June 3, 2026 • 39 mins
Big Ben talks about Aaron Donald flirting with the idea of coming out of retirement to return to the Rams, an NBA Finals preview and who Ben thinks will take home the title, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:32):
Our lead this hour is from La, La Land, And
for the second consecutive night, the biggest story in all
of sports. You can ram it all day and you
can ram it all night. The Rams who made the
biggest move of the offseason, the defining move. They won
the championship this week and they gotta play all these
stupid games to get to February at so far when
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they're crowned to champion. But the major move of the offseason,
winning the offseason trading were the preeminent defensive player, Miles Garrett.
And for everyone else in the NFC West and the
NFC in general, turnout the LODs the parties over. Yeah,
so Miles Garrett coming over to La from the Factory
of Sadness and said, well, that was a story from yesterday.
(01:16):
What are you doing talking about it now, you mora
And you're telling me, well, I explain, Let me explain
to you, all right.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
So thanks man.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
So this has sparked renewed interest from retired defensive tackle
Aaron Donald about a comeback. Yes that, Aaron Donald.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Do you see any of this? Do you hear anything
about it?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
No? The pride to Pittsburgh, Aaron Donald. We have those
great cinnamon roles in Pittsburgh. One of our guys came
down from Pittsburgh during the Ohio Meet and greet and
brought or Kentucky improught the cinemas, which were just freaking outstanding. Anyway,
Aaron Donald texting a number of people, including some NFL
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in types and saying he is quote for sure flirting
with the idea of unretiring. And Donald's been out of
the NFL for a couple of years. He mentioned the
opportunity of playing for a Super Bowl contender. Of course,
the Rams every year are a Super Bowl contender, so
I don't know why this would be any different, and
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especially the fact that the Super Bowl in February will
be hosted in the hood in ingle Wood, at the
Rams Home Stadium and up to no good. He added quote,
if I can find the fire, it's a possibility. Well,
ask Karen Bass, the mayor of la she knows a
thing or two about fire. The whole city burned down
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while she was mayor.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Say she wasn't here for her That's right, she might
not know about fire. She was in Africa. Well, the
whole town burned down. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Let us discuss the question, how do you process Aaron
Donald publicly flirtatious.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
With a return to the lryon.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So I've got Yoda, fiberglass, and Grizzly Bear not in underwear.
We'll combine all of these things together and we will
be as clear as crystal.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
So a Aaron Donald is out here stirring the pot
like he's auditioning for a Food Network show called Chaos
Kitchen with Aaron Donald.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
The Big teas.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
By mister Donald here flirting with the comeback, texting his
buddies in the media. You know, it's like that X
that text the gives you that text at dayton at
hey stranger at one in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You know what that means. You know what that means.
You don't believe it.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
You definitely look though, you're like, Okay, do I want
to go down that road? The instigator, the agitator, the
aggravator who stepped away after the twenty twenty three season
was done with the NFL has stayed in pretty good
shape by all accounts. It's not like he let himself go.
He's not a big fat turd at this particular point.
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Ten year run and all that with the Rams, future
Hall of Famer, all the accolades have filled up the
Wikipedia page with Defensive Player of the Year awards and
first Team All Pro and all those things helped the
Rams win Super Bowl fifty six back in the day.
And as the late great Brian Wheeler would have said,
Donald is bonafide, certified and overqualified all of those things.
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And depending on how much he has left after collecting
rust for a couple of years, again, he's in shape.
But he hadn't played in a while. Donald, he doesn't
need a reason to return. I suppose he needs a purpose.
It's all about the purpose.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Now, there is a difference here.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Now, Sean McVay is basically Motel six at this particular point.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
We'll leave the light on for you.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Is the message to Aaron Donald and room service, as
many protein shakes.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
As you want, we got you.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
And if Donald is really tempted, which he appears to be,
or he just wants attention, this possibility, he just wants attention.
If he's really tempted, though, to play with Miles Garrett,
that would be an absolutely terrifying defensive line. Pairing Aaron
Donald with Miles Garrett is like putting a turbo charger
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on a tank, is what it would be. And is
it necessary? No, the Rams are good enough to win
the Super Bowl without Aaron Donald coming back. Now my advice,
and I know Aaron Donald wants the advice of overnight
talk radio. So the advice to Aaron Donald is simple,
follow the wisdom of Yoda.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I learned this as a child.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Try not do or do not, There is no try,
just do it.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I think Nike used that slugan just do it. Just
come back. And if you don't want to come back,
stop flirting. It's annoying.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Okay, Like there's really nothing to say. Just I'm I
mean back. You announce I'm back. You don't need to
say I might come back because you're just trying to
get attention. When you say that and nobody wants an
attention wore all right now page two to Atlanta we
go the Falcons. Who knew the Falcons had money. The
prices at home depot are going to go off. As
wide receiver, Drake London, Drake London, good name, good name.
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Drake London has agreed to a four year contract for
one hundred and forty one million. That's a pretty sizable extension,
said the wise guy. So he'll be with the Atlanta
Falcons through the next couple of years. He'll get one
hundred million guaranteed. One hundred million guaranteed for Drake London.
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Has anyone ever bought a ticket to watch Drake London
play football? Good for him and up to up to
weasel term one hundred and fifty million dollars with incentives
the AAV which is all most people care about, the
average annual value thirty five point two five million dollars,
making him, meaning Drake London, the third highest paid wide
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receiver in the NFL. So the question using the time
tested Goldielocks test, which is wonderful. We love the Goldilocks test,
is the Falcon one hundred and forty one million dollar
extension of Drake London too.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Much, too little, or just right all right?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
So after a minutes long deliberation on the available information,
this deal completely flunks the test. It is boiling hot porridge.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Good for Drake London. He bamboozled the Atlanta Falcon front
office here. Now, I like London. I like the player.
I don't hate the player. I like to play. He's
big body, he's strong, seemingly reliable. Those are all good
qualities to have as an NFL receiver. However, this particular
contract is a magic mountain ride. It's overpriced and overhyped.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Is what it is.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And the Falcons just paid Drake London like he's what
the love child the Julio Jones and Andrea Risen from
back in the day. This is classic Atlanta. You're paying
top five money for a top fifteen receiver and you're
saying this is all part of the vision.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Board that we have.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Really, Okay, London's a very good player. I'm our trash.
This contract, though, treats him like he's on the same
level as Justin Jefferson with a side of Jamar Chase.
I don't see it, do you see it? I don't
see it. Receiver inflation is obviously real. This is hyper inflation.
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They're gonna blame Putin on this like the old president did.
The Falcons didn't just jump the market. They use some
fiberglass and they pull vaulted.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Over the market, is what they did.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
And wide receiver is the most volatile position in football,
and Atlanta just it's like buying bitcoin at the peak. Well,
that's probably not the wisest thing to do. Why would
you do that. You don't win the Super Bowl by
making your white out the highest paid player. You win
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them with elite quarterbacks and a balanced roster. That's generally
how that goes. Now, last word, we go to prime
time because we love our celebrities. That's right, we do.
Deon Sanders in the sporting headlines again you see this, No,
all right, So Deon Sanders, you got to think this
is his last year at Colorado.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
It has not gone well for Dion. Things are not
going particularly well. The team's mediocre. They had all that buzz,
they had all that excitement, They dominated the ratings and
it just has all gone away. So Deon Sanders has
once again that there's any legitimacy to the widely reported
chatter from a year ago connecting him to having interest
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with the Dallas Cowboys head coaching vacancy. This was last
off season. Sanders was asked recently about the Cowboys rumors
and said they weren't real at all.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
That's what he said. They weren't real.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Little I like playing the program game, Dion said. But
he said I wouldn't enjoy coaching the pro game. Really,
it's a different game. Deon said, I'm focused on winning
and getting these kids through college.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I have no thought process for the NFL whatsoever. Okay,
close quote. So question, what is your instinct? Give me
your instinct on Dion Sanders' latest denials about wanting the
Cowboys head coaching gig so Dion denying that he wants
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the you know he wanted past tense. The Cowboys have
a coach, although it's always a temporary job. It's not
like shot, he's done a great job. So Dion denying
that he wants the Cowboys job is the biggest fairy
tale since Pinocchio went to school.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
All right, So his nose.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Grew not one, not to three inches, just saying those
rumors weren't real at all. You could literally see that, yeah, liar, liar, liar,
pants on fire. So he loves the college game the
way that I love Kale. And if you've ever met me,
and some of you have, you know my relationship with
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Kale's a one sided relationship, very one side. So if
Jerry Jones had actually called up Dion and say, hey, Prime,
I want you to coach the Dallas Cowboys, Dion would
have thrown his back out reaching for the phone. He
would have fought a grizzly bear for that job, the
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cowboy job. If Jerry had said, okay, all right, fine,
and this is vintage coach Prime, Deny deflect and hope
nobody checks the receipts, don't check the receipts and all,
because let's be really, the true problem with Dallas is
that Jerry and I love him as a talk shows
but Jerry loves being the only celebrity in that part
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of the building. In Jerry's world, the coaching front office,
He's the GM and all that. That's the exact reasoning
Dion didn't get a serious look. And so now Sanders,
you talk about being in a holding pattern and he's
got to downplay the whole thing, of course, because he's
a college coach. He's got to pretend like he's content
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in Boulder, Colorado because he's still got players to spend
nil money on and all that stuff. And I'm sitting
pretty with a meh sixteen and twenty one record.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
For the Buffaloes.
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This hour is from Pro Bouncy Ball, Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy
Bouncy Bouncy The hiatus on the NBA Finals ends tonight.
It's back on and like Donkey Kong, so Jalen Runson
and the New York Knicks looking to end a long
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championship draft that goes back before cable television, before the Internet,
when rotary phones were ruling the world, way back.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
In the day.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
And they'll take on Wemby, the Parisian Prodigy, the Import
from Peri and the San Antonio Spurs. Game one is
in San Antonio, which means it is time for everyone's
favorite guessing game, predictions.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Predictions. Predictions.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
As you know, predictions are like fortune cookies, vague enough
to sound smart later. The key is to be vague.
So that is a good jumping off point. Let's discuss
toss up question. Who you got the Knicks or the Spurs.
Who's going to win the NBA Finals? You make the call.
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So I've got shampoo, Ferrara Brands, and East River. We'll
combine all of these things together and we are going
to give you a migraine headache unless we don't, but
we'll give some pharmacy great ibuprof and so you'll be okay.
So number one, number one, number one, number one, number
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one one number stop. All right, So we're gonna go
with the boys from the Alamo. That's right, San and Tonio.
We'll stand atop the mountain when it's all said and done,
another June and another therapy bill for the New York
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Knickerbocker fans. As San Antonio, we'll add a fresh chapter
to the Book of Manhattan Misery. That's gonna happen. So
now you look on a tablet and not on paper.
Nobody really uses paper, although.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
We do.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
On a tablet though.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
New York is bringing a knife, a plastic knife, and
then San Antonio's got a lightsaber. It's a lightsaber fight,
and the nick have a knife, a plastic knife. And
the reason is because Victor Wembanyama is going to do
ufo things. We live in the Age of Discovery. The
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goblins are out there, and as far as I know,
there's at least a one percent chance that Victor Wimanyama
is a creation from somewhere else out in the cosmos.
So Wemby is going to go out there and he's
going to do his thing. And the nixill Be's trying
to read the instruction manual. How do we stop this?
What do we doing And it's like like the shampoo. Okay,
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Wemby is head and shoulders, head and shoulders, the top
player in the NBA finals, and you don't need to
go too deep. It's an Akham's razor situation. The simplest
answer is the right answer.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Here.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
He's head and shoulders above everyone else. In fact, he's
three zip codes. I looked it up. I looked at
the US postal code. He's three zip codes above anyone else.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Wemby.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Now, there is one little thing that I'd like to
address here, the memo to Wemby. No naps, no lollygagging,
and no mercy. There were some stretches against the thunder
where he didn't shoot, He wasn't aggressive, he was way
too passive. He looked like a French soldier retreating. So
don't do that.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Don't be daydreaming like you words. If you take every
possession like it matters, and you don't take a half
off here or quarter off there, San Antonio, there's no
way they.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Can lose this series.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Now, New York, do you have to imagine going in
just based on common basketball one oh one? You don't
have to be some kind of insider to know that
New York is going to try to bully Wemby because.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
That appears to be the only part of.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
His game where there is a weakness there that he's
about as heavy Wambanyama as a feather, And so you
attack him and the Thunder had a little success until
they realized, well, Chet Holmgren sucks.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
He can't do it.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
And so Karl Anthony Towns, do you have any confidence
in Carl Anthony Towns because I don't. He doesn't strike
me as the kind of guy capable of physicality and
bully ball. Now, is he gonna prove me wrong? Is
Karl Anthony Town's gonna prove me wrong in the NBA Finals?
I'll believe it when I see it.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
The other key, and this is for San Antonio. If
you really want to f up the Knicks, you just
booby trapped Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
And they have the players that are capable of doing
it with you. Look at the guards there, Dearon Fox
and Castle and the different guys they have that can
match up with Jalen bruns So you harass Brunson and
you can't overhelp obviously, because that becomes a problem.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
They have the type.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Of players with great length, as the wise Man said there,
that can disrupt, as Phil Jackson said back in the day,
hands on balls. Hands on balls, disrupt those passes. Get
a finger on the ball and then the ball will
go flying the opposite direction. And also it help to
get rebounds. Get some rebounds there. That would help control
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the glass and force the Knicks to just shoot mid
range jump shots because they don't really kill you. Even
if they make a lot of them, they don't really
kill you. And do that and you'll be eating as
much Text mex as you want. You'll be partying on
the riverwalk.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
So that's it now, Page two. Here on the New
York side.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
In particular here, there's been a lot of bandwidth. I've
been consuming the content from the basketball media elites, and
they tell me that it's all about momentum, that the
reason the Knicks are going to win is because of
Uncle Moe, not the guy who lives in Jersey.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Momentum.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Okay, so I would like to be the guy that
pumps the breaks on the momentum talk. I'll be that guy.
You're not that guy, Pal, You're not that guy. I
am that guy. Now New York, it is true, has
won a li eleven consecutive games in the playoffs, eleven
in a row, all of them by double digits. So
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that was all excited about that. They swept the Sixers
and then the Cadavers in the Eastern Conference finals. And
at this moment, as we get ready to begin the
twenty twenty six NBA Finals, at this moment, the Knickerbockers
have the top point differential in NBA playoff history.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I'm told that's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
They enter the finals at plus two hundred and seventy
one across. I believe that's the right number across all
of their playoff games. That is uncharted territory as we
enter the NBA Finals. So the question how much does
the Jalen Brunson Knicks momentum narrative matter? That's the question. So,
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as I have pointed out, I will go a little
deeper here. This so called momentum is pure adulterated Grade
A juice.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
It's hogwash juice is what it is.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
It's all natural, no artificial sweeteners, because it's hogwash is
what it is. Now, beating the Hawks, the Sixers and
the cadavers. This was not the Gauntlet. This was the
candy Isle, all right. The Knicks so far in the
playoffs have beaten the Ferrara brands. They beat the Nerds,
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the Sweet Tarts, and the fund Dip. That's who they've
played so far, not actual quality opponents in any around.
So congratulations, you beat playoff Harden. Are we supposed to
be impressed? You beat playoff Harden in the Eastern Conference?
Funal Pg. Thirteen and Philadelphia, we shouldn't even been there.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
And then the CJ.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
McCollum is your top player option Atlanta Hawks, the Journeymen, CJ.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
McCollum.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
We all right, So congratulations on that. As far as
the other part of it, which is obviously if you're
new to the show, let me be the voice of
reason here. Momentum is a bunch of gibberish.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
And.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
It's one of those things you tell before reality shows up.
It's like a fairy tale. This moo for the New
York Knicks will evaporate the second the Spurs are able
to exploit the many mismatches that they have in their favor.
All right, and so he say, okay, Victor wembon Yama
starts treating the Knicks front court like a clearance rack.
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And then what happened to the momentum? They had all
the momentum the first off shooting night for the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Where did that go? I don't understand why it didn't
make all those shots? They had all the momentum. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
So I've been doing this for a minute or two.
And if you look at the annals of sports, like
the history of sports, it is a graveyard littered with
momentum darlings, media darlings of momentum, and they end up
getting bounced. It's like the fairy tale Cinderella's carriage turning
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back into a pumpkin well before midnight. And you don't
talk about these teams because they lost. They lost, didn't
matter their accolades and all that. They didn't get it done.
Now the final point, and this is a big problem
for a lot of people. What I'm about to say,
we'll stick with the owner's box. So for years and
years and years, the Knicks have served up dog food teams.
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It has been back and the one common denominator has
been James Dolan, the owner. Right, many media pundits have
attacked Dolan and They've just cursed his name. James Dolan,
the Knicks owner, has been called by many so called
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experts the worst owner in sports now. He has owned
the Knicks since his day. Bought the team back in
the nineties and put him in charge. So it's been
like thirty years. James Dolan has run through some of
the biggest names in that sport. I'm talking about Isaiah Thomas,
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Larry Brown, Phil Jackson, Tom Thibodeau, Mike Dan Tony, these
are big names that it just was a disaster when
they worked at the building above Penn Station, it just
did not go well there. He's lost sexual harassment lawsuits
for millions of dollars. James Dolan, he turned MSG into
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a police state where they used facial recognition technology. Not
to keep bad guys out, not to keep criminals out. No, no, no,
to ban personal enemies of James Dolan. They've used facial
They got in trouble for that.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Google It.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I'm not making that up. They sued the Raptors James
Dolan did, for like ten million dollars, claiming they stole
analytical data. Of course, why would anyone steal anything from
the Knicks. They were terrible for twenty five years, and
then he quietly dropped that lawsuit. I can go on
and on banned a fan from Madison Square Garden for
telling him to sell the team. A few years back,
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band Charles Oakley where the Great Knicks, was banned from MSG.
So the question if the Knicks defive the Malard prediction
and if I'm wrong and the New York Knicks end
up winning the title here, what would that do to
the legend of James Dolan being the worst owner in sports?
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And the idea that you need to have a good
owner to win is always the argument. We can't win,
We've got a bad owner. I hear that all that
Arty Marino with the Angels. He's an income poop. They
can't win because of Arty. Sell the team, people chanting
cell the well people chanted for years to James Dolan
to sell the Knickerbockers. So if the Knicks win the title,
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James Dolan a long running punchline, the patron saint of
bad optics, James Dolan, the human cease and Desist letter.
That guy he gets a ring on his resume. The
Knicks win this thing, and for thirty years, the pundits
They all blamed him for every single.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Thing that went wrong.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
They bamed him for the losing the size of the
subway rats in Manhattan, the smell of trash in August
on a hot summer night in the city, which is
the really the aroma of Manhattan, that smell of that
rotting food and the rats eating it there at five, six,
seven o'clock at night when they're picking up the trash there,
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that's the smell.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Blame him, Blame him.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
A Knicks title wouldn't just crack the you need a
great owner to win narrative. It would detonate that.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Debt.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Kaboom a kaboom, that narrative floating face down in the
East River. Okay, and you're looking at the ultimate MythBusters.
It's not like James Dolan has changed. He's the same
guy he was. You know. It would be proof that
you don't need a great owner, that you just hire
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enough people. Eventually you'll hire one that knows what they're
doing and you get a couple of good players and
that's it. And just don't actively burn the building down
if you're the owner, and it doesn't matter what kind
of loser you are and what kind of schmuck you
are your team can win. And if Dolan wins every
sports you know, mythologist, if you will, needs to turn
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in their badge and gone and that's it. The Nick
fans also, who have spent decades chanting sell the tape,
sell lot tape at Madison Square Garden. Are you now
going to have to send thank you notes to Dolan?
Is that how that works? The legend would be dead
the bad guy wins. If the Knicks win, do you
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want the bad guy to win? And then you can
turn on the blues music.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
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It's Mallard, how about that? To the third degree?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
All right, here we go and the koubloop for the
reading of the questions.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
But it won't sound like he's reading well.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Russell Wilson is calling this transition to analyst a pause
on his playing career. But let's say he never plays
another down again. Will he make it to the Hall
of Fame?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Well, I imagine that at some point he will get
to Canton, Ohio and he will.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Buy a ticket to get into Canton, Ohio. There is
no chance he is going to be. He's not a
Hall of Fame. He never even got a vote for
the MVP Award, never never made an All.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Pro team, and the team that he won with he
was along for the ride was the.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Legion of boom defense in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Russ is one of He had a long career, not
a Hall of Fame career, not anywhere close by any metric.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
He's he a Hall of famer.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Next, despite his poor performance in the Western Conference finals,
the Oklahoma City Thunder have decided that they are not
going to pursue a trade of che Holmgren.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Ben, do you think this is the right move by then?
All right, So I don't believe the Thunder.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
They're gonna listen and if they get the right offer,
they will trade chet Holmgren. There is little reason to
keep him. He's a max player who became a mouse.
A mouse at the most important time, had two chances
to win the Western Conference and this guy choked, So
why would you keep him. They change it up a
(29:45):
little bit, trade him. He's got to you know, you
can get something for him. Still, so I don't believe
they're obviously gonna say they're gonna keep him.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
We'll find out.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
When we get back to the NBA three months from now,
when they come right back next Later this week, EA
Sports will announce the next cover athlete for the Madden
video game in Chicago.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Now being in Chicago has led people to speculate that
it'll be Caleb Williams. And then, if you were choosing
the cover athlete for this year's installments, who would you
have picked.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Well, you obviously picked Miles Garrett. Put him in that
RAM uniform on there, and that's the guy they picked.
The whole Caleb Williams thing. It is a truly, with
all joking aside, it is a slap at the Seattle
Seahawks because Seattle, that's how uninteresting.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
The Seahawks were.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
You'd think, well, let's put Jackson Smith and Jigbaw in
there or somebody like it was Sam Donald. You can't
put Sam Donald and it was gonna buy the video game,
so that's it didn't Barkley was on there last year
right this Philadelphia had won the Super Bowl and he
had a great year. That tells you how mediocre that
Seattle team was. That they're just not popular and they
can't sell video games. So that to me, that's the story.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Caleb Williams like, that's fine. I don't really believe in
the whole Wami thing and all that. It doesn't matter.
The Bears aren't winning, the Rams are gonna win. There
we go, Coop Mallard of third Degree, how did we go?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I want Lucky? I luck the game.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
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Speaker 3 (31:22):
Exciting and new quative hall. Who is this she wants
to talk to you?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Search your hotel.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Promises love caravan with cool and creating a jim of Roo.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
It's just so long though this is a que heart.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Well you got to give credit to who there's no
bad Who was that?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Coop?
Speaker 3 (32:04):
That was Ja That sounds like Jay Scoop. Yeah, that's
the great Jay School Jay School kind. It took a
lot of time and effort. You should thank Jase. I
mean that's a really that's a good song. I thank
you all right.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Very exciting and you're like a mini version like Okay,
well he'll he'll do that Jay Scoop.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
He'll he'll help you out.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
He'll do a little mini version of music bed underneath
with the music Bedder, I got that?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
What is the Queen of Hearts? With the rain?
Speaker 1 (32:31):
These are act the love Boat before your Time?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I got you? All right? Well, these are actual questions
love a love boat? Yeah? So fun? All right?
Speaker 5 (32:42):
Uh ship cruise?
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Okay, all right? These are actual questions by actual listeners.
Late Night drug Tester writes and says, how do you
How do I explain to the lady I just lost
this week's paycheck?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
On the NFL book.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Them, You know, you don't really have to explain anything.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Just hold your head really low and cry.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
She'll get there's no crying in the book.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Them.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
You can't cry in the book. Them, What are you talking?
Speaker 5 (33:10):
I think a lot of people cry.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
There's no cry. No, you can't cry in a book. Them. Okay,
all right, Rob.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
The goat Man writes in on the Bookham says, what
is the best excuse if a fella is out on
a nice date and has to take a massive do doo?
Speaker 3 (33:28):
What's a good excuse?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah, like he's on a date. You know you don't
want to tell the girls Hey, I gotta go.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
And you're not going to always say.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
You have a meeting with a man about a horse.
She'll respect you that you're into equestrian things, and she
may have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
You have to go to the throne. To the throne
you have.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
Everyone needs a royal moment.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Everyone needs a moment? I got you? What else we have?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Rob in Coco Beach Rites And I don't think Rob's
asked the question before. Oh that's Rob in the three
two one.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
We know rough.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
If someone tells you, yeah, I'm not much of a
Disney person, should that be grounds for immediate dismissal? Oh
that's a yes.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
I mean maybe for me.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
For me it is, but not for everyone. Some people
despise Disney.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
I don't know if Coop is ever going to go
to Disney again.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Well, because it's so expensive and no, he's just like
I think a mover. Oh you're over, you're too old, now, Coop?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Is that the problem?
Speaker 4 (34:28):
It's just it's just a long day, lots of lines
and I've seen everything.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah, it's not like they change a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Yeah, it's pretty much the same. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Shane and Moyne says in honor of Pride month, He says,
have you ever been to a parade or the gay
bar in your life?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Lorraine?
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Oh yeah, I love a good gay bar.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
A lot of women love the gay bar. Oh it's
the best. Why is that, Lorraine? Why do the women?
And I'm not talking about lesbians. I'm talking about you know, because.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
I still get hit on by both. So I like
to see you, like to see how good I am?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
You know, Oh, really want to see who's uh, who's
still you still got game? You want to find out
you still got exactly you still got it? So you
go out there to see who's who's sitting on you?
All right, Queen of Bars, Well what else do we have?
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Let's see?
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Ferg Dog writes in and says, how important is it
for a couple to like the same kind of peanut butter?
Can a skippy guy and a jiff girl get along?
Great question?
Speaker 6 (35:19):
That is an awesome question. And uh, it's like being
for different teams. You guys are gonna butt heads sometimes.
And what if you accidentally take a bite of her
sandwich and realize it's that, you know, skippy, It's like
eating butter and margarine they're not the same. Mayonnaise and
miracle whip, they're not the same. And if you get
it mixed up on your taste buds, it could ruin
(35:41):
your whole.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Well, the other problem chucky chunky creamy, Yes, right, I
mean that's that's.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Amazing chunky about that. I don't know, that's top it.
That's a shock. Attention everyone.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
And the password is password, you idiot, the word Game
of the Stars.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Here's Ben Meler. All right's welcome in architestants. We have
coach Russell from Orlando, the Orlando area. Hello, Coach Russell, welcome, Hey, hey,
good morning, good morning, on my way to University of
Florida for a seven old seven company. Oh nice, trying
(36:24):
to give you a call.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
And uh, by the way, I'm originally from South Carolina,
and I do not like fritz or fiscuits thing gravy.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
I do like grit rit fitzk you like biscuits? Do
you like gravy? Okay, that says a lot about you.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
I don't know you're going to You're going to the swamp,
which is which is a legendary back in the old days,
say had some good team actually have been all right, recently.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
All right, you're gonna play Who do you want to
partner up with? Coach Russell? Quickly, I want to go
with you?
Speaker 1 (36:50):
All right, very nice. We're in it to win it.
Hold on a second, and who else do we have?
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Page down? I went Mark on the north end? Mark, Hello, welcome.
Who do you want to partner up with? Mark?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Up with Coop? Okay, Lorna, you're out of the show.
We have a list of words one to ten and
the coach Russell.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
You. Oh boy, I'm not. I'm not. I think I
just sung up on Mark. Oh my god, if you
love that's random match, baby, Yes, that's unfortunate. I'm not
saying I'm nothing to going with me, dude, But you're good.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Okay, Uh, Coop, You're gonna have to play with unless
Mark calls back. You're not to play with Jed and
the coach Russell. You were up first pick of number
one to ten. Please Coach Russell three, number three? All right,
let's go with wager.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
Ben.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
No gamble, Coop. You have to give a clue. They
said it gamble. You gotta love he got it? Love
my clue? That doesn't got all right? Job, Jed? You
won't even listenings.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Mark Mark called back, good Jed's out of the show.
All right, Mark, Mark, we're already, we're already had Mark.
All right, pick a number Mark one to ten, but
not three?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Uh number seven?
Speaker 4 (38:15):
All right, all right, let's go with uh.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Chairman, Oh chairman? All right? What bos No, no, all right,
I'm gonna use the mala maneuver. Coach Russell vice they again,
I'm sorry vice.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Vice?
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Uh five, I see a vice, I see a vice.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
By tell.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Uh Mark, let's go with let's go the leader.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Uh president?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yeah, what, Oh my god, I was thinking of the
role where.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Something Oh, Coach Russell's kinky. He was thinking of a
different kind of god. That's what I used. The malord manova.
What's what? Oh my god, you break my heart. You
broke my heart with that.
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
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Speaker 1 (00:32):
Our lead this hour is from La, La Land, And
for the second consecutive night, the biggest story in all
of sports. You can ram it all day and you
can ram it all night. The Rams who made the
biggest move of the offseason, the defining move. They won
the championship this week and they gotta play all these
stupid games to get to February at so far when
(00:54):
they're crowned to champion. But the major move of the offseason,
winning the offseason trading were the preeminent defensive player, Miles Garrett.
And for everyone else in the NFC West and the
NFC in general, turnout the LODs the parties over. Yeah,
so Miles Garrett coming over to La from the Factory
of Sadness and said, well, that was a story from yesterday.
(01:16):
What are you doing talking about it now, you mora
And you're telling me, well, I explain, Let me explain
to you, all right.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
So thanks man.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
So this has sparked renewed interest from retired defensive tackle
Aaron Donald about a comeback. Yes that, Aaron Donald.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Do you see any of this? Do you hear anything
about it?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
No? The pride to Pittsburgh, Aaron Donald. We have those
great cinnamon roles in Pittsburgh. One of our guys came
down from Pittsburgh during the Ohio Meet and greet and
brought or Kentucky improught the cinemas, which were just freaking outstanding. Anyway,
Aaron Donald texting a number of people, including some NFL
(01:59):
in types and saying he is quote for sure flirting
with the idea of unretiring. And Donald's been out of
the NFL for a couple of years. He mentioned the
opportunity of playing for a Super Bowl contender. Of course,
the Rams every year are a Super Bowl contender, so
I don't know why this would be any different, and
(02:20):
especially the fact that the Super Bowl in February will
be hosted in the hood in ingle Wood, at the
Rams Home Stadium and up to no good. He added quote,
if I can find the fire, it's a possibility. Well,
ask Karen Bass, the mayor of la she knows a
thing or two about fire. The whole city burned down
(02:40):
while she was mayor.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Say she wasn't here for her That's right, she might
not know about fire. She was in Africa. Well, the
whole town burned down. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Let us discuss the question, how do you process Aaron
Donald publicly flirtatious.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
With a return to the lryon.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So I've got Yoda, fiberglass, and Grizzly Bear not in underwear.
We'll combine all of these things together and we will
be as clear as crystal.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
So a Aaron Donald is out here stirring the pot
like he's auditioning for a Food Network show called Chaos
Kitchen with Aaron Donald.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
The Big teas.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
By mister Donald here flirting with the comeback, texting his
buddies in the media. You know, it's like that X
that text the gives you that text at dayton at
hey stranger at one in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You know what that means. You know what that means.
You don't believe it.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
You definitely look though, you're like, Okay, do I want
to go down that road? The instigator, the agitator, the
aggravator who stepped away after the twenty twenty three season
was done with the NFL has stayed in pretty good
shape by all accounts. It's not like he let himself go.
He's not a big fat turd at this particular point.
(04:07):
Ten year run and all that with the Rams, future
Hall of Famer, all the accolades have filled up the
Wikipedia page with Defensive Player of the Year awards and
first Team All Pro and all those things helped the
Rams win Super Bowl fifty six back in the day.
And as the late great Brian Wheeler would have said,
Donald is bonafide, certified and overqualified all of those things.
(04:32):
And depending on how much he has left after collecting
rust for a couple of years, again, he's in shape.
But he hadn't played in a while. Donald, he doesn't
need a reason to return. I suppose he needs a purpose.
It's all about the purpose.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Now, there is a difference here.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Now, Sean McVay is basically Motel six at this particular point.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
We'll leave the light on for you.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Is the message to Aaron Donald and room service, as
many protein shakes.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
As you want, we got you.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
And if Donald is really tempted, which he appears to be,
or he just wants attention, this possibility, he just wants attention.
If he's really tempted, though, to play with Miles Garrett,
that would be an absolutely terrifying defensive line. Pairing Aaron
Donald with Miles Garrett is like putting a turbo charger
(05:26):
on a tank, is what it would be. And is
it necessary? No, the Rams are good enough to win
the Super Bowl without Aaron Donald coming back. Now my advice,
and I know Aaron Donald wants the advice of overnight
talk radio. So the advice to Aaron Donald is simple,
follow the wisdom of Yoda.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I learned this as a child.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Try not do or do not, There is no try,
just do it.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I think Nike used that slugan just do it. Just
come back. And if you don't want to come back,
stop flirting. It's annoying.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Okay, Like there's really nothing to say. Just I'm I
mean back. You announce I'm back. You don't need to
say I might come back because you're just trying to
get attention. When you say that and nobody wants an
attention wore all right now page two to Atlanta we
go the Falcons. Who knew the Falcons had money. The
prices at home depot are going to go off. As
wide receiver, Drake London, Drake London, good name, good name.
(06:22):
Drake London has agreed to a four year contract for
one hundred and forty one million. That's a pretty sizable extension,
said the wise guy. So he'll be with the Atlanta
Falcons through the next couple of years. He'll get one
hundred million guaranteed. One hundred million guaranteed for Drake London.
(06:44):
Has anyone ever bought a ticket to watch Drake London
play football? Good for him and up to up to
weasel term one hundred and fifty million dollars with incentives
the AAV which is all most people care about, the
average annual value thirty five point two five million dollars,
making him, meaning Drake London, the third highest paid wide
(07:06):
receiver in the NFL. So the question using the time
tested Goldielocks test, which is wonderful. We love the Goldilocks test,
is the Falcon one hundred and forty one million dollar
extension of Drake London too.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Much, too little, or just right all right?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
So after a minutes long deliberation on the available information,
this deal completely flunks the test. It is boiling hot porridge.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Good for Drake London. He bamboozled the Atlanta Falcon front
office here. Now, I like London. I like the player.
I don't hate the player. I like to play. He's
big body, he's strong, seemingly reliable. Those are all good
qualities to have as an NFL receiver. However, this particular
contract is a magic mountain ride. It's overpriced and overhyped.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Is what it is.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And the Falcons just paid Drake London like he's what
the love child the Julio Jones and Andrea Risen from
back in the day. This is classic Atlanta. You're paying
top five money for a top fifteen receiver and you're
saying this is all part of the vision.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Board that we have.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Really, Okay, London's a very good player. I'm our trash.
This contract, though, treats him like he's on the same
level as Justin Jefferson with a side of Jamar Chase.
I don't see it, do you see it? I don't
see it. Receiver inflation is obviously real. This is hyper inflation.
(08:51):
They're gonna blame Putin on this like the old president did.
The Falcons didn't just jump the market. They use some
fiberglass and they pull vaulted.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Over the market, is what they did.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
And wide receiver is the most volatile position in football,
and Atlanta just it's like buying bitcoin at the peak. Well,
that's probably not the wisest thing to do. Why would
you do that. You don't win the Super Bowl by
making your white out the highest paid player. You win
(09:25):
them with elite quarterbacks and a balanced roster. That's generally
how that goes. Now, last word, we go to prime
time because we love our celebrities. That's right, we do.
Deon Sanders in the sporting headlines again you see this, No,
all right, So Deon Sanders, you got to think this
is his last year at Colorado.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
It has not gone well for Dion. Things are not
going particularly well. The team's mediocre. They had all that buzz,
they had all that excitement, They dominated the ratings and
it just has all gone away. So Deon Sanders has
once again that there's any legitimacy to the widely reported
chatter from a year ago connecting him to having interest
(10:10):
with the Dallas Cowboys head coaching vacancy. This was last
off season. Sanders was asked recently about the Cowboys rumors
and said they weren't real at all.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
That's what he said. They weren't real.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Little I like playing the program game, Dion said. But
he said I wouldn't enjoy coaching the pro game. Really,
it's a different game. Deon said, I'm focused on winning
and getting these kids through college.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I have no thought process for the NFL whatsoever. Okay,
close quote. So question, what is your instinct? Give me
your instinct on Dion Sanders' latest denials about wanting the
Cowboys head coaching gig so Dion denying that he wants
(11:00):
the you know he wanted past tense. The Cowboys have
a coach, although it's always a temporary job. It's not
like shot, he's done a great job. So Dion denying
that he wants the Cowboys job is the biggest fairy
tale since Pinocchio went to school.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
All right, So his nose.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Grew not one, not to three inches, just saying those
rumors weren't real at all. You could literally see that, yeah, liar, liar, liar,
pants on fire. So he loves the college game the
way that I love Kale. And if you've ever met me,
and some of you have, you know my relationship with
(11:39):
Kale's a one sided relationship, very one side. So if
Jerry Jones had actually called up Dion and say, hey, Prime,
I want you to coach the Dallas Cowboys, Dion would
have thrown his back out reaching for the phone. He
would have fought a grizzly bear for that job, the
(12:02):
cowboy job. If Jerry had said, okay, all right, fine,
and this is vintage coach Prime, Deny deflect and hope
nobody checks the receipts, don't check the receipts and all,
because let's be really, the true problem with Dallas is
that Jerry and I love him as a talk shows
but Jerry loves being the only celebrity in that part
(12:23):
of the building. In Jerry's world, the coaching front office,
He's the GM and all that. That's the exact reasoning
Dion didn't get a serious look. And so now Sanders,
you talk about being in a holding pattern and he's
got to downplay the whole thing, of course, because he's
a college coach. He's got to pretend like he's content
(12:43):
in Boulder, Colorado because he's still got players to spend
nil money on and all that stuff. And I'm sitting
pretty with a meh sixteen and twenty one record.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
For the Buffaloes.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
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This hour is from Pro Bouncy Ball, Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy
Bouncy Bouncy The hiatus on the NBA Finals ends tonight.
It's back on and like Donkey Kong, so Jalen Runson
and the New York Knicks looking to end a long
(13:57):
championship draft that goes back before cable television, before the Internet,
when rotary phones were ruling the world, way back.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
In the day.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
And they'll take on Wemby, the Parisian Prodigy, the Import
from Peri and the San Antonio Spurs. Game one is
in San Antonio, which means it is time for everyone's
favorite guessing game, predictions.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Predictions. Predictions.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
As you know, predictions are like fortune cookies, vague enough
to sound smart later. The key is to be vague.
So that is a good jumping off point. Let's discuss
toss up question. Who you got the Knicks or the Spurs.
Who's going to win the NBA Finals? You make the call.
(14:49):
So I've got shampoo, Ferrara Brands, and East River. We'll
combine all of these things together and we are going
to give you a migraine headache unless we don't, but
we'll give some pharmacy great ibuprof and so you'll be okay.
So number one, number one, number one, number one, number
(15:11):
one one number stop. All right, So we're gonna go
with the boys from the Alamo. That's right, San and Tonio.
We'll stand atop the mountain when it's all said and done,
another June and another therapy bill for the New York
(15:32):
Knickerbocker fans. As San Antonio, we'll add a fresh chapter
to the Book of Manhattan Misery. That's gonna happen. So
now you look on a tablet and not on paper.
Nobody really uses paper, although.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
We do.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
On a tablet though.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
New York is bringing a knife, a plastic knife, and
then San Antonio's got a lightsaber. It's a lightsaber fight,
and the nick have a knife, a plastic knife. And
the reason is because Victor Wembanyama is going to do
ufo things. We live in the Age of Discovery. The
(16:11):
goblins are out there, and as far as I know,
there's at least a one percent chance that Victor Wimanyama
is a creation from somewhere else out in the cosmos.
So Wemby is going to go out there and he's
going to do his thing. And the nixill Be's trying
to read the instruction manual. How do we stop this?
What do we doing And it's like like the shampoo. Okay,
(16:33):
Wemby is head and shoulders, head and shoulders, the top
player in the NBA finals, and you don't need to
go too deep. It's an Akham's razor situation. The simplest
answer is the right answer.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Here.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
He's head and shoulders above everyone else. In fact, he's
three zip codes. I looked it up. I looked at
the US postal code. He's three zip codes above anyone else.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Wemby.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Now, there is one little thing that I'd like to
address here, the memo to Wemby. No naps, no lollygagging,
and no mercy. There were some stretches against the thunder
where he didn't shoot, He wasn't aggressive, he was way
too passive. He looked like a French soldier retreating. So
don't do that.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Don't be daydreaming like you words. If you take every
possession like it matters, and you don't take a half
off here or quarter off there, San Antonio, there's no
way they.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Can lose this series.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Now, New York, do you have to imagine going in
just based on common basketball one oh one? You don't
have to be some kind of insider to know that
New York is going to try to bully Wemby because.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
That appears to be the only part of.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
His game where there is a weakness there that he's
about as heavy Wambanyama as a feather, And so you
attack him and the Thunder had a little success until
they realized, well, Chet Holmgren sucks.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
He can't do it.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
And so Karl Anthony Towns, do you have any confidence
in Carl Anthony Towns because I don't. He doesn't strike
me as the kind of guy capable of physicality and
bully ball. Now, is he gonna prove me wrong? Is
Karl Anthony Town's gonna prove me wrong in the NBA Finals?
I'll believe it when I see it.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
The other key, and this is for San Antonio. If
you really want to f up the Knicks, you just
booby trapped Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
And they have the players that are capable of doing
it with you. Look at the guards there, Dearon Fox
and Castle and the different guys they have that can
match up with Jalen bruns So you harass Brunson and
you can't overhelp obviously, because that becomes a problem.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
They have the type.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Of players with great length, as the wise Man said there,
that can disrupt, as Phil Jackson said back in the day,
hands on balls. Hands on balls, disrupt those passes. Get
a finger on the ball and then the ball will
go flying the opposite direction. And also it help to
get rebounds. Get some rebounds there. That would help control
(19:07):
the glass and force the Knicks to just shoot mid
range jump shots because they don't really kill you. Even
if they make a lot of them, they don't really
kill you. And do that and you'll be eating as
much Text mex as you want. You'll be partying on
the riverwalk.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
So that's it now, Page two. Here on the New
York side.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
In particular here, there's been a lot of bandwidth. I've
been consuming the content from the basketball media elites, and
they tell me that it's all about momentum, that the
reason the Knicks are going to win is because of
Uncle Moe, not the guy who lives in Jersey.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Momentum.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Okay, so I would like to be the guy that
pumps the breaks on the momentum talk. I'll be that guy.
You're not that guy, Pal, You're not that guy. I
am that guy. Now New York, it is true, has
won a li eleven consecutive games in the playoffs, eleven
in a row, all of them by double digits. So
(20:09):
that was all excited about that. They swept the Sixers
and then the Cadavers in the Eastern Conference finals. And
at this moment, as we get ready to begin the
twenty twenty six NBA Finals, at this moment, the Knickerbockers
have the top point differential in NBA playoff history.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I'm told that's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
They enter the finals at plus two hundred and seventy
one across. I believe that's the right number across all
of their playoff games. That is uncharted territory as we
enter the NBA Finals. So the question how much does
the Jalen Brunson Knicks momentum narrative matter? That's the question. So,
(20:54):
as I have pointed out, I will go a little
deeper here. This so called momentum is pure adulterated Grade
A juice.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
It's hogwash juice is what it is.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
It's all natural, no artificial sweeteners, because it's hogwash is
what it is. Now, beating the Hawks, the Sixers and
the cadavers. This was not the Gauntlet. This was the
candy Isle, all right. The Knicks so far in the
playoffs have beaten the Ferrara brands. They beat the Nerds,
(21:26):
the Sweet Tarts, and the fund Dip. That's who they've
played so far, not actual quality opponents in any around.
So congratulations, you beat playoff Harden. Are we supposed to
be impressed? You beat playoff Harden in the Eastern Conference?
Funal Pg. Thirteen and Philadelphia, we shouldn't even been there.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
And then the CJ.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
McCollum is your top player option Atlanta Hawks, the Journeymen, CJ.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
McCollum.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
We all right, So congratulations on that. As far as
the other part of it, which is obviously if you're
new to the show, let me be the voice of
reason here. Momentum is a bunch of gibberish.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
And.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
It's one of those things you tell before reality shows up.
It's like a fairy tale. This moo for the New
York Knicks will evaporate the second the Spurs are able
to exploit the many mismatches that they have in their favor.
All right, and so he say, okay, Victor wembon Yama
starts treating the Knicks front court like a clearance rack.
(22:32):
And then what happened to the momentum? They had all
the momentum the first off shooting night for the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Where did that go? I don't understand why it didn't
make all those shots? They had all the momentum. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
So I've been doing this for a minute or two.
And if you look at the annals of sports, like
the history of sports, it is a graveyard littered with
momentum darlings, media darlings of momentum, and they end up
getting bounced. It's like the fairy tale Cinderella's carriage turning
(23:06):
back into a pumpkin well before midnight. And you don't
talk about these teams because they lost. They lost, didn't
matter their accolades and all that. They didn't get it done.
Now the final point, and this is a big problem
for a lot of people. What I'm about to say,
we'll stick with the owner's box. So for years and
years and years, the Knicks have served up dog food teams.
(23:32):
It has been back and the one common denominator has
been James Dolan, the owner. Right, many media pundits have
attacked Dolan and They've just cursed his name. James Dolan,
the Knicks owner, has been called by many so called
(23:52):
experts the worst owner in sports now. He has owned
the Knicks since his day. Bought the team back in
the nineties and put him in charge. So it's been
like thirty years. James Dolan has run through some of
the biggest names in that sport. I'm talking about Isaiah Thomas,
(24:14):
Larry Brown, Phil Jackson, Tom Thibodeau, Mike Dan Tony, these
are big names that it just was a disaster when
they worked at the building above Penn Station, it just
did not go well there. He's lost sexual harassment lawsuits
for millions of dollars. James Dolan, he turned MSG into
(24:36):
a police state where they used facial recognition technology. Not
to keep bad guys out, not to keep criminals out. No, no, no,
to ban personal enemies of James Dolan. They've used facial
They got in trouble for that.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Google It.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I'm not making that up. They sued the Raptors James
Dolan did, for like ten million dollars, claiming they stole
analytical data. Of course, why would anyone steal anything from
the Knicks. They were terrible for twenty five years, and
then he quietly dropped that lawsuit. I can go on
and on banned a fan from Madison Square Garden for
telling him to sell the team. A few years back,
(25:13):
band Charles Oakley where the Great Knicks, was banned from MSG.
So the question if the Knicks defive the Malard prediction
and if I'm wrong and the New York Knicks end
up winning the title here, what would that do to
the legend of James Dolan being the worst owner in sports?
(25:36):
And the idea that you need to have a good
owner to win is always the argument. We can't win,
We've got a bad owner. I hear that all that
Arty Marino with the Angels. He's an income poop. They
can't win because of Arty. Sell the team, people chanting
cell the well people chanted for years to James Dolan
to sell the Knickerbockers. So if the Knicks win the title,
(26:00):
James Dolan a long running punchline, the patron saint of
bad optics, James Dolan, the human cease and Desist letter.
That guy he gets a ring on his resume. The
Knicks win this thing, and for thirty years, the pundits
They all blamed him for every single.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Thing that went wrong.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
They bamed him for the losing the size of the
subway rats in Manhattan, the smell of trash in August
on a hot summer night in the city, which is
the really the aroma of Manhattan, that smell of that
rotting food and the rats eating it there at five, six,
seven o'clock at night when they're picking up the trash there,
(26:44):
that's the smell.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Blame him, Blame him.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
A Knicks title wouldn't just crack the you need a
great owner to win narrative. It would detonate that.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Debt.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Kaboom a kaboom, that narrative floating face down in the
East River. Okay, and you're looking at the ultimate MythBusters.
It's not like James Dolan has changed. He's the same
guy he was. You know. It would be proof that
you don't need a great owner, that you just hire
(27:21):
enough people. Eventually you'll hire one that knows what they're
doing and you get a couple of good players and
that's it. And just don't actively burn the building down
if you're the owner, and it doesn't matter what kind
of loser you are and what kind of schmuck you
are your team can win. And if Dolan wins every
sports you know, mythologist, if you will, needs to turn
(27:42):
in their badge and gone and that's it. The Nick
fans also, who have spent decades chanting sell the tape,
sell lot tape at Madison Square Garden. Are you now
going to have to send thank you notes to Dolan?
Is that how that works? The legend would be dead
the bad guy wins. If the Knicks win, do you
(28:03):
want the bad guy to win? And then you can
turn on the blues music.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
It's Mallard, how about that? To the third degree?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
All right, here we go and the koubloop for the
reading of the questions.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
But it won't sound like he's reading well.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Russell Wilson is calling this transition to analyst a pause
on his playing career. But let's say he never plays
another down again. Will he make it to the Hall
of Fame?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Well, I imagine that at some point he will get
to Canton, Ohio and he will.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Buy a ticket to get into Canton, Ohio. There is
no chance he is going to be. He's not a
Hall of Fame. He never even got a vote for
the MVP Award, never never made an All.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Pro team, and the team that he won with he
was along for the ride was the.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Legion of boom defense in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Russ is one of He had a long career, not
a Hall of Fame career, not anywhere close by any metric.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
He's he a Hall of famer.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Next, despite his poor performance in the Western Conference finals,
the Oklahoma City Thunder have decided that they are not
going to pursue a trade of che Holmgren.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Ben, do you think this is the right move by then?
All right, So I don't believe the Thunder.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
They're gonna listen and if they get the right offer,
they will trade chet Holmgren. There is little reason to
keep him. He's a max player who became a mouse.
A mouse at the most important time, had two chances
to win the Western Conference and this guy choked, So
why would you keep him. They change it up a
(29:45):
little bit, trade him. He's got to you know, you
can get something for him. Still, so I don't believe
they're obviously gonna say they're gonna keep him.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
We'll find out.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
When we get back to the NBA three months from now,
when they come right back next Later this week, EA
Sports will announce the next cover athlete for the Madden
video game in Chicago.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Now being in Chicago has led people to speculate that
it'll be Caleb Williams. And then, if you were choosing
the cover athlete for this year's installments, who would you
have picked.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Well, you obviously picked Miles Garrett. Put him in that
RAM uniform on there, and that's the guy they picked.
The whole Caleb Williams thing. It is a truly, with
all joking aside, it is a slap at the Seattle
Seahawks because Seattle, that's how uninteresting.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
The Seahawks were.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
You'd think, well, let's put Jackson Smith and Jigbaw in
there or somebody like it was Sam Donald. You can't
put Sam Donald and it was gonna buy the video game,
so that's it didn't Barkley was on there last year
right this Philadelphia had won the Super Bowl and he
had a great year. That tells you how mediocre that
Seattle team was. That they're just not popular and they
can't sell video games. So that to me, that's the story.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Caleb Williams like, that's fine. I don't really believe in
the whole Wami thing and all that. It doesn't matter.
The Bears aren't winning, the Rams are gonna win. There
we go, Coop Mallard of third Degree, how did we go?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I want Lucky? I luck the game.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
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Speaker 3 (31:22):
Exciting and new quative hall. Who is this she wants
to talk to you?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
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Speaker 3 (31:46):
Promises love caravan with cool and creating a jim of Roo.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
It's just so long though this is a que heart.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Well you got to give credit to who there's no
bad Who was that?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Coop?
Speaker 3 (32:04):
That was Ja That sounds like Jay Scoop. Yeah, that's
the great Jay School Jay School kind. It took a
lot of time and effort. You should thank Jase. I
mean that's a really that's a good song. I thank
you all right.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Very exciting and you're like a mini version like Okay,
well he'll he'll do that Jay Scoop.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
He'll he'll help you out.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
He'll do a little mini version of music bed underneath
with the music Bedder, I got that?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
What is the Queen of Hearts? With the rain?
Speaker 1 (32:31):
These are act the love Boat before your Time?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I got you? All right? Well, these are actual questions
love a love boat? Yeah? So fun? All right?
Speaker 5 (32:42):
Uh ship cruise?
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Okay, all right? These are actual questions by actual listeners.
Late Night drug Tester writes and says, how do you
How do I explain to the lady I just lost
this week's paycheck?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
On the NFL book.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Them, You know, you don't really have to explain anything.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Just hold your head really low and cry.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
She'll get there's no crying in the book.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Them.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
You can't cry in the book. Them, What are you talking?
Speaker 5 (33:10):
I think a lot of people cry.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
There's no cry. No, you can't cry in a book. Them. Okay,
all right, Rob.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
The goat Man writes in on the Bookham says, what
is the best excuse if a fella is out on
a nice date and has to take a massive do doo?
Speaker 3 (33:28):
What's a good excuse?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah, like he's on a date. You know you don't
want to tell the girls Hey, I gotta go.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
And you're not going to always say.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
You have a meeting with a man about a horse.
She'll respect you that you're into equestrian things, and she
may have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
You have to go to the throne. To the throne
you have.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
Everyone needs a royal moment.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Everyone needs a moment? I got you? What else we have?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Rob in Coco Beach Rites And I don't think Rob's
asked the question before. Oh that's Rob in the three
two one.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
We know rough.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
If someone tells you, yeah, I'm not much of a
Disney person, should that be grounds for immediate dismissal? Oh
that's a yes.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
I mean maybe for me.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
For me it is, but not for everyone. Some people
despise Disney.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
I don't know if Coop is ever going to go
to Disney again.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Well, because it's so expensive and no, he's just like
I think a mover. Oh you're over, you're too old, now, Coop?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Is that the problem?
Speaker 4 (34:28):
It's just it's just a long day, lots of lines
and I've seen everything.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah, it's not like they change a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Yeah, it's pretty much the same. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Shane and Moyne says in honor of Pride month, He says,
have you ever been to a parade or the gay
bar in your life?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Lorraine?
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Oh yeah, I love a good gay bar.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
A lot of women love the gay bar. Oh it's
the best. Why is that, Lorraine? Why do the women?
And I'm not talking about lesbians. I'm talking about you know, because.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
I still get hit on by both. So I like
to see you, like to see how good I am?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
You know, Oh, really want to see who's uh, who's
still you still got game? You want to find out
you still got exactly you still got it? So you
go out there to see who's who's sitting on you?
All right, Queen of Bars, Well what else do we have?
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Let's see?
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Ferg Dog writes in and says, how important is it
for a couple to like the same kind of peanut butter?
Can a skippy guy and a jiff girl get along?
Great question?
Speaker 6 (35:19):
That is an awesome question. And uh, it's like being
for different teams. You guys are gonna butt heads sometimes.
And what if you accidentally take a bite of her
sandwich and realize it's that, you know, skippy, It's like
eating butter and margarine they're not the same. Mayonnaise and
miracle whip, they're not the same. And if you get
it mixed up on your taste buds, it could ruin
(35:41):
your whole.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Well, the other problem chucky chunky creamy, Yes, right, I
mean that's that's.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Amazing chunky about that. I don't know, that's top it.
That's a shock. Attention everyone.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
And the password is password, you idiot, the word Game
of the Stars.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Here's Ben Meler. All right's welcome in architestants. We have
coach Russell from Orlando, the Orlando area. Hello, Coach Russell, welcome, Hey, hey,
good morning, good morning, on my way to University of
Florida for a seven old seven company. Oh nice, trying
(36:24):
to give you a call.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
And uh, by the way, I'm originally from South Carolina,
and I do not like fritz or fiscuits thing gravy.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
I do like grit rit fitzk you like biscuits? Do
you like gravy? Okay, that says a lot about you.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
I don't know you're going to You're going to the swamp,
which is which is a legendary back in the old days,
say had some good team actually have been all right, recently.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
All right, you're gonna play Who do you want to
partner up with? Coach Russell? Quickly, I want to go
with you?
Speaker 1 (36:50):
All right, very nice. We're in it to win it.
Hold on a second, and who else do we have?
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Page down? I went Mark on the north end? Mark, Hello, welcome.
Who do you want to partner up with? Mark?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Up with Coop? Okay, Lorna, you're out of the show.
We have a list of words one to ten and
the coach Russell.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
You. Oh boy, I'm not. I'm not. I think I
just sung up on Mark. Oh my god, if you
love that's random match, baby, Yes, that's unfortunate. I'm not
saying I'm nothing to going with me, dude, But you're good.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Okay, Uh, Coop, You're gonna have to play with unless
Mark calls back. You're not to play with Jed and
the coach Russell. You were up first pick of number
one to ten. Please Coach Russell three, number three? All right,
let's go with wager.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
Ben.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
No gamble, Coop. You have to give a clue. They
said it gamble. You gotta love he got it? Love
my clue? That doesn't got all right? Job, Jed? You
won't even listenings.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Mark Mark called back, good Jed's out of the show.
All right, Mark, Mark, we're already, we're already had Mark.
All right, pick a number Mark one to ten, but
not three?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Uh number seven?
Speaker 4 (38:15):
All right, all right, let's go with uh.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Chairman, Oh chairman? All right? What bos No, no, all right,
I'm gonna use the mala maneuver. Coach Russell vice they again,
I'm sorry vice.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Vice?
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Uh five, I see a vice, I see a vice.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
By tell.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Uh Mark, let's go with let's go the leader.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Uh president?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yeah, what, Oh my god, I was thinking of the
role where.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Something Oh, Coach Russell's kinky. He was thinking of a
different kind of god. That's what I used. The malord manova.
What's what? Oh my god, you break my heart. You
broke my heart with that.
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