Dodging Bookies
The Ben Maller Show
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2017
⏱️ 162 minutes
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Brian Noe fills in for Ben Maller & discusses James Harrison being signed by the Patriots, Eli Apple being called a cancer by his teammate, whining about bad calls, & more!
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| 0:30.6 | I don't know why the NBA |
| 0:32.2 | doesn't just call the last two-minute report, |
| 0:36.2 | the Donagie Report. |
| 0:38.2 | That's really all it is. |
| 0:40.2 | The NBA comes out after Christmas Day when the Cavs got completely hosed and they made it official. |
| 0:47.1 | The Cavs have officially been hosed when the officials swallowed the whistles at the end of the game. |
| 0:55.3 | We know what's going on here. The NBA is basically saying, hey, hey, hey, hold on. |
| 1:00.7 | We're not shady. We're just bad at what we do. |
| 1:05.7 | That's essentially what the two-minute report is, aka the Donagie report. |
| 1:12.2 | We're not on the take. |
| 1:13.8 | We're not fixing games here. |
| 1:15.9 | We're not point shaving or anything like that. |
| 1:18.3 | We're just, we're bad at calling games accurately. |
| 1:22.5 | So we just want to let you know. |
| 1:24.0 | We want everything to be on the up and up here. |
| 1:27.0 | Just so you to understand, we're bad at what we do. |
| 1:30.5 | That's really what it comes down to. It doesn't help anything. |
| 1:34.3 | It doesn't help anything in terms of the wrong calls being corrected. |
| 1:40.3 | So there are four calls that the NBA mentioned in their two-minute report, |
| 1:47.0 | a.k.a. the Donagie report, including the final drive by LeBron James. |
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