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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: Our lead this hour from the Mistake by the Lake, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the ironic nickname of years gone by, back again. We
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  Speaker 1: go to Cleveland and all what an epic playoff run
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  Speaker 1: it was, unless it wasn't. And our lead from Game
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  Speaker 1: four the Eastern Finals Jalen Brunson and the Knickerbockers going
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  Speaker 1: for the old Sweeperoo in the Madison Square Garden of Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: So it seemed again Spider Mitchell and the Cadavers, and
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  Speaker 1: they lived up to their nickname the Cadavers in a
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  Speaker 1: large way. If you were not watching, perhaps not, you
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  Speaker 1: miss nothing, absolutely nothing. Don't worry, we watched that. You
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  Speaker 1: are not half to It's are good mits for the day.
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  Speaker 1: A balanced attack by the Knickerbockers Carl Anthony Towns Kitti
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  Speaker 1: Kat Carl Anthony town said nineteen points, fourteen rebounds, o
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  Speaker 1: g and Anobi with seventeen points, and the Knickerbockers they
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  Speaker 1: actually didn't just beat Cleveland, they spit roasted the Cavaliers
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  Speaker 1: by thirty seven points. Thirty seven point win by the Necks.
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  Speaker 1: They complete the four game sweep aaroo. As Cleveland is out.
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  Speaker 1: The Knickerbockers have advanced to the NBA Finals for the
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  Speaker 1: first time since nineteen ninety nine. That was before social media,
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  Speaker 1: before Gmail, before or pretty much everything the last time
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks made the NBA Finals. Now, the better story
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  Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room as we all say
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  Speaker 1: no da da da goodbye to the Cavaliers. They're are
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  Speaker 1: so James Harden my favorite punching bag on the Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: basketball team. James Harden added again and another sinker by
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  Speaker 1: all accounts, by any measurement, James Harden was bad, bad, bad, bad,
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  Speaker 1: bad bad, and Cleveland losing by thirty seven points. And
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  Speaker 1: Harden was asked postgame to self assess his playoff run,
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  Speaker 1: and he did the thing you can't do at the time.
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  Speaker 1: You can't do it. Let's go to the audio tape.
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  Speaker 3: I think I did pretty good. You know, I don't
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  Speaker 3: even I don't grave myself off shot making. You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think coming here was just a piece to fulfill
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  Speaker 3: whatever needs to be and you know, defensively being extremely
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  Speaker 3: solid offensively, you know, getting gos shots and fitting into
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  Speaker 3: a system that was already in place.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So the key part of that is the beginning
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  Speaker 1: James Harden. There was this weird thing that he did
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  Speaker 1: where he went right in the middle of it, but
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  Speaker 1: he said, hey, I think I did pretty good when
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  Speaker 1: we played that part again, just that part of the
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  Speaker 1: see we have that this beginning part here. Uh, I
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  Speaker 1: think I did pretty good. What does that mean? Is
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  Speaker 1: that a snake? It's like a like a King Cobra
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  Speaker 1: James Harden King played again King Cobra James Harden, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think I did? What is that? Who does that?
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  Speaker 1: He did it? What is that? I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: what that is? He's trying to get a kiddicat. Seriously,
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  Speaker 1: have you ever done that in your life? I've never
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  Speaker 1: done that. What is that? I don't play it again?
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  Speaker 1: What is that? I don't know what that is? What
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  Speaker 1: is it? I think I did? What going to is
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  Speaker 1: that the sign I'm lying all right? So this is
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question
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  Speaker 1: how do you react to James Harden as you heard
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  Speaker 1: there rubber stamping his playoff performance for the Cavaliers. So
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  Speaker 1: I've got birthday confetti, French foreign legion, and water supply,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all all of these things together
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  Speaker 1: and you and I are going to go spot on
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  Speaker 1: the mark is what we're going to do. So a
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  Speaker 1: you talk about being a few whiskers short of where
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  Speaker 1: you need to be, the lack of awareness, the word
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  Speaker 1: obtuse comes to mind. We can talk about James Harden.
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  Speaker 1: Now I know the moment when things went sideways for Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: and that moment was one hundred and ten days prior
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  Speaker 1: to getting swept out of the Eastern Conference Finals. That
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  Speaker 1: was February fourth, and that is when the Cleveland basketball
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  Speaker 1: team made the splash move, or so they thought the
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  Speaker 1: splash move. They went out and got the aforementioned James
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  Speaker 1: Harden from the people's team, the Clippers. That was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be a splash. Unfortunately, it was a puddle, not
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  Speaker 1: a big wave, not some kind of typhoon. It was
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  Speaker 1: a puddle. James Harden the puddle, and he certainly set
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  Speaker 1: the tone. I'll give Harden credit. He wasn't in Ohio
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  Speaker 1: very long, but he set the tone. And when he
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  Speaker 1: says I think I did pretty good, when he says that,
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  Speaker 1: under his leadership, his tutelage, the James Arden experience, they
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  Speaker 1: played Cleveland like they had been harpooned with a special
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  Speaker 1: tranquilizer gun. And the entire team there you talk about
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  Speaker 1: things that go bumpety bump in the night for the
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  Speaker 1: cadavers here talking bedwetting, teeth grinding, night terrors and more,
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  Speaker 1: all of that taking place. Adding James Harden to win
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  Speaker 1: a championship is like saying, hey, I need a locksmith.
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  Speaker 1: You call the locksmith, and the locksmith shows up and
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  Speaker 1: locks himself out of his own van, Well, what's no good.
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  Speaker 1: Or a better analogy would be like, hey, listen, why
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  Speaker 1: don't we go skydiving? And hey, my kid made a
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  Speaker 1: parachute made out of birthday confetti. Well, that's likely not
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  Speaker 1: going to get you safely to the ground, the birthday
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  Speaker 1: confetti parachute. But the kid made it, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to let the kid down, so let's jump out
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  Speaker 1: of the plane. Why not? Who says, no, what the hell?
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  Speaker 1: So James Harden? Who yet again He's got this great
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  Speaker 1: He's like a chameleon, James Harden. He goes from Afar.
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  Speaker 1: He looks like a star from Afar. He looks like
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  Speaker 1: a star. James Harden. And then he evaporates when you
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  Speaker 1: get close to him or he gets close to your team,
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  Speaker 1: he evaporates it the worst possible time. So this disaster
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  Speaker 1: is also on spie of Mitchell, who advocated publicly to
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  Speaker 1: get the Beard at age thirty six to come in.
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  Speaker 1: And then the GM Kobe Autman, I believe is the
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  Speaker 1: guy's name who runs basketball ops who signed off on
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  Speaker 1: the deal for the Cleveland basketball team. They felt they
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  Speaker 1: fell face first right into the booby trap. And it's
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  Speaker 1: the trust me trap. Trust me bro, It's the trust
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  Speaker 1: me trap. Don't fall for the trust me trap. Trust
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  Speaker 1: me Bro. That's what happened here. Cleveland fell for the
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  Speaker 1: oldest lie in pro bouncy ball that this time it'll
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  Speaker 1: be different with James Harden. It's going to be different.
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  Speaker 1: Every franchise has thought everyone that they are the exception
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  Speaker 1: to the rule when it comes to James Harden. And
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  Speaker 1: yet again, this just into the Fox Sports radio newsroom.
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  Speaker 1: None of them ever are the exception, none of them,
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  Speaker 1: None of them. It's why what a great hustle? Serious?
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  Speaker 1: I am jealous that James Harden's able to pull this off.
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  Speaker 1: It's wild everywhere he's gone. He's thirty six, he's old
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  Speaker 1: by sports terms, and he's still getting these opportunities. Is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely crazy. The Cavs did not miscalculate. They did not
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  Speaker 1: miscalculate the talent. They miscalculated human nature. It's a bad
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  Speaker 1: job by them. Harden evaporates every single time. You you're
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  Speaker 1: lucky even get one or two good games out of
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  Speaker 1: him in a playoff series, a couple of average games,
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  Speaker 1: and then he will absolutely kill you in several games.
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  Speaker 1: That's how that works there. He's exactly who he is.
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  Speaker 1: Every April and May and Cleveland paid the ultimate price.
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  Speaker 1: They ignored the warning signs. They just that's it. Ignore
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  Speaker 1: it now. Page two here. So keeping the theme going.
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  Speaker 1: As much as I loved James Harden, I must spend
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  Speaker 1: some time with my machete going after the coach. Kenny Atkinson,
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  Speaker 1: who was at asked postgame if the twenty twenty sixth
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  Speaker 1: season was a success. And well, rather than me give
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  Speaker 1: you the quote, here's the Calves coach asked to break
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  Speaker 1: down the Calves progress this season.
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  Speaker 4: Thay, I is I'll turn it positive. Though we took
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  Speaker 4: a step. We took a step. You know, this is
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  Speaker 4: kind of how this works. You have to you have
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  Speaker 4: to keep climbing. We are going in, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 4: a positive direction. You know fell short. You know, there's
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  Speaker 4: no bigger motivator right to get to the next level.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think of this all season and development
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  Speaker 4: and how we got to the sacrifice we're going to
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  Speaker 4: need to you know, make to get to the next level.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm proud of this group in terms of how
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  Speaker 4: they how they fought through adversity. You know, one two
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  Speaker 4: game seven, we took a we took a step. I
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  Speaker 4: think we took a step mentally from a mental toughness
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  Speaker 4: point of view. I'm going to kind of lean on that.
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  Speaker 4: And again, we don't know there's another you know, none
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  Speaker 4: of the two steps really you got to take, if
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  Speaker 4: you you know, that's that's the old Nicole.
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  Speaker 1: Did I watch a different series? I'm thinking I think, seriously,
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  Speaker 1: I think I might have watched something else, Like I
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  Speaker 1: didn't watch what he's talking about, Like, I don't. Am
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  Speaker 1: I losing my mind here? Seriously, I sat on my
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  Speaker 1: fat ass watching every one of these stupid games. And
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  Speaker 1: that's the conclusion the head coach of an NBA team
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  Speaker 1: comes to that series like, I'm one hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 1: degrees the other way. So the question, as you just
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  Speaker 1: heard coach Kenny Atkinson said the Calves took a step
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  Speaker 1: forward in this postseason, is that? How is that how
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  Speaker 1: it looks from the catbird seat. Yeah, even blind Scott
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  Speaker 1: can see, and Inka Terror and uh swamp Billy, all
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  Speaker 1: my blind guys, and we get a lot Stevie meatballs.
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  Speaker 1: We lead the blind world and they can all see this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm giving this a massive shoulder shrug, is what I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing here. Just insane. If this is what the Calves
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  Speaker 1: look like taking a step forward, you imagine if they
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  Speaker 1: were doing the moonwalk? What would that look like? Holy crap, Like,
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  Speaker 1: this was not a step forward. This was the Cavaliers
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  Speaker 1: tripping over their own shoelaces, face planting into a sandbox
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  Speaker 1: and then getting up and telling everyone, boy, that sand
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  Speaker 1: tasted really good. Man, that was the most delicious sand
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  Speaker 1: we've ever had. What is that they essentially got after
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  Speaker 1: they blew the leading game on they got into the
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  Speaker 1: fetal position, they started sucking their thumb collectively and holding
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  Speaker 1: their Blankye, that's what the Calves did. And this is progress,
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  Speaker 1: my fat ass. That's not progress. They basically joined the
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  Speaker 1: French Foreign Legion. They enlisted, they saluted, and they surrendered.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they did. And whatever good will they gained
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs earlier to me, it all went out
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  Speaker 1: the door in the Eastern Conference finals. Here, like monopoly,
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  Speaker 1: they competed for forty minutes. Here, there's forty spaces on
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  Speaker 1: a standard monopoly board, and the team from Cleveland competed
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  Speaker 1: for forty minutes. That's it, And how did I come
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  Speaker 1: to that conclusion? So they were up, they were up
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  Speaker 1: twenty two points in game one, So they had twenty
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  Speaker 1: two point leading game one, about eight minutes to go
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  Speaker 1: in the game. They then at that point underwent a metamorphosis.
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  Speaker 1: They turned into a clearance rack inflatable tube men, you
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  Speaker 1: know those two men outside stores to try to get
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  Speaker 1: you to come in and spend your money and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. Yeah, they got outscored. I did the malord
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  Speaker 1: math on this from the eight minute to go mark
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  Speaker 1: a little less than that eight minutes or so to
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  Speaker 1: go in Game one to the end of the series,
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  Speaker 1: the New York basketball team quit. They gave up, or
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  Speaker 1: the Cleveland basketball team gave up against the New York
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  Speaker 1: basketball team. I'm trying to say. They were outscored the
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  Speaker 1: Cadavers by ninety nine points, ninety nine, the ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: outscored by ninety nine points from being up twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: They lost that game, outscored forty four to eleven in
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  Speaker 1: Game one the rest of the way, but overall from
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  Speaker 1: that point forward, outscored by ninety nine points. And the
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  Speaker 1: signature moment, the signare moment James Harden falling into quicksand
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  Speaker 1: Kenny Atkinson, the aforementioned Kenny Atkinson, who is so indoctrinated
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  Speaker 1: into the cult of the nerds that he actually said
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  Speaker 1: after Game three, analytically, we have one two out of
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  Speaker 1: three in the expected score. Analytic would have fired his
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  Speaker 1: ass after that game. I would it's a rinky ding
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  Speaker 1: franchise of the Cavaliers. I would have fired the coach.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about this, I was having a conversation with
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  Speaker 1: somebod in the hallway. It might have been Harmon and
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about how like when you bring in
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  Speaker 1: these analytic people, the nerds from Ivy League schools, and
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  Speaker 1: you mix them with meatheads coaches like Kenny Atkinson or
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  Speaker 1: really like that Bright, they just take all of the
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  Speaker 1: bull crap from the nerds and they just repeat it.
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  Speaker 1: It's the dogma of the world. It's like, well, the
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  Speaker 1: nerds say an expected score, so let me just repeat that.
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  Speaker 1: The only analytic that matters, dummy, is the scoreboard. Moron.
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  Speaker 1: All this other crap is just filler. It's just bull
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  Speaker 1: crap anyway. So there you go, Bozo the clown with
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  Speaker 1: like his red foam nose back and his oversized shoes. Kenny,
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  Speaker 1: can you make sure to get those back? Thank you?
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  Speaker 1: Kenny Atkinson there bragging about expected score and saying that
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  Speaker 1: you accomplished something after you got swept and your team
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  Speaker 1: gave up. That is the nerdiest losing flex in NBA history,
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  Speaker 1: at least recent NBA history. Now, last words, so there
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of celebrity influence in Cleveland. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: none of them from Cleveland. They all had to be
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  Speaker 1: brought in from other places, and almost all of them
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  Speaker 1: came in from the New New York Tri State area.
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  Speaker 1: I bring this up because he had the brigade of fanboys.
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  Speaker 1: How about Spike Lee sixty nine years old, He's the
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  Speaker 1: king fanboy. He had his knee pads on for the Knicks.
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  Speaker 1: He was ready to go in one Orange, one blue.
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  Speaker 1: Good old Spike Lee at age sixty nine, right there
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  Speaker 1: at the Rocket Arena in Cleveland. It was not Smooth Sealey.
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  Speaker 1: Nick's superfan. Fat Joe, Fat Joe the rapper. He's old
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  Speaker 1: used to be big back in the day. So Fat
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  Speaker 1: Joe said the Cavaliers took the tickets away he had
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  Speaker 1: purchased to sit courtside for Game four. Say what Fatjo
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  Speaker 1: appeared on something called NBA today and what that is
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  Speaker 1: in Cleveland? He said that unprompted. He was not asked
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  Speaker 1: about this. He said that the Cavalier took the Cavalier
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  Speaker 1: ticket department took away his tickets because they didn't want
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  Speaker 1: Knickerbocker fans sitting that close. Now, peeple saw a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of celebrities. I saw celebrities on TV, so we thought, wow,
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  Speaker 1: that's bull crap. Well, the Cavaliers confirmed it's true. Fat
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  Speaker 1: Joe was not lying. Fat Joe was telling the truth.
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  Speaker 1: The cadavers confirmed they absolutely catapulted Fat Joe from his
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  Speaker 1: court side seat. Cleveland said that playoff court side seating
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  Speaker 1: is governed by a specific agreement that prohibits the resale
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  Speaker 1: or transfer of tickets in the front rows without approval.
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  Speaker 1: So get your fat ass out of here, Fat Joe
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  Speaker 1: said the cavaliers. All right, So the question what do
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  Speaker 1: you think of the Calvs giving the old boot to
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  Speaker 1: Fat Joe? And he was not alone. There were some
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  Speaker 1: other celebrities that also got the boot, the New York
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  Speaker 1: celebrities from court side. So this is the most small market, okay,
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  Speaker 1: most small market, small minded, small energy move that you
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  Speaker 1: can possibly do when this happens in rinky ding towns.
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  Speaker 1: This is what they do. And so Cleveland's just proving
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  Speaker 1: yet again that they're not really a big league town
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  Speaker 1: when they do things like this. It's embarrassing. I got
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  Speaker 1: friends who are in Cleveland. I feel bad for my
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  Speaker 1: friends in Cleveland. What are you doing? The Cavaliers were
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  Speaker 1: so utterly terrified by some celess celebrities. There are all
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of old dudes who are nick celebrity fans mostly,
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  Speaker 1: and so the Keves are like We're gonna run a
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  Speaker 1: gated community in the first couple of rows, gonna run
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  Speaker 1: a gated community court side. Okay, that makes sense, said nobody,
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  Speaker 1: said nobody. You're scared of fat Joe wearing a Nick shirt. Really,
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  Speaker 1: that's what you're afraid of. Now, while technically this crap
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  Speaker 1: is allowed, I can't sit here and say that mister Dolan,
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  Speaker 1: who owns the Knicks doesn't do the same bull crap.
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  Speaker 1: That's that aside, all right, it's emasculating. It is absolutely emasculating.
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  Speaker 1: You know you are rattled when your defensive game plan
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  Speaker 1: is to ban New York celebrities. That that is the
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  Speaker 1: move here and Cleveland, where the playoff strategy is no
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  Speaker 1: visiting fans and you have to wear the damn shirt.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they have a rule at the playoff games.
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  Speaker 1: You have that's your uniform. With those stupid shirts they
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  Speaker 1: give out, you have to wear the shirts. That's another sign.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like all this stuff written by a hall
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  Speaker 1: monitor who wants that they like an Hoa for the calves.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone hates Hoa's imagining. So insecure that you are policing
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  Speaker 1: T shirts and VIPs, that's your move as a professional
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  Speaker 1: basketball franchise. I would check the water supply because I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty sure that Cleveland, because of this move the basketball
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  Speaker 1: team anyway, that is a jerkwater town. It's a jerk
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  Speaker 1: water move by the Cavaliers. There very backwoodsy boon, docky,
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  Speaker 1: all of that stuff, and like, tell me you're a
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  Speaker 1: po dunk town without telling me you're a pot dunktown.
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  Speaker 1: When you're like, oh listen, you have to wear the
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  Speaker 1: shirt and any celebrity that bott to you, you can't
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  Speaker 1: do that. Oh my god, loser, loser, loser should have
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  Speaker 1: taken a page out of the Rams house mantra. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: if the Rams did that. They had the NFC Championship
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  Speaker 1: game a couple years ago home. It was essentially a
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  Speaker 1: forty nine er home game. There was a sea of
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  Speaker 1: red and all my friends who are forty nine er fans.
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  Speaker 1: So there's no way the Niners can lose. It's a
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  Speaker 1: home game, and they lost, and the Rams went on
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  Speaker 1: to win the Super Bowl that year, so it doesn't matter, right,
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  Speaker 1: And bumping out celebs, like, when you're doing that, seriously,
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  Speaker 1: you know you're cooked at that particular point. And the
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  Speaker 1: No way, no how So our lead this hour. We
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: started out from Baseball ox Baseball here and there is
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: a story that is not getting too much attention. However
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: it got my attention, and it involves the Doyers who
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: came back to beat the Rockies on a random game.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Who cares a regular season game in late May at
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the lead from La La Land, where the Dodgers shortstop
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Mookie Betts is mired in the muck, the muckety muck.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Mookie has not been very good this year and played
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: a lot, and now people have gone back and they've
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: checked their receipts and they realized, wait a minute, if
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Mookie Bets was a stock, he would be a declining stock,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: and Wall Street would say to sell. And it has
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: been bad. How low can you go for Mooki? The
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: last couple of years, Mooki had a nine eighty seven
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: OPS on base plus slugging in twenty twenty three and
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: an eight sixty three in twenty twenty four, So he
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: went down. And then last year he was at seven
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: thirty two. So each year he's gone down by either
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: over one hundred or almost one hundred, and so far
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: this year the OPS has gone down to five seventy two,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: which I'm told is not good on base plus slugging.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: So after the O four on Memorial Day, Mookie Bets
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: now batting a robust one sixty five. Now I didn't
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: play in the big leagues. I'm told that's not good
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: and an ops of five to seventy two. Again, I
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: hadn't played that much. And when he has played, he
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: has been writing the vomit comet and there's all kinds
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: of excuses, and well, he moved a shortstop and there's
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: recovery time, and he had the oblique injury and yeahbit,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: yeah butit Yeah but the yabit rabbit yeabit this yeabit
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: that yeahbit yeah but yeah but it the yabbit rabbit.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: And he's thirty three yabit yeah it yeahbit the yabbit rabbit.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: discuss the question what is the malor scale of concern
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: for Dodger shortstop Mookie Betts, who has been terrible this season,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: and the numbers continue to slide down, down, down, down down.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: They're doing the limbo. So I've got my views on this.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I've got suburbs, porn, and doctor fresh, and we will
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are going
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: to throw a no hitter unless we're not gonna throw
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: is probably the worst no hitter in baseball history, thrown
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: by the cheating Astros and nobody cares. It's like, usually
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: there's a no hitter, we stop. We're like, oh, that's
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: exciting a no hitter. Nobody gives a rats ptui about
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: the cheating Astros throwing a no hitter anyway. So we're
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: talking about mookie bets here, and the numbers have been
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: going down since twenty twenty three. Is ops has gone
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: down every year. Right now, it's rock bottom as he
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: is played and played terribly. So my first thought on this,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: the Malard scale of concern one to ten, we are
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: sitting at a hard seven point five, a hard seven
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: point five on the Mallar scale of concern for Mookie Bets.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: That is deaf Con two in Dodgertown, deaf Con two. Now,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the decline is not sudden. This is not all of
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: a sudden you show up one year and you can't
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: hit the back door slider or whatever. No, it's it's
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: not that like this has been politely knocking. You can
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: kind of hear it in the backgrounds knocking. It's kind
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: of loud actually for four years, and a lot of
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: people they're pretending like there's nothing to see here, nothing
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: to hear about, just move on and all that. And
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: so This is not a slump, It is a residency.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Muki has been living out in the suburbs of a
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: little village called Mediocrity Meadows since twenty oh three. Now
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: we've been told to ignore the numbers, ignore the age,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: just ignore your lying eyes, ignore your lying eyes, and
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: ignore everything, everything at all. Why because the Dodger brand
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: must be protected. And to that we say, phoey, phoey. Now,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: some believe that the reason Mooki's slowing down is because
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: he's spending too much time worried about his defense. And
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: of course it's very difficult to have to do two
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: things at one time, God forbid, and so they're blaming that,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: like Mooki tripped over running out to play shortstop and
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: his you know, forgot his glove and forgot how to
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: use his glove and then got how to use his
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: bat and the whole thing. And so I'm pretty sure
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: that Shortstop did not do this. I'm relatively confident that
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Father Time did. And he doesn't really negotiate. There's not
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: a lot of negotiation. Now, there's some stuff. You can
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: go down to Tijuana. There's a pharmacy in Tijuana can
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: get some really good stuff. That'll push back father time
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: for a little bit. However, not that long, so we're
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: not about four years though, four score seven, you know,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: four years ago. At some point, the back of the
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: baseball card, the baseball reference page starts yelling back at you,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: and you're like, hey, wait a minute, Moki's thirty three.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: He's going on thirty four, and this is about the
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: time the bill comes due. It's about the time that
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: you say, wait a minute. This is a declining asset
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: at this point. It's not just a bad couple of
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: weeks or a bad month. It's more than that. And
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: he's not getting faster, stronger, he's not getting any younger.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: That's not happening here. So this is the decline with
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: a capital D for Mookie Bets, who's only halfway through
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: that three hundred and sixty five million dollars albatross of
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: a contract he signed with the Doyers. He will be
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: paid his full salary till twenty thirty two, and then
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: he will get deferred money till twenty forty four. Let
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: me repeat that, twenty forty four. That's how long Mookie
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Bets will be getting money from the Dodgers. That's if
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: my math is correct. Twenty eight more years and he's
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: already earned the contract, and I guess here say it's
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: not worth the money. And the Red Sox said that
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: they can do a victory lap in Boston and said,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: we told you he was not worth a long term contract. Okay,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: he is. Though the Dodgers already won three World Series
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: with Mookie Bets on the roster, not that he played
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: particularly well in those World Series, was terrible against the
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays last year in the World Series. However, they
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: won the World Series. He was part of the team.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: And so if you win one World Series, that justifies
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the three hundred and fifty million dollar contract. Mooki's part
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: of time three World Series winning teams, including the hardest
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: World Series of all time in twenty twenty during the pandemic. Now, secondly,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: we now go to Wisconsin where the Brewers ace Jacob
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Miserawski was throwing gas and he threw out of the
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: pitches he threw in the game on Memorial Day. The
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: miz threw fifty seven pitches of at least one hundred
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: miles per hour. Fifty seven. That sounds like a lot, right,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: that sounds like a lot. Well, you're right, that is
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: the most by any individual in a single game since
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: they began tracking velocity in eight Now somewhere Nolan Ryan
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: is snickering and saying, yeah, I'm really impressed by that.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Fifty seven pitches of at least one hundred miles per hour.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: There.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: He got twelve strikeouts in that matches his career high.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: The brew Crew beat up the Cardinals in that National
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: League matchup. Now he was asked about he said, what
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: wasn't surprised the miss said, miss Rawski about the mark.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: He said, that's what I do. I throw hard. That
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: The previous record for one hundred mile per hour pitches
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: in a single game was held by Hunter Green of
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Reds against Saint Louis, and that was back
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, So a new record there. Of course,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the Brewers manager Pat Murphy. I love the world we
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: live in today because Pat Murphy, this big, jovial old
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: guy who's managing the Brewers and all that, he's actually
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: taking some heat. Now, why would you possibly take any
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: heat for the mizz's performance. I'm not joking. By the way,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the people are upset because they left him in He's
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: throwing too hard and he's gonna you know, he shouldn't
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: leave him in there, and he's gonna cause injury and
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: all that. Yeah, all right, So the question on this
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: one are the Brewers being irresponsible his manager Pat Murphy
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: being irresponsible by letting Jacob Mazarowski empty the tank like
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: this in late May for the Milwaukee baseball team. So
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the answer, I've got two letters for you, N plus
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: oh that equals no, and that is the proper answer.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: The answer is no. The abundance of caution crowd can
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: go run in traffic holding scissors, knocked yourself out. Okay,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about it. You can't coach scared,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: you can't pitch scared, you can't play scared, and all
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: that stuff. Saving the mizz for a rainy day is
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: completely pointless. Now teams do it all the time. I
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: remember the Dodgers couple years back they limited Clayton Kershaw's
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: pitches so he could be fresh as a daisy for
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. He then went out there and rode the
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: vomit comment and got knocked out in the first inning
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the playoff game. They rested
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: and they saved him. They took him out of a
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: perfect game in Minnesota so he could be fresh for
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the play playoffs and barf all over the mound and
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: defecate on the way back to the dugout. So screw
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: that and listen. He is an electric flamethrower, Jacob Mazeroski.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: He is who lights up the radar gun on the scoreboard.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: It's like a pinball machine when he's out there throwing
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: the darts around. And he is the meal ticket. Obviously,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: he is the meal ticket the mizz uh and he's
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: already in the conversation for the most unhittable pitcher of
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: the game this year, uh and in Major League Baseball,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: and the Brew crew are obviously going to lean on
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: him in October. They don't hit a lot of home runs,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: They're gonna have to win games with dominant pitching. We
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: saw what happening against the Dodgers last year when they
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: didn't have the but they had some domination, but they
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: didn't have enough and they ended up losing that game
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: in a old sweep aroo there. So they're gonna have
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: to win every time this guy pitches in October. Uh
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: And now that said, there is more than one way
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: to peel an orange. And you can get batters out
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: with not throwing one hundred plus miles per hour. Believe
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: it or not, there are ways to get batters out.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: You were seen as taboo if you try to get
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: hitters out by spin, spinning the baseball and throwing different
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: speed pitches and things like that. This is the latest example, though,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Jacob Mazarowski, the latest example of baseball people losing their
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: mind chasing radar gun pornography. It's radar gun porn. That's
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: what this is, right, You get all excited about it.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: It's not sustainable, it's not I understand. This is a
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: ticking time bomb. You still gotta throw them out there
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: and have them pitch. It is a ticking time bomb.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: And as our caller Real Talk back in the day
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: would point out, you enjoy it now because this is
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: exactly how we know how the story's gonna end. Snap, crackle,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: pop is the elbow and the shoulder and all that stuff.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: So that's how this is going to end, and it's
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: not at that point now. It's a matter of when,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: not a matter of if. Tommy John's online one in
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: line two, that's how this stuff ends. Ninety nine point
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: nine percent of the time. You still pitch him. You
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: don't go scares. Oh, we can't pitch him too many,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Like there's no mathematical formula. The reason they get freaked
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: out by one hundred pitches because it's a round number.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: There were guys back in the All Days throw one
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty. Hell, when a guy named Tommy Thesworda
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: managed the Dodgers, he'd have guys throw Fernando Valenzuale. They're
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: like close to two hundred or over two hundred pitches.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: They didn't care anyway. The final thought to pro bouncy ball.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: We go to pro bouncy ball, where Miami Heat legend
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Dwayne Wade said that Victor Wembanyaba already has quote no weaknesses. Now,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the Spurs are going to try to take a three
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: to two lead in the Western Conference finals and get
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: a little closer to playing the Knickerbockers in the NBA
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Finals that'll be coming up later on Tuesday night. The
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: twenty two year old Parisian prodigy is just a couple
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: wins away from his first NBA Finals. Wade comparing Wemba
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Nyama's dominance to that of Michael Jordan Hello, and Lebron James.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Those two. I said, Wemby is really good at everything.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: He has no weaknesses. It is incredible, said the player
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: known as d Wade. All right, so question, are you
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: gonna go thumbs up or thumbs down? Thumbs up or
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: thumbs down on Dwayne Wade's claim that Wemby has no
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: weaknesses at all? Zippo? All right, so I am going
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: to go thumbs down. Uh, if you want me to nitpick,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I'll nitpick.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: I don't hate the player Wemby. I will eventually hate
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: him because everyone will kiss his ass and that's what happens,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: and I'll turn on him. I'm not at that point now. However,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: I am reasonable enough to realize that Wemby does have
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: some weaknesses. The Parisian Pridgy is a wonderful player. However,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: last I checked, he is human, although some believe he
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: is a product of some alien crossover thingam a jig
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: and all that, there's no proof of that yet and
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: humans are fallible, believe it or not, and so he
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: does have some blind spots. He does have that Wemby
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: is a skyscraper, but he's a skyscraper built on some
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: doctor fresh toothpicks. His legs are like toothpicks. His arms.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: He's seven four, like two thirty, and they're likely lying
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: about that. For Wemby, he's slenderman with a jump shot
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: is what he is at this point. And that frame,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: that frame is a long term question mark. We just
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: talked about the miz for the Brewers and now he's
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: not long to avoid major surgery. Where Wemba Yama also
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: like you can pretend that's not in the cards, but
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: it is. He can move him, that's the weakness. You
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: can move him like you move around patio furniture, and
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: that's his weakness. He's not some Marvel character. He's twenty
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: two and if he was a boxer, you'd say he's
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: in the featherweight division. He's not a heavyweight. He's not
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: a middleweight. He's a featherweight. That's what he is. And
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: you can literally we saw this in an earlier again
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: it was game two of Oklahoma City and San Antonio.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: You can literally shove Wemby off the block and you
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: can really pick your angle and mess him up and
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: keep him away from some rebounds and whatnot. Here and
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: when you're built like a lamppost. When you built like
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: a lamp post, every fall is a flip of the penny,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: my old friend, the penny from Benny versus the penny.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Until Wemby adds twenty five pounds of strength, which eventually
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: will just get fatter because you get older, but actual strength.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Then I do believe the weakness is going to be
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: bully ball. That will be the kryptonite for Wemby. The
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: bullyball there until things get settled, and then that won't
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: be a weakness anymore. Wenby is also pretty unguardable because
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: of his size at the rim, yet he continues to
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: choose to do those step back three point shots like
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: he's trying to copy Steph Curry and that's a bailout
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: when he shoots those long shots. Cauz, Dude, you're not
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Steph curR and you're pretty much unstoppable at the rim,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: but you don't do that anyway. It is the Ben
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Malor Show. If you'd like to comment on any of that.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: You can also talk about the Eastern Conference Finals, which
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: is over. It is all over, as the Cleveland Cavaliers
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: has gone away. Turn out the lad the parties over Cleveland.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: You have plenty of time to get ready for the
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: NBA Draft as it is all all over and people
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: piling on James Harden. He said he wants to stay
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: with the Cavaliers. I'm sure he does until they don't
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: offer him the right amount of money. He's a player
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: option and I'm assuming he'll opt out of that try
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: to get more money on top of it. So you
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: got that. The coach of the Calves, Kenny Atkinson, who
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: said analytically the Calves were winning the series after three
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: games and then follow that up after they got swept,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: says the team made progress even though by any reasonable measurement,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: the Cavaliers quit. They are a bunch of quitters. They
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: quit in an NBA Eastern Conference Finals game. They were
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: down by forty five points. If you're trying, you're not
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: down by forty five points. It was gutlass.
• 37:30
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• 37:40
  Speaker 2: The third degree trouble then.
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: Most people believe that once June second comes around, AJ
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: Brown will be in New England.
• 37:48
  Speaker 8: Patriots. Do you think there's any chance that doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, if he gets arrested with a bunch of bad stuff, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Other than that, it's going to happen. We're just counting
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: down the day till June second, and aj Brown will
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: be hanging out with not Diana Russini, but that other
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: guy Wow Vrabel next.
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: You and many others have said that whoever comes out
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: of the Western Conference Finals will eventually go on to
• 38:12
  Speaker 7: defeat the Knicks in the finals. Who do you think
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: the Knicks would have a better shot of against a
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: shot of an upset against.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Well, I would go with Oklahoma City Wenby when hitting
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: on all silers obviously is amazing, unstoppable, So if you
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: go side by side, I would say that San Antonio
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: is a bigger nightmare for the Knickerbockers than Oklahoma City,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: although they're not going to beat either one of those teams,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: so it's pretty irrelevant. How athought you asked me the question,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: so I would say I would rather play Oklahoma City next.
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: Josh Allen was asked if there's any one thing that
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: he does that really bugs his wife. He said she
• 38:45
  Speaker 7: reaches for his beard. He barks at her. Then, what's
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: the one thing that you do that really bugs your wife?
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Just eating food? Chewing food? My wife has miss aphonia,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: which the sound of chewing anoiser and I don't even
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: know notice when I'm chewing food, which he gets very
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: annoyed the way I eat certain like chips or whatever.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: So we have to have music on it. Stuff like that.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: It's really awkward. So that's it, all right? How do
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: we do a kolas going to the NBA fu they
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: are going to the finals to saga? Look at the Sega.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: He's live. I can't believe it. Turn your mic off, Steve, Come.
• 39:19
  Speaker 8: On, gosh, Steve.
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• 39:32
  Speaker 1: We have a game. We don't need to play the imaging.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Let's welcome in our combatants. Here. We have Slug in Vegas,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: the hostess with the Moses. Now the game is called
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Malar's Mountain of Money. Hello Slug, welcome, Hey Vegas. Maybe Vegas. Yeah,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: there he is, my man, Slug. He's got all the
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: inside information from the Great Steakhouse in Vegas. What's up, SLUGGI.
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: I was gonna say that they're talking about X managers
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: and whatnot. I'm going to tell you the time Sparky
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: Anderson slapping story got slapped.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: By Detroit Tiger managing legend in Cincinnati, Red's legend, Sparky Anderson?
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Were you? Were you being rude to Sparky? Were you?
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: You know? I was at the Thrifties and Thousand Oaks, California.
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: I was in front of he was in front of me,
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: checking out in line, and I said, Hey, Sparky, big fan,
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: can I get your autograph? And he's like, yeah, sure,
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: and he plays I have to go. Hey, the coach
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: is over at t O Suck. Why don't you come
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: over and coach us? And he said yeah, And then,
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: you know, try to be playful kind of slap me,
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: but try to slap me pretty hard where the people
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: around us like, what the hell? Was this?
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Just having fun? That's good. I like that. I have
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: a spark I have a I have my own Sparky
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Edison story. I don't have time to tell it right now.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Involves him driving. I do not have time to tell
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: the story right now. Unfortunately, you know you did not.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Who do you want to who's getting very nervous? Who
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: do you want to partner up with? Their slug?
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna go with you, man, that's right.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: You're in it to win. A right, hold on a sec.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: You're gonna play our game. We have Manuel in Guardena
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: and he's in one of the great long shortman, Manuel,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: do you have an answer here?
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: Man?
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Who do you want to play? I assume you want
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: to play with Coop not Lorena? Or do you want
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: to play with Lorraina?
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: Uh? Well, I want to play with Lorraina. But I'm
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: gonna do coop on this game.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, that sounded awkward, fair enough? One are
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: the categories here? Coop?
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: Please?
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: All right, gentlemen.
• 41:35
  Speaker 7: This is the Lenny Kravitz edition of Manage Amount of Money.
• 41:38
  Speaker 7: He turned sixty two years old today, Happy birthday. The
• 41:42
  Speaker 7: categories are it ain't over till It's over, Always on
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: the run, fly away, and again slug?
• 41:48
  Speaker 8: Which category would you like?
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: Fly away? I think I saw that guy recently? Again?
• 41:55
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah he does.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 41:58
  Speaker 8: Manuel? Do you want it ain't overutil It's over, always
• 42:00
  Speaker 8: on the run? Or again?
• 42:03
  Speaker 6: Going with the lady Kravitz and Yogi Beara. It ain't
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: over kill, it's over.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: All right, right, very good, gentlemen. Hole on a sec,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: but you both all do not hang up. We will
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: have in its entirety Malors Mountain of Money. We will
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: get to that, and we will do it.
• 42:23
  Speaker 6: Next.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Malor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: to get to the top? Probably not?
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Anyway we go, the game is all set. We have
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: Slug in Vegas and he's partnered up with me. He's
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: the hostess with the Moses, has put together a couple
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: of big Mallard meet and greets. Hopefully we'll do it
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: again later this summer. And Manuel and Guardina a show legend.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: He's been in studio here hanging out with us. He
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: brings those really good sandwiches, and he's teamed up with Coop. Okay,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: we're going first year's slog I believe you picked fly away?
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: Is that correct? Yeah?
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: Are you?
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Are you dying? What is going on?
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, alright, alright, alright, Well that's called pregaming. He's pregaming
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: for the bit. Okay, here we go. These athletes all
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: retired in their prime, in their prime? Are you ready slug?
• 43:26
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: All right, forty five seconds on the clock. We're on
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: our way.
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: Go.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Point guard for the nineteen eighties Lakers. Yes, a quarterback
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: for the Colts. He retired early out of Stanford. Yes.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Wide receiver nicknamed Megatron for the Detroit Lions. Yes, defensive
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: star for the La Rams. He just retired a couple
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: of years ago. Out of pit big defensive to the
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. Yes, correct, Jewish dodger pitcher left handed
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: from the ninety Yes Cubs, second basement of the nineteen eighties.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: He had passed away. Serg what's his first name? Yes,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: running back from Ohio State. He retired of become a doctor.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: He played with the Vikings and played in the nineties
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: running back generic name. Wanted to go to the man.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: We didn't get that one. That's fine. Robert Smith was.
• 44:18
  Speaker 8: Who we were looking for.
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: Robert yet name. I knew who was too, but I
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: just can't remember the name.
• 44:23
  Speaker 8: Forty yep, forty all right, Manuel, it was a good showing.
• 44:27
  Speaker 8: Let's let's show him how it's done. All right, man, well,
• 44:31
  Speaker 8: we've got it.
• 44:32
  Speaker 7: Ain't over till it's over, correct, sure, all right, man, Well,
• 44:36
  Speaker 7: these athletes were involved in some of the greatest comebacks
• 44:39
  Speaker 7: of all time.
• 44:41
  Speaker 8: Forty five seconds.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Let's go.
• 44:42
  Speaker 7: Greatest quarterback of all time for the Patriots, Big Poppy
• 44:47
  Speaker 7: of the Red Sox. This guy was the quarterback for
• 44:51
  Speaker 7: the Vikings. He's on the Falcons now, I believe he
• 44:55
  Speaker 7: was also, right, Yes, this guy was the point guard
• 44:58
  Speaker 7: for the Cavaliers when they came back again the Warriors
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: and Lebron James. Yes, this guy is the sidekick to
• 45:05
  Speaker 7: Nikola Jokic, right.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Now, Jamal.
• 45:11
  Speaker 7: Yes, ja yes, yes, this guy was a backup quarterback.
• 45:15
  Speaker 7: He was also the head coach of the Colts a
• 45:17
  Speaker 7: few years ago. Oh right, yes, this guy was the
• 45:22
  Speaker 7: ace for the Cubs when they won the World Series.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, alright, it's done. Let's go man. Well, well,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: by the way, your Kirk cousins with the Raiders.
• 45:33
  Speaker 8: Now now whatever, all.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: Right, we're up. Slug. What do you want here? You
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: want always on the run or what is it again?
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Slug the run? All right? Uh? These athletes frequently change teams. Okay,
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: you're ready. Slug Forty five seconds on the clock. Are
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: you ready slug? Yeah, Okay, we're on our way and
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: here we go. Known as the Beard, he's with the
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: Cavaliers right now. Yes, straight cash Homie wide receiver for
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: the Vikings and the Raiders and the Patriots and all
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: that and the Yes, the all time assist King for
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: triple doubles played with Oklahoma City, was on the Clippers,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: the Lakers, missus a lot. Yes, named Eric Canada, Toronto
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Raptors Slam Dunk King back in the day. He's on
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: TV right now. Yes, a guy, white guy hit a
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: big home run for the Phillies against the Dodgers at
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium. He's a Canadian guy. Last name is like
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: something you might walk up or something like that. No
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: fat picture for them. I took a shot.
• 46:47
  Speaker 8: Yeah it was a good shot, and Matt Stairs.
• 46:51
  Speaker 6: I should have got it.
• 46:52
  Speaker 8: All right?
• 46:56
  Speaker 7: All right, man, Manuel, let's go with uh we got
• 47:01
  Speaker 7: again here. These athletes have won back to back championships.
• 47:06
  Speaker 8: All right, forty five seconds. Let's begin.
• 47:08
  Speaker 7: Quarterback for the Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes. Yes, quarterback for the
• 47:13
  Speaker 7: Cowboys who won a bunch in a row. That's right,
• 47:15
  Speaker 7: we won this game already.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Well, no, you sure you No, you're quitting. He's quitting area.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: That means we win the game. So we won. We won.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: You quit the game. You're a quitter. You're a quitter.