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Speaker 2: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntire.

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Speaker 1: What is up Straight firefam, It's me Jason McIntire, Straight

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Speaker 1: Fire for Friday, March twenty second. We are recording this

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Speaker 1: not quite the middle of the night, but it is very,

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Speaker 1: very late, and as we are recording, Kansas and Samford

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Speaker 1: are playing a thriller that will not end. It is

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Speaker 1: late in regulation, and you know, if I just explode

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Speaker 1: during the podcast because something crazy happens, you know, we'll

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Speaker 1: just let it roll. I just figured it would be

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Speaker 1: fun to record late as I'm hopped up on excitement

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Speaker 1: and juice. Day one of the tournament, the four day

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Speaker 1: basketball Orgy was hella good, Oh my goodness. Started off

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Speaker 1: kind of slow, right. You only had one early upset,

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Speaker 1: the Duquine beating BYU. Of course I had like BYU,

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Speaker 1: But the day overall went great, and there was of

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Speaker 1: course one huge, massive storyline which you'll get too shortly.

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Speaker 1: But before I wanted to get to that quickly. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've talked about doing a Calcutta for March Madness, and

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Speaker 1: i'n't explained it. I'll be brief. So two years ago

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Speaker 1: I jumped in in Calcutta locally here in the South

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Speaker 1: a you know, pretty famous actor and we ended up

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Speaker 1: getting Kansas and they won the title. I made the

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Speaker 1: mistake of talking about the Calcutta on the on this podcast,

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Speaker 1: and a couple of people got very upset and we're like, no,

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Speaker 1: you can't do that, you know, blah blah blah, not

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Speaker 1: a good idea. I said, okay, fine, I won't talk

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Speaker 1: about it anymore. So anyways, we didn't go with that Calcutta.

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Speaker 1: Last year. We went with a different one and famously

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Speaker 1: we had Arizona as our big spend and that you know,

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Speaker 1: went belly up and did not go well. It was

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Speaker 1: it was, it was not good. And so this year,

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Speaker 1: you know, we got a little more institutional knowledge in

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Speaker 1: college hoops. We added a couple more guys to our group,

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Speaker 1: and we I don't want to say about Hogwild, but

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Speaker 1: we you know, we had what we thought was a

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Speaker 1: great Calcutta. Now it's off to a pretty damn good start.

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Speaker 1: I'll just tell you the big teams that we got.

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Speaker 1: We got Houston, and we're very happy with that. I

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Speaker 1: think Houston's got an incredible draw. I think Houston's in

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Speaker 1: you know, a little steep, and I don't I don't

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Speaker 1: I'm very happy with. We got Iowa State, who looked

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Speaker 1: Iowa State as a two seed. We got Nebraska early

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Speaker 1: on just a value play. Basically, you get your money

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Speaker 1: back if they beat A and M. And I think

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Speaker 1: then it gets interesting. We got Marquette. They were I

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Speaker 1: guess maybe because of the colic injury. They were the

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Speaker 1: cheapest two seed by a lung sh They were under

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Speaker 1: five figures, whereas all the others went for not quite double,

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Speaker 1: but significantly more than Marquette. So awesome value by a Marquette.

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Speaker 1: Now they got to win two games for us to

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Speaker 1: of the first round, no problem. Last year they stubbed

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Speaker 1: their toe Shatka smart I talked about it earlier this week.

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Speaker 1: And then our final team is the West thirteen through sixteen.

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Speaker 1: They kind of group those together and essentially you just

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Speaker 1: and you're in great shape. Now, we were very very

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Speaker 1: briefly looking extremely good in that West thirteen sixty. Nobody's

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Speaker 1: then that's not good for your boy at any rate.

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Speaker 1: One team we did not have in the Calcutta though

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Speaker 1: This week, Ta came on and said, steer clear of Kentucky.

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Speaker 1: He was very clear about it. They don't play defense.

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Speaker 1: The metrics that show up for Kentucky are very, very bad.

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Speaker 1: This is a team that historically teams that play no

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Speaker 1: what happened on the opening end of the tournament Oakland,

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Speaker 1: and he's a graduate student. But his name is Jack Goldki,

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Speaker 1: Jack Golkie, who nobody had heard of before this week,

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Speaker 1: the stats just mind blowing. Jack Golkie attempted eight two

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Speaker 1: And Kentucky knew that coming in and you could see them.

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Speaker 1: I would not be surprised if they bought out the

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Speaker 1: Calipari is built for the wrong era. He's just not

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Speaker 1: doing it right. There's a reason Kentucky has struggled mightily

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Speaker 1: they're built wrong. They're three of the four best players

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Speaker 1: these are devastating losses for Calipari. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: you know, Lexington. Kentucky fans think of Calipari at this point.

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously you bringing in recruits. Drake is a

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Speaker 1: fan Midnight Maddens. They're winning a lot of games, but Ultimately,

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Speaker 1: and they ponied up seventy five mil. Calipari has not

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Speaker 1: four since twenty fifteen, almost a decade. He's getting the

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Speaker 1: best recruits every year. That team, by the way, was

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Speaker 1: the ultimate stacked Kentucky team, which was undefeated with Karl

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Speaker 1: Anthony Towns. I think, yeah, they had Julius Randall, they

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Speaker 1: had Devin Booker, Trey Lyles, they probably like five or

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Speaker 1: six NBA guys on the team, undefeated and they lose

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Speaker 1: to oh oh, Frank Kaminski and Sam Decker of Wisconsin veterans.

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Speaker 1: That's what college basketball is now. Even Deon Sanders. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you guys saw this quote, Deion Sanders

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Speaker 1: has taking the meat because he's like, I don't do

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Speaker 1: I don't do at home visits. I'm not doing that anymore.

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Speaker 1: Saving our travel budget tw hundred thousand dollars. Why because

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Speaker 1: I'm shopping in the portal. That's where we're building our team.

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Speaker 1: And again, it is no different than college hoops, college football.

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Speaker 1: What would you rather have a three or four year

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Speaker 1: guy who's twenty two, twenty three, twenty four years old

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Speaker 1: not saying, you know, Kentucky shouldn't go after those guys,

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Speaker 1: but at some point they're gonna have to be like, hey,

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Speaker 1: and build that way. That's how you do it now.

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Speaker 1: And I feel bad for Calipario. I know people are like,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a tough one. I'm not trying to run

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Speaker 1: I didn't actually think there were many other Let's see

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Speaker 3: I did that first. I remember I got off of

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Speaker 3: That block should have been remembered in March Madness history

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Speaker 1: Well, I think Kansas could be in trouble against Kazagga

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Speaker 1: Nobody really cares. I had bet Drake last year against Miami.

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Speaker 1: it lose to Washington State. Now, Rob watches a lot

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Speaker 1: because it's just the numbers didn't say a great move.

425
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,720
Speaker 1: I think New Mexico's a little overvalued, and I think

426
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,239
Speaker 1: that conference stinks. We shall see what happens. I have

427
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 1: bet Clemson individually, not not significantly, because you know, and listen,

428
00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 1: smart people like New Mexico a lot. The numbers say

429
00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:33,320
Speaker 1: New Mexico. I'm gonna go Clemson here. Anything you see

430
00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,520
Speaker 1: on the board ROB that jumps out, well.

431
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 3: First off you mentioned was named r J Burns or

432
00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:42,080
Speaker 3: DJ burd excuse me from Menci State, the Dancing Bear.

433
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,399
Speaker 3: If anybody's ever watched an one mixtape, remember Escalade, It

434
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 3: looked like that, you know, a big, large look like

435
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 3: you'd be playing left tackle, but he's lying on his feet,

436
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:52,639
Speaker 3: so he plays basketball. Did you see in the post

437
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 3: game the CBS reporter got him an ice cream Sunday

438
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,239
Speaker 3: and was giving it to him during the interview. I mean,

439
00:23:58,280 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 3: I thought that was a little bit extra.

440
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:01,159
Speaker 1: That's a little disrespect.

441
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:03,480
Speaker 3: It was funny, but it was a little bit extra. No,

442
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,040
Speaker 3: the one game that really sends out to me, and

443
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:06,440
Speaker 3: it is probably because it was the one that I

444
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,159
Speaker 3: saw a lot of Creighton on Thursday, Like that was

445
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 3: one of the games where I was not super tight

446
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 3: up prepping for this show in the radio show, so

447
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 3: I was able to just watch the crazy they couldn't miss.

448
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,199
Speaker 3: And yeah, in the second half they really turned on.

449
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 3: But early on I thought that they looked slow, They

450
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 3: looked unathletic. They looked they can shoot the lights out,

451
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,160
Speaker 3: that's for sure. You mentioned them like they can bombs away.

452
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:32,080
Speaker 3: But Oregon like they're peaking at the right time. They

453
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 3: have by far the better athletes, And you mentioned to

454
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,959
Speaker 3: Dana Altman is one of these coaches, like you know,

455
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 3: Tom Mizo built for March. So I saw early lines.

456
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 3: I'm looking at several spots here, but I see a

457
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 3: couple of them have Creighton minus five and a half.

458
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,560
Speaker 3: I love Oregon not only with the points, but outright

459
00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:49,399
Speaker 3: in that game for sure.

460
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:54,359
Speaker 1: Ken Palm has it. Creighton's seventy seven seventy one. Wow. See,

461
00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: that's the problem with some of these metrics is the

462
00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 1: season long numbers. Love Creighton, love them. Was a great

463
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 1: off season. But there is the peaking at the right time.

464
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 1: You know. I don't know how much stock you can

465
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,120
Speaker 1: put in that, but yeah, I think I think that's

466
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 1: gotta be and they're gonna go ahead and fire on

467
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,159
Speaker 1: that right now as we we talk about it. Let

468
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 1: let let me see if we what other lines we have.

469
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,159
Speaker 1: Holy shit, North Carolina is only a four point favorite

470
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:24,119
Speaker 1: against Sparty, a number one versus nine. They're only wow.

471
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,920
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, that's the Izo effect, you gotta think, right,

472
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,440
Speaker 3: that's just yeah. They gotta set the line in such

473
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 3: a way because people are gonna blindly bet Hiszo the

474
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:32,120
Speaker 3: blind faith.

475
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. NC State is five and a half against Oakland

476
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: Alt fire on NC State. Iowa State seven and a

477
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 1: half against Washington State. Arizona, by the way, looked shaky

478
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 1: for a half and then they pulled away. Hmm. Interesting,

479
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:48,960
Speaker 1: So the Saturday game should be good. Yeah, they lead

480
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 1: off batting leadoff will be Sparty and North Carolina. Listen, man,

481
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 1: that could be an upset, would not Michigan State Like

482
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 1: looked very good. I know it's against a shit team

483
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 1: in Mississippi State, but still America.

484
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:01,959
Speaker 3: I know Jason's not super relatable when he's making these

485
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 3: best you just know that he does have to go

486
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 3: through an interpreter to make him down though.

487
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: So, oh.

488
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,359
Speaker 3: No, we don't need to talk about Otani, do you know?

489
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,159
Speaker 1: If you want to real quick, it's up to you.

490
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 3: Man. It's just it's a very fishy story.

491
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:15,679
Speaker 1: Well why is it fishy?

492
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 3: Because the story keeps changing?

493
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: Okay, so what do you mean.

494
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:22,879
Speaker 3: Like that's that's a little bit suspicious.

495
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 1: I mean, but who's changing? Destroyer the interpreter. You know,

496
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 1: at this point, everybody's got to protect their neck. So

497
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: tell me if I've got it wrong. Feds bust some

498
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,360
Speaker 1: guy in Orange County for some gambling operation. Right as

499
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: we're going through the books, they find a four point

500
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:42,399
Speaker 1: five million dollar payment from Otani to this bookmaker and

501
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, what the hell? So I guess oh,

502
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: that's when they went to Otani and Otani said, yeah,

503
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 1: my guy had a gambling problem, so I paid off

504
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,160
Speaker 1: his debt. It's it wasn't me. So then I guess

505
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 1: the media got wind of it. You know, the FEDS

506
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 1: want to they got a big name, a dodger, Hey, gambling,

507
00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,160
Speaker 1: let's leak it to the press. So the ESPN does

508
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: an interview with the interpreter, who I guess denied it.

509
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 1: Is that what happened?

510
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 3: Rob so sort of? So what happened is you mentioned

511
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:14,640
Speaker 3: it that the investigation shows the book maker transaction. So

512
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 3: Otani's people send his interpreter to ESPN issue some kind

513
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 3: of statement, and the interpreter says, Otani never bet. I'm

514
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 3: the one who's betting. Otani's a good dude. He felt

515
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 3: bad for me. He knows I'm in a jam. He

516
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 3: paid off my debts and I promise I never do

517
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 3: it again.

518
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: And by the way, that debt was four point five million.

519
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 3: Right, And according to ESPN, the documented two transfers totally

520
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 3: a million dollars both had in the description loan, which

521
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:44,920
Speaker 3: is kind of funny. So then Otani's people are like, nah,

522
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 3: you know what, the interpreter's lying like that, that's not

523
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,400
Speaker 3: what happened. And then Otani's lawyers come in and say, no, no, no,

524
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 3: Not only is the guy lying, but the money that

525
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 3: was transferred was due to a massive theft on the

526
00:27:56,359 --> 00:28:00,880
Speaker 3: part of the interpreter. And now the interpreter is like, well,

527
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 3: you know, Otani had no knowledge of all of this

528
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 3: and any of my gambling at all whatsoever, so to

529
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 3: me and then this is just my speculation. I don't

530
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 3: have proof of this. But the way this is breaking down,

531
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,640
Speaker 3: it comes down to one of two things. Door number one.

532
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 3: Otani was the guy who was throwing down big money,

533
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 3: and because he can't necessarily go see a book maker,

534
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 3: he has his interpreter take care of it. And he's

535
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 3: the guy. He's the mule in between because he's throwing

536
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 3: down such a big paper. That's number one. Number two,

537
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 3: and this is the one I think is most likely.

538
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 3: Otani's interpreter has a gambling issue. He gets in too deep.

539
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 3: Otani's got a ton of money, he's a good friend

540
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 3: of his. Hey, i'll cover for you. I'll get you

541
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 3: out of this jam. You know, we'll figure it out later.

542
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 3: Which doesn't seem like a big deal except for the

543
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 3: fact that this is a federal investigation going on. So

544
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 3: as soon as his attorneys here that you unknowingly, you know,

545
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,479
Speaker 3: got yourself involved in this situation, we got to say no, no, no, no,

546
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,120
Speaker 3: you didn't not pay that this money was stolen from you.

547
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 3: We cannot be having you be known as the guy

548
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 3: who gave money to an illegal gambling operation. That's what

549
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 3: I think happened. Again, total speculation here.

550
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: I did ask a couple of gamblers I know about

551
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 1: something about this, and their first question was, why on

552
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: earth would any book maker stake multiple millions of dollars

553
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 1: to an interpreter, Like, what kind of money does that

554
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: guy make? He's not making five million dollars a year

555
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: interpreting for Otani at least, I don't think. What's he making?

556
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 1: Maybe five hundred thousand dollars. You're not Apparently, no book

557
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: is gonna be like, yeah, you can owe us three

558
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 1: million dollars to a guy who is an interpreter. Now,

559
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 1: if the person is a whale, say show, hey, Otani,

560
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: who's got millions of dollars? Sure you want to go? Yeah, well,

561
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: let you free roll whatever you want. Otani. We know

562
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: you have the money. And that's when it's like Okay,

563
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: that's interesting. But at the same time, Brob, I know

564
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: it will show Hey and friends. They've been friendly for

565
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 1: a few years now, I guess several years. I just

566
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: I can't fathom a good buddy coming to me and saying, Hey, Jay,

567
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 1: I'm in deep, can you help me out with four

568
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 1: and a half million dollars? Like, yeah, five ten thousand.

569
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 1: I would understand. I can understand the ask. I'm probably

570
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 1: not gonna come through for you, But I can't understand

571
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: the ask, right. I can't wrap my head around and

572
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: interpreter saying four and a half million dollars could you

573
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 1: help me out? That to something doesn't add up there,

574
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: you know, so like you said, something effiicial. I don't

575
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: want to speculate, because you know there's nobody wins them

576
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: when you speculate. You know, who the hell knows what's

577
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 1: gonna happen. We probably will never find out.

578
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 3: No, you never will.

579
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: We're never gonna this guy will take the fall. I

580
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 1: don't know. Do you think he can go to jail

581
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 1: for this?

582
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 3: I don't know, because the way that the story read

583
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 3: is like they're only investigating the illegal uh book maker,

584
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 3: that that's the guy who's in trouble, and the rest

585
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 3: of this is kind of just part of the investigation.

586
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 3: I could be wrong, but that's the way it reads

587
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 3: in all the use reports.

588
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: You're not busted for betting, you're busted for taking bets, right.

589
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 3: Because this guy, this is like a multi multi million

590
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 3: dollar operation.

591
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: So and he probably wasn't paying taxes, right, and.

592
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 3: So with with the with the gamblers, it's more like, hey,

593
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 3: we're gonna let you off if you turn on this

594
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 3: guy and explain all the details over your goings on.

595
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, not great for Otani, not great for the Dodgers. Now,

596
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: I don't know. I hope this isn't like oh Otani

597
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 1: was betting on If he's betting on the NFL with

598
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: the baseball.

599
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 3: Care they shouldn't know the only rules you can't bet

600
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 3: on baseball. And again, if this hypothetically, if this was Otani,

601
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 3: if he was making these bets like in Nevada or Ohio,

602
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 3: no problem, no problem. But because it's California, it's an issue.

603
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: Stupid anyways, all right, everybody, have a great weekend, enjoy

604
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: the madness. I will try to coach my daughter to

605
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 1: back to back championships in her youth league and my son.

606
00:31:57,960 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: Although the son we're gonna be underdogs if we make

607
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 1: the finals. Wh I think we'll make the fin I

608
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: don't know. It's a tough matchup in the semifinals. The

609
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: finals will be tough against a team that is just loaded.

610
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: I don't know how as the commissioner, I let this happen.

611
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 1: They had a guy who was hurt coming into the season,

612
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: and the dad was saying, well, he might be ready

613
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: for the playoffs. Meanwhile, he's like playing midway through the

614
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,239
Speaker 1: season and he's like a club player. He's good. So

615
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: they have they're stacked. If we pull it off, it'll

616
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: be the best coaching job I've ever done in my life.

617
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: I've got some ideas. You know, we get a two

618
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 1: nothing lead and we just hold the ball. It's just kidding. Anyways,

619
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 1: a lot of sports this weekend. It'll be fun and

620
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you Monday.