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Hour 1 - A Cavalier Attitude · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Conference Finals? It's all over Nana Nana, Nana na na
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Speaker 1: hey good by thirty seven point beat down Knickerbockers into
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Speaker 1: the NBA Finals first time since the nineties. How do
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Speaker 1: you react to James Harden Rubbers stamping his playoff performance
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Speaker 1: for the Cavaliers as good? We'll break that down. Also,
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Speaker 1: coach Kenny Atkinson said the Calves took a step forward
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Speaker 1: this postseason. Is that how it looks from the Catbirds seat?
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Speaker 1: And what do you think of the Calves giving the
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Speaker 1: here in our number one. A cavalier attitude.
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Speaker 1: do 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 go
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Speaker 1: for the old sweeperoo in the Madison Square Garden of Ohio,
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Speaker 1: or so it seemed again Spider Mitchell and the Cadavers,
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Speaker 1: and they lived up to their nickname the Cadavers in
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Speaker 1: a large way. If you were not watching, perhaps not,
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Speaker 1: you miss nothing, absolutely nothing. Don't worry, we watched that.
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Speaker 1: You are not half to It's are good mits for
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Speaker 1: the day. A balanced attack by the Knickerbockers. Carl Anthony
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Speaker 1: Towns kiddikat Carl Anthony town said nineteen points, fourteen rebounds,
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Speaker 1: o g and Anobi with seventeen points, and the Knickerbockers
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Speaker 1: they actually didn't just beat Cleveland, they spit roasted the
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Speaker 1: Cavaliers by thirty seven points. Thirty seven point win by
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Speaker 1: the Necks, they complete the four game sweeperoo. As Cleveland
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Speaker 1: is out. The Knickerbockers have advanced to the NBA Finals
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Speaker 1: for the first time since nineteen ninety nine. That was
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Speaker 1: before social media, before Gmail, before pretty much everything, the
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Speaker 1: last time the Knicks made the NBA Finals. Now, the
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Speaker 1: better story is in the losing locker room as we
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Speaker 1: all all say no, da da da goodbye to the Cavaliers.
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Speaker 1: They're are. So James Harden my favorite punching bag on
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Speaker 1: the Cleveland basketball team. James Harden added again and another
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Speaker 1: sinker by 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 think
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Speaker 3: coming here was just a piece to fulfill whatever needs
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Speaker 3: to be fulfilled, and you know, defensively, being extremely solid offensively,
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Speaker 3: you know, getting got shots and fitting into a system
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Speaker 3: 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. Can
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Speaker 1: we play that part again, just that part of the
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Speaker 1: See we have that in the beginning part here.
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Speaker 3: Uh, I think I did pretty good.
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Speaker 1: What does that mean? Is that a snake? It's like
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Speaker 1: like a king cobra, James Harden, King played again, King Cobra,
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Speaker 1: James Harden?
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Speaker 3: Uh, I think I did?
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Speaker 4: What is that?
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Speaker 1: Who does that? He did it?
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Speaker 5: What is that?
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Speaker 1: I don't even know what that is? He's trying to
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Speaker 1: get a kiddicats. Seriously, have you ever done that in
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Speaker 1: your life? I've never done that? What is that? I
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Speaker 1: don't plan? Again? What is that? I don't know what
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Speaker 1: that is?
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Speaker 6: What is this?
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Speaker 1: The I think I did? What is that? The sign
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Speaker 1: I'm lying? All right? So this is a good jumping
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Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question how do you
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Speaker 1: react to James Harden as you heard there rubber stamping
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Speaker 1: his playoff performance for the Cavaliers. So I've got birthday confetti,
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Speaker 1: French foreign legion, and water supply, and we will combine
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Speaker 1: all of these things together and you and I are
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Speaker 1: going to go spot on the mark is what we're
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Speaker 1: going to do. So A you talk about being a
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Speaker 1: few whiskers short of where you need to be, the
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Speaker 1: lack of awareness, the word obtuse comes to mind when
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Speaker 1: you talk about James Harden. Now, I know the moment
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Speaker 1: when things went sideways for Cleveland, and that moment was
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Speaker 1: one hundred and ten days prior to getting swept out
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Speaker 1: of the Eastern Conference Finals. That was February fourth, and
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Speaker 1: that is when the Cleveland basketball team made the splash move,
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Speaker 1: or so they thought the splash move. They went out
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Speaker 1: and got the aforementioned James Harden from the people's team,
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Speaker 1: the Clippers. That was supposed to be a splash. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: it was a puddle, not a big wave, not some
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Speaker 1: kind of typhoon. It was a puddle. James Harden the puddle,
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Speaker 1: and he certainly set the tone. I'll give Harden credit.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't in Ohio very long, but he set the tone.
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Speaker 1: And when he says I think I did pretty good
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Speaker 1: when he says that under his leadership, his tutelage, the
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Speaker 1: James Arden experience, they played Cleveland like they had been
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Speaker 1: harpooned with a special tranquilizer gun and the entire team there.
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Speaker 1: You talk about things that go bumpety bump in the
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Speaker 1: night for the kidavers. Here we're talking bedwetting, teeth grinding,
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Speaker 1: night terrors and more, all of that taking place. Adding
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Speaker 1: James Harden to win a championship is like saying, Hey,
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Speaker 1: I need a locksmith. You call the locksmith and the
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Speaker 1: locksmith shows up and locks himself out of his own van. Well,
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Speaker 1: what's no good, Or a better analogy would be like, hey, listen,
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Speaker 1: why don't we go skydiving? And hey, my kid made
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Speaker 1: a parachute made out of birthday confetti. Well, that's likely
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Speaker 1: not going to get you safely to the ground, the
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Speaker 1: birthday confetti parachute. But the kid made it, and I
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Speaker 1: don't want to let the kid down, So let's jump
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Speaker 1: out of the plane. Why not? Who says, no? What
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Speaker 1: the hell? So James Harden? Who yet again, he's got
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Speaker 1: this great. He's like a chameleon, James Harden. He goes
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Speaker 1: from Afar. He looks like a star from Afar. He
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Speaker 1: looks like a star James Harden. And then he evaporates
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Speaker 1: when you get close to him or he gets close
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Speaker 1: to your team. He evaporates at the worst possible time.
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Speaker 1: So that this disaster is also on spite of Mitchell
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Speaker 1: who advocated publicly to get the Beard at age thirty
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Speaker 1: six to come in. And then the GM Kobe Autman
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Speaker 1: I believe is the guy's name who runs basketball ops
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Speaker 1: who signed off on the deal for the Cleveland basketball team.
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Speaker 1: They felt they fell face first right into the booby trap,
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Speaker 1: and it's the trust me trap. Trust me Bro. It's
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Speaker 1: the trust me trap. Don't fall for the trust me trap,
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Speaker 1: trust me Bro. That's what happened here. Cleveland fell for
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Speaker 1: the oldest lie in pro bouncy ball that this time
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Speaker 1: it'll 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. Seriously,
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Speaker 1: I am jealous that James Harden's been able to pull
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Speaker 1: this off. It's wild everywhere he's gone. He's thirty six,
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Speaker 1: he's old by sports terms, and he's still getting these opportunities.
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Speaker 1: Is absolutely crazy. The Cavs did not miscalculate. They did
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Speaker 1: not miscalculate the talent. They miscalculated human nature. It's a
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Speaker 1: bat job by them. Harden evaporates every single time. You're lucky,
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Speaker 1: even get one or two good games out of him
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Speaker 1: in a playoff series, a couple of average games, and
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Speaker 1: then he will absolutely kill you in several games. That's
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Speaker 1: how that works there, and 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 love 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 asked postgame if the twenty twenty sixth season
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Speaker 1: was a success, and well, rather than me give you
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Speaker 1: the quote, here's the Calves coach asked to break down
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Speaker 1: the Calves progress this season.
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Speaker 7: Thing I was, I'll turn it positive. Though we took
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Speaker 7: a step. We took a step. You know, this is
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Speaker 7: kind of how this works. You have to you have
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Speaker 7: to keep climbing. We are going in, you know, obviously
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Speaker 7: a positive direction. You know fell short. You know, there's
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Speaker 7: no bigger motivator right to get to the next level.
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Speaker 7: You know, I think of this all season and development
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Speaker 7: and how we got to the sacrifice we're going to
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Speaker 7: need to you know, make to get to the next level.
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Speaker 7: But I'm proud of this group in terms of how
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Speaker 7: they how they fought through adversity. You know, one to
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Speaker 7: two Game seven, we took we took a step. I
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Speaker 7: think we took a step mentally from a mental toughness
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Speaker 7: point of view. I'm going to kind of lean on that.
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Speaker 7: And again, we don't know there's another you know, none
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Speaker 7: of the two steps really you gotta take if you
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Speaker 7: you know, that's that's the ultimate goal.
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Speaker 1: Did I watch a different series? Like 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 Meebol's
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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 lead in game one, they got into
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Speaker 1: the fetal position, they started sucking their thumb collectively and
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Speaker 1: holding their Blankye, that's what the Calves did. And this
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Speaker 1: is progress, my fat ass. That's not progress. They basically
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Speaker 1: joined the French Foreign Legion. They enlisted, they saluted, and
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Speaker 1: they surrendered. That's what they did. And whatever good will
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Speaker 1: they gained in the playoffs earlier to me, it all
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Speaker 1: went out the door in the Eastern Conference finals. Here,
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Speaker 1: like monopoly, they competed for forty minutes. Here, there's forty
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Speaker 1: spaces on a standard Monopoly board, and the team from
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Speaker 1: Cleveland competed for forty minutes. That's it? And how did
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Speaker 1: I come to that conclusion. So they were up. They
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Speaker 1: were up twenty two points in Game one, so they
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Speaker 1: had twenty two point leading Game one, about eight minutes
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Speaker 1: to go in the game. They then at that point
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Speaker 1: underwent a metamorphosis. They turned into a clearance rack inflatable
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Speaker 1: tube men, you know those twoe men outside stores to
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Speaker 1: try to get you to come in and spend your
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Speaker 1: money and all that stuff. Yeah, they got outscored. I
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Speaker 1: did the Malord math on this from the eight minute
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Speaker 1: to go mark a little less than that eight minutes
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Speaker 1: or so to go in game one to the end
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Speaker 1: of the series. The New York basketball team quit. They
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Speaker 1: gave up, or the Cleveland basketball team gave up against
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Speaker 1: the New York basketball team, is what I'm trying to say.
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Speaker 1: They were outscored the Cadavers by ninety nine points, ninety
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Speaker 1: nine the ninety nine outscored by ninety nine points from
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Speaker 1: being up twenty two. They lost that game, outscored forty
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Speaker 1: four to eleven in Game one the rest of the way,
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Speaker 1: but overall from that point forward outscored by ninety nine points.
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Speaker 1: And the signature moment, the signat moment James Harden falling
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Speaker 1: into quicksand Kenny Atkinson, the aforementioned Kenny Atkinson, who is
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Speaker 1: so indoctrinated into the cult of the nerds that he
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Speaker 1: actually said after game three, analytically we have one two
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Speaker 1: out of three in the expected score. Analytic would have
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Speaker 1: fired his ass after that game, I would it's a
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Speaker 1: rinky ding franchise of the Cavaliers. I would have fired
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Speaker 1: the coach. You talk about this. I was having a
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Speaker 1: converse or something in the hallway. It might have been Harmon,
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Speaker 1: and we were talking about how like when you bring
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Speaker 1: in these analytic people, the nerds from Ivy League schools,
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Speaker 1: and you mix them with meatheads coaches like Kenny Atkinson
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Speaker 1: or really like that Bright, they just take all of
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Speaker 1: the 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 crapway,
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Speaker 1: So there you go. Bozo the clown would like his
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Speaker 1: red foam nose back and his oversized shoes, Kenny, can
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Speaker 1: you make sure to get those back? Thank you Kenny
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Speaker 1: Atkinson there bragging about expected score and saying that you
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Speaker 1: accomplished something after you got swept and your team gave up.
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Speaker 1: That is the nerdiest losing flex in NBA history, at
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Speaker 1: least recent NBA history. Now, last words, So there was
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Speaker 1: a lot of celebrity influence in Cleveland. Of course, none
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Speaker 1: of them from Cleveland. They all had to be brought
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Speaker 1: in from other places, and almost all of them came
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Speaker 1: in from the New York Tri state area. I bring
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Speaker 1: this up because they had the brigade of fanboys. How
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Speaker 1: about Spike Lee sixty nine years old, He's the king fanboy.
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Speaker 1: He had his knee pads on for the Knicks. He
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Speaker 1: was ready to go in one orange, one blue. Good
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Speaker 1: old Spike Lee at age sixty nine, right there at
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Speaker 1: the Rocket Arena in Cleveland. It was not smooth Saley.
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Speaker 1: Nick's super fan. Fat Joe, Fat Joe the rapper. He's
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Speaker 1: old used to be big back in the day. So
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Speaker 1: Fat Joe said, the Cavaliers took the tickets away he
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Speaker 1: had purchased to sit court side for Game four. Say
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Speaker 1: what Fato appeared on something called NBA today and what
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Speaker 1: that is in Cleveland? He said, that unprompted. He was
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Speaker 1: not asked about this. He said that the cavalier took
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Speaker 1: the cavalier ticket department took away his tickets because they
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Speaker 1: didn't want Knickerbocker fans sitting that close. Now, peeple saw
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Speaker 1: a bunch of celebrities. I saw celebrities on TV. He said, thought, wow,
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Speaker 1: that's well. The cavaliers confirmed it's true. Fat Joe was
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Speaker 1: not lying. Fat Joe was telling the truth. The cadavers
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Speaker 1: confirmed they absolutely catapulted Fat Joe from his court side seat.
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Speaker 1: Cleveland said that playoff court side seating is governed by
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Speaker 1: a specific agreement that prohibits the resale or transfer of
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Speaker 1: tickets in the front rows without approval. So get your
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Speaker 1: fat ass out of here, fat Joe said the cavaliers.
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Speaker 1: All right, So the question what do you think of
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Speaker 1: the calves giving the old boot to Fat Joe? And
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Speaker 1: he was not alone. There were some other celebrities that
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Speaker 1: also got the boot, the New York celebrities from court side.
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Speaker 1: So this is the most small market, okay, most small market,
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Speaker 1: small minded, small energy move that you can possibly do.
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Speaker 1: When this happens in rinky ding towns. This is what
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Speaker 1: they do and so Cleveland's just proving yet again that
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Speaker 1: they're not really a big town when they do things
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Speaker 1: like this. It's embarrassing. I got friends who are in Cleveland.
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Speaker 1: I feel bad for my friends in Cleveland. What are
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Speaker 1: you doing? The Cavaliers were so utterly terrified by some
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Speaker 1: seless celebrities. They are all a bunch of old dudes
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Speaker 1: who are Nick celebrity fans mostly, And so the Kes
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Speaker 1: are like, we're gonna run a gated community in the
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Speaker 1: first couple of rows. Gonna run a gated community court side. Okay,
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Speaker 1: that makes sense, said nobody, said nobody. You're scared of
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Speaker 1: fat Joe wearing a Nick shirt. Really, that's what you're
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Speaker 1: afraid of. Now, while technically this crap is allowed, I
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Speaker 1: can't sit here and say that mister Dolan, who owns
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Speaker 1: the Knicks, doesn't do the same bull crap. That's that aside,
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Speaker 1: all right. It's emasculating. It is absolutely emasculating. You know
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Speaker 1: you are rattled when your defensive game plan is to
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Speaker 1: ban New York celebrities. That that is the move here
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Speaker 1: and Cleveland, where the playoff strategy is no visiting fans
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Speaker 1: and you have to wear the damn shirt. You know,
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Speaker 1: they have a rule at the playoff games. You have
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Speaker 1: that's your uniform with those stupid shirts they give out,
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Speaker 1: you have to wear the shirts. That's another sign. And
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Speaker 1: it's like all this stuff written by a hall monitor
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Speaker 1: 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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21:37
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Speaker 1: and any celebrity that budet to you know you can't
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Speaker 1: do that. Oh my god, loser, loser, loser, should have
21:58
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22:02
Speaker 1: if the Rams did that. They had the NFC Championship
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Speaker 1: game a couple years ago at home. It was essentially
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Speaker 1: It's a home game, and they lost, and the Rams
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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, right, and bumping out celebs like, when
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22:32
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22:36
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25:23
Speaker 1: conversation about James Harden as he continues to amaze in
25:29
Speaker 1: big playoff games and It is the most consistent thing
25:33
Speaker 1: we have in sport. There are ups and downs, there
25:37
Speaker 1: is very little that is consistent. This is rock solid
25:41
Speaker 1: consistency from James Harden. When the game's on the line,
25:47
Speaker 1: James Harden does not perform. He has not done that
25:51
Speaker 1: at all. As the New York Knicks win by thirty
25:54
Speaker 1: seven in Game four of the Eastern Finals, the Knicks
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Speaker 1: win the series four games to none. They're in the
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Speaker 1: finals for the first time since nineteen ninety nine, eleven
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Speaker 1: straight wins. All the Nick propaganda is making its way around,
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Speaker 1: and all of that is great. It means nothing for
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Speaker 1: the NBA Finals at all at all. Bupkis. It's nice
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Speaker 1: that you had your little streak and all that. It
26:18
Speaker 1: does not mean much if you do not get or
26:20
Speaker 1: done at the very end. So we'll see if they
26:23
Speaker 1: will get it done at the very end. And we
26:26
Speaker 1: are closing in on some more agony for our friends
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Speaker 1: in sacrament I wonder if stuck in Sacramento still listening here,
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Speaker 1: as the Sacramento Kinks are now two games away. Mike
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Speaker 1: Brown is in the NBA Finals, so he's in. The
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Speaker 1: former Kings coach and the San Antonio Spurs one of
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Speaker 1: their better players is Dearon Fox, who for a long
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Speaker 1: time was in Sacramento. And so one of them is
26:52
Speaker 1: plausibly going to win the championship if they both play.
26:55
Speaker 1: Obviously one of them won the championship. And last year
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Speaker 1: you had Tyrese Haliburton who did make the finals. And
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Speaker 1: remember these the Kings were trying to decide should we
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Speaker 1: keep Dearon Fox or Tyrese Halliburton, and they decided, let's
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Speaker 1: get rid of all of them. That seems like a
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Speaker 1: good idea. What could possibly go wrong? Yes, what could
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Speaker 1: possibly go wrong? I don't know. I don't know what
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Speaker 1: could go wrong on everything? Everything? Yeah, all right, it
27:22
Speaker 1: is the Ben Maler Show. Let's go to the phones,
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Speaker 1: and we start out with a man cashing a golden ticket.
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Speaker 1: We say hello to Dave and Houston, who's in the
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Speaker 1: leadoff chair with his golden ticket. Hello, da Cats, I'm.
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Speaker 4: Hello man. I wanted to tell you this is mikea
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Speaker 4: firwell call. Oh no, you know, like rock and roll bands,
27:49
Speaker 4: they have farewell appearances, or like sheer.
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Speaker 1: Oh, okay, you'll be back tomorrow. He'll be back tomorrow,
27:55
Speaker 1: of course, I'll be back, okay.
27:57
Speaker 4: Business man I know.
27:58
Speaker 1: The drill absolutely. Of course.
27:59
Speaker 4: Yes, about James Harden, I remember when he played for
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Speaker 4: the Rockets in a playoff game. It's the only time
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Speaker 4: I actually yelled at him personally through my radio when
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Speaker 4: he blew a crucial layup in a playoff game. So, yes,
28:20
Speaker 4: I remember James Harden. But I want to see this
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Speaker 4: about James Harden in one area, he is a legend
28:28
Speaker 4: and maybe a record holder. In one night at a
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Speaker 4: local strip club, he spent one point two million dollars
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Speaker 4: making it rain.
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Speaker 1: No, I don't know. I don't believe that you think. No,
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Speaker 1: I don't believe they actually were. No, there's no way
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Speaker 1: one point two million.
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Speaker 4: I don't they actually retired is Jersey?
28:49
Speaker 1: Well, I do remember that. I know they retired as
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Speaker 1: Jersey at one of the one of the newdi bars
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Speaker 1: in Houston. One point two million, though, that seems.
28:57
Speaker 4: That is a bit harder. Anyway. I got this off
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Speaker 4: a smart speaker. You never know, okay, what your smart
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Speaker 4: speaker is if it's going to tell you the truth.
29:06
Speaker 4: But that's impressied.
29:09
Speaker 1: Well, let's go with it. As long as somebody on
29:11
Speaker 1: the internet said it through a smart speaker, it's probably true.
29:14
Speaker 1: Probably true.
29:15
Speaker 4: I have a question about your history at Fox Sports Radio.
29:20
Speaker 4: You you Alt's had her producer named Miranda. Is that her?
29:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, Miranda Marino with the pink headphone. She was for
29:28
Speaker 1: several years.
29:28
Speaker 4: I remember her on another show, it was the Andy
29:32
Speaker 4: Dean Show at the time, I don't know.
29:35
Speaker 1: Said she went and did that, she did some like
29:37
Speaker 1: political stuff and yeah, yeah, she.
29:39
Speaker 4: Was signal at the time and she said when I date,
29:44
Speaker 4: I'm going strictly for the money. And I thought, this
29:47
Speaker 4: is correct. This is a smart girl. Yeah, she and
29:51
Speaker 4: uh Lorena may end up owning Fox Sports Radio one day.
29:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if if that happened. Well, listen,
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Speaker 1: I've told the story here, Dave. When I was starting
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Speaker 1: out here in my early days in media, I there
30:06
Speaker 1: was a woman who was like the like the locker
30:09
Speaker 1: room reporter for the Lakers, and she did stuff at
30:12
Speaker 1: Fox Sports and you know whatever. She's a good looking woman, fine,
30:16
Speaker 1: and she ended up marrying the guy from Amazon. She's
30:20
Speaker 1: like the one of the richest women in the world.
30:23
Speaker 1: And just because she married married married a really rich guy.
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Speaker 4: So are you talking about Bezos?
30:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, she married Bezos? Oh my god, Yeah, yeah, she was.
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Speaker 1: She was just doing dopey interviewed how did it feel?
30:35
Speaker 1: Interviews after Laker games, and then she ended up Lauren
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Speaker 1: Sanchez is her name.
30:39
Speaker 4: Of it was working for Jeff. So, yeah, what are
30:45
Speaker 4: you gonna say? Now? As far as when attractive women
30:49
Speaker 4: UH want to with with kids, single women want to
30:53
Speaker 4: discourage certain persistent suitors. Now this this will work almost
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Speaker 4: every time. Just have your child pay very badly in
31:03
Speaker 4: front of the guy and he will run away and
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Speaker 4: want to give himself a vasectomy with a dull butter knife.
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Speaker 1: He will run to the hills. Yes, he says, all right,
31:12
Speaker 1: well though, very good stuff, David. Enjoy your retirement. It's
31:15
Speaker 1: in order to talk to you. Enjoy your retirement.
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Speaker 4: Go away, Thank you man.
31:18
Speaker 1: There's a day where he goes only he knows the
31:21
Speaker 1: great day there from Houston, a fan favorite. So my
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31:28
Speaker 1: Postgame Donovan Mitchell, Spider Mitchell, I'm giving us some great audio,
31:35
Speaker 1: as he issued a statement to the Cavalier fan base.
31:40
Speaker 1: Take a listen. Here's a Donovan Mitchell and his thoughts
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Speaker 1: on what happened in the Eastern Finals. I'm sorry for
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Speaker 1: the city of Cleveland for us for it to be
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Speaker 1: like this in the sweet Mike, that's ass, like you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying about, you know? He quoted. He
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Speaker 1: quoted the Tennessee Titans quarterback cam Ward, who famously said
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Speaker 1: during the Titan season last year, we asked that's ass,
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Speaker 1: that's ass. Hey, hey, Spider Mitchell, what did you think
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Speaker 1: of James Harden's performance? Now, your coach and I want
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Speaker 1: to be honest. Please, Spider Mitchell, please be honest here.
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Speaker 1: So Kenny Atkinson said after Game three that despite losing
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Speaker 1: all three games, you guys analytically were ahead in the series.
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Speaker 1: What do you have to say to your coach? That's
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Speaker 1: as okay? Now, if you would like to play the
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Speaker 1: Spider Mitchell game, can we keep this all night, lorenk Okay,
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Speaker 1: we'll play the Spider so anything at all. And there's
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Speaker 1: nothing funnier than out of context questions for Spider Mitchell
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Speaker 1: of the Cleveland Cavaliers. There and Spider, is it true
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Speaker 1: that you think the Knickerbockers are going to go on
32:49
Speaker 1: and win the championship? Okay, well that's not that's not
32:53
Speaker 1: nice to say that. Okay. Anyway, it is the Ben
32:56
Speaker 1: Malor Show. If you would like to play the Spider
32:58
Speaker 1: Mitchell game, you're more than wellcome to do that, and
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Speaker 1: we press on time now for the who Am I? Games?
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Speaker 1: A lot of games we'll go to baseball for the
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Speaker 1: who am I?
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Speaker 1: So, despite a three hundred and fifty million dollar contract,
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Speaker 1: who I have the lowest batting average in the National
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Speaker 1: League among qualified hitters As we sit here post holiday
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Speaker 1: it's early Tuesday most places still late Monday night in
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Speaker 1: among all qualified hitters. Who Who am I? That is
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Speaker 1: play of the day. Let's go to the phones, though,
34:37
Speaker 1: and we'll say hello to whoopee Pie Blair. Who's in Maine. Hello,
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Speaker 1: whoopy Pie Blair. Welcome. What's going on?
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Speaker 4: I was kind of harassing a girl on TikTok, a
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Speaker 4: woman on TikTok.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's not very nice. Why were you harassing a
34:51
Speaker 1: girl on TikTok? That's not very nice to do. You
34:53
Speaker 1: shouldn't do that, you know. I'm just saying it's not nice.
34:58
Speaker 4: Man. And the Eagle fan man, I give it her
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Speaker 4: craps because I don't Dodger fan.
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Speaker 1: You're not You're not a No, you're not a Dodger fan.
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Speaker 1: You're you. You told me that you you told me
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Speaker 1: you were a Red Sox fan. You told me that
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Speaker 1: you were a Cardinal fan. You never said Dodgers boy,
35:26
Speaker 1: I remember that. What your connection is terrible? What are
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Speaker 1: you doing? Are you hanging out with sasquatching way? We're
35:35
Speaker 1: getting getting crap. We're getting crazy Blair. We're getting crazy Blair.
35:40
Speaker 1: We're getting crazy Blair. Go ahead, Blair, go ahead, Blair.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't remember.
35:49
Speaker 1: Your phone sucked. I'm gonna put you your phone's terrible, dude.
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Speaker 1: I can't we can't get any drops out of your
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Speaker 1: phone call because your phone sucks. Did you not, Blair?
35:58
Speaker 1: Did you not charge your phone?
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Speaker 4: What you know? I have? I have what you call
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Speaker 4: my wage.
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Speaker 1: I can't put you on there. I can't understand what
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Speaker 1: you're freaking saying because you found secks. That's all we
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Speaker 1: need is a clear phone line. That's it. What's wrong
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Speaker 1: with you? You tease me call up here, you say,
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Speaker 1: goofy crap, and I can't even understand what you're saying.
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Speaker 1: It's a bad job by you. Do We have the
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Speaker 1: play of the day ready to go, all right, the let'
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Speaker 1: see are we gonna play a Cavs highlight?
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Speaker 4: No?
36:32
Speaker 1: No, I think we'll play a Knickerbocker highlight as the
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Speaker 1: new York Knicks get her done. Og and a Noby
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36:44
Speaker 1: by hard and came loose to Bridges Runts in the
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Speaker 1: slouned the Knicks are bull dozing the Cavaliers right now.
36:53
Speaker 1: And then I just see a smile from og. Oh
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Speaker 1: he had seventeen og n and Obi and the New
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Speaker 1: despite a three hundred and fifty million dollar contract, I
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Speaker 1: have the lowest batting average in the National League among
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Speaker 1: all qualified batters. Who am I? That is the question?
37:52
Speaker 1: What is the answer? And just Josh says, I am
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Speaker 1: a New York met and Well in Guardina is going
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Speaker 1: that have lost nine in a row. King Roy says
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Speaker 1: Prince Fielder is the guy. Who else? Chad Epperson, Red
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Speaker 1: Buddy Biancallana from the eighty five Royals guests by mister
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Speaker 1: Late Night Drug tester? Who else do we have? Page down?
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Speaker 1: Mister Irrigation say it is c J. Stroud. That is
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Speaker 1: the answer. Who else do you have? A Matt Chapman
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Speaker 1: guest by Eileen in San Francisco. Yeah, he's been bad.
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Speaker 1: A lot of those guys have been bad. Mark de
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Speaker 1: Walker says you are Big Ben's poor New York City
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Speaker 1: Analog Alis is the great Mookie Betts is the correct answer?
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Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Page Dann Sean in the
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Speaker 1: Valley the Sun says Tim Federovich Catcher, that's an interesting name.
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Speaker 1: Podcast Jay or Jay Dot podcast Guy Bugs Bunny without
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Speaker 1: your San Diego Padres Manny Machado batting one seventy worse
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