July 3, 2025 • 38 mins
Ben Maller opens this 'Best of' edition of the show reacting to the news that free agent big man DeAndre Ayton is signing with the Lakers. Does this solve their issues at center? How does Ben see this working out? Then, he discusses the Knicks hiring Mike Brown as their next head coach... Is he an upgrade over Thibodeau? Next, he looks ahead to the season for the New York Giants... With Russell Wilson under center, what's the most likely season outcome for Big Blue? Ben explains why he prefers their other veteran option in Jameis Winston. Then, he weighs in all the Deebo Samuel weight-gain drama this offseason before giving Clayton Kershaw his flowers for surpassing 3,000 career strikeouts! Plus, more fun with a new edition of 'Maller to the 3rd Degree'!
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wire does not slow down. It does not, So we
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have a follow up follow up to a previous Mallard monologue.
We talked about this a couple of days ago, and
the Portland Trailblazers decided that they did not want the
services of DeAndre eighton anymore, so they worked a buy
out to get rid of him. So he became a
free agent to roam around wherever he wants, wherever his
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heart desires. The NBA so free agent center DeAndre eight
and the decision is in. He is no longer unemployed.
I know you're very concerned about this. If you did
not hear by now, perhaps perhaps you tuned out you
were not listening. We have learned though it's been a
double and triple confirmed that DeAndre Ayton is taking his talent.
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If you want to call it that to the Lakers
a two year deal to have heartache in the playoffs
with the Lakers. The deal includes a player option, so
it's really like a one year deal. But the deal
between Portland and eight they had a falling out. So
he goes to LA eight and in between the buyout
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from the Trailblazers and the money the new money the
Lakers are gonna pay him, he will earn thirty four
million dollars to play pro bouncy ball and will likely
miss half the games, and then when he plays, he'll
be engaged about half the time of those games. So
eight and he'll turn twenty seven on July twenty third,
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so he's got three weeks to go here until he
turns twenty seven. And he averaged a pedestrian fourteen points
a game, did have ten rebounds a game, shot fifty
six percent for the Portland Trailblazers down the Oregon Trail
last year. So let us discuss the question DeAndre Ayton.
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He goes to the Lakers, what are the odds that
he reinvents himself and turns out to be the player
he's supposed to be and not the player that he
has been So I've got house plans, middle school group chat,
and T shirt cannon, and we will combine all of
these things together and we're gonna make the baba Ganoosh,
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We're gonna make the babagan so a the word reinvent
to use that word that he's not going to reinvent himself.
I'm gonna go police on that idea. And I know
because I live in Los Angeles. LA is a town
that when you think about the history of transforming underachieving
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seven foot players into gladiators, they have a rich history
of that, unless they don't right now. It is a land.
If you want to kill Smoothie, you can get that.
If you want to hang out with social media influences,
they're all over the place. And a suntan lotionan here,
there and everywhere. You've got that. Listen. Eighton. He's played
now with two different teams. He has not shown any
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of that so called Mamba mentality. In fact, he's the
antithesis of that. He is more likely, by the time
he's done with the Lakers, more likely to have opened
a juice bar in Van Eyes than he is to
have made an All Star team as a Laker, and
with the Suns. He is not a team that was
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in the finals. Maybe they gagged against the Milwaukee Bucks
in the finals a couple of years back. You remember that.
So he was with the Suns. It was a finals team. Grant,
it was kind of a flukey finals run, but they
were in the finals and in the finals. I remember
we did monologues about it. But DeAndre Ayton approached NBA
finals games like he was playing rec ball at the YMCA.
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It's like l L L L, I said, the Boys
and Girls Club the YMCA. So DeAndre he plays in
cruise control. At least that's how he has played. He
has been dining on room service and sleeping through a
wake up call since he entered the NBA in the
twenty eighteen draft. And trust me, watching him play, and
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I'm not just being a shock dog, I don't know
lea a shocking take. Like I've literally seen house plans
that play with more perseverance and have more energy than
DeAndre Ayton plays professional basketball. Yeah, they'll be at random
night where he'll show up and he'll be engaged and
all that. I don't doubt that's gonna happen. Maybe maybe
he'll even stack a couple of good games together and
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play well for a week, but just don't count on it,
all right, And what about the numbers? He averaged a
double double? What about the numbers? All right? Well, his
nickname should be stove Top because it's stat stuffing statistics
that look nice to the uneducated fan, but they have
little to no impact on winning games. That's DeAndre Ayton
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in a nutshell period. Stop now one of the teams
that supposedly contacted him. And there's that Indiana. Now, Indiana
needs a center because they lost their center to the
Milwaukee Bucks. And the reason the Bucks got their center,
mister Turner, is because the Milwaukee Bucks are going to
eat one hundred thirteen million dollars, no barbecue sauce, no
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honey mustard, no dipping sauce, one hundred and thirteen million
to pay Dame literally to go away. So now there's
some new reporting out on that if you saw this
or not, and maybe not, but how do you process
a story that has been leaked by the Bucks that
one of the factors in buying out Damian Lillard is
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that they were upset that Dame Time was going to
rehab or had been rehabbing his achilles injury in Portland.
They said it was not improved, not approved, not approved
by the big shots there in Milwaukee. So how do
you process that? So I love this because it happens
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ninety nine point nine percent of the time, the classic
sports breakup where both sides pretend that they get along
with each other. They sing kumbah Yah, right, they wish
each other the best and all that stuff. The best
means as good as all the rest. And at the
same time they are rushing to their phones to send
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text messages in to their friends, their useful idiots in
the media, and they're leaking all the petty grievances that
each side has here to the media and it ends
up being like a middle school group chat where they're
just throwing all kinds of crap out there, right, all
kinds of crap out there. Some of it's true, some
of it's not. Like the Bucks didn't just wave Damian
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Lillard like on his way out. They leaked that they
were upset with him because he wanted to rehab in
Portland where his kids are. The horror of horse, a
thirty four year old father wants to be near his
family while learning to walk again because his achilles was
shredded like shredded chicken and how dare him? And it's
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it's part of the story where if you follow the story,
we've seen these kind of hostile sports breakups that have happened,
these sports divorces. It's the part of the story where
the Bucks want you to believe that they were the
aggrieved party, that they that they they were the ones
that were the victim. This is it didn't work out
that Dame going back to Portland was some kind of betrayal,
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is what it's being tossed out as I mean, that's
the NBA. It's not a hostage negotiation. And for the
Milwaukee Bucks, Damian Lillard was the big flex. You swung,
you try to hit a grand slam, and you popped
up meekly to the catcher. That's what you did. It happens,
and so now you lick your wounds and you move on,
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kind of like the team in New York, we pivot
last word here we go now to Gotham, Midtown Manhattan, where,
unless there's a last minute snaff o, we have a
new coach for the fledgling NBA team in the Big
Apple Mike Brown. What can Brown do for you? Mike
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Brown named coach of the Knicks, although things still have
to be worked out the crossing of the t's the
dot in the eyes, but being reported it's a done
deal barring some kind of last minute snaffo. Mike Brown
gonna be the coach of the Knickerbockers. Is this an
upgrade or a downgrade? Upgrade or downgrade? Mike Brown coaching
the Knicks? So this does not take a high basketball IQ.
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It does not. You do not have to be some
kind of insider to know. Congratulations to the New York Knicks.
They have just downgraded, right, They've downgraded from a nice
bunker to a beach house and a hurricane is coming
to town. All right, now it looks nice, no beach house,
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but wait till that storm arrives. Not so much. So
you let me get this straight. You gave Tom Thibodeau
a pink slip, and this is your solution. This is
your solution, really like you had no plan. The guy
that helped drag the rotting carcass of the Knickerbockers out
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of the Dolan Dungeon as they call it in Midtown Manhattan.
Madison Square Garden into the Eastern Conference Finals first time
since AOL dial up internet was still a thing. And
you let that go for Mike bleeping Brown? Are you
kidding me? Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. Yeah. Brown has been
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fired more than the T shirt cannon at your local
minor league ballpark. My god. Uh. Cleveland got rid of
him twice. The Lakers had him for a cup of coffee.
They dumped him after one year, after five games. I
think it was five games if I remember, they got
rid of him. Sacramento just had him. They made the
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playoffs and they still dumped Mike Brown. This was mid season,
after thirty one games. So that's not a trend, okay,
That is what's called a pattern. And Tom Thibodeau, who
was I guess an acquired taste to some We like
the way he coached from afar. We don't have any
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skin in the game, but his team's had grit. There
was an edge to a Tom Thibodaux coach team. And
when you juxtapose that style to Mike Brown, when people
talk about Mike Brown, everyone says the same thing. Nice guy, right,
Nice guy boy, Mike Brown. Nice guy. Everyone's talking about
how players love Mike Brown. Man, you can't get enough
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of Mike Brown. He's great. So how did that work
out for the Cavs? How did that work out for
the Lakers? How did that work out for the Kings?
So get to the point, please, So nobody is yapping
about the x's and o's the mad tactician that Mike
Brown is. So Mike Brown is essentially the NBA's version
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of a substitute teacher in terms of coaching. He's the
guy that will show everyone loves the sub because you know,
it's an easy day when the subs there, right, you have,
the sub brings some snacks, maybe some crackers or something
like that, and you get to watch movies all day
and it's great until a key moment comes up and
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you need to execute and you haven't put the work in,
and it all it's like a grenade. It just blows
up in your hands and it's a it's a disaster.
So that's where I am. But hey, listen, these are
the Knicks. This is the real Knicks. They had a
little taste of success with Tom Thibodeau, and now they
kicked his ass to the curb. And now they brought
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in Mike Brown, who will be peaks and valleys, but
many more, many more valleys than peaks. These stumbling, bumbling
knickerbockers are back at it yet again. All right, it
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like it's football, but we are closing in on the
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beginning of training camp and that is our lead. Our
lead is from this hour from the NFL rookies will
start showing up to camp in less than two weeks,
less than two weeks away from training camp opening up
for rookies in the NFL. Now, one of the teams
that is expected to blow this year the Giants. The
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Giants have been good in a long time, and the
rookies will report in like twelve days and then a
few days after that the veterans are going to show up. Now,
there's been a lot of noise about who's going to
play quarterback QB one for the team that calls themselves
the New York Giants, even though they play in New Jersey.
So if you have not been following, perhaps not. The
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Giants general manager Joe Shane said somewhat recently that Russell
Wilson brings to the Giants something they haven't had since
Elijah Manning, so that he was really buttering the biscuits
of Russell Wilson who came over from Pittsburgh. And then
you had state sponsored NFL media say that it is
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not a matter of if, not a matter of if
that rookie quarterback Jackson Dart will replace Russell Wilson. It's
simply a matter of when is it week five? Is
it week six? Is it week seven? Week get when
is it gonna happen? So let us discuss the question,
looking into the crystal ball, what's the most likely outcome,
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most likely outcome for Russell Wilson with the twenty twenty
five New York Football Giants. So I've got Expedia, Summer TV,
Classic and country gospel, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a
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delicious HOGI a delicious hogy. So number one, I said,
Number yeah, Yeah, it's just some malor math. As you know,
on my distant relative of Nostradamus and friend of noster Denis.
He lives in Seattle, where Russell Wilson toiled at quarterback
for the Seahawks back in the day. So Russ, if
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my math is correct, is now in the last five years.
Russ is playing for his fourth team in the last
five years. So that's the math on that. He's thirty six.
The Giants are trotting him out there, and if you
believe the quote from the general manager there, Joe Shane,
they want you to think. They also purchased this offseason
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on Amazon a hot tub time machine and they are
going to set the year to what twenty fourteen and
the Legion of Boom And in this case it's just
Boom goes the quarterback. Good luck on that. So the
most likely outcome looking into the crystal ball, Russell Wilson
will be grabbing his smartphone. He will be going on
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Expedia and he will be booking a room at a
bed and breakfast called the Heartbreak Hotel. That is where
he's gonna go. Russell Wilson. Now, no one's talking about
Jameis Winston, and I want Jameis Winston to play. I
support Jameis Winston. I'll tell you why he's bad. But
he's fun bad. If you're gonna be bad, be fun bad.
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So Jameis Winston still hanging around there, and then you've
got the rookie Jackson Dart waiting to take the job. So,
Russell Wilson, you don't have to be some kind of
high Faluton Adam Schefter Jay Glazer type to know that
this is a placeholder situation, plain and simple. That's it.
Russ got back up money from the Giants because they
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don't believe in him, nor should they. He got the
kind of a contract where just keep the seat warm.
We don't have seat heaters, so just keep the seat
warm there, Russ. And then you know, you move over
to the side and then we'll just we'll be the
coaching staff of the Jets. We'll just pray that Jackson
Dart doesn't look like a deer in the headlights by
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the time we get into week three or week four.
But at least mister mister Unlimited is squeezing all of
the clout he can get out of being the Giants
quarterback because he's not very good, hadn't been good in years,
Russell Wilson, if you read the tabloids, though, in the
Big Apple, the Naked City never sleeps, and in the
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last four months, Russ has been a regular on the
iconic Page six the tabloid of the New York Post.
He has been court sided at multiple New York Knickerbocker
games during their playoff run. He was most recently seen
at the Met Gala. He was at that Bugase Fanatics
Fest thing he showed up to that. He's been at
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the Vanity Fair Oscar party. I can go on and on.
He's hit in every socialiite event. I'm sure he'll be
somewhere this weekend the fourth of July. There'll be some
high falutin party on the Hamptons and Russell b that
he's soaking it all in, and I give him credit.
You got to hit the red carpet because Russ knows
once he starts playing turn out the last the parties over. Yeah,
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so he's they don't invite you to the red carpet.
When you're holding a clipboard wearing advisor and you're the backup,
they don't invite you. So you got to take advantage
of it. Even though he's like the faux starting quarterback
for the Giants, you gotta take advantage of it. Now
a guy in that division that is not a faux
starting quarterback. We turned the page to the Beltway and Washington,
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d C. The district of Columbia and so far, despite
Internet reports, quarterback Jaden Daniels says he is on team Deebo.
He is on team Debo. He's impressed with Deebo Samuel,
late of the forty nine ers. Now that goes counter
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these scandalous Internet reports, including photos, the accusations that the
new commander's wide receiver, Deebo Samuel needs to go to
a farm, a fat farm. So how much stock do
you put on Jaden Daniels giving an endorsement, a ringing
endorsement of Deebo Samuel with the commander. All right, So
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on this one, Jadon Daniels has turned into a crooner.
He's singing Deebo Samuel's praises and all that stuff. You know,
stand by your man. You're supposed to do that. And
it's one of those things. If you have a problem,
you do it privately. You don't do it publicly. Do
it privately. That's the way you're supposed to do it.
But I'm a talk showst I like when you do
it in the public square. It's I need content. I
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have a nightly show. I got four hours of talk
radio real estate I gotta fill So he's doing the
stand by your man thing Jaden Daniels and all that stuff.
Do you think Jaden Daniels though, would come out and say,
oh my god, Deebo Samuel, he is one more sub
sandwich from exploding, right, I mean, and listen, Jayden Daniels.
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He probably don't care whether Deebo Samuel's rocking a couple
of extra you know, Chick fil A sandwiches or whatever
it's it is setting up, though, Like the thing that
interests me about this story is its setting up to
be a summer TV classic for the Washington commanders. It's
a it's a show that's been on and off in
six generation of six decades to tell the truth. Will
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the real Deebo Samuel please stand up? And you'll have
three people all dressed like Deebo Samuel. Will the real
Deebo Samuel stand up? Because no, debo, He's never gonna
win a Mister Universe contest, nor will I by the
by that by that token. But based on some social
media clips that I've seen, and you've sent me, some
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of you knuckleheads love to send me. Do you see this?
Oh my God, he's got a belly, He's got a
beer belly. Yeah, So people are acting. People are acting
like Deebo Samuel waddled in to the commander's facility like
a penguin, and he was wearing cargo shorts and compression socks.
And he's like somebody's uncle after a Fourth of July
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cookout this weekend. Now the mystery will be solved to
tell the truth when training camp opens up in a
couple of weeks, and will Deebo Samuel show up. Will
he be wearing a football helmet, football pads, and pants,
or will he be wearing moo moo. We will find
out when the Washington football team opens up camp. Now,
final point, we're gonna pivot away from that to baseball.
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The big story in baseball not the infestation of doubleheaders
because of the bad weather that hit the Atlantic seaboard
this week. But instead everyone's been yapping about Dodger starting
pitcher Clayton Kershaw, the old left handed Clayton Kershaw. On
a random Wednesday night against one of the worst teams
in baseball, the Chicago White Sox, Clayton Kershaw reached three
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thousand strikeouts and many pundits of baseball are convinced that
he is the last one, the last one to reach
three thousand strikeouts. So is that an overreaction or is
that a smart take? Overreaction or a smart take that
Clayton Kershaw is the last pitcher to reach three thousand strikeouts?
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So this is with a capital H, hyperbole is what
this is now. I know that we're being fed this
propaganda that three thousand strikeouts, this is it by a starter,
and Kershaw's a relic from a different era. I say, Phoe,
I say for Clayton Kershaw's milestone, what it should be
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is a bridge, a bridge over troubled waters, a hardball revival,
and someone's gonna have the goal to actually do this,
and it's gonna be a crappy team, a team that
has no real fan base that's willing to do it,
to think outside the boxes. Everyone's thinking the same way
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in baseball, copycat situation and all that stuff. With Kershaw,
what you should be doing is crank up the Hank
Williams country gospel tune. I saw the light. I saw
the light. Baseball like everything, it's cyclical, everything cyclical. It
can once again, I am am I'll go ahead for
believing that baseball can once again rediscover big time starting pitching.
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And they always take the easy road out. They say, well,
it's not an orful. These guys didn't throw a lot
in high school. They didn't throw a lot in college.
But a lot of the pitchers are drafted out of
high school. Clayton Kershaw, I believe, came out of high
school from the Dallas area. And you can take a
picture who's eighteen years old out of high school and
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the guys they're signing in the Dominican and other places
are younger than that, and you can mold them into
starting pitchers. You have enough time to do that, so
you can. You can rally around, and I'll give you
the little dirty secret about the sport of baseball. Baseball
is better when you have dominate starting pitching. Does anyone
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disagree with that? Does anyone want to raise their hand?
No one's going to raise their hand and disagree. So
I would like you to join my grassroots movement. It's
an upstart, renegade outfit, and let's make starting pitching great again.
The nerds killed it. We can bring it back from
the dead. We can resuscitate it. The starting pitcher is
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the one person in baseball who can control the narrative,
the one person with the ball who can set the tone,
and you're like, I guaranteed to win this. They very
rarely will we not win when this guy's pitching. You
cannot replicate that with your bullpen day. And let the
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aces walk the tight rope when they go third time
through the lineup. You don't need to have a coronary
when you get to the eighth inning. Let him pitch,
let him pitch out of trouble, let them get dirty,
let him give up some runs and blow some games.
Because baseball does not need any more of these matchups
where you bring out the three ring binder and you're
playing nerd ball. You need dramatic moments and a dominant
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starting pitcher, and there's hardly any of them left in
the game. But a dominant starting pitcher on the mound.
It's like going to see a heavyweight boxing match back
in the old days, Right, everyone's anticipating what's gonna happen, right,
you own the night, that is the moment, it's the
moment of truth. Who's gonna pitch better that night, Who's
gonna do better all that and like the idea that
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well this is the last one, Clayton Kershaw, it shouldn't
be right. And it's gonna take a team that has
no fans, like the Athletics who don't even have a city.
They're so embarrassed about being in Sacramento, or the Tampa
Bay Rays. There's another minor league outfit, and just just
go for it. Just develop pitchers to be dominant starting pitching,
and you have such an advantage over everyone else, and
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then that team has to succeed, and then when they succeed,
everyone's gonna copy them. Period. Stop. It is the Ben
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a little bit and talk about being a prisoner of
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the moment, a prisoner of the moment. We'll get to that,
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All right, back to when we go we will have
coming up in a few minutes, We have Mallard the
Third Degree. But time now to pay off the Insta
Trivia And here it is Detroit's Hobby Baiaz joined Pete
Rose harmon Killebrew and Blank is the only players to
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start the All Star Game at three different positions. That
is the question. What is the answer? Let's see does
anyone know the answer? And let's see here. Marco Scutero
fromge hiding somewhere in the in the Bay Area. Jose
Offerman from Miguel on Fire. You cannot spell Offerman without
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an E for error. Who else do we have? Richard Simmons,
Yes by Mallard prop guy, that's his answer. The great
former Dodger. Let's see here, page down. Ocho Texto went
with a porn star. Who else do we have? Brian
from the movie Life of Brian? Guessed by Bobby in Florida.
Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, going with Yogi Bearra as his answer.
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Alf the Alien Opiner says it's the Swiss Army Knife.
That that is the answer. King Rory checks in with
Max Power or Max Powers is his answer. The annoying
caller of the Year, Poppy. Yeah, I didn't you know.
I'm doing a lot of talk radio today. I did
not have time for Poppy. I could not take any more.
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Poppy could not Robin Minnesota's going with John Rocker as
his answer. Matt, the Bears fan in Nebraska says that
would be Ben's favorite Dodger pitcher Blake Snell. Yeah, Blake said,
this is how you know that guy Vessay I was
on earlier locally in LA that guy Bass said is
the Dodger posting. He's such a Blake Snell toady. He
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would not admit that Blake Snell has been a bust.
He's made two starts as a Dodger, two starts as
a Dodger. Horrible, horrible move.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Mark in Queens via San Diego and Arlington says, Abner
Doubleday is the answer? A fine relevant name, A contemporary name.
Sewn in Portland's going with Danny Ainge as his answer.
Mark checks in with Rusty Koontz and make sure I
say that properly. Gonna pause before you say the last name.
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Who else do we have? Page down? Christopher in Canns
City going with Dodger legend the Liono de Shields as
a his answer. Jason going with Craig Bigo. Yeah. I
was getting a lot of messages from fans of the
ass one thousand and two, one thousand holes, all excited
because they beat the Rockies. Does anyone want to let
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the people of Houston know the Rockies suck and everyone
beats the Rockies? Does anyone to let me know? Anyway?
Let's pay off the insta trivia question. So the Tigers
Hobby Bias, joining Pete, Rose, Harmon, Killebrew and Blank is
the only players to start the All Star Game in
three different positions. Let's go over to Mary, Mary, do
you have an answer? Mary?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Oh? My mom?
Speaker 1 (34:38):
All right? Is it Mary's mother? Is that the answer?
Let's find out? Apparently it's not your mom. I'm sorry,
I'm sure she's a lovely lady. No, the correct answer
is Albert. Whoo hosts Albert who is the answer? Who
started the All Star Game at first base, third base,
and in left field? Oh? There is that? With that
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in your pipe and smoking? And right now, here we go,
Here we go. It's time hit that button. There, Mary,
that's the one right there, that's it, that's the one.
All right. We go over to the producer's chair and
Ian Roddy.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Hello, Ian, You notice I've learned not to jump the
gun as much like I did last week.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
You were excited it happens, you know.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Yeah, I'm learning I'm learning.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Here we go, let's jump in here though. Number One.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
On a recent podcast interview, Chiefs tight end, Travis Kelsey
recalled some troubles he had behind the scenes back when
he hosted Saturday Night Live back in twenty twenty three.
So the hardest part of hosting SNL was the pre
show table read because apparently he can't really read that well.
So inevitably social media got a hold of that, got
a hold of that, and you know, they've been making
a ton of fun of him. So, Ben, do you
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think any less of Kelsey now that you know he
has tough time reading?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
No, because I think he was embellishing it. If he's
not embellishing it, I mean, that's pretty impressive. He went
to Cleveland Heights High School in Cleveland. He went to
the University of Cincinnati. I think he spent four years
in college. And if he was able to make it
through all that and not not be able to read,
like there's reading at a high level and then there's
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like reading just being able to read enough. I don't
doubt that Kelsey's not a prolific reader. He's a football player,
and he's like a meathead football player. I don't think
any less of him. I never thought of him as
an academic type person anyway, So who cares. You know,
he reads a lot, and I'd like to think that
he's not totally lacking the ability to read anything all. Right.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Next, with all the potential trade rumors circling around Lebron
right now, his son Bron, he was asked how he
feels about all of it, So he said, he doesn't
really pay attention to all that stuff. But look, Ben,
if Lebron's senior were to be traded, what do you
think the Lakers would do with Brownie?
Speaker 1 (36:47):
They'd include him in the trade if Lebron. No, I
don't think Lebron's being traded. And let me tell you Ian,
that is the number one answer publicists tell you. The
number one answer when you're asked a difficult question is
if it's about to play in a football game, so
I didn't see the play, and if it's about trade rumors,
you say, I don't pay attention to that stuff. I
was unaware of it. Right, You played dumb that way.
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You just kind of kill the line of questioning and
all that. But no, if the Lakers are gonna get
out of the Lebron business. If they are ready to
unload Lebron James, then it is a two for one
special at the flea market, and it's gonna be Lebron
and Bronni. They're going to trade them to the Knicks
or the Cavaliers or to wherever. And I will guarantee
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you that Bronni is absolutely aware of what's going on
with Lebron and where he's gonna end up because he
is handcuffed to Lebron. The only reason Bronni's in the
NBA the kid can't play. The only reason he's in
the NBAS because it was Dad. Next.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
So the Milwaukee Bucks, who you know, as you mentioned
in the monologue yesterday, they recently released Damian Lillard and
they're reportedly eyeing twelve time All Star Chris Paul as
his potential replacement. According to Chris Haynes, So Ben, would
you like the forty year old CP three for the
Bucks is a short term bridge at point guard?
Speaker 1 (38:02):
So only if you can get a Delorian and go
back to the future and head back, you know, back
in time. But no, listen, Chris Paul's washed up at
this point. He's a backup. I read where Chris Paul
wants to start. He's looking for his starting job. No,
I mean, he gotta signed somebody. But Chris Paul, I
have a feeling he's gonna end up with the Clippers
and all that. But no, I would not I would
not bring Chris Paul in expecting him to be a
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starter or a play big minutes and all that at
this point, although he did play a lot in San
Antonio on a terrible Spurs team that seven people watched.
All right, there it is Mallard to the third degree.
How did we do?
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It was close today, but you still managed to win
this one.
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Ben, nice job. That has a win. I got the long.
I don't think I've lost a Mallard of the third
degree this year. I think I'm undefeated this year at
MAL What a streak, A record streak.
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wire does not slow down. It does not, So we
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have a follow up follow up to a previous Mallard monologue.
We talked about this a couple of days ago, and
the Portland Trailblazers decided that they did not want the
services of DeAndre eighton anymore, so they worked a buy
out to get rid of him. So he became a
free agent to roam around wherever he wants, wherever his
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heart desires. The NBA so free agent center DeAndre eight
and the decision is in. He is no longer unemployed.
I know you're very concerned about this. If you did
not hear by now, perhaps perhaps you tuned out you
were not listening. We have learned though it's been a
double and triple confirmed that DeAndre Ayton is taking his talent.
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If you want to call it that to the Lakers
a two year deal to have heartache in the playoffs
with the Lakers. The deal includes a player option, so
it's really like a one year deal. But the deal
between Portland and eight they had a falling out. So
he goes to LA eight and in between the buyout
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from the Trailblazers and the money the new money the
Lakers are gonna pay him, he will earn thirty four
million dollars to play pro bouncy ball and will likely
miss half the games, and then when he plays, he'll
be engaged about half the time of those games. So
eight and he'll turn twenty seven on July twenty third,
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so he's got three weeks to go here until he
turns twenty seven. And he averaged a pedestrian fourteen points
a game, did have ten rebounds a game, shot fifty
six percent for the Portland Trailblazers down the Oregon Trail
last year. So let us discuss the question DeAndre Ayton.
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He goes to the Lakers, what are the odds that
he reinvents himself and turns out to be the player
he's supposed to be and not the player that he
has been So I've got house plans, middle school group chat,
and T shirt cannon, and we will combine all of
these things together and we're gonna make the baba Ganoosh,
(04:11):
We're gonna make the babagan so a the word reinvent
to use that word that he's not going to reinvent himself.
I'm gonna go police on that idea. And I know
because I live in Los Angeles. LA is a town
that when you think about the history of transforming underachieving
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seven foot players into gladiators, they have a rich history
of that, unless they don't right now. It is a land.
If you want to kill Smoothie, you can get that.
If you want to hang out with social media influences,
they're all over the place. And a suntan lotionan here,
there and everywhere. You've got that. Listen. Eighton. He's played
now with two different teams. He has not shown any
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of that so called Mamba mentality. In fact, he's the
antithesis of that. He is more likely, by the time
he's done with the Lakers, more likely to have opened
a juice bar in Van Eyes than he is to
have made an All Star team as a Laker, and
with the Suns. He is not a team that was
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in the finals. Maybe they gagged against the Milwaukee Bucks
in the finals a couple of years back. You remember that.
So he was with the Suns. It was a finals team. Grant,
it was kind of a flukey finals run, but they
were in the finals and in the finals. I remember
we did monologues about it. But DeAndre Ayton approached NBA
finals games like he was playing rec ball at the YMCA.
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It's like l L L L, I said, the Boys
and Girls Club the YMCA. So DeAndre he plays in
cruise control. At least that's how he has played. He
has been dining on room service and sleeping through a
wake up call since he entered the NBA in the
twenty eighteen draft. And trust me, watching him play, and
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I'm not just being a shock dog, I don't know
lea a shocking take. Like I've literally seen house plans
that play with more perseverance and have more energy than
DeAndre Ayton plays professional basketball. Yeah, they'll be at random
night where he'll show up and he'll be engaged and
all that. I don't doubt that's gonna happen. Maybe maybe
he'll even stack a couple of good games together and
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play well for a week, but just don't count on it,
all right, And what about the numbers? He averaged a
double double? What about the numbers? All right? Well, his
nickname should be stove Top because it's stat stuffing statistics
that look nice to the uneducated fan, but they have
little to no impact on winning games. That's DeAndre Ayton
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in a nutshell period. Stop now one of the teams
that supposedly contacted him. And there's that Indiana. Now, Indiana
needs a center because they lost their center to the
Milwaukee Bucks. And the reason the Bucks got their center,
mister Turner, is because the Milwaukee Bucks are going to
eat one hundred thirteen million dollars, no barbecue sauce, no
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honey mustard, no dipping sauce, one hundred and thirteen million
to pay Dame literally to go away. So now there's
some new reporting out on that if you saw this
or not, and maybe not, but how do you process
a story that has been leaked by the Bucks that
one of the factors in buying out Damian Lillard is
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that they were upset that Dame Time was going to
rehab or had been rehabbing his achilles injury in Portland.
They said it was not improved, not approved, not approved
by the big shots there in Milwaukee. So how do
you process that? So I love this because it happens
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ninety nine point nine percent of the time, the classic
sports breakup where both sides pretend that they get along
with each other. They sing kumbah Yah, right, they wish
each other the best and all that stuff. The best
means as good as all the rest. And at the
same time they are rushing to their phones to send
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text messages in to their friends, their useful idiots in
the media, and they're leaking all the petty grievances that
each side has here to the media and it ends
up being like a middle school group chat where they're
just throwing all kinds of crap out there, right, all
kinds of crap out there. Some of it's true, some
of it's not. Like the Bucks didn't just wave Damian
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Lillard like on his way out. They leaked that they
were upset with him because he wanted to rehab in
Portland where his kids are. The horror of horse, a
thirty four year old father wants to be near his
family while learning to walk again because his achilles was
shredded like shredded chicken and how dare him? And it's
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it's part of the story where if you follow the story,
we've seen these kind of hostile sports breakups that have happened,
these sports divorces. It's the part of the story where
the Bucks want you to believe that they were the
aggrieved party, that they that they they were the ones
that were the victim. This is it didn't work out
that Dame going back to Portland was some kind of betrayal,
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is what it's being tossed out as I mean, that's
the NBA. It's not a hostage negotiation. And for the
Milwaukee Bucks, Damian Lillard was the big flex. You swung,
you try to hit a grand slam, and you popped
up meekly to the catcher. That's what you did. It happens,
and so now you lick your wounds and you move on,
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kind of like the team in New York, we pivot
last word here we go now to Gotham, Midtown Manhattan, where,
unless there's a last minute snaff o, we have a
new coach for the fledgling NBA team in the Big
Apple Mike Brown. What can Brown do for you? Mike
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Brown named coach of the Knicks, although things still have
to be worked out the crossing of the t's the
dot in the eyes, but being reported it's a done
deal barring some kind of last minute snaffo. Mike Brown
gonna be the coach of the Knickerbockers. Is this an
upgrade or a downgrade? Upgrade or downgrade? Mike Brown coaching
the Knicks? So this does not take a high basketball IQ.
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It does not. You do not have to be some
kind of insider to know. Congratulations to the New York Knicks.
They have just downgraded, right, They've downgraded from a nice
bunker to a beach house and a hurricane is coming
to town. All right, now it looks nice, no beach house,
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but wait till that storm arrives. Not so much. So
you let me get this straight. You gave Tom Thibodeau
a pink slip, and this is your solution. This is
your solution, really like you had no plan. The guy
that helped drag the rotting carcass of the Knickerbockers out
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of the Dolan Dungeon as they call it in Midtown Manhattan.
Madison Square Garden into the Eastern Conference Finals first time
since AOL dial up internet was still a thing. And
you let that go for Mike bleeping Brown? Are you
kidding me? Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. Yeah. Brown has been
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fired more than the T shirt cannon at your local
minor league ballpark. My god. Uh. Cleveland got rid of
him twice. The Lakers had him for a cup of coffee.
They dumped him after one year, after five games. I
think it was five games if I remember, they got
rid of him. Sacramento just had him. They made the
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playoffs and they still dumped Mike Brown. This was mid season,
after thirty one games. So that's not a trend, okay,
That is what's called a pattern. And Tom Thibodeau, who
was I guess an acquired taste to some We like
the way he coached from afar. We don't have any
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skin in the game, but his team's had grit. There
was an edge to a Tom Thibodaux coach team. And
when you juxtapose that style to Mike Brown, when people
talk about Mike Brown, everyone says the same thing. Nice guy, right,
Nice guy boy, Mike Brown. Nice guy. Everyone's talking about
how players love Mike Brown. Man, you can't get enough
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of Mike Brown. He's great. So how did that work
out for the Cavs? How did that work out for
the Lakers? How did that work out for the Kings?
So get to the point, please, So nobody is yapping
about the x's and o's the mad tactician that Mike
Brown is. So Mike Brown is essentially the NBA's version
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of a substitute teacher in terms of coaching. He's the
guy that will show everyone loves the sub because you know,
it's an easy day when the subs there, right, you have,
the sub brings some snacks, maybe some crackers or something
like that, and you get to watch movies all day
and it's great until a key moment comes up and
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you need to execute and you haven't put the work in,
and it all it's like a grenade. It just blows
up in your hands and it's a it's a disaster.
So that's where I am. But hey, listen, these are
the Knicks. This is the real Knicks. They had a
little taste of success with Tom Thibodeau, and now they
kicked his ass to the curb. And now they brought
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in Mike Brown, who will be peaks and valleys, but
many more, many more valleys than peaks. These stumbling, bumbling
knickerbockers are back at it yet again. All right, it
is the Bean Mahlor Show. If you would like to
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We are in the air everywhere, socializing as we are
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like it's football, but we are closing in on the
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beginning of training camp and that is our lead. Our
lead is from this hour from the NFL rookies will
start showing up to camp in less than two weeks,
less than two weeks away from training camp opening up
for rookies in the NFL. Now, one of the teams
that is expected to blow this year the Giants. The
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Giants have been good in a long time, and the
rookies will report in like twelve days and then a
few days after that the veterans are going to show up. Now,
there's been a lot of noise about who's going to
play quarterback QB one for the team that calls themselves
the New York Giants, even though they play in New Jersey.
So if you have not been following, perhaps not. The
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Giants general manager Joe Shane said somewhat recently that Russell
Wilson brings to the Giants something they haven't had since
Elijah Manning, so that he was really buttering the biscuits
of Russell Wilson who came over from Pittsburgh. And then
you had state sponsored NFL media say that it is
(17:51):
not a matter of if, not a matter of if
that rookie quarterback Jackson Dart will replace Russell Wilson. It's
simply a matter of when is it week five? Is
it week six? Is it week seven? Week get when
is it gonna happen? So let us discuss the question,
looking into the crystal ball, what's the most likely outcome,
(18:14):
most likely outcome for Russell Wilson with the twenty twenty
five New York Football Giants. So I've got Expedia, Summer TV,
Classic and country gospel, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a
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delicious HOGI a delicious hogy. So number one, I said,
Number yeah, Yeah, it's just some malor math. As you know,
on my distant relative of Nostradamus and friend of noster Denis.
He lives in Seattle, where Russell Wilson toiled at quarterback
for the Seahawks back in the day. So Russ, if
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my math is correct, is now in the last five years.
Russ is playing for his fourth team in the last
five years. So that's the math on that. He's thirty six.
The Giants are trotting him out there, and if you
believe the quote from the general manager there, Joe Shane,
they want you to think. They also purchased this offseason
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on Amazon a hot tub time machine and they are
going to set the year to what twenty fourteen and
the Legion of Boom And in this case it's just
Boom goes the quarterback. Good luck on that. So the
most likely outcome looking into the crystal ball, Russell Wilson
will be grabbing his smartphone. He will be going on
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Expedia and he will be booking a room at a
bed and breakfast called the Heartbreak Hotel. That is where
he's gonna go. Russell Wilson. Now, no one's talking about
Jameis Winston, and I want Jameis Winston to play. I
support Jameis Winston. I'll tell you why he's bad. But
he's fun bad. If you're gonna be bad, be fun bad.
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So Jameis Winston still hanging around there, and then you've
got the rookie Jackson Dart waiting to take the job. So,
Russell Wilson, you don't have to be some kind of
high Faluton Adam Schefter Jay Glazer type to know that
this is a placeholder situation, plain and simple. That's it.
Russ got back up money from the Giants because they
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don't believe in him, nor should they. He got the
kind of a contract where just keep the seat warm.
We don't have seat heaters, so just keep the seat
warm there, Russ. And then you know, you move over
to the side and then we'll just we'll be the
coaching staff of the Jets. We'll just pray that Jackson
Dart doesn't look like a deer in the headlights by
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the time we get into week three or week four.
But at least mister mister Unlimited is squeezing all of
the clout he can get out of being the Giants
quarterback because he's not very good, hadn't been good in years,
Russell Wilson, if you read the tabloids, though, in the
Big Apple, the Naked City never sleeps, and in the
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last four months, Russ has been a regular on the
iconic Page six the tabloid of the New York Post.
He has been court sided at multiple New York Knickerbocker
games during their playoff run. He was most recently seen
at the Met Gala. He was at that Bugase Fanatics
Fest thing he showed up to that. He's been at
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the Vanity Fair Oscar party. I can go on and on.
He's hit in every socialiite event. I'm sure he'll be
somewhere this weekend the fourth of July. There'll be some
high falutin party on the Hamptons and Russell b that
he's soaking it all in, and I give him credit.
You got to hit the red carpet because Russ knows
once he starts playing turn out the last the parties over. Yeah,
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so he's they don't invite you to the red carpet.
When you're holding a clipboard wearing advisor and you're the backup,
they don't invite you. So you got to take advantage
of it. Even though he's like the faux starting quarterback
for the Giants, you gotta take advantage of it. Now
a guy in that division that is not a faux
starting quarterback. We turned the page to the Beltway and Washington,
(22:16):
d C. The district of Columbia and so far, despite
Internet reports, quarterback Jaden Daniels says he is on team Deebo.
He is on team Debo. He's impressed with Deebo Samuel,
late of the forty nine ers. Now that goes counter
(22:37):
these scandalous Internet reports, including photos, the accusations that the
new commander's wide receiver, Deebo Samuel needs to go to
a farm, a fat farm. So how much stock do
you put on Jaden Daniels giving an endorsement, a ringing
endorsement of Deebo Samuel with the commander. All right, So
(23:01):
on this one, Jadon Daniels has turned into a crooner.
He's singing Deebo Samuel's praises and all that stuff. You know,
stand by your man. You're supposed to do that. And
it's one of those things. If you have a problem,
you do it privately. You don't do it publicly. Do
it privately. That's the way you're supposed to do it.
But I'm a talk showst I like when you do
it in the public square. It's I need content. I
(23:21):
have a nightly show. I got four hours of talk
radio real estate I gotta fill So he's doing the
stand by your man thing Jaden Daniels and all that stuff.
Do you think Jaden Daniels though, would come out and say,
oh my god, Deebo Samuel, he is one more sub
sandwich from exploding, right, I mean, and listen, Jayden Daniels.
(23:42):
He probably don't care whether Deebo Samuel's rocking a couple
of extra you know, Chick fil A sandwiches or whatever
it's it is setting up, though, Like the thing that
interests me about this story is its setting up to
be a summer TV classic for the Washington commanders. It's
a it's a show that's been on and off in
six generation of six decades to tell the truth. Will
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the real Deebo Samuel please stand up? And you'll have
three people all dressed like Deebo Samuel. Will the real
Deebo Samuel stand up? Because no, debo, He's never gonna
win a Mister Universe contest, nor will I by the
by that by that token. But based on some social
media clips that I've seen, and you've sent me, some
(24:24):
of you knuckleheads love to send me. Do you see this?
Oh my God, he's got a belly, He's got a
beer belly. Yeah, So people are acting. People are acting
like Deebo Samuel waddled in to the commander's facility like
a penguin, and he was wearing cargo shorts and compression socks.
And he's like somebody's uncle after a Fourth of July
(24:46):
cookout this weekend. Now the mystery will be solved to
tell the truth when training camp opens up in a
couple of weeks, and will Deebo Samuel show up. Will
he be wearing a football helmet, football pads, and pants,
or will he be wearing moo moo. We will find
out when the Washington football team opens up camp. Now,
final point, we're gonna pivot away from that to baseball.
(25:10):
The big story in baseball not the infestation of doubleheaders
because of the bad weather that hit the Atlantic seaboard
this week. But instead everyone's been yapping about Dodger starting
pitcher Clayton Kershaw, the old left handed Clayton Kershaw. On
a random Wednesday night against one of the worst teams
in baseball, the Chicago White Sox, Clayton Kershaw reached three
(25:33):
thousand strikeouts and many pundits of baseball are convinced that
he is the last one, the last one to reach
three thousand strikeouts. So is that an overreaction or is
that a smart take? Overreaction or a smart take that
Clayton Kershaw is the last pitcher to reach three thousand strikeouts?
(25:57):
So this is with a capital H, hyperbole is what
this is now. I know that we're being fed this
propaganda that three thousand strikeouts, this is it by a starter,
and Kershaw's a relic from a different era. I say, Phoe,
I say for Clayton Kershaw's milestone, what it should be
(26:20):
is a bridge, a bridge over troubled waters, a hardball revival,
and someone's gonna have the goal to actually do this,
and it's gonna be a crappy team, a team that
has no real fan base that's willing to do it,
to think outside the boxes. Everyone's thinking the same way
(26:41):
in baseball, copycat situation and all that stuff. With Kershaw,
what you should be doing is crank up the Hank
Williams country gospel tune. I saw the light. I saw
the light. Baseball like everything, it's cyclical, everything cyclical. It
can once again, I am am I'll go ahead for
believing that baseball can once again rediscover big time starting pitching.
(27:05):
And they always take the easy road out. They say, well,
it's not an orful. These guys didn't throw a lot
in high school. They didn't throw a lot in college.
But a lot of the pitchers are drafted out of
high school. Clayton Kershaw, I believe, came out of high
school from the Dallas area. And you can take a
picture who's eighteen years old out of high school and
(27:26):
the guys they're signing in the Dominican and other places
are younger than that, and you can mold them into
starting pitchers. You have enough time to do that, so
you can. You can rally around, and I'll give you
the little dirty secret about the sport of baseball. Baseball
is better when you have dominate starting pitching. Does anyone
(27:49):
disagree with that? Does anyone want to raise their hand?
No one's going to raise their hand and disagree. So
I would like you to join my grassroots movement. It's
an upstart, renegade outfit, and let's make starting pitching great again.
The nerds killed it. We can bring it back from
the dead. We can resuscitate it. The starting pitcher is
(28:09):
the one person in baseball who can control the narrative,
the one person with the ball who can set the tone,
and you're like, I guaranteed to win this. They very
rarely will we not win when this guy's pitching. You
cannot replicate that with your bullpen day. And let the
(28:30):
aces walk the tight rope when they go third time
through the lineup. You don't need to have a coronary
when you get to the eighth inning. Let him pitch,
let him pitch out of trouble, let them get dirty,
let him give up some runs and blow some games.
Because baseball does not need any more of these matchups
where you bring out the three ring binder and you're
playing nerd ball. You need dramatic moments and a dominant
(28:56):
starting pitcher, and there's hardly any of them left in
the game. But a dominant starting pitcher on the mound.
It's like going to see a heavyweight boxing match back
in the old days, Right, everyone's anticipating what's gonna happen, right,
you own the night, that is the moment, it's the
moment of truth. Who's gonna pitch better that night, Who's
gonna do better all that and like the idea that
(29:18):
well this is the last one, Clayton Kershaw, it shouldn't
be right. And it's gonna take a team that has
no fans, like the Athletics who don't even have a city.
They're so embarrassed about being in Sacramento, or the Tampa
Bay Rays. There's another minor league outfit, and just just
go for it. Just develop pitchers to be dominant starting pitching,
and you have such an advantage over everyone else, and
(29:41):
then that team has to succeed, and then when they succeed,
everyone's gonna copy them. Period. Stop. It is the Ben
Mahler Show. As we are rolling through the overnight. You
want to comment on any of that, you can join
us right now. A couple of lines open up all
of a sudden, as some of these knuckleets did not
have these staying powers. So anyway, eight seven seven ninety
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That's at Ben Mahler. If you want to be part
of the program. Later this hour, we do have Mallard
of the third degree that'll be coming your way in
a little bit and talk about being a prisoner of
(30:24):
the moment, a prisoner of the moment. We'll get to that,
and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
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Speaker 1 (30:40):
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(31:01):
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(31:25):
All right, back to when we go we will have
coming up in a few minutes, We have Mallard the
Third Degree. But time now to pay off the Insta
Trivia And here it is Detroit's Hobby Baiaz joined Pete
Rose harmon Killebrew and Blank is the only players to
(31:46):
start the All Star Game at three different positions. That
is the question. What is the answer? Let's see does
anyone know the answer? And let's see here. Marco Scutero
fromge hiding somewhere in the in the Bay Area. Jose
Offerman from Miguel on Fire. You cannot spell Offerman without
(32:09):
an E for error. Who else do we have? Richard Simmons,
Yes by Mallard prop guy, that's his answer. The great
former Dodger. Let's see here, page down. Ocho Texto went
with a porn star. Who else do we have? Brian
from the movie Life of Brian? Guessed by Bobby in Florida.
Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, going with Yogi Bearra as his answer.
(32:36):
Alf the Alien Opiner says it's the Swiss Army Knife.
That that is the answer. King Rory checks in with
Max Power or Max Powers is his answer. The annoying
caller of the Year, Poppy. Yeah, I didn't you know.
I'm doing a lot of talk radio today. I did
not have time for Poppy. I could not take any more.
(32:56):
Poppy could not Robin Minnesota's going with John Rocker as
his answer. Matt, the Bears fan in Nebraska says that
would be Ben's favorite Dodger pitcher Blake Snell. Yeah, Blake said,
this is how you know that guy Vessay I was
on earlier locally in LA that guy Bass said is
the Dodger posting. He's such a Blake Snell toady. He
(33:20):
would not admit that Blake Snell has been a bust.
He's made two starts as a Dodger, two starts as
a Dodger. Horrible, horrible move.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Mark in Queens via San Diego and Arlington says, Abner
Doubleday is the answer? A fine relevant name, A contemporary name.
Sewn in Portland's going with Danny Ainge as his answer.
Mark checks in with Rusty Koontz and make sure I
say that properly. Gonna pause before you say the last name.
(33:52):
Who else do we have? Page down? Christopher in Canns
City going with Dodger legend the Liono de Shields as
a his answer. Jason going with Craig Bigo. Yeah. I
was getting a lot of messages from fans of the
ass one thousand and two, one thousand holes, all excited
because they beat the Rockies. Does anyone want to let
(34:15):
the people of Houston know the Rockies suck and everyone
beats the Rockies? Does anyone to let me know? Anyway?
Let's pay off the insta trivia question. So the Tigers
Hobby Bias, joining Pete, Rose, Harmon, Killebrew and Blank is
the only players to start the All Star Game in
three different positions. Let's go over to Mary, Mary, do
you have an answer? Mary?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Oh? My mom?
Speaker 1 (34:38):
All right? Is it Mary's mother? Is that the answer?
Let's find out? Apparently it's not your mom. I'm sorry,
I'm sure she's a lovely lady. No, the correct answer
is Albert. Whoo hosts Albert who is the answer? Who
started the All Star Game at first base, third base,
and in left field? Oh? There is that? With that
(35:01):
in your pipe and smoking? And right now, here we go,
Here we go. It's time hit that button. There, Mary,
that's the one right there, that's it, that's the one.
All right. We go over to the producer's chair and
Ian Roddy.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Hello, Ian, You notice I've learned not to jump the
gun as much like I did last week.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
You were excited it happens, you know.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Yeah, I'm learning I'm learning.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Here we go, let's jump in here though. Number One.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
On a recent podcast interview, Chiefs tight end, Travis Kelsey
recalled some troubles he had behind the scenes back when
he hosted Saturday Night Live back in twenty twenty three.
So the hardest part of hosting SNL was the pre
show table read because apparently he can't really read that well.
So inevitably social media got a hold of that, got
a hold of that, and you know, they've been making
a ton of fun of him. So, Ben, do you
(35:44):
think any less of Kelsey now that you know he
has tough time reading?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
No, because I think he was embellishing it. If he's
not embellishing it, I mean, that's pretty impressive. He went
to Cleveland Heights High School in Cleveland. He went to
the University of Cincinnati. I think he spent four years
in college. And if he was able to make it
through all that and not not be able to read,
like there's reading at a high level and then there's
(36:11):
like reading just being able to read enough. I don't
doubt that Kelsey's not a prolific reader. He's a football player,
and he's like a meathead football player. I don't think
any less of him. I never thought of him as
an academic type person anyway, So who cares. You know,
he reads a lot, and I'd like to think that
he's not totally lacking the ability to read anything all. Right.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Next, with all the potential trade rumors circling around Lebron
right now, his son Bron, he was asked how he
feels about all of it, So he said, he doesn't
really pay attention to all that stuff. But look, Ben,
if Lebron's senior were to be traded, what do you
think the Lakers would do with Brownie?
Speaker 1 (36:47):
They'd include him in the trade if Lebron. No, I
don't think Lebron's being traded. And let me tell you Ian,
that is the number one answer publicists tell you. The
number one answer when you're asked a difficult question is
if it's about to play in a football game, so
I didn't see the play, and if it's about trade rumors,
you say, I don't pay attention to that stuff. I
was unaware of it. Right, You played dumb that way.
(37:09):
You just kind of kill the line of questioning and
all that. But no, if the Lakers are gonna get
out of the Lebron business. If they are ready to
unload Lebron James, then it is a two for one
special at the flea market, and it's gonna be Lebron
and Bronni. They're going to trade them to the Knicks
or the Cavaliers or to wherever. And I will guarantee
(37:30):
you that Bronni is absolutely aware of what's going on
with Lebron and where he's gonna end up because he
is handcuffed to Lebron. The only reason Bronni's in the
NBA the kid can't play. The only reason he's in
the NBAS because it was Dad. Next.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
So the Milwaukee Bucks, who you know, as you mentioned
in the monologue yesterday, they recently released Damian Lillard and
they're reportedly eyeing twelve time All Star Chris Paul as
his potential replacement. According to Chris Haynes, So Ben, would
you like the forty year old CP three for the
Bucks is a short term bridge at point guard?
Speaker 1 (38:02):
So only if you can get a Delorian and go
back to the future and head back, you know, back
in time. But no, listen, Chris Paul's washed up at
this point. He's a backup. I read where Chris Paul
wants to start. He's looking for his starting job. No,
I mean, he gotta signed somebody. But Chris Paul, I
have a feeling he's gonna end up with the Clippers
and all that. But no, I would not I would
not bring Chris Paul in expecting him to be a
(38:25):
starter or a play big minutes and all that at
this point, although he did play a lot in San
Antonio on a terrible Spurs team that seven people watched.
All right, there it is Mallard to the third degree.
How did we do?
Speaker 3 (38:38):
It was close today, but you still managed to win
this one.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Ben, nice job. That has a win. I got the long.
I don't think I've lost a Mallard of the third
degree this year. I think I'm undefeated this year at
MAL What a streak, A record streak.
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