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Ben Maller Show Best of the Week · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: because all the media elites, the sports media elites, are
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  Speaker 1: in New Orleans for the Super Bowl, and nobody gives
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  Speaker 1: a rats ass about that game. Right now. It's all
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  Speaker 1: about these NBA trades and what a week in It
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  Speaker 1: was a hu dinger, a hum dinger of a weekend,
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  Speaker 1: a door buster, door buster type trade. In fact, a
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  Speaker 1: couple of big trades, but the biggest. We're gonna start
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  Speaker 1: play the hits. Play the hits, mom, man, We'll play
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  Speaker 1: the hits. And if you didn't hear about I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how you could have missed it. If you're a
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  Speaker 1: sports fan, you're listening to a sports talk radio show
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  Speaker 1: at an ungodly hour, I would think you've paid attention,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe not. Luka Doncik is gone, traded, excommunicated from
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  Speaker 1: Dallas bye bye. As he was traded to the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: The historians get Luca Doncik part of a three team
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  Speaker 1: deal between Dallas, LA and Utah. Anthony Davis the big
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  Speaker 1: name going back to the Mavericks, there's some spare parts
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  Speaker 1: in spam to make the numbers work that change teams.
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  Speaker 1: The Jazz, they're just there to help trades go through,
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  Speaker 1: to facilitate trades, take on draft picks and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: and they help the money situation work out. The Jazz
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  Speaker 1: are just a filler team at this point, not trying
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  Speaker 1: to win, just trying to help the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: league out. That's their role. So let us discuss the question,
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  Speaker 1: how do you grade the mega mega mega mega mega trade?
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  Speaker 1: Luca goes from the MAVs to the Lakers for Anthony Davis,
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  Speaker 1: those are the headliners. We focus on the headliners. So
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  Speaker 1: I've got Puddy, Sandra Bullock, and Return of the Jedi,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we will follow our nose wherever our nose takes us.
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  Speaker 1: And I got a big schnaz, I got a really
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  Speaker 1: large nas, so I will just go wherever the nose
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  Speaker 1: takes us. So my first thought on this is when
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  Speaker 1: you're when you're grading, it's the Mallord report card when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to grading trades, and we are the industry
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  Speaker 1: leader in great transactions. Absolutely, nobody is more trusted nobody
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  Speaker 1: in overnight delivery of a report card on transactions on
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  Speaker 1: this show in the middle of the night on Fox.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody has this kind of information. So on the Malor
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  Speaker 1: report Card, the Malor report Card on the big trade
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend, Dallas and LA the Lakers reluctantly, I
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  Speaker 1: will give them a B minus on the trade. I
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  Speaker 1: will give them a B minus. The Mavericks get an F,
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  Speaker 1: and then I don't know that I can go lower?
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything lower than an F? I would like
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  Speaker 1: to go lower than F? Is there anything beyond F?
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  Speaker 1: Can I go beyond F? Anyway? LA also picked up
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  Speaker 1: a couple of roster span players in the trade, Maxi
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  Speaker 1: Kliebah who hit a game winning shot against them a
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  Speaker 1: while back, and Mark, the much traveled Markkeith Morris. He
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  Speaker 1: also goes to the Lakers. It is a foo bar situation.
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  Speaker 1: It is I'm a chumpion to still process the transactionan
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  Speaker 1: the math ain't mathing on this one on many many levels,
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  Speaker 1: many many many levels. They're Lakers were just handed on
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  Speaker 1: a silver platter a Luka Doncic and they didn't have
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  Speaker 1: to bid against anyone. Why Why would you do that.
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  Speaker 1: That's malfeasance, that's bad management, that's incompetence, that's wrong on
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  Speaker 1: many levels. Why would you do that? Wouldn't you fire
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  Speaker 1: the general manager if you own the team and that
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  Speaker 1: is how they did business, I think you would. But
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  Speaker 1: it's like, oh, we're gonna call one team and we'll
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  Speaker 1: just give you the buy now price and that's it,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't have to bid and just submit an offer.
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  Speaker 1: We'll make it happen. Yeah. Now, back when the NBA
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  Speaker 1: actually had leadership, you know, guys with hair on their
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  Speaker 1: chest and balls and things like that. David Stern would
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  Speaker 1: have vetoed this trade. He vetoed the Chris Paul trade. Right,
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  Speaker 1: He would have vetoed this trade. Also said, well, that's
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  Speaker 1: not we're not going to do that. But it's playing
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  Speaker 1: with putty. The whole thing's playing with putty. Putty explosives.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking ballistics here is what we're talking about, plastic explosives. Now, Luca,
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  Speaker 1: he turns twenty six later this month, Happy birthday. There's
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  Speaker 1: some great cake, great bakeries in Los Angeles. You love
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  Speaker 1: the bakries in LA. And he was traded for a
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  Speaker 1: player who is near the end of his athletic prime,
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  Speaker 1: who has the superpower of missing games. His nickname is
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  Speaker 1: street Clothes Anthony Davis, that's his nickname. He is more
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  Speaker 1: known for not showing up the work than showing up
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  Speaker 1: the work. And that's who the Dallas Mavericks had to
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  Speaker 1: get their hands on. Why I don't get it. Davis
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  Speaker 1: turns thirty two in the month of March. Now, these
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  Speaker 1: aren't your daddy's Mavericks. That is fair to say. Anybody,
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  Speaker 1: it still thinks. And not everyone heard the news, but
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  Speaker 1: Mark Cuban, who was a fanboy. I mean getting the
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  Speaker 1: Mark Cuban's got a lot of issues there. But Cuban's
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  Speaker 1: a fanboy, and he owned the Mavericks for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: and he sold out. Everyone's got their price, and Magic Christian,
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's got the price. Mark Cuban sold out for three
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  Speaker 1: point five billion dollars. And that's the cost for Mark
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  Speaker 1: Cuban to allow this to happen. If Mark Cuban still
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  Speaker 1: owned the Dallas Mavericks controlling interest of the Mavericks, he
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  Speaker 1: would not have done this. This was not a possibility,
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  Speaker 1: it was it. But that's not the case here. And
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  Speaker 1: Cuban even if he felt he had to trade Luca
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  Speaker 1: for whatever reason, would have rather sent him to an
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  Speaker 1: expansion franchise in Papa New Guinea than send him to
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers. There's no way that would have happened. And
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  Speaker 1: of course there's a lot of dumb people that don't
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  Speaker 1: know that Mark Cuban sold out. He's a sellout. He
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  Speaker 1: sold the team. Good for him three point five billion,
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  Speaker 1: and he's just kind of there as like a make
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  Speaker 1: a wish thing. When he travels with the Mavericks and
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  Speaker 1: all that, it's.
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  Speaker 3: Like, hey, wee, I don't really own the team.
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  Speaker 1: I don't control anything, but I get to sit by
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  Speaker 1: the bench and the players like me and all that. Yeah. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: so new regime, new blood, and you get what you get.
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  Speaker 1: You get what you get now, Page two. What makes
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  Speaker 1: the Lukka the Luca trade so unique? It makes it
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  Speaker 1: so unique? Well, this is like Sandra Bullock's Academy Award
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  Speaker 1: winning performance in the old movie The blind Side. The
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  Speaker 1: blind Side. Listen, if someone had called up this talk
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  Speaker 1: show and said, hey, Ben, I'd like to make a trade.
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  Speaker 1: How about the Mavericks s and Luka Doncic to the
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  Speaker 1: Lake for Anthony Davis In some spare parts, some pocket
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  Speaker 1: length to be named later. We would have said something
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  Speaker 1: along the lines of, well, what bath salts are you
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  Speaker 1: sniffing right now, sir, and please go to the mini bar,
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  Speaker 1: and we would have hung up on them. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we would have done. A video game would have rejected
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  Speaker 1: that trade, would have said, no, that's not a proper trade. No,
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  Speaker 1: no way. A twenty twenty nine first round pick. That's
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  Speaker 1: all you're getting in terms of future draft picks and
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  Speaker 1: scratcher tickets. One scratcher ticket in twenty twenty nine, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: But here we are. Here we are the unthinkable, the unimaginable.
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  Speaker 1: It's the first time in NBA history that two raining
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  Speaker 1: all NBA players have been traded for each other at
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  Speaker 1: mid season, as the trade deadlines not until later this week,
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  Speaker 1: but the trades, the big ones have already happened at
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  Speaker 1: this point in the modern era. This is the craziest trade,
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  Speaker 1: the Luca trade of them all, and the thing that
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  Speaker 1: stands out though in the world we're living in right now,
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  Speaker 1: twenty four to seven round the clock and the business
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  Speaker 1: of basketball, the currency of basketball. I've had this conversation
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  Speaker 1: with many people over the years who are in this
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  Speaker 1: world and the rumor and I ran a gossip site
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  Speaker 1: for years before I was working here at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: But I ran a rumor site for many, many years.
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  Speaker 1: And the rumor is more important than the reality. Like
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  Speaker 1: the rumor gets people talk. And what happened with this
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  Speaker 1: particular trade here, you know, it's it's stunning because there
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  Speaker 1: was not even a peep, right, Loose lips in the
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  Speaker 1: NBA are commonplace. Happens all the time. They work. Clandestine
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  Speaker 1: is how they worked this time, is how they work.
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  Speaker 1: Cloak and dagger. Mission zero, dark thirty, everyone say it
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  Speaker 1: moving under the cover of darkness, and twas the night
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  Speaker 1: before the trade deadline week was upon, us went all
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  Speaker 1: through the house, all through the house. Not a creature
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  Speaker 1: was stirring, not even a unibrow. And then the Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: they played the Knicks Midtown Manhattan on National TV. Huhum.
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  Speaker 1: And then car boom the volcano exploded. But there was
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  Speaker 1: no bubbling up of this. There was no chatter that
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  Speaker 1: Dallas is unhappy with Luca, They're going to trade him.
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  Speaker 1: This came out of relatively thin air, so much so
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  Speaker 1: people were convinced that Shams was hacked. This was not real.
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  Speaker 1: There was some funny business going on all right. Now. Lastly,
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  Speaker 1: so how does this Luka don Chick transaction play with
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  Speaker 1: the electorate in Dallas. Now we're on in Dallas. You
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  Speaker 1: guys can answer if you want to call in and
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  Speaker 1: give the pulse of the people. But from the outside,
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  Speaker 1: the way I see it, the Dallas Mavericks are cooked.
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  Speaker 1: They have violated the bubble of trust. And once you
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  Speaker 1: violated the bubble of trust, there is no going back.
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  Speaker 1: You have done the thing you can't do at the time.
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  Speaker 1: You can't do it. You have sold the Church of
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  Speaker 1: Maverick Basketball and you have just traded the deacon. You
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  Speaker 1: have said, get out of here. You're done. And as
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  Speaker 1: we understand it, despite enjoying a hearty meal and not
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  Speaker 1: really taking conditioning all that. Seriously, Luca was beloved and
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  Speaker 1: he was their next Dirk. They were just in the
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  Speaker 1: NBA finals against the Celtics last summer, and it's wild
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  Speaker 1: that you would make this particular move at this time.
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  Speaker 1: And the sales pitch, we've seen the sales pitch. The
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  Speaker 1: sales pitch played out. It's simple. The Mavericks they're claiming,
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  Speaker 1: hey me seven years with this guy and we were
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  Speaker 1: waiting for Luca, for the light bulb to go off,
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  Speaker 1: for the epiphany to take place for Luca, and he
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  Speaker 1: never did. And so what we got was a character
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  Speaker 1: from Return of the Jedi. You might remember Job of
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  Speaker 1: the Hut. That's what we got. The guys out of shape.
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  Speaker 1: He can score, that's it. He's never taken him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: his job seriously in terms of being in top physical condition. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Luca has been out since Christmas. Here we are in
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  Speaker 1: early February with a strained left cap and the word
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  Speaker 1: the streets of the NBA saying that there are factions
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  Speaker 1: in Dallas that are convinced the reason he hurt himself
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  Speaker 1: is because he's a fat pig and that's why he
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  Speaker 1: injured himself and has been out since since Christmas. Just
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  Speaker 1: poor conditioning and all that. But doesn't that seem like
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  Speaker 1: a temporary problem more than a permanent problem. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but that's the Mavericks. They're planning all
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  Speaker 1: these stories to justify the trade, saying you're like two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty pounds and MAVs ownership didn't trust him.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard that. Bouncing around the pinball machine of the
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  Speaker 1: hot take here that there was other mitigating factors. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to pay him the Supermax contract, They didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to invest that kind of money this summer. Give
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  Speaker 1: him another contract, and well at it's already backfired. Netorcks
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  Speaker 1: aren't winning anything with Anthony Davis. You come on, Anthony
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  Speaker 1: never won with the Lakers. They never won a championship,
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  Speaker 1: not a real one, fake one. They never want a
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  Speaker 1: real one with the Lakers. Not gonna win now with Kyrie,
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  Speaker 1: they're both going to get hemorrhoids playing rock paper scissors
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  Speaker 1: on the bench while the other players are out there
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  Speaker 1: playing yikes. And as far as Luke, listen, if he
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  Speaker 1: had problems with self discipline with the Dallas Mavericks, wait
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  Speaker 1: till you get to the Lakers and to all those
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood f's kiss your ass and invite you to all
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  Speaker 1: those parties with pile of drugs and amazing food. And
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  Speaker 1: you're on the A list everywhere in La because you
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  Speaker 1: wear the historian's uniform. That's what Luca has to look
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  Speaker 1: forward to. So if you can't get joy yourself in Dallas,
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  Speaker 1: I know those famous people in Dallas, I know those
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  Speaker 1: rich people in Dallas. But it's a different animal in
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  Speaker 1: La and good luck, good luck, Luca, good luck.
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  Speaker 1: So I lead this hour to begin the night the
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  Speaker 1: Talk festivis you and I together Here from the swap
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  Speaker 1: meet of football Super Bowl fifty nine days away on
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  Speaker 1: tap this weekend. So the Eagles and Chiefs have to
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  Speaker 1: play a game, but for everyone else, they're getting ready
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  Speaker 1: for next year. It's hurry up, get ready for next
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  Speaker 1: year and the twenty twenty five regular season, which will
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  Speaker 1: kick off sometime in early September. Big move, not surprising,
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  Speaker 1: but big moves coming from La La Land. And if
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  Speaker 1: you have not been following, because you actually have a
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  Speaker 1: life and you're not obsessing with all of this, we
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  Speaker 1: have learned that wide receiver Cooper Cup has been informed
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  Speaker 1: by the Rams his services are no longer needed for
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  Speaker 1: the team that shares Sofi Stadium, that the team will
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  Speaker 1: be seeking to trade him immediately. How do we know that?
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  Speaker 1: We know that because it came from the horse's mouth,
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Cup saying, quote, I don't agree with the decision
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  Speaker 1: and I always believed it was going to begin and
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  Speaker 1: end in La close quote a Cup making a statement
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  Speaker 1: on the social media. What's all that all the kids
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  Speaker 1: are doing it on the social media? So he does
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  Speaker 1: not agree with the RAMS decisions. So Cup the team
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  Speaker 1: working together, Allegedly they're working together to have him on
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  Speaker 1: the next train out of La La Land heading somewhere else. Says.
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  Speaker 1: The effort there to find the right place to continue
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  Speaker 1: competing for championships. So the story goes and he is
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  Speaker 1: highly motivated, and he says healthy. He says, Cooper Cup's healthy.
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  Speaker 1: So let's let you know that as they head into
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  Speaker 1: the next seasons. I got healthy quick. The RAMS eliminated
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  Speaker 1: a couple weeks back. He's already healthy. Who knew? All right?
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question. Former super Ball hero
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Cup says that he is not happy. He does
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  Speaker 1: not agree, but the RAMS are working to trade him. Immediately,
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  Speaker 1: give me your school of thought on this. So I
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  Speaker 1: have Steve Harvey, bipartisan and car shopping. That sounded like
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  Speaker 1: a from Bell. What happened to our bell? That was
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  Speaker 1: not the same bell? Okay, that seemed a little I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. It seems a little off. The original bell
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  Speaker 1: seemed a little offt I don't know. Did somebody mess
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  Speaker 1: with our bell? Did someone pressed the wrong bell button?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, wrong all right? Anyway, my first thought
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  Speaker 1: on this, Cooper Cup is one of the great overachievers, right,
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  Speaker 1: this be real here? Cooper Cup third round draft pick
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  Speaker 1: out of a school that is not known as the
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  Speaker 1: Alabama of the Pacific Northwest and wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Eastern Washington.
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  Speaker 1: It was a third round pick and at one point
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  Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty one season, Cooper Cup was the
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  Speaker 1: top receiver in the NFL. There was no one better
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  Speaker 1: than this guy, no one. For one year, Cooper Cup
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  Speaker 1: was at the very top of all the receiver numbers.
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  Speaker 1: He dominated the NFL for one season, and he got
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  Speaker 1: paid for it, so you don't feel bad. He got
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  Speaker 1: paid ninety plus US million dollars in his time with
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  Speaker 1: the Rams. A fun player to watch. However, when you
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  Speaker 1: look at this from thirty thousand feet up in the sky, right,
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  Speaker 1: you look down and the words of Steve Harvey. We
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  Speaker 1: broadcast from one of Steve Harvey's old studios here, and
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  Speaker 1: Steve Harvey had a line years ago that loyalty has
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  Speaker 1: an expiration date, so the Rams were loyal to Cooper Cup.
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Cup was loyal to the Rams. At some point,
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  Speaker 1: the Rams had an epiphany. They had a come to
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  Speaker 1: Jesus moment. They realized that they had taken the lemon
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  Speaker 1: and they had goweezed all of the juice out of
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  Speaker 1: the lemon, and they were done with the lemon. There
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  Speaker 1: was no more there there. They could make like lemon
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  Speaker 1: zest out of it, but they didn't want to do that.
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  Speaker 1: They just wanted to squeeze all the juice out of
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  Speaker 1: it and there you go. So there was loyalty. They
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  Speaker 1: paid him. It's like, it's like this business, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, we do well here. If they can find
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  Speaker 1: some that works cheaper and can make the company more money,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be gone. That's the way it works. That's how
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  Speaker 1: this operates. That's how anyone operates. So people getting upset.
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  Speaker 1: I get an email from RAMSA and you should rip
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  Speaker 1: the Rams. I'm like, oh no, not really. I understand.
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  Speaker 1: Cooper cuple go somewhere else and they'll have a chance
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: to have a second act in his career. But remember,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: at the end of this last regular season for the Rams,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Cooper Cup was bad, bad to the bone, and not
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: a good way, not a good way. He was held
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: under two catches in three of the final five games
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: that he appeared in for the Rams, and he went
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: over thirty yards one time over the final five games.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: That's that's not thirty million dollars a year. That's not
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: you know, that's not top notch wide receiver money. And
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: so Pooka Nakula poo Ca, Pooka Nakua has zoomed passed
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: him and he is at the very peak of his
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: superpowers right now, another unknown Puka Nakua who is at
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: the very top of the Rammed depth chart at this
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: particular point. So Cooper Cup is at a fork in
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: the road. He's at the crossroads here, and what does
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: he do? What does he do? Right? The Rams are
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: saying he is a diminishing asset, that his great salad
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: days are behind him and that he will be nothing
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: special the rest of the way. That's what they're betting on.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: So where should Cooper Cup attempt to relocate? Where should
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: he go? So you immediately try to eliminate all these
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: NFC teams, say, Well, the Rams will cover themselves. They'll
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: think well, he's not that good anymore, but we just
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: in case he does turn out to be good, we're
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: gonna send him to the AFC. So right away, you're like,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: all right, he says he wanted to begin and end
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: his career in La. Well, the Chargers don't have any receivers.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Their receivers blow. How about the Chargers and stay in
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Sofi Stadium. The Rams and Chargers can work out of
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: trade and you can go play there. If not to
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: charge Buffalo, they don't have any receivers, so why not
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. It's just fine until he gets cold
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: in Buffalo, and then it doesn't matter if you have
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: receivers or not, because they don't do anything in cold weather.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: And the Kansas City Chiefs who are always looking to
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: add players for Patrick Mahomes and so that's also a possibility.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: They're all all right there at the top, and there
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: is money on the table for Cooper Cup. You'd have
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: to renegotiate his contract. Now he's not the only but
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Big Day. If you like players you've heard of in
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the NFL who would like a relocation situation, you were
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: all joned up on Monday because to Cleveland we go
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: the land where Miles Garrett announced all those nice things
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: said by the Cleveland front office. Yeah, I don't care.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I went out, that's it. Yeah. So Miles Garrett announced
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: he has requested a relocation. He wants a job transfer.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: He wants to enter the transfer portal and get out
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: of Cleveland. The announcement coming just a few days after
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Andrew Barry gave Miles Garrett a manny and a petty
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: on live microphones, licking the toes of Miles Garrett and
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: said the Browns would not entertain the thought of trading
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Garrett well. In a prepared statement Miles Garrett released, Garrett said,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: as the dominant pass rusher for the Browns that his
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: goal was not to go from Cleveland to Canton, which
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: is what Andrew Berry the GM said. It has always
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: been to compete and to win a Super Bowl. So
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: he says a goal. The Browns, of course, are nowhere
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: close to. There's some high school football teams that are
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: closer to winning a Super Bowl than the Cleveland Browns
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: at three and four teen and still handcuffed, handcuff to
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: the creepy quarterback. So what are the odds? What are
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the odds that Miles Garrett ends up getting what he
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: wants at the Browns bend and knee and end up
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: saying bye bye to Miles Garrett. So I'm gonna want
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: up the Mallard Sportsbook odds on this. The Mallard Sportsbook
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: odds minus three hundred. Now, if you're not good at math,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: minus three hundred indicates a seventy five percent chance that
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett is wearing different colored laundry and a different
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: colored plastic helmet when they kick off to twenty twenty
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: five NFL season. And how deep here's where we are?
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: How deep is Miles Garrett willing to go? We'd like
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: to know, we'd like to And what about the Browns? Right?
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Are they? Are? The Browns locked in the Browns saying
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: we haven't changed our position now Cleveland. This is fascinating
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: to me. Cleveland is in such a deep dark place
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: their football team that there is said to be bipartisan
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: support from people that hate the Browns and people that
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: like the Browns, even Brown's loyalists, that Miles Garrett should
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: be traded. The team such a dumpster fire, that they
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: should get rid of Miles Garrett and they have no
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: ill will towards him, and we're in the early stages
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: of this drama orama as it plays out as a
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: high stakes, very emotional, very emotional complex situation. Will they
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: heated emotions? Will they diffuse over time? Is there enough
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: time for that to happen? Stay tuned, developing hot dot
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: dot dot Now last word, so let's play Malord Matchmaker.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: We're gonna play Malord Matchmaker's fun game. You can play afyone,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: but I'm gonna play first. So Malar Matchmaker, where should
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett look to end off this offseason? We've already
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: told you the Cooper Cup, Chargers, Bills, Chiefs obvious, but
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: what about Miles Garrett? He wants out. Where should he go?
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: So much like the process of elimination we did earlier
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: in this exercise, we're going to immediately eliminate the AFC
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: heavyweight contenders, the Chiefs, the Bills, the Ravens. Even though
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Cleveland is several thousand country miles away from getting to
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: that level, they will likely not play ball with any
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: of those teams, So you eliminate them right off the top. Boom,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: there's your haircut. So then you go to the NFC
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: and say, all right, well, where's a good possibility, And
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: my crystal ball said, car shopping as in a Ford
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: or a Dodge and Ford Field. You can stay in
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the Great Lakes region there, the rust Belt region in
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: and go up to the Lions who play at Ford
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Field and have no defense, and if they can trade
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: a gaggle of draft picks and other promissory nodes, they
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: can combine Miles Garrett and Aiden Hutchinson as a dynamic
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: duo on defense, and why not two impact players until
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: they get hurt. That'd be pretty good for a couple
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: of years in the Motor City little Motown madness on defense.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: If you're the Lions, why would you not go out
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: and do that? In the other option, I mentioned car
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: shopping and of course Ford Field for the Lions. But
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: how about the Rams, right, because much like a Dodge,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the marketing slogan of Dodge built Ram tough, Miles Garrett,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: the Rams have a blossoming defense that started to really
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: click the last part of the season. Now that's no
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: guarantee they're going to be that good next year, but
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: you had Miles Garrett, with all those young players around
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett and one of the top coaches in the
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: NFL and Sean McVay, who you know, is going to
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: be in the playoffs every year. Look at the division,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the Niners, their quarterback's been exposed now brock Perty. The
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Cardinals are sending out alligator arms Murray and Seattle. They've
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: got Geno Smith at this point who stinks. So the
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Rams have a great chance of being right back in
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: the playoffs again next year and with a little defense.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: You look around the NFC and nobody thinks Philadelphia is invincible.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Detroit is certainly not. There's some good teams in the NFC,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: but there's not like a great team. There's not Kansas
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: City in the NFC. That does not exist.
• 28:38
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• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Why don't we welcome in our contestants and then we'll
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: play the game. What do you say? Let's do that?
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Why not? Who do we have here? Let's see here
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: aenie meenie miney moe. We've got Chris in the Commonwealthho's
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: gonna play? Hello, Chris, Welcome, good morning from my first crack.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: So I'm a new piece of this one.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: What were you born? What are you born again? Game?
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: You play all these games? What are you talking about?
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: You love the games?
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: But I never done I've never done this.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, fine, I don't always too much.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Who do you want to partner up with? I'll go
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: with two? All right, hold on a sec. You're gonna play.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: And Brian is in Illinois? What's going on? Brian? Welcome?
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Hey?
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Man?
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: What's going on? You want to play the game? Mallards
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: amount of money? Yeah, let's give it a shot. All right?
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Who do you want to partner up with? It was
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: left Ben or Lorena? Man, we'll give it a shot. Okay, Sorry, Lorena,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: You're out of there. You're out of the bit. I'm
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: sorry about that. You seem excited. Brian, And what do
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: you What do you do there? Brian? You know Chris
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: is a regular? What do you do in Illinois? I'm
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: an assembly supervisor a local plant. There you go, it
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: works for the factory. There, I got you? All right?
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Well it's real quick.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: Cool pick the categories here general, all right, we have
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: this is Mallard's Mountain of Money, The Warwicked Davis edition
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: turn fifty five years old. We got Return of the Jedi, Leprechaun,
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Harry Potter, and the Prisoner.
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: Of Azkaban and small town Folk. Chris, which category would
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: you like?
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Return of the Jedi?
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: All right, then, Brian, how about you?
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Jim me? Harry Potter? All right? You got daughter? All right? Everyone,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: hold on, We'll have Malard's amount of money? Innocent tired?
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• 30:41
  Speaker 2: have what it takes to get to the top? Probably?
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: Not?
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: All right? Right to the game? Matchup a set. Chris
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: is in the commonweal if he's with Coop and Brian
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: is a guy who works at a factory there in Illinois.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: He's matched up with me and Coop. You're up first,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Return of the Jedi. The category will put forty five
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: seconds on the club five. Are you there? Rises? All right?
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: These athletes all return to their original team. You're on
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: your way, go all right.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: The m v P quarterback for the Carolina Panthers, h
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: Cam Newton, Yes, Hall of Fame, tight end for the Broncos,
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: and he also played for the Ravens.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: Yes, all right, Michael Jordan's sidekick.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Uh, yes, you're having a hard time.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: Oh my god?
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: Okay, uh number five for the Cardinals and the Angels.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: He's a slugger from the Dominican Republic.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: H Oh my god.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Five?
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Wow, you got that, Cam Newton, h Shannon Sharp, Scottie Pippin.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: Sure will be like a friend.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Remember Shark who wants to take notes for next time? Okay,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: all right, well that's all better.
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: Luck pick Robert nobody.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Knows who he is, okay, hall of Famer. Okay, now, Brian,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: are you that? Brian? Yeah? All right, you picked Harry
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Harry Potter and the prisoner of what was it, Azkaban Askaban?
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: All right? Yeah, these athletes have all spent some time
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: in prison. Are you ready, Brian? All right? Buffalo Bill's
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: running back. He killed two people. Okay, nobody knows who
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: that is. No, he was convicted of in his dead anyway,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: who cares? Puppy killing quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons. Yes,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Charlie Hustle for the Cincinnati Reds. He bet on baseball Yes,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: known as Nails. He was an outfielder for the Mets
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: in the eighties and the Phillies in the nineties. He
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: gave he gives stock market advice, went to jail for that. No,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: how about this wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers. He
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: had his pregnant girlfriend murdered in uh and went to
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: jail for a long time to one. Okay, well you
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: got it right. I don't need to go back. Nickname
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: big Baby for the Celtics. I think he's yeah, the
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: buzzer at the ball. You didn't get Ray Caru, all right?
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: And all right, he didn't get Lenny Chris. Do you
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: once you got Leprechaun or small town folk leprechan all right?
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: These athletes all have Irish heritage. Forty five second, let's
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: begin the goat from the Patriots. Brady, Yes, floats like
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: a butterflies, things like a bee.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: What what?
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: God? It didn't work out for you? A bad cell
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: reception out in the sticks outside outside Boston.
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: A stick stick pass word, Chris, all right, didn't work out.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: We went in the golden ticket for you, Brian. You
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: went to goall that ticket, you win a call that
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: take I got close by you, that's a winner. Muhammad
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Ali