April 19, 2025 • 32 mins
Big Ben talks about Rory McIlroy finally winning the Masters and completing the Career Grand Slam, the Phoenix Suns firing Mike Budenholzer, Maller's Mountain of Money: Chris Stapleton Edition, and more!
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That is our lead. And we're going to start out
in the.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Woods of Georgia because that is where the big event
of the weekend took place.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And we're going there.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Why I watched it, so rather than just waste my time,
I'm going to talk about it because I watched the
site of the eighty ninth edition of The Masters. They
don't have fans, no, no, no, they're not fans there.
They have patrons at the Masters, the elites of the elites,
hanging out, schmoozing with one another. There was a record
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amount of pollen in the air everywhere, which meant the
sinus issues were popping up right and left. Now, I
don't know if you saw this or not, if you
watched any over the weekend. I usually consume very little
of the Masters early on. Part of that is because
it's not the easiestly the easiest thing to watch. You've
a lot of streaming things and whatnot. But by the
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weekend normally I'm more more engaged to it, depending on
other things I have going on. But I watched, and
so we watched so you would not have to the
events over the weekend. And it's our act of public service,
it's our way to give back. And it was actually
a doozy. It was not a event that sucked. It
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didn't It wasn't terrible. I assume you know by now
that Roy mackell won the Masters in a playoff over
Justin Rose there at the Augusta tournament there in Georgia,
and the course, the Beautiful Course, completes the career Grand
Slam his eleventh attempt, eleven years after I guess this
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is what twelve of the temp eleven years after the
last major championship. So it's been it's been a minute
over a decade since Roy McElroy won. And then he
fell down dramatically with raw emotion fell down to the
ground and he had his head.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Tucked between his arms. There was water flowing from his eyes.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Oh so dramatic drama off human sport athletic competition. Now
McElroy becomes the sixth player to claim the career Grand Slam.
And not only does Roy McElroy get the green jacket,
which most people don't really want a green jacket, but
there you do.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
You ever seen me wear a green jacket public? I've
never seen.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Anyone wear a green jacket public anyway at the Augusta
Tournament's big deal. So he got the green jacket, He's
got that and jumbo size check, one of those cartoon
checks for four point two million. Four point two million,
that's a jumbo size check right there. The runner up,
Justin Rose, the loser, first loser, he only got two
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point two million, so after taxes, that's like point two
after taxes, and twenty one million was dished out from
the tournament. They're not allowed to talk about that though
on the broadcast because they don't like to admit that
it's all about the money. They think it's about something else.
But that is the second major in a row where
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mister Rose has finished second so runner up doesn't get
it done. So let us discuss the events here. Do
you find how Roy McElroy got her done? And one
green jacket significant? How he had the lead going to
the back nine, gagged it and then ended up forcing
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the extra playoff and then ends up winning it.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
So I've got.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Steering wheel, bamboo and brand ambassador, and we will combine
all of these things together and we're gonna give you
a headache unless we don't.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
We're gonna try not to give you a headache. So
a do you find it?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
The question again, do you find how Roy McElroy won
the Master's significant? Well, yes, right now in the moment,
one hundred percent. And the way these things work over
the course of time, you're not gonna remember what happen.
You're gonna remember he won eight. You're not gonna remember
exactly the events of the day. But right now, in
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this moment, yes, we are remembering, and that is certainly
a big part of the store. So I'm nodding my
head yes to answer the question. There it will fade
over time. We only have so much space in our
little brains there to remember all this nonsense. But macelroy
was absolutely in control, and it was to the point
where I was like, oh, this is gonna be boring. Now,
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this is gonna be boring. But then I realized it's
golf and there are no bigger chok artists than golfers.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
The last day of a major, it is a.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Tradition, unlike any other golfers gagging on the back nine,
and there we.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Were set up yet again.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Originally after nine holes the broadcast, the tone was like,
this was a coronation for Roy McElroy. But in the
back of my head I was like, well, you know
he's got He's had some big gags and the old
slip on the banana peel. So for sixty eight of
the seventy two holes over the weekend, McElroy was a
dominant figure at Augusta National. And in those sixty eight holes,
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Roy McElroy was nineteen under par. Of course, the problem
is you play seventy two the other four holes, don't
ask the sixty eight halls where he was nineteen under.
That's one stroke off of Dustin Johnson's Master's record of
twenty under.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
But that was during the COVID.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Where there were no patrons and at the event and
all that stuff, So the conditions were different. But we
were waiting for that trapdoor to open up. We were
hoping that trapdoor would open up, and sure enough it did,
although it didn't open up all the way into the
pit of vipers because Roy McElroy ended up. If you've
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seen we only really talk about the majors here, but
there's been many missed putts. There have been many collapses.
And on cue right around the midway point there, Roy
McElroy sat, he moved over the seat, he moved over
to the driver's seat, and he got behind the steering wheel,
and he decided to drive the drive the struggle bus.
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And boy did he do it, almost completely into a ditch,
almost completely new dish. Driving the struggle bus, Roy bluwod
two shot lead in two holes at the beginning, but
then he got a four shot lead and on the
back nine in a matter if my mouther of math
is correct here, in the matter of not one, not two,
but three holes, that that was all gonzo. So he
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fed that up right away, and much like an elevator,
up and down, up and down, up and down, and
during the weekend. Now I mentioned sixty eight of the
seventy two holes. McElroy on his way to completing the
career Grand Slam was amazing. Nineteen hundred five. The other
four holes, not one, not two, not three, four double bogies. Now,
even if you're not a golf person, you know that's
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not good, right, double bogie not good? Two of them
on Thursday, but then he had none on Friday, none
on Saturday, but he made sure to have not one but.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Two on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And in the history of this event, the only person
to win with even three double bogies in the tournament
was the Walrs Craig Stadler years ago, and so that
means Roy McElroy had the most terrible shots in four
different holes double bogey, double bogie, double bogie, double bogie.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
And end up winning the tournament there so he went.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Also, he tied for the largest first round deficit, another
reason not to watch the first round of the Masters.
But down seven shots and he comes back and wins.
That is tied for the largest rally. Back now page two.
As for the main stream, the elitist golf media and
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their narrative, if you've been paying attention, it's essentially after
eleven years, eleven years without a major, what does this
victory say about Ry McElroy And.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
They are laying it on thick. I am talking.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Full bubble bath, full bubble bath for Rory McElroy, and
they're just over the top.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Now listen.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
It was a case of resilience, sure, but mcl kind
of liked the bamboo. He had the phrase of the
bamboo there the bamboo bends in the wind, and McElroy
certainly bent in the wind. He did not break. And
it's not a case where he just flat out was
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at the top of Suck Mountain for the last decade plus.
There's this misnomer that McElroy was just god awful, just
god awful, and then he came back and he won,
and it's like this great redemption story. And it was
his seventeenth start at Augusta, and the nerds have pointed
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out that that is the second most to get the
first win at Augusta. Sergio Garcia had gone nineteen consecutive Masters.
I think I think it was consecutive nineteen Masters starts
without without winning before he had. But the eleven year
gap now that is tied for the longest span between
major wins. However, again, he was not trash it wasn't
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garbage over that stretch. He won nineteen times on the
PGA Tour over those ten years, so he was averaging
It was eleven years, but he was averaging about two
about two wins per year, and there were a bunch
of other high finishes as well. He was only outside
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of the NERD Golf rankings, the World Golf rankings one
year out of those eleven years, so the most part
he was still among the top players in the money,
the top ten in the sport, and he had six
of those years where he was in the top three.
So again he was just like he was hanging around.
You make a lot of money at golf, not winning,
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but just kind of hanging out in the top ten.
You make a lot of money doing that. They pay
a lot of money. Rich people love golf. It's a
rich man sport. I went to go buy golf clubs,
obviously about buying golf clubs last year, and I went
to a golf shop and I saw how much they
wanted for new golf clips. I walked right out. I said,
I'm done. I don't like golf that much. I'm gonna
golf like once every six months at the most I
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ain't putting that kind of cash down on something I'm
gonna do once every six months. But it's a rich man,
elitist game, and that's why they have so much money.
You can finish in the top ten and you're good
to go. And we know he won a bunch of
tournaments McElroy. However, Roy McElroy, nobody pays attention to the
Waste Management Open other than when the hoodlams go there
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just get hammered and cause debauchery. But other than that,
it's like you're not watching these other tournaments. Only the
heart o golf people are watching. That's the issue. The
rank and file watch the majors and that's it, and
that's the problem with the sport. Now, last word, So
Jim Nance is part of the story here. Jim Nance,
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who is synonymous with this event. He has embraced it,
he is into it, he's all about it. So Jim
Nance made a couple of costs. There was a lot
of silence after Roy McElroy won the green jacket.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I think we have some audio.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Here that we're gonna play though, but his line after
McElroy got very emotional. Nance is being called out for
this take. A listen to the call on.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
This tass is his putter, he troubles to the sacred side. Yeah,
there's a lot of ambia nos. I don't know if
you could hear that. Play it again us here tass
is histter troubles to the sacred side.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So, Jim Nance, if you couldn't hear that because there's
a lot of ambient crowd noise there. Nance said he
I think he said he clutches his putter and then
he stumbles to the sacred sawd was what he said?
That last part, that is the key part of this
Jim Nance describing the emotion of Roy McElroy and that
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he stumbled to the sacred side. So how do you
rank this call? How do you rank this call? So
I've thought about some people very upset. How can you
say that it's just a stupid golf course and all
that stuff? I would argue, if you hire Jim Nance
to call a golf tournament or any sporting event, this
is what you're gonna get, right. That's who Jim Nance is.
That is the essence of Jim Nance. That if you're
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an officia NATO of his work, this is what you want.
That's the kind of bull crap you want from a
guy like Jim Nance, you know you're gonna get it.
Jim Nantz is like the brand ambassador of Cheetos, right.
It ain't easy being cheesy, but that's jim Nantz.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Man.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
The guy's just a cheese ball. He's always been a
cheese ball. And I've known a lot of guys like
that dude in the broadcasting business. There's a lot of
hard dudes like Jim Nantz. And hey, Nance is much
more successful than I'll ever be, so good for him,
but he's a hard Oh come on, he's like he's
like a puffy guy too in the booth, right, he's
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like at that dangerously cheesy I think was their slogan
back in the day for the cheese from Jim Nance.
And that's just the way it is. Listen for him,
I get it. This is the Mecca. This is what
he's known for, the Masters and all that. And so
if you want cheese, boom check, if you want extra surrupy, check,
Nance will make it extra syrupy for you. And it
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is amusing though, when you juxtaposed the event this weekend
and how we were in here on Friday before the
weekend and the story. Remember the story from round one
you talk about going full circle at the eighty ninth Masters.
So the Masters began on Thursday, and some no name
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golfer who had gone to Arizona State.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Treated the Sacred Sod.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
As Jim Nance likes to call it there as an
outhouse by taking a leak at Raised Creek.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
And then it.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Ends with the golfer on his hands and knees there
on the again sacred Sword of Augusta. So they have
certainly gone full circle.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
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The story that caught my attention, You kind of knew
it was coming, but it happened.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
It's from Pro Bouncy.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Ball, and the guillotine has fallen down, down, down, down down. Now,
the regular season ended on Sunday. There was nothing basketball
wise on Monday, and there's really nothing until the playoffs
start this weekend. And list you're into the for Gazy
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Playing Tournament, which is ridiculous, that will be going on
starting on Tuesday. But the wings of change howling, and
we start out in the Grand Canyon State where everything
under the sun is in play at this point, everything
under the sun. And if you have not been following
the game of musical chairs, by chance here maybe not.
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These Suns decided to whack. They played whack a mole.
They got rid of their coach, Mike Budenhozer. Coach Bud
gone see you later, persona non grada excommunicated from the
team Phoenix missing the playoffs when everyone gets in the
play the suck bag teams getting the playoffs, and the
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Suns could even get in the playing tournament, and so
they're out now. In a prepared statement released by some
empty suit for the organization in Arizona, they said that
competing at the highest level remains our goal, and we
failed to meet expectations this season. Our fans deserve better.
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Change is needed close quote, which is a nice way
of saying, we have no idea what we're doing. This
didn't work, so we'll try something else. We're gonna keep
throwing pasta against the wall until something sticks. Okay, So,
third consecutive, third consecutive offseason that Matt Ishbia, the very
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wealthy owner of the Phoenix Pro bouncy ball team is
in the business of trying to hire a coach. So
let us discuss. And before we look ahead, we must
look back. So did Mike Budenholzer get a raw deal
in Phoenix? Only there for one year and was in
Milwaukee when they won the championship. And when you win
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a title, you get that tag of having the championship
pedigree and all that, and so that's why the Suns
brought him in.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
As he lasted one year and then he's kicked out.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
So I've got tug boat, Beverly Hills, and Budweiser, and
we will combine all of these things together, every single
thing together, and we are going to make a cactus,
which is what the Suns, through Mike Budenholzer on a
cacti is what they did right there, all the prickly cactus,
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little parts of it.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Enjoy all that.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
So number there we go. So you got to start
up the band. Earlier, I said number, Well, you know
what this is? Okay, you know what season this is?
Now somebody's no, no, it's not the number one. Someon
would say it's spring.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Right, spraying that time of the year and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I would say it's the season of no as in,
uh no, this was not a raw deal. Not a
raw deal, not a raw deal. No no, no, no, no,
no no. And here's why, all right, this is the
opposite of a raw deal. What this is for Mike
Budenholzer is the American dream. It is the American dream.
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It is a sweetheart deal. It is it's a sweetheart deal.
Me explain why. Because he is holding the winning lottery
numbers to the Arizona Lottery. He's got them, and he
didn't buy a lottery ticket. He just happened to get
the ticket somehow popped into his hand, it did. Budenholzer
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accepted a five year contract for fifty million dead presidents
last offseason, so a year ago, less than a year ago. Now,
he attempted to agree, signed the docu sign there, got
the fifty million dollar contract, and he's gone after one year.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
And unlike most regular jobs, where if you have a
deal and you're done, that's it. You don't get a
bunch of money and you're gone and goodbye. In the
cartoonish world of pro bouncy ball and professional sports, what
happened here in a landlocked state of Arizona. Mike Budenholzer
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was given a tug boat. It was a golden tug boat,
and that golden tugboat to escape a sinking franchise, the
Pathetic Suns. And he was given forty million, forty million
to not coach a bunch of Prima donna a whole players,
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and that was his gift.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Does that sound like he got a rod?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Do you if I said, listen, you got to put
up for one year, you got to put up with this,
We'll get We'll get your forty million, and you don't
have to put up with it anymore, and you can
do whatever you want. You're good as long as you
don't trash the team. You get the forty million done, done,
And but wait, there's more, As every great infomercial says,
but wait, there's more. So Additionally, when he left the
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Bucks he had he didn't leave the Bucks. He got
let go by the box, he had sixteen million that
the Bucks owed him approximately, so that means, based on
just buyouts from the Milwaukee and Phoenix basketball team, Budenholzer,
by the time this deals up in Arizona will have
made fifty six million to not coach pro bouncy ball
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fifty six million to sit on your ass and get
hemorrhoids and not coach Budenholzer is financially as snug as
a bug in the rug.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
He is good to go now, page two.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
So when you have a coaching change in the NBA,
it always goes back to the players. There has never,
in the modern era been a coaching change that was
not based on recommendations by the players. It doesn't happen.
The players are the ones that drive the bus in
that business. And so which player shoulders the most blame
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for Mike Budenholzer not working out? There a quick departure
from the Suns Now. The rumors for the last couple
of months were that it was Kevin Durant, that Durant
was the schmuck and he was the problem. Well, now
we have a plot twist, and what is the plot twists?
Things thicken up here. So the plot twist is the
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whispers indicate that the palace intrigue is not focused on
Kevin Durant. No, no, no, that this was an issue
with Devin Booker. The plot thickens, Yeah, Devin Booker, supposedly,
Now Budenholzer had issues connecting with the locker room this season,
which is really just some of the players didn't like
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the way he was talking. That's how that goes, and
he did not resonate, did not motivate them to go
out there and do things that you were supposed to do,
that you shouldn't need be to be told what to do.
But nonetheless, so apparently his charismatic I say that with
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a winking or not, his charismatic approach did not win
the room. So Budenholzer's main flaw, the biggest issue the
Komodo dragon in the room for Mike Budenholzer was his
inability to get on the same page with Devin Booker.
And he had the hutzpa, as my grandfather used to say,
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the hoodspa to try to tell Devin Booker to on
the talk a just tone it down a couple of
decibel points. Just tone it down a little bit and
we'll be good to go. And you would have thought
that Mike Budenholzer had said, why don't we cut off
your right foot and that'll make the team better, And
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Devin Booker said, I like my right foot. I don't
I don't want to get rid of my right foot.
I'd like to keep my right foot, so why don't
we not do that? And then there was a problem.
So there you go. And it does remind me that
this cartoon image in my head, it's not a cartoon.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
It's actually a real movie.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
There's old movie Beverly Hills Cop back in the day,
and I think of that when I think of this,
like the coach of the Sons going up to Devin Bookers, Hey,
you know, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I want to make this thing work.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I just need you to not talk that much and
kind of tone it down a little bit, be one
of the leaders on the team.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
And then and then.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Devin Booker's like the character for Eddie Murphy in that movie,
the old movie Beverly Hills Cop. And he physically physically
blocked blocks the ears with his fingers.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
And says, la la la la la la la la
la la la la la la. I'm not here. I
can't hear you. La la la la la la la
la la.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Like that, Just like that, there you go, and Devin,
you are what your record says you are. This guy
is one of the epic coach killers. In the end,
is very bigger coach kill. We talk about Lebron James
as a coach killer, but Devin Booker not in a
big media market. But Devin Booker, you talk about toxic.
If you're a head coach, Holy crap. Oh man, if
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you're even in the same room with this guy as
a coach, you're in jeopardy of being fired with Devin Booker,
My god, it's unreal, the math on this. Seven coaches
in ten years, and most of the last well the
last part of that seven years or so, Devin Booker
has been a headliner for the Suns, and so he's
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obviously somebody is not easy to work with, and it's
it's one of those things. But your main job as
a the coach is just to lick the toes of
the star players. That's how you keep the job. Coaches
are completely irrelevant, yet they make It's such a weird
juxtaposition in the NBA because everyone agrees coaches don't matter,
they don't do anything, yet they get paid ten million
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dollars in some cases more than that per year, and
yet they're easily replaceable. Like it's not like, well, you
get rid of your top player. It's a big problem.
Every once might give rid of the coach, bring some
other nerd in, like the Nuggets. The Nuggets had Michael Malone,
who most people thought was a pretty good coach. They
hired this Beta Poindexter nerd who's a NEPO baby, as
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the interim coach, and we'll figure it out.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
It's like, it's like so bizarre that why would you
bother paying them that much. It's like the NFL determined
running backs don't need to get paid a lot of money,
so like only two or three running backs get paid
any money. Everyone else gets paid peanuts. It's very bizarre,
And congratulations to Matt Eshba. You have a semi the
worst team that money could buy. NBA version, the Phoenix
Suns the highest payroll in NBA history this past season.
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They totaled out at four hundred and forty two million.
How is that possible? Well, the payroll for the actual
player salaries was two hundred nineteen million. And then because
all the cheap, tightwatch, small market pathetic owners complained and.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Said, oh man, it's not fair.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
So they put all these taxes, these tariffs, if you will,
on the big money teams.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
In sports, and so in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
So they ended up paying one hundred and eighty four
million dollars in luxury tariff penalties, if you will, And
they couldn't even make the play in tournament.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Got be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Mellor Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
po Mailor's Mountain of Money? Hey, do you have what
it takes to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
And away we go.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Time now for Mahler's Mountain of Money? And who do
we have here? We've got Li's eeny meanie niney mo.
We've got Tyler in Boston. Who's gonna play?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Hello? Tyler? Welcome? What's going on? Benny?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
What's up? You want to play well with me? Ben?
You got koobl Loop? Who do you want to partner
up with?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Tyler?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
All right, Ben, let's take this?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
All right?
Speaker 3 (27:21):
We got it? Tyler? Very good? All right?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Hold on a second, and then uh let's see the
rando picked door number door number one or door number.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Two number two? Okay, fly Scott is uh hey is
this Tyler brilliant?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Boston?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I don't think he's brilliant.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
You're already attacking Tyler. Yeah, you're already attacking him. Come on,
no fun.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I'm a real bos Johnny, and I'm out here building
bridges and stuff so you can get around that.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Look at that. This guy's a real man. I'd like you,
bly Scott.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Did you fix to tn Bridge?
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Man?
Speaker 3 (27:55):
It took you like five years? Alright? I can't pick
number one? She picked up.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
You gotta play the game. We gotta play the game.
One of the categories hurry up?
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Are you up?
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Are you? This is the Chris Stapleton addition. He turns
forty seven today. Categories are tennessee, whiskey, traveler, was it
twenty six?
Speaker 3 (28:11):
And either way?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
All right?
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Which one do you want? Tyler?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Traveler?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
What do you say? Traveler? Yeah? Traveler? All right, what
do you want? Blind Scott? I'll take the other one?
All right, So we're gonna go to the bullpen. We
hadn't even played, yeah, number he hasn't even played. Hurry out,
you're wasting time, Anthony. Do you want to play? Yes, sir?
All right? What do you want? Uh?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Tennessee, whiskey? Was it twenty six? Or either way?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
All right? All right? Very good?
Speaker 5 (28:42):
And Tyler, we're on the board and here we go.
You picked a traveler? These athletes all played for seven
or more teams.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Are you ready ready to go? All right? Here we go.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
First and last name, running back known as he was
an MVP for the Minnesota Vikings, beat up a ky,
bounced around the NFL.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Yes, the boy Tyler only time.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
He was a center for the Orlando Magic not not shack,
not w Yes, that is true, all right. Known as
Eric Canada for the Raptors. One of the great slam
dunk artists of all time. Yes, mister big shot for
the Detroit Pistons, though he was picked, you know, he
was picked by the Celtics. Actually a guard. Yes, let's
(29:30):
see here. Senator Michael Jordan drafted him out of high school.
Was a disaster, threw a cake when he was with the.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Local No, no, kwawnny Brown?
Speaker 3 (29:43):
All right, go ahead, cool, one hundred points that's what
all right, Anthony? We've got was it twenty six? Right,
that's the one he chose?
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Yeah, alright, these athletes all wore or where number twenty six?
I need the first and last name, Anthony? All right,
forty five seconds, let's begin. He just rushed for over
two thousand yards for the Eagles. Yes, this guy was
the lead running back for the Steelers. He held out
for an entire season. Oh, all right, this guy, yes,
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that's correct, all right, all right, so this guy, this
guy was a defensive back for the Raiders.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Us a bold clue. Hall of famer. No, all right,
lit'sten well, hall of fame.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Third baseman for the Red Sox and then the later
the Tampa Bay Raised.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Don't answer, Tyler. Oh that was bad. That was that
was on me? All right, terrible job. How many points
is that?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Thirty?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Thirty? Anthony were back up?
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Do you want Tennessee whiskey or either way?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
These athletes for them, for you, Jesus were all born
in Tennessee. For forty five seconds, let's begin. Current quarterback
for the Jaguars, Her Lawrence. Yes, he is the center
field for the Dodgers. He used to be on the
Red Sox. Came over to trade guys. Yes, whatever.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
The current The current coach for the Lakers, Garbingham. Oh no, no,
I didn't even know the Lakers, all right, No, no, no.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
No, no, no, shut up?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
What he didn't I need to hear his answer. He's
not answering, he's googling. Oh my god, you're cheating. I
win the game. You went to the bullpit. Okay, you
cheated by going to the building.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
You're disqualified. I went job, Anthony, you got a golden take.
You're a real man out there building a bridge. Tyler,
you're a stunt unlike these other losers. The guy's actually
out there building a bridge. Tyler wings.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
You gotta goal the deck, you gotta call the ticket.
All the take, and he gets the golden ticket, Tiler.
He wins. Tyler
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The rare and appropriate, the rare and appropriate Malard monologue
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That is our lead. And we're going to start out
in the.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Woods of Georgia because that is where the big event
of the weekend took place.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And we're going there.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Why I watched it, so rather than just waste my time,
I'm going to talk about it because I watched the
site of the eighty ninth edition of The Masters. They
don't have fans, no, no, no, they're not fans there.
They have patrons at the Masters, the elites of the elites,
hanging out, schmoozing with one another. There was a record
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amount of pollen in the air everywhere, which meant the
sinus issues were popping up right and left. Now, I
don't know if you saw this or not, if you
watched any over the weekend. I usually consume very little
of the Masters early on. Part of that is because
it's not the easiestly the easiest thing to watch. You've
a lot of streaming things and whatnot. But by the
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weekend normally I'm more more engaged to it, depending on
other things I have going on. But I watched, and
so we watched so you would not have to the
events over the weekend. And it's our act of public service,
it's our way to give back. And it was actually
a doozy. It was not a event that sucked. It
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didn't It wasn't terrible. I assume you know by now
that Roy mackell won the Masters in a playoff over
Justin Rose there at the Augusta tournament there in Georgia,
and the course, the Beautiful Course, completes the career Grand
Slam his eleventh attempt, eleven years after I guess this
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is what twelve of the temp eleven years after the
last major championship. So it's been it's been a minute
over a decade since Roy McElroy won. And then he
fell down dramatically with raw emotion fell down to the
ground and he had his head.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Tucked between his arms. There was water flowing from his eyes.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Oh so dramatic drama off human sport athletic competition. Now
McElroy becomes the sixth player to claim the career Grand Slam.
And not only does Roy McElroy get the green jacket,
which most people don't really want a green jacket, but
there you do.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
You ever seen me wear a green jacket public? I've
never seen.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Anyone wear a green jacket public anyway at the Augusta
Tournament's big deal. So he got the green jacket, He's
got that and jumbo size check, one of those cartoon
checks for four point two million. Four point two million,
that's a jumbo size check right there. The runner up,
Justin Rose, the loser, first loser, he only got two
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point two million, so after taxes, that's like point two
after taxes, and twenty one million was dished out from
the tournament. They're not allowed to talk about that though
on the broadcast because they don't like to admit that
it's all about the money. They think it's about something else.
But that is the second major in a row where
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mister Rose has finished second so runner up doesn't get
it done. So let us discuss the events here. Do
you find how Roy McElroy got her done? And one
green jacket significant? How he had the lead going to
the back nine, gagged it and then ended up forcing
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the extra playoff and then ends up winning it.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
So I've got.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Steering wheel, bamboo and brand ambassador, and we will combine
all of these things together and we're gonna give you
a headache unless we don't.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
We're gonna try not to give you a headache. So
a do you find it?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
The question again, do you find how Roy McElroy won
the Master's significant? Well, yes, right now in the moment,
one hundred percent. And the way these things work over
the course of time, you're not gonna remember what happen.
You're gonna remember he won eight. You're not gonna remember
exactly the events of the day. But right now, in
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this moment, yes, we are remembering, and that is certainly
a big part of the store. So I'm nodding my
head yes to answer the question. There it will fade
over time. We only have so much space in our
little brains there to remember all this nonsense. But macelroy
was absolutely in control, and it was to the point
where I was like, oh, this is gonna be boring. Now,
(05:07):
this is gonna be boring. But then I realized it's
golf and there are no bigger chok artists than golfers.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
The last day of a major, it is a.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Tradition, unlike any other golfers gagging on the back nine,
and there we.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Were set up yet again.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Originally after nine holes the broadcast, the tone was like,
this was a coronation for Roy McElroy. But in the
back of my head I was like, well, you know
he's got He's had some big gags and the old
slip on the banana peel. So for sixty eight of
the seventy two holes over the weekend, McElroy was a
dominant figure at Augusta National. And in those sixty eight holes,
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Roy McElroy was nineteen under par. Of course, the problem
is you play seventy two the other four holes, don't
ask the sixty eight halls where he was nineteen under.
That's one stroke off of Dustin Johnson's Master's record of
twenty under.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
But that was during the COVID.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Where there were no patrons and at the event and
all that stuff, So the conditions were different. But we
were waiting for that trapdoor to open up. We were
hoping that trapdoor would open up, and sure enough it did,
although it didn't open up all the way into the
pit of vipers because Roy McElroy ended up. If you've
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seen we only really talk about the majors here, but
there's been many missed putts. There have been many collapses.
And on cue right around the midway point there, Roy
McElroy sat, he moved over the seat, he moved over
to the driver's seat, and he got behind the steering wheel,
and he decided to drive the drive the struggle bus.
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And boy did he do it, almost completely into a ditch,
almost completely new dish. Driving the struggle bus, Roy bluwod
two shot lead in two holes at the beginning, but
then he got a four shot lead and on the
back nine in a matter if my mouther of math
is correct here, in the matter of not one, not two,
but three holes, that that was all gonzo. So he
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fed that up right away, and much like an elevator,
up and down, up and down, up and down, and
during the weekend. Now I mentioned sixty eight of the
seventy two holes. McElroy on his way to completing the
career Grand Slam was amazing. Nineteen hundred five. The other
four holes, not one, not two, not three, four double bogies. Now,
even if you're not a golf person, you know that's
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not good, right, double bogie not good? Two of them
on Thursday, but then he had none on Friday, none
on Saturday, but he made sure to have not one but.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Two on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And in the history of this event, the only person
to win with even three double bogies in the tournament
was the Walrs Craig Stadler years ago, and so that
means Roy McElroy had the most terrible shots in four
different holes double bogey, double bogie, double bogie, double bogie.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
And end up winning the tournament there so he went.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Also, he tied for the largest first round deficit, another
reason not to watch the first round of the Masters.
But down seven shots and he comes back and wins.
That is tied for the largest rally. Back now page two.
As for the main stream, the elitist golf media and
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their narrative, if you've been paying attention, it's essentially after
eleven years, eleven years without a major, what does this
victory say about Ry McElroy And.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
They are laying it on thick. I am talking.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Full bubble bath, full bubble bath for Rory McElroy, and
they're just over the top.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Now listen.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
It was a case of resilience, sure, but mcl kind
of liked the bamboo. He had the phrase of the
bamboo there the bamboo bends in the wind, and McElroy
certainly bent in the wind. He did not break. And
it's not a case where he just flat out was
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at the top of Suck Mountain for the last decade plus.
There's this misnomer that McElroy was just god awful, just
god awful, and then he came back and he won,
and it's like this great redemption story. And it was
his seventeenth start at Augusta, and the nerds have pointed
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out that that is the second most to get the
first win at Augusta. Sergio Garcia had gone nineteen consecutive Masters.
I think I think it was consecutive nineteen Masters starts
without without winning before he had. But the eleven year
gap now that is tied for the longest span between
major wins. However, again, he was not trash it wasn't
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garbage over that stretch. He won nineteen times on the
PGA Tour over those ten years, so he was averaging
It was eleven years, but he was averaging about two
about two wins per year, and there were a bunch
of other high finishes as well. He was only outside
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of the NERD Golf rankings, the World Golf rankings one
year out of those eleven years, so the most part
he was still among the top players in the money,
the top ten in the sport, and he had six
of those years where he was in the top three.
So again he was just like he was hanging around.
You make a lot of money at golf, not winning,
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but just kind of hanging out in the top ten.
You make a lot of money doing that. They pay
a lot of money. Rich people love golf. It's a
rich man sport. I went to go buy golf clubs,
obviously about buying golf clubs last year, and I went
to a golf shop and I saw how much they
wanted for new golf clips. I walked right out. I said,
I'm done. I don't like golf that much. I'm gonna
golf like once every six months at the most I
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ain't putting that kind of cash down on something I'm
gonna do once every six months. But it's a rich man,
elitist game, and that's why they have so much money.
You can finish in the top ten and you're good
to go. And we know he won a bunch of
tournaments McElroy. However, Roy McElroy, nobody pays attention to the
Waste Management Open other than when the hoodlams go there
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just get hammered and cause debauchery. But other than that,
it's like you're not watching these other tournaments. Only the
heart o golf people are watching. That's the issue. The
rank and file watch the majors and that's it, and
that's the problem with the sport. Now, last word, So
Jim Nance is part of the story here. Jim Nance,
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who is synonymous with this event. He has embraced it,
he is into it, he's all about it. So Jim
Nance made a couple of costs. There was a lot
of silence after Roy McElroy won the green jacket.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I think we have some audio.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Here that we're gonna play though, but his line after
McElroy got very emotional. Nance is being called out for
this take. A listen to the call on.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
This tass is his putter, he troubles to the sacred side. Yeah,
there's a lot of ambia nos. I don't know if
you could hear that. Play it again us here tass
is histter troubles to the sacred side.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So, Jim Nance, if you couldn't hear that because there's
a lot of ambient crowd noise there. Nance said he
I think he said he clutches his putter and then
he stumbles to the sacred sawd was what he said?
That last part, that is the key part of this
Jim Nance describing the emotion of Roy McElroy and that
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he stumbled to the sacred side. So how do you
rank this call? How do you rank this call? So
I've thought about some people very upset. How can you
say that it's just a stupid golf course and all
that stuff? I would argue, if you hire Jim Nance
to call a golf tournament or any sporting event, this
is what you're gonna get, right. That's who Jim Nance is.
That is the essence of Jim Nance. That if you're
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an officia NATO of his work, this is what you want.
That's the kind of bull crap you want from a
guy like Jim Nance, you know you're gonna get it.
Jim Nantz is like the brand ambassador of Cheetos, right.
It ain't easy being cheesy, but that's jim Nantz.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Man.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
The guy's just a cheese ball. He's always been a
cheese ball. And I've known a lot of guys like
that dude in the broadcasting business. There's a lot of
hard dudes like Jim Nantz. And hey, Nance is much
more successful than I'll ever be, so good for him,
but he's a hard Oh come on, he's like he's
like a puffy guy too in the booth, right, he's
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like at that dangerously cheesy I think was their slogan
back in the day for the cheese from Jim Nance.
And that's just the way it is. Listen for him,
I get it. This is the Mecca. This is what
he's known for, the Masters and all that. And so
if you want cheese, boom check, if you want extra surrupy, check,
Nance will make it extra syrupy for you. And it
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is amusing though, when you juxtaposed the event this weekend
and how we were in here on Friday before the
weekend and the story. Remember the story from round one
you talk about going full circle at the eighty ninth Masters.
So the Masters began on Thursday, and some no name
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golfer who had gone to Arizona State.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Treated the Sacred Sod.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
As Jim Nance likes to call it there as an
outhouse by taking a leak at Raised Creek.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
And then it.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Ends with the golfer on his hands and knees there
on the again sacred Sword of Augusta. So they have
certainly gone full circle.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
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The story that caught my attention, You kind of knew
it was coming, but it happened.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
It's from Pro Bouncy.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Ball, and the guillotine has fallen down, down, down, down down. Now,
the regular season ended on Sunday. There was nothing basketball
wise on Monday, and there's really nothing until the playoffs
start this weekend. And list you're into the for Gazy
(15:40):
Playing Tournament, which is ridiculous, that will be going on
starting on Tuesday. But the wings of change howling, and
we start out in the Grand Canyon State where everything
under the sun is in play at this point, everything
under the sun. And if you have not been following
the game of musical chairs, by chance here maybe not.
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These Suns decided to whack. They played whack a mole.
They got rid of their coach, Mike Budenhozer. Coach Bud
gone see you later, persona non grada excommunicated from the
team Phoenix missing the playoffs when everyone gets in the
play the suck bag teams getting the playoffs, and the
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Suns could even get in the playing tournament, and so
they're out now. In a prepared statement released by some
empty suit for the organization in Arizona, they said that
competing at the highest level remains our goal, and we
failed to meet expectations this season. Our fans deserve better.
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Change is needed close quote, which is a nice way
of saying, we have no idea what we're doing. This
didn't work, so we'll try something else. We're gonna keep
throwing pasta against the wall until something sticks. Okay, So,
third consecutive, third consecutive offseason that Matt Ishbia, the very
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wealthy owner of the Phoenix Pro bouncy ball team is
in the business of trying to hire a coach. So
let us discuss. And before we look ahead, we must
look back. So did Mike Budenholzer get a raw deal
in Phoenix? Only there for one year and was in
Milwaukee when they won the championship. And when you win
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a title, you get that tag of having the championship
pedigree and all that, and so that's why the Suns
brought him in.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
As he lasted one year and then he's kicked out.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
So I've got tug boat, Beverly Hills, and Budweiser, and
we will combine all of these things together, every single
thing together, and we are going to make a cactus,
which is what the Suns, through Mike Budenholzer on a
cacti is what they did right there, all the prickly cactus,
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little parts of it.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Enjoy all that.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
So number there we go. So you got to start
up the band. Earlier, I said number, Well, you know
what this is? Okay, you know what season this is?
Now somebody's no, no, it's not the number one. Someon
would say it's spring.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Right, spraying that time of the year and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I would say it's the season of no as in,
uh no, this was not a raw deal. Not a
raw deal, not a raw deal. No no, no, no, no,
no no. And here's why, all right, this is the
opposite of a raw deal. What this is for Mike
Budenholzer is the American dream. It is the American dream.
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It is a sweetheart deal. It is it's a sweetheart deal.
Me explain why. Because he is holding the winning lottery
numbers to the Arizona Lottery. He's got them, and he
didn't buy a lottery ticket. He just happened to get
the ticket somehow popped into his hand, it did. Budenholzer
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accepted a five year contract for fifty million dead presidents
last offseason, so a year ago, less than a year ago. Now,
he attempted to agree, signed the docu sign there, got
the fifty million dollar contract, and he's gone after one year.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
And unlike most regular jobs, where if you have a
deal and you're done, that's it. You don't get a
bunch of money and you're gone and goodbye. In the
cartoonish world of pro bouncy ball and professional sports, what
happened here in a landlocked state of Arizona. Mike Budenholzer
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was given a tug boat. It was a golden tug boat,
and that golden tugboat to escape a sinking franchise, the
Pathetic Suns. And he was given forty million, forty million
to not coach a bunch of Prima donna a whole players,
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and that was his gift.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Does that sound like he got a rod?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Do you if I said, listen, you got to put
up for one year, you got to put up with this,
We'll get We'll get your forty million, and you don't
have to put up with it anymore, and you can
do whatever you want. You're good as long as you
don't trash the team. You get the forty million done, done,
And but wait, there's more, As every great infomercial says,
but wait, there's more. So Additionally, when he left the
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Bucks he had he didn't leave the Bucks. He got
let go by the box, he had sixteen million that
the Bucks owed him approximately, so that means, based on
just buyouts from the Milwaukee and Phoenix basketball team, Budenholzer,
by the time this deals up in Arizona will have
made fifty six million to not coach pro bouncy ball
(20:55):
fifty six million to sit on your ass and get
hemorrhoids and not coach Budenholzer is financially as snug as
a bug in the rug.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
He is good to go now, page two.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
So when you have a coaching change in the NBA,
it always goes back to the players. There has never,
in the modern era been a coaching change that was
not based on recommendations by the players. It doesn't happen.
The players are the ones that drive the bus in
that business. And so which player shoulders the most blame
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for Mike Budenholzer not working out? There a quick departure
from the Suns Now. The rumors for the last couple
of months were that it was Kevin Durant, that Durant
was the schmuck and he was the problem. Well, now
we have a plot twist, and what is the plot twists?
Things thicken up here. So the plot twist is the
(21:53):
whispers indicate that the palace intrigue is not focused on
Kevin Durant. No, no, no, that this was an issue
with Devin Booker. The plot thickens, Yeah, Devin Booker, supposedly,
Now Budenholzer had issues connecting with the locker room this season,
which is really just some of the players didn't like
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the way he was talking. That's how that goes, and
he did not resonate, did not motivate them to go
out there and do things that you were supposed to do,
that you shouldn't need be to be told what to do.
But nonetheless, so apparently his charismatic I say that with
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a winking or not, his charismatic approach did not win
the room. So Budenholzer's main flaw, the biggest issue the
Komodo dragon in the room for Mike Budenholzer was his
inability to get on the same page with Devin Booker.
And he had the hutzpa, as my grandfather used to say,
(22:57):
the hoodspa to try to tell Devin Booker to on
the talk a just tone it down a couple of
decibel points. Just tone it down a little bit and
we'll be good to go. And you would have thought
that Mike Budenholzer had said, why don't we cut off
your right foot and that'll make the team better, And
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Devin Booker said, I like my right foot. I don't
I don't want to get rid of my right foot.
I'd like to keep my right foot, so why don't
we not do that? And then there was a problem.
So there you go. And it does remind me that
this cartoon image in my head, it's not a cartoon.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
It's actually a real movie.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
There's old movie Beverly Hills Cop back in the day,
and I think of that when I think of this,
like the coach of the Sons going up to Devin Bookers, Hey,
you know, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I want to make this thing work.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I just need you to not talk that much and
kind of tone it down a little bit, be one
of the leaders on the team.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
And then and then.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Devin Booker's like the character for Eddie Murphy in that movie,
the old movie Beverly Hills Cop. And he physically physically
blocked blocks the ears with his fingers.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
And says, la la la la la la la la
la la la la la la. I'm not here. I
can't hear you. La la la la la la la
la la.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Like that, Just like that, there you go, and Devin,
you are what your record says you are. This guy
is one of the epic coach killers. In the end,
is very bigger coach kill. We talk about Lebron James
as a coach killer, but Devin Booker not in a
big media market. But Devin Booker, you talk about toxic.
If you're a head coach, Holy crap. Oh man, if
(24:33):
you're even in the same room with this guy as
a coach, you're in jeopardy of being fired with Devin Booker,
My god, it's unreal, the math on this. Seven coaches
in ten years, and most of the last well the
last part of that seven years or so, Devin Booker
has been a headliner for the Suns, and so he's
(24:54):
obviously somebody is not easy to work with, and it's
it's one of those things. But your main job as
a the coach is just to lick the toes of
the star players. That's how you keep the job. Coaches
are completely irrelevant, yet they make It's such a weird
juxtaposition in the NBA because everyone agrees coaches don't matter,
they don't do anything, yet they get paid ten million
(25:15):
dollars in some cases more than that per year, and
yet they're easily replaceable. Like it's not like, well, you
get rid of your top player. It's a big problem.
Every once might give rid of the coach, bring some
other nerd in, like the Nuggets. The Nuggets had Michael Malone,
who most people thought was a pretty good coach. They
hired this Beta Poindexter nerd who's a NEPO baby, as
(25:41):
the interim coach, and we'll figure it out.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
It's like, it's like so bizarre that why would you
bother paying them that much. It's like the NFL determined
running backs don't need to get paid a lot of money,
so like only two or three running backs get paid
any money. Everyone else gets paid peanuts. It's very bizarre,
And congratulations to Matt Eshba. You have a semi the
worst team that money could buy. NBA version, the Phoenix
Suns the highest payroll in NBA history this past season.
(26:09):
They totaled out at four hundred and forty two million.
How is that possible? Well, the payroll for the actual
player salaries was two hundred nineteen million. And then because
all the cheap, tightwatch, small market pathetic owners complained and.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Said, oh man, it's not fair.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
So they put all these taxes, these tariffs, if you will,
on the big money teams.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
In sports, and so in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
So they ended up paying one hundred and eighty four
million dollars in luxury tariff penalties, if you will, And
they couldn't even make the play in tournament.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
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po Mailor's Mountain of Money? Hey, do you have what
it takes to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
And away we go.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Time now for Mahler's Mountain of Money? And who do
we have here? We've got Li's eeny meanie niney mo.
We've got Tyler in Boston. Who's gonna play?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Hello? Tyler? Welcome? What's going on? Benny?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
What's up? You want to play well with me? Ben?
You got koobl Loop? Who do you want to partner
up with?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Tyler?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
All right, Ben, let's take this?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
All right?
Speaker 3 (27:21):
We got it? Tyler? Very good? All right?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Hold on a second, and then uh let's see the
rando picked door number door number one or door number.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Two number two? Okay, fly Scott is uh hey is
this Tyler brilliant?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Boston?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I don't think he's brilliant.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
You're already attacking Tyler. Yeah, you're already attacking him. Come on,
no fun.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I'm a real bos Johnny, and I'm out here building
bridges and stuff so you can get around that.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Look at that. This guy's a real man. I'd like you,
bly Scott.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Did you fix to tn Bridge?
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Man?
Speaker 3 (27:55):
It took you like five years? Alright? I can't pick
number one? She picked up.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
You gotta play the game. We gotta play the game.
One of the categories hurry up?
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Are you up?
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Are you? This is the Chris Stapleton addition. He turns
forty seven today. Categories are tennessee, whiskey, traveler, was it
twenty six?
Speaker 3 (28:11):
And either way?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
All right?
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Which one do you want? Tyler?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Traveler?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
What do you say? Traveler? Yeah? Traveler? All right, what
do you want? Blind Scott? I'll take the other one?
All right, So we're gonna go to the bullpen. We
hadn't even played, yeah, number he hasn't even played. Hurry out,
you're wasting time, Anthony. Do you want to play? Yes, sir?
All right? What do you want? Uh?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Tennessee, whiskey? Was it twenty six? Or either way?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
All right? All right? Very good?
Speaker 5 (28:42):
And Tyler, we're on the board and here we go.
You picked a traveler? These athletes all played for seven
or more teams.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Are you ready ready to go? All right? Here we go.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
First and last name, running back known as he was
an MVP for the Minnesota Vikings, beat up a ky,
bounced around the NFL.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Yes, the boy Tyler only time.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
He was a center for the Orlando Magic not not shack,
not w Yes, that is true, all right. Known as
Eric Canada for the Raptors. One of the great slam
dunk artists of all time. Yes, mister big shot for
the Detroit Pistons, though he was picked, you know, he
was picked by the Celtics. Actually a guard. Yes, let's
(29:30):
see here. Senator Michael Jordan drafted him out of high school.
Was a disaster, threw a cake when he was with the.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Local No, no, kwawnny Brown?
Speaker 3 (29:43):
All right, go ahead, cool, one hundred points that's what
all right, Anthony? We've got was it twenty six? Right,
that's the one he chose?
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Yeah, alright, these athletes all wore or where number twenty six?
I need the first and last name, Anthony? All right,
forty five seconds, let's begin. He just rushed for over
two thousand yards for the Eagles. Yes, this guy was
the lead running back for the Steelers. He held out
for an entire season. Oh, all right, this guy, yes,
(30:17):
that's correct, all right, all right, so this guy, this
guy was a defensive back for the Raiders.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Us a bold clue. Hall of famer. No, all right,
lit'sten well, hall of fame.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Third baseman for the Red Sox and then the later
the Tampa Bay Raised.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Don't answer, Tyler. Oh that was bad. That was that
was on me? All right, terrible job. How many points
is that?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Thirty?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Thirty? Anthony were back up?
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Do you want Tennessee whiskey or either way?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
These athletes for them, for you, Jesus were all born
in Tennessee. For forty five seconds, let's begin. Current quarterback
for the Jaguars, Her Lawrence. Yes, he is the center
field for the Dodgers. He used to be on the
Red Sox. Came over to trade guys. Yes, whatever.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
The current The current coach for the Lakers, Garbingham. Oh no, no,
I didn't even know the Lakers, all right, No, no, no.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
No, no, no, shut up?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
What he didn't I need to hear his answer. He's
not answering, he's googling. Oh my god, you're cheating. I
win the game. You went to the bullpit. Okay, you
cheated by going to the building.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
You're disqualified. I went job, Anthony, you got a golden take.
You're a real man out there building a bridge. Tyler,
you're a stunt unlike these other losers. The guy's actually
out there building a bridge. Tyler wings.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
You gotta goal the deck, you gotta call the ticket.
All the take, and he gets the golden ticket, Tiler.
He wins. Tyler
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