July 14, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about LeBron James reportedly being eyed by four teams and refusing to speak on the rumors at the Las Vegas Summer League, the Mavericks shutting down Cooper Flagg for the remainder of the Summer League, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom Shaka Lacay, as the great Brian Wheeler used to say,
it's our numb burtwo our number two ready for you.
And we start out with the life and times of
Lebron James. Where you at on the Fearsome Foursome supposedly
pursuing Lebron James. Also, why did Lebron refuse to speak
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about his situation on camera at the Las Vegas Summer
League And the Mavericks are shutting down Cooper Flag for
the remainder of the NBA Summer League, ending his rookie
stint at just two games. He's not hurt. They're just
shutting him down. How do you react to that news?
We will give you our take on it right now here.
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It is our number two. As Lebron's world turns. I know,
I don't know what hear about Lebronvellia.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
We talk about the stories that are the stories of
the day.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
Malord Show.
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hour is from the Lebron Files, not to be confused
with some other kind of files, but no, this is
all about Lebron and we are contractually obligated, as it
turns out, for an obligatory Malard monologue, much to the
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approval of Eugene in Chicago, who is anticipating this spicy
margarita edition of a Malard monologue on Lebron, James and
his life in times. Here's some new developments over the weekend.
New developments, new developments, new developments. While we were away
from the Watchtower guarding the overnight graveyard of sports takes,
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there were some new things that took place here. So
if you didn't follow along, don't worry. That's what we're
here for. We got you back. We kept tabs on
what was going on so you would not have to.
So chatter over the weekend, little chit chat over the
weekend that indicated that there are a four pack, four
pack of teams that are attempting to acquire Lebron James. No,
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those teams are in no formal order, the Dallas mav Rex,
the Golden State Warriors, the Cleveland Cadavers, and the Clippers supposedly,
so that story came out though those teams have emerged
as possible suitors.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
For Lebron James. That happened over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Now, those four teams, if you believe the chatter, if
you believe the Internet chatter, those four teams contacted Lebron's
conciliary right his buddy there, Rich Paul, who is that
If you want to talk to the mob boss, you
got to go through the Consigli area and.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That would be Rich Paul.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And that is where we are right now, So let
us discuss the question for the panel, the blue ribbon panel.
Where are you at on the Fearsome Foursome pursuing Lebron James.
All right, so I've got Vintage Cookie Jar, Dali Lama
and Philadelphia Original, and we will combine all of these
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things together and we are gonna make the Gobaul.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We're gonna make the Goabba goal for our friend in Florida.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So number I said number right, Yes, Now we provide
a skeptical eye for the regular guy. Now I even
have buyfocals on, so I have extra skepticism is what
I have on here.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
But this is not.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
The Lebron sweep Steaks. It was presented as the Lebron Sweepstakes.
I don't buy that that narrative. I'm not going there.
It's more like the Lebron flea Market. Now, you can
find a nice thing every now and again at the
flea market, and that's what this is. It's the Lebron
James flea market. And it's like, what's what's going on?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Then?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
What's on the table at the flea market? You're like,
do I want that kind of fade a little bit?
I'm not sure about that. Uh, And it was like,
this is not the shiny new toy. We're not We're
not auctioning off the shiny new toy. This is Lebron
James at this point is a vintage cookie jar. It's cracked,
a little bit faded now, it still has some value.
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There's still some value there. And if you squint hard
enough at the vintage cookie jar and you look at
it and you ignore the fact that.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
The cookies inside turns stale.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Right around the time they got that little Mickey Mouse
bubble ring that doesn't really count back at Disney World,
like a nice little souvenir there.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yay, you get a ring, not a real one. Not
a real one. As we learned from the Oklahoma City
thunder Guard. Not everyone.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So Lebron James the greatest player of his generation, not
the greatest of all time, as he tripped Michael Jordan
and others. He's also across the rubicon the dreaded four.
He's in the dreaded forties age range at this particular point,
Lebron James. And so you put it all together, and
while he still can put up numbers for you, and
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the kind of a numbers that if you work over
at ESPN, right, you think Lebron's like the Dalai Lama.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You do it.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You're treating like the Dalai Lama and all that, and
you can't wait to hear what he has to say
about every ething thing.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You gotta get to the bottom of Lebron James, all right.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
So the impact is measured now more in a moment's
rather than months of greatness. There's individual moments on a
given night. Lebron can put up some big numbers and
all that stuff, but it's it's one of those buyer
beware situations for anyone that does business with Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It is a buyer beware situation because that.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Cookie jar, remember we told you Lebron is like the
flea market vintage cookie jar Lebron. It looks okay from
a distance on it shelf, You're like, that's not that bad,
and I could buy that. It's a couple of bucks.
I got to pay cash, no credit card. It's a
couple of bucks. And the lids chipped again though a
little bit. And you look at it and the basis
you get a little closer to see a little crack
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there on the base of it and it really only
opens when it wants to, and so that's not particularly
great and all that stuff, and the four teams that
are supposedly in on this. It's a nostalgia play. It
would be a nostalgia play for Lebron, and that's what you're.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Going for at this particular point, and sell some stuff.
You become in the conversation. You're always in the conversation. Now,
Lebron's camp is trying really hard to control the narrative.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
They are working over time to try to control the
stories about Lebron. And they know how the offseason NBA
world works and so they they're the experts on all that.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So Rich Paul is the one feeding the pipeline.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
He's the one out there and our opinion, Rich Paul's
the one that is the puppet master directing everything here
in terms of media consumption on preferred destinations for Lebron,
James now in order a home cooking with the Cadavers, right,
go back to Ohio for a third time, win one
more championship with the Cavaliers, fade to Black Boom done right,
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And of course that would be like Lebron going back
to Cleveland for a third time. It's like they're the
ex girlfriend that keeps texting, hey.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You up at the three in the morning or whatever.
I don't know, but.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
It's nostalgic to go back to Cleveland and do it
again and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It's also a bit delusional.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Then I would say the old Geezers Club, which would
be the Golden State Warriors, hang out in San Francisco,
and you got Steph Curry on one side, Draymond Green
on the other, Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Buckets is still there,
and Lebron and Draymond can do podcasts together, and they
could fire Steve Kerr and hire some podcast guide to
coach the Golden State Warriors Lakers did for Lebron, and
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they'll get along good Lebron and Draymond Green until they
try to hijack the clipboard from whoever the coaches, whether
that's Steve Kerr or somebody else.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Then it's gonna get ugly, and then you've got the reunited.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
It feels so good with Anthony Davis to go to
Dallas and then stick it to the Lakers as a
mav wreck with Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving and all
those injured guys that are on the Mavericks right now,
and they instead of Taco Tuesday, they can have Tex
Mex Wednesday in Dallas, Anthony Davis and Lebron. How great
would that be? Of course, we all know Lebron would
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prefer to play for the Clippers. Everyone wants to play
for the Clippers. It's hip to clip who wouldn't want
to play for the Clippers. But we're gonna eliminate the Clippers.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
And here's why.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Here's why we're gonna limit the Clippers, because there's no
way the Lakers are gonna allow that to happen.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
There's zero chants.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Like the Clippers have a better owner, they have a
better arena, they have a better fan base. Everyone knows
that in town in La. They're not going to allow
Lebron to go over there and embarrass the Lakers even
more so, that's not gonna happen, right, So Jeanie Buss,
he's still supposedly in charge, not gonna do that, right,
Not not gonna allow that to happen, to go over
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to Inglewood in the hood in Inglewood and play for
the Clippers. So we'll eliminate them now, page two. So
We'll go to to Vegas the Summer League which is
going on over the weekend there, and Lebron was sitting courtside.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
You see this over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I glanced at it as Lebron sitting courtside by watching
his kid that sucks at basketball play for the Lakers
summer League team because he's a Nepo baby and he
won a sweepstakes raffle to get on the Lakers. So
there's Bronni out there who sucks, but you know it's
make a wish. So he's out there playing for the Lakers,
and Lebron's watching them. They played the I guess the
Pelicans or a version a facsimile of the Pelicans in
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the Summer League.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Now, ESBN invited Lebron James, they invited Lebron. You see this.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
They invited Lebron on air to address the speculation which
has been running rampant about where Lebron's gonna go. Oh,
is he upset with this person, that person, the other person?
And so Lebron did he say, yes, I will go
on television. I would like to talk b I have
nothing to say or see no comment. Lebron said, quote,
if you picked b you win. He said, quote, I
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ain't got nothing to talk about. He must have learned
that in high school an acron, I ain't got nothing
to talk about. So question, why did Lebron James refuse
the opportunity, the platform to speak about his situation while
in attendance at the Las Vegas Summerly He had his
sullen look on his face, bad body language from Lebron
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as he was sitting courtside there in Vegas. So the
answer is by saying nothing, by Lebron saying nothing and
passing up the opportunity, Lebron gave a masterclass and.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I'm in control control one oh one.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
By not saying anything, he could have popped on Television's true,
he was given the opportunity, he was given platform Lebron
to jump over there on television and pretend like everything's good,
and he chose not to do it. He had ESPN
essentially throwing themselves at him and just you know again,
he said, I'm not I'm not doing it. I'm not
going to go there, and he missed the opportunity right
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the old Dali Lama line. While you could have been
you know, they treated him like the Dalai Lamba. But
Lebron he could have taken a fire extinguisher and put
out the fire.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Right, take the fire extinguisher, put out the fire. But
he likes the fire.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
It's like he's warming marshmallows on a stick in the fire.
And so instead he worked to pour some kerosene on
top of the fire. Burn, baby burn.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
And it's like a cloak and dagger type mission. The
useful idiots.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
You toss out these bread crumbs, you drop these little
bread crumbs, but you don't do it. I have somebody
else do it for you. So you drop the bread
crumbs out there, and you post cryptic things on the
gram and all that stuff. You let the media do
the dirty work, the heavy lifting for you and all that.
And so you don't talk because you don't have to talk. Right,
other people are talking. I'm talking about you. Everyone's talking
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about you.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Right, the machine, the machine of basketball content, is discussing
Lebron James. Now this is the same guy that years
ago had the remember the zero dark thirty stick and
the playoff run. Of course, we know that often didn't
last and work so well, so he stopped doing that,
but he treated it like it was a ritual like
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Marty Grass for Lebron before the playoffs there, and so
Lebron chose not to speak. Not the silence was not silence,
it was strategy. That was what what Lebron was doing here.
And by refusing to go on camera and not using
your own voice to get the message out and all
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that stuff in Vegas where you want to be seen, right,
you go to Vegas to be seen, the party and
all that stuff, and everything's a show in Vegas, and
Lebron's part of the show. And he knew exactly what
he was doing. Classic passive aggressive behavior by Labron James
yet again, let the drama swirl, swirl, swirl, swirl, and
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that's what he was doing there. And he just sits
back and watches the speculation and it just is everywhere
there's there's a there's a residence, there's a heat.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
It's like coming off.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
The blacktop there on the on the court, and he's
keeping it cool, right, He's sitting there, he's got his
arms fold, he's unbothered.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
At least he wants you to believe he's unbothered by
everything that's going on.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Now, using my Rosetta stone, using my malle Rosetta stone
to translate Lebron and what he meant in plain English
in layman's terms. When Lebron said, I ain't got nothing
to talk about, that was his quote.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I ain't got nothing to talk about.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
It That means I know you're all panicking about where
I'm going to be traded or if I'm going to
be traded and all that, and I'm just watching you squirm,
and I've got an evil laugh.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Just like that.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
We know the routine. We all know. Every man, woman
and child knows the routine. Now the final point staying
in Las Vegas. We talked earlier on the Overnight Show
about the brain rot in professional sports. Out of an
abundance of caution, everyone must do the bare minimum, do
not go above and beyond the call of duty like
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previous generations.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Who do the bare minimum.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Another example of that, the Dallas Mavericks have decided we
are shutting down Cooper Flag. The flag is down, yes,
Cooper Flag for the remainder of the NBA Summer League.
IX nay on the flag A as he has been
shut down. I will not be playing. Only played two games.
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Two that's it. So how do you react to the
number one overall pick in the NBA draft only playing
two games and shut down? So I give this one
the old shoulder shrug. I shrugged my shoulders of this
to sign yet again, much like we talked earlier, sign
of the times in professional sports. And this infestation is everywhere.
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And two games, that's it. Two game one sucked, bad
game and then one that was okay. And a couple
of glorified scrimmages in Vegas in July and that Vegas heat.
And that's all she wrote. That's all she wrote for
Cooper Flag, the Mavericks new teenage sensation of Maverick Nation.
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They put him back into bubble wrap and they put
him into storage. That's it, that's all. And they've treated
him like some kind of high end vase they don't
want to break. And they'll put that away in the
garage and they'll take that out when we get back
to the irregular season. So the Mavericks, in their infamitt
wisdom also known as paranoia, the Mavericks are shutting down
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Cooper Fact for the rest of the summer league not
because he's hurt, by the way, not because he's hurt,
not because he asked out saying I can't handle this,
I can't do it. No, they're just being cautious out
of an abundance of caution. They're being careful because God forbid,
God forbid a young athlete who's been I assume playing
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aau ball since they came out of the womb there
and that they can't make just a couple of extra
games and that's too much, that's too much for the
prodigy out of Maine. Cannot do it, Cooper Flag, I
gotta shut him down, shut him down right now, right,
I mean, that's where we are. That is exactly where
we are right now, just like the baseball players trying
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to skip the All Star Game because oh man, I
need my resting, realization and recovery.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I need all of that.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
So now, the NBA is not just soft. Okay, they're
not just soft. They are whipped cream soft is the NBA.
In fact, they're not even just whipped cream. If they
were a type of cheese, they would be a Philadelphia
original Philadelphia cream cheese.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
That's what they would be.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
The the NBA and a little rice cake action on
the side there and some cream cheese and Philadelphia cream cheese.
That's where they are there. And Cooper Flag is just
the latest example of that. They say the Mavericks that
he quote showed enough.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
That's what they say. Please, how did you show enough?
Exactly what does that even mean? I don't even know
what that means? A vague term.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
So another player that rather than try to get them
up to speed where they settle.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Into the to the grind, right to grind.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
We're talking to some old baseball players about that, and
like and baseball people will complain in the base I know,
crossing the streams here, crossing the sports. But pitchers are
soft in baseball because they've been trained to be soft
well basketball players. Here's an opportunity with Cooper Flag to
be like, you're not gonna be like all the rest.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
We're gonna we're gonna train you to not run.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
From the grind like these other NBA stars, and we're
going to train you to run towards the grind and
not away from it. But instead the Mavericks have the
opportunity and with so Wing Barra, saw Wing Barra, that's it.
So instead they're sending Cooper Flag the number one, picking
the draft back back to the lab, putting him in
a test tube some cryogenic chamber somewhere in Dallas.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
And he really didn't even get a real whiff of
what it's all about in the in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And so he's I think he's still like nineteen years
old and all that stuff, and they're treating him like
he's a grizzled thirty nine year old veteran with arthritick
hips and his knees are all messed up and he's
he's had double knee replacement surgery and that's what they're
treating him like. And he's a teenager. Uh so, you
know again, opportunity here. Am I crazy to toughen this
guy up? And no, it's straight pampers, baby, It's it's
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pampers all the way, is what it is for Cooper Flag.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Right from the draft, Get.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
The therapy dog out the whole thing, Get a nice warm,
blankye and a glass of milk.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And load management.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
You gotta get that trained early on, all about the
load management. But it's even more of that. It's like
fear disguised as some kind of science. And that old
phrase we learned that in twenty twenty during the pandemic.
You can get away with almost anything. If you say
out an abundance of caution. You can convince people to
do almost anything and they'll do it, and people can't
question it, and you just have to go with it
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and you just can't question it. So this is where
we are with the NBA and Cooper Flag. It's a
set of an abundance of caution. Please, So another opportunity
could have developed, didn't develop, and now they're treating Cooper
Flag like he's in a museum somewhere and you don't
want to get too violent and have activity on the
court and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
So we'll just make sure some no dust gets on him.
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Speaker 2 (23:49):
Lebron is not getting traded.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
He is just waiting for the Saudi League to send
the cartoon check to him to chase titles in the
Middle East.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Let me see Lebron doing that.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
See him going to some place in Dubai in playing basketball.
Just josh As Cooper flag being shut down after two
Summer League games is laughable. Go ahead and put him
on the All Star team. I've seen it enough. Well's well,
that's what baseball. Baseball would do that because the mi
is Jakob Mazerowski only made five starts.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
He's an All Star.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Ozziez writes in From the Land of the Kangaroo. He says, Ben,
will you jump on the Lebron James bandwagon.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
And get his jersey when he joins the Clippers. No,
of course not. He's not going to the Clippers. The
Lakers are not going to allow that to happen.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Tammy in Vegas rights and says, I was going to
attend the NBA Summer League this week, but I think
my money can be spent in a much better way.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Now the flag is down, says Tammy invasion.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
You don't want to see Bronni Tammy No, probably not
h Savior save your cash?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Who else does?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
He can't read that on the air, That lunatic Mark
the full name. Guys still sending messages that will not
be read on the air until he calls in to
clean the record. He will not do that because he's
scared Mark from Queen's Rights. And he says, big Ben,
thank you. Funniest mal monologue ever. There you go, and
he enjoyed us ripping the great Cooper flag. Almost drove
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off the road, even though I'm a huge Mavericks fan.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
March from Queens. But he lives in in Texas. There
that was hysterical. We'll thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Glad you enjoyed it, Tony writes and says, Lebron James
ready to roll and lead the Lakers to another title
in June. Well, Tony depends how many times should play
the video game. But I agree Tony on the video game.
Absolutely it could happen. I'm pulling for you, Tony. I
hope you win the video game. Let's go to the
phones and we'll say.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Hello to Eenie Meenie money Mall.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Let's go to Bob. Bob is in the great state
of Missouri. Hello, Bob, welcome.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Hey, it's a pleasure to speak to a sports talk
radio all star and Hall of Famer. Again.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Really, I'm not in any hall of face.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
But well, I don't like I don't like to talk
about it because it's never happened, so but I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
What's up, Bob? How can we help you? Buddy?
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Well, speaking of Hall of Fame, I've been wondering this
for like fifty years. Yeah, an MLB player retires, he
waits five years for selection to the Hall of Fame. Well,
isn't that enough time for the writers to assess his career.
There shouldn't be a one and done thing.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
You should be a.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
One ballot, first ballot Hall of Famer. If you're a
Hall of Famer, either are or you're not. It pisses
me off when these guys twenty years later, you know,
they weed it down to weed it down.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Well, the argument, though, Bob, The argument is like in politics,
people don't always win their first THENT Abraham Lincoln lose
eight elections and then became eventually became the President of
the United States.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Like, sometimes you lose, you don't win right away.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I generally agree with you, though, there's a lot of
as you know, there's politics. You've read about the baseball
writers who have control of this and they're the only
ones that get to vote. The baseball riders and Baseball
made a deal with the devil, the baseball scribes, and
it's been that way ever since then. And so that's
just how it goes. And you got to kind of
massage the egos of the baseball riders and you can,
(27:16):
you can get votes. But then they, as you said,
they have all these other committees too, that will put
you in like the back door of the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
And yeah, well to me, it's kind of an insult
to the legitimate first ballot guys.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Well, there are there are different there are different Yeah,
there are different layers, clearly, I mean there's different layers
the first ballot Hall of Fame or how many times
do you have to wait to get in?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Did you go to the Veterans Committee? Now they get
this other things like Pete Rose is going to.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Get in the Hall of Fame a couple of years
Joe Jackson will get in the Hall of Fame. But
they're dead, but they'll get in the Hall of Fame.
They'll get in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Baseball just shoots hisself in the foot a lot. As
far as I'm not a big NBA guy, but I'm
kind of hoping Lebron wants to go back to Cleveland
and they tell him we don't want you and or
your summer league on chain.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Okay, Oh well, I mean we'll see what happens with
the summer of lebronob.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
As far as as as Flag goes learning load management
at the age of eighteen, yeah, so you can make
a million dollars a game. Wow, what a great example
of whatever that is.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
No, I agree, I think it's great the NBA training
these guys on load management. You don't want Cooper Flag
though he is eight He turns nineteen at the.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
End of the year. I thought he was nineteen already,
but he's eighteen.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
You're right, so it could Cooper Flag just kind of,
you know, do your thing and chill out and learn
what Anthony Davis and Kawhi Leonard and these other NBA
players do that you do. You don't want to embarrass
the rest of the guys by playing in every game
that would make him look bad. So exactly, all right,
thank you about all right, thanks for listening. It's great, Bob,
(28:50):
right there, Cooper Flag being taught the ancient art of
load management very important. You must practice load management. Let's
go to someone that does actice load management. He doesn't
call every night. He picks his spots Jerome and Charleston.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
What is he angry about? Bringing home Jerome? Hello? Jerome's beginning.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
That, Hey, you know what I love? Then the fact that, uh,
you talk about the clip the Leggas all the time.
Why don't you talk about the successful La Clippers, the
team that we listen.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I could talk about the Clippers people. People would love
that content. But I play the hits. I do negative radio,
negative radios, the Lakers. That's why I talk about him.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
They're a joke.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
Yeah, Hey, when are you gonna talk about the scandal
involving good old James Hart and you and that that
Marchi Boloney person. She's got a show now, man as
the Marti Bologne Show, and it comes back.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Well, why don't you call her and talk to her
about that?
Speaker 7 (29:48):
She doesn't can't.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
All right, well, and I do take phocos. So James
Harden was not he was not. It was he's getting
sued because he has the money. He wasn't the one
that did anything. Right, you read the lawsuit. Yes, there
was a there's a party at his house and the
woman accused relative of James Harden of some funny business.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
And rather than the suit, well rather well there was.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
No there's no criminal charge. There's no criminal charges. There's
no criminal charges. Droom right, it's a civil matter. But
I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Yeah, and it's just accusations at this moment. Yeah, and
it's not James Harden.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
So I don't do we care about the relatives of
these people like the Is that a big I mean,
what do you want me to do? I don't do
a modeling about James Harden's like nephew or whatever. Is
that what I have to do to pacify you? Because
you have a you have a you know, you have
a I almost said a bad word, but you have
an issue with the Harden thing like this.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
But for some reason you can't bring you in person,
can't bring yourself to say anything about it.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Listen, what do you want me to say a relative
of a basketball players being suited because they have a
lot of money and their relative doesn't have a lot
of money. You understand, I mean, why why is that
so hard for you? Under Jerome? I don't think you're
a moron, but you're acting. You're sounding like a moron. Jerome,
like you do understand the people that gets Yes, he's
an NBA player.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
James Harden's nephew is not in the NBA.
Speaker 7 (31:18):
Hey, look, look, you talk about nepotism. Where have you
been living that for the last two hundred years?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Well, I haven't been alive. I know I'm old, but
I'm not that old. I'm not in two hundred years.
I have not been alive for.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
Tony, Ronnie James and lebron Jas didn't inventasm. Okay, they're
not the first people and they won't be the last,
so we should just think money.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
So you're okay with that, that nepotism. It sounds like
you're okay with Jerome. It sounds like you don't have
an issue with it. You're you're defending Bronnie James, who
sucks at basketball, who's in the NBA because of his daddy.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
You're okay with that?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Okay, Well I can't.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
I can't if I want, I just did you can't
put you're a bet? Why are you such a bad
Why you have such a bad moves room? What happened
you have a did you have a bad day or
something like that? Do you want to talk about it?
Who hurts you your own? Who hurts you your own?
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Did you run away from? Okay?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
What am I running away from? I'm not running away
from anything.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
You asked me a question that James Harden store is
a nothing burger because he didn't do the crime. He's
not accused. No one's accusing him of not because he
played for the Clippers, he didn't do the crime. Do
you understand he's not the person suing.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
It's a clipper, right so therefore.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
All right, so you're just trying to you're doing the clipper?
That all right? Is that all you got? Your own?
Because I'm tired of it, because it's it's ridiculous. Check okaye,
what do.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
You not understand a relative of James Harden did something,
is accused of doing something he hasn't been you know,
there's no criminal charges and Jerome James Harden, who has money,
has a lot of money because he's played basketball for
a long time.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I had a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
He's the one being sued because you sue the person
that has the money. Do you understand how that works?
Speaker 7 (32:56):
All of a sudden, when it's the Clippers uneasy, it's
uncomfortable now for you and the.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Month, it's not uncomfortable at all. I don't what do
you want me to say? So I just answered your question?
What did I not say?
Speaker 7 (33:11):
I'm just bringing that up, man, because I've be given
you a charity.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I just explained you how stupid you sound. And everyone's
laughing at you right now. They're all pointing. They're all
pointing at your Droman, laughing at you, saying, my god,
I'm embarrassing this Roman.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
What's that?
Speaker 7 (33:27):
You got plenty of time to talk about Lebron.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
James the right, Joe.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Why don't you get a talk show in the last
two days? Like Cooper Flag in the Summer League. You'll
be canceled because you have no idea what to talk about. Clearly,
you have no sense of what people want to hear about.
Speaker 7 (33:43):
Look, I don't want to talk about Cooper Flag. Hey,
who's gonna be fired. Hey, just hope he's not the
next damn Adam marsh And Okay, they keep comparing him
to Bride.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Okay, player bird.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Why are you so angry?
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Joe?
Speaker 2 (33:59):
What's going on with you? You sound angry? You sound angry.
I don't know why you're so angry. To me? Yeah,
you sound angry. Ye, what's going on with you? Did
you have a bad weekend?
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Why are you so angry? You are?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I'm fine.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
I'm sitting here, I got the I got the air
conditioner going, I'm gonna I'm I'm in good shape here,
I'm happy.
Speaker 7 (34:17):
I'm just bringing up some stuff you try to run
away from.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
I'm doing again.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
I explained to you. I know it's hard for you understand,
but I'm not running away from any congratulations. But here's
the deal. You don't understand common sense if you're bringing
this up thinking there's something there.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
Damn, they don't take dummies. Okay, all right, I worked
my ass off to get in. All right, you don't
take ummy.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
But on this one, d you sound like I'm maybe
you took you know what, Possibly you took stupid pills.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Maybe that's the problem. The wear off.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
The stupid pills will wear off, and then you'll be okay.
You just you took the wrong pill bottle. You took
the stupid pills.
Speaker 7 (34:59):
Is that what happened to I just want you to
come clean.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Why what is it coming clean?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
You're asking me about the relative who's not an NBA
player of James Harden. I explained to you why I
did not talk about that story. You seem to have
a bug up your took us that I should talk
about that story.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
And I merely told you.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
If you go to a lawyer and say, hey, somebody,
you know, somebody did something to me and I want
to sue them, the loyal will then say how much
money do they have? They don't have a lot of money.
Whose house was it? Oh it's James Harden's house. Oh
he's worth two hundre three hundred million dollars. Let's sue him.
So that's not it's not that hard to understand.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Jerome, You're.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
Y'all don't have no time to talk about but you
got pleased?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yes are You're You're a dummy? Thank you? My god?
We just what a stupid sound like?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Yeah, Jerome and Charleston dumb num numb, numb.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
So he see there's a guy with that's called the
agenda talk radio call Jerome and Charleston. Jerome had agenda,
like his agenda was Jay Balor's not talking about James R.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
And for some reason about Manzi's name.
Speaker 7 (36:05):
Up.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Leave her out of this. He can fight her own battle.
And so I guess she likes the Clippers and all that.
So he's upset with me because I'm not talking about
the Sorry.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Then I explained why I'm not talking.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
About the story, and and he just kept repeating it
over and over again because he is a has had
an agenda. He has nothing else to say, no content,
and that is that.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
That is all all right.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Anyway, It is the Ben Mahler Show. Moments away, we
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total bases for watch two steals over the weekend against
the Tigers. Two other players in the modern era have
reached those numbers in a three game series, Barry Bonds
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now for the Insta Trevia. The Mariners centerfielder Julio Rodriguez
seventeen total basis four walks, two steals over the weekend
in Motown. Only two other players in the modern era
have put those numbers up In a three game series.
They are buried by the eighty seven Pirates and blank,
that is the question, was the answer? Charles Murphy guess
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by mister Irrigation, George Burns from Bobby and Florida, Malard
Mudpie from Alf the Alien Opiner.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Who else do we have? Angry Jerome and.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
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Speaker 2 (38:21):
Who's thirty eight today?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
From Late Night Drug tester Taco Bell manager Carl Gone
too Soon? Tim Tuffle? That was from ferg Dog Tim
Tuffle from mister Irrigation. Don Slott, good name from I
forty Ian?
Speaker 2 (38:35):
What's that you a radar Captain Jack Sparrow, Ben.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
All right, No, it's Mike Gold Jack Schmid of the
nineteen seventy five Phila Delfield, Philly.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Here we go, Here we got.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
This is one big fan gets grilled.
Speaker 8 (38:56):
Trooper forty nine Ers filled that Kyle euscheck to the
media over the weekend that Christian McCaffrey looks quote incredible
and that he will change everything.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
For the forty nine ers everything.
Speaker 8 (39:07):
Yes, Ben, does a healthy McCaffrey drastically change the outlook
for the Niners?
Speaker 2 (39:11):
No, because it's July. I don't doubt that he's healthy
in July.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Didn't he just announce the other a kid or he
had a kid Christian McCaffrey, So listen, looking healthy in
July is one thing. McCaffrey was always hurt with Carolina.
That's one of the reasons they got rid of him.
He had a stretch of health through the Niners. The
real Christian McCaffrey is the guy gets hurt all the time.
So it doesn't change the outlook for the Niners because
he's not going to be healthy by the time we
get to reach seven or week eight next.
Speaker 8 (39:36):
So the Los Angeles Angels had the number two pick
in the Omber Joe, Yes.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
They had.
Speaker 8 (39:42):
They had the top top rated pitching prospect there on
the board, but they did not take him. Yes, and
said they took Tyler Brenner Bremner who nobody had him
ranked even.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
In the top ten. Yeah, ben A. Is this a
GM move or an ownership move? Who's to blame for this? Well?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
The other argument, coup is this kid Holidays that was
a top player in the draft. The Angels could have
drafted him. They could have gotten the number one guy
at number two. No, it's it's signability. It's nobody knows
anything about the baseball draft anyway, nobody knows anything about
the NFL or the basketball draft, so it's signed. It
is odd, though, when you take somebody that's not even
projected to be a top ten pick at the number
two pick. Something's gone terribly wrong there for the Angels.
(40:23):
But I think it's a signability thing. They knew they
could sign this guy from Santa Barbara so or he's
pitching at Santa barbt next.
Speaker 8 (40:30):
Former All Pro defensive tackle Domocon Sioue announced his retirement
on Saturday. He has had an impressive career since being
drafted out of Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Is it enough to get him into the Hall?
Speaker 7 (40:39):
No?
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Because he blocked me on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Remember when he was about to sign with the Rams
and a listener contacted us and told him, told us
he was at a hotel and he panicked and domoicon
sue and blocked me on social media. Now he's got
a Hall of Fame resume, But because he blocked me,
no Hall.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Of fame for you? How did we do he passed that?
Speaker 7 (40:55):
So?
Speaker 2 (40:56):
What by no hall of fame?
Speaker 1 (40:58):
No, no hold fast bope
Boom Shaka Lacay, as the great Brian Wheeler used to say,
it's our numb burtwo our number two ready for you.
And we start out with the life and times of
Lebron James. Where you at on the Fearsome Foursome supposedly
pursuing Lebron James. Also, why did Lebron refuse to speak
(00:22):
about his situation on camera at the Las Vegas Summer
League And the Mavericks are shutting down Cooper Flag for
the remainder of the NBA Summer League, ending his rookie
stint at just two games. He's not hurt. They're just
shutting him down. How do you react to that news?
We will give you our take on it right now here.
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It is our number two. As Lebron's world turns. I know,
I don't know what hear about Lebronvellia.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
We talk about the stories that are the stories of
the day.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
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turns out, for an obligatory Malard monologue, much to the
(02:28):
approval of Eugene in Chicago, who is anticipating this spicy
margarita edition of a Malard monologue on Lebron, James and
his life in times. Here's some new developments over the weekend.
New developments, new developments, new developments. While we were away
from the Watchtower guarding the overnight graveyard of sports takes,
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there were some new things that took place here. So
if you didn't follow along, don't worry. That's what we're
here for. We got you back. We kept tabs on
what was going on so you would not have to.
So chatter over the weekend, little chit chat over the
weekend that indicated that there are a four pack, four
pack of teams that are attempting to acquire Lebron James. No,
(03:18):
those teams are in no formal order, the Dallas mav Rex,
the Golden State Warriors, the Cleveland Cadavers, and the Clippers supposedly,
so that story came out though those teams have emerged
as possible suitors.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
For Lebron James. That happened over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Now, those four teams, if you believe the chatter, if
you believe the Internet chatter, those four teams contacted Lebron's
conciliary right his buddy there, Rich Paul, who is that
If you want to talk to the mob boss, you
got to go through the Consigli area and.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That would be Rich Paul.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And that is where we are right now, So let
us discuss the question for the panel, the blue ribbon panel.
Where are you at on the Fearsome Foursome pursuing Lebron James.
All right, so I've got Vintage Cookie Jar, Dali Lama
and Philadelphia Original, and we will combine all of these
(04:21):
things together and we are gonna make the Gobaul.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We're gonna make the Goabba goal for our friend in Florida.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So number I said number right, Yes, Now we provide
a skeptical eye for the regular guy. Now I even
have buyfocals on, so I have extra skepticism is what
I have on here.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
But this is not.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
The Lebron sweep Steaks. It was presented as the Lebron Sweepstakes.
I don't buy that that narrative. I'm not going there.
It's more like the Lebron flea Market. Now, you can
find a nice thing every now and again at the
flea market, and that's what this is. It's the Lebron
James flea market. And it's like, what's what's going on?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Then?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
What's on the table at the flea market? You're like,
do I want that kind of fade a little bit?
I'm not sure about that. Uh, And it was like,
this is not the shiny new toy. We're not We're
not auctioning off the shiny new toy. This is Lebron
James at this point is a vintage cookie jar. It's cracked,
a little bit faded now, it still has some value.
(05:26):
There's still some value there. And if you squint hard
enough at the vintage cookie jar and you look at
it and you ignore the fact that.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
The cookies inside turns stale.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Right around the time they got that little Mickey Mouse
bubble ring that doesn't really count back at Disney World,
like a nice little souvenir there.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yay, you get a ring, not a real one. Not
a real one. As we learned from the Oklahoma City
thunder Guard. Not everyone.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So Lebron James the greatest player of his generation, not
the greatest of all time, as he tripped Michael Jordan
and others. He's also across the rubicon the dreaded four.
He's in the dreaded forties age range at this particular point,
Lebron James. And so you put it all together, and
while he still can put up numbers for you, and
(06:17):
the kind of a numbers that if you work over
at ESPN, right, you think Lebron's like the Dalai Lama.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You do it.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You're treating like the Dalai Lama and all that, and
you can't wait to hear what he has to say
about every ething thing.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You gotta get to the bottom of Lebron James, all right.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
So the impact is measured now more in a moment's
rather than months of greatness. There's individual moments on a
given night. Lebron can put up some big numbers and
all that stuff, but it's it's one of those buyer
beware situations for anyone that does business with Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It is a buyer beware situation because that.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Cookie jar, remember we told you Lebron is like the
flea market vintage cookie jar Lebron. It looks okay from
a distance on it shelf, You're like, that's not that bad,
and I could buy that. It's a couple of bucks.
I got to pay cash, no credit card. It's a
couple of bucks. And the lids chipped again though a
little bit. And you look at it and the basis
you get a little closer to see a little crack
(07:13):
there on the base of it and it really only
opens when it wants to, and so that's not particularly
great and all that stuff, and the four teams that
are supposedly in on this. It's a nostalgia play. It
would be a nostalgia play for Lebron, and that's what you're.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Going for at this particular point, and sell some stuff.
You become in the conversation. You're always in the conversation. Now,
Lebron's camp is trying really hard to control the narrative.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
They are working over time to try to control the
stories about Lebron. And they know how the offseason NBA
world works and so they they're the experts on all that.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So Rich Paul is the one feeding the pipeline.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
He's the one out there and our opinion, Rich Paul's
the one that is the puppet master directing everything here
in terms of media consumption on preferred destinations for Lebron,
James now in order a home cooking with the Cadavers, right,
go back to Ohio for a third time, win one
more championship with the Cavaliers, fade to Black Boom done right,
(08:22):
And of course that would be like Lebron going back
to Cleveland for a third time. It's like they're the
ex girlfriend that keeps texting, hey.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You up at the three in the morning or whatever.
I don't know, but.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
It's nostalgic to go back to Cleveland and do it
again and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It's also a bit delusional.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Then I would say the old Geezers Club, which would
be the Golden State Warriors, hang out in San Francisco,
and you got Steph Curry on one side, Draymond Green
on the other, Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Buckets is still there,
and Lebron and Draymond can do podcasts together, and they
could fire Steve Kerr and hire some podcast guide to
coach the Golden State Warriors Lakers did for Lebron, and
(09:02):
they'll get along good Lebron and Draymond Green until they
try to hijack the clipboard from whoever the coaches, whether
that's Steve Kerr or somebody else.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Then it's gonna get ugly, and then you've got the reunited.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
It feels so good with Anthony Davis to go to
Dallas and then stick it to the Lakers as a
mav wreck with Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving and all
those injured guys that are on the Mavericks right now,
and they instead of Taco Tuesday, they can have Tex
Mex Wednesday in Dallas, Anthony Davis and Lebron. How great
would that be? Of course, we all know Lebron would
(09:34):
prefer to play for the Clippers. Everyone wants to play
for the Clippers. It's hip to clip who wouldn't want
to play for the Clippers. But we're gonna eliminate the Clippers.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
And here's why.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Here's why we're gonna limit the Clippers, because there's no
way the Lakers are gonna allow that to happen.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
There's zero chants.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Like the Clippers have a better owner, they have a
better arena, they have a better fan base. Everyone knows
that in town in La. They're not going to allow
Lebron to go over there and embarrass the Lakers even
more so, that's not gonna happen, right, So Jeanie Buss,
he's still supposedly in charge, not gonna do that, right,
Not not gonna allow that to happen, to go over
(10:10):
to Inglewood in the hood in Inglewood and play for
the Clippers. So we'll eliminate them now, page two. So
We'll go to to Vegas the Summer League which is
going on over the weekend there, and Lebron was sitting courtside.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
You see this over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I glanced at it as Lebron sitting courtside by watching
his kid that sucks at basketball play for the Lakers
summer League team because he's a Nepo baby and he
won a sweepstakes raffle to get on the Lakers. So
there's Bronni out there who sucks, but you know it's
make a wish. So he's out there playing for the Lakers,
and Lebron's watching them. They played the I guess the
Pelicans or a version a facsimile of the Pelicans in
(10:47):
the Summer League.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Now, ESBN invited Lebron James, they invited Lebron. You see this.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
They invited Lebron on air to address the speculation which
has been running rampant about where Lebron's gonna go. Oh,
is he upset with this person, that person, the other person?
And so Lebron did he say, yes, I will go
on television. I would like to talk b I have
nothing to say or see no comment. Lebron said, quote,
if you picked b you win. He said, quote, I
(11:16):
ain't got nothing to talk about. He must have learned
that in high school an acron, I ain't got nothing
to talk about. So question, why did Lebron James refuse
the opportunity, the platform to speak about his situation while
in attendance at the Las Vegas Summerly He had his
sullen look on his face, bad body language from Lebron
(11:39):
as he was sitting courtside there in Vegas. So the
answer is by saying nothing, by Lebron saying nothing and
passing up the opportunity, Lebron gave a masterclass and.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I'm in control control one oh one.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
By not saying anything, he could have popped on Television's true,
he was given the opportunity, he was given platform Lebron
to jump over there on television and pretend like everything's good,
and he chose not to do it. He had ESPN
essentially throwing themselves at him and just you know again,
he said, I'm not I'm not doing it. I'm not
going to go there, and he missed the opportunity right
(12:17):
the old Dali Lama line. While you could have been
you know, they treated him like the Dalai Lamba. But
Lebron he could have taken a fire extinguisher and put
out the fire.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Right, take the fire extinguisher, put out the fire. But
he likes the fire.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
It's like he's warming marshmallows on a stick in the fire.
And so instead he worked to pour some kerosene on
top of the fire. Burn, baby burn.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
And it's like a cloak and dagger type mission. The
useful idiots.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
You toss out these bread crumbs, you drop these little
bread crumbs, but you don't do it. I have somebody
else do it for you. So you drop the bread
crumbs out there, and you post cryptic things on the
gram and all that stuff. You let the media do
the dirty work, the heavy lifting for you and all that.
And so you don't talk because you don't have to talk. Right,
other people are talking. I'm talking about you. Everyone's talking
(13:09):
about you.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Right, the machine, the machine of basketball content, is discussing
Lebron James. Now this is the same guy that years
ago had the remember the zero dark thirty stick and
the playoff run. Of course, we know that often didn't
last and work so well, so he stopped doing that,
but he treated it like it was a ritual like
(13:33):
Marty Grass for Lebron before the playoffs there, and so
Lebron chose not to speak. Not the silence was not silence,
it was strategy. That was what what Lebron was doing here.
And by refusing to go on camera and not using
your own voice to get the message out and all
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that stuff in Vegas where you want to be seen, right,
you go to Vegas to be seen, the party and
all that stuff, and everything's a show in Vegas, and
Lebron's part of the show. And he knew exactly what
he was doing. Classic passive aggressive behavior by Labron James
yet again, let the drama swirl, swirl, swirl, swirl, and
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that's what he was doing there. And he just sits
back and watches the speculation and it just is everywhere
there's there's a there's a residence, there's a heat.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
It's like coming off.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
The blacktop there on the on the court, and he's
keeping it cool, right, He's sitting there, he's got his
arms fold, he's unbothered.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
At least he wants you to believe he's unbothered by
everything that's going on.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Now, using my Rosetta stone, using my malle Rosetta stone
to translate Lebron and what he meant in plain English
in layman's terms. When Lebron said, I ain't got nothing
to talk about, that was his quote.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I ain't got nothing to talk about.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
It That means I know you're all panicking about where
I'm going to be traded or if I'm going to
be traded and all that, and I'm just watching you squirm,
and I've got an evil laugh.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Just like that.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
We know the routine. We all know. Every man, woman
and child knows the routine. Now the final point staying
in Las Vegas. We talked earlier on the Overnight Show
about the brain rot in professional sports. Out of an
abundance of caution, everyone must do the bare minimum, do
not go above and beyond the call of duty like
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previous generations.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Who do the bare minimum.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Another example of that, the Dallas Mavericks have decided we
are shutting down Cooper Flag. The flag is down, yes,
Cooper Flag for the remainder of the NBA Summer League.
IX nay on the flag A as he has been
shut down. I will not be playing. Only played two games.
(15:49):
Two that's it. So how do you react to the
number one overall pick in the NBA draft only playing
two games and shut down? So I give this one
the old shoulder shrug. I shrugged my shoulders of this
to sign yet again, much like we talked earlier, sign
of the times in professional sports. And this infestation is everywhere.
(16:13):
And two games, that's it. Two game one sucked, bad
game and then one that was okay. And a couple
of glorified scrimmages in Vegas in July and that Vegas heat.
And that's all she wrote. That's all she wrote for
Cooper Flag, the Mavericks new teenage sensation of Maverick Nation.
(16:37):
They put him back into bubble wrap and they put
him into storage. That's it, that's all. And they've treated
him like some kind of high end vase they don't
want to break. And they'll put that away in the
garage and they'll take that out when we get back
to the irregular season. So the Mavericks, in their infamitt
wisdom also known as paranoia, the Mavericks are shutting down
(16:59):
Cooper Fact for the rest of the summer league not
because he's hurt, by the way, not because he's hurt,
not because he asked out saying I can't handle this,
I can't do it. No, they're just being cautious out
of an abundance of caution. They're being careful because God forbid,
God forbid a young athlete who's been I assume playing
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aau ball since they came out of the womb there
and that they can't make just a couple of extra
games and that's too much, that's too much for the
prodigy out of Maine. Cannot do it, Cooper Flag, I
gotta shut him down, shut him down right now, right,
I mean, that's where we are. That is exactly where
we are right now, just like the baseball players trying
(17:46):
to skip the All Star Game because oh man, I
need my resting, realization and recovery.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I need all of that.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
So now, the NBA is not just soft. Okay, they're
not just soft. They are whipped cream soft is the NBA.
In fact, they're not even just whipped cream. If they
were a type of cheese, they would be a Philadelphia
original Philadelphia cream cheese.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
That's what they would be.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
The the NBA and a little rice cake action on
the side there and some cream cheese and Philadelphia cream cheese.
That's where they are there. And Cooper Flag is just
the latest example of that. They say the Mavericks that
he quote showed enough.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
That's what they say. Please, how did you show enough?
Exactly what does that even mean? I don't even know
what that means? A vague term.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
So another player that rather than try to get them
up to speed where they settle.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Into the to the grind, right to grind.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
We're talking to some old baseball players about that, and
like and baseball people will complain in the base I know,
crossing the streams here, crossing the sports. But pitchers are
soft in baseball because they've been trained to be soft
well basketball players. Here's an opportunity with Cooper Flag to
be like, you're not gonna be like all the rest.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
We're gonna we're gonna train you to not run.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
From the grind like these other NBA stars, and we're
going to train you to run towards the grind and
not away from it. But instead the Mavericks have the
opportunity and with so Wing Barra, saw Wing Barra, that's it.
So instead they're sending Cooper Flag the number one, picking
the draft back back to the lab, putting him in
a test tube some cryogenic chamber somewhere in Dallas.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
And he really didn't even get a real whiff of
what it's all about in the in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And so he's I think he's still like nineteen years
old and all that stuff, and they're treating him like
he's a grizzled thirty nine year old veteran with arthritick
hips and his knees are all messed up and he's
he's had double knee replacement surgery and that's what they're
treating him like. And he's a teenager. Uh so, you
know again, opportunity here. Am I crazy to toughen this
guy up? And no, it's straight pampers, baby, It's it's
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pampers all the way, is what it is for Cooper Flag.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Right from the draft, Get.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
The therapy dog out the whole thing, Get a nice warm,
blankye and a glass of milk.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And load management.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
You gotta get that trained early on, all about the
load management. But it's even more of that. It's like
fear disguised as some kind of science. And that old
phrase we learned that in twenty twenty during the pandemic.
You can get away with almost anything. If you say
out an abundance of caution. You can convince people to
do almost anything and they'll do it, and people can't
question it, and you just have to go with it
(20:31):
and you just can't question it. So this is where
we are with the NBA and Cooper Flag. It's a
set of an abundance of caution. Please, So another opportunity
could have developed, didn't develop, and now they're treating Cooper
Flag like he's in a museum somewhere and you don't
want to get too violent and have activity on the
court and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
So we'll just make sure some no dust gets on him.
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Speaker 2 (23:49):
Lebron is not getting traded.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
He is just waiting for the Saudi League to send
the cartoon check to him to chase titles in the
Middle East.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Let me see Lebron doing that.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
See him going to some place in Dubai in playing basketball.
Just josh As Cooper flag being shut down after two
Summer League games is laughable. Go ahead and put him
on the All Star team. I've seen it enough. Well's well,
that's what baseball. Baseball would do that because the mi
is Jakob Mazerowski only made five starts.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
He's an All Star.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Ozziez writes in From the Land of the Kangaroo. He says, Ben,
will you jump on the Lebron James bandwagon.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
And get his jersey when he joins the Clippers. No,
of course not. He's not going to the Clippers. The
Lakers are not going to allow that to happen.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Tammy in Vegas rights and says, I was going to
attend the NBA Summer League this week, but I think
my money can be spent in a much better way.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Now the flag is down, says Tammy invasion.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
You don't want to see Bronni Tammy No, probably not
h Savior save your cash?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Who else does?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
He can't read that on the air, That lunatic Mark
the full name. Guys still sending messages that will not
be read on the air until he calls in to
clean the record. He will not do that because he's
scared Mark from Queen's Rights. And he says, big Ben,
thank you. Funniest mal monologue ever. There you go, and
he enjoyed us ripping the great Cooper flag. Almost drove
(25:19):
off the road, even though I'm a huge Mavericks fan.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
March from Queens. But he lives in in Texas. There
that was hysterical. We'll thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Glad you enjoyed it, Tony writes and says, Lebron James
ready to roll and lead the Lakers to another title
in June. Well, Tony depends how many times should play
the video game. But I agree Tony on the video game.
Absolutely it could happen. I'm pulling for you, Tony. I
hope you win the video game. Let's go to the
phones and we'll say.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Hello to Eenie Meenie money Mall.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Let's go to Bob. Bob is in the great state
of Missouri. Hello, Bob, welcome.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Hey, it's a pleasure to speak to a sports talk
radio all star and Hall of Famer. Again.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Really, I'm not in any hall of face.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
But well, I don't like I don't like to talk
about it because it's never happened, so but I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
What's up, Bob? How can we help you? Buddy?
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Well, speaking of Hall of Fame, I've been wondering this
for like fifty years. Yeah, an MLB player retires, he
waits five years for selection to the Hall of Fame. Well,
isn't that enough time for the writers to assess his career.
There shouldn't be a one and done thing.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
You should be a.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
One ballot, first ballot Hall of Famer. If you're a
Hall of Famer, either are or you're not. It pisses
me off when these guys twenty years later, you know,
they weed it down to weed it down.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Well, the argument, though, Bob, The argument is like in politics,
people don't always win their first THENT Abraham Lincoln lose
eight elections and then became eventually became the President of
the United States.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Like, sometimes you lose, you don't win right away.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I generally agree with you, though, there's a lot of
as you know, there's politics. You've read about the baseball
writers who have control of this and they're the only
ones that get to vote. The baseball riders and Baseball
made a deal with the devil, the baseball scribes, and
it's been that way ever since then. And so that's
just how it goes. And you got to kind of
massage the egos of the baseball riders and you can,
(27:16):
you can get votes. But then they, as you said,
they have all these other committees too, that will put
you in like the back door of the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
And yeah, well to me, it's kind of an insult
to the legitimate first ballot guys.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Well, there are there are different there are different Yeah,
there are different layers, clearly, I mean there's different layers
the first ballot Hall of Fame or how many times
do you have to wait to get in?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Did you go to the Veterans Committee? Now they get
this other things like Pete Rose is going to.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Get in the Hall of Fame a couple of years
Joe Jackson will get in the Hall of Fame. But
they're dead, but they'll get in the Hall of Fame.
They'll get in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Baseball just shoots hisself in the foot a lot. As
far as I'm not a big NBA guy, but I'm
kind of hoping Lebron wants to go back to Cleveland
and they tell him we don't want you and or
your summer league on chain.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Okay, Oh well, I mean we'll see what happens with
the summer of lebronob.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
As far as as as Flag goes learning load management
at the age of eighteen, yeah, so you can make
a million dollars a game. Wow, what a great example
of whatever that is.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
No, I agree, I think it's great the NBA training
these guys on load management. You don't want Cooper Flag
though he is eight He turns nineteen at the.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
End of the year. I thought he was nineteen already,
but he's eighteen.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
You're right, so it could Cooper Flag just kind of,
you know, do your thing and chill out and learn
what Anthony Davis and Kawhi Leonard and these other NBA
players do that you do. You don't want to embarrass
the rest of the guys by playing in every game
that would make him look bad. So exactly, all right,
thank you about all right, thanks for listening. It's great, Bob,
(28:50):
right there, Cooper Flag being taught the ancient art of
load management very important. You must practice load management. Let's
go to someone that does actice load management. He doesn't
call every night. He picks his spots Jerome and Charleston.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
What is he angry about? Bringing home Jerome? Hello? Jerome's beginning.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
That, Hey, you know what I love? Then the fact that, uh,
you talk about the clip the Leggas all the time.
Why don't you talk about the successful La Clippers, the
team that we listen.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I could talk about the Clippers people. People would love
that content. But I play the hits. I do negative radio,
negative radios, the Lakers. That's why I talk about him.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
They're a joke.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
Yeah, Hey, when are you gonna talk about the scandal
involving good old James Hart and you and that that
Marchi Boloney person. She's got a show now, man as
the Marti Bologne Show, and it comes back.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Well, why don't you call her and talk to her
about that?
Speaker 7 (29:48):
She doesn't can't.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
All right, well, and I do take phocos. So James
Harden was not he was not. It was he's getting
sued because he has the money. He wasn't the one
that did anything. Right, you read the lawsuit. Yes, there
was a there's a party at his house and the
woman accused relative of James Harden of some funny business.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
And rather than the suit, well rather well there was.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
No there's no criminal charge. There's no criminal charges. There's
no criminal charges. Droom right, it's a civil matter. But
I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Yeah, and it's just accusations at this moment. Yeah, and
it's not James Harden.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
So I don't do we care about the relatives of
these people like the Is that a big I mean,
what do you want me to do? I don't do
a modeling about James Harden's like nephew or whatever. Is
that what I have to do to pacify you? Because
you have a you have a you know, you have
a I almost said a bad word, but you have
an issue with the Harden thing like this.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
But for some reason you can't bring you in person,
can't bring yourself to say anything about it.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Listen, what do you want me to say a relative
of a basketball players being suited because they have a
lot of money and their relative doesn't have a lot
of money. You understand, I mean, why why is that
so hard for you? Under Jerome? I don't think you're
a moron, but you're acting. You're sounding like a moron. Jerome,
like you do understand the people that gets Yes, he's
an NBA player.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
James Harden's nephew is not in the NBA.
Speaker 7 (31:18):
Hey, look, look, you talk about nepotism. Where have you
been living that for the last two hundred years?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Well, I haven't been alive. I know I'm old, but
I'm not that old. I'm not in two hundred years.
I have not been alive for.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
Tony, Ronnie James and lebron Jas didn't inventasm. Okay, they're
not the first people and they won't be the last,
so we should just think money.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
So you're okay with that, that nepotism. It sounds like
you're okay with Jerome. It sounds like you don't have
an issue with it. You're you're defending Bronnie James, who
sucks at basketball, who's in the NBA because of his daddy.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
You're okay with that?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Okay, Well I can't.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
I can't if I want, I just did you can't
put you're a bet? Why are you such a bad
Why you have such a bad moves room? What happened
you have a did you have a bad day or
something like that? Do you want to talk about it?
Who hurts you your own? Who hurts you your own?
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Did you run away from? Okay?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
What am I running away from? I'm not running away
from anything.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
You asked me a question that James Harden store is
a nothing burger because he didn't do the crime. He's
not accused. No one's accusing him of not because he
played for the Clippers, he didn't do the crime. Do
you understand he's not the person suing.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
It's a clipper, right so therefore.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
All right, so you're just trying to you're doing the clipper?
That all right? Is that all you got? Your own?
Because I'm tired of it, because it's it's ridiculous. Check okaye,
what do.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
You not understand a relative of James Harden did something,
is accused of doing something he hasn't been you know,
there's no criminal charges and Jerome James Harden, who has money,
has a lot of money because he's played basketball for
a long time.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I had a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
He's the one being sued because you sue the person
that has the money. Do you understand how that works?
Speaker 7 (32:56):
All of a sudden, when it's the Clippers uneasy, it's
uncomfortable now for you and the.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Month, it's not uncomfortable at all. I don't what do
you want me to say? So I just answered your question?
What did I not say?
Speaker 7 (33:11):
I'm just bringing that up, man, because I've be given
you a charity.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I just explained you how stupid you sound. And everyone's
laughing at you right now. They're all pointing. They're all
pointing at your Droman, laughing at you, saying, my god,
I'm embarrassing this Roman.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
What's that?
Speaker 7 (33:27):
You got plenty of time to talk about Lebron.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
James the right, Joe.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Why don't you get a talk show in the last
two days? Like Cooper Flag in the Summer League. You'll
be canceled because you have no idea what to talk about. Clearly,
you have no sense of what people want to hear about.
Speaker 7 (33:43):
Look, I don't want to talk about Cooper Flag. Hey,
who's gonna be fired. Hey, just hope he's not the
next damn Adam marsh And Okay, they keep comparing him
to Bride.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Okay, player bird.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Why are you so angry?
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Joe?
Speaker 2 (33:59):
What's going on with you? You sound angry? You sound angry.
I don't know why you're so angry. To me? Yeah,
you sound angry. Ye, what's going on with you? Did
you have a bad weekend?
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Why are you so angry? You are?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I'm fine.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
I'm sitting here, I got the I got the air
conditioner going, I'm gonna I'm I'm in good shape here,
I'm happy.
Speaker 7 (34:17):
I'm just bringing up some stuff you try to run
away from.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
I'm doing again.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
I explained to you. I know it's hard for you understand,
but I'm not running away from any congratulations. But here's
the deal. You don't understand common sense if you're bringing
this up thinking there's something there.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
Damn, they don't take dummies. Okay, all right, I worked
my ass off to get in. All right, you don't
take ummy.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
But on this one, d you sound like I'm maybe
you took you know what, Possibly you took stupid pills.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Maybe that's the problem. The wear off.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
The stupid pills will wear off, and then you'll be okay.
You just you took the wrong pill bottle. You took
the stupid pills.
Speaker 7 (34:59):
Is that what happened to I just want you to
come clean.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Why what is it coming clean?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
You're asking me about the relative who's not an NBA
player of James Harden. I explained to you why I
did not talk about that story. You seem to have
a bug up your took us that I should talk
about that story.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
And I merely told you.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
If you go to a lawyer and say, hey, somebody,
you know, somebody did something to me and I want
to sue them, the loyal will then say how much
money do they have? They don't have a lot of money.
Whose house was it? Oh it's James Harden's house. Oh
he's worth two hundre three hundred million dollars. Let's sue him.
So that's not it's not that hard to understand.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Jerome, You're.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
Y'all don't have no time to talk about but you
got pleased?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yes are You're You're a dummy? Thank you? My god?
We just what a stupid sound like?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Yeah, Jerome and Charleston dumb num numb, numb.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
So he see there's a guy with that's called the
agenda talk radio call Jerome and Charleston. Jerome had agenda,
like his agenda was Jay Balor's not talking about James R.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
And for some reason about Manzi's name.
Speaker 7 (36:05):
Up.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Leave her out of this. He can fight her own battle.
And so I guess she likes the Clippers and all that.
So he's upset with me because I'm not talking about
the Sorry.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Then I explained why I'm not talking.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
About the story, and and he just kept repeating it
over and over again because he is a has had
an agenda. He has nothing else to say, no content,
and that is that.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
That is all all right.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Anyway, It is the Ben Mahler Show. Moments away, we
will get to Mallard of the third degree. Here's the
instat trivia. The Mariners outfielder centerfielder Juio Rodriguez at seventeen
total bases for watch two steals over the weekend against
the Tigers. Two other players in the modern era have
reached those numbers in a three game series, Barry Bonds
in eighty seven with the Pirates and Blank. That is
(36:50):
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now for the Insta Trevia. The Mariners centerfielder Julio Rodriguez
seventeen total basis four walks, two steals over the weekend
in Motown. Only two other players in the modern era
have put those numbers up In a three game series.
They are buried by the eighty seven Pirates and blank,
that is the question, was the answer? Charles Murphy guess
(38:06):
by mister Irrigation, George Burns from Bobby and Florida, Malard
Mudpie from Alf the Alien Opiner.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Who else do we have? Angry Jerome and.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Charleston from malor Prop guyt see Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Who's thirty eight today?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
From Late Night Drug tester Taco Bell manager Carl Gone
too Soon? Tim Tuffle? That was from ferg Dog Tim
Tuffle from mister Irrigation. Don Slott, good name from I
forty Ian?
Speaker 2 (38:35):
What's that you a radar Captain Jack Sparrow, Ben.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
All right, No, it's Mike Gold Jack Schmid of the
nineteen seventy five Phila Delfield, Philly.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Here we go, Here we got.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
This is one big fan gets grilled.
Speaker 8 (38:56):
Trooper forty nine Ers filled that Kyle euscheck to the
media over the weekend that Christian McCaffrey looks quote incredible
and that he will change everything.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
For the forty nine ers everything.
Speaker 8 (39:07):
Yes, Ben, does a healthy McCaffrey drastically change the outlook
for the Niners?
Speaker 2 (39:11):
No, because it's July. I don't doubt that he's healthy
in July.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Didn't he just announce the other a kid or he
had a kid Christian McCaffrey, So listen, looking healthy in
July is one thing. McCaffrey was always hurt with Carolina.
That's one of the reasons they got rid of him.
He had a stretch of health through the Niners. The
real Christian McCaffrey is the guy gets hurt all the time.
So it doesn't change the outlook for the Niners because
he's not going to be healthy by the time we
get to reach seven or week eight next.
Speaker 8 (39:36):
So the Los Angeles Angels had the number two pick
in the Omber Joe, Yes.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
They had.
Speaker 8 (39:42):
They had the top top rated pitching prospect there on
the board, but they did not take him. Yes, and
said they took Tyler Brenner Bremner who nobody had him
ranked even.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
In the top ten. Yeah, ben A. Is this a
GM move or an ownership move? Who's to blame for this? Well?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
The other argument, coup is this kid Holidays that was
a top player in the draft. The Angels could have
drafted him. They could have gotten the number one guy
at number two. No, it's it's signability. It's nobody knows
anything about the baseball draft anyway, nobody knows anything about
the NFL or the basketball draft, so it's signed. It
is odd, though, when you take somebody that's not even
projected to be a top ten pick at the number
two pick. Something's gone terribly wrong there for the Angels.
(40:23):
But I think it's a signability thing. They knew they
could sign this guy from Santa Barbara so or he's
pitching at Santa barbt next.
Speaker 8 (40:30):
Former All Pro defensive tackle Domocon Sioue announced his retirement
on Saturday. He has had an impressive career since being
drafted out of Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Is it enough to get him into the Hall?
Speaker 7 (40:39):
No?
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Because he blocked me on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Remember when he was about to sign with the Rams
and a listener contacted us and told him, told us
he was at a hotel and he panicked and domoicon
sue and blocked me on social media. Now he's got
a Hall of Fame resume, But because he blocked me,
no Hall.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Of fame for you? How did we do he passed that?
Speaker 7 (40:55):
So?
Speaker 2 (40:56):
What by no hall of fame?
Speaker 1 (40:58):
No, no hold fast bope
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