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Speaker 1: to Jeffrey, Good morning Gil, how are you today? I
Speaker 1: am doing fabulous listen. First of all, thank you to
Speaker 1: the law firm of Stanko and Peterson for the great
Speaker 1: show yesterday, going through every single bracket, March Madness today.
Speaker 1: It simply does not get better than this. Our number two,
Speaker 1: Bill Crackerburger, will be here, so Chris Felika, the Bear
Speaker 1: from ESPN's College Game Day, we will talk with him,
Speaker 1: also star one of the stars of Daily Wager, They're
Speaker 1: the Daily Gambly show over at ESPN. But First Hour
Speaker 1: thrilled to have him back, and I do mean that sincerely,
Speaker 1: thrilled to have him back. An American original, uh, an
Speaker 1: originator of his own picks, um maybe the greatest college
Speaker 1: basketball handicapper there is. He will be modest about that.
Speaker 1: I will say that he is Alan Boston back on
Speaker 1: the show. Good morning to Allen. Oh yeah, good morning Allen.
Speaker 1: A rather uh rather high praise and uh likely not true,
Speaker 1: but I've been pretty consistent over the years, so we'll
Speaker 1: go with that. I knew you'd be honest about it
Speaker 1: before we get to your honesty always you are always anyway,
Speaker 1: before we get to your pixire, Alan, which I think
Speaker 1: is what people are really excited about. I did want
Speaker 1: to get some they are I wouldn't I want to
Speaker 1: get to give in the last couple of weeks. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be anyway. Yep, some reaction to h the selection
Speaker 1: committee because I have said this week on the air
Speaker 1: that it is a virtually impossible task for you to
Speaker 1: get folks together and put a bracket out that won't
Speaker 1: get complaints from any from from anybody. There's going to
Speaker 1: be complaints no matter how you put this together. Would
Speaker 1: you agree that generally speaking, the committee get did a
Speaker 1: good job. And whether you agree with that or not,
Speaker 1: where could we quibble in this year's brackets? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I I really didn't look at the brackets. So it's
Speaker 1: just it's just games to me. But here, here's the
Speaker 1: deal with the committee is they send a bunch of
Speaker 1: people who know nothing about sports into a room and
Speaker 1: try to decide who's in and who isn't, and who
Speaker 1: should play who and who shouldn't and who's better than who. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: there's something called ken palm that's been around for years now.
Speaker 1: Back in the day when I was doing you know,
Speaker 1: when I went right after the odds came out and
Speaker 1: I became a little known I I said, there's no
Speaker 1: reason why they shouldn't contact me, and I could send
Speaker 1: them my top sixty four teams or whatever and they
Speaker 1: could do what they want with it. There's ways of
Speaker 1: finding out who the best teams are without using all
Speaker 1: the horseship that they use with Quadrant one and Quadrant
Speaker 1: two wins and all the rest of this nonsense that
Speaker 1: amounts to nothing. You want the best teams and then
Speaker 1: whatever other factors you decide, you can tweak the best teams.
Speaker 1: Since Ken Palm has been around and is respected and
Speaker 1: his numbers are close to good, they're good enough, let's
Speaker 1: put it that way, the better than any the committee
Speaker 1: is gonna do. Take his ratings kick out. You know,
Speaker 1: after after the automatic bids are given, I would find
Speaker 1: the next next number of teams that you want, want
Speaker 1: to forty, let's say, and then look at one of
Speaker 1: the factors that you think are important scheduling or road
Speaker 1: wins or whatever nonsense. It means absolutely nothing that they
Speaker 1: want to look at and and put it together like that.
Speaker 1: At least you have a more accurate reflection of who
Speaker 1: should be in because really you want or you want
Speaker 1: close to the best teams, and I'm not so sure
Speaker 1: you always want the entirely the best teams in, but
Speaker 1: you want close to the best teams in. And they
Speaker 1: have a very simple solution. They had Jeff Sagourin's ratings
Speaker 1: for years. They have the Ken Palm ratings, which are,
Speaker 1: like I said, wildly respected. And you don't need three
Speaker 1: days of horseship behind closed doors, where in my opinion,
Speaker 1: that is trying to you know, construct ways to to
Speaker 1: knock out the mid majors and and and get their
Speaker 1: brethren along, uh for a good ride that I don't
Speaker 1: really think they are about who who gets in and
Speaker 1: who doesn't. But anyway, that's that's it. They have a
Speaker 1: very simple solution. They choose not to use it. They
Speaker 1: choose to continue with all kinds of small talk that
Speaker 1: means nothing, and and they go up close to the
Speaker 1: time anyway. I mean, when you see that, you get
Speaker 1: it in a few years ago, I think it was
Speaker 1: four years ago they got into they they called that
Speaker 1: Tony goaltending call and they were playing smu I believe, uh.
Speaker 1: They said, you see why did you see that get in?
Speaker 1: Well the head of committee said that cost the eye test.
Speaker 1: Of course that was a new one, the eye test.
Speaker 1: That had nothing to do with any of the seventeen
Speaker 1: parameters that they had written. So really they kind of
Speaker 1: just do whatever the hell they want. And the reason
Speaker 1: that they don't have something simple like ken palm is
Speaker 1: because they want to do whatever the hell they want.
Speaker 1: And they want to do whatever the hell they want
Speaker 1: because this is a big business. Would a b billion
Speaker 1: in the television contract and any time is big business?
Speaker 1: And I'm repeating myself, but it's fact. There is evil,
Speaker 1: and the evil spreads, and it's spreading all the way
Speaker 1: down to high school, you know, where they're recruiting kids
Speaker 1: when they're you know, nine, ten, eleven years old. It's
Speaker 1: just it's completely lunacy. And uh, but that's what big
Speaker 1: money does. It does it to our government, and it
Speaker 1: does it to two big corporations, and and and it
Speaker 1: does it to the n c A tournament, which used
Speaker 1: to be a very pure and very normal endeavor and
Speaker 1: has become a complete sham. Really, Uh, it's an event
Speaker 1: that can't be ruined. Get out there. That's some dog sitting.
Speaker 1: That's Alan's dog dog sitting right there. That that not
Speaker 1: aland dogs. Be leieve me, they're not aland dog dog sitting.
Speaker 1: Let me interject right here for a second, Alan, we
Speaker 1: the dogs have given me a moment to get in here.
Speaker 1: You tweeted this out too, which I think is a
Speaker 1: is a good tweet because for me, the fact that
Speaker 1: they got Belmont in there, I let a lot of
Speaker 1: other things slide. And here's the tweet that we had
Speaker 1: out here. If we could put that out on Visa
Speaker 1: dot Com, the Visa, NAPA, Fubo TV. Let's credit this
Speaker 1: to who it was out whoever I put out there.
Speaker 1: But Alan tweeted as well, because I want to get
Speaker 1: the name and give credit where it's due. But what
Speaker 1: at least they did do right is and I think
Speaker 1: you agree with this is it seemed like Indiana, which
Speaker 1: had fifteen chances at a quad one win right and
Speaker 1: got six of those as as win six and nine
Speaker 1: overall quad quadrant one. They didn't um they didn't hold
Speaker 1: that against Belmont. Friends that they only that they won
Speaker 1: only two but only had four overall shots. At least
Speaker 1: they got that much right this year. Would you agree
Speaker 1: with that? Yes? No, I think they did a better.
Speaker 1: I honestly think they did a better job this year.
Speaker 1: But like I said, they could do a better and
Speaker 1: even better job by by this kick, you're real simple. Here,
Speaker 1: here's the top forty teams. These thirty two teams are in.
Speaker 1: There's a top cookie teams. Whatever you want to take,
Speaker 1: and you know, we'll figure out what to do from there,
Speaker 1: because they have numbers that indicate who who's better than who.
Speaker 1: Belmont shouldn't anyway, they're they're they're really good. I mean that,
Speaker 1: you know anyone think they have good? Wasn't watching that
Speaker 1: game very close to last night? Yeah? Belmont Belmont three
Speaker 1: and a half point dogs against Maryland. By the way,
Speaker 1: in round one, lets to give Jeff who who's that tweet? Responsior?
Speaker 1: You just say it on the mic? Who's that tweet? Front?
Speaker 1: That was from Patrick Stevens at at D one scores. Okay,
Speaker 1: there we go. We just want don't want to let
Speaker 1: that slide, all right, Alan, So let's yeah, that's it's
Speaker 1: kind of the same stuff I've said for a long time.
Speaker 1: It's they've they've always they've always found ways to slant
Speaker 1: it towards the power schools. Always every single thing they
Speaker 1: look at helps the power schools because those are supposedly
Speaker 1: the people, the schools that make the money for him,
Speaker 1: those are the ones that play the games on U
Speaker 1: boats and and supposedly fans want to watch. And I
Speaker 1: mentioned this before that the head of the whole UH
Speaker 1: network that that carries this didn't want Loyal Chicago last year.
Speaker 1: He wanted Kentucky, claiming that the ratings are hier arch
Speaker 1: when Kentucky's on there. But a study showed someone Actually
Speaker 1: there was a big, long article on it that I read,
Speaker 1: and the guy compared UH Loyal Chicago games in their
Speaker 1: time slot on whatever station they were on, some of
Speaker 1: which are rather hard to find UH. And it turns
Speaker 1: out all the games were rated higher than the norm
Speaker 1: by lot every time. So the the the idea that
Speaker 1: big name schools draw bigger ratings is by this study horshit.
Speaker 1: In fact, it is Cinderella that has always talked about.
Speaker 1: It is Cinderella that that draws the interest. That is Cinderella.
Speaker 1: You know who knew about Sister Jean. I did because
Speaker 1: I read an article that Mark Siegler when San Diego
Speaker 1: State planned out OILA during the season, and he poked
Speaker 1: fun at the whole at the whole thing. He's He's
Speaker 1: the best place writer in the country now that Dick
Speaker 1: Gerard is retired. Mark Siegler, who covers San Diego State
Speaker 1: is brilliant and must be read anyway that that's what
Speaker 1: was talked about. When George Mason made the Final four,
Speaker 1: that's all you heard about. Alaron Anger, who wasn't known
Speaker 1: very well all of a sudden is is is a
Speaker 1: cult hero. And Gonzaga back in the day, that's all
Speaker 1: you heard about was Gonzaga. The Princeton Georgetown game in
Speaker 1: nineteen whatever the hell that was the one verse sixteen
Speaker 1: that wants to the wire that was the highest rated
Speaker 1: game ever on ESPN. It's always the underdog that that
Speaker 1: generates the interest in this uh in this event and
Speaker 1: and and makes it the amazing event it is. Ah
Speaker 1: So this pretense that that that you want to person
Speaker 1: North Carolina final and do first Kansas Final is a
Speaker 1: croc and and and until these people get that through
Speaker 1: the heads, you're gonna see some very very corrupt draw
Speaker 1: backdoor meetings that go on. They did better this year,
Speaker 1: but that they get it right, of course not because
Speaker 1: you can just do better in a very simple way,
Speaker 1: and they choose not to, especially in an ear and
Speaker 1: hour analytics and and and you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: the terms, so ignore me if I say something stupid.
Speaker 1: But they have numbers out there that are accurate and
Speaker 1: can be gotten very simply, and they choose to ignore it,
Speaker 1: and that that's not what's happening in the world today.
Speaker 1: I choose to ignore it because I don't understand it
Speaker 1: and I'm old. But they certainly they're in college. They
Speaker 1: could find someone to explain it to him, you know.
Speaker 1: So that's hit for that, I will say, ironically. Uh,
Speaker 1: the one thing that I noticed immediately, and again I
Speaker 1: didn't really look at the bractet because I don't pick
Speaker 1: a bracket. I just try to pick the winners of games.
Speaker 1: I didn't notice that two very dangerous mid majors Virginia
Speaker 1: commolf in central forward managed to find themselves in any
Speaker 1: first round game. They both defensive minded, grind it out, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just absolutely brutal play against teams that that
Speaker 1: you're just going to be completely slide at the end
Speaker 1: of this game. And they're playing each other in the
Speaker 1: first round. Now, what a big surprise that one of
Speaker 1: those is gonna knock the other one out and then
Speaker 1: the winner gets to play who Duke? Of course, so
Speaker 1: Duke gets the worn out mid major on short rests
Speaker 1: and now they get to knock call those majors out
Speaker 1: who have actually pretty dangerous too, really big money schools. Again.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think that's coincidence. No, that's coincidence. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's my one little Uh. Okay, Alan, let me step
Speaker 1: in here at it. I guess I'm really are gonna
Speaker 1: drawn up I did. I'm sure I get poles in
Speaker 1: it from here to eternity. Let's do it like, let's
Speaker 1: take a break and let's get to your picks. We'll
Speaker 1: do it. Uh, We'll get as many in as we can.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you want to go through everyone
Speaker 1: in rapid fire, if we want to pick the ones
Speaker 1: that you like the best. Either way, we'll go region
Speaker 1: by region and we'll do it that way. We'll just
Speaker 1: do it game by game. And by the way, Alan
Speaker 1: is a percent right, that is what the beauty of
Speaker 1: March madness is. Right. It's the David Goliath and the
Speaker 1: Princes in Georgetown game. By the way, Jeff, that he
Speaker 1: refers to that was game. It was a sixteen one.
Speaker 1: Princeton lost to Georgetown fifty to forty nine. And this
Speaker 1: is the Alonso morning to KEMMI Ma Tumbo version of
Speaker 1: Georgetown in those years, I think, but Tumbo was still there.
Speaker 1: But Morning ended up swatting away the final shot of
Speaker 1: that game. Uh. And that's how Georgetown preserved because that
Speaker 1: would have been the first one sixteen upset of all time.
Speaker 1: But that that's say the Ivys automatic bid, by the way,
Speaker 1: that's right, that game saved. The schools are automatic bid.
Speaker 1: That would not be very good right now, given how
Speaker 1: strong heavily is. Uh. Anyway, Pete, Pete kill with the
Speaker 1: back door plays for Princeton was just amazing that year.
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Speaker 1: great Allen Boston on a Numbers game right here at Visa.
Speaker 1: Now back to a Numbers game with your host Gil Alexander,
Speaker 1: broadcasting live from our visa in studios in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: Let you know, Jeff, because that Princeton game spark memories
Speaker 1: for me nineteen five four years before that. This is
Speaker 1: the this is the Patrick Ewing led Georgetown juggernaut. Georgetown
Speaker 1: was national champions in eighty four, beat Houston and La
Speaker 1: Juan and Drexler that year eighty five, Georgetown was just
Speaker 1: a goliath. Uh and before the tournament. Now, I keep
Speaker 1: in mind, I don't even know what betting lines are
Speaker 1: when I'm a kid here, but I made bets just innately, right,
Speaker 1: this is just how you grow up. I made bets
Speaker 1: innately with all my classmates. I grew up at d C.
Speaker 1: I took Georgetown, gave them the field, and they would
Speaker 1: have to pay me five to one. I'm sure I
Speaker 1: was getting the best of it at that point, without
Speaker 1: even knowing that I would get the best of it.
Speaker 1: And all went well until the championship game, and sure
Speaker 1: enough Villanova one of the three teams in the final
Speaker 1: four from the Big East that year. Villanova shout, I
Speaker 1: want to say, seventy nine from the field is either
Speaker 1: seventy or seven eight point and beat Georgetown by a bucket,
Speaker 1: dashing all my hopes to the miserable day for me. Anyway,
Speaker 1: That's how I was as a child. Let's bring him
Speaker 1: in so generous once again with his time, and we
Speaker 1: really do appreciate it. What's that say again? It put
Speaker 1: a real, a real not not the greatest human Rowley
Speaker 1: Massimino on the map. And number two. Bob Hoggans talked
Speaker 1: about that game in a press conference. He and and
Speaker 1: now West Virginia is a team that plays very fast.
Speaker 1: They like to press, they like to to go up
Speaker 1: and down the court rapidly. But Bob Hoggans said so
Speaker 1: he wouldn't mind the thirty second'clock. Right. Yet, Hoggans spoke
Speaker 1: about that game with reverence. He said, to all these
Speaker 1: people who think we need some thirty second clock to
Speaker 1: make the game, you know, wonderful, to keep it high
Speaker 1: scoring or whatever, go back to that game and how
Speaker 1: many shots were taken in the second half. Not a lot,
Speaker 1: by the way, and yet you had one of the
Speaker 1: more riveting games of all time, a game that's you
Speaker 1: you just brought up thirty four years later, you know,
Speaker 1: as as something really one of the best finals ever.
Speaker 1: H Right, So this whole idea that you need to
Speaker 1: get up and down the floor and make this a
Speaker 1: glorified uh NBA minor league is really another bunch of
Speaker 1: horseship that that again once again favors the Tower schools, right,
Speaker 1: the wolf possessions, the better chance they have of of
Speaker 1: of winning the game. And it's really, it's really, it's
Speaker 1: really a sad commentary on on the on the whole
Speaker 1: game of basketball. Uh. Like I said, big money causes evil.
Speaker 1: I've been saying it for probably twenty years. Uh, when
Speaker 1: it did shows out in Vegas twenty years ago, I
Speaker 1: started talking about all this and and it's it's gotten
Speaker 1: worse and worse and worse. Yes, they did a better
Speaker 1: job this year, but it's still it's still a really
Speaker 1: Uh it's a pretty sad state of affairs. Talking to
Speaker 1: Alan Boston. And if they ever truly if they ever
Speaker 1: truly investigated what goes on, uh you know, uh, they
Speaker 1: would they would probably shut down the whole the whole fiasco.
Speaker 1: The star of the Odds, Chad Millman's book, The Best
Speaker 1: of It, that documentary, Alan Boston, the Star, both of
Speaker 1: those things, Um just great, uh great different multi media.
Speaker 1: One won a book, one a movie, and kind enough
Speaker 1: to join us on the numbers game. Here a visa
Speaker 1: this morning. Alan. Let's let's just go to whichever game
Speaker 1: you want to. Let's do it that way. Let's start
Speaker 1: with some of your best. Go ahead, they're kicking the
Speaker 1: top and go and give me the line and we'll talk.
Speaker 1: I'll throw out if I have any Okay, let's do that.
Speaker 1: U let us start. Let's do them chronicle in chronological
Speaker 1: order starting tomorrow morning. Let's do it that way. Minnesota.
Speaker 1: There's a team I don't know how they got in
Speaker 1: this tournament, Minnesota Louisville the Patina. Yeah, Louisville by five
Speaker 1: in then in fifteen am Pacific twelve fift pm Eastern
Speaker 1: tip off to kick off March Madness tomorrow morning, there's
Speaker 1: the five or five and a half. I thought it
Speaker 1: was a couple, a couple of a couple. I think,
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, New Minnesota astarily doesn't belong in this tournament.
Speaker 1: They're probably the lowest rated team to get an out
Speaker 1: large bid. Belmont would be favorite over him, by the way.
Speaker 1: Uh actually, Temple was probably the lowest team to get in.
Speaker 1: It was the gut out lugged. But you know, I
Speaker 1: think that was an homage to fran Duntee and I
Speaker 1: didn't mind that at all. He's one of the class
Speaker 1: acts of of the sport. And uh, you know, never
Speaker 1: mind he coached tun for seventeen years. But that's maybe
Speaker 1: a little biased, but no, he's a really a really
Speaker 1: good coach and a really good guy. And his wildly
Speaker 1: respected down there, and they fired Bill Martelly yesterday at St.
Speaker 1: Joe's rather rather disgusting. So it was a really bad
Speaker 1: day for the Big five something I uh am very
Speaker 1: uh fond of and uh yeah uh point Louisville with
Speaker 1: all the fewer down there with Patino and his uh
Speaker 1: his parties uh for his recruits, got a little bit
Speaker 1: of trouble and they hired Chris mac. Chris Back is
Speaker 1: an unbelievable basketball coach. The talent at Louisville this year
Speaker 1: is marginal at best. It is nothing close to what
Speaker 1: louis will typically get. Chris Back has created a team
Speaker 1: that plays to a very high level. They had Duke
Speaker 1: twenty three down before they played not to lose and lost.
Speaker 1: They had Farida State beat it Florida State. They have
Speaker 1: a myriad of of monster games that they've played. Yet
Speaker 1: the talent really isn't that great. Uh. Minnesota had high
Speaker 1: hopes for this year and probably about played to the
Speaker 1: level they typically played too. So uh nothing nothing great
Speaker 1: or nothing bad about what they did during the year.
Speaker 1: So what happens here? I think the line is slightly high,
Speaker 1: But more importantly, uh does Chris max Wizardry continue to
Speaker 1: allow this team to play to this really boded level
Speaker 1: given the talent they have and typically in an n
Speaker 1: c A tournament game. Uh A better way to look
Speaker 1: at this is this is quart of a sort of
Speaker 1: like a Virginia or a Produce kind of thing where
Speaker 1: you know, they reached their maximum level and the only
Speaker 1: way they can go is down. And I would say
Speaker 1: that that, you know, Richard Bettino is no dope, He's
Speaker 1: he's probably better coach and his dad for sure. Uh My.
Speaker 1: My thinking is that Louisville probably even if they played
Speaker 1: at their level, they're gonna have a tough time covering
Speaker 1: this number. But it's more likely they flatten out and
Speaker 1: and kind of play more than the talent level. Given
Speaker 1: the importance of these games and and and how much
Speaker 1: is put into it, you know, how much scouting has
Speaker 1: done and everything. Uh So I would definitely have a
Speaker 1: strong lean to the underdog here. I didn't bet it,
Speaker 1: but I probably should. It kind of feels like it
Speaker 1: should be their game. I mean, if this game was
Speaker 1: played at the beginning of the year of Minnesota would
Speaker 1: have been favored that. That's that's how good, that's how
Speaker 1: good a job Chris macis done. But again, you know,
Speaker 1: teams kind of seek their level, and and his Xavier
Speaker 1: teams always overachieved during the year and kind of crashed
Speaker 1: out during tournament for the similar reason that he just
Speaker 1: gets so much out of these teams definitely only have
Speaker 1: one place to go but down, you know. And that
Speaker 1: so that's my quick thought there next. All right, strong, lean,
Speaker 1: lean to the dog. You know what, I might bet them? Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, that's why that's why I scoot the talk
Speaker 1: sometimes it makes any sense. It is a good little
Speaker 1: multitasking here while we're doing the talk. All right, So
Speaker 1: let me give you a group of four games here
Speaker 1: that follow that now, and you can gravitate towards the
Speaker 1: one or two that you want to. Yale l s
Speaker 1: U L s U favored by seven and a half
Speaker 1: against the Ivy League champ Yale Bulldogs. Auburn's got New
Speaker 1: Mexico State. I'll leave it at those two, and you
Speaker 1: can go at those. Auburn is a five and a
Speaker 1: half point favorite right now over the Aggies, who thirty
Speaker 1: win team this year only lost four first. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: bet Yale. Uh. I think the line is seriously, I
Speaker 1: think we were I think we took eight and a half.
Speaker 1: The line is uh pretty pumped up there. Even this
Speaker 1: is not your typical IVY league, you know, a bunch
Speaker 1: of smart guys who you know, run beautiful offense. This
Speaker 1: is uh a Yale team with a pro and only
Speaker 1: and a fringe pro h and an unbelievable coach and
Speaker 1: a team that's that's that, that's deep and experienced, and
Speaker 1: uh did not get a great draw. LSU had a
Speaker 1: home run year, a young team that that forished and
Speaker 1: and played to a high level of the entire season. Uh,
Speaker 1: winning in Kentucky, as I recall, not an easy task,
Speaker 1: really winning a lot of big games. They led Houston
Speaker 1: by seventeen early in year, and how good does that
Speaker 1: look now? So this is a very very good LSU team. However,
Speaker 1: it is kind of a young l s U team,
Speaker 1: and their coach Wade, is suspended and the guy taking
Speaker 1: over is the old Texas coach. I forget his name,
Speaker 1: but he says he's not he's not a very good coach.
Speaker 1: So in the X and o's department, as the game
Speaker 1: goes on, you know, as a huge manage the the
Speaker 1: main concern for Yale is, yes, it is an improved
Speaker 1: Ivy League squad. Yes, they have a prominent team and
Speaker 1: and maybe even too, but the still a talent gap
Speaker 1: is pretty enormous because l s U has you know,
Speaker 1: UH four and five star wards. Well, I don't know
Speaker 1: if they have anything. I don't know, I don't know who,
Speaker 1: but they have strong recruits down there. Let's put it
Speaker 1: that way. They're playing an IM league team. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a football basketball UH breeding
Speaker 1: ground verse an academic legendary academic school. So you're can
Speaker 1: have a bretty pretty big down cap they now, can
Speaker 1: the coaching overcome that? I say yes, and I say
Speaker 1: the talent gap, maybe he isn't as big as it
Speaker 1: may seem. Also, all as she relies on several freshmen,
Speaker 1: and freshmen have a tendency to hit a wall at
Speaker 1: the end of the year. And l s U losing
Speaker 1: that game to Florida UH and the SC tournament, although
Speaker 1: probably will work in their favor as it gives him
Speaker 1: a couple more days off, maybe a sign that they're
Speaker 1: flattening out a little bit. Tony met in a bett
Speaker 1: and I think that's the guy's name was coach, So
Speaker 1: I think Yale has all a chance to win this game.
Speaker 1: As for Auburn New Mexico State, you know the obvious
Speaker 1: is ha ha, it's Chris James verse Bruce Pearle. So
Speaker 1: let's go to Mexico State. How how the hell they're
Speaker 1: gonna lose this game? Uh, Aubrey completely embarrassed themselves last
Speaker 1: year in the turnaround. I have no idea what what
Speaker 1: transpired going into that game, but it looked like they
Speaker 1: didn't care. H. I actually talked about a fire poll
Speaker 1: right after that game. That was that was that was ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It was it was a complete nine evidence almost like
Speaker 1: they dumped. Uh. So is that what happens again this
Speaker 1: year or did they take that as as fuel too
Speaker 1: to show the world, Hey, you know we're gonna we're
Speaker 1: we're we're better than that. In New Mexico State, they
Speaker 1: get a team that tends to play fast, in fact,
Speaker 1: almost always plays fast. That's what Auburn rebels in. Uh.
Speaker 1: The athle that a gap is ginormous. So even though
Speaker 1: Auburn prone to taking bad shot after bad shot and
Speaker 1: playing rather more on ball against a team that does
Speaker 1: nothing wrong at any moment during the game, I think
Speaker 1: the the fact that New Mexico State will likely not
Speaker 1: get Auden into a half court game, will play into
Speaker 1: Auburn's hands. Wait too much for your Mexico State do
Speaker 1: overcom and I definitely would lean to the favorite there,
Speaker 1: although my buddy putting money on Bruce Pearl against Christians
Speaker 1: and and and and the thought of losing that game
Speaker 1: would would would probably cause me too many sleepless nights
Speaker 1: to make it worth it. But the line is definitely
Speaker 1: too old. So there you go. This is great, Alan,
Speaker 1: Let's do one more here before it is no trust me,
Speaker 1: this is great. Vermont and Florida State. I feel bad
Speaker 1: for the world. The world loves this. Vermont Florida State.
Speaker 1: Leonard Hamilton's against the Catamounts at Hartford, Florida State by nine.
Speaker 1: Here on the line, I took eleven with Vermont and
Speaker 1: again really kind of not not a great matchup for Vermont.
Speaker 1: The you beat Vermont with athleticism and and and Farida
Speaker 1: State's got that in spades. Uh And I don't mean
Speaker 1: that in in any kind of uh yeah, I always
Speaker 1: say that because the world has gone anywhere. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't mean that in any kind of racist manner.
Speaker 1: That is meant to be a joke by the way. Uh,
Speaker 1: the the oh boy, we're gonna get in trouble now.
Speaker 1: The uh it's a term people, you know, that's what's
Speaker 1: wrong with the world right then and there. Anyway, So anyway,
Speaker 1: you got these uh a team order with athletes that
Speaker 1: gets up and down the floor as fast as any
Speaker 1: team in the country. Against Vermont, who was gonna want
Speaker 1: to play a half court game? So who wins the
Speaker 1: tempo battle? Vermont is gonna have a very hard time
Speaker 1: keeping this game under control. However, two years ago, a
Speaker 1: Vermont team played Perdue and the game was a an
Speaker 1: absolute war. H Granted, produce more more prone to play
Speaker 1: half court basketball, but they're also a better team than
Speaker 1: for the fart State team that that that Vermont is
Speaker 1: playing here tonight. And this Fartes State team is pretty comparable.
Speaker 1: This Vermont team is pretty comparable to that Purdue team.
Speaker 1: So if you want to take a little powow, they
Speaker 1: had Perdue in a lot of trouble in that game,
Speaker 1: and then the best player got hurt and Perdue finally
Speaker 1: warmed out at the end. I think they won by
Speaker 1: seven or eight. Uh. If Vermont stays healthy here and
Speaker 1: Leonard Hamilton's team does what they usually do, which is
Speaker 1: UH plays uh little all the holes in their game.
Speaker 1: Uh Vermont could get what they want almost every time
Speaker 1: down the floor. Uh and if that's the case, this
Speaker 1: game could go right for the wire. If Vermont panics
Speaker 1: with the athleticism that's thrown at them, then the game
Speaker 1: could get away from them in a hurry, or they
Speaker 1: could get worn out as the game went along. I
Speaker 1: think the former, I think uh Becker is a great
Speaker 1: coach and and and UH that that he'll he'll he'll
Speaker 1: find a way to his team's experienced enough and played
Speaker 1: enough tough, tough venues to where they won't be overwhelmed
Speaker 1: by the athleticism that's that's shown here. And uh and
Speaker 1: there's also a chance of partist they can take them
Speaker 1: a little lightly to UH. So I'll take uh Vermont
Speaker 1: to uh possibly even pull the upset here. Uh. It
Speaker 1: wouldn't it wouldn't shot me. If there was a thirty
Speaker 1: five second clock, for sure, this would be uh, this
Speaker 1: would be stealing money. But unfortunately, like I said, they
Speaker 1: put that thirty second clock in there to allow teams
Speaker 1: like Fartnes State, not to Louis to Vermont. And that's
Speaker 1: that's really the sad part of this whole thing, not
Speaker 1: not because I'm a gambler, because I'm a fan. You know,
Speaker 1: money is just a way of of making your life
Speaker 1: a little easier. But you know, the real joys are
Speaker 1: watching a really good basketball game and and watching that
Speaker 1: team pully upset and and and that that doesn't happen anymore, unfortunately.
Speaker 1: It's the real joy for sure. So Yale of the
Speaker 1: of the two bigger dogs that we talked about, Yale
Speaker 1: live to win it out right in your opinion. Vermont
Speaker 1: a little less so, but possible. Yeah, both possible, Well,
Speaker 1: both not likely because that thirty second clock. But I
Speaker 1: would uh, I would say Yale is is definitely the
Speaker 1: more likely the winner of the two. I could see
Speaker 1: how as you really falling off there that the coach
Speaker 1: leading them is not is not the best. Alan will
Speaker 1: do me one favorite. Let's let's hang out one more
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Speaker 1: Alan Boston Allen, love you for doing this, man, thank
Speaker 1: you again. Really appreciate it. And I speak made most
Speaker 1: of my bets, so it's it's it's not a big deal.
Speaker 1: The problem I had on the last time I was
Speaker 1: on your network was they asked me to go the
Speaker 1: games and I hadn't back yet. And that makes sense,
Speaker 1: makes it can't give all games until I bet it
Speaker 1: just just just in case someone's listening who has some
Speaker 1: influence on the line. It just be stupid to me.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to earn a living son doing this after
Speaker 1: you know, pretty much after everything's done in the Minnesota.
Speaker 1: But you know, as I was talking about it, it it
Speaker 1: kind of made sense. My numb on the Minnesota game
Speaker 1: was four, so I wasn't gonna take five or five
Speaker 1: and a half. But I think that you might might
Speaker 1: have a little bit of a a clinker. Really, Minnesota
Speaker 1: probably has more talent than them. Anyway, go ahead. Minnesota
Speaker 1: getting a lot of great free throw benefit over the
Speaker 1: weekend and the Big Ten tournament. If you look at
Speaker 1: the box scores in their games, they were just getting
Speaker 1: way more free throws than their opponents. We'll see if
Speaker 1: that trend continues here. Bradley Michigan State. This is a
Speaker 1: two fifteen, meaning a two seed fifteen seed game not
Speaker 1: relevant for our purposes here, but this is a ten
Speaker 1: and a half right now in favor of the Spark. Yes,
Speaker 1: the lines of smitioned high, but Bradley was twenty one
Speaker 1: down to Northern Ire in the finals of the Missouri Valley.
Speaker 1: I don't need to say any more than that. I
Speaker 1: would never ever, I think the lines is a little high,
Speaker 1: but I would never bet Bradley, so pass for sure.
Speaker 1: I would expect this to be some sort of ball.
Speaker 1: The value is way down and and again that's a
Speaker 1: that's a function of of the big money game because
Speaker 1: Creton and both Creton and which Talk, who were in
Speaker 1: the valley for years, I can't stay in the valley
Speaker 1: and continue to get ten and eleven seeds the way
Speaker 1: the committee had done it. I mean, there was one
Speaker 1: year which State was a top ten team in my
Speaker 1: rankings and we're playing a playing game. You know, that's
Speaker 1: how that's how wrong they got it. And I'm not
Speaker 1: claiming to be the do all end all, but if
Speaker 1: I have a team in the top ten, they're probably
Speaker 1: in the top ten, and you know, yet they are
Speaker 1: playing some playing game. That's how wrong the committee can
Speaker 1: get it at times. And that's what that's why I
Speaker 1: which us they couldn't stay in the Missouri Valley. And so,
Speaker 1: you know, so the whole game of college basketball, which
Speaker 1: is you know, Barry Hinson just retired from Southern Illinois
Speaker 1: and he did it cheerfully, and as he was talking
Speaker 1: about his love for the valley, he broke down. Because
Speaker 1: that's the way basketball was when I was around you.
Speaker 1: You took pride in your team, you took pride in
Speaker 1: your league. Uh you were right on top of the court,
Speaker 1: really being mean to the the the opponent's teams. There
Speaker 1: was some wildly creative stuff done by by I wasn't
Speaker 1: one of them, by the way. I just watched the game.
Speaker 1: But people could be pretty brutal, but it was fun.
Speaker 1: It was you know, you're going to college. It's not
Speaker 1: it's not a glorified NBA. And and unfortunately, you know,
Speaker 1: I keep saying that, but that's that's the sad reality
Speaker 1: of what this is becoming. Until really someone puts their
Speaker 1: foot down and says, all right, you know, we're gonna
Speaker 1: go back to the purity of this game. There's normal
Speaker 1: one and done. If you want to go to college,
Speaker 1: You're going to college. Uh, that's it, so you can
Speaker 1: go right to the pros. The onason they had one
Speaker 1: and done is because they could promote him right a year.
Speaker 1: About any time you've seen it in a Zion Williamson,
Speaker 1: I mean the sneaker bowls up and it was a
Speaker 1: dull endall. No one no I talked about how how
Speaker 1: does a sneaker ball up? Or or then why does
Speaker 1: he get some special sneaker after that? You know, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just it's the whole thing, just you know, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: That's sort of some sort of advantage. And by the way,
Speaker 1: why they're playing games. There's no other major event with
Speaker 1: his playing games. Wimbledon has a hundred twenty eight have
Speaker 1: qualifying rounds, but you could pretend the conference tournaments. So
Speaker 1: the qualifying rounds Wombleton is the top seeds get a
Speaker 1: benefit by playing a weaker player, but it's an equal
Speaker 1: number of wins for every one. And the thing speaking
Speaker 1: of has qualifiers, but they all play the same four rounds.
Speaker 1: The playing games will put in there to help again
Speaker 1: the big game schools. So the whole of the whole
Speaker 1: thing is a sham, but it's still a great champ. Well,
Speaker 1: you tied me up for because we we land right
Speaker 1: on the Belmont game. Then next in chronological order, Belmont,
Speaker 1: which dispatched Temple last night in the playing game, they
Speaker 1: got Maryland now out of the Big ten. Hard to
Speaker 1: remember that Maryland's in the Big ten. Maryland four point
Speaker 1: favorites against Belmont. I'm guessing you're all in a big tent.
Speaker 1: Where else would they be, Well, they were in the
Speaker 1: a CC. My whole life up to this point, that's where,
Speaker 1: no kidding, Yeah, the whole thing, the whole thing is
Speaker 1: just ridiculous. It's it's just, you know, Paul West, Virginia's
Speaker 1: in the Big twelve. Like every coach. I tell Huggins,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you do it. Like we we
Speaker 1: make one trip here, you guys gotta do it five
Speaker 1: or six times a year. It's not fair to the kids,
Speaker 1: It really isn't. It's just uh, anyway, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: keep parping on that. I made my point. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of so Beaumont a little bit unfair that they
Speaker 1: have to play in Dayton and travel to Jacksonville on
Speaker 1: one day and Meanwhile, you know, Marland's watching them play,
Speaker 1: so Malin gets the benefit of being there and and
Speaker 1: and watching Belmont play their game so that their prep
Speaker 1: is a lot simple and a lot better. Meanwhile, Beaumont
Speaker 1: has to deal with travel, and I'm much short of
Speaker 1: prep for Merland. H Does that mean well and should
Speaker 1: before or Belmont? I don't think so. Uh, technically the
Speaker 1: lines you're probably closer to. Uh. Pick on Marlan one.
Speaker 1: The Belmont center was definitely hobbled last night, and it
Speaker 1: definitely affected his place somewhat. But he still had a
Speaker 1: huge game, and I would expect that treatment ball tonight
Speaker 1: tomorrow and before the game will enable him to maybe
Speaker 1: play a little better. If not, they could be in
Speaker 1: a world of ship. Uh. They matched up very well
Speaker 1: with Temple. They do not match up well at all
Speaker 1: with Melon. Uh. Malin's probably gonna kill them of the
Speaker 1: boards and and there were moments there where you could
Speaker 1: see temples athleticism causing Belmont some problems. Uh. So where
Speaker 1: am I going with this? I still I'm gonna bet
Speaker 1: Ricky Burr against Mark Church on every day of the week. Uh.
Speaker 1: Temple actually defended Belmont fairly well, and Belmont still shot
Speaker 1: a high percentage because Bird always figures out a way
Speaker 1: to get it done. Uh. The fear is is just
Speaker 1: Malin just murders his team on the boards and and
Speaker 1: and gets a lot of freebies on putbacks and and
Speaker 1: eventually Belmont breaks from that. But uh, church On is
Speaker 1: Uh has has failed miserably h many a time. Uh
Speaker 1: in these situations. And Uh the coaching edge is probably
Speaker 1: a little bit too big here. And I would definitely
Speaker 1: prefer Belmont plus four. That's where I thought, if all
Speaker 1: things were being equal, I'd be betting a lot on it.
Speaker 1: But you know, with the center being a little hobbled
Speaker 1: and the travel and the the prep time being a
Speaker 1: little lesson the matchup not being that great, I would
Speaker 1: definitely temper the bed a little bit. So Northeastern and
Speaker 1: Kansas right after that. Alan Kansas highly overseated here, I
Speaker 1: think by most people's assessment, this opened it. Yeah, they've
Speaker 1: overseated for the last thirty years. This opened at eight.
Speaker 1: And the betting public like, I'm not kidding, I don't
Speaker 1: make this ship up. I know you're not. No, I
Speaker 1: know you're not. It's very true. I'm laughing at They
Speaker 1: go in there and and some teams just get an
Speaker 1: automatic pass and that's it. However, they didn't. They didn't
Speaker 1: do Kansas any favors here. I promise you that this
Speaker 1: is a Kansas team that starts for a freshman. This
Speaker 1: is a Kansas team that was very, very erratic. Because
Speaker 1: of that, they still have the lead athletes. However, Uh,
Speaker 1: Northeastern is deep experienced and there aren't many better coaches
Speaker 1: than Bill ConA on the country. They run a very
Speaker 1: intricate offense the likes of which Kansas hasn't seen. Uh.
Speaker 1: Bill soft is a good guy. I love listening to him.
Speaker 1: I think he kind of gets it. However, his coaching
Speaker 1: is a little shaky, maybe not even that good. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's a complete coaching mismatch. The talent gap is pretty
Speaker 1: big for Kansas, however. Uh it's uh been experienced Northeastern
Speaker 1: team against a freshman laden Kansas team, and I think
Speaker 1: Kansas gonna have all the time stopping Northeastern's offense, which
Speaker 1: is really beautiful to watch. Uh, very good chance at
Speaker 1: the upset here. I know it's kind of a a
Speaker 1: uh what's the word that when everyone kind of falls
Speaker 1: on the same Oh yeah, yeah, sort of a darling
Speaker 1: pick by too many people. So that's other way I
Speaker 1: was thinking of about you know, my my My Cats
Speaker 1: game didn't come back good, so this could be a
Speaker 1: sign of things to come. Unfortunately I'm not. Don't laugh,
Speaker 1: it's the truth. Yeah. Uh so if I'm if I'm babbling,
Speaker 1: if I'm a babbling idiot. Next year, you know that
Speaker 1: the als Armers is kicked in. Uh anyway, it's a yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a darling pick. Whatever the word is that I
Speaker 1: can't think of at this time, which is really kind
Speaker 1: of shitty, so uh, you know, let me try to
Speaker 1: block that thought. Anyway. Yeah, I didn't get this game
Speaker 1: because the line, you know, the line really is you
Speaker 1: really aren't getting nothing here Kansas dot Eastern typically be
Speaker 1: and you're only getting six and a half, so you're
Speaker 1: really doing getting shipped here. But it will be a
Speaker 1: fun game to watch, and we'll see how the referees
Speaker 1: can bail Kandas out because they've they've done that before
Speaker 1: and they'll probably have to do it again. Gonna have
Speaker 1: a really hard time stopping uh North Eastern here North
Speaker 1: Eistern is got got completely healthy at the end of
Speaker 1: the year for the first time all year. They have
Speaker 1: been banged up all the year. They finally get every
Speaker 1: single body back, uh, including the asset, the best defender. Uh.
Speaker 1: And and and kind of a glue guy for them. Uh,
Speaker 1: this is a really really good team. They toyed with
Speaker 1: Hofster and the finale you sawid Hofster you know should
Speaker 1: have beat ny State last night? What could have beat
Speaker 1: ny State last night? So you know this is a
Speaker 1: this is a very good North Eastern team and and
Speaker 1: and not and not a great Kansas team. And and
Speaker 1: it's young versus old. And it's Bill saltpers Bill Cone
Speaker 1: and uh, interesting enough, it's Bill and full at his burst,
Speaker 1: Bill and full it or something like that. Symmetry rains
Speaker 1: and opposites also rain and h. I would definitely uh
Speaker 1: enjoy watching this game without a bet and and expect
Speaker 1: North Eastern to have a good shot to warn little
Speaker 1: out game for you there, Let's do one more because
Speaker 1: when we're talking about a Darling pick or an in
Speaker 1: vogue pick, a popular pick is what we're getting at here.
Speaker 1: And I I to him, Uh, the word is eluding me.
Speaker 1: I think there is something else we're looking for. But
Speaker 1: Murray States, Murray State, Marquette, um, everybody on Murray State.
Speaker 1: I'm on Murray State, but I have said out loud
Speaker 1: here Alan it worries me that everybody's on Murray State.
Speaker 1: This is down to three and a half here at
Speaker 1: the south point, but it's four consensus in favor of
Speaker 1: the Golden Eagles right now in this game John Morant
Speaker 1: and Murray State the dogs. Well, the reason I think
Speaker 1: the line is dropping, uh is the health of Marquette
Speaker 1: right Uh. They had as they had a twelve point
Speaker 1: lead against Seton Hall and Marcus Howard hurt his wrist
Speaker 1: and the lead quickly disappeared. He came out in the
Speaker 1: second half was completely useless. The money coming in on
Speaker 1: Murray State would indicate that Marcus Howard drift is probably
Speaker 1: not there yet. Uh. I've only had a little bit
Speaker 1: of risk problems. That took a shot and it took
Speaker 1: a few days off. That's just from working out there,
Speaker 1: not from shooting a basketball a hundred and fifty thousand times.
Speaker 1: I doubt that he'll be a hundred percent for this
Speaker 1: and if not, Marquette's offense UH is in serious jeopardy
Speaker 1: of of of collapsing. Uh. They did a complete collapse
Speaker 1: against Seaton Hall. Uh. With without this kid, uh tinley
Speaker 1: tough guy, right, yeah, Marcus Howard. I won't comment on
Speaker 1: the fact that the insest thing is finally prepped because uh,
Speaker 1: I was yelled after that. Uh. Anyway, the so all
Speaker 1: that money coming in is likely the health of Howard
Speaker 1: being less than and and that's that's it. If he's
Speaker 1: a percent, the line is too low for sure. Marquette
Speaker 1: had a fantastic year this year, with a lot of
Speaker 1: really big wins and impressive wins. But but you know,
Speaker 1: Morant is a freak. He has the ball in his
Speaker 1: hands for forty minutes, really makes a wrong decision. Uh.
Speaker 1: The talent surrounding him isn't overwhelming, but it's good enough.
Speaker 1: Whereas Shoski is another coach k assistant who isn't who
Speaker 1: isn't any kind of genius at all. Uh And and
Speaker 1: with Howard being a little iffy and maybe more than that,
Speaker 1: that's probably the whole thing. If he's a dent, I
Speaker 1: don't think Murray State can beat him. But if he's
Speaker 1: if he at all, then Murray State probably will beat him.
Speaker 1: Either way, you get to watch Mourant play basketball, which
Speaker 1: is it's a pretty special thing to watch. So Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not involved, but I'm not surprised that the money's
Speaker 1: coming in on Murray's state. Yeah, we'll keep an eye
Speaker 1: on Marcus Howard for sure. There with that injury. Alan, listen,
Speaker 1: we've run out of time today. I'm good at I'm
Speaker 1: gonna a wow. Sorry. I would have talked a little faster.
Speaker 1: No, no no, no, that's I'm gonna ask you something now
Speaker 1: which you are per And let me just preface it
Speaker 1: by saying it's wrong of me to ask this all
Speaker 1: in the air. You are perfectly allowed to say no,
Speaker 1: absolutely not or I don't know, and no one should
Speaker 1: get mad at you. Would you have any interest in
Speaker 1: doing this? Would you have any interest in doing this
Speaker 1: for the Friday morning shows, for the Friday Morning games
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning? On the show? Uh no, I don't mind.
Speaker 1: I thought, I don't mind. I mean, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was an honest answer. I didn't know what to
Speaker 1: tell you. I had an offer from Sports Illustralia. What
Speaker 1: did you want me to tell you that on the air. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't want. I didn't want anyone to know that.
Speaker 1: It's not anyone's business. I don't know what it means.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what else is supposed
Speaker 1: to say. But I'm not sure what I'm doing with
Speaker 1: my life dealing with Uh, I'm dealing with a whole
Speaker 1: new situation in my life. And and I don't have
Speaker 1: my dog anymore. And I was having a very good
Speaker 1: year in basketball. I didn't know what I was gonna
Speaker 1: do even if I was getting him to finished the year.
Speaker 1: I really didn't. I was losing my mind. So you
Speaker 1: didn't want to hear about me having breakdowns over a dog, nne.
Speaker 1: But no idea if I was gonna finish the year
Speaker 1: out none. So I didn't know if I'd be able
Speaker 1: to do the show. So that the honest answer, no,
Speaker 1: we appreciate. So if one if one fucking idiot wants
Speaker 1: to get on Twitter and start commenting who happens to
Speaker 1: be a piece of ship anyway? Uh, and start this
Speaker 1: whole bruhaur where it was one person a crack called
Speaker 1: being told me there was one person that started the
Speaker 1: whole thing. Uh. And and he's not well like to
Speaker 1: the industry anyway, he's a real beauty. Uh. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: a piece of ship. All the use I work for
Speaker 1: Mr Walters, the Walter is only complained about one person,
Speaker 1: that person who started all this nonsense over the I
Speaker 1: don't know. So there you go, people, you know Allen,
Speaker 1: let's do this again. I'm gonna spout de bullshit. No,
Speaker 1: I don't mind coming on and doing a show. I
Speaker 1: don't mind at all. Okay, let's do it again tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1: It's it's just I don't have a I on any
Speaker 1: of these shows. I just whateverything I say is just
Speaker 1: take it for what it is, and because that's what
Speaker 1: it is. It's true. Alan, love you for let's have
Speaker 1: Let's talk tomorrow morning. We'll do Friday morning games tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1: We'll talk same time tomorrow. Very good, take care, Thanks man,
Speaker 1: Alan Boston at Boston read On at Twitter and American Original.
Speaker 1: We really appreciate him coming on the show and giving insights,
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