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Hour 1 - Hip to Clip? · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Boom!
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  Speaker 2: Shakalaka!
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  Speaker 3: It's our number one of the Ben Maller Show.
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for being part of this.
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  Speaker 3: We stayed up all night, and I'm told that this
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  Speaker 3: podcast is going to do better than most for some reason.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why, but here we go, Geronimo. Holy smokers, Batman.
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  Speaker 3: It's all about the NBA with a hammer dunk on
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  Speaker 3: the Clippers over the Kawhi Leonard hidden slush fund payments.
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  Speaker 2: The no-show job.
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  Speaker 3: Is this the full death penalty for the Clipper franchise?
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  Speaker 3: Some doom and gloomers are saying that's the magnitude we're
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  Speaker 3: talking about. We'll discuss it here. Also, what happens next
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  Speaker 3: for Steve Ballmer's Clippers? The owner hopping mad. There was
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  Speaker 3: an angry letter that was sent. We'll get into all
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  Speaker 3: of that this hour. And who ends up Now that
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  Speaker 3: the deal has been handed out, the punishment has been adjudicated.
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  Speaker 2: Who ends up with a sweetheart deal.
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  Speaker 3: In the NBA's punishment of the people's team, the Clippers?
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  Speaker 3: We'll address all of that, the elephant in the room,
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  Speaker 3: right here, right now. Make way, make way on this Thursday,
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  Speaker 3: the third day of September. It's hour number one. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I have said it from the bully pulpit for many years,
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  Speaker 3: and it is never truer than right now.
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  Speaker 2: Say it with me now, kids. It is hip to clip.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome in the beginning of another night of the Ben
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  Speaker 3: Maller Show.
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  Speaker 2: Of hot takes.
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  Speaker 3: So I've been told by many people today, my phone
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  Speaker 3: was very active, and I have been told.
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  Speaker 2: That I must lead with this story. And I was
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  Speaker 2: really debating. I was like, well, there's so many great.
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  Speaker 3: Stories going on in sports, and I have full editorial
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  Speaker 3: control doing the overnight show to figure out what I
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  Speaker 3: want to talk about. If I was doing a daytime show,
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  Speaker 3: I'd have to do the same boring topics. But at night,
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  Speaker 3: we have freedom.
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  Speaker 2: And so I was like, oh, yeah, I can talk
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  Speaker 2: about it. Yeah, we're free. We don't get paid, but
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  Speaker 2: we're free. Yeah, we do get paid, but not as
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  Speaker 2: much as the daytime people.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a give and take. Life's all about give
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  Speaker 3: and take. So it turns out, though, I will give
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  Speaker 3: the people what they want. The customer is always right.
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  Speaker 3: So our lead this hour is.
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  Speaker 2: From Pro Bouncy Ball. Oh, why are you talking about basketball? Oh, no,
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  Speaker 2: not again, Maller.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was in the lab minding my own business,
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  Speaker 2: working on some things.
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  Speaker 3: My phone was on airplane mode so I could have
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  Speaker 3: laser-like focus on future content opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, I turned my phone
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  Speaker 2: out of airplane mode and boo.
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  Speaker 3: Boo, boo, boo, boo. just like that over and over
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  Speaker 3: and over and my phone starts blowing up i thought
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  Speaker 3: boy i i'm very popular all of us i mean
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  Speaker 3: what did i do did i say something on the
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  Speaker 3: show last night that got me in trouble i was
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  Speaker 3: like no i didn't really do anything uh anything that
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  Speaker 3: interesting kind of boring and then well then i figured
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  Speaker 3: somebody else somebody had died you know that's usually what
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  Speaker 3: happens i uh I recall the day that Kobe Bryant died,
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  Speaker 3: that my phone blew up.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh my God, what had happened? Or
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  Speaker 2: maybe we were going to war, some kind of war. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: I assume you've heard by now, but perhaps not. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: you live in a van down by the river. So
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  Speaker 3: the NBA, after a story popped up a couple weeks
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  Speaker 3: ago saying that there would be no real punishment, and
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  Speaker 3: that is what we'd heard all along, that the NBA
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  Speaker 3: was very concerned about opening up pandora's box well turned
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  Speaker 3: out that the nba in the end decided to do
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  Speaker 3: the old switcheroo the crazy ivan and they went full
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  Speaker 3: mollywop they mollywop the good ship clip with penalties for
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  Speaker 3: they calling it salary cap circumvention which is just money
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  Speaker 3: under the table.
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  Speaker 2: And all that They claim they found.
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  Speaker 3: A pattern of misconduct and multiple significant rules violations involving
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  Speaker 3: the claw.
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  Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I did look at the CompuBox stats now that
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  Speaker 3: the fight is over. And if you look at the
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  Speaker 3: CompuBox stats, power punches, $ 30 million fine, and not one,
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  Speaker 3: not two, not three, not four, but five first-round picks
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  Speaker 3: stripped away from 2029 to 2033, which seems like that's
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  Speaker 3: a long way away, but it's not. And the owner,
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  Speaker 3: Steve Ballmer, was suspended for one year for helping Kawhi
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  Speaker 3: Leonard obtain extra income. The president of the Clippers, if
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  Speaker 3: you've never heard of, Jillian Zucker, she received a one-year
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  Speaker 3: unpaid suspension, so I guess she's going to have to
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  Speaker 3: get a job at Whataburger. for misconduct and misleading investigators.
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  Speaker 3: Then you had Lawrence Frank, who's very frank. The general
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  Speaker 3: manager suspended for not one, not two, not three, not four,
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  Speaker 3: not five, six months without pay. So he'll have to
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  Speaker 3: get a job at Wienerschnitzel. Kawhi Leonard has to pay
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  Speaker 3: back $ 700, 000 of improper expenses and outside income arrangements. And
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  Speaker 3: Kawhi's old business manager, Uncle Dennis... and if I'm reading
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  Speaker 3: this right, was banned from the NBA for not one,
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  Speaker 3: not two, not three, not four, five years. The Clippers
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  Speaker 3: facing five years of compliance monitoring, which is like probation,
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  Speaker 3: I believe. I think that's the proper way to look
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  Speaker 3: at that. So it's a good jumping off point. Let
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  Speaker 3: us discuss the question. Is this the full death penalty
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  Speaker 3: for the Clipper franchise, as so many are saying on
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  Speaker 3: social media?
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  Speaker 2: It's turn at the lights. The party's over.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So I've got Mystery Box, Dos Eques, and Typhoid Mary.
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  Speaker 2: And we will combine all of these things together, and.
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  Speaker 3: We are going to go bippity-boppity is what we're going
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  Speaker 3: to do. So, A, stunningly, after looking at all the
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  Speaker 3: different variables, this is actually not capital punishment. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to take the shock value away. I have an unpopular
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  Speaker 3: opinion here. To the dingleberries... It looks like the NBA
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  Speaker 3: just dropped a neutron bomb on the Clippers.
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  Speaker 2: And they need to rebuild the L.A.
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  Speaker 3: Memorial Sports Arena, the mausoleum, and go back and play
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  Speaker 3: in that dump, which is now a soccer stadium.
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  Speaker 2: But, you know what that means, after.
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  Speaker 3: A full deliberation of the available information, what is it really?
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  Speaker 3: So take a couple steps back. It's a giant invoice.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of money you've got to pay out. Some
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  Speaker 3: executives and the owner are going to spend some time
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  Speaker 3: in the penalty box. And you lost five future scratcher tickets.
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  Speaker 3: They vanish off into thin air. So I wrote down
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  Speaker 3: on my scorecard, after looking at the CompuBox.
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  Speaker 2: Stats, whoop. D, damn, do. That's what I wrote down.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care about money. It's not my money.
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  Speaker 3: Steve Ballmer, I would imagine when he's making his avocado
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  Speaker 3: toast for breakfast each morning, he loses $ 30 million.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not that big a deal.
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  Speaker 3: You suspend Ballmer for one year and you talk about, well,
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  Speaker 3: that's really punched me. I've never watched a game because
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  Speaker 3: of the owner. Now, as a talk show host, I
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  Speaker 3: love guys like Jerry Jones because they make my life easier.
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  Speaker 3: Do I watch a sporting event to see a rich guy,
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  Speaker 3: a robber baron, sitting in his nice front row seat
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  Speaker 3: or up in the luxury box to watch the game?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't care about that. Why do I care
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  Speaker 2: about that? I don't know those people. I don't roll
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  Speaker 2: in those circles. And is it really punishment?
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  Speaker 3: Because Ballmer, he's going to just watch the Clipper games
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  Speaker 3: from his mega yacht somewhere out in the Atlantic or
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  Speaker 3: the Pacific and spare me the funeral procession over the
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  Speaker 3: five first-round picks. If I tell you, all the people
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  Speaker 3: that email me, I understand. I do the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: I love Schadenfreude. It is so much fun.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you're enjoying it, too. It's great, right? Schadenfreude
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  Speaker 2: is wonderful. You dance on the grave of the Clippers.
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  Speaker 3: And you seem to think, based on the feedback from
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  Speaker 3: the people that harass me on the email bag, that
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  Speaker 3: five first round draft.
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  Speaker 2: Picks is just the worst of the worst, right?
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  Speaker 3: And this is a pet peeve of mine. Draft pick
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  Speaker 3: worship is LT. It's loser think disguised as some kind
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  Speaker 3: of higher level fandom.
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  Speaker 2: It's part of the analytics culture. You think every. Draft
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  Speaker 2: pick is going to turn out to be great.
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  Speaker 3: The NBA draft is three-card Monty in expensive suits. It
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  Speaker 3: is an annual infomercial the NBA puts out every June
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  Speaker 3: where most of the merchandise delivers. not work as advertised
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  Speaker 3: does not work as advertised everybody loves the mystery box.
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  Speaker 2: What's in the box it might contain the.
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  Speaker 3: Next superstar of course it's just some former duke player
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  Speaker 3: and usually it contains a guy who'll be playing in
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  Speaker 3: turkey three years later, or getting hemorrhoids at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the bench. So my advice to you, listen, it's
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  Speaker 3: not great, but you're in L.A. and you play in
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  Speaker 3: a top-notch arena. They're not taking away your urinals. The
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  Speaker 3: Clippers still lead the NBA. If you want to take
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  Speaker 3: a whiz, there's nowhere you'd rather go to take a
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  Speaker 3: whiz than the Clipper game. All right?
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  Speaker 2: And that's very important.
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  Speaker 3: Us men, you get older, you've got to take a
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  Speaker 3: lot of P's until you go to the Clipper game.
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  Speaker 3: And the NBA said you can keep all your urinals.
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  Speaker 3: Every urinal cake stays at the Clipper Arena, the Clip Joint.
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  Speaker 2: It's a wonderful thing.
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  Speaker 3: But players want to play in L.A. The Lakers are
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  Speaker 3: boring and they're old and they've got their own issues.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to court soon with Jeannie Boss. and that
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  Speaker 3: whole thing, and then they had that one-year ownership of
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  Speaker 3: Mark Walter. I would say I'd much rather play for
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  Speaker 3: Steve Ballmer, who's willing to pay me under the table, allegedly.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have to say allegedly anymore. I'd much rather
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  Speaker 3: play for that guy. I've been waiting, I've been waiting
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  Speaker 3: my entire adult life. I started on radio when I
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  Speaker 3: was 19.
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting older.
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  Speaker 3: I'm waiting for one of my bosses to want to
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  Speaker 3: pay me under the table. For some reason, they all
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  Speaker 3: have great morals when it comes to my contract. I
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  Speaker 3: don't understand why, right? So again, the advice of the
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  Speaker 3: Clippers is go out, Find some diamonds in the rough.
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  Speaker 2: Find the hidden gems. Develop players.
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  Speaker 3: Like, oh, we can only find players in the draft.
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  Speaker 3: Clippers haven't had many draft picks anyway for years, and
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  Speaker 3: I love it. I can't stand the draft.
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  Speaker 2: I hate it. I hate it.
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  Speaker 3: I hate it.
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  Speaker 2: I hate it. I hate the draft. I'm yelling from
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  Speaker 2: atop the mountain. I hate the draft. I'm happy they
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  Speaker 2: don't have draft picks.
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  Speaker 3: Stop clutching your precious, stupid, lame draft capital like it's
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  Speaker 3: some kind of sacred artifact from back in the old days.
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  Speaker 2: Now, page two. Keeping the theme of the hour going here.
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  Speaker 2: Now it gets good. Now it gets good.
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  Speaker 3: The question, what happens next for Steve Ballmer's Clippers? So
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  Speaker 3: if you think, as the NBA, if you think that
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  Speaker 3: this thing is just O-V-E-R over, well, just because the
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  Speaker 3: punishment came down, if you think that's the case, you
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  Speaker 3: are in for a rude awakening, or some would say
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  Speaker 3: the great awakening, because this is about to go upside down,
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  Speaker 3: bizarro world nightmare. Steve Ballmer has F-U money multiplied by
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  Speaker 3: F-U money. And now you've given Steve Ballmer, who's got
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  Speaker 3: a lot of free time on his hands, something even
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  Speaker 3: more dangerous, a grudge.
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  Speaker 2: Hell hath no fury, like an aristocrat scorned.
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  Speaker 3: And mark my words, Steve Ballmer is not just going
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  Speaker 3: to sit there with his legs crossed and take this.
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  Speaker 3: He can afford to make spite a line item in
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  Speaker 3: the Clippers' annual budget. We're talking the old video game
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  Speaker 3: in the arcade. Rampage is what we're talking about. You
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  Speaker 3: don't humiliate one of the richest men in America... Last
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  Speaker 3: I checked, he was the seventh richest person in America.
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  Speaker 3: He's in the same table. He's at the same table
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  Speaker 3: with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk and people like that.
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  Speaker 3: And so you don't do what the NBA did and
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  Speaker 3: then expect him, Ballmer, to send Adam Silver a box
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  Speaker 3: of truffles. I don't believe that's going to happen. So
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  Speaker 3: Ballmer's probably sitting on his mega yacht drinking a Dos
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  Speaker 3: Eques right now, Because he became the most interesting man
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  Speaker 3: in basketball. I don't always circumvent the salary cap. But
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  Speaker 3: when I do, I prefer Kawhi. See the commercial rights itself. Now,
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  Speaker 3: you know the old advice about not tickling a sleeping dragon.
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  Speaker 2: We've all heard.
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  Speaker 3: That somewhere along the way in some kind of fairy tale.
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  Speaker 3: So the NBA walked into the cave. They went to
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  Speaker 3: the back left-hand side of the cave.
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  Speaker 2: Not the right.
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  Speaker 3: Because there was nothing right. They went to the left-hand
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  Speaker 3: side of the cave, okay? So they walked in, and
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  Speaker 3: there was a fork in the cave. They could have
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  Speaker 3: gone right. There was nothing right. So they went left.
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  Speaker 3: They walked over to the left in the cave, okay?
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  Speaker 3: You got the picture in your head? So they walked
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  Speaker 3: over to the left. They're in the cave, and for
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  Speaker 3: some reason, Adam Silver, one of the reptilians, was holding
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  Speaker 3: a feather duster in one hand, and then he poked
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  Speaker 3: the fire-breathing dragon with the other and then used the
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  Speaker 3: feather duster. So that means now Steve Ballmer.
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  Speaker 3: Can now go full Al Davis.
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  Speaker 2: He's already got an army of lawyers. Sue, sue, sue, sue, sue.
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  Speaker 2: A boy named Sue. Sue everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Release the Kraken. And I'm not talking about the hockey
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  Speaker 3: team in Seattle. And turn litigation into recreational activity.
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  Speaker 2: He's got ammunition.
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  Speaker 3: If And this was the story that came out a
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  Speaker 3: couple weeks ago and obviously came from the Clippers, based
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  Speaker 3: on what we know now. But that laid out his
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  Speaker 3: defense plan, that the league previously had allowed endorsement relationships
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  Speaker 3: involving players and companies, and they'd already set the precedent.
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  Speaker 3: And that allowed sponsors to pay players. And so that's
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  Speaker 3: their argument. Now, whether that's true or not, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: And you don't know.
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  Speaker 3: And I do know who's going to win the lawyers here.
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  Speaker 3: This becomes Disneyland's haunted mansion. Because if you think Kawhi
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  Speaker 3: Leonard was the only player getting money under the table, well,
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  Speaker 3: you're in for a rude, rude welcome to Realityville.
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  Speaker 2: Because this has.
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  Speaker 3: Been going on for the top 1% to 2% of players.
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  Speaker 2: Now, for a while, does that mean it is as
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  Speaker 2: deep as Kawhi Leonard? Maybe not.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't mean that it's not against the bylaws of
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  Speaker 3: the NBA or And so it's like the Haunted Mansion.
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  Speaker 3: Every time you think the ride is over, another skeleton
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  Speaker 3: pops out to do a dance. Right there, out of
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  Speaker 3: the closet. So forget Lob City. That was years ago.
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  Speaker 3: The Clippers are now this generation of, what, the off-court
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  Speaker 3: bad boys, bad boys, move over Dennis Rodman, Rick Mohorn,
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  Speaker 3: and those old-school Pistons from.
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  Speaker 2: Back in the day. The Clippers are now an outlaw franchise.
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  Speaker 3: And the NBA, they wanted them wearing a scarlet letter,
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  Speaker 3: and instead it handed them a leather jacket and gave
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  Speaker 3: Steve Ballmer the villain origin story. that a nerdy older
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  Speaker 3: gentleman has been dying to get. So Steve Ballmer, this
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  Speaker 3: is still not the craziest thing that's happened to Ballmer.
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  Speaker 3: The all-time gold standard remains. Steve Ballmer in 07, almost
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  Speaker 3: 20 years ago, getting on stage in front of a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of Microsoft employees and saying no one's going to
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  Speaker 3: buy the iPhones. Yeah, that did not.
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  Speaker 2: Go so well.
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  Speaker 3: All right, last word here. So we must put a
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  Speaker 3: bow on what has been a wild day in the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: So the question, who ends up with a sweetheart deal
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  Speaker 3: in this NBA punishment of the Clippers and all the
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  Speaker 3: draft picks and the fines and the suspensions, and we'll
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  Speaker 3: see if all this stuff holds up. Well, there's only
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  Speaker 3: one acceptable answer here, and it's Kawhi Leonard. Kawhi Leonard gets...
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  Speaker 3: The ultimate all-inclusive package. And it's not even particularly close.
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  Speaker 3: Because if my math is right here, he pays $ 700, 000
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  Speaker 3: in fine. And he pocketed, some reports say, $ 2 to
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  Speaker 3: $ 3 million. Who knows what he actually got. So let's
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  Speaker 3: say it's $ 2 million. So he has to pay $ 700, 000
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  Speaker 3: using malware math. That would mean he ended up benefiting $ 1.
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  Speaker 6: 3 million.
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  Speaker 3: Or even if it's only $ 1. 3 million, he made $ 600, 000
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  Speaker 3: of extra money. And more importantly, he gets the Altuve package.
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  Speaker 3: You know how Rob Manford, the spineless, gutless commissioner of
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  Speaker 3: Major League Baseball, refused.
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  Speaker 2: To punish Altuve? Hey, ump, check him for the buzzer!
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  Speaker 3: The cheating a-holes. Well, Kawhi Leonard, no suspension. And much
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: like George Springer of the cheating a-holes, he leaves, Kawhi
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  Speaker 3: leaves the country. on the transfer portal and is expected
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  Speaker 3: to return to Toronto like Caesar coming home from battle.
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  Speaker 2: And you talk about falling upward.
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  Speaker 3: Kawhi is the typhoid Mary of the NBA.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: He is.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: I've determined he's the typhoid Mary of the NBA. Everything
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: looks fine on the outside. Kawhi, when he plays, he
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: plays pretty well, right? So he looks perfectly fine. And la, la, la, la, la, la, zippity-doo-dah, zippity-day.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: And yet everywhere the man goes, he leaves, and there's
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: another outbreak of the bubonic plague. I remember in San Antonio,
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: he held a wildcat strike. He didn't want to play
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: for the Spurs, and the fans hated him. Then he
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: went off to Toronto, and he won a championship. Everyone
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: loved him, and I remember videos online of fans burning
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: his jersey and when he went off to play for
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: the Clippers, and now we have the Clipper experience. The
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: one common denominator is Kawhi Leonard. And if some of
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: those draft picks are not restored, this becomes the single greatest...
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: hustle of our time. Now, I don't really care much
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: about draft picks. However, Kawhi Leonard will have helped either
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: directly or indirectly costing the Clippers 10 first-round draft picks,
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: a couple of pick swaps, two-time MVP Shade Yogus Alexander,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: who the late Jerry West.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Wanted to keep.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Had an idea, be pretty good. And the Thunder said, well,
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: we got to get him if you want Paul George.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: And they tried to convince Kawhi Leonard and Uncle Dennis that, hey,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: we should hold on to this guy.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: He's pretty good.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: No, no, I'm not going there unless I get Paul George. Well,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Paul George can't play. Well, I'm not going to the
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Clippers unless I get Paul George. But Kawhi, trust me,
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: he's not that good. He doesn't want to play. He's
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: a bad guy. Okay, I want to play with him.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, fine. We'll trade SGA. That makes sense.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Okay, how'd that work out? Danilo Gallinari, who cares about that?
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: And then all the fines and the suspensions. It's a
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: hot stew. And let's not forget, though. Forget all the picks.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: I don't really care about those. Seven years of Lazy
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: River Load Management Theater. He averaged Kawhi Leonard just 47
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: games a season. And is very responsible for me disliking basketball.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I used to love the NBA. I went to, man,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: over the years, thousands of basketball games in my life.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: I really only care about it for the playoffs.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: That's about it. And stories like this. And a lot
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: of that is Kawhi.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: He just doesn't care about basketball playing, and it's just
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: a bad situation. And he came to the Clippers, and, ah,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: come on home, and all that. And everyone was all excited,
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: and he leaves, and it's like a super fun sight
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: as he exits. And yet somehow he walks away with
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: essentially a parking ticket.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: That's it. That is some serious skullduggery by Kawhi Leonard.
• 21:42
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• 21:46
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• 21:47
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• 22:06
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• 22:11
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• 22:24
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• 22:27
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• 23:58
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• 24:02
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• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Can all bosses be more like Steve Ballmer? The Clips
• 24:07
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• 24:09
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• 24:11
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• 24:13
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• 25:06
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• 25:10
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• 25:11
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• 25:17
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• 25:22
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• 25:27
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• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Drawer on his desk back in the day where he
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: would keep his angry letters. It's a famous story that's
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: been told. I don't know how many people know about
• 25:42
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• 25:46
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• 25:51
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• 25:52
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• 25:54
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• 25:55
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• 26:00
  Speaker 3: apparently it's back in vogue.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: It's back in style. So we'll get to that.
• 26:03
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• 26:10
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• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Level-headed and not emotional. Not emotional.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Jason writes in, he says, Ballmer got fleeced like he
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: was Maller running the Clipper franchise.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: He'll win in the end. He'll win in the end.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: And it's to the point where I'm telling you, if
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: this goes the way it's headed, unless the NBA bows
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: down and gives some picks back and lowers the fine,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: which is unlikely, It's not out of the realm of possibility.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Ballmer will get to the point with Adam Silver where
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: they wish they had just kept Donald Sterling as the
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: owner of the Clippers.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Fergdog writes in.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: He says, did you hear your buddy David Vasse made
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: a bet that if the Dodgers didn't win, he'd walk
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: home from Dodger Stadium? Do you think he'll be a
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: man of his word and pay off the bet like
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: you always do? Or will he weasel out of it? Yeah,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: so I'll tell you what Vasse is going to do.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: He's a bit of a snake. He hangs out with
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: his buddy there, Blake Snell. So Vasse will probably put
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: a tent in the parking lot at Dodger Stadium and
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: say that he's homeless and that's where he's sleeping. So
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't put that past him there. Yeah, and I
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: did pay off, as you know, my Rocky Mountain Oysters bet.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Years ago, FergDog, before you were listening, I also... There
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: was a famous bet to walk to Tucson, Arizona. There
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: was this basketball coach named Lute Olson and the Arizona Wildcats.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Weaseled out of that one, too. No, I did not.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: There was a game.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Arizona was up by a gazillion points with a few
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: minutes to go against the Fighting Illini. And they somehow
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: blew the game. And I had said I would walk
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: to Tucson. And I had everything mapped out. I knew
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: exactly what roads I would take to walk from L.A.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: To Tucson, Arizona.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: And then I was told by management, the great late
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Andrew Ashwood, may he rest in peace, that I would
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: not make it out of my home, certainly wouldn't make
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: it to Riverside or San Bernardino, and that I would die.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: So they chose to not have me do that.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Convenient that the person that can validate this story is
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: no longer with us.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Well, I wish he was alive, but he was a
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: great boss, but he's unfortunately crossed over the pearly gates.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: He's having a cup of coffee with Jeannie in Medford
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: right now. Late Night Drug Tester writes and says, this
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: is the second time Adam Silver stood up to the Clippers' ownership.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: If he was this tough on the players, there wouldn't
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: be tanking or load management.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: That is true.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: How come Adam Silver has no balls, no hair on
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: his chest or his head, and then when it comes
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: to the Clippers, oh, yeah, he's throwing Thor's hammer down.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: What's up with that?
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Nostradinus writes in from a team that had their fluke
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: championship run last year.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: He says, I wasn't cheating. I didn't cheat anybody.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: And fully concerned about the Rams breaking the bank for
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: an over-the-hill former player who's going to be injured most
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: of the season. But you can tell the sound, the
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: tone of that writing by Nostradamus. That is a man
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: who is scared. That is the tone of someone who
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: knows it's all over.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: It's all over.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: And the Seahawks are going to need an actual 12th
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: man on the field, like a player, a 12th player,
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: to stop that Ram juggernaut.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Nature Boy used AI and says the Justin Cooper version
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: of the most interesting man.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Mark the Walker, he's wandering around Rochester, and he says,
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: top-notch opening monologue, Ben. Also, in light of the earth-shattering
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: news that the Rams have 11 captains, I'd like to
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: break the equally huge story that my local Taco Bell
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: recently switched from two-ply to one-ply toilet paper. More details
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: as they become available. Thank you for that, Mark the
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: Walker there. And I love the fact that that monologue
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: resonated with you where it's still in the back of
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: your head. Still in the back of your head, Mark,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: that 11 captains on the L.A. Rams that was brought
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: up on this show by request, by request. I'm pretty easy.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: I get a lot of messages.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: I don't write back to hardly anybody, but I do
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: check the messages often. And that was a popular message.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: So take that.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: What do we got here? Let's see.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: Rob says Balmer and the Clippers getting it handed to them.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: And even though they own L.A., a tough day.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Well, it's not. They do own L.A.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: They got the better arena. They got all those urinal
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: cakes over there in the hood at Inglewood. So that's true.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: It's fine. Just don't have any draft picks, which who cares?
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Who cares? There you go.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: Somebody I've never heard of who appears to be a
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: burner account.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Should I even bother reading this? They have three followers.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I won't read that. Spock's Weed writes in.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: Says we need a Ben Maller financial poop report for
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Steve Ballmer. Get an intern to get the stat, figure
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: out mine. It's at 0.856 for a three-minute bathroom break.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Calling Stuart Varney. Get him online. We'll get him on
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Kyle writes in, says Kawhi is free and clear to
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: play for the Raptors. Toronto is hyped. Well, he'll be
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: great for those 37 games that he plays or whatever.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: He'll be really good. really really good for.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Those 37 games all right let's go to the phones
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: and eeny meeny miny mo let's say hello to hmm
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: who should we start with let's go to andrew who's
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: in bakersfield hello andrew welcome.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: Hello ben are you ready for the lob how are.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: You Do you care?
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: If you were any better, okay, so you're, as a
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: Clipper fan possibly, you're muddling the waters here. You said
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: that they woke up a sleeping dragon in Steve Ballmer
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: and that he's just going to sue and keep suing.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: And then you mentioned the other people that may have
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: done the same type of thing.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: But that doesn't change anything. the ground that the NBA
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: has to punish Silver.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: He can't just say... It does, and here's why.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: Because Steve Ballmer has no reason to keep that stuff
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: a secret now. He can say, you know, there's rumors
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: on the internet about Jalen Brunson getting payment. Does that
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: tarnish the Knicks championship?
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know if he did. there's rumors the Lakers
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: have been up to some funny business over the years.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: So if you start naming names and then the NBA,
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: there'll be no draft, which I'm all for.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Just get all the draft picks.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Everyone loses their draft picks except, like, Sacramento because they
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: don't have enough money to pay people to go to Sacramento.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: And just get rid of everything. Get rid of the draft.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: And that's it.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: You've now changed the precedent. So I'm all for it. But, hey,
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: it's great for my business. I've got years and years
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: of Malheur monologues about lawsuits and Or this lawsuit and
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Steve Ballmer and drag through the legal system and appeals
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: and going to higher courts. And I'm there for it.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: I think this is wonderful. I'm always looking for content.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: And this is going to be a great content story.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: So from my perspective, from a business perspective, it's great
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: for what I do.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: But Ballmer can't say, yeah, but they did it too.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Good job, Mr. Silver. Thanks, Ben.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Let's say hello to– who do we have next? Let's
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: see here. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Let's go to Robert,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: who's in La La Land somewhere. Hello, Robert. What's going on?
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: You're on the Ben Maller Show on Fox.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Hello, Robert. Welcome.
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: Hey, Ben. First time, long time. I've got to say,
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: as a Clipper fan, I need to be talked off
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: a ledge. This is crazy that a cancer that, you know,
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: gets paid under the table– makes us trade for Paul George,
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: and neither one of them can play a full season.
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: Then we lose all our draft picks, and the minute
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: we get a draft pick better than Michael Candy, we
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: end up trading him away for this piece of garbage
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: named Paul George. Honestly, I feel like this happened so
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: Ballmer can move the team to Seattle.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: No, he's not moving the team to Seattle. They're going
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: to get an expansion team in the next couple of years.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: You don't have to worry about that. You just got
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: to look at it this way. Just look at it
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: this way. Just say, hey, this is going to be
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: like the old Clippers, you know, where they had guys
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: that weren't very good, like Ola Candy and Darius Miles
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: was all hype.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: He wasn't all that good. Oh, Mar Odom. Yeah, Chris Wilcox.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Chris Kamen. Just a minute.
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: Chris Kamen should have his jersey retired, actually.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Well, let's not get crazy.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Maybe at Central Michigan, possibly, but let's not get crazy here.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: But you just got to look at it like it's
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: back in those days where they just drafted a bunch
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: of turds. And so just think those five picks would
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: have been failed picks. Most first-round picks don't work out anyway.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: They don't. So that's just another failed pick.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: And now they really need this guy, Keaton Wagler, who
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: they drafted this year from the Pacer pick. They need
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: him to be really good. And if he's really good,
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: that'll be a foundational player for them. And they're going
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: to have to figure some stuff out. But I don't
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: like the draft. I'm not bummed out by it. Now,
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: I didn't see the fine print. Can they still acquire
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: draft picks? They lost their draft picks, but if this
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: trade for Kawhi Leonard happens... They end up getting some
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: first round draft picks. Can they keep those or they
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: can't have those?
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know how that works. Or here's what the
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: other thing you do.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: You could just trade up and get like the 30,
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: you know, the first pick of the second round, which
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  Speaker 3: would be a first round pick because if there's only,
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  Speaker 3: you know, take away a pick by the Clippers, then
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  Speaker 3: there's one less pick in the first round. So you
• 36:17
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• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Here's the Who Am I game. The Giants' Rafael Devers,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: playing on a terrible team. Devers became the second MLB
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: player in the modern era to homer and draw multiple
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: walks in three straight games.
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  Speaker 2: The other player to do it was me. Again, Devers.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: The Gigantes Rafael Devers became the second MLB player in
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  Speaker 3: the modern era to homer and draw multiple walks in
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  Speaker 3: three straight games.
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  Speaker 2: The other was me. Who am I? That's the question.
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• 38:01
  Speaker 3: The Who Am I game in a moment. I did
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: want to mention this. I did a little rant earlier
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  Speaker 3: about the angry letter, the lost art of the unsent
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  Speaker 3: angry letter. And Abraham Lincoln, when he felt like he
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: wanted to rip someone a new one he would compose
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  Speaker 3: what he called a hot letter and he'd put all
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  Speaker 3: the anger all the nasty things you could say about
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  Speaker 3: then he'd put them aside until he calmed down and
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  Speaker 3: then he'd.
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  Speaker 2: Write never sent never signed and he had in a
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  Speaker 2: drawer in.
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  Speaker 3: His desk he left all these unsent angry letters to
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  Speaker 3: people well the clippers they decided to click send on
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: their angry letter they sent out a public note slamming
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  Speaker 3: Adam Silver for violating his promises for due process and
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  Speaker 3: fundamental fairness.
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  Speaker 2: It says Steve Ballmer spent.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: Nearly $ 50 million in legal fees, paying lawyers at the
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  Speaker 3: behest of the NBA, produced 30,000-plus documents, supplied 20-plus witnesses,
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  Speaker 3: 30 interviews. Clippers claim thousands of employee hours. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this is a very long letter, a lot of detail there,
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  Speaker 3: and very angry letter. And I enjoyed reading it, and
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  Speaker 3: I look forward to the coming litigation, which will be
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: dropping here soon. Here's the Who Am I game. The Hegantes,
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  Speaker 3: Rafael Devers. I hope you like San Francisco. Good weather. Well,
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: not great weather, but good ballpark and nice place to live.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: and a terrible baseball team. The Giants, Rafael Devers became
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: the second MLB player in the modern era to homer
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: and draw multiple.
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  Speaker 2: Walks in three straight games. The other was me. Who
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: am I?
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  Speaker 3: That is the question. What is the answer? Rod, the
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: ambassador of Bakersfield going Barry Bonds. Kyrie Irving from Femi,
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: the top Uber Eats driver. They're in Minnesota. Who else
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  Speaker 3: do we have?
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  Speaker 2: Page down.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: Alfie Alien O'Piner going with Fergie Dog available in New England.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, look at that.
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  Speaker 3: David got this right. Bad job by him, obviously cheating.
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  Speaker 3: Rob the Goatman from Robbie the Mariner fan. Luke Appling
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  Speaker 3: from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Lucky Tony from Mallard Prop Guy.
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  Speaker 3: Look at Lucky Tony, lean and mean man. My guy,
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  Speaker 3: Lucky Tony.
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  Speaker 6: Bears.
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  Speaker 2: What else do we have?
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  Speaker 3: Benchwarmer Rob Lertzema from Curmudgeon Wayne in Duluth. Tony Fernandez,
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: great player, the late Tony Fernandez from James.
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  Speaker 2: Who else do we have?
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Bernie Fratto on sabbatical from Larry D. George the Animal
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  Speaker 3: Steel from Los Gringos. I met him, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: Nice man. Do you have an answer, Lorena?
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: I'm going with Stanley Allnats.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Lorena, you sound really healthy. You've got that sexy voice. Man,
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  Speaker 2: just a man killer.
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  Speaker 3: No, the correct answer would be none other than Ted Williams'
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: Teddy Ball game in 1954.
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  Speaker 2: The old Red Sox.