April 29, 2025 • 44 mins
Big Ben talks about the Warriors winning a close game against the Rockets to take a 3-1 lead in the series, Boomer Esiason saying that three NFL owners took Shedeur Sanders completely off their draft board, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Willie Nelson Edition, and more!
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So our lead this hour is from the pro Bouncy
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Ball playoffs. They continue will start out in San Francisco.
That is where the only game that was competitive was played.
There's only a couple of games on the schedule and
there was only one that really provided anything halfway decent
to discuss. So that we will talk about the other game.
Why not we have a four hour to talk show.
But game four of the Western Conference playoffs side of
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the bracket, the night cap, you had Jalen Green and
the number two seeded Rockets taking on Stephan Curry in
the number seven seed Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And how did that go? Well, it was actually close.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
The Rockets had a lead at halftimes, were up by seven.
Then they had to play the second half. If you
were not watching, you might have missed it. It came down
to the bitter end. A big third quarter run by
the Warriors put them ahead. But in the stretch run
down the home stretch, Jimmy Butler converted not one, not two,
but three foul shots with less than a minute to go.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
He also got the.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Game clinching rebound with four seconds to go in the
game and made a couple more foul shots. You had
twenty seven points, almost all of them, it seemed, in
the second half of this game, and he returned from
a pelvic injury, which at the time seemed like that
was going to be the KO see you later.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Out of here.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
They win, though, Golden State gets past Houston one oh
nine to one oh six, a three point win. More importantly,
they are up now three games to one, so it
appears another non competitive NBA playoff series. In terms of
a possible Game seven situation down the line, we're not
looking at that. Fred van Vliet missed a three point
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shot for the Rockets that would have could have ended
up tying the game. That he missed it at the buzzer,
No good, that's it. And the Warriors, now you talk
about stepping up secondary actors, role players, they play better
at home. Brandon Pojemski with twenty six points for Golden
State and Steph Curry rather quiet seventeen points.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I know you're not allowed to say anything.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Negative about Steph Curry because you'll be struck by lightning
if you say anything negative about Steph Curry went all
that good.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
He went all that good.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And now the teams will get back to Houston. Game five,
very concerned about when Game five is. Game five best
of seven will be on Wednesday night. Wednesday night, and
that could be se la vie for the rock Cats
there as Golden State will try to close it out
and they can say bye bye to the Rockets on
Houston's home floor. The better story is in the losing
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locker room. So that is where we were going to begin.
And Alfred she Goon was the big man, not exactly
the second coming of a keem Elijahon. However, he continues
to produce for the most part in these playoffs. And
Shan Gun had a chance to put Houston ahead and
they gave him the ball about ten seconds to go
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in the game. He worked the ball down to the
foul line with less than ten seconds remaining, and he
did not make the shot, a foul line jumper that
would have put Houston ahead by one on the road.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
There would have been just a few seconds to go
in the game.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
So let us discuss that's actually we'll start with that,
because that's interesting the reaction to that, and if you
didn't hear exactly what happened and see what happened, the
question is was it great defense by Draymond Green because
that was the matchup. That's pretty intriguing that Houston, of
all the players on the court email Udoka, would approach
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this and get the ball to Shengoon against what everyone
in the media is convinced is the top greatest defensive player,
Draymond Green for Golden State. Yet Houston attacked Draymond Green.
So was it great defense by Draymond Green or a
just a bad misshot by the Rockets al Shengoon there
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at the end. That's the question. So I've got Lionel,
Richie Wreckett, Ralph and Silicon Valley and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make a nice tropical vacation. The Rockets are one law
away from a very nice tropical vacation.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
They can afford it. They can afford a nice vacation.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
So my first thought on this, despite Reggie Miller on
the TNT broadcast, who was I'm pretty sure wearing knee pads.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
For Draymond Green. I mean it was a little uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Get a room, just smooching and slobbering all over Draymon.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Reggie Miller, what a fanboy.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Anyway, Despite that, and also despite all the awards that
Draymond Green has picked up as a multi time defensive
player the year.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Blah blah blah blah blah, Houston.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I love the fact they went right after Draymond at
this stage of his life. Draymond was just a podcaster.
He's an older player, He's a podcaster. And it wasn't
Maybe my TV was broken. I don't know, what do
I know. I just did the Overnight show. It did
not look like lockdown defense by Draymond Green. It did not,
despite what Reggie Miller and the TNT broadcast was saying.
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I did not, in my view, see, oh my god,
this is like a great defense. Holy crap. I can't
believe how good he played defense. I didn't see that.
What I saw was Alfred Schengoon going Lionel Richie if
you will here, cranking up the Commodore's brick house from
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back in the day there and nineteen seventies. But man,
what a brick house it was at the end there.
But he got a pretty good shot. He just didn't
make the shot. And it's a make or miss league.
I was taught that by Jeff Van Gundy maker miss league.
He missed it, but it.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Wasn't because of amazing defense by Draymond Green.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Now of a bigger problem for the Rockets here is
Jalen Green. What happened? What happened to Jalen Green? That's
the question for the Esteam panel. The Rockets star during
the regular season, so in this game, we mentioned Shengoon
for the Rockets who had twenty one of his thirty
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one points in the second half, and he had to
do that because the guy that is the headliner. It's
like going to a comedy show and the comic who
you're going to watch the top comic, gets up on stage,
tells one joke and says, all right, that's all I
got tonight.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I'm out.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
That was Jalen Green. He was the headliner and he
didn't deliver as the headline. He was a fraud, an
absolute fraud. And what happened to him is he had commandeered.
He was in the cockpit writing the vomit comic Jalen
Green in this game, as we so often see in
the plus. He had eight points. That's it, eight points,
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but the stories in the second half. Houston was up
by seven at halftime. He scored as many points Jalen
Green as you and I did in the second half goose, egg, bupkis, zippo.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Zero, nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
It only took eight shots in the game, only two
field goal attempts in the second half. It reminded me
of play off Harden from years gone by with the Rockets,
or Kitty Kat with the Knickerbockers now and also with Minnesota,
where he just vanishes for a game.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
In this case, Jalen Green has actually vanished from more
than one game.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
This has become the norm. And how bad was it?
But wait, there's more. It was so bad that emy
Udoka benched Jalen Green for the final like five minutes
of the game. This is his top player. He wasn't hurt.
He was benched for negligence, for malfeasance on the court.
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I mean, Green has been under ten points in three
of the four games in this series. He did have
the thirty eight point game, but other than that, it's
been a do better, be better situation. It's bad job,
all right now? Meanwhile, at Golden State, they win this game.
So they're up three games to one, and to the
winner goes the spoilers. Everyone kisses their asses, how great
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they are, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Now, Jimmy Butler
had some interesting comments postgame without on TNT right after
the game, without naming the person. Without naming the person,
Jimmy Butler indicated that there was a player on the
Rockets who inspired his second half performance, and he indicated
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without naming him, that it was Dylan Brooks, the big mouth,
trash talking instigator of the Houston basketball team, and so
without naming him directly, it certainly appeared based on the
clues given and the way the game played out, there
was a couple of minutes in the first half that
were it seemed to take thirty five forty minutes to
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play about three minutes a game time because they kept
going to the replay, which is unwatchable. Crap I flipped
over to a baseball game, not even a good one,
the Marlins and the Dodgers, not even a good game.
But I flipped over that and then came back. But anyway,
so Jimmy Butler Golden State Star of Stars on this night,
and he credited it would appear Dylan Brooks for inspiring
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him with some trash talk. So how does that sound
to you? So the way I interpreted the Jimmy Butler
SoundBite parabolic, a legend building is how I interpret her
to hear Jimmy Butler in the beginning part of the game.
And I actually jotted this guy, didn't John. I wrote
it on my phone. I have the notes app on
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my phone and I said, decoy, Jimmy Butler. Decoy in
the first half of the game. It was a decoy.
He only had four points at halftime, and it just
wasn't aggressive and just kind of out there.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I was like, well, you're wondering, why is he out there?
Is he able to play?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Is he just out there because he wants to be
that option, which not really a real option? And all
that four points at halftime and then in the second
half he goes wreck at Ralph.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
It was a.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Turbotastic performance Golden State. They started the second half. He
saw the game. You know, they went eighteen out of
the nineteen points eighteen to one run after halftime, and
the Playoff Jimmy was activated. He likes to down and
play Playoff Jimmy, yet he doesn't seem to have much
of an issue with it when it's in headlines on
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the internet and it's kind of this weird thing he's got.
He's got to downplay it, but yet he kind of
likes it secretly and all that. So Playoff Jimmy with
twenty three points in the second half, but fourteen in
the fourth quarter. He had more points than the rest
of his teammates for the Warriors in the final twelve
minutes of that game. So Golden State. Now he went
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away from a trip to the second round. They'll play
Minnesota in the second round. Wolves one more win away
from Huka Luka and the Lakers being exterminated, which we
can all celebrate there from the playoffs. All right, now,
last word, we go to the Commissioner's office. We head
now to the Commissioner's office where Adam Silver was asked
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on what needs to improve with the end media covers.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
So I don't have you heard what he said.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It was an interview he did recently with one of
these sports business websites.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Here, here's a little taste.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Here's Adam Silver giving a lecture on what needs to
be better tig A Liss.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Is there anything about how the NBA has covered that
you would change?
Speaker 5 (13:18):
You know, it's interesting your company is enjoy Basketball. And
I mean, I respect the job the media does, and
it's not a suggestion that people shouldn't ask tough questions
or be critical or talk about things they don't like
about the game. But I would say, and it goes
exactly to your production company Enjoy Basketball, that sometimes I
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think they don't spend enough time talking about why people
love this game. And you know, recently I was at
a meeting with Mike Krzyzewski, former coach at Duke, and
he condensed it with this headline. He said, we should
educate people about the game and celebrate the game. And
educate and celebrate and I feel I wish there was.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
More of that.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Okay, all right, so the money part of that, they
don't spend enough time talking about why people love the game.
So where do you stand on this? Where do you
stand on what you just heard there from Adam Silver?
So I give this some SIDEI here, of course, you'd
expect the commissioner to only want positivity.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
And he did drop a bomb, the butt bomb. He
dropped a butt bomb.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Everything before the word butt and before the word butt
was tough questions.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
So he doesn't want tough questions.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
That was a lie, he said the word but everything
before the word but is a lie. It was a
butt bomb from Adam Silver.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Butt bomb. Adam Silver, he said it.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
But he's acting like he's in the Silicon Valley running
an internet startup Sunshine dot com. If you will right now,
you can control NBA media, the business partners. You can
control the degree and so there is a level of
control that one has. Like the website, which I don't
know anyone goes to NBA dot com, but those that do,
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the five people that go to that website, you can
control that. The social media channels that the league runs,
you can control that. But outside of it, the problem
Madam Silver has is the people that pay big money
for the rights to the NBA do that to get
an audience and engage the audience in order to bring
in money via advertisers. And it's basically a case where
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tell me you do not understand how the media business
works without telling me that you don't understand how the
media business works. The NBA is actually the envy of
Major League Baseball and the NHL in the fact that
even though the product in baseball and hockey is better,
(15:55):
I don't know anyone thinks it's a worse product in
those sports than Basketball's better. The NBA product is horrible
during the regular season. Now the playoffs, it's not that bad.
But during the regular season it is god awful. Everyone
knows it, Everyone's aware of this. It is a horrifically
bad product. And it's happened under Adam Silver's watch, and
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the media loves you know. I can't say what they
do to Adam Silver, but they love Adam Silver so
much that they don't want to criticize him. Under his watch,
the product has become horrific. Baseball is a better product.
Hockey is a better product in the regular season. You're
not supposed to say. But yet the NBA, despite an
inferior product where the players don't give a crap during
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the regular season, it's like going to David Busters and
standing there and watching Papa shot. Yet the Papa shot
machine at David Busters is watching in the NBA during
the regular season, it's nothing but jump shots, three point
shots and all that stuff. Despite all that, the days
of our lives drama, which is mostly negative, is engagement,
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and that part of it works. We're in the golden
age of engagement. And the Internet thrives on negativity. Human
beings thrive on negativity. You always get some dope to
cause the sports radios, Oh, I think you should be
more positive, And I always say, well, you want me
to lose my job because if I do positivity, no
one listens.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
They used to be a guy that worked here.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I want to say the person name try to do
positive sports radio.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I believe he.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Is now trying to be a motivational speaker. He ain't
doing this anymore because no one listened. Okay, people want engagement,
Advertisers want that, and negative things bring more engagement.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
That's how it works. That's how it works.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
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As we are hanging out with you and our lead
this hour. Post mortem Day two post mortem NFL Draft
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twenty twenty five which ended back on Saturday, but still
has legs. It still has legs now the traumatic fall
of shedur Sanders free falling, free falling out of day
one that was on Thursday, out of day two on Friday,
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and then made it all the way to Saturday and
even made it past that first round on Saturday, and
so this continues to be analyzed z a Brooder film style.
Every angle covered here. The microscope is out analyzing this now.
If you've not heard the latest chatter, possibly not longtime,
(19:44):
longtime NFL commentary actually played a lot of people don't
even remember that. But Boomer as Sisson won an MVP award.
So Boomer hangs out with rich people and people that
are in the know in the NFL. And so Boomer
assiz In on his New York The Radio show claimed
that Shadeur Sanders was taken off of draft boards by
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multiple owners. That's an interesting wrinkle, Yeah, multiple owners and
why is that? Well, according to Boomersiasin, he said, the
attitude of Shadur Sanders was very off putting to many
many coaches, in general managers the league. He added that
after talking to three different personnel people in the NFL
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this weekend, they did not even have him meeting Shadar
Sanders on the board. They took him off, and they
took him off because the one owner said, take him off.
I don't want that guy. I don't want this entitled
person on our team.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Close quote. All right, So let us discuss the question as.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
A pretty damning accusation that this came from the ownership
down Boomer Sizen saying that three owners, three NFL owners
took Shadeur Sanders off the twenty twenty five draft board.
Are you surprised by this report? Do you believe this report?
So I've got blind spot, coke zero, and rings, and
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we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make the Baba Ganooshe. We're gonna make
the boabaganosh.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
So numb get a number.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
It is all after the fact reporting. No one said
this prior to the draft. There was like one or
two people that said, not really a first round quarterback.
I had mentioned in previous episodes of the show that
based on the scouting reports that I was reading, Shine
Sanders is like a second round pick, second round pick,
and he was gonna get drafted in the first round
or the end of the first round because of his dad. Well,
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it turns out, if you believe what happened happened the
way it happened, it's because of his dad that he
was not drafted in part even in the second.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Round of the NFL draft.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
And if you do the math, math though and malor
math is a version of math. It is not the
final answer on math. So there are thirty two teams.
So if three owners, if three owners said X nay
on the Shaudur Sanders A, that is about ten percent,
a little less than ten percent. I beye, it's nine
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point two or something like that. It's right around ten percent.
So that would leave ninety to ninety one percent if
you want to round up of NFL teams that were available.
I don't keep in mind many teams did not need
a quarterback. Not every team drafted a quarterback. So there
is that, but it does tell you if accurate. I
believe it is that Shouldeur Sanders is a special kind
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of Say it with me now, Mama Luke. He's a
special kind of Mama Luke, and not a special kind
of talent.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
You can be the biggest a hole in the room
as long as you can back it up and make
the company money.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
And it's really no different in the business I'm.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
In in the radio world is in the football world.
Teams will tolerate a lot a lot from a star player.
You can be a diva, you can be an ahole,
you can be a schmock. You can have off field drama.
You can have all of that as long as your
performance is above and beyond your replacement, and you always
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do this cost benefit analysis. There have been people I've
worked with in radio who were terrible people who got
a lot of money for the company, made a lot
of money and the advertiser happy. But once the advertisers
were no longer happy and the audience went away, they
quickly vanished as well because they were schmocks and that
couldn't wait to get rid of them. And it does appear, though,
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based on all of the various reports here, that the
NFL as a whole voted through the first four rounds
of the draft that Shudure is a special kind of varmit,
that he suffered from a blind spot and there was
this extreme lack of awareness.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Now you see people all.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
The time that are not aware that they A lot
of times you get older and you just that you're
not aware, but you just don't give a crap. You're
all bedraggled, you go out there, you got the you're
a mess.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You don't care about your parents, right, but you're not aware.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
In this case, it's just totally being obtuse to reading
the room and just thinking your God's gift of football
and you're not going to not going to work with
wor to be I mean, there was a report that
you are saying, is I saw this somewhere. I forget where.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
That he was.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
He had a VIP section at his pro day. And
that's it's a little much. It's a little much.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
But there you go. And it's like that internet meme,
you know, you f around and find out, and the
more you f around, the more you're gonna find out
and should found out. And it doesn't seem like it's
affecting him by all accounts. He's still totally on planet
Shauduur and it doesn't seem to matter. And okay, now
page two to the White House we go. That is
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where the Philadelphia football team, the Eagles, gees merch, Merch, merch.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
The Eagles visited the White House for the first time
as a franchise following that thumping they put on cansa
City in Super Bowl fifty nine. Now, not every member
of the Eagles was there, much to the delight of
many media hacks who were trying to look at anything
here to pump up the negativity. But now a notable absence.
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As the President of the United States, Donald Trump addressed
the Eagles. You did not have quarterback Jalen Hurtz. He
was a no show. Aj Brown was not there. DeVante
Smith among those that chose not to show up to
the White House. And how does the scorecard look though?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Right?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
How does the scorecard looko on the Eagles visit to
the White House. So I grated it this way, and
I saw a clip big Dom was the star of
the show.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Big Dom got introduced first before anyone else.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
But based on the clips that I watched on the YouTube,
this happened while I was sleeping. I scored it a
coke zero if you will, as let me point this out.
Coke zero meeting a zero sum game. It was a
zero sum game. The Eagles claimed that Jalen Hurts could
not attend because of a quote scheduling issue, is what
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they said, because you just wander into the White House
at the last minute and it's not playing months and
months in advance. Of course, come on, yeah, now keep
it on you. You don't have to do this, right,
It's not a requirement you have to go to the
White House or anything. But as we pointed, out when
the Dodgers visited the White House back.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
In the beginning part of the month.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I think it was like April, the first week in April,
the second week in April, a couple of weeks back.
You're not required to go to the White House. However,
by not going into the White House, you make it
all about you, right, you make it all about you.
And I would use an example like Mookie Betts not
a fan of President Trump.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
That's fine, you know, I don't have to agree on
everything politically or whatever.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
He does.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Not a real fan of Donald Trump. He showed up
to the White House. And why did he show up
to the White House? Dave Roberts also showed up. They
showed up because it was about unity. It was about
team unity. It's not about politics and all that stuff.
The reason it's a zero sum game, like Jalen Hurts,
obviously he's not into it and all that stuff. He
made it all about himself, right, he met all myself.
But the reason it's a zero s game is because
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while Hertz was making some kind of political statement, you
had Sequon Barkley who was like fully immersed in the
whole White House experience.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
The Eagles running back.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Not only did he show up to the White House,
he was hanging out with the president the day before.
They I think they were in Florida and they flew
back on Air Force one.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
That would be pretty cool to going Air Force one
when that flew back to DC.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
So he golfed with the president and then Barkley was
getting killed for that, and then he had a mic
drop moment the Eagles running back on social media, he wrote, lol,
he said, some people are really upset because I played golf.
I played golf and flew to the White House with
the President. Maybe I just respect the office. Sequan said,
(28:19):
not a hard concept to understand. Just golf with Obama
not too long ago, and look forward to finishing my
round with Trump. Now you get out of my mentions,
Barkley said, and with all the politics and have.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
An amazing day. So there you go.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Mike dropped moment there from Saquon bark So again zero
some game you had Jalen Hurts, some made it all
about him, and then you had Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
He was like fully into it, like he's won the
whole thing and and all that.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
All right, No final point, we go to Nashville, Tennessee,
a developing story.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
With zero interest. Talk about zero zero some game, zero interest.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
In the number one and pick and the cam Ward
cam Ward, no buzz, no juice, no excitement. Cam Ward
goes at the very top and he has been given permission.
We are told by Euler's legend Warren Moon to wear
the number one Jerny number line and Warren Moon's old
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uniform number that had been retired. So you got that
going on. And then in the northeast corridor you have
Lawrence Taylor who denied Abdul Carter, the Penn State defensive Star,
from wearing number fifty six. So no number fifty six
for abdual Carter, that number retired by the Giants. So
(29:41):
the question is where are you at on unretiring uniform numbers?
Where do you stand on this? You have two different
players asking for numbers to be unretired. One of them
got their wish and the other.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
One did not.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
So I am a fan of the rinks in this case. Yeah,
not onion rings. I'm talking rings here. Retired numbers are dumb,
d dumb, dumb, dumb. I've done many malland monologues over
the years, how stupid retired numbers are, how ridiculous they are.
I don't support them. I've never supported them. Some teams
have retired multiple numbers are player that's players. That's ridiculous,
(30:17):
and you shouldn't retire numbers. And I've said this from
the very beginning, and I've maintained a consistent hot take
when it comes to retired uniform numbers. The ring of
honor is the way to do this. The ring of honor,
you honor the name. You don't need to retire the number.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
You honor the name.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Now, I am fine if you want to have certain numbers.
They do this a lot in college football, where there's
like legacy numbers. Like our guy, LaVar Arrington, our colleague
here at Fox Sports Radio. His number is not retired
by Penn State is number eleven, but that's a legacy number.
They give that to whoever the stud defensive player is
at Penn State. It's linebacker you at University of Southern
(30:56):
California USC number fifty five. Same thing as younger junior
say Ow wore. That been legendary defensive players that have
won that, But they give that out for star defensive players.
It's a legacy number. I believe Georgia does the same
thing with herschel Walker. They didn't retire his number thirty four.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
They give it.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Out for rare and appropriate occasions. And that's the way
it should be. And I'd do the same thing in
the NFL. I'd unretire every number in the NFL. I
don't think it's that outrageous. You just don't give out
those numbers. But if there's a great quarterback that comes
to the forty nine ers and watch to wear Joe
Montana's old number, I'm okay. If somebody wants to wear
number twelve and they happen to be a great quarterback,
(31:35):
a young quarterback for the Patriots and they want to
wear that number, and you're okay, shirt, fine, why not?
Who says no, that's my position and I'm not changing it.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
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Speaker 3 (31:51):
Here we go, It's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
To the third name, No more players from the nice
one hundred gets great be drafted below.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
So, despite recent trade rumors in the NFL, draft is
coming gone and Tyreek Kill is still a member of
the Dolphins. It's now being reported that the Dolphins are
likely to stick with Hill. Ben, do you think Tyreek
plays in Miami all season long?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Well, this is a big mile, so you get through
the NFL Draft and it's less likely you're going to
be traded.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
The chatter is he still wants more money. They just
gave him more money in Miami, so they're not going
to give him another contract. I'd say if we get
by mid June, it's less likely Now. I would say
I would bet on him staying with the Dolphins now,
but expect the rumors to pop over again next.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Sam Laporta quickly turned into a start tight end under
then Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson. Now as the head
coach of the Bears. Johnson has drafted Titan Colston Loveland
with the tenth overall pick and said that he thinks
leveland can do the same things for Chicago that Laporta
did for Detroit. Ben, do you think Loveland becomes an
immediate star like Laporta?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
No, Laporte has been great. I mean, how often does
that happen. Loveland's got the size and all that. You
look at the measurable, but let's be realistic. It's a
different situation, and the Bears play outside and they have
a quarterback who's not exactly the toughest.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
In the world.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Good luck next, But I'm not asking for a big
board with a bunch of letter grade journeys.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
I'm not giving you a big board. Good no big board.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
But do you think there's a team or two that
you consider won the draft?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Well, the ones that stood out, and I'm always skeptical,
but I'll dual Carter for the Giants.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I think he's going to be great with the New
York Giants.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
And I thought the Patriots fixed some issues with the
offensive line, and so those are a couple that stand out.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
How did we do? Kooble loop? You pass this? That
is a win? Putting on the board? What Chicken Dinner?
Speaker 2 (33:43):
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Are Here we go, Here we go, Here we go,
Here we go, Here we go, we go, Here we go,
Here we go, Here.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
We go, Here we go.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Hell, do you have what it takes to get to
the top?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Probably not, probably not, probably not.
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let's see who do we have it?
Speaker 3 (34:31):
We have any meany miny Moe.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
We've got Jordan in Cannesau City.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Hello, Jordan, Hey, happy first day then I'm doing Hey,
thank you, Jordan. I appreciate that. How's everything in Casey
this morning? Oh boy?
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Just done? Watson draft over there? Yeah, fingers at the lane.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Yeah, I had a big party over there. I heard
is a big event radio station event.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
All right, Jordan, you're gonna play who do you want
to partner up with?
Speaker 3 (35:05):
You got me, Ben, you got Cooper? If you really
want fun, pick Loreina, you know what.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Let's let's make this.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
All right, all right, let's do it. You're gonna lose.
John is in La La, land in La. What's going on? John?
How's everything?
Speaker 4 (35:23):
John?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
What do you got going on? You're working there? What
are you doing what kind of.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Work we operate?
Speaker 4 (35:29):
I'm making vitamins tonight.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Look at that the guys making drugs right there.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
He's a drug maker.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
All right? Uh well, John, who do you want to
partner up with? You got me? Or if you really
want a good time, Lorena, I'll take Ben Malley?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
All right?
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Look at that?
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Sorry Loraina, dude, you were gonna Pickreina.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
You got one of the cool girls, now I am.
That didn't sound good. But anyway, all right, what are
the categories here? Coop a little please quickly?
Speaker 4 (35:59):
All right, gentlemen, this is mallardsmount of Money to the
Willie Nelson edition.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
He heard of him. He shares a birthday with Ben.
Happy birthday, Willie.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
But he turns ninety two years old today. I'm not
quite there, no, not quite all right. So the categories
are night life, funny, how the Time slips Away, Poncho
and lefty, and across the borderline.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
John was Oh no, Jordan, Jordan, if you were on first,
which category would you like?
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Well? The time?
Speaker 3 (36:31):
All right? And John, how about you.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Let's take border class life, across.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
The borderline, across the boarder, across the borderline. Absolutely all right,
very good gentlemen, hold on, do not hang off, Do
not hang up, and you guys will both be on here.
We're gonna have it coming up momentarily in its entirety,
the Mallards Mountain of Money.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Willie Nelson edition. We'll get to that and we will
do it next.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
All right, go back to it, here we go. It
is Malar's amount of money.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
We have Jordan in Cannes City and he's teamed up
with the Cooper Loop and John who's making in quotes
vitamins quotes quote.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
He's in La and that's the matchup. Teamed up with me,
Ben and Cooper. You're up first. It's the Willie Nelson addition.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
All right, Jordan, we have funny how the time slips away.
We need the first and last name of the athlete
in order to get points.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (37:36):
All right?
Speaker 4 (37:37):
These active athletes have all played fifteen plus seasons forty
five seconds on the clock. Let's begin, all right. He
is the current quarterback for the Rams that exth Yes,
his nickname is the Slim Reaper in the Yes, this
guy wears number thirteen. He's always hurt all the time.
(37:59):
He's most recent on the seventy six ers. He was
on the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
He had Yeah, what's it?
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Yes, this guy is one of the best regular season
pitchers of all time for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
He's not so great in the postseason. He's not creating
more at all. He's always hurt. Yes. Uh.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
This guy is a center for the Celtics right now.
His nickname is like average oh.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Not, a very slow, methodical coop. I don't know that's
gonna win the game. How many points do is that? Loraina?
Speaker 1 (38:36):
One hundred? Okay, that is the score to beat John.
We got this, We got this. Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Wait? I say, I think he's wait a minute, is
it honey, honey? Okay? Were you questioning the scoring coop?
Speaker 4 (38:48):
Math?
Speaker 5 (38:48):
Right? No?
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Yeah, okay, yeah, you're math. He's right. Okay, you picked?
Are you there?
Speaker 4 (38:54):
John?
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Hold on same seat, John's not there. You're trying to
screw me over.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Hold on a sec. Joh you there?
Speaker 4 (39:01):
John?
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Ah, there's John? All right, very good? Hey, what's up?
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Man? All right?
Speaker 1 (39:07):
So these athletes all have Mexican heritage, Okay, across the
borderline is the category you picked. We'll put forty five seconds.
We need the first and the last name.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Are you ready? John?
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Get there?
Speaker 3 (39:18):
All right? Here we go, all start the clock.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
A quarterback for the Carolina Panthers, went to Alabama. He's
from southern California right now, okay, Star for the Phoenix,
Star for the Phoenix Suns. He's been there for almost
ten years. A bunch of different coaches. Last name is
like something you'd read, all right, First Mexican heritage.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Coach to win the Super Bowl with the Raiders back
in the day. Florida, Florida, that is correct.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Quarterback for the forty nine ers in the nineties and
the early two thousands, and every feminine voice.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Offensive tackle for the Bengals in the eighties for Boomerassias
and one of the great offensive I'm into Balta all.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Right, Dodger pitcher in two thousand and they won the
World Series. Yeah, baby, Yeah, that's my man. Good job
by you almost choking.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
I didn't charge. That was great, dude, he got the
one hundred pointer. That guy's like out of baseball. Now,
well that was actually this.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Hard.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Bryce Young and Devin Booker. Yeah, you did not get
Bryce Young. Yeah, that's all right in Devin Booker, but
you got Tom Flores.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
And wait, so how many did he get? What we got?
Speaker 4 (40:30):
One?
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Nineties one?
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Nah, man, we are dominated go ahead, go ahead, all right?
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Jordanskay, do you want Jeordan? You should picked me. Do
you want nightlife or Poncho and Lefty nightlife? Alright? Uh?
Speaker 4 (40:44):
These athletes are known to be partiers. Forty five seconds
on the clock. Let's begin tight end for the Chiefs
dating Taylor Swift. Yes, his nickname was the worm in
the NBA, had colorful hair on the What his nickname
was the worm in the NBA? He had colorful hair?
Speaker 3 (41:03):
He was on the Bull.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Yes, this guy just broke Wayne Gretzky's all time goal record.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (41:11):
Uh, this guy was a player for the Nuggets and
the Knicks. He was he's friends with Lebron. Yes, this
guy's nickname was Money. He was drafted by the Browns.
He was on Texas A and M. Yes, this guy
was a tight end for the Saints. He had long
blonde hair, tattoos, Oliver his arms back in the day, Rockey, Yes, yes,
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after the buzzer.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Ye, what's the score? Lorrain? How many.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
We do.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
We need to win here, well.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
We got sixty, so we need seventy, so we need seventy.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
All right, we'll do. We'll give it a shot. Are
you there? Hold on, let me mister Johnson, hold on, sick,
came on, hold with John up?
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Hello, Yeah, we need seventy points to tie. We need
eighty points to win. You got this right? You got this,
my man? All right, here we go. These athletes, these
are some of the best left handed athletes of all time.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Okay, best left handed athletes, you understand, John? Yeah, got
all right? I need first and the last name. Here
we go. We're on our way.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Go joke.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
He is the star of the Lakers. Played for Cleveland
for a long time in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
Wow, all right.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
Quarterback for the Atlanta Falcon Star back in the back
in the early two thousands out of Virginia Tech.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Michael Vick.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Yes, greatest left handed pitcher of all time. Pitch for
the Dodgers. Jewish guy in the sixties.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
That's that's yeah, that's right. Lebron Jams and we won.
Great left handed quarterback for the Niners. Let's run up
to score Niners after Joe Montana in the two thousands,
left handed for BYU greatest.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
How about this? Yeah, there you go and center for
the celt All right, that's all right.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
We want we won the guy we would John, do
you know what that means?
Speaker 4 (43:08):
You get it?
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Go? Ben's first win in like two months. I've got
the all time wins record. I'm the cy young of this.
I've got the all time wins record. Congratulations, John, you
won the game.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Good.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Don't mess up those vitamins, John, don't mess those up?
All right, buddy, Thank you man, thank you for that listening.
I'd be safe. And uh, yeah, Jordan, you know I
tried to. I gave you the option, Jordan, I gave
you the chance, buddy, didn't work.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Is he gone? I think he's gone? There you go,
all right, that's that's it. There. It is another edition
of Malors Mountain of Money and uh on my birthday.
I've never lost him at birth.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
I don't know that's true. It's all time documented. It's
an all time record.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
Oh my goshop, did you let him win? No, he
did not let me win it all that was a dominat.
That's a lot. That's why.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
That's why you walked away that's why he walked away,
all upset and birth You saw what he did. He
stood up, he walked away in disgust. He was so
upset with the game. I was just putting the piece
of paper on the recycling. That's not what was going on.
We know that, we know the truth. We know what
was going on there. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (44:19):
I talked.
Speaker 4 (44:20):
I talked to Jordan before we played the game, and
I said, you know, I'd take a little bit of
extra time. That's answering. It's Ben's birthday. He needs reassurance
and confidence.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
No, I don't need any reassurance. I don't need any Alphie,
Oh my.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
Gosh, you gave him the answer. You know you didn't
give me. No, he did not.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Alpha says the year I was born, the average income
was twelve six eighty six dollars. So I am doing
very well compared to that. I'm doing I'm like rich
comparedit to that. Right, I'm a domination situation. Of course,
gas was all a gas guess was like fifty nine
cents a gallon.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
My god, holy crap.
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Ball playoffs. They continue will start out in San Francisco.
That is where the only game that was competitive was played.
There's only a couple of games on the schedule and
there was only one that really provided anything halfway decent
to discuss. So that we will talk about the other game.
Why not we have a four hour to talk show.
But game four of the Western Conference playoffs side of
(02:04):
the bracket, the night cap, you had Jalen Green and
the number two seeded Rockets taking on Stephan Curry in
the number seven seed Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And how did that go? Well, it was actually close.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
The Rockets had a lead at halftimes, were up by seven.
Then they had to play the second half. If you
were not watching, you might have missed it. It came down
to the bitter end. A big third quarter run by
the Warriors put them ahead. But in the stretch run
down the home stretch, Jimmy Butler converted not one, not two,
but three foul shots with less than a minute to go.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
He also got the.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Game clinching rebound with four seconds to go in the
game and made a couple more foul shots. You had
twenty seven points, almost all of them, it seemed, in
the second half of this game, and he returned from
a pelvic injury, which at the time seemed like that
was going to be the KO see you later.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Out of here.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
They win, though, Golden State gets past Houston one oh
nine to one oh six, a three point win. More importantly,
they are up now three games to one, so it
appears another non competitive NBA playoff series. In terms of
a possible Game seven situation down the line, we're not
looking at that. Fred van Vliet missed a three point
(03:25):
shot for the Rockets that would have could have ended
up tying the game. That he missed it at the buzzer,
No good, that's it. And the Warriors, now you talk
about stepping up secondary actors, role players, they play better
at home. Brandon Pojemski with twenty six points for Golden
State and Steph Curry rather quiet seventeen points.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I know you're not allowed to say anything.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Negative about Steph Curry because you'll be struck by lightning
if you say anything negative about Steph Curry went all
that good.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
He went all that good.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And now the teams will get back to Houston. Game five,
very concerned about when Game five is. Game five best
of seven will be on Wednesday night. Wednesday night, and
that could be se la vie for the rock Cats
there as Golden State will try to close it out
and they can say bye bye to the Rockets on
Houston's home floor. The better story is in the losing
(04:20):
locker room. So that is where we were going to begin.
And Alfred she Goon was the big man, not exactly
the second coming of a keem Elijahon. However, he continues
to produce for the most part in these playoffs. And
Shan Gun had a chance to put Houston ahead and
they gave him the ball about ten seconds to go
(04:41):
in the game. He worked the ball down to the
foul line with less than ten seconds remaining, and he
did not make the shot, a foul line jumper that
would have put Houston ahead by one on the road.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
There would have been just a few seconds to go
in the game.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
So let us discuss that's actually we'll start with that,
because that's interesting the reaction to that, and if you
didn't hear exactly what happened and see what happened, the
question is was it great defense by Draymond Green because
that was the matchup. That's pretty intriguing that Houston, of
all the players on the court email Udoka, would approach
(05:20):
this and get the ball to Shengoon against what everyone
in the media is convinced is the top greatest defensive player,
Draymond Green for Golden State. Yet Houston attacked Draymond Green.
So was it great defense by Draymond Green or a
just a bad misshot by the Rockets al Shengoon there
(05:43):
at the end. That's the question. So I've got Lionel,
Richie Wreckett, Ralph and Silicon Valley and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make a nice tropical vacation. The Rockets are one law
away from a very nice tropical vacation.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
They can afford it. They can afford a nice vacation.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
So my first thought on this, despite Reggie Miller on
the TNT broadcast, who was I'm pretty sure wearing knee pads.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
For Draymond Green. I mean it was a little uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Get a room, just smooching and slobbering all over Draymon.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Reggie Miller, what a fanboy.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Anyway, Despite that, and also despite all the awards that
Draymond Green has picked up as a multi time defensive
player the year.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Blah blah blah blah blah, Houston.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I love the fact they went right after Draymond at
this stage of his life. Draymond was just a podcaster.
He's an older player, He's a podcaster. And it wasn't
Maybe my TV was broken. I don't know, what do
I know. I just did the Overnight show. It did
not look like lockdown defense by Draymond Green. It did not,
despite what Reggie Miller and the TNT broadcast was saying.
(06:56):
I did not, in my view, see, oh my god,
this is like a great defense. Holy crap. I can't
believe how good he played defense. I didn't see that.
What I saw was Alfred Schengoon going Lionel Richie if
you will here, cranking up the Commodore's brick house from
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back in the day there and nineteen seventies. But man,
what a brick house it was at the end there.
But he got a pretty good shot. He just didn't
make the shot. And it's a make or miss league.
I was taught that by Jeff Van Gundy maker miss league.
He missed it, but it.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Wasn't because of amazing defense by Draymond Green.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Now of a bigger problem for the Rockets here is
Jalen Green. What happened? What happened to Jalen Green? That's
the question for the Esteam panel. The Rockets star during
the regular season, so in this game, we mentioned Shengoon
for the Rockets who had twenty one of his thirty
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one points in the second half, and he had to
do that because the guy that is the headliner. It's
like going to a comedy show and the comic who
you're going to watch the top comic, gets up on stage,
tells one joke and says, all right, that's all I
got tonight.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I'm out.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
That was Jalen Green. He was the headliner and he
didn't deliver as the headline. He was a fraud, an
absolute fraud. And what happened to him is he had commandeered.
He was in the cockpit writing the vomit comic Jalen
Green in this game, as we so often see in
the plus. He had eight points. That's it, eight points,
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but the stories in the second half. Houston was up
by seven at halftime. He scored as many points Jalen
Green as you and I did in the second half goose, egg, bupkis, zippo.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Zero, nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
It only took eight shots in the game, only two
field goal attempts in the second half. It reminded me
of play off Harden from years gone by with the Rockets,
or Kitty Kat with the Knickerbockers now and also with Minnesota,
where he just vanishes for a game.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
In this case, Jalen Green has actually vanished from more
than one game.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
This has become the norm. And how bad was it?
But wait, there's more. It was so bad that emy
Udoka benched Jalen Green for the final like five minutes
of the game. This is his top player. He wasn't hurt.
He was benched for negligence, for malfeasance on the court.
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I mean, Green has been under ten points in three
of the four games in this series. He did have
the thirty eight point game, but other than that, it's
been a do better, be better situation. It's bad job,
all right now? Meanwhile, at Golden State, they win this game.
So they're up three games to one, and to the
winner goes the spoilers. Everyone kisses their asses, how great
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they are, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Now, Jimmy Butler
had some interesting comments postgame without on TNT right after
the game, without naming the person. Without naming the person,
Jimmy Butler indicated that there was a player on the
Rockets who inspired his second half performance, and he indicated
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without naming him, that it was Dylan Brooks, the big mouth,
trash talking instigator of the Houston basketball team, and so
without naming him directly, it certainly appeared based on the
clues given and the way the game played out, there
was a couple of minutes in the first half that
were it seemed to take thirty five forty minutes to
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play about three minutes a game time because they kept
going to the replay, which is unwatchable. Crap I flipped
over to a baseball game, not even a good one,
the Marlins and the Dodgers, not even a good game.
But I flipped over that and then came back. But anyway,
so Jimmy Butler Golden State Star of Stars on this night,
and he credited it would appear Dylan Brooks for inspiring
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him with some trash talk. So how does that sound
to you? So the way I interpreted the Jimmy Butler
SoundBite parabolic, a legend building is how I interpret her
to hear Jimmy Butler in the beginning part of the game.
And I actually jotted this guy, didn't John. I wrote
it on my phone. I have the notes app on
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my phone and I said, decoy, Jimmy Butler. Decoy in
the first half of the game. It was a decoy.
He only had four points at halftime, and it just
wasn't aggressive and just kind of out there.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I was like, well, you're wondering, why is he out there?
Is he able to play?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Is he just out there because he wants to be
that option, which not really a real option? And all
that four points at halftime and then in the second
half he goes wreck at Ralph.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
It was a.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Turbotastic performance Golden State. They started the second half. He
saw the game. You know, they went eighteen out of
the nineteen points eighteen to one run after halftime, and
the Playoff Jimmy was activated. He likes to down and
play Playoff Jimmy, yet he doesn't seem to have much
of an issue with it when it's in headlines on
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the internet and it's kind of this weird thing he's got.
He's got to downplay it, but yet he kind of
likes it secretly and all that. So Playoff Jimmy with
twenty three points in the second half, but fourteen in
the fourth quarter. He had more points than the rest
of his teammates for the Warriors in the final twelve
minutes of that game. So Golden State. Now he went
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away from a trip to the second round. They'll play
Minnesota in the second round. Wolves one more win away
from Huka Luka and the Lakers being exterminated, which we
can all celebrate there from the playoffs. All right, now,
last word, we go to the Commissioner's office. We head
now to the Commissioner's office where Adam Silver was asked
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on what needs to improve with the end media covers.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
So I don't have you heard what he said.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It was an interview he did recently with one of
these sports business websites.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Here, here's a little taste.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Here's Adam Silver giving a lecture on what needs to
be better tig A Liss.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Is there anything about how the NBA has covered that
you would change?
Speaker 5 (13:18):
You know, it's interesting your company is enjoy Basketball. And
I mean, I respect the job the media does, and
it's not a suggestion that people shouldn't ask tough questions
or be critical or talk about things they don't like
about the game. But I would say, and it goes
exactly to your production company Enjoy Basketball, that sometimes I
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think they don't spend enough time talking about why people
love this game. And you know, recently I was at
a meeting with Mike Krzyzewski, former coach at Duke, and
he condensed it with this headline. He said, we should
educate people about the game and celebrate the game. And
educate and celebrate and I feel I wish there was.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
More of that.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Okay, all right, so the money part of that, they
don't spend enough time talking about why people love the game.
So where do you stand on this? Where do you
stand on what you just heard there from Adam Silver?
So I give this some SIDEI here, of course, you'd
expect the commissioner to only want positivity.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
And he did drop a bomb, the butt bomb. He
dropped a butt bomb.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Everything before the word butt and before the word butt
was tough questions.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
So he doesn't want tough questions.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
That was a lie, he said the word but everything
before the word but is a lie. It was a
butt bomb from Adam Silver.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Butt bomb. Adam Silver, he said it.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
But he's acting like he's in the Silicon Valley running
an internet startup Sunshine dot com. If you will right now,
you can control NBA media, the business partners. You can
control the degree and so there is a level of
control that one has. Like the website, which I don't
know anyone goes to NBA dot com, but those that do,
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the five people that go to that website, you can
control that. The social media channels that the league runs,
you can control that. But outside of it, the problem
Madam Silver has is the people that pay big money
for the rights to the NBA do that to get
an audience and engage the audience in order to bring
in money via advertisers. And it's basically a case where
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tell me you do not understand how the media business
works without telling me that you don't understand how the
media business works. The NBA is actually the envy of
Major League Baseball and the NHL in the fact that
even though the product in baseball and hockey is better,
(15:55):
I don't know anyone thinks it's a worse product in
those sports than Basketball's better. The NBA product is horrible
during the regular season. Now the playoffs, it's not that bad.
But during the regular season it is god awful. Everyone
knows it, Everyone's aware of this. It is a horrifically
bad product. And it's happened under Adam Silver's watch, and
(16:16):
the media loves you know. I can't say what they
do to Adam Silver, but they love Adam Silver so
much that they don't want to criticize him. Under his watch,
the product has become horrific. Baseball is a better product.
Hockey is a better product in the regular season. You're
not supposed to say. But yet the NBA, despite an
inferior product where the players don't give a crap during
(16:38):
the regular season, it's like going to David Busters and
standing there and watching Papa shot. Yet the Papa shot
machine at David Busters is watching in the NBA during
the regular season, it's nothing but jump shots, three point
shots and all that stuff. Despite all that, the days
of our lives drama, which is mostly negative, is engagement,
(16:59):
and that part of it works. We're in the golden
age of engagement. And the Internet thrives on negativity. Human
beings thrive on negativity. You always get some dope to
cause the sports radios, Oh, I think you should be
more positive, And I always say, well, you want me
to lose my job because if I do positivity, no
one listens.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
They used to be a guy that worked here.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I want to say the person name try to do
positive sports radio.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I believe he.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Is now trying to be a motivational speaker. He ain't
doing this anymore because no one listened. Okay, people want engagement,
Advertisers want that, and negative things bring more engagement.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
That's how it works. That's how it works.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
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As we are hanging out with you and our lead
this hour. Post mortem Day two post mortem NFL Draft
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twenty twenty five which ended back on Saturday, but still
has legs. It still has legs now the traumatic fall
of shedur Sanders free falling, free falling out of day
one that was on Thursday, out of day two on Friday,
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and then made it all the way to Saturday and
even made it past that first round on Saturday, and
so this continues to be analyzed z a Brooder film style.
Every angle covered here. The microscope is out analyzing this now.
If you've not heard the latest chatter, possibly not longtime,
(19:44):
longtime NFL commentary actually played a lot of people don't
even remember that. But Boomer as Sisson won an MVP award.
So Boomer hangs out with rich people and people that
are in the know in the NFL. And so Boomer
assiz In on his New York The Radio show claimed
that Shadeur Sanders was taken off of draft boards by
(20:05):
multiple owners. That's an interesting wrinkle, Yeah, multiple owners and
why is that? Well, according to Boomersiasin, he said, the
attitude of Shadur Sanders was very off putting to many
many coaches, in general managers the league. He added that
after talking to three different personnel people in the NFL
(20:29):
this weekend, they did not even have him meeting Shadar
Sanders on the board. They took him off, and they
took him off because the one owner said, take him off.
I don't want that guy. I don't want this entitled
person on our team.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Close quote. All right, So let us discuss the question as.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
A pretty damning accusation that this came from the ownership
down Boomer Sizen saying that three owners, three NFL owners
took Shadeur Sanders off the twenty twenty five draft board.
Are you surprised by this report? Do you believe this report?
So I've got blind spot, coke zero, and rings, and
(21:10):
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make the Baba Ganooshe. We're gonna make
the boabaganosh.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
So numb get a number.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
It is all after the fact reporting. No one said
this prior to the draft. There was like one or
two people that said, not really a first round quarterback.
I had mentioned in previous episodes of the show that
based on the scouting reports that I was reading, Shine
Sanders is like a second round pick, second round pick,
and he was gonna get drafted in the first round
or the end of the first round because of his dad. Well,
(21:45):
it turns out, if you believe what happened happened the
way it happened, it's because of his dad that he
was not drafted in part even in the second.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Round of the NFL draft.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
And if you do the math, math though and malor
math is a version of math. It is not the
final answer on math. So there are thirty two teams.
So if three owners, if three owners said X nay
on the Shaudur Sanders A, that is about ten percent,
a little less than ten percent. I beye, it's nine
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point two or something like that. It's right around ten percent.
So that would leave ninety to ninety one percent if
you want to round up of NFL teams that were available.
I don't keep in mind many teams did not need
a quarterback. Not every team drafted a quarterback. So there
is that, but it does tell you if accurate. I
believe it is that Shouldeur Sanders is a special kind
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of Say it with me now, Mama Luke. He's a
special kind of Mama Luke, and not a special kind
of talent.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
You can be the biggest a hole in the room
as long as you can back it up and make
the company money.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
And it's really no different in the business I'm.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
In in the radio world is in the football world.
Teams will tolerate a lot a lot from a star player.
You can be a diva, you can be an ahole,
you can be a schmock. You can have off field drama.
You can have all of that as long as your
performance is above and beyond your replacement, and you always
(23:24):
do this cost benefit analysis. There have been people I've
worked with in radio who were terrible people who got
a lot of money for the company, made a lot
of money and the advertiser happy. But once the advertisers
were no longer happy and the audience went away, they
quickly vanished as well because they were schmocks and that
couldn't wait to get rid of them. And it does appear, though,
(23:47):
based on all of the various reports here, that the
NFL as a whole voted through the first four rounds
of the draft that Shudure is a special kind of varmit,
that he suffered from a blind spot and there was
this extreme lack of awareness.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Now you see people all.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
The time that are not aware that they A lot
of times you get older and you just that you're
not aware, but you just don't give a crap. You're
all bedraggled, you go out there, you got the you're
a mess.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You don't care about your parents, right, but you're not aware.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
In this case, it's just totally being obtuse to reading
the room and just thinking your God's gift of football
and you're not going to not going to work with
wor to be I mean, there was a report that
you are saying, is I saw this somewhere. I forget where.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
That he was.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
He had a VIP section at his pro day. And
that's it's a little much. It's a little much.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
But there you go. And it's like that internet meme,
you know, you f around and find out, and the
more you f around, the more you're gonna find out
and should found out. And it doesn't seem like it's
affecting him by all accounts. He's still totally on planet
Shauduur and it doesn't seem to matter. And okay, now
page two to the White House we go. That is
(25:13):
where the Philadelphia football team, the Eagles, gees merch, Merch, merch.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
The Eagles visited the White House for the first time
as a franchise following that thumping they put on cansa
City in Super Bowl fifty nine. Now, not every member
of the Eagles was there, much to the delight of
many media hacks who were trying to look at anything
here to pump up the negativity. But now a notable absence.
(25:40):
As the President of the United States, Donald Trump addressed
the Eagles. You did not have quarterback Jalen Hurtz. He
was a no show. Aj Brown was not there. DeVante
Smith among those that chose not to show up to
the White House. And how does the scorecard look though?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Right?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
How does the scorecard looko on the Eagles visit to
the White House. So I grated it this way, and
I saw a clip big Dom was the star of
the show.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Big Dom got introduced first before anyone else.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
But based on the clips that I watched on the YouTube,
this happened while I was sleeping. I scored it a
coke zero if you will, as let me point this out.
Coke zero meeting a zero sum game. It was a
zero sum game. The Eagles claimed that Jalen Hurts could
not attend because of a quote scheduling issue, is what
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they said, because you just wander into the White House
at the last minute and it's not playing months and
months in advance. Of course, come on, yeah, now keep
it on you. You don't have to do this, right,
It's not a requirement you have to go to the
White House or anything. But as we pointed, out when
the Dodgers visited the White House back.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
In the beginning part of the month.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I think it was like April, the first week in April,
the second week in April, a couple of weeks back.
You're not required to go to the White House. However,
by not going into the White House, you make it
all about you, right, you make it all about you.
And I would use an example like Mookie Betts not
a fan of President Trump.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
That's fine, you know, I don't have to agree on
everything politically or whatever.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
He does.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Not a real fan of Donald Trump. He showed up
to the White House. And why did he show up
to the White House? Dave Roberts also showed up. They
showed up because it was about unity. It was about
team unity. It's not about politics and all that stuff.
The reason it's a zero sum game, like Jalen Hurts,
obviously he's not into it and all that stuff. He
made it all about himself, right, he met all myself.
But the reason it's a zero s game is because
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while Hertz was making some kind of political statement, you
had Sequon Barkley who was like fully immersed in the
whole White House experience.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
The Eagles running back.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Not only did he show up to the White House,
he was hanging out with the president the day before.
They I think they were in Florida and they flew
back on Air Force one.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
That would be pretty cool to going Air Force one
when that flew back to DC.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
So he golfed with the president and then Barkley was
getting killed for that, and then he had a mic
drop moment the Eagles running back on social media, he wrote, lol,
he said, some people are really upset because I played golf.
I played golf and flew to the White House with
the President. Maybe I just respect the office. Sequan said,
(28:19):
not a hard concept to understand. Just golf with Obama
not too long ago, and look forward to finishing my
round with Trump. Now you get out of my mentions,
Barkley said, and with all the politics and have.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
An amazing day. So there you go.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Mike dropped moment there from Saquon bark So again zero
some game you had Jalen Hurts, some made it all
about him, and then you had Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
He was like fully into it, like he's won the
whole thing and and all that.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
All right, No final point, we go to Nashville, Tennessee,
a developing story.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
With zero interest. Talk about zero zero some game, zero interest.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
In the number one and pick and the cam Ward
cam Ward, no buzz, no juice, no excitement. Cam Ward
goes at the very top and he has been given permission.
We are told by Euler's legend Warren Moon to wear
the number one Jerny number line and Warren Moon's old
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uniform number that had been retired. So you got that
going on. And then in the northeast corridor you have
Lawrence Taylor who denied Abdul Carter, the Penn State defensive Star,
from wearing number fifty six. So no number fifty six
for abdual Carter, that number retired by the Giants. So
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the question is where are you at on unretiring uniform numbers?
Where do you stand on this? You have two different
players asking for numbers to be unretired. One of them
got their wish and the other.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
One did not.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
So I am a fan of the rinks in this case. Yeah,
not onion rings. I'm talking rings here. Retired numbers are dumb,
d dumb, dumb, dumb. I've done many malland monologues over
the years, how stupid retired numbers are, how ridiculous they are.
I don't support them. I've never supported them. Some teams
have retired multiple numbers are player that's players. That's ridiculous,
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and you shouldn't retire numbers. And I've said this from
the very beginning, and I've maintained a consistent hot take
when it comes to retired uniform numbers. The ring of
honor is the way to do this. The ring of honor,
you honor the name. You don't need to retire the number.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
You honor the name.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Now, I am fine if you want to have certain numbers.
They do this a lot in college football, where there's
like legacy numbers. Like our guy, LaVar Arrington, our colleague
here at Fox Sports Radio. His number is not retired
by Penn State is number eleven, but that's a legacy number.
They give that to whoever the stud defensive player is
at Penn State. It's linebacker you at University of Southern
(30:56):
California USC number fifty five. Same thing as younger junior
say Ow wore. That been legendary defensive players that have
won that, But they give that out for star defensive players.
It's a legacy number. I believe Georgia does the same
thing with herschel Walker. They didn't retire his number thirty four.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
They give it.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Out for rare and appropriate occasions. And that's the way
it should be. And I'd do the same thing in
the NFL. I'd unretire every number in the NFL. I
don't think it's that outrageous. You just don't give out
those numbers. But if there's a great quarterback that comes
to the forty nine ers and watch to wear Joe
Montana's old number, I'm okay. If somebody wants to wear
number twelve and they happen to be a great quarterback,
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a young quarterback for the Patriots and they want to
wear that number, and you're okay, shirt, fine, why not?
Who says no, that's my position and I'm not changing it.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Here we go, It's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
To the third name, No more players from the nice
one hundred gets great be drafted below.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
So, despite recent trade rumors in the NFL, draft is
coming gone and Tyreek Kill is still a member of
the Dolphins. It's now being reported that the Dolphins are
likely to stick with Hill. Ben, do you think Tyreek
plays in Miami all season long?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Well, this is a big mile, so you get through
the NFL Draft and it's less likely you're going to
be traded.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
The chatter is he still wants more money. They just
gave him more money in Miami, so they're not going
to give him another contract. I'd say if we get
by mid June, it's less likely Now. I would say
I would bet on him staying with the Dolphins now,
but expect the rumors to pop over again next.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Sam Laporta quickly turned into a start tight end under
then Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson. Now as the head
coach of the Bears. Johnson has drafted Titan Colston Loveland
with the tenth overall pick and said that he thinks
leveland can do the same things for Chicago that Laporta
did for Detroit. Ben, do you think Loveland becomes an
immediate star like Laporta?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
No, Laporte has been great. I mean, how often does
that happen. Loveland's got the size and all that. You
look at the measurable, but let's be realistic. It's a
different situation, and the Bears play outside and they have
a quarterback who's not exactly the toughest.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
In the world.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Good luck next, But I'm not asking for a big
board with a bunch of letter grade journeys.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
I'm not giving you a big board. Good no big board.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
But do you think there's a team or two that
you consider won the draft?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Well, the ones that stood out, and I'm always skeptical,
but I'll dual Carter for the Giants.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I think he's going to be great with the New
York Giants.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
And I thought the Patriots fixed some issues with the
offensive line, and so those are a couple that stand out.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
How did we do? Kooble loop? You pass this? That
is a win? Putting on the board? What Chicken Dinner?
Speaker 2 (33:43):
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Speaker 1 (33:55):
Are Here we go, Here we go, Here we go,
Here we go, Here we go, we go, Here we go,
Here we go, Here.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
We go, Here we go.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Hell, do you have what it takes to get to
the top?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Probably not, probably not, probably not.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
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(34:30):
let's see who do we have it?
Speaker 3 (34:31):
We have any meany miny Moe.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
We've got Jordan in Cannesau City.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Hello, Jordan, Hey, happy first day then I'm doing Hey,
thank you, Jordan. I appreciate that. How's everything in Casey
this morning? Oh boy?
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Just done? Watson draft over there? Yeah, fingers at the lane.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Yeah, I had a big party over there. I heard
is a big event radio station event.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
All right, Jordan, you're gonna play who do you want
to partner up with?
Speaker 3 (35:05):
You got me, Ben, you got Cooper? If you really
want fun, pick Loreina, you know what.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Let's let's make this.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
All right, all right, let's do it. You're gonna lose.
John is in La La, land in La. What's going on? John?
How's everything?
Speaker 4 (35:23):
John?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
What do you got going on? You're working there? What
are you doing what kind of.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Work we operate?
Speaker 4 (35:29):
I'm making vitamins tonight.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Look at that the guys making drugs right there.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
He's a drug maker.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
All right? Uh well, John, who do you want to
partner up with? You got me? Or if you really
want a good time, Lorena, I'll take Ben Malley?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
All right?
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Look at that?
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Sorry Loraina, dude, you were gonna Pickreina.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
You got one of the cool girls, now I am.
That didn't sound good. But anyway, all right, what are
the categories here? Coop a little please quickly?
Speaker 4 (35:59):
All right, gentlemen, this is mallardsmount of Money to the
Willie Nelson edition.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
He heard of him. He shares a birthday with Ben.
Happy birthday, Willie.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
But he turns ninety two years old today. I'm not
quite there, no, not quite all right. So the categories
are night life, funny, how the Time slips Away, Poncho
and lefty, and across the borderline.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
John was Oh no, Jordan, Jordan, if you were on first,
which category would you like?
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Well? The time?
Speaker 3 (36:31):
All right? And John, how about you.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Let's take border class life, across.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
The borderline, across the boarder, across the borderline. Absolutely all right,
very good gentlemen, hold on, do not hang off, Do
not hang up, and you guys will both be on here.
We're gonna have it coming up momentarily in its entirety,
the Mallards Mountain of Money.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Willie Nelson edition. We'll get to that and we will
do it next.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
All right, go back to it, here we go. It
is Malar's amount of money.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
We have Jordan in Cannes City and he's teamed up
with the Cooper Loop and John who's making in quotes
vitamins quotes quote.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
He's in La and that's the matchup. Teamed up with me,
Ben and Cooper. You're up first. It's the Willie Nelson addition.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
All right, Jordan, we have funny how the time slips away.
We need the first and last name of the athlete
in order to get points.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (37:36):
All right?
Speaker 4 (37:37):
These active athletes have all played fifteen plus seasons forty
five seconds on the clock. Let's begin, all right. He
is the current quarterback for the Rams that exth Yes,
his nickname is the Slim Reaper in the Yes, this
guy wears number thirteen. He's always hurt all the time.
(37:59):
He's most recent on the seventy six ers. He was
on the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
He had Yeah, what's it?
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Yes, this guy is one of the best regular season
pitchers of all time for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
He's not so great in the postseason. He's not creating
more at all. He's always hurt. Yes. Uh.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
This guy is a center for the Celtics right now.
His nickname is like average oh.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Not, a very slow, methodical coop. I don't know that's
gonna win the game. How many points do is that? Loraina?
Speaker 1 (38:36):
One hundred? Okay, that is the score to beat John.
We got this, We got this. Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Wait? I say, I think he's wait a minute, is
it honey, honey? Okay? Were you questioning the scoring coop?
Speaker 4 (38:48):
Math?
Speaker 5 (38:48):
Right? No?
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Yeah, okay, yeah, you're math. He's right. Okay, you picked?
Are you there?
Speaker 4 (38:54):
John?
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Hold on same seat, John's not there. You're trying to
screw me over.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Hold on a sec. Joh you there?
Speaker 4 (39:01):
John?
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Ah, there's John? All right, very good? Hey, what's up?
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Man? All right?
Speaker 1 (39:07):
So these athletes all have Mexican heritage, Okay, across the
borderline is the category you picked. We'll put forty five seconds.
We need the first and the last name.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Are you ready? John?
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Get there?
Speaker 3 (39:18):
All right? Here we go, all start the clock.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
A quarterback for the Carolina Panthers, went to Alabama. He's
from southern California right now, okay, Star for the Phoenix,
Star for the Phoenix Suns. He's been there for almost
ten years. A bunch of different coaches. Last name is
like something you'd read, all right, First Mexican heritage.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Coach to win the Super Bowl with the Raiders back
in the day. Florida, Florida, that is correct.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Quarterback for the forty nine ers in the nineties and
the early two thousands, and every feminine voice.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Offensive tackle for the Bengals in the eighties for Boomerassias
and one of the great offensive I'm into Balta all.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Right, Dodger pitcher in two thousand and they won the
World Series. Yeah, baby, Yeah, that's my man. Good job
by you almost choking.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
I didn't charge. That was great, dude, he got the
one hundred pointer. That guy's like out of baseball. Now,
well that was actually this.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Hard.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Bryce Young and Devin Booker. Yeah, you did not get
Bryce Young. Yeah, that's all right in Devin Booker, but
you got Tom Flores.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
And wait, so how many did he get? What we got?
Speaker 4 (40:30):
One?
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Nineties one?
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Nah, man, we are dominated go ahead, go ahead, all right?
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Jordanskay, do you want Jeordan? You should picked me. Do
you want nightlife or Poncho and Lefty nightlife? Alright? Uh?
Speaker 4 (40:44):
These athletes are known to be partiers. Forty five seconds
on the clock. Let's begin tight end for the Chiefs
dating Taylor Swift. Yes, his nickname was the worm in
the NBA, had colorful hair on the What his nickname
was the worm in the NBA? He had colorful hair?
Speaker 3 (41:03):
He was on the Bull.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Yes, this guy just broke Wayne Gretzky's all time goal record.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (41:11):
Uh, this guy was a player for the Nuggets and
the Knicks. He was he's friends with Lebron. Yes, this
guy's nickname was Money. He was drafted by the Browns.
He was on Texas A and M. Yes, this guy
was a tight end for the Saints. He had long
blonde hair, tattoos, Oliver his arms back in the day, Rockey, Yes, yes,
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after the buzzer.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Ye, what's the score? Lorrain? How many.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
We do.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
We need to win here, well.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
We got sixty, so we need seventy, so we need seventy.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
All right, we'll do. We'll give it a shot. Are
you there? Hold on, let me mister Johnson, hold on, sick,
came on, hold with John up?
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Hello, Yeah, we need seventy points to tie. We need
eighty points to win. You got this right? You got this,
my man? All right, here we go. These athletes, these
are some of the best left handed athletes of all time.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Okay, best left handed athletes, you understand, John? Yeah, got
all right? I need first and the last name. Here
we go. We're on our way.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Go joke.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
He is the star of the Lakers. Played for Cleveland
for a long time in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
Wow, all right.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
Quarterback for the Atlanta Falcon Star back in the back
in the early two thousands out of Virginia Tech.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Michael Vick.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Yes, greatest left handed pitcher of all time. Pitch for
the Dodgers. Jewish guy in the sixties.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
That's that's yeah, that's right. Lebron Jams and we won.
Great left handed quarterback for the Niners. Let's run up
to score Niners after Joe Montana in the two thousands,
left handed for BYU greatest.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
How about this? Yeah, there you go and center for
the celt All right, that's all right.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
We want we won the guy we would John, do
you know what that means?
Speaker 4 (43:08):
You get it?
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Go? Ben's first win in like two months. I've got
the all time wins record. I'm the cy young of this.
I've got the all time wins record. Congratulations, John, you
won the game.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Good.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Don't mess up those vitamins, John, don't mess those up?
All right, buddy, Thank you man, thank you for that listening.
I'd be safe. And uh, yeah, Jordan, you know I
tried to. I gave you the option, Jordan, I gave
you the chance, buddy, didn't work.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Is he gone? I think he's gone? There you go,
all right, that's that's it. There. It is another edition
of Malors Mountain of Money and uh on my birthday.
I've never lost him at birth.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
I don't know that's true. It's all time documented. It's
an all time record.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
Oh my goshop, did you let him win? No, he
did not let me win it all that was a dominat.
That's a lot. That's why.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
That's why you walked away that's why he walked away,
all upset and birth You saw what he did. He
stood up, he walked away in disgust. He was so
upset with the game. I was just putting the piece
of paper on the recycling. That's not what was going on.
We know that, we know the truth. We know what
was going on there. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (44:19):
I talked.
Speaker 4 (44:20):
I talked to Jordan before we played the game, and
I said, you know, I'd take a little bit of
extra time. That's answering. It's Ben's birthday. He needs reassurance
and confidence.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
No, I don't need any reassurance. I don't need any Alphie,
Oh my.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
Gosh, you gave him the answer. You know you didn't
give me. No, he did not.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Alpha says the year I was born, the average income
was twelve six eighty six dollars. So I am doing
very well compared to that. I'm doing I'm like rich
comparedit to that. Right, I'm a domination situation. Of course,
gas was all a gas guess was like fifty nine
cents a gallon.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
My god, holy crap.
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