Hello and welcome. It's our name, Ber four, hour four of our radio program, the Ben Mallers Show, in living audio color right here for you enjoy and joy and enjoy. So thumbs up or thumbs down on the Philadelphia Eagles being a quote unstoppable All Star team in twenty twenty two, one of their players said that what do you make of the birds humble brag? And is Jalen Hurts the man for the Eagles or our Philly fans hallucinating with the hype where they're starting quarterback. We'll talk about that and more right now in our number four. Here it is for the birds. Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mallers Show. As we are in the air everywhere Bosom Buddies, as we broadcast rain, shine, sun, you name it, coast, stuck, coast, border, the border, and beyond on the mast and unmistakably powerful microphones of fs are emanating live from the wave the microwave of Hot Sports takes the Fox Sports Radio studios at a secret location somewhere in the north Woods. And here we are together again another hour. We'll try not to screw it up for you, try to make it work our lead this hour coming from the NFL. No, this is not a another Deshaun Watson theme Mallard monologue, but it does involve the mouth of an NFL player. It's a rather a twanquil time of the calendar here training camp opens up in less than a month, an opportunity to get a little urn r relaxed, chill, enjoy the summer before the madness spegans in late July, this being the last day of June. Now one member of the Eagles, the Philadelphia Eagles, is overdosing on braggadocio. Now, Miles Sanders is his name. He's our running back. Now, if you didn't hear what he had to say, and perhaps not, he's Miles Sanders. They're probably not paying attention to everything this guy says. But he is a running back in Philly, Miles Sanders, if you missed it, He's entering his fourth season with the Birds. And to say that he is guinea with excitement is an understatement based on the roster transactions that have taken place in Philadelphia. So a reporter caught up with Miles Sanders and he said the following this is a quote. Oh man, we all feel we all feel like we're on an All Star team, so we feel great. Sanders snickered to the reporter. Quote continues, we feel unstoppable. I'm not gonna lie, he said. The vibes are great, always have been. Coach Nick Sirianni is doing a great job just keeping the vibes right, the chemistry good. Quote continues. We compete a lot in practice, but we've got we've got to see it's gonna come down to camp. It take it day by day, putting everything together. Blah blah blah blah blah. Now the key parts of that are all Star team, unstoppable. That's the key parts of that. So okay, then let's discuss the question. Very simple on this one. It's sports radio, it's not brain surgery. So you're an objective person. I'm an objective person. Less, I'm not question is thumbs up or thumbs down on the Eagles being an unstoppable All Star teams circa twenty twenty two in the NFL. So I am going to thumbs down two thumbs down on this. Now, my take, I've got shelf life, vaudevillian, and neurosis, and we'll combine all of these things. Together make the babagan We're gonna make the Barba Ganoos. Now to kick off, let's talk about this guy, Miles Sais. You can say a lot of things about him. He's not lacking confidence, he's not lacking bravado. And I don't mind it. I don't mind it. But when you say that, we have to see if that's a good take or not. And in this condition, the Eagles were nine and eight team last year. He's got delusions of granger. The Eagle roster is better, it's tangibly better, but that doesn't mean the team's gonna win many more games. A. J. Brown, we like him, Hassan Reddick, James Bradbury, some of the other guys they got via the draft. In other ways, these are players we've heard of. These are players that have many of them have done well, whether it be at the top level of college football or in the NFL. And so looking at this from the outside, the Eagles have fortified their roster. But as a sportscaster told me years ago, stats tell you what has happened, not what's going to happen, good or bad. That's why they play the games. It's how you perform in the heat of the moment. And so we promise you that the comments by Miles Sanders, we'll have a pretty long shelf life. This is not something that's gonna go away. This is gonna stick around here. Every time Philadelphia has a bad practice, every time a player under a cheese, every time they lose a game where a player gets hurt, the words unstoppable all star will pop back up. And we imagine the printing press is already working overtime on shirts and signs in the greater Dallas area for when the Eagles pay their yearly visit to Jerry's World, so people can mock and ridicule the words of Miles Sunders of the Eagles, but such as life in the big city now. Meanwhile, Sanders mentioned he's a running back and he was asked what he needs to get better at this season. Everyone has to improve. He then deadpanned he just needed the ball more. And Sanders statistically has been fine. He's been really good between the forties. He's one of the better running backs in the NFL. Yards per carry averaged five point five yards per carry. But the key is to put the ball in the end zone, and he had major issues finding pay dirt in Philly last year, did not have a touchdown. He had twenty red zone carries, ten of them inside the ten yard line and five of them inside the five yard line and failed to get in the end zone. Now further, let's get back to the statement again. We're breaking down parsing the words of Miles Sanders. He's a running back who said that the Eagles aren't going to be unstoppable and an All star team in twenty twenty two. So what do you make of the humble brag? It's a flashback. It's a flashback because Miles Sanders is chandling his inner Vince Young. I'm barely old enough to remember this, but I know the Eagle fans. Remember the Eagle fans, They know a thing or two about bold predictions because they've seen it, right, they've lived it, those bold predictions that go bad. And it's like a vaudevillian quote from a guy named Walter Winchell, who was a radio guy in the old days and reporter he observed about life. He said, the same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people. That the events continue and it just just a series of events that repeat themselves as the generations change. Similar things happened. But let's set the way back machine to the year twenty eleven. Way back in twenty eleven, a long time eleven years ago, Philadelphia was coming off a ten and sixth season. They had Andy Reid as the coach. They had lost in the wild card round to twenty ten, and they opened up the bank accounts and they went out and they signed at the time players who were of name value, namd Asamoa, Dominique Rogers, Cromarti, and Vince Young, among others. And Vince Young, the quarterback out of Texas, famously called that Philadelphia Eagle team the dream team. He said that that is the dream team. And right about then, right after he said it, a trapdoor opened up and the Philadelphia Eagles entire team bus. They all got in there and they took stupid pills and they all played like a bunch of amateurs. They had an eight and eight season. That was back when Michael Vick was the quarterback in Philly and Vince Young he was the backup. He started three games and never played in the NFL again. After calling the Eagles the dream team. Now, don't get me wrong. I don't mind the bulletin board material. In fact, as a talk traw host, I love it. I love it. Give me mare, give me mare, give me more. But the rules are, if you're gonna talk to talk, you gotta walk to walk. That's always been the problem. There's there's a couple of things to be like it. Is it legitimate or just hyperbole? That's the first thing, and then the second thing, is it possible to back it up? I don't see it being possible for the Eagles. I don't. And part of the reason is the parting shot on this is Jalen Hurts the man or just a guy for the Eagles. Now the fans seem to be hallucinating, so as Jalen Hurts the guy for the Eagles, or are Philly fans just hallucinating? So based on what I have seen the eyeball test with my bifocals, and also based on the stats, it is neurosis is what it is. A Jalen Hurts is a better sound bite then he is a quarterback. One of the great quotes not that long ago Eagles had lost the game. I think it was last year against the Cowboys. And remember Jalen dropped the timeless. He was asked how the team's gonna you handle the loss, something along those lines, and he said, when you take your deuce, you don't sit there and look at it. You flush it and move on. It's a great quote, one of the great thinkers of our time. But on the field, Jalen Hurts is often guilty of football malpractice throwing the ball. He's a pretty efficient runner. But ultimately, with all these running quarterbacks, the ones that have had success in the playoffs have been able to throw the ball. You're judged ultimately by throwing because in the playoffs you play better teams. They're able to contain the running game, and so you have limited skill set throwing the ball. You're not going to be that great playoff quarterback. Now, as far as Jalen Hurts, my evidence that there's a lot of hallucinating going on with the Eagle fans, the numbers don't lie. Jalen Hurts last season was seventeenth in yards per attempt. He was tied with Teddy Bridgewater and Baker Mayfield. Now Bridgewaters changed teams and so did Mayfield. Twenty second in passing touchdowns. Again, tied with Baker Mayfield, who lost his job in Cleveland, twenty six in quarterback rating, behind the likes of Daniel Jones, keeping up with the Joneses and Taylor Heineken in the division. That's those are the numbers. But wait, there's more. Jalen Hurts. The biggest knock on Jalen Hurts is he's not actor. Now. Eagle apologists will say, well, it's because of the receivers, and now with better receivers, he'll be fine. We'll find out about that. He was twenty eighth in completion percentage last season, behind Carson Wentz who lost his job, Jacoby Brissette who changed teams, and Andy Dolton, who also I believe changed teams. So you look at that. Hurts also chucked the ball down the field twenty plus yards about fifteen percent of the time last season, fourth most in the NFL. But he only connected on less than forty percent of those throws, which is not very good. And so the thinking is with aj Brown that that will be the difference. That's the great equalizer, and how much better will Aj Brown the receiver make Jalen Hurts the quarterback. So I'm skeptical because I look at a guy like Ryan Tannehill, who had been a pretty good regular season quarterback with A. J. Brown. Last season, Tannehill fell off the cliff, but in the playoffs Tannehill has been a problem. And with AJ Brown last season in the Music City, Tannehill was the twenty first ranked quarterback in the NFL. So did AJ Brown and his immen's abilities really make that big a difference with Ryan Tannehill a year ago? I would argue Now, it's what I would argue. It is the Bannet Mallers Show. Oh if you would like to comment on that or anything else, you can join us here at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine. 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We begin with a rant about Miles Sanders, who he's a running back for the Philadelphia Eagles, who won on a rant, very confident in his squad. We are not, but he is, and he gets paid by the Eagles, going on and on about how they're unstoppable All Star team blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Okay, then the malar militia reacting and who do we have here? Fur Dogs says, how can the Eagles be an All Star team when they have that bum? Jalen Hurts at quarterback, The Great Nick Foles isn't walking through that door anymore. Even Pukey McNabb would be a massive upgrade. So he says, Stephen Meatballs in Florida's this great monologue on the delusional Miles Sanders. It's no wonder his nickname is Booby Miles. I haven't heard so much phony hype since the last time Tyreek Hill went on about TUA. Sounds like Sanders put his company man hat on, jockeying for position in the Philly backfield. He says, he says, look out, if Miles Sanders thinks they've got an all star team in Philly in the Pro Bowl, We've all seen how all star teams play, no blocking, no tackling. Philly already has done, hasn't done any of that since they won their lucky, magical Super Bowl. They were nine and eight last year, the Eagles. They didn't beat one good team. They didn't they didn't beat anybody that made the playoffs. They took advantage, to their credit, the NFC East blows, and they took advantage of all the teams that suck in their division and some other bad teams that they played last season to make it all work all right. So the phones and ain'ty meany money more. Let's say a little Poppy, who's in San Diego. It's picking with Poppy, who gave us some terrible picks, horrible picks yesterday. Poppy. We we can't keep this bit going unless the picks get better, Poppy. We're gonna have to come up with a different pick you here, thing here, Poppy. Oh, they welcome better Today we're gonna have today. We're gonna have to quats roll back Tom, meaning we're gonna pick four picks today. And hold on, Poppy, hold on, before you go ahead, I want you to announce how bad your picks were yesterday. I do agree. We both went oh on one yesterday. I mem Ben Ben all win and oh one with his match, and we did we did do bad. I did do bad. I listen you. You said, hey, pick a game. I did not handicap the game. I just I threw out a team, the Mats, who got shut out. This is your segment here, Poppy. This is your baby, and the baby's starving right now. I'm crying, yes, and I was crying because the Rockies did lose. And it's okay, doctors. How could the Rockies lose. That was their super Bowl, and the Dodgers didn't care about it. I don't understand it was the super Bowl. But you know what, I have another super Bowl for the pick on the quadrifecta, and it's gonna be a good pick. And we're gonna go four. And oh, we're gonna go four. And oh that's a lie. You will no, there's no way you go for and I do have no no, no, we will go four, an o, and I do have some breaking news. Well, hurry up, we don't have all that, all right, breaking news, breaking news from Fox Sports, breaking news from Poppy, breaking news. Tomorrow we're gonna have the Padress against the Dodgers, the best game of the year, and whispers around me says that Manny, yes, a man in my chatto is gonna make his debut against the hometown Dodgers. Is or X team, and who I have here, I'm taking the best picture Tomorrow the podres most grow underdog plus one oh five and tomorrow that's today. Bobby hasn't gone to bed yet, and to favor our starves, we're gonna take the under egg under a low scoring all right, that's two fixed, all right, to pick, and also the Oakland eight plus one eighty, we're gonna take them, and we're all being the worst team in baseball. It's now mine Seattle's minus two twenty five now. But that's a terrible pick. It's okay the Opland eh, and we're gonna take the Yankees, and don't worry Ben. Tomorrow, we are gonna talk on the picks with Poppy USC two seventy six. And last but not late, let's say that Roberto, can you please tell me when you're gonna go to the Dodger game. I think it's gonna be a Sunday, so we can pick it. And we know every single time you go to the game, Dodgers loose, so we're gonna be picking up. You aren't going to the Dodger game tonight right now. So he did pick the Podres so that it's looking good for Poppy. If the Roberto jinx is in effect here where you you go out with about the A's and the Mariners, it's a terrible pick. There's no way the A's are gonna beat Logan and Gilbert on the mountain. I wouldn't bet on the Oakland Athletics. They have been terrible baseball all certainly the last month. Terrible picks, Poppy, bad pick, bad picking with Poppy and the mar and the Yankees and Ashralls. I wouldn't touch that. I would stay away from that. Also, Yeah, that's crazy. Let's go to the phones again. Let's say hello to the Dixter in Dayton. Hello Dick in Dayton, Good morning guys. Happy, happy fill July. Yeah, happy new year, Happy Fourth of July weekend, happy birthday. Yeah, the whole thing. And it's a very exciting time of the year. Yeah. Is big plans for the fourth of July, Dixter, Yeah, we got I go Strubbers today. We got a little party today and then Saturday I go to the dulcemurt group. We're gonna have a little party, and I think the fourth they're going to get together at the rec Center and Cassie the director. I've been playing up there for the Senior Citizens and uh made a pretty good hit up there, Ben and Crewe. It's pretty good. Yeah. How many people? How many people come out to see you perform there? Usually it's a Senior Citizens. There's probably thirty forty people there. You go and are they singing? And dancing having a grand time, do they. Oh yeah, we have a good time, a good time. Yeah, yeast there. And are you going to be sending off any fireworks this weekend? No, no, I'm not into fireworks. Oh you do not like fireworks? Interesting? Why not? I just one year when I was little, I got scared, you know, one practically I was around it and it got close to me, almost got hurt. I've been scared since then. Well that's a good reason to be scared of fireworks. Yeah, yeah, it's a good reason to avoid them. I saw about the rounds, the new um the new color uh color band that's gonna be He worked on the sidelines. I don't know much about him. Racist what's his name, Nathan Zigura? Na Zigura? Mean yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know who that is. No, No, I've never you know, I'm done the miss Doug Deacon though, I'll tell you. He was a legend up there, you know. So I hear you, Well, what's he gonna do now he's retired, what's he gonna He can hang out with you and watch the games you tube watch. Yeah, yeah, that would be good. That would be good. Well, down here, there's no hope you know where. We're trying to find a different team the Reds. Uh. I think from going in the higher river ban it's not too good. You would like to send the Reds to the bottom of the Ohio River. Yeah, Dick won't be denied. His name is Dave and he's known as Dave. Now, Dick, I want you to know I'll be in here on the four July. Okay, I'll be doing the radio. Okay, So I'll be here because you always call me on the holidays. You always check in on the holidays. That's the thing. Yeah, all right, well, thank you, all right, bye bye bye bye. All right, there it goes. And I want you to know that he is more upset about Doug Deacon leaving the radio team of the Browns than Doug Deacon is about no longer doing the Browns games. Anyway. Congratulations Dick, Yeah, thanks, Ben, We do sound very soon within five games, Dick and Dayton will be best friends with Nathan Zigura and Gerad Cherry. They'll be like buddy Buddy, hanging out, having a great time and be wonderful. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Hey, this is Jason McIntyre. Join me every weekday morning on my podcast, Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. This is your typical sports pod, pushing the same tired narratives down your throat every day. Straight Fire gives you honest opinions on all the biggest sports headlines, accurate stats to help you win big at the sports book, and all the best guests. Do yourself a favor and listen to Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So we've talked a lot about the Sean Watson who paid a bunch of hush money. Twenty women got paid off by Watson who had accused him of being a creepster. There was a story about a very well known international athlete, Ronald Though, he was accused of rape by a woman in Vegas and it was determined that that was not a credible situation, that they did have a mutual trip to Romance Land back years ago. And so this woman had filed a loss suit against Christiano Ronaldo and the lawsuit got tossed out of court. Now you might have heard about that. But not only did he get tossed out of court, a US district judge did not allow the case to be refiled, that it was a frivolous lawsuit. Well, the lawyers for Ronaldo are asking a judge now to have the woman's lawyer, the woman that wrongly accused Ronaldo of raping her, to pay him the attorney fees. Now, I want to see if you guys can guess how much the attorney fees are. Real quick, and we're gonna go to Eddie's, gonna have bucked the world and all that. But I saw this number. I said, wow, this is a wild number. So the attorneys said for every hour they worked on the case, nearly twelve hundred hours of work the attorney fees twelve hundred hours. That's how long they claimed they worked on this. Yes, so how much money are Christiano Ronaldo, international soccer star, man of mystery? How much are his attorneys asking the judge to pay? Have the other attorney pay them? Coop? When you seem like your most interested in this coop, you want to take a guess here, I am going to say no, don't get crazy on me. Here, one million, one million. All right, I'm gonna say twenty four million. Twenty four million, all right, Eddie. All right, so how many hours you said? So, the lawyers claimed. Ronaldo's lawyers claimed in court that they want to be paid for every hour that near the twelve hundred hours of work. I'll say math right, now, I'll say three million. All right. Well you have all gone over the showcase, show down that win. I'm sorry. See, I thought this is a lot of money, but now you guys make me feel like an idiot because you all went higher than I thought. Six hundred and twenty six thousand dollars is how much they're asking for. They claim. The attorneys for Ronaldo get per billable hour anywhere between three hundred and fifty dollars an hour to eight hundred fifty dollars an hour. See, that would have been my guests, But because you brought it up, I thought it was something insane. Yeah, well, I mean that's insane though, I thought, mean that's a I don't believable about the money. Six six hundred thousand dollars. It seems a lot of money. All right, that's the story, and I hope he gets it. This is a bogus lawsuit, which the judge determined it was I hope that the attorney for this woman has to pay every dollar, not a dime back, and she should have to pay up too. All right, let's get over to Eddie right now, Eddie Garay puck. Let it get excited. There's a trade. We got a trade. Very exciting, all right, think Ben, We start by letting you know at something you probably already know. But the Edge season has come to a close with a Color Avalanche beating the Tampa Bay Lightning in six games to take the Stanley Cup Final, their first title since two thousand and one. Is right, The parade is today, they'll be celebrating. We'll see if they dent the Stanley Cup anymore, as they were already kind of did that earlier. But that that that that trophy's seen those kinds of things before they get a hammer and the hammer that thing out of the foil. It's not, it's not, but it's all. It's it. So the Hockey Hall of Fame welcomed a new uh some new members this past week. Hendrick and Daniel Sadene, identical twin stars the Vancouver Canucks, along with Daniel Albertson and Roberto Luongo, all part of the twenty twenty induction class. The Sadines and Longo were teammates in Vancouver for many years. They were all in their first year of eligibility. For Henrick and Daniel, they both played over a thousand initial games, both scored over a thousand NHL points. They were selected number one and number excuse me, number two and number three overall in the nineteen ninety nine draft. Played their entire career together, all in Vancouver. Rick was the MVP of the league one season and one season. Daniel won a scoring title and was voted the most valuable player by his peers. For long who he played over a thousand games, one forty four to be exact, second most all time in NHL history for a goalie, he asked four hundred and eighty nine wins, fourth all time. Never won the Vezma Trophy as the top goalie of the league, but he was a finalist three times. And Daniel Offerson also played over a thousand NHL games, mostly with the Ottawa Senators. Was a Rookie of the Year, but that was the only only major award that he was able to win. Former Islanders head coach Barry Trot's announce he's taken the season off, doesn't play in the coach next season. Fifty nine year old said he's gonna do is he gonna travel the world, get a boat, go out traveler as possible. The fifty nine year old city needs a break after twenty five straight years of coaching with the Predators, Capitals and Islanders won the Stanley Cup of Washington in twenty eighteen. Does that mean nobody offered him? Drav No. Actually, the the Winnipeg Jets apparently offered him their job, and he said, I had to live in Winnipeg and the winner. He's from Winnipeg, so he knows about that. That's why he knows that. To take that it perhaps well. He's coached one thousand and eight hundred twelve Rivers. He's in games, second most all time, only buying Scotty Bowman, and his nine hundred and fourteen wins are third most all time, behind Bowman and Joel Quinnville. One of my radio friends does a show in Winnipeg. He used to be in Toronto and he does like an afternoon field and he loves it. I've been on there. A few times. I've been on local radio Winnipeg ad Oh the Peg, Yeah, I hear it is damn cold there in the winder. Luke Richardson named the new head coach of the Chicago Blackhawks. He was most recently assistant coach of the Montreal Canadians for four years. Was a former what he was a former head coach in the American Hockey League. Played twenty one years in the NHL as a rugged defenseman, mostly with the Oilers and Flyers. So we told you about the huge coaching bagacy with Winnipeg, Boston, Boston and Detroit also still have not named head coaches for next season. Speaking of the Bruins, they agree on a multi year extension with their general manager Don Sweeney. He was named GM of the Year back in twenty eighteen nineteen in the Bruins with the Stanley Cup Final, and the team has made the playoffs every year since twenty nineteen. Also for the Bruins, captain Patrice burge Round reportedly deciding to return for another season. Thirty six year old recently wrapped up his eighteenth year in Boston won the Selkie Trophy for a record fifth time as the top defensive forward in the game, so he's still he's still well, but still playing well. Ratings for the Stanley Cup. I know Game one was really good. They said that the average four point six million viewers on ABC. That's the most since twenty nineteen. Glad to hear it. Finally, our Los Angeles Kings made a big trade on yet. Did they get it? Yeah? They acquired restricted free agent forward Kevin Fiala from the Minnesota Wild for a prospect and a first round pick. Kings have reportedly agreed with the twenty five year old on a seven year deal worth about eight million dollars a year year contract. I'd like to have a seven years yeah. The King's biggest knee going in the next season was a high scoring left winger, which is Fiala is. He had thirty three goals and fifty two points last season. I've never heard of the guyety. I liked the trade because there's an FM pick straight. That's right. Minnesota couldn't resign him due to their salary cap issues. The pick that the Wild get is the nineteenth overall selection in this year's draft, and the prospect is University of Minnesota defenseman Brock fever, and so they're they're excited to have a homegrown kid there with the Minnesota wild I'm sure that helped the more Saturday works. Fee. Yeah about the key thing right there. So that is your eddie. This is a big deal. They're gonna win the Stanley Cup. Now the Kings are gonna win. Yeah, I don't know about that. But they're better today than they were yesterday. How about that? Good for them, God, Kings go. Great memories that he's been a long time though. We were there two Stanley Cups within a couple of years, not back to back. And the spread, you guys said, great spread there, amazing spread. One of the great nights of food everywhere, all the way to the ceiling. Any kind of food you want, any kind of delicacy, Chinese, Mexican food, you name it, burgers and everything racist, open bar. The NHL knows that the key to get good media coverage is just feed all the fatties in the media and the drunks and give them alcohol. It's drunks in the medio. No, they'll love you forever and ever and ever. Man, was that good? All right? It is the Bennett Mallers Show. As we press on and we are going to have for your dancing and dining pleasure, an iconic segment of radio. And I need some judges to be part of this psychonic segment of radio. It is what we call fact or fiction. So if you want to be one of our judges, call right now. Fact or Fiction is next. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to listen live. Nothing keeps you up at night more than the authentic sound of the Ben Mallers Show. Helped bond with the Mala Militia by listening live from two to six a m. Eastern month day through Friday, and get funky in the audio vault of magical podcasts from past shows. It's as easy as ABC and one two three. Subscribe and give us a five star review. Amplify the Mallard brand NLI from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller. Please Transpit of media. Is it fact for fiction? Let's face some roth fact on the Ben Maller Show. All right, here we go Factor Fiction. Thomas, Welcome in our celebrity panel of judges who are ready to judge this edition of Factor Fiction. And we go to the judges who do We begin with let's see here we have the power couple, Jack, the judge, and Leslie normally in Bradenton, Florida, but it's summertime now, so they're hanging out on Long Island. Hello to Leslie. Are you there? Leslie? Hello? Yes, yes, I am Ben. Can you hear me? Yes, I can, Leslie. How's life good? Great? Great? Hey, hear your voice? All right? Outstanding? Any big plans coming up in the near future? Fourth of July weekend and all that? Oh yes, a wonderful event and sea clift of um this wonderful constitutional reading and shouting out of protests from the crowd. Wonderful events. All right? Any fireworks this weekend? Leslie? Always always? All right? I can see you and Jack out there with a bucket of water and a bunch of fireworks and just shooting them off. Yeah, gotcha? All right, hold on, hold on, Leslie. And we have Tyler in Boston. Is gonna be one of our judges? Hello, Tyler, welcome, how's everything? We tell a you're good? Yes, all right, very good? And are you on your way to work. Are you been up on night? All? I'm home now? Oh cool? What kind of work do you do? File femistry? What's that? I didn't hear you? What? What the heck is going on? All right? All right, hold on whatever, All right, let's just get to the damn questions. Here we go or the stories story nyone lost in translation. Naomi Osak not a fan of the media, so she decided to start her own media company, why Not, and partnership with Lebron James. Osaka named the company Hanakuma, which he says means flower bear in Japanese. The problem is that in Swahili hannah Kuma means woman without a vagina. Yeah, that's a didn't go over well in the Swahili people were not happy unless that's made up. Story number two the Ninjo Warrior with the Olympics competition that show. That competition reality show very popular with twenty international versions. The Olympics are hoping to tap into that popularity. They asked earlier this week that shows signature obstacle course competition will be tested for possible inclusion in the Los Angeles Olympic Games coming up in twenty twenty eight. As part of the modern pentathlon and story number three. Pablo Banchero is yet to play in the NBA, at least not yet with Orlando, but he's already going to the Hall of Fame. Kind of Banchero. Remember the draft, he wore that crazy purple suit Barney the dinosaur type, studded with studded all over with rhinestones, the rhinestone ballplayer. Well, the Naysmith Basketball Hall of Fame apparently liked it. They reached out to Banchero and that suit will be displayed soon in Springfield, Massachusetts. All right, those are the three stories? Which are the three? Is not true? Leslie one, two or three? Leslie, I like number three? Number three? All right, that's the fake one. Tyler one, two or three? Tyler I think, yeah, he's gone. All right, the answer the fake, sir, Leslie. Gotta right, she's the only judge. He gotta write number three. The Benchero story was the fake one this week. Good job, he's gotta murder, gotta go.

Hello and welcome. It's our name, Ber four, hour four of our radio program, the Ben Mallers Show, in living audio color right here for you enjoy and joy and enjoy. So thumbs up or thumbs down on the Philadelphia Eagles being a quote unstoppable All Star team in twenty twenty two, one of their players said that what do you make of the birds humble brag? And is Jalen Hurts the man for the Eagles or our Philly fans hallucinating with the hype where they're starting quarterback. We'll talk about that and more right now in our number four. Here it is for the birds. Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mallers Show. As we are in the air everywhere Bosom Buddies, as we broadcast rain, shine, sun, you name it, coast, stuck, coast, border, the border, and beyond on the mast and unmistakably powerful microphones of fs are emanating live from the wave the microwave of Hot Sports takes the Fox Sports Radio studios at a secret location somewhere in the north Woods. And here we are together again another hour. We'll try not to screw it up for you, try to make it work our lead this hour coming from the NFL. No, this is not a another Deshaun Watson theme Mallard monologue, but it does involve the mouth of an NFL player. It's a rather a twanquil time of the calendar here training camp opens up in less than a month, an opportunity to get a little urn r relaxed, chill, enjoy the summer before the madness spegans in late July, this being the last day of June. Now one member of the Eagles, the Philadelphia Eagles, is overdosing on braggadocio. Now, Miles Sanders is his name. He's our running back. Now, if you didn't hear what he had to say, and perhaps not, he's Miles Sanders. They're probably not paying attention to everything this guy says. But he is a running back in Philly, Miles Sanders, if you missed it, He's entering his fourth season with the Birds. And to say that he is guinea with excitement is an understatement based on the roster transactions that have taken place in Philadelphia. So a reporter caught up with Miles Sanders and he said the following this is a quote. Oh man, we all feel we all feel like we're on an All Star team, so we feel great. Sanders snickered to the reporter. Quote continues, we feel unstoppable. I'm not gonna lie, he said. The vibes are great, always have been. Coach Nick Sirianni is doing a great job just keeping the vibes right, the chemistry good. Quote continues. We compete a lot in practice, but we've got we've got to see it's gonna come down to camp. It take it day by day, putting everything together. Blah blah blah blah blah. Now the key parts of that are all Star team, unstoppable. That's the key parts of that. So okay, then let's discuss the question. Very simple on this one. It's sports radio, it's not brain surgery. So you're an objective person. I'm an objective person. Less, I'm not question is thumbs up or thumbs down on the Eagles being an unstoppable All Star teams circa twenty twenty two in the NFL. So I am going to thumbs down two thumbs down on this. Now, my take, I've got shelf life, vaudevillian, and neurosis, and we'll combine all of these things. Together make the babagan We're gonna make the Barba Ganoos. Now to kick off, let's talk about this guy, Miles Sais. You can say a lot of things about him. He's not lacking confidence, he's not lacking bravado. And I don't mind it. I don't mind it. But when you say that, we have to see if that's a good take or not. And in this condition, the Eagles were nine and eight team last year. He's got delusions of granger. The Eagle roster is better, it's tangibly better, but that doesn't mean the team's gonna win many more games. A. J. Brown, we like him, Hassan Reddick, James Bradbury, some of the other guys they got via the draft. In other ways, these are players we've heard of. These are players that have many of them have done well, whether it be at the top level of college football or in the NFL. And so looking at this from the outside, the Eagles have fortified their roster. But as a sportscaster told me years ago, stats tell you what has happened, not what's going to happen, good or bad. That's why they play the games. It's how you perform in the heat of the moment. And so we promise you that the comments by Miles Sanders, we'll have a pretty long shelf life. This is not something that's gonna go away. This is gonna stick around here. Every time Philadelphia has a bad practice, every time a player under a cheese, every time they lose a game where a player gets hurt, the words unstoppable all star will pop back up. And we imagine the printing press is already working overtime on shirts and signs in the greater Dallas area for when the Eagles pay their yearly visit to Jerry's World, so people can mock and ridicule the words of Miles Sunders of the Eagles, but such as life in the big city now. Meanwhile, Sanders mentioned he's a running back and he was asked what he needs to get better at this season. Everyone has to improve. He then deadpanned he just needed the ball more. And Sanders statistically has been fine. He's been really good between the forties. He's one of the better running backs in the NFL. Yards per carry averaged five point five yards per carry. But the key is to put the ball in the end zone, and he had major issues finding pay dirt in Philly last year, did not have a touchdown. He had twenty red zone carries, ten of them inside the ten yard line and five of them inside the five yard line and failed to get in the end zone. Now further, let's get back to the statement again. We're breaking down parsing the words of Miles Sanders. He's a running back who said that the Eagles aren't going to be unstoppable and an All star team in twenty twenty two. So what do you make of the humble brag? It's a flashback. It's a flashback because Miles Sanders is chandling his inner Vince Young. I'm barely old enough to remember this, but I know the Eagle fans. Remember the Eagle fans, They know a thing or two about bold predictions because they've seen it, right, they've lived it, those bold predictions that go bad. And it's like a vaudevillian quote from a guy named Walter Winchell, who was a radio guy in the old days and reporter he observed about life. He said, the same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people. That the events continue and it just just a series of events that repeat themselves as the generations change. Similar things happened. But let's set the way back machine to the year twenty eleven. Way back in twenty eleven, a long time eleven years ago, Philadelphia was coming off a ten and sixth season. They had Andy Reid as the coach. They had lost in the wild card round to twenty ten, and they opened up the bank accounts and they went out and they signed at the time players who were of name value, namd Asamoa, Dominique Rogers, Cromarti, and Vince Young, among others. And Vince Young, the quarterback out of Texas, famously called that Philadelphia Eagle team the dream team. He said that that is the dream team. And right about then, right after he said it, a trapdoor opened up and the Philadelphia Eagles entire team bus. They all got in there and they took stupid pills and they all played like a bunch of amateurs. They had an eight and eight season. That was back when Michael Vick was the quarterback in Philly and Vince Young he was the backup. He started three games and never played in the NFL again. After calling the Eagles the dream team. Now, don't get me wrong. I don't mind the bulletin board material. In fact, as a talk traw host, I love it. I love it. Give me mare, give me mare, give me more. But the rules are, if you're gonna talk to talk, you gotta walk to walk. That's always been the problem. There's there's a couple of things to be like it. Is it legitimate or just hyperbole? That's the first thing, and then the second thing, is it possible to back it up? I don't see it being possible for the Eagles. I don't. And part of the reason is the parting shot on this is Jalen Hurts the man or just a guy for the Eagles. Now the fans seem to be hallucinating, so as Jalen Hurts the guy for the Eagles, or are Philly fans just hallucinating? So based on what I have seen the eyeball test with my bifocals, and also based on the stats, it is neurosis is what it is. A Jalen Hurts is a better sound bite then he is a quarterback. One of the great quotes not that long ago Eagles had lost the game. I think it was last year against the Cowboys. And remember Jalen dropped the timeless. He was asked how the team's gonna you handle the loss, something along those lines, and he said, when you take your deuce, you don't sit there and look at it. You flush it and move on. It's a great quote, one of the great thinkers of our time. But on the field, Jalen Hurts is often guilty of football malpractice throwing the ball. He's a pretty efficient runner. But ultimately, with all these running quarterbacks, the ones that have had success in the playoffs have been able to throw the ball. You're judged ultimately by throwing because in the playoffs you play better teams. They're able to contain the running game, and so you have limited skill set throwing the ball. You're not going to be that great playoff quarterback. Now, as far as Jalen Hurts, my evidence that there's a lot of hallucinating going on with the Eagle fans, the numbers don't lie. Jalen Hurts last season was seventeenth in yards per attempt. He was tied with Teddy Bridgewater and Baker Mayfield. Now Bridgewaters changed teams and so did Mayfield. Twenty second in passing touchdowns. Again, tied with Baker Mayfield, who lost his job in Cleveland, twenty six in quarterback rating, behind the likes of Daniel Jones, keeping up with the Joneses and Taylor Heineken in the division. That's those are the numbers. But wait, there's more. Jalen Hurts. The biggest knock on Jalen Hurts is he's not actor. Now. Eagle apologists will say, well, it's because of the receivers, and now with better receivers, he'll be fine. We'll find out about that. He was twenty eighth in completion percentage last season, behind Carson Wentz who lost his job, Jacoby Brissette who changed teams, and Andy Dolton, who also I believe changed teams. So you look at that. Hurts also chucked the ball down the field twenty plus yards about fifteen percent of the time last season, fourth most in the NFL. But he only connected on less than forty percent of those throws, which is not very good. And so the thinking is with aj Brown that that will be the difference. That's the great equalizer, and how much better will Aj Brown the receiver make Jalen Hurts the quarterback. So I'm skeptical because I look at a guy like Ryan Tannehill, who had been a pretty good regular season quarterback with A. J. Brown. Last season, Tannehill fell off the cliff, but in the playoffs Tannehill has been a problem. And with AJ Brown last season in the Music City, Tannehill was the twenty first ranked quarterback in the NFL. So did AJ Brown and his immen's abilities really make that big a difference with Ryan Tannehill a year ago? I would argue Now, it's what I would argue. It is the Bannet Mallers Show. Oh if you would like to comment on that or anything else, you can join us here at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine. 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We begin with a rant about Miles Sanders, who he's a running back for the Philadelphia Eagles, who won on a rant, very confident in his squad. We are not, but he is, and he gets paid by the Eagles, going on and on about how they're unstoppable All Star team blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Okay, then the malar militia reacting and who do we have here? Fur Dogs says, how can the Eagles be an All Star team when they have that bum? Jalen Hurts at quarterback, The Great Nick Foles isn't walking through that door anymore. Even Pukey McNabb would be a massive upgrade. So he says, Stephen Meatballs in Florida's this great monologue on the delusional Miles Sanders. It's no wonder his nickname is Booby Miles. I haven't heard so much phony hype since the last time Tyreek Hill went on about TUA. Sounds like Sanders put his company man hat on, jockeying for position in the Philly backfield. He says, he says, look out, if Miles Sanders thinks they've got an all star team in Philly in the Pro Bowl, We've all seen how all star teams play, no blocking, no tackling. Philly already has done, hasn't done any of that since they won their lucky, magical Super Bowl. They were nine and eight last year, the Eagles. They didn't beat one good team. They didn't they didn't beat anybody that made the playoffs. They took advantage, to their credit, the NFC East blows, and they took advantage of all the teams that suck in their division and some other bad teams that they played last season to make it all work all right. So the phones and ain'ty meany money more. Let's say a little Poppy, who's in San Diego. It's picking with Poppy, who gave us some terrible picks, horrible picks yesterday. Poppy. We we can't keep this bit going unless the picks get better, Poppy. We're gonna have to come up with a different pick you here, thing here, Poppy. Oh, they welcome better Today we're gonna have today. We're gonna have to quats roll back Tom, meaning we're gonna pick four picks today. And hold on, Poppy, hold on, before you go ahead, I want you to announce how bad your picks were yesterday. I do agree. We both went oh on one yesterday. I mem Ben Ben all win and oh one with his match, and we did we did do bad. I did do bad. I listen you. You said, hey, pick a game. I did not handicap the game. I just I threw out a team, the Mats, who got shut out. This is your segment here, Poppy. This is your baby, and the baby's starving right now. I'm crying, yes, and I was crying because the Rockies did lose. And it's okay, doctors. How could the Rockies lose. That was their super Bowl, and the Dodgers didn't care about it. I don't understand it was the super Bowl. But you know what, I have another super Bowl for the pick on the quadrifecta, and it's gonna be a good pick. And we're gonna go four. And oh, we're gonna go four. And oh that's a lie. You will no, there's no way you go for and I do have no no, no, we will go four, an o, and I do have some breaking news. Well, hurry up, we don't have all that, all right, breaking news, breaking news from Fox Sports, breaking news from Poppy, breaking news. Tomorrow we're gonna have the Padress against the Dodgers, the best game of the year, and whispers around me says that Manny, yes, a man in my chatto is gonna make his debut against the hometown Dodgers. Is or X team, and who I have here, I'm taking the best picture Tomorrow the podres most grow underdog plus one oh five and tomorrow that's today. Bobby hasn't gone to bed yet, and to favor our starves, we're gonna take the under egg under a low scoring all right, that's two fixed, all right, to pick, and also the Oakland eight plus one eighty, we're gonna take them, and we're all being the worst team in baseball. It's now mine Seattle's minus two twenty five now. But that's a terrible pick. It's okay the Opland eh, and we're gonna take the Yankees, and don't worry Ben. Tomorrow, we are gonna talk on the picks with Poppy USC two seventy six. And last but not late, let's say that Roberto, can you please tell me when you're gonna go to the Dodger game. I think it's gonna be a Sunday, so we can pick it. And we know every single time you go to the game, Dodgers loose, so we're gonna be picking up. You aren't going to the Dodger game tonight right now. So he did pick the Podres so that it's looking good for Poppy. If the Roberto jinx is in effect here where you you go out with about the A's and the Mariners, it's a terrible pick. There's no way the A's are gonna beat Logan and Gilbert on the mountain. I wouldn't bet on the Oakland Athletics. They have been terrible baseball all certainly the last month. Terrible picks, Poppy, bad pick, bad picking with Poppy and the mar and the Yankees and Ashralls. I wouldn't touch that. I would stay away from that. Also, Yeah, that's crazy. Let's go to the phones again. Let's say hello to the Dixter in Dayton. Hello Dick in Dayton, Good morning guys. Happy, happy fill July. Yeah, happy new year, Happy Fourth of July weekend, happy birthday. Yeah, the whole thing. And it's a very exciting time of the year. Yeah. Is big plans for the fourth of July, Dixter, Yeah, we got I go Strubbers today. We got a little party today and then Saturday I go to the dulcemurt group. We're gonna have a little party, and I think the fourth they're going to get together at the rec Center and Cassie the director. I've been playing up there for the Senior Citizens and uh made a pretty good hit up there, Ben and Crewe. It's pretty good. Yeah. How many people? How many people come out to see you perform there? Usually it's a Senior Citizens. There's probably thirty forty people there. You go and are they singing? And dancing having a grand time, do they. Oh yeah, we have a good time, a good time. Yeah, yeast there. And are you going to be sending off any fireworks this weekend? No, no, I'm not into fireworks. Oh you do not like fireworks? Interesting? Why not? I just one year when I was little, I got scared, you know, one practically I was around it and it got close to me, almost got hurt. I've been scared since then. Well that's a good reason to be scared of fireworks. Yeah, yeah, it's a good reason to avoid them. I saw about the rounds, the new um the new color uh color band that's gonna be He worked on the sidelines. I don't know much about him. Racist what's his name, Nathan Zigura? Na Zigura? Mean yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know who that is. No, No, I've never you know, I'm done the miss Doug Deacon though, I'll tell you. He was a legend up there, you know. So I hear you, Well, what's he gonna do now he's retired, what's he gonna He can hang out with you and watch the games you tube watch. Yeah, yeah, that would be good. That would be good. Well, down here, there's no hope you know where. We're trying to find a different team the Reds. Uh. I think from going in the higher river ban it's not too good. You would like to send the Reds to the bottom of the Ohio River. Yeah, Dick won't be denied. His name is Dave and he's known as Dave. Now, Dick, I want you to know I'll be in here on the four July. Okay, I'll be doing the radio. Okay, So I'll be here because you always call me on the holidays. You always check in on the holidays. That's the thing. Yeah, all right, well, thank you, all right, bye bye bye bye. All right, there it goes. And I want you to know that he is more upset about Doug Deacon leaving the radio team of the Browns than Doug Deacon is about no longer doing the Browns games. Anyway. Congratulations Dick, Yeah, thanks, Ben, We do sound very soon within five games, Dick and Dayton will be best friends with Nathan Zigura and Gerad Cherry. They'll be like buddy Buddy, hanging out, having a great time and be wonderful. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Hey, this is Jason McIntyre. Join me every weekday morning on my podcast, Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. This is your typical sports pod, pushing the same tired narratives down your throat every day. Straight Fire gives you honest opinions on all the biggest sports headlines, accurate stats to help you win big at the sports book, and all the best guests. Do yourself a favor and listen to Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So we've talked a lot about the Sean Watson who paid a bunch of hush money. Twenty women got paid off by Watson who had accused him of being a creepster. There was a story about a very well known international athlete, Ronald Though, he was accused of rape by a woman in Vegas and it was determined that that was not a credible situation, that they did have a mutual trip to Romance Land back years ago. And so this woman had filed a loss suit against Christiano Ronaldo and the lawsuit got tossed out of court. Now you might have heard about that. But not only did he get tossed out of court, a US district judge did not allow the case to be refiled, that it was a frivolous lawsuit. Well, the lawyers for Ronaldo are asking a judge now to have the woman's lawyer, the woman that wrongly accused Ronaldo of raping her, to pay him the attorney fees. Now, I want to see if you guys can guess how much the attorney fees are. Real quick, and we're gonna go to Eddie's, gonna have bucked the world and all that. But I saw this number. I said, wow, this is a wild number. So the attorneys said for every hour they worked on the case, nearly twelve hundred hours of work the attorney fees twelve hundred hours. That's how long they claimed they worked on this. Yes, so how much money are Christiano Ronaldo, international soccer star, man of mystery? How much are his attorneys asking the judge to pay? Have the other attorney pay them? Coop? When you seem like your most interested in this coop, you want to take a guess here, I am going to say no, don't get crazy on me. Here, one million, one million. All right, I'm gonna say twenty four million. Twenty four million, all right, Eddie. All right, so how many hours you said? So, the lawyers claimed. Ronaldo's lawyers claimed in court that they want to be paid for every hour that near the twelve hundred hours of work. I'll say math right, now, I'll say three million. All right. Well you have all gone over the showcase, show down that win. I'm sorry. See, I thought this is a lot of money, but now you guys make me feel like an idiot because you all went higher than I thought. Six hundred and twenty six thousand dollars is how much they're asking for. They claim. The attorneys for Ronaldo get per billable hour anywhere between three hundred and fifty dollars an hour to eight hundred fifty dollars an hour. See, that would have been my guests, But because you brought it up, I thought it was something insane. Yeah, well, I mean that's insane though, I thought, mean that's a I don't believable about the money. Six six hundred thousand dollars. It seems a lot of money. All right, that's the story, and I hope he gets it. This is a bogus lawsuit, which the judge determined it was I hope that the attorney for this woman has to pay every dollar, not a dime back, and she should have to pay up too. All right, let's get over to Eddie right now, Eddie Garay puck. Let it get excited. There's a trade. We got a trade. Very exciting, all right, think Ben, We start by letting you know at something you probably already know. But the Edge season has come to a close with a Color Avalanche beating the Tampa Bay Lightning in six games to take the Stanley Cup Final, their first title since two thousand and one. Is right, The parade is today, they'll be celebrating. We'll see if they dent the Stanley Cup anymore, as they were already kind of did that earlier. But that that that that trophy's seen those kinds of things before they get a hammer and the hammer that thing out of the foil. It's not, it's not, but it's all. It's it. So the Hockey Hall of Fame welcomed a new uh some new members this past week. Hendrick and Daniel Sadene, identical twin stars the Vancouver Canucks, along with Daniel Albertson and Roberto Luongo, all part of the twenty twenty induction class. The Sadines and Longo were teammates in Vancouver for many years. They were all in their first year of eligibility. For Henrick and Daniel, they both played over a thousand initial games, both scored over a thousand NHL points. They were selected number one and number excuse me, number two and number three overall in the nineteen ninety nine draft. Played their entire career together, all in Vancouver. Rick was the MVP of the league one season and one season. Daniel won a scoring title and was voted the most valuable player by his peers. For long who he played over a thousand games, one forty four to be exact, second most all time in NHL history for a goalie, he asked four hundred and eighty nine wins, fourth all time. Never won the Vezma Trophy as the top goalie of the league, but he was a finalist three times. And Daniel Offerson also played over a thousand NHL games, mostly with the Ottawa Senators. Was a Rookie of the Year, but that was the only only major award that he was able to win. Former Islanders head coach Barry Trot's announce he's taken the season off, doesn't play in the coach next season. Fifty nine year old said he's gonna do is he gonna travel the world, get a boat, go out traveler as possible. The fifty nine year old city needs a break after twenty five straight years of coaching with the Predators, Capitals and Islanders won the Stanley Cup of Washington in twenty eighteen. Does that mean nobody offered him? Drav No. Actually, the the Winnipeg Jets apparently offered him their job, and he said, I had to live in Winnipeg and the winner. He's from Winnipeg, so he knows about that. That's why he knows that. To take that it perhaps well. He's coached one thousand and eight hundred twelve Rivers. He's in games, second most all time, only buying Scotty Bowman, and his nine hundred and fourteen wins are third most all time, behind Bowman and Joel Quinnville. One of my radio friends does a show in Winnipeg. He used to be in Toronto and he does like an afternoon field and he loves it. I've been on there. A few times. I've been on local radio Winnipeg ad Oh the Peg, Yeah, I hear it is damn cold there in the winder. Luke Richardson named the new head coach of the Chicago Blackhawks. He was most recently assistant coach of the Montreal Canadians for four years. Was a former what he was a former head coach in the American Hockey League. Played twenty one years in the NHL as a rugged defenseman, mostly with the Oilers and Flyers. So we told you about the huge coaching bagacy with Winnipeg, Boston, Boston and Detroit also still have not named head coaches for next season. Speaking of the Bruins, they agree on a multi year extension with their general manager Don Sweeney. He was named GM of the Year back in twenty eighteen nineteen in the Bruins with the Stanley Cup Final, and the team has made the playoffs every year since twenty nineteen. Also for the Bruins, captain Patrice burge Round reportedly deciding to return for another season. Thirty six year old recently wrapped up his eighteenth year in Boston won the Selkie Trophy for a record fifth time as the top defensive forward in the game, so he's still he's still well, but still playing well. Ratings for the Stanley Cup. I know Game one was really good. They said that the average four point six million viewers on ABC. That's the most since twenty nineteen. Glad to hear it. Finally, our Los Angeles Kings made a big trade on yet. Did they get it? Yeah? They acquired restricted free agent forward Kevin Fiala from the Minnesota Wild for a prospect and a first round pick. Kings have reportedly agreed with the twenty five year old on a seven year deal worth about eight million dollars a year year contract. I'd like to have a seven years yeah. The King's biggest knee going in the next season was a high scoring left winger, which is Fiala is. He had thirty three goals and fifty two points last season. I've never heard of the guyety. I liked the trade because there's an FM pick straight. That's right. Minnesota couldn't resign him due to their salary cap issues. The pick that the Wild get is the nineteenth overall selection in this year's draft, and the prospect is University of Minnesota defenseman Brock fever, and so they're they're excited to have a homegrown kid there with the Minnesota wild I'm sure that helped the more Saturday works. Fee. Yeah about the key thing right there. So that is your eddie. This is a big deal. They're gonna win the Stanley Cup. Now the Kings are gonna win. Yeah, I don't know about that. But they're better today than they were yesterday. How about that? Good for them, God, Kings go. Great memories that he's been a long time though. We were there two Stanley Cups within a couple of years, not back to back. And the spread, you guys said, great spread there, amazing spread. One of the great nights of food everywhere, all the way to the ceiling. Any kind of food you want, any kind of delicacy, Chinese, Mexican food, you name it, burgers and everything racist, open bar. The NHL knows that the key to get good media coverage is just feed all the fatties in the media and the drunks and give them alcohol. It's drunks in the medio. No, they'll love you forever and ever and ever. Man, was that good? All right? It is the Bennett Mallers Show. As we press on and we are going to have for your dancing and dining pleasure, an iconic segment of radio. And I need some judges to be part of this psychonic segment of radio. It is what we call fact or fiction. So if you want to be one of our judges, call right now. Fact or Fiction is next. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to listen live. 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Great? Great? Hey, hear your voice? All right? Outstanding? Any big plans coming up in the near future? Fourth of July weekend and all that? Oh yes, a wonderful event and sea clift of um this wonderful constitutional reading and shouting out of protests from the crowd. Wonderful events. All right? Any fireworks this weekend? Leslie? Always always? All right? I can see you and Jack out there with a bucket of water and a bunch of fireworks and just shooting them off. Yeah, gotcha? All right, hold on, hold on, Leslie. And we have Tyler in Boston. Is gonna be one of our judges? Hello, Tyler, welcome, how's everything? We tell a you're good? Yes, all right, very good? And are you on your way to work. Are you been up on night? All? I'm home now? Oh cool? What kind of work do you do? File femistry? What's that? I didn't hear you? What? What the heck is going on? All right? All right, hold on whatever, All right, let's just get to the damn questions. Here we go or the stories story nyone lost in translation. Naomi Osak not a fan of the media, so she decided to start her own media company, why Not, and partnership with Lebron James. Osaka named the company Hanakuma, which he says means flower bear in Japanese. The problem is that in Swahili hannah Kuma means woman without a vagina. Yeah, that's a didn't go over well in the Swahili people were not happy unless that's made up. Story number two the Ninjo Warrior with the Olympics competition that show. That competition reality show very popular with twenty international versions. The Olympics are hoping to tap into that popularity. They asked earlier this week that shows signature obstacle course competition will be tested for possible inclusion in the Los Angeles Olympic Games coming up in twenty twenty eight. As part of the modern pentathlon and story number three. Pablo Banchero is yet to play in the NBA, at least not yet with Orlando, but he's already going to the Hall of Fame. Kind of Banchero. Remember the draft, he wore that crazy purple suit Barney the dinosaur type, studded with studded all over with rhinestones, the rhinestone ballplayer. Well, the Naysmith Basketball Hall of Fame apparently liked it. They reached out to Banchero and that suit will be displayed soon in Springfield, Massachusetts. All right, those are the three stories? Which are the three? Is not true? Leslie one, two or three? Leslie, I like number three? Number three? All right, that's the fake one. Tyler one, two or three? Tyler I think, yeah, he's gone. All right, the answer the fake, sir, Leslie. Gotta right, she's the only judge. He gotta write number three. The Benchero story was the fake one this week. Good job, he's gotta murder, gotta go.