April 25, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about who gets the blame for the Nuggets in their blowout loss to the Clippers in Game 3, who the biggest villain in Memphis is after the Grizzlies blow a huge lead to the Thunder, Pistons coach J.B Bickerstaff's gripe with the officials, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. It's our number two. On this Friday,
we were up all night recording this podcast. Pro Bouncy
Ball the topic du jour this hour and hour number two,
and we start out with the Clippers, who absolutely spanked
the Nuggets. Who gets the blame for the Nicola Jokic
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Nuggets as they were run off the court by the
people's team, the Clippers led by the Beard James Harden.
And in addition to that, in Memphis, the Grizzlies blew
a twenty nine point lead. Who's the biggest villain for
the Grizzlies blowing that lead? And what will this performance
mean big picture for the future of John Morant who
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left that game early with an injury. We'll talk about that. Also,
do you think the Pistons and coach JB. Bickerstaff have
a compelling case against the officials a controversial call late
in that win for the Knickerbockers. We'll talk about that
as well, and a whole lot more. Here it is
our number two. Line them up and clip them down.
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Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
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out side by side, side by side here very exciting.
So our lead this hour is gonna change up. We'll
get back to the NFL Draft. I know I got
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a full board, not that that dictates what we talk about.
We have a full board of people that I assume
want to talk about the NFL Draft. But our lead
this hour from the Pro Bouncy Ball playoffs. While the
NFL Draft was going on.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And on and on and on and on and on
and on.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
In sleepy Green Bay, the basketball world was focused on playoffs. Yeah,
now I was watching both. I had the ability to multitask, Yeah,
I multitesk, and my right hand was getting a workout
thanks to the magic box there. I was going back
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and forth between the NBA playoff games and the NFL Draft.
And the great thing about the NFL draft, you know,
there's nothing actually happening. There's just a lot of smooching
and slobbering all over the players being picked. And if
you're depending what you watched or if you listened to
the covers here on Fox Sports Radio, there's a lot
of chatter about players that should be picked and whatnot.
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So we watched so you would not have Do we
start out in the.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Hood in Inglewood, Kawhi Leonard, Kawhi Leonard and James Harden
teaming up poetry in motion.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Kawhi did not crossover. I had this thing with DraftKings.
I was trying to get him over twenty five. He
did not get to where I want to get. But
Kawhi Leonard had twenty one points, eleven rebounds, and the Clippers.
I went back and I checked it is official. I
can use this word. They vaporized Nicola Jokicch Jeff and
Denver's Nuggets by thirty four points. If you win a
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playoff game by over thirty points, that is a vaporized win,
is what that is. Clippers won one seventeen to eighty three,
one seventeen to eighty three. They have a two games
to one lead. They're now two wins away from advancing
to the second round of the playoffs. Here, James Harden
was great in the first half. Norman Powell Storman Norman,
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who was as stiff in Denver, played well. They h
had twenty points. Powell played well in the second half.
Hard and played well in the first half. But the
better store is in the losing locker room. So that
is where we will begin, and we will discuss the
question who gets the blame, who gets the blame for
the Nicola yo Getch nuggets. So I've got Johnny Cash,
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concrete and leafy greens, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make some
rocky Mountain oysters, which are a more enjoyable experience than
watching the way the Nuggets played in that game. Last night,
So numb burn? Can I get a numb burn? This
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was a team effort. The entire team sucked at a
time you cannot suck a team appropriate enough of jokers,
the Clippers steam engine, the steamboat, Clipper Ship cruising. They
did trail early in the game, and then once they
went gangbusters and they put the pedal to the metal,
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they ended up leading by as many as thirty four
points on their way to the domination situation. Sloppy defense,
sloppy defense by Denver, the Clippers home court advantage that
the people of Denver love to talk about, the altitude
and how tough that is. Into It Dome, the into
It Dome, the Clippers have never lost the playoff game
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at the end to It Dome. And as far as
pointing the finger of shame and blame and all that stuff.
It's a Johnny Cash tune, a classic, And I'm a
big Johnny Cash fan from obviously he's not around anymore
but been gone for years, but I love his music.
So it's a Johnny Cash tune. Hey Porter, Hey Porter,
would you tell me the time? Because I don't think
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you got there for the start of the game, Hey Porter,
And how much longer. Will it be till we cross
the Mason Dixon line because you're going on vacation. Hey Porter,
that would be Michael Porter Jr. This guy Jeff and
Denver called up this Nuggets apology. Who's hurt? He's hurt. Now,
we have a rule if you're unable to play. It's
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tough to criticize in a playoff environment if you don't play.
But if you play, and you play like you are
in the cockpit of the vomit comet, fair game, fair game?
Does anyone disagree? No one's raising their No one disagrees.
So Michael Porter Junior was not only a basketball player.
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He was horrible. He shot two of nine from the
floor and it seemed like it was worse than that,
and was just dead weight when he was on the court.
It was, and he played thirty plus minutes. It was
like the Clippers were playing five on four. He was
an albatross, and as expected, Russell Westbrook returned to his
alter ego west Brick, who couldn't see that one coming.
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It was beautiful watching the Clippers deep fry the Nuggets
as the Clipper fans, the greatest fans in basketball, mocked
Nikola Jokic, the Clipper super fans, the greatest fans section
in all the NBA. The wall there, the section that
was closest to the Denver bench. They wore hats that
were horse hats, mocking, mocking Nikola Jokic, who didn't seem
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to mind too much. All right, Now, pitch two to Memphis,
where the Grizzlies were styling and profile profiling. I mean,
Rick Flair was happy. This is a classic right styling
and profiling against OKC. This was the game to win.
Having a gentleman's sweep, a team that lost by fifty
one points built up. The Grizzlies had a twenty nine
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point lead. Twenty nine point lead, and then the thing
happened that can't happen, and it happened, and it was
snapcrackle pop. Jah Morant was KOed. Jah Morant got the
knockout blow a left hip injury. He took a hard
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foul underneath the basket. It happened late in the first half.
And then the unthinkable, the unimaginable, the impossible took place.
And it was Ched Holger, who looks like Skeletor, who scored.
He kept hitting three points shots he had twenty three
of his twenty four points in the second half. The
thunder making some noise there is they end up body
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slamming the Grizzlies and they now are up three games
to none. So who is the biggest villain? Who is
the biggest villain for the Grizzlies Blowing a twenty nine
point lead not the biggest blown lead in history of basketball.
The Golden State Warriors of Stephan Curry actually hold that record.
The people's team, the Clippers came back and beat them,
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but five six years ago. So many will say that
it's all John Morant's injury, and that's why, you know,
that's the villain. He got hurt. Just Buzzard's luck, right,
Buzzer's luck for Memphis. However, I believe in accountability. I
believe in accountability, and all those Memphis guys. Last I
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checked our NBA players. Maybe I'm wrong on that. Maybe
some of them are not NBA plays. They just they
want to raffle and they were out there in NBA uniforms.
But they're all supposedly NBA players. How about you play
like it? How about you act like it right? How
about you not be a gutlass Puke. The one that
disappointed me the most because I love the guy's name,
Desmond Bain. I'm a fan. I liked the name. I
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didn't really like the game in the second half. Desmond
Main took ten shots in the second and half with
Jah Moran out, he only made two. He only made two.
He was the de facto top player. Scottie Pippen's kid
was actually playing well for a while, and he started
missing shots. Memphis shot twenty five percent in the second
half from the floor and somehow fifteen percent from three
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point range. So what will this performance? Blowing a twenty
nine point lead at home in a playoff game, What
does this mean? Big picture? Big picture for Jah Moran?
What does it mean? So think of this like concrete.
Think of this like concrete. It is cementing that Ja
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Morant is going to ask for a trade out of Memphis.
He's going to pack up his air gun, his bazooka,
his fake bozuka, his fake hand grenades, and all his
other fake weaponry, his fake numbschucks, all of those air
weapons that he has there, the finger gun, all that stuff,
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and say I'm done, I'm out. I can't play with
these stiffs, the flotsam and jetsam that are on this team.
I gotta get out of here, so book it, dan Oh. Now, meanwhile,
final point we go to Motown is where we go
the end.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Of the road?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Or is it the end of the road. The Pistons
got to win in New York, so they were trying
to go up to one in this series. However, somebody
gave smelling salts to kitty cat. Carl Anthony Towns, the
man that vanished in the second half, a total loser
in that last game, came back with vengeance. Early on
in the game. He scored eleven of his thirty one
points in the first quarter. Nicks came out, set the mood,
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got to set the move, little candlelight dinner there set
the mood. And then Jalen Brunson had twelve of his
thirty points in the fourth to help the Knickerbockers squeeze
past the Pistons by a couple of points. And so
New York now up two games to one. They get
home court advantage back, so that means if they just
went back in Midtown Manhattan, they'll advance to the next
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round of the playoffs. Game four is not until Sunday
in Detroit, so they got a couple of days off there.
The New York win, though, was not without controversy. You
saw the end of the game. Detroit coach JB. Bicker
Staff was up in arms. He was infuriated, he was
outraged with the officiating. A couple of calls. Now the
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one that we really want to focus in on, because
I thought this was the worst of the worst. Bigger
Staff was bit and broken because of a sideline inbound
passed the Knicks made to Jalen Brunson on It was
on the Piston's end of the floor. I'm gonna try
to describe this. If you're blind, clo, you know, just
close your imagine, open your imagination and try to play
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along here. So bicker Staff upset sideline play on the
Detroit side of the court, inbound ball to Jalen Brunson.
Five point one seconds remaining. Knicks had a three point lead.
Brunson receives the out of bounds pass on the Piston
side of half court. He then takes his his first
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dribble in the back court. Now, I'm from the old country,
and that's called over and back. That's illegal. That's illegal
unless the team the NBA wants to win does it,
and then it's not illegal. Tada yeah, uh so bigger
Staff was complay. He said, if you catch the ball,
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have possession and put it down to me that possession
is in the front court, which, by the way, it is.
Do you think that the Pistons coach JB. Bickerstaff has
a compelling case against the NBA officials for what happened?
So I'm nodding my head. I'm nodding my head. Yes. Now,
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now how do we know this? The reason I believe
it is a compelling case is the explanation from the
crew chief, who commented to a pool reporter who stated,
this is from the NBA crew chief. They said, Hey,
go out there. The media is upset, the fans are upset.
They're making waves online. So go out there and calm
everything down. So this Drabbroni comes out and says Rule four,
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section G six, the front court back court status is
not obtained until a player with the ball. A player
with the ball has established a positive position in either half.
In this instance, he said, the crew chief during the
throw in the last two minutes of the fourth period
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in the last two minutes of any overtime period. All right,
so let me use my mather Rosetta stone. What does
that mean? That is leafy greens. That is leafy greens.
That is a big bowl of word salad, word salad,
mumbo to the jumbo, mumbo to the jumbo. Not that
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it matters. Okay. So while I I am nodding my
head yes to the question of whether or not the
Pistons have a compelling case, I believe they do, I
am also shaking my head no. If you ask me
does it matter? And it doesn't matter because here's what
the NBA is gonna say. They're gonna say, are bad,
are bad? Sorry? Not sorry? Psych no doovers. All sales
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are final, All sales are final. Sca roue you, that's
what they're gonna say. Likely not in that language. They'll
use some different language, but it's gonna be scarrou you
is what they're gonna say. Anyway, It is the Ben
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fan And now back to the yasspackery. Well back to it,
and don't forget. We're a little over a month away
from the Malor Meet and greet. It'll be in Vancouver,
British Columbia. We're going to Canada.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Been on.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Been on there for many, many years, and I'm excited.
I've never been to Vancouver. Gonna have a great time.
We're fired up to meet all the fans of the
show in Vancouver and hang out. Gonna go to my
first professional soccer game, Gonna pop my cherry on that.
So that's exciting. I still don't have the date. I
got to get the date on that coop and the information.
But we're gonna be there in Vancouver. I think I
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should probably know. I think it's the what is it
the final? I know, but the meeting, there's two days
they can meet us, like we're not We're very important.
People are in it. We can't just be available all
the time. Have to go out and experience the culture,
the culture of Vancouver, so we can't just be expected.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Have you made the request for the day off yet?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
No, I'll wait till the day before.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
Oh okay, I wonder if I can do the same thing.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I mean, I mean yeah, I think that's so management knows. Yeah, yeah,
they're aware.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, they're very happy. I never I get complaints. I'd
never take vacation days. They're like, why didn't you take vacation?
They don't like that.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
Yeah, this might be a community service day, that's your point.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Well, yeah, the Community Spirit Day it is.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Yeah, that's exactly what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
We're doing international relations, international relations, North American, the North
American Brotherhood. Tell me I'm wrong, No, you're absolutely right.
Would it be wrong if I bring a suitcase just
to fill with those cheese things from Vancouver because I
don't have to pay the tariff when I come.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
No, I think that is very okay.
Speaker 9 (20:52):
Just bring a duffel bag, good idea, so you can
fit that inside your suitcase, and then on the way back,
just get that little forty five dollars fee.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
There you go. So on that Thursday and the last
week and we will be all hanging out at a
establishment in Vancouver, so we'll give you more details.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
That is the tags.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Loraine's gonna have name. So that'll be the twenty ninth,
that Thursday night at a restaurant there in Vancouver. And
then there's also a game on the thirty first of
May that we will be hanging out at soccer game. Yeah,
is it the white Caps?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Is that that is correct? The white Yeah, the Vancouver
white Caps, Yeah, versus.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Portland. Uh, I think it's the Timberwolves.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
But let me, I can't be that there's already the
Minnesota timber.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Let me double check that last team Timbers, Timbers, Timbers.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
You know what, at the end of that game, we're
gonna be saying timber because they're losing. My white Caps
are gonna win. Who's on the team? Coop? Can you
name one player on the white Caps?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
No, I don't know that. I could name one player.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
In Messi on the team. He's in my Yeah, yeah,
I know that, I know that one. That's the only
person I can name in the entire league.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Beckham, he's retired.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Ronaldo, Yeah, I think he's on the MLS.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Kobe Jones.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Oh, was he on the US soccer team?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
No, I think it was, but he was. Also he
was on the Galaxy back in the day.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Was he seventy? How old is he's got old? He is?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Let's see, he's got fifty four.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Oh my god, he's still playing? No, no, no, I
was like, wow, they really they extend their careers.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Man, I just I just threw a name out there
that I remember.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah. And so the goal was to eat as many
cheese curds. I've been formed, I've informed the wife. I said, listen,
I know you've got this fugeesy diet you got over there,
but we eaten a lot of cheese curds pretty much
all weekend. Uh and and if I need anything else,
like those cheesy things in the cheese.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Curds, should we rate them?
Speaker 9 (23:06):
Should we go to different places that like feature cheese curds.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
We can do like a video like a that sounds
like so much fun.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
I love cheese curds.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, yeah, there's that's that's the well. It's actually from Quebec,
but it's Canada, man, so it's like it's all gravy. Yeah,
I demand gravy. Demand the gravy. Yes it is the
Ben Maddischow will take some calls here.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
Shannon Sharp's girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Said, okay, oh man, I.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Want to talk about this on my podcast today. But
I got an email. With every one of those text messages,
I ended up on a list, and I don't even
know how I ended up on the list. Like I
used to do a gossip website years ago, so my
email still floats around on some of these websites and
or some of the PR people. And I ended up
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getting an email from from Shannon Sharp's attorney. I was
on a list. It's not like you just said it
to me. But yeah, it's got everything, and it's just
it's unbelievable. I mean, there's nothing, nothing to the imagination
at all.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Anyway, if I could real quick, Ben, Yes, going back
to the Meet and Greed here, the Vancouver Meet and.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Greed, the big the first one of twenty twenty five,
the first international mallor meet and greet that we're doing.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
I hope to see you there.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I just I just wasn't like curiosity, you know, got
the best of me. I just checked it out right now. Currently,
the Vancouver white Caps are number one in the Western Conference.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
You didn't say that, right, they're number one. That's right,
number one, dude, And we are gonna they're gonna win
the championship this year. They're gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
They're gonna take home the Lombardi Trophy this year. It's
gonna get it done right there. It's not called the
Lombardi Trophy.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
But what is the trophy called, Ben?
Speaker 7 (24:57):
It is?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Let me tell you. It's called the Giant Ball. Is
what they called just the jam ball. Everyone wants to
get the big ball, like and you want to get
the big ball. That's what they say. Let's say some calls.
Let's go to who do we have your aeny meeni
miney mode. Let's say alo to E dog who's in
New York? Hello E dog on Long Island? Hello, E Dog.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Hey dude, I got a great soccer story for you. Okay,
back in the day when I was on the Comak
travel soccer team. Were a player on that team, and
his dad wrote through a newspaper and he got the
New York Arrows to play sacker with us in the arena. Okay,
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and I want to say that also, wait wait wait.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Wait wait wait wait wait dog? Did they accept Did
they accept the offer?
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Yes, they did. We played with them. We put up
a good fight, but I think they beat us like
thousands and one.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Well, very competitive game, very very competitive game. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
And I sued the only goal.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
He did because they pulled. The other team felt bad,
so they pulled their goalie. Is that why you scored?
Speaker 7 (26:08):
Yeah? I had her friend in high school and his
dad player on the team, and everybody on his team
scored a goal, so he shattered in his own net.
He's the wise guy. Anyway, there was a player in Highlight.
His name was Shabbat.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
He's a good Jewish guy. Shabbat was his last name. Shaloon.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Yeah, then we shoon because he used to kick the
players off the court.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
And Oh, I ruined your joke, dude, I ruined your joke.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Well, he probably heard me when I was talking to
you online.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Oh yeah, that's probably what happened. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Anyway, me and Jojo back in the day, we went
to the No Dose concert. Now do you know why
they called it the does concert? No No?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Why is that?
Speaker 7 (26:57):
Because they think both any money? And Djoko was mad
me because he was dancing with a girl and she
stopped dancing with him and she started dancing with ing.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Well that's kind of rude of her. Why did she
do that?
Speaker 7 (27:08):
Because I was looking and I had a great personality.
Even Lorena would say so, right, Lorena, Yes, I.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
Hate when that happens.
Speaker 9 (27:15):
Oh, Man, when you're expected i'd have a good personality.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Yeah, it's like having a target on your back.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, you know, yet again, you are all over the place, man,
You're bouncing around, You're bouncing. You've gone You've told the
story about a soccer team, You've told shabatcha lom joke.
You're now telling a story about Joe Dog and you
and the two dogs together and some woman who I
guess was a bigger dog because she left Joe Dog
for you. And it's like you and.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
I was browsing around too. I told you. Can I
tell you why that that comes in child Vida, the
saying browsing around? There tell you that one.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
No, I don't think. I don't think I remember.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
That because I went through a store and I was
I was like looking around, and again goes, no, you
can browse around. So now it was a motorcycles sort
them guys on a motorcycles, you know, go buy I
assure them say I'm browsing around, and they give me
the high fives.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Oh okay, all right, I got I gotta thank you,
thank you. There's a dog that's a a dog from
New York checking in. It's our guy, the dog.
Speaker 8 (28:20):
I want to do a meet and greet in New York.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (28:24):
By I've never been to New York.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
You've never been in Manhattan, You've never been.
Speaker 10 (28:28):
In the city.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
You got to go. Good luck you to take you
three hours to sit in traffic just to get from
the airport into the city.
Speaker 8 (28:34):
It's wonderful, sounds lovely.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
That's why do you take the train? I guess bring
you bring protection. You'll be all right now New York's fine.
That's all right. It depends where you go, depends where
you go. Anyway, Let's go back to the calls. It
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he's doing you know what he's doing right now, He's
doing cosplay. He's pretending to be hollering. James from Minnesota.
Now I have met Darryl and his father. I met
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and Greet That we did last November and he did
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not snore during that meet and Greek it's unfortunate. Right, well,
thank you, Derrel good good dreams, all right, bye bye.
Let's say hello to not a fan. Not a fan
is in beautiful Napa where the property values are high. Hello,
not a fan?
Speaker 10 (30:06):
Well, hey man, this is William and uh, well, this
is not a fan. Sorry.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Oh, you gave your name away. You already blew your
cover William. You already gave your cover away. Why would
you do that? William?
Speaker 7 (30:19):
First?
Speaker 10 (30:19):
First thing, Well, because I'm so used to be calling William,
be called William, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
But why do you want to be called not a fan?
Speaker 10 (30:27):
Well, I'm not a sports fan, but I like talk radio.
I keep it on all the time. And uh and
I really like your show.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I do thank you number one number What come on, Loraina?
Give him the jingle? Do it again? No, he's gonna
say it. You gotta say it, Lorena.
Speaker 10 (30:50):
Say it number one. We can do. We could do
that all night.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
So, just for the record, this guy whose name is
not William, it's not a fan, does not like sports
but likes a show which is plausibly about sports. Is
that correct?
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (31:12):
Good I'm learning a lot about sports.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
By listening to Okay, well maybe maybe i'll No, you won't.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
How did you find the show? Did you? Did you
do the old school scan the dial thing, like, how
would one find it?
Speaker 10 (31:26):
Pruising the dial, perusing the dial? I came across in
the middle of the night, and that's a perfect place
for you. It's great.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
No are you saying I'm not qualified to work when
the sun's upstirs that? What you're saying, well, sunds up.
Speaker 10 (31:40):
Guys not as good they're they're good, not as good.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Well, you know, you know what they're good at making money.
They make a lot more money than those guys that
work overnight.
Speaker 10 (31:49):
Yeah, but there's other things besides money in this world,
you know, and being a being a great talker and
comedian good stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Well, that's a ringing doors, you know what. You'll never
call the show again. But I'm giving you a golden ticket.
Give this man a golden ticket right now, all right,
I have for you bet Okay, go ahead quickly.
Speaker 10 (32:18):
You'll you'll think I'm a genius after there a couple
of weeks ago, you said that you have some fans
who listen in prison. Yeah, and My heart goes out
to those guys. I think just every now and again
Lorena should tell them a bed nard, a bedtime story.
Speaker 9 (32:38):
That's really funny that you you want to hear, a
really funny story.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
My my only fans idea is only bedtime stories. And
I would literally.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
You might actually be doing that with out of your
knowing it, Lorena, by working on the show, you might.
Speaker 10 (32:59):
Nothing. It could be a story that time story about
you know, sports, something that happened recently, and.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
There's tons of sports stories.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
You're a big you're a bigger sports fan than in
the arena. But that's fine, all right, anyway, thank you, William.
We're not a fan call us any time there. There
you go. Is that good or bad that someone that
hates sports likes the show? Should we be honored by that?
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Or should we beat Should.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
We be somehow offended that it is a This is
the number one sports network in America? Do you understand that,
Like I started here, there was no one listening. We
were on in Binghamton, New York and Pittsburgh. But now
this is the dominating force in overnight, not just overnight,
forget twenty four hours. That we're the most listened to
Sports Network in the United States, and that guy found
(33:44):
us and we and he doesn't even listen for the sports.
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Blank is the only NFL player to have played at
least one hundred and fifty snaps on offense and defense
in the same season. That is the question. What is
(36:25):
the answer? And let's see does anyone know the answer?
Scrooge in the Bay area is going with Pete rose
is his answer? Ma Kelly from Milkman, Mike in Colorado.
Peter Brown, who was sporting news radio from Alfiellona. Putter, Peter,
I had him on my podcast couple of years ago.
Great dude, great radio guy. And he's not he's doing
(36:46):
anything these days. But love the name. Love the name.
Late Night Drug tester says you are Adam Silver whose
earth age is sixty three. Robert Griffin from Dante. I
guess he's got hired by Fox.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Troy Brown from eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Who else do
we have? Page down? Can't read that? Hanford Dixon from
Bay City Tony will Campbell guessed by Shane and Moyd.
I what say you, Larida Robin Williams, Ben, Wow, too soon,
it's incorrect. Correct answer is somebody named Mike Furry who
played for the Browns at age thirty two. He played
(37:23):
wide receiver because of injuries in the secondary, he also
played defensive back. Here we go, Here we.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
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Speaker 1 (37:34):
This is one big Ben gets grill kubeloop.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
It was announced on Wednesday that Jalen Brunson beat out
Nikola Jokic and Steph Curry for the NBA Clutch Player
of the Year award.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
Ben, First of all, did you know this was an award?
Speaker 1 (37:49):
I have no I've never heard.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Of this yea, yeah, mean me either. Apparently it's been
around for a few years. How big of an honor
do you think this award is?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Why, considering I've never heard of it, it's I guess
ignorance is bliss. It's who cares? Yeah, brun said, I
do consider him clutch, but I it's not. It's nothing.
I didn't even know it existed, so it means nothing
to me. Next, do a better job. NBA.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
When asked about playing in the Intuit Dome.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Nuggets interim coach David Adaman accused the Clippers of pumping
in fake crowd noise. I've Ben, where are you at
on fake crowd noise, gamesmanship or a cheap move?
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Well, first of all, the Clippers don't need to pump
in fake crowd noise because they've got the greatest fans
in basketball. So that's bull trapping. And David Adam is
the net bo coach. He had to worry about where
his old man's gonna get him his next job because
he sucks in Denver. And by the way, Rashid Wallace
pointed out, ball don't lie. The Nuggets lost that game
after he ripped the Clipper fans, so therefore he's an
(38:47):
a hole next.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Adam Scheffer reported this week that an opposing GM joke
that he avoids calls from Eagles GM Howie Roseman around
the draft, implying that other GMS are scared of Roseman.
Ben is Roseman the best execu in the league right now?
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Howie Roseman is the medallion man. He's the best at marketing.
He nobody pumps their chest out better than Howie Roseman. Okay, uh,
he's he loves himself more than anyone. I'm annoyed by him.
How do we do? Koop?
Speaker 4 (39:15):
You failed?
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah, you saw how many mishots the nuggets had because
of the into a dome
Here we go. It's our number two. On this Friday,
we were up all night recording this podcast. Pro Bouncy
Ball the topic du jour this hour and hour number two,
and we start out with the Clippers, who absolutely spanked
the Nuggets. Who gets the blame for the Nicola Jokic
(00:23):
Nuggets as they were run off the court by the
people's team, the Clippers led by the Beard James Harden.
And in addition to that, in Memphis, the Grizzlies blew
a twenty nine point lead. Who's the biggest villain for
the Grizzlies blowing that lead? And what will this performance
mean big picture for the future of John Morant who
(00:45):
left that game early with an injury. We'll talk about that. Also,
do you think the Pistons and coach JB. Bickerstaff have
a compelling case against the officials a controversial call late
in that win for the Knickerbockers. We'll talk about that
as well, and a whole lot more. Here it is
our number two. Line them up and clip them down.
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Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
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So our lead this hour is gonna change up. We'll
get back to the NFL Draft. I know I got
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a full board, not that that dictates what we talk about.
We have a full board of people that I assume
want to talk about the NFL Draft. But our lead
this hour from the Pro Bouncy Ball playoffs. While the
NFL Draft was going on.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And on and on and on and on and on
and on.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
In sleepy Green Bay, the basketball world was focused on playoffs. Yeah,
now I was watching both. I had the ability to multitask, Yeah,
I multitesk, and my right hand was getting a workout
thanks to the magic box there. I was going back
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and forth between the NBA playoff games and the NFL Draft.
And the great thing about the NFL draft, you know,
there's nothing actually happening. There's just a lot of smooching
and slobbering all over the players being picked. And if
you're depending what you watched or if you listened to
the covers here on Fox Sports Radio, there's a lot
of chatter about players that should be picked and whatnot.
(03:39):
So we watched so you would not have Do we
start out in the.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Hood in Inglewood, Kawhi Leonard, Kawhi Leonard and James Harden
teaming up poetry in motion.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Kawhi did not crossover. I had this thing with DraftKings.
I was trying to get him over twenty five. He
did not get to where I want to get. But
Kawhi Leonard had twenty one points, eleven rebounds, and the Clippers.
I went back and I checked it is official. I
can use this word. They vaporized Nicola Jokicch Jeff and
Denver's Nuggets by thirty four points. If you win a
(04:17):
playoff game by over thirty points, that is a vaporized win,
is what that is. Clippers won one seventeen to eighty three,
one seventeen to eighty three. They have a two games
to one lead. They're now two wins away from advancing
to the second round of the playoffs. Here, James Harden
was great in the first half. Norman Powell Storman Norman,
(04:39):
who was as stiff in Denver, played well. They h
had twenty points. Powell played well in the second half.
Hard and played well in the first half. But the
better store is in the losing locker room. So that
is where we will begin, and we will discuss the
question who gets the blame, who gets the blame for
the Nicola yo Getch nuggets. So I've got Johnny Cash,
(05:04):
concrete and leafy greens, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make some
rocky Mountain oysters, which are a more enjoyable experience than
watching the way the Nuggets played in that game. Last night,
So numb burn? Can I get a numb burn? This
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was a team effort. The entire team sucked at a
time you cannot suck a team appropriate enough of jokers,
the Clippers steam engine, the steamboat, Clipper Ship cruising. They
did trail early in the game, and then once they
went gangbusters and they put the pedal to the metal,
(05:49):
they ended up leading by as many as thirty four
points on their way to the domination situation. Sloppy defense,
sloppy defense by Denver, the Clippers home court advantage that
the people of Denver love to talk about, the altitude
and how tough that is. Into It Dome, the into
It Dome, the Clippers have never lost the playoff game
(06:11):
at the end to It Dome. And as far as
pointing the finger of shame and blame and all that stuff.
It's a Johnny Cash tune, a classic, And I'm a
big Johnny Cash fan from obviously he's not around anymore
but been gone for years, but I love his music.
So it's a Johnny Cash tune. Hey Porter, Hey Porter,
would you tell me the time? Because I don't think
(06:33):
you got there for the start of the game, Hey Porter,
And how much longer. Will it be till we cross
the Mason Dixon line because you're going on vacation. Hey Porter,
that would be Michael Porter Jr. This guy Jeff and
Denver called up this Nuggets apology. Who's hurt? He's hurt. Now,
we have a rule if you're unable to play. It's
(06:55):
tough to criticize in a playoff environment if you don't play.
But if you play, and you play like you are
in the cockpit of the vomit comet, fair game, fair game?
Does anyone disagree? No one's raising their No one disagrees.
So Michael Porter Junior was not only a basketball player.
(07:15):
He was horrible. He shot two of nine from the
floor and it seemed like it was worse than that,
and was just dead weight when he was on the court.
It was, and he played thirty plus minutes. It was
like the Clippers were playing five on four. He was
an albatross, and as expected, Russell Westbrook returned to his
alter ego west Brick, who couldn't see that one coming.
(07:39):
It was beautiful watching the Clippers deep fry the Nuggets
as the Clipper fans, the greatest fans in basketball, mocked
Nikola Jokic, the Clipper super fans, the greatest fans section
in all the NBA. The wall there, the section that
was closest to the Denver bench. They wore hats that
were horse hats, mocking, mocking Nikola Jokic, who didn't seem
(08:05):
to mind too much. All right, Now, pitch two to Memphis,
where the Grizzlies were styling and profile profiling. I mean,
Rick Flair was happy. This is a classic right styling
and profiling against OKC. This was the game to win.
Having a gentleman's sweep, a team that lost by fifty
one points built up. The Grizzlies had a twenty nine
(08:28):
point lead. Twenty nine point lead, and then the thing
happened that can't happen, and it happened, and it was
snapcrackle pop. Jah Morant was KOed. Jah Morant got the
knockout blow a left hip injury. He took a hard
(08:50):
foul underneath the basket. It happened late in the first half.
And then the unthinkable, the unimaginable, the impossible took place.
And it was Ched Holger, who looks like Skeletor, who scored.
He kept hitting three points shots he had twenty three
of his twenty four points in the second half. The
thunder making some noise there is they end up body
(09:12):
slamming the Grizzlies and they now are up three games
to none. So who is the biggest villain? Who is
the biggest villain for the Grizzlies Blowing a twenty nine
point lead not the biggest blown lead in history of basketball.
The Golden State Warriors of Stephan Curry actually hold that record.
The people's team, the Clippers came back and beat them,
(09:35):
but five six years ago. So many will say that
it's all John Morant's injury, and that's why, you know,
that's the villain. He got hurt. Just Buzzard's luck, right,
Buzzer's luck for Memphis. However, I believe in accountability. I
believe in accountability, and all those Memphis guys. Last I
(09:56):
checked our NBA players. Maybe I'm wrong on that. Maybe
some of them are not NBA plays. They just they
want to raffle and they were out there in NBA uniforms.
But they're all supposedly NBA players. How about you play
like it? How about you act like it right? How
about you not be a gutlass Puke. The one that
disappointed me the most because I love the guy's name,
Desmond Bain. I'm a fan. I liked the name. I
(10:20):
didn't really like the game in the second half. Desmond
Main took ten shots in the second and half with
Jah Moran out, he only made two. He only made two.
He was the de facto top player. Scottie Pippen's kid
was actually playing well for a while, and he started
missing shots. Memphis shot twenty five percent in the second
half from the floor and somehow fifteen percent from three
(10:43):
point range. So what will this performance? Blowing a twenty
nine point lead at home in a playoff game, What
does this mean? Big picture? Big picture for Jah Moran?
What does it mean? So think of this like concrete.
Think of this like concrete. It is cementing that Ja
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Morant is going to ask for a trade out of Memphis.
He's going to pack up his air gun, his bazooka,
his fake bozuka, his fake hand grenades, and all his
other fake weaponry, his fake numbschucks, all of those air
weapons that he has there, the finger gun, all that stuff,
(11:28):
and say I'm done, I'm out. I can't play with
these stiffs, the flotsam and jetsam that are on this team.
I gotta get out of here, so book it, dan Oh. Now, meanwhile,
final point we go to Motown is where we go
the end.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Of the road?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Or is it the end of the road. The Pistons
got to win in New York, so they were trying
to go up to one in this series. However, somebody
gave smelling salts to kitty cat. Carl Anthony Towns, the
man that vanished in the second half, a total loser
in that last game, came back with vengeance. Early on
in the game. He scored eleven of his thirty one
points in the first quarter. Nicks came out, set the mood,
(12:10):
got to set the move, little candlelight dinner there set
the mood. And then Jalen Brunson had twelve of his
thirty points in the fourth to help the Knickerbockers squeeze
past the Pistons by a couple of points. And so
New York now up two games to one. They get
home court advantage back, so that means if they just
went back in Midtown Manhattan, they'll advance to the next
(12:33):
round of the playoffs. Game four is not until Sunday
in Detroit, so they got a couple of days off there.
The New York win, though, was not without controversy. You
saw the end of the game. Detroit coach JB. Bicker
Staff was up in arms. He was infuriated, he was
outraged with the officiating. A couple of calls. Now the
(12:53):
one that we really want to focus in on, because
I thought this was the worst of the worst. Bigger
Staff was bit and broken because of a sideline inbound
passed the Knicks made to Jalen Brunson on It was
on the Piston's end of the floor. I'm gonna try
to describe this. If you're blind, clo, you know, just
close your imagine, open your imagination and try to play
(13:16):
along here. So bicker Staff upset sideline play on the
Detroit side of the court, inbound ball to Jalen Brunson.
Five point one seconds remaining. Knicks had a three point lead.
Brunson receives the out of bounds pass on the Piston
side of half court. He then takes his his first
(13:39):
dribble in the back court. Now, I'm from the old country,
and that's called over and back. That's illegal. That's illegal
unless the team the NBA wants to win does it,
and then it's not illegal. Tada yeah, uh so bigger
Staff was complay. He said, if you catch the ball,
(14:01):
have possession and put it down to me that possession
is in the front court, which, by the way, it is.
Do you think that the Pistons coach JB. Bickerstaff has
a compelling case against the NBA officials for what happened?
So I'm nodding my head. I'm nodding my head. Yes. Now,
(14:22):
now how do we know this? The reason I believe
it is a compelling case is the explanation from the
crew chief, who commented to a pool reporter who stated,
this is from the NBA crew chief. They said, Hey,
go out there. The media is upset, the fans are upset.
They're making waves online. So go out there and calm
everything down. So this Drabbroni comes out and says Rule four,
(14:45):
section G six, the front court back court status is
not obtained until a player with the ball. A player
with the ball has established a positive position in either half.
In this instance, he said, the crew chief during the
throw in the last two minutes of the fourth period
(15:08):
in the last two minutes of any overtime period. All right,
so let me use my mather Rosetta stone. What does
that mean? That is leafy greens. That is leafy greens.
That is a big bowl of word salad, word salad,
mumbo to the jumbo, mumbo to the jumbo. Not that
(15:32):
it matters. Okay. So while I I am nodding my
head yes to the question of whether or not the
Pistons have a compelling case, I believe they do, I
am also shaking my head no. If you ask me
does it matter? And it doesn't matter because here's what
the NBA is gonna say. They're gonna say, are bad,
are bad? Sorry? Not sorry? Psych no doovers. All sales
(15:56):
are final, All sales are final. Sca roue you, that's
what they're gonna say. Likely not in that language. They'll
use some different language, but it's gonna be scarrou you
is what they're gonna say. Anyway, It is the Ben
Mather Show. And if you want to be part of
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(17:22):
is rolling on through the overnight hours. The reaction shoulder
Sanders not pick. People have strong opinions. Some think that's fine,
other people, Oh, it's not fair, it's not right. Oh
my god. We also have a fashion faux paw, a
fashion faux paw to break down and if there's anyone
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Speaker 5 (19:01):
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Speaker 1 (19:02):
No, don't talk to me and Cooper Loop, Oh Bronco
fan And now back to the yasspackery. Well back to it,
and don't forget. We're a little over a month away
from the Malor Meet and greet. It'll be in Vancouver,
British Columbia. We're going to Canada.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Been on.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Been on there for many, many years, and I'm excited.
I've never been to Vancouver. Gonna have a great time.
We're fired up to meet all the fans of the
show in Vancouver and hang out. Gonna go to my
first professional soccer game, Gonna pop my cherry on that.
So that's exciting. I still don't have the date. I
got to get the date on that coop and the information.
But we're gonna be there in Vancouver. I think I
(19:48):
should probably know. I think it's the what is it
the final? I know, but the meeting, there's two days
they can meet us, like we're not We're very important.
People are in it. We can't just be available all
the time. Have to go out and experience the culture,
the culture of Vancouver, so we can't just be expected.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Have you made the request for the day off yet?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
No, I'll wait till the day before.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
Oh okay, I wonder if I can do the same thing.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I mean, I mean yeah, I think that's so management knows. Yeah, yeah,
they're aware.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, they're very happy. I never I get complaints. I'd
never take vacation days. They're like, why didn't you take vacation?
They don't like that.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
Yeah, this might be a community service day, that's your point.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Well, yeah, the Community Spirit Day it is.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Yeah, that's exactly what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
We're doing international relations, international relations, North American, the North
American Brotherhood. Tell me I'm wrong, No, you're absolutely right.
Would it be wrong if I bring a suitcase just
to fill with those cheese things from Vancouver because I
don't have to pay the tariff when I come.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
No, I think that is very okay.
Speaker 9 (20:52):
Just bring a duffel bag, good idea, so you can
fit that inside your suitcase, and then on the way back,
just get that little forty five dollars fee.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
There you go. So on that Thursday and the last
week and we will be all hanging out at a
establishment in Vancouver, so we'll give you more details.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
That is the tags.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Loraine's gonna have name. So that'll be the twenty ninth,
that Thursday night at a restaurant there in Vancouver. And
then there's also a game on the thirty first of
May that we will be hanging out at soccer game. Yeah,
is it the white Caps?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Is that that is correct? The white Yeah, the Vancouver
white Caps, Yeah, versus.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Portland. Uh, I think it's the Timberwolves.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
But let me, I can't be that there's already the
Minnesota timber.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Let me double check that last team Timbers, Timbers, Timbers.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
You know what, at the end of that game, we're
gonna be saying timber because they're losing. My white Caps
are gonna win. Who's on the team? Coop? Can you
name one player on the white Caps?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
No, I don't know that. I could name one player.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
In Messi on the team. He's in my Yeah, yeah,
I know that, I know that one. That's the only
person I can name in the entire league.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Beckham, he's retired.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Ronaldo, Yeah, I think he's on the MLS.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Kobe Jones.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Oh, was he on the US soccer team?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
No, I think it was, but he was. Also he
was on the Galaxy back in the day.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Was he seventy? How old is he's got old? He is?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Let's see, he's got fifty four.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Oh my god, he's still playing? No, no, no, I
was like, wow, they really they extend their careers.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Man, I just I just threw a name out there
that I remember.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah. And so the goal was to eat as many
cheese curds. I've been formed, I've informed the wife. I said, listen,
I know you've got this fugeesy diet you got over there,
but we eaten a lot of cheese curds pretty much
all weekend. Uh and and if I need anything else,
like those cheesy things in the cheese.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Curds, should we rate them?
Speaker 9 (23:06):
Should we go to different places that like feature cheese curds.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
We can do like a video like a that sounds
like so much fun.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
I love cheese curds.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, yeah, there's that's that's the well. It's actually from Quebec,
but it's Canada, man, so it's like it's all gravy. Yeah,
I demand gravy. Demand the gravy. Yes it is the
Ben Maddischow will take some calls here.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
Shannon Sharp's girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Said, okay, oh man, I.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Want to talk about this on my podcast today. But
I got an email. With every one of those text messages,
I ended up on a list, and I don't even
know how I ended up on the list. Like I
used to do a gossip website years ago, so my
email still floats around on some of these websites and
or some of the PR people. And I ended up
(24:04):
getting an email from from Shannon Sharp's attorney. I was
on a list. It's not like you just said it
to me. But yeah, it's got everything, and it's just
it's unbelievable. I mean, there's nothing, nothing to the imagination
at all.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Anyway, if I could real quick, Ben, Yes, going back
to the Meet and Greed here, the Vancouver Meet and.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Greed, the big the first one of twenty twenty five,
the first international mallor meet and greet that we're doing.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
I hope to see you there.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I just I just wasn't like curiosity, you know, got
the best of me. I just checked it out right now. Currently,
the Vancouver white Caps are number one in the Western Conference.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
You didn't say that, right, they're number one. That's right,
number one, dude, And we are gonna they're gonna win
the championship this year. They're gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
They're gonna take home the Lombardi Trophy this year. It's
gonna get it done right there. It's not called the
Lombardi Trophy.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
But what is the trophy called, Ben?
Speaker 7 (24:57):
It is?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Let me tell you. It's called the Giant Ball. Is
what they called just the jam ball. Everyone wants to
get the big ball, like and you want to get
the big ball. That's what they say. Let's say some calls.
Let's go to who do we have your aeny meeni
miney mode. Let's say alo to E dog who's in
New York? Hello E dog on Long Island? Hello, E Dog.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Hey dude, I got a great soccer story for you. Okay,
back in the day when I was on the Comak
travel soccer team. Were a player on that team, and
his dad wrote through a newspaper and he got the
New York Arrows to play sacker with us in the arena. Okay,
(25:39):
and I want to say that also, wait wait wait.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Wait wait wait wait wait dog? Did they accept Did
they accept the offer?
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Yes, they did. We played with them. We put up
a good fight, but I think they beat us like
thousands and one.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Well, very competitive game, very very competitive game. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
And I sued the only goal.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
He did because they pulled. The other team felt bad,
so they pulled their goalie. Is that why you scored?
Speaker 7 (26:08):
Yeah? I had her friend in high school and his
dad player on the team, and everybody on his team
scored a goal, so he shattered in his own net.
He's the wise guy. Anyway, there was a player in Highlight.
His name was Shabbat.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
He's a good Jewish guy. Shabbat was his last name. Shaloon.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Yeah, then we shoon because he used to kick the
players off the court.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
And Oh, I ruined your joke, dude, I ruined your joke.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Well, he probably heard me when I was talking to
you online.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Oh yeah, that's probably what happened. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Anyway, me and Jojo back in the day, we went
to the No Dose concert. Now do you know why
they called it the does concert? No No?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Why is that?
Speaker 7 (26:57):
Because they think both any money? And Djoko was mad
me because he was dancing with a girl and she
stopped dancing with him and she started dancing with ing.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Well that's kind of rude of her. Why did she
do that?
Speaker 7 (27:08):
Because I was looking and I had a great personality.
Even Lorena would say so, right, Lorena, Yes, I.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
Hate when that happens.
Speaker 9 (27:15):
Oh, Man, when you're expected i'd have a good personality.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Yeah, it's like having a target on your back.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, you know, yet again, you are all over the place, man,
You're bouncing around, You're bouncing. You've gone You've told the
story about a soccer team, You've told shabatcha lom joke.
You're now telling a story about Joe Dog and you
and the two dogs together and some woman who I
guess was a bigger dog because she left Joe Dog
for you. And it's like you and.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
I was browsing around too. I told you. Can I
tell you why that that comes in child Vida, the
saying browsing around? There tell you that one.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
No, I don't think. I don't think I remember.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
That because I went through a store and I was
I was like looking around, and again goes, no, you
can browse around. So now it was a motorcycles sort
them guys on a motorcycles, you know, go buy I
assure them say I'm browsing around, and they give me
the high fives.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Oh okay, all right, I got I gotta thank you,
thank you. There's a dog that's a a dog from
New York checking in. It's our guy, the dog.
Speaker 8 (28:20):
I want to do a meet and greet in New York.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (28:24):
By I've never been to New York.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
You've never been in Manhattan, You've never been.
Speaker 10 (28:28):
In the city.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
You got to go. Good luck you to take you
three hours to sit in traffic just to get from
the airport into the city.
Speaker 8 (28:34):
It's wonderful, sounds lovely.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
That's why do you take the train? I guess bring
you bring protection. You'll be all right now New York's fine.
That's all right. It depends where you go, depends where
you go. Anyway, Let's go back to the calls. It
is the Ben Malor Show. We are here all night long,
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hello to Daryl in the Ozarks. Hello, Daryl, Welcome. Seems
(29:24):
like that call we had with eat Dog. Put Darryl
right to bed there. Yes, anything you want to add there, Darryl,
he's doing you know what he's doing right now, He's
doing cosplay. He's pretending to be hollering. James from Minnesota.
Now I have met Darryl and his father. I met
both of them. They came down to Kansas City's Meet
and Greet That we did last November and he did
(29:47):
not snore during that meet and Greek it's unfortunate. Right, well,
thank you, Derrel good good dreams, all right, bye bye.
Let's say hello to not a fan. Not a fan
is in beautiful Napa where the property values are high. Hello,
not a fan?
Speaker 10 (30:06):
Well, hey man, this is William and uh, well, this
is not a fan. Sorry.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Oh, you gave your name away. You already blew your
cover William. You already gave your cover away. Why would
you do that? William?
Speaker 7 (30:19):
First?
Speaker 10 (30:19):
First thing, Well, because I'm so used to be calling William,
be called William, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
But why do you want to be called not a fan?
Speaker 10 (30:27):
Well, I'm not a sports fan, but I like talk radio.
I keep it on all the time. And uh and
I really like your show.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I do thank you number one number What come on, Loraina?
Give him the jingle? Do it again? No, he's gonna
say it. You gotta say it, Lorena.
Speaker 10 (30:50):
Say it number one. We can do. We could do
that all night.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
So, just for the record, this guy whose name is
not William, it's not a fan, does not like sports
but likes a show which is plausibly about sports. Is
that correct?
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (31:12):
Good I'm learning a lot about sports.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
By listening to Okay, well maybe maybe i'll No, you won't.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
How did you find the show? Did you? Did you
do the old school scan the dial thing, like, how
would one find it?
Speaker 10 (31:26):
Pruising the dial, perusing the dial? I came across in
the middle of the night, and that's a perfect place
for you. It's great.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
No are you saying I'm not qualified to work when
the sun's upstirs that? What you're saying, well, sunds up.
Speaker 10 (31:40):
Guys not as good they're they're good, not as good.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Well, you know, you know what they're good at making money.
They make a lot more money than those guys that
work overnight.
Speaker 10 (31:49):
Yeah, but there's other things besides money in this world,
you know, and being a being a great talker and
comedian good stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Well, that's a ringing doors, you know what. You'll never
call the show again. But I'm giving you a golden ticket.
Give this man a golden ticket right now, all right,
I have for you bet Okay, go ahead quickly.
Speaker 10 (32:18):
You'll you'll think I'm a genius after there a couple
of weeks ago, you said that you have some fans
who listen in prison. Yeah, and My heart goes out
to those guys. I think just every now and again
Lorena should tell them a bed nard, a bedtime story.
Speaker 9 (32:38):
That's really funny that you you want to hear, a
really funny story.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
My my only fans idea is only bedtime stories. And
I would literally.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
You might actually be doing that with out of your
knowing it, Lorena, by working on the show, you might.
Speaker 10 (32:59):
Nothing. It could be a story that time story about
you know, sports, something that happened recently, and.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
There's tons of sports stories.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
You're a big you're a bigger sports fan than in
the arena. But that's fine, all right, anyway, thank you, William.
We're not a fan call us any time there. There
you go. Is that good or bad that someone that
hates sports likes the show? Should we be honored by that?
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Or should we beat Should.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
We be somehow offended that it is a This is
the number one sports network in America? Do you understand that,
Like I started here, there was no one listening. We
were on in Binghamton, New York and Pittsburgh. But now
this is the dominating force in overnight, not just overnight,
forget twenty four hours. That we're the most listened to
Sports Network in the United States, and that guy found
(33:44):
us and we and he doesn't even listen for the sports.
Speaker 8 (33:46):
I wonder if he does it for the Dollar Shave Club.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Yeah, he must, he must do it for the Dollar
Shave Club. We're gonna I see what you did there,
you sneaky little devil. I saw, I saw what you
did there. And because we need that, we need that
Dollar shapelub. We need that flavor is what we need.
We'll take your calls eight seven to seven ninety nine off.
You know what we need is express pros. That's what
we need. We really need that Express pros. I think
that's what we need more than dollars shape clup, but
(34:11):
we need both. We need both. Absolutely, We've got mallardly
third degree. Here is the Insta trivia. Since twenty oh six,
I am the only NFL player to have played at
least one hundred and fifty snaps on offense and defense
in the same season, something that Travis Hunter is going
to try to do again. Since twenty oh six, Blank
(34:34):
is the only NFL player to have played at least
one hundred and fifty snaps on offense and defense in
the same season. That is the Insta Trivia. The answer.
We'll get to it, and we will do it next.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
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Speaker 1 (35:02):
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Back to it, Well it is so, it is back
(35:43):
to the Ben Malor Show, Bill and we are going
to have coming up here Mallor to the third of
we at first, the Insta Trivia, which is made possible
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plus free shipping. Here's the install trivia. Since twenty oh six,
Blank is the only NFL player to have played at
least one hundred and fifty snaps on offense and defense
in the same season. That is the question. What is
(36:25):
the answer? And let's see does anyone know the answer?
Scrooge in the Bay area is going with Pete rose
is his answer? Ma Kelly from Milkman, Mike in Colorado.
Peter Brown, who was sporting news radio from Alfiellona. Putter, Peter,
I had him on my podcast couple of years ago.
Great dude, great radio guy. And he's not he's doing
(36:46):
anything these days. But love the name. Love the name.
Late Night Drug tester says you are Adam Silver whose
earth age is sixty three. Robert Griffin from Dante. I
guess he's got hired by Fox.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Troy Brown from eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Who else do
we have? Page down? Can't read that? Hanford Dixon from
Bay City Tony will Campbell guessed by Shane and Moyd.
I what say you, Larida Robin Williams, Ben, Wow, too soon,
it's incorrect. Correct answer is somebody named Mike Furry who
played for the Browns at age thirty two. He played
(37:23):
wide receiver because of injuries in the secondary, he also
played defensive back. Here we go, Here we.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Go, Smeller, how about that to the third degree?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
This is one big Ben gets grill kubeloop.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
It was announced on Wednesday that Jalen Brunson beat out
Nikola Jokic and Steph Curry for the NBA Clutch Player
of the Year award.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
Ben, First of all, did you know this was an award?
Speaker 1 (37:49):
I have no I've never heard.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Of this yea, yeah, mean me either. Apparently it's been
around for a few years. How big of an honor
do you think this award is?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Why, considering I've never heard of it, it's I guess
ignorance is bliss. It's who cares? Yeah, brun said, I
do consider him clutch, but I it's not. It's nothing.
I didn't even know it existed, so it means nothing
to me. Next, do a better job. NBA.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
When asked about playing in the Intuit Dome.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Nuggets interim coach David Adaman accused the Clippers of pumping
in fake crowd noise. I've Ben, where are you at
on fake crowd noise, gamesmanship or a cheap move?
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Well, first of all, the Clippers don't need to pump
in fake crowd noise because they've got the greatest fans
in basketball. So that's bull trapping. And David Adam is
the net bo coach. He had to worry about where
his old man's gonna get him his next job because
he sucks in Denver. And by the way, Rashid Wallace
pointed out, ball don't lie. The Nuggets lost that game
after he ripped the Clipper fans, so therefore he's an
(38:47):
a hole next.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Adam Scheffer reported this week that an opposing GM joke
that he avoids calls from Eagles GM Howie Roseman around
the draft, implying that other GMS are scared of Roseman.
Ben is Roseman the best execu in the league right now?
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Howie Roseman is the medallion man. He's the best at marketing.
He nobody pumps their chest out better than Howie Roseman. Okay, uh,
he's he loves himself more than anyone. I'm annoyed by him.
How do we do? Koop?
Speaker 4 (39:15):
You failed?
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah, you saw how many mishots the nuggets had because
of the into a dome
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