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Hour 1 - Stars Not So Bright · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: on this Tuesday, the twenty seventh day of May, the
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Speaker 1: last Tuesday show for the month of May twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 1: It's all about pro Bownsie ball. How do you explain
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Speaker 1: the diminishing returns of Anthony Edwards who took only one
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Speaker 1: shot the first twelve minutes of that game last night
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Speaker 1: Minnesota would lose? Also, how do you juxtapose how Oklahoma
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Speaker 1: City played with SGA after getting their doors blown off
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Speaker 1: in the previous game and the Wolves are now on
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Speaker 1: the brink of extinction? Is this series over? Is this
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Speaker 1: series over? We'll talk about that and more right now here.
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Speaker 1: It is our number one. Oh, we've heard over the
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Speaker 1: years of the stars shine brightest and big games, big opportunities,
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Speaker 1: well not always not so much. Welcome in the beginning
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Speaker 1: hour is from the playoff game on the holiday Monday night,
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Speaker 1: a national holiday in America, Moral Day, and some pro
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Speaker 1: bouncy ball. Not a good one. Not a good one. Now,
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Speaker 1: I admit I have no skin in the game on this.
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Speaker 1: I don't obviously, we talk about it doesn't matter who
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Speaker 1: plays in these games. We come in here and we
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Speaker 1: break them down. But there is just no juice at
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Speaker 1: all in this series there just isn't my God. And
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Speaker 1: it continued again on a Monday night. Not a blowout,
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Speaker 1: but not exactly a game that you thought Minnesota was
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Speaker 1: going to win at the end. And so our lead
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Speaker 1: is from the Land of ten thousand Lakes. And as
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Speaker 1: we have pointed out in previous episodes of the show,
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Speaker 1: that is just a marketing term. There are actually eleven
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Speaker 1: eight hundred and forty two lakes in Minnesota that are
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Speaker 1: ten acres or more. But people love round numbers, so
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Speaker 1: it sounds better to put on the license plate the
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Speaker 1: Land of ten thousand Lakes. It doesn't sound as good
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Speaker 1: if you say the Land of eleven eight hundred and
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Speaker 1: forty two Lakes. It just doesn't have the same Rasmataz,
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Speaker 1: so they go with the Land of ten thousand Lakes. Nevertheless,
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Speaker 1: that was the playground for game number far between the
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Speaker 1: Thunder and the Wolves. In a series that has been
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Speaker 1: one blowout after another blowout, this was a pivot point game.
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Speaker 1: A pivot point game. It was a two one series
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Speaker 1: going in so Minnesota. They win this game and it's
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Speaker 1: now a best of three series. We square the books up,
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Speaker 1: Mono Amano eye to eye, and here we go, and
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Speaker 1: how did that turn out? Well, hopefully you did not watch.
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Speaker 1: We did for you. It's our public service, it's our
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Speaker 1: good mist of the day. And so the newly crowned
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Speaker 1: recently as of a few days ago most valuable player
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Speaker 1: as shay jogis Alexander forty points, ten rebounds, nine assists,
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Speaker 1: a partridge in a pear tree as Okac snapping back
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Speaker 1: and bringing the hammer down, goes the hammer. After getting
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Speaker 1: a forty two point shalaking over the weekend, they come
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Speaker 1: back and beat the Minnesota tim Burwels six your final
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Speaker 1: in game four, and so that's where we are three
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Speaker 1: to one, and using the mal on this, the team
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Speaker 1: from Oklahoma needs one more win. They can close it
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Speaker 1: out back in the dust Bowl. They're close out Game
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Speaker 1: five on Wednesday. They do that and it's onto the
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Speaker 1: NBA Finals. But the better story here is in the
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Speaker 1: losing locker room, and so that is where we will
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Speaker 1: direct our focus the losing locker room as we discuss
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Speaker 1: the question for the esteem panel here, how do you
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Speaker 1: explain the diminishing returns of Anthony Edwards of the Timberwolves.
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Speaker 1: And you can sit here and break it down, and
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Speaker 1: we normally do the blame pie. And it's rather obvious,
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Speaker 1: like there's not a lot of debate here. Julius Randall
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Speaker 1: gets an assist, but the headliner, mister I dominate. I'm
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Speaker 1: the man. Anthony Edwards was not the man at all.
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Speaker 1: So let us discuss how do you explain Anthony Edwards
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Speaker 1: and the diminishing returns in this particular performance. So my
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Speaker 1: thoughts on this, I've got state farm, cool mint, and saloon,
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Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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Speaker 1: we are going to make a delicious, juicy Lucy which
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Speaker 1: is really good, much better than the performance of the
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Speaker 1: basketball team through much of this game. But Heysten, the
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Speaker 1: story here, don't bury the lead moment. The story in
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Speaker 1: this game is the rising star, Anthony Edwards, the headliner.
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Speaker 1: And these playoff games or opportunities, they're launching pads to
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Speaker 1: go up into the heavens of basketball chatter and have
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Speaker 1: people lick your toes and all that if you play well.
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Speaker 1: And so here's Anthony Edwards, who've been dazzling people for
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Speaker 1: most of the season and certainly earlier in the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: has had some big moments here and now he finds
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Speaker 1: himself in the slump at the time you cannot slump,
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Speaker 1: which is like, right here, what are we doing so
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Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards, we enjoy watching a play. He's obviously a star.
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Speaker 1: How big a star? How bright a star? That's open
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Speaker 1: to interpretation, that's opening to debate. Yet again, though he
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Speaker 1: looked rattled with a capital R. He looked rattled with
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Speaker 1: capital R here, and that was not the moment to
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Speaker 1: do that. That was not the game to do that,
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Speaker 1: That was not the situation to do that, and that
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Speaker 1: was not the performance you give your team. But he did.
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Speaker 1: He did it. He was five of thirteen from the floor,
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Speaker 1: did not even shoot more. I think only took a
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Speaker 1: couple of shots in the first half. He won like
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Speaker 1: the first ten to eleven, twelve minutes something like that.
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Speaker 1: That was like ten minutes without taking a shot in
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Speaker 1: the game, which I didn't play in the NBA. I
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Speaker 1: don't think that's ideal. I don't think that's ideal. Sixteen points,
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Speaker 1: five turnovers for Anthony Edwards. That is a chicken feathers performance.
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Speaker 1: I can't say what I'd like to say, so instead
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Speaker 1: I will substitute the word I would like to use
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Speaker 1: is an S word, but I will instead use the
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Speaker 1: word feathers. So it's a chicken feathers performance there by
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Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards. Now, so we thought, hey, this is a
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Speaker 1: chance you even up the series here, best of three.
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Speaker 1: You win this game. Man, you're in really good shape.
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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you're the Cape Crusader. Right, you
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Speaker 1: can go out there. You're the Cape Crusader. But that
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Speaker 1: was not the version of Anthony Edwards you got. Instead,
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Speaker 1: he was what a decoy for much of this game?
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Speaker 1: A decoy unacceptable. And the commercial which gets shown a
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Speaker 1: million times during these basketball games is the State Farm commercial.
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Speaker 1: That was appropriate because you had Anthony. Originally, this guy's
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Speaker 1: the Cape Crusader out there, and no, you're it's like
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Speaker 1: getting Baitman when you wanted the protection of Batman, and
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Speaker 1: that's what they got. They got Baitman. They didn't get Batman.
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Speaker 1: And man, what a night. You're supposed to put your
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Speaker 1: cape on, go out there and fly around and all that,
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Speaker 1: and man, instead the Minnesota a counterfeit version and just
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Speaker 1: look like a brain frog. Usually what happens if you
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Speaker 1: go by the book, We've been doing this for a
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Speaker 1: couple of minutes over the years, and so usually when
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Speaker 1: a player plays that pathetically, there'll be some kind of
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Speaker 1: phantom injury that they will chalk it up to when
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Speaker 1: the series ends. Well, he was dealing with so and so,
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Speaker 1: and it would have killed seven of ten players, but
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Speaker 1: he stayed and played. They'll make some kind of bull
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Speaker 1: crap excuse. He just looked like his mind was wandering.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe he's got some more kids on
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Speaker 1: the way we don't know about. He's certainly very prolific
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Speaker 1: in that area as well. I don't know what's going on.
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Speaker 1: But he was pressing and did not get the job done.
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Speaker 1: And you know, he was bragging to the historians in
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Speaker 1: La that he had the big D and did not
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Speaker 1: look he looked like he had more of a micro
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Speaker 1: D in this game here, not a big D, a
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Speaker 1: micro D. And the moment he was small, he was small, passive,
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Speaker 1: way too passive, spectator like spectator like here, And so
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Speaker 1: there you go, no rhyme or reason why that would
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Speaker 1: happen in this particular game. But he was there, and
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Speaker 1: then he wasn't. I was there, then he wasn't. Just
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Speaker 1: a spectator, very passive and not a compelling lead character
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Speaker 1: at all. And then you've got Julius Randall the yin
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Speaker 1: to the yang and well he does not get as
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Speaker 1: much crap oldok because he's not as big a deal
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Speaker 1: in the universe of basketball. Joyous Randalls showing everyone why
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Speaker 1: he keeps changing teams. And a couple days ago there
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Speaker 1: was a question that was asked about, Wow, he's arrived.
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Speaker 1: Now he's proved the doubters wrong. Well, methinks you spoke
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Speaker 1: too soon. The regression to the mean water seeks its
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Speaker 1: own level, and also extreme outcomes are followed by more
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Speaker 1: moderate or in this case, more normal ones, as this
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Speaker 1: is the player that we have seen in the past
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Speaker 1: from Julius Randall. This is the enigma. This is the
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Speaker 1: guy that looks really good and then goes out there
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Speaker 1: and vomits all over himself. Writing the vomit comment one
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Speaker 1: of seven from the floor for Julius Randall, he had
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Speaker 1: five points. He was a five for five, five by five,
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Speaker 1: five points, five turnovers, so very impressive and way to go,
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Speaker 1: Way to go. That was a manure like performance. Now
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Speaker 1: on the other side, the winning locker room, which is
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Speaker 1: not as good as story. How do you juxtapose Okase
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Speaker 1: and the way they were able to play with SGA.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of letters there you got OKAC and
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Speaker 1: then SGA needs more vowels. But that's that's where we are.
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Speaker 1: So this was a Listerine cool mint performance. After suffering
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Speaker 1: from halatosis in that game three, really bad breath, they
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Speaker 1: get their mojo back in a large way. Here they
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Speaker 1: went a wall in game three, and when you compare
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Speaker 1: and contrast, when you can compare and contrast the way
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Speaker 1: the Thunder played in game three where they just quit,
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Speaker 1: they did the thing that was gutless Okase Championship possible
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Speaker 1: team quit in a playoff game. They did. They gave up.
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Speaker 1: It's just wild to me, it's it's just nuts, but
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Speaker 1: they did. And when you look at that and compare
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Speaker 1: it to where we are right now, where they didn't
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Speaker 1: give up. I was in the game, they played with
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Speaker 1: the lead most of the game. It makes you wonder.
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Speaker 1: Those are the kind of nights where you're like, what happened?
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Speaker 1: Like it's one thing to lose by twenty, but to
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Speaker 1: lose by forty you got to put work into losing
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Speaker 1: by forty. So what kind of funny business was going on?
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Speaker 1: I don't get either way. On this particular night, while
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Speaker 1: ant Man on the Minnesota side was drowning in the soup.
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Speaker 1: You had Sga shay Yogis Alexander out there who was cooking,
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Speaker 1: controlling the game for the most part, the merchant of doom,
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Speaker 1: the merchant of doom and made mostly the right decisions,
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Speaker 1: put up big fantasy stats and all that stuff, and
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Speaker 1: played the way you thought your star player was gonna play.
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Speaker 1: Minnesota star player did and play like that, obviously. And
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Speaker 1: so that is where we are. And so the thunder
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Speaker 1: who gave up in Game three, now they come back,
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Speaker 1: they win again. And are they good for basketball? No,
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Speaker 1: they're not. They're boring. They're not good for talk radio.
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Speaker 1: They're not good for the conversation Oklahoma City. They're good
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Speaker 1: at basketball, But in terms of the conversation around it,
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Speaker 1: there's no theatrics there. There's nothing that really just moves
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Speaker 1: the needle. They're an efficient team, they come at you
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Speaker 1: in waves. It's just not entertaining to talk about. There
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Speaker 1: is nothing really that compelling. Sga is pretty boring, and
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Speaker 1: you go down the list. I mean, that's where we
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Speaker 1: are all right now. Last word, so the Wolves are
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Speaker 1: on the brink of extinction. The Timberwolves are on the
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Speaker 1: brink of extinction. Is this series over at three to one,
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Speaker 1: is it OvR over? So it certainly feels over. Technically
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Speaker 1: it's not. They have to play another game and there
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Speaker 1: will be another game that is broadcast coming up back
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Speaker 1: in Oklahoma. If this were a film for the Timberwolves,
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Speaker 1: if it was a film, it would be called Timberwolves
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Speaker 1: the Western Collapse. It's a sequel. Actually, it's a sequel
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Speaker 1: to last season. You might remember when the Mavericks with
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Speaker 1: Fat Luca, we're able to beat Minnesota. That was in
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Speaker 1: five games Dallas one of the first three. A little
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Speaker 1: different this year because it was two to one and
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Speaker 1: Minnesota has shot to end up tying the series as
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Speaker 1: opposed to last year it was three to one and
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Speaker 1: then they lost Game four. But it's a deja vus
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Speaker 1: situation where it's highly unlikely that the Wolves are going
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Speaker 1: to come back in this series. Now technically can they sure?
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Speaker 1: I mean technically they could, right, Minnesota can claw back
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Speaker 1: into this. You and I both know that you have
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Speaker 1: to scratch and you have to push, and you have
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Speaker 1: to have that determination, that target determination. And are they
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Speaker 1: the type of team that is willing to get into
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Speaker 1: the mud neck deep into the mundy? It doesn't appear
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Speaker 1: that way it does. I mean, you couldn't even get
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Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards to show up and lock in in a
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Speaker 1: game that would have tied the series up at two two.
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Speaker 1: He just decided, for whatever reason, did not perform. And
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Speaker 1: I should have gotten him a bucket of popcorn point
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Speaker 1: early in the game. My god. So the other issue
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Speaker 1: here is the saloon. And that's the other issue because
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Speaker 1: it's the last chance saloon. And again it goes back
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Speaker 1: to how much fight are they willing to put in here?
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Speaker 1: And you have no wiggle room at this particular point.
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Speaker 1: It's like the NCAA tournament, single elimination. Now the rest
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Speaker 1: of the way in this series for Minnesota, and it's
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Speaker 1: going to take perfection for three consecutive games. It really
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Speaker 1: is one game, and then you have to do it
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Speaker 1: again and again, and you also need a voodoo doll
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Speaker 1: would help, Like a good voodoo doll, like a twisted
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Speaker 1: ankle here or a sprained a knee ligament over there.
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Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, like things flip around,
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Speaker 1: like things get much different, and things change around quite
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Speaker 1: a bit. And I know I'm not going popped Achilles.
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Speaker 1: We've already had a couple of those who were not
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Speaker 1: doing that, but de pendulum can swing that direction, but
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Speaker 1: you have to have the fight. And I have not
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Speaker 1: seen any real evidence here based on what I just
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Speaker 1: saw a few hours ago, that Minnesota's got that fight
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Speaker 1: in him. I just don't I don't see it. If
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Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. I heard there's going to
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Speaker 1: be lots of food. Oh good, Well that's that's good.
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Speaker 1: Well I'll have to eat no fasting. I'll have to
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Speaker 1: enjoy these no fasting, no fasting, I'll be I'll be partaking, yes,
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Speaker 1: although generally Lorena at the mallor meet and greets, there's
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Speaker 1: a you know, very social. I'm an introvert, but I'll
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Speaker 1: be social for the night and then so you know
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Speaker 1: what I eat, because then a chicken finger eating competition
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Speaker 1: could do that. Do we have any really like hearty eaters.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like we have a hearty
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Speaker 1: audience that knows how to every one of these I've
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Speaker 1: been to, there's at least one person that can throw
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Speaker 1: down a massive amount of food.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: See I could probably do one to two chickens stas. Oh,
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Speaker 1: come on, that's that's pathetic. You know one of those
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Speaker 1: food competition eaters, Well, those are professionals, and I don't
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Speaker 1: know that we want to do that for liability reasons.
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Speaker 1: I'm sick because we've done that on the show. Years ago.
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Speaker 1: We had a hot dog eating contest with Big Sexy
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Speaker 1: against my board op and the people at Major League
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Speaker 1: Eating brought in a paramedic in case there was a
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Speaker 1: medical emergency because there's choking. There's a choking hazard when
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Speaker 1: you do competitive eatings. This is not that easy. Keep
21:27
Speaker 1: the water on hand, you got it, dunk. There was
21:29
Speaker 1: a radio promotion where somebody, you know, the drinking contest
21:33
Speaker 1: where how much water can you hold down? And somebody
21:35
Speaker 1: died right they didn't use the restroom. Well there's if
21:39
Speaker 1: you drink too much water, you're done. That's it. Game over,
21:43
Speaker 1: everything in moderation. Anyway, Malart meet coming up on Thursday.
21:46
Speaker 1: We began here with the Western Conference Finals. A clunker,
21:52
Speaker 1: an absolute clunker. Yet again, I did have some sound.
21:55
Speaker 1: I didn't see this, but I wanted to play this.
21:57
Speaker 1: So Anthony Edwards, who was not only a basketball player,
22:02
Speaker 1: he was terrible and by most accounts, I don't know
22:04
Speaker 1: anyone that thought he played well. I don't know anyone
22:06
Speaker 1: thought well, that was a good performance by Anthony Edwards.
22:09
Speaker 1: And so Anthony Edwards, he was commenting about his performance
22:14
Speaker 1: and he had a very interesting perspective on how he
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Speaker 1: played in that game. Take it was I don't look
22:20
Speaker 1: at it like I struggled or he struggled. It just.
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Speaker 3: They had a good game plan making us get off
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Speaker 3: the ball. Especially for me, man it was superan gaps.
22:29
Speaker 3: I made the right play all night. So I don't
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Speaker 3: really look at it like I struggled. I didn't get
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Speaker 3: enough shots to say I struggled. So that's that might
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Speaker 3: be how you guys look at it. But yeah, I
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Speaker 3: don't struggle.
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Speaker 1: Oh it just I made the right way, all right.
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Speaker 1: So Anthony Edwards in a little community I called the Nile,
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Speaker 1: which is good. That's nice. That's outstanding. So you play
22:51
Speaker 1: like garbage and I don't look at it like I struggled.
22:55
Speaker 1: That's good. Just don't do anythy stand out there. That's
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Speaker 1: the way to go. That is the way to approach it. Femi,
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Speaker 1: the number one Uber East driver in Minnesota and proud
23:06
Speaker 1: Timberwolves fan, says ben did Michael Jordan ever score less
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Speaker 1: than ten points and a half? Well, it's conceivable he
23:14
Speaker 1: did at some point. We don't remember that. The Washington Wizards,
23:18
Speaker 1: he probably did. We go back and look, they only
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Speaker 1: kept track of that starting in nineteen ninety seven, so
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Speaker 1: before nineteen I I mean, most of Jordan's career was
23:28
Speaker 1: before nineteen ninety seven, So you'd have to go way
23:31
Speaker 1: back and dig through box scores and all that. Absolutely, Bill,
23:38
Speaker 1: who's your Bill writes in, says, have a great broadcast.
23:44
Speaker 1: A lot of work for the team. We're not broadcasting
23:47
Speaker 1: from Vanpoover. We're just hanging out. No, no, no, we thought
23:51
Speaker 1: about it. We're just going to get hammered on Canadian
23:53
Speaker 1: alcohol and food. And we thought about it and then
23:58
Speaker 1: would have cost the company money, so that that was
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Speaker 1: its n A on the money. Anything that costs the
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Speaker 1: company money, they are on the overnight. That does not happen.
24:06
Speaker 1: So no, no live broadcast from Vancouver. Unfortunately, ferg Dog
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Speaker 1: writes in with a non sequitur. He says, if there
24:14
Speaker 1: was any question who the it team of LA was,
24:17
Speaker 1: we now have our answer. Chris Taylor is an Angel
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Speaker 1: CT three, fortifying the Halo roster. The Angels are poised
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Speaker 1: for a deep playoff run. We love you, Chris, signed
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Speaker 1: fer Dog a love note from Fergie. He's very excited.
24:35
Speaker 1: And I thought Chris Taylor was right where he was
24:38
Speaker 1: with the Dodgers in his Angel debut. Yeah. Worked out
24:41
Speaker 1: well today, Yes, wearing his number three jersey. It's c
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Speaker 1: T three three times three. Chris Taylor playing center field
24:51
Speaker 1: for the Halos, and he went out there with a
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Speaker 1: solid over over three and the Angels, who did have
24:59
Speaker 1: brief lead early. I actually watched this game because there
25:02
Speaker 1: wasn't much on late and the basketball game was boring me.
25:05
Speaker 1: So one nothing Angel lead until that fourth inning and
25:09
Speaker 1: then it all went to hell. As the enigma Johann Mancata,
25:16
Speaker 1: who's not a very good baseball player, but people thought
25:18
Speaker 1: he was going to be good, and they thought he
25:21
Speaker 1: was going to be great for the Red Sox, and
25:22
Speaker 1: then they Red Sox traded him. He was the big
25:25
Speaker 1: player in the Chris Sale trade, if I remember correctly.
25:27
Speaker 1: And then he sucked with the White Sox and now
25:30
Speaker 1: the Angels like, oh no, no, so many you know,
25:32
Speaker 1: ten years ago when this guy was like a teenager,
25:34
Speaker 1: thought this guy was gonna be good. So we're gonna
25:37
Speaker 1: keep but throw his ass out there every day and
25:39
Speaker 1: he can suck for us like he sucked for the
25:41
Speaker 1: White Sox. Why not. I was gore to the phones.
25:45
Speaker 1: And we'll start out with a verified show legend. And
25:49
Speaker 1: he is a senior member of the Malin Militia. He
25:52
Speaker 1: holds down the fourth the bureau we have in Memphis, Tennessee.
25:56
Speaker 1: Big Daddy is in the air everywhere. Hell oh big Daddy, Yes.
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Speaker 4: Sir, say hello to all my fans and all my constituents. Hey, man,
26:06
Speaker 4: is there a thing that if you don't call your show,
26:09
Speaker 4: you got the band? Because I heard what the name
26:12
Speaker 4: of Uh uh that guy that always called Poppy's not
26:17
Speaker 4: his name? Uh he's the one from New York City.
26:21
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, real talk, real talk?
26:24
Speaker 4: He called another show?
26:25
Speaker 1: Really? Oh is that right? Why we've not he's not
26:27
Speaker 1: called our show? Way? That cheating bashard? What shutting he call?
26:33
Speaker 1: What shutd he call?
26:33
Speaker 4: The guy that comes home? Is the guy that comes
26:36
Speaker 4: on on certain nights that you're not there and real
26:39
Speaker 4: talk was on there? Man? That's what is that?
26:41
Speaker 1: Right? That dirty bastard? Are you serious? He's dead to me?
26:47
Speaker 1: Real talk is dead to me. No more real talk.
26:51
Speaker 1: I'm done with real talk.
26:54
Speaker 4: I know you'ren't supposed to drop dimes, but I never
26:56
Speaker 4: see him.
26:57
Speaker 1: I ain't worried about You're not worried about it. And
26:59
Speaker 1: you can you yeah, listen, you you could tell you
27:01
Speaker 1: know he's a fake. He's a fake tough guy New York,
27:04
Speaker 1: fake tough guy. You're from Memphis, man, that's where real
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Speaker 1: people are, Memphis.
27:07
Speaker 4: What Yeah, let me tell you how he's gonna lie.
27:09
Speaker 4: Hes gonna start and studying your action when you started
27:11
Speaker 4: and start. That's how people laugh. Yeah, he called this
27:14
Speaker 4: other guys show Jody and I heard?
27:17
Speaker 1: Is that right? Ain't man? I thought he was a friend. Hey,
27:22
Speaker 1: I got enough.
27:23
Speaker 4: If you listen to the whole show, what you get?
27:26
Speaker 4: You had anybody able to listen to the whole boy?
27:27
Speaker 1: No, no one. There was one person, but he had
27:30
Speaker 1: a heart attack. Stanley listened to the whole show. And
27:33
Speaker 1: that's what you get a heart attack if you hear
27:35
Speaker 1: the whole show. Yeah, your blood pressure will go up,
27:38
Speaker 1: you feel the shivers. It's not good for your health
27:41
Speaker 1: to hear the whole show. Nobody wants to hear the
27:43
Speaker 1: whole show.
27:44
Speaker 4: No, you don't want to shake to get that follow then? Man?
27:46
Speaker 4: But yeah, man celebrating the holidays?
27:49
Speaker 1: Oh good, all right? What are we celebrating with? What
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Speaker 1: are we What are we drinking?
27:52
Speaker 4: Yeah? Myself, me, myself, and I know I don't do
27:54
Speaker 4: no drinking. I'd like to puffuff.
27:57
Speaker 1: I understand, Puff Puff. He's the puff daddy right there.
28:00
Speaker 4: You had to watch their drink because you don't know
28:02
Speaker 4: what they eave in there.
28:03
Speaker 1: You know, I understand what the puff? You got nothing
28:06
Speaker 1: to worry about there? Yeah, I got you? All right?
28:09
Speaker 4: We want you back.
28:10
Speaker 1: Now, we'll be back. As long as customs allows us back,
28:14
Speaker 1: we'll be back.
28:14
Speaker 4: So yeah, you can't get back.
28:18
Speaker 1: I don't know, Lorena. You know you're already packed though, right, Lorena,
28:23
Speaker 1: you're already packed, right, you're ready to go. Everything, everything's
28:26
Speaker 1: packed away perfectly. Bat Okay, nothing is packed. I have
28:29
Speaker 1: nothing pack. I will pack. I will pack an hour
28:33
Speaker 1: before I go to the airport. I will I will
28:34
Speaker 1: pack everything. Right, That's right. That's how men. That's what
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Speaker 1: men operate. That's how men travel. Damn right, that's right.
28:42
Speaker 1: We got that you know exactly, And if you need
28:46
Speaker 1: anything then you can buy it there or whatever. If
28:48
Speaker 1: you need something exactly, all right, underwear a well even
28:52
Speaker 1: then sometimes you go commando. All right, thank you, all right,
28:55
Speaker 1: there's all right, the great the big Daddy checking it.
29:00
Speaker 1: So we had rhythmic chanting. I love rhythmic chanting. We
29:04
Speaker 1: had some rhythmic chanting, a pretty good rhythmic chant I
29:09
Speaker 1: gotta tip the cap to the Timberwolf. Fans. Don't know
29:12
Speaker 1: if this was designed by some sports I feel like
29:15
Speaker 1: these things usually start on sports radio and then the
29:17
Speaker 1: crowd all kind of gets into it. But let's take
29:20
Speaker 1: you back to the arena Target Center last night, just
29:23
Speaker 1: a few hours ago, Game four Oklahoma City and Minnesota,
29:27
Speaker 1: and shaeh jogis Alexander there, the MVP of the NBA,
29:33
Speaker 1: and he was just serenaded by the fans. Take a list. Yeah,
29:48
Speaker 1: if you make that out it, you know, I maybe
29:51
Speaker 1: not on the radio. They were chanting, trying real hard
29:54
Speaker 1: to figure out what they were saying. They were channing,
29:56
Speaker 1: free throw merchant again, free throw merchant. Listen you hear
30:03
Speaker 1: it now? Yeah, yeah, I said it, and there it is.
30:14
Speaker 1: He was at the foul line and they were they
30:16
Speaker 1: were giving the rhythmic chanting there and it was solid.
30:21
Speaker 1: I did get a couple of emails from people complaining
30:24
Speaker 1: about the broadcast, and they wanted me to rant about
30:27
Speaker 1: Richard Jefferson, but I couldn't tell you what he said.
30:30
Speaker 1: I don't listen. When I see Doris Burke on television,
30:33
Speaker 1: I hit the mute button, so I don't know. He's
30:34
Speaker 1: right next door. So I'm sure she's a lovely lady.
30:38
Speaker 1: My apologies to her, but I just I can't handle
30:40
Speaker 1: her broadcasting. So I don't watch the I don't have
30:43
Speaker 1: the audio. I have the game on, but I don't
30:45
Speaker 1: have the audio. Well, I mean reality, I mean we
30:48
Speaker 1: all have. People don't like me and they don't listen
30:50
Speaker 1: to this show because I think I suck. I so
30:52
Speaker 1: that's fine, but you suck. I like what I like
30:57
Speaker 1: and I don't like what I don't like, so you
30:59
Speaker 1: don't need I don't know Richard Jefferson. They were saying,
31:02
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is true or not because
31:03
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't hear the audio, but they were
31:05
Speaker 1: complaining about Jefferson sucking up to Shae Sga Shay joggis
31:09
Speaker 1: Alexander like he's not a free throw merchant and you know,
31:13
Speaker 1: getting all the defensive and one guy and one of
31:17
Speaker 1: the people at email me he's like, well he's he's
31:19
Speaker 1: like carrying the water for the NBA and all that,
31:22
Speaker 1: and no, I listen, I don't. I didn't hear it.
31:27
Speaker 1: It wouldn't surprise me if Jefferson's in the tank for
31:30
Speaker 1: the league. He's a league broadcaster. That's usually how that works.
31:33
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's what happened because I didn't
31:35
Speaker 1: hear it. So I'm just hearing the secondhand that that's
31:39
Speaker 1: that's what he said. It's gonna be tough once tn
31:42
Speaker 1: T is on the Charles Barkley Crew there is on ESBN,
31:47
Speaker 1: because then I'll have to unmute the game at halftime
31:49
Speaker 1: and then mute it right when halftime's over, and that'll
31:53
Speaker 1: be unfortunate. But often I think I can figure it out.
31:56
Speaker 1: I think I'll be able to kind of figure out
31:58
Speaker 1: how to hit the mute button and then un muted
32:00
Speaker 1: it and all that. I think that will will absolutely work.
32:03
Speaker 1: So anyway, now, after the rhythmic chanting the aforementioned SGA,
32:09
Speaker 1: the MVP of the NBA, was asked about the fans
32:13
Speaker 1: heckling with free throw Merchant free throw Merchant, and he
32:20
Speaker 1: claimed that he was unbothered by it, and he said
32:25
Speaker 1: the label, it doesn't matter. He just wants to He
32:28
Speaker 1: just wants to win the game. Says, I don't care.
32:30
Speaker 1: I never cared. I never cared, But I would be
32:35
Speaker 1: so happy to be heckled like that. That is the
32:38
Speaker 1: greatest sign of respect. Dude. You play in Oklahoma City, Okay,
32:42
Speaker 1: You're playing in a small market, and these people are
32:46
Speaker 1: worked into a lather because of you. That is outstanding.
32:52
Speaker 1: That is outstanding. And it's like the the old line
32:55
Speaker 1: from years ago that you know, they don't. They don't
32:59
Speaker 1: boo nobody's so in order for them to boo you,
33:01
Speaker 1: they have to know who you are. To be verbally
33:03
Speaker 1: abused and heckled by the fans, you have to have
33:06
Speaker 1: done something. Although I don't care, You're just out there.
33:09
Speaker 1: Nobody cares who you are. You just filler on the
33:11
Speaker 1: court and that's that. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
33:16
Speaker 1: As we are navigating the overnight hours away and what
33:22
Speaker 1: do we have here? Let's see Jimmy, right, since since
33:25
Speaker 1: you did a did the third shift, weekends have often
33:28
Speaker 1: listened to the whole show. Obviously, with the exception of
33:31
Speaker 1: the times I was in the hospital and they did
33:34
Speaker 1: not allow any electronic devices or I was in a
33:37
Speaker 1: coma and it didn't matter. But I am generally pathetic,
33:43
Speaker 1: says says Jimmy. All right, well, and you didn't have
33:48
Speaker 1: any but you did say you were in the hospital,
33:50
Speaker 1: so you must have had some medical medical issues. Yeah,
33:55
Speaker 1: there you go. King Rory writes and says, I was
33:57
Speaker 1: looking at the rundown. I was going I was wondering
33:59
Speaker 1: what hour you're going to talk about? How the WNBA
34:01
Speaker 1: is going on hiatus until Caitlin Clark recovers from her
34:05
Speaker 1: injury well likely mentioned in passing. We'll mentioned in passing
34:12
Speaker 1: some of that in passing. Anyway, it is the Ben
34:15
Speaker 1: Mahlord show. Time Now for the who am I Game?
34:20
Speaker 1: This is where we pretend to be somebody else. Thus
34:22
Speaker 1: we call it the who am I Game? And we'll
34:24
Speaker 1: get back to the calls as everyone. Stay on hold there.
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Speaker 1: But here's the who am I game? OK sees SGA.
34:31
Speaker 1: That's a lot of letters. OK sees SGA, who has
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Speaker 1: joined Michael, Jordan and Blank as the only guards with
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Speaker 1: ten or more thirty point games eleven or more team
34:47
Speaker 1: wins for the first fifteen games played in a single postseason.
34:50
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of numbers to that, But try
34:52
Speaker 1: to keep track again, this is a quiz. You can
34:55
Speaker 1: answer that on X at Ben Mallard. But Oklahoma City's
34:58
Speaker 1: SGA ruinning Mike Gold, Jordan and Blank as the only
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Speaker 1: guards with ten or more thirty point games and eleven
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Speaker 1: plus team wins through the first fifteen games played in
35:11
Speaker 1: a single postseason. This is all time in pro bouncy ball.
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Speaker 1: That is the who am I Game? The answer, we'll
35:17
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Speaker 1: it we go, and time to pay off the who
36:12
Speaker 1: am I? Game? This is where we pretend to be
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Speaker 1: somebody else. Now, before we pay off the win my game,
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Speaker 1: we have the play of the night. That's right, the
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Speaker 1: play of the night, the tire ract play of the night.
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Speaker 1: So let's hit the audio right now here we go
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Speaker 1: the play of the night. Two seconds. Okay, apparently we
36:29
Speaker 1: do not have the play of the night. All right, well,
36:31
Speaker 1: let's pay off the who am I game? Then we'll
36:34
Speaker 1: pay off the who am I? Game. And here is
36:36
Speaker 1: today's who am I game? Question? This is where we
36:39
Speaker 1: pretend to be somebody else us. It's the who am
36:41
Speaker 1: I game? Okaysees SGA joined Michael Jordan and Blank as
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Speaker 1: the only guards with ten plus thirty point games and
36:51
Speaker 1: eleven plus team wins through the first fifteen games played
36:54
Speaker 1: in a single postseason all time. That is the question.
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Speaker 1: did see Nick the Wendy's guy checking. He's very proud
37:21
Speaker 1: father as his daughter graduating high school in June. So
37:25
Speaker 1: there you go. June sixth am, I invited to the
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Speaker 1: graduation Nick, and we can go out and have some
37:29
Speaker 1: windys after, have a big party. That wouldn't be awkward
37:33
Speaker 1: at all. Malaprop guy says, the answer is Sergeant Schultz.
37:37
Speaker 1: He had an amazing jump shot, considering he never saw anything.
37:42
Speaker 1: What else do we have? Femi going with Scott Foster. Yeah,
37:47
Speaker 1: Minnesota needs Scott Foster to officiate the next game in
37:51
Speaker 1: that series. TJ Ford from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Good
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Speaker 1: good name there? Who else we have Alf the Alien
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Speaker 1: Olpiner going with Dix and Date as his answer. Former
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Speaker 1: All Star Chris Taylor from fer Dog. There you go,
38:08
Speaker 1: great former Dodger Jesse the Body Ventura from Rob in Vegas.
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Speaker 1: George Orda, it's not a bad name from mister nice guy.
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Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Andy in line O Lakes,
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Speaker 1: Minnesota going with ex Timberwolve the Big Cat Carl Anthony
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Speaker 1: Towns is his answer. Stuck in Sacramento says, he says, SGA,
38:31
Speaker 1: MJ and LBJ the answer, He says, Sacramento sucks. King
38:36
Speaker 1: Roy going with Angel Reese is his answer to the
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Speaker 1: dynamic duo Marcel and Blind Scott from Milkman Mike in Colorado.
38:44
Speaker 1: That's about what they look like. Big Lou, He's on
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Speaker 1: number two. Big Lou's supposed to be in Vancouver hanging
38:50
Speaker 1: out with US Supersonic Great Kendall Gill Guessed by Big Lou.
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Speaker 1: Marv Albert, the Czar of the Illustrator, as he used
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Speaker 1: to say to Mike Rotello there, and that's from Ostrich
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Speaker 1: chant h U a blob from Bay City, Tony. Paige Dow'
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Speaker 1: see here brevity because this Who Am I game is
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Speaker 1: too damn long, so you want some some brevity. Who
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Speaker 1: else do we have? Paige Dan Jimmy from Marino Valley.
39:23
Speaker 1: He did not have an answer, but he did give
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Speaker 1: some very intense details about his situation. You might might
39:30
Speaker 1: have shared too much with the class. Zaza Patulia from
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Speaker 1: Mister Irrigation in Houston, Indie Legend. Sam Posey who turned
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Speaker 1: eighty one eighty one today from Malibu Rubin. That's his answer.
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Speaker 1: Patrick Waugh from Sheen in Des Moines. Anthony Goldwire guessed
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Speaker 1: by Rob in Minnesota. All right, what say you, Lorraine up?
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Speaker 1: Julius Randall deck one of the great guards of all time,
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Speaker 1: Julius Randall. No, the correct answer is a Kobe b
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Speaker 1: mean Bryan L Like Kobe Bryant. Yeah,