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Speaker 2: The Oscars may be over, but the Penguins are ready

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Speaker 2: for one battle after another. They're in the midst of

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Speaker 2: a ten game stretch where none of their opponents are

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Speaker 2: playoff teams. Their schedule right now is like cutting for rocks,

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Speaker 2: and they've been doing it with two of their weapons

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Speaker 2: on the shelf. Sidney Crosby is still out and we're

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Speaker 2: still crying pearls about that, or at least clutching them. However,

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Speaker 2: one of the NHL's sinners, if Getty Malkin, will come

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Speaker 2: back into the lineup tonight off of his suspension to

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Speaker 2: take on the Frankenstein of the Western Conference in the

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Speaker 2: Colorado Avalanche right here on one oh five nine the X.

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Speaker 2: And it's a good thing the Penguins rally to come

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Speaker 2: back from two goals down against Utah. Otherwise this road

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Speaker 2: trip could have been reduced to fire and ash before

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Speaker 2: was even over. The point is the Penguins need Maulken

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Speaker 2: and Crosby back in top four as soon as possible,

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Speaker 2: and that's for reasons in the standings, not just sentimental value.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, Gino come.

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Speaker 2: Back and score tonight, would you you haven't done that

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Speaker 2: in your last ten games. We need a goal more

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Speaker 2: than once every blue moon. Now, if you're like me,

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Speaker 2: you're probably thinking yourself, gosh, I only got one of

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Speaker 2: those references, maybe too, and you probably think one of

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Speaker 2: those two was Blue Moon the Beer. But I'm in

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Speaker 2: your camp because I didn't see any of the Oscar

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Speaker 2: movies either, not a one. I've been too busy watching

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Speaker 2: Americans play for Italy and Britain in the World Baseball

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Speaker 2: Classic to put on Netflix. I'm Tim Benz and this

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Speaker 2: is the Mark Madden Show. I'm in for Mark Today.

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Speaker 2: Tommy Radio joins me right now, Tom did you see

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Speaker 2: a single Oscar movie this year? No, that really stood

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Speaker 2: tune in for the monologue. Huge Conan O'Brien fan thought

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Speaker 2: he killed it. But he did that classic thing where

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Speaker 2: you insert yourself into the movies. You know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: It's like the opening montage. And that's my main takeaway

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Speaker 2: like when he dressed up like Amy Madigan's character from Weapons.

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Speaker 2: I got it because you see that all over the internet.

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Speaker 2: But I've not seen a single one of these. I

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Speaker 2: still haven't seen that the internet. You're talking about the giant.

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Speaker 2: She looks like a clown almost, with like the big

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Speaker 2: I put up a picture of your eye, you'd recognize

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Speaker 1: But yeah, other than that, like, other than like.

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Speaker 2: Obscure references to it based off social media, I couldn't

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Speaker 1: No, I was there?

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Speaker 2: Say a bad place to be there today if you

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Speaker 2: didn't watch any of those movies, right exactly, But I

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Speaker 2: Than any of the awards going out, because I knew

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Speaker 2: from Varsity Blues in there for James Vanderbeek, James Vanderbeek,

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Speaker 2: That's a bad one because it's like so obvious, like

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Speaker 2: There's gotta be one guy who's this in yew There's

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Speaker 2: got to be somebody who right now today for the

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Speaker 1: Here's the list? A list that's your only job.

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Speaker 2: But there is a line, right, like you have to

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Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm not saying that he's not the line.

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Speaker 2: He's over the line. He's definitely there. But isn't there

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Speaker 2: you got a Russian for Alec. Yeah. I have not

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Speaker 2: like I've seen this same five times. There's a new

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Speaker 2: series of Ted out on Peacock. How is one battle

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Speaker 2: and we know that he's fine because he ends up

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Speaker 2: I've never seen baseball like that like it was last night,

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Speaker 1: That's just dominate. Six hits. He'd gave him six hits.

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Speaker 2: Junior Cameraro took him deep in a game that was

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Speaker 2: wasn't overpowering only a two k's, right, let's think those

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Speaker 2: we speak in such hyperbolic terms like Skeens was supposed

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Speaker 1: Well, if baseball is to learn from one thing from

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Speaker 2: Baseball Classic, it's that it doesn't matter what time of

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Speaker 2: It's does this one hundred and sixty two games, one

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Speaker 2: something matters as opposed to eighty two games for an

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Speaker 1: No, I get it. There are economic forces at play here.

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Speaker 2: You can't just make it a series of little pool

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Speaker 2: WHOA You'll got a Day Wednesday on expanding coverage to

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Speaker 2: the Mark Madden Show, backed by the personal injury expert Shnderovich,

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Speaker 2: Shandarovitch and Fishman. They've got your back, not your wallet, Tom.

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Speaker 2: If you had to bet right now, which of these

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Speaker 2: Penguins thirty four percent, Blue Jackets forty six percent.

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Speaker 2: There's no such thing as too many centers. That's like

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Speaker 1: Now it's all about getting that center depth.

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Speaker 2: Mark'st on our podcast today Rako Goudas should be thrown

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Speaker 1: He's going to take people out. He's going to be

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Speaker 2: And exactly so, the NHL had a chance to kind

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Speaker 1: So I bet you scores tonight though, And.

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Speaker 2: I bet boy, you know who's become a bit snake

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Speaker 2: Still marvelous, still driving play, getting a ton of chance

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Speaker 2: All right, Look, when we come back, I want to

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Speaker 2: be off to a pretty good start here this year.

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Speaker 2: People like it to this point, and now we're already

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Speaker 1: I'll discuss when we come back. One five nine the X.

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Speaker 2: Tonight's the Pens hit the ice against the Avalanche.

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Speaker 1: He's going to talk to us about Rico Dawbell.

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Speaker 2: We're going to talk to Phil Bork at four point

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Speaker 2: thirty to discuss the Penguins game coming up against the

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Speaker 2: Monday Podcast and myself and Mark Madden if you missed

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Speaker 2: on at five o'clock. So I was giving a little

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Speaker 2: bit of a hard time just because I think things

446
00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:37,280
Speaker 2: are getting over dramatized with the World Baseball Classic, and

447
00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:40,280
Speaker 2: it's not the same thing as the Olympics. If you

448
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Speaker 2: have a bunch of guys with Irish names playing for

449
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Speaker 2: Team Italy because they play in the major leagues, then

450
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Speaker 2: it's not really a true international competition to the degree

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Speaker 2: that we're trying to make it out to be. Now,

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Speaker 2: if we just did a four nations kind of thing

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Speaker 2: and made it, you know, three of the Latino countries

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Speaker 2: in America, that might actually be a better tournament, to

455
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Speaker 2: be honest with you, well, and it would kind of

456
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Speaker 2: fit more of that Olympic bill, because I think Japan,

457
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Speaker 2: Venezuela is the Dominican Republic, and.

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Speaker 1: United States six America, right, you get my point?

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Speaker 2: In Puerto Rico, you throw them in there, like in Canada, right,

460
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Speaker 2: like they're kind of got Americans. I think I'm there too,

461
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Speaker 2: that are sneaking across that border and getting dual citizenship.

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Speaker 2: You were conceived in your Niagara Falls, Yeah, but their

463
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Speaker 2: parents honeymoons, So that makes you Canadian. Those five teams

464
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Speaker 2: right there, which are really the five that I just

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Speaker 2: rattled off that can realistically win this thing, they're the

466
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Speaker 2: ones that have the national born players. Like there's all

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Speaker 2: Japanese players for Japan, there's Venezuelan's playing for Venezuela, Dominicans

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Speaker 2: for the Dominican But.

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Speaker 1: It's good, buzz, it's interesting. It's getting ready for baseball.

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Speaker 1: That's great. So I'm on board.

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Speaker 2: Where I get concerned about it is I'm already hearing

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Speaker 2: the conversations. If you're a sports talk radio today, Hey,

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Speaker 2: maybe annually you replace the All Star Game with the

474
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Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic.

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Speaker 1: No, no, you don't.

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Speaker 2: You don't do what the NHL didn't shut down your

477
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Speaker 2: league for two weeks, because how are you gonna do it?

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Speaker 2: You just just described in five days time. You can't

479
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Speaker 2: do that in five days time.

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Speaker 1: That's two weeks. You can't go from Sunday to Friday.

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Speaker 2: That's a two week shutdown. That's the same as the

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Speaker 2: Olympic break that that hockey just went went through. It's

483
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Speaker 2: the exact same thing that you'd have to do for

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Speaker 2: base So what are.

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Speaker 1: You gonna do?

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Speaker 2: Start baseball on Saint Patrick's Day and extended Thanksgiving?

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Speaker 1: What are we doing here? Look?

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Speaker 2: I really do get kind of where they're coming from,

489
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Speaker 2: where it's like, God, this is great, it would be better,

490
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Speaker 2: more and more, gotta have more, more and more.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't even coming from that aspect.

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Speaker 2: I was coming from like, I'd be nice if it

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Speaker 2: was July right and the sun was still up at

494
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Speaker 2: nine pm, and you know we were outside cooking burgers

495
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Speaker 2: and dogs watching the baseball season. But the reality is,

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Speaker 2: as you just laid it out, that's impossible to do

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Speaker 2: in baseball season without starting on Saint Patrick's Day and

498
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Speaker 2: taking a two to three week break in the middle

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Speaker 2: of it. This is the best I think you can

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Speaker 2: do is have it in this spring training setting a

501
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Speaker 2: couple weeks into spring training, and we I think, in

502
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Speaker 2: this current version of the World Baseball Classic, are generating

503
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Speaker 2: more buzz around it than we have in years past.

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Speaker 2: At least that's from my perspective. It seems like this

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Speaker 2: is a more watched, more interested in thing. I don't

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Speaker 2: now to what you just said. I don't know why

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Speaker 2: everything has to come off with, well, we just did

508
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Speaker 2: something great, let's just do it better and better and better.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it's just the capitalism in all of us, right

510
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Speaker 2: for a gotta be bigger and better fan base. That's

511
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Speaker 2: so in favor of monitoring every single pitch that Paul

512
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Speaker 2: Skins throws. Do you want him throwing more in July?

513
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Speaker 2: He could have thrown ninety five pitches, correct. I think

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Speaker 2: something somebody got in trouble, Like you said in the

515
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Speaker 2: other segment that we did today when it was like,

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Speaker 2: oh great outing from Paul Skiens.

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Speaker 1: No, he had to get pulled in the middle of

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Speaker 1: an inning because he was struggling.

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Speaker 2: So I don't think more is the answer here to this,

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Speaker 2: and I don't think more's the answer for an NFL schedule,

521
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Speaker 2: and I don't think more is the answer when it

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Speaker 2: comes to expansion in Major League Baseball in the NHL,

523
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Speaker 2: and we're hearing about that too. All of these things, Tom,

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Speaker 2: are things that I think that will be screwed up

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Speaker 2: soon by major pro in college sports, and the most

526
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Speaker 2: direct thing is of orse, the expansion of the NCAA tournament. Well,

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Speaker 2: if you saw the bracket reveal yesterday, you were looking

528
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Speaker 2: at seven teams and saying, why do they need to

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Speaker 2: be in exactly like you're worried about Miami of Ohio

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Speaker 2: getting in for what for which? Which of these teams

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Speaker 2: like has to be in in front of Miami lysle

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Speaker 2: I mean, you're looking at the teams that were like

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Speaker 2: the first four out, and Auburn's like seventeen and sixteen,

534
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,399
Speaker 2: and like Indiana's like eighteen and fourteen, and it's just

535
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Speaker 2: like this, who cares? They don't deserve to be in there?

536
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Speaker 2: They lost fourteen fifteen games during the regular season. That

537
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Speaker 2: to me is the one that I am dreading the

538
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Speaker 2: most and as far as like, what is going to

539
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,440
Speaker 2: ruin the sport more than any of the others. Expanding

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Speaker 2: a tournament that's already sixty eight teams, it's already arguably

541
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Speaker 2: maybe too big.

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Speaker 1: It's just right. I think it's fine, just fine.

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Speaker 2: But to sell supposed to sixty four, yeah, sure, but

544
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Speaker 2: like seventy six whatever, it would be the next iteration

545
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Speaker 2: that is, that is the definition of overkill right there.

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Speaker 2: They don't need We're gonna get what teams the entire

547
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Speaker 2: SEC is gonna get in one year, right, Yes, sometimes

548
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,359
Speaker 2: that's their goal, that's what they want, and that's just

549
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 2: there's no need for that.

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Speaker 1: What about expanding the College Football Playoff? Do they do

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Speaker 1: that even more? Or are they all right with the

552
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Speaker 1: size right now?

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Speaker 2: I think they're gonna do it one more time. I

554
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Speaker 2: think they're gonna jump it up to sixteen is what

555
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 2: they would go to, right So what the one seed

556
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Speaker 2: plays then? Or do they do buys for the first proces?

557
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 2: You have to figure out some weird buy system to

558
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Speaker 2: make sure that you know to do a ladder like

559
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Speaker 2: they did in some college basketball tournaments, all four, expansion

560
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Speaker 2: of the college football Playoff more and more and more.

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Speaker 1: I was wrong. It ruined it.

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Speaker 2: I think four was perfect, Like, we get it just

563
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Speaker 2: to that final four right away. I think that's all

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Speaker 2: we need, that's really all. Who's gonna be able to

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Speaker 2: win it? Any What?

566
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Speaker 1: I what I didn't exaid.

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Speaker 2: I say that as Miami went on a run as

568
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Speaker 2: like a ten seed to the game. What I didn't

569
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Speaker 2: anticipate because I was in favor of expanding it to

570
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Speaker 2: to at least eight. I thought eight was enough and

571
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Speaker 2: just play. If you're one seed and you lose to

572
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Speaker 2: the eighth best team in college football, tough luck, right,

573
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Speaker 2: But that's fine. I was fine at starting at the

574
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Speaker 2: quarterfinal round when you get the buys built in and

575
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Speaker 2: all that. And the length of the college foot ball

576
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Speaker 2: Playoff dovetailing with the conference championship games too. Like I

577
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Speaker 2: didn't anticipate how much the NFL would swallow it up

578
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 2: the college football yeah off because they play on Saturdays too. Yeah, exactly,

579
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Speaker 2: the overlap avoid. I didn't anticipate my bandwidth being so

580
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Speaker 2: taken up by the NFL that I paid a little

581
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Speaker 2: attention to the college football Playoff, as.

582
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Speaker 1: I did, killed the college sport.

583
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Speaker 2: And you know, at the time when like when the

584
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Speaker 2: groundwork was being laid to expand the college football Playoff

585
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Speaker 2: or just create the college football playoff from beyond the

586
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Speaker 2: BCS or you know, like the college National Football Championship

587
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Speaker 2: or it was just the two that you voted in

588
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:45,639
Speaker 2: right beyond that, College football is a lot easier to track.

589
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,680
Speaker 2: You know. The transfer portal wasn't what it was what

590
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Speaker 2: it is now. Rather, player movement wasn't as vast. The

591
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 2: conferences made more sense, Like all the things that have

592
00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 2: watered down college sports enjoyment were not apparent when we

593
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 2: were all saying, yeah, give us eight teams, give us

594
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Speaker 2: twelve teams, give us sixteen teams. When we're saying that,

595
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 2: then college football is a more familiar sports rivalries, regional stuff. Yes,

596
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Speaker 2: conferences that made sense. If you were a team, a

597
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Speaker 2: pit that had a quarterback that was a true freshman

598
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 2: that showed potential, you were like, I can't wait till

599
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight, right, and like when

600
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 2: he develops into this senior instead it's always, well, he's

601
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 2: just gonna leave, and that's just the knee jerk reaction now,

602
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,399
Speaker 2: and I know that You're trifecta is somewhat bracket related

603
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 2: coming up before the top the current. I can tell

604
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Speaker 2: you that this is going to be my worst bracket

605
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 2: performance ever because for as much as I'm into college basketball,

606
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:44,879
Speaker 2: like doing stuff for Duquane, I'm pitting Syracuse stink. So

607
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 2: my ACC knowledge has been watered down because I haven't

608
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Speaker 2: been inclined to watch as many ACC games.

609
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Speaker 1: I'm just going to the motions at those pit games

610
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:52,680
Speaker 1: right now at this point.

611
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll watch the conference that I cover and

612
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Speaker 2: that sort of bled into the horizon, like you gave

613
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 2: me a bunch of horizon in Atlantic ten teams, you know,

614
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 2: give me the nit. I'll do great at the nit

615
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 2: brack bracket. Oh, the nit bracket I'm gonna rip apart.

616
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,120
Speaker 2: But I how not just because of player movement, because

617
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 2: of lack of familiarity within the conferences. I don't have

618
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 2: that great of a sense beyond like Duke, who I

619
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,640
Speaker 2: know is good but injured, even them like they're good

620
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,919
Speaker 2: but injured in their wicked hard bracket. Yeah, I couldn't

621
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,119
Speaker 2: tell you who like that team that got hot at

622
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 2: the right time is maybe like they're like a three

623
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Speaker 2: set or something right now, Like I've seen some people

624
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 2: have Virginia kind of be that team in their brackets

625
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 2: that I've seen them put through, Like I have no

626
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 2: idea why Virginia would be that team, but sure I'll

627
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 2: go with that. You're right, I feel like I'm flying

628
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,119
Speaker 2: blind more than anything. I feel like I'm closer than

629
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 2: I ever have been the secretary that wins the Office

630
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 2: Bowl and does it based on jerseys, like it doesn't

631
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 2: based on the uniforms like mascot war.

632
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:49,880
Speaker 1: I like the burnt orange of Texas.

633
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,439
Speaker 2: I think they are gonna go on a little run

634
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 2: out of dating in the first four Like that's I

635
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 2: feel closer to identifying with that through this bracket. Like

636
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 2: here'll give you an example, because I did a little

637
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 2: rough bracket last night just whatever off of I know,

638
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 2: I had to pick an upset. I picked Pen to

639
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,879
Speaker 2: beat Illinois the fourteen over the three Why I have

640
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 2: no reason to pick Penn To me, I just like that.

641
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,439
Speaker 2: It's kind of sexy, right, Like, oh, in Ivy, they

642
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 2: have they have there Penn win Pen recently. That's right,

643
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,160
Speaker 2: it was fresh in my mind. Yale forgot didn't foul

644
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 2: a kid, and he took a three in the IVY

645
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 2: League Final. The IVY League Final, down three, he tied

646
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 2: it because they didn't foul him, and he scored like

647
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 2: forty points in the finals.

648
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 1: He was a power five kid that dropped. I can't

649
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Speaker 1: remember when I swear.

650
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Speaker 2: A couple of years ago when we were doing bracketbusters

651
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Speaker 2: at Bellanote, Pen beat a team. Was it like an

652
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Speaker 2: Arizona or something like that. L beat a team or

653
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 2: was it Yale L beat a team?

654
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Speaker 1: Yeah, teams.

655
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Speaker 2: I mean they all looked the same to me, but

656
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I just picked Pen over Illinois for

657
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 2: absolutely no reason. I might as well have just thrown

658
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Speaker 2: a dart at the board and it landed on Penn.

659
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Speaker 2: All right, let's get to our trifecta A week come

660
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Speaker 2: the Mark Madden Show. On one of five nine, the

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Speaker 2: X Pens Tonight against the Avalanche at nine thirty, listen

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Speaker 1: Everywhere you go, everywhere, tell your sport device Alexa play

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669
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Speaker 1: for ye jaum on one nine D.

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Speaker 1: What's the tri Effecta today? For today's Trifecta?

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Speaker 2: Tim, Since the tournament bracket was revealed for twenty twenty six,

675
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Speaker 2: this field yesterday on Selection Sunday, I have three takes

676
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 2: from this twenty twenty six NCAA tournament field. Take number

677
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Speaker 2: one Miami Ohio, the team that went thirty one to

678
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,719
Speaker 2: zero in the regular season and then was thirty one

679
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 2: and one. Because of the loss in the MAC Tournament

680
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 2: to UMass in the quarterfinals, they find themselves in Dayton

681
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 2: for the play in game.

682
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I agree with that. I mean,

683
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Speaker 1: I knee jerk reaction.

684
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 2: Tim thought maybe Miami Ohio should be out of the

685
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 2: tournament when I was on the air on Thursday when

686
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 2: they lost, But I was wrong to do that.

687
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: They should have been in and they I think they

688
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: should be in the field proper and not having to

689
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Speaker 1: go through Dayton. Okay, that was the j Billis take ja.

690
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 2: Billis made a big deal on that on the ESPN

691
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Speaker 2: Reveal Show, and I don't.

692
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Speaker 1: Really get it.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why they have to be in the

694
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 2: field proper and I don't know why that's such a

695
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 2: stumbling block. If we are going to accept the existence

696
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Speaker 2: of the Dayton First four, then why is it so

697
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 2: important that they're in, Because that's what the Dayton First

698
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 2: four is created for. It's created for the really small

699
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Speaker 2: conference winners, and it's created for the fringy.

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Speaker 1: At large teams, and that's what they are based on.

701
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: The metrics.

702
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 2: Hey, I was waving that flag when Pitt was in

703
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 2: the first four a couple of years ago, and people

704
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 2: were trying to say it doesn't really matter because you're

705
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Speaker 2: not in the field proper. But people were telling me

706
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 2: I wasn't in the field proper. So I got to

707
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Speaker 2: keep that consistency now this time.

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Speaker 1: Number two.

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Speaker 2: Number two takeaway My biggest seating issues when it came

710
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 2: to the tournament. The Purdue boiler Makers, who won the

711
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 2: Big Ten tournament as a seventh seed in the Big Ten,

712
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Speaker 2: beating me get on Sunday snagging a two seed, whereas

713
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 2: Saint John's, who won the Big East regular season title

714
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 2: and the Big East Tournament, are on the five line.

715
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Speaker 1: I thought that was those were the most egregious seeding

716
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 1: airs in the field.

717
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 2: I'll give you one more that I think dovetails with

718
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Speaker 2: the Miami Ohio conversation. That's Akron as a twelve. If

719
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Speaker 2: there are twelve, then does how good's the MAC? Right? Yeah?

720
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Speaker 2: I mean I would well, no, no, I'm saying that

721
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Speaker 2: of the one bid leagues, that makes me feel like

722
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 2: they're probably one of the best one bid leagues. So

723
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Speaker 2: does Miami have to be a playing team or what

724
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 2: I was saying like, yeah, Max, probably then I would

725
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 2: use that would be something that would be a leverage

726
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 2: point in your argument to your favor. Yes, yeah, I

727
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 2: mean twelve as Akron, that's a team that is you know,

728
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Speaker 2: Saint John's a five definitely surprised me. That was a

729
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 2: shocking one to me. But twelve seeds are stingy as

730
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 2: we all know. They they're the cliche seed to pick

731
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Speaker 2: as an upset, So Akron, it is telling how they

732
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Speaker 2: think the MAC is in general.

733
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Speaker 1: That Acron was that twelve seed. But my number one

734
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: takeaway with this bracket has to do with the East Region.

735
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: I mean, it is just.

736
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Speaker 2: Loaded with blue blood teams, brand names, big time coaches,

737
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 2: and I gotta be honest with you, Tim, it kind

738
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 2: of feels a little made for TV ish in favor

739
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 2: of Duke. I mean, you've got Kansas over there, Saint

740
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 2: John's and Rick Pattino, Louisville's brand name is in there,

741
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 2: Michigan State and ISO Ucla is a brand name in there.

742
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 1: Hurley and Yukon is the two seed. I mean, it

743
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: just seems egregiously loaded, does it not. It's definitely tilted

744
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Speaker 1: towards that bracket.

745
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 2: Yes, But I you know, sometimes when they've done this before,

746
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 2: when I feel like they've stuffed, the brackets come back

747
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 2: to bite them.

748
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: Like Northern Iowa was gonna beat Saint John's.

749
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, something something gets cannibalized in the first weekend, and

750
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 2: then there's a clear path for an out of nowhere

751
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 2: like a George Mason to get there, like the one

752
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 2: year they got to the Final four when they came

753
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 2: out of the CIA before they even got into.

754
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Speaker 1: The Atlantic ten.

755
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, Yeah, no doubt, like they're

756
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 2: chalking up, you know, and I Saint John's Kansas second

757
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 2: round that's gonna turn into Caw Baptists Northern Iowa. I

758
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 2: will say this back to the Miami of Ohio argument. Okay,

759
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 2: they're playing forty minutes from their campus. Very true, They're

760
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 2: getting a national stage. The tournament is supposed to be

761
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 2: largely about the little guy taking out the big guy

762
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 2: on weekend number one. Now, I don't particularly like the

763
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 2: SMU matchup for them, but they've.

764
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Speaker 1: Got that chance.

765
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 2: So they're set up as well as they could be

766
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Speaker 2: to not only you know, be in the tournament, but

767
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 2: also validate all the arguments as to why they should

768
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 2: have been given an opportunity to schedule more like, here's

769
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 2: what I was afraid was gonna happen. Tom, Like Mike,

770
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 2: my biggest concern about Miami was they were gonna be

771
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 2: let out entirely, and it was all gonna be a

772
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 2: way for people to say, oh, well, gee, you know, like,

773
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 2: if we were allowed to expand to seventy six, Miami

774
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 2: would have been in. We would have gotten him in

775
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 2: for seventy six, but we couldn't get him in at

776
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 2: sixty eight, and then that way you could have the

777
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 2: little guys school be the poor foster child, right, you know,

778
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 2: having the bloated pig twelfth team out of the SEC

779
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 2: or fourteenth team out of the ACC or whatever it's

780
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 2: gonna be. No one is sympathetic to, Like, no one's

781
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 2: sympathetic to SMU right now, being like the last team

782
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 2: out of the ACC or whatever. No, and no one

783
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 2: sympathetic for Stephen Pearl being on the chopping block, or

784
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 2: no one sympathetic for an Indiana brand name school being

785
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 2: on the chopping block. In fact, it goes the other

786
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 2: way to him, Like that's hilarious, right, laughing at Auburn

787
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 2: being outside right now people are laughing at the fact

788
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 2: that Indiana is once again, you know, not in the

789
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 2: NCAA Tournament. I mean, but Indiana fans, honestly, if there's

790
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 2: ever a year for them to not care about being

791
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 2: in March Madness, this is the year for Indiana Hoosiers

792
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 2: to not care about that. But you're right, like Miami,

793
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 2: Ohio would have drummed up the sympathy that would have

794
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 2: been like the card that they call my gosh, yeah,

795
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 2: we would have looked to you love to get these underdogs.

796
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,319
Speaker 1: In I mean, it's all about Cinderella, right Cinderella's if

797
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 1: we had.

798
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 2: More spots to give Miami of Ohio's right there, but

799
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:05,879
Speaker 2: we're stuck with sixty eight.

800
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, yea.

801
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 2: And I don't think they're gonna get to seventy six.

802
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 2: I do think they're gonna get to seventy two. And

803
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 2: as I said to you, the way they're gonna do

804
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 2: that is they're gonna do it by creating a second

805
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 2: Dayton And you could still get Miami of Ohio in

806
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,800
Speaker 2: seventy two. And you could have made that case to say, geez,

807
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 2: you know, if we only expand a little bit now.

808
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 2: Of course they won't do that. It'll just be for

809
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:27,399
Speaker 2: even more acc teams nor big ten teams the entire

810
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,919
Speaker 2: sec and then and then Miami, Ohio will be number

811
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Speaker 2: seventy three instead of school number sixty nine.

812
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: That would have been left out. So we all know

813
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:35,320
Speaker 1: how it's gonna go.

814
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 2: But that's the card that I thought they were gonna

815
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 2: play to say, oh gosh, you know they always a

816
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 2: little bit bigger. We would have gotten Miami in there,

817
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,320
Speaker 2: and then people say, okay, expand it, then expand it

818
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 2: then and start to get a ground swell, but nobody

819
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 2: feels that way, nor should they for like the last

820
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 2: fringe school out of these mighty conferences, or like you

821
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 2: said with Indiana, I saw the tweet today. There's no

822
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 2: school that does less with more when it comes to

823
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,320
Speaker 2: college basketball lately than Indiana because of what they have.

824
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 2: No one's gonna buy that. No one's gonna get behind that.

825
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,359
Speaker 2: But you can get behind the little guy. And if

826
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 2: they do split the first four up into two different

827
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 2: first fours now because of expansion to seventy two, one

828
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 2: thing that they need to do is get rid of

829
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:17,280
Speaker 2: the sixteen seed teams playing.

830
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's just boring.

831
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 2: No one cares, stupid, it's no one cares, and it's

832
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 2: always the late game is the one that matters.

833
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: So like we have the ten and eleven lines open.

834
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 2: If you're gonna do this for all the mate, for

835
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,760
Speaker 2: all the at large, just leave every ten and eleven

836
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 2: line open on the bracket.

837
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:32,320
Speaker 1: That's how you do it.

838
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 2: For once you get to seventy two, once you get

839
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 2: to seventy two, leave all the ten and eleven lines open.

840
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 2: You can.

841
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:41,280
Speaker 1: You'll get more people in Dayton and Dayton two whatever

842
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: that is. Spokane or whatever.

843
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 2: You'll get more people to go, the ratings will be higher,

844
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 2: people will gamble on it more, people will watch it longer,

845
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,360
Speaker 2: and then you'll just fill up the at large lines

846
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 2: that way, and you can kind of solve two problems

847
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 2: at once. This will be a little bit of an

848
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 2: anomaly because people care about Miami of Ohio this year.

849
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,240
Speaker 2: They become a story. They're a local school to the venue.

850
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 2: So some of that will take care of itself. But

851
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 2: when they do go to seventy two, I hope they're

852
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 2: not dumb about it and they do it that way

853
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 2: because you're right, Uh. Have let the little guys right

854
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 2: into the bracket, give them their moments. They enough to

855
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:17,919
Speaker 2: play a warm up game. Make the bloated pig, overseeded,

856
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,399
Speaker 2: overslotted teams from the big conferences fight their way into

857
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 2: the bracket.

858
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: That's what I say.

859
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 2: And the name value from the teams a little like

860
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 2: I want to watch Texas and C State on Tuesday.

861
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 1: But I have to get through U NBC Howard first, exactly.

862
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: Don't say that about him.

863
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 2: Ferry four one two three three three WSDX or eight

864
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 2: three three four one two ninety nine thirty nine in

865
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 2: just thirty seconds, I'll pose our penguin's question to you

866
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 2: on Twitter, already getting some response, and one on the

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Speaker 2: phone lines as well.

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Speaker 1: And we'll talk some Steelers free easily.

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Speaker 2: We didn't talk about the Steelers at all in the

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Speaker 2: first hour, so we'll do some of that and hour

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Speaker 2: number two here in the Mark Badden Show.

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