April 7, 2025 • 45 mins
Big Ben talks about Duke choking away their championship hopes in the final minutes against Houston, Alex Ovechkin breaking Wayne Gretzky's career goals record, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, Are You Smarter Than an FSR Tech Queen, and more!
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begin the week. We have survived another weekend. We have
made it through yet another weekend, and here we are
back at it again.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
So we will save the.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
MEGAMEGAMEGAMEGA money that was handed out late in the night
on Sunday into Monday to a certain professional athlete.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
We'll save that for the B block. But we begin
with the big.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Story of the weekend, which will continue and conclude on
Monday night. Our lead from yes, the rare inappropriate college
basketball world.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
The Final Four played over the weekend and there were
two games. So you see there's four teams and then
there's two games, and then it leads to one game,
which is on Monday night. But Walter Clayton junior thirty
four points and he had five three pointers. That's a lot, right,
that's five to three pointers. So I played very well,
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and at halftime it seemed like Auburn was doing pretty well.
Seemed like Auburn was in pretty good shape in the
first half. And then they had to play the second
half and Florida rallied from that early devasit and they
beat their Southeastern Conference rival. So down goes Auburn. And
then you had Houston, a team that was not built
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to come back, right, it was not built to come back.
Houston a team built on defense, and the defense wiping
away a fourteen point deficit, down fourteen and then they
come back final eight minutes of the late game on
Saturday there and Cooper Flag who's projected to be the
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top player.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
In the NBA eyes and all.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
That, and the Blue Devils they choked. There's no other
way I say it. They gagged, they suffocated. Duke choked. Embarrassing,
absolutely embarrassing. That's the story and the downfall of Duke.
The fact that the Blue Devils somehow managed to go
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with one field goal over the final ten and a
half minutes of the game, which seemings impossible. You're a
number one seed and you have ten and a half
minutes with one field goal. They ended up one of
nine from the floor down the stretch. Now, they did
have some foul shots that they made and whatnot, but
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one of nine.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
All right, So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Is as follows, So does the Duke loss choke if
you will, overshadow the Houston comeback in the game that
was played there, the late game in the final four.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
So I've got.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Purple suit Aroma and Minecraft, and we will combine all
of these things together and we will make a nice
tropical vacation, which is what Duke can go on right now,
a nice tropical vacation.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
So to answer the question, listen, I'm nodding my head.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yes, you can't see me unless you're watching the clip
on the on the YouTube, but I'm nodding my head. Yes,
absolutely right, that the better story is in the losing
locker room. As we've often said, the Blue Devils b
l e w DI they blew it, they blew it. Wow,
they were favored, they had a seemingly insurmountable lead. You said,
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well it's only fourteen points. Well again, everything about Houston
was they're not very good offensively, and if they have
to play from behind, they're gonna get porked.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
They're not gonna be able to come back.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And so you look at all that and say, well, okay,
that's why they play the game, that's why they play
the games, right, that's what has happened. Doesn't guarantee that's
going to continue.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
It happened. The Cougar's not built, not built.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
For coming back, right, not built for coming back, and
all that an offensively challenged squad, and certainly they weren't
aesthetically pleasing. Even in that stretch where Duke only made
one particular field goal, they weren't cooked, you know, they
fell behind, they were not cooked because Duke said, anything
you can do, we can do better, and we will
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suck more than you. And that's why they play the games.
That's why at any given Final four Saturday, all right now,
page two, how much will what happened in the final
seconds of that game, the Duke game, how much of
that will the struggles I'm talking about the struggles of
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Cooper Flag. How much of the struggles of Cooper Flag
down the stretch will impact his NBA future? Because that's
really what this is about, right, And you know you're
kind of into college basketball, but you're really not that
into it, right, So the question is he was not
good down the stretch. He had a big second half,
but in the final seconds, final minutes.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
He was not mister big if you will here.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
So the question is what kind of impact will that
have on Cooper Flag's NBA future? So it's an odd situation.
I think we're going to agree it's a very odd situation.
The reason it is an odd situation, is because all
the hype and yet the numbers were solid. Cooper Flag.
If you look at the numbers and you didn't watch
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the game and the context of when those numbers came,
he'd say, well, why even mentioning this. I don't understand
why you even bring this up. What are you dumb?
I read the box score. I looked at the box
score on my phone. I know what's going on, you moron.
And in the second half, Cooper Flag had nineteen points.
I think Duke as a team had like thirty three
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or something like that in this half, so they had
more than half of their points in the second half.
He had three rebounds, a couple of assists, he had
a steal, he had a block, all of those things,
had all of those things. Was five of eleven from
the floors, perfect from the foul line in the final
twenty minutes of the game. So you're like, Okay, there's
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no gripe, there's nothing, there's no there there. You can't
really complain about that. But he is mister everything you've
told me. He's mister everything. He's the next prodigy in basketball.
And Duke's offense was the ice machine.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Right.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
It was the ice.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Machine, Ice Cold. Just one made basket in the final
ten minutes and thirty one seconds. And it wasn't like
every shot was locked down by Houston. There were some
very makeable baskets that were not made in that stretch.
But that last shot by Cooper Flag. If you saw
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the game or heard it, if you're blind, you know
what I'm talking about. There, that turnaround jumper with eight
seconds left and on that shot. I literally watched it
and I was a buddy and my we were watching
the game. We lost both bets, but we were watching
the game and watching that and it was like, hey,
I can see the vomit comet. Cooper Flag is in
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the vomit comet on that shot way short right, not
an airball, but did not have enough, did not have
enough to get there. Now, in terms of the NBA
future and the damage to Cooper Flag, looking at that
part of it is the NBA draft will be here
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before you know it in the summertime. So as a
batman's nemesis, the guy that wears the purple suit with
the green vest, notice the joker would say in terms
of the impact on Cooper Flag, that.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Would be what zero.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
That would be zip zilch nada, as in no big
deal because you've got teams right now like the Utah
Jazz and the Washington Wizards and the Charlotte Hornets who
are trying to outsuck each other. They're like, I can
suck more than you. I am the king of all suck.
And it's a suck battle to get that number one
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big and they don't even guarantee it because of the
lottery and according to Lebron James, it's all rigged anyway.
So there's no team in Maine for Cooper Flag to
go to. They don't have an NBA team, So like,
what's the greater story Cooper Flag goes out to Utah
and saves the Morbon Jazz or where the Hornets? I mean,
that's a that's a bad looking team also, So but
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it's a race to get lottery balls to draft this
guy in the fact that he missed a shot that
you would think you could make if your God's gift
to basketball does not take away from the NBA. It
does though, there is a little bit here despite the
marketing build up with Cooper Flag, there's a little something
where you down the line, you're like, well, if he
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keeps missing shots and pressure situations, this will stack on
top of that like hotcakes. You'll put it on top there,
the vanishing act. For now, it's a one off. For now,
it's a one off. But if you do it again
when you get in the NBA and this becomes a
thing where he's like, well, remember back in college, you
missed that shot at the end there for Duke, and
so that's an issue.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Meanwhile, you have the Duke coach, John Shire. Now he
took the blame. That's coaching one old run. He took
the blame for Duke's collapse there for the fact that
they completely fell off the table.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
I mean, I was a fall off job. Here.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
In fact, we have a little bit I believe we
have some audio here. Here's John Shot, the Duke coach,
commenting from the Final four game over the weekend here
on what went wrong.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Take a listen.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Well, it's hard to process still wind. You know, I
thought our guys did an incredible job the whole game.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
No they didn't.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
And you know, I thought we had some good looks.
What didn't finish. You have to give Houston a ton
of credit. And then still even with that you know
we have the lead, you know, with under a minute ago,
and I couldn't be more proud. I'm not I'm not
about to hang our head. I mean, this is part
of it. You got to you gotta handle the wins,
and you got to handle the losses too, And in
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a moment like this, you know we're this close, and
you know we felt we were the best team. The
best team tonight was Houston.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
So your team went ten minutes and thirty seconds without
a with one field one field, and you thought you
played well. Okay, I guess I'm in a different dimension.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Here's one more. This is the money quote here.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Here's the coach of Duke John Shire commenting on the
fact that he screwed up.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
He's a bad coach. He fed off and he's terrible.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
I feel we were one of one in terms of
the way we put this thing together. It's been a
magical ride. We believe with everything we had we were
gonna win a championship here and so I'm just I
feel for them because they're competitive and they're going to
think about play. I didn't help them enough, and that's
that's where my mind goes. And I couldn't be more
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proud of them, though, you got it. This is part
of it, This is part of it. Unfortunately, you know,
we haven't been in a lot of those games, and
we've watched a lot of game situations and practiced, and
that's where I wish I could have helped him more.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
All Right, So he's that's classic. Hey, blame me, I'm
the guy, he's my fault. Blah blah blah blah blah.
You're supposed to do that out of the coaching handbook.
I guess coach K left that behind. You're supposed to
do that.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
He did that.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
So do you blame play the blame game? You got
John Shier over here, you got Cooper flag, he's right here.
You got Cooper flag right here. And then I keep
I got some feedback in the email from like the
Duke fin it's bad luck, man, we got hosed by
the referees. Bad luck. Okay, So of those three options
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playing the blame game, you got the coach, you got
the star player, or just bad luck. So I'm gonna
eliminate bad luck. Did they get hosed on a call
that should not have been made? A foul call in
Cooper flag? Yes, But the reason. I'm not going to
use that as an alibi for Duke. It should have
never been in a position. The game should not have
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been a one possession game at that point where a
referees call impacts the outcome of the game. Does a
bad job by you? You fed up, You screwed up,
screw you right. You should not have been in that position.
And while Cooper Flagg is the headliner, and as we mentioned,
he's going to run off to the NBA and we'll
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maybe never hear of him again if he plays all
the Charlotte Hornets of the Utah Jazz, but that pungent aroma,
that nice punge, it it's like a cloud of sulfur
if you will is going to follow John Shire around,
cause this is supposed to be the forever Get gret
you get the Duke job. You're supposed to have that
job for a long time. That's a legacy job. That's
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a long term job. That's not a temporary job where
you run off to the NBA. You're supposed to be there.
It's one of the we're told it's one of the
great jobs in college basketball. And you paid a lot
of money and you're in the spotlight and all that stuff,
and so flag he goes out to the NBA and
he'll make a king's ransom and with endorsements and all
that stuff, and it'll be just a footnote this game. Again,
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as we said, it'll be a footnote unless he continues
to do this in the NBA, losing missing shots at
the end of games, and then it circles back. For now,
it's an insignificant mention. It is a minor detail. But
for John Shire, the coach at Duke, following coach k
unacceptable and it's one of those things where he's like, Okay,
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it's gonna shadow box him like Poltergeist if Duke does
not win in the near futures. What about you had
you had the top player in the draft. This guy
got two lottery picks on that Duke team and all that.
So until they win the championship, it's gonna kind of
follow him around there. And the good news is a Duke,
you've got a lot of nil money, you've got the
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bright lights, the spotlight and all that.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
A weaponized roster. Whoever like the top All.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Americans in high school, if they want to want the
bag and the nice aura, they would go to do.
Maybe it's all about the bag. They might go somewhere.
All right, now, last word, quick gray, quick late, all right,
So what is your level of interest? Let's get right
to it. What was your level of interest in tonight?
Since Monday night? Here championship game of college basketball. You've
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got Florida on one side, the Gators a number one.
You've got Houston a number one, one versus one yet again,
and that is for all the marbles, as they like
to say. So if you listen to the show last week,
you know that I wanted to see Auburn and Duke.
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I'm told they will not be playing a third place game.
There is no third place game between Auburn and Duke,
so that is a buzzkill. I would argue that this
is not must see TV. That is not what we're
going to describe this as at all? Are we going
to watch?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I have a talk show to do, so I will
watch the game for talk radio reasons. On Monday night,
I will be watching. Am I going to be excited
about it?
Speaker 5 (16:34):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
On the Malard scale of interest one to ten, with
ten being I can't wait, I am at at two.
I'm at at two on the Mallard scale of interest.
I'm just not giddy. Not that I need to be
giddy to watch these games, I'm just not. It's low
priority viewing. Again, I've got a job, and so it's
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like the worst problems to have. It's mediocre programming. The
other problem is you've got it's kind of like playing
this National Championship game despite having two number one.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Seeds in it.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
It's like playing Minecraft and it's the dungeon known as
the Starless Knight. It's a Starless Knight situation is because
you really you have the zero, one and two are
the numbers zero, one and two. So the zero is
the number of Florida and Houston players that have first
round NBA greats. There is not a single player that
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will be playing in the National Championship Game that NBA
talent evaluate is dean worthy of being drafted in the first.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
One first round, not one, all right, So that's the
first thing. U.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Then one would be the player from Houston who there's
one guy, Jojo, who's projected to be a second round
pick on Houston. And then Florida's got Walter Clayton Junior
in the center, that big lug of a guy the
Lumbering Alex and those guys are protected as second round picks,
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so you've got that.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And I checked on DraftKings sportsbook and Florida is a
one point favorite, so it's real and they don't even
know it's going to I mean, one point is nothing, right,
It's like who cares one point? So Florida is favored
by one going into the championship game.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
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Speaker 4 (18:28):
So our lead this hour is from hockey.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
That's right, not a game. Not a game hockey. Well,
it is a game, but it's a game we don't
really talk about other than the rare and appropriate Malle monologue.
Something has to reach the level of high crimes and
misdemeanors for us to talk hockey, and that happened. We
literally are about to drop the puck, is what we're
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about to do. So it was a historical weekend in
the National Hockey League. This is what's called a a test.
This is only a test of the malor broadcasting system.
So if you didn't see it, or hear about it
over the weekend. The NHL has a new all time
leading goal scorer. There has been a passing of the baton.
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His name is Alexander Ovechkin. That's right, he is number one,
the very top. Ovechkin scored his eight hundred and ninety
fifth goal on a sleepy Sunday afternoon on Long Island
against the appropriately named Islanders. That is one more now
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than Wayne Gretzky. And Wayne Gretzky his storied career and
now no longer.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
At the very top.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Now Gretzky still has the record for points that will
not be broken, at least not mathematically. It would appear
be broken, but he's no longer the all time leading
goal scorer. Poetically Ovechkin, who he's been playing so long.
I used to cover hockey on a regular basis and
he was playing then.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Ovechkin.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
So Alexander Ovechkin scored the goal on the Capitol's power
play power play, and that power play goal something that
he has more of than anyone else, a three hundred
twenty five power play goals for Ovechkin, and so that
is at the very top as well.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Now the game was stopped, they said the pause button
on the game.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
They stopped the game and they had like a two
hour ceremony. It seemed like it was a two hour
ceremony there, and you had Ovechkin's teammates come out and
mob him. Keep in mind, I believe the Capitals were
losing the game at that point, didn't matter, and they
had a on iye ceremony to celebrate the accomplishment. Right
in the middle of the game. You had Gretzky who
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did pass the baton and spoke. He was at the
game there, gave a brief speech. In that speech, he
mentioned everything from his buddies that are with the Islanders
to the Rolls Royce that he got when he set
the record, and Sinchovechkins set the mark. Since he's now
got the record, this has opened up a larger conversation.
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So let us discuss the question for the Esteem panel,
which you are a part of. Is Alexandrovechkin now the
greatest goal scorer in NHL history or he's got the record?
But does Wayne Gretzky's legacy still hold the crown even
though Ovechkin got the record.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
So I've got.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Stage coach Al Michaels and paramount pictures, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to provide a toothache. Oh my aching tooth. Yeah, all right,
so num burr, can I get a numb burn?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
So I nod, I nod the headphones. I'm nodding to Ovechkin.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
And while the Great Eight, if you look at the
website that has all the NHL stats, well, he stands
the top the goal mountain, the mountain of pucks.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
He's at the very top there.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
In a double blind challenge, double blind challenge, it's not close.
Number ninety nine is the king, and it doesn't change it.
He's not any longer the leading goal scorer. It doesn't matter.
Wayne Gretzky in a different galaxy. It's the way it is.
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He's on another level even statistically. But he doesn't have
the all time goals record anymore. But Gretzky eight hundred
and ninety four career goals, had almost two thousand assists,
and the numbers, it's like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
It's Wayne Gretzky and the Seven Dwarfs. When you look
at his stats compared to everyone else's stats, and he
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set the single season record back now the hockey Hartles
will say, well, it was easier to score when Gretzky
was doing his thing, but back in the early eighties,
he had ninety two, ninety two goals in the early
eighties and ridiculous it was like fifty fifty goals in
something like thirty nine games that year. So all kinds
of records. He is in the same class as Babe Ruth,
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Like he's like Babe Ruth, and he's before social media.
Gretzky didn't play in the social media era and all that.
But his impact on the sport of hockey. Like, imagine
in that cartoon bubble over your head that Wayne Gretzky
is in the front of the stage coach. He's not
riding shotgun. He's in the front of the stage coach.
He's driving the stagecoach. You know, he's got the horses
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right there. And so he's on the stage coach and
he's leading the NHL to the gold rush, the California
gold Rush. That's essentially what Wayne Gretzky did. Trailblazer, but
not a Portland trail blazer. Now, Wayne Gretzky for hockey
was the sugar daddy who's your daddy, your sugar daddy,
Wayne Gretzky, the forefather of Sun Belt hockey, and those
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that have been around a long time, they know that
when Gretzky was given away, right he was given away
to the La Kings from the Edmonton Oilers in nineteen.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Eighty eight, there was a sea change.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
There was a massive change that took place there and
it opened up a whole new world. It opened up
the world of non traditional hockey markets, and the NHL
capitalized within.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Not that long an amount of time.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
When you think about when Gretzky got there and things
took off, and all these celebrities back when people liked
celebrities and things like that, they were at these games,
and the NHL has gone all over the Sun Belt
and teams in Anaheim, San Jose, Dallas, Phoenix, Tampa, Baying
through the list of places there where they didn't have
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Miami or South Florida has a team, and that's directly
tied to Wayne Gretzky said, Well, they would have eventually
gotten into those sites, and maybe they would have eventually
gotten to all those cities, but the process was expedited
by Wayne Gretzky.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Now page two. So as for the goals record.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Because this is not about Wayne Gretzky as much as
it is about Alexander Ovechkin, although I've just boguarded this
for Wayne Gretzky. So the goals record itself, how significant
is it that Alexander Ovechkin got that achievement in context
of the modern NHL game, the way the way it
is played today. So it's like the classic Al Michael's
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call from Lake Placid?
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Do you believe in miracles?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Like people a couple of years ago, it's like, well,
Ovein's going to set the record, and you're like, oh, yeah, sure,
he's going to set the record for goals. It's like,
that's not the goal mark was supposed to be on
that short list of unbreakable records. And Ovechkin not that
he's zoomed past Gretzky, but he methodically surgically passes Wayne
Gretzky by. And the thing that's the most impressive about Ovechkin,
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not that I'm here to give out flowers to anyone,
is you think about the crap that happened during his career,
with shortened seasons because of labor disputes, lockouts, You had
the pandemic that took place a few years ago, and
so it is a testimonial to perseverance that even with
all that, playing fewer games here and there, and still
he ends up playing long enough Ovechkin to pass Wayne
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Gretzky by and it doesn't hurt that he's one of
the great vultures on the power play and a bunch
of empty net goals and all that. But unlike Barry Bonds,
when Bonds set the record, or Lebron James passing Kareem
abdul Jabbar and the scoring mark, these records have all
fallen in my lifetime. But the Barry Bonds thing, when
he broke Hank Aaron's record, most people just rolled their
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eyes because.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Like, he's dirty.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
That's not a legit record, right, He's a PD guy,
you know, steroid steroid Barry Balcoberry, They're like, who cares?
And Lebron, it's well, he came out of came out
of high school. He didn't go to college. Korean Abdul
Jabbar went to college, and so it's not the same
and and so there's different things. But with Ovechkin, like
I guess the only thing on him would be he's
buddies with Vladimir Putin, right, He's like, he's buddies with
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a bunch of oligarchs in Russia, which I think you
have to be. Right.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Some guy told me years ago that these Russian players.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
If they don't kiss the ring of Putin, they start
getting crap happening to their family and stuff like that.
I don't know that's true or not, but there they
were giving me a couple of years back. The guy's
explaining me the dynamic of Russian hockey players that come
to the United States and how they have to have
to be respectful and if they do anything out of line,
there's all kinds of problems back home, which I makes sense.
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I don't know whether that's actually the case or not.
But with Alexandrovitchkin now passing Wayne Gretzky and the record
for goal scored, where are the safe records? Where are
can you see some safe records? This is one of
those records people thought would last in your entire life
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and it would not be broken.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
And so where are the saferegerits?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
There are?
Speaker 4 (28:16):
There are a bunch.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
In fact, there are many records that I will guarantee
will not be broken. Guarantee. It's like the paramount pictures
flicked that did okay back in the day. The untouchables, right,
the untouchables, Cy Young two untouchable records. Cy Young, five
hundred and eleven wins, five hundred and eleven career wins.
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He also has the most losses in baseball history three
hundred and fifteen. And in modern pitching, where they don't
even care whether you stay long enough to get a win,
that record, you say, forget about it. In fact, the
record if you go back to I consider the modern
era for our purposes nineteen eighty. Since the nineteen eighties,
the picture that has the most wins. You know who
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it is, Greg Maddox. Greg Maddox as the most wins
of any pitcher of the last forty five years, three
hundred and fifty five career wins for Mattix with the
Atlanta Braves, the Cubs, the Dodgers, the pod Rais and
all those teams. So three hundred and fifty five wins,
you know, as the record for the most losses in
baseball since the nineteen eighties. A guy whose nickname was
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the Banana Frank Tanana, the Banana Tanana has the modern record.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Now that's actually more reachable. The Cy Young loss record.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Cy Young three hundred and fifteen career losses and Frank
Tanana lost two hundred thirty six games. So that's actually
the math on that actually could see that record go down.
But you've got to be consistently just good enough to
be there and bad enough to lose the games. And
then the other ones are the iron Man streaks, Cal
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Ripkin Junior, the Iron Horse record going down there, Louke Grick,
and that's col Ripkins streak. He played every game for
sixteen point two Major League Baseball seasons. Even got some
help on that, cal Ripken the Kevin Costner game where
the lights went out in Baltimore to make sure the
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streak kept going there, So he had a little help
there game against the Mariners at Camden Yards. So Cal
Ripken that will not be broken. And the NBA record
held by A. C. Green, mostly with the Lakers and
the Suns and some other teams there A C. Green
who played every single game for fourteen and a half
seasons from nineteen eighty six to two thousand and one.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
He played every game.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
If you play every game in the NBA, in the
modern NBA. They look at you like you've got some
kind of plague, Like what the f is wrong with you?
It reminds me when I covered baseball and there'd be
that hot shot young player that would come up for
the minor leagues and hustle on obvious fly ball outs,
and the other players on the team would give him
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the evil eye.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
You're making us look bad. You're not supposed to hustle.
Why you hustling. We don't hustle. Conserve your energy. You're
making us look silly. What are you doing? Beat job
by you.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Here we go, It's.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
Smaller here, Wake up to the third degree? Here, wake
go is one big? Ben gets grilled gooblo over the weekend.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
Yes, Travis Hunter moved ahead of Abdual Carter in the
betting odds to be the number two overall pick in
the NFL draft. Yeah, Ben, do you think that would
be a mistake by the Cleveland Browns?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
All right, So, as you know, I am a scout,
I read a lot of draft guides, I watch YouTube clips,
and it would be a mistake. Now, I like Hunter,
I do like Hunter. I like I would rather have
Abdual Carter. To me, Abdual Carter is the guy that
should be drafted, the very top of the edge rusher
from Penn State, Travis Hunter. I think we'll have a
good career as well. I like both those guys better
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than the quarterbacks.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
The team that's.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Gonna get screwed here is the Patriots, because if cam
Word goes number one and then Hunter goes to and
Abdul Carter goes three to the Giants, the Patriots don't
need Shradura Sanders. So they're gonna draft some generic offensive
linemen and they're gonna get Hos or some defensive tackle next.
Speaker 9 (32:17):
Shaquille O'Neil was asked in a recent podcast if Lebron
James's longevity is a byproduct of the change of physicality
in the NBA. He said it definitely is, and argued
that guys aren't even fouling hard anymore. But do you
think Lebron's longevity is attributable to the softness of today's NBA?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
No, I think he's got some of those what they
call coop enchanted beans or whatever. I don't know. I mean,
you hear things.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
He's clearly. I don't think it's because of that alone.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I think there's other factors, other variables that I will
just leave hanging.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
OU don't want to get sued.
Speaker 9 (32:50):
Next on Friday, for the first time in the fifty
eight year history of the APIs NCAA Men's Basketball Coach
of the Year Award, there was a tie for first place.
Both Bruce Perl and rickt you know, represented with the award. Ben,
Who would you have given it to? I would have
given it to Rick Pattino. Saint John's was a morbid program.
Turned that around.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I thought he did a great job, Pearl solid, but
I would have gone with the other guy. Howd we go?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
He passes that if they win, I'm a winner, Winner, Winner,
Chicken dinn or.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
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Hold that thought. No one's paid attention to me for
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Speaker 1 (33:46):
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York Islanders on how not to fo for their fans.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
The New York Islanders.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
We told you earlier this hour they were.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Offering fans who already bought.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
A ticket to the game if they wanted a printed
copy of the ticket, forty five dollars. That is a
resort fee up charge, forty five dollars for something they
already purchased. So what is your advice to the Islanders
are not effing over their own customers? And we'll go
to the calls Onscree eight seven seven ninety nine one
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Fox line one, you're on the air go line one.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
They take a third cheap end. They don't crow.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yeah, they do literally trees a line of a digitally
note a line two. You're on the airline.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Two morning time.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
That's a car, Come with that?
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Yes, you get a car? You well like half a
tank of gas? Line three?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
What's going online?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Three? Advice to the New York Islanders do not f
over their fans.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
If you want to make the final four, hire a
Jewish coach.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
All right, what about you. Line five, you're on the
airline five. Line five is not paying attention. We're going
to line six. It's the instant advice line. Hell a,
line six, police on my jaws.
Speaker 8 (35:18):
I had to pause forty ounce in my lap and
it's freezing my balls.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Okay, there's all the legends, wonderful rhyme coming out there.
It's either calling overnight talk radio or a music career.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
He shows overnight talk radio.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Line one, you're on the Airline one.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
You need.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Okay, there must be some mercury and retrograd. Line two,
you're on the air. We're giving advice here to the
New York Islanders. They're charging up, charging people that already
bought tickets if they wanted a printed copy forty five dollars.
Speaker 8 (35:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
I've been the solution for years for daddy to smoke degree.
All right, thank you for that. I think you're already
doing that. Line three, you're on the airline three. We're
giving advice.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Oh, it's easy, easy bringing toach.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Okay. Line five, you're on the airline five. Hello, I
have a hockey stick night.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
They stopped doing it there.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
You know, it's better to get the hockey stick out
the line six. You're on the airline six. That was
sewn the hood guy. Hello, line six, I.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
Can I have a limited a ticket?
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Oh man, I'm still upset that you didn't win the
game show last week. Line one, you're on the airline one.
Speaker 5 (36:31):
Hello thing.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Oh hey, look at that great tribute to the late
great Spokane Gary. Line too. Hello, line two?
Speaker 5 (36:39):
Is Kevin Garner dumber about money than Charles?
Speaker 4 (36:42):
All right?
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Boy? He wanted he wanted to double down on that take,
and he called up to Roman Charleston. Line three, Hello,
line three, what's going out? All right? We'll do one more?
Only one more? Cool picket? Final call.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
It's the advice line for the New York Islanders. Mine one.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Line one, you're on the airline I want gum. You
picked the doge guy, Coobe, you picked the doge guy.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
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Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yeah, who was this?
Speaker 4 (37:13):
You're you're live on the random line? Who is this?
Speaker 5 (37:17):
I was gonna play the show?
Speaker 8 (37:21):
Is this?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Bruce?
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Is this Bruce.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
My name is Moose.
Speaker 8 (37:28):
Moose.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
That's right, Moose, keep getting, keep getting. I'm lucky, am
I I know? Right?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
That's crazy. I mean it was like the old Bell
Show West of the Rockies, East of the Rockies. I
picked the right line. Then every line is ringing. He
I feel bad for Dick. We didn't get Dick on though.
I mean we you know, we didn't get all right, anyway,
we'll play the game.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
All right, hit the button, hit the wait, wait.
Speaker 7 (37:49):
Wait, I want to find my other button first. But
where's my taste of the thing.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I'm not I don't have the I don't have the buttons.
I don't button. Give me a little taste of that, Dick,
I don't play that like you around, like you know everything.
Computers are for losers.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
Normal people. Well, how dare she?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
What do you?
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Let's find out?
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Are you smarter than an FSR tech queen?
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Well, let's do it very exciting and we will play
the game. We have the Moose, Hi Moose.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
All right, how's it going?
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Where are you at, Moose? I'll be in San Diego,
beautiful San Diego. All right, Well Part nine. I used
to work in San Diego back. Are you just visiting?
You live there?
Speaker 4 (38:30):
What do you got going on?
Speaker 5 (38:32):
Oh? No, I've been retired from the grocery business. I
used to work at Vond's.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Oh you did, all right?
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Very cool?
Speaker 4 (38:39):
You enjoying retirement.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
Yeah, for the most part, it's it's ah a special
place to live in San Diego. But I'm hanging there.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yeah, yeah, it is pricey. You gotta go out to
like East County. That's what a little cheaper out there
in East County?
Speaker 5 (38:53):
Right right? Right?
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
All right, Well let's play the game. Here we go.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Are you smarter than the FSR Tech Queen?
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Thanks to Sincy Tommy by the way, loyal minion who
cooked up the idea, said we should do this the
categories this week. We have sporty, We've got geography, history,
and what else do we have? Let's do Should we
do science? Let's do science? We haven't done science. We'll
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do science?
Speaker 4 (39:20):
All right, and very good.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
We'll play the game.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Which category would you like to go with? First? There, moose?
Speaker 5 (39:28):
How about sporty?
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Yeah? Why not go with the sport?
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Went out? Go with the sporty? Sure, all right, we'll
go with the sport. This should be a very easy one.
Which sport has a score of love? Which sport has
a score of love?
Speaker 4 (39:47):
Lorena, you want to go first here?
Speaker 7 (39:49):
That's a really really odd question.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Yes, very odd question.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
What do you think the sport that has the score
of love?
Speaker 7 (39:57):
It's definitely not football, nor is it hockey.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
I didn't ask what it's not. I asked what it is.
Speaker 7 (40:02):
To be soccer, be something, girly.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Let's go with tennis, all right, as she's going with tennis.
What about you, moose, I love love. That is correct,
it is it is tennis.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
That is correct. You got it right.
Speaker 7 (40:17):
My other guest was going to be, what's the thing
that's like tennis but with the smaller paddles.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
Racquetball or something like that? Or what are you talking about?
What's the like the hot the hot game again? Pickleball?
Speaker 1 (40:31):
All right, well you both want one in one.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Let's go to geography. I like that.
Speaker 7 (40:35):
You said tennis geography.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
You said, Gurley, sport tennis isn't.
Speaker 7 (40:39):
Yeah, they make skirts for it, it's obviously Gurley.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Well okay, oh very good. Let's play the game here.
Next question up. Let's see e meany miney mo All right,
you guys should get this right away. What divides the
earth into the western and Eastern hemispheres?
Speaker 8 (40:59):
Are?
Speaker 4 (41:00):
Are you smart on the f SR tech queen?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
What divides the earth into the western and Eastern hemispheres?
Speaker 4 (41:06):
Moose? You want to go first on this? Moose?
Speaker 5 (41:09):
Uh? I think it's the equator?
Speaker 4 (41:13):
You know the equator?
Speaker 1 (41:14):
What about you? Lorraina?
Speaker 7 (41:16):
Okay, I actually do remember this.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
She's getting cocky.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Now go away.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
Don't influence her.
Speaker 7 (41:23):
Please, he's influencing me. I you need to go away.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Is she cheating? No? Is she cheating?
Speaker 7 (41:28):
Maybe I did.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Give me your phone? Give me. I'm throwing it out.
The question is I'm throwing it out.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
I'm throwing it out.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
I ain't coming for you on this time. I'm throwing
it out. Question.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
We throw the question out.
Speaker 7 (41:50):
I knew it wasn't the equator.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Oh no, you see the the answer was the prime meridian.
Speaker 7 (41:55):
And you cheated, gotten it wrong?
Speaker 1 (41:58):
You know?
Speaker 5 (41:58):
All right?
Speaker 1 (41:59):
All right, anyway, let's move on. Let's see a different question.
I can't believe that she's so mad at me.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Let's say who.
Speaker 7 (42:07):
Gets my food this week? Coop touch my candy?
Speaker 1 (42:12):
All right?
Speaker 4 (42:13):
All right, let's see you.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
I want to find a different a science, like a
science he type, not what science? Well, this is alright.
I'm trying to find a different question that I think. Well,
you can't cheat at Yeah, that's impossible.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Let's see here, all right, heat?
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Heat is a form of what kind of energy? Heat
is a form of? What kind of energy?
Speaker 4 (42:36):
Moose? You want to go first on this?
Speaker 3 (42:39):
Oh no, okay, I'm gonna go with friction, ben friction.
You think that heat is a well, it depends what
you're doing. You're doing it right, Moose? You agree with
that or you want to disagree?
Speaker 5 (42:52):
Yeah, I gotta agree with that one.
Speaker 7 (42:53):
Could it be a form of energy?
Speaker 4 (42:55):
No, you are both wrong. It is thermal energy.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Thermal that I.
Speaker 7 (43:00):
Did say it right, it's a form of energy. It's
a form.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
Well, no, the question was I said, he's right, you're not.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
No, you're not.
Speaker 4 (43:05):
I said, he is a form of what kind of energy?
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Thermal is?
Speaker 4 (43:09):
The answer?
Speaker 1 (43:10):
You were wrong? You? You could not have been more wrong.
I think bad job by you. It's a bad job
by you. Let's go back to sporty shut up? Did
you cheat on the tennis one too? I was so
impressed with you.
Speaker 4 (43:22):
I think she did.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Of course I did not I think she.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
All right, this is you guys should get this right away,
all right.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
All the the triple Crown is awarded. It is given
to the horse that wins which three races?
Speaker 4 (43:40):
Which three race chans.
Speaker 7 (43:43):
Wait like separate races, and like a Derby.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
There are three races. This has been going on for many,
many years in America. You win these three races, you
get your crown, the triple crown winner.
Speaker 5 (43:53):
All right.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
What are the names of those? One should be easy?
She get it right away. It's actually coming up. I
think next week?
Speaker 7 (44:00):
Is it the Derby?
Speaker 5 (44:02):
Well?
Speaker 4 (44:02):
What Derby?
Speaker 7 (44:02):
Though, the Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
That's one of them.
Speaker 5 (44:04):
All right.
Speaker 4 (44:05):
What's the other two?
Speaker 7 (44:07):
The Fast Derby and the Slough?
Speaker 1 (44:13):
All right, let's see if our buddy Moose, who's retired
from the grocery business there in San Diego, Moose, you
got any answer the triple Crown races and horse racing.
One's easy.
Speaker 5 (44:25):
You're the Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 4 (44:27):
Okay, we two pakus?
Speaker 7 (44:31):
Yeah, he googled that.
Speaker 5 (44:34):
I think the last one is the Billboon Steaks.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
You got it right, You got it right, Good job
by you. Those are the three you've got the Kentucky Derby,
the Preakness in Baltimore, Belmont Steaks and that's a sporty question.
That was the sporty question. We're out of time. We
can keep going, but we're out of time. All right.
Wa moose here you are smarter than the episode and
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she tried to cheat anyway, So there you go.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
Good job by.
Speaker 7 (45:03):
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back at it again.
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So we will save the.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
MEGAMEGAMEGAMEGA money that was handed out late in the night
on Sunday into Monday to a certain professional athlete.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
We'll save that for the B block. But we begin
with the big.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Story of the weekend, which will continue and conclude on
Monday night. Our lead from yes, the rare inappropriate college
basketball world.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
The Final Four played over the weekend and there were
two games. So you see there's four teams and then
there's two games, and then it leads to one game,
which is on Monday night. But Walter Clayton junior thirty
four points and he had five three pointers. That's a lot, right,
that's five to three pointers. So I played very well,
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and at halftime it seemed like Auburn was doing pretty well.
Seemed like Auburn was in pretty good shape in the
first half. And then they had to play the second
half and Florida rallied from that early devasit and they
beat their Southeastern Conference rival. So down goes Auburn. And
then you had Houston, a team that was not built
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to come back, right, it was not built to come back.
Houston a team built on defense, and the defense wiping
away a fourteen point deficit, down fourteen and then they
come back final eight minutes of the late game on
Saturday there and Cooper Flag who's projected to be the
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top player.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
In the NBA eyes and all.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
That, and the Blue Devils they choked. There's no other
way I say it. They gagged, they suffocated. Duke choked. Embarrassing,
absolutely embarrassing. That's the story and the downfall of Duke.
The fact that the Blue Devils somehow managed to go
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with one field goal over the final ten and a
half minutes of the game, which seemings impossible. You're a
number one seed and you have ten and a half
minutes with one field goal. They ended up one of
nine from the floor down the stretch. Now, they did
have some foul shots that they made and whatnot, but
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one of nine.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
All right, So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Is as follows, So does the Duke loss choke if
you will, overshadow the Houston comeback in the game that
was played there, the late game in the final four.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
So I've got.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Purple suit Aroma and Minecraft, and we will combine all
of these things together and we will make a nice
tropical vacation, which is what Duke can go on right now,
a nice tropical vacation.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
So to answer the question, listen, I'm nodding my head.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yes, you can't see me unless you're watching the clip
on the on the YouTube, but I'm nodding my head. Yes,
absolutely right, that the better story is in the losing
locker room. As we've often said, the Blue Devils b
l e w DI they blew it, they blew it. Wow,
they were favored, they had a seemingly insurmountable lead. You said,
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well it's only fourteen points. Well again, everything about Houston
was they're not very good offensively, and if they have
to play from behind, they're gonna get porked.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
They're not gonna be able to come back.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And so you look at all that and say, well, okay,
that's why they play the game, that's why they play
the games, right, that's what has happened. Doesn't guarantee that's
going to continue.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
It happened. The Cougar's not built, not built.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
For coming back, right, not built for coming back, and
all that an offensively challenged squad, and certainly they weren't
aesthetically pleasing. Even in that stretch where Duke only made
one particular field goal, they weren't cooked, you know, they
fell behind, they were not cooked because Duke said, anything
you can do, we can do better, and we will
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suck more than you. And that's why they play the games.
That's why at any given Final four Saturday, all right now,
page two, how much will what happened in the final
seconds of that game, the Duke game, how much of
that will the struggles I'm talking about the struggles of
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Cooper Flag. How much of the struggles of Cooper Flag
down the stretch will impact his NBA future? Because that's
really what this is about, right, And you know you're
kind of into college basketball, but you're really not that
into it, right, So the question is he was not
good down the stretch. He had a big second half,
but in the final seconds, final minutes.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
He was not mister big if you will here.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
So the question is what kind of impact will that
have on Cooper Flag's NBA future? So it's an odd situation.
I think we're going to agree it's a very odd situation.
The reason it is an odd situation, is because all
the hype and yet the numbers were solid. Cooper Flag.
If you look at the numbers and you didn't watch
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the game and the context of when those numbers came,
he'd say, well, why even mentioning this. I don't understand
why you even bring this up. What are you dumb?
I read the box score. I looked at the box
score on my phone. I know what's going on, you moron.
And in the second half, Cooper Flag had nineteen points.
I think Duke as a team had like thirty three
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or something like that in this half, so they had
more than half of their points in the second half.
He had three rebounds, a couple of assists, he had
a steal, he had a block, all of those things,
had all of those things. Was five of eleven from
the floors, perfect from the foul line in the final
twenty minutes of the game. So you're like, Okay, there's
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no gripe, there's nothing, there's no there there. You can't
really complain about that. But he is mister everything you've
told me. He's mister everything. He's the next prodigy in basketball.
And Duke's offense was the ice machine.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Right.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
It was the ice.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Machine, Ice Cold. Just one made basket in the final
ten minutes and thirty one seconds. And it wasn't like
every shot was locked down by Houston. There were some
very makeable baskets that were not made in that stretch.
But that last shot by Cooper Flag. If you saw
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the game or heard it, if you're blind, you know
what I'm talking about. There, that turnaround jumper with eight
seconds left and on that shot. I literally watched it
and I was a buddy and my we were watching
the game. We lost both bets, but we were watching
the game and watching that and it was like, hey,
I can see the vomit comet. Cooper Flag is in
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the vomit comet on that shot way short right, not
an airball, but did not have enough, did not have
enough to get there. Now, in terms of the NBA
future and the damage to Cooper Flag, looking at that
part of it is the NBA draft will be here
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before you know it in the summertime. So as a
batman's nemesis, the guy that wears the purple suit with
the green vest, notice the joker would say in terms
of the impact on Cooper Flag, that.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Would be what zero.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
That would be zip zilch nada, as in no big
deal because you've got teams right now like the Utah
Jazz and the Washington Wizards and the Charlotte Hornets who
are trying to outsuck each other. They're like, I can
suck more than you. I am the king of all suck.
And it's a suck battle to get that number one
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big and they don't even guarantee it because of the
lottery and according to Lebron James, it's all rigged anyway.
So there's no team in Maine for Cooper Flag to
go to. They don't have an NBA team, So like,
what's the greater story Cooper Flag goes out to Utah
and saves the Morbon Jazz or where the Hornets? I mean,
that's a that's a bad looking team also, So but
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it's a race to get lottery balls to draft this
guy in the fact that he missed a shot that
you would think you could make if your God's gift
to basketball does not take away from the NBA. It
does though, there is a little bit here despite the
marketing build up with Cooper Flag, there's a little something
where you down the line, you're like, well, if he
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keeps missing shots and pressure situations, this will stack on
top of that like hotcakes. You'll put it on top there,
the vanishing act. For now, it's a one off. For now,
it's a one off. But if you do it again
when you get in the NBA and this becomes a
thing where he's like, well, remember back in college, you
missed that shot at the end there for Duke, and
so that's an issue.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Meanwhile, you have the Duke coach, John Shire. Now he
took the blame. That's coaching one old run. He took
the blame for Duke's collapse there for the fact that
they completely fell off the table.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
I mean, I was a fall off job. Here.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
In fact, we have a little bit I believe we
have some audio here. Here's John Shot, the Duke coach,
commenting from the Final four game over the weekend here
on what went wrong.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Take a listen.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Well, it's hard to process still wind. You know, I
thought our guys did an incredible job the whole game.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
No they didn't.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
And you know, I thought we had some good looks.
What didn't finish. You have to give Houston a ton
of credit. And then still even with that you know
we have the lead, you know, with under a minute ago,
and I couldn't be more proud. I'm not I'm not
about to hang our head. I mean, this is part
of it. You got to you gotta handle the wins,
and you got to handle the losses too, And in
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a moment like this, you know we're this close, and
you know we felt we were the best team. The
best team tonight was Houston.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
So your team went ten minutes and thirty seconds without
a with one field one field, and you thought you
played well. Okay, I guess I'm in a different dimension.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Here's one more. This is the money quote here.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Here's the coach of Duke John Shire commenting on the
fact that he screwed up.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
He's a bad coach. He fed off and he's terrible.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
I feel we were one of one in terms of
the way we put this thing together. It's been a
magical ride. We believe with everything we had we were
gonna win a championship here and so I'm just I
feel for them because they're competitive and they're going to
think about play. I didn't help them enough, and that's
that's where my mind goes. And I couldn't be more
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proud of them, though, you got it. This is part
of it, This is part of it. Unfortunately, you know,
we haven't been in a lot of those games, and
we've watched a lot of game situations and practiced, and
that's where I wish I could have helped him more.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
All Right, So he's that's classic. Hey, blame me, I'm
the guy, he's my fault. Blah blah blah blah blah.
You're supposed to do that out of the coaching handbook.
I guess coach K left that behind. You're supposed to
do that.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
He did that.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
So do you blame play the blame game? You got
John Shier over here, you got Cooper flag, he's right here.
You got Cooper flag right here. And then I keep
I got some feedback in the email from like the
Duke fin it's bad luck, man, we got hosed by
the referees. Bad luck. Okay, So of those three options
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playing the blame game, you got the coach, you got
the star player, or just bad luck. So I'm gonna
eliminate bad luck. Did they get hosed on a call
that should not have been made? A foul call in
Cooper flag? Yes, But the reason. I'm not going to
use that as an alibi for Duke. It should have
never been in a position. The game should not have
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been a one possession game at that point where a
referees call impacts the outcome of the game. Does a
bad job by you? You fed up, You screwed up,
screw you right. You should not have been in that position.
And while Cooper Flagg is the headliner, and as we mentioned,
he's going to run off to the NBA and we'll
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maybe never hear of him again if he plays all
the Charlotte Hornets of the Utah Jazz, but that pungent aroma,
that nice punge, it it's like a cloud of sulfur
if you will is going to follow John Shire around,
cause this is supposed to be the forever Get gret
you get the Duke job. You're supposed to have that
job for a long time. That's a legacy job. That's
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a long term job. That's not a temporary job where
you run off to the NBA. You're supposed to be there.
It's one of the we're told it's one of the
great jobs in college basketball. And you paid a lot
of money and you're in the spotlight and all that stuff,
and so flag he goes out to the NBA and
he'll make a king's ransom and with endorsements and all
that stuff, and it'll be just a footnote this game. Again,
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as we said, it'll be a footnote unless he continues
to do this in the NBA, losing missing shots at
the end of games, and then it circles back. For now,
it's an insignificant mention. It is a minor detail. But
for John Shire, the coach at Duke, following coach k
unacceptable and it's one of those things where he's like, Okay,
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it's gonna shadow box him like Poltergeist if Duke does
not win in the near futures. What about you had
you had the top player in the draft. This guy
got two lottery picks on that Duke team and all that.
So until they win the championship, it's gonna kind of
follow him around there. And the good news is a Duke,
you've got a lot of nil money, you've got the
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bright lights, the spotlight and all that.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
A weaponized roster. Whoever like the top All.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Americans in high school, if they want to want the
bag and the nice aura, they would go to do.
Maybe it's all about the bag. They might go somewhere.
All right, now, last word, quick gray, quick late, all right,
So what is your level of interest? Let's get right
to it. What was your level of interest in tonight?
Since Monday night? Here championship game of college basketball. You've
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got Florida on one side, the Gators a number one.
You've got Houston a number one, one versus one yet again,
and that is for all the marbles, as they like
to say. So if you listen to the show last week,
you know that I wanted to see Auburn and Duke.
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I'm told they will not be playing a third place game.
There is no third place game between Auburn and Duke,
so that is a buzzkill. I would argue that this
is not must see TV. That is not what we're
going to describe this as at all? Are we going
to watch?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I have a talk show to do, so I will
watch the game for talk radio reasons. On Monday night,
I will be watching. Am I going to be excited
about it?
Speaker 5 (16:34):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
On the Malard scale of interest one to ten, with
ten being I can't wait, I am at at two.
I'm at at two on the Mallard scale of interest.
I'm just not giddy. Not that I need to be
giddy to watch these games, I'm just not. It's low
priority viewing. Again, I've got a job, and so it's
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like the worst problems to have. It's mediocre programming. The
other problem is you've got it's kind of like playing
this National Championship game despite having two number one.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Seeds in it.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
It's like playing Minecraft and it's the dungeon known as
the Starless Knight. It's a Starless Knight situation is because
you really you have the zero, one and two are
the numbers zero, one and two. So the zero is
the number of Florida and Houston players that have first
round NBA greats. There is not a single player that
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will be playing in the National Championship Game that NBA
talent evaluate is dean worthy of being drafted in the first.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
One first round, not one, all right, So that's the
first thing. U.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Then one would be the player from Houston who there's
one guy, Jojo, who's projected to be a second round
pick on Houston. And then Florida's got Walter Clayton Junior
in the center, that big lug of a guy the
Lumbering Alex and those guys are protected as second round picks,
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so you've got that.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And I checked on DraftKings sportsbook and Florida is a
one point favorite, so it's real and they don't even
know it's going to I mean, one point is nothing, right,
It's like who cares one point? So Florida is favored
by one going into the championship game.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
So our lead this hour is from hockey.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
That's right, not a game. Not a game hockey. Well,
it is a game, but it's a game we don't
really talk about other than the rare and appropriate Malle monologue.
Something has to reach the level of high crimes and
misdemeanors for us to talk hockey, and that happened. We
literally are about to drop the puck, is what we're
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about to do. So it was a historical weekend in
the National Hockey League. This is what's called a a test.
This is only a test of the malor broadcasting system.
So if you didn't see it, or hear about it
over the weekend. The NHL has a new all time
leading goal scorer. There has been a passing of the baton.
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His name is Alexander Ovechkin. That's right, he is number one,
the very top. Ovechkin scored his eight hundred and ninety
fifth goal on a sleepy Sunday afternoon on Long Island
against the appropriately named Islanders. That is one more now
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than Wayne Gretzky. And Wayne Gretzky his storied career and
now no longer.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
At the very top.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Now Gretzky still has the record for points that will
not be broken, at least not mathematically. It would appear
be broken, but he's no longer the all time leading
goal scorer. Poetically Ovechkin, who he's been playing so long.
I used to cover hockey on a regular basis and
he was playing then.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Ovechkin.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
So Alexander Ovechkin scored the goal on the Capitol's power
play power play, and that power play goal something that
he has more of than anyone else, a three hundred
twenty five power play goals for Ovechkin, and so that
is at the very top as well.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Now the game was stopped, they said the pause button
on the game.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
They stopped the game and they had like a two
hour ceremony. It seemed like it was a two hour
ceremony there, and you had Ovechkin's teammates come out and
mob him. Keep in mind, I believe the Capitals were
losing the game at that point, didn't matter, and they
had a on iye ceremony to celebrate the accomplishment. Right
in the middle of the game. You had Gretzky who
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did pass the baton and spoke. He was at the
game there, gave a brief speech. In that speech, he
mentioned everything from his buddies that are with the Islanders
to the Rolls Royce that he got when he set
the record, and Sinchovechkins set the mark. Since he's now
got the record, this has opened up a larger conversation.
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So let us discuss the question for the Esteem panel,
which you are a part of. Is Alexandrovechkin now the
greatest goal scorer in NHL history or he's got the record?
But does Wayne Gretzky's legacy still hold the crown even
though Ovechkin got the record.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
So I've got.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Stage coach Al Michaels and paramount pictures, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to provide a toothache. Oh my aching tooth. Yeah, all right,
so num burr, can I get a numb burn?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
So I nod, I nod the headphones. I'm nodding to Ovechkin.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
And while the Great Eight, if you look at the
website that has all the NHL stats, well, he stands
the top the goal mountain, the mountain of pucks.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
He's at the very top there.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
In a double blind challenge, double blind challenge, it's not close.
Number ninety nine is the king, and it doesn't change it.
He's not any longer the leading goal scorer. It doesn't matter.
Wayne Gretzky in a different galaxy. It's the way it is.
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He's on another level even statistically. But he doesn't have
the all time goals record anymore. But Gretzky eight hundred
and ninety four career goals, had almost two thousand assists,
and the numbers, it's like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
It's Wayne Gretzky and the Seven Dwarfs. When you look
at his stats compared to everyone else's stats, and he
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set the single season record back now the hockey Hartles
will say, well, it was easier to score when Gretzky
was doing his thing, but back in the early eighties,
he had ninety two, ninety two goals in the early
eighties and ridiculous it was like fifty fifty goals in
something like thirty nine games that year. So all kinds
of records. He is in the same class as Babe Ruth,
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Like he's like Babe Ruth, and he's before social media.
Gretzky didn't play in the social media era and all that.
But his impact on the sport of hockey. Like, imagine
in that cartoon bubble over your head that Wayne Gretzky
is in the front of the stage coach. He's not
riding shotgun. He's in the front of the stage coach.
He's driving the stagecoach. You know, he's got the horses
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right there. And so he's on the stage coach and
he's leading the NHL to the gold rush, the California
gold Rush. That's essentially what Wayne Gretzky did. Trailblazer, but
not a Portland trail blazer. Now, Wayne Gretzky for hockey
was the sugar daddy who's your daddy, your sugar daddy,
Wayne Gretzky, the forefather of Sun Belt hockey, and those
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that have been around a long time, they know that
when Gretzky was given away, right he was given away
to the La Kings from the Edmonton Oilers in nineteen.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Eighty eight, there was a sea change.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
There was a massive change that took place there and
it opened up a whole new world. It opened up
the world of non traditional hockey markets, and the NHL
capitalized within.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Not that long an amount of time.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
When you think about when Gretzky got there and things
took off, and all these celebrities back when people liked
celebrities and things like that, they were at these games,
and the NHL has gone all over the Sun Belt
and teams in Anaheim, San Jose, Dallas, Phoenix, Tampa, Baying
through the list of places there where they didn't have
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Miami or South Florida has a team, and that's directly
tied to Wayne Gretzky said, Well, they would have eventually
gotten into those sites, and maybe they would have eventually
gotten to all those cities, but the process was expedited
by Wayne Gretzky.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Now page two. So as for the goals record.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Because this is not about Wayne Gretzky as much as
it is about Alexander Ovechkin, although I've just boguarded this
for Wayne Gretzky. So the goals record itself, how significant
is it that Alexander Ovechkin got that achievement in context
of the modern NHL game, the way the way it
is played today. So it's like the classic Al Michael's
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call from Lake Placid?
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Do you believe in miracles?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Like people a couple of years ago, it's like, well,
Ovein's going to set the record, and you're like, oh, yeah, sure,
he's going to set the record for goals. It's like,
that's not the goal mark was supposed to be on
that short list of unbreakable records. And Ovechkin not that
he's zoomed past Gretzky, but he methodically surgically passes Wayne
Gretzky by. And the thing that's the most impressive about Ovechkin,
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not that I'm here to give out flowers to anyone,
is you think about the crap that happened during his career,
with shortened seasons because of labor disputes, lockouts, You had
the pandemic that took place a few years ago, and
so it is a testimonial to perseverance that even with
all that, playing fewer games here and there, and still
he ends up playing long enough Ovechkin to pass Wayne
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Gretzky by and it doesn't hurt that he's one of
the great vultures on the power play and a bunch
of empty net goals and all that. But unlike Barry Bonds,
when Bonds set the record, or Lebron James passing Kareem
abdul Jabbar and the scoring mark, these records have all
fallen in my lifetime. But the Barry Bonds thing, when
he broke Hank Aaron's record, most people just rolled their
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eyes because.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Like, he's dirty.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
That's not a legit record, right, He's a PD guy,
you know, steroid steroid Barry Balcoberry, They're like, who cares?
And Lebron, it's well, he came out of came out
of high school. He didn't go to college. Korean Abdul
Jabbar went to college, and so it's not the same
and and so there's different things. But with Ovechkin, like
I guess the only thing on him would be he's
buddies with Vladimir Putin, right, He's like, he's buddies with
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a bunch of oligarchs in Russia, which I think you
have to be. Right.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Some guy told me years ago that these Russian players.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
If they don't kiss the ring of Putin, they start
getting crap happening to their family and stuff like that.
I don't know that's true or not, but there they
were giving me a couple of years back. The guy's
explaining me the dynamic of Russian hockey players that come
to the United States and how they have to have
to be respectful and if they do anything out of line,
there's all kinds of problems back home, which I makes sense.
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I don't know whether that's actually the case or not.
But with Alexandrovitchkin now passing Wayne Gretzky and the record
for goal scored, where are the safe records? Where are
can you see some safe records? This is one of
those records people thought would last in your entire life
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and it would not be broken.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
And so where are the saferegerits?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
There are?
Speaker 4 (28:16):
There are a bunch.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
In fact, there are many records that I will guarantee
will not be broken. Guarantee. It's like the paramount pictures
flicked that did okay back in the day. The untouchables, right,
the untouchables, Cy Young two untouchable records. Cy Young, five
hundred and eleven wins, five hundred and eleven career wins.
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He also has the most losses in baseball history three
hundred and fifteen. And in modern pitching, where they don't
even care whether you stay long enough to get a win,
that record, you say, forget about it. In fact, the
record if you go back to I consider the modern
era for our purposes nineteen eighty. Since the nineteen eighties,
the picture that has the most wins. You know who
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it is, Greg Maddox. Greg Maddox as the most wins
of any pitcher of the last forty five years, three
hundred and fifty five career wins for Mattix with the
Atlanta Braves, the Cubs, the Dodgers, the pod Rais and
all those teams. So three hundred and fifty five wins,
you know, as the record for the most losses in
baseball since the nineteen eighties. A guy whose nickname was
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the Banana Frank Tanana, the Banana Tanana has the modern record.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Now that's actually more reachable. The Cy Young loss record.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Cy Young three hundred and fifteen career losses and Frank
Tanana lost two hundred thirty six games. So that's actually
the math on that actually could see that record go down.
But you've got to be consistently just good enough to
be there and bad enough to lose the games. And
then the other ones are the iron Man streaks, Cal
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Ripkin Junior, the Iron Horse record going down there, Louke Grick,
and that's col Ripkins streak. He played every game for
sixteen point two Major League Baseball seasons. Even got some
help on that, cal Ripken the Kevin Costner game where
the lights went out in Baltimore to make sure the
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streak kept going there, So he had a little help
there game against the Mariners at Camden Yards. So Cal
Ripken that will not be broken. And the NBA record
held by A. C. Green, mostly with the Lakers and
the Suns and some other teams there A C. Green
who played every single game for fourteen and a half
seasons from nineteen eighty six to two thousand and one.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
He played every game.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
If you play every game in the NBA, in the
modern NBA. They look at you like you've got some
kind of plague, Like what the f is wrong with you?
It reminds me when I covered baseball and there'd be
that hot shot young player that would come up for
the minor leagues and hustle on obvious fly ball outs,
and the other players on the team would give him
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the evil eye.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
You're making us look bad. You're not supposed to hustle.
Why you hustling. We don't hustle. Conserve your energy. You're
making us look silly. What are you doing? Beat job
by you.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Here we go, It's.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
Smaller here, Wake up to the third degree? Here, wake
go is one big? Ben gets grilled gooblo over the weekend.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
Yes, Travis Hunter moved ahead of Abdual Carter in the
betting odds to be the number two overall pick in
the NFL draft. Yeah, Ben, do you think that would
be a mistake by the Cleveland Browns?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
All right, So, as you know, I am a scout,
I read a lot of draft guides, I watch YouTube clips,
and it would be a mistake. Now, I like Hunter,
I do like Hunter. I like I would rather have
Abdual Carter. To me, Abdual Carter is the guy that
should be drafted, the very top of the edge rusher
from Penn State, Travis Hunter. I think we'll have a
good career as well. I like both those guys better
(31:59):
than the quarterbacks.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
The team that's.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Gonna get screwed here is the Patriots, because if cam
Word goes number one and then Hunter goes to and
Abdul Carter goes three to the Giants, the Patriots don't
need Shradura Sanders. So they're gonna draft some generic offensive
linemen and they're gonna get Hos or some defensive tackle next.
Speaker 9 (32:17):
Shaquille O'Neil was asked in a recent podcast if Lebron
James's longevity is a byproduct of the change of physicality
in the NBA. He said it definitely is, and argued
that guys aren't even fouling hard anymore. But do you
think Lebron's longevity is attributable to the softness of today's NBA?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
No, I think he's got some of those what they
call coop enchanted beans or whatever. I don't know. I mean,
you hear things.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
He's clearly. I don't think it's because of that alone.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I think there's other factors, other variables that I will
just leave hanging.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
OU don't want to get sued.
Speaker 9 (32:50):
Next on Friday, for the first time in the fifty
eight year history of the APIs NCAA Men's Basketball Coach
of the Year Award, there was a tie for first place.
Both Bruce Perl and rickt you know, represented with the award. Ben,
Who would you have given it to? I would have
given it to Rick Pattino. Saint John's was a morbid program.
Turned that around.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I thought he did a great job, Pearl solid, but
I would have gone with the other guy. Howd we go?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
He passes that if they win, I'm a winner, Winner, Winner,
Chicken dinn or.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
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Speaker 1 (33:36):
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Speaker 5 (33:39):
Here?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Were you talking to sons?
Speaker 8 (33:41):
Here?
Speaker 5 (33:41):
Some instant advice?
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Hold that thought. No one's paid attention to me for
ten whole seconds, And.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
If you don't like it, then the way we go,
it's the in Advice line on screened radio. Who needs
our advice? The wisdom, the knowledge Alan Lusha someone in
sports could be a team, could be a coach, a player,
prominent media figure. Now this week it is the New
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York Islanders on how not to fo for their fans.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
The New York Islanders.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
We told you earlier this hour they were.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Offering fans who already bought.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
A ticket to the game if they wanted a printed
copy of the ticket, forty five dollars. That is a
resort fee up charge, forty five dollars for something they
already purchased. So what is your advice to the Islanders
are not effing over their own customers? And we'll go
to the calls Onscree eight seven seven ninety nine one
(34:39):
Fox line one, you're on the air go line one.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
They take a third cheap end. They don't crow.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yeah, they do literally trees a line of a digitally
note a line two. You're on the airline.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Two morning time.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
That's a car, Come with that?
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Yes, you get a car? You well like half a
tank of gas? Line three?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
What's going online?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Three? Advice to the New York Islanders do not f
over their fans.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
If you want to make the final four, hire a
Jewish coach.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
All right, what about you. Line five, you're on the
airline five. Line five is not paying attention. We're going
to line six. It's the instant advice line. Hell a,
line six, police on my jaws.
Speaker 8 (35:18):
I had to pause forty ounce in my lap and
it's freezing my balls.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Okay, there's all the legends, wonderful rhyme coming out there.
It's either calling overnight talk radio or a music career.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
He shows overnight talk radio.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Line one, you're on the Airline one.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
You need.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Okay, there must be some mercury and retrograd. Line two,
you're on the air. We're giving advice here to the
New York Islanders. They're charging up, charging people that already
bought tickets if they wanted a printed copy forty five dollars.
Speaker 8 (35:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
I've been the solution for years for daddy to smoke degree.
All right, thank you for that. I think you're already
doing that. Line three, you're on the airline three. We're
giving advice.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Oh, it's easy, easy bringing toach.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Okay. Line five, you're on the airline five. Hello, I
have a hockey stick night.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
They stopped doing it there.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
You know, it's better to get the hockey stick out
the line six. You're on the airline six. That was
sewn the hood guy. Hello, line six, I.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
Can I have a limited a ticket?
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Oh man, I'm still upset that you didn't win the
game show last week. Line one, you're on the airline one.
Speaker 5 (36:31):
Hello thing.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Oh hey, look at that great tribute to the late
great Spokane Gary. Line too. Hello, line two?
Speaker 5 (36:39):
Is Kevin Garner dumber about money than Charles?
Speaker 4 (36:42):
All right?
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Boy? He wanted he wanted to double down on that take,
and he called up to Roman Charleston. Line three, Hello,
line three, what's going out? All right? We'll do one more?
Only one more? Cool picket? Final call.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
It's the advice line for the New York Islanders. Mine one.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Line one, you're on the airline I want gum. You
picked the doge guy, Coobe, you picked the doge guy.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yeah, who was this?
Speaker 4 (37:13):
You're you're live on the random line? Who is this?
Speaker 5 (37:17):
I was gonna play the show?
Speaker 8 (37:21):
Is this?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Bruce?
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Is this Bruce.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
My name is Moose.
Speaker 8 (37:28):
Moose.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
That's right, Moose, keep getting, keep getting. I'm lucky, am
I I know? Right?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
That's crazy. I mean it was like the old Bell
Show West of the Rockies, East of the Rockies. I
picked the right line. Then every line is ringing. He
I feel bad for Dick. We didn't get Dick on though.
I mean we you know, we didn't get all right, anyway,
we'll play the game.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
All right, hit the button, hit the wait, wait.
Speaker 7 (37:49):
Wait, I want to find my other button first. But
where's my taste of the thing.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I'm not I don't have the I don't have the buttons.
I don't button. Give me a little taste of that, Dick,
I don't play that like you around, like you know everything.
Computers are for losers.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
Normal people. Well, how dare she?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
What do you?
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Let's find out?
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Are you smarter than an FSR tech queen?
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Well, let's do it very exciting and we will play
the game. We have the Moose, Hi Moose.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
All right, how's it going?
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Where are you at, Moose? I'll be in San Diego,
beautiful San Diego. All right, Well Part nine. I used
to work in San Diego back. Are you just visiting?
You live there?
Speaker 4 (38:30):
What do you got going on?
Speaker 5 (38:32):
Oh? No, I've been retired from the grocery business. I
used to work at Vond's.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Oh you did, all right?
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Very cool?
Speaker 4 (38:39):
You enjoying retirement.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
Yeah, for the most part, it's it's ah a special
place to live in San Diego. But I'm hanging there.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yeah, yeah, it is pricey. You gotta go out to
like East County. That's what a little cheaper out there
in East County?
Speaker 5 (38:53):
Right right? Right?
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
All right, Well let's play the game. Here we go.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Are you smarter than the FSR Tech Queen?
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Thanks to Sincy Tommy by the way, loyal minion who
cooked up the idea, said we should do this the
categories this week. We have sporty, We've got geography, history,
and what else do we have? Let's do Should we
do science? Let's do science? We haven't done science. We'll
(39:20):
do science?
Speaker 4 (39:20):
All right, and very good.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
We'll play the game.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Which category would you like to go with? First? There, moose?
Speaker 5 (39:28):
How about sporty?
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Yeah? Why not go with the sport?
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Went out? Go with the sporty? Sure, all right, we'll
go with the sport. This should be a very easy one.
Which sport has a score of love? Which sport has
a score of love?
Speaker 4 (39:47):
Lorena, you want to go first here?
Speaker 7 (39:49):
That's a really really odd question.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Yes, very odd question.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
What do you think the sport that has the score
of love?
Speaker 7 (39:57):
It's definitely not football, nor is it hockey.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
I didn't ask what it's not. I asked what it is.
Speaker 7 (40:02):
To be soccer, be something, girly.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Let's go with tennis, all right, as she's going with tennis.
What about you, moose, I love love. That is correct,
it is it is tennis.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
That is correct. You got it right.
Speaker 7 (40:17):
My other guest was going to be, what's the thing
that's like tennis but with the smaller paddles.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
Racquetball or something like that? Or what are you talking about?
What's the like the hot the hot game again? Pickleball?
Speaker 1 (40:31):
All right, well you both want one in one.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Let's go to geography. I like that.
Speaker 7 (40:35):
You said tennis geography.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
You said, Gurley, sport tennis isn't.
Speaker 7 (40:39):
Yeah, they make skirts for it, it's obviously Gurley.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Well okay, oh very good. Let's play the game here.
Next question up. Let's see e meany miney mo All right,
you guys should get this right away. What divides the
earth into the western and Eastern hemispheres?
Speaker 8 (40:59):
Are?
Speaker 4 (41:00):
Are you smart on the f SR tech queen?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
What divides the earth into the western and Eastern hemispheres?
Speaker 4 (41:06):
Moose? You want to go first on this? Moose?
Speaker 5 (41:09):
Uh? I think it's the equator?
Speaker 4 (41:13):
You know the equator?
Speaker 1 (41:14):
What about you? Lorraina?
Speaker 7 (41:16):
Okay, I actually do remember this.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
She's getting cocky.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Now go away.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
Don't influence her.
Speaker 7 (41:23):
Please, he's influencing me. I you need to go away.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Is she cheating? No? Is she cheating?
Speaker 7 (41:28):
Maybe I did.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Give me your phone? Give me. I'm throwing it out.
The question is I'm throwing it out.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
I'm throwing it out.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
I ain't coming for you on this time. I'm throwing
it out. Question.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
We throw the question out.
Speaker 7 (41:50):
I knew it wasn't the equator.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Oh no, you see the the answer was the prime meridian.
Speaker 7 (41:55):
And you cheated, gotten it wrong?
Speaker 1 (41:58):
You know?
Speaker 5 (41:58):
All right?
Speaker 1 (41:59):
All right, anyway, let's move on. Let's see a different question.
I can't believe that she's so mad at me.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Let's say who.
Speaker 7 (42:07):
Gets my food this week? Coop touch my candy?
Speaker 1 (42:12):
All right?
Speaker 4 (42:13):
All right, let's see you.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
I want to find a different a science, like a
science he type, not what science? Well, this is alright.
I'm trying to find a different question that I think. Well,
you can't cheat at Yeah, that's impossible.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Let's see here, all right, heat?
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Heat is a form of what kind of energy? Heat
is a form of? What kind of energy?
Speaker 4 (42:36):
Moose? You want to go first on this?
Speaker 3 (42:39):
Oh no, okay, I'm gonna go with friction, ben friction.
You think that heat is a well, it depends what
you're doing. You're doing it right, Moose? You agree with
that or you want to disagree?
Speaker 5 (42:52):
Yeah, I gotta agree with that one.
Speaker 7 (42:53):
Could it be a form of energy?
Speaker 4 (42:55):
No, you are both wrong. It is thermal energy.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Thermal that I.
Speaker 7 (43:00):
Did say it right, it's a form of energy. It's
a form.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
Well, no, the question was I said, he's right, you're not.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
No, you're not.
Speaker 4 (43:05):
I said, he is a form of what kind of energy?
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Thermal is?
Speaker 4 (43:09):
The answer?
Speaker 1 (43:10):
You were wrong? You? You could not have been more wrong.
I think bad job by you. It's a bad job
by you. Let's go back to sporty shut up? Did
you cheat on the tennis one too? I was so
impressed with you.
Speaker 4 (43:22):
I think she did.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Of course I did not I think she.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
All right, this is you guys should get this right away,
all right.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
All the the triple Crown is awarded. It is given
to the horse that wins which three races?
Speaker 4 (43:40):
Which three race chans.
Speaker 7 (43:43):
Wait like separate races, and like a Derby.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
There are three races. This has been going on for many,
many years in America. You win these three races, you
get your crown, the triple crown winner.
Speaker 5 (43:53):
All right.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
What are the names of those? One should be easy?
She get it right away. It's actually coming up. I
think next week?
Speaker 7 (44:00):
Is it the Derby?
Speaker 5 (44:02):
Well?
Speaker 4 (44:02):
What Derby?
Speaker 7 (44:02):
Though, the Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
That's one of them.
Speaker 5 (44:04):
All right.
Speaker 4 (44:05):
What's the other two?
Speaker 7 (44:07):
The Fast Derby and the Slough?
Speaker 1 (44:13):
All right, let's see if our buddy Moose, who's retired
from the grocery business there in San Diego, Moose, you
got any answer the triple Crown races and horse racing.
One's easy.
Speaker 5 (44:25):
You're the Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 4 (44:27):
Okay, we two pakus?
Speaker 7 (44:31):
Yeah, he googled that.
Speaker 5 (44:34):
I think the last one is the Billboon Steaks.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
You got it right, You got it right, Good job
by you. Those are the three you've got the Kentucky Derby,
the Preakness in Baltimore, Belmont Steaks and that's a sporty question.
That was the sporty question. We're out of time. We
can keep going, but we're out of time. All right.
Wa moose here you are smarter than the episode and
(45:00):
she tried to cheat anyway, So there you go.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
Good job by.
Speaker 7 (45:03):
You are very congratulations
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