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Speaker 1: upcoming season, which starts on Thursday? Dick Fane, have you

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Speaker 1: signed up for the Mariner TV package which starts on Thursday?

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Speaker 2: I would love to, but I don't know how.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Jackson, yes or no answer? Have you signed up

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Speaker 1: the deal. There's one way you can do it right now,

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Speaker 1: So there's one of two things that are happening right now.

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Speaker 2: Then I am going to wait till Thursday Okay, yeah

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Speaker 2: you should because you should wait till thursdall scheme job.

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Speaker 1: By the way, just so you know, I have been

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Speaker 1: told by somebody inside the Mariners I won't say who.

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Speaker 1: How many viewers are they going to lose in the

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to be out of town, so I

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Speaker 4: So let's walk through this right now. The let's walk

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Speaker 4: Major League Baseball. You're screwing this the hell up.

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Speaker 2: But when you turn on your TV, the apps are

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Speaker 1: He's he's going into his Fubo account to watch television

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Speaker 2: You get to March Madness. You got to get out

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Speaker 2: March Madness, Mattens. Either way, you're getting out, that's the point.

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Speaker 1: It really is. At some point somebody somewhere is going

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Speaker 1: I'm a thousand percent with you. If they want to

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Speaker 1: Don't make them. No, they don't have any of these deals. No,

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Speaker 1: Because they want more people to be on the app

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Speaker 5: It's time for the latest on the madness of March.

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Speaker 5: Here's Hall of Fame college basketball writer for The Sporting

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Speaker 1: All right, boys and girls, we are back in a

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Speaker 1: busy Monday night. The madness continues, uh, and this is

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Speaker 1: the time we get this on to let them shine. Man,

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame writer from the Sporting News, courtesy of

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Speaker 1: how are you Pewell? What's going on?

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Speaker 3: I am well, gentlemen, how are you good?

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Speaker 1: Good man? That was a crazy you know, for a

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Speaker 1: a wild opening weekend. Man in the NCAA from Vanderbilt

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Speaker 3: Give you the floor.

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Speaker 1: What did you think the view from forty thousand feet

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Speaker 6: I enjoyed it tremendously, without a doubt. I happened to

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Speaker 3: Game where there was real peril. I mean it was

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Speaker 6: If there were seven minutes left in the game and

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Speaker 6: The three of the first four games that were played

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Speaker 2: Well, Mike, it's been pretty easy the last two years

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Speaker 2: Floorda lost, Favorites were on a twenty seven and two

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Speaker 6: Well, I think that Cinderella's not gone for good because

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Speaker 3: It still can happen.

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Speaker 3: That's all it was, And how do you tell who's

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Speaker 6: Somebody that's a twelve that should be at eight. You know,

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Speaker 3: Zero becus Kentucky won't do it, okay. I really don't

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Speaker 6: I mean, if they did okay, that would be that

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Speaker 1: About Hubert Damis getting whacked and Bill Self retiring.

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Speaker 6: So I'm just crossing my fingers that everything's good and

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Speaker 3: Time with the airs, you never know.

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Speaker 2: Mike DECURSI the Hall of Famer Joining Us brought to

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Speaker 6: I don't think that's the biggest reason it's better, but

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Speaker 6: And now those players, as you guys know, they fight

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Speaker 6: So it's it's we see that many more really good

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Speaker 1: And every now and then a monster region, a whopper

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Speaker 1: But what did shock you, honestly if any one of

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Speaker 3: Well, I actually picked at this at the start of

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Speaker 6: I picked Saint John's and then I watched Sunday's game

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Speaker 6: I mean, Saint John's Kansas game was like when it

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Speaker 3: Coming from my eyes. It was just awful. It was.

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Speaker 6: And I do wonder now whether Saint John's can score

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Speaker 3: You saw it.

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Speaker 6: heck will take him. He's eighteen and he'll get better

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Speaker 6: or whatever. But he's not been good enough yet. But

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Speaker 6: there he still has his moments. He certainly helped in

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Speaker 6: the defeat against UCLA. He made some buckets and they

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Speaker 6: need that to be to be good enough to beat

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Speaker 6: Michigan State, to be good enough to have any chance

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Speaker 6: to beat Duke Duke, presuming Duke is the.

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Speaker 3: One that comes out of the top half of that bracket.

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Speaker 2: Which of the title contenders do you feel better about

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Speaker 2: now after watching them the last two games? And which

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Speaker 2: one of the title tenders do contenders do you feel

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Speaker 2: worse about watching.

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Speaker 3: The last two games?

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Speaker 6: Well, I feel better about Houston because their offense is

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Speaker 6: starting to come around a little bit. They absolutely destroyed

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Speaker 6: Texas Tech, and I thought that was big because Texas

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Speaker 6: Tech plays differently than some others with that full court

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Speaker 6: pressure that they play all the time. Emmanuel Sharp had

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Speaker 6: eighteen points. That was really big for me. The team

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Speaker 6: I feel worse about is Iowa State for the simple

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Speaker 6: reason that their best players hurt and.

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Speaker 3: Wasn't when the tournament began.

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Speaker 6: It was hurt really quickly after the tournament began, right,

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Speaker 6: but not having Joshua Jefferson did not impede them yesterday.

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Speaker 6: It may not impede them this week. On this week

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Speaker 6: in the sweet sixteen against Tennessee, it may not, but

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Speaker 6: it will get them probably in the regional final against

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Speaker 6: presumably Michigan.

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Speaker 3: It'll certainly.

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Speaker 6: Even if they somehow manage to pull off two wins

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Speaker 6: without Jefferson and get to Indianapolis, it'll it'll get them there.

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Speaker 1: All right, Mike, before you go, we got about a

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Speaker 1: minute left here, all right? And if I'm wrong on this,

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Speaker 1: please correct me. I'm getting to that age where I

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Speaker 1: can't read my own writing. Okay, So I'm going back

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Speaker 1: to our conversation a week ago, and I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: that your final four was Saint John's, Houston, Iowa State

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Speaker 1: in Arizona. Do I have that right?

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Speaker 3: That is correct?

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Speaker 6: Okay?

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Speaker 1: All four teams still alive. Do you see any reason

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Speaker 1: to change anything now? Well, I just told you, like

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Speaker 1: outside of Saint John's you want to switch that I would.

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Speaker 6: If I were doing it now, based on who's left,

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Speaker 6: I might take a gamble or not gamble gamble, but

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Speaker 6: I might take a flyer on Michigan State winning the East. Okay,

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Speaker 6: I would feel better about them doing it. Thing to

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Speaker 6: do and then again, totally health related, if you've promised

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Speaker 6: me that that Jefferson is completely the same guy on

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Speaker 6: what I'm not sure whether they play Thursday or Friday,

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Speaker 6: but whichever day it.

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Speaker 3: Is, Friday Friday.

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Speaker 6: If he's completely the same guy on Friday, then I'm

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Speaker 6: not changing that pick. I still like Iowa State against Michigan,

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Speaker 6: but if he's impaired or absent, then Michigan rolls.

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Speaker 1: Mike Decorsi, great stuff, man, enjoy the weekend, enjoy the tournament,

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Speaker 1: and we will talk next Monday and get your thoughts

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Speaker 1: on the final four. Man, great stuff, as always, Thanks guys.

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Speaker 1: All right, Mike de Coursi's sticking with it. Saint John's, Houston,

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Speaker 1: Iowa State, Arizona. He says, maybe take a flyer on

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Speaker 1: Michigan State. But if if Saint John's wins and makes

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Speaker 1: the final four, we'll give him credit for that. If

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Speaker 1: Michigan State wins it makes the final four, we'll give

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Speaker 1: him credit for that.