December 4, 2025 • 46 mins
Big Ben talks about the drama surrounding Chris Paul's hasty exit from the Clippers, reports that the Reds have interest in signing free agent Kyle Schwarber, Maller to the Third Degree, another edition of #AskBen, and more!
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back at it again and a story that broke overnight
last night is our lead this hour. As we knew
when the sun came up there'd be more information out
and now it's like a jigsaw puzzle. You got to
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kind of figure out which pieces fit wear and that
doesn't fit there, but that one does fit, but it
kind of maybe doesn't. Maybe it should go to the
top of the upper upper right hand side, but maybe
the left hand side. I don't know. So from the
hood in Inglewood, the People's team, the Clippers making big headlines.
Everyone's talking about the Clippers. It's hiped the clip yet again.
They decided to fire the point God. You can't fire
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a god. They fired a god. They did it. They
said bite bye to the Point God in the middle
of the night. Oh my God. Now I assume you're
heard by now if you care about this. It's a
good story. Even if we're not a basketball fan, it's
it's still a good story. So it is a doozy,
an absolute doozy. So the Clippers, this guy's got a
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big time GM. Lawrence Frank, who used to be a
coach in the NBA, has been an executive for a
number of years. Lawrence Frank decided to remove Chris Paul
from the roster. The Clippers had some flight problems. These
are first world problems. They fly on chartered planes. Every
once in a while, the engine breaks in a chartered plane.
You have to sit around for a while, and then
(03:23):
these guys bitch and complain non stop. My god, what
a nightmare. Try flying Spirit Airlines sometime, you losers. Anyway, Anyway,
here's Lawrence Frank commenting on the demise about Chris Paul.
I now, listen, they're trying to say, we're not trying
to blame anyone. Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I take full responsibility for our record. We are not
scapegoating Chris Paul. We have many issues and we're going
to address each issue.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
For our underperformance.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
We have great respect for Chris for the career that
he's had and for his impact on the organization, what
he did to help transform the franchise, and we're not
blaming him for underperforming.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
But yeah, so they did say one I said, it's
not one isolated incident. That have been multiple issues behind
the scenes that have been going on. And they were
supposed to meet in Atlanta, but the flight got delayed,
so they just said, all right, let's go Lane Kiffin
and fiery ass on the tarmac at the airport in Miami.
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So that's it. It happened, and the overnight hours Paul
clashing with Tylou the Clippers coach there. So those reports
came out today claiming that CP three was very vocal
saying that the Clippers sucked and held the management responsible,
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the coaching staff for their malfeasans and his teammates accountable,
and all of this led to, of course pandemonium among
the NBA officiani those unloading. It was a bombing run
on the Clippers. So that is a good jumping off point.
Will work our way to that. But let us discuss
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the question, how.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Do you read the room?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
How do you read the room? Regarding Chris Paul's hasty
departure from the good Ship Clip which is sinking to
the bottom of the Pacific Division standing. So my thoughts
on this, I've got Dancing with the Stars, Vermont and
Locksmith and we will combine all of these things together
(05:35):
and everything will go according to plan unless it doesn't.
So a the whole Chris Paul Clipper fiasco. It is
a battle of messages right now, and so you knew
this was coming, and it really just depends on who
you want to believe. Who you want to believe. There's
a pr cage match, a steel cage death match in
the cage where both sides are launching spin moves. These
(06:01):
are new dance moves. They're trying to audition for Dancing
with the Stars. You talk about reading the room, This
one's rather easy. It reeks of narrative warfare, hand to hand,
mouth to mouth, narrative warfare. You've got CP three's camp
with his useful idiots, many of them former jocks who
he played with, who are out there trying to sell
you the gospel of accountability. Jesus that CP three is accountability, Jesus,
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he is. He was holding everyone accountable. He's the good guy.
The player's staff coaches, the janitor, the person that charges
you too much for parking. All that, right, police, this
is the same ultimate winner. He's the ultimate winner who
never won a damn thing besides State Farm Spokesman of
(06:48):
the decade. That's about it. When he played for the
Clippers and then he sent out this Instagram story which
went around to facetiming Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan like
they were reenact the Notebook and it was all smiles,
all kumbai yah, all designed of course to make you
feel like he's this lovable old hoops hero being wrong
(07:11):
by the evil Empire and all this stuff. Now, meanwhile,
the Clippers, they were leaking their own information out, their
own talking points as blunt as a sledgehammer that essentially
through the useful idiots the Clippers were talking to. CP
three is washed up. He was insubordinate. He was the
pebble inside the Nike sneaker, a nuisance, the squeaky wheel,
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the gnat. You never go to the barbecue in the
summer and there's a gnat flying around, You're like, boy,
that's really annoying. I don't need that. Why is that
there's more than one? Now, of course we all know
if Chris Paul was actually good. He sucks. If he
was good right now, I was playing as an All
Star and playing big minutes and all that. You swallow it,
you just you handle it. But the guy left that.
(07:57):
That guy left the building years ago. And now Chris
Paul is essentially a flip phone. The good news is
he's got twelve ring tones, which is exciting good nostalgia. However,
utterly useless in the modern era. You know, I was like, well,
it's got the Ringtones, but I know it's a flip poet.
I don't need a flip phone. I want a smartphone.
But it's got the twelve Ringtones, I know. But I
got a thousand on my regular phone anyway. So and
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this did not just sour like this thing is beyond that.
It was spoiled, curdled. I think I see some fuzz growing.
He's really bad. It's so bad. I mean, this is
a messy divorce where both sides are swearing they're the victim,
you know, the you know I'm not the bad guy,
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they're the bad guy. And of course the truth is
somewhere in the middle, all right, the truth is somewhere
in the middle. Unlucky there everyone's guilty Chris Paul's bad
at basketball. Now he's washed up, and the Clippers there's
no accountability. I don't know what ty Law is doing
or ty Loo ty Law would be better. I don't
know what ty Lou is doing because he's suddenly he's
coaching much. They didn't win against Atlanta, and Atlanta sucks also,
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all right now turning the page, page two. So the
question on this, this next part of it, is what
do you make of the outrage? Oh my god, the outrage.
It's not fair because Chris Paul is going to well,
he's been fired. He's not going to get the full
(09:26):
blown farewell tour from the Clippers, although likely will latch
on like a vermin somewhere else. So what do I
make of the outrage machine being cranked up because Chris
Paul was let go during his final season? I say, stop,
if you're bad at spelling, that's stop. Police. Even mouthwashed
(09:48):
Mike roaming around the Belagio in Vegas knows that enough
with the what I call the Vermont maple syrup, it's
gotten really sappy and sticky and extra syrup. At this
point in fact, there are people who are at risk
of diabetic danger. Chris Paul is not Kobe, He's not
Michael Jordan. And I go down to the long big board,
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not a list, the big board. Chris Paul is not
getting a rocking chair gift at half court every city
he goes to. He's just not. And there's the reasons
why that is Because during the Lob City now this
is the SOB city here, but the Lob City ere
of Clipper basketball, when the bright's when the light lights
got the brightest, right bright lights, big city, big playoff games,
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big moments for Chris Paul, the lights flickered and CP
three I heard, Oh, I got he's so good, he's
so great, he's so amazing. And he's also like Copperfield
or Penn and Teller or Houdini. In the fourth quarter disappeared.
Whether it was because he couldn't play well or he
just got hurt, he wasn't there when the Clippers needed
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him most to make plays down the stretch. And you
fast forward from that era to where we are now
here in twenty twenty five, and the man's absolutely cooked.
It's like a rotisserie chicken that's been spinning for several
days and you got to throw that bad boy away,
and if you take the name out, you do the
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call the challenge. If you take the name off the
back of the jersey of Chris Paul, all right, you
take it out, and you just look at the skill set.
He would not sniff. He would not sniff an NBA roster.
The way he's played, He's basically a hood ornament at
this point. Who can I guess, sit on his backside
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for forty five minutes a night and enjoy the view
from the bench and then come in in garbage time
and get old Cardio in and the crowd will cheer
him on. And that's it. And now, of course people
want a league wide tear filled goodbye journey, a tour,
which I'm nauseating when even the players that deserve those
get those things, I think it's ridiculous. All those things
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are sickening. This is nauseating. I don't need the schmaltzy overload.
I realize I'm in the minority on that and that
so many fanboys I don't I don't need it, I
don't tune in for it. I don't really care about it.
And ultimately, though a lot of this, a lot of
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what's gone on the last twenty four hours or so.
The dog pile is because of what I call CJ.
Clipper jealousy. It is, and most of it's being driven
by bot farms being run by Laker historians. You know,
these people losers, these absolute losers, like Rick and Fresno
and some of these other guys, the ones who whine
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that the basketball gods, the besketball gods, they're being They're
in denial that they're being given all this stuff. You know,
Lakers always get the shiny toys, you know, being fed.
It's like a funnel. They're fed the top player. Every
five or seven years, they get the top guy, whoever
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that might be. It's just a coincience. Of course, there's
no grand conspiracy by the league office. But I digress.
But these people are bathing and shot in freude, shot
in freuda. Yes, they're taking joy out of other people's misery.
They love seeing the Clippers trip over their own shoelaces
and all that. But farewell tour for Chris Paul, save
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the marching band for the Rose Parade or whatever. I mean,
just I don't need it. I don't need it. I
don't need it. I don't need it. I meanwhile, we
head from Inglewood in the upod By the way, Chris
Paul is gonna end up on the bench somewhere he can.
He's never won anything, maybe he can like latch on
to the be the Kaboos for Oklahoma City, go win
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a championship and there'll be seven people watching, all right
now other than Kyrie and okay. See so the last
word here to Milwaukee we go where a Milwaukee Bucks star,
Giannis a dent the Komo. He felt down, goes Yannis down,
goes Yanis. He fell to the floor non contact injury
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early in the first quarter, was ruled out. After that,
we'll see if there's anything major that comes out of
that or not. That sound at this hour like there is,
but who knows. It's the NBA the bigger story for
our purposes right now. Subplot subplot, Giannis adent to Cumbo
and his agent are said to be in deep negotiations
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and conversations with the brass of the Milwaukee Bucks while
they're eating cheese curds, and it's all about the future
of the multi time most valuable player, the greatest player
in Milwaukee Bucks history, all right, and discussing whether or
not he should stay in Wisconsin or go somewhere else
(14:51):
and play pro bouncy ball in the way. Resolution so
these talks is expected in the coming weeks. Oh, the
plot thickens. Trade deadline is February fifth, which might seem
like it's a long time from now, but when you
factor in the holidays and it'll be here before you
know it. So the question can you unravel? Can you
(15:14):
unravel what this janis? Adenta Kumbo meeting with the buck
big shots means all right, yeah, so we'll do this.
It's not that hard. So the Yannis Bucks meet and greet.
This is not some warm and fuzzy coffee chat over
a Starbucks. This is not what that is. No, this
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is the NBA's version of a Godfather sit down or
the walkie talkie. You know, the Mob would do the
walkie talkie because they figured nobody could bug them if
they were doing the walkie talkie, meaning spy in their conversations.
But it's business. It's not personal. It's business. And we've
seen this move and this movie before, right, It's a
(15:58):
paint by number situation if you pay attention to this stuff.
The exact script is followed verbatim every superstar who becomes
disgruntled follows this script right before they call the locksmith
and say, hey, I need a locksmith because I'm moving
and and I've got a change of address slip I've
got to fill out. I get do it online. I'll
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do it on my phone. But remember, Giannis already flirted
with the Knickerbockers this offseason, so that wasn't an accident.
It was not like it was an accident. This was
a trial balloon, a little test run to see how
the basketball world would react if the Greek freak started
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browsing penthouses on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and
he returned to Milwaukee, right came back, it's been playing
and the Bucks are under five hundred and so now
he also this week, the other paint by numbers move
is Yiannis scrubbed his socials of any reference to the
(17:00):
hometown team. Right, the Bucks under five hundred. He scrubbed
the Socials like he was cleaning the casino floor at
three in the morning. And that's the modern super star
version of a smoke signal. It's like when they name
a new pope at the Vatican. You've got the white
smoke that's the white smoke from the star player when
they start deleting any reference to their employer, and it's
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Yanni's telling the box, hey, it's been fun, but I
gotta run. I gotta run, And the vultures are out now.
The Nicks of the favorite on the gambling market. The
Knickerbockers are the favorite because that's where he wants to play. However,
don't discount teams like the Warriors, the Rockheads, the Celtics.
Big game hunters, polishing their rifles right now and they're
(17:44):
going out to try to get that big one. Big
game hunting, big game hunting. And in today's NBA, the
way it works, it's been this way for a while,
the star player, the star headliner can hand pick hands
select their next tull. It's kind of like ordering off
a tasting menu. I don't know if I want that.
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It's a little too tart. I don't know if I
want tart. I'm not sure about that. And so Yiannis
is the one setting the chessboard, and Milwaukee is the
one who's in a position where they're one wrong move
away and they're gonna hear checkmate is what they're gonna get.
And I heard that from William Shatner years ago. Checkmate,
(18:27):
that was what Chatner gave me in our spats with
Shats so many years ago. How fun was that?
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as we have the winter meetings upcoming and there's a
big build up and things get quiet over Christmas and
New Years, and normally what happens in recent years is
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there's always like three or four players and for whatever
reason don't sign, and then they go right into spring
training and have to sign in mid February. So you
normally want to get that money right away. It's a
little different this year because it's expected that there will
be a work stoppage upcoming in baseball, so that'll change
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things a bit, and so the money will it be
be harder. You would assume you can't go in there
expecting you can get the full them out. We'll see
what that brings. Getting bonkers in baseball. Being a bonker's
I saw this, I was like, I thought, well, this
must be satire, this must be satire. Story out of Cincinnati.
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The Reds. The Red Legs are interested in making a
run to the top of the free agency board, and
they want to Kyle Schwarber bomb a schwarb bomb Kyle Schwarber.
That's the guy that hit a bunch of home runs
for the Phillies last year. Of course, the Phillies have
more money. Generally, if you have deeper pockets that can
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hold more money, you get the player. So I don't
see if you saw this in now. So Schwarber is
from the outskirts of Cincinnati's from Ohio, about thirty five
forty miles or so from Cincinnati proper, from Middletown, Ohio. Middletown, Ohio.
So he's he's in the suburbs of Cincinnati. And the
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story goes that he's interested in a possible homecoming and
Reds would give him a chance to play near all
his friends and family all the time. And they have
Terry Francona and his championship pedigree and all that stuff,
and played the Dodgers and the playoffs. Got smoked in
the wildcard round, although it's hardly anything that wildcard rounds
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really for Gayzy. So the problem, of course is that
if it does come down to money, it's being polite here.
The Reds have no chance. So that's a good jumping
off point. Now, then they could always just raise money
from Justin and Cincinnati and just Josh and some of
our other great Ohio listeners and could throw them in
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and do that. But the question, thumbs up or thumbs down?
Thumbs up or thumbs down, are the Reds a legitimate
contender for Kyle Schwarber, the hometown kid. So my observations,
I've got war Daddy, household, hazardous waste, and DreamWorks, and
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we will throw all of these things together and we
are going to run the gamut, is what we're going
to do. So Number one, this is baseball Kabooki theater
at its finest. The Cincinnati Reds, bless their frugal little hearts,
They're out there playing pretend that they can match up
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with the big boys of baseball. In that cute, In
that cute, they're upside down, upside down, putting on their
Sunday best the church clothes, and acting like they're ready
to run with the big dogs. Gonna run with the
big dogs, of course, in reality, to use the dog
pound lingo, the Cincinnati Reds are like a little Yorkie,
(24:54):
a little Yorky yapping, very loud, little Yorkie behind the
fence while the fillid Helfia Phillies casually and arrogantly stroll
by like a pack of Rottweilder's. So I'm gonna go
thumbs down. Thumbs down is what I'm doing here. The
Reds know exactly what's going on. And we see this
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every so often. And I been around the block a
couple of times, and I'm a talk show host, so
I don't mind my own bees wax and all that stuff.
So here's what this is, until proven otherwise. And this
is a dirty little trick that professional sports teams do.
You've probably it depends what team you like, but your
team's probably done this. So you make a token offer. Okay,
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you make a token offer to the big free agent,
and the good faith handshake, the like this would be like, hey, Kyle,
we know you're from here. We'd love to have you
come home. Give the whole speech. You talk about how
your family can come watch you play, your high school buddies,
your elementary school teachers can come watch it play. You know,
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just lay it on really thick, just thick, like a
thick molt and knowing full well that Schwarber is gonna
stiff arm you and go right to the highest bidder.
He's gonna push you into the nearest cornfield. But for
the low information fan, that the casual that doesn't really
pay attention, say boom, the Reds tried, they tried, They
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just don't have enough Moody. They tried, you know, optics marketing,
all of that stuff, season ticket sugar coating. Meanwhile, Schwarbs,
who's on the hunt for that last Glory Road payday
and he's at the intersection, Kyle Schwarbert of Glory Road
and the Yellow Brick Road paved with Benjamin Franklin's that's
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what he wants. He's right there, Glory Road converses with
Yellow Brick Road. The man Monster mashed fifty six homers.
That's a lot of dinger stinging, ding ding ding. That's
a lot of thingers drove in one hundred and thirty
two runs for the Fighting Phills. You don't slap a
discount sticker after a season like that. That is a
war daddy performance by Kyle Schwarber. He was ooey gooey,
(27:15):
baseball goodness is what he was. That's s'mores level. Now,
I'm not a big smores guy. Everyone saw you go
out camping. You feel like it's a right of passage.
If you go camping, you gotta have some smores and
all that. I get that chalk that the marshmallows, the
Graham crackers, all that delicious. But only once in a while,
if you need it too much, it's like not so good.
But Cincinnati's not a real contender. They're not. They're the
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window shopper, not the buyers what they are. The Phillies
will simply drop the bag. They'll nod politely and say hey,
and they'll walk away, uh with with Schwarber like they're
picking up their dry cleaning. You know, I've got my
I need my Can I get my jacket? Okay, yeah,
I got to jack. What well, my wife's got a dress.
Can we get that shore We'll get you that as well.
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But keep an eye on the the Red Sox. Also
the Texas Rangers. Teams like that. The Mets, they spent
a lot of money. I don't know about the Padres.
I've heard the Podres mentioned. I feel like they're gonna
down grade and get rid of some guys this offseason.
All right, now, page two to la the raining back
to back champions of Major League Baseball talking baseball. Yeah,
(28:22):
so the Dodgers, big money, big money, big money. No
emmy nommys stop. Yeah, big money, big money. All right.
So the Dodgers manager, who I have fired no less
than twelve times over the years, Dave Roberts, is now
endorsing the draconian salary cap.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Did you see this?
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, the guy said, We're gonna go out and ruin baseball,
Dave Roberts. So the question Dodgers managed. Dave Roberts said
he supports a Major League Baseball plan for a salary
cap and a salary floor. He did this in a
recent television interview. Do you believe that this would be
the magic plus cebo to fix baseball?
Speaker 4 (29:04):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
So this let me explain this, and I've talked about
this in the past and previous episodes of the show,
and I don't want to lose my mind on this again.
I don't need to do that. I'm sure we're talking
about this issue more as we go forward. Just soar
on the same page. But my position. The thumbnail recap
of this. This will fix baseball the same way if
you have a sinkhole, you just put some duct tape
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together and you'll fix the sinkhole. Everything will be fine.
Just well, it's a big foal. I know, it's a
big hole. But we've got some really good We've got
some duct tape and you know what, I'll throw in
some gorilla glue. So we'll get the duct tape and
the gorilla glue and then we'll be good. But it's
a sinkhole, I know, But just go with it. Why not?
So Dave Roberts knows it's not happy the union and
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he was part of that as a player. The Union
would turn this thing into a civil war followed by
a nuclear winter. You would need a hazmat suit just
to attend the bargaining sessions if that would happen. And
the very notion that a salary floor magically, it's like
magically delicious. It will create this competitive balance that all
you people want pollaise. This has already been debunked. It
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has already been debunked. Only the unsophisticated rubes by that nonsense.
So let me use some malord math on this. I'll
give you some other math. So the salary cap floor,
whatever it is, whatever the salary cap floor is, does
not build contenders. What it does is it builds toxic
waste uh depots, if you will, for bad contracts like
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we've seen the we've seen this, We've read the book.
We've read the book before. For example, I'll give you
an example. Let's say the Red Sox, the Boston Red Sox,
about they sign a guy a picture. It turns out,
you know, it's good for a couple of years, and
then he gets hurt. He's by the time he's got
like three or four years left in the contract, he's
a thirty four year old picture with a ucl stitched
together like a quilt and a contract fatter than a
(31:00):
buffet back when they used to have good buffets in Vegas,
Like really big contract, right, Tommy John A couple of times,
what do you do? You ship them off to Pittsburgh?
Or how about the Dodgers, Say the Dodgers have a
thirty seven year old slugger who's hitting a buck sixty
with four home runs in the bat speed of a
rotary phone. What are you gonna do? You send them
to West Sacramento, to the Athletics in West Sacramento, and
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they will gladly take him. And the reason those teams
will take them is because they need to reach the floor.
You've got to reach. The floor is lava. You have
to reach the floor. They'll become the household the teams
like the A's and the Pirates and Marlins and Tampa Bay,
these type of teams will become the household hazardous waste
collection center of Major League Baseball. Bring your expired meds
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and your useless veterans and we'll take them all. A
cap doesn't fix baseball, it does not, and a floor
does not fix it. It just makes tanking easier. The
problem is the lack of ambition. And it's a dirty
little secret that everyone kind of knows about. It's an
open secret that you don't really have to try to
make money. You don't have to sell tickets to make money.
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You don't even have to get people to watch your
games on TV to make money. It's it's the kind
of a business where just by owning it you're going
to make money. Now, the way that a lot of
these teams are complaining they're not making enough money is
the oldest trick in the book is like, well, we
made Let's take a random team and we use of course,
this is for entertainment purposes only. But let's take a
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team the Cleveland the Indian slash Guardians. I guess its
called the Guardians now because you wokesters. But the team
in Cleveland, let's say in twenty twenty four, they made
a profit out of all the expenses and all that
that's said, they cleared forty five million dollars. Okay, it's
a lot of money, not maybe as much as saying
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but let's just say forty five million just for the
purposes of this demonstration. So forty five million. And then
you pivot to twenty twenty five and they they made
they only made this year, they made twenty five million.
So then the ownership in Cleveland said, well, we lost
twenty million dollars. This is not sustainable. You still made
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twenty five million. Numb nuts, But yeah, but we made
forty five the year before. Who he lost twenty No,
he didn't lose twenty million dollars, dumb, dumb. But the
main issue is teams that just don't really care. They
just don't care, and they're they're just kind of hanging
out and they're malingering is what they are now. Final
point to New York City. We go and after agreeing
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to a ridonculous deal with the New York Metropolitans relief pitcher,
Devin Williams decided, Hey, I'm a Met, now let me
take a swipe at the Yankee fan. He did this
on the Gram Instagram, Yeah, he did it. On Instagram.
Williams posted quote for a bunch of people that didn't
(33:56):
want me back on your team, y'all sure are mad
in the DM, highlighting Devin williams apparent frustration with the
inconsistent fans support by the kiddos in the Bronx. So
the question how do you read Mets reliever Devin Williams
(34:19):
busting the chops of Yankee fans on social media? So
on this one, Devin Williams has officially entered. Based on
a minute long deliberation by The Ben Mather Show, Devin
Williams has officially entered his DreamWorks animation era. The guy
leaves the Bronx and immediately stars in Trolls three. The
(34:42):
Queen's addition, yes, cannot help yourself, cannot do it? No
chance can I do it's classic internet malpractice. Classic internet malpractice.
You'd think after years in Milwaukee and a cup of
coffee with the Yankees, like five. His biggest contribution with
the Yankees is they thought he was so good that
(35:06):
they changed their facial hair policy to coddle Devin Williams
so he could go out there and have an ERA
of almost five. If they had known he was going
to pitch like that, they'd still have the facial hair
policy in the Bronx. But nonetheless, listen the rule number one.
Rule number one is of the Internet. Don't you don't
(35:27):
feed the trolls. Feeding the trolls only creates more trolls.
You don't do it. And most of the trolls are
not real anyway, They're all bought farms in Moldova. And
so instead my man, my pots and pans, my man
Devin Williams. He dives in headfirst like he's bobbing for
apples at a frat party. And in the Yankee fans,
(35:50):
now they should be thrilled. This guy's gone. He's the
poster boy. If somebody can't handle pressure in Yankee Stadium
was four to seventy nine. The dude goes out post
A four to seventy nine era, which in baseball terms,
if you're a shutdown closer, means you sucked precisely when
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you're not allowed to suck. That is a felony as
a closer and in the Bronx, and his punishment is
that he goes across to the Mets and they cut
him a check for fifty one minute. I think E
Dog is the one that cut him that check there.
I believe E Dog on Long Island, I took care
of him. But you talk about falling upward like this
(36:33):
guy's got anti gravity boots strapped on, like he's training
for NASA, and now he's chirping at the Yankee fans
and his DMS and all that stuff, and you'll save
the inspirational speech, is big fella. Okay, the trolls are
the only reason anyone's talking about you. And it is December,
But welcome to Queens, Devin. You might want to bring
(36:55):
a helmet there, because the Mets fans will be doing
the same thing by about May first. By about May first,
they'll be doing the same thing. Mark my words, mark
my words.
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is one big Ben gets grilled cool.
Speaker 7 (37:23):
The Lions have not won back to back game since
Week five, and on Tuesday, Dan Campbell said that the
team's margin for ERA is small. Then do you think
that the Lions could miss out on the playoffs? Oh?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Absolutely, I mean they're not in the playoffs now, and
then they got the Cowboys tonight, they got the Rams.
They gotta still play. They gotta play the Bears, although
they absolutely smoke the Bears the last time they played them,
So yeah, it's legit. They've already lost five games. They
don't have a lot of margin. Bearer, They don't feel
like a playoff team the way they play. They feel
like a like a Steeler team, a five hundred type team.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Next the Giant Joe Shane. Joe Shane the Giants GM.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
Joe Shane told the media this week that quote, the
pieces are there for the Giants and that he has
confidence that they will find the right coach to lead
the organization.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Ben, do you think the Giants are the right head coach?
Away from it all clicking?
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Well, here's what's gonna happen. I saw a little bit
of that Joe Shane news conferce. We didn't talk about
it on the show. Joe Shane's gonna be fired at
the end of the year, total debacle. He did not
handle that. Well, he won't be there, so he won't
be hiring the coach. Yeah, if you hire a good coach,
you can win. The Rams suck for years. They hired
Sean McVay. But if you hire a coach and knows
what they're doing and get halfway decent players, it's not
(38:39):
that hard.
Speaker 7 (38:40):
Next, it was imported Tuesday that UNC has committed to
Bill Belichick quote for at least one more year. Ben,
do you think that Belichick will actually last another year
at North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Well, Belichick is trying to move the moutains to get
an NFL head coaching job. He's working back channels. He's
using all his buddies to try to massage owners to
get a job. If if you can get a job
in the NFL is gone. I don't think he can
be able to get a job. I would like to
see him in the NFL, the chances are very low,
so I think therefore he goes back to North Carolina
and there it is malon a third Degrede how dead?
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Twitter said us your questions on Twitter now and away
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we go over to the couple.
Speaker 7 (39:54):
Of all right, Ben, this is a question for you.
All right, I guess that's for everybody. I think it's
for you.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
Donkey sausage size, Donkey, hi doggy?
Speaker 7 (40:08):
What he says other than then let me correct your
work here, Donkey's sausage other than Bullball's jerky.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
What is the most exotic thing that you have eaten.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
I'm trying to think I have a pretty basic palate
when it comes to food. I don't really leave the
I know what I like, and I like what I like,
and that's all I want. And so I'm trying to think,
like what else I did eat? At one time? I
ate chicken fingers and I thought I was eating honey mustard,
and I put a giant spoonful of horse radish into
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my mouth and I cried. I cried like a baby.
It was so painful. But I don't eat exotic things, Lorraine.
Any weird stuff you.
Speaker 9 (40:53):
Eat, Pete, Oh yeah, yeah, I got sent that pack
of really weird beef jerkys.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Oh yeah, you ate all that.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
I'm still working my way through it.
Speaker 9 (41:01):
But the python was a very interesting one for sure.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
The python.
Speaker 9 (41:05):
Yeah, I like snails to the s cargo.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
I'm a big fan who does cool.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
I have also had s cargo.
Speaker 7 (41:12):
I have had iguana, grilled iguana ooh fans. Yeah. And
I think I've had alligator and a couple other things
that I can't think of right now.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
All right, Well, what is next year's ask? Ben? Your
questions are answers for the rest of the hour, the
whole hour. This is from Cowboy Killa High Cowboy.
Speaker 7 (41:37):
He wants to know what outside temperature do you consider cold?
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Yeah, so that's a good question. I As I've gotten older,
I guess I get a little colder than I used to.
I don't really think it's cold until it's like to me,
it's like under fifty degrees, I think it's really kind
of cold. But I think it's cool between fifty in sixty.
It's cold under fifty, so i'd say under fifty, what about.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
You, Lorena?
Speaker 9 (42:08):
Under seventy is cold for me.
Speaker 4 (42:10):
And also I need to be in the sun.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
So if it's like if you gotta grow some hair
on you, even.
Speaker 9 (42:16):
If it's low seventies and it's in the shade, I
will be cold.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Wow, such a California softie. What about you, Coop?
Speaker 7 (42:23):
I think I agree with you, Ben. I gotta go
like right around fifty or under.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Yeah, you usually get said it's at night, and even
in California, we do, you know in the valley it
gets into the forties at night often this time of
the year. Actually, it's fifty.
Speaker 9 (42:36):
Three right now and I'm really cold when I walk outside.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Yeah, all right? What is when you see your breath?
It's like, yeah, all right, what's next? What do you got?
Speaker 4 (42:45):
Adrian would like to know what is yo?
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Adrian? Yo? Adrian?
Speaker 4 (42:48):
What is everyone's favorite Christmas movie?
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Die Hard? No? Harry Potter, Harry Potter. Yeah, exactly. What
do I watch? Every last couple of years, we watched Elf.
That was not my favorite before, but the last couple
of years, I'll go with that. Lorena, that's a good one.
Speaker 9 (43:10):
Miracle on thirty fourth Street is one of my favorites.
But yeah, no, no, that's a that's a Christmas story.
Also a really.
Speaker 7 (43:20):
Good movie, The Miracle on three whatever three fourth Street threes.
Speaker 9 (43:24):
That's the one with where Santa Claus gets arrested.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (43:26):
Yeah, Santa Claus is played by the guy in Jurassic Park.
Speaker 9 (43:29):
Yeah, and it's got Young Matilda in it.
Speaker 4 (43:31):
Yes, yeah, it's super cute.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Love that movie.
Speaker 7 (43:35):
No, mine's the Santa Claus. No, it's the Santa Claus
with Tim Allen.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
What about Bad Chance?
Speaker 4 (43:41):
Like I love Bad Santa. That's a great movie.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
It's not a bad movie. It is not a bad movie.
All right, what is next? It's ask ben your question
to answers. If you like it, we're here every week.
If you don't like it, yeah, who cares? This once
a week?
Speaker 7 (43:54):
Chill out due everybody's gonna get mad at me. But
I have another one from Donkey Sausage. It's just a
good don't you a good.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
This is where I get the email school. What does
Cooper only use certain people's questions and he doesn't use
my questions?
Speaker 4 (44:05):
I don't notice.
Speaker 7 (44:07):
If you mentioned sports in your question, I'm not reading it.
And if it's a lame question, I'm not reading it.
But anyway, this is a good one. He wants to
know what is the most embarrassing fashion trend that you
have ever rocked?
Speaker 1 (44:18):
Well, I, I will say I didn't know it at
the time because I was a child, but there are photos,
you know, my parents passed away and I went through
the old photo albums and there were photos of little
Fat Benny and bell bottoms, so I would say that
would probably be But I did also when I there
was what were those pants that was guy's name in Oakland?
Speaker 4 (44:37):
They were like mc hammer, Yeah, mc hammer.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
They had the weird puff pants or hairshoe pants. Yeah,
parashute pants had larina.
Speaker 9 (44:45):
I like the ones with the zippers on them. But
I really don't regret any of my fashion choices. Fashion changes,
and we'll constantly do that and I will rock every
single one.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Until okay, all right, cool.
Speaker 7 (44:55):
I went through a little phase in high school was
very short.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
That one you dressed like a Tampa.
Speaker 7 (45:00):
No, that was for Halloween. But I did wear a
trench coat for a little bit.
Speaker 9 (45:06):
Oh you weirdo.
Speaker 4 (45:06):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 6 (45:08):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (45:08):
Look, I was trying to you know, I didn't know where,
you know, just finding myself.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
A teenager could have gone goth. You know, he was
thinking maybe golf.
Speaker 4 (45:16):
Yeah, you know I was. I was questioning, am I
going to go down that road? And you know it
has a child start. You can do whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Yeah, wow, look at that? All right? What's next year? Quickly?
Speaker 4 (45:25):
If you could travel to a fictional land, what would
it be?
Speaker 1 (45:29):
Uh, fictional land? Probably when I was a kid. I
love Star Wars, So I'd go to like the Death
Star and walk around.
Speaker 9 (45:36):
What about you, Lorrena, I'd go to where Alice in
Wonderland is?
Speaker 4 (45:39):
I go to Wonderland?
Speaker 1 (45:41):
Think you do that? Day? Baby? Cool?
Speaker 7 (45:45):
Setting myself up for a joke here, but never land duh.
Speaker 4 (45:49):
Well, but the fictional one, not the real one.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
A lot of kids were there, Cooper, the change their
lives not maybe for the better, Coop. I'm just saying,
you know, back in the day, a
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back at it again and a story that broke overnight
last night is our lead this hour. As we knew
when the sun came up there'd be more information out
and now it's like a jigsaw puzzle. You got to
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kind of figure out which pieces fit wear and that
doesn't fit there, but that one does fit, but it
kind of maybe doesn't. Maybe it should go to the
top of the upper upper right hand side, but maybe
the left hand side. I don't know. So from the
hood in Inglewood, the People's team, the Clippers making big headlines.
Everyone's talking about the Clippers. It's hiped the clip yet again.
They decided to fire the point God. You can't fire
(02:37):
a god. They fired a god. They did it. They
said bite bye to the Point God in the middle
of the night. Oh my God. Now I assume you're
heard by now if you care about this. It's a
good story. Even if we're not a basketball fan, it's
it's still a good story. So it is a doozy,
an absolute doozy. So the Clippers, this guy's got a
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big time GM. Lawrence Frank, who used to be a
coach in the NBA, has been an executive for a
number of years. Lawrence Frank decided to remove Chris Paul
from the roster. The Clippers had some flight problems. These
are first world problems. They fly on chartered planes. Every
once in a while, the engine breaks in a chartered plane.
You have to sit around for a while, and then
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these guys bitch and complain non stop. My god, what
a nightmare. Try flying Spirit Airlines sometime, you losers. Anyway, Anyway,
here's Lawrence Frank commenting on the demise about Chris Paul.
I now, listen, they're trying to say, we're not trying
to blame anyone. Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I take full responsibility for our record. We are not
scapegoating Chris Paul. We have many issues and we're going
to address each issue.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
For our underperformance.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
We have great respect for Chris for the career that
he's had and for his impact on the organization, what
he did to help transform the franchise, and we're not
blaming him for underperforming.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
But yeah, so they did say one I said, it's
not one isolated incident. That have been multiple issues behind
the scenes that have been going on. And they were
supposed to meet in Atlanta, but the flight got delayed,
so they just said, all right, let's go Lane Kiffin
and fiery ass on the tarmac at the airport in Miami.
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So that's it. It happened, and the overnight hours Paul
clashing with Tylou the Clippers coach there. So those reports
came out today claiming that CP three was very vocal
saying that the Clippers sucked and held the management responsible,
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the coaching staff for their malfeasans and his teammates accountable,
and all of this led to, of course pandemonium among
the NBA officiani those unloading. It was a bombing run
on the Clippers. So that is a good jumping off point.
Will work our way to that. But let us discuss
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the question, how.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Do you read the room?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
How do you read the room? Regarding Chris Paul's hasty
departure from the good Ship Clip which is sinking to
the bottom of the Pacific Division standing. So my thoughts
on this, I've got Dancing with the Stars, Vermont and
Locksmith and we will combine all of these things together
(05:35):
and everything will go according to plan unless it doesn't.
So a the whole Chris Paul Clipper fiasco. It is
a battle of messages right now, and so you knew
this was coming, and it really just depends on who
you want to believe. Who you want to believe. There's
a pr cage match, a steel cage death match in
the cage where both sides are launching spin moves. These
(06:01):
are new dance moves. They're trying to audition for Dancing
with the Stars. You talk about reading the room, This
one's rather easy. It reeks of narrative warfare, hand to hand,
mouth to mouth, narrative warfare. You've got CP three's camp
with his useful idiots, many of them former jocks who
he played with, who are out there trying to sell
you the gospel of accountability. Jesus that CP three is accountability, Jesus,
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he is. He was holding everyone accountable. He's the good guy.
The player's staff coaches, the janitor, the person that charges
you too much for parking. All that, right, police, this
is the same ultimate winner. He's the ultimate winner who
never won a damn thing besides State Farm Spokesman of
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the decade. That's about it. When he played for the
Clippers and then he sent out this Instagram story which
went around to facetiming Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan like
they were reenact the Notebook and it was all smiles,
all kumbai yah, all designed of course to make you
feel like he's this lovable old hoops hero being wrong
(07:11):
by the evil Empire and all this stuff. Now, meanwhile,
the Clippers, they were leaking their own information out, their
own talking points as blunt as a sledgehammer that essentially
through the useful idiots the Clippers were talking to. CP
three is washed up. He was insubordinate. He was the
pebble inside the Nike sneaker, a nuisance, the squeaky wheel,
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the gnat. You never go to the barbecue in the
summer and there's a gnat flying around, You're like, boy,
that's really annoying. I don't need that. Why is that
there's more than one? Now, of course we all know
if Chris Paul was actually good. He sucks. If he
was good right now, I was playing as an All
Star and playing big minutes and all that. You swallow it,
you just you handle it. But the guy left that.
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That guy left the building years ago. And now Chris
Paul is essentially a flip phone. The good news is
he's got twelve ring tones, which is exciting good nostalgia. However,
utterly useless in the modern era. You know, I was like, well,
it's got the Ringtones, but I know it's a flip poet.
I don't need a flip phone. I want a smartphone.
But it's got the twelve Ringtones, I know. But I
got a thousand on my regular phone anyway. So and
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this did not just sour like this thing is beyond that.
It was spoiled, curdled. I think I see some fuzz growing.
He's really bad. It's so bad. I mean, this is
a messy divorce where both sides are swearing they're the victim,
you know, the you know I'm not the bad guy,
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they're the bad guy. And of course the truth is
somewhere in the middle, all right, the truth is somewhere
in the middle. Unlucky there everyone's guilty Chris Paul's bad
at basketball. Now he's washed up, and the Clippers there's
no accountability. I don't know what ty Law is doing
or ty Loo ty Law would be better. I don't
know what ty Lou is doing because he's suddenly he's
coaching much. They didn't win against Atlanta, and Atlanta sucks also,
(09:04):
all right now turning the page, page two. So the
question on this, this next part of it, is what
do you make of the outrage? Oh my god, the outrage.
It's not fair because Chris Paul is going to well,
he's been fired. He's not going to get the full
(09:26):
blown farewell tour from the Clippers, although likely will latch
on like a vermin somewhere else. So what do I
make of the outrage machine being cranked up because Chris
Paul was let go during his final season? I say, stop,
if you're bad at spelling, that's stop. Police. Even mouthwashed
(09:48):
Mike roaming around the Belagio in Vegas knows that enough
with the what I call the Vermont maple syrup, it's
gotten really sappy and sticky and extra syrup. At this
point in fact, there are people who are at risk
of diabetic danger. Chris Paul is not Kobe, He's not
Michael Jordan. And I go down to the long big board,
(10:12):
not a list, the big board. Chris Paul is not
getting a rocking chair gift at half court every city
he goes to. He's just not. And there's the reasons
why that is Because during the Lob City now this
is the SOB city here, but the Lob City ere
of Clipper basketball, when the bright's when the light lights
got the brightest, right bright lights, big city, big playoff games,
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big moments for Chris Paul, the lights flickered and CP
three I heard, Oh, I got he's so good, he's
so great, he's so amazing. And he's also like Copperfield
or Penn and Teller or Houdini. In the fourth quarter disappeared.
Whether it was because he couldn't play well or he
just got hurt, he wasn't there when the Clippers needed
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him most to make plays down the stretch. And you
fast forward from that era to where we are now
here in twenty twenty five, and the man's absolutely cooked.
It's like a rotisserie chicken that's been spinning for several
days and you got to throw that bad boy away,
and if you take the name out, you do the
(11:17):
call the challenge. If you take the name off the
back of the jersey of Chris Paul, all right, you
take it out, and you just look at the skill set.
He would not sniff. He would not sniff an NBA roster.
The way he's played, He's basically a hood ornament at
this point. Who can I guess, sit on his backside
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for forty five minutes a night and enjoy the view
from the bench and then come in in garbage time
and get old Cardio in and the crowd will cheer
him on. And that's it. And now, of course people
want a league wide tear filled goodbye journey, a tour,
which I'm nauseating when even the players that deserve those
get those things, I think it's ridiculous. All those things
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are sickening. This is nauseating. I don't need the schmaltzy overload.
I realize I'm in the minority on that and that
so many fanboys I don't I don't need it, I
don't tune in for it. I don't really care about it.
And ultimately, though a lot of this, a lot of
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what's gone on the last twenty four hours or so.
The dog pile is because of what I call CJ.
Clipper jealousy. It is, and most of it's being driven
by bot farms being run by Laker historians. You know,
these people losers, these absolute losers, like Rick and Fresno
and some of these other guys, the ones who whine
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that the basketball gods, the besketball gods, they're being They're
in denial that they're being given all this stuff. You know,
Lakers always get the shiny toys, you know, being fed.
It's like a funnel. They're fed the top player. Every
five or seven years, they get the top guy, whoever
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that might be. It's just a coincience. Of course, there's
no grand conspiracy by the league office. But I digress.
But these people are bathing and shot in freude, shot
in freuda. Yes, they're taking joy out of other people's misery.
They love seeing the Clippers trip over their own shoelaces
and all that. But farewell tour for Chris Paul, save
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the marching band for the Rose Parade or whatever. I mean,
just I don't need it. I don't need it. I
don't need it. I don't need it. I meanwhile, we
head from Inglewood in the upod By the way, Chris
Paul is gonna end up on the bench somewhere he can.
He's never won anything, maybe he can like latch on
to the be the Kaboos for Oklahoma City, go win
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a championship and there'll be seven people watching, all right
now other than Kyrie and okay. See so the last
word here to Milwaukee we go where a Milwaukee Bucks star,
Giannis a dent the Komo. He felt down, goes Yannis down,
goes Yanis. He fell to the floor non contact injury
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early in the first quarter, was ruled out. After that,
we'll see if there's anything major that comes out of
that or not. That sound at this hour like there is,
but who knows. It's the NBA the bigger story for
our purposes right now. Subplot subplot, Giannis adent to Cumbo
and his agent are said to be in deep negotiations
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and conversations with the brass of the Milwaukee Bucks while
they're eating cheese curds, and it's all about the future
of the multi time most valuable player, the greatest player
in Milwaukee Bucks history, all right, and discussing whether or
not he should stay in Wisconsin or go somewhere else
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and play pro bouncy ball in the way. Resolution so
these talks is expected in the coming weeks. Oh, the
plot thickens. Trade deadline is February fifth, which might seem
like it's a long time from now, but when you
factor in the holidays and it'll be here before you
know it. So the question can you unravel? Can you
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unravel what this janis? Adenta Kumbo meeting with the buck
big shots means all right, yeah, so we'll do this.
It's not that hard. So the Yannis Bucks meet and greet.
This is not some warm and fuzzy coffee chat over
a Starbucks. This is not what that is. No, this
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is the NBA's version of a Godfather sit down or
the walkie talkie. You know, the Mob would do the
walkie talkie because they figured nobody could bug them if
they were doing the walkie talkie, meaning spy in their conversations.
But it's business. It's not personal. It's business. And we've
seen this move and this movie before, right, It's a
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paint by number situation if you pay attention to this stuff.
The exact script is followed verbatim every superstar who becomes
disgruntled follows this script right before they call the locksmith
and say, hey, I need a locksmith because I'm moving
and and I've got a change of address slip I've
got to fill out. I get do it online. I'll
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do it on my phone. But remember, Giannis already flirted
with the Knickerbockers this offseason, so that wasn't an accident.
It was not like it was an accident. This was
a trial balloon, a little test run to see how
the basketball world would react if the Greek freak started
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browsing penthouses on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and
he returned to Milwaukee, right came back, it's been playing
and the Bucks are under five hundred and so now
he also this week, the other paint by numbers move
is Yiannis scrubbed his socials of any reference to the
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hometown team. Right, the Bucks under five hundred. He scrubbed
the Socials like he was cleaning the casino floor at
three in the morning. And that's the modern super star
version of a smoke signal. It's like when they name
a new pope at the Vatican. You've got the white
smoke that's the white smoke from the star player when
they start deleting any reference to their employer, and it's
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Yanni's telling the box, hey, it's been fun, but I
gotta run. I gotta run, And the vultures are out now.
The Nicks of the favorite on the gambling market. The
Knickerbockers are the favorite because that's where he wants to play. However,
don't discount teams like the Warriors, the Rockheads, the Celtics.
Big game hunters, polishing their rifles right now and they're
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going out to try to get that big one. Big
game hunting, big game hunting. And in today's NBA, the
way it works, it's been this way for a while,
the star player, the star headliner can hand pick hands
select their next tull. It's kind of like ordering off
a tasting menu. I don't know if I want that.
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It's a little too tart. I don't know if I
want tart. I'm not sure about that. And so Yiannis
is the one setting the chessboard, and Milwaukee is the
one who's in a position where they're one wrong move
away and they're gonna hear checkmate is what they're gonna get.
And I heard that from William Shatner years ago. Checkmate,
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that was what Chatner gave me in our spats with
Shats so many years ago. How fun was that?
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in here. It's getting hot in here, not our first voyage,
not our maiden voyage in the Hotstow League. So our
lead this hour is from the speculation machine in baseball,
as we have the winter meetings upcoming and there's a
big build up and things get quiet over Christmas and
New Years, and normally what happens in recent years is
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there's always like three or four players and for whatever
reason don't sign, and then they go right into spring
training and have to sign in mid February. So you
normally want to get that money right away. It's a
little different this year because it's expected that there will
be a work stoppage upcoming in baseball, so that'll change
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things a bit, and so the money will it be
be harder. You would assume you can't go in there
expecting you can get the full them out. We'll see
what that brings. Getting bonkers in baseball. Being a bonker's
I saw this, I was like, I thought, well, this
must be satire, this must be satire. Story out of Cincinnati.
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The Reds. The Red Legs are interested in making a
run to the top of the free agency board, and
they want to Kyle Schwarber bomb a schwarb bomb Kyle Schwarber.
That's the guy that hit a bunch of home runs
for the Phillies last year. Of course, the Phillies have
more money. Generally, if you have deeper pockets that can
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hold more money, you get the player. So I don't
see if you saw this in now. So Schwarber is
from the outskirts of Cincinnati's from Ohio, about thirty five
forty miles or so from Cincinnati proper, from Middletown, Ohio. Middletown, Ohio.
So he's he's in the suburbs of Cincinnati. And the
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story goes that he's interested in a possible homecoming and
Reds would give him a chance to play near all
his friends and family all the time. And they have
Terry Francona and his championship pedigree and all that stuff,
and played the Dodgers and the playoffs. Got smoked in
the wildcard round, although it's hardly anything that wildcard rounds
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really for Gayzy. So the problem, of course is that
if it does come down to money, it's being polite here.
The Reds have no chance. So that's a good jumping
off point. Now, then they could always just raise money
from Justin and Cincinnati and just Josh and some of
our other great Ohio listeners and could throw them in
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and do that. But the question, thumbs up or thumbs down?
Thumbs up or thumbs down, are the Reds a legitimate
contender for Kyle Schwarber, the hometown kid. So my observations,
I've got war Daddy, household, hazardous waste, and DreamWorks, and
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we will throw all of these things together and we
are going to run the gamut, is what we're going
to do. So Number one, this is baseball Kabooki theater
at its finest. The Cincinnati Reds, bless their frugal little hearts,
They're out there playing pretend that they can match up
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with the big boys of baseball. In that cute, In
that cute, they're upside down, upside down, putting on their
Sunday best the church clothes, and acting like they're ready
to run with the big dogs. Gonna run with the
big dogs, of course, in reality, to use the dog
pound lingo, the Cincinnati Reds are like a little Yorkie,
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a little Yorky yapping, very loud, little Yorkie behind the
fence while the fillid Helfia Phillies casually and arrogantly stroll
by like a pack of Rottweilder's. So I'm gonna go
thumbs down. Thumbs down is what I'm doing here. The
Reds know exactly what's going on. And we see this
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every so often. And I been around the block a
couple of times, and I'm a talk show host, so
I don't mind my own bees wax and all that stuff.
So here's what this is, until proven otherwise. And this
is a dirty little trick that professional sports teams do.
You've probably it depends what team you like, but your
team's probably done this. So you make a token offer. Okay,
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you make a token offer to the big free agent,
and the good faith handshake, the like this would be like, hey, Kyle,
we know you're from here. We'd love to have you
come home. Give the whole speech. You talk about how
your family can come watch you play, your high school buddies,
your elementary school teachers can come watch it play. You know,
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just lay it on really thick, just thick, like a
thick molt and knowing full well that Schwarber is gonna
stiff arm you and go right to the highest bidder.
He's gonna push you into the nearest cornfield. But for
the low information fan, that the casual that doesn't really
pay attention, say boom, the Reds tried, they tried, They
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just don't have enough Moody. They tried, you know, optics marketing,
all of that stuff, season ticket sugar coating. Meanwhile, Schwarbs,
who's on the hunt for that last Glory Road payday
and he's at the intersection, Kyle Schwarbert of Glory Road
and the Yellow Brick Road paved with Benjamin Franklin's that's
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what he wants. He's right there, Glory Road converses with
Yellow Brick Road. The man Monster mashed fifty six homers.
That's a lot of dinger stinging, ding ding ding. That's
a lot of thingers drove in one hundred and thirty
two runs for the Fighting Phills. You don't slap a
discount sticker after a season like that. That is a
war daddy performance by Kyle Schwarber. He was ooey gooey,
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baseball goodness is what he was. That's s'mores level. Now,
I'm not a big smores guy. Everyone saw you go
out camping. You feel like it's a right of passage.
If you go camping, you gotta have some smores and
all that. I get that chalk that the marshmallows, the
Graham crackers, all that delicious. But only once in a while,
if you need it too much, it's like not so good.
But Cincinnati's not a real contender. They're not. They're the
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window shopper, not the buyers what they are. The Phillies
will simply drop the bag. They'll nod politely and say hey,
and they'll walk away, uh with with Schwarber like they're
picking up their dry cleaning. You know, I've got my
I need my Can I get my jacket? Okay, yeah,
I got to jack. What well, my wife's got a dress.
Can we get that shore We'll get you that as well.
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But keep an eye on the the Red Sox. Also
the Texas Rangers. Teams like that. The Mets, they spent
a lot of money. I don't know about the Padres.
I've heard the Podres mentioned. I feel like they're gonna
down grade and get rid of some guys this offseason.
All right, now, page two to la the raining back
to back champions of Major League Baseball talking baseball. Yeah,
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so the Dodgers, big money, big money, big money. No
emmy nommys stop. Yeah, big money, big money. All right.
So the Dodgers manager, who I have fired no less
than twelve times over the years, Dave Roberts, is now
endorsing the draconian salary cap.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Did you see this?
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, the guy said, We're gonna go out and ruin baseball,
Dave Roberts. So the question Dodgers managed. Dave Roberts said
he supports a Major League Baseball plan for a salary
cap and a salary floor. He did this in a
recent television interview. Do you believe that this would be
the magic plus cebo to fix baseball?
Speaker 4 (29:04):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
So this let me explain this, and I've talked about
this in the past and previous episodes of the show,
and I don't want to lose my mind on this again.
I don't need to do that. I'm sure we're talking
about this issue more as we go forward. Just soar
on the same page. But my position. The thumbnail recap
of this. This will fix baseball the same way if
you have a sinkhole, you just put some duct tape
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together and you'll fix the sinkhole. Everything will be fine.
Just well, it's a big foal. I know, it's a
big hole. But we've got some really good We've got
some duct tape and you know what, I'll throw in
some gorilla glue. So we'll get the duct tape and
the gorilla glue and then we'll be good. But it's
a sinkhole, I know, But just go with it. Why not?
So Dave Roberts knows it's not happy the union and
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he was part of that as a player. The Union
would turn this thing into a civil war followed by
a nuclear winter. You would need a hazmat suit just
to attend the bargaining sessions if that would happen. And
the very notion that a salary floor magically, it's like
magically delicious. It will create this competitive balance that all
you people want pollaise. This has already been debunked. It
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has already been debunked. Only the unsophisticated rubes by that nonsense.
So let me use some malord math on this. I'll
give you some other math. So the salary cap floor,
whatever it is, whatever the salary cap floor is, does
not build contenders. What it does is it builds toxic
waste uh depots, if you will, for bad contracts like
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we've seen the we've seen this, We've read the book.
We've read the book before. For example, I'll give you
an example. Let's say the Red Sox, the Boston Red Sox,
about they sign a guy a picture. It turns out,
you know, it's good for a couple of years, and
then he gets hurt. He's by the time he's got
like three or four years left in the contract, he's
a thirty four year old picture with a ucl stitched
together like a quilt and a contract fatter than a
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buffet back when they used to have good buffets in Vegas,
Like really big contract, right, Tommy John A couple of times,
what do you do? You ship them off to Pittsburgh?
Or how about the Dodgers, Say the Dodgers have a
thirty seven year old slugger who's hitting a buck sixty
with four home runs in the bat speed of a
rotary phone. What are you gonna do? You send them
to West Sacramento, to the Athletics in West Sacramento, and
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they will gladly take him. And the reason those teams
will take them is because they need to reach the floor.
You've got to reach. The floor is lava. You have
to reach the floor. They'll become the household the teams
like the A's and the Pirates and Marlins and Tampa Bay,
these type of teams will become the household hazardous waste
collection center of Major League Baseball. Bring your expired meds
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and your useless veterans and we'll take them all. A
cap doesn't fix baseball, it does not, and a floor
does not fix it. It just makes tanking easier. The
problem is the lack of ambition. And it's a dirty
little secret that everyone kind of knows about. It's an
open secret that you don't really have to try to
make money. You don't have to sell tickets to make money.
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You don't even have to get people to watch your
games on TV to make money. It's it's the kind
of a business where just by owning it you're going
to make money. Now, the way that a lot of
these teams are complaining they're not making enough money is
the oldest trick in the book is like, well, we
made Let's take a random team and we use of course,
this is for entertainment purposes only. But let's take a
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team the Cleveland the Indian slash Guardians. I guess its
called the Guardians now because you wokesters. But the team
in Cleveland, let's say in twenty twenty four, they made
a profit out of all the expenses and all that
that's said, they cleared forty five million dollars. Okay, it's
a lot of money, not maybe as much as saying
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but let's just say forty five million just for the
purposes of this demonstration. So forty five million. And then
you pivot to twenty twenty five and they they made
they only made this year, they made twenty five million.
So then the ownership in Cleveland said, well, we lost
twenty million dollars. This is not sustainable. You still made
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twenty five million. Numb nuts, But yeah, but we made
forty five the year before. Who he lost twenty No,
he didn't lose twenty million dollars, dumb, dumb. But the
main issue is teams that just don't really care. They
just don't care, and they're they're just kind of hanging
out and they're malingering is what they are now. Final
point to New York City. We go and after agreeing
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to a ridonculous deal with the New York Metropolitans relief pitcher,
Devin Williams decided, Hey, I'm a Met, now let me
take a swipe at the Yankee fan. He did this
on the Gram Instagram, Yeah, he did it. On Instagram.
Williams posted quote for a bunch of people that didn't
(33:56):
want me back on your team, y'all sure are mad
in the DM, highlighting Devin williams apparent frustration with the
inconsistent fans support by the kiddos in the Bronx. So
the question how do you read Mets reliever Devin Williams
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busting the chops of Yankee fans on social media? So
on this one, Devin Williams has officially entered. Based on
a minute long deliberation by The Ben Mather Show, Devin
Williams has officially entered his DreamWorks animation era. The guy
leaves the Bronx and immediately stars in Trolls three. The
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Queen's addition, yes, cannot help yourself, cannot do it? No
chance can I do it's classic internet malpractice. Classic internet malpractice.
You'd think after years in Milwaukee and a cup of
coffee with the Yankees, like five. His biggest contribution with
the Yankees is they thought he was so good that
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they changed their facial hair policy to coddle Devin Williams
so he could go out there and have an ERA
of almost five. If they had known he was going
to pitch like that, they'd still have the facial hair
policy in the Bronx. But nonetheless, listen the rule number one.
Rule number one is of the Internet. Don't you don't
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feed the trolls. Feeding the trolls only creates more trolls.
You don't do it. And most of the trolls are
not real anyway, They're all bought farms in Moldova. And
so instead my man, my pots and pans, my man
Devin Williams. He dives in headfirst like he's bobbing for
apples at a frat party. And in the Yankee fans,
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now they should be thrilled. This guy's gone. He's the
poster boy. If somebody can't handle pressure in Yankee Stadium
was four to seventy nine. The dude goes out post
A four to seventy nine era, which in baseball terms,
if you're a shutdown closer, means you sucked precisely when
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you're not allowed to suck. That is a felony as
a closer and in the Bronx, and his punishment is
that he goes across to the Mets and they cut
him a check for fifty one minute. I think E
Dog is the one that cut him that check there.
I believe E Dog on Long Island, I took care
of him. But you talk about falling upward like this
(36:33):
guy's got anti gravity boots strapped on, like he's training
for NASA, and now he's chirping at the Yankee fans
and his DMS and all that stuff, and you'll save
the inspirational speech, is big fella. Okay, the trolls are
the only reason anyone's talking about you. And it is December,
But welcome to Queens, Devin. You might want to bring
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a helmet there, because the Mets fans will be doing
the same thing by about May first. By about May first,
they'll be doing the same thing. Mark my words, mark
my words.
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Speaker 7 (37:23):
The Lions have not won back to back game since
Week five, and on Tuesday, Dan Campbell said that the
team's margin for ERA is small. Then do you think
that the Lions could miss out on the playoffs? Oh?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Absolutely, I mean they're not in the playoffs now, and
then they got the Cowboys tonight, they got the Rams.
They gotta still play. They gotta play the Bears, although
they absolutely smoke the Bears the last time they played them,
So yeah, it's legit. They've already lost five games. They
don't have a lot of margin. Bearer, They don't feel
like a playoff team the way they play. They feel
like a like a Steeler team, a five hundred type team.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Next the Giant Joe Shane. Joe Shane the Giants GM.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
Joe Shane told the media this week that quote, the
pieces are there for the Giants and that he has
confidence that they will find the right coach to lead
the organization.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Ben, do you think the Giants are the right head coach?
Away from it all clicking?
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Well, here's what's gonna happen. I saw a little bit
of that Joe Shane news conferce. We didn't talk about
it on the show. Joe Shane's gonna be fired at
the end of the year, total debacle. He did not
handle that. Well, he won't be there, so he won't
be hiring the coach. Yeah, if you hire a good coach,
you can win. The Rams suck for years. They hired
Sean McVay. But if you hire a coach and knows
what they're doing and get halfway decent players, it's not
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that hard.
Speaker 7 (38:40):
Next, it was imported Tuesday that UNC has committed to
Bill Belichick quote for at least one more year. Ben,
do you think that Belichick will actually last another year
at North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Well, Belichick is trying to move the moutains to get
an NFL head coaching job. He's working back channels. He's
using all his buddies to try to massage owners to
get a job. If if you can get a job
in the NFL is gone. I don't think he can
be able to get a job. I would like to
see him in the NFL, the chances are very low,
so I think therefore he goes back to North Carolina
and there it is malon a third Degrede how dead?
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All right, I guess that's for everybody. I think it's
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Donkey sausage size, Donkey, hi doggy?
Speaker 7 (40:08):
What he says other than then let me correct your
work here, Donkey's sausage other than Bullball's jerky.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
What is the most exotic thing that you have eaten.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
I'm trying to think I have a pretty basic palate
when it comes to food. I don't really leave the
I know what I like, and I like what I like,
and that's all I want. And so I'm trying to think,
like what else I did eat? At one time? I
ate chicken fingers and I thought I was eating honey mustard,
and I put a giant spoonful of horse radish into
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my mouth and I cried. I cried like a baby.
It was so painful. But I don't eat exotic things, Lorraine.
Any weird stuff you.
Speaker 9 (40:53):
Eat, Pete, Oh yeah, yeah, I got sent that pack
of really weird beef jerkys.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Oh yeah, you ate all that.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
I'm still working my way through it.
Speaker 9 (41:01):
But the python was a very interesting one for sure.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
The python.
Speaker 9 (41:05):
Yeah, I like snails to the s cargo.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
I'm a big fan who does cool.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
I have also had s cargo.
Speaker 7 (41:12):
I have had iguana, grilled iguana ooh fans. Yeah. And
I think I've had alligator and a couple other things
that I can't think of right now.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
All right, Well, what is next year's ask? Ben? Your
questions are answers for the rest of the hour, the
whole hour. This is from Cowboy Killa High Cowboy.
Speaker 7 (41:37):
He wants to know what outside temperature do you consider cold?
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Yeah, so that's a good question. I As I've gotten older,
I guess I get a little colder than I used to.
I don't really think it's cold until it's like to me,
it's like under fifty degrees, I think it's really kind
of cold. But I think it's cool between fifty in sixty.
It's cold under fifty, so i'd say under fifty, what about.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
You, Lorena?
Speaker 9 (42:08):
Under seventy is cold for me.
Speaker 4 (42:10):
And also I need to be in the sun.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
So if it's like if you gotta grow some hair
on you, even.
Speaker 9 (42:16):
If it's low seventies and it's in the shade, I
will be cold.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Wow, such a California softie. What about you, Coop?
Speaker 7 (42:23):
I think I agree with you, Ben. I gotta go
like right around fifty or under.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Yeah, you usually get said it's at night, and even
in California, we do, you know in the valley it
gets into the forties at night often this time of
the year. Actually, it's fifty.
Speaker 9 (42:36):
Three right now and I'm really cold when I walk outside.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Yeah, all right? What is when you see your breath?
It's like, yeah, all right, what's next? What do you got?
Speaker 4 (42:45):
Adrian would like to know what is yo?
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Adrian? Yo? Adrian?
Speaker 4 (42:48):
What is everyone's favorite Christmas movie?
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Die Hard? No? Harry Potter, Harry Potter. Yeah, exactly. What
do I watch? Every last couple of years, we watched Elf.
That was not my favorite before, but the last couple
of years, I'll go with that. Lorena, that's a good one.
Speaker 9 (43:10):
Miracle on thirty fourth Street is one of my favorites.
But yeah, no, no, that's a that's a Christmas story.
Also a really.
Speaker 7 (43:20):
Good movie, The Miracle on three whatever three fourth Street threes.
Speaker 9 (43:24):
That's the one with where Santa Claus gets arrested.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (43:26):
Yeah, Santa Claus is played by the guy in Jurassic Park.
Speaker 9 (43:29):
Yeah, and it's got Young Matilda in it.
Speaker 4 (43:31):
Yes, yeah, it's super cute.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Love that movie.
Speaker 7 (43:35):
No, mine's the Santa Claus. No, it's the Santa Claus
with Tim Allen.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
What about Bad Chance?
Speaker 4 (43:41):
Like I love Bad Santa. That's a great movie.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
It's not a bad movie. It is not a bad movie.
All right, what is next? It's ask ben your question
to answers. If you like it, we're here every week.
If you don't like it, yeah, who cares? This once
a week?
Speaker 7 (43:54):
Chill out due everybody's gonna get mad at me. But
I have another one from Donkey Sausage. It's just a
good don't you a good.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
This is where I get the email school. What does
Cooper only use certain people's questions and he doesn't use
my questions?
Speaker 4 (44:05):
I don't notice.
Speaker 7 (44:07):
If you mentioned sports in your question, I'm not reading it.
And if it's a lame question, I'm not reading it.
But anyway, this is a good one. He wants to
know what is the most embarrassing fashion trend that you
have ever rocked?
Speaker 1 (44:18):
Well, I, I will say I didn't know it at
the time because I was a child, but there are photos,
you know, my parents passed away and I went through
the old photo albums and there were photos of little
Fat Benny and bell bottoms, so I would say that
would probably be But I did also when I there
was what were those pants that was guy's name in Oakland?
Speaker 4 (44:37):
They were like mc hammer, Yeah, mc hammer.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
They had the weird puff pants or hairshoe pants. Yeah,
parashute pants had larina.
Speaker 9 (44:45):
I like the ones with the zippers on them. But
I really don't regret any of my fashion choices. Fashion changes,
and we'll constantly do that and I will rock every
single one.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Until okay, all right, cool.
Speaker 7 (44:55):
I went through a little phase in high school was
very short.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
That one you dressed like a Tampa.
Speaker 7 (45:00):
No, that was for Halloween. But I did wear a
trench coat for a little bit.
Speaker 9 (45:06):
Oh you weirdo.
Speaker 4 (45:06):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 6 (45:08):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (45:08):
Look, I was trying to you know, I didn't know where,
you know, just finding myself.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
A teenager could have gone goth. You know, he was
thinking maybe golf.
Speaker 4 (45:16):
Yeah, you know I was. I was questioning, am I
going to go down that road? And you know it
has a child start. You can do whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Yeah, wow, look at that? All right? What's next year? Quickly?
Speaker 4 (45:25):
If you could travel to a fictional land, what would
it be?
Speaker 1 (45:29):
Uh, fictional land? Probably when I was a kid. I
love Star Wars, So I'd go to like the Death
Star and walk around.
Speaker 9 (45:36):
What about you, Lorrena, I'd go to where Alice in
Wonderland is?
Speaker 4 (45:39):
I go to Wonderland?
Speaker 1 (45:41):
Think you do that? Day? Baby? Cool?
Speaker 7 (45:45):
Setting myself up for a joke here, but never land duh.
Speaker 4 (45:49):
Well, but the fictional one, not the real one.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
A lot of kids were there, Cooper, the change their
lives not maybe for the better, Coop. I'm just saying,
you know, back in the day, a
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