1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: I'm not Irish, so it's stolen valor for me. 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, be Irish. 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:10,880 Speaker 3: Pretty funny, I guess, but like you know, even I mean, 4 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 3: like Saturday, I did my you know, my stout and 5 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 3: my sidecar j moo. 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 4: But you know, I'm not Irish, so I couldn't take 7 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 4: too much of it from everyone. 8 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 2: I'm Italian the same way as you. Yeah, it's the best. 9 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 2: Saint Joe's Day is tomorrow. 10 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 5: Okay. 11 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 2: What do you eat on Saint Joe's Day? Everything? Everything 12 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 2: you can take. 13 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 6: You dip a little brand the oil, the first thing 14 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 6: you do, some salted meats. 15 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,159 Speaker 7: I just did two straight days of pasta and I 16 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:43,160 Speaker 7: don't think I can eat pasta again for a long time, 17 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:45,239 Speaker 7: so I'm gonna do something else for Saint Joe. Do 18 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 7: you uh what do you leave your shoes out for 19 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 7: Saint Joe or something? Or cement shoes? 20 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:58,280 Speaker 2: Leave me ice pick and necktime. There you Brandy Bellman 21 00:00:58,600 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 2: and the d V. 22 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 8: All the way up to the bar point for Carlson 23 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 8: to the half wall shot. 24 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 2: On that day, Scar. 25 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 8: Go with Charie captain front. It's Elmer Soderblog possibly getting 26 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 8: the last touch. It's a five two lead for the 27 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:20,559 Speaker 8: Penguins and Eric Carlson starts the handshake line who knows 28 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 8: who scored? 29 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 2: But the Penguins lead by three again. 30 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 7: Carlson got that one and the Penns would go on 31 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 7: to score a couple of more en route to a 32 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 7: seven to win over the Avalanche last night. Huge win 33 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 7: for your Pittsburgh Penguins in Colorado and they head back 34 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 7: to the East Coast to take on Carolina tomorrow night. 35 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 2: And Joe, it's all gravy for the Penguins at this point. 36 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:44,759 Speaker 7: With out of Getny Malkin until last night, they stayed 37 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 7: above water. Getting that win puts them up and over 38 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 7: in terms of what they needed to do until Sidney 39 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 7: Crosby came back. 40 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 6: Yeh, we talked last week, I'll signed for five in blood. 41 00:01:55,800 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 6: They got five hm and just a magnificent performance. I 42 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 6: scared until the four goal lead and three. I was 43 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 6: still upset, not upset, but just like not texting anybody, 44 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 6: just maintaining a calm because you know, one go here. 45 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 6: A power playing Colorado always look like they were going 46 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 6: to explode, but guys like Shay and Whiles played their 47 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:19,079 Speaker 6: asses off last night. 48 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 2: What a just an absolute team win. And we got 49 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:24,399 Speaker 2: one of the Hall of famers back and he put 50 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 2: on a show. 51 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 7: Also, she loves with a big game last night too, 52 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 7: It's Saint Patrick's Day. 53 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 2: Yes, time ago, way back. 54 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 5: To drink. I can't think of. 55 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 7: Another music or type of music where you are just 56 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:55,360 Speaker 7: it makes you want to drink. 57 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 2: It really does. There's no other music where you hear 58 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 2: and you're like, I got start. 59 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 6: Dragging it almost you almost have to have a mug 60 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 6: in your hand. Yeah, to listen to it. Yeah, it does. 61 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 7: It has that sort of vibe to it where you 62 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 7: should be cheersing back and forth with a beer that 63 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 7: is overflowing. Most Pittsburgh's got there, say Patty's Day on 64 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 7: this past weekend on Saturday, before the weather came in, Boy, 65 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 7: I'll tell you what if we would have had the 66 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 7: weather we had yesterday on Saturday, would have made for 67 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,799 Speaker 7: an interesting day on the South Side for all of 68 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 7: those revelvers and downtown for the parade. But we managed 69 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 7: to get a pretty good day in before whatever the 70 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 7: hell happened yesterday. 71 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 2: I was not prepared for the accumulation there Abbey. 72 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 4: I thought there was going to be a couple flurries 73 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 4: in the afternoon, not like four inches of snow. 74 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 2: Yeah. 75 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 7: Gross, That's why I gave myself a second Sunday. Yesterday 76 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 7: was not Monday. You deserved it, Yeah, we all did. 77 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 7: All of Pittsburgh deserved it. The warmest it was was 78 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 7: like six am. I took my mother to the airport. 79 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 7: It was like I was wearing a T shirt. 80 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 2: I walked out. 81 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 7: We all pulled up at the same time yesterday, me 82 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 7: and Abbey and my and I popped out of my 83 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 7: car and I didn't even have a jacket on. 84 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 2: I'm like, this is amazing. 85 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 7: And then later in the day by the time, like 86 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 7: you know, after lunch, freezing, and then the sleet started then, 87 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 7: and especially when it started sleeping, I thought, well, it'll 88 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 7: just be this. 89 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 2: It's not gonna stick on the ground now. 90 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 7: I mean it's not quite where you have to shovel, 91 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 7: but there's a lot of snow out there. And some 92 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 7: of the side roads and parking lots especially are paring. 93 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 9: Blood is dangerous. 94 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:29,679 Speaker 2: Who runs this building? 95 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 7: No one, Nobody smells like the elephant cage in the bathroom. 96 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 7: The parking lot's always a mess. We pay rent, do 97 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:43,040 Speaker 7: something for us. I don't know, Actually, I have question. 98 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 7: I can't I can't become. 99 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 6: I just hope the snow remains until at least ten 100 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 6: to fifteen on the parking lot, because I don't know 101 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 6: how I parked. I don't want someone to think I'm 102 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 6: a jag off. I mean, we're taking up three spaces. 103 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 6: I'm right there with you. I couldn't see the lions. 104 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 6: I'm like, I'm just pulling in and this is the 105 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 6: new parking spot. Abby'll have a news update for you 106 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 6: right now. What's going on? 107 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 4: News this hour brought to you by Keystone Basement Systems, 108 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 4: Wet Basement, Keystone Basementsystems dot Com Wendy. This morning, cloudy, 109 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 4: very cold, snow showers and a high of twenty eight. 110 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 4: Another snowshower this evening, and it'll be about twenty one 111 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 4: degrees tonight. 112 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: A Pittsburgh native will headline the first. 113 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 4: Show at the city's newest concert venue, opening later this year, 114 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 4: with Khalifa's going to perform on October the second at 115 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 4: Citizens Live at the Wiley in the Lower Hill District 116 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 4: on a portion of the former Civic Arena site. The 117 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,159 Speaker 4: new venue, which is going to be operated by Live Nation, 118 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:42,359 Speaker 4: can hold as many as four thousand people. 119 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: Quote, we're thrilled. 120 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 2: It's a little smaller than staye AE, well. 121 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:51,039 Speaker 4: A little smaller than staye A outdoors outdoors indoors for 122 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:52,679 Speaker 4: STAJE is about twenty four. 123 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 9: Yes, an outdoor is five. 124 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 2: Okay, so this is. 125 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 9: An indoor venue that's four. 126 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 2: This is all right, this is good news, good news. 127 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 9: Yeah. 128 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:07,359 Speaker 4: But Tom louder Milk, who's Live Nations Pittsburgh market president, 129 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 4: said in a statement quote, We're thrilled to begin announcing 130 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 4: the first show is coming to Citizens Live. This is 131 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 4: a special venue that will deliver unforgettable live music. It'll 132 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 4: bring an incredible mix of artists to the Lower Hill district, 133 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 4: including Pittsburgh icons and artists who have never headlined here before. 134 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 4: So if we want to look at the initial lineup 135 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:27,039 Speaker 4: that they released yesterday, Wiz Khalifa is on October, the 136 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 4: second Styx is on October, the third. 137 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 7: Right, get right in order, I need we pay the 138 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:39,280 Speaker 7: mortgage for the guys in sticks here in Pittsburgh. 139 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 2: Play the song, just play it. 140 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 4: It's the Homer Simpson like the Simpsons episode where Bachman 141 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 4: Turner Overdrivers performing. 142 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: Is like get to the Working Overtime Part. 143 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 4: Two. Door Cinema Clubs on October the sixth. Some other 144 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 4: artists include freest Sky, Matt Matthews, Chelsea Handler's going to 145 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 4: be on October the ninth. 146 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,159 Speaker 2: It's interesting. I hadn't thought of it as a room 147 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 2: for comedy. I wonder how that'll go. 148 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 4: Boys to men will be making their way October the sixteenth. 149 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 4: Tedesky Truck Spand is October the twentieth. 150 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, very cool. 151 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 9: I think that The. 152 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 4: Living Tombstone Ariy Spears is on Halloween October the thirty first. 153 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 7: Also completely surprised he booked a room that size, right, 154 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 7: But I mean if he just does an hour and 155 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 7: a half of Tony soprano, it'd be worth it. He 156 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 7: has an amazing Tony super He does a lot of 157 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 7: great impersonations. 158 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 2: He I bet there. 159 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 7: Is a half house situation there where they can do 160 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 7: like you know, five six hundred, you know with the curtain. 161 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 7: Did you take the virtual tour of that place they 162 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 7: made available? I checked it out. It's really cool. I 163 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 7: mean potentially a little gaudy, which I wouldn't have expected. 164 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 7: Like when you walk in, you go up these two staircases, 165 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 7: and then the main lobby has like a rhinestone piano 166 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 7: Baby Grand piano upside down glued to the ceiling like 167 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 7: a disco ball, except it's a piano upside down. And 168 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 7: then the inside basically looks like what staye Ae looks 169 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 7: like inside, except it is a little more esthetically. 170 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 2: Designed with something, you know. 171 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 7: Whereas stage as a cell block, you know, it's just 172 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 7: a big box and this has a little more flair 173 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 7: to it, but essentially it's the same thing. 174 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 9: Wow, fancy pants. 175 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 7: Yeah, but five thousand, that's cool, you know. I think 176 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 7: that that'll take a lot of shows out of the Pete. 177 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 7: I'm not a big fan of trying to park at 178 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 7: the Pete does. 179 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 9: Yeah, Pete does like seven. 180 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 7: Yeah, maybe even a little more than that, but it's 181 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 7: a pain in the ass to park there. And also 182 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 7: the place out in Moon I think is gonna probably 183 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:02,679 Speaker 7: lose some shows to this one because that's where ted 184 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 7: Esky and Trucks used to play all the time. 185 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, a really good point. We can let u formerly 186 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 4: of this parish coach Tom Win. No, Glorilla is going 187 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:16,439 Speaker 4: to be on November the second. She's Bertiful Hormer, Birtiful Hermann. 188 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 2: My god, you know that is I know who that is? 189 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:24,840 Speaker 6: Yeah, a friend of mine is a huge fan of Glorilla. 190 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 7: Yeah, well, Glorilla will be here at the uh new 191 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 7: is it? 192 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 2: What's it called again? 193 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 4: The I gotta look again. I haven't committed it to 194 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 4: memory yet. Citizens live at the Wiley, Yeah. 195 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:41,719 Speaker 2: Citizens live at the Wiley. There you go. 196 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: November the sixth is Sting. 197 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a big one. 198 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 9: That is big. 199 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 2: I already I feel like I spent so. 200 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 7: Much money to see Sting with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra 201 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 7: a couple of years ago on my birthday that I 202 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:56,680 Speaker 7: have spent all the money I need to spend to 203 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 7: see Sting. And I love Sting and he's great and 204 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 7: I'm sure that you will be awesome, but I can't 205 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 7: give him any more money. 206 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:05,560 Speaker 6: These are like weird mashups, like if it would be 207 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 6: like a crazy cable channel like. 208 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 2: Whiz with Sticks Gloarilla with Stings. 209 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 7: There was something going around that said Donnie Iris was 210 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:20,959 Speaker 7: opening for Whiz Khalifa, which would have been hilarious. 211 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:23,440 Speaker 4: If that were That sounds like Limp Biscuit is playing a. 212 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:24,959 Speaker 1: Sheet, although. 213 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 2: People play it sheets. 214 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 9: People play a sheet? 215 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, who didn't? 216 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 9: It was all. 217 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 1: American rejects, which I just had and. 218 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 4: I have this story lined up that All American Rejects 219 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 4: are going to do another house party tour because they 220 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 4: did this in twenty twenty five. They did this viral 221 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 4: house party tour. Are you familiar with All American Rejects? 222 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 4: Joe A little bit like kind of pop punk band. 223 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:54,200 Speaker 4: Tyson Ritter, who's the front man, confirmed that news at 224 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:59,559 Speaker 4: south By Southwest. But they basically instead of doing a 225 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:04,560 Speaker 4: true additional tour with the tour buses and booking conventional venues, 226 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:08,839 Speaker 4: they basically were doing college campuses house parties. 227 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 1: And then we saw it last year. 228 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:15,679 Speaker 4: They literally played a sheets which was a couple blocks 229 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 4: from my house, where what they would do is they'd 230 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 4: announce it the day of on TikTok. People would have 231 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 4: to kind of reserve a space essentially at it, and 232 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 4: then they just blow up the parking lot and have 233 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:33,319 Speaker 4: a concert. 234 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:34,959 Speaker 2: Somehow stuff like that. 235 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 7: But somehow they justify it as being more profitable to 236 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,080 Speaker 7: go independent into these places and not have to pay 237 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 7: all of these fees to the ticketing companies when they So, 238 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 7: if you're All American Rejects, how many people are in 239 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 7: that band? 240 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 2: Five? 241 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:51,719 Speaker 7: So let's say you carry five more people with you 242 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 7: on the road ten you could probably get someone to 243 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 7: pay you ten thousand dollars right to do a show somewhere, 244 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 7: not have to pay live nation or the venues percentages 245 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 7: of your merch which you probably sell a boatload at 246 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:10,959 Speaker 7: those shows. That's the stuff that pays for your gas 247 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:12,959 Speaker 7: and pays for your per diem and all that kind 248 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 7: of stuff probably ends up being so much less hassle 249 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 7: and a little bit more profitable. Oddly enough, if you're 250 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 7: at a certain level, you know, if you can draw 251 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 7: and command at least that much money, there's probably people 252 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:29,959 Speaker 7: would be like, yeah, I'll pay X amount for that, 253 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 7: And maybe ten grand is a little high, but even 254 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 7: if it's seven. You know, I was talking to somebody 255 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 7: recently and it's so hard for UK bands now to 256 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:42,839 Speaker 7: perform in the States. Did you see the thing Shirley 257 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 7: Manson from Garbage said last week about that that the 258 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,559 Speaker 7: last they could have played the same tour they did 259 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 7: and not played like the last ten plus dates and 260 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 7: made the same money. They essentially played the last you know, 261 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 7: half of the tour they had scheduled for free. Because 262 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 7: of how difficult it is when you're from another country, 263 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 7: especially these days, to play in the United States. 264 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 2: It's just not profitable. 265 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 7: And I was talking to a buddy who works with 266 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,559 Speaker 7: a band who comes over here that plays venues across 267 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 7: the country that are like stage inside. Sure, it's not 268 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 7: profitable for them to come to the United States anymore 269 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 7: and play right, So they just don't, which puts a little. 270 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 4: Bit of perspective when people see a tour post and go. 271 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: Like, well, why aren't they coming here or whatever. 272 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 4: And Shirley Manson was shining a little bit of a 273 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 4: light saying, like the overhead's ridiculous, insane. 274 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 6: Well, how did the reject get around the insurance that? 275 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 9: I don't know. 276 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: But they're also not being very precious. 277 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 2: They don't you get a whole lot of security. 278 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 4: They don't they they're posting. They were posting these videos 279 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:57,680 Speaker 4: from a van. This is not a band that's going 280 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 4: on a tour bus and showing up to these humble 281 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 4: dates they were showing. 282 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 9: I mean they were in a van. They went old school. 283 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 2: Get us a PA. 284 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 7: We have our sound guy, and we have our guitars 285 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 7: and amps, and we will show up set up old 286 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:15,599 Speaker 7: school DIY and it probably. 287 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:17,360 Speaker 2: Ends up making them more money in the long run. 288 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 4: And the viral aspect of it because people couldn't believe 289 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 4: they were doing it. Was basically pushing every date on 290 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 4: the tour to go just baffo. So they're selling everything 291 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 4: out to its capacity and the lore keeps growing because 292 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 4: people can't believe they're doing it. 293 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 7: Did you guys see the story of the slack chats 294 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 7: that leaked from a oh yeah, we. 295 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 4: Talked about it last we yeah, yeah, just basically Live 296 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 4: Nation oh suit saying that yeah, we're people are idiots. 297 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 9: Can't believe they're doing it. 298 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: You can't believe they'll pay what we'll charge. 299 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 6: Yeah, but a wou wouldn't like Live Nation come down 300 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:00,200 Speaker 6: and are you just hoping the good will of like 301 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 6: you know, the chief of police of Castle Shannon is 302 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 6: cool with you doing that and not just being like get. 303 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 2: Out of here. 304 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 6: Well you know what I mean to show up and 305 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 6: bring like two thousand people in. 306 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 7: A parking lot, well, I think you get some sort 307 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 7: of local promoter has to be involved. And if there 308 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 7: is somebody who's kind of doing it as a one 309 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 7: off and they don't do that normally, I'm sure the 310 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 7: band has a here's a list of things you need 311 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 7: to do and make sure, and you got to pay 312 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 7: us no matter what, but make sure you do all 313 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 7: of these things. I'm sure there's ways around it, but 314 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 7: it's just when you have executives from Live Nation laughing 315 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 7: and going, I almost feel bad for taking advantage of 316 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 7: these morons because they're gouging not just us, but the artists. 317 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 7: That's why all of these artists have been so quiet 318 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 7: about how they've taken a share of the secondary market, 319 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 7: because to them, they're like, this is the only way 320 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 7: we're going to survive. They're literally not putting tickets on 321 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 7: sale in a venue and immediately putting them on stub 322 00:15:56,040 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 7: Hub at double the price because they bought them. It's 323 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 7: complete garbage, easy to see through, and any lawmaker worth 324 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 7: his salt should be able to draft something up to 325 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 7: stop this from happening, because it's it's an absolute joke. 326 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 7: They're they're almost unnecessary, and they're still gouging you. 327 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 2: Yeah three times. 328 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 6: I'm not trying. I'm trying to just be out of ignorance. 329 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 6: But they did draft the bill. Because my buddy is 330 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 6: the nightclub in Sacramento that goes up against Live Nation. 331 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 6: It didn't the Trump administation throw it out or something. 332 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 10: Yeah, there was. 333 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 7: Recently there was something that was drafted up and they, 334 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 7: I believe, settled for something that was a milk toast version. 335 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 2: Of fifteenth what they were supposed to exactly. Yeah. 336 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 4: Uh, final act A Yeah it final Accent are on 337 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 4: here Wyatt Flores on November fifteenth, Steven Wilson Junior on 338 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 4: December tewod Zachon on December third, and January sixteenth, Slappers 339 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 4: and Bangers versus Union Cool. 340 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 7: I think that venue looks very cool. I think the 341 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 7: parking situation will be way easier. 342 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 2: Well, the bottom line is is you you can take 343 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:09,680 Speaker 2: the tea. 344 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:12,200 Speaker 7: Yes, it's you can walk up from the T station. 345 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 7: It's right right next to the arena, so perfect. It's 346 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 7: like stage A. You can take the tea or there's 347 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 7: plenty of parking. So I think they'll kind of be 348 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 7: at war with each other, but ultimately we'll end up 349 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 7: getting more shows, which. 350 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 2: Can't be bad. 351 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 4: Nope, Wendy, this morning, cloudy, very cold, couple of snow showers. 352 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 9: It's a high of twenty eight. 353 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 7: Pegs get the win last night in Colorado, a big 354 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:37,159 Speaker 7: seven to two victory four year Pittsburgh Penguins as they 355 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 7: head back to the East Coast and Sidney Crosby not 356 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 7: sure if he's going to play. I don't even know 357 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 7: if they need him to. You know, why rush him 358 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 7: back against Carolina? Probably wait till they get back home 359 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:51,880 Speaker 7: before eighty seven hits the ice again. 360 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:56,440 Speaker 6: Right, Joe A seventy five percent of Sidney Crosby will 361 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:00,440 Speaker 6: take over Billy cloven In. Yeah, yeah, no, not having 362 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 6: such a good go. This looks like he's good for 363 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 6: the AHL. 364 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 7: Right now, Michael, have a sports update for you at 365 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 7: Team USA. Tonight will take on Venezuela for the World 366 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 7: Baseball Championship, and Sean Casey, the heating coach of Team USA, 367 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 7: will join us at eight forty five plus talking hoops 368 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 7: with national writer for the Sporting News Mike de Course. 369 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 7: Coming up at seven forty five live from the Dons 370 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 7: Appliances Studios where Pittsburgh shops for appliances. 371 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:28,840 Speaker 2: This is WDE Pittsburgh. 372 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:31,399 Speaker 10: From the Seedon Hill University Weather Center. Schedule your campus 373 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 10: visit today. This report is sponsored by Low's. 374 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:38,200 Speaker 2: Cloudy Today More flurries or snowshowers possible. 375 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:41,159 Speaker 7: Mike Pursona has got your sports right now on the 376 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 7: DVE Morning Show. 377 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 2: Mike what's going on. 378 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:46,359 Speaker 10: Sports is sound brought to you by Bridgeville Pliants at 379 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:49,120 Speaker 10: seven point thirty. So it's time for Mike pursuitas three 380 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 10: takes that resonate you take number one. I love it 381 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 10: when a plan comes together. It seems obvious by now 382 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 10: the Steelers less than spectacular but seemingly calculated approach to 383 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 10: checking positional boxes of need and free agency was a 384 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 10: direct result of information gleaned at the NFL scouting Combine 385 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:12,879 Speaker 10: in Indianapolis. Get what you might not or wouldn't necessarily 386 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 10: be thrilled about getting in the draft. Go from there 387 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 10: with twelve selections to make as the blessed event looms, 388 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 10: the Steelers free agent approach won't preclude them from doubling up, 389 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 10: but going in they'll have options. The exception as we 390 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,920 Speaker 10: speak is left guard no offense to Spencer Anderson, who 391 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 10: is eligible but not ideal for the position. When drafting 392 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:39,880 Speaker 10: another potential generational offensive lineman not be an appropriate pick 393 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 10: for Pittsburgh. In Pittsburgh, the question was rhetorical. The answer 394 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 10: is yes. Number two Saint Patrick's days, they needed better 395 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:53,199 Speaker 10: players on offense, particularly a wide receiver, where they're presumably 396 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 10: still in the process of repopulating the room. On defense, 397 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 10: it was a fresh, more diversified approach that was clearly 398 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:05,880 Speaker 10: necessary after further review. Enter new defensive coordinator Patrick Graham, 399 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 10: who might just have multiple players capable of playing the 400 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 10: cliched but significant roles of chess piece and Swiss army 401 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 10: knife at his disposal gateways. Jakwan Brisker thinks he can 402 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 10: be that type of player and referenced Darwin James, Kyle Hamilton, 403 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:25,680 Speaker 10: and Nick Imman Woorie as playing the type of roles 404 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,359 Speaker 10: he'd love to play with the Steelers. If Graham can 405 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 10: keep offenses guessing in terms of deployment and snap the 406 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 10: snap responsibilities, it'll be a step in the right direction. 407 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 10: Take number three classic in every sense of the word. 408 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 10: In advance of tonight's World Baseball Classic Championship game, Aaron 409 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 10: Judge compared the passion of the fans to a World 410 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 10: Series environment and declared, quote, it's been bigger. It certainly 411 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 10: feels like a're watching on TV. And it's absolutely inspired 412 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:59,160 Speaker 10: the players too, as Judge put it, check their egos 413 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 10: at the door. Even for cy young winners and MVPs, 414 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 10: job one has been quote representing their country. The right way, 415 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:10,880 Speaker 10: Judge maintained. Amen to that, you feel like a kid again. 416 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 10: Judge added, it's hard enough to be romantic about baseball. 417 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:16,679 Speaker 10: It'll be impossible tonight. 418 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 2: Oh well, said Mike. 419 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 7: We're gonna talk to Sean Casey, hitting coach four Team USA, 420 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:24,400 Speaker 7: coming up at eight forty five. 421 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:27,640 Speaker 2: Getting back to uh, well, we'll start with the. 422 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 7: Steelers signings and Brisker and his press conference that once again, just. 423 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 10: Great press conference. 424 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 2: Really got me excited. 425 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 10: Then again, Darius Slay had a great press conference. 426 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 11: I know. 427 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 7: But here's the difference, and this is what I wanted 428 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:47,200 Speaker 7: to point out, is there seems to be a line 429 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 7: of demarcation between what the Mike Tomlin Omar philosophy was 430 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:57,639 Speaker 7: in terms of player acquisition and Mike McCarthy and Omar, 431 00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 7: which is to say, I think they got a couple 432 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 7: of guys eyes in Brisker and Dean, who are kind 433 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,120 Speaker 7: of in that gain Well category of like. 434 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 2: All right, prove it, you know, like, oh you're a badass, 435 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 2: prove it. 436 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 10: Brisker clearly said one year deal, Yeah, DEI yesterday, I 437 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:22,120 Speaker 10: bet on myself. Yeah, Dean, he wasn't getting the multi 438 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 10: year offers that he thought he was worthy of. So 439 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:26,360 Speaker 10: it's okay, I'll go do it one more year. 440 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:29,439 Speaker 7: But he's not Darius Slay is my point. He's not 441 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:31,880 Speaker 7: that guy that Tomlin loves. Oh he's a been there, 442 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 7: done that guy, and I love you know he Tomlin 443 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:37,720 Speaker 7: loved the brain, but he valued it so much more 444 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,560 Speaker 7: above the athletic ability. It was an achilles heel for 445 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 7: him in lining up those uh no doubt those rosters 446 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,120 Speaker 7: every year. Too many old guys. And that's the thing 447 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 7: that I'm a little excited about. It feels a little 448 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 7: different that rico'donde signing again. I know the Pittman one 449 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 7: is huge, and there's no question that's an obvious need. 450 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:00,399 Speaker 2: But to me, the direction of let's get this. 451 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 7: Guy a pounding back, a guy that you work rhythmically 452 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 7: to just like impose his will against these AFC North 453 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,160 Speaker 7: defenses who are tough. And I know that you got 454 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,239 Speaker 7: these badass receivers and a couple of tight ends who 455 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,400 Speaker 7: can catch the ball and probably a forty two year 456 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 7: old gunslinger on his last gunfight who. 457 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 2: Can still get the ball out. 458 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 7: But if you can manage to set the pass up 459 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 7: with the run and then use Jalen Warren as the 460 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 7: change up. 461 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,399 Speaker 2: Mike I was talking about this very thing yesterday. This 462 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 2: excites me. I feel like I. 463 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:41,320 Speaker 7: Am disproportionately excited about the Steelers team. 464 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 2: That I came off of last season filling like here 465 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 2: we go again. 466 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 10: Same thing. Well, I think the exciting part is with 467 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,200 Speaker 10: these signings, in the trade of Pittman, you're getting more 468 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 10: than just the guy. You're getting. Metcalf clearly needed a 469 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 10: running mate. He's not good enough to be the guy 470 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 10: with a bunch of schlubs, you know what I mean. 471 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:03,679 Speaker 10: This should make Metcalf better. And by the way, he 472 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 10: needs to be better because he had a disappointing season 473 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,719 Speaker 10: well on and off the field. Wasn't all his fault, 474 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,639 Speaker 10: but he needs to be better. It certainly's going to 475 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 10: help him to have another threat on the field. Dowbdell 476 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 10: if he's the first and second down back, then Warren 477 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 10: can be what he should be the third down back. 478 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,439 Speaker 10: And Brisker if he's all he thinks he can be. 479 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,119 Speaker 10: And I'm a big fan of Jakwan Brisker. I mean, 480 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,320 Speaker 10: he's a former second round pick. Start at every NFL 481 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 10: game he's ever played. He tackles like a maniac. He's 482 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 10: a hitter, he can run. 483 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 12: That. 484 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 10: If that gets Jaylen Ramsey out a center field and 485 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 10: into the slot where I think Ramsey belong belongs, that 486 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 10: makes you better. And now those guys can run around 487 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,160 Speaker 10: and switch up and one drops and one comes up. 488 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 10: And just the Steelers were really good at defense for 489 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:52,120 Speaker 10: a long time, and so they did it the same 490 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,680 Speaker 10: way for a really long time. And that has caught 491 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 10: up to them and they got to change it. And 492 00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 10: they have a new staff now, which I presume will 493 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 10: come in with new ideas. 494 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:05,199 Speaker 6: Could Rico will also be a third down back, and 495 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 6: by that I mean third and one doesn't have to 496 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 6: be five wide receivers. In shotgun, we take the ball, 497 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 6: we run right up behind Mount Washington, first down. 498 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,639 Speaker 10: Coming out of the ceiling and shining on Joe Bartner 499 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 10: because he says the obvious. 500 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 7: Yeah, but he can also catch the ball. If you 501 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 7: do want to change it up, let's go. Let's go 502 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,959 Speaker 7: back to knocking people off the ball. But with this 503 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 7: offensive line, I think they can do that and with 504 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,200 Speaker 7: this back Kenny Gamwell, like you pointed out yesterday, between 505 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 7: the tackles, miraculously, he performed great last year, and I 506 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,879 Speaker 7: never trusted it No, you kept waiting for him to 507 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,479 Speaker 7: get hurt. Yeah, like, eventually somebody that small is going 508 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,360 Speaker 7: to take the pounding and he's knocking to bounce back 509 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:50,679 Speaker 7: from it. 510 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:55,920 Speaker 2: Dottle's not that guy. He's a tank. And also his attitude. 511 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:57,439 Speaker 2: I just like him as a player. 512 00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:59,680 Speaker 7: I like the way he's motivated and the way he's 513 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,520 Speaker 7: carrying himself the last couple of years. I'm really excited 514 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 7: about the Steelers offense. It looks like the castle's coming together. 515 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 10: Now. You don't know, are they going to play up 516 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 10: to what the expectations are, are they going to fit 517 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 10: and coalesce as a team and all that stuff that 518 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 10: remains to be seen, but you can see the picture emerging. Right. 519 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 2: All of this based on Aaron Rodgers being the quarterback. 520 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 7: By the way, yes, because if it's not Aaron Rodgers, uh, 521 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 7: you know, at this point looks like the Will Howard 522 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,959 Speaker 7: experiment because they haven't brought anybody else in. 523 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,439 Speaker 10: If it's not Anon Rodgers, they're gonna swap out renegade 524 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:36,480 Speaker 10: for the Benny Hills team. 525 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 2: Well that's a that's also a plan, you know what 526 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 2: I mean? 527 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:46,200 Speaker 10: It around, We'll see what an athlete does who doesn't 528 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:46,920 Speaker 10: know what he's doing. 529 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,120 Speaker 2: Barabus at quarterback. I mean, everybody wants a Mike. 530 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 5: You know. 531 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,439 Speaker 2: It's people are very excited about Will Howard cheerful I 532 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 2: know you wish for I'm not saying he can't do it. Yeah, 533 00:26:57,760 --> 00:26:59,159 Speaker 2: I just don't know. If he can't, I don't think 534 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:00,119 Speaker 2: he can do it right away. 535 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 10: If he can do it, I think there would be 536 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 10: some profound growing pains. 537 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 2: Well, Rome wasn't built in the day, Mike. 538 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 10: Yeah, hence the slide against Oregon with the clock running outs. 539 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 7: Sean Casey will join US eight to forty five talking 540 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:15,639 Speaker 7: team USA versus Venezuela for the World Baseball Championship. 541 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:17,080 Speaker 10: I need some Venezuelan rips. 542 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,159 Speaker 7: We just took all their oil and did made it 543 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,160 Speaker 7: their country. I don't I think we've demoralized them enough 544 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 7: of Okay. Yeah. Billy Gardella in the nine o'clock hour 545 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,160 Speaker 7: also going to be joining us, and Mike de COURSI 546 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 7: right for the Sporting News will break down the NCAA tournament, 547 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 7: which kicks off tonight. 548 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 2: Is it SMU and Miami today? 549 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 10: Is that the tonight? It is Maryland Baltimore County against 550 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,880 Speaker 10: Howard and Texas against n c State. Why did I think, oh, 551 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 10: that must be okay SMU and Miami or tomorrow. That's 552 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:49,960 Speaker 10: actually I'm really looking forward to. That's a nine to 553 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,160 Speaker 10: fifteen game. But I don't think Miami has to win 554 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,399 Speaker 10: to justify anything. But I want Miami to win just 555 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 10: to flip some people off. 556 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 2: Now, you had Mike on the show last week. We did, 557 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:02,160 Speaker 2: Did you guys have. 558 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 7: A little disagreement on the Miami status. 559 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 2: No, okay. I thought that's what Jacob had told me. 560 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 7: You were in agreement that they were being properly respected 561 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 7: the well. 562 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,199 Speaker 10: As I if I'm remembering right, we both agreed they 563 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,399 Speaker 10: should be in Okay. I think that was before they lost, 564 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:21,879 Speaker 10: so it was still kind of speculation. 565 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,679 Speaker 2: I still got in its party, still got in. 566 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 7: Party, still got in freak in the country New You 567 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,639 Speaker 7: know that the tournament, You know, you should put a 568 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 7: lot of weight into those tournaments. 569 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 10: You know, in retrospect, I shouldn't have gone in that 570 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 10: game on Thursday night in West Lafayette, Indiana. I should 571 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:44,720 Speaker 10: have just woke up the next day and read what 572 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 10: Ken Palm had to say about free throw defensive percentage. 573 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 10: East of the Mississippi week night games that start after nine. 574 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 7: O'clock, Abby's got your news top of the hour, Necklafts celebrities. 575 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 2: Okay, what do you all? 576 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:10,800 Speaker 10: He's poking me and I'm followed for it. 577 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 4: Necklift celebrities acting like slobs and late night burgers. Are 578 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 4: going to get to all of the oscar fallout from 579 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:17,480 Speaker 4: Sunday Nights festivities. 580 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 5: All right? 581 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 2: Talking at Double A Hoops. 582 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 13: Next, Chad Tyson turns your car into US Sonic Playground 583 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 13: every weekday afternoon. He's got a reloaded cut from the 584 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 13: DVE Morning Show, Sports and a Workforce commercial Free Hour 585 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 13: at three afternoons with Chad Tyson on DVE Hey Pittsburgh, It's. 586 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 7: Actual, along with Abby Prisoner and Mike Persuda, our buddy 587 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 7: Joe Barney live and studio as well, joining US now 588 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 7: National writer for The Sporting News Mike Decursi talking NCUBLEA Hoops. 589 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 2: Mike, Good morning, How are. 590 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:50,800 Speaker 5: You good morning guy? 591 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 2: How are you fantastic? 592 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 7: Thanks for making time for us today here as we're 593 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 7: ready to kick off the tourney. I guess my first 594 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 7: question for you is on the construction of the bracket. 595 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 2: Mike, what did they get right? What did they get wrong? 596 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 5: What they got right was mostly everything. 597 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 12: What they got wrong was probably trying to pass off 598 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:14,600 Speaker 12: Virginia as a number three seed. I think that they 599 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 12: did a really good job. And one of the things 600 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,200 Speaker 12: that I really like about what they're doing now is 601 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 12: they're making it very clear what they emphasize, and what 602 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 12: they emphasize is what they should emphasize. 603 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 5: In entry to the tournament. 604 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 12: There are metric measurements that involve how many games you 605 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 12: win against what level of competition. We call them resume 606 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:45,440 Speaker 12: metrics or record based metrics, and the idea is it 607 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,880 Speaker 12: doesn't matter how many points you win by, is just 608 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 12: did you play pretty good teams and did you beat 609 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 12: some of them on neutral floors or on the road, 610 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 12: and that's how it scored. And the one that's become 611 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 12: most prominent among those is called winds above bubble, sort 612 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:03,160 Speaker 12: of like a work on. 613 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 5: Like a play on words on the war. 614 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 12: War metric that they use in baseball now, and in 615 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 12: that case, it really tells you, like, if an average 616 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,680 Speaker 12: bubble team played your schedule, what would it do, And 617 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 12: that the teams that enter the field mostly score relatively 618 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 12: high on that, which is why once Miami became a 619 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 12: controversy late in the year, as long as they finished 620 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 12: the regular season with the perfect record, they were getting 621 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 12: into the tournament. Their WOB number and I don't ask 622 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 12: me why they call it WOB and not WAB. I 623 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 12: wasn't in charge, but the WOB number was. It was 624 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 12: ranking in the low thirties. And there are there are 625 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 12: basically for teams that are there are basically forty four 626 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:54,640 Speaker 12: the field spots before you get to. 627 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 5: The mid major somewhere in that neighborhood. So they were 628 00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 5: always going to be in. 629 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,520 Speaker 10: There was some reporting last week via Free of Them 630 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 10: of Information request and the like that Miami tried to 631 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,840 Speaker 10: play a good schedule and nobody wanted to play them. 632 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,280 Speaker 10: Is there an answer for that or is that just 633 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,880 Speaker 10: ay too bad? Gonna have to work around that, Mike, I. 634 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:18,960 Speaker 12: Think, first of all, that's a little bit of a 635 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 12: it's a little bit of a dodge. I'm not defending 636 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:28,400 Speaker 12: Miami schedule. It wasn't good enough for the standard college 637 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:33,080 Speaker 12: basketball programs. But in order to overcome their own meager schedule, 638 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:34,840 Speaker 12: they had to do one of two things. One they 639 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:38,520 Speaker 12: had to win the Mid American Conference tournament and get 640 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,280 Speaker 12: the automatic bid, or two they had to go undefeated 641 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 12: in the regular season, anything other than that probably would 642 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 12: have resulted in their exclusion. 643 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 5: And so, I like, one of the things that's. 644 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:52,480 Speaker 12: Always bothered me about this, and I've been talking about 645 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:56,080 Speaker 12: this for literally twenty years, is when the mid majors 646 00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:01,400 Speaker 12: say that, well, we called Duke, and Duke wouldn't play us. 647 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,200 Speaker 12: It's like me when I was twenty saying, you know, 648 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:15,320 Speaker 12: I called Christy Brinkley. And the reality is that. 649 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,200 Speaker 5: That not everybody can play everybody. 650 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:18,840 Speaker 12: And one of the things that no one has ever 651 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 12: no I shouldn't say no one, but very few have 652 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 12: taken taken the queue to if you're a strong mid 653 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 12: major and you think you're going to be strong, you 654 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,280 Speaker 12: call another strong mid major and then. 655 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:30,960 Speaker 5: You play each other. 656 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 12: And they and for the same reason they don't want 657 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 12: to play each other that the high majors don't want 658 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 12: to play them because, well, if we lose to them, 659 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 12: it looks bad. 660 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:40,760 Speaker 5: Well that's if. 661 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 12: You're If you have a problem with that, you can 662 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,720 Speaker 12: fix it. And one of the interesting things about the 663 00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,840 Speaker 12: teams that were in that neighborhood that were competitive for 664 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,840 Speaker 12: getting in teams like San Diego State, teams like New 665 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:56,200 Speaker 12: Mexico BCU, which did get in those. 666 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,760 Speaker 5: Teams played a lot of those types of games. 667 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:02,040 Speaker 12: And it helped their school, it helped their metrics, and 668 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,520 Speaker 12: they either got in. In the case of VCU, course, 669 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:08,759 Speaker 12: VCU ultimately didn't need the at large position because they 670 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 12: won the A ten here in Pittsburgh, but they were 671 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,680 Speaker 12: I think the committee said if VCU had lost a 672 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,200 Speaker 12: date and they weren't going to get in, but if 673 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,839 Speaker 12: Saint Louis had gotten to the final, they both would 674 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:24,080 Speaker 12: have gotten in. And so they they positioned themselves in 675 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,120 Speaker 12: a good spot, and so did San Diego State and. 676 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:30,240 Speaker 5: New Mexico. 677 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,840 Speaker 12: So as Santa Clara did get in and they played 678 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,759 Speaker 12: several of those games, got in as a tennessee. So 679 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:40,160 Speaker 12: there is good scheduling available to all of them. 680 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:41,759 Speaker 5: They just choose not to do it. 681 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,520 Speaker 12: And if you say, well, we didn't know that Santa 682 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,400 Speaker 12: Clara was going to be good, we couldn't be sure. 683 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,320 Speaker 5: Okay. So one of the teams that Miami. 684 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:54,560 Speaker 12: Called was Pitt or Emailed or whatever how they went 685 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,200 Speaker 12: about it, they tried to get a game against pitt 686 00:34:57,680 --> 00:34:58,160 Speaker 12: pitt was the. 687 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,759 Speaker 5: Fifteenth place team in the ACC. How much good would 688 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:01,960 Speaker 5: that have done for their schedule? 689 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:07,080 Speaker 6: Hey, Mike, how does Saint John's win the Big East 690 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:11,920 Speaker 6: regular season, win the Big East Tournament by blowing out 691 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:15,680 Speaker 6: number two seed Connecticut, and end up a five seed 692 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:16,280 Speaker 6: in the dance. 693 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,480 Speaker 12: Well, the problem that they had was that they expected 694 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:24,640 Speaker 12: to be good and they played several strong non conference teams. 695 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:29,120 Speaker 12: I know Alabama was one because when I was seeding 696 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:30,800 Speaker 12: them against Alabama that. 697 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,560 Speaker 5: That game became a decisive for me. 698 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,960 Speaker 12: They were they were a very strong team by the 699 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:39,560 Speaker 12: end of the year, but at the beginning of the 700 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:43,279 Speaker 12: year when they were playing all those difficult teams they were, 701 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,359 Speaker 12: they lost them all. I mean, they did not win 702 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,120 Speaker 12: a strong non conference game. They got to basically January 703 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:53,480 Speaker 12: without a high quality win, and so they wound up 704 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:56,600 Speaker 12: the season I think with three or four wins against 705 00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,080 Speaker 12: teams that actually got into the field. 706 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,920 Speaker 5: Now, two of them were against Yukon Shule and a 707 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:01,839 Speaker 5: lot of people. 708 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,000 Speaker 12: Commented on Twitter, how can there be three seed lines 709 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:10,560 Speaker 12: between Yukon and Saint John's win Saint John's won the 710 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,359 Speaker 12: game twice out of three, and it's not just those 711 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:18,080 Speaker 12: three games, it's thirty five games that they've both played, 712 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,239 Speaker 12: and Yukon did better against It's thirty five by a 713 00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:22,000 Speaker 12: fair margin. 714 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:23,840 Speaker 5: Than Saint John's did against it. 715 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:28,840 Speaker 12: I thought that they might honor that big East championship double, 716 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,320 Speaker 12: and so I had Saint John's as a four seed, 717 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,000 Speaker 12: and I turned out to be wrong. And now I 718 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:37,200 Speaker 12: have a better picture on what they will honor, which 719 00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:41,080 Speaker 12: is more so who what sort of teams did you beat? 720 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,919 Speaker 12: Now Virginia kind of throws that out a little bit. 721 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:48,040 Speaker 12: Virginia had pretty strong metrics in what we call predictive 722 00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:52,640 Speaker 12: metrics that are basically used to measure the power of 723 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:56,359 Speaker 12: a team. How many times did you really blow somebody out? 724 00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,840 Speaker 12: And that was an area in which Virginia scored f 725 00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:00,760 Speaker 12: early strong. 726 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,359 Speaker 5: They didn't beat anybody this year. That's high quality they got. 727 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:09,400 Speaker 12: And they didn't even beat like your Tennessee types, Arkansas 728 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:13,279 Speaker 12: types in the SEC, like like Vandy. Did I mean 729 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,880 Speaker 12: they beat North Carolina? 730 00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:19,320 Speaker 5: I think after North Carolina's best. 731 00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:22,400 Speaker 12: Player got hurt, and then a lot of Clemsons, a 732 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,759 Speaker 12: lot of teams like that in the middle or toward 733 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,960 Speaker 12: the end of the bubble, like Cows and Vcus and. 734 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:28,840 Speaker 5: People like that. 735 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:32,239 Speaker 12: There's very little quality on Virginia's resume. That's why when 736 00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:35,400 Speaker 12: you asked, I thought they got wrong. They didn't have 737 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,920 Speaker 12: a lot of choices for the last three seed, but 738 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:39,480 Speaker 12: I think they chose the wrong one. 739 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:41,920 Speaker 7: Mike de Coursey from the Sporting News with US talking 740 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:43,320 Speaker 7: about the NCAA Tournament. 741 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,120 Speaker 2: Okay, I'm filling out my bracket today. 742 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,360 Speaker 7: I don't know a whole I haven't watched anything up 743 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:49,839 Speaker 7: until now. 744 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:50,920 Speaker 2: I'm one of those people. 745 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:55,600 Speaker 7: I watched the conference championships and that's basically it. And 746 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:57,840 Speaker 7: I'm looking for a big upset and I know the 747 00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:01,360 Speaker 7: twelve fives are usually where those sit. But Mike, for 748 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:07,040 Speaker 7: the people just jumping on board, what's some cherry possible. 749 00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:09,520 Speaker 7: I don't want to say gambling, but you know some 750 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,680 Speaker 7: upset picks for people in their pools. 751 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:14,040 Speaker 5: Well, I think. 752 00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:18,000 Speaker 12: That Troy versus Nebraska is a very compelling game. Troy 753 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:22,520 Speaker 12: had beaten San Diego State, who I mentioned earlier came 754 00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,960 Speaker 12: very close to getting in the field, and that believed that. 755 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:26,360 Speaker 5: I know it was in California. 756 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,240 Speaker 12: I can't remember whether that was on San Diego State's 757 00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,479 Speaker 12: home court, but it was. It was certainly a road 758 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,200 Speaker 12: type game for Troy and they. I think the final 759 00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:36,759 Speaker 12: score was something like one hundred and seven to one 760 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:40,200 Speaker 12: hundred and six, and then they went and played Southern California. Now, 761 00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:42,400 Speaker 12: the Trojans collapsed by the end of the year, but 762 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,360 Speaker 12: at that point in the season, the USC was just 763 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,120 Speaker 12: coming off having won the Maui Invitational and was looking 764 00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:50,440 Speaker 12: pretty strong and they went to triple overtime with them. 765 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:51,920 Speaker 5: They ultimately lost. 766 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,880 Speaker 12: But they've shown they can be competitive against high major 767 00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:58,120 Speaker 12: competition or major competition, and so. 768 00:38:58,120 --> 00:38:59,959 Speaker 5: That's certainly one that you would look at. 769 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:05,040 Speaker 12: I picked I picked South Florida to defeat Louisville. 770 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,680 Speaker 5: Uh, I think that that's. 771 00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:09,719 Speaker 12: That, you know, I think that's a you know, Louisville 772 00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:11,959 Speaker 12: I think is a fine team, but they're best player. 773 00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:12,480 Speaker 5: MIKEL. 774 00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:16,799 Speaker 12: Brown missed the ACC Tournament last week with injury. I 775 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:20,880 Speaker 12: will tell you that all over my bracket, I I 776 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,600 Speaker 12: selected teams based on this injury thing. There are so 777 00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,680 Speaker 12: many teams that are damaged by injury that it almost. 778 00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:28,560 Speaker 5: Becomes even an even fight. 779 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,520 Speaker 12: But there's still there are teams out there that are 780 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:35,080 Speaker 12: healthy that haven't that don't have any issues, like Houston, Arizona, 781 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:38,200 Speaker 12: teams like that. Saint John's doesn't have any health issues, 782 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,560 Speaker 12: and it's and I'm gonna I know, I'm going to 783 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,839 Speaker 12: regret this, but I put them in my final four, 784 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,120 Speaker 12: and I almost never take a. 785 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:50,600 Speaker 5: Shot like that. But I know I'm gonna regret this, 786 00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:52,920 Speaker 5: and I'll probably regret it just because of it's me. 787 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:56,279 Speaker 12: Uh, They'll I'll probably regret it on the weekend when 788 00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,680 Speaker 12: they'll when they'll most likely play Kansas, and Kansas is 789 00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,680 Speaker 12: very good as well, but that there are a lot 790 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:06,320 Speaker 12: of high quality brand names, including one that Goat wears 791 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:10,680 Speaker 12: Green that in that East region that I know at 792 00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:15,759 Speaker 12: least somebody that's listening to this really hopes is successful 793 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:16,640 Speaker 12: in this tournament. 794 00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,600 Speaker 10: All right, Well, we else you got in the final four? 795 00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:20,080 Speaker 10: Cut to the chase? 796 00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:26,279 Speaker 12: Yeah, My final four is Saint John's, Houston, Iowa State, Arizona. 797 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,080 Speaker 12: That's the first time, I'm right, it will be the 798 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,839 Speaker 12: first time since nineteen eighty five that we have three 799 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,960 Speaker 12: teams from the same conference in the final four. Last 800 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,840 Speaker 12: year we had two in the SEC. 801 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:43,520 Speaker 5: But there's a chance that the Big twelve could do this. 802 00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,560 Speaker 12: And I have Arizona beating Houston for the championship. 803 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:52,000 Speaker 7: Where do you have pursuit of Sparti getting knocked off 804 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,520 Speaker 7: in the in the sweet sixteen or Elite eight. 805 00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:56,160 Speaker 5: I have them in the Elite eight. 806 00:40:56,680 --> 00:41:02,080 Speaker 12: I have them defeating Yukon, defeating USF obviously defeating North 807 00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:05,359 Speaker 12: Dakota State, so then I have them losing to Saint John. 808 00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:07,480 Speaker 12: So if they get to that Saint John's game, they'll 809 00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:11,160 Speaker 12: have a chance. I'll be very interested that Michigan State 810 00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:15,200 Speaker 12: versus Yukon would be a fascinating matchup because Michigan State 811 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:19,040 Speaker 12: is much mentally tougher than this Yukon team. 812 00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:23,080 Speaker 5: They're players. 813 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:28,640 Speaker 12: I'm not saying everybody on the team is, but as 814 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,879 Speaker 12: guys like Cooper and Jackson Kohler, those guys. 815 00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:33,279 Speaker 5: Uh, they are warriors. 816 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:33,840 Speaker 10: Uh. 817 00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,840 Speaker 12: And I I don't think that Yukon is the same 818 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:38,799 Speaker 12: type of offensive team they're. 819 00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,680 Speaker 5: They're very good, but they that spread offense. 820 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,520 Speaker 12: That UCLA is playing now really hard for Michigan State 821 00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:49,960 Speaker 12: to contain. And Hey, my buddy Seth Davis from Hoops HQ, uh, CBS, 822 00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:53,080 Speaker 12: Turner and Fox and Big ten Network, he's got more. 823 00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,960 Speaker 5: He's got more than I do now. Uh. He's he 824 00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:58,440 Speaker 5: has u c l A going all the way the 825 00:41:58,440 --> 00:41:59,000 Speaker 5: final four. 826 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:00,800 Speaker 10: Yah, he's wrong about that. 827 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:04,319 Speaker 7: Mike Decarci the Sporting News, Mike, thanks so much for 828 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,200 Speaker 7: your time this morning. Man really appreciate it, gentlemen. All right, 829 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:10,680 Speaker 7: fit March madness getting underway. All right, Abby, has your 830 00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:12,040 Speaker 7: news coming up here after the break? 831 00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:12,799 Speaker 2: What are you talking about? 832 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:17,200 Speaker 4: Celebrities apparently acted like slobs at the Oscars, so we're 833 00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:18,680 Speaker 4: gonna go ahead and docks them. 834 00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:19,919 Speaker 2: They're just like us. 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