Andy Furman & Bucky Brooks talk 2026 NFL Draft vs MLB Opening Day, Lakers & LeBron, 2026 Masters, & So Much More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Oh, as a journalist, he's nothing but a fraud. We'll
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my partner, my friend, mister Bucket Brooks. Hello, Buck, how
are you board it? This week?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Go quickly, man, it was a quick week. Time is
flying as we're nearing the draft, but now it was
a fun week. I'm excited to be with you, Andy.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
You know, I do want to kind of go off
the beaten track for a second, move away from sports
for just a second. I got to talk about how
I watched that Artemist two landing the other night. It
was amazing, It was it was very surreal. But I
tell you why I want to mention it because in
this day and age, everybody's divided, everybody's kind of hating

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and just against one another. To me, it was a
beautiful situation because to me, there was no division. Everybody
was looking, they were gasping, they were praying, and they
were rooting for success. It was everybody was all in
and that's why I loved it. I'm happy that they
came back safely, for sure, but that's what kind of
touched me more than anything else. I get it in sports,

(01:36):
this rooting for teammate versus team b. That's the nature
of sports. But you know we're doing it in society
and every bit of society right now. But watching Artemis two,
everybody was, everybody brought in. I just loved it. I'm
I'm sure you saw a part of that at least
on TV the other night.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah. A fantastic accompliment for those guys to come through,
And you are right, normally those things are unifying moments.
You love to see the country as a whole do
well when they represent they have milestone accomplishment. So it
was a fantastic moment.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
It certainly was. You know, it's a fantastic day today
because we have Shay Shay as our executive producer. Shay
Shay Saalo. Make sure people believe me when I say
that you're here. I need some credibility.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
Don't worry, I'm here. I'm here. Don't worry credibility.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Andy.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
We love having you. It's been a while, but you're back.
People can't stay away. They can't stay away. I get it.
It's unbelieving you stay with us. You want to move on,
but you realize that life is better here. Is not
better across the street. It's always here. The grass is
greener here.

Speaker 5 (02:37):
You go it. You guys give me a reason a
wake up every morning, and I can't stay away. Seriously,
So here I am awake, listening and even working on
the show today. So no, I'm excited. Let's have some
fun today, guys.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
That we do that master is okay. I'm not a
big golf guy. Are you a big golf guy? I
don't play golf, you know. I don't watch much golf.
The Masters, you know, kind of perks me up just
a bit. Cat Cameron Young right now out of seven
under sixty five years, tied now with Rory for the
lead in the final day. But you know your take
on the Masters, because to me, you know, it's golf

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and golf. To me, it's just you know, I don't know.
I'm not going to say it's not a sport, but
it is. There's some skill, there's a lot of skill involved,
but it's not a a I don't know. I just
to me, it's more of a relaxation hobby. I don't
know what it is. But I'm not a big Masters fan.
I'm not a big golf fan. I'll watch a little
bit today to see what's going on the final day

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of the Masters. But the book, the big news is that,
you know, if you go there, there's no phones permitted,
which I think would be great. You know, if they
have a ringing in the gallery. No phones permitted at
the Masters. Have you ever been to the Masters?

Speaker 3 (03:42):
I have not, but it's one of the things on
the bucket list. I will eventually make my way to AUGUSTA. Yeah,
I mean, I think it's a It's an iconic event.
It's one of the things that you grow up seeing
hearing about. So I feel like you should want to
make your way down to Augusta to kind of have
an authentic feel for it. So NAH like I would

(04:03):
love to go. I would love to kind of see
how it takes place. And I have a tremendous amount
of respect for those guys, Like anytime you talk about
professionals playing at the highest level, and how easy the
game looks for those guys when it comes to shooting
in the sixties and seventies, while it's very difficult for
the amateurs the novices like myself to crack one hundred.

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And I just think that when you go and see
and you go and watch pros, I think you have
a great appreciation for how skilled they are and why
they deserve not only the money that they make, but
the accolades and the attention that they receive.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Okay, I'm going to say something. I want you to
smack be around. If I'm really off base in a
sport like football and a sport like basketball, it's port
like baseball, I gotta believe I may I mean, I
have not played on the pro level Bolami. I think
you're born to play. In other words, you were born
to play football. You were God given gift. You had
to skill level that permitted you to go to that level.

(05:03):
Certainly you worked on the craft of the game, but
you had the jeans, you had the body of everything,
and even the mindset to do it. I think golfers
are made, not born. I think that if you get
up at an early age and start hitting the ball,
you can become a golfer where you were born, not made.
Am I am I way off that. I don't think

(05:24):
I am.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Now I think you. I think you may be slightly
off face. I do believe that there is an innate
skill that you have to have when it comes to golf. Right,
so you think about balance and body control with your
you know your body as you're making swings. You have
to have hand eye coordination as it comes to like
being able to make the club hit the ball at

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the same spot every time. And then you have to
have the skill that is developed over time. But there
is still some natural things that you must have. I
understand what you're saying, like exposure, you're early being taught.
That'll take you so far, for sure, But I do
believe there has to be some inherent skill that you're
born with, that you're blessed with, that allows you to

(06:09):
go to another level.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah. I think bowling is very similar to golf in
that matter. I really do you know you bowling ball
at the agent? Right?

Speaker 3 (06:18):
No? Yeah, I mean like some of that, But I
mean I would say this, like, the better the athlete,
the better chance that you have, meaning, the better overall
athlete that you are early, the better chance that you
have to develop into something at a higher level in
these skills sports, whether it's bolding. They talk about Mookie

(06:39):
Best being a great bowl I remember Jerome Bettis was
a great bowler. When I think about the golfers, not
the pro golfers, but I think about kickers, punters, quarterbacks,
baseball players, hockey players are typically good golfers as it
relates to like pro athletes converting over and kind of
making their mark in that sport. Yeah. No, I think

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the better you are athletically and the more discipline you
are and all that, it enhances some of the innate
skills that would make you a really good golfer.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Okay, you mentioned the crush of I gotta make a
comment on that baseball players traditionally are not good golfers,
but they golf all right. I can't see golfers coming
over and playing baseball. The crossover factor right there, that
that ends the fact that you know, golfers basically are made,
not born, where baseball players are athletes. Football players are athletes.

(07:32):
They play golf. They're always in those pro ams, they
really are. I don't see golfers moving over, and I
don't think they could switch from golf to play baseball
or football. That's the difference I see.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
I mean they can switch over, but I still want
to take away from their athleticism. I think you're trying
to paint them as something Anybody can go golf and
kind of do their thing, and I think anyone who
plays around on Saturday Sunday will stay and can tell
you how difficult the game is. And even though we
talk about time on task and reps and all that like,

(08:06):
there are a lot of people our ages who put
a lot of time in, has spent a lot of
money on equipment, aspiring to be Rory McElroy and especially
in others, and they don't play like that. So you
have to give professional golfers credit. Even if they were
exposed to the sticks at an early age, there's still
far more skill that is involved than just Oh man,

(08:28):
I've been taught this. I've had the best coaches I've
had that there is a level of talent that you
must have to be able to play at that level.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Okay, all right, I hear what you're saying. I agree,
and I'm not taking anything away from these golfers there.
And I'll probably watch the final round today of the Masses.
But the story of the week, and I got to say,
maybe it is a story. I don't know. Do we
even care what Deanna Rassini and the Patriots coach Mike
vrabel all right, Okay, First of all, both are married,
and I don't give a ratch about their private life.

(08:56):
I don't care. I seem others do, but I don't care.
I don't care if Mike vrabel Ate dates her. He's married, saying,
I don't care if he dates a goat. It's none
of my business. I don't care. I got to ask
you your take on right now. Everybody's life is exposed
if you're an athlete, and I understand it. I mean,
people tell me all the time. You know, they go
to the hotels to see the athletes. When they come to town,

(09:18):
they don't see him anymore. They call for door theres,
they called for room service. They're not going out in
public because everybody's got a camera because I have a phone,
and then they want to have a picture of you
doing something that could get on the internet. That's the
problem right now. So everybody's life is public, so they
want to be private. That's the deal, right It's true.

(09:38):
You travel with a team, you travel with Jacksonville. Those
guys never leave the hotel room. I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Uh yeah, Look, man, I do think one to talk
about the situation specifically, I have no idea what was
going on, and I think it is inappropriate to comment
on that without having four context, let alone, I don't
know what their respective situations are at home, so it's
not my place or anybody else's place to lob in

(10:05):
and comment on that. No one needs to weigh in
on their opinions or whatever from a professional standpoint without
fully knowing the context of their interactions and those things
like hey, it doesn't really matter to me now. I
know people are going to say, like, oh, it could
be compromising because you have a reporter and a head coach,
and is she getting insider trading secrets or inside secrets.

(10:29):
Is that how she's scooping the rest of the league
or whatever. Well, I would say that Diana's reporting extends
far beyond the Patriots, far beyond the Tennessee Titans when
Mike Rabral was the coach and the aj Brown situation
where people have said she's weighed in on. You have
to give her credit for the job that she has done.
Now on the outside in terms of optics or whatever.

(10:52):
People will say whatever they say about her and how
this will impact females in the industry. Look, I think
everybody's treated on a case by case basis and I
think that will continue to go forward. But I will
say in a relationship business, which is what reporting and
being an insider is, you do have to engage in

(11:12):
conversations with people beyond the access and o's the more
comfortable that you feel with the reporter, the more trust
that is developed between coach, player and reporter, the more
likely you are to share information. That's just what it
is now. All these people that are weighing in, I
think it's just a part of where we are in

(11:33):
society where everyone has an opinion and everybody feels like
that opinion should be shared. That's fine, but I do
believe the current way of the world has an essence
changed the way athletes and I would say high profile
people operate. You talked about the masters putting the phones away.
I know of athletes and those things when they engage,

(11:55):
when they have parties or get togethers, they make everybody
put the phone in a bucket, put the phones down.
We're not going to document these moments. These moments are
not going to come back to haunt me because, as
we say, with our context, things can look a certain way.
And so you are seeing people become more closed off.

(12:16):
They are opting for privacy over public appearances. They are
spending more time getting private rooms and shutting those things off.
And that's just because when you step out, everybody in
the world is a reporter because they have camera phones,
and the media industry has changed so much that we're
giving those people voices as they begin to send pictures

(12:39):
and texts and all these things to entities, and those
entities and then turn around publishing them. Yeah, it's a
crazy time, but yeah, you're going to see your favorite athletes,
and those things become even more guarded from and remove
from the public eye.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
You know, you mentioned something very interesting, you mentioned about
it people jumping to conclusions without you know, investigating what happened,
and that's what they're doing now with this Rascini and
Vrabel situation. However, according to news reports, and you know,
Rassini covers the NFL for the athletics, the athletic right
now is conducting an internal investigation into Rassini and she's
been sidelined for the time being. So they did jump

(13:17):
to conclusions. But there's a factor that needs to be
discussed here. Forget about what they do with their private life.
I don't really care, you know, I think a lot
of people do care. I don't really care. I'll talk
about credibility. Rassini covers the NFL. We know this. If
Tom Brady has is a minority owner of an NFL team,
the NFL says he cannot play in the NFL. Rassini
cannot cover an NFL team and the league if she

(13:38):
has this relationship with this guy. Okay, and we don't
know if she does or not, who knows. It's a
conflict of interest, period. Of speaking. Okay, Now, speaking of credibility,
there's a talk show hosts by the name of Dan Lebertard.
All right, if he had any credibility at all, he
has not. Now why this is He's so about gossip
versus journalism. Dan, it's credibility, it's credit. You have none.

(14:01):
You have been a shill for a Cini. I get it.
You're a great friend, you're her friend, and you will
not say you will not tarnish her name. You have
to have an opinion. You have lost every single bit
of credibility you may have had. Really, you gotta talk
about it. People are talking about it. We're talking about it.
I don't know Dana Rassini. I couldn't pick her out

(14:22):
in the lineup. All right. All I'm saying is this,
there's an incident here. Is she guilty? Guilty of what?
Talking to Mike Vrabel? I mean, you want a relationship
with Mike Rabel?

Speaker 1 (14:31):
So what?

Speaker 2 (14:32):
So what? But the point is this, there's a credibility factor.
And obviously her employer, the Athletic, realizes that, and you don't.
He realizes it because now she's sidelined from the athletic.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Well, I think, okay, I think the athletic originally defended
her publicly. I think the backlash or the noise was
so loud that they had to to do their due
diligence and say they conducted the investigation. I'll say this
because there has been like this credibility issue. But I

(15:07):
would say there's a bit of a double standard that
is being used against Diana that is not used against
male reporters in those things. Because here's what I know,
being on the inside. Male insiders, they go out, they
engage in drinks, they hang out with the boys. They're
in the coaches and players inner circles. They go to

(15:27):
them to clubs and establishments in those things to further
their relationship, which then leads to more communication and information
coming back to them. To me, when you talk about credibility,
these things don't exist. There's if you don't have a relationship,

(15:48):
you're not going to get information from somebody. If they
don't build a trust with you, that's not going to happen.
A lot of time, that trust is built over nights
and and UH dinners and those things, because you fully
it's like a friendship. You developed that kind of relationship

(16:09):
over time. Now if we're talking about credibility in that regard,
then I think everyone is foul because Adam Schefter and
Jake Laser and everybody else who has become a high
profile insider, they conduct business like that. So I just
think we have to be careful of saying, hey, her
interactions with my variabel away from the field mean that

(16:31):
it's a credibility issue. When I know for a fact
that all these dudes that are insiders engage in similar
activities where there guys they're at bars and restaurants and
everything else. With those guys, You're.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
A thousand percent correct. And I've seen it and I've
been part of it. Okay, I see that all the time,
and that's how they get information, how to get this
so called scoops. But this is what the term relationship
is a kind of a I get. I hate to
use sexual relationship, but an intimate relationship, that's the difference.
I mean, when Joe Blow goes out with a male
coach and a male reporter, that's not an intimate relationship.

(17:09):
It's a relationship to I guess, create trust, to create
a situation where you're gonna tell me this, but it's
off the record. I've seen it all the time. You know,
sometimes that's blown. I've seen it when Peter Vessi, a
Hall of Fame basketball rider, was then running for the
New York Daily News with being on a plane with
Luke Connoseca, and Connoseca would tell him something and next

(17:29):
thing I know, it's on the back page of the
New York Daily News. He broke his trust. He broke
his trust. But that's what they do all the time.
They do that. This is a different animal. And he's
talk about credibility. What about the New York Post that
ran those photos, ran those photos without maybe even checking.
They just happened to see Rassini and Vrabel at a
pool in Arizona, you know, together holding hands. Big whoopee doo.

(17:53):
But the New York Post ran that, and that created
the whole stink. And we talk about credibility or lock
thereof maybe with that newspaper.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Well, I'll say this, because you talk about intimacy in
those things. There's a deep personal connection between these guys now.
Is what we're talking about, though, is what this feeds
into in terms of the pictures and maybe the pental
optics or whatever, because when people talk about holding hands
and all of that, I think context must be used

(18:21):
in that it wasn't like they were holding hands strolling
down the street or going on a romantic stroll along
the beach. They were engaged in an interaction where they
are hands are together, facing each other. But we don't know.
And that's the thing about without context, you really don't know.
He could have been demoing anything, They could have been
talking about anything. It could have been a moment. Who

(18:42):
knows what was going on. But the salaciousness of female
reporter NFL head coach our inclination to always worry about
what people are doing in their respective bedrooms leads us
to have a conversation that maybe we shouldn't really engage
in because we don't know, and whether it's fair or

(19:04):
not that we're doing it, here's where we are. But
I will say male insiders are engaging in similar time
on task activities with these coaches to get this information,
and if we're not going to take the males to task,
then we shouldn't take her to task for whatever they
were engaged in at the pool. Len away from the

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main thing.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
You use the keyword males interact to get information. We
don't know if she or he or actually she was
engaging with Mike Vrabel for quote information. We don't know that.
You know, it could be a social thing, and I
guess you know, if you say it's a social thing,
yet they get real comfortable and then Michael say, you
know what, we're better draft this guy. So I guess

(19:47):
it can be leading to information, but you know it's not.
It doesn't look you know who I feel bad for
not for Vrabel and her because they should have known better.
You know, the small resort and a small town in Arizona.
Someone's gonna snap that picture. They should have known better. Okay,
forget that. I feel bad for their families. I feel
bad for the wife and husband of the mention of

(20:09):
those people, Rabel's wife and Rossini's husband. That's why I
feel bad for and Rabel's got kids as well. That's
the people that are really hurt with this, right, they're hurt.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Well, yeah, the families are affected. But you know what,
I would really be heard and upset about what if
this was truly an innocent interaction that has become something
that is really not Like there are a lot of
people weighing in without really knowing what was going on,
and so I would be more irt by that that
people have an opinion on things that they don't know,

(20:42):
and that is why when these pictures hit the web,
you knew it was going to blow up into a firestorm,
which is why the person was actively shopping them because
they knew. But I'll just say context is everything, and
without proper context, we really don't know what was going on.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
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Today is the last day of regular season play. Game
number eighty two in the National Basketball Association today. We're
gonna have ask Bucky in about ten minutes from now.

(22:42):
But get this, this is you know, And I'm really
torn about this because initially when I heard about it,
I went ballistic. I said, oh, this is ridiculous. Then
I said, you know, I get it. But yeah, I
don't know where I stand on this, and it's bad.
It really is bad. Maybe it's me, but all the
regular start is the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Denver
Nuggets were held out of the game on Friday night,

(23:04):
and it's a league white trend. And get this, no
few with them. One hundred and sixty eight players sat
out the night because of injury or illness. So initially
I say this stinks. I go to a game with
my family. I want to see the starting guys playing
for the team and they're benched. Then I say to myself, well,
I get it. They want to rest in for the playoffs.

(23:25):
I don't think there's any happy medium. And the NFL
ran into that problem several years ago and they changed
it because then they got important conference games divisional games
at the end of the year to prevent things like
that happening. And it's very difficult to compare because the
NBA plays eighty two games where the NFL is playing
seventeen eighteen games. That's it. So I don't know what

(23:47):
the answer is, and I don't know what Adam Silver
could do with situations like that. With these guys sitting down,
it's not good, not good for the league. And the
league is really hurting because great athletes. They may be
the best athletes in the world athletes, but the league
is hurting.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
Yeah, I mean, look, I understand everyone is outraged about this,
but it's the eighty second game of the year. And
I've seen this happen in football, where you play your
starters at the end and there's an injury that cripples
your chances to play in the playoffs. Years ago, Brandon
Stately played his starters in a meaningless game at the
end of the year. Mike Williams gets hurt, is injured,

(24:25):
is not able to play in the wildcard game against
the Jaguars, and the Chargers lose, and at the time,
the Charges one of the hottest teams in the league.
It is one of those things. Look, I think the
Patriots lost one of their wide receivers, either Wes Welker,
or Julian Llelman for the playoffs because they played him
the last game of the season and he's injured. I
think as a team in an organization, you have to

(24:47):
do what's best for you, and the outside noise is
the outside noise. And I understand with the fans, but
the fans are gonna be mad either way. They're gonna
be mad if they show up and the favorite players
aren't playing. They're also gonna be mad if you play
the players and the players get hurt and they're not
available for the playoffs. So you have to do was
in the best interests of their organization. Sometimes it's sitting,

(25:09):
sometimes it's playing. But whatever your philosophy is, you got
to stand ten toes down on it and be able
to explain yourself when you have the postgame presser.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Well, I think it's a good idea to announce it
in advance. And when I say that, because the Denver
Nuggets today they announced that they're going to the majority
of their usual starting rotation for the second straight day,
are not going to play in today's regular season finale
because of San Antonio Sports. Everybody will not play except
the three time MVP Nicole and Jokicic he's listed is questionable,

(25:39):
but all he needs to do today is played fifteen
minutes to be eligible for postseason awards. So if you're
a Denver Nugget fan, you will not see Jamal Murray,
you will not see Aaron Gordon, Cameron Johnson, and Christian
Braun will not play today for the Denver Nuggets, which
I think obviously smart move for playoffs, obviously, but more

(25:59):
than that, they were advancing and telling the fans. I
remember back in the day when the Cincinnati Reds would
play a Sunday afternoon game after a Saturday night game,
they would announce if kan Griffy Junior was going to
play Sunday. You know, certainly, if you have a ticket
to the game, you're upset, but at least you knew
going in that Junior is not going to play, and

(26:19):
a lot of people buy tickets because they want to
see Junior play. That's the name of the game. But
that's what happens sometimes.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, look, that's a part of it.
And I understand people like to jump on the NBA
about like load management and the various things that it
comes with that. Whether it's load management or tanking or
any of that stuff. But look, no system is perfect.
Everybody has their issues when it comes to getting the

(26:47):
players to play, star players to play. We complain about that,
We complain about how they play All Star games and
those things. Oh why do we have the Pro Bowl?
The Pro Bowl is no longer what it once was,
and so I think there's a people are romanticizing about
Yesteryear and how things used to happen Yesteryear. Well, the
thing about current time and yesteryear is the money's drastically different.

(27:11):
The stakes are significantly higher now than they were back then.
So people are electing to go about a safer approach,
maybe a more conservative approach when it comes to playing,
as opposed to aggressive approach that we saw in yesteryear,
where everyone had to play. It was mandatory, it was mandated,
it was the expectation. I don't think we live in
that time right now.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
You know, you just were up a very interesting point.
You know, back in the day, you know, travel arrangements
are better today, hotel accommodations are better today. People are
flying charter. Back in the day, they flew commercial. They
played every day, they played with injuries, they didn't have
the training staff or the training techniques that they have today.
Yet there are more injuries today, more people not playing

(27:53):
today than back in the day. I think back in
the day, maybe they were more fearful of losing their job.
Who's that possibility. I don't Oh, but you bring up
a great point. And again I'm not trying to drop names.
But when Oscar Robertson lived in Cincinnati, he no longer does.
He moved to Florida. He would hold court every morning
at the local cigar shop downtown Cincinnati, and I'd be

(28:14):
the first one there to listen to his stories. He said,
they would fly they leave it six in the morning
on a commercial flight when he played for the Bucks,
and they'd be crying babies on the plane and things
like that, and they played. That was it, And you
didn't know anything better than not playing. That was the
name of the game. You played, hurt whatever, that's what
you did.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yeah, I mean, that is what you did. But that
is also a sound of times on those planes. They
probably also could smoke on the plane. I mean, people
are smoking on the plane. But we've learned that that
probably isn't the best thing for everybody's health when it
comes to it. But things change, they evolve, And I
know you kind of made mention of more injuries in
today's game, but we also are bigger, faster, stronger in

(28:56):
today's game. The things that haven't changed court dimension. The
court is still the same size as it was back
in yesteryear when Oscar Robinson played, but we're talking about
more big men on the people, stronger and faster and
more explosive athletes. So some of the injuries are a
natural part of the evolution of the game and the
evolution of the athletes that are playing the game. With

(29:19):
those advancements, they have to be accommodations for those things.
And we refuse to budge on some of the things,
but not all of the things. And you can continue
to have these situations with injuries and maybe overtraining, which
is impacting a bunch of sports, football and basketball in particular.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
Well, how much is the money factor involved with the
players sitting down, because I look at a situation with
the Milwaukee Bucks with Giannis the Greek freak. The Bucks
sat him down I think since March fifteenth. Of course,
they didn't want his injuries to worsen and also maybe
affect his trade. Value for next season. And then Giannis,
I think, came back and said it was just a
slap in my face. Available to play, he said that,

(30:01):
and he wanted to play, you know, and maybe they
just sat him down. The guess they want to show
that he's okay, nothing wrong with him. He's available to
be traded because I think they want to unload him.
They really do, and I hope they do it because
he's better than that. He belongs in a bigger market.
He's a heck of a player and I'd like to
see him get some fame.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
I mean, regardless of whether he is fame or not.
Like I look, I think it's at the discretion to
figure out whether they want to play him or not
how they want to play him down the stretch. But
it will kiss protecting the investment, and because he's been
injured on multiple occasions, you do want to protect it.
You want to make sure that you're able to maximize
the value. If he goes and blows and achilles out
at the end of the season, it is going to

(30:42):
limit his imp what you can get in return. And
if you're the Milwaukee Bucks and you realize that he
has to be the trade piece, to bring you back
enough assets to rebuild the team. Then yeah, your job
as the general manager of the vice president ownership is
the step and be like, hey man, we're not going
to play one. You want to be traded, so we're

(31:02):
gonna trade you. We're gonna commodate that request, but we're
not going to accommodate you playing at the end of
the year. We're also knowing that you're not gonna be
a part of it. Our job is to protect the
interest of the Milwaukee Buck.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
So you said, okay, here's the story. Though, here's the
big one. Austin leaves out with the Lakers. Luca's out
with the Lakers. I think he's in Spain trying to
get some treatment over there. And now Lebron James has
also come back with unbelievable play Friday night against the
Phoenix Suns. Lebron James twenty eight points, six boards and

(31:35):
twelve assists, almost a triple double. Guys forty one years
of age, all right, he's the guy. He wants the ball.
He's carrying the Lakers on his back right now. I
think what he is doing right now at the age
of forty one is remarkable. What he is doing at
forty one, to me, is more remarkable than Tom Brady
playing football at forty one.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
Agreed, Yes, I agree, and I would say this, it
is unfortunate that we're in a time and age where
the only conversation that we have about Lebron is whether
he's the goat compared to Michael Jordan or Kobe or
those things. I think we're going to look back when
it's all said and done, and he is done and
retired and he is a graybeard kind of sitting in

(32:17):
the rocking chair, We're gonna realize that we really didn't
appreciate the greatness of a guy who has been a
dominant player for twenty three years in the league. What
we've seen from Lebron is unprecedented in terms of the
lack of falloff at the end of the career. We've
never seen a superstar age like this on the court
in terms of never fall off. He can't do some

(32:40):
of the things that he used to do when he
was younger. He could drive down the lane and do
all this stuff. He can't dominate the game entirely over
multiple games like he used to do when he was younger,
just because age and that but we've never seen anyone
dominant at the end of the career like this, and
so hopefully he will get all of his flower in

(33:00):
due time. Because the Kobe fans and the Lebron Hayters,
the Jordan fans and the Lebron Hayters, man, they've made
it where we cannot appreciate his game in a way
that should be appreciated.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
Well said, And I ask you this, The big question
is do the Lakers take them back next year? I say,
without a doubt, without a doubt, you take them back
next year. You know, ball clubs I don't care what
sport it is, have taken back. They're aging stars that
have produced half of what Lebron did back in the day.
I've seen it. I mean, I remember in baseball, you know,

(33:36):
guys like Mandelin, Yogi Barrett. They took these guys back
on their last leg. Couldn't do anything a percentage wise
what Lebron is doing right now. You gotta take Lebron
James back next year. There's no doubt in my mind.
What do you think.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
I don't know. I think it depends on if he
wants to be back. He's the third option and he
was part of as the third option behind Luke and
Austin Reeves. Does he want to sign up for that?
What does he want from the end of his career.
I think a lot of it is more on Lebron
than the Lakers could very well be.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
I'll tell you what he's goning of a play. I'll
leave you with this though, and you mentioned he had
a great year, great great twenty three year career. I
would like to see this. I understand the amount of
points that he scored whenever it might be in records
like that, but there's gotta be some sort of an
asterisk when it comes to records saying how many years
and how many games the guys played. You know, when
Roger Morris hit those home runs, it was a sixty

(34:28):
one home run with an asterisk because he did it
in one hundred and sixty two games rather than one
hundred and fifty four game schedule, right and every other
sport they don't put that in there. You gained a
thousand yards in the NFL in seventeen games is not
the same as when Jimmy Brown gained one thousand yards
in twelve or fourteen games. And they don't do that.
You know, I think it's wrong. It's wrong for the
guys who initially set those records, and it's just wrong

(34:50):
for record keeping. It really is. Maybe I'm off base
by I just think it's got to be put down
there that yes, he did score these many points in
these many field goals, but he did it over a
career of twenty three years and how many games he
did it in. That's just my take on that.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if I mean,
I understand it matters for something, I don't know if
it matters that much to the general public with the answer.
I think people know that it's different, But I don't
know if we need to set all these designations and
denotations when it comes to who did what and how
many games and all that. I think people know.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Oh yea, they probably do, all right. He's Bucky Brooks
and Andy Firman. We have Fox Sports Sunday on Fox
Sputz Radio's time for some answers and one man has
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Speaker 7 (35:35):
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Speaker 2 (35:48):
It's about eleven minutes before the top of the hour.
This is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio and
we're live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. He's Bucky
Brooks and Andy Furman and we're gonna have a man
Shay Shay doing it right now to ask Bucky. Let's
do it.

Speaker 5 (36:03):
Welcome in, guys, to ask Bucky. Where I get to
ask Bucky the questions you all want to know?

Speaker 4 (36:09):
Are you guys ready to get into.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
This little ready?

Speaker 3 (36:13):
I'm ready, Let's do it.

Speaker 5 (36:14):
Why would Lebron want to return to the Lakers at
forty two next season? Bucky take it away.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
The only reason I can see him, wanted to say,
is one he has really set up a nice infrastructure
in LA. His son is playing with the Lakers. Maybe
he doesn't want to leave his home to go somewhere else.
That's the only reason. Because I don't think he's fully
appreciated by Lakers fans, so I really don't know why
he can stay with LA.

Speaker 5 (36:39):
And by the way, a bigger accomplishment for Lebron playing
at forty two or Tom Brady at the same age.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Oh, Lebron without a doubt, Lebron because Tom Brady was
sitting in the pocket, there wasn't as many demands physically
on him as Lebron. Lebron James. Absolutely, it's had a
tougher row to when it comes to being successful at
over forty.

Speaker 5 (37:03):
As our board op Mark would say, he wasn't allowed
to get touched at his old age. We'll move on
to the next one, guys. So your thoughts of Fernando
Mendoza missing the NFL Draft in Pittsburgh, Bucky.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
Not a big deal if he wanted to stay with
his family and do those things, like, I'm fine with it.
Like ultimately, draftees should do what they want to do,
and I know the league would love to have him
there as the number one celebrate him in all those things. Nah,
but I think it's actually pretty cool.

Speaker 5 (37:35):
So we touched on the Mike Vrabel Diana Russini incident
a little bit. Should they stay reprimanded or do you
believe that they should.

Speaker 4 (37:44):
Kind of move on as if nothing should should have happened.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Should get married. I'm only kidding.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
I mean, I don't, I don't. Look, I think for
both of them, the show must go on. Mike Rabel
has to get ready for a draft in a couple
of weeks. He has to focus on that. He cannot
allow this other stuff to be a distraction. And for Diana,
she has to be able to navigate through this, like
despite the backlash online, social media and those things, she

(38:12):
still has to drop bombs and do her job. So, yeah,
they got to move on. You got to proceed as
if nothing happened. You can't be distracted by the outside noise.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
I got to adswer something to that. I just, you know,
thinking about this. The New York Post ran a whole
series of photos there. So some photographer, some aggressive guy,
maybe a Paparassi whatever, I contacted the New York Post.
I'm sure he got paid for those photos. Okay, so
this guy takes photos, makes a buck off the deal
to the New York Post kind of. I'm not gonna
say he ruins their lives, but puts a big hole

(38:43):
in their life right now. Got to answer questions to
family members, whoever it may be. And he just moves on.
And if they find out that there's no big whoop
to this thing, you know, the damage has been done.
And he gets a paycheck think about that. I mean,
where's the credibility fact that the Post published these and
nothing came of it.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
I mean, that's kind of how people get down. Like
they said that he shopped it for a four figure dear,
so we're talking about Adam maximum nine thousand, nine hundred
and niney nine dollars that's what he made off of it.
I mean, it's fine, it's it's weird. It seems a
little contrived and all that, but it certainly was someone
who was on their tail. This was not a casual

(39:26):
thing like, oh, we just have to be standing the
thing and oh, oh, by the way, there's Mike Rabel
and Dana Verssini. I don't think they're big enough celebrities
that you would casually know who they are unless you're
a hardcore fan, right, That's what I think. So this
seemed like it was beyond just a casual It seems
like it was either PI or paparazzi that was following

(39:48):
them around.

Speaker 5 (39:48):
According to some of my sources, it was five thousand
a photo some of my sauces.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
So you don't take that with a grain of salt.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
We're the wrong business.

Speaker 5 (39:57):
Honestly, it's a good business. It's an annoying business. Most
celebrities do not like him. So if you look up
like any videos and you'll see Kanye West screaming at
a at a publicist or whatever they're called, I forgot
what they're.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
Called, paparazzi.

Speaker 5 (40:11):
There we go, So on to the next one, Andy,
last one, we're coming back to La. Let's make this short.
What do you think of the Lakers and JJ Reddick?
Does he have a short leash?

Speaker 6 (40:21):
No?

Speaker 3 (40:22):
I think JJ Riddick is good. I think he's exceeded
expectations with that roster that he has. I think he's
been good fifty plus wins this year. No, JJ Riddick
is a stud. He's only going to get better as
a coach.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
Yeah, and the last coach have fifty plus wins for
the Lakers was Phil Jackson. I mean, so's he should
be commended for what he's done with a roster that's
basically in the shelf. There we go. But the NFL
Draft is right around the corner, and Bucky Brooks has
your difference makers coming up right here next on Fox.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
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(41:39):
here he is. Hello, Buck, how's everything. I didn't mean
to embarrass you, but it's true. I'm kind of going
full speed ahead now on this milk Kuiper thing. You
gotta challenge this guy. I hope we're gonna get this done.
I don't want to fail. I don't want to fail
on that now.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
All right, No, we don't want you to fail.

Speaker 4 (41:55):
All right, Bucky's starting to be right now.

Speaker 5 (41:59):
Be we're making this a thing, and they're making this
a thing.

Speaker 6 (42:04):
No.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
I mean, look, I did some research and I sent
some stuff out recently that melk Kype is percentage of
his pitch. I know it's hard, but they look at
him as the guru, and I think Bucky Brooks is
better than him. Bucket Brooks works harder, he knows the
game better, he played the game, he coaches the game.
What does milk Kypa bring to the table. So I
think that they should challenge for another be fun.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
Well, I will say this. I'll say this about whatever,
like there are two different lanes that you're in. And
I think Mail obviously is the industry standard when it
comes to it. But there's a difference between mock drafting
and scouting, and Mail actually does scouting. It's just that
everyone is fascinated by the mock drafting. And I'll tell
you that mock drafting is not true scouting because what

(42:46):
you're doing when people are focused on the mock drafts,
you're focusing on basically what is really a guessing game. Well,
I think this player is going to go here, he's
going to go there. That's not like what an evaluator
would do if you really work for it team. What
evaluator does is look at players and you project out
how players going to play over three years. That's kind

(43:07):
of like the magic number. I'm saying that this player
is going to be by this by the end of
year three, because it takes three years to really be
able to tell if a player can play or not.
And sometimes what gets lost in trying to get it
right on draft day prevents you from really trying to
get it right in the end, and so you have
to make a determination when you're in this field. Do

(43:27):
I want to get it right in the end in
three or four years, or am I trying to get
it right on draft night so I can take a
victory lap because Hey, the guy said just going to
the Steelers goes to the Stealers. Or are you willing
to say no, I think this guy has the potential
to be this in this time, and I'm willing to stand.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
On interesting And you're right, But because basically my draft
is like, well, this team needs this, say they're going
to draft this guy to fill that void. That's what
they do. And they don't normally draft the best players
available anymore. They draft for need, that's what they do.
And I'll ask this, I mean, why and when did
mock draft become such a popular deal. I gotta Shayshay

(44:05):
as well. I'm sure you do a mock draft, right,
because you don't have much of a life.

Speaker 4 (44:09):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm here with you guys, so exactly.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
I mean I don't do mock drafts. I think it's
a waste. First of all, who cares about my mock draft? Really,
I don't even care about who's gonna care about I
don't care about yours, buck, because you got some cred?
Do you really do? I? I don't you played the game?

Speaker 3 (44:26):
Yeah, I don't know. I feel like everyone does a
mock draft. Now here's what I would would say, Like
it has changed, right, so it went from being an industry. Okay,
so in the business like being a former scout, like
we use mock drafts as an exercise to prepare for
draft dack meaning okay, like here are the scenarios that
could happen if these players are going by Now what

(44:48):
we do in this situation. So when I was in Carolina,
in the back of the room, we had four or
five different mock drafts that were up. It would be
like mel Kiper, Todd McShay, Rick Gosling was one, and
then a couple other people. And what we would do
is we would mock to mock, so we would track
who sang players are going where. Because we talked about

(45:11):
the Diana Rousini situation whatever, we knew that certain insiders
were really plugged into certain teams and the information that
they put out there was more likely to be accurate.
So given that information, it would help us kind of
shape some of our draft air strategies. The reason why
this became popular is because as mel Kuiper became kind
of the thing and the standard on ESPN and others,

(45:34):
everyone felt like they could do it. And to me,
I felt like this kind of was an offshoot of
fantasy football. Fantasy football allowed everybody to believe that they
could be a general manager. Because I put together my
fantasy team, my team is successful. How hard could this be?
And I think that kind of like the groundswell of

(45:55):
fantasy football, the draft scouting industry becoming a cottage industry.
Where everyone had more access to film and highlights and
they could weigh in. With the Internet exploding and YouTube,
it just kind of was the perfect storm and that
has led to what I would say, the explosion of
mock drafting and everything. Because I'm gonna tell you, anybody
puts if Shay released a mock drafting, we put it

(46:18):
on a site, it's gonna get clicks because people cannot
resist the urge to think about who their team is
gonna take.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
Put you off your business, right, But I would think this,
and you work with the Jacksonville Jaguars, right, so I
would think on their board right now, say say jackson
was looking for a running back, so instead of having
a mock draft, would they do this? They've listed Jeremiah Love,
maybe Emma Johnson, Mike Washington, Jadarian Price. They'd have all
the running backs listed if in fact, Jeremiah Love is

(46:47):
gone at their draft turn. That's what they do. It's
not really a mock draft, but they got every player
at that position that could fill that void that they want.
That's the way it's done.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
Isn't it Okay? So it's a little more complex than that.
I'm trying to do it really quickly. So I want
you to think about looking straight ahead and imagining there
are two different boards, all right. So there's a board
that is what we call a vertical board, where you
just ranked players from one to one hundred to make
it simple, and you rank those players just like if
we were going to the park to pick up people. Hey,

(47:18):
who's the number one guy. Let's say Jeremiah Love is one.
For Dennemendozes to David Bailey, arvl Reese three four and
on down. You do it just like that, from one
to one hundred. Then on another board is what we
call the horizontal board, that is by position. And so
what you do is like you have all the positions
on the board, defensive end, defensive tackle, YadA, YadA, all

(47:39):
the way across the board, and you rank here the
top twenty defensive ends, defensive tackles, and they're around values
associated to how you graded those guys. And so it's
a we have the vertical board, which tells you how
we like them, but hey, if we're in need of
a position, here here's how it stabbed, here's how it ranks,

(48:01):
and so there's a nuance to it, so it's not
just a I'm drafting by need. If you're doing it honestly, hey, man,
I'm gonna look at it vertical board. I'm gonna take
the best player available, and then if we have similar
graded players, I'm gonna take the one that feels our
biggest need as opposed to the player who we respect,
but maybe he is at a position where we're already

(48:21):
loaded at. But you don't draft solely on need, because
if you do that, that's when you make the mistakes,
because every draft doesn't produce the best players at the
position that you need. And if you just draft don't
need some years, you're gonna draft players that are lesser
players than the ones that came out previously.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
Shay, did you hear that? Did you take your notes
on that.

Speaker 5 (48:42):
I'm currently updating my mock draft as we speak.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
So you're telling me you do do a mock draft.

Speaker 4 (48:48):
I do it with friends.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (48:49):
I don't put it out that.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
Because it's fun. Because what it does it gives you
an opportunity on draft night to tune in with interest. Exactly,
even the casual fan can tune in and have an interest.
And now that we have gambling and props in why
wouldn't you do it. It's just like it is just
like March madness is no different than March madda.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
Wait a minute, don't bring that up, because I think
I finished last, and that all right? I mean, I mean,
you know what, I take that person. You know, you
don't know how down in the dumb I think someone.
I think it was Brady Quinn. I think he mentioned
on the Morning show that I finished last. I think

(49:34):
he did anywhere twenty fifth. Whatever I heard about that,
I didn't even want to look at it. I said,
wait a minute, I took that person. You know what
it was like. I'll tell you what it was like.
It was like when I was in tenth grade at
Lafayette High School in Brooklyn, we had a geometry teacher
named missus Snow. She was a great teacher and I
was pretty good in geometry. And we used to get
a test like every ten days ever it was. And

(49:56):
after the test and she gave out the papers, she
writes your name on the board. If your name was
on the board, that means you did well on the test,
because she wanted you to go to the board and
show the class how you got the answer to that question. Okay,
and every once in a while my name was not
on the board, I put my head between my legs
and I would say, oh my gosh. You know that's
the way I felt with this, with this, with the

(50:16):
march madness. I understand it's a crop shoot, and I
picked Florida to win it all. I wanted Houston to
go deep. I want to Saint John's to go deep.
I understand it. I don't. I don't think there's a
correlationship between finishing last and your knowledge of the game
of basketball. But I took it personally. Okay, maybe I'm crazy.
I mean I really did. I was down the dumps
for forty eight hours. I was really And next year

(50:39):
I'm not entering it. How's that. I don't need that activation.
I'm not gonna do it. I'm not doing Come on,
I think I won the football I think I won
the football pool.

Speaker 3 (50:48):
You can't be you can't be a Sowred loser. Did
you finish last? Maybe next year you can orchestrate a
worse the first turnaround, but you cannot be a Sowred lose.
My couchbown because you sunk this year. You just got
to get better. You need to look at you. You
need to look at where you went wrong. But I
wouldn't say that it's luck. I think you got to

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look at a lot of college basketball and have a
feel for how it plays out. We are now seeing
that it was pretty chalk across the board in terms
of the favorites. Like outside of the first round, we
didn't see many upsests or crazy upsests, and normally it's
the same round, it's the same parents, like five and
twelve upset eighty nine upsets. I mean that that's kind

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of where it goes, like, you gotta get Come on, Andy,
you don't work a little harder on you.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
I know less in football than basketball, And I think
I won the football deal. I think I was the
winner there. I mean, I'm not I have to go back.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
To football deal. What football deal do we have?

Speaker 2 (51:48):
We have to win to college football?

Speaker 4 (51:50):
I actually won that. But it's okay. I know you
could sure, sure you can kill it.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
You kill it? Can we switch topics? You want this?

Speaker 5 (52:01):
I can ask a master's question if you are.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
Why did you have to show up today?

Speaker 4 (52:07):
You couldn't resisted. You brought it up. What it's on
my fault? I'll go back to that don't worry.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
You want to talk about let's talk about golfers. So
you want them to talk about the Masters, right.

Speaker 4 (52:21):
Yeah, I have a question for you guys.

Speaker 5 (52:22):
So Bucky mentioned he Masters is one of his all
time I have to go on, Andy, Bucky, do you
guys play golf?

Speaker 3 (52:32):
Maybe casually? Casually?

Speaker 5 (52:36):
Okay, okay, So there's never been like, okay, there's been
a month in your lives where you're gonna say, I'm
gonna get good at this hell oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
Yeah, yeah, Yeah, There's been times where I dedicated to him.
It's like, oh, you know what I'm gonna go. I'm
gonna focus, I'm gonna go to the range, I'm gonna
work on my short game, et cetera, et cetera, and yeah,
we're gonna make this happen. Yeah, there's been times after that,
for sure.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
And then Andy, what did you just say?

Speaker 2 (53:00):
Years ago, my wife bought me clubs and got me lessons.
I mean, this is a long time ago, so I
think I went for one lesson. You know. My problem
is I'm embarrassed. You know, you go to the golf
course and you look, you look like a fool. I
just feel like everybody has their eyes on you. It's
kind of the same thing with this pool thing, you know,
the contest. You know, you figure you lose. Everybody's saying, oh,

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this guy's a moron, you know. So I just I
don't and I don't have the time. I don't have
the patience or the time. Really, I'd rather stay home
and write letters to people than do that. That's the
way I am, really.

Speaker 5 (53:31):
Okay, So now you guys can tell how you guys
have tried it. You can see how hard it is.
You can kind of tell our listeners this isn't something
that's easy.

Speaker 4 (53:39):
Because you've tried it, you can see how hard.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
But the stake to say because you could tell you
could say the same thing about fishing. I could go
to the pond every day and not catch anything. So
you gonna tell me phishing is hard? Come on, really,
and it doesn't work that way? What did you just
say to me, I don't have the patience to play golf.
I don't want to play golf. What means you work
good when you first start. So then you were like,
I don't like that. No, if I weren't at it, i'd.

Speaker 4 (54:04):
Be good and possible. You're making this impossible.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
But no, because when I was a kid, I played
stickball all the time with the kids, and I was
good at it. I was in the New York City
stick Bull Hall of Fame.

Speaker 5 (54:14):
So so you so you just didn't like walking? Well,
what made you impatient about golf?

Speaker 2 (54:22):
The time it takes to develop and you have to
keep on playing to become better.

Speaker 4 (54:27):
So what I'm hearing right now is you saying you
weren't good.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Well at the beginning, I was not good.

Speaker 8 (54:33):
No, I was not, and so it was hard to
get good anything that you start at the beginning.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
You know it's not You're not good when you started
playing kill good? When you started playing football when you
were like eight, nine years old? Were you good?

Speaker 3 (54:49):
Were you good?

Speaker 2 (54:50):
Then?

Speaker 4 (54:51):
You think he had the natural game? Andy?

Speaker 3 (54:53):
At eight?

Speaker 4 (54:55):
Who do you think?

Speaker 3 (54:56):
Or you.

Speaker 4 (54:58):
Are we doing this right now?

Speaker 3 (54:59):
Andy? I'm just saying, oh my gosh, Andy, but you when.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
You were young playing footballen you started, you probably were
not that good, right, you learned the game and you stayed.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
I learned the game. I was okay, I could run
around a little bit.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
But you love the game. You said, I like this,
I want to continue doing it? Right?

Speaker 3 (55:17):
Yeah? Okay?

Speaker 2 (55:19):
So I said, golf, I wasn't that good at it,
but I had no desire to want to get better
because I didn't. I didn't enjoy the game. It just
took too long. I didn't have that time to devote
to golf. I didn't want to do it.

Speaker 5 (55:30):
You know what I could be I didn't see Andy play,
so who knows he could have hit the driver three
hundred and just been like, you know what, this isn't
I don't like this. This isn't fun for me. So
you know what, I'm sorry for yelling at you. Andy,
You're right.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
I will play golf now because my son, my son,
and my wife are better than me and golf, but
I'm not doing it.

Speaker 5 (55:46):
Can I can I do say one thing? I think
an eight year old Andy Furman an eight year old
Bucky are very different when it came to h and
I think the flashes that Bucky had at eight years
old were very different than most.

Speaker 3 (55:56):
Eight years old.

Speaker 4 (55:59):
Literally Eddy eight years that's actually I think about it.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
So I said that athletes are born probably not made, Okay,
exactly what's born an athlete?

Speaker 5 (56:07):
So that leads me to this question for you guys,
Maybe we could do that when we come back, is
there a villain going?

Speaker 2 (56:13):
What do you mean come back? Where am I going?

Speaker 4 (56:15):
Well?

Speaker 5 (56:15):
I mean we might have to go to break right here, Andy,
I'm sorry, we got time. We have a little bit
of time. But I want to ask you guys this
in in golf, is there more of a villain? And
our board up Mark kind of said this to me,
is there more of a villain than the course? The
Master's course itself? Because of how in your head you

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get these people have been playing for so long. These
people are pros. They're not Andy Furman, They're not Bucket Brooks,
They're not Shay. They're people that have playing since they
were eight years old. Just like Andy just said.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
No, because they're still living. They make a living playing golf.
Is it difference?

Speaker 4 (56:53):
Okay, exactly exactly.

Speaker 5 (56:55):
So do you think that the biggest villain in golf
right now is the Master's course itself? Or do you
think that we can give a particular player that villain
that villain title?

Speaker 4 (57:07):
Does that make sense?

Speaker 3 (57:10):
Is there a villain?

Speaker 2 (57:13):
I think Tiger may have been a villain. I mean
he was loved and hated at the same time, I think,
but I think every sport needs Lebron, there's a villain
in the NBA. I think you need a villain to
create interest.

Speaker 9 (57:24):
If you think in the game, if you think Tiger
was a villain, then his he was a villain because
his mind was stronger and he built his body to
be stronger than the rest of the field when it
came to certain courses, he was stronger that way, his
mind held together and his shots stayed together.

Speaker 4 (57:44):
You have to have four days of great golf.

Speaker 9 (57:47):
Being able to place the ball and being able to
get the ball in the hole the least amount of time,
which is obviously the game of golf. So if you
want to call Tiger a villain, he was able to
hold it together and out mind the other players just
being intimidating that I can't deal with him because his

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brain is tougher than mine and his game is tougher
than mine.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
No doubt, no doubt. But I think that Bucky would agree.
I think that sports, the popularity of sports increases as
that sport has a villain. The NBA had has Lebron,
but I think that Lebron has one foot out the door.
They need a new villain. Okay, I don't think Major
League baseball has a villain, do they? I mean, and
Major League Baseball right now is not as popular I

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don't think as the NBA. I think when you rate
rate popularity of sports, is football, NFL, college football, then
maybe maybe the NBA, then in Major League baseball? After what?

Speaker 4 (58:46):
Keep talking?

Speaker 5 (58:46):
I'm sorry, keep going ahead, go ahead. This is that's
a whole another topic. I keep going.

Speaker 3 (58:52):
Forget, I forget here. What order did you rank him?
In Andy?

Speaker 2 (58:56):
NFL football is number one? Popularity college football two. I
would say the NBA is three, that Major League Baseball
is four.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
I think baseball is rising according to some article, no
doubt maybe, but regardless, I think football is king in
and everything is well below damn after that.

Speaker 9 (59:18):
In the past couple of years, it seems like the
people who love baseball they just they don't worry about
it in the first two weeks because as one hundred
and sixty two games to get to, So while football
is going on and other things are going on, people
just put their their importance about baseball on hold because
the first few weeks everybody's getting used to the game

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or the new rules that are coming around. Because that's
generally speaking, Bucky, that's kind of when you answer certain
questions you, in my view, you just set baseball to
the side because it's just it's so early and as
they have so far to go.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Yeah, yeah, I mean as a Dodger fan, I don't
start seriously tuning in until this money time August September.
That's when I'm really honed in early on. I make
sure I check the score every night. I'll pop it
on if it's on TV. But you're right, I don't
really get into it to the middle of the summer.

Speaker 4 (01:00:19):
WBC, it didn't get you guys locked in at all.

Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
I loved it. I watched all of that now. I
loved all the and if more games were like that,
I'll watch it all the time because that was fun.
And if baseball could just kind of let it be
like that, I would love.

Speaker 4 (01:00:35):
It Andy real quick. So did that not?

Speaker 5 (01:00:37):
Also the WBC, it didn't give you more of an
excitement for your opening day, Like I feel like we've
probably watched more open like it, like more Opening week
baseball than ever because of the WBC.

Speaker 4 (01:00:51):
Is that correct?

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
Yeaheah, correct. But I think it hurt and her major
League Baseball when they had the Yankees play the Giants
were a payball for that game. That that's a problem.
I think a lot of people are ticked off with that.
They really are the pay for it, you know, But
what's the option. Either pay for it and your TV
set at home, or you pay a hundred bucks a

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ticket going to the game? Yeah, fifty bucks to park
your car. So you know, it's it's one or the other.

Speaker 5 (01:01:18):
That is one of the hardest things to watch right
now too. But I mean it's easy to go to
the park, but it's harder to watch it on TV,
which is crazy right now.

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
I agree. I think football is the perfect game spectator sport,
and it's made for TV, made for TV, where baseball
I just it's to me, it's like golf. I don't
have the three plus hours to donate to a TV
set to sit in front of a set and watch
a baseball game.

Speaker 4 (01:01:40):
I just don't.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
I'll turn on to see what the score is and
that's it. Can't do it. I'll go to a game.
I love going to the games, but to sit there
for three hours on TV, can't do it.

Speaker 5 (01:01:50):
I like how we got here from talking about the Masters.
But it's good anyway. The villains and Golf, Tiger and
Masters Augusta National Course.

Speaker 4 (01:02:01):
Love it, love it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
I don't know if a course could be a villain,
but it's a problem, there's no doubt about that. And
you know what, you're a villain here, you're our villain.
Tell you that right now, All right, we'll we're broadcasting
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Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
All right, one coach finally makes some sense, he really does,
and that's right around the corner. All right, good morning, everybody.
This is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio's Bucket
Brooks and Andy Furman and we are live from the
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NA in about twelve minutes from now. So let's get
into this NFL thing, or tell you about this coach
NFL Bucky Brooks says, you know playing overseas. Have you

(01:03:10):
gone overseas with Jacksonville? I'm sure you have, Yes, I have.
How tough is that? Would your time change and the
travel and all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:03:20):
Well, it's tough. I mean it's I think it's like
a five hour difference from the East Coast going over there. Look,
you just have to adapt, you know. It's just one
of those things where you just have to adapt and
adjust to it. And there are a few different ways
people do it. Some people come over early to get
on the body clock and do those things. Did La
Rams came over and pretty much did it in like

(01:03:42):
a forty eight hour window. You know, they kind of
treated it. They were staying on Baltimore. They just flew over,
got in the day before game like a normal trip,
and then just played the game and away they went.
So a lot of it just kidding.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
I can't imagine it, because like when the Dolphins a
Miami team is playing on the west of Miami's playing Seattle.
That's a whole I couldn't imagine going over the water
over the pond to play a football game. But I
understand it because the NFL, according to Roger that Dell,
they want to expand the brand. Okay, but you're expanding
the brand at the expense of fans losing a home game.

(01:04:16):
And again, I feel as if like I'm carrying the
banner for the fans. Okay, they're paying money, they love it.
There's only about eight or nine home games. You take
a home game away. I don't think it's fair. I
just don't think it's fair. And I'm sure a lot
of fans are not happy about it, but I don't
hear a lot of pushback about that. I don't know why,
but I don't. But Kyle Shanahan is speaking for the fans.

(01:04:36):
I love it. He and his forty nine ers are
playing the Rams in the opening week in Australia and
he's not happy about it either, am I I'm not
happy about it either, all right, And I tell you
I don't think these players like it either. Your take
on you're close to the players on Jacksonville. Were they
happy about going over the pond to play football?

Speaker 3 (01:04:54):
I mean, I think that's a part of who the
Jags are. I mean they've thrown, i mean pitched a
tent over in London like that is what they do.
They have an annual game over in London that is
an extension of their home base, and so you just
get used to it. That's just a part of what
it is. I can understand players being uncomfortable because it
does get you out your routine. And in this business,

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pro football, everything is about routine, consistent routines, consistent habits.
Those habits play out on game day because you're out
of sorts. It does have an impact on the way
the games perform. But this is why coaches and all
the people that work on the support staff get paid,
so we can map out the best way to approach

(01:05:37):
and international game week, they have plenty of time to
do it, no excuses, No one cares. You got to
line up and put the ball down because as much
as he's bitching and complaining, it's the same thing for
the opponent. They got to do the same stuff. So
who does it better ultimately is what it comes down to.

Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
Okay, Commissioner Roger Goodell had a pressure the other day
and they touched on topics including the NFL's future in Australia.
What the hell kind of a future are they going
to have an Australia thinking of a franchise in Australia.
Tell me about that, because I looked at the schedule
and apparently there's no less than nine international games on
the schedule this coming year. I think that's ridiculous, I

(01:06:15):
really do. They're not going to have a franchise there
so they make a big one day pay day. Is
that what they do to sell merchandise? Why are they
going over there?

Speaker 3 (01:06:24):
Because the global expansion. I mean, the league is the
most popular league going right now, and the more that
you can expand its reached, the more it'll dominate. There's
a tremendous amount of money that is there to be made.
And being at international games annually, I can tell you
those games sell out within an hour of tickets being released,

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and whether that's a Jacksonville home game that's played at
Wembley Stadium or one of the international games that's played
at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, they're sold out and it has
a super Bowl feel to it in terms of the
kaleidoscope of people and fans that are there. So if
you can draw that kind of interest for sixteen games
or eighteen international games, why would you turn that down?

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And because of the push for flag football and more things,
all football is good football. All football allows you to
expand the reach. And because the international flavor that flag
football is also drawn, you're now able to expand the brand.
So this is all about business. It's about dollars and cents.

(01:07:29):
It's about eventually creating a slate of games that you
can sell off to another provider, whether it's Amazon, Netflix,
whatever streaming service. Potentially it's another way to make money.
And the one thing I do know about the league,
owners love money. Players like money, and as long as
you're able to expand the pie, the more slices for

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people to eat off of.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
I'm going to go to the answer man because Shay
Shape probably has the answer. Because she's talking about villains
all the time. You probably have the answer to this.
You probably do. I like what Shina hand to say.
He says it's cool for the league to play gold lead.
I think it's awesome, But as far as the team
doing it, no there's not much benefit to it. That's
what he said, all right, And I can't argue with him.
I like that because these people that these other markets

(01:08:13):
internationally are stupid. You could get the two worst teams,
you could get the Las Vegas Raiders playing, and they'll
sell out because they don't know the difference between the
Raiders and the Patriots or the Broncos or anybody else. Rights.

Speaker 5 (01:08:26):
It's annoying when you're one of the only teams that,
for instance, has to be oh, why do we have
to go do that? But the world's getting a lot smaller, Andy,
and little do we know. Who knows, maybe in China
we'll have an affiliate soon and they'll be listening to
us Bucky and Andy early in the morning there so,
and who knows, maybe we'll have a Chinese football team
playing in the NFL soon. So I very well see

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the NFL getting bigger in the world getting a lot smaller.
And if a team like the forty nine Ers can
go to Australia and hook one person, that one person's
in entire family and descendant is now going to be
a forty nine Er fan.

Speaker 4 (01:09:04):
That's how it works.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
That's what the NFL the way he's gonna buy season
tickets to the forty nine.

Speaker 5 (01:09:09):
No, but he's going to buy a year. He's going
to buy streaming whatever is. He's going to follow all
the socials. It's a lot more than just watching football
now it's digital. It's it's liking the posts, it's watching
the posts. It's have you seen the EU fighting Like
there's like an Arabic forty nine ers post that it's
millions of posts because it's brock Party speaking in Arabic

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saying go Niners.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
I like to say something and I should get the
World Piece of Award for this. If they can get
an NFL franchise in Iran to stop the war, I'm
all for it. I would love that would make me right?
Are you making sports? Sports could create peace? That would
be the greatest thing.

Speaker 5 (01:09:51):
And that I mean there's a whole issue with the
FIFA World Cup there and then coming out here as well.
So in the end, literally this leads you to a
whole different conversation of sports are getting so big and
the world is getting so small, and we can't let
politics and we can't let all these other things get
in the way of it, because in the end, it
is just sports, and these politics look so dumb.

Speaker 4 (01:10:13):
And when we can come.

Speaker 5 (01:10:14):
Together so quickly and so easily, and at the same
time make all this money while doing it, Yes, it
does not make sense to not do.

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
You need to get a big businessman and irank at
the team.

Speaker 4 (01:10:24):
I trust the word and Roger Goodell hit me up.
I got some people, I got a dual citizenship. I'll
do what I have. I'll do what I got.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
Franchise there that would create world peace. That's what I
want to see. If it means having an NFL franchise there.

Speaker 4 (01:10:38):
Fine, right there, Let's all headlines.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
Right, That's fine, a lot of headlines. I will say this.
You also understand, uh Andy, we talk about the international
flavor and all these things. Everything the league does is
by design. There's a push to expand the reach, and
so you talk about international, you talk about the push today,
the investment they've made in girls flag football and in

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flag football in general. They are not leaving a stone
unturned when it comes to producing the dollar because they
know if you can lure them in early, you got
them for life, and you get them for life. There's
a lot of merchandise and a lot of attraction, a
lot of tickets and everything else that comes along with it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
I will say this much, Goodell and Shannan are probably
not the best of friends right now because if what
Shanaan had to say, and Goodell came right back, he says,
coaches have a focus on winning innstnamo job. And it's yeah,
but it just to win. That's it. That means figured
it out for me alone. Stay out of my business
and I'll stay out of yours. That's basically what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (01:11:44):
Yeah, he said, coaches, coach. Basically, you coach your team.
Don't worry about don't worry about we're making money over here.
Some of that salary that at ten to fifteen million
dollars salary that Kyle Shanahan is commanding comes from these
international games able to be played because the owners have
more money to do it. So if you say that, a,
we don't play any international games and you all have

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to take pay cuts, yeah, there wouldn't be any conversation
then amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
Okay, So now all of a sudden, it says I
think Christian McCaffrey said that he was not happy making
the seventeen hour trip. Goodell came back and said he
made the trip. He said it's not a big deal
different the time difference shouldn't be an issue. And then
he says he has an app. He has an app
for Shanahan which he's going to send him. My wife
hooked me up with an app. And I got to
tell you, I feel great. I have not felt any

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jet leg at all. We've been here since Tuesday. This
was like Friday, and I thought it was a relative
easy troop. But yeah, Roger, it sounds great. But you
don't have to play football. You know, you're going to
eat and drink and have and be married. That's what
you're doing over there, all right, I'm looking at.

Speaker 3 (01:12:44):
The okay, Okay, So now I know that everyone likes
to fall on the side of the poor players and
how tough it is to be on a luxury airplane
standing in a luxurious hotel and oh my god, they
got to play this hard game and do whatever. They
don't have to play. You don't have to play football.
You can you can get a job, you can draw
a civilian workplace like all of us and be fine.

(01:13:08):
But if that's the life that you chose, man, you
got to be quiet about it. You got to go
to work. If not, why else are you posting all
these ig posts of all this training that you're doing
over the course of the off season. Put a little
extra training in to get ready to play in Australia.
I don't want to hear about it. I have little
patients for it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
Well, I will tell you this much. To me, I'm
looking forward to the game because they probably gonna have
highlights of Melbourne and what it's like out there, and
they're gonna have like one hundred thousand people at that game.
There's no doubt about that. They're gonna play at mid
g Stadium with the capacities one hundredenty twenty four. But
the thing that bothers me more than anything else, the
game between the forty nine Ers and the RAM is

(01:13:44):
gonna kick off at ten thirty five am on Friday,
September eleventh in Australia, which creates eight thirty five pm
Eastern Time kickoff on Thursday night for the US of
a all right, Thursday night. I don't like the NFL
playing on Thursdays and Friday nights. Why that's traditionally high
school football, and that is stepping on high school football's toes.

(01:14:04):
That's all I have to say about that, all right,
So that's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:14:07):
You know, you know what, everybody has a phone. You
can watch the game on the phone at your local
high school. Doesn't change anything. Put your earbuds in. Put
your ear buds in. Put you you can figure it out.
I mean, that's the whole thing. That's why we get
the phone.

Speaker 4 (01:14:22):
That's the whole point.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
I know why I finished labs in the pool because
I can't win. I can't win. I got not Not
only do I have Bucky Brooks on me, I got
Chayshe after me now too. So I'm over two. I
can't fight anymore. I'm giving the white flag. I'm raising
my white flag. I give a surrender. I surrender. I'm
a loser. I admit it. And that's we move on,
all right. This is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio.

(01:14:46):
There's two ways to go really not actually three.

Speaker 4 (01:14:48):
I'm just trying to go to break now.

Speaker 2 (01:14:50):
Two ways up and down, left and right, and of
course yay or nay, and it's next.

Speaker 7 (01:14:55):
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Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
Oh yeah, na, right around the corner. It's about twelve
minutes before at the top of the hour. This is
Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio's Bucket Books. I'm
Andy Ferman, and we are live from the Fox Porst
Radio studios. Shay, Shay, Are you ready for a RNA?
Are you ready?

Speaker 4 (01:15:20):
Let's do it?

Speaker 6 (01:15:21):
Okay, let's figure rack those brains, gentlemen, these stories need.

Speaker 2 (01:15:26):
An ass I think we need a ruling on this.

Speaker 1 (01:15:28):
It's yay or nay.

Speaker 5 (01:15:30):
Let's rack those brains like we're gonna rock those phones.
Jim Brump shout out, let's do it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
Are we ready to do this question? Okay? No polk,
No contest here, no contest last again.

Speaker 4 (01:15:42):
No. I mean, thank god, you don't have to.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
I don't like competing with people.

Speaker 4 (01:15:45):
That's why with these games, we don't compete.

Speaker 6 (01:15:48):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:15:48):
I don't want to have you going up against Bucky
because that would just be completely unfaired.

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
That's my death death.

Speaker 4 (01:15:53):
Literally in anything you do. It doesn't even have to
be an athletic.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
App unless I got a handicap.

Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
You could be.

Speaker 4 (01:15:58):
Hugging water and Bucky would beat you. It would just be.

Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
Some game, some game we used to compete on, something Olympics.
I would take five events and challenge beat him three
out of five.

Speaker 8 (01:16:14):
The game we used to play where you would always
you know, you would you would bring up these random
contests and it would be like no, it would be.

Speaker 3 (01:16:23):
The like pasture rules football.

Speaker 8 (01:16:26):
Yes, yes, random random swimming swimming. Yes, you guys hated me.
I would bring up like the sports games and maybe
we'll bring that back.

Speaker 4 (01:16:38):
I'm going to think of that.

Speaker 5 (01:16:38):
I'm gonna go back and look for the name. Maybe
we'll bring that back for when I when I come
back next next time, or if I'm ever back.

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
Coming back bottom, barrels, coming back bottom.

Speaker 5 (01:16:49):
You know what, maybe we'll bring that back soon. Maybe
we'll bring that back soon. Anyways, Yeah, your name, let's
play the game that's on the list.

Speaker 2 (01:16:56):
Okay, Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:16:57):
The u f L is not as popular as the
m LS. Eh, guys, Bucky, we're starting with you.

Speaker 3 (01:17:03):
Oh uh, I think it's more popular than MLS. Is
anybody watching MLS games? I just don't know anybody. UFL
I at least Phil is getting traction because people are
talking about the four point field goal and the innovations
when it comes to the referee stuff. So yeah, more
people are watching UFL.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
Never heard of them, So that's it. Yeah, you know what,
I think the UFL is more popular. Why because you
can understand the players. They speak English. That's the only reason, really, right.
I don't think the game has anything to do with it.
That's why hockey is not popular. They don't speak English, right,
and they announce you know why they will give hockey
scores on TV at eleven o'clock on the news because
the TV guys on TV are embarrassed. They can't pronounce

(01:17:41):
their names. That's the reason it really is.

Speaker 4 (01:17:43):
And it's just.

Speaker 3 (01:17:45):
Gonna give everybody a nickname. Just give everybody a nickname.

Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
You should be right, exactly right. Well, the great one,
Wayne Gretzky, he had a nickname. That's why he got
got He got announced all the times. All right, move on.

Speaker 5 (01:17:57):
The Lakers are set to take on the Rockets in
the Western Conference playoffs in the first round. M do
you think they have a chance to get past them
in the first round?

Speaker 4 (01:18:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
Your name, oh man, you know what they got to
disseminated rush. I don't think they can. I mean Rockets
got KD. I think that Rockets will win that because
little Walston Reeve's not gonna play. No one's gonna play.
Lebron can't do it himself.

Speaker 6 (01:18:26):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
I think they get past the first round, they find
a way to beat the Rockets. Is not a great
matchup for them, Kevin Durant and company. I mean, Doka
will cock up some skin. You come up with a
couple of schemes to make it tough. But to me,
this is a turn at the clock moment for Lebron.
He'll hold it down for the Lakers, just in time
for Luca to come back and kind of make his heroic.

Speaker 5 (01:18:47):
Return, staying on the Lakers in Lebron here, Lebron James
will here return next season with the Lakers.

Speaker 4 (01:18:55):
Yeah, Nah, how many.

Speaker 2 (01:18:56):
Times you're gonna ask that question today? Really? I mean,
could you be a little more creative? Now, I'm gonna
stop picking on you a little bit, all right.

Speaker 5 (01:19:05):
You wrote this question. This was your question, if you
if you go down to d on.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
The questions, that's a pretty good question. Really, it's actually
one of the ones that you wrote. I'm only kidding.
I was the only kidd it's a good question. I
will be back because you know why he didn't do
a farewell tour this year.

Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
If it comes to get the rock and chair, to
get the rock and cheer and play with Brianni, him
and Broanne got to go out the right.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
Way, right agreed.

Speaker 5 (01:19:35):
Next, Jason Kelsey and Kevin Hart are part of the
Master's telecast wearing the little suits.

Speaker 4 (01:19:41):
Yeah, your name.

Speaker 3 (01:19:43):
Like that. I like that. I like the Masters kind
of opening up and doing some things, even though you
have the traditionalists who preferred to be yesteryear with the
old uh kind of like the old values, the old
rules in place. I kind of like mixing it up,
having some different peop there. You know what my dream is.
My dream is to have one of those white caddy
suits with my name on the back like the Master's hat,

(01:20:06):
to do all that. I think that would be great.
I would love to have that in the wardrobe, in
the closet. So I'm working on that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:12):
You know, I'm going to go with an A and
I don't want to be one of those old funny studdies.
But the point is that the Masters can stand by itself.
They don't need Jason Kelsey and Kevin Hart to be
part of the Masters, you know, and I love Kevin Hart,
Jason Kelsey. I love it, went to University of Cincinnati.
I like those guys. But you don't have a place there.
It's awkward. It's all good that you're at the Masters,

(01:20:32):
so don't go go home.

Speaker 5 (01:20:34):
Really all right, and this brings us to our last
one yeay or nay. We're bringing back bottom barrel betting
every time. Shane's back.

Speaker 3 (01:20:43):
Yeah, I love it. I love it. I like doing that.
I like competition. I like knowing these things. I know
that the studying pays off, and so I'm prepared. I'm
prepared whenever it comes back. I'm prepared for creating anything.

Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
Anti there's a winner or a loser. I don't want it.
I don't I can't hit.

Speaker 4 (01:21:01):
It's just ready to put you in the ground.

Speaker 3 (01:21:05):
I love all this, e sports, long bowling, whatever you
want to come over with, share work, No, no.

Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
We'll get all right. Stand with big news coming up
next on Fox.

Speaker 7 (01:21:17):
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Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
Oh he had a real gripe. He did. We'll explain
that in just about a minute. Good morning, everybody. This
is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. He's Bucky
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And before we get rolling, before I introduce the main
and himself, Bucket Brooks, let's have a listened to the
Tire IRAQ player of the day.

Speaker 9 (01:22:05):
Just a seven iron from Shane Lowry here at the
part of three sixth, one.

Speaker 3 (01:22:09):
Hundred and ninety yards downhill back left hole location. This
is pretty good, one hot.

Speaker 4 (01:22:14):
Short, the flag stick rolling perfectly and it's in.

Speaker 2 (01:22:18):
That ace for Shane Lowry at the sixth.

Speaker 8 (01:22:22):
That is the seventh ace in the ninety year history
of Augusta National and the masters at everybody watching signaled
touchdown for Shane Lowry.

Speaker 2 (01:22:33):
Can you get a little more excited as a freaking
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in one on six. He finished the day fourth with
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buying should be, the way football should be talked about
and played. The may Man himself my pardonner Bucket Brooks.
I are doing, buck.

Speaker 3 (01:23:03):
What's going on?

Speaker 7 (01:23:03):
End it?

Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
Everything is wonderful right now? You know, I gotta run
this by it because this is something right up your rally.
Because you're like a tremendous athlete. You're like a decathlon athlete.
You could do it all. You ain't the sport, you
could do it. There was an Arkansil athlete. She put
on fifty five T shirts and she ran a half marathon.
She broke the Guinness World Book of Records to celebrate
her weight loss journey. All right. Meredith Smith ran the

(01:23:27):
fourth Smith Half Marathon on March twentieth back in twenty
twenty five while wearing her fifty five layers of shirts,
and Guinness World Records has now confirmed she earned the
title for the most T shirts worn during a half marathon.
I will tell you this much. And she did it
for under three hours than thirty minutes. There are lunatics
out there that probably buy the Guinness Book of Records

(01:23:49):
and see what record they could they could break. And
I'm one of those runatics because I think I could
run a half marathon and I'll wear fifty six shirts. Really,
I mean, how do you put on fifty five shirts?
I don't get it. I mean, it's how he would be.

Speaker 3 (01:24:03):
They're crazy heavy. Yeah, that's nuts. I would not want that.
Not fun.

Speaker 2 (01:24:10):
Is it that important for people to have that kind
of an ego to say I'm in the Guinness Book
of World Records? Really? I don't know. Maybe yes to
some people.

Speaker 3 (01:24:18):
You don't want to be a record holder, you want
to be famous.

Speaker 2 (01:24:21):
Who cares? I mean, have you ever even seen the
Guinness Book of World Records?

Speaker 3 (01:24:25):
No, but it's nice when people talk about I'm a
record holder.

Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
So if I were to tell somebody that I'm in
the Guinness Book of Records for whatever. They would probably
take my word for it because you don't even know.
I can see Google to see if you're in the
goodness right they google that?

Speaker 3 (01:24:40):
Yeah, Google, Yeah, I guess you do it.

Speaker 7 (01:24:42):
That one?

Speaker 3 (01:24:42):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:24:43):
Interesting, I break We'll see now, you know, maybe maybe
the most losing ever in uh in basketball pools something
like that. I don't know, we'll see anyways, Speaking of basketball,
anty double a basketball tournament title game, and Shaysha had
some great ideas on this. You really did. We got

(01:25:03):
some unfinished bits to talk about. First University of Connecticut
coach Dan Early. And you said, and I'm blaming this
on you. You said he's a winner. I say he's
a whiner. You say he's a winner. All right, How
in the hell could Dan Hurley be a winner after
he lost against in Michigan? Tell me that. Explain it
to me.

Speaker 5 (01:25:20):
I think that no matter what, this man is a winner.
Why and Bucky, I'm gonna I'm gonna explain this to
you and let me know if you agree with me, Okay,
because I kind of we kind of Me and Andy
had a phone caller in the week and we kind
of argued over this, but we said, well, let's save
this for the air and let's see what Bucky thinks.
So I kind of told him the way the media

(01:25:40):
was talking about Dan, the way his intensity was really
noticed this this tournament. He's always had it, you know,
it's it's always been there. He's always been that character,
but the media really harped on it, and it was
just it wasn't just him. It was Tom Izzoh, it
was it was a lot of the coaches, and it's
something that we kind of saw throughout.

Speaker 4 (01:25:58):
The entire tournament.

Speaker 5 (01:26:00):
Dan Hurley was seen as a winner because and why
he made the tournament through Doubtfully, this wasn't the best
Yukon team he's had. This wasn't a team that was
supposed to get there, and this wasn't a team that
was supposed to beat or even get through i think
the final four. So the fact that that we're even
playing Michigan was a win for Dan Hurley, and on

(01:26:22):
top of it, through the controversy, through the media being
able to say Michigan was the better team after losing,
and on top of it, thanking the refs and quote,
I'm pretty sure he said that was one of the
hardest games to ref as a ref. I'm happy that

(01:26:42):
I didn't have to be a ref. And I'm pretty
sure he went on to say, if all of my
games were rough like that, I can sleep good at night.

Speaker 2 (01:26:49):
I had him out. Could you straighten him out? He's
alluded to.

Speaker 4 (01:26:53):
Are we for real right now?

Speaker 3 (01:26:55):
Yeah? No, I look, I'm kind of with him on that,
like I feel like you kind of overachieved, like I
didn't feel like you're the most talthy team. And for
him to get him there and to have the game
as competitive as it was, he as a credit to
him as a tactician, as a coach in those things.
Two time national champion, three finals in four years. Yeah,

(01:27:16):
I don't know how we can't describe him as as
a winner as a Hall of famer did to me,
that's not even a conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:27:24):
Okay, here's the deal. Okay, because you're saying how nice
he was and complimenting the referees. The reason why he
did that he saw what his compatriot Gino Oriama did
with Don Staley. He didn't want to go down that road,
so he turned it around. He turned the corner. He's
like a doctor. Juckle missed the hyde kind of guy anyway.
He's a lulatic on the court, and he's a gentleman

(01:27:45):
off the court. You know when they grab him at
halftime for halftime interviews. He's the most pleasant guy in
the world. He is. He's a good guy. But during
the game he's like a madman. He's a mad scientist.
And he saw what happened with Staley and Oriama. He
didn't want to go down that road, so he turned
on the arm and it worked, and then you believed it.
He sold it to you, Yes he did, Shay Shea,

(01:28:06):
he sold it to you.

Speaker 5 (01:28:08):
Hey, man, If you think that's a scam, I don't know.
I don't think that type of guy would put on
it like that.

Speaker 2 (01:28:15):
You guys could talk about Hurley all you want, but
you know what, he screwed up. And you know, I'm
a big time letter writer and I wrote this to
him because I do love Dan Hurley.

Speaker 3 (01:28:24):
I do.

Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
Here's the real story. Ukhn was two for twenty three,
shooting at a rim that even the TV announcer iron
Ingles said there was bent okay, And I don't know
why he didn't challenge that solo ball was getting great
bounces off the rim to go to go in at
the other riend, balls are bouncing out and that was
a bad rim and because of his high arc and
the rim tilted upward because it was too tight. Here's

(01:28:47):
a related anecdote, because I think Dan Hurley had every
right to have that rim inspected and measured many years ago.
And this is a true story. Many years ago in college,
Bill Bradley told an official that a rim was an
inch and a half too low. They measured it, and
he said it was correct. They adjusted it. It's a
true story. Why didn't Dan Hurley check this out? It

(01:29:10):
was ridiculous that they were two for twenty three. You're
a better shooting team than that. It was the rim.
And when Iron Eagle said that on TV, I guess
I didn't want to go too far with that because
he didn't want to challenge the anti double a and
get himself on hot water. But he was right on
he was He even noticed there was something wrong with
the rim.

Speaker 3 (01:29:28):
Okay, But didn't Michigan have to shoot it at rim
at some point too? Right?

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
I hear what you say, but Yukon's a better shooting
team than that, and that that was the key to
the game. I think it was the key. That was
the key right there.

Speaker 3 (01:29:41):
Yeah, I mean, I mean, I can't put it all
on the rim. Maybe there was some of Michigan's defense
and some of those other things. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:29:48):
Like the team there's not going in. I mean, clearly
it was the better team.

Speaker 3 (01:29:53):
Not that easy all right, as the young kids say,
that was the easy work, easy work.

Speaker 5 (01:29:59):
And he said, are you saying that Dan Hurley was
just too humble for his own good?

Speaker 3 (01:30:03):
Yeah? He didn't like that. We don't like humility every day.

Speaker 2 (01:30:06):
Yeah, I'm shocked Dan Hurley, of all people, not that
get them out with a tape measure and measure the rim.
Of all people, he'd be the first one to do it.
Why didn't he do that?

Speaker 4 (01:30:18):
So so let's say he did do it.

Speaker 5 (01:30:19):
Let's say they lose, and then he comes out and
he says that rim, that rim was messed up.

Speaker 3 (01:30:26):
Do we call him a baby?

Speaker 4 (01:30:27):
Yeah, because then we would go on and say Michigan
was on that rim.

Speaker 3 (01:30:30):
They didn't say anything, Yeah, they they didn't say anything.

Speaker 2 (01:30:34):
Point is that you just don't like it, You don't.

Speaker 3 (01:30:37):
Like it, You just don't like him.

Speaker 4 (01:30:39):
Yeah, do you like Dan Hurley?

Speaker 3 (01:30:40):
And he no, he doesn't like her.

Speaker 2 (01:30:42):
If I didn't like Dan Hurley, I wouldn't have written
a little note to him about the rim. And I
will continue this.

Speaker 4 (01:30:48):
You wrote a note to him, you sent him?

Speaker 2 (01:30:49):
Yes, I did, Yes, he did. As a matter of fact,
I put a note. I write a column for the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper, Brooklyn, New York. I put that
note in my column, ripped out the column and mailed
him with a note. Can you do you do you have?

Speaker 4 (01:31:02):
Can you? Can you write that note for us right now?
Can you read it?

Speaker 2 (01:31:05):
I don't know. I just circled the column that I
wrote that in the newspaper and.

Speaker 4 (01:31:12):
Find time you do that? You got to read that
on the air for us?

Speaker 3 (01:31:16):
Yeah, we need we need.

Speaker 2 (01:31:17):
What am I gonna say? Hey, Dan, you're a schmuck.
You should have told them to measure the rim.

Speaker 3 (01:31:23):
I'm just saying, I just feel like we need that.
We need that coach.

Speaker 2 (01:31:28):
Please read this. I think I think you should have
had a rim measured. Really, I hope to win you
didn't say this kind of guy. I like the Big East.

Speaker 3 (01:31:38):
I thought you could say, dear Dan, if you have
some hangy downs, you would have the rim. Should you
read more your speed. I didn't think you would go
with the Candler Gendler thing.

Speaker 2 (01:31:51):
You know, I said the coach. I didn't even say
Dan coach, however, I would say this. You know, any
coach worth his great of salt in America would have
had that measured and he and he'd be the first
one on my list that would have measured it. And
he didn't. I'm shocked. I mean, he the way he

(01:32:11):
complains with officials during the game, it looks like he's
gonna lose a vein in his neck at times. Really,
and and and do me a favorite, Dan, really get
yourself that new sports jacket. That sports jacket probably walk
by itself right now.

Speaker 3 (01:32:22):
Really, I mean, I mean it's probably a different sport
jacket than the one that was extra swaggy. After his
team hit that shot versus Duke and he decided to
headbutt the referee a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:32:36):
I mean, yeah, it's funny if you mean he's a
dog man like that that.

Speaker 2 (01:32:45):
That that referee was was suspended. Then he was not
able to referee any more games after that, And nothing
happened to Dan Hurley reference suspended. I think he was
he was and double a.

Speaker 4 (01:32:59):
I mean wasn't enough.

Speaker 2 (01:33:02):
Maybe it wasn't perhaps. I mean, but Dan Hurley, if
you look at the video, he certainly did touch his
head with his head it was a head of major.

Speaker 3 (01:33:13):
Like.

Speaker 2 (01:33:15):
Nothing happened to Dan Hurley. He wasn't suspended, wasn't flying,
nothing happened to him. Really, I mean, he's got power.
He does because I remember when Travis Steele, coach of
Miami University, Miami of Ohio, he was playing in a
tournament game I think whatever it was, I think it
was Toledo, and he turned over like a speaker at halftime.
He got fined three thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:33:35):
I mean, yeah, can't return over speakers. Sportsmanship, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:33:40):
I think it's power. Dan Hurley is a bigger name
than Travis Steele. That's what it is. It's what you are,
what kind of swag you have. Really, here's the deal.
If Bucky Brooks goes on the radio and says such
and such is going to be drafted number one, you know,
and it doesn't happen, no big whoop. If I say it,

(01:34:00):
people laugh, because you got the swag, you got the power,
you've got the credibility. It works that way. That's why
you're going to go against that clown on ESPN. You
are because you got the credit.

Speaker 3 (01:34:11):
You said that, you said that I didn't call him.
I didn't call him.

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
Okay, he's not a coun the man who predicts, the
man who somehow predicts over there.

Speaker 5 (01:34:19):
Is nice hair that's got swaged though you can, he's
never got. I don't know where Bobby has no slag.

Speaker 4 (01:34:26):
I don't know that.

Speaker 3 (01:34:28):
No slag. Yeah he lost he lost his swag. I
don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:34:32):
I'm a sun devil too. My god, it's time for leave.

Speaker 10 (01:34:36):
Okay speak Speaking of of college basketball, do you know
forty nine percent of people who have played college basketball
men this year have entered the portal, which would to me,
that's just an eighteen hundred plus.

Speaker 2 (01:34:54):
That to me is ridiculous, it's it's crazy. Plus they
did it the day after the tournament ended Tuesday, on Tuesday.
What's your thought about that? Don't you think there's something
wrong there? I mean, I understand why the kids did it,
not so much because they don't like the school they
play for, but they don't like the coach, or they
weren't starting orren't playing as much as they want to do.
They wanted to say how much money they're worth? Right?

(01:35:15):
They want to get a little more money more two
players from Miami, which I love Miami. We had Travis
Steele on here a couple of weeks ago. I mean,
that'll never happen again. It was a once in a
lifetime season, I think in Miami of Ohio, and two
of those players are going to be going in the
portal and I hate to see that because I'd like
to see them stay there. And now they're gone. But
what are they making at Miami of Ohio. What are

(01:35:36):
they making? Maybe one hundred thousand, maybe at that much,
maybe five times that at some other school. Perhaps there's
something wrong with the system, don't you think. I mean, really,
I don't like it. I don't like these guys. I
like following a kid from his freshman year to a
senior year. I think it's easier for fans. It's more
rootable to do that when you can root for a team.

(01:35:57):
Now that the movement's crazy, it is just ridiculous. I
think it is.

Speaker 3 (01:36:04):
Yeah, I certainly don't like it. I mean it's so
weird to see, like the notifications on X where guys
are resigning to come back and I've said this, like
all of this has changed the fact that we're talking
about these things. Right, So it's supposed to be college students,
not employees or pros, but yet they're being celebrated and

(01:36:25):
treated like pros because we have the re signings, we
have all this movement and those things. It's just made
it a very, very weird experience given what we were
accustomed to. And I understand it. I'm okay with it.
I worry about the young people that are bouncing around
and that are going into portal, leaving full scholarships where

(01:36:48):
they have opportunities to stay in school and get a degree,
to go into a portal with the unknown, and a
lot of those guys are never getting out of the portal.
I worry about those things. But here's where we are,
and so you have to make business decisions at this age.
And we'll see at some point it'll settle and it
won't continue to be the wild, wild West. But I

(01:37:09):
think we're a few years away from that happening.

Speaker 2 (01:37:12):
Okay, two things. Number One, A, it hurts high school
kids because I'm hearing college coaches all over the country
say they don't recruit high school kids anymore. All right,
they're not going for but some kids don't stay for
four years anyway. That's number one. Number two. If I'm
a college coach, I have a real, really, really weary
eye for a kid that's in the portal because the

(01:37:34):
first thing I ask him, I'm not looking at his
basketball skill level or how many points are you average?
I want to know why he's in the portal. Is
not a normal question to ask a kid? Why are you?
Why are you in the portal? Why should I take
you in my school after you didn't like playing for
such and such at that school. Isn't that the normal
question to ask?

Speaker 3 (01:37:54):
Yeah, I mean I do think there's that is a
normal that's a normal question, like because sometimes when people
in the porter, you inherit the problems. They bring their
problems with them when they come to the new school.
But yes, it's making it very, very it's making a
challenging for high school players to find spots because you
have older players in the portal. Teams coaches want older players.

(01:38:15):
It's been proven. You look at the last couple of champions,
they've had older teams. Experience matters, and I want to
have an experienced team, as I get into this tournament
because no matter how talented the young players are, the
one and dones and those we are seeing, the older
players are wearing them down in the tournament. And that's
a huge advantage.

Speaker 2 (01:38:37):
You know why you talk about experience. Let's go back
to your school for a second. They named Michael Mulane
head coach. He never coached college before. I mean, I
think the game of basketball is the same on any level,
but still in all I think that's a question, walk,
don't you.

Speaker 3 (01:38:51):
It could be. But we talked about the game becoming
a pro game, and Mike bloh has coached college way
way way back two thousand one. He was an assistant
at Manhattan with the Jaspers, so he has a little
a little.

Speaker 2 (01:39:04):
Too hey nickname. How did you know that?

Speaker 3 (01:39:08):
Not many people man like it's like that, Andy, I'm
trying to be a professional.

Speaker 2 (01:39:13):
You know, Presh, you did not know Manhattan College with
the Jaspers.

Speaker 3 (01:39:19):
Did you?

Speaker 2 (01:39:20):
You did not?

Speaker 4 (01:39:20):
I have no idea what that is.

Speaker 3 (01:39:23):
Oh, okay, do.

Speaker 2 (01:39:24):
You know who Manhattan College is?

Speaker 5 (01:39:25):
Don't say Manhattan, please, I know that it's not in Manhattan.
In the Bronx, I think Riverdale, Riverdale was that that
was that was in the tournament this year. It was
like Bronx College, but it was not even in the Bronx.

Speaker 2 (01:39:40):
Oh l I U from Brooklyn.

Speaker 5 (01:39:42):
No, that's Long Island Universe. Oh is that in Brooklyn? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:39:47):
In Brooklyn?

Speaker 4 (01:39:47):
I hate that. I just don't like that. Like Miami, Ohio,
what are we doing?

Speaker 3 (01:39:53):
Well? What about the the the Anaheim Angels of Los
Angeles or whatever?

Speaker 5 (01:39:57):
Yeah, what it's like, I get it.

Speaker 4 (01:40:03):
You're making money on the side or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:40:05):
You want to be a adience they play in New Jersey.
I mean, you know, that's the way it is. I
just I'm so impressed that of all the things that
Bucky Brooks knows about football and scouting, whatever, it may be,
the fact that he knew Manhattan College of the Jaspers.
I mean, I'm touched.

Speaker 3 (01:40:22):
That's my coach. You have just Mike Malone. Mike Malone
is my coach now. So I had to kind of
dig in and know everything. I don't know if Andy
knew this. Did you know his daughter was on the
volleyball team in North Carolina, So that initiated daughter. Yeah,
so his daughter was on his daughter's a sophomore on
the on the volleyball team. And that brought Mike Malone

(01:40:43):
there and in fact, during the fall he attended a
few practices at Hubert Davis's invitation, and so when they
were going through this like, it just kind of led
to Mike Malone being able to take over. So I'm
excited because it's different. But look, man, he's a winner.
He's gonna get after.

Speaker 2 (01:40:57):
So, I mean, I thought he was a hell of
a coach in the NBA with Denver.

Speaker 4 (01:41:02):
Really it's a good coach.

Speaker 5 (01:41:04):
There's not a lot of championship coaches out there that
you can get right now. It's definitely not Darvin ham Well.

Speaker 2 (01:41:09):
I think the fireing of Ubert Davis kind of hurt
a lot of people. Change people's minds, right yeah, I
mean people saying when that school.

Speaker 3 (01:41:21):
Hire a new coach and then you throw the bag,
we all can be swayed by the bag. If the
bag is big enough, we can find a way to
talk ourselves out of it.

Speaker 2 (01:41:29):
You know, I got it. We just got a text
over here, and Michael Pressman just sent us a little note.
He says there was a Knick Celtics playoff game where
Bill Bradley had the rim inspected. It was Queens it's
in North Carolina. I don't know what he's talking about there,
but he's wrong about that, because well, Bill Bradley was
practicing at the Lawrenceville School gym in the summer of

(01:41:51):
nineteen sixty four. He was then a starter and a
player for Princeton. He started a practice session by missing
six consecutive four teen foot jump shots, okay, which is
unheard of for Bill Bradley. After making a mental adjustment
and hitting the next five shots, he turned to Midfee,
an author of a book They'll Write a John McFee,
and he noted the height discrepancy, and he said that

(01:42:13):
while his shots fell correctly, he was consistently hitting the
back of the rim and it was bouncing out. And
he found out that the room was nine feet ten
and seven eight inches off the floor, exactly one in
one eighth inches lower than the regulation ten foot So
maybe he did it during a Nick Celtic game, I
don't know, but he definitely did it at the Lawrenceville
School when he was playing at Princeton. This guy was

(01:42:34):
a genius. I love dollar, Bill Bradley. How do you
like that? So we move on, all right. I don't
know what he's talking about it was Queens. It is
in North Carolina. I don't know what he meant by that,
but we move on. Okay, whit broadcasting live from the
Fox Bus Radio studios, and of course we move on there,
and for once, it looks like the fans have a
real voice. We'll talk about it next.

Speaker 7 (01:42:54):
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Speaker 2 (01:43:07):
All Right, it's a sign of the times and we
don't like it. Okay, that's right around the corner. This
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(01:43:27):
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Speaker 3 (01:43:43):
We are.

Speaker 2 (01:43:43):
He's Bucky Brooks Buck. We're ready to go right now
because we've got the playing game in about twelve minutes
from now. But here's the deal. And this is great
because I think a lot of people are gonna comment
on this, at least maybe on on X or maybe
even a phone call or two. Finally, someone's speaking out
for the fans. All right, there's a growing number of
lawmakers and fans have expressed concern over the NFL and

(01:44:04):
other leagues putting more games on subscription streaming devices, leading
to potentially increased course for viewers. All Right, maybe it's
a sign of the times. I don't particularly like it now.
The NFL currently has television contracts with ESPN, ABC, NBC Sports,
CBS Sports, Fox, Sports Prime Video and Netflix to all

(01:44:25):
of their games. Subscriptions are required to watch Monday Night
Football games on ESPN. They're not not simulcass on ABC,
Thursday Night Football and the Black Friday game on Amazon
Prime Video, and Christmas games on Netflix. It's craziest out
of control. You need a dictionary to find out what
stations they're on, or you need a compass to find them.

(01:44:47):
I don't know what it is. So now that Justice
Department's going after the NFL, but the NFL has defended
that they are doing everything right. I know, Bucky, you're
gonna tell me it's a sign of the times. You
gotta suck it up, and that's the way it is.
And I get it, but I don't like it.

Speaker 3 (01:45:03):
I mean, I understand not liking it and those things.
And no, you don't want to have to pay for
everything because everything is bundled up, right, whether it's Netflix, Hulu,
all your Disney products, ESPN, all the many iterations of
all the other stuff that you're doing. We're having to
pay exorbitant prices for subscriptions. That said, the league understands

(01:45:24):
that it's hot right now. Everyone is tuning in. There's
never been a time where people have said no to
more NFL football. So this is an opportunity for them
to enrich themselves, will continue to growth the game. So
it kind of serves two purposes, and both purposes are
opportunities for owners and players to make more money.

Speaker 2 (01:45:46):
Okay, I'm going to get a little personal. I'm going
to go around the room here. I mean, how many
streaming devices of streaming platforms do you have on your
TV set right now? Simply because of sports? I mean,
I guess Netflix, I'm sure you got Amazon, right?

Speaker 3 (01:46:02):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:46:03):
What what else do you have to watch? These football?

Speaker 3 (01:46:06):
ESPN? You have ESPN, you have to have like Peacock
for Sunday Night. Maybe pay amount for some things. I mean,
that's what five right there. I mean that's pretty standard.
That's not even going crazy. That's not even with MLB
TV or if you had YouTube Sunday Ticket any of
that stuff. I mean, you are having to pay, and

(01:46:29):
you're having to drop dollars to support your fandom. I mean,
it's crazy, but that's that's where we're at.

Speaker 2 (01:46:35):
I would ask Shay Shaye what platforms he has, but
I don't think he even has a TV set. Do
you have TV at your home? Do you watch too?

Speaker 4 (01:46:42):
I have this thing called the computer, and you know
what that is, core cutter.

Speaker 2 (01:46:46):
Wait a minute, you watch games with the computer?

Speaker 4 (01:46:48):
You know what that is.

Speaker 2 (01:46:49):
I've heard of it. Yeah, wait a minute. What you
could you pirate the stuff off the computer? I want to.

Speaker 4 (01:46:55):
Allegedly what you could do. I'm not saying I do.
Do it you look up.

Speaker 2 (01:47:00):
A website or did a pirate dc sas sites? Can
you pirate them? And how can you pirate them? Or
if you if you.

Speaker 5 (01:47:08):
Do, if you were to pirate them, if you were
allegedly allegedly, you could go on any website and just
look up the game you want allegedly.

Speaker 4 (01:47:24):
And then type up stream.

Speaker 5 (01:47:28):
But I'm not saying that it might not give you
a virus, and I'm not saying there might be some
unwanted pop ups.

Speaker 4 (01:47:35):
If you have children around, maybe don't.

Speaker 3 (01:47:38):
Yeah, Yeah, there's some things you can do. There's also
these VPNs.

Speaker 4 (01:47:44):
Yes, there's a lot of things.

Speaker 2 (01:47:45):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:47:45):
I'm not saying you should, and I'm not saying I want.

Speaker 2 (01:47:49):
I want to hear more about this because I'm sick
of these sites.

Speaker 3 (01:47:51):
If you're out of market. If you're out of market
but you want to see your favorite team, maybe VPN
and change your city to give you an opportunity to see.

Speaker 2 (01:48:02):
But we're not saying.

Speaker 5 (01:48:04):
We're not saying that you should do that, and we're
not saying that we do that because we will ever
endorse that.

Speaker 4 (01:48:10):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (01:48:11):
So?

Speaker 2 (01:48:11):
In other words, if if you're a Cincinnati Bengal fan
and you live in Miami, Florida, all right, and you
have you have a subscription to either you know, just
we don't mention any companies, but maybe well, whenever you
get a subscription to a cable company and you tell
the cable company your home address is your friend's address

(01:48:32):
in Ohio, so you get to build there, so.

Speaker 3 (01:48:34):
You'll get.

Speaker 4 (01:48:37):
You're scamming a company, right.

Speaker 2 (01:48:41):
I mean, I don't do that. I don't would never
do that, but that can be done, right, I don't think.

Speaker 3 (01:48:46):
I don't think now, not not not the way that
you're talking about. But there are ways to change your
locale to be able to Internet.

Speaker 5 (01:48:57):
Yeah, there's ways around it. But honestly, it's too dangerous
to doubt because you never know. You can be getting
all these random viruses and all this stuff. Nowadays, I
want to mess with that stuff. It's crazy unless you
really know what you're doing. But to be honest, I
would you could get caught up to like it. There's
fines that come with.

Speaker 3 (01:49:15):
It and all these things.

Speaker 5 (01:49:16):
But let's just one day that these leagues get smart
and they go. The more people that watch, the better
it is for they make it.

Speaker 2 (01:49:24):
I understand. And the job of Roger Goodell is to
make the owners happy. And how do you make them
happy make them money. And he's making money. You know,
you can say what you about the guy. He's making
him a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:49:34):
Of money, right, lots of money, lots of money.

Speaker 2 (01:49:38):
He may go down as one of the greatest commissioners
ever in sports because he's taken the NFL to a
level that I think they never dreamed of. Really, for
whatever the reason, I don't know if he did it personally,
or the game just caught on the gambling factor, you know,
whatever it may be, he did it. He's the man
in charge. He gets the credit for it. People love
it and they'll pay for it, but how long will

(01:49:59):
they pay for That's the thing.

Speaker 4 (01:50:00):
I remember.

Speaker 2 (01:50:01):
There was enough game in twenty four with Kansas City,
and that was it was only on a platform, a
payfoot platform, a paywool. I don't think the ratings were
that strong because it was a platform. And that's the
key right there. People aren't paying for it.

Speaker 5 (01:50:17):
So I'm gonna be honest with you. Guys are here
so in college it's a big thing to stream, Like
a lot of college kids are streaming, Like like if
you have a college house, if you're in a frat
house or something like that, you're streaming all the games.
You have like five TVs in one living room.

Speaker 4 (01:50:30):
You're not gonna pay for every whatever.

Speaker 5 (01:50:32):
You're not gonna pay for red Zone on a college
kids salary when half of your money goes to alcohol
on the other half coast or whatever else you do.

Speaker 4 (01:50:39):
So it's like when when you're in college.

Speaker 5 (01:50:42):
Yeahside my house, That's what I'm saying. So it's like
you do that. And then but now that I've started
making what I like to call man money and grown
up money, I've gotten to a point where I don't
really want to do that, and I want to say,
yeah I got red Zone, or yeah I was able
to see the red Zone countdown and I paid for it,

(01:51:03):
or yeah, I just bought the pay per view for
this UFC fight the other day or whatever or whatever.
So I mean, there is like a point to where
you're like, let me just make it a little bit
easier on myself. So I do see that also, but
I don't know. I think it's I do think it's
getting easier, but I do think it's weird that the
NFL is the one that's getting singled out because the MLB.

Speaker 2 (01:51:20):
Man, oh my god.

Speaker 3 (01:51:23):
Yeah, they squeeze you out of everything.

Speaker 2 (01:51:25):
And then, you know what. I don't really get too
pot about this stuff, but I was really upset. I
wanted to see the Yankees play the Giants unopening night
that Wednesday night, prorior to the Major opening, and that
was a pay per view deal, and now I thought
that was wrong. You know, I think that you want
to introduce as many people as you can to your games.
Doing Australia, right, Okay, yeah, so I mean why wouldn't

(01:51:49):
you let it be free. I don't get it. I
don't understand. I really don't understand it. I mean money,
money speaks louder than anything else. I get that, but
still at all you want to see growth in your sport,
and what what league could use the growth more really
than baseball? Baseball needs that growth.

Speaker 5 (01:52:07):
I think that's a great take any because they had
so much movement going in with the WBC and then
everyone finds out that, Hey, I mean to be honest,
though everyone has Netflix, so maybe it was a little
bit easier for people to watch it because of Netflix.
I mean, I don't know, do you have Netflix.

Speaker 3 (01:52:23):
I just feel like I just feel like people talked
about the product not being good in terms of the
presentation I see so.

Speaker 2 (01:52:31):
Watching Daniel Lovey last night on Netflix his new series.

Speaker 4 (01:52:34):
So everyone has it, you just think the products could
have been better?

Speaker 3 (01:52:37):
Yeah, yeah, I think. I think I think that was
more the main thing that people talked about. But I
think it's the way the world, and they'll scale it
back because Netflix learned the hard way that when they
ban kind of like the family share stuff, they saw
their subscriptions go down, and so they've had to kind
of loosen, uh, the restrictions on that so that I mean,

(01:53:01):
everyone would do it, and when the world tells the
nfl A it's gone too far, they'll scale back correct.

Speaker 2 (01:53:09):
That's the key. You just hit it right on the head, bingos.
That's why you're so smart. That's why I wish I
was like you really, I really do. I want to
rub my head against you is to get some of
your brains.

Speaker 3 (01:53:19):
Pause. We don't need that pause.

Speaker 4 (01:53:23):
That's anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:53:30):
These come.

Speaker 4 (01:53:35):
It's got a break.

Speaker 2 (01:53:38):
Lesson and that's why people pay I said something wrong,
but did I do?

Speaker 4 (01:53:44):
It's getting worse. It's got.

Speaker 2 (01:53:48):
Lessons more. And when the NFL starts expanding their schedule,
people won't do it. They'll do They'll suck it up
for a seventeen game schedule. They start expanding eighteen, maybe nine.
I don't know it's going to go more than eighteen,
but I think that's.

Speaker 3 (01:54:01):
Eighteen. Eighteen is kind of like the magic number. Eighteen
is the magic number. It'll be fine, all right, this
move on.

Speaker 2 (01:54:07):
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(01:54:28):
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for it's the playing game. You ruin me.

Speaker 1 (01:55:11):
It's all your fault, it's your fault.

Speaker 4 (01:55:14):
What is all your faulty?

Speaker 2 (01:55:19):
Maybe it's everyone's fault. Who knows she's a liar.

Speaker 1 (01:55:22):
That's why there's the blame game, the blame game. Let's
figure out who to blame.

Speaker 7 (01:55:27):
You know that?

Speaker 2 (01:55:28):
All right? We need to thank you Shay Schaef for
joining us today filling in for Patty Swaka. Okay, but
we want to thank you. There's been a pleasure and
we're doing the blame game, so you're on now.

Speaker 5 (01:55:37):
It was a pleasure filling in with the sweeks. Thank
you and sending my regards next week.

Speaker 4 (01:55:42):
I hope he does again.

Speaker 5 (01:55:43):
Maybe I'll call in and say hi to call you
guys again. I know you guys can't stay away from
me too long.

Speaker 4 (01:55:48):
But here we go.

Speaker 5 (01:55:48):
We're getting right into the blame game, the game where
you guys get to choose who to blame when it's
not Andy's fault. Are you guys ready, let's do it.
First question, nine percent of one and fifty college basketball
players have entered the transfer portal.

Speaker 4 (01:56:06):
Who do you blame? Bucket? Let's start with you.

Speaker 3 (01:56:08):
It's the rules. I blame everybody. I blame the agents.
I blame the players for not one to stick it
out in some of those situations. And then I blame
the landscape where they made it. Where it is business
and so these are business decisions that these guys are making.

Speaker 2 (01:56:23):
Andy Lay, I blame the college presidents. They're gutlast. I
have no hanging downs. The college presidents need to fight this.
It's but you know, I used to watch college basketball
games on TV and in the US pass that had
the guy's name and what major is in what's the list?
Time you saw a kid's major listed on the TV screen?
They have no majors. They don't. It's I mean, it's
not college pro admitted. Don't be calling them student athletes. Anymore.

(01:56:45):
Please Christ They're not I don't say they're athletes students.
They're professional basketball players that have to wear a college jersey.
That's what they are. It's on you, your president, your week, your.

Speaker 5 (01:56:55):
Weak student athletes with big bags, That's what I call it.
Next question, Mike Malone has been named the new basketball
coach at the University of North Carolina. He is something
in common with Bill Belichick, the football coach. Both never
coached in college before their new gig. Who do you
blame Bucky.

Speaker 3 (01:57:17):
Landscape? Because the changing landscape, like people are beginning to
operate their athletic departments like pro franchises. We've seen this
with University of South Florida where they've kind of changed
the way they name CEOs and eighties and those things.
This is Carolina taking that next step, leveling up, trying
to make their athletic department like a pro department.

Speaker 2 (01:57:40):
You know, the last thing I want to do is
correct you, because I don't want to embarrass you in
front of this tremendous audience that we have. But Mike
Malone does not have anything in common with Bill Belichick
because he does not have a twenty three year old
girlfriend By the name of Jordan. He doesn't, So there's
nothing in common that they have there. Okay, the only
thing is that they're both called coach, right, and the
reason why he got the coach job is because you

(01:58:01):
Butert Davis never should have been fired. And when he
did get fired, everybody says, oh my goodness, I'm not
going to North Carolina because they demand too much, so
I don't think I could deliver it for them. So
they go to Mike, Mike Malone, and they'll do a
good job. He will. But nothing to come with Belichick
because Bill has that young stud.

Speaker 4 (01:58:19):
Paywalls. No comment at all.

Speaker 5 (01:58:23):
I hate the guys, no comment. I just I don't
know Bill Belichick is. I don't know. I don't I
love him. I don't know what I have against him.
I think it's I think I was a pay Manning fan,
and then I think I was.

Speaker 4 (01:58:38):
I don't know when he lost.

Speaker 5 (01:58:39):
I just don't like Bill Belichick going live something that
Colts game really got. Anyway, let's go on, let's move on.
Paywalls to watch football and TV are becoming commonplace. Who
do you blame Bucky.

Speaker 3 (01:58:54):
Of the owners? They made it where it's very, very
difficult to do things and put things on for free
because they want more care. Yeah, so it's all the
owner's fault. They changed the way that is gone. They've
made it big, big business, and that's why we having
to pay for.

Speaker 4 (01:59:08):
Everything, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:59:10):
I think you'd have to blame not so much the owners.
I think the success of the sport the success of
the league, because I think if the NBA went to
all paywalls, I don't think that have that kind of success.
I think that the game is so great. They capitalized
in the fact that we're successful, we're popular. Let's make
some more money on it. And that's what they do,
and you can't blame it for that. Am I happy
with it?

Speaker 6 (01:59:29):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:59:29):
But you know what, I would do the same thing
if I had a great product, jack the price up,
and that's what they're doing.

Speaker 5 (01:59:35):
I just think we're losing nostalgy in sports with this stuff.
I don't know, like the NBA theme being a thing
and all that like that. We're going to start losing
that soon. If people start not watching this stuff and it's.

Speaker 2 (01:59:45):
Not whining and crying, will you I don't know, for real,
they smack you.

Speaker 5 (01:59:51):
In the last Do you care about the NBA on
TNT theme, like no one needs.

Speaker 2 (01:59:55):
Do you even know the theme? I love the NBA.

Speaker 5 (01:59:58):
I'm just saying, do you know their theme? It's like
the NBA on NBC was a big theme. Everyone knows that.
Everyone hears it the Fox on NFL theme. That's the thing.
But we're starting to lose that stuff. But anyways, I'm
going to.

Speaker 2 (02:00:08):
Tell you right now, I've never never said this in public.
I'm doing it to you because I respect you and
Bucket Brooks. Okay, my high school graduation yearbook and everybody says,
what do you want to do? I want to be
a teacher and a doctor. You know what I wrote?
I want to work in the NBA. That's what I wrote.
All Right, they're probably crazy, but I want Yes, I
did because I loved the NBA. Back then, there was

(02:00:30):
nothing better. There were only eight teams in the league.

Speaker 6 (02:00:32):
Then.

Speaker 2 (02:00:33):
You know, I was born like in the other century.
You know, I was born in the twentieth century, not
in the twenty first, so you know.

Speaker 5 (02:00:39):
But that's what I'm trying to say, Like, you had
something to fall in love with, and now it's like
I just don't think the products.

Speaker 4 (02:00:44):
I was in love with that I was anymore.

Speaker 2 (02:00:47):
I loved Willis Reed, I Walt Fraser, I love them,
and Bill Bradley, Dave the bush Girl Monroe.

Speaker 5 (02:00:54):
Last question, this is kind of hot. Let's see what
you guys think about it. What event is bigger Baseball's
Opening Day or the NFL Draft. Keep your bias out
of this, Bucky, Yikes, that's toughy.

Speaker 3 (02:01:07):
I let the people. I mean, it's been tough about that.
Just check the ratings. The draft wins all the time,
wins all the time. This is easy. We'd rather see
names come off the list than to watch baseball. And
I'm a baseball fan, but I'm gonna watch the draft
over baseball.

Speaker 2 (02:01:23):
Well, I will say this, the opening day in Cincinnati's
pretty big, and it's a parade and there's a big deal. Okay,
But the NFL Draft, I mean, I just read the
other day there's no school Thursday and Friday and Pittsburgh
for the city schools. They closed the school down. They
close the school for the draft in Pittsburgh. There you go,
and the question, that's it, The draft is bigger. There
we go. And by the way, it's been a great day.

(02:01:44):
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