July 12, 2025 • 31 mins
Big Ben talks about Nikola Jokic saying that he does not plan to sign an extension with the Nuggets this offseason, the Dodgers losing 6 straight games after getting swept by the Milwaukee Brewers, Maller's Mountain of Money: Ringo Starr Edition, and more!
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The congregation of the Malord Militia has reunited. Here reunited
and a lot going on, a lot of moving parts here.
Now a story that is a developing story. We're gonna
start with this. The Mile High City. There's a lot
of things moving around. The pinball machine there and pro
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bouncy ball, the silly season. As yet again, we are
on the pulse of what many of you find repulsive gossip,
speculation and rumor mongering. That's right, but interesting. Wrinkle out
of Denver. We have a mantra on this show. We
(02:50):
have many mantras, but one of the mantras is we
just we wake up. We don't know what's going on,
and then you know, we don't even know what's going
on when we go to bed, but we wake up
and I'm like, whatever's interesting, whatever the news of the
day is, and we just talk about And so I
thought this was interesting, and I have editorial control, So
I'm gonna I'm talking about now. Someday I'll give that
up and supermarket Steve will have editorial control. We'll talk
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WNBA and then they'll turn the transmitter off and that's it.
But if you didn't hear, maybe not so multi time
Platinum ENVP guy, the whole thing. Nicola j okicch we
learned will not will not sign a extension with the
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Nuggets this offseason. Not gonna happen. There was a standing
offer there by the Denver basketball team.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
He is not going to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Now, the Nugget media is, well, it's not really that
big a deal because he can make more money in
a couple of years.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Or actually just in a year. So just like wait,
and he is under contract.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
So let us discuss though, because there were other factions,
other factions, enemy combatants who say, not so fast, my friend,
So let's discuss the question. Nicole Jokic, we are told,
has let the Nuggets know that he does not plan
to sign a contract extension this offseason. So what does
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that signify? To get cut through the fog? What does
that signify signify to you? So I've got gatorade, Early
Bird and kneepads, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are gonna make the Gabba ghoul.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
We're gonna make the gobbagool. So he what does it signify?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
All right?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
This is not that deep. It's sports direct from Europe.
All away from Europe. Ladies and gentlemen, step right up
under the big top.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
That's right under the big top.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
The greatest show in the basketball off season is underway.
Get a glimpse. Get a glimpse. It's not for the
faint of art, but get a glimpse of the Serbian sledgehammer,
the drama. Oh my god. Now Jokic telling the Nuggets
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to go pound sand that he's not going to sign
a two hundred and twelve million dollar contract extension this offseason.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Now that has opened the floodgates.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Whether you like it or not, it's opened the floodgates
from Walla Walla, Washington to kalamazoo. Okay, every team that
plausibly plays basketball and occasionally wants to win, and they
have dreams of championships, and the whispering is underway. Could
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we get the joker in the deck? Could we get
the joker in the deck?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Now?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
The party poopers, you know who they are.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh, they say, listen, Nicole Yoki, he's just waiting. He's
just he's gonna get an extra eighty million dollars more
if he just waits a year. And really, what is
a year?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Time flies? The older you get just goes by fast.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So while that is certainly possible, that is certainly possible.
I don't dismiss that. I don't dismiss that. But he
is also ridiculous to dismiss the possibility that this is
the beginning of the end for Nikola Jokic in Denver.
Remember the owner came out said there is a scenario
where Jokic isn't going to stay in Denver.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
He tossed that out unsolicited.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
By the way, And now just a few days later,
Jokic says, I ain't signing that extension.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So in the multiverse, you put everything together. In the multiverse,
it's possible that this is a foreshock. What Nicola Jokic
did is a foreshock to a larger seismic event. Plot
thickens now regardless, the power Brokers, if you want to
call them that, and my favorite, the gossip hounds. They're
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like bloodhounds of gossip and they're all salivating, Oh my god,
like Pavlov's dogs the sound of the dinner bell man.
Are they excited?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Jokic, he's not going anywhere today unless he wants that.
But remember anything as possible at anytime, like the NBA could
call the Nuggets up and say, hey, we want Jokic
to play for a real team like the Clippers, and
we say we believe the conspiracy.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
That's how Luca ended up with the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
It's not because of some slick GM work by Skinny
Jeans Rob Polinka. It's like, well, the NBA TV ratings
were down, let's get Luca in La.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
We'll get the ratings up. Why not?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
But technically Jokich has not one but two years left
on the deal from what we understand it based on
a minute long investigation, also has a player option forget
about that that will not be activated. And the Nuggets. Publicly,
he's the franchise, he's the cornerstone. Certainly is all those things.
Certainly is all those things. And Denver, seemingly to pacify
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Jokicic went out and made some moves. They traded Michael
Porter Junior for someone named Cam Johnson. We're not sure
who that is. And they added you Val Valentunis, who
was so excited about that. He's thinking about leaving and
not even playing for the Nuggets. But the effort was
made to bolster the depth on the Denver Nuggets, and
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Yokich himself had asked for more depth, so they went
out and made some moves to get more depth. Now,
regardless of the math, I'm even talking about Mallard math,
I'm talking about contractual math. I'm not talking about the
Malad math, which is different. It's a version of math,
but it's not the actual math. It's the malor math.
It's different. So Yo Kitch in my head, that little
cartoon bubble over my head. Yo Kich is filming a
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Gatorade commercial for the Denver Nuggets. Make them sweat, all right,
He's making them sweat a little bit. Yeah, Sure, there's
a world where he gets that extra eighty million dollars
and we're all good. We are all good.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
It is a savvy move for a guy. He's not
chasing a championship, but guy's his little hunk of metal.
Finals MVP three, regular season MVPs. The Nugget Backers, though,
the real Nugget back they're they're biting their fingernails a
little bit. Uh and for good reason. You know, Well,
(09:08):
it's a savvy business play for now. It's a business
plan for now.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
And you know, is he.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Gonna end up in New York or LA or you know,
the Warriors in San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
We don't know. But the whispers are only gonna get
louder louder and louder.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And the vultures, those NBA vultures, Yes, the hyenas.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
They're out and they're gonna.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Get altitude sickness. The recruiting is underway. I guaranfing to
you that the recruiting is underways. Hey, you know, I
just talk to Jokics, you know, go while he's having
some pints of beer watching a horse race somewhere in
someplace far far away. Yah, just the centem a text,
you know, Hey, Yeah, Nicolay you ever thought about coming
to Milwaukee in the winter, beautiful weather. Yes, So the
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circus is just getting started with what I'm trying to
say right now, Turn the page, page two. So to
the Bay Area, the aforementioned Bay Area, we go wild
ending in the baseball game.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
There.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
We're not talking about that right now. I'll get to
that later. But some late night musings, some late night musings,
and we're hearing now the Golden State Warriors, the Golden
State wars who would have been the San Francisco Warriors,
but they kept winning championships, so they decided not to
change the name. They were gonna change the name to
San Francisco Warriors, which it had been, but they was
we kept winning, so we're gonna go back, you know,
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keep the name Golden State Warriors. Anyway, the Golden State Warriors,
we are told have a handshake deal. I'm shaking your head,
a handshake deal with Al Horford, late of the Boston Celtics.
Al Horford, late night news, Al Horford handshake deal. He
will join the roster of the Golden State Warriors. So
how do you feel about that? How do you feel
(10:50):
about this particular move? Al Horford with the Warriors. So
I have this on my note app, the notes app
on my front eye. Put the word sketchy. That's what
I put. Because which version of Al Horford are the
Warriors going to come on down? Which version of Al
are you getting? Is he going to be locked in?
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Is he going to be what he had been quite
a bit in Boston? His nickname average, Al was his nickname,
He's the average And Horford, as of twenty four hours ago,
was said to be debating whether or not he wanted
to go out to the West Coast, to go to
San Francisco or to a nice retirement a time share
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in Boca with tea time at three o'clock of the afternoon.
So let's not sugarcoat this. There's no need to sugarcoat
the Al Horford story. Horford has certainly been more of
the early bird special version of basketball player than the
stretch five specialists. The difference maker is not that guy.
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Hadn't been that guy for the better part of a
couple of seasons now and in Boston, and and sure
he's had occasional moments returned to glory. He's hit some
corner threes, and I'm sure he'll do a little bit
of that with the Golden State Warris and occasionally some
defensive plays will make a play here and there, and
(12:20):
and fine, but he's been around since like the flip phone.
You know, he's been in the NBA since the flip
phone was still still a popular thing. And so, but
don't confuse a few random playoff performances that looked okay
on the boob tube. Don't confuse that with some kind
(12:43):
of renaissance career renaissance. I do not believe this is
a Benjamin and not be like not me but Benjamin
Button type situation. Uh, the the mileage has piled up
there in the NBA. Again, Horfe is not a bad player.
He is never a great player. Yeah, you're not that guy, Pal,
(13:04):
You're not that guy. He's just he's just kind of
air and it does a little bit of this, a
little bit of that, but not a lot of anything.
And there's eighteen minutes a game and a couple of
screens here broadcasters slobbering all over him. Sure, you know
I can get a good back in the day story.
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Remember Al Horford back in the day with the Atlanta
Hawks when they had no good players.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
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They used to be known as the Big Blue Wrecking Crew,
but now they're just a wreck, an absolute wreck.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Right now.
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Speaker 4 (15:55):
You know who you are. You idiots reached out to me.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
You better start with that. You're not gonna talk about
you're gonna hud from I'm not. First of all, I
don't work for the team. They don't even want me
the games anymore. I'm not a spokesman for the Dodgers.
I'm not so but I will start with that.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
That's the story you seem to want based on the
customer feedback that we're getting here as we just begin
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cream City hardball heaven right now. Oh man, they are
flying high. The beard tastes better than ever. The sky
is falling in La Laland the sky is falling. The
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top record in baseball six games ago and not anymore
so if you have not been paying attention. Perhaps not because,
as one of my friends likes to say, why do
you watch baseball? You play one hundred and sixty two games. Yeah,
reminds me of a caller we used to have. Judgmental
John from Michigan used to call me up every every
(16:55):
weekend and complain there's too many baseball. Well, listen, you
don't have to watch every game. Number one, number two.
Those of us that like to watch shit most of
the games, check them out, scan them. We enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
So stay in your lane.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Anyway, In Milwaukee, a Mattine Jackson Churio singling home the
winning run. The Brewers came back to tie it late,
they win it in the tenth inning, and the brew
crew get the win over La three to two, and
they complete the first ever home sweep of the Dodgers
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in franchise history. Holy Bernie Brewer Batman Race the Sausages
so Milwaukee. The only other times they swept the Dodgers.
You gotta go back to the year twenty seventeen in
August of that year, and then back in twenty twelve
as well. But the better story here, the better story
is that's right, you pay attention. Good job by you.
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So the better story is in the losing locker room,
the NL West leading.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
They still lead the NLS.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
The Doyer have lost not one, not two, not three,
not four, not five, six consecutive baseball games. So let
us discuss the formerly known Big Blue wrecking crew with
all these losses getting swept by the Brewers. So what
do you make of the current state of the Dodgers.
(18:21):
So my thoughts on this, I've got Ouiji board, Jeff Bezos,
and family feud, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make some peanut eminem's,
which I think have more power at this point, more
crunch than the current Dodger lineup. So my first thought
(18:44):
on this, the word that pops in my head, the
current state of the Dodgers is the D word disheartening.
Now we have a mantra and it's been the mantoe
we've had for many, many years around these parts that
we don't worry about too far into the future or
too far into the past.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
We have to worry about today. Right.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
We are assigned by the powers at this multi million
dollar business that we work at to talk about what's
going on today. We have to worry about today. So today,
as I talk to you one on one, me to
you the Dodgers are a sad sack operation, and I
realize they are the reigning champions of baseball. However, Dave
(19:23):
Roberts gives me no confidence and I'm gonna die on
that mountain.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Like the team this week has.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Been crumbling, and Dave Roberts, you watch him there standing
in the dugout and it's like his mind is wandering,
like he's trying to remember. And they showed him in
the dugout. It looks like he's like, maybe I left
the oven on in my home before I left on
the road trip.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
You know, It's like, maybe I should I call somebody.
I think the oven's on in my kitchen. I don't
know what it's like.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
He's got that look and and then you watch him
later in the game and it's like he's he's doing
a wine tasting at awake. With the the Dodgers offense
and the team, I mean, in this moment, they are
spiraling into the alligator death role against the cheating astros
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who then got swept by Cleve What frauds the A
holes are, right, I mean, of course you get up
for the Dodgers, brought those trash cans out for the Dodgers,
and he played the Cleveland Guardians and got swept.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
How embarrassing. Anyway, it's a by the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
So they got smashed by the cheating a holes and
now the Brewers. So it's one of these things. We
step right up again. It's like the state Fair. You
win a stuffed animal, beat the Dodgers. Right now this
week everyone is drowning and shredding the Dodgers and the
smaller bite sized pieces. Now it's moments like these when
(20:46):
I see Dave Roberts in the dugout that I long
for the good old days. I need a Wigi board.
I need a Wigi board to someone that I knew
a little bit. We weren't friends, but he knew who
I was, and we chatted when we ran into each other.
The sweets spirit of the late great Tommy Lasorda.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Oh man, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Just bear with me, Lasorda, if he was managing a team,
he never had a team as talented as this current
Dodger team. But if Asorta was managing a team, this good, right,
and he watched a week of baseball like this. If
he were around to have witnessed the malaise of this
baseball team, he would have already thrown a fit volcanic.
(21:27):
They would have gotten FEMA involved because of what Lasorda
was doing. You would have had the media meltdown. My
opinion the king was of performance, my opinion of the bullpens.
What do you think my opinion is doing that and sucked?
And it's just it's great. So he would he would coach.
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Lasorda would coach like third base, right, we gotta fire
the team up, go third base. He'd take a gatorade cooler,
toss it down like he was spiking football, give a
speech that that would make Vince Lombardi, you know, just
you know shaking in the boots or in this case,
the grave. But Dave Roberts, on the other hand, he
has the aura of a guy trapped in a medically
(22:13):
induced coma. When you watch and certain guys have just
stopped hitting Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts for the last
really not just the last six games. Prior to that,
they've not performed the big bullpen pickups the Dodgers got.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
They spent a lot of money on Tanner Scott.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
All the Nerds had their paints down for Tanner Scott,
Kirby Yates, and these guys me god Arson squad. Tanner
Scott leads baseball with six blown saves. That was their
big addition to the bullpen. Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates.
Everyone talks about how great his stuff is.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
And I watch it.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I'm like, well, he looks like it's an Italian restaurant.
There's a lot of meatballs there. No, I do realize
that in the big picture, the wide angle lens, the
famous quote from Lou Holtz that you're never as good
as everyone tells you you are when you win, You're
never as bad as they say when you lose. I
get all that but we have to worry about today, right.
And there's a lot of people and I get this.
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You know, people like the Dodgers listen to the show.
We're on the Dodger flagship in LA. That's our our
flagship on Fox Sports Radio. So we have a lot
of Dodger fans that listen to the show and Dodger
fans around the country. And they always push back against me.
They say, well, you're too emotional, right, And these people
just assume the Dodgers are going to flip the switch
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because they have so much talent, And is that how
it works? Is I always thought baseball it's not the
most talented team that wins. And at the moment, to me,
that's hard to swallow. I mean, in a week from now,
when seven games in a row or something that we
can we visited, but I realize that when you get
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to October, all that matters is who does better in
the moment. I understand that I've preached about that for
a long time. But in this particular chapter, the Dodgers
find themselves in a deep dark place and someone needs
to Maybe Dave Roberts can hire someone to hand the
players a torch and a map, Maybe just a well
not a torch, how about an LED flashlight with one
(24:14):
thousand lumins in bright reliable illumination and then like a
map and then there maybe GPS on the phone.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Just get him out of there, Just get him out
of it.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
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Speaker 4 (24:30):
I think we have our contestants ready to go, so
let's welcome them in. Right now. We have Corey in
Reno who wants to play? Is that correct? Core You
want to play? Mallards amount of money?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
That's right? Big man?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
All right, well, welcome to the show.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
What do you got going on there? In America's biggest
little city?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Right?
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Isn't that the slogan a Reno.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
The biggest little city.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
In the world?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
That's right? Is it still the littlest It's pretty pretty
big right now?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
It's going crazy since that m misole monk infiltrated it
town and ruin the housing market?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Did they did he root it or raise the prices
of housing for everyone?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Well? That's it. You know, they can't build taft enough
and all these people have moved here for his You
know Panasonic.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I actually have some friends that moved to Reno because
of they want to get out of California.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
So they're like, well and that too, let me no, no, yeah,
because you know everybody's getting the chaft there with the taxes,
so yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Everybody exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
But and then eventually Nevada is going to have the
same tax problem California, so they're going to move somewhere
else and go keep moving to different states and all. Anyway,
that's a different conversation.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Corea. Who do you want to partner with? You got
me Ben or Cooper? If you really want some fun? Loraina?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Well, I think you just picked the choice and didn't.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
You're going with Loraina.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
All right, congratulations Lorena, you're gonna play.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I lost my voice, she.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Lost her I can't. Apparently she does not want to play.
She's choosing not to. Unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
All right, Well, you know we'll go with Coop. I'm
a big Elvis fan. I know Cooper's too.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Oh wow, that's deep cut.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
All right, Hold on a second, and we have Mike
in the Great State of Texas.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Hello, Mike, Welcome. What part of Texas are you in there, sir.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
McCallen.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
McCallen, Texas a fine, fine city. All right, and what
do you what are you go going on there in McCallum.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I'll do that in the work this morning.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Yeah, what kind of work do you do?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Data? Annaly?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Oh nice?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
All right, well, you're gonna match up with me. What
are the categories here?
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Quickly? Coop please? All right?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
This is the Ringo Star edition of Mallard's Amount of Money.
He turned eighty five on Monday. Uh, the categories are
with a little help from my friends, don't pass me by,
Octopus's garden and photograph and.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Corey was on first. So Corey, which category would you like?
All right? And how about you? Mike? All right, sorry,
I didn't hear you. Just pick, just pick the first
one whatever, I don't care for. What was the first
with a little help from my friend? All right?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Everyone, hold stay right there, Malor's mount of Money in
it's entire to the Ringo Star Edition.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
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Speaker 3 (27:35):
Not?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Allright, list soon. Here we go play the game. It's
the Ringo Star Edition, Mallers amount of money.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
We've got Corey in Reno teamed up with Koop.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
They're gonna lose.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Mike on his way to work in McCallen, Texas, teamed
up with me.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Then we're gonna win. All right, here we go. It's
gonna start.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
All right, Corey, we have a photograph. We need the
first and last name of the athlete. These athletes are
in some of the most famous sports photographs of all time.
All right, you ready, Corey?
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Ready, let's do it. Coop, let's let's approve that with Loredo.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
I'm wrong, all right, forty five seconds, let's begin.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
This NBA player scored Hi. This NBA player scored one
hundred points in a game.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Uh well, yes.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
This guy was the flash number three on the Miami Heat.
He won a championship with Lebron and Shack. Anyway, Yes,
this guy is the logo for the NBA.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yes. Uh, this guy's nickname was the Doctor.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Hey, that great herby.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
What's his first name, Doug, Doug Julie Surry. Yes, uh.
This guy was a quarterback for the Chiefs.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
He was smoking a cigarette during halftime of Super Bowl One.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
All right, let's not let's kip it. God.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
This Toronto Toronto Blue Jays player was famous for.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
His bat flip. Mom, all right, play one hundred point
hundred fours?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
All right?
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Are you ready there? Mike?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
There McCallan, Texas, which is right, the southern tip of Texas?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Am I correct on that?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Let's go? All right?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Well but right, all right, okay, Well a little hope
for my friends. These star athletes want to ring well
past their prime years.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Are you ready there, Mike? All right?
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Forty five seconds? Run away, go John. He was known
as a Giants wide receiver one with the Rams. Friend
of Diddy. Yes, nicknamed Shady, was a running back for
the Bills and the Eagles. He's on McCoy yes, known
as the glove for the SuperSonics back in his career. Yes,
(29:46):
quarterback for the Cleveland Browns in the eighties. Dick and
Dayton loves this guy played at my bat Miami, all right,
the Big hurt for the Chicago White Sox in the
two Yes, wide receiver for the Charges in like the
seven in the sixties named Bambi nicknamed Bamby white guy
all right, outfielder for the Mets and the Royals from
(30:08):
Puerto Rico. Was on the Astros when they cheated in
twenty seventeen. Funny we got the lead you missed?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Lance Alworth with Bambi and Bernie Kozar, the quarterback for
the Browns, and Carlos Beltran was the last.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Oh you're wasting all right, hurry Oberrey. Would you like
don't pass me by? Or octopus his garden? All right?
Speaker 5 (30:31):
These athletes all war number eight forty five seconds, let's begin.
He is the quarterback for the Ravens right now. Yes,
this guy was the quarterback for the Cowboys when they
won the Super Bowls in the nineties.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
What's his first name? Yes?
Speaker 5 (30:48):
All right, this guy has the iron Man streak in baseball. Yep,
this guy is one of the best second basement of
all time.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
He was on the sin the Natty Reds.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Morgan.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Yes, this guy just broke Wayne Gretzky's all time scoring record.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
What's first name?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I say it.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Over this guy?
Speaker 4 (31:17):
You did get it. This guy's the only button we win.
I know, you know Bears defensive story in the eighties.
Not with the name Richard Dent.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
We were looking for the name Richard Dent here. That
is not an incomplete game, not a not a not
a loss, not a loss
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and a lot going on, a lot of moving parts here.
Now a story that is a developing story. We're gonna
start with this. The Mile High City. There's a lot
of things moving around. The pinball machine there and pro
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bouncy ball, the silly season. As yet again, we are
on the pulse of what many of you find repulsive gossip,
speculation and rumor mongering. That's right, but interesting. Wrinkle out
of Denver. We have a mantra on this show. We
(02:50):
have many mantras, but one of the mantras is we
just we wake up. We don't know what's going on,
and then you know, we don't even know what's going
on when we go to bed, but we wake up
and I'm like, whatever's interesting, whatever the news of the
day is, and we just talk about And so I
thought this was interesting, and I have editorial control, So
I'm gonna I'm talking about now. Someday I'll give that
up and supermarket Steve will have editorial control. We'll talk
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WNBA and then they'll turn the transmitter off and that's it.
But if you didn't hear, maybe not so multi time
Platinum ENVP guy, the whole thing. Nicola j okicch we
learned will not will not sign a extension with the
(03:33):
Nuggets this offseason. Not gonna happen. There was a standing
offer there by the Denver basketball team.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
He is not going to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Now, the Nugget media is, well, it's not really that
big a deal because he can make more money in
a couple of years.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Or actually just in a year. So just like wait,
and he is under contract.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
So let us discuss though, because there were other factions,
other factions, enemy combatants who say, not so fast, my friend,
So let's discuss the question. Nicole Jokic, we are told,
has let the Nuggets know that he does not plan
to sign a contract extension this offseason. So what does
(04:16):
that signify? To get cut through the fog? What does
that signify signify to you? So I've got gatorade, Early
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Speaker 4 (04:34):
We're gonna make the gobbagool. So he what does it signify?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
All right?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
This is not that deep. It's sports direct from Europe.
All away from Europe. Ladies and gentlemen, step right up
under the big top.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
That's right under the big top.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
The greatest show in the basketball off season is underway.
Get a glimpse. Get a glimpse. It's not for the
faint of art, but get a glimpse of the Serbian sledgehammer,
the drama. Oh my god. Now Jokic telling the Nuggets
(05:09):
to go pound sand that he's not going to sign
a two hundred and twelve million dollar contract extension this offseason.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Now that has opened the floodgates.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Whether you like it or not, it's opened the floodgates
from Walla Walla, Washington to kalamazoo. Okay, every team that
plausibly plays basketball and occasionally wants to win, and they
have dreams of championships, and the whispering is underway. Could
(05:37):
we get the joker in the deck? Could we get
the joker in the deck?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Now?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
The party poopers, you know who they are.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh, they say, listen, Nicole Yoki, he's just waiting. He's
just he's gonna get an extra eighty million dollars more
if he just waits a year. And really, what is
a year?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Time flies? The older you get just goes by fast.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So while that is certainly possible, that is certainly possible.
I don't dismiss that. I don't dismiss that. But he
is also ridiculous to dismiss the possibility that this is
the beginning of the end for Nikola Jokic in Denver.
Remember the owner came out said there is a scenario
where Jokic isn't going to stay in Denver.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
He tossed that out unsolicited.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
By the way, And now just a few days later,
Jokic says, I ain't signing that extension.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So in the multiverse, you put everything together. In the multiverse,
it's possible that this is a foreshock. What Nicola Jokic
did is a foreshock to a larger seismic event. Plot
thickens now regardless, the power Brokers, if you want to
call them that, and my favorite, the gossip hounds. They're
(06:48):
like bloodhounds of gossip and they're all salivating, Oh my god,
like Pavlov's dogs the sound of the dinner bell man.
Are they excited?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Jokic, he's not going anywhere today unless he wants that.
But remember anything as possible at anytime, like the NBA could
call the Nuggets up and say, hey, we want Jokic
to play for a real team like the Clippers, and
we say we believe the conspiracy.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
That's how Luca ended up with the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
It's not because of some slick GM work by Skinny
Jeans Rob Polinka. It's like, well, the NBA TV ratings
were down, let's get Luca in La.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
We'll get the ratings up. Why not?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
But technically Jokich has not one but two years left
on the deal from what we understand it based on
a minute long investigation, also has a player option forget
about that that will not be activated. And the Nuggets. Publicly,
he's the franchise, he's the cornerstone. Certainly is all those things.
Certainly is all those things. And Denver, seemingly to pacify
(07:50):
Jokicic went out and made some moves. They traded Michael
Porter Junior for someone named Cam Johnson. We're not sure
who that is. And they added you Val Valentunis, who
was so excited about that. He's thinking about leaving and
not even playing for the Nuggets. But the effort was
made to bolster the depth on the Denver Nuggets, and
(08:11):
Yokich himself had asked for more depth, so they went
out and made some moves to get more depth. Now,
regardless of the math, I'm even talking about Mallard math,
I'm talking about contractual math. I'm not talking about the
Malad math, which is different. It's a version of math,
but it's not the actual math. It's the malor math.
It's different. So Yo Kitch in my head, that little
cartoon bubble over my head. Yo Kich is filming a
(08:34):
Gatorade commercial for the Denver Nuggets. Make them sweat, all right,
He's making them sweat a little bit. Yeah, Sure, there's
a world where he gets that extra eighty million dollars
and we're all good. We are all good.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
It is a savvy move for a guy. He's not
chasing a championship, but guy's his little hunk of metal.
Finals MVP three, regular season MVPs. The Nugget Backers, though,
the real Nugget back they're they're biting their fingernails a
little bit. Uh and for good reason. You know, Well,
(09:08):
it's a savvy business play for now. It's a business
plan for now.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
And you know, is he.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Gonna end up in New York or LA or you know,
the Warriors in San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
We don't know. But the whispers are only gonna get
louder louder and louder.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And the vultures, those NBA vultures, Yes, the hyenas.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
They're out and they're gonna.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Get altitude sickness. The recruiting is underway. I guaranfing to
you that the recruiting is underways. Hey, you know, I
just talk to Jokics, you know, go while he's having
some pints of beer watching a horse race somewhere in
someplace far far away. Yah, just the centem a text,
you know, Hey, Yeah, Nicolay you ever thought about coming
to Milwaukee in the winter, beautiful weather. Yes, So the
(09:57):
circus is just getting started with what I'm trying to
say right now, Turn the page, page two. So to
the Bay Area, the aforementioned Bay Area, we go wild
ending in the baseball game.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
There.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
We're not talking about that right now. I'll get to
that later. But some late night musings, some late night musings,
and we're hearing now the Golden State Warriors, the Golden
State wars who would have been the San Francisco Warriors,
but they kept winning championships, so they decided not to
change the name. They were gonna change the name to
San Francisco Warriors, which it had been, but they was
we kept winning, so we're gonna go back, you know,
(10:29):
keep the name Golden State Warriors. Anyway, the Golden State Warriors,
we are told have a handshake deal. I'm shaking your head,
a handshake deal with Al Horford, late of the Boston Celtics.
Al Horford, late night news, Al Horford handshake deal. He
will join the roster of the Golden State Warriors. So
how do you feel about that? How do you feel
(10:50):
about this particular move? Al Horford with the Warriors. So
I have this on my note app, the notes app
on my front eye. Put the word sketchy. That's what
I put. Because which version of Al Horford are the
Warriors going to come on down? Which version of Al
are you getting? Is he going to be locked in?
(11:12):
Is he going to be what he had been quite
a bit in Boston? His nickname average, Al was his nickname,
He's the average And Horford, as of twenty four hours ago,
was said to be debating whether or not he wanted
to go out to the West Coast, to go to
San Francisco or to a nice retirement a time share
(11:37):
in Boca with tea time at three o'clock of the afternoon.
So let's not sugarcoat this. There's no need to sugarcoat
the Al Horford story. Horford has certainly been more of
the early bird special version of basketball player than the
stretch five specialists. The difference maker is not that guy.
(12:00):
Hadn't been that guy for the better part of a
couple of seasons now and in Boston, and and sure
he's had occasional moments returned to glory. He's hit some
corner threes, and I'm sure he'll do a little bit
of that with the Golden State Warris and occasionally some
defensive plays will make a play here and there, and
(12:20):
and fine, but he's been around since like the flip phone.
You know, he's been in the NBA since the flip
phone was still still a popular thing. And so, but
don't confuse a few random playoff performances that looked okay
on the boob tube. Don't confuse that with some kind
(12:43):
of renaissance career renaissance. I do not believe this is
a Benjamin and not be like not me but Benjamin
Button type situation. Uh, the the mileage has piled up
there in the NBA. Again, Horfe is not a bad player.
He is never a great player. Yeah, you're not that guy, Pal,
(13:04):
You're not that guy. He's just he's just kind of
air and it does a little bit of this, a
little bit of that, but not a lot of anything.
And there's eighteen minutes a game and a couple of
screens here broadcasters slobbering all over him. Sure, you know
I can get a good back in the day story.
(13:24):
Remember Al Horford back in the day with the Atlanta
Hawks when they had no good players.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
But somehow I had all these all stars made no sense.
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They used to be known as the Big Blue Wrecking Crew,
but now they're just a wreck, an absolute wreck.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
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Of course, when he's working, it's like he's on vacation.
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Speaker 4 (15:55):
You know who you are. You idiots reached out to me.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
You better start with that. You're not gonna talk about
you're gonna hud from I'm not. First of all, I
don't work for the team. They don't even want me
the games anymore. I'm not a spokesman for the Dodgers.
I'm not so but I will start with that.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
That's the story you seem to want based on the
customer feedback that we're getting here as we just begin
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cream City hardball heaven right now. Oh man, they are
flying high. The beard tastes better than ever. The sky
is falling in La Laland the sky is falling. The
(16:34):
top record in baseball six games ago and not anymore
so if you have not been paying attention. Perhaps not because,
as one of my friends likes to say, why do
you watch baseball? You play one hundred and sixty two games. Yeah,
reminds me of a caller we used to have. Judgmental
John from Michigan used to call me up every every
(16:55):
weekend and complain there's too many baseball. Well, listen, you
don't have to watch every game. Number one, number two.
Those of us that like to watch shit most of
the games, check them out, scan them. We enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
So stay in your lane.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Anyway, In Milwaukee, a Mattine Jackson Churio singling home the
winning run. The Brewers came back to tie it late,
they win it in the tenth inning, and the brew
crew get the win over La three to two, and
they complete the first ever home sweep of the Dodgers
(17:29):
in franchise history. Holy Bernie Brewer Batman Race the Sausages
so Milwaukee. The only other times they swept the Dodgers.
You gotta go back to the year twenty seventeen in
August of that year, and then back in twenty twelve
as well. But the better story here, the better story
is that's right, you pay attention. Good job by you.
(17:52):
So the better story is in the losing locker room,
the NL West leading.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
They still lead the NLS.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
The Doyer have lost not one, not two, not three,
not four, not five, six consecutive baseball games. So let
us discuss the formerly known Big Blue wrecking crew with
all these losses getting swept by the Brewers. So what
do you make of the current state of the Dodgers.
(18:21):
So my thoughts on this, I've got Ouiji board, Jeff Bezos,
and family feud, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make some peanut eminem's,
which I think have more power at this point, more
crunch than the current Dodger lineup. So my first thought
(18:44):
on this, the word that pops in my head, the
current state of the Dodgers is the D word disheartening.
Now we have a mantra and it's been the mantoe
we've had for many, many years around these parts that
we don't worry about too far into the future or
too far into the past.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
We have to worry about today. Right.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
We are assigned by the powers at this multi million
dollar business that we work at to talk about what's
going on today. We have to worry about today. So today,
as I talk to you one on one, me to
you the Dodgers are a sad sack operation, and I
realize they are the reigning champions of baseball. However, Dave
(19:23):
Roberts gives me no confidence and I'm gonna die on
that mountain.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Like the team this week has.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Been crumbling, and Dave Roberts, you watch him there standing
in the dugout and it's like his mind is wandering,
like he's trying to remember. And they showed him in
the dugout. It looks like he's like, maybe I left
the oven on in my home before I left on
the road trip.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
You know, It's like, maybe I should I call somebody.
I think the oven's on in my kitchen. I don't
know what it's like.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
He's got that look and and then you watch him
later in the game and it's like he's he's doing
a wine tasting at awake. With the the Dodgers offense
and the team, I mean, in this moment, they are
spiraling into the alligator death role against the cheating astros
(20:12):
who then got swept by Cleve What frauds the A
holes are, right, I mean, of course you get up
for the Dodgers, brought those trash cans out for the Dodgers,
and he played the Cleveland Guardians and got swept.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
How embarrassing. Anyway, it's a by the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
So they got smashed by the cheating a holes and
now the Brewers. So it's one of these things. We
step right up again. It's like the state Fair. You
win a stuffed animal, beat the Dodgers. Right now this
week everyone is drowning and shredding the Dodgers and the
smaller bite sized pieces. Now it's moments like these when
(20:46):
I see Dave Roberts in the dugout that I long
for the good old days. I need a Wigi board.
I need a Wigi board to someone that I knew
a little bit. We weren't friends, but he knew who
I was, and we chatted when we ran into each other.
The sweets spirit of the late great Tommy Lasorda.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Oh man, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Just bear with me, Lasorda, if he was managing a team,
he never had a team as talented as this current
Dodger team. But if Asorta was managing a team, this good, right,
and he watched a week of baseball like this. If
he were around to have witnessed the malaise of this
baseball team, he would have already thrown a fit volcanic.
(21:27):
They would have gotten FEMA involved because of what Lasorda
was doing. You would have had the media meltdown. My
opinion the king was of performance, my opinion of the bullpens.
What do you think my opinion is doing that and sucked?
And it's just it's great. So he would he would coach.
(21:49):
Lasorda would coach like third base, right, we gotta fire
the team up, go third base. He'd take a gatorade cooler,
toss it down like he was spiking football, give a
speech that that would make Vince Lombardi, you know, just
you know shaking in the boots or in this case,
the grave. But Dave Roberts, on the other hand, he
has the aura of a guy trapped in a medically
(22:13):
induced coma. When you watch and certain guys have just
stopped hitting Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts for the last
really not just the last six games. Prior to that,
they've not performed the big bullpen pickups the Dodgers got.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
They spent a lot of money on Tanner Scott.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
All the Nerds had their paints down for Tanner Scott,
Kirby Yates, and these guys me god Arson squad. Tanner
Scott leads baseball with six blown saves. That was their
big addition to the bullpen. Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates.
Everyone talks about how great his stuff is.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
And I watch it.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I'm like, well, he looks like it's an Italian restaurant.
There's a lot of meatballs there. No, I do realize
that in the big picture, the wide angle lens, the
famous quote from Lou Holtz that you're never as good
as everyone tells you you are when you win, You're
never as bad as they say when you lose. I
get all that but we have to worry about today, right.
And there's a lot of people and I get this.
(23:11):
You know, people like the Dodgers listen to the show.
We're on the Dodger flagship in LA. That's our our
flagship on Fox Sports Radio. So we have a lot
of Dodger fans that listen to the show and Dodger
fans around the country. And they always push back against me.
They say, well, you're too emotional, right, And these people
just assume the Dodgers are going to flip the switch
(23:32):
because they have so much talent, And is that how
it works? Is I always thought baseball it's not the
most talented team that wins. And at the moment, to me,
that's hard to swallow. I mean, in a week from now,
when seven games in a row or something that we
can we visited, but I realize that when you get
(23:52):
to October, all that matters is who does better in
the moment. I understand that I've preached about that for
a long time. But in this particular chapter, the Dodgers
find themselves in a deep dark place and someone needs
to Maybe Dave Roberts can hire someone to hand the
players a torch and a map, Maybe just a well
not a torch, how about an LED flashlight with one
(24:14):
thousand lumins in bright reliable illumination and then like a
map and then there maybe GPS on the phone.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Just get him out of there, Just get him out
of it.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
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Speaker 4 (24:30):
I think we have our contestants ready to go, so
let's welcome them in. Right now. We have Corey in
Reno who wants to play? Is that correct? Core You
want to play? Mallards amount of money?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
That's right? Big man?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
All right, well, welcome to the show.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
What do you got going on there? In America's biggest
little city?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Right?
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Isn't that the slogan a Reno.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
The biggest little city.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
In the world?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
That's right? Is it still the littlest It's pretty pretty
big right now?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
It's going crazy since that m misole monk infiltrated it
town and ruin the housing market?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Did they did he root it or raise the prices
of housing for everyone?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Well? That's it. You know, they can't build taft enough
and all these people have moved here for his You
know Panasonic.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I actually have some friends that moved to Reno because
of they want to get out of California.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
So they're like, well and that too, let me no, no, yeah,
because you know everybody's getting the chaft there with the taxes,
so yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Everybody exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
But and then eventually Nevada is going to have the
same tax problem California, so they're going to move somewhere
else and go keep moving to different states and all. Anyway,
that's a different conversation.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Corea. Who do you want to partner with? You got
me Ben or Cooper? If you really want some fun? Loraina?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Well, I think you just picked the choice and didn't.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
You're going with Loraina.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
All right, congratulations Lorena, you're gonna play.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I lost my voice, she.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Lost her I can't. Apparently she does not want to play.
She's choosing not to. Unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
All right, Well, you know we'll go with Coop. I'm
a big Elvis fan. I know Cooper's too.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Oh wow, that's deep cut.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
All right, Hold on a second, and we have Mike
in the Great State of Texas.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Hello, Mike, Welcome. What part of Texas are you in there, sir.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
McCallen.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
McCallen, Texas a fine, fine city. All right, and what
do you what are you go going on there in McCallum.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I'll do that in the work this morning.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Yeah, what kind of work do you do?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Data? Annaly?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Oh nice?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
All right, well, you're gonna match up with me. What
are the categories here?
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Quickly? Coop please? All right?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
This is the Ringo Star edition of Mallard's Amount of Money.
He turned eighty five on Monday. Uh, the categories are
with a little help from my friends, don't pass me by,
Octopus's garden and photograph and.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Corey was on first. So Corey, which category would you like?
All right? And how about you? Mike? All right, sorry,
I didn't hear you. Just pick, just pick the first
one whatever, I don't care for. What was the first
with a little help from my friend? All right?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Everyone, hold stay right there, Malor's mount of Money in
it's entire to the Ringo Star Edition.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports radio
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listen live now please Malor's Mountain of Money. Do you
have what it takes to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Not?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Allright, list soon. Here we go play the game. It's
the Ringo Star Edition, Mallers amount of money.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
We've got Corey in Reno teamed up with Koop.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
They're gonna lose.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Mike on his way to work in McCallen, Texas, teamed
up with me.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Then we're gonna win. All right, here we go. It's
gonna start.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
All right, Corey, we have a photograph. We need the
first and last name of the athlete. These athletes are
in some of the most famous sports photographs of all time.
All right, you ready, Corey?
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Ready, let's do it. Coop, let's let's approve that with Loredo.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
I'm wrong, all right, forty five seconds, let's begin.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
This NBA player scored Hi. This NBA player scored one
hundred points in a game.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Uh well, yes.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
This guy was the flash number three on the Miami Heat.
He won a championship with Lebron and Shack. Anyway, Yes,
this guy is the logo for the NBA.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yes. Uh, this guy's nickname was the Doctor.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Hey, that great herby.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
What's his first name, Doug, Doug Julie Surry. Yes, uh.
This guy was a quarterback for the Chiefs.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
He was smoking a cigarette during halftime of Super Bowl One.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
All right, let's not let's kip it. God.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
This Toronto Toronto Blue Jays player was famous for.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
His bat flip. Mom, all right, play one hundred point
hundred fours?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
All right?
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Are you ready there? Mike?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
There McCallan, Texas, which is right, the southern tip of Texas?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Am I correct on that?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Let's go? All right?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Well but right, all right, okay, Well a little hope
for my friends. These star athletes want to ring well
past their prime years.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Are you ready there, Mike? All right?
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Forty five seconds? Run away, go John. He was known
as a Giants wide receiver one with the Rams. Friend
of Diddy. Yes, nicknamed Shady, was a running back for
the Bills and the Eagles. He's on McCoy yes, known
as the glove for the SuperSonics back in his career. Yes,
(29:46):
quarterback for the Cleveland Browns in the eighties. Dick and
Dayton loves this guy played at my bat Miami, all right,
the Big hurt for the Chicago White Sox in the
two Yes, wide receiver for the Charges in like the
seven in the sixties named Bambi nicknamed Bamby white guy
all right, outfielder for the Mets and the Royals from
(30:08):
Puerto Rico. Was on the Astros when they cheated in
twenty seventeen. Funny we got the lead you missed?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Lance Alworth with Bambi and Bernie Kozar, the quarterback for
the Browns, and Carlos Beltran was the last.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Oh you're wasting all right, hurry Oberrey. Would you like
don't pass me by? Or octopus his garden? All right?
Speaker 5 (30:31):
These athletes all war number eight forty five seconds, let's begin.
He is the quarterback for the Ravens right now. Yes,
this guy was the quarterback for the Cowboys when they
won the Super Bowls in the nineties.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
What's his first name? Yes?
Speaker 5 (30:48):
All right, this guy has the iron Man streak in baseball. Yep,
this guy is one of the best second basement of
all time.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
He was on the sin the Natty Reds.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Morgan.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Yes, this guy just broke Wayne Gretzky's all time scoring record.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
What's first name?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I say it.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Over this guy?
Speaker 4 (31:17):
You did get it. This guy's the only button we win.
I know, you know Bears defensive story in the eighties.
Not with the name Richard Dent.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
We were looking for the name Richard Dent here. That
is not an incomplete game, not a not a not
a loss, not a loss
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