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They called 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:58.639 it puzzo greasing. 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:04.080 The Olympics were banned in three ninety six a d 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:08.919 by the Romans. They considered athletic competition a pagan ritual 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.760 in direct conflict with Christianity. So the Olympic Games went 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:17.720 on hiatus for fifteen hundred years until the modern Olympics. 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:23.160 The gan in Athens in eighteen ninety six. A lot 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.880 of puzzo grease and matt you know, a couple of 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.960 pre stop each other time without the putso grease. In Pe, 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:31.680 that's not okay. 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:33.799 We occupied by the Turks. You know, a lot of 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.520 stuff going on around there. All right. It is time 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.240 for quick hits. Everybody pms quickeits. 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:40.560 I'll make it quick, y'all. 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:49.840 Oh yeah, Dodger pictures and catchers. A fishery report to 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:55.400 fishery report to camelback ranch. Who's back? 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.280 Camel bag? David Vassay's back. That's who not yet. 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.440 A lot of the players are there, not vass A 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:08.120 shut Oh, Tony Edwin Diaz both threw off the mound today. 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:12.600 As Matt was just intimating during our intro, here's a 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:17.280 little bit of manager Dave Roberts with the media first 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:17.840 day good. 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.040 I think that just kind of obviously getting the pictures 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.719 catchers here. A majority of the position players are here already. 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:30.440 Guys are anxious, you know. I think for me it's 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.480 we got a long camp, longer than we've had in 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.320 the recent years. So to try to get guys to 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:41.919 start slow but intentional, methodical is kind of the message. 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.520 But yeah, it'll be good to get guys on the field. 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.120 We were talking yesterday about all the pictures in their 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.359 different phases of ramp up and so on. Is that 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.520 the number one job that spring to figure out where 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:56.159 everybody is and who's available? 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:56.680 It is? 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:57.080 It is. 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.919 I think a lot of the veteran I sort of 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.520 know where they're at, what it's going to take to 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:07.200 get him ready. Younger guys, I think certain some of 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.920 the guys that are coming off injury, guys that had 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:14.800 a bigger workload last year and just trying to bucket 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:19.599 those guys together individually, but I think the main thing 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:23.039 is just kind of ramp up methodically and really not 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:28.200 try to start have a certain target date. And everyone's 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.200 on a different program. But yeah, as long as they're 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.440 kind of improving, which I feel right now, we got 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:33.880 a healthy group right now. 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.400 Yeah, I'm amoto going to face hitters today. Are you 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:40.640 at all nervous about his workload last year and then 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:41.919 pitching in the WBC. 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:48.680 I wouldn't say, I think that incredibly that. I just 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:53.720 believe that he knows his limitations and he's prepared, so 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:55.920 I'm not too concerned about it. 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.600 Kay, how many how many games are I know our 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.480 first one is a week from Saturday that is their 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.200 first spring training game against the Angels. But how many 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.280 are we gonna play here over these twenty five or so? 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:10.640 As last year? 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:14.040 I think we got fifteen plus the Freeway Series fifteen 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:18.960 plus the Freeway so pretty much we're looking at a 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:23.240 lot of nooners on the weekdays moving forward of spring 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:27.520 training baseball from any well, I'm just you know, I 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.520 I was like, well, is the twenty first the first one? 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:31.839 Or is that just the first? And then when I 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:33.280 looked I was like, man, look at this. 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.720 I remember that time change hits Rogan and Rodney and 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:37.320 they just really take take it off. 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:42.840 I mean, you know, you got twenty Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:48.000 all nooners right Thursday Friday. I mean, I can just 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.080 see the people driving around town feeling so good about 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:54.000 the back to back World Series champion Dodgers playing spring 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:58.480 training ball at noon. Rating into the Petros Money Show, bloated. 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:04.920 I would assume they would very exciting moving forward. 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.400 Sadly Alex Vessi, but great to have him back, spoke 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.960 publicly today for the first time since losing a newborn 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:15.120 daughter during last year's World Series. Reading from an emotionally 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.440 charged statement for a little more than six minutes in it, 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.680 Vesia thanked the Dodgers for their support and revealed he 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:25.400 and his wife have thought have sought therapy to help 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:28.400 them with the grieving process. He implored others who have 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:32.360 navigated a similar tragedy to do the same. Alex VESSI 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.360 a great guy, and let's hope that the baseball season 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.760 can be an outlet for him and his wife and 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.960 their family. And it's nice to see him back in 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.560 spring training as I'm sure Dave will be talking about 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.240 in the days to come, and Tim Kates with more 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:52.720 on that on Dodger Talk at seven o'clock. The Clippers 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:56.720 basically matt ended Chris Paul's career, which is up in 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:57.560 the middle of the night. 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.080 Yeah, and you know that's that's probably the right way. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.880 Didn't seem like he was really up for it anymore. 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.360 It was released by the Raptors. After being picked up. 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:11.040 You mentioned, the Clippers sent them home, waived him. The 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.560 Raptors traded for him at the trade deadline so the 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.360 Clippers could make some financial movement in order to acquire 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.680 the talent they did and send out the contracts they did. 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.360 It was more transactional than the Raptors wanted Chris Paul, 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.640 so he announced his retirement. He wasn't going to report 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:29.000 to Toronto twenty one seasons. He is forty. He is 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.520 a twelve time All Star and eleven time All NBA player, 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:37.079 nine time All Defensive, nine times All Defensive Team member. 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:38.800 He was the Rookie of the Year. He won two 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.240 Gold medals. He was a member of the NBA seventy 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:47.440 fifth Anniversary Team. Career numbers second all time in assists, 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:52.800 behind only John Stockton in both assists and steals. Of course, 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:57.959 Paul moving from the Hornets to the Clippers, to the 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.080 Suns to the Thunder to the Rockets, all of his 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:06.800 trava as traveling through the NBA unfortunately failed to produce one. 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.400 He did make the NBA Finals the one year with 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:15.120 the Suns, but sadly, uh the no doubt about it, 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.439 first ballot Hall of Famer ends his career without an 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:19.640 NBA championship. 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.680 Even Gary Payton picked one up at the Miami Heat 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.720 All Star Weekend this Sunday, and the new format is 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:30.120 USA versus the Internacial Now. Kevin Durant was asked about 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.560 the intensity of the guys on TV USA and if 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.240 they will play hard. 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.600 You should ask the Europeans, if the world team, if 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.840 they gonna compete. I mean, because we look at Luka, 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:44.520 Doncis and Nicolea Jokis. Now let's go back and look 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.840 at what they do at the All Star Game. Is 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:47.559 that competition? 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:49.120 So we haven't. 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.200 Questioned what they've been doing, but we're gonna question old 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:55.400 his in the Americans. But these two dudes out there, 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:59.840 Luca and Jokis, they don't care about the game. Man, Oh, 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.560 these dudes be laying on the floor. They shoot from 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.960 half court. But you got worried about the old heads 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.320 playing hard? They say it was the worst All Star 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.720 game that people watch. You know, so we all see 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:13.280 you know what I'm saying, and who knows what's gonna happen. 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.640 This format might change the game, but who knows. 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.880 We'll see m seems like you can you just ask 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:20.559 both of you guys. 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.200 Yeah, they show up too. 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.680 You're gonna it's gonna play hard. He cares a big 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:29.240 deal that, you know, world. 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:32.400 Versus Why don't you ask the black guys? Right, I'll 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:34.679 tell you who I can't say that. The European guys 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:35.400 can't say that. 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.680 Well, I think, you know, trying to think of what 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.320 you know, Giannis might take offense to that. Y. I'm 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.600 international and I'm black. You can ask me and knock 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.160 out both questions. Check me out. 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:48.920 My name is big Head and I'm black. 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:50.040 What Sega is like? 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:50.560 What about me? 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:51.400 I'm from Canada? 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:53.960 Yeah, why don't you ask the international guys? 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:55.720 My name's Ted Gage and I'm white. 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:59.320 Why don't you ask some of these freaking, weird, freaking 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:04.800 euro freaks. They're gonna play. UCLA is in at Arbor 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.760 tomorrow morning to take on Michigan. Former brewin a Die 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.840 Mara is on the Michigan team. Although he's evil now 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.559 with a goatee and a fuller face. He played two 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.320 years for mc cronin. Here's Mick on if he has 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:23.000 any emotions going into this game facing goateed and evil 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:23.720 ade Mara. 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:28.960 Another game, buddy, It's Life in the Portal. If you 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.160 were to, like when you asked me about stuff like that, 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.520 I'll give you an honest answer. The only game that 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:37.720 would bring about any emotion for me, It'd be really 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.880 hard for me. He's if I had to coach against Cincinnati. 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:42.640 Life in the. 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.760 Portal, Man, Yeah, you know, well, I'll tell you what 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.719 you want to bring it like emotion of former players. 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.440 I love Will mcclindon. He's got off to a great 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:53.720 start at North Texas in his last year and towards 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:55.760 ACL again. I don't know if you guys know that 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.679 I'm talking about early at Oregon State. I actually was 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.800 sitting at home late night watching Will. He's playing great 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.000 last play. The gaming tours say the same via you know, 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:09.520 but he'll get another year of give more than I am. 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:11.880 But I actually talked to him a few days after 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:13.600 that because you know, I just check it on him. 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.319 He's just the greatest guy ever. But no, just I'm 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:17.840 worried about Michigan, my friend. 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:22.680 All right, thanks? Now wait he played. That's when we'll 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.240 get the handkerchance and get ready for something about knots. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.160 I'm gonna be on the toilet for an hour. 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:28.280 Before to pump it up. 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.959 To pump it up, Matt, What did happen with the Yeah, 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:36.000 we discussed it a little bit earlier. The NFL PA, 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.040 one of our favorite days of the year, will no 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:43.720 longer be able to share the Union report card, uh, 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:48.840 the anonymous player rankings and grades for each NFL franchise 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.880 that would talk about the food and the prices. 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:53.960 To wait for it every year, Matt. I wait for 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.360 it every year like the newspaper with my picture on it, 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:58.680 you know, when I was in high school, waiting. 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:00.520 For it to show up, not going to get it. 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.960 NFL filed the grievance, took it to arbitration. 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.280 Hey, the NFL that's made up of the owners that 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.680 are being criticized, killed the bill that criticized them. 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:13.520 Turns out they did okay. The grievance against the NFLPA 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:17.000 was filed in August. The grievance stemmed from the CBA 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.680 Article fifty one, Section six, and they went, it's right there. 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:25.520 Read it right there. It says that the NFLPA and 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.760 League Management Council need to use reasonable efforts to curtail 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:32.600 public comments by club personnel or players which express criticism 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:37.719 of any club. Despite the NFL filing the grievance, the 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:41.760 NFLPA continued to survey players for twenty twenty five in November. 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.360 Since twenty twenty three, the report cards have ranked teams 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:50.080 from best to worst on criteria like state of the 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:54.200 workout facilities, how they treat their families, how good is 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.040 the on site food, what's the locker room look like? 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:58.640 A do you what do you think? Give of your owner? 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:03.880 How's the team travel? Seventeen one hundred players participated in 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.760 the twenty twenty five nflp A report card survey, and 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:10.800 they will no longer be able to share their fine 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:14.600 deans publicly. As we mentioned, one of our favorite ones, 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:19.680 the New England Patriots team plane does not have Wi Fi, 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:25.120 but the armrests each still have ash trace so they 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:26.360 got that going pay. 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.040 Anohy' wrong with that? Spending our money in other places? 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:29.680 That's right. 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.840 Massage come if you got them. Massage. It's important. It's 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:36.560 important for athletes. I we'll be back with Don McClain 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:40.680 and some basketball love and information live from Oregon. 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Greetings from the Sweet Cheeks 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.400 Winery in the South Willammett Valley. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.560 How's that? How's that juice in the wilamb at these days? Don? 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:26.640 How's it going out there? 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.240 Well, I haven't got it started yet. I'm waiting till 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:30.880 I finished with you guys, and then I will be 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:32.560 in there and I'll let you know how it goes. 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:37.240 But the Sweet Cheeks Winery, South Willamett Valley, I. 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.400 Heard that they a lot of the glasses that they 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.760 serve there are with a wine there and have holes 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:43.120 in them, So you want to look out for that. 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:48.400 Ironically, ironically, getting off the elevator to get into our 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.240 uber to come here, there's a guy in his son 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:55.280 in the elevator and he literally said I love you 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:56.480 on Petros and money. 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:01.960 Wow, sweet cheeks forever, we got the sweetest cheeks in 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:08.320 the city. Uh. Now, Donna, Ucla and Michigan going at 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:13.520 it tomorrow morning early evil goateed a Die Mara on 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:18.520 a top five Michigan team and are scrappy Bruins gonna 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:22.000 gonna clash? What do you think's gonna happen? And that 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:23.959 Michigan looks like a pretty good team, a big dan, 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.120 pretty good conference in I. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.160 Think Michigan's best team in the country. I think I've 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.159 told you guys that I think that'll play out. That 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.520 doesn't mean they're gonna win a national championship, but just 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.000 you look at their roster and just how many different 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.920 ways they can play big, small, athletic, non athletic long 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:41.679 I just wonder though, and I thought about that, like, 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.840 what where's Mara's head head at going into that game? 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.880 Is he mad at Ucla? Is he mad at Mick Cronin? 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.880 Is there nothing there is? Ucla like gonna play more 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.840 motivated because Mara went to Michigan. I think it'll be 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.080 interesting to see how that plays out tomorrow morning. 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:00.320 That no doubt a big one win there and almost 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.879 feel like they punch their ticket into the tournament, but 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:06.080 probably like the next two that I would guess don 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:09.159 they do. They have to split between Michigan State and 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:11.919 East Lansing and Illinois at home, Like these are their 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:13.879 three big ones back to back to back where they 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.720 can really do some damage to their resume to punch 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:17.800 their ticket to the tournament. 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:20.439 I would say, Matt, I always look at it the 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.080 other way, cause I think UCLA is in right now, 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.399 and I think most people have them in. It's like, 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:29.479 you can't go zero to three because now the conversation starts. 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:32.679 What does it do to your metrics? And so I 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:34.800 think if they could win at least one of these 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:38.000 next three, they're for sure in. I don't think anyone's 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.160 going to talk about it anymore. The interesting part will 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.480 be if they only win one, which is the one, 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.359 because all three are tough. I mean Illinois's at home, 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:51.600 but even still, Illinois is really really talented, really good. 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.479 So I think that's the job for UCLA is look, 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:56.880 and I know they don't think this way. Everybody wants 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:58.480 to win every game, but they have to win at 0:18:58.560 --> 0:18:59.840 least one of these next three. 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.840 Yeah, And I sorry to jump in there, don But 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:04.840 then you know, the thing becomes the tournament, right, I 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:06.960 mean the Big Ten Tournament. Every team makes it. It 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:11.119 starts on Tuesday, it runs through freaking Saturday. Is is 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.399 that you know? Because you hear about football and it's like, oh, 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.520 the conference championship hurts more than it helps. Does the 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:19.040 Big Ten Tournament hurt more than it helps? Or does 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:20.800 it help more than it hurts? Because you got a 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.359 lot of really good teams that you're probably capable of 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:25.560 running into as early as the second round. 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.440 Well, I think if you're talking about the top level 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:33.520 teams matt like Michigan, Illinois, Nebraska, those teams that are 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:35.879 fighting for one to two and three seeds, yeah, that 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:39.400 can only hurt them the conference tournament. But if you're 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:44.720 talking about teams like SC UCLA, you know, Ohio State, Wisconsin, 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:47.320 those teams, they can help themselves. If you knock off 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:49.840 one of those top teams, it can really improve your 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:54.320 net in your in your resume. To me, for UCLA, 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:56.200 the goal from from here on out in the regular 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.399 season is get into the top eight. So now you 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:00.440 get a double by you only I have to win 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:03.160 four games to win the whole thing. Instead of five 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:05.160 or six if you play on Tuesday. So I think 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:08.320 if UCLA can can win one of these next three, 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:11.240 secure a top eight seed in the Big ten tournament. 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.040 Now you've got a chance to help yourself in that tournament. 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:17.800 What's the weather like in the alamt this fine day, Don. 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:21.840 It was beautiful yesterday sun was out sixty Today sun 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:25.560 not out but about low fifties. But this view I'm 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.200 standing out here that you have, like this deck out here, 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:30.639 it's a view of this huge valley. I'm gonna send 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:32.240 you guys a picture. It's awesome. 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:35.080 Oh, we'd love to see it now, Don. A couple 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:37.520 of years ago in the All Star Game, they had 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:40.800 that light up floor with all kinds of stuff on it, 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:44.840 and they're gonna do it now for the Big twelve Tournament. 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:47.360 They're going to have a big light up floor and 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:49.440 there's gonna be all kinds of stuff on it. I mean, 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:53.560 I remember when Oregon painted their floor and it was 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:55.919 a big, weird controversy and now it's kind of been 0:20:55.960 --> 0:21:00.440 amended a little bit. But I mean, you're a badsketball 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.520 player and you train high level basketball guys, does it 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:07.199 distract people running around on that stuff. Is that a 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:09.000 problem or is it all good? 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.600 Well, I would say this, so so the Matt Knight 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:15.720 court was different, and so there's a lot of conversation 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:19.159 about it. But if if nothing's moving, it doesn't matter. 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:21.879 But this is just me as a former as a player, 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:25.040 a former player. If I was playing on that court, 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:27.200 I would fake an injury and leave the game. 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:27.840 Like that though. 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:31.439 It would have really really bothered me. It would have 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:34.440 like all that distraction moving around, you're trying to concentrate 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:37.840 make shots. It's it's really a dumb idea, it really is. 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:40.400 And I'm not sure what, like what they're getting out 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:42.000