September 20, 2017 • 46 mins
Big Ben talks about social media drama between two former Redskins, Kevin Durant getting exposed on Twitter, Maller to the 3rd Degree, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
Fox Sports Radio. Not I don't know your position on this,
and maybe you'll tell me, maybe you won't. But for me,
there's nothing quite like a former headliner in the NFL
becoming unhinged. I like it. Does that make me a
bad person that I enjoy this? That I know there's
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some schaden freud involved in this, that I'm taking great
joy in other people's misery, But I really do like it.
Like I was beaming all day. I was like, this
is great. I get to go into the radio station
and no one will be around, just be short staff here.
My guys will be here, Danny g and Eddie and Coop,
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and then I get to talk about this. I'm really
excited about. It's like therapy for But we're talking about
Robert Griffin the third. Now, have you been paying attention?
Have you been monitoring what's going on? You have not? Okay, good,
So I can fill in the blanks here. You you
missed some of the details here. It all began a
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long long time ago when Robert Griffin the Third was
thought of as the messiah of the Washington Redskins. But
it was so long ago the night that the Redskins
made the trade with the Rams, the Saint Louis Rams
to get RG three. I was still doing TV at
that time. That's how long ago that was. But it
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was just a shocking, shocking revelation, right, RG three going
to the Redskins. We know how it worked out. We
have we have the gift of time on our side.
We can look back at that and say, well, yeah,
you know, he got off to a great storry. It
turned out that he was a one hit wonder with
the twenty twelve Redskins RG three, right, and so that
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led to a mediocre career most of the time. He
was hurt and RG three out of the NFL right now.
He played some for the Browns last year. He's nowhere
right now. And Santana Moss, a four er teammate go
to receiver for the Redskins, made a cameo appearance on
DC Sports Radio. And whatever happens on sports radio stays
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on sports radio unless you tell someone what was said
on sports radio and then they get upset. And in
this interview, Santana Moss made all kinds of claim Among
those claims that RG three heard about that Robert Griffin
the Third got what he deserved. Essentially, that's what Santana
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Moss said. And do we have the other okay, rather
than me parrot what Santana Moss said, Let's go to
the audio tape here, and we've got redskin on redskin crime.
I guess is that what you call it? NFL on
NFL crime? I don't know, you decide, let's listen in
this is what got Robert Griffin the third and raid
the little credit that he did take for saying that, hey, yeah,
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you know they didn't like what I was doing, or
they didn't they benched me in and now allow me
to play this what happens? So throughout the fourteen comes
and you got Jay Gruten comes in and he don't care.
He rips rg every chance he gets, every meeting. And
we're sitting there looking like, yeah, you know what, you
were just so happy that Mike and Caldum is gone,
but now you're getting your behind ripped every day because
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you're not playing the kind of football that we need
to play for us to be successful. So you know it,
come back and bite you and you behind because now
you see this guy is at home. Oh you're at
home of course, So Santana Moss, he's also at home,
and that's fine. He's had a long career. He's like,
he didn't suck. He played a long time in the NFL.
All right, so let's talk about this now. The key
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points of that Moss claiming that RG three is he
heard got what he deserved there. He did a victory
laugh essentially, and was taking credit for being responsible for
the dismissal of Shanahan and Shanahan and Moss also pointing
out to Jay Gruden, as you heard in front of
the entire team unloaded on RG three. So that what
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that sound bite, which was pretty mellow. I mean, you
gotta admit at Santana Moss, he didn't raise his voice.
He kept the same monotone delivery during that answer. That
that was what sent RG three once he heard about it,
into a nuclear rage. It was very upset, right, and
he went on a tie rade on social media. RG
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three trying to let all some steam. Now some of
the highlights. There's a lot of stuff here, and we
only have limited time, so we can't get to everything,
but I'll give you the highlights. He accused. Robert Griffin,
the third accused Santana Moss of being guilty of lying.
And the word that really has resonated because it's a
powerful word, betrayal. That's a good word, betrayal. Oh my god,
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sant Santana Moss, you've committed betrayal. How dare you? You're
going to hell because of betrayal. RG three also said
that he was put in a quote impossible situation where
the coach, Mike Shanahan, who never wanted. In addition, RG
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three bragging about how hard he worked and he showed
up early, he left late, patting himself on the back,
claimed he's quote been a good soldier. It was a
football player. Maybe that's the problem, all right, So let's
let's break this down here. The question does this rant
claiming lying and betrayal by Robert Griffin the Third, does
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this help or hurt? RG three? I'll go first, you
can answer later. I'm gonna go it hurts. I'm want
to go it now. It's good for us, it helps us,
and on some level it makes him feel a little
better Robert Griffin the Third because he lets off some
scene but in the long run, very similar to Kevin
Durant and his misstep on Twitter. It helps confirm the
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things that have been said about Robert Griffin the third.
Much like Kevin Durant, this is a great week in
that department. Back to back and belly to belly, we've
had two players that are thought of as diva douches
and back to back days the s hits the fan
and both at their own doing here. But the thoughts
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on this, obviously, you've got bad blood involved. Where there's smoke,
there's fire, dysfunction junction, which is the Redskins nickname that franchise.
Moniker should should put that on top of the locker room.
And there's also some kind of parallel universe which is
in play here. But we'll start with this. We have
a lot of layers to the Redskins. Like the Redskins
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have been great at producing drama, They've been so good
on the field for a long time. But the Redskins,
that franchise, there's a lot of stuff going on. And
when you peel back the onion with Dan Snyder, you've
got Santana Moss breaking the code, breaking the fraternal order,
the brotherhood of NFL players. You know, all athletes. What
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I always say, fleets make terrible broadcasters. Because they don't
want to break the fraternity. The ones that do are great.
Charles Barkley doesn't give an f he'll rip anybody, good broadcaster.
Most of these guys are hacks because they don't want
to rip other athletes because they're part of the fraternity
for life. And so Santana Moss and I don't even
think that was that big a burn. I didn't think
that was terrible. W I even brought this up. If
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RG three hadn't had a hissy fit in a pouty face,
no the answers, No, I would not have brought this up.
But because RG three did, it gives us an avenue
to go down that road. Like Santana Moss, he broke
the code, right, he broke the code. So that's the
first layer of this, And then when you peel back further,
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it's pretty clear that all of those very interesting stories
that were talked about back in the years of RG
three with the Redskins in the twenty twelve twenty thirteen period,
all of those stories appear to have some truth. It's
not just media hype and oh, that's just media is
stirring the pot. No, no, no, the bad blood, the
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hurt feelings, legit, legit, Clearly you got to admit that's
there's something here. And the second part of this much
has been said and written and repeated as it gets
tossed into the echo chamber of sports dialogue when you
talk about RG three. But there there's always you know,
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the old line goes, there's three sides to the story.
In this case, you've got RG three, you've got Mike Shanahan,
and then somewhere else you've got the truth, which is involved.
But this is an odd one. Like from where I'm
sitting right now, this is like ninety eight percent, ninety
eight percent of the chatter reaches the same conclusion. Robert Griffin,
giant douche. That's where it comes down, right, Am I wrong? No?
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I'm not wrong on that. Come I admit I'm right
on that. Can I get that? Yes? All right, you're
shaking your head. Yes. And as far as the where's
there's smoke, there's fire? Again, I go back to the
point that a lot of the stories were downplayed by
people around the Redskins. And that's why I always say
I don't believe the downplay. I don't believe it. The
stories about RG three going around the coaching staff circumventing Shanahan.
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That's one of the arguments that I'm not a big
Shanahan guy either. You spend a few minute, few too
many hours in the sun tan bed, so I'm not
a big fan of his either. But I could understand
if you're the coach and the quarterback is circumventing you
and going around to hang out at cocktail parties with
Dan Snyder, the owner, how that might not go over well.
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I could get that. I think any of us could
get that that. You can understand that's not necessarily the
way it's supposed to work. The protocol is not right,
and so he had his own set of rules. He
was the owner's pet Robert Griffin until he wasn't because
he stunked and Mike Shanahan is not completely clean. His
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hands aren't completely clean here. Shanahan is legendary in NFL
circles for leaking a lot of crap to his buddies,
like it's well documented by those around the NFL media
that Shanahan is going to if he wants to kill
someone incinerate someone. Media wise, He's got all the buddies
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he knows where all of the bodies are buried there,
and so that creates more of that dysfunction junction with
the Redskins. But again it's all of it good, good
for us, wonderful for us. So the last thing here,
the parting shot. The original question was does this RG
three drama help or hurt him? Now it hurts, as
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I say, because of confirmation, but it also helps because
it keeps his name out there. It's also predictable that
RG three would be so thin skinned and delusional to
think that this Twitter manifesto that he put out there
is going to clean everything up and continues to be
a guy who seems to be living in some kind
of parallel universe. I wonder what it's like there. I
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wonder what's going on in that parallel world of Robert
Griffin the third. Now I'm gonna give him a pep talk. See,
I do positive radio. One thing I've always done my
entire career here is I take a bath in positivity everything.
I don't look at the negative. No, no, no, that's
other shows, not here. We are positive all the way
through and through. That's why people listen to the show.
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You are listening because you want to hear positive sports conversation.
So let me give him a pep talk. I'm gonna
give you the same pep talk RG three that I
gave Johnny Manziel And it's it's kind of a song
I'd like to sing. Can I sing it? Hear it?
Oh kaa's two words. It's pretty good, right in a
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musical feature a future. I could handle that. And no, no, no, no,
listen RG three. Head to the Great White North, go
to Canada, beg for a job, whether it's Hamilton or
some other bottom feeding Canadian Football League team. If you
really love football, that show you can still play and
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the most important thing is just to be healthy. That's
the advice right there. That's the peptal. Better than this guy,
I'm better than that stop much better than that. The
Ben Maller Show. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio, Edmund Dallas, Steamboat,
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Willie Garcia, Bigger Douche, Kevin Durant RG three go. Um,
I'm gonna say, Kevin Durant, Kevin Durant not much better,
much better player as well. But I'm gonna go RG three.
I'm gonna go RG three. It's close, but I'm gonna
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go RG three. What do you think the should I
put a flash pole up on the for the Mallard
militia to vote? Who do you think the Mallard militia?
Will it be a fair poll or one of your
rig poles. I don't do rigged poles, Eddie. That's a lie.
This is fair and balance. That's what we do here
on the up and Up. We're transparent. You know exactly
where we stay. We don't do any kind of shenanigans
on this show. We are boring sports radio. That's what
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we do. Try to be as boring as we possibly can. Predictable, boring,
tired sports radio, like all the other crappy shows. That's
what we want to be like. We strive to be
like that. I have no idea who the who the
good people would vote for. I'm gonna say. I'm gonna
say Kevin duran about because he's relevant. I think people
just don't care about RG three Big three douche contests.
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Who's third? David Price, come on, David Price, Red Sox
Pitcher got into it with Eckersley and the plane, the
team plane. I know that you've I don't want to
say you've got it out for him, But he's one
of your favorite douches. I could such a thing. I
could go better than David Price. That's a pretty good douche.
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How about how about Benji Molina, the cheating Cardinals. I
could always do him. I could put him in there. No,
that would be Yadier Molina. Oh Yeadi Iveni Malia Alight
there several I picked a Ronie No, no, in baseball?
How about bum Garden? How about that? But it's about Lebron.
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I could do Lebron. Yeah, he's the of douche. Yeah,
but Lebron's never coop. Lebron's never done that. Durant like
he hasn't he hasn't been on Twitter, at least we
haven't caught him yet responding the trolls from a like
thought he was on a fake account. I got Durant
ahead of Lebron's high up. But it's tough. I only
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can have four. I can't have more than four. So
I've got RG three, I've got Durant. I guess I
could do Lebron and Price. That could be the four.
Should I put that? Well, that would be a way
to uh, you know, cut through it. Yeah, you can't
decide on just three. So it's we're overwhelmed. Difficult decisions
for sure, is what we've got here. Yeah, all right,
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well this is exciting, Eddie. This is why I am
excited to be here. Man tingling, and only imagine the
vote totals and the hundreds of people that will vote,
maybe thousands of people that will vote on this. It's
just gonna be great. Hey. Uh, Yes, we had an
old Ben Maller show legend calling yesterday, zig Zaggy, so
I thought it might be interesting to let you know
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that an old school listener is listening tonight. Yeah, because
his dryer conked out on him. So he's at a
laundromat drying his clothes and listening to the show. Bread Man, Oh,
the bread Man. Bred Man is listening. I've met bread Man.
We're friends for life. We had a meal together with
Pete and Pittsburgh, who's also on my douche list, but
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me and the bread Man we all hung out there
PREMANI brothers, you've been there of course, in the in
the Steel district in Pittsburgh. It's great, wonderful time when
your appliances go out on you. The Ben Maller shows
here for you. We are here for you. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weeknights
at two am Eastern eleven pm PAC on Fox Sports
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Radio and the iHeart Radio app. We navigate our away
through another hour here together on the radio, and I
this Kevin Durant thing I was debating. I was like
tossing up last start. We had a great discussion about
the douche that is RG three, and now we get
to dissect Kevin Durant. The the day after the you
know what hit the fan, I'm so sorry. Yeah, that's
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a little taste of what Kevin Durant took part in. Now,
Durant spoke at a tech get together in the Bay
Area and says that what he did on social media
was quote childish and quote idiotic. The fact that he
torpedoed his former Oklahoma City coach and teammates on Twitter.
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Now you remember the story, right, you talked a lot
about it. Everyone seems to have talked about it. Durant,
we assume figured he was on a different Twitter account,
didn't switch sloppy, oops a daisy and there there it goes.
So Durant spoke for a good amount of time. I
think he was up on the stage for about eight
to ten minutes and he attempted some serious, serious spin.
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Let's see if you're you're buying with Durant selling about
the mistake that he made on Twitter. I lose Twitter
to engage with the fans. I think it's a great
way to engage with basketball fans. But I happened to
take it a little too far. And that's what happened
sometimes when I get into these basketball debates, and I
don't regret clapping back at anybody or talking to my
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fans on Twitter. Oh some great ambient noise there in
the background from Durants microphone was a large high ceilings,
big crow, high ceilings, big crowd. That's what happens. Here's
more from Kevin Durant, who has regrets. We all have regrets, right,
I got regrets. You got any regrets. Here's Durants regrets.
I do regret using my former coach's name and the
former organization that I played for. That was childish, that
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was idiotic, all those time the words. I've regret doing that,
and I apologize to him for doing that. But I
don't think I'll ever stop engaging with my fans. I
think they really enjoyed, and I think it's a good
way to connect us all, especially when you have different accounts.
That's really when people like, like when you engage with
Kevin Durant and you don't know, is it really Kevin
Durant or is it a guy that just happens to
have seven followers that's pretending to be Kevin Durant. You
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have no idea. It's the mystery. It's like a box
of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get when
you go on Twitter. It could be Kevin Durant. You
could be fighting about Kevin Durant with Kevin Durant. So
there's a whole lot more than this. He was asked
straight up if he intended to post the anti Durant,
anti Oklahoma City tweets, the Billy Donovan tweets from some
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kind of fake anonymous account. And this is where it
gets interesting because a Durant claims that this is not true,
This allegation that he's using different social media accounts is
not true. Then later he admitted Durant that he did
have another Instagram account, but he said that's only for
my friends and family. So I don't use that to
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clap back at anybody. That's what Durant had to say.
All right, So we've played a little bit of it.
There's a lot more than that. But here's the question.
Do you believe Kevin Durant is truly remorseful? It doesn't
even have to be remorseful. Is this something you have
to be remorseful about? I would say this is not
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something you have to be remorseful about. But do I
believe that Durant is being sincere here? No? I don't.
I don't believe it for a second. And maybe you're
doing you're a better person than me. I don't. This
is guilty as charged, manufactured and Rhino's skin. Right, We'll
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start with a I have seen the internet sluice that
have done the work, they've done the investigation. Now I
realize this is all anecdotal evidence, but it all points
to Kevin Durant being, as we have said this week,
a weasel on social media. This is guilty as charged.
Durant's fingerprints are all over this. He's not denying, he's
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not denying this. He's just he's not going all the
way right, because you only caught him it was self admission.
Duran's self admission, so he's not going further. It's like
when the police catch a criminal who robbed a bank,
and the guys like, yeah, I robbed the bank, but
he's been robbing banks for like ten years, you know,
But he's just I just got me on that one.
I admit to it. I did it. You know, I'm done.
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You got me. Here's the way I look at this.
Durant had a team of spin doctors from his different
corporate partners that I would imagine worked all night on
what on damage control? And it must have given him
nausea to have to go to this paid appearance with
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these tech people and to speak about this. I wonder
how much he got paid, right, I wonder how much
that appearance? What does Durant get if he goes out
and speaks at a tech junket, Like, what does he gets?
What's his check? Does he get ten thousand dollars, twenty
thousand dollars? How much does he get? And this actually
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worked out to be a net positive because it was
why it was a controlled environment. You had a manufactured
public apology. They did the math in eight minutes. Kevin
Durant used the word apologize eight times, once per minute
he said the word apologize. He also used words like idiot, stupid,
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feel bad, use that a bunch as well. So here's
my advice with these situations. Don't be goaliable, right, this
comes right out of a crisis management handbook. Durant the
remorse is that he was sloppy and he did not
switch accounts. Now it's pretty clear that's what happened. He
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made a mistake. The advice, I guess is for Durant
to get a second or third phone. He probably has
a couple of phones, I would think, but make sure
you have the Burner account on one phone and you
have your regular Twitter on the other. It's not exactly
brain surgery here that we're talking about Part B of
this though, Kevin Durant, this is not gonna die. I mean,
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he's apologized, Fine, that's great, but it's gonna They're gonna
hang around. He's gonna take a lot of crap from
not just people on social media. That happens anyway, but
this is gonna follow him around. It's gonna stick to
him like a nice, big hearty meal sticks to your gut,
and it's gonna hang around for a while, right, because
because Durant he's gonna be the butt of jokes. He
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does not strike me. I don't I don't know Durant,
but he doesn't strike me as that kind of guy
that has self deprecating humor. He doesn't seem like he
wants to be the butt of the joke. He's lacking
the sarcasm, Jean, He's missing that. And so if that's true,
if I'm reading Durant right with some nickel and dime psychology,
that Durant does not like being the butt of the joke,
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doesn't get sarcasm, this is gonna haunt him. It's gonna
haunt him for a while, right, because not only do
you have social media reminding him, but you know the
NBA players are going to be busting his balls and
they should and they they'll give him ulcers. Right, So
the advice is to grow some rhino skin. Now, I'm
trying to figure out the answer, and I don't have
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the answer here. So let's guestimate what percentage of NBA
players have a ghost account or a dummy or a
burner account on social media, because I think it's pretty high.
I'm gonna of the top players in the Let's just
use the NBA because Durant is an NBA player, So
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we just will stick to that. What percentage of like
the top thirty players in the NBA have a dummy
social media account? I think it's I'm gonna go eighty percent.
My number is eighty percent. Is that too low? Is
that too high? I feel good with eighty percent. That
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doesn't mean that they're all going on there and defending
their honor against people that are saying mean and nasty
things about them on social media. But have an account,
Maybe you want to follow someone that you can't follow
on your main account. You know, there's different reasons for
these kendadas. So I would think it's also liberating to
get back at someone as long as they don't know
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that it's you, Like, if you're Durant, it must have
felt pretty good. How long do you think Durrant's been
doing this kind of stuff with the dummy account. I'm
guessing that's not his first rodeo. I think he's been
through this before. I think that's a fair statement. That
is a fair statement, all right. It is the Ben
Mallard Show, The Ben Maller show as we Emanate live
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here on Fox Sports Radio and Edmund Dallas Steamboat. Willie
Garcia is right over there. Hey yeah, maybe I'm I
don't know this, this Durant thing, I don't want to
say it blows my mind. That's a little much. But
I'm just I don't get how guys can be at
this level, or or anyone can be at this level
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of being in the public eye and be this thin skinned.
I mean, at some point, I mean, he's not a rookie,
he's not a young kid. How do you get to
this point where you care this much about what strangers
think about you? I mean, I get that we all
want to be liked to a certain extent, but I mean,
when you're somebody like him or no matter what you do,
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people are there's gonna be people out there who criticize
you or don't like you, who cares you're you're superstar.
I don't get it. These guys. A lot of these
guys grow up in a shoebox. They've been pampered and
coddled ever since they showed an ability to be great
in sports. And so when did Durant become a legendary
hoopster how old do you think? He was eight? I'm
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ten years old something like that. And ever since then,
you know the AAUTH circuit. He spent one year at
Texas and that's what you get, you get, I mean,
I understand what you're saying. You know, you know how
you end up. But at this point, like I said,
he's not a young guy. He's not He's been around
the block. Yeah, I love I love the fact that
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I want to hug him. I'm so happy that he
did this. He's such a drama queen. It's wonderful. Yeah,
it's just tremendous. Maybe I should not be shocked by this,
but I just shake my head. Don't you think Lebron
James likely does the same thing? Would you? Would it
shock you if we found out Lebron James has like
seven different aliases on Twitter and when people are bashing,
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he just he just goes on these different accounts. I
wouldn't be shocked by that, would you be? I wouldn't
be shocked, I guess not. But I'm just like, get
a life, man. It's probably pretty entertaining. Though these guys
are bored, I would think a lot if they must be. Yeah,
you figure you're playing the NBA and you don't play
every day of the week. You know, the practice is
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like thirty forty minutes. You work out for a little bit,
but there's a lot of downtime. You're at hotels, you're
on planes. I would think if I'm flying from like
Boston to LA and I'm trying to kill some time,
if I was an NBA player, I would just get
on one of these dummy accounts and just, you know,
go to war with social media. How much fun would
that you kill it? You'd kill a five and after
you'd see that being fun, like initially but then after
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wand be like, I don't have time for this crap
is a waste. What they gonna do? He's stuck in
a plane, I don't know? All right, So the Ben
Mallers Show, you're listening to Fox Sports for it. I
was very happy Eddie's some tough love. My message resonates.
I called out Pedro Bayez and the Dodgers have responded.
It's he's a pitcher for the Dodgers. He sucks garbage
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and he's ruining my enjoyment of professional baseball. This bum
terrible at his job, and it sounds like Dave Roberts
pretty much admitted that Pedro Bayez is not going to
be on the playoff ross. The Dodgers an hour back
is the favorite to win the World Series. This gas can,
he sucks, he ran, He's terrible, Pedro Bias. Dave Roberts said,
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you're trying to win a baseball game, and you're trying
to figure out how to how you can win eleven
games in October? Will you do that? And he hinted
Roberts he spoke in kind of vague terms, but it
sounds like Pedro Bayaz is not going to be on
the Dodger playoff roster. He has been mister meltdown. That
is what he has done. He is terrible. He is terrible.
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Not only is it pitcher garbage, garbage. You want I'll try,
you want him coop. The Angels scouts love this guy.
They get all aroused when they watch him pitch because
he throws hard and wonderful. They do get very excited
when they watched Bayas pitch. I know, Eddie guesses Era
this month, this month, Yes, this month. If you get
it right, Eddie, you'll you'll win a golden ticket. No,
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you won't pay so, but he didn't get it right. Sorry,
not bad though, you don't get a golden ticket. Well,
what is it? It's a bad job. Twelve point five?
Oh that bad us. I'm very workable. That's what you
want from an eighth inning reliever in the postseason. You
look for that build up a lead and then you
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vomit all over the mound. That's what you want. That's
why you go to the bull. I was pacing, I
was screening at my TV when he gave up the
lead ben and basses loaded and Roberts left him in.
I just want to pull my hair out. It was horrible.
It's not very pleasant to watch. And the guy like
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that make the Phillies suck, and he makes the Phillies
look like the Ryan Howard Phillies with Jimmy Rollins when
he's on the mound, when biases in the mount, the
other team looks amazing. It's even worse though, you go
back to the beginning of August. Since the start of August,
Pedro Bias has an ERA of eight point four, that's
two months of professional baseball, an earn run average of eight.
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If he's on the playoff roster, the Dodgers deserve to
lose every game in the postseason. I hope they get swept.
If Pedro Bias is on the playoff roster, they should
lose every game. They don't deserve to win anything. If
Pedro Bias is on the playoff roster, he's that bad eddie.
He sucks. Get him off the team. Sounds very upset
about that. There, sick and tired having to watch these games.
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And then they got the lead, and then they this
jackass comes in and pee's down his leg. It sucks,
but made my feelings felt Yes, all right, sorry, but
I feel better though. Be sure to catch live editions
of The Ben Maller Show weeknights at two am Eastern
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It's Maller. How about that? To the third degree? This
is one big band gets quilled and we bring in
the Coop de loop for another Mallard to the would
have set up to be an unbelievably terrible game. The
Cleveland Browns face off against the Indianapolis Colts this weekend. Now,
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for the first time since twenty fifteen, the Browns are
actually favored to win a game Ben. Are the Browns
actually the better team between these two turns. Well, here's
the way I look at this. In the eyes of
the public, that's all that matters. So yes, in the
eyes of the public, the Browns are thought of as
being in a better place than the Indianapolis Colts. That's
how messed up the Colts are after that Week one
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performance against the Los Angeles Rams. A couple of things
I'll tell you why. Ay, we often point out when
when the line is set the Vegas sports book, the
sports book, opera, the offshore book set the opening line,
but it's the gambling public that establishes the final line.
So you got to follow the money. We often talk
on benny versus the penny about how you have to
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follow the money to find out where it's going, and
if you have too much on either side, that's going
to move the line. The goal is to get even money.
Why you make your money is the bookmaker on the
money in the middle, right. You want both sides. You're
guaranteed to make a profit the whole thing. So the
fact that Cleveland is a slight favorite that's how it opened,
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tells you that the belief is they can get even
money on both sides, and that the public thinks that
Cleveland is better. Actually, they think Cleveland's five points better
than Indianapolis because generally home teams get three points. So
if Cleveland's a two or a two and a half
point favorite, that would mean that the opening line indicates
that the Browns on a neutral field should be five
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points better than the Colts. I find that hard to believe.
The second part, Both of these teams hot mess, right.
You really have to be a degenerate to go out
of your way to bet this game, Like we'll pick
it on benny versus the penny this week, because we
pick every game because that's how we do it. We
don't charge you for picks like other people do. We
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just give them out. But this is a role of
the dice situation. My gut at this point tells me
to take the Coals as a home underdog. Just don't
trust the Browns. We'll look more at the game later
in the week. But from what I've heard, the early money,
the sharp money is actually on the Browns. That it's close,
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but over fifty five percent, which is not a defining amount,
but fifty five percent is actually coming in on the
Browns at minus two and a half. I found that surprising.
We'll see what the numbers indicate later. All right, next,
and we knew last season that Adam Silver wanted to
do something about the resting players epidemic in the NBA.
Well now it's being reported that the league's proposal will
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give Adam Silver sole discretion in finding teams for resting
multiple players in a single game or healthy ones in
national TV games. Ben, do you think that this is
a good idea? Are we about to see a good
l two point zero? Yeah, here's the thing. As long
as Adam Silver is continuing the commissioner, if he's the
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one calling the shots, this is I mean, very clear,
this is not hazardous in any way to players in
professional basketball. I'll tell you why. Number one, Adam Silver
has been spineless. He's been toothless. He's a jellyfish in
terms of player discipline. The inmates are running the asylum.
It is highly doubtful then any real punishment is going
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to come down the pipe. Adam Silver wants to be
liked by the stars, the headliners in the NBA, so
he'll play the doormat and let them continue to walk
all over him. And that's kind of the way he
likes it. And number two, it is under Adam Silver's
watch that this virus has spread around the NBA. David
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Stern attempted to nip it in the Buddy find the
hell out of the San Antonio Spurs when Greg Popovich
did this famously and send a bunch of guys back
from Miami back to San Antonio on Southwest Airlines, and
then David Stern ripped apart for doing it, he left,
and Adam Silver has been an enabler for this disease
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to go unchecked in the NBA. What I expect to happen,
There's gonna be some token punishment, some second level star
will be used as an example to appease people like
me that don't like this and the TV partners that
also have a problem with this, but nothing more than that.
So there will be someone that is punished, but it's
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going to be a slap on the wrist if you
will here all right, next now, Ben, we do know
that we heard the story that Tom Brady did not
make a visit to the White House, and a lot
of us speculated that it was because Gizelle does not
agree with you. Know Trump's policies and whatnot. But now
we're hearing a little bit of a different story. Anthony Scaramuci,
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you know the guy that was the White House prescretary
for like the mooch twenty four hours something like that,
ten solid days. It worked well. He is claiming that
Tom Brady once dated Ivanka Trump. Oh yes, perhaps that
is the reason behind his non visit love situation. What's
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the real story here, Ben, Yeah, I want to believe this.
I I was not in the bedroom as far as
I know, but I would like to believe this to
be true, and it is plausible. And I realized that
Brady's people have circled the wagons and they're they're saying, oh, no,
there's nothing to this. Did you expect him to come
out and confirm, yes, I slept with Donald Trump's daughter
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fifteen years ago. Of course they're not going to say that.
A couple of things here. Number one, Donald Trump was
a casual golf buddy with Tom Brady. This goes back
to the early days of Brady with the Patriots, his
swinging single days when he was quite the playboy. And
considering how much the Donald values celebrity quarterbacks, and by
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the way, his daughter Ivanka, it is completely plausible to
think that Donald Trump set his daughter up on a
date fifteen years ago with Tom Brady. You gotta think.
I think I believe that the age thing Brady would
have been like twenty five years old, Ivanka would have
been twenty. That makes some sense. And secondly, this guy,
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the mooch, Donald Trump's right hand man for ten days now,
he is still a political operative of Trump. I understand
that how this works, and he's still kind of he's there.
He's in the tank for Trump, even though he only
lasted ten days. So you have to factor that in.
But if Brady did, let's say, take a roll in
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the hay with the first daughter, it is understandable if
Gizelle Boonshin is uncomfortable with that. Not that I believe
Tom Brady would be having any kind of sex in
the Oval office if you were to visit Donald's Trump
anything like that, but be quite the story. So yeah,
I want to believe. It sounds like a great story.
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It's nice and juicy. I like it. I think it's
it's completely reasonable that that happened fifteen years ago. There
it is Mallard of the third degree. How did we
do you pass? This edition? That's a winner. Fox Sports
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you idiot password the word Game of the Stars. Here's
Ben Maller. All right, let's do it. Here we go.
It is password time, and we welcome in our contestants
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for this edition of password. We have some options here.
See let's say hello to Manic Mike, who's in Nashville. Hello,
Manick Mike? Awre you doing? Man? If I was any better,
I'd be sleeping, But I'm not. I'm here. Yeah, And
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what do you do? Man? Mike? Tell the guy in
bieber Dam, I'm a security officer who's working two different jobs.
Two different jobs. You've got how many hours a day?
Do you work? Sixteen? Sixteen hours a day? Why? Guy?
And you have any days off your work? Every day?
What do you got? I got Sundays off, one day
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off and you probably watch football all day on Sunday?
Or are you just sleep all day's football? Yeah? I
got you? What a life? All right? Well? Good luck
Manning Mike hold On? And who else do we have.
I think we'll go with Josh in La. Hello, Josh,
what's going on? Ben? What's going on? Josh? If I
was any better, I would be a Laker, But not
an LA Laker because they've been bad for a long time.
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Oh hell, Bill Miller and Josh what do you do
in La? Tell the guy in bieber Dam, I'm a
helicopter pilot? Really, you may that's a cool job. Are
you making that up? Really? Well? What kind of helicopter pilot?
Are you? Like? Corporate helicopter pilot? What a police? What
else do we have? We have news that up? Okay,
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I knew you were lying. Let me guess you're a
You work at a convenience store. No, no, trash, trash,
very similar to helicopter pilot. Yeah, yeah, pretty cool, Yeah,
exactly the same in fact. All right, hold on, hold on, Josh.
We have Josh in LA and Manic Mike and Manic Mike.
Who you like to partner up with? I think I'll
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go with Eddie. All right, you will be the team
that loses. I'm gonna put an L right next to
your name. I've written it down. And Josh, who do
you want to partner up with I'm gonna go with Coop.
All right, Coop putting L next to your name as well.
It's a loss for you. All right, it's very good.
You both lose. No one wins. All right, gentlemen. Ten
words on the board we have Manic, Mike, and Eddie
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versus Josh and Coop. Uh. For each word, they start
out being worth ten points. For every incorrect guests, we
take a point away. All right, Mannic, Mike, you were
on the line first. He'll pick a number one through ten.
One alright, Eddie? One or number one? Alright, Mike? The password?
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Let me let me check and see if I can
use this hold on. I think I've used it before.
The answer is no, you cannot use it. Sorry, I'm
the judge. You cannot use it. No, you can't do it,
new new, new, new way, not allowed. I think that
might be hyphenated, Eddie, let me check. Take your time, difficult.
Did you say that on the air? Okay? Alright? Uh,
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that's called a bergman, But no, I didn't can say that.
I believe he's allowed to say. Okay, all right, Ben says, yes,
all right, Mike, the password is unroned. Yes, there you go.
That's that's chev. That's a end. It's not a hyphen
ad word. I'm looking at the dictionary on the internet
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right now. It's not a hyphen a word un ironed.
That's a word U N I, R O N E D.
It's not hyphens. All right. That's a penalty, coop for
you using that word, because I've used that clue before
and gotten it. Right. Yeah, that's the coop whining. Josh passwords.
So many words, Josh d a numberless amount of words.
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All we have his words two through ten, two through ten.
Let me get number seven. This is easy. This is easy, coop.
You should get this on the first guess. Alright, alright, Josh,
here we gone move ye, Mark, Mark tape go with
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his Hey yeah, hey, what sound does a cow make?
I would protest that, but I enjoyed it so much
I'm not gonna say. Let's keep it going. You'll see
the password the word game of the star. All right,
it's all tied up here, Manic, Mike and Eddie your
back up, and your numbers are two, three, four, five
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or seven through ten or eight through ten rather four
four number four. Eddie, you're back up, all right? Uh, Mike,
the password is tattoo gun. Yes, well different answer. Yeah,
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I was confused by that. That was Josh, don't guess
when it's not your turn. All right, so it's it's
twenty ten. Let's pause for the cause here we'll have
the big finish on this. You know, it's okay, not
as good as it could be, but it's we've ten
ten points on everyone so far with that entertaining. But
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then we will have the big finish of password. We'll
get to that. We'll do it next. Notice the most
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It's Ben Maller and right back to what we go.
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You're listening to the Ben Mallers Show. We got password,
the word Game of the Stars with Manic Mike who's
hanging out in Nashville, and Josh who's in La. And
we get back here's twenty to ten. Ye, Manic, Mike
and Eddie have the lead over the move. Man, we
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got a good one. Josh and Coop can tie it
up right now, okay, Josh two, three, five, six or
eight through ten? Two? All right, number two go ahead, cool,
all right, Josh, let's go with um sprout Yeah, Russell nontain.
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That's all right, Mannic Mike. The password is cultivate. That's
bad too, Yes, that's so bad. Got it right. I
should have said marijuana twenty nine, twenty nine to ten
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and we have if you get it right, Eddie, this
is it, all right, Mannic Mike. Let's close the door.
All right, here we go three, five, six or eight
through ten. Let's have a six. We're six number six,
all right, Mannick Mike for the winds, so excited. The
password is skipper. Yeah, I was at thirty nine. I'm
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to ten. That's a really manic Mike. You got boat race, Josh,
bad job but you yeah, yeah, terrible beat down. It
wasn't boat race. It was embarrassing. You embarrass yourself, Mannic Mike,
you won. Congratulations, Man Mike, you're boring, but you want anyway?
There you going domination? All right, thank you, buddy. Get
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back to Twitter. I need your tweets. You need to
tweet me. All right, there he goes
This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
Fox Sports Radio. Not I don't know your position on this,
and maybe you'll tell me, maybe you won't. But for me,
there's nothing quite like a former headliner in the NFL
becoming unhinged. I like it. Does that make me a
bad person that I enjoy this? That I know there's
(00:23):
some schaden freud involved in this, that I'm taking great
joy in other people's misery, But I really do like it.
Like I was beaming all day. I was like, this
is great. I get to go into the radio station
and no one will be around, just be short staff here.
My guys will be here, Danny g and Eddie and Coop,
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and then I get to talk about this. I'm really
excited about. It's like therapy for But we're talking about
Robert Griffin the third. Now, have you been paying attention?
Have you been monitoring what's going on? You have not? Okay, good,
So I can fill in the blanks here. You you
missed some of the details here. It all began a
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long long time ago when Robert Griffin the Third was
thought of as the messiah of the Washington Redskins. But
it was so long ago the night that the Redskins
made the trade with the Rams, the Saint Louis Rams
to get RG three. I was still doing TV at
that time. That's how long ago that was. But it
(01:24):
was just a shocking, shocking revelation, right, RG three going
to the Redskins. We know how it worked out. We
have we have the gift of time on our side.
We can look back at that and say, well, yeah,
you know, he got off to a great storry. It
turned out that he was a one hit wonder with
the twenty twelve Redskins RG three, right, and so that
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led to a mediocre career most of the time. He
was hurt and RG three out of the NFL right now.
He played some for the Browns last year. He's nowhere
right now. And Santana Moss, a four er teammate go
to receiver for the Redskins, made a cameo appearance on
DC Sports Radio. And whatever happens on sports radio stays
(02:09):
on sports radio unless you tell someone what was said
on sports radio and then they get upset. And in
this interview, Santana Moss made all kinds of claim Among
those claims that RG three heard about that Robert Griffin
the Third got what he deserved. Essentially, that's what Santana
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Moss said. And do we have the other okay, rather
than me parrot what Santana Moss said, Let's go to
the audio tape here, and we've got redskin on redskin crime.
I guess is that what you call it? NFL on
NFL crime? I don't know, you decide, let's listen in
this is what got Robert Griffin the third and raid
the little credit that he did take for saying that, hey, yeah,
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you know they didn't like what I was doing, or
they didn't they benched me in and now allow me
to play this what happens? So throughout the fourteen comes
and you got Jay Gruten comes in and he don't care.
He rips rg every chance he gets, every meeting. And
we're sitting there looking like, yeah, you know what, you
were just so happy that Mike and Caldum is gone,
but now you're getting your behind ripped every day because
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you're not playing the kind of football that we need
to play for us to be successful. So you know it,
come back and bite you and you behind because now
you see this guy is at home. Oh you're at
home of course, So Santana Moss, he's also at home,
and that's fine. He's had a long career. He's like,
he didn't suck. He played a long time in the NFL.
All right, so let's talk about this now. The key
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points of that Moss claiming that RG three is he
heard got what he deserved there. He did a victory
laugh essentially, and was taking credit for being responsible for
the dismissal of Shanahan and Shanahan and Moss also pointing
out to Jay Gruden, as you heard in front of
the entire team unloaded on RG three. So that what
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that sound bite, which was pretty mellow. I mean, you
gotta admit at Santana Moss, he didn't raise his voice.
He kept the same monotone delivery during that answer. That
that was what sent RG three once he heard about it,
into a nuclear rage. It was very upset, right, and
he went on a tie rade on social media. RG
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three trying to let all some steam. Now some of
the highlights. There's a lot of stuff here, and we
only have limited time, so we can't get to everything,
but I'll give you the highlights. He accused. Robert Griffin,
the third accused Santana Moss of being guilty of lying.
And the word that really has resonated because it's a
powerful word, betrayal. That's a good word, betrayal. Oh my god,
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sant Santana Moss, you've committed betrayal. How dare you? You're
going to hell because of betrayal. RG three also said
that he was put in a quote impossible situation where
the coach, Mike Shanahan, who never wanted. In addition, RG
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three bragging about how hard he worked and he showed
up early, he left late, patting himself on the back,
claimed he's quote been a good soldier. It was a
football player. Maybe that's the problem, all right, So let's
let's break this down here. The question does this rant
claiming lying and betrayal by Robert Griffin the Third, does
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this help or hurt? RG three? I'll go first, you
can answer later. I'm gonna go it hurts. I'm want
to go it now. It's good for us, it helps us,
and on some level it makes him feel a little
better Robert Griffin the Third because he lets off some
scene but in the long run, very similar to Kevin
Durant and his misstep on Twitter. It helps confirm the
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things that have been said about Robert Griffin the third.
Much like Kevin Durant, this is a great week in
that department. Back to back and belly to belly, we've
had two players that are thought of as diva douches
and back to back days the s hits the fan
and both at their own doing here. But the thoughts
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on this, obviously, you've got bad blood involved. Where there's smoke,
there's fire, dysfunction junction, which is the Redskins nickname that franchise.
Moniker should should put that on top of the locker room.
And there's also some kind of parallel universe which is
in play here. But we'll start with this. We have
a lot of layers to the Redskins. Like the Redskins
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have been great at producing drama, They've been so good
on the field for a long time. But the Redskins,
that franchise, there's a lot of stuff going on. And
when you peel back the onion with Dan Snyder, you've
got Santana Moss breaking the code, breaking the fraternal order,
the brotherhood of NFL players. You know, all athletes. What
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I always say, fleets make terrible broadcasters. Because they don't
want to break the fraternity. The ones that do are great.
Charles Barkley doesn't give an f he'll rip anybody, good broadcaster.
Most of these guys are hacks because they don't want
to rip other athletes because they're part of the fraternity
for life. And so Santana Moss and I don't even
think that was that big a burn. I didn't think
that was terrible. W I even brought this up. If
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RG three hadn't had a hissy fit in a pouty face,
no the answers, No, I would not have brought this up.
But because RG three did, it gives us an avenue
to go down that road. Like Santana Moss, he broke
the code, right, he broke the code. So that's the
first layer of this, And then when you peel back further,
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it's pretty clear that all of those very interesting stories
that were talked about back in the years of RG
three with the Redskins in the twenty twelve twenty thirteen period,
all of those stories appear to have some truth. It's
not just media hype and oh, that's just media is
stirring the pot. No, no, no, the bad blood, the
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hurt feelings, legit, legit, Clearly you got to admit that's
there's something here. And the second part of this much
has been said and written and repeated as it gets
tossed into the echo chamber of sports dialogue when you
talk about RG three. But there there's always you know,
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the old line goes, there's three sides to the story.
In this case, you've got RG three, you've got Mike Shanahan,
and then somewhere else you've got the truth, which is involved.
But this is an odd one. Like from where I'm
sitting right now, this is like ninety eight percent, ninety
eight percent of the chatter reaches the same conclusion. Robert Griffin,
giant douche. That's where it comes down, right, Am I wrong? No?
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I'm not wrong on that. Come I admit I'm right
on that. Can I get that? Yes? All right, you're
shaking your head. Yes. And as far as the where's
there's smoke, there's fire? Again, I go back to the
point that a lot of the stories were downplayed by
people around the Redskins. And that's why I always say
I don't believe the downplay. I don't believe it. The
stories about RG three going around the coaching staff circumventing Shanahan.
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That's one of the arguments that I'm not a big
Shanahan guy either. You spend a few minute, few too
many hours in the sun tan bed, so I'm not
a big fan of his either. But I could understand
if you're the coach and the quarterback is circumventing you
and going around to hang out at cocktail parties with
Dan Snyder, the owner, how that might not go over well.
(09:32):
I could get that. I think any of us could
get that that. You can understand that's not necessarily the
way it's supposed to work. The protocol is not right,
and so he had his own set of rules. He
was the owner's pet Robert Griffin until he wasn't because
he stunked and Mike Shanahan is not completely clean. His
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hands aren't completely clean here. Shanahan is legendary in NFL
circles for leaking a lot of crap to his buddies,
like it's well documented by those around the NFL media
that Shanahan is going to if he wants to kill
someone incinerate someone. Media wise, He's got all the buddies
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he knows where all of the bodies are buried there,
and so that creates more of that dysfunction junction with
the Redskins. But again it's all of it good, good
for us, wonderful for us. So the last thing here,
the parting shot. The original question was does this RG
three drama help or hurt him? Now it hurts, as
(10:35):
I say, because of confirmation, but it also helps because
it keeps his name out there. It's also predictable that
RG three would be so thin skinned and delusional to
think that this Twitter manifesto that he put out there
is going to clean everything up and continues to be
a guy who seems to be living in some kind
of parallel universe. I wonder what it's like there. I
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wonder what's going on in that parallel world of Robert
Griffin the third. Now I'm gonna give him a pep talk. See,
I do positive radio. One thing I've always done my
entire career here is I take a bath in positivity everything.
I don't look at the negative. No, no, no, that's
other shows, not here. We are positive all the way
through and through. That's why people listen to the show.
(11:20):
You are listening because you want to hear positive sports conversation.
So let me give him a pep talk. I'm gonna
give you the same pep talk RG three that I
gave Johnny Manziel And it's it's kind of a song
I'd like to sing. Can I sing it? Hear it?
Oh kaa's two words. It's pretty good, right in a
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musical feature a future. I could handle that. And no, no, no, no,
listen RG three. Head to the Great White North, go
to Canada, beg for a job, whether it's Hamilton or
some other bottom feeding Canadian Football League team. If you
really love football, that show you can still play and
(12:05):
the most important thing is just to be healthy. That's
the advice right there. That's the peptal. Better than this guy,
I'm better than that stop much better than that. The
Ben Maller Show. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio, Edmund Dallas, Steamboat,
(12:28):
Willie Garcia, Bigger Douche, Kevin Durant RG three go. Um,
I'm gonna say, Kevin Durant, Kevin Durant not much better,
much better player as well. But I'm gonna go RG three.
I'm gonna go RG three. It's close, but I'm gonna
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go RG three. What do you think the should I
put a flash pole up on the for the Mallard
militia to vote? Who do you think the Mallard militia?
Will it be a fair poll or one of your
rig poles. I don't do rigged poles, Eddie. That's a lie.
This is fair and balance. That's what we do here
on the up and Up. We're transparent. You know exactly
where we stay. We don't do any kind of shenanigans
on this show. We are boring sports radio. That's what
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we do. Try to be as boring as we possibly can. Predictable, boring,
tired sports radio, like all the other crappy shows. That's
what we want to be like. We strive to be
like that. I have no idea who the who the
good people would vote for. I'm gonna say. I'm gonna
say Kevin duran about because he's relevant. I think people
just don't care about RG three Big three douche contests.
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Who's third? David Price, come on, David Price, Red Sox
Pitcher got into it with Eckersley and the plane, the
team plane. I know that you've I don't want to
say you've got it out for him, But he's one
of your favorite douches. I could such a thing. I
could go better than David Price. That's a pretty good douche.
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How about how about Benji Molina, the cheating Cardinals. I
could always do him. I could put him in there. No,
that would be Yadier Molina. Oh Yeadi Iveni Malia Alight
there several I picked a Ronie No, no, in baseball?
How about bum Garden? How about that? But it's about Lebron.
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I could do Lebron. Yeah, he's the of douche. Yeah,
but Lebron's never coop. Lebron's never done that. Durant like
he hasn't he hasn't been on Twitter, at least we
haven't caught him yet responding the trolls from a like
thought he was on a fake account. I got Durant
ahead of Lebron's high up. But it's tough. I only
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can have four. I can't have more than four. So
I've got RG three, I've got Durant. I guess I
could do Lebron and Price. That could be the four.
Should I put that? Well, that would be a way
to uh, you know, cut through it. Yeah, you can't
decide on just three. So it's we're overwhelmed. Difficult decisions
for sure, is what we've got here. Yeah, all right,
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well this is exciting, Eddie. This is why I am
excited to be here. Man tingling, and only imagine the
vote totals and the hundreds of people that will vote,
maybe thousands of people that will vote on this. It's
just gonna be great. Hey. Uh, Yes, we had an
old Ben Maller show legend calling yesterday, zig Zaggy, so
I thought it might be interesting to let you know
(15:19):
that an old school listener is listening tonight. Yeah, because
his dryer conked out on him. So he's at a
laundromat drying his clothes and listening to the show. Bread Man, Oh,
the bread Man. Bred Man is listening. I've met bread Man.
We're friends for life. We had a meal together with
Pete and Pittsburgh, who's also on my douche list, but
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me and the bread Man we all hung out there
PREMANI brothers, you've been there of course, in the in
the Steel district in Pittsburgh. It's great, wonderful time when
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Radio and the iHeart Radio app. We navigate our away
through another hour here together on the radio, and I
this Kevin Durant thing I was debating. I was like
tossing up last start. We had a great discussion about
the douche that is RG three, and now we get
to dissect Kevin Durant. The the day after the you
know what hit the fan, I'm so sorry. Yeah, that's
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a little taste of what Kevin Durant took part in. Now,
Durant spoke at a tech get together in the Bay
Area and says that what he did on social media
was quote childish and quote idiotic. The fact that he
torpedoed his former Oklahoma City coach and teammates on Twitter.
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Now you remember the story, right, you talked a lot
about it. Everyone seems to have talked about it. Durant,
we assume figured he was on a different Twitter account,
didn't switch sloppy, oops a daisy and there there it goes.
So Durant spoke for a good amount of time. I
think he was up on the stage for about eight
to ten minutes and he attempted some serious, serious spin.
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Let's see if you're you're buying with Durant selling about
the mistake that he made on Twitter. I lose Twitter
to engage with the fans. I think it's a great
way to engage with basketball fans. But I happened to
take it a little too far. And that's what happened
sometimes when I get into these basketball debates, and I
don't regret clapping back at anybody or talking to my
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fans on Twitter. Oh some great ambient noise there in
the background from Durants microphone was a large high ceilings,
big crow, high ceilings, big crowd. That's what happens. Here's
more from Kevin Durant, who has regrets. We all have regrets, right,
I got regrets. You got any regrets. Here's Durants regrets.
I do regret using my former coach's name and the
former organization that I played for. That was childish, that
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was idiotic, all those time the words. I've regret doing that,
and I apologize to him for doing that. But I
don't think I'll ever stop engaging with my fans. I
think they really enjoyed, and I think it's a good
way to connect us all, especially when you have different accounts.
That's really when people like, like when you engage with
Kevin Durant and you don't know, is it really Kevin
Durant or is it a guy that just happens to
have seven followers that's pretending to be Kevin Durant. You
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have no idea. It's the mystery. It's like a box
of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get when
you go on Twitter. It could be Kevin Durant. You
could be fighting about Kevin Durant with Kevin Durant. So
there's a whole lot more than this. He was asked
straight up if he intended to post the anti Durant,
anti Oklahoma City tweets, the Billy Donovan tweets from some
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kind of fake anonymous account. And this is where it
gets interesting because a Durant claims that this is not true,
This allegation that he's using different social media accounts is
not true. Then later he admitted Durant that he did
have another Instagram account, but he said that's only for
my friends and family. So I don't use that to
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clap back at anybody. That's what Durant had to say.
All right, So we've played a little bit of it.
There's a lot more than that. But here's the question.
Do you believe Kevin Durant is truly remorseful? It doesn't
even have to be remorseful. Is this something you have
to be remorseful about? I would say this is not
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something you have to be remorseful about. But do I
believe that Durant is being sincere here? No? I don't.
I don't believe it for a second. And maybe you're
doing you're a better person than me. I don't. This
is guilty as charged, manufactured and Rhino's skin. Right, We'll
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start with a I have seen the internet sluice that
have done the work, they've done the investigation. Now I
realize this is all anecdotal evidence, but it all points
to Kevin Durant being, as we have said this week,
a weasel on social media. This is guilty as charged.
Durant's fingerprints are all over this. He's not denying, he's
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not denying this. He's just he's not going all the
way right, because you only caught him it was self admission.
Duran's self admission, so he's not going further. It's like
when the police catch a criminal who robbed a bank,
and the guys like, yeah, I robbed the bank, but
he's been robbing banks for like ten years, you know,
But he's just I just got me on that one.
I admit to it. I did it. You know, I'm done.
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You got me. Here's the way I look at this.
Durant had a team of spin doctors from his different
corporate partners that I would imagine worked all night on
what on damage control? And it must have given him
nausea to have to go to this paid appearance with
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these tech people and to speak about this. I wonder
how much he got paid, right, I wonder how much
that appearance? What does Durant get if he goes out
and speaks at a tech junket, Like, what does he gets?
What's his check? Does he get ten thousand dollars, twenty
thousand dollars? How much does he get? And this actually
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worked out to be a net positive because it was
why it was a controlled environment. You had a manufactured
public apology. They did the math in eight minutes. Kevin
Durant used the word apologize eight times, once per minute
he said the word apologize. He also used words like idiot, stupid,
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feel bad, use that a bunch as well. So here's
my advice with these situations. Don't be goaliable, right, this
comes right out of a crisis management handbook. Durant the
remorse is that he was sloppy and he did not
switch accounts. Now it's pretty clear that's what happened. He
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made a mistake. The advice, I guess is for Durant
to get a second or third phone. He probably has
a couple of phones, I would think, but make sure
you have the Burner account on one phone and you
have your regular Twitter on the other. It's not exactly
brain surgery here that we're talking about Part B of
this though, Kevin Durant, this is not gonna die. I mean,
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he's apologized, Fine, that's great, but it's gonna They're gonna
hang around. He's gonna take a lot of crap from
not just people on social media. That happens anyway, but
this is gonna follow him around. It's gonna stick to
him like a nice, big hearty meal sticks to your gut,
and it's gonna hang around for a while, right, because
because Durant he's gonna be the butt of jokes. He
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does not strike me. I don't I don't know Durant,
but he doesn't strike me as that kind of guy
that has self deprecating humor. He doesn't seem like he
wants to be the butt of the joke. He's lacking
the sarcasm, Jean, He's missing that. And so if that's true,
if I'm reading Durant right with some nickel and dime psychology,
that Durant does not like being the butt of the joke,
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doesn't get sarcasm, this is gonna haunt him. It's gonna
haunt him for a while, right, because not only do
you have social media reminding him, but you know the
NBA players are going to be busting his balls and
they should and they they'll give him ulcers. Right, So
the advice is to grow some rhino skin. Now, I'm
trying to figure out the answer, and I don't have
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the answer here. So let's guestimate what percentage of NBA
players have a ghost account or a dummy or a
burner account on social media, because I think it's pretty high.
I'm gonna of the top players in the Let's just
use the NBA because Durant is an NBA player, So
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we just will stick to that. What percentage of like
the top thirty players in the NBA have a dummy
social media account? I think it's I'm gonna go eighty percent.
My number is eighty percent. Is that too low? Is
that too high? I feel good with eighty percent. That
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doesn't mean that they're all going on there and defending
their honor against people that are saying mean and nasty
things about them on social media. But have an account,
Maybe you want to follow someone that you can't follow
on your main account. You know, there's different reasons for
these kendadas. So I would think it's also liberating to
get back at someone as long as they don't know
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that it's you, Like, if you're Durant, it must have
felt pretty good. How long do you think Durrant's been
doing this kind of stuff with the dummy account. I'm
guessing that's not his first rodeo. I think he's been
through this before. I think that's a fair statement. That
is a fair statement, all right. It is the Ben
Mallard Show, The Ben Maller show as we Emanate live
(24:53):
here on Fox Sports Radio and Edmund Dallas Steamboat. Willie
Garcia is right over there. Hey yeah, maybe I'm I
don't know this, this Durant thing, I don't want to
say it blows my mind. That's a little much. But
I'm just I don't get how guys can be at
this level, or or anyone can be at this level
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of being in the public eye and be this thin skinned.
I mean, at some point, I mean, he's not a rookie,
he's not a young kid. How do you get to
this point where you care this much about what strangers
think about you? I mean, I get that we all
want to be liked to a certain extent, but I mean,
when you're somebody like him or no matter what you do,
(25:37):
people are there's gonna be people out there who criticize
you or don't like you, who cares you're you're superstar.
I don't get it. These guys. A lot of these
guys grow up in a shoebox. They've been pampered and
coddled ever since they showed an ability to be great
in sports. And so when did Durant become a legendary
hoopster how old do you think? He was eight? I'm
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ten years old something like that. And ever since then,
you know the AAUTH circuit. He spent one year at
Texas and that's what you get, you get, I mean,
I understand what you're saying. You know, you know how
you end up. But at this point, like I said,
he's not a young guy. He's not He's been around
the block. Yeah, I love I love the fact that
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I want to hug him. I'm so happy that he
did this. He's such a drama queen. It's wonderful. Yeah,
it's just tremendous. Maybe I should not be shocked by this,
but I just shake my head. Don't you think Lebron
James likely does the same thing? Would you? Would it
shock you if we found out Lebron James has like
seven different aliases on Twitter and when people are bashing,
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he just he just goes on these different accounts. I
wouldn't be shocked by that, would you be? I wouldn't
be shocked, I guess not. But I'm just like, get
a life, man. It's probably pretty entertaining. Though these guys
are bored, I would think a lot if they must be. Yeah,
you figure you're playing the NBA and you don't play
every day of the week. You know, the practice is
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like thirty forty minutes. You work out for a little bit,
but there's a lot of downtime. You're at hotels, you're
on planes. I would think if I'm flying from like
Boston to LA and I'm trying to kill some time,
if I was an NBA player, I would just get
on one of these dummy accounts and just, you know,
go to war with social media. How much fun would
that you kill it? You'd kill a five and after
you'd see that being fun, like initially but then after
(27:26):
wand be like, I don't have time for this crap
is a waste. What they gonna do? He's stuck in
a plane, I don't know? All right, So the Ben
Mallers Show, you're listening to Fox Sports for it. I
was very happy Eddie's some tough love. My message resonates.
I called out Pedro Bayez and the Dodgers have responded.
It's he's a pitcher for the Dodgers. He sucks garbage
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and he's ruining my enjoyment of professional baseball. This bum
terrible at his job, and it sounds like Dave Roberts
pretty much admitted that Pedro Bayez is not going to
be on the playoff ross. The Dodgers an hour back
is the favorite to win the World Series. This gas can,
he sucks, he ran, He's terrible, Pedro Bias. Dave Roberts said,
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you're trying to win a baseball game, and you're trying
to figure out how to how you can win eleven
games in October? Will you do that? And he hinted
Roberts he spoke in kind of vague terms, but it
sounds like Pedro Bayaz is not going to be on
the Dodger playoff roster. He has been mister meltdown. That
is what he has done. He is terrible. He is terrible.
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Not only is it pitcher garbage, garbage. You want I'll try,
you want him coop. The Angels scouts love this guy.
They get all aroused when they watch him pitch because
he throws hard and wonderful. They do get very excited
when they watched Bayas pitch. I know, Eddie guesses Era
this month, this month, Yes, this month. If you get
it right, Eddie, you'll you'll win a golden ticket. No,
(28:55):
you won't pay so, but he didn't get it right. Sorry,
not bad though, you don't get a golden ticket. Well,
what is it? It's a bad job. Twelve point five?
Oh that bad us. I'm very workable. That's what you
want from an eighth inning reliever in the postseason. You
look for that build up a lead and then you
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vomit all over the mound. That's what you want. That's
why you go to the bull. I was pacing, I
was screening at my TV when he gave up the
lead ben and basses loaded and Roberts left him in.
I just want to pull my hair out. It was horrible.
It's not very pleasant to watch. And the guy like
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that make the Phillies suck, and he makes the Phillies
look like the Ryan Howard Phillies with Jimmy Rollins when
he's on the mound, when biases in the mount, the
other team looks amazing. It's even worse though, you go
back to the beginning of August. Since the start of August,
Pedro Bias has an ERA of eight point four, that's
two months of professional baseball, an earn run average of eight.
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If he's on the playoff roster, the Dodgers deserve to
lose every game in the postseason. I hope they get swept.
If Pedro Bias is on the playoff roster, they should
lose every game. They don't deserve to win anything. If
Pedro Bias is on the playoff roster, he's that bad eddie.
He sucks. Get him off the team. Sounds very upset
about that. There, sick and tired having to watch these games.
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And then they got the lead, and then they this
jackass comes in and pee's down his leg. It sucks,
but made my feelings felt Yes, all right, sorry, but
I feel better though. Be sure to catch live editions
of The Ben Maller Show weeknights at two am Eastern
eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
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It's Maller. How about that? To the third degree? This
is one big band gets quilled and we bring in
the Coop de loop for another Mallard to the would
have set up to be an unbelievably terrible game. The
Cleveland Browns face off against the Indianapolis Colts this weekend. Now,
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for the first time since twenty fifteen, the Browns are
actually favored to win a game Ben. Are the Browns
actually the better team between these two turns. Well, here's
the way I look at this. In the eyes of
the public, that's all that matters. So yes, in the
eyes of the public, the Browns are thought of as
being in a better place than the Indianapolis Colts. That's
how messed up the Colts are after that Week one
(31:30):
performance against the Los Angeles Rams. A couple of things
I'll tell you why. Ay, we often point out when
when the line is set the Vegas sports book, the
sports book, opera, the offshore book set the opening line,
but it's the gambling public that establishes the final line.
So you got to follow the money. We often talk
on benny versus the penny about how you have to
(31:52):
follow the money to find out where it's going, and
if you have too much on either side, that's going
to move the line. The goal is to get even money.
Why you make your money is the bookmaker on the
money in the middle, right. You want both sides. You're
guaranteed to make a profit the whole thing. So the
fact that Cleveland is a slight favorite that's how it opened,
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tells you that the belief is they can get even
money on both sides, and that the public thinks that
Cleveland is better. Actually, they think Cleveland's five points better
than Indianapolis because generally home teams get three points. So
if Cleveland's a two or a two and a half
point favorite, that would mean that the opening line indicates
that the Browns on a neutral field should be five
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points better than the Colts. I find that hard to believe.
The second part, Both of these teams hot mess, right.
You really have to be a degenerate to go out
of your way to bet this game, Like we'll pick
it on benny versus the penny this week, because we
pick every game because that's how we do it. We
don't charge you for picks like other people do. We
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just give them out. But this is a role of
the dice situation. My gut at this point tells me
to take the Coals as a home underdog. Just don't
trust the Browns. We'll look more at the game later
in the week. But from what I've heard, the early money,
the sharp money is actually on the Browns. That it's close,
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but over fifty five percent, which is not a defining amount,
but fifty five percent is actually coming in on the
Browns at minus two and a half. I found that surprising.
We'll see what the numbers indicate later. All right, next,
and we knew last season that Adam Silver wanted to
do something about the resting players epidemic in the NBA.
Well now it's being reported that the league's proposal will
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give Adam Silver sole discretion in finding teams for resting
multiple players in a single game or healthy ones in
national TV games. Ben, do you think that this is
a good idea? Are we about to see a good
l two point zero? Yeah, here's the thing. As long
as Adam Silver is continuing the commissioner, if he's the
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one calling the shots, this is I mean, very clear,
this is not hazardous in any way to players in
professional basketball. I'll tell you why. Number one, Adam Silver
has been spineless. He's been toothless. He's a jellyfish in
terms of player discipline. The inmates are running the asylum.
It is highly doubtful then any real punishment is going
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to come down the pipe. Adam Silver wants to be
liked by the stars, the headliners in the NBA, so
he'll play the doormat and let them continue to walk
all over him. And that's kind of the way he
likes it. And number two, it is under Adam Silver's
watch that this virus has spread around the NBA. David
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Stern attempted to nip it in the Buddy find the
hell out of the San Antonio Spurs when Greg Popovich
did this famously and send a bunch of guys back
from Miami back to San Antonio on Southwest Airlines, and
then David Stern ripped apart for doing it, he left,
and Adam Silver has been an enabler for this disease
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to go unchecked in the NBA. What I expect to happen,
There's gonna be some token punishment, some second level star
will be used as an example to appease people like
me that don't like this and the TV partners that
also have a problem with this, but nothing more than that.
So there will be someone that is punished, but it's
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going to be a slap on the wrist if you
will here all right, next now, Ben, we do know
that we heard the story that Tom Brady did not
make a visit to the White House, and a lot
of us speculated that it was because Gizelle does not
agree with you. Know Trump's policies and whatnot. But now
we're hearing a little bit of a different story. Anthony Scaramuci,
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you know the guy that was the White House prescretary
for like the mooch twenty four hours something like that,
ten solid days. It worked well. He is claiming that
Tom Brady once dated Ivanka Trump. Oh yes, perhaps that
is the reason behind his non visit love situation. What's
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the real story here, Ben, Yeah, I want to believe this.
I I was not in the bedroom as far as
I know, but I would like to believe this to
be true, and it is plausible. And I realized that
Brady's people have circled the wagons and they're they're saying, oh, no,
there's nothing to this. Did you expect him to come
out and confirm, yes, I slept with Donald Trump's daughter
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fifteen years ago. Of course they're not going to say that.
A couple of things here. Number one, Donald Trump was
a casual golf buddy with Tom Brady. This goes back
to the early days of Brady with the Patriots, his
swinging single days when he was quite the playboy. And
considering how much the Donald values celebrity quarterbacks, and by
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the way, his daughter Ivanka, it is completely plausible to
think that Donald Trump set his daughter up on a
date fifteen years ago with Tom Brady. You gotta think.
I think I believe that the age thing Brady would
have been like twenty five years old, Ivanka would have
been twenty. That makes some sense. And secondly, this guy,
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the mooch, Donald Trump's right hand man for ten days now,
he is still a political operative of Trump. I understand
that how this works, and he's still kind of he's there.
He's in the tank for Trump, even though he only
lasted ten days. So you have to factor that in.
But if Brady did, let's say, take a roll in
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the hay with the first daughter, it is understandable if
Gizelle Boonshin is uncomfortable with that. Not that I believe
Tom Brady would be having any kind of sex in
the Oval office if you were to visit Donald's Trump
anything like that, but be quite the story. So yeah,
I want to believe. It sounds like a great story.
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It's nice and juicy. I like it. I think it's
it's completely reasonable that that happened fifteen years ago. There
it is Mallard of the third degree. How did we
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It is password time, and we welcome in our contestants
(38:45):
for this edition of password. We have some options here.
See let's say hello to Manic Mike, who's in Nashville. Hello,
Manick Mike? Awre you doing? Man? If I was any better,
I'd be sleeping, But I'm not. I'm here. Yeah, And
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what do you do? Man? Mike? Tell the guy in
bieber Dam, I'm a security officer who's working two different jobs.
Two different jobs. You've got how many hours a day?
Do you work? Sixteen? Sixteen hours a day? Why? Guy?
And you have any days off your work? Every day?
What do you got? I got Sundays off, one day
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off and you probably watch football all day on Sunday?
Or are you just sleep all day's football? Yeah? I
got you? What a life? All right? Well? Good luck
Manning Mike hold On? And who else do we have.
I think we'll go with Josh in La. Hello, Josh,
what's going on? Ben? What's going on? Josh? If I
was any better, I would be a Laker, But not
an LA Laker because they've been bad for a long time.
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Oh hell, Bill Miller and Josh what do you do
in La? Tell the guy in bieber Dam, I'm a
helicopter pilot? Really, you may that's a cool job. Are
you making that up? Really? Well? What kind of helicopter pilot?
Are you? Like? Corporate helicopter pilot? What a police? What
else do we have? We have news that up? Okay,
(40:14):
I knew you were lying. Let me guess you're a
You work at a convenience store. No, no, trash, trash,
very similar to helicopter pilot. Yeah, yeah, pretty cool, Yeah,
exactly the same in fact. All right, hold on, hold on, Josh.
We have Josh in LA and Manic Mike and Manic Mike.
Who you like to partner up with? I think I'll
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go with Eddie. All right, you will be the team
that loses. I'm gonna put an L right next to
your name. I've written it down. And Josh, who do
you want to partner up with I'm gonna go with Coop.
All right, Coop putting L next to your name as well.
It's a loss for you. All right, it's very good.
You both lose. No one wins. All right, gentlemen. Ten
words on the board we have Manic, Mike, and Eddie
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versus Josh and Coop. Uh. For each word, they start
out being worth ten points. For every incorrect guests, we
take a point away. All right, Mannic, Mike, you were
on the line first. He'll pick a number one through ten.
One alright, Eddie? One or number one? Alright, Mike? The password?
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Let me let me check and see if I can
use this hold on. I think I've used it before.
The answer is no, you cannot use it. Sorry, I'm
the judge. You cannot use it. No, you can't do it,
new new, new, new way, not allowed. I think that
might be hyphenated, Eddie, let me check. Take your time, difficult.
Did you say that on the air? Okay? Alright? Uh,
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that's called a bergman, But no, I didn't can say that.
I believe he's allowed to say. Okay, all right, Ben says, yes,
all right, Mike, the password is unroned. Yes, there you go.
That's that's chev. That's a end. It's not a hyphen
ad word. I'm looking at the dictionary on the internet
(42:06):
right now. It's not a hyphen a word un ironed.
That's a word U N I, R O N E D.
It's not hyphens. All right. That's a penalty, coop for
you using that word, because I've used that clue before
and gotten it. Right. Yeah, that's the coop whining. Josh passwords.
So many words, Josh d a numberless amount of words.
(42:30):
All we have his words two through ten, two through ten.
Let me get number seven. This is easy. This is easy, coop.
You should get this on the first guess. Alright, alright, Josh,
here we gone move ye, Mark, Mark tape go with
(42:59):
his Hey yeah, hey, what sound does a cow make?
I would protest that, but I enjoyed it so much
I'm not gonna say. Let's keep it going. You'll see
the password the word game of the star. All right,
it's all tied up here, Manic, Mike and Eddie your
back up, and your numbers are two, three, four, five
(43:22):
or seven through ten or eight through ten rather four
four number four. Eddie, you're back up, all right? Uh, Mike,
the password is tattoo gun. Yes, well different answer. Yeah,
(43:43):
I was confused by that. That was Josh, don't guess
when it's not your turn. All right, so it's it's
twenty ten. Let's pause for the cause here we'll have
the big finish on this. You know, it's okay, not
as good as it could be, but it's we've ten
ten points on everyone so far with that entertaining. But
(44:03):
then we will have the big finish of password. We'll
get to that. We'll do it next. Notice the most
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(44:25):
You're listening to the Ben Mallers Show. We got password,
the word Game of the Stars with Manic Mike who's
hanging out in Nashville, and Josh who's in La. And
we get back here's twenty to ten. Ye, Manic, Mike
and Eddie have the lead over the move. Man, we
(44:46):
got a good one. Josh and Coop can tie it
up right now, okay, Josh two, three, five, six or
eight through ten? Two? All right, number two go ahead, cool,
all right, Josh, let's go with um sprout Yeah, Russell nontain.
(45:09):
That's all right, Mannic Mike. The password is cultivate. That's
bad too, Yes, that's so bad. Got it right. I
should have said marijuana twenty nine, twenty nine to ten
(45:32):
and we have if you get it right, Eddie, this
is it, all right, Mannic Mike. Let's close the door.
All right, here we go three, five, six or eight
through ten. Let's have a six. We're six number six,
all right, Mannick Mike for the winds, so excited. The
password is skipper. Yeah, I was at thirty nine. I'm
(46:00):
to ten. That's a really manic Mike. You got boat race, Josh,
bad job but you yeah, yeah, terrible beat down. It
wasn't boat race. It was embarrassing. You embarrass yourself, Mannic Mike,
you won. Congratulations, Man Mike, you're boring, but you want anyway?
There you going domination? All right, thank you, buddy. Get
(46:22):
back to Twitter. I need your tweets. You need to
tweet me. All right, there he goes
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