February 26, 2025 • 46 mins
Big Ben talks about the Lakers defeating the Mavericks in Luka Doncic's first matchup against his former team, an insider calling reports of a Rob Gronkowski comeback 'nonsense', Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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I know that so many people have reached out that
are fans of the show. They're very excited about the
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Fortunately, I haven't really written back to many of you idiots,
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But our lead this hour, don't bare the lead, my man.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
As one of our big muckety MUCKs has said, over
the years, don't bear leads. Our lead this hour is
from just adjacent to skid Row, the Lakers for all
the glitz and glamour play and the armpit of Los Angeles, horrible.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Place where they play, and.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
That was where the showcase game of the night, and
I've been told this is a big deal and I
need to talk about If I don't talk about it,
I'm doing a bad job.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I don't want to do a bad job. So I will.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I will talk a little regular season pro bouncy ball,
something I try to avoid at all costs. But here
we are as far as the games are concerned. So Luca,
Luca Donzig matching up against his old buddies, his teammates
is forever team that kicked him to the curb, said
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bye bye as Dallas. Now, this game would have been
much more exciting had it been in Texas, but it
was in LA and that was the first time Luca
took on his former team there since the trade. I
don't know if you saw any of this. It was
nationally broadcast on Turner. They had the game there. I
watched Maybe you did. I don't know, maybe not. Maybe
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you know I watched it for you. It's my good
mits for the day, So we took one for the team.
We did watch this game and Luca I didn't have
a gatty stat line in terms of, you know, score
for forty or fifty points or anything like that, but
he did have a triple double nineteen points, fifteen rebounds
and twelve assists and a partridge in a pear tree
and the Lakers barely squeezing by a game that was
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tight up in the fourth quarter with a few minutes
to go, and the Lakers end up beating the MAVs
one oh seven to ninety nine. So let us discuss
the question for the esteem panels you were part of.
You're part of the Esteem panel?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
What stood out?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
What stood out about Luka Donsik's first matchup against his
former team, the mav Rex. So I've got serenaded yellow
pages and top rope. I'll explain what the yellow pages are.
For those of you that have no idea what the
yellow pages are, I'll explain now. A let's start out
being forced. I'm getting paid for it, so I'm really
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forced to do this. But watching the Mavericks and the Lakers,
my first takeaway was not impressed.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
With the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I was told this is God's gift to basketball when
they beat the Denver Nuggets over the weekend and people
were upset in and.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Talking about it.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
So I was like, well, the Lakers probably should win
this game by what forty points? I mean, Dallas blows right,
They're not very good. They don't have a bunch of guys.
And yet I'm watching it and you had the flotsam
and jetsum for Dallas, yet Kyrie Irving the fossil of
Klay Thompson.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And I don't know who any of these other guys are.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I mean, a bunch of stiffs, and yet they were
going blow for blow with the Lakers. It was a
tie game in the fourth quarter, and so by Mike
count and I stopped counting. Actually ran into the Great
Steve de Sager in the hallways. We have virtual Tosaga
all night, but I ran into him as he was
exiting the building here and we were trying to go
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over our notes here, and I said, I counted at
least twelve wide open three point shots that Dallas missed
wide open. So I don't know, is that good Laker defense?
Just leave him open, let him miss. Maybe that is
I don't know. Some of the things I jotted down
on the notes thing on my iPhone watching this game,
some random observations. Lebron James, for the second time at
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least this season, airballed a free throw. He did this
against the People's team the Clippers at the Intuit Dome.
The greatest Arene in Los Angeles, Grissorene and basketball. So
Lebron in the fourth quarter airball the foul shot. Did
Jordan ever?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Maybe he did? Maybe did Jordan airball the foul shot?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And that is something I will give Lebron credit. That
is something that is very relatable to every man, woman
and child, to airball a foul shot. We can all
do that thousand percent. We can all do that. Also,
it's good to know, despite my tough love of the
Laker franchise over the years, that the executives over there
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are closeted p ones, that the Laker people are closeted
p ones.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Now, how did I determine that? Let me explain.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
We have ranted multiple times on this program that since
Luca came to the Lakers that the yellow uniforms the
Lakers wear are unbig coming for Luca. He's a chubby
chubby and so they put them in mouthball.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And mothballs is the word I'm looking for.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
They put them in mothballs for the game against the
Mavericks there and they wore their weird, ugly like third jersey.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Purple thing is what they had on there.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
But that is validation, Okay, that is validation that Luca
looks like an obese lemonhead candy in the gold Laker uniform.
And as fashionist, as it pointed out, if you wear
the color yellow and your fat, you look even fatter.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
You just do right.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yellow makes you appear larger because it reflects more light
and thus makes the body seem bigger. So Luca looked
a little more in shape, even though it's all an
optical illusion and all that. Now, I will do the
rare and appropriate, rare and appropriate tip of the cap
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to the Laker historians. There was something that took place
here that I chuckled at, and I thought, you know what,
that's a good job by you. And I am fair
that people think I'm just a critic and I just
take pot shots here behind the microphone and I unload.
I'm never Benny Brightside, but I will Benny Brightside. I
will tip the cap to my mortal enemy, the Laker historians,
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because I chuckled multiple times throughout the game when Luca
was at the foul line and the Laker historians got
into a like a Krooner position of you, where they
were serenading Nico Harrison, the Dallas general manager, who will
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be unemployed and should probably get just hired by the
Lakers at some point.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Here, I would think I'll get a job in the
Laker from office.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
But that boob Nico Harrison, who is being blamed for now,
is the one that was solely responsible for the trade,
which not really a trade of Luca to the Lakers,
And so the historians decided to serenade Luke.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I think we do we have that. I think we
have to take a listen here, this is a little
clip here, think a little.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Bit, now.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
You Nico, Thank you Nico. I love rhythmic chanting. Yeah,
thank you Nico. Now I chuckle when that happened, And
it happened multiple times, and some were kind of light,
other times it was a little louder. I did appreciate, though,
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the fact that that is an admission by the Laker
historians that this was not a trade. This was a
train heist. It was not a trade. It was a
train heist. And so they're admitting them by thanking Nico.
They're realizing this is not really a trade. A trade
is where you know, quid pro quo. You don't trade
a broken down stiff like Anthony Davis for someone in
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the prime of their career, which is what happened here. Now,
I would love to know how deep this goes. I
have one of my media buddies swears I think he's
wearing a tenfoil hat, but he swears to me that
this goes above Nico Harrison, above Maverick ownership, that when
they agreed to buy the team from Mark Cuban, this
is like part of some grand plan where the NBA
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TV contracts, that they agreed to the new TV deal
which kicks in with NBC and Amazon next year and
they will continue with ESPN. That they had to prop
up the Laker franchise, that the Lakers fall up old
man Lebron forty years old. So my buddy's convinced that
this came at the league office on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
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They're like, hey, we got to do a solid, we
got to make sure the Lakers have a young star,
and we'll just well, this is the way we're going
to do it. Now. That's his theory. Other people agree
with that. I believe it will all come out at
some point. But if the NBA had a real commissioner,
and let's say the NBA he didn't do that, that
Adam Silver was not involved half man, half alien Adam Silver.
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If that didn't happen that way, and they had a
real commissioner, the trade would have been voided.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Because the NBA used to have.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
A real commissioner named David Stern back in the day,
and he voided the Chris Paul trade because it was lopsided.
All right, now we go to Boston, of all places,
these seas are yet again one of the NBA's top teams.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
After winning the championship. However, boo hoo hoo.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Says Celtic star Jason Tatum. He still feels, Jason Tatum,
he still feels that he doesn't get the proper do
he doesn't get the proper credit. Tatum was asked about that.
He said flat out no, when asked to by a scribe,
a basketball scribe, if he feels appreciated for his individual
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accomplishments in a Celtic.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Uniform at this point in his career.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
And so I asked the question, do you have empathy
for Jason Tatum who feels sad because he's not getting
enough of his ass kissed by the basketball media and fans.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
So I give this one a shoulder shrug, and I
just kind of shrugged my shoulders on this.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
It is another self inflicted wound by Jason Tatum. Right,
another self inflicted wound by Jason Tatum. Overly self conscious
is unbecoming. And maybe it happened, and I don't recall it,
but in my memory, I don't ever remember Michael Jordan
or Kobe Bryant or players of that ILK complaining because
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they were worried about the perceptions of other people. I
don't recall that. Maybe it happened, but Tatum last I checked,
and who knows.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Maybe I'm wrong on this.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
He's still writing the manuscript and so you don't get
your flowers until the story is complete.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
The story is not complete.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And my Malard advice, my Malord advice, is be like
the old slugan. There used to be this thing before
the Internet called the Yellow Pages where where you needed
it to get phone numbers and things like that, before
everyone started texting everyone and the Internet was around, and
so their slogan was let your fingers do the talking.
So Jason Tatum, let your body of work speak for itself,
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and as we pointed out many times, if you are
one of the all time graades, you don't have to
tell people you are. They will tell everyone else for you.
But that's not what's going on here. The Celtics did
break through there the reigning champions of the NBA, and
Jason Tatum was upstaged by Jalen Brown in that playoff run,
then embarrassed himself after the series ended by taking a
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bunch of quotes from other players and repackaging them as
his own. It's like he went through the NBA archive
of what you say when you win a championship and let.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Me repeat that.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
But Tatum in those playoff games was the beta, not
the alpha. And there was that stat I remember we
talked about it on the show. The first eight NBA
Finals games Jason Tatum played in his career, he had
the worst shooting percentage in history for anyone with one
hundred and fifty shot attempts in that In that sport,
he plays a style that lacks a lot of rasmatas.
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While efficient, it lacks the rasmataz the way Jason Tatum plays.
And let's also not forget Steve Kirk benched him in
the Olympic run. That Jason Tatum was an afterthought. He
was getting hemorrhoids on the bench during that Olympic run.
Right now, last word to the Bay Area where the
Golden State Warriors took on the Charlotte basketball team and
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they put the Hornets on a shish kebab. They beat
Charlotte by thirty six points on Tuesday while the Lakers
were playing the mav Rex. So that seems like a
pretty big win thirty six points and Golden State improved
to six and one. Since they picked up Jimmy Buckets,
they're winning by twenty plus points in pretty much all
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of these games lately, and the early returns are pretty good.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Jimmy Butler only had six points in that game, didn't
have to play much because the game was over. Charlotte
should have just forfeited and saved everyone the trouble of
going out to the arena in San Francisco. But that's
not the story. The story, quick right, The story is
Jimmy Butler, who believes the Warriors are better than any
other organization. He has been a part of that. According
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to Scham's Sharania, the mouthpiece for Jimmy Buckets, fawning report
to fawning report.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
To lick lick lick licklick.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Shoulder up bubble bath from Shams Sharania that Butler has
been staying late for shoot a rounds and practices, spending
extra time to get to know his teammates in the
meal room, and he's going above and beyond the call
of duty to integrate himself with the Golden State basketball team.
So Jimmy Butler, let's get to the money part of this.
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So Jimmy Butler, according to the story, feels the Warriors
are the best organization he's played for.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
So how does that vibe with you? All right?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
So imagine, if you will, imagine, if you will, Jimmy
Buckets climbing up to the top rope like your favorite
professional wrestler and bringing down the atomic elbow on pat
Riley's forehead. Boom, just like that. This is a personal beef.
There was an ugly divorce, Make no mistake, this is
personal and Jimmy Butler, who I like, I like the player,
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I like Jimmy Butler. However, he is looking to send
a torpedo through the myth of the heat culture. They
want he wants to send that to the shadow realm.
The Heat called you know, that whole nonsense.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
About and it's not really not. The Heat generally have.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Gotten players off the scrap heap that have been very effective,
very good pat Riley handcrafting over the years. Whatever Heat
culture is the commitment to winning, blue collar hard work,
which really was the embodiment of what Jimmy Butler had
been in Miami. And now Butler is claiming, after just
a couple of weeks with the team in San Francisco
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that that, by the.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Way, team he didn't want to play for.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Remember he originally vetoed the trade and then the Warriors
tossed him some more dead presidents and then he's like, hey,
I can get into that. I can get into that.
And so now they're head and shoulders above everyone else.
And he's played for a lot of teams, Minnesota, Chicago, Philadelphia,
He's bounced around, He's been on the Hobo Express Jimmy
Butler around the NBA.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
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Speaker 1 (17:33):
So our lead this hour is from the NFL. It's
a big news week for the NFA. You do this
for a living. This is a big week scouting combine.
The only reason the scouting combine exists is for gossip
to drive the conversation. Here in the last week of February,
the combine we'll spill in to Monday, so early March.
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It goes over the weekend, and it's nothing but content
here there in every way, and the grapevine is alive
and well.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
The rumors running wild this.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Week as the event takes place there Indianapolis, and none
of those rumors made more of an impact throughout the
day over the last twenty four hour news cycle than
the speculation about what former Patriot and Buccaneer tight end
Rob Gronkowski has.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Up his sleeve, what he is considering.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
A story that came out of randomly Denver, of all places,
that Rob Gronkowski reportedly wants to return to the NFL
after doing television in the last couple of years.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
He has been working out in Vail.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It's in Colorado, the rain, working out in Vail, and
this offseason wants to be ready for another season, so
he's been working out in High altitude to prepare his
body training this last couple of months here, I guess
really lost month to prepare himself for the return to
the NFL, a training camp, etc.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Etc. If a team is interested in bringing him in.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Now, that report said the Broncos, which happened to be
in Colorado as well and also play at altitude, were
the team most prominently mentioned at least in this report.
Now hours after that started bouncing around the pinball machine
of the sports chat or the echo chamber. Hours later.
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It was not Adam Schefter. Schefter did not debunk it.
It was Ian Rapaport from state sponsored NFL media who
attempted to shut down the report. He said, Nope, nonsense
is what rap sheet said. So let us discuss the question.
This NFL insider dude trying to spoil the fun. There
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the report that Rob Gronkowski is contemplating a return to
glory in the NFL and attempted comeback.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
The report said, Wow, that's nonsense. What are your.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Thoughts on the developments involving the Rob Gronkowski story?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
What are your thoughts on that? So I've got Bingo card, microscope.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
And meme coin and we will combine all of these
things together, and we are going to make a frat party.
Doesn't it always look like Gronks ready to go to
a frat party at any moment.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
He's always prepared.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
He's got like his little travel bag, his overnight bag,
and he's ready to go. So my first thought of this,
I would say number. I said number. Can I get
a number?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
No, I can't number.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Late reaction, all right, So let's start with captain obvious
here at the beginning of this mallary monologue. Rap Sheet
does work for the prov the news service of the NFL.
But spiler alert.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
He's not always right.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Okay, these guys are not always right. And last I checked,
he's not some kind of god. He's rap sheet. That's it.
And so Gronkowski has hinted. We know for a fact
that he has hinted at returning to the NFL.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
He loves to flirt with the idea that he would.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Come back right and in fact, he said recently quote,
I might as well go back to football because I'm
grinding harder than I ever grinded before, and I'm not
even playing football. Gronkowski made that statement on The Dude
on Dude's podcast.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
What kind of name is that for a Dude on
Dude's podcast play. If Gronk will go on the Dude
on Dude's podcasts, you'll probably go on the fifth Hour podcast.
I can probably book Gronk for my podcast My God. Anyway,
here's when you look down from thirty thousand feet, it
actually makes some sense for Gronk to try to come back.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
He's not good at television.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
He's not. Just be honest here, he sucks at TV.
There is a connection to the Broncos, if my malor
math is correct. Sean Payton when he was on hiatus
when the Saints, worked at Fox and was a colleague
of Rob Gronkowski.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
So there is a relationship there.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
So it would make sense the Broncos, Sean Payton, the
connection with Gronk. That part of it makes sense, and
the other factory. This is a standard trope of the
NFL off season. When you dust off the off season
bingo card in the NFL, the former player career renaissance
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is on the bingo card. It's on there. That's a
standard storyline. There's certain storylines that fill the NFL off season.
Been doing this for a minute or two, and you
probably know these as well, and you pay attention to
this stuff, and you're maybe not in it as much
as I am, but you know what's going on. So
the former player coming back. Also star NFL coach thinking
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about leaving coaching because of the grind and tired of
the grind and wants to do television. Sean McVay was
popular pick for that a couple of years ago. Mike
Tomlin has been mentioned in that storyline that offseason trope
star NFL coach thinking about going and doing TV.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Also, the NFL coach could be traded.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
We already had that with the Shanahan rumors to the Bears,
but that's over with now because the coaching vacancies have
been filled. You've got something that we look forward to
in the next month or so. File this one away.
The random realtor or friend of the realtor that spotted
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Player X looking at real estate in like Foxburg, like
T Higgins, There'll be a story T Higgins was looking
at places in Boston to rent, or another one is
Matthew Stafford's wife was looking. He had schools in New
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Jersey and she was leading at private schools. In New
Jersey for the kids. So that means Stafford's going to
the Giants done. You also have, as you mentioned that
the Gronk thing, former player returning for years. It was
Colin Kaepernick, who wasn't even that good when he played,
but people got clicks. He's like, well, Kaepernick's gonna come back,
He's gonna play. You got that. All the time that
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goes on. We had quarterbacks Kurt Warner when he left
the NFL. Brett Farv popped up Peyton Manning, who was
totally cooked his last year with the Broncos, but his
name kept coming up. Maybe he'll come back. Tom Brady
has had that one. Maybe Brady wants to come back
and play for the forty nine ers. Well that story
come back around, all right, now, pitchdo what are the
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odds let's just say that rap sheet is wrong. What
are the odds that if he tried to come back,
Gronkowski would be successful in the comeback attempt? So this,
of course is the penn on what your definition of
success is, What my definition of success and what your
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definition of success are to totally different things, right, But
looking at this objectively, putting it under the malard microscope,
as we like to do, the Malurd microscope, and you
break it down scientifically, should this story be real? And
I'm skeptical, right, I'm skeptical. I'm skeptical this is just
a pure attention grab and all that. But if that's
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the motivation, if it is merely to get publicity, it
is a grand salami. It is a grand slam. Get
out the rye bread and the mayo and the mustard,
and it's a grand slam mission accomplished cheap publicity for Gronkowski.
If this is the real deal, and Gronkowski is actually
considering a return to the field, it's not an okie doke.
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If that's the case, outset the malarodds at plus fifteen
hundred now plus fifteen hundred implies about a five percent
chance will be any good.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
We have seen so many of these.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Guys leave and then a couple of years later they
come back and there is Shehelle. The idea of them
returning to greatness is nice, but they generally it just
doesn't work out.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
There's a lot of ross, a lot of corrosion, a lot.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Of mold and all that in Gronk. The way he
played back in his younger days. He's in his mid
thirties now. He was a crash test dummy. He played
when he was last player. I think it was thirty two,
So he's gonna be thirty six by the time the
next NFL season comes around.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
And you look at the contemporary.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Tight end that would be Travis Kelsey was about toast
right now at age thirty five. Travis Kelsey a right now.
Final point, we pivot to air Arizona, well, actually the
combine in Indianapolis, but the Arizona contingent where Cardinals coach
Jonathan Gannon was singing the virtues of Kyler Murray. Yah.
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How much stalk do you put into the coach of
the Cardinals buttering the biscuits of Kyler Murrays. Well, it's
not his fault. The Cardinals fell apart in the second
alp blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
That was the theme. That was the theme from the
coach Gannon there.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
So think of the way I look at this, right, Agannon,
who you know, we don't need to remember his name.
He won't be there that long. The Cardinals coach is
always a temp job. But Gannon sounds like that kind
of fringe influencer guru type at the bully pulpit there
in my head, the.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Cartoon bubble above my head.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
It's like the shady low life trying to get you
to buy some crypto. But it's like the meme it's
thinking like the Kyler Murray mean coin. We'll call it
the Alligator Arms meme coin, and Gannon is using misleading promotion,
if you will, to try to artificially hype up and
drive demand for the Alligator Arms meme coin. They're trying
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to drive up demand for that and the price he
hopes will skyrocket, and then once it reaches a certain level,
the Arizona football team can sell off the meme coin.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Alligator Arms, get rid of it. It's called the pump
and dump, and there you go. The Hawk Tour.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Girl was accused of being part of the scam, the
crypto scam back and I don't know whatever happened with
that that went away or not, but we now know
that Kyler, based on previous editions of this show, is
very thin skin, very thin skinned, and he needs his
head rubbed, his shoulders rubbed, He needs to get reassurance.
(28:47):
So really what that was was a. It was knee
pads from Gannon. It was getting down low there, massaging everything.
And the whole thing's ridiculous because if you look at
the Cardinals, now you look at the Cardinals franchise, Arizona
got rid of Cliff Kingsbury.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
They thought Cliff Kingsbury was holding back alligator arms. Murray.
They thought he was the problem, so they got rid
of him. He's gone, all right, fine.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Spoiler alert, spoiler alert. Guess what you know what the
common denominator is all these years? Ding ding ding ding.
That's right, that's right, Kyler common denominator. See see he's
got that fun size oopa loopa. Look to him, and
he physically cannot handle a full NFL season.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
That's not my opinion, it's a fact.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
The seventeen game season is too long for a player
the stature of Kyler Murray. We have enough of a
body of evidence to verify that this is the case.
Nobody wants to talk about it. Everyone's in the nile. No, No,
it's not his faults. This guy's fault, that guy's fault.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. So
what is my supporting evidence.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Let me give you my elevator pitch here, not only
the eyeballs and the bifocals, but also the numbers back
up what our eyes are telling us. In his career,
the first eight games of the NFL season, Kyler Murray
has been either average or above average in every key
category in terms of yards per pass attempt, quarterback rating,
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completion percentage, all of that.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
For the first eight.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Games, Kyler Murray is actually a functional NFL quarterback. And
then when you get to week nine and beyond. From
week nine and beyond, Kyler Murray is not only a quarterback,
He's a suckbag at quarterback.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
He can't play.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
He is tangibly worse in every major category from first
half to second half. That's with two different head coaches.
That's with a roster upheaval. The one constant con and
this is a consistent common denominator, is Kyler Murray sucks
in the second half of NFL season. In my opinion,
it's a fact yards per pass attempt, a completion percentage,
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touchdown passes, interceptions go up, touchdown percentage goes down, interception
percentage goes up.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Look it up.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I'm not making it up. You can look it up.
So unless unless the Cardinals can find a sucker, a
sucker to take the unreliable Jalopi that is, Kyler Murray,
Arizona is stuck in an endless loop writing it's a
small world.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
After all, It's a.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Small, small world, over and over again for another three years.
The Cardinals, the dumb bums with the Arizona Cardinals, the
Mama Lukes there, decided to give Kyler Murray a massive
contract extension, and.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
They then took out the language. They actually has to
watch tape.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
But he is a video game influencer, so he's very
good at the video games.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Kyler Murray rock solid.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
There is no out in the contract till twenty twenty eight,
no escape patch, no portal.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
They'd have to eat money.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Now, you eat money for a year, but you're not
going to do it for three years, so Kyler's not
going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
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Speaker 1 (32:08):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here we go.
Here We're going the third degree. I said, here we go.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
This is one big galoblo Well the Falcons.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
GM remains adamant that the team is comfortable keeping Kirk
Cousins as their backup. Most NFL reporters believe the Falcons
will cut Cousins. One recent report has them parting ways
before Saint Patrick's Day. Yeah, Ben, do you think Cousins
hits the market soon? Well, what's your definition of soon?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I think the deadline is March seventeenth, which is isn't
that Saint Patty's Day? March seventeenth? So yeah, that's he's
done by then. What's the point of keeping him the
one he can't play. They don't think he can play anymore,
and he's just going to be a distraction. So yeah,
they're going to release him by March seventeenth, and they'll
be on the Cleveland Browns and that'll be that. I'd
be stunned if Atlanta can say that they're comfortable keeping him.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
But there's no he's to keep him.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
They've got his replacement and let him go somewhere else next.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
The Pistons are in the midst of a seven game
win streak because they continue to get stellar performances from
Cade Cunningham, Ben how High do you think the Pistons
can continue to climb in the East.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Well, it doesn't really matter what they do in the
regular season. It's all about the playoffs, and they look
like a second round and out team in the playoffs.
That said, I did watch the Pistons Clippers game. I
watched the other day I watched the Pistons feed. Do
you know who George Blaha is? This guy has been
calling Pistons games coop since the Bad Boys days and
he's still there. He's got to be like the last
of them. But Keegans, like the last old school NBA brought.
(33:35):
All the other ones are dead now other than George
Blaha with the Pistons, So I hope they do well.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
I like George Blah. I like these old broadcasting guys.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
All right.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Next, Mike Trapp won't.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Be the only one moving to a new position on
the field this season, Yeah, because Altuve will be moved
from second base to left field. Now, Toovey has never
started a game at a position other than second ben,
how do you think this will go for al Twovey
in the hour?
Speaker 1 (33:59):
So I know this coop because I played little league baseball.
You put your worst players in the outfield right, So
the astros are moving out to me in the outfield
because that he's an older player. These numbers have gone down.
He's showing signs of regression, so he'll be fine. But
the astros are going nowhere, and I love it.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
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the cheating as way, the.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Cheating up the cheters right out.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
They cheated.
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clean up hearts?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Do I help you get right?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Gear right?
Speaker 5 (34:46):
And nine?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Gear right and nine?
Speaker 6 (34:49):
Dear ry well, you heard the man.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
It's toime for love here on the Ben Malice Show.
Am I the love Guru? I am the love Guru? Lorena?
Yes you are, that's I think so. I've read a book.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Congratulations, thank you. We'd like to learn all your feelings.
Lorena's read a book.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
That's big news.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
I also want to let you know the lovely people
who send in messages asking questions you should question if
you're really, you know, pleasuring your women properly?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Are you calling out the men? Is that what you're
calling out? Yes? I am, what about the women? Maybe
the women aren't taking care of the men.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
About that is a much simpler task.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
I don't know about that. Yeah, some guys are complicated. Uh,
Jeremy and Minnesota. Right, since says I love so many
women in this world, he says, how do I get
How do I go about letting them all know without
being creepy? All right, well that's it interesting.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
Well, creepy is definitely just a way that you do
things right. You don't have to be creepy in the
way that you move. You can be complimentary. You can
be you know, like, oh I enjoy you, I like
your presence. You don't have to be weird about it,
like I see.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
You through the window at night and I think about
you in my dreams.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Well, but often, Lorena, I have to touch up your
work here. But isn't it often directly related to how
attractive you are as a man that women will find
you less creepy?
Speaker 6 (36:17):
If you know, there have been attractive men who are
just creepy in general. Like I said, creepy is the
way that you present yourself.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
But really, I.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Would argue that if you're kind of a weird looking dude,
it's more likely that you'll be seen as creepy.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
That's my point.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know if creepy is the word,
but you can be more turned off by their motives
of course.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Anyway, all right, see here a lot of this is
I forty Ian Lorena says, a lot of men like
a woman to have short grass on their infield. Do
women feel the same way about men? Okay, so that's
a sporty term.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Yes, it is a preference, and I don't know.
Speaker 6 (36:55):
It kind of goes with the where you live at
different areas, like different things.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Really, see, you think it's a regional thing. Some places like.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
France doesn't shave ever, right, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
There are people.
Speaker 6 (37:08):
I just heard a rap the other day that said
they prefer hair down there.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
I haven't said.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
You should get some cultural diversity there.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
Ben I guess, but yeah, they really hold their places
they need more so like.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
In Poland they probably it's like a polar bear in Poland.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
Yeah, yes, they don't trim the hedges, sure exactly, or
you know, somewhere down here in California. You have to
trim the hedges all the time because you wear bikinis
and things. Well, obviously you wear bikinis all the time.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
I do.
Speaker 6 (37:38):
I have seen your collections.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Need to talk about that on the airs me And
there's a guy named Marv Albert you know who that is,
but he made the bikini famous. Andy writes in from
Lando Lakes, Minnesota, says, since my gal had the menopause
five years ago, I have not been able to put
the pickle in the in the in the you know what,
should I find a new box for my pickle? Asking
(38:00):
for a that's Andy and Lino Lakes. He misses putting
the pickle in the Yeah.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
Yeah, there's actually little toys you can get at the
store where the box fits.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Right in your hand, right in your hand.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
And there's some sales going on right now, So go
and check out, you know, different things.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
Find him what works for you?
Speaker 1 (38:17):
All right, We have a call for you, Lorena. Joey
is in southern California in San Bernardino, the nine oh nine.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
What's going on? Joey?
Speaker 4 (38:24):
You know what they call baby Kangaroo's Joey's.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Really yeah, fun fact are you making that up.
Speaker 6 (38:29):
No, you should put that on the the Are you
smarter than Lorena?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
You are? You know the answer.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
So it's what's up, Joey. Joey? M hmm, you're just snoring.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
I hope he's doing that and not something else that
he might be.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Well, what if you haven't?
Speaker 6 (38:48):
Has anyone ever fallen asleep while they were getting it on?
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Hi, Joey, you're on the air.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Joey, were you asleep?
Speaker 3 (38:59):
All right? Thank you? You are right. We're done with him.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
King Rory writes in says, how romantic is it for
a couple to give each other massages? Oh?
Speaker 4 (39:06):
I love massages. I just bought a new massage toy. Okay,
it's a rolling massage.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Sure it is. Ferg dog rights Since says he wants
to know the raina. Are women impressed by Benny Award winners?
The ladies get turned on by that?
Speaker 6 (39:22):
I don't know if Kelly and des Moines and Shane,
if either of them has won a Benny before, have they?
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Well, we've done the Bennies a long time, I think.
Speaker 6 (39:33):
I mean, if Shane has won before, we need to
ask Kelly if that is part of what she is
So attracted to.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yeah. Well, ast JT the wing Man says, is it
love when couples choose to work out together to live
any healthies?
Speaker 4 (39:44):
Oh my gosh, I love that.
Speaker 6 (39:46):
And you know what, even if it's not your love person,
it's just good to go to the gym with someone
who can push you and support you and show up
with you all the time.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
All right.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Last one, Shane in de Moyes says, if you're wearing
a denim top that is a different color denim than
the bottom, is that still a Canadian tuxedo?
Speaker 4 (40:04):
You should be in jail.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Well that's a.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Good question, though, I mean tuxedos come in different colors.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
You have black tuxeda, have the red the blue bottom exactly,
So I say it is still a Canadian tuxedo.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
Yes it is, but you shouldn't do it all. Come
save yourself, Save yourself.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Tremendous advice by the Lorraina.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
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the word Game of the Stars.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
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Speaker 1 (40:38):
Okay, we've got Daniel America's favorite crossing garden fort Wayne
teamed up with me Ben and Rob in the Commonwealth,
who's teamed up with the koop dal loop.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
And we have a list of words one to ten.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
And if you're seeing the words right now, you're cheating. Daniel.
Picking number one to ten, that'll be word number one
or whatever word.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
You take the lead? That ton seed number.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Three, number three, number three, All right, let's go with.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Mber number three. How about preferred.
Speaker 6 (41:26):
Choice?
Speaker 3 (41:27):
No, that was gonna be my clue. Sucks to be you, Rob.
Let's go with uh oh, treasured favorite.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Yeah, bull crap. That's bull crap.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
You got it on my word. Good job, Rob, It's nine.
Totally got it on treasured right now? You got on mine?
Speaker 6 (41:53):
Yeah, the first one.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Yeah, see I get credit. Hey, in your face. All right,
go ahead to pick a number Rob, one to but
not three?
Speaker 2 (42:02):
Nine?
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Please number nine?
Speaker 4 (42:03):
All right, number nine?
Speaker 3 (42:06):
Okay, we don't have a number nine. What do we do? Oh,
let's go with connection? Mm hmm, job back, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
Go ahead, playing password games, he's passing connection. Yeah, how
about Daniel? How about affair.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
Relationship? Yes, good guys.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Up tied the game.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
We've tied the game.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Daniel. We've tied the game at nine, nine to nine,
and we get to go next. All right, please pick
a number one to ten, but not one or or
not wait, not not three and not nine, not three
and nine.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
So my wife and I.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
Are going to be celebrating our tahuana anniversary.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
You may we'll go with number ten.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Number ten.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
Easy. You don't know it's easy. You have no idea.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Uh, let's go with h how about see now you
screwed me up, coop? Because I see now you're.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
Getting in my head here, you schmuck.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Now, I don't know that I want to do the
word I want to do.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Here, Let's go with screw it.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
How about mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (43:38):
Top chop ben?
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Hey, yeah, come on, all right, how about rescue?
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Thank you, oh man, rescue, d.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
Daniel. The only thing I can think of my head
is carry Sorry what Carrie? He said? Carry carry?
Speaker 2 (44:05):
Rob.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
Let's go with liberate what you know the audience? Freedom? No?
Speaker 4 (44:16):
No, oh, I know what.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
Never mind, I'm gonna try something a little different here, Daniel.
I'm gonna go bullpen. Yeah, well that was good, that's
good baseball lingo.
Speaker 4 (44:34):
I was gonna say rescue, that's rescue.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
Was his first clue. That was my first clue. Thanks
for listening.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Sure, yes, well for Larina, she points out, it's talk radio,
not listen radio.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
She only likes all right, all right, Rob, let's let's
tie this up. Pick a wait, you got nine right?
Speaker 2 (44:53):
There?
Speaker 3 (44:54):
Is it? Eight?
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Eight?
Speaker 3 (44:56):
All right? So go ahead. Actually we can take the
lead and the win. Here, Rob, pick number number six.
Oh that's easy, dude. That's a layup. Dude. I see
what you're doing now. You don't get this right, Oh
you are so Oh my gosh, right there. Let's go with.
Speaker 5 (45:17):
Slothful what what.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
Know? Your audience?
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (45:24):
I mean my gun? I don't even know what that means.
Holy crap, slothful.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Sloth s l O.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
T eight hurry brob.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
M.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
Yeah, he's got another. How about oh, hold on, he's
got it.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
No, he's not in having no hitting. No, all right, Daniel,
Let's go with loafing Bob.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
How about idol idol?
Speaker 1 (46:00):
I don't now the word is lazy. We won the game, gay, yo,
we won the game America's Favorite crossing Guard and Ben,
we won the game. That's a walk off where we
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I know that so many people have reached out that
are fans of the show. They're very excited about the
Bennies which are coming up this weekend, and people trying
to manipulate the vote, you know, pointing out that they
did things that were more impressive than other people that
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So I'm dealing with that.
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Fortunately, I haven't really written back to many of you idiots,
but there is a online X vote if you want
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Speaker 3 (02:20):
But our lead this hour, don't bare the lead, my man.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
As one of our big muckety MUCKs has said, over
the years, don't bear leads. Our lead this hour is
from just adjacent to skid Row, the Lakers for all
the glitz and glamour play and the armpit of Los Angeles, horrible.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Place where they play, and.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
That was where the showcase game of the night, and
I've been told this is a big deal and I
need to talk about If I don't talk about it,
I'm doing a bad job.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I don't want to do a bad job. So I will.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I will talk a little regular season pro bouncy ball,
something I try to avoid at all costs. But here
we are as far as the games are concerned. So Luca,
Luca Donzig matching up against his old buddies, his teammates
is forever team that kicked him to the curb, said
(03:15):
bye bye as Dallas. Now, this game would have been
much more exciting had it been in Texas, but it
was in LA and that was the first time Luca
took on his former team there since the trade. I
don't know if you saw any of this. It was
nationally broadcast on Turner. They had the game there. I
watched Maybe you did. I don't know, maybe not. Maybe
(03:37):
you know I watched it for you. It's my good
mits for the day, So we took one for the team.
We did watch this game and Luca I didn't have
a gatty stat line in terms of, you know, score
for forty or fifty points or anything like that, but
he did have a triple double nineteen points, fifteen rebounds
and twelve assists and a partridge in a pear tree
and the Lakers barely squeezing by a game that was
(04:01):
tight up in the fourth quarter with a few minutes
to go, and the Lakers end up beating the MAVs
one oh seven to ninety nine. So let us discuss
the question for the esteem panels you were part of.
You're part of the Esteem panel?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
What stood out?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
What stood out about Luka Donsik's first matchup against his
former team, the mav Rex. So I've got serenaded yellow
pages and top rope. I'll explain what the yellow pages are.
For those of you that have no idea what the
yellow pages are, I'll explain now. A let's start out
being forced. I'm getting paid for it, so I'm really
(04:39):
forced to do this. But watching the Mavericks and the Lakers,
my first takeaway was not impressed.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
With the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I was told this is God's gift to basketball when
they beat the Denver Nuggets over the weekend and people
were upset in and.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Talking about it.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
So I was like, well, the Lakers probably should win
this game by what forty points? I mean, Dallas blows right,
They're not very good. They don't have a bunch of guys.
And yet I'm watching it and you had the flotsam
and jetsum for Dallas, yet Kyrie Irving the fossil of
Klay Thompson.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And I don't know who any of these other guys are.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I mean, a bunch of stiffs, and yet they were
going blow for blow with the Lakers. It was a
tie game in the fourth quarter, and so by Mike
count and I stopped counting. Actually ran into the Great
Steve de Sager in the hallways. We have virtual Tosaga
all night, but I ran into him as he was
exiting the building here and we were trying to go
(05:34):
over our notes here, and I said, I counted at
least twelve wide open three point shots that Dallas missed
wide open. So I don't know, is that good Laker defense?
Just leave him open, let him miss. Maybe that is
I don't know. Some of the things I jotted down
on the notes thing on my iPhone watching this game,
some random observations. Lebron James, for the second time at
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least this season, airballed a free throw. He did this
against the People's team the Clippers at the Intuit Dome.
The greatest Arene in Los Angeles, Grissorene and basketball. So
Lebron in the fourth quarter airball the foul shot. Did
Jordan ever?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Maybe he did? Maybe did Jordan airball the foul shot?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And that is something I will give Lebron credit. That
is something that is very relatable to every man, woman
and child, to airball a foul shot. We can all
do that thousand percent. We can all do that. Also,
it's good to know, despite my tough love of the
Laker franchise over the years, that the executives over there
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are closeted p ones, that the Laker people are closeted
p ones.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Now, how did I determine that? Let me explain.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
We have ranted multiple times on this program that since
Luca came to the Lakers that the yellow uniforms the
Lakers wear are unbig coming for Luca. He's a chubby
chubby and so they put them in mouthball.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And mothballs is the word I'm looking for.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
They put them in mothballs for the game against the
Mavericks there and they wore their weird, ugly like third jersey.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Purple thing is what they had on there.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
But that is validation, Okay, that is validation that Luca
looks like an obese lemonhead candy in the gold Laker uniform.
And as fashionist, as it pointed out, if you wear
the color yellow and your fat, you look even fatter.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
You just do right.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yellow makes you appear larger because it reflects more light
and thus makes the body seem bigger. So Luca looked
a little more in shape, even though it's all an
optical illusion and all that. Now, I will do the
rare and appropriate, rare and appropriate tip of the cap
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to the Laker historians. There was something that took place
here that I chuckled at, and I thought, you know what,
that's a good job by you. And I am fair
that people think I'm just a critic and I just
take pot shots here behind the microphone and I unload.
I'm never Benny Brightside, but I will Benny Brightside. I
will tip the cap to my mortal enemy, the Laker historians,
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because I chuckled multiple times throughout the game when Luca
was at the foul line and the Laker historians got
into a like a Krooner position of you, where they
were serenading Nico Harrison, the Dallas general manager, who will
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be unemployed and should probably get just hired by the
Lakers at some point.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Here, I would think I'll get a job in the
Laker from office.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
But that boob Nico Harrison, who is being blamed for now,
is the one that was solely responsible for the trade,
which not really a trade of Luca to the Lakers,
And so the historians decided to serenade Luke.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I think we do we have that. I think we
have to take a listen here, this is a little
clip here, think a little.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Bit, now.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
You Nico, Thank you Nico. I love rhythmic chanting. Yeah,
thank you Nico. Now I chuckle when that happened, And
it happened multiple times, and some were kind of light,
other times it was a little louder. I did appreciate, though,
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the fact that that is an admission by the Laker
historians that this was not a trade. This was a
train heist. It was not a trade. It was a
train heist. And so they're admitting them by thanking Nico.
They're realizing this is not really a trade. A trade
is where you know, quid pro quo. You don't trade
a broken down stiff like Anthony Davis for someone in
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the prime of their career, which is what happened here. Now,
I would love to know how deep this goes. I
have one of my media buddies swears I think he's
wearing a tenfoil hat, but he swears to me that
this goes above Nico Harrison, above Maverick ownership, that when
they agreed to buy the team from Mark Cuban, this
is like part of some grand plan where the NBA
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TV contracts, that they agreed to the new TV deal
which kicks in with NBC and Amazon next year and
they will continue with ESPN. That they had to prop
up the Laker franchise, that the Lakers fall up old
man Lebron forty years old. So my buddy's convinced that
this came at the league office on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
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They're like, hey, we got to do a solid, we
got to make sure the Lakers have a young star,
and we'll just well, this is the way we're going
to do it. Now. That's his theory. Other people agree
with that. I believe it will all come out at
some point. But if the NBA had a real commissioner,
and let's say the NBA he didn't do that, that
Adam Silver was not involved half man, half alien Adam Silver.
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If that didn't happen that way, and they had a
real commissioner, the trade would have been voided.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Because the NBA used to have.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
A real commissioner named David Stern back in the day,
and he voided the Chris Paul trade because it was lopsided.
All right, now we go to Boston, of all places,
these seas are yet again one of the NBA's top teams.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
After winning the championship. However, boo hoo hoo.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Says Celtic star Jason Tatum. He still feels, Jason Tatum,
he still feels that he doesn't get the proper do
he doesn't get the proper credit. Tatum was asked about that.
He said flat out no, when asked to by a scribe,
a basketball scribe, if he feels appreciated for his individual
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accomplishments in a Celtic.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Uniform at this point in his career.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
And so I asked the question, do you have empathy
for Jason Tatum who feels sad because he's not getting
enough of his ass kissed by the basketball media and fans.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
So I give this one a shoulder shrug, and I
just kind of shrugged my shoulders on this.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
It is another self inflicted wound by Jason Tatum. Right,
another self inflicted wound by Jason Tatum. Overly self conscious
is unbecoming. And maybe it happened, and I don't recall it,
but in my memory, I don't ever remember Michael Jordan
or Kobe Bryant or players of that ILK complaining because
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they were worried about the perceptions of other people. I
don't recall that. Maybe it happened, but Tatum last I checked,
and who knows.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Maybe I'm wrong on this.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
He's still writing the manuscript and so you don't get
your flowers until the story is complete.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
The story is not complete.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And my Malard advice, my Malord advice, is be like
the old slugan. There used to be this thing before
the Internet called the Yellow Pages where where you needed
it to get phone numbers and things like that, before
everyone started texting everyone and the Internet was around, and
so their slogan was let your fingers do the talking.
So Jason Tatum, let your body of work speak for itself,
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and as we pointed out many times, if you are
one of the all time graades, you don't have to
tell people you are. They will tell everyone else for you.
But that's not what's going on here. The Celtics did
break through there the reigning champions of the NBA, and
Jason Tatum was upstaged by Jalen Brown in that playoff run,
then embarrassed himself after the series ended by taking a
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bunch of quotes from other players and repackaging them as
his own. It's like he went through the NBA archive
of what you say when you win a championship and let.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Me repeat that.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
But Tatum in those playoff games was the beta, not
the alpha. And there was that stat I remember we
talked about it on the show. The first eight NBA
Finals games Jason Tatum played in his career, he had
the worst shooting percentage in history for anyone with one
hundred and fifty shot attempts in that In that sport,
he plays a style that lacks a lot of rasmatas.
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While efficient, it lacks the rasmataz the way Jason Tatum plays.
And let's also not forget Steve Kirk benched him in
the Olympic run. That Jason Tatum was an afterthought. He
was getting hemorrhoids on the bench during that Olympic run.
Right now, last word to the Bay Area where the
Golden State Warriors took on the Charlotte basketball team and
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they put the Hornets on a shish kebab. They beat
Charlotte by thirty six points on Tuesday while the Lakers
were playing the mav Rex. So that seems like a
pretty big win thirty six points and Golden State improved
to six and one. Since they picked up Jimmy Buckets,
they're winning by twenty plus points in pretty much all
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of these games lately, and the early returns are pretty good.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Jimmy Butler only had six points in that game, didn't
have to play much because the game was over. Charlotte
should have just forfeited and saved everyone the trouble of
going out to the arena in San Francisco. But that's
not the story. The story, quick right, The story is
Jimmy Butler, who believes the Warriors are better than any
other organization. He has been a part of that. According
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to Scham's Sharania, the mouthpiece for Jimmy Buckets, fawning report
to fawning report.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
To lick lick lick licklick.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Shoulder up bubble bath from Shams Sharania that Butler has
been staying late for shoot a rounds and practices, spending
extra time to get to know his teammates in the
meal room, and he's going above and beyond the call
of duty to integrate himself with the Golden State basketball team.
So Jimmy Butler, let's get to the money part of this.
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So Jimmy Butler, according to the story, feels the Warriors
are the best organization he's played for.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
So how does that vibe with you? All right?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
So imagine, if you will, imagine, if you will, Jimmy
Buckets climbing up to the top rope like your favorite
professional wrestler and bringing down the atomic elbow on pat
Riley's forehead. Boom, just like that. This is a personal beef.
There was an ugly divorce, Make no mistake, this is
personal and Jimmy Butler, who I like, I like the player,
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I like Jimmy Butler. However, he is looking to send
a torpedo through the myth of the heat culture. They
want he wants to send that to the shadow realm.
The Heat called you know, that whole nonsense.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
About and it's not really not. The Heat generally have.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Gotten players off the scrap heap that have been very effective,
very good pat Riley handcrafting over the years. Whatever Heat
culture is the commitment to winning, blue collar hard work,
which really was the embodiment of what Jimmy Butler had
been in Miami. And now Butler is claiming, after just
a couple of weeks with the team in San Francisco
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that that, by the.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Way, team he didn't want to play for.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Remember he originally vetoed the trade and then the Warriors
tossed him some more dead presidents and then he's like, hey,
I can get into that. I can get into that.
And so now they're head and shoulders above everyone else.
And he's played for a lot of teams, Minnesota, Chicago, Philadelphia,
He's bounced around, He's been on the Hobo Express Jimmy
Butler around the NBA.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meler
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
So our lead this hour is from the NFL. It's
a big news week for the NFA. You do this
for a living. This is a big week scouting combine.
The only reason the scouting combine exists is for gossip
to drive the conversation. Here in the last week of February,
the combine we'll spill in to Monday, so early March.
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It goes over the weekend, and it's nothing but content
here there in every way, and the grapevine is alive
and well.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
The rumors running wild this.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Week as the event takes place there Indianapolis, and none
of those rumors made more of an impact throughout the
day over the last twenty four hour news cycle than
the speculation about what former Patriot and Buccaneer tight end
Rob Gronkowski has.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Up his sleeve, what he is considering.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
A story that came out of randomly Denver, of all places,
that Rob Gronkowski reportedly wants to return to the NFL
after doing television in the last couple of years.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
He has been working out in Vail.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It's in Colorado, the rain, working out in Vail, and
this offseason wants to be ready for another season, so
he's been working out in High altitude to prepare his
body training this last couple of months here, I guess
really lost month to prepare himself for the return to
the NFL, a training camp, etc.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Etc. If a team is interested in bringing him in.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Now, that report said the Broncos, which happened to be
in Colorado as well and also play at altitude, were
the team most prominently mentioned at least in this report.
Now hours after that started bouncing around the pinball machine
of the sports chat or the echo chamber. Hours later.
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It was not Adam Schefter. Schefter did not debunk it.
It was Ian Rapaport from state sponsored NFL media who
attempted to shut down the report. He said, Nope, nonsense
is what rap sheet said. So let us discuss the question.
This NFL insider dude trying to spoil the fun. There
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the report that Rob Gronkowski is contemplating a return to
glory in the NFL and attempted comeback.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
The report said, Wow, that's nonsense. What are your.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Thoughts on the developments involving the Rob Gronkowski story?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
What are your thoughts on that? So I've got Bingo card, microscope.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
And meme coin and we will combine all of these
things together, and we are going to make a frat party.
Doesn't it always look like Gronks ready to go to
a frat party at any moment.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
He's always prepared.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
He's got like his little travel bag, his overnight bag,
and he's ready to go. So my first thought of this,
I would say number. I said number. Can I get
a number?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
No, I can't number.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Late reaction, all right, So let's start with captain obvious
here at the beginning of this mallary monologue. Rap Sheet
does work for the prov the news service of the NFL.
But spiler alert.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
He's not always right.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Okay, these guys are not always right. And last I checked,
he's not some kind of god. He's rap sheet. That's it.
And so Gronkowski has hinted. We know for a fact
that he has hinted at returning to the NFL.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
He loves to flirt with the idea that he would.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Come back right and in fact, he said recently quote,
I might as well go back to football because I'm
grinding harder than I ever grinded before, and I'm not
even playing football. Gronkowski made that statement on The Dude
on Dude's podcast.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
What kind of name is that for a Dude on
Dude's podcast play. If Gronk will go on the Dude
on Dude's podcasts, you'll probably go on the fifth Hour podcast.
I can probably book Gronk for my podcast My God. Anyway,
here's when you look down from thirty thousand feet, it
actually makes some sense for Gronk to try to come back.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
He's not good at television.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
He's not. Just be honest here, he sucks at TV.
There is a connection to the Broncos, if my malor
math is correct. Sean Payton when he was on hiatus
when the Saints, worked at Fox and was a colleague
of Rob Gronkowski.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
So there is a relationship there.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
So it would make sense the Broncos, Sean Payton, the
connection with Gronk. That part of it makes sense, and
the other factory. This is a standard trope of the
NFL off season. When you dust off the off season
bingo card in the NFL, the former player career renaissance
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is on the bingo card. It's on there. That's a
standard storyline. There's certain storylines that fill the NFL off season.
Been doing this for a minute or two, and you
probably know these as well, and you pay attention to
this stuff, and you're maybe not in it as much
as I am, but you know what's going on. So
the former player coming back. Also star NFL coach thinking
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about leaving coaching because of the grind and tired of
the grind and wants to do television. Sean McVay was
popular pick for that a couple of years ago. Mike
Tomlin has been mentioned in that storyline that offseason trope
star NFL coach thinking about going and doing TV.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Also, the NFL coach could be traded.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
We already had that with the Shanahan rumors to the Bears,
but that's over with now because the coaching vacancies have
been filled. You've got something that we look forward to
in the next month or so. File this one away.
The random realtor or friend of the realtor that spotted
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Player X looking at real estate in like Foxburg, like
T Higgins, There'll be a story T Higgins was looking
at places in Boston to rent, or another one is
Matthew Stafford's wife was looking. He had schools in New
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Jersey and she was leading at private schools. In New
Jersey for the kids. So that means Stafford's going to
the Giants done. You also have, as you mentioned that
the Gronk thing, former player returning for years. It was
Colin Kaepernick, who wasn't even that good when he played,
but people got clicks. He's like, well, Kaepernick's gonna come back,
He's gonna play. You got that. All the time that
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goes on. We had quarterbacks Kurt Warner when he left
the NFL. Brett Farv popped up Peyton Manning, who was
totally cooked his last year with the Broncos, but his
name kept coming up. Maybe he'll come back. Tom Brady
has had that one. Maybe Brady wants to come back
and play for the forty nine ers. Well that story
come back around, all right, now, pitchdo what are the
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odds let's just say that rap sheet is wrong. What
are the odds that if he tried to come back,
Gronkowski would be successful in the comeback attempt? So this,
of course is the penn on what your definition of
success is, What my definition of success and what your
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definition of success are to totally different things, right, But
looking at this objectively, putting it under the malard microscope,
as we like to do, the Malurd microscope, and you
break it down scientifically, should this story be real? And
I'm skeptical, right, I'm skeptical. I'm skeptical this is just
a pure attention grab and all that. But if that's
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the motivation, if it is merely to get publicity, it
is a grand salami. It is a grand slam. Get
out the rye bread and the mayo and the mustard,
and it's a grand slam mission accomplished cheap publicity for Gronkowski.
If this is the real deal, and Gronkowski is actually
considering a return to the field, it's not an okie doke.
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If that's the case, outset the malarodds at plus fifteen
hundred now plus fifteen hundred implies about a five percent
chance will be any good.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
We have seen so many of these.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Guys leave and then a couple of years later they
come back and there is Shehelle. The idea of them
returning to greatness is nice, but they generally it just
doesn't work out.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
There's a lot of ross, a lot of corrosion, a lot.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Of mold and all that in Gronk. The way he
played back in his younger days. He's in his mid
thirties now. He was a crash test dummy. He played
when he was last player. I think it was thirty two,
So he's gonna be thirty six by the time the
next NFL season comes around.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
And you look at the contemporary.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Tight end that would be Travis Kelsey was about toast
right now at age thirty five. Travis Kelsey a right now.
Final point, we pivot to air Arizona, well, actually the
combine in Indianapolis, but the Arizona contingent where Cardinals coach
Jonathan Gannon was singing the virtues of Kyler Murray. Yah.
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How much stalk do you put into the coach of
the Cardinals buttering the biscuits of Kyler Murrays. Well, it's
not his fault. The Cardinals fell apart in the second
alp blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
That was the theme. That was the theme from the
coach Gannon there.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
So think of the way I look at this, right, Agannon,
who you know, we don't need to remember his name.
He won't be there that long. The Cardinals coach is
always a temp job. But Gannon sounds like that kind
of fringe influencer guru type at the bully pulpit there
in my head, the.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Cartoon bubble above my head.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
It's like the shady low life trying to get you
to buy some crypto. But it's like the meme it's
thinking like the Kyler Murray mean coin. We'll call it
the Alligator Arms meme coin, and Gannon is using misleading promotion,
if you will, to try to artificially hype up and
drive demand for the Alligator Arms meme coin. They're trying
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to drive up demand for that and the price he
hopes will skyrocket, and then once it reaches a certain level,
the Arizona football team can sell off the meme coin.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Alligator Arms, get rid of it. It's called the pump
and dump, and there you go. The Hawk Tour.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Girl was accused of being part of the scam, the
crypto scam back and I don't know whatever happened with
that that went away or not, but we now know
that Kyler, based on previous editions of this show, is
very thin skin, very thin skinned, and he needs his
head rubbed, his shoulders rubbed, He needs to get reassurance.
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So really what that was was a. It was knee
pads from Gannon. It was getting down low there, massaging everything.
And the whole thing's ridiculous because if you look at
the Cardinals, now you look at the Cardinals franchise, Arizona
got rid of Cliff Kingsbury.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
They thought Cliff Kingsbury was holding back alligator arms. Murray.
They thought he was the problem, so they got rid
of him. He's gone, all right, fine.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Spoiler alert, spoiler alert. Guess what you know what the
common denominator is all these years? Ding ding ding ding.
That's right, that's right, Kyler common denominator. See see he's
got that fun size oopa loopa. Look to him, and
he physically cannot handle a full NFL season.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
That's not my opinion, it's a fact.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
The seventeen game season is too long for a player
the stature of Kyler Murray. We have enough of a
body of evidence to verify that this is the case.
Nobody wants to talk about it. Everyone's in the nile. No, No,
it's not his faults. This guy's fault, that guy's fault.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. So
what is my supporting evidence.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Let me give you my elevator pitch here, not only
the eyeballs and the bifocals, but also the numbers back
up what our eyes are telling us. In his career,
the first eight games of the NFL season, Kyler Murray
has been either average or above average in every key
category in terms of yards per pass attempt, quarterback rating,
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completion percentage, all of that.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
For the first eight.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Games, Kyler Murray is actually a functional NFL quarterback. And
then when you get to week nine and beyond. From
week nine and beyond, Kyler Murray is not only a quarterback,
He's a suckbag at quarterback.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
He can't play.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
He is tangibly worse in every major category from first
half to second half. That's with two different head coaches.
That's with a roster upheaval. The one constant con and
this is a consistent common denominator, is Kyler Murray sucks
in the second half of NFL season. In my opinion,
it's a fact yards per pass attempt, a completion percentage,
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touchdown passes, interceptions go up, touchdown percentage goes down, interception
percentage goes up.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Look it up.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I'm not making it up. You can look it up.
So unless unless the Cardinals can find a sucker, a
sucker to take the unreliable Jalopi that is, Kyler Murray,
Arizona is stuck in an endless loop writing it's a
small world.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
After all, It's a.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Small, small world, over and over again for another three years.
The Cardinals, the dumb bums with the Arizona Cardinals, the
Mama Lukes there, decided to give Kyler Murray a massive
contract extension, and.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
They then took out the language. They actually has to
watch tape.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
But he is a video game influencer, so he's very
good at the video games.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Kyler Murray rock solid.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
There is no out in the contract till twenty twenty eight,
no escape patch, no portal.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
They'd have to eat money.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Now, you eat money for a year, but you're not
going to do it for three years, so Kyler's not
going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here we go.
Here We're going the third degree. I said, here we go.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
This is one big galoblo Well the Falcons.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
GM remains adamant that the team is comfortable keeping Kirk
Cousins as their backup. Most NFL reporters believe the Falcons
will cut Cousins. One recent report has them parting ways
before Saint Patrick's Day. Yeah, Ben, do you think Cousins
hits the market soon? Well, what's your definition of soon?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I think the deadline is March seventeenth, which is isn't
that Saint Patty's Day? March seventeenth? So yeah, that's he's
done by then. What's the point of keeping him the
one he can't play. They don't think he can play anymore,
and he's just going to be a distraction. So yeah,
they're going to release him by March seventeenth, and they'll
be on the Cleveland Browns and that'll be that. I'd
be stunned if Atlanta can say that they're comfortable keeping him.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
But there's no he's to keep him.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
They've got his replacement and let him go somewhere else next.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
The Pistons are in the midst of a seven game
win streak because they continue to get stellar performances from
Cade Cunningham, Ben how High do you think the Pistons
can continue to climb in the East.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Well, it doesn't really matter what they do in the
regular season. It's all about the playoffs, and they look
like a second round and out team in the playoffs.
That said, I did watch the Pistons Clippers game. I
watched the other day I watched the Pistons feed. Do
you know who George Blaha is? This guy has been
calling Pistons games coop since the Bad Boys days and
he's still there. He's got to be like the last
of them. But Keegans, like the last old school NBA brought.
(33:35):
All the other ones are dead now other than George
Blaha with the Pistons, So I hope they do well.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
I like George Blah. I like these old broadcasting guys.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
All right.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Next, Mike Trapp won't.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Be the only one moving to a new position on
the field this season, Yeah, because Altuve will be moved
from second base to left field. Now, Toovey has never
started a game at a position other than second ben,
how do you think this will go for al Twovey
in the hour?
Speaker 1 (33:59):
So I know this coop because I played little league baseball.
You put your worst players in the outfield right, So
the astros are moving out to me in the outfield
because that he's an older player. These numbers have gone down.
He's showing signs of regression, so he'll be fine. But
the astros are going nowhere, and I love it.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
How do we know you passed this edition? I said
the cheating as way, the.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Cheating up the cheters right out.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
They cheated.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
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Speaker 3 (34:38):
It's of it buzz good little rain at ten nine
clean up hearts?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Do I help you get right?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Gear right?
Speaker 5 (34:46):
And nine?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Gear right and nine?
Speaker 6 (34:49):
Dear ry well, you heard the man.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
It's toime for love here on the Ben Malice Show.
Am I the love Guru? I am the love Guru? Lorena?
Yes you are, that's I think so. I've read a book.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Congratulations, thank you. We'd like to learn all your feelings.
Lorena's read a book.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
That's big news.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
I also want to let you know the lovely people
who send in messages asking questions you should question if
you're really, you know, pleasuring your women properly?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Are you calling out the men? Is that what you're
calling out? Yes? I am, what about the women? Maybe
the women aren't taking care of the men.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
About that is a much simpler task.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
I don't know about that. Yeah, some guys are complicated. Uh,
Jeremy and Minnesota. Right, since says I love so many
women in this world, he says, how do I get
How do I go about letting them all know without
being creepy? All right, well that's it interesting.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
Well, creepy is definitely just a way that you do
things right. You don't have to be creepy in the
way that you move. You can be complimentary. You can
be you know, like, oh I enjoy you, I like
your presence. You don't have to be weird about it,
like I see.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
You through the window at night and I think about
you in my dreams.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Well, but often, Lorena, I have to touch up your
work here. But isn't it often directly related to how
attractive you are as a man that women will find
you less creepy?
Speaker 6 (36:17):
If you know, there have been attractive men who are
just creepy in general. Like I said, creepy is the
way that you present yourself.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
But really, I.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Would argue that if you're kind of a weird looking dude,
it's more likely that you'll be seen as creepy.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
That's my point.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know if creepy is the word,
but you can be more turned off by their motives
of course.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Anyway, all right, see here a lot of this is
I forty Ian Lorena says, a lot of men like
a woman to have short grass on their infield. Do
women feel the same way about men? Okay, so that's
a sporty term.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Yes, it is a preference, and I don't know.
Speaker 6 (36:55):
It kind of goes with the where you live at
different areas, like different things.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Really, see, you think it's a regional thing. Some places like.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
France doesn't shave ever, right, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
There are people.
Speaker 6 (37:08):
I just heard a rap the other day that said
they prefer hair down there.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
I haven't said.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
You should get some cultural diversity there.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
Ben I guess, but yeah, they really hold their places
they need more so like.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
In Poland they probably it's like a polar bear in Poland.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
Yeah, yes, they don't trim the hedges, sure exactly, or
you know, somewhere down here in California. You have to
trim the hedges all the time because you wear bikinis
and things. Well, obviously you wear bikinis all the time.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
I do.
Speaker 6 (37:38):
I have seen your collections.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Need to talk about that on the airs me And
there's a guy named Marv Albert you know who that is,
but he made the bikini famous. Andy writes in from
Lando Lakes, Minnesota, says, since my gal had the menopause
five years ago, I have not been able to put
the pickle in the in the in the you know what,
should I find a new box for my pickle? Asking
(38:00):
for a that's Andy and Lino Lakes. He misses putting
the pickle in the Yeah.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
Yeah, there's actually little toys you can get at the
store where the box fits.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Right in your hand, right in your hand.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
And there's some sales going on right now, So go
and check out, you know, different things.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
Find him what works for you?
Speaker 1 (38:17):
All right, We have a call for you, Lorena. Joey
is in southern California in San Bernardino, the nine oh nine.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
What's going on? Joey?
Speaker 4 (38:24):
You know what they call baby Kangaroo's Joey's.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Really yeah, fun fact are you making that up.
Speaker 6 (38:29):
No, you should put that on the the Are you
smarter than Lorena?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
You are? You know the answer.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
So it's what's up, Joey. Joey? M hmm, you're just snoring.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
I hope he's doing that and not something else that
he might be.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Well, what if you haven't?
Speaker 6 (38:48):
Has anyone ever fallen asleep while they were getting it on?
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Hi, Joey, you're on the air.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Joey, were you asleep?
Speaker 3 (38:59):
All right? Thank you? You are right. We're done with him.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
King Rory writes in says, how romantic is it for
a couple to give each other massages? Oh?
Speaker 4 (39:06):
I love massages. I just bought a new massage toy. Okay,
it's a rolling massage.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Sure it is. Ferg dog rights Since says he wants
to know the raina. Are women impressed by Benny Award winners?
The ladies get turned on by that?
Speaker 6 (39:22):
I don't know if Kelly and des Moines and Shane,
if either of them has won a Benny before, have they?
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Well, we've done the Bennies a long time, I think.
Speaker 6 (39:33):
I mean, if Shane has won before, we need to
ask Kelly if that is part of what she is
So attracted to.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yeah. Well, ast JT the wing Man says, is it
love when couples choose to work out together to live
any healthies?
Speaker 4 (39:44):
Oh my gosh, I love that.
Speaker 6 (39:46):
And you know what, even if it's not your love person,
it's just good to go to the gym with someone
who can push you and support you and show up
with you all the time.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
All right.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Last one, Shane in de Moyes says, if you're wearing
a denim top that is a different color denim than
the bottom, is that still a Canadian tuxedo?
Speaker 4 (40:04):
You should be in jail.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Well that's a.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Good question, though, I mean tuxedos come in different colors.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
You have black tuxeda, have the red the blue bottom exactly,
So I say it is still a Canadian tuxedo.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
Yes it is, but you shouldn't do it all. Come
save yourself, Save yourself.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Tremendous advice by the Lorraina.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
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Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Attention everyone, and the password is password, you idiot, password
the word Game of the Stars.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Here's Ben Meller.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Okay, we've got Daniel America's favorite crossing garden fort Wayne
teamed up with me Ben and Rob in the Commonwealth,
who's teamed up with the koop dal loop.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
And we have a list of words one to ten.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
And if you're seeing the words right now, you're cheating. Daniel.
Picking number one to ten, that'll be word number one
or whatever word.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
You take the lead? That ton seed number.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Three, number three, number three, All right, let's go with.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Mber number three. How about preferred.
Speaker 6 (41:26):
Choice?
Speaker 3 (41:27):
No, that was gonna be my clue. Sucks to be you, Rob.
Let's go with uh oh, treasured favorite.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Yeah, bull crap. That's bull crap.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
You got it on my word. Good job, Rob, It's nine.
Totally got it on treasured right now? You got on mine?
Speaker 6 (41:53):
Yeah, the first one.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Yeah, see I get credit. Hey, in your face. All right,
go ahead to pick a number Rob, one to but
not three?
Speaker 2 (42:02):
Nine?
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Please number nine?
Speaker 4 (42:03):
All right, number nine?
Speaker 3 (42:06):
Okay, we don't have a number nine. What do we do? Oh,
let's go with connection? Mm hmm, job back, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
Go ahead, playing password games, he's passing connection. Yeah, how
about Daniel? How about affair.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
Relationship? Yes, good guys.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Up tied the game.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
We've tied the game.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Daniel. We've tied the game at nine, nine to nine,
and we get to go next. All right, please pick
a number one to ten, but not one or or
not wait, not not three and not nine, not three
and nine.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
So my wife and I.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
Are going to be celebrating our tahuana anniversary.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
You may we'll go with number ten.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Number ten.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
Easy. You don't know it's easy. You have no idea.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Uh, let's go with h how about see now you
screwed me up, coop? Because I see now you're.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
Getting in my head here, you schmuck.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Now, I don't know that I want to do the
word I want to do.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Here, Let's go with screw it.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
How about mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (43:38):
Top chop ben?
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Hey, yeah, come on, all right, how about rescue?
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Thank you, oh man, rescue, d.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
Daniel. The only thing I can think of my head
is carry Sorry what Carrie? He said? Carry carry?
Speaker 2 (44:05):
Rob.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
Let's go with liberate what you know the audience? Freedom? No?
Speaker 4 (44:16):
No, oh, I know what.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
Never mind, I'm gonna try something a little different here, Daniel.
I'm gonna go bullpen. Yeah, well that was good, that's
good baseball lingo.
Speaker 4 (44:34):
I was gonna say rescue, that's rescue.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
Was his first clue. That was my first clue. Thanks
for listening.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Sure, yes, well for Larina, she points out, it's talk radio,
not listen radio.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
She only likes all right, all right, Rob, let's let's
tie this up. Pick a wait, you got nine right?
Speaker 2 (44:53):
There?
Speaker 3 (44:54):
Is it? Eight?
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Eight?
Speaker 3 (44:56):
All right? So go ahead. Actually we can take the
lead and the win. Here, Rob, pick number number six.
Oh that's easy, dude. That's a layup. Dude. I see
what you're doing now. You don't get this right, Oh
you are so Oh my gosh, right there. Let's go with.
Speaker 5 (45:17):
Slothful what what.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
Know? Your audience?
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (45:24):
I mean my gun? I don't even know what that means.
Holy crap, slothful.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Sloth s l O.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
T eight hurry brob.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
M.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
Yeah, he's got another. How about oh, hold on, he's
got it.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
No, he's not in having no hitting. No, all right, Daniel,
Let's go with loafing Bob.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
How about idol idol?
Speaker 1 (46:00):
I don't now the word is lazy. We won the game, gay, yo,
we won the game America's Favorite crossing Guard and Ben,
we won the game. That's a walk off where we
won the game
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