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Speaker 3: and away we go here, What up?

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Speaker 4: Quinn?

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Speaker 5: What up? Notice? I'm not really sure, like, do you

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Speaker 4: Yeah, try and fire them up. That's our that's our

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Speaker 3: It's like the defensive alignment who used to get us

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Speaker 3: smacked in the face to get fired up?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Was that John Henderson? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Didn't he did? He go in the College Football Hall

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Speaker 4: of Fame recently or something along those lines. I want

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Speaker 1: He was a gigantic human being. So that was I

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Speaker 1: had Joe Sheehan, the trainer. He used to slap him.

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Speaker 1: He was in Jacksonville. He came to Cleveland and I

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Speaker 1: remember we saw that clip. We asked him about it

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Speaker 1: and I said.

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Speaker 5: Were you ever scared? Like he was just gonna snap

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Speaker 5: on you one day? He's like, yeah, yeah, pretty much.

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Speaker 5: Every time, I was like, I don't have to do this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well whatever it takes to get you rocking and rolling.

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Speaker 3: But listen, we were all waiting around trying to see

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Speaker 3: when the move was going to be made. It felt

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Speaker 3: like a foregone conclusion. There was some rumblings out there

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Speaker 3: that maybe the Steelers could be in the mix. But

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Speaker 3: as it turns out, what a lot of people expected

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Speaker 3: would be the ultimate end goal here was Kyler Murray

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Speaker 3: being in Minnesota Viking and congratulations to our friends listening

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Speaker 3: on the Yalla Horn of the Twin Cities on Kfan

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Speaker 3: right now, you got yourselves a brand new quarterback. Kyler

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Speaker 3: Murray is the guy inks a one year deal a

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Speaker 3: little over a million dollars. It is since the Arizona

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Speaker 3: Murray is the brand new starter for I don't want

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Speaker 3: to jump to conclusions, but Kyler Burray is the brand

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Speaker 1: Well, he's gonna have to jump to conclusions. I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure he's tall enough to do otherwise. Oh no, I

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Speaker 1: will say this. He is extremely talented. When healthy, he

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Speaker 1: Within this system, I will be curious to see how

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Speaker 1: So that's not gonna happen. It's gonna be any sort

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Speaker 5: And this offense will roll on.

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Speaker 1: What's what I'm really the most curious to seek is

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Speaker 1: And that's why you sign a one year deal some

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Speaker 5: That's what this is setting up for.

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Speaker 3: And I look at it from a Minnesota standpoint. Honestly,

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Speaker 3: what do you got to lose? Like if it's a

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Speaker 3: the rest, like that's a bargain considering, Hey, it's a

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Speaker 3: you know, why not last year didn't work. It's clearly

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Speaker 3: with that guy, And I look at from a Minnesota standpoint,

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Speaker 3: I go, why wouldn't you take a chance? As you mentioned,

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Speaker 3: talented guy, It's not like that's why when the conversation

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Speaker 3: would want him? There's been a lot of quarterbacks who

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Speaker 3: those two guys, Like they've played really really good. No,

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Speaker 3: I'm just I'm I'm saying in during their time, in

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Speaker 4: It just didn't work out there and it fell apart.

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Speaker 3: And it's not like Kyler Murray was a part of

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Speaker 1: To that point, I mean, Arizona's not viewed as one

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Speaker 5: And honestly, they were on the right path.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, once they got rid of Cliff Kingsbury, once they

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Speaker 5: Of moving on.

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Speaker 1: And the truth is, you know, now Cliff Kingsbury's one

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Speaker 1: Calum Murray's signing with you know, the Minnesota Vikings. If

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Speaker 1: he plays I think the way he's capable of, I

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Speaker 1: I should just say this is for like a one

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Speaker 1: I keep going back to this, and people are gonna

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Speaker 5: That draft class next year is so damn good.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna he's gonna have to go somewhere where that

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Speaker 1: maybe they sign him, but it's gonna be hard to

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Speaker 1: find a long term commitment because most long term commandments

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Speaker 1: be the issue. I do think there'll be a heavy

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Speaker 1: enough need for quarterbacks amongst NFL teams. Maybe there's some

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Speaker 1: issue with the duration of this contract. You kind of

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Speaker 1: at this point, but clearly I wasn't gonna work for

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Speaker 3: Kyler Murray did talk yesterday with the media in Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: He spoke about his relationship with Kevin O'Connell and then

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Speaker 3: whether or not he views himself as the guy now

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Speaker 7: Me and k will go back to the lead eleven days.

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Speaker 7: I remember, you know, during the combine, I did, uh

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Speaker 5: So I always respected that.

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Speaker 7: I always appreciate his opinion of me and the support

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Speaker 7: means the world. Obviously, He's had a lot of success

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Speaker 7: with quarterbacks, different quarterbacks and he's he's one of the

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Speaker 7: you know, going to work with him.

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Speaker 4: Do you view this as as you're coming in at

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Speaker 5: Do you view this as a competition.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, No, Like I said, I'm just grateful for the opportunity,

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Speaker 7: grateful for the opportunity. You know, I look forward to

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Speaker 7: coming in and competing and getting to learn the offense,

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Speaker 7: getting to be with coach O'Connell. Obviously he's had a

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Speaker 7: lot of success and uh again, I'm just looking for

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Speaker 7: looking forward to the opportunity coming in here and competing.

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Speaker 3: Uh. Now, Kevin O'Connell has not will not name a starter.

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Speaker 3: He would not name a starter as well, and I

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Speaker 3: can understand the approach, but I don't think anybody.

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Speaker 5: Is nine in the mix which one is going to.

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Speaker 3: Be because that that's where you know, things get real

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Speaker 5: Two different quarterbacks in the mix.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's there's a lot. I I don't think that.

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Speaker 1: So I think this is a great opportunity for Caler

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Speaker 3: If ever, Yeah, the the short memes and stuff that

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, you found.

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Speaker 5: He's They had basically a little kid walking to them.

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Speaker 3: to be made as to why people feel like they're

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Speaker 3: not deserving. I don't know if that's an actual real thing,

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Speaker 3: because I would disagree.

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Speaker 1: Well, okay, I think there's two conversations to be had,

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Speaker 1: and this is where we venture or are venturing into

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Speaker 1: the whole like college football debate that occurs during their

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Speaker 1: playoff and their season and what's happening now in college basketball.

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Speaker 1: And you heard Bruce Pearl do this. We talked about it, which,

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Speaker 1: by the way, his son gives the worst, the worst

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Speaker 1: pregame speeches.

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Speaker 5: I digress.

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Speaker 1: If you haven't seen Bruce Pearl's son, head coach at

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Speaker 1: Auburn him a pregame speech, yeah you've you've. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I've never been more unimpressed with the pregame.

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Speaker 5: Speech before in my life. Yeah, well, I mean, it's

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Speaker 5: just this what it is.

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Speaker 1: I would say this though about Mind of Ohio, and

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Speaker 1: we've talked about this a little bit before. What has

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Speaker 1: made March Madness great or is, you know, is the

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Speaker 1: history of teams like Mind of Ohio. I mean Wally

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Speaker 1: Zurbiak back in the day when he took Mina of

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Speaker 1: Ohio on a run. You know, those are those memorable

496
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Speaker 1: moments that people recall and that make the tournament and

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Speaker 1: make March Madness what it is. So if you're not

498
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Speaker 1: going to have this team be a part of it,

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Speaker 1: you're taking away from that chance of an opportunity of

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Speaker 1: David versus Goliath.

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Speaker 5: Be able to show everyone that they can play with

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Speaker 5: the best teams in the country.

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Speaker 1: Now, that's one side of the argument that's been the

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Speaker 1: history of the tournament. Maybe the tournament doesn't want it

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Speaker 1: to be that anymore, you know, maybe the tournament wants

506
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Speaker 1: it to be the teams that actually have the best

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Speaker 1: basketball players, the most money from their collectives or their

508
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Speaker 1: school that they're putting into the basketball program. Maybe that's

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Speaker 1: what the tournament wants because they look at their tournament

510
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Speaker 1: and they say, we want to have actually a legitimate.

511
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Speaker 1: You know, teams play off for this and not have

512
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Speaker 1: these Cinderella stories where there may be blowout. So there

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Speaker 1: may be games that are lack of competitiveness. I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure where they're at with all of this, but I

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Speaker 1: would say this if Mia Ohio, if you stack them

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Speaker 1: up next to some of the best teams in the country,

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Speaker 1: and this is an example of that. Like watching that

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Speaker 1: game yesterday, first off, Mia bhow had no business losing.

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Speaker 5: It kind of choked it.

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Speaker 1: Away there in the final eight minutes or so when

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Speaker 1: they had about eight nine point lead. Then you mass

522
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Speaker 1: slowly start to peck away. But more so than that,

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Speaker 1: you just like I don't look at that mind of

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Speaker 1: Ohio team. And maybe there's some people who are fans

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Speaker 1: would disagree. There's there's no Wally Zurbiak on that team.

526
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Speaker 1: There's no player on that team that look at and

527
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Speaker 1: say he's going to go in the NBA and have

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Speaker 1: a long, successful career. Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe one of

529
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Speaker 1: those guys will prove me wrong, but that's one of

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Speaker 1: the biggest differences I see.

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Speaker 5: And outside of that, it.

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Speaker 1: Is hard to acknowledge when you do watch them and

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Speaker 1: you hear everyone talk about their strength to schedule. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I could see that, Like, how did this team get

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Speaker 1: to thirty one and one at this point, Probably by

536
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Speaker 1: playing a software schedule and to find a way of

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Speaker 1: winning in the final moments, which is what the game's

538
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Speaker 1: all about. But the truth of the matter is they

539
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Speaker 1: had They're probably not one of the best teams, but

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Speaker 1: are they deserving to be in the tournament? I think

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Speaker 1: so after that loss, though according to ESPN's whatever saber

542
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Speaker 1: metrics are crap they do, they say there's like a

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Speaker 1: thirty eight thirty nine percent chance they get in, which

544
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Speaker 1: is disappointing here, but I can understand if they're changing

545
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Speaker 1: the criteria of what they're looking at.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 3: I just the part that because when you make you know,

548
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Speaker 3: we start discussing, well, they're trying to turn this into

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Speaker 3: a college football argument, which is true, and they're trying

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Speaker 3: to do that. And I can understand the argument if

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Speaker 3: we're talking about just the twelve teams, Like, are they

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Speaker 3: one of the twelve best teams in the country.

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Speaker 4: No, you could.

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Speaker 3: Probably argue they're not one of the twenty five best

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Speaker 3: teams in the country, even though they're a top twenty

556
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Speaker 3: five ranked team. Like that, all of that is fair.

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Speaker 3: Nobody thinks, my I don't even know what their odds

558
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Speaker 3: are to win the national championship, but it's it's you know,

559
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Speaker 3: five dollars wins you aller jet It's not going to happen.

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Speaker 4: Everybody acknowledges that.

561
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Speaker 3: But man, in a tournament where you got over sixty teams,

562
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Speaker 3: like the idea that you couldn't carve out a space

563
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Speaker 3: for a team that went.

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Speaker 4: Thirty one and one is mind boggling to me.

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Speaker 3: And the fact that that really is on the table

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Speaker 3: at this point and that you know, they've got a

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Speaker 3: percentage up there of you know, their to get in

568
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Speaker 3: and it's basically you know, thirty something percent that you

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Speaker 3: mentioned for them to even get into the tournament.

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Speaker 4: That that's kind of crazy. And you know what if

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Speaker 4: they get in?

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Speaker 3: And I can understand the pushback on, well, you know,

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Speaker 3: do you really want Cinderella teams going that far because

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Speaker 3: you want name brands? I got news for you and

575
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 3: you and I have talked about this for a while.

576
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Speaker 3: It is the most difficult tournament, the most unfair tournament

577
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Speaker 3: to a higher rank seed in all of sports. I

578
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Speaker 3: don't care what playoff format you want to talk about

579
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Speaker 3: There really is no true advantage other than, hey, you

580
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Speaker 3: get to play in your region suite. But what a

581
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Speaker 3: region that is. Look, I got news for you. I

582
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Speaker 3: grew up in southern California. They would consider my region

583
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Speaker 3: San Francisco. We were there kind of a different place,

584
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Speaker 3: kind of a different place from where I grew up.

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Speaker 3: So the idea that you would have a Miami of

586
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Speaker 3: Ohio get into the tournament and then it's well, you know,

587
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Speaker 3: if they lose the first game, you know, it just

588
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Speaker 3: shows that they're not deserving.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 3: If you get into the tournament and you're a Cinderella team,

591
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Speaker 3: but you do go on a run in that tournament,

592
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Speaker 3: in that format, you deserve all the credit you get.

593
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Speaker 3: I don't want to hear anything. Well, it's bad for ratings,

594
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 3: it's bad for this, Then you go do it. There's

595
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 3: been a lot of Man, you've criticized Calipari. There's been

596
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 3: a lot of one and done's awful performances by John Calipari.

597
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Speaker 3: And then you have had teams like Oakland or Vermont

598
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Speaker 3: and some of these other schools, Gonzaga, Butler, when Brad

599
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Speaker 3: Stevens did it back to back years.

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Speaker 4: You've had other teams go on runs.

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Speaker 3: If you get into that tournament, which I think they should,

602
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Speaker 3: and they go on to run there, I don't want

603
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Speaker 3: to hear anybody say, well, it's, you know, benefit of

604
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Speaker 3: the doubt, they shouldn't been there. If you get there

605
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Speaker 3: and you have an opportunity and you go on that

606
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Speaker 3: run and win a tournament like that, which is a

607
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Speaker 3: giant pain in the ass to me.

608
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Speaker 4: I just think, I think you've earned your stripes.

609
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Speaker 3: So that's why I like the Cinderella aspect of it,

610
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Speaker 3: and I hope it continues because everybody, somebody makes a

611
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Speaker 3: run every year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the hard thing is the bigger schools

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Speaker 1: and programs, and maybe some blue bloods are pushing now

614
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Speaker 1: more than ever for a like almost promotion relegation because

615
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Speaker 1: there's three hundred and some teams that you got to

616
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Speaker 1: select from, and so how do you go about creating

617
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Speaker 1: a format where it makes sense and not make the tournament,

618
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Speaker 1: you know, a month and a half long. I mean,

619
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Speaker 1: you've got sixty eight teams. Now we've got pushing for

620
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Speaker 1: how many more teams? They're going past seventy two? I

621
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Speaker 1: think it would go to seventy six.

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Speaker 4: I mean, whatever it is, seventy six.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like they're going to add what eight more teams,

624
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Speaker 1: And I can understand that because you've got so many

625
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Speaker 1: teams that are up for this.

626
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Speaker 5: I mean, it is cool.

627
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Speaker 1: It's like, you know, as a dad, and I'm not

628
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Speaker 1: sure if you're doing this with Andrew because some of

629
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Speaker 1: the games might be on kind of early for you guys.

630
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Speaker 1: But I said to my girls the other day, I

631
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Speaker 1: was like, hey, like, do you remember it's March Madness?

632
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Speaker 1: And they're like, yeah, we get to fill out those brackets,

633
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Speaker 1: like that's right.

634
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Speaker 5: And they're like, wait, is this it right now? Are

635
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Speaker 5: we too late?

636
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Speaker 1: I said, no, these are the conference tournaments. I was like, so,

637
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Speaker 1: when my dad was young, we would always try to

638
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Speaker 1: sneak off in school to try to turn on a

639
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Speaker 1: TV and we try to watch the games that were

640
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Speaker 1: onto the conference tournaments to prepare to pick our teams

641
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Speaker 1: for the brackets, and just seeing like they're excited and

642
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Speaker 1: kind of understanding of how this works, Like wait a minute,

643
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Speaker 1: should they be in school and you're trying to explain

644
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Speaker 1: it all to them and as like a young kids,

645
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Speaker 1: it's hard for them to understand exactly how this all works.

646
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Speaker 1: But there is like a sense of just a different

647
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Speaker 1: feel and excitement about it. And I'm not sure if

648
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Speaker 1: you expand it to make it even longer, if that

649
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: would work or not, because with all these conference tournaments,

650
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Speaker 1: it's like, I mean, how long we talking about here?

651
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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 1: Like if you go to seventy six or whatever it

653
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Speaker 1: pick your number ninety two.

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Speaker 5: Who knows? It probably provides more inclusiveness.

655
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Speaker 1: It probably creates more of an opportunity for these teams

656
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Speaker 1: where all right, my how is not even going to

657
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Speaker 1: be debated.

658
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 5: That they should be in or not.

659
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: And you get the room for those blue bloods that

660
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,719
Speaker 1: play a tough conference and play a tough schedule and

661
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 1: they can still be a part of it too. But

662
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 1: you got to draw the line somewhere. And then even

663
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 1: more so than that, you keep watering down and diminishing

664
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 1: the conference tournaments. Yeah, like those are eventually going to

665
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: go away. We talked about in college football conference championship

666
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: games is gonna go away?

667
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 5: Well, if they're gonna expand the.

668
00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: Playoff in college football, yeah, you're probably right expand march

669
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 1: madness in this tournament.

670
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 5: Those conference champions are they're meaningless.

671
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: Because all you're trying to do is create what a

672
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: that large bid for whoever wins that conference tournament when

673
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: and when in reality you've got ninety some teams or

674
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: seventy six teams whatever they're gonna expand to. So I

675
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: could see the argument for both sides just that would

676
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: make for such a long season.

677
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 6: Man.

678
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 3: By the way, to your point is well well stated,

679
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 3: because that really conference tournament week really was the crash

680
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 3: course to try and get ready for the tournament.

681
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what it is. I mean, I'm trusted out.

682
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 5: I did that right now.

683
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 3: It's like you're you're watching teams and players and games

684
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 3: that you would have never watched all regular season. But

685
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 3: I can remember, you know, Greensboro, that was the site

686
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 3: of the ACC Championship, the Big East Tournament, always at

687
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 3: Madison Square Garden. There was those places that you would

688
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 3: watch and you would just you would start to get

689
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 3: familiar with all of these teams so that at least

690
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 3: you had some sort of an understanding of what you

691
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 3: were getting when you go on and even now, look

692
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 3: it doesn't feel quite the same. It's still fun, it's

693
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 3: still exciting because you've got basketball on.

694
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 4: You know, early throughout the course of the day.

695
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 3: You can get Mattine action and all that, and you

696
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 3: know the Big Ten Tourney's going on in Chicago. But yeah,

697
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 3: back it was really the Hey, I haven't really studied

698
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 3: for this test.

699
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:21,280
Speaker 4: Anybody got anything for me?

700
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, watch these games and then you would just go there,

701
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 3: you'd fill out your bracket and then ultimately you just

702
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 3: you know, end up wiping your ass with it, you know,

703
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 3: on day two.

704
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 4: Like that's that's usually that went for me. But it's a.

705
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 5: Hey, it's crazy that things haven't changed for you.

706
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: Like, at no point in your life have you been

707
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: good at betting or picking games.

708
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 3: I will say this because I grew up I was

709
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 3: I rooted for Duke. You know, really went on on

710
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 3: a limb there. College basketball wise, I rooted for Duke.

711
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 5: You might be the biggest front running fan I've ever

712
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 5: heard of my life.

713
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 3: That's not true that I grew up a Cubs still

714
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 3: cancels out everything else.

715
00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 1: No, it doesn't, because you also have rooted for the Celtics,

716
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: the Penguins.

717
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 5: You're now saying.

718
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: Duke in college basketball, you really didn't have a college

719
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: football team.

720
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 5: You'd say South.

721
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,479
Speaker 1: Carolina because you spent some time there for a little bit.

722
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: You were it for the Bears back when they won

723
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: in eighty five. I just outside of baseball.

724
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on a second. A lot of that

725
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 3: was I was born into. It's not like I chose.

726
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:25,479
Speaker 3: Do you think you think when the White Sox were

727
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 3: winning the World Series and five, I was thinking to myself, Yeah,

728
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 3: but f them, I'm so glad I picked the team

729
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 3: the other team in Chicago.

730
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: How old were you in five I'm talking about your childhood. Well, look,

731
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: you were a child in nineteen eighty five.

732
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 4: Okay.

733
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 3: Now, the reason I liked Duke is because I loved

734
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 3: Bobby Hurley and I loved and I can still remember

735
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 3: that you.

736
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,719
Speaker 5: Took shots of Bobby Yes, for you know, being Canna's

737
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 5: the head coach.

738
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 4: No, listen, he had an okay run.

739
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 3: But you know, when you were in the same state

740
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 3: as Arizona and Arizona basketball is what it is. Arizona

741
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 3: State's always going to play second fiddle to them. It

742
00:33:58,400 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 3: just that is what it is.

743
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 5: But yeah, some people who are UNC fans would say

744
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 5: that about Duke.

745
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 4: You know, just now, come on, let's not get care to.

746
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: When I was growing up, wake Forest was a bigger

747
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: piece of that conversation. Wake Force with Chris Paul and

748
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: Tim Duncan like that. That was a completely different.

749
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,799
Speaker 3: Point also, and people forget Maryland had some really good

750
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 3: teams with Gary Williams back in the day.

751
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 5: What happened. By the way, I love buzz Buzz.

752
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,399
Speaker 1: Williams is one of my favorite coaches of all time.

753
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: But I mean, I he'll get a second year, I

754
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 1: would assume. But it's like, man, that was a that

755
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: was a rough season.

756
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, ACC was sweet back in the day. That was

757
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 3: a really really good conference and really good basketball and

758
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 3: then you know, but but things have changed. But the

759
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 3: point is, uh, I was usually good at the NCAA

760
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,399
Speaker 3: Tournament brackets. I would just ride Duke the whole way

761
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,399
Speaker 3: and they would usually make a deep run. But yeah,

762
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 3: it sucks, man, That's all right, You're gonna get it

763
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,399
Speaker 3: this week. I'm telling you right now, Oh, I will

764
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 3: finish in first place on this show when we do

765
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 3: our bracket challenge and that stuffs Knocks Loucks.

766
00:34:58,160 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: Let's just go to the history here, folks, and I

767
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: know we're up in against the Lorna. I will get

768
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 1: to this, but in recent history, and I want to

769
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,479
Speaker 1: say recent as in like three years ago, Jonas didn't

770
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,760
Speaker 1: even submit one half of the side of his bracket,

771
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 1: so he basically only filled out half the bracket, couldn't

772
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: figure out how to save it, and then unfortunately had

773
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: to sit there and talk about why he was not

774
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: a part of the bracket challenge because he only filled

775
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: half the bracket out. That was a networking of the

776
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: how many years have been worked together? Eleven years now,

777
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: a long time?

778
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 5: Okay.

779
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 1: Of those eleven years, you have not had a team

780
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 1: that you picked to win it actually win. You have

781
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: had maybe maybe two Final four teams twice, and you've

782
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,399
Speaker 1: never had more than fifty percent of your team's at

783
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: best making to the Sweet sixteen. You have been by

784
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 1: far the worst picker of March madness I have ever

785
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:55,280
Speaker 1: been around.

786
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I did win the Fox Sports Radio Bracket

787
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 3: Challenge back in twenty fifth team because that was a

788
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:01,839
Speaker 3: year that Duke won.

789
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 4: Okay, so that's a fact.

790
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 5: It's not a fact, and I did have I don't

791
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 5: think we're working.

792
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 3: To the other then, so but I'm just pointing out

793
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 3: I do have a history of success here. It was

794
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:13,800
Speaker 3: a long time ago. But it's almost like I'm Mike Tomlin,

795
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 3: you know, I did win early on. You just want

796
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,879
Speaker 3: to point out all the shortcomings recently, and I think

797
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 3: that's a negative approach. I'd also say this, Brady has

798
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 3: this thing where he waits until my bracket is all

799
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 3: filled out, and then he goes in and fills out

800
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 3: his so he can cancel out some of my picks,

801
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 3: all right, So that that is a story.

802
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 1: Just so people understand the process. You have to log

803
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: on fill out a bracket before you can actually look

804
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: at anyone else, and.

805
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 5: They just look at other people and they make it easy.

806
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 5: So what you said is literally just like you just

807
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 5: lied and.

808
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 4: They make it easy here. Okay.

809
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 3: And the year that I forgot to fill out half

810
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 3: the bracket, that was a network air Okay, that was

811
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 3: an air a Wi Fi glitch. I had nothing to

812
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 3: do with Wi Fi glitch. I had nothing to do

813
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 3: with that. So but the fun will start coming up

814
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 3: on Mondays. We will have the brackets and we'll be

815
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 3: able to pick and choose and run our mouse and.

816
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 4: Have a good time with it.

817
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 3: It is two pros and a cup of Joe here

818
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 3: on Fox Sports Radio, Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox with you

819
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 3: up next. We are going to have another edition of

820
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 3: in case you missed it and an NFL team thought

821
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,840
Speaker 3: they had fixed a problem, they did not.

822
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 4: It's yours here on FSR.

823
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of Two Pros and

824
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 2: a Cup of Joe with Brady Quinn, LeVar Errington, and

825
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 2: Jonas Knox weekdays at six am Eastern three am Pacific

826
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,959
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

827
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 5: I think you're going to like next week's song, I'll

828
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 5: leave it at that.

829
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, this was interesting, interesting choice.

830
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 1: I got to mix it up sometimes. I mean, you know,

831
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: when you're like you, you stay in one lane and you

832
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: never really get out of that lane, so it's kind

833
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 1: of boring.

834
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,320
Speaker 4: It's not true, basic.

835
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 5: And just all the things that's not true.

836
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,240
Speaker 4: I've brought out the Narcos theme.

837
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,319
Speaker 5: Buddy, you didn't even know who Neo was. You didn't

838
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 5: know even how to pronounce Neo.

839
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 4: I mean, why would why would you have known that?

840
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 5: Though? Because I listened to a variety of music.

841
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean why would you Actually I almost.

842
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: Picked Neo one of Neo's songs for one of my songs.

843
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: Maybe it will at some point, but why would you

844
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 1: have known that? I didn't know who that was? How

845
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: would you have known that?

846
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:16,839
Speaker 5: Why would I have known?

847
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: Because you're so concerned about reads that I had to

848
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: check up to make sure that you knew how to

849
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 1: pronounce the names of those artists.

850
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 4: Oh so it had nothing to do with Raddy sweeka

851
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:27,839
Speaker 4: behind the scene.

852
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 5: Actually it was.

853
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: Actually that is professionalism of our producer Patti Sweet. When

854
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:37,439
Speaker 1: I asked him, I said, hey, does Jonas need help

855
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 1: with some of the reads today? Being that LeVar is

856
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: out and I know that Jonas probably isn't aware of

857
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 1: some of who some of those artists are.

858
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, well, and there.

859
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: Was feedback given that thanks for being a good team player.

860
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: Jonas says he's got it covered, even though he skipped

861
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 1: over Neo's name on the first reet.

862
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 4: Interesting. Yeah, I like Rady sweeks. Raddy Sweeks.

863
00:38:57,960 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 5: I like when Jonas gets since.

864
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 3: It's not sensitive, it's just you know, apparently apparently that's

865
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:04,399
Speaker 3: what's going on.

866
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 4: Behind the scenes.

867
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's what's going on.

868
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 4: Really it is.

869
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,320
Speaker 3: Well, listen, it is two Pros and a Cup of

870
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,960
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871
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:13,600
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00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 3: of your screen. And right now we welcome in a

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00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 3: man who it's been way too long. I don't know

880
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 3: if do we have any Italian music we can fire

881
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 3: up real quick for the great John Paul Morosi, who

882
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 3: is joining us here live from Houston. I've never seen

883
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 3: somebody so thrilled. Obviously being a professional, you know, not

884
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 3: showing any favoritism, but John Paul Morosi, who you see

885
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,959
Speaker 3: on the MLB Network, you hear him here on Fox

886
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 3: Sports Radio, analyst, insider if it's the NHL, if it's

887
00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 3: the Olympics, but a true, true, proud member of the

888
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 3: family here and a proud fan of the Italian culture. JPM,

889
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 3: good morning to you. Shots of espresso for everybody as

890
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 3: you've been covering Team Italy and the World Baseball Classic.

891
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 6: Bon Gioro Gomevava. They're going to be the convoy.

892
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 5: To speak with you.

893
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 6: Uh when you think about the Italian national team, which

894
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 6: at this moment in time is four and zero having

895
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 6: beaten the United States. We talk about great music, either

896
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 6: your your celebratory song or your walk up song. When

897
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:44,360
Speaker 6: the Italians win the game, which has happened now four times,

898
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:49,360
Speaker 6: they play Gonde partierro by Andre Bocelli, and it is

899
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 6: a it is a very emotional moment. It is just

900
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 6: a beautiful way to end the baseball game. It's We've

901
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 6: heard a lot of a lot of great music. It

902
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 6: is right now a tie between that song by Bocelli

903
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 6: and the fact that earlier on in this in this tournament,

904
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 6: Paull Schemes, of course attended the US Air Force Academy

905
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 6: for two years, took the mound to the top gun theme.

906
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 6: That was a Goosebub's moment too. We've had a lot

907
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 6: of great music, a lot of great moments here in Houston,

908
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:32,760
Speaker 6: and there is more to come, my friends, if.

909
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: You could JP and obviously good to have you on,

910
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: going to be talking with you again. Just summarize the

911
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 1: excitement that the World Baseball Classic has created. It feels

912
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:44,760
Speaker 1: like after the Olympics for hockey, there's that huge moment

913
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 1: for the US and maybe the momentum behind that and

914
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:49,800
Speaker 1: how that's going to impact the youth and the NHL

915
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: moving forward. Is this one of those events that maybe

916
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: baseball can capitalize off of as well.

917
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:59,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, Brady, it is a great point, and it absolutely is.

918
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 6: I was very honored my parents were able to fly

919
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 6: down from Michigan to watch some of the games here

920
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 6: in Houston, and and you know, they've been watching sports

921
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:12,760
Speaker 6: their whole lives. They've seen a lot of great sporting

922
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 6: events and just to see their eyes light up at

923
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 6: what this atmosphere is like. And they were meeting fans

924
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 6: from Mexico that were sitting all around them during the

925
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 6: US Mexico game. But they had such a great experience

926
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 6: spending time with them, and that is the essence of

927
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 6: this tournament. There's social media now is lighting up with

928
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:36,840
Speaker 6: great images of the Dominican and Venezuelan players embracing and

929
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 6: just enjoying compete against each other. That's what this is about.

930
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:44,279
Speaker 6: Of course, everybody here wants to win, but it is

931
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 6: being part of it, and that is so much of

932
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 6: what the Olympic spirit is, of course, and we saw

933
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 6: that in the US being able to win both gold

934
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 6: medals and hockey and the way that Alysslu won it

935
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:01,239
Speaker 6: figure skating, and just it is. It is certainly that

936
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 6: the honor and the competing. Obviously everybody wants to win,

937
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 6: but it is being there and being part of it.

938
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 6: It is not possible, in my opinion, to watch World

939
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 6: Baseball Classic games, whether it's on TV or especially in person,

940
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 6: and not have your heart moved by the players, the fans,

941
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 6: the spirit of those that love this tournament and watch it.

942
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 6: The crowds here in Houston have been unbelievable. In Miami,

943
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 6: of course, it is the same in San Juan, Puerto Rico,

944
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:33,720
Speaker 6: with the Puerto Rican national team being able to qualify

945
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:37,760
Speaker 6: for the next round. Extraordinary environment there. And of course Japan.

946
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:42,280
Speaker 6: I say this, it's my wish that all baseball fans

947
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 6: have a chance to see baseball games in Japan because

948
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 6: it's a very moving and emotional experience. So it's you're right, Brady,

949
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 6: it's it's been great baseball. But on top of just

950
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:56,160
Speaker 6: the great baseball, the great pitching, the great hitting, it's

951
00:43:56,200 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 6: been an almost spiritual experience of sport that we've seen.

952
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,880
Speaker 6: And we're not done yet. We got us Canada tonight

953
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 6: so put part three in the trilogy, US Canada Women's Hoaki,

954
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 6: US Canada Menzaki, and now we've got US Canada Baseball.

955
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 6: So the trilogy of the early part at twenty twenty

956
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 6: six ends tonight and then of course some amazing matchups

957
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 6: the Italians against Puerto Rico tomorrow as well.

958
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 3: John Palmmerosi joining us here on Fox Sports Radio, Fox

959
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 3: Sports Radio, MLB analyst and insider MLB Network. You can

960
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,839
Speaker 3: see him as well too, live from Houston covering the

961
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 3: World Baseball Classics. So let me ask you this, because

962
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 3: I think everybody kind of feels the same. You watch it.

963
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 3: It's fun, people are fired up. It sort of, you know,

964
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 3: gets rid of any dividing line between rooting for teams.

965
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 3: You're rooting for your country, not so much your individual teams.

966
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,720
Speaker 3: So that being said, why is it only every three years?

967
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:52,399
Speaker 3: Why wouldn't they want to work this into the rotation more?

968
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 3: And has that been a discussion?

969
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 6: Well, Jonahs, it's an excellent question. I think, first and foremost,

970
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:02,799
Speaker 6: it is a big undertaking to host it is It

971
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 6: is a lot of work just on the capacity of

972
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:09,759
Speaker 6: the Commissioner's Office. The MLBPA, of course, is involved in

973
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 6: it two. There's also and we've already seen it with

974
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:18,240
Speaker 6: the conversation about Trek Skouble and his agonizing decision about

975
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 6: going back to the Tigers camp because he felt like

976
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 6: he had to make sure that he was there with

977
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 6: his team. It's a lot on the pitching. You have

978
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,840
Speaker 6: to get ready earlier than you typically do. And so

979
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:33,919
Speaker 6: I'm with you, Hey, I'd love it every year too,

980
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 6: But I think that that MLB feels like every three

981
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:41,760
Speaker 6: or four years is about the right interval. Of course,

982
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 6: we have the potential of baseball being back in the

983
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 6: Olympics in twenty eight. The CBA expires after this year.

984
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 6: There's a lot of conversation about where the labor negotiations

985
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:57,399
Speaker 6: will go, so I would love to see it more routinely. This,

986
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 6: I think feels like the right the right interval. The

987
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,360
Speaker 6: one thing I would say is that the next step

988
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 6: to make it even bigger than it is right now

989
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 6: is to play the finals in the middle of the season,

990
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 6: and whether you have an express version of this at

991
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,839
Speaker 6: the All Star break, or maybe you play the preliminary

992
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 6: rounds in March, then you play the quarter semifinals in

993
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:26,479
Speaker 6: July and elongate the All star break that I think

994
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:29,360
Speaker 6: is the next step. The other thing you could see

995
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 6: and I would love to see this too, is a

996
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:38,760
Speaker 6: routine showdown series between Team USA and the Dominican Republic

997
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:42,440
Speaker 6: or Team USA and Team Japan, and that way there's

998
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 6: more consistent playing of this national team Jersey with the

999
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 6: other titans of global baseball. Certainly, the games at this

1000
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 6: point have been amazing, but you can also just distill

1001
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 6: it to a seven game series. Maybe you play three

1002
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 6: games in la and then four in Tokyo. However you

1003
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:02,479
Speaker 6: want to do it. But the general point you're making,

1004
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 6: Jonas is spot on, which is international baseball best done best,

1005
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 6: just like international hockey best done best is magic. And

1006
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 6: we got to capitalize on it and do it more often.

1007
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 6: And to the NHL's point, they're going to now do

1008
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:19,880
Speaker 6: it every other year. You're going to have a major tournament,

1009
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 6: either the Olympics or the World Cup of Hockey. It

1010
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 6: was the Four Nations a year ago with the amazing

1011
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:27,840
Speaker 6: game in Montreal, with the three fights and nine seconds

1012
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 6: that we'll always talk about that that is and I

1013
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 6: was fortunate to be in the building for that too.

1014
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 6: I'm pretty lucky as a fan those moments the idea

1015
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 6: there for hockey is every other year, so twenty six Olympics,

1016
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 6: twenty eight World Cup. I think hockey is figuring it out. Baseball,

1017
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:50,320
Speaker 6: hopefully it's getting there too. That best done best is

1018
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 6: one of the best ways, as Brady said earlier, to

1019
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 6: grow the game. And there are going to be kids

1020
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:58,799
Speaker 6: that watch the Olympics. They're gonna be kids that are

1021
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 6: watching this tournament right now now who are saying, I

1022
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 6: want to play for Team USA. And it is getting

1023
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:07,720
Speaker 6: easier and easier now to recruit players to play because

1024
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 6: they all see on which fund it is.

1025
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: I guess the only question I have in that regard

1026
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:14,959
Speaker 1: JP is, you know, how much is too much?

1027
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 5: You know?

1028
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: I feel like one of the issues with baseball, one

1029
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 1: of these is really that basketball is dealing with right now,

1030
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 1: is because basketball doesn't have a signature event like this.

1031
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 1: I think they'd like it to be The All Star

1032
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: Game doesn't really feel like it becomes that, you know,

1033
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:29,920
Speaker 1: they try to do that middle of the season, and

1034
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 1: the NBA Cup what if they call it. I mean,

1035
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 1: that's kind of falling flat on its face. But with

1036
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:37,840
Speaker 1: hockey and baseball, they've really got something here. And I

1037
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:40,520
Speaker 1: also I kind of feel like the scarcity of it, though,

1038
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 1: is what makes it such a big deal. I mean,

1039
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 1: if you start making it every year, does that take

1040
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 1: away a little bit from like the luster of it

1041
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 1: or the intensity of it, because it's not every year.

1042
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: You don't have that shot next year, you got to

1043
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: wait another two years. Isn't that part of the conversation

1044
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 1: it is.

1045
00:48:56,640 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 6: It's an excellent point, and that's why I think probably

1046
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,359
Speaker 6: two years as hockey is doing it, or whether it's

1047
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 6: every third year for MLB, and we don't know, I

1048
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:11,360
Speaker 6: should be clear, we don't know when the next WBC

1049
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 6: will be, that there will be another one, and I

1050
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 6: think that everybody's realizing how important it is, but we

1051
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 6: don't know exactly when. And I think to your point,

1052
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 6: it will more than likely never be every single year.

1053
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:28,279
Speaker 6: I think every other year is from hockey standpoint, it's

1054
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:30,240
Speaker 6: probably the soonest that you would.

1055
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 5: Ever do it.

1056
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:34,839
Speaker 6: And obviously now we've got twenty six with the World

1057
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 6: Baseball Classic, and we could have the twenty eight Olympics

1058
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 6: with major league players. We don't know that for sure,

1059
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:45,759
Speaker 6: it's still being discussed, but the potential of major league

1060
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 6: players in that Olympic tournament I think is so enticing,

1061
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 6: and Brady's sort of you know the Olympic spirit so

1062
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 6: well and through your family. It's just it's the it's

1063
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 6: there's nothing like it. There's there is nothing like it.

1064
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,319
Speaker 6: I mean, this is the World Baseball Classic. Is extraordinary.

1065
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 6: I think that if you have major league players in

1066
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:09,239
Speaker 6: the in the Olympics and you're playing at Dodger Stadium

1067
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:14,360
Speaker 6: and it's Paul Skins against Otani and and you're deciding

1068
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 6: the gold medal with with that matchup, which you know,

1069
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 6: you could say it sounds a little improbable. Well, we

1070
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 6: thought of it that way until Otwani struck out Mike

1071
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,359
Speaker 6: Trout and it proved it that that the baseball guys

1072
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:29,920
Speaker 6: are keeping an eye on all this for us. And

1073
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 6: it's been a lot of fun. So it really is.

1074
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 6: It's been It's been great and to your point, it

1075
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 6: could still even get greater. H if we have a

1076
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 6: chance to watch the gold medal game at Dodger Stadium

1077
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 6: and all these same stars are back there with the

1078
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 6: Olympic rings. It's just it's been so much fun and

1079
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 6: I feel like every couple of years, let's let's make

1080
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 6: sure we keep having this great meeting of the of

1081
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:57,240
Speaker 6: the best baseball players and best baseball fans in the world.

1082
00:50:58,000 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 5: I love that idea.

1083
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 1: There's only an issue of again with that, JP is

1084
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:05,760
Speaker 1: is the eligibility requirements to be a part of each country.

1085
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:08,400
Speaker 1: I mean, what's happening with Italy. I'm looking at the roster.

1086
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 1: These guys are born like half of them are born

1087
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:13,240
Speaker 1: in the Midwest. The problem we got guys from Florida

1088
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 1: and Calia. We're looking through what it qualifies to be

1089
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 1: and it feels feels a little flimsy.

1090
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:19,840
Speaker 3: You know.

1091
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Speaker 1: It's like, all right, my my name ends in a

1092
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:23,440
Speaker 1: vow and apparently I can play for Italy.

1093
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 5: It feels like it's as simple as that.

1094
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:27,800
Speaker 3: If it sounds Italian, why can't it be considered Italian?

1095
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:28,880
Speaker 5: You know what I mean.

1096
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:31,400
Speaker 1: Just I'm just saying, like, what are we doing here

1097
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 1: with these the whole eligibility for these various countries.

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00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 11: It feels like it's like, all right, like maybe the

1099
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 11: espresso thing, yeah, I get it, But like some of

1100
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 11: these guys are born in the Midwest and like from Michigan,

1101
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:45,320
Speaker 11: and yet all of a sudden they're they're They're a part.

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00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 6: Of Team Italy, right, No, so here so basically, Brandy,

1103
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 6: it's it's a very fair question and it absolutely has

1104
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 6: come up. I'll give you the the the eligibility answer,

1105
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:01,400
Speaker 6: the quick one, which is that in the World Baseball Classic,

1106
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 6: unlike with the Olympics and the WBC, you just have

1107
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 6: to prove that either you have a parent born in

1108
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 6: that country, which is why they're for example here with

1109
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:16,480
Speaker 6: Canada tonight, there'll be players who are American passport holders

1110
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 6: but had parents born in Canada. They can play for Canada.

1111
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 6: So that's that will be the case for some of

1112
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:25,400
Speaker 6: the players tonight. So that's that's one way of doing it,

1113
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 6: if you have a parent born in that country. Or

1114
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 6: with with the Italian situation, if you can prove that

1115
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 6: you're eligible for citizenship, now the same thing of having

1116
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:38,839
Speaker 6: the actual passport, but if you can prove that you're

1117
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:42,879
Speaker 6: eligible and and Brady, this is this is I say

1118
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 6: this as an Italian American myself. The rules to be

1119
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:51,360
Speaker 6: an Italian citizen are a little more flexible than basically

1120
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 6: every other country in Europe.

1121
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:54,880
Speaker 4: It's not.

1122
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 1: My father in laws try to do this for my

1123
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 1: wife and his son, and it feels like outside of

1124
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 1: some fall through on his port it's a done deal.

1125
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 5: Like if they want to be citizen in Italy, they

1126
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:09,480
Speaker 5: can have dual citizenship.

1127
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 6: Right, so Brady, you can and so you know, we're

1128
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 6: we've been friends for a long time. When we're offline,

1129
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:16,719
Speaker 6: if you want to give me a shout, I will

1130
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:20,759
Speaker 6: I will help you knok you through the process as

1131
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:24,239
Speaker 6: an Italian American myself on this to help you and

1132
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 6: your face basically, Brady, at some point in time, uh,

1133
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 6: you know, uh, if Alicia gets to gets the passport

1134
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 6: and the kids all get it, the only thing and

1135
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 6: my wife has gone through this too, then you if

1136
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 6: you want to get the Italian passport too. There's this

1137
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:42,440
Speaker 6: one small little step, which is you'd have to pass

1138
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 6: the Italian fluency test. All right, that's a small step

1139
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 6: for you. You're a brilliant man, Notre Dame graduate.

1140
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 5: You could do it.

1141
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 6: You would just have to take So you'd have to

1142
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 6: just take the test. But but so for the Italian rules,

1143
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:00,239
Speaker 6: which admittedly and we don't have to go too far

1144
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 6: deeply into it, they've gotten a little bit harder to

1145
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 6: qualify for it. There's been some changes in the Italian

1146
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 6: Parliament in the last six to ten months. So the

1147
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:13,319
Speaker 6: rules are changing, but Italian citizenship, if you have a

1148
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 6: grandparent born in the US whose whose parent was still

1149
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:22,279
Speaker 6: an Italian citizen at the time they were born, they're eligible.

1150
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 6: And so that's how you get Sam Antonacci from Springfield, Illinois.

1151
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 6: That's how you get Dante Nori from Northville, Michigan playing

1152
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 6: for the Italians. And so all of those all of

1153
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 6: those rules, that's all, that's all legit. And the other

1154
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:37,359
Speaker 6: thing I would say on this is, you know, I

1155
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 6: have not looked into this, Brady, but I think that

1156
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 6: there's you know, you're a busy man, but there might

1157
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:46,920
Speaker 6: be a calling out there for you. If the Irish

1158
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:51,200
Speaker 6: national baseball team needs a great general and leader, I

1159
00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 6: think Brady Quinn is the man to do it. In

1160
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 6: the future World Baseball Classics.

1161
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that sentiment, but this is for

1162
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 1: a conversation off lines, so we'll get that at some point.

1163
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:08,920
Speaker 1: The details somethings up in the old family tree there.

1164
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1165
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, all of a sudden, uh you know, things changed.

1166
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 3: I started to rethink, uh, you know, growing up and

1167
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:18,319
Speaker 3: how how we looked at Brady Quinn. But I would

1168
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:21,760
Speaker 3: say this, I've I've actually picked up food from Buca

1169
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:24,360
Speaker 3: to Bepo. Would that qualify me for potentially getting on

1170
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 3: the roster for next WBC for the attack.

1171
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 1: Also terrible bio it smells like garlic. I feel like

1172
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 1: that can help the qualification.

1173
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:33,360
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, we don't want to be judgmental.

1174
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:34,759
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to get a you know, get a

1175
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:35,839
Speaker 3: spot on the roster here.

1176
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 2: James, I will.

1177
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 6: So here's the thing we'd have to We'd have to

1178
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:42,920
Speaker 6: see Jonahs. I think that the biggest test. Now, if

1179
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:45,160
Speaker 6: you've noticed how the Italians are arriving to the ballpark

1180
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 6: is is they're all arriving in Armani suits. Oh so

1181
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:53,320
Speaker 6: we I think the biggest test is Jonas, how would

1182
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 6: you arrive on the arrival like the TV arrival shot?

1183
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:02,239
Speaker 6: How how how smooth did you pull off the Armani look?

1184
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:05,800
Speaker 3: You know, you know what is funny about about watching

1185
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 3: Italy games, so when they show the crowd because my

1186
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:11,440
Speaker 3: wife is Mexican, So when Mexico was in it, I

1187
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 3: mean they really showed out, especially in Houston there and

1188
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 3: and they I mean it was Luca Libra masks and

1189
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:19,560
Speaker 3: cowboy hats and all that stuff. When the when the

1190
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:23,920
Speaker 3: Italians are breast all, yeah, everything you would want, everything

1191
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 3: you look for in something like that. But when the

1192
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 3: Italians are playing, when they show the fans and attendance,

1193
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:33,399
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody's wearing an Italian baseball jersey. It's

1194
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 3: like all Fabio Cannavaro soccer jerseys. Everything is a soccer jersey.

1195
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 3: I don't even know if they make baseball jerseys. So

1196
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 3: there is a sort of momentum building towards supporting the team.

1197
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:46,640
Speaker 3: But I still feel like, you know, like, hey, you know,

1198
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 3: when's the soccer break? A soccer game gonna break out

1199
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:50,640
Speaker 3: here in the middle of a baseball field.

1200
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 6: No, it's a it's a fair question. First of all,

1201
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 6: I will say that the Thesuri jersey, and of course

1202
00:56:56,239 --> 00:57:01,320
Speaker 6: that the Italians the flag is white and red and green.

1203
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 6: But we we wear these, the beautiful we of the Italians.

1204
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:09,880
Speaker 6: They have these these blue and white, gorgeous jerseys because

1205
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 6: the House of Savoy, the royal family that used to

1206
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 6: the rule Italy centuries agoes. They've always worn blue, including

1207
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 6: for the Italian soccer team. That's by tradition, So I

1208
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 6: would recommend I do think as a souvenir, the jerseys

1209
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 6: are are quite nice. The other thing is is the

1210
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 6: big picture here, and this is this is sincere as

1211
00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:35,160
Speaker 6: an Italian American, if you're if you're going to represent

1212
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 6: a country, even if you didn't grow up there, but

1213
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 6: you're doing it because of your family. That's also really important.

1214
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 6: And there are a number of players on Team Mexico

1215
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:46,840
Speaker 6: who were born or raised in the US but have

1216
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 6: Mexican parents, and for them it's their way of honoring

1217
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:53,760
Speaker 6: their heritage. And so it's not exactly the same thing

1218
00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:56,120
Speaker 6: as the Olympics. You're right, For the Olympics, you have

1219
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:57,880
Speaker 6: to be a passport holder. You have to be a

1220
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:01,280
Speaker 6: passport holder. There are European based fall tournaments that happen,

1221
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 6: you've got to be a passport holder for those. But

1222
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 6: for this, the MLB and the MLBPA, the way they've

1223
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:11,680
Speaker 6: written the rules, they allow you to represent your your family.

1224
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:15,600
Speaker 6: And I do think as someone who's Italian American, my

1225
00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:19,840
Speaker 6: wife's Mexican American too, So I get the full, the

1226
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 6: full experience of this group here where you've seen all

1227
00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 6: these things play each other. It's it is representing your family,

1228
00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:29,520
Speaker 6: and I do think that is a noble part of it,

1229
00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 6: and it's been in addition to noble entertaining as all. Heck,

1230
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 6: as we're watching these games play out and the cultures

1231
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 6: are coming together, So Italy Puerto Rico tomorrow will be fascinating. Certainly,

1232
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 6: we've unfortunately lost the Mexican presence from this tournament because

1233
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 6: there have been so the fans there are just unbelievable,

1234
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 6: So it'll be that the ballpark won't be the same

1235
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:53,560
Speaker 6: without them. But now up to the Americans and the

1236
00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 6: Canadians to show up tonight and then the Italians and

1237
00:58:56,760 --> 00:58:58,200
Speaker 6: Puerto Ricans here in Houston tomorrow.

1238
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, say, outside of ice, I mean, I don't really

1239
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 1: see anything standing in the way of the World Baseball

1240
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:04,080
Speaker 1: Classic here in the States. I think it's going to

1241
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:05,480
Speaker 1: be a slamming success.

1242
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 5: I do.

1243
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:08,920
Speaker 1: Do you want to ask you this, JP, Can you

1244
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 1: get us some betting advice, help the listeners.

1245
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:13,880
Speaker 5: Out, help them win a little bit of money.

1246
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:16,320
Speaker 1: How do you foresee the games going that you just

1247
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 1: mentioned in particular USA Canada?

1248
00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 5: I know USA is a heavy favorite. Is that what

1249
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:21,880
Speaker 5: you're leading on this one?

1250
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 6: So it's it's a great question, Brady. I'm I'm I'm

1251
00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:28,960
Speaker 6: terrible at advice on this in this area of the world,

1252
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:32,320
Speaker 6: and by the way, to this point, talking about the

1253
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 6: randomness of this tournament, the two pool winners that are

1254
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:40,040
Speaker 6: meeting here in Houston, those pools were won by Canada

1255
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:43,280
Speaker 6: and Italy, which is just how everybody had it drawn up.

1256
00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:45,880
Speaker 6: Where you've got Puerto Rico and the US are the

1257
00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:49,000
Speaker 6: number two seeds and the number one seeds are Canada

1258
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:54,360
Speaker 6: and Italy. Remarkable. I think Canada is I think Canada

1259
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 6: has a better chance than a lot of people. Realize

1260
00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:00,960
Speaker 6: that they've got a major league start Mike Seroka on

1261
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:05,040
Speaker 6: the mound, their lineup, I think hasn't even gotten good

1262
01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:08,280
Speaker 6: yet from the standpoint of the really big run scoring

1263
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 6: that the offensive dynamics in Puerto Rico were somewhat depressed

1264
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:15,120
Speaker 6: because the wind was blown it every day. It was

1265
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:16,919
Speaker 6: a hard place to hit and they still were able

1266
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:20,240
Speaker 6: to get through and finish first. So what the final

1267
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 6: score is tonight, I can't even guess. But I do

1268
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 6: think that Canada's got a much better shot at winning

1269
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:29,920
Speaker 6: than you might expect, and I think the same thing

1270
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 6: is true for Italy tomorrow. I mean, Italy's played exceptionally well,

1271
01:00:33,840 --> 01:00:37,600
Speaker 6: so I think tonight's game, yes, still probably the US

1272
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:40,680
Speaker 6: favored you'd expect the US to win, but I think

1273
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 6: Canada's got a legitimate shot. I think tomorrow is a

1274
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:46,240
Speaker 6: complete toss up between Italy and Puerto Rico. It's total

1275
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:48,560
Speaker 6: toss up. I think Italy's got to And by the way,

1276
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:54,320
Speaker 6: the starting pitcher for Italy tomorrow Brady Domuel al de

1277
01:00:54,400 --> 01:01:01,960
Speaker 6: Gierty from Verona. Oh yeah, yeah, Samuel Aldegery we got

1278
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:07,200
Speaker 6: I think just the coatural Dynamicsons team. There you go,

1279
01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:19,760
Speaker 6: go Partiro and Molli Maosa, Opportunity Squadra Taliana. This is

1280
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:28,000
Speaker 6: their big moment tomorrow. Uh and uh Squadra talian I'm very,

1281
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 6: very honored as to be here.

1282
01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:35,400
Speaker 3: Unbelievable job, bol Barossa. You talking about culture. You talking

1283
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:39,600
Speaker 3: about a man who can do it all. MLB Network,

1284
01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:44,800
Speaker 3: He'll cover the NHL, the Olympics, He'll talk Michigan, Ohio State.

1285
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:47,280
Speaker 4: As he is a proud member of.

1286
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:51,560
Speaker 3: The ann Arbor family and he joins us here on

1287
01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio JP. Always appreciated, enjoy the games hell

1288
01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:57,800
Speaker 3: of a job here today, Thank you, sir.

1289
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:00,320
Speaker 6: I appreciate it. But also also the grand son of

1290
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 6: a very devoted Notre Dame fan, as I've shared with

1291
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:06,120
Speaker 6: Brady before. So there's an Irish component there in my

1292
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:09,400
Speaker 6: heart as well. And there's the gold Brady. As I've

1293
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:12,360
Speaker 6: been telling my dad, is the Michigan State grad, is it? Dad?

1294
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:14,439
Speaker 6: We got to get you to South Bend for Notre

1295
01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:17,080
Speaker 6: Dame Michigan State in the fall. So I hope hopefully

1296
01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:17,960
Speaker 6: we see you there, all right.

1297
01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:20,000
Speaker 5: I'd love to help you out with that. If you

1298
01:02:20,040 --> 01:02:21,200
Speaker 5: need any help. I got you covered.

1299
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:23,120
Speaker 6: Appreciate Thank you so much. Thank you.

1300
01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:25,040
Speaker 4: Get him on X at John Morosi.

1301
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:27,640
Speaker 3: He is the best John Paul Morosi with this year

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Speaker 3: uh and appropriate Andrea Bacelli sending him out with time

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Speaker 3: to say goodbye. That's uh, that's real Italy there.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 3: I I shizamed that song at a funeral because it

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Speaker 3: was so good.

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Speaker 4: That's how good that song was. By the way, that's

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Speaker 4: a true story.

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Speaker 5: Not even you took out your phone at a funeral.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I had to. It was so good, Sam, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: it was so good.

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Speaker 3: I was sitting in the back of the church and

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Speaker 3: my buddy's grandma just passed away and everybody's really emotional.

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Speaker 3: I'm like this and they're playing this song as they're

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01:02:57,440 --> 01:03:00,880
Speaker 3: bringing the casket in, and I was like, so I

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Speaker 3: just like kind of reached for it real quick, almost

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Speaker 3: like something bit me.

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Speaker 5: Sure I'm sure no one noticed, Yeah.

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01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:07,240
Speaker 4: Like something bit me.

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Speaker 3: And then I just kind of you know, pulled the phone,

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Speaker 3: you know, hitched his am got the song and I

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Speaker 3: bought it afterwards. So you have problems, man, Hey, got

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Speaker 4: All right, it's coming up next here.

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Speaker 3: The Shenanigans continue on this Football Friday, and it's yours

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Speaker 3: right here on FSR