1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,600 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: Harmon podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,959 Speaker 1: ten pm to two am Eastern seven to eleven pm 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,040 Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for 5 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Foxsports Radio 6 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,079 Speaker 1: dot com, or stream us live every night on the 7 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app by searching FSR. 8 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 2: If you're listening to Fox Sports Radio. 9 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 3: Greetings and welcome in final hour of the program. Here 10 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:36,199 Speaker 3: on a beautiful Friday night, there it is, it begins, 11 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:43,840 Speaker 3: hit it. I really wish we had strobe lights today. 12 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 3: I should just gonna start flicking the lights on and off. 13 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 3: Let breathe it in there, Torres, let it overwhelm you 14 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 3: talking about the party started on a Friday night. The 15 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:07,279 Speaker 3: Elite eight is set and we are one out away 16 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 3: from the Dodgers shutting down These Diamondbacks with Edwin Diaz 17 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 3: on the mound and Narco playing, and everybody was on 18 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 3: their feet dancing, The lights were flickering. Dodger Stadium came 19 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 3: to life in a whole other way. Great to have 20 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:28,480 Speaker 3: baseball back, Isn't it a beautiful thing? Opening Day for 21 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 3: the next two weeks ring ceremony was tonight. I evidently 22 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 3: they have like a detachable okay like ban this year 23 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 3: because I mean they realized nobody's gonna wear those rings 24 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 3: like they're completely ceremonial, gaudy and makes you the subject 25 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 3: of many would be thieves. So here you can wear 26 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 3: a very simple band. 27 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 4: Do you are you of the belief the opening day 28 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:54,559 Speaker 4: like it used to be Opening Day? 29 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 3: Yeah? 30 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 4: Is it too elongated to extended? I've been in my 31 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 4: little college hoops bubble where I'm listen, I host. I 32 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 4: pay attention to everything, but I not a fan. I 33 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 4: want everything on whatever day, pick a day or maybe 34 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:10,399 Speaker 4: one game. 35 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 3: It's just been a little bit elongated. It might be 36 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 3: well in the larger scale and dis closes it out 37 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 3: five to four your final ground out and celebrate it. 38 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 3: And now they really start flashing lights and making sure 39 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 3: you get your sunglasses on or or something to stop 40 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 3: the effect on your brain. But we we have so 41 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:33,519 Speaker 3: few things on a day to day basis we can 42 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 3: celebrate as a collective. Sure, right, you know the mantra 43 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,799 Speaker 3: and trying to reboot my daily find your wins kind 44 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 3: of thing that for trying to find a couple of 45 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 3: positive stories that break through what is generally, if it bleeds, 46 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 3: it leads right in our business, in the general news, business, politics, whatever. Like, 47 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:55,640 Speaker 3: what if you listen to the news for a half 48 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 3: hour unless you get Nutty the squirrel right, the most 49 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 3: positive story on the news that I heard it at 50 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 3: watching a half hour yesterday. Okay, the weather's fine, it's 51 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 3: southern California, so be it. Yeah, it'll be a little 52 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 3: gray in the morning, but it'll burn off by two o'clock. 53 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 3: If you're buying a beach ooh, or hydrate. If you're 54 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,639 Speaker 3: gonna go wander in the desert, great, watch out for 55 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 3: rattlesnakes too. Well, no, but that's the thing. There were 56 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 3: two stories, and one kind of cool ish. And then 57 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 3: you have the rattlesnake story because it got warm and 58 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:31,799 Speaker 3: we actually had someone bitten and fatal. Yes, but they're 59 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 3: out and about earlier in the season. Now the waters 60 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 3: are warmer here as well, which means we've already got shark. 61 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 3: So we had our first great white shark sighting down 62 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 3: at Newport Beach. Now they they swim, the babies swim 63 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 3: all past Manhattan Beach pre and you can go see 64 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 3: them every once in a while you'll have someone that 65 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 3: tries to catch one and that becomes a big fight. No, 66 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 3: because you're supposed to cut it as soon as you 67 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 3: realize what it is. Sure, but trophy, ye, you're not 68 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 3: supposed to take it in Mike. They're not as crazy 69 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 3: as the ones in the Bahamas though yet. No, no, no, 70 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 3: the Bahamas one for those that missed it end of 71 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 3: the show yesterday, a quick nod to the fact that 72 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 3: so much has gotten into the water in the Bahamas. 73 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 3: We're basically creating new iterations of cocaine, shark and methamphetamines 74 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 3: and you name it that have been attempting transport across 75 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 3: the water ways and when approached by authorities, what do 76 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 3: you do? Dump? But now you have the sharks that 77 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 3: are now crazed from ingesting this. So they're questioning whether 78 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 3: you know there will be a level of aggression that 79 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 3: will not stand goodness gracious about that. So you got 80 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 3: that going on. 81 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 4: You blow up one drug boat in the Caribbean, you 82 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 4: never know the side effects, but that's just it. 83 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 3: The domino effect is immense. But to that point about 84 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 3: major League Baseball, right, because you have opening days now, 85 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 3: but eventually, like say, you're on the on the road. 86 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 3: Eventually you're coming home. So you get a second opening day, 87 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,919 Speaker 3: whether it's six days from now, nine days from now, 88 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 3: you get to celebrate your opening day. And I say 89 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,159 Speaker 3: it's good because eventually we get into the middle of 90 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 3: the season. For a lot of these teams, just like 91 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 3: NBA tanking, you know you're no good. I don't know 92 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 3: if you noticed the White Sox yesterday they lost fourteen 93 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 3: to two. I did not know that to do. And they 94 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:26,480 Speaker 3: struck out twenty times. That's not twenty times. Jacob Mazerowski 95 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 3: might as well have been. I mean, Sandy Kofax was 96 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 3: at the opener, he might have been should have been hurling. 97 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 3: That's how dominant the Brewers' pitcher were. Except for the 98 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 3: two mistakes, two home runs allowed. Fourteen to two. That's 99 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 3: not great. No, no, no, that's going into day two. Yeah, 100 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 3: and you've lost more than one hundred games three of 101 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 3: the last four years. But all of that to say, 102 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 3: I came back for more and I continue to come 103 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 3: back for more because I love the sport and I 104 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 3: have my White Sox and everybody else, and I hate 105 00:05:55,279 --> 00:06:00,359 Speaker 3: cups beyond that. Now, look, everybody's got a price and 106 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 3: Wrigley Fields the best outdoor barn in America. Yeah, I've 107 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 3: only been once. I need to get back. 108 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 4: And we were talking about Chicago maybe to lead the 109 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 4: last hour or wheverything I was asking you. Now it 110 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 4: comes back again pizza recommendations. But uh, I've only been 111 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 4: to Wrigley once and it was unbelievable. I was telling 112 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 4: you during the break, I'm actually going back to the 113 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 4: East Coast, family stuff whatever sometime this spring summer, and 114 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,160 Speaker 4: I do want to make sure to plant it around 115 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 4: a Red Sox home stand because I've been to Fenway 116 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 4: in about ten years, and that is I can't say 117 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 4: it's one of a kind because Wriggley is one of 118 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 4: a kind, but you know, very unique experience. 119 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:37,279 Speaker 3: No, Fedway's fantastic and for those if you if you 120 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 3: do traverse that way, go take the tour. Yes, take 121 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 3: the tour. Is amazing. Yeah, in ninety eight we did 122 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,279 Speaker 3: a thing, but then wife and I that was the 123 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 3: honeymoon trip. Each picked three things. So we went and 124 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 3: saw the Lion King on Broadway. As I got to start, 125 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 3: paid way too much money, but it was an experience, right, 126 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 3: I was still brand new at the time. This stage show, 127 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 3: So we did that. We did a couple of museums, 128 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:04,280 Speaker 3: and we went to the Ben and Jerry Vermont Factory 129 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 3: in Vermont, Arty, Spen. We could have been stalking Arnie Spainner. 130 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 3: But then we went to the Baseball Hall of Fame 131 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 3: and Yankee Stadium and Fenway. Oh. Eventually we ended up 132 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 3: moving to the East Coast and we were in New 133 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 3: York for a couple of years. 134 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 5: So is the cash room part of the part of 135 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 5: the tour where Ben Affleck and Geremany renn once? 136 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 3: No, Unfortunately, you know, Ben Affleck was stalked by our 137 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 3: colleague Jason Smith in New York. It wasn't really Ben Affleck, though, 138 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 3: are you sure? Yeah? Oh, I don't know that he 139 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 3: ever admitted that. He doesn't have to, Oh, you just know. 140 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:40,239 Speaker 3: It was just another guy who looked kind of beaten 141 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 3: down by life, like in the famous smoking Probably looked 142 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 3: nothing like him. Probably not, maybe maybe. Yeah. Jason out 143 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 3: and about in New York swears right by Ben Afflecks. 144 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 5: So like, why are you texting us? Yeah, if you're 145 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 5: not Aaron and you can weigh in on this. If 146 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 5: you're next to Ben Affleck, are you texting people your 147 00:07:58,240 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 5: next to Ben Affleck. 148 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 3: No, no, no, you're probably doing some half ass attempt 149 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 3: to get a selfie with him in the back. 150 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 5: No, because if it's really better Affleck, you leave him 151 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 5: the hell alone. 152 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 3: Well there's that. Like in New York, the rule of 153 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 3: thumb is they ride the subways, they're in the community, 154 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 3: just like you. You leave them alone, maybe a nod 155 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 3: and just keep walking. 156 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 4: Have I ever told you this story? I know I've 157 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 4: said it at least once on Fox Sports, right. I 158 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 4: was it's getting a little political again, but not really. 159 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 4: I was in Washington, DC the day Barack obama first inauguration. 160 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 4: I think, oh, eight oh nine, whatever, that's not important, 161 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 4: not to get political. My uncle and I are standing 162 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 4: at a crosswalk ready to turn. Car pulls up, window, 163 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 4: rolls down, guy ashes his cigarette. It was Dave Chappelle. 164 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 4: And it wasn't like fake Dave Chappelle. It was like, 165 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 4: it's Dave Chappelle and I might I have a picture. 166 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:52,559 Speaker 4: I'll show it to you during the break. It's it's 167 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 4: like on my Facebook, which I haven't even been on 168 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 4: Facebook in probably ten years. But that was the randomest 169 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:02,680 Speaker 4: experience like that ever. But it was definitively Dave Chappelle, 170 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 4: not fake Ben Afflet. It was Dave Schapelle. But it 171 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 4: was pretty cool. It was like peak Dave Chappelle ashing 172 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 4: a cigarette. I was like, Oh, that's Dave Chappelle. 173 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 3: We celebrate his entire catalog. Oh he's unbelievable. Yeah, I 174 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 3: mean that show so far ahead of its time, most 175 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 3: of which could not be produced today and would scare 176 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 3: a lot of people. That's true. Yeah, no, I haven't 177 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 3: thought about the show in a while. But yeah, Now 178 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 3: he actually owns a town in Ohio, so he got that, 179 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 3: and he shows up to city council meetings as a 180 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 3: proud property owner and steward of the community. The blind 181 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 3: white guy who doesn't realize that he's white. Clayton Bigsby. 182 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:42,559 Speaker 3: There you go. Oh my, did you think that'd be 183 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 3: right off the top of the old Dome? Now? Did you? 184 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 2: No? 185 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:47,319 Speaker 3: But but all of that to say, we know when 186 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:49,839 Speaker 3: we talk about these events, right, I'm going out with 187 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 3: my daughter. You know, she's gonna go out and east 188 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 3: to play soccer. So we're going to the school and 189 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 3: we're gonna go chopping up and meet some folks and 190 00:09:57,920 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 3: check out the town. But I'm gonna have a little 191 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 3: bit of time I'm on my hands. So both the 192 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 3: Mets and Yankees happen to be in town now they're 193 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 3: both playing terrible opponents. So it becomes a is it 194 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 3: worth my time and cost sure to take a train 195 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 3: from Poughkeepsie and Vassa are down to down to either ballpark? 196 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 3: Spend whatever it would cost to go spend and like 197 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 3: part of me is like, I don't get to do 198 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 3: this very often, suill, But I haven't, so is it 199 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,439 Speaker 3: is it worth it? Because I love Yankee Stadium. I've 200 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 3: never been to the New City No, so that would 201 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:34,319 Speaker 3: be different. I've been to City when it opened. I've 202 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 3: never been in the New Yankee Stadium, and I think 203 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 3: they opened right around the same Okay, so yeah, it's 204 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 3: so it's those kind of considerations. But the goal is 205 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 3: eventually I have a bunch of SEC stadiums I got 206 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 3: for football purposes and certainly Major League Baseball. There's there's 207 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 3: a couple I still need to check check the boxes, 208 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 3: but for the most part, I've over the years been 209 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 3: able to get to most of them. And I love 210 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 3: baseball games, even back when they were three and a 211 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 3: half hours long. 212 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 4: Oh I do that is a very slice of Americana 213 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 4: is just going to a city and going to the 214 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 4: baseball stadium with no affiliation. 215 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 3: To the team. Like you don't do that. 216 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:15,080 Speaker 4: You're not like, oh, I'm in Milwaukee, I have to 217 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 4: see five Serve Forum or whatever it's called. Like, but 218 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 4: when you're when you're in Milwaukee, you're like, oh, I 219 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 4: got to check out the baseball stadium. I don't know 220 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,680 Speaker 4: if they still don't think it's still called Miller Park, 221 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 4: but you know, you get the point whatever. So it 222 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:31,199 Speaker 4: is a very interesting part of Americana. 223 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:33,079 Speaker 3: Like I said, yeah, but all of it to say, right, 224 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 3: and it's running mantra at least for everything I do 225 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 3: in this capacity to trying to find some positive doesn't 226 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 3: mean we get don't get into hey this guy should 227 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:44,599 Speaker 3: be fired, or that was an idiotic managing decision, or 228 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:48,839 Speaker 3: or hey, actually box somebody out. If you're Iowa stayed, 229 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 3: figure out a way to oh my god, someone in there. 230 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 3: But it's it's the idea of we we got so 231 00:11:55,679 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 3: much the cacophony of voices and chaos, and I mean 232 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 3: that in a very base term of a lot of 233 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:07,880 Speaker 3: frenetic energy, so where we can get stuff going in 234 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 3: the same place. Even if you and I are rooting 235 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 3: for different teams. We're celebrating a game. If we're at 236 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:17,440 Speaker 3: a concert, if you're in you know services, you know whatever, 237 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 3: like all the energy and there's positivit. It's like why 238 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:23,079 Speaker 3: I love going to Disneyland. Once you've paid your money, 239 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 3: shut up, Yeah right, you're there, enjoy it because outside 240 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 3: of a couple of kids meltdown or sometimes a couple 241 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:34,199 Speaker 3: of adults. Sure, it's a place that the world doesn't 242 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 3: touch you, like even here, right, stuff could be going 243 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 3: to hell in our personal lives and families or whatever else. 244 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 3: Once the light goes on, it doesn't matter. Like we're 245 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:47,679 Speaker 3: here to celebrate and bring folks along with the journey 246 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:50,199 Speaker 3: in sports. Doesn't mean we don't give part of ourselves 247 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 3: and whatever angst and whatever is there. And you let 248 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 3: people into your life as much as you will, but 249 00:12:55,720 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 3: it's still about creating that environment where we're celebrating these games, 250 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 3: no doubt. So that that's it for me. So if 251 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 3: Opening Days stretches for another month, I'm okay with it. Okay, 252 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:10,199 Speaker 3: keep the bunting up, give me some more hot dog 253 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 3: battles and whatever else that you need to you know 254 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 3: in Chicago at the White Sox Gams on Sunday, they're 255 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 3: having to make your own mac and cheese dish. What 256 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 3: so you want to add chicken fingers, go ahead? You 257 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:23,080 Speaker 3: want to add chunks of hot dog? Go ahead? 258 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 4: So the mac and cheese has already made though, like 259 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 4: you're yeah, yeah, yeah, no so you want to this 260 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 4: isn't a Cramer put you make your own pie. I 261 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:33,679 Speaker 4: didn't know if it was like somebody there with like 262 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 4: the mac and cheese exhibit and you're actually like making 263 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:38,439 Speaker 4: the cheese and. 264 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 3: No, no, no, it's gonna be the point there, point there, 265 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 3: point there. There is a place we went to in 266 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 3: France that you could create your own little chocolate confection. 267 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:49,680 Speaker 3: So if you want to do that, that'd back to Europe. 268 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 3: I went to Europe long time ago. There you go. 269 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 3: Maybe maybe the return All right, we'll get back into 270 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 3: the NCAA tournament. The chaos what we're expecting to see 271 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 3: this weekend at Aaron Underscore Torres is where you find 272 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 3: on Twitter. Find me over at Swollen Do. If you 273 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 3: missed any of today's show, catch the podcast. 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Taylor's livelihood depends on it. You do it 307 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 6: today and you can check all of those out on 308 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 6: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. 309 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 3: Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with 310 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 3: Me by Carmen Aaron Torres in for Jason Smith tonight. 311 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 3: He'll also do Double Doody. You'll come back on Monday 312 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 3: as we start looking at the long week ahead to 313 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 3: the Final Four and the chaos that ensues from there. 314 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 3: A couple of big games earlier tonight, dragging into the 315 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 3: wee hours of the morning East Coast time. So so 316 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 3: some folks salty as always about such things. Aarin, but look, 317 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 3: if you don't like it, don't watch You can do 318 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 3: one of those things where you tape the game and 319 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 3: then just put your phone away and you tell all 320 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:44,000 Speaker 3: your friends and family to beat it. Now, that was 321 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 3: one of the fun things going back to the Olympics 322 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 3: to pull the curtain back. Jason Smith and I were 323 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 3: talking about it and building up the hockey game, and 324 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 3: then it was on at ten after five on a 325 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:58,960 Speaker 3: on a Sunday morning. Right, so I'm up and I'll 326 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 3: be here at Fox Sports anyhow, I'm doing my show 327 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:04,440 Speaker 3: This is Great live in a living color. But he 328 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 3: he was like, well, I'm gonna tape it, like you 329 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 3: hype this thing, and now you're telling me. He's like, well, 330 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,639 Speaker 3: if nobody calls me and I don't have a phone 331 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:14,439 Speaker 3: and my wife doesn't go and peak, you know, we 332 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 3: can get up later and then watch it at our leisure. 333 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 3: I'm like, you're terrible. I can't at some level, I 334 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 3: can't blame you, but you can't try to hype me 335 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 3: for sure about what a great you know what, I'm 336 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 3: gonna watch it on tape to me. 337 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,399 Speaker 4: Well, we had a funny incident like that where Jason 338 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 4: Martin was kind of trying to peer pressure me, and 339 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 4: I said to Disager, I said, Disagrea, what are you 340 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:37,160 Speaker 4: gonna do? And paraphrasing a direct quote here, but he said, 341 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 4: the DVR is one of the world's greatest inventions. So 342 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 4: I DVRD it went home for my show on Saturday, 343 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 4: DVRD it woke up. I will go on social media, 344 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 4: it's going into overtime, walk to the TV, turn it on. 345 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:57,360 Speaker 4: Within thirty seconds, USA scores and you know, I got 346 00:17:57,359 --> 00:17:58,160 Speaker 4: the director's cut. 347 00:17:58,160 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 3: I just got straight to the point there. 348 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 4: It was incredible, and I did get to celebrate all 349 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:07,160 Speaker 4: of the posts, you know, and the celebration and all 350 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 4: of that. But that was my personal experience with Team 351 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:12,040 Speaker 4: USA basketball. I know you were just talking about Jason 352 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:14,439 Speaker 4: in general, but it was easy for me. 353 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 3: I just woke up and well, but it's one of 354 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:18,679 Speaker 3: those things, right if you're a hyped and look, folks 355 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:20,679 Speaker 3: had different level of interest. I can't tell you what 356 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 3: to like, I can't tell you how to feel. We 357 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 3: try to bring you a long and paint a picture, 358 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 3: whatever the sport is, and maybe we get you a 359 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 3: little more juiced for it, which is why, you know, 360 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 3: when we have the negative stories that surround you know 361 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:38,399 Speaker 3: a whiny coach or complains we have many I mean 362 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:41,679 Speaker 3: Rick Patino tears in his eyes. You made us way 363 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:45,159 Speaker 3: to go to the podium. How dare you the losing 364 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 3: tepe you'd get to come and do their things so 365 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 3: they can go back and shut up? You lost, Get 366 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:53,960 Speaker 3: over it. The rules of engagement winner gets to make 367 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 3: the rules, and certainly the media flows from there. Sorry coach, 368 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 3: you got ousted and away you go. But you know 369 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,760 Speaker 3: the DVR, Yeah, it's absolutely the great weapon if you 370 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 3: can keep yourself away from your phone sure and know 371 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 3: that you don't have people in the house that are 372 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 3: gonna screw you over. And that's a big thing, right. 373 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:13,720 Speaker 3: It's like someone might just decide, you know what, hey 374 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 3: tough guy, Hey sports guy. Usay, yeah, Like what does 375 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:21,440 Speaker 3: that mean. Are you saying, hey, let's go watch the game, 376 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 3: or are you already giving me the spoiler of hey, 377 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:24,880 Speaker 3: we won. 378 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 4: That was the other part. For some reason, my wife 379 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 4: was either out of town or she had to stay 380 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:31,560 Speaker 4: at her parents that night. She might've had like a 381 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 4: late Her parents live about thirty miles from us, so 382 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 4: maybe she had a late dinner on that side of town, 383 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,920 Speaker 4: and then she just stayed with them. I can't remember, 384 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 4: but that was part of it too, was there was 385 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,400 Speaker 4: no one in the house to like, hey do this, 386 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 4: hey do that whatever. Love you know, I'm not criticizing 387 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:47,920 Speaker 4: my wife at all, but I'm just saying like that 388 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 4: part did make it easier as well. 389 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 3: Left to your own devices, yeah, and it's all good, good, 390 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 3: well what you run at your own pace at that point. 391 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 3: So we get Duke in Yukon. Yeah, your Yukon Husky's 392 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 3: big win that I sixty seven sixty three Michigan State. 393 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 3: We talked about it a little bit earlier, key h 394 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 3: sixty percent. I'm rounding up to be generous free throw shooter, 395 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 3: making a couple of big ones down the stretch to 396 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 3: put this game on ice. You get happy returns of players, 397 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:20,679 Speaker 3: all of that. Duke on the other side, early round 398 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 3: scare that seems like a lifetime Again, Siena was hanging 399 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 3: around and making things miserable, and for a moment, you know, 400 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 3: everybody was on there on their edge on that that 401 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 3: first day of the tournament, right like, oh, we might 402 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 3: have one of those. Maybe last year was the anomaly, 403 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 3: last year was the chaos, and instead seventy one sixty 404 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 3: five is your final, but now a twenty three point win, 405 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:51,199 Speaker 3: five point win tonight over Saint John's, a game that 406 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 3: was fraught with a bunch of questions for Patino, which 407 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 3: might have led to the fact that he'd been forced 408 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 3: to sit and think about it for five minutes or 409 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 3: so before he got to a podium and didn't like 410 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:07,159 Speaker 3: the way perhaps he handled some of his substitutions, some 411 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 3: of their pace of play. In the final minute, they 412 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 3: had a possession where it was pretty clear you needed 413 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 3: to fill and they let twenty three seconds come off 414 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 3: a shot clock and then got called through a file 415 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:22,080 Speaker 3: away from the ball on a pull of a jersey. 416 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 3: It's like, at that point, are you playing defense? You're 417 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 3: still in range. Free throws made eighty seventy five year finals, 418 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 3: So we get Duke Yukon and if you were to 419 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:35,440 Speaker 3: set it up before the tournament started, one versus two 420 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 3: coming out of that bracket, Yeah, it's chalky, but it's 421 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 3: also what you hope for, right Pomp, circumstance, pageantry, history, 422 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 3: plenty of montages of the game's greats going on the 423 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,880 Speaker 3: last twenty five years plus from a coaching perspective, as 424 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 3: well as some of those players and the legend of 425 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 3: caravan grows. Yeah, I saw. 426 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 4: I tweeted out about it and somebody said, this will 427 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 4: be like watching Iran versus China. Can they both lose? 428 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 3: Please? Wow. 429 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:08,160 Speaker 4: Dan Hurley certainly makes Yukon. If you're not a Yukon fan, 430 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 4: you know there's reason not to like him and Duke. 431 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,199 Speaker 4: I think the history there speaks for itself. But I 432 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 4: will say, you know, listen and Frosberg and I were 433 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 4: talking about it during the break is listen. I love 434 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 4: college hoops. I watch a lot of it, but I 435 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 4: will be the first to admit the games are more 436 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 4: appealing for everyone, but even for somebody like me that 437 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 4: loves it. When you get two big brands, coaches that 438 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 4: people know, brands that people know, uniforms that people know, 439 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:38,479 Speaker 4: it just resonates differently than no disrespect. But you know 440 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 4: Iowa's gonna play to go to the final four tomorrow. 441 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 4: Not a lot of people know Ben McCollum. You know, 442 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,639 Speaker 4: maybe you tangentially know the story he was at D 443 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 4: two forever whatever, But Iowa doesn't move the needle one 444 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,679 Speaker 4: way for another. For most people other than Iowa, Sam like, 445 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:58,359 Speaker 4: it's just the truth whereas Yukon Duke Michigan. I know 446 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,360 Speaker 4: Michigan's more of a football school, but that brand matters 447 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,119 Speaker 4: in that part of the country. You know, some of 448 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 4: the other teams that are gonna play tomorrow, Arizona looking 449 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 4: to go to its first Final Four since twenty two 450 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 4: thousand and one, which is crazy for a program that 451 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 4: has basically been the best program on the West Coast 452 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:20,680 Speaker 4: probably for most of this century. So it I think 453 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,160 Speaker 4: it's going to be a nice blend of really good 454 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:28,720 Speaker 4: teams with some interesting stories. There is no traditional Cinderella 455 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 4: excuse me, that's playing in these final four games of 456 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 4: the weekend, but I think we're gonna get four very 457 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:35,119 Speaker 4: fun games. 458 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 3: You go back in Iowa Illinois six point game, one 459 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 3: of their matchups in the regular season, so you're talking 460 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,720 Speaker 3: about the margin seven and a half is the established 461 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:51,680 Speaker 3: point spread here? Talk about McCollum making it emphatically clear, 462 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:55,359 Speaker 3: I'm not going anywhere. Yeah, right, because unfortunately that's the 463 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 3: first question when you've got big jobs and still questions 464 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,920 Speaker 3: of whether Bill self coming back or not. I mean, 465 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,080 Speaker 3: you're you're tapped into all of this, and obviously we'll 466 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 3: get the big convention when everybody gets together for the 467 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 3: final four, but you know that's one that's just kind 468 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,920 Speaker 3: of hanging out there like like a lead balloon right now. 469 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,919 Speaker 4: Yeah, I was, well McCollum specifically for he was in 470 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 4: the d he was at the D two level three 471 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 4: years ago and he so I was surprised that. I 472 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 4: guess I'm not surprised by anything anymore, but that he 473 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 4: got that question specifically because he's yeah, he's been at 474 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,959 Speaker 4: Iowa for one year. He is from the state of Iowa, 475 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 4: and so that one was weird to me. It wasn't 476 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 4: surprising that Nato It's got the question that you know, 477 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 4: Dusty May I think I don't even know what his 478 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 4: response was. I know Tommy Lloyd certainly got some questions, 479 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,479 Speaker 4: the Arizona coach, But yeah, I don't know that I 480 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:53,920 Speaker 4: was surprised. I guess I was a little bit surprised, 481 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,680 Speaker 4: excuse me, by Ben McCollum getting it. But yeah, it'll 482 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,479 Speaker 4: be interesting, and you know, I think there's gonna be 483 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:01,680 Speaker 4: some really good basketball on the court. 484 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,880 Speaker 3: But to your point, I mean, one. 485 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 4: Of the biggest jobs in college basketball is open, and 486 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:09,159 Speaker 4: it's certainly not out of the realm of possibility. That 487 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:13,200 Speaker 4: a second one in Kansas could in theory open as well. Now, 488 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,399 Speaker 4: the one thing with that one is that one feels 489 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 4: like something where they could go internal. Jacquevaughn, the Kansas legend, 490 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 4: who also was a former NBA head coach, is on 491 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 4: staff there, so possibly maybe you could see the scenario 492 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 4: that happens. But there's a lot to happen off the 493 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 4: court as well as on it. Right now, good to 494 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 4: see Jacques Vaughn. 495 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,160 Speaker 3: We've talked about it a lot, right the coaches, it's 496 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 3: that transition from active x's and o's to the retention, 497 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 3: et cetera. So for McCollum, look, when you go down 498 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,560 Speaker 3: the wish list of coaches, it becomes the leave no 499 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,919 Speaker 3: stone unturned, particularly if look, he's at the podium, all 500 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 3: the other guys at home, you got to try to 501 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 3: find him. Sure, right, if they're not still active in 502 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 3: the tournament, maybe they're not picking up their phone. Maybe 503 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 3: they're on vacation and just decompressing because they're still salty 504 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 3: that they just lost. They're going back and watching the tape. 505 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,399 Speaker 3: How did we get boxed out here? How did we 506 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:07,040 Speaker 3: do this? Whatever? So they're not picking up mc collum's there. Sure, 507 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 3: he's enjoying a lot of success, a lot of run. 508 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,920 Speaker 3: And we talked about it. Right, it's not your traditional 509 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:16,639 Speaker 3: Cinderella story, but you are a nine seed, You're still alive, 510 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,200 Speaker 3: you're still playing, and you've gotten more out of these guys, 511 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,199 Speaker 3: which always becomes the sure can you then pull that 512 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 3: to the next level? And I think Signetti on the 513 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,359 Speaker 3: football side has changed a lot of the attitude. We 514 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,160 Speaker 3: had a great story. Transfer comes in, where's gold cleats? Yeah, 515 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 3: your work out? He's like, what are we doing here? Yes, 516 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,919 Speaker 3: that's not who we are, that's the standard. Got the 517 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 3: stand right, you got to work to the standard. And 518 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,480 Speaker 3: remember you're still grinding, right, it's a new year. But 519 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 3: all of that to be said, like his success and 520 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 3: maybe some of these other outliers like you ask right 521 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,440 Speaker 3: because the first well, as soon as North Carolina's job 522 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:56,680 Speaker 3: became open, it immediately became what Billy Donovan, It became 523 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 3: Brad Stevens, it became as you went down on the list, 524 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,639 Speaker 3: even including guys like Danny Hurley of Hey, you know, 525 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 3: he's got great success. He's built a mini fiefdom kind 526 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 3: of thing here. But wouldn't you trade at all for 527 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 3: this historical North Carolina job, and I'm like, no, sure, 528 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 3: But like, if I'm an established coach at one of 529 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,440 Speaker 3: those spots, am I necessarily jumping? The answer is no, 530 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,640 Speaker 3: because the expectation won. Because you're you're looking at what's 531 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 3: going on with Shire and company. What is that in 532 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,679 Speaker 3: nine miles eight point four or whatever it is, whatever 533 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 3: the actual measurement is, and those markers right down the road, 534 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 3: and they're having great success. So your standard, your weert 535 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,879 Speaker 3: Davis was good. The problem is he lost a lot 536 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 3: of high profile games after building big leads. Yes, and 537 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:49,120 Speaker 3: I understand Caleb Wilson didn't play. However, you were still 538 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:49,880 Speaker 3: up nineteen. 539 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:51,679 Speaker 4: I was gonna say it would have been funny with 540 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,920 Speaker 4: the Hurley things, specifically Yukon was they showed the graphic 541 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,199 Speaker 4: of biggest blown leads in NCAA tournament history. 542 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 3: VCU over UNC was one. 543 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:05,800 Speaker 4: Yukon was up nineteen on Friday night here against against 544 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 4: Michigan State. So that would have been an interesting press conference. 545 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,720 Speaker 4: You know, I guess in theory it could still happen. 546 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 4: You know, Dan Hurley could ypathetically be the coach. It's 547 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 4: not gonna happen, and he didn't blow the nineteen point lead. 548 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,199 Speaker 4: But that would have been a funny little caveat if 549 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 4: that had. 550 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,639 Speaker 3: Happened, Not to mention, it would have been entertaining, at 551 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 3: least for me had that evaporated, because Danny Hurley would 552 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,439 Speaker 3: have been very entertaining in those final couple of minutes. 553 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,680 Speaker 3: Oh and in the post game, Yes, that hard that 554 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,440 Speaker 3: I would have busted out a popcorn maker in the hallway. 555 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 3: Sure we would have gotten little requiners. We would have 556 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 3: to the podium. Yeah, we would just let him. The 557 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 3: podium would have taken us home to the final hour 558 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 3: of the show, There's no question about it. Instead, they win, succeed, 559 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:47,640 Speaker 3: and proceed. 560 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith 561 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 2: Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven 562 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:54,480 Speaker 2: pm Pacific.