievable.
All right. You're in Minnesota? Is that correct? Yes? All right?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
And are you working right now or what's going on
with you?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I'm driving into work right.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Now, oh man, brutal hours, all right, driving into What
kind of work you do?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I make a sour cream at a factory? Wow? Very specific?
All right? You like sour cream, Cooper?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
I love so?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Okay, then you're gonna I don't.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Know the name of it here.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, sounds bad, all right, Isaiah. Do you eat a
lot of sour cream because you work and make sour cream?
Or do you hate sour cream because you make sour cream?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I'm actually lacked intolerant.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
That's great, all right, that's outsteading.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
All right.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
You're gonna team up with Coop. What are the categories here, Cooper,
lou what are we at? All right? Gentlemen?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
This is Malard's Mountain of money, The Doctor Dre edition.
He turned sixty years old later today or at some
point today?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Today?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Sure? All right?
Speaker 5 (26:27):
The categories are straight out of Compton nothing but a
g thang the next episode and forgot about dre Uh Kyle,
you were on the air first him up?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Hold on a second. Alrighty punch you out there? You are, Kyle?
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Hell, which category would you like?
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Yeah, that's right, we're straight out of copy. That's how
we roll here.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Coop and Isaiah, do you want nothing but a g
thang the next episode?
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Or forgot about Dre?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Let's go what forgot about?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Alright, okay, we'll start with you, Kyle. We'll put forty
five seconds on the clock. We need the first and
last answer and the first and last name, first right,
first name. That's it, the first and.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Last eswer, first and last name.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
These athletes are all from Los Angeles, Kyle.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
But are you ready? All right? All right? All right,
forty five seconds. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Star for the Clippers, he's often heard he played for
the Toronto Raptors, won a champions Yes, star tight end
for Kansas City. He's on CBS's NFL coverage. I think
he's on Amazon now. One of the great tight ends.
Played for the Atlanta Falcons. Also, Yes, star for the
New York Yankees. Who's often hurt? Not Aaron Judge, the
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Big D eight for the Yankees. Yeah, all right, mister Podre,
he's passed away the greatest Podre of all time. Outfielder
number nineteen. Yes, and a hero for the Angels third basement.
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Damn all right, not bad.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
One hundred points, all.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Right, didn't get Troy Gloss, didn't get it out?
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Yeah, Isaiah, we've got forgot about dre.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
These athletes all won a Comeback Player of the Year award.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Forty five seconds. Let's begin. Current quarterback for the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Uh yes, Uh.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
The kid in baseball played for the Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Ah, I'm gonna let you.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Down, all right, we'll pass. Uh Colts quarterback. He retired early.
He looked like a Civil War Yes. Uh. This guy
was the Sandman closer for the Yankees, all right. This
guy was a linebacker for the Patriots. His last name
was nickname for a beer.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Oh god, God God, shoot.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
All right, catcher for the Kansas City Royals right now,
he's been there forever. Oh man, only the answers were off,
you would have done very well.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
You would have gotten them, all right, if the answers
had been off.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
But how many points did we have?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I don't know. I think you got forty forty.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Forty all right, Well, we got to go back at
it again and earn some more points.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
You got this, Isaiah, would you here for them?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Will Ray and it's wrong? Would you cheer for me
and Kyle? Don't cheer for Isaiah?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Go ass Isaiah? Do you want do you want nothing
but a g thing? Or the next episode? All right,
good luck, Coop, God bless you. Well, there's there's not
as much baseball on this one, so all right, next episode.
These athletes all have fathers that were also athletes. Well,
hold on forty five seconds, let's begin, all right. He
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is the sheriff for the Colts and the Broncos quarterback.
His nickname is the Sheriff. His brother is eli Oy Yeah,
first of yes.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Uh. He is the current running back for the forty
nine ers.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
His dad was ed Ed McCay.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
No, what's what's the son's name?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Yes, Uh, this guy is Dion's son. He's gonna be
maybe the number one pick. Yes, this guy is a
sharp shooter for He used to be on the Warriors,
now he's on the Mavericks.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
His dad was Michael.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
When you get shop, Kyle, Kyle, what do you know?
What do you wind me? What do you do?
Speaker 6 (30:43):
What do you how many post?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
I don't know how many?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Kyle?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
God? How Isaiah. God, I don't know. Ninety enough.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
No, that's a that's enough. So total we have one
hundred and thirty one thirty, so you got to get
thirty to ornament.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Nothing but a G thing? Is that what we're doing here? Yes?
Speaker 1 (31:00):
These athletes last names all start with G. Are you ready, Kyle?
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Yes, I'm ready?
Speaker 3 (31:06):
All right?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
The big ticket when the Celtics won a championship about
fifteen years ago from Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yes, a tight end for the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
He's on Fox right now. Yeah, Bill Witter, good job, Kyle.
How about this the ice the iceman for the Spurs
back in the seventies, in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
You know who that is? Nah, yeah, it's George Gerban.
It doesn't matter, No, George German, it doesn't matter. We
won the game.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Good, good job, Isaiah Lactose in tolerant Isaiah.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
And there's Kyle right there. We won
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That was the scene of a starry night.
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The NBA's mid Midsummer Midwinter Classic, the All Star Game
or whatever that was this round robin. It was like
an AAU tournament, but it was All Stars. Wee, do
you watch any of this? Were you captivated by the
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All Star Game? They played a mini tournament between four teams.
This is to avoid anyone scoring two hundred points in
the All Star Game. You just cap each team at
forty points first to forty and that's it. But if
you did not watch, and you probably didn't, perhaps you
missed it. They had comedian Kevin Hart was the MC
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of the event. And you know, you need a stand
up comedian to host your All Star Game because you
don't have big enough stars to carry the event. And
we found out a few hours before the game that
the event was not worthy of Lebron James Lebron deciding
to tap out of the All Star Game, ending a
twenty year streak of All Star performances.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
A coop has arrived, by the way.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Steph Curry, Steph Curry took home the Kobe Bryant All
Star NVP honors who Yes, he had a way listen, it.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Was in the Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You got to give the local guy the All Star
Game MVP. A twenty year streak of All Star Games.
Stephgre's had been twenty years, but he's been there a
lot most of the last twenty years. And Steph Curry
was a Team Shack, the ogs of Team Shack. They
called me a Team Shack. O G's beat Team Chuck.
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That would be Charles Barkley in the final of the
first of forty first of forty point tournament in the
All Star Game. Now for me, and I watched this,
I was not captivated. This is not really for me.
I'm not sure who this was for. I don't really know.
It certainly wasn't for me, But I did enjoy the
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back and forth with Draymond Green, who was not playing
in the All Star Game was not selected to the
All Star Team.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
But Raymond Green was.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Working the studio set for TNT and he was asked,
on a scale of one to ten how much he
liked the new format of the All Star Game, and
he responded with a zero as.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
His response, he had thought it was a zero. That
was it now?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Charles Barkley, who was coaching, as we mentioned and also
commentating the game that he did not coach in Charles
Barkley responding to Raymond Green, and he said, the reason
the NBA is doing what they're doing to the All
Star Game is because of Raymond Green's generation of players
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in the NBA that have destroyed the All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
So that was.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Barkley's response, some saucy commentary, The commentary more worthy of
conversation than the game itself. That is the NBA All
Star experience in a nutshell. So let us discuss the question.
We'll go back and forth here. Draymond Green again. Draymond
Green was asked on a scale of one to ten
what he thought of the new All Star format while
plausibly being paid to commentate on the All Star Game,
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and Draymond said it was a zero, while Charles Barkley,
who was being paid to participate as a sham coach
in said All Star Game, says that the reason they're
doing this is because of Draymond Green's generation.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You make the call whose side are you on? Whose
side are you on?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
So I've got bastardized hotel, pitchman, and Wizard of Oz,
and we will combine all of these things together, and
we are going to make a nice night taking a nap.
That's what we're gonna make because there's not much going on.
Let's you're like college basketball, not much going on. I
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think it's a little hockey. Get a little hockey, all right.
So again, I've got bastardized hotel, pitchman, and Wizard of Oz,
and we'll combine all these things together. So naber I said, Nah,
my answer is, am I gonna go a Draymond Green
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or b Charles Barkley. My answers actually see all the above.
I'm gonna go see all of the above. No lies detected.
The All Star Game round robin tournament was capital l lame,
capital l lame.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Uh. It just was right.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
And when your customers, the most passionate people for your business,
your product, have to google the rules on what the
f is going on, you've done something wrong. And Draymond
was complaining about the fact that the team from the
Saturday Rookie or Young Stars of the Amba, whatever they're
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calling it, got to participate because they needed a fourth team.
They had to get a fourth team in there. So
like Dalton Connect of the Lakers who was traded to
the Hornets and then he came back to the Lakers,
he's kind of a nomad's He was on one of
the teams of the Future Stars that was playing in
the All Star Saturday or also Sunday tournament from Saturday.
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So I would have chosen to go with the kiss method,
keep it simple, stupid, the NBA chose to crank it
up a couple of notches and they decided to bastardize
the All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
It's lower in quality now.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It's been unwatchable for years, so it's just a different
kind of unwatchable. But Draymond is correct, Now, how did
we end up here? Well, that's the part where Charles
Barkley enters the chat. Charles Barkley is also spot on.
No lies detected from Sir Charles, because it's Draymond Green's
generation of grab Ass and Huggy Huggy during the All
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Star Game that created the mess that we have today now.
To be fair in all sports, the All Star Game
sucks when thing's changed in my lifetime, used to be
a highlight of the year to see all the great
players united together, and it was wonderful. Now it blows
in the NBA game in particular, and there's different theories
the AAU tournament. All these guys know each other from
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the time they're first tag for greatness, and they all
hang out together at the same tournaments and travel the
same circuit, and so they all know each other. So
they don't really have any competition with any of these
people because they're all buddy buddy, and they're all filthy
rich in the NBA. But what has happened to the
bug ridden NBA All Star Game? It has affected all
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of the All Stars right. The contaminations is widespread contamination.
It's highly infectious. And the headliners, they make so much
money in the professional ranks that they cannot be troubled
to provide a proper night of effort and focus and
have that competitive spirit. They just can't. And this is
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a result. You play stupid games and win stupid prizes.
So in a perfect world for me, it will never
likely happen this way. But you go back old school
style where I first when I I love watching basketball.
When I was younger, back in my day, it was
East versus West it's gonna shock you. What I'm about
to say is a boomer take East versus West teams
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wearing their home uniforms, meaning that if you wear a
Celtic uniform, you're wearing your Celtic uniform during the All
Star Game or a sixers or bowls or Suns or
whoever you got your home uniform on.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And that's it.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
And then the Shenanigans and you actually put some effort
into that, And that's too much to ask. It's way
too much, all right now, Page two to the trade
that still has legs, The trade that still have legs.
A few weeks after the Dallas Mavericks landed Luka and
traded him, they said, ye, we're gonna trade Luca. We're
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gonna land him in La They traded him to the
Lakers on a silver platter. The Commissioner over the weekend
addressed the chatter Adam Silver over the weekend, shooting down
the widespread conspiracy theories that the Mavericks decision to give
away Luca.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Old not a Signey put.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
The decision to give away Luka to the Lakers is
to move the franchise to Las Vegas, right, people that
own the Mavericks now are gambling people.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
They thought they were going to get a law.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Passed in Texas to allow sports wagering and casinos, and
they wanted to build an a reno at the casino
and all that stuff. But Adam Silver shooting down that
conspiracy theory that the Luca trade was to upset the
fan base so much so they could relocate the franchise
to Vegas. Does this end the storyline? So I'm shaking
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my head. No, not by a long shot. And my
response is the hotel pitchman. My response is the hotel
pitchman here, Captain obvious. Remember those commercials from years ago,
Captain Obvious, why didn't you expect Adam Silver?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Si?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Can you imagine if the commission had gotten up there
and said, but by the way, yeah, we absolutely we
hope the franchise will move to Las Vegas.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
We want to leave Dallas and.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
We want to go to Vegas because of the gambling
money in Vegas. Of course, he's not going to say that.
You can't admit that. He would never admit that. But
there's something that just doesn't smell right about the whole situation.
No matter what Adam Silver says, and the fact that
Adam Silver gave his blessing here on the trade, which
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makes you believe that Adam Silver, the commissioner of the NBA,
either orchestrated that Luca ends up with the Lakers. The
heist is allowed, or either orchestrated or allowed it to happen.
But either way, he's the commissioner of the NBA, and
this is a conspiracy theory. Unlike the NFL's fixing games
for the Chiefs, this is one I can get behind.
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Either Adam Silver. The NBA is like, well, listen, we
got to get a bigger star in Lebron's hold. We
need the Lakers to have a star at all times.
That's the way we've done business for the past fifty
years in the NBA. So we've got to keep that
street going and we've got to make sure we get
a star with the Lakers. And so we'll have Luca
go there and TV you'll be happy. Either that or
the Mavericks want to relocate to Las Vegas. But back
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when the NBA had a commissioner with hair on his chest,
and back when they had a man that wasn't from
somewhere else out in the cosmos, in the Milky Way
as commissioner, a real commissioner in the late David Stern.
That was when Commissioner Stern stepped in and veto lopsided trades,
at least one in particular, that Chris Paul trade. He
put his foot down said no, Moss, Chris Paul, you're
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not getting traded. That's a giveaway trade. You're not going
to the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Silver never says he never considered such a move, claim
that they don't really have the power to do that,
even though it has happened in the past.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Now, as far as the idea that the.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Mavericks would would never be allowed to relocate to Nevada,
of course, the Maps have admitted they've They've never or
at least they say they never shopped Luca around.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
They only wanted to give him the Lakers. It's not trade.
A trade is.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
When you see what the item is worth, you put
it up for bid at an auction, even if it's
a silent auction, and see what you can get, and
then you give the item to the highest bidder. That
was not what happened, but the idea that the NBA
would not ever allow a team leaving a bigger market
for a smaller market is fugazi and here's why. It
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has happened in other sports multiple times in recent years
and over the last like thirty five years, it's happened
many times. There were teams that left Los Angeles in
the NFL for smaller markets, mainly the Rams who left
for Saint Louis years ago, and then they came back
to LA. The Raiders left LA went to Oakland. They
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then left Oakland, a bigger market the San Francisco Bay
Area for Las Vegas, a smaller market. The Athletics and
Major League Baseball have also done that as they went
to a smaller TV market. The San Francisco Bay Area
market number six in the United States and the the
city of Las Vegas market number believe it's number forty
two now. Dallas is the fifth biggest media market in
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the United States. So you'd move from number five to
number forty two, but you'd make up for that in
gambling revenue. And don't be naive to think that that
would not be allowed to happen.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
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Speaker 1 (14:27):
We're going to start out with a topic of conversation
that will be near and dear to my heart and
in your heart as well for the coming days, coming weeks.
That would be tag you're it, Who's getting tagged, who's
not getting tagged? NFL free agent. It's always an important day,
the tag day. I don't know about you, but in
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my house we circle that day.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
It's very important.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Who's getting tagged and who's not getting tagged?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Oh my, the So.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
There are reports out of Cincinnati that a decision hasn't
been made on the future of T. Higgins. Many anticipating T.
Higgins changing teams. Well, if you didn't see this, maybe
not a surprise. Surprise, not a surprise, say what? So
(15:21):
we are told the Ben Gals, the Ben Gals plan
to use the dreaded franchise tag on T. Higgins. If
that sounds like a doppelganger of a year ago, that
is because that is exactly what happened last year. That
would be the second straight offseason that the Cincinnati football
team has used the franchise tag on T.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Higgins.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Now, the story says that the Higgins camp, now you
know you're big when you.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Have a camp. I don't have a camp. There's no camp.
There's no Mallard camp. I don't have a camp. You
know you're important. You have a camp, You've arrived. If
you have a camp. How many people are in a camp?
Could you have like two people in a camp? Does
it have to be three? How about how many? Four?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Five?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
How many people in camp?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I'd like to know when does one become a camp
because I don't have a camp. I'd like to have
a camp, but I don't have a camp. How do
you get a camp? How do people know when you
have a camp? Do you announce you.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Have a camp?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Do you say, hey, I have a camp? Like who
determines the camp? And what if it's a fake camp?
What happens then? I need answers. Anyway, So Higgins expects
to be tagged, and that would be mean that he
would play yet again in Theory in Cincinnati and would
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not hit the free agent market. Now the reason today
is an important day. This is our Tuesday show. It's
still late on the West Coast on Monday, but we
live in the world of Tuesday because this our Tuesday show.
So the tag window officially opens. Is everyone ready? Four
pm Eastern, one o'clock Pacific?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Whoa yeah, woo man alive. Tag Day. It's Tag day, kids,
It's Tag. No one go to school.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It's Tag Day now. That begins at four pm. It'll
last until March fourth. Wow, that's all. That's a big
period of time. March fourth at four pm. So you
can do the math on that. But that's the period
of time. So let us discuss the question the Bengals
planning to use the non exclusive, non exclusive franchise tag
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on wide receiver T Higgins for the second consecutive year.
Can you decipher what this actually means? So I've got vegetables, Batman,
and paradise and we will combine all of these things together.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
And we'll take a dive off a boat, is what
we're going to do.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
So ay, I will saw all the Rubik's cube, I
have all of the powers invested in me by the
mighty powerful microphones of Fox Sports Radio. And I will
use football jargon. I will keep it simple, stupid. I
will relate to the common man. And here's the story
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on T. Higgins and the franchise tag with the Bengals.
The Bengals are proudly accepting the yellow flag for delay
of game.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Delay of game in.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Football jargon a five yard penalty, move the chains back.
It is a procrastination situation for the Cincinnati football team.
Now what reports say that they want to extend T.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Higgins.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I'm sure they do wink wink, nod nod, and they
would like to have him under contract long term. We
are skeptics. I much like the Great State of Missouri,
may show me state of mind. It is more likely
than not that there are ulterior motives in play here.
That the Bengals are doing what I did when I
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was a kid. My mom would yell at me to
finish my food, and I would play with my vegetables.
The Bengals are playing with their vegetables. They are more
than content to go year to year to year to
year with Higgins, and Cincinnati would love for a team
like the Chargers or the Patriots to step in there
and negotiate a long term contract with T. Higgins and
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work out a trade. Now, they're not going to get
two first round picks for T.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Higgins.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
The way this usually works in the past is you
agree to a contractor Higgins finds a team he wants
to play for and then they drop the tag, and
then Higgins gets traded for less than two first round picks,
and there'll be some kind of compensation agreement. They'll work
out some kind of goodie bag that will go to Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Now, as for the play, you talk about hardship.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I don't know about you, but man, can we all
say a prayer for T Higgins because this now guarantees
him if this does happen the way it's said to happen,
and his camp things that's going to happen, that means T.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Higgins will make at the.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Very worst, twenty six point one million dollars in twenty
twenty five on the franchise tag. So he's he's buying eggs.
He's buying the eggs, and he'll buy eggs for everybody.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
All right.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Now to Minunesoa, we go, home of an epic Malard
meet and greet a couple of years back. There it
was wonderful The Mermaid met so many great supporters of
the show that night.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
But we go to Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That as where a star wide receiver, Justin Jefferson is
publicly recruiting a new teammate which is not his teammate yet,
but he is making the effort to acquire Brown's defensive star,
Miles Garrett wants him to come to the Viking. So
how much juice does that have? How much juice does
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that have? So if you look at the glass of juice,
the glass is ep date, it is p date. And
from the Great Batman cartoons, the character known as the Joker,
if you might remember that back in the day, the
Joker would say something along the lines of zero zip, zilch, nada. Yes,
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it is nothing more than wishful thinking by Justin Jefferson.
And the reason I bring this up is because I
was contacted by more than one die hard Minnesota Viking
fans say hey, you should talk about this ton in
the show and clearly not paying attention. Every other time
an athlete says I'm going to public recruit another athlete, and.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I roll my eyes in the back of my head.
No different here.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
All Jefferson does is win some Brownie points with the
electorate in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Good for him.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Other than that, it is meaningless, meaningless, meaningless, meaningless. I mean,
I'm sure it's cool if you're Miles Garrett to get
some kind of handwritten note, maybe a FaceTime call from
Justin Jefferson kissing your ass and saying how wonderful you
are and you feel the love and admiration, and that's
great public displays of affection.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Wonderful, wonderful, very flattering. It's very flattering.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
But there's this in between bizarro world where some people
are convinced that this stuff actually matters. I am not,
I am not. Ultimately comes down to money, money, money.
It's always about money. That's number one. Number two would
be the location. Some people actually say they want to win,
but really just want to be closer to some relative
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or something like that. So there's other variables in play there.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
We know that.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
And why would you want if you're Miles Garrett, you
got one spin of the wheel, one shot, why would
you pick them in a soda?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Vikings?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It's not the Vikings are bad. They're not bad. The
Vikings are a playoff team. However, the Vikings also don't
have a quarterback. They didn't have one last year. They
won a bunch of games, but they were exposed when
they played down the stretch against the Lions and then
Rams and the playoffs, and now they're going to turn
to another question mark from Sam Darnold. They go to
(23:23):
JJ McCarthy, who did not play it down what was
supposed to be his rookie year, and he takes over
center in Minnesota. So the Great Unknown. So if you're
Miles Garrett, why would you sign up for that, the
Great Unknown? You wouldn't You'd go to the Lions or
the Eagles, or the Chiefs, maybe Buffalo. But who knows
(23:43):
what Cleveland would would and wouldn't do in terms of
the trades. But all the indications are also that the
Cleveland Browns think that Miles Garrett is lying and they're
going to call his bluff. The Cleveland Browns. There's some
chatter the streets are talking. The Browns seem to think
that Miles Garrett is full of crap, much like the
(24:05):
Cleveland brown locker room, and that if they just throw
money at him, he'll just shut off and agree to
playing Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
For the rest of his career.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
That they'll offer him some monstrous amount of money and
then all of a sudden, I'll say, well, I really
want to go from Cleveland to Canton. That's really what
I want to do. Stay tuned developing hot dot dot
dot be sure.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
To catch live editions of The Ben Malor Show weekdays
at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now, Malor's Mountain
of money? Do you have what it takes to get
to the top?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Probably?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Not?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
All right, let's do it. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
It's Malard's amount of money. And let's welcome in our
contestants for this game. We have Kyle in Boston, who's
going to play. Hello, Kyle, welcome, he's going on. Good
to have you, Kyle. You sound like you're driving around
you ready to play the game here, Kyle?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
What are you up to? You working? You driv to work?
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, I'm just.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Getting out of work.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I work at the at the car dealers, so I'm
just getting out all right. Look at that people out
there playing some cards and this guy was helping them out.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
All right? Who do you want to partner up with? Kyle?
You got me Ben Or the Kobaloop.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I'm gonna partner up with you, all.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Right, Kyle. That's a good choice. We're in it to
win it. Kyle.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Hold on a second, and we have let's go see
you now. I think we're go with Isaiah. Isaiah?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Are you there? Isaiah? I am, look at that unbelievable.
All right. You're in Minnesota? Is that correct? Yes? All right?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
And are you working right now or what's going on
with you?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I'm driving into work right.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Now, oh man, brutal hours, all right, driving into What
kind of work you do?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I make a sour cream at a factory? Wow? Very specific?
All right? You like sour cream, Cooper?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
I love so?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Okay, then you're gonna I don't.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Know the name of it here.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, sounds bad, all right, Isaiah. Do you eat a
lot of sour cream because you work and make sour cream?
Or do you hate sour cream because you make sour cream?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I'm actually lacked intolerant.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
That's great, all right, that's outsteading.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
All right.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
You're gonna team up with Coop. What are the categories here, Cooper,
lou what are we at? All right? Gentlemen?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
This is Malard's Mountain of money, The Doctor Dre edition.
He turned sixty years old later today or at some
point today?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Today?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Sure? All right?
Speaker 5 (26:27):
The categories are straight out of Compton nothing but a
g thang the next episode and forgot about dre Uh Kyle,
you were on the air first him up?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Hold on a second. Alrighty punch you out there? You are, Kyle?
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Hell, which category would you like?
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Yeah, that's right, we're straight out of copy. That's how
we roll here.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Coop and Isaiah, do you want nothing but a g
thang the next episode?
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Or forgot about Dre?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Let's go what forgot about?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Alright, okay, we'll start with you, Kyle. We'll put forty
five seconds on the clock. We need the first and
last answer and the first and last name, first right,
first name. That's it, the first and.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Last eswer, first and last name.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
These athletes are all from Los Angeles, Kyle.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
But are you ready? All right? All right? All right,
forty five seconds. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Star for the Clippers, he's often heard he played for
the Toronto Raptors, won a champions Yes, star tight end
for Kansas City. He's on CBS's NFL coverage. I think
he's on Amazon now. One of the great tight ends.
Played for the Atlanta Falcons. Also, Yes, star for the
New York Yankees. Who's often hurt? Not Aaron Judge, the
(27:46):
Big D eight for the Yankees. Yeah, all right, mister Podre,
he's passed away the greatest Podre of all time. Outfielder
number nineteen. Yes, and a hero for the Angels third basement.
(28:07):
Damn all right, not bad.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
One hundred points, all.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Right, didn't get Troy Gloss, didn't get it out?
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Yeah, Isaiah, we've got forgot about dre.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
These athletes all won a Comeback Player of the Year award.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Forty five seconds. Let's begin. Current quarterback for the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Uh yes, Uh.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
The kid in baseball played for the Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Ah, I'm gonna let you.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Down, all right, we'll pass. Uh Colts quarterback. He retired early.
He looked like a Civil War Yes. Uh. This guy
was the Sandman closer for the Yankees, all right. This
guy was a linebacker for the Patriots. His last name
was nickname for a beer.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Oh god, God God, shoot.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
All right, catcher for the Kansas City Royals right now,
he's been there forever. Oh man, only the answers were off,
you would have done very well.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
You would have gotten them, all right, if the answers
had been off.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
But how many points did we have?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I don't know. I think you got forty forty.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Forty all right, Well, we got to go back at
it again and earn some more points.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
You got this, Isaiah, would you here for them?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Will Ray and it's wrong? Would you cheer for me
and Kyle? Don't cheer for Isaiah?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Go ass Isaiah? Do you want do you want nothing
but a g thing? Or the next episode? All right,
good luck, Coop, God bless you. Well, there's there's not
as much baseball on this one, so all right, next episode.
These athletes all have fathers that were also athletes. Well,
hold on forty five seconds, let's begin, all right. He
(29:55):
is the sheriff for the Colts and the Broncos quarterback.
His nickname is the Sheriff. His brother is eli Oy Yeah,
first of yes.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Uh. He is the current running back for the forty
nine ers.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
His dad was ed Ed McCay.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
No, what's what's the son's name?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Yes, Uh, this guy is Dion's son. He's gonna be
maybe the number one pick. Yes, this guy is a
sharp shooter for He used to be on the Warriors,
now he's on the Mavericks.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
His dad was Michael.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
When you get shop, Kyle, Kyle, what do you know?
What do you wind me? What do you do?
Speaker 6 (30:43):
What do you how many post?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
I don't know how many?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Kyle?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
God? How Isaiah. God, I don't know. Ninety enough.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
No, that's a that's enough. So total we have one
hundred and thirty one thirty, so you got to get
thirty to ornament.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Nothing but a G thing? Is that what we're doing here? Yes?
Speaker 1 (31:00):
These athletes last names all start with G. Are you ready, Kyle?
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Yes, I'm ready?
Speaker 3 (31:06):
All right?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
The big ticket when the Celtics won a championship about
fifteen years ago from Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yes, a tight end for the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
He's on Fox right now. Yeah, Bill Witter, good job, Kyle.
How about this the ice the iceman for the Spurs
back in the seventies, in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
You know who that is? Nah, yeah, it's George Gerban.
It doesn't matter, No, George German, it doesn't matter. We
won the game.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Good, good job, Isaiah Lactose in tolerant Isaiah.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
And there's Kyle right there. We won
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