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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: Now here we go. We are back at it on
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  Speaker 1: our Wednesday show. It's still late Tuesday night on the West.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna start with basketball, but it was such
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  Speaker 1: a terrible product.
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  Speaker 3: I don't feel like talking about it right now.
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  Speaker 1: The story that is most interesting to me is a
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  Speaker 1: team that was expected to be pretty good and they
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  Speaker 1: blow their sheet blows. We're talking about Philadelphia here. The
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  Speaker 1: wings of chain have started to blow, and if you
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  Speaker 1: listen closely, you can almost cheer them. Oh man, look
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  Speaker 1: at that. Right through the Delaware Valley. The wins have changed.
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  Speaker 1: So if if you weren't paying attention to the Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: Phillies have decommissioned their manager, Rob Thompson. He's out after
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  Speaker 1: a nine and nineteen start. The Phillies did win in
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  Speaker 1: a route or route in the in their game on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: but the Phillies coming into that game nine and nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: So Thompson out the two hundred and eighty four million
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  Speaker 1: dollar payroll, not paying dividends right now as they were
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  Speaker 1: in last place, bringing up the Caboose in the National
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  Speaker 1: League East Division that has the Mets who suck and
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  Speaker 1: the Nationals who aren't any good either. So Philly didn't
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  Speaker 1: make the playoffs all four years, all four years with
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  Speaker 1: stacked rosters. This guy Rob Thompson was managing. They made
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs all four years, and yet they went for
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  Speaker 1: winning the Pennant and it thought, well, they're gonna win
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  Speaker 1: the World Series and all that when they got there
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  Speaker 1: back in the day and against Arizona.
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  Speaker 3: Not again who they play in the World It was
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  Speaker 3: a Texas, right, was it Texas?
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  Speaker 1: I mean it was anyway, they now regressed. They did
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  Speaker 1: lose to Arizona, worl those years in the playoffs. So
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  Speaker 1: he's not gone well. And this comes after being now
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  Speaker 1: Don Mattingly was the guy that got the gig. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, he's the interim manager and Don was I
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  Speaker 1: was around him a lot when he managed the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: and that didn't go so well. That had some good teams,
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  Speaker 1: not like they have now anyway, and he said he
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  Speaker 1: never wanted to manage again. So Dave Dombrowski says, how
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  Speaker 1: would you like to manage the Dodgers. The reason or
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  Speaker 1: the Phillies rather, the reason that Dombrowski went with this guy,
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  Speaker 1: Don Mattingley, the former Yankee legend from the eighties forty
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  Speaker 1: years ago, is because he tried to hire Alex Korra
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  Speaker 1: and was rejected rejection by the Red Sox trash Alex Cora,
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  Speaker 1: who was dumped by Boston over the weekend. So Don
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  Speaker 1: Mattingley came in. He's a'll be the guy for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the year. We say the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 1: That's most of the season, Like it's it's only April.
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  Speaker 1: There's I know, it's late April. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time left. And so you look around Don madding He's like, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna emphasize the you know, the team needs to
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  Speaker 1: improve in all aspects of the game. Thank you, captain obvious.
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  Speaker 3: No way.
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  Speaker 1: So this sounds like you know what it sounds like
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  Speaker 1: to me, It sounds like a Dick in Dayton phone Camemember.
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  Speaker 1: We asked, famously, We asked, Dick and Dayton, you know
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  Speaker 1: how come the Cleveland Indians turn things around years ago?
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  Speaker 1: And I said, they got to pitch or they got
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  Speaker 1: to hit, and and that's it. And Don Maddi's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: they got to pitch, they gotta hit, play defense. What
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  Speaker 1: else is there? Is there anything else, Donnie Baseball? Is
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  Speaker 1: there anything else?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: The president of Baseball Offs Dave Dombrowski. Dave don Browski
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  Speaker 1: stated the Phillies quote needed a different voice, which apparently
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  Speaker 1: was not the voice of Rob Thompson. Maybe what if
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  Speaker 1: they had asked him, say, you know that your voice
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  Speaker 1: people are tuning it out. Why don't you just change
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  Speaker 1: the in your voice, go a little higher, have a
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  Speaker 1: higher pitched voice, and then we don't need to fire
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  Speaker 1: your ass. We'll just have a different voice. How about that?
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  Speaker 1: Holy Fats in Philadelphia Batman. Obviously that did not happen.
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  Speaker 1: So Dombrowski also shockingly said he believes the roster is
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  Speaker 1: good enough to turn things around. So this is the
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  Speaker 1: step the Phillies made. Let's discuss good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: And so the question what does Dave Dombrowski mean when
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  Speaker 1: he says the Phillies needed a different voice?
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  Speaker 3: What does that mean exactly?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: As I said, I was, of course tongue in cheek
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  Speaker 1: pointing out the inflection a little higher on that. I've
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  Speaker 1: got AirPods, Tony Robbins and lemon drop Martini, and we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we are
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  Speaker 1: going to make a late night infomercial for some pots.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we're gonna make, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So ay, when Dave Dombrowski, who's been a baseball executive
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  Speaker 1: since the seventies, in the early eighties, long time, this
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  Speaker 1: guy's been around, he knows where all the bodies are buried,
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  Speaker 1: Don Browski. And so when Dave don Browski comes out
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  Speaker 1: and says the Phillies need a different voice, that is
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  Speaker 1: the front office code. It is a dog whistle mark
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  Speaker 1: bark Bark Bart, a dog whistle that the boys on
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  Speaker 1: the team, uh, they don't like the manager.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of obvious, right.
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  Speaker 1: You don't need me to tell you that Dombrowski has
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  Speaker 1: been around long enough to recognize the smell the odor
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  Speaker 1: emanating from the locker room and it reeks. It's a
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  Speaker 1: sulfur smell. It's not good. And Philly wasn't just underperforming.
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  Speaker 1: They were running a clubhouse rebellion. It would appear, and
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  Speaker 1: you know a little bit because it's above. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like the iceberg there. I believe in the iceberg theory,
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  Speaker 1: like you know what's above the service, but very little
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  Speaker 1: is actually the surface. Most of the iceberg is below
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  Speaker 1: the water. And you look at the core guys and
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  Speaker 1: this is on Bryce Harper, Trede Turner, and Kyle Schwarber,
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  Speaker 1: the shwar bomb. Those guys, the headliners on the Philadelphia fields,
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  Speaker 1: they were not buying in.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously they were not buying in.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not exactly great leadership when you have to
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  Speaker 1: fire the manager because the star players aren't doing their job.
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  Speaker 1: And on the field or in the clubhouse, the clicks
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  Speaker 1: start forming and all that. So team wide, they passed
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  Speaker 1: out Apple AirPods noise canceling headphones, and the guys put
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  Speaker 1: them on there and they're like, Okay, that's it, We're
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  Speaker 1: good to go. And the hitters, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: they're doing. It seems like they have no game plan.
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  Speaker 1: I assume they do. The hitters aren't just following the
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  Speaker 1: game plan. There the pitchers don't appear to know what
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  Speaker 1: they're doing, the pitch calm. I guess they're just ignoring it,
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  Speaker 1: doing whoever the hell they want. And so you've got
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  Speaker 1: all of those things, guys, the reports that some of
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  Speaker 1: the players not exactly paying attention to their job, not
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  Speaker 1: showing up as early as they're supposed to do. So
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  Speaker 1: they're technically on time, but there's that gray area, so
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  Speaker 1: not exactly a slump. We're a month in now, they've
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  Speaker 1: played enough to see that this is not getting better,
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  Speaker 1: and you still have time because there have been plenty
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  Speaker 1: of teams that have been mediocre for two months into
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  Speaker 1: the season. Remember the Atlanta Braves won the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: Tommy and Atlanta's braz won the World Series a couple
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  Speaker 1: years ago, and they were pretty mediocre five hundred under
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  Speaker 1: five hundred at the All Star break and they ended
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  Speaker 1: up winning the World Series. So there's time. There's always
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time. That's why I point out the
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  Speaker 1: hardest World Series of all time was the pandemic year
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  Speaker 1: because that was different.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't have a lot of time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was it, And a lot of you idiots
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  Speaker 1: don't understand that you're not that bright. So this is
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  Speaker 1: prove it what the Phillies are doing. This is a
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  Speaker 1: preemptive strike because they believe they still have enough time.
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  Speaker 1: If you only played sixty games, it wouldn't matter. You're
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  Speaker 1: cooked at that particular point. Away, let's chatter about non
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  Speaker 1: compliance and lack of professionalism and all that stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: it appears that the clicks in the clubhouse you have
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  Speaker 1: a shadow government, if.
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  Speaker 3: You will, and the own rules.
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  Speaker 1: The playlist, all that stuff, all that stuff. And so
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  Speaker 1: the manager Rob Thompson didn't just lose the room. It
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  Speaker 1: appears that he was evicted from the room. They put
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  Speaker 1: the little note there on the door. This is in
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  Speaker 1: eviction notice and get out of here. And at some
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  Speaker 1: point you have to stop calling it inconsistency with the
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  Speaker 1: fight and pills and start calling it just insubordination. And
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  Speaker 1: that's it. This was not a failure. This was sabotage,
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  Speaker 1: is what it was. Now keeping the beat going here.
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  Speaker 1: So give me the odds. Here's the question. Give me
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  Speaker 1: the odds on interim manager Don Maddingly. If you're of
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  Speaker 1: a certain age, if you're around my age. Don Mattingly
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  Speaker 1: was a massive deal in baseball like they had these
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  Speaker 1: things called posters, and a lot of dudes around my
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  Speaker 1: age had posters of Wade Bogs from Boston and Don Mattingley,
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  Speaker 1: and then there was Dan Marino with the Dolphins that
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  Speaker 1: was big as well. But we're talking about Don Mattie.
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  Speaker 1: So can he oversee what are the odds he can
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  Speaker 1: oversee a miracle comeback? So we've turned to the Mallord
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  Speaker 1: of sports book gods, the Mallard of sports book gods.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna set this at plus one forty plus one forty.
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  Speaker 1: That is a based on the math forty shot, which
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  Speaker 1: does feel a bit like Benny Brightside. And I'm being
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  Speaker 1: Brnny bright'side in this a very generous When the team,
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  Speaker 1: I know they won randomly on on Tuesday, the team, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it just it's like a frozen TV dinner and you
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  Speaker 1: gotta let it fall out a little bit, and the
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  Speaker 1: team's gotta fall and all the Phillies are not just
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  Speaker 1: cold over the last couple of weeks of the season.
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  Speaker 1: Here they are. It's like Ted Williams. They're frozen on
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  Speaker 1: ice somewhere in Arizona, a cryo frozen therapy thing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and the your croak, and they said, oh yeah, bring
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  Speaker 1: it back a thousand years And okay, that sounds good.
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  Speaker 3: Why not bring me back?
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  Speaker 1: But this is not a talent issue. It is not
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  Speaker 1: You have an almost three hundred million dollars payroll in
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia and coming into play on Tuesday, the Phillies were
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  Speaker 1: ranked twenty eight in baseball in run score twenty eighth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight in baseball. Stagnant would be the word that
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  Speaker 1: we would use. However, Don Matting, he did not did
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  Speaker 1: not sign up to manage. He didn't want to manage.
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  Speaker 1: He said he didn't want to manage, and here he
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  Speaker 1: is managing, and so he's essentially gonna be a babysitter
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  Speaker 1: and hope that he just kind of plays that cool. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I've been there, I know big time media and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that how to deal with it.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm just gonna let you guys go out there
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  Speaker 3: and do your thing.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a team that is if you look
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  Speaker 1: around here, all right, Don Madding is essentially going to
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  Speaker 1: have to try to reboot a a broken supercomputer. And
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  Speaker 1: all he has is like mcgiver, except he doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: a knife. He just has a paper clip. He does
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  Speaker 1: not have any tape, and if he does have tape,
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  Speaker 1: it's not scotch tape, it's the duct tape. So it's
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  Speaker 1: just a paper clip and some scotch tape. And that's
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  Speaker 1: that's not good enough. And so it's it's underperforming. But
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  Speaker 1: it's more like performance art the way this has gone
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  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, and so this is not again, I don't
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  Speaker 1: go back to my point.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a talent issue. It's not that.
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  Speaker 1: It's why are you playing like the Colorado Rockies? What's
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  Speaker 1: wrong with you? The pitching staff is also not very
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  Speaker 1: good at run prevention so far this season.
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  Speaker 3: They stink at that.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, that they're acting more like a tax deductible
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  Speaker 1: charity at this point with how bad they've been again
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  Speaker 1: aside from the latest performance, but the Phillies all season
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  Speaker 1: and how you get to this point and struggling and
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  Speaker 1: all that struggle lug lug, and so Don maddingly has
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  Speaker 1: to go in there and he's got to go like
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  Speaker 1: the old school Tony Robbins and unleash the power within
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  Speaker 1: the self esteem program to help these sorry ass Phillies
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  Speaker 1: and remind the guys that they actually had good careers.
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  Speaker 1: That's how they got paid.
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  Speaker 3: All the money. They don't look like it right now.
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  Speaker 1: They look terrible, all right, last word, So let's get
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  Speaker 1: to the main event here. We've saved the main event
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  Speaker 1: for right now. So, after the Red Sox whacked their
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  Speaker 1: manager over the weekend, Alex Korra, the Philadelphia Phillies GM,
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  Speaker 1: Dave Dombrowski said, I know you. You were my manager
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  Speaker 1: with the Red Sox. So Dombrowski went out and decided,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna recruit Alice Correr and he
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  Speaker 1: ultimately decided to offer Alice Cora the job. And Cora said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go matamble. I reject you rejected it, rejected.
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  Speaker 1: I said he wanted to spend the summer in his
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  Speaker 1: native land there in Puerto Rico with his family rather
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  Speaker 1: than go from the Red Sox to the Philadelphia Phillies.
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  Speaker 1: So they questioned, can you explain the message? Explain the
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  Speaker 1: message that Alice core is giving to both Major League
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  Speaker 1: Baseball and the Phillies by rejecting Dave Dombrowski. So on
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  Speaker 1: this one, Alice Court did not just pass up on
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  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Philly job. I didn't just do that. He
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  Speaker 1: filed a public out of office note he said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: out of the memo was sent to everyone. The email
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  Speaker 1: was to all employees, all of them. That's where we
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  Speaker 1: are at this particular point, right. And this wasn't a standard.
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  Speaker 1: This was not a standard here. This was when I
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  Speaker 1: say standard, your standard. Thanks, but no thanks. It's not you,
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  Speaker 1: it's me. It was not that. The way I interpreted
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  Speaker 1: Alice Cora and his decision to reject the Phillies, this
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  Speaker 1: was a two for one special, a two for as
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  Speaker 1: the kids used to say, two for one special, a
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  Speaker 1: total lack of confidence in the Philadelphia roster, and a
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  Speaker 1: loud declaration again that I'm going to take some paid
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  Speaker 1: time off and the Red Sox are paying me, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to enjoy every dime of John Henry's money.
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  Speaker 1: And that's it. That's all. Don't you think, though, and
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  Speaker 1: riddle me this, batman. Don't you think that if the Phillies,
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  Speaker 1: in the eyes of Alexcora, were legit, that this was salvageable,
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  Speaker 1: he would have taken the job. Isn't that kind of
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  Speaker 1: obvious that he would have taken the job if he
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  Speaker 1: thought that this team could turn things around. He obviously
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  Speaker 1: did not, And if the Phillies were a vacation package.
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  Speaker 1: Alice Coorra just clicked up plan my own trip, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. And his own trip, by the way, is
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  Speaker 1: choosing to go to was it Flamenco Beach? Is at
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  Speaker 1: the famous beach there in Puerto Rico, go down there.
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  Speaker 1: And he's telling Major League Baseball at this moment, he's saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not interested in that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want this stress.
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  Speaker 1: It's also a memo to the New York Mets unless
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  Speaker 1: is there a conspiracy that Core actually wants the Mets
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  Speaker 1: job and that's the job that he wants. And Cores like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'll just wait for the Mets to fire their manager
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  Speaker 1: and then I'll slide on in and and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: But at this point, you got to say Core looked
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  Speaker 1: at the Phillies, talked to Don Browski, heard his sales
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  Speaker 1: pitch and said, you know what, I would rather sip
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  Speaker 1: a lemon drop martini in a hammock on a beach
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  Speaker 1: in Puerto Rico then manage the Philadelphia Phillies.
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  Speaker 3: I just don't don't want any part of it.
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  Speaker 1: The guy, the guys that bum they're a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: bump and you know, telling the fronts. I'm not your firefighter.
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  Speaker 1: I am not your firefighter. I don't respond to self
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  Speaker 1: inflicted emergencies, and this is a self inflicted emergency. The
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  Speaker 1: message to the league is also that Cora's right now
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  Speaker 1: on island time. He's an island time like Dorko the comedian.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not just hey, I'm waiting for this job.
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  Speaker 1: I'd think, No, I'm just I'm taking my time.
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  Speaker 3: La la la la la la la la la la
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  Speaker 3: la la la.
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  Speaker 1: So Philly offered him the dugout and he chose to
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  Speaker 1: drink with one of those drinks with the little paper
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  Speaker 1: umbrellas in it, and said, that's where I'm going there,
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  Speaker 1: and that's all so. And this is a move that
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  Speaker 1: defines protecting your piece. Not many people would turn down
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  Speaker 1: that job. That's a big time playroll, big market. You're
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  Speaker 1: not coaching the Marlins, you know what I'm saying. You're
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  Speaker 1: not managing the Marlins. And cor said, don't.
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• 17:45
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• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Our lead this hour from pro Bouncy Ball.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, big ratings winner.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: So we had three games, three of them on the
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: card on Tuesday, and I have made the editorial decision
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: that only one of them, only one of them, is
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: worthy of some conversation. So you had the Knicks that
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: char broiled the Hawks. That was did Atlanta think that
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: was like a random Wednesday night? And they had played
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: four games in five nights and they were at the
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: end of a long road.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Trip, That's what it seemed like.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: And then the Spurs molly wopped the Trailblazers, and so
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: those series, those games not very very good for talk radio.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: So our focus is on the seventy six Ers and
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics. So if you didn't see this game,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: this is our good mitswa as just Josh in Cincinnati
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: points out, I mean, he's I think it was the
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: first And we do this as a public service so
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: you do not have to watch these games. And Joe
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: l and beat he had eight points in the fourth quarter,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: thirty three points in the game, and Tyrese Maxi adding
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: twenty five points and the Sixers boomeranged back. They were
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: down a good chunk of this game in the fourth quarter. Though,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: games are won and lost down the stretch in Philadelphia
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: gets them when Boston still leads the series three to two,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: and they are headed back to Philly for game number
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: six in a couple of days. The Celtics blowing a
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: thirteen point second half lead at home, uh gully, And
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: that's good for talk radio, and it's also a good
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: jumping off point. So let us discuss the question who's
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: getting the Boston cream pie to the face, if you will.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: For the Celtic's malfunction. The thingam a jig did not
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: work at a time it was supposed to work. So
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I've got union contractors, drive through and trail mix, and
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: are going to play tick tack toe, is what we're
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: going to do. So number one, number one, all right,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: line them up, all right, here's I got the cream
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: pies lined up here the Boston cream pipe. We've got
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Derek White. He gets one
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Step right up.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Not Bolva's bakery. This is the bakery of shame, the
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: bakery of shame. That so this was a full blown
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: fourth quarter heist in this game.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Nobody saw this coming.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Normally in the NBA, you fall behind three games to one,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: there's not a lot of fight and teams roll over
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: and the Sixers looked like.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: They were toast.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: We mocked and ridiculed the Sixers the way they played
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: in the previous game, get run off the court, the
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: coach questioning the dedication of the roster, and then they
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: showed up late and in this game, So you tip
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the cap. The Celtics, though they missed fourteen straight shots
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: to close the game, their final fourteen shots doink brick clunk.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: That is the longest drought to close a playoff game
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: in a generation since twenty oh five, twenty one years ago.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: And at one point the Celtics missed sixteen consecutive shots.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: It was at the point where they kept missing. He
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: was like, well, this has got to be a gag
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: or something. Maybe somebody put something in the basketball or
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: did the Celtics turn out to be union contractors and
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: they were laying the foundation for a new gymnasium, there
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: a new garden for them to play in there and
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: so Tatum brown and white. In the fourth quarter they
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: took eleven shots. How many did they make?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: You got a number?
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: You made as many and I made as many as
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: they made? A zero for eleven, squad douche bupkis nothing. Now,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: do not allow the box score sniffers to say that
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Jason Tatum played well, because he had stats. Jason Tatum
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: had stats. You know the people that love the stats
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: to get all excited. Twenty four point sixteen rebounds. Oh,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I think those were his numbers. Had good numbers, so
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: solid night. Tatum did his job. And you're like, well,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: no misleading. Optical illusion. Optical illusion is what that is
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: here because you realize it, like late in the game.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: It was a ghost story and he was the ghost
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: right there. Jalen Brown.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Also he had a disappearing trick at the end, and
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: so Jalen Brown have two big stars Jalen Brown and
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Jason Tatum did not show up there at the end.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: And the offense in general, it's kind of like if
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: you have too many windows. You have like the Chrome browser,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and you have too many windows, you have like forty
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: nine windows.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: I usually do that.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I have a lot of windows open on my computer
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: and so everything slows down. And that was the Celtics
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: in this game. And then you have the coach Joe Missoula.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Let him play Joe, Let him play Joe, and that
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: philosophy was on this night. Let him miss everything, let
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: him miss everything. Joe Joel Missoula, who looks like a
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Looney tune out there and he stood there and had
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: that dazed and confused hell. Ben, he's the greatest coach
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: in the analytical era because whatever he is told by
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the dorks, he just does it right.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Whatever it's like, he just repeats it. And it's like,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: it's not working. M I wonna truy.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Someone goes, no, no, no, no, no, it's gonna work. Jeep shooting,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: keep shooting, keep going, keep going. The Celtics started this
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: game missing a bunch of three point shots. They still
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: had to lead, though, and then you saw late in
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: the game what happened there, and it was man as
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: we like to say, and this from the Great Mike Leach,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the late great Mike Leach college football legend. You're either
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: coaching it or you're allowing it to happen. So either way,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Joe Missoula gets a nice piece of that Boston cream
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: pie there. And in general, championship teams you win that game.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: And so there's questions, legitimate questions about the Celtics here.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: They flinched. They flinched so hard, how hard? So hard
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: that the park k ratle a little bit. Now the
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: good news and this is one of those Bizarro, as
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: they say on that show that used to be on TNT,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: the Bizarro stat of the night, if you will. The
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Celtics in this particular era where they have been consistently
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: good and they've won a championship with Jason Tatum and
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Jaylen Brown. So if you go back to twenty seventeen,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the Celtics in the playoffs with these two guys are
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: better on the road than they are at home. They
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: have a road court advantage. Did you know that the
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Celtics have a road court advantage?
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: It's very odd. At home. They haven't been bad at home.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: They have a five to ninety five winning percentage of
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the playoffs with Tatum and Brown. However, on the road
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: they're almost seven hundred. They're twenty five and eleven in
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the opposing arena. Who goofed, I've got to know, all right,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: onwards to the lottery we go. And if you love
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the lottery, this is not a good day for you.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: This is not They didn't get rid of the lottery.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: They just manipulated. They being the NBA, And I was
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: going to talk about another one of those games. There's
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: literally nothing to bring up here on San Antonio and
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Portland or the Knicks and the Hawks.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Just nothing for talk radios.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: So we'll talk about the lottery the NBA, letting teams
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: know that it is almost on the new anti tanking
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: measures that are coming to the NBA. Here, they're calling
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: it the three two one lottery. I wonder how they
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: came up with that. That includes expanding the draft lottery
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: in the NBA to sixteen teams. They're flattening the odds
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: and they have a relegation zone, that's what they're calling it.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Any relegation zone where the bottom three teams the worst
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: of the worst, the worst of the worst. Here, the
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: bottom three teams would actually be penalized with fewer lottery
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: balls for the number one pick. So that's the plan,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: and this will go into play, not obviously this year,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: but in twenty twenty seven, so a year from now.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: The question how does this Adam Silver lottery reform in
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: the NBA?
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: How does that sound to you?
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: So I would say, welcome to the NBA, where the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: smartest guys in the room are trying to solve a
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: problem that they created.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: It's so good. They're the one the reason we have this.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: And I goof on the players in the NBA, A
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: lot the people who are coaching and the executives have
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: encouraged this bad behavior for many, many years of the NBA,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: and so the players have really leaned into it. And
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: these dingle berris have optimized and taken the soul right
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: out of the sport, treating losing as a legitimate, positive
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: business model and none of that. They've convinced a lot
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: of low information, the dumb dumbs that that's the way
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: to go, that they buy in it. Though, Oh yeah,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: that's great, that is freaking wonderful. Let's lose. It's the
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: point now, when your team actually wins a game. Sometimes
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: these people are upset that they win a game, those
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: that are still paying attention here.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: And so I looked at the rules. Do I love them?
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: No?
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: I don't love them. It's like the people getting all
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: worked up. I don't think you get worked up over
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: it over this. These rules, you know what they are.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: They're a confession. The critics were right, people that were
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: using gas baggery and whatnot.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: The league did not.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: They didn't change the rules for fun, right, They didn't
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: change the rules for fun. The teams that were tanking,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: and so many of them, they had no choice. They
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: had to do this. It's like when you go to
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: the drive through menu and you're like, oh, I want
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: to I don't want them order. Well, there's only one
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: thing on the menu.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: What is that?
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Well, that's it's stu. What kind of stew is it?
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: It's tank stew. I don't want tank stew. That's all
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: worth serving night after night after night. Well, eventually at
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: some point you're like, well, I'm not going to go
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: to the drive through anymore. I don't want tank stew.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: And the customers stopped showing up for dinner. And the
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: NBA and they love to spin numbers and talk about
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: how the ratings are still good and all that stuff.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: And I know, I used to have a program director
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: in radio. When the ratings would come out, he'd go
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: into his little closet and he'd get a calculator and
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: he had a pen and a pad of paper and
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: he would find a way to find that one.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Demo where we had good ratings.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: And he would then say, wow, ur number, you know,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: number one in this demo, And this is you know,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: the whole thing, and just spinning numbers, you know, the
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: old the old Boston Mayor mccheese back in back in
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: the day. But seriously, the whole tank and load manage
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: we got. You can't just do tanking without doing load management.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: This is the asbestis of that sport, and they've broken
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the product in the regular season where it's mostly unwatched
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: and so they're trying to do something. It also tells
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: you the TV partners are like, hey, we're paying a
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: lot of money, dude, there's a lot of money. You
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: gotta give us something. And this isn't just a lottery tweak.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I think of it like a quality control issue. And
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: it's like if you go to Starbucks at McDonald's and
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: it's pretty much the same everywhere. There's other restaurants you
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: go to and it really depends. It's like I like
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: bo Jangles. Every time I go to bo Jags. Some
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Bojangles really good. Others I've had some issues, not good.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: It just depends. The quality control is a big part
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: of it. The NBA had to step up. They had
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: to be the growing up in the room because these
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: franchises it was not getting better. It was getting worse,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: worse and worse and worse. And when half the teams
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: in the NBA are like, we're better off losing, Like no,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: if you want a better product, and you just got
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: to stop incentivizing and rewarding the worst behavior. I would
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: love to see a league just get rid of the draft,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: just say it's outdated, we don't need it.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: We're going to get rid of it.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: And have kind of like they're doing food ball or soccer,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: and you give a budget. They don't have a Premier
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: league draft, which is you all tell me is the
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: most popular sport in the world, and all that they
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: don't have a draft, they have budgets and they have
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: different rules and just go to that.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: It's so ridiculous. And I've never understand even when I
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: was a young and I used to buy into the drafts,
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: like why are you rewarding teams that aren't good?
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Doesn't make much sense to me. But they've done it
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: this way. It's like, well, why do you do it
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: well because we've always done it that way. We shouldn't
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: do it like, well, we've always kind of done it
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: like that, all right now, final point to the outrageous
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: TV take. The outrageous TV take from n BC's Carmelo Anthony,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: who said, I thought I imagine this I thought this
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: might be some on a parody like Sports Talk Berry
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: or butt Crack Sports or something like that, but apparently
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: it's legit. So Carmelo Anthony wants former Mavericks GM Nico
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Harrison to get credit for Cooper Flag's Rookie of.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: The Year award in Dallas that he just won here
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: this week, and beating out Hank Nipple of these Charlotte Hornets.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: So the question do you go thumbs up? You're gonna
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: go thumbs up or thumbs down on Carmelo Anthony's take
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: that the former GM Nico Harrison should get special credit
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: for the Mavericks landing Cooper Flag. So we're gonna go
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: two thumbs down on this, two thumbs down on this.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: And this is not one of those things where both
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: both things can be true. It's not one of those
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: both things can be true situations. No, and keep in
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: mind the Mavericks they got that pick by tanking, hello, by.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: Which you shouldn't reward.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: In fact, if you are caught tanking, you would either
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: lose your pick or go to the very bottom of
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: the draft. Here's the Carmelo Anthony on the Mallor report card.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: This take gets an F. It's friendly, fluffy and fundamentally
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: unserious at f F F F f F. On the
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Mallet report card, you don't praise the guy who literally
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: detonated the franchise. It was such a terrible trade that
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: many convinced it was orchestrated by ownership to move the
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: team to Las Vegas. Do you realize how bad a
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: transaction has to be? Like, Lucas obviously got issues. Everyone
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: talked about he was a donasy. He lost all this
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: weight and he was in shape.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: He's hurt. He's not there for the Lakers in the
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: playoffs right now? Why is he not there?
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: I mean he's the greatest shape at all his stats
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: and all that, and so they're obviously issues. Luke at
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: n't played defense, he's like a designated hitter. Still, they
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: got nothing for him.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: Nothing.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: It's not like the Cooper Fla pick was the Lakers
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: pick that they got in the trade. No Mavericks traded
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Luca and they got in return a half eaten bag
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: of trail mix with extra raisins. And everyone knows the
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: filler in trail mix is the raisin. It's kind of
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: like if you buy a burrito they put extra rice
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: or beans in there, because that's the filler. I said, well, no,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: I'd like some more chicken or sa beef. No, we
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: will put extra rice, and no, I want I want
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: the main thing. I'm anti filler and the trail mix,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: the raisins. That's the filler and trail me. I want
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: more the peanuts, and I want the cashoes, and I
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: want the other stuff. I don't want that anyway. So
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: you don't get flowers for lighting the house on fire.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: You don't.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: And it's like, I don't know what the relationship is
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: with Carmelo Anthony and Nico Harrison. I imagine that they are buddies.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't have that ridiculous to take unless you have
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: a personal relationship and you're trying to throw some cologne
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: on a very stinky situation. And I'm not saying Cooper
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Flag is not good, the prodigy of made. He's a
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: good player, right, nice player and on his way. The
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: fact that they just gave away Luca, it does not
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: justify that. And the damage done, the ill will.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: That you did to your customers.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: My god, for I guess you can't say pennies on
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: the dollar anymore, dimes on the dollar.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Because you're getting rid of the penny and all that.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: But man, it's crazy. You said it, Yes, you said it.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Carmine Anthony giving credit to Nico Harrison for one of
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: the all time worst trades.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: So bad.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: It's like Babe Ruth, the Babe Ruth trade from the
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Red Sox where the owner of the Red Sox had
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: to pay off a Broadway show and gave Babe Ruth
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: to the Yankees. Like that kind of stuff's crazy. So
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: it's like somebody takes your car out for a spin
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: to go to the store and wrecks.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: Your car and you're like, oh, let's give them the
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: Driver of the Year award. Well that's no, not the Draft.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: They wrecked your car, that's not it.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: It's Maller, how about that?
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets grilled.
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: Troupe who The NFL announced that the Draft had thirteen
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: point two million viewers. That's a huge number, but it's
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: down from last year's thirteen point six million. Ben, do
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: you think this is a one off due to an
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: underwhelming draft? Class or is this a start of a trend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm gonna go with a lot of there.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: I believe it is because of the draft. Not having
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: for Fanana Mindulsa doesn't move the needle as the number
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: one pick. Next year, Arch Manning will be there. That's
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: a big name. I don't think he's that good. It'll
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: be better, and it's really what TV wants. TV wants
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: a shorter time between picks, and so they'll keep it
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: the way it is. I'd be surprised if they go
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: back next.
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: I was reported on Monday that there is quote zero
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: indication that Nikola jokicch intends to pursue a move out
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: of Denver this offseason. Ben, do you think yell Kich
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: is a Nuggets for life, a nugget for life, Nuggets
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: for life now? No, I think he will. He doesn't
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: seem to be that interested in anything other than horses.
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: You know, if you say there's a big race, like
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: the third race at the track back in his home country,
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: You're like, Okay, I'm in the rest of it. No,
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: it doesn't seem like the guy that really is that
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: motivated to go anywhere else.
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  Speaker 3: Nexte, Yeah, go ahead, Steve.
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: Kurmaane comments about potentially limitating the three point line, to
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: which Phil Jackson replied and said, for fifteen years he's
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: been trying to get the NBA to widen the court,
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: to make the three point line the same distance all around.
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: But do you think either of those things will ever happen?
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I could see them widening the court, and Phil did
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: complain about that when he was coaching the Lakers. I
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: remember him bitching about that back in the day. I
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: could see them tweaking it.
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  Speaker 2: How do we do?
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  Speaker 3: Come along? Pass? There you go on.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little rain clean up. Hearts going to help you.
• 37:02
  Speaker 7: Gear Rye, gear Rye to night, gear ry tonar Rye.
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: You heard the man.
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: It is time for love here on the Ben Malors Show.
• 37:16
  Speaker 8: I don't even know if I want to get into
• 37:17
  Speaker 8: stuff today. You know, those headlines were crazy last week. Ben,
• 37:20
  Speaker 8: we talked a little bit about it. But infidelity is
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: just running rampant these days.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, rampant, yep, yep, for sure.
• 37:29
  Speaker 8: No snow one with a ten foot pole, especially if
• 37:33
  Speaker 8: they got a ten foot pole.
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Anyways, Yes, all right, we got questions and analog al rights,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: and this is a great question for love advices.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: Have you finally learned to love beef tallow?
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: That's what they cook French fries in right.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: That's old school beef tallow. Yeah, there's a lot of
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: oil and beef tallows.
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: I am the old McDonald's French.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: That's beef tallow.
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I want that back.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, you love, Jared writes any I'm confused by this.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: I feel like there's a word missing. But maybe maybe
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: the jokes on me, says Lorena. Last week I got
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: my wife a dog for Mother's Day? Now what should
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: I get her for Mother's Day?
• 38:13
  Speaker 7: Wait? Last week you got here?
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I think.
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: What do you want to? Okay? Just maybe not another pet?
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: Sounds like a lot of responsibility. Was that a joke?
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: I think there was a joke in that. Here's does
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Lorena have a fear factor feeling about her trip to
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: finally meet the Leprechaun? How about Coop and Ben? That's
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: from the lea?
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah, No, I'm I'm going in with you know, my
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: guard up.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: I'm not. I've met him, he's fine, you know the
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: I want to make.
• 38:47
  Speaker 8: Sure I locked my hotel room door at night, then
• 38:50
  Speaker 8: make sure that windows are closed, and uh.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: The worst thing that will happen is you might get
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: some suntan lotion in your eye because he has Hawaiian
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: tropic suntan lotion on it all the time.
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: I hope I'm not close to where it gets in
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: my eye.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: That would Yeah, that would be better for sure.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: What it's gonna be exciting, I'm looking forward to and
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: unlike these two, I've met Mike the leperkan he's fine.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: JT.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: The wing Man says, if I can only do one
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: of these for my partner, what should it be? A
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: foot rub or a back massage?
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: Only one? Why?
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Why? Why not? Limited?
• 39:24
  Speaker 8: He says, He's limited, give it your all, do both
• 39:27
  Speaker 8: at the same time.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: Am I don't think that's possible. Let's say we're on
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: their back.
• 39:31
  Speaker 8: And massage their foot while you kind of like, you know,
• 39:34
  Speaker 8: move around a bit.
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's sell it to Mark get creative. Mark and Akron,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Hello Mark and Akron, Welcome.
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: Happy birthday, Ben, it was great to meet you Saturday
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: at the meet and greet. You know you share a
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: birthday with another weed man, Willie Nelson, A.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Legend great Willie Neilson. It was very nice me and you.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Thanks for making the trip down. I know it's a
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: pain in the ass. Mark, I'm glad you were able
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: to do it, so.
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: Oh it was well worth it. Cool, Lorena, I have
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: a love question for you. Last couple of years, my
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: lady has been getting into bird watching. I really don't
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: care about bird watching, yeah, but Northeast Ohio, it's springtime
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: and it's that time of year, and I thought, you know,
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: i'd go out with her into the woods a few
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: times at parks and support her entrance. Let her know
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: I care a lot of sparrows in the area. She's
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: really getting into the sparrows. I was really hoping she
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: would turn her attention to the swallows. Can you tell
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: me how I can help her get her attention to
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: the swallow?
• 40:27
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, make sure that she knows how to
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: recognize a swallow first. They can be a little hard
• 40:33
  Speaker 8: to spot sometimes to head up in those trees. So
• 40:36
  Speaker 8: and also make sure she's got the right bird whistle.
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: You gotta know how to uh yeah, fall called the swallow.
• 40:42
  Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying?
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Interest all right, thank you Mark, Thank.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: You Mark for that alf bird watching Alfi Apartnasis. How
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: do you break it to your radio friend that you
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: don't own and can't afford any fancy furry costumes. After all,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: you don't make even radio money.
• 40:58
  Speaker 7: So wow, you know you gotta go.
• 41:03
  Speaker 8: After Halloween time if you need some extra parts and pieces.
• 41:06
  Speaker 8: They have really good sales sections, especially in your off season.
• 41:09
  Speaker 8: Right now you might be able to find some good stuff.
• 41:11
  Speaker 8: And Amazon always has good for you stuff.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: All right, Late night, dirrectest. This is an honor of
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: the Kentucky Derby.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Is it a good idea to pay to name a
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: horse for a loved one?
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 41:23
  Speaker 7: Or you know, not gonna say that he gave some
• 41:25
  Speaker 7: names here, but.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: I don't know that we can say either one of
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: those names.
• 41:28
  Speaker 8: Uh, Doc can play your own Derby at home too,
• 41:31
  Speaker 8: get creator.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Doc Dan in Minnesota says, how should I tell my
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: wife that I really can't stand the scent of the
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: new shampoog? She got gag when you smell her. That's
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: great advice. It just gag that's what you gotta do,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Doc Dan, just puke right there.
• 41:44
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• 41:45
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• 41:52
  Speaker 3: Password the word Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meler,
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: Let's do it.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Architest and speak of the devil and the
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: devil shall appear. Me to Lou in the Bay Area.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Thank you, allan me to Lou. We're gonna harass you
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: at some point. I keep saying that it's gonna happen.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: Lou. We're gonna hang out.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: We gonna have a great time at the bar there,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: the Kingfish, right, that's the name of the place.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: The Kingfish.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: Good good, good memory.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Ben.
• 42:18
  Speaker 9: I think you're allergic to the Bay Area.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: No, man, I'm not alert. I'm not No. All right,
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: let's play. Who do you want to partner off?
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Quick?
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: You got me, you got Coop, you got Lorena.
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: Your next question, give me the birthday boy?
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: All right, I'm in it.
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: And we have Daniel from Fort Wayne, Indiana America's favorite
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: crossing guard.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: Hello Daniel, Good morning, Ben, Happy birthday by the lafe.
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: Hope you got a lot of great yes.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Uh, thank you not yet, but but I appreciate it
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: and we're ready to go here.
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: So, Daniel, I have been picked. So who would you
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: like to partner up with my man? Daniel?
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: A little lorraina this time?
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: Oh coops, out of the show. All right, we have
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: a list of words. One to ten. Let me make
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: sure both these guys are on the Yeah, you're there,
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Daniel and Lou. Thank you for the kind messages, gentlemen.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go a'l letmet Lou, you are
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: on first, so please pick a word?
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: And what's it?
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: Sorry?
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: Go on?
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, one to ten, pick a.
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: Number, give me number five?
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: Very random. Let's go with stump stump confused?
• 43:29
  Speaker 7: No, all right, good guess. Let's go with Timber.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: Daniel what no? All right, Lou? We got this?
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: How about I uh when I say stump tree?
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Oh my god?
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: No, all right, let's try this way.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: Start with ten points. Every point. We let's do.
• 44:01
  Speaker 8: Yes, journal Journal, Yeah.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: You see you're doing a different I've already gone down.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: You should have on the mall.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Mall.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: You could it on the malor maneuver.
• 44:11
  Speaker 7: I'm not that talented yet, guys.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: Let's throw the word out. Lincoln Abraham you're you're dating yourself.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: The word was log. The word was log.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: All right, Daniel, Daniel, pick a number one to ten,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: but not five.
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: I want to take the lead. Na see number three.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: Number three? All right, Lorena, right right right right in
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: your wheelhouse.
• 44:42
  Speaker 7: Disgusting?
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: What do you he said?
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Gross?
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: Okay, how about number three?
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Uh? Naughty, naughty, bad, No.
• 45:00
  Speaker 9: Okay, let's go with uh foul It is not Jesus, Jesus.
• 45:07
  Speaker 9: No foul smell.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: No, oh boy, this is not going well. Uh repugnant
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: thinky no, my god, this is painful.
• 45:24
  Speaker 8: I'm feeling Oh gosh, this is this is getting harder.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Uh it was a good one before we have to
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: go all That word was nasty. Up little pick a
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: number one to ten, please.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: Seven for Colin Kaepernick.
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: All right, malone, maneuver, Mali, maneuver, malone, maneuver. Here we
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: go out, yea a walk up alone. We want to
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: gain the work space. We won the game.