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Speaker 2: Okay, good evening to my man. I can already tell

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Speaker 2: you this is going to be This.

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Speaker 3: Is going to be an active show.

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Speaker 2: There is going to be some active listening, I hope,

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Speaker 2: because this is going to be an active show.

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Speaker 3: I know that my.

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Speaker 2: Guy Ephram Salaam is coming in hot today and I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna let everybody know right now that one hour from now,

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Speaker 2: I think you got a little something special for the people.

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Speaker 3: Is that right? That's correct?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so one hour from now, right now, whether that's

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Speaker 2: six in the west, nine in the east, wherever you are,

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Speaker 2: you get it, one hour from right now. And then

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Speaker 2: I'm sitting here debating. I'm almost doing that stupid six

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Speaker 2: seven thing with my hands. I'm like, do I do

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Speaker 2: this or do I do that? To start, because I

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Speaker 2: got two college basketball takes that I want to, uh

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Speaker 2: to just jump off with right out of the bat,

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Speaker 2: right here live in these Fox Sports Radio studios. I

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Speaker 2: think there's one that's a larger discussion. There's another one

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Speaker 2: that's a little bit more timely and in the moment.

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Speaker 2: Maybe let's do the timely and in the moment thing.

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Speaker 2: Steve will have the name who's the young man for

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Speaker 2: Saint John's who just ran at the hoop and threw

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Speaker 2: the thing in at the buzzer. Who's my guy that

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Speaker 2: just saved us from national controversy? Who's my man that

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Speaker 2: just did Like I just got done watching that game.

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Speaker 2: Saint John's beats Kansas. Saint John's outplayed Kansas. Saint John's, this, that,

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Speaker 2: and the other Kansas all afternoon long, and now even

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Speaker 2: though they won, they have me on AI and chat

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Speaker 2: GPT trying to figure out how we can better the

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Speaker 2: replay system in college basketball, because literally, with a four

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Speaker 2: point lead in less than a minute to go, you

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Speaker 2: had a Kansas player run into the lane do a

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Speaker 2: travel that would have made James Harden and shake, You'll

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Speaker 2: just blush, huck up a ball off the backboard, only

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Speaker 2: who had been standing out of bounds prior to jumping

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Speaker 2: up to catch the ball, and then have that bounce

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Speaker 2: off of hands into a teammate to lay the ball

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Speaker 2: in and keep a game alive that should have been dead.

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Speaker 2: Two rights. None of this is reviewable in basketball. None

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Speaker 2: of this like fits into the box that we all

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Speaker 2: met where we watch sports where somebody can raise.

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Speaker 3: Their hand or hawk a hanky or or top the

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Speaker 3: top of their head and be like, no, no, what

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Speaker 3: are you? What are you doing out there?

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Speaker 2: Thank goodness, I'm gonna get his name from a man

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Speaker 2: with Saint John's who just saved.

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Speaker 3: Us, Dylan Darling.

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Speaker 2: Dylan Darling, Boy, you got that right, Darling. You saved

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Speaker 2: these officials from absolute embarrassment. Thank goodness, Saint John's won

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Speaker 2: that game. Okay, that was one thing I needed to say.

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Speaker 2: How are we doing, bro, I'm good good. Were you

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Speaker 2: watching the end of that?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: Oh, okay, I've been dealing with I've been hey, man,

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Speaker 2: you've got your own thing going on.

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Speaker 3: I've been dealing with some stuff today yesterday. Oh.

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Speaker 2: I can hear it in your voice. You hear it, right,

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Speaker 2: I can hear it. I always know what happened when

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Speaker 2: I hear that voice.

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Speaker 3: Yep. A nobody who's familiar with this show knows this

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Speaker 3: time of year what's going on. So I'm excited to

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Speaker 3: and you know, just tell a story at the top

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Speaker 3: of the next hour.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait. I can't wait when when you do.

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Speaker 2: My voice is raspy, and I've got a story for you.

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Speaker 2: It's always good. It's never not been good. Oh boy,

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Speaker 2: will you just tell me if it's a good thing

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Speaker 2: or a bad thing? Like are you looking to rant

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Speaker 3: I'm looking to be honest, okay about the state of affairs.

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Speaker 2: So it's a little bit of a rant. It's not

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Speaker 2: a rant, Okay. I just come with facts, okay, but

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Speaker 2: like something's got you. Maybe I just to point things

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Speaker 2: And it's in this series, okay, So I can't wait

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Speaker 2: for that. We are we are watching basketball together tonight

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Speaker 2: as well, y'all. Tennessee Leeds Virginia by four under six

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Speaker 3: Iowa and Florida are in a dog fight first.

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Speaker 2: Half, two point gain closing seconds of the first half.

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Speaker 2: So and then there's a lot of games going deep

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Speaker 2: there might be a mild upsetter two but probably not.

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Speaker 2: And and so this is what I want to run

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Speaker 2: at you, Aphram. It's sort of like, do you remember

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Speaker 2: when the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series?

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Speaker 2: When the Chicago Cubs won their first World Series in

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Speaker 2: all of our lifetimes. Yeah, they were all the those

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Speaker 2: fan bases and those logos were all so lovable. They

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Speaker 2: felt like the whole universe was rooting for them. And

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Speaker 2: then they broke through and the curse of the Babe

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Speaker 2: up all of a sudden went away, and the next thing,

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Speaker 2: you know, those fan bases became obnoxious, the same way

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Speaker 2: other great organization fan bases Yankees, Lakers, teams that went

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Speaker 2: all the time, those fan bases. I'm not calling you bad,

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Speaker 2: but it just comes with the territory. You're known as

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Speaker 2: obnoxious by the rest of the world because you swagger

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Speaker 2: everywhere you go. And so sometimes something that you really

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Speaker 2: root for and you think is fair brings unintended consequences.

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Speaker 2: So now let's get to nil March madness. Brackets, which

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Speaker 2: I know you don't fill out, have suddenly become.

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Speaker 3: Way more boring.

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Speaker 2: In the wake of nil last year, all four number

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Speaker 2: one seeds go and I don't know if you can

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Speaker 2: all see the trend that's coming together right now.

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Speaker 3: As we speak.

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Speaker 2: Sure, somebody will beat somebody like a five. Just beat

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Speaker 2: a four, and and yes, Tennessee is a six. They

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Speaker 2: see where I'm going. There will be an upset or two. Hey,

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Speaker 2: high point, good job in round one. But when we

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Speaker 2: get to the second week into this tournament, get out

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Speaker 2: your chalkboard, because that's all that's gonna win every year

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Speaker 2: for the rest of our lives. That's that's what I think.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know that anyone knew that Nil was

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Speaker 3: I think we had a pretty good idea.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm suggested it could be a little, you know,

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Speaker 2: more top heavy. I don't think we realize that the

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Speaker 2: ones and twos are just gonna do the damn business

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Speaker 3: Pretty much. Well, I think we see that trend in

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Speaker 3: gonna go get the best players. Right. If I'm a quarterback,

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Speaker 3: I'm making two million dollars a year, I'm just throwing

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Speaker 3: numbers out and Kansas said, hey, we'll give you three

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Speaker 3: point five, Right, I'm going to Kansas. There are exceptions,

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Speaker 3: but they're few and far between. Majors can't compete, right,

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Speaker 3: I mean the Cinderella story is you can't compete with that. Essentially,

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Speaker 3: these are pros, guys who could have possibly this year

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Speaker 3: a Rookie of the Year. Sure, right Peterson from the

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Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year in the NBA. Right, look at

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Speaker 3: what Cooper Flag is doing one year removed from this tournament.

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Speaker 3: So essentially that's what you have. You have five of

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Speaker 3: How are you gonna compete with that? As Santa Clara,

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Speaker 3: which they blew it. Oh god, they blew it. And

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Speaker 3: I called it and my wife was like, how did

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Speaker 3: you know? Oh? I want to hear about that. Can

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Speaker 3: we take a quick aside? What do you mean? So?

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Speaker 2: What are you so you're watching the game and you

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Speaker 3: No, I knew they were gonna yes, yes, yes, to

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Speaker 3: tell this is what I knew. Santa Clara was playing Kentucky,

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Speaker 3: Santa Clara was giving them the business they were in, right,

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Speaker 3: Kentucky came back, storming back right, took the lead towards

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Speaker 3: Claria didn't panic, came down, pick and roll, the big popped.

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Speaker 3: they're up by three. The coach for Santa Clara is

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Speaker 2: And now we go back to the original point that

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Speaker 2: I made off the top of the show.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but go ahead, and and and and so the

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Speaker 3: wherewithal soon that you're down there's two point six seconds

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Speaker 3: ball for his foulb them immediately, wasn't there? Yep? A

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Speaker 3: two two free throws can't hurt. You can't beat you

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Speaker 3: to do a Austin Reeves where you get it and

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Speaker 3: you score it for the win with a second left.

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Speaker 3: Not possible? Not really no, that's not gonna happen. But

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Speaker 3: They're gonna lose by about ten and over. Yeah you

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Speaker 3: said what No, I said, Yeah, I said. One thing

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Speaker 3: I know about sport and momentum and emotion and adrenaline.

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Speaker 3: I know what this feels like. On one side, the

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Speaker 3: better team got a tremendous boost of we almost died,

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Speaker 3: you know, not literally figuratively, our basketball lives this year

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Speaker 3: almost ended. We're not going to let that happen again.

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Speaker 3: And on the flip side, Santa Clara was we homo

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Speaker 3: Those things are diametrically opposed. We almost died, and we

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Speaker 3: should have killed him. The team that should have could have,

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Speaker 3: and the team that almost were normally, if that's a

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Speaker 3: She was looking at me like yep, Wow, how did you.

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Speaker 3: I've seen it a million I've been in that a

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Speaker 3: million times. I know exactly what that was. They had

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Speaker 3: it and it's over. That team probably never had that

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Speaker 2: That was there was a gosh, who was that? I

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Speaker 2: think it was Ken Palm, who is mister college basketball.

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Speaker 2: He like he had some sort of analytic about the

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Speaker 2: the whole game, over time, kind of like you know,

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Speaker 2: the buzzer beater nature of it. And he said it

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Speaker 2: was the highest excitement rating of a basketball game in

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Speaker 2: that thing from beginning to end. It's not wrong like

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Speaker 2: that thing. I think the biggest lead in the game

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Speaker 2: was seven in regulation for Kentucky. There was a four

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Speaker 2: point lead for Santa Clair something like that. But the

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Speaker 2: whole time you really felt like this is just this

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Speaker 3: And you're right, it's not the first time this has

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Speaker 2: Just like, how many March madnesses in a row are

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Speaker 3: Is this actually madness?

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Speaker 2: There's some really good games, don't get me wrong, but

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Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen will be set.

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Speaker 3: Do we have any party crashers right now?

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Speaker 2: There's one with the possibility for more right sure, we

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Speaker 2: got you know. Utah State is playing Arizona right now.

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Speaker 2: That's early. Arizona's up by five, but outside of that,

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Speaker 2: Texas Tech will play Alabama later. Those are five and four.

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Speaker 3: Only one right now? Ish right?

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Speaker 2: I remind everybody that's Texas, right, I don't care what

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Speaker 3: And who did they beat?

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Speaker 2: They beat a mid major, So I don't care that

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Speaker 3: The bottom line is is that the mid.

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Speaker 2: Major is on life support. And there's actually data on this.

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Speaker 2: But I'm doing really well in my in my pools

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Speaker 3: Be as boring as a library.

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Speaker 2: I just completely was like, let's take the fun out

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Speaker 2: of this completely and put all the ones in twos,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, high probability. Yeah, so.

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Speaker 2: You know here we are? I mean good thing or

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Speaker 3: Guess what next year we won't be. Well, you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean North Carolina's out here losing in the first

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Speaker 2: But guess what we won't be next year? A mid major?

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Speaker 2: M hmm, good point. Who this is a tough call.

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Speaker 2: it's heading out of bounds and he touched it. I

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Speaker 3: That camera would have been the one, but it's it's

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's the thing. It's got to be conclusive

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Speaker 2: so you're inside the shot clock. This is a huge call,

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Speaker 6: first and foremost, Michael Jordan won again today in NASCAR.

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Speaker 3: You gotta be kidding me.

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Speaker 6: His driver, Tyler Reddick, had won the first three races

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Speaker 6: of the season alone, which is amazing in and of itself,

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Speaker 6: one again today. That's four out of six so far

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Speaker 3: That's the car.

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Speaker 6: I win at Darlington for the co owner Brad Keselowski

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Speaker 6: from the poll. Congratulations to Tyler Reddick. Now to update

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Speaker 6: the college hoops game. With Tennessee holding on seventy three

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Speaker 6: seed in the South, Florida trailing thirty three to thirty

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Speaker 6: Oh for four from the floor, four points in the

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Speaker 6: first half. Eight minutes in in San Diego, one seed

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Speaker 6: in the West, Arizona is only up fourteen to ten

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Speaker 6: Diego State every year in the Mountain West. Saint John's

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Speaker 6: earlier in San Diego, well, let's hear how it went

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Speaker 6: on Westwood one against Kansas.

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Speaker 7: No foul, skin down comes to golf three seconds, two

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Speaker 3: The time, two the ramp, lamp.

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Speaker 7: Is gone, layup is gone. Saint John's wins it sixteen

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Speaker 7: seven sixty five. The Saint John's Red Storm storm into

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Speaker 6: Idaho State. That game winner his only two points of

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Speaker 6: point range. Kansas in mid February had defeated number one

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Speaker 6: Arizona was nineteen and five. After that, Kansas went five

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Speaker 6: seed in the Midwest, Iowa State advanced over Kentucky eighty

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Speaker 6: two sixty three. Kentucky, which had led by seven late

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Speaker 6: in the first half, committed twenty turnovers in this one.

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Speaker 6: Two seed in the West Region, Purdue eliminated Miami seventy

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Speaker 6: nine to sixty nine. Miami led at the half, got

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Speaker 6: quite a year for them because Miami's record last season

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Speaker 6: later and this will finish the second round, it's UCLA

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Speaker 6: to forty five Eastern from Tampa, it's Alabama against Texas

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Speaker 6: Tech again. Three games going right now, including Tennessee at

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Speaker 6: the line and already leading seventy six seventy one over

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Speaker 6: Virginia thirteen seconds left in the NIT second round. Illinois

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Speaker 6: State won at Wake Forest. And I know most of

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Speaker 6: the country has been asking, what's Auburn basketball up to?

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Speaker 3: Actually, nobody, nobody in.

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Speaker 6: The country is actually, but they are one seed in

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Speaker 6: the NIT and leading in the final minute at home

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Speaker 6: against Seattle University. That's what they're up to. Eighty three

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Speaker 6: seventy three Auburn leads in the women's NCAAs. More blowouts today,

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Speaker 6: LSU one oh one forty seven over Texas Tech. Duke

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Speaker 6: beat Baylor sixty nine to forty six. Just in case

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Speaker 6: you missed what number one Yukon was up to yesterday,

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Speaker 6: seed and playing at home all weekend, and they outscored

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Speaker 6: their opponent's Southern University just in the third quarter thirty

436
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Speaker 6: two to two, wound up beating and this was a

437
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Speaker 6: national TV game yesterday one oh three thirty four. That

438
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Speaker 6: was the final for the one seed South Carolina, which

439
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Speaker 6: will now be hosting us SEE tomorrow in a second

440
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Speaker 6: round game. If you saw that finish, my goodness. USC

441
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 6: was playing in South Carolina against Clemson in the opening round.

442
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Speaker 6: Clemson hits a shot at the buzzer to win, overturned

443
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Speaker 6: on video review. After all that celebration, they went to overtime.

444
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 6: Clemson lost and they're out. In the NBA, Denver got

445
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 6: another triple double from Nikola Jokic, including fourteen assists, in

446
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Speaker 6: a win over Portland one twenty eight to one twelve.

447
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Speaker 6: Also in the NBA, five seconds left at Sacramento Kings

448
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 6: holding on against Brooklyn one twenty five one twenty two.

449
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Speaker 6: These are really the two types of teams the NFL

450
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Speaker 6: would send overseas to play. When a nets Kings games,

451
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 6: we only send the best among the nine NHL contest

452
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 6: Colorado went in overtime at Washington three to two. In

453
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Speaker 6: Major League Soccer, Lionel Messi scored as Miami beat New

454
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Speaker 6: York City three to two. Attendance at Yankee Stadium forty

455
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Speaker 6: six thousand for that today and a great trivia question

456
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Speaker 6: from Associated Press guys can we name the only basketball

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Speaker 6: team to make the switt sixteen these past two years

458
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Speaker 6: that does not have an FBS football team. Also, in

459
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Speaker 6: other words, for example, Villanova, we've seen advance many times

460
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 6: over the years, that would have been the answer to

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Speaker 6: said question, because they don't have an FBS football team.

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Speaker 6: But last year plus this year, there's only one school

463
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Speaker 6: that's made it to the Sweet sixteen that does not

464
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Speaker 6: have an FBS football team. The answer is Saint John's

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Speaker 6: University of New j John. Saint John's makes the Sweet

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Speaker 6: sixteen for as we heard, the first time since nineteen

467
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Speaker 6: ninety nine, which means now Rick Patino joins a list

468
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Speaker 6: the only coaches to take four different schools to the

469
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Speaker 6: Sweet sixteen since that round started about fifty years ago.

470
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Speaker 6: Also John Calipari Long Krueger on that list. Updating the

471
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Speaker 6: Tennessee game, it is fall seventy seven to seventy two

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Speaker 6: over Virginia. Yet another review, which just under ten seconds

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Speaker 6: to go back to you.

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Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, I've noticed there's a couple The UCLA game

475
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 2: was like this a couple of nights ago. Yes, yes,

476
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 2: can take actually an hour and a half. It turns

477
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Speaker 2: out I'm not kidding.

478
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Speaker 6: So by all means, start that game in Tampa, Florida

479
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 6: tonight at what is it can be? Yeah, to ten,

480
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 6: they're going to start the thing.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's not like anybody's got to work in

482
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Speaker 2: the morning. It's Monday. It's fine, I know.

483
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Speaker 6: But at least they got the Saint John's finish, you know,

484
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:37,679
Speaker 6: prime time, right before sixty minutes, the exact purpose right

485
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Speaker 6: before sixty purposeful slot.

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Speaker 2: That's all right, I heard exactly. Yeah, hilarious. Tennessee is

487
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 2: gonna win this basketball game. By the way, Virginia just

488
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 2: threw their inbound pass away. They're down five with about

489
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 2: ten seconds to go. Tennessee is uh is going to

490
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 2: move on in what now qualifies as a massive upset

491
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 2: in March Madness one of six meets of three and

492
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 2: moves on to the second weekend.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's who we are.

494
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Speaker 2: That's as big as a guest right there. Boys, No,

495
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 2: but it's it's funny that UCLA game. So Ephrom, I

496
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 2: do have a story or two to share. I spent

497
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Speaker 2: the weekend. I just flew back this morning with my

498
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 2: youngest son from Arizona. We did a little spring training

499
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:26,719
Speaker 2: trip this weekend and a couple of the guys on

500
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 2: the trip were UCLA grats, and so we were over

501
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 2: at the Giants Royals game on Friday night and it

502
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 2: was a five o'clock start, and those guys were like, well,

503
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 2: we're going to try to maybe just buy tickets at

504
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 2: the stadium and come join you guys, but we want to.

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Speaker 3: Watch the UCLA game first.

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00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 2: And the UCLA game started at like four to twenty

507
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 2: five and the baseball game started just after five. And

508
00:29:58,040 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 2: one of them is a basketball game and the other

509
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 2: one baseball game. So you're sort of thinking to yourself, Hey,

510
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 2: you know, like roll through that college basketball game and

511
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 2: then we'll skip across the street and go into.

512
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Speaker 3: The baseball game. It'll probably be like, I don't know.

513
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 2: Fifth inning a from the they ended about five minutes

514
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 2: apart to UCLA game literally took I mean it damn

515
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 2: near three hours, and we're watching on our phones. It's

516
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 2: just like every what felt like every seven minutes, you'd

517
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 2: refresh and it would go from eleven seconds to eight.

518
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 2: I'm like, what are they all doing over there? Because

519
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 2: it did get a little tight in the end, even

520
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 2: though UCLA dominated play, So that was that was tough

521
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 2: and Steve's not wrong. We've got a we got a

522
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Speaker 2: basketball game starting at almost ten o'clock on the East

523
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Speaker 2: tonight and the home team is an Eastern time Zone team.

524
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Speaker 3: That's that'll be tough to do as a player.

525
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 2: Right, And the game is in Florida, as Steve mentioned,

526
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 2: So they are like, can you imagine tipping off at

527
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 2: almost ten pm where you are, No, that game's going

528
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 2: past midnight.

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00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, something's got to be done. That's great. Just thing out.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean TV runs the whole thing, obviously, and

531
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:27,959
Speaker 2: one of the things I do kind of dig and

532
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 2: this feels like it's probably I don't know, seven or

533
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 2: eight years old when they spread all these games out across.

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00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 3: All of the Turner networks.

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00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 2: You know, if you're if you're a younger listener, you

536
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 2: didn't used to get to just watch whatever game you wanted.

537
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 2: You had to turn on CBS and sit there and

538
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 2: that's it.

539
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 3: Just wait, you just.

540
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 2: Watch the game that's on, and then you'd get the

541
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 2: little ticker stuff up there on the top, and so

542
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 2: you'd see what was going on, but you couldn't watch it.

543
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 2: So I wondered that that's a piece of this puzzle too,

544
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 2: is they're they're literally trying to spread out almost every

545
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 2: game once we get to the round of thirty two

546
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 2: so that everybody can see every game.

547
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they starting at at you know, nine Pacific

548
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 3: and what was it twelve? Oh, essentially it's twelve hours

549
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 3: of basketball almost completely.

550
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, this thing, this thing got started, Yeah, Pacific time,

551
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 2: I think it was. It was definitely before I can't

552
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 2: remember what exactly what Yeah, yeah, it was well before

553
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 2: ten o'clock in the morning.

554
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 3: So anyway, if you're a junkie, you dig it. But

555
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 3: you know, so London football game, Yeah, exactly.

556
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 2: All right, So if you were with us off the

557
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 2: top of the show, Ephraim's very pointed truth telling, story

558
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 2: time is coming up in twenty minutes. And actually, while

559
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 2: we're doing truth and maybe some uncomfortable discussion, I've got

560
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 2: something NBA related that I'd like to to throw at you, yeah,

561
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 2: which we'll do coming up next in these Fox Sports

562
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 2: Radio studios.

563
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 3: That's it from my marks Fox Sports Radio.

564
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Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

565
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Speaker 4: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio

566
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Speaker 4: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to

567
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Speaker 4: listen live.

568
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 2: All right live in these Fox sports radio studios. So

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Speaker 2: stream of consciousness, you tell me, first thing that comes

570
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 2: to your mind when I say, Oklahoma City Thunder are

571
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 2: not going to the White House.

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Speaker 8: Duh yeah yeah, And so therefore you the whole ah

573
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 8: boy timing it just didn't It didn't work out.

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Speaker 3: Look, man, that's not shocking to me. I hope it's

575
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 3: not shocking to anyone else.

576
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Speaker 2: Of course it's not shocking. But it like and I'm

577
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 2: not just I'm not getting political. Maybe I am a

578
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 2: little bit, but not with what my end take is

579
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 2: going to be on this. I'm not I'm not going

580
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 2: to spend time here on our show doing the should

581
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 2: they shouldn't they?

582
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 3: Thing.

583
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 2: What I'm gonna say is, can can we stop this

584
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 2: what I find to be unnecessary process which only serves

585
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:56,280
Speaker 2: to actually now take whoever achieved, whoever won the championship,

586
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 2: and now put them in a spot publicly.

587
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 3: Why why?

588
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,399
Speaker 2: So what you're telling me is now, when you win

589
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 2: a championship, what comes with that is also you are

590
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 2: forced to make some sort of public political social statement

591
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 2: based on your behavior going forward. All I'm here to

592
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 2: say and Eve from you know, I'm with you every

593
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 2: step of the way.

594
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 3: But likes. That's not right, that's unfair. That's unfair.

595
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 2: And by the way, it goes both ways too. I'm

596
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 2: not really all that big on the idea that if

597
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:48,280
Speaker 2: if you do go that is that's the opposite statement,

598
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 2: because maybe there are people out there, and whether this

599
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 2: is naive or not, I don't know, but maybe there

600
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 2: are people out there that still look at going to

601
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 2: the White House as going to the White House.

602
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,879
Speaker 3: Maybe there are a lot of people don't. A lot

603
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 3: of people don't. A lot of people don't. But if

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00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 3: you do, I don't know. I don't really want to

605
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 3: like take that from you.

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00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 2: If that's some you know what I mean, if that's

607
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,320
Speaker 2: a bucket list thing for you as an athlete, I

608
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 2: don't know. I just to me, it's like, let's I

609
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,839
Speaker 2: think we've done enough to realize that this is now

610
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:29,760
Speaker 2: a thing, and so I don't know, stop inviting everybody.

611
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 2: Why don't you just have us? Why don't you just

612
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 2: have a standing invite and if you want to, if

613
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 2: you win a title, you can call us and schedule

614
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:42,919
Speaker 2: it if you want to. Then if not, then that's it.

615
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 2: Then you didn't and nobody has to even ever discuss it.

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00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:56,280
Speaker 3: Everything we do now is politicized, So every comment, every view,

617
00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 3: every thought, and it's so segregated in terms of the

618
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 3: divisiveness of it, like, hey, we don't want to go

619
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 3: to the White House. Oh you un American scum. Wait

620
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 3: a minute, what Oh we do want to go to

621
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Speaker 3: the White House? Oh? You just cowering down to the

622
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 3: What makes it difficult to just be?

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Speaker 2: Amen? I think you just said it right there. That

624
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:38,399
Speaker 2: is what has become difficult. I think for everybody, it's

625
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 2: difficult to just be It's difficult to be yourself. It's

626
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 2: difficult to speak from wherever you want to speak. And oh,

627
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 2: by the way, oddly, and I guarantee you someone's driving

628
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 2: around listening to us right now, going. Man, they need

629
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 2: to keep politics out of sports, Well then what are

630
00:37:57,880 --> 00:37:59,720
Speaker 2: we doing at the White House?

631
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Speaker 3: Sorry to keep them out when they're inviting us in.

632
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 2: You want politics out of sports, then let's then let's

633
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 2: keep politics out of sports and keep sports out of

634
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 2: politics or whatever. I don't even necessarily buy that concept,

635
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:22,920
Speaker 2: but if that's your thing, and I hear that so

636
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:27,399
Speaker 2: many places. Man, I just want to escape. Is there

637
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 2: is there not anywhere where I can just go, you know,

638
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 2: be stupid and drink a beer and eat nachos and

639
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,359
Speaker 2: just relax and as you just said, just be.

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00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 3: Well.

641
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:43,800
Speaker 2: If that's what you want, then the movies then stop.

642
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, the movies. The movies. Go to the movies. Sit

643
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 3: in there in the dark two hours.

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00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 2: I've told you what happens if I do that. I

645
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 2: fall asleep, dude, love. It took two plane flights in

646
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 2: the last three days. I barely remember takeoff. I can't

647
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 2: even stay awake long enough to hit the little button

648
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 2: to recline. You want to know the best seat on

649
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:18,760
Speaker 2: a plane, brother, I don't lean, I don't, I don't recline.

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00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:24,919
Speaker 2: I am gone. Best seat in the plane is right

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Speaker 2: behind me. I won't be in your lap. I can't

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Speaker 2: stay awake long enough for them to tell me it's

653
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Speaker 2: okay to now recline. I don't know the last time

654
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Speaker 2: I pulled the damn little tray down. I'm never awake

655
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Speaker 2: when they tell me I'm allowed to wow.

656
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Speaker 3: I can't sleep on planes at all, oh at all.

657
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Speaker 2: I think I told you this when I was in

658
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Speaker 2: the bus leagues. In the minor leagues, they used to

659
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Speaker 2: call me Grandma because I'll just sleep sitting straight up like.

660
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Speaker 3: I'm knitting something that that's funny. It's a super power.

661
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Speaker 2: It's not the great, most powerful superpower, but it is

662
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Speaker 2: a superpower.

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Speaker 3: All Right.

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Speaker 2: We're sitting here live in these Fox Sports Radio studios.

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Speaker 2: That's it from Salama Mark Willard, and you're going to

666
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Speaker 2: want to stay to what's coming up next because here

667
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Speaker 2: comes story time with Ephraim on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 3: All right. So it's that time of year and the

670
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Speaker 3: madness is here.

671
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 2: If it's still all that mad, I don't know, but

672
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 2: there are good basketball games going on. And so here's

673
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Speaker 2: what we promise, because normally we do three things, have

674
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Speaker 2: a little special thing around this time, but a little

675
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Speaker 2: something different today as we come to you live from

676
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Speaker 2: the Fox Sports Radio studios, Florida is on a run

677
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Speaker 2: and so right now the number one seed in the

678
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 2: South is down to Iowa by only one in the

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Speaker 2: second half. We will keep you up to date on that.

680
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Speaker 2: But this made me think of something earlier today. You know,

681
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,399
Speaker 2: my parents are in their eighties, and if so, if

682
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 2: I get a call or a text from them at

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Speaker 2: a certain time of day, I immediately know, oh, hold everything,

684
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Speaker 2: something might be different here, Betar, check in with mom

685
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 2: and dad, make sure everybody's okay.

686
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 3: It's a little bit similar.

687
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Speaker 2: On Sundays, we have our process of how we get

688
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Speaker 2: ready for the show, and it's different during football season

689
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 2: versus non football season, and we'll kind of throw some

690
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 2: things back and forth at one another. But if I

691
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 2: get a text from me from Salaam a solid, I

692
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 2: don't know what it was, at least three hours before

693
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 2: the show, maybe even four, and that text says I'm

694
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Speaker 2: gonna need a little runway tonight, then I'm like, oh, oh,

695
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 2: this is this is this one's a little bit different.

696
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 2: So my man wants some runway, and therefore my man

697
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 2: gets some runway.

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Speaker 3: So from floor is yours. So we all know I'm

699
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 3: a professional writer. I'm a storyteller. Yes, okay, I write fiction,

700
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 3: but a lot of my stories are rooted in reality

701
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 3: and things that happened. So I'm me tell you a story.

702
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 3: So last year I told a remarkable story. So many

703
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 3: people reached out to me on Twitter about how engaging

704
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:32,919
Speaker 3: the story was about my then ten year old son

705
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Speaker 3: and the Parks and Recreation All Star tournament that happens

706
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:44,960
Speaker 3: after the winter basketball season. It's LA's biggest tournament, and

707
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 3: it's a gauntlet. It's four regions. We play in the

708
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 3: Valley region, so it's about thirty teams that compete in

709
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 3: this All Star tournament. And what it is is every

710
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:58,839
Speaker 3: park has a season about eight weeks seven to eight

711
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:02,799
Speaker 3: weeks of rec ball. It's ten dollars to sign up.

712
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 3: Every kid can play, and then there's a draft. So

713
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 3: this year we had a draft. If you have a

714
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 3: child on you know, up for the draft, you have

715
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Speaker 3: to take that child. I took my child. My child

716
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 3: led us to the championship last year at the Miners.

717
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:22,840
Speaker 3: We won the entire valley. It was a riveting double

718
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 3: overtime game to win the championship. And so he's now

719
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Speaker 3: Major's Division, which is supposedly eleven and twelve year olds.

720
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Speaker 3: So all season I have about two kids who can

721
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:43,399
Speaker 3: really play basketball and about six or seven who are

722
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Speaker 3: just trying to figure out if they want to play basketball.

723
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Speaker 3: And every team at our park is like that. Okay,

724
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 3: so it's fair. Most teams have one or two players

725
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,320
Speaker 3: that can really go. But it's about teaching the kids

726
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 3: so they can learn and grow and see if they

727
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 3: want to continue playing basketball. Especially the older you get.

728
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:03,760
Speaker 3: I love it. I've been doing it for four years

729
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 3: five years there, but as a coach, I've been about

730
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:11,359
Speaker 3: eight years. In love it. Such a tremendous time. Well,

731
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 3: this year we put together an All Star team. It

732
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 3: was a good team. I had five holdover players from

733
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Speaker 3: last year's championship team. Now they're eleven and twelve years old.

734
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Speaker 3: So we enter in the tournament. And this tournament is

735
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Speaker 3: supposed to be strictly for Red kids to give them

736
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Speaker 3: an opportunity to play at a high level. It all stars,

737
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 3: that's what the season is for. You get kids who

738
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Speaker 3: come and they learn, and they play and they get

739
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 3: better and then they make the All Star team. It's

740
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Speaker 3: a really big deal for the kids at the park.

741
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 3: It's a really big deal. Not AAU, right, AAU have

742
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 3: to make a team. You have to pay to be

743
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 3: on the team. It's travel ball. I practice with these

744
00:44:56,560 --> 00:45:00,799
Speaker 3: kids one hour a week and then we play on Saturday.

745
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:06,399
Speaker 3: That's it. That's it. There's no traveling. It's at the park.

746
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 3: It does not sound all that intense, and it's supposed

747
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 3: to be like that for every other park. So we

748
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 3: entered into this year's tournament and I was letting my

749
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 3: kids who hadn't played there, played at that level and

750
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 3: All Star tournament, how intense it was. You got to

751
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 3: show up. It's gonna be crazy. It's not like the

752
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 3: regular season, and everybody you play against their all stars

753
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 3: and from their respective park, and you're gonna have to fight.

754
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 3: So I thought I had prepared my kids at best

755
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:42,479
Speaker 3: I could. We're a defense first type of team. And

756
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:48,240
Speaker 3: we go into our first tournament. First game we played

757
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 3: at Richie Valence, which is a rec center in the valley.

758
00:45:53,680 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 3: We played against Richie Valence at Richie Valence, which number

759
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 3: one was odd because the games are spread out all

760
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 3: over the valley and no one is really supposed to

761
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 3: have a home game. But okay, all right, whatever. It's

762
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:13,400
Speaker 3: like thirty teams in this division vying to get to

763
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Speaker 3: the double elimination, right, it's pool play. The top two

764
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 3: teams in your pool play in the tournament, right like

765
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 3: the World Cup. So all you have to do is

766
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 3: go too and oh or one and one and it's

767
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 3: point differential and all that. The top two teams go

768
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Speaker 3: on to the next tournament and then it's a single elimination.

769
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Speaker 3: So we go to Richie Valens Richie Valence comes out,

770
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Speaker 3: they're considerably bigger and older. Okay, it happens, some kids

771
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 3: mature differently. Right, my son is an eleven year old,

772
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 3: but he's going to be a giant when he turns twelve.

773
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 3: That's not until next summer. So we go out there

774
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 3: and we're nervous. The number one thing that can get

775
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 3: a kid eleven to twelve year old nervous and questioning

776
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 3: their ability is size. So if you go out and

777
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:09,800
Speaker 3: you're undersized, they immediately think that equates good being good. Right,

778
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 3: So now they approached the game different. I know this

779
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:15,319
Speaker 3: as a rec coach because I've been dealing with this.

780
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:18,719
Speaker 3: So we go out and we're just we don't have it.

781
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 3: We don't have it. They beat us by twenty two points.

782
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:25,480
Speaker 3: Richie Valence, congratulations, they did it. We had a practice

783
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:29,040
Speaker 3: that next day and another. We had two practices for

784
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:32,320
Speaker 3: our next game. Next game came out completely different team,

785
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,800
Speaker 3: so we're one in one in pool play. Richie Valence

786
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 3: ends up beating the other team in our pool. They're

787
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,760
Speaker 3: too and zero. We go into the brackets opposite sides.

788
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 3: Since we lost, we got to come. We got to

789
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 3: play an extra game, right, So we had games. All

790
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 3: this happens in a week. But mind you, okay, that

791
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 3: was eight days ago the start of this. So we played.

792
00:47:55,280 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 3: We had to play games Monday, Tuesday, Thursday to get

793
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 3: to the championship game yesterday. So it's not a lot

794
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:07,720
Speaker 3: of wiggle room. Okay, Right, We go to the game Monday,

795
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 3: played a really good team, a team that you know

796
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 3: they got out of pool play. Uh and it was Wineka.

797
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:22,879
Speaker 3: We played Wineka that park and we won. Great job.

798
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 3: Next day, no time for practice. We're playing against a

799
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 3: team called Mason. Now, Mason and US we have history.

800
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 3: The first year I did this, four years ago in

801
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 3: this format, Mason beat us in pool play and then

802
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 3: they beat us in the championship and we lost by four.

803
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 3: So the previous that last year we beat Mason. Right,

804
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 3: so it's a pretty good rivalry. Yes, we go up

805
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:50,319
Speaker 3: and play against them and we win. Right. My kids

806
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 3: are a static, So it was a good win. It

807
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 3: was hard good program over there. So now we're on

808
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 3: to the semi finals on Thursday, big game. We have

809
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 3: a practice on Wednesday, him out, We're ready to go.

810
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 3: We're fired up. We have a semi final game on Thursday,

811
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:10,439
Speaker 3: and we play a team called Stonehurst, which is who

812
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:13,800
Speaker 3: we played in the finals last year. You gotta remember

813
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 3: this is a different age group. Last year it was

814
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 3: miners nine and ten year olds. This year it's majors

815
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:24,359
Speaker 3: eleven and twelve year olds. But like most good programs,

816
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:27,760
Speaker 3: they're carryover. So they had about three or four kids

817
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 3: who were miners last year who played in that championship

818
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:34,279
Speaker 3: game against US, who are now majors this year. So

819
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 3: as soon as my son went crazy and now he

820
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 3: had nineteen points in that game, So as soon as

821
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 3: we walk in the game in the gym, they say

822
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:46,399
Speaker 3: thirty three he got Nope, did his shooter shooter stay

823
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 3: on him, not just stay on him, don't let him

824
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:53,920
Speaker 3: do anything, don't worry about anybody else. He literally went bunkers.

825
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 3: And I told that story last year. He went bunkers

826
00:49:57,040 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 3: in that championship game. I remember, right, and he was

827
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 3: our guy. Played every second, every minute of the semis

828
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 3: and and the championship game. He's younger now, he's not

829
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,439
Speaker 3: that he's not up to that level. Next year he's

830
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:15,439
Speaker 3: going to be a handful for anybody. Right, He's still

831
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 3: a good player, but like I said, size affects him.

832
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:21,880
Speaker 3: He's like, can I dribble past him? We're working on

833
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 3: that confidence thing, sweet kid. So we go on into Stonehurst,

834
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 3: not into stonehors We play at a neutral site and

835
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 3: we're playing up against a team that knows us and

836
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:37,239
Speaker 3: uh is prepared for us, and we win that game.

837
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 3: It was it was a game. It was a heck

838
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:42,840
Speaker 3: of a game. The parents got a little contents, but

839
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's happen, it is. It's intense, right.

840
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 3: I had to walk across and and explain to someone that, hey,

841
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 3: you can't yell across the floor at me, don't talk

842
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 3: to me, right. Look, man, I'm all about sportsmanship. Okay,

843
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 3: this was one of your parents or no opponent, how

844
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 3: they're saying to the other team's coach. Hey, so I'm

845
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 3: going to explain the situation. One of their kids. At

846
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:14,440
Speaker 3: the end of the half, he fell right and hurt himself.

847
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:16,840
Speaker 3: He was on the ground. I made all my players

848
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 3: clear the floor and go to the bench. The said

849
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 3: parents screamed at me, way to go, coach, look at

850
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:26,239
Speaker 3: the sportsmanship of your players, and not turned around like,

851
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:31,799
Speaker 3: excuse me, great sportsmanship. So I was sarcastic. No, no, no,

852
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:36,880
Speaker 3: he was being like like, yes, essentially, yes, sarcastic. Okay,

853
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:39,920
Speaker 3: oh he was being sarcastic. Yeah. So I turned and

854
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:41,920
Speaker 3: walked over there and they were like The ref was

855
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 3: like hey, hey. I said, no, no, I'm going to address them.

856
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:46,799
Speaker 3: The ref promptly moved out of the way. I said,

857
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 3: look here, brother, let me tell you something. I'm following protocol.

858
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:55,439
Speaker 3: If a player on the opposing team is injured, all

859
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 3: opposing players must go to the bench and do not

860
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 3: try to pick him up, don't try to see what's

861
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:03,799
Speaker 3: wrong with him, don't talk to him, just move out

862
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 3: of the way so that his team, his coach, and

863
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,680
Speaker 3: whoever needs to come out the park representative can see

864
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 3: if he's okay. So I just politely and kindly told

865
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 3: him that, and then the park director came out and

866
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:17,879
Speaker 3: or the tournament director and told him, yes, I was right,

867
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 3: And I said, you know, I take hombage of you

868
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 3: telling me that my kids don't have sportsmanship, because that's

869
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 3: what I've built this team on. Fairness and sportsmanship. That's

870
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 3: what I do. I always say, I don't coach for

871
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 3: wins and losses. I coach for effort and respect and sportsmanship.

872
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 3: If you can do that, you'll win more than you lose.

873
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:43,759
Speaker 3: That's it. And so that game ended. That was Stonehursts.

874
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 3: We beat them again for two years in a row,

875
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:52,040
Speaker 3: eliminated them from the tournament. And now we're playing a

876
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:55,800
Speaker 3: team that was playing the first team, Richie Valence that

877
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:59,240
Speaker 3: we played. So Richie Valence and Victory Viland were playing

878
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 3: on the other side of the semi final and the

879
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:04,879
Speaker 3: other semi final final four teams. Okay, they get beat

880
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:09,319
Speaker 3: by fifteen. Oh, they were down twenty five, you know,

881
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:12,319
Speaker 3: at some point in the second half, and Richie and

882
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 3: Victory Violand let off the gas. So that that was

883
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 3: Thursday Friday. We had a nice long practice preparing for

884
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 3: Victory Violand, because I had watched them play a couple

885
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 3: of games. I just go scout. I really go scout. Yeah,

886
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 3: I'll drive around the valley and see if I can

887
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 3: see what I can see. I'm all about preparing my kids. Right.

888
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 3: We have film study. I will my TV from home

889
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 3: to the wreck and we watch our games and talk

890
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:42,879
Speaker 3: about what we did right and wrong. I'm the only

891
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:44,799
Speaker 3: coach that does that because it matters to me. These

892
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 3: kids they maynot ever get this. These aren't these aren't

893
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:50,960
Speaker 3: division I players. These aren't kids who go to who

894
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:54,360
Speaker 3: are gonna be drafted or are recruited to play high school.

895
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 3: Some of these kids their basketball journeys will end after

896
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 3: the wreck, right right this week? Yeah, And so we

897
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 3: prepare and we're ready to go. We're pumped up. Friday night,

898
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 3: at about nine thirty PM, I get a phone call

899
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 3: from the head of our basketball at my park. He

900
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:19,279
Speaker 3: calls me and say, hey, coach e I just want

901
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 3: to let you know. Good friend of mine from Victory

902
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 3: and Violin, I used to coach over there before I

903
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:28,880
Speaker 3: came to your park. I was over there for fifteen

904
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:30,840
Speaker 3: sixteen years. I know a lot of people over there.

905
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 3: He just informed me that they were disqualified and are

906
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 3: not going to play you guys in the championship tomorrow.

907
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 3: Richie Valens, the team that they beat, is going to

908
00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 3: play you. Oh god, I said, what, So I call

909
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 3: my park director. She had no idea. They informed Richie

910
00:54:56,640 --> 00:55:00,080
Speaker 3: Valence that they were playing. They never informed us. So

911
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 3: if he wouldn't have called me, we would have showed

912
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:04,960
Speaker 3: up Saturday at seven pm to play a team we

913
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:07,319
Speaker 3: prepared for and it would have been a whole nother team.

914
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 3: That's the first problem. I've got so many questions, we

915
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 3: got more to go.

916
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 2: Well yeah, okay, so can we pause? What a perfect

917
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 2: and you're such a like a storyteller.

918
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 3: This is what I do.

919
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:23,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you go to go to k coming up.

920
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:31,680
Speaker 3: Next, Stay tuned. The exciting conclusion only gets more contents.

921
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 2: Well, and I bet because my first question don't answer

922
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:39,400
Speaker 2: it yet. I can I ask why they were disqualified?

923
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 3: Do we even know that? We don't? And you'll get it.

924
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, So this is this is what's coming up next,

925
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 2: and I'm excited for the clock to go faster, so

926
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 2: because I want to hear more of the story. So

927
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:56,919
Speaker 2: that's coming up next. I will leads Florida buy one

928
00:55:57,040 --> 00:55:59,439
Speaker 2: three twenty four to go. Keep you up to date

929
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 2: on that state. The sagas fifteen minutes away. Mark Fox

930
00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:03,720
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931
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:06,719
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932
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:10,120
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933
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:14,360
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934
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:15,160
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935
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 3: And we're back. And we are back in Fox Sports

936
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:23,920
Speaker 3: Live Radio. Yes, iHeartRadio, we're here. It's story time. Yep.

937
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:25,319
Speaker 3: I'm gonna jump right into it.

938
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 2: Okay, what if somebody just joined us. Yes, what is

939
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:32,200
Speaker 2: the the and by the way, we're in the Fox

940
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:36,359
Speaker 2: Sports radio studios the five second kind of reboot at

941
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 2: you where we've arrived right, got you?

942
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:42,279
Speaker 3: You're in the finals where I'm an I coach at

943
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 3: a wreck.

944
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:43,400
Speaker 5: Uh.

945
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:46,479
Speaker 3: They've given me the honor to coach the all Star team.

946
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 3: For the last four years, we've gone through the Gauntlent

947
00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:53,839
Speaker 3: of rec basketball, meaning not AAU basketball, not travel basketball.

948
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:57,080
Speaker 3: These kids legitimately play at a rec for ten dollars.

949
00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 3: We've uh won all the way up into the to

950
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:06,000
Speaker 3: the championship game, which we played yesterday. We were just

951
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:10,080
Speaker 3: informed that the team we were supposed to play was disqualified.

952
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:17,360
Speaker 3: They were disqualified. An anonymous air quotes email came into

953
00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:19,040
Speaker 3: Parks and Rec that night.

954
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 2: How the hell can't email be anonymous?

955
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 3: Well right, exactly, okay, exactly tell you what you're saying.

956
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 3: We found out who okay, you know, all right, not

957
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 3: that night, but that day informing them that a kid

958
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 3: on Victory Vinland had signed up at another park in

959
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 3: a different division and decided he wanted to go play

960
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 3: with his friends at Victory Vinland and then signed up

961
00:57:43,240 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 3: in the Major's division. And that's against the rules. Got it.

962
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 3: So the person who sent that email that kid was

963
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 3: also on supposed to be on his travel team, and

964
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:58,440
Speaker 3: that kid didn't want to play, so he felt a

965
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 3: certain type of way, so he decided he was gonna

966
00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 3: drop dime on the kid that got it. Right, So

967
00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 3: Victory Violand who had won all the games like we

968
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:10,000
Speaker 3: did to get there, now no longer can play. We're

969
00:58:10,040 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 3: playing Richie Valence, who we lost the first game to

970
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:17,760
Speaker 3: in the beginning of pool play, right, So I was like, wow,

971
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 3: this is so we don't No one was going to

972
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:22,440
Speaker 3: tell us. No one was going to tell our park director.

973
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:25,120
Speaker 3: So I had to get my kids prepared to go

974
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 3: play tomorrow night. And we were. We were prepared to play.

975
00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 3: We were a different team than we were that first day.

976
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:35,040
Speaker 3: And we go out and you want to talk about

977
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:38,760
Speaker 3: all odds against it. The gym was packed, but we

978
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:41,880
Speaker 3: didn't even have enough seats for our family, and our

979
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:44,880
Speaker 3: park director had to give up. There are seats, right,

980
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 3: So this is the thing, like, this is the Richie Valence.

981
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:51,840
Speaker 3: I guess it's you know, a big park or whatever. Uh.

982
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:53,600
Speaker 3: And so we get into the game and it's a

983
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:55,680
Speaker 3: back and forth game. It's going down. But there's one

984
00:58:56,120 --> 00:59:03,960
Speaker 3: there's one discrepancy. We're noticing they have fourteen shooting fouls

985
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 3: to our two. Now, I pride my team on defense.

986
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:10,560
Speaker 3: We start with defense, so we don't play defense with

987
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:13,560
Speaker 3: our hands, we play with our feet. So we were like, oh,

988
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 3: this is weird. Right, three separate times in the game,

989
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 3: and this is not a lie. Our kids got injured

990
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 3: and they didn't stop play, and there was no foul called.

991
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:29,480
Speaker 3: One of those kids being my son, who got flipped

992
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 3: down on his hip as he was shooting the ball,

993
00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:37,800
Speaker 3: and the referee allowed the game to go on around

994
00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:40,120
Speaker 3: him while he was laying on the ground until I

995
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:44,320
Speaker 3: forcibly went out onto the court. And then one of

996
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:46,560
Speaker 3: the players said to them, hey, can you stop the game.

997
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:52,000
Speaker 3: He's heard They reprimanded him. Oh, this is a real story,

998
00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:52,640
Speaker 3: I'm telling you.

999
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:57,240
Speaker 2: Okay, So they called fourteen fouls on you, on us

1000
00:59:57,280 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 2: shooting fouls, they scored twenty one points on free throws.

1001
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 3: It's a real stat. We got ours the last fifty

1002
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:09,080
Speaker 3: five seconds of the game. That's when we were going

1003
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 3: to the free throw line, all right. Now, subsequently enough,

1004
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:16,760
Speaker 3: we lost that game, all right, and I take the

1005
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:20,080
Speaker 3: wins with the losses. There's a lesson more in losses

1006
01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:23,560
Speaker 3: than wins. As a former professional athlete, I know that,

1007
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:26,200
Speaker 3: and I know what that means. And so we all

1008
01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:30,440
Speaker 3: have to go into this room and they brought Normally.

1009
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:34,920
Speaker 3: Last year, the second place team went in first, they

1010
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:38,400
Speaker 3: had their speech, awards ceremony, and then they left, and

1011
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 3: then the championship came in, right, that was the protocol.

1012
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:44,600
Speaker 3: This year, they put us all in there together, and

1013
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:47,600
Speaker 3: this was a blessing in disguise, okay, because we found

1014
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:52,960
Speaker 3: out some information that is leading to this story. So

1015
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:55,680
Speaker 3: as we come in there, they give the mic to me.

1016
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:57,680
Speaker 3: I say, hey, look, it's a blessing for us to

1017
01:00:57,720 --> 01:01:00,440
Speaker 3: be here. I love these kids. I thank the payarents

1018
01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 3: told the story of you know, I've lost the biggest

1019
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:06,200
Speaker 3: game in the world, and what that propelled me to

1020
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,960
Speaker 3: do is twelve more years of a career that I

1021
01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:11,959
Speaker 3: really wanted in professional sports. I did the whole nine yards,

1022
01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 3: very graceful, called the kids up, gave them their medals.

1023
01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 3: I'm okay with that. So then we had to stay

1024
01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:20,080
Speaker 3: because I was like, hey, we'll get out of here now.

1025
01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:22,640
Speaker 3: He was like, no, stay, So now we have to

1026
01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:26,040
Speaker 3: stay and watch them get their warns. Now. The first

1027
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 3: thing I noticed was their coach came up and he said,

1028
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:32,800
Speaker 3: he said, I love this team. Is you know we're

1029
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:37,840
Speaker 3: representing the park. Loved this team, and you know, I

1030
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:40,080
Speaker 3: just want to say that a lot of parents at

1031
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:44,760
Speaker 3: our park were mad because their kids didn't make the

1032
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:48,080
Speaker 3: All Star team, and they were even rooting for us

1033
01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:52,080
Speaker 3: to lose. So to that, I say, we're winners. And

1034
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:55,520
Speaker 3: I was like, well, that's odd. Oh I wouldn't have

1035
01:01:55,560 --> 01:01:58,680
Speaker 3: gone that direction. But okay, to each his own. I

1036
01:01:58,680 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 3: don't know what the dynamic of the park. Steve, you

1037
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:03,360
Speaker 3: gotta hold on with me. Okay, I'm just hold on, Steve.

1038
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:06,840
Speaker 3: I know, Steve, he's ready. Just be ready. But I

1039
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:11,080
Speaker 3: got so as they were calling each kid up to

1040
01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 3: get their medals, I noticed they all had the same

1041
01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:18,080
Speaker 3: backpack on it, and on the back of the backpack

1042
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:21,560
Speaker 3: it had a travel ball team name and a number,

1043
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:24,480
Speaker 3: a different number than they were wearing. All ten of

1044
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:29,439
Speaker 3: their players had their own personalized backpack, meaning they play

1045
01:02:29,520 --> 01:02:33,000
Speaker 3: on They all play on the same travel ball team.

1046
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:35,760
Speaker 3: And you said these were rec kids. It is a

1047
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:42,360
Speaker 3: direct violation of Parks and rec rule competition rules to

1048
01:02:42,680 --> 01:02:49,680
Speaker 3: have an established travel basketball team compete in the Parks

1049
01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:53,800
Speaker 3: and Rec All Star tournament. Not my words, their words.

1050
01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:56,960
Speaker 3: So we did a little diving. We found out the

1051
01:02:57,040 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 3: name of the team, which is on the backpacks. And

1052
01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:01,880
Speaker 3: then when we looked and found out this is a

1053
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 3: travel team coached by the guy who works at Richie

1054
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:13,560
Speaker 3: Valens that have been together for years. So it made

1055
01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:18,280
Speaker 3: sense to me why parents at his park would be upset, right,

1056
01:03:18,440 --> 01:03:23,840
Speaker 3: because no other team, no other kids could make an

1057
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:27,600
Speaker 3: all Star team, no matter how well they played during

1058
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:29,760
Speaker 3: the regular season at the park. This is parks and RECs.

1059
01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:35,560
Speaker 3: It's not AAU. He already had his ten players who

1060
01:03:35,720 --> 01:03:40,520
Speaker 3: all played on the same Parks and Rec team. They played,

1061
01:03:40,840 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 3: They didn't they weren't split up and played on different teams.

1062
01:03:44,080 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 3: They just kept their team intact. I'm sure they didn't

1063
01:03:47,360 --> 01:03:52,760
Speaker 3: lose a game, right, And so when we found this out, brother,

1064
01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:55,320
Speaker 3: you want to talk about it's not about me, It's

1065
01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:58,320
Speaker 3: not about how I feel. But if you're going to

1066
01:03:58,520 --> 01:04:03,160
Speaker 3: go to that level of deceit to win a game

1067
01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:08,440
Speaker 3: that you barely want to had no business winning for

1068
01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:11,439
Speaker 3: what what is the message we're sending to these kids?

1069
01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:13,120
Speaker 3: These kids pay ten dollars to go and play at

1070
01:04:13,160 --> 01:04:13,479
Speaker 3: the park.

1071
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:17,040
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so, uh, Steve's gonna jump in here in

1072
01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:20,200
Speaker 2: a second. We got a dramatic situation with the tournament.

1073
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:23,640
Speaker 2: Is this still pending?

1074
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:26,439
Speaker 3: Oh, We're like, you're in the middle of this right now.

1075
01:04:26,600 --> 01:04:29,080
Speaker 3: Guns of the season. Yeah, because this was last night

1076
01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:32,400
Speaker 3: last night. You have not been awarded the championship yet. No, no, no, no,

1077
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:35,439
Speaker 3: no no, but you will be. Look, look, I'm telling

1078
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 3: you right now that you will be. All I know

1079
01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:42,160
Speaker 3: is we have a very we have a very motivated group, yes,

1080
01:04:43,120 --> 01:04:47,520
Speaker 3: of parents who all played by the rules that were set.

1081
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:49,280
Speaker 2: That that's an easy decision.

1082
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:51,760
Speaker 3: We have a park director.

1083
01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:54,280
Speaker 2: That's an easy decision who's always played by the rules.

1084
01:04:54,320 --> 01:04:59,000
Speaker 3: They got backpacks they have, they got back footage of

1085
01:04:59,040 --> 01:05:03,280
Speaker 3: them playing in and tournaments all over. They're out, All

1086
01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:07,440
Speaker 3: ten of them are all wearing their travel team jerseys

1087
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:08,720
Speaker 3: on their Instagram page.

1088
01:05:08,840 --> 01:05:11,800
Speaker 2: I filled out a good bracket. I've made good predictions there.

1089
01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:14,160
Speaker 2: I'm also going to predict that you're gonna win this fight.

1090
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:18,800
Speaker 2: But but okay, so we'll get back Steve, jump.

1091
01:05:20,280 --> 01:05:21,880
Speaker 3: Back. Here we go.

1092
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:25,120
Speaker 6: Steve de Sager, I must mention as the constant reference

1093
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:26,920
Speaker 6: of Richie Vallen's.

1094
01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:27,720
Speaker 3: Occurs this hour.

1095
01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:31,720
Speaker 6: That is the rec center in Pacoima named after the

1096
01:05:31,800 --> 01:05:36,800
Speaker 6: nineteen fifty singer Richie Vallens of La Bamba fame, who

1097
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:40,040
Speaker 6: was born in Pacoima. And by the way, if you

1098
01:05:40,320 --> 01:05:43,080
Speaker 6: don't know the story of his life, you should, And

1099
01:05:43,520 --> 01:05:47,240
Speaker 6: the name of the movie his life story is Labama LaBamba.

1100
01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:49,160
Speaker 3: Yes, we have the late game.

1101
01:05:49,240 --> 01:05:52,880
Speaker 6: Tip time, ladies and gentlemen for the Tampa Florida game.

1102
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:56,840
Speaker 6: It's ten pm Eastern time, all right, crazy, not a

1103
01:05:56,920 --> 01:06:01,200
Speaker 6: quarter to ten ten. It'll be Alabama against Texas Tech

1104
01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:05,280
Speaker 6: in the late game. And unbelievably, Iowa has just hit

1105
01:06:05,280 --> 01:06:07,960
Speaker 6: a late three pointer and upset the one seed in

1106
01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:09,680
Speaker 6: the South. Florida is out.

1107
01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:10,240
Speaker 3: Wow.

1108
01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:14,680
Speaker 6: Iowa wins seventy three seventy two. One seed in the West,

1109
01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:18,160
Speaker 6: Arizona is winning early in the second half against Utah

1110
01:06:18,280 --> 01:06:22,400
Speaker 6: State forty four forty three. Mid first half in Philadelphia,

1111
01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:26,560
Speaker 6: it's UCLA over a two seed Yukon sixteen to twelve.

1112
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:29,280
Speaker 6: By the way, that Iowa victory, there were still a

1113
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:33,480
Speaker 6: few seconds left in their game against Florida when they

1114
01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:36,120
Speaker 6: took the leader, I should say retook the lead. They

1115
01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:38,040
Speaker 6: were up for much of the game, Florida couldn't get

1116
01:06:38,080 --> 01:06:40,640
Speaker 6: off a shot and fumbled the ball away in the

1117
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:43,960
Speaker 6: lane after driving in the final seconds, and so the

1118
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:47,880
Speaker 6: Gators are out. Earlier in San Diego, Saint John's beat

1119
01:06:47,960 --> 01:06:51,640
Speaker 6: Kansas on a layup at the buzzer after Kansas fouled

1120
01:06:51,640 --> 01:06:54,400
Speaker 6: four straight times in the final seconds to use out'clock.

1121
01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:56,720
Speaker 6: Saint John's sixty seven to sixty five.

1122
01:06:56,800 --> 01:06:57,280
Speaker 3: The final.

1123
01:06:57,320 --> 01:07:01,400
Speaker 6: Tennessee eliminated Virginia seventy nine to seventy two perdue over

1124
01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:04,760
Speaker 6: Miami seventy nine sixty nine, and Iowa State came back

1125
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:08,160
Speaker 6: to beat Kentucky eighty two to sixty three. Kentucky committed

1126
01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:12,200
Speaker 6: twenty turnovers. Today nit second round wins for Tulsa and

1127
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:15,040
Speaker 6: Illinois State. The new head coach at Syracuse is due

1128
01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:19,520
Speaker 6: to be Jerry McNamara, former player and assistant there. Blowout

1129
01:07:19,560 --> 01:07:22,440
Speaker 6: wins and the women's NCAAs in the second round for

1130
01:07:22,560 --> 01:07:27,600
Speaker 6: Duke Michigan, Texas and LSU, which has its record sixteenth

1131
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:30,600
Speaker 6: hundred point game of the season. One oh one forty

1132
01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:34,760
Speaker 6: seven was today's final over Texas Tech. NBA victories for

1133
01:07:34,920 --> 01:07:38,040
Speaker 6: Sacramento and Denver. Right now, the Knicks are up big

1134
01:07:38,160 --> 01:07:41,320
Speaker 6: mid fourth quarter against Washington won twenty five one to

1135
01:07:41,360 --> 01:07:43,920
Speaker 6: oh one, So apparently for the Wizards, this will be

1136
01:07:44,080 --> 01:07:48,400
Speaker 6: lost number sixteen in a row. Mid third quarter at Boston,

1137
01:07:48,480 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 6: Celtics leading Minnesota sixty four fifty five, the NBA rescinded

1138
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:57,080
Speaker 6: Saturday's technical foul against the Lakers Luka Doncic, He was

1139
01:07:57,120 --> 01:08:00,400
Speaker 6: facing a one game suspension for a sixteenth te year.

1140
01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:04,960
Speaker 6: Lakers won their ninth straight game in the NHL. The

1141
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:08,280
Speaker 6: Calgary Flames at home late second period lead Tampa Bay

1142
01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:11,640
Speaker 6: three to two, Colorado one in overtime at Washington three

1143
01:08:11,760 --> 01:08:16,160
Speaker 6: to two. MLB's opening game is Wednesday night, streaming only

1144
01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:18,439
Speaker 6: for that one by the way Yankees at San Francisco,

1145
01:08:18,560 --> 01:08:21,719
Speaker 6: but most teams open on Thursday, including Pittsburgh and Paul

1146
01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:25,040
Speaker 6: Skins at the Mets. The Mets have informed veteran reliever

1147
01:08:25,120 --> 01:08:27,640
Speaker 6: Craig Kimbrel he will not be making the squad. The

1148
01:08:27,680 --> 01:08:31,240
Speaker 6: Phillies gave pitcher Christopher Sanchez a new six year extension

1149
01:08:31,280 --> 01:08:34,760
Speaker 6: worth over one hundred million dollars. Bryson de Shamba won

1150
01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:37,719
Speaker 6: the Live Golf Tournament in a playoff over John Rahm

1151
01:08:37,800 --> 01:08:41,800
Speaker 6: in South Africa and Michael Jordan did it again. He's

1152
01:08:41,880 --> 01:08:44,880
Speaker 6: co owner of a NASCAR team. He has a driver

1153
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:48,080
Speaker 6: who's won four of the six races so far this year.

1154
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:52,920
Speaker 6: The winner at Darlington today Tyler Reddick from Corning, California,

1155
01:08:53,080 --> 01:08:57,559
Speaker 6: which I would say is near, but it's not near anything. Actually,

1156
01:08:58,240 --> 01:09:01,080
Speaker 6: if you start in Sacramento and just drive up the

1157
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:05,240
Speaker 6: five Freeway, you'll find it eventually. But this guy had

1158
01:09:05,320 --> 01:09:08,400
Speaker 6: some things to overcome to win yet again. And this

1159
01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:11,000
Speaker 6: is something he had taken the first three races of

1160
01:09:11,040 --> 01:09:13,960
Speaker 6: the season, which was rare enough, and now he's won

1161
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:16,880
Speaker 6: a fourth out of the six races contested so far

1162
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:20,439
Speaker 6: in the Cup Series this year. This guy had trouble

1163
01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:22,760
Speaker 6: with the front tire and this had trouble with the

1164
01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:26,040
Speaker 6: battery and trouble with the electrical system and then a

1165
01:09:26,080 --> 01:09:29,320
Speaker 6: bump with another driver in the last fifty laps or so,

1166
01:09:29,439 --> 01:09:32,920
Speaker 6: and eventually wins. He had pitted for the final time

1167
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:37,080
Speaker 6: on about lap two fifty charge forward pass brag Keselowski,

1168
01:09:37,160 --> 01:09:40,200
Speaker 6: who led the most laps, and Reddick gets another victory.

1169
01:09:40,720 --> 01:09:44,000
Speaker 6: The problem started on lap one today. He radios his

1170
01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:47,960
Speaker 6: team there's an alternator problem. The voltage is dangerously low.

1171
01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:51,240
Speaker 6: So after the first stage of the race. At a

1172
01:09:51,280 --> 01:09:54,040
Speaker 6: pit stop they swap out to a battery with a

1173
01:09:54,160 --> 01:09:58,840
Speaker 6: larger capacity. Still had the charging problems. So to combat it,

1174
01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:03,120
Speaker 6: this is during the race, he toggles off the cockpit fans.

1175
01:10:03,240 --> 01:10:07,639
Speaker 6: It's warm outside and even warmer inside. That also turns

1176
01:10:07,680 --> 01:10:11,000
Speaker 6: off the power to the cool suit. NASCAR drivers have

1177
01:10:11,080 --> 01:10:14,640
Speaker 6: a water circulation system going through the suit for the

1178
01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:17,160
Speaker 6: comfort of the driver. He had none of that today.

1179
01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:21,080
Speaker 6: In fact, at a later pit stop they actually had

1180
01:10:21,080 --> 01:10:24,720
Speaker 6: to pump water out of the suit because it was

1181
01:10:24,840 --> 01:10:28,920
Speaker 6: so hot inside the water in the suit started to cook.

1182
01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:34,559
Speaker 6: Plus the battery wasn't charging at all. Lord, what wonder

1183
01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:38,080
Speaker 6: when Ryder said, Okay, this wasn't exactly the flu game,

1184
01:10:38,120 --> 01:10:41,839
Speaker 6: but Michael Jordan gets a victory at Darlington today.

1185
01:10:41,920 --> 01:10:45,800
Speaker 2: Back to you, Holy smokes, that was a lot, That

1186
01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:46,840
Speaker 2: was a hole.

1187
01:10:47,160 --> 01:10:51,639
Speaker 3: It was a little bit more than I bargained for. Goodness, right, Steve,

1188
01:10:51,640 --> 01:10:54,759
Speaker 3: great stuff, and thank you for your your patience. Steve.

1189
01:10:55,040 --> 01:10:57,800
Speaker 3: What do you think about this story? Did I tell you? Please? Please?

1190
01:10:59,160 --> 01:11:02,719
Speaker 6: Just any story that comes from the Department of Youth Sports.

1191
01:11:03,400 --> 01:11:07,320
Speaker 6: It's just it's alternating between an eye roll and a

1192
01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:11,120
Speaker 6: shrug and a pound your foot on the cement frustration

1193
01:11:12,520 --> 01:11:13,360
Speaker 6: that it exists.

1194
01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:19,800
Speaker 3: I couldn't even fathom. Number One, we already know and

1195
01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:22,160
Speaker 3: believe that the kids have Some of the kids have

1196
01:11:22,240 --> 01:11:27,479
Speaker 3: exceeded the age the eleven twelve year old age group, right,

1197
01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:31,680
Speaker 3: I know what eleven twelve year olds look like playing basketball.

1198
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:35,800
Speaker 3: I coach it. I've seen I've seen aau eleven and

1199
01:11:35,800 --> 01:11:36,719
Speaker 3: twelve year olds.

1200
01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:37,320
Speaker 6: So it's the sixteen.

1201
01:11:38,760 --> 01:11:40,840
Speaker 3: I know what the thirteen year old looks like though

1202
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:43,680
Speaker 3: the World Series, I know what the thirteen almost fourteen

1203
01:11:43,920 --> 01:11:47,040
Speaker 3: year old looks like. Was Danny Almonte on this team.

1204
01:11:47,080 --> 01:11:51,400
Speaker 3: What I'm telling you is the physicality and them elbowing

1205
01:11:51,479 --> 01:11:53,679
Speaker 3: the kids who are really like I had the youngest team.

1206
01:11:54,080 --> 01:11:56,519
Speaker 3: I have a bunch of sixth graders. I have one

1207
01:11:56,640 --> 01:12:00,200
Speaker 3: seventh grade and a bunch of sixth graders because we're

1208
01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:03,559
Speaker 3: true to form eleven and twelve year olds. And so

1209
01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:07,000
Speaker 3: just last night, once I got a chance to look

1210
01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:09,439
Speaker 3: at the film and really look at this, and I

1211
01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:13,040
Speaker 3: found I was like, man, it's odd. Me standing in

1212
01:12:13,080 --> 01:12:18,559
Speaker 3: there listening to them give out the awards and looking

1213
01:12:18,600 --> 01:12:24,559
Speaker 3: at that backpack made me go, huh, now, this is crazy,

1214
01:12:25,439 --> 01:12:30,040
Speaker 3: this is crazy. This all ten of them had the backpack.

1215
01:12:30,120 --> 01:12:32,639
Speaker 3: I said, oh, this is a travel team. I knew

1216
01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:36,519
Speaker 3: exactly what I said. They took a travel team, put

1217
01:12:36,600 --> 01:12:40,040
Speaker 3: it in the wreck and entered it in to an

1218
01:12:40,120 --> 01:12:43,960
Speaker 3: all star tournament just for wreck kids. And it is

1219
01:12:44,040 --> 01:12:48,479
Speaker 3: explicitly I'm gonna tell you right now. And they were

1220
01:12:48,520 --> 01:12:51,040
Speaker 3: dumb about it and dumb about it and cocky about

1221
01:12:51,040 --> 01:12:53,719
Speaker 3: it because it's posted all over their social media page.

1222
01:12:55,920 --> 01:12:58,599
Speaker 3: And that is the whole thing. Number One, you gotta

1223
01:12:58,640 --> 01:13:00,880
Speaker 3: remember at the beginning of this are midway through this,

1224
01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:04,280
Speaker 3: they weren't even supposed to be there because they got beat.

1225
01:13:04,840 --> 01:13:11,120
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, a mysterious email shows up about

1226
01:13:11,160 --> 01:13:15,160
Speaker 3: the park that beat them. Are you tracking? Are you

1227
01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:20,799
Speaker 3: smelling what a Our park never was notified of the change.

1228
01:13:20,840 --> 01:13:25,120
Speaker 3: My wife and our park director went to ask the director,

1229
01:13:25,320 --> 01:13:29,000
Speaker 3: the sports board director, why we weren't ever notified? Do

1230
01:13:29,120 --> 01:13:32,719
Speaker 3: you know what the response was? What the response was, Well,

1231
01:13:33,560 --> 01:13:36,479
Speaker 3: we had to tell them because they had to play

1232
01:13:36,479 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 3: in the game. My wife said, well, why didn't you

1233
01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:43,760
Speaker 3: tell us, Well, you guys were already gonna show up,

1234
01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:48,559
Speaker 3: so she's she said, you don't think that is not

1235
01:13:48,960 --> 01:13:53,360
Speaker 3: a competitive competitive edge for the other team, Knowing who

1236
01:13:53,400 --> 01:13:56,559
Speaker 3: they're gonna play, and we don't get time to prepare

1237
01:13:56,600 --> 01:14:00,880
Speaker 3: our even knowledge of the A team. I mean, in fact,

1238
01:14:00,920 --> 01:14:03,000
Speaker 3: you're preparing for a team that's not going to be there.

1239
01:14:03,040 --> 01:14:04,880
Speaker 3: Do you know what he said? What do you say?

1240
01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:12,280
Speaker 3: He said? It was after hours, so we knew no

1241
01:14:12,320 --> 01:14:15,360
Speaker 3: one was at the office. The emails work all over

1242
01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:18,040
Speaker 3: the world at any time. I sent some emails at

1243
01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:23,280
Speaker 3: the emails work everywhere and anytime, and they don't they

1244
01:14:23,320 --> 01:14:25,479
Speaker 3: don't wake you up, none of that. And in fact,

1245
01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:30,759
Speaker 3: our park director, who's a tremendous park director, never found

1246
01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:34,439
Speaker 3: out from them. Okay, she found out through a third party.

1247
01:14:34,600 --> 01:14:37,960
Speaker 2: Okay, there there there are some there are some wrap

1248
01:14:38,080 --> 01:14:41,520
Speaker 2: up questions that still need to be asked.

1249
01:14:42,880 --> 01:14:44,760
Speaker 3: Plus Florida's out.

1250
01:14:44,880 --> 01:14:48,640
Speaker 2: So, by the way, next Thursday or Friday has officially

1251
01:14:49,479 --> 01:14:52,320
Speaker 2: been switched to the day after Thanksgiving because I was

1252
01:14:52,320 --> 01:14:55,800
Speaker 2: going to play Nebraska. So that's exciting. I wanted to

1253
01:14:55,800 --> 01:14:59,519
Speaker 2: break that news to you as well. Mick Cronin is

1254
01:14:59,560 --> 01:15:02,599
Speaker 2: playing right now with UCLA. He's still mad at all

1255
01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:05,280
Speaker 2: other human beings. So we just saw that interview.

1256
01:15:05,600 --> 01:15:07,880
Speaker 3: So there's a lot going on and so well, but

1257
01:15:08,040 --> 01:15:11,880
Speaker 3: the most important thing is, yes, this situation we have

1258
01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:15,599
Speaker 3: with LA Parks and rig the lack of transparency and

1259
01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:23,160
Speaker 3: the blatant cheating by a park and a youth eleven

1260
01:15:23,200 --> 01:15:28,200
Speaker 3: and twelve year old Majors division. You're gonna win this fight.

1261
01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:30,800
Speaker 3: Oh we fight. I'll tell you this right now. I

1262
01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:33,200
Speaker 3: already know who's gonna win this. We got were fighting, brother.

1263
01:15:33,120 --> 01:15:35,360
Speaker 2: Wall and there's the reason I ain't never messed with you.

1264
01:15:35,520 --> 01:15:39,360
Speaker 2: But anyway, we're live in the Fox Sports Radio studios.

1265
01:15:39,360 --> 01:15:41,559
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1266
01:15:41,560 --> 01:15:42,479
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1267
01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:45,680
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1269
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1270
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1271
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1283
01:16:29,120 --> 01:16:33,439
Speaker 2: done yet, you're gonna want to catch up because I

1284
01:16:33,479 --> 01:16:35,400
Speaker 2: have no doubt that this is gonna come up again

1285
01:16:35,439 --> 01:16:40,280
Speaker 2: next Sunday. When you announced to the world that you've won,

1286
01:16:41,280 --> 01:16:44,439
Speaker 2: I have absolutely no doubt that that's the way this

1287
01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:46,200
Speaker 2: is going to play out, even though it may be

1288
01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:53,200
Speaker 2: uncomfortable at times. Meanwhile, Arizona leads by fourteen against Utah State,

1289
01:16:53,360 --> 01:16:57,400
Speaker 2: Yukon has a small two point lead against UCLA. First

1290
01:16:57,479 --> 01:17:02,000
Speaker 2: half for Yukon, UCLA, second half for Arizona, Utah State,

1291
01:17:02,560 --> 01:17:06,680
Speaker 2: and Florida. The one seed in the South has been ousted,

1292
01:17:07,439 --> 01:17:09,840
Speaker 2: and we still have one game that's going to tip

1293
01:17:09,880 --> 01:17:13,800
Speaker 2: off at three this morning, and that is Alabama in

1294
01:17:13,840 --> 01:17:17,280
Speaker 2: Texas Tech. I'm only partially kidding. It will be tenh

1295
01:17:17,320 --> 01:17:21,719
Speaker 2: eight Eastern time when Alabama and Texas Tech tip off

1296
01:17:22,080 --> 01:17:25,400
Speaker 2: in Tampa, Florida, a four to five matchup that is

1297
01:17:25,479 --> 01:17:29,160
Speaker 2: expected to be very very close, and then we will

1298
01:17:29,160 --> 01:17:33,960
Speaker 2: have our Sweet sixteen. So three more spots in the

1299
01:17:34,240 --> 01:17:38,440
Speaker 2: sixteen to hand out. We'll see who gets them. Arizona

1300
01:17:38,520 --> 01:17:43,640
Speaker 2: seems likely at this hour. Yukon, UCLA, Texas Tech, Alabama.

1301
01:17:44,280 --> 01:17:49,360
Speaker 2: All right, so there we go. How are you feeling

1302
01:17:49,400 --> 01:17:51,720
Speaker 2: about your situation now that you've put it out to

1303
01:17:51,760 --> 01:17:52,160
Speaker 2: the world.

1304
01:17:52,600 --> 01:17:57,719
Speaker 3: I'm extremely disappointed. Well you should be, because I've always

1305
01:17:57,720 --> 01:18:01,719
Speaker 3: said none of this is about me. Of course, everything

1306
01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:05,280
Speaker 3: I've ever wanted to do athletically, I've been blessed enough

1307
01:18:05,320 --> 01:18:08,920
Speaker 3: to accomplish that. So when I volunteer. You got to

1308
01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:13,160
Speaker 3: remember their coach works at their park. He doesn't have

1309
01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:17,320
Speaker 3: a child on the team, right, he also is their

1310
01:18:17,439 --> 01:18:22,800
Speaker 3: head coach and runs their travel ball team. If that's

1311
01:18:22,840 --> 01:18:25,840
Speaker 3: not a conflict of interest. And the fact that he

1312
01:18:25,960 --> 01:18:30,120
Speaker 3: wanted to throw in the faces of the parents that

1313
01:18:30,200 --> 01:18:34,200
Speaker 3: go to his park, the fact that their kids didn't

1314
01:18:34,320 --> 01:18:37,880
Speaker 3: make the All Star or didn't have the opportunity to

1315
01:18:37,920 --> 01:18:41,720
Speaker 3: make the All Star team because his team was already set,

1316
01:18:42,760 --> 01:18:46,320
Speaker 3: is disgusting to me. For an adult to do that

1317
01:18:46,479 --> 01:18:49,160
Speaker 3: to these kids. What if that is your park, and

1318
01:18:49,280 --> 01:18:52,240
Speaker 3: that's and you've been working to make the All Star team.

1319
01:18:52,400 --> 01:18:54,000
Speaker 3: This has been going on for years, like this team

1320
01:18:54,040 --> 01:18:57,640
Speaker 3: has been playing together for years, and so there is

1321
01:18:57,760 --> 01:19:02,439
Speaker 3: no available spot for you as a player to even

1322
01:19:02,800 --> 01:19:06,840
Speaker 3: be an All Star because this guy wants to win

1323
01:19:07,360 --> 01:19:11,320
Speaker 3: the Valley Regional championship and go in and play for

1324
01:19:11,439 --> 01:19:14,479
Speaker 3: the city championship. Not on my watch, and not at

1325
01:19:14,479 --> 01:19:17,920
Speaker 3: the at the at the and and not at the

1326
01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:21,360
Speaker 3: expense of my kids who've worked extremely hard. I'm not

1327
01:19:21,400 --> 01:19:22,799
Speaker 3: doing that. We're not playing those games.

1328
01:19:22,960 --> 01:19:25,000
Speaker 2: I mean no, And you're gonna win this fight. And

1329
01:19:25,040 --> 01:19:27,280
Speaker 2: the other thing that I know you already know is

1330
01:19:27,439 --> 01:19:30,320
Speaker 2: like part of it is what you just said. You

1331
01:19:30,400 --> 01:19:33,280
Speaker 2: have lived out your sports dreams. You have played at

1332
01:19:33,280 --> 01:19:36,920
Speaker 2: the highest level. So many adults who don't get to

1333
01:19:36,960 --> 01:19:42,599
Speaker 2: do that take their immature competitive juices, they don't let

1334
01:19:42,680 --> 01:19:45,759
Speaker 2: them go as they become adults. They inject them into

1335
01:19:46,320 --> 01:19:50,160
Speaker 2: little people's sports and somehow try to scratch that itch.

1336
01:19:50,280 --> 01:19:53,240
Speaker 2: And it's sad. It's really it's it's it's really sad,

1337
01:19:53,439 --> 01:19:56,080
Speaker 2: like these are eleven and twelve year old kids.

1338
01:19:56,720 --> 01:20:00,599
Speaker 3: Eleven and twelve year old kids heartbroken. Yeah, Harbor right,

1339
01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:03,160
Speaker 3: I didn't understand why the team woul chie. I had

1340
01:20:03,160 --> 01:20:05,160
Speaker 3: to answer that to my son all last night and

1341
01:20:05,240 --> 01:20:08,080
Speaker 3: this morning. That's that's a hell of a good question.

1342
01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:10,200
Speaker 3: It's a hell of a good question.

1343
01:20:11,479 --> 01:20:13,760
Speaker 2: No, you got it, and I can't wait to hear

1344
01:20:13,840 --> 01:20:19,240
Speaker 2: how this resolves next week. You better text me. By

1345
01:20:19,280 --> 01:20:21,160
Speaker 2: the way, we're not done yet, So hang right where

1346
01:20:21,200 --> 01:20:21,880
Speaker 2: you are.

1347
01:20:22,560 --> 01:20:24,439
Speaker 1: You're listening to sports radio.

1348
01:20:25,640 --> 01:20:30,120
Speaker 2: Well, i'll tell you what it's getting interesting. It is

1349
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:34,080
Speaker 2: getting interesting. In the West region. We've got an actual

1350
01:20:34,160 --> 01:20:39,000
Speaker 2: basketball game between Arizona and Utah State, just a seven

1351
01:20:39,080 --> 01:20:42,479
Speaker 2: point game with about eight minutes left to go, so

1352
01:20:43,240 --> 01:20:46,639
Speaker 2: we'll keep you up to date there. Uh, Yukon and

1353
01:20:46,840 --> 01:20:51,920
Speaker 2: UCLA also moving toward halftime, close game. Yukon leads that

1354
01:20:51,960 --> 01:20:56,040
Speaker 2: one by three right now and then actually tipping off

1355
01:20:56,520 --> 01:20:59,880
Speaker 2: in the next seven or eight minutes. Texas Tech and Alabama.

1356
01:21:00,200 --> 01:21:02,320
Speaker 2: It's not like it's late in the East. It's not

1357
01:21:02,360 --> 01:21:05,920
Speaker 2: like anybody's going to school in the morning. So that's

1358
01:21:05,960 --> 01:21:08,040
Speaker 2: what we've still got, and we promised to keep you

1359
01:21:08,120 --> 01:21:10,240
Speaker 2: up to date on all that we're broadcasting live from

1360
01:21:10,240 --> 01:21:12,800
Speaker 2: the Fox Sports Radio studios. And I just want to,

1361
01:21:12,840 --> 01:21:15,040
Speaker 2: by the way, real quick before we move on, I

1362
01:21:15,080 --> 01:21:20,200
Speaker 2: want to take like a deep breath and just tell

1363
01:21:20,240 --> 01:21:23,040
Speaker 2: you that I very much enjoyed the show that I

1364
01:21:23,200 --> 01:21:30,240
Speaker 2: just started watching. It's called Ephraim at the park or

1365
01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:35,080
Speaker 2: I don't know, like it's a working title, but like

1366
01:21:35,280 --> 01:21:40,439
Speaker 2: that was as promised, and then some I would say,

1367
01:21:41,600 --> 01:21:47,280
Speaker 2: and I get why. This is quite the emotional kind

1368
01:21:47,280 --> 01:21:53,080
Speaker 2: of situation that you detailed, And unfortunately, it's absolutely something

1369
01:21:53,120 --> 01:21:56,280
Speaker 2: that I think every single person listening to can relate

1370
01:21:56,360 --> 01:22:00,240
Speaker 2: to on either a small or a large level. There's

1371
01:22:00,280 --> 01:22:03,360
Speaker 2: not a one of us that hasn't been down to

1372
01:22:03,400 --> 01:22:07,679
Speaker 2: the park on the weekend with the kids, watching people

1373
01:22:07,880 --> 01:22:12,479
Speaker 2: in their forties, fifties, sixties just acting a damn fool

1374
01:22:13,439 --> 01:22:19,439
Speaker 2: and wrapping their own self worth up into what kids

1375
01:22:20,000 --> 01:22:22,960
Speaker 2: are doing out on the field. Can't stand it. And

1376
01:22:23,320 --> 01:22:25,439
Speaker 2: every year we say that and it seems to only

1377
01:22:25,439 --> 01:22:25,880
Speaker 2: get worse.

1378
01:22:26,400 --> 01:22:30,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just it bothers me, man, because it's you know,

1379
01:22:30,600 --> 01:22:33,519
Speaker 3: these are kids. They don't they gonna listen to the coach,

1380
01:22:33,560 --> 01:22:35,680
Speaker 3: they gonna follow the coach. They probably they don't even know.

1381
01:22:36,200 --> 01:22:39,240
Speaker 3: They may not know if they're doing anything wrong. They're

1382
01:22:39,280 --> 01:22:42,200
Speaker 3: just playing basketball and they like playing basketball together. Now,

1383
01:22:42,280 --> 01:22:45,080
Speaker 3: on the other hand, named may know, but it's still

1384
01:22:45,120 --> 01:22:48,799
Speaker 3: not their fault. It's their coaches, it's their organizations ahead

1385
01:22:49,439 --> 01:22:53,880
Speaker 3: it's this guy who decided this is the only way

1386
01:22:53,880 --> 01:22:59,720
Speaker 3: I can win and a tournament full of kids who

1387
01:22:59,840 --> 01:23:02,559
Speaker 3: may or may not play basketball after the age of

1388
01:23:02,600 --> 01:23:07,240
Speaker 3: thirteen or fourteen. And to me, that's the most troubling

1389
01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:11,559
Speaker 3: thing is because we have a draft. We draft the players,

1390
01:23:11,600 --> 01:23:16,160
Speaker 3: like I said, have no designs on playing outside of

1391
01:23:16,200 --> 01:23:19,479
Speaker 3: that year or any other year. And the other half,

1392
01:23:19,720 --> 01:23:22,639
Speaker 3: you know, one or two my son included, my nephew

1393
01:23:22,680 --> 01:23:25,240
Speaker 3: played on a team with us. They can really play basketball,

1394
01:23:25,479 --> 01:23:30,000
Speaker 3: but they enjoy the rec experience because it's supposed to

1395
01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:34,519
Speaker 3: be less contentious than AAU are travel basketball. It's where

1396
01:23:34,560 --> 01:23:36,599
Speaker 3: you can actually go in and work on stuff and

1397
01:23:36,640 --> 01:23:41,400
Speaker 3: try and have fun, experiment on different moves, and learn

1398
01:23:42,600 --> 01:23:45,360
Speaker 3: the fun of the game. AAU basketball and travel basketball

1399
01:23:45,400 --> 01:23:49,040
Speaker 3: has become such a business. We go to these tournaments.

1400
01:23:49,080 --> 01:23:51,439
Speaker 3: We've been all over the country in these tournaments, and

1401
01:23:51,479 --> 01:23:55,200
Speaker 3: the kids don't look happy. Yep, they look like they're

1402
01:23:55,240 --> 01:23:59,800
Speaker 3: going to work. But go into any wreck on any Saturday,

1403
01:24:00,840 --> 01:24:03,040
Speaker 3: and you'll see these kids having the ball because they're

1404
01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:07,559
Speaker 3: playing with kids who don't have aspirations of going Division

1405
01:24:07,560 --> 01:24:10,639
Speaker 3: one and being a lottery pick. It's just a kid

1406
01:24:10,640 --> 01:24:12,679
Speaker 3: who sat next to you in science for three years

1407
01:24:12,680 --> 01:24:14,559
Speaker 3: and now you guys are on the same basketball team.

1408
01:24:16,080 --> 01:24:20,000
Speaker 3: And when you take that away, when you make that

1409
01:24:20,760 --> 01:24:23,160
Speaker 3: parks in wreck, which is open to every it costs

1410
01:24:23,160 --> 01:24:26,360
Speaker 3: ten dollars to sign your son up or daughter up.

1411
01:24:26,560 --> 01:24:32,519
Speaker 3: It's COREC Minor or majors ten dollars. And when you

1412
01:24:32,560 --> 01:24:35,560
Speaker 3: snatch that away from them, because you have these designs

1413
01:24:35,720 --> 01:24:40,960
Speaker 3: on creating a team that no one can beat, what

1414
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:45,160
Speaker 3: are we doing? It's the adult it's you, sir, of course,

1415
01:24:46,240 --> 01:24:48,840
Speaker 3: of course you, sir. And shame on the park for

1416
01:24:48,960 --> 01:24:55,240
Speaker 3: allowing it to happen, because they know what's happening. They

1417
01:24:55,280 --> 01:24:57,960
Speaker 3: know what's happening, just like our park director knows what's

1418
01:24:58,000 --> 01:24:59,680
Speaker 3: going on. I'm not just not in there doing my

1419
01:24:59,760 --> 01:25:03,920
Speaker 3: own You should say his name. No, I'm not doing that,

1420
01:25:04,160 --> 01:25:07,519
Speaker 3: but you should. No, No, I knew you wouldn't. You wouldn't

1421
01:25:07,520 --> 01:25:13,400
Speaker 3: know because legally, legally, it's not about him. It's about no, No, listen,

1422
01:25:13,600 --> 01:25:16,720
Speaker 3: it's about parks and rec and the head of the

1423
01:25:16,760 --> 01:25:20,960
Speaker 3: sports board doing what's right. Yeah, And I don't need

1424
01:25:21,000 --> 01:25:23,799
Speaker 3: them to say, well you said this and this happened.

1425
01:25:24,560 --> 01:25:26,880
Speaker 3: Now I'm not. No, I want to tell a story.

1426
01:25:27,040 --> 01:25:29,640
Speaker 3: I got something that happened to me. The team I

1427
01:25:29,720 --> 01:25:32,160
Speaker 3: was coaching in my community. I got you.

1428
01:25:32,640 --> 01:25:35,479
Speaker 2: I got you, but you also get what I'm saying.

1429
01:25:35,520 --> 01:25:36,599
Speaker 3: I know exactly what you're saying.

1430
01:25:37,240 --> 01:25:40,960
Speaker 2: Shanker damp, I know what's going on, Okay, Shankar damn Ship.

1431
01:25:41,160 --> 01:25:44,960
Speaker 2: Everybody's mad at the warden. But that crooked cop that was.

1432
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:48,639
Speaker 3: Running Secure, he goes to jail to now and that's

1433
01:25:48,760 --> 01:25:51,320
Speaker 3: that school. That's who your boy is. But what happened

1434
01:25:51,560 --> 01:25:53,639
Speaker 3: by us doing it this way and letting the people

1435
01:25:53,640 --> 01:25:55,920
Speaker 3: know and letting people you know, everybody out there, everybody

1436
01:25:55,920 --> 01:26:00,240
Speaker 3: got Twitter, everybody has phones, and you know, hey, if

1437
01:26:00,479 --> 01:26:04,880
Speaker 3: if you feel an injustice, go ahead, reach out, reach out,

1438
01:26:05,400 --> 01:26:07,960
Speaker 3: let the let the people know. Like this is what

1439
01:26:08,320 --> 01:26:11,240
Speaker 3: I'm saying is this is bigger than me. It is

1440
01:26:11,240 --> 01:26:13,400
Speaker 3: not about me. It's not even about our team. It's

1441
01:26:13,439 --> 01:26:14,880
Speaker 3: about the structure of.

1442
01:26:14,800 --> 01:26:18,760
Speaker 2: This And in the telling of the story, you made

1443
01:26:18,800 --> 01:26:19,559
Speaker 2: it about that.

1444
01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:22,240
Speaker 3: That's what it is. That's what it is. I have

1445
01:26:22,360 --> 01:26:24,400
Speaker 3: no other Look.

1446
01:26:24,200 --> 01:26:26,920
Speaker 2: I didn't I didn't hear you once say we win,

1447
01:26:27,640 --> 01:26:28,680
Speaker 2: we should have won that.

1448
01:26:28,840 --> 01:26:33,000
Speaker 3: I didn't hear you. Want. Look, if we get beat

1449
01:26:33,520 --> 01:26:36,479
Speaker 3: I'm okay with that. I will prepare my team to

1450
01:26:36,560 --> 01:26:39,720
Speaker 3: continue to get better wins and losses. We win a

1451
01:26:39,720 --> 01:26:42,360
Speaker 3: lot of games because they play together, they play hard.

1452
01:26:42,600 --> 01:26:45,800
Speaker 3: We have a philosophy on our team, and we're doing

1453
01:26:45,800 --> 01:26:49,000
Speaker 3: it the right way with the right age kids. Pick

1454
01:26:49,000 --> 01:26:50,920
Speaker 3: them out of the pool. A lot of these kids

1455
01:26:50,960 --> 01:26:53,960
Speaker 3: I've coached, UH. I was their first coach, and now

1456
01:26:54,000 --> 01:26:57,040
Speaker 3: as they older, I'm still coaching them. UH. Through the

1457
01:26:57,120 --> 01:27:01,320
Speaker 3: draft process, through the through the rec league process, all

1458
01:27:01,400 --> 01:27:05,519
Speaker 3: of that, all of that, and so I'm not all

1459
01:27:05,560 --> 01:27:08,640
Speaker 3: I want to say. It has to be fair. It

1460
01:27:08,680 --> 01:27:10,720
Speaker 3: has to be fair, and not for me, for these

1461
01:27:10,800 --> 01:27:17,320
Speaker 3: kids who work their butts off, who worked their butts off. Seriously,

1462
01:27:17,520 --> 01:27:21,759
Speaker 3: I can't. I was so mad man. I was sitting

1463
01:27:21,800 --> 01:27:24,360
Speaker 3: in there looking I'm standing there looking at the war

1464
01:27:24,439 --> 01:27:26,880
Speaker 3: I'm like, wow, all these kids, why they the All

1465
01:27:26,880 --> 01:27:29,240
Speaker 3: Star team? They gave them backpacks and then I looked

1466
01:27:29,240 --> 01:27:31,479
Speaker 3: at the back of the I'm like, oh, that's not

1467
01:27:31,560 --> 01:27:34,479
Speaker 3: the park name and that's not the number that on

1468
01:27:34,479 --> 01:27:37,040
Speaker 3: the jersey he's wearing right now standing in here getting

1469
01:27:37,040 --> 01:27:40,320
Speaker 3: his award. And so I just made a mental note

1470
01:27:40,360 --> 01:27:42,320
Speaker 3: when out talked to my team, told them my prouduct

1471
01:27:42,320 --> 01:27:44,800
Speaker 3: what was of them. And then I went home and

1472
01:27:44,800 --> 01:27:46,920
Speaker 3: I started doing some research and I was like, oh wait,

1473
01:27:46,960 --> 01:27:52,559
Speaker 3: a minute. Hey, guess what information is readily available. All

1474
01:27:52,560 --> 01:27:55,920
Speaker 3: you gotta do is go look for it. So all

1475
01:27:55,960 --> 01:27:58,120
Speaker 3: I started doing is just looking up stuff. And I'm like, oh, well,

1476
01:27:58,120 --> 01:28:02,559
Speaker 3: this this broke all the rules. This, this is not

1477
01:28:02,720 --> 01:28:08,960
Speaker 3: this didn't Jace break one rule. It explicitly says, no

1478
01:28:09,800 --> 01:28:17,360
Speaker 3: travel basketball team is permitted to play in the Valley

1479
01:28:17,520 --> 01:28:23,479
Speaker 3: Park Region Regional All Star Game. You cannot assemble a

1480
01:28:23,600 --> 01:28:29,840
Speaker 3: travel team and play in the All Star Game. This

1481
01:28:29,960 --> 01:28:37,479
Speaker 3: team practices and plays year round without the kids from

1482
01:28:37,479 --> 01:28:37,800
Speaker 3: the wreck.

1483
01:28:38,080 --> 01:28:41,320
Speaker 2: Yeah this this, this one's cutting dry, dude, this one's

1484
01:28:41,360 --> 01:28:41,960
Speaker 2: cutting on.

1485
01:28:43,280 --> 01:28:45,360
Speaker 3: Listen to me. I want you to hear this. I

1486
01:28:45,760 --> 01:28:51,640
Speaker 3: will I want you to hear this. Remember, this team

1487
01:28:52,000 --> 01:28:58,719
Speaker 3: got to play in the championship because someone anonymously called

1488
01:28:59,479 --> 01:29:04,320
Speaker 3: told on the other team. The director of the sports

1489
01:29:04,400 --> 01:29:10,280
Speaker 3: board did not inform us. So it could be a

1490
01:29:10,360 --> 01:29:13,639
Speaker 3: lot deeper than oh, this is cut and dry, because

1491
01:29:13,640 --> 01:29:15,559
Speaker 3: they did a lot of hemen and han when we

1492
01:29:15,560 --> 01:29:18,519
Speaker 3: were asking them, why didn't we get the courtesy of

1493
01:29:18,600 --> 01:29:25,120
Speaker 3: knowing who we were gonna play? Well? Yeah, so I'm

1494
01:29:25,160 --> 01:29:27,760
Speaker 3: all like I'm looking like I'm looking at this situation like,

1495
01:29:27,840 --> 01:29:30,800
Speaker 3: oh I can feel what they getting ready? Well, you know,

1496
01:29:31,760 --> 01:29:34,600
Speaker 3: we'll look into it all that. No, no, no, no. The

1497
01:29:34,680 --> 01:29:39,880
Speaker 3: thing is this has to happen immediately, just like that

1498
01:29:39,960 --> 01:29:46,800
Speaker 3: happened immediately, because on Saturday, that team is supposed to

1499
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:51,000
Speaker 3: go play in the semi finals for the city championship

1500
01:29:52,200 --> 01:29:54,559
Speaker 3: because they won a region just like we did last

1501
01:29:54,640 --> 01:29:57,880
Speaker 3: year and we played the Palisades. So it has to

1502
01:29:57,920 --> 01:29:58,599
Speaker 3: happen now.

1503
01:29:58,760 --> 01:30:01,559
Speaker 2: The reason I'm saying is and dry is just put

1504
01:30:01,560 --> 01:30:06,200
Speaker 2: it this way. I don't think that they they might

1505
01:30:06,240 --> 01:30:08,200
Speaker 2: not be aware of who they're dealing with. Oh, they

1506
01:30:08,240 --> 01:30:10,600
Speaker 2: don't know. It's dependents I have.

1507
01:30:12,640 --> 01:30:13,280
Speaker 3: I feel you.

1508
01:30:13,920 --> 01:30:18,160
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm already I'm already setting aside time next Sunday,

1509
01:30:19,120 --> 01:30:21,559
Speaker 2: uh to uh to get the update. Let's put it

1510
01:30:21,600 --> 01:30:24,439
Speaker 2: that way. And I appreciate you. I appreciate you sharing

1511
01:30:24,680 --> 01:30:31,479
Speaker 2: all forgive. No no no, that listen. Storytelling is that's what

1512
01:30:31,520 --> 01:30:35,000
Speaker 2: we're doing. And that was a relatable story.

1513
01:30:35,880 --> 01:30:37,960
Speaker 3: Come on out there, come on, come on people, listeners

1514
01:30:38,000 --> 01:30:40,080
Speaker 3: out there just for the little guy. Man. Can't let

1515
01:30:40,120 --> 01:30:40,840
Speaker 3: him get away with this.

1516
01:30:42,000 --> 01:30:43,960
Speaker 2: Love it all right, So we're gonna we're gonna get

1517
01:30:43,960 --> 01:30:46,000
Speaker 2: that all updated next week.

1518
01:30:46,280 --> 01:30:46,800
Speaker 3: For sure.

1519
01:30:47,360 --> 01:30:52,280
Speaker 2: I feel very confident in uh, in what you're gonna

1520
01:30:52,280 --> 01:30:55,120
Speaker 2: go do but uh, I'm with you, man, I'm with you.

1521
01:30:56,400 --> 01:31:00,840
Speaker 3: Meantime, you said something about the Lakers. Uh, will you

1522
01:31:01,040 --> 01:31:02,960
Speaker 3: You're just gonna go three hours and not talk about

1523
01:31:02,960 --> 01:31:06,559
Speaker 3: the Lakers? Cool? Cool, I see what you're doing. Golden State?

1524
01:31:06,680 --> 01:31:09,320
Speaker 3: Do you need? Do you need Golden State? I see

1525
01:31:09,320 --> 01:31:12,080
Speaker 3: what you're doing. Lord. Yeah, I'm just saying, man.

1526
01:31:12,560 --> 01:31:15,120
Speaker 2: You know, you know what matters about Golden State right

1527
01:31:15,160 --> 01:31:17,880
Speaker 2: now is the first letter of Golden State because that's

1528
01:31:17,920 --> 01:31:18,879
Speaker 2: their G League.

1529
01:31:18,680 --> 01:31:19,920
Speaker 3: Team that's playing right now.

1530
01:31:19,960 --> 01:31:22,240
Speaker 2: All right, well, I mean but no, but good good

1531
01:31:22,280 --> 01:31:24,880
Speaker 2: on the Lakers. You said it last week and they

1532
01:31:24,920 --> 01:31:25,760
Speaker 2: haven't lost since.

1533
01:31:26,840 --> 01:31:28,040
Speaker 3: I've noticed something.

1534
01:31:28,439 --> 01:31:32,240
Speaker 2: I'm go ahead, you can have a runway on that too.

1535
01:31:32,760 --> 01:31:34,439
Speaker 2: Got something else your chest about the Lakers.

1536
01:31:34,439 --> 01:31:36,439
Speaker 3: This is the thing. They went from being one of

1537
01:31:36,479 --> 01:31:42,000
Speaker 3: the worst teams defensively to right around the league average.

1538
01:31:43,080 --> 01:31:47,160
Speaker 3: What that did was with their ability to score. That

1539
01:31:47,320 --> 01:31:52,040
Speaker 3: made them a team that's it's capable of competing in

1540
01:31:52,080 --> 01:31:53,320
Speaker 3: the playoffs and going deep.

1541
01:31:53,520 --> 01:31:56,599
Speaker 2: If they play at a level it doesn't matter now,

1542
01:31:56,920 --> 01:31:59,200
Speaker 2: if they play at the level that is top.

1543
01:31:59,080 --> 01:32:04,240
Speaker 3: Ten in the playoffs, than they are a force to be.

1544
01:32:04,880 --> 01:32:08,519
Speaker 3: You know what They've found out and what Lebron James

1545
01:32:08,520 --> 01:32:10,320
Speaker 3: found out, and I commend him for this. I've been

1546
01:32:10,400 --> 01:32:15,639
Speaker 3: very critical of Lebron. He found out if I do

1547
01:32:15,680 --> 01:32:21,360
Speaker 3: get off the ball, I'll have more energy to have

1548
01:32:21,479 --> 01:32:26,280
Speaker 3: flashes of defense. His stills have gone up, his rebounds

1549
01:32:26,320 --> 01:32:29,479
Speaker 3: have gone up, fast breakpoints have gone up.

1550
01:32:29,479 --> 01:32:34,719
Speaker 2: For hey, nobody ever who knows basketball has ever accused

1551
01:32:34,800 --> 01:32:38,880
Speaker 2: Lebron James of not being a savant right when it

1552
01:32:38,920 --> 01:32:39,639
Speaker 2: comes to the game.

1553
01:32:39,760 --> 01:32:43,959
Speaker 3: So now what he decided was let Luca and Austin

1554
01:32:44,479 --> 01:32:47,080
Speaker 3: get buckets. He scored twelve points.

1555
01:32:47,120 --> 01:32:50,600
Speaker 2: It's actually a great story to tell because it is

1556
01:32:50,680 --> 01:32:52,719
Speaker 2: Lebron James doing the one thing.

1557
01:32:53,760 --> 01:32:55,920
Speaker 3: I don't give a rip about the decision.

1558
01:32:56,120 --> 01:33:00,760
Speaker 2: And whatever everybody thinks about Lebron James, he's been incredible.

1559
01:33:00,800 --> 01:33:01,960
Speaker 3: He's been great for the league.

1560
01:33:01,960 --> 01:33:04,040
Speaker 2: I'm sorry if you think he's a flopper and that

1561
01:33:04,080 --> 01:33:06,000
Speaker 2: means this, that or the other two you the bottom

1562
01:33:06,040 --> 01:33:09,439
Speaker 2: line is the one thing, the only thing that you

1563
01:33:09,479 --> 01:33:12,719
Speaker 2: could accuse Lebron James of is a lack of self

1564
01:33:12,720 --> 01:33:17,840
Speaker 2: awareness sometimes, and this I think is a very good

1565
01:33:17,960 --> 01:33:21,120
Speaker 2: story for him to tell about what you're talking about.

1566
01:33:21,880 --> 01:33:25,559
Speaker 2: It's been a twenty some odd year career where I

1567
01:33:25,600 --> 01:33:28,920
Speaker 2: don't think he's ever been asked to put his ego

1568
01:33:29,000 --> 01:33:32,360
Speaker 2: in check before, because why would you. You're talking about

1569
01:33:32,360 --> 01:33:35,360
Speaker 2: one of the literal one of the the top two

1570
01:33:35,400 --> 01:33:37,200
Speaker 2: or three all time greats.

1571
01:33:37,640 --> 01:33:40,320
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, but it's hard to get off that ball

1572
01:33:40,400 --> 01:33:43,599
Speaker 3: man much as something. And he's done it. Yep, he's

1573
01:33:43,640 --> 01:33:46,320
Speaker 3: done it, and they've become a better team. Marcus Smart

1574
01:33:46,320 --> 01:33:49,600
Speaker 3: is the MVP of the team, his defensive pressure in

1575
01:33:49,640 --> 01:33:52,599
Speaker 3: the starting lineup. And guess who shows decided to show

1576
01:33:52,680 --> 01:33:57,120
Speaker 3: up and play real basketball? Who's that? Lord? I've been

1577
01:33:57,120 --> 01:33:58,000
Speaker 3: waiting for his gun.

1578
01:34:00,200 --> 01:34:04,240
Speaker 2: Meantime, A very popular pick to win the whole thing.

1579
01:34:04,800 --> 01:34:08,400
Speaker 2: The Arizona Wildcats are having a very very hard time

1580
01:34:08,479 --> 01:34:13,160
Speaker 2: shaking Utah State, very hard time. We have a four

1581
01:34:13,200 --> 01:34:17,400
Speaker 2: point game with under five minutes to go, and momentum

1582
01:34:17,479 --> 01:34:18,679
Speaker 2: in the building right.

1583
01:34:18,479 --> 01:34:22,800
Speaker 3: Now is on Utah State side. So we've got that.

1584
01:34:23,840 --> 01:34:26,719
Speaker 2: Speaking of doing things for the kids, I told you earlier,

1585
01:34:27,240 --> 01:34:30,680
Speaker 2: took my youngest son to spring training this week, and

1586
01:34:30,760 --> 01:34:33,880
Speaker 2: I have an observation now that I've been to a

1587
01:34:33,920 --> 01:34:41,360
Speaker 2: baseball game that includes the ABS, the ball strike Challenge system,

1588
01:34:41,920 --> 01:34:45,000
Speaker 2: I think there's something coming that we weren't really thinking

1589
01:34:45,000 --> 01:34:48,200
Speaker 2: about that I really enjoy and so I want to

1590
01:34:48,200 --> 01:34:52,800
Speaker 2: get to that coming up next. All games are officially underway.

1591
01:34:52,840 --> 01:34:56,000
Speaker 2: Alabama is in front of Texas Tech by three, just

1592
01:34:56,080 --> 01:34:59,360
Speaker 2: about five minutes into that game, So keep you up

1593
01:34:59,360 --> 01:35:04,519
Speaker 2: to date on as we continue into the night. That's

1594
01:35:04,560 --> 01:35:06,920
Speaker 2: it from Salam I'm Mark Willard and this is Fox

1595
01:35:06,920 --> 01:35:07,599
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1596
01:35:07,880 --> 01:35:10,760
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1597
01:35:10,800 --> 01:35:14,160
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1598
01:35:14,320 --> 01:35:18,400
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1599
01:35:18,520 --> 01:35:19,480
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1600
01:35:19,560 --> 01:35:22,720
Speaker 2: About three minutes to goo. Arizona leads by seven and

1601
01:35:22,880 --> 01:35:25,559
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1602
01:35:25,600 --> 01:35:29,760
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1603
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1607
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1610
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1611
01:35:49,760 --> 01:35:51,320
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1612
01:35:51,920 --> 01:35:57,120
Speaker 2: you search Fox Sports Radio in the I Heart app. Okay,

1613
01:35:57,760 --> 01:36:01,680
Speaker 2: one thing that's always kind of annoyed me, to be

1614
01:36:01,720 --> 01:36:08,080
Speaker 2: honest with you, in the whole officiating world, all sports.

1615
01:36:09,200 --> 01:36:09,720
Speaker 3: You know this.

1616
01:36:10,080 --> 01:36:16,439
Speaker 2: In the NFL, my goodness, what is said down on

1617
01:36:16,520 --> 01:36:25,040
Speaker 2: that field between players, between coaches, and to the officials.

1618
01:36:26,720 --> 01:36:30,040
Speaker 2: You can get what you need to get off of

1619
01:36:30,080 --> 01:36:34,200
Speaker 2: your chest, and there's a give and take there. But

1620
01:36:34,280 --> 01:36:36,960
Speaker 2: you can get what you need to get off of

1621
01:36:37,360 --> 01:36:41,040
Speaker 2: your chest, and if it gets completely out of hand,

1622
01:36:41,040 --> 01:36:46,000
Speaker 2: there'll be a flag. But that's actually pretty rare. In

1623
01:36:46,080 --> 01:36:52,559
Speaker 2: the NBA, same thing, quite frankly. The technical foul is

1624
01:36:52,600 --> 01:36:55,880
Speaker 2: not called the first time that you go over there

1625
01:36:55,920 --> 01:37:00,040
Speaker 2: and say something. The technical foul is called when you

1626
01:37:00,080 --> 01:37:04,559
Speaker 2: won't stop going over there to say something, and if

1627
01:37:04,600 --> 01:37:09,080
Speaker 2: you won't let it go, then the technical foul gets

1628
01:37:09,120 --> 01:37:15,080
Speaker 2: called unless what you say upon arrival is just completely

1629
01:37:15,920 --> 01:37:18,719
Speaker 2: out of bounds. But you can go talk to the ref.

1630
01:37:19,760 --> 01:37:25,479
Speaker 2: You can, you can demonstratively talk to the ref. But

1631
01:37:25,600 --> 01:37:31,000
Speaker 2: then we go to baseball, and in baseball the umpires

1632
01:37:31,040 --> 01:37:37,559
Speaker 2: often cruise around as if you're not even allowed to

1633
01:37:37,800 --> 01:37:43,800
Speaker 2: ask him a question. You can't look at them. They

1634
01:37:44,000 --> 01:37:49,360
Speaker 2: act like a nineteen sixties dad. Anybody old enough to

1635
01:37:49,400 --> 01:37:51,120
Speaker 2: have seen the TV show wonder years.

1636
01:37:51,280 --> 01:37:57,120
Speaker 3: Yea, they act like that. Dad, what perfect?

1637
01:37:57,800 --> 01:38:00,639
Speaker 2: You can't go into his den after work. You can't

1638
01:38:00,720 --> 01:38:04,519
Speaker 2: even be near him, not allowed to talk to Dad.

1639
01:38:04,640 --> 01:38:08,160
Speaker 2: He's been at work all day. That's how these umpires act.

1640
01:38:08,439 --> 01:38:11,680
Speaker 2: You say something to them from the dugout, miss me

1641
01:38:11,840 --> 01:38:14,960
Speaker 2: with oh, you're showing the ump up. No, we have

1642
01:38:15,040 --> 01:38:17,160
Speaker 2: no idea what's being said from the dugout.

1643
01:38:18,280 --> 01:38:19,479
Speaker 3: Grow a skin.

1644
01:38:21,040 --> 01:38:27,080
Speaker 2: Now we arrive at ABS, yep, and now everything that

1645
01:38:27,160 --> 01:38:29,560
Speaker 2: you say and do is actually we don't need to

1646
01:38:29,680 --> 01:38:32,519
Speaker 2: yell at you. We can just challenge it. We can

1647
01:38:32,600 --> 01:38:34,720
Speaker 2: just challenge it, and we don't need to talk to you.

1648
01:38:34,800 --> 01:38:37,479
Speaker 2: We don't need to like have you be like that's

1649
01:38:37,560 --> 01:38:41,519
Speaker 2: my call, that's your call. What if your call is wrong?

1650
01:38:43,120 --> 01:38:47,559
Speaker 2: And I noticed something. There's a great piece of sound

1651
01:38:48,120 --> 01:38:50,479
Speaker 2: if you all can go find it, and I think

1652
01:38:50,479 --> 01:38:53,160
Speaker 2: it's from yesterday's Giants Guardians game.

1653
01:38:53,479 --> 01:38:54,200
Speaker 3: I was there.

1654
01:38:54,720 --> 01:38:58,840
Speaker 2: I watched this ABS happen and then found out later

1655
01:38:59,479 --> 01:39:07,200
Speaker 2: Giants can Patrick Bailey challenge is a call and if

1656
01:39:07,200 --> 01:39:09,479
Speaker 2: I've got it right and the details don't matter, I

1657
01:39:10,080 --> 01:39:15,559
Speaker 2: believe that the umpire called it a strike and maybe

1658
01:39:15,600 --> 01:39:19,240
Speaker 2: one of the batters the catcher thought no, no, that's

1659
01:39:19,280 --> 01:39:23,519
Speaker 2: a ball. So they challenged it, and the umpire is

1660
01:39:23,720 --> 01:39:28,559
Speaker 2: caught on a hot mic saying, please be a strike

1661
01:39:31,160 --> 01:39:34,800
Speaker 2: as they go to the scoreboard to review whether or

1662
01:39:34,840 --> 01:39:38,760
Speaker 2: not it's a strike. And I thought, this is a

1663
01:39:38,880 --> 01:39:45,400
Speaker 2: watershed moment. I think this abs system Ephraim is going

1664
01:39:45,439 --> 01:39:49,599
Speaker 2: to humanize umpires for the first time. It is going

1665
01:39:49,640 --> 01:39:53,080
Speaker 2: to take the damn ego away from them because they

1666
01:39:53,200 --> 01:39:56,200
Speaker 2: can't stand beside my call.

1667
01:39:56,280 --> 01:39:56,719
Speaker 3: Period.

1668
01:39:56,920 --> 01:40:00,960
Speaker 2: I'm the boss. You go back to work. Oh no,

1669
01:40:01,080 --> 01:40:03,160
Speaker 2: we're going to the scoreboard to see if you're right, dude.

1670
01:40:04,160 --> 01:40:05,240
Speaker 3: So please that.

1671
01:40:06,920 --> 01:40:10,519
Speaker 2: Little moment to hear an umpire go, please be a strike.

1672
01:40:11,479 --> 01:40:14,880
Speaker 2: Is that umpire realizing that his ego does not run

1673
01:40:14,920 --> 01:40:15,880
Speaker 2: this show anymore?

1674
01:40:16,560 --> 01:40:18,040
Speaker 3: Facts? Facts?

1675
01:40:18,160 --> 01:40:20,519
Speaker 2: Thank you? Can we hear this? Facts run the show?

1676
01:40:20,600 --> 01:40:22,040
Speaker 2: Now take a listen to this.

1677
01:40:22,880 --> 01:40:28,040
Speaker 4: Moody takes a ball and Patrick Bailey's challenging this one.

1678
01:40:28,560 --> 01:40:30,479
Speaker 2: San Francisco is challenging the ball.

1679
01:40:30,400 --> 01:40:40,040
Speaker 3: Call please a whoops. I forgot to turn your mic

1680
01:40:40,120 --> 01:40:45,040
Speaker 3: off there, sir, Please be a strike. Please be a strike.

1681
01:40:45,320 --> 01:40:48,200
Speaker 2: And that that in and of itself to me, I go,

1682
01:40:48,320 --> 01:40:56,880
Speaker 2: that's perfect. You you finally realize that you are You're

1683
01:40:56,920 --> 01:41:02,599
Speaker 2: a slave to what actually happened, and you can't sit

1684
01:41:02,680 --> 01:41:05,719
Speaker 2: there and just tell people that what you said goes.

1685
01:41:06,680 --> 01:41:09,240
Speaker 3: And I loved it. I loved it.

1686
01:41:09,320 --> 01:41:12,240
Speaker 2: Your ego's gone, and now you have to actually be

1687
01:41:12,280 --> 01:41:15,840
Speaker 2: a human being and you have to treat other people

1688
01:41:15,840 --> 01:41:20,080
Speaker 2: with respect because if you're wrong, the whole stadium.

1689
01:41:19,680 --> 01:41:20,280
Speaker 3: Is going to see it.

1690
01:41:21,640 --> 01:41:26,280
Speaker 2: You blew it. I love it. I love it. I

1691
01:41:27,040 --> 01:41:29,720
Speaker 2: wasn't thinking about that. I was thinking about, you know,

1692
01:41:30,000 --> 01:41:33,400
Speaker 2: ball strikes whatever, like like all the other sports, we've

1693
01:41:33,439 --> 01:41:37,840
Speaker 2: got another aspect of review now. I wasn't thinking about

1694
01:41:37,840 --> 01:41:40,919
Speaker 2: how umpires were going to have to stick their egos

1695
01:41:40,920 --> 01:41:42,000
Speaker 2: in their butt pocket.

1696
01:41:42,960 --> 01:41:44,800
Speaker 3: I love it. And anytime you're in front of a

1697
01:41:44,840 --> 01:41:48,680
Speaker 3: hot mic, right like for me right now is like

1698
01:41:49,360 --> 01:41:56,120
Speaker 3: please be well played by the way.

1699
01:41:56,400 --> 01:42:00,160
Speaker 6: As we head toward regular season starting this coming week

1700
01:42:00,600 --> 01:42:03,760
Speaker 6: in Major League Baseball, there's the streaming only Wednesday night

1701
01:42:03,760 --> 01:42:06,400
Speaker 6: game with the Giants hosting the Yankees. Most teams open

1702
01:42:06,479 --> 01:42:10,360
Speaker 6: on Thursday. The Dodgers are starting the annual Freeway Series

1703
01:42:10,520 --> 01:42:14,240
Speaker 6: exhibitions against the Angels tonight, and in Anaheim, the Dodgers

1704
01:42:14,280 --> 01:42:17,120
Speaker 6: scored ten in the third inning. They're up ten to

1705
01:42:17,120 --> 01:42:20,160
Speaker 6: one in the fourth. Three RBIs for sho Hee Otani

1706
01:42:20,240 --> 01:42:23,439
Speaker 6: home runs for ti Oscar Hernandez, and we thought Freddie

1707
01:42:23,479 --> 01:42:26,400
Speaker 6: Freeman as well listed with an RBI as for the

1708
01:42:26,439 --> 01:42:29,040
Speaker 6: college hoops that late game to end the second round

1709
01:42:29,040 --> 01:42:33,120
Speaker 6: of the NCAA Men's Hoops Tournament. It's in Tampa, Florida.

1710
01:42:33,960 --> 01:42:36,280
Speaker 6: It started less than a half an hour ago. It's

1711
01:42:36,479 --> 01:42:39,760
Speaker 6: ten to thirty in Tampa, Florida. Right now, we still

1712
01:42:39,800 --> 01:42:43,120
Speaker 6: have over ten minutes left in the first half. Alabama

1713
01:42:43,160 --> 01:42:47,080
Speaker 6: twenty six to ten leaders against Texas Tech in Philadelphia.

1714
01:42:47,200 --> 01:42:51,000
Speaker 6: UCLA has taken the lead against two seed Yukon thirty

1715
01:42:51,080 --> 01:42:54,519
Speaker 6: nine thirty eight. That's early in the second half, and

1716
01:42:54,600 --> 01:42:57,080
Speaker 6: we have one minute left in the game in San Diego,

1717
01:42:57,160 --> 01:42:59,800
Speaker 6: where one seed in the West, Arizona, still leads you

1718
01:42:59,840 --> 01:43:04,360
Speaker 6: to State seventy four to sixty four. Iowa eliminated the

1719
01:43:04,400 --> 01:43:07,719
Speaker 6: one seed in the South, beating Florida in Tampa seventy

1720
01:43:07,760 --> 01:43:10,879
Speaker 6: three seventy two on a three pointer in the final seconds.

1721
01:43:11,479 --> 01:43:14,759
Speaker 6: Saint John's on a layup at the buzzer eliminated Kansas.

1722
01:43:14,760 --> 01:43:18,600
Speaker 6: Sixty seven sixty five wins for Purdue, Iowa, State and

1723
01:43:18,680 --> 01:43:23,080
Speaker 6: Tennessee beat Virginia tonight seventy nine to seventy two NIT

1724
01:43:23,320 --> 01:43:26,439
Speaker 6: second round wins for Tulsa and Illinois State. In the

1725
01:43:26,479 --> 01:43:31,320
Speaker 6: women's NCAA's blowout victories for among others, Texas and LSU

1726
01:43:31,680 --> 01:43:34,160
Speaker 6: to the NBA the next one, they're six straight, one

1727
01:43:34,280 --> 01:43:39,480
Speaker 6: forty five, one thirteen against Washington, and you know, Washington's

1728
01:43:39,479 --> 01:43:42,439
Speaker 6: still in the league. I guess technically they're an NBA team.

1729
01:43:42,760 --> 01:43:45,240
Speaker 6: Trey Young of the Wizards is out indefinitely with the

1730
01:43:45,280 --> 01:43:47,599
Speaker 6: Bruce quad and a bad back. Not that he's played

1731
01:43:47,600 --> 01:43:50,000
Speaker 6: a whole lot for them this year or a whole

1732
01:43:50,040 --> 01:43:53,559
Speaker 6: lot anyway, but the Wizards have lost sixteen in a

1733
01:43:53,640 --> 01:43:56,840
Speaker 6: row now and the record is sixteen and fifty five

1734
01:43:57,680 --> 01:44:00,759
Speaker 6: as they limp toward the finish line next month. Karl

1735
01:44:00,760 --> 01:44:03,440
Speaker 6: Anthony Towns in New York did have twenty six points

1736
01:44:03,479 --> 01:44:07,800
Speaker 6: in twenty six minutes and sixteen rebounds as well. Also

1737
01:44:07,840 --> 01:44:10,519
Speaker 6: in the NBA It's Final, with Minnesota winning with a

1738
01:44:10,560 --> 01:44:13,280
Speaker 6: strong fourth quarter at Boston beat the Celtics one oh

1739
01:44:13,320 --> 01:44:16,960
Speaker 6: two ninety two despite twenty nine points from Jalen Brown.

1740
01:44:17,360 --> 01:44:21,200
Speaker 6: Victories for Denver and Sacramento. NHL wins for Vegas and

1741
01:44:21,240 --> 01:44:24,800
Speaker 6: the Islanders. Tyler Redick earned his fourth NASCAR win of

1742
01:44:24,840 --> 01:44:28,120
Speaker 6: the season at Darlington. That's four victories in just six

1743
01:44:28,240 --> 01:44:32,000
Speaker 6: races this year for him and for co owner Michael Jordan.

1744
01:44:32,040 --> 01:44:36,000
Speaker 6: Brag Kslowski finished a distant second. Bryson Deshamba won the

1745
01:44:36,000 --> 01:44:38,719
Speaker 6: Live Golf Tournament in a playoff over John Rahm.

1746
01:44:38,760 --> 01:44:39,880
Speaker 3: More on that in a moment.

1747
01:44:40,160 --> 01:44:43,080
Speaker 6: Carlos Alcarez has lost his third round match at the

1748
01:44:43,120 --> 01:44:47,200
Speaker 6: Miami Open. Speaking of Miami and Major League Soccer, Lionel

1749
01:44:47,280 --> 01:44:50,200
Speaker 6: Messi scored in a win for his team three to

1750
01:44:50,200 --> 01:44:53,400
Speaker 6: two over New York City at Yankee Stadium, And we

1751
01:44:53,479 --> 01:44:56,280
Speaker 6: do mention the golf a bit in this segment weekly

1752
01:44:56,320 --> 01:45:00,080
Speaker 6: and Matt Fitzpatrick was the winner in Florida by on

1753
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:03,479
Speaker 6: one stroke over David Lipsky. Xander Shawffley was three back.

1754
01:45:03,520 --> 01:45:06,880
Speaker 6: He tied for fourth place. We did mention the name

1755
01:45:07,320 --> 01:45:10,679
Speaker 6: of the twenty twenty two US Open champion Fitzpatrick last

1756
01:45:10,720 --> 01:45:14,240
Speaker 6: weekend because he did not shall we say, play as

1757
01:45:14,280 --> 01:45:17,519
Speaker 6: well in the last two holes last weekend and lost

1758
01:45:17,560 --> 01:45:21,040
Speaker 6: the Players Championship to Cameron Young. But gets a victory

1759
01:45:21,120 --> 01:45:24,360
Speaker 6: in Florida today here a week later a duel with

1760
01:45:24,520 --> 01:45:28,479
Speaker 6: Lipski and delivered and had a birdie putt from just

1761
01:45:28,520 --> 01:45:31,360
Speaker 6: inside fifteen feet on the final four, hit it one

1762
01:45:31,360 --> 01:45:35,920
Speaker 6: shot victory. So he wound up not that great on

1763
01:45:35,960 --> 01:45:39,080
Speaker 6: the old putting mid round and still gets the winner's

1764
01:45:39,120 --> 01:45:42,280
Speaker 6: first prize check because there was a seven hole stretch

1765
01:45:42,360 --> 01:45:46,439
Speaker 6: where today he missed four birdie chances from inside ten

1766
01:45:46,520 --> 01:45:49,439
Speaker 6: feet in a seven hole stretch around the turn and

1767
01:45:49,520 --> 01:45:52,280
Speaker 6: still winds up the winner of this tournament. The guy

1768
01:45:52,400 --> 01:45:56,040
Speaker 6: last November had won the DP World Tour Championship to

1769
01:45:56,080 --> 01:46:00,320
Speaker 6: close out that season. The victory for Fitzpatrick today is

1770
01:46:00,360 --> 01:46:02,880
Speaker 6: his third on the PGA Tour to go along with

1771
01:46:03,040 --> 01:46:08,240
Speaker 6: nine DP World titles. So what does he win? First off,

1772
01:46:08,280 --> 01:46:10,479
Speaker 6: he's up to third in the standings, he gets a

1773
01:46:10,479 --> 01:46:14,559
Speaker 6: winner's check of over one point six million dollars, David

1774
01:46:14,800 --> 01:46:20,519
Speaker 6: Lipski almost one million dollars for finishing in second. And

1775
01:46:20,560 --> 01:46:23,479
Speaker 6: then there's that live golf event in South Africa where

1776
01:46:23,720 --> 01:46:28,160
Speaker 6: every winner of a live golf event gets four million dollars.

1777
01:46:28,200 --> 01:46:31,800
Speaker 6: That went to Bryson Deshambo in the playoff over John Ram.

1778
01:46:32,479 --> 01:46:35,600
Speaker 6: Second place in live golf still gets two and a

1779
01:46:35,720 --> 01:46:39,800
Speaker 6: quarter million dollars for four days of golf. In fact,

1780
01:46:39,800 --> 01:46:43,639
Speaker 6: today the three golfers who tied for third it lived

1781
01:46:43,800 --> 01:46:48,840
Speaker 6: each get over one million dollars. This was Deshambo's final

1782
01:46:48,920 --> 01:46:52,720
Speaker 6: start before the Masters next month. Last week he was

1783
01:46:52,760 --> 01:46:55,760
Speaker 6: a winner at Singapore. As far as the PGA schedule, yes,

1784
01:46:55,800 --> 01:46:58,519
Speaker 6: they were in Florida again today, but it's the Houston

1785
01:46:58,560 --> 01:47:02,320
Speaker 6: Open next weekend, and then San Antonio the weekend after that,

1786
01:47:02,439 --> 01:47:05,719
Speaker 6: Texas Open early April, final four weekend, shall we say,

1787
01:47:05,760 --> 01:47:08,400
Speaker 6: And the Masters begins April the ninth.

1788
01:47:08,479 --> 01:47:08,880
Speaker 3: Back to you.

1789
01:47:10,160 --> 01:47:15,599
Speaker 2: The Masters begins April ninth, coming right up around the corner, Steve,

1790
01:47:16,040 --> 01:47:19,360
Speaker 2: great stuff tonight, Thank you, thank you so much.

1791
01:47:19,439 --> 01:47:24,479
Speaker 3: Yeck perfection as always. All right.

1792
01:47:24,680 --> 01:47:26,720
Speaker 2: So remember how we were talking all about that really

1793
01:47:26,760 --> 01:47:30,599
Speaker 2: really late start in Tampa between Alabama and Texas Tech.

1794
01:47:31,200 --> 01:47:33,360
Speaker 2: I think Texas Tech is actually asleep.

1795
01:47:33,960 --> 01:47:36,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is.

1796
01:47:36,320 --> 01:47:39,840
Speaker 2: Threatening to be a twenty point lead halfway through the

1797
01:47:39,880 --> 01:47:45,559
Speaker 2: first half midnight basketball. Then again, be careful of these

1798
01:47:46,080 --> 01:47:48,160
Speaker 2: really really early big leads.

1799
01:47:49,240 --> 01:47:52,680
Speaker 3: We'll be careful. Call North Carolina to ask him about it,

1800
01:47:53,479 --> 01:47:53,720
Speaker 3: you know.

1801
01:47:55,040 --> 01:47:58,320
Speaker 2: But yeah, Alabama is up by sixteen and is at

1802
01:47:58,360 --> 01:48:00,720
Speaker 2: the free throw line to see if they can put

1803
01:48:00,800 --> 01:48:05,400
Speaker 2: up a couple more. In meantime, UCLA and Yukon Are

1804
01:48:05,640 --> 01:48:10,639
Speaker 2: tied almost five minutes in to the second half. Hey,

1805
01:48:10,880 --> 01:48:13,960
Speaker 2: how was this opening weekend for you? No bracket, no

1806
01:48:14,120 --> 01:48:18,800
Speaker 2: San Diego State? Like maybe you were just completely consumed

1807
01:48:18,800 --> 01:48:21,240
Speaker 2: by the story that you've shared with us tonight. But

1808
01:48:21,320 --> 01:48:24,040
Speaker 2: have you been watching this at all? Is there a

1809
01:48:24,120 --> 01:48:27,080
Speaker 2: rooting interest? How has this been for you? No, it's

1810
01:48:27,439 --> 01:48:32,320
Speaker 2: I have been watching, and I tend to root for

1811
01:48:32,400 --> 01:48:33,440
Speaker 2: the underdogs.

1812
01:48:33,800 --> 01:48:37,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, always, it's just you know, when you don't have

1813
01:48:37,880 --> 01:48:42,959
Speaker 3: a dog in the fight, I'm always I love the upsets,

1814
01:48:44,360 --> 01:48:46,960
Speaker 3: you know, I love the upsets. I love the underdog story.

1815
01:48:47,360 --> 01:48:53,040
Speaker 3: So I'm usually unless you know, Curry favored with a

1816
01:48:53,080 --> 01:48:56,920
Speaker 3: team or something like that. But outside of my university,

1817
01:48:56,960 --> 01:48:59,400
Speaker 3: it's very few that I'm like, yeah, I want them

1818
01:48:59,400 --> 01:49:02,080
Speaker 3: to go. So I just I picked the Furman's in

1819
01:49:02,200 --> 01:49:08,040
Speaker 3: the Siennas and uh you know, uh Northia Tech east

1820
01:49:08,800 --> 01:49:09,759
Speaker 3: Bound and down.

1821
01:49:10,160 --> 01:49:14,280
Speaker 2: You know, you mean all the teams that are never

1822
01:49:14,360 --> 01:49:15,599
Speaker 2: allowed to succeed again.

1823
01:49:15,720 --> 01:49:20,400
Speaker 3: Like Miami of Ohio, of Ohio, not Miami of Florida.

1824
01:49:21,439 --> 01:49:27,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, although Miami Florida they took a bath today. They

1825
01:49:27,840 --> 01:49:30,519
Speaker 2: took a bath today. Us walking through the airport right

1826
01:49:30,520 --> 01:49:33,240
Speaker 2: as that game ended and There was a dude walking

1827
01:49:33,280 --> 01:49:35,280
Speaker 2: by that was in you know how people show up

1828
01:49:35,320 --> 01:49:38,640
Speaker 2: in like the full uniform they got like they got

1829
01:49:38,640 --> 01:49:41,479
Speaker 2: the hat, they got the quarter zip, might have a

1830
01:49:41,479 --> 01:49:43,599
Speaker 2: logo on a pair of shorts or something like that.

1831
01:49:44,240 --> 01:49:47,839
Speaker 3: And he did not look pleased.

1832
01:49:48,840 --> 01:49:53,120
Speaker 2: So normally I would have done something like, you know, ah,

1833
01:49:53,320 --> 01:49:54,240
Speaker 2: tough loss man.

1834
01:49:54,400 --> 01:49:55,720
Speaker 3: He looked like he won't talk.

1835
01:49:56,200 --> 01:49:59,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, And an airport is uh an airport and an

1836
01:49:59,560 --> 01:50:01,960
Speaker 2: airplane and are both good places to.

1837
01:50:02,040 --> 01:50:07,880
Speaker 3: Just just don't talk, don't you know what I mean?

1838
01:50:08,280 --> 01:50:12,639
Speaker 2: Like nobody, uh, nobody really wants to talk.

1839
01:50:14,439 --> 01:50:14,840
Speaker 3: At all.

1840
01:50:17,560 --> 01:50:20,120
Speaker 2: I was of early morning flights this week, and I

1841
01:50:20,160 --> 01:50:22,000
Speaker 2: had one of these cases like me and my son,

1842
01:50:22,120 --> 01:50:27,720
Speaker 2: and I'm telling you, like a six am takeoff, right, oh.

1843
01:50:27,360 --> 01:50:29,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, we get out there and get in the pool.

1844
01:50:29,520 --> 01:50:30,840
Speaker 2: Dude, I don't know if you know, there's like one

1845
01:50:30,920 --> 01:50:32,760
Speaker 2: hundred and five degrees in Arizona.

1846
01:50:33,360 --> 01:50:35,719
Speaker 3: Let's get out there. The one hundred and five degrees here.

1847
01:50:35,680 --> 01:50:38,559
Speaker 2: Last exactly, So lady's get out there, let's have a

1848
01:50:38,600 --> 01:50:41,040
Speaker 2: good time, let's get up feet settled, and you know,

1849
01:50:41,280 --> 01:50:44,000
Speaker 2: just have a day. You said that it takes a

1850
01:50:44,160 --> 01:50:51,760
Speaker 2: certain someone to sit down at five thirty five on

1851
01:50:51,880 --> 01:50:54,800
Speaker 2: a plane and sit down next to someone you don't

1852
01:50:54,800 --> 01:50:56,880
Speaker 2: know who's with their son and yay, so.

1853
01:50:58,400 --> 01:51:01,160
Speaker 3: Where are you at? Father sun? Action here.

1854
01:51:02,640 --> 01:51:04,960
Speaker 2: Like, don't don't ask people on a plane where you

1855
01:51:05,040 --> 01:51:08,400
Speaker 2: headn't the same place you are, Like.

1856
01:51:11,920 --> 01:51:16,600
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that was that? It was a lot, buddy, Okay,

1857
01:51:16,880 --> 01:51:20,160
Speaker 3: all right, we'll live. We got some corduroy on when

1858
01:51:20,200 --> 01:51:24,080
Speaker 3: I was a kid. Like, my wife's sitting over there

1859
01:51:24,080 --> 01:51:24,599
Speaker 3: on the other row.

1860
01:51:24,680 --> 01:51:26,519
Speaker 2: Let me tell you everything that we've done the last

1861
01:51:26,520 --> 01:51:27,200
Speaker 2: thirteen years.

1862
01:51:27,320 --> 01:51:29,120
Speaker 3: You want me to change with? Oh no, no, no, no,

1863
01:51:29,160 --> 01:51:30,479
Speaker 3: she's just I'm just like.

1864
01:51:30,479 --> 01:51:32,720
Speaker 2: Remember earlier I was telling you about my superpower to

1865
01:51:32,720 --> 01:51:33,719
Speaker 2: fall asleep on an airport.

1866
01:51:34,479 --> 01:51:36,840
Speaker 3: I'm just like, the second they take a breath, has

1867
01:51:36,840 --> 01:51:39,439
Speaker 3: anybody ever woke you up to continue talking? Hey? But

1868
01:51:39,439 --> 01:51:41,519
Speaker 3: but he goes off there. Oh so what I was

1869
01:51:41,560 --> 01:51:47,000
Speaker 3: saying when I was six, No, they haven't.

1870
01:51:47,240 --> 01:51:50,280
Speaker 2: But that might be because you can't you can shake me,

1871
01:51:50,479 --> 01:51:54,040
Speaker 2: And I'm just like, not gonna work, buddy, not gonna work.

1872
01:51:55,120 --> 01:51:58,519
Speaker 2: All right, We are live in the Fox Sports Radio

1873
01:51:58,560 --> 01:52:03,120
Speaker 2: studios with the Sweet sixteen. Has just a couple spots

1874
01:52:03,360 --> 01:52:07,120
Speaker 2: left up for grabs, So we'll put a little bow

1875
01:52:07,200 --> 01:52:09,639
Speaker 2: on all of this coming up next with I from Salama'

1876
01:52:09,760 --> 01:52:11,799
Speaker 2: Mark Willard, and it is Fox Sports Radio.

1877
01:52:12,120 --> 01:52:15,000
Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

1878
01:52:15,040 --> 01:52:18,400
Speaker 4: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio

1879
01:52:18,560 --> 01:52:22,640
Speaker 4: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to

1880
01:52:22,760 --> 01:52:23,439
Speaker 4: listen live.

1881
01:52:24,040 --> 01:52:27,639
Speaker 2: These are the Fox Sports Radio studios. That's a fun

1882
01:52:27,720 --> 01:52:35,960
Speaker 2: chat today, dude, that's a fun chat today. And the

1883
01:52:36,000 --> 01:52:37,120
Speaker 2: pod is about.

1884
01:52:36,800 --> 01:52:37,240
Speaker 3: To be up.

1885
01:52:37,240 --> 01:52:42,679
Speaker 2: And if anybody doesn't know what he from started fighting

1886
01:52:42,720 --> 01:52:46,360
Speaker 2: this weekend, you should go check that story out. To

1887
01:52:46,400 --> 01:52:51,759
Speaker 2: go check it out. And you got truth on your side.

1888
01:52:51,800 --> 01:52:53,880
Speaker 2: So this is going to a good place. That's what

1889
01:52:53,960 --> 01:52:54,400
Speaker 2: I believe.

1890
01:52:55,439 --> 01:52:57,559
Speaker 3: Well you already knowing this is a lesson I teach

1891
01:52:57,680 --> 01:53:00,559
Speaker 3: my kids, and not only the ones that you know

1892
01:53:02,200 --> 01:53:05,360
Speaker 3: helped create, but the ones that I coach. Life is

1893
01:53:05,400 --> 01:53:08,320
Speaker 3: an always pan out the way it should in the

1894
01:53:08,400 --> 01:53:10,599
Speaker 3: right way, and you have to be able to deal

1895
01:53:10,640 --> 01:53:17,200
Speaker 3: with both. Amen to that. Honest. Look, my brother's asking me,

1896
01:53:17,240 --> 01:53:18,800
Speaker 3: He's like, what do you think is gonna happen? I said,

1897
01:53:18,800 --> 01:53:22,320
Speaker 3: look at my heart, I don't think they're gonna do anything.

1898
01:53:22,720 --> 01:53:27,720
Speaker 3: But really I really don't, I think because how this

1899
01:53:27,760 --> 01:53:33,240
Speaker 3: thing whole thing shook out and they were not UH.

1900
01:53:33,320 --> 01:53:36,720
Speaker 3: They were not very communicative with with UH, with us

1901
01:53:36,760 --> 01:53:41,000
Speaker 3: about the whole situation that even put this team UH

1902
01:53:41,120 --> 01:53:45,799
Speaker 3: in the in the championship. Makes me question if they

1903
01:53:46,600 --> 01:53:50,439
Speaker 3: don't want them to represent the Valley region. You think

1904
01:53:50,479 --> 01:53:55,920
Speaker 3: somethings is like bigger corrupt. My parents keep finding sending

1905
01:53:55,960 --> 01:53:58,800
Speaker 3: me things that they've researched. It says yes. If a

1906
01:53:58,840 --> 01:54:01,719
Speaker 3: team is officially just quequalified from a tournament, it generally

1907
01:54:01,760 --> 01:54:05,680
Speaker 3: results in a forfeit of all subsequent matches. This qualification

1908
01:54:05,760 --> 01:54:09,080
Speaker 3: means the team is removed from the competition, so they

1909
01:54:09,120 --> 01:54:13,519
Speaker 3: cannot play upcoming games, which are then awarded as wins

1910
01:54:13,560 --> 01:54:19,160
Speaker 3: to their scheduled appointment opponents, meaning we shouldn't even play

1911
01:54:19,280 --> 01:54:23,720
Speaker 3: the team that got the team that the team that

1912
01:54:23,840 --> 01:54:29,240
Speaker 3: forfeited and got disqualified automatically makes us the winner, right

1913
01:54:29,280 --> 01:54:32,640
Speaker 3: because we're their next appoint opponent. You don't go back

1914
01:54:32,680 --> 01:54:34,520
Speaker 3: and the team that lost gets to now put like,

1915
01:54:34,680 --> 01:54:38,880
Speaker 3: so they already did some some shenanigans there and then

1916
01:54:39,000 --> 01:54:41,920
Speaker 3: didn't communicate with us that we were even going to

1917
01:54:41,960 --> 01:54:44,760
Speaker 3: play a whole nother team. So you know, my my

1918
01:54:44,920 --> 01:54:48,000
Speaker 3: my faith is very low. I get it, but I

1919
01:54:48,040 --> 01:54:53,760
Speaker 3: get it. My my resolve and resilience is very high,

1920
01:54:53,800 --> 01:54:59,360
Speaker 3: as well as the parents that are behind me one percent.

1921
01:54:59,400 --> 01:55:02,520
Speaker 3: And then we'll reach out to other parks and because

1922
01:55:02,560 --> 01:55:06,200
Speaker 3: it can't be this, this can't be it, this cannot

1923
01:55:06,200 --> 01:55:10,360
Speaker 3: be that you just completely ignore the guidelines and rewarded

1924
01:55:10,440 --> 01:55:15,040
Speaker 3: team that knowingly does something like this. Mm hmm, yeah.

1925
01:55:15,280 --> 01:55:19,040
Speaker 2: I want to have some faith in humanity here, but

1926
01:55:19,440 --> 01:55:23,560
Speaker 2: life these days makes that hard, sometimes makes that kind

1927
01:55:23,560 --> 01:55:26,840
Speaker 2: of hard. Sometimes having faith in humanity is kind of

1928
01:55:26,880 --> 01:55:31,160
Speaker 2: like having faith in Texas Tech. Right now, are you

1929
01:55:31,240 --> 01:55:35,000
Speaker 2: watching this team play basketball? Well, I'm watching them uh.

1930
01:55:36,720 --> 01:55:38,720
Speaker 3: On TV. I don't playing basketball.

1931
01:55:38,800 --> 01:55:43,720
Speaker 2: No, no, no dog in the fight here. Like remember

1932
01:55:43,760 --> 01:55:46,280
Speaker 2: how earlier you were talking to me about how sometimes

1933
01:55:46,680 --> 01:55:49,440
Speaker 2: the kids go out to the court and cite themselves

1934
01:55:49,480 --> 01:55:52,520
Speaker 2: out because like the other team's kind of taller. Texas

1935
01:55:52,600 --> 01:55:59,240
Speaker 2: Tech looks terrified, Like they can't handle the ball, they

1936
01:55:59,240 --> 01:56:01,120
Speaker 2: can't ribble the ball up the court.

1937
01:56:01,760 --> 01:56:02,360
Speaker 3: Look shook.

1938
01:56:02,520 --> 01:56:05,880
Speaker 2: There you getting clowned right now by Alabama in the

1939
01:56:05,880 --> 01:56:12,120
Speaker 2: first half of this basketball game. Alabama is up eighteen

1940
01:56:12,240 --> 01:56:17,400
Speaker 2: right now, still first half, and just inside the twelve

1941
01:56:17,440 --> 01:56:21,360
Speaker 2: minute mark, Yukon has opened up a seven point lead

1942
01:56:21,840 --> 01:56:25,360
Speaker 2: on UCLA and I was just looking at a point

1943
01:56:25,400 --> 01:56:27,880
Speaker 2: that our colleague Aaron Torres threw up on Twitter is

1944
01:56:27,960 --> 01:56:31,840
Speaker 2: kind of an interesting one, and he was, it's sort

1945
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Speaker 2: of building on a conversation we had earlier that a

1946
01:56:33,800 --> 01:56:39,840
Speaker 2: lot of people talk about NAL has killed the mid major,

1947
01:56:39,880 --> 01:56:42,640
Speaker 2: it's killed the Cinderella. He's like, it's kind of killed

1948
01:56:42,640 --> 01:56:46,600
Speaker 2: the blue blood too. He goes, if you look at

1949
01:56:46,640 --> 01:56:49,280
Speaker 2: the tournament, we're going to the sweet sixteen, there will

1950
01:56:49,320 --> 01:56:53,960
Speaker 2: be no Kansas, there will be no North Carolina. If

1951
01:56:54,040 --> 01:56:57,160
Speaker 2: Yukon wins this game, there will be no UCLA. I

1952
01:56:57,200 --> 01:56:59,480
Speaker 2: get that Duke is a one seed, and you know

1953
01:56:59,520 --> 01:57:02,920
Speaker 2: what I mean. I'm not saying that the programs aren't

1954
01:57:02,960 --> 01:57:04,320
Speaker 2: the programs.

1955
01:57:03,680 --> 01:57:06,000
Speaker 3: But Kentucky.

1956
01:57:07,040 --> 01:57:09,240
Speaker 2: Has a double digit lead in the first half and

1957
01:57:09,240 --> 01:57:12,680
Speaker 2: then ends up getting absolutely blown out of the gym.

1958
01:57:12,880 --> 01:57:14,080
Speaker 3: By Iowa State.

1959
01:57:14,400 --> 01:57:18,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of things that we knew in college

1960
01:57:18,600 --> 01:57:23,480
Speaker 2: basketball to just be standby facts, if you want to

1961
01:57:23,480 --> 01:57:27,360
Speaker 2: go back ten twenty years ago, are getting challenged. It's

1962
01:57:27,480 --> 01:57:29,520
Speaker 2: not just it's not just the mid majors.

1963
01:57:29,640 --> 01:57:34,960
Speaker 3: It's a new dawn. It's a new day, and you're

1964
01:57:34,960 --> 01:57:43,760
Speaker 3: feeling goody good feeling after this week of h Yeah,

1965
01:57:43,840 --> 01:57:47,240
Speaker 3: let us let us know, let us know, let us know.

1966
01:57:47,360 --> 01:57:51,560
Speaker 3: I will definitely keep you up. Yeah, keep me up

1967
01:57:51,560 --> 01:57:54,080
Speaker 3: to date. Look if you if you guys want to.

1968
01:57:54,360 --> 01:57:58,720
Speaker 3: I don't ever post, but I'm going to go to

1969
01:57:58,760 --> 01:58:02,480
Speaker 3: social media at e from Salam on Twitter, and I'm

1970
01:58:02,520 --> 01:58:07,720
Speaker 3: gonna keep people updated about what's going on because I

1971
01:58:07,800 --> 01:58:11,600
Speaker 3: want this on record. I want this on record because

1972
01:58:11,640 --> 01:58:15,360
Speaker 3: this is egregious. It really is. It can't be this.

1973
01:58:16,480 --> 01:58:21,400
Speaker 3: It can't be. Nothing I said was untrue. It's all

1974
01:58:21,440 --> 01:58:28,480
Speaker 3: been verified. Like I spent all night just doing research,

1975
01:58:28,680 --> 01:58:37,000
Speaker 3: so I gotta do research research. So it is a

1976
01:58:37,040 --> 01:58:41,040
Speaker 3: travel ball team. The russay An whole travel ball team

1977
01:58:41,640 --> 01:58:46,000
Speaker 3: can't participate in this tournament. And the man said that

1978
01:58:46,040 --> 01:58:49,160
Speaker 3: the parents at his own park wanted them to lose

1979
01:58:49,840 --> 01:58:52,480
Speaker 3: because there is no space for their kids on the

1980
01:58:52,560 --> 01:58:59,080
Speaker 3: all star team. Wow. No, okay, there you have it.

1981
01:59:01,760 --> 01:59:03,520
Speaker 3: Don't take my word for it, take his.

1982
01:59:03,600 --> 01:59:07,040
Speaker 2: Nope, Nope, And I mean, yeah, you you let me

1983
01:59:07,080 --> 01:59:09,760
Speaker 2: know whatever whatever you're posting, don't don't you worry that'll

1984
01:59:09,800 --> 01:59:13,000
Speaker 2: get We'll bloust that out to as many people as possible.

1985
01:59:13,440 --> 01:59:16,200
Speaker 2: Let's uh, let's put it that way. We'll blast it

1986
01:59:16,240 --> 01:59:18,800
Speaker 2: out as to as many as people as possible. Oh yeah, hey,

1987
01:59:18,920 --> 01:59:20,440
Speaker 2: you know what, we haven't had a chance to talk

1988
01:59:20,480 --> 01:59:22,800
Speaker 2: about much and I know we only got like a minute.

1989
01:59:22,600 --> 01:59:25,400
Speaker 3: Or two left. No, No, I'm good.

1990
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Speaker 2: There Any like anything surprise you about NFL free agency,

1991
01:59:30,840 --> 01:59:33,360
Speaker 2: including who's like still available.

1992
01:59:36,160 --> 01:59:39,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it the years for free agency, it's

1993
01:59:39,840 --> 01:59:42,800
Speaker 3: it's it's it's weird like that. So nothing really surprises me.

1994
01:59:43,160 --> 01:59:45,320
Speaker 3: I think the biggest thing was the Max Crosby thing.

1995
01:59:45,400 --> 01:59:47,960
Speaker 3: But yeah, early on that was wild. Yeah, that was

1996
01:59:48,000 --> 01:59:52,160
Speaker 3: really wild. But other than that, like it'll all I

1997
01:59:52,320 --> 01:59:56,280
Speaker 3: really pay attention after the draft because that's when you know,

1998
01:59:56,520 --> 01:59:59,760
Speaker 3: either you go really early or it's normally after the draft,

1999
02:00:00,640 --> 02:00:05,240
Speaker 3: so guys will be available, uh and until teams address

2000
02:00:05,520 --> 02:00:07,840
Speaker 3: their needs with the younger players and then they'll figure

2001
02:00:07,840 --> 02:00:11,560
Speaker 3: out what they need to bolster with free Uh you know, right,

2002
02:00:11,600 --> 02:00:16,520
Speaker 3: big time free agents. That makes sense. That makes sense.

2003
02:00:16,560 --> 02:00:18,360
Speaker 2: I mean we're just looking at you know, whether it's

2004
02:00:18,400 --> 02:00:22,640
Speaker 2: the Eagles in the AJ Brown situation. You know, I

2005
02:00:22,680 --> 02:00:25,760
Speaker 2: know he's getting older, Joey Bosa. Anyway, we could talk

2006
02:00:25,800 --> 02:00:27,840
Speaker 2: a little bit about that a little bit more next week.

2007
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Speaker 2: Great stuff tonight, Uh from Salon to Mark Willard.

2008
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Speaker 3: Have a good night on Fox Sports Radio,