July 10, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Suns superstar Devin Booker agreeing to a 2-year $145m max extension keeping him under contract through 2030, Jeanie Buss continuing to be the face of Lakers ownership despite selling the team, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In to the murky waters we go of the podcast world.
Move over, Joe Rogan and Adam Carolla. It's time now
for the Ben Maler Show. Our numb Berg two, our number.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Two and the Suns. That's a basketball team, not a
good one.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Their superstar Devin Booker has agreed to a two year,
one hundred forty five million dollar max extension. I'm sure
somewhere Fox Sports Radio producer bri very excited about that,
keeping him under contract until twenty thirty.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
This has led to some Phoenix fanatics praising Booker's loyalty.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
To the land of the Cacti. Is that how you
see it?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Also, where do you stand on Geenie Buss continuing to
be the face of Lakers ownership after selling the franchise.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
She'll be around for five years.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Also, what are you going to remember?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
What are you going to remember? A memoriam?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
What are you going to remember about long ago Utah
Jazz coach general manager frank Leyden who passed away recently.
We'll talk about that and much more right now, very
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So I leave this hour from pro Bouncy Ball, we
will have I'd like to alert all the affiliates down
the line. That sounds more important than it is. Most
stations automated this hour, but we will have old Man
Radio coming up later this hour in a few minutes
old Man Radio. But we begin in the Grand Canyon State.
Everyone's talking about this raising Arizona, at least raising the
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payroll of Arizona. Money money, money, big money, big money,
big money. No Waymies stop.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Right in the valley, the Valley of the Sun.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
So if you didn't see this or hear about it,
news came down kind of late in the day. D
book got paid.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Sun superstar Devin Booker has agreed to a two year,
one hundred and forty five million dollar max extension that
keeps him under contract through the twenty twenty nine twenty
thirty season. And now this has led the Phoenix fanatics,
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the Marching and Chowder Society of the Suns there praising
Devin Booker for his loyalty to the land of the Cacti.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Is that how you see it?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Do you agree with the sentiment of a good chunk
of the fan base of the Suns that this is
a loyalty play by Devin Booker So I've got kidney, Spago,
and Deli counter, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a crackpot. Now,
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crackpot is a person that thinks this is because of
loyalty's that's a crackpot, all right, absolutely not. I am
one hundred and eighty degrees the opposite direction. Now must
be a different dimension that I resided than the people
that are saying that in the multiverse. And this is
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not a contract that Devin Booker got. This is a jackpot.
I did the Malor math, and if my math is correct,
that is seventy two and a half million dollars per year.
He won't even play seventy two games a year for
the Suns. It's powerball with a jump shot. Good for him.
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And yet, somehow, some way, there are so many fanboys
out there that an obvious money move here. And you
have the low information Neanderthal knuckle dragging fan you know who,
you are treating this like Devin Booker just donated a
kidney to a hospital in Phoenix, Like, oh my god,
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he stead He's so loyal, Who my god, It's just amazing.
And they're clutching their foam fingers and they're they've got
that little gorilla mascot stuffies. It's not about loyalty. Devin
Booker's rich. He was already rich. Now he's richer than rich.
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He's not giving the Sons a hometown discount. He's not
sacrificing or anything like.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
That's a stop.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
He cashed in like this is like a hedge fund
manager on insider info, right, he got insider him.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It is a hometown heist, is what it is.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
And Devin Booker he didn't stay with the Suns because
he loves the desert sunsets and hanging out in a
town where it's one hundred and fifty degrees part of
the year, or the Southwestern cuisine. He stayed because the
Suns offered him every dollar they legally could offer him
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under the salary cap, and he said, yes, please, I
will take that. And I'd also like a statue to
gout in a doggy back? Can you put a statue
to go in a doggyback? So this is not like
a feel good story. I have no problem Devin Booker
getting paid. He's a star. It's not my cup of
tea and all that. But I'm not a Suns fan.
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So if you like him, great, he puts up numbers.
I feel like they're empty numbers. And you know, let's
stop pretending it's a capitalism move. That's fine, but let's
stop pretending this is some kind of Disney movie.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I see this reaction, I'm like, is this real?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Are there actually people that are living amongst us in
the sports world that are like this.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
He didn't fall on a grenade. I mean, what are
you doing?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
He didn't rescue people, you know, like they I saw.
I was reading the story that tgity in Texas, the
flood and a horrible story, and there was a guy
from the Coast Guard, this like first mission ever, this
guy in his twenties, I think it's twenty six, and
he rescued, like, helped rescue one hundred, one hundred people
more than that.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
It's just crazy. That's that's a that's a hell of
a story.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Anyway, all right now page two to La we Go,
La La Land. So the new details out on the
fallout from the Lakers record smashing ten ten billion. That's
ten million, ten billion, ten million, yeah, right, ten billion
dollars sale. So we are now hearing that it is
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official the deal allows Genie Bus to remain as the
team's acting owned. Of course, the NBA won't say owner,
they're woke. They say governor anyway for at least five years.
Different report, however, from Front Office Sports says that Genie
Bus will only be able to stay for at most
five years now. Either way, she is sticking around. The
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Bus family legacy will continue for a few more years.
So where do you stand on lame duc Genie Buss
continuing to be the face of Laker ownership.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
At league meetings.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
She has a seat at the table even though she
agreed to sell the franchise. All right, So when I
first heard about this, I was like, wow, this is
just it was crazy, and I said, well, maybe this
won't actually happen, but it appears to have happened now.
So this feels like something you would This kind of
a deal feels like something you would write on a
cocktail napkin at Spago during happy hour. It reminds me
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of one of my favorite radio stories. There was a
guy named gene Autry. You probably don't know who that
is if you're below a certain age. If you're really old,
you know who gene Autry is. He was known as
the Singing Cowboy back in the old days of country music.
Gene Autry and he owned a bunch of radio stations
on the Angels, a bunch of radio stations.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
And I heard from somebody.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
That worked one of his radio stations, worked at the
old KMPC, that gene Autry at the holiday party, at
the Christmas party would get completely hammered and would he
was very friendly. You know, there's different kinds of drunks.
There's the angry drunk, there's a happy drunk. There's the
I will give out ridiculous contracts. So there was a story,
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famous radio story that was told early in my career
by somebody that worked for gene Autry that on the
back of a napkin at a restaurant in Hollywood, he
signed one of his DJs to a lifetime contract that
did stand up in court, And that reminds me of
he is like Genie bus probably was a Spago. She
had a cocktail a happy hour there, and she somehow
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finagled I'll get five more years over at happy hour,
five more seasons minimum or at the most.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Either way, that is not.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Governance is a co play. I mean this isn't about basketball.
It's not about winning championships. It's about ego, right, It's
all about optics and ego. It's about walking into the
arena there down on skid Row in LA and watching
nineteen thousand people nod and oh, look at that royalty.
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You know, it's about making sure that she sticks around,
because that's what it's all about. The Lakers sale agreement.
It's like a prenup, very bizarre, right, It's got this
clause in there where it's like institutional sentimentality. It's not
a business. It's like performance art in really expensive heels.
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At this point, and my belief maybe I'm wrong on this,
but I have always said that the person that has
the checkbook, the person that writes the checks, is the
one with the power. So in this particular story, that
would be Mark Walter and the Goggenheim partners who bought
the Lakers. They own the dots, also, not Genie Buss.
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So the blueprints have changed. They've transferred over the deed
to the team, and Genie Buss is going around as
the figurehead.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
She's like the Queen of England being.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Trotted out for ceremonial appearances. Have a spot of tea
while the real power brokers play geopolitical chess. Mark Walter
and all them behind the velvet rope and all that stuff.
But g you can walk on the red carpet, but
they'll take care of the business in the back. Now
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final point, we now go old guy radio. Who that's right,
We're doing old guy radio. So we flashback to a
by God era long long ago and a much different
world in the NBA. So we learned that frank Leyden.
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You might not know who that is. Frank Leyden, a
man that had the gift of gas, former coach of
the Utah Jazz led them to the playoffs for the
first time.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
He's dead.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Now when I found out, we.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Were like, I didn't even know you were still alive.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I mean, frank was an old guy when he was
working in the NBA, but he made it all the
way to ninety three. Ninety three, So I wanted to
spend a few minutes going down memory lane. I think
it's important when someone that touched my sports fandom, and
I absolutinly wasn't a Utah Jazz fan, but someone that
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touched my fandom passes away. I think it's the proper respect.
We used to do a six line tribute. Then they
changed the phone system and now we can't put six
lines on the air, so that went to hell. So
the question what are you going to remember about long
ago jazz coach and he was the GAM as well
for years, Frank Layton. So the first thing is a
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life well lived? Ninety three is a great run ninety three.
I mean, we'd all take that right now, we'd sign
up for that.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
They give me ninety three. I'm good. I'm pretty good.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
The bigger than life personality, And I was thinking about
it when I was coming into the studio. Frank Layden's
life story like an old school Hollywood comedy. It really
is like an old school Hollywood company. So if you
don't know his backstory, this is a street wise guy,
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fat guy from Brooklyn, you know, typical over the top,
in your face New York guy, right out of Central Casting,
and he ended up coaching the New Orleans Jazz. He
then got dropped into Mormon country and it's like he
took some kind of wrong turn. I think he was
coming out of the Holland Tunnel and he went the
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wrong way and then he ended up waking up in
some place in Salt Lake City holding a clipboard in
the early nineteen eighties. Now you understand it was a
much different time in professional sports, this corporate buy crap
we have today in sports. Frank Laydon was a byproduct
of a mom and pop era.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
In the NBA.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
He was the coach, he was the general manager, but
it looked like he belonged behind the deli counter, yelling next, right,
who's got next?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So pastrami?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Corn beef? Yeah, okay, roast beef, turkey.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Ham, what do you want?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Like he could have been a taxi cab driver in
another life and nobody would have thought anything of it.
And he didn't waste his time crunching analytics and player
efficiency ratings.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
And all that crap.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Didn't worry about it. Didn't need a computer back then,
when the computers were archaic. When he was doing his thing,
he had a rotary home landline, rotary phone, no cell phone,
and he picked players on gut instinct. Oh my god,
if you win. He into the front offices of basketball,
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baseball and football and said, all right, no computers, no analytics,
you just got to go by your gut, how many
people would resign, how many people would have a heart attack.
But back then it was just the way you did
things right. But the thing that I remember also about
Frank Laydon the charisma that you can't teach. And I
was watxing poetic about my early days. It was I
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started in the radio business as a reporter, but it
was it was in the early relative early nineties, and
a lot of the guys from the eighties were still
in the NBA, and it was such a different era,
like Doug ma and Frank Layden and these big personalities
goofball coaches, and it was wonderful to get sound as
a radio guy because they just gave the most ridiculous
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quotes and it was wonderful. But Frank Laydon drafted John
Stockton and Carl Malone back to back years, yeah, back
to back years in the draft, and one year we
got stocked. In the next year we got Carmelone Hall
of Famers to the all time greats. And I'll bet
you dollars to donuts that Frank Layden spent more time
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choosing what kind of HOGI he was going to have
at lunch than he did scouting or you know, there
was no algorithms or anything like that, so he didn't
think about predictive models or any of that stuff, right, please, Yeah,
the idea of analytics, Frank Layden was from an era
where you shake a hand, you made a joke, you know,
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you told the zinger, a one liner, a wisecrack, and
he coached with a towel. Frank Layden slung over his shoulder,
was already sweaty.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
At the old Salt Palace there in.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Salt Lake City. And it always looked like he when
he was coaching, it looked like he was working at
the YMCA and he was going to clean the court
and grab the mop. And his news conferences would be
stand up comedy and was back in those days, you
just criticized the players, and that's just just goof on. Now,
if you criticize the players, there's a war tribunal, you
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lose the locker room. Back then, you know, oh that
guy's fat, that guy's out of shape. You know that
guy's a loser. That guy should know. But it was
a different time and and Frank Laydon was a throwback
again to a time when the NBA was like half game,
half vaudeville and this younger young peples. Oh it was terrible. Yeah,
you know that. Losers like that podcaster JJ Reddick like
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to rip the old days. But Frank Laydon, I mean
it was, it was great. I have fun memories. So
rest in peace, Frank Layden, A life well lived. It
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That's what he has to say the nature Boy. Let's
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Matt Jack writes in, says Malard, I know it didn't
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the aforementioned mad Jack. Not just for the record, I
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just wanted to pause there. There was no gremlin attack.
I was fully connected. I don't know what happened. They're
very odd.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I never never lost any connection anyway.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I was talking about Nolan Aernado, I believe, but I
was rudely interrupted by Twilight Zone music mad Jack. I
do not see Nolan Ernado going to the to the Doyers,
although he's a southern California guy. Shanon Moin writes, In says,
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am a fan of Aaron Andrews. I love that Shane
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He says, they are a combined c plus, Well, you
sound like big fans, sound.
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Like big fans. There Fergducks has ben come back. I
am back.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I am look at me. I'm here right now six
months for the bag. We'll get to that. Also, it's
a burner. It is a burner.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
We'll go there as well.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Let's go to the phones, and where shall we go.
Let's say hello to Andre and his dog Willis out
in the Commonwealth. Hello Andre, Hello Ben, It's good to
be with you.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Willis and I. We're out here on a walk, beautiful
day in the neighborhood. So we're out here getting our exercise.
But speaking of somebody who's gonna need some exercise, Ben,
talking about Devin Booker here, okay? And what is seventy
five million that he's given a year? So you noted
that he has a portion of the Grand Canyon for
my money, they probably threw in the Colorado River too.
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How about the Hoover Dam. Okay, as a part of
his deal, because all he's going to really try to
do and for me is do what Kobe Bryant did
in two thousand and five, which is getting empty Calori stats.
He's going to lead the league in scoring thirty five
points a game. Right, They're going to be right back
in the basement, right back in the lottery. But the
whole team is centered around him doing whatever the heck
that he wants.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Now there is about Andre before we move on here.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
So they're they're going to give Devin Booker the Hoover Dam,
which is in Nevada, not even in Arizonas. That's how
big this contract is. They're actually gonna give him property
in Nevada.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Right, give him some sat scope, you know, throwing some
ski slopes there.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And how about how about this, how about he can
get a share of parking ticket revenue from Albuquerque?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
How about that?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Okay, to talk to Walter White and make it work,
throw that into the deal. But the bottom line is,
you know, this is kind of putting a band aid
on dumpster fire that the Phoenix Suns have been with
Madeshfia trying to get with his get rich quick schemes,
you know, getting rid of Hall of Fame. Excuse me,
championship coach. I don't know about Hall of Fame, but
Frank Bodwin coach, Bud they most certainly both won championships
and he got rid of them in the year and
try to you know, strike lightning in a bottle. Wilson
(24:02):
doesn't agree with this with Bradley bial Get, you know,
bringing him in with his no trade clause. So listen,
on paper, you can sell people potential, you can sell
people the future. But from my mind, if they have
the opportunity with Jaialen Green, if they can trade him,
possibly to a Detroit, get some young assets from Detroit,
then bring them back. Then they can start to build
for the future. If not, if you bring back Jailing
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Green Devin Booker, we already know two ball dominant scoring guards.
They're both going to get a lot of points. You
can sell people on that. And they're gonna be in
the basement. They're gonna be in the aj Devance the
sweet Steak. So I just you know, and there's got
to be all the stuff with the players and the coaches.
Mott is be a mister billionaire. Is it possible for billionaires?
Is there anybody out there that's like McKenzie Bezos write
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this billionaire who gives all her money away and seems
to focus on Zell and trowthropic opportunities. If Field look
at yourself in the mirror, take a step back, I e.
George Steinbrenner after his debacle, and then let your basketball
people make their decisions. I think then the Suns can
have a little bit of success. So me and Willis,
we're having some success here. He's amped up right out
here in the middle of nowhere. I had to put
my flash flight down. So we're gonna go back and
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get that. But it's a beautiful night here in the Cape,
you know, peak humidity, you know, so we're getting our
steps in and hey, they might they might throw in
the Cape Cod Canal for Devin Booker.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I don't know, they might get party of the canal.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Well, you know, he can.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Afford to He can now afford to live on the Cape.
So Devin Booker, he can afford to live anywhere he
wants on the Cape. He can get his own ferry
if he wants. Uh, he's got that kind of cash.
All right, Well, thank you. There's Andre and his dog
Willis what he's trying to say is the sons were
a I think he's saying they're a ghost ship. I
think that's what he was getting at there. It's some
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kind of love that movie Ghosts.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah, ghost ship. Yeah, I think that's that's what that is. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Uh So the bad with math story, we'll get to
that later. But six months for the bag, is it true?
A former NBA star, an All star, a reality TV
star famously got married and now after six months of marriage, separation,
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going to divorce, and his wife asking a divorce court
for alimony, assets and property. After six months six months
of marriage. We are talking about none other than Dwight Howard. Say,
(26:27):
TMZ is all over this. They have the court documents
on this. That Dwight Howard and his wife, who also
happens to be a reality star and rapper, Amber Rose Howard,
better known as her stage name. She has filed for
divorce in Georgia and in the documents she's asked for alimony. Boy,
(26:49):
that that woman, she's got big balls. She is requesting
that all marital assets and property be equally equitably divided
equitably provided, which is a legal bull craft there. So
she wants property, the whole thing. She's in Howard. That's
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we're talking about a lot of money, Howard. Dwight Howard
earned two hundred and forty million during his NBA career
with Orlando and the Lakers, a bunch of other teams.
And the most amazing part of the story, You know what,
the most amazing part of the story is how dumb
Dwight Howard is. There's one thing missing from this story.
You want to think, I guess what this one thing is.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
You know what it is? You're shaking your head, Yes, Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Dwight Howard Dwight Howard, despite having two hundred forty million
being made in his career, decided to get married. He
was so horny he did not get a prenuptial agreement.
He's now This woman must have been amazing in bed.
He's now at the mercy of the court in Georgia.
And you imagine you married for six months, you could
(27:57):
lose half of your money, like one hundred million dollars
because you didn't bother to get a pre nuptial agreement.
That is wild man. And she's asking for everything. Well,
you can ask for anything, but you know it doesn't
mean you're gonna get it, but you ask, right, there
should be a timeline, like you have to be married
longer than six months to be able to get anything.
(28:20):
You would think, so like if if you're you know,
there's some people who want to get you know, become
a citizen.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
They'll get married. You know, there's some racket for that.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
But don't you have to be married for a certain
amount of time and you can't just get married and
then get divorced right away or the whole thing. I
think there's a straight yeah, yeah, I think there's like
a certain amount of time you have to be married,
and if you know you're not, then it does not work.
So that ain't my problem. That's Dwight Howard's problem. And
that does seem like a problem though. That does seem
(28:48):
problematic for Dwight Howard.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
So they were, they were in love and now not
so much. Let's go to.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Let's go to Tristan, Who's deep in the heart of
Texas and Tristan is next. It is the Bane Maler Show. Hello, Tristan, welcome.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Hello. I wanted to talk about the Sodo debarcle kind
of put in more understandable terms, the seven hundred and
sixty five million dollar contract. Complaining about losing out on
one hundred thousand dollars If you make sixty thousand dollars
a year, that's like complaining about missing on a seven
dollars and eighty six cent bonus. That's just ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Oh I like that.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
That's good, Tristan, that's good.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah, that's so you'd be upset about less than eight dollars,
is what you're saying.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
No, if I was missing out on eight dollars, I
would just cut my losses and just deal with it.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Yeah, No, And some people as one of our listeners said, think, well,
he's being sarcastic.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I don't think he was being sarcastical.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I saw the clip.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
I saw the audio. I heard the audio.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I saw the clip, and I it seemed like he
was being sarcastic. He doesn't seem like the kind of
guy Won Soto that does sarcasms.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
So uh yeah, all right, well there you go. Well,
thank you for the math, Tristan. I appreciate that. Everything good, Yes,
you're good. All right, very nice, there goes Tristan.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Let's say hello to Eenie Meenie miney mo. Let's say
hello to Kelly formerly known as donut Kelly. Kelly, do
you you still like donuts? I know you live in
Des Moines. Now their donuts you know?
Speaker 7 (30:22):
Well, I mean I technically really never liked the donuts,
but yeah, my job.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
But what's your favorite?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
What's your go to dessert? If you don't like the donut, cheesecake.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
That is a good dessert.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Y lime pie?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Oh yeah, li pie. Now somebody sent me an angry
email about key lime pie being disgusting.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
And then, uh, I think I also got a message.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, yeah, I know, right, I got a message from
one of my radio Buddy Sports with Coleman, big radio
guy in in Baltimore, and he sent me a message says,
key Lime Pie is absolutely disgusting. And you know what
I say, Jerry Coleman's disgusting, He's at disgusting.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
What was what was the name of that place? It
was Key West, right.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
That's uh Key West. Yeah, yeah, that's where the key
Lime Pie can. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I don't know the
name of the place. But Bobby from Florida sent us
a couple of key I think it was Kermit's, Kermit's
Key Lime Kermits. Yes, Bobby and Bobby hooked us up.
He sent us a regular one and then it was
a strawberry, right, it was a strawberry.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
We were talking about origins now, since you already talked
about the anchor bar. So yeah, we're just covers.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, yeah, what we do. And the French dip sandwich,
the modern French dip originated in Los Angeles. There was
a great rivalry between Coles and Philip's. Now Cole's is closing.
I saw yesterday very upset. I used to I used
to live in near downtown. I used to eat at
Coals quite a bit. I'm very bummed out. It's been
(31:56):
around for one hundred years, I think close two hundred
years something like that.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
And over that hundred and seventeen or something like that,
one hundred and.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Seventeen year restaurant and they're closing. I'm amazed they lasted
this long, though, because they're literally right at the start
of skin row, like I mean, like the point of demarcation.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
But I was bummed out about that.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
But yeah, So, any other Food Fund facts we have
for the for the show anything?
Speaker 7 (32:19):
Yeah, No, I don't have any more Food Fund facts,
but I did want to.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Work how about this, you know what they you know
what they call sour dough bread in San Francisco bread.
That's right, you've heard that before.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Okay, Yeah, well I used to live in the Bay Area,
so yeah, but no, I want to weigh in on
how much I'm also against the robot umps because I
believe that umpires are just as much a part of
the game as a pitcher or a catcher. Like even
though you know, Angel was terrible and whatever, but it
(32:51):
added personality and difference to every game, and you had
to like research what MP's called strike zones what way
and think about it.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah, no, I agree. Baseball didn't like that though. Baseball
hated that the umpires.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
All had huge egos.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
And I remember there was a guy named country Joe West,
and that guy always made the game about him and
baseball people that the league office hated Joe West and
they couldn't stand these bigger than life.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
There was a point when the umpire was part of
the show.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
But now I couldn't name more than two umpires in
baseball right now, I couldn't name more than two.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Now I have personality anymore. They got rid of all
the guys that were calling the problems.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Yeah, they're all lifeless guys and all that, but they
make good I can say, I can name Randy Wolfe's
brother is still an umpire.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
I can name him. There's like one other guy.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
All right, I got to leave it there, Kelly, thank you.
I have a hard networkout. As they say, hard networkout.
We are going to have Mallard of the third degree.
Here's the incht to trivia, and here it is. Blank
was the only player in that National Football League last
season to have ten or more sacks and seventy five
(34:01):
or more tackles. Again, Blank the only player in the
NFL last season to have ten or more sacks and
seventy five or more tackles. That's the insta trivia the answer.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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Speaker 2 (34:59):
Right after we get off the air.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Turn out for the inch to trivia and then we'll
get to Mallard to the third degree.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
But here's the incht to Trivia.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Blank was the only player in the entire NFL last
season to have ten or more sacks and seventy five
or more tackles.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
That is the question. What is the answer?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Alf the alien Opiner says David Hartman, random name Eke
and Roseville, Minnesota got it right, obviously cheating King Rory
says Supermarket Steve's favorite WNBA player, Angel Reese. Who else
Rosie Greer from I forty eight? I actually met Rosie
where at Rosie was a fan of the Clippers and
(35:46):
during the OJ trial.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Used to go to Clipper games.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
He was the guy driving OJ around during the chase.
Who else? Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota is going with
TJ Watt as his answer? Elloy from Compton says Coops
childhood hero the Pillsbury dough boy. Uh, let's see here
Rid Serling, I think I think Kathy met Rod Serling
from Kaffey and Madison.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Uh. Who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Mister Moose guessed by Steph Well, mister Moose in All Time,
in all Time? Great?
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Who else?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Page down? Uh, let's see Blake Snell and something with
vast say?
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Uh, that's from Terry and England.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Uh, all right, it was truck or Joe with mister Moose.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Actually, all right?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Do you have an answer?
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Lorena?
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Yes, I think it's Red Foreman, Ben Red Foreman. Yeah,
a man with three names.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
That's never good.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Andrew Van Ginkle the Minnesota Vikings. Andrew Van Ginkle linebacker.
Here we all here, this is one big fan gets grilled.
Speaker 8 (37:05):
Broncos wide receiver Marvin Mim said on a radio appearance
that quote, you can really feel that the times are
changing for us, referring to the Broncos.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Ben.
Speaker 8 (37:13):
Last year, the Broncos snapped a streak of eight years
without making to the making it to the playoffs? Do
you think a streak of making it to the postseason
has begun?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
So the math is no on this. It is about
the bow show, bow Nicks. He's at the launching pad.
Does he go up, up and away with Sean Payton?
Denver is gonna have a pretty good defense. They've they
figured it to be right there. You can't say it's
the start of a streak because you look at the AFC,
the Chiefs are still right there in the penthouse. You've
(37:42):
got Buffalo and Baltimore the top teams. But then you
look at the wild Cards and so it's the Chargers.
The Broncos are in the mix with the Ravens. The Bengals.
I think the Patriots will be better this year, and
so no, I'm gonna go know on that. Next.
Speaker 8 (37:57):
According to analysts and betting markets, Wheeler and Paul Skeens
are neck and neck in the nl Cy Young race.
Who do you think should win?
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Well? Major League Baseball would like they don't vote on this,
the writers vote on this, but they would like Paul
Skeens to win. It's a good story, the pitiful Pirates
breakout star.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
He's got the.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Social media influencer, you know, woman in his life and
the whole thing. Zach Wheeler, though he actually pitches in
meaningful games. It's very odd because normally these things are
decided the last month of the season. The Pirates they're
not going to play any meaningful games till the Grapefruit
League next year, so he's Paul Skeens is gonna have
to dominate. But I think because of the meaningful games,
(38:38):
I give it to Zach Wheeler next.
Speaker 8 (38:40):
Chiefs Jim Brett Viach said this week that Travis Kelcey
may not have it every week, but he can find
it when they need it. Ben, do you think that
will be the case for Kelsey?
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Well, he didn't have it in.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
The super Bowl. It looked like he was sleepwalking in
the Super Bowl, which is the biggest of them all,
the granddaddy of them all. He's gonna turn thirty six
during the NFL season. Uh, let's put it this way.
He's not going to lead the Chiefs in in statistics.
I wouldn't be betting on him dominating this year. How
did we do wid It's already it's already over.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
We won, it's already over.
In to the murky waters we go of the podcast world.
Move over, Joe Rogan and Adam Carolla. It's time now
for the Ben Maler Show. Our numb Berg two, our number.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Two and the Suns. That's a basketball team, not a
good one.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Their superstar Devin Booker has agreed to a two year,
one hundred forty five million dollar max extension. I'm sure
somewhere Fox Sports Radio producer bri very excited about that,
keeping him under contract until twenty thirty.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
This has led to some Phoenix fanatics praising Booker's loyalty.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
To the land of the Cacti. Is that how you
see it?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Also, where do you stand on Geenie Buss continuing to
be the face of Lakers ownership after selling the franchise.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
She'll be around for five years.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Also, what are you going to remember?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
What are you going to remember? A memoriam?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
What are you going to remember about long ago Utah
Jazz coach general manager frank Leyden who passed away recently.
We'll talk about that and much more right now, very
relatable unless we're not. It's our number two. You can
book it and book it again. I'm talking about of
money welcome in the beginning of another hour of the
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we drop in for a chat, and we have weaponized insomnia.
We have coast to coast, border to border and beyond
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Speaker 1 (02:33):
So I leave this hour from pro Bouncy Ball, we
will have I'd like to alert all the affiliates down
the line. That sounds more important than it is. Most
stations automated this hour, but we will have old Man
Radio coming up later this hour in a few minutes
old Man Radio. But we begin in the Grand Canyon State.
Everyone's talking about this raising Arizona, at least raising the
(02:56):
payroll of Arizona. Money money, money, big money, big money,
big money. No Waymies stop.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Right in the valley, the Valley of the Sun.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
So if you didn't see this or hear about it,
news came down kind of late in the day. D
book got paid.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Sun superstar Devin Booker has agreed to a two year,
one hundred and forty five million dollar max extension that
keeps him under contract through the twenty twenty nine twenty
thirty season. And now this has led the Phoenix fanatics,
(03:37):
the Marching and Chowder Society of the Suns there praising
Devin Booker for his loyalty to the land of the Cacti.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Is that how you see it?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Do you agree with the sentiment of a good chunk
of the fan base of the Suns that this is
a loyalty play by Devin Booker So I've got kidney, Spago,
and Deli counter, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a crackpot. Now,
(04:12):
crackpot is a person that thinks this is because of
loyalty's that's a crackpot, all right, absolutely not. I am
one hundred and eighty degrees the opposite direction. Now must
be a different dimension that I resided than the people
that are saying that in the multiverse. And this is
(04:32):
not a contract that Devin Booker got. This is a jackpot.
I did the Malor math, and if my math is correct,
that is seventy two and a half million dollars per year.
He won't even play seventy two games a year for
the Suns. It's powerball with a jump shot. Good for him.
(04:52):
And yet, somehow, some way, there are so many fanboys
out there that an obvious money move here. And you
have the low information Neanderthal knuckle dragging fan you know who,
you are treating this like Devin Booker just donated a
kidney to a hospital in Phoenix, Like, oh my god,
(05:14):
he stead He's so loyal, Who my god, It's just amazing.
And they're clutching their foam fingers and they're they've got
that little gorilla mascot stuffies. It's not about loyalty. Devin
Booker's rich. He was already rich. Now he's richer than rich.
(05:35):
He's not giving the Sons a hometown discount. He's not
sacrificing or anything like.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
That's a stop.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
He cashed in like this is like a hedge fund
manager on insider info, right, he got insider him.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It is a hometown heist, is what it is.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
And Devin Booker he didn't stay with the Suns because
he loves the desert sunsets and hanging out in a
town where it's one hundred and fifty degrees part of
the year, or the Southwestern cuisine. He stayed because the
Suns offered him every dollar they legally could offer him
(06:14):
under the salary cap, and he said, yes, please, I
will take that. And I'd also like a statue to
gout in a doggy back? Can you put a statue
to go in a doggyback? So this is not like
a feel good story. I have no problem Devin Booker
getting paid. He's a star. It's not my cup of
tea and all that. But I'm not a Suns fan.
(06:34):
So if you like him, great, he puts up numbers.
I feel like they're empty numbers. And you know, let's
stop pretending it's a capitalism move. That's fine, but let's
stop pretending this is some kind of Disney movie.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I see this reaction, I'm like, is this real?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Are there actually people that are living amongst us in
the sports world that are like this.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
He didn't fall on a grenade. I mean, what are
you doing?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
He didn't rescue people, you know, like they I saw.
I was reading the story that tgity in Texas, the
flood and a horrible story, and there was a guy
from the Coast Guard, this like first mission ever, this
guy in his twenties, I think it's twenty six, and
he rescued, like, helped rescue one hundred, one hundred people
more than that.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
It's just crazy. That's that's a that's a hell of
a story.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Anyway, all right now page two to La we Go,
La La Land. So the new details out on the
fallout from the Lakers record smashing ten ten billion. That's
ten million, ten billion, ten million, yeah, right, ten billion
dollars sale. So we are now hearing that it is
(07:38):
official the deal allows Genie Bus to remain as the
team's acting owned. Of course, the NBA won't say owner,
they're woke. They say governor anyway for at least five years.
Different report, however, from Front Office Sports says that Genie
Bus will only be able to stay for at most
five years now. Either way, she is sticking around. The
(08:02):
Bus family legacy will continue for a few more years.
So where do you stand on lame duc Genie Buss
continuing to be the face of Laker ownership.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
At league meetings.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
She has a seat at the table even though she
agreed to sell the franchise. All right, So when I
first heard about this, I was like, wow, this is
just it was crazy, and I said, well, maybe this
won't actually happen, but it appears to have happened now.
So this feels like something you would This kind of
a deal feels like something you would write on a
cocktail napkin at Spago during happy hour. It reminds me
(08:41):
of one of my favorite radio stories. There was a
guy named gene Autry. You probably don't know who that
is if you're below a certain age. If you're really old,
you know who gene Autry is. He was known as
the Singing Cowboy back in the old days of country music.
Gene Autry and he owned a bunch of radio stations
on the Angels, a bunch of radio stations.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
And I heard from somebody.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
That worked one of his radio stations, worked at the
old KMPC, that gene Autry at the holiday party, at
the Christmas party would get completely hammered and would he
was very friendly. You know, there's different kinds of drunks.
There's the angry drunk, there's a happy drunk. There's the
I will give out ridiculous contracts. So there was a story,
(09:22):
famous radio story that was told early in my career
by somebody that worked for gene Autry that on the
back of a napkin at a restaurant in Hollywood, he
signed one of his DJs to a lifetime contract that
did stand up in court, And that reminds me of
he is like Genie bus probably was a Spago. She
had a cocktail a happy hour there, and she somehow
(09:45):
finagled I'll get five more years over at happy hour,
five more seasons minimum or at the most.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Either way, that is not.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Governance is a co play. I mean this isn't about basketball.
It's not about winning championships. It's about ego, right, It's
all about optics and ego. It's about walking into the
arena there down on skid Row in LA and watching
nineteen thousand people nod and oh, look at that royalty.
(10:17):
You know, it's about making sure that she sticks around,
because that's what it's all about. The Lakers sale agreement.
It's like a prenup, very bizarre, right, It's got this
clause in there where it's like institutional sentimentality. It's not
a business. It's like performance art in really expensive heels.
(10:41):
At this point, and my belief maybe I'm wrong on this,
but I have always said that the person that has
the checkbook, the person that writes the checks, is the
one with the power. So in this particular story, that
would be Mark Walter and the Goggenheim partners who bought
the Lakers. They own the dots, also, not Genie Buss.
(11:02):
So the blueprints have changed. They've transferred over the deed
to the team, and Genie Buss is going around as
the figurehead.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
She's like the Queen of England being.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Trotted out for ceremonial appearances. Have a spot of tea
while the real power brokers play geopolitical chess. Mark Walter
and all them behind the velvet rope and all that stuff.
But g you can walk on the red carpet, but
they'll take care of the business in the back. Now
(11:34):
final point, we now go old guy radio. Who that's right,
We're doing old guy radio. So we flashback to a
by God era long long ago and a much different
world in the NBA. So we learned that frank Leyden.
(11:54):
You might not know who that is. Frank Leyden, a
man that had the gift of gas, former coach of
the Utah Jazz led them to the playoffs for the
first time.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
He's dead.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Now when I found out, we.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Were like, I didn't even know you were still alive.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I mean, frank was an old guy when he was
working in the NBA, but he made it all the
way to ninety three. Ninety three, So I wanted to
spend a few minutes going down memory lane. I think
it's important when someone that touched my sports fandom, and
I absolutinly wasn't a Utah Jazz fan, but someone that
(12:30):
touched my fandom passes away. I think it's the proper respect.
We used to do a six line tribute. Then they
changed the phone system and now we can't put six
lines on the air, so that went to hell. So
the question what are you going to remember about long
ago jazz coach and he was the GAM as well
for years, Frank Layton. So the first thing is a
(12:53):
life well lived? Ninety three is a great run ninety three.
I mean, we'd all take that right now, we'd sign
up for that.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
They give me ninety three. I'm good. I'm pretty good.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
The bigger than life personality, And I was thinking about
it when I was coming into the studio. Frank Layden's
life story like an old school Hollywood comedy. It really
is like an old school Hollywood company. So if you
don't know his backstory, this is a street wise guy,
(13:25):
fat guy from Brooklyn, you know, typical over the top,
in your face New York guy, right out of Central Casting,
and he ended up coaching the New Orleans Jazz. He
then got dropped into Mormon country and it's like he
took some kind of wrong turn. I think he was
coming out of the Holland Tunnel and he went the
(13:46):
wrong way and then he ended up waking up in
some place in Salt Lake City holding a clipboard in
the early nineteen eighties. Now you understand it was a
much different time in professional sports, this corporate buy crap
we have today in sports. Frank Laydon was a byproduct
of a mom and pop era.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
In the NBA.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
He was the coach, he was the general manager, but
it looked like he belonged behind the deli counter, yelling next, right,
who's got next?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So pastrami?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Corn beef? Yeah, okay, roast beef, turkey.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Ham, what do you want?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Like he could have been a taxi cab driver in
another life and nobody would have thought anything of it.
And he didn't waste his time crunching analytics and player
efficiency ratings.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
And all that crap.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Didn't worry about it. Didn't need a computer back then,
when the computers were archaic. When he was doing his thing,
he had a rotary home landline, rotary phone, no cell phone,
and he picked players on gut instinct. Oh my god,
if you win. He into the front offices of basketball,
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baseball and football and said, all right, no computers, no analytics,
you just got to go by your gut, how many
people would resign, how many people would have a heart attack.
But back then it was just the way you did
things right. But the thing that I remember also about
Frank Laydon the charisma that you can't teach. And I
was watxing poetic about my early days. It was I
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started in the radio business as a reporter, but it
was it was in the early relative early nineties, and
a lot of the guys from the eighties were still
in the NBA, and it was such a different era,
like Doug ma and Frank Layden and these big personalities
goofball coaches, and it was wonderful to get sound as
a radio guy because they just gave the most ridiculous
(15:46):
quotes and it was wonderful. But Frank Laydon drafted John
Stockton and Carl Malone back to back years, yeah, back
to back years in the draft, and one year we
got stocked. In the next year we got Carmelone Hall
of Famers to the all time greats. And I'll bet
you dollars to donuts that Frank Layden spent more time
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choosing what kind of HOGI he was going to have
at lunch than he did scouting or you know, there
was no algorithms or anything like that, so he didn't
think about predictive models or any of that stuff, right, please, Yeah,
the idea of analytics, Frank Layden was from an era
where you shake a hand, you made a joke, you know,
(16:28):
you told the zinger, a one liner, a wisecrack, and
he coached with a towel. Frank Layden slung over his shoulder,
was already sweaty.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
At the old Salt Palace there in.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Salt Lake City. And it always looked like he when
he was coaching, it looked like he was working at
the YMCA and he was going to clean the court
and grab the mop. And his news conferences would be
stand up comedy and was back in those days, you
just criticized the players, and that's just just goof on. Now,
if you criticize the players, there's a war tribunal, you
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lose the locker room. Back then, you know, oh that
guy's fat, that guy's out of shape. You know that
guy's a loser. That guy should know. But it was
a different time and and Frank Laydon was a throwback
again to a time when the NBA was like half game,
half vaudeville and this younger young peples. Oh it was terrible. Yeah,
you know that. Losers like that podcaster JJ Reddick like
(17:23):
to rip the old days. But Frank Laydon, I mean
it was, it was great. I have fun memories. So
rest in peace, Frank Layden, A life well lived. It
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Speaker 2 (20:47):
That's what he has to say the nature Boy. Let's
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Speaker 1 (20:52):
Matt Jack writes in, says Malard, I know it didn't
make much sense for Nolan Aronato to go to the
Dodger for while, But with Max Munsey and Key k Out,
should they trade for the gold glover? Or is that
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the aforementioned mad Jack. Not just for the record, I
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just wanted to pause there. There was no gremlin attack.
I was fully connected. I don't know what happened. They're
very odd.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I never never lost any connection anyway.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I was talking about Nolan Aernado, I believe, but I
was rudely interrupted by Twilight Zone music mad Jack. I
do not see Nolan Ernado going to the to the Doyers,
although he's a southern California guy. Shanon Moin writes, In says,
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sound like big fans, sound.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Like big fans. There Fergducks has ben come back. I
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Speaker 1 (22:10):
I am look at me. I'm here right now six
months for the bag. We'll get to that. Also, it's
a burner. It is a burner.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
We'll go there as well.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Let's go to the phones, and where shall we go.
Let's say hello to Andre and his dog Willis out
in the Commonwealth. Hello Andre, Hello Ben, It's good to
be with you.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Willis and I. We're out here on a walk, beautiful
day in the neighborhood. So we're out here getting our exercise.
But speaking of somebody who's gonna need some exercise, Ben,
talking about Devin Booker here, okay? And what is seventy
five million that he's given a year? So you noted
that he has a portion of the Grand Canyon for
my money, they probably threw in the Colorado River too.
(22:57):
How about the Hoover Dam. Okay, as a part of
his deal, because all he's going to really try to
do and for me is do what Kobe Bryant did
in two thousand and five, which is getting empty Calori stats.
He's going to lead the league in scoring thirty five
points a game. Right, They're going to be right back
in the basement, right back in the lottery. But the
whole team is centered around him doing whatever the heck
that he wants.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Now there is about Andre before we move on here.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
So they're they're going to give Devin Booker the Hoover Dam,
which is in Nevada, not even in Arizonas. That's how
big this contract is. They're actually gonna give him property
in Nevada.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Right, give him some sat scope, you know, throwing some
ski slopes there.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And how about how about this, how about he can
get a share of parking ticket revenue from Albuquerque?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
How about that?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Okay, to talk to Walter White and make it work,
throw that into the deal. But the bottom line is,
you know, this is kind of putting a band aid
on dumpster fire that the Phoenix Suns have been with
Madeshfia trying to get with his get rich quick schemes,
you know, getting rid of Hall of Fame. Excuse me,
championship coach. I don't know about Hall of Fame, but
Frank Bodwin coach, Bud they most certainly both won championships
and he got rid of them in the year and
try to you know, strike lightning in a bottle. Wilson
(24:02):
doesn't agree with this with Bradley bial Get, you know,
bringing him in with his no trade clause. So listen,
on paper, you can sell people potential, you can sell
people the future. But from my mind, if they have
the opportunity with Jaialen Green, if they can trade him,
possibly to a Detroit, get some young assets from Detroit,
then bring them back. Then they can start to build
for the future. If not, if you bring back Jailing
(24:22):
Green Devin Booker, we already know two ball dominant scoring guards.
They're both going to get a lot of points. You
can sell people on that. And they're gonna be in
the basement. They're gonna be in the aj Devance the
sweet Steak. So I just you know, and there's got
to be all the stuff with the players and the coaches.
Mott is be a mister billionaire. Is it possible for billionaires?
Is there anybody out there that's like McKenzie Bezos write
(24:42):
this billionaire who gives all her money away and seems
to focus on Zell and trowthropic opportunities. If Field look
at yourself in the mirror, take a step back, I e.
George Steinbrenner after his debacle, and then let your basketball
people make their decisions. I think then the Suns can
have a little bit of success. So me and Willis,
we're having some success here. He's amped up right out
here in the middle of nowhere. I had to put
my flash flight down. So we're gonna go back and
(25:03):
get that. But it's a beautiful night here in the Cape,
you know, peak humidity, you know, so we're getting our
steps in and hey, they might they might throw in
the Cape Cod Canal for Devin Booker.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I don't know, they might get party of the canal.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Well, you know, he can.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Afford to He can now afford to live on the Cape.
So Devin Booker, he can afford to live anywhere he
wants on the Cape. He can get his own ferry
if he wants. Uh, he's got that kind of cash.
All right, Well, thank you. There's Andre and his dog
Willis what he's trying to say is the sons were
a I think he's saying they're a ghost ship. I
think that's what he was getting at there. It's some
(25:37):
kind of love that movie Ghosts.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah, ghost ship. Yeah, I think that's that's what that is. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Uh So the bad with math story, we'll get to
that later. But six months for the bag, is it true?
A former NBA star, an All star, a reality TV
star famously got married and now after six months of marriage, separation,
(26:07):
going to divorce, and his wife asking a divorce court
for alimony, assets and property. After six months six months
of marriage. We are talking about none other than Dwight Howard. Say,
(26:27):
TMZ is all over this. They have the court documents
on this. That Dwight Howard and his wife, who also
happens to be a reality star and rapper, Amber Rose Howard,
better known as her stage name. She has filed for
divorce in Georgia and in the documents she's asked for alimony. Boy,
(26:49):
that that woman, she's got big balls. She is requesting
that all marital assets and property be equally equitably divided
equitably provided, which is a legal bull craft there. So
she wants property, the whole thing. She's in Howard. That's
(27:09):
we're talking about a lot of money, Howard. Dwight Howard
earned two hundred and forty million during his NBA career
with Orlando and the Lakers, a bunch of other teams.
And the most amazing part of the story, You know what,
the most amazing part of the story is how dumb
Dwight Howard is. There's one thing missing from this story.
You want to think, I guess what this one thing is.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
You know what it is? You're shaking your head, Yes, Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Dwight Howard Dwight Howard, despite having two hundred forty million
being made in his career, decided to get married. He
was so horny he did not get a prenuptial agreement.
He's now This woman must have been amazing in bed.
He's now at the mercy of the court in Georgia.
And you imagine you married for six months, you could
(27:57):
lose half of your money, like one hundred million dollars
because you didn't bother to get a pre nuptial agreement.
That is wild man. And she's asking for everything. Well,
you can ask for anything, but you know it doesn't
mean you're gonna get it, but you ask, right, there
should be a timeline, like you have to be married
longer than six months to be able to get anything.
(28:20):
You would think, so like if if you're you know,
there's some people who want to get you know, become
a citizen.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
They'll get married. You know, there's some racket for that.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
But don't you have to be married for a certain
amount of time and you can't just get married and
then get divorced right away or the whole thing. I
think there's a straight yeah, yeah, I think there's like
a certain amount of time you have to be married,
and if you know you're not, then it does not work.
So that ain't my problem. That's Dwight Howard's problem. And
that does seem like a problem though. That does seem
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problematic for Dwight Howard.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
So they were, they were in love and now not
so much. Let's go to.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Let's go to Tristan, Who's deep in the heart of
Texas and Tristan is next. It is the Bane Maler Show. Hello, Tristan, welcome.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Hello. I wanted to talk about the Sodo debarcle kind
of put in more understandable terms, the seven hundred and
sixty five million dollar contract. Complaining about losing out on
one hundred thousand dollars If you make sixty thousand dollars
a year, that's like complaining about missing on a seven
dollars and eighty six cent bonus. That's just ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Oh I like that.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
That's good, Tristan, that's good.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah, that's so you'd be upset about less than eight dollars,
is what you're saying.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
No, if I was missing out on eight dollars, I
would just cut my losses and just deal with it.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Yeah, No, And some people as one of our listeners said, think, well,
he's being sarcastic.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I don't think he was being sarcastical.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I saw the clip.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
I saw the audio. I heard the audio.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I saw the clip, and I it seemed like he
was being sarcastic. He doesn't seem like the kind of
guy Won Soto that does sarcasms.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
So uh yeah, all right, well there you go. Well,
thank you for the math, Tristan. I appreciate that. Everything good, Yes,
you're good. All right, very nice, there goes Tristan.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Let's say hello to Eenie Meenie miney mo. Let's say
hello to Kelly formerly known as donut Kelly. Kelly, do
you you still like donuts? I know you live in
Des Moines. Now their donuts you know?
Speaker 7 (30:22):
Well, I mean I technically really never liked the donuts,
but yeah, my job.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
But what's your favorite?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
What's your go to dessert? If you don't like the donut, cheesecake.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
That is a good dessert.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Y lime pie?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Oh yeah, li pie. Now somebody sent me an angry
email about key lime pie being disgusting.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
And then, uh, I think I also got a message.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, yeah, I know, right, I got a message from
one of my radio Buddy Sports with Coleman, big radio
guy in in Baltimore, and he sent me a message says,
key Lime Pie is absolutely disgusting. And you know what
I say, Jerry Coleman's disgusting, He's at disgusting.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
What was what was the name of that place? It
was Key West, right.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
That's uh Key West. Yeah, yeah, that's where the key
Lime Pie can. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I don't know the
name of the place. But Bobby from Florida sent us
a couple of key I think it was Kermit's, Kermit's
Key Lime Kermits. Yes, Bobby and Bobby hooked us up.
He sent us a regular one and then it was
a strawberry, right, it was a strawberry.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
We were talking about origins now, since you already talked
about the anchor bar. So yeah, we're just covers.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, yeah, what we do. And the French dip sandwich,
the modern French dip originated in Los Angeles. There was
a great rivalry between Coles and Philip's. Now Cole's is closing.
I saw yesterday very upset. I used to I used
to live in near downtown. I used to eat at
Coals quite a bit. I'm very bummed out. It's been
(31:56):
around for one hundred years, I think close two hundred
years something like that.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
And over that hundred and seventeen or something like that,
one hundred and.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Seventeen year restaurant and they're closing. I'm amazed they lasted
this long, though, because they're literally right at the start
of skin row, like I mean, like the point of demarcation.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
But I was bummed out about that.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
But yeah, So, any other Food Fund facts we have
for the for the show anything?
Speaker 7 (32:19):
Yeah, No, I don't have any more Food Fund facts,
but I did want to.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Work how about this, you know what they you know
what they call sour dough bread in San Francisco bread.
That's right, you've heard that before.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Okay, Yeah, well I used to live in the Bay Area,
so yeah, but no, I want to weigh in on
how much I'm also against the robot umps because I
believe that umpires are just as much a part of
the game as a pitcher or a catcher. Like even
though you know, Angel was terrible and whatever, but it
(32:51):
added personality and difference to every game, and you had
to like research what MP's called strike zones what way
and think about it.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah, no, I agree. Baseball didn't like that though. Baseball
hated that the umpires.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
All had huge egos.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
And I remember there was a guy named country Joe West,
and that guy always made the game about him and
baseball people that the league office hated Joe West and
they couldn't stand these bigger than life.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
There was a point when the umpire was part of
the show.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
But now I couldn't name more than two umpires in
baseball right now, I couldn't name more than two.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Now I have personality anymore. They got rid of all
the guys that were calling the problems.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Yeah, they're all lifeless guys and all that, but they
make good I can say, I can name Randy Wolfe's
brother is still an umpire.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
I can name him. There's like one other guy.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
All right, I got to leave it there, Kelly, thank you.
I have a hard networkout. As they say, hard networkout.
We are going to have Mallard of the third degree.
Here's the incht to trivia, and here it is. Blank
was the only player in that National Football League last
season to have ten or more sacks and seventy five
(34:01):
or more tackles. Again, Blank the only player in the
NFL last season to have ten or more sacks and
seventy five or more tackles. That's the insta trivia the answer.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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Speaker 1 (35:03):
Turn out for the inch to trivia and then we'll
get to Mallard to the third degree.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
But here's the incht to Trivia.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Blank was the only player in the entire NFL last
season to have ten or more sacks and seventy five
or more tackles.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
That is the question. What is the answer?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Alf the alien Opiner says David Hartman, random name Eke
and Roseville, Minnesota got it right, obviously cheating King Rory
says Supermarket Steve's favorite WNBA player, Angel Reese. Who else
Rosie Greer from I forty eight? I actually met Rosie
where at Rosie was a fan of the Clippers and
(35:46):
during the OJ trial.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Used to go to Clipper games.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
He was the guy driving OJ around during the chase.
Who else? Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota is going with
TJ Watt as his answer? Elloy from Compton says Coops
childhood hero the Pillsbury dough boy. Uh, let's see here
Rid Serling, I think I think Kathy met Rod Serling
from Kaffey and Madison.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Uh. Who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Mister Moose guessed by Steph Well, mister Moose in All Time,
in all Time? Great?
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Who else?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Page down? Uh, let's see Blake Snell and something with
vast say?
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Uh, that's from Terry and England.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Uh, all right, it was truck or Joe with mister Moose.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Actually, all right?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Do you have an answer?
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Lorena?
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Yes, I think it's Red Foreman, Ben Red Foreman. Yeah,
a man with three names.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
That's never good.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Andrew Van Ginkle the Minnesota Vikings. Andrew Van Ginkle linebacker.
Here we all here, this is one big fan gets grilled.
Speaker 8 (37:05):
Broncos wide receiver Marvin Mim said on a radio appearance
that quote, you can really feel that the times are
changing for us, referring to the Broncos.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Ben.
Speaker 8 (37:13):
Last year, the Broncos snapped a streak of eight years
without making to the making it to the playoffs? Do
you think a streak of making it to the postseason
has begun?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
So the math is no on this. It is about
the bow show, bow Nicks. He's at the launching pad.
Does he go up, up and away with Sean Payton?
Denver is gonna have a pretty good defense. They've they
figured it to be right there. You can't say it's
the start of a streak because you look at the AFC,
the Chiefs are still right there in the penthouse. You've
(37:42):
got Buffalo and Baltimore the top teams. But then you
look at the wild Cards and so it's the Chargers.
The Broncos are in the mix with the Ravens. The Bengals.
I think the Patriots will be better this year, and
so no, I'm gonna go know on that. Next.
Speaker 8 (37:57):
According to analysts and betting markets, Wheeler and Paul Skeens
are neck and neck in the nl Cy Young race.
Who do you think should win?
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Well? Major League Baseball would like they don't vote on this,
the writers vote on this, but they would like Paul
Skeens to win. It's a good story, the pitiful Pirates
breakout star.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
He's got the.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Social media influencer, you know, woman in his life and
the whole thing. Zach Wheeler, though he actually pitches in
meaningful games. It's very odd because normally these things are
decided the last month of the season. The Pirates they're
not going to play any meaningful games till the Grapefruit
League next year, so he's Paul Skeens is gonna have
to dominate. But I think because of the meaningful games,
(38:38):
I give it to Zach Wheeler next.
Speaker 8 (38:40):
Chiefs Jim Brett Viach said this week that Travis Kelcey
may not have it every week, but he can find
it when they need it. Ben, do you think that
will be the case for Kelsey?
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Well, he didn't have it in.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
The super Bowl. It looked like he was sleepwalking in
the Super Bowl, which is the biggest of them all,
the granddaddy of them all. He's gonna turn thirty six
during the NFL season. Uh, let's put it this way.
He's not going to lead the Chiefs in in statistics.
I wouldn't be betting on him dominating this year. How
did we do wid It's already it's already over.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
We won, it's already over.
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