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Speaker 2: How's your brackets? Mine? Terrible. The Celebrity Bracket Challenge leader board,
Speaker 2: Mark Sanchez is leading, followed by Brady Quinn, Jamal Crawford,
Speaker 2: Johnny Bench. Alex Ovechkin knows more college basketball than I do.
Speaker 2: He is in fourth place, tied with Pauli on the
Speaker 2: Celebrity Bracket Challenge. Todd Fritz, see, this is where I
Speaker 2: know too much college basketball. That's probably what hurt me here.
Speaker 2: I outsmarted myself absolutely. Fritzi's in fifth place, Alex Ovetkin
Speaker 2: in fourth. That's alex Ovechkin in fourth, Jim Parsons, Josh Dumel,
Speaker 2: Peter Schrager, NFL Network, They're in sixth place. And then
Speaker 2: you head down to the bottom of the list, you'll
Speaker 2: find Rebecca Lowe, who covers the Premier League, knows more
Speaker 2: college basketball than I do. Then I'm fifteenth, Marvin sixteenth,
Speaker 2: tied with the NFL insider Diana Rossini. Congratulations, congratulations Marvin.
Speaker 3: Thanks Saint Johnson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got burned by Saint John's as well. All right,
Speaker 2: Final hour. Charles Barkley will stop by his Auburn Tigers
Speaker 2: be an Action coming up tonight, we spend some time
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Speaker 2: miss Michigan State, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, Auburn, Purdue, and Houston
Speaker 2: baseball Opening Day. It was just fun. It's fun to
Speaker 2: watch because you do have a little hope. Even a
Speaker 2: White Sox fan had hope. Yesterday. You're one to zero.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think the last time they were above
Speaker 2: five hundred, The last time the White Sox so they
Speaker 2: beat the Angels eight to one. The White Sox are
Speaker 2: one game over five hundred for the first time since
Speaker 2: March thirtieth of twenty twenty three. Stat of the Day
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Speaker 2: for the Dan Patrick Show the White Sox. I think
Speaker 2: they're over under his fifty four and a half wins
Speaker 2: this year. The Angels lost again on opening Day. That's
Speaker 2: the eleventh time in the last twelve years, including the
Speaker 2: last four. But Mike Troup's first at bat didn't he
Speaker 2: get hit by pitch. It's gonna be a long year
Speaker 2: for Mike. By the way, I brought up the Orioles
Speaker 2: yesterday because Tyler O'Neill had hit a home run on
Speaker 2: five consecutive opening days. What are the odds that he
Speaker 2: would hit a home run on his sixth consecutive opening
Speaker 2: day and he did it. He has a total of
Speaker 2: six opening day home runs. Only six players in the
Speaker 2: history of baseball have more. Ken Griffy Junior, Frank Robinson,
Speaker 2: and Adam Dunn eight opening days home runs, Willie May's,
Speaker 2: Eddie Matthews Babe Ruth each seven. And then there's Tyler
Speaker 2: O'Neill of the Orioles. Never been an All Star, but
Speaker 2: he's hit over thirty home runs a couple of times.
Speaker 2: I believe all right. Last night, in no particular order,
Speaker 2: Alabama twenty five three pointers made against BYU Arkansas sixteen
Speaker 2: point lead, losing overtime. Duke was who we thought they were.
Speaker 2: They looked very impressive last night, and Florida handled Maryland.
Speaker 2: Florida's bench handled Maryland. That was the key. Maryland had
Speaker 2: no depth. Their bench I think provided three points. Well,
Speaker 2: Florida's bench had twenty nine points. Got the games coming
Speaker 2: up tonight. More phone calls eight seven to seven three
Speaker 2: DP show Dion Sanders was on the Skip Bayless podcast
Speaker 2: and he was talking about where Shador Sanders is going
Speaker 2: to end up in the draft.
Speaker 4: Told me he talked to me intently about all the
Speaker 4: business he's had with all the teams, So I know
Speaker 4: where his heart is.
Speaker 5: I know where he wants to go. If it's New York,
Speaker 5: is New York, if.
Speaker 4: It's Tennessee, if it's Cleveland, if it's still the Raiders,
Speaker 4: if it's New Orders, if it's any of those teams
Speaker 4: that are seeking a quarterback. I'm happy with it, man,
Speaker 4: because I know what he's going to do to the organization.
Speaker 5: I know what he's going to do.
Speaker 2: Okay, he said, if it's still the Raiders, that one
Speaker 2: stood out still the Raiders. When did it become the Raiders?
Speaker 2: That it now it's still the Raiders, And I thought,
Speaker 2: I think from the outset that's where he was going
Speaker 2: to end up. And then he started to move up
Speaker 2: a little bit and then we're thinking maybe he's going
Speaker 2: to go Cleveland, the Giants, maybe the Saints.
Speaker 5: But you know.
Speaker 2: Where you want to go or where you're going to go.
Speaker 2: It can be two different things. Because he may want
Speaker 2: to go to the Giants, or may want to go
Speaker 2: to the Raiders. He could end up with the Saints,
Speaker 2: or he can end up in Cleveland. Abdul Carter is
Speaker 2: not having a pro day. Penn State's having a pro day.
Speaker 2: Abdul Carter, who is probably going to be the second
Speaker 2: player off the board with the Cleveland Browns, he won't
Speaker 2: be working out. He's still battling an injury there. That
Speaker 2: would be my big concern with him. But when I
Speaker 2: saw him play against usc like you see certain guys
Speaker 2: and you go, he is just faster than everybody else.
Speaker 2: It was like, you know, he's coming out of the
Speaker 2: starter's block as if he was a sprinter. And if
Speaker 2: you have him with Miles Garrett, now Cleveland at least
Speaker 2: has an identity, like they have something there that they
Speaker 2: could have those two going after the quarterback. They just
Speaker 2: need to get their own quarterback as well. Eight seven
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Speaker 2: day and as a result, Meet Friday, Terry yak, beef skewers, barbecue, chicken, kebombs,
Speaker 2: and corn dogs. Who has it better.
Speaker 5: Than we do?
Speaker 3: Nobody?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm out there inspecting the tragger grills. Those corn
Speaker 2: dogs look good, man. I probably won't have one for
Speaker 2: another year, but when they're available, a little bit of mustard,
Speaker 2: I'm good to go. All right, Good morning. If you're
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Speaker 2: when we get to Lambeau. Are they going to be
Speaker 2: able to come out and watch the show. We are
Speaker 2: planning on doing three shows in Green Bay, right in
Speaker 2: the shadows of Lambeau. We'll let you know all the
Speaker 2: details once we firm everything up. Then we're going to
Speaker 2: have a studio audience who can join us. We'll probably
Speaker 2: do a meet and greet on Wednesday night. We'll give
Speaker 2: you that location and myself and the dan Nets will
Speaker 2: be there and be able to spend a couple hours
Speaker 2: with you. So studio audience, we're probably going to do
Speaker 2: a meet and greet. We're finalizing the dates of when
Speaker 2: we go to Iowa. We'll let you know where we
Speaker 2: will be in Iowa. We're going to go out for
Speaker 2: at least three shows. I did reach out to Will
Speaker 2: Ferrell after Will Ferrell reached out to me when he
Speaker 2: heard we were going to Iowa. He is shooting a
Speaker 2: movie with Zach Efron, but he said that he would
Speaker 2: try to maybe come out for a day, and I said,
Speaker 2: bring zac Efron. You know that'd be fine. So we're
Speaker 2: going to do that. Got some other trips. We'll let
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Speaker 2: is going to be on the road a little bit
Speaker 2: more this year, not just the Super Bowl. All right.
Speaker 2: See whole question for the final hour of the program.
Speaker 6: We put up there just recently, should basketball games be
Speaker 6: played in football stadiums?
Speaker 2: Heck no?
Speaker 3: Or sure?
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 6: Or now eighty percent of the audience say heck no.
Speaker 6: I've just grown accustomed to it. I remember seeing a
Speaker 6: game in the Superdome and it just was like it
Speaker 6: was just antiseptic. Yeah, because basketball, you know, you like
Speaker 6: it in you know, a quaint gym.
Speaker 2: You grow up with that that feeling. And then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden we get to why are we playing
Speaker 2: in a fifteen thousand seed arena when we can play
Speaker 2: in front of seventy two thousand changing Yeah.
Speaker 6: See, we also put up there, would you rather play
Speaker 6: for the Steelers or retire and meditate? Right now, fifty
Speaker 6: three percent of the audience would rather retire and meditate
Speaker 6: than play for the Steelers.
Speaker 2: If I had Aaron Rodgers' money, I think I would
Speaker 2: probably just chill, like, why put your body through it again?
Speaker 2: And all you can I guess you can add to
Speaker 2: your resume. Feels like you could be in the I'm
Speaker 2: going to be subtracting from my resume what happened with
Speaker 2: the Jets now the Steelers. Although you're on a better
Speaker 2: team and a great organization, but you're still forty one
Speaker 2: years of age.
Speaker 7: Yes, hun, it's not like you're going to win the
Speaker 7: super Bowl next year, you know, but you want to
Speaker 7: end on somewhat of a positive note.
Speaker 3: I mean, they did have.
Speaker 2: Ten wins, so you got to be fair that even
Speaker 2: with above average quarterback play, they should be able to
Speaker 2: get to ten wins, maybe eleven wins and maybe you
Speaker 2: win a first round playoff game. I don't know, but
Speaker 2: I guess retirements on the board. But I had thought
Speaker 2: that all along. Yeah, it should be at that age. Yes,
Speaker 2: didn't the Jets just think that was gonna happen?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: They did, Yeah, but they no, they were the They're
Speaker 2: the Jets.
Speaker 6: I'm almost positive they had similar expectations. Oh, yes, they
Speaker 6: had Super Bowl expectations. David in Ohio, Hi David, what's
Speaker 6: on your mind today?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Dan, I got a happy meet Friday. By the way, no, buddy,
Speaker 9: I got a for the room also, you might be
Speaker 9: interested in it as well. My wife was really happy.
Speaker 9: And they got Terry Francona for the Cincinnati Reds as
Speaker 9: their manager. And I am a Guardians fan. I was hoped.
Speaker 9: I was wondering at the room or you, Dan would take?
Speaker 9: Oh the on Drantkings, it's over under seventy eight and
Speaker 9: a half wins. Didn't know someone that wanted to take
Speaker 9: the overt because I would like to take the under.
Speaker 2: You're taking the under on the Reds or the Guardians.
Speaker 9: The Cincinnati Reds under seventy eight and a half wins?
Speaker 5: No raft?
Speaker 2: Okay, does anybody want a piece of David in Ohio?
Speaker 2: The under with the Cincinnati Reds. They're already zero and one,
Speaker 2: so so advantage David, No, you got no takers here.
Speaker 2: We don't want to bet against Terry Francona. We love him.
Speaker 2: Thank you, David, Thank you. David san Antonio, Hi Dave,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?
Speaker 10: Hey, Fritzy, suck it, Mark, You're cool. I just wanted
Speaker 10: to talk a little bit about the Lakers last night,
Speaker 10: sitting there watching the game with my poor boys. And
Speaker 10: as we're watching the game, the ups and downs, the
Speaker 10: flows of the game, we get to the last the
Speaker 10: inbound right where the Chicago shoots the half court shot,
Speaker 10: and I'm like, dang, the Lakers lose. That game almost
Speaker 10: had me feeling like like I was eating a corn dog.
Speaker 5: Not go good.
Speaker 2: Thank you, David Man.
Speaker 1: It's kind of nowhere on a Friday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, forty minutes left in the show, Like, what did
Speaker 2: you do to him?
Speaker 3: Don't you have to cite examples?
Speaker 7: If you're just going to say stuck it on National.
Speaker 2: Radio TV, do you want him to cite curious as
Speaker 2: to why, I you know what, just because he did
Speaker 2: that to you, I'm going to do this to him.
Speaker 2: I want you to do your Sports Center tees? Yes, okay,
Speaker 2: do we have the music there for Todd's Sports Center tees?
Speaker 5: Coming up on Sports Center?
Speaker 3: They were all giddy in the Windy City.
Speaker 7: How the bulls told Lebron to go jump in a
Speaker 7: Laker Cougar's of the Week.
Speaker 3: Why b why you had no answer for Bama's bomb
Speaker 3: from behind the arc.
Speaker 7: Jokis weren't shy or about taking it to the Wildcats Arizona.
Speaker 5: Where's the white flag?
Speaker 7: They didn't fear the turtle, the gator's chump on some
Speaker 7: college park crab.
Speaker 3: They led by sixteen with ten left.
Speaker 5: So how did coach cal at the Red Raiders come
Speaker 5: all the way? Razorback?
Speaker 7: Let's talk about six Meet the oriole who went Camden
Speaker 7: Yard again on opening day in Toronto, and.
Speaker 3: We'll see who else parties that. There's sweet sixteen. We
Speaker 3: may not be elite, but we'll dance through the highlights.
Speaker 5: Sports Center is next?
Speaker 2: All right, all right?
Speaker 1: Nice?
Speaker 2: Does Sports Center still do teases where they open up
Speaker 2: the show with that? I used to do they. I
Speaker 2: don't know if I've watched the beginning of a Sports Center.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I have. Well, if I have,
Speaker 2: I don't remember. There was a Sports Center too, coming
Speaker 2: up on Sports Center. I used to hate writing those
Speaker 2: every night, So you would it's either you or who
Speaker 2: you were working with. I'd be like, all right, you
Speaker 2: got the teas, because then the other person would have
Speaker 2: the first story. So you do the tees come out
Speaker 2: and welcome Sports Center alongside Keith Overman, I'm Dan Patrick
Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, and then Keith
Speaker 2: would take over. But riding the Sports Center tease, it
Speaker 2: was just what shots do you have? It just took
Speaker 2: you know, twenty minutes to do it, and you know
Speaker 2: you wanted to turn your attention to other things other
Speaker 2: than the Sports Center tease. I needed somebody like Fritzy
Speaker 2: to do it for me.
Speaker 3: I would have loved that.
Speaker 2: Then I could have voiced it.
Speaker 8: Yes, Paul Fritzy just crushed the post on that one.
Speaker 8: He had a nice line, so he got Barkley next.
Speaker 8: Should he shut it down?
Speaker 2: Uh, he's never taken my advice in over twenty years.
Speaker 7: And mean on a stick is coming. Yes, Although David
Speaker 7: san Antonio trying to ruin my door, Yeah he did,
Speaker 7: and he knows I'm sensitive.
Speaker 2: Is Is that going to bother you the next forty
Speaker 2: five minutes?
Speaker 11: I don't.
Speaker 3: Once I get a.
Speaker 7: Bite out of that teriyaki on his stick, I'll be fine.
Speaker 7: But for the next few minutes it's I'm like, it's
Speaker 7: troubling me a little bit. Why he thinks I should
Speaker 7: suck it? That was the first thing he said right
Speaker 7: out of the box.
Speaker 2: But you you nailed the t's and you got Charles work. Well,
Speaker 2: we hope you have, Charles Barkley.
Speaker 7: Charles already sent me a note saying he's ready, he remembered,
Speaker 7: but seem not an interesting question about that whole day.
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 6: Yes, Would you rather be told to suck it? Or
Speaker 6: not even register at all in the conversation? Completely invisible
Speaker 6: like PAULI and I were so, Marvin was awesome, Fritzy
Speaker 6: could suck it. The two of us just don't even exist.
Speaker 6: Some might say that's even worse.
Speaker 2: Would you rather be told to suck it? Seaton or
Speaker 2: not mentioned?
Speaker 6: Sometimes it's nice to be told to suck it. I mean,
Speaker 6: at least you're getting an emotional reaction out of someone
Speaker 6: and they're like, oh, noh, yeah, you're good, don't worry
Speaker 6: about it.
Speaker 2: Paul, what about you?
Speaker 8: I'd prefer to bother you or maybe be liked by
Speaker 8: you in that order.
Speaker 2: Okay, Marvin, how about you?
Speaker 3: Now you don't have to even acknowledge me.
Speaker 2: Oh you're okay, just kind of blending in. Oh yeah, okay, Todd,
Speaker 2: But how about Astro's jersey?
Speaker 5: Suck it or Broncos fan.
Speaker 7: Suck it or you think you're funny, suck you can't sing?
Speaker 2: Okay, give me a little Okay. I knew this was
Speaker 2: gonna happen. I knew it was gonna happen. I didn't
Speaker 2: know I didn't know he was going to say that,
Speaker 2: but I knew what your reaction was going to be.
Speaker 2: So now I'm gonna go to commercial, and then I'm
Speaker 2: gonna walk over, and then you're gonna pull me to
Speaker 2: the side, and you're gonna go why what do you
Speaker 2: mean by things?
Speaker 5: Why would he say something?
Speaker 2: You're gonna take a break. Charles Barkley's gonna join us
Speaker 2: coming up next.
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Speaker 2: Oh Miss Michigan State tonight Kentucky, Tennessee Michigan, Auburn and
Speaker 2: Purdue against Houston. I have the early lines according to
Speaker 2: DraftKings the Elite eight Texas Tech getting six and a
Speaker 2: half versus Florida, and Duke is favored by six and
Speaker 2: a half against Alabama. He's one of the faces of
Speaker 2: CBS's March to Madness San Antonio The Road to San
Speaker 2: Antonio Hall of Famer Charles Barkley back on the show,
Speaker 2: what do you See? Who do you see? When you
Speaker 2: look at Cooper Flag?
Speaker 5: I see Cooper Flag. I see he's a terrific young player.
Speaker 5: He looks amazing on television. Can't wait to see him
Speaker 5: in the NBA. I hate doing that. I hate when
Speaker 5: guys on television try to compare him. First of all,
Speaker 5: to say he's already somebody in the NBA is being
Speaker 5: unfair of that person in the NBA. What's scary Dan?
Speaker 5: That kid should be a senior in high school. Now,
Speaker 5: that would be unfair. That would be if he played
Speaker 5: high school. That would be unfair. Some of the passes
Speaker 5: he was making last night where it's incredible, But I
Speaker 5: think we do a disservice to a lot of these guys,
Speaker 5: Like I think Michael Jordan has killed more people than
Speaker 5: the plague. Uh you know, well, they're like, this guy's
Speaker 5: the next for Michael Jordan. I'm like, you don't turn
Speaker 5: out to be Michael Jordan. This kid is really talented,
Speaker 5: he's really smart. I can't wait to meet him. Seems
Speaker 5: like a really nice kid because he's because he could
Speaker 5: have had in what in my day we called a
Speaker 5: big head. He was the best high school player in
Speaker 5: the country. He came in with all the pressure on him,
Speaker 5: and he's lived up to the hype. He hasn't had
Speaker 5: any missteps. You know, people out that gets you when
Speaker 5: you're famous. That's when you were eight, seventeen, eighteen year
Speaker 5: old kid. But I'm not going to compare I'm not.
Speaker 5: First of i'd be a disservice to me to compare
Speaker 5: him to a great NBA player. But man, he's a
Speaker 5: pleasure to watch.
Speaker 2: What about skills, Like not necessarily saying that he is
Speaker 2: that player, but like I see a little bit of
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant with mid range jumper, Like he can shoot
Speaker 2: the three. So he's not Kevin Durant, but I do
Speaker 2: see You know, everybody's going to jump right to Larry Bird.
Speaker 2: Well that's not fair to Bird and it's not fair
Speaker 2: to Cooper Flat. Yeah, but just with tendencies or their game.
Speaker 5: Tell you this. I thought he dominated the game last
Speaker 5: night with his passing. You know, he scored a good
Speaker 5: amount of points, but his passing was the difference in
Speaker 5: the game. And every time they needed something, he made
Speaker 5: to play. His ability to off the dribble is incredible.
Speaker 5: It was incredible to watch because you know, I've been
Speaker 5: studying a lot of tape, but now when you see
Speaker 5: these guys in big moments like that was probably that
Speaker 5: was probably their first big moment. I think that was
Speaker 5: the first team they played like, oh, they got a
Speaker 5: chance of losing this game, and he stepped up. Man,
Speaker 5: it was It was beautiful to watch.
Speaker 2: Who else has stood out in this tournament if you
Speaker 2: look at them at the next level playing in the NBA, Well,
Speaker 2: a kid.
Speaker 5: From Florida, Clayton, I don't. I just need to know
Speaker 5: what his size is, you know, because you know all
Speaker 5: these guys, because if he's big enough, he gonna be
Speaker 5: a hell of a pro player because he's a terrific
Speaker 5: college player. Uh, the kid Brent at Nelson at Alabama,
Speaker 5: I think he's now. I'm really looking forward to that
Speaker 5: matchup with him and Cooper because let me tell you something,
Speaker 5: that Nelson kid at Alabama is terrific and Cooper that's
Speaker 5: gonna be a great matchup. I cannot wait to watch
Speaker 5: that matchup. Jani Broom at Auburn has been fantastic all year.
Speaker 5: I can't wait to watch that game. Michigan State is
Speaker 5: the most interesting team. They probably got about three or
Speaker 5: four guys who are gonna play in the NBA who
Speaker 5: don't look like great college players. They're really really good players.
Speaker 5: They just they don't jump off the screen like Cooper
Speaker 5: and those guys do. But Michigan State, their team is like, man,
Speaker 5: they're gonna have three or four guys who I think
Speaker 5: are gonna play in the pros.
Speaker 2: You start to look at the model now in college basketball.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's just this year, but you're
Speaker 2: seeing less freshman aside from Duke have an impact in
Speaker 2: March Madness. It's a lot of guys who are older.
Speaker 2: Transfer portal. Do you think that that is the next wave,
Speaker 2: that that's where a lot of teams are gonna say
Speaker 2: that's the blueprint.
Speaker 5: Well, it's already out of hand with the transfer portal. Dan.
Speaker 5: First of all, let me just say this, the NCAA,
Speaker 5: they are the most stupid, idiotic people, jackasses in the world.
Speaker 5: Like they've already ruined college sports with this nil thing.
Speaker 5: And I'm not against players making money. They's just honored
Speaker 5: as the wild Wild West right now. But to have
Speaker 5: the transfer portal in the middle of March madness got
Speaker 5: to be one of the stupidest things that I've ever
Speaker 5: seen in my life. Just when you think they can't
Speaker 5: get any more stupid, they trump themselves and had a
Speaker 5: transfer portal in the middle of March madness. And I
Speaker 5: think what you're seeing now is it's just free agency.
Speaker 5: Every year, the smaller schools are gonna get less and
Speaker 5: less important because if you're a smaller player, they just
Speaker 5: gonna cherry pick you every year, like if you went
Speaker 5: to a lower a mid major. If you have a
Speaker 5: good year, they're coming to get you because they gonna
Speaker 5: be able to pay more. So I don't know how
Speaker 5: this thing't gonna turn out. I just think the NCAA
Speaker 5: has screwed this thing up so much. I don't know
Speaker 5: how you put the toothpaste back into two. I've said
Speaker 5: this before. I think in two to three or four years,
Speaker 5: we're gonna have twenty five programs and that's it. And
Speaker 5: in listening and I hear guys talking about a salary cap,
Speaker 5: the big schools ain't gonna go for those salary cap
Speaker 5: They have the most money. Why would the Dodgers want
Speaker 5: a salary cap. The Dodgers don't want a salary cap.
Speaker 5: You see all those other teams winding in baseball, and
Speaker 5: I'm like, is it unfair what the Dodgers doing. I
Speaker 5: think it's one hundred percent unfair what they're doing, but
Speaker 5: they don't. If I'm a football school like Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia,
Speaker 5: Ohio State, Michigan, I don't want a cap. I can
Speaker 5: pay the most money and get the best players.
Speaker 2: The difference between the college game and the NBA game
Speaker 2: watching it which one is better to watch?
Speaker 5: In your opinion, I think the college game is better
Speaker 5: to watch because you know they're not just out there.
Speaker 5: They don't even look for twos anymore. In the NBA,
Speaker 5: they don't even look for twos. They's say, hey, we're
Speaker 5: gonna come to the gym. We're gonna jack up the
Speaker 5: most threes. If we hit them, we're gonna win. We
Speaker 5: missed them. We're gonna say we didn't make enough shots tonight,
Speaker 5: we didn't make enough threes. But when they make them,
Speaker 5: it looks great. I'm like, yeah, it does look great
Speaker 5: if you make them, But that's the problem. If you're
Speaker 5: not making them. Everybody says, man, y'all just shoot a
Speaker 5: lot of threes and it don't go in. But we
Speaker 5: got a lot of great players in the NBA. You know,
Speaker 5: I've been very critical of some other people are not.
Speaker 5: Like what Shay Gilgers Alexander is doing this year is incredible.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know last year people thought it was
Speaker 5: a fluke when the when the Thunder had the best
Speaker 5: record in the NBA. Now they doubled out, like, nah,
Speaker 5: we are the best team in the NBA. They went
Speaker 5: out and plugged a couple of holes they had with
Speaker 5: Caruso and Hardenstein. What the Cleveland Cavaliers are doing this year,
Speaker 5: it's fled out incredible. I mean the Cleveland Cavaliers, like
Speaker 5: I think they can beat the Boston Center. There's three
Speaker 5: teams they win in the championship, the Thunder, the Celtics,
Speaker 5: and the caw That's it. Everybody's just playing. They get
Speaker 5: just getting participation trophies.
Speaker 2: The Lakers chances, you're they.
Speaker 5: Got zero chance. I told you that a month ago.
Speaker 5: People went crazy. People went crazy when they had like
Speaker 5: two good weeks. You know, Dan, anytime you make a grade,
Speaker 5: you get a bump they got a Luca bump. Now
Speaker 5: they've got there where they are, uh you know, but
Speaker 5: I was like, no, the Lakers are not contenders. It
Speaker 5: drives me crazy. They won some games and they were
Speaker 5: gonna get a bump. You get Luc, You're gonna get
Speaker 5: a bump. Same thing when Jimmy Butler got a bump
Speaker 5: when he went to the Warriors. But it's ok see
Speaker 5: world and probably Denver's probably the second best team in
Speaker 5: the West. But listen, they're all playing for second place.
Speaker 5: Nobody can beat the Thunder. I don't see anybody beating
Speaker 5: the Thunder. He's Charles Berkley, the Hall of Famer. Who
Speaker 5: had a better week Lebron James or steven A Smith?
Speaker 5: They both had an awful week. They both had an
Speaker 5: awful week. Lebron he's too big to be that type
Speaker 5: of bully to bully Stephen A and to bully Brian Winhorse.
Speaker 5: Brian Woodhurst is a sweet person man. He's just trying
Speaker 5: to do his thing. And I've always liked Lebron, but
Speaker 5: him being a bully it turned me off. Dan. But
Speaker 5: I will say that steven A, the way he reacted
Speaker 5: was so lame and weak and Steve stephen A is
Speaker 5: a good dude. Man for him to react Lebron, like
Speaker 5: I say, I blame him for starting the bullying, going
Speaker 5: on Pat show, just bullying people because you know Lebron,
Speaker 5: he's a control free he knows everything he's doing. He
Speaker 5: knows everything he's doing, and he knew when he walked
Speaker 5: up to stephen A what he was doing. But the
Speaker 5: way stephen A reacted going on Gibbus podcasts, talking tough,
Speaker 5: and I said, come on, man, you're better than that.
Speaker 5: So there's only there's only losers there in this scenario
Speaker 5: us as the sports media, you got the biggest star
Speaker 5: in the game. You probably got the biggest star on television.
Speaker 5: And they both look bad in my opinion, and what
Speaker 5: bothers me the most, they both good dudes. Wait, I
Speaker 5: don't people who are an asshole looking bad. I don't
Speaker 5: mind that at all. They deserve it. But stephen A
Speaker 5: is a good dude and Lebron is good dude. But
Speaker 5: they both look really bad this week. They both had
Speaker 5: a bad week. To answer your question, Lebron started it
Speaker 5: and stephen A, I'm not sure what he was trying
Speaker 5: to do. He just made it worse and worse and worse,
Speaker 5: and then I saw the thing last night we had
Speaker 5: to come out and apologize with. Then Lebron didn't go
Speaker 5: to Kobe's memorial. I'm like, dude, what the hell are
Speaker 5: you doing?
Speaker 2: Well, they did as you know what they're doing. They
Speaker 2: both get attention. They like attention.
Speaker 5: Then, the one thing you can always say about me,
Speaker 5: I ain't never had personal attacks on people. I've criticized people.
Speaker 5: That's part of our job telling the truth. It can
Speaker 5: never be personal.
Speaker 2: But are you searching for attention? No, they are, Yeah, but.
Speaker 5: It's not good attention. Then that the problem. Okay, that's
Speaker 5: a great thing you made. In my day, any publicity
Speaker 5: was good publicity, remember that old saying. But the problem
Speaker 5: now is when you put bs out there. Now, every Tom,
Speaker 5: Dick and Harry and Louise got an opinion, and they're
Speaker 5: gonna make it worse. That's the problem with today. Like
Speaker 5: I say, and I hate to talk about my day
Speaker 5: and my old day. Yeah, you got publicity, good to bad.
Speaker 5: It was actually probably a good thing. But the problem
Speaker 5: is every food idiot and jackads got an opinion now
Speaker 5: because they got a computer, and that's what made this
Speaker 5: whole thing so bad because Lebron haters are on fire
Speaker 5: right now. The stephen A haters are on fire right now.
Speaker 5: You can never give bs to the world because those
Speaker 5: people they got life, Dan, they I told you, these
Speaker 5: people who live with their parents, they live in the basement.
Speaker 5: They don't have a job. All they do is sit
Speaker 5: around and click and talk about people on their computer.
Speaker 5: That's all they do. And the problem is stephen A
Speaker 5: is a good dude and Lebron's a good dude. You're
Speaker 5: gonna have foods and idiots talking bad about them, and
Speaker 5: that's the thing that sucks. But Lebron pissed me off
Speaker 5: if he went and Brian went horse because Brin went
Speaker 5: horse as a good person.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 5: I don't know him really, really well, but I think
Speaker 5: he got a pure heart. He's just trying to do
Speaker 5: his job. He probably he's out here catching strays, you know.
Speaker 5: You know what Lebron reminded me of remembering the Godfather.
Speaker 5: After Appacino left the funeral, he says, we killed everybody today.
Speaker 5: We sellled all the family business. That's what Lebron did
Speaker 5: when he went on Pat McAfee's show. He's like, when
Speaker 5: he's sitting my man down, He says, I set all
Speaker 5: the family business to day, held everybody. That's what when
Speaker 5: I was watching it, when I thought of replay, I
Speaker 5: was laughing and I said, oh, this is right out
Speaker 5: of the Godfather. He says, I settled all the family
Speaker 5: business today. And I'm like, come on, man, stop taking
Speaker 5: shots at steven A and Brian win hars.
Speaker 2: Well, how would you do you think everybody on the
Speaker 2: Lakers is fine? What Lebron did for his son, that's
Speaker 2: a great question.
Speaker 5: I don't think that matters. He did it that kid.
Speaker 5: I wish you have nothing but the best. He should
Speaker 5: be in the G League getting better as a player. Uh,
Speaker 5: he should have been in the G League all year.
Speaker 5: I think it was a great story for them to
Speaker 5: go on the court together, but he should be in
Speaker 5: the G league. Then you don't get better sitting on
Speaker 5: the bench.
Speaker 2: I agree. I wanted him to stay another year in
Speaker 2: college if he was going to he needed to play
Speaker 2: after the health scares freshman year. But you know, this
Speaker 2: is where the problem started with Lebron and stephen A.
Speaker 2: Or the most recent one is that you had Tyrese
Speaker 2: Maxey torching Bronni during a game and steven A came
Speaker 2: on the next day and it was like it was
Speaker 2: Lebron's fault. He was telling Lebron how to be a
Speaker 2: dad a father.
Speaker 5: Well, I think you can interpret it like that. I
Speaker 5: think what Steve like I say, I don't know. I'm
Speaker 5: not going to speak for Steven a. I'm almost only
Speaker 5: going to speak for myself. I think what he was
Speaker 5: really trying to say, Hey, don't put that kid out
Speaker 5: there with them NBA, grown man. Send him to the
Speaker 5: G League. We can get better as a player. You
Speaker 5: can interpret it in a way you want to do it.
Speaker 2: JJ Reddick put him in the game. Do you think
Speaker 2: Lebron goes Hey, put him in on Tyrese, Maxey, Torches,
Speaker 2: just about everybody who guards him.
Speaker 5: Yeah. But like I say, they shouldn't have put him
Speaker 5: in that situation. He should have been in a G
Speaker 5: league all season.
Speaker 2: I agree. I agree, But that's where that's the trigger.
Speaker 2: If you start talking about Lebron as a father, that's different.
Speaker 2: You know, that's not I can be critical of Bronny
Speaker 2: in his game, yeah, but I can't.
Speaker 5: Listen man, Lebron's a Oh I should And I said,
Speaker 5: I don't know what kind of fauther Lebron Lebron seem
Speaker 5: But first of all, I've always said that the difference
Speaker 5: between Michael Jordan Kobe, the three best basketball players I've
Speaker 5: ever seen are Michael Jordans, Kobe Bryant, and Lebron James.
Speaker 5: Those are the three best basketball players I've ever seen.
Speaker 5: I said the difference between those first two guys, Nobody
Speaker 5: ever said they were nice guys. They gonna kill your
Speaker 5: ass and ain't nothing you can do about it. They
Speaker 5: gonna kill you and stomp on your grave. Lebron might
Speaker 5: stomp on you, but he gonna apologize for it. He's
Speaker 5: a nice man. That's the difference. Lebron is a nice guy.
Speaker 5: That's why I don't like I didn't like the fact
Speaker 5: because he really came off as a bully in this
Speaker 5: entire thing, and that's not who he is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Stephen he should have said JJ Reddick, don't
Speaker 2: put Ronnie James.
Speaker 5: What Stephen A should have did? They say, Hey, Lebron
Speaker 5: came to me and said this, this, this, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: respect that he came to me as a father. That
Speaker 5: should have been the end of it. When Stephen A
Speaker 5: went on the other podcast as a tough guy, that's
Speaker 5: I think what triggered Lebron Again.
Speaker 2: Do you think he would have gotten into a fight
Speaker 2: if Lebron put his hands on stephen A. Stephen A
Speaker 2: he said he was going to be throwing punches.
Speaker 5: Well, then I think sometimes. Okay, let me get an example.
Speaker 5: I don't think I can beat Scheck in a fight,
Speaker 5: but when he touched me in front of twenty thousand people,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna swing. If a grown man touched you in
Speaker 5: front of a crowd, you want one hundred percent, even
Speaker 5: if you're gonna get your ass kicked, Like when Shaq
Speaker 5: did that, I had to make a spit second decision. Man,
Speaker 5: this twenty thousand people saw him put hands on me.
Speaker 5: I got the swing. There's there's times. First of all,
Speaker 5: I'm not condoning fighting. Anybody fighting past twenty five is
Speaker 5: a loser anyway. Okay, that's not the way. Any grown
Speaker 5: person who fights you just a loser. But in certain scenarios,
Speaker 5: like if somebody touch if Lebron touches that dude in
Speaker 5: front of a crowd, even if like even if he
Speaker 5: gonna kick his ass, you gotta defend yourself to let
Speaker 5: those twenty thousand people know you ain't no punk.
Speaker 2: No, you can't throw punches at a game.
Speaker 5: You can, so you're gonna let another man hit you? Said,
Speaker 5: you're gonna let another man hit you in front of twenty.
Speaker 2: T Lebron's not hitting stephen A Smith.
Speaker 5: Yeah it was so steven They shouldn't have said it.
Speaker 2: I know, but he says, if he puts his hands
Speaker 2: on me.
Speaker 5: That's what see, that's why this is screwing up. All
Speaker 5: stephen A had to say was Lebron came to me
Speaker 5: and said, don't talk about my son. Don't talk about
Speaker 5: my son. That would have been the end of it.
Speaker 5: But like I said, he goes on gibb Us podcast
Speaker 5: talking uh tough and everything. Then he goes on his
Speaker 5: podcast talking tough, and I think that triggered Lebron.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well all hell.
Speaker 5: All he had to do was say, hey, you know what,
Speaker 5: Lebron came to me. He didn't swing on me. He
Speaker 5: came to me, man the man, and said stop. Stop stop.
Speaker 5: If if steven A had a left right there, we
Speaker 5: wouldn't even be having Now we're going on week three.
Speaker 2: How long would the fight last between stephen And and Lebron.
Speaker 5: I hope somebody gets to stephen A and say, yo, man,
Speaker 5: stop it. Dan. You do know the number one rule
Speaker 5: of sports businesses, don't become the story. That's rude, number one.
Speaker 2: We're well past that. That that that's the old days.
Speaker 2: That that's not the way it is anymore.
Speaker 5: I understand that you never had a reporter. I know,
Speaker 5: I know you never Yeah, you know, I know, I know.
Speaker 2: I'm old school. Don't put your hands on me. I'll
Speaker 2: swing at you.
Speaker 5: You got to, especially in a crowd. In a crowd, Dan,
Speaker 5: can you automatically have to fight that croud?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, have fun tonight, all right.
Speaker 5: All right, brother Ward damn eagle, y'all.
Speaker 2: All right, that's Charles Barklay. We're back after this.
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Speaker 2: Last call for phone calls, what we learned, what's in
Speaker 2: store for Monday?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 2: That corn dog was delsh.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen this happy at all.
Speaker 2: Just something about a corn dog. It reminds me of,
Speaker 2: you know, growing up in the Midwest, corn fed good looks,
Speaker 2: you know, just that was that was life, very simple
Speaker 2: back then yes, Paum.
Speaker 8: It's almost like certain smells or noises remind you of
Speaker 8: your childhood.
Speaker 2: It's a taste. Yeah, corn dog tastes great. So do
Speaker 2: the skewers there that we have as well. Let me see,
Speaker 2: Chuck was great.
Speaker 5: It was fun.
Speaker 2: But Lebron and stephen A want attention. They go about
Speaker 2: it in different ways, but they both got what I
Speaker 2: think they wanted. Steven A got a lot of attention,
Speaker 2: and so, you know, Lebron got things off his chest.
Speaker 2: I mean after a while, I don't know, like, does
Speaker 2: somebody win. Did they eventually say hey, let's move on.
Speaker 2: Do they get together? Does Lebron go on stephen A
Speaker 2: and go back and forth? Like I don't know how
Speaker 2: this ends?
Speaker 3: Yes, Marvin, do you think the ESPN execs high five
Speaker 3: to each other?
Speaker 2: Yeah, today's ESPN. Yes they won, Yes they did.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 2: This isn't about journalism anymore. It's just about entertainment, yeah, Paul.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Guys like steven A and of that Elk are
Speaker 8: running a business where they're trying to engage the athlete,
Speaker 8: and that's that's the payoff, engaging the athlete.
Speaker 2: In the debate, Dave and Huntington Beach Hi, Dave, what's
Speaker 2: on your mind today?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 4: Dan?
Speaker 12: Hey did second time long time?
Speaker 5: Six foot two thirty?
Speaker 12: Hey, I just wanted to jump in on stephen A
Speaker 12: real quick. Uh, stephen A or the field. I've seen
Speaker 12: stephen A's videos of hitting pads and I will take
Speaker 12: literally anyone against steven A.
Speaker 2: I did see stephen A. You know, he was working
Speaker 2: out with a sparring partner. Now this isn't recent, like
Speaker 2: he's getting ready for Lebron if he does put his
Speaker 2: hands on But yeah, I saw Steve and I doing
Speaker 2: some doing some workouts. Yes, Marvin, as.
Speaker 3: Long as Jay Glazer still in the business, I'm taking him.
Speaker 2: Well that's UFC.
Speaker 3: But he just said throwing hands. I'm always taking Jay Glazer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh I. Steven A is not fighting anybody,
Speaker 2: although I did see some websites like, hey, we'll get
Speaker 2: you know, we'll pay you guys to fight. That's not
Speaker 2: going to go well.
Speaker 6: I just say I don't have a problem with either
Speaker 6: person in that equation, but I would pay money for that.
Speaker 8: This day in sports History Paul nineteen sixty three. The
Speaker 8: New York Titans of the American Football League change their
Speaker 8: name too. The New York Jets nineteen ninety nine in Cuba,
Speaker 8: the Orioles beat the Cuban national team. It was the
Speaker 8: first time since the fifties that a US team had
Speaker 8: played in Cuba and one of our favorites. Two thousand
Speaker 8: and two, Greco Roman wrestler Rulan Gardner had the middle
Speaker 8: toe on his right foot amputated due to frostbite. He
Speaker 8: would been and strand it overnight for two days.
Speaker 2: Also on this date, nineteen ninety two, Christian Leytner turn
Speaker 2: around jumper beats Kentucky finish with thirty one points. He
Speaker 2: was ten of ten from the floor and he made
Speaker 2: all of his free throws as well. Also stepped on
Speaker 2: Kentucky player's chest. Almost the perfect game, Almost the perfect game.
Speaker 2: Let's go around the room. If we learned something today, Todd,
Speaker 2: I'll start with you. A great, great job this week
Speaker 2: with guests. Really a timely guest, So thank you.
Speaker 12: Thank you.
Speaker 7: Clark Kellogg says, if they take care of the ball
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Speaker 7: It's a possible upset tonight against Auburn.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with him on that. A couple of seven
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Speaker 6: Charles Barkley said, any attention is good attention, not anymore.
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