June 19, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Lakers being sold for $10 billion from the Buss Family to Mark Walter of the Guggenheim Group, why Jeanie Buss will still be the "face" of Lakers ownership, why the Lakers sold for $4b more than the Celtics, and much more!
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Welcome, it's our number on, our number one of the
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begin with the big news the Lakers sold for ten billion.
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Will depending sale of the once proud Lakers from the
Bus family to Mark Walter and the Guggenheim Group be
a dramatic change? Also, can you explain why Genie Buss
will continue to serve in her role as the face
of the Lakers ownership after the sale? And why did
the Lakers sell for ten billion when the Celtics only
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sold for six billion just a few months ago. We'll
talk about all of those stories and more right now,
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If you will, big news out big news if you
love financial transactions on some spreadsheets somewhere, Man was at
a good day for you. God was at an exciting
day for you. So if you have not heard yet,
and perhaps not, we learned that the Bus family has
decided to say bye bye to the Lakers. What kind
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of They will no longer control the majority ownership of
the once proud, now floundering franchise that is the Lakers.
As Mark Walter, the gazillionaire from Chicago who is the
face of the gougenheind group that owns the Dodgers. He's
buying he had a chance to buy. He owned part
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of the Lakers anyway. It's not like he's coming out
of left field. Mark Walter owned a percon send to
the Lakers, had the option of buying the rest of
the team. I'd heard it several years back that this
was likely going to happen, and it has happened. So
Mark Walter is gonna pay ten billion, ten billion, and
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it'll be the largest sale when they cross all the
t's and Dothy Isaik which who we kid it's all
on docu sign, But when they do the docu sign,
it'll be the largest sale price for a US professional
sports franchise of all time. The Bus family will keep
a little bitty share, just a little bitty share of
the team, just over fifteen percent. And Genie Buss we
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are told we'll continue as the face of the ownership group.
They can't get rid of her. She's like a cockroach.
She won't be Walter the face of the Dodgers ownership.
As we said there, and people just thinking he'll just
spend endless amounts of money and it'll just be amazing
and all that. So let us discuss the question the
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pending sale. Will the pending sale of the Lakers from
the Bus family to the Mark Walter Guggenheim Group be
a dramatic change, because all I've heard is, ah, my God,
happy days are here again. Happy days are here again.
Mark Walter is the owner. So is it really gonna change.
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It's gonna be dramatic. So my thoughts to this, I've
got Goose fanatic and farmers Market, and we will combine
all of these things together and we're gonna put the
biscuit in the basket. We'll take the biscuit and we'll
put the biscuit in the basket, just like that. So,
to answer the question, will this pending sale lead to
a dramatic change now that somebody actually has money, the
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Googenheim Group will own the Lakers are supposed to gene Bus,
The answer is no, it's not going to be a
dramatic change. In fact, I would say nothing changes. Not
a zipp o bupkus is going to change. And here's why. Right,
the Lakers are just to continue strutting through the NBA
like they own the joint because that's how they've always operated.
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And there are different rules in the NBA that Baseball
doesn't have in terms of how much money you can
pay deferred money, and deferred money you can't push it
back to lower your salary cap number to get under
these aprons and all that bull crap. So it's not
like the stuff the Dodgers have been able to get
away with. The NBA has got clauses in there that
you can't do that in the NBA. So all the
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tricks that the Dodgers have used doesn't work.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I don't know who the top NBA player in Japan is,
but whoever that is, I expect you to end up
on the on the Lakers, like immediately, like later on today,
he'll end up on the Lakers. Consider how much money
they've milked off Otani from Japan. So the Lakers are
at this point they continue to be the golden goose
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the NBA. We are convinced rigged the Luka Donzik trade
to send him to the Lakers. Let's make sure what
TV ratings are down. The Lakers don't have a star,
no one, you know, Lebron's washed up, no let's make
sure we hook him up. So they did, and so how.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Is that gonna change?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
So they have a new owner and Genie Boss is
kind of kind of step aside. More on that in
a second, but it's just gonna be more of the
same special treatment. The Lakers have always gotten special treatment.
And all that's different is Mark Walter is the one
that's riding the check and the googenheind group and then
that's it. The NBA has always bent over backwards my
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entire life for that pathetic purple and gold crap. It's
been that way for decades and we're talking about multiple
generations where it's been that way. And so you think
Adam Silver is going to allow under his watch them
to slide into irrelevance. Of course, they just went out
and gave the Lakers Luca. Even though he's fat, they
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gave him Luca. They still hooked him up. Come on,
So anyway, and the other thing two is the referees
will continue to help the Lakers out. You know, those
fifty to fifty calls will go the direction they will
go the direction of the Lakers, and the free agent
market will still tilt to the Lakers and all that
and the players nobody's signing with the Lakers because in
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the Arder, if that was the case, no one would
have played for the Lakers. And Genie Bus didn't know
what she was doing. And and the Lakers continue to
get players. Do you think Lebron James when he went
to the Lakers left Cleveland, you think Lebron said, I
really want to play for one of Jerry Buss's kids.
That's what I that's the owner I want to play for. No, right,
not at all, Lebron James. He came there because he
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wanted to make business deals with movie people and things.
And he did. He's gotten all that. He made some
cheeseball movies. His production company took off. You know, he
has a stupid barber shop show like all that stuff.
But it wasn't because of the Genie Buss. It was
because of la Right. So that's that's the way. Is
not that it matters, by the way, right again, it
doesn't matter. I mean the players that flocked to the
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to the Lakers like I'm off to a flame and
Mark wall Alter will spend money. There's a real salary cap.
Although I'm a salarycap. Truth when it comes to the
NFL and if they're just willing to listen. The teams
are if you have enough money, you can pay and
who cares, It doesn't really matter that much, and you
just pay all the money and then the other teams
can plain and say it's not fair, and then you
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can't make certain trades and all that stuff. Now, the
other part of this, can you explain why Genie Buss
is selling the team but is demanding apparently to continue
on in her role as the face of the Laker
ownership group after the cell Now, the NBA went woke
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years ago and they claim they don't have owners. They're
so woke that they have governors, not owners. Every other
sport has owners. NBA has got governors, which is lame.
So we know realities will own a team and they're
not governors. They're not voted in anyway. So the point
of this with genieus it's rather obvious that this woman
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is addicted to the spotlight. Right can we all agree
on that that those court side seats and all the
celebrities coming up and shaking her hand there the red
carpet at the Hollywood premieres that she gets invited to.
She loves it. She want to give that up. You
don't get that if you're not the Laker's owner anymore,
you don't you fade off into the sunset in irrelevance.
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You're just another rich person surrounded by other rich people.
And so she can still play the part as the
faux Laker royalty owner and all that. So she gets
a but Geeni Buss, think about what she's about to become.
So the team's being sold to Mark Walter, She's going
to continue going to the league meetings and all that stuff.
She's about to become the Philly fanatic. She's going to
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be the mascot of the Lakers. She's like the San
Diego Chicken bar. Check out the Laker mascot wearing a
pantsuit going to league meetings, you know, waving to the
fans high fans. Yeah, but Mark Walter is the one
who will be deciding where the money goes and all
that stuff. And it's a symbolic nod. They claim to
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the Bus family legacy and all that, But no titles
with Genie Buss's owner. Nobody who knows ball will say
that she wonted that Mickey Mouse bubble doesn't count in
a resort in Orlando back in twenty twenty. And my
favorite Genie Bus story is when the Phil Jackson thing
is like next level, But also the Bus family revolt
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was that like twenty seventeen. I want to say, Remember
there was a revolt. The brothers the other kids got
into a Jim and Johnny and they were all fighting.
There was like a coup to get control of the Lakers.
It was like some kind of mob movie or something
like that. And then they worked it out. They massaged that,
they got through that. She fired I think she fired
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the brother I don't know how you do that because
he owned part of the team. Also got rid of him,
can Mitch Cupjack he was out, brought in Magic Johnson
that was a hot mess, and got rid of him.
Then now they have this guy skinny jeans, Rob Polenka,
who without NBA intervention would have already lost his job,
but the league helped him out and got him some players.
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Otherwise he didn't know what he's doing. And there you go.
So another case old family money, right, the Bus family.
Jerry Buss bought the Lakers in nineteen seventy nine for
less than I think it was. Was it like seventy
million or something like that nineteen seven nine, which a
lot of money nineteen seventy nine, but still real estate
guy Jerry Buss, tremendous philanderer, unbelievable with the ladies, Jerry Buss,
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and so less than seventy million. And now the team's
going to be sold for ten billion. I wonder what
the capitol gains tax on that is? That must be insane,
right you ten billion? Wondered what the capital gains to anyway? Regardless,
So Genie Buss again will be the new Laker mascot. Congratulations,
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call him the buses and have her face on the uniforms.
They're a purely ceremonial role for sure. Now the last
word here the question of why the Lakers sold for
ten billion, and multiple people sending me messages I don't
understand why the Lakers are worth ten billion and the
Boston Celtics sold just a few months ago for six
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point one billion. So why why did the Lakers go
for essentially four billion dollars more than the Boston Celtics,
And so the whole valuation I Forbes every year in
front off of sports and sport it co all these
business sites in sports. Many of them have their evaluations
they come out with every year about teams are worth X,
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Y and Z, and it's it's obviously things are just soorry.
I mean, because there's a lot of rich people who
are a little skittish because they don't know the stock market.
You know, you end up dropping bombs somewhere and the
prices go down or there's oil problems here and things
get all messed up, and so they don't they're a
gun shy the on the stock mart. So they're, oh,
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I can buy a team, and if I buy a team,
I not only make money, but all the other people
want to kiss my ass at the cocktail parties in
the Hamptons or Beverly Hills or South Beach Man. That's
the lot. So they're willing to spend ridiculous amounts of money.
And so it's like a farmer's market, right. It's farmers
market here. And the Lakers operate in the second largest
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media market in the United States with over thirteen million,
the Greater LA Area, the La bas In southern California.
La bas It's much bigger than that metro area. And
then you got Boston, right in Boston, major market, smaller
metro population, like the metro populations like five million or
something like that, so it's like an eight million dollar difference.
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And despite the Celtics being much more successful than the Lakers,
there's less of a market, so it's just a business deal.
And the other thing, the biggest thing here is the arena.
The Celtics do not own own the garden that they
play in, and it's a weird set up the Lakers
because the Anshootz group owns where what I used to
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call Staples Center now it's like the Crypt, I think
is what they call it now. They play at the Crypt,
which is appropriate because the franchise is dead. So the
Crypt is owned by the anshoots group, but it's like
they own They actually own part of the Lakers also,
so it's like all tied together and all that. And
so the Celtics do not own the arena, which is
one of the reasons. The chatter is the Celtics will
eventually leave likely downtown Boston where they play, and go
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out to the suburbs somewhere and build a nice, big,
shiny arena and that'll be that The Bruins, the guy
that owns the Bruins actually owns the arena there for
the Celtics in Boston. Anyway, it is the Bane Mather Show.
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to it we go, and ferk Dog, what a perfect
way to start. As we were back into it, firk
Dog says, welcome back, Ben. The one good thing about
Genies selling the Lakers is Mark Walter won't let the
cronies at Clutch Sports can roll the team anymore. The
sooner Lebron James is run out of town, the better.
Late night drug tester from Parts Unknown says, welcome back, man.
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I hope you're a couple of days off.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Well.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I know if I was invited to the Bezos Sanchez
wedding in Venice, Italy next week, I would need time
to pick out the proper outfit. Are they getting married
next week? Thought they already got married? They didn't get maried,
and Tony writes in he says, uh, let's see here, Paige, Dad,
he says, uh, the Laker fans are in the fetal position.
He says, because the Laker franchise is in trouble. That's
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according to Tom. I agree they are in tro They're not.
They're not going anywhere fast. I don't don't have to
worry until they start sucking their thumbs. Brian Brian writes
and says Lakers dominance and dynasty will be back. We
lest Brian admitting the Lakers suck right now. That's his
way of admitting it. He says, Sir Walter. Yeah. The
other problem is, though, like if you're Mark Walter, you
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start earning or start owning more teams. What has happened
is these rich guys get the portfolio and they owned
a bunch of teams, and then weird crap happens. Like
John Henry was thought of as one of the great
owners in sports with the Red Sox. They won a
bunch of World Series. Everyone loved John Henry. But John
Hemery then bought a soccer team, and he bought a
hockey team, and he's got cable networks and all these
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other things, and suddenly he didn't give a crap about
the Red Sox anymore. And I'll give you a great example.
This last week, the Red Sox unloaded rafae Old Devers,
gave him away for a bag of peanuts, half eaten,
half eaten bag of peanuts, sent him to the Giants,
and there were some issues, but they got nothing in
return of value. And at the same time, the soccer
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team John Henry runs spent like one hundred and fifty
million dollars in transfer fees to add a player. So
it's like you lose one player on the Red Sox,
but your portfolio you add another player, So it's it
crosses each other out is what it does? What else
we have? Ryan rights in from San Diego, He says,
purple and gold crap. How do you really feel about
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the Lakers? What did I say that was incorrect? Ryan?
I don't say anthing incorrect, spocks Weed writes and says,
I love record bys for major league teams. What a country.
The fact that spreadsheets are involved are the icing on
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So we mentioned the Lakers being sold, although it's not
done yet. It was announced and they still have to
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go through a bunch of lawyers vetting everything to make
sure it all works. So I bring this up because
Genie Boss we mentioned this in the monologue, but she
plans to stick around. She's not leaving. She's not. Many
wish she would leave, but she's not. She loves being
the Lakers owner and and everyone kiss her ass and
say how great she is and get invited all the
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parties in Hollywood and all that stuff. So she plans
to stay as the team's owner for a couple of years,
even though she is no longer the majority person. Typically
the way it works, they have these league meetings, they
get together, they eat cocktails or they drink cocktails, eat,
you know, the whole thing. They have big meals and
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fine restaurants and all that, and they run up the
expense account. But the people that are there are the
majority owners. The person is the majority of own are
not some bit owner. But it's becoming now normal in
the NBA. These people are such ego maniacs that own
these NBA teams. They don't want to leave. They sell
the team, but they don't want to leave. For example,
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Geenie Buss is the latest. Mark Cuban, Remember he sold
He sold the Maverick franchise to the Gambling family in
twenty twenty three. How'd that go? Well? The Gambling family
then gave away Luca, although we think that was league mandated,
but nonetheless, if Mark Cuban had kept control of the team,
that would not have happened. Conceivably he would not allowed
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that to happen anyway. So the Mavericks's sold in twenty
twenty three is twenty twenty five, and Cuban has continued
ass continued. You know, he initially said he was going
to make the decisions. He was still going to make
the decision. That's not true, that's not the case. But
he's still going to the league meetings representing the Mavericks
like he's the majority owner. And Wick Grossbeck, who is
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selling the Celtics to this group by led by Bill Chisholm,
whoever that is. He says, I'm going to hang around.
I'm not leaving either, and I'm gonna be there at
least through twenty twenty eight. Now keep in mind all
of this going on while Adam Silver, the lizard Person
Commissioner of the NBA. Adam Silver has been saying since
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last year that he does not does not like these
people to hang around, right, he does not want them
to hang around, but he doesn't have the balls to
tell them to go pound saying and go away like
once you're not the majority owner. This is what he said.
This is last April, over a year ago. Mark Cuban
came out and said, no, I'm not Mark Cuban. Adams.
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Olber said, off Mark Cuban and Wick Grossbeck and these
other owners. He said, no, once you sell the team,
you don't stick around. You're not there. And yet they
continue to allow that to happen, transaction after transaction after transaction.
So we'll see how this plays out, if there's any
kind of snaffoo there, if there's any kind of funny
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business that goes on. And it's like the remember years
ago in radio and I got in a radio there
was regulation. Bill Clinton killed radio in that period anyway,
because he deregulated radio. So companies ended up buying tons
of radio station. There was like a limit on amy station.
You know, there's some sports have a limit on how
many sports teams you can own. I'll have you owned
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a certain team in a certain league. You can't own
a lead a team in this league and all that.
So we'll see how this all plays out. But for now,
the Lakers being sold to the Mark Walter Group and
go to the faults, and we'll say hello to a
man who told me send me an email, said I'm
not calling you all week. It's not going to happen,
blind Scott shockingly? Is there? Hello, blind Scott?
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Hey? What's I mean?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
This?
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Lakers Stort's all right? If we can like make jokes
about the Lakers franchise, Like, if we can't make fun
of the Lakers franchise right now, what's the point?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Now? Make fun of them? Go ahead, I'm made fun
of you.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Yeah, you find out Geni Bus doesn't really own the team.
I've been around these wealthy circles before they've cut me
off like I've had him in my family. You find
out that, like there's sick symbol and one of them
just has no money because they invested in something that's
just completely awful, you know what I mean? So now
they sell the team. Who knows why? Maybe under durest.
But nobody's getting along. But then Jeanie still needs to
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be faced of the franchise. Nobody cares that she wants
to do that. People think that's like a clown show.
You know, you want to have someone cool up there,
like Ariana Grande. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Ben Maller, Yes I should. I would be a great owner.
I considered it, but it didn't it didn't fit my portfolio. Scott,
I have other things I want to invest in.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Yeah, like a basketball person there, Like, I mean, we
have this going on in Boston right now. Pe boy,
Josh Kraft, he ran the Boys and Girls if he
wants to be the mayor of Boston. Now, I mean,
I'm not saying that. I don't want to get into
political here. That was last night's show when we talked
about the w NBA.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Oh really, I go away. They took w NBA. Really.
Oh man, no wonder, no one's listening to Night Shocking.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
All right, Yes, it went WNBA went political. So here's
a new thing that happened. The lines. The lines have
all been down, so all the callers went to the
Toucher and Hardy show.
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currently in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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This is the third prison. This is the third prison
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We have the I have a collection of them home.
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folder with prison prison letters. I don't know where they
put them. Do they smell like prison, ben? What does
prison smell like? What would that be? Maybe a little musty,
a little musty? No, it's regular. I don't know if
they lick like the metal bars. No. Now this was
sent at the end of May, and here we are
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And his name is Dan. Dan the man will call him,
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think he said unarmed robbery, I think is what he said. Anyway,
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He says, we talked about Caleb Williams, which you do
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that's that's a bummer. That's a bummer. And he says,
not even sure if you're going to get this where
we got it, Dan, We got it, And it's continued
on the backside here and this part I can't read
very well, although there is an email address here, so
I think I could probably write back to this guy,
and maybe I will. Maybe I will write back to him.
(27:58):
I don't know do you have email in prison now?
I think they have libraries that have computers yet, really, Okay,
we had a guy years ago from jail in Montana
that had cell phone because he couldn't sleep. He had
some illness where he couldn't sleep. That was a guy
who said, King Eddie that drop and then he once
he got out of jail, that was it. He was done.
(28:19):
And he says, please promise to think about doing a
Malord meet and greet in Chicago or anywhere in Illinois
after I get out in January of twenty twenty eight.
I'm well, I do have a cousin. I have a
couple of cousins in Chicago. I have one that lives
out in the and the burbs there. So I love Chicago.
My brother's up in Wisconsin. So you know, why not
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I told you we should do a jail tour, Ben, Yeah, well,
give a big sponsor, Lorena. We'll go on the jail tour.
We will travel to every jail in the land and
be like that old Johnny Cash, you know, prison blues
and all that. We'll just go around there and it'll
be amazing. So I do like this letter, Dan more
than the last one. There was a guy that sent
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I don't I have a stack of them and I
don't know which one it is, and so I don't
have time to go through them all. But there was
a guy that wrote from prison and the first line
was saying that I'm an idiot for doing intermittent fasting.
That was like the first thing the guy said. I
popped the envelope open. The guy's like, what are you doing?
You shouldn't be doing that?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
And I'm like, really, you know you're say I mean,
that's the first line, and that's the first thing you
say in the in the correspondence is you shouldn't be
doing that?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Like, what do you a health expert? I mean, come on, anyway, now,
speaking of wild stories, and this is gonna trigger some
of you you know who you are. So there is
a story bouncing around just how much Travis Kelcey got
paid to endorse Pfizer. That's very controversial endorsement. People very
(29:55):
upset with Kelsey, like what are you doing? And all
this there's like controversy. And now Kelsey, who still kind
of hanging out in Kansas City rights looked like he's
washed up in the Super Bowl. He's gonna come back
in place, says he wants to play another year after
this and why not. Well, now there's a story bouncing
around that says Travis Kelcey made more for endorsing Pfeiser,
(30:17):
the drug company, than he did his salary in the NFL.
And in this next contract. He started his partnership during
the COVID stuff, trying to get people to take the vaccine,
which it turns out didn't work the vaccine anyway, that's
a different conversation. But Kelsey his salary in twenty twenty five,
he is set to make seventeen point one million from
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the Chiefs, but the Peiser deal he's got is said
to be worth over twenty million dollars according to reports.
So wow, that's pretty pretty much. Remember Aaron Rodgers, not
a fan of the drug companies. Rogers then issued a
(31:02):
nickname I believe he called the Kelsey Mister Pfiser was
his nickname there, but twenty million. As I learned years ago,
there was a book. They made a movie it was
not very good, called The Magic Christian. But the book
was about a rich guy that was just bored and
figured that people would do pretty much anything. Everyone has
a price, and so that was the premise of the book.
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And here's an example. Travis Kelcey. It's like a beer
drinking dude from Cleveland. Now he is like taking twenty
million dollars a year from Pfizer, and he's got the
seventeen million he's with Taylor Swift. He's loaded, absolutely loaded.
But the base of that, the base of that at
the beginning, he would not have done that unless you
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know twenty million. You change a lot of views for
twenty million dollars. So we will, we'll see how that
plays out. But he's not hurting, no wonder. He's living
the life of Riley. And I'm going to guess that
he's not using any of that Taylor Swift money. I
don't think that's uh he's not getting his hands on that,
not yet anyway. And if they do get married, they'll
be one hell of a prenup. One ginormous prenup will
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be taking place, all right. Yes, a timeout for the
who am I?
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Game?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else. While
I was away from the watchtower, we did have a
Stanley Cup champion, which is the same Stanley Cup champion
we had the previous year. The reigning champs are now
the back to back champs from the Sunshine State. For
these seven people that enjoyed that, well, the Florida Panthers
Brad Marshant, who lit it up in the Stanley Cup final,
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did not win the MVP of that, but Brad Marshant
became the eighth player in the major North American sports
So NHL, NBA, NFL, major League Baseball to go fourteen
or more years between titles. Now, someone named Babe Adams
did that in baseball with the Cardon and the Pirates
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and me from hockey, we share the record with a
sixteen year gap between championships. Again, the Florida Panthers, Brad Marshant,
the eighth player in the NHL, NBA, NFL or Major
League Baseball go fourteen or more years between titles. Babe Adams,
a baseball player for the Cardinals and Pirates millions of
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years ago, and me from hockey share the record with
a sixteen year gap between championships. Who am I? That
is the question. The answer. We'll get to it and
we will.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Do it.
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Next.
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Speaker 1 (34:24):
Back to it, Thank God for the Internet.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Back to it we go. Time now for the who
am I? Game? This is where we pretend to be
somebody else, as we call it the who am I? Game?
So this week the Florida Panthers Brad Marshaant, longtime Bruin
captain Brad Marshan, became the eighth player in NHL, NBA, NFL,
or Major League Baseball history to go fourteen or more
years between titles. Now, somebody named Babe Adams who played
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for the Cardinals and the Pirates and baseball years ago,
and me from hockey share the record with a sixteen
year gapity gap between championships. So who am I? That
is the question. What is the answer? Let's se does
anyone know the answer? Spock's weed checking in from the
(35:11):
Oregon Trail, says the kool Aid Man. Oh yeah, that
that's the answer. O g art Puffin says cal Cutterbuck
one of the all time great names in the NHL.
Who else do we have? Page down? Alf the Alien
of Piner, says says Sheen Little feather Who that's that's
the name. There you go. What else do we have?
(35:34):
Page down? Supermarket Steve from malaprop Ge. That's about right.
That's imagine, I imagine that's what he looks like I
haven't met him, That's what he looks like. The rat
king from ferg Dog. Who else do we have? Mister
nice Guy's going with Sterling Hitchcock as his answer, you
ain't as Cesspidis. Watch out for those holes, those those
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those holes out of the field. You might step in one,
as the former met from sco Rouge. Who else do
we have? Zoe sloughed Dana, who's forty seven to I
don't know who that is Zoey Saldonia. I don't know
who that is, but good for Milkman, Mike says. Lone
Wolf McQuaid is the answer. Mark from Queen's going with
Reggie Dunlap. Dunlap there from the movie slap Shot. Joe
(36:21):
Boo from Yaphimi and Chicago. Who else do you have?
Paige Dan? I can't read that. Terry in England says
Skinny Jeans. Rob Polinka is the answer. Gumby Dave's going
with King Eddie. Who else Paige Dan? Chris Chelly hos
guests by our friend Enzo who was at the Malla
(36:41):
meet and greet there in Vancouver. A loyal minion to
the show. Stan Mkdah from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Who
else do we have a Reek in Minnesota's says Brett
Hall of the Saint Louis Blues Donkey Kong guessed by
Slim Tim. Do do you have an answer the ring?
Speaker 5 (36:58):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
So I got so many long time players, I'm going
to go with Chris Chellios.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Ben, you are interesting, interesting answer? And who gave you answer?
Was it some of them? Yeah? My longtime not hockey knowledge, Ben?
Is that right? Well? That is correct? Chris Cellios is
the all right ruining the game. I'm glad, I'm back.
All right, wonderful. Let's go to Zach and see what's
going on? Is that Chris Jelly's went sixteen years in
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the NHL. A bunch of hockey guys are on that list. Hello, Zach,
what's going on? Well?
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Always good to jump on here. Uh long time listener
all four or five times out delivering food as a
side also for my daughters. Welcome back on the airwaves.
But I wanted to call because it's uh man watching
these NBA finals being a play of Seattle Light and
that's you know, that's basically my team, right, it is
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my team, but I can't root for them. But what's
wild to me is that both teams are there because
of the assets they got from trading away Paul George.
It's it's just it's so funny, it's and wild.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
You know, like, well, there's also some injuries helped the
Pacers out and the Thunder. They just traded for a
zillion draft picks. And then the funny thing about that
is the player that they got who they didn't draft,
that's a Clipper draft pick, SGA, and that's the guy
that is responsible for them being in this position. So
(38:23):
it's it's not they traded all for all these draft picks,
and yet it's the guy they got who wasn't drafted
by them that's going to be the hero for them, Right.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
But didn't they get some draft picks for Chat and
a couple of other guys through that.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Well, No, the MVP of the NBA and the guy's
gonna be the finals MVP is shape Julius Alexander and
he yeah, that was the guy that was on the Clippers,
so they didn't draft him. They drafted all these other guys.
And that's fine. But a home Gren he's been hot
and cold and been mostly cold in the finals.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Okay, And the other piece is real quick, with NBA
likely expanding to Seattle in Vegas. It's interesting to me
the timing of the Celtics and Lakers, because six billion,
ten billion, the expansion fee is just going to continue
to go up up, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Well, yeah, you are you? Are you working now? Are
you delivering food? So you have enough money to buy
that NBA team? Is that why you're out there, Zach?
You're putting a fund together, a hedge fund to buy.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
I used to work, but I used to work for
the Kraken, and I know what they paid for their
their expansion. But it's just the timing of it is
pretty pretty fun to me.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Well, no, it's it's it's actually smart, right because all
these teams sell, and because if whatever the expansion fee
is is going to be based on obviously it's simple business,
maybe based on everything else. So they had to take
care of this. And you got to think behind the
scenes that Genie buss And was communicating, I got to
get out, I don't know what I'm doing here. I'm
a terrible loan I gotta sell the Lakers, and and
she let Adam Silver know and so they waited until
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this was done. I don't know how many other teams
are going to be sold. They got to get all
this squared away before they end up putting an expansion
or two expansion teams out there. But be careful, Zach.
Don't trust these people. And they've been saying for how
many years have they been saying, Oh, Seattle and Vegas
are going to get expansion teams. They've been saying it
and saying it and saying it, and nothing has happened yet.
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So you know, somebody else could come in from the
outside and be like, hey, well I want to buy
a team. I'll spend I'll spend twelve billion for some
expansion team. Then what are you going to do
Here we go.
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begin with the big news the Lakers sold for ten billion.
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Will depending sale of the once proud Lakers from the
Bus family to Mark Walter and the Guggenheim Group be
a dramatic change? Also, can you explain why Genie Buss
will continue to serve in her role as the face
of the Lakers ownership after the sale? And why did
the Lakers sell for ten billion when the Celtics only
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sold for six billion just a few months ago. We'll
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If you will, big news out big news if you
love financial transactions on some spreadsheets somewhere, Man was at
a good day for you. God was at an exciting
day for you. So if you have not heard yet,
and perhaps not, we learned that the Bus family has
decided to say bye bye to the Lakers. What kind
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of They will no longer control the majority ownership of
the once proud, now floundering franchise that is the Lakers.
As Mark Walter, the gazillionaire from Chicago who is the
face of the gougenheind group that owns the Dodgers. He's
buying he had a chance to buy. He owned part
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of the Lakers anyway. It's not like he's coming out
of left field. Mark Walter owned a percon send to
the Lakers, had the option of buying the rest of
the team. I'd heard it several years back that this
was likely going to happen, and it has happened. So
Mark Walter is gonna pay ten billion, ten billion, and
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it'll be the largest sale when they cross all the
t's and Dothy Isaik which who we kid it's all
on docu sign, But when they do the docu sign,
it'll be the largest sale price for a US professional
sports franchise of all time. The Bus family will keep
a little bitty share, just a little bitty share of
the team, just over fifteen percent. And Genie Buss we
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are told we'll continue as the face of the ownership group.
They can't get rid of her. She's like a cockroach.
She won't be Walter the face of the Dodgers ownership.
As we said there, and people just thinking he'll just
spend endless amounts of money and it'll just be amazing
and all that. So let us discuss the question the
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pending sale. Will the pending sale of the Lakers from
the Bus family to the Mark Walter Guggenheim Group be
a dramatic change, because all I've heard is, ah, my God,
happy days are here again. Happy days are here again.
Mark Walter is the owner. So is it really gonna change.
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It's gonna be dramatic. So my thoughts to this, I've
got Goose fanatic and farmers Market, and we will combine
all of these things together and we're gonna put the
biscuit in the basket. We'll take the biscuit and we'll
put the biscuit in the basket, just like that. So,
to answer the question, will this pending sale lead to
a dramatic change now that somebody actually has money, the
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Googenheim Group will own the Lakers are supposed to gene Bus,
The answer is no, it's not going to be a
dramatic change. In fact, I would say nothing changes. Not
a zipp o bupkus is going to change. And here's why. Right,
the Lakers are just to continue strutting through the NBA
like they own the joint because that's how they've always operated.
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And there are different rules in the NBA that Baseball
doesn't have in terms of how much money you can
pay deferred money, and deferred money you can't push it
back to lower your salary cap number to get under
these aprons and all that bull crap. So it's not
like the stuff the Dodgers have been able to get
away with. The NBA has got clauses in there that
you can't do that in the NBA. So all the
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tricks that the Dodgers have used doesn't work.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I don't know who the top NBA player in Japan is,
but whoever that is, I expect you to end up
on the on the Lakers, like immediately, like later on today,
he'll end up on the Lakers. Consider how much money
they've milked off Otani from Japan. So the Lakers are
at this point they continue to be the golden goose
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the NBA. We are convinced rigged the Luka Donzik trade
to send him to the Lakers. Let's make sure what
TV ratings are down. The Lakers don't have a star,
no one, you know, Lebron's washed up, no let's make
sure we hook him up. So they did, and so how.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Is that gonna change?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
So they have a new owner and Genie Boss is
kind of kind of step aside. More on that in
a second, but it's just gonna be more of the
same special treatment. The Lakers have always gotten special treatment.
And all that's different is Mark Walter is the one
that's riding the check and the googenheind group and then
that's it. The NBA has always bent over backwards my
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entire life for that pathetic purple and gold crap. It's
been that way for decades and we're talking about multiple
generations where it's been that way. And so you think
Adam Silver is going to allow under his watch them
to slide into irrelevance. Of course, they just went out
and gave the Lakers Luca. Even though he's fat, they
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gave him Luca. They still hooked him up. Come on,
So anyway, and the other thing two is the referees
will continue to help the Lakers out. You know, those
fifty to fifty calls will go the direction they will
go the direction of the Lakers, and the free agent
market will still tilt to the Lakers and all that
and the players nobody's signing with the Lakers because in
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the Arder, if that was the case, no one would
have played for the Lakers. And Genie Bus didn't know
what she was doing. And and the Lakers continue to
get players. Do you think Lebron James when he went
to the Lakers left Cleveland, you think Lebron said, I
really want to play for one of Jerry Buss's kids.
That's what I that's the owner I want to play for. No, right,
not at all, Lebron James. He came there because he
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wanted to make business deals with movie people and things.
And he did. He's gotten all that. He made some
cheeseball movies. His production company took off. You know, he
has a stupid barber shop show like all that stuff.
But it wasn't because of the Genie Buss. It was
because of la Right. So that's that's the way. Is
not that it matters, by the way, right again, it
doesn't matter. I mean the players that flocked to the
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to the Lakers like I'm off to a flame and
Mark wall Alter will spend money. There's a real salary cap.
Although I'm a salarycap. Truth when it comes to the
NFL and if they're just willing to listen. The teams
are if you have enough money, you can pay and
who cares, It doesn't really matter that much, and you
just pay all the money and then the other teams
can plain and say it's not fair, and then you
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can't make certain trades and all that stuff. Now, the
other part of this, can you explain why Genie Buss
is selling the team but is demanding apparently to continue
on in her role as the face of the Laker
ownership group after the cell Now, the NBA went woke
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years ago and they claim they don't have owners. They're
so woke that they have governors, not owners. Every other
sport has owners. NBA has got governors, which is lame.
So we know realities will own a team and they're
not governors. They're not voted in anyway. So the point
of this with genieus it's rather obvious that this woman
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is addicted to the spotlight. Right can we all agree
on that that those court side seats and all the
celebrities coming up and shaking her hand there the red
carpet at the Hollywood premieres that she gets invited to.
She loves it. She want to give that up. You
don't get that if you're not the Laker's owner anymore,
you don't you fade off into the sunset in irrelevance.
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You're just another rich person surrounded by other rich people.
And so she can still play the part as the
faux Laker royalty owner and all that. So she gets
a but Geeni Buss, think about what she's about to become.
So the team's being sold to Mark Walter, She's going
to continue going to the league meetings and all that stuff.
She's about to become the Philly fanatic. She's going to
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be the mascot of the Lakers. She's like the San
Diego Chicken bar. Check out the Laker mascot wearing a
pantsuit going to league meetings, you know, waving to the
fans high fans. Yeah, but Mark Walter is the one
who will be deciding where the money goes and all
that stuff. And it's a symbolic nod. They claim to
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the Bus family legacy and all that, But no titles
with Genie Buss's owner. Nobody who knows ball will say
that she wonted that Mickey Mouse bubble doesn't count in
a resort in Orlando back in twenty twenty. And my
favorite Genie Bus story is when the Phil Jackson thing
is like next level, But also the Bus family revolt
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was that like twenty seventeen. I want to say, Remember
there was a revolt. The brothers the other kids got
into a Jim and Johnny and they were all fighting.
There was like a coup to get control of the Lakers.
It was like some kind of mob movie or something
like that. And then they worked it out. They massaged that,
they got through that. She fired I think she fired
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the brother I don't know how you do that because
he owned part of the team. Also got rid of him,
can Mitch Cupjack he was out, brought in Magic Johnson
that was a hot mess, and got rid of him.
Then now they have this guy skinny jeans, Rob Polenka,
who without NBA intervention would have already lost his job,
but the league helped him out and got him some players.
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Otherwise he didn't know what he's doing. And there you go.
So another case old family money, right, the Bus family.
Jerry Buss bought the Lakers in nineteen seventy nine for
less than I think it was. Was it like seventy
million or something like that nineteen seven nine, which a
lot of money nineteen seventy nine, but still real estate
guy Jerry Buss, tremendous philanderer, unbelievable with the ladies, Jerry Buss,
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and so less than seventy million. And now the team's
going to be sold for ten billion. I wonder what
the capitol gains tax on that is? That must be insane,
right you ten billion? Wondered what the capital gains to anyway? Regardless,
So Genie Buss again will be the new Laker mascot. Congratulations,
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call him the buses and have her face on the uniforms.
They're a purely ceremonial role for sure. Now the last
word here the question of why the Lakers sold for
ten billion, and multiple people sending me messages I don't
understand why the Lakers are worth ten billion and the
Boston Celtics sold just a few months ago for six
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point one billion. So why why did the Lakers go
for essentially four billion dollars more than the Boston Celtics,
And so the whole valuation I Forbes every year in
front off of sports and sport it co all these
business sites in sports. Many of them have their evaluations
they come out with every year about teams are worth X,
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Y and Z, and it's it's obviously things are just soorry.
I mean, because there's a lot of rich people who
are a little skittish because they don't know the stock market.
You know, you end up dropping bombs somewhere and the
prices go down or there's oil problems here and things
get all messed up, and so they don't they're a
gun shy the on the stock mart. So they're, oh,
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I can buy a team, and if I buy a team,
I not only make money, but all the other people
want to kiss my ass at the cocktail parties in
the Hamptons or Beverly Hills or South Beach Man. That's
the lot. So they're willing to spend ridiculous amounts of money.
And so it's like a farmer's market, right. It's farmers
market here. And the Lakers operate in the second largest
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media market in the United States with over thirteen million,
the Greater LA Area, the La bas In southern California.
La bas It's much bigger than that metro area. And
then you got Boston, right in Boston, major market, smaller
metro population, like the metro populations like five million or
something like that, so it's like an eight million dollar difference.
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And despite the Celtics being much more successful than the Lakers,
there's less of a market, so it's just a business deal.
And the other thing, the biggest thing here is the arena.
The Celtics do not own own the garden that they
play in, and it's a weird set up the Lakers
because the Anshootz group owns where what I used to
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call Staples Center now it's like the Crypt, I think
is what they call it now. They play at the Crypt,
which is appropriate because the franchise is dead. So the
Crypt is owned by the anshoots group, but it's like
they own They actually own part of the Lakers also,
so it's like all tied together and all that. And
so the Celtics do not own the arena, which is
one of the reasons. The chatter is the Celtics will
eventually leave likely downtown Boston where they play, and go
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out to the suburbs somewhere and build a nice, big,
shiny arena and that'll be that The Bruins, the guy
that owns the Bruins actually owns the arena there for
the Celtics in Boston. Anyway, it is the Bane Mather Show.
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throughout the course of the overnight. So straight ahead, yeah,
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just can't get it go You can't let it go.
You cannot let it go? What cannot you let go?
What is it? What's the thing you're grasping on to
you cannot let go. We'll get to that and we
will do it next.
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So act accordingly and back to it all. Right, back
(16:46):
to it we go, and ferk Dog, what a perfect
way to start. As we were back into it, firk
Dog says, welcome back, Ben. The one good thing about
Genies selling the Lakers is Mark Walter won't let the
cronies at Clutch Sports can roll the team anymore. The
sooner Lebron James is run out of town, the better.
Late night drug tester from Parts Unknown says, welcome back, man.
(17:08):
I hope you're a couple of days off.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Well.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I know if I was invited to the Bezos Sanchez
wedding in Venice, Italy next week, I would need time
to pick out the proper outfit. Are they getting married
next week? Thought they already got married? They didn't get maried,
and Tony writes in he says, uh, let's see here, Paige, Dad,
he says, uh, the Laker fans are in the fetal position.
He says, because the Laker franchise is in trouble. That's
(17:35):
according to Tom. I agree they are in tro They're not.
They're not going anywhere fast. I don't don't have to
worry until they start sucking their thumbs. Brian Brian writes
and says Lakers dominance and dynasty will be back. We
lest Brian admitting the Lakers suck right now. That's his
way of admitting it. He says, Sir Walter. Yeah. The
other problem is, though, like if you're Mark Walter, you
(17:55):
start earning or start owning more teams. What has happened
is these rich guys get the portfolio and they owned
a bunch of teams, and then weird crap happens. Like
John Henry was thought of as one of the great
owners in sports with the Red Sox. They won a
bunch of World Series. Everyone loved John Henry. But John
Hemery then bought a soccer team, and he bought a
hockey team, and he's got cable networks and all these
(18:16):
other things, and suddenly he didn't give a crap about
the Red Sox anymore. And I'll give you a great example.
This last week, the Red Sox unloaded rafae Old Devers,
gave him away for a bag of peanuts, half eaten,
half eaten bag of peanuts, sent him to the Giants,
and there were some issues, but they got nothing in
return of value. And at the same time, the soccer
(18:36):
team John Henry runs spent like one hundred and fifty
million dollars in transfer fees to add a player. So
it's like you lose one player on the Red Sox,
but your portfolio you add another player, So it's it
crosses each other out is what it does? What else
we have? Ryan rights in from San Diego, He says,
purple and gold crap. How do you really feel about
(18:59):
the Lakers? What did I say that was incorrect? Ryan?
I don't say anthing incorrect, spocks Weed writes and says,
I love record bys for major league teams. What a country.
The fact that spreadsheets are involved are the icing on
the cake? Glorious, absolutely glorious. Scrooge in the Bay Area's
up with us? He's checking in, Slim Tim, he writes
(19:20):
in He's the very proud cheesehead. He says he's happy
that the show is back in the pole position in
the overnight circus, and Eileen also checking in as well.
We'll take your calls eight seven seven nine on Fox.
So we mentioned the Lakers being sold, although it's not
done yet. It was announced and they still have to
(19:42):
go through a bunch of lawyers vetting everything to make
sure it all works. So I bring this up because
Genie Boss we mentioned this in the monologue, but she
plans to stick around. She's not leaving. She's not. Many
wish she would leave, but she's not. She loves being
the Lakers owner and and everyone kiss her ass and
say how great she is and get invited all the
(20:03):
parties in Hollywood and all that stuff. So she plans
to stay as the team's owner for a couple of years,
even though she is no longer the majority person. Typically
the way it works, they have these league meetings, they
get together, they eat cocktails or they drink cocktails, eat,
you know, the whole thing. They have big meals and
(20:23):
fine restaurants and all that, and they run up the
expense account. But the people that are there are the
majority owners. The person is the majority of own are
not some bit owner. But it's becoming now normal in
the NBA. These people are such ego maniacs that own
these NBA teams. They don't want to leave. They sell
the team, but they don't want to leave. For example,
(20:44):
Geenie Buss is the latest. Mark Cuban, Remember he sold
He sold the Maverick franchise to the Gambling family in
twenty twenty three. How'd that go? Well? The Gambling family
then gave away Luca, although we think that was league mandated,
but nonetheless, if Mark Cuban had kept control of the team,
that would not have happened. Conceivably he would not allowed
(21:06):
that to happen anyway. So the Mavericks's sold in twenty
twenty three is twenty twenty five, and Cuban has continued
ass continued. You know, he initially said he was going
to make the decisions. He was still going to make
the decision. That's not true, that's not the case. But
he's still going to the league meetings representing the Mavericks
like he's the majority owner. And Wick Grossbeck, who is
(21:27):
selling the Celtics to this group by led by Bill Chisholm,
whoever that is. He says, I'm going to hang around.
I'm not leaving either, and I'm gonna be there at
least through twenty twenty eight. Now keep in mind all
of this going on while Adam Silver, the lizard Person
Commissioner of the NBA. Adam Silver has been saying since
(21:48):
last year that he does not does not like these
people to hang around, right, he does not want them
to hang around, but he doesn't have the balls to
tell them to go pound saying and go away like
once you're not the majority owner. This is what he said.
This is last April, over a year ago. Mark Cuban
came out and said, no, I'm not Mark Cuban. Adams.
(22:08):
Olber said, off Mark Cuban and Wick Grossbeck and these
other owners. He said, no, once you sell the team,
you don't stick around. You're not there. And yet they
continue to allow that to happen, transaction after transaction after transaction.
So we'll see how this plays out, if there's any
kind of snaffoo there, if there's any kind of funny
(22:30):
business that goes on. And it's like the remember years
ago in radio and I got in a radio there
was regulation. Bill Clinton killed radio in that period anyway,
because he deregulated radio. So companies ended up buying tons
of radio station. There was like a limit on amy station.
You know, there's some sports have a limit on how
many sports teams you can own. I'll have you owned
(22:52):
a certain team in a certain league. You can't own
a lead a team in this league and all that.
So we'll see how this all plays out. But for now,
the Lakers being sold to the Mark Walter Group and
go to the faults, and we'll say hello to a
man who told me send me an email, said I'm
not calling you all week. It's not going to happen,
blind Scott shockingly? Is there? Hello, blind Scott?
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Hey? What's I mean?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
This?
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Lakers Stort's all right? If we can like make jokes
about the Lakers franchise, Like, if we can't make fun
of the Lakers franchise right now, what's the point?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Now? Make fun of them? Go ahead, I'm made fun
of you.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Yeah, you find out Geni Bus doesn't really own the team.
I've been around these wealthy circles before they've cut me
off like I've had him in my family. You find
out that, like there's sick symbol and one of them
just has no money because they invested in something that's
just completely awful, you know what I mean? So now
they sell the team. Who knows why? Maybe under durest.
But nobody's getting along. But then Jeanie still needs to
(23:50):
be faced of the franchise. Nobody cares that she wants
to do that. People think that's like a clown show.
You know, you want to have someone cool up there,
like Ariana Grande. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Ben Maller, Yes I should. I would be a great owner.
I considered it, but it didn't it didn't fit my portfolio. Scott,
I have other things I want to invest in.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Yeah, like a basketball person there, Like, I mean, we
have this going on in Boston right now. Pe boy,
Josh Kraft, he ran the Boys and Girls if he
wants to be the mayor of Boston. Now, I mean,
I'm not saying that. I don't want to get into
political here. That was last night's show when we talked
about the w NBA.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Oh really, I go away. They took w NBA. Really.
Oh man, no wonder, no one's listening to Night Shocking.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
All right, Yes, it went WNBA went political. So here's
a new thing that happened. The lines. The lines have
all been down, so all the callers went to the
Toucher and Hardy show.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
So Fred, good again, you're again with touching every show
is my God. All right, I gotta go think. So
I have prison mail here. This was sent a while
back from Let's see here. I have the prison number
from Waymart, Pennsylvania. I believe it is Waymart, Pennsylvania is
on the envelope here. This correspondence is from an inmate
(25:03):
currently in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
All right, so we have the actual the actual mal
This is the third prison. This is the third prison
letter I've gotten first one in a while. In the
last year and a half, I've got like three prison later.
We have the I have a collection of them home.
Let me see them in my bag. I have a
(25:25):
folder with prison prison letters. I don't know where they
put them. Do they smell like prison, ben? What does
prison smell like? What would that be? Maybe a little musty,
a little musty? No, it's regular. I don't know if
they lick like the metal bars. No. Now this was
sent at the end of May, and here we are
in the middle of June. I hope this gentleman is listening.
(25:45):
And his name is Dan. Dan the man will call him,
says howdy from Federal Prison, Maximum Security edition. It says,
I hope this finds you all well. I Prison. This
is again, prison mail, says I just wanted to drop
y'all a quick note of thanks and praise. Well, okay,
(26:08):
getting praised from behind the Gray Bar Hotel as an
incarcerated individual, and then mentions here, I guess unarmed I
think he said unarmed robbery, I think is what he said. Anyway,
no matter, the circumstance is here to say, I say
awake till till three am, two to three am, every
(26:30):
damn night or morning, and he's a big fan of
the show. He listens every day. Says it's a godsend.
You see that we're a godsend. Originally from Chicago, Dan says,
but I'm I'm doing my time at a federal joint
in northeastern Pennsylvania. And then he even promotes the radio station,
(26:50):
shout out to one oh two point seven on the
FM dial as we are rocking the prison yard on
one O two point seven the Ben Malas Show. So
he says, in the we hours in the morning, I
end up starting starting staring at my cell walls here
and listening to your show and waiting for them to
crack the doors. There you go. So he said some
(27:16):
nice things about the show. He liked that he's from Chicago.
He says, we talked about Caleb Williams, which you do
because he gives us content. Absolutely, Dan, and he says,
very sadly, he says he has no outside support. He says,
don't have anything in the way of friends or family,
outside support. So random Bear's news, Dan says, the closest
(27:37):
he can get to conversations from home. There you go. Well,
that's that's a bummer. That's a bummer. And he says,
not even sure if you're going to get this where
we got it, Dan, We got it, And it's continued
on the backside here and this part I can't read
very well, although there is an email address here, so
I think I could probably write back to this guy,
and maybe I will. Maybe I will write back to him.
(27:58):
I don't know do you have email in prison now?
I think they have libraries that have computers yet, really, Okay,
we had a guy years ago from jail in Montana
that had cell phone because he couldn't sleep. He had
some illness where he couldn't sleep. That was a guy
who said, King Eddie that drop and then he once
he got out of jail, that was it. He was done.
(28:19):
And he says, please promise to think about doing a
Malord meet and greet in Chicago or anywhere in Illinois
after I get out in January of twenty twenty eight.
I'm well, I do have a cousin. I have a
couple of cousins in Chicago. I have one that lives
out in the and the burbs there. So I love Chicago.
My brother's up in Wisconsin. So you know, why not
(28:41):
I told you we should do a jail tour, Ben, Yeah, well,
give a big sponsor, Lorena. We'll go on the jail tour.
We will travel to every jail in the land and
be like that old Johnny Cash, you know, prison blues
and all that. We'll just go around there and it'll
be amazing. So I do like this letter, Dan more
than the last one. There was a guy that sent
(29:02):
I don't I have a stack of them and I
don't know which one it is, and so I don't
have time to go through them all. But there was
a guy that wrote from prison and the first line
was saying that I'm an idiot for doing intermittent fasting.
That was like the first thing the guy said. I
popped the envelope open. The guy's like, what are you doing?
You shouldn't be doing that?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
And I'm like, really, you know you're say I mean,
that's the first line, and that's the first thing you
say in the in the correspondence is you shouldn't be
doing that?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Like, what do you a health expert? I mean, come on, anyway, now,
speaking of wild stories, and this is gonna trigger some
of you you know who you are. So there is
a story bouncing around just how much Travis Kelcey got
paid to endorse Pfizer. That's very controversial endorsement. People very
(29:55):
upset with Kelsey, like what are you doing? And all
this there's like controversy. And now Kelsey, who still kind
of hanging out in Kansas City rights looked like he's
washed up in the Super Bowl. He's gonna come back
in place, says he wants to play another year after
this and why not. Well, now there's a story bouncing
around that says Travis Kelcey made more for endorsing Pfeiser,
(30:17):
the drug company, than he did his salary in the NFL.
And in this next contract. He started his partnership during
the COVID stuff, trying to get people to take the vaccine,
which it turns out didn't work the vaccine anyway, that's
a different conversation. But Kelsey his salary in twenty twenty five,
he is set to make seventeen point one million from
(30:41):
the Chiefs, but the Peiser deal he's got is said
to be worth over twenty million dollars according to reports.
So wow, that's pretty pretty much. Remember Aaron Rodgers, not
a fan of the drug companies. Rogers then issued a
(31:02):
nickname I believe he called the Kelsey Mister Pfiser was
his nickname there, but twenty million. As I learned years ago,
there was a book. They made a movie it was
not very good, called The Magic Christian. But the book
was about a rich guy that was just bored and
figured that people would do pretty much anything. Everyone has
a price, and so that was the premise of the book.
(31:24):
And here's an example. Travis Kelcey. It's like a beer
drinking dude from Cleveland. Now he is like taking twenty
million dollars a year from Pfizer, and he's got the
seventeen million he's with Taylor Swift. He's loaded, absolutely loaded.
But the base of that, the base of that at
the beginning, he would not have done that unless you
(31:45):
know twenty million. You change a lot of views for
twenty million dollars. So we will, we'll see how that
plays out. But he's not hurting, no wonder. He's living
the life of Riley. And I'm going to guess that
he's not using any of that Taylor Swift money. I
don't think that's uh he's not getting his hands on that,
not yet anyway. And if they do get married, they'll
be one hell of a prenup. One ginormous prenup will
(32:10):
be taking place, all right. Yes, a timeout for the
who am I?
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Game?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else. While
I was away from the watchtower, we did have a
Stanley Cup champion, which is the same Stanley Cup champion
we had the previous year. The reigning champs are now
the back to back champs from the Sunshine State. For
these seven people that enjoyed that, well, the Florida Panthers
Brad Marshant, who lit it up in the Stanley Cup final,
(32:38):
did not win the MVP of that, but Brad Marshant
became the eighth player in the major North American sports
So NHL, NBA, NFL, major League Baseball to go fourteen
or more years between titles. Now, someone named Babe Adams
did that in baseball with the Cardon and the Pirates
(33:01):
and me from hockey, we share the record with a
sixteen year gap between championships. Again, the Florida Panthers, Brad Marshant,
the eighth player in the NHL, NBA, NFL or Major
League Baseball go fourteen or more years between titles. Babe Adams,
a baseball player for the Cardinals and Pirates millions of
(33:22):
years ago, and me from hockey share the record with
a sixteen year gap between championships. Who am I? That
is the question. The answer. We'll get to it and
we will.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Do it.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Next.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
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Speaker 2 (33:42):
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Speaker 1 (34:24):
Back to it, Thank God for the Internet.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Back to it we go. Time now for the who
am I? Game? This is where we pretend to be
somebody else, as we call it the who am I? Game?
So this week the Florida Panthers Brad Marshaant, longtime Bruin
captain Brad Marshan, became the eighth player in NHL, NBA, NFL,
or Major League Baseball history to go fourteen or more
years between titles. Now, somebody named Babe Adams who played
(34:49):
for the Cardinals and the Pirates and baseball years ago,
and me from hockey share the record with a sixteen
year gapity gap between championships. So who am I? That
is the question. What is the answer? Let's se does
anyone know the answer? Spock's weed checking in from the
(35:11):
Oregon Trail, says the kool Aid Man. Oh yeah, that
that's the answer. O g art Puffin says cal Cutterbuck
one of the all time great names in the NHL.
Who else do we have? Page down? Alf the Alien
of Piner, says says Sheen Little feather Who that's that's
the name. There you go. What else do we have?
(35:34):
Page down? Supermarket Steve from malaprop Ge. That's about right.
That's imagine, I imagine that's what he looks like I
haven't met him, That's what he looks like. The rat
king from ferg Dog. Who else do we have? Mister
nice Guy's going with Sterling Hitchcock as his answer, you
ain't as Cesspidis. Watch out for those holes, those those
(35:56):
those holes out of the field. You might step in one,
as the former met from sco Rouge. Who else do
we have? Zoe sloughed Dana, who's forty seven to I
don't know who that is Zoey Saldonia. I don't know
who that is, but good for Milkman, Mike says. Lone
Wolf McQuaid is the answer. Mark from Queen's going with
Reggie Dunlap. Dunlap there from the movie slap Shot. Joe
(36:21):
Boo from Yaphimi and Chicago. Who else do you have?
Paige Dan? I can't read that. Terry in England says
Skinny Jeans. Rob Polinka is the answer. Gumby Dave's going
with King Eddie. Who else Paige Dan? Chris Chelly hos
guests by our friend Enzo who was at the Malla
(36:41):
meet and greet there in Vancouver. A loyal minion to
the show. Stan Mkdah from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Who
else do we have a Reek in Minnesota's says Brett
Hall of the Saint Louis Blues Donkey Kong guessed by
Slim Tim. Do do you have an answer the ring?
Speaker 5 (36:58):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
So I got so many long time players, I'm going
to go with Chris Chellios.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Ben, you are interesting, interesting answer? And who gave you answer?
Was it some of them? Yeah? My longtime not hockey knowledge, Ben?
Is that right? Well? That is correct? Chris Cellios is
the all right ruining the game. I'm glad, I'm back.
All right, wonderful. Let's go to Zach and see what's
going on? Is that Chris Jelly's went sixteen years in
(37:23):
the NHL. A bunch of hockey guys are on that list. Hello, Zach,
what's going on? Well?
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Always good to jump on here. Uh long time listener
all four or five times out delivering food as a
side also for my daughters. Welcome back on the airwaves.
But I wanted to call because it's uh man watching
these NBA finals being a play of Seattle Light and
that's you know, that's basically my team, right, it is
(37:50):
my team, but I can't root for them. But what's
wild to me is that both teams are there because
of the assets they got from trading away Paul George.
It's it's just it's so funny, it's and wild.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
You know, like, well, there's also some injuries helped the
Pacers out and the Thunder. They just traded for a
zillion draft picks. And then the funny thing about that
is the player that they got who they didn't draft,
that's a Clipper draft pick, SGA, and that's the guy
that is responsible for them being in this position. So
(38:23):
it's it's not they traded all for all these draft picks,
and yet it's the guy they got who wasn't drafted
by them that's going to be the hero for them, Right.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
But didn't they get some draft picks for Chat and
a couple of other guys through that.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Well, No, the MVP of the NBA and the guy's
gonna be the finals MVP is shape Julius Alexander and
he yeah, that was the guy that was on the Clippers,
so they didn't draft him. They drafted all these other guys.
And that's fine. But a home Gren he's been hot
and cold and been mostly cold in the finals.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Okay, And the other piece is real quick, with NBA
likely expanding to Seattle in Vegas. It's interesting to me
the timing of the Celtics and Lakers, because six billion,
ten billion, the expansion fee is just going to continue
to go up up, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Well, yeah, you are you? Are you working now? Are
you delivering food? So you have enough money to buy
that NBA team? Is that why you're out there, Zach?
You're putting a fund together, a hedge fund to buy.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
I used to work, but I used to work for
the Kraken, and I know what they paid for their
their expansion. But it's just the timing of it is
pretty pretty fun to me.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Well, no, it's it's it's actually smart, right because all
these teams sell, and because if whatever the expansion fee
is is going to be based on obviously it's simple business,
maybe based on everything else. So they had to take
care of this. And you got to think behind the
scenes that Genie buss And was communicating, I got to
get out, I don't know what I'm doing here. I'm
a terrible loan I gotta sell the Lakers, and and
she let Adam Silver know and so they waited until
(39:52):
this was done. I don't know how many other teams
are going to be sold. They got to get all
this squared away before they end up putting an expansion
or two expansion teams out there. But be careful, Zach.
Don't trust these people. And they've been saying for how
many years have they been saying, Oh, Seattle and Vegas
are going to get expansion teams. They've been saying it
and saying it and saying it, and nothing has happened yet.
(40:13):
So you know, somebody else could come in from the
outside and be like, hey, well I want to buy
a team. I'll spend I'll spend twelve billion for some
expansion team. Then what are you going to do
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