January 27, 2022 • 41 mins
In hour 2, Big Ben dissects the rumors swirling around Brooklyn regarding the Nets putting in their earplugs when it comes to fielding trades for James Harden, and Ben doesn't like it. Plus, Ben shares an odd publication regarding the NFL that Deadspin put out. Then, 'Maller to the 3rd Degree!'
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number to our number two
of our radio program and Brooklyn in the house, Brooklyn
using earplugs. Apparently they're blocking out the noise of their phone.
They're not answering their text messages. The beard will he
be traded? Doesn't sound like it. The nets holding on
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to James Harden are yet in or out on this statement.
My answer may surprise if we'll get to that right
now in our number two, getting close to decision time
in Brooklyn. Welcome man, the beginning of another hour of
the Ben Mathers Show, one after another week. Stack them
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like hotcakes around here. We are in the air everywhere
together as we steal the spotlight coast to coast, border
to border in beyond on the mast and massively powerful
microphones of fs are emmating live from the Big Mouth
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as we led our mouth through the talking. I don't
know any other way to do it. The Fox Sports
Radio studios at a secret location somewhere in the Northwood.
So I hope all as well. When you are to
lead this hour coming from pro Bouncy Ball, the rare
and appropriate, rare and appropriate NBA related Maler monologue, you'll
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get a lot of these after football ends, but a
rare and appropriate monologue till then. So we're just a
few weeks away from the trade deadline. And I don't
know about you, but I've always been a sucker for
the trade. I love a good rumor. I ran a
rumor's website for years, as you might remember, back in
the Bronze Age. But it sounds like one of the
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big stars being floated. Will he be traded? Will you
not be true? We'll be staying put, at least if
you believe the scuttle. But this changes by the minute.
So if you didn't see this, and maybe not, we
have learned the Nets are ignoring trade deadline overtures for
James Harden. The drama builds now. Woade passes on that
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the Brooklyn Nets and James Harden have a partnership. They
are committed to working together to win a championship when
the playoffs come around this summer. Blah blah blah blah blah.
Harden has had his name tossed around the rumor mill
for the last couple of weeks. If you follow this
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kind of stuff, you know that he has supposedly been
mentioned for multiple teams, but mainly one in particular in Philadelphia.
But the story as of this moment is the Nets
believe they are unstoppable, the unstoppable force with Kevin Durant,
Kyrie Irving and James Harden. There is no team on
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God's Green Earth that will be able to stop them
from winning the NBA Championship. So for the purposes of
this Mallard monologue, we will assume the position that the
Nets are planning to keep James Harden. So let's discuss
the question. Right the Nets in a holding pattern with
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the Beard Harden, are you in or are you out
on that statement? So I'm actually out on this. I'm
out on this. We've talked about hardened in recent episodes
of the show off and on now my take. You've
got Patriot Way, Skunk and Tidwell, and we will combine
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all of these things together and we are going to
make amazing poutine for our friends, the great gift from
our friends in Canada. So to lead off or to
tip off, James Harden has been unable to fully figure
out how to reinvent himself as the NBA has adapted
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the new rules to take away the secret sauce that
James Harden had in his game. Now, to the untrained eye,
to the novice, you'll say, what are you talking about?
Harden's numbers are pretty good. I don't know what you're
talking about. You've lost your mind. Now, I'm not saying
Harden sucks, but I'm saying that Harden, while he is
still a good player, he is no longer at the
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very top and the top part of the totem pole
where he's in the top ten. Now, we have talked
about this, as I said off and on some previous
episodes of the show, and there are many contributing factors
to why that is. The main one is the rules
changing the way the game's officiated. But you can tell
Harden has been frustrated. He's not hiding that. He knows
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the circumstances. He realizes he is not as dominant as
he had been compared to the player that he was
in Houston. He has been a bit of an imposter. Right,
And if you're Brooklyn and you're like, well, do we
want to give this guy a new contract? Because that's
the other option, right, you can say, all right, we'll
give him a new contract. He's got one more player
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option on his deal. But what if he doesn't figure
it out, what if he continues to slowly progress the
wrong direction. You have an opportunity. You're at a fork
in the road, right, You're at a fork in the road,
and you can either say, Okay, we're gonna give hard
in a new contract or we're going to change it up.
And the advice is to follow the Patriot way. Bill
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Belichick for years was like a ninja. He was able
to get rid of a player a year too early
rather than a year too late, right up until Tom Brady.
And that's where the jig was up. But before Tom
Brady went to Tampa and won a Super Bowl and
made the playoffs again, he had been perfect. He had
been absolutely perfect, batting not a thousand, but he was
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batting seven hundred, let's say seven hundred and So the
Nets had the opportunity here, and they still have the opportunit, Nicka,
is the trade deadlines a few weeks away of getting
this done? Now? Furthermore, let's address the question, are the
Nets at full strength going to steam Road the Eastern
Conference during the playoffs? And I am shaking my head
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now passionately no, because the talk is wow with Kevin Durant,
Kyrie Irving, and James Harden. Who's gonna beat him? That's
a whole new ball game in the place. Who's gonna
beat them? So I would advise you, if you're on
that side of the aisle, to hold your horses. Right.
This is what's known as a fishy situation. Is a
gigantic red herring. All right, tell you why. Here's the
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plot twist, big plot twist in this story. Brooklyn will
never be at full strength in the playoffs. So it's
an irrelevant conversation to have, right. The only way Brooklyn
is at full strength is if the laws change. The
politicians in New York side, we're gonna relax the draconian
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COVID regulations. Chances of that happening slim and none. All Right,
every man, woman and child knows this to be true.
Kyrie Irving is unwelcome in New York. He is a pariah.
He is the skunk uninvited to the basketball game. Right,
you can't show up there, your bad job by you
and all? Because he's unvaccinated, and so the Wokesters in
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New York, the political class of New York, have made
him undesirable. So like in Wisconsin, Aaron Rodgers can play
quarterback for the Packers, but Kyrie Irving can't play basketball
in New York. It makes a lot of sense. Makes
a lot of sense too. I guess somebody not to me,
so that means Kyrie is going to miss all of
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the Nets home game. Now, Brooklyn is currently in the
number four spot in the East, but there are only
two games back of the Miami Heat and the Chicago
Bulls for the top spot in the conference. Now, that
would mean home court throughout the Eastern Conference plaffs, which
would mean they would have a Kyrie disadvantage. Not home
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court advantage, they would have a Kyrie disadvantage. You toss
in how fragile Kevin Durant is, how brittle Durant is.
He's out right now with an injury. Although it's not
supposedly you're gonna keep him out much longer. He is
gonna be back sometime in February. Now, the last thing here,
the other reason that I believe the Nets should take
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my counsel and move on from James Harden. He's already
got one foot out the door, right, He's already got
one foot out the door. You can get something for
him like Harden, as I said, I see him trending
the wrong direction. But the perception of Harden is he's
still at the very top. I think he's a little
bit below that. So take advantage of that. Rather than
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get nothing or less for him in a transaction, you
can get something halfway decent. Here. Harden has been openly
flirting with the Sixers and his old pal Darryl Morey.
Who'd done it? Dy? Who do you think made first contact?
You think that was the Sixers? Do you think that
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was hardened? But if you believe the gossip that they've
been behind the scenes through intermediaries chatting and Daryl Morey
is calling the shots in the Delaware Valley and he
is intoxicated with bringing the Beard into Philadelphia. Harden is
apparently at some point you're just gonna start screaming like
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rod Tidwell, show me the money, because he's he did
sign a big extension with the Rockets. He had a
chance to sign another extension before the regular season in Brooklyn.
He said I don't want to do that. So that'll
be one of the stories this summer. Do you stay
or did he go? Now? Harden could opt out of
a forty seven million dollar year on his contract and
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signed if the Nets want to keep him around for
two hundred and twenty three million over four more years.
And he can do that with Brooklyn. Now, he's a
guy that will likely opt out of his contract, unlike
Russell Westbrook who's not gonna get you know, ton more
Money's not gonna get another two hundred million dollars contractor
John Wall. But Harden could still get that contract because
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there's always that the greater fool that is out there.
But if he does sign that extension, he would make
you know what he'd make. He'd be the first player
to go past the sixty million dollar threshold for one
season that James Harden the last year of his contract.
If he signs the extension and they offer the full
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max max Max extension, he would make sixty one point
seven million to play eighty two basketball games in a
few playoff games. And you don't even play all that. Wow, Wow, bro,
Holy Canoli, right? I mean, how do you pass that
kind of money up? He can't pass that up? Man.
Pretty good for a guy who's whose game has some
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issues adapting to the way that they're currently calling calling
the game. I mean, you don't turn that one down.
You sign on the dotted line, Kapecia, I mean right
there now. Regardless of that, I expect Harden to pick
curtain number three, not number two, because number two would
be Harden opts out of that year on his contract,
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becomes a free agent and signs elsewhere. So I don't
think he's gonna pick door number two. Door number one's
just signed the max extension. I don't think he wants
to be in Brooklyn. Something that's not right there, So
I think he goes Kurt number three. Now, Curtain number
three would be where the Nets agreed to a sign
and trade. Harden opts in to that forty seven million
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and then signs with the Sixers long term and he
gets the sixty million dollars down the line, but he
has to wait a little bit longer for it. When
are the the serious question? When are the sports radio
salaries going to catch up to the NBA? What are
we going to start making sixty million dollars? I mean,
my goodness, those of us that do overnight So I'm
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not talking about the daytime people, because they're better people.
I'm talking about the overnight people. Man oh man. All right,
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HiT's Ben All right, let's get to the phones right away.
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Here we ranted about James Harden here at the beginning
and let's see here. Let's say hello, let's go to cruise.
This has been a big story here, the forty nine
er invasion Northern California overtaking southern California for the RAM
game on Sunday. Cruise. Welcome, you're in, so call there
and bell Flower, Welcome to the Ben Mathershield. Hey, what's up?
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And I just want to I'm gonna give you a
couple of numbers, and I'm telling you how much we're
getting you guys for right now. All right, so yeah,
now let me walk me through this. Now, Cruise, you
have access to RAM tickets? Is that accurate? You have
your hands on some RAM tickets to the game on Sunday? Yes,
well I had. Yeah, we gotta seated tickets. So we
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got the two for a hundred three seventy four. Okay,
that's for two okay, okay, And you sold them. I
assume you sold them to forty nine er fans. I
don't know whoever, bottom bottom, We don't know. It's just
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but they paid. Uh. The total ending was twenty one
sixty Wait wait a minute, hold us wow wow, oh,
wait wait a minute. How much did you pay for them?
It was three hundred how much do your three seventy
or something? Yeah for two total? Right? Correct? Yeah? And
then you sold them for how much? Twenty one sixty two,
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one hundred sixty total? Correct? Damn? Wow, that's great. What
a great return on investment is? What is a good
job by you? Wow? Literally? Hey Ben? Literally, I paid
for my next year seedon tickets on this one game. Yeah,
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and I and some people will rip you, but I
I'm celebrating your career. That's a great business decision. You
gotta look out for yourself, Cruise. It's not the Rams
are loaning the ticket prices right well, right right, But
I still got to make that ten thousand dollars we
have to put for the for the extra right PC
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PCL right yeah, oh yeah that yes, okay, all right,
well crazy, I know I make I'm a Ram fan,
but I support your crews if you can make that
kind of money. And all these rich athletes and coaches
that don't know what the you know, the struggle of
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the regular person, the layman, right he's out there busting
their ass. These guys make ridiculous money to be in
the NFL, and they're they're questioning the business decision. I
mean I think you made a brilliant decision, Cruise, So
good job by you. Why you know what the what's
the funny part is that I'm not even a rounds
time man. We just got them. Yeah, well, what team
do you like? What's your team? VATA fan? Baby? Well
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it would be a better would be it would be
a better story if you were a RAMS fan, But
you don't really care, so it's even you know, for you,
it's irrelevant. You're not a RAMS fan, so doesn't matter anyway.
All right, Well, congratulations cruises, don't spend all the moneymore.
All right, there you go. Hey, next here raiders at
so high against the lads. Baby. Bert was already planning
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his trip. There's going to be an invasion, a silver
and black invasion. Let's go back to the phone. Strip club.
John is in Cleveland. He's a fan favorite. Hello strip
club John, big Ben Nolla. How are you doing, buddy?
If I was any better, i'd be you, but I'm not. Hey,
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how about the Cleveland Cavaliers. I saw you give them
some wave last hour. I appreciate that. Yeah, we did
a solid ninety seconds a hot CALVS talk on the show.
It was Yeah, it was at least ninety seconds. I
appreciated that. Hey, do you think anybody who's gonna make
the All Star Games from the Cavaliers, Well, we were
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just talking about Darius Garland. I think he's yeah, yeah,
I think he's he's he's wanted, you know, I think
he's wanted to make it. But but I don't know that.
You know, the local the local writers and stuff are
campaigning for him. But I don't think anybody's gonna make it.
I don't know. No, I think Garland's got a shot.
But Casts have a big time record. Plus there's a
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lot of guys still dinged up that are not likely
going to play in the All Star Game, like the
Rants already out. He would have been on the All
Star team he said he's not gonna play, and some
other guys that are dinged up. So that helps the
cause for Garland. And as long as the Casts keep winning,
and I think I think you got a decent shot.
Why do they announced that the Also Games coming up?
Aren't they supposed to announce that? Should be well, ready,
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we've been rating, We're ready for it. There you go.
You you told us last time. You are the establishment.
The ballet is ready the fight arts of Cleveland. It's
gonna be a big femuay. You know, February is a
dead month for us because it's so cold. It's like
minus two now today, we've had a we've had a
cold chill factor. What's the weather in southern California? Was
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seventy five cold right now? Forty Yeah, I gets down
to think the forty five at nights and yeah, i'mbout
minus two nor with temperature minus ten and winschill. Yeah,
but you're Strip club John. You got that thick Ohio
blood in you, so it's no big deal for true,
that's true. And I got some I got about forty
honeys to keep me warm, so it's all right. Yeah,
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you got that going for you too. All right, Well
keep us updated, Strip Club John. I love tales from
the club the club. Yeah. John's been with us a
long time and told us some amazing stories over the
years from Cleveland at the ballet when he runs the
ballet there and the dancers do a fine job, the pirouettes.
The just just just wonderful, just from what I understand.
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It's great word from Strip club John, all right, it
is the Bannet Mallard Show on Fox. So when you
gotta eat, you gotta eat. Yannis a Dana Coombo. He
was hungry after the game, the Milwaukee Bucks game after
game game after game, Bucks played the Coblers just talking
about the calves, and so Yannie he wanted a bite
to eat. He had to do his media responsibilities, so
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he decided to bring with him, Eddie, I'm not making
this up. Jannie brought with him a bucket of what
what do you think he brought with him, Eddie, I
saw the video, Oh you did all right? A bucket
of chicken wings. And now there's a couple of ways
to do this. I've seen. I've been at news conferences
where guys have brought food in, but normally the polite
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thing is to just kind of wait until you're done
with your media obligations and then you start eating. But
Jannie is like, screw that. I'm gonna take a bite
out of a wing. I'll answer a question, I'll put
you know, I'll then take another bite out of it,
and I'll just start showing down, just having a grand
old time there. And I don't know what flavor of
the wings were. I didn't get the actual flavor of
the wings, but he's chicken flavor. Well yeah, thank you,
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all right, it is the Bennet Mallards Show. As we
continue on here, we'll get to that other story, the
great sports blooper from media. When I saw this, I
thought this was sports talk berry. I thought this was satire.
It turns out it's real, and sometimes real is better
than satire. So we'll give you the inside skinny on that.
But right now over to Eddie Garcia. We go to
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get you caught up on everything going on, all the
games of note, but unfortunately not the Clipper game because
Eddie's biased media. But here's that because no one cares
about that game except for you. But in the end,
we had games of note, with the Suns beating the
Jazz in Utah one oh five to ninety seven. That's
eight straight wins. Now for Phoenix, they're a league best
thirty eight and nine. They were led by Devin Booker,
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who had thirty excuse me, forty three points and twelve rebounds.
Utah's lost nine of eleven. They are dealing with some
injury issues. Heat over the Knicks one ninety six mineme
me the top team in the East with a thirty
one and seventeen record. How about the demise of Julius
Randall The better stories in losing locker room as he
continues to stink it up for the Knickerbockers. Another terrible
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game will the Knicks on? Though? This guy was a
toast in New York last year because the Knicks made
the playoffs and he was playing did you get a
new deal? Didn't you just get a new deal? Eddie?
The trades, trades happen all the time. And yeah, he's
in the he's in the penalty box right now. For
the Knicks. He had another bad game. A lot of
them did very well. Yeah he was. They were as
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scored by thirty four with Randall on the court, thirty
six with RJ. Barrett that hot shot, top lottery pick
from years past. The Bulls are still a half game
back of the Heat for the top record in the
East Chicago with one eleven one oh five went over
the Raptors in the Cavaliers, just a game and half
back of that top record in the Eastern conferenceation, Cavs
beat the Bucks and sinth the Coupo who eight chicken
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wings afterwards, one fifteen to ninety nine. They look delicious.
I'm not a chicken wing fan, though I like the
chicken finger more than the chicken wing. I'm with you,
thank you that the Nuggets beat the Nets in Brooklyn
one twenty four to one eighteen. Of course, Kyrie Irving
did not play because it's a Brooklyn home game, and
James Harden was hurt he didn't playing. Kevin Durance already out,
so the Nets did not have their Big three and
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they did not get a win. Hornets outscored the Pacers
one fifty eight to one twenty six. The one hundred
and fifty eight points a Hornets franchise record for points
scored in a game. LaMelo Ball one of four Hornets
to score twenty and more points. He had a triple
double twenty nine points, ten rebounds, thirteen assists. Top twenty
five college basketball. We had number seventeen Providence winning at
number twenty one Xavier sixty five sixty two, Number twenty
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five Davidson lost at home to VCU seventy to sixty nine.
Wins for number eighteen Tennessee, number nineteen, LSU, number twenty
two Marquette, and number twenty three Iowa State. A couple
of NHL games. A note. We had the Avalanche win
there seventeenth straight game on home ice, beating the Bruins
four three in overtime, may believe skipped by the Doc's
fourth were in a shootout, Sharks down the Capitals for one,
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and the Flames put sixty two shots on goal against
Columbus in a six nothing victory over the Blue Jackets.
That's pretty good. It's not bad. It's like they, I
don't know, had some money on the line for how
many shots they could get into game or something. Anyway,
the Golden State Warriors are gonna host the Minnesota Timberwolves
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saw this story and immediately thought of you been because
you brought it up the other day. But you were
talking about the Super Bowl and they were looking for
dancers to dance at halftime, and they weren't going to
pay the dancers. Well, guess what they're paying the dancers,
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because there you go, the power of complaining pays off.
The dance community got whipped of this outrage and banded together,
and in fact, now professional dancers that are hired for
the Super Bowl halftime show will be paid. However, unless
I guess, you have to be part of some union
or something. If you're not a professional dancer. The amateur
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dancers will not be paid, but the professional dancers that
will be involved in the Super Bowl halftime show will
be getting paid. So it's a great victory for the
dance community. But I hear that, as you said, not
all the dances will be paid, some of them only
if you're a pro, which means you paid dues to something.
I guess. So right now, there's somebody representing the NFL
going around to elementary school seeing if they have. Anybody
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talented a dancing if they want to perform at the
Super Bowl probably so yeah, bringing some child labor there
make that happen. All right, Thank you for that. Eddie
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Vegas dot com. So, over the last couple of years
in sports, the sports media has been obsessed with like
I call it, identity sports. You know, identity politicis you
have to have to hire people for quotas, right, it's
very important. One of the big cheerleaders in that are
the people over dead Spin. They write a lot. I
don't really read dead Spin, but somebody sent me this story.
(28:30):
I thought it was SportsTalk Berry. I thought it was
SportsTalk Berry. And so they had a big story up
the other day slaying Mike McDaniel, the forty nine er
offensive coordinator who has been very popular on social media,
and they mocked him before his adorable news conferences and
all that is engaging answers. And here's what Deadspin wrote,
(28:56):
he says, you know, he's taking off all the boxes
to be the next trendy young white guy who takes
a head coaching position before one of the many deserving
black candidates, wrote dead Spin. Uh, Eddie, what is wrong
with that? Eddie? What is wrong with that? Writing by
dead Spin? Who's you know, celebrating the You know he's
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a dumb white guy, so he shouldn't get a job.
But the white is bad? What is wrong with that? Eddie?
What do you think is wrong with that? I don't
know what is wrong with that. It turns out he's, uh,
he's bi racial. He's not He's not your traditional white dude,
So yeah, what what's the other half? Apparently this is shot.
I will admit to people at deadsman, this is shocking, Eddie,
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considering the apparents of mc daniel. But uh, the trendy
young white guy over a deserving black candidate. McDaniel. Uh.
He there was a story written last March. I believe
it was that McDaniel March second. He was written by NBC,
a profile on him, and yeah, uh, he says here
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McDaniel in the story may get this right. Here, he says,
I'm the only fair skinned person in all these pictures.
He said, My grandfather on my dad's side is black.
My dad's black, he said in the story. So yeah,
So dead Spin then had to scramble because they didn't
want McDaniel to be hired because he's a white guy.
But now that he comes from a black you know,
he's guy's dad's black. Now he's in. Now he's a
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made man over a dead Spin. So they wrote, we
this is great. Do you imagine that, blooper, You write
a whole story slaying the guy because he's a white guy,
and then you find out his dad's black. Now you
got to change the story, right because it's identity sports.
So Deadspin had but they put an editor's note a clarification.
They said, we learned over after the publication of this
article that forty nine ers offensive quartered in to Mike McDaniel,
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whom we described as a white guy, is in fact
by Rachel. The article's original text remains below. We regret
the error, tremendous editing over that tremendous fact checking. Good job, Yeah,
not quite as bad as the flores one. Do you
remember that before he got the job in Miami, there
was an outraged article about him being hired and well,
(31:08):
oh yes, yes, well yes, story just went by his
last name. Oh it's so these these are these people
are such losers that that right, this this crap. I
don't know if anybody reading it, but I I this
was outstanding. What an embarrassment. Had a shut dead Spin
down because of this? Oh my god, it's you know,
(31:29):
a simple Google search would have if you've done if
you did any research, you would have found the answer
that you needed. If you're writing a story about the
guy and slaying him. Uh. And now, now are they
gonna write a story on Detsmand since his dad's black?
Are they gonna write a story he should be hired
immediately as an NFL coach? Did he change it up? Now?
How's that game work? I don't I don't know how
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that game. I don't play that game, so I don't
know how that game works. Anyway, it is the Ban
Maller Show. As we continue on, we're gonna have Maller
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Let's say, hello, do beer drinking Brian, who's in the
Great state of Missouri? Hello beer drinking Brian? What it's
not bad. Hey, what's going as half points? Still living
(32:13):
normal hours? No? No, okay, well I don't know. I
might have COVID, I'm you have or you can just
stay inside COVID or I got whr prison cold? You're
not sure what's one it is? Now? What are your
(32:34):
symptoms that like kennel cough? Yeah? Well nothing that a
little get old? You know something, something will take care of.
What are your symptom? I asked you a question. What
are your symptome? What? Even? No? I do have the cough,
I have the gray nose, the headaches, lower back, paint aches,
(32:57):
and who knows? It could be a cold. Back in
the old days, we call that a cold. Now people
call it cold exactly. That's why I'm saying, that's why
I haven't went in. Yeah, I'm like that with that man.
We didn't even get your sale from school for that
ship thing. Oh you can't say that, yeah, but thank you.
I don't know. Should be able. We're in a safe harbor.
We can say that, can't we, Roberto? No, I don't know,
can't we? I don't know? Eddie? Do you think I
(33:19):
don't think you over to uh half point? Okay? I
get blown up oh, all right, it's half point here.
He just said a word starts with an S. We
should be able to say it. Man, Hey, there she is.
Look at this one of our great queens of the show.
(33:39):
Half pint, Hello, half point. What have you been up to? Oh?
You know, meant get clean bag up. Yeah, I'm guessing
Brian didn't clean a damn thing on vacation. He did
not clean anything. Yeah, yeah, Now do you have any time?
You promised us before you went into the big house there,
(34:01):
you promised us that you were gonna do a little
song for us, a duet. I'm looking on that. All right.
Well we look forward to that and anytime you let
us know, we'll give you some airtime. You got that right.
I gotta get my drums all tuned up instead and
getting ready to go, gotcha? All right? Well, thank you
(34:21):
for checking in. You guys back for she's back for revenge. Jety,
watch out. Don't want to mess with this woman. She's
back better than ever. All right, Well, thank you. There
she goes at half point and beer drinking Bran, two
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all right, it is the Ben Mallard Show. We're gonna
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and here it is, Blank holds the record for most
yards gained as a receiver in a single NFL A
championship conference che actually actually post season if you get
Converence Championship game, single NFL postseason game. Again, Blank holds
(35:05):
the record for most receiving yards in a single NFL
postseason game. That is the Insta trivia. The answer next,
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Here it is a blank holds the record for the
most receiving yards in a single postseason game. That is
(37:21):
the question. What is the answer? Malaprop guy got it right?
How dare him? Reek in Minnesota's going with John Taylor
as his answer, old forty nine er. Who else do
we have page down? Page down? Milkman Mike says, is
it Felexis at the annual Marine Ball? Know what you
mean by that? Who else do we have? Page down?
(37:42):
Page down? Don Hudson from David in Seattle? Who knows
where all the good restaurants are? Just Josh in Cincinnati,
going with Dusty Rhodes as his answer, James the machinists.
I don't think I'm gonna go there. Who else the
bad guy? Scott Hall from Rob in Vegas. Financial expert
(38:02):
Burne madeoff guess by the militia Twitter king? Who else
do we have page damn page down? Let's see can't
read that? See Justin and Cincinnati going with our next
Supreme Court Justice Judge Joe Brown as the answer Jimmy
Ray from Tampa Bay and Spokane. Gary guess by Alf
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the Alien Opiner legends from back in the day, passed away,
Pat Tilley from Greg the real estate mogul in Baltimore. Eddie,
do you have an answer? Eddie? Yes, it's former New
York Giants wide receiver Phil McConkie. No, it's a great answer,
but no. I used this question every year in the playoffs,
and every year people don't usually get it right. Only
(38:46):
a few people did. Eric Molds of the Buffalo Bills
had two hundred forty yards receiving in nineteen ninety eight
against the Dolphins. That is the record, still here almost
twenty five years later. That is still the record. Here
we go, It's Meller. How about that? To the third degree,
this is one big Ben gets grail, Let's do it,
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Ricky okay, Ben Cowboys oc Kellen Moore is not expected
to receive a head coaching offer from any of the
teams that he interviewed with. One report said teams are
questioning in his leadership style. Ben. How surprising is it
that Moore didn't get a gig? Well, considering that the
way the Cowboys botched the end of the game against
(39:29):
the forty nine ers. It's not really that surprising. That
was a big part of his body of work, and
it was a body blow. It took a little bit
of the star dust away from Kellen Moore and Jerry
Jones and his underlings spent a lot of time hyping
this guy up. And as far as the whole soft
spoken thing, I think that's a bunch of crap. You know,
that's a cop out. NFL owners all want guys that
(39:50):
sound like Joe Judge. How did that work out for
the Giants? Now, you do have to have some ability
as a leader, but it doesn't mean you have to
be loud. So that's that's bullcrap. Next, Ben, Mike Tyson
has claimed he still owed money from his comeback fight
with Roy Jones Junior fourteen months ago. Ben, do you
think we will see Tyson in another exhibition fight? So
(40:11):
I'm gonna go green light on his iron. Mike is
talking about retiring for good again. He's fifty five years old,
so the windows like the next five years or so
to make some kind of comeback, but the financials everything out.
But I believe ultimately Tyson we'll be back for another
fugazi sham exhibition fight. He'll have an itch to scratch,
and he knows he can get a quick payday. A
(40:33):
bunch of middle aged guys like me will venmow him cash.
So whenever he needs money, he can do it next.
So John Wall has been working out in Miami away
from the Houston Rockets. He isn't interested in losing money
in a buyout. Do you think we will see Wall
on the court again anytime soon? Well, certainly not in Houston.
So I don't know the solution. I mean, I know
the Lakers have been talked about as a possibility, hell,
(40:55):
even the Clippers. But he's making forty seven million, he's
got the same contract is Westbrook. He's got injury baggage
kind of similar Wall in Westbrook. They're kind of similar players.
So you're you're essentially trading one one problem for another
if you make that trade. But there it is. How
did we do Ricky? Honorable pass? Honorable pack. No, that's
(41:18):
more than an honorable pass. That's a winner. Twitter Winter
Hello and welcome. It's our number to our number two
of our radio program and Brooklyn in the house, Brooklyn
using earplugs. Apparently they're blocking out the noise of their phone.
They're not answering their text messages. The beard will he
be traded? Doesn't sound like it. The nets holding on
(00:22):
to James Harden are yet in or out on this statement.
My answer may surprise if we'll get to that right
now in our number two, getting close to decision time
in Brooklyn. Welcome man, the beginning of another hour of
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lead this hour coming from pro Bouncy Ball, the rare
and appropriate, rare and appropriate NBA related Maler monologue, you'll
(01:29):
get a lot of these after football ends, but a
rare and appropriate monologue till then. So we're just a
few weeks away from the trade deadline. And I don't
know about you, but I've always been a sucker for
the trade. I love a good rumor. I ran a
rumor's website for years, as you might remember, back in
the Bronze Age. But it sounds like one of the
(01:51):
big stars being floated. Will he be traded? Will you
not be true? We'll be staying put, at least if
you believe the scuttle. But this changes by the minute.
So if you didn't see this, and maybe not, we
have learned the Nets are ignoring trade deadline overtures for
James Harden. The drama builds now. Woade passes on that
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the Brooklyn Nets and James Harden have a partnership. They
are committed to working together to win a championship when
the playoffs come around this summer. Blah blah blah blah blah.
Harden has had his name tossed around the rumor mill
for the last couple of weeks. If you follow this
(02:38):
kind of stuff, you know that he has supposedly been
mentioned for multiple teams, but mainly one in particular in Philadelphia.
But the story as of this moment is the Nets
believe they are unstoppable, the unstoppable force with Kevin Durant,
Kyrie Irving and James Harden. There is no team on
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God's Green Earth that will be able to stop them
from winning the NBA Championship. So for the purposes of
this Mallard monologue, we will assume the position that the
Nets are planning to keep James Harden. So let's discuss
the question. Right the Nets in a holding pattern with
(03:21):
the Beard Harden, are you in or are you out
on that statement? So I'm actually out on this. I'm
out on this. We've talked about hardened in recent episodes
of the show off and on now my take. You've
got Patriot Way, Skunk and Tidwell, and we will combine
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all of these things together and we are going to
make amazing poutine for our friends, the great gift from
our friends in Canada. So to lead off or to
tip off, James Harden has been unable to fully figure
out how to reinvent himself as the NBA has adapted
(04:03):
the new rules to take away the secret sauce that
James Harden had in his game. Now, to the untrained eye,
to the novice, you'll say, what are you talking about?
Harden's numbers are pretty good. I don't know what you're
talking about. You've lost your mind. Now, I'm not saying
Harden sucks, but I'm saying that Harden, while he is
still a good player, he is no longer at the
(04:25):
very top and the top part of the totem pole
where he's in the top ten. Now, we have talked
about this, as I said off and on some previous
episodes of the show, and there are many contributing factors
to why that is. The main one is the rules
changing the way the game's officiated. But you can tell
Harden has been frustrated. He's not hiding that. He knows
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the circumstances. He realizes he is not as dominant as
he had been compared to the player that he was
in Houston. He has been a bit of an imposter. Right,
And if you're Brooklyn and you're like, well, do we
want to give this guy a new contract? Because that's
the other option, right, you can say, all right, we'll
give him a new contract. He's got one more player
(05:08):
option on his deal. But what if he doesn't figure
it out, what if he continues to slowly progress the
wrong direction. You have an opportunity. You're at a fork
in the road, right, You're at a fork in the road,
and you can either say, Okay, we're gonna give hard
in a new contract or we're going to change it up.
And the advice is to follow the Patriot way. Bill
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Belichick for years was like a ninja. He was able
to get rid of a player a year too early
rather than a year too late, right up until Tom Brady.
And that's where the jig was up. But before Tom
Brady went to Tampa and won a Super Bowl and
made the playoffs again, he had been perfect. He had
been absolutely perfect, batting not a thousand, but he was
(05:54):
batting seven hundred, let's say seven hundred and So the
Nets had the opportunity here, and they still have the opportunit, Nicka,
is the trade deadlines a few weeks away of getting
this done? Now? Furthermore, let's address the question, are the
Nets at full strength going to steam Road the Eastern
Conference during the playoffs? And I am shaking my head
(06:16):
now passionately no, because the talk is wow with Kevin Durant,
Kyrie Irving, and James Harden. Who's gonna beat him? That's
a whole new ball game in the place. Who's gonna
beat them? So I would advise you, if you're on
that side of the aisle, to hold your horses. Right.
This is what's known as a fishy situation. Is a
gigantic red herring. All right, tell you why. Here's the
(06:40):
plot twist, big plot twist in this story. Brooklyn will
never be at full strength in the playoffs. So it's
an irrelevant conversation to have, right. The only way Brooklyn
is at full strength is if the laws change. The
politicians in New York side, we're gonna relax the draconian
(07:03):
COVID regulations. Chances of that happening slim and none. All Right,
every man, woman and child knows this to be true.
Kyrie Irving is unwelcome in New York. He is a pariah.
He is the skunk uninvited to the basketball game. Right,
you can't show up there, your bad job by you
and all? Because he's unvaccinated, and so the Wokesters in
(07:24):
New York, the political class of New York, have made
him undesirable. So like in Wisconsin, Aaron Rodgers can play
quarterback for the Packers, but Kyrie Irving can't play basketball
in New York. It makes a lot of sense. Makes
a lot of sense too. I guess somebody not to me,
so that means Kyrie is going to miss all of
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the Nets home game. Now, Brooklyn is currently in the
number four spot in the East, but there are only
two games back of the Miami Heat and the Chicago
Bulls for the top spot in the conference. Now, that
would mean home court throughout the Eastern Conference plaffs, which
would mean they would have a Kyrie disadvantage. Not home
(08:07):
court advantage, they would have a Kyrie disadvantage. You toss
in how fragile Kevin Durant is, how brittle Durant is.
He's out right now with an injury. Although it's not
supposedly you're gonna keep him out much longer. He is
gonna be back sometime in February. Now, the last thing here,
the other reason that I believe the Nets should take
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my counsel and move on from James Harden. He's already
got one foot out the door, right, He's already got
one foot out the door. You can get something for
him like Harden, as I said, I see him trending
the wrong direction. But the perception of Harden is he's
still at the very top. I think he's a little
bit below that. So take advantage of that. Rather than
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get nothing or less for him in a transaction, you
can get something halfway decent. Here. Harden has been openly
flirting with the Sixers and his old pal Darryl Morey.
Who'd done it? Dy? Who do you think made first contact?
You think that was the Sixers? Do you think that
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was hardened? But if you believe the gossip that they've
been behind the scenes through intermediaries chatting and Daryl Morey
is calling the shots in the Delaware Valley and he
is intoxicated with bringing the Beard into Philadelphia. Harden is
apparently at some point you're just gonna start screaming like
(09:31):
rod Tidwell, show me the money, because he's he did
sign a big extension with the Rockets. He had a
chance to sign another extension before the regular season in Brooklyn.
He said I don't want to do that. So that'll
be one of the stories this summer. Do you stay
or did he go? Now? Harden could opt out of
a forty seven million dollar year on his contract and
(09:55):
signed if the Nets want to keep him around for
two hundred and twenty three million over four more years.
And he can do that with Brooklyn. Now, he's a
guy that will likely opt out of his contract, unlike
Russell Westbrook who's not gonna get you know, ton more
Money's not gonna get another two hundred million dollars contractor
John Wall. But Harden could still get that contract because
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there's always that the greater fool that is out there.
But if he does sign that extension, he would make
you know what he'd make. He'd be the first player
to go past the sixty million dollar threshold for one
season that James Harden the last year of his contract.
If he signs the extension and they offer the full
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max max Max extension, he would make sixty one point
seven million to play eighty two basketball games in a
few playoff games. And you don't even play all that. Wow, Wow, bro,
Holy Canoli, right? I mean, how do you pass that
kind of money up? He can't pass that up? Man.
Pretty good for a guy who's whose game has some
(11:01):
issues adapting to the way that they're currently calling calling
the game. I mean, you don't turn that one down.
You sign on the dotted line, Kapecia, I mean right
there now. Regardless of that, I expect Harden to pick
curtain number three, not number two, because number two would
be Harden opts out of that year on his contract,
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becomes a free agent and signs elsewhere. So I don't
think he's gonna pick door number two. Door number one's
just signed the max extension. I don't think he wants
to be in Brooklyn. Something that's not right there, So
I think he goes Kurt number three. Now, Curtain number
three would be where the Nets agreed to a sign
and trade. Harden opts in to that forty seven million
(11:45):
and then signs with the Sixers long term and he
gets the sixty million dollars down the line, but he
has to wait a little bit longer for it. When
are the the serious question? When are the sports radio
salaries going to catch up to the NBA? What are
we going to start making sixty million dollars? I mean,
my goodness, those of us that do overnight So I'm
(12:06):
not talking about the daytime people, because they're better people.
I'm talking about the overnight people. Man oh man. All right,
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There is? Yeah. The amazing thing, Eddie is people over
the meta what do they call it? The meta? Is
that what they call it? There? The metaverse. It was
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Where where is Coop? Anyway? Just took a week off.
(15:42):
You get a little bug, you'll be all, Oh yeah,
I just whispered in Eddie's ear. Okay, yeah, trust me,
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HiT's Ben All right, let's get to the phones right away.
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Here we ranted about James Harden here at the beginning
and let's see here. Let's say hello, let's go to cruise.
This has been a big story here, the forty nine
er invasion Northern California overtaking southern California for the RAM
game on Sunday. Cruise. Welcome, you're in, so call there
and bell Flower, Welcome to the Ben Mathershield. Hey, what's up?
(16:28):
And I just want to I'm gonna give you a
couple of numbers, and I'm telling you how much we're
getting you guys for right now. All right, so yeah,
now let me walk me through this. Now, Cruise, you
have access to RAM tickets? Is that accurate? You have
your hands on some RAM tickets to the game on Sunday? Yes,
well I had. Yeah, we gotta seated tickets. So we
(16:50):
got the two for a hundred three seventy four. Okay,
that's for two okay, okay, And you sold them. I
assume you sold them to forty nine er fans. I
don't know whoever, bottom bottom, We don't know. It's just
(17:10):
but they paid. Uh. The total ending was twenty one
sixty Wait wait a minute, hold us wow wow, oh,
wait wait a minute. How much did you pay for them?
It was three hundred how much do your three seventy
or something? Yeah for two total? Right? Correct? Yeah? And
then you sold them for how much? Twenty one sixty two,
(17:34):
one hundred sixty total? Correct? Damn? Wow, that's great. What
a great return on investment is? What is a good
job by you? Wow? Literally? Hey Ben? Literally, I paid
for my next year seedon tickets on this one game. Yeah,
(17:56):
and I and some people will rip you, but I
I'm celebrating your career. That's a great business decision. You
gotta look out for yourself, Cruise. It's not the Rams
are loaning the ticket prices right well, right right, But
I still got to make that ten thousand dollars we
have to put for the for the extra right PC
(18:17):
PCL right yeah, oh yeah that yes, okay, all right,
well crazy, I know I make I'm a Ram fan,
but I support your crews if you can make that
kind of money. And all these rich athletes and coaches
that don't know what the you know, the struggle of
(18:39):
the regular person, the layman, right he's out there busting
their ass. These guys make ridiculous money to be in
the NFL, and they're they're questioning the business decision. I
mean I think you made a brilliant decision, Cruise, So
good job by you. Why you know what the what's
the funny part is that I'm not even a rounds
time man. We just got them. Yeah, well, what team
do you like? What's your team? VATA fan? Baby? Well
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it would be a better would be it would be
a better story if you were a RAMS fan, But
you don't really care, so it's even you know, for you,
it's irrelevant. You're not a RAMS fan, so doesn't matter anyway.
All right, Well, congratulations cruises, don't spend all the moneymore.
All right, there you go. Hey, next here raiders at
so high against the lads. Baby. Bert was already planning
(19:30):
his trip. There's going to be an invasion, a silver
and black invasion. Let's go back to the phone. Strip club.
John is in Cleveland. He's a fan favorite. Hello strip
club John, big Ben Nolla. How are you doing, buddy?
If I was any better, i'd be you, but I'm not. Hey,
(19:53):
how about the Cleveland Cavaliers. I saw you give them
some wave last hour. I appreciate that. Yeah, we did
a solid ninety seconds a hot CALVS talk on the show.
It was Yeah, it was at least ninety seconds. I
appreciated that. Hey, do you think anybody who's gonna make
the All Star Games from the Cavaliers, Well, we were
(20:14):
just talking about Darius Garland. I think he's yeah, yeah,
I think he's he's he's wanted, you know, I think
he's wanted to make it. But but I don't know that.
You know, the local the local writers and stuff are
campaigning for him. But I don't think anybody's gonna make it.
I don't know. No, I think Garland's got a shot.
But Casts have a big time record. Plus there's a
(20:36):
lot of guys still dinged up that are not likely
going to play in the All Star Game, like the
Rants already out. He would have been on the All
Star team he said he's not gonna play, and some
other guys that are dinged up. So that helps the
cause for Garland. And as long as the Casts keep winning,
and I think I think you got a decent shot.
Why do they announced that the Also Games coming up?
Aren't they supposed to announce that? Should be well, ready,
(20:59):
we've been rating, We're ready for it. There you go.
You you told us last time. You are the establishment.
The ballet is ready the fight arts of Cleveland. It's
gonna be a big femuay. You know, February is a
dead month for us because it's so cold. It's like
minus two now today, we've had a we've had a
cold chill factor. What's the weather in southern California? Was
(21:22):
seventy five cold right now? Forty Yeah, I gets down
to think the forty five at nights and yeah, i'mbout
minus two nor with temperature minus ten and winschill. Yeah,
but you're Strip club John. You got that thick Ohio
blood in you, so it's no big deal for true,
that's true. And I got some I got about forty
honeys to keep me warm, so it's all right. Yeah,
(21:43):
you got that going for you too. All right, Well
keep us updated, Strip Club John. I love tales from
the club the club. Yeah. John's been with us a
long time and told us some amazing stories over the
years from Cleveland at the ballet when he runs the
ballet there and the dancers do a fine job, the pirouettes.
The just just just wonderful, just from what I understand.
(22:06):
It's great word from Strip club John, all right, it
is the Bannet Mallard Show on Fox. So when you
gotta eat, you gotta eat. Yannis a Dana Coombo. He
was hungry after the game, the Milwaukee Bucks game after
game game after game, Bucks played the Coblers just talking
about the calves, and so Yannie he wanted a bite
to eat. He had to do his media responsibilities, so
(22:28):
he decided to bring with him, Eddie, I'm not making
this up. Jannie brought with him a bucket of what
what do you think he brought with him, Eddie, I
saw the video, Oh you did all right? A bucket
of chicken wings. And now there's a couple of ways
to do this. I've seen. I've been at news conferences
where guys have brought food in, but normally the polite
(22:48):
thing is to just kind of wait until you're done
with your media obligations and then you start eating. But
Jannie is like, screw that. I'm gonna take a bite
out of a wing. I'll answer a question, I'll put
you know, I'll then take another bite out of it,
and I'll just start showing down, just having a grand
old time there. And I don't know what flavor of
the wings were. I didn't get the actual flavor of
the wings, but he's chicken flavor. Well yeah, thank you,
(23:13):
all right, it is the Bennet Mallards Show. As we
continue on here, we'll get to that other story, the
great sports blooper from media. When I saw this, I
thought this was sports talk berry. I thought this was satire.
It turns out it's real, and sometimes real is better
than satire. So we'll give you the inside skinny on that.
But right now over to Eddie Garcia. We go to
(23:35):
get you caught up on everything going on, all the
games of note, but unfortunately not the Clipper game because
Eddie's biased media. But here's that because no one cares
about that game except for you. But in the end,
we had games of note, with the Suns beating the
Jazz in Utah one oh five to ninety seven. That's
eight straight wins. Now for Phoenix, they're a league best
thirty eight and nine. They were led by Devin Booker,
(23:55):
who had thirty excuse me, forty three points and twelve rebounds.
Utah's lost nine of eleven. They are dealing with some
injury issues. Heat over the Knicks one ninety six mineme
me the top team in the East with a thirty
one and seventeen record. How about the demise of Julius
Randall The better stories in losing locker room as he
continues to stink it up for the Knickerbockers. Another terrible
(24:17):
game will the Knicks on? Though? This guy was a
toast in New York last year because the Knicks made
the playoffs and he was playing did you get a
new deal? Didn't you just get a new deal? Eddie?
The trades, trades happen all the time. And yeah, he's
in the he's in the penalty box right now. For
the Knicks. He had another bad game. A lot of
them did very well. Yeah he was. They were as
(24:38):
scored by thirty four with Randall on the court, thirty
six with RJ. Barrett that hot shot, top lottery pick
from years past. The Bulls are still a half game
back of the Heat for the top record in the
East Chicago with one eleven one oh five went over
the Raptors in the Cavaliers, just a game and half
back of that top record in the Eastern conferenceation, Cavs
beat the Bucks and sinth the Coupo who eight chicken
(25:01):
wings afterwards, one fifteen to ninety nine. They look delicious.
I'm not a chicken wing fan, though I like the
chicken finger more than the chicken wing. I'm with you,
thank you that the Nuggets beat the Nets in Brooklyn
one twenty four to one eighteen. Of course, Kyrie Irving
did not play because it's a Brooklyn home game, and
James Harden was hurt he didn't playing. Kevin Durance already out,
so the Nets did not have their Big three and
(25:21):
they did not get a win. Hornets outscored the Pacers
one fifty eight to one twenty six. The one hundred
and fifty eight points a Hornets franchise record for points
scored in a game. LaMelo Ball one of four Hornets
to score twenty and more points. He had a triple
double twenty nine points, ten rebounds, thirteen assists. Top twenty
five college basketball. We had number seventeen Providence winning at
number twenty one Xavier sixty five sixty two, Number twenty
(25:42):
five Davidson lost at home to VCU seventy to sixty nine.
Wins for number eighteen Tennessee, number nineteen, LSU, number twenty
two Marquette, and number twenty three Iowa State. A couple
of NHL games. A note. We had the Avalanche win
there seventeenth straight game on home ice, beating the Bruins
four three in overtime, may believe skipped by the Doc's
fourth were in a shootout, Sharks down the Capitals for one,
(26:02):
and the Flames put sixty two shots on goal against
Columbus in a six nothing victory over the Blue Jackets.
That's pretty good. It's not bad. It's like they, I
don't know, had some money on the line for how
many shots they could get into game or something. Anyway,
the Golden State Warriors are gonna host the Minnesota Timberwolves
tonight and that is our Discover Card key matchup that
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saw this story and immediately thought of you been because
you brought it up the other day. But you were
talking about the Super Bowl and they were looking for
dancers to dance at halftime, and they weren't going to
pay the dancers. Well, guess what they're paying the dancers,
(27:05):
because there you go, the power of complaining pays off.
The dance community got whipped of this outrage and banded together,
and in fact, now professional dancers that are hired for
the Super Bowl halftime show will be paid. However, unless
I guess, you have to be part of some union
or something. If you're not a professional dancer. The amateur
(27:26):
dancers will not be paid, but the professional dancers that
will be involved in the Super Bowl halftime show will
be getting paid. So it's a great victory for the
dance community. But I hear that, as you said, not
all the dances will be paid, some of them only
if you're a pro, which means you paid dues to something.
I guess. So right now, there's somebody representing the NFL
going around to elementary school seeing if they have. Anybody
(27:48):
talented a dancing if they want to perform at the
Super Bowl probably so yeah, bringing some child labor there
make that happen. All right, Thank you for that. Eddie
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Vegas dot com. So, over the last couple of years
in sports, the sports media has been obsessed with like
I call it, identity sports. You know, identity politicis you
have to have to hire people for quotas, right, it's
very important. One of the big cheerleaders in that are
the people over dead Spin. They write a lot. I
don't really read dead Spin, but somebody sent me this story.
(28:30):
I thought it was SportsTalk Berry. I thought it was
SportsTalk Berry. And so they had a big story up
the other day slaying Mike McDaniel, the forty nine er
offensive coordinator who has been very popular on social media,
and they mocked him before his adorable news conferences and
all that is engaging answers. And here's what Deadspin wrote,
(28:56):
he says, you know, he's taking off all the boxes
to be the next trendy young white guy who takes
a head coaching position before one of the many deserving
black candidates, wrote dead Spin. Uh, Eddie, what is wrong
with that? Eddie? What is wrong with that? Writing by
dead Spin? Who's you know, celebrating the You know he's
(29:17):
a dumb white guy, so he shouldn't get a job.
But the white is bad? What is wrong with that? Eddie?
What do you think is wrong with that? I don't
know what is wrong with that. It turns out he's, uh,
he's bi racial. He's not He's not your traditional white dude,
So yeah, what what's the other half? Apparently this is shot.
I will admit to people at deadsman, this is shocking, Eddie,
(29:39):
considering the apparents of mc daniel. But uh, the trendy
young white guy over a deserving black candidate. McDaniel. Uh.
He there was a story written last March. I believe
it was that McDaniel March second. He was written by NBC,
a profile on him, and yeah, uh, he says here
(30:02):
McDaniel in the story may get this right. Here, he says,
I'm the only fair skinned person in all these pictures.
He said, My grandfather on my dad's side is black.
My dad's black, he said in the story. So yeah,
So dead Spin then had to scramble because they didn't
want McDaniel to be hired because he's a white guy.
But now that he comes from a black you know,
he's guy's dad's black. Now he's in. Now he's a
(30:23):
made man over a dead Spin. So they wrote, we
this is great. Do you imagine that, blooper, You write
a whole story slaying the guy because he's a white guy,
and then you find out his dad's black. Now you
got to change the story, right because it's identity sports.
So Deadspin had but they put an editor's note a clarification.
They said, we learned over after the publication of this
article that forty nine ers offensive quartered in to Mike McDaniel,
(30:45):
whom we described as a white guy, is in fact
by Rachel. The article's original text remains below. We regret
the error, tremendous editing over that tremendous fact checking. Good job, Yeah,
not quite as bad as the flores one. Do you
remember that before he got the job in Miami, there
was an outraged article about him being hired and well,
(31:08):
oh yes, yes, well yes, story just went by his
last name. Oh it's so these these are these people
are such losers that that right, this this crap. I
don't know if anybody reading it, but I I this
was outstanding. What an embarrassment. Had a shut dead Spin
down because of this? Oh my god, it's you know,
(31:29):
a simple Google search would have if you've done if
you did any research, you would have found the answer
that you needed. If you're writing a story about the
guy and slaying him. Uh. And now, now are they
gonna write a story on Detsmand since his dad's black?
Are they gonna write a story he should be hired
immediately as an NFL coach? Did he change it up? Now?
How's that game work? I don't I don't know how
(31:49):
that game. I don't play that game, so I don't
know how that game works. Anyway, it is the Ban
Maller Show. As we continue on, we're gonna have Maller
to the third degree coming up here in a minute.
Let's say, hello, do beer drinking Brian, who's in the
Great state of Missouri? Hello beer drinking Brian? What it's
not bad. Hey, what's going as half points? Still living
(32:13):
normal hours? No? No, okay, well I don't know. I
might have COVID, I'm you have or you can just
stay inside COVID or I got whr prison cold? You're
not sure what's one it is? Now? What are your
(32:34):
symptoms that like kennel cough? Yeah? Well nothing that a
little get old? You know something, something will take care of.
What are your symptom? I asked you a question. What
are your symptome? What? Even? No? I do have the cough,
I have the gray nose, the headaches, lower back, paint aches,
(32:57):
and who knows? It could be a cold. Back in
the old days, we call that a cold. Now people
call it cold exactly. That's why I'm saying, that's why
I haven't went in. Yeah, I'm like that with that man.
We didn't even get your sale from school for that
ship thing. Oh you can't say that, yeah, but thank you.
I don't know. Should be able. We're in a safe harbor.
We can say that, can't we, Roberto? No, I don't know,
can't we? I don't know? Eddie? Do you think I
(33:19):
don't think you over to uh half point? Okay? I
get blown up oh, all right, it's half point here.
He just said a word starts with an S. We
should be able to say it. Man, Hey, there she is.
Look at this one of our great queens of the show.
(33:39):
Half pint, Hello, half point. What have you been up to? Oh?
You know, meant get clean bag up. Yeah, I'm guessing
Brian didn't clean a damn thing on vacation. He did
not clean anything. Yeah, yeah, Now do you have any time?
You promised us before you went into the big house there,
(34:01):
you promised us that you were gonna do a little
song for us, a duet. I'm looking on that. All right.
Well we look forward to that and anytime you let
us know, we'll give you some airtime. You got that right.
I gotta get my drums all tuned up instead and
getting ready to go, gotcha? All right? Well, thank you
(34:21):
for checking in. You guys back for she's back for revenge. Jety,
watch out. Don't want to mess with this woman. She's
back better than ever. All right, Well, thank you. There
she goes at half point and beer drinking Bran, two
of our favorites there, just kind of checking in saying hello,
all right, it is the Ben Mallard Show. We're gonna
(34:43):
have Mallard to the third degree. Here is the instad trivia,
and here it is, Blank holds the record for most
yards gained as a receiver in a single NFL A
championship conference che actually actually post season if you get
Converence Championship game, single NFL postseason game. Again, Blank holds
(35:05):
the record for most receiving yards in a single NFL
postseason game. That is the Insta trivia. The answer next,
thank you. Be sure to catch live editions of The
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Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. He's
(35:28):
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(36:36):
coming up here Mallard of the third Degree with Ricky
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Here it is a blank holds the record for the
most receiving yards in a single postseason game. That is
(37:21):
the question. What is the answer? Malaprop guy got it right?
How dare him? Reek in Minnesota's going with John Taylor
as his answer, old forty nine er. Who else do
we have page down? Page down? Milkman Mike says, is
it Felexis at the annual Marine Ball? Know what you
mean by that? Who else do we have? Page down?
(37:42):
Page down? Don Hudson from David in Seattle? Who knows
where all the good restaurants are? Just Josh in Cincinnati,
going with Dusty Rhodes as his answer, James the machinists.
I don't think I'm gonna go there. Who else the
bad guy? Scott Hall from Rob in Vegas. Financial expert
(38:02):
Burne madeoff guess by the militia Twitter king? Who else
do we have page damn page down? Let's see can't
read that? See Justin and Cincinnati going with our next
Supreme Court Justice Judge Joe Brown as the answer Jimmy
Ray from Tampa Bay and Spokane. Gary guess by Alf
(38:25):
the Alien Opiner legends from back in the day, passed away,
Pat Tilley from Greg the real estate mogul in Baltimore. Eddie,
do you have an answer? Eddie? Yes, it's former New
York Giants wide receiver Phil McConkie. No, it's a great answer,
but no. I used this question every year in the playoffs,
and every year people don't usually get it right. Only
(38:46):
a few people did. Eric Molds of the Buffalo Bills
had two hundred forty yards receiving in nineteen ninety eight
against the Dolphins. That is the record, still here almost
twenty five years later. That is still the record. Here
we go, It's Meller. How about that? To the third degree,
this is one big Ben gets grail, Let's do it,
(39:09):
Ricky okay, Ben Cowboys oc Kellen Moore is not expected
to receive a head coaching offer from any of the
teams that he interviewed with. One report said teams are
questioning in his leadership style. Ben. How surprising is it
that Moore didn't get a gig? Well, considering that the
way the Cowboys botched the end of the game against
(39:29):
the forty nine ers. It's not really that surprising. That
was a big part of his body of work, and
it was a body blow. It took a little bit
of the star dust away from Kellen Moore and Jerry
Jones and his underlings spent a lot of time hyping
this guy up. And as far as the whole soft
spoken thing, I think that's a bunch of crap. You know,
that's a cop out. NFL owners all want guys that
(39:50):
sound like Joe Judge. How did that work out for
the Giants? Now, you do have to have some ability
as a leader, but it doesn't mean you have to
be loud. So that's that's bullcrap. Next, Ben, Mike Tyson
has claimed he still owed money from his comeback fight
with Roy Jones Junior fourteen months ago. Ben, do you
think we will see Tyson in another exhibition fight? So
(40:11):
I'm gonna go green light on his iron. Mike is
talking about retiring for good again. He's fifty five years old,
so the windows like the next five years or so
to make some kind of comeback, but the financials everything out.
But I believe ultimately Tyson we'll be back for another
fugazi sham exhibition fight. He'll have an itch to scratch,
and he knows he can get a quick payday. A
(40:33):
bunch of middle aged guys like me will venmow him cash.
So whenever he needs money, he can do it next.
So John Wall has been working out in Miami away
from the Houston Rockets. He isn't interested in losing money
in a buyout. Do you think we will see Wall
on the court again anytime soon? Well, certainly not in Houston.
So I don't know the solution. I mean, I know
the Lakers have been talked about as a possibility, hell,
(40:55):
even the Clippers. But he's making forty seven million, he's
got the same contract is Westbrook. He's got injury baggage
kind of similar Wall in Westbrook. They're kind of similar players.
So you're you're essentially trading one one problem for another
if you make that trade. But there it is. How
did we do Ricky? Honorable pass? Honorable pack. No, that's
(41:18):
more than an honorable pass. That's a winner. Twitter Winter
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