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  Speaker 1: day locally here in LA. But the high speed sports
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  Speaker 1: wire does not slow down. It does not, So we
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  Speaker 1: have a follow up follow up to a previous Mallard monologue.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about this a couple of days ago, and
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  Speaker 1: the Portland Trailblazers decided that they did not want the
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  Speaker 1: services of DeAndre eighton anymore, so they worked a buy
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  Speaker 1: out to get rid of him. So he became a
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  Speaker 1: free agent to roam around wherever he wants, wherever his
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  Speaker 1: heart desires. The NBA so free agent center DeAndre eight
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  Speaker 1: and the decision is in. He is no longer unemployed.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're very concerned about this. If you did
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  Speaker 1: not hear by now, perhaps perhaps you tuned out you
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  Speaker 1: were not listening. We have learned though it's been a
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  Speaker 1: double and triple confirmed that DeAndre Ayton is taking his talent.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to call it that to the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: a two year deal to have heartache in the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: with the Lakers. The deal includes a player option, so
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  Speaker 1: it's really like a one year deal. But the deal
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  Speaker 1: between Portland and eight they had a falling out. So
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  Speaker 1: he goes to LA eight and in between the buyout
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  Speaker 1: from the Trailblazers and the money the new money the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers are gonna pay him, he will earn thirty four
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  Speaker 1: million dollars to play pro bouncy ball and will likely
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  Speaker 1: miss half the games, and then when he plays, he'll
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  Speaker 1: be engaged about half the time of those games. So
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  Speaker 1: eight and he'll turn twenty seven on July twenty third,
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  Speaker 1: so he's got three weeks to go here until he
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  Speaker 1: turns twenty seven. And he averaged a pedestrian fourteen points
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  Speaker 1: a game, did have ten rebounds a game, shot fifty
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  Speaker 1: six percent for the Portland Trailblazers down the Oregon Trail
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  Speaker 1: last year. So let us discuss the question DeAndre Ayton.
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  Speaker 1: He goes to the Lakers, what are the odds that
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  Speaker 1: he reinvents himself and turns out to be the player
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  Speaker 1: he's supposed to be and not the player that he
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  Speaker 1: has been So I've got house plans, middle school group chat,
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  Speaker 1: and T shirt cannon, and we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together and we're gonna make the baba Ganoosh,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna make the babagan so a the word reinvent
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  Speaker 1: to use that word that he's not going to reinvent himself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go police on that idea. And I know
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  Speaker 1: because I live in Los Angeles. LA is a town
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  Speaker 1: that when you think about the history of transforming underachieving
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  Speaker 1: seven foot players into gladiators, they have a rich history
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  Speaker 1: of that, unless they don't right now. It is a land.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to kill Smoothie, you can get that.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to hang out with social media influences,
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  Speaker 1: they're all over the place. And a suntan lotionan here,
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  Speaker 1: there and everywhere. You've got that. Listen. Eighton. He's played
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  Speaker 1: now with two different teams. He has not shown any
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  Speaker 1: of that so called Mamba mentality. In fact, he's the
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  Speaker 1: antithesis of that. He is more likely, by the time
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  Speaker 1: he's done with the Lakers, more likely to have opened
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  Speaker 1: a juice bar in Van Eyes than he is to
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  Speaker 1: have made an All Star team as a Laker, and
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  Speaker 1: with the Suns. He is not a team that was
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  Speaker 1: in the finals. Maybe they gagged against the Milwaukee Bucks
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  Speaker 1: in the finals a couple of years back. You remember that.
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  Speaker 1: So he was with the Suns. It was a finals team. Grant,
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of a flukey finals run, but they
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  Speaker 1: were in the finals and in the finals. I remember
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  Speaker 1: we did monologues about it. But DeAndre Ayton approached NBA
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  Speaker 1: finals games like he was playing rec ball at the YMCA.
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  Speaker 1: It's like l L L L, I said, the Boys
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  Speaker 1: and Girls Club the YMCA. So DeAndre he plays in
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  Speaker 1: cruise control. At least that's how he has played. He
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  Speaker 1: has been dining on room service and sleeping through a
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  Speaker 1: wake up call since he entered the NBA in the
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen draft. And trust me, watching him play, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not just being a shock dog, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: lea a shocking take. Like I've literally seen house plans
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  Speaker 1: that play with more perseverance and have more energy than
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  Speaker 1: DeAndre Ayton plays professional basketball. Yeah, they'll be at random
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  Speaker 1: night where he'll show up and he'll be engaged and
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  Speaker 1: all that. I don't doubt that's gonna happen. Maybe maybe
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  Speaker 1: he'll even stack a couple of good games together and
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  Speaker 1: play well for a week, but just don't count on it,
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  Speaker 1: all right, And what about the numbers? He averaged a
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  Speaker 1: double double? What about the numbers? All right? Well, his
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  Speaker 1: nickname should be stove Top because it's stat stuffing statistics
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  Speaker 1: that look nice to the uneducated fan, but they have
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  Speaker 1: little to no impact on winning games. That's DeAndre Ayton
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  Speaker 1: in a nutshell period. Stop now one of the teams
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  Speaker 1: that supposedly contacted him. And there's that Indiana. Now, Indiana
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  Speaker 1: needs a center because they lost their center to the
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks. And the reason the Bucks got their center,
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  Speaker 1: mister Turner, is because the Milwaukee Bucks are going to
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  Speaker 1: eat one hundred thirteen million dollars, no barbecue sauce, no
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  Speaker 1: honey mustard, no dipping sauce, one hundred and thirteen million
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  Speaker 1: to pay Dame literally to go away. So now there's
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  Speaker 1: some new reporting out on that if you saw this
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  Speaker 1: or not, and maybe not, but how do you process
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  Speaker 1: a story that has been leaked by the Bucks that
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  Speaker 1: one of the factors in buying out Damian Lillard is
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  Speaker 1: that they were upset that Dame Time was going to
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  Speaker 1: rehab or had been rehabbing his achilles injury in Portland.
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  Speaker 1: They said it was not improved, not approved, not approved
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  Speaker 1: by the big shots there in Milwaukee. So how do
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  Speaker 1: you process that? So I love this because it happens
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine point nine percent of the time, the classic
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  Speaker 1: sports breakup where both sides pretend that they get along
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  Speaker 1: with each other. They sing kumbah Yah, right, they wish
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  Speaker 1: each other the best and all that stuff. The best
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  Speaker 1: means as good as all the rest. And at the
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  Speaker 1: same time they are rushing to their phones to send
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  Speaker 1: text messages in to their friends, their useful idiots in
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  Speaker 1: the media, and they're leaking all the petty grievances that
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  Speaker 1: each side has here to the media and it ends
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  Speaker 1: up being like a middle school group chat where they're
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  Speaker 1: just throwing all kinds of crap out there, right, all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of crap out there. Some of it's true, some
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  Speaker 1: of it's not. Like the Bucks didn't just wave Damian
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  Speaker 1: Lillard like on his way out. They leaked that they
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  Speaker 1: were upset with him because he wanted to rehab in
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  Speaker 1: Portland where his kids are. The horror of horse, a
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  Speaker 1: thirty four year old father wants to be near his
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  Speaker 1: family while learning to walk again because his achilles was
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  Speaker 1: shredded like shredded chicken and how dare him? And it's
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  Speaker 1: it's part of the story where if you follow the story,
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  Speaker 1: we've seen these kind of hostile sports breakups that have happened,
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  Speaker 1: these sports divorces. It's the part of the story where
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  Speaker 1: the Bucks want you to believe that they were the
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  Speaker 1: aggrieved party, that they that they they were the ones
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  Speaker 1: that were the victim. This is it didn't work out
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  Speaker 1: that Dame going back to Portland was some kind of betrayal,
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  Speaker 1: is what it's being tossed out as I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. It's not a hostage negotiation. And for the
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks, Damian Lillard was the big flex. You swung,
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  Speaker 1: you try to hit a grand slam, and you popped
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  Speaker 1: up meekly to the catcher. That's what you did. It happens,
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  Speaker 1: and so now you lick your wounds and you move on,
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  Speaker 1: kind of like the team in New York, we pivot
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  Speaker 1: last word here we go now to Gotham, Midtown Manhattan, where,
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  Speaker 1: unless there's a last minute snaff o, we have a
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  Speaker 1: new coach for the fledgling NBA team in the Big
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  Speaker 1: Apple Mike Brown. What can Brown do for you? Mike
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  Speaker 1: Brown named coach of the Knicks, although things still have
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  Speaker 1: to be worked out the crossing of the t's the
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  Speaker 1: dot in the eyes, but being reported it's a done
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  Speaker 1: deal barring some kind of last minute snaffo. Mike Brown
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  Speaker 1: gonna be the coach of the Knickerbockers. Is this an
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  Speaker 1: upgrade or a downgrade? Upgrade or downgrade? Mike Brown coaching
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks? So this does not take a high basketball IQ.
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  Speaker 1: It does not. You do not have to be some
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  Speaker 1: kind of insider to know. Congratulations to the New York Knicks.
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  Speaker 1: They have just downgraded, right, They've downgraded from a nice
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  Speaker 1: bunker to a beach house and a hurricane is coming
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  Speaker 1: to town. All right, now it looks nice, no beach house,
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  Speaker 1: but wait till that storm arrives. Not so much. So
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  Speaker 1: you let me get this straight. You gave Tom Thibodeau
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  Speaker 1: a pink slip, and this is your solution. This is
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  Speaker 1: your solution, really like you had no plan. The guy
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  Speaker 1: that helped drag the rotting carcass of the Knickerbockers out
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  Speaker 1: of the Dolan Dungeon as they call it in Midtown Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden into the Eastern Conference Finals first time
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  Speaker 1: since AOL dial up internet was still a thing. And
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  Speaker 1: you let that go for Mike bleeping Brown? Are you
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  Speaker 1: kidding me? Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. Yeah. Brown has been
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  Speaker 1: fired more than the T shirt cannon at your local
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  Speaker 1: minor league ballpark. My god. Uh. Cleveland got rid of
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  Speaker 1: him twice. The Lakers had him for a cup of coffee.
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  Speaker 1: They dumped him after one year, after five games. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was five games if I remember, they got
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  Speaker 1: rid of him. Sacramento just had him. They made the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs and they still dumped Mike Brown. This was mid season,
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  Speaker 1: after thirty one games. So that's not a trend, okay,
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  Speaker 1: That is what's called a pattern. And Tom Thibodeau, who
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  Speaker 1: was I guess an acquired taste to some We like
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  Speaker 1: the way he coached from afar. We don't have any
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  Speaker 1: skin in the game, but his team's had grit. There
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  Speaker 1: was an edge to a Tom Thibodaux coach team. And
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  Speaker 1: when you juxtapose that style to Mike Brown, when people
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  Speaker 1: talk about Mike Brown, everyone says the same thing. Nice guy, right,
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  Speaker 1: Nice guy boy, Mike Brown. Nice guy. Everyone's talking about
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  Speaker 1: how players love Mike Brown. Man, you can't get enough
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  Speaker 1: of Mike Brown. He's great. So how did that work
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  Speaker 1: out for the Cavs? How did that work out for
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers? How did that work out for the Kings?
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  Speaker 1: So get to the point, please, So nobody is yapping
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  Speaker 1: about the x's and o's the mad tactician that Mike
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  Speaker 1: Brown is. So Mike Brown is essentially the NBA's version
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  Speaker 1: of a substitute teacher in terms of coaching. He's the
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  Speaker 1: guy that will show everyone loves the sub because you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's an easy day when the subs there, right, you have,
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  Speaker 1: the sub brings some snacks, maybe some crackers or something
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  Speaker 1: like that, and you get to watch movies all day
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  Speaker 1: and it's great until a key moment comes up and
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  Speaker 1: you need to execute and you haven't put the work in,
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  Speaker 1: and it all it's like a grenade. It just blows
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  Speaker 1: up in your hands and it's a it's a disaster.
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  Speaker 1: So that's where I am. But hey, listen, these are
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks. This is the real Knicks. They had a
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  Speaker 1: little taste of success with Tom Thibodeau, and now they
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  Speaker 1: kicked his ass to the curb. And now they brought
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  Speaker 1: in Mike Brown, who will be peaks and valleys, but
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  Speaker 1: many more, many more valleys than peaks. These stumbling, bumbling
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  Speaker 1: knickerbockers are back at it yet again. All right, it
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  Speaker 1: beginning of training camp and that is our lead. Our
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  Speaker 1: start showing up to camp in less than two weeks,
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  Speaker 1: less than two weeks away from training camp opening up
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  Speaker 1: for rookies in the NFL. Now, one of the teams
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  Speaker 1: that is expected to blow this year the Giants. The
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  Speaker 1: Giants have been good in a long time, and the
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  Speaker 1: rookies will report in like twelve days and then a
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  Speaker 1: few days after that the veterans are going to show up. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there's been a lot of noise about who's going to
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  Speaker 1: play quarterback QB one for the team that calls themselves
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  Speaker 1: the New York Giants, even though they play in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: So if you have not been following, perhaps not. The
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  Speaker 1: Giants general manager Joe Shane said somewhat recently that Russell
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  Speaker 1: Wilson brings to the Giants something they haven't had since
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  Speaker 1: Elijah Manning, so that he was really buttering the biscuits
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  Speaker 1: of Russell Wilson who came over from Pittsburgh. And then
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  Speaker 1: you had state sponsored NFL media say that it is
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  Speaker 1: not a matter of if, not a matter of if
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  Speaker 1: that rookie quarterback Jackson Dart will replace Russell Wilson. It's
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  Speaker 1: simply a matter of when is it week five? Is
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  Speaker 1: it week six? Is it week seven? Week get when
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  Speaker 1: is it gonna happen? So let us discuss the question,
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  Speaker 1: looking into the crystal ball, what's the most likely outcome,
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  Speaker 1: most likely outcome for Russell Wilson with the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five New York Football Giants. So I've got Expedia, Summer TV,
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  Speaker 1: delicious HOGI a delicious hogy. So number one, I said,
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  Speaker 1: Number yeah, Yeah, it's just some malor math. As you know,
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  Speaker 1: on my distant relative of Nostradamus and friend of noster Denis.
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  Speaker 1: He lives in Seattle, where Russell Wilson toiled at quarterback
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  Speaker 1: for the Seahawks back in the day. So Russ, if
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  Speaker 1: my math is correct, is now in the last five years.
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  Speaker 1: Russ is playing for his fourth team in the last
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  Speaker 1: five years. So that's the math on that. He's thirty six.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants are trotting him out there, and if you
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  Speaker 1: believe the quote from the general manager there, Joe Shane,
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  Speaker 1: they want you to think. They also purchased this offseason
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  Speaker 1: going to set the year to what twenty fourteen and
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  Speaker 1: the Legion of Boom And in this case it's just
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  Speaker 1: Boom goes the quarterback. Good luck on that. So the
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  Speaker 1: most likely outcome looking into the crystal ball, Russell Wilson
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  Speaker 1: will be grabbing his smartphone. He will be going on
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  Speaker 1: Expedia and he will be booking a room at a
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  Speaker 1: bed and breakfast called the Heartbreak Hotel. That is where
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna go. Russell Wilson. Now, no one's talking about
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  Speaker 1: Jameis Winston, and I want Jameis Winston to play. I
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  Speaker 1: support Jameis Winston. I'll tell you why he's bad. But
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  Speaker 1: he's fun bad. If you're gonna be bad, be fun bad.
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  Speaker 1: So Jameis Winston still hanging around there, and then you've
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  Speaker 1: got the rookie Jackson Dart waiting to take the job. So,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, you don't have to be some kind of
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: high Faluton Adam Schefter Jay Glazer type to know that
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: this is a placeholder situation, plain and simple. That's it.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Russ got back up money from the Giants because they
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: don't believe in him, nor should they. He got the
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: kind of a contract where just keep the seat warm.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: We don't have seat heaters, so just keep the seat
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: warm there, Russ. And then you know, you move over
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to the side and then we'll just we'll be the
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: coaching staff of the Jets. We'll just pray that Jackson
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Dart doesn't look like a deer in the headlights by
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the time we get into week three or week four.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: But at least mister mister Unlimited is squeezing all of
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: the clout he can get out of being the Giants
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: quarterback because he's not very good, hadn't been good in years,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, if you read the tabloids, though, in the
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Big Apple, the Naked City never sleeps, and in the
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: last four months, Russ has been a regular on the
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: iconic Page six the tabloid of the New York Post.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: He has been court sided at multiple New York Knickerbocker
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: games during their playoff run. He was most recently seen
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: at the Met Gala. He was at that Bugase Fanatics
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Fest thing he showed up to that. He's been at
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the Vanity Fair Oscar party. I can go on and on.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: He's hit in every socialiite event. I'm sure he'll be
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: somewhere this weekend the fourth of July. There'll be some
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: high falutin party on the Hamptons and Russell b that
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: he's soaking it all in, and I give him credit.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: You got to hit the red carpet because Russ knows
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: once he starts playing turn out the last the parties over. Yeah,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: so he's they don't invite you to the red carpet.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: When you're holding a clipboard wearing advisor and you're the backup,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: they don't invite you. So you got to take advantage
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: of it. Even though he's like the faux starting quarterback
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: for the Giants, you gotta take advantage of it. Now
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: a guy in that division that is not a faux
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: starting quarterback. We turned the page to the Beltway and Washington,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: d C. The district of Columbia and so far, despite
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Internet reports, quarterback Jaden Daniels says he is on team Deebo.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: He is on team Debo. He's impressed with Deebo Samuel,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: late of the forty nine ers. Now that goes counter
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: these scandalous Internet reports, including photos, the accusations that the
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: new commander's wide receiver, Deebo Samuel needs to go to
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: a farm, a fat farm. So how much stock do
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: you put on Jaden Daniels giving an endorsement, a ringing
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: endorsement of Deebo Samuel with the commander. All right, So
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: on this one, Jadon Daniels has turned into a crooner.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: He's singing Deebo Samuel's praises and all that stuff. You know,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: stand by your man. You're supposed to do that. And
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: it's one of those things. If you have a problem,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: you do it privately. You don't do it publicly. Do
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: it privately. That's the way you're supposed to do it.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: But I'm a talk showst I like when you do
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: it in the public square. It's I need content. I
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: have a nightly show. I got four hours of talk
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: radio real estate I gotta fill So he's doing the
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: stand by your man thing Jaden Daniels and all that stuff.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Do you think Jaden Daniels though, would come out and say,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: oh my god, Deebo Samuel, he is one more sub
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: sandwich from exploding, right, I mean, and listen, Jayden Daniels.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: He probably don't care whether Deebo Samuel's rocking a couple
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: of extra you know, Chick fil A sandwiches or whatever
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: it's it is setting up, though, Like the thing that
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: interests me about this story is its setting up to
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: be a summer TV classic for the Washington commanders. It's
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: a it's a show that's been on and off in
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: six generation of six decades to tell the truth. Will
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: the real Deebo Samuel please stand up? And you'll have
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: three people all dressed like Deebo Samuel. Will the real
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel stand up? Because no, debo, He's never gonna
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: win a Mister Universe contest, nor will I by the
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: by that by that token. But based on some social
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: media clips that I've seen, and you've sent me, some
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: of you knuckleheads love to send me. Do you see this?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Oh my God, he's got a belly, He's got a
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: beer belly. Yeah, So people are acting. People are acting
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: like Deebo Samuel waddled in to the commander's facility like
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: a penguin, and he was wearing cargo shorts and compression socks.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: And he's like somebody's uncle after a Fourth of July
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: cookout this weekend. Now the mystery will be solved to
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: tell the truth when training camp opens up in a
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and will Deebo Samuel show up. Will
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: he be wearing a football helmet, football pads, and pants,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: or will he be wearing moo moo. We will find
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: out when the Washington football team opens up camp. Now,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: final point, we're gonna pivot away from that to baseball.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: The big story in baseball not the infestation of doubleheaders
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: because of the bad weather that hit the Atlantic seaboard
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: this week. But instead everyone's been yapping about Dodger starting
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: pitcher Clayton Kershaw, the old left handed Clayton Kershaw. On
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: a random Wednesday night against one of the worst teams
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: in baseball, the Chicago White Sox, Clayton Kershaw reached three
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: thousand strikeouts and many pundits of baseball are convinced that
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: he is the last one, the last one to reach
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: three thousand strikeouts. So is that an overreaction or is
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: that a smart take? Overreaction or a smart take that
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw is the last pitcher to reach three thousand strikeouts?
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: So this is with a capital H, hyperbole is what
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: this is now. I know that we're being fed this
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: propaganda that three thousand strikeouts, this is it by a starter,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: and Kershaw's a relic from a different era. I say, Phoe,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I say for Clayton Kershaw's milestone, what it should be
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: is a bridge, a bridge over troubled waters, a hardball revival,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: and someone's gonna have the goal to actually do this,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a crappy team, a team that
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: has no real fan base that's willing to do it,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: to think outside the boxes. Everyone's thinking the same way
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: in baseball, copycat situation and all that stuff. With Kershaw,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: what you should be doing is crank up the Hank
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Williams country gospel tune. I saw the light. I saw
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the light. Baseball like everything, it's cyclical, everything cyclical. It
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: can once again, I am am I'll go ahead for
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: believing that baseball can once again rediscover big time starting pitching.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: And they always take the easy road out. They say, well,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: it's not an orful. These guys didn't throw a lot
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: in high school. They didn't throw a lot in college.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: But a lot of the pitchers are drafted out of
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: high school. Clayton Kershaw, I believe, came out of high
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: school from the Dallas area. And you can take a
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: picture who's eighteen years old out of high school and
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the guys they're signing in the Dominican and other places
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: are younger than that, and you can mold them into
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: starting pitchers. You have enough time to do that, so
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: you can. You can rally around, and I'll give you
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the little dirty secret about the sport of baseball. Baseball
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: is better when you have dominate starting pitching. Does anyone
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: disagree with that? Does anyone want to raise their hand?
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: No one's going to raise their hand and disagree. So
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I would like you to join my grassroots movement. It's
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: an upstart, renegade outfit, and let's make starting pitching great again.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: The nerds killed it. We can bring it back from
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the dead. We can resuscitate it. The starting pitcher is
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the one person in baseball who can control the narrative,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the one person with the ball who can set the tone,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: and you're like, I guaranteed to win this. They very
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: rarely will we not win when this guy's pitching. You
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: cannot replicate that with your bullpen day. And let the
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: aces walk the tight rope when they go third time
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: through the lineup. You don't need to have a coronary
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: when you get to the eighth inning. Let him pitch,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: let him pitch out of trouble, let them get dirty,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: let him give up some runs and blow some games.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Because baseball does not need any more of these matchups
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: where you bring out the three ring binder and you're
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: playing nerd ball. You need dramatic moments and a dominant
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: starting pitcher, and there's hardly any of them left in
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: the game. But a dominant starting pitcher on the mound.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: It's like going to see a heavyweight boxing match back
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: in the old days, Right, everyone's anticipating what's gonna happen, right,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: you own the night, that is the moment, it's the
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: moment of truth. Who's gonna pitch better that night, Who's
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: gonna do better all that and like the idea that
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: well this is the last one, Clayton Kershaw, it shouldn't
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: be right. And it's gonna take a team that has
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: no fans, like the Athletics who don't even have a city.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: They're so embarrassed about being in Sacramento, or the Tampa
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Bay Rays. There's another minor league outfit, and just just
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: go for it. Just develop pitchers to be dominant starting pitching,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: and you have such an advantage over everyone else, and
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: then that team has to succeed, and then when they succeed,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: everyone's gonna copy them. Period. Stop. It is the Ben
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Mahler Show. As we are rolling through the overnight. You
• 29:53
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• 29:57
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• 30:00
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• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Trivia And here it is Detroit's Hobby Baiaz joined Pete
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Rose harmon Killebrew and Blank is the only players to
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: start the All Star Game at three different positions. That
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: is the question. What is the answer? Let's see does
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: anyone know the answer? And let's see here. Marco Scutero
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: fromge hiding somewhere in the in the Bay Area. Jose
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Offerman from Miguel on Fire. You cannot spell Offerman without
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: an E for error. Who else do we have? Richard Simmons,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Yes by Mallard prop guy, that's his answer. The great
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: former Dodger. Let's see here, page down. Ocho Texto went
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: with a porn star. Who else do we have? Brian
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: from the movie Life of Brian? Guessed by Bobby in Florida.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, going with Yogi Bearra as his answer.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Alf the Alien Opiner says it's the Swiss Army Knife.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: That that is the answer. King Rory checks in with
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Max Power or Max Powers is his answer. The annoying
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: caller of the Year, Poppy. Yeah, I didn't you know.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: I'm doing a lot of talk radio today. I did
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: not have time for Poppy. I could not take any more.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Poppy could not Robin Minnesota's going with John Rocker as
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: his answer. Matt, the Bears fan in Nebraska says that
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: would be Ben's favorite Dodger pitcher Blake Snell. Yeah, Blake said,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: this is how you know that guy Vessay I was
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: on earlier locally in LA that guy Bass said is
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: the Dodger posting. He's such a Blake Snell toady. He
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: would not admit that Blake Snell has been a bust.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: He's made two starts as a Dodger, two starts as
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: a Dodger. Horrible, horrible move.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Mark in Queens via San Diego and Arlington says, Abner
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Doubleday is the answer? A fine relevant name, A contemporary name.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Sewn in Portland's going with Danny Ainge as his answer.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Mark checks in with Rusty Koontz and make sure I
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: say that properly. Gonna pause before you say the last name.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Page down? Christopher in Canns
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: City going with Dodger legend the Liono de Shields as
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: a his answer. Jason going with Craig Bigo. Yeah. I
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: was getting a lot of messages from fans of the
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: ass one thousand and two, one thousand holes, all excited
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: because they beat the Rockies. Does anyone want to let
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: the people of Houston know the Rockies suck and everyone
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: beats the Rockies? Does anyone to let me know? Anyway?
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Let's pay off the insta trivia question. So the Tigers
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Hobby Bias, joining Pete, Rose, Harmon, Killebrew and Blank is
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: the only players to start the All Star Game in
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: three different positions. Let's go over to Mary, Mary, do
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: you have an answer? Mary?
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Oh? My mom?
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: All right? Is it Mary's mother? Is that the answer?
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Let's find out? Apparently it's not your mom. I'm sorry,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I'm sure she's a lovely lady. No, the correct answer
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: is Albert. Whoo hosts Albert who is the answer? Who
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: started the All Star Game at first base, third base,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: and in left field? Oh? There is that? With that
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: in your pipe and smoking? And right now, here we go,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Here we go. It's time hit that button. There, Mary,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: that's the one right there, that's it, that's the one.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: All right. We go over to the producer's chair and
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Ian Roddy.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Hello, Ian, You notice I've learned not to jump the
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: gun as much like I did last week.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: You were excited it happens, you know.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm learning I'm learning.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Here we go, let's jump in here though. Number One.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: On a recent podcast interview, Chiefs tight end, Travis Kelsey
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: recalled some troubles he had behind the scenes back when
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: he hosted Saturday Night Live back in twenty twenty three.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: So the hardest part of hosting SNL was the pre
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: show table read because apparently he can't really read that well.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: So inevitably social media got a hold of that, got
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: a hold of that, and you know, they've been making
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: a ton of fun of him. So, Ben, do you
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: think any less of Kelsey now that you know he
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: has tough time reading?
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: No, because I think he was embellishing it. If he's
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: not embellishing it, I mean, that's pretty impressive. He went
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: to Cleveland Heights High School in Cleveland. He went to
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: the University of Cincinnati. I think he spent four years
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: in college. And if he was able to make it
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: through all that and not not be able to read,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: like there's reading at a high level and then there's
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: like reading just being able to read enough. I don't
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: doubt that Kelsey's not a prolific reader. He's a football player,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: and he's like a meathead football player. I don't think
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: any less of him. I never thought of him as
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: an academic type person anyway, So who cares. You know,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: he reads a lot, and I'd like to think that
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: he's not totally lacking the ability to read anything all. Right.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Next, with all the potential trade rumors circling around Lebron
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: right now, his son Bron, he was asked how he
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: feels about all of it, So he said, he doesn't
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: really pay attention to all that stuff. But look, Ben,
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: if Lebron's senior were to be traded, what do you
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: think the Lakers would do with Brownie?
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: They'd include him in the trade if Lebron. No, I
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: don't think Lebron's being traded. And let me tell you Ian,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: that is the number one answer publicists tell you. The
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: number one answer when you're asked a difficult question is
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: if it's about to play in a football game, so
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I didn't see the play, and if it's about trade rumors,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: you say, I don't pay attention to that stuff. I
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: was unaware of it. Right, You played dumb that way.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: You just kind of kill the line of questioning and
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: all that. But no, if the Lakers are gonna get
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: out of the Lebron business. If they are ready to
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: unload Lebron James, then it is a two for one
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: special at the flea market, and it's gonna be Lebron
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: and Bronni. They're going to trade them to the Knicks
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: or the Cavaliers or to wherever. And I will guarantee
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: you that Bronni is absolutely aware of what's going on
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: with Lebron and where he's gonna end up because he
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: is handcuffed to Lebron. The only reason Bronni's in the
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: NBA the kid can't play. The only reason he's in
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: the NBAS because it was Dad. Next.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: So the Milwaukee Bucks, who you know, as you mentioned
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: in the monologue yesterday, they recently released Damian Lillard and
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: they're reportedly eyeing twelve time All Star Chris Paul as
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: his potential replacement. According to Chris Haynes, So Ben, would
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: you like the forty year old CP three for the
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: Bucks is a short term bridge at point guard?
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: So only if you can get a Delorian and go
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: back to the future and head back, you know, back
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: in time. But no, listen, Chris Paul's washed up at
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: this point. He's a backup. I read where Chris Paul
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: wants to start. He's looking for his starting job. No,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, he gotta signed somebody. But Chris Paul, I
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: have a feeling he's gonna end up with the Clippers
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: and all that. But no, I would not I would
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: not bring Chris Paul in expecting him to be a
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: starter or a play big minutes and all that at
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: this point, although he did play a lot in San
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Antonio on a terrible Spurs team that seven people watched.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: All right, there it is Mallard to the third degree.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: How did we do?
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: It was close today, but you still managed to win
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: this one.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Ben, nice job. That has a win. I got the long.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: I don't think I've lost a Mallard of the third
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: degree this year. I think I'm undefeated this year at
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: MAL What a streak, A record streak.