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Speaker 2: twitter handle at TP show spent a large portion of
Speaker 2: the first hour talking about Lebron James the interview on
Speaker 2: Pat McAfee's show, and there was a lot to unpack there.
Speaker 2: It was over an hour which Lebron doesn't sit down
Speaker 2: with anybody, and McAfee got him. He was in Indianapolis,
Speaker 2: came by and they talked about a variety of things.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: He talked about his relationship or maybe lack thereof, with
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan, that it's hard for them maybe to be
Speaker 2: friends because Lebron is still playing and Mike put up
Speaker 2: these numbers that Lebron is still chasing. He talked about
Speaker 2: what's going on with Stephen A. Smith as well. He
Speaker 2: feels like the media has picked on his son. So
Speaker 2: there was a lot of things he's touching on. He's
Speaker 2: touching on athletes from different generations, different eras as well,
Speaker 2: but wide ranging.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get.
Speaker 5: The sense Mike is tough to be friends with regardless.
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't think Mike and Lebron would have anything
Speaker 2: in common unless Lebron takes up golf and wants to
Speaker 2: play every single day and bet, you know, fifty to
Speaker 2: one hundred.
Speaker 6: Thousand constantly have to defend him and his resume as
Speaker 6: a player, Yes, constantly.
Speaker 3: I couldn't imagine.
Speaker 2: Well, I've talked to Charles Barkley about this, and Mike
Speaker 2: will rough you up. He will just carve you up
Speaker 2: because he's got the ultimate scoreboard, and he would make
Speaker 2: fun of Barkley right in front of Charles, in front
Speaker 2: of other people. And I was at a golf tournament
Speaker 2: in North Carolina, Jim Valvano golf tournament.
Speaker 3: I got Lou.
Speaker 2: Holtz, I got Digger Phelps, Quinn Buckner, Charles Barkley, Michael Jordan,
Speaker 2: and maybe one other person, and it quickly went to
Speaker 2: Mike just up Charles would be on the show tomorrow
Speaker 2: with us, but roughing up Charles about not winning a title,
Speaker 2: and it got real serious, real quick. I can't imagine
Speaker 2: if Lebron goes, hey, mj how about we go play golf.
Speaker 2: I've seen that Michael Jordan. Lebron doesn't want any part
Speaker 2: of that. Mike doesn't do anything where he goes eh, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: how about a friendly little game.
Speaker 3: There's no part of that. In his DNA.
Speaker 2: Lebron would be like I thought I was going to
Speaker 2: strengthen our relationship.
Speaker 3: I think it made it worse.
Speaker 2: Wait, you just went to play golf with him, Yeah,
Speaker 2: but it evolved into something more than that, Like he's
Speaker 2: making fun of me, and you know my golf game,
Speaker 2: and I think I lost one hundred thousand, you lost
Speaker 2: one hundred thousands. Yes, Mike shows up with a satchel
Speaker 2: full of cash. When he plays, you pay. Now, Normally
Speaker 2: you got guys who've said they played against Mike and
Speaker 2: he didn't pay. Dan Dakich said that he owes him
Speaker 2: like six grand. But if you play guys in Vegas
Speaker 2: and a certain golf course out there, Mike would go
Speaker 2: there and they waited for him. You had professional gamblers
Speaker 2: who played golf. They might not have been as good
Speaker 2: a golfer, but they were professional gamblers and there's a
Speaker 2: big difference. You can't touch your ball until it gets
Speaker 2: into the hole. That's how they play, and Mike would
Speaker 2: show up. This according to two guys who played and
Speaker 2: said Mike would show up and guys would be waiting
Speaker 2: to play him, and he'd bring a satchel full of cash.
Speaker 2: I don't think he left with that cash though, just
Speaker 2: saying that these guys they said, wherever your ball goes,
Speaker 2: you cannot touch it. You do not pick it up
Speaker 2: until it gets in the hole. Then you can pick
Speaker 2: it up, like they had certain rules there. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I can't imagine Lebron strengthening his relationship with Mike when
Speaker 2: it's all said, good morning. If you're watching on Peacock,
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Speaker 3: We have a lot of poll questions here.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we settled on one seat or
Speaker 2: maybe we just have a couple of them up.
Speaker 3: Up there for the day.
Speaker 6: Totts is going up there on the website as we speak.
Speaker 6: We're going to put in there your poll quest yours
Speaker 6: slash Paul's about are the Dodgers good for baseball? We
Speaker 6: have one here from Marvin too that I think you'll like. Okay,
Speaker 6: what athlete all time would you like to speak to
Speaker 6: for an hour?
Speaker 3: All so? Living or dead?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, we have the options Marvin has thrown out there, Babe, Ruth,
Speaker 6: Michael Jordan, Jackie Robbinson, other.
Speaker 2: I guess you can put Tiger down. But you know,
Speaker 2: Tiger would never do what Lebron did yesterday. He would
Speaker 2: never let his guard down and just go man, do
Speaker 2: I have some things I'm going to.
Speaker 7: Get off my chest?
Speaker 5: I just want some privacy.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, as he shows that he's in love, let
Speaker 2: me show you these pictures. Now, please respect my privacy.
Speaker 2: It's not like somebody broke into his compound and took
Speaker 2: pictures and said, oh, hey, what are you doing respect
Speaker 2: our privacy. It's like here we're in love. We were
Speaker 2: respecting your privacy. You interrupted mine showing me pictures of
Speaker 2: being in love.
Speaker 8: Yes, tom My first though was Jackie Robinson.
Speaker 9: But I'd find Muhammad Ali to be extremely entertaining and interesting.
Speaker 2: No, the answer is Babe Ruth, Babe Ruth. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean Ali was very out I mean he was forthcoming.
Speaker 2: When when he was able to speak, he spoke, he
Speaker 2: told you Jackie Robinson, Yes, that would be probably second,
Speaker 2: but Babe was just that was larger than life. You know,
Speaker 2: there's no TV. It was all about word of mouth,
Speaker 2: and you had this god that you didn't even know
Speaker 2: if he was real, you were reading about it, and
Speaker 2: so I think just trying to understand what the world
Speaker 2: was like for him back then would probably be my
Speaker 2: first choice.
Speaker 6: Yes, how much of that desire to speak to him
Speaker 6: is because there's so little audio video of him. It's
Speaker 6: it's like a real complete unknown almost still to this point,
Speaker 6: it's all legend, it's all myth. It's all like, like
Speaker 6: you said, is this even real? Did this really even happen?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that factors in a real mystery to it. Also,
Speaker 2: I mean, Jordan did the last dance, so you have
Speaker 2: an idea it's still be fun, you know, to go
Speaker 2: toe to toe with him. Tiger wouldn't be just because
Speaker 2: you can't get much out of him. But it really
Speaker 2: it comes back to if Lebron wants to open up
Speaker 2: like he did, then that makes the interview a great interview.
Speaker 2: Like he has to be willing. Every time I have
Speaker 2: a guest on, they have to be willing to tell
Speaker 2: me something, to tell you something, and Tiger just has
Speaker 2: never been comfortable doing that, which is his right. But
Speaker 2: you know, we're still fascinated with a lot of different
Speaker 2: things about Tiger, you know, same with Michael Jordan. But
Speaker 2: Lebron kind of opening up, it felt like he needed
Speaker 2: to get some things off his chest, and this was
Speaker 2: a great vehicle. Pat McAfee show, you're also on ESPN
Speaker 2: and you're taking shots at guys who work at ESPN
Speaker 2: with Steven a and Brian Windhorst. I don't know why
Speaker 2: Brian Windhorst took some bullets there. Yeah, what's come on?
Speaker 2: Thinks he's my best friend or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, come on?
Speaker 6: Sometimes when you read, if you read those quotes, it's
Speaker 6: a little fourth gradish.
Speaker 5: This guy he's my best friend, You're not even my
Speaker 5: best friend.
Speaker 2: That sounds like something you'd say in fourth grade, and
Speaker 2: you would say it exactly like that.
Speaker 3: You know, where you'd say to your mom. You know,
Speaker 3: he thinks he's my best friend, he's not. Yes, Paulie one.
Speaker 10: Other athletes just going off the board that I would
Speaker 10: love here an hour with. He's almost a mythical figure,
Speaker 10: the former Dodger pitcher of Sandy Kofax. I think he's
Speaker 10: almost ninety, very private, doesn't do interviews. He seems like
Speaker 10: a person that's not even real to me. Yeah, I
Speaker 10: see videos and pictures. He left the sport. At his peak,
Speaker 10: he was the best pitcher in baseball, and I've never
Speaker 10: seen a sit down with him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if he's interesting as much as
Speaker 2: he's an enigma.
Speaker 11: Yes, and which makes him but that's where you.
Speaker 2: I mean, you don't know if he's going to be
Speaker 2: a good interview. You just knew that he was one
Speaker 2: of the great pitchers of all time. And he didn't say,
Speaker 2: you know, a very private he goes to spring training
Speaker 2: I think every year. But yeah, I mean there's a
Speaker 2: lot of people, but I would say Babe Ruth would
Speaker 2: be the first first guy that came to mind. And
Speaker 2: Jackie Robinson because you look at what he did, when
Speaker 2: he did it, how he did it, and against the
Speaker 2: odds and still became a Hall of Famer in his
Speaker 2: fourth best sport.
Speaker 3: That's pretty fascinating.
Speaker 2: Lucas in Texas, Good morning, Luke, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 12: And good morning, Good morning, Happy opening day, Fritzie.
Speaker 4: Let's go Stros.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 12: I really appreciated you bring up the topic of Tommy
Speaker 12: John surgeries yesterday. It is a problem. And I grew
Speaker 12: up in a small town in East Texas, you know,
Speaker 12: I mean small enough to where someone making it to
Speaker 12: the pros is a big deal. And currently we have
Speaker 12: a kid from our hometown who's a starting pitcher for
Speaker 12: an SEC team. He's a top I don't know, like
Speaker 12: seventy five pick or prospect in the upcoming MLV draft,
Speaker 12: and he's a pitcher, he's a lessie he and so
Speaker 12: we've kind of followed him and just cheered him on
Speaker 12: as he's grown up. And it's been kind of enlightening
Speaker 12: to see the system that these kids go through. And
Speaker 12: what's sad is there's a level of acceptance of Tommy
Speaker 12: John is a given. It's guaranteed to happen at some
Speaker 12: point in a pitcher's career. The goal all these young
Speaker 12: players have is to simply make it through high school,
Speaker 12: make it through college, or if they go straight into
Speaker 12: the minor leagues out of high school, make it either
Speaker 12: to Triple A or to the big leagues just long
Speaker 12: enough to prove that you have some potential, some long
Speaker 12: term value, and then get your Tommy John Dunn and
Speaker 12: then go back a little bit longer.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we talked about this, Lucas. Yes, I mean
Speaker 2: there's no surprises here. You'll get pitchers who have a
Speaker 2: couple of Tommy John's. But I can't fix it this,
Speaker 2: you know, And if you're the commissioner Major League Baseball,
Speaker 2: this is I don't want to say an epidemic, but
Speaker 2: this a troubling trend that you have in your sport
Speaker 2: that you have players who are getting hurt, you're losing
Speaker 2: star players. I don't know if there's anything you can
Speaker 2: do about it, because baseball has fallen in love with
Speaker 2: how fast you throw, how long can you throw?
Speaker 3: And can you hit a home run?
Speaker 2: Now we're starting to see baseball open up where seeing
Speaker 2: the ability to be a great athlete. You can steal
Speaker 2: bases now putting ball in play, whereas before it felt
Speaker 2: one dimensional, but it was. It's one dimensional with pitching.
Speaker 2: It's not about you got a work course. I mean,
Speaker 2: your work course is a guy who can throw one
Speaker 2: hundred miles an hour for five innings, then that's it.
Speaker 3: The arm is not meant to withstand that. But it's
Speaker 3: just common. Like now, it's not a big deal.
Speaker 2: If you go, oh, Tommy John, all right, I'll see you.
Speaker 2: I mean, the White Sox had six pitchers in the
Speaker 2: span of a month who had to have Tommy John
Speaker 2: surgery this spring.
Speaker 3: That's a problem in the sport. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Do you think it's odd that two of like this
Speaker 6: country's biggest sports are having like an identity crisis in
Speaker 6: that they've become two like maybe one dimensional or two
Speaker 6: dimensional in that Basketball is a dunker.
Speaker 5: Three baseball is strikeout home run.
Speaker 6: It's almost like, is that a flaw built into those
Speaker 6: games or have they just been Have analytics sort of
Speaker 6: perfected the sports too much, where now we understand the
Speaker 6: best way to win games is by these models, and
Speaker 6: that's the only way we're going to do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, analytics changed all of this. There's no you don't
Speaker 2: manage by field anymore. It's by the book. And the
Speaker 2: number of managers who manage to lose a game by
Speaker 2: following the book is Aaron Boone with the Yankees. You know,
Speaker 2: you get so caught up in the analytics. What's right there?
Speaker 2: I got numbers, it's in black and white. There's no
Speaker 2: field of.
Speaker 6: The gamestic Statistically, it's the right thing to do. Yes,
Speaker 6: nine times out of ten this would have worked, but
Speaker 6: this was the tenth time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh well, analytics changed changed everything.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now, all of a sudden, you're like frozen, you know,
Speaker 2: like I don't know what to do. It's right there,
Speaker 2: it tells me when I'm supposed to do. Hey, that
Speaker 2: guy's still throwing pretty well. No, no, he's got fifty
Speaker 2: two pitches. He's coming out.
Speaker 10: Yeah, pulling with analytics click on an NBA shot chart,
Speaker 10: it's threes and then this dead area from twenty feet
Speaker 10: to eight feet and then layups and dunks. It's remember
Speaker 10: Rick Patino was on our show in twenty thirteen. He
Speaker 10: said his assistant coach, who was his analytics guy, said,
Speaker 10: tell your guys not to shoot midrage jumpers anymore.
Speaker 11: Discourage it. And everyone's followed.
Speaker 2: Suit Kevin in Texas and we'll take a break while
Speaker 2: he Zerbiak will join us.
Speaker 3: Coming up, Hey, keV, Hey Dpete.
Speaker 4: Just a couple of things on Lebron and stephen A. Smith.
Speaker 4: You're right, you can't compare eras because I mean, well,
Speaker 4: forty years ago, the guys at halftime are smoking, smoking
Speaker 4: heaters and ripping beers, and you know now they've got
Speaker 4: nutritionists and you know, physical therapy and all this stuff.
Speaker 4: And the other thing is stephen A. Smith saying he
Speaker 4: would swing on Lebron. No, sert, you would not. And
Speaker 4: as they say in the wire, if you come at
Speaker 4: the King, you best not missed.
Speaker 3: It's true. Yeah, I don't. Stephen A does have to.
Speaker 2: Now you're talking about taking a punch, swinging at Lebron James,
Speaker 2: and you know, Lebron's not going to swing at you,
Speaker 2: and this is Hey, I'm in Bristol, tough guy. Hey,
Speaker 2: if he puts his hands on me, like, come on now,
Speaker 2: if they want to do pay per view, like this
Speaker 2: is a paper, I'd have never paid for paid for view.
Speaker 3: I would pay for this.
Speaker 2: It won't last long, but I would watch that pay
Speaker 2: for you know, paid for review.
Speaker 8: Yes, what a start to stephen A's new contract.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was quite a day for Lebron yesterday to
Speaker 2: have his interview, everything he said, and then he has
Speaker 2: the game winning basket last night.
Speaker 3: Yes, Tom, what if it wasn't.
Speaker 13: A punch but Lebron through his Talcolm powder and stephen
Speaker 13: A's face, what do you do?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Look out, Lebron's the lookout, you know. If Mike Tyson
Speaker 2: puts his hand on me, I'm gonna I'm gonna take
Speaker 2: a swing at him, all right.
Speaker 13: But friends like that Lutiny's enemies, right, It's.
Speaker 3: Like it's never going to happen. But you can say it.
Speaker 5: Just for the record, if Lebron put his hands on me,
Speaker 5: I would have swung at him too.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, that's right, all right, What about you Marvin.
Speaker 3: If Lebron puts his hands on you, what are you doing?
Speaker 8: The king versus the Prince, it's going down.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, my money's on the Prince. Prince of darkness. Todd,
Speaker 3: what about you.
Speaker 13: I'm not throwing a punch back.
Speaker 9: I'm just running to my attorney and it's lost it
Speaker 9: for many millions of dollars.
Speaker 2: I'll see you in court. Yeah, on the court, in court.
Speaker 2: All right, take a break. Wally Serbiak will join us.
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Speaker 2: He was the sixth overall pick by the Minnesota Timberwolves
Speaker 2: back in nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 3: He's while he's ERBIAX.
Speaker 2: CBS Sports College Basketball studio analyst also works for the
Speaker 2: New York Knicks. Good to talk to you again, Wally.
Speaker 2: Do you have your Miami of Ohio sweatshirt on? Is
Speaker 2: that okay?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 3: You're repping.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 16: Reppin Ohio. Baby, Do I know you went to Dayton.
Speaker 16: I went to Miami. We were rivals back in the day.
Speaker 16: Dayton's gone a good path. They just missed the tournament
Speaker 16: in Miami, lost by two in their conference championships. So
Speaker 16: Travis Steel's doing a great job. I'm excited about where
Speaker 16: the program is.
Speaker 3: If you didn't go to Miami, where were you going?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 16: I wanted to go to Saint John's, but they didn't
Speaker 16: recruit me. They had Felipe Lopez going there, so they
Speaker 16: didn't really give me an opportunity.
Speaker 7: I was a little to recruit it.
Speaker 16: Other schools I was looking at was Harvard, North Carolina State,
Speaker 16: Iowa Siena.
Speaker 7: That was another one.
Speaker 16: I really wanted to go to Duke, but again didn't
Speaker 16: recruit me. Really wanted to play for Rick Patino, didn't
Speaker 16: recruit me. I really wanted to play in the Big East.
Speaker 16: So I ended up at Miami. Played for great coaches.
Speaker 16: Sean Miller was an assistant, Pad Moda was an assistant.
Speaker 16: Herb Senec who was still coaching at Santa Clara doing.
Speaker 7: A great job. He was the head coach.
Speaker 16: So I went to kind of the cradle of coaches,
Speaker 16: which Miami is known for in football and also in
Speaker 16: college basketball. All those guys are thriving. So I got
Speaker 16: some great coaching for four years.
Speaker 2: But would you have stayed there in the transfer portal,
Speaker 2: nil era, No.
Speaker 16: I just I loved it. It's an amazing school. I
Speaker 16: got my degree, I have great friends. It's just an
Speaker 16: awesome campus, awesome place. But in today's landscape, the way
Speaker 16: pay players from mid majors are getting kind of taken
Speaker 16: away from small teams and going to the big schools.
Speaker 16: You look at a team like Flora, you know, Walter
Speaker 16: Clayton junior from my ownA, Elijah Martin from fau will
Speaker 16: Richard transferred.
Speaker 7: From a mid major.
Speaker 16: A lot of those top tier teams, and we heard
Speaker 16: Bruce Parle even said it. He said he loves to
Speaker 16: get transfers that come from mid majors that haven't had
Speaker 16: the glorious meals, pregame meals, that have been driving the
Speaker 16: games back and forth on buses, which we used to
Speaker 16: do in Miami of Ohio and the Mid American Conference.
Speaker 16: They really appreciate coming to those big schools from mid majors.
Speaker 16: They work hard, they grinders, a lot of the top
Speaker 16: players in this tournament left are transfers from mid major schools.
Speaker 2: John cali Perry said yesterday in Pat McAfee show, at
Speaker 2: least I think it was yesterday, but he was talking
Speaker 2: about how you got to wait for the transfer portal
Speaker 2: before you can get a high school player. But I'm
Speaker 2: guessing these coaches have contact with these high school players
Speaker 2: and you kind of have a sense of who on
Speaker 2: your team is going to be transferring, you're put their
Speaker 2: name in the portal. So is it that big of
Speaker 2: a deal that we have the transferred portal window open
Speaker 2: right now?
Speaker 8: You know?
Speaker 16: I think it could wait a little bit longer. I
Speaker 16: think it puts a lot on coaches that are still
Speaker 16: coaching's plate because they need to focus on trying to
Speaker 16: win a national championship and win games. And you can't
Speaker 16: be recruiting guys watching film on guys in the transfer
Speaker 16: portal on the side, because you don't know whether those
Speaker 16: guys are going to pull the trigger and go to
Speaker 16: school and take a sure thing. As far as the
Speaker 16: scholarship and opportunity in an nil opportunity.
Speaker 7: It's got to be crazy. Listen.
Speaker 16: The coaches have been doing it for years. Like for example,
Speaker 16: Herb Sendek, God bless them. We had a great freshman year.
Speaker 16: He ended up going on to NC State. You know,
Speaker 16: we hired Charlie Goles and my career kind of exploded.
Speaker 16: So it worked out great for me. But coaches leave
Speaker 16: when they have good seasons to take better opportunities. Now
Speaker 16: players have the opportunity to do the exact same thing.
Speaker 16: I think it's better for the game of basketball. I
Speaker 16: think if it's elevated the play of the players and
Speaker 16: of the teams, because iron sharpens iron, and now the
Speaker 16: best players they can go to the teams and play
Speaker 16: for the best coaches. And I think that's why we
Speaker 16: see eight teams left from the SEC and the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 3: Okay, but what kind of tweaks are you going to make?
Speaker 2: If I said, all right, you're going to run college basketball,
Speaker 2: what's the one thing you want to change.
Speaker 16: The one thing is to make sure there's a lot
Speaker 16: of promises out there as far as transfers and nil
Speaker 16: money and stuff like that that don't get delivered.
Speaker 7: If there's any way that it can be a lot more.
Speaker 16: It's kind of a wild wide West, and it's like
Speaker 16: a promise that might never come to fruition. If there
Speaker 16: can be a way to just guarantee stuff and happening,
Speaker 16: you know, maybe a contract something like that, a two
Speaker 16: year deal where coaches know who's going to be playing
Speaker 16: for them for at least two years and not just one,
Speaker 16: and they can just transfer after one.
Speaker 7: Something like that.
Speaker 16: Maybe giving a guy one transfer in their four years
Speaker 16: without sitting out. Then if they want to transfer again,
Speaker 16: they have to sit out a year. Goes back to
Speaker 16: the old rules back when I played, or if you
Speaker 16: transferred you need to just sit out a year and
Speaker 16: pay your dues kind of in order to play for
Speaker 16: a new coach on a new team and a new campus.
Speaker 16: So I think those are a couple ideas that are
Speaker 16: being thrown around, But overall, the quality of the game
Speaker 16: is very good. I love seeing high level basketball and
Speaker 16: I like watching the best basketball players in college in
Speaker 16: the amateur level, and this year we've gotten to that
Speaker 16: point where the best players are playing on the best
Speaker 16: teams for the best coaches.
Speaker 2: Talking to while e ZERBIAKCBS Sports College Basketball Analysts, So
Speaker 2: you faced Michael Jordan at the end of his career
Speaker 2: with the Wizards. You had Lebron early in Lebron's career
Speaker 2: in Kobe kind of middle of his career.
Speaker 16: I had Kobe the whole entire time picking my butt
Speaker 16: out of the They're not just out of the playoffs.
Speaker 7: It felt like every year with Kobe and Shack.
Speaker 16: When I was with the Minnesota Timberwolves and Kevin Garnett's
Speaker 16: free Well and Cassel, that team was just dominant.
Speaker 7: So Kobe was outstanding.
Speaker 3: Okay, most frustrating out of that three to cover a.
Speaker 16: Well, I didn't play against Jordan in his prime. The
Speaker 16: hardest guy for me to cover, I've always said this
Speaker 16: was Paul Pierce. I played against him for years. He
Speaker 16: was such a smart basketball player.
Speaker 7: For me. Being six seven sixty eight.
Speaker 16: Paul Pierce had had had the height that could match
Speaker 16: up with me, and I just had a lot of
Speaker 16: problems with guarding him. You know, he changed speeds, He's
Speaker 16: so smart. He was one of the most underrated superstars
Speaker 16: I think in my generation. The opportunity to play with
Speaker 16: him in Boston also for a year and a half,
Speaker 16: got to know him as a guy.
Speaker 7: But he was an handful for me.
Speaker 16: Obviously Kobe was because he was so quick, so fast,
Speaker 16: But the thing I could kind of I could. I
Speaker 16: could post up Kobe a little bit, and you know,
Speaker 16: because I had a little bit of a size and
Speaker 16: strength advantage, so I could get some buckets on him.
Speaker 7: I couldn't stop him, though, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: On the other end, was Jordan still talking trash back
Speaker 2: then at the end of his career.
Speaker 7: Jordan talked the most trash to me on the golf course.
Speaker 16: I've played with golf with Michael a couple of times,
Speaker 16: and he's a whole lot of fun to play golf with.
Speaker 16: He's a lot of fun to play against in basketball too,
Speaker 16: But he talks a lot.
Speaker 7: Of trash on the golf course.
Speaker 16: He's a big time competitor, and he talked a little
Speaker 16: bit of trash. But when he was with the Wizards
Speaker 16: and I was with the Timberwolves. In the three years
Speaker 16: that I played against him, we won. We were six
Speaker 16: and zero against the Wizards, back and forth, home and away.
Speaker 16: We beat him every single time. So I caught him
Speaker 16: at the end of his career. But nothing but respect
Speaker 16: for him. He's my goat. With all due respect to Lebron,
Speaker 16: my teammate. I got Lebron number two on the Greatest
Speaker 16: of All Time lists. Michael Jordan, what he accomplished when
Speaker 16: he needed to win a game.
Speaker 7: He won it. When he needed to make the big shot,
Speaker 7: he made it.
Speaker 16: And the way he dominated basketball on both ends of
Speaker 16: the floor for his career.
Speaker 7: He's my greatest of all time.
Speaker 2: Okay, but is there something Lebron could accomplish that would
Speaker 2: change that list?
Speaker 16: You know what he's doing with the longevity, It's incredible,
Speaker 16: it really is. It's just the tightness of Jordan's career
Speaker 16: making it to six five I was in winning all
Speaker 16: six Obviously, had great teammates and a great coach, but
Speaker 16: he dominated his era of basketball like nobody else. Did
Speaker 16: you know the longevity of Lebron If you want to
Speaker 16: enter a different argument, the fact that he's still doing
Speaker 16: it at forty years old is absolutely incredible. I think
Speaker 16: they're legitimate title contender this year, so it's amazing. But
Speaker 16: the fact that Michael Jordan did it in a small
Speaker 16: span of time and just dominated every finals, I just
Speaker 16: don't think there's anything Lebron can do to surpass that.
Speaker 16: Fifty thousand points plus amazing accomplishment. And I got him
Speaker 16: number two, right behind Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2: Looking at the games tonight BYU Alabama, Maryland, Florida, Arizona, Duke, Arkansas,
Speaker 2: Texas Tech. Where's the surprise slash? Upset in that group.
Speaker 16: BYU Alabama is must be TV. That's the game to watch.
Speaker 16: This BYU team coached under Kevin Young, an NBA mind
Speaker 16: that came from the Phoenix Suns. Spreads the floor, out
Speaker 16: shoots a lot of three. They get up and down
Speaker 16: the floor. They have outstanding big rebounders down low. So
Speaker 16: Alabama's going to have to bring their hard hat and
Speaker 16: they're gonna have to rebound. This game is going to
Speaker 16: be first one to one hundred. I'm really excited for
Speaker 16: this game. I think it's being played in Newark out
Speaker 16: there in New Jersey. This is going to be a
Speaker 16: great one. As far as upsets, I think Maryland might
Speaker 16: be able to pull an upset. I mean Maryland, they
Speaker 16: have a great crab five. They announced standing save an
Speaker 16: outstanding starting five. They're rested after the first weekend. Florida
Speaker 16: looked a little bit vulnerable against Yukon. I love Walter
Speaker 16: Clayton Jr. He shot him out of that game making
Speaker 16: some big shots and if Yukon could have hit some
Speaker 16: open threes, which Danny Hurley drummed up for his guys.
Speaker 16: They could have won that game. They just missed too
Speaker 16: many open shots Caravan and McNeely. I think that could
Speaker 16: be an upset. Special look out for the Maryland terms.
Speaker 2: If you were Cooper Flag, give me a reason why
Speaker 2: you would go back to Duke, because.
Speaker 16: It's a lot of fun to play in college basketball campus.
Speaker 7: There's nothing like it.
Speaker 16: If the thing is there's a lot of risk if
Speaker 16: he does go back, you know he's the surefire number one.
Speaker 7: He's ready for the NBA. What you get when you
Speaker 7: go to the NBA the.
Speaker 16: Coaching, the professionalism off the court, the physical therapists, the trainers,
Speaker 16: the strength coaches. It is an all inclusive program to
Speaker 16: maximize your basketball abilities. Not saying that Duke is not
Speaker 16: the same because Duke is at one of the highest
Speaker 16: levels in college. BYU is doing the same thing with
Speaker 16: Kevin Young coaching. They're trying to become basically a G
Speaker 16: League team, an NBA development team in college to get
Speaker 16: guys ready to play at the next level.
Speaker 7: But Cooper Flagg just has so much to risk.
Speaker 16: If he doesn't come out, he's going to be the
Speaker 16: number one picking the draft, the number one picking the
Speaker 16: draft makes a lot of money guaranteed, so we'll see.
Speaker 16: I know he's thrown out the idea. I think it
Speaker 16: would be great for college if he came back. I
Speaker 16: would love it because I love watching him in a
Speaker 16: Duke uniform. But at the same time, it's a very
Speaker 16: risky move if he does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the Wizards could be there.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's hard to say, Hey, you know,
Speaker 2: they won the lottery and I'm the prize I get
Speaker 2: to go to Washington. If you were going to go
Speaker 2: to Washington right now, or you had a chance to
Speaker 2: stay at Duke for one more year, what would you do.
Speaker 16: I'll tell you that's a great point, you know, but
Speaker 16: there but what if the flip side is what if
Speaker 16: something happens it is, you know, at Duke and he
Speaker 16: hurts himself, you know, just something funky happens. That's a
Speaker 16: huge risk to take, you know, and you never know
Speaker 16: with how the draft is going to pan out. You know,
Speaker 16: we've seen teams jump up in the draft and you
Speaker 16: have to trust that. You know, most organizations in the NBA,
Speaker 16: they're figuring out once they get talent, they're figuring out
Speaker 16: how to maximize that talent and how to be pretty relevant.
Speaker 16: Washington's has been pretty irrelevant for a pretty long time,
Speaker 16: and I understand where you're coming from, but it's just
Speaker 16: that too big a risk for a guy like Hooper
Speaker 16: to take.
Speaker 3: Good to catch up with you again, Wally, thanks for
Speaker 3: joining us.
Speaker 16: Always fun. Enjoyed the Sweet sixteen. It's going to be
Speaker 16: a lot of fun the rest of the way, all
Speaker 16: the way to San Antonio.
Speaker 7: Crinic a champ.
Speaker 2: That's Wally zurbiank CBS sports college basketball analyst ormerstar at
Speaker 2: Miami of Ohio. You know, speaking of Lebron, he on
Speaker 2: the interview with Pat McAfee talked about that maybe the
Speaker 2: lottery was rigged when he was going to go to Cleveland,
Speaker 2: that they may have rigged it. I don't know if
Speaker 2: he was serious, and I never can tell. It always
Speaker 2: feels like there's a passive aggressive feel to some of
Speaker 2: his answers. Does he really think that Cleveland tanked? They
Speaker 2: clearly tanked, but I'd like to know how the commissioner
Speaker 2: fixed it. Now we've heard about Patrick Ewing, and I'm
Speaker 2: going to apologize to David Stern, who's no longer with us. David,
Speaker 2: I apologize I promised I would never bring this up.
Speaker 2: Ever again. I didn't bring it up. Lebron brought it up. Okay,
Speaker 2: you want to be mad at somebody, Be mad at Lebron,
Speaker 2: not me that the envelope ad was colder than the Oh,
Speaker 2: here's the commissioner. The envelope was colder than the other envelopes.
Speaker 2: Now it's a great idea, it is. But I I think,
Speaker 2: I mean, just imagine. God, I apologize, commissioner. Yes, I
Speaker 2: know I should never bring I know, I know, I
Speaker 2: know you can be mad at me.
Speaker 6: Oh I see, let me write that down.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, So one envelope.
Speaker 13: Was colder than all the other no one else noticed.
Speaker 3: Oh that's good.
Speaker 5: Let me let me remember that one day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh god, yes, Paul.
Speaker 8: Total hypothetical.
Speaker 10: If you're going to fix a sport for Lebron James
Speaker 10: to enter it, would you have picked Cleveland or another team.
Speaker 2: I would have picked La New York, not Cleveland. Like
Speaker 2: it's nice that he's from there.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: If I want he's going to be the face of
Speaker 2: the league. I want him in big markets all the time. Yes, Marvin,
Speaker 2: but he was the biggest star in the sport in Cleveland. Yes,
Speaker 2: so it aagine what it so it didn't matter where
Speaker 2: he went. Yeah, but you still didn't have a good team.
Speaker 2: I mean, he dragged them to the finals, granted, but
Speaker 2: if he's playing in a bigger market, maybe on a
Speaker 2: better team, they're going to be on national TV all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 17: But doesn't it help the NBA if there's if there's
Speaker 17: more marquee teams instead of just New York in LA,
Speaker 17: doesn't it help the NBA that your biggest star is
Speaker 17: in Cleveland and he's from Akron. So it all kind
Speaker 17: of worked out the way.
Speaker 3: I don't know if.
Speaker 2: The commissioner in a private moment would say, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm glad that the m v P plays in Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2: Just don't think that that would you know?
Speaker 8: Is that not good for the league?
Speaker 12: Though?
Speaker 3: I think they care the big markets, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think they're concerned about Memphis unless Memphis goes
Speaker 2: you know what, we were not getting attendance.
Speaker 3: Now we have to move.
Speaker 2: But for the most part, it feels like, you know,
Speaker 2: they well, I would think a bigger market for Lebron
Speaker 2: Victor wen Benyama went to San Antonio, So you want
Speaker 2: to fix it?
Speaker 3: Are you going to fix it by sending him to
Speaker 3: San Antonio?
Speaker 17: Yes, Mark, Yeah, it's definitely not fixed because Boston had
Speaker 17: the best odds to get Tim Dunkey.
Speaker 8: Yes, would.
Speaker 2: I just you know, but Lebron, you can't be flippant
Speaker 2: when you put that out there. There's already enough conspiracy theorists.
Speaker 2: There's also you know, referees and fixing games, and you know,
Speaker 2: you just can't go down that road. You're the face
Speaker 2: of the league. You're going to be a future owner
Speaker 2: of an NBA franchise, Yes, Mark.
Speaker 17: And also with Derek Rose, the Bulls had like a
Speaker 17: one point seven chance to get the number one pick
Speaker 17: that year. And on top of that, it wasn't a
Speaker 17: foregone conclusion that Derek Rose was going to be the
Speaker 17: number one pick, because Michael Beasley had one of the
Speaker 17: best seasons ever and he was pick number two. So
Speaker 17: it was like a foregone conclusion that Derek Rose was
Speaker 17: going home.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Marvin, I'm here, come on, I know, conversation.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, take a break, more phone calls coming up.
Speaker 2: Got a busy final hour of the program. Tim Kirkchin,
Speaker 2: he'll join us. It's a reopening day and the Commissioner
Speaker 2: of the SEC, Greg Sanky back After.
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Speaker 2: Jim in Ohio, Hi Jim, thanks for holding What's on
Speaker 2: your mind?
Speaker 18: And good morning every mindy. I think that the Dodgers
Speaker 18: are extremely bad for baseball. I don't really blame the
Speaker 18: players like you said, but I really blamed ownership and
Speaker 18: with some degree, Major League Baseball for letting the salary
Speaker 18: to the place that they are right now. I attend
Speaker 18: about three to six red games the season, and I'm
Speaker 18: a realist. I'm pretty sure that La Da la Cruz
Speaker 18: when his contracts up. I think when he's twenty seven,
Speaker 18: he will not be a Cincinnati Red even if the
Speaker 18: Capsillenis could afford it, I would not be in favor
Speaker 18: of them dropping a huge salary on one player. So
Speaker 18: it's MLB has been going in the wrong direction for
Speaker 18: quite a while. I've been a baseball fan for about
Speaker 18: fifty five years, and I never thought it would get
Speaker 18: to the point that it has.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tricky because the Dodgers, I think out smart
Speaker 2: people getting Otani to defer most of that contract.
Speaker 3: You know, other teams aren't doing that. I don't know
Speaker 3: if they will.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going to happen in fifteen years
Speaker 2: from now when some of these contracts come do, what
Speaker 2: the salary caps go, what baseball is going to look like?
Speaker 3: Baseball is a regional sport. But they've done.
Speaker 2: I think baseball had a great year last year, and
Speaker 2: I would expect them to build on that this year.
Speaker 2: Game got a little quicker, got a little more interesting,
Speaker 2: a little bit more movement. I mean, these are all
Speaker 2: things that I've brought up over the years that you know,
Speaker 2: just tweaks with it. You're not doing anything crazy, just tweaks.
Speaker 2: And I think you have to get past the hey,
Speaker 2: we're America's pastime. No you're not not anymore. But that
Speaker 2: doesn't mean you still can't be second on that list.
Speaker 2: But I think there was this, Hey, you know what's
Speaker 2: happened to our sport? It just got more regional. It's
Speaker 2: not a national pastime anymore. Yes, Boem, I think you're right.
Speaker 2: It's a regional sport for about ninety percent of the teams.
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers have become a worldwide international team. In
Speaker 2: the past five years, they're becoming a pipeline for the
Speaker 2: top Japanese talent. It almost reminds me and see what
Speaker 2: you could back me up, the Premier League was soccer.
Speaker 2: There's a bunch of local teams like Newcastle and you
Speaker 2: know back in the day they were smaller before they
Speaker 2: are bought by overseas. But then there's Manchester United that
Speaker 2: were worldwide teams. And that's what the Dodgers feel like now,
Speaker 2: a worldwide franchise. By the way, speaking of opening Day,
Speaker 2: this team has the best opening day record among active franchises.
Speaker 2: Best opening day record. This team has won sixty five
Speaker 2: percent of its opening days. Todd, I'm going to start
Speaker 2: with you the Atlanta Bread Marvin.
Speaker 11: The Colorado Rockies, Paul your Cincinnati Reds.
Speaker 3: Seaton, Well that was my guess.
Speaker 5: I'll say Paul's Chicago.
Speaker 3: Cubs, the Mets.
Speaker 2: The Mets own the best opening day record among active franchises.
Speaker 2: They are forty one and twenty two stat of the.
Speaker 3: Day stat of the day. But stead of the day
Speaker 3: stat of the.
Speaker 8: Day, here comes that what stat of the day?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Great, Hey, we're really good. In the month of April, Hey,
Speaker 2: we're good one day.
Speaker 3: The most Mets thing of all times.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and we're not even in April.
Speaker 11: Okay, we're seven and one. We're really good.
Speaker 3: In March. One day, Meet the Mets, Meet the Mens.
Speaker 3: Not a Yankee city anymore.
Speaker 2: We were looking at some of the ballpark food and
Speaker 2: it really feels like you could throw whatever you wanted
Speaker 2: on a bun or in a in a helmet a
Speaker 2: container and just say, here you go, hey, look at
Speaker 2: what we have. Here's Teremy Sue in a Yankee helmet.
Speaker 2: Like what, yes, Marvin.
Speaker 8: Some of that food you got to eat at home?
Speaker 3: You can't be on a date and have I.
Speaker 17: Get a pulled pork with extra onions. You'd be making
Speaker 17: a game Chappelle noise.
Speaker 6: Yes, I would gladly trade, you know, the chicken sandwich
Speaker 6: with the slices of pizza and onion rings on it.
Speaker 6: And you know how you cobble all this crap on
Speaker 6: for just like a quality cheeseburger. I'm okay, do you
Speaker 6: we just have a quality cheeseburg. Why does the cheeseburger
Speaker 6: have to have a chicken parm on top of it too?
Speaker 8: In order for us to.
Speaker 1: Be like, yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay again, I just have a good cheeseburger. But we
Speaker 2: knew this with a bloody Mary.
Speaker 3: We need you gotta have an oyster, and yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't have to.
Speaker 6: It's got this spear sticking out of it with a
Speaker 6: grilled cheese stuck on top of it.
Speaker 5: Why why can't I just drink a bloody Mary?
Speaker 3: Yes, Todd, do they have cheeseburgers with a chicken parm
Speaker 3: on it?
Speaker 13: Because that just peaked my interest?
Speaker 3: I know it's really okay.
Speaker 2: Discuss Todd came up with some fictitious ballpark snacks meals.
Speaker 13: Okay, I've got here based on mult balls, a box
Speaker 13: shaped like a bass filled with whoppers or those chocolate
Speaker 13: mumballs based on multballs for a nice little.
Speaker 9: Snack, forty club forty ounces of turkey or forty ounce
Speaker 9: of fries at a forty ounce soft drink, the metal
Speaker 9: pork because of my rhyming skins, walk intental pork, a
Speaker 9: generous ball of slice barbecue pork with your choice of
Speaker 9: four sides, because four balls equals a walk.
Speaker 3: How about that?
Speaker 11: Thanks for clearing.
Speaker 2: That familiar, Todd, said, Tater brots. How about a brought
Speaker 2: worse stuff with Tater tots triple play, a hot dog,
Speaker 2: hamburger and chicken sandwich. O, you don't.
Speaker 3: HiT's?
Speaker 2: I mean, I have to give credit to those who
Speaker 2: are creating these dishes like split fingers, chicken fingers filled
Speaker 2: with habapanos, guacamole, and melton cheese.
Speaker 3: Split fingers. That actually sounds okay.
Speaker 8: What about a bean ball?
Speaker 9: Fired ball dough means if a player gets hit by
Speaker 9: a pitch, show your receipt, you get your money back
Speaker 9: for the beanball.
Speaker 3: How about the hot corner.
Speaker 13: A spicy noodle dish that can only be purchased. I
Speaker 13: think second stiff located down the third base line.
Speaker 3: Uh Todd came up with earned, but I don't know
Speaker 3: what that means.
Speaker 13: So you know what that means.
Speaker 8: That's at Crappensburg State games. Let's play too, It's.
Speaker 13: Your combo platter, very greasy food.
Speaker 6: I used to go to Cape League baseball games all
Speaker 6: the time, and one of them had this thing called
Speaker 6: a slammer and it was a cheeseburger, but the bun
Speaker 6: was two Boston cream donuts.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no repulsive, no, no final hour on the way,
Speaker 2: We'll talk to the SEC Commissioner, Greg Sankey and Tim
Speaker 2: Kirchhin from the mother ship. Happy reopening day in Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball.