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- 0:32Speaker 1: So are lead this out playing the hits on man.
- 0:33Speaker 1: We have a late night, well not really late night,
- 0:36Speaker 1: but it was late for us, normally pretty quiet in
- 0:40Speaker 1: these parts Sunday night into Monday, not a whole lot
- 0:43Speaker 1: going on. You get the either baseball game or football game,
- 0:46Speaker 1: this case baseball, and what a riveting game it was
- 0:49Speaker 1: between the Mariners and the cheating a hole so a man,
- 0:52Speaker 1: so happy to have that game on in the background.
- 0:54Speaker 1: But there's usually not too much in the transaction wire,
- 0:58Speaker 1: and today there was some stuff. So our lead this
- 1:02Speaker 1: hour from Jerry's World where Von Miller. Remember Von Miller
- 1:07Speaker 1: when he used to be good back in the day. Yes,
- 1:09Speaker 1: he used to be really good Von Miller with the
- 1:11Speaker 1: Broncos and a few moments with the Rams and even
- 1:16Speaker 1: less with the Buffalo Bills, and now after a year
- 1:20Speaker 1: in the witness protection program with the Washington Commanders, von
- 1:23Speaker 1: Miller has decided to rejoin the NFL. So welcome back
- 1:26Speaker 1: von Miller. He gets a one year deal to join
- 1:31Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Von Miller going to the Cowboys, the team
- 1:34Speaker 1: announcing the agreement on Sunday night, So if you didn't
- 1:38Speaker 1: see it, the Prodigy returns home the Texas homecoming. Von
- 1:43Speaker 1: Miller went to high school there at DeSoto High, Texas
- 1:47Speaker 1: A and M and Aggie and drafted at the number
- 1:51Speaker 1: two spot overall way back in the twenty eleven draft,
- 1:55Speaker 1: and he celebrated on social media by posting, here we go.
- 2:02Speaker 1: I've heard that phrase before. Here we go, So that
- 2:05Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. Here we go. Let
- 2:09Speaker 1: us discuss the question. Does von Miller count as a
- 2:15Speaker 1: splash addition for the Cowboys in the year twenty twenty
- 2:19Speaker 1: six because the way this thing is being tossed around,
- 2:22Speaker 1: Oh man, oh man, what a pickup. Holy crap. The
- 2:26Speaker 1: Cowboys got von Miller, all right. So I've got my
- 2:30Speaker 1: thoughts on this. I have Anthrax FI Master and a
- 2:34Speaker 1: Silk Burgundy smoking jacket, and we will combine all of
- 2:40Speaker 1: these things together and we're gonna have some Texas red chili,
- 2:45Speaker 1: some brisket tacos, and then we'll have some tortilla soup.
- 2:48Speaker 1: I do love tortilla soup. I don't eat it all
- 2:50Speaker 1: the time. When I do, I enjoy the tortilla soup solid.
- 2:52Speaker 1: All right, So a listen answer the question. Von Miller
- 2:57Speaker 1: has a splash edition for the Dallas Boys. Here. The
- 3:01Speaker 1: name sure has a lot of razzle dazzle. There's definitely
- 3:05Speaker 1: some razzle dazzle to the name von Miller. We von Miller. Oh,
- 3:09Speaker 1: he's a top ten SEC guy all time in NFL history,
- 3:12Speaker 1: which is true. He's I think number nine last I checked,
- 3:15Speaker 1: and a future Hall of Famer check check in Broncos
- 3:20Speaker 1: Super Bowl hero check check check with a winking or
- 3:24Speaker 1: not to the real MVP of that Super Bowl cam
- 3:26Speaker 1: Newton chump on the ball cam. Chump on the ball cam. Oh,
- 3:31Speaker 1: I can't do that, Okay, loser. Now, Unfortunately for von
- 3:36Speaker 1: Miller and the Cowboys, we live in twenty twenty six.
- 3:39Speaker 1: We do not live in twenty fifteen or twenty fourteen
- 3:42Speaker 1: or something like that. We live in twenty twenty six,
- 3:45Speaker 1: and so the actual player von Miller, Eh, I don't
- 3:51Speaker 1: think so, all right, And if you're perfectly honest, it's
- 3:54Speaker 1: not a splash. It's more like some flem. It's just
- 3:58Speaker 1: a little flem at this particular point. And it's the
- 4:01Speaker 1: NFL's version of booking tickets, getting tickets to see a
- 4:08Speaker 1: legendary band like Amfras right and back in the day,
- 4:11Speaker 1: very popular in the old days, and you buy the tickets,
- 4:14Speaker 1: you go out there and you're like, well, there's only
- 4:16Speaker 1: one guy left, this guy Scottian from the group that's
- 4:20Speaker 1: still touring. Well, that's kind of what this is. It's
- 4:24Speaker 1: like just the shell of von Miller, the shell of
- 4:27Speaker 1: von Miller. Like the band Anfras, there's one person left
- 4:30Speaker 1: from the original band that's still on tour with the group.
- 4:34Speaker 1: So Miller is thirty seven at this point, which is
- 4:36Speaker 1: not old in the real world. However, in the NFL,
- 4:39Speaker 1: when you're in year fifteen, entering year fifteen, not ideal.
- 4:44Speaker 1: At this particular stage of von Miller's career, he is
- 4:49Speaker 1: going to be a part time player, a situational pass rusher.
- 4:53Speaker 1: They're going to tell him to go in there and
- 4:55Speaker 1: just attack the quarterback, and that's it. Don't do anything else,
- 4:58Speaker 1: just do that one thing. So you're buying the vintage label, right,
- 5:03Speaker 1: the Chateau Margo. You're getting that. However, it's not actually
- 5:11Speaker 1: vintage wine. It's just lukewarm water in the bottle. It
- 5:16Speaker 1: looks the label says Chateau Margo, and you get oh. Man,
- 5:20Speaker 1: if you're a wine person and a snob, you're like, oh,
- 5:22Speaker 1: that's pretty good. And then you're like, well, no, it's
- 5:24Speaker 1: actually just lukewarm water. That's that's it. So it's just
- 5:29Speaker 1: that's all you've got. I don't want that. That's it.
- 5:31Speaker 1: So now, normally, if you look at how these things work, normally,
- 5:35Speaker 1: the golden rule has always been in the NFL and
- 5:38Speaker 1: in really any of these sports. But if you're an
- 5:40Speaker 1: NFL executive, it's don't pay superstar money for a museum exhibit.
- 5:46Speaker 1: And in this case, to be fair to the Cowboys,
- 5:49Speaker 1: they're not doing that. They're not paying from where your stands,
- 5:52Speaker 1: a one year contract. Like Vaughan was just torny to
- 5:55Speaker 1: play for the Cowboys, and so the Cowboys like, all right,
- 5:57Speaker 1: well you want to play for the Cowboys, We'll give
- 5:59Speaker 1: you a one deal. Your deal and don't know exactly
- 6:03Speaker 1: how much of different reports. Who knows what's actually true?
- 6:06Speaker 1: And no, it's all made up bull crap anyway when
- 6:08Speaker 1: you look at the real money, guaranteed money and fake
- 6:11Speaker 1: money and all that stuff. But either way, for Jerry Jones,
- 6:14Speaker 1: it's like, all right, let me go into the let
- 6:16Speaker 1: me go to the second bedroom on my mega yacht,
- 6:21Speaker 1: and I'll tip that sofa over and I'll have enough
- 6:24Speaker 1: money to pay von Miller. That's it. Now. The only
- 6:26Speaker 1: thing that I really take issue with is, I guess fine,
- 6:30Speaker 1: it's a one year deal. Who cares, it's spare me
- 6:34Speaker 1: the hype. The ticker tape parade for a thirty seven
- 6:37Speaker 1: year defensive player is a part time player. At this point,
- 6:41Speaker 1: the Cowboys did not acquire peak von Miller. Unless somehow
- 6:44Speaker 1: you can get a Dolarean to go eighty eight miles
- 6:46Speaker 1: an hour and go back in time, maybe we've got
- 6:50Speaker 1: something there. You're not getting Unstoppable von Miller. You acquired
- 6:53Speaker 1: a commemorative edition of von Miller at this particular point,
- 6:57Speaker 1: that's what you've got. And so he'll give the Cowboys
- 6:59Speaker 1: if they get ten snaps a game ten snaps, a
- 7:05Speaker 1: game where he actually does something, then oh my god,
- 7:10Speaker 1: like occasionally scares the quarterback Mazeltov. If he can pull
- 7:14Speaker 1: that off, I don't think he can. So just don't
- 7:16Speaker 1: confuse name recognition with rejuvenation. This is not some kind
- 7:22Speaker 1: of rejuvenation clinic. All right. Meanwhile, to Indianapolis we go.
- 7:26Speaker 1: And if you thought the Colts had traded Anthony Richardson,
- 7:30Speaker 1: well guess what. No, no, they still have it. No, no, no, no, no.
- 7:34Speaker 1: The Colts have not been able to find anyone, anyone
- 7:38Speaker 1: who wants to get anywhere close to Anthony Richardson, the
- 7:42Speaker 1: failed draft pick, the last fever dream of the late
- 7:45Speaker 1: jim Irsay before he checked out of this mortal coil,
- 7:48Speaker 1: when he determined, well, no one else did jim Irsay
- 7:51Speaker 1: determine that this guy's worth a top five pick in
- 7:54Speaker 1: the draft when he should have been a developmental six
- 7:56Speaker 1: round pick. But that's what they did. So Anthony Richardson
- 8:00Speaker 1: is still part of the Indianapolis football team. And now
- 8:03Speaker 1: they're saying in Indy, they're like, well, we're going to
- 8:06Speaker 1: probably keep him. We're thinking about keeping Anthony Richardson. Yeah, right,
- 8:12Speaker 1: So somebody named Ed Dobbs were told that is the
- 8:16Speaker 1: assistant to the assistant to the assistant to the assistant
- 8:18Speaker 1: GM Ed Dobbs, and he recently suggested that the way
- 8:24Speaker 1: things are looking right now, it is more likely than
- 8:27Speaker 1: not that the team will keep Richardson and they will
- 8:33Speaker 1: have three quarterbacks on their roster, three of them, not one,
- 8:36Speaker 1: not two, but three quarterbacks capable of playing. He said,
- 8:40Speaker 1: take care of your own team first. That was the
- 8:44Speaker 1: quote from this guy, Ed Dobbs. He pointed out that
- 8:47Speaker 1: last season it was quarterback anarchy in Indianapolis. As you
- 8:52Speaker 1: might remember, Daniel Jones went snap Crackle pop and Torre's
- 8:58Speaker 1: Achilles Richardson was unavailable, and the Colts added Philip Rivers
- 9:03Speaker 1: from the swamp land of Alabama. How would you like
- 9:06Speaker 1: to play quarterback? I know you're almost fifty. How would
- 9:09Speaker 1: you like to play quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts? All right,
- 9:12Speaker 1: so the question on this one. The Colts are now
- 9:16Speaker 1: claiming that they're likely to keep quarterback Anthony Richardson as
- 9:22Speaker 1: the third wheel. As the third wheel? Here are you
- 9:26Speaker 1: are you into this? How are you reading it? I
- 9:29Speaker 1: guess that's the question. How are you reading this? So?
- 9:32Speaker 1: I would advise you to not fall for the head fake,
- 9:35Speaker 1: do not fall for the head fake. Richardson at this
- 9:38Speaker 1: point is covered in cooties. And you know when you
- 9:42Speaker 1: were in the playground back in the day in elementary school,
- 9:44Speaker 1: you did not want to be the person covered in cooties.
- 9:46Speaker 1: You did not want the cooties. And he asked for
- 9:49Speaker 1: a trade. So let's get this here. So Anthony richards
- 9:51Speaker 1: has said, I really don't want to be here. I
- 9:52Speaker 1: would like a trade. Okay, check that box done. So
- 9:55Speaker 1: he wanted a trade, and Indianapolis shopped him for the
- 9:58Speaker 1: last several months around the NFL. Check check right. So
- 10:01Speaker 1: they went around then nobody wanted them, so they said, okay,
- 10:04Speaker 1: you know what we're gonna do. We're gonna put Richardson in
- 10:06Speaker 1: the clearance rack. Okay, good, So you put him on
- 10:08Speaker 1: the clearance track. Check check check right. So he's in
- 10:10Speaker 1: the clears rack. It's like being at the garage sale
- 10:14Speaker 1: and they've got all this stuff out there, and then
- 10:15Speaker 1: there's the clearance rack at the garage sale and nobody's body,
- 10:19Speaker 1: not even for like a seventh round draft pick and
- 10:22Speaker 1: a half eaten burrito. You can't even get that, not
- 10:26Speaker 1: even pocket lint. You can't get in return for Anthony
- 10:28Speaker 1: Richardson at this particular point, no one wants to take
- 10:32Speaker 1: a flyer on him. It's like the garage sale they
- 10:34Speaker 1: had the Richardson's like a nineteen nineties Suzanne Summer's thigh
- 10:39Speaker 1: Master laying around so well, that was popular back in
- 10:41Speaker 1: the nineties, that infomercial, but not anymore. Come on, now,
- 10:43Speaker 1: what are you doing? And so to tell you exactly
- 10:48Speaker 1: how horrific this is in terms of the lack of value,
- 10:51Speaker 1: there are some real stiffs that get moved around the
- 10:53Speaker 1: NFL every year. The league wide valuation of Anthony Richardson,
- 10:57Speaker 1: it says D ANDT do not touch on there. They
- 11:01Speaker 1: are practicing social distancing and masking up when they're in
- 11:06Speaker 1: the room with Anthony Richardson at this particular point. And
- 11:09Speaker 1: yet the assistant to the assistant to the assistant general
- 11:13Speaker 1: manager of the Colts is now selling this sweetheart idea.
- 11:16Speaker 1: They're like, well, we are possibly going to carry three quarterbacks.
- 11:21Speaker 1: It's just smart business. It's just smart business. Now, there's
- 11:25Speaker 1: one bite little problem. There's one little problem. Richardson is
- 11:33Speaker 1: not that guy, pal, He's not that guy. He's just
- 11:36Speaker 1: not And that's the issue here. You can't trust him,
- 11:40Speaker 1: whether it's his health he's had injuries, he had an
- 11:43Speaker 1: eye situation, or his accuracy, which is biblically bad, most importantly,
- 11:49Speaker 1: his heart. It's like the Wizard of Oz going down
- 11:52Speaker 1: the yellow brick road. Down the yellow brick road we go.
- 11:55Speaker 1: And this is the this is the situation the Colts
- 11:58Speaker 1: find themselves in. So his signature moment Anthony Richardson in
- 12:02Speaker 1: the NFL is what It was a game against the
- 12:05Speaker 1: Texans when he tapped out. He said, no, Moss, I'm out,
- 12:10Speaker 1: bye bye, and he took himself out because he was tired. Now,
- 12:15Speaker 1: how would the NFL work if every player who was
- 12:17Speaker 1: a little tired took themselves out of the game. Would
- 12:20Speaker 1: there be any NFL? No. Now, there's a lot of
- 12:24Speaker 1: things that have changed over there. A lot of things
- 12:26Speaker 1: have evolved in the NFL. That is one that is
- 12:28Speaker 1: a no fly zone. You cannot take yourself out of
- 12:32Speaker 1: the game because you're tired. You cannot do it. Can't
- 12:36Speaker 1: do it, don't do it. He did it, And so
- 12:39Speaker 1: I don't buy the hole we might keep him. I'll
- 12:42Speaker 1: believe it when I see it here. And this new
- 12:45Speaker 1: found love for Anthony Richardson by the colts. I have
- 12:49Speaker 1: written down on my scorecard. I wrote down okie doke
- 12:53Speaker 1: that this is in the old okie doke mixed with
- 12:56Speaker 1: a little skullduggery. And so you keep the dead weight
- 13:00Speaker 1: around Anthony Richardson, keep him around there, and the rest
- 13:03Speaker 1: of the NFL will not hold the joint practice. They
- 13:07Speaker 1: will hold the joint laugh. They will go full Nelson
- 13:10Speaker 1: from the Simpsons and point at you and go ha ha,
- 13:14Speaker 1: just like that. All right. Meanwhile, to Detroit we go
- 13:16Speaker 1: where Dan Campbell is an ideas guy. So Dan Campbell,
- 13:20Speaker 1: that's the head coach there. He wants the NFL to
- 13:25Speaker 1: add portable monitors on the sidelines. Sea, yes, he wants
- 13:33Speaker 1: those tablets to have. I guess he wants monitors in
- 13:36Speaker 1: addition to the tablets. And so the argument is that
- 13:39Speaker 1: he wants to be able to see the replays. He
- 13:41Speaker 1: wants to see the TV broadcast, He wants to see
- 13:44Speaker 1: all the different replay angles, arguing that the fans and
- 13:48Speaker 1: the media they have better views of what's going on
- 13:53Speaker 1: on the field often than the coaches do, and so
- 13:56Speaker 1: he would like to change that. Dan Campbell, he raised
- 13:59Speaker 1: the issue the line played last week their first exhibition game,
- 14:03Speaker 1: and there was a play that was of question, and
- 14:08Speaker 1: this is when that came up in conversation. Asked particularly
- 14:13Speaker 1: play evolving an injured player, and Campbell said he hadn't
- 14:17Speaker 1: seen the play clearly because there was really no way
- 14:20Speaker 1: to see the play on the sidelines. He told the reporter,
- 14:25Speaker 1: you get a better view than I do. He said,
- 14:27Speaker 1: coaches currently don't have access to the same instant TV
- 14:32Speaker 1: replays that viewers see at home. All right, So the
- 14:35Speaker 1: question on this one where do you come down? Where
- 14:39Speaker 1: do you come down on the Lions head coach Dan Campbell,
- 14:43Speaker 1: who is advocating he wants portable replay monitors on NFL
- 14:48Speaker 1: sidelines for the head coaches. So now Dan Campbell does
- 14:52Speaker 1: actually have a point here. He does have a point,
- 14:56Speaker 1: and I think we should workshop this and take this
- 14:59Speaker 1: all the way. I think we should take what Dan
- 15:01Speaker 1: Campbell's idea is and then just work shop it out.
- 15:03Speaker 1: The NFL is all about branding, they're all about making money.
- 15:06Speaker 1: Why not, and so we activated the Malard think tank
- 15:10Speaker 1: on this and I think this is a good idea.
- 15:12Speaker 1: I know can't close the deal. Neil's going to give
- 15:14Speaker 1: a thumbs up on this, and Corbyn his kid. So
- 15:16Speaker 1: here's the idea. So the Malard think Tank proposing that
- 15:20Speaker 1: you get a partnership, a brand partnership with Ikea, and
- 15:25Speaker 1: you have a sideline man cave right there on the sideline,
- 15:30Speaker 1: you build a little man cave. It can have wheels
- 15:32Speaker 1: on it, you can move it around. And so you
- 15:34Speaker 1: build a little man cave there with giant monitors, giant
- 15:38Speaker 1: TV monitors. You can have snacks like kettle corn, because
- 15:42Speaker 1: who doesn't love kettle corn? And you've got some truffle
- 15:46Speaker 1: chocolates there because those those are pretty good. And then
- 15:49Speaker 1: right over there you've got a hot tub. Oh, you
- 15:51Speaker 1: don't need a hot tub on the sidelines. Why would
- 15:52Speaker 1: you have out to Well, just because you can get
- 15:54Speaker 1: a hot tub sponsorship. You know. It's like when you
- 15:55Speaker 1: go to the state Fair, they're always trying to sell
- 15:57Speaker 1: you on hot tubs, and it's like, well no, because
- 15:59Speaker 1: people love hot and then the maintenance and all that's
- 16:01Speaker 1: spin in the ass. So anyway, so that's where I am.
- 16:04Speaker 1: And Dan Campbell, the head coach of the Lions. There
- 16:09Speaker 1: he can throw on his silk burgundy jacket, grab a pipe,
- 16:15Speaker 1: grab a pipe and just sit back and put your
- 16:17Speaker 1: sailor's hat on and study the all twenty two, like
- 16:22Speaker 1: you're at the Playboy mansion. Why not? It's goofy and
- 16:26Speaker 1: we were all for it, and what the hell? It
- 16:29Speaker 1: is kind of odd though the coaches do not have
- 16:30Speaker 1: the same visual information that my uncle Mel has. It's
- 16:35Speaker 1: very odd while he's sitting on his couch watching football.
- 16:38Speaker 1: It's strange, but you know what that means. But yes,
- 16:43Speaker 1: so there's another solution. It's more unorthodox, I guess you
- 16:49Speaker 1: could say, so just stop using replay as a security
- 16:54Speaker 1: blanket and emotional support animal and all that. Just stop.
- 17:00Speaker 1: When replay started, it was just to correct the most
- 17:02Speaker 1: egregious plays, the most obviously blown calls. Now it is
- 17:08Speaker 1: morphed into something much different here. It was originally meant
- 17:13Speaker 1: for the obvious blunder that you gotta correct the obvious blunder,
- 17:16Speaker 1: not to babysit micro managers. Okay, so there's a bit
- 17:20Speaker 1: of a difference there, and it's turned into something much
- 17:23Speaker 1: different here. It's like an emotional support animal. And as
- 17:27Speaker 1: we said, you know, security blanket, that kind of thing here.
- 17:30Speaker 1: And so if you're relying on replay, if that's the end,
- 17:35Speaker 1: all be all the replay machine there as you're a
- 17:38Speaker 1: guardian angel to help you make decisions. You're kind of
- 17:42Speaker 1: missing the whole point. Control the controllables. I really see
- 17:45Speaker 1: less replay, not more. I'd like to see less, not
- 17:49Speaker 1: more so. But otherwise, just put a man cave there
- 17:51Speaker 1: and that's it. Get brand sponsorship, knock yourself out, and
- 17:56Speaker 1: eventually some of these coaches just put down the remote control,
- 18:00Speaker 1: coach the game and live with the human element, except
- 18:04Speaker 1: for those most egregious calls.
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- 18:53Speaker 1: No way, no how So the n B A they've
- 18:59Speaker 1: had an investigation into the La Clippers foul play and
- 19:04Speaker 1: they have apparently found no evidence, no evidence that owner
- 19:09Speaker 1: Steve Baumer funneled money through team sponsors and other dummy
- 19:16Speaker 1: groups to pay Kawhi Leonard. What yeah, So if you
- 19:23Speaker 1: didn't see this, perhaps not. The probe centers on whether
- 19:26Speaker 1: or not Kawhi Leonard's twenty eight million dollar endorsement deal
- 19:32Speaker 1: with a now defunct company Aspiration, was actually a mechanism
- 19:38Speaker 1: to circumvent the NBA's salary cap and the many rules
- 19:41Speaker 1: they have in the cap. Now. Investigators also examined allegations
- 19:46Speaker 1: involving additional Clipper sponsors, looking to find evidence that Steve Balmer,
- 19:52Speaker 1: the Microsoft kingpin from Back of the Day, or the
- 19:56Speaker 1: organization secretly directed money towards Leonard in hidden ways, and
- 20:05Speaker 1: according to a report from the Entertainment and Sports Network
- 20:08Speaker 1: out of Bristol, Connecticut, none has been found. Whoa whoa
- 20:14Speaker 1: whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa All right, So that
- 20:17Speaker 1: is a good jumping up point. Let us discuss the question,
- 20:22Speaker 1: how does this latest report that claims the NBA after
- 20:27Speaker 1: over a year, I believe we're pasted a year I
- 20:29Speaker 1: think now has found no no Steve Balmer, Shenanigans with
- 20:35Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard and the no show jobs. How does this
- 20:39Speaker 1: read to you? So I've got trapdoor, waterbed, and al
- 20:45Speaker 1: capone and we'll combine all all of these things together
- 20:51Speaker 1: and we're gonna go abra cadabra.
- 20:53Speaker 4: Hocus pocus is what we're going to do. So number one,
- 20:58Speaker 4: number one, one one, all right.
- 21:08Speaker 1: Stop. So I've determined, after a minutes long dive into
- 21:13Speaker 1: this that the NBA investigating the Clippers. They hired a
- 21:17Speaker 1: two man team, well two people involved here. Their lead
- 21:20Speaker 1: investigator was Helen keller Uh and she handled the main
- 21:24Speaker 1: parts of the investigation. And then they also hired Sergeant Schultz,
- 21:27Speaker 1: which is an old character from a TV show that's
- 21:30Speaker 1: long gone called Hogan's Heroes. And they spent a year
- 21:34Speaker 1: snooping around the Clippers, and they issued a joint statement
- 21:38Speaker 1: and the joint statement said I see nothing, I hear nothing,
- 21:44Speaker 1: I know nothing. That was a statement that's it. Of
- 21:49Speaker 1: course they found no evidence. Now even I am surprised
- 21:53Speaker 1: if this is actually the way this plays out, because
- 21:55Speaker 1: I had heard, and I told you what I had
- 21:57Speaker 1: been hearing, that the NBA really doesn't want to play
- 22:00Speaker 1: the Clippers, because this kind of thing happens not all
- 22:04Speaker 1: the time, but for the top say two percent of
- 22:07Speaker 1: NBA players, they get these kind of deals. It's just
- 22:11Speaker 1: common practice. Nobody talks about it, and it's like the
- 22:15Speaker 1: first rule of fight club. You don't talk about. It
- 22:17Speaker 1: just kind of appens. And they just wanted to avoid
- 22:21Speaker 1: having to punish the Clippers because that would have created
- 22:23Speaker 1: a bunch of headaches and all that. So even that
- 22:26Speaker 1: though I assumed they would give some kind of slap
- 22:28Speaker 1: on the wrist. That's what I assumed here, and I
- 22:32Speaker 1: have learned over the years. You cannot find something if
- 22:35Speaker 1: you've already decided you don't want to find it, so
- 22:38Speaker 1: you just you can't. And the ugly truth is that
- 22:40Speaker 1: these kind of wink wink, nudge nudge side agreements around
- 22:46Speaker 1: the top two percent of star players are not exactly
- 22:49Speaker 1: exotic wildlife in the NBA's big sporty industrial complex. It's
- 22:56Speaker 1: just not And Adam Silver sitting on his big perch
- 23:02Speaker 1: there in Midtown Manhattan and looking out the window, and
- 23:04Speaker 1: he's like, Okay, I got this button, and if I
- 23:07Speaker 1: press the button, it'll open up a trap door and
- 23:10Speaker 1: we will fall down into crazy Town. And I don't
- 23:14Speaker 1: want to go to crazy Town. I want to avoid
- 23:16Speaker 1: crazy Town, the baddest part of town. I don't want
- 23:19Speaker 1: to go. So he decided, Eh, maybe we just keep
- 23:23Speaker 1: that sucker bolted shut and not open that trap door.
- 23:28Speaker 1: Because once you seriously start digging in to the underbelly
- 23:33Speaker 1: around Kawhi Leonard's arrangement, where does the shovel stop. In fact,
- 23:39Speaker 1: there's chatter that the NBA already ruled that sponsors are
- 23:43Speaker 1: allowed to in previous years, they said in previous cases,
- 23:48Speaker 1: the NBA said that essentially sponsors are allowed to pay
- 23:51Speaker 1: players without circumventing the salarycap. So this whole thing, though,
- 23:56Speaker 1: it gives me vibrations of the cheating a one thousand
- 24:02Speaker 1: and two one thousand holes. Yes, remember this, I remember.
- 24:06Speaker 1: So rival teams said, Hey, we're you know, the Athletics
- 24:10Speaker 1: or the Mariners or whoever, and we believe beyond a
- 24:14Speaker 1: reasonable doubt that the team in Houston is cheating and
- 24:17Speaker 1: Major League Basically, I said, okay, this is a very
- 24:19Speaker 1: serious thing. We are going to investigate. We are going
- 24:22Speaker 1: to hire the Keystone cops to go out there and
- 24:24Speaker 1: investigate the team in Houston. So they went out there
- 24:27Speaker 1: and they investigated. Rival teams complained, They looked into it.
- 24:30Speaker 1: Rob Manford man Fraud's band of merry men started sniffing around,
- 24:36Speaker 1: and they investigated, and they said, listen, we did a
- 24:38Speaker 1: full investigation, and we were happy to report everything's good here.
- 24:43Speaker 1: No cheating, Nope, it's all good. Couldn't find the elephant
- 24:47Speaker 1: in the room. Well, Houston was at that time. The
- 24:52Speaker 1: Astros were practically stomping on anything they could to signal
- 24:58Speaker 1: fastball or breaking ball. They had a trash can band
- 25:02Speaker 1: behind the dugout and yet nothing to see here, folks,
- 25:06Speaker 1: nothing to see, please disperse. It was only after a
- 25:09Speaker 1: whistleblower on the team spilled the beans. It was only
- 25:14Speaker 1: after that that the people at Major League Baseball were
- 25:17Speaker 1: forced to open their eyes. Not that they actually punished anyone,
- 25:21Speaker 1: as we saw cheating. A hole is in the Hall
- 25:22Speaker 1: of Fame, tarnishing Cooperstown. This year, the NBA investigated and
- 25:28Speaker 1: I said, well, wouldn't you know it. The NBA investigated
- 25:31Speaker 1: the NBA and determined that the NBA is doing just fine.
- 25:34Speaker 1: They're doing just fine now, Page two. The counter point
- 25:39Speaker 1: on this, The counter point on this. Less than two
- 25:42Speaker 1: hours after the report we just talked about. Less than
- 25:45Speaker 1: two hours after report we just talked about, popped up
- 25:50Speaker 1: that Clippers owner Steve Baumer had been essentially cleared of
- 25:54Speaker 1: any wrongdoing involving Kawhi Leonard. The nb A issued a
- 26:01Speaker 1: prepared statement, a sharp rebuke, all right, saying that the
- 26:07Speaker 1: ESPN story that we've been talking about contained quote, numerous
- 26:11Speaker 1: and significant inaccuracies close quote. The league also pointed out
- 26:18Speaker 1: and noted that it declined to cooperate with ESPN's reporting
- 26:23Speaker 1: and said the facts will become clear once the investigation
- 26:26Speaker 1: is completed. Keep in mind, that's very vague. They did
- 26:29Speaker 1: not give any specifics. You would think if there was
- 26:31Speaker 1: something that was urgently needed to be rebuked, you would
- 26:35Speaker 1: have rebuked it right away. They chose not to do that.
- 26:38Speaker 1: An unnamed league insider calling the possible punishment of Steve
- 26:45Speaker 1: Balmer and the Clippers over sponsor shenanigans, if you will,
- 26:50Speaker 1: as at outrageous overreach and the ruling would contradict previous guidelines.
- 26:58Speaker 1: What we talked about that this has kind of been
- 26:59Speaker 1: an open thing, and the NBA in previous years said, listen,
- 27:03Speaker 1: you do what you gotta do, and we're not gonna,
- 27:05Speaker 1: you know, a buget would look the other way. If
- 27:07Speaker 1: these sponsors want to throw their money away, then okay,
- 27:10Speaker 1: that's that's fine, and and we're we're okay with it
- 27:14Speaker 1: all right. So the question here the nb A. So
- 27:18Speaker 1: the NBA says, the report that the Clippers investigation of
- 27:21Speaker 1: Steve Balmer contains numerous and significant inaccuracies. How much muscle
- 27:29Speaker 1: does this memo from the league office have? How much?
- 27:32Speaker 1: How much does that have? So this is kind of
- 27:36Speaker 1: like you go to the gym. You see those Jim bros.
- 27:38Speaker 1: They're they're flexing in the mirrors there and they have
- 27:43Speaker 1: inflatable muscles. Essentially, what it is like inflatable muscles here,
- 27:47Speaker 1: numerous and significant inaccuracies. Now that sounds pretty menacing, doesn't it.
- 27:54Speaker 1: I mean that does right, just somewhat menacing. But you
- 27:57Speaker 1: know what that means, Uh, the whip they're cracking is
- 28:01Speaker 1: ultimately cool whip. It's delicious cool whip. And here's why,
- 28:05Speaker 1: because the NBA and ESPN are lovers. They are lovers.
- 28:12Speaker 1: They are lovers. That's right, financial water bed. They're in
- 28:17Speaker 1: the water bed together, ESPNABC They essentially if you look
- 28:24Speaker 1: at the relationship here, the ESPN ABC outfit is the
- 28:28Speaker 1: sugar daddy of the NBA, paying around two point six
- 28:34Speaker 1: billion per year for its slice of the basketball pie
- 28:40Speaker 1: the eleven year media rights deal. So that's every year
- 28:44Speaker 1: the ESPEN people cut a check for two point six
- 28:47Speaker 1: billion to the NBA. And ESBN knows where the guardrails are.
- 28:52Speaker 1: They're business partners in the NBA knows who helps pay
- 28:56Speaker 1: the palace. The palace does not pay for itself. Somebody
- 29:01Speaker 1: has to pay for the palace. So Adam Silver can
- 29:04Speaker 1: puff out his chest, mister commissioner from somewhere far out
- 29:08Speaker 1: in the cosmos, out there possible lizard person. So Adam
- 29:13Speaker 1: Silver can can puff out his chest, and then you know,
- 29:16Speaker 1: huff and puff and all this stuff and go crazy
- 29:18Speaker 1: and all that about inaccuracies and whatnot. Here an issue,
- 29:23Speaker 1: sternly warded worded communicate right, just do all that stuff
- 29:27Speaker 1: and wag his finger, just like that, wag his finger
- 29:31Speaker 1: and yell bad network bad bad bad bad bad bad
- 29:34Speaker 1: bad bad bad. But until Silver puts the alleged inaccuracies
- 29:38Speaker 1: that supposedly happened on the table, it is just corporate
- 29:43Speaker 1: corporate chest thumping is all it is. And you can't
- 29:46Speaker 1: have a hat Fields and McCoy's family feud when both
- 29:53Speaker 1: families share the same checking account. They have a joint
- 29:56Speaker 1: checking account. Understand good? All right? Meanwhile, final point to
- 30:02Speaker 1: the pod. To the pod we go some guy named
- 30:08Speaker 1: Pablo Torre. I guess he's a podcast guy, and he
- 30:12Speaker 1: has made a name for himself. We are told just
- 30:17Speaker 1: on this like nobody knew who was. People still don't
- 30:19Speaker 1: really know who he is. He's not really very all
- 30:21Speaker 1: that well, but he's claiming people around him he's famous
- 30:25Speaker 1: now because of this. So this pablotry who just kind
- 30:30Speaker 1: of kept reporting nonsense about this lead investigator, if you will,
- 30:35Speaker 1: lead investigator on the Clippers story, now he's in the crosshairs.
- 30:40Speaker 1: If this report is accurate. This is not good. You
- 30:45Speaker 1: talk about Mortal Kombat. So pabulatory for months and months
- 30:49Speaker 1: has accused the Clippers of bull crap. No show job
- 30:56Speaker 1: for Kawhi Leonard twenty eight million, dollars no job endorsement
- 31:01Speaker 1: deal Leonard received from Aspiration. He parlayed this Pablo Torre
- 31:05Speaker 1: did into winning, believe it or not, the twenty twenty
- 31:09Speaker 1: six Pulleitzer Prize in Audio Reporting. I didn't even know
- 31:14Speaker 1: that was a thing. Apparently it is, and on his
- 31:17Speaker 1: Little Friends and Family podcast. So the question, with the
- 31:23Speaker 1: NBA close to clearing the clippers over the Kawhi Leonard
- 31:27Speaker 1: no show job, which Pablo Torre has spent months and
- 31:31Speaker 1: months yapping about, where does this leave the podcaster Pablo
- 31:36Speaker 1: Torre if this goes the way it is headed. So
- 31:40Speaker 1: I recommend, and I think I'm the voice of reason
- 31:43Speaker 1: on this, that Pablo Torre should get the Reggie Bush treatment.
- 31:45Speaker 1: You might remember Reggie Bush had the Heisman Trophy taken
- 31:49Speaker 1: away from him, and so why not repossess the Pulitzer Prize,
- 31:55Speaker 1: return the Pulitzer, give it back, give it back, now,
- 31:59Speaker 1: give it back. Because if the NBA's official position is
- 32:03Speaker 1: that there was no salary Caps circumvention, then what exactly
- 32:09Speaker 1: on God's Green Earth did Pablo Torre win the Pulitzer
- 32:12Speaker 1: Prize Award for Creative Accounting fan fiction? Is that? What
- 32:18Speaker 1: do they have a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is that no,
- 32:20Speaker 1: they don't. Okay, So this thing is starting to look
- 32:24Speaker 1: and I'm gonna date myself. But there's a famous moment
- 32:26Speaker 1: in television history. It was Heraldo Rivera was behind it,
- 32:31Speaker 1: and it was in Chicago, a famous basement underneath a
- 32:36Speaker 1: hotel in downtown Chicago. There the legendary TV special which
- 32:40Speaker 1: even though it's been forty years, people still bring this up,
- 32:44Speaker 1: the mystery of al Capone's vault. And it was a
- 32:47Speaker 1: big deal. And I think they found a couple of
- 32:50Speaker 1: old soda cans and some rats and some cocka roaches
- 32:54Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So months of hype involving the Clippers,
- 32:58Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard Salarycaps convention, A number of you had your
- 33:01Speaker 1: pants down, you were so excited, you were all waiting
- 33:03Speaker 1: for this to happen, and just breathless anticipation, just absolutely
- 33:08Speaker 1: breathless anticipation. Cameras rolling America watching, and they opened the
- 33:13Speaker 1: vault and there was capital b bupkus, capital b bupkus.
- 33:18Speaker 1: So Pablo Torre at this point he turned the Clippers
- 33:22Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard twenty eight million dollars no show aspiration deal
- 33:27Speaker 1: into the Zubruder film of basketball, examining every little kernel,
- 33:34Speaker 1: every frame like he was cracking Watergate. Oh my. And
- 33:39Speaker 1: after all of that, the NBA says, essentially, this report
- 33:44Speaker 1: by ESPN, which is a business partner of the NBA,
- 33:46Speaker 1: says there's nothing to see here. There's nothing. There's just nothing.
- 33:51Speaker 1: So either the league investigation is a whitewash and Pablo
- 33:56Speaker 1: Torri exposed something real, or the Pulitzer Committee handed out
- 34:03Speaker 1: journalism's shiny gold star for the al Capone vaults of
- 34:10Speaker 1: NBA scandals. So Pablo Tory finds out, we are told
- 34:15Speaker 1: is the name of his little show there, And it's
- 34:17Speaker 1: more like Pablo Tory found out there was nothing in
- 34:21Speaker 1: the vaults, nothing at all.
- 34:23Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
- 34:25Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
- 34:31Speaker 2: Mailor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
- 34:35Speaker 2: to get to the top?
- 34:38Speaker 1: Probably not as sume as right now, Welcome in ARKANSESSSS.
- 34:42Speaker 1: We have Jamar who is in St. Petersburg, Florida. Hello Jamar, Welcome,
- 34:50Speaker 1: what's going on? What's going on? You're gonna play our game?
- 34:53Speaker 1: How exciting is this? Jamar, it's amazing already. All right, buddy,
- 34:59Speaker 1: well good you and are you working right now? What
- 35:03Speaker 1: do you got going on over there? Yeah, I'm working.
- 35:05Speaker 3: I'm your Loka.
- 35:06Speaker 1: And how the bush beer?
- 35:08Speaker 3: This?
- 35:08Speaker 2: Shoot?
- 35:08Speaker 1: All right? The beer man? How about that? He's got
- 35:11Speaker 1: all the brew, all the bruce keys. All right, you
- 35:13Speaker 1: want to play with Coop? You can play with me
- 35:16Speaker 1: or Lorena.
- 35:18Speaker 5: Play with you? Man?
- 35:19Speaker 1: All right, we're in it, Jamar, the beer man, I
- 35:23Speaker 1: love it, all right? Hold lot of sex, buddy, and
- 35:25Speaker 1: we have who do we have? We have Joey in Amarillo, Texas. Hello, Joey.
- 35:31Speaker 2: Hey, what's up?
- 35:32Speaker 5: Ben?
- 35:32Speaker 1: Welcome in joe You're driving, You're driving around and get
- 35:35Speaker 1: a lot of feedback, which.
- 35:37Speaker 5: I'm not sure you're doing.
- 35:38Speaker 1: Door dash, oh, door dash? All right, Well, we don't
- 35:41Speaker 1: have a lot of time, so we got to get
- 35:42Speaker 1: too the game. Other way to ask you a bunch
- 35:44Speaker 1: of questions and put you on hold for a second.
- 35:46Speaker 1: You're gonna play with Cooper Loop and let's get this
- 35:48Speaker 1: party started. What are the categories here? Coop Loop? Please?
- 35:52Speaker 1: All right?
- 35:52Speaker 5: This is the Edward Norton edition of Maus Amount of Money.
- 35:55Speaker 5: He turns fifty six years old, today. Yep, the he's
- 36:00Speaker 5: our fight club, Moonrise Kingdom, the Incredible Hulk and a
- 36:04Speaker 5: complete unknown.
- 36:07Speaker 1: Jamar, you were on first. Which category would you like?
- 36:11Speaker 1: That's incredible, Hope, Incredible Hulk.
- 36:13Speaker 5: All right, and Joey, which category would you like? Fight club,
- 36:18Speaker 5: Moonrise Kingdom or a complete unknown?
- 36:23Speaker 2: Fight clubs?
- 36:23Speaker 1: Okay, Michael, all right, we are going first, and what's
- 36:27Speaker 1: our category here at Coop You've been number three? The
- 36:28Speaker 1: Incredible Hulk, I believe. Are these athletes are here? We go,
- 36:32Speaker 1: Jamar the beer Man. These athletes are or we're all
- 36:36Speaker 1: freakishly strong. Are you ready? All right? Forty five seconds
- 36:40Speaker 1: on the clock. We're on our way. Go the Star
- 36:43Speaker 1: for the Lakers with Kobe Bryant, the center for the Lakers. Yes,
- 36:48Speaker 1: a great defensive tackle for the Rams. He retired. He
- 36:53Speaker 1: might come out of retirement to play again. Here Donald, Yes,
- 36:56Speaker 1: running back for the Raiders. He played baseball for the
- 36:59Speaker 1: Royals in the nineteen eighties. Yeah, look at you. Slugger
- 37:03Speaker 1: for the Florida Marris he was traded to the Yankees.
- 37:06Speaker 1: He's kind of old now designated hitter. Still hits a
- 37:09Speaker 1: lot of home runs. He's always hurt. No running back
- 37:13Speaker 1: for the Cleveland Rounds. Kind of like a flub if
- 37:19Speaker 1: you will here?
- 37:21Speaker 2: What? No? What?
- 37:23Speaker 1: What do vines?
- 37:25Speaker 5: There?
- 37:25Speaker 1: Sounds like just ruined the engine? You trying? I didn't
- 37:30Speaker 1: try to cheat. I should get like an extra eighty one,
- 37:33Speaker 1: kind of like flub? Are you kidding me? Tomorrow?
- 37:36Speaker 5: When is that?
- 37:36Speaker 1: Okay? Jamar? You didn't get it right anyway? Right, I
- 37:40Speaker 1: didn't get it right exactly, so we don't get penalized.
- 37:42Speaker 1: Screw you groop? Should jerk, isn't he? Jamar? All right?
- 37:46Speaker 5: Joe all right, Joey, we've got fight club.
- 37:50Speaker 2: Uh.
- 37:51Speaker 5: These athletes have all been in notable fights.
- 37:54Speaker 1: Are you ready, Joey? All right?
- 37:57Speaker 5: Forty five seconds, let's begin. Defensive player of the Year.
- 38:00Speaker 5: He's on the Cleveland Browns. He hit a quarterback with
- 38:02Speaker 5: his helmet.
- 38:04Speaker 1: What's that? What's his full name?
- 38:07Speaker 2: Oh? Oh my god?
- 38:11Speaker 1: Oh bad? All right, we're gonna skip that. Uh.
- 38:15Speaker 5: This guy started the malice at the Palace. Is he
- 38:18Speaker 5: changed his name later in his career?
- 38:20Speaker 1: Yes? Uh.
- 38:21Speaker 5: This guy was a picture for the Red Sox. He
- 38:23Speaker 5: had a Jerry curl. He threw Don Zimmer to the ground.
- 38:26Speaker 5: Uh Mar, Yes, this guy was the best wide receiver
- 38:30Speaker 5: in Texans history before DeAndre Hopkins.
- 38:34Speaker 1: Yes, this guy choked his coach. Uh PJ. Carlissimo.
- 38:41Speaker 5: Yes, let's go the catrimn You only got sixty years.
- 38:46Speaker 1: All right, all right, we're up, Jamar. We have what
- 38:49Speaker 1: are we at? Moon Rise Kingdom and a complete unknown?
- 38:55Speaker 3: You're complete unknown?
- 38:56Speaker 1: Okay, forty five seconds. These athletes game stars out of nowhere.
- 39:01Speaker 1: First and last name. He is the star for the
- 39:04Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets, nicknamed the Joker. Uh native loc I love
- 39:11Speaker 1: the mis pronouncian, greatest show on turf. Quarterback for the
- 39:15Speaker 1: Saint Louis Rams. Yes. Uh. He was with the San
- 39:20Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs as a six man key player in the
- 39:23Speaker 1: glory years. So no another guy off the bench, all right?
- 39:27Speaker 1: How about for the Knickerbockers. He was a guard, missed
- 39:30Speaker 1: a lot of three point shots in the nineties and
- 39:32Speaker 1: had a name. What oh you you're you're game?
- 39:42Speaker 5: The game we win.
- 39:47Speaker 1: That's proof of loop ruined the game for a beer man.