June 20, 2025 • 43 mins
Big Ben talks about the Thunder getting dominated in Game 6 by the Pacers as Indiana forces a Game 7 in the NBA Finals, Ravens WR Rashod Bateman hyping up Lamar Jackson heading into the season, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, and more!
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It was a big night and it was a silent night,
not what you were hoping for. If you're a fan
of a certain basketball team. Welcome in the beginning of
another night of the Ben Mahler Show. We are in
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wasn't coming down from the rafters as we're hanging out
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here from the Fox Sports Radio studios, as approved by
Viva Los Vicki and hoo's your bill, who's likely hammered
right now and he'll send us a bunch of offensive
comments on the social media page because the phones are
still left up. And then somewhere in Oklahoma City, Kyrie,
our buddy Kyrie, is all bummed out. He's all bummed out.
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We'll get to that in a minute. I was gonna
start with the Dodgers. We're getting covered up on our
LA affiliate right now by Dodger post scheme programming. There
was a scrum that took place late in that Dodger
podre game, and we had belly bumping managers. Was it
a belly bump? Was it a shawv? Dave Roberts and
the podres manager getting into it. We'll talk more about
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that as we work our way through the overnight. But
don't bury the lead, my man. We're not going to
be the lead. So our lead this hour is from
the home state of popcorn legend, Orville Reddenbacher, Orville Reddenbacker,
from Indiana. Now in Indianapolis, the heart of the Hoosier State,
a fine city with some really good restaurants. I was
there years ago, back when Reggie Miller, who's now a
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cheerleader apparently watching the game, a cheerleader for the Pacers,
but he was playing before he became a cheerleader years ago,
and I enjoyed my time in Indianapolis. So it was
Game six of the NBA Finals, the Thunder looking to
close things out, to sellbrate good times, to celebrate a championship.
All they had to do was win over the beaten
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and broken Pacers who were just trying to play that
Begi's tune, the stay Alive, Staying Alive and all that. Now,
I don't know if you were watching. I'm going to
assume the position, probably not based on the rating. This
is a FNF Finals, friends and family, Friends and family,
that's it. Nobody else watching. So friends and family were
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tuned in. Don't worry though we watch. It's our public service.
So you would not have to an act of kindness,
a good mitzvah if you will. And there was the
headline all day. Would Tyrese Haliburton play? Would he not play?
What's going to happen here? Well? Playing with a strained
right calf, he did play, and how did he do well?
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Tyrese Saliburton had fourteen points in just twenty three minutes,
and the Indiana basketball team had a laugher as they
celebrate it a win. They were the one celebrating over
Oklahoma City one oh eight ninety one, a game that
was not that close, a game that was not that
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close on Thursday night. So we get a game seven,
which normally would be solid gold. Again, very few people
care about this NBA Finals based on the amount of
people watching it. And so there you go. Halliburton playing
on one good leg, on one good leg, and he
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made some plays. It was a balanced effort. Obi topping
the old Knickerbocker led the Pacers with twenty points, a
lot of that in garbage time off the bench. Indiana
had not one, not two, not three, not four, not five,
if my math is correct, six players in double figures.
Because I'm told is good. I didn't play in the NBA,
but I'm told that's good. And they led by as
many as thirty one points. Thirty one points the Pacers
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led by, and so all that's great. All that's really
great stuff, and congratulations to the Pacers on the win. However,
you know how we roll in these parts. You've been listening,
you're nodding your head. Yes, I know. The better story
is in the losing locker room. So let us discuss
the question for the esteem panel, which you are a part,
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whether you participate or not, and the company's making it
very hard for you to participate. So the question does
this performance qualify as a chokey mic choke? By Shay
jogis Alexander and the Thunder. So my thoughts on this,
I've got UMass, whirlpool refrigerator, and penny slots, and we
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will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a one way ticket back to the
dust Bowl because that's where both these teams will be going.
One last night, one last night of pro bouncy ball,
and then it's all over or not. The last the
parties over a Sunday night, which I'm happy about. We
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get one more night of content, one more night of
content for the show, which I'm pleased about. And I'll
be watching and I like Game sevens I don't really
care about either one of these teams, but I enjoy
Game seven, so I'll be watching. Hopefully we get a
close game. I'm looking forward to that. More on that
in a seconds. To the question does this performance qualify
as a choke? By SGA and The Thunder, the only
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acceptable answer is three letters, y E s. That's it.
That's all. This game was set up. It was on
a pedestal. It was on a pedestal for okc No
Scott Foster, the NBA did not bring in the extender,
he was not called in off the bench to make
sure this series went to seven games. Indiana appeared to
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be a bedraggled basketball team, as their star Tyres Haliburt
we mentioned playing with one good leg and yet you
look down from thirty thousand feet in the sky and
Oklahoma City, this performance by coach Mark Dagno and his
team was a I call it a U mass like
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performance because Oklahoma City on this night, they were minute men,
is what they were. We did the math and we determined,
based on a thorough, thorough review of the available evidence,
that Oklahoma City played effectively good basketball for three minutes
and thirty four seconds period, heart stop. Three minutes and
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thirty four seconds. Oklahoma City jumped out to a ten
to two lead in the game, and that was at
the eight to twenty six mark of the first quarter.
And then they had to play the rest of the game.
And that was the problem from that point forward. From
the ten to two advantage for the thunder until early
in the fourth quarter the thunder. We're told one of
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the all time great individual teams were outscored by thirty
nine points in an NBA Finals game. Pah, tick pa
tick horrific. Hey, are you even trying? Are you even
trying to be outscored by thirty nine points in that stretcher?
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And there the garbage time after that, And let's say
there was garbage time before that as well. So where
is the finger of blame as we turn the page?
Where is the finger of blame? Pointed at Burro Casey.
We love to play the blame game and pointing the finger.
Let's start with SGA, all right, Now, there's a lot
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of letters here. You got SGA, and then I've got
in my algebra equation, I've got MVP. So I've got
SGA and then I've got MVP. And he was standing
right in front of the Whirlpool refrigerator. Jay jogis Alexander.
He was standing right in front of the refrigerator, the
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Whirlpool refrigerator. Now he had a chance to close the
refrigerator door, to turn the lights out, have the eggs cooling.
Watch as the butter is getting hard and the jello's
jiggling as the iconic late great chick her and old
sportscasters said back in did that happen?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Instead, what do we got? The Thunder had twenty one turnovers.
Twenty one, so bakery is what that is? Eight of
them by Shay Jogis Alexander eight of them, eight of them.
He had seven made baskets and eight turnovers. He sucked
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at a time you cannot suck. In Game six of
the NBA Finals. Let's go jump ahead here to cut
two mark, and here's SGA pointing out that it was
not a good night to play basketball for OKAC. Take
a listen.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
The way I see it is we suck tonight. We've
learned the lessons, and we have one game for everything,
for everything we've worked for, and so do they, and
the better team Sunday will win.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Okay, So at least he admitted he did suck at
a time you cannot suck. So we appreciate that that
is the first step to rehabilitation when you're riding the
vomit comet. Here is SGA asked whether or not the
Thunder had championship dreams and they were already imagining what
it would be like to do that big postgame celebration
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winning the title in game six years. What do you
have to say on that?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
See in the back of our minds for sure. Now,
we didn't play like it at all, and that's why
the night went the way it did. We got exactly
what we deserved, what we earned, and we have to
own that.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
See, I would argue they played like they thought they
had the game in the bag. If you saw anything
leading up to this game, it was a fata complete.
It was in the back. What's in the back, championship, championship.
It was in the back, championship in the back. Just
show up. That's it. You're done, You're good, You're gonna win. Man. Now,
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the coach of the Thunder, Mark Dagnell, pointing out out
they were closed, they were right there and they can
almost taste the champions yep. Coach explain that to me.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
It was hard tonight. You know, Indiana was great and
we were not. So we have the same opportunity Indiana
does on Sunday, scorell by zero zero when the ball
goes up in the air. It's a privilege to play
in game sevens as a privilege to play in the finals.
As disappointing as tonight was, we're grateful for the opportunity
and we put in a lot of work this season
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to be able to play that game at home, you know,
which is exciting to be able to do it in
front of our fans. So, you know, obviously disappointed tonight,
but we'll regroup, get back to zero, learn from it
with clear eyes, like we always do, get ourselves as
ready as we can be to play game seven on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
That's nothing but cliches. That is sportscliche dot Com from
Mark Dagnow, Dagno, who is just going on and on?
I mean, that was at least seven right now. I
was alerted by one of our eagle eared listeners who
said that right after the game. And I turned the
game off right after the game because there was no
point and who cares. But I'm told that the point
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guard Tyrese Haliburton of the Pacers went full on sports
cliche guy also on the television interview. I've not heard
that yet. We'll try to track that down, but he
apparently just gave nothing but cliches in his interview. But
back to the point at hand, So we mentioned SGA
seven made baskets, eight turnovers, and who else gets to
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wear the clown knows? How about loud Dort, the Great
Loude Dort, Jalen Williams, and Alex Caruso, the three Musketeers
of Misery, the three Musketeers of Misery co conspirators behind
SGA for this performance. Now, Dort wasn't dud Loude Dort
was a doune. He finished with three points. He had
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a minus twenty eight on the plus minus. That means
while he was on the court, his team was outscored
by twenty How about alx Caruso, the one that got
away from the Lakers, the bald Mamba, the bald mamba
who played like a bald middle aged man. He had
a cardio game. It was like he was playing the ymca,
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running around doing cardio. He finished with as many points
as you and I had. That's it, zilch zip O,
zip Na. As my friend and former FSR personalities Jama
would say, Didley squat in twenty two minutes twenty two
minutes and the Thunder were outscored by thirty three points
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with Alex Caruso, the Bald Mamba, the White Mamba, as
some call him on the floor. How about Jalen Williams.
You talk about a forty for forty he said hold
my beer to lud Dort and he said, hold my beer.
Alex Caruso. Jay Williams had sixteen points. If I'm not mistaken,
he had forty points in the previous game in the finals.
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While he was on the court, the thunder were outscored
by forty. And again, I didn't play in the NBA.
I'm not a baller. I'm just a gas bag. I
don't believe that's particularly good. But what do I know?
What do I He was on the court, a guy
that was in the running and still is in the
running for finals. MVP of Oklahoma City wins. It's gonna
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be SGA or Jalen Williams and outscored by forty forty points?
All right, now the last word here. So we do
have a Game seven of the NBA Finals. It is
on Sunday night. I believe it is going to be
broadcast on some random channel on tub I think I believe.
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Maybe I'm wrong on that. Maybe I'm wrong on that.
So who's got the edge heading into Game seven? A
first glance knee jerk. Look at game seven, we will
not have a live talk show. I'll do the podcast
this weekend. We'll have the Friday, Saturday, Sunday pods and
all that. But who's got the edge heading into Game
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seven between the Pacers and the Thunder? So I'm going
with Indiana. Oh, you're just being a shock jock. No,
I'm not. Let me. Let me give you my rationale.
Let me give you my my evidence. I'll state my
case why I believe the Indiana Pacers have a slight edge.
It's not a large edge, it's a slight edge. Here's why.
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Imagine if you will being at the casino and you're
playing the penny slots. Now, the penny slots make the
most money for the casino. They make more money from
the penny slots than anything else in the casino. That's
why there's so many penny slots because they're not really
penny slots.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
You end up playing much more than just one penny,
and so you're paying. You're playing the penny slots and
you get fifty free plays, fifty free spins. That's the Pacers.
They're playing with house money. They're unencumbered. They can play
free and loose. That doesn't mean they are gonna play
that way, but they can't. Oklahoma City has had, I'm
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told by many basketball toe lickers, a all time great
historical season, sixty eight wins during the regular season. They're
at home, they're favored by I believe they opened at nine.
I believe they're favored by eight points in the game
on Sunday, the overnight line, so favored by eight. You've
got the MVP of the NBA, you're dining on your
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home cooking. You're supposed to win the game. All of
those ingredients are in your favor and they're all ingredients
for what tight took his syndrome, the tight spinter feeling,
the squeeze. And this is one of those situations where
Oklahoma City, by their gutless performance in Game six, just pathetic.
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This is an f around and find out chart situation.
U f around and you're gonna find out Game seven.
Matchups do not matter, doesn't matter what you think, who
you think has an edged, The film doesn't really matter.
Who cares about that? And home court doesn't matter. Injuries
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don't matter. The only thing that matters. And this is
why we love game seven is who does better in
that moment? Is the great Dick Stockton taught me years ago.
Stats tell you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
That's why they play their games. So OKC has ft around,
they played with their food and now it's judgment Day
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on Sunday night, and I'm there for and I'm sure
I'll be the the one representative of the overnight watch.
I don't know anybody else canna watch that, but I'll
be checking it out on Sunday night. I look forward
so Game seven to decide the championship.
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lead this hour is from football. We'll get to the
brew haha in La La Land, the Dodgers and Padres
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having the managers go at it. We'll get to that
coming up in the B block, but we'll begin this
hour with football. Why that pays the bills around here.
We're going to start out in Baltimore, where roughly a
month from now, training camp opens up. Oh always sounds good,
generally speaking. Generally speaking, the only thing that is regularly
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accomplished in training camp is two or three starting players
going snap crackle pop and having season ending injuries. The band, though,
is starting to warm up for the poets. And if
you didn't see this because you were not paying attention,
bad job by you. Perhaps you missed it. But the
Ravens wide receiver, Rashad Bateman, he is a spicy margarita.
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This guy saying that Lamar Jackson looks quote locked in,
claiming the rest of the NFL is quote in trouble
in twenty twenty five. O MG, that's for shod Bateman.
So let us discuss the question, are you buying the
Lamar Jackson hype from Rashad Bateman or is this just
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the standard pre camp jaw jacking that takes place pretty
much every year. So my observations on this, I've got
jim Nance, Universal Pictures and Greyhound Bus, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to cut out the wisdom teeth is what we're going
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to do, and then we're going to enjoy the OUI
gue goodness of a freshly baked cinnamon roll. So we're
gonna do all that. So number W I said, number
all right, So I give this a yawn and then
I give it a shoulder shrug. I'm literally doing it.
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You can't see it because of the radio. And here's why.
All right, if you look at your smartphone, the calendar
on your smartphone, it is June. Now we're getting to
the later part of June. And I file this particular
story where again the receiver Rashod Bateman talking very spicy,
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saying Lamar Jackson locked in and claimed the NFL is
in trouble. In twenty twenty five, I filed this one
as a Jim Nance story. Now what does that mean?
Jim Nance who carries a photo of burnt toast in
his wallet? Jim Nance when he does the Masters, what
is his catchphrase? A tradition unlike any other. And that's
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what this is. It's not a golf tournament, but it
is a tradition unlike any other. This is a classic
teammate upsell. That's what you know. Shad Bateman has a
vested interest here. He's got a little skin in the game.
He's trying to get in good with his quarterback, Lamar Jackson,
guessing he thinks he'll get targeted more this year. It's
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like going in and having a meeting with your boss
and just putting sugar all over your boss, right, smartest
guy in the room, and man, you're such a great boss.
That's self interest. You're looking out for yourself. You're trying
to advance your situation. Now, I'm not going to sit
here and say that players don't look great in shorts,
wearing helmets and all that when they have their offseason practices.
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And I'm imagining I've never been to the passing drills
in Owing's mills, but I'm imagining they're really good and
just wonderful at the Ravens facility. I believe that's where
it is, and that's great. And then that leads to
you planning a parade route, getting your map out and trying, well,
where's the parade route gonna be? Where we stop at
the Ray Lewis statue to try to find the white suit?
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Where's the white suit?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Ray?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I don't know anyway, Now, Lamar, I'm not I'm not
gonna say he's not gonna be dangerus. Of course he'll
be dangerous. He's a multi time MVP. He could have,
would have, should have maybe could have didn't win the
MVP last year. Josh Allen did so for Lamar Jackson,
He'll be good. It doesn't matter though. Lamar is now
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at the point in his story. If you look at
the novel of Lamar Jackson, we've now reached the part
of his book where the regular season is all but
a relevant. It just is he's been that good. So
where the rubber meets the road is in the playoffs.
And we have seen this story before. We've seen it
time and again. It's always this is gonna be the
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year for Lamar. And then you know, you wake up
and nothing. Wake me up in February when Lamar is
getting ready to travel to play in northern California in
the twenty twenty six Super Bowl, and he's not sending
out comments on social media about being disrespected or this,
that or the other, then okay, we got some now
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page two, So this story. I avoided this story. A
couple of our friends in Ohio, in the greater Cleveland area,
we're upset, and they said, what didn't you talk about this?
You always take shots at the Cleveland Browns. Why didn't
you do this story? What's wrong with you? Did you
not see it? You took a couple of days off
and you didn't see it, didn't you. I saw it, moron.
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I just thought it was no big deal. But I
will do the story now because there's more to the story.
So it's not about Brown's rookie quarterback, Schadur Sanders, the
net Bo kid from Dion Sanders family tree, Jadeur Sanders,
twenty three years old and ticketed for speeding. Now, we
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knew about the one the other day, but now we've
learned the rest of the story. As the Great Paul
Harvey would say back in his day, speeding twice just
this month around Ohio. There was also a speeding violation
in Colorado. Sanders was accused of driving his Dodge TRX
pickup one hundred and one miles per hour on a
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suburban Cleveland interstate That happened a few days ago, and
Sanders apparently could pay a fine of two hundred and
fifty dollars. And it's a misdemeanor. It's a fourth degree. Mister, mean,
I've gotten speeding tickets. Has anyone done a monologue about that? Yeah?
I got one in Minnesota my way to the Malamegrie. Anyway,
the reason I'm bringing ended up now as reference this
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is not the first time. This is not the first
time that yourder Sanders has stepped in it with the
Ohio State Patrol. You see back on June fifth in
Brunswick Hills, Ohio, sand was pulled over in a sixty
five mile an hour zone going ninety one. So he's
got a lead foot. Now. The thing that's interesting is
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he failed to appear for an arrangement for that ticket,
and I guess that was on Monday. And he always
like two hundred and seventy dollars on that one in
court costs, which is just a tax for the court
to make more money, according to the Madona Municipal Court
records and art. So this led to our colleague Colin
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Cowherd essentially saying, because Chudeur Sanders drives fast, he's done
with him as the play. That's what he implied. Now,
I was sleeping while Cowhard's on, but I did see
the quotes going around. So let's address the kmodo dragon
in the room. Brown's quarterback, Chaudur Sanders picking up not one,
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but two speeding tickets in twelve days. How significant is this?
So it is a story as old as time. I
am not as worked up into a lad as Colin
Coward if that makes for bad radio, I apologize in advance,
but it is as story as old as time. Young guy, fastcar,
and that's the recipe for trouble with a capital T
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room room, room vroom. Now snurseanders again, twenty three year
old guy. He's living the universal life, Universal pictures, life,
fast and the Furious nine, channeling his Interven Diesel. Right.
I caught speeding not once, but twice in twelve days.
And this is always my thing. I've gotten a few
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speeding tickets over the years. I don't know if you
like me, but in my life, when I've gotten a
speeding ticket, for the next like two months, I go
below the speed limit. I go below the speed limit
for like two months because I'm so paranoid. I once
got pulled over. I was leaving a Bills game years ago,
and I was I went to the Bills game with
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the great Steve Stillwell, who's now a professor. He used
to work at Fox Sports Radio, and my younger brother Mike.
So we were at a Bill's game and they were
playing the Tennessee Titans. So I'm leaving the stadium there
and got pulled over on the New York Expressway. I
forget how fast I was going, but I was trying
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to get out of Buffalo, and so I got pulled over.
And then so I then got back on the road.
I took the guy said, well, I can't print the ticket,
but we're gonna send it to you, and you're out
of state, so whatever. So I got back on the road,
and about ten minutes later, I look behind me and
I see cherry tops. I'm getting pulled over again, and
I looked, I'm going to speed limit. I was like
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screaming at my brother. I said, what is this cop doing.
I'm going the damn speed limit. I've made sure not that.
Sony of the guy pulls me over in the same
exact cop. He must have gone ninety miles an hour
to catch me down the expressway and he pulls me over.
He's all excited, Well, good news, I was able to
print up the ticket. Yeah, great, thank you. So technically
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I got pulled over twice in the span of about
half an hour, probably less than that, probably less than that. Anyway,
back to the point here, So Shandur Sanders does he
have entitlement? Of course, all these guys who are entitled,
these star players and all that but I'm gonna save
my faux outrage for things that you really need to
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get worked up into a lather over, and not not this. Now.
If he'd been driving drunk and that would have been
a different story, I can't put up with that. But
if you're just speeding and you're not intoxicated and all that,
I don't get get worked up, because I think pretty
much everyone does that. Now I've been pretty lucky. I'll
probably get a ticket later today. But I did get
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a message from a cop one time that said that
it's not everyone speeds. At least in LA everyone speeds,
And the cop told me, listen, I mean, it's essentially
said fish in a barrel. So as long as you're
like seventy nine and under, I'm not gonna waste mo
time because there's people that are going eighty five ninety
ninety five. Those are the people I'm gonna give tickets to,
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because that's a bigger ticket. So he gave me the
whole rap. And since then, the only place I've gotten
a ticket is in Minnesota, and I've been to a
bunch of other states, have been all over the place
since then, but the only place I got a ticket
was Minnesota, and it was like a like a nineteen
year old cop gave me a ticket. Hey, final point
to Cannsa City, the home of the Ben Mallard chicken
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fingers at the Landing in Liberty, Missouri, the holy land
of the chicken Fingers, where many great pe ones have
gone and watched sports and enjoyed lots of alcohol and
chicken fingers and lived the life of Riley so Kansas City.
Andy Reid Big Red said that despite some reports of
a diminished role, Andy Reid fully expects Travis Kelsey's snap
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count with the Chiefs to be quote similar to what
it was last year. But Andy Reid said he will
monitor Kelsey's playing time as training camp, as training camp
goes forward and season progresses, and change the plan if necessary.
Close quote so Andy Reid saying the Chiefs plan to
(31:12):
use Travis kelcey early and often, early and often in
twenty twenty five. Is that alright with you? So I'll
go for thousand percent. Now, keep in mind, coaches will
lie to your face, and Andy Reid's been a coach
pretty much my entire adult life, so he knows the game.
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He's not if they're planning on downsizing Kelsey. He's not
going to tell you that. But last season Kelsey was
on the field for the third highest snap count. He
ran the fourth most roots or routes of his career
last year, and you gotta think because of his status,
(31:54):
the Chiefs cannot cannot not play Kelsey. See a large amount. Right,
He's hanging out with the most famous woman in America,
if not the world, in Taylor Swift. So it's kind
of a big deal. And I'm pretty sure Taylor Swift
is not looking to date a scrub or a guy
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who's out there as a decoy. So you've got that,
and the mantra should be you keep going until the
wheels on the greyhound bus come off, till the wheels
on the greyhound bus come off, and then that's it.
And in last year at Kelsey, certainly in the Super Bowl,
Travis Kelsey was a doctor. He was doctor Doolittle and
ultimately he will be judged much like we talked about
(32:38):
minutes ago Lamar Jackson and what happens at the end.
And the Chiefs are also at that level where they
are expected to win the final game and if not,
and if you end up sucking at the very end,
and you stumble and fall down before you cross the
finish line. That is how people will remember you. Not
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really that hard. We're not talking about open heart surgery.
We're just talking about sports, and that's it.
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Former Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs spoke at a Hope
for Prisoner's event where he revealed that he would quote
love to try and play in the NFL again. He's
eligible for parole next year. Ben, do you think he
could make it back to the league.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
So, first of all, I hope he doesn't make it back.
I said he wouldn't ever play again. We did a
monologue about this when he went to jail, and I said,
I don't now. I realize though, that the NFL is
a bloodthirsty league, and the mantra across the league is
to never give up on talent. You never give up
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on talent. If there was ever a case of giving
up on talent, this would be it. I'm not saying
that he can't get out of jail and go out
and get a job somewhere and live a life and all.
I just think the NFL, like, what are you doing
with that? But I am reminded of a guy that
has worked at our place and for the NFL draft.
We've had him in here a couple of times, the
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former GM of the Cardinals, and he talked about if
the NFL. He was talking about the NFL draft and
he said like, hey, you know, if this guy was
really really fast, like if Hannibal Elector I think he
used the player said that if Hannibal Lecter was up
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for the NFL draft and he ran a four point
three or something like that, we probably diagnosed it as
an eating disorder. So they will try to rationalize Henry Ruggs.
I hope he doesn't play a game in the NFL.
We'll both get a regular job somewhere. If you blew
your chance in the NFL, killed the woman, she burned
up alive with a dog. That seems like a good
reason not to allow you back in the NFL.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Next, Sean Payton was asked about the thought that the
Broncos didn't do enough in the offseason to help bow Knicks.
Peyton said that having an elite defense is the best
way to help Nicks win games.
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Then is he right? Well, no, I mean the best
way to have him win games is at two all
pro wide receivers and a great tight end and a
stud running back in three offensive line. But no, the
big issue for Bo Nicks is just getting better, proving
that last year was not a mirage.
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for a new manager next season. A recent report predicts
they will hire David Ross. Ben do you think this
would be a bad hire by Atlanta?
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It's a blaw higher, But David Ross kind of like
your guy Ron Washington with the Angels. People in baseball
love David Ross. They can't say enough good things. He's beloved.
That's how you get those jobs. How do we do?
He passed decision that is a win. Put it on
the board.
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still left up. And then somewhere in Oklahoma City, Kyrie,
our buddy Kyrie, is all bummed out. He's all bummed out.
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We'll get to that in a minute. I was gonna
start with the Dodgers. We're getting covered up on our
LA affiliate right now by Dodger post scheme programming. There
was a scrum that took place late in that Dodger
podre game, and we had belly bumping managers. Was it
a belly bump? Was it a shawv? Dave Roberts and
the podres manager getting into it. We'll talk more about
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that as we work our way through the overnight. But
don't bury the lead, my man. We're not going to
be the lead. So our lead this hour is from
the home state of popcorn legend, Orville Reddenbacher, Orville Reddenbacker,
from Indiana. Now in Indianapolis, the heart of the Hoosier State,
a fine city with some really good restaurants. I was
there years ago, back when Reggie Miller, who's now a
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cheerleader apparently watching the game, a cheerleader for the Pacers,
but he was playing before he became a cheerleader years ago,
and I enjoyed my time in Indianapolis. So it was
Game six of the NBA Finals, the Thunder looking to
close things out, to sellbrate good times, to celebrate a championship.
All they had to do was win over the beaten
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and broken Pacers who were just trying to play that
Begi's tune, the stay Alive, Staying Alive and all that. Now,
I don't know if you were watching. I'm going to
assume the position, probably not based on the rating. This
is a FNF Finals, friends and family, Friends and family,
that's it. Nobody else watching. So friends and family were
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tuned in. Don't worry though we watch. It's our public service.
So you would not have to an act of kindness,
a good mitzvah if you will. And there was the
headline all day. Would Tyrese Haliburton play? Would he not play?
What's going to happen here? Well? Playing with a strained
right calf, he did play, and how did he do well?
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Tyrese Saliburton had fourteen points in just twenty three minutes,
and the Indiana basketball team had a laugher as they
celebrate it a win. They were the one celebrating over
Oklahoma City one oh eight ninety one, a game that
was not that close, a game that was not that
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close on Thursday night. So we get a game seven,
which normally would be solid gold. Again, very few people
care about this NBA Finals based on the amount of
people watching it. And so there you go. Halliburton playing
on one good leg, on one good leg, and he
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made some plays. It was a balanced effort. Obi topping
the old Knickerbocker led the Pacers with twenty points, a
lot of that in garbage time off the bench. Indiana
had not one, not two, not three, not four, not five,
if my math is correct, six players in double figures.
Because I'm told is good. I didn't play in the NBA,
but I'm told that's good. And they led by as
many as thirty one points. Thirty one points the Pacers
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led by, and so all that's great. All that's really
great stuff, and congratulations to the Pacers on the win. However,
you know how we roll in these parts. You've been listening,
you're nodding your head. Yes, I know. The better story
is in the losing locker room. So let us discuss
the question for the esteem panel, which you are a part,
(05:00):
whether you participate or not, and the company's making it
very hard for you to participate. So the question does
this performance qualify as a chokey mic choke? By Shay
jogis Alexander and the Thunder. So my thoughts on this,
I've got UMass, whirlpool refrigerator, and penny slots, and we
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will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a one way ticket back to the
dust Bowl because that's where both these teams will be going.
One last night, one last night of pro bouncy ball,
and then it's all over or not. The last the
parties over a Sunday night, which I'm happy about. We
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get one more night of content, one more night of
content for the show, which I'm pleased about. And I'll
be watching and I like Game sevens I don't really
care about either one of these teams, but I enjoy
Game seven, so I'll be watching. Hopefully we get a
close game. I'm looking forward to that. More on that
in a seconds. To the question does this performance qualify
as a choke? By SGA and The Thunder, the only
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acceptable answer is three letters, y E s. That's it.
That's all. This game was set up. It was on
a pedestal. It was on a pedestal for okc No
Scott Foster, the NBA did not bring in the extender,
he was not called in off the bench to make
sure this series went to seven games. Indiana appeared to
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be a bedraggled basketball team, as their star Tyres Haliburt
we mentioned playing with one good leg and yet you
look down from thirty thousand feet in the sky and
Oklahoma City, this performance by coach Mark Dagno and his
team was a I call it a U mass like
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performance because Oklahoma City on this night, they were minute men,
is what they were. We did the math and we determined,
based on a thorough, thorough review of the available evidence,
that Oklahoma City played effectively good basketball for three minutes
and thirty four seconds period, heart stop. Three minutes and
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thirty four seconds. Oklahoma City jumped out to a ten
to two lead in the game, and that was at
the eight to twenty six mark of the first quarter.
And then they had to play the rest of the game.
And that was the problem from that point forward. From
the ten to two advantage for the thunder until early
in the fourth quarter the thunder. We're told one of
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the all time great individual teams were outscored by thirty
nine points in an NBA Finals game. Pah, tick pa
tick horrific. Hey, are you even trying? Are you even
trying to be outscored by thirty nine points in that stretcher?
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And there the garbage time after that, And let's say
there was garbage time before that as well. So where
is the finger of blame as we turn the page?
Where is the finger of blame? Pointed at Burro Casey.
We love to play the blame game and pointing the finger.
Let's start with SGA, all right, Now, there's a lot
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of letters here. You got SGA, and then I've got
in my algebra equation, I've got MVP. So I've got
SGA and then I've got MVP. And he was standing
right in front of the Whirlpool refrigerator. Jay jogis Alexander.
He was standing right in front of the refrigerator, the
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Whirlpool refrigerator. Now he had a chance to close the
refrigerator door, to turn the lights out, have the eggs cooling.
Watch as the butter is getting hard and the jello's
jiggling as the iconic late great chick her and old
sportscasters said back in did that happen?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Instead, what do we got? The Thunder had twenty one turnovers.
Twenty one, so bakery is what that is? Eight of
them by Shay Jogis Alexander eight of them, eight of them.
He had seven made baskets and eight turnovers. He sucked
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at a time you cannot suck. In Game six of
the NBA Finals. Let's go jump ahead here to cut
two mark, and here's SGA pointing out that it was
not a good night to play basketball for OKAC. Take
a listen.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
The way I see it is we suck tonight. We've
learned the lessons, and we have one game for everything,
for everything we've worked for, and so do they, and
the better team Sunday will win.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Okay, So at least he admitted he did suck at
a time you cannot suck. So we appreciate that that
is the first step to rehabilitation when you're riding the
vomit comet. Here is SGA asked whether or not the
Thunder had championship dreams and they were already imagining what
it would be like to do that big postgame celebration
(10:17):
winning the title in game six years. What do you
have to say on that?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
See in the back of our minds for sure. Now,
we didn't play like it at all, and that's why
the night went the way it did. We got exactly
what we deserved, what we earned, and we have to
own that.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
See, I would argue they played like they thought they
had the game in the bag. If you saw anything
leading up to this game, it was a fata complete.
It was in the back. What's in the back, championship, championship.
It was in the back, championship in the back. Just
show up. That's it. You're done, You're good, You're gonna win. Man. Now,
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the coach of the Thunder, Mark Dagnell, pointing out out
they were closed, they were right there and they can
almost taste the champions yep. Coach explain that to me.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
It was hard tonight. You know, Indiana was great and
we were not. So we have the same opportunity Indiana
does on Sunday, scorell by zero zero when the ball
goes up in the air. It's a privilege to play
in game sevens as a privilege to play in the finals.
As disappointing as tonight was, we're grateful for the opportunity
and we put in a lot of work this season
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to be able to play that game at home, you know,
which is exciting to be able to do it in
front of our fans. So, you know, obviously disappointed tonight,
but we'll regroup, get back to zero, learn from it
with clear eyes, like we always do, get ourselves as
ready as we can be to play game seven on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
That's nothing but cliches. That is sportscliche dot Com from
Mark Dagnow, Dagno, who is just going on and on?
I mean, that was at least seven right now. I
was alerted by one of our eagle eared listeners who
said that right after the game. And I turned the
game off right after the game because there was no
point and who cares. But I'm told that the point
(12:10):
guard Tyrese Haliburton of the Pacers went full on sports
cliche guy also on the television interview. I've not heard
that yet. We'll try to track that down, but he
apparently just gave nothing but cliches in his interview. But
back to the point at hand, So we mentioned SGA
seven made baskets, eight turnovers, and who else gets to
(12:30):
wear the clown knows? How about loud Dort, the Great
Loude Dort, Jalen Williams, and Alex Caruso, the three Musketeers
of Misery, the three Musketeers of Misery co conspirators behind
SGA for this performance. Now, Dort wasn't dud Loude Dort
was a doune. He finished with three points. He had
(12:54):
a minus twenty eight on the plus minus. That means
while he was on the court, his team was outscored
by twenty How about alx Caruso, the one that got
away from the Lakers, the bald Mamba, the bald mamba
who played like a bald middle aged man. He had
a cardio game. It was like he was playing the ymca,
(13:15):
running around doing cardio. He finished with as many points
as you and I had. That's it, zilch zip O,
zip Na. As my friend and former FSR personalities Jama
would say, Didley squat in twenty two minutes twenty two
minutes and the Thunder were outscored by thirty three points
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with Alex Caruso, the Bald Mamba, the White Mamba, as
some call him on the floor. How about Jalen Williams.
You talk about a forty for forty he said hold
my beer to lud Dort and he said, hold my beer.
Alex Caruso. Jay Williams had sixteen points. If I'm not mistaken,
he had forty points in the previous game in the finals.
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While he was on the court, the thunder were outscored
by forty. And again, I didn't play in the NBA.
I'm not a baller. I'm just a gas bag. I
don't believe that's particularly good. But what do I know?
What do I He was on the court, a guy
that was in the running and still is in the
running for finals. MVP of Oklahoma City wins. It's gonna
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be SGA or Jalen Williams and outscored by forty forty points?
All right, now the last word here. So we do
have a Game seven of the NBA Finals. It is
on Sunday night. I believe it is going to be
broadcast on some random channel on tub I think I believe.
(14:40):
Maybe I'm wrong on that. Maybe I'm wrong on that.
So who's got the edge heading into Game seven? A
first glance knee jerk. Look at game seven, we will
not have a live talk show. I'll do the podcast
this weekend. We'll have the Friday, Saturday, Sunday pods and
all that. But who's got the edge heading into Game
(15:01):
seven between the Pacers and the Thunder? So I'm going
with Indiana. Oh, you're just being a shock jock. No,
I'm not. Let me. Let me give you my rationale.
Let me give you my my evidence. I'll state my
case why I believe the Indiana Pacers have a slight edge.
It's not a large edge, it's a slight edge. Here's why.
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Imagine if you will being at the casino and you're
playing the penny slots. Now, the penny slots make the
most money for the casino. They make more money from
the penny slots than anything else in the casino. That's
why there's so many penny slots because they're not really
penny slots.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
You end up playing much more than just one penny,
and so you're paying. You're playing the penny slots and
you get fifty free plays, fifty free spins. That's the Pacers.
They're playing with house money. They're unencumbered. They can play
free and loose. That doesn't mean they are gonna play
that way, but they can't. Oklahoma City has had, I'm
(16:00):
told by many basketball toe lickers, a all time great
historical season, sixty eight wins during the regular season. They're
at home, they're favored by I believe they opened at nine.
I believe they're favored by eight points in the game
on Sunday, the overnight line, so favored by eight. You've
got the MVP of the NBA, you're dining on your
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home cooking. You're supposed to win the game. All of
those ingredients are in your favor and they're all ingredients
for what tight took his syndrome, the tight spinter feeling,
the squeeze. And this is one of those situations where
Oklahoma City, by their gutless performance in Game six, just pathetic.
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This is an f around and find out chart situation.
U f around and you're gonna find out Game seven.
Matchups do not matter, doesn't matter what you think, who
you think has an edged, The film doesn't really matter.
Who cares about that? And home court doesn't matter. Injuries
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don't matter. The only thing that matters. And this is
why we love game seven is who does better in
that moment? Is the great Dick Stockton taught me years ago.
Stats tell you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
That's why they play their games. So OKC has ft around,
they played with their food and now it's judgment Day
(17:33):
on Sunday night, and I'm there for and I'm sure
I'll be the the one representative of the overnight watch.
I don't know anybody else canna watch that, but I'll
be checking it out on Sunday night. I look forward
so Game seven to decide the championship.
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lead this hour is from football. We'll get to the
brew haha in La La Land, the Dodgers and Padres
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having the managers go at it. We'll get to that
coming up in the B block, but we'll begin this
hour with football. Why that pays the bills around here.
We're going to start out in Baltimore, where roughly a
month from now, training camp opens up. Oh always sounds good,
generally speaking. Generally speaking, the only thing that is regularly
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accomplished in training camp is two or three starting players
going snap crackle pop and having season ending injuries. The band, though,
is starting to warm up for the poets. And if
you didn't see this because you were not paying attention,
bad job by you. Perhaps you missed it. But the
Ravens wide receiver, Rashad Bateman, he is a spicy margarita.
(20:14):
This guy saying that Lamar Jackson looks quote locked in,
claiming the rest of the NFL is quote in trouble
in twenty twenty five. O MG, that's for shod Bateman.
So let us discuss the question, are you buying the
Lamar Jackson hype from Rashad Bateman or is this just
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the standard pre camp jaw jacking that takes place pretty
much every year. So my observations on this, I've got
jim Nance, Universal Pictures and Greyhound Bus, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to cut out the wisdom teeth is what we're going
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to do, and then we're going to enjoy the OUI
gue goodness of a freshly baked cinnamon roll. So we're
gonna do all that. So number W I said, number
all right, So I give this a yawn and then
I give it a shoulder shrug. I'm literally doing it.
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You can't see it because of the radio. And here's why.
All right, if you look at your smartphone, the calendar
on your smartphone, it is June. Now we're getting to
the later part of June. And I file this particular
story where again the receiver Rashod Bateman talking very spicy,
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saying Lamar Jackson locked in and claimed the NFL is
in trouble. In twenty twenty five, I filed this one
as a Jim Nance story. Now what does that mean?
Jim Nance who carries a photo of burnt toast in
his wallet? Jim Nance when he does the Masters, what
is his catchphrase? A tradition unlike any other. And that's
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what this is. It's not a golf tournament, but it
is a tradition unlike any other. This is a classic
teammate upsell. That's what you know. Shad Bateman has a
vested interest here. He's got a little skin in the game.
He's trying to get in good with his quarterback, Lamar Jackson,
guessing he thinks he'll get targeted more this year. It's
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like going in and having a meeting with your boss
and just putting sugar all over your boss, right, smartest
guy in the room, and man, you're such a great boss.
That's self interest. You're looking out for yourself. You're trying
to advance your situation. Now, I'm not going to sit
here and say that players don't look great in shorts,
wearing helmets and all that when they have their offseason practices.
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And I'm imagining I've never been to the passing drills
in Owing's mills, but I'm imagining they're really good and
just wonderful at the Ravens facility. I believe that's where
it is, and that's great. And then that leads to
you planning a parade route, getting your map out and trying, well,
where's the parade route gonna be? Where we stop at
the Ray Lewis statue to try to find the white suit?
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Where's the white suit?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Ray?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I don't know anyway, Now, Lamar, I'm not I'm not
gonna say he's not gonna be dangerus. Of course he'll
be dangerous. He's a multi time MVP. He could have,
would have, should have maybe could have didn't win the
MVP last year. Josh Allen did so for Lamar Jackson,
He'll be good. It doesn't matter though. Lamar is now
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at the point in his story. If you look at
the novel of Lamar Jackson, we've now reached the part
of his book where the regular season is all but
a relevant. It just is he's been that good. So
where the rubber meets the road is in the playoffs.
And we have seen this story before. We've seen it
time and again. It's always this is gonna be the
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year for Lamar. And then you know, you wake up
and nothing. Wake me up in February when Lamar is
getting ready to travel to play in northern California in
the twenty twenty six Super Bowl, and he's not sending
out comments on social media about being disrespected or this,
that or the other, then okay, we got some now
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page two, So this story. I avoided this story. A
couple of our friends in Ohio, in the greater Cleveland area,
we're upset, and they said, what didn't you talk about this?
You always take shots at the Cleveland Browns. Why didn't
you do this story? What's wrong with you? Did you
not see it? You took a couple of days off
and you didn't see it, didn't you. I saw it, moron.
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I just thought it was no big deal. But I
will do the story now because there's more to the story.
So it's not about Brown's rookie quarterback, Schadur Sanders, the
net Bo kid from Dion Sanders family tree, Jadeur Sanders,
twenty three years old and ticketed for speeding. Now, we
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knew about the one the other day, but now we've
learned the rest of the story. As the Great Paul
Harvey would say back in his day, speeding twice just
this month around Ohio. There was also a speeding violation
in Colorado. Sanders was accused of driving his Dodge TRX
pickup one hundred and one miles per hour on a
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suburban Cleveland interstate That happened a few days ago, and
Sanders apparently could pay a fine of two hundred and
fifty dollars. And it's a misdemeanor. It's a fourth degree. Mister, mean,
I've gotten speeding tickets. Has anyone done a monologue about that? Yeah?
I got one in Minnesota my way to the Malamegrie. Anyway,
the reason I'm bringing ended up now as reference this
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is not the first time. This is not the first
time that yourder Sanders has stepped in it with the
Ohio State Patrol. You see back on June fifth in
Brunswick Hills, Ohio, sand was pulled over in a sixty
five mile an hour zone going ninety one. So he's
got a lead foot. Now. The thing that's interesting is
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he failed to appear for an arrangement for that ticket,
and I guess that was on Monday. And he always
like two hundred and seventy dollars on that one in
court costs, which is just a tax for the court
to make more money, according to the Madona Municipal Court
records and art. So this led to our colleague Colin
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Cowherd essentially saying, because Chudeur Sanders drives fast, he's done
with him as the play. That's what he implied. Now,
I was sleeping while Cowhard's on, but I did see
the quotes going around. So let's address the kmodo dragon
in the room. Brown's quarterback, Chaudur Sanders picking up not one,
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but two speeding tickets in twelve days. How significant is this?
So it is a story as old as time. I
am not as worked up into a lad as Colin
Coward if that makes for bad radio, I apologize in advance,
but it is as story as old as time. Young guy, fastcar,
and that's the recipe for trouble with a capital T
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room room, room vroom. Now snurseanders again, twenty three year
old guy. He's living the universal life, Universal pictures, life,
fast and the Furious nine, channeling his Interven Diesel. Right.
I caught speeding not once, but twice in twelve days.
And this is always my thing. I've gotten a few
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speeding tickets over the years. I don't know if you
like me, but in my life, when I've gotten a
speeding ticket, for the next like two months, I go
below the speed limit. I go below the speed limit
for like two months because I'm so paranoid. I once
got pulled over. I was leaving a Bills game years ago,
and I was I went to the Bills game with
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the great Steve Stillwell, who's now a professor. He used
to work at Fox Sports Radio, and my younger brother Mike.
So we were at a Bill's game and they were
playing the Tennessee Titans. So I'm leaving the stadium there
and got pulled over on the New York Expressway. I
forget how fast I was going, but I was trying
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to get out of Buffalo, and so I got pulled over.
And then so I then got back on the road.
I took the guy said, well, I can't print the ticket,
but we're gonna send it to you, and you're out
of state, so whatever. So I got back on the road,
and about ten minutes later, I look behind me and
I see cherry tops. I'm getting pulled over again, and
I looked, I'm going to speed limit. I was like
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screaming at my brother. I said, what is this cop doing.
I'm going the damn speed limit. I've made sure not that.
Sony of the guy pulls me over in the same
exact cop. He must have gone ninety miles an hour
to catch me down the expressway and he pulls me over.
He's all excited, Well, good news, I was able to
print up the ticket. Yeah, great, thank you. So technically
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I got pulled over twice in the span of about
half an hour, probably less than that, probably less than that. Anyway,
back to the point here, So Shandur Sanders does he
have entitlement? Of course, all these guys who are entitled,
these star players and all that but I'm gonna save
my faux outrage for things that you really need to
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get worked up into a lather over, and not not this. Now.
If he'd been driving drunk and that would have been
a different story, I can't put up with that. But
if you're just speeding and you're not intoxicated and all that,
I don't get get worked up, because I think pretty
much everyone does that. Now I've been pretty lucky. I'll
probably get a ticket later today. But I did get
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a message from a cop one time that said that
it's not everyone speeds. At least in LA everyone speeds,
And the cop told me, listen, I mean, it's essentially
said fish in a barrel. So as long as you're
like seventy nine and under, I'm not gonna waste mo
time because there's people that are going eighty five ninety
ninety five. Those are the people I'm gonna give tickets to,
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because that's a bigger ticket. So he gave me the
whole rap. And since then, the only place I've gotten
a ticket is in Minnesota, and I've been to a
bunch of other states, have been all over the place
since then, but the only place I got a ticket
was Minnesota, and it was like a like a nineteen
year old cop gave me a ticket. Hey, final point
to Cannsa City, the home of the Ben Mallard chicken
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fingers at the Landing in Liberty, Missouri, the holy land
of the chicken Fingers, where many great pe ones have
gone and watched sports and enjoyed lots of alcohol and
chicken fingers and lived the life of Riley so Kansas City.
Andy Reid Big Red said that despite some reports of
a diminished role, Andy Reid fully expects Travis Kelsey's snap
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count with the Chiefs to be quote similar to what
it was last year. But Andy Reid said he will
monitor Kelsey's playing time as training camp, as training camp
goes forward and season progresses, and change the plan if necessary.
Close quote so Andy Reid saying the Chiefs plan to
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use Travis kelcey early and often, early and often in
twenty twenty five. Is that alright with you? So I'll
go for thousand percent. Now, keep in mind, coaches will
lie to your face, and Andy Reid's been a coach
pretty much my entire adult life, so he knows the game.
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He's not if they're planning on downsizing Kelsey. He's not
going to tell you that. But last season Kelsey was
on the field for the third highest snap count. He
ran the fourth most roots or routes of his career
last year, and you gotta think because of his status,
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the Chiefs cannot cannot not play Kelsey. See a large amount. Right,
He's hanging out with the most famous woman in America,
if not the world, in Taylor Swift. So it's kind
of a big deal. And I'm pretty sure Taylor Swift
is not looking to date a scrub or a guy
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who's out there as a decoy. So you've got that,
and the mantra should be you keep going until the
wheels on the greyhound bus come off, till the wheels
on the greyhound bus come off, and then that's it.
And in last year at Kelsey, certainly in the Super Bowl,
Travis Kelsey was a doctor. He was doctor Doolittle and
ultimately he will be judged much like we talked about
(32:38):
minutes ago Lamar Jackson and what happens at the end.
And the Chiefs are also at that level where they
are expected to win the final game and if not,
and if you end up sucking at the very end,
and you stumble and fall down before you cross the
finish line. That is how people will remember you. Not
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really that hard. We're not talking about open heart surgery.
We're just talking about sports, and that's it.
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Gets grilled.
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Coo oh loop justin.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Former Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs spoke at a Hope
for Prisoner's event where he revealed that he would quote
love to try and play in the NFL again. He's
eligible for parole next year. Ben, do you think he
could make it back to the league.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
So, first of all, I hope he doesn't make it back.
I said he wouldn't ever play again. We did a
monologue about this when he went to jail, and I said,
I don't now. I realize though, that the NFL is
a bloodthirsty league, and the mantra across the league is
to never give up on talent. You never give up
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on talent. If there was ever a case of giving
up on talent, this would be it. I'm not saying
that he can't get out of jail and go out
and get a job somewhere and live a life and all.
I just think the NFL, like, what are you doing
with that? But I am reminded of a guy that
has worked at our place and for the NFL draft.
We've had him in here a couple of times, the
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former GM of the Cardinals, and he talked about if
the NFL. He was talking about the NFL draft and
he said like, hey, you know, if this guy was
really really fast, like if Hannibal Elector I think he
used the player said that if Hannibal Lecter was up
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for the NFL draft and he ran a four point
three or something like that, we probably diagnosed it as
an eating disorder. So they will try to rationalize Henry Ruggs.
I hope he doesn't play a game in the NFL.
We'll both get a regular job somewhere. If you blew
your chance in the NFL, killed the woman, she burned
up alive with a dog. That seems like a good
reason not to allow you back in the NFL.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Next, Sean Payton was asked about the thought that the
Broncos didn't do enough in the offseason to help bow Knicks.
Peyton said that having an elite defense is the best
way to help Nicks win games.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Then is he right? Well, no, I mean the best
way to have him win games is at two all
pro wide receivers and a great tight end and a
stud running back in three offensive line. But no, the
big issue for Bo Nicks is just getting better, proving
that last year was not a mirage.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
Next It's likely that the Elanta Brains will be looking
for a new manager next season. A recent report predicts
they will hire David Ross. Ben do you think this
would be a bad hire by Atlanta?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
It's a blaw higher, But David Ross kind of like
your guy Ron Washington with the Angels. People in baseball
love David Ross. They can't say enough good things. He's beloved.
That's how you get those jobs. How do we do?
He passed decision that is a win. Put it on
the board.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
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What do Ben Mahler and the Fox Sports radio phone
lines have in common? What they both took a couple
nights off this week. That's Eric in Kansas. I know
(37:48):
I called you Tuesday. Yeah the phone the phones didn't work. What?
That's Eric, very funny man. What did blind Scott like
when he attended one of Doc Mike's family barbecues? What
that warm glass of lemonade? From surface to media? What
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is one of the best perks that blind Scott gets?
Speaker 5 (38:12):
What?
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Well, he never has to worry about seeing his exes ever? Again,
that's Noah in Austin. What event has even more fighting
than Caitlin Clark's WNBA games. What Blind Scott's family reunion
at the Boston Zoo. That would be the answer there.
(38:36):
Then Fargo Pete sent me a couple of jokes which
I don't think are broadcast worthy. I love you, Fargo Pete.
It was great meeting you back in the day. But
I just can't use him because I want to be
here on Monday. How would you describe weed Man's biopic? Wow,
it's a cautionary tale. Riches to rags made in Hollywood. Florida.
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That ships in Maine. How's your roommate, by the way,
is he there? Oh? Yeah, there he is. Look at
he works at Walmart?
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Right?
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Eh, yeah, all right, he's like your sidekick. This is great.
He has a two man show. Now, weed Man, this
is your dream come true? All right? Inspired by the
George Foreman grill, weed Man is doing a celebrity endorsement
of his own year. About that, weed Man, what am
I doing? According to Dan in South Carolina, look for
the weed Man roach clip coming soon. Very exciting, all right.
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Why does weed Man love the Fox Sports radio phone lines?
Why because they don't work either. That's Eric in Kansas.
Very funny. Well did you hear that the Mennonites are
off for are offended? Rather, Mennonites are offended by weed
Man's poor work ethic and are boycotting lame jokes. How
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about that? Wow? Yeah, yeah, A defiant weed Man hippie
told them to stay in their lane while he applies
were more government handouts to make people laugh. That's Tom
in Indiana. Why is weed Man being considered to be
the new poster child for the National Hockey League? Why
(40:21):
because weed Man he has no teeth? And looks like
a hockey stick. That's a surfer Todd. You're a very
thin man. That's Surfer Todd, the comedian, a multi platinum
joke writer. Surfer toide you you would admit, weed Man,
you're on the thin side. Right. Yes, you're leaning me.
You're leaning me. But even before you you lost you
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know your way there? All right? What does weed Man
call a bag of crap on fire on his porch?
What a hot lunch? That's Tony and the Bayard. That's
not nice, Tony, that's not nice. Well, years ago, weed
Man had a minor role in a movie called Cocaine.
Do you remember that weed Man? No I was Man,
(41:05):
No I was? You were in Cocaine. It was only
one line, though, that's it. You only did one line.
That's Eacon, Roseville, Minnesota. Very funny man, all right, John
and Youngstown sent a joking about your roommate, which I
also don't think is worthy of being on the air. Unfortunately,
good joke, John, I enjoyed it. Marcel in Brooklyn, Well
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he caught the peekaboo virus. Do you hear about that
weed Man? Yeah? He ended up in the ICU come
That is like a That is a cheeseball dad joke
sending by Owen in Utah. Thank you on well hollering.
James is unable to drink milk because he apparently has
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a foot fetish. How about that one weed man? Wow? Yeah,
James's lactose intolerant is what he is. That's that, Derek.
That's another dad joke by Derek and Denver. Why are
bananas the favorite fruit of Blair in Maine?
Speaker 3 (42:04):
Why?
Speaker 1 (42:05):
We're not sure. He says. They're just appealing, is what
he says. They're appealing. That was a mark in Madison, Wisconsin,
near Kathy in Madison, Freddy from Fremont. That sounds like
a fake name, he says. Blair in Maine was reading
a book called the History of Lubricants. How about that
(42:25):
one weed man?
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Wow?
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Yeah, it's apparently a non friction book, is what it is.
So there's why does why does Mike the Leprechaun wear
a kilt?
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Why?
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Because a sheep can hear a zipper a mile away?
That's wow. That's Ecan Roseville. I mean that's not right there? Man,
oh man, oh man, All, I got time for a
couple more here. Chip and Maine sent this one in
what can Giant fans expect from Rafael Devers this year?
What he'll lead the league in walks to fir space
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on infield grounders. There it is lame jokes in the week,
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