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Speaker 1: You don't listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Let's play right in the middle of March Madness. The

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Speaker 2: NBA coming down the stretch. Oh, by the way, actual

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Speaker 3: There's plenty going on.

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Speaker 2: Good evening to you eat from Salam my good friend,

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Speaker 2: and I have a question for you right out of

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Speaker 2: the gate, and it is this, if I put and

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Speaker 2: I know you're in the middle of this fasting experience,

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Speaker 2: Ramadan and all that you're doing. So I don't mean

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Speaker 2: for this to pick a scab of any short but

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Speaker 2: if I if I put something delicious in front of

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Speaker 2: you right now, delicious, but I promised you that if

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Speaker 2: you eat it, you're gonna get food poisoning later tonight.

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Speaker 2: Would you eat it? No, but it's delicious.

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Speaker 4: It's delicious in mouth water and you're hungry. It's it's

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's the best thing that you could find

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Speaker 3: No, but then it'll make you sick. You're gonna get sick.

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Speaker 5: I can't be that good.

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Speaker 2: Okay, then why is everybody watching March Madness with this

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Speaker 2: silly instant gratification junk? Oh God, where are my upsets?

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Speaker 2: Where are your upsets? Who wants upsets?

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Speaker 3: Don't? I don't know why everybody.

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Speaker 2: Is all freaked out about the fact that that I

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Speaker 2: I'm wrong. But for the first time in the history

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Speaker 2: of I think ever, the ones, twos, threes, and fours.

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Speaker 3: All won their first round games, all of them.

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Speaker 2: There were no upsets, no Slipper Fit, no Cinderella, no nothing,

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Speaker 2: nothing and not. Everyone's like something is broken here with

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Speaker 2: my march madness? Where are all my upsets? Why do

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Speaker 2: you want upsets? Knowing that eight times out of ten

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Speaker 2: they lead to a big bunch of junk performance the

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Speaker 2: next time out. I'm so glad that everybody got to

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Speaker 2: know Aura, the very very cool walk out boombox guy

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Speaker 2: for McNee state, and the players all did a wonderful

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Speaker 2: job of really playing it up, and the whole thing

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Speaker 2: made for wonderful digital content.

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Speaker 3: What it did not make for was a wonderful second

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Speaker 5: No, it did not.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I don't want any upsets. I don't. I just liked, Yes,

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Speaker 2: they're fun for a minute, their instant gratification, But the

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Speaker 2: tournament is so much better if we can get all

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Speaker 2: the big boys going to next weekend.

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Speaker 6: It is I like upsets when it's teams that are

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Speaker 6: those teams deserve to win. You know, winning one game

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Speaker 6: is one thing, but if you can win back to

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Speaker 6: back right to you know, two weekends, you know, two wins,

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Speaker 6: you're in the sweet sixteen, you know. So I like

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Speaker 6: the notion of you know, being able to to beat

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Speaker 6: a good team beat another good team. Yes, and now

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Speaker 6: people have to look at you like, oh wait, wait,

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Speaker 6: this is a good team. You know, anything can happened once,

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Speaker 6: but if it happens twice, then it's not anything anymore, right.

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Speaker 5: And so the fact of you know, just.

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Speaker 6: Of sixteen beating the one just to get boat raced

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Speaker 6: the next weekend, nobody wants to see that unless your

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Speaker 6: team is in that bracket with them, and they're like

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Speaker 6: yes uh.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, for those of you who love

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Speaker 2: to fill out a bracket and e from I know

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Speaker 2: that's not you, No, But if you like to fill

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Speaker 2: out a bracket, I'd argue where most people go wrong

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Speaker 2: is they pick up that piece of paper.

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Speaker 3: They have no idea who any of these teams are.

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Speaker 2: Neither do I and they pick up that piece of paper,

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Speaker 2: Fox Sport Radio dot com and you check it all

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Speaker 2: out and you start moving people through. And the big

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Speaker 2: mistake that people make is they start picking up sets

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Speaker 2: and they're like, I think that we've got a live

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Speaker 3: Seed is going to the Elite eight this year. Well,

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Speaker 2: And if they don't, you've totally ruined your bracket because

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Speaker 2: I've sort of learned through the years, not that my

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Speaker 3: That's not even my point. But my point is is.

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Speaker 2: Like, like, the way to win a bracket pool is

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Speaker 2: my friends, because that's what's going to win out in

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Speaker 3: And you usually win.

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Speaker 2: A bracket pool by not like braggadociously telling your friends

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Speaker 3: Pulled a twelve five.

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Speaker 2: You win a bracket pool by picking the final four

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Speaker 2: correctly and the final champion correctly. So I am thankful

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Speaker 2: for this tournament because I have Tennessee winning the whole

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Speaker 2: I don't know, man, Like that's I don't want the

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Speaker 2: tournament to become a worse product as it goes, Like

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Speaker 2: we already joked last week, that's kind of what ales

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Speaker 2: college basketball to a degree. Everybody went to Vegas this

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Speaker 2: It'd be like if the NFL playoffs started and nobody

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Speaker 2: was left when the super Bowl got here, because.

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Speaker 3: It's like, ah, I you know, I picked the wrong team.

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Speaker 2: I had Tennessee winning in an upset and moving through

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Speaker 2: the NFL playoffs and then like the fewer games, fewer

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Speaker 2: people care. So I don't know, man, I'm kind of

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Speaker 2: excited about the way that this tournament is playing out

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Speaker 5: Guy, it's good. And we had a great battle between

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Speaker 3: That was a really good game.

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Speaker 5: That was a really good game.

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Speaker 6: Was basketball at a high level, right, Yukon being what

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Speaker 6: was it the eight seed or ninth seed going up

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Speaker 6: I mean, that was one of those games where if

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Speaker 6: take it all the way based on the previous two years.

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Speaker 6: So upsets in those senses. Once you get to the

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Speaker 6: second round and all that, it's less upset and more like,

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Speaker 6: oh okay, let's see unless you had something disastrous happened

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Speaker 3: It was fantastic. A doubt, it was fantastic.

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Speaker 2: And and look what we've got, I mean outside of

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Speaker 2: Saint John's. And I know there's a lot of basketball

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Speaker 2: But outside of Saint John's what we're looking at in

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Speaker 2: terms of ones and twos and and you know, Wisconsin

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Speaker 2: in and yes, more need to punch their ticket. Michigan

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Speaker 2: three minutes to go. Duke is in Auburn, is in

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Speaker 2: Florida's in Houston's in Tennessee, in like, sorry, Saint John's

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Speaker 2: that was kind of a bummer, but like, dude, we

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Speaker 2: got some serious matchups coming next week.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's when the you know, that's when the

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Speaker 6: rubber hits Row. Yeah, right, that's when it was Rubber

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Speaker 6: meets the Row. Diggos beat you got you, And that's exciting.

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Speaker 6: You know, most people don't realize that March Madness is

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Speaker 6: not that long weeks.

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Speaker 2: I had one of my kids even asked me because

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Speaker 2: March was like more than half over, and she's like,

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Speaker 2: why do they call it March madness. It's like March

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Speaker 2: twentieth and we haven't started yet, so it's kind of Actually,

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Speaker 3: It ends in April, Yeah it does.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, dude, like it. It's here and then it's

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Speaker 2: gone real fast.

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Speaker 5: Two weeks that's it, get it all in.

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Speaker 3: Two weeks, will be down to two teams.

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Speaker 5: And it's exciting. It's it's exciting.

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Speaker 6: It's a great it's a great time for college basketball,

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Speaker 6: men's and women's. The women's NCAA Tournament is going on

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Speaker 6: as well, and you want to talk about let's talk

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Speaker 6: about the ladies for a second.

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Speaker 3: These scores.

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Speaker 6: Of the what's the problem it's not like the men's side,

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Speaker 6: the dominance on the top tier team.

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Speaker 3: Sure.

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Speaker 5: On the women's side, it's not even close.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of.

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Speaker 2: Been like that for like, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 2: there's always that, there's it's yukon through the years.

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Speaker 5: But so let me just to give you guys.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: God, So number one seed South Carolina against number sixteen

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Speaker 6: Tennessee Tech one eight to forty eight. Number three Notre

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Speaker 6: not a twelve five upset there, one oh one to

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Speaker 6: sixty six. I was like, wait, what's happening? I got

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Speaker 6: one that that crushed me. Here, hold on, let.

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Speaker 3: Me crush you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Why Number three LSU against number fourteen San Diego State

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I'm looking at the women's bracket right now,

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Speaker 2: which also, just like the men's a lot of games

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Speaker 2: still to go. Some of them are not even today,

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Speaker 2: they'll be tomorrow, they'll move into the week and whatnot.

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Speaker 2: But do you know at this hour how many seeds

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Speaker 2: higher than five have moved into the sweet sixteen on

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Speaker 2: the women's side, how many none.

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Speaker 3: Zippo zip bo.

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Speaker 2: The men's doesn't have a whole lot more, right, Arkansas

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Speaker 3: So Arkansas, congrats.

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Speaker 2: You are the only team on either bracket with a

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Speaker 3: And it sounds to me like there are some people

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Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, you want the Atlanta Hawks in the

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Speaker 2: NBA Finals or something like that.

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Speaker 3: What are you asking for?

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Speaker 2: Big time basketball is already happening, and I think even

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Speaker 2: even better games are coming next weekend.

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Speaker 3: These are gonna be really, really tough.

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Speaker 5: I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 6: The game to keep an eye on in terms of

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Speaker 6: upset is number twelve. Colorado State and Maryland Carlo. State's

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Speaker 6: playing extremely well. They got point guard stevens Man, who's unreal.

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Speaker 6: I know him because I watched him in the Mountain West.

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Speaker 6: That game is at halftime right now. It's thirty seven

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Speaker 6: to thirty yep, so you know, and in the tournament,

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Speaker 6: you know, higher ranked teams usually turn it on in

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Speaker 6: the second half. But this is a game that Colorado

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Speaker 6: State has had control over it, and it'd be interesting

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Speaker 6: to see how this team plays out.

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Speaker 3: They play very very well.

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Speaker 2: They really controlled the game against Memphis, and they're in

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Speaker 2: their first round matchup too, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: up one hundred and forty six points one mm at home, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: against the Bulls. Embarrassing. Talk to me, man, talk to me, Like,

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Speaker 2: I'll talk to you about the other face of the league.

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Speaker 2: But like, go ahead, what's come on, let's talk about this.

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Speaker 3: Let's be real. Come on, what exactly nobody missing that game?

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Speaker 2: That was full strength, that was full strength, that was

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Speaker 6: Uh, they literally didn't show up. It was embarrassing. It

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Speaker 2: I mean they lost, they lost by They lost by

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Speaker 2: This is not a good basketball Yeah, there's not a

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Speaker 3: Well, I.

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Speaker 2: Look, it's one game, so, uh, there's that, and obviously

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Speaker 2: Like I get it, and so I guess you're gonna

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Speaker 3: And look, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you tell me, you tell me your level

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Speaker 6: My level isn't high because outside of that game, since January,

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Speaker 6: I don't know what. I was watching that game and

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Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, man, And this is like Lakers extended.

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Speaker 2: But I've been stunned at this Western Conference is all

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Speaker 3: Take a week off whatever. We don't even know when

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Speaker 2: again'll y'all have.

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Speaker 3: A reason for what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: I'm confident in that, But it is it's fascinating that

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Speaker 3: The lineup card out. Yeah, surprising, that's all it is.

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Speaker 6: And you know, we'll see, man, we we got about

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Speaker 2: You largely have about twelve thirteen games to go, yeah,

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Speaker 6: Yes, So you know, we'll see how this thing shakes out.

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Speaker 6: I'm just happy that the Lakers, even with injury, they're

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Speaker 5: I'm happy about that.

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Speaker 6: It's you know, I want to stay away from the

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Speaker 3: Oh god, I want no parts of that. You do

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Speaker 6: And we hold onto that four spot. At least we

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Speaker 3: Is there is there anybody you're trying to avoid?

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Speaker 5: I don't think so. You don't want to No, No,

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Speaker 5: I don't think we I don't. I'm not. I don't think.

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Speaker 3: No. That could end up being a four or five matchup.

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Speaker 3: That doesn't bother you.

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Speaker 5: No, it doesn't, because the difference is.

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Speaker 6: We have a real, bonafide, legitimate shot maker and Luca,

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Speaker 6: and with him and Lebron combined, you know, you can

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Speaker 6: They had the advantage. Now with the wing, the size

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Speaker 6: Now you can guard what's his name, Aaron Gordon. Now

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Speaker 5: That's just my feeling.

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Speaker 6: Just like I feel, you know, better do it, just

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Speaker 6: like I feel better about this update, right, this five

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Speaker 6: that's one Stephen de Sega ready to blow our minds.

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Speaker 8: Good evening, gentlemen, good to hear you again.

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Speaker 9: And by the way, that Lakers whatever that was last night,

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Speaker 9: allowing one hundred forty six points, AP said that ties

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Speaker 9: their most ever allowed in a home game non overtime.

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Speaker 9: That also allowed in nineteen eighty four one forty six

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Speaker 9: the Nuggets seemingly always scored one forty six. As for

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Speaker 9: the women's hoops, the late game tonight is number one

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Speaker 9: UCLA hosting Richmond at ten Eastern time. We did have

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Speaker 5: But more on.

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Speaker 9: Ephraim's point in a minute. As for the college hoops,

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Speaker 9: we do have already wins for Kentucky and Alabama tonight's.

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Speaker 8: And we had a couple of games earlier.

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Speaker 9: But as far as the top four seeds in each

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Speaker 9: that had happened before five times since tournament expansion in

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Speaker 9: the mid eighties. What was the record this year the

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Speaker 9: average margin of victory? It was twenty three points for

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Speaker 9: the top four seeds in each region in the first

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Speaker 9: As for the games in progress, Maryland, a four seed

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Speaker 9: Iowa stayed out to a thirteen to five lead against

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Speaker 9: Oregon versus Arizona Great Pac twelve matchup that we will

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Speaker 9: never get it.

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Speaker 3: Oh what would you call it?

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Speaker 9: Number one seed Florida came back to beat Yukon seventy

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Speaker 3: Again.

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Speaker 9: Saint Mary's and Kentucky eliminated Illinois eighty four to seventy five.

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Speaker 9: Nit turnament Oklahoma State one at SMU. As For the NBA,

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Speaker 9: The Nuggets are in action and leading seventy five seventy

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Speaker 9: eight and twelve. Cleveland got back into the wing column

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Speaker 9: easy victory at Utah. Detroit beat New Orleans one thirty six,

442
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Speaker 9: one thirty despite CJ McCollums forty points. Zion Williamson of

443
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Speaker 9: the Pelicans was out again with a brus lower back.

444
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:51,440
Speaker 9: Victories for Boston and the Spurs, wins for Atlanta and Miami,

445
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Speaker 9: NHL wins for Chicago and Buffalo. Kyle Larson took the

446
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Speaker 9: NASCAR race at Homestead Miami. The Indy Car event went

447
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Speaker 9: to Alex Polow.

448
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Speaker 5: Dodg.

449
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Speaker 9: Your shortstop Mookie Betts was scratched from the lineup tonight,

450
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Speaker 9: starting a three game exhibition series against the Angels. US

451
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Speaker 9: soccer has been beaten in LA by Canada two to one.

452
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Speaker 9: And as far as the women's hoops that we've seen

453
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Speaker 9: of this year's tournament, this is first round action. So

454
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Speaker 9: we kind of have mentioned this before, but I'll go

455
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Speaker 9: ahead and say it out loud. It reminds me of

456
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Speaker 9: the Women's World Cup, where they keep expanding to for example,

457
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 9: thirty two teams. There aren't thirty two good teams. So

458
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Speaker 9: I understand you're trying to develop the sport, and that's

459
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Speaker 9: what we're seeing in women's hoops. Great the field is

460
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 9: just as large as the men's tournament. We look at

461
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Speaker 9: the top twenty five week to week in men's college basketball,

462
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Speaker 9: there aren't twenty five good teams.

463
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Speaker 8: For crying out loud.

464
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Speaker 9: Yesterday at one seed USC, the Trojan shot thirty eight

465
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Speaker 9: percent from the floor and still won seventy one to

466
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Speaker 9: twenty five against UNC Greensboro, which shot thirteen percent from

467
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Speaker 9: the floor, won three for the game of fifty four

468
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 9: with twenty three turnovers. That was topped the night before

469
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Speaker 9: when Duke won its opening round game eighty six to

470
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Speaker 9: twenty five against Lehigh, which shot nine of forty six

471
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Speaker 9: from the floor, nine baskets and thirty turnovers in the

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Speaker 9: forty minute game. And then there was Yukon's game at

473
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Speaker 9: home yesterday. The final was one oh three to thirty

474
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Speaker 9: four against Arkansas State, which shot seventeen percent from the floor.

475
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Speaker 9: Twelve of seventy shooting yesterday for Arkansas State at Yukon

476
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Speaker 9: and twenty turnovers and over half their shot attempts were

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Speaker 9: from three point range.

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Speaker 8: Kids, At what point do you.

479
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Speaker 9: Stop taking the lowest percentage shot on the court if

480
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Speaker 9: you're not hitting it? Arkansas State was six for forty

481
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,719
Speaker 9: from long distance in a forty minute game yesterday and

482
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Speaker 9: lost one oh three to thirty four.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, the answer is not yeah, that's the answer,

484
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 2: but I'm in. I'm in on those scores. Let me

485
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,120
Speaker 2: tell you why, and thank you Steve very much. Tyreck

486
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Speaker 2: dot com Studios, Mark Willerty from salam I appreciate this

487
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 2: about women's basketball. What I appreciate is that unlike men's

488
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:26,119
Speaker 2: college hoops and college football, unlike those sports, when blowouts happen,

489
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 2: we don't suddenly freak out and try to fix things.

490
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:31,679
Speaker 3: You ever notice this?

491
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Speaker 2: This is kind of what I'm getting at off the

492
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 2: top of the show with like, hey, where are my upsets?

493
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,360
Speaker 2: To me, is very very like reminiscent of what happens

494
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:44,439
Speaker 2: in college football, where it's like, hey, let's try a

495
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 2: new tournament, let's get let's get this all going, let's

496
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 2: get let's get more teams, get eight teams, let's get

497
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 2: more teams into this whole thing, and then someone will

498
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 2: lose forty two to seven, and we're like see, shouldn't

499
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:00,399
Speaker 2: have been there?

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00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 3: What are you doing there? But if if if if Lebron.

501
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 2: James sweeps an NBA finals, or if Kevin Durant joins

502
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 2: the Warriors and they lose one playoff game their entire run,

503
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 2: Nobody's like, can we sit down and fix the sport?

504
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 2: It's not okay. They're too good and the teams that

505
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 2: they're playing should never have been there in the first place. No,

506
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,719
Speaker 2: what did you just say? Chicago's record is what are

507
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 2: the bulls? What's the Bulls record? They are thirty one

508
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 2: and forty and guess what they get to do when

509
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 2: the year ends go home? No, they get to try

510
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 2: and work their way into the playoffs.

511
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 3: They are the nine seed.

512
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 2: They get to go play two basketball games and possibly

513
00:28:55,720 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 2: go face Cleveland, And when Cleveland wins in that series

514
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 2: in three and a half games, nobody's gonna be like,

515
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 2: we gotta fix this, we gotta fix this.

516
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 3: It's okay, it's okay. If the really good teams blow

517
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 3: out the not really good teams. I'm pretty sure that's

518
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 3: the way it's supposed to work.

519
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 2: It is to work like that, Like I'm okay with it,

520
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 2: Like I famously got into a debate with some people

521
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 2: really close to me a couple of years ago at

522
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 2: one of my daughter's basketball games, and they were only like,

523
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 2: I don't know, the twelve years old or something like that.

524
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 3: And we do this where it's like, okay, one team

525
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 3: is scoring all.

526
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 2: Of the baskets, and immediately everyone gets uncomfortable and we

527
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 2: all have to look at each other.

528
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 3: And go, please tell the good team to stop playing.

529
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 2: Why what in God's name is that teaching anybody?

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Speaker 6: So we we're in our All Stars right now, Valley

531
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Speaker 6: Regional All Stars. I'm the All Star coach, and we're

532
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Speaker 6: three and zero. We're in the tournament bracket, our first

533
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 6: you know tournament bracket. We had pool play and then

534
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 6: we were at the top seed in our pool. And

535
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 6: then we played our first tournament you know, win or

536
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Speaker 6: go home game Saturday, and it was twenty nine to

537
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 6: two okay at halftime okay, And I mean it was

538
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 6: twenty to nothing quick yep. And so we press right.

539
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,239
Speaker 6: So my whole mentality is I want to number one.

540
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 6: I'm gonna see if you can handle the ball nine

541
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Speaker 6: ten years old. We need to see who can dribble,

542
00:30:58,120 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 6: and we want to get our work done.

543
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 5: Early. That's what I tell them now.

544
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 6: Subsequently, we had a game Thursday, and we were up

545
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 6: twenty seven to three at halftime and kind of took

546
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Speaker 6: our foot off the gas.

547
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 5: A final score ended up being.

548
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Speaker 6: Forty seven to twenty. Okay, so we gave up seventeen

549
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 6: points in the second half. I wasn't okay with that.

550
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 6: We came out without the same energy. So at halftime

551
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 6: on Saturday, I'm like, hey, remember two days ago what

552
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 6: happened the second half when you guys forgot that you

553
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 6: were still in the basketball game?

554
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 5: Right, Like at.

555
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 6: Any age, teams tend to let off the gas. Sure, right.

556
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 6: We watched the Lakers, who were they playing? It was

557
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 6: it Denver when they were up by thirty in the

558
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 6: fourth quarter and ended up being only winning by you know,

559
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 6: ten or something like that. You just naturally take your

560
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 6: foot off the gas, of course, and so it's extremely

561
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 6: difficult to for a coach and for players to really

562
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 6: play with that same level of intensity as if it

563
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 6: was a close game. So I say all that to say,

564
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Speaker 6: you know, we end up winning, that they turn the

565
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 6: scoreboard off, we end up I think they scored nine

566
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Speaker 6: points the second half.

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Speaker 5: I think they had eleven. It was forty seventy eleven

568
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 5: at the end of the game. But that's.

569
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Speaker 6: That's the energy you're trying to have. I don't, and

570
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 6: I preached this to them, and I'm sure these coaches,

571
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Speaker 6: these these women's coach teams and coaches are saying, I

572
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Speaker 6: don't care who play. We have a standard. We're gonna

573
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Speaker 6: read our standard, right and if it if we if

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Speaker 6: we're winning by sixty, then we're gonna win by sixty.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I guess the message is if you're struggling

576
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 2: in life, the world will stop it wait for you,

577
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 2: which is a total bss. Okay, And if you're good

578
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 2: at what you do, don't don't be too good.

579
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Speaker 3: It's rude.

580
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Speaker 5: Yeah. No, it's not my job to help you figure

581
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Speaker 5: out what's going on with you.

582
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, like it's okay to get your butt kicked.

583
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 6: No, you gotta adjust. Get one of the moms, the

584
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 6: what the parents? My wife told me where the parents?

585
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 6: The lady turned around was like, where where? What park

586
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 6: is it? Where is this park located? It's just a

587
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 6: it's a different standard. My practices are not We're not

588
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 6: doing a lot of horseplay. Good learning the game of

589
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 6: basketball at a level that these nine and ten year

590
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 6: olds can take with them wherever I take. I take

591
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 6: players who played basketball and tournament to basketball players, because

592
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 6: basketball players games travel anywhere, any court, any coach. Your

593
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 6: game travels if you're if you if you're a basketball player,

594
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 6: not just somebody playing basketball. And that's the difference. And

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00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:22,240
Speaker 6: I've explained that to my team, and they're making tremendous strides.

596
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 6: It's an all star team. I say, hey, man, you

597
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 6: all along here, you all belong here. There's no deferring.

598
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 6: It's aggressive, it's anticipation. I mean, I think we had

599
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Speaker 6: like nine steals in a row, like the team couldn't

600
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 6: even get past half court. And this is this is

601
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:42,839
Speaker 6: we're in the brackets. This team has earned its right

602
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:47,919
Speaker 6: to be and there playing against us, and so we

603
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 6: just like the next team we play again. On Tuesday,

604
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 6: we win that one we played Thursday, we win that one,

605
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 6: win the championship. On Saturday, we win that We get

606
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:03,879
Speaker 6: a banner. That was the goal. That was the goal.

607
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 6: So you know, that's that's where we are. So when

608
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 6: I'm watching these teams and I'm like, oh, I get

609
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 6: I know what that is. I get that. Yeah, I'm

610
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 6: not gonna let the like, I don't press after twenty.

611
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 6: If I'm up twenty, I'm pulling back. We're gonna work

612
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 6: on some other defensive the league we're in.

613
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Speaker 3: Once the other team is up ten, they're not allowed

614
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Speaker 3: to part.

615
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Speaker 5: That's not good. That's an easy that's it, and that's

616
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Speaker 5: you can somebody can.

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Speaker 3: They can go on.

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Speaker 6: They can't run yep, yep, no, And it's it's twenty five,

619
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Speaker 6: it's twenty five and all Stars. But I do it

620
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 6: at twenty because I really want to get the guys

621
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Speaker 6: uh working on other as sure, sure you know, can

622
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 6: we pick up man and man at half court?

623
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Speaker 5: Can we? Uh? You know?

624
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 6: Is our three to two and our two three zone working?

625
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 6: Are we communicating? We sliding our feet? Are we anticipating

626
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 6: the pass? And all of those things. It's just different

627
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,320
Speaker 6: things you want to work on. So when I'm up twenty,

628
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:12,839
Speaker 6: I feel comfortable of you know, working on some other things,

629
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 6: and I want to run on offensive sets.

630
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 5: Very few teams that we have offensive sets. We have.

631
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,280
Speaker 6: We have offensive sets at that age, Like we sure

632
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 6: working on things.

633
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Speaker 2: Love it, love it, love it all right with you

634
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 2: from salam Mark Willard, You're not worried about the Lakers.

635
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 2: I'm a little worried about the Warriors, and I'll tell

636
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 2: you why coming up next. And at the top of

637
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 2: the hour, we got to get to those contract extensions

638
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:36,399
Speaker 2: that we warned you last week.

639
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:39,399
Speaker 3: We're coming for Jamar Chase and t Higgins and.

640
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:44,360
Speaker 2: Then what happened next that was fun after the contract extensions,

641
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 2: we'll tell you all about it. That's still ahead here

642
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:50,320
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio.

643
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 1: Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

644
00:36:53,840 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 2: Okay, We're in the tire rack dot Com studios. And

645
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 2: here's kind of what I'm thinking. Going back to that

646
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 2: Western Conference of the National Basketball Association, Oklahoma City is

647
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 2: going to be the one. Shuston has quietly won nine

648
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 2: games in a row. Yeah, and they're the two. But

649
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 2: they're losing right now to Denver. They're losing on their

650
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 2: own floor by double digits at the start of the

651
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 2: fourth quarter. So we'll see about that. But because Denver

652
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:35,320
Speaker 2: might well move a game closer there and be further

653
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 2: therefore into the three seed you had mentioned it, it

654
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 2: goes Lakers at four, half game back Memphis at five,

655
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 2: two games back Warriors at six, and then a half

656
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 2: game back to the Clippers and Wolves at seven and eight.

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Speaker 3: So those are the top eight teams in the West.

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Speaker 2: And there's always a lot of talk about Lebron James

659
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:55,799
Speaker 2: and Steph Curry because they're the two faces of the league,

660
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 2: and both of them had high profile acquisitions at the

661
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Speaker 2: trade deadline and therefore started playing really good basketball. I

662
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 2: don't know what worries me about the Warriors though, is stamina,

663
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 2: and like it kind of was a big thing this

664
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Speaker 2: week when Steph needed a night off and Steve Kerr

665
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 2: was like, I just see you making mental mistakes, so

666
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 2: therefore you need an emotional wellness day basically, And the

667
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 2: wars went out and won the game anyway. But what

668
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 2: went through my head was, well, that's fine on the battle,

669
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:34,240
Speaker 2: but what about the war Like, if it's this exhausting

670
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 2: in March, how are we supposed to believe that the

671
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 2: thirty five plus year olds throw Lebron into this too?

672
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 2: I guess, how are we supposed to believe that they're

673
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Speaker 2: going to be able to have the stamina to do

674
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Speaker 2: what's necessary to take this into June?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Like, I don't know, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: I think it's like appropriate skepticism, don't you.

677
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 6: I do, I do but look, you can't put a

678
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 6: price on veteran leadership. You can't put a price on actually,

679
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 6: you know, being there and getting there as much as

680
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 6: they have. So you hope that comes into play. You know,

681
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 6: the older you get, the tougher. This thing is man

682
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 6: and so Steph puts a lot of miles, puts a

683
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 6: lot of miles on uh on those legs.

684
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 3: Running around in circles quite a bit, yes.

685
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Speaker 5: So you know, hopefully it shakes out.

686
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Speaker 6: I'd love to see them in the playoffs making a

687
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Speaker 6: deep playoff run. Be awesome, be fun to watch. All right,

688
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 6: let's get to some NFL stuff. Aaron Rodgers, T Higgins,

689
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Speaker 6: Jamar Chase, all of it is coming up next.

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

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Speaker 2: Oh, some of those higher seeds might be heading to

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Speaker 2: the Sweet sixteen soon. We got a real good one

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Speaker 2: that we're following down the stretch. Maryland and Colorado State

694
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 2: are trading blows and going back and forth. We're under

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Speaker 2: three minutes to go. It's Maryland by two, so we'll

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Speaker 2: keep you up to date on that one. Meantime, Iowa State,

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Speaker 2: the three seed has been put on notice that's in

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Speaker 2: the first half, but they're down twelve against Ole Miss

699
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Speaker 2: the sixth seed wouldn't be a huge upset by any stretch,

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Speaker 2: but probably a bracketbuster for some.

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Speaker 3: So we'll keep an eye on all of that.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of college ball now and into the

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Speaker 2: night right here on Fox Sports Radio, we will be

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Speaker 2: should ask you because when we talked last week and

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Speaker 2: we were heading into the first four, you were excited

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Speaker 2: about the opportunity for your as text to take on

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Speaker 2: North Carolina. That game did not go No, it was awful.

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Speaker 2: It did not go well. You start with credit for

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Speaker 2: North Carolina. They did a bunch of stuff they don't

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Speaker 2: normally do. They just they were draining threes all night

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Speaker 2: long and so that one got out of hand. But

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Speaker 2: do you have any sort of a rooting interest now

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Speaker 2: for any of these teams that are still left.

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Speaker 6: I like all the you know, the Mount West teams,

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Speaker 6: Colorado State New Mexico. I think it's great whenever you

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Speaker 6: can have a representative of your conference in the Sweet sixteen.

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Speaker 6: San Diego State has done it the most in that conference.

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Speaker 6: Although we'll be moving to the Pac twelve pretty soon here,

724
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 6: but yeah, I like to see these two teams move

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Speaker 6: on to the Sweet sixteen, to have both of them

726
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 6: in there, that'd be a tremendous thing for our conference.

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Speaker 2: Okay, New Mexico a passable start against Michigan State.

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Speaker 3: That game's underway.

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00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,760
Speaker 2: Five minutes in, they're up by three and Colorado State

730
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 2: has another free throw to see if they can cut

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Speaker 2: this to two with only a minute and a half

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Speaker 2: to go. So we'll keep you up to date on

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Speaker 2: that one because that coming down the stretch right now

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Speaker 2: as we speak. With that said, can we talk a

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Speaker 2: little NFL? Yeah, we get we get into this a

736
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Speaker 2: little bit because it was so rumored. It was rumored

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00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,840
Speaker 2: at such a level that you and I had a

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Speaker 2: lengthy conversation last week about Jamar Chase and T Higgins

739
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 2: and massive contracts, and I made the comment, and I

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Speaker 2: stand by it that if the Bengals do this, and

741
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 2: I say, this is not a cap expert who does

742
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:52,399
Speaker 2: not cover the Bengals, But I fear that if they

743
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 2: do what they did end up doing with those two receivers,

744
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:59,879
Speaker 2: they will ruin Joe Burrow's career because his prime is now.

745
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 2: And it's wild to me the messaging that seems to

746
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,399
Speaker 2: have missed the Bengals, which is the number one goal

747
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,320
Speaker 2: every year is to not have all the fantasy football

748
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,439
Speaker 2: players on your team. The number one goals for Joe

749
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:15,839
Speaker 2: brow to not get hurt, That is the number one

750
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Speaker 2: And I think it, like, what are we year six

751
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:18,399
Speaker 2: for Joe?

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00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 5: Receivers aren't going to help them not get hurt?

753
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Speaker 3: Right?

754
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 2: And and and year six for Joe like he's He's

755
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 2: missed the better part of two seasons already. And the

756
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,959
Speaker 2: Bengals have never been known for their offensive line, and

757
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:32,880
Speaker 2: they certainly were not known for their defense.

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00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,880
Speaker 3: Last year, all of these things were bad, and so

759
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 3: to pour these.

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Speaker 2: Amounts of resources into these two players, as dynamic and

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Speaker 2: wonderful as they are, it feels misguided to me.

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Speaker 3: What what's what's your take?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I don't I think they could have it has been

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00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 6: a better use of the cap in terms of making

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Speaker 6: their team better. T Higgins is a tremendous talent. But

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00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 6: you can draft a number two receiver. Uh there's a

768
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Speaker 6: bunch of them, but you do have to bolster that

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Speaker 6: offensive line. You also got to really look at the

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Speaker 6: defensive line. I know, you have your top guy unhappy yep,

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Speaker 6: Trey Henderson, yep, very unhappy. And so they were, in

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Speaker 6: my opinion, they were different opportunities for you to really,

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Speaker 6: you know, put a team together to help you not

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Speaker 6: start so slow, which has been plaguing him for the

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Speaker 6: last four years straight.

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Speaker 3: Yep, yep, yep, yep.

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Speaker 5: And you're not gonna survive.

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00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 6: Starting oh and four, oh and three, or it's it's

779
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 6: it's too too much of a hole to dig out of.

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Speaker 6: And so they got to figure something out. I mean,

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Speaker 6: I mean, I guess they're gonna try to outscore everybody, right,

782
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:59,320
Speaker 6: but if you can't protect Joe Burrow, what's the point?

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Speaker 3: When the hell has that ever worked in the NFL?

784
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 5: When never.

785
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 3: Like it's mind boggling to me, and I get it.

786
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Speaker 3: I understand. This is very alluring.

787
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Speaker 2: Like the fans love wide receivers, quarterbacks, wide receivers, some

788
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 2: running backs, a few tight ends, and a few defensive

789
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 2: stars as far as a fan is concerned.

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Speaker 3: That's the league and that's fantasy football. But that just.

791
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Speaker 2: I mean, I understand that Trey Hendrickton is older than

792
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 2: these guys, but to be telling a superstar pass rusher

793
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 2: to go find a trade while you then at the

794
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 2: same time make t Higgins the highest paid number two

795
00:45:55,120 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 2: receiver in the history of the game, that's malpractice, absolute malpractice.

796
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Speaker 5: I is paid number.

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00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:08,399
Speaker 3: Two and the highest paid number one. Crazy on the.

798
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Speaker 2: SAE like literally in the same tweet, like you did

799
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Speaker 2: it together, and and and then I don't know what you.

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Speaker 3: Make of this.

801
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:20,319
Speaker 5: They like, we're gonna show people we're not cheap, right right.

802
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 2: Right and then and then t and Jamar apparently immediately

803
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 2: went out and spent half the money.

804
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 3: I'm exaggerating, but like here, it was just a few days.

805
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 2: Later and the two of them have a social media

806
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 2: video of them cruising all over Miami at times in

807
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 2: very high speeds in brand new Lamborghinis.

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Speaker 3: And I'm not anti fun.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that any laws were broken here, Like

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00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 2: I have no issue with any of that in theory,

811
00:46:56,560 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 2: but again messaging, like I can tell you, as you

812
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:07,839
Speaker 2: just said, you referred to Trey Hendrickson as unhappy. I

813
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 2: bet he's unhappier after this last week than he was

814
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:17,320
Speaker 2: even before. He's watching these two wide receivers get paid

815
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 2: and then they're gonna gallivant all over in brand new

816
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 2: Lamborghini's while he still waits for a new contract. I

817
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:30,320
Speaker 2: just I don't know, man, it does it? It feels

818
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 2: like the Bengals are playing fantasy.

819
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 3: Football, not real fo.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it was shocking. I didn't you know they

821
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 6: would have been better off letting T Higgins go and

822
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Speaker 6: if they won't spend money, they could have got a

823
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Speaker 6: Davante At like. I mean, there was a market for

824
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 6: receivers second, you know, tier receivers for sure, there was

825
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:58,320
Speaker 6: far less than what they were spending.

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Speaker 3: Right, I get it. There's there, There's there's continuity there,

827
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:03,239
Speaker 3: and there's there.

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00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:05,960
Speaker 2: Right, there's a vibe with Joe Burrow and and and

829
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 2: their connection and and yes he is younger and he's

830
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 2: fantastic and all of those things like that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, T Higgins a really, really good player.

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00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 2: And and maybe they know something about their cap that

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00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 2: that I don't. I don't know what's going on there,

834
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:25,319
Speaker 2: but I can tell you that every football coach I

835
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:32,120
Speaker 2: have ever spoken to. If you're looking at these two things, okay,

836
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 2: these two things, and you're like, which do you want?

837
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:42,320
Speaker 2: You can have a star edge rusher or a number

838
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:48,439
Speaker 2: two wide receiver. That's the most laughable question you'll ever

839
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 2: ask him. That's not even close. The star pass rusher

840
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 2: is more important than the number one receiver. Oh yes,

841
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 2: And it's not close when you're down putting it up

842
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 2: against the number two receiver. And by the way, you

843
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 2: drafted a rookie last year who I thought pretty.

844
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Speaker 3: Much popped ye yose bosh.

845
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Speaker 5: I think like he's a good player, really player.

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Speaker 2: Okay, your fancy, I got that. Your fancy. That's that's.

847
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 2: That's about it. Like the Cincinnati Bengals are New Year's Eve,

848
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:29,839
Speaker 2: which is basically an overpriced party.

849
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:33,400
Speaker 3: With a special menu.

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00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it.

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00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 6: It's it's gonna be interesting to see this Carlidle State

852
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:42,280
Speaker 6: Maryland game is good. Sixty eight, six seventy.

853
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, Maryland just hit two free throws with eleven seconds

854
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 2: to go, will have the ball?

855
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 5: What do you do? We'll tie it.

856
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 6: I'm gonna I'm gonna, well, look the fact that they're

857
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:55,799
Speaker 6: four for twenty from three, I'm tying the ball.

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00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tie it.

859
00:49:57,040 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tie it, but I'm gonna I'm gonna put

860
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:02,839
Speaker 2: it in the hands of my guy, whoever that is.

861
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:06,000
Speaker 3: I'm gonna let him create a little bit and I'm gonna.

862
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:09,320
Speaker 2: Give him some options if he penetrates and they sag

863
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 2: and we leave somebody wide open for a three. Shoot

864
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:18,800
Speaker 2: your shot, shoot it, shoot your shot. You're a twelve seed,

865
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 2: you're Colorado State.

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00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 5: Where's this going?

867
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:22,920
Speaker 3: Well?

868
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Speaker 2: And you know what, like, okay, so this tournament is

869
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:30,360
Speaker 2: missing some upsets, right, you know what it's really missing

870
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 2: because I don't need the upsets, But do you know

871
00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:38,879
Speaker 2: what everybody loves? Like, there's no signature shot yet, there's

872
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 2: no buzzer beater, right where is the one shining moment shot?

873
00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:50,839
Speaker 2: Where's the Brice Drew? Where's the shot? So we got

874
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:53,879
Speaker 2: a chance for it literally right here. And there haven't

875
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,239
Speaker 2: been a lot of these games, as Steve said, the

876
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 2: margin of victory has been pretty large, So we have

877
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:01,440
Speaker 2: a lot of these situations.

878
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 3: So if I got a chance to do it, let's

879
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 3: go go. You know.

880
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 5: So, yeah, there it is, there, it is there, it

881
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 5: is boom bucket.

882
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:15,360
Speaker 3: He got it, he got it, He got it. Six seconds,

883
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 3: five bang, six seconds.

884
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:21,839
Speaker 6: Three point six seconds left, Colorado State up by one.

885
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:22,880
Speaker 5: They hit the three.

886
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 3: They did it.

887
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 6: Drive it baby, driving kicks.

888
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:29,360
Speaker 3: You acted, It's all you got.

889
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 5: We got action.

890
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 3: Okay, we do.

891
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:37,520
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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. Hey, outside, you finish a basketball game

909
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 2: right there?

910
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:45,360
Speaker 5: Amazing Whooo, that was amazing.

911
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 3: Wow.

912
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:52,040
Speaker 2: So Colorado State hits the three, but they left six

913
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:56,239
Speaker 2: seconds on the clock, three seconds left by the time

914
00:52:56,280 --> 00:53:00,319
Speaker 2: Maryland got it over the timeline and then boom found

915
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:03,439
Speaker 2: the big fella. He took it in the lane, pull

916
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 2: up bank shot deuces goodness as the buzzer sounded. So

917
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 2: there's your one shotting moment game. Maryland beats Colorado State

918
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:22,279
Speaker 2: by one. That was a basketball game. And then those

919
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:25,560
Speaker 2: of you who want upsets, thought.

920
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 3: Better better get to a radio or TV because we

921
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 3: got action. We got action in the Let's see which

922
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:39,320
Speaker 3: bracket is this the South?

923
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 2: The South right now has Michigan State. It's early, but

924
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 2: Michigan State is down by ten against New Mexico eight

925
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 2: minutes to go in the first half, and Iowa State,

926
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 2: as you already mentioned, down by eleven at halftime. Those

927
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 2: are the two three seeds that are in theory scheduled

928
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 2: to play each other next week, but they're both down

929
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 2: by double digits right now, so we may have some

930
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 2: more action still ahead as our show continues to unfold.

931
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:17,840
Speaker 5: Man, I was good defense, everything was good.

932
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 3: It was good, It was good. It was really good.

933
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:26,319
Speaker 2: So yeah, we got two games on right now and

934
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:28,879
Speaker 2: both of them are on upset alert, and then one

935
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:31,280
Speaker 2: more game to go, which will tip off in about

936
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:35,320
Speaker 2: twenty five minutes. And it's, as Steve called it earlier,

937
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 2: a great showdown in the PAC twelve by two teams

938
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:43,880
Speaker 2: who have completely been part of the middle fingers getting

939
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 2: thrown up at the PAC twelve. So Oregon will play

940
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:51,280
Speaker 2: Arizona in a should still be in the PAC twelve showdown.

941
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 5: Man, I love this is good, man.

942
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:04,320
Speaker 2: It's good good, And you know why it's good because

943
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:07,120
Speaker 2: the good teams they all won in the first round,

944
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:11,600
Speaker 2: and so now we have more good teams. We got

945
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 2: good teams playing each other, and so that's that's what

946
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:16,560
Speaker 2: we like.

947
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 5: That's a good point.

948
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 3: That's what we like.

949
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:21,160
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958
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 2: the top of your screen. This one's kind of interesting,

959
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:51,160
Speaker 2: and I would love to get your thoughts, Aphrom, because

960
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 2: a lot of people are like, where should Aaron Rodgers gould?

961
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:58,839
Speaker 2: Who should want him?

962
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:03,799
Speaker 3: And there's like this, it's like a competition, right.

963
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:07,160
Speaker 2: It was the Vikings and now they're out, except for

964
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 2: I don't really believe that they're fully out yet. I

965
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:12,359
Speaker 2: think that they just write. I think they want people

966
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,400
Speaker 2: to think that they're out. And then there's the New

967
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 2: York Giants, and then there's the Pittsburgh Steelers, and everyone's like,

968
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 2: where's Aaron gonna go? And I'm like, if I'm running

969
00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:26,280
Speaker 2: any of those teams, Aaron would go home.

970
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 3: That's where Aaron would go.

971
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 5: You're going home.

972
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:32,480
Speaker 3: You should go.

973
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 2: Home because we have other ideas that are way better

974
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:42,840
Speaker 2: than making you our high paid quarterback, especially the Steelers.

975
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,960
Speaker 2: But then again, the Steelers I think are kind of stuck.

976
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 2: But what's your read on this? What should he do?

977
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:50,640
Speaker 2: What should they do?

978
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:59,319
Speaker 6: I understand what the Steelers are trying to do. They're

979
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 6: trying to get somebody in there that they can team

980
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:12,280
Speaker 6: up with. Uh, you know the receivers Pickens and uh Decay.

981
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 6: Not sure where they're gonna do a running back they

982
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 6: lost nausee. I'm sure they'll draft there. But you know,

983
00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:24,800
Speaker 6: Pittsburgh has been synonymous with having a great running game.

984
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 6: Uh and at least one, you know, good receiver on

985
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 6: the outside. They're trying to to put themselves in a

986
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 6: position too, to have somebody who can really deliver at

987
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:43,480
Speaker 6: the quarterback position. And the experiment of Justin Fields Russell

988
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 6: Wilson worked to an extent. They're trying to see if

989
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:50,080
Speaker 6: they can get one step better than that to give

990
00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:53,920
Speaker 6: them a chance, uh in the turnament in in the playoff.

991
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:55,880
Speaker 5: Excuse me to to.

992
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:59,480
Speaker 6: Really, you know, put some pressure on these teams and

993
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 6: they and how do you how do you walk at

994
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 6: a full time MVP? You know, yeah, Uh, you would

995
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 6: have to think we could change it.

996
00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 3: We can.

997
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:18,640
Speaker 5: It's it's them, not that, it's not him.

998
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:22,720
Speaker 6: Right when you when you're desperate, you start making decisions

999
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:24,720
Speaker 6: like that, Well, it's it's them, not him.

1000
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 5: In reality is him? I was him in Green Bays

1001
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:30,600
Speaker 5: last year there I was him.

1002
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 6: And and and the Jets at the Jets, and so

1003
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:40,160
Speaker 6: this is who he is right now. And it's a

1004
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 6: situation where they may overpay just for the the opportunity

1005
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:54,960
Speaker 6: or the option to test those waters, because the upside

1006
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:57,920
Speaker 6: far out ways the downside.

1007
00:58:58,080 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 5: You've been on the downside.

1008
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:06,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, So they're looking at it like, whoa, if it works,

1009
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:09,040
Speaker 6: we get over that hump.

1010
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:11,480
Speaker 5: If it works.

1011
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:17,480
Speaker 6: If not, we'll be five hundred and maybe squeak into

1012
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:18,120
Speaker 6: the playoffs.

1013
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:21,280
Speaker 3: Well that's yeah, go ahead, you know.

1014
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 6: And so I get it. I understand that. Me myself,

1015
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 6: I'm like, ugh, I don't know. But what are the

1016
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:29,280
Speaker 6: other options there?

1017
00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 2: You go to me, You just asked the question, and

1018
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:37,080
Speaker 2: we're talking about different things depending on where he's gonna go.

1019
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 2: So the Minnesota Vikings, for example, now they're coming off

1020
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:44,200
Speaker 2: of an unbelievable season and a playoff appearance.

1021
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:46,440
Speaker 3: But Sam Donald doesn't play there anymore.

1022
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:50,400
Speaker 2: You have a first round draft pick already in place,

1023
00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 2: and you know he's he's a year.

1024
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:55,760
Speaker 3: Removed from the draft even though he never played.

1025
00:59:56,840 --> 01:00:01,160
Speaker 2: And so it's like, okay, let's do we want to

1026
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:02,400
Speaker 2: bite that forbidden fruit.

1027
01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 3: Do we think that Aaron can come in and do

1028
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:06,360
Speaker 3: what Sam did.

1029
01:00:06,440 --> 01:00:09,320
Speaker 2: But it's probably also at the detriment or the slow

1030
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:12,320
Speaker 2: down of our first round quarterback that we drafted, so

1031
01:00:12,360 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 2: I can get the hesitation there. To me, the New

1032
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:18,520
Speaker 2: York Giants is probably where he should end up if

1033
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 2: it came down to who should want him, because the

1034
01:00:23,160 --> 01:00:26,760
Speaker 2: New York Giants are going to be turning something in

1035
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 2: some form over to a young player, but that player

1036
01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 2: is probably not going to be fully ready, and you're

1037
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 2: also not expected to win. But Aaron does make you

1038
01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 2: more interesting. He makes you more interesting. There's no pressure

1039
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:46,480
Speaker 2: to win right away, and maybe it buys you some time,

1040
01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:49,520
Speaker 2: whether a rookie quarterback, whether it's Shadoor or anyone else

1041
01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 2: from the Steelers of the interesting one, because I don't

1042
01:00:57,200 --> 01:01:01,439
Speaker 2: think that will work. I think it's an absolute implosion,

1043
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 2: but I sort of think you have to try because

1044
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:07,160
Speaker 2: if you don't, I'm sorry.

1045
01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:11,200
Speaker 3: Who the hell's the quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

1046
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:17,120
Speaker 2: You are the Pittsburgh Steelers, and you find a way

1047
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:19,600
Speaker 2: to go to the playoffs every year. Lamar Jackson and

1048
01:01:19,680 --> 01:01:24,000
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow in your division and probably the two largest

1049
01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 2: and biggest personalitied wide receivers in the world are both

1050
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:32,280
Speaker 2: on your team, and you have to have an answer

1051
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 2: for that question of who's your quarterback? So I'd love

1052
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:40,800
Speaker 2: to know what's the other option for the Steelers. They're

1053
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:42,120
Speaker 2: the only ones who can't answer that.

1054
01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:48,439
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know it's it's it's a tough one, right,

1055
01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:51,400
Speaker 6: Not a lot there to work with, not a lot

1056
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:52,280
Speaker 6: out there.

1057
01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 5: To choose from, and so you're stuck in this this

1058
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:03,080
Speaker 5: what do we do? You know? What what do we do?

1059
01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:07,080
Speaker 6: Like I said, They're gonna roll the dice, just like

1060
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:11,560
Speaker 6: I'm going to roll this over to Stephen craps table

1061
01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:13,880
Speaker 6: the sager for this.

1062
01:02:14,120 --> 01:02:17,200
Speaker 5: Uh, shake him up, Shake him up, shake him update.

1063
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 8: We are all still shaken after that finish.

1064
01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:20,360
Speaker 3: In the tour.

1065
01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:21,520
Speaker 5: Unbelievable.

1066
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:21,960
Speaker 1: Woo.

1067
01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 9: We had a chance at a Butzer beater tonight if

1068
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:29,040
Speaker 9: you weren't with us, because Colorado State had taken the

1069
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:32,200
Speaker 9: late lead against the four seed Maryland Terrapins on a

1070
01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:36,480
Speaker 9: three pointer seventy one seventy. Maryland called time out in

1071
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:38,880
Speaker 9: the front court about four seconds left.

1072
01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:40,800
Speaker 8: Then the inbound gets it up top.

1073
01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 3: Two queens rippling left, big step down the lane runner

1074
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:44,040
Speaker 3: for the wind.

1075
01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:49,240
Speaker 5: Bagat Maryland is won.

1076
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:52,280
Speaker 1: Maryland is going to the Sweet sixty.

1077
01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:55,240
Speaker 9: Westward one with the call Ryan Radkey seventy two to

1078
01:02:55,240 --> 01:02:58,320
Speaker 9: seventy one terps the final. Maryland is off to San

1079
01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:01,760
Speaker 9: Francisco for the West Regional semis on Thursday night against

1080
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:04,520
Speaker 9: one seed Florida, which started the day with its narrow

1081
01:03:04,520 --> 01:03:08,400
Speaker 9: win eliminating Yukon seventy seven to seventy five. By the way,

1082
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 9: the other Sweet sixteen game in the Bay Area Thursday

1083
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:15,720
Speaker 9: Arkansas against Texas Tech. So in the West region we've

1084
01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:19,240
Speaker 9: got Florida and Maryland wins today. In the East region,

1085
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:22,960
Speaker 9: one seed Duke advanced eighty nine sixty six over Baylor.

1086
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:26,960
Speaker 9: The late game will be in Seattle Arizona against Oregon

1087
01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:29,640
Speaker 9: coming up within a half an hour. Two Sea Alabama

1088
01:03:29,680 --> 01:03:33,760
Speaker 9: advanced eighty to sixty six over Saint Mary's. Kentucky eliminated

1089
01:03:33,760 --> 01:03:37,120
Speaker 9: Illinois eighty four seventy five. And in the South Region,

1090
01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:39,600
Speaker 9: we've got a couple of games going on right now.

1091
01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:43,120
Speaker 9: Halftime Ole Miss leads forty to twenty nine on three

1092
01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:46,560
Speaker 9: seed Iowa State and two seed Michigan State is still

1093
01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:50,760
Speaker 9: trailing New Mexico late first half Lobos twenty nine twenty two.

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01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:54,520
Speaker 9: Two late games in the NBA. The Nuggets are holding

1095
01:03:54,560 --> 01:03:57,440
Speaker 9: on one oh nine one oh five at Houston with

1096
01:03:57,600 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 9: under a minute ago. Jamal Murray thirty six points as yes,

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01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:05,280
Speaker 9: he's out again. Nicola Jokich is missing a fourth straight

1098
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:07,840
Speaker 9: game with an ankle injury, and he's likely out tomorrow

1099
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 9: as well. His team says Jokich should return during their

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01:04:11,360 --> 01:04:13,240
Speaker 9: upcoming homestand.

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01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:14,240
Speaker 8: Late first quarter late game.

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Speaker 9: Clippers lead twenty six twenty two on the thunder Oklahoma

1103
01:04:17,440 --> 01:04:20,520
Speaker 9: City with a record of fifty eight and twelve. Cleveland's

1104
01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 9: record now fifty seven and fourteen. It's Cleveland a winner

1105
01:04:24,200 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 9: easily at Utah today one twenty to ninety one. The

1106
01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:31,120
Speaker 9: Cavs had lost four straight. Detroit had a late scratch

1107
01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:33,560
Speaker 9: from Keg Cunningham due to a sore calf, but still

1108
01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:37,320
Speaker 9: beat New Orleans one thirty six, one thirty despite forty

1109
01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:40,840
Speaker 9: points from c J McCollum. Zion Williamson of the Pelicans

1110
01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:43,200
Speaker 9: was out again with the bruce lower back New Orleans

1111
01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:46,520
Speaker 9: from three point range twenty for forty and still lost

1112
01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:49,840
Speaker 9: the game. Victory's on the road for Boston and San Antonio.

1113
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 9: Wins at home for Atlanta and Miami for the Heat

1114
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:55,760
Speaker 9: Andrew Wiggins forty two points in a win against Charlotte

1115
01:04:55,800 --> 01:04:58,760
Speaker 9: one twenty two one oh five. Wiggins was sixteen of

1116
01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:02,360
Speaker 9: twenty one from the Steph Curry after his fall this

1117
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:05,960
Speaker 9: past week a pelvic contusion. Reportedly going to be joining

1118
01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:08,800
Speaker 9: Golden State on the road this week Tuesday the Warriors.

1119
01:05:08,880 --> 01:05:12,560
Speaker 9: Jimmy Butler is back in Miami. Friday, Golden States at

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01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:17,080
Speaker 9: New Orleans. Demantis Sabonis of Sacramento was upgraded to questionable

1121
01:05:17,120 --> 01:05:19,920
Speaker 9: for Monday after a sprained ankle. He did practice today.

1122
01:05:20,240 --> 01:05:23,320
Speaker 9: Anthony Edwards of Minnesota is questionable for Monday with a

1123
01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:26,760
Speaker 9: thumb injury. Anthony Davis of the Mavericks doubtful for Monday.

1124
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:30,040
Speaker 9: He's missed six weeks with his groin injury. Kyrie Irving

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01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:32,760
Speaker 9: is out with a torn acl Tuesday. It's Dallas at

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01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:35,439
Speaker 9: New York for the next Jalen Brunson out at least

1127
01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:38,560
Speaker 9: another week with his sprained ankle. He's missed eight straight games.

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01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:42,640
Speaker 9: Victor Hovland was the golf winner in Florida. Kyle Larson

1129
01:05:42,680 --> 01:05:46,200
Speaker 9: took the NASCAR race at Homestead, Miami. But we have

1130
01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:50,840
Speaker 9: a hero and Maryland advances in March Madness, Guys, the

1131
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:53,720
Speaker 9: high school basketball team in the nation. Last year, they

1132
01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:55,600
Speaker 9: went a perfect thirty three and zero and they were

1133
01:05:55,600 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 9: declared national champs Montvert Academy. They had a mong the roster.

1134
01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:04,040
Speaker 9: These players literally just one year ago, all together on

1135
01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:06,600
Speaker 9: a high school team. Guard Robert Wright, who played in

1136
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:10,760
Speaker 9: March Madness today for Baylor, and he played against his

1137
01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:14,400
Speaker 9: high school teammate Cooper flag Duke, superstar six foot nine.

1138
01:06:14,800 --> 01:06:18,040
Speaker 9: Also on the team six foot ten Derek Queen, who

1139
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:20,960
Speaker 9: just hit the game winner tonight for the Maryland Terrapins.

1140
01:06:21,560 --> 01:06:22,960
Speaker 8: He is from Baltimore.

1141
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:27,959
Speaker 6: Back to you, what in the whoa? Yeah, no, wonder

1142
01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:31,800
Speaker 6: they didn't lose a game, right, Hey? Three lottery picks?

1143
01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:34,720
Speaker 3: Who say that again?

1144
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:38,480
Speaker 9: Oh they're not the only Division one guys off that team,

1145
01:06:38,560 --> 01:06:42,040
Speaker 9: but three of them played today in the NCAA tournament.

1146
01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:47,040
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. Strong, very very strong, yeah too going

1147
01:06:47,080 --> 01:06:47,920
Speaker 3: to the Sweet sixteen.

1148
01:06:48,120 --> 01:06:49,040
Speaker 5: You have no stronger?

1149
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:52,520
Speaker 2: Yeah strong, kind of like uh Steve de Sager's updates.

1150
01:06:52,640 --> 01:06:55,040
Speaker 5: Always strong, yeah, very very strong powerful.

1151
01:06:56,360 --> 01:06:59,960
Speaker 3: Tyrack dot com Studios. Mark Whelard from salam Okay.

1152
01:07:00,040 --> 01:07:02,520
Speaker 2: I don't feel like we're done with the uh that

1153
01:07:02,840 --> 01:07:08,680
Speaker 2: uh that Aaron Rodgers thing yet, So like what the

1154
01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:11,720
Speaker 2: Steelers are like, Oh, we had a nice meeting. What

1155
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:16,360
Speaker 2: are you actually gonna do? Steelers? What options do you have?

1156
01:07:19,640 --> 01:07:21,920
Speaker 5: Not a lot of options. It's not it's not a

1157
01:07:21,920 --> 01:07:22,480
Speaker 5: lot out there.

1158
01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:26,440
Speaker 2: And can someone explain to me why Russell Wilson is

1159
01:07:26,480 --> 01:07:27,240
Speaker 2: not an option?

1160
01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:31,160
Speaker 6: I think he is. I think he's the last ditch option.

1161
01:07:31,560 --> 01:07:33,000
Speaker 3: Why was it that bad?

1162
01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:37,400
Speaker 6: But I think the way it ended, in a way

1163
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:42,800
Speaker 6: it trailed off for whatever reason, got them like scratching

1164
01:07:42,840 --> 01:07:46,080
Speaker 6: their head like maybe this maybe we don't run this back.

1165
01:07:47,440 --> 01:07:48,360
Speaker 5: But that's crazy.

1166
01:07:48,440 --> 01:07:48,640
Speaker 3: You know.

1167
01:07:53,040 --> 01:07:57,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm not saying it's a great option either,

1168
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:02,400
Speaker 2: but you know you said kind of like, Okay, the

1169
01:08:02,440 --> 01:08:05,800
Speaker 2: way that it the way that it trailed off, I

1170
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:06,320
Speaker 2: get it.

1171
01:08:08,080 --> 01:08:14,640
Speaker 6: I think another year under the system, with the added weapon,

1172
01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:18,000
Speaker 6: you got to do something about the running game, show

1173
01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:19,479
Speaker 6: up that offensive line a little bit.

1174
01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:21,080
Speaker 5: I think it else will be fine there.

1175
01:08:21,320 --> 01:08:24,200
Speaker 2: I mean, look, so they lost four in a road

1176
01:08:24,280 --> 01:08:26,040
Speaker 2: in the regular season and then lost in the first

1177
01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:28,840
Speaker 2: round of the playoffs, right, so they were that was

1178
01:08:28,880 --> 01:08:31,920
Speaker 2: a ten and three football team, and then they never

1179
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:36,320
Speaker 2: won another football game. Then again, if I say it

1180
01:08:36,320 --> 01:08:38,080
Speaker 2: to you a different way, does it sound a little

1181
01:08:38,120 --> 01:08:43,439
Speaker 2: different at Philly at Baltimore, home to Kansas City, home

1182
01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:45,240
Speaker 2: to Cincinnati at Baltimore.

1183
01:08:46,800 --> 01:08:50,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's tough, living good lord, Right, there's a lot

1184
01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:52,200
Speaker 6: of teams that would have lost those.

1185
01:08:52,080 --> 01:08:55,200
Speaker 2: Four right, like these are those are Those are as

1186
01:08:55,280 --> 01:08:58,599
Speaker 2: hard of games as the NFL has to offer.

1187
01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:01,720
Speaker 3: So look, I get it if you're out on.

1188
01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:04,880
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson at this point in his career and with

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01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:09,639
Speaker 2: how things went last year, fine, But man if I

1190
01:09:09,640 --> 01:09:12,040
Speaker 2: if I'm running an NFL team in twenty twenty five,

1191
01:09:12,160 --> 01:09:14,120
Speaker 2: one thing I Am not going to do is let

1192
01:09:14,160 --> 01:09:15,800
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers hold me hostage.

1193
01:09:16,040 --> 01:09:21,200
Speaker 3: No, And like, so there's got to be there's got

1194
01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:22,000
Speaker 3: to be a plan B.

1195
01:09:22,560 --> 01:09:24,960
Speaker 2: And I would feel like the guy who was just

1196
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:28,440
Speaker 2: in your system and just led you to the playoffs,

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01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:31,960
Speaker 2: you know, I would think that's an option.

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01:09:36,960 --> 01:09:38,080
Speaker 5: It has to be an option.

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01:09:38,560 --> 01:09:43,599
Speaker 6: There are no other options, right they well, they waid it,

1200
01:09:43,640 --> 01:09:48,560
Speaker 6: and you know it's everybody's gobbled up and now it's

1201
01:09:49,320 --> 01:09:51,960
Speaker 6: you know, draft time. You got to move a long

1202
01:09:52,040 --> 01:09:53,920
Speaker 6: way up in the draft to get somebody. But do

1203
01:09:54,040 --> 01:09:55,920
Speaker 6: you want to do that again? Didn't we just do it?

1204
01:09:56,640 --> 01:10:00,400
Speaker 5: George? What was it? What was the name? What was

1205
01:10:00,439 --> 01:10:02,639
Speaker 5: the quarterback's name pickings Picket.

1206
01:10:02,840 --> 01:10:05,400
Speaker 3: Who you're talking about? You're talking about the Steelers for

1207
01:10:05,439 --> 01:10:06,000
Speaker 3: the Steelers.

1208
01:10:06,920 --> 01:10:08,080
Speaker 5: Kenny Pickett, Canny Pickett.

1209
01:10:08,120 --> 01:10:10,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, Kenny Pickett. You know which I mean?

1210
01:10:10,520 --> 01:10:12,559
Speaker 2: If you dropped a quarterback whose last name is Pickett,

1211
01:10:12,680 --> 01:10:14,760
Speaker 2: my good lord, Like, what are we doing?

1212
01:10:15,520 --> 01:10:16,120
Speaker 3: Should have known?

1213
01:10:16,360 --> 01:10:17,479
Speaker 5: Maybe if he was a corner?

1214
01:10:17,840 --> 01:10:18,360
Speaker 3: Thank you?

1215
01:10:18,400 --> 01:10:20,759
Speaker 2: There you go, they should switch him. Yeah, they should

1216
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:28,200
Speaker 2: move him. They should move him, like, uh.

1217
01:10:25,960 --> 01:10:26,679
Speaker 3: Who's my man?

1218
01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:30,160
Speaker 2: The uh, the power hitting outfielder who strikes out every

1219
01:10:30,160 --> 01:10:32,080
Speaker 2: single time, who now decides he wants to pitch?

1220
01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:38,639
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, move it, Joey Gallo, Sure, just corner.

1221
01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:42,840
Speaker 5: I'm just this has been all wrong for me.

1222
01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:47,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I don't. I don't think the draft

1223
01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:47,920
Speaker 3: is an option?

1224
01:10:48,800 --> 01:10:51,880
Speaker 2: Do Do we believe that Kirk Cousins is actually staying

1225
01:10:51,880 --> 01:10:52,479
Speaker 2: in Atlanta?

1226
01:10:54,320 --> 01:10:56,639
Speaker 5: That's an expensive option, it is.

1227
01:10:56,920 --> 01:10:59,280
Speaker 3: But there's probably a way to work on that.

1228
01:10:59,439 --> 01:11:02,679
Speaker 2: Like if I would imagine that Atlanta would would probably

1229
01:11:02,720 --> 01:11:03,639
Speaker 2: pay some of that deal.

1230
01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:08,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree with that, But then again, what you

1231
01:11:08,479 --> 01:11:13,840
Speaker 6: look at is all right, the way Kirk Cousins faltered

1232
01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:18,160
Speaker 6: down the stretch, the way Aaron Rodgers was playing better

1233
01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:21,360
Speaker 6: down the stretch, and then the cachet of having a

1234
01:11:21,400 --> 01:11:25,679
Speaker 6: four time MVP opposed to someone who made a bunch

1235
01:11:25,720 --> 01:11:28,479
Speaker 6: of money but never quite got over the hump.

1236
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:29,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you like?

1237
01:11:30,280 --> 01:11:32,479
Speaker 5: No, I like, that's why I have to pay him more.

1238
01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:35,280
Speaker 2: I'm with you, Like, that's why I'm saying that about

1239
01:11:35,280 --> 01:11:36,479
Speaker 2: the Steelers.

1240
01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:39,400
Speaker 3: It's like, no, what I want him? No?

1241
01:11:39,640 --> 01:11:42,280
Speaker 2: But I but but yes, because I don't think there's

1242
01:11:42,280 --> 01:11:45,439
Speaker 2: a better choice. And you're the Steelers, So you can't

1243
01:11:45,479 --> 01:11:48,639
Speaker 2: go out there. You can't go out there with Mason Rudolph.

1244
01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:51,960
Speaker 3: We're not doing that. We're not doing that.

1245
01:11:52,080 --> 01:11:55,640
Speaker 5: No, you can't. It's just a waste of time.

1246
01:11:55,560 --> 01:12:00,559
Speaker 2: Right right, So yeah, like that's that. It's kind of

1247
01:12:00,920 --> 01:12:02,080
Speaker 2: that's how I see it.

1248
01:12:02,320 --> 01:12:05,040
Speaker 3: I think it's a fit because it has to be,

1249
01:12:05,120 --> 01:12:12,719
Speaker 3: not because it's a great fit. So all right, Mark.

1250
01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:16,200
Speaker 2: Willerty from salam And coming up next, the question has

1251
01:12:16,320 --> 01:12:20,920
Speaker 2: come up about who should be the NBA Defensive Player

1252
01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:24,960
Speaker 2: of the Year, and apparently the odds have flipped as

1253
01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:28,639
Speaker 2: of this weekend, so we'll get into that a little bit.

1254
01:12:29,160 --> 01:12:31,719
Speaker 3: And then coming up at the top of the hour,

1255
01:12:33,920 --> 01:12:34,400
Speaker 3: not a.

1256
01:12:34,280 --> 01:12:40,080
Speaker 2: Baseball discussion as much as it is a media question

1257
01:12:40,240 --> 01:12:44,120
Speaker 2: about the way your favorite or not favorite sports are

1258
01:12:44,160 --> 01:12:46,000
Speaker 2: being covered. We're going to get into all of this,

1259
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:49,960
Speaker 2: and obviously we'll be watching these two games that are

1260
01:12:49,960 --> 01:12:54,320
Speaker 2: on upset alert come down the stretch because by the way,

1261
01:12:54,439 --> 01:12:57,080
Speaker 2: Old Miss, by the way, this might not be very dramatic.

1262
01:12:57,120 --> 01:13:01,719
Speaker 2: Old Miss is pulling away from Iowa's date. Meantime, Michigan

1263
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:04,400
Speaker 2: State starting to make their move late first half, so

1264
01:13:04,400 --> 01:13:05,880
Speaker 2: we'll keep an eye there as well.

1265
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:07,440
Speaker 3: On Fox Sports Radio.

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01:13:09,439 --> 01:13:13,240
Speaker 2: Mark Willardy from salam tyraq dot com Studios.

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01:13:13,320 --> 01:13:18,480
Speaker 3: I'm not the guy to get into a hotly contested

1268
01:13:18,560 --> 01:13:20,320
Speaker 3: debate about awards.

1269
01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:24,360
Speaker 2: We have that host already on Fox Sports Radio. His

1270
01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:25,280
Speaker 2: name's Steve Hartman.

1271
01:13:28,160 --> 01:13:31,160
Speaker 3: If you would like to argue about somebody's Hall of

1272
01:13:31,160 --> 01:13:37,080
Speaker 3: Fame candidacy or who should win the Heisman, Steve will

1273
01:13:37,080 --> 01:13:39,800
Speaker 3: be with you for as many hours as you can talk.

1274
01:13:41,600 --> 01:13:49,439
Speaker 3: And I love him for that, so right like he

1275
01:13:49,560 --> 01:13:50,320
Speaker 3: always like.

1276
01:13:52,439 --> 01:13:54,720
Speaker 2: Who used to get mad at me? Because I'm like, dude,

1277
01:13:54,840 --> 01:13:56,600
Speaker 2: just let them all in the Hall of Fame. I

1278
01:13:56,640 --> 01:14:02,840
Speaker 2: don't care. It's a museum. Like if there's one thing

1279
01:14:02,880 --> 01:14:05,439
Speaker 2: in life I will never lose sleepover, it's because some

1280
01:14:05,560 --> 01:14:09,639
Speaker 2: two ninety nine career baseball hitter, like didn't have enough

1281
01:14:09,720 --> 01:14:14,200
Speaker 2: big moments for me, Like what go to the Hall

1282
01:14:14,240 --> 01:14:18,080
Speaker 2: of Fame. You're awesome, it's amazing. Less than twenty thousand

1283
01:14:18,200 --> 01:14:21,160
Speaker 2: humans ever played Major League baseball. If you're one of

1284
01:14:21,160 --> 01:14:23,679
Speaker 2: the best of them, Good on you. Pat on the butt.

1285
01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:29,479
Speaker 2: Here's your statue. I don't care. I just don't. I mean,

1286
01:14:29,720 --> 01:14:32,240
Speaker 2: we can sit here and talk about it, but it's

1287
01:14:32,360 --> 01:14:34,840
Speaker 2: never going to be something that gets under my skin.

1288
01:14:35,240 --> 01:14:36,479
Speaker 2: So same thing here.

1289
01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:42,960
Speaker 3: Defensive Player of the Year in the NBA. Draymond Green

1290
01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:45,080
Speaker 3: started bringing this up because.

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01:14:46,320 --> 01:14:48,920
Speaker 2: In a game that Steph Curry sat out, Yannis came

1292
01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:52,080
Speaker 2: to town on Tuesday night here in the Bay Area

1293
01:14:52,840 --> 01:14:56,760
Speaker 2: and Draymond locked him up, like just completely locked him up.

1294
01:14:57,600 --> 01:15:02,080
Speaker 2: He had five field goals the entire game, and none

1295
01:15:02,160 --> 01:15:06,040
Speaker 2: of them came against Draymond Green. He literally locked him up.

1296
01:15:06,080 --> 01:15:09,400
Speaker 2: He couldn't score on him. And we're talking about Jannis,

1297
01:15:10,200 --> 01:15:13,599
Speaker 2: who averages over thirty a game and is built out

1298
01:15:13,600 --> 01:15:14,439
Speaker 2: of granite rock.

1299
01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:17,120
Speaker 3: Couldn't score on him.

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01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:21,400
Speaker 2: So this conversation got going and Draymond is into it,

1301
01:15:21,520 --> 01:15:26,800
Speaker 2: Like right, Draymond does not hold back ever, and he

1302
01:15:26,960 --> 01:15:31,080
Speaker 2: thinks that he deserves the award and just talking about

1303
01:15:31,080 --> 01:15:34,320
Speaker 2: it has sort of suddenly changed the odds, and I

1304
01:15:34,360 --> 01:15:38,120
Speaker 2: guess he became the favorite today over Evan Mobley. Draymond

1305
01:15:38,120 --> 01:15:40,880
Speaker 2: would freely admit, like Victor wembin Yama is going to

1306
01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:43,280
Speaker 2: win that award, but then he got hurt and he's

1307
01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:46,799
Speaker 2: not eligible for it. Draymond's only got one in his career.

1308
01:15:47,479 --> 01:15:52,840
Speaker 2: For example, someone like Rudy Gobert has four. Draymond Green

1309
01:15:52,960 --> 01:15:55,839
Speaker 2: is a better defensive player and a better player period

1310
01:15:56,520 --> 01:16:00,519
Speaker 2: than Rudy Gobert. But what Rudy does that Draymond. He

1311
01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:04,000
Speaker 2: puts up a stat and you need a stat. You

1312
01:16:04,040 --> 01:16:08,560
Speaker 2: either need a lot of block shots or a bajillion rebounds,

1313
01:16:09,040 --> 01:16:13,400
Speaker 2: and quite frankly, neither of those is really the phrase

1314
01:16:13,439 --> 01:16:17,280
Speaker 2: that pays when it comes to defending. What Draymond does

1315
01:16:17,320 --> 01:16:20,439
Speaker 2: really well and others like him does not show up

1316
01:16:20,479 --> 01:16:23,439
Speaker 2: at all in a stat category. There's no way to

1317
01:16:23,479 --> 01:16:27,799
Speaker 2: measure it. So what do you do? What do you think?

1318
01:16:28,080 --> 01:16:31,040
Speaker 2: Because I know you're a student of the game, and

1319
01:16:31,120 --> 01:16:34,040
Speaker 2: if you watch what that man does at six six

1320
01:16:34,160 --> 01:16:36,920
Speaker 2: on a good day, oh, it's easy, it's but n

1321
01:16:37,240 --> 01:16:38,200
Speaker 2: that is what he does.

1322
01:16:39,080 --> 01:16:42,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, you know, asks Lebron James asks any

1323
01:16:42,439 --> 01:16:46,639
Speaker 6: of the great scores. Ask Kevin Durant, it doesn't matter,

1324
01:16:46,640 --> 01:16:49,799
Speaker 6: ASKI Honis Now, it doesn't matter. Draymond Green is always

1325
01:16:49,880 --> 01:16:54,599
Speaker 6: locked in defensively. So I'm I'm on his side when

1326
01:16:54,600 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 6: it comes to that. You know, I not necessarily a

1327
01:16:58,000 --> 01:17:01,320
Speaker 6: fan of Rudy Gobert winning for a from period. Like

1328
01:17:01,720 --> 01:17:05,200
Speaker 6: to me, that's a head scratches same same, Uh, So

1329
01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:08,280
Speaker 6: you know, I'm I'm all.

1330
01:17:08,560 --> 01:17:09,200
Speaker 5: I'm with that.

1331
01:17:09,840 --> 01:17:12,559
Speaker 6: You know, I'm with that Draymond Rant because he is

1332
01:17:12,600 --> 01:17:14,600
Speaker 6: a dynamic defender and one of the best in the

1333
01:17:14,640 --> 01:17:16,639
Speaker 6: league and has been since he's been in the league.

1334
01:17:18,120 --> 01:17:23,000
Speaker 3: Like, here's the problem. The problem is he averages double

1335
01:17:23,080 --> 01:17:24,679
Speaker 3: figures in nothing.

1336
01:17:25,120 --> 01:17:29,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fine. And here's the other problem. It averages

1337
01:17:29,400 --> 01:17:30,240
Speaker 2: a block.

1338
01:17:32,240 --> 01:17:35,920
Speaker 3: A block. Yeah, he's sixty six one block per game

1339
01:17:38,000 --> 01:17:40,400
Speaker 3: and even his rebounds are down this year, he averages

1340
01:17:40,439 --> 01:17:41,080
Speaker 3: six point two.

1341
01:17:41,240 --> 01:17:43,960
Speaker 6: You guys have to do is what the people he guard?

1342
01:17:44,120 --> 01:17:46,960
Speaker 6: What is they're scoring average when they when he guards them?

1343
01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:48,920
Speaker 6: There you go, if you want to put a metric

1344
01:17:48,960 --> 01:17:51,400
Speaker 6: in a number to it, figure that out and then

1345
01:17:51,439 --> 01:17:52,480
Speaker 6: you'll have your answer.

1346
01:17:53,800 --> 01:17:59,840
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it's kind of head scratching to be

1347
01:18:00,080 --> 01:18:03,320
Speaker 2: in with that this is even something that like I

1348
01:18:03,360 --> 01:18:07,800
Speaker 2: don't really I don't really get how he does what

1349
01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:11,880
Speaker 2: he does. There's such brilliance there that, like, I love

1350
01:18:11,920 --> 01:18:14,400
Speaker 2: your point, Go ahead and ask the players, Yep, do

1351
01:18:14,439 --> 01:18:18,439
Speaker 2: you want to know who will tell you that he's

1352
01:18:18,560 --> 01:18:24,760
Speaker 2: probably the most difficult to play against when he's doing

1353
01:18:24,800 --> 01:18:29,280
Speaker 2: what he's doing offensively. Nicola Jokic, Yes, will tell you

1354
01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:32,360
Speaker 2: that Draymond Green is the hardest person for him to

1355
01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:36,639
Speaker 2: go against. And it's crazy because Nicola Jokic, Dude, he's

1356
01:18:36,680 --> 01:18:40,360
Speaker 2: got like I mean what he's got like seven inches

1357
01:18:41,160 --> 01:18:48,120
Speaker 2: and probably seventy pounds on Draymond Green. But there's such

1358
01:18:48,120 --> 01:18:50,519
Speaker 2: a sort of a mental brilliance to what he does.

1359
01:18:50,560 --> 01:18:55,479
Speaker 2: And he's also the quarterback for the entire team on defense. Yeah,

1360
01:18:55,520 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 2: if he finished his career with only one defensive Player

1361
01:18:58,240 --> 01:19:01,439
Speaker 2: of the Year awards, that's pretty crazy, to be honest with.

1362
01:19:01,360 --> 01:19:06,880
Speaker 6: You, I agree with that. Yeah, tremendous talent, man. I mean,

1363
01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:09,080
Speaker 6: they don't win those championships with Draymond Green.

1364
01:19:09,240 --> 01:19:09,599
Speaker 3: Nope.

1365
01:19:10,320 --> 01:19:10,759
Speaker 5: Period.

1366
01:19:11,920 --> 01:19:16,400
Speaker 2: That's the fact I a Wowa State. It's going to

1367
01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:21,320
Speaker 2: lose tonight, aphrom They are down by nineteen with twelve minutes.

1368
01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:24,760
Speaker 5: To go, Yeah, well there's a three out, so.

1369
01:19:24,760 --> 01:19:28,080
Speaker 2: There's the end of them. Although you know, crazier things

1370
01:19:28,080 --> 01:19:33,120
Speaker 2: have happened, but not much. Arizona, Well, they're just getting underway.

1371
01:19:33,240 --> 01:19:36,719
Speaker 2: And Oregon Michigan State is down by two and half.

1372
01:19:36,880 --> 01:19:38,920
Speaker 2: That's the one I think we need to take a

1373
01:19:38,960 --> 01:19:43,080
Speaker 2: look at. Someone who you talk to a lot, has

1374
01:19:43,160 --> 01:19:51,320
Speaker 2: Michigan State in the final game in their bracket. Yeah,

1375
01:19:51,360 --> 01:19:52,880
Speaker 2: it's all good, it's all good.

1376
01:19:53,160 --> 01:19:53,519
Speaker 3: All right.

1377
01:19:53,960 --> 01:19:56,200
Speaker 2: Uh, let's get in the way these sports are being

1378
01:19:56,280 --> 01:20:03,240
Speaker 2: packaged to you next no Fox Sports FO. Here we

1379
01:20:03,320 --> 01:20:06,120
Speaker 2: go into the night and the madness is on and

1380
01:20:06,160 --> 01:20:08,880
Speaker 2: all turned up. When we're broadcasting live from the ti

1381
01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:12,400
Speaker 2: rag dot com studios ti rag dot com. We'll help

1382
01:20:12,439 --> 01:20:15,720
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01:20:20,560 --> 01:20:23,080
Speaker 2: dot com the way tire buying should be.

1385
01:20:23,360 --> 01:20:26,240
Speaker 3: Okay. So here's what we're doing tonight, same thing you're

1386
01:20:26,280 --> 01:20:26,760
Speaker 3: all doing.

1387
01:20:27,160 --> 01:20:29,920
Speaker 2: We're sort of talking about one thing but watching another

1388
01:20:30,400 --> 01:20:32,200
Speaker 2: and keeping an eye on all of it at the

1389
01:20:32,240 --> 01:20:35,799
Speaker 2: same time. So we are going to keep you fully

1390
01:20:35,880 --> 01:20:39,680
Speaker 2: up to date on everything that is happening in the

1391
01:20:39,800 --> 01:20:46,720
Speaker 2: NCAA tournament. Oregon is often an amazing start against Arizona.

1392
01:20:46,720 --> 01:20:49,040
Speaker 2: They're already up twenty one to seven, and it's one

1393
01:20:49,040 --> 01:20:51,320
Speaker 2: of those games where it just looks like one of

1394
01:20:51,320 --> 01:20:53,400
Speaker 2: the team is playing harder than the other team. That's

1395
01:20:53,439 --> 01:20:56,559
Speaker 2: literally what it looks like in this one. I don't

1396
01:20:56,560 --> 01:20:58,240
Speaker 2: know if you have that one on in there, Ephraim.

1397
01:20:58,800 --> 01:21:01,160
Speaker 6: You know I got all the games, Okay, okay, so

1398
01:21:01,520 --> 01:21:02,720
Speaker 6: you don't play yourself.

1399
01:21:02,360 --> 01:21:04,080
Speaker 3: You know, I like I assume.

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01:21:06,080 --> 01:21:09,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, Oregon is clicking, man, they're hitting on all cylinders.

1401
01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:11,519
Speaker 6: They're playing like, Hey, we used to play all and

1402
01:21:11,560 --> 01:21:14,360
Speaker 6: run through you guys, right, all right, you guys used

1403
01:21:14,360 --> 01:21:15,680
Speaker 6: to run through us, and now this.

1404
01:21:15,720 --> 01:21:19,720
Speaker 2: Is payback, right right, Yeah, this is this is not

1405
01:21:19,840 --> 01:21:24,479
Speaker 2: loud Olson's Arizona Wildcats. But long, long, long way to

1406
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:26,559
Speaker 2: go in that one, and it has the look of

1407
01:21:26,600 --> 01:21:28,479
Speaker 2: a fast paced and a high scoring game.

1408
01:21:28,880 --> 01:21:29,879
Speaker 3: So we'll see.

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01:21:30,680 --> 01:21:34,720
Speaker 2: I think largely people are starting to give up on

1410
01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:37,240
Speaker 2: the idea of Iowa State moving forward.

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01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:41,240
Speaker 3: They remain down now by twenty one with under ten

1412
01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:41,760
Speaker 3: minutes to go.

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01:21:41,840 --> 01:21:43,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not getting any better against.

1414
01:21:43,280 --> 01:21:46,720
Speaker 2: Ole Miss and then take a break Michigan State. But

1415
01:21:47,080 --> 01:21:50,559
Speaker 2: the stress is high. They are down two to the

1416
01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:53,480
Speaker 2: ten seed New Mexico at halftime.

1417
01:21:53,960 --> 01:21:56,879
Speaker 3: Keep you up to date on all and we're watching

1418
01:21:56,960 --> 01:21:58,960
Speaker 3: that meantime.

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01:21:59,360 --> 01:22:01,920
Speaker 2: I wanted to throw this at you and find out

1420
01:22:01,920 --> 01:22:04,519
Speaker 2: where you come from on this, because I think this

1421
01:22:04,680 --> 01:22:05,280
Speaker 2: is interesting.

1422
01:22:05,880 --> 01:22:07,240
Speaker 3: And this is just one example.

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01:22:08,600 --> 01:22:13,479
Speaker 2: But ESPN dot com, if you go to their main page,

1424
01:22:14,040 --> 01:22:16,360
Speaker 2: and anybody's familiar with it knows you go to the

1425
01:22:16,800 --> 01:22:20,880
Speaker 2: it's just like any page. Across the top bar are

1426
01:22:20,920 --> 01:22:25,920
Speaker 2: all the pulldown menus. And on a sports site, what's

1427
01:22:25,960 --> 01:22:30,840
Speaker 2: across the top bars all the sports right go to

1428
01:22:31,040 --> 01:22:35,280
Speaker 2: foxsports dot com, you go to cbssports dot com.

1429
01:22:35,320 --> 01:22:37,280
Speaker 3: You go there and it's like, what are you here for?

1430
01:22:37,360 --> 01:22:40,800
Speaker 3: You want to check out some NFL stories, NBA stories,

1431
01:22:41,320 --> 01:22:43,920
Speaker 3: Couge football stories, what do you want?

1432
01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:48,400
Speaker 2: Well, if you go to ESPN dot com, here's what's

1433
01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:50,360
Speaker 2: across the top bar.

1434
01:22:51,240 --> 01:22:59,040
Speaker 3: The very first one is PGA Tour. What the PGA Tour?

1435
01:23:01,520 --> 01:23:07,840
Speaker 2: Then the NFL, then the NBA, then it says NHL,

1436
01:23:08,840 --> 01:23:13,000
Speaker 2: then it says n C A A M for men,

1437
01:23:14,200 --> 01:23:17,559
Speaker 2: then it says n C A A W for women,

1438
01:23:18,680 --> 01:23:21,840
Speaker 2: and then it's a soccer and then after that it

1439
01:23:21,920 --> 01:23:29,200
Speaker 2: says more sports. In other words, the dollar bin is

1440
01:23:29,240 --> 01:23:32,679
Speaker 2: over here at the end, if you'd like to shop

1441
01:23:32,720 --> 01:23:39,040
Speaker 2: for the others receiving votes categories, what do you notice

1442
01:23:39,160 --> 01:23:40,040
Speaker 2: is missing.

1443
01:23:41,360 --> 01:23:41,959
Speaker 5: The tournament?

1444
01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:45,599
Speaker 3: Well, that's kind of under n C A A M

1445
01:23:45,640 --> 01:23:46,920
Speaker 3: and n C A A W.

1446
01:23:47,200 --> 01:23:49,519
Speaker 2: If you if you go to one of those tabs,

1447
01:23:50,080 --> 01:23:53,640
Speaker 2: we'll pull down menu and the bracket and the tournament

1448
01:23:53,760 --> 01:23:54,719
Speaker 2: and all of that stuff.

1449
01:23:54,760 --> 01:23:57,439
Speaker 3: Is n B A n B A is there?

1450
01:23:59,360 --> 01:24:00,680
Speaker 5: Uh? Baseball?

1451
01:24:01,760 --> 01:24:04,320
Speaker 3: Major League baseball?

1452
01:24:06,040 --> 01:24:09,680
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball falls into the more sports category.

1453
01:24:10,520 --> 01:24:16,240
Speaker 5: Okay, the season hasn't started now, that that.

1454
01:24:16,280 --> 01:24:19,760
Speaker 2: Might be it, but oh my god, oh my god, Like,

1455
01:24:19,880 --> 01:24:24,120
Speaker 2: is that what we're hiding behind? Actually, if I really

1456
01:24:24,200 --> 01:24:28,519
Speaker 2: want to get technical with you, yes, it has. Dodgers

1457
01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:33,320
Speaker 2: and Cubs don't play two games already. Okay, so the

1458
01:24:33,479 --> 01:24:38,920
Speaker 2: season has started and opening day is this week, And

1459
01:24:39,000 --> 01:24:41,679
Speaker 2: if you would like to hide behind, if you're ESPN

1460
01:24:42,439 --> 01:24:46,439
Speaker 2: that the season hasn't started yet, you could do that.

1461
01:24:47,160 --> 01:24:47,680
Speaker 3: You could do that.

1462
01:24:47,720 --> 01:24:50,640
Speaker 2: I guess I don't know how you play it by seasons,

1463
01:24:50,680 --> 01:24:54,560
Speaker 2: Like one of their tabs says, soccer Soccer.

1464
01:24:54,240 --> 01:24:57,680
Speaker 3: Is never, They're never not playing somewhere.

1465
01:24:58,920 --> 01:25:04,559
Speaker 2: Soccer, all right, we all damn well know why it's

1466
01:25:04,600 --> 01:25:07,800
Speaker 2: not up there. It's not up there because ESPN is

1467
01:25:07,880 --> 01:25:16,080
Speaker 2: ending their partnership with Major League Baseball, so is ESPN, Fox, CBS,

1468
01:25:16,240 --> 01:25:22,720
Speaker 2: anything Yahoo. Are they just businesses that are allowed, in

1469
01:25:22,840 --> 01:25:29,320
Speaker 2: your mind, to simply promote their products and put that

1470
01:25:29,479 --> 01:25:33,639
Speaker 2: out there with you their partners or is there some

1471
01:25:33,680 --> 01:25:39,320
Speaker 2: sort of a responsibility to be a platter that puts

1472
01:25:39,360 --> 01:25:43,240
Speaker 2: everything out there for everybody especially considered and this is data,

1473
01:25:43,320 --> 01:25:49,240
Speaker 2: not my opinion, but data based on fan attendance, eyeballs, etc.

1474
01:25:50,760 --> 01:25:54,000
Speaker 2: No matter what you think about the quote downfall or

1475
01:25:54,120 --> 01:25:59,120
Speaker 2: downturn of it, in this moment in America, major League

1476
01:25:59,120 --> 01:26:00,000
Speaker 2: Baseball remains.

1477
01:26:00,160 --> 01:26:04,920
Speaker 3: Is the number two sport a doubt, and not me.

1478
01:26:06,800 --> 01:26:11,600
Speaker 2: Obviously, NFL is number one obviously. Okay, how's that got you?

1479
01:26:17,800 --> 01:26:21,719
Speaker 2: The fact that it's the number two sport? I get yeah,

1480
01:26:21,880 --> 01:26:25,040
Speaker 2: I get that. I mean it's it was America's pastime.

1481
01:26:25,080 --> 01:26:28,800
Speaker 2: It's no longer that it's football now, just by the

1482
01:26:29,080 --> 01:26:36,200
Speaker 2: sheer amount of games that's played. I understand that far

1483
01:26:36,240 --> 01:26:42,360
Speaker 2: too many, I believe. But you know, this is the

1484
01:26:42,520 --> 01:26:46,160
Speaker 2: sweet spot of the NBA coming down the stretch in

1485
01:26:46,280 --> 01:26:46,920
Speaker 2: terms of.

1486
01:26:48,360 --> 01:26:50,720
Speaker 5: UH, when people really start tuning in.

1487
01:26:52,080 --> 01:26:56,040
Speaker 6: UH. But you know baseball is playing when no one

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01:26:56,040 --> 01:27:00,200
Speaker 6: else is playing. So all of those numbers, all that,

1489
01:26:59,680 --> 01:27:04,000
Speaker 6: all those metrics help that that number. Okay, you gotta remember, No,

1490
01:27:04,080 --> 01:27:05,720
Speaker 6: everybody's done and baseball is going.

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01:27:08,960 --> 01:27:12,080
Speaker 2: It's a relatively short period of time during baseball season

1492
01:27:12,120 --> 01:27:15,559
Speaker 2: when nothing else is actually happening. I mean, the NBA

1493
01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:19,120
Speaker 2: season is not over until the end of June. So

1494
01:27:19,200 --> 01:27:24,360
Speaker 2: you get July, you get you get July, June, July

1495
01:27:24,720 --> 01:27:28,680
Speaker 2: or julyly well August. Sure, but let me ask you this.

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01:27:28,760 --> 01:27:33,439
Speaker 2: See you think when training camps open for the NFL,

1497
01:27:34,600 --> 01:27:38,000
Speaker 2: ESPN will leave the tab off because you know season

1498
01:27:38,080 --> 01:27:39,120
Speaker 2: hasn't started yet.

1499
01:27:41,439 --> 01:27:42,680
Speaker 5: No, that's the bread and butter man.

1500
01:27:42,760 --> 01:27:43,200
Speaker 3: There you go.

1501
01:27:43,280 --> 01:27:46,000
Speaker 2: In fact, the season for the NFL is completely over

1502
01:27:46,160 --> 01:27:47,960
Speaker 2: and they are the second tab right now.

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01:27:48,080 --> 01:27:48,519
Speaker 5: Of course.

1504
01:27:48,760 --> 01:27:53,400
Speaker 6: Okay, a lot of transactions, free agency, draft exactly. The

1505
01:27:53,520 --> 01:27:55,599
Speaker 6: NFL has found a way to make it year round.

1506
01:27:55,880 --> 01:27:58,320
Speaker 6: Of course, it's interesting year round.

1507
01:27:59,160 --> 01:28:06,080
Speaker 2: So this isn't about anyone's opinion about what's cool in

1508
01:28:06,120 --> 01:28:09,439
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. I'm with you, baseball's got a lot

1509
01:28:09,479 --> 01:28:12,880
Speaker 2: of work to do if they want to move into

1510
01:28:12,880 --> 01:28:14,000
Speaker 2: the next generation.

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01:28:14,200 --> 01:28:15,880
Speaker 3: They've got a lot of work to do. That is

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01:28:16,040 --> 01:28:18,040
Speaker 3: very evident. At the same.

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01:28:17,880 --> 01:28:24,479
Speaker 2: Time, I would argue that a media company's job is

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01:28:24,680 --> 01:28:31,519
Speaker 2: not to sort of solely promote what is making that

1515
01:28:31,720 --> 01:28:37,400
Speaker 2: media company money. I would argue that's not the case,

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01:28:37,800 --> 01:28:40,800
Speaker 2: and that may come across as hypocritical, just to let

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01:28:40,800 --> 01:28:44,800
Speaker 2: our national audience know, like on a weekly basis, where

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01:28:44,840 --> 01:28:47,479
Speaker 2: I work Monday through Friday is at the flagship home

1519
01:28:47,560 --> 01:28:50,600
Speaker 2: of the Golden State Warriors. And if something's going on

1520
01:28:50,680 --> 01:28:53,639
Speaker 2: with the Warriors, you damn well better believe we are

1521
01:28:53,680 --> 01:28:58,360
Speaker 2: talking Warriors and only Warriors. And this time of year,

1522
01:28:58,439 --> 01:29:02,760
Speaker 2: that's super easy. Don't play the Giants don't play, and

1523
01:29:03,120 --> 01:29:06,639
Speaker 2: quite frankly, other sports outlets throughout the Bay Area don't.

1524
01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:10,640
Speaker 2: They don't resonate enough the Sharks, et cetera. So it

1525
01:29:10,800 --> 01:29:15,760
Speaker 2: is like ninety five percent Golden State Warriors. And is

1526
01:29:15,800 --> 01:29:18,519
Speaker 2: that sort of self serving for our company as a

1527
01:29:18,560 --> 01:29:22,080
Speaker 2: media company. Maybe, But to me, here's the difference. The

1528
01:29:22,120 --> 01:29:26,160
Speaker 2: difference is is we feel like what we do on

1529
01:29:26,200 --> 01:29:29,760
Speaker 2: a daily basis is try to assess what our audience

1530
01:29:30,479 --> 01:29:33,800
Speaker 2: is thinking about and what our audience wants to hear

1531
01:29:33,840 --> 01:29:36,400
Speaker 2: about on a given day, and whatever that is, we

1532
01:29:36,479 --> 01:29:41,479
Speaker 2: go with that. And sometimes it's not Warriors and we

1533
01:29:41,880 --> 01:29:46,400
Speaker 2: talk about something else. That's going on Niners free agency,

1534
01:29:46,920 --> 01:29:50,200
Speaker 2: or the tournaments or the Giants or whatever whatever's going on,

1535
01:29:51,000 --> 01:29:53,840
Speaker 2: that's what we're going to talk about. I'm not gonna

1536
01:29:53,840 --> 01:29:57,799
Speaker 2: sit there and be like, Nope, theant giants don't exist,

1537
01:29:58,600 --> 01:30:02,280
Speaker 2: because that doesn't make any more money for our media company.

1538
01:30:03,320 --> 01:30:06,200
Speaker 3: Look, I'm not losing sleep over this.

1539
01:30:08,240 --> 01:30:14,320
Speaker 2: But it's a fast one and it's disingenuous, and it's

1540
01:30:14,320 --> 01:30:16,439
Speaker 2: a small thing that I think can be a large

1541
01:30:16,479 --> 01:30:19,799
Speaker 2: thing someday down the road for media companies. Don't don't

1542
01:30:19,840 --> 01:30:27,519
Speaker 2: don't don't stop like reporting on, don't stop putting out

1543
01:30:27,560 --> 01:30:30,479
Speaker 2: there at least for people to see the second most

1544
01:30:30,479 --> 01:30:32,880
Speaker 2: popular sport in America just because you're sort of like

1545
01:30:32,960 --> 01:30:35,280
Speaker 2: mad at it right.

1546
01:30:35,120 --> 01:30:36,840
Speaker 3: Now, which is what it feels like.

1547
01:30:37,160 --> 01:30:41,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, when you get into that level of business, man,

1548
01:30:43,120 --> 01:30:49,679
Speaker 6: it's it's crazy, it's it's you know, NBC was mad

1549
01:30:49,720 --> 01:30:54,320
Speaker 6: at the NBA forever until they just got it back. Literally,

1550
01:30:55,360 --> 01:31:04,120
Speaker 6: I know that firsthand. So it's, uh, the money talks, man,

1551
01:31:04,800 --> 01:31:09,320
Speaker 6: everything else walks. Oh, missus pointed on they are not playing.

1552
01:31:10,400 --> 01:31:15,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not happening. You know, Like I don't know,

1553
01:31:15,400 --> 01:31:17,320
Speaker 3: on some level, I feel like.

1554
01:31:17,240 --> 01:31:20,639
Speaker 2: We've accepted that idea too much. I know that's hard

1555
01:31:20,680 --> 01:31:24,040
Speaker 2: to fight money talks the rest walks. I get that,

1556
01:31:25,080 --> 01:31:30,400
Speaker 2: but I don't think that. I don't think this, something this.

1557
01:31:30,520 --> 01:31:36,320
Speaker 3: Small is actually tied to money. You can have a

1558
01:31:36,360 --> 01:31:42,200
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball tab on your website. It's okay, It's

1559
01:31:42,280 --> 01:31:44,040
Speaker 3: totally okay.

1560
01:31:45,000 --> 01:31:48,960
Speaker 2: You know, if I go to cbssports dot com, do

1561
01:31:49,000 --> 01:31:50,360
Speaker 2: you want to know what's up on theirs? Do you

1562
01:31:50,400 --> 01:31:53,640
Speaker 2: wonder what tabs are there? What NFL? These are the

1563
01:31:53,720 --> 01:32:00,880
Speaker 2: names of the tabs, NFL brackets, NCAA basketball, NCAA Women's basketball,

1564
01:32:01,240 --> 01:32:08,840
Speaker 2: NBA MLB period, no hockey, no golf, no nothing else.

1565
01:32:09,840 --> 01:32:12,760
Speaker 2: Now tucked into that, are they being self serving by

1566
01:32:12,800 --> 01:32:16,639
Speaker 2: putting out brackets because they're CBS they have the tournament,

1567
01:32:17,160 --> 01:32:20,280
Speaker 2: so yes, they're promoting their own thing. But they didn't

1568
01:32:20,280 --> 01:32:23,599
Speaker 2: take baseball out because they don't have baseball and they

1569
01:32:23,600 --> 01:32:27,479
Speaker 2: don't They left it in there because it's the second

1570
01:32:27,520 --> 01:32:31,160
Speaker 2: sport in America. Instead, they left out the PGA Tour

1571
01:32:31,520 --> 01:32:34,439
Speaker 2: because that sport right now can't even keep its own

1572
01:32:34,520 --> 01:32:42,800
Speaker 2: athletes in the league. And shout out to fifteen minutes

1573
01:32:42,800 --> 01:32:44,759
Speaker 2: from now when Steve de Seger will blow our minds

1574
01:32:44,800 --> 01:32:46,840
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1575
01:32:46,880 --> 01:32:52,200
Speaker 3: It's seven thirty Pacific every Sunday.

1576
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Speaker 5: See what I'm saying I do.

1577
01:32:54,960 --> 01:33:00,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, we'll check in on those those late

1578
01:33:00,880 --> 01:33:04,800
Speaker 2: games because Arizona kind of stood up for themselves here

1579
01:33:04,840 --> 01:33:05,880
Speaker 2: in the last handful.

1580
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1604
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Speaker 2: we get off the air. Okay, Michigan State, New Mexico

1605
01:34:32,760 --> 01:34:34,840
Speaker 2: or tied Arizona.

1606
01:34:34,240 --> 01:34:36,200
Speaker 3: Has rallied to get within four. What do you see

1607
01:34:36,200 --> 01:34:36,719
Speaker 3: in these two?

1608
01:34:38,280 --> 01:34:41,080
Speaker 6: It's gonna be a dogfight. I mean, Arizona went on

1609
01:34:41,120 --> 01:34:47,320
Speaker 6: a heck of a run. Oregon, you know, stepped out

1610
01:34:47,360 --> 01:34:53,720
Speaker 6: a little bit more. But this this Michigan State New

1611
01:34:53,760 --> 01:34:55,960
Speaker 6: Mexico game. Man, this is gonna be a fight the

1612
01:34:56,000 --> 01:34:56,559
Speaker 6: whole time.

1613
01:34:57,000 --> 01:34:59,320
Speaker 3: You think so, yeah, you think New Mexico is up

1614
01:34:59,360 --> 01:34:59,639
Speaker 3: for this.

1615
01:35:00,040 --> 01:35:02,479
Speaker 5: I think they are. I think they are.

1616
01:35:02,800 --> 01:35:05,240
Speaker 6: I think it's gonna be one of those fights like

1617
01:35:05,320 --> 01:35:09,920
Speaker 6: we just saw, you know, uh, Colorado State and Maryland.

1618
01:35:11,120 --> 01:35:13,240
Speaker 5: But that's what we need. We need these games.

1619
01:35:13,320 --> 01:35:14,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we.

1620
01:35:15,360 --> 01:35:17,400
Speaker 5: Don't want the old miss Iowa State game.

1621
01:35:18,360 --> 01:35:20,400
Speaker 6: Uh no, eighty thirty to sixty six right now with

1622
01:35:20,439 --> 01:35:22,160
Speaker 6: three don't want that seconds left?

1623
01:35:22,200 --> 01:35:24,640
Speaker 3: Yeah no, I mean Michigan State could be up by

1624
01:35:24,640 --> 01:35:26,639
Speaker 3: a few points. I'd be okay with that, you.

1625
01:35:26,600 --> 01:35:32,800
Speaker 5: Know, I'm sure. I know. Well, you don't want a

1626
01:35:32,880 --> 01:35:33,439
Speaker 5: close game?

1627
01:35:33,840 --> 01:35:36,519
Speaker 3: No, yeah, no, fun game is fine, But I ain't

1628
01:35:36,560 --> 01:35:40,200
Speaker 3: need to be that stressful, you know. That's all I'm saying.

1629
01:35:40,640 --> 01:35:41,439
Speaker 3: That's all I'm saying.

1630
01:35:42,640 --> 01:35:46,720
Speaker 2: Speaking of stress, you guys to help me, man like

1631
01:35:47,080 --> 01:35:52,400
Speaker 2: I don't understand what's happening. So you know, some garbage

1632
01:35:52,400 --> 01:35:56,400
Speaker 2: time in the Laker game the other day. Yeah, and

1633
01:35:56,479 --> 01:35:58,320
Speaker 2: Branni came in and score seventeen points.

1634
01:35:58,320 --> 01:36:00,000
Speaker 5: He played, well, yeah, go for him.

1635
01:36:00,200 --> 01:36:01,519
Speaker 3: That's awesome. That's awesome.

1636
01:36:02,280 --> 01:36:08,719
Speaker 2: So now apparently anybody, there's two things that went crazy

1637
01:36:08,720 --> 01:36:12,040
Speaker 2: for me. First of all, you had stephen A and

1638
01:36:12,160 --> 01:36:17,200
Speaker 2: others who have been in some way critical of the

1639
01:36:17,240 --> 01:36:21,640
Speaker 2: Brownie James situation at any point, all coming out to

1640
01:36:21,720 --> 01:36:26,559
Speaker 2: do the I was wrong thing. I'm like, hold on

1641
01:36:26,600 --> 01:36:31,080
Speaker 2: a second, so something something can look a certain way

1642
01:36:32,160 --> 01:36:37,639
Speaker 2: like twenty seven times. And then on the twenty eighth

1643
01:36:37,880 --> 01:36:43,080
Speaker 2: it looks different and you go, oh, okay, then that's

1644
01:36:43,160 --> 01:36:47,320
Speaker 2: the real thing. He hit a few buckets in the

1645
01:36:47,360 --> 01:36:51,839
Speaker 2: garbage time of a basketball game. Does somebody owe somebody

1646
01:36:51,840 --> 01:36:52,600
Speaker 2: an apology?

1647
01:36:52,600 --> 01:36:52,840
Speaker 3: Here?

1648
01:36:53,360 --> 01:36:56,280
Speaker 5: We know what the steven A apology was, we know

1649
01:36:56,320 --> 01:36:56,960
Speaker 5: what happened.

1650
01:36:57,120 --> 01:36:59,760
Speaker 3: Okay, I hear you, I'll feel you on that.

1651
01:37:02,320 --> 01:37:02,880
Speaker 5: Let's be real.

1652
01:37:03,800 --> 01:37:06,759
Speaker 2: So then let's take that conversation to a real place.

1653
01:37:08,880 --> 01:37:12,519
Speaker 2: Before this even happened. And I don't have the direct

1654
01:37:12,560 --> 01:37:14,760
Speaker 2: quote in front of me, but Brianni was quoted with

1655
01:37:14,840 --> 01:37:18,160
Speaker 2: something along the lines of guys, I'm a human being,

1656
01:37:19,920 --> 01:37:23,760
Speaker 2: like I've got feelings, and I was.

1657
01:37:23,840 --> 01:37:34,120
Speaker 3: Like, what the hell is happening? How did we get here?

1658
01:37:37,280 --> 01:37:43,360
Speaker 2: When was it considered personal at the highest levels of

1659
01:37:43,400 --> 01:37:50,760
Speaker 2: professional sport the Lakers. When was it considered personal that

1660
01:37:51,080 --> 01:37:56,000
Speaker 2: people would talk about a player, assess a player, say

1661
01:37:56,040 --> 01:38:03,640
Speaker 2: things that maybe the player doesn't want to hear, you know, analyze, analysts,

1662
01:38:04,479 --> 01:38:10,360
Speaker 2: analyzing and sometimes being right and sometimes being wrong for

1663
01:38:10,479 --> 01:38:16,439
Speaker 2: better or for worse. I mean, we went from daddy

1664
01:38:16,479 --> 01:38:19,000
Speaker 2: house to walk across the court to attack the media

1665
01:38:19,040 --> 01:38:23,599
Speaker 2: person to the only thing that I think could make

1666
01:38:23,680 --> 01:38:27,559
Speaker 2: him look even weaker, which is to let him talk

1667
01:38:27,640 --> 01:38:33,479
Speaker 2: and be like, guys, I'm a person. I mean, you

1668
01:38:33,640 --> 01:38:37,000
Speaker 2: tell me seventh round draft pick. Anybody ever tell you

1669
01:38:37,120 --> 01:38:37,880
Speaker 2: weren't good enough?

1670
01:38:38,040 --> 01:38:40,200
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1671
01:38:40,320 --> 01:38:42,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, of course and they were wrong.

1672
01:38:42,600 --> 01:38:44,200
Speaker 5: Of course. Obviously.

1673
01:38:47,479 --> 01:38:50,599
Speaker 2: This whole thing is the most confusing sports story I've

1674
01:38:50,600 --> 01:38:51,559
Speaker 2: ever seen in my life.

1675
01:38:51,600 --> 01:38:53,439
Speaker 3: I'm not kidding, Yeah, I think.

1676
01:38:54,520 --> 01:38:56,320
Speaker 6: Look, I was excited for Briann to get in the

1677
01:38:56,360 --> 01:38:58,320
Speaker 6: game when he got into the game, and then the

1678
01:38:58,360 --> 01:39:02,000
Speaker 6: only thing I've ever wanted to see from Brian is

1679
01:39:02,080 --> 01:39:04,280
Speaker 6: to number one, shake off the nerves. It's a lot

1680
01:39:04,439 --> 01:39:06,840
Speaker 6: of pressure for a kid, sure who may or may

1681
01:39:06,880 --> 01:39:11,080
Speaker 6: not be ready, but to just we know he can

1682
01:39:11,120 --> 01:39:14,360
Speaker 6: play basketball. But he was out there and it wasn't

1683
01:39:14,439 --> 01:39:18,680
Speaker 6: really didn't look like he was comfortable playing basketball. He

1684
01:39:18,800 --> 01:39:24,560
Speaker 6: was very unsure of things, overpassing, not willing to take shots.

1685
01:39:25,400 --> 01:39:28,400
Speaker 6: And the thing I'll say about that game was the

1686
01:39:28,439 --> 01:39:32,800
Speaker 6: Milwaukee game was we finally got to see him in

1687
01:39:32,920 --> 01:39:35,519
Speaker 6: rhythm of any basket.

1688
01:39:36,400 --> 01:39:44,080
Speaker 5: Any player needs to be in rhythm. And so it's

1689
01:39:44,439 --> 01:39:46,000
Speaker 5: a situation where.

1690
01:39:45,720 --> 01:39:49,439
Speaker 6: People were like, oh, oh okay, he's running the sets,

1691
01:39:50,479 --> 01:39:53,439
Speaker 6: he's coming off the screens finding the open person. He

1692
01:39:53,520 --> 01:39:59,040
Speaker 6: was playing basketball without the notion of oh I gotta

1693
01:39:59,080 --> 01:40:00,880
Speaker 6: do this or I can't make I make a mistake.

1694
01:40:00,920 --> 01:40:04,160
Speaker 6: And once once a young player, any rookie, once you

1695
01:40:04,160 --> 01:40:06,800
Speaker 6: can get out of your head, and I know I've

1696
01:40:06,800 --> 01:40:08,599
Speaker 6: been there. Once you can get out of your head

1697
01:40:08,960 --> 01:40:14,400
Speaker 6: and just let your skills take over, then that's when

1698
01:40:14,400 --> 01:40:16,320
Speaker 6: the growth happens. And that's what we got a chance

1699
01:40:16,360 --> 01:40:19,919
Speaker 6: to really see with with Briannie in that game. Seventeen

1700
01:40:19,920 --> 01:40:22,360
Speaker 6: points in an NBA game, and it wasn't just in

1701
01:40:22,400 --> 01:40:24,759
Speaker 6: the fourth quarter and that at the end of the game,

1702
01:40:25,200 --> 01:40:25,920
Speaker 6: he was in the game.

1703
01:40:26,160 --> 01:40:28,799
Speaker 5: Yeah, And so now.

1704
01:40:28,640 --> 01:40:30,920
Speaker 6: You just build off of that and before you know it,

1705
01:40:31,360 --> 01:40:34,800
Speaker 6: you know every time out it's one of those type

1706
01:40:34,840 --> 01:40:38,679
Speaker 6: of outings. And that's that's the thing I was encouraged

1707
01:40:38,720 --> 01:40:46,240
Speaker 6: about as Michigan State, to your h too much of

1708
01:40:46,800 --> 01:40:51,200
Speaker 6: your chagrin here is pulling away here and now up

1709
01:40:51,240 --> 01:40:51,759
Speaker 6: by five.

1710
01:40:53,080 --> 01:40:54,280
Speaker 5: You should be happy about that.

1711
01:40:54,280 --> 01:40:54,960
Speaker 3: That's my relief.

1712
01:40:55,080 --> 01:40:58,679
Speaker 5: Yes, your relief. Yes to my joint my chagrin, your relief.

1713
01:40:58,840 --> 01:41:00,920
Speaker 3: How about I. How about I a state doing the

1714
01:41:01,000 --> 01:41:03,600
Speaker 3: thing that annoys the hell out of fans more than anything,

1715
01:41:04,320 --> 01:41:07,320
Speaker 3: which is just make a furious charge, way way too late,

1716
01:41:08,120 --> 01:41:11,400
Speaker 3: way too late. Now cut it to ten there's a.

1717
01:41:11,360 --> 01:41:15,320
Speaker 5: Minute twelve minutes ago. Way to go, guys, Yeah, wait

1718
01:41:15,360 --> 01:41:15,800
Speaker 5: to show up.

1719
01:41:15,920 --> 01:41:19,360
Speaker 3: I mean maybe that's his whole miss like just pulled.

1720
01:41:19,160 --> 01:41:22,879
Speaker 5: Up and we talked about that before earlier.

1721
01:41:23,400 --> 01:41:27,439
Speaker 6: You just get them placing you don't pay attention to

1722
01:41:27,520 --> 01:41:35,400
Speaker 6: details out the window. So yeah, it's one of those situations.

1723
01:41:35,960 --> 01:41:37,720
Speaker 6: Just missed a wide open layul. We should have fouled him.

1724
01:41:37,720 --> 01:41:38,280
Speaker 6: Why didn't they not?

1725
01:41:38,320 --> 01:41:38,679
Speaker 3: Found?

1726
01:41:40,240 --> 01:41:42,360
Speaker 2: By the way, Bronnie Brownie did get a chance to

1727
01:41:42,360 --> 01:41:45,120
Speaker 2: build on on that game. He played seven minutes in

1728
01:41:45,160 --> 01:41:45,960
Speaker 2: the following game.

1729
01:41:46,360 --> 01:41:48,719
Speaker 5: How did you do that? I turned that that trash

1730
01:41:48,760 --> 01:41:50,120
Speaker 5: off with the Bulls game.

1731
01:41:50,439 --> 01:41:54,920
Speaker 3: Over four oh for two from three, had an assist,

1732
01:41:55,000 --> 01:42:00,760
Speaker 3: hit a couple of free throws, fouled somebody minus eight.

1733
01:42:02,240 --> 01:42:06,000
Speaker 6: They were all minus though, yeah right, yes they were.

1734
01:42:06,160 --> 01:42:07,760
Speaker 6: So the people were minus twenty.

1735
01:42:07,680 --> 01:42:10,200
Speaker 3: Led by lebron James. Yeah, minus twenty seven.

1736
01:42:10,320 --> 01:42:11,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, there you go.

1737
01:42:11,200 --> 01:42:15,880
Speaker 3: It is almost minus thirty. Yeah so yeah, yeah.

1738
01:42:15,920 --> 01:42:18,000
Speaker 5: I take minus eight over minus thirty.

1739
01:42:18,040 --> 01:42:23,360
Speaker 2: Anyway, Like, I just this isn't even about his development,

1740
01:42:23,520 --> 01:42:26,439
Speaker 2: whether or not he'll end up being good, Like I

1741
01:42:27,120 --> 01:42:28,160
Speaker 2: do not believe.

1742
01:42:27,880 --> 01:42:30,479
Speaker 3: In him at all, But who cares? Who am I? Like? Whatever?

1743
01:42:30,960 --> 01:42:34,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, go prove that wrong. That's fine. I just don't

1744
01:42:34,320 --> 01:42:40,040
Speaker 2: understand at all how a we all bought into this,

1745
01:42:40,160 --> 01:42:43,080
Speaker 2: Like Lebron's gonna usher him into the NBA, force him

1746
01:42:43,080 --> 01:42:46,400
Speaker 2: onto the Lakers, but then once he gets there, nobody's

1747
01:42:46,439 --> 01:42:47,519
Speaker 2: allowed to have an opinion.

1748
01:42:48,320 --> 01:42:54,480
Speaker 3: He's a man, he's a human, so be nice.

1749
01:42:54,640 --> 01:42:59,640
Speaker 2: I'm like, what what other athlete in America has afforded that?

1750
01:43:00,320 --> 01:43:00,720
Speaker 5: No one.

1751
01:43:03,560 --> 01:43:06,720
Speaker 2: I mean, there's only one person who I tell my kids,

1752
01:43:06,800 --> 01:43:08,840
Speaker 2: you should be nice to this person, no matter.

1753
01:43:08,640 --> 01:43:15,080
Speaker 5: What is their mother, their mother? No oh, Steve Dezeger, Yeah, perfect, perfect.

1754
01:43:15,320 --> 01:43:17,760
Speaker 3: That's it. You're the only one.

1755
01:43:17,840 --> 01:43:22,160
Speaker 8: Thank you very much. What perfect wearing the crown?

1756
01:43:22,479 --> 01:43:24,960
Speaker 9: We've got college who have stuff dated a moment. But guys,

1757
01:43:25,000 --> 01:43:27,400
Speaker 9: we've got an update on the health of Dodgers shortstop

1758
01:43:27,479 --> 01:43:29,680
Speaker 9: Mookie Bets. We mentioned earlier in the show. He was

1759
01:43:29,680 --> 01:43:32,000
Speaker 9: a late scratch from the lineup tonight as la is

1760
01:43:32,040 --> 01:43:36,080
Speaker 9: starting a three game exhibition series home tonight against the Angels.

1761
01:43:37,040 --> 01:43:39,880
Speaker 9: He did not play any of the four games overseas

1762
01:43:39,920 --> 01:43:42,840
Speaker 9: the Dodgers had. He missed both exhibitions and then both

1763
01:43:42,880 --> 01:43:47,759
Speaker 9: wins against the Cubs. David Vasse, Dodgers radio reporter, spoke

1764
01:43:47,840 --> 01:43:51,960
Speaker 9: to Mookie Bets tonight. Bets said, every time I've eaten,

1765
01:43:52,280 --> 01:43:54,120
Speaker 9: I haven't been able to hold it down. I am

1766
01:43:54,200 --> 01:43:55,080
Speaker 9: scared to eat.

1767
01:43:55,840 --> 01:43:56,240
Speaker 8: He said.

1768
01:43:56,280 --> 01:43:58,400
Speaker 9: When he left for spring training, he weighed one hundred

1769
01:43:58,439 --> 01:43:59,439
Speaker 9: and seventy five pounds.

1770
01:43:59,439 --> 01:44:01,559
Speaker 8: He now went fifty pounds.

1771
01:44:01,560 --> 01:44:02,599
Speaker 5: Oh, oh my god.

1772
01:44:02,800 --> 01:44:05,639
Speaker 9: In Tokyo, Betts said he got two leaders of IV.

1773
01:44:06,520 --> 01:44:09,840
Speaker 9: He's only been able to digest smoothie since not feeling well,

1774
01:44:09,880 --> 01:44:13,280
Speaker 9: and he was sick before the trip. Symptoms have improved

1775
01:44:13,360 --> 01:44:15,719
Speaker 9: except for not being able to hold down solid food.

1776
01:44:15,800 --> 01:44:17,160
Speaker 9: He has started new medication.

1777
01:44:17,960 --> 01:44:18,280
Speaker 8: He said.

1778
01:44:18,280 --> 01:44:21,360
Speaker 9: He was scratched from tonight's exhibition against the Halos because

1779
01:44:21,360 --> 01:44:23,559
Speaker 9: he had to lose his lunch again. He hasn't been

1780
01:44:23,560 --> 01:44:26,880
Speaker 9: able to eat solid foods since two days before the

1781
01:44:26,920 --> 01:44:32,200
Speaker 9: team originally left for Tokyo. Wow Opening Day, oh Thursday.

1782
01:44:32,439 --> 01:44:35,840
Speaker 9: By the way, Dodgers hosting the Tigers. Dodgers were tied

1783
01:44:35,880 --> 01:44:38,000
Speaker 9: one to one in the seventh of the exhibition tonight,

1784
01:44:38,040 --> 01:44:41,240
Speaker 9: Max Moncia solo homer. They've just made it seven to one.

1785
01:44:41,240 --> 01:44:43,880
Speaker 9: It's bottom of the eighth inning. Chris Taylor with a

1786
01:44:43,920 --> 01:44:46,400
Speaker 9: couple of RBIs late in this game. Now to the

1787
01:44:46,439 --> 01:44:48,960
Speaker 9: college hoops we've got twelve minutes to go. Two seed

1788
01:44:48,960 --> 01:44:52,120
Speaker 9: Michigan State has taken the lead on New Mexico forty

1789
01:44:52,160 --> 01:44:54,759
Speaker 9: six to forty one, and it is now a final.

1790
01:44:54,800 --> 01:44:57,760
Speaker 9: Old Miss beats three seed Iowa State ninety one to

1791
01:44:57,840 --> 01:45:01,040
Speaker 9: seventy eight. The late games in Seattle, Oregon had a

1792
01:45:01,040 --> 01:45:04,040
Speaker 9: big lead early. Arizona is now ahead of the Oregon

1793
01:45:04,120 --> 01:45:07,200
Speaker 9: Ducks late in the first half forty one to thirty five.

1794
01:45:07,720 --> 01:45:10,840
Speaker 9: Game winner at the buzzer for Maryland to eliminate Colorado

1795
01:45:10,880 --> 01:45:14,120
Speaker 9: State seventy two to seventy one. The day started with

1796
01:45:14,200 --> 01:45:18,240
Speaker 9: one seed in their region, Florida eliminating Yukon seventy seven

1797
01:45:18,400 --> 01:45:19,040
Speaker 9: seventy five.

1798
01:45:19,120 --> 01:45:20,520
Speaker 8: That means it's Florida.

1799
01:45:20,160 --> 01:45:23,000
Speaker 9: Against Maryland in the Bay Area on Thursday night in

1800
01:45:23,040 --> 01:45:25,799
Speaker 9: the sweet sixteen. The other matchup there will be Arkansas

1801
01:45:25,880 --> 01:45:29,280
Speaker 9: against Texas Tech. Duke one seed in the East, took

1802
01:45:29,320 --> 01:45:33,240
Speaker 9: care of Baylor easily eighty nine sixty six. Alabama, the

1803
01:45:33,280 --> 01:45:35,800
Speaker 9: two seed in the region, beat Saint Mary's eighty to

1804
01:45:35,880 --> 01:45:40,599
Speaker 9: sixty six. Kentucky eliminated Illinois eighty four to seventy five

1805
01:45:40,960 --> 01:45:44,800
Speaker 9: in the late game. In women's hoops, one seed UCLA

1806
01:45:45,080 --> 01:45:47,839
Speaker 9: is only up twenty three to twenty two against Richmond

1807
01:45:47,920 --> 01:45:48,960
Speaker 9: in the second quarter.

1808
01:45:49,400 --> 01:45:50,879
Speaker 8: In the NBA, the late.

1809
01:45:50,680 --> 01:45:53,400
Speaker 9: Game has the Clippers trailing at home to Oklahoma City

1810
01:45:53,439 --> 01:45:56,280
Speaker 9: mid third quarter, sixty seven sixty one. Each team has

1811
01:45:56,280 --> 01:46:00,000
Speaker 9: won five straight games. Okse's record fifty eight and twelve.

1812
01:46:00,560 --> 01:46:04,040
Speaker 9: Cleveland's record now fifty seven and fourteen after they ended

1813
01:46:04,040 --> 01:46:06,679
Speaker 9: a four game losing streak. Today, Cabs won at Utah

1814
01:46:06,720 --> 01:46:10,040
Speaker 9: one twenty to ninety one. Denver beat a Houston team

1815
01:46:10,040 --> 01:46:12,679
Speaker 9: that had won ninth straight, won sixteen to one to eleven.

1816
01:46:12,720 --> 01:46:15,920
Speaker 9: The final Jamal Murray thirty nine points. Nikola jokiccha the

1817
01:46:16,000 --> 01:46:18,080
Speaker 9: Nuggets with the bad ankle, was out for a fourth

1818
01:46:18,120 --> 01:46:21,080
Speaker 9: straight game, likely out Monday, but the team says he

1819
01:46:21,120 --> 01:46:25,280
Speaker 9: should return during their upcoming homestand NHL Saint Louis won

1820
01:46:25,320 --> 01:46:28,200
Speaker 9: at sixth straight. Florida won in a shootout. Kyle Larson

1821
01:46:28,280 --> 01:46:31,679
Speaker 9: was the NASCAR winner at Homestead Miami. The IndyCar Race

1822
01:46:31,720 --> 01:46:34,920
Speaker 9: went to alex Plow and we did have golf, yeah,

1823
01:46:34,960 --> 01:46:35,799
Speaker 9: not live golf.

1824
01:46:35,920 --> 01:46:36,040
Speaker 3: Oh.

1825
01:46:36,280 --> 01:46:39,320
Speaker 9: They're off this weekend. They'll be at Durral in Miami

1826
01:46:39,439 --> 01:46:42,599
Speaker 9: in early April, and then there's a late April event

1827
01:46:42,600 --> 01:46:47,480
Speaker 9: at Mexico City. The PGA event the Valspar was in Florida,

1828
01:46:47,640 --> 01:46:52,120
Speaker 9: and we had today in the final round, nine golfers

1829
01:46:52,160 --> 01:46:54,759
Speaker 9: with at least a share of the lead at some point.

1830
01:46:55,720 --> 01:46:59,439
Speaker 9: Eventually Victor Hovlin the winner that puts him back into

1831
01:46:59,439 --> 01:47:02,759
Speaker 9: the top ten. This guy was the FedEx Cup champion

1832
01:47:02,840 --> 01:47:05,360
Speaker 9: a year and a half ago and has struggled since.

1833
01:47:06,360 --> 01:47:09,360
Speaker 9: We would have to go back to last summer to

1834
01:47:09,439 --> 01:47:12,559
Speaker 9: the last time he actually made the cut against a

1835
01:47:12,640 --> 01:47:17,000
Speaker 9: full field until this weekend and today final round he's

1836
01:47:17,040 --> 01:47:20,679
Speaker 9: three shots back with five to play and he rallies

1837
01:47:20,720 --> 01:47:23,920
Speaker 9: to beat Justin Thomas by one stroke. Three birdies late

1838
01:47:24,000 --> 01:47:26,920
Speaker 9: helps him. His quote after the win, It's been quite

1839
01:47:26,920 --> 01:47:29,280
Speaker 9: a struggle the past year and a half. Wasn't sure

1840
01:47:29,320 --> 01:47:31,960
Speaker 9: I was going to show today. Glad I did. I

1841
01:47:32,120 --> 01:47:35,000
Speaker 9: honestly did not believe I could do it this week

1842
01:47:35,439 --> 01:47:38,559
Speaker 9: end quote. But as Golf Week put it to Victor

1843
01:47:38,640 --> 01:47:42,439
Speaker 9: go the spoils. Victor Hovlin gets about one point five

1844
01:47:42,520 --> 01:47:46,880
Speaker 9: million dollars for taking this event. That winners check puts him,

1845
01:47:47,240 --> 01:47:50,879
Speaker 9: at the age of twenty seven, into the top forty

1846
01:47:51,120 --> 01:47:54,320
Speaker 9: of the all time money list of the PGA Tour.

1847
01:47:54,560 --> 01:47:59,400
Speaker 9: YEP thirty three million dollars in earnings. That's not endorsements,

1848
01:47:59,640 --> 01:48:03,519
Speaker 9: just earnings on the PGA Tour. And he's still in

1849
01:48:03,600 --> 01:48:08,920
Speaker 9: his twenties. Also some context, that winner's check today of

1850
01:48:08,960 --> 01:48:12,240
Speaker 9: a million and a half. Yeah, it's better than second

1851
01:48:12,280 --> 01:48:15,439
Speaker 9: place for starters, because the guy who finished second, Justin Thomas,

1852
01:48:15,640 --> 01:48:17,879
Speaker 9: gets a very cool nine hundred and fifty thousand.

1853
01:48:17,880 --> 01:48:18,800
Speaker 8: But let's do the mat.

1854
01:48:18,880 --> 01:48:24,040
Speaker 9: That's over a half million dollars difference when only one

1855
01:48:24,120 --> 01:48:29,200
Speaker 9: stroke separated those two golfers over four days. That winner's

1856
01:48:29,280 --> 01:48:31,280
Speaker 9: check of about a million and a half is also

1857
01:48:31,479 --> 01:48:34,400
Speaker 9: about the same amount that Ben Campbell just won on

1858
01:48:34,439 --> 01:48:38,120
Speaker 9: the Live Golf Tour in Singapore for finishing six strokes

1859
01:48:38,160 --> 01:48:42,040
Speaker 9: back in third place at their most recent event. The winner,

1860
01:48:42,080 --> 01:48:46,880
Speaker 9: Jakee Neeman, got four million dollars. Why, because every winner.

1861
01:48:46,560 --> 01:48:50,400
Speaker 8: On the Live Golf Tour gets four million dollars. Back

1862
01:48:50,400 --> 01:48:55,000
Speaker 8: to you, Where is.

1863
01:48:54,960 --> 01:48:59,000
Speaker 3: This all going? Man? Where is this all golling? Oh?

1864
01:48:59,080 --> 01:49:01,120
Speaker 5: No, we going to see are we.

1865
01:49:02,600 --> 01:49:02,680
Speaker 3: Like?

1866
01:49:03,479 --> 01:49:07,080
Speaker 2: Live versus PGA Tour is kind of turning into Gore

1867
01:49:07,240 --> 01:49:10,080
Speaker 2: versus Bush?

1868
01:49:10,640 --> 01:49:13,000
Speaker 5: Remember, I mean it's gonna combine, right?

1869
01:49:13,080 --> 01:49:17,160
Speaker 2: No, but right it was like ooh close race, We're

1870
01:49:17,200 --> 01:49:18,400
Speaker 2: gonna stay up all night.

1871
01:49:18,439 --> 01:49:21,120
Speaker 3: We're gonna learn up what a hanging chat is. Oh

1872
01:49:21,200 --> 01:49:24,280
Speaker 3: my gosh, this could go into tomorrow. Wait a minute,

1873
01:49:24,400 --> 01:49:26,840
Speaker 3: this might actually take days. It's gonna go to court.

1874
01:49:27,080 --> 01:49:27,960
Speaker 3: This is exciting.

1875
01:49:28,080 --> 01:49:30,960
Speaker 2: Revote, and then like three weeks later you're like, are

1876
01:49:31,040 --> 01:49:31,720
Speaker 2: they done yet?

1877
01:49:31,800 --> 01:49:34,320
Speaker 3: Oh my god, like what are we doing?

1878
01:49:35,520 --> 01:49:37,920
Speaker 2: There was a minute where it sounded like and felt

1879
01:49:37,960 --> 01:49:41,880
Speaker 2: like it was like, Okay, there's a merger or like something,

1880
01:49:42,160 --> 01:49:46,560
Speaker 2: and we're gonna figure out where people are supposed to

1881
01:49:46,640 --> 01:49:48,720
Speaker 2: go and how do we handle the points and the

1882
01:49:48,800 --> 01:49:51,200
Speaker 2: rankings and the money and all of that. And then

1883
01:49:51,200 --> 01:49:54,400
Speaker 2: the majors. Now you can even, dude, look at any

1884
01:49:54,400 --> 01:49:56,240
Speaker 2: of these guys on the press conference when they get

1885
01:49:56,240 --> 01:50:03,760
Speaker 2: asked about it. Look at them. They're exhausted, they're exasperated.

1886
01:50:04,720 --> 01:50:09,480
Speaker 2: They have no interest in talking about it anymore. Seriously.

1887
01:50:10,280 --> 01:50:13,800
Speaker 2: It like the golfers on the podium when they're asked

1888
01:50:13,800 --> 01:50:16,960
Speaker 2: about a merger or where this is all going. It's

1889
01:50:17,040 --> 01:50:18,919
Speaker 2: like talking to a kid about their homework.

1890
01:50:20,240 --> 01:50:25,559
Speaker 3: They're just like, yeah, skimmity, skivvy, skimmy.

1891
01:50:29,120 --> 01:50:31,200
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, So I don't know, Like I

1892
01:50:31,680 --> 01:50:33,200
Speaker 2: get why you feel that way, but.

1893
01:50:34,680 --> 01:50:36,719
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen.

1894
01:50:39,280 --> 01:50:42,400
Speaker 6: Well, we'll see. Man, there's a lot of money out there. Yeah,

1895
01:50:42,520 --> 01:50:44,920
Speaker 6: it's exciting. Is it exciting when both of them are going?

1896
01:50:44,960 --> 01:50:45,080
Speaker 3: Though?

1897
01:50:45,120 --> 01:50:45,960
Speaker 5: I can tell you that.

1898
01:50:48,920 --> 01:50:51,080
Speaker 3: Is anything exciting on the LIB Tour.

1899
01:50:52,840 --> 01:50:53,839
Speaker 5: The prize money.

1900
01:50:54,160 --> 01:50:56,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, but is that right? I don't know how.

1901
01:50:56,600 --> 01:50:58,280
Speaker 6: Like all they have to do is make it two

1902
01:50:58,400 --> 01:51:02,720
Speaker 6: rival leagues like the uh AFC in the NFC, and

1903
01:51:02,920 --> 01:51:04,679
Speaker 6: they just compete in each turn.

1904
01:51:04,760 --> 01:51:07,480
Speaker 5: They all show up in the tournament, you compete.

1905
01:51:07,120 --> 01:51:08,639
Speaker 3: And then have a super bowl at the end.

1906
01:51:08,760 --> 01:51:09,200
Speaker 5: Yess it?

1907
01:51:09,400 --> 01:51:13,840
Speaker 6: Okay, your top five live golfers and you pick your

1908
01:51:14,200 --> 01:51:17,240
Speaker 6: and it has to be on winning your top winningness

1909
01:51:17,760 --> 01:51:22,960
Speaker 6: players from each and then you roll it out.

1910
01:51:26,200 --> 01:51:32,120
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, i'd watch that. Yeah. I don't know. I

1911
01:51:32,160 --> 01:51:33,840
Speaker 3: don't even know if some of these guys know how

1912
01:51:33,880 --> 01:51:35,679
Speaker 3: the hell they ended up wherever the hell they are,

1913
01:51:36,160 --> 01:51:38,800
Speaker 3: or how to get back you know what I mean.

1914
01:51:39,080 --> 01:51:41,400
Speaker 5: It was like somebody they got there by private plane.

1915
01:51:41,600 --> 01:51:45,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's a good point. That's that's a fair point.

1916
01:51:45,000 --> 01:51:48,040
Speaker 2: They're fine, of course they're fine. But that's my point.

1917
01:51:48,400 --> 01:51:50,640
Speaker 2: What's the drama on the lip where you're like, if

1918
01:51:50,680 --> 01:51:52,880
Speaker 2: you win, you get four million, but if you lose,

1919
01:51:52,920 --> 01:51:59,400
Speaker 2: you only get three. Oh no, Like, who cares? Why

1920
01:51:59,439 --> 01:52:00,960
Speaker 2: am I supposed to care about that?

1921
01:52:02,720 --> 01:52:05,519
Speaker 5: I think the golfers love live is less.

1922
01:52:05,680 --> 01:52:09,760
Speaker 6: It's one less round eighteen, you know, less holes and

1923
01:52:10,040 --> 01:52:11,280
Speaker 6: more is more money.

1924
01:52:11,280 --> 01:52:15,519
Speaker 5: You get to play more tournaments. It's just better, right.

1925
01:52:15,320 --> 01:52:17,640
Speaker 2: But that just turns fans off. Like what you just

1926
01:52:17,640 --> 01:52:20,360
Speaker 2: described was load management and the NBA Cup.

1927
01:52:21,400 --> 01:52:24,240
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I'm not here, so you get to play

1928
01:52:24,320 --> 01:52:25,760
Speaker 6: more tournaments.

1929
01:52:25,640 --> 01:52:28,519
Speaker 2: Like you to work less, make more money, and we

1930
01:52:28,560 --> 01:52:30,519
Speaker 2: pay more to not see you play.

1931
01:52:30,640 --> 01:52:36,040
Speaker 3: Like I'm I don't know, dude, I'm confused. I really am.

1932
01:52:36,240 --> 01:52:37,880
Speaker 2: In fact, we should get into that a little bit

1933
01:52:37,920 --> 01:52:39,919
Speaker 2: more because we talked about it a little bit earlier.

1934
01:52:40,560 --> 01:52:44,080
Speaker 2: Like half the Western Conference stars are sitting out at

1935
01:52:44,120 --> 01:52:48,800
Speaker 2: the most opportune time for them to really like push

1936
01:52:48,840 --> 01:52:50,400
Speaker 2: their team up in the standings.

1937
01:52:50,520 --> 01:52:51,959
Speaker 3: It's a little bit of a head scratcher.

1938
01:52:52,000 --> 01:52:55,960
Speaker 2: But that and more coming down the stretch with tonight's

1939
01:52:56,000 --> 01:52:58,760
Speaker 2: March Madness here in the tyreck dot Com Studios with

1940
01:52:58,800 --> 01:53:03,880
Speaker 2: e from Salama, Mark Weather than It's Fox Sports Radio. Okay,

1941
01:53:03,960 --> 01:53:09,320
Speaker 2: Tyreight dot Com Studios. You might be right. I think

1942
01:53:09,360 --> 01:53:12,040
Speaker 2: you want to be right, and you might be right.

1943
01:53:13,320 --> 01:53:16,160
Speaker 2: New Mexico looks like they have the stomach for this.

1944
01:53:19,400 --> 01:53:23,160
Speaker 2: What I mean they only down by five yeap with

1945
01:53:23,160 --> 01:53:27,200
Speaker 2: a free throw coming for the Sparty six thirty eight

1946
01:53:27,240 --> 01:53:33,920
Speaker 2: to go in this one. I'm impressed. I'm impressed, but

1947
01:53:34,479 --> 01:53:35,679
Speaker 2: they probably don't have enough.

1948
01:53:36,360 --> 01:53:38,400
Speaker 5: Seems like they running out a little bit of steam, huh.

1949
01:53:38,479 --> 01:53:38,640
Speaker 5: You know.

1950
01:53:39,840 --> 01:53:42,639
Speaker 3: And then that Arizona Oregon first half was wild.

1951
01:53:44,080 --> 01:53:46,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was back and forth, back and forth, back

1952
01:53:46,120 --> 01:53:48,599
Speaker 6: and forth. But these are the look like I said,

1953
01:53:48,640 --> 01:53:50,080
Speaker 6: these are the type of games we want to see

1954
01:53:50,160 --> 01:53:52,680
Speaker 6: right now, right closing out. Who's gonna be in the

1955
01:53:52,680 --> 01:53:55,840
Speaker 6: sweet sixteen. It's a good game. It's a good game,

1956
01:53:56,000 --> 01:53:56,559
Speaker 6: very good game.

1957
01:53:56,640 --> 01:54:01,680
Speaker 5: This UCLA Richmond game women's was good until.

1958
01:54:01,120 --> 01:54:02,800
Speaker 3: You know, until it wasn't.

1959
01:54:03,680 --> 01:54:06,360
Speaker 6: Well, they're hanging in there. I mean it's only you know,

1960
01:54:06,560 --> 01:54:12,320
Speaker 6: twenty nine four, so that's good. Yeah, that'd be a

1961
01:54:12,400 --> 01:54:13,080
Speaker 6: huge upset.

1962
01:54:13,320 --> 01:54:18,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I like and I know, you know, they're

1963
01:54:18,800 --> 01:54:20,479
Speaker 3: just they're in the second quarter.

1964
01:54:20,800 --> 01:54:23,960
Speaker 2: We've got quarters in the women's game. But that'll get

1965
01:54:24,000 --> 01:54:29,000
Speaker 2: figured out in the second half. Yeah, that one seeds

1966
01:54:29,040 --> 01:54:31,519
Speaker 2: moving on, that one scene, that one seed's moving on.

1967
01:54:34,360 --> 01:54:36,320
Speaker 3: I feel like we talk about it a lot. I

1968
01:54:36,320 --> 01:54:38,360
Speaker 3: don't think there's ever a good answer for it.

1969
01:54:39,000 --> 01:54:41,920
Speaker 2: I got into a lot of discussions about it this

1970
01:54:42,000 --> 01:54:47,320
Speaker 2: week when when the Warriors decided to give Steph Curry

1971
01:54:47,320 --> 01:54:50,880
Speaker 2: a night off with Giannis coming into town after losing

1972
01:54:50,880 --> 01:54:54,560
Speaker 2: a basketball game where Nicola Yo Kicch and Jamal Murray

1973
01:54:54,560 --> 01:54:57,520
Speaker 2: both sat out and nobody really knew why. Now they

1974
01:54:57,600 --> 01:54:59,520
Speaker 2: ended up sitting out multiple games. There must be and

1975
01:54:59,800 --> 01:55:04,920
Speaker 2: y could you're still sitting out? Yeah, so there's some something.

1976
01:55:05,120 --> 01:55:06,400
Speaker 3: There's something going on there.

1977
01:55:06,720 --> 01:55:08,760
Speaker 6: They're trying to keep him as fresh as possible for

1978
01:55:08,840 --> 01:55:10,200
Speaker 6: these playoffs is about to happen.

1979
01:55:10,240 --> 01:55:11,000
Speaker 5: I can promise you that.

1980
01:55:11,640 --> 01:55:13,000
Speaker 3: Here's what I struggle with.

1981
01:55:13,080 --> 01:55:18,160
Speaker 2: Man, these people know what they're doing, and obviously they

1982
01:55:18,200 --> 01:55:23,880
Speaker 2: have found a sweet spot that maximizes the potential of

1983
01:55:23,920 --> 01:55:28,000
Speaker 2: a player and therefore a team. And so, like I

1984
01:55:28,040 --> 01:55:30,520
Speaker 2: said earlier, they're not stupid. They're doing what they do

1985
01:55:30,640 --> 01:55:36,800
Speaker 2: for a reason. But where where does the league and

1986
01:55:36,840 --> 01:55:40,120
Speaker 2: where do the fans fit in on all of this?

1987
01:55:42,080 --> 01:55:46,520
Speaker 2: Because the bottom line is, as you maximize your potential

1988
01:55:46,800 --> 01:55:51,760
Speaker 2: on an individual basis, I think sometimes you stop maximizing

1989
01:55:51,800 --> 01:55:56,200
Speaker 2: your potential as a greater company, and that's what I

1990
01:55:56,240 --> 01:55:57,320
Speaker 2: see is happening.

1991
01:55:57,040 --> 01:55:58,960
Speaker 3: Right now with the NBA.

1992
01:55:59,200 --> 01:56:03,840
Speaker 2: Individual are maximizing their performance at the expense of the

1993
01:56:03,880 --> 01:56:05,320
Speaker 2: greater company.

1994
01:56:06,800 --> 01:56:07,360
Speaker 3: And so.

1995
01:56:09,880 --> 01:56:12,840
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't I don't know what the

1996
01:56:12,880 --> 01:56:16,600
Speaker 2: fix is. I really don't. I just know that the

1997
01:56:16,600 --> 01:56:19,640
Speaker 2: things that I see Adam Silver try or are usually

1998
01:56:19,680 --> 01:56:22,480
Speaker 2: not it.

1999
01:56:22,760 --> 01:56:23,320
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

2000
01:56:23,760 --> 01:56:28,440
Speaker 2: I like at him Silver, you know, like, Okay, let's

2001
01:56:28,480 --> 01:56:31,360
Speaker 2: split the All Star Game into four squads and we'll

2002
01:56:31,400 --> 01:56:36,839
Speaker 2: do Okay, how about how about a mid season tournament

2003
01:56:36,920 --> 01:56:38,480
Speaker 2: where somebody gets money?

2004
01:56:38,560 --> 01:56:41,960
Speaker 3: Yeah? Okay, like what what? What? What are we doing?

2005
01:56:42,600 --> 01:56:45,160
Speaker 2: I do this every year in in uh in March,

2006
01:56:45,240 --> 01:56:47,560
Speaker 2: and I quiz people. I go who won the NBA Cup.

2007
01:56:48,360 --> 01:56:54,040
Speaker 2: Nobody knows. Nobody even knows who won the NBA Cup.

2008
01:56:55,520 --> 01:56:59,240
Speaker 3: So, like, I mean, I don't know.

2009
01:56:59,320 --> 01:57:02,520
Speaker 2: Man, They're in a very you know, you've talked about it,

2010
01:57:02,600 --> 01:57:04,280
Speaker 2: like baseball being in a tough spot.

2011
01:57:04,440 --> 01:57:07,720
Speaker 3: NBA is too. NBA is a tough spot right now.

2012
01:57:08,040 --> 01:57:13,160
Speaker 6: I think, Yeah, I agree, the money, the salaries are escalating,

2013
01:57:13,240 --> 01:57:20,680
Speaker 6: but you know, the product isn't following suit, at least

2014
01:57:20,680 --> 01:57:24,000
Speaker 6: in the NFL. When the money goes up, I mean,

2015
01:57:24,120 --> 01:57:25,680
Speaker 6: the excitement level doesn't dip.

2016
01:57:30,280 --> 01:57:33,560
Speaker 2: I couldn't imagine a subject like load management coming to

2017
01:57:33,680 --> 01:57:34,680
Speaker 2: the NFL.

2018
01:57:35,960 --> 01:57:39,920
Speaker 5: No, where you loading to? What did you have? Sixteen games?

2019
01:57:40,640 --> 01:57:42,080
Speaker 5: Excuse me, seventeen.

2020
01:57:41,680 --> 01:57:43,640
Speaker 3: Games and soon will be eighteen.

2021
01:57:44,120 --> 01:57:45,160
Speaker 5: There's not gonna be eighteen.

2022
01:57:45,240 --> 01:57:46,160
Speaker 3: They're gonna be eighteen.

2023
01:57:46,720 --> 01:57:48,640
Speaker 5: It's gonna be twenty before long, exactly.

2024
01:57:49,840 --> 01:57:51,200
Speaker 3: Remember, and they're gonna.

2025
01:57:50,960 --> 01:57:54,280
Speaker 5: Be remember they remember they used to play sixteen games.

2026
01:57:57,680 --> 01:57:58,360
Speaker 5: Twenty game.

2027
01:57:58,760 --> 01:58:02,120
Speaker 2: Some cat's gonna have six five touchdown passes and there

2028
01:58:02,920 --> 01:58:06,040
Speaker 2: like broke that record. Well, yeah, you're warning.

2029
01:58:05,960 --> 01:58:11,440
Speaker 6: Seven games, eighty six, one hundred passing yards and sixty

2030
01:58:11,560 --> 01:58:14,720
Speaker 6: nine touchdowns, three interceptions.

2031
01:58:15,720 --> 01:58:18,360
Speaker 5: You're like, uh, throw the record book out the window.

2032
01:58:18,720 --> 01:58:19,280
Speaker 3: You're through for.

2033
01:58:19,280 --> 01:58:22,879
Speaker 2: Five thousand yards in America, but there were two thousand

2034
01:58:22,880 --> 01:58:26,120
Speaker 2: more yards in Germanymany, We had a thousand in Mexico,

2035
01:58:26,680 --> 01:58:32,480
Speaker 2: fifteen hundred in London. Yeah, I mean, they've got they've

2036
01:58:32,480 --> 01:58:35,440
Speaker 2: got the secret sauce. But it's all it's all baked into,

2037
01:58:36,440 --> 01:58:38,880
Speaker 2: it's all baked into just the way the game is,

2038
01:58:39,920 --> 01:58:45,040
Speaker 2: and so you can't replicate that. So I don't know,

2039
01:58:45,280 --> 01:58:47,680
Speaker 2: I don't know what the fix is, man, because this

2040
01:58:47,760 --> 01:58:52,640
Speaker 2: is intense basketball right now. But I feel like you

2041
01:58:52,680 --> 01:58:56,880
Speaker 2: know the lineups are not they're not matching that intensity.

2042
01:58:56,880 --> 01:58:59,000
Speaker 2: It's kind of intense for the fans. I don't know

2043
01:58:59,040 --> 01:59:01,840
Speaker 2: how intense I've actually watched the NBA teams get yet.

2044
01:59:03,520 --> 01:59:06,720
Speaker 6: No, I just they save all of that for the playoffs.

2045
01:59:09,720 --> 01:59:12,040
Speaker 6: It's just it's too much like in the league. That's

2046
01:59:12,080 --> 01:59:16,160
Speaker 6: the problem. Too much, like too much like everybody loves

2047
01:59:16,200 --> 01:59:18,040
Speaker 6: each other, everybody's great.

2048
01:59:19,080 --> 01:59:20,160
Speaker 3: You think that's it.

2049
01:59:20,160 --> 01:59:23,040
Speaker 6: It is it when you when you're playing against somebody

2050
01:59:23,080 --> 01:59:25,760
Speaker 6: you don't like, it's a whole other level of energy.

2051
01:59:25,800 --> 01:59:28,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's what happens.

2052
01:59:28,440 --> 01:59:31,000
Speaker 6: There's a whole other level of energy, no doubt, and

2053
01:59:31,120 --> 01:59:31,880
Speaker 6: that's what's missing.

2054
01:59:33,000 --> 01:59:35,400
Speaker 3: All right, man, we gotta roll peace out. Here comes

2055
01:59:35,400 --> 01:59:36,240
Speaker 3: playing and Spaniard