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

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Speaker 2: I'm Steve Desager.

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Speaker 3: Welcome man, everybody, Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Saturday Aratorris,

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Speaker 3: Jason Martin. We are broadcasting live. Yes, we are live,

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Speaker 3: eleven pm Eastern, Fox Sports Radio Studios. College hoops largely

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Speaker 3: in the books. As de Sager just told you some

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Speaker 3: NBA action nuggets up to on the Lakers at Crypto

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Speaker 3: dot Com Arena. Twenty three seconds left, Luca Doncers with

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Speaker 3: the ball. We will obviously keep you updated on that one.

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Speaker 3: Clippers and Kings just tipped off, and as Disager just

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Speaker 3: told you, World Baseball Classic Japan up five to four

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Speaker 3: in the fifth inning in the quarterfinals. There Jason Martin

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Speaker 3: and our Nashville studios Jay Martin, My man, what's going on, buddy?

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Speaker 3: How you doing doing well?

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 4: How are you? It's been a nick big one, been

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Speaker 4: a busy one. There's been a lot going going on,

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Speaker 4: even without football. There's a ton going on. But there's

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Speaker 4: some football going on too.

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Speaker 3: Oh it's spring football started? Has it started?

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Speaker 4: A new UFL? No? I mean you know what, Actually,

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Speaker 4: let me correct myself. I don't know, and I don't care.

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Speaker 3: I actually did think that's what you were talking about,

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Speaker 3: and then I realized that, oh no, there is still there's.

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Speaker 4: Like actual stuff happening in leagues.

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Speaker 3: That that matters a lot of Kyler Murray news this week.

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Speaker 3: I know you're not on social media. A lot of

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Speaker 3: mean Kyler Murray memes this week. Yeah, a lot of uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, let's just say the short jokes were flowing

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Speaker 3: on social media this week. But we'll get to Kyler later.

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Speaker 3: We'll get to Toua later. You asked me how my

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Speaker 3: day was. I don't know, if you know, I feel

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Speaker 3: like Michael Jordan I took that personal. I feel like

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Speaker 3: Disager had a little extra oomph in the Saint John's destroys.

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Speaker 3: You con in the Big East Tournament? Why did the

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Speaker 3: Huskies even show up?

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Speaker 4: People have been waiting for this all day, especially since

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Speaker 4: it happened. And this is the Yukon Show of Record.

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Speaker 3: It is the Yukon Show of Record and Deutsch. I'm

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Speaker 3: just gonna give Deutsch directions on air. We have one

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Speaker 3: college basketball game on air right now, the Big West.

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Speaker 3: It's on ESPN two. Let's get it on this TV here. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so where the Yukon Show a Record. We will talk

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Speaker 3: about Big East in a second, but it is worth noting,

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Speaker 3: by the way, at Crypto dot Com Arena, the Nuggets

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Speaker 3: have taken the three point lead nine seconds to go.

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Speaker 3: We'll keep you updated on that Yukon was in the

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Speaker 3: running for the potential fourth number one seed. They will

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Speaker 3: not get it after losing on Saturday night at Medisine

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Speaker 3: Square Garden. But I will say this, Jamart, I thought

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Speaker 3: you brought up a great point in our pre show

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Speaker 3: prep our pre show kind of conversation is that, you know,

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Speaker 3: taking out the Yukon element of it. It felt like

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Speaker 3: coming into the day that the four number one seeds

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Speaker 3: were pretty set, and I bring up the Yukon part

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Speaker 3: because the conversation was if Florida loses and if Yukon wins,

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Speaker 3: is there an argument for Yukon to have the fourth

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Speaker 3: number one seed. Well, Yukon loses. But in an interesting

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Speaker 3: day in college hoops, the four teams that are projected

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Speaker 3: as number one seeds, three of them survived, one of

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Speaker 3: them did not. The Florida Gators lost at the SEC

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Speaker 3: Tournament in the semi finals to Vanderbilt. Shout out to Vanderbilt,

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Speaker 3: who all of a sudden is good in literally everything.

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Speaker 3: But then to a point that you brought up. Wisconsin

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Speaker 3: had Michigan on the on the ropes. Excuse me, Michigan

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Speaker 3: survives to play for a Big Ten title. On Sunday,

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Speaker 3: Duke wins the ACC title in dramatic fashion, a game

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Speaker 3: that really Virginia gave them all they could handle. They

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Speaker 5: But I thought it was a.

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Speaker 3: Great point by you, because even last week on this show,

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Speaker 3: I was kind of saying that I felt like there

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Speaker 3: rest of college basketball. All four were either on the

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Speaker 3: And you talk about a tournament that's going to start

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So even if it's not, my point is this

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Speaker 4: is good for tournament interest. Yes, whether it changes anything

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Speaker 4: know now is these teams have been in dogfights. All

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Speaker 4: And so I think it's good for all those teams

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Speaker 4: in terms of facing something like this going into the tournament,

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Speaker 4: geting one last gut check in. But the bigger thing

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Speaker 4: these conference tournament scenarios. I think that's good just for

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Speaker 4: the casual fan, and I think that's good for anybody

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Speaker 4: that just kind of hasn't watched college basketball all season,

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Speaker 4: but this week all of a sudden remembered the sport exists.

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Speaker 4: Because a lot of people do that they have now

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Speaker 4: and I think that's a good thing for the tournament.

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Speaker 4: I think it's a good thing for those teams. Again,

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Speaker 4: I think that that may really prove out to be

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Speaker 4: big for all of them. But more than anything, it

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Speaker 4: does it creates, even if it's an illusion, it creates

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Speaker 4: an illusion that the tournament is wide open now. Whether

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Speaker 4: expected now. Whether or not that's true remains to be seen.

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Speaker 4: That doesn't matter when we're just talking about interest in

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Speaker 3: Well, and I think it's especially important coming off of

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Speaker 3: the second time ever that all four number one seeds

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Speaker 3: last year and I do think that it was a

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Speaker 3: last season if Cinderella was truly dead. And I only

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Speaker 4: Is it?

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Speaker 3: Is it not? But coming off of that year last

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Speaker 3: it is good going into this tournament that to your point,

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Speaker 3: it feels like it's more wide open. And I'll tell

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Speaker 3: You know, you saw Virginia tonight. Good team, but they

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Speaker 3: they're not gonna overwhelm you. They're gonna be a three

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Speaker 3: doesn't change the fact that I think it sets up

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Speaker 3: I do think there's actually gonna be less chalk than

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I mean I think that's good now. I

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Speaker 3: Really quickly. Have spent a little bit more time maybe

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Speaker 3: the way, we did just have a three pointer at

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Speaker 3: Saturday night game, Austin reeves the rare intentional miss at

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Speaker 3: Venezuela has taken the lead seven five. Venezuela is ahead

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Speaker 3: but a lot of really fun sports action. Back to

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Speaker 3: college hoops really quick. Yeah, having watched these teams, is

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Speaker 3: team that has stood out to you having a chance

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Speaker 3: to watch these teams a little bit closer the last

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I really do like Arizona. I don't

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Speaker 4: love them in the tournament just because they haven't had

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Speaker 4: a whole lot of success in the tournament in recent years.

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Speaker 4: But this year could be different. Any year can be different.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if you can look at history when

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Speaker 4: you have a new roster, Seemingly every year.

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, Yeah, do you think because

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Speaker 3: exactly what you said, the the roster's turnover year over year.

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Speaker 3: But it does feel like there are some of those teams,

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Speaker 3: Ohio on a piece of paper, there is obviously ways

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Speaker 3: to punch holes in their arguments. Most notably, they did

438
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Speaker 3: not play, let alone beat a single Power Conference team. Now,

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Speaker 3: as to a point that we talked about last week

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Speaker 3: that you just referenced, Travis Steel has been very vocal

441
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Speaker 3: and they have like somebody did a freedom of information Act,

442
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Speaker 3: they really did reach out to dozens of Power conference

443
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Speaker 3: teams and no one, you know, was interested in playing them.

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Speaker 3: So my human element thought process here is two things.

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Speaker 3: Is really three these guys and girls in the committee.

446
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Speaker 3: They're all ads, right, and so I think they all

447
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Speaker 3: understand to a degree a couple things. One this could

448
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Speaker 3: one day be them. They're all in power conferences for

449
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Speaker 3: the most part. But there's a couple of mid major guys,

450
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Speaker 3: a couple whatever, and I think they're like, wait a second, now,

451
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Speaker 3: I'm either at a mid major school. I was at

452
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Speaker 3: a mid major school. Are we really about to leave

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Speaker 3: a team that went thirty one and oh in the

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Speaker 3: regular season. Now, So I think there's part There's that

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Speaker 3: part of it. There is the part of if I

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Speaker 3: am the selection committee chair, how about this? And I

457
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Speaker 3: know that for the next twenty four hours I have

458
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Speaker 3: to do interviews justifying everything that we decided. I'm looking

459
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Speaker 3: at those guys and girls in the room being like,

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Speaker 3: you're gonna throw me out to the wolves and make

461
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Speaker 3: me the bad guy because we left out A thirty

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Speaker 3: one and oh team thirty one and one now over

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Speaker 3: a It doesn't just have to be Auburn, which stunk.

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Speaker 3: But you know, every team that Miami of Ohio is

465
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Speaker 3: competing for an at large bid with is basically a

466
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Speaker 3: twelve thirteen, fourteen lost power conference team, right, And so

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Speaker 3: I just think if you're the committee chair, you're like,

468
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Speaker 3: we're really doing this. But I think what it really

469
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Speaker 3: comes down to to me is it is the most

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Speaker 3: basic question that I think essentially becomes unanswerable. If you

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Speaker 3: are that committee chair having to do interviews and you

472
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Speaker 3: just left Miami of Ohio to the tournament, why would

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Speaker 3: you play? What is the point of playing the regular season?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 3: And it's the most obvious part. But again and It's

477
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Speaker 3: part of like what we talk about with college football, right, Like,

478
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Speaker 3: what's the point of Miami playing Notre Dame if beating

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Speaker 3: them doesn't count? And I just think, how if you

480
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Speaker 3: are on that committee, can you sit there and say

481
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Speaker 3: they played thirty one games, they won every single one

482
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Speaker 3: they lost in the conference tournament, Like, what is the

483
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Speaker 3: point of playing a regular season? And then to take

484
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Speaker 3: it a step further, why wouldn't you just rest your starters,

485
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Speaker 3: rest your guys, not even worry because nothing else matpen.

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Speaker 3: And it's not just Miami of Ohio. It's essentially, you

487
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Speaker 3: know what, eighty percent of college basketball that's in a

488
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Speaker 3: one big league and is playing basically for you know,

489
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Speaker 3: the only weather getting in is to play for a

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Speaker 3: conference championship through the tournament. So again, I know those

491
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Speaker 3: are human element kind of made up things, but I

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Speaker 3: just I think at some point the human element does

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Speaker 3: outweigh any negative on an actual piece of paper, If

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Speaker 3: that makes sense.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I agree, Like again, if they go

496
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Speaker 4: if going undefeated is not good enough, when no one

497
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Speaker 4: will agree to play them, then do they just disband

498
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Speaker 4: the team? Like if you can't get an NCAA tournament undefeated,

499
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Speaker 4: through your entire regular season, where you desperately did everything

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Speaker 4: you could to improve your strength to schedule you are,

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Speaker 4: you know what you are in terms of the conference

502
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Speaker 4: sure in and the games that you can actually get

503
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Speaker 4: on your schedule. If that's not enough, if you also

504
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Speaker 4: didn't have to go win the conference tournament, then right, like,

505
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Speaker 4: there's no point in the thirty one games that you

506
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Speaker 4: won at all. And I find that insane. So, I mean,

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Speaker 4: I think that that actually makes the case easier. And

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Speaker 4: it's just the bigger thing is like nobody's gonna be

509
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Speaker 4: upset writ large, at least that you know, Auburn gets

510
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Speaker 4: left out outside of likes a few people in the

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Speaker 4: SEC and Auburn fans.

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Speaker 3: And some I don't even think alburn fans were that mad,

513
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Speaker 3: but keep going, right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we talked about that last week and I agree

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Speaker 4: with you. So what's the what's the win here in

516
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Speaker 4: terms of leaving them out? And I don't think there

517
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Speaker 4: is one. So the easiest thing and of course you

518
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Speaker 4: get the story of hey, this team went undefeated in

519
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Speaker 4: the regular season. But if that's not enough to get

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Speaker 4: you into the tournament, I don't know how you square that, Like,

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Speaker 4: how do you how do you evaluate that? Like, what

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Speaker 4: what on earth is a team supposed to do in

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Speaker 4: that case?

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Speaker 3: Well, and let me jump into I think the other

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Speaker 3: thing that helps them is that basically every other bubble

526
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Speaker 3: team gagged this week. Yeah, and frankly just they stunk

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Speaker 3: all season. And listen, again, I'm not a super math guy,

528
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Speaker 3: but like, basically the people that love doing math are saying,

529
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Speaker 3: this is quite literally the worst bubble that we've ever had.

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Speaker 3: But just looking at Joelenardi's bracket, because again I can't

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Speaker 3: find Fox's most updated one. Last four and including Miami

532
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Speaker 3: of Ohio. Missouri lost the opening round of the SEC

533
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Speaker 3: tournament SMU one on Tuesday at the ACC tournament and

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Speaker 3: then lost on Wednesday at the AEC tournament. Texas lost

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Speaker 3: the opening game of its tournament. By the way, Texas

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Speaker 3: A and m last four by lost the opening game

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Speaker 3: of their tournament, and so that's the other part too.

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Speaker 3: By the way, Indiana lost to Northwestern in their conference tournament.

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Speaker 3: See and Hall couldn't get a win of note at

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Speaker 3: the Big East Tournament. Cincinnati lost early in their conference tournament.

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Speaker 3: So I could go on and on. We don't have

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Speaker 3: to go through everybody's resume. But that is another part too,

543
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Speaker 3: is the idea, that is the idea that it's not

544
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Speaker 3: only just what they did, it is what everybody else

545
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Speaker 3: did on the bubble. And again, to your point, I

546
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Speaker 3: think it's pretty tough for a committee chair and it's

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Speaker 3: not only his decision or her decision. I understand that,

548
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Speaker 3: But to come on a show and explain, well, Texas

549
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Speaker 3: went eighteen and fourteen and lost their their conference ernament

550
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Speaker 3: opener and lost a bunch of games down the stretch.

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Speaker 4: But Texas, yeah, well yeah, and that becomes the argument,

552
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Speaker 4: and that's not no one wants to say that.

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Speaker 3: Yes, so we will see selection show six pm Eastern

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Speaker 3: time tomorrow. Yeah, Fox Sports Radio Aer towards Jason Martin.

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Speaker 3: We are broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.

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Speaker 3: I actually do have one quick take on Auburn. We'll

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Speaker 3: get to that next before we do though. Final final time,

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Speaker 3: first time on our show this evening, Steve di Seger,

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Speaker 3: what is trending?

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Speaker 2: And you will be here for our I will be

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Speaker 2: radio real quick.

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Speaker 3: I'm hosting with Dan Bayer. Dan Byer will join us

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Speaker 3: at ten to twenty this evening Pacific one to twenty

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Speaker 3: Eastern to preview what we'll be doing on air. Let

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Speaker 3: me say this, I think you've worked a bracket show

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Speaker 3: with us maybe once or twice. This guy does so

567
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 3: much work for that show and deserves I just come

568
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Speaker 3: in and react to what he's talking about.

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Speaker 5: He loves this.

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Speaker 4: Dan Byer does work.

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Speaker 3: Oh my, I know you're being sarcastic, but like awesome.

572
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Speaker 3: I mean, you talk about quad ones wins, this quad

573
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Speaker 3: two losses, that conference quarterfinal loss. He does a ton

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Speaker 3: of work. I can't wait to talk to him about it.

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Speaker 3: In the ten o'clock Pacific one o'clock hour, he'll be

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Speaker 3: joining us to saga. I cut you off, please go ahead.

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Speaker 2: A non major conference team who's on the bubble and

578
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Speaker 2: probably doesn't have enough squad one win. San Diego State

579
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Speaker 2: lost its conference final today.

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Speaker 3: That was not good for the Aztecs.

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Speaker 2: Usually you get an as TAGS team with fifty two

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Speaker 2: guys that are six foot ten and long armed, and

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Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if they don't score. They could block

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Speaker 2: you to the rebounds weren't there this year. If this

585
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Speaker 2: was it, that's too bad. Aztex did lose to Utah

586
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Speaker 2: State in the Mountain West Championship, and going on right now,

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Speaker 2: it is Hawaii fifty two fifty over UC Irvine in

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Speaker 2: the Big West Championship. Nine and a half minutes to

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Speaker 2: go after that game, midnight Eastern time, the WHAC Tournament

590
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Speaker 2: final in Las Vegas with Utah Valley against cal Baptist And.

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Speaker 4: What a game.

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Speaker 2: In the NBA in La, the Lakers were trailing late

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Speaker 2: against the Denver Nuggets. They foul Austin Reeves. LA's down three.

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Speaker 2: He makes the first free throw, has to miss the

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Speaker 2: second one ABC with the call and then when it

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Speaker 2: to overtime and the Lakers have a chance. You know,

597
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Speaker 2: Denver's defense had a foul to give. They chose now

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Speaker 2: to in a tie game late and then back puts

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Speaker 2: it up.

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Speaker 3: Put it, don't you puts up a second.

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Speaker 4: Lakers by two.

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Speaker 2: And it wound up after the time out in the

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Speaker 2: in bed a Laker victory by two in overtime, beating

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Speaker 2: Denver one twenty seven one twenty five game winner to

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Speaker 2: Luka Doncic. He had thirty points. Reeves tied it at

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Speaker 2: the end of regulation had thirty two. Lakers have won

607
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Speaker 2: five straight. They win the tiebreaker against the Nuggets this year. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Nicola jokicch with a triple double again. His teammate Jamal

609
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Speaker 2: Murray fouled out one of fourteen shooting from the floor tonight,

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Speaker 2: thirty six minutes on the court, five points, six fouls

611
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Speaker 2: for Denver. Orlando won its seventh straight edging Miami. Atlanta

612
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Speaker 2: won its ninth in a row, killing Milwaukee. Boston sent

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Speaker 2: Washington to an eleventh straight loss. The late game late

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Speaker 2: first half as Sacramento leading the Clip in LA fifty

615
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Speaker 2: four to forty five earlier wins for the Spurs and

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Speaker 2: the Sixers. As for the college hoops, the ACC Final

617
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Speaker 2: did go to number one Duke seventy four to seventy

618
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Speaker 2: over Virginia Big Twelve winner Number two Arizona beat fifth

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Speaker 2: rank Houston seventy nine seventy four, And in New York City,

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Speaker 2: Saint John's took the Big East over Yugon seventy two

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Speaker 2: to fifty two. Conference championships to UNBC to Prairie View

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Speaker 2: and Howard to Akron on a late three pointer and

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Speaker 2: to Kenesaw State. And what a ballgame going on Fox

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Speaker 2: TV right now? Final quarter final of the World Baseball Classic.

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Speaker 2: Venezuela has taken the lead on Japan. Its two outs

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Speaker 2: in the bottom of the seventh could be Venezuela Italy

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Speaker 2: in a semi final coming up in a couple nights.

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Speaker 2: Italy is five and zero in this tournament after eliminating

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Speaker 2: Puerto Rico today eight six. By the way, Ronald Acunya

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Speaker 2: Venezuela a leadoff homer in this game off Yoshinobu Yamamoto

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Speaker 2: of the Dodgers, who eventually went four with five strikeouts.

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Speaker 2: This bullpen for Japan is reminding me of the Dodger

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Speaker 2: bullpen last year. Any chance Yamamoto could come back in

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Speaker 2: like the postseason and this maybe pitch the ninth or something.

635
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Speaker 2: But by the way, say a Suzuki in the Cubs

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Speaker 2: for Japan limped off early in the game after he

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Speaker 2: was caught stealing knee entry.

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Speaker 3: into some other big stories this week. Bam out of Bio,

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Speaker 3: Kyler Murray to a tongo Iola will discuss all that next.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back everybody, Fox Sports Radio Er Tors Jason Martin.

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Speaker 3: We are broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios,

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Speaker 3: Fun Night in Sports. Another home run in the Venezuela

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Speaker 3: Japan game that is a quarterfinal in the World Baseball

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Speaker 3: Classic Japan. The defending championship t rails eight to five.

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Speaker 3: Venezuela has the lead. Lakers beat the Denver Nuggets in

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Speaker 3: overtime and in the second to last auto bid that

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Speaker 3: we'll be handed out today. In college basketball Saturday into Sunday,

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Speaker 3: Hawaii up by three against UC Irvine in the Big

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Speaker 3: West Final. For those that want to stay up late,

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Speaker 3: we have the Whack Finals starting right around midnight Eastern

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Speaker 3: Utah Valley versus Cal Baptist. So before the break, we

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Speaker 3: were talking a little bit about Auburn. First of all,

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Speaker 3: I gotta find this tweet. I just saw it was

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Speaker 3: really funny. Our buddy Trey Wallace actually reshared it into

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Speaker 3: my timeline. Let's see, I can find it really quick.

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Speaker 3: It was so UNBC, as Desagers told you, J Mart

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Speaker 3: told us J Mart. UNBC did win the America East

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Speaker 3: earlier today. UNBC, of course became the first team to

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Speaker 3: first sixteen seed to beat one seed. And I don't

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Speaker 3: know if you remember this, this was twenty nineteen. It

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00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 3: was a while ago, but they became famous because their

686
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 3: Twitter feed was pretty much dunking on everybody.

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00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 4: It was it was funny, man, that guy whoever was

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00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:15,800
Speaker 4: handling that really just had his pulse on, like what

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00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 4: was going to go viral? Like it was big time.

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00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,800
Speaker 4: It was all. It was all very funny. It it

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Speaker 4: actually got major traction.

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Speaker 3: Well, I bring it up because Trey Wallace just tweeted

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Speaker 3: this into my timeline from the UNBC official Twitter account.

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Speaker 3: Just realized the best part of having an auto bid

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00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,280
Speaker 3: is that we don't need one of our relatives going

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Speaker 3: on TV to explain why we deserve to be in

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Speaker 3: over a thirty win Miami RedHawks team. I think that's

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Speaker 3: in reference to the Pearl family. It's just a hunch.

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Speaker 3: You know, they didn't name names, so you know, they

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Speaker 3: could be I guess talking about somebody else. But All

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Speaker 3: bird of lost on the second day of the SEC tournament,

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Speaker 3: it was Wednesday. They fall to seventeen and sixteen, and

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Speaker 3: I'll say this, I don't think that they are going

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Speaker 3: to get in. You know, again, just using Joe Lonardi's bracket,

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Speaker 3: they are one of the first two teams out. Let

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Speaker 3: me just say this though, I don't think they're gonna

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Speaker 3: get in, and especially like a Miami Ohio, losing actually

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Speaker 3: does matter because it's one less spot that would have

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Speaker 3: gone to another team Auburn.

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I would be as mad about Auburn

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Speaker 3: getting in as some other people are and would be

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Speaker 3: in some other teams, only because they do have some

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Speaker 3: actual legitimate wins. They did beat Florida, they did beat

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Speaker 3: Saint John's early in the season, they beat Kentucky, they

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Speaker 3: beat Arkansas, and so this isn't like a super bold

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00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 3: take and I don't think it will end up mattering.

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Speaker 3: But what I was thinking about is this, jmart is,

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Speaker 3: we're not comparing Auburn to like a Yeah, I guess

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Speaker 3: we are in this case Miami of Ohio, and I

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Speaker 3: think Miami of Ohio is in. But most of the

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Speaker 3: other bubble teams are in like the thirteen fourteen loss range.

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Speaker 3: And so to me, it's like you're seventeen and sixteen,

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Speaker 3: but you at least have a couple good wins as

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Speaker 3: opposed to like an eighteen and fourteen Indiana team that

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Speaker 3: beat nobody. In eighteen and fourteen Texas team that beat nobody. Again,

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Speaker 3: this is the least bold take that has ever been

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Speaker 3: put on Fox Sports radios airwaves. And I will add

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Speaker 3: that I don't think they're going to get in that

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Speaker 3: large bid. This is just one. Like I wouldn't be

731
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Speaker 3: as fired up about it as others if they did

732
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Speaker 3: get in, assuming of course, that they didn't get in

733
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Speaker 3: over Miami of Ohio. It's not one that I can

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Speaker 3: get super fired up about because to the point we

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Speaker 3: made about Miami of Ohio a few minutes ago, all

736
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Speaker 3: of these bubble teams are incredibly flawed.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Again, like when you have teams of losses, that's where

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00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:56,240
Speaker 4: you lose me. Like, if a few of you get in, okay,

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Speaker 4: a few of you don't get in, Okay, I'm not

741
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Speaker 4: gonna argue against or four in any of you because

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Speaker 4: none of you, all of you have had the opportunity

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Speaker 4: to do something that you have not been able to do,

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Speaker 4: and some of you are going to be left out

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Speaker 4: in that scenario. So like let's say Auburn gets in,

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Speaker 4: I'm not going to be upset about it unless Miami

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00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 4: of Ohio somehow didn't get in. Outside of that, like,

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00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 4: it's more or less malaise for me when it comes

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Speaker 4: to teams like that because unlike college football, where it's

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Speaker 4: much harder, at least for now, to get a spot

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Speaker 4: in the college football playoff. And you're talking about teams

752
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 4: that have like three losses total, A lot of them

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00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 4: have two losses all of that. They're trying to kind

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Speaker 4: of decipher all this and figure it out. That's different

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Speaker 4: because you've obviously done something during the course of the year.

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Speaker 4: These teams are like, go ahead and put us in

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Speaker 4: the tournament because we play in a big conference. Like,

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00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 4: yet you do, but you didn't do anything in that

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00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 4: big conference. So what does that mean? Like, it's not

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00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,919
Speaker 4: a participation. Shouldn't ribon because you play into Big Ten.

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Speaker 4: It shouldn't be the old green participation ribbon if you

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Speaker 4: play any SEC either, like it like, do something to

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Speaker 4: distinguish yourself past the fact that you belong to one

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Speaker 4: of these mega conferences. So like, yeah, I expect the

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Speaker 4: coach to try and make the case and not just

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Speaker 4: sit back and do nothing. I understand that from the

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Speaker 4: optic standpoint. It's like, yeah, you've got to show that

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Speaker 4: you care and you're gonna fight and all that good stuff.

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Speaker 4: Just don't expect us to follow that. Like don't expect

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Speaker 4: us to also be part of that train, to be

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Speaker 4: part of that parade. Like we're not going to be there.

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Speaker 4: We're not even gonna watch it as a matter of fact.

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Speaker 4: So get in, don't get in. I just I'm not

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Speaker 4: going to shed a tear either way. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I won't pore people with too many details. But the net,

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00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 3: which is the metric that all these committee that the

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00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,800
Speaker 3: committee uses, it is so rigged for the Power Conference teams.

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Speaker 3: And you could tell with a sixteen lost Auburn team,

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00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 3: with a fourteen lost Indiana team, fourteen lost Texas still

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Speaker 3: on the bubble. Sports Radio Air Tors Jason Martin broadcasting

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Speaker 3: live for the Fox Sports Radio Studios. You know what

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Speaker 3: else is rigged? Bam Adebayo. Welcome man, everybody, Fox Sports Radio,

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Saturday into Sunday. Air Tors Jason Martin. We

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Speaker 3: are broadcasting live. Yes, we are live from the Fox

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Speaker 3: Sports Radio Studios. Lakers winning overtime World Baseball Classics still

786
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Speaker 3: going on one auto bid, maybe about to be clinched.

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Speaker 3: Hawaii up by four with thirty two seconds to go

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Speaker 3: against UC Irvine in the Big West. The Wax Championships

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00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 3: still to come by the way, Jamie, we were talking

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Speaker 3: a minute ago about Miami of Ohio and just you know,

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Speaker 3: what's the point of even playing the regular season only

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00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 3: conference tournament matters. I looked it up because I was like,

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00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 3: I feel like UC Irvine is always in this conference tournament.

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00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,720
Speaker 3: They have won, they have finished either first or second

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Speaker 3: since twenty nineteen every year but one, and have just

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00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 3: one NCAA Tournament bid to show for it. So it

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00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:03,760
Speaker 3: just shows you how hard it is in these small

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00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,879
Speaker 3: schools in these small conferences. Excuse me to actually get

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Speaker 3: into the NCAA tournament. Don't expect you to have any

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00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 3: hot UC Irvine takes, but it's just like it's no.

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00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 3: But it's just like when you have a season like

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00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:20,479
Speaker 3: Miami of Ohio, it should be rewarded transparently. We should

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00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 3: be getting more of these small schools in That's not

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00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 3: gonna happen, unfortunately, but I do hope and I do

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00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 3: think Miami of Ohio will get in that large bid.

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Speaker 3: When the bracket comes out at six pm Eastern on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of the bracket, should mention as always it's Bracket

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Speaker 3: a lot of college basketball in hour one. Let's go

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00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 3: ahead and switch gears to the association, because there was

822
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 3: certainly a game and certainly a performance that caught everybody's attention. Yes,

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00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:29,879
Speaker 3: this story is a few days old, but I think

824
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 3: the conversation about it. By the way, we do have

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00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 3: a final in the Big West. Hawaii is your Big

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Speaker 3: West Tournament champ. They are headed to the NCAA Tournament.

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Speaker 3: There were I believe about twelve thirteen auto bids handed

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Speaker 3: out today. One more for those of you on the

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Speaker 3: on the East Coast. I know it's already Sunday, but

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00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 3: we have the Whack Final coming up. Col Baptist versus

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Speaker 3: Utah Valley. Will keep you updated on that one second

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Speaker 3: to last auto bit of the day with Hawaii getting in.

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Speaker 3: So the story of the week in the NBA, and

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Speaker 3: I don't think it. It's not a bad one, but

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Speaker 3: I don't think it quite landed the way that the

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Speaker 3: Miami Heat, Eric Spolster and bam Adebayo wanted. And I am,

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Speaker 3: of course talking about bam Ada Bio on Tuesday night,

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Speaker 3: so I will tell you this, Jmart I was at

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00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 3: an event on Tuesday night. I was actually in your

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00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 3: part of the country.

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00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 5: I was down.

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00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 3: I was down in Kentucky at an event and it

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00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 3: was at a sports book. And I bring it up

844
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Speaker 3: because I'm kind of hosting an event, and you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm you know, it's a sports book. There's TVs everywhere.

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00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,280
Speaker 3: I'm facing the TVs. I'm talking to two or three people,

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00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 3: they have their backs to me, and I just see

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Speaker 3: flash on the screen. It says bam Ada Bio scores

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Speaker 3: eighty three points and I was like, God, did anybody

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Speaker 3: else see that? Bamata Bio eighty three points and they

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00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 3: were like no. And by the time everybody turned around

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00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 3: and I literally did the jaw drop finger point, it

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00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 3: was off the screen and people were like, Torres, you

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00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,359
Speaker 3: must be seeing stuff here. And sure enough we looked

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00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 3: it up. Bam Adabio scores eighty three. Now the context

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00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:08,719
Speaker 3: of the eighty three does matter, and we.

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Speaker 4: Want it does well.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, let me just I imagine if

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Speaker 3: you're listening to Fox Sports Radio, if you're listening to

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00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 3: sports talk radio at this hour of the night, you know.

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00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 3: But I bring it up because it was a game

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00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 3: that bam Ada Bio in this game, let me see,

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00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 3: just make sure I have it all correct. Forty three

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00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 3: attempts from the field. He had also forty three attempts

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Speaker 3: from the free throw line, which was an NBA record

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Speaker 3: seven of twenty two from three. And it is worth

867
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 3: noting late in the game, the Miami heat up by

868
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five thirty maybe not thirty, but they were

869
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 3: up a significant margin. They were fouling to get the

870
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 3: ball back, they were force feeding him the ball. He

871
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:55,760
Speaker 3: played forty two minutes in a game that wasn't close.

872
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 3: He gets his eighty three. But I'll just say this

873
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 3: and I'm to toss it over to you in half a second.

874
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,799
Speaker 3: I think when everybody started to dig into it, it

875
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 3: didn't quite you know, they you know, they did the

876
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 3: whole gatorade bath and you know, celebration on the court.

877
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 3: I don't think it quite landed the way the Miami

878
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 3: Heat thought. And I think there were a lot of

879
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 3: people that, frankly, to quote Rob Parker because I saw

880
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:22,839
Speaker 3: him say this on the odd couple, don't call him

881
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 3: bam out of bio, call him sham out of bio,

882
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 3: because it was a freaking sham. On Tuesday night when

883
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 3: the Wizards played the Heat go ahead.

884
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:31,800
Speaker 4: Jamurtin, Yeah, it was a fraud. I mean, look, he

885
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,399
Speaker 4: scored eighty three points. I've heard he's a really nice guy.

886
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 4: That should have absolutely nothing to do with how you

887
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 4: evaluate the eighty three points he scored. You gave some stats.

888
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,319
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give you some more. I grabbed these over

889
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 4: the course of the last couple of days people that

890
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 4: did some much more detailed research than me. There have

891
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:54,880
Speaker 4: been eleven forty point halves since nineteen ninety seven. Eleven

892
00:46:54,920 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 4: of them. Bam at a bio was eleventh in field

893
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 4: goal percentage. That's dead last. Oh wow, he was tenth

894
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 4: from two and tenth from three. That's next to dead last.

895
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 4: He was first and missed three pointers, and he was

896
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 4: first in free throw attempts. Insane among seventy plus point games,

897
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 4: of which there have been sixteen. Dead last in field

898
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,760
Speaker 4: goal percentage, dead last in field goals made, dead last,

899
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 4: and three point percentage. Eighth in free throw percentage. So

900
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 4: there's nothing here, man. He had sixty two points in

901
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 4: the final three quarters.

902
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 5: He was two of.

903
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 4: Fourteen from three. They were dominating the game. On top

904
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:45,399
Speaker 4: of it, it's a team that was actively tanking at least. Well,

905
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe Adam Silver would try to disagree

906
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 4: with me there, but I feel like that Washington was

907
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 4: actively tanking in this situation, and I saw a lot

908
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 4: of people in the moment try to defend it. And

909
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 4: when I first saw it, I just went to the

910
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 4: score sheet, and when I saw the free throws, I

911
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 4: just said, Okay, that's a problem because thirty six or

912
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 4: forty three, I mean, great, that's great efficiency from the

913
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 4: free throw line. But that is a much different story

914
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 4: than scoring eighty three. Like, I do not think that

915
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 4: there is a comparison between that eighty three and Kobe's

916
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:26,960
Speaker 4: eighty one, and I don't think most basketball purists are

917
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 4: people that have watched both games, or certainly watched Kobe's game,

918
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:32,680
Speaker 4: will say that because most of what Kobe was doing,

919
00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 4: almost all of it, as a matter of fact, was

920
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 4: coming in a competitive game that was in single digits late.

921
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 4: There was also I saw a video a few days

922
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 4: ago where a very let's just call him, a high

923
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:51,240
Speaker 4: paid sports analyst for a large sporting network that also

924
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:56,800
Speaker 4: might be trying to run for president, was calling for president,

925
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,360
Speaker 4: it's Lord, that might be the one thing gets me

926
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 4: out of the country. But this individual, he was burying

927
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 4: Luka Doncic when Luca had seventy three.

928
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 3: Oh wow.

929
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:14,399
Speaker 4: There's a lot of video that you can go back,

930
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 4: and he is just bearing him. He's calling it embarrassing.

931
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:21,279
Speaker 4: He's talking about it's abysmal. You're playing against the team

932
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 4: that's no good. Mind you this seventy three when Luca

933
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 4: was in Dallas. This game was going back and forth,

934
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 4: like Luca was trying to win the game in this scenario,

935
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 4: almost all the way to the end. And this individual was,

936
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 4: I mean, he was railing against Luka Doncic, saying that

937
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 4: it was an embarrassment to the sport of basketball. That

938
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 4: should be a shame that there was no defense being

939
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:50,160
Speaker 4: played on the other side all this, And then you

940
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 4: juxtapose that and this video did it beautifully with the

941
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 4: same individual's comments after BAM's eighty three. Let's just suggest

942
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 4: there was a difference in how those two things were

943
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 4: talked about. And I don't think there is any question,

944
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 4: and we can go and look at the stats, because

945
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 4: I have lucas seventy three way more impressive than BAM's

946
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 4: eighty three. And look, this is nothing against Bam. I

947
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 4: had a bio as a human being. But this right

948
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:25,280
Speaker 4: here was the very definition of an artificially created record

949
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 4: where for whatever reason, the team just decided to kind

950
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 4: of get behind this thing in the end, and they

951
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 4: were playing against the team that had no interest in

952
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:37,360
Speaker 4: trying to stop it whatsoever. I don't know why anybody

953
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 4: needs to come out and try to fully defend this

954
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 4: dude had eighty three. Nobody's gonna take that away from him,

955
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 4: and good for him, but bad for bad for him,

956
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 4: because this thing was just the more you look into it,

957
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:51,919
Speaker 4: the worse it looks there.

958
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 3: So a couple things. One because I know the immediate

959
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:59,319
Speaker 3: pushback is, you know, a Kobe you know it was

960
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 3: an eight. You know they dominated in the rat you know,

961
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:04,719
Speaker 3: the famous eighty one point Raptors game. Okay, so let's

962
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:06,760
Speaker 3: get some facts on Kobe really quick because I wanted

963
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 3: to look it up. So first of all, when Kobe

964
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:12,400
Speaker 3: and the Lakers play the Raptors, they won by eighteen points,

965
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:16,880
Speaker 3: but they trailed by seven points after the first quarter.

966
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 3: They trailed by fourteen at the half, and then it

967
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 3: looks like they were up. They outscored him by twenty

968
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 3: in the third quarter, so they won by twenty. So

969
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 3: they were up by about six or eight going into

970
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:29,319
Speaker 3: the It.

971
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 4: Was a single digit game with like six or seven

972
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:33,279
Speaker 4: minutes left or something like that.

973
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 3: Yes, they won big because Kobe scored eighty one. By

974
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 3: the way, I am looking at the box score right now,

975
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:44,319
Speaker 3: Kobe attempted twenty free throws, so half of what Bam

976
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:48,839
Speaker 3: attempted and then was seven of thirteen from three, So

977
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 3: eight fewer three point attempts, twenty three fewer free throw attempts.

978
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,279
Speaker 3: So Kobe literally would have got one hundred that night.

979
00:51:57,520 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, easy, easy.

980
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:02,280
Speaker 3: And let me say this, Jmark, because my other reaction

981
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:07,320
Speaker 3: to this is, like you said, is that you know, whoever,

982
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 3: whether it was the media, whether it was bam Adebayo himself,

983
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:15,800
Speaker 3: whether it was Eric Spolstra, I was gonna say, like disappointed,

984
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 3: isn't I don't know what the right word is because

985
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 3: like I get it, he sort of got to defend

986
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 3: his guy, But like, what is Eric Spolser doing? Like whatever?

987
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 3: What I was gonna say was to me, this is

988
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 3: such a metaphor for the modern NBA of Like I'll

989
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:35,719
Speaker 3: give you an example. Remember when Bronni was drafted and

990
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 3: we all knew it was a sham. But you know,

991
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:40,799
Speaker 3: and go back to those highly paid people that are

992
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 3: on ESPN, this is not nepotism. You know, he had

993
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 3: the heart condition at USC, he was a McDonald. He

994
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:49,839
Speaker 3: averaged one point six points per game or whatever it

995
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:52,239
Speaker 3: was at USC. Okay, if his name, as we know,

996
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:56,719
Speaker 3: was Bronnie Smith, he not only would not have been drafted,

997
00:52:58,000 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 3: you know, probably would have been booted out of U

998
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 3: see and told to go play somewhere else.

999
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 5: You know.

1000
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:05,080
Speaker 3: So and it's like, to me, it's just such a metaphor.

1001
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 3: This bam ada bio thing for the NBA because the NBA,

1002
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 3: and I use this term but it's kind of applicable.

1003
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 3: They live in their own bubble, and I use it,

1004
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 3: you know, I say applicable because they literally had a bubble,

1005
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,959
Speaker 3: but they live in this bubble where it just feels

1006
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,720
Speaker 3: like they're always trying to pull the wool over our eyes,

1007
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:30,840
Speaker 3: like you know, Oh, no, things are just as competitive

1008
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 3: as a competitive as they were thirty years ago.

1009
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:35,680
Speaker 4: No, that's just Kevin Durant's cricket bill.

1010
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:37,640
Speaker 3: Well that's what I'm saying. No, No, No, it's seriously, it's

1011
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 3: like everything. No, No, the All Star Game, it's just

1012
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 3: as competitive as it always was. No, it's not, Oh

1013
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:47,640
Speaker 3: the level of competition. Guys care just as much. No,

1014
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 3: they don't playing against plumbers, playing against you know. It's

1015
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 3: like it's just like this thing where and and it's

1016
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:57,439
Speaker 3: like I'm not trying to be a fe like I'm

1017
00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 3: really not trying to just pigeonhole all NBA players, but

1018
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 3: it's like they just live in this alternative universe where

1019
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:08,799
Speaker 3: it's just like we have to accept these certainties or

1020
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:11,799
Speaker 3: these things as fact that are not fact. And bam

1021
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:14,960
Speaker 3: Adebayo cool you got any three. No one will ever

1022
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 3: take it away from you. It was not the same

1023
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 3: as Kobe. It was not the same as the best

1024
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 3: offensive performances that we have ever seen. You brought up

1025
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 3: Luca with seventy three. You know, Brandon and I were

1026
00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 3: talking to the break like, you give Steph Curry twenty

1027
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 3: one to three point attempts and forty three file shots

1028
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 3: and you're following late Steph Curry could score one hundred.

1029
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 4: Dude, bam at a Bio scored four field goals in

1030
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 4: the last seventeen minutes of that game.

1031
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:47,680
Speaker 8: Oh my I didn't even know that. She's he made

1032
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 8: four field goals, folks. Think about that now, four field

1033
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:55,360
Speaker 8: goals in the final seventeen minutes of that game. And

1034
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:57,919
Speaker 8: in the final three quarters he scored sixty two.

1035
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:02,600
Speaker 4: My man lived at the free throw line, lived at

1036
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 4: the free throw line, and the refs had no problem

1037
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:08,640
Speaker 4: helping to roll out the red carpet to make sure

1038
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:09,480
Speaker 4: he got there too.

1039
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 3: You know, I just I don't know if there's anything

1040
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 3: else for me to add. It was just such a

1041
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 3: bad look all around. It really was it. And again,

1042
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 3: you know, and the crazy part was you watch the postgame,

1043
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 3: you listen to Eric Spolster. Eric Spolster goes to the podium.

1044
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 3: This was after the heats subsequent game, so they obviously

1045
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 3: have played since then, and he says, I apologize for nothing.

1046
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:35,520
Speaker 3: I do it again. It's like, why are you trying

1047
00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:38,880
Speaker 3: to you know, let's use the Jason Martin line, stop

1048
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 3: may trying to make fetch a thing like, yeah, it's over, bro,

1049
00:55:41,719 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 3: Why are you trying to pretend that this is something

1050
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:46,880
Speaker 3: that it wasn't Listen, no one will ever take that

1051
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:49,920
Speaker 3: out of the record books. I get it. It doesn't

1052
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 3: change the fact that it is not what they sold

1053
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:56,920
Speaker 3: it to us to be. You cannot fool us. I

1054
00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 3: don't care what you say. It isn't the same. It

1055
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 3: isn't real basketball.

1056
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 4: Can I be real?

1057
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm talking in circles.

1058
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:05,840
Speaker 4: So take I think Bam Bam had eighty three points

1059
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 4: he did not score? Sure, does that make sense? He

1060
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:14,439
Speaker 4: has eighty three in the box score for eternity. He's

1061
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 4: a career twenty point a game scorer or something like that.

1062
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 4: Like he's not a big time threat, but he's got

1063
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:23,040
Speaker 4: eighty three in the record book, and good for him.

1064
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:26,280
Speaker 4: That's gonna be there forever. You had eighty three points.

1065
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:29,440
Speaker 4: Just don't try to tell me you scored eighty three points,

1066
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:34,560
Speaker 4: because I think scoring does not occur almost half the

1067
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 4: time at the free throw line. If you're gonna go

1068
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 4: for a record like that, really.

1069
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 3: Quick, because I want to keep talking. Bam, we do

1070
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 3: have an upset. At the World Baseball Classic. Venezuela has

1071
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 3: knocked out the defending World Baseball Classic champion, the team

1072
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:53,719
Speaker 3: from Japan. Japan. Of course, one let's say.

1073
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:57,360
Speaker 4: Were you gonna give me a mascot there? WBC?

1074
00:56:57,520 --> 00:57:00,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm still have.

1075
00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 4: This Japan Japans.

1076
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:05,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know. I'm just glad I

1077
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:08,360
Speaker 3: caught myself before I, you know, maybe said something that

1078
00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:10,080
Speaker 3: could have gotten me in trouble. But yes, we do

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Speaker 3: have an upset. Maybe we talked Venezuela, or we talked

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Speaker 3: to the World Baseball Classic on the other side, because

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Speaker 3: it has been a fun event. Let's put a bow

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Speaker 3: on this, bam at of bio thing. I don't even

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Speaker 3: remember what what was the last point you made for

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Speaker 3: I forget just that I.

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Speaker 4: Think he had. I mean, yeah, he had, but he

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Speaker 4: didn't score eighty thirty.

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question for real, same set

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Speaker 3: of circumstances of intentionally fouling, feeding guys the ball uh

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00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 3: tanking team that doesn't care. How many guys do you

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00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:42,400
Speaker 3: think you get eighty points in that situation in the NBA?

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00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 3: I think there's at least fifty like you his name, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Luca Shay Steph, you know, I don't know SGA. You said, sorry, no,

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00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 3: it's okay, But I mean there's a mean Kevin Durant.

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Speaker 9: I mean, yeah, yeah, it's just I mean, if if

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00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 9: Bam at a Bio can do BAM's not an offensive player.

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Speaker 9: I know, if Bam can do it, then I imagine

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Speaker 9: twenty five to thirty of them could get ninety.

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Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying, man, and so Hugain bam at

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Speaker 3: a Bio with eighty three points on eighty three points

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Speaker 3: on Tuesday as the Miami Heat get the win. But sorry, man,

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Speaker 3: you can't pull the wool over eyes. You just cannot

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Speaker 3: congrats like you said. I think you said it very well.

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00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 3: Bam at a Baio. The box score says eighty three.

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Speaker 3: He didn't score eighty three. It is what it is,

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Speaker 3: but it is not what they want us. It is

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Speaker 3: not what they want to make it out to be

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio Air Toards. Jason Martin, broadcasting live from

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Speaker 3: the Fox Sports Radio studios. Let's come back. When we do,

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Speaker 3: we will talk a little bit of World Baseball Classic.

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Speaker 3: As I just mentioned, the defending champion, Japan, no mascot,

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00:58:55,640 --> 00:59:00,200
Speaker 3: just Japan, just country, has been upset in the quarterfinals.

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Speaker 3: Venezuela advances. We will come back talk about what has

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Speaker 3: quickly become a very fun event here over the last

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Speaker 3: couple weeks. Air Tours, Jason Martin.

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

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Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody. Fox Sports Radio Air Tours. Jason Martin,

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Speaker 3: we are broadcasting live. Yes, we are live one am

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Speaker 3: Eastern from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Little before one

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Speaker 3: am Eastern, I should say it is selection Sunday on

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Speaker 3: the East Coast lot of college basketball to react to

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Speaker 3: tell you what? Why don't we Let's get it over

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Speaker 3: the news desk Steve de Seger, What in the world

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Speaker 3: is trending at twelve twenty seven Eastern time?

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Speaker 2: A ton? Can we just say that much? We'll start

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Speaker 2: with the baseball as the quarterfinals are done at the

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Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic and in front of thirty five thousand

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Speaker 2: very loud fans in Miami. Tonight on Fox TV, Venezuela

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Speaker 2: upset defending champion Japan, which ha had been four to

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Speaker 2: oh in this tournament eight five. The final pitcher, Ranger

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Speaker 2: Suarez of Venezuela with had new contract, a huge one

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01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 2: with the Red Sox. He was out in the third

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Speaker 2: inning tonight, down five to two, and yet the bullpen.

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Speaker 3: Could not secure that lead.

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Speaker 2: Once Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the Japanese starter from the Dodgers, was

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Speaker 2: out after his four innings five strikeouts, the bullpen for

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Speaker 2: Japan allowed five runs in the next two innings. Will

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Speaker 2: You're abra you of the Red Sox three run homer

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Speaker 2: in the six Venezuela against Italy in a Monday night

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Speaker 2: semifinal on FS one. Italy is five and oh in

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Speaker 2: this tournament after holding on against Puerto Rico today eight

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Speaker 2: to six. The US Semifinal is Sunday nights on FS one.

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Speaker 2: The Americans will have pitcher Paul Skeen starting against a

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01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:53,560
Speaker 2: SUPERB lineup of the Dominican Republic. Now to college basketball,

1144
01:00:53,600 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 2: and yes, the late game is underway in Vegas. The

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01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:59,800
Speaker 2: WAC Conference Championship game Cal Baptist out to a fourteen

1146
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:03,800
Speaker 2: lead on first place Utah Valley. Already, Hawaii has won

1147
01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 2: the Big West. Number one Duke took the ACC earlier

1148
01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:11,040
Speaker 2: this evening seventy four to seventy over tenth rank Virginia.

1149
01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:14,480
Speaker 2: Number two Arizona beat Houston to take the Big twelve,

1150
01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:17,600
Speaker 2: and Saint John's dominated Yukon to win the Big East.

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01:01:17,920 --> 01:01:21,320
Speaker 2: To the NBA SUPERB Game in LA, the Lakers in

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01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:25,520
Speaker 2: overtime edged Denver one twenty seven one twenty five, five

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01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:28,880
Speaker 2: straight wins for the Lakers. Luka Doncic the game winning

1154
01:01:28,920 --> 01:01:32,960
Speaker 2: shot thirty points. The Lake Game has the Clippers at

1155
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:36,080
Speaker 2: their arena in LA going to the fourth quarter trailing

1156
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:39,600
Speaker 2: big against the Sacramento Kings, who on the road this

1157
01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:42,840
Speaker 2: year are five and twenty eight. But the Kings lead

1158
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:46,680
Speaker 2: the Clippers in LA ninety two seventy five going to

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01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:51,160
Speaker 2: the fourth. Precious Hichuwa with twenty five points. Kawhi Leonard

1160
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Speaker 2: has thirty one of the seventy five for the Clips.

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01:01:54,320 --> 01:01:57,800
Speaker 2: Boston sent Washington to an eleventh straight loss, won eleven

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Speaker 2: to one hundred. Atlanta won it's nine eighth game in

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Speaker 2: a row, killing Milwaukee won twenty two to ninety nine,

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01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:07,160
Speaker 2: Jalen Johnson a triple double, and Orlando won at seventh straight,

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Speaker 2: edging Miami in South Florida one twenty one to one. Seventeen.

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Speaker 2: The Heat had won seven in a row. Bam Adebayo

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01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:17,720
Speaker 2: twenty points tonight victories for the Spurs and Philly. NHL

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Speaker 2: wins for Dallas in overtime for Buffalo in a shootout,

1169
01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:23,360
Speaker 2: Rangers beat Minnesota four to two.

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Speaker 3: In tennis to Neil Medvedev beat.

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Speaker 2: Carlos Alcarez, who was sixteen and ozer this year, but

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Speaker 2: lost his semifinal at Indian Wells in Southern California. The

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01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:35,440
Speaker 2: NASCAR poll at Las Vegas went to Christopher Bell. Kyle

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01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:39,000
Speaker 2: Larson won today's O'Reilly race. In Major League Soccer, San

1175
01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:41,880
Speaker 2: Diego tied three to three at Dallas and the New

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Speaker 2: York Giants side wide receiver Darnell Mooney, who was cut

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Speaker 2: by Atlanta.

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Speaker 3: Back to you, Thank you very much, Steve Saga. Fox

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Speaker 3: Sports Radio, Fox Sports Saturday into Sunday, depending on what

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01:02:52,120 --> 01:02:54,000
Speaker 3: part of the country you are air towards Jason Martin.

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Speaker 3: We are broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.

1182
01:02:57,840 --> 01:02:59,720
Speaker 3: Jamartin before we get to the World Baseball Class. I

1183
01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:02,160
Speaker 3: did have a question for you to Sega, just reference

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01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:04,960
Speaker 3: we talked before the break bam Adebio and to Sega,

1185
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 3: just reference bam Adebaio this evening or Saturday evening again,

1186
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:12,000
Speaker 3: depending on where you are. Twenty points, six of fifteen

1187
01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:14,720
Speaker 3: from the field, two of seven from three, six of

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01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:18,680
Speaker 3: ten from the free throw line, So shot seventy five

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Speaker 3: percent less free throw so thirty three less free throws

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Speaker 3: than the night than a couple nights ago. He has

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Speaker 3: combined for thirty five total field goal attempts his last

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Speaker 3: two games, after shooting forty three twelve three point attempts

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Speaker 3: his last two games after attempting twenty two the other night.

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Speaker 3: Do you think do you think that like do you

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Speaker 3: think that they got the pushback and have scaled?

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Speaker 7: Like?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: They said all these things after, you know, they played

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Speaker 3: up against Milwaukee on Thursday. That was two nights after

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01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 3: bam got eighty three, and they said all these right

1201
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:58,600
Speaker 3: things of we you know, we have zero regrets, we

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01:03:58,640 --> 01:04:01,880
Speaker 3: do it again, blah blah blah blah. I do wonder

1203
01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:04,880
Speaker 3: if the pushback, I don't know how bad it got.

1204
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:06,120
Speaker 3: I don't know if it got to them or not.

1205
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:09,120
Speaker 3: But I find it very interesting that bam Adabaiyo has

1206
01:04:09,160 --> 01:04:14,040
Speaker 3: not only played two very pedestrian games, but too like

1207
01:04:14,680 --> 01:04:17,880
Speaker 3: he's not even the focal point games over the last

1208
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:21,040
Speaker 3: two games. So tonight he shot, he took fifteen let

1209
01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:27,200
Speaker 3: me see here, fifteen field goal attempts. That was tied

1210
01:04:27,320 --> 01:04:29,800
Speaker 3: for second most on his team. Jim Hawk has took

1211
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Speaker 3: more field goal attempts than bam Adabaio today. Do you

1212
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Speaker 3: think the pushback is a byproduct of it? Do you

1213
01:04:34,360 --> 01:04:37,440
Speaker 3: think it's just that that's actually who bam Adebayo really is.

1214
01:04:37,800 --> 01:04:40,480
Speaker 3: What do you make of that? Seeing that over these

1215
01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 3: last couple of games.

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Speaker 4: I mean there's definitely been some added probably tension and

1217
01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:49,760
Speaker 4: pressure just to Bam in his own psyche and maybe

1218
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Speaker 4: to Spolshra and.

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Speaker 5: The organization a little bit.

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Speaker 4: But more I think it's just more probably Bam most

1221
01:04:57,080 --> 01:05:02,280
Speaker 4: likely in his heart of hearts, knows what happened. Yeah,

1222
01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 4: he knows what that night was, and I think he

1223
01:05:04,920 --> 01:05:07,760
Speaker 4: knows what it wasn't. And I think that the hardest

1224
01:05:07,800 --> 01:05:11,720
Speaker 4: thing to take is criticism that lands because it's real

1225
01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:14,800
Speaker 4: and it's right and it's not coming from a bad place,

1226
01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:17,280
Speaker 4: and it's not coming from a hate Bam at a

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Speaker 4: bio place, or because there's no reason to hate Bam

1228
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:23,720
Speaker 4: at a bio. This whole thing just left a sour

1229
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:26,080
Speaker 4: taste in your mouth, and an eighty three point night

1230
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:30,280
Speaker 4: shouldn't do that, and so I think it, if anything,

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01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:34,760
Speaker 4: it's probably more a function of, yes, this is closer

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01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 4: to the player that Bam is, especially on the offensive

1233
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:40,360
Speaker 4: side of the ball. He can he's very inconsistent. He

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01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:43,000
Speaker 4: can be streaky, but he's pretty inconsistent, and he's not

1235
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:47,120
Speaker 4: a high volume score by any means. I think this

1236
01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:50,320
Speaker 4: is maybe as much kind of in his own head.

1237
01:05:52,160 --> 01:05:55,400
Speaker 4: He maybe just feels a little bit off because of

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01:05:56,040 --> 01:06:00,600
Speaker 4: the conditions surrounding the last handful of days in his career.

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01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:02,920
Speaker 4: I don't know that. I don't think it's a concerted

1240
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:05,720
Speaker 4: effort on the part of the team or anything like that.

1241
01:06:06,280 --> 01:06:08,440
Speaker 4: I think it's a byproduct of a lot of stress

1242
01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:12,000
Speaker 4: more than anything else, mixed with the fact that, again,

1243
01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:17,720
Speaker 4: he's not a particularly gifted offensive player, and so when

1244
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:20,760
Speaker 4: you add those two things together, you're likely to have

1245
01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:22,440
Speaker 4: some pretty unimpressive lines.

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Speaker 3: Totally fair. Just thought it was worth noting because he

1247
01:06:25,840 --> 01:06:29,800
Speaker 3: did play again tonight and again they played against Milwaukee

1248
01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:33,520
Speaker 3: on Thursday, and in that game, after the game, you know,

1249
01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:37,440
Speaker 3: Spolstra again referenced, I wouldn't change anything, blah blah blah

1250
01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:38,640
Speaker 3: blah blah, this and that. So I figured it was

1251
01:06:38,680 --> 01:06:40,760
Speaker 3: just worth a quick question since we were just talking

1252
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:44,360
Speaker 3: about it, Let's switch gears to the the you know,

1253
01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:47,800
Speaker 3: one of several stories that was noteworthy from this evening.

1254
01:06:48,120 --> 01:06:53,120
Speaker 3: World Baseball Classic just went final. Japan was the defending champion.

1255
01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:57,720
Speaker 3: They are out against Venezuela. Just your thoughts in general.

1256
01:06:57,720 --> 01:06:59,360
Speaker 3: I mean, it could be on the World Baseball Classic,

1257
01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:01,520
Speaker 3: it could be on on the upset we saw on

1258
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:05,320
Speaker 3: Saturday night. But you know, it was a fun It's

1259
01:07:05,360 --> 01:07:10,280
Speaker 3: been a fun event since it's implementation. It's it's been

1260
01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:12,440
Speaker 3: an awesome event to watch these last few weeks. I've

1261
01:07:12,520 --> 01:07:14,920
Speaker 3: enjoyed the heck out of it, including the upset here

1262
01:07:15,040 --> 01:07:15,840
Speaker 3: on Saturday night.

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01:07:16,040 --> 01:07:18,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's been good, And I think last

1264
01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:21,160
Speaker 4: night kind of was the night where a lot of us,

1265
01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:24,120
Speaker 4: or a lot of people who weren't watching before that

1266
01:07:24,240 --> 01:07:28,120
Speaker 4: point probably tuned in because they may have heard about

1267
01:07:28,120 --> 01:07:31,680
Speaker 4: it through something. It might have been a conversation at work,

1268
01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:33,880
Speaker 4: They might have seen it on a newscast local or

1269
01:07:33,920 --> 01:07:36,880
Speaker 4: otherwise or whatever. But like the fact that it was

1270
01:07:36,960 --> 01:07:40,160
Speaker 4: Canada and America coming off of what we had seen

1271
01:07:41,120 --> 01:07:43,680
Speaker 4: in the Winter Olympics. Yeah, and just to whole like

1272
01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:46,680
Speaker 4: Canada want to get back at him. I feel like

1273
01:07:46,720 --> 01:07:49,720
Speaker 4: there was some added interest to that and it needed that.

1274
01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:52,200
Speaker 4: I think going a little bit further into the tournament,

1275
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:53,960
Speaker 4: it also needs I mean, let's be real, at least

1276
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:55,800
Speaker 4: in this country, it needs America to be a part

1277
01:07:55,840 --> 01:07:59,200
Speaker 4: of it, I feel like for and there was a

1278
01:07:59,280 --> 01:08:03,400
Speaker 4: danger there midweek after the mistake that happened, and then

1279
01:08:03,760 --> 01:08:06,680
Speaker 4: you needed Italy to beat Mexico, and boy, Italy just

1280
01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:09,160
Speaker 4: came through in a big way with that. I think

1281
01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:12,400
Speaker 4: it was a nine to one win over Mexico that

1282
01:08:12,880 --> 01:08:15,360
Speaker 4: kept the US alive and put them in that spot

1283
01:08:15,400 --> 01:08:17,400
Speaker 4: to go ahead and do what they did last night

1284
01:08:17,400 --> 01:08:20,600
Speaker 4: in advance. But yeah, I mean it's been great, It

1285
01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:23,120
Speaker 4: really has. The coverage has been very very good when

1286
01:08:23,120 --> 01:08:26,760
Speaker 4: it comes to just the actual baseball action itself, but

1287
01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:30,439
Speaker 4: the crowds have been very very good. You could see

1288
01:08:30,479 --> 01:08:36,200
Speaker 4: how much the guys in the tournament itself care and

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Speaker 4: are going all out, and it is awesome because this

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01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:42,439
Speaker 4: is what all This is the All Star game that

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01:08:42,479 --> 01:08:45,840
Speaker 4: you want. Yes, that's the best thing, because you have

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01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:48,639
Speaker 4: the best in the world here. It's essentially an All

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01:08:48,680 --> 01:08:53,120
Speaker 4: Star bracket put together built internationally. It's not one night,

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01:08:53,280 --> 01:08:55,600
Speaker 4: even though again I think the NBA did themselves a

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01:08:55,640 --> 01:08:58,200
Speaker 4: lot of favors with what they did this year, and

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01:08:58,240 --> 01:09:00,880
Speaker 4: I think we both ended up enjoying that a lot more.

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01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:04,680
Speaker 4: But this is the perfect All Star Game because not

1298
01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:07,320
Speaker 4: only is it giving you the best in the sport

1299
01:09:07,479 --> 01:09:10,200
Speaker 4: and giving you obviously being able to wrap yourself in

1300
01:09:10,320 --> 01:09:13,800
Speaker 4: your flag whatever that is, and root for a team

1301
01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:19,240
Speaker 4: that helps. But this is the leadoff to the MLB season.

1302
01:09:20,120 --> 01:09:22,719
Speaker 4: If you get down with baseball over the next couple

1303
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:25,080
Speaker 4: of weeks, if you get excited in this, if you

1304
01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:28,360
Speaker 4: already have, if you've been paying attention and kind of

1305
01:09:28,400 --> 01:09:31,280
Speaker 4: getting into it a little bit, well, guess what. MLB's

1306
01:09:31,320 --> 01:09:34,320
Speaker 4: around the corner to give you six months and that's

1307
01:09:34,400 --> 01:09:37,280
Speaker 4: the perfect way to lead into the season. We said

1308
01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:39,679
Speaker 4: this a couple of weeks before that tournament started, before

1309
01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:43,919
Speaker 4: the World Baseball Classic started, that this is ideal for baseball,

1310
01:09:43,960 --> 01:09:46,559
Speaker 4: and it really really is because the other thing that

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01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:51,679
Speaker 4: it is doing is it is providing a platform for

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01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:54,320
Speaker 4: players that we are going to see in the major

1313
01:09:54,439 --> 01:09:57,960
Speaker 4: leagues with all these different teams in the MLB, to

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01:09:58,040 --> 01:10:00,479
Speaker 4: get a showcase in front of an audio and that

1315
01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:02,360
Speaker 4: then we'll say, hey, I know who that guy is.

1316
01:10:02,400 --> 01:10:04,559
Speaker 4: I might tune in watch that game. It's a good

1317
01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:07,760
Speaker 4: thing for baseball all around, and it's been a great,

1318
01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:10,280
Speaker 4: great experience so far.

1319
01:10:10,479 --> 01:10:12,960
Speaker 3: Do you think that that has a trickle down effect,

1320
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:15,280
Speaker 3: like you know with with with hockey, right it was

1321
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:19,760
Speaker 3: an incredible gold medal match, team USA beats Canada in overtime.

1322
01:10:20,600 --> 01:10:22,719
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's moved the needle lot hockey

1323
01:10:22,840 --> 01:10:25,160
Speaker 3: or not, but I don't know why. I do feel

1324
01:10:25,160 --> 01:10:27,439
Speaker 3: like for baseball it is a little bit different. And

1325
01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:30,760
Speaker 3: maybe it's just because even if you're not a baseball fan,

1326
01:10:30,840 --> 01:10:33,479
Speaker 3: maybe you're just a little bit more familiar with the names.

1327
01:10:33,520 --> 01:10:36,120
Speaker 3: Maybe you are a little bit more familiar with the backstories,

1328
01:10:36,160 --> 01:10:38,839
Speaker 3: even if you don't love baseball. You know Shoho Tani,

1329
01:10:39,240 --> 01:10:44,519
Speaker 3: you know Akunya obviously Yamamoto started in the game tonight

1330
01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:47,400
Speaker 3: for Japan, and that name sounds familiar if you even were,

1331
01:10:47,479 --> 01:10:50,519
Speaker 3: you know, casually watching the World Series last year and

1332
01:10:50,560 --> 01:10:55,599
Speaker 3: that's let alone obviously the American stars Bryce Harper, Aaron Judge,

1333
01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:57,800
Speaker 3: stuff like that. So you know, I don't know if

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01:10:57,800 --> 01:11:02,760
Speaker 3: there's a definitive, you know, metric to prove if there's

1335
01:11:02,800 --> 01:11:06,000
Speaker 3: a crossover. But I do feel like, again.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

1337
01:11:06,400 --> 01:11:08,040
Speaker 3: I just I feel like baseball is kind of on

1338
01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:09,680
Speaker 3: a little bit of an upswing right now. We had

1339
01:11:09,680 --> 01:11:12,599
Speaker 3: a great seven game World Series, Dodgers are back to

1340
01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:14,640
Speaker 3: back champions, A lot of people don't like how the

1341
01:11:14,720 --> 01:11:17,240
Speaker 3: roster was put together, and I think, you know, whether

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01:11:17,280 --> 01:11:20,200
Speaker 3: it's a World Baseball Classic or an incredible World Series

1343
01:11:20,200 --> 01:11:21,800
Speaker 3: which you and I were on for Game seven to

1344
01:11:21,840 --> 01:11:26,240
Speaker 3: four last year, it does feel like baseball just kind

1345
01:11:26,240 --> 01:11:27,360
Speaker 3: of on an upswing in general.

1346
01:11:27,640 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is. I think that again, like this is

1347
01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:36,519
Speaker 4: this is a good kind of springboard into the season,

1348
01:11:36,640 --> 01:11:39,200
Speaker 4: but coming off of one of the best World Series

1349
01:11:39,240 --> 01:11:43,120
Speaker 4: of the century so far, one of like the two

1350
01:11:43,240 --> 01:11:47,519
Speaker 4: or three at worst, and just the drama involved in

1351
01:11:47,600 --> 01:11:50,800
Speaker 4: so many of those games, and I do think that

1352
01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:54,000
Speaker 4: that captivated people outside certainly of those two fan bases.

1353
01:11:54,080 --> 01:11:56,599
Speaker 4: But just you rallied around somebody, A lot of us

1354
01:11:56,640 --> 01:12:02,160
Speaker 4: I think rallied around Toronto, not but Steve, not because

1355
01:12:02,200 --> 01:12:04,760
Speaker 4: we despise the Dodgers in the way that they were

1356
01:12:04,760 --> 01:12:07,000
Speaker 4: made up for me much just because I'm an Atlanta

1357
01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:09,960
Speaker 4: Braves fan. So no, I just don't want to. I

1358
01:12:10,040 --> 01:12:12,080
Speaker 4: do not want to face the rat of Steve de

1359
01:12:12,160 --> 01:12:16,400
Speaker 4: Sager for commenting on the way that the Dodgers were

1360
01:12:16,439 --> 01:12:20,719
Speaker 4: actually built, because I know that they were not built

1361
01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:24,000
Speaker 4: like they're the only team that was built this way

1362
01:12:24,280 --> 01:12:27,959
Speaker 4: in any way, shape or form. I completely and totally understand.

1363
01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:32,080
Speaker 4: Also think most people rooted against them, But either way,

1364
01:12:32,479 --> 01:12:35,400
Speaker 4: it was a great deal. And then the World Baseball

1365
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:39,320
Speaker 4: Classic adds to it and again gets a benefit from

1366
01:12:39,520 --> 01:12:42,280
Speaker 4: us already kind of being in an international mood because

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01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:45,439
Speaker 4: of the successful Winter Olympics that had just taken place,

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01:12:45,800 --> 01:12:48,800
Speaker 4: and then so it gets the boost from that. The

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01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:50,960
Speaker 4: NBA All Star Game as well gives you a little

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01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:53,120
Speaker 4: bit more of an international flavor as well, So you

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01:12:53,160 --> 01:12:55,600
Speaker 4: get some good international stuff to lead you into the

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01:12:55,600 --> 01:13:00,639
Speaker 4: World Baseball Classic. That then actually the MLB season can

1373
01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:03,040
Speaker 4: kind of drift and catch the slip stream and go

1374
01:13:03,200 --> 01:13:06,080
Speaker 4: right on past into its season. So yes, baseball is

1375
01:13:06,120 --> 01:13:08,519
Speaker 4: on an upswing and it has kind of the perfect

1376
01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:11,320
Speaker 4: lead in show you go back to the Great lead

1377
01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:15,320
Speaker 4: INDs on Thursday Night for NBC way back in the day.

1378
01:13:15,479 --> 01:13:18,720
Speaker 4: I mean, Cheers was on at nine, but you know

1379
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:21,360
Speaker 4: when you got a lead in from at that point,

1380
01:13:21,360 --> 01:13:22,920
Speaker 4: I guess it would have been Cosby. It would have

1381
01:13:22,920 --> 01:13:24,679
Speaker 4: been The Cosby Show at eight, and then you would

1382
01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:27,400
Speaker 4: get whatever came in at eight thirty would be able

1383
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:29,719
Speaker 4: to hold an audience at least try to hold an audience,

1384
01:13:29,760 --> 01:13:31,439
Speaker 4: and then Cheers would be your lead in for your

1385
01:13:31,479 --> 01:13:33,760
Speaker 4: new nine to thirty show, and that would be your

1386
01:13:33,760 --> 01:13:36,519
Speaker 4: springboard shot. Like, you can't get a better lead in

1387
01:13:37,400 --> 01:13:40,439
Speaker 4: right now than the World Baseball Classic if you are

1388
01:13:40,560 --> 01:13:43,519
Speaker 4: Major League Baseball. So it's a cushy spot for them

1389
01:13:43,560 --> 01:13:45,760
Speaker 4: to be in, and I hope they've maximize it. I'm

1390
01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:47,160
Speaker 4: really looking forward to the season.

1391
01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:50,240
Speaker 3: Can I do a hard pivot and talk NBC sitcoms

1392
01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:51,719
Speaker 3: for less than thirty seconds?

1393
01:13:51,960 --> 01:13:53,040
Speaker 4: You know who you're talking to?

1394
01:13:53,240 --> 01:13:57,040
Speaker 3: So yes, Okay, Vanderbilt basketball, which we'll play for the

1395
01:13:57,080 --> 01:14:00,400
Speaker 3: SEC title. Okay, yes, you know where I'm going with this. Yes,

1396
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:06,800
Speaker 3: Vanderbilt basketball has a player named Chandler bing Yeah on

1397
01:14:06,960 --> 01:14:11,760
Speaker 3: their team, And I'm sorry every time when I'm just

1398
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:13,920
Speaker 3: have a Vanderbilt came out in the background and I'm

1399
01:14:13,960 --> 01:14:16,519
Speaker 3: not thinking about it, and they're like, and Chandler bag

1400
01:14:16,680 --> 01:14:19,120
Speaker 3: goes in for the dug Every time I laugh, I'm

1401
01:14:19,120 --> 01:14:20,559
Speaker 3: sorry every single time.

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01:14:20,840 --> 01:14:23,120
Speaker 4: No, it's never not going to be funny, That's what.

1403
01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:26,120
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, could it be any more funny?

1404
01:14:26,160 --> 01:14:27,479
Speaker 4: The same thing I was about to say, It's like,

1405
01:14:27,479 --> 01:14:30,799
Speaker 4: could Vanderbilt be any more impressive? Yeah, Like the jokes

1406
01:14:30,880 --> 01:14:34,240
Speaker 4: go on and on and on. The parents have to

1407
01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:37,840
Speaker 4: just I need the story of how Chandler, But I

1408
01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:39,519
Speaker 4: know it's out there. I would say, why do we

1409
01:14:39,560 --> 01:14:40,439
Speaker 4: go with Chandler Bang?

1410
01:14:40,600 --> 01:14:44,240
Speaker 3: They're either totally oblivious or the least oblivious people that

1411
01:14:44,280 --> 01:14:48,360
Speaker 3: have ever existed. I would lean more towards to here's

1412
01:14:48,360 --> 01:14:51,760
Speaker 3: the thing. So, okay, we gotta get to Disager. It's

1413
01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:55,439
Speaker 3: it's twelve forty two. We can maybe discuss Chandler bing

1414
01:14:55,479 --> 01:14:57,880
Speaker 3: an hour three, But all right, yeah, I mean I

1415
01:14:57,920 --> 01:15:00,599
Speaker 3: will just say every time they mentioned his name, I laugh.

1416
01:15:00,880 --> 01:15:05,240
Speaker 3: Every single Fox Sports Radio aer toards Jason Martin, broadcasting

1417
01:15:05,280 --> 01:15:08,240
Speaker 3: live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. We'll come back.

1418
01:15:08,520 --> 01:15:11,679
Speaker 3: We will get it over to Steve de Sager. Could

1419
01:15:11,720 --> 01:15:14,439
Speaker 3: he be any more ready for his update? The answer

1420
01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:15,080
Speaker 3: is no fuck.

1421
01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:18,080
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01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:21,479
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1425
01:15:31,760 --> 01:15:35,000
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1426
01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:38,240
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1427
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:41,400
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1433
01:15:54,840 --> 01:15:57,160
Speaker 3: to the news desk. Every week around this time, Steve

1434
01:15:57,160 --> 01:15:59,800
Speaker 3: Desager gives us his extended update to Seger.

1435
01:15:59,840 --> 01:16:03,639
Speaker 2: Take it away, Sir Chandler Bing of Vanderbilt is a

1436
01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:07,360
Speaker 2: freshman for this team. Three points a game this season.

1437
01:16:07,120 --> 01:16:09,879
Speaker 3: So okay, So he's a freshman. So he's about probably eighteen,

1438
01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:13,599
Speaker 3: So that means he was born in twenty two thousand

1439
01:16:13,640 --> 01:16:15,719
Speaker 3: and seven, two thousand and eight.

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01:16:15,920 --> 01:16:18,240
Speaker 2: But it's been in syndication, whether it was on Live

1441
01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:21,280
Speaker 2: within Live, whether it was on with new episodes within.

1442
01:16:21,520 --> 01:16:23,599
Speaker 4: But I mean his parents obviously watched it live.

1443
01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:24,479
Speaker 5: It is so.

1444
01:16:24,600 --> 01:16:28,400
Speaker 2: When he, an Atlanta native, announced his commit to Vandy

1445
01:16:28,520 --> 01:16:32,000
Speaker 2: a year ago, he said, I've actually never watched an

1446
01:16:32,000 --> 01:16:33,000
Speaker 2: episode of the show.

1447
01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:36,840
Speaker 3: Well, I believe he's never watched what I I find hard.

1448
01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:40,559
Speaker 2: The parents weren't super fans. They weren't thinking of the character.

1449
01:16:41,240 --> 01:16:41,639
Speaker 3: He said.

1450
01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:45,040
Speaker 2: He hasn't hasn't had a problem with the jokes. It's

1451
01:16:45,120 --> 01:16:48,000
Speaker 2: just the jokes kind of right themselves, don't you agree?

1452
01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:50,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, I made several unfunny ones right before.

1453
01:16:50,840 --> 01:16:53,760
Speaker 4: So the last name is being and they picked there

1454
01:16:53,800 --> 01:16:56,880
Speaker 4: not big fans of the show. They weren't thinking of

1455
01:16:56,920 --> 01:16:59,839
Speaker 4: the character, and they named him.

1456
01:16:59,760 --> 01:17:03,840
Speaker 2: Chan And apparently he's a distant cousin of Hall of

1457
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:07,519
Speaker 2: Famer Dave Bing but has never met him. Oh who knew?

1458
01:17:08,120 --> 01:17:10,439
Speaker 3: Did Chandler have a cousin named Dave on the show?

1459
01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:15,880
Speaker 2: Yeah? Those lost episodes. We have number one two, not

1460
01:17:15,920 --> 01:17:18,280
Speaker 2: only remaining number one, but they have the Crown of

1461
01:17:18,400 --> 01:17:23,160
Speaker 2: ACC title is after edging tenth ranked Virginia in Charlotte

1462
01:17:23,160 --> 01:17:26,200
Speaker 2: Tonight's seventy four to seventy even though Cameron Boozer was

1463
01:17:26,280 --> 01:17:30,040
Speaker 2: three of seventeen shooting from the floor. But the ACC

1464
01:17:30,160 --> 01:17:34,000
Speaker 2: network lets us know that Duke University is the first

1465
01:17:34,040 --> 01:17:38,360
Speaker 2: school in that conference's long history to win a football title,

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01:17:38,400 --> 01:17:42,400
Speaker 2: women's basketball title, and men's basketball title in the same

1467
01:17:42,560 --> 01:17:47,320
Speaker 2: year in the ACC. Meanwhile, number two Arizona is champion

1468
01:17:47,400 --> 01:17:50,320
Speaker 2: of the Big Twelve after beating fifth ranked Houston seventy

1469
01:17:50,400 --> 01:17:53,960
Speaker 2: nine seventy four in Kansas City, where they're actually on

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01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:55,080
Speaker 2: a hardwood.

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01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:55,679
Speaker 4: Court now this weekend.

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01:17:55,840 --> 01:17:59,639
Speaker 2: Imagine for Arizona co Opete and Braden Burry's the first

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01:17:59,640 --> 01:18:02,360
Speaker 2: fresh duo to each score at least twenty points in

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01:18:02,400 --> 01:18:05,840
Speaker 2: the title game of any major conference tournament since the

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01:18:05,880 --> 01:18:10,120
Speaker 2: ACC Final of two thousand, when Duke had Carlos Boozer

1476
01:18:10,560 --> 01:18:14,280
Speaker 2: and Jason Williams doing so. The late game that's going

1477
01:18:14,320 --> 01:18:17,519
Speaker 2: on right now is in Vegas, late first half the

1478
01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:21,880
Speaker 2: WHAC Tournament final. Second place col Baptist is leading twenty

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01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:25,800
Speaker 2: two twenty against first place Utah Valley, which barely made

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01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:28,640
Speaker 2: it into this tournament. You might ask, how does a

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01:18:28,680 --> 01:18:31,559
Speaker 2: first place team barely make it into the tournament? You see,

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01:18:31,600 --> 01:18:36,000
Speaker 2: they are leaving this conference this summer, departing for the

1483
01:18:36,040 --> 01:18:39,240
Speaker 2: Big West home of Hawaii, U see Irvine and others.

1484
01:18:39,920 --> 01:18:44,120
Speaker 2: And there was believe it or not, a court ordered

1485
01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:48,679
Speaker 2: preliminary injunction saying you need to pay the exit fee

1486
01:18:48,720 --> 01:18:51,960
Speaker 2: you agreed to or else you are not playing in

1487
01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:56,200
Speaker 2: the conference tournament this week men or women, and so

1488
01:18:56,520 --> 01:19:01,000
Speaker 2: as they leave the WHAC conference soon they did this week.

1489
01:19:01,479 --> 01:19:05,120
Speaker 2: Utah Valley did pay the whack one million dollars in

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01:19:05,360 --> 01:19:08,080
Speaker 2: escrow and they have made it into the title game

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01:19:08,120 --> 01:19:09,160
Speaker 2: its late first half.

1492
01:19:09,200 --> 01:19:09,559
Speaker 4: Tonight.

1493
01:19:09,960 --> 01:19:14,480
Speaker 2: There was a women's basketball championship game tonight in Conference USA.

1494
01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:18,240
Speaker 2: Missouri State upset Louisiana Tech and the final score was

1495
01:19:18,320 --> 01:19:22,120
Speaker 2: forty three to thirty eight. And Louisiana Tech had been

1496
01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:25,360
Speaker 2: seventeen and one in conference this year, but in the

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01:19:25,400 --> 01:19:28,880
Speaker 2: final shot twenty three percent from the floor and was

1498
01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:32,920
Speaker 2: held to twelve points in the second half. Meanwhile, a

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Speaker 2: pretty incredible women's basketball team is playing this week, Team

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Speaker 2: USA at the Feeble World Cup qualifying tournament in Puerto Rico.

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01:19:41,080 --> 01:19:44,400
Speaker 2: The American women a stock roster put together by Sue

1502
01:19:44,439 --> 01:19:47,639
Speaker 2: Bird three and zero so far. They won against Italy

1503
01:19:47,720 --> 01:19:51,840
Speaker 2: today ninety three to fifty nine in the blowout. Page

1504
01:19:51,880 --> 01:19:55,439
Speaker 2: Beckers with twelve points, Caitlin Clark with twelve points, Chelsea

1505
01:19:55,520 --> 01:19:59,439
Speaker 2: Gray eleven points, eight assists. The American women tomorrow will

1506
01:19:59,439 --> 01:20:03,200
Speaker 2: be facing New Zealand. As for more of the men's

1507
01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:07,200
Speaker 2: hoops news, did you see the Michigan game today? Semifinals

1508
01:20:07,200 --> 01:20:10,200
Speaker 2: of the Big Ten Tournament in Chicago. Number three Michigan

1509
01:20:10,240 --> 01:20:13,320
Speaker 2: with a last second three pointer to beat number twenty

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01:20:13,320 --> 01:20:17,520
Speaker 2: three Wisconsin sixty eight sixty five. And then somehow UCLA

1511
01:20:17,600 --> 01:20:20,160
Speaker 2: made it a game without its top two players. Eighteenth

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01:20:20,240 --> 01:20:24,479
Speaker 2: rank Purdue eventually put away Ucla seventy three sixty six.

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01:20:24,720 --> 01:20:29,000
Speaker 2: So Big Ten Final tomorrow and SEC Final tomorrow. In

1514
01:20:29,040 --> 01:20:33,280
Speaker 2: the SEC semifinals, number twenty two Vanderbilt wipe the floor

1515
01:20:33,360 --> 01:20:36,639
Speaker 2: with number four Florida ninety one seventy four was the final.

1516
01:20:36,680 --> 01:20:38,800
Speaker 2: I'm a tempted to say it wasn't that close. And

1517
01:20:38,840 --> 01:20:42,360
Speaker 2: then number seventeen Arkansas in overtime beat Old Miss ninety

1518
01:20:42,360 --> 01:20:44,720
Speaker 2: three to ninety So we do have a little more

1519
01:20:44,800 --> 01:20:49,040
Speaker 2: going on tomorrow. Selection Sunday for the NCAA Tournament this Sunday,

1520
01:20:49,560 --> 01:20:51,759
Speaker 2: and I'm speaking to the man who will co host

1521
01:20:51,760 --> 01:20:55,479
Speaker 2: our coverage starting six pm Eastern will be getting the reveal.

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01:20:56,040 --> 01:21:00,439
Speaker 3: Absolutely Dan Byer, who is the lead anchor in that soot,

1523
01:21:00,479 --> 01:21:02,920
Speaker 3: will be joining us here in about twenty minutes to

1524
01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:06,360
Speaker 3: preview what to expect on selection Sunday should be a

1525
01:21:06,439 --> 01:21:09,559
Speaker 3: really fun show with Dan Byer. We'll come back, We'll

1526
01:21:09,600 --> 01:21:12,880
Speaker 3: reset college hoops. Dan Byer joins us heading into an

1527
01:21:12,960 --> 01:21:16,080
Speaker 3: awesome day bracket coming out tomorrow air tors Day Smart

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio Welcome in everybody hour three tours of

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01:21:24,360 --> 01:21:27,280
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01:21:27,400 --> 01:21:33,920
Speaker 3: Radio studios. Bernie Fratto will follow us in just an

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01:21:33,960 --> 01:21:37,599
Speaker 3: hour from now, and in twenty minutes Dan Byer, who

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01:21:37,600 --> 01:21:42,960
Speaker 3: will anchor our Fox Sports Radio NCAA tournament bracket reveal

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01:21:43,120 --> 01:21:47,719
Speaker 3: at six pm Eastern three Pacific on Sunday, we'll join

1535
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Speaker 3: us to preview the bracket. Should mention. However, you listen

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01:22:11,640 --> 01:22:14,439
Speaker 3: of your presets in the iHeart app so it always

1545
01:22:14,520 --> 01:22:19,120
Speaker 3: plays at the top of your screen. Jmart, it is

1546
01:22:19,240 --> 01:22:21,920
Speaker 3: Selection Sunday on both the East Coast and in the

1547
01:22:21,920 --> 01:22:26,519
Speaker 3: Central time zone where you are located. NCA tournament bracket

1548
01:22:26,520 --> 01:22:30,040
Speaker 3: will be out at this time tomorrow. Let me just

1549
01:22:30,200 --> 01:22:34,160
Speaker 3: I'll give you the floor. What is most intriguing to

1550
01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:38,280
Speaker 3: you about this year's either the selection show, which will

1551
01:22:38,320 --> 01:22:41,439
Speaker 3: happen at six pm Eastern, or the bracket in general

1552
01:22:41,560 --> 01:22:42,439
Speaker 3: come Sunday.

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01:22:44,120 --> 01:22:47,080
Speaker 4: I mean the Miami of O highest story we already

1554
01:22:47,080 --> 01:22:51,519
Speaker 4: talked about earlier. I mean, certainly just enter out. There's

1555
01:22:51,560 --> 01:22:54,120
Speaker 4: been some debate. I'm hoping that it's just going to

1556
01:22:54,160 --> 01:22:55,639
Speaker 4: be in and we're just gonna be able to move

1557
01:22:55,680 --> 01:22:58,799
Speaker 4: on from that. But that'll be a self inflicted wound

1558
01:23:00,200 --> 01:23:02,679
Speaker 4: if indeed they were to go to the opposite direction there,

1559
01:23:03,800 --> 01:23:08,360
Speaker 4: I guess. I mean, most of the expected number ones

1560
01:23:08,520 --> 01:23:12,439
Speaker 4: haven't done anything to cost themselves anything there. I don't

1561
01:23:12,520 --> 01:23:15,280
Speaker 4: know if there's going to be one thing that I'll

1562
01:23:15,280 --> 01:23:18,120
Speaker 4: say this, who's going to get the toughest road of

1563
01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:21,599
Speaker 4: the ones? Because oftentimes it's not the team you expect

1564
01:23:21,600 --> 01:23:25,000
Speaker 4: it to, be sure, so we'll look at the brackets

1565
01:23:25,040 --> 01:23:27,040
Speaker 4: after the fact obviously and kind of be able to

1566
01:23:27,080 --> 01:23:29,840
Speaker 4: sort of parse that through. But I do want to

1567
01:23:29,880 --> 01:23:32,280
Speaker 4: see the roads for some of these one seeds and see,

1568
01:23:32,280 --> 01:23:34,040
Speaker 4: you know where there might be a match up here

1569
01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:37,439
Speaker 4: and there that could cause them some trouble. But as

1570
01:23:37,479 --> 01:23:43,040
Speaker 4: I said, now were one I am. I'm feeling good

1571
01:23:43,200 --> 01:23:47,160
Speaker 4: about the tournament interest level from the public from a

1572
01:23:47,200 --> 01:23:49,960
Speaker 4: standpoint of not just because it's the tournament, because it's

1573
01:23:49,960 --> 01:23:52,400
Speaker 4: always going to do well, but the fact that we

1574
01:23:52,520 --> 01:23:57,040
Speaker 4: have seen these expected number ones across the board, all challenged,

1575
01:23:57,360 --> 01:24:01,080
Speaker 4: one beaten, one with a three to save, you know,

1576
01:24:01,320 --> 01:24:05,320
Speaker 4: a game against Wisconsin, Duke having an outlast Virginia, and

1577
01:24:05,320 --> 01:24:07,719
Speaker 4: then Arizona having to do what they did against Houston

1578
01:24:07,760 --> 01:24:11,120
Speaker 4: to win by five in the Big Twelve Championship. Like,

1579
01:24:11,439 --> 01:24:14,200
Speaker 4: I think that that stacks up well because when you

1580
01:24:14,240 --> 01:24:16,120
Speaker 4: see those teams on the one line, it's going to

1581
01:24:16,200 --> 01:24:18,479
Speaker 4: be easy to remember what took place just a handful

1582
01:24:18,520 --> 01:24:21,720
Speaker 4: of days ago. Whatever your thoughts on the conference tournaments

1583
01:24:22,200 --> 01:24:25,040
Speaker 4: and its relevance and all all of those kinds of things,

1584
01:24:26,840 --> 01:24:29,840
Speaker 4: I think that that helps the tournament out. The only

1585
01:24:29,880 --> 01:24:32,200
Speaker 4: thing I would say is do you think the one

1586
01:24:32,280 --> 01:24:35,320
Speaker 4: lines were affected at all by anything that we have seen.

1587
01:24:35,479 --> 01:24:39,559
Speaker 4: Do you think Florida does that matter in the grand scheme?

1588
01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:41,439
Speaker 4: Or do you feel like the one lines were already

1589
01:24:41,520 --> 01:24:44,200
Speaker 4: largely settled before we even got to this weekend.

1590
01:24:44,840 --> 01:24:46,680
Speaker 3: So I don't know if they were settled before we

1591
01:24:46,720 --> 01:24:51,560
Speaker 3: got to the weekend itself. I think that the Florida

1592
01:24:51,720 --> 01:24:55,040
Speaker 3: was the fourth number one, along with as you referenced, Duke, Michigan,

1593
01:24:55,400 --> 01:24:58,960
Speaker 3: and Arizona. Yeah, blanket on that for half a second,

1594
01:24:59,360 --> 01:25:01,240
Speaker 3: and so, so I guess what I would say is

1595
01:25:01,280 --> 01:25:04,360
Speaker 3: I think they were largely set. I think those other

1596
01:25:04,479 --> 01:25:07,120
Speaker 3: three outside of Florida. So again, Michigan, Duke, and Arizona,

1597
01:25:07,439 --> 01:25:09,439
Speaker 3: I think they could have literally lost the opening game

1598
01:25:09,520 --> 01:25:12,160
Speaker 3: and it would not have mattered. Instead, the opposite happened.

1599
01:25:12,240 --> 01:25:14,840
Speaker 3: Duke wins the ACC tournament, Arizona wins the Big Twelve,

1600
01:25:14,840 --> 01:25:18,760
Speaker 3: Michigan playing for a Big Twelve title on Sunday. I

1601
01:25:18,800 --> 01:25:23,240
Speaker 3: do think Florida it would have taken the right circumstances

1602
01:25:23,240 --> 01:25:25,200
Speaker 3: for them to lose. I think it would have been interesting.

1603
01:25:25,760 --> 01:25:29,759
Speaker 3: Florida played Kentucky in their opener, they didn't play well.

1604
01:25:29,880 --> 01:25:33,400
Speaker 3: If Yukon had won today, listen, I'm not gonna get

1605
01:25:33,439 --> 01:25:35,720
Speaker 3: into the math of it. It's kind of boring, but

1606
01:25:36,200 --> 01:25:39,000
Speaker 3: Yukon did beat Florida head to head during the regular season,

1607
01:25:39,160 --> 01:25:41,680
Speaker 3: and I think there would have been an argument. I

1608
01:25:41,680 --> 01:25:43,960
Speaker 3: think the other thing too, is like if Houston had

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01:25:44,000 --> 01:25:47,479
Speaker 3: won the Big Twelve Tournament, they beat Kansas on Friday

1610
01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:50,559
Speaker 3: night they took care of they would have in theory

1611
01:25:50,600 --> 01:25:53,439
Speaker 3: taking care of Arizona in the Big Twelve Tournament, I

1612
01:25:53,479 --> 01:25:56,360
Speaker 3: think there could have been an argument for Houston for

1613
01:25:56,400 --> 01:25:58,840
Speaker 3: the fourth number one seed instead. I do think it

1614
01:25:58,880 --> 01:26:02,320
Speaker 3: will go to Florida, even though they lost its Even

1615
01:26:02,360 --> 01:26:05,200
Speaker 3: though they lost, I don't think that either of them

1616
01:26:05,240 --> 01:26:06,040
Speaker 3: will get jumped.

1617
01:26:06,320 --> 01:26:06,479
Speaker 5: Now.

1618
01:26:06,520 --> 01:26:10,000
Speaker 3: What is sort of interesting to me is that it

1619
01:26:10,040 --> 01:26:12,360
Speaker 3: looks like Florida will be that fourth number one seed

1620
01:26:12,400 --> 01:26:15,839
Speaker 3: in the South. And what I think is worth noting

1621
01:26:16,479 --> 01:26:20,160
Speaker 3: is that the games will be played in the city

1622
01:26:20,200 --> 01:26:24,559
Speaker 3: of Houston. But for people don't understand, basically there is

1623
01:26:24,920 --> 01:26:28,120
Speaker 3: a host team or a host school for every regional

1624
01:26:28,200 --> 01:26:33,240
Speaker 3: right so you know, let's see here, like IU Indy

1625
01:26:33,600 --> 01:26:36,160
Speaker 3: is the host of the Final four in Indianapolis. So

1626
01:26:36,200 --> 01:26:38,920
Speaker 3: I bring it up because for the opening round games

1627
01:26:39,000 --> 01:26:41,879
Speaker 3: and for the regionals, if you are a host school

1628
01:26:42,320 --> 01:26:47,000
Speaker 3: you cannot play in that regional. Well, Houston is not

1629
01:26:47,240 --> 01:26:51,400
Speaker 3: the host school, and there is a Houston regional and

1630
01:26:51,479 --> 01:26:54,599
Speaker 3: so it will be interesting because it looks as though

1631
01:26:54,680 --> 01:26:58,040
Speaker 3: Houston will be the two seed in Florida's region and

1632
01:26:58,160 --> 01:27:01,559
Speaker 3: in theory they could be playing Sweet sixteen and Elite

1633
01:27:01,600 --> 01:27:04,519
Speaker 3: eight games in the city of Houston to go to

1634
01:27:04,560 --> 01:27:06,880
Speaker 3: a Final four. Now, I don't think they are anything

1635
01:27:06,920 --> 01:27:08,559
Speaker 3: as close to as good as they were a year ago.

1636
01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:10,840
Speaker 3: I don't know if it'll end up mattering, but that

1637
01:27:11,000 --> 01:27:13,200
Speaker 3: is one thing that'll be interesting to me with the

1638
01:27:13,280 --> 01:27:16,639
Speaker 3: when the bracket comes out, do they get that? Do

1639
01:27:16,680 --> 01:27:20,639
Speaker 3: they get that, you know, beneficial regional? And then I'll

1640
01:27:20,640 --> 01:27:22,439
Speaker 3: just say this too. I think there's some other interesting

1641
01:27:22,479 --> 01:27:24,439
Speaker 3: things that have kind of emerged over the last couple

1642
01:27:24,400 --> 01:27:29,840
Speaker 3: of days. And again I am not a bracketologist. There's

1643
01:27:29,880 --> 01:27:32,160
Speaker 3: just so much math that goes into it now it's

1644
01:27:32,200 --> 01:27:34,760
Speaker 3: too much for me. But like, and you and I

1645
01:27:34,800 --> 01:27:37,160
Speaker 3: were texting about this team, and with good reason. Saint

1646
01:27:37,280 --> 01:27:41,160
Speaker 3: John's the what they did to Yukon today, they're trending

1647
01:27:41,200 --> 01:27:44,719
Speaker 3: to be a five seed. Like I get it, Yes,

1648
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:47,439
Speaker 3: like I get it. They didn't have a great out

1649
01:27:47,479 --> 01:27:49,439
Speaker 3: of conference resume. And let me even say this, this

1650
01:27:49,560 --> 01:27:52,800
Speaker 3: is very random, but I will say this is that

1651
01:27:53,280 --> 01:27:56,959
Speaker 3: about seven eight years ago Jmart one of the metrics

1652
01:27:56,960 --> 01:27:59,960
Speaker 3: that did go into seeding and bracketology and where to

1653
01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:03,280
Speaker 3: teams replacing all that, there was a focus on the

1654
01:28:03,320 --> 01:28:06,560
Speaker 3: final ten games of the season, and probably within the

1655
01:28:06,640 --> 01:28:08,840
Speaker 3: last four or five six years, they stopped doing it.

1656
01:28:08,960 --> 01:28:12,320
Speaker 3: And the insinuation it makes sense is that, hey, a

1657
01:28:12,360 --> 01:28:18,080
Speaker 3: great win in November or December should not count less

1658
01:28:18,120 --> 01:28:20,800
Speaker 3: than a great win in late February or early March.

1659
01:28:20,840 --> 01:28:25,920
Speaker 3: So every game is essentially, in theory weighted evenly. But

1660
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:28,280
Speaker 3: I bring it up to say I do think there

1661
01:28:28,439 --> 01:28:31,720
Speaker 3: is something too, and I personally would not have a

1662
01:28:31,760 --> 01:28:34,519
Speaker 3: problem if the top ten or final ten games of

1663
01:28:34,520 --> 01:28:37,120
Speaker 3: the season, excuse me, was a metric that was included.

1664
01:28:37,360 --> 01:28:39,200
Speaker 3: By the way, it's also noteworthy for some of those

1665
01:28:39,200 --> 01:28:42,160
Speaker 3: bubble teams, like in Oklahoma was playing really well down

1666
01:28:42,200 --> 01:28:45,240
Speaker 3: the stretch. They probably don't have the resume, but if

1667
01:28:45,320 --> 01:28:48,360
Speaker 3: last ten was included. I just bring it up because

1668
01:28:48,960 --> 01:28:52,040
Speaker 3: I kind of would like to see that because the

1669
01:28:52,160 --> 01:28:55,080
Speaker 3: NCAA tournament, Yes, it's a reflection of the season, but

1670
01:28:55,120 --> 01:28:57,920
Speaker 3: it's also a reflection of who are the best teams

1671
01:28:57,920 --> 01:29:01,080
Speaker 3: and what are the best matchups right now? You know,

1672
01:29:01,200 --> 01:29:03,960
Speaker 3: on March fourteenth, March fifteenth, And so I just look

1673
01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:05,880
Speaker 3: at a team like Saint John's being a five seed

1674
01:29:05,920 --> 01:29:08,639
Speaker 3: and saying, Okay, I guess through the totality of their season.

1675
01:29:09,160 --> 01:29:12,840
Speaker 3: You know, the computers would say that that's accurate. But man,

1676
01:29:12,880 --> 01:29:14,680
Speaker 3: oh man, oh man, imagine being the one seed that's

1677
01:29:14,680 --> 01:29:17,000
Speaker 3: got to play them in the sweet sixteen or something

1678
01:29:17,040 --> 01:29:17,280
Speaker 3: like that.

1679
01:29:17,320 --> 01:29:20,000
Speaker 4: You know, yeah, again, like that's that's part of It's

1680
01:29:20,040 --> 01:29:22,519
Speaker 4: like which one is going to have to deal with that,

1681
01:29:22,640 --> 01:29:26,280
Speaker 4: because that's a team. That's if you're looking for a

1682
01:29:26,320 --> 01:29:29,639
Speaker 4: team outside of a top three seed that can make

1683
01:29:29,680 --> 01:29:34,680
Speaker 4: a run, it's that team. Like they're absolutely built to

1684
01:29:34,840 --> 01:29:40,640
Speaker 4: cause several big wigs some serious just it's gonna be

1685
01:29:40,840 --> 01:29:43,040
Speaker 4: it's gonna be really, really tough to knock them off.

1686
01:29:44,479 --> 01:29:48,000
Speaker 4: They played discipline basketball, but I mean they dismantled Yukon.

1687
01:29:48,120 --> 01:29:50,880
Speaker 4: And you predicted it. You said Ukm's gonna lose by thirty.

1688
01:29:50,920 --> 01:29:54,920
Speaker 4: You weren't quite right because it was only twenty, but

1689
01:29:55,360 --> 01:29:59,800
Speaker 4: the point was made. Like, if you had to bet

1690
01:29:59,840 --> 01:30:02,719
Speaker 4: right right now, who goes further Yukon or Saint John's

1691
01:30:02,720 --> 01:30:03,439
Speaker 4: in the tournament.

1692
01:30:03,920 --> 01:30:06,240
Speaker 3: So I think the answer of Saint John's, what I

1693
01:30:06,320 --> 01:30:08,800
Speaker 3: will say is as down as I am on Yukon.

1694
01:30:08,880 --> 01:30:11,000
Speaker 3: It was funny. We I have a couple of buddies

1695
01:30:11,040 --> 01:30:13,400
Speaker 3: were kind of in a Yukon group chat and they

1696
01:30:13,600 --> 01:30:16,040
Speaker 3: had a couple buddies that were at the game, and

1697
01:30:16,080 --> 01:30:18,840
Speaker 3: then they were down pretty bad. I'm not gonna lie

1698
01:30:18,880 --> 01:30:21,080
Speaker 3: after that game, and and you know, we kind of

1699
01:30:21,200 --> 01:30:23,439
Speaker 3: talked it out on my way in. I just called them.

1700
01:30:23,520 --> 01:30:25,680
Speaker 3: They were kind of back at the hotel whatever, and

1701
01:30:25,720 --> 01:30:28,120
Speaker 3: I only bring it up because they were down in

1702
01:30:28,160 --> 01:30:30,680
Speaker 3: the dumps, and then we really talked through it. And

1703
01:30:30,720 --> 01:30:33,760
Speaker 3: I will say what I think is actually very interesting

1704
01:30:33,920 --> 01:30:38,040
Speaker 3: about this specific college basketball season is that those four

1705
01:30:38,080 --> 01:30:43,240
Speaker 3: teams on the one line, they are all front court based.

1706
01:30:43,280 --> 01:30:45,519
Speaker 3: In other words, like the strength of their team is

1707
01:30:45,560 --> 01:30:47,800
Speaker 3: the front court. And obviously we know the history of

1708
01:30:47,800 --> 01:30:51,400
Speaker 3: college basketball is it's usually guards and the back court,

1709
01:30:51,760 --> 01:30:54,280
Speaker 3: which is what leads to success last year with Walter

1710
01:30:54,320 --> 01:30:57,080
Speaker 3: Clayton and Florida, obviously Kemba Walker with Yukon. You know,

1711
01:30:57,120 --> 01:30:59,439
Speaker 3: you go on throughout the history of this sport, it's

1712
01:30:59,479 --> 01:31:02,960
Speaker 3: it's great guard play in March and so I bring

1713
01:31:03,000 --> 01:31:06,679
Speaker 3: that up as it pertains to Yukon because they're good

1714
01:31:06,840 --> 01:31:11,599
Speaker 3: enough in the front court, but their backcourt hasn't been

1715
01:31:12,120 --> 01:31:16,240
Speaker 3: what Yukon fans thought it would be. But they have

1716
01:31:16,520 --> 01:31:19,880
Speaker 3: capable players and so this isn't like a Homer thing.

1717
01:31:19,920 --> 01:31:22,720
Speaker 3: I'm actually more down on them than probably, you know,

1718
01:31:23,160 --> 01:31:25,920
Speaker 3: you know, the average fan would think. But I do

1719
01:31:26,000 --> 01:31:28,920
Speaker 3: think because of the specific matchups that they can face.

1720
01:31:28,960 --> 01:31:31,680
Speaker 3: And it's also worth noting they beat Florida early in

1721
01:31:31,680 --> 01:31:34,519
Speaker 3: the year. This is Yukon. They you know, they they

1722
01:31:34,720 --> 01:31:37,679
Speaker 3: you know, they lost to Arizona without their starting center

1723
01:31:37,800 --> 01:31:40,679
Speaker 3: Terris Reid, who's kind of their most consistent player of late.

1724
01:31:41,200 --> 01:31:44,759
Speaker 3: So I just bring it up because they have shown,

1725
01:31:44,840 --> 01:31:46,720
Speaker 3: certainly in the last couple of weeks that they can

1726
01:31:46,800 --> 01:31:49,800
Speaker 3: lose to bad teams. They lost to a below five

1727
01:31:49,880 --> 01:31:53,160
Speaker 3: hundred Marquette team just the other you know, last Saturday,

1728
01:31:53,200 --> 01:31:55,439
Speaker 3: on the final day of the regular season. But I

1729
01:31:55,640 --> 01:31:58,080
Speaker 3: don't think there's really like a lot of matchups that

1730
01:31:58,120 --> 01:32:02,240
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, they're going to be completely outmanned. And

1731
01:32:02,280 --> 01:32:04,280
Speaker 3: I do think it's worth noting. I know, Yukon just

1732
01:32:04,320 --> 01:32:06,639
Speaker 3: beat Saint John's by a million a few weeks ago,

1733
01:32:07,000 --> 01:32:08,760
Speaker 3: but I do think Saint John's is not only a

1734
01:32:08,800 --> 01:32:10,840
Speaker 3: bad matchup for them, but I do think it's one

1735
01:32:10,840 --> 01:32:13,559
Speaker 3: of those They play each other a lot. Saint John's

1736
01:32:13,560 --> 01:32:16,640
Speaker 3: has confidence against them, and so as bad as it

1737
01:32:16,800 --> 01:32:19,400
Speaker 3: was today, I don't know that I would predict it

1738
01:32:19,439 --> 01:32:22,200
Speaker 3: without seeing the draw first, but I don't think it's

1739
01:32:22,200 --> 01:32:24,880
Speaker 3: inconceivable that as bad as it looked for Yukon, that

1740
01:32:24,960 --> 01:32:26,880
Speaker 3: they could have success when the draw actually comes out.

1741
01:32:27,240 --> 01:32:29,400
Speaker 4: So we'll talk and we can get Dan Bayer's opinion

1742
01:32:29,479 --> 01:32:31,280
Speaker 4: on this as well when we bring him in into

1743
01:32:31,320 --> 01:32:35,080
Speaker 4: the next sigment. But is there anybody and we don't

1744
01:32:35,120 --> 01:32:37,320
Speaker 4: know what the seedings are obviously right now, but is

1745
01:32:37,360 --> 01:32:40,519
Speaker 4: there anybody that's sort of off the beaten path that

1746
01:32:40,680 --> 01:32:44,800
Speaker 4: has your attention in terms of all, right, this is

1747
01:32:44,840 --> 01:32:47,240
Speaker 4: the kind of team that can beat one of the

1748
01:32:47,280 --> 01:32:49,760
Speaker 4: bigger guys, even though they can maybe they probably can't

1749
01:32:49,760 --> 01:32:52,760
Speaker 4: win the tournament, But a couple teams that you think

1750
01:32:52,800 --> 01:32:55,760
Speaker 4: could maybe make a deep run that aren't, you know,

1751
01:32:56,720 --> 01:32:59,080
Speaker 4: household names to most of the country.

1752
01:32:59,520 --> 01:33:01,000
Speaker 3: So I'll say this. You know, first of all, it

1753
01:33:01,080 --> 01:33:03,760
Speaker 3: stinks that Brandan Deutsch just stepped away because he's big

1754
01:33:03,800 --> 01:33:09,400
Speaker 3: on UCLA now Ucla. Their two best players left the

1755
01:33:09,479 --> 01:33:12,800
Speaker 3: game today in the Big twelve Big Ten tournament. Excuse me,

1756
01:33:13,439 --> 01:33:15,759
Speaker 3: I will say it. I'll give Mick Cronin some credit,

1757
01:33:15,840 --> 01:33:19,160
Speaker 3: you know, since that that very viral rant when they

1758
01:33:19,160 --> 01:33:23,040
Speaker 3: played Michigan State a few weeks ago. Ucla prior to

1759
01:33:23,040 --> 01:33:27,760
Speaker 3: today had gone six and one, beat Nebraska, beat Illinois

1760
01:33:27,800 --> 01:33:31,040
Speaker 3: at home, and they're playing really well. I don't know

1761
01:33:31,080 --> 01:33:33,919
Speaker 3: that I love them, but I could see the scenario

1762
01:33:34,560 --> 01:33:37,040
Speaker 3: and I'll say this, and actually we could bring in

1763
01:33:37,040 --> 01:33:39,000
Speaker 3: Brandon for half a second talk Ucla at a second.

1764
01:33:39,120 --> 01:33:42,920
Speaker 3: I'll say this. A couple actually BYU has the guy

1765
01:33:42,960 --> 01:33:44,559
Speaker 3: who will probably be the number one pick in the draft,

1766
01:33:44,600 --> 01:33:48,160
Speaker 3: aj De Bonsa. They have a lot of injuries, but

1767
01:33:48,640 --> 01:33:51,519
Speaker 3: that dude quite literally can go for forty on any night.

1768
01:33:51,600 --> 01:33:53,800
Speaker 3: I think that is always going to give them a chance.

1769
01:33:54,280 --> 01:33:57,360
Speaker 3: And then I know it's not really like a surprise

1770
01:33:57,400 --> 01:33:59,559
Speaker 3: team because they'll probably be a two seed. I think,

1771
01:33:59,560 --> 01:34:01,920
Speaker 3: guy was it's actually really good and they're one that

1772
01:34:01,960 --> 01:34:03,439
Speaker 3: it's like they always win a lot of games, but

1773
01:34:03,479 --> 01:34:04,559
Speaker 3: how good are they really?

1774
01:34:04,880 --> 01:34:05,040
Speaker 5: Well?

1775
01:34:05,080 --> 01:34:07,920
Speaker 3: Listen, they they took Arizona right down to the wire

1776
01:34:08,040 --> 01:34:11,920
Speaker 3: last night. You know, they they had a very successful

1777
01:34:11,960 --> 01:34:15,479
Speaker 3: regular season, beat Houston in the regular season, split with

1778
01:34:15,600 --> 01:34:18,800
Speaker 3: Kansas in the regular season, beat Texas Tech in the

1779
01:34:18,800 --> 01:34:21,800
Speaker 3: conference tournament. So I know, Iowa State to two seed.

1780
01:34:21,840 --> 01:34:24,679
Speaker 3: I know that's not very sexy, but they're probably one.

1781
01:34:24,880 --> 01:34:28,439
Speaker 3: Brandon really quick. We were just talking about teams that

1782
01:34:28,439 --> 01:34:29,880
Speaker 3: could make a run that are cut a little bit

1783
01:34:29,880 --> 01:34:32,320
Speaker 3: off the beaten path. I know you like UCLA and

1784
01:34:32,360 --> 01:34:33,800
Speaker 3: I mentioned them while you were gone. Do you have

1785
01:34:33,840 --> 01:34:36,320
Speaker 3: any you have any bold? Ucla takes here, the West

1786
01:34:36,360 --> 01:34:37,160
Speaker 3: Coast guy here, so.

1787
01:34:37,400 --> 01:34:41,240
Speaker 10: Well, it depends where they get seeded, right and which

1788
01:34:41,400 --> 01:34:42,120
Speaker 10: which region.

1789
01:34:42,240 --> 01:34:42,920
Speaker 3: But if they.

1790
01:34:42,840 --> 01:34:46,160
Speaker 10: Play and like if they get a favorable region that

1791
01:34:46,240 --> 01:34:48,880
Speaker 10: includes maybe Arizona, who I think they match up very

1792
01:34:48,880 --> 01:34:54,000
Speaker 10: well against, or Duke, who obviously their backcourt is depleted,

1793
01:34:54,560 --> 01:34:56,000
Speaker 10: I think they could pull off an upset. I think

1794
01:34:56,040 --> 01:34:58,120
Speaker 10: it's gonna be tougher for them. They're gonna be seven seed, right,

1795
01:34:58,120 --> 01:35:00,439
Speaker 10: so it's gonna be tougher for them to win the

1796
01:35:00,520 --> 01:35:02,960
Speaker 10: two matchup, right, which would be the round of thirty two.

1797
01:35:03,600 --> 01:35:07,559
Speaker 10: Then it would be the number one team you know

1798
01:35:08,080 --> 01:35:11,040
Speaker 10: in that I think they could. It depends, like Yukon,

1799
01:35:11,120 --> 01:35:13,280
Speaker 10: I think they match up well against. It just really depends,

1800
01:35:13,320 --> 01:35:15,880
Speaker 10: but they're playing better than I think anybody in the

1801
01:35:15,880 --> 01:35:18,080
Speaker 10: country at full strength, and their point guard doesn't turn

1802
01:35:18,080 --> 01:35:20,240
Speaker 10: the ball over and that's when Cronin teams are really good.

1803
01:35:21,040 --> 01:35:23,680
Speaker 3: Fair Enough, Ucla did lose in the semi, said a

1804
01:35:23,800 --> 01:35:27,080
Speaker 3: really quick Tyler Bilodeoh, who's their best frontcourt player, did

1805
01:35:27,120 --> 01:35:29,200
Speaker 3: not play today. They said he'd be back to the tournament. Deutsch,

1806
01:35:29,200 --> 01:35:31,599
Speaker 3: Is there any update on Donovan Nett. There's no like

1807
01:35:31,920 --> 01:35:33,800
Speaker 3: major issue, right, Yeah, I don't think so.

1808
01:35:33,920 --> 01:35:36,160
Speaker 10: I read somewhere from one of the Beat reporters that

1809
01:35:36,200 --> 01:35:37,600
Speaker 10: covers the team that he could have came back in

1810
01:35:37,640 --> 01:35:40,120
Speaker 10: the game, and that's for caution. They just kind of

1811
01:35:40,120 --> 01:35:42,240
Speaker 10: held them out and they still almost be Purdue by

1812
01:35:42,240 --> 01:35:42,599
Speaker 10: the way.

1813
01:35:42,520 --> 01:35:44,400
Speaker 3: Ye so, and I do think it is worth noting

1814
01:35:44,479 --> 01:35:47,439
Speaker 3: if you're filling out a bracket tomorrow or you know,

1815
01:35:47,520 --> 01:35:51,320
Speaker 3: throughout the week monitor injuries. Duke has two players, Caleb

1816
01:35:51,320 --> 01:35:54,000
Speaker 3: Foster and Patrick Gongba, who set out two starters that

1817
01:35:55,320 --> 01:35:59,680
Speaker 3: John Shire just said non negotiable. Caleb Foster's probably their

1818
01:35:59,680 --> 01:36:02,479
Speaker 3: best guard. He probably wouldn't be back until a late

1819
01:36:02,520 --> 01:36:05,000
Speaker 3: tournament run. But I'd be curious if we get clarification

1820
01:36:05,439 --> 01:36:07,760
Speaker 3: on Patrick Gong Bo's kind of the front court player

1821
01:36:07,800 --> 01:36:12,040
Speaker 3: alongside Cam Boozer. I was gonna say Carlos Boozer, and

1822
01:36:12,080 --> 01:36:14,800
Speaker 3: then like I will say, Jaden Bradley, the Big Twelve

1823
01:36:14,840 --> 01:36:17,080
Speaker 3: player of the Year for Arizona, did go down with

1824
01:36:17,120 --> 01:36:20,719
Speaker 3: a nasty wrist injury. He came back in I thought

1825
01:36:20,720 --> 01:36:23,280
Speaker 3: he looked a little timid, so I just think that's

1826
01:36:23,320 --> 01:36:25,880
Speaker 3: worth noting as well. But yeah, those are some of

1827
01:36:25,880 --> 01:36:28,840
Speaker 3: the teams that I like. Question now, who does Dan

1828
01:36:28,960 --> 01:36:31,920
Speaker 3: Byer like? Dan Byer will be hosting Fox Sports Radio

1829
01:36:32,320 --> 01:36:35,439
Speaker 3: when the bracket comes out at six pm Eastern Time

1830
01:36:35,600 --> 01:36:38,600
Speaker 3: on Sunday, and in just minutes he's gonna join us

1831
01:36:38,640 --> 01:36:40,800
Speaker 3: to talk a little bit about the show and his

1832
01:36:40,920 --> 01:36:43,439
Speaker 3: thoughts heading into selection Sunday. Dan Byer joins us.

1833
01:36:43,479 --> 01:36:47,479
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1851
01:37:51,000 --> 01:37:52,760
Speaker 3: bit early to sagre what is trending here At one

1852
01:37:52,840 --> 01:37:54,639
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1853
01:37:54,600 --> 01:37:57,680
Speaker 2: Dan Byer, no doubt keeping at tabs on the livgolf

1854
01:37:57,720 --> 01:38:00,800
Speaker 2: tournament that has returned from rain delay, and say, okay,

1855
01:38:00,920 --> 01:38:03,760
Speaker 2: we got live coverage on FS one going on right now.

1856
01:38:03,760 --> 01:38:07,280
Speaker 2: They're midway through the final round and Bryson Deshambo is

1857
01:38:07,360 --> 01:38:10,639
Speaker 2: two shots back of Joaquin Neeman. So there, and yes,

1858
01:38:10,720 --> 01:38:13,599
Speaker 2: the late college hoops game going on early second half

1859
01:38:13,640 --> 01:38:17,439
Speaker 2: in Vegas, the WHAC Tournament Championship. It's tied first place

1860
01:38:17,560 --> 01:38:21,320
Speaker 2: Utah Valley against second place cow Baptist tied at thirty three.

1861
01:38:21,720 --> 01:38:25,400
Speaker 2: Already we had Hawaii win the Big West. Kennesaw State

1862
01:38:25,560 --> 01:38:29,960
Speaker 2: took Conference USA after going ten and ten in conference

1863
01:38:29,960 --> 01:38:33,720
Speaker 2: play during the season. Akrons twenty nine and five got

1864
01:38:33,720 --> 01:38:36,040
Speaker 2: a late three pointer to edge Toledo to win the

1865
01:38:36,080 --> 01:38:39,640
Speaker 2: MAC Conference. Prairie View A and M, which was seventeen

1866
01:38:39,680 --> 01:38:43,439
Speaker 2: and seventeen this year, won the SWACK Final. Howard takes

1867
01:38:43,439 --> 01:38:45,920
Speaker 2: the MEAC Final. In fact, this was the call from

1868
01:38:45,960 --> 01:38:48,240
Speaker 2: the good folks at Howard. We got a hold of

1869
01:38:48,439 --> 01:38:53,160
Speaker 2: w HBC ninety six point three. Our editors are superb

1870
01:38:53,680 --> 01:38:54,519
Speaker 2: and there you have it.

1871
01:38:54,840 --> 01:38:57,439
Speaker 11: You Bison are the MEAC simps.

1872
01:38:58,040 --> 01:39:03,280
Speaker 3: This is the beat bird. Howard University a vice it Ah.

1873
01:39:03,400 --> 01:39:07,880
Speaker 8: You're MEAK champions for two thousand and twenty six.

1874
01:39:08,200 --> 01:39:11,920
Speaker 2: Also, UNBC took America East. Utah State won the Mountain

1875
01:39:11,960 --> 01:39:15,920
Speaker 2: West number one Duke ACC Champs after edging Virginia seventy

1876
01:39:15,960 --> 01:39:19,439
Speaker 2: four to seventy. Number two ranked Arizona beat Houston seventy

1877
01:39:19,520 --> 01:39:22,000
Speaker 2: nine seventy four to win the Big twelve. The Big

1878
01:39:22,040 --> 01:39:24,559
Speaker 2: East winner in New York City was Saint John's over

1879
01:39:24,680 --> 01:39:28,559
Speaker 2: Yukon seventy two to fifty two big upset at the

1880
01:39:28,560 --> 01:39:32,160
Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic quarterfinals. Japan, which had been four to

1881
01:39:32,280 --> 01:39:35,479
Speaker 2: zero in this tournament, which was defending champion of the Attorney,

1882
01:39:36,160 --> 01:39:40,120
Speaker 2: lost eight five to Venezuela. Even though the starting pitcher

1883
01:39:40,200 --> 01:39:43,400
Speaker 2: for Venezuela, Ranger Suarez, who has a big new contract

1884
01:39:43,479 --> 01:39:45,960
Speaker 2: to move from the Phillies to the Red Sox this year,

1885
01:39:46,200 --> 01:39:48,640
Speaker 2: he was out in the third inning down five to two,

1886
01:39:48,720 --> 01:39:52,120
Speaker 2: and the starter for Japan, Yoshinobu Yamamoto from the Dodgers,

1887
01:39:52,160 --> 01:39:55,599
Speaker 2: went four innings five strikeouts, but his bullpen right after

1888
01:39:55,680 --> 01:39:58,640
Speaker 2: him allowed five runs in the next two innings, So

1889
01:39:58,800 --> 01:40:02,240
Speaker 2: going to a Monday Nights semifinal Venezuela and the Red

1890
01:40:02,320 --> 01:40:04,080
Speaker 2: Sox will you or bray you who had a three

1891
01:40:04,160 --> 01:40:06,880
Speaker 2: run homer in the sixth to night Ronald Acunya with

1892
01:40:06,920 --> 01:40:10,679
Speaker 2: a leadoff homer in this game, Shoeotani made the final out.

1893
01:40:10,720 --> 01:40:13,439
Speaker 2: He had hit a leadoff homer bottom of the first Tonight.

1894
01:40:13,640 --> 01:40:17,240
Speaker 2: Cubs outfielder Sea Suzuki limped off early in this game

1895
01:40:17,280 --> 01:40:20,160
Speaker 2: after a knee injury as he was caught stealing. His

1896
01:40:20,280 --> 01:40:22,559
Speaker 2: replacement did hit a three run homer in the third.

1897
01:40:23,000 --> 01:40:25,519
Speaker 2: Some of the Venezuelan players said it sounded like we

1898
01:40:25,520 --> 01:40:29,040
Speaker 2: were in Venezuela. It was loud thirty five thousand fans

1899
01:40:29,080 --> 01:40:32,200
Speaker 2: in Miami, Italy. Meanwhile, the next opponent five and oh

1900
01:40:32,320 --> 01:40:35,559
Speaker 2: after eliminating Puerto Rico eight six today was eight two

1901
01:40:35,720 --> 01:40:38,479
Speaker 2: in the fourth inning the loss to starter Seth Lugo.

1902
01:40:38,800 --> 01:40:43,120
Speaker 2: Don't forget FS one has USA and Dominican Republic. The

1903
01:40:43,120 --> 01:40:44,960
Speaker 2: amount of talent that is going to be on that

1904
01:40:45,040 --> 01:40:48,280
Speaker 2: field Sunday night for a semifinal is immense, starting with

1905
01:40:48,360 --> 01:40:52,080
Speaker 2: the US starting pitcher Paul Skeins tomorrow. Miami's hosting the

1906
01:40:52,080 --> 01:40:55,760
Speaker 2: semis on FS one Sunday and Monday nights, and it

1907
01:40:55,880 --> 01:40:58,479
Speaker 2: is hosting the Tuesday night final. The final will be

1908
01:40:58,560 --> 01:41:01,320
Speaker 2: on Fox TV. By the Way, Way, Angel shortstop Zach

1909
01:41:01,400 --> 01:41:04,240
Speaker 2: Netto at twenty six homers last year, injured his hand

1910
01:41:04,240 --> 01:41:07,760
Speaker 2: on a slide at spring training NBA SUPERB game in

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Speaker 2: La Is. The Lakers in overtime beat Denver Luka. Donzich says,

1912
01:41:11,240 --> 01:41:14,559
Speaker 2: best atmosphere since he became a Laker. Game winner for

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01:41:14,640 --> 01:41:18,400
Speaker 2: him thirty points. Orlando won at seventh straight, edging Miami,

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01:41:18,439 --> 01:41:21,040
Speaker 2: which had won seven in a row. Atlanta won its

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01:41:21,160 --> 01:41:25,320
Speaker 2: ninth in a row, dominating Milwaukee. NHL Dallas in overtime

1916
01:41:25,360 --> 01:41:28,280
Speaker 2: beat Detroit three to two. Ludwig Oberg leads the players

1917
01:41:28,280 --> 01:41:30,920
Speaker 2: by three strokes. The New York Giants side wide receiver

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01:41:31,080 --> 01:41:34,600
Speaker 2: Darnell Mooney. NASCAR poll for Las Vegas tomorrow went to

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Speaker 2: Christopher Bell.

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Speaker 3: Back to you, thank you very much, Steve Sag to Saga,

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Speaker 3: We'll see you tomorrow. What I'm on with Dan Bayer

1922
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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio error towards Jason Martin. We are here

1923
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Speaker 3: till two am Eastern, but starting at five pm Eastern,

1924
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Speaker 3: Dan Byer will take his seat and in the Walter

1925
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Speaker 3: Cronkite role for all of America, he will reveal the

1926
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Speaker 3: bracket to America at six pm Eastern. I'll be co pilot,

1927
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Speaker 3: Dan Byer. I know you're up late, are you, Scott?

1928
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Speaker 11: You know?

1929
01:42:07,520 --> 01:42:10,680
Speaker 3: Are you scrubbing team sheets and looking at net rankings

1930
01:42:10,760 --> 01:42:13,960
Speaker 3: and quick? How many quad one wins does Houston have?

1931
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Speaker 11: Go I'm too locked into whack Vegas right now to

1932
01:42:19,680 --> 01:42:23,120
Speaker 11: see two teams playing for the championship as they both

1933
01:42:23,240 --> 01:42:25,639
Speaker 11: leave this conference in the dust for the Big West

1934
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Speaker 11: next year. In Utah Valley, and cal Baptist, And of

1935
01:42:28,600 --> 01:42:31,200
Speaker 11: course the story leading into the Whack Tournament was was

1936
01:42:31,360 --> 01:42:33,960
Speaker 11: Utah Valley even going to be able to play because

1937
01:42:34,000 --> 01:42:36,360
Speaker 11: they didn't pay their million dollars that needed to be

1938
01:42:36,400 --> 01:42:39,479
Speaker 11: an escrow because they were leaving the league. But this

1939
01:42:39,560 --> 01:42:41,720
Speaker 11: is the drama that we now get in March of

1940
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Speaker 11: twenty twenty six.

1941
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Speaker 3: Really quick, before we get to bracket stuff, tell us

1942
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Speaker 3: because I've had the privilege of working with you here

1943
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Speaker 3: for a few years on Selection Sunday, and I am

1944
01:42:51,800 --> 01:42:54,559
Speaker 3: always in awe. I mean the sincerely of the amount

1945
01:42:54,680 --> 01:42:57,080
Speaker 3: of prep work that you put in, the amount that

1946
01:42:57,160 --> 01:42:59,680
Speaker 3: you know about all these teams in real time as

1947
01:42:59,680 --> 01:43:02,080
Speaker 3: there it comes out. I like to joke, I just

1948
01:43:02,120 --> 01:43:03,920
Speaker 3: get to jump in and throw out a take, and

1949
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Speaker 3: then when the bracket's done, you and I kind of

1950
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Speaker 3: break it down how much prep work goes in because

1951
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Speaker 3: for people who haven't listened, one, you need to listen

1952
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Speaker 3: at six pm Eastern Dan and I will be on

1953
01:43:12,640 --> 01:43:15,880
Speaker 3: at five. But also just the amount of work that

1954
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Speaker 3: you put in. Man, I'm so appreciative of it because

1955
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Speaker 3: it's I think it's a really good product that Fox

1956
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Speaker 3: Sports Radio puts on air.

1957
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Speaker 11: Well, I appreciate that, and I feel that we both

1958
01:43:24,560 --> 01:43:31,080
Speaker 11: are passionate about college basketball, and unfortunately, in the mainstream

1959
01:43:31,160 --> 01:43:33,320
Speaker 11: of what we get in sports right now, I think

1960
01:43:33,360 --> 01:43:36,479
Speaker 11: college basketball falls to the wayside. We talk so much

1961
01:43:36,560 --> 01:43:39,080
Speaker 11: NFL and what a great week it was for NFL

1962
01:43:39,160 --> 01:43:41,439
Speaker 11: free agency, But it's the greatest week in sports to

1963
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Speaker 11: me because of what we have this week in championship

1964
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Speaker 11: week and then with the brackets coming out tomorrow.

1965
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Speaker 5: So there is a lot of work.

1966
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Speaker 11: But there's a lot of work that happens throughout this

1967
01:43:51,600 --> 01:43:55,800
Speaker 11: season as well when the season tips off in early November,

1968
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Speaker 11: because there are great games to watch, and there are

1969
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Speaker 11: games that you watch and you can mark and say,

1970
01:44:00,800 --> 01:44:02,920
Speaker 11: all right, well that game could be interesting down the

1971
01:44:02,920 --> 01:44:05,000
Speaker 11: line when it comes to seeding and.

1972
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Speaker 5: How the brackets play out.

1973
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Speaker 11: So it is I wouldn't say that I planned four

1974
01:44:08,920 --> 01:44:11,680
Speaker 11: months for the show, but throughout the week you kind

1975
01:44:11,720 --> 01:44:14,599
Speaker 11: of start to settle down and settle things in and

1976
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Speaker 11: how the bracket's going to go. And the great thing

1977
01:44:17,040 --> 01:44:20,439
Speaker 11: about I think what we do tomorrow is mean CBS

1978
01:44:20,479 --> 01:44:23,200
Speaker 11: does a great job in unveiling the bracket, and they

1979
01:44:23,240 --> 01:44:25,760
Speaker 11: always do, except the one year when they did it alphabetically.

1980
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Speaker 11: And it was just a complete mess. But there is

1981
01:44:28,479 --> 01:44:31,240
Speaker 11: so much drama to it. But there's drama at the

1982
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Speaker 11: top and there's drama at the bottom. And I think

1983
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Speaker 11: that's what I follow really over these last couple of

1984
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Speaker 11: days of.

1985
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Speaker 5: Who can I mean, we're not talking just last four in.

1986
01:44:41,000 --> 01:44:44,519
Speaker 11: We're talking last four in, first four out, next four out,

1987
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Speaker 11: and then there's another four it's usually those twelve or

1988
01:44:47,320 --> 01:44:50,479
Speaker 11: sixteen teams that are hovering around that cut line that

1989
01:44:50,520 --> 01:44:52,840
Speaker 11: you're trying to follow this week. So when we talk

1990
01:44:52,920 --> 01:44:55,840
Speaker 11: about following and prepping for the show, we kind of.

1991
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Speaker 5: Know what's going to happen at the top.

1992
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Speaker 11: And I think that there are some other teams that

1993
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Speaker 11: had performance in that could make us scratch our head

1994
01:45:01,560 --> 01:45:03,479
Speaker 11: and say, could they jump a couple of seed lines?

1995
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Speaker 11: But it's also really just who's going to be, you know,

1996
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Speaker 11: team number sixty seven and who's going to be team

1997
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Speaker 11: number sixty eight. That's where a lot of my focus

1998
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Speaker 11: goes in this final week of the year.

1999
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Speaker 4: All Right, damn Miami of Ohio. Are we going to

2000
01:45:16,960 --> 01:45:19,240
Speaker 4: have any kind of story there or are they going

2001
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Speaker 4: to get in and we're not going to have much

2002
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Speaker 4: of an issue?

2003
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I think that they're I think that they're in.

2004
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Speaker 11: And one of the things that I do do, which

2005
01:45:26,960 --> 01:45:28,639
Speaker 11: is great. I don't know if you guys remember when

2006
01:45:28,760 --> 01:45:32,639
Speaker 11: bracketology actually came out, but I swear it was about

2007
01:45:32,720 --> 01:45:35,519
Speaker 11: thirty years ago when Joe Grenardy started doing this stuff.

2008
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Speaker 11: And now there are so many bracketologists that you can

2009
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Speaker 11: look at that go over the data and can go

2010
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Speaker 11: over the points and guys, I sat here and I

2011
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Speaker 11: looked at about twelve different brackets, probably within the last

2012
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Speaker 11: two hours or so. None of them had Miami of

2013
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Speaker 11: Ohio out. I would say at least three of them

2014
01:45:56,360 --> 01:46:00,280
Speaker 11: had Miami of Ohio in final in their last or

2015
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Speaker 11: and the others have them comfortably in. So that's a

2016
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Speaker 11: bit surprising to me because I actually think the story

2017
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Speaker 11: with Miami of Ohio is putting them in Dayton on

2018
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Speaker 11: Tuesday or Wednesday. I think it would be a great

2019
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Speaker 11: move for TV ratings. I think it would be the

2020
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Speaker 11: school that we would all want to see, and it

2021
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Speaker 11: would allow them that opportunity to play, which I think

2022
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Speaker 11: has been a bit of a call on social media

2023
01:46:24,080 --> 01:46:26,040
Speaker 11: as well, like all right, Miami of Ohio, if you

2024
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Speaker 11: want to prove it, here's your opportunity. To do so,

2025
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Speaker 11: and I think it would be great for the tournament.

2026
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Speaker 11: I think on Tuesday night and Dayton or Wednesday night

2027
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Speaker 11: and Dayton, if Miami of Ohio is playing in one

2028
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Speaker 11: of those games, I think it's great for the tournament

2029
01:46:39,280 --> 01:46:44,439
Speaker 11: and whether they deserve to be in that final four. Jason, again,

2030
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Speaker 11: a lot of brackets have them further in the bracket

2031
01:46:47,800 --> 01:46:49,920
Speaker 11: than people would believe. But I just think that Miami

2032
01:46:49,920 --> 01:46:52,479
Speaker 11: of Ohio should for the good of the tournament, because

2033
01:46:52,479 --> 01:46:54,200
Speaker 11: I think that's all what we would want to see.

2034
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Speaker 11: We would want to see Miami of Ohio against Texas

2035
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Speaker 11: or Miami of Ohio against Auburn if it came down

2036
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Speaker 11: to that. Part of it is a TV show as well,

2037
01:47:03,360 --> 01:47:04,760
Speaker 11: But if you're gonna put them in the tournament, I

2038
01:47:04,760 --> 01:47:06,879
Speaker 11: think they have to play in Dayton Tuesday Wednesday.

2039
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Speaker 3: Dan Bayer joining us this evening. Dan Byer of course,

2040
01:47:10,520 --> 01:47:14,519
Speaker 3: hosts the normal Sunday show five to eight Eastern, two

2041
01:47:14,520 --> 01:47:17,760
Speaker 3: to five Pacific. The bracket will come out on Sunday

2042
01:47:17,840 --> 01:47:20,000
Speaker 3: and myself, Erin Torris will be joining them. Erin tors

2043
01:47:20,080 --> 01:47:23,000
Speaker 3: Jason Martin here at one thirty four Eastern time. Let

2044
01:47:23,000 --> 01:47:25,680
Speaker 3: me ask you this, Dan, you and I've been doing

2045
01:47:25,720 --> 01:47:27,519
Speaker 3: this for a while. I don't know if this topic

2046
01:47:27,600 --> 01:47:29,479
Speaker 3: has ever come up, but you know, you mentioned it

2047
01:47:29,520 --> 01:47:32,240
Speaker 3: being a made for TV thing. This year it's Miami

2048
01:47:32,280 --> 01:47:34,960
Speaker 3: of Ohio one way or another will be the story.

2049
01:47:35,320 --> 01:47:37,479
Speaker 3: Last year it was North Carolina getting in as the

2050
01:47:37,600 --> 01:47:40,720
Speaker 3: last team, and everybody seemed to think that it was

2051
01:47:40,760 --> 01:47:45,320
Speaker 3: a byproduct of their their ad Bubba Cunningham being the

2052
01:47:45,680 --> 01:47:49,240
Speaker 3: committee chair, do you believe, just your personal opinion, do

2053
01:47:49,280 --> 01:47:53,920
Speaker 3: you believe that there are certain either brackets made with

2054
01:47:54,080 --> 01:47:56,559
Speaker 3: TV in mind that maybe aren't the most balanced. Do

2055
01:47:56,600 --> 01:47:59,519
Speaker 3: you believe that there are certain teams that are only

2056
01:47:59,640 --> 01:48:03,600
Speaker 3: let in for the talking point of it, Because I

2057
01:48:03,840 --> 01:48:06,400
Speaker 3: guess Miami able hire one way or the other will

2058
01:48:06,439 --> 01:48:09,639
Speaker 3: be the talking point come six, you know, twenty five

2059
01:48:09,760 --> 01:48:12,760
Speaker 3: Eastern time tomorrow. But I'll be honest, I am the

2060
01:48:12,760 --> 01:48:15,960
Speaker 3: conspiracy theorist that thinks stuff gets made for us to

2061
01:48:16,000 --> 01:48:17,800
Speaker 3: talk about and specifically for TV.

2062
01:48:18,520 --> 01:48:21,040
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think that I think the committee has shown

2063
01:48:21,080 --> 01:48:24,040
Speaker 11: throughout the years. I mean, just don't know how brackets

2064
01:48:24,040 --> 01:48:26,040
Speaker 11: are set up. We've talked about the point. I think

2065
01:48:26,040 --> 01:48:28,160
Speaker 11: they moved a little bit away from it, but I've

2066
01:48:28,160 --> 01:48:30,479
Speaker 11: always felt that there was a there was a money

2067
01:48:30,560 --> 01:48:34,160
Speaker 11: Sweet sixteen where one region is usually.

2068
01:48:33,840 --> 01:48:36,320
Speaker 5: Loaded up with blue bloods if you will.

2069
01:48:36,640 --> 01:48:39,040
Speaker 11: Now they may not be the traditional blue bloods of

2070
01:48:39,040 --> 01:48:42,280
Speaker 11: a Kentucky and Kansas in Duke and North Carolina, if

2071
01:48:42,280 --> 01:48:46,400
Speaker 11: you will, but we're talking about name brand schools, and

2072
01:48:46,439 --> 01:48:48,960
Speaker 11: I feel that the tournament sets up a region like that.

2073
01:48:49,160 --> 01:48:52,519
Speaker 11: So in the second weekend you have a marquee region,

2074
01:48:52,560 --> 01:48:54,759
Speaker 11: and it was usually the one jim Nantz was gonna

2075
01:48:54,760 --> 01:48:57,080
Speaker 11: be calling. In a lot of times that was Duke,

2076
01:48:57,160 --> 01:49:00,639
Speaker 11: but sometimes it was North Carolina and Aaron's. Sometimes even

2077
01:49:00,760 --> 01:49:03,960
Speaker 11: maybe Yukon was was a team that had to deal

2078
01:49:04,000 --> 01:49:04,479
Speaker 11: with some of that.

2079
01:49:04,520 --> 01:49:06,680
Speaker 3: But real quick, if you remember last year we had

2080
01:49:06,800 --> 01:49:10,080
Speaker 3: Arkansas Kansas and then Arkansas Saint John's in back to

2081
01:49:10,120 --> 01:49:13,000
Speaker 3: back games. Just down on mine afterward, you and that

2082
01:49:13,080 --> 01:49:13,479
Speaker 3: was gonna be.

2083
01:49:13,560 --> 01:49:15,960
Speaker 5: My next point is there's always first round matchups.

2084
01:49:16,000 --> 01:49:19,599
Speaker 11: Remember in just even looking and I've got last year's

2085
01:49:19,600 --> 01:49:22,240
Speaker 11: bracket sitting in front of me as well. When we're

2086
01:49:22,360 --> 01:49:24,880
Speaker 11: looking at you know how things are set up or like, oh,

2087
01:49:24,960 --> 01:49:27,360
Speaker 11: this could be this could be a juicy matchup here,

2088
01:49:27,360 --> 01:49:29,680
Speaker 11: And you're right, that was bottom left hand corner. In

2089
01:49:29,720 --> 01:49:34,240
Speaker 11: the West region, they have those matchups set up, so

2090
01:49:34,400 --> 01:49:37,960
Speaker 11: it's always been a made for TV event in that regard.

2091
01:49:38,120 --> 01:49:40,320
Speaker 11: They try to get great matchups in a one to eight,

2092
01:49:40,520 --> 01:49:44,000
Speaker 11: one to nine possible matchup, right we some of the

2093
01:49:44,000 --> 01:49:47,080
Speaker 11: one seeds probably don't feel necessary as as lucky or

2094
01:49:47,080 --> 01:49:50,040
Speaker 11: fortunate because of who they could possibly play. So that

2095
01:49:50,120 --> 01:49:53,320
Speaker 11: has always been to me a part of it. And

2096
01:49:53,640 --> 01:49:56,200
Speaker 11: even if you set it up with the one, you know, one, two, three,

2097
01:49:56,280 --> 01:50:00,680
Speaker 11: and four with popular teams or name brand teams, you're

2098
01:50:00,720 --> 01:50:03,280
Speaker 11: going to get two or three of those schools through

2099
01:50:03,320 --> 01:50:06,040
Speaker 11: to the sweet sixteen, so that kind of helps your weekend.

2100
01:50:06,120 --> 01:50:07,759
Speaker 11: I know a couple of years ago when we had

2101
01:50:08,080 --> 01:50:11,280
Speaker 11: the Faus and the San Diego States and Yukon was

2102
01:50:11,400 --> 01:50:13,160
Speaker 11: what they were four seed that year and ended up

2103
01:50:13,160 --> 01:50:15,360
Speaker 11: cutting down the nets where it wasn't all named brands.

2104
01:50:15,400 --> 01:50:18,160
Speaker 11: But that's chaos, and so I think the when they

2105
01:50:18,160 --> 01:50:21,080
Speaker 11: set up the bracket there is TV in mind, not

2106
01:50:21,120 --> 01:50:22,720
Speaker 11: only in the first and second rounds, but also in

2107
01:50:22,760 --> 01:50:23,559
Speaker 11: the sweet sixteen.

2108
01:50:24,640 --> 01:50:28,200
Speaker 4: Dan, which of the ones are the prospective ones do

2109
01:50:28,240 --> 01:50:30,360
Speaker 4: you like the best? I think both of us kind

2110
01:50:30,360 --> 01:50:34,720
Speaker 4: of said earlier we were pretty big fans of Arizona.

2111
01:50:35,800 --> 01:50:37,760
Speaker 4: That's that's kind of where I land right now, I

2112
01:50:37,760 --> 01:50:40,280
Speaker 4: will know how open the tournament is. But in terms

2113
01:50:40,320 --> 01:50:43,160
Speaker 4: of just the most complete teams that I've watched throughout

2114
01:50:43,160 --> 01:50:45,080
Speaker 4: the course of the season, Arizona is the one that

2115
01:50:45,160 --> 01:50:46,400
Speaker 4: seems to stand out to me.

2116
01:50:47,120 --> 01:50:49,519
Speaker 11: Yeah, I agree. If it's not this year, when is

2117
01:50:49,520 --> 01:50:51,320
Speaker 11: it going to be? Right are you guys talking about

2118
01:50:51,360 --> 01:50:55,479
Speaker 11: Duke's injuries earlier? You know, for as dominant as Michigan was,

2119
01:50:55,840 --> 01:50:58,439
Speaker 11: it hasn't been an easy couple of days for Michigan

2120
01:50:58,439 --> 01:51:02,680
Speaker 11: in this this NCAA tournament. And Michigan can be dominant,

2121
01:51:03,280 --> 01:51:07,559
Speaker 11: but they don't necessarily shoot the three that great that well,

2122
01:51:07,840 --> 01:51:09,639
Speaker 11: and so at some point maybe that could come back

2123
01:51:09,680 --> 01:51:12,160
Speaker 11: to buying them. But I do think that it's there

2124
01:51:12,200 --> 01:51:15,320
Speaker 11: for Arizona, and this is you know, just like you

2125
01:51:15,320 --> 01:51:16,920
Speaker 11: guys said, this is also on the heels of an

2126
01:51:16,920 --> 01:51:18,760
Speaker 11: Arizona team that you know, was taken to the wire

2127
01:51:18,800 --> 01:51:21,840
Speaker 11: by Arizona by Iowa State last night and Houston almost

2128
01:51:21,880 --> 01:51:25,200
Speaker 11: came back and gave them a push on Saturday. But

2129
01:51:25,800 --> 01:51:28,200
Speaker 11: I think, if not now, when is it going to

2130
01:51:28,240 --> 01:51:29,720
Speaker 11: be for Arizona.

2131
01:51:30,000 --> 01:51:32,760
Speaker 5: So if you're gonna go number.

2132
01:51:32,479 --> 01:51:35,640
Speaker 11: One seeds, I just think I think they have the

2133
01:51:35,760 --> 01:51:38,960
Speaker 11: least amount of questions. Plus you also look at their travel.

2134
01:51:39,840 --> 01:51:42,120
Speaker 11: Nothing out of the ordinary for them, at least to

2135
01:51:42,160 --> 01:51:44,479
Speaker 11: the Final four. They could go to San Diego, the

2136
01:51:44,560 --> 01:51:48,200
Speaker 11: regionals in San Jose. That's not awful for them, So

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Speaker 11: they should have significant home court advantages in those scenarios.

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Speaker 11: So yeah, I think it's I think it's right there

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Speaker 11: for Arizona.

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Speaker 3: I tell my buddy who covers Arizona member. Of course,

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Speaker 3: they won the Final four in ninety seven in Indianapolis,

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Speaker 3: and everyone knows the twenty nine year anniversary is the

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Speaker 3: most important one in all walks of life. So I

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Speaker 3: mean it's only natural that this is the year they

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Speaker 3: get back and potentially cut down the nets. Dan, we

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Speaker 3: got about a minute left and then we're gonna have

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Speaker 3: to let you get out of here. Dan Bayer, of course,

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Speaker 3: will anchor the selection show. Show starts at five Eastern

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Speaker 3: bracket revealed at six. My question for you is, over

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Speaker 3: the next eighteen hours, as we get this bracket out,

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Speaker 3: who is the single most intriguing team to you?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I think there's a couple of things still at play,

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Speaker 11: even though we've got just five games left. The Big

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Speaker 11: Ten title game in the SEC title game are the

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Speaker 11: real headline Steelers. The intriguing one to me is VCU,

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Speaker 11: and we're at the fifteen year anniversary of their final

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Speaker 11: four run.

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Speaker 5: When you look at what VCU has at stake, They've.

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Speaker 11: Got a championship game tomorrow against Dayton in the A ten.

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Speaker 5: If Dayton wins that game, it may.

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Speaker 11: Knock VCU out in terms of an at large bid.

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Speaker 5: So that's the intriguing portion of this.

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Speaker 11: VCU really would have benefited if Saint Louis could have

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Speaker 11: won that game today where they were seconds away from

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Speaker 11: doing so, or less than a second away from doing so.

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Speaker 5: If you lose this not a big deal.

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Speaker 11: Billikins are already in the tournament and VCU can get

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Speaker 11: an at large bid. But to think that three teams

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Speaker 11: from that league could get in if Dayton ends up

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Speaker 11: getting in, I think is something worth watching. And we're

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Speaker 11: going to know the result, Aaron, So if Dayton ends

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Speaker 11: up winning, But you know, when our show starts at

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Speaker 11: two o'clock, it's going to be a part of what

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Speaker 11: we're going to be talking about in the first sixty

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Speaker 11: minutes because VCU has an opportunity to play themselves into

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Speaker 11: the field. But they could also with the loss be

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Speaker 11: the ones to knock themselves out of the field because

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Speaker 11: of that bid stealing possibly coming from the Dayton Flyers.

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Speaker 3: Sunday afternoon, we have the IVY Championship, SEC Championship, the

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Speaker 3: A Ten as Dan just referenced, the American and it

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Speaker 3: will all conclude Purdue Michigan Big Ten Championship leading into

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Speaker 3: the bracket reveal six pm Eastern. Dan Byer will be

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Speaker 3: on at five pm Eastern along with your myself erin Torres,

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Speaker 3: and we'll be taking up until eight Eastern time. Full

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Speaker 3: bracket reaction. Dan, We appreciate the time. Like I said,

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Speaker 3: I know you got to get back to to you know,

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Speaker 3: produce team sheet right now. And remember December twenty first,

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Speaker 3: that was when they had that big win that we'll

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Speaker 3: be discussing, So make sure but also get some rest.

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Speaker 3: We appreciate your time and I'll be talking to you tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Can't wait to do it again and can't wait to

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Speaker 3: have a bracket in our hands.

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Speaker 11: Can't wait to cap off the greatest weekend sports on

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Speaker 11: the calendar. There is no argument. Thanks guys, appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: That is Dan Byer. You will hear him five pm

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Speaker 3: Eastern time. Bracket reveal at six right here on Fox

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Speaker 3: We got one segment left. I think we pretty much

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Speaker 3: covered everything. I mean, there was definitely some noteworthy NFL.

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Speaker 4: News from the week.

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Speaker 3: Kyler Murray Minnesota Viking. Are they taking down the Packers,

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Speaker 3: the Lions, and the Bears in that division this year?

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Speaker 5: With Kyler?

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Speaker 4: Or what I mean? I'm hearing a lot of like, man,

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Speaker 4: Kyler's is going to be great. He's going to be

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Speaker 4: the next this, He's going to be the next that.

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Speaker 4: What's changed exactly?

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Speaker 3: Like uniforms, that's it.

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Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, he's got talent, but he's still got

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Speaker 4: this same issues he's had before. He's not particularly durable.

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Speaker 4: We there have been questions at times about his dedication.

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying that he wouldn't come in trying right

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Speaker 4: now to you know, show something otherwise. But I look

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Speaker 4: at the other side of that division and the rest

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Speaker 4: of that division. It's just like, Kyler's your answer that

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Speaker 4: that's going to be the way that you're going to

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Speaker 4: do it. The guy that lost his job did. Jacoby

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Speaker 4: Bursett is the one that we're talking about now. I

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Speaker 4: understand you're going to be able to get him for

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Speaker 4: pretty low money, but like and Kevin O'Connell's, I mean,

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Speaker 4: he's obviously a really talented head coach and they have

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Speaker 4: a lot of weapons there. But I mean, just call

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Speaker 4: me skeptical.

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Speaker 5: How about that?

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Speaker 4: Like, I just not rooting against it. There were some

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Speaker 4: good things. It did seem like Kyler was trying a

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Speaker 4: lot harder after the call of duty days and all

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Speaker 4: that kind of stuff. But it just I don't, I don't.

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Speaker 4: I don't see why we're over reacting all of a sudden.

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Speaker 4: It's like, yes, he's available, but does that does that

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Speaker 4: make sense? It doesn't seem like it does right.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't move the needle for me, man. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 3: and I know you feel the same way, because we've

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Speaker 3: talked about this, gentleman. I think it obviously at this point,

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Speaker 3: probably says as much about JJ McCarthy as it does

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Speaker 3: about Kyler Murray. That is obvious. It has been obvious

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Speaker 3: since the season ended. That Kevin O'Connell, you know, he

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Speaker 3: said it publicly. Hey, everybody has to compete for their spot,

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Speaker 3: even the quarterback, and they had said they were going

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Speaker 3: to bring in a veteran quarterback. But to answer your question, no,

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Speaker 3: I don't think it moves the needle. And let me

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Speaker 3: also add this, when you think of NFC North cold,

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Speaker 3: mostly outdoors, physical, Dan Campbell, I don't know that Kyler Murray, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, fits the mold.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. I don't know anybout it this way. I

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Speaker 3: don't think he's walking into lambeau Field week eighteen, negative

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Speaker 3: twenty degrees, with the season on the line and just

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Speaker 3: marching the Vikings up and down the field. That's I

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Speaker 3: guess what I would say about that. Not rooting against him.

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Speaker 3: I think it's largely over. I said it last week.

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Speaker 3: It would not shock me if at this time next week,

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Speaker 3: next year, excuse me, he is in a spring training

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Speaker 3: for the Oakland A's or the Sacramento A's or the

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Speaker 3: Vegas A's or whatever we're calling him now, doesn't really

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Speaker 3: do much for me. Really quickly Tua to the Atlanta Falcons.

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Speaker 3: Obviously Michael Pennix is there. We only got about two

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Speaker 3: minutes left. J Mart, what'd you make of that move?

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, Stefanski knows what it's like not to

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Speaker 4: have a quarterback depended on it's so, I mean, that's

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Speaker 4: kind of what it feels like to me. When I

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Speaker 4: saw it was just like man out of the frying pan,

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Speaker 4: but not out of the fire, right Like, I mean,

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Speaker 4: for sure, this is the same kind of thing that

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Speaker 4: we have already seen repeatedly for Kevin. Stefanski goes in.

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Speaker 4: It's like, we don't know what Pennix is, but we're

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Speaker 4: you know, we kind of think we might. And it's

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Speaker 4: not anything spectacular. And of course Miami fans have been

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Speaker 4: waiting to get rid of tour for a couple of

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Speaker 4: years now. We're talking durability yet again, and consistency yet again.

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Speaker 4: The weapons that he had in Miami, he couldn't get

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Speaker 4: them anywhere. So I understand the Drake London's a really

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Speaker 4: good player. Kyle Pits is a nice tight end obviously,

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Speaker 4: but John Robinson's a pretty talented guy. But I don't know, man,

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Speaker 4: it just seems like these these are situations where maybe

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Speaker 4: there wasn't a better option. But I don't see either

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Speaker 4: one of them knocking down the door of the super

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Speaker 4: Bowl this year.

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Speaker 3: I yeah, I think it's fair to say that I

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Speaker 3: feel much the same Atlanta Falcons with Tua and Michael

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Speaker 3: Pennix and Minnesota Vikings Kyler and Kyler and JJ McCarthy. Oh,

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Speaker 3: by the way, Max Crosby, I guess.

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Speaker 5: He's a raider. Is he a raider?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, he's not a raven. I know that.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, Jabart, we gotta get out of here.

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 3: I thank the crew, Mary mack on the board, producer

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Speaker 3: brand and Steve de Sager for my partner Jason Martin,

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Speaker 3: Thank everybody for listening. Thank you to Dan Byer, who

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Speaker 3: just joined us moments ago. If you missed any of

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Speaker 3: today's show, make sure to download the podcast will be

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Speaker 3: And we covered a lot. We covered a lot of

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Speaker 3: college basketball, bam Adebayo and more, Coming up next, Bertie Fratto.

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