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

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Speaker 2: What's going on? Well, then Fox Sports Saturday here on

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. Aeron Torres will be joining me momentarily.

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Speaker 2: I'm Jason Martin. Glad to be with you on a

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Speaker 2: Master Saturday that saw a whole lot of drama at Augusta.

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Speaker 2: That's something we're gonna definitely discuss. The NBA regular season

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Speaker 2: comes to an end tomorrow, we'll be able to jump

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Speaker 2: into that as well. There's some other things happening in

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Speaker 2: the world of sports, there always are. We are glad

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Speaker 2: to be here in Fox Sports Radio studios. Unfortunately for Aaron,

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Speaker 2: and perhaps this is why he is being fashionably delayed. Yukon,

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Speaker 2: unable to win their third national championship in four years,

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Speaker 2: put up a pretty solid effort, but Michigan was just

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Speaker 2: too strong, and I think that most of us saw

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Speaker 2: coming after the way that they dispensed Arizona on Saturday

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Speaker 2: now and in the process destroyed my bracket. Not that

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Speaker 2: anyone out there cares about my bracket, but a whole

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Speaker 2: lot of people felt like Arizona was the team to

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Speaker 2: be coming into this tournament, and when you actually get

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Speaker 2: to the end of it, I think we all missed it.

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Speaker 2: I think Michigan deserved to witness And when you really

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Speaker 2: go back and look at it, they were built to

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Speaker 2: win this national championship. So obviously pretty good week for them,

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Speaker 2: and they extend Dusty May according to reports that came

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Speaker 2: out on Saturday. So you also have that going on.

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Speaker 2: But let us start with Augusta. I'm sure Aaron and

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Speaker 2: popped in here in just a second. What took place

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Speaker 2: on Saturday. You start the day with Rory McElroy up

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Speaker 2: six strokes and he's threatening to make this a laugher.

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Speaker 2: But if you know Augusta, and if you know Rory's

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Speaker 2: history at Augusta, you knew you needed to watch on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: The narrative was going to be, okay, well, he got

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Speaker 2: that monkey off his back last year. He was able

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Speaker 2: already has that green jacket, the pressure is kind of off.

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Speaker 2: So we should see a much looser, freer Rory Michaelroy

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Speaker 2: at Augusta this year. Well, if you actually paid attention

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Speaker 2: on Thursday and Friday, he got himself out of some

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Speaker 2: tricky situations. But if you look at it, and if

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Speaker 2: you look at the round that he had. What you

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Speaker 2: notice is he was not hitting the ball straight, He

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Speaker 2: was not hitting a lot of fairways. He was still

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Speaker 2: wonderful degree. His short game was awesome. He was making

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Speaker 2: a lot of putts, he was saving himself several times,

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Speaker 2: but he wasn't chewing up the course in the way

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Speaker 2: going into Moving Day, going into Master Saturday, and so

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Speaker 2: what hook place throughout much of Saturday's round was the

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Speaker 2: same thing we saw on Thursday and Friday, without the saves,

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Speaker 2: without the rescues. That became his problem. What you saw

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Speaker 2: him doing on Thursday and Friday that he bailed himself

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Speaker 2: out of. He couldn't bail himself out enough on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: And it was a day where the course was actually

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Speaker 2: playing to the player's advantage, where they were able to

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Speaker 2: go low. Scheffler hit a sixty five and Cam Young

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Speaker 2: hit a sixty five and really should have had a

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Speaker 2: sixty three. He missed a couple of putts that would

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Speaker 2: but he becomes the first player I believe in master's history,

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Speaker 2: as I think Aaron is with us now. He becomes

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Speaker 2: the first player in master's history to be eight plus

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Speaker 2: shots down after thirty six holes and then have a

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Speaker 2: share of the lead after fifty four. But this is

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Speaker 2: the Rory McElroy experience. This is the Rory McElroy ride,

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Speaker 2: because now Sunday becomes cannot miss television. But if you

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Speaker 2: away and hide, but that six stroke lead, you missed

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Speaker 2: a very dramatic, compelling day that reminds you that the

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Speaker 2: biggest opponent in golf is usually between your ears, and

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Speaker 2: it has been for Rory, especially at this course throughout

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Speaker 2: his career. Aaron welcome. I did not take a shot

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Speaker 2: at Connecticut to open It's okay. I did suggest that

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Speaker 2: perhaps you were fashionably late, just because you were, you know,

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Speaker 2: still a bit down at the result of the National Championship.

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Speaker 3: And this is how you know that we vibe because

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Speaker 3: I was ready to lead with the still hungover from

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Speaker 3: is one hundred percent not true at all.

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Speaker 4: I will a little behind the scenes.

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Speaker 3: So I, you know, I have headphones obviously for this show,

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Speaker 3: and you know, you pack and you repack and you unpack,

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Speaker 3: so it's seven p fifty nine fifty nine. Our great

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Speaker 3: date and I'm you know, I'm talking to Martin about

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Speaker 3: Michigan versus Ukon. I'm like, oh wait a second, I

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Speaker 3: have headphones here, So we were scrambling. I appreciate Mary

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Speaker 3: helping help kind of coordinate with you, and I do.

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Speaker 3: I know you roll with the punches and you're a pro,

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Speaker 3: and you've hosted a million solo shows as well. But

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Speaker 3: thrown into the fire. So I actually appreciate you one

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Speaker 3: rolling with the punches, but two doing a great job

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Speaker 3: of setting up what we saw on Saturday. You're more

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Speaker 3: it was a perfect I was just gonna throw it

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Speaker 3: to you to tell us everything that happened, and you

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Speaker 3: basically gave the audience exactly what they needed to know

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Speaker 3: through the first what would it be thirty six?

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Speaker 4: What is that? Fifty four holes of the masters?

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Speaker 2: Fifty four holes? Yeah, now that doesn't require golf knowledge.

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Speaker 2: That just requires basic math, which yeah, us a question

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Speaker 3: And with University Connecticut. Baby, that's we are they? You

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Speaker 3: in the northeast. But yeah, that was some terrible math

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Speaker 3: you know, listen, I don't follow it hole by hole

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Speaker 3: I found what you said interesting. So you felt like

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Speaker 3: Rory didn't like he obviously had a by definition, a

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Speaker 3: had the two best rounds in the history of this tournament,

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Speaker 2: I thought he was saving himself a lot. I thought

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Speaker 2: saying that there were holes there. It wasn't just a

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Speaker 2: He was just doing Look, there are times throughout Tiger

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so let me ask you this, so for people

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Speaker 3: Scotty Scheffler, Jason Day. Considering what you said about Rory,

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Speaker 2: Cameron Young has been coming for a while. He's a

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Speaker 2: And I'll say this for Rory. Rory with the lead

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Speaker 2: I actually like him better in that role than entering

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Speaker 2: Rose that he easily could have lost. It was not

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Speaker 2: he may not have the lead because somebody underneath him

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Speaker 3: Ryan Berschinger is back from his honeymoon. I'm just putting

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Speaker 7: Man, Oh thank you Eric. J. Mart It has been

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Speaker 3: I have been told that Otani's face is on literally

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Speaker 8: Yeah, everywhere, It's on in every train. There's an advertisement

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Speaker 3: Well fantastic. Well, Bursch, it's good to have you back

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Speaker 3: I've always thought it was crazy. It's just a constant

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Speaker 3: You know, you never know what game is on what channel,

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 3: How frustrating has it been for you to watch this event?

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Speaker 3: I believe on four different platforms if I'm not mistaken.

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Speaker 4: But go ahead take it away.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this has been a problem for a

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Speaker 2: But the Masters Augusta National they control and make all

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Speaker 2: They have their three sponsors that they've had forever, and

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Speaker 2: chill out with some of this nonsense. We don't need

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Speaker 2: w we'z the misz.

437
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Speaker 4: I was gonna ask you about Hark Jason, Jason.

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Speaker 2: Kevin Hard Yeah, Jason Kelsey thing seems like a nice guy,

439
00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 2: but boy, they are just they are throwing him into

440
00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:23,399
Speaker 2: everything and that fatigue is real, folks. But to the

441
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Speaker 2: to the topic of hand, Thursday and Friday, and this

442
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Speaker 2: this was in an article that I read at Yahoo Sports,

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00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,920
Speaker 2: so you can credit uh I think his name is

444
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Speaker 2: Chris Gordy for actually putting this out there. Thursday and

445
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Speaker 2: Friday Central Time from six to seven thirty am, Masters

446
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Speaker 2: dot Com is the only place you can watch seven

447
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Speaker 2: thirty to noon. You can watch Masters dot Com or

448
00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:49,840
Speaker 2: Paramount Plus from noon to two Amazon Prime only two

449
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Speaker 2: to six thirty ESPN, and then Saturday and Sunday it's

450
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Speaker 2: a little simpler. Masters dot Com Paramount Plus from nine

451
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Speaker 2: to one, CBS one to six, unless you're in Nashville

452
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Speaker 2: or in some kind of a area where Exfinity is

453
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Speaker 2: your only choice, because Comcast is in a fight right

454
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:11,399
Speaker 2: now with a lot of the local channels, the local

455
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Speaker 2: CBS affiliates, And so when I turned on CBS today,

456
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Speaker 2: there was a message on the screen that said this

457
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Speaker 2: would raise your carrier rights. We were in a dispute.

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Speaker 2: We would not do this to our customers, So unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: you cannot watch this channel. And so luckily I had

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Speaker 2: Paramount Plus, so I was able to just go there

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Speaker 2: and watch it. But it was amazing how many people

462
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Speaker 2: were caught off guard by this. Our old friend Klay

463
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Speaker 2: Travis went crazy about this, apparently because I saw it

464
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Speaker 2: in articles that I was reading about the television coverage,

465
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Speaker 2: people screenshotting his tweets in these articles where he was

466
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Speaker 2: just like, it's a local channel. You're screwing over sports

467
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Speaker 2: fans and all this. It's like, dude, you couldn't watch

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Speaker 2: the National Championship game Monday in Nashville really on CBS.

469
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Speaker 2: You had to watch it on True TV or wherever

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Speaker 2: the I guess this TBS or whichever the network was.

471
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Speaker 2: Luckily you had that, but this carriage dispute has removed

472
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Speaker 2: it from cable places, which is why the ratings being

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Speaker 2: what they were had to be a boon because they

474
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Speaker 2: were losing out on some of their viewers because of this,

475
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Speaker 2: or at least they were losing losing out on CBS

476
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Speaker 2: and some older folks. I'm not sure if they even

477
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Speaker 2: knew what they were supposed to do. But this is

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Speaker 2: your premier event if you were golf. As much as

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Speaker 2: I love the US Open, the Masters is the joint.

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Speaker 2: It's it's arguably the greatest television event in sports, just

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Speaker 2: on a short basis, not like March Madness where you

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Speaker 2: have weeks or anything like that. This thing is compelling

483
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Speaker 2: almost every single year. You go into Saturday or which

484
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Speaker 2: is just when it gets really good, and finally it's

485
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Speaker 2: where you can sort of see it. But to split

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Speaker 2: this event across four different rights to where you have

487
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Speaker 2: to have multiple subscriptions if you actual want to watch

488
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Speaker 2: it all is preposterous, Like it's twenty twenty six, not

489
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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy five. Sure we don't need this on delay,

490
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Speaker 2: Like we can see the miracle on ice live now, Like,

491
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Speaker 2: these are things that are doable, but Augusta has just

492
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Speaker 2: always been this way and so for some reason, and

493
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Speaker 2: golf cannot, the PGA, nobody can make Augusta change their mind.

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Speaker 2: One thing Wingo mentioned was that there are broadcasters that

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Speaker 2: have been banned from the grounds of Augusta just for

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Speaker 2: asking a question or saying something on the broadcast that

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Speaker 2: they didn't like. Like that's how tight it is. I

498
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Speaker 2: think Mark Kalkovecia, the former big time PGA player, was

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Speaker 2: thrown off the grounds this week because he had a

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Speaker 2: cell phone. Like these are the things that happen at

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Speaker 2: this place. Like, but the fans not being able to

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Speaker 2: watch your premiere event, what exactly are we.

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Speaker 3: Doing here, Eric, I don't know, And even to just

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Speaker 3: go to and I'll be honest, you know, I kind

505
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Speaker 3: of have it on in the background and when I

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Speaker 3: saw when I saw that it wasn't available in the morning,

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Speaker 3: my presumption was just it was the old school, you

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Speaker 3: gotta download the master's app. I didn't realize that it

509
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Speaker 3: went from this to Amazon Prime to whatever again.

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Speaker 4: You know, the I listen, I get the.

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Speaker 3: Notion of they run it, they this, they that, But

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Speaker 3: at some point, and I just feel like I'm making

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Speaker 3: this speech every week now of like, at some point

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Speaker 3: it should be about the fans. And at some point,

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Speaker 3: if it is, as you say, and I tend to

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Speaker 3: agree with you, like one of the great viewing experiences

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Speaker 3: in sports, it's like, do you have to make the

518
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Speaker 3: biggest possible amount of money on it or is it

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Speaker 3: possible to just do something good for the consumers that

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Speaker 3: actually want to watch it?

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Speaker 2: You know? Yes, I mean, I mean that's it. I

522
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Speaker 2: mean there's not there's not that much that we need

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Speaker 2: to add to that statement. It's just it's so counterproductive.

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Speaker 2: And if you're if you're the PGA, like, I just

525
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Speaker 2: wonder how how hard you've pushed to fix this problem

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Speaker 2: or to get this thing under control or or are

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Speaker 2: you just or is everybody involved just making bukoos of

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Speaker 2: money because you're getting different you know, different players in

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Speaker 2: the game when it comes to these media rights. Either way,

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Speaker 2: you are taking an event in a sport that's still

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Speaker 2: rather niche yep, especially without a Tiger Woods in the mix,

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Speaker 2: and you're making it more difficult for people to watch.

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Speaker 2: And as we will speak about when we get to

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Speaker 2: the NBA here in a little bit. That is not

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Speaker 2: that's not the reci people. I mean, we're just coming

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Speaker 2: off of MLB coverage on Netflix being absolutely mulled in public.

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Speaker 2: Everybody hated this thing. There was all sorts of historyonics

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Speaker 2: and stuff going on that had nothing to do with baseball.

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Speaker 2: It looked like a side show. It looked like the

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Speaker 2: O Show. It was absolutely ridiculous, like the sports thing.

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Speaker 2: There was an article I talked Lardy about this last week.

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Speaker 2: There was an article in The Athletic I think it

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Speaker 2: was from Andrew Marshawn who basically laid out the cost

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Speaker 2: if you wanted to watch all one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 2: two Yankees games this season, it would cost you over

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Speaker 2: seven hundred dollarsh because of what you need in order

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Speaker 2: to see all of those games.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Well, don't know what else there is to say, but.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you think not good?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, you and you would think like I said

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Speaker 3: that the Masters would be different because because they can

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Speaker 3: be basically, for lack of a better term, but doesn't

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Speaker 3: sound like they are. Fox Sports Radio er towards Jason Martin,

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Speaker 3: broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studios, will come back,

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Speaker 3: As j mart said, another disappointing day for the NBA.

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Speaker 4: We'll discuss that next.

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Speaker 3: A lot of those lately, but first, you know who

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00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 3: never disappoints Steve Disager?

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Speaker 4: What is trending?

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Speaker 5: Sir?

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Speaker 9: Hello, gentlemen, and almost answered his own question. There to

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Speaker 9: the blue bloods at the Masters, it is nineteen seventy five,

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Speaker 9: and if it always is, they don't care about you.

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Speaker 9: They will never answer to you. Actually, it's kind of

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Speaker 9: what's wrong with the country that rich people feel the

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Speaker 9: rules don't.

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Speaker 4: Apply to them.

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Speaker 9: They need not operate as you the great unwashed. Do

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Speaker 9: remember about twenty years ago there's a women's group that

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Speaker 9: was protesting that the Masters did not have a single

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Speaker 9: female in their exclusive private club. What was the reaction

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Speaker 9: Once the women's group said, well, we're going to boycott

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Speaker 9: your sponsors, they said, fine, we'll do the whole weekend

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Speaker 9: commercial free.

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Speaker 2: We don't care.

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Speaker 4: What was it, Hoodi Johnson?

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Speaker 2: Was that the guy Hoody Johnson?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? No, blowfish, Yes, no, completely different. No women either,

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Speaker 4: But that's another conversation, just blowhard.

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Speaker 9: As for show, Hey, Otani, you know this is an

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Speaker 9: incredible item from the great baseball researcher Sarah Langs. He

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Speaker 9: hit a leadoff homer tonight, so he now has an

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Speaker 9: on base streak going at forty five five straight games

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Speaker 9: dating back to last season. This is the longest active

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Speaker 9: on bay streak in baseball. He also holds the longest

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Speaker 9: current pitching streak amongst starters not allowing an earned run

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Speaker 9: in Major League Baseball, almost thirty straight innings the same.

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Speaker 4: Guy with both.

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Speaker 9: That's that's just astounding and ridiculous at the same time.

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Speaker 9: At Dodger Stadium, it is top of the ninth one out.

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Speaker 9: LA leads six to three over the Texas Rangers. Not

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Speaker 9: only the Otani long bawl in the first, but ti

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Speaker 9: Oscar Hernandez a three run homer also quite a comeback.

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Speaker 9: In Seattle, the Mariners have tied it up seven to

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Speaker 9: seven against Houston bottom of the sixth. It was a

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Speaker 9: seven to two lead and then five runs in the

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Speaker 9: fifth for Seattle. Julio Rodriguez a two run homer to tie.

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Speaker 9: He's betting one seventy five this year. The Padres gave

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Speaker 9: up three early homers and trailed the Rockies for nothing

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Speaker 9: in the third inning. It is now Padres nine to

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Speaker 9: five over Colorado. Rockies have bases loaded two outs in

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Speaker 9: the top of the ninth. Everything else is final, including

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Speaker 9: an a's win at the Mets eleven to three for

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Speaker 9: the Athletics Tyler Soderstrom two homers, five RBIs. Pittsburgh won

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Speaker 9: in eleven innings at the Cubs four to three. Tampa

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Speaker 9: Bay with two runs bottom of the tenth, beat the

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Speaker 9: Yankees five to four. Baltimore's Gunner Henderson with his sixth homer.

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Speaker 9: The O's beat San Francisco six to two. Wins for

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Speaker 9: Boston and Cleveland on the road. For Washington as well,

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Speaker 9: NAT's won three to one at Milwaukee. The NHL regular

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Speaker 9: season ends on Thursday. Fifteen games on the Saturday schedule,

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Speaker 9: including a Vegas overtime win against Colorado three to two.

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Speaker 9: Denver won the college hockey title. US women's soccer won

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Speaker 9: its exhibition against Japan two to one in San Jose.

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Speaker 4: Michigan game.

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Speaker 9: Basketball coach Dusty maya contract extension. Illinois freshman star Keaton

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Speaker 9: Wogler declared for the NBA Draft. The NBA is off

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Speaker 9: on this Saturday, the regular season and Sunday. All teams

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Speaker 9: play that day. We can not guarantee that all players

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Speaker 9: will be playing on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Did you see that stat yea night, I'll tell you

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Speaker 4: what to say.

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Speaker 3: We're I was gonna say, I don't want to cut

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Speaker 3: off your your update if you have more, but I

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Speaker 3: promise you on the other side of the break, you

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Speaker 3: are welcome to hopitoric.

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Speaker 2: Stuff happened in the NBA right now.

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Speaker 3: None of it good, but you're you're welcome to hop

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Speaker 3: in on that conversation because I know you were in

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Speaker 3: last week.

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Speaker 9: I'll just say as we head towards Sunday, Shay Giljes

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Speaker 9: Alexander is out and the thunder have already listed ten

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Speaker 9: players as out tomorrow. Jannis Antinakumpo's not playing in Milwaukee's

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Speaker 9: finale on Sunday, so he misses the final four weeks

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Speaker 9: of the season. Nicks have quite a few players resting,

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Speaker 9: including Karl Anthony Towns out quote managing an elbow injury.

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Speaker 9: Can we just say out loud that all these people

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Speaker 9: that are resting last night tomorrow, they're on teams that

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Speaker 9: aren't playing for the next week. Okay, Yeah, anyway, Cam

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Speaker 9: Young tied Rory McElroy at the Masters. McElroy led by

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Speaker 9: six strokes after the set and round, a Masters record

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Speaker 9: after Birdie's on six of the last seven holes Friday.

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Speaker 9: But in round three today Young shot sixty five, McElroy

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Speaker 9: shot seventy three, American Sam Burns one stroke. Back update,

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Speaker 9: the Padres have won nine to five against Colorado.

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

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Speaker 3: Sports Radio, Fox Sports Saturday and the Sunday Er Tors

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Speaker 3: Jason Martin broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

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Speaker 3: The Sager just teat us up on what we are

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Speaker 3: gonna discuss next. Did your favorite NBA player play on

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Speaker 3: Friday night? Considering well, I was gonna say, j mart

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Speaker 3: considering that we had one hundred and sixty eight players unavailable.

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Speaker 4: My guess is no. We'll discuss it all next. Fox

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Speaker 4: Sports Radio.

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Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 5: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio

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Speaker 5: listen live.

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

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

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Speaker 3: final day of the NBA regular season. But as Jason

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Speaker 3: Martin just told you, a little bit of a historic

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Speaker 3: Friday night in the NBA. Jay mart let me set

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Speaker 3: this up and I'll throw it to you. I want

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Speaker 3: to be fair to the old association. We had one

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Speaker 3: hundred and sixty eight players listed as unavailable second to

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Speaker 3: last night of games in the NBA.

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Speaker 4: No games on Saturday. Everybody plays Sunday.

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Speaker 3: One hundred and sixty eight players deemed not eligible to play. Now,

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Speaker 3: to be fair, there were teams like Oklahoma City. They've

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Speaker 3: clinched the number one seed in the West, they had

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Speaker 3: no reason to play their players.

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Speaker 4: I thought it was interesting. Wemby, to his.

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Speaker 3: Credit, needed to play twenty minutes to get the sixty

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Speaker 3: five game threshold to compete for awards. He played the

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Speaker 3: twenty minutes then stayed in the game. But I bring

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Speaker 3: it up. A hundred undred sixty eight players total out

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Speaker 3: on Friday. I'll tell you what, man, there's any way

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Speaker 3: to get your fans excited for the playoffs, it's by

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Speaker 3: basically playing no one of consequence the night before the

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Speaker 3: season ends. What do you make of what we saw

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Speaker 3: or what we didn't see. Maybe what we didn't see

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Speaker 3: is the better way to put it. On Friday night.

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Speaker 2: NBA going NBA, that's it, right, Like the expectation of

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Speaker 2: the NBA, like I could not have less expectation, and

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Speaker 2: yet somehow I'm still let down, Like I don't understand.

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Speaker 2: So the Burstinger actually sent us this comment, but it

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Speaker 2: backs up what we were already gonna talk about. And

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Speaker 2: this I think it was for ESPN, said Jami may Shack,

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Speaker 2: John Conchar and bezum Bang each had a triple double,

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Speaker 2: making Tonight's Grizz Jazz game the first to feature three

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Speaker 2: plays each with a triple double. Now I know who

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Speaker 2: Jamay Mayshak is or Jami Mayshack is because he played

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Speaker 2: at UT, he played at Tennessee.

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Speaker 3: H Where did you ever think he was like a

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Speaker 3: surefire NBA player when you watched him there?

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Speaker 2: I mean he had look, he had the body of

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Speaker 2: an NBA player, and he had some things that you

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Speaker 2: could see translating to the association. But I can't say

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Speaker 2: that he seemed like he was going to be a

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Speaker 2: household name in the NBA. Let's just say that. But

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Speaker 2: now he's got a triple double. I'm pretty sure Brownie

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Speaker 2: James doesn't have that, So good for him. This is

705
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Speaker 2: like to your point, right, if you've already made it, okay,

706
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Speaker 2: you're already in the playoffs or seating is where it

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Speaker 2: needs to be. You're Oklahoma City, You're not gonna risk

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Speaker 2: injuries to shake Gil just Alexander or your starters going

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Speaker 2: into the playoffs. The same thing happens in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna maybe you play your quarterback for a series,

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Speaker 2: or play your starters for a series or two, just

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Speaker 2: so they don't you know, get cold or whatever. They're

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Speaker 2: in a bit of a rhythm, and then you take

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Speaker 2: him back out of the game. But these teams that

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Speaker 2: are like objectively tanking and basically have been for four months.

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Speaker 2: Like I'm not assuming I would love to know what

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Speaker 2: the attendance at said Memphis Utah game was, but imagine

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Speaker 2: if that's the game that you bought tickets for, that's

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Speaker 2: the one your family could afford, right, Like you're you know,

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Speaker 2: economy's tough right now. Gas is costing a lot. There's

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Speaker 2: just a lot of things that people have to worry

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Speaker 2: about other than that. Now, I would suggest that if

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Speaker 2: you have disposable income, Memphis Utah is probably not where

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Speaker 2: you want to spend that money. But let's say you do.

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Speaker 2: You've got one hundred and sixty eight NBA players sitting

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Speaker 2: out the final day of the regular season, which just

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00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 2: again the optics are awful. The commissioner can't seem to

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Speaker 2: do anything about it because he's already given up all

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Speaker 2: his leverage, and it just gives off the same vibe

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Speaker 2: that we get all the time from the NBA, which is,

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Speaker 2: these guys don't think they owe the fans anything. They

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Speaker 2: don't think that the fans matter. I don't think they

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Speaker 2: would say that if you sat them in a room

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Speaker 2: and actually broke it down to them that way. It's like, look,

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Speaker 2: you may care about the fans, but your actions speak differently.

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Speaker 2: What you say about them, what you think about them,

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Speaker 2: and how you behave as a result of said thoughts.

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Speaker 2: Those things need to match up or there's a big

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Speaker 2: disconnect here. And in the NBA, the disconnect between the

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Speaker 2: regular fan and the league athlete has never been greater

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Speaker 2: than it is right now.

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Speaker 3: I don't disagree, and I think, you know, listen, I

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Speaker 3: think the products suffering. I was, you know, I don't

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00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 3: want to put words in anybody's mouth, but I was

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Speaker 3: talking to Chris Plank this week and he said, even

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00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 3: in Okase, there's really no juice, you know, around the thunder. Now,

747
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 3: maybe once the playoffs start, whatever. But it's just I

748
00:38:57,840 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 3: think the league is in a really tough spot. By

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Speaker 3: the way, I'm looking at the Memphis Utah box score,

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Speaker 3: and keep in mind, how about this, thirteen total players

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Speaker 3: played in this game, so only seven for Utah, only

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Speaker 3: six for Memphis. Listen, I'm not trying to I don't

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Speaker 3: know if toot my own horn would even be the

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Speaker 3: right thing here. I would say I am probably in

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Speaker 3: the top one percent of knowledge of college basketball of

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Speaker 3: probably most Americans. And I'm not saying that as a brag.

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like it's my job.

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Speaker 2: Job.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I bring it up. There are.

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Speaker 3: Two players in the starting lineup for Memphis that I

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Speaker 3: have literally never heard of. I will say this a

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Speaker 3: third one, Adama Ball I vaguely remember. Let's see here.

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Speaker 3: He began his career at Arizona, then I think he

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Speaker 3: ended up at Santa Clara maybe, but yeah, the point

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to make Lucas Williamson started an NBA game,

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Speaker 3: Never heard of him. Toby o'conne, that West Virginia legend

767
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Speaker 3: played in the Big Twelve, apparently never heard of them.

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Speaker 3: And I think I'm pretty good on the college hoops front,

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Speaker 3: and I'm bringing it up because I've never heard of

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Speaker 3: these people. Who was the one? John Conshard was the

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Speaker 3: guy we were talking about our texts. Perdue fort Wayne

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Speaker 3: Legend just had a triple double on Friday night for

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Speaker 3: the Utah Jazz. So listen, this is the state of

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Speaker 3: the league. Playoffs are starting. We'll see if the energy

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Speaker 3: and attitude around the league changes. But it's not a

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Speaker 3: good look. So I'll tell you what this is. Fox

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Speaker 3: Sports Radio enter towards Jason Martin. We are broadcasting live

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Speaker 3: from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Not a great uh,

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Speaker 3: not a great weekend for the NBA, but great week

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Speaker 3: for college basketball. Michigan Champs ratings are through the roof.

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Speaker 3: We discussed it all. Next Fox Sports Radio.

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

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Speaker 3: Welcome in everybody, Hour two tourists Martin, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: We are broadcasting live. Yes, we are live midnight Eastern

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio Studios. I Aaron Torres and back. I

786
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Speaker 3: was gone last week at the Final four. Arnie Spaniard

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Speaker 3: was in want to kind of recap some of the

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Speaker 3: storylines out of last weekend, j mart But since I

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Speaker 3: had some technical difficulties to lead the show. Let me

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Speaker 3: start by asking you, I you know, i'd say, how

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Speaker 3: did it go with the old Spaniard? But I feel

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Speaker 3: bad because of the circumstance in which he came in,

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Speaker 3: which is that his alma mater got destroyed on Saturday night.

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Speaker 2: Dude, So this is a thing like I didn't realize,

795
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,359
Speaker 2: but I figured it out within Like the first two

796
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Speaker 2: minutes last week, he was bummed, like he was legitimately sad,

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Speaker 2: like I could tell in his voice, in just his demeanor,

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Speaker 2: and it was immediately just kind of in my own head,

799
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Speaker 2: it was like, all right, we're not gonna play around

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Speaker 2: with us tonight. Sure, pull the jokes back and put

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00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 2: them back in the bag. Sure we're not gonna have

802
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:03,399
Speaker 2: fun with this because he's actually hurting. And so it

803
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 2: was more of a subdued kind of somber show. He

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Speaker 2: definitely was not himself, in my opinion, not the Arny

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00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 2: that we know that we've both hosted so many times

806
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 2: with through the years. He's still I mean, he still

807
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 2: brought some energy at times, but you could just tell

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00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 2: he was and he was on text chains with his

809
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 2: friends and he said, oh so glad we didn't go.

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Speaker 2: And also other kind of stuff, and I did. I

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Speaker 2: couldn't help it. I was just like, I mean, maybe

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Speaker 2: they lost because you didn't go there.

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Speaker 3: Well, I was gonna say, you know, this sounds weirdly counterintuitive.

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Speaker 3: I think that's why you do go because you know

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Speaker 3: you might not win, but you get the experience. You

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Speaker 3: get to see your friends Friday night, Saturday night. And

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Speaker 3: I will tell you this, and I mean, I can't

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Speaker 3: sit here and say that this is definitively true, but

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Speaker 3: I think hosting radio would be the last thing I

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Speaker 3: would want to do when my favorite team is that

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Speaker 3: close to a championship.

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Speaker 4: I'll give you an example.

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Speaker 3: There's been a few times around the NFL playoffs where

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Speaker 3: I've been called in to work for Mark Willard, who

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Speaker 3: the San Francisco forty nine ers on a day to

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Speaker 3: day basis when they are in the playoffs. And I

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Speaker 3: think part of it is I think Willard kind of

828
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Speaker 3: wants to really lock in on the games. He knows

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Speaker 3: he's gonna be talking about him all week. But I

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Speaker 3: and I don't want to speak for Willard, but I

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Speaker 3: think there's part of him that's like, I don't want

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Speaker 3: to be on air if something crazy happens or something

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00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 3: bad happens, and you know, that's that's why I think

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Speaker 3: you go, because you and if you don't go, you say,

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Speaker 3: you know, with respect to the bosses, maybe this is

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Speaker 3: one that I don't work, because, yeah, there is nothing

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Speaker 3: worse than coming on in the middle of that.

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Speaker 4: And I don't remember.

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Speaker 3: Everything that we talked about, but I do remember, so

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00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:37,719
Speaker 3: for people who missed it, I came on at about

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00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:40,319
Speaker 3: one twenty Eastern time in the final hour, and I

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00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 3: did tell Arnie. I said, I I thought my alma

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Speaker 3: mater might be in line for the same thing that

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Speaker 3: Arnie's alma alma mater. Excuse me god, on Saturday night.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't quite that. But Michigan does win the National

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Speaker 3: Championship final score in that one sixty nine.

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Speaker 4: To sixty three. I got a lot of takeaways.

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Speaker 3: Obviously, being in the building would be curious for your

849
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Speaker 3: thoughts on Michigan winning the second title in school history.

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Speaker 3: And as de Seger just told us moments ago, Dusty

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00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 3: May officially announced the team celebration today that he has

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Speaker 3: signed a long term extension to stay in Arbor.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I set off the top of the show

854
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Speaker 2: that you know, I had Arizona in my bracket beating Duke,

855
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Speaker 2: and of course Yukon eliminated Duke in that classic, classic fashion.

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00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 2: I still can't believe that happened. And then Arizona got

857
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Speaker 2: just destroyed, and I told Arnie I was like, bro,

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Speaker 2: I had your guys going. I was rooting for him hardcore.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to see Tommy Lloyd seems like a good,

860
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Speaker 2: good guy like him. Nothing, it's Dusty May. But I

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Speaker 2: liked the vibe Arizona was bringing and I did feel

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Speaker 2: like they were complete and this was such a good

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Speaker 2: look at it. But then when you really watched Michigan

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Speaker 2: throughout the course of this tournament. I know you sent

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Speaker 2: me a text early in a tournament to this effect,

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Speaker 2: And the longer it went, the more I agreed with

867
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 2: them more I was like, yeah, I'm a fool too,

868
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 2: Like that's the best team, like when you look at

869
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 2: what they bring, what they have on the inside, of course,

870
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 2: and then just they've got a point guard who is

871
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 2: just a nuisance in Cado even when he doesn't score,

872
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:23,280
Speaker 2: the way that he can move the basketball around, draw fouls,

873
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:28,360
Speaker 2: be an irritant play, very aggressively, almost over the line

874
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 2: but seems to get away with it, so there's no

875
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:34,799
Speaker 2: reason to stop him doing that. And then you know

876
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 2: you've got Winneborg that Linda board. That's just unreal, and

877
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:42,879
Speaker 2: you don't even get him healthy. But they didn't even

878
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 2: need him generally for the way that they were playing.

879
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:49,360
Speaker 2: They were just I don't think they snuck up on people.

880
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 2: I just think that as we got into the tournament

881
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,359
Speaker 2: in Michigan, I think we forgot about how talented they

882
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,279
Speaker 2: actually were, and so I felt like they were very

883
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 2: worthy champion. When we got to the end, it's just like, now,

884
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 2: you know what the best team in the costry won.

885
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 2: That team was better than Arizona. It wasn't a scenario

886
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:08,879
Speaker 2: where they played that game ten times in Arizona went five.

887
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:13,240
Speaker 2: I just think Michigan was way, way, way better than Arizona,

888
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 2: especially in that matchup. I think it's a bad matchup

889
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:19,919
Speaker 2: for Arizona, but everybody that Michigan played was a bad

890
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:21,839
Speaker 2: matchup for whoever that team was.

891
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 4: So I largely agree with all of it.

892
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:26,760
Speaker 3: And it's you know, it's funny, as somebody who does

893
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 3: cover and follow college basketball a little bit earlier than most,

894
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:32,399
Speaker 3: you know, I'm not gonna sit here and line and say,

895
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:34,240
Speaker 3: you know, there's a lot of football that we're consuming

896
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 3: in November and December. But you go back to like November,

897
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 3: they played in that Big Vegas Tournament. They won their

898
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:46,240
Speaker 3: three games there by forty, thirty and forty. I'm not exaggerate,

899
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:51,360
Speaker 3: literally beat San Diego State by forty, Auburn by thirty, Gonzaga,

900
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 3: which at the time was playing really well, by forty,

901
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,880
Speaker 3: and that really set the tone for the entire season.

902
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 3: And I do and I do think at their peak

903
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 3: they were the best. The one thing I will say

904
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 3: about Michigan and I for the record, I picked Arizona two.

905
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 3: The one thing about Michigan was they did at moments

906
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 3: play down to their competition. You know, they lost at

907
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 3: home to Wisconsin. And by the way, they were so

908
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:17,920
Speaker 3: good that sometimes they could play bad for a half

909
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 3: and still win going away. Like there was a game

910
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 3: against Northwestern early in the season. They were down by

911
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 3: nine at the half, outscored them by nineteen in the

912
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 3: second half, and won by twelve going away. So that

913
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:32,319
Speaker 3: you do the math there. Maybe the math was off

914
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:34,760
Speaker 3: a little bit, but they won by twelve after trailing

915
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 3: by nine at the half, and so that was the

916
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 3: only thing was I worried about them being able to

917
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 3: put six games together. They were the best team, you know,

918
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 3: I think I told Arnie this last night or last week.

919
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 4: I did have.

920
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:49,800
Speaker 3: Arizona because it, you know, team of destiny feels strong.

921
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 3: But it was a team that all season long. And

922
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,839
Speaker 3: I know I've said this part last week from opening night.

923
00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 3: It was you're playing the defending champs Florida in the

924
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 3: season opener. Everybody's talking about Florida and Todd Golden, He's

925
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 3: the next big thing, and Todd Golden is great. But

926
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 3: Arizona beats them and then they go to Yukon. And

927
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 3: we talked about this last week, but it just felt

928
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 3: like every turn they had been doubted and this was

929
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,719
Speaker 3: the last big doubt that everybody had that they would

930
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 3: prove wrong. But to your point, Jmark, Michigan was very

931
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:22,399
Speaker 3: clearly the best team. Let me ask you this. It

932
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 3: became a narrative after the fact, but four of Michigan's

933
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 3: starters were not in the program last year and were transfers.

934
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:35,840
Speaker 3: All five starters transferred, but four of them were first

935
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 3: year transfers. This specific season on the Michigan Wolverines.

936
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:42,840
Speaker 4: Does that rub you the wrong way?

937
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:43,800
Speaker 2: Do you care?

938
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 4: Do you not care?

939
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 3: I'd be curious for your perspective, because it did become

940
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:50,400
Speaker 3: a narrative of you know, this is the official death

941
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 3: of the way that we did things. Yeah, I think

942
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 3: it's a little hyperbolic. I'll explain why in a minute,

943
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:56,239
Speaker 3: but curious for your perspective.

944
00:48:56,320 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 2: It's just the new reality. I I tried to have

945
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 2: a problem with it, but increasingly my feeling was just this,

946
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 2: Michigan did it, but a whole lot of other programs

947
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 2: would have done it. If they could have done it,

948
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 2: they would have gotten those guys. This is just kind

949
00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:16,919
Speaker 2: of the new reality. And there's always been an advantage

950
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 2: to some schools at the expense of others when it

951
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 2: comes to recruiting. It's just it's a different advantage now,

952
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 2: and it does the transfer portal nil the money going

953
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 2: into these programs. What's going on from the athletic collectives

954
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 2: and now inside the actual athletic departments, what college athletics

955
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:40,320
Speaker 2: is is different. But I will say this, you're still

956
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,799
Speaker 2: if you're a Michigan fan, you're still cheering for what's

957
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:45,399
Speaker 2: on the front of the jersey. If you're a North

958
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,799
Speaker 2: Carolina fan, You're still cheering for what's on the front

959
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:51,439
Speaker 2: of the jersey. You're cheering for the colors. The only

960
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 2: difference is there is a much more active turnstyle of

961
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 2: the individuals that are wearing that uniform year in and

962
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 2: year out. I don't love that it just becomes a

963
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 2: free for all. It feels like after every season to

964
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 2: see where a bunch of these guys are then going

965
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 2: to land and you know they're gonna look for greener

966
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 2: pastures over here and all this kind of stuff. It

967
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:18,319
Speaker 2: just it doesn't feel the same because you're not You're

968
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 2: very usual. You're just very rarely gonna get the guys

969
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 2: that are in the same place for three four years anymore.

970
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 2: It just doesn't seem like you're gonna get that. But

971
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 2: we've seen one and done's for a long time. I

972
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 2: think it just crystallizes that because this is sort of

973
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 2: the end game of that. Because but I guess the

974
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:38,399
Speaker 2: difference then is if you can pay the guys, then

975
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 2: you can get the guys, and if you offer them

976
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 2: the right thing, you can get the guys, as opposed

977
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 2: to it being I think even a much more limited

978
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 2: pool that was able to really construct the one and done.

979
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:52,840
Speaker 2: It's the way say Kentucky and duked it for so long.

980
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, So a couple thoughts.

981
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 3: One, you know, it does suck that it is, you know,

982
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:02,719
Speaker 3: essentially a fineinancial game. I think to your point, in

983
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:07,479
Speaker 3: some ways the field is more open now because there's

984
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,239
Speaker 3: not you know, there's not fifty teams that could do

985
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 3: what Michigan did, but you know there's probably twenty twenty five.

986
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:14,879
Speaker 3: A couple of things that you know I would push

987
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 3: back on, not you, but the narrative in general. You know, One,

988
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:21,920
Speaker 3: being around Michigan and you know, being at all the

989
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 3: pressers and talking to their coaching staff and stuff. I

990
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 3: think the underrated part of it is you can have

991
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:29,719
Speaker 3: all the money in the world, you still have to

992
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 3: get the right guys and guys that believe in a

993
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 3: greater good. And like that was because you know, it

994
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 3: was interesting. So like I think it was maybe his

995
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 3: Thursday press conference, I want to say Dusty May so

996
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 3: for people don't know, these guys have media availability every

997
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:45,479
Speaker 3: single day, and so I think Dusty May said something

998
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:49,240
Speaker 3: to the effect of, you know, recruiting is better now

999
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,840
Speaker 3: because it used to just be you know, who was

1000
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:55,840
Speaker 3: the first guy showing up to the six am workout

1001
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 3: and who wanted to stay the longest. And he's like, now,

1002
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:01,240
Speaker 3: it's it's not really about that. It's there's a financial

1003
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:03,920
Speaker 3: element to it, but there's also the fit in this,

1004
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 3: in that and whatever. But I then took that quote

1005
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:09,719
Speaker 3: and I asked some of the assistant coaches, because we

1006
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 3: have access to everybody, I said, but how do you, like,

1007
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:15,800
Speaker 3: how do you develop the character thing? Because it's easy

1008
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:18,840
Speaker 3: to see the talent of a yaxa Lenenborg or whomever,

1009
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:22,279
Speaker 3: and but how do you know that he's gonna buy

1010
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 3: into something greater than himself? And the same with all

1011
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 3: these other guys. And he gave a great answer. I mean,

1012
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:28,719
Speaker 3: it's it's the cliche. You do your homework like you

1013
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:30,960
Speaker 3: would anything else. But I think that's an important part

1014
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 3: of it. You can have all the money in the

1015
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,239
Speaker 3: world if you don't pick the right guys and if

1016
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 3: you don't get them to buy into something bigger than themselves,

1017
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 3: then it doesn't matter. The last thing that I would say,

1018
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 3: and this was the part that I really pushed back on,

1019
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:46,279
Speaker 3: is yes, if you go back and look at you know,

1020
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 3: quote unquote transfer portal rankings a year ago from this time,

1021
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:52,840
Speaker 3: Yaxa would be the number one player in that portal class. Okay,

1022
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 3: But and I pushed back on this hard on Saturday,

1023
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 3: and I actually got to push back a die Mora,

1024
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:04,360
Speaker 3: who I would argue was probably actually their most important

1025
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 3: player from what he did on the defensive end as well,

1026
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 3: twelve points, seven rebounds, two and a half assists, almost

1027
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:15,719
Speaker 3: three blocks per game. He averaged six points in thirteen

1028
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 3: minutes per game last year at UCLA. And so this

1029
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 3: wasn't some We're just gonna outbid everybody for this seven

1030
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 3: foot three behemoth. This was a guy and some UCLA

1031
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 3: fans will push back on this, and I'll push back

1032
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:33,280
Speaker 3: on the pushback. This was a guy that was being

1033
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 3: misused by Mick Cronin. He just was like, you can

1034
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 3: argue it, you can fight it, you could debate it.

1035
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, you don't go from thirteen minutes a game

1036
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:46,880
Speaker 3: to the most versatile player in college basketball and the

1037
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:50,360
Speaker 3: backbone of a national champion. And it was kind of

1038
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 3: the same with the guy that you mentioned, Elikado. I mean,

1039
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:55,359
Speaker 3: Eli Kado played at North Carolina last year. Was good,

1040
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 3: not great. You know, if you go back and listen

1041
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 3: to his final game North Carolina loss last year to

1042
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:04,840
Speaker 3: Ole miss. I believe they remember they played in the

1043
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 3: first four and then they lost in the first round.

1044
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 3: They asked him in the locker room. They said something

1045
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 3: to the effect of do you want to come back

1046
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 3: to North Carolina next year? And he said something in passing,

1047
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 3: and I vividly remember this of something of I hope

1048
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:23,439
Speaker 3: to be back. He said something about it, I hope

1049
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 3: to be back, but I'm not sure, or I hope

1050
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 3: to be back, but it's out of my control. And

1051
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 3: I think that's an important part of this too, is

1052
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:32,239
Speaker 3: I don't know all of the specifics of how he

1053
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 3: left North Carolina for Michigan. I do know that a

1054
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 3: lot of these guys they're not always welcome back at

1055
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 3: the place that they are previously at, and so I

1056
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:45,000
Speaker 3: would use those two guys, Mores Johnson Junior, same kind

1057
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:46,920
Speaker 3: of deal. He was like the first big off the

1058
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:49,480
Speaker 3: bench at Illinois last year, and maybe he has a

1059
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:52,360
Speaker 3: bigger role this year. But like a Die Marris specifically,

1060
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:54,319
Speaker 3: I'm just here to tell you I live in LA

1061
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:58,360
Speaker 3: I watch a lot of UCLA games, and for whatever reason,

1062
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 3: Mick Cronin just did not, so like, yes, some of

1063
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:03,800
Speaker 3: it is about money, but you still have to identify

1064
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:06,280
Speaker 3: the right guys, get him in the system, develop them, whatever.

1065
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 3: And that's my soapbox speech on the Michigan Wolverines quote

1066
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:12,800
Speaker 3: unquote buying their way to a national championship.

1067
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:14,680
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's really well said, and I

1068
00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:19,080
Speaker 2: think it's important. I think it shows it's still it

1069
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:24,520
Speaker 2: still takes a lot of skill for a coach and

1070
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:29,799
Speaker 2: for a coaching staff to put together a group of

1071
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:34,399
Speaker 2: guys and then get them to a championship, to get

1072
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 2: that chemistry right, to understand how this person can be

1073
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:41,360
Speaker 2: utilized or maybe how this person was not in a

1074
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:45,880
Speaker 2: Mara's case, just not being used to the maximum of

1075
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:48,279
Speaker 2: his ability. But here at Michigan we got something for

1076
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:50,439
Speaker 2: him there. We can unlock him a little bit. There's

1077
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:53,160
Speaker 2: something else we can do here that we see in

1078
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:55,799
Speaker 2: him on film, So we're gonna go after him. Like,

1079
00:55:56,880 --> 00:55:59,359
Speaker 2: I think that the job of being a coach has

1080
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:03,480
Speaker 2: changed a little bit because of how much more evaluation

1081
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 2: you have to do of guys around the country in

1082
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 2: order to spot those guys. But I don't know that

1083
00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:11,719
Speaker 2: that takes away from anything. I think it's just it's

1084
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:14,879
Speaker 2: harder to get invested in individual athletes because they're gonna

1085
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:17,560
Speaker 2: break your heart and go somewhere else a lot of times.

1086
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 2: But as long as you are as long as you

1087
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:23,000
Speaker 2: keep the main thing, the main thing, which is, dude,

1088
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:25,640
Speaker 2: you're a Yukon fan. You're a Yukon fan, and whoever's

1089
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:29,279
Speaker 2: wearing the Yukon jersey, you're good with that like that,

1090
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:31,839
Speaker 2: as long as you understand that that's what it has

1091
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 2: to be now. But there's gonna be more change amidst

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00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:37,200
Speaker 2: that time. I think you'll be.

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00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 4: Okay, yep, No, it's a new world.

1094
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:41,760
Speaker 3: And I'll close on this too, is you know, because

1095
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 3: I you know, you get the we all get the

1096
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:48,120
Speaker 3: pushback all the time of well it was better ten

1097
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:50,719
Speaker 3: years ago or twenty years ago, And if you feel

1098
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:52,520
Speaker 3: that way, that's your progative. But I was thinking about

1099
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:56,759
Speaker 3: this right ten years ago. Dusty May gets the Michigan job.

1100
00:56:57,080 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 3: He's got to keep all the I hate to say it,

1101
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 3: but it's true. The lousy players on the last team

1102
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 3: that for whatever reason, they either weren't good enough or

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00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 3: they weren't bought whatever. So year one's just a complete wash,

1104
00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:10,480
Speaker 3: and then year two you hope he signs a good

1105
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:13,560
Speaker 3: enough recruiting class where you're competitive, and really you gotta

1106
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 3: wait until year three or year four to actually be competitive.

1107
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 3: It's like, is that more fun or is what Michigan

1108
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:23,280
Speaker 3: fans just experienced with the right coach of a national

1109
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:24,919
Speaker 3: championship in year two more fun?

1110
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:26,600
Speaker 4: Now I'll take it one step further.

1111
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:29,200
Speaker 3: And I think that transitions nicely into our next conversation

1112
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:31,320
Speaker 3: is you know, people say, oh, it was better in

1113
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 3: the old days. Okay, well the old days Yuxcelendenborg just

1114
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:37,480
Speaker 3: goes pro and says, I can't make money in college.

1115
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna go to the G League or do whatever.

1116
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:43,800
Speaker 3: Alex Caraban is not playing for Yukon. A Daimar probably

1117
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 3: never comes to the United States to play college basketball period.

1118
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:48,840
Speaker 2: Littlone drifted straight out right.

1119
00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 4: Exactly, and so the system isn't perfect.

1120
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 3: And I do think, and I say this, you know,

1121
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:57,360
Speaker 3: even as a Yukon guy who has some advantages at

1122
00:57:57,360 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 3: my school. But Yukon just lost a player that they

1123
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:01,720
Speaker 3: were expect didn't have back next year to the transfer

1124
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 3: portal yesterday.

1125
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 4: So yes, it sucks for everybody.

1126
00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:07,880
Speaker 3: But I will push back on this notion that it

1127
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:10,760
Speaker 3: was the good old days were so much better than

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Speaker 3: what we see right now. Fox Sports Radio eritorrs Jason

1129
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:15,680
Speaker 3: Martin broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. And

1130
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:19,280
Speaker 3: let's continue that conversation, Jamart, because for all the whining

1131
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 3: about how awful this whole situation is, the ratings just

1132
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 3: keep going up, up, up, And I want to ask

1133
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 3: you why next.

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.

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00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:30,600
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00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:34,000
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1138
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:39,040
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00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:42,120
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1140
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:45,080
Speaker 3: broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Hey, be

1141
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:48,000
Speaker 3: sure to subscribe to the Fox Sports Radio YouTube channel.

1142
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1145
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1146
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:58,880
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1147
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:03,080
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1148
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 3: come back talk more. College shops season is over, things

1149
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:09,000
Speaker 3: are still interesting though. Before we do, though, let's get

1150
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 3: it over to the news desk. Steve Seger, what isred eying.

1151
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:14,480
Speaker 9: The late ballgame in Seattle is in the bottom of

1152
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 9: the eighth inning right Now Mariners seven Houston seven. Mariners

1153
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:20,960
Speaker 9: were down seven to two until a five run fifth

1154
00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:24,400
Speaker 9: Julio Rodriguez, who's been struggling at the play, batting one

1155
00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:27,360
Speaker 9: seventy two, did have the tying two run homer. Cal

1156
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 9: Ralei a first inning two run homer. Again, games tied

1157
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:33,560
Speaker 9: seven to seven. Bottom of the eighth, Dodgers beat Texas

1158
00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:36,480
Speaker 9: six to three, show he Otani a leadoff homer, taoscar

1159
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 9: Hernandez a three run shot. The Padres trail Colorado for

1160
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 9: nothing early, giving up three homers. San Diego wins at

1161
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,680
Speaker 9: home nine to five. Boston was ahead two to one

1162
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 9: at Saint Louis in the ninth seven to one red

1163
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:51,720
Speaker 9: Sox the final the win to Ranger Suarez six score

1164
00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:55,600
Speaker 9: less inning, six strikeouts. Cleveland led two to nothing at Atlanta,

1165
00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 9: going to the eighth inning six nothing. The final Braves

1166
00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:01,520
Speaker 9: record falls to nine and six. At Baltimore's sixth homer

1167
01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 9: of the young season for gunner Henderson Orioles defeated San

1168
01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:08,280
Speaker 9: Francisco six to two. The Oh's place catcher Adley Rushman

1169
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 9: on the il ankle inflammation, by the way in that

1170
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:14,160
Speaker 9: Houston game, sixth homer of the young season for or

1171
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 9: Don Alvarez of the Strows. Brewers offense went two for

1172
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:20,919
Speaker 9: thirty at home. Washington won at Milwaukee three to one.

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01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 9: Extra ding wins for Pittsburgh and Tampa Bay A's one

1174
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:26,840
Speaker 9: at the Mets eleven to six. Tyler Soderstrom of the

1175
01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:31,520
Speaker 9: Athletics two homers, five RBIs. The NHL regular season ends

1176
01:00:31,560 --> 01:00:35,120
Speaker 9: on Thursday. Tonight, Vegas in overtime, beat Colorado three to two.

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01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:38,720
Speaker 9: Denver won the college hockey title in Major League Soccer

1178
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 9: Colorado six to two over Houston. The NBA is off

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01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:45,360
Speaker 9: for this Saturday. The regular season ends on Sunday. All

1180
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:48,800
Speaker 9: teams play that day and at the Masters, Rory McElroy

1181
01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:51,760
Speaker 9: had led by six strokes to start the day. That

1182
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:55,240
Speaker 9: was unprecedented. To lead by six only halfway through the

1183
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:59,800
Speaker 9: tournament was a Masters record. Well, McElroy blew that advantage

1184
01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:03,120
Speaker 9: the first twelve holes today came back to Tye cam

1185
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:05,760
Speaker 9: Young by the end of the day. In the third round,

1186
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:10,240
Speaker 9: Young shot sixty five, McElroy shot seventy three. American Sam

1187
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:12,200
Speaker 9: Burns one stroke back back to you.

1188
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Speaker 4: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: Steve Saga, Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Saturday now Sunday

1190
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:19,520
Speaker 3: on the East coast there towards Jason Martin broadcasting live

1191
01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:21,080
Speaker 3: from the Fox Sports Radio studios.

1192
01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:21,880
Speaker 4: Want to keep the.

1193
01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:25,320
Speaker 3: College basketball conversation going. Michigan, you are national champions, Yukon

1194
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:28,080
Speaker 3: runners up. By the way, j mart real quick before

1195
01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:30,960
Speaker 3: we get to some TV rating stuff and he takes

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01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:34,480
Speaker 3: on Yukon. I'll just be quick, is that. And I

1197
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 3: was telling Martin Weiss this before the before our show

1198
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:40,040
Speaker 3: when when we were switching up. You know, you follow

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01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 3: a team on a day to day basis, sometimes you

1200
01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:44,919
Speaker 3: kind of get caught forrest through the trees, can't see

1201
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 3: the forest through the trees. And I think I had

1202
01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 3: that moment of realization with Dan Hurley. I know you

1203
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:53,000
Speaker 3: said you had Duke in the championship game. I did

1204
01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:56,200
Speaker 3: not have Yukon going nearly as far as they did.

1205
01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:58,360
Speaker 3: And I'll say this too really quick, and I want

1206
01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:02,040
Speaker 3: your perspective. You know, anybody who just hates Stan Hurley

1207
01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:04,240
Speaker 3: and thinks he's the worst and all that, I would

1208
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:06,520
Speaker 3: encourage you to go listen to his press conference after

1209
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 3: the Michigan game was totally Humble admitted they were the

1210
01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 3: better team, said they did everything that they could, but

1211
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:15,160
Speaker 3: the better team won. But just curious, and we don't

1212
01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:16,480
Speaker 3: have to spend a ton of time on this, but

1213
01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:21,640
Speaker 3: but newfound refound appreciation for Dan Hurley because as a

1214
01:02:21,640 --> 01:02:24,080
Speaker 3: guy who watches them every week and you've heard me

1215
01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:26,480
Speaker 3: do the rants, I don't think this was anything close

1216
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:28,880
Speaker 3: to the second best team in the country. But history

1217
01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:31,560
Speaker 3: will show that they finished as the national runners up, and.

1218
01:02:31,480 --> 01:02:35,600
Speaker 2: It's hard not to be impressed with what he's built there.

1219
01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:41,480
Speaker 2: And I've said before I like having somebody that you

1220
01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:44,640
Speaker 2: could view him as a villain, but if nothing else,

1221
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:50,240
Speaker 2: he's a character with a personality and sports needs that

1222
01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 2: kind of figure. Now, does he go too far sometimes, sure,

1223
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:55,960
Speaker 2: but every figure that does that is going to go

1224
01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:59,040
Speaker 2: too far. What I sent you after the game, when

1225
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:01,480
Speaker 2: it was clear that Connecticut was not going to come

1226
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:03,920
Speaker 2: back and it just wasn't going to be their night,

1227
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:07,400
Speaker 2: was that what I was thinking about was some of

1228
01:03:07,440 --> 01:03:09,840
Speaker 2: the great runs that we've seen in recent memory in

1229
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:12,960
Speaker 2: college basketball, and the one that came to mind was

1230
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:16,080
Speaker 2: Duke because in ninety they got crushed by UNLV in

1231
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:17,960
Speaker 2: the final, and then in ninety one, they came back

1232
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:19,880
Speaker 2: and won in the semi final and then beat that

1233
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:24,120
Speaker 2: Mark Randall Kansas team and beat them pretty badly, and

1234
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 2: then and won their championship there. That was the Grand

1235
01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:30,360
Speaker 2: Hill lu Game and all that. The following year they

1236
01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:32,840
Speaker 2: get back and they beat the Fab five Michigan teams,

1237
01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:36,440
Speaker 2: so they win two in a row. Ninety three, they're

1238
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:39,280
Speaker 2: not really in the mix in that final four. That's

1239
01:03:39,400 --> 01:03:43,880
Speaker 2: the famous Timeout game where Chris Weber called the timeout.

1240
01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:48,160
Speaker 2: Derek Phelps and Donald Williams and that crew from North

1241
01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:52,439
Speaker 2: Carolina won the championship. And then in ninety four, Duke

1242
01:03:52,520 --> 01:03:55,120
Speaker 2: got back to the title game, but they lost to

1243
01:03:55,200 --> 01:04:00,960
Speaker 2: Corliss Williamson and Scottie Thurman, that great Arkansas team in

1244
01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:04,320
Speaker 2: ninety four. So they went to three title games out

1245
01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:07,280
Speaker 2: of four years, skipping the third year, and then in

1246
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:10,120
Speaker 2: the fourth win they actually lost that game. It was

1247
01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:13,160
Speaker 2: a good game, but they lost it to a really

1248
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:17,120
Speaker 2: good Arkansas team that reminds me a lot of Connecticut,

1249
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:19,760
Speaker 2: because Connecticut won two in a row. Then they weren't

1250
01:04:19,760 --> 01:04:22,280
Speaker 2: in the mix for a year. They weren't in the

1251
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:24,840
Speaker 2: title game, and then they got back and lost to

1252
01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:29,800
Speaker 2: a really good Michigan team that Duke run is still remembered.

1253
01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:33,360
Speaker 2: That was the Laate Iner career, the Hurly career, the

1254
01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:35,880
Speaker 2: Grand Hill, the Thomas Hill, the Brian Davis like that

1255
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:38,400
Speaker 2: was really kind of the beginning. I understand that Danny

1256
01:04:38,400 --> 01:04:42,200
Speaker 2: Ferry preceded all of that, but really the team that

1257
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:45,160
Speaker 2: brought them to the dance that made Duke what we

1258
01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:47,880
Speaker 2: would know Duke to be. It wasn't the Tommy Amiker

1259
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:52,920
Speaker 2: Johnny Dawkins teams. It was those early nineties Duke teams,

1260
01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:55,680
Speaker 2: and that run is still talked about, you know, thirty

1261
01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:59,160
Speaker 2: five years later, and this Yukon team just did the

1262
01:04:59,280 --> 01:05:03,200
Speaker 2: exact same. If you're looking at it from an accomplishment standpoint,

1263
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:07,640
Speaker 2: I think sometimes you can kind of underappreciate what Dan

1264
01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:11,640
Speaker 2: Hurley and Yukon has accomplished over this last four or

1265
01:05:11,640 --> 01:05:15,320
Speaker 2: five year stretch. It's been remarkable, and honestly, it's hard

1266
01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:18,720
Speaker 2: not to gain a lot of respect for them throughout

1267
01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:22,760
Speaker 2: the process because it has not been easy as college

1268
01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:27,040
Speaker 2: basketball has shifted right around during this timeframe, and he's

1269
01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:31,000
Speaker 2: still got his guys right there on the doorstep of

1270
01:05:31,040 --> 01:05:34,160
Speaker 2: a third national title in four years. It's really impressive.

1271
01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:36,680
Speaker 4: I'll give you a crazy stat and we'll move on.

1272
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:40,080
Speaker 3: Since the twenty twenty three NCAA tournament, how about this

1273
01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:45,320
Speaker 3: Yukon eighteen and two in the last four NCAA tournaments,

1274
01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:50,600
Speaker 3: the only losses to in twenty twenty five, last year

1275
01:05:50,640 --> 01:05:54,000
Speaker 3: to the eventual champion Florida Gators, and to the eventual

1276
01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:56,920
Speaker 3: champion this year in twenty twenty six, the Michigan Wolverine

1277
01:05:57,000 --> 01:06:00,600
Speaker 3: so eighteen and two, two titles, three title games, the

1278
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:03,680
Speaker 3: only two losses in the last four NCAA tournaments to

1279
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:07,640
Speaker 3: the eventual champions. And by the way, last last last

1280
01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:09,960
Speaker 3: thought on Yukon. I want to get to some stuff

1281
01:06:09,960 --> 01:06:14,640
Speaker 3: on the ratings Alex Caraban, I know, you know, I

1282
01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:16,600
Speaker 3: don't know what the equivalent is on Duke. I don't

1283
01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:19,120
Speaker 3: know if it's Thomas Hill or something like that. I

1284
01:06:19,160 --> 01:06:20,760
Speaker 3: don't know if he's going to play in the NBA,

1285
01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:23,400
Speaker 3: how long he's going to play in the NBA. I

1286
01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:25,920
Speaker 3: do think it's fair to say we will probably never

1287
01:06:25,960 --> 01:06:28,920
Speaker 3: see a career like that again. Four you know he

1288
01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:31,160
Speaker 3: play actually was five years. He did this thing, crazy

1289
01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:32,760
Speaker 3: thing called a red shirt one year. I don't know

1290
01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:35,920
Speaker 3: if you've ever heard of it, but yeah, red shirted

1291
01:06:36,080 --> 01:06:39,320
Speaker 3: as a you know, a first year guy too.

1292
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:41,880
Speaker 2: As a freshman, as a freshman, I'm going to start

1293
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:44,720
Speaker 2: Danna Rubb, but as a freshman when you were at

1294
01:06:44,720 --> 01:06:48,040
Speaker 2: the final four for what would be Connecticut's first championship

1295
01:06:49,080 --> 01:06:53,800
Speaker 2: under Dan Hurley, Alex Caraban came on with Arnie and me, oh,

1296
01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:57,440
Speaker 2: the final four as a freshman, and he sounded like

1297
01:06:57,440 --> 01:06:59,400
Speaker 2: a freshman. He's I mean, he's well spoken, but he

1298
01:06:59,440 --> 01:07:01,680
Speaker 2: was he was oh, you know, you could tell he

1299
01:07:01,720 --> 01:07:04,880
Speaker 2: was a baby. He was excited. It's it's very like

1300
01:07:05,160 --> 01:07:07,640
Speaker 2: watching him during the Final four and watching him during

1301
01:07:07,640 --> 01:07:10,000
Speaker 2: his final run, it's like, yeah, man, they don't make

1302
01:07:10,080 --> 01:07:12,840
Speaker 2: him like this much anymore like guys that end up

1303
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:15,240
Speaker 2: being there their entire career. That's gonna be the exception,

1304
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:15,880
Speaker 2: not the rule.

1305
01:07:16,040 --> 01:07:17,480
Speaker 3: Well, and the thing too that I'll give him a

1306
01:07:17,480 --> 01:07:20,200
Speaker 3: ton of credit on is that he he kind of

1307
01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 3: had to wear a lot of hats. It's not only

1308
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:24,920
Speaker 3: the four years, it's that, and it's not only just

1309
01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:27,960
Speaker 3: the the three final fours and you know, three title

1310
01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:30,720
Speaker 3: games and two championships. But you know, not to nerd

1311
01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:32,840
Speaker 3: out for a second, but you know, the last chance

1312
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:34,600
Speaker 3: I get to nerd out on Alex carabin on a

1313
01:07:34,680 --> 01:07:36,120
Speaker 3: national sports talk radio show.

1314
01:07:36,200 --> 01:07:38,360
Speaker 4: So no, you know, first couple of years.

1315
01:07:38,240 --> 01:07:41,240
Speaker 3: He's playing with all these NBA guys, you know, clinging

1316
01:07:41,320 --> 01:07:43,640
Speaker 3: Steph Castle, who are unbelievable in the NBA right now,

1317
01:07:43,680 --> 01:07:46,360
Speaker 3: by the way, Jordan Hawkins, all these guys, and he's

1318
01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:48,280
Speaker 3: just this role player, He's the fifth guy. He can

1319
01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:51,960
Speaker 3: come on, he can do his thing. Last year, you know,

1320
01:07:52,120 --> 01:07:56,200
Speaker 3: was probably miscast as like the star of the team,

1321
01:07:56,280 --> 01:07:58,720
Speaker 3: and probably that never was the role he was supposed

1322
01:07:58,720 --> 01:08:00,919
Speaker 3: to be in and really had a.

1323
01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:02,080
Speaker 4: Really down year.

1324
01:08:02,120 --> 01:08:04,080
Speaker 3: There was like one game where he missed two free

1325
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:06,040
Speaker 3: throws that would have won a game and he lost.

1326
01:08:06,080 --> 01:08:09,320
Speaker 3: And you know, he dealt with injuries, and like for

1327
01:08:09,440 --> 01:08:12,720
Speaker 3: him to come back as a fifth year senior and

1328
01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:17,040
Speaker 3: really just have just an incredible, incredible season where again

1329
01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:20,479
Speaker 3: the stats don't show it, but every time they every

1330
01:08:20,520 --> 01:08:22,599
Speaker 3: game they needed something a little bit different from him,

1331
01:08:22,600 --> 01:08:25,240
Speaker 3: and he came through against UCLA. So how about this,

1332
01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:30,439
Speaker 3: The winningest player in Yukon history had a career high

1333
01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:32,600
Speaker 3: in the round of thirty two this year, So like

1334
01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:34,439
Speaker 3: of all the games he could have a career high,

1335
01:08:34,520 --> 01:08:36,760
Speaker 3: it was his fourth to last college game. And then

1336
01:08:36,880 --> 01:08:38,800
Speaker 3: I didn't even realize this in real time, but they

1337
01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:42,719
Speaker 3: said it at the podium. Played all forty minutes against Michigan,

1338
01:08:42,840 --> 01:08:45,439
Speaker 3: did not come out. And the crazy part about the

1339
01:08:45,439 --> 01:08:49,000
Speaker 3: Michigan Yukon thing is that you know, we knew that

1340
01:08:49,080 --> 01:08:50,960
Speaker 3: Yukon was gonna kind of have to muck it up

1341
01:08:51,040 --> 01:08:54,320
Speaker 3: to win the game. You kind of had twenty two

1342
01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:58,120
Speaker 3: offensive rebounds in that game, which blew me away. Alex

1343
01:08:58,200 --> 01:09:02,559
Speaker 3: Caraban was seventeen eleven, like I said, played all forty

1344
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:06,519
Speaker 3: minutes and just again every night, especially this season, they

1345
01:09:06,520 --> 01:09:09,120
Speaker 3: needed something a little bit different from him. And yeah,

1346
01:09:09,160 --> 01:09:11,280
Speaker 3: in the moment, you don't really realize it, but you

1347
01:09:11,320 --> 01:09:14,799
Speaker 3: look back, you're like, Wow, three final fours, three national

1348
01:09:14,880 --> 01:09:18,360
Speaker 3: championship games, two titles.

1349
01:09:18,400 --> 01:09:19,320
Speaker 4: It's not hyperb like.

1350
01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:21,800
Speaker 3: We will probably never see that again as long as

1351
01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:26,360
Speaker 3: we were watching college basketball. Really quick, let's switch gears

1352
01:09:26,400 --> 01:09:28,960
Speaker 3: because I do think this is kind of interesting. And

1353
01:09:29,240 --> 01:09:31,160
Speaker 3: by the way, I want some Mike Malone takes. We

1354
01:09:31,240 --> 01:09:32,880
Speaker 3: might have to save him for hour four, but we'll

1355
01:09:32,880 --> 01:09:33,280
Speaker 3: find some.

1356
01:09:33,280 --> 01:09:33,920
Speaker 2: Time for him.

1357
01:09:34,320 --> 01:09:36,120
Speaker 4: I gotta get the Mike Malone takes.

1358
01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:41,960
Speaker 3: But the TV ratings were astronomical, So for people who

1359
01:09:41,960 --> 01:09:45,960
Speaker 3: did not see this, now again Admittedly the games were

1360
01:09:46,040 --> 01:09:50,479
Speaker 3: on Turner, TNT and TBS, and you know they weren't

1361
01:09:50,520 --> 01:09:54,760
Speaker 3: on CBS, but most watched championship game in seventeen years

1362
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:58,320
Speaker 3: despite being on cable, eighteen million viewers peaked it over

1363
01:09:58,479 --> 01:10:04,599
Speaker 3: twenty million viewers in that game. Overall the let's see here,

1364
01:10:04,840 --> 01:10:10,080
Speaker 3: it was the most average viewers, up seven percent from

1365
01:10:10,160 --> 01:10:12,880
Speaker 3: last year's second most watched tournament since nineteen ninety four.

1366
01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:16,120
Speaker 3: Is there any one reason that you believe that we

1367
01:10:16,160 --> 01:10:20,080
Speaker 3: are continuing to see essentially record setting numbers year over

1368
01:10:20,160 --> 01:10:23,920
Speaker 3: year in college basketball or is it just really good

1369
01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:26,599
Speaker 3: product that's getting better, more good players and il stuff

1370
01:10:26,600 --> 01:10:26,760
Speaker 3: like that.

1371
01:10:27,920 --> 01:10:31,640
Speaker 2: I think that it is becoming increasingly rare at that

1372
01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:36,759
Speaker 2: time of year to find guys that actually care about

1373
01:10:36,800 --> 01:10:39,920
Speaker 2: winning games. I think that's part of it.

1374
01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:40,719
Speaker 4: In the sport of basketball.

1375
01:10:40,840 --> 01:10:44,080
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, but I mean it's early in baseball season too.

1376
01:10:44,080 --> 01:10:46,320
Speaker 2: I'm not saying they're not, Karen, but like you got

1377
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:49,720
Speaker 2: a long baseball season, right, Like, there's just there's a

1378
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:52,360
Speaker 2: long grind there and it's right at the beginning of

1379
01:10:52,400 --> 01:10:55,679
Speaker 2: that season. But yes, the bigger point is the NBA

1380
01:10:56,400 --> 01:11:00,719
Speaker 2: and the lack of buy in that seen to emanate

1381
01:11:00,760 --> 01:11:05,400
Speaker 2: from that league at every at every crevice really like

1382
01:11:05,439 --> 01:11:07,679
Speaker 2: you can just see it kind of seeping up like poison.

1383
01:11:08,439 --> 01:11:10,920
Speaker 2: And then the college guys just lay it on the line.

1384
01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:13,280
Speaker 2: You talked about it with Alex Caravan playing forty minutes

1385
01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:15,200
Speaker 2: in the game they weren't going to win, but he

1386
01:11:15,280 --> 01:11:17,800
Speaker 2: didn't come out of that game at any point in time,

1387
01:11:18,439 --> 01:11:23,320
Speaker 2: even like jackxel Lindelborg right like you think about the future, Yeah,

1388
01:11:23,400 --> 01:11:25,880
Speaker 2: he's out there on one knee. Like these guys are

1389
01:11:26,080 --> 01:11:28,519
Speaker 2: laying it on the line, and they're doing it from

1390
01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:31,360
Speaker 2: the very beginning of the tournament. You have the human

1391
01:11:31,439 --> 01:11:36,519
Speaker 2: inature story. You're still watching for the Cinderella early in

1392
01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:39,679
Speaker 2: the tournament at the very least. But the buy in

1393
01:11:39,800 --> 01:11:42,960
Speaker 2: and just the effort that is being put in, the

1394
01:11:43,120 --> 01:11:47,400
Speaker 2: emotion that's being left on the floor, that's what sports

1395
01:11:47,439 --> 01:11:50,880
Speaker 2: fans want because that's the passion that they have at

1396
01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:53,439
Speaker 2: home and that's how they go to work and they

1397
01:11:53,560 --> 01:11:56,240
Speaker 2: at least when they are, you know, trying to feed

1398
01:11:56,280 --> 01:11:58,280
Speaker 2: their families when they were trying to do all those things,

1399
01:11:58,960 --> 01:12:01,200
Speaker 2: they have to buy in, They have to give effort

1400
01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:03,720
Speaker 2: or they're going to be replaced. And so you look

1401
01:12:03,760 --> 01:12:07,400
Speaker 2: at there's no entitlement in the guys that are playing

1402
01:12:07,840 --> 01:12:10,320
Speaker 2: on the field or on the floor once you get

1403
01:12:10,320 --> 01:12:12,320
Speaker 2: to the NC DOUBLEA Tournament. I mean, there was one

1404
01:12:12,360 --> 01:12:16,880
Speaker 2: guy who's you know, attitude was questioned during the course

1405
01:12:16,880 --> 01:12:20,360
Speaker 2: of the regular season, fair or unfair. He didn't comment

1406
01:12:20,400 --> 01:12:22,360
Speaker 2: on it for a while, and he let that narrative

1407
01:12:22,400 --> 01:12:25,200
Speaker 2: run wild, and you know, for him, I hope it's

1408
01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:27,000
Speaker 2: just a blip on the radar and he's gonna go

1409
01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:28,960
Speaker 2: on to have a great career. And that's Darren Peterson.

1410
01:12:29,439 --> 01:12:33,240
Speaker 2: But outside of that, you couldn't find guys that weren't

1411
01:12:33,280 --> 01:12:37,280
Speaker 2: dialed in and invested from the very beginning of this tournament.

1412
01:12:37,560 --> 01:12:40,799
Speaker 2: So when you see them bought in, it's very easy

1413
01:12:40,840 --> 01:12:44,920
Speaker 2: for you to lose yourself in that product, in the storytelling,

1414
01:12:45,320 --> 01:12:48,799
Speaker 2: in everything that's going on, and remember why you love sports,

1415
01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:53,760
Speaker 2: and anything that reminds you why you love something, you're

1416
01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:56,639
Speaker 2: gonna stay with. And I think the NC DOUBLEA Tournament

1417
01:12:56,760 --> 01:13:00,559
Speaker 2: is such a pure example of that. In a you know,

1418
01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:05,439
Speaker 2: in an increasingly fake culture, it's a very real feeling

1419
01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:09,120
Speaker 2: to watch the NC DOUBLEA Tournament and see something that

1420
01:13:09,200 --> 01:13:13,960
Speaker 2: feels genuine. When we have, you know, AI deep fakes

1421
01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:17,240
Speaker 2: and slop all over the place. The NC DOUBLEA Tournament

1422
01:13:17,360 --> 01:13:19,600
Speaker 2: is a place where we can go where we know

1423
01:13:20,160 --> 01:13:22,920
Speaker 2: what to expect and we can actually look at those

1424
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:25,080
Speaker 2: real athletes and see that they care.

1425
01:13:25,920 --> 01:13:28,400
Speaker 3: I don't have much else to add. I don't think.

1426
01:13:28,760 --> 01:13:32,599
Speaker 3: I think it's impossible to not in some way draw

1427
01:13:32,640 --> 01:13:36,400
Speaker 3: a line. And it's so funny, right because that this

1428
01:13:36,479 --> 01:13:39,720
Speaker 3: is what makes NBA fans mad. Is like when you're like, well,

1429
01:13:39,760 --> 01:13:43,160
Speaker 3: the guys just care more, and it's like, but they do, though,

1430
01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:45,160
Speaker 3: And I know you guys say that that doesn't Matt,

1431
01:13:45,720 --> 01:13:48,720
Speaker 3: It matters whatever you're doing. To your point that you

1432
01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:52,160
Speaker 3: made a minute ago about the you know, awful final day,

1433
01:13:52,200 --> 01:13:54,280
Speaker 3: second to last day of the NBA regular season. People

1434
01:13:54,280 --> 01:13:58,280
Speaker 3: are spending money, people are traveling, and I think, you know,

1435
01:13:58,360 --> 01:14:01,280
Speaker 3: and I think it's I'm a perfect example of this

1436
01:14:01,920 --> 01:14:05,000
Speaker 3: is MI Alma Mater lost in the national championship game.

1437
01:14:05,800 --> 01:14:08,160
Speaker 3: I cannot sit here and say that they did anything

1438
01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:11,960
Speaker 3: other than gave it one hundred and ten percent. And

1439
01:14:12,040 --> 01:14:14,519
Speaker 3: I don't feel cheated at all by that team, even

1440
01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:17,200
Speaker 3: though they didn't win the national title. I am sure

1441
01:14:17,520 --> 01:14:20,360
Speaker 3: Illinois fans feel that way. I know Arizona fans were

1442
01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:22,960
Speaker 3: frustrated in the moment, but I have no doubt that

1443
01:14:23,080 --> 01:14:25,599
Speaker 3: over a thirty eight to thirty nine game season they

1444
01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:27,640
Speaker 3: feel like they got their money. And I just and

1445
01:14:27,720 --> 01:14:30,960
Speaker 3: I don't know how the other league, the NBA, I

1446
01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:35,240
Speaker 3: just I don't know how you can't see the rise

1447
01:14:35,479 --> 01:14:39,400
Speaker 3: of men's college basketball, of women's college basketball, the WNBA,

1448
01:14:40,960 --> 01:14:43,360
Speaker 3: NBA ratings. I know, you know, you could find analytics

1449
01:14:43,439 --> 01:14:45,000
Speaker 3: that say that that they were actually up a little

1450
01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:47,120
Speaker 3: bit from last year, but the sport as a whole

1451
01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:49,639
Speaker 3: feels down. And I don't know how you can't put

1452
01:14:49,680 --> 01:14:52,880
Speaker 3: those two things together. So Fox Sports radioweer towards Jason

1453
01:14:52,920 --> 01:14:55,479
Speaker 3: Martin broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. We

1454
01:14:55,520 --> 01:14:57,920
Speaker 3: will come back when we do Steve Disager. He's gonna

1455
01:14:57,960 --> 01:15:01,640
Speaker 3: have plenty to share on a bi week across all sports.

1456
01:15:02,120 --> 01:15:04,360
Speaker 3: A lot of football, well not a lot of football,

1457
01:15:04,360 --> 01:15:07,040
Speaker 3: but there is some football with the draft, NBA, NFL,

1458
01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:09,479
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball that could stuff saga next.

1459
01:15:09,560 --> 01:15:12,760
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1460
01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:15,519
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1461
01:15:15,560 --> 01:15:19,800
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1462
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:21,679
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1463
01:15:22,360 --> 01:15:26,080
Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody, Fox Sports Radio, Eric Geords, Jason Martin.

1464
01:15:26,120 --> 01:15:29,080
Speaker 3: We are broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studios,

1465
01:15:29,120 --> 01:15:31,200
Speaker 3: as we do every week around this time. Let's get

1466
01:15:31,200 --> 01:15:33,400
Speaker 3: it over to the news desk for an extended update.

1467
01:15:33,800 --> 01:15:34,920
Speaker 3: Steve de Seger, take it away.

1468
01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:37,000
Speaker 9: We got stuff to get to, but can I just

1469
01:15:37,080 --> 01:15:38,160
Speaker 9: get this off my chest?

1470
01:15:38,160 --> 01:15:39,200
Speaker 4: Stop charts.

1471
01:15:39,640 --> 01:15:42,880
Speaker 9: We really need to drop a couple of annual phrases.

1472
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:45,960
Speaker 9: And it popped up again today. CBS and others no

1473
01:15:46,200 --> 01:15:49,200
Speaker 9: kept referring to this golf Saturday as moving Day. We

1474
01:15:49,280 --> 01:15:52,599
Speaker 9: hear it every year at this time. I get why

1475
01:15:52,800 --> 01:15:55,040
Speaker 9: guys are moving up and down the standings. The double

1476
01:15:55,120 --> 01:15:58,840
Speaker 9: meaning is people are sometimes physically moving out or moving

1477
01:15:58,880 --> 01:16:02,759
Speaker 9: in on a Saturday. Okay, great joke, I guess. However,

1478
01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:06,120
Speaker 9: people do actually move on other days as well, and

1479
01:16:06,240 --> 01:16:10,000
Speaker 9: more to the point, golfers also move up and down

1480
01:16:10,040 --> 01:16:13,960
Speaker 9: the standings on all other days of the tournament. Please

1481
01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:16,400
Speaker 9: stop with the moving day as if it means something.

1482
01:16:16,840 --> 01:16:19,759
Speaker 9: When the word miss Noover would be in the dictionary,

1483
01:16:19,880 --> 01:16:24,080
Speaker 9: that phrase moving day should be example number one. And

1484
01:16:24,120 --> 01:16:26,679
Speaker 9: while we're at it, to everyone at NASCAR, please stop

1485
01:16:26,720 --> 01:16:30,040
Speaker 9: calling the Daytona five hundred are Super Bowl? Are you

1486
01:16:30,160 --> 01:16:32,920
Speaker 9: even aware of what a super Bowl is. The super

1487
01:16:32,960 --> 01:16:37,559
Speaker 9: Bowl decides the championship. Daytona is the very first race

1488
01:16:37,760 --> 01:16:39,840
Speaker 9: of your entire schedule for the year.

1489
01:16:40,120 --> 01:16:42,120
Speaker 3: This would be a great like June segment, we just

1490
01:16:42,120 --> 01:16:43,880
Speaker 3: each you come up with like three things.

1491
01:16:43,800 --> 01:16:47,360
Speaker 2: Right, there's two. As for the ratios, No, it really

1492
01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:52,639
Speaker 2: grinds Mike Gas, show me back right to produce us.

1493
01:16:53,560 --> 01:16:56,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, come back, keep this in the keep this in

1494
01:16:56,000 --> 01:16:59,080
Speaker 4: the wheelhouse. Well, we'll leave this and then the other topic.

1495
01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:00,720
Speaker 9: We'll start with the phrase if you were on a

1496
01:17:00,760 --> 01:17:04,480
Speaker 9: deserted island, or the phrase the Mount Rushmore.

1497
01:17:05,160 --> 01:17:05,920
Speaker 2: Oh, that, of course.

1498
01:17:05,920 --> 01:17:07,720
Speaker 4: Well never we did a great Mount Rushmore a few

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01:17:07,760 --> 01:17:08,680
Speaker 4: weeks ago. Were you here for?

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Speaker 3: You must have been here for the Mount Rushmore. Of

1501
01:17:10,920 --> 01:17:14,440
Speaker 3: NBA players that just need to retire already, it was Lebron,

1502
01:17:14,680 --> 01:17:17,240
Speaker 3: James Hard Draymond.

1503
01:17:17,600 --> 01:17:20,800
Speaker 4: It was one of the funniest more than four. Yeah,

1504
01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:22,600
Speaker 4: we could have filled up a few Mount rushing.

1505
01:17:22,800 --> 01:17:24,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, there are plenty of candidates.

1506
01:17:25,479 --> 01:17:28,600
Speaker 9: Well, you did mention the TV ratings for college basketball.

1507
01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:33,040
Speaker 9: This is for TBS, TNT, True TV, and the HBO

1508
01:17:33,160 --> 01:17:38,680
Speaker 9: Mass Max streaming combined eighteen point three million viewers for

1509
01:17:38,800 --> 01:17:42,880
Speaker 9: the Michigan win over Yukon on Monday. Impressive to me

1510
01:17:43,040 --> 01:17:45,960
Speaker 9: because that's essentially the same rating that the final of

1511
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:50,320
Speaker 9: a year ago, a better game got on CBS, not

1512
01:17:50,479 --> 01:17:53,800
Speaker 9: on cable when it was Florida Houston. However, we have

1513
01:17:54,520 --> 01:17:59,720
Speaker 9: pre COVID had other finals with larger numbers, the larger audiences,

1514
01:18:00,040 --> 01:18:04,320
Speaker 9: Virginia over Time twenty nineteen, certainly a Carolina final a

1515
01:18:04,400 --> 01:18:07,439
Speaker 9: decade ago, a Duke final just before that. But it

1516
01:18:07,640 --> 01:18:11,240
Speaker 9: very much impressed me that going to cable and again

1517
01:18:11,520 --> 01:18:14,720
Speaker 9: this wasn't like one great game after another in this

1518
01:18:14,840 --> 01:18:17,880
Speaker 9: final four. Still it was an impressive number for month.

1519
01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:19,360
Speaker 4: I will say you very random.

1520
01:18:19,479 --> 01:18:25,360
Speaker 3: It's gonna sound stupid, but until you're in baby, until

1521
01:18:25,400 --> 01:18:28,000
Speaker 3: you're in the belly of the beasts back, you don't

1522
01:18:28,040 --> 01:18:31,960
Speaker 3: realize how crazy big the Michigan fan base is. I mean,

1523
01:18:32,000 --> 01:18:35,320
Speaker 3: I've been to probably about eight final fours. Now, I've

1524
01:18:35,360 --> 01:18:37,280
Speaker 3: never seen a takeover of a building and I know

1525
01:18:37,320 --> 01:18:39,720
Speaker 3: they're two two and a half hours away whatever it

1526
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:43,280
Speaker 3: had to be about ninety eight two Michigan fans and

1527
01:18:43,320 --> 01:18:45,800
Speaker 3: you just I know, we know they put one hundred

1528
01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:47,920
Speaker 3: and five people in the Big House every Saturday, But like,

1529
01:18:48,640 --> 01:18:51,760
Speaker 3: it is crazy, how much, how many fans and how

1530
01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:53,680
Speaker 3: big and how big that fan base is. And I

1531
01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:56,360
Speaker 3: think them being a national brand probably helped the TV

1532
01:18:56,520 --> 01:18:57,200
Speaker 3: rating as well.

1533
01:18:57,240 --> 01:18:59,400
Speaker 9: They are a national brand. And by the way, that

1534
01:18:59,560 --> 01:19:01,920
Speaker 9: was once again, as we talked about on some of

1535
01:19:01,960 --> 01:19:05,200
Speaker 9: the shows last weekend, at a football stadium, the Colt Stadium,

1536
01:19:05,200 --> 01:19:08,960
Speaker 9: and they announced seventy two thousand for the semi finals there. So, yeah,

1537
01:19:09,160 --> 01:19:12,400
Speaker 9: enormous crowd. We haven't had in a regular basketball arena

1538
01:19:12,439 --> 01:19:15,320
Speaker 9: the final four since the mid nineties. But the entire

1539
01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:21,759
Speaker 9: NCAA Men's tournament average per window nearly eleven million viewers combined,

1540
01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:24,920
Speaker 9: which is up from last year and only behind a

1541
01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:28,160
Speaker 9: decade ago, is the highest in many many a year.

1542
01:19:28,240 --> 01:19:31,200
Speaker 9: So this is also very impressive because once again we're

1543
01:19:31,240 --> 01:19:34,519
Speaker 9: dealing with some of these games on cable now. Granted,

1544
01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:37,920
Speaker 9: when you compare to other years, keep in mind TV

1545
01:19:38,080 --> 01:19:41,439
Speaker 9: ratings there perhaps a little more accurate. The audiences are

1546
01:19:41,479 --> 01:19:43,960
Speaker 9: a little bit larger these days because they count out

1547
01:19:43,960 --> 01:19:46,120
Speaker 9: of home viewing, which they did not. It's kind of

1548
01:19:46,160 --> 01:19:49,639
Speaker 9: like when people compare college football stats like this running

1549
01:19:49,640 --> 01:19:51,960
Speaker 9: back did that, Yeah, well the running back year compared

1550
01:19:51,960 --> 01:19:55,599
Speaker 9: to they didn't count his bowl game stats so let's

1551
01:19:55,600 --> 01:19:59,080
Speaker 9: do some apples versus apples. As for what's coming up

1552
01:19:59,120 --> 01:20:01,439
Speaker 9: with the NBA to tomorrow. In the East, in the

1553
01:20:01,439 --> 01:20:05,519
Speaker 9: regular season finales, three teams have a chance to clinch

1554
01:20:05,560 --> 01:20:08,160
Speaker 9: the number six seed, important because that would avoid the

1555
01:20:08,200 --> 01:20:11,040
Speaker 9: play in. Toronto gets the sixth seed with a win

1556
01:20:11,360 --> 01:20:14,760
Speaker 9: or with losses by both Orlando and Philadelphia. Those are

1557
01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:18,080
Speaker 9: the three teams going forward. The actual play in tournament

1558
01:20:18,479 --> 01:20:21,720
Speaker 9: is Tuesday through Friday next week. In each conference, this

1559
01:20:21,800 --> 01:20:24,240
Speaker 9: is how it goes. The seventh seed will host number eight.

1560
01:20:24,720 --> 01:20:27,879
Speaker 9: The winner goes to the playoffs as seven seed. Losers

1561
01:20:27,880 --> 01:20:29,840
Speaker 9: of seven eight get one more chance to get in

1562
01:20:29,920 --> 01:20:32,080
Speaker 9: hosting the winner of nine versus ten.

1563
01:20:32,240 --> 01:20:35,639
Speaker 3: Back to you, awesome stuff to Sager, Thank you, good

1564
01:20:35,640 --> 01:20:37,400
Speaker 3: for me to be back. Good to here to Sager,

1565
01:20:37,520 --> 01:20:40,479
Speaker 3: and it's good to be back in general. With an

1566
01:20:40,520 --> 01:20:43,120
Speaker 3: hour left, this is Fox Sports Radio Enter towards Jason Martin.

1567
01:20:43,160 --> 01:20:45,360
Speaker 3: We are taking you up until two a m. Eastern

1568
01:20:45,680 --> 01:20:48,720
Speaker 3: and we still got another hour. We're talking masters, We're

1569
01:20:48,760 --> 01:20:52,640
Speaker 3: gonna talk a little WNBA expansion, Angel Reach traded a

1570
01:20:52,640 --> 01:20:53,880
Speaker 3: lot still on the docket.

1571
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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports. Really good radio.

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01:20:59,080 --> 01:21:02,840
Speaker 3: Welcome man, everybody hour three towards the mark Fox Sports Radio.

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01:21:03,360 --> 01:21:04,960
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1575
01:21:05,080 --> 01:21:09,160
Speaker 3: Yes, we are live one am Eastern Time from the

1576
01:21:09,200 --> 01:21:12,479
Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio studios. We are taking you up till

1577
01:21:12,560 --> 01:21:15,800
Speaker 3: two am Eastern. Bernie Fratto of The Bernie Fratto Show

1578
01:21:15,880 --> 01:21:20,040
Speaker 3: follows us. Cannot wait to hear what Bernie has to

1579
01:21:20,080 --> 01:21:25,360
Speaker 3: say about Oh, Chris Plank is in tonight. You know,

1580
01:21:25,400 --> 01:21:27,360
Speaker 3: I talked to Chris Plank. You know what's funny. I

1581
01:21:27,400 --> 01:21:32,559
Speaker 3: actually talked to Chris Plank yesterday and uh, I said

1582
01:21:32,640 --> 01:21:35,360
Speaker 3: he had a really good theory on the college basketball ratings,

1583
01:21:35,400 --> 01:21:36,640
Speaker 3: and I said, you need to come out with me

1584
01:21:36,680 --> 01:21:39,559
Speaker 3: and Jason Martin and then I never really followed up

1585
01:21:39,600 --> 01:21:43,960
Speaker 3: on it. But anyways, great guy, that Chris Plank. Great

1586
01:21:44,040 --> 01:21:46,639
Speaker 3: guy that Chris Planks. So he is following us at

1587
01:21:46,640 --> 01:21:50,559
Speaker 3: two am Eastern. Bernie Fratto, I didn't want to know

1588
01:21:50,560 --> 01:21:52,559
Speaker 3: what that guy's doing tonight, but no, I'm kidding. Love

1589
01:21:52,600 --> 01:21:54,719
Speaker 3: Bernie Fratto should match. By the way, new and improved

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1597
01:22:11,320 --> 01:22:14,000
Speaker 3: always pop up at the top of your screen. Big

1598
01:22:14,040 --> 01:22:18,599
Speaker 3: story of Saturday as we are into Sunday. In many

1599
01:22:18,640 --> 01:22:23,040
Speaker 3: parts of the country, it was a very, very busy

1600
01:22:23,160 --> 01:22:25,880
Speaker 3: day at the Masters. If you missed the top of

1601
01:22:25,920 --> 01:22:27,680
Speaker 3: the show, J Mart really did a good job of

1602
01:22:27,720 --> 01:22:30,679
Speaker 3: setting the stage. I had some technical difficulties in studio here,

1603
01:22:31,080 --> 01:22:33,360
Speaker 3: but listen, I'll just set it up, and I want

1604
01:22:33,439 --> 01:22:36,400
Speaker 3: J Mart to kind of share. He's the golf insider

1605
01:22:36,439 --> 01:22:38,360
Speaker 3: here as far as I'm concerned, knows way more about

1606
01:22:38,360 --> 01:22:42,440
Speaker 3: the sport than I do. But Roy McElroy entered Saturday

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01:22:43,320 --> 01:22:50,320
Speaker 3: biggest lead ever through thirty six holes. Unbelievable start, six

1608
01:22:50,360 --> 01:22:55,120
Speaker 3: stroke league, all gone within the first eleven holes of

1609
01:22:55,240 --> 01:23:00,000
Speaker 3: the day. On Saturday, Rory was good, but the story

1610
01:23:00,040 --> 01:23:03,080
Speaker 3: Rory was Cameron Young, who shot a seven under sixty five.

1611
01:23:03,200 --> 01:23:06,360
Speaker 3: It was Scotti Scheffler who's shot a seven under sixty five.

1612
01:23:06,960 --> 01:23:10,360
Speaker 3: And now all of a sudden we enter Master Sunday.

1613
01:23:10,840 --> 01:23:14,080
Speaker 3: Roy McElroy tied atop the leader board with Cam Young.

1614
01:23:15,400 --> 01:23:19,240
Speaker 3: Rory shot a one over seventy three. There are now

1615
01:23:19,880 --> 01:23:24,160
Speaker 3: in total, nine players within six shots of the lead.

1616
01:23:24,360 --> 01:23:28,400
Speaker 3: It will be a very busy Sunday at Augusta and

1617
01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:31,880
Speaker 3: the leader's tee off at two twenty five Eastern time.

1618
01:23:32,240 --> 01:23:33,560
Speaker 3: And I think we're gonna get a heck of a

1619
01:23:33,640 --> 01:23:34,120
Speaker 3: day of golf.

1620
01:23:34,160 --> 01:23:34,519
Speaker 2: JMRT.

1621
01:23:34,560 --> 01:23:35,439
Speaker 4: What do you have to say about that?

1622
01:23:35,680 --> 01:23:39,559
Speaker 2: I mean, that's one hundred percent true. It was weird.

1623
01:23:39,600 --> 01:23:43,080
Speaker 2: I was watching the coverage of holes fifteen and sixteen,

1624
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:46,639
Speaker 2: and this is when Rory was still the final group

1625
01:23:46,680 --> 01:23:48,479
Speaker 2: was still on, like I think they were on fourteen,

1626
01:23:49,560 --> 01:23:51,920
Speaker 2: and the two broadcasters, I don't know who they were.

1627
01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:55,120
Speaker 4: They were the second Jason Kelsey and Kevin Hart.

1628
01:23:55,920 --> 01:23:59,759
Speaker 2: No, thankfully no one of them was a Scottish woman,

1629
01:23:59,800 --> 01:24:04,360
Speaker 2: but I could not get her name. They just started

1630
01:24:04,400 --> 01:24:05,880
Speaker 2: asking I don't know if they were trying to fill

1631
01:24:05,960 --> 01:24:07,880
Speaker 2: time or what. It was, just like, so, who do

1632
01:24:07,880 --> 01:24:11,280
Speaker 2: you think is going to win tomorrow? Dude? Rory still

1633
01:24:11,280 --> 01:24:14,920
Speaker 2: got like five holes to play today, and like, what

1634
01:24:14,960 --> 01:24:20,080
Speaker 2: are you even talking about? And the woman said, justin Rose,

1635
01:24:20,120 --> 01:24:22,880
Speaker 2: it's going to be his time. He's right there within

1636
01:24:22,960 --> 01:24:27,320
Speaker 2: striking distance. He's been so close, he's been runner up twice,

1637
01:24:27,520 --> 01:24:30,080
Speaker 2: and he's ready for this moment. I think he's gonna

1638
01:24:30,120 --> 01:24:32,840
Speaker 2: wear the jacket. And like, just listening to it, I

1639
01:24:32,880 --> 01:24:34,520
Speaker 2: was just kind of like, this is a weird conversation

1640
01:24:34,600 --> 01:24:38,360
Speaker 2: to have because the Sunday that we are going to

1641
01:24:38,439 --> 01:24:42,000
Speaker 2: get because of the Saturday, because it was a day

1642
01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:44,759
Speaker 2: where guys were able to take advantage of the course

1643
01:24:44,960 --> 01:24:48,200
Speaker 2: and go low, and then the leader who was just

1644
01:24:48,439 --> 01:24:52,360
Speaker 2: dwarfing the field in terms of his scorecard, he couldn't

1645
01:24:52,360 --> 01:24:56,599
Speaker 2: take advantage of the course. He struggled to a one over.

1646
01:24:56,800 --> 01:24:59,559
Speaker 2: He's lucky, it was just that bad. He hit the

1647
01:24:59,560 --> 01:25:02,800
Speaker 2: water on on eleven, right after cam Young had given

1648
01:25:02,840 --> 01:25:05,719
Speaker 2: a couple of shots back. It felt like even after

1649
01:25:05,760 --> 01:25:09,120
Speaker 2: a bad start and guys going low, Rory was gonna

1650
01:25:09,120 --> 01:25:10,400
Speaker 2: be okay and he was still gonna have a four

1651
01:25:10,520 --> 01:25:11,400
Speaker 2: or five shot lead.

1652
01:25:11,760 --> 01:25:11,960
Speaker 6: He was.

1653
01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:13,799
Speaker 2: I think he was at thirteen hunderd at that point.

1654
01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:17,960
Speaker 2: And then he ends up putting it in the drink,

1655
01:25:18,240 --> 01:25:21,479
Speaker 2: double boguing, and he just has to struggle home. He

1656
01:25:21,560 --> 01:25:23,760
Speaker 2: makes a couple of putts, he makes a really big

1657
01:25:23,800 --> 01:25:27,400
Speaker 2: putt a few holes later. That kind of at least

1658
01:25:27,439 --> 01:25:30,000
Speaker 2: salvage is where he is. I think it was on fourteen,

1659
01:25:30,080 --> 01:25:33,679
Speaker 2: but it was a big time butt that that really

1660
01:25:33,680 --> 01:25:35,360
Speaker 2: I kind of didn't think he was gonna make because

1661
01:25:35,400 --> 01:25:37,960
Speaker 2: of the distance, but he judged it beautifully and he

1662
01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:41,080
Speaker 2: put it in and got one of his strokes back

1663
01:25:41,200 --> 01:25:46,320
Speaker 2: right there. But this is the Rory McElroy experience and

1664
01:25:46,400 --> 01:25:48,760
Speaker 2: those that thought just because he won last year, he

1665
01:25:48,840 --> 01:25:51,720
Speaker 2: was gonna come in and if he played well, he

1666
01:25:51,800 --> 01:25:55,400
Speaker 2: was just gonna run away with it. He still battles

1667
01:25:55,439 --> 01:25:58,800
Speaker 2: himself sometimes and he didn't hit the ball nearly as

1668
01:25:58,840 --> 01:26:01,040
Speaker 2: well as his score would indicate. On Thursday and Friday,

1669
01:26:01,080 --> 01:26:04,120
Speaker 2: he just had a lot of saves man. He rescued

1670
01:26:04,200 --> 01:26:07,559
Speaker 2: himself out of some serious treachery, and on Saturday he

1671
01:26:07,720 --> 01:26:10,760
Speaker 2: wasn't able to do that, and that was really the

1672
01:26:10,800 --> 01:26:13,120
Speaker 2: difference as other guys went low. So that was the

1673
01:26:13,160 --> 01:26:18,120
Speaker 2: perfect storm to create the drama of guys that really

1674
01:26:18,160 --> 01:26:20,320
Speaker 2: do have a shot to win this thing if they

1675
01:26:20,320 --> 01:26:22,840
Speaker 2: can come out and put a sixty seven down, a

1676
01:26:22,880 --> 01:26:25,559
Speaker 2: sixty five down again as we saw on Saturday. Now

1677
01:26:25,600 --> 01:26:28,680
Speaker 2: will the course play that easy? Will the pen positions

1678
01:26:28,760 --> 01:26:31,639
Speaker 2: be to the advantage of the players. On Sunday, we'll see.

1679
01:26:31,640 --> 01:26:34,080
Speaker 2: I mean the pressure on Sunday at Augusta is unlike

1680
01:26:34,120 --> 01:26:37,559
Speaker 2: anything else, maybe in sports, but certainly in golf. So

1681
01:26:37,760 --> 01:26:40,719
Speaker 2: it becomes a mental test as much as just making

1682
01:26:40,760 --> 01:26:43,559
Speaker 2: sure that you were hitting the shots. Everything seems to

1683
01:26:43,560 --> 01:26:45,559
Speaker 2: be against you, and the course is probably even more

1684
01:26:45,600 --> 01:26:48,240
Speaker 2: menacing at that point in time. So thinking about it

1685
01:26:48,280 --> 01:26:52,519
Speaker 2: from that perspective, you would think that Rory is in trouble.

1686
01:26:52,600 --> 01:26:55,720
Speaker 2: But I actually think he's gonna win because he struggled

1687
01:26:55,760 --> 01:27:00,880
Speaker 2: on Saturday. He's faced some adversity green jacket that he

1688
01:27:00,960 --> 01:27:04,240
Speaker 2: finally won last year, hear and he won in a playoff.

1689
01:27:04,240 --> 01:27:06,519
Speaker 2: He didn't win that one easily either, and he was

1690
01:27:06,560 --> 01:27:09,280
Speaker 2: against somebody that he really respected that could have easily

1691
01:27:09,280 --> 01:27:12,920
Speaker 2: beaten him in justin Rose. And so now he has struggled.

1692
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:16,080
Speaker 2: His six shot lead is completely gone. Now he's tied

1693
01:27:16,160 --> 01:27:19,439
Speaker 2: for the lead, there's guys nipping at his heels. By

1694
01:27:19,439 --> 01:27:21,519
Speaker 2: the time he teas off, he may well not be

1695
01:27:21,800 --> 01:27:24,920
Speaker 2: in the lead anymore. And I think he plays better

1696
01:27:25,479 --> 01:27:28,160
Speaker 2: with the chip on his shoulder or with something to

1697
01:27:28,240 --> 01:27:32,439
Speaker 2: prove or something to go do, as opposed to playing

1698
01:27:32,439 --> 01:27:36,160
Speaker 2: for out front, especially at this course. So I actually

1699
01:27:36,200 --> 01:27:39,200
Speaker 2: think he's gonna win because of Saturday. I think that

1700
01:27:39,360 --> 01:27:41,360
Speaker 2: a lot of people would disagree with me, and I

1701
01:27:41,400 --> 01:27:43,519
Speaker 2: may turn out to be very wrong. Offs a strange

1702
01:27:43,560 --> 01:27:46,000
Speaker 2: game and it can be hard to predict. But I

1703
01:27:46,160 --> 01:27:50,000
Speaker 2: like his chances because he's already faced the adversity. It's

1704
01:27:50,040 --> 01:27:53,280
Speaker 2: not the back nine on Sunday. He did it on Saturday,

1705
01:27:53,439 --> 01:27:56,280
Speaker 2: so he knows what can happen. And I think, you know,

1706
01:27:56,360 --> 01:27:58,639
Speaker 2: get a good night's sleep and go out there again.

1707
01:27:59,120 --> 01:28:01,360
Speaker 2: He knows how talent that he is, and I think

1708
01:28:01,400 --> 01:28:02,000
Speaker 2: he's gonna win.

1709
01:28:02,160 --> 01:28:03,400
Speaker 4: Let me ask you a dumb question.

1710
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:07,840
Speaker 3: I saw somebody reference that they actually thought that's why

1711
01:28:07,920 --> 01:28:11,240
Speaker 3: there were so many low scores on Saturday was because

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01:28:11,800 --> 01:28:15,360
Speaker 3: basically Rory had such a big lead that you couldn't

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01:28:15,400 --> 01:28:17,240
Speaker 3: overthink it. You essentially just had to grip it and

1714
01:28:17,320 --> 01:28:19,479
Speaker 3: rip it and just go out and do your best.

1715
01:28:19,479 --> 01:28:23,280
Speaker 3: Do you think that Rory's big lead played a role

1716
01:28:23,439 --> 01:28:26,040
Speaker 3: in so many low scores because you don't have time

1717
01:28:26,080 --> 01:28:27,840
Speaker 3: to overthink it and play it safe. You just kind

1718
01:28:27,880 --> 01:28:29,559
Speaker 3: of have to go out there and try to get

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01:28:29,600 --> 01:28:30,439
Speaker 3: the best score that you can.

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01:28:31,040 --> 01:28:34,360
Speaker 2: To a degree, yes, I mean the golf is a

1721
01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:37,200
Speaker 2: little bit different in that regard, but there is something like,

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01:28:37,240 --> 01:28:40,240
Speaker 2: do you know how some quarterbacks don't operate great? But

1723
01:28:40,280 --> 01:28:41,800
Speaker 2: there all of a sudden, they're in the two minute

1724
01:28:41,800 --> 01:28:45,880
Speaker 2: warning and they just explode. It's just one of those

1725
01:28:45,880 --> 01:28:47,479
Speaker 2: moments you don't even have time to think about it.

1726
01:28:47,520 --> 01:28:49,280
Speaker 2: And then there's a freedom menaces, just like we're just

1727
01:28:49,320 --> 01:28:51,080
Speaker 2: gonna go for broke because we don't have time to

1728
01:28:51,120 --> 01:28:54,200
Speaker 2: overthink this and over analyze this. Well, these guys that

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01:28:54,240 --> 01:28:56,720
Speaker 2: were they felt like they were kind of out of

1730
01:28:56,760 --> 01:28:59,800
Speaker 2: it with Rory at twelve and the next closest at six,

1731
01:29:00,800 --> 01:29:04,639
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, like they're kind of playing. They're

1732
01:29:04,640 --> 01:29:06,960
Speaker 2: playing golf. It's almost like they're all playing for second,

1733
01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:10,040
Speaker 2: but they're they're just golfing out there, and they're not

1734
01:29:10,120 --> 01:29:14,800
Speaker 2: really even concerned with catching Rory hole after hole after

1735
01:29:14,840 --> 01:29:17,720
Speaker 2: hole because they're not even within shouting distance. And so

1736
01:29:17,840 --> 01:29:19,960
Speaker 2: you see these guys go low. And then on the

1737
01:29:19,960 --> 01:29:23,559
Speaker 2: flip side, what Rory is watching is guys that he

1738
01:29:23,680 --> 01:29:27,720
Speaker 2: knows are talented. Their scores are going lower and lower

1739
01:29:27,800 --> 01:29:30,439
Speaker 2: and lower, and his is staying the same. It wasn't

1740
01:29:30,520 --> 01:29:33,240
Speaker 2: he was bogeying all these holes. He was just kind

1741
01:29:33,280 --> 01:29:35,920
Speaker 2: of treading water. He was a stock that had peaked,

1742
01:29:36,680 --> 01:29:39,200
Speaker 2: and there were some other like new tech stocks or

1743
01:29:39,200 --> 01:29:42,439
Speaker 2: something like that. They're just coming out of nowhere and

1744
01:29:42,479 --> 01:29:44,840
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, they're nipping at his heels, and

1745
01:29:44,880 --> 01:29:47,760
Speaker 2: I think that's when the pressure hits. But now that

1746
01:29:47,840 --> 01:29:51,599
Speaker 2: he's already there, he's part of that fight, I think

1747
01:29:51,640 --> 01:29:53,600
Speaker 2: that helps him out. But I think there's probably some

1748
01:29:53,720 --> 01:29:57,720
Speaker 2: truth to the idea that guys play freer when they

1749
01:29:57,760 --> 01:30:00,880
Speaker 2: are way behind or when it like they're out of

1750
01:30:00,920 --> 01:30:02,439
Speaker 2: it because they have nothing to lose.

1751
01:30:03,160 --> 01:30:05,439
Speaker 3: Last kind of golf question, obviously, you said you feel

1752
01:30:05,439 --> 01:30:09,000
Speaker 3: pretty confident about Rory. Big picture on Cameron Young, I mean,

1753
01:30:09,400 --> 01:30:11,960
Speaker 3: this is a guy he's only got two career PGA

1754
01:30:12,080 --> 01:30:15,120
Speaker 3: Tour wins, but has finished in the top ten at

1755
01:30:15,160 --> 01:30:18,720
Speaker 3: all four majors, including the top four at three of

1756
01:30:18,760 --> 01:30:22,719
Speaker 3: the four. Does he become sort of that feel good story,

1757
01:30:22,720 --> 01:30:25,000
Speaker 3: Maybe not to the degree that Rory was last year

1758
01:30:25,040 --> 01:30:27,280
Speaker 3: going for the first green jacket, but you know a

1759
01:30:27,280 --> 01:30:29,479
Speaker 3: guy that feels like he's been on the cusp and

1760
01:30:29,520 --> 01:30:31,200
Speaker 3: a lot of these big events and hasn't quite been

1761
01:30:31,200 --> 01:30:31,920
Speaker 3: able to push through.

1762
01:30:32,880 --> 01:30:35,400
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, look, he's he's been a really talented

1763
01:30:35,400 --> 01:30:38,559
Speaker 2: player for a long time, and I think it's just

1764
01:30:40,000 --> 01:30:42,680
Speaker 2: is he ready for this moment? And it's hard to

1765
01:30:42,840 --> 01:30:46,360
Speaker 2: bet on him there now. He has shown good resolve

1766
01:30:46,439 --> 01:30:49,280
Speaker 2: and he has played really solid golf, and I definitely

1767
01:30:49,320 --> 01:30:51,840
Speaker 2: think he's got the talent to win at Augusta. There's

1768
01:30:51,880 --> 01:30:54,439
Speaker 2: no question in my mind about that. It's just is

1769
01:30:54,479 --> 01:30:56,840
Speaker 2: he gonna be able to handle the mental hurle, because

1770
01:30:57,000 --> 01:30:59,840
Speaker 2: I don't think any of us can fully appreciate what

1771
01:31:00,120 --> 01:31:02,160
Speaker 2: it feels like to be on the first page of

1772
01:31:02,160 --> 01:31:05,240
Speaker 2: the leaderboard within a couple of shots, even entering the

1773
01:31:05,320 --> 01:31:09,599
Speaker 2: back nine on Sunday Augusta. That pressure is unlike anything

1774
01:31:09,640 --> 01:31:13,000
Speaker 2: else in sports, except maybe making like a forty five

1775
01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:15,400
Speaker 2: to fifty yard field goal when your team's down two

1776
01:31:15,439 --> 01:31:17,720
Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl or something like that. Like that's

1777
01:31:17,720 --> 01:31:21,400
Speaker 2: probably at least semi akin to it. But the problem

1778
01:31:21,439 --> 01:31:23,679
Speaker 2: with golf and the thing that makes it so unique,

1779
01:31:23,800 --> 01:31:26,320
Speaker 2: so much fun for many people to play, but also

1780
01:31:27,360 --> 01:31:30,439
Speaker 2: just create so much stress it makes it hard to

1781
01:31:30,479 --> 01:31:32,840
Speaker 2: just go out on a weekend and hit it is

1782
01:31:32,880 --> 01:31:38,519
Speaker 2: that when something goes wrong, it's almost always your fault.

1783
01:31:39,479 --> 01:31:41,760
Speaker 2: There's nobody else to blame. There's not a yeah, maybe

1784
01:31:41,760 --> 01:31:43,960
Speaker 2: you can blame your caddy here and there, or somebody

1785
01:31:44,040 --> 01:31:47,360
Speaker 2: might have coughed in your backswing or something, but generally speaking,

1786
01:31:47,400 --> 01:31:49,719
Speaker 2: it's something you did. It's a choice that you made.

1787
01:31:50,160 --> 01:31:52,240
Speaker 2: It's the fact that you missed the green by ten

1788
01:31:52,320 --> 01:31:54,880
Speaker 2: yards or overshot it by ten yards and put it

1789
01:31:54,920 --> 01:31:58,160
Speaker 2: in the drink, or misjudged it or picked the wrong club,

1790
01:31:58,560 --> 01:32:01,280
Speaker 2: and that wears on you because the problem with that is,

1791
01:32:01,640 --> 01:32:05,160
Speaker 2: let's say you do that on sixteen tomorrow. Would you

1792
01:32:05,240 --> 01:32:07,400
Speaker 2: got to play two more holes and there's no breaks,

1793
01:32:08,400 --> 01:32:10,600
Speaker 2: and that becomes I think that's what it is. The

1794
01:32:10,640 --> 01:32:15,160
Speaker 2: pressure builds because hole after hole you have to maintain

1795
01:32:15,280 --> 01:32:19,120
Speaker 2: yourself for hours, because it takes time. It's not even

1796
01:32:19,120 --> 01:32:20,639
Speaker 2: something where you have a clock and you have ten

1797
01:32:20,680 --> 01:32:24,080
Speaker 2: minutes left. It's like no, it's it's a grind and

1798
01:32:24,120 --> 01:32:27,479
Speaker 2: it's a mental toll. So that's why it's hard to

1799
01:32:27,520 --> 01:32:30,760
Speaker 2: pick a guy like Cam Young, just because he's so

1800
01:32:31,000 --> 01:32:34,920
Speaker 2: new to the winning aspect of PGA Tour Golf that

1801
01:32:35,120 --> 01:32:38,200
Speaker 2: for him to do this at Augusta, it's just gonna

1802
01:32:38,200 --> 01:32:40,720
Speaker 2: be very impressive. It's gonna be hard for him, and

1803
01:32:40,760 --> 01:32:43,920
Speaker 2: it's gonna it's gonna show a lot about what he

1804
01:32:43,960 --> 01:32:45,559
Speaker 2: has built. But a lot of people have to lose

1805
01:32:45,600 --> 01:32:47,439
Speaker 2: before they can win at AUGUSTA, no question.

1806
01:32:48,080 --> 01:32:50,639
Speaker 3: Well, cam Young does enter the day tied with Rory

1807
01:32:50,720 --> 01:32:54,440
Speaker 3: McElroy atop the leader board, Sam Burns one stroke behind,

1808
01:32:54,640 --> 01:32:56,759
Speaker 3: and I think I said it a minute ago. Nine

1809
01:32:56,920 --> 01:33:00,040
Speaker 3: players within six shots. Scottie Scheffler, by the way, he

1810
01:33:00,800 --> 01:33:04,280
Speaker 3: shot a seven under sixty five. He is back four

1811
01:33:04,360 --> 01:33:07,960
Speaker 3: strokes back, tied for seventh right now, along with a

1812
01:33:07,960 --> 01:33:09,240
Speaker 3: few other notable names.

1813
01:33:09,320 --> 01:33:11,120
Speaker 2: To hear him go after the reporter.

1814
01:33:11,400 --> 01:33:13,679
Speaker 4: I saw the quote, I didn't hear the audio.

1815
01:33:13,800 --> 01:33:16,360
Speaker 3: So the quote was because he missed a couple putts

1816
01:33:16,360 --> 01:33:17,439
Speaker 3: that would have even had.

1817
01:33:17,320 --> 01:33:18,759
Speaker 2: He could have gone he could have gone lower.

1818
01:33:19,360 --> 01:33:22,000
Speaker 3: Basically, yeah, and he pulled the Mick Cronin, That's the

1819
01:33:22,080 --> 01:33:23,280
Speaker 3: dumbest question I've ever heard.

1820
01:33:23,320 --> 01:33:25,599
Speaker 2: Basically, he just said, that's a dumb question. Next question.

1821
01:33:25,640 --> 01:33:29,160
Speaker 2: But then later on he apologized and before the end

1822
01:33:29,240 --> 01:33:32,000
Speaker 2: of that presser, and he took a question from the

1823
01:33:32,040 --> 01:33:36,120
Speaker 2: reporter in questions Jason Soble like one minute later. So

1824
01:33:36,240 --> 01:33:39,040
Speaker 2: it wasn't the same kind of deal exactly as Cronin.

1825
01:33:39,360 --> 01:33:41,400
Speaker 2: But then later on he's like, you know what, earlier

1826
01:33:42,000 --> 01:33:44,040
Speaker 2: I called a dumb question and a dumb question. It

1827
01:33:44,080 --> 01:33:46,080
Speaker 2: wasn't even a dumb question, so I'm certainly not gonna

1828
01:33:46,080 --> 01:33:48,479
Speaker 2: do that again. And he answered another question, so I

1829
01:33:48,520 --> 01:33:50,320
Speaker 2: think he realized. He was just like, yeah, that was

1830
01:33:50,360 --> 01:33:53,200
Speaker 2: probably not the best move, but he kind of fixed it,

1831
01:33:53,640 --> 01:33:56,280
Speaker 2: unlike Mick cronin, who just leaned right on into it,

1832
01:33:56,439 --> 01:33:57,360
Speaker 2: at least at first.

1833
01:33:58,120 --> 01:34:01,040
Speaker 4: By the way, there was a funny Mick story today.

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01:34:01,080 --> 01:34:02,600
Speaker 3: I will try to get the audio before the end

1835
01:34:02,600 --> 01:34:04,880
Speaker 3: of the show, but this week, but I'll tell you

1836
01:34:04,920 --> 01:34:07,439
Speaker 3: a funny mccronin story about midway through the year. He

1837
01:34:07,520 --> 01:34:10,960
Speaker 3: was complaining about his team's toughness and he's like, it

1838
01:34:11,000 --> 01:34:13,280
Speaker 3: was All Star weekend and you know, all the agents

1839
01:34:13,320 --> 01:34:14,880
Speaker 3: are in LA and he said, I told my guy,

1840
01:34:15,360 --> 01:34:19,880
Speaker 3: he said, I want you to go find me to toughest,

1841
01:34:20,320 --> 01:34:24,679
Speaker 3: he said, toughest Eastern European vodka drinking twenty three year olds,

1842
01:34:24,720 --> 01:34:28,479
Speaker 3: like I want them to have wrestled bears in their youth. Well,

1843
01:34:28,880 --> 01:34:31,080
Speaker 3: UCLA got two commitments out of a couple of Eastern

1844
01:34:31,120 --> 01:34:34,240
Speaker 3: European players this week in the portal. So mc cronin,

1845
01:34:34,320 --> 01:34:36,640
Speaker 3: you know, that was one quote that he was good on.

1846
01:34:37,040 --> 01:34:39,639
Speaker 3: And I did see the Scotty Sheffler quote in all seriously,

1847
01:34:39,640 --> 01:34:41,120
Speaker 3: is I did not see the follow up though, so

1848
01:34:41,439 --> 01:34:44,120
Speaker 3: and I was surprised because you know, I don't follow

1849
01:34:44,160 --> 01:34:45,960
Speaker 3: this as close as you do. But he doesn't seem

1850
01:34:46,040 --> 01:34:48,040
Speaker 3: like the type to say and do stuff like that.

1851
01:34:48,479 --> 01:34:51,040
Speaker 3: So you know, listen, I think everybody has those moments

1852
01:34:51,080 --> 01:34:55,040
Speaker 3: where and you know, it is the cliche of you know,

1853
01:34:55,080 --> 01:34:57,479
Speaker 3: if we all had to go up to a podium

1854
01:34:57,479 --> 01:34:59,719
Speaker 3: at the end of our work day and answer questions,

1855
01:34:59,760 --> 01:35:02,000
Speaker 3: you know, you wouldn't be happy about it every single day.

1856
01:35:02,080 --> 01:35:04,240
Speaker 3: But that's cool that he kind of caught himself and

1857
01:35:04,960 --> 01:35:07,400
Speaker 3: you know, corrected himself. And I do know that Jason

1858
01:35:07,439 --> 01:35:11,120
Speaker 3: Sobol is a very respected reporter in the in the media.

1859
01:35:11,200 --> 01:35:15,240
Speaker 3: So anyway, Scotty Scheffler is four strokes back Cam Young

1860
01:35:15,360 --> 01:35:18,599
Speaker 3: Roy McElroy tie the top the leader board. They will

1861
01:35:18,640 --> 01:35:21,960
Speaker 3: tee off at two twenty five Eastern time. Fox Sports

1862
01:35:22,040 --> 01:35:25,320
Speaker 3: Radio eritors Jason Martin, broadcasting live from the Fox Sports

1863
01:35:25,400 --> 01:35:29,960
Speaker 3: Radio Studios. We'll come back a couple interesting stories from

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01:35:30,000 --> 01:35:36,519
Speaker 3: the w NBA this week expansion, Angel Reese. Oh, we're

1865
01:35:36,560 --> 01:35:39,880
Speaker 3: talking about it all, j mart Fox Sports Radio.

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01:35:40,280 --> 01:35:43,160
Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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01:35:43,200 --> 01:35:46,559
Speaker 5: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio

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01:35:46,720 --> 01:35:50,800
Speaker 5: dot Com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to

1869
01:35:50,920 --> 01:35:51,599
Speaker 5: listen live.

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01:35:52,760 --> 01:35:57,320
Speaker 3: Welcome back everybody, Fox Sports Radio, Eric Torris, Jason Martin.

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01:35:57,360 --> 01:36:01,160
Speaker 3: We are broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.

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01:36:02,240 --> 01:36:07,920
Speaker 3: NBA regular season ends on Sunday, but really the end

1873
01:36:07,960 --> 01:36:10,599
Speaker 3: of the NBA regular season just means one thing, j Martin,

1874
01:36:11,200 --> 01:36:14,960
Speaker 3: We're one day closer to the NBA WNBA season. Baby,

1875
01:36:15,000 --> 01:36:17,760
Speaker 3: that's right. Who you got this year? Have you have

1876
01:36:17,880 --> 01:36:19,439
Speaker 3: you done your Have you done you? First of all,

1877
01:36:19,479 --> 01:36:21,400
Speaker 3: have you done your WNBA fantasy drafts?

1878
01:36:21,439 --> 01:36:22,080
Speaker 2: Yet?

1879
01:36:22,520 --> 01:36:22,560
Speaker 8: My?

1880
01:36:22,680 --> 01:36:25,320
Speaker 4: What WNBA fantasy drafts?

1881
01:36:25,320 --> 01:36:25,519
Speaker 2: You know?

1882
01:36:25,600 --> 01:36:25,800
Speaker 6: Like you?

1883
01:36:26,120 --> 01:36:28,080
Speaker 2: I don't think I could do it because I couldn't

1884
01:36:28,200 --> 01:36:33,080
Speaker 2: name enough players, Like I basically just have to go

1885
01:36:33,200 --> 01:36:37,559
Speaker 2: to someone who had tabulated, like you know, the pre

1886
01:36:37,680 --> 01:36:40,439
Speaker 2: draft lists and stuff, and just I just take the

1887
01:36:40,479 --> 01:36:42,920
Speaker 2: best one, like, because I just don't know enough of

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01:36:42,960 --> 01:36:46,200
Speaker 2: the players. Well, and if you think that's kind of

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01:36:46,200 --> 01:36:47,240
Speaker 2: a shot, it.

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01:36:47,240 --> 01:36:50,360
Speaker 3: Is, it is fair enough. Well, let me ask you this.

1891
01:36:51,320 --> 01:36:53,280
Speaker 3: You're gonna have to learn a lot more new players

1892
01:36:53,320 --> 01:36:56,679
Speaker 3: because we got two new teams in the league this year.

1893
01:36:57,400 --> 01:37:03,600
Speaker 3: Congrats to our new expansion teams this season in Portland

1894
01:37:04,000 --> 01:37:06,519
Speaker 3: and Toronto. So that's that's a bunch of new players.

1895
01:37:06,960 --> 01:37:11,480
Speaker 3: And then we found out this week that Detroit, Cleveland,

1896
01:37:11,600 --> 01:37:15,360
Speaker 3: and Philly in twenty eight, twenty nine, and thirty are

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01:37:15,439 --> 01:37:19,439
Speaker 3: getting w NBA teams. J Mart, So that is five

1898
01:37:19,640 --> 01:37:24,479
Speaker 3: new teams in this league. What is your takeaway on

1899
01:37:24,520 --> 01:37:28,960
Speaker 3: the en WNBA expanding by you can't quite say, hold on.

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01:37:29,040 --> 01:37:30,880
Speaker 4: Let me see here. I want to see something really quick.

1901
01:37:31,040 --> 01:37:31,760
Speaker 2: Let me see here.

1902
01:37:31,880 --> 01:37:33,120
Speaker 3: I want to see how many teams were in the

1903
01:37:33,200 --> 01:37:35,920
Speaker 3: league last year. This is really good radio here, let's

1904
01:37:35,960 --> 01:37:41,439
Speaker 3: see here. So last year there were thirteen total teams,

1905
01:37:41,479 --> 01:37:44,120
Speaker 3: including the Golden State Valkyries. That was their first year.

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01:37:44,200 --> 01:37:50,799
Speaker 3: So thirteen total teams were increasing the league by essentially

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01:37:50,840 --> 01:37:54,879
Speaker 3: more than thirty three percent with five new teams between

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01:37:54,920 --> 01:37:57,920
Speaker 3: now and twenty thirty. J martch So that's gonna be,

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01:37:58,160 --> 01:38:00,200
Speaker 3: you know, about thirty three percent more players you got

1910
01:38:00,280 --> 01:38:02,040
Speaker 3: to learn for your fantasy drafts by the time we

1911
01:38:02,040 --> 01:38:02,720
Speaker 3: get to twenty thirty.

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01:38:02,760 --> 01:38:03,519
Speaker 4: How do you feel about that?

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01:38:04,760 --> 01:38:07,040
Speaker 2: I just don't get it, man, Well, man, I get it.

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01:38:07,680 --> 01:38:10,080
Speaker 2: I guess from a short term perspective if you just

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01:38:10,120 --> 01:38:11,840
Speaker 2: want to cash influx.

1916
01:38:11,360 --> 01:38:11,519
Speaker 6: But.

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01:38:13,080 --> 01:38:16,439
Speaker 2: Who is this a league that needs to expand? This

1918
01:38:16,479 --> 01:38:18,840
Speaker 2: isn't new to us because we saw these stories a

1919
01:38:18,840 --> 01:38:21,840
Speaker 2: few months ago, and we've mentioned this a few different times.

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01:38:21,880 --> 01:38:24,920
Speaker 2: But this league doesn't need to expand. This league needs

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01:38:24,920 --> 01:38:32,800
Speaker 2: to contract. There's not enough recognizable women players in the

1922
01:38:32,880 --> 01:38:37,559
Speaker 2: WNBA to facilitate as many teams as they have. I mean,

1923
01:38:38,320 --> 01:38:42,240
Speaker 2: unless we're gonna throw morality out the window. And at

1924
01:38:42,280 --> 01:38:44,920
Speaker 2: which point can we put Kitlin Clark in a three

1925
01:38:45,000 --> 01:38:48,519
Speaker 2: D printer or something like that? Can we clone her

1926
01:38:48,800 --> 01:38:52,080
Speaker 2: like a sheep? Because unless you can clone her and

1927
01:38:52,439 --> 01:38:56,479
Speaker 2: maybe a couple of others several times over and then

1928
01:38:56,479 --> 01:38:59,600
Speaker 2: maybe change their hairstyles.

1929
01:38:59,640 --> 01:39:02,639
Speaker 4: That they just had, Caitlyn Clark got on a different

1930
01:39:02,680 --> 01:39:04,920
Speaker 4: team with just a wig on, just pretending to be

1931
01:39:05,040 --> 01:39:05,639
Speaker 4: somebody else.

1932
01:39:06,280 --> 01:39:08,040
Speaker 2: Yes, So what I'm saying like, if you could have

1933
01:39:08,120 --> 01:39:10,559
Speaker 2: a league full of that, I know people, But we

1934
01:39:10,640 --> 01:39:12,519
Speaker 2: have a league. No, you really don't. I mean, just

1935
01:39:12,560 --> 01:39:14,200
Speaker 2: because you play games and you have a bunch of

1936
01:39:14,240 --> 01:39:16,760
Speaker 2: teams doesn't mean you have a league. It's just it

1937
01:39:17,800 --> 01:39:22,519
Speaker 2: boggles the mind, the arrogance to think that this is

1938
01:39:22,560 --> 01:39:27,400
Speaker 2: a league that's gonna benefit by adding teams when it's

1939
01:39:27,520 --> 01:39:31,920
Speaker 2: already razor thin. And it's just like they don't understand

1940
01:39:32,000 --> 01:39:36,799
Speaker 2: that their boom is very finite, and they've already blown

1941
01:39:36,880 --> 01:39:39,160
Speaker 2: half of it at least, because we don't know how

1942
01:39:39,160 --> 01:39:42,639
Speaker 2: long Kaitlin Clark's going to play basketball. But once she stops,

1943
01:39:43,760 --> 01:39:47,000
Speaker 2: so does the money train. Like I understand, Look, Page

1944
01:39:47,080 --> 01:39:49,600
Speaker 2: Becker's like watching her play. There's some there are some

1945
01:39:49,680 --> 01:39:52,560
Speaker 2: talented girls. I'm not suggesting they're not talented women in

1946
01:39:52,600 --> 01:39:56,519
Speaker 2: the NBA. I am suggesting that the vast majority, and

1947
01:39:56,520 --> 01:39:59,320
Speaker 2: by that I mean well over ninety percent of the

1948
01:39:59,360 --> 01:40:04,599
Speaker 2: sports watch public in America doesn't care and is never

1949
01:40:04,640 --> 01:40:07,719
Speaker 2: gonna care. And so you're just gonna bring this here

1950
01:40:08,400 --> 01:40:13,160
Speaker 2: to cities that I just it's gonna five years from now,

1951
01:40:13,240 --> 01:40:17,519
Speaker 2: this is gonna look absolutely ridiculous. And I think right

1952
01:40:17,560 --> 01:40:20,000
Speaker 2: now we already know this is a bad.

1953
01:40:19,800 --> 01:40:24,960
Speaker 3: Idea, So very interesting slash ironic point on that you

1954
01:40:25,000 --> 01:40:29,240
Speaker 3: say we won't care. Two of the three cities, Detroit

1955
01:40:29,280 --> 01:40:34,160
Speaker 3: and Cleveland, had WNBA teams at one point that folded

1956
01:40:34,240 --> 01:40:37,920
Speaker 3: because nobody went to their games. Now, admittedly it was

1957
01:40:37,920 --> 01:40:40,840
Speaker 3: a different world WNBA Cleveland had a team from ninety

1958
01:40:40,880 --> 01:40:43,360
Speaker 3: seven to two thousand and three. Detroit had a team.

1959
01:40:43,720 --> 01:40:46,920
Speaker 3: On top about this, the Detroit Shock were a team

1960
01:40:47,000 --> 01:40:48,559
Speaker 3: until two thousand and nine when they.

1961
01:40:48,479 --> 01:40:49,680
Speaker 4: Moved to Tulsa.

1962
01:40:50,360 --> 01:40:53,000
Speaker 3: How listen, I'm gonna offend one of our affiliates here

1963
01:40:53,000 --> 01:40:55,920
Speaker 3: and I'm so sorry. How bad does business have to

1964
01:40:55,960 --> 01:41:00,240
Speaker 3: be in Detroit that you're moving your team to Tulla.

1965
01:41:00,360 --> 01:41:04,320
Speaker 3: They have since moved again, And listen, Chris Plank's coming up.

1966
01:41:05,120 --> 01:41:07,559
Speaker 3: Oklahoma is a lovely state. I've been there. It's a

1967
01:41:07,560 --> 01:41:11,160
Speaker 3: lovely state. But again, I Tulsa doesn't strike me as

1968
01:41:11,240 --> 01:41:15,240
Speaker 3: the you know, the economic epicenter that you want to

1969
01:41:15,280 --> 01:41:17,360
Speaker 3: move to to support.

1970
01:41:16,960 --> 01:41:18,080
Speaker 4: A professional franchise.

1971
01:41:18,120 --> 01:41:21,360
Speaker 3: So that's the funny part, or ironic part, or interesting part,

1972
01:41:21,400 --> 01:41:23,000
Speaker 3: or however you want to describe it. Two of these

1973
01:41:23,040 --> 01:41:25,439
Speaker 3: three places had a team and it did not work.

1974
01:41:25,439 --> 01:41:26,840
Speaker 3: And I actually want to ask you sort of a

1975
01:41:26,840 --> 01:41:29,840
Speaker 3: different question on but it is sort of related on

1976
01:41:30,000 --> 01:41:32,639
Speaker 3: the players and how many players actually moved the needle.

1977
01:41:33,920 --> 01:41:35,800
Speaker 3: And I want to ask you because I think I'm

1978
01:41:35,800 --> 01:41:40,720
Speaker 3: the wrong person to ask. This feels like all the momentum,

1979
01:41:40,760 --> 01:41:43,599
Speaker 3: even in the college game that we had two three

1980
01:41:43,640 --> 01:41:44,840
Speaker 3: years ago, is gone.

1981
01:41:45,960 --> 01:41:46,120
Speaker 1: Now.

1982
01:41:46,120 --> 01:41:49,360
Speaker 3: Admittedly I was at the men's Final four, so obviously

1983
01:41:49,400 --> 01:41:51,439
Speaker 3: there's gonna be more people plugged into the women's Final

1984
01:41:51,479 --> 01:41:53,439
Speaker 3: four and my alma mater was playing in the women's

1985
01:41:53,439 --> 01:41:56,920
Speaker 3: Final four. But it felt like two years ago when

1986
01:41:56,920 --> 01:41:59,639
Speaker 3: it was Caitlin Clark versus South Carolina and Caitlin Clark

1987
01:41:59,680 --> 01:42:02,920
Speaker 3: and Angel played in the Elite eight, that the sky

1988
01:42:03,280 --> 01:42:06,040
Speaker 3: was the limit for women's basketball. To your point, even

1989
01:42:06,120 --> 01:42:08,000
Speaker 3: last year, Page Beckers and you kind of win a

1990
01:42:08,080 --> 01:42:13,799
Speaker 3: national championship, I don't. I guess the geno Don Staley

1991
01:42:13,840 --> 01:42:14,920
Speaker 3: thing kind of gave itself.

1992
01:42:14,920 --> 01:42:18,040
Speaker 2: It was the only thing that there was talked about, yep,

1993
01:42:18,600 --> 01:42:20,840
Speaker 2: regarding that at all, Like I mean, look UCLA and

1994
01:42:20,920 --> 01:42:24,440
Speaker 2: credit to them, right, I mean, dominated won the championship

1995
01:42:24,439 --> 01:42:29,439
Speaker 2: all that, but like this was not a like sporting

1996
01:42:29,479 --> 01:42:34,200
Speaker 2: event that many people went out of their way to see.

1997
01:42:34,360 --> 01:42:36,920
Speaker 2: This is I'm just telling you the truth of it,

1998
01:42:37,080 --> 01:42:41,080
Speaker 2: not you know, trying to bury the women who played

1999
01:42:41,120 --> 01:42:43,240
Speaker 2: in it or if you're a fan of it, like whatever,

2000
01:42:43,400 --> 01:42:46,559
Speaker 2: I mean, you do you that's that's fine, Good for you.

2001
01:42:46,600 --> 01:42:50,600
Speaker 2: I'm glad that you liked the product. But uh, it

2002
01:42:50,760 --> 01:42:53,720
Speaker 2: didn't move the needle like it just there was no

2003
01:42:53,760 --> 01:42:56,320
Speaker 2: star power there. There was nothing there. But to your point,

2004
01:42:56,400 --> 01:42:58,920
Speaker 2: like you had Caitlin Clark, you had Angel Reese. You

2005
01:42:58,960 --> 01:43:02,599
Speaker 2: had Page Beckers, and then you had you know, Juju Watkins, right,

2006
01:43:02,720 --> 01:43:04,759
Speaker 2: So I mean there were a couple of players across

2007
01:43:04,840 --> 01:43:08,599
Speaker 2: the country to watch. And then even after Caitlyn left,

2008
01:43:08,600 --> 01:43:10,880
Speaker 2: you still had Paige and you still had Juju. And

2009
01:43:10,880 --> 01:43:13,960
Speaker 2: then she got injured, but in Page was coming back

2010
01:43:14,000 --> 01:43:17,719
Speaker 2: from an injury. Actually, but the sport is still one person.

2011
01:43:17,960 --> 01:43:20,679
Speaker 2: It's one person defined. I understand she's not the best

2012
01:43:20,680 --> 01:43:25,479
Speaker 2: player in the WNBA, right, but that doesn't matter. There

2013
01:43:25,560 --> 01:43:29,120
Speaker 2: are people who sing better than Taylor Swift, but she's

2014
01:43:29,160 --> 01:43:31,960
Speaker 2: the one. She's the one that moves the needle. That's

2015
01:43:32,080 --> 01:43:35,760
Speaker 2: just the way things work. And so Caitlyn Clark, who

2016
01:43:35,960 --> 01:43:39,320
Speaker 2: was just a wonder can in college and so exciting

2017
01:43:39,360 --> 01:43:42,960
Speaker 2: to watch and became inspiring for a lot of young

2018
01:43:43,040 --> 01:43:47,040
Speaker 2: girls and all this other stuff, you just that's not

2019
01:43:47,200 --> 01:43:50,480
Speaker 2: gonna grow on trees, like you're not gonna find that everywhere.

2020
01:43:50,680 --> 01:43:53,599
Speaker 2: And I don't know that you need to cash in

2021
01:43:53,680 --> 01:43:57,320
Speaker 2: on that by opening up new franchises when there's still

2022
01:43:57,439 --> 01:44:00,160
Speaker 2: only one Caitlyn Clark and whatever it is you who

2023
01:44:00,160 --> 01:44:03,360
Speaker 2: put on the floor is not likely to be able

2024
01:44:03,400 --> 01:44:07,799
Speaker 2: to replicate the success that she has found and garnered.

2025
01:44:07,920 --> 01:44:12,240
Speaker 2: But again, the league's done a really good job of, like,

2026
01:44:12,479 --> 01:44:16,439
Speaker 2: you know, neutering what she could do by allowing people

2027
01:44:16,479 --> 01:44:18,880
Speaker 2: to brutalize her for the first few years of her career.

2028
01:44:19,520 --> 01:44:23,040
Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you what. Caitlin Clark is obviously part

2029
01:44:23,040 --> 01:44:26,960
Speaker 3: of the conversation. So is Angel Reese, who is on

2030
01:44:27,080 --> 01:44:27,479
Speaker 3: the move?

2031
01:44:27,800 --> 01:44:28,439
Speaker 2: Yes she is.

2032
01:44:28,680 --> 01:44:30,680
Speaker 3: Oh, we'll discuss her next. Don't you worry. We got

2033
01:44:30,720 --> 01:44:33,160
Speaker 3: Angel Reese takes for days. We'll discuss her in just

2034
01:44:33,200 --> 01:44:35,040
Speaker 3: a moment before we do though, final time on our

2035
01:44:35,080 --> 01:44:37,040
Speaker 3: show this evening, Steve Seger, what is trending?

2036
01:44:37,200 --> 01:44:41,559
Speaker 9: Angel Reaes traded this week to Atlanta WNBA preseason starts

2037
01:44:41,560 --> 01:44:45,160
Speaker 9: in two weeks, and today Chicago signed Skuylar Diggins. By

2038
01:44:45,200 --> 01:44:49,040
Speaker 9: the way, this note tonight, with spring football well underway,

2039
01:44:49,080 --> 01:44:52,080
Speaker 9: one of the head coaches, Ted Ginn, junior from Ohio State.

2040
01:44:52,160 --> 01:44:55,720
Speaker 9: He's the Columbus coach, was arrested in Texas for DUI.

2041
01:44:56,160 --> 01:45:00,559
Speaker 9: With a game tomorrow, the UFL says offensive coordinator Hayley

2042
01:45:01,080 --> 01:45:03,400
Speaker 9: is going to serve as interim.

2043
01:45:04,000 --> 01:45:05,960
Speaker 2: I haven't heard a few minutes. Absolutely.

2044
01:45:07,479 --> 01:45:10,479
Speaker 9: US women's soccer won its exhibition against Japan two to

2045
01:45:10,520 --> 01:45:13,479
Speaker 9: one in San Jose, and Major League Soccer Colorado six

2046
01:45:13,600 --> 01:45:17,160
Speaker 9: to two over Houston. Denver won the College hockey title. Meanwhile,

2047
01:45:17,200 --> 01:45:20,400
Speaker 9: Colorado and the NHL was beaten in overtime Vegas three

2048
01:45:20,439 --> 01:45:23,479
Speaker 9: to two over the Avs. NHL wins for Columbus and

2049
01:45:23,600 --> 01:45:26,720
Speaker 9: Nashville wins for Tampa Bay and Dallas, which shut out

2050
01:45:26,760 --> 01:45:28,519
Speaker 9: the Rangers two. Do not I think Rangers have been

2051
01:45:28,520 --> 01:45:31,600
Speaker 9: shut out ten times this year. Carolina won for to

2052
01:45:31,680 --> 01:45:35,400
Speaker 9: one at Utah. The NHL regular season ends on Thursday.

2053
01:45:36,040 --> 01:45:39,439
Speaker 9: Edmonton and Vegas clinched their spots in the playoffs tonight,

2054
01:45:39,960 --> 01:45:42,400
Speaker 9: still last couple of spots up for grabs in the

2055
01:45:42,400 --> 01:45:45,960
Speaker 9: Western Conference. One spot left in the East. It belongs

2056
01:45:46,000 --> 01:45:49,920
Speaker 9: to the Flyers right now. Reminder, NASCAR's Cup Series returned

2057
01:45:49,960 --> 01:45:53,839
Speaker 9: Sunday on FS one, again from Bristol, Tennessee. Ryan Blaney

2058
01:45:53,840 --> 01:45:57,120
Speaker 9: earned the poll. The series was off for Easter last weekend.

2059
01:45:57,439 --> 01:46:01,759
Speaker 9: Michigan gave basketball coach Dusty maya coned extension. Illinois freshman

2060
01:46:01,840 --> 01:46:04,160
Speaker 9: Keaton Wogler declared for the NBA Draft.

2061
01:46:04,400 --> 01:46:04,879
Speaker 2: Transfer.

2062
01:46:04,960 --> 01:46:05,240
Speaker 4: PJ.

2063
01:46:05,400 --> 01:46:08,360
Speaker 9: Haggerty will go from Kansas State to Texas A and M.

2064
01:46:08,640 --> 01:46:11,799
Speaker 9: That'll be his fifth school in five years. Isaiah Johnson

2065
01:46:11,880 --> 01:46:15,519
Speaker 9: is transferring from Colorado to Texas. The NBA was off

2066
01:46:15,560 --> 01:46:18,719
Speaker 9: Saturday the regular season and Sunday, with all teams playing

2067
01:46:18,720 --> 01:46:22,720
Speaker 9: that day. The play in tournament begins Tuesday. The real postseason,

2068
01:46:22,760 --> 01:46:26,920
Speaker 9: the first round starts next Saturday. The NBA Finals don't

2069
01:46:26,960 --> 01:46:30,960
Speaker 9: begin until June the third. Milwaukee's Giannis Antenekumpo will not

2070
01:46:31,040 --> 01:46:33,479
Speaker 9: play in Sunday's finale due to his knee injury, so

2071
01:46:33,520 --> 01:46:36,639
Speaker 9: he misses the final four weeks. Played just thirty six

2072
01:46:36,720 --> 01:46:39,880
Speaker 9: games this season. Victor wimbin Yama, the Spurs, who did

2073
01:46:39,920 --> 01:46:43,439
Speaker 9: play last game, questionable with sore ribs. The thunder list

2074
01:46:43,520 --> 01:46:47,160
Speaker 9: ten players is out for Sunday. Shay giljis Alexander out

2075
01:46:47,200 --> 01:46:50,719
Speaker 9: with an oblique injury. New York's Carl Anthony Towns out

2076
01:46:50,720 --> 01:46:54,080
Speaker 9: Sunday managing an elbow injury. The Knicks will rest starters,

2077
01:46:54,280 --> 01:46:57,240
Speaker 9: and Denver's Jamal Murray is out with a shoulder injury.

2078
01:46:57,640 --> 01:47:00,880
Speaker 9: Cam Young tied Rory McElroy at the Mass. Mceroy had

2079
01:47:00,960 --> 01:47:03,760
Speaker 9: led by six strokes after the second round of Masters

2080
01:47:03,800 --> 01:47:07,320
Speaker 9: record and then shot seventy three today, while in round three,

2081
01:47:07,400 --> 01:47:11,280
Speaker 9: Young shot sixty five. American Sam Burns one stroke back.

2082
01:47:11,400 --> 01:47:13,120
Speaker 9: Shane Lowry, who had a hole in one.

2083
01:47:12,960 --> 01:47:13,920
Speaker 2: Today, is two back.

2084
01:47:14,200 --> 01:47:16,759
Speaker 9: Scottie Scheffler is up to a tie for seventh place

2085
01:47:16,840 --> 01:47:18,400
Speaker 9: after his third round sixty five.

2086
01:47:18,439 --> 01:47:19,160
Speaker 2: He's four back.

2087
01:47:19,479 --> 01:47:23,120
Speaker 9: Dustin Johnson shot seventy five Saturday. He's tied for forty

2088
01:47:23,120 --> 01:47:26,960
Speaker 9: four three overpar John Ram is five over Bryson De

2089
01:47:27,040 --> 01:47:29,760
Speaker 9: Shambo missed the cut on Friday at six over. The

2090
01:47:29,800 --> 01:47:34,800
Speaker 9: winner tomorrow gets four and a half million dollars. In

2091
01:47:34,880 --> 01:47:37,960
Speaker 9: Major League Baseball's late Game, Seattle was down seven to

2092
01:47:37,960 --> 01:47:40,320
Speaker 9: two to Houston in the fifth inning, but won the

2093
01:47:40,360 --> 01:47:42,320
Speaker 9: game eight seven with a run bottom of the night.

2094
01:47:42,360 --> 01:47:45,120
Speaker 9: The Astros have lost six in a row. The Dodgers

2095
01:47:45,160 --> 01:47:48,960
Speaker 9: beat Texas six to three, Shoeotani a leadoff homer. Padres

2096
01:47:49,040 --> 01:47:52,200
Speaker 9: came back to defeat Colorado nine to five. Wins on

2097
01:47:52,240 --> 01:47:55,439
Speaker 9: the road for Boston and Cleveland Washington as well. The

2098
01:47:55,520 --> 01:47:57,839
Speaker 9: Nats won three to one at Milwaukee as the Brewers

2099
01:47:57,920 --> 01:48:01,320
Speaker 9: offense was two for thirty. Moore's Gunner Henderson with his

2100
01:48:01,400 --> 01:48:04,839
Speaker 9: sixth homer, O's beat San Francisco six to two. Tampa

2101
01:48:04,840 --> 01:48:06,960
Speaker 9: Bay with two runs bottom of the tenth, edged the

2102
01:48:07,040 --> 01:48:10,360
Speaker 9: Yankees five to four. Pittsburgh won in eleven innings at

2103
01:48:10,360 --> 01:48:12,720
Speaker 9: the Cubs four to three. The Pirates are nine and

2104
01:48:12,920 --> 01:48:16,919
Speaker 9: five wins for Kansas City and Minnesota, wins for Detroit

2105
01:48:17,040 --> 01:48:20,160
Speaker 9: and Cincinnati. That Detroit game was six to one over Miami.

2106
01:48:20,240 --> 01:48:23,639
Speaker 9: Riley Green a homer and four RBIs the A's Tyler

2107
01:48:23,720 --> 01:48:27,360
Speaker 9: Soderstrom two homers, five RBIs A's one at the Mets

2108
01:48:27,400 --> 01:48:30,600
Speaker 9: eleven to six. The Mets losing pitcher code I Singa

2109
01:48:30,960 --> 01:48:33,160
Speaker 9: was out early his team trailed seven to one in

2110
01:48:33,200 --> 01:48:36,320
Speaker 9: the third. The Mets did call up veteran reliever Craig Kimbrel.

2111
01:48:36,600 --> 01:48:39,679
Speaker 9: He pitched one scoreless inning today two strikeouts in that game.

2112
01:48:40,000 --> 01:48:43,720
Speaker 9: Victories for Cincinnati and for Philadelphia, which beat Arizona four

2113
01:48:43,720 --> 01:48:46,160
Speaker 9: to three, back to back homers for Kyle Schwarber and

2114
01:48:46,200 --> 01:48:47,679
Speaker 9: Bryce Harper in the third inning.

2115
01:48:47,720 --> 01:48:50,400
Speaker 4: Back to you, Saga, have a great evening. Thank you

2116
01:48:50,439 --> 01:48:51,200
Speaker 4: for all your help.

2117
01:48:51,360 --> 01:48:54,599
Speaker 3: To Saga, will be back on Sunday with Chris Plank

2118
01:48:54,680 --> 01:48:57,240
Speaker 3: and already Spaniar and of course you from Salam and

2119
01:48:57,320 --> 01:49:00,439
Speaker 3: Mark Willard. Chris Plank following us the top of the

2120
01:49:00,439 --> 01:49:03,040
Speaker 3: hour of Fox Sports Radio Aeron towards Jason Martin, a

2121
01:49:03,080 --> 01:49:06,040
Speaker 3: couple minutes left, do you want to stay on the

2122
01:49:06,120 --> 01:49:09,679
Speaker 3: always riveting WNBA and you mentioned this, jam.

2123
01:49:09,520 --> 01:49:11,679
Speaker 2: Martin, you're the WNBA show of record.

2124
01:49:11,800 --> 01:49:14,960
Speaker 3: We are, we sure are. We got a lot of takes,

2125
01:49:14,960 --> 01:49:16,760
Speaker 3: I'll tell you that much. Most of the mark good.

2126
01:49:16,760 --> 01:49:20,880
Speaker 3: But that's okay. Uh all right, So pushback on something

2127
01:49:20,920 --> 01:49:24,760
Speaker 3: you said last hour or last segment. Is that Uh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

2128
01:49:24,960 --> 01:49:25,559
Speaker 3: just let me get there.

2129
01:49:26,680 --> 01:49:28,559
Speaker 4: So I sound like I'm arguing with my wife. She's like, oh,

2130
01:49:28,640 --> 01:49:29,320
Speaker 4: what are you gonna tell me?

2131
01:49:29,360 --> 01:49:29,519
Speaker 5: Now?

2132
01:49:30,600 --> 01:49:32,840
Speaker 3: You said Kaylin Clark was the what you don't have

2133
01:49:32,920 --> 01:49:35,880
Speaker 3: a league, you have a player. I will give Angel

2134
01:49:35,920 --> 01:49:36,760
Speaker 3: Reese credit for this.

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01:49:37,680 --> 01:49:38,320
Speaker 4: People care.

2136
01:49:38,400 --> 01:49:41,200
Speaker 3: She was traded to the Atlanta Dream earlier this week.

2137
01:49:41,200 --> 01:49:42,559
Speaker 3: And by the way, I don't disagree with you. I'm

2138
01:49:42,600 --> 01:49:45,400
Speaker 3: just gonna I'm just setting up the point in defense

2139
01:49:45,439 --> 01:49:49,040
Speaker 3: of Angel Reese. On Thursday, Stub Hubb revealed the Dream

2140
01:49:49,080 --> 01:49:52,040
Speaker 3: have seen a fifteen percent increase in ticket sales since

2141
01:49:52,040 --> 01:49:54,800
Speaker 3: the news was announced earlier this week. The ticket selling

2142
01:49:54,800 --> 01:49:57,640
Speaker 3: platform said it was the largest single day spike in

2143
01:49:57,760 --> 01:50:02,200
Speaker 3: team history. Also, oh, they have now scheduled so they

2144
01:50:02,240 --> 01:50:05,840
Speaker 3: play in a five thousand seed arena outside of Atlanta.

2145
01:50:06,439 --> 01:50:11,719
Speaker 3: But they have already scheduled five games at State Farm Arena,

2146
01:50:11,800 --> 01:50:16,040
Speaker 3: which is obviously where the Atlanta Hawks play. But Angel

2147
01:50:16,080 --> 01:50:20,519
Speaker 3: Rees traded earlier this week from Chicago to Atlanta. I

2148
01:50:20,640 --> 01:50:24,519
Speaker 3: was traveling, so I don't know what the takes were

2149
01:50:24,720 --> 01:50:26,880
Speaker 3: or what the logic was, but I am open to

2150
01:50:26,960 --> 01:50:30,640
Speaker 3: hearing your thoughts on this, as Angel Reese is on

2151
01:50:30,680 --> 01:50:31,040
Speaker 3: the move.

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01:50:32,560 --> 01:50:35,080
Speaker 2: Well, the one thing I did read and looked kind

2153
01:50:35,080 --> 01:50:39,599
Speaker 2: of in the recent history of the Chicago franchise is

2154
01:50:39,640 --> 01:50:44,080
Speaker 2: that they have a knack for losing players of some

2155
01:50:44,360 --> 01:50:49,280
Speaker 2: you know recognition, renown, you know, people that names that

2156
01:50:49,320 --> 01:50:53,240
Speaker 2: you would know. They've had this happen multiple times in

2157
01:50:53,280 --> 01:50:57,080
Speaker 2: their franchise history, and so this is just the most recent.

2158
01:50:57,280 --> 01:51:00,200
Speaker 2: This is the newest version of this kind of trend

2159
01:51:00,040 --> 01:51:02,640
Speaker 2: and that they have gone through. And I don't know,

2160
01:51:02,920 --> 01:51:08,800
Speaker 2: each situation may be different, but I would imagine they

2161
01:51:08,800 --> 01:51:11,800
Speaker 2: didn't think she was gonna stay. They didn't feel like

2162
01:51:12,479 --> 01:51:15,720
Speaker 2: she liked them. I don't know. Maybe she had conversations

2163
01:51:15,720 --> 01:51:17,599
Speaker 2: with them and said, you know, get what you can

2164
01:51:17,680 --> 01:51:19,840
Speaker 2: for me, but get me out of here. I don't know,

2165
01:51:19,960 --> 01:51:22,080
Speaker 2: Like we don't know exactly what's going on, but I

2166
01:51:22,080 --> 01:51:26,000
Speaker 2: can say this, there's no question she's probably somewhat difficult

2167
01:51:26,000 --> 01:51:28,559
Speaker 2: to deal with. I mean, she has a bit of

2168
01:51:28,640 --> 01:51:31,599
Speaker 2: Draymond dinner, maybe more than a little bit of Draymond dinner.

2169
01:51:32,400 --> 01:51:36,479
Speaker 2: And so you you know, you send her to you know,

2170
01:51:36,600 --> 01:51:38,639
Speaker 2: one of your one of the franchises. Look, you've got

2171
01:51:38,720 --> 01:51:42,160
Speaker 2: executives there. They're pretty important in women's basketball writ large.

2172
01:51:42,800 --> 01:51:45,519
Speaker 2: And Atlanta's a you know, a city close to LSU

2173
01:51:45,560 --> 01:51:49,080
Speaker 2: where she played in college. You know, there's there's a

2174
01:51:49,080 --> 01:51:52,280
Speaker 2: bit of a history there, and you know, give her

2175
01:51:52,280 --> 01:51:53,960
Speaker 2: a fresh start or whatever, and she can go be

2176
01:51:54,000 --> 01:51:56,120
Speaker 2: a star for that team, or at least somebody that

2177
01:51:56,160 --> 01:51:59,080
Speaker 2: can sell tickets. To your point. But I don't know.

2178
01:51:59,160 --> 01:52:02,360
Speaker 2: I mean I haven't I've seen anything that explains exactly

2179
01:52:02,400 --> 01:52:04,160
Speaker 2: why they did it. But they got two picks back

2180
01:52:04,200 --> 01:52:07,720
Speaker 2: for it. And the articles that I have seen have

2181
01:52:07,840 --> 01:52:10,599
Speaker 2: said something like, well who won this trade? Because there

2182
01:52:10,600 --> 01:52:15,400
Speaker 2: are arguments on both sides. So I don't know, what

2183
01:52:15,400 --> 01:52:17,360
Speaker 2: what do you think? What do you think the.

2184
01:52:17,320 --> 01:52:23,439
Speaker 3: Reason is, Well, she's a big name. Yeah, she didn't

2185
01:52:23,560 --> 01:52:28,120
Speaker 3: really contribute to winning. They went thirteen and twenty seven

2186
01:52:28,200 --> 01:52:32,120
Speaker 3: her rookie year. Last year they went I believe let

2187
01:52:32,200 --> 01:52:33,599
Speaker 3: me see if I got this correct.

2188
01:52:33,760 --> 01:52:34,559
Speaker 4: Ten and.

2189
01:52:36,040 --> 01:52:41,040
Speaker 3: Thirty four, So they were a combined twenty three and

2190
01:52:42,360 --> 01:52:46,840
Speaker 3: sixty three if my math is correct, so sixty sixty three.

2191
01:52:46,880 --> 01:52:51,040
Speaker 3: I thinks sixty three, sixty one, twenty three and sixty one.

2192
01:52:51,200 --> 01:52:52,120
Speaker 4: So not great.

2193
01:52:52,880 --> 01:52:58,040
Speaker 3: Um yeah, yeah, listen, she she is a big box

2194
01:52:58,080 --> 01:53:01,760
Speaker 3: office straw all, I will say, And I don't have

2195
01:53:01,800 --> 01:53:03,960
Speaker 3: any sourcing on this, so I'm gonna you know, I'm

2196
01:53:03,960 --> 01:53:06,040
Speaker 3: gonna be delicate how I say it, but let's be honest.

2197
01:53:06,080 --> 01:53:10,559
Speaker 3: Like transferred from Maryland to LSU. They won the Natty,

2198
01:53:10,640 --> 01:53:13,120
Speaker 3: and you know, it was obviously her first year at LSU,

2199
01:53:13,200 --> 01:53:16,040
Speaker 3: her second year if you remember, and a lot of

2200
01:53:16,080 --> 01:53:20,360
Speaker 3: people don't. There was like a weird mid season suspension

2201
01:53:20,439 --> 01:53:25,360
Speaker 3: that nobody could really explain and Kim Mulky like refused

2202
01:53:25,360 --> 01:53:29,120
Speaker 3: to comment on, and so you have that didn't con

2203
01:53:29,240 --> 01:53:32,719
Speaker 3: tribute to winning. Last year, there was a weird injury

2204
01:53:32,760 --> 01:53:35,360
Speaker 3: that nobody could really explain, and you know, it was

2205
01:53:35,400 --> 01:53:38,680
Speaker 3: the typical wasn't playing but then would show up on

2206
01:53:38,760 --> 01:53:44,280
Speaker 3: social media seemingly not being injured. So it feels like

2207
01:53:44,760 --> 01:53:47,800
Speaker 3: there's a lot to deal with. And you know, I

2208
01:53:48,080 --> 01:53:52,200
Speaker 3: I they weren't winning enough to jug but I but

2209
01:53:52,240 --> 01:53:54,840
Speaker 3: I also again, and I'm just trying to be fair

2210
01:53:55,320 --> 01:53:58,040
Speaker 3: to both sides. Is I'm sure she was a box

2211
01:53:58,080 --> 01:54:00,519
Speaker 3: office draw in Chicago as well, and so you know,

2212
01:54:00,520 --> 01:54:02,439
Speaker 3: if she's a big enough box office draw, you'd think

2213
01:54:02,479 --> 01:54:05,800
Speaker 3: you'd want to keep her. But clearly it feels like

2214
01:54:05,840 --> 01:54:07,760
Speaker 3: behind the scenes, it's a lot to deal with. But

2215
01:54:08,439 --> 01:54:10,720
Speaker 3: again the push pull of is it worth it If

2216
01:54:10,760 --> 01:54:13,400
Speaker 3: she's box office Atlanta was willing to take that risk.

2217
01:54:13,439 --> 01:54:16,439
Speaker 3: It's obviously paying dividends in terms of ticket sales and

2218
01:54:16,479 --> 01:54:18,280
Speaker 3: things like that. But I mean we also have to

2219
01:54:18,320 --> 01:54:21,680
Speaker 3: call a spade a spade. You know, nice player, you

2220
01:54:21,720 --> 01:54:26,720
Speaker 3: know clearly has you know, the unique skill set of

2221
01:54:26,760 --> 01:54:30,560
Speaker 3: being able to uh, you know, being able to rebound.

2222
01:54:30,640 --> 01:54:34,080
Speaker 3: But you know, is she and you know, listen to me, fair,

2223
01:54:34,200 --> 01:54:36,000
Speaker 3: Caitlin Clark, as you said, and I agree with you,

2224
01:54:36,080 --> 01:54:37,160
Speaker 3: is not the best player.

2225
01:54:36,880 --> 01:54:37,320
Speaker 2: In the league.

2226
01:54:37,360 --> 01:54:41,280
Speaker 3: I mean, Angel Reese, for all of her individual accolades,

2227
01:54:41,320 --> 01:54:43,680
Speaker 3: I don't know where she would rank among the best

2228
01:54:43,720 --> 01:54:47,480
Speaker 3: players in that league. And so yeah, this is a

2229
01:54:47,520 --> 01:54:49,880
Speaker 3: lot of word salad to get to the point that

2230
01:54:50,440 --> 01:54:54,760
Speaker 3: you know, productive player has her moments. Last year, she

2231
01:54:54,800 --> 01:54:57,000
Speaker 3: did average about fourteen and twelve, So I guess she

2232
01:54:57,080 --> 01:54:58,640
Speaker 3: was better statistically than I thought she was.

2233
01:54:58,720 --> 01:55:00,680
Speaker 2: It's just probably a handful, right, Yes.

2234
01:55:00,600 --> 01:55:05,000
Speaker 3: I think without being a w NBA insider, which I

2235
01:55:05,000 --> 01:55:07,520
Speaker 3: would never claim to be, I think we have a

2236
01:55:07,560 --> 01:55:09,400
Speaker 3: track record that she's probably tough.

2237
01:55:09,240 --> 01:55:10,400
Speaker 4: To deal with behind the scenes.

2238
01:55:10,600 --> 01:55:13,680
Speaker 3: And again it goes to weird suspension in LSU that

2239
01:55:13,720 --> 01:55:17,200
Speaker 3: nobody can explain, weird injury history in Chicago last year

2240
01:55:17,200 --> 01:55:19,960
Speaker 3: that nobody wanted to explain, transferred from her home state

2241
01:55:20,000 --> 01:55:23,040
Speaker 3: school in Maryland after two years. I mean, at some point,

2242
01:55:23,240 --> 01:55:26,440
Speaker 3: you know, you know, it's like the Bill Bill Parcells quote,

2243
01:55:26,440 --> 01:55:28,600
Speaker 3: you are what your record says you are, And you

2244
01:55:28,600 --> 01:55:30,200
Speaker 3: know she's got a little bit of a track record

2245
01:55:30,280 --> 01:55:33,360
Speaker 3: where weird stuff happens that nobody wants to talk about.

2246
01:55:33,720 --> 01:55:36,120
Speaker 3: And so I'm guessing that Chicago, to your point, felt

2247
01:55:36,160 --> 01:55:38,520
Speaker 3: like they could get value for her and they're ready

2248
01:55:38,520 --> 01:55:39,360
Speaker 3: to go in another direction.

2249
01:55:39,520 --> 01:55:42,280
Speaker 2: So I agree. I mean, I think that's I think

2250
01:55:42,360 --> 01:55:45,840
Speaker 2: that's as as possible as anything else. I haven't seen

2251
01:55:45,880 --> 01:55:46,720
Speaker 2: anything definitive.

2252
01:55:46,880 --> 01:55:50,160
Speaker 3: So yeah, that that and we gotta get get to

2253
01:55:50,160 --> 01:55:52,240
Speaker 3: break and come back. That that is the one thing

2254
01:55:52,400 --> 01:55:56,480
Speaker 3: was I was looking for and hoping for but not expecting,

2255
01:55:56,600 --> 01:56:01,120
Speaker 3: Like the athletic deep dive on what really happened. But again,

2256
01:56:01,160 --> 01:56:02,760
Speaker 3: I understand that there aren't a lot of people that

2257
01:56:02,800 --> 01:56:04,320
Speaker 3: cover the league. A lot of the people that cover

2258
01:56:04,360 --> 01:56:06,640
Speaker 3: the league like having access and don't want to be

2259
01:56:06,680 --> 01:56:10,080
Speaker 3: too critical, So I wasn't expecting anything, but that would

2260
01:56:10,120 --> 01:56:12,840
Speaker 3: be my guest Fox Sports Radio Aaron towards Jason Martin,

2261
01:56:12,880 --> 01:56:15,400
Speaker 3: broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

2262
01:56:15,400 --> 01:56:15,960
Speaker 4: Will come back.

2263
01:56:16,480 --> 01:56:20,160
Speaker 3: Couple topics left before we hand it over to Chris Plank,

2264
01:56:20,480 --> 01:56:21,480
Speaker 3: plenty more to discuss.

2265
01:56:21,760 --> 01:56:22,600
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01:56:22,720 --> 01:56:25,600
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01:56:25,640 --> 01:56:29,000
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01:56:33,360 --> 01:56:34,040
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01:56:34,600 --> 01:56:38,040
Speaker 3: Welcome back everybody, Fox Sports Radio Air towards Jason Martin,

2271
01:56:38,280 --> 01:56:42,640
Speaker 3: broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios, one fifty

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01:56:42,760 --> 01:56:47,080
Speaker 3: Eastern time. Chris Plank, the Man, the myth, the legend,

2273
01:56:47,240 --> 01:56:51,160
Speaker 3: following us here in just a few minutes and the

2274
01:56:51,160 --> 01:56:54,480
Speaker 3: pleasure of joining Plank on his serious show yesterday. He

2275
01:56:54,720 --> 01:56:58,120
Speaker 3: is the man, a lot of good stuff. As always,

2276
01:56:58,240 --> 01:57:00,080
Speaker 3: Let's stay on College for have a sex Jmar. We

2277
01:57:00,120 --> 01:57:01,520
Speaker 3: don't have to spend a ton of time on this

2278
01:57:01,640 --> 01:57:06,360
Speaker 3: but I think me and Brandon Deutsch are normal producer.

2279
01:57:07,200 --> 01:57:09,680
Speaker 3: Were part of the first text chain when you saw

2280
01:57:09,720 --> 01:57:12,720
Speaker 3: that Mike Malone was hired by the North Carolina Tarhials.

2281
01:57:12,720 --> 01:57:16,440
Speaker 3: You texted us pretty shortly thereafter. You've had, you know,

2282
01:57:16,600 --> 01:57:19,760
Speaker 3: six seven days to digest it. Mike, I guess it's Michael.

2283
01:57:19,840 --> 01:57:20,839
Speaker 3: He prefers Michael.

2284
01:57:20,960 --> 01:57:21,720
Speaker 2: No, he does.

2285
01:57:21,880 --> 01:57:23,360
Speaker 4: Yes, I did not know that.

2286
01:57:24,320 --> 01:57:29,040
Speaker 3: But Michael Malone, NBA champion and now the head coach

2287
01:57:29,040 --> 01:57:30,160
Speaker 3: of the North Carolina Tarios.

2288
01:57:30,160 --> 01:57:30,840
Speaker 4: What do you make of it?

2289
01:57:31,120 --> 01:57:32,520
Speaker 2: I mean, it was just it was just a name

2290
01:57:32,560 --> 01:57:36,080
Speaker 2: that I never saw coming. The text I sent was

2291
01:57:36,120 --> 01:57:39,760
Speaker 2: just Mike Malone question mark. And it wasn't because he's

2292
01:57:39,760 --> 01:57:42,720
Speaker 2: a bad coach. It's just because, Wow, there's a name

2293
01:57:42,760 --> 01:57:48,560
Speaker 2: that I was not anticipating. And I don't I mean,

2294
01:57:49,840 --> 01:57:52,920
Speaker 2: he's a good coach. A lot of his success has

2295
01:57:52,960 --> 01:57:55,520
Speaker 2: come with Jokich, but I mean that can be said

2296
01:57:55,560 --> 01:57:59,360
Speaker 2: for almost every good basketball coach. They've had somebody throughout

2297
01:57:59,400 --> 01:58:02,840
Speaker 2: a lot of their that has been responsible for what

2298
01:58:02,920 --> 01:58:05,600
Speaker 2: they've done at least been able to execute on the floor.

2299
01:58:06,360 --> 01:58:09,320
Speaker 2: So I don't know if that should be a knock. Obviously,

2300
01:58:09,840 --> 01:58:14,360
Speaker 2: there was unfortunate circumstances that led to his exit in Denver.

2301
01:58:14,600 --> 01:58:18,000
Speaker 2: But he's a championship winning coach. He can be kind

2302
01:58:18,000 --> 01:58:20,200
Speaker 2: of bristly. I believe he can be kind of tough

2303
01:58:20,280 --> 01:58:23,960
Speaker 2: on guys, But Hubert Davis is kind of the opposite.

2304
01:58:24,440 --> 01:58:28,080
Speaker 2: At North Carolina, he brings a big time coaching pedigree,

2305
01:58:28,160 --> 01:58:32,080
Speaker 2: and with college basketball increasingly being more like the NBA

2306
01:58:32,400 --> 01:58:35,560
Speaker 2: in terms of how teams are constructed, what you have

2307
01:58:35,640 --> 01:58:38,440
Speaker 2: to consult, what you have to consider when you're putting

2308
01:58:38,440 --> 01:58:40,800
Speaker 2: together a team, I could see it, and then the

2309
01:58:40,840 --> 01:58:43,080
Speaker 2: other thing is and I know that this has been

2310
01:58:43,120 --> 01:58:47,320
Speaker 2: mentioned a lot. One of Tommy Lloyd's biggest strengths is

2311
01:58:47,800 --> 01:58:51,960
Speaker 2: his international relationships and how he handles international basketball. He's

2312
01:58:51,960 --> 01:58:53,280
Speaker 2: one of the best in the country being able to

2313
01:58:53,320 --> 01:58:55,400
Speaker 2: spot that talent, bring it over and all that. Well,

2314
01:58:56,280 --> 01:59:01,160
Speaker 2: the dude that is tight with Jokic, that's gonna help

2315
01:59:01,200 --> 01:59:04,760
Speaker 2: you out because that guy, his agent is I think

2316
01:59:04,800 --> 01:59:07,480
Speaker 2: the top international agent. He's the guy that's responsible for

2317
01:59:07,560 --> 01:59:10,560
Speaker 2: a lot of those dudes that come over here. To

2318
01:59:10,680 --> 01:59:13,960
Speaker 2: be in tight with Jokic would seemingly give you a

2319
01:59:13,960 --> 01:59:17,120
Speaker 2: pretty good leg up on being able to get international talent,

2320
01:59:17,160 --> 01:59:21,720
Speaker 2: which is increasingly becoming more and more important and valuable

2321
01:59:22,080 --> 01:59:24,720
Speaker 2: on a NBA level, much less on a college level.

2322
01:59:24,760 --> 01:59:27,600
Speaker 2: I mean it's that I think there is some method

2323
01:59:27,640 --> 01:59:30,520
Speaker 2: behind this madness. This is not just yeah, just go

2324
01:59:30,560 --> 01:59:32,920
Speaker 2: get another pro like you got Bill Belichick. I don't

2325
01:59:32,920 --> 01:59:35,560
Speaker 2: think that's this at all. I saw that in a

2326
01:59:35,600 --> 01:59:37,680
Speaker 2: couple of places and I just thought that's kind of

2327
01:59:37,720 --> 01:59:41,040
Speaker 2: a lazy take. I don't I don't know exactly how

2328
01:59:41,040 --> 01:59:46,560
Speaker 2: well this is going to work, but I'm like cautiously

2329
01:59:46,640 --> 01:59:50,600
Speaker 2: optimistic that this move they let's just say this, they

2330
01:59:50,600 --> 01:59:53,440
Speaker 2: could have done a whole lot worse than Mike Malone.

2331
01:59:53,720 --> 01:59:55,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'll be quick here because we got to run.

2332
01:59:55,840 --> 01:59:58,560
Speaker 3: But so I agree with everything you said. First of all,

2333
01:59:58,680 --> 02:00:01,640
Speaker 3: this is not Bill Belichick. I don't know enough about

2334
02:00:01,640 --> 02:00:06,680
Speaker 3: the NBA coaching carousel, but Belichick was basically unhirable. We

2335
02:00:06,720 --> 02:00:08,800
Speaker 3: know he got one interview in that cycle when there

2336
02:00:08,840 --> 02:00:11,800
Speaker 3: was eight nine head coaching jobs opening, wasn't seriously considered

2337
02:00:11,840 --> 02:00:14,840
Speaker 3: for any of them. I'm pretty confident in saying Michael

2338
02:00:14,880 --> 02:00:17,480
Speaker 3: Malone would have gotten an opportunity here. And so I'm

2339
02:00:17,520 --> 02:00:21,080
Speaker 3: with you. The sport has changed, and a little inside

2340
02:00:21,120 --> 02:00:25,040
Speaker 3: college hoops nerd stuff, they actually could, in theory return

2341
02:00:25,120 --> 02:00:26,800
Speaker 3: a lot of players and it makes it easier.

2342
02:00:26,800 --> 02:00:27,520
Speaker 4: This isn't gonna be.

2343
02:00:27,560 --> 02:00:31,120
Speaker 3: He has to go into the portal and get thirteen

2344
02:00:31,280 --> 02:00:33,880
Speaker 3: new guys. I think he'll be okay. It'll be a

2345
02:00:33,920 --> 02:00:34,880
Speaker 3: fun story to monitor.

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