1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio. 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, welcome in another beautiful Fox Sports Sunday. I'll 3 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 2: change it out on my rundown Mike Harman alongside Jared Smith. 4 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 2: Welcome in to another exciting edition of the show as 5 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 2: we get ready for a big day in the sporting universe. 6 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 2: Tip offs, getting ready in college buckets. We've got some 7 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 2: English Premier League action for those that want to go 8 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 2: across the pond. Liverpool with a lead over manned City. 9 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 2: The struggles continue for them. We're broadcasting live from the 10 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 2: tyrack dot com studios tyrac dot com. We'll help you 11 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 2: get there on match selection, fast free shipping, free road 12 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 2: hazard protection, over ten thousand recommended installers, tyraq dot com, 13 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,879 Speaker 2: the way tire buying should be. And welcome him in 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 2: it It's Jared Smith. You hear him as part of 15 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 2: Countdown on Saturdays. Please to have him in as part 16 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 2: of our crew here on the Sunday traversing the wide 17 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 2: world of sports. What's going on, buddy? 18 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 3: Oh Mike, it has been an awesome week and I'll 19 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:06,760 Speaker 3: be honest, this is the time of year, right to 20 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 3: the end of February, right into March. Like that football transition. 21 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:13,839 Speaker 3: I've been pretty much basketball mode the last two weeks. 22 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:14,479 Speaker 1: It's been fun. 23 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 2: It's that fun time of year, right as we get 24 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 2: to spring training. We had Four Nations Cup that went down. 25 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 2: We'll get into that a little bit next hour. Obviously, 26 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 2: the NBA All Star Game. In theory, we're out of 27 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 2: the hate watching and shaking fists on something. We're not 28 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 2: gonna watch it, and then oh it was terrible. It's like, well, 29 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 2: you said you weren't going to watch it, so does 30 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 2: that mean you watched it? Or you're just taking what 31 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 2: other people said. Either way, you're a liar one way 32 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 2: or the other. At Jared Smith Betts Is where you 33 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 2: follow him. You follow me over at Swollen Dome, tons 34 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 2: of pithy commentary for me. Jared gives you valuable, useful information. 35 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 2: The smartest guy, well, but to get you to the 36 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 2: winners circle with the astute analysis, deep dives into angles 37 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 2: and just looking at the betting market as a whole, 38 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 2: so betting insights there and of course our teammate here 39 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio hearing with Brian and Rich on Saturdays. 40 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 2: Please to have you in so much going on, As 41 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 2: you said, Jared, I mean that sweet spot we've got 42 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 2: college buckets women's side, North Carolina State and Notre Dame 43 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 2: fifteen to zero in conference. Hannah Hidalgo one of those 44 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 2: breakout stars. You know, who's next in the post Caitlin 45 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 2: Clark era for college buckets. So exciting times all around. 46 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 2: We'll get into college basketball in earnest in a few 47 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 2: because the men's side of things, we're starting to see 48 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 2: a little bit of separation, but we're also paying a 49 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 2: little more attention. As you said, Mike, once we get 50 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 2: past the NFL Super Bowl hangover, it's the all right, 51 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 2: what's next, what's gonna get our eyeballs, what's going to 52 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,920 Speaker 2: pop through? And where are we finding heroes? And for 53 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,079 Speaker 2: college buckets, at least you got a couple of those 54 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 2: old salty dogs still given us some noise and opportunity. 55 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 2: But I'd be remiss if we didn't start out with 56 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,959 Speaker 2: the big story that really swept last night, because it's 57 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 2: a roller coaster will ride for the final twenty three 58 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 2: games of the regular season, whatever the postseason becomes, and 59 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 2: that is everything. Los Angeles Lakers. Look, they're setting up 60 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 2: Hollywood because the Oscars are a week from now, so 61 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 2: you know, all the glitz, all the glamour, and that's 62 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 2: what you have for every Laker game. Now, everybody out 63 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 2: with the microscopes, for every possession of Luka Dancis. I 64 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 2: saw him WinCE there. He looked like he was breathing 65 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 2: a little heavy at the ten. You know, forty five 66 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 2: part whatever the case made that a shape, right, I mean, 67 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 2: that's what we're trying to do time and again. One 68 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 2: twenty three, one hundred, the win over a surging Denver 69 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 2: team that we've been kind of eyeballing and watching them 70 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 2: come back together. Nicoley Jokic now second very firmly in 71 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 2: the MVP race at Shay Gilgess Alexander as your favorite. 72 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 2: Then you've got Luca and then every everybody else is 73 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 2: a one hundred to one to one or worse. So 74 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 2: you've got that separation. But the Lakers, after dropping games 75 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 2: to the Jazz and the will be gone Charlotte Hornets, 76 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 2: come out with a massive effort and immediate is like, 77 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 2: all right, put the win back in the sales, get 78 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 2: those car flags out, everything's right with the world. I'm like, 79 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 2: I don't know. Game to game, you could be motivated 80 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 2: for one day, less motivated for another I mean, that's 81 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 2: the ebb and flow of an eighty two game season. 82 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 2: So I try not to get hype, but I mean, 83 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 2: on radio, what are we supposed to do? It's either 84 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 2: greater or the sky is falling. Jared, I feel like 85 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 2: I'm letting America down by not having a hot take that, oh, 86 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 2: they're gonna take over the world. 87 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 3: Well, that's the beauty with the NBA season is you 88 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 3: can kind of not pay attention to it for three 89 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 3: or four months, and then you can come back to it, 90 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 3: you know, after the super Bowl and it's like, oh, 91 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 3: they're still They're still playing. 92 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: That's right. 93 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 3: They started playing like right around Halloween, right, and we 94 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:57,720 Speaker 3: were still very obviously focused on on the NFL. The 95 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 3: Lakers are. I think you're gonna see them can continue 96 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 3: to improve. I mean, I obviously when a when a 97 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 3: player like Luka Danca comes in and kind of disrupts 98 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 3: what the flow of what Lebron was trying to run. 99 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: And let's be honest, Lebron's running the show. 100 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:13,480 Speaker 3: And and I think that one of the funniest things 101 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 3: I heard was when he's like, oh, yeah, we I 102 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:17,599 Speaker 3: was at dinner when we found out about the Luca trade. 103 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 3: Like I didn't even know, Like, come on, really. 104 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 2: But that's the Nay doubled down. I mean, is Rich 105 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:26,600 Speaker 2: Paul and everybody else a guy had no idea. Come 106 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 2: on me completely by surprise, Jared, come on. 107 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,839 Speaker 3: Yeah, there is no there is no way that that 108 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 3: man did not know that they were in the midst 109 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 3: of of generating or you know, acquiring a generational talent. 110 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 3: But the reason why the Denver game was interesting last night, Mike, 111 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 3: is because now we get the Dallas game on Tuesday, 112 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 3: so it was kind of the last chance for them 113 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:49,799 Speaker 3: to kind of show you, hey, this is our peak, 114 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 3: this is our ceiling, and then we get this crazy 115 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 3: revenge matchup which is going to be absolutely dripping with 116 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:01,599 Speaker 3: drama on Tuesday night at you know, the artist formally 117 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 3: known as the Staples Center. 118 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,720 Speaker 1: So I think you're gonna see. 119 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:08,160 Speaker 3: Them again continue to improve as Luca continues to kind 120 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,840 Speaker 3: of round into form pun or no pun intended, and 121 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 3: we'll see what this dynamic looks like. 122 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 1: Because at its peak, like you would think. 123 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 3: And if you go back to the playoffs last year, 124 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 3: you would think this Lakers team could compete in that 125 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 3: seven game series against the Thunder in that seven game series, 126 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,279 Speaker 3: you know, against the Dolls, the artist formally known as 127 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 3: Dallas like those top tier Western Conference teams. Denver in 128 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:38,119 Speaker 3: the mix as well. But we'll just have to see. 129 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 3: And I think that's what this next month or two. 130 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 3: You know, they're gonna face the Knicks, they're gonna face 131 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 3: the Celtics, they're gonna face Denver twice later in March, 132 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 3: so we're gonna get plenty of opportunities to see what 133 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 3: this ceiling could be. 134 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly in that middle of March, Lebron posted about it, 135 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,119 Speaker 2: so it got to fuel the old heads and anything 136 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 2: that it just wants to poke at Lebron going Michael 137 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 2: Jordan would never because they've got a six game stretch 138 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 2: that is the Gauntlet, and we we talked about it. 139 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 2: Smith and I, uh, my normal partner, Jason, the other 140 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 2: J Smith Smith that I work with. Man, you were 141 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 2: with too many j Smith Man. It's I guess it's 142 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 2: easy for you to keep the names in track. 143 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 3: Though. 144 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 2: Well here's the thing. He he at least got the 145 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,400 Speaker 2: shout out and the derision from JJ Redick after a 146 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 2: Q and a. 147 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, I heard that. That was pretty good. 148 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 2: I mean, there's no denying. Uh, we got under his 149 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 2: skin thanks to our blowtorch am five seventy l A 150 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 2: Sports for carrying the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon 151 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 2: in the evenings. Uh so, no doubt coach heard some 152 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 2: things he didn't like. Now, were they necessarily any different 153 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 2: than a lot of the other criticisms Uh in the 154 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 2: sporting world. No, but we we hit it hard. And look, 155 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 2: you have two stage two big stations in l A. 156 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 2: One is the sycophanic one because they carry him, and 157 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 2: then you got us waving at you over here. So uh, 158 00:07:57,760 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 2: that's what you're gonna get. So if you you wanted 159 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 2: to know how really stand, Look, I don't have a 160 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 2: dog in the fight. I live in Los Angeles. Happy 161 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 2: people makes for better roadways than everything else. Right, people 162 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 2: carry stuff up onto their highways and the two hour commutes. 163 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 2: But fifty seven, sixteen and nineteen, those are the numbers 164 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 2: that Lebron and Luca put up yesterday. Decided market a 165 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,679 Speaker 2: difference than we'd seen in their first couple iterations together, 166 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 2: and certainly for Luca, the big thing is trying to 167 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 2: figure out where you fit, right. Plenty of ISO shots 168 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 2: of him in the Charlotte game of just kind of 169 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 2: standing around trying to figure out because if he's off 170 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 2: the ball, like, he's never done that, right, so it's 171 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 2: a learning curve and trying to figure out how that goes. 172 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:48,839 Speaker 2: He was also shooting terribly so towards the end of 173 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 2: the game when we need a big shot, I don't 174 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 2: know that your A, your confidence is going to be there, 175 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 2: your top five guy, it should be, you know, keep firing. 176 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 2: But in this case, when you've got a guy like 177 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 2: Lebron James who in that fourth quarter had heated up, 178 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 2: that he's going to take the shots. So, you know, 179 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 2: little micro cosms, but in the moment, you know, you're 180 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 2: trying to take these data points and figure it out. 181 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 2: You bring up the revenge game with Dallas. It's unfortunate 182 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:17,559 Speaker 2: that you know, Anthony Davis isn't part of it. Also 183 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 2: that Daniel Gafford's unavailable, right, because the big talking point 184 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 2: with Dallas, beyond Kyrie taking that team back over, was 185 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 2: you talk about their front line being something you have 186 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 2: to match up with. And after the Mark Williams trade failed, 187 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 2: which is still going to be contested no matter what, 188 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:38,439 Speaker 2: Adam Silver tried to dismiss at the All Star game. 189 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:40,560 Speaker 2: They're not going to let that go. We've talked to 190 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 2: one hundred independent doctors and they've all said the same thing. 191 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 2: But it's just to the point of, you know, matchups 192 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 2: come playoff time, how do you really go against if 193 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 2: Luca and Lebron are healthy, you know, in a game 194 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 2: to game scenario where you're not playing back to backs, 195 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 2: you know, I'll them a puncher's chance against anybody. 196 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's the key in a best of seven, 197 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:08,600 Speaker 3: when it's a longer series, or in reality, when it's 198 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 3: you know, three you have to win three best of 199 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 3: sevens to get to the NBA Finals. That's where i'm 200 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 3: can they hold up over the long haul? Because the 201 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:21,439 Speaker 3: thing that we forget, and because the regular season is 202 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:24,839 Speaker 3: so long, the postseason is also very long. 203 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 1: It can really. 204 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 3: So I think that's what we forget when we're trying 205 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 3: to handicap. You know, all right, can the Lakers advance 206 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:35,560 Speaker 3: to the NBA Finals, Well, they have to get past 207 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 3: the first round, and then they have to be healthy 208 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 3: enough to get past the second round and then oh, 209 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 3: by the way, the Western Conference finals ain't no picnic either. 210 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:42,839 Speaker 1: But on the. 211 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 3: Flip side of that, let's say you close your eyes 212 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 3: in a vacuum and it's a one game roll of 213 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,320 Speaker 3: the dice. Well, I'd rather have Lebron and Luca in 214 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 3: that scenario. So it can the Lakers get it to 215 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 3: the point where, you know, shorten the amount of actual 216 00:10:57,160 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 3: games you have to play, shorten the runway in order 217 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 3: to get to an NBA Finals. I think that is 218 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 3: that that's the upside, Like, that's where I think you 219 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 3: look at this trade and maybe you know the bulk 220 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 3: of it is, Hey, in ten years, we could have 221 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 3: Luka Doncik as a as a generational talent. But right now, 222 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 3: what does it mean? Well, you need guys like Tachi 223 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 3: Moore to step up. You need guys like Dori and 224 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:20,239 Speaker 3: Finney Smith, who was a plus twenty one last night fantastic. 225 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 3: You know he didn't score a lot of points, but 226 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:24,439 Speaker 3: you know his role off the bench is going to 227 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 3: be huge because you gotta do it with more than 228 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 3: just two guys if you want to get through that 229 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:31,439 Speaker 3: second season, because it's a a lot of games you've 230 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 3: got to win to get to the NBA Finals. So 231 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,680 Speaker 3: I think those players have to step up as well. 232 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 3: It's across the board. But if you're you know, you 233 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 3: close your eyes, Game seven, Western Conference Finals, I get 234 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,559 Speaker 3: Luca and Lebron and you get whoever shake Gil, just 235 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,319 Speaker 3: Alexander and chet Holgrim. Yeah, I think we know who 236 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 3: we're taking in that scenario. 237 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 1: Mike. 238 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the same concern I have going out of 239 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 2: the East with the Knicks. I just don't know about depth, 240 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 2: Like that's the fear, right, And obviously we've got a 241 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,320 Speaker 2: long way to go. And we've seen Rhodes open up 242 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 2: in the playoffs the number of injuries and right, and 243 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:04,280 Speaker 2: every year it seemed like all right, no, well they 244 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 2: had an easier path because of X y Z. And 245 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:09,839 Speaker 2: we have those tales going back a year to year 246 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 2: for the Lakers, you know, it's all about their health 247 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 2: and Lebron James holding up and if any of the 248 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 2: stuff out of Dallas, you know, the scorned lover that 249 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 2: continues to leak stuff, It's like, you know what, his 250 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:24,960 Speaker 2: risk wasn't even hurt man, he was just out of 251 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 2: shape to start the season. I'm like, all right, so 252 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 2: how big is the fine gonna be for lying on 253 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 2: the injury report? Because those are two very different things. 254 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 3: But you know, sadly, I think the injury report stuff 255 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 3: in college is even worse. 256 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 1: It's crazy what they do with the injury reports these days. 257 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:41,960 Speaker 2: No, that's a whole other game, because we'll get into 258 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 2: the college game because I have questions, because there's also 259 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 2: a big well betting scandal that is now founded way 260 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 2: to the college world that I'm sure you were wrapping 261 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:54,959 Speaker 2: sinking your teeth into. I watched Nose Faratu, so I'm 262 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 2: gonna make a bunch of I gotta get something out 263 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 2: of that two and a half hours because I ain't 264 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 2: getting by two and a half hours of my life back, 265 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 2: so I at least have to make a joke there. 266 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 2: But we do have a clip of Lebron talking in 267 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 2: the post about Luca gaining this camaraderie and companionship. 268 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 4: I'm a natural born wide receiver and he's a natural 269 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 4: born quarterback, so it fits perfectly. I've been running a 270 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 4: floor and run a lanes like you know, pretty much 271 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 4: my whole life, and he's been throwing great passes pretty 272 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 4: much his whole lifestyle. 273 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 5: Dot Com. 274 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: It's not it's not. 275 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:25,680 Speaker 4: Hard to get a rhythm when it comes to that. 276 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 4: You know, it's just all about you know, eye contact 277 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 4: and you know him being a great quarterback like he is, 278 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 4: and meet being a recipient of itself. 279 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:36,559 Speaker 2: I would say that that has been some of the 280 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 2: best best moments coming out of these games. And you 281 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 2: could probably take all sorts of eighties love songs as 282 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 2: the accompanying tracks to them, but you can make so 283 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 2: many gifts off of the two of them and lobbing, 284 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 2: whether it's to each other or to Jackson Hayes, who's 285 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 2: been the recipient of a few thus far. But like 286 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 2: that little smile, like yeah, I gotcha, Like Luca had 287 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 2: one to Lebron that hit the web by think eight 288 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 2: seconds after it actually was completed. Look at this, Look 289 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 2: at this so wonderful. So you know what, the best 290 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 2: of things because you know what, I'm trying to be 291 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:12,080 Speaker 2: Joe positivity because for the NBA, Jared, we've had the 292 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 2: life cycle. People didn't pay attention or they did in 293 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 2: microcosm as the NFL season wound to its end, right, 294 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 2: you still have your fans city to city, but nationally 295 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 2: it just popped up on the radar here and there. 296 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 2: But you have that, and then we had all of 297 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 2: the complaining about how bad the product was leading into 298 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 2: the All Star Week ahead of the All Star week, 299 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 2: we had the trade deadline. So for one week of 300 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 2: the year, during the trade deadline, not talking about games, 301 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 2: just theoretically what could happen. The NBA won like it 302 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 2: was the happiest time for everybody, all the big trades. Sure, 303 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 2: the Williams thing fell apart, but Jimmy Butler's getting traded 304 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 2: and wins the face off with pat Riley. You got 305 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 2: the Luca deal that starts it all off. Tiharren Fox 306 00:14:57,840 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 2: goes to San Antonio, like all of these things for 307 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 2: a we love the NBA, and then immediately it's like, ah, 308 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 2: the All Star Game stinks. Nobody participates in any of 309 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 2: these and were right back into it. So I'm trying 310 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 2: to find those those little slivers of positivity here on 311 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 2: a Sunday morning, thinking good thoughts as people are going 312 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:18,239 Speaker 2: to and from services, out and about with their families 313 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 2: and having their days out together on a day off. Positivity, Jared, 314 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 2: that's what we're all about here on a Sunday morning. 315 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: I love positivity. 316 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 3: No, I mean there is something like it is sad 317 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 3: that the trade deadline and the trades is the most 318 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 3: exciting part of the NBA regular season. I think that's 319 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 3: an issue we should think about working on. But there 320 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 3: is a lot of positives about the NBA. I just 321 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 3: think this last week, and in reality, it was like 322 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 3: the juxtaposition of having the NBA All Star Game back 323 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 3: to back with the Four Nations face off that made 324 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 3: it look way worse, Like if it was just the 325 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 3: NBA All Star Game and no Four Nations face off 326 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 3: the day after where the rock them sock them robots, 327 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 3: you know, in the USA Canada game, and then you 328 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 3: know the rematch a few. 329 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: Days later, Like it was just the you know, we 330 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 1: have such a recency. 331 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 3: Bias in our in our society that like having those 332 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 3: events on back to back days or really on the 333 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 3: same day was not a good look for the NBA. 334 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 3: But things will calm down and we'll start to get 335 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 3: into that playoff mode where the games matter more. And yeah, 336 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 3: it's just you got to get through those tough months. 337 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 3: This is why I don't pay attention to the NBA 338 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 3: until you know, met round mid February, because I just 339 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 3: know it's you know, it's it's kind of like it's 340 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 3: kind of like one of the playoff games, like if 341 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 3: you just turn it on with five minutes leup. 342 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: You're gonna get what you need to get from the game. 343 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 2: That's it. You take it as it is. I mean, 344 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 2: we talk about second seasons and silly seasons in terms 345 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 2: of all the yapping, but certainly for the NBA you 346 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 2: assess it post All Star Game, because it's not the midpoint. 347 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 2: You got twenty five, twenty six games for most of 348 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 2: these teams. Who's healthy, who's ready to go, and who 349 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 2: goes into operations? Shut down? How many ping pong balls 350 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 2: can I get? All conversations that we continue to have 351 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 2: here at Jared Smith Betts is where you find him 352 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 2: in the twitterverse. You find me over at Swollen Dome. 353 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:08,359 Speaker 2: As we continue, we'll get into that four Nations event 354 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:11,359 Speaker 2: because we talk about you know, carryover and what you 355 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 2: can pull forward, and also an I on college basketball, 356 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 2: some fantastic audio that we're efforting from yesterday, but also 357 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 2: just the idea that we got some marquee matchups and 358 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 2: great stretch runs in these conferences. All of that and more. 359 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:28,920 Speaker 2: He's Jared on Mike. This is Fox Sports Sunday. 360 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 6: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 361 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 6: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports radio 362 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 6: dot com. 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We talked about it 395 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 2: a bunch on our show, Jason and I during the 396 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 2: week and just trying to figure out how big that 397 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 2: springboard can be. You know, you had a Eruzione there 398 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 2: about the only figure you could bring into anything when 399 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,400 Speaker 2: when you get the Nations involved. That's gonna trump Wayne 400 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:34,439 Speaker 2: Gretzky showing up, although I do need to procure one 401 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 2: of those b great hats that he gave out to 402 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 2: Team Canada. It's a line I've been using forever, like 403 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 2: as a tagline at the end of conversations or whatever. 404 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 2: It's like, all right, be great, you know, not have 405 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:49,640 Speaker 2: a good night. Go no, be great. So he owes 406 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,160 Speaker 2: me money. I'm gonna go pat Riley on him seven 407 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 2: seven bucks a unit. But all of that to say, 408 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:58,880 Speaker 2: Shay went to the Kings game yesterday. Yeah right, so 409 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 2: he he has the experience of going to the game 410 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:05,400 Speaker 2: having a bunch of bets. So like we bridge all 411 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:09,320 Speaker 2: our worlds here. Jared and And talked about the energy 412 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,200 Speaker 2: as he came in this morning, because it seemed like 413 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 2: it left him either that or was the hot dogs 414 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 2: he bought from the dubious guy on the car in 415 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 2: the post game. But Sham and You talked about, you 416 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 2: know what, You've been to a bunch of games and 417 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:23,160 Speaker 2: this one felt a little different. 418 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 1: Yeah. 419 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 7: So, I mean this was like my third game of 420 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:27,199 Speaker 7: the season so far. And I don't know if it 421 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 7: was because it was Armenian Heritage Night or if. 422 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 2: It was community. 423 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:34,399 Speaker 1: Means love their hockey. 424 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,440 Speaker 5: They do. Man Glen not far from downtown. 425 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 7: But so basically I was like the atmosphere, the people, 426 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 7: It's like it was like a resurgence of like we're 427 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,480 Speaker 7: back almost, and like everyone I was talking to was 428 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:48,439 Speaker 7: so happy and like like the King's won. So that 429 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:50,399 Speaker 7: could be a reason why too, that'll do it. And 430 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 7: they covered the spread, which I'm very happy about. But 431 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 7: other than that, it was just it felt like great 432 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 7: to be there and everyone was like so happy about 433 00:20:57,920 --> 00:20:59,679 Speaker 7: like hockey, and everyone I was talking to is like, 434 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 7: it's back, man like, and as everyone is saying like 435 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,360 Speaker 7: NBA's back, NHL, like, you can't even say it's back, 436 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 7: because I don't think it's ever really been there. Like 437 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 7: four nations. It was so big for them. I think 438 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,440 Speaker 7: that people that have never really talked about hockey are 439 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 7: now asking me, yo, you went to the Kings game yesterday, 440 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 7: like that's so cool, like swiping up on my DMS 441 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:18,720 Speaker 7: and all that, and I thought it was really cool 442 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 7: to see that. But no hockey, in my opinion, and 443 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:22,920 Speaker 7: I'll die on this hill is one of the best 444 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,120 Speaker 7: live experiences you can go to in sports. So I'm 445 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 7: really happy that people are starting to notice it. And 446 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:29,679 Speaker 7: it's great. Seriously, the atmosphere was amazing. And again, it 447 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 7: could have just been our median in heritage tonight, or 448 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 7: it could be because of the four Nations. 449 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 5: So we'll see. 450 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 7: I mean, I'll be going to other games, so I'll 451 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:35,919 Speaker 7: keep you guys updated. 452 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see how long that carryover continues. And again, 453 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 2: avoid those hot dogs paint paid. 454 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,960 Speaker 5: Oh man, those victory dogs, especially after three years. Not 455 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 5: avoid them? Are you kidding me? 456 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 1: Now? 457 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 2: Draw you like them off to the flint like they 458 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 2: tried to give him a price Jared and he had 459 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 2: to say no, no, no, no, no, Yeah, I was here 460 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 2: this last week. You this is what you're getting. 461 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,880 Speaker 7: I was like, you think of some some new guy here, 462 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 7: you kidding the crisis for these things I've done. 463 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,239 Speaker 3: I didn't know this was a thing like so so, 464 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 3: like the bootleg hot dogs or oh yeah kings. 465 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: I had no idea. I'm not part of the culture. 466 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:16,399 Speaker 2: Yea all around l a A concerts, all all sporting events. Uh, 467 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,919 Speaker 2: come up with a little flat top propane tank and 468 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 2: you'll have the hot dogs with with all of the topping. 469 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:24,399 Speaker 1: It's kind of like New York because they do the 470 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,120 Speaker 1: street New York Street me, it's a big deal. 471 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:31,880 Speaker 2: Well back to are you licensed and have you gone 472 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 2: through food training? I know many a person who's tried 473 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:39,160 Speaker 2: to do restaurant tours and uh yeah making up words 474 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,719 Speaker 2: uh being restaurant tours and buying in on those that 475 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 2: have lost everything. They've had because they've tried to go 476 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 2: through the city for all proper permitting and licensing or whatever. 477 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 2: Yet I can roll up a cart at the end 478 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,359 Speaker 2: of the street and say, hello, don't even think about 479 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 2: so all of that, Chris, you had something you want dad? 480 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm just I'm curious in the hockey front, growing 481 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 8: up in you know, hockey country, Red Wings all my life. 482 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,880 Speaker 8: But I think the problems for hockey has always been 483 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 8: a matter of just being able to sell their players. 484 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,679 Speaker 8: But I will say, coming off the Four Nations, and 485 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 8: I did see an article about him, but PK. Sue 486 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,199 Speaker 8: Band definitely seems to be the real winner out of 487 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,439 Speaker 8: anyone right now as far as being a face for 488 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,439 Speaker 8: hockey on broadcast, it sounds like his role in ESPN 489 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:25,280 Speaker 8: is going to expand, which is tremendous because he was 490 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 8: a tremendous player playing hockey. But also you've just needed 491 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:30,920 Speaker 8: someone on the American side of the fence to really 492 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,359 Speaker 8: champion the sport. I know it's always been like Don 493 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 8: Cherry up North, or who's the guy on ESPN they 494 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:36,960 Speaker 8: had for a. 495 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 1: Very long has done a good job. 496 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:39,880 Speaker 2: I was thinking. 497 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:43,640 Speaker 8: Melrose, like, yes, a former coach, but like I don't 498 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 8: think Melrose never really took whereas I feel like Sue 499 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 8: Ban just given who he is and the way he talks, 500 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 8: and especially how we talked about four Nations versus the 501 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 8: NBA Elso it feels like that's a voice that can 502 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 8: carry over and get people interested. And then after that, 503 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 8: it's just a matter of just letting people know who 504 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,879 Speaker 8: these guys are. And that's always been a problem for hockey. 505 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 8: It's like it's it's it's just that they've kind of 506 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,719 Speaker 8: like baseball players, shunned a lot of the spotlight. If 507 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 8: you can fix those two things, you can put a 508 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 8: face on TV like Sue Ban and get people invest 509 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 8: in these teams. We're gonna have the NHL, We're gonna 510 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 8: have the Stanley Cup playoffs coming up pretty soon and 511 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 8: we all and that's already pretty well championed as a 512 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 8: very tough playoff. This could really be a seminal moment 513 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 8: for the National Hockey League if they can capture that. Unfortunately, 514 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:29,400 Speaker 8: it is the National Hockey League and they tend to 515 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 8: fall on their face after a while. 516 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 2: Wow. One of the big takeaways from the week you 517 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,199 Speaker 2: can find the podcast wherever you find your audio, is 518 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 2: that in a very rare place. We try to give 519 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,160 Speaker 2: our flowers a lot on Friday, right end of the week, 520 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 2: and a lot of love. That Gary Bettman was actually 521 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,199 Speaker 2: the number one commissioner in the world, if only for 522 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 2: a week. How about that. 523 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:50,119 Speaker 3: That must have been a first, Mike, Yeah, I know, 524 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,360 Speaker 3: the first time you've ever had Gary Betman is number 525 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:52,880 Speaker 3: one on that list. 526 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:53,160 Speaker 6: Yeah. 527 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 2: No, I can't say that there's really been any cause 528 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 2: to you know, Rob Manford keeps sticking his foot in 529 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 2: his mouth at Silver might as well have been tap 530 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 2: dancing about all the questions and answers that he had, 531 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 2: and Roger Goodell is just off on his side because look, 532 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:14,400 Speaker 2: the league is unassailable, right. You can try to poke 533 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 2: holes at it, lawsuits here, there, everywhere, and everybody just 534 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,200 Speaker 2: shrugs like, yeah, tune into any of our streaming partners 535 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,919 Speaker 2: and everything. We're going to draw better numbers for two 536 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,160 Speaker 2: guys walking onto a field than any game that you're 537 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,359 Speaker 2: going to play. So all of that to say, I 538 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,400 Speaker 2: hope that it carries. I think Chris's point with Sueban 539 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 2: like showing up on all the news shows and being 540 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 2: that champion. I'll just draw on my training card history 541 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 2: I still dabble and I do that on the side 542 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:43,919 Speaker 2: a little bit. 543 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 3: Just becoming up big business now by the way, well 544 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 3: it always was, yeah, it always was much more popular. 545 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 1: Yeah. 546 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 2: Now the fanatics is diving in and they had a 547 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,960 Speaker 2: huge event yesterday with a Rip Night, and they've partnered 548 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,440 Speaker 2: with the WWE, so they had wrestlers everywhere. 549 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 3: That's oh though, that'll get it big. You don't realize 550 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 3: how much money is in wrestling. But the hockey thing. 551 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 3: So for me, I grew up a hockey fan. I 552 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 3: grew up in New York, grew up a Rangers fan. 553 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:10,120 Speaker 1: You know. I was eight years old. 554 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,959 Speaker 3: And ninety four when they won the Cup and that 555 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 3: kind of cemented my hockey roots. 556 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 1: I played goalie. I was obsessed with my Chrichter growing up. 557 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,920 Speaker 3: So I'm coming at it from a very I'm already, 558 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 3: you know, slightly above casual fan with hockey. 559 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 1: But I think what hockey needs to lean into. Hockey 560 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:27,120 Speaker 1: needs to lean into two things. 561 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 3: First of all, Shane mentioned it the live experience is 562 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,399 Speaker 3: I think it's the best live sport to go watch, 563 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 3: Like honestly, I think the energy inside of a hockey arena. 564 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 3: I go to the Vegas Golden Nights games here in 565 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,159 Speaker 3: town all the time. They are elite now they do 566 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 3: the entertainment to the utmost degree. It's like a Vegas show. 567 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,479 Speaker 3: I think other teams need to take that model and 568 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 3: use it as this is fan you know, family cheap 569 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 3: entertainment compared to going to an NFL game. 570 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 1: That is for sure. 571 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,320 Speaker 3: The second part of it that Chris alluded to with 572 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 3: PK is you're right, there needs to be a media 573 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,159 Speaker 3: champion right now in the NFL. It's the Kelsey's right, like, 574 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,640 Speaker 3: they're in everything. It's Peyton Manning and Eli Manning. They're 575 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 3: in everything. You see those guys showing up at these events. 576 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,680 Speaker 3: You see those guys you know on TV having their 577 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,439 Speaker 3: own streaming, having their own platforms. I think that is 578 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,399 Speaker 3: something the NHL needs to do a better job in 579 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 3: because we don't know these guys, and that is something 580 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 3: that maybe PK can do. He's a younger guy, whereas 581 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,399 Speaker 3: Barry Melrose was kind of an older, you know, coach 582 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 3: when he was. 583 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 1: Becoming his media star. 584 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,159 Speaker 3: Whereas PK still looks like he could play, and I 585 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,439 Speaker 3: think he's very marketable, and that obviously will you know, 586 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,919 Speaker 3: up the potential for what the league can be, but 587 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 3: at the end of the day, when we get to 588 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:43,239 Speaker 3: the playoffs, guys, it is the best product outdoor in 589 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 3: the postseason, and I think that's what they need to 590 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 3: lean into the most is the product itself, which we 591 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 3: saw in the Four Nations. The product itself, I think 592 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 3: is better than most of the other sports day to 593 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 3: day products. 594 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 8: It just needs stories on teams like we always give 595 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 8: lip service like yeah, this is always so good, why 596 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 8: don't we talk about it more? And then we just 597 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 8: don't talk about it more. But it feels like it 598 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 8: just sell a couple of h. 599 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:06,400 Speaker 3: Is an opportunity here because baseball just got fired by ESPN. 600 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 2: Well we're gonna do that in about twenty minutes in 601 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,399 Speaker 2: earnest because it's a U and. 602 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,440 Speaker 1: That I think is an opportunity for the NHL to guys. 603 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 2: I would argue the other if I'm Major League Baseball, 604 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,879 Speaker 2: this might make Rob Mann for the Guy of the 605 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 2: Week next week with the. 606 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 3: Because now the because now baseball is more flexible, well, 607 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 3: baseball needed to change too, because there's just so many games. 608 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 3: The product on ESPN doesn't work because you know, it's 609 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,719 Speaker 3: not a national Game of the Week kind of vibe anymore. 610 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,959 Speaker 1: We want to watch all the games. The NHL can 611 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 1: still get away with that a little bit because there's fewer. 612 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 3: Games, and I think there is more of a cry 613 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 3: for the bigger teams to be on national TV every week. 614 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 5: Yeah. 615 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 2: I think the point that you make going out of 616 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 2: the Sue ban into the Kelsey slash Mannings, how many 617 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 2: hockey players do we know because they have media savvy 618 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 2: podcasts or other The answer is zero? Yeah, right, you 619 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 2: got a couple of former guys who get some run 620 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 2: now and again. But you know, and I love seeing 621 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 2: Wayne Gretzky out there or Messia. I mean he's not 622 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 2: great on air, though, but they're not great on air. 623 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 2: They're not right, so is fantastic on air. Mannings are 624 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 2: fantastic on air. Belichick's great on air, right right, because 625 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 2: you don't know what you're gonna get, but you're gonna 626 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 2: get an honest opinion to get cut through their funny 627 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 2: all the way through. You know, Gretzki's still gonna have 628 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:21,960 Speaker 2: just all right. I have this persona which is really 629 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 2: crazy because years ago I interviewed them and we did 630 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 2: about ten minutes talking about Waikiki hockey and hosting Saturday 631 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 2: Night Live. 632 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 3: Well, he's a softer spoken guy, like he doesn't have 633 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 3: that really intense personality where the Mannings do, you know, 634 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 3: like Peyton's got this unbelievable personality. 635 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 8: I think this is the biggest problem for the NHL 636 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 8: because a lot of those guys just won't have that personality. 637 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 8: Because yeah, you could talk about Sidney Crosby. Yeah, we 638 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 8: could talk about who does. And I think the culture 639 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 8: of hockey has agreed, it has has forced those guys. 640 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 8: It's like, we don't want these guys to stand out 641 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 8: from that. That's their tough Yeah, hockey players are tough guys. 642 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 8: Tough guys don't always have the best personalities. They're just tough. 643 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 8: They're just tough guys, like they the stoic. 644 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 2: Teams discourage it. 645 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 5: But yeah, well. 646 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 2: But again, you know, owing to where I was heading 647 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 2: off of the uh my history, you know, living in 648 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,160 Speaker 2: the three hundred level in Chicago. But you talk about 649 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 2: growing up Jared and the games you'd go to is hockey. 650 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 2: People like hockey. And that's where I was tying with 651 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 2: the trading cards, is they're gonna that's all they buy. 652 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:25,320 Speaker 2: They don't dabble in anything. 653 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:25,560 Speaker 6: Else. 654 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,000 Speaker 2: So it's kind of like boxing to a degree. Talk 655 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 2: to people that love boxing, they like they can find product, right, 656 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,960 Speaker 2: it's a good product. It's just getting the masses to 657 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,960 Speaker 2: like your product is not always the easiest thing, uh, 658 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 2: to get them to come to the table. So hopefully 659 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 2: that door is open. Anyway, we have to call time 660 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 2: out on this conversation now and go over on man 661 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 2: that we love, we respect. He's a man about town, 662 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 2: the Chargers, Angel City. It's Isaac Low and Crown. What's 663 00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 2: going on? Buddy? 664 00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 4: Why? 665 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,480 Speaker 9: Thank you, Mike, Good day to you? And Ared will 666 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 9: start in college basketball because the University of Arizona Athletic 667 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:09,840 Speaker 9: Department issued a statement late last night apologizing to BYU 668 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,200 Speaker 9: for a profane chant by Arizona fans after BYU's ninety 669 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:18,080 Speaker 9: six ninety five victory over the nineteenth ranked Wildcats. After 670 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 9: the game ended, fans of the Bekale Center in Tucson 671 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 9: chanted last night, bleep the Mormons. The statement set in 672 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:29,200 Speaker 9: part quote, we apologize to BYU. There's student athletes, coaches, 673 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 9: and fans. The chance is not reflective of who we 674 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 9: are and should not have happened unquote on the scoreboard 675 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 9: right now with Madison Square Garden number ten, Saint John's 676 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,600 Speaker 9: leading yukon twenty seven to twenty two, seven and a 677 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 9: half mning of the first half NBA Saturday Night, the 678 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 9: Los Angeles Lakers won at Denver one twenty three to 679 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:49,160 Speaker 9: one hundred, breaking Denver's nine game winning streak. Portland blew 680 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 9: out Charlotte by fifty three one forty one to eighty eight, 681 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,080 Speaker 9: biggest win in Portland franchise history. Today's action tips off 682 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,040 Speaker 9: at the top of the hours. The Boston Celtics host 683 00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 9: the New York Knicks. Josh Hart and og Ann and 684 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,680 Speaker 9: Noby are both in the starting lineup for the Knicks. Finally, 685 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,440 Speaker 9: Michael Jaredy back to hockey. We have one last PostScript 686 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,480 Speaker 9: from that dramatic Four Nations face off championship game in 687 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,960 Speaker 9: which Canada defeated the US at overtime. Tony Marinero, a 688 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:22,600 Speaker 9: host for Montreal radio station BPM sports Crank called a 689 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 9: Boston radio station posing as a Boston sports fan. Now 690 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:33,200 Speaker 9: for perspective, here is the Montreal host's regular voice. 691 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,560 Speaker 1: Oy yep, yep, you get that fix. 692 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 9: Young now, lovely French liilt. Now Here he is pretending 693 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:43,360 Speaker 9: to be a Boston sports fan. 694 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Curly in Boston. 695 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:47,680 Speaker 5: What's going on Curly? 696 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,760 Speaker 1: Hey, guys, I can't believe we lost that game. 697 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,280 Speaker 10: But as usual, we get owned by Canada, like ninety 698 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:54,400 Speaker 10: percent of the time when we. 699 00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,600 Speaker 1: Play, guy, we get owned by them. You know what, 700 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,840 Speaker 1: it's their game, guys, we just have to admit it. 701 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,200 Speaker 4: It's closer now though, And I don't know if you 702 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 4: can necessarily say that anymore. 703 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:04,480 Speaker 5: I mean, they beat him last week? 704 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but David, will we move in the US? 705 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,400 Speaker 1: They beat him last week when the game didn't mean anything. 706 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 3: We leave the best player in the world, Connor mcjesus 707 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:15,000 Speaker 3: all alone into flood. 708 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,560 Speaker 1: Guys, we don't know how to play hockey mix. 709 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 9: So if we get a phone call from a Curly 710 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:24,360 Speaker 9: in Boston, beware back to you guys, the chaos ensues. 711 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,160 Speaker 2: Last hockey note Frank Pelico, going back to my days 712 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:32,120 Speaker 2: in Chicago thirty years with the Blackhawks at the Chicago 713 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:36,640 Speaker 2: Stadium into the United Center, retires today, so it'll be 714 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:40,080 Speaker 2: his final day at the Oregon after all these years. Wow, 715 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,280 Speaker 2: there you go. Tying it all together Mike Carbon alongside 716 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 2: Jared Smith thanks to Ilo at Isaac Lohencron. As we 717 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:50,480 Speaker 2: roll through here on a Fox Sports Sunday, we'll get 718 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 2: back into the television deals in earnest in a little bit. 719 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,800 Speaker 2: But we've got at least one coach who's a big 720 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 2: fan of Cooper Flagg. Who is it and what do 721 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,040 Speaker 2: you have to say about it? We'll talk about it 722 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:02,840 Speaker 2: next year on Fox. 723 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,840 Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio. 724 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back in Fox Sports Sunday, Fox Sports Radio. 725 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:14,720 Speaker 2: My carving alongside Jared Smith. We're having a blast rolling 726 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:18,680 Speaker 2: through a quick two hour sprint. So much going on. 727 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,760 Speaker 2: We've got our college buckets going on both the men's 728 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,319 Speaker 2: and the women's side. We've got number one Notre Dame 729 00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:29,759 Speaker 2: down four now to NC State, the half in game 730 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,880 Speaker 2: betting opportunities for Hanna Hidalgo in company to try to 731 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,640 Speaker 2: rally here as we go through, Jared, I mean, we're 732 00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,440 Speaker 2: always just trying to find angles one to talk about, 733 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,720 Speaker 2: but too obviously if we could put in line people's pockets, 734 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,480 Speaker 2: we want to do that as well. All the analysis 735 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,799 Speaker 2: at Jared Smith Bets. We had a great discussion on 736 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,400 Speaker 2: the National Hockey League coming out of the Four Nations 737 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,680 Speaker 2: and all the excitement that that generated. I brought back 738 00:34:55,680 --> 00:35:00,000 Speaker 2: out my Chicago Blackhawk's Sergei Creva krazof Jersey from way 739 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,080 Speaker 2: back in the day. So I'm ready, let's go. 740 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:03,200 Speaker 1: That's a lead. 741 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,680 Speaker 3: I got to get my Mike Richter, you know, signed 742 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,080 Speaker 3: a card that I have kept on like you know 743 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:12,160 Speaker 3: in like cryogenic nice Rajon storage. It's just I mean, 744 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,439 Speaker 3: that was my guy growing up. I mean, I think 745 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,680 Speaker 3: there's a certain vibe about hockey where you're right like 746 00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:22,200 Speaker 3: it's it's this old school mentality of fan bases. But 747 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,839 Speaker 3: if they can figure out a way to get the cause, 748 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,120 Speaker 3: I think sports today, like we saw it with the 749 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:31,960 Speaker 3: Tyson Paul fight, we want that community experience. And if 750 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:33,880 Speaker 3: the NHL has unlocked the way to do it in 751 00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,440 Speaker 3: their All Star Break of all places, I mean, just 752 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,600 Speaker 3: wait for the Olympics next year, Mike. The Olympics next 753 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:39,920 Speaker 3: year are gonna be absolutely crazy. 754 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,759 Speaker 2: I just did. I really wish we could just start 755 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,920 Speaker 2: the playoffs right now, really ride that momentum into you 756 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:46,799 Speaker 2: like that product. Way do you see this? 757 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:47,200 Speaker 1: Oh? 758 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:51,080 Speaker 2: Right, as we talked about a little bit earlier, Great 759 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:54,080 Speaker 2: Conversation podcast will be upshale have that up for us 760 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:58,120 Speaker 2: after we finish today. But I wanted to bring up 761 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:03,319 Speaker 2: a game from yesterday Duke one ten sixty seven over Illinois, 762 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,080 Speaker 2: an absolute beat down from pillar to post, and the 763 00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:12,279 Speaker 2: usual suspects getting after it for Duke. Great balance, you 764 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,840 Speaker 2: had seven guys in double fit. I mean, it's just 765 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:18,480 Speaker 2: one of those conga lines. Everybody plays, everybody wins, kind 766 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:22,040 Speaker 2: of moment, Jared. But I thought the comments from Brat 767 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:25,640 Speaker 2: Underwood in the post game were interesting in this new 768 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,680 Speaker 2: day and age that we're living in in college basketball, 769 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,560 Speaker 2: football and the other sports. Right we obviously give more 770 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:37,080 Speaker 2: run off revenue and women's college basketball rising up as well. 771 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,239 Speaker 2: But Underwood had this to say about the importance of 772 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:41,160 Speaker 2: Cooper flag. 773 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:43,280 Speaker 10: Play college basketball. 774 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:44,680 Speaker 5: Sure, pretty close. 775 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,239 Speaker 10: I always stays in school. I mean, if I'm the 776 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,240 Speaker 10: NCAA or ACC, I mean, I'm figuring out that il 777 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,200 Speaker 10: deal to keep that dude in school because he's he's 778 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,800 Speaker 10: everything that's that's right about our gay. I mean in 779 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,080 Speaker 10: college basketball, great place. I mean, we've we've got guys 780 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:06,799 Speaker 10: like that coming in. Iowa stays he somebody threw out 781 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,680 Speaker 10: some story about it. Iowa stays man. Maybe great, he 782 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:11,680 Speaker 10: could probably make more here they could in the NBA. 783 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:16,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, underworld, alluding to a story from earlier this week. 784 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:22,760 Speaker 2: When talking about is future, Cooper Flag told The Athletic quote, blank, 785 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,600 Speaker 2: I want to come back next year about the fun 786 00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:28,919 Speaker 2: that he's having. And look right now, it's it's all 787 00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:31,520 Speaker 2: you know, just what you what else are you gonna say? 788 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,279 Speaker 2: You're in the moment. No, no, yeah, I'm out of here. 789 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,960 Speaker 2: You know, I can't wait till this is done. I'm 790 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,680 Speaker 2: the number one pick. Whoever's ping pong ball comes up, 791 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,520 Speaker 2: Let's go to the NBA. You know, He's certainly not 792 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,879 Speaker 2: going to say that, but it is to Underwood's point, 793 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:50,359 Speaker 2: the the larger conversation about guys, both for football and 794 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,640 Speaker 2: for basketball, looking around, going maybe it is worth it 795 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,719 Speaker 2: staying here for another year. 796 00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:56,920 Speaker 1: Right. 797 00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,960 Speaker 2: We'd look at Carson Beck, you know, the latest victim 798 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,520 Speaker 2: in the celebrity theft stuff. But going down to Miami, 799 00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,640 Speaker 2: he's gonna make what five six million dollars estimated, and 800 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:08,960 Speaker 2: those usually I would guess on the low side. So 801 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,920 Speaker 2: I thought it was, you know, Underwood's trying to sell 802 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,839 Speaker 2: the system of Hey, college basketball is great, stay for 803 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:16,080 Speaker 2: a little while longer. 804 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,080 Speaker 1: And I'm okay with that mindset. 805 00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,279 Speaker 3: I just think then reality sets it like, we're a 806 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,120 Speaker 3: prisoner of the moment, the moment when you're eighteen years 807 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,240 Speaker 3: old and you're having the time of your life. You're 808 00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:29,440 Speaker 3: you're a king amongst men, you know, on Duke's campus. 809 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:31,400 Speaker 1: You're a prisoner of that moment. 810 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:35,719 Speaker 3: And then the season ends and then things calm down, 811 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,000 Speaker 3: and then you get a chance to actually think about it, 812 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:39,880 Speaker 3: and then you look at You're gonna go watch the 813 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,359 Speaker 3: NBA Finals. You know in a couple months, you know 814 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,960 Speaker 3: you're gonna be in the tournament. You know, at best 815 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,000 Speaker 3: case scenario, you'll be finished playing college basketball in early April, 816 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:51,000 Speaker 3: and then you've got two months of watching the NBA playoffs. 817 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:54,279 Speaker 1: And you're like, yeah, that looks pretty good too. 818 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,600 Speaker 3: So I think when you have to put yourself in 819 00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,040 Speaker 3: the mind of an eighteen year old when you're being 820 00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,440 Speaker 3: asked a question, and I forget who asked him question 821 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,640 Speaker 3: it was originally I think it might have been a 822 00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,120 Speaker 3: Duke college like a Duke reporter that asked him, and 823 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,359 Speaker 3: that might have, you know, changed his mind, like, oh yeah, 824 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,239 Speaker 3: student reporter, I'll give him a nice answer. But now 825 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,759 Speaker 3: it's kind of become a thing. I don't think he's 826 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,359 Speaker 3: going to stay. It's a nice story on its on 827 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,640 Speaker 3: its side, but I don't think he is going to stay. 828 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:19,200 Speaker 3: And I don't think the money is there for these 829 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:20,880 Speaker 3: guys to stay. If they're gonna be a top five. 830 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,560 Speaker 2: Oh that's it, sixteen seven and five. It's more the 831 00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,560 Speaker 2: if you're a second round, third round guy in the 832 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,800 Speaker 2: football side, or you're out of the lottery for basketball. 833 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,120 Speaker 2: I could see it. Underwood had one other thing to 834 00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,799 Speaker 2: say about what he should do with this time. He 835 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:39,000 Speaker 2: was talking about going, Hey, you got time, You're eighteen, 836 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,000 Speaker 2: you're living the life. Go chase girls. 837 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:44,680 Speaker 3: How about you go play basketball and make money. Well, 838 00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:46,320 Speaker 3: there's women will be there in your twenties. 839 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:52,000 Speaker 2: Well, I mean, look I college. Well, well I've done 840 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,080 Speaker 2: that too, I know that feeling. Hey, coming up next 841 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:59,480 Speaker 2: we talk about the rights deal, winners, losers. I might 842 00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,279 Speaker 2: be on the sided unlike most. We'll do that next 843 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:05,480 Speaker 2: year on Fox. I'm the best coach in the world. 844 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,759 Speaker 2: I'm the smartest guy in the world. Unless I'm not 845 00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:12,359 Speaker 2: welcome in. I'm Mike Harmon alongside me Jared Smith as 846 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:17,400 Speaker 2: we continue another hour Fox Sports Sunday. Here Fox Sports Radio. 847 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:22,200 Speaker 2: Find Jared on x slash Twitter at Jared Smith. Bet 848 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,040 Speaker 2: you find me over at Swollen Dom. Of course I 849 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,440 Speaker 2: always can tag the show at Fox Sports Radio. You 850 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,920 Speaker 2: here Jared Saturday Mornings alongside Rich Horberg and Brian no 851 00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:33,800 Speaker 2: as part of Countdown. Honored to have him in today, 852 00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:37,840 Speaker 2: getting into some nuanced conversations of the larger sporting universe. 853 00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:42,760 Speaker 2: We got some college basketball talk, the old salty Dogs, 854 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,480 Speaker 2: those coaches, We talk Cooper Flagg. I'man got to celebrate 855 00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:49,040 Speaker 2: the kids too as you go, but college basketball has 856 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,440 Speaker 2: long been defined by their coaches, and a couple of 857 00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:56,839 Speaker 2: veteran coaches having runs here late as we get ready 858 00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:00,640 Speaker 2: for March Madness. We're broadcasting live from the Tiract Fox 859 00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,239 Speaker 2: Sports Radio Studios. Tyrac dot com. We'll let you get 860 00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:06,360 Speaker 2: there an unmatched selection, fast, free shipping, pre road hazard protection, 861 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:10,040 Speaker 2: and over ten thousand recommended installers tyract dot com the 862 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:13,640 Speaker 2: way tire buying should be. We'll get into the MLB 863 00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,440 Speaker 2: ESPN breakup in just a second. But Saint John's with 864 00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:21,239 Speaker 2: an eighteen point lead over Yukon with a little over 865 00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,160 Speaker 2: a minute left in the first half. We talked a 866 00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:27,719 Speaker 2: lot about Patino a few weeks ago. Jason Smith and 867 00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,480 Speaker 2: I on our show, and I didn't realize that vice 868 00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,719 Speaker 2: thing existed at the time. You want to talk about 869 00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:34,319 Speaker 2: a guy who has made It's kind of like Jerry 870 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:38,600 Speaker 2: Jones showing up on that Oilman show with Billy Bob Thornton, Yeah, 871 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:42,239 Speaker 2: and doing one of those master Thespian turns, because that's 872 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,000 Speaker 2: really what some of those speeches that are being siphoned 873 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,040 Speaker 2: off of Patino feel like. But boy, is he having 874 00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:51,640 Speaker 2: a nice little renaissance here with Saint John's. And I 875 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:56,880 Speaker 2: gotta say the casual college basketball fan probably liking to 876 00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,920 Speaker 2: see Danny Hurley maybe humbled, like the iron Cheek used 877 00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:03,000 Speaker 2: to say, you need to be back in the eighties, break. 878 00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,200 Speaker 1: His back, make him humble. 879 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:09,080 Speaker 3: No, there's certainly a well played Yeah, I mean it's 880 00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:11,279 Speaker 3: I'm a big old school I mean that was I 881 00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,480 Speaker 3: was more of the attitude error growing up. Okay, Cold 882 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:15,400 Speaker 3: Steve Austin he was. That was actually the theme of 883 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:16,800 Speaker 3: my bar Mitzvah was wrestling. 884 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:20,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm actually wearing the boost Asses I Love Rock 885 00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:21,560 Speaker 2: shirt as I'm sting. 886 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,560 Speaker 3: Oh, it doesn't matter what your name is, but it 887 00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,239 Speaker 3: definitely matters what Rick Patino's name is. So it's an 888 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,880 Speaker 3: interesting third act for him, right, Like obviously Kentucky and 889 00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:32,640 Speaker 3: then Louisville were kind of the first two acts. 890 00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:35,040 Speaker 1: Lots of success at both places and then the. 891 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:39,839 Speaker 3: Fallout, and I I ownA is a really interesting come 892 00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:44,960 Speaker 3: up because they kind of had some success at that level, 893 00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:47,640 Speaker 3: at a mid major level in the New York City area, 894 00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,400 Speaker 3: and it just made so much sense for him to 895 00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,200 Speaker 3: bounce back to Saint John's and it happened, and the 896 00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,360 Speaker 3: result is all of a sudden, the Johnnies, who have 897 00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,200 Speaker 3: been I don't want to say a bad team over 898 00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:59,880 Speaker 3: the last stretch. They've had some moments, but they have 899 00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,799 Speaker 3: not been a gritty team. And I think what New 900 00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:06,040 Speaker 3: York City basketball is Chris Mallins like, like the old 901 00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:09,280 Speaker 3: school Saint John's teams would punch you right in the mouth. 902 00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,880 Speaker 3: And I think this is what Rick Patino brings to 903 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:13,600 Speaker 3: the table. They have the number one defense in the 904 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,759 Speaker 3: country over the last month, like like they are a 905 00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,560 Speaker 3: absolute grinder of a defensive team. 906 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:21,920 Speaker 1: Now the question is can they make enough shots in 907 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:22,880 Speaker 1: March to win. 908 00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:26,560 Speaker 3: A big game. Today They're doing that against Yukon. They 909 00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,040 Speaker 3: do have some offensive players that I like Kadaria Richmond. 910 00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:30,799 Speaker 3: You remember from Seaton Hall had a nice little turney 911 00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,399 Speaker 3: round a few years ago. I think that's a guy 912 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,399 Speaker 3: that has to come up big. But if they play 913 00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:38,799 Speaker 3: team basketball and they defend their took uses off, they're 914 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:40,560 Speaker 3: gonna win a couple of games in March, and they're 915 00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:42,480 Speaker 3: gonna be in it, you know, in the sweet sixties 916 00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:46,000 Speaker 3: second weekend team, and then that's when we'll see how 917 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,120 Speaker 3: they compete because the Big East. As much as I 918 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,520 Speaker 3: love the Big East, there's just not a lot of 919 00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:52,200 Speaker 3: elite teams in the Big East this year. Like Saint 920 00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:55,680 Speaker 3: John's is that elite team in the conference. And that's 921 00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:57,640 Speaker 3: where I question when they go out and they face 922 00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:01,359 Speaker 3: the secs and even the accs and tens in those 923 00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,920 Speaker 3: second weekend you know, Elite eight kind of games. Do 924 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:05,800 Speaker 3: they have the offense to compete? I know they have 925 00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:07,680 Speaker 3: the defense to compete, and I know they're tough as hell. 926 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:09,520 Speaker 3: I don't know if they have the shot making. 927 00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:14,480 Speaker 2: Being the big tet apologists that I am, I always 928 00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:18,440 Speaker 2: get deep into these and suckered in for defense. Slow 929 00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,319 Speaker 2: it down, right. I always like three yards in a 930 00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,359 Speaker 2: cloud of dust on my football teams, and then that's 931 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,760 Speaker 2: what wins in March, right, and then Tiller and Breeze 932 00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,600 Speaker 2: ruined all that and my conference changed. Now it's eighteen teams. 933 00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:31,400 Speaker 2: But you know, but in March, right, it's got to 934 00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:35,560 Speaker 2: slow down, right, guard, play, front, court, discipline, all of 935 00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:38,400 Speaker 2: those things that come come to bear right in that 936 00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:41,719 Speaker 2: because most of those games are going to be hotly contested. 937 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,200 Speaker 2: But trying to sort out the noise. We just did 938 00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,759 Speaker 2: it with the College Football Playoff Jared of you know 939 00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:50,960 Speaker 2: which teams just you know, rankings and who they're beating, 940 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:55,000 Speaker 2: how much that matters versus wins. Right, those were fights 941 00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,600 Speaker 2: we were literally having on airs like well, you one 942 00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:00,120 Speaker 2: who was in front of you. I can't ask for 943 00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:02,880 Speaker 2: much more than that, or I shouldn't. But now we 944 00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,279 Speaker 2: want to, you know, get into a more nuanced thing 945 00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:09,000 Speaker 2: as some of the conferences feel they're you know, more 946 00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:12,480 Speaker 2: deserving than others and certainly bring more to the table financially. 947 00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:16,239 Speaker 2: So that's certainly the case. My my big takeaway with 948 00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:19,239 Speaker 2: this is just the coolness of here's one of the 949 00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:23,120 Speaker 2: old guys, when one after another they've lined up to exit. 950 00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:27,719 Speaker 2: You know, here's your gold watch. Here's a nice round 951 00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:31,640 Speaker 2: of applause and walking away citing all of the changes 952 00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:35,360 Speaker 2: to college athletics. So that's why Patino and Izzo and 953 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,319 Speaker 2: these kind of guys, you know, the ones that are 954 00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:40,560 Speaker 2: finding a way in a different space. By the way, 955 00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:43,839 Speaker 2: Rick Patino now says this is his last job. Wasn't 956 00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:45,839 Speaker 2: iona supposed to be his last job? 957 00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,839 Speaker 3: And then the Johnnies come calling name into the mid Sure, 958 00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,360 Speaker 3: that's another guy that's kind of had a second act, 959 00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:56,799 Speaker 3: you know, the fallout after Tennessee took four years off, 960 00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:58,960 Speaker 3: and then this is it's crazy to think this is 961 00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:01,040 Speaker 3: tenth year and either through eleventh year at Aburn. He's 962 00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:03,280 Speaker 3: been an Auburn since twenty fifteen. He's been there a long time. 963 00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,080 Speaker 3: And this is the first year I think since the 964 00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,920 Speaker 3: Final Four run in twenty nineteen, where like that came 965 00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:11,600 Speaker 3: from out of nowhere. They were a five seed that 966 00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:13,400 Speaker 3: year they made the Final four. They just made so 967 00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,439 Speaker 3: many shots. It was just like Wow. This year they 968 00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:18,239 Speaker 3: are the best team in the country. Like, I'll come 969 00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:20,880 Speaker 3: out and say it right now. It's February twenty third, 970 00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:24,000 Speaker 3: it's ten oh seven am here in Vegas. Auburn's winning 971 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,440 Speaker 3: the national championship this year in college basketball. Like, I 972 00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:30,239 Speaker 3: firmly believe they're the mentally toughest team, and they can 973 00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:33,040 Speaker 3: win in multiple ways. They can slow it down, they 974 00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,200 Speaker 3: can win a game sixty seven sixty like they did 975 00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:37,400 Speaker 3: against Arkansas the other night. They can win a game 976 00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,759 Speaker 3: ninety four eighty five like they did against Bama a 977 00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:42,640 Speaker 3: few nights prior to that. So I think that's where 978 00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:46,640 Speaker 3: Auburn kind of checks every box and Bruce Pearl's done 979 00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:47,359 Speaker 3: an incredible job. 980 00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:49,120 Speaker 1: The SEC is having a year. 981 00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:52,759 Speaker 3: We might talk about this year like, depending on how 982 00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:54,840 Speaker 3: the bracket and the matchup shakeout. I wouldn't be shocked 983 00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:56,960 Speaker 3: if three or four Final four teams come from the SEC, 984 00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:58,759 Speaker 3: like that's how good the SEC is this year. 985 00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:01,440 Speaker 2: Well, that'll make them feel better after what happened in 986 00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:03,880 Speaker 2: the world and then everyone fail. 987 00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:05,640 Speaker 1: The SEC is a basketball conference. 988 00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:09,000 Speaker 2: Now see hot take nonsense on a Sunday morning, as 989 00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:12,640 Speaker 2: you get in cutting print that they're a basketball conference. 990 00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,800 Speaker 2: I like what you did there. Since we're going deeper 991 00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,479 Speaker 2: into the college buckets world, you know you've got them 992 00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:21,480 Speaker 2: running and cutting down the nets. How deep is the 993 00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:24,480 Speaker 2: field and pool of teams that could legitimately win it. 994 00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:25,920 Speaker 2: It's a good question your estimation. 995 00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:30,400 Speaker 3: I think there's one or two teams in each major 996 00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,279 Speaker 3: conference that is the one or two teams. I think 997 00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,680 Speaker 3: the SEC maybe has four teams. I think I'm throwing 998 00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:38,520 Speaker 3: BAM out. Honestly, I don't think Bama come win a 999 00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:41,120 Speaker 3: national championship. I think it's Auburn. I think it's Florida. 1000 00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:45,319 Speaker 3: I think it's Tennessee. I would say that's probably where 1001 00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:48,399 Speaker 3: I draw the line. Acc Obviously it's Duke. I don't 1002 00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:49,920 Speaker 3: think there's anyone else in the a SEC that can 1003 00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:53,440 Speaker 3: win it. Although Clemson's given me some nice runs, they're 1004 00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:55,600 Speaker 3: kind of giving me those warm and fuzzies where they 1005 00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:58,160 Speaker 3: maybe can be a second weekend team. I think in 1006 00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:01,400 Speaker 3: the Big Ten it's probably two or three deep. I 1007 00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:05,040 Speaker 3: absolutely think Wisconsin and Michigan State are legit. Maryland is interesting. 1008 00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,359 Speaker 3: Maryland is starting to give me some Maybe they have 1009 00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:12,000 Speaker 3: a little bit of a run in them and then 1010 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:15,840 Speaker 3: out West, I don't know. I like Gonzaga just continues 1011 00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,080 Speaker 3: to come up small in these big games against teams 1012 00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:19,840 Speaker 3: like Saint Mary's, which are teams that they're gonna have 1013 00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:21,680 Speaker 3: to face in March, which are good defensive teams that 1014 00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:22,359 Speaker 3: slow it down. 1015 00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:24,200 Speaker 1: I think I always stated they get healthy. 1016 00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:27,560 Speaker 3: Has a case they made a nice run last year, 1017 00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,359 Speaker 3: but they're missing a couple of key pieces right now. 1018 00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:32,880 Speaker 3: They're two best players actually, Gilbert and Jones, so I 1019 00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:35,279 Speaker 3: will see. And in Houston, I think Houston's the other 1020 00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:38,759 Speaker 3: team we haven't mentioned that certainly deserves some recognition. So 1021 00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:41,680 Speaker 3: I would say maybe eight to ten teams it would 1022 00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:44,760 Speaker 3: be on my list, And usually it's pretty balanced. 1023 00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:45,080 Speaker 1: You know. 1024 00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:46,799 Speaker 3: You look at ken Palm and you look at teams 1025 00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:48,480 Speaker 3: that are in the top twenty five or maybe the 1026 00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:52,520 Speaker 3: top forty of offensive and defensive ratings, and any team 1027 00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:55,200 Speaker 3: that isn't balanced like that, like any team, for example, 1028 00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:57,800 Speaker 3: like a Missouri that's top ten in offense but outside 1029 00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,160 Speaker 3: the top fifty in defense, or Bama who's fantastic on 1030 00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:03,120 Speaker 3: offense doesn't defend. Really hard to make a strong case 1031 00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:05,920 Speaker 3: for those teams to win six games and make it 1032 00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:06,640 Speaker 3: all the way to the end. 1033 00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:09,319 Speaker 2: Always try to figure out balances and everything else. Chris, 1034 00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,560 Speaker 2: let me tag you in Yeah, at Chris Profett where 1035 00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:14,640 Speaker 2: you find him on Twitter. You'd like to to add 1036 00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:15,640 Speaker 2: ask Jared something. 1037 00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:17,680 Speaker 8: It was just a quick question, like, because I watched 1038 00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:20,200 Speaker 8: that Michigan State Michigan game last night, I know Michigan's 1039 00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:21,879 Speaker 8: been ranked very well. But is that the game where 1040 00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:23,279 Speaker 8: you just kind of look at them and go, all right, 1041 00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,120 Speaker 8: they're just not They're not one of these teams this year. 1042 00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:27,359 Speaker 1: Well, the problem is. 1043 00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:31,120 Speaker 3: They're a big, heavy team. And I like their bigs. 1044 00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:33,440 Speaker 3: I think they're BIG's wolf and Golden. Remember Golden from 1045 00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:35,279 Speaker 3: the FAU run and Danny Wolfe had that nice run 1046 00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:40,000 Speaker 3: at Yale. Like, I think those guys are incredibly talented players. 1047 00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:44,120 Speaker 3: But in March, you need guards to handle the basketball, 1048 00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:48,000 Speaker 3: handle the pressure. And when you rely on your bigs, 1049 00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:50,200 Speaker 3: who's going to handle the ball. And I think you 1050 00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:52,319 Speaker 3: saw that with Michigan State the other night, Like you know, 1051 00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:53,880 Speaker 3: at the end of the game in the second half, 1052 00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:57,400 Speaker 3: Michigan State just blitzed them defensively and they turn it 1053 00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:00,280 Speaker 3: over fifteen times. Like that's how you lose game as 1054 00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:01,759 Speaker 3: in March, and then you don't, you know, go five 1055 00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:03,399 Speaker 3: for twenty one from the arc because you just don't 1056 00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:06,239 Speaker 3: have a ton of a backcourt presence. So I like 1057 00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:08,600 Speaker 3: Michigan as a regular season team. I just think in 1058 00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:11,520 Speaker 3: a one game scenario against a really good defensive backcourt, 1059 00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:12,879 Speaker 3: they're going to struggle to handle the ball. 1060 00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,680 Speaker 2: Yeah. I always get myself into I'm getting suckered in 1061 00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:20,120 Speaker 2: by IZO again, obviously the celebration of the veteran veterans. 1062 00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:22,239 Speaker 2: But once upon a time it was all right, we're 1063 00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:25,400 Speaker 2: getting to March. It's ISO time. And yep, more times 1064 00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:29,279 Speaker 2: than not, my bracket has a lot of red associated 1065 00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:32,560 Speaker 2: with that squad, and just you know, you're hoping for 1066 00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:35,719 Speaker 2: something a little different, Like you know, the emotions play in, right, 1067 00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:39,000 Speaker 2: you develop these things. Folks can deny it all they want, 1068 00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:43,000 Speaker 2: and you know most can't just go to the hard numbers. 1069 00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:47,920 Speaker 2: And I certainly have not drawn up my eighty eighty 1070 00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:51,399 Speaker 2: variable algorithm to pick. Are you a one bracket guy, 1071 00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:53,040 Speaker 2: Mike one? 1072 00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:55,719 Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to have the sheet of integrity. 1073 00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:58,560 Speaker 2: That the old Mike and Mic run. Yeah, that was 1074 00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:02,440 Speaker 2: their bit, right. It's like I can't do multiple no 1075 00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:03,880 Speaker 2: like once and then you start. 1076 00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:06,359 Speaker 3: This is why I stopped playing fantasy football, because it's 1077 00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:08,560 Speaker 3: like I'm doing the gambling thing every week and I 1078 00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:10,359 Speaker 3: have my fantasy team and it was like I'm being pulled. 1079 00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,080 Speaker 1: It's like a torture chamber. I'm being pulled in all 1080 00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:13,560 Speaker 1: these different directions. See. 1081 00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:16,120 Speaker 2: I always had the the thoughts with that is I'll 1082 00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:17,799 Speaker 2: take as many points as are out there, and that's 1083 00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:22,080 Speaker 2: fine because people football players, right when I've been doing 1084 00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:24,799 Speaker 2: the fantasy side a long time, right, it's like then 1085 00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:29,279 Speaker 2: expand into more generalized sports talk, you know, as we 1086 00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:33,120 Speaker 2: talk about you know, betting and spots, but you can 1087 00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:35,279 Speaker 2: talk other things, right. It's it's that kind of thing, 1088 00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:37,600 Speaker 2: and you do the breath of it. But back in 1089 00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:40,319 Speaker 2: the day when money was flowing in the Silicon Valley, 1090 00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:42,000 Speaker 2: I was working at Yahoo when I went and did 1091 00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:45,080 Speaker 2: an event, and he had a bunch of former NFL players. 1092 00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:46,400 Speaker 2: I mean, they were getting paid to be there, so 1093 00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:48,560 Speaker 2: they were happy to be there. But privately they're all 1094 00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,719 Speaker 2: asking me questions about, you know, how do you reconcile 1095 00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:53,200 Speaker 2: some of this stuff. I don't think you're a real 1096 00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:55,080 Speaker 2: fan if you're playing this. And I laughed, and I go, 1097 00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:58,280 Speaker 2: all right, how many shutouts are there in the NFL 1098 00:51:58,360 --> 00:51:58,879 Speaker 2: every year? 1099 00:51:59,239 --> 00:51:59,520 Speaker 1: Yeah? 1100 00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:01,719 Speaker 2: And they look at me, like to a man, they 1101 00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:03,440 Speaker 2: would do the same thing. They'd look at me and go, 1102 00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:06,879 Speaker 2: maybe what are you getting at? Maybe one, maybe three, 1103 00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:09,560 Speaker 2: five in a good year. If we've really got a 1104 00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:12,200 Speaker 2: bad team, maybe you just have a horrible run where 1105 00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:14,400 Speaker 2: they get shut out a couple of times. Fluky things, 1106 00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:19,120 Speaker 2: but overall someone's scoring points. Yeah, And so they're like, 1107 00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:22,560 Speaker 2: so you're a Chicago kid, so you could draft Brett 1108 00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:25,799 Speaker 2: Favre and not worry about I'm like, right, because I 1109 00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:28,120 Speaker 2: just will now root for the Packers to lose thirty 1110 00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:30,640 Speaker 2: one to twenty eight every week, and. 1111 00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:32,480 Speaker 3: They lost a lot of those games high scoring because 1112 00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:35,759 Speaker 3: Brett Favre was a gunslinger, right, fantasy culture whatever, and 1113 00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:38,280 Speaker 3: into the to the gambling culture. Like I think there's 1114 00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:42,319 Speaker 3: they're very connected, but they're also very different where I 1115 00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:46,120 Speaker 3: think gambling is more nuanced. Where this is why props 1116 00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:49,160 Speaker 3: would become very popular because it is directly connected to 1117 00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:53,040 Speaker 3: fantasy culture and it's an easy bridge to get from Oh, 1118 00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:55,239 Speaker 3: I want Brett fav to have a high scoring game too. 1119 00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:57,560 Speaker 3: I want Brett fav to throw three touchdowns so he 1120 00:52:57,640 --> 00:52:59,840 Speaker 3: goes over to and a half, right, like like that's a. 1121 00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:00,640 Speaker 1: Very very easy thing. 1122 00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:03,200 Speaker 3: Whereas the you know, oh, the spread being three and 1123 00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:05,239 Speaker 3: the key numbers and all the stuff that Crack likes 1124 00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:07,320 Speaker 3: to talk about on Sundays with the Countdown Show and 1125 00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:09,319 Speaker 3: NFL like, it can be a little more nuanced. And 1126 00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:12,840 Speaker 3: when it's hard to understand, people tend to stay away. 1127 00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:15,400 Speaker 2: Well, now you start changing it up by making it 1128 00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:18,040 Speaker 2: easy the just hey over under, what are you thinking 1129 00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:19,040 Speaker 2: of a guy's stats? 1130 00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:20,000 Speaker 1: Right? 1131 00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:24,680 Speaker 2: You know, and multiple operations here. I don't have them 1132 00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:26,680 Speaker 2: on my chest here at the moment, so we won't 1133 00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:30,440 Speaker 2: attribute it to any individual company for the moment. But 1134 00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:32,360 Speaker 2: it's just that kind of thing, right, It's like you 1135 00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:36,080 Speaker 2: did all of these sports everything. It's all about accessibility. 1136 00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:38,960 Speaker 2: Going back to the conversation we did last hour talking 1137 00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:42,520 Speaker 2: about the NHL and trying to capitalize as a hockey 1138 00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:46,000 Speaker 2: society coming off the Four Nations and heading towards the 1139 00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:49,239 Speaker 2: Olympics next year in Italy and everything in between is 1140 00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:54,800 Speaker 2: accessibility and making things digestible, and that's part part of 1141 00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:58,560 Speaker 2: the betting side. I think, you know, it's like anything. 1142 00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:01,520 Speaker 2: It's like if I understand the language and the parlance, 1143 00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:05,319 Speaker 2: and I can get through some of the paralyzed by 1144 00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:09,200 Speaker 2: data because you can certainly subscribe to plenty services that'll 1145 00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:12,919 Speaker 2: spit a bunch of numbers out at you. Oh no, lostyles, right. 1146 00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:13,799 Speaker 1: I struggle with that. 1147 00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:15,640 Speaker 3: I have to mute a lot of really smart people 1148 00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:17,799 Speaker 3: during football season on my social media because I get 1149 00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:19,080 Speaker 3: overwhelmed by it and it's. 1150 00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,759 Speaker 1: Not a personal thing. It's just like you're really aggressive 1151 00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:23,680 Speaker 1: with your numbers and there's just too many numbers. 1152 00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:27,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, it can certainly bogg you down, but they're fun 1153 00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:29,560 Speaker 2: to use on air here Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports 1154 00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:34,520 Speaker 2: Sunday Mike Carbon alongside Jared Smith. You know, reasons, excuses, arguments, 1155 00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:36,359 Speaker 2: all of those fun things, you know, because we play 1156 00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:37,960 Speaker 2: fun with numbers. When we look at the end of 1157 00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:39,799 Speaker 2: a year, did a guy have a good year or not? 1158 00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:43,279 Speaker 2: If I show you Patrick Mahomes' stat line for the year, 1159 00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:45,440 Speaker 2: you go, that's not a bad season. But you watched 1160 00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:47,560 Speaker 2: the product week to week and said, I don't know. 1161 00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:52,160 Speaker 2: They won, so they hit the main objective. But trying 1162 00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:55,720 Speaker 2: to figure out what's noise, what's reality, and everywhere in between. 1163 00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:58,760 Speaker 2: As we continue, we will circle back to a topic 1164 00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:01,759 Speaker 2: that we have teased, the MLB rights issue, and it 1165 00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:04,080 Speaker 2: goes back to the NHL right where you're trying to 1166 00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:08,439 Speaker 2: find your product accessibility. On a whole other level. We'll 1167 00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:12,319 Speaker 2: talk about the big Landmark deal, well that is no 1168 00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:16,840 Speaker 2: more and what's next as Major League Baseball with Rob Manford. 1169 00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:20,840 Speaker 2: There you go, sarcasm bucket under me leading the charge 1170 00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:23,879 Speaker 2: at Jared Smith bets on Twitter. Find me over at 1171 00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:26,399 Speaker 2: swollen Ome. We'll do that next year on Fox. Hey, 1172 00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:30,360 Speaker 2: welcome back in It's Fox Sports Sunday. Here Fox Sports 1173 00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:34,240 Speaker 2: Radio Mike Carmon alongside Jared Smith at Jared Smith Bets 1174 00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:38,000 Speaker 2: on Twitter. You find me over at swollen Gnome. Hear 1175 00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:41,400 Speaker 2: me during the week seven to eleven Pacific with Jason 1176 00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:45,479 Speaker 2: Smith another Smith. If I start writing Jay Smith on things, 1177 00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:47,480 Speaker 2: you guys are going to get some really weird messages 1178 00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:50,040 Speaker 2: that you don't understand. This could get fun, It's could 1179 00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:52,799 Speaker 2: get interesting, no question about it. But glad to have 1180 00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:55,960 Speaker 2: you with with a here on this beautiful Sunday. So 1181 00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:59,400 Speaker 2: much going on. We've got college buckets, men and women's side. 1182 00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:02,560 Speaker 2: We had action on the pitch. We've got NBA action 1183 00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:07,319 Speaker 2: kicking off as well. Boston twenty to ten over New York. 1184 00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:10,120 Speaker 2: About halfway through the first we'll get an update. Mancy 1185 00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:14,480 Speaker 2: Belanos in the chair with us this hour. Good to 1186 00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:17,520 Speaker 2: see her this fine morning. She's going to factor into 1187 00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:20,880 Speaker 2: the last story that we do in about twenty minutes 1188 00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:25,919 Speaker 2: or so, and it relates to something an NBA superstar said, 1189 00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:28,080 Speaker 2: but we'll get into that a little bit later. We 1190 00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:32,680 Speaker 2: were talking about the NHL and opportunities growth the old 1191 00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:37,279 Speaker 2: dark Knight joker aggressive expansion, or at least hold your 1192 00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:40,279 Speaker 2: ground and maybe find some more solid footing with the 1193 00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:44,560 Speaker 2: casual non hockey officionado right, open it up as an 1194 00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:48,640 Speaker 2: alternative programming, second screen experience. Whatever it is. You need 1195 00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:51,960 Speaker 2: more eyeballs, you need more people talking about it, and 1196 00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:55,040 Speaker 2: certainly you flow from there coming out of the Four Nations, 1197 00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:57,560 Speaker 2: but from Major League Baseball the story of the week, 1198 00:56:58,600 --> 00:57:01,080 Speaker 2: and it ties together because we're always looking at rights 1199 00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:04,840 Speaker 2: deals and money flowing in and certainly a lot of 1200 00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:07,400 Speaker 2: folks doing the hand ringing every time there's a new 1201 00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:13,040 Speaker 2: streaming game that goes off to the isolation chamber, right 1202 00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:15,520 Speaker 2: the NFL. Hey, here's what we're gonna do for Black Friday. 1203 00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:17,920 Speaker 2: Here's what we're gonna do here, here's what we did 1204 00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:20,200 Speaker 2: for Thursday nights. Now you gotta go. You all have 1205 00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:22,640 Speaker 2: Amazon anyway, get over it. You know, all of those 1206 00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:27,560 Speaker 2: kind of things. As we flow through, Jared that Major 1207 00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:31,200 Speaker 2: League Baseball and ESPN decide to I don't think they 1208 00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:34,040 Speaker 2: shook hands at least the way things are coming out 1209 00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:37,000 Speaker 2: in the aftermath, but they walk away from their deal. 1210 00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:43,080 Speaker 2: Estimated five hundred and fifty dollars is the disputed sum 1211 00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:47,000 Speaker 2: of it all in terms of walking away. But Rob 1212 00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:49,520 Speaker 2: Manford and company on their side saying, well, we get 1213 00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:53,800 Speaker 2: short shrift right. Every anything Lebron does, stubs his toe, 1214 00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:57,120 Speaker 2: has a glass of wine, post to social media gets 1215 00:57:57,200 --> 00:58:01,280 Speaker 2: more run than guys signing four hundred million or contracts 1216 00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:08,160 Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball game coverage and opportunities for their promotion. 1217 00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:11,600 Speaker 2: There go back to ESPN Radio, which is now part 1218 00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:14,080 Speaker 2: of this as well. But all of it to say, 1219 00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:17,400 Speaker 2: for me and for Rob Manford based on what we've 1220 00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:22,160 Speaker 2: seen with rights. Because I remember this in the infancy 1221 00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:23,960 Speaker 2: of things when I was starting to do a fantasy 1222 00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:27,040 Speaker 2: football show many many years ago, is right before the 1223 00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:31,720 Speaker 2: NFL Network was formed and announced. I was on something 1224 00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:36,160 Speaker 2: called Just the Football Network, and basically we had a 1225 00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:39,080 Speaker 2: show and the idea was to expand the catalog. They 1226 00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:42,480 Speaker 2: were in the rights negotiations for some of the NFL 1227 00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:47,440 Speaker 2: films and from some lower tier college games, and we 1228 00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:49,240 Speaker 2: were going to do a fantasy show. And then it 1229 00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:51,680 Speaker 2: got picked up on Spike TV. So you went straight 1230 00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:54,360 Speaker 2: from a Baywatch episode into me because it used to 1231 00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:57,920 Speaker 2: be Bawatch. Yeah, I mean this was even the infancy 1232 00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:03,000 Speaker 2: of Spike TV, so Cheaters, yes, and some kind of 1233 00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:06,440 Speaker 2: dating show and Baywatch, and then you'd have us And 1234 00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:09,520 Speaker 2: I guess I was really entertaining for my segments because 1235 00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:13,160 Speaker 2: I had Jerry Glandville on there with me. Jeffrey, Oh, 1236 00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:14,680 Speaker 2: he's a piece of work man, that's one of my 1237 00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:17,480 Speaker 2: favorite guys, Very kind to me, and we'd go back 1238 00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:20,120 Speaker 2: and forth during those segments. But all of that to say, 1239 00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:25,240 Speaker 2: NFL Network gets announced, all those rights that they were 1240 00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:29,080 Speaker 2: trying to get for NFL films obviously go away, and 1241 00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:35,480 Speaker 2: the rights deals for live events were really aggressively competitive 1242 00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:38,200 Speaker 2: then versus what we have now with all the streaming 1243 00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:41,480 Speaker 2: services and everybody wanting, you know, to plant their flag 1244 00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:45,240 Speaker 2: in different points of this. But all that to say, 1245 00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:48,120 Speaker 2: there's a lot of money out there right for Adam 1246 00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:50,920 Speaker 2: silver Loo, Like he had to wear it on a 1247 00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:54,840 Speaker 2: million things over the All Star Break, competitiveness of games, 1248 00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:58,280 Speaker 2: the length of the season, the failed Mark Williams trade, 1249 00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:00,800 Speaker 2: all of these things going on on, you know, some 1250 01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:03,400 Speaker 2: of the smirching of the good name of Luka Doncic 1251 01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:05,920 Speaker 2: and whatever else. But he got a lot of clicks, 1252 01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:07,680 Speaker 2: got a lot of eyeballs, a lot of attention for 1253 01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:10,440 Speaker 2: the NBA, and from one week it was not negative. 1254 01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:13,720 Speaker 2: But what he kept trumpeting was, here's my one cheter 1255 01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:17,200 Speaker 2: on everything we're doing internationally. Here's what we're doing all 1256 01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:20,280 Speaker 2: over social media, and oh yeah, we signed a seventy 1257 01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:25,000 Speaker 2: six billion dollars rights deal. Check and mate. So for 1258 01:00:25,120 --> 01:00:29,240 Speaker 2: Major League Baseball I like that Rob Bamford and company 1259 01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:31,560 Speaker 2: put their feet in the ground. You know, ESPN is important. 1260 01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:33,600 Speaker 2: It's not the only place out there, right, It's not 1261 01:00:33,640 --> 01:00:36,840 Speaker 2: like it was fifteen twenty years ago, where you might 1262 01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:39,440 Speaker 2: have just left your television on and watched eight straight 1263 01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:44,080 Speaker 2: hours of the evening Sports Center. Like it's a new world. 1264 01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:47,360 Speaker 2: So for Rob Manford and company, hey, it's a new frontier. 1265 01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:49,880 Speaker 2: Hopefully you hire some smart people because once upon a time, 1266 01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:53,320 Speaker 2: folks forget this. I was at Yahoo when it happened. Boy, 1267 01:00:53,360 --> 01:00:56,680 Speaker 2: I'm really aging myself again. But they bought Mark Cuban's company, right, 1268 01:00:56,720 --> 01:00:59,720 Speaker 2: that's how he becomes the billionaire. And it was about 1269 01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:03,160 Speaker 2: he wanted to stream Indiana basketball from wherever he was, 1270 01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:07,760 Speaker 2: so they built this thing broadcast and it was all 1271 01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:10,000 Speaker 2: set to go. Major League Baseball was one of the 1272 01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:12,800 Speaker 2: what was the first to really embrace the idea of 1273 01:01:13,120 --> 01:01:14,560 Speaker 2: you know, our fans should be able to get our 1274 01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:18,560 Speaker 2: product anywhere. Yes, And I remember, you know, some trouble 1275 01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:21,520 Speaker 2: shooting some great stories for the book I'll probably never write. 1276 01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:24,720 Speaker 2: But how some of those deals came to play back 1277 01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:28,240 Speaker 2: in the day. So they've been forward thinking. Here's another 1278 01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:30,760 Speaker 2: opportunity to go find some greatness in the horizon. 1279 01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:31,280 Speaker 1: Well. 1280 01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:34,080 Speaker 3: I work for MLB dot Com back in the twenty 1281 01:01:34,120 --> 01:01:38,200 Speaker 3: sixteen twenty seventeen eighteen time frame, and they were always 1282 01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:40,320 Speaker 3: ahead of the curve with the direct to consumer stuff. 1283 01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:44,920 Speaker 3: And the way that they stream the games now is 1284 01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:49,280 Speaker 3: a it's a quality product like baseball is meant for streaming, 1285 01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:53,240 Speaker 3: it's meant for re like baseball is a regional sport. 1286 01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:55,919 Speaker 3: And I think that's where when ESBN kind of lost 1287 01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:58,400 Speaker 3: a little bit of their national luster, and let's be honest, 1288 01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:01,080 Speaker 3: cables kind of taking a turn, and that is where 1289 01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:05,600 Speaker 3: the linear channel gets most of their loves. It's tough, 1290 01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:08,600 Speaker 3: and I agree with your assessment on Manfred. I think 1291 01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:12,240 Speaker 3: the way that the landscape is currently constructed major League 1292 01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:17,240 Speaker 3: Baseball needs to be very regionalized and very streaming focused. 1293 01:02:17,720 --> 01:02:21,400 Speaker 3: Now it does open up ESPN for more things, But 1294 01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:23,400 Speaker 3: at the end of the day, I think it's more 1295 01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:27,240 Speaker 3: about what's best for baseball, because Rob Manford's right, the 1296 01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:31,240 Speaker 3: NBA gets treated differently than baseball does, and to be fair, 1297 01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:35,200 Speaker 3: a lot of that is kind of Manfred's fault because 1298 01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:37,280 Speaker 3: they don't market their players very well and the season's 1299 01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:40,280 Speaker 3: really long, and so it's all about finding the right 1300 01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:43,920 Speaker 3: match and it's really hard to find that because I 1301 01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:46,480 Speaker 3: think in general, there's so many new streaming sites coming 1302 01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:49,760 Speaker 3: up that we're still in the middle of this renovation, 1303 01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:53,920 Speaker 3: this technological digital revolution, like we're still maybe we're like 1304 01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:55,840 Speaker 3: halfway through it, maybe we're two thirds of the way 1305 01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:58,160 Speaker 3: through it. But there's still gonna be new streaming sites, 1306 01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:00,800 Speaker 3: and there's gonna be current sites like Netflix and Apple, 1307 01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:04,800 Speaker 3: Amazon Prime that are going to increase their sports portfolios 1308 01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:06,520 Speaker 3: over the next five to ten years. I wouldn't be 1309 01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:09,680 Speaker 3: shocked if a significantly more number of NFL games over 1310 01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:13,200 Speaker 3: the next decade goes to the streaming platforms. But in general, 1311 01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:16,440 Speaker 3: baseball and streaming makes a lot of sense, and I 1312 01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:18,920 Speaker 3: think this is just a kind of step in the 1313 01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:20,840 Speaker 3: direction we probably should have gone a few years ago, 1314 01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:24,680 Speaker 3: because nobody can baseball on a national scale is not 1315 01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:27,880 Speaker 3: something that the public is very interested in. It starts 1316 01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:31,920 Speaker 3: and this is Baseball's fault. Can we stop starting the 1317 01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:34,440 Speaker 3: season in the middle of the night in Korea? 1318 01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:34,760 Speaker 1: Like? 1319 01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:38,200 Speaker 3: Can we have an opening day where all thirty two 1320 01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:41,760 Speaker 3: teams are playing in America during the daylight? Like that 1321 01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:44,280 Speaker 3: would help? And then when we end the season, we're 1322 01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:46,760 Speaker 3: in the middle of football. So it's just it's a 1323 01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:50,800 Speaker 3: really tough length of a campaign to really wrap your 1324 01:03:50,880 --> 01:03:53,120 Speaker 3: arms around from a national television perspective, and I think 1325 01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:54,840 Speaker 3: that's why this deal had to get dissolved. 1326 01:03:54,920 --> 01:03:57,680 Speaker 2: Well, when you start getting all the parsing down where 1327 01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:01,520 Speaker 2: you can regionalize it, localize it, right, I want to 1328 01:04:01,560 --> 01:04:04,480 Speaker 2: just have the radio and TV streams for my team. Right, 1329 01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:08,320 Speaker 2: there's so many of the micro billing opportunities that you 1330 01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:12,400 Speaker 2: have with this, you know, to get into folks passions. 1331 01:04:12,600 --> 01:04:17,000 Speaker 2: I know the NFL network ESPN talks, they're saying those 1332 01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:20,600 Speaker 2: might have resurrected. So from them, that's another half a 1333 01:04:20,640 --> 01:04:24,200 Speaker 2: billion dollars in terms of you know, purchase price and 1334 01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:30,280 Speaker 2: negotiations and acquisition and integration kind of money there as 1335 01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:32,840 Speaker 2: you flow it through. Jared like all of that to say, 1336 01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:36,360 Speaker 2: you know, Major League Baseball has like we talked about 1337 01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:39,000 Speaker 2: with the National Hockey League last hour, you got a 1338 01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:42,560 Speaker 2: lot of guys that are stars. And certainly when you 1339 01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:45,240 Speaker 2: looked at Team Canada, it was like if you follow 1340 01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:49,280 Speaker 2: hockey at all, it was one after another. Right, Baseball, 1341 01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:49,840 Speaker 2: same thing. 1342 01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:50,080 Speaker 1: Right. 1343 01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:52,520 Speaker 2: I talked about the rip night that Tops did right 1344 01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:56,240 Speaker 2: in their partnership with Fanatics as they start to take 1345 01:04:56,280 --> 01:04:58,120 Speaker 2: over the trading card world. Last night, they had this 1346 01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:00,640 Speaker 2: event all over the place and they had a lot 1347 01:05:00,680 --> 01:05:03,400 Speaker 2: of wrestlers out here. The Miz did a spot up 1348 01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:06,560 Speaker 2: in Burbay. Well, he pulls an eight of ten rock 1349 01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:09,720 Speaker 2: autograph like he recognized, Hey, this is big. It's an autograph. 1350 01:05:09,760 --> 01:05:12,200 Speaker 2: It's probably like a ten thousand dollars card, if not more. 1351 01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:14,960 Speaker 2: That goes like he's just holding it like yeah, this 1352 01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:17,200 Speaker 2: is cool. But either way, so you had no hoaks 1353 01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:19,400 Speaker 2: lined off all over the place. The guys, some of 1354 01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:22,280 Speaker 2: the guys that got the best responses over in clear Water, 1355 01:05:22,520 --> 01:05:27,040 Speaker 2: Vladimir Guerrero Junior, who people are finally starting to hear 1356 01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:29,240 Speaker 2: from a little bit. Right as he's talking about his 1357 01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:32,400 Speaker 2: future and everything else, he shows up, Mike Trout shows up. 1358 01:05:32,400 --> 01:05:34,960 Speaker 2: He's a big card collector building a big collection of 1359 01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:38,480 Speaker 2: his own stuff. He bought eight thousand dollars worth of 1360 01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:40,480 Speaker 2: boxes to folks and hung out. It's like, we need 1361 01:05:40,520 --> 01:05:42,800 Speaker 2: more of that Mike Trout, we need more. 1362 01:05:42,680 --> 01:05:44,240 Speaker 1: Of that guy. He's not very marketable. 1363 01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:50,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, Baseball doesn't have a lot of those stars like Aaron, Like, 1364 01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:52,920 Speaker 3: for example, the last MVPs. 1365 01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:54,760 Speaker 1: Aaron Judge and Shoe a Otani. 1366 01:05:54,840 --> 01:05:57,240 Speaker 3: One of them doesn't speak English and the other one 1367 01:05:57,480 --> 01:05:59,800 Speaker 3: is is is like a mountain of a man and 1368 01:05:59,880 --> 01:06:03,640 Speaker 3: he doesn't have this really big, mountainous personality like it's 1369 01:06:03,680 --> 01:06:07,600 Speaker 3: it's a very unique like baseball players for the most part, 1370 01:06:07,960 --> 01:06:11,520 Speaker 3: you do not see like is there one right now 1371 01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:12,960 Speaker 3: that you could say, oh, yeah, that's going to be 1372 01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:16,800 Speaker 3: the future media star of the sport, Like there isn't one, 1373 01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:18,880 Speaker 3: Whereas the NFL doesn't have that problem. 1374 01:06:18,920 --> 01:06:19,880 Speaker 1: The NBA certainly does. 1375 01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:22,240 Speaker 3: Everyone wants to be everyone wants a podcast in the NBA, 1376 01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:25,920 Speaker 3: the NHL. If you had to rank the sports in 1377 01:06:25,960 --> 01:06:30,080 Speaker 3: terms of personalities, NHL and Major League Baseball are distant, 1378 01:06:30,200 --> 01:06:32,439 Speaker 3: like there's a big gap between one and two NBA, 1379 01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:35,520 Speaker 3: NFL and then the bottoms. I would actually say golf 1380 01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:38,240 Speaker 3: is probably ahead, like the golfing personalities. 1381 01:06:38,440 --> 01:06:40,920 Speaker 1: Those guys are absolutely getting rock stars. 1382 01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:44,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, car drivers they all like because people have always 1383 01:06:44,640 --> 01:06:47,160 Speaker 2: leaned into the star on mentality. There. 1384 01:06:47,200 --> 01:06:49,560 Speaker 3: Those are individual sports, which makes it a little bit easier. 1385 01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:51,880 Speaker 3: And obviously the NFL has the quarterback nature and the 1386 01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:54,720 Speaker 3: wide receiver nature which can be divas in their own sense. 1387 01:06:55,040 --> 01:06:58,000 Speaker 3: But the biggest problem that baseball and hockey have is 1388 01:06:58,080 --> 01:07:01,240 Speaker 3: that lack of media star right now, and that's why 1389 01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:04,440 Speaker 3: you're seeing the television contracts draft. I mean, go look 1390 01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:07,520 Speaker 3: at the average salary. Baseball is weird because there's no 1391 01:07:07,560 --> 01:07:10,160 Speaker 3: salary cap, so hockey's obviously the one. Like go look 1392 01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:12,840 Speaker 3: at the average salary of an NHL player compared to 1393 01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:16,840 Speaker 3: an NBA player, Like it is, it's crazy the difference 1394 01:07:16,880 --> 01:07:19,520 Speaker 3: between And they're both playing professional sports. 1395 01:07:19,160 --> 01:07:21,760 Speaker 1: In North America at the men's level. 1396 01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:23,880 Speaker 3: Like, there shouldn't be that big of a gap, but 1397 01:07:23,920 --> 01:07:25,760 Speaker 3: there is because they're just not as marketable. 1398 01:07:25,800 --> 01:07:29,160 Speaker 2: Supply demand and get in there and sell, sell, sell, 1399 01:07:29,320 --> 01:07:32,600 Speaker 2: go into the ancillary markets, including the betting markets. An 1400 01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:36,720 Speaker 2: interest in accessibility. Right, I'm five foot seven, fire plug, 1401 01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:39,720 Speaker 2: I should have been on skates. Guess what grew up 1402 01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:42,919 Speaker 2: where we had no ice? Anywhere near us and back 1403 01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:45,320 Speaker 2: then play it against sports and some of those other. 1404 01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:47,959 Speaker 1: Play it again in the sport. I used to buy 1405 01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:48,840 Speaker 1: my gear from there. 1406 01:07:48,880 --> 01:07:50,560 Speaker 2: But you know what I mean, like, we didn't have 1407 01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:53,120 Speaker 2: a lot of those yeses like back. I mean, that's 1408 01:07:53,120 --> 01:07:56,560 Speaker 2: how old I am. I'll age myself. I crossed over 1409 01:07:56,640 --> 01:07:59,160 Speaker 2: into the second half. I'm at fifty one. But we 1410 01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:01,800 Speaker 2: didn't have those things is available to us, certainly you 1411 01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:06,600 Speaker 2: didn't have you know, these different online marketplaces. So there 1412 01:08:06,640 --> 01:08:08,400 Speaker 2: was no chance in hell my parents were gonna be 1413 01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:11,480 Speaker 2: able to a drive us, you know, to the north side, 1414 01:08:11,520 --> 01:08:14,840 Speaker 2: do an ice rink, be pay for three of us 1415 01:08:15,320 --> 01:08:18,120 Speaker 2: for skating lessons, ice time and all the. 1416 01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:22,000 Speaker 3: Equipment like jockeys sports, So is golf. That's why basketball, 1417 01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:23,599 Speaker 3: because all you need is a bond who that's it. 1418 01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:25,080 Speaker 3: You don't even need another person. 1419 01:08:25,080 --> 01:08:26,960 Speaker 2: No you don't, right, I mean go out on and 1420 01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:30,400 Speaker 2: go out on the black top, roll a garbage can 1421 01:08:30,439 --> 01:08:34,360 Speaker 2: in front of your run that right. Soccer, Eventually you 1422 01:08:34,439 --> 01:08:37,120 Speaker 2: need spacing and whatever else as you do basketball, but 1423 01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:41,000 Speaker 2: you can practice an awful lot of individual skills before 1424 01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:43,519 Speaker 2: you even get anybody else involved. But all that to say, 1425 01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:47,960 Speaker 2: big opportunity, Uh, for Major League Baseball, and I don't 1426 01:08:47,960 --> 01:08:51,240 Speaker 2: buy that show hao Tony doesn't speak English. I'm just 1427 01:08:51,280 --> 01:08:56,880 Speaker 2: throwing it out there publicly basically be left alone. 1428 01:08:57,439 --> 01:09:00,439 Speaker 3: Yes, agreed, And especially after the scandal of last year, 1429 01:09:00,439 --> 01:09:01,680 Speaker 3: speaking of gambling. 1430 01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:05,560 Speaker 2: Which got swept under a rug really really fast. 1431 01:09:05,280 --> 01:09:06,400 Speaker 1: It really wasn't his fault. 1432 01:09:06,600 --> 01:09:09,639 Speaker 3: Really honestly, based on all the information that I've done, 1433 01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:12,680 Speaker 3: I'm I'm very unbiased with this stuff. It really does 1434 01:09:12,720 --> 01:09:14,519 Speaker 3: look like he got Now it's crazy that one of 1435 01:09:14,560 --> 01:09:17,120 Speaker 3: the richest and most powerful people in sports could get 1436 01:09:17,240 --> 01:09:19,280 Speaker 3: you know, the wool pull over there pulled over their 1437 01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:22,880 Speaker 3: eyes so so, you know, harshly, but that is what 1438 01:09:22,920 --> 01:09:24,880 Speaker 3: it appeared to happen. Like I listened to the phone 1439 01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:28,280 Speaker 3: records of this guy trying to like act like he 1440 01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:30,080 Speaker 3: was show on the phone with the bank. 1441 01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:30,839 Speaker 1: It's crazy. 1442 01:09:30,960 --> 01:09:33,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just curious the you know, the the amount 1443 01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:38,040 Speaker 2: of power that Ebe had right that there weren't more 1444 01:09:38,120 --> 01:09:40,639 Speaker 2: checks and balances and dreams of large amounts of money 1445 01:09:41,200 --> 01:09:43,559 Speaker 2: being siphoned off of accounts. But that's a whole other thing. 1446 01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:46,479 Speaker 2: Really quick, since we talked, you know, little betting scandal. 1447 01:09:47,400 --> 01:09:50,840 Speaker 2: What do you think Fresno State sits down a couple 1448 01:09:50,840 --> 01:09:55,360 Speaker 2: of players amid an investigation that they think might be 1449 01:09:56,600 --> 01:10:00,479 Speaker 2: they're sat down indefinitely. But some betting irregular layer he's 1450 01:10:00,840 --> 01:10:04,920 Speaker 2: related to there a you know, how big does this go? 1451 01:10:05,600 --> 01:10:08,080 Speaker 2: How much does it got to get pushed to the 1452 01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:10,920 Speaker 2: backdrop with you know, as we get ready for March 1453 01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:14,920 Speaker 2: madness and be how easy slash likely? Is this a 1454 01:10:14,920 --> 01:10:16,200 Speaker 2: more pervasive issue? 1455 01:10:16,400 --> 01:10:17,200 Speaker 1: Great questions. 1456 01:10:19,080 --> 01:10:22,719 Speaker 3: I think to answer one the first question, I think 1457 01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:25,160 Speaker 3: it is a pretty important story because I think it's 1458 01:10:25,320 --> 01:10:29,320 Speaker 3: becoming a trend. And that's what scares me is the 1459 01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:32,200 Speaker 3: ease of access. And it don't get me wrong, I'm 1460 01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:35,320 Speaker 3: I think gambling, just like anything else, like any other 1461 01:10:35,400 --> 01:10:39,000 Speaker 3: vice in our country, alcohol, tobacco, whatever. 1462 01:10:38,920 --> 01:10:42,439 Speaker 1: Moderation is key. I think we are in an era now. 1463 01:10:42,720 --> 01:10:47,640 Speaker 3: That it's so easily accessible and the information is so 1464 01:10:47,760 --> 01:10:50,400 Speaker 3: widely out there, and there's so much hubrius around it. 1465 01:10:50,439 --> 01:10:51,839 Speaker 1: That's the problem that I have, Mike. 1466 01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:57,360 Speaker 3: Like they did Ay, the NCAA actively polls the student athletes, 1467 01:10:57,920 --> 01:10:59,439 Speaker 3: and that's how they kind of find out some of 1468 01:10:59,479 --> 01:11:02,920 Speaker 3: this information is going on behind the scenes. This particular 1469 01:11:03,240 --> 01:11:06,519 Speaker 3: poll that the NCAA took about Fresno State, half of 1470 01:11:06,600 --> 01:11:09,599 Speaker 3: the male student athletes who are gambling think they can win. 1471 01:11:09,960 --> 01:11:13,519 Speaker 3: By the way, only about one percent of gamblers maybe 1472 01:11:13,600 --> 01:11:16,720 Speaker 3: less than that win long term. Like, you don't win 1473 01:11:16,760 --> 01:11:19,280 Speaker 3: at this long term unless you are a professional. And 1474 01:11:19,320 --> 01:11:22,720 Speaker 3: I think the hubris that men and it's funny because 1475 01:11:22,760 --> 01:11:25,360 Speaker 3: they pulled the same female student athletes's only about twenty 1476 01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:26,639 Speaker 3: three percent of them thought they could. 1477 01:11:26,479 --> 01:11:29,240 Speaker 1: Win long term. So there's are toxic masculinity summed up 1478 01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:30,599 Speaker 1: in just a quick pull right there. 1479 01:11:31,280 --> 01:11:34,720 Speaker 3: But the men that are doing this, that think they 1480 01:11:34,760 --> 01:11:37,679 Speaker 3: can win long term, that are betting these crazy things, 1481 01:11:38,280 --> 01:11:40,519 Speaker 3: that's where I get scared, because you have to It's 1482 01:11:40,520 --> 01:11:42,720 Speaker 3: all about education, Like we have to educate, you know, 1483 01:11:42,880 --> 01:11:45,520 Speaker 3: the student athletes to saying listen, it might be accessible 1484 01:11:45,720 --> 01:11:47,639 Speaker 3: and just because you're twenty one and it's legal, doesn't 1485 01:11:47,640 --> 01:11:50,200 Speaker 3: mean you should be doing it at scale. The second 1486 01:11:50,200 --> 01:11:53,200 Speaker 3: part of this is I hope that by making a 1487 01:11:53,320 --> 01:11:56,640 Speaker 3: strong example of some of these players and some of 1488 01:11:56,680 --> 01:12:00,559 Speaker 3: these situations, it will deter some things in the long 1489 01:12:00,640 --> 01:12:03,240 Speaker 3: run from continuing, because it is becoming a trend right now. 1490 01:12:03,560 --> 01:12:06,000 Speaker 2: He's Jared, He's Jared Smith, I'm b Myke Carbon, It's 1491 01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:09,719 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Sunday. Here, Fox Sports Radio We've got food 1492 01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:12,760 Speaker 2: in a big anniversary to finish the show off. But 1493 01:12:12,800 --> 01:12:15,920 Speaker 2: first we talked to Manzi Belagias over at the news desk. 1494 01:12:16,040 --> 01:12:19,559 Speaker 2: She's got everything that's trending in our sporting world. What's Jazzi? 1495 01:12:19,960 --> 01:12:20,599 Speaker 11: What what's up? 1496 01:12:20,640 --> 01:12:21,479 Speaker 2: Happy Sunday? 1497 01:12:21,800 --> 01:12:22,800 Speaker 1: Back to you, Jed. 1498 01:12:22,840 --> 01:12:23,640 Speaker 2: How's Jackpot? 1499 01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:25,120 Speaker 1: Oh, he's sleeping right now. 1500 01:12:25,160 --> 01:12:26,960 Speaker 3: He's ready to get dad off the air so we 1501 01:12:26,960 --> 01:12:27,880 Speaker 3: can go outside and point. 1502 01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:29,639 Speaker 11: Let me tell you what I wish I was doing sleeping. 1503 01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:32,640 Speaker 1: I was doing the best life in the world. Just 1504 01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:33,160 Speaker 1: sleeps all that. 1505 01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:36,280 Speaker 11: I'm jealous of Jackpot right now in this moment. 1506 01:12:36,479 --> 01:12:38,040 Speaker 2: Right Like the name, Yeah, no. 1507 01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:39,479 Speaker 1: It's a great name for Vegas. 1508 01:12:39,479 --> 01:12:43,160 Speaker 11: Thought, it's perfect, It's absolutely perfect. We'll start in the 1509 01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:46,200 Speaker 11: NBA fellows. Josh Hart back in the lineup for the Knicks. 1510 01:12:46,240 --> 01:12:48,120 Speaker 11: He missed last two games with a knee injury. He's 1511 01:12:48,160 --> 01:12:51,439 Speaker 11: got nine points. But it's really been all Celtics so far. 1512 01:12:51,280 --> 01:12:51,960 Speaker 2: Against the Knicks. 1513 01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:54,599 Speaker 11: They're up forty to twenty three early in the second quarter, 1514 01:12:55,160 --> 01:12:58,000 Speaker 11: forty to twenty six now. But the Celtics shooting really well, 1515 01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:00,759 Speaker 11: not just from the three point line, but just across 1516 01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:03,680 Speaker 11: the core in general. Jason Tatum has ten points so 1517 01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:07,400 Speaker 11: far in this one. They're also the Knicks are expecting 1518 01:13:07,439 --> 01:13:11,519 Speaker 11: to get Mitchell Robinson back really soon. According to ESPN, 1519 01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:14,320 Speaker 11: he's closing in on his season debut and that his 1520 01:13:14,439 --> 01:13:17,040 Speaker 11: goal is to be back at some point this week. 1521 01:13:17,120 --> 01:13:20,519 Speaker 11: The Knicks currently third in the Eastern Conference. Celtic's currently 1522 01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:23,880 Speaker 11: second in the Eastern Conference. In men's college, Hoo's Saint 1523 01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:26,400 Speaker 11: John's tenth ranks. Saint John's is on top of Yukon 1524 01:13:26,479 --> 01:13:29,080 Speaker 11: fifty nine to forty five with about fourteen minutes to 1525 01:13:29,120 --> 01:13:30,559 Speaker 11: go in the game, and you can catch all the 1526 01:13:30,600 --> 01:13:33,920 Speaker 11: action on Fox. On the women's side, it's been back 1527 01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:36,800 Speaker 11: and forth between the number one team Notre Dame and 1528 01:13:36,960 --> 01:13:40,680 Speaker 11: thirteenth ranked NC State. Right now, NC State is up 1529 01:13:40,760 --> 01:13:44,200 Speaker 11: seventy four to seventy three with two minutes to go 1530 01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:47,639 Speaker 11: in this one, and on the ice, no, Alexovechkin has 1531 01:13:47,720 --> 01:13:50,000 Speaker 11: not scored, even though we're keeping an eye on it 1532 01:13:50,160 --> 01:13:53,799 Speaker 11: to see if he breaks Swayne Gretzky's all time goals record, 1533 01:13:53,840 --> 01:13:56,200 Speaker 11: But the Oilers and the Capitals are currently tied out 1534 01:13:56,240 --> 01:13:58,200 Speaker 11: win apiece late in the first period. 1535 01:13:58,640 --> 01:14:01,559 Speaker 2: Back to you guys, thanks so much, Steve, appreciate you. 1536 01:14:01,840 --> 01:14:04,120 Speaker 2: We're gonna bring you back in because you know, you 1537 01:14:04,160 --> 01:14:07,200 Speaker 2: have a tradition for the good folks here on Sundays 1538 01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:10,200 Speaker 2: that they partake in. It's very pivotal to a story 1539 01:14:10,200 --> 01:14:12,120 Speaker 2: we're going to do next here from the world of 1540 01:14:12,160 --> 01:14:14,800 Speaker 2: the NBA. He's Jared Smith on Mike Carmen. This is 1541 01:14:14,880 --> 01:14:18,720 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Sunday, Fox Sports Radio. We wrap it up next. Hey, 1542 01:14:18,760 --> 01:14:22,040 Speaker 2: welcome back in Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Sunday, Mike 1543 01:14:22,080 --> 01:14:25,120 Speaker 2: Carmen alongside Jared Smith. Hey, be sure to check out 1544 01:14:25,120 --> 01:14:27,920 Speaker 2: the Fox Sports Radio YouTube channel. A ton of great 1545 01:14:28,000 --> 01:14:31,439 Speaker 2: videos from many of the Fox Sports Radio shows. Search 1546 01:14:31,439 --> 01:14:34,480 Speaker 2: for Fox Sports Radio on YouTube. You'll see video highlights, 1547 01:14:35,200 --> 01:14:40,200 Speaker 2: arguments and the great commentary that flows thereafter on all 1548 01:14:40,920 --> 01:14:43,280 Speaker 2: of our shows. Be sure to subscribe as you do 1549 01:14:43,600 --> 01:14:48,120 Speaker 2: and you have incidant access Fox Sports Radio on YouTube. 1550 01:14:48,120 --> 01:14:51,519 Speaker 2: A couple of housekeeping notes. I said, there's a huge 1551 01:14:51,520 --> 01:14:54,400 Speaker 2: anniversary a couple of Big ten teams squaring off. A 1552 01:14:54,439 --> 01:14:58,959 Speaker 2: little bit later on today it is Indiana and Purdue 1553 01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:03,720 Speaker 2: forty years ago today Bob Knight threw a chair. How 1554 01:15:03,720 --> 01:15:06,120 Speaker 2: do you like that, Jared, forty I just saw that. 1555 01:15:06,160 --> 01:15:07,080 Speaker 1: I'm watching the game. 1556 01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:09,719 Speaker 3: They actually have like paddle locks on the chairs now 1557 01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:12,639 Speaker 3: on like like the chairs court side. They just showed 1558 01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:14,759 Speaker 3: a picture of the you know, video of the chairs 1559 01:15:14,760 --> 01:15:17,439 Speaker 3: and there's like, you know, you know the lock you put. 1560 01:15:17,240 --> 01:15:21,000 Speaker 1: On your bike when you when you get there. It's weird. 1561 01:15:21,040 --> 01:15:23,519 Speaker 1: I guess they have the coming memorialize it. 1562 01:15:23,640 --> 01:15:26,519 Speaker 2: Well, you got that and it gets some run there. 1563 01:15:26,960 --> 01:15:31,400 Speaker 2: Darren Revel Business and Sports and collectibles and everything. He 1564 01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:33,920 Speaker 2: estimated that chair, if you could corroborate that it was 1565 01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:37,240 Speaker 2: the actual chair, would be worth into the six figures. 1566 01:15:37,760 --> 01:15:39,600 Speaker 1: That doesn't surprise me. Yeah, all for what like a 1567 01:15:39,640 --> 01:15:40,680 Speaker 1: fifty dollars folding chair? 1568 01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:41,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. 1569 01:15:41,880 --> 01:15:43,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a pretty good ROI. That's the kind of 1570 01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:45,760 Speaker 3: r I we're looking for in the gambling world, am I. 1571 01:15:45,920 --> 01:15:48,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no question about it. And anything that you're 1572 01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:51,400 Speaker 2: involved in, your stock markets, your your long term four 1573 01:15:51,439 --> 01:15:55,080 Speaker 2: oh one k's, and even your baseball card purchases. Oh 1574 01:15:55,120 --> 01:15:57,120 Speaker 2: they have to check out stand. I got to hit 1575 01:15:57,120 --> 01:15:59,599 Speaker 2: a win, no question about it, all right. The last 1576 01:15:59,600 --> 01:16:04,040 Speaker 2: two things food items. One, be careful where you're you're commenting. 1577 01:16:04,120 --> 01:16:07,639 Speaker 2: It's a story of a ramen shop in Japan where 1578 01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:10,479 Speaker 2: they're trying to chase down people that left some negative 1579 01:16:10,479 --> 01:16:13,519 Speaker 2: comments about their service, et cetera. And remember the walls 1580 01:16:13,560 --> 01:16:16,840 Speaker 2: have ears h and as we know in sports talk radio, 1581 01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:19,800 Speaker 2: we don't normally get a lot of I love you 1582 01:16:19,840 --> 01:16:23,720 Speaker 2: guy kind of messages. How many messages of hey, you 1583 01:16:23,800 --> 01:16:27,120 Speaker 2: got that wrong do you get versus a nice job 1584 01:16:27,160 --> 01:16:29,200 Speaker 2: and an adda boy. I'm not saying we don't have 1585 01:16:29,640 --> 01:16:34,320 Speaker 2: a wonderful worldwide global audience here at Jared Smith Bets 1586 01:16:34,360 --> 01:16:38,559 Speaker 2: at Swollen Dome, but certainly we've got that going for us. 1587 01:16:38,840 --> 01:16:40,840 Speaker 2: I want to do one last story here. We've got 1588 01:16:40,840 --> 01:16:44,320 Speaker 2: Moncy Blagos in with us at the news desk, and 1589 01:16:44,320 --> 01:16:46,600 Speaker 2: and this I bring her in because she is so 1590 01:16:46,800 --> 01:16:50,320 Speaker 2: generous to the group here on Sundays, always carrying in 1591 01:16:50,400 --> 01:16:53,759 Speaker 2: a satchel of food at Monty Bologo, here with Steve 1592 01:16:53,760 --> 01:16:56,479 Speaker 2: Hartman on Saturday. Here are all over the network. She's 1593 01:16:56,479 --> 01:16:59,479 Speaker 2: with us this morning. You bring in taco bell. I 1594 01:16:59,680 --> 01:17:03,479 Speaker 2: do nourish the souls, and anybody knows anything about radio 1595 01:17:03,520 --> 01:17:07,720 Speaker 2: and TV, feed the people happy. 1596 01:17:07,439 --> 01:17:09,160 Speaker 1: People, exactly. It's more for me. 1597 01:17:09,479 --> 01:17:10,479 Speaker 11: So I'm not angry. 1598 01:17:10,760 --> 01:17:12,040 Speaker 1: What's your taco bell order? 1599 01:17:12,080 --> 01:17:12,439 Speaker 5: MANSI? 1600 01:17:13,160 --> 01:17:16,479 Speaker 11: Well, I bring breakfast burritos on Sundays, So I get 1601 01:17:16,479 --> 01:17:18,720 Speaker 11: the potato one because I don't eat meat, so I 1602 01:17:18,760 --> 01:17:21,960 Speaker 11: get the potato breakfast burrito, but the fellows get the meat. 1603 01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:23,559 Speaker 1: How do you get your protein? 1604 01:17:23,560 --> 01:17:25,439 Speaker 3: Because I'm a big I've gotten big into the macros 1605 01:17:25,479 --> 01:17:26,719 Speaker 3: these days, all about the protein. 1606 01:17:27,479 --> 01:17:28,960 Speaker 11: I have a lot of I eat a lot of 1607 01:17:28,960 --> 01:17:30,559 Speaker 11: like just nuts, but beans. I have a lot of 1608 01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:32,800 Speaker 11: beans as well. I'm Latina, so she's an. 1609 01:17:32,760 --> 01:17:34,760 Speaker 1: Angry and taco about. 1610 01:17:34,760 --> 01:17:38,639 Speaker 11: You can get like a black bean crunch wrap Supreme, Yeah, 1611 01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:40,280 Speaker 11: which is phenomenal. 1612 01:17:40,479 --> 01:17:42,920 Speaker 3: The crunch wraps Ofpremes are just put it up there. 1613 01:17:42,960 --> 01:17:44,759 Speaker 3: It's like sliced bread. It's like the inventions. 1614 01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:45,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so good. 1615 01:17:46,040 --> 01:17:48,439 Speaker 11: And you could do that with you can sub anything 1616 01:17:48,439 --> 01:17:50,280 Speaker 11: with black beans at talk about, which is really great. 1617 01:17:50,360 --> 01:17:53,599 Speaker 2: There you go. I bring that up because Nicola Jokic, 1618 01:17:53,680 --> 01:17:55,960 Speaker 2: you may famously remember on Draft night they had a 1619 01:17:56,000 --> 01:18:01,400 Speaker 2: Taco bell at running right. So he was asked about 1620 01:18:01,439 --> 01:18:03,200 Speaker 2: all of this stuff and he said, quote, I've never 1621 01:18:03,240 --> 01:18:05,519 Speaker 2: had taco bell just because of that. 1622 01:18:06,200 --> 01:18:07,400 Speaker 11: I mean, he's missing now. 1623 01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:08,519 Speaker 1: He really is. 1624 01:18:09,040 --> 01:18:11,800 Speaker 3: Although these days I'm more of a Chipotle mos kind 1625 01:18:11,800 --> 01:18:14,960 Speaker 3: of of course, you know the level above, like I've 1626 01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:17,360 Speaker 3: not of graduated from taco bell at this stage, but 1627 01:18:17,400 --> 01:18:19,479 Speaker 3: it's still it still hits. 1628 01:18:19,479 --> 01:18:21,920 Speaker 11: The price is completely different. 1629 01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:24,479 Speaker 2: Well, but that's your thing. Now, we're talking about quantity, 1630 01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:29,000 Speaker 2: quality exactly, price point right, how inebriated you are all. 1631 01:18:28,880 --> 01:18:30,960 Speaker 3: Of those things for how late it is at night 1632 01:18:31,439 --> 01:18:34,160 Speaker 3: after ten pm the taco bell quottion goes up. 1633 01:18:34,240 --> 01:18:35,960 Speaker 2: But I throw this out to you, guys. Is there 1634 01:18:35,960 --> 01:18:40,040 Speaker 2: a food you avoid? Maybe likely not necessarily because of 1635 01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:42,960 Speaker 2: well maybe or you had it once and you never 1636 01:18:43,040 --> 01:18:45,840 Speaker 2: came back right for me? It really, I generally. 1637 01:18:45,479 --> 01:18:49,000 Speaker 3: Don't really into Indian food curry. The smell of it 1638 01:18:49,080 --> 01:18:52,760 Speaker 3: just turns me off. But delicious at its core. I 1639 01:18:52,880 --> 01:18:54,760 Speaker 3: just I had a bad experience with it once. It 1640 01:18:54,800 --> 01:18:56,640 Speaker 3: was too spicy in the curry flavor. It just like 1641 01:18:56,880 --> 01:18:59,520 Speaker 3: so I get like queasy sometimes. 1642 01:18:59,320 --> 01:19:01,960 Speaker 2: Aversion to that. Okay, Chris, you had one. 1643 01:19:02,120 --> 01:19:04,479 Speaker 8: Doesn't matter how far the next stop is. And I 1644 01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:07,439 Speaker 8: say this doing my mother loves Wopper Juniors. I cannot 1645 01:19:07,439 --> 01:19:10,679 Speaker 8: stand talking burger kitting. Okay, I cannot do burger king anymore. 1646 01:19:10,720 --> 01:19:12,240 Speaker 8: Every time I've tried, and I used to like their 1647 01:19:12,280 --> 01:19:14,800 Speaker 8: chicken sandwiches, it does not sit with well with me 1648 01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:15,240 Speaker 8: at all. 1649 01:19:15,360 --> 01:19:16,000 Speaker 5: Something about it. 1650 01:19:16,439 --> 01:19:19,120 Speaker 2: I've just gone just generally to hot dogs as a 1651 01:19:19,160 --> 01:19:23,320 Speaker 2: food group. Really because somebody, uh my mom bought some 1652 01:19:23,400 --> 01:19:25,479 Speaker 2: cheap hot dogs for a party once upon a time 1653 01:19:25,880 --> 01:19:28,479 Speaker 2: and my lips swelled like I was Mick Jagger because 1654 01:19:28,479 --> 01:19:30,599 Speaker 2: of the night trades. Oh wow, wow, very bad. 1655 01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:32,680 Speaker 1: You gotta be careful. You don't want to know how 1656 01:19:32,680 --> 01:19:34,160 Speaker 1: the sausage is made with those things. 1657 01:19:34,240 --> 01:19:36,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, so the street meets we were talking about with 1658 01:19:36,200 --> 01:19:38,799 Speaker 2: Shay earlier literally not in for me, There's no question. 1659 01:19:39,040 --> 01:19:42,760 Speaker 2: Thanks Bontie, Thanks Chris, Thanks Shay. Jared fun working with you. 1660 01:19:42,840 --> 01:19:45,240 Speaker 2: We'll do it again. Steven Rich coming up next on 1661 01:19:45,320 --> 01:19:45,679 Speaker 2: Fox