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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio radio thinking, genius, let's go,
let's go, let's go.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, now, listen, don't you had all night last night
to cry, Let's go. You don't know what it's like
to lose a championship game. You lost a Final four
game that you weren't to competitive.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm coming on the air tonight right after my team
lost a title game. See, you're not a real fan,
are you serious? I'm working through after watching my team,
my Golden Hurricane, the University of Tulsa, losing heartbreaking fashion
to Auburn. They didn't get kicked in the head like
your Arizona Wildcats did last night semi finals. And I

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don't want to hear you crying tonight because you already
had all night last night to cry.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
So well, first of all, I expect I expect better
from you, considering you do women's softball.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
That call it? Why do you call it softball?

Speaker 1 (00:53):
That we're not starting with South Carolina UCLA because that
was today's game.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
But you know I expected better things?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
No, why would Why would I want to talk about that?
I'm talking about what real hurt is. See, I'm a
real fan. Aren't you. I don't understand about a semi
final game. I'm talking about a championship.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Guy.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
I just had my heart ripped out.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Sleep for a week.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
I didn't sleep for this leading up to this game,
and I wanted this one so bad. I said, repeat, Michigan,
we got it. We We're gonna win the JAMBI ar,
we got it.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
About a championship game that I just played in, that
my team just played in. You're talking about a stop
in my final game? Stop stop is really the ultimate
tournament when you think about college basketball championships. That's what
everyone's watching right now.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Last night was the worst night of my wife. I
didn't sleep one wink. I I got sick. I threw up.
I just this one's gonna sting for a while. This
isn't going to stick with me for at least forty
fifty years.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
It should. It's good to get sucked. Oh, I mean,
what do you want to be babying in this? I mean,
come on, you're mister tough guy, the ultimate fan. You
gotta fight through this. I have a bigger fan than
all you guys. You guys don't understand that. That's why
you can shrug this off, You're you get a lost,
You're you're over it. In about like three minutes, You're like, okay, well,

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you know, so we at Auburn. Bet we should have
another NIT banner hanging right now.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
And by the way, can I I don't want to,
you know, I, I know I'm in a bad mood.
I don't want to call out other hosts. But you know,
we have something called the sports etiquette. Do you understand that, Chris?
You understand that, don't you.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
You're trying to explain sports etiquette. This is rich Okay,
go ahead, I'm all ears.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
No, there's there's something called these sports etiquette, okay. And
sports etiquette is when some guys team is playing and
they're losing like they are at halftime, you don't text
or tweet the guy during the game. You understand that
that that's a major no no. And I don't want
to call out names, you know, like Jason Martin and

(03:00):
I know and Mike Harmon and the producers and people
like that. You don't text me during the game when
we're losing by like twenty five. You don't think I
see what's going on? Do you think I need you
to go?

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well? They don't do something that the game's over. You
think I'm stupid. You know, this is the first time
I'm watching basketball.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
There's something called sports etiquette, and rule number one is
you don't text a guy when his team is losing
like that. That's rule number one. Rule number two is
you don't go, hey, congratulations, you're one.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Get good and then the team ends up losing.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
That might even be rule number one because I'll hunt
you down and karate chop you in the.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Who said that to you? Who the hell would say
that at any point during that game last No?

Speaker 3 (03:48):
No, not in that game.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
But some people will go, you know, like, if you're
up by ten with three minutes left to go, hey, congratulations.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
I'm like, are you serious? You're gonna go try to
jax me like that?

Speaker 1 (03:59):
But you can't go ahead and text me, well, you
know you're down my twenty you met his start picking
it up a little bit. Oh, no, fool, And that
is that your expertise that you give on the air.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
I mean again, in fairness, you were on the air
during the game last night. It's not like I were
knowing at home.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
There was gonna be a concert that was gonna last
so long. I thought, thirty minutes after the first game.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
Hey put some respect on chainsmokers.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Wow, after the game, is fine for the concert? Between games?

Speaker 3 (04:31):
What are you doing?

Speaker 1 (04:32):
I thought it was gonna be thirty minutes after the game.
I thought the game was going to wrap up, right,
I was getting on the air, and then I had
to endure, you know, the ending of the game, and
we're down by fifty million. It's just very painful, very
And you know what makes it harder is, you know,
we have like three freshmen. If they would just run

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it back, you know, I mean thinking, well, how good
Duke would be if Cooper flag ran it back and
played it with Boozer. And I mean, my goodness, I
wish the guys would hang around and stick around.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
And I hate.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
To lose them.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
I'm wondering if all of them are going to leave
or what's going to happen.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
But are they always going to be first round picks? No? No,
then why would they go pro? You make more. You're
gonna make more money in college for another year than
you would be in a second round pick or struggling
to make a roster.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
No, Creevis is going to be a first round pick.
So he's probably going to go. You know, Burrs is
a first round pick, cop Pete's going to be a
first round pick. They'll probably go. Karchenkoff not going to
be a first round pick.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
But I don't know. He may play in Germany or something.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
He's played in the German league before, so I don't
know if he's coming back. So that that's four gone,
that that's that's you know, that's gonna hurt a little bit.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
That's gonna pick wow.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
And Burrs Birds is going to be a top fifteen pick,
so he's definitely not gonna come on back though. You know,
it's funny. If he asked me, I would say they
should go. But they all need another year or two
in college. I mean they're especially Buris. He's like, you know,
a buck Eightyes, soaking wet, got pushed around.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
But yeah, he's projected to be the ninth pick in
the draft. He ain't coming back, Aren't he good?

Speaker 3 (06:08):
No? No, I said top fifteen.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
I didn't know it was ninth, top ten, doesn't Medican
top ten, top fifteen. He's he's going to be phenomenal.
You have to go earlier than late. Now, that's that's
what the world we live in now, so they're all
all gonna end up going.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
He's the only guy projected to go in the first
round right now. No, that's Arizona.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
No, No, that's not true. Crevas is going to be
a first round.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Pick and listed as a first round pick.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Well, that's why I think there's a chance CoA Pete
comes back.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Co Pete is listed as a first round.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Okay, so then he probably doesn't come on back. Yeah,
he probably doesn't come on back.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, you've got according to the always reliable NBA draft
dot net. Yeah, and you know it's a major publication
when instead of dot com they went with dot net.
All right, is that what it is that they've got
Bury's going nine overall? Yeah, they've got to hear they've
got Pete going twenty sixth to the Knicks. Yeah, to

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the Knicks.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
See not before.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
I have seen that before. And then they got your
other dude, Bradley going in the second round.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
So yeah, well he's a senior, so it wouldn't make
a difference. And I think Moo Crevis is going to
go in the first round because he has seven two
though there's a chance he could come back if he
comes back. Uh, he could work his way into maybe
a top ten, top fifteen for.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
The following draft. So I'm not I'm not.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Sure it's good, but I mean, overall, it's just tough.
It was Michigan just boat raised us, and you know, yeah,
we was ten to one and we never got closer.
I think it was twenty seven twenty one at one point.
But it just it just wasn't going to.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Be our night. It was horrible to watch. It was terrible.
But you get to keep our coached. At least we
got that.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Go wait, hold on a second, who are you on
the air with Jason Martin? So why would you be
yelling at Jason if he's texting you during the game.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
You're doing the show during the game, you know, text
me during the game.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
You're on the air with him?

Speaker 1 (08:02):
No, no, no, I mean but this was like before
we got on the air, before we got on there.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
It's like before I got on the air. What did
you do?

Speaker 2 (08:11):
It's the same hours as it is tonight, right ten
to one. Then the game just tip off at like
ten o'clock.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Last No, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
There was like being sarcastic. Arnie calmed down. I was
talking about the ridiculous nature of putting a concert in
between the two games.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah, yeah, that was that was horrible.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
It changed the tip off from like nine or ten
to fifty or nine to fifty or ten to fifty
eastern all the way like thirty five minutes later. So
that kind of screwed it up. That was all bummed
out about that. I thought it was gonna be a
close game. I was gonna be nervous on the air,
and I was gonna just eat me alive.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
And it was far from that.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
To be honest, Well, I just again, that wasn't a
championship game like I had to deal with tonight. I
don't know what you're sitting here crying about. I'm coming
in with the same energy and the same juice, and
my team just blowed in the.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
Fact it's just five count i've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
In my life. Just lost the NIT championship. But I
guess this final fourth thing is what people want to
talk about every I.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Think we should do political talk from now on, talk about,
you know, should we have a flat tax?

Speaker 3 (09:14):
You know, are you a Republican or Democrat.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Against You're not even good at trying to tease this, right, now,
because you would absolutely lead with the President's tweet this
morning on Easter if you really wanted to do political talk.
You don't even really want to do that right now.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Okay, but sports is just too too paid forul Griz.
It hurts so much, it hurts.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Well, I don't know, took a measured approach every now
and then and didn't come in and say about how
everyone was going to beat the snot out of everyone
every time.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
The final four you knuckle ahead, what are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (09:46):
We're the final four?

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Right?

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Well, when you sit in here and you'd say, the
other team in the Final four sucks and they've got
no chance to beat you, and you're gonna beat them down.
I mean, you kind of make your own bed. You
kind of set it up to where when you lose,
there's not a lot of sympathy for you. You know. Sorry, Hey,
at least you get to keep your coach and it's
great game planning from last night.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Right, Wow, Well, don't don't pick on our coach, don't
you dare do that.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
You got a coach who doesn't want to answer to
his bosses. But at least Tommy Lloyd's still around, so
you got da coding for you, right, and we got we.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Got two good recruits coming in next year, two top recruits.
But I wish some of these guys would stick around.
It's unfortunate, man, it really is. You know, we'd have
such a great team if they would do that, we'd
have like a super team.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
I know you're saying we we we a lot, but
I'm French. The thing is no, you're being a freaking homer.
The thing is, no, you are.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
And it's fine. That's who you are. That's who I am.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
I'm a homer as well too, But I mean the
reality is, dude, I want everyone to stay around too.
But that's the problem with college basketball. That's been the
problem for a long time. I think we're going but
the one and done rule to transfer portal and how
guys are moving around like crazy, which again I don't
have that big of a problem with, but right, you know,

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you just I could sit here and again, I was
in college late in the nineties and through the early
two thousands, and I could name you all the starting
fives from the team when I went to school, and
those guys were there for three or four years. I
can aim the starting fives places like Oklahoma, even Arizona,
whenever you got Illinois, whenever I was growing up. It's
just not the reality of it. You're sitting here saying

(11:25):
I wish they'd come back. Well why would they?

Speaker 1 (11:27):
No, I Well, the only reason they would come back
if they're not going to be a first round pick.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
But that's just my option.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Some people may say I'm not coming back even if
I'm not a a first round pick.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
I think I'd say i might make more money in
the portal, so I'm going to go somewhere else.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
That true too, absolutely, you know again, it depends on
who he's bringing in and what these guys want to do.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
They have plenty of options nowadays.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
So many guys have entered the portal, I believe now
it's amazing. I don't have a number on it, but
it's absolutely, you know crazy. You keep hearing this guy's joining,
this guy's going in a lot of good talent in
the portal.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Also, I don't see your other dude as that guaranteed
first rounder when I'm digging through a lot of different times.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, he's seven to Chris.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
I mean again, I mean there's a there was twelve
seven foot two guys on Michigan the other night.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
I mean, they are the pick, so it doesn't make
a difference on that. Yeah, would you say, was he's
gonna be a first round pick? Who's at the guy
from Michigan, the big man Mara?

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, he's first round pick. But just
because you're seven, I mean Florida has a seven to
nine guy.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, he's transferring. Actually you know that?

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Oh is he really?

Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Way?

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (12:35):
I wonder how good he could be if they you know,
if he got some playing time and to get much
playing time in Florida. But yeah, I think moul creeps.
I've seen him at the bottom of the first round. Otherwise,
he may come back. There's a chance he may come
back and Karl Tchenkoff come back. That would kind of
be a pretty good anchor for the team.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
So what the hell happened?

Speaker 3 (12:55):
That Michigan was just too tough.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
We we got down early, and even so we closed
it to one point, we had it within six or eight,
missed like three straight foul shots and it was all
downhill after that. We just couldn't keep up with them.
They were just way too athletic for us, too quick
for us, and actually even though we had more points

(13:16):
in the pain. I believe they were just too tough inside.
If you would have asked me, if said to me
before the game that their star would get hurt, that
their point guard would be two for fourteen at av time,
I'd be just going, well, just put us in the finals.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Now, that's why I got hurt too, and the Axel
Lindenborg got hurt too.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah that's you know, so, but it still didn't make
a difference. It was still they were rolling us. So
I don't know, it just wish we could play that
game again. It probably ends up like that nine out
of ten times.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
I was going to say, why the hell would you
want to play that again? I mean it was twenty
six to ten in the first ten minutes of the game.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yeah, it was like it was killing me too.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
Man.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
As I'm watching this, I'm and you know, my wife said,
I'm not going to watch the game with you. I
don't want to jingshew. So after the game I blamed
her for not watching the game with me.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
For jinks.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
When did you finally get on the air last night?
It was halftime right or a little past half.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
It was about ten minutes left of the game.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
I would say, well, that's not too terribly much past halftime.
That's the midway point of the second half.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
I mean, I would say right around there, so it
was over. You know, Arizona better picking up or they're
gonna lose this game.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Chris so at the.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Before he sent me a text like that, I am
just going to lose my marbles.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
My goodness.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Who sent that one?

Speaker 3 (14:38):
It was either No Harmon or Jason Martin. But I
don't want to call anybody out.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
I mean, Brian knows got interviews that he sent us
for some reason. Did he like, you take his microphone
to start recording people or something.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yeah, he's there. He's he's in Indy.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Oh that's right.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah, he doesn't live too far from it, so he's
having a great time out there.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
Thank goodness.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
I didn't listen to you guys and go out there
with you know, me and the fraternity brothers go out there,
and of course after the game, all the fret guys
are just all bummed outs.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
He's blah blah blah. They don't get it. They don't
understand like I do.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
It was you're right there were I was. I was looking.
There were seven twenty two left in the first half
and it was twenty eight to twenty one. Yeah, you
then got boat raced the rest of the way.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
We missed two foul shots and then we missed the
front end. We got the rebound and got fouled to
get and missed the front end of the one I want.
So we missed three foul shots.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
In a row ballgame in Michigan. Then Michigan didn't miss anything.
It reminded me so much of twenty sixteen Oklahoma Villanova,
where you're just you're so excited your team's in the
final four, and then the opposing team is literally making
everything they throw up. I mean, what were the final numbers?
They shot forty four percent from beyond the three point line. Yeah,

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Michigan went twelve of twenty seven from beyond the three
point line. Ridiculous it is.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
And you know, I again just to call out another
guy that kind of is part of Fox now it
kills me worse that Dave Portnoy is a Michigan guy.
So I had to see his face all over Twitter
being happy, and you know, I wanted him miserable.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
So that kind of sucked.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
All we can unfollow. I mean, that's an easy way,
I know, But just I don't do that. I don't
do the unfollowed thing.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
I'm you know, I just gosh it, just I hate
the Michigan fans. They they sick in me. They make
me sick.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Sorry, you're gonna be okay, No, not for another like
forty or fifty years.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Well, we only got two hours and forty three minutes
to fill. That's what's going on at the border. Craz
Give me a call Arnie again. You're not even doing
this right if you want, but.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Nobody's talking about the border.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Come on now, it's all about her on now, come
on on, you got to step up. Oh that's right,
My bad, that's you got up your g if you
want to do political talk, man, we got to do
this right, that's right, quick break. That's Arney span you.
I'm Chris Plank, Todd Furman. It's gonna join us in
our number two. Will react to the final for.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
A pretty good game between Yukon and Illinois.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Illinois rallied and had a couple of chances late, but
Yukon was too much. The our of Michigan Arizona was
just utter domination. So we'll preview the championship game. The
NBA is absolutely leaking oil, and it is terrible how
the end of the regular season is becoming the NBA.
Some would say the NFL is similar with the way

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things go now in what week eighteen, but we'll talk
about the final run for the NBA as we get
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a new national champion in women's basketball, first time for UCLA.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Boy, that was a boy, my Bruins?

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Did that have a Were you having PTSD watching the
UCLA game against South Carolina?

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Kind of actually watching that game here? Nothing? There was
nothing going on for me to watch.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
I was rotating between that and the Mets game against
San Francisco.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
Otherwise I was bored.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
To tears for crying out loud. I had to take
two naps today. There was nothing for me to do.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
I thought you weren't going to sleep again.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Oh I didn't sleep, but I didn't sleep overnight. I
had to get some resident. My goodness, I had no
sleep whatsoever. So I go, I better get an hour
here hour there. You don't understand a loss like this
just destroys my sleep for like years.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Well, we are seventeen days, twenty hours, and thirty minutes
away from the NFL Draft.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah, that's that's gonna do it for me either.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
You got two first round picks for your Dolphins, So
at least there's that.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
We got that going for us.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
I'm just waiting for college football because I know it's
gonna be a phenomenal year this year.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
So you've already you've ignored the Knicks, who had everything
laid out for them because of all the injuries. So
you've already quit on them, and obviously everyone in the
NBA should quit because the thunder are gonna win it
all again and it's not even gonna be close. Right,
And then the second part of it is you've already
given up then on Miami because you you would look

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forward to the NFL season and they're tanking. So now
you're holding your hopes on a team that's probably gonna
be projected to finish about eighth or seventh in the
Big twelve.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
No, no, no, that's not gonna happen this year. That
that that's Poloni. Not this last year they had that crap.
This year we're not.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
And we have some good receivers too, So get out
of our way.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Let's go er.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
By the way.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
See that's another thing, Chris.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
I go to a school that has like a symbol
like that, where people do that are or you know,
like Alabama roll Tide, you know they got that going.
You guys don't have any of that, you know, you
guys that go to school, you don't have any of
that roll Tide or suwee.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
You don't have any.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Like you don't have any like you know, any you know,
hand secret handshakes or moves or noise or you know,
sayings like all these like some of the elite colleges.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Who are you saying? It doesn't have sayings like Oklahoma
or I literally just knocked out about ten of Boomer
sooner they throw the horns down the water sooner.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
Come on, Well, you sit.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Here and go I think whenever you actually can put
sentence together like Boomer and soon, I think that's a
little bit easier just going.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Oh, nobody walks around saying boomers.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Like if I was at the airport and I saw
a person with no coholes switches, I would go Boomer sooner.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
No, No, you would you would go boomer would God?
You freaking moron? Do you not understand this? You're trying
to tell me No. It's like it's like Illinois. It's
like LSU fans say tiger bait, it's like Auburn fans.
You were sounding like the dumbest person on the planet, right,
I just bitter.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
I could think of Arizona, Alabama, Arkansas.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
That's probably it.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
So you're trying to say those three schools had the
market cornered all like yell.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
Roll tiede the suite and the If I'm missing something,
please tweet it in right now, I just show ten
of them.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
I'd stick a genius.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
One if if I'm missed a school where I mean,
what am I gonna say the Ohio State?

Speaker 3 (22:13):
Nobody says that at the airport.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Come on now, I literally just explain three that would
and you're acting like you didn't hear them.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
Which one? Which is the three?

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Boomer Sooner know that tiger bait, war eagle, war eagle.
You know what I'll give you, war eagle. I'll give
you war eagle. There's four war eagle I'll give you
because people will say war eagle.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
And you're trying to your your bitterness. You're trying to
say that people don't say Boomer Sooner to each other.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
Don't say no way.

Speaker 6 (22:43):
Right.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Steve is in the house to get us caught up
on everything going on in the world of sports.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
What's going on tonight, Steve not the saga. I gave
him the night off from crying out loud Bloomer.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
I'll stop it sooner. Hey, there you go, moron.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Sometimes just take your ol times.

Speaker 4 (23:01):
USC fans would say, fight on, just for the record
there for USC.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
So you told me if you were in the airport,
so somebody with a Trojan shirt, you go fight on.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Come travel. They would come over and arrest of you
said that at the airport.

Speaker 4 (23:16):
I've done that, Arnie, and I was not arrested.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
Now you're all picking on me.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
He never travels anyway, so he hasn't been in an
airport probably teen years.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
Won't even shovel snow off the driveway.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
Wow, Suie, But we all know the first part of
the Suie.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
Arizona fans, what does the party? Yes, we've got a
late game going on in the NBA that we'll get to.
But did you see Dallas hosting the Lakers earlier tonight?
Cooper Flag scored forty five points. He just scored fifty
one on Friday. There was a note on NBC that

(23:54):
his matchup against Lebron and the Lakers tonight, this was
the first time in NBA history a teenager and a
player over forty each had over twenty points in the
same game, and they each had over twenty in the
first half. Lebron finished with thirty points fifteen assists. Dallas
won the game one thirty four one twenty eight. Austin
Reeves of LA could miss four to six weeks with

(24:17):
an oblique injury. Grade two teammate Luka Doncic is out
with a Grade two hamstring strain. He'll get treatment in Europe.
The Clippers have won at Sacramento easily, one thirty eight
to one oh nine. The late games at Golden State,
they've started the third quarter Houston, which is won five
in a row, leads the Warriors sixty one fifty six.
Steph Curry is playing ten points in eleven minutes off

(24:39):
the bench in the first half. He returned after missing
twenty seven games with the knee injury. Oklahoma City won
it's fifth in a row, and I think Christmas right,
should we even watch the playoffs? Good thing in the
NBA playoffs don't take much time to finish, you know,
and then we'll finally get to that finale. Oklahoma City
as a record of sixty two and sixteen, and they

(25:00):
were kind of good last year too. Thunder beat up
Utah one forty six one eleven.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
They were favored by like seventeen and a half points or.

Speaker 4 (25:07):
Something, favored by seventeen.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
Yes, that's the biggest spread in like a couple of years.

Speaker 4 (25:13):
And blew that out of the water.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
Twenty four actually from twenty four my goodness. Yeah, it
was the largest spread in the history of an NBA
regular shows.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
Oh my goodness, I owe the short change.

Speaker 4 (25:22):
An NBA team was favored by twenty four points.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
Well, wow, that says all we need to know about
late season NBA and what is going on in general
in this season with the amount of blowouts, but especially
the completely worthless matchups that are happening almost night after
night late season in the NBA.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
I don't do they I mean, I'm not trying to
implode your updates, Steve, I'm not trying to go Arnie
on you. But what what do they do? They need
to fix it? I mean, or do we just say, hey,
this is going to happen when you have.

Speaker 4 (25:55):
I know how to fix it. Let's get two more
teams in the league. I know, right, Utah's lost nine
in a row, thunder from three point range twenty four
for forty five. Orlando went a close one at New Orleans,
which has lost eight in a row, won twelve one
oh eight. The Magic trail by ten with ten minutes
to go. Charlotte got thirty five points from LaMelo Ball

(26:16):
and one at Minnesota won twenty two to one oh eight,
and Cleveland got thirty eight from Donovan Mitchell as the
Cavs beat Indiana one seventeen one oh eight. Victories at
home for Milwaukee and Brooklyn for Boston as well. Phoenix
sent Chicago to a seventh straight loss, one twenty to one.
Ten NBA regular season ends next Sunday, thank god, and
it was a blowout. In the Women's basketball Championship game,

(26:38):
UCLA dominant, impressive, unbelievably impressive considering their opponents. South Carolina
had just upset Number one Yukon in the SEMIS, a
Yukon team that was thirty eight to oher and had
won fifty four straight. A Yukon team that earlier in
the tournament led Syracuse seventy to fourteen in the third
quarter of a National Tournament game. South Carolina shoots twenty

(27:03):
nine percent from the floor.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
They were hard. They couldn't hit it less than that.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
When Lauren Betts was on the court, UCLA seventy nine
fifty one the final. And by the way, it is
UCLA's first women's basketball title since nineteen seventy eight, when
Anne Myers was on the team and she was in
attendance at the game. Today it is not an NCAA
title because, ever late to the party, the NCAA did
not sponsor women's basketball until the nineteen eighties. So when

(27:30):
you look at history like March Madness Isaiah Thomas winning
the title with Bob Knight in the early eighties, there
still was no women's basketball in the NCAA at all
at that point, if you can imagine. So it wasn't
until roughly the time Cheryl Miller and USC came about
and Louisianattack in the early days was doing well, but
there were still women's basketball championships before then. Men's final

(27:54):
Monday Night that is an NCAA sanctioned event. By the way,
it's Connecticut against Michigan Yukon Guards sold Ball has a
spring foot n final Auburn and overtime beat Tulsa, West
Virginia beat Oklahoma in overtime at the Crown Basketball Tournament final.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
Until your team was a title or loses a title.

Speaker 4 (28:14):
You had three teams lose finals in overtime on the same.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Day and they kept their games close.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
Alabama gave coach Nato it's a new contract through twenty
thirty two. Major League Baseball's night game Saint Louis won
five to three at Detroit.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Back to you, and we got hockey like crazy still
going on. I've got up right now on the big
screen and studio there is a.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
Arty two Saint Louis two two at Colorado two two.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
I have a very good question. You're off the tweets tonight.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
This is from I say corrected on so many Yeah,
you sounded so dumb.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Colin Wrights, as a Canadian and someone that never got
involved with college athletics, does it hurt more as a
fan when you're college team loses. Are your favorite professional
team goasllege?

Speaker 3 (29:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (29:08):
Yes, And I'll give you an example. For all the
years I covered UCLA at the Rose Bowl, when the
guy leading the cheers at the stadium would face the
fans and be leading the cheers for four quarters. He
would say, let's go Bruins. He wasn't talking about the
football team. The fans are the Bruins, the identity people
have because you realize a lot of these fans this

(29:31):
was their college, not just for a class or two,
for many for.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
Four years, best eight years of my life or.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
In some cases eight years, and they really have an
attachment that's not quite the same. I'm not saying they
aren't crazies for pro teams, of course there are, but
it's it's an attachment that's not the same.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Good stuff. By the way, congratulations and I to UCLA.
I mean that was amazing. That was completely utter domination.
I had a postgame show. I had to do one.
He so I was pretty dialed in. But what can
you really say after a twenty eight point win that
could have been five point easily. I mean, they had

(30:11):
a thirty five point lead at one point.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
Tonight? Did U s.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
LA against the team that just beat a team that
was what undefeated?

Speaker 2 (30:17):
So yeah, yeah, it was no it was Yukon was undefeated. Yeah,
South Carolina.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
South Carolina is constantly at the final for the past
decade with Don Staley as coach.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Is that six straight final fours from South Carolina.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
It's at least the last three to four.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Isn't it pretty good?

Speaker 3 (30:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Pretty good? But anyway about degree.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
Online today or on Twitter? Who was a game? It
was daily?

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Oh is she? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (30:45):
Well, I uh, I had as a handshake or the result?

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Is it because she made a big deal about the handshake.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Now no, it's actually it's not about another controversy. It's
not about the handshake, and it's not even about the result.
So he was questioning, like, you know, enough is enough.
She's wearing I forget what brand? Why nothing on that
says South Carolina? Nothing about the school, Nothing that pays
your salary, nothing that puts you in the position to

(31:13):
be on TV in this situation, shouldn't you have something
that represents the school like the other coach had UCLA on.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
Look in the men's side, you know some coaches just
wear like like Patino's wearing like real nice suits and
then really represent the school on his on his jacket
or anything. But I could see the point she it's
all about the brand and all that stuff, so.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
You would like it.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
Like baseball, the manager actually wears the same uniform as
the player.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
You wear like like you know Tommy Lloyd does the
three quarters zip down or whatever it is.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
I have the school name on it.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Come on, man, you could dress with a school sweatshirt
or something on that you're representing them.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Let's go. I like uniform idea, like coaches in basketball
have to wear basketball Yeah, during the game with Rick Majeris,
you know, wheneverbody make me rest in peace, I would
have been fantastic.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
Although Rica Jeris, as I can recall from interviews, would
stand up for his own basketball history. He said, you
didn't want to play me on two and two. I
was known as Rick to pick and he was a
big guy.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
I could see that. Take two guys out. Uh what
one more quick little tweet here that I wanted to
get to uh u c l a Dodger, Frank, all
of Arnie's teams are cursed. Maybe Arnie needs a fresh
start and should focus on the upcoming World Cup. Three
hours of Asian and African soccer talk there you go.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Yeah, that's a good idea.

Speaker 4 (32:44):
So this summer it's saran Iraq. Who you going to
root in the victory?

Speaker 3 (32:48):
Arnie, It's gonna be I'm picking us. I'm I'm going
to pick them the one.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
They can lose without you pick somebody else.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Yeah, exactly, and then Barry co writes, is your show
tonight going to be about Arizona and Arno? Well, our
show every Sunday night is about Arnie. It just so
happens that tonight's show coincides with his Arizona Wildcats getting destroyed.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, what's the gosh? Is this show gonna be about
Arizona and Arnie?

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Arizona was in the final four, sir, you may have
watched it, gosh.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
I like, whenever you're bitter, sooner Lisa sentate tweet like
in the middle of the night, I saw this somehow
hit my inbox and said so much should do a
wellness check on stinking genius.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
That's kind of like a tweet in the middle of
the game that somebody like, if your team doesn't hit
a shot, they're gonna be in trouble. Better hope they
hit a shot. Okay, thank you for that, Thank you
for that analysis. You need to do sports talk on
the radio.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
All right, We got what you need to do. When
we come back, we do have a lot of good
tweets to start the show. We'll hit some of those.
It's a busy night with Arnie and Plank right here
on Fox Sports Radio. Don't listen no Fox Sports Radio.
I had to laugh at the Roman numeral rundown. I
hadn't given it like the true once over like I

(34:11):
needed to yet, because I'll be honest, I figured you
would complain for three hours. But I'm proud of you.
You're moving on Roman numeral nine, Like, what are we
supposed to do with that? Roman numeral nine? Says NBA
wrapping up the regular season.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Do you understand I was distraught when I was writing
out the should today.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
How the hell do I know what the hell I
meant by that? I have no idea. I have no
idea when I was writing that out.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
I mean, I I love, this is that time of
year where I start listening to all the NBA podcasts
and I get caught up on things. But I mean,
I don't know if we're going to have even entertaining
playoff series until we get to the Final four. And
I've used that. I know they don't use final four
in the NBA, but I mean, even with the Lakers

(34:58):
being as deemed up as they are right now, I mean,
do you think We're really gonna get a great playoff
series until we get to say, okay, see versus San Antonio.
Maybe Denver, maybe Denver might have something to say about it.
But Okse is ahead above everyone else. Right, the Nuggets,
they got that win, They've won eighth Street Goods look

(35:21):
pretty good. You know, they're three back, is there? I mean,
Jason Tatum getting healthy, getting back in the mix. Maybe
you kind of start believing in Boston, but your knicks
kind of stink, you know. I don't know, man, I.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
Just happened to my next They were looking so good
and another team down the drain.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
All my teams were gonna win championships and now they
just went south.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
Horrible.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Are you excited about the playing games? I mean, are
you pumped to see Phoenix in the clip? I'm sorry
it would be Phoenix. Yeah, it'd be Phoenix and the Clippers,
and in Portland versus Golden State in the West, and
you'd have Toronto versus Charlotte in the east, right, and
then Orlando versus Miami, which is funny because we're having
the big expansion talk with Vegas and Seattle. Seattle last

(36:08):
last two expansion teams, or Orlando and Miami and that
was way back in the early nineties. So, I mean,
I don't know, man. I just the NBA has lost
me down the stretch this season and I'm in it.
I'm in Oklahoma City. I'm like, just give me the finals.
Let me, let me see, okay, see play And when
I say finals, I mean Western Conference finals, because I
think whoever comes out of the West is smoking.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
Whoever you're You're right, they've lost me too.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
As a matter of fact, usually I'm in the playoff
NBA and now they're they've lost me for like maybe
the first round or so. I mean, I'm still gonna
be watching the play at games don't really mean much
to me. But you know, when we get to the
games after that and you have the top teams, the
top six start playing, you know I'm obviously watching. But yeah, man,

(36:50):
just the NBA's lacking. It does seem like it's Okay,
season championship all over again.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
It does.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
A couple of people, are you left out? Go big
Red for Nebraska, don't you know?

Speaker 3 (37:02):
That's nobody?

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Yes, they do.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
I will say, rock Rock, Chalk Jayawk, That's that's true.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
I missed that one for Kansas.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
Yeah, Gunny's all over you. He writes, don't let Arnie
in on anything, sir, let him sound like the rambling
fool that he is. And then Michael writes, Arnie's a
rasuer of Oklahoma's traditions while crediting Arkansas has me dying
laughing being in Dallas. I know people do say Boomer sooner,
but I can't be mad at Arnie since he gave

(37:31):
the hogs a shout out.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
I did, I you know, because I I he doesn't
even know the.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
First part of sue all right, so don't give it
too much credit.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
I do. I do know one another one I forgot
When people say oh h I, oh.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
You had just yelled earlier, they're like nobody goes into
airport and says the Ohio State University. Then all of
a sudden you figure it out that it's oh h I,
I l I and I lineye fans. I mean, yeah,
you're not special. I mean, I don't know why you
think yelling gerer makes you spec I mean, bare down's
kind of cool.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
Bear down. You know people do that all the time,
all the time, all the time.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
I you know, in fact, I was just driving around
hard with the iHeart Radio app. By the way, you
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(38:30):
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Speaker 3 (38:39):
I don't know nothing Westwood.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
No, I don't think they really have anything.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
What I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
No, it's not. You've mentioned UCLA while trying to discredit
eighteen thousand different things that we told you that people.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
Say anyone mentioned yet for Texas A and m.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Yeah, I'll give you that one gig I give you that.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
So so far it went from saying there's only three
schools to now you've added at least five more.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
I give you the rock chalk, I give you a gigab.
I'm thinking about giving you Florida with the gator chop,
but that's a little bit different.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
You said you gave us a war eagle. I gave
your warrigal. Do people walk around the airport, Boomer sooner.
When was the last time you were in the airport.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
Do people walk around the airport doing the gator chop?

Speaker 2 (39:24):
Yeah, when they see a Florida person. Again, when was
the last time you were in an airport?

Speaker 3 (39:30):
I was in there. I dropped my kid off.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
I actually picked my dog off from the airport last week.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
Your dog, yeah, came in on first class on the flight.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Wait? What?

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Yeah? Why came in dog flying first class? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (39:45):
I had to Not only did I have to pay
like five thousand for the dog, I had to pay
one thousand dollars for the guy to fly first class
with the dog from from Utah.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
Is this a scam?

Speaker 3 (40:00):
I got the dog?

Speaker 2 (40:01):
I mean, is it? You paid six grand just to
get the dog delivered to you. Yeah, buddy, I think
you're getting scammed here right now? Did you see something
spray painted or anything.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
It's a breeder in Utah. I had to get the
dog out of here. What are you wanting to do?
Dog doesn't drive itself?

Speaker 3 (40:18):
What's wrong with you?

Speaker 2 (40:19):
Well?

Speaker 1 (40:19):
I think for six grand, i'd probably load up the
car and drive there, or fly Spirit and get there
for half price and fly the damn thing. Myself six
grand for your dog to get there first, and you
flew him first class. Yeah, I never went with the dog,
Scott Scott, listen, I've got three kids.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
I'm fighting, scratching and Clawn. Quit give it, Arnie fillins.
I need some of these fillings. The man is flying
his dog first class with the Saturday night fillins that
you're giving it. Stop it all right, We'll get more
of your tweets, Scott, Scott Furman, Todd Furman coming up
next hour. It's Arnie in Plank on a busy Sunday
night a Fox Sports radio. Please do listening to Fox

(40:59):
Sports our two Martie and playing. You're still patent. You're
gonna be okay, you gonna make it.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
No, I'm feeling nauseous.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
You want to go home, you want to call off
the show.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
I want to eat. I'm hungry.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
You didn't have your pre show dessert.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
I had. I had dinner at like four thirty five o'clock.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Then it's not good. It's good arm What did you uh?
How did you take in the game? What were you said?
You didn't watch with your wife. You had a show looming,
so you weren't able to imbibe or anything.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
I was in my man cave with the big TV
on and just ready to enjoy the game all by myself.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
And how horrible for you.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
It's horrible. It was like being stuck in a haunted
house by yourself and not to be able to get out.
That's what it was like.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
Well, we have a championship game between Michigan and Yukon
coming up tonight on the East Pace deal. Well, I
guess the question could be asked, I mean, has this
been a good tournament?

Speaker 3 (41:59):
No?

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Oh, you would have called it the greatest tournament you've
ever seen last week because Arizona was in the final four.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
I changed my mind now, so now it sucks worst ever. No, look,
I'm happy we made it to the final four. It's
been I told you was about a B tournament. We've
had a few buzzer beaters, not too many in the
first round. We didn't have too much in the row,
which is what I enjoy. In the first round, I'd
give it about a bee. I wish Stuke would have
made it. That choke was unbelievable, so I felt bad

(42:31):
for them North Carolina getting eliminated. But overall, it's been
about a Bee if I was putting a letter grade
on it.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Michigan's Elite eight and Final four margins of victory were
fifty five points, which is the largest since nineteen sixty eight.
It was the most one sided matchup ever between two
one seeds since the seating started. Michigan's looking for its

(42:59):
first time since eighty nine with Neil Robinson. Right, so
you have that, uh, and you did have the moment
with Yukon and Duke, but now you had a couple
of buzzer beaters early in the tournament, right, we had.
I don't know, I was this Is this a good tournament?

(43:19):
I don't know. I think it started out with a
lot of hope, but I don't know if the final
four games and Elite eight games have truly paid off.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
And I'm not because you're a bitter Arizona fans.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
The final four, the two games weren't really close, and
we'll see.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
What happens with the championship games.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
So maybe that's taken a lot of the luster off
what we've enjoyed so far and brings.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
It down like a half a grade or something like that.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
Half a grade, yeah, half a grade something like that.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
You just take it away. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
Listen, if we're grading this, I think i'd give about
a B minus.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
I think, don't you think that's kind of fair for this?
That's fair? That's fair.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
I thought I was being generous, I guess with a
best So yeah, B minus, absolutely, I would.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
Boy, you're really down. Are you gonna make it through
the show to how did you handle last night? Was
it just the shock or what well?

Speaker 1 (44:15):
I got through last night? You know, even though because
by the time the game was over, hour one was
in the books, right, and then I had hour two,
and then hour three we had Torres. So I just
turned down my microphone and walked away when Torres was on,
So I didn't say anything during that time.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
You're like, hey, I'm not going to answer any questions here.
We're just might ask any questions.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
No pictures, no questions, please, I'm not going to do that.
I just again, I'm happy I didn't pay all that
money to go out to Indianapolis, get a hotel and
then get a ticket.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
And by the way, those tickets.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Did you see how one guy spent like four or
five hundred dollars just to get in and there was
no way he could see it was.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
It was horrible.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
I mean really, I would have walked out and went
to a bar and watched the game if I had
seats like that. That was the worst thing ever I saw.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
Yeah, it was. I don't this might be a hot take.
I don't know if anyone even really cares. I don't
like him in stadiums Arnie, I don't think. I don't
think we should be playing the national championship game in
football stadiums.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
Now, the attendance, do we know what it was? The
last I don't remember. Now I can pull it up here. Sure,
I'm wondering how many people actually piled into that, because
you're right, go ahead just to get like, you know
the way, are you serious? They're claiming seventy two thousand.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
Get out of here?

Speaker 2 (45:33):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
Then that's why you got to have them in football stay.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Well, you got to keep these things in football stadiums Arnie.
That's kind of the if you're saying you had seventy
two thousand there and people paid for those nosebleed seats
to just watch it a little bit. I'll tell you what.
There was a lot of Illinois fans there, right, A
lot of Illinois fans short drive.

Speaker 3 (45:53):
What is it like a four hour drive? Five hour
drive from well, I mean that's a marathon drive for you. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
So now the Annapolis I'd be down there too. Unfortunately
they left disappointed too.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
Let's see Champagne, Illinois. Oh you're wrong. Two hours?

Speaker 3 (46:08):
Oh two hours, get out of here.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
One hundred and twenty seven miles from Champagne, Illinois to Indianapolis, Indiana.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
So you go.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
I mean that's an eat. And they were there, they
were out in full fourth man, Where did all those
Michigan fans come from? Where have you guys been? I mean,
I get it that you have over one hundred thousand
in all your football games. And I know that Dusty
May started to turn things around last year, But when
did everyone suddenly become a Michigan basketball fan? And do
they have the most and everyone used to be when

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they had eight wins?

Speaker 3 (46:38):
What was that two years ago?

Speaker 2 (46:39):
Where were you guys with Juwan Howard back in the
day whenever he was working things. I mean, I by
the way, there's a ton of Michigan alums too that
work in the media. It's worse than having Tories as
a Yukon alum. Just kidding etee, go ahead, aren't you
he caves?

Speaker 1 (46:52):
People didn't know because I think there was some confusion
during the game yesterday.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
The Fab five were not going to play. I don't
know if you knew that, Chris.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
They don't have eligibility left, so I don't know why
we had to spend our whole damn time. You don't
have a whole damn network to these guys. They weren't playing, Chris.
I had enough of the Fab five.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
Let's move on.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
Please, we're doing this thing now. And I don't know
who watches it because it's really painful to watch. We
did it with a couple of Diana Trossi and Sue
Byrd right with Yukon basketball, and.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
They got rid of that real quick because it was bad.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
Yeah, you had the Fab five Alternative cast. I mean,
leave alternative cast to like radio shows. I mean, don't
put a bunch of basketball guys on there that just
want to watch the basketball game. I mean, that's the
thing that I mean. I would rather watch the game
than watch people watching the game and go oh oh yeah,
you see that, Oh gosh. I mean, it's just it's

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not very good. And I tried last night because I
was in studio and I had a couple of different TVs.
I'm like, oh, what's this about. It was terrible, and
they did have at least the top recruit in the
country that committed to Michigan. I think, right, was he
down to U two? Was he down in Michigan in Arizona?

Speaker 3 (48:12):
No, I don't know what the other one was. It
better not have been between Michigan and Arizona.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
Wouldn't have been great if he said, if they just
wouldn't have lost by eighteen. And by the way, that
was a gracious eighteen because you guys actually started hitting
some shots in the last five minutes in the game night.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
I know that made it look a little bit better
than it actually was.

Speaker 3 (48:30):
That's doing slaving grace we had out there.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
It was well, you know what, I felt bad because,
you know, a lot of people would say it was
a waste of a season, even though they played so great.

Speaker 3 (48:40):
They only had two losses all year.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
They won the Big Twelve, they won the Big Twelve tournament.

Speaker 3 (48:46):
They just had a phenomenal year.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
And the only two losses to Texas Tech in the
Kansas one was in overtime.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
I just it was it was just a dream year,
is what it was.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
Yeah, exactly. By the way, listen, I'm not here to
tell you guys how to handle loss a loss. I mean,
I've lost a lot of games as a fan. I mean,
I'm a Raiders fan. Okay, I've lost a lot of games.
But Auburn Wilde is kind of coming across like a
fool here when he writes the final four refs are embarrassing.
Where do they find these guys the NFL? I stand

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with Arnie. I mean, but the final score was ninety
one seventy three, Okay, I mean I think Arizona's shot
more free throws than than Michigan did. Michigan shot sixteen
free throws, Arizona shot twenty two.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
I'm with Auburn Wilde. It's the refs.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
I mean, you sound like a moro on bro, I
love you. I mean, would you sound like an idiot?
These referees they're just unfair. I mean, we would have
only lost by fifteen if they would have called the
game right. I mean, not even Arnie's coming in here
to complain about the officials. Now, are these games over
officiated a little bit? I don't know. I think they're
letting them play a bit on the mini.

Speaker 7 (49:55):
I did do.

Speaker 1 (49:56):
I g I was okay with the officiating. The last
thing I want to do is with you're getting into
somebody in the found trouble Y Axel got in the
foul trouble picked up too early.

Speaker 3 (50:05):
I you know, I don't.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
Understand what all the controversy was on Jalen Bradley's picking
up three fousands and picking up his fourth. I've been
seeing this for a long long time, and not only
does he do it, more creevots that does it, and
they got to stop. They both use that arm to
push away, and Bradley's been doing it for like.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
All year long.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
To be honest with you, Chris, do you know I've
watched just about every Arizona game and I've said it
to myself.

Speaker 3 (50:31):
He gets away with it all year long.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
I don't think he's had more than like two offensive fouls,
but he does it all the time, and I guess
in this.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
Game it finally caught up to him.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
Maybe one was a little soft, but he does it
a lot, and so does more Creevoce. They they push
and lower the shoulder, and you know that they're gonna
get offensive fouls. But I'm glad they you know, you
don't get in the foul trouble and have to go
to the bench, and that that really sucks. Have to
do something about the five and you're out it. We
may have to up at the six.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Goal Saint Louis Blues. So the Blues have taken a lead.
For those of you that have a little action on
hockey tonight, here come to Saint Louis Blues. They've taken
the lead here late against the Colorado Avalanche. Two minutes
left in the game, Jay Jay, the actually two fifty
left in the game, three to two Blues. JV brings

(51:24):
up a really good point. And this is something that
I mean, obviously there's people smarter than me that come
up with this and much more intelligent than me. But
did you happen to see the tip time for tomorrow
night's game? I'm sorry, tonight's game on the East Coast,
it is allegedly eight fifty Eastern time, which means it

(51:44):
won't tip off until nine or like nine to fifteen,
like they give you all these times, and we don't
tip games off even close to when they tell you you're
gonna kick The NFL is great at it. Right. The NFL,
you know those games are gonna kick it non you're
gonna get a three o'clock game, or you might get
three twenty five, right, And sometimes it might get pushed

(52:05):
back a little bit if you have I don't know
an overtime that happens beforehand, but NFL games, you know
where they're going to start. College football, you know, college
football has a slide, so sometimes you might have a
game that's projected to be a six o'clock start, but
TV's like, now, we're gonna put that on a twenty
minute slide, so that'll actually kick off at six twenty
and they don't do it until like an hour before

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the game.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
The eight to fifties start, they'll have it on before
nine o'clock with the tip off it you want to bet, Yeah,
actually I do. They I think they will, And matter
of fact, I'm totally okay with that, as long as
it wasn't like.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
You're not gonna watch, you're gonna be in bed.

Speaker 7 (52:42):
No.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
I thought you were going to tell me was nine
to twenty, and I'm like.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
It still might be nine to twenty. JV Wrights the
game starting at nine PM on a Monday night is
a bigger disgrace than the NFL and then the Final
Four being played at an NFL stadium. So you're telling
me if you were an air A Zona fan, but
if Arizona was still alive, you wouldn't have a problem
when they played, because well, you're a trophy husband, you

(53:06):
don't really do anything so outside of the show, fine,
But I mean for kids that want to watch it,
you're not going to get done until like midnight on
a Monday night, nine.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
To eleven, nine to eleven, fifteen, two hours, fifteen minutes
to play these games?

Speaker 2 (53:21):
Buddy, what game are you watching? It's lasting two hours
and fifteen minutes.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
They're usually two hours college basketball.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
Again in the NCAA tournament in the four What game
are you watching? This last?

Speaker 3 (53:34):
And two hours?

Speaker 2 (53:34):
Right now?

Speaker 1 (53:35):
I think they're what twenty to twenty five whatever they are.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
It's ridiculous to be tipping them off that light. And
I don't think any game is just two hours? Why
about this?

Speaker 3 (53:45):
Up yesterday filling in with Jason, I said, why are we?

Speaker 1 (53:49):
And I guess it used to be like this in
the seventies, which I didn't know about, where they played
these semi finals on Thursday that are on Friday and
the finals on Sundays.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
So they did that.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
You're gonna say that you don't know whenever there was
a man that tweeted it to you tonight, Nick Nick writes,
you asked last night, why is in the tournament on
a Sunday? For a very long time, it used to
be held on a Saturday, with the final four occurring
on Thursday. It was moved to Monday night primetime in
nineteen seventy three for TV money.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
Did I botch that up? Did I even botch that?

Speaker 2 (54:23):
Well? I'm just saying you didn't give Nick his credit
when he gave you the answer for it.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
Nick, Yes, thank you for this.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
I don't understand the Monday night obsession with college sports,
right right, That's what I don't understand. National championship game
in football, Monday night, National championship game in basketball Monday Night.
That's where my confusion is, Like, what is the obsession
with Monday night? It works, they get good TV numbers,
but I mean, I don't know about It was Easter today,

(54:49):
so I kind of don't like having a ton of
sporting events anyway on Easter, Right, It's day when you
should be celebrating, right right.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
I think the fatuation that TV has with Monday night
is because America, you don't go out.

Speaker 3 (55:05):
To dinner on a Monday night.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
You're just getting back in the work week. So Monday
you come back, you're exhausted. It's your first day from
the work week. All you want to do is come home, relax,
watch TV, maybe go to bed early, and watch some sports.
And that's why Mondays are do so well. You know,
back in the day when they have like the hot
sitcoms they debuted on Tuesday nights, that's what America would

(55:31):
be home watch a DV on Tuesday nights. Later in
the week people would be busy, so Tuesday nights they
would do.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
It all right. When we come back, Todd se joined something.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (55:41):
Well, I mean, are you right?

Speaker 3 (55:43):
I don't know, but I talk to you.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
I don't know. I sound right, don't I? You sounded
official enough to me that I'll buy it. All right.
Whenever we come back, we'll talk to our buddy Todd
Firman to get his perspective on the championship game, matchup,
talk a little n B A late season, and much
more with Arnie and Plank on Fox Sports Radio with
Arnie Spanier the Stinking Genius. I'm Chris Plank. You can

(56:09):
find us on Twitter at stink and Genius one. That's Arnie.
I'm at planks show. Everybody go follow us at Fox
Sports Radio. In the meantime, hanging out with her buddy
Todd Furman, who was also very active on the Twitter
slash x he is Todd Furman. All right, Todd, First
of all, I mean excitement overseeing Michigan right in Arizona

(56:30):
last night. They just had to be your kind of
basketball game, seeing Arnie's Arizona Wildcats get destroyed like that
last night. Whenever he gave you the win, like he
told you they were gonna win that game, did you
listen to his advice and bet on Arizona like you
were supposed to?

Speaker 7 (56:44):
Actually had no investment in either of the two games,
But from an emotional standpoint, as much as it pains
me to say, knowing that my sister shares a common
alma mater with Arnie, found myself hoping that Arizona could
punch their ticket to.

Speaker 3 (56:55):
The national title.

Speaker 7 (56:55):
And having grown up in the Chicago suburbs, you kind.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
Of have a little bit of Illinois.

Speaker 7 (57:00):
In your DNA when you look at them on the hardwoods,
knowing that they haven't won a national title. Unfortunately, neither
game all that competitive. See tip your hat to Michigan,
who is dollart from start to finish. Yukon continues to
find some of their secondary pitches, so to speak, with
Danny Hurley just getting his teams to play their best
basketball in March and April, and gentlemen, we can only
hope that the two championship games we saw today at
the Crown out here in Vegas, and of course what

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unfolded at Hinkle in the NIT Championship are only a
harbinger of what we'll see tomorrow with a pair of
overtime thrillers. Not quite sure we get the Holy Trinity,
the trifecta with Michigan now out to a seven point
favorite a total one forty four against Oskies.

Speaker 1 (57:36):
What was it seven and a halfn't went down the
six and a half. A lot of money came in
on you, comp but didn't back up to seven and
a half for them.

Speaker 7 (57:42):
Or what a bit of an inflated number coming into
the national semifinals you'd have been looking at Michigan right
around a five to five and a half point favorite
in this game against Yukon. But when you get a
dominant performance like we saw from Michigan and the so
called heavyweight fighter, what people thought was the parbial national title.
With this kind of being a coron on Monday night,
Oddsmaker's forced to inflate the number a touch, and Yukon,

(58:04):
despite winning relatively comfortably against Illinois extending late, didn't exactly
look dominant in their offensive execution. Some of the offensive
weapons a far cry from what we saw on the
back to back national title teams a few years ago.
So that's why we have a number that looks a
little bit steeper on the surface. But you can make
a compelling case for both sides. Whether it's backing Danny Hurley,
who just covers numbers this late in the tournament. We're

(58:27):
looking to make a case for the Michigan Wolverines, who
appear to be an offensive juggernaut, much like we saw
from Yukon a few seasons ago, and there was not
a number big enough to slow down the onslought in
exceeding Oddsmaker's expectations.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
I know the attendance was announced at seventy two, one
hundred and eleven. But we got to get these games
out of basket. We got to give them in basketball arenas, right, Todd.
I mean, listen to football stadium is cool from the attendance,
but come on, get back in basketball arenas.

Speaker 7 (58:54):
I don't think we're ever putting that genie back in
the bottle. Unfortunately, and had some friends as Illinois lums
make a short two two and a half hour trip
from the Chicago suburbs down there, and they said they
felt like they would have been closer to the playing
surface if they watched the game in their living room
rather than entering Lucas Oil Stadium. And I think that's
the unfortunate reality it becomes. They made for TV product,
and if people really want to enjoy the game with

(59:15):
good site lines, you have to pay a prim to
sit down low or you're just there as much to
soak up the atmosphere as anything else. I mean, just
tough to turn a venue design for a game played
on a surface one hundred yards long or I guess
one hundred and twenty include the end zones and fifty
five yards wide, and then putting a ninety four foot
basketball court in the middle and expecting everyone to be

(59:35):
thrilled with their vantage points.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
So tough sell, and unfortunately.

Speaker 7 (59:39):
For Illinois, it didn't look like they were able to
adjust to the depth reception whatsoever with some of their
shooting rules from start to finish.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
Dodd Portal opens Tuesday to North Carolina, still witho no coach.
I think Billy Donovan the front runner. But the NBA
season doesn't end until I believe the twelfth. The Math aid, Math,
in here, what's happening?

Speaker 3 (59:58):
What's going on there?

Speaker 2 (59:59):
Do you know?

Speaker 7 (01:00:00):
We'll still make the case only that the Chicago Bulls season
ended December twelfth, So while the NBA schedule wo't officially
come to an end for another week, you can understand
how folks in Chapel Hill would like to get that
position filled. Nobody knows the level of overtures made towards
a Dusty May. I know he came out and said
he's not going anywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Tommy Lloyd is.

Speaker 7 (01:00:19):
Able to land an extension, but it is still one
of the pre eminent jobs in all of college basketball.
The problem for North Carolina the more people you talked
to around that program, and some of the insiders there
They're just not built for the modern era. I mean,
they don't have an analytics team, they didn't have a
general manager, and they thought it was brand bias that
was going to continue to keep them competitive. Of Oliver Dye.
In the current landscape of college sports, if Indiana can

(01:00:41):
win a national championship in college football like we saw
North Carolina can make sure they have the right personnel
to take the perennial power and we're stored in the
glory and get back to another Final four and contend
for a national title like that fan base has grown
accustomed to over the last one hundred years or so.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
I'm super proud of my alma mater and even of Oklahoma.
In the Crown, it looked like a decent crowd for
the Nit, But I think you could have had a
conversation with someone across the court at the Crown, what's
the benefit of that event right now? Because there was
literally nobody at those games.

Speaker 7 (01:01:14):
Half a million dollar pay day that goes to the
winning team is probably about it. But unfortunately Plank it
wasn't much different when they had that player's Air tournament.

Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
Out here in November.

Speaker 7 (01:01:24):
It's just when you have these larger venues and ticket
prices that are somewhat astronomical. On the surface, it feels
like it made for TV product, and if that's what
they're after, then so be it. But in my opinion,
I'd like to see an atmosphere. I'd like to see
the energy. Do what you can to fill the building,
make it affordable, reach out to high schools and youth
basketball programs. There are enough people out here that love

(01:01:45):
sports at the professional and collegiate level that would be
thrilled to go to that type of venue.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
But when you're.

Speaker 7 (01:01:50):
Asking people to pony up top dollar to watch Oklahoma
and West Virginia to what the casual fan defines the
Meaningless Tournament, it's always going to be a little bit
of a tough sell. A few more entertainment options out
here in the desert on a Sunday afternoon, and this
is in a day. I get the folks in the
grey Hoosier State that love their basketball than what it
is for Hinkle Field House when they can, or I
should say Gambridge Field House, who to their credit, put

(01:02:12):
together a marvelous event making sure that Division two, Division three,
and the NIT Championship were all played in the same building,
and it was one price gets you all three of
those events. So for the true hoopads out there, they
were treated to a number of impressive performances with a
lot more on the line.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
Hey Todd, your fellow gamblers, did they rush to the
window to take the twenty four and a half? Lay
the twenty four and a half with Oklahoma City or
just stay away from it?

Speaker 7 (01:02:37):
Hell of the league we got in the National Basketball
the location where teams can lay twenty four and a
half and actually get bad up as high as twenty
six at some books out here in Oklahoma City still
finds a way to exceed Oddsmaker's expectations, winning that game
by thirty five. But this is the league that they've created,
and for me, I'll start paying attention again when we
get to the playoffs. Some interesting races brewing though, when

(01:02:59):
you look at team trying to avoid, you know, those
seven to ten spots in the Eastern Conference, whether it's
Charlotte who gets the big win on the road against
the Timberwolves earlier day, or Orlando who found themselves in
a bit of a dog fight squeaking by against the
New Orleans Pelicans to stay in the race, but just
a tough sell this late in the year, and when
you have so many big numbers, especially with teams on
the road, it leaves you scratching your head about competitive

(01:03:21):
balance or at least selling that illusion that is no
longer existent.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Yeah, what what do we do? Do we need to
fix the postseason or the late season in the NBA?
I mean, don't get me wrong, that Nugget Spurs game
last night, that's pretty incredible, but I mean I'm watching
the Final four. I'm not into it too much. What
we're watching right now between the Rockets and Warriors is
pretty great, but I mean it's few and far between
when you get these I mean one fifty six for
the Wizard's Heat game last night. I mean, I mean

(01:03:47):
you just brought up the Thunder winning by what fifty
or whatever? What one forty six, one eleven. I mean,
do we have a problem that needs to be fixed
with the NBA late season or is it just is
what it is?

Speaker 7 (01:03:58):
I think the NBA regular season has kind of become
an afterthought unless you're looking for some of the highlights
on social media or you're involved in fantasy sports. Look,
the sport has played at a higher level than what
we've ever seen. The problem being is that the teams
at the bottom of the table of the standings I
guess you want to use proper American portlance aren't incentivized
to win this late in the year. So I'm not
sure what the NBA does to try and figure all

(01:04:20):
of this stuff out. So teams at least are out
there fighting and players that are dinged up are still competing.
It's much different than what you'll see in the NHL
when they play out the string. Yes, there are teams
that are incentivized to finish in the bottom five to
help their lottery odds, but they are anything but a
league known for tanking. The closest you'll get to it
is with the Florida Panthers, are dealing with with a
rash of injuries, with a lot of their key contributors out,

(01:04:41):
But when you win back to back Stanley Cups, it's
a luxury you're afforded, and quite frankly, for me, I'd
love the NBA to go more to a European soccer model.
What do we need to draft for at this point.
Give these teams a salary cap, allow them to buy
and sell players however they see fit and if you're
going to build a super team, all that means is
that elite players are going to have to take a
major haircut to be able to share wealth. So I
think that's how you create competitive balance. I'm just not

(01:05:03):
sure where ever, going to get there.

Speaker 3 (01:05:04):
Dodd Well, a little bit of a wall.

Speaker 1 (01:05:05):
I see there's some good odds for some golfers out
for the Masters.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
You bet the Masters this year or what?

Speaker 7 (01:05:12):
We'll start to dig into it. What's always interesting about
the Masters, aren't you? And you look at the odds
that have been off essentially since they handed out the
green jacket to Ry McElroy last year. Most of these
numbers will short, and a lot of sportsbooks the week
of as betting handle continues to increase, you may find
better prices on some of the guys with shorter numbers
than what you otherwise would see. I think it's always
interesting when you go into an event of this magnitude

(01:05:33):
to try and figure out the kind of buzz around
a player like Scotti Scheffler, who looked unbeatable earlier this
season and throughout much of last year, but his number
has drifted out out to five to one you know,
John Rohm's price has short and substantially given his current
forum and the live tour, And it's a little bit surprising,
I think for folks that only focus on the PGA
to see two of the top three favorites honing their

(01:05:54):
craft on live with Bryson d Schambeau checking in there.
For me personally, I'm a little bit biased. I'll probably
end up lighting money on fire trying to back lud Vegolbert,
knowing how close he's been in the past and how
this course really suits his talents, hoping that number drifts
out to that eighteen to twenty to one range. But
always a fun tournament, fun watch, and while there are
ninety players, you can kind of pare it down to
forty or fifty, which makes the futures market a little

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bit more intriguing. To focus on some of the marquee names,
I maybe identify a matchup or two when you're looking
to fade or bet on a particular player.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
A quick final thought from me, Todd, because you do
watch hockey, you cover it, you follow it. You got
the Knights in your backyard, But what did you make
of Peter de boor getting the nod to replace Patrick
Wah's the head coach of the Islanders when they're right
there in the playoff chase.

Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
I'll give the.

Speaker 7 (01:06:36):
Islanders credit, not necessarily for parting ways with Patrick Wah
with four games to go in the season, but they
do have a little bit of a break into schedule.
Their next game is until Thursday night, so Peter de
Boor will get a couple of practices in with this
Islanders team who's doing everything they can to kind of
salvage their season. Mathematically, they're kind of up against it
with only four games remaining and having to jump a
number of teams in the wildcard race. But I think

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the interesting details about the movie Isles made today compared
to what the Golden Knights did last Sunday bringing John Tortorella,
that was more of a short term stop gap and
with no extension in the works for torts to see
if he can light a fire under the Knights. Meanwhile,
the Islanders have kind of said there is a contract
in the works. This isn't just a short term solution.
It's their way of showing that they have a commitment
and they think Peter de bor can be the guy

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to lead them for you know, with one of the
best goalies in the league and Elias Sirokin and a
generational talent arguably on the blue line of Matthew Schaffer,
who has run away or will run away with the
Callegor Trophy, especially when you look at the betting market
and what his production has been. Something we rarely see
from a teenager being asked to play such high leverage minute.

Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
Dodd, My kid asked me for ten thousand dollars to
go to the Savers playoff game.

Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
That's what they're charging.

Speaker 6 (01:07:41):
I go.

Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
They're not charging ten thousand dollars for the Savers playoff game?

Speaker 3 (01:07:46):
What's wrong with you?

Speaker 7 (01:07:47):
Gonna be one of the more electric playoff environments for sure.
It is a fan base in Western New York that
loves their hockey but has long been starved to see
meaningful games played. Game eighty three and beyond. We'll see
if they can secure, you know, the one or two
spot in the Atlantic Division. I think seeing Buffalo against
Montreal is what hockey purists would love. But a game
for the Sabers tomorrow night playing host to Tampa Bay Lightning.

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Tampa wins that they have the inside track that taking
home the Atlantic Division and then Buffalo will find themselves
in a dogfight over the final four games. But there
will not be a louder building in the NHL Playoffs,
especially for Round one and what you're going to see
in Buffalo and what I tell my Bills fans and
friends as well. The Pagoula family is only allowed one
nice thing with their professional team, So if the Buffalo
Sabers window is opening, that may effectively mean that the

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door has closed on Josh Allen and their opportunity to
win a Super Bowl out there at a new fangled,
the beautiful stadium.

Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
Thanks Todd, appreciate you, buddy, have a great.

Speaker 7 (01:08:40):
Week, always the pleasure Jens. Have a great week and
enjoy the national title tomorrow night.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
Go follow Todd on Twitter at Todd Furman. Ladies and gentlemen.
Steve Seger has been patiently waiting to get us caught
up on everything in the world of sports. What's up, Steve.

Speaker 4 (01:08:52):
By the way, Pagoula family owners of the Buffalo Sabers
and the Buffalo Bills and daughter Jessica Pagoula won the
tennis finals in Charlie Today clay court event Buffalo Sabers.
We mentioned this last night. Qualifying for the playoffs. That
ends an NHL record fourteen season drought without postseason. Amazingly,

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that's THEFL NHL record. There's an NFL team currently that's
gone fifteen years, Jets, the Jets without making the playoffs.
You were talking March Madness earlier, and I do remember
for years CBS would come on the air at nine
pm Eastern and they would tip at nine twenty and finally,
I think it was last year, they went a half
an hour early. The good news for tomorrow night is,

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unlike last night, there's no game before them and therefore
no concert in between, So I personally do expect it
to tip before nine pm.

Speaker 3 (01:09:45):
Yester, I'm shocked. Yeah, I totally know it's going to be.
I know what.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
You totally know. Why do you totally know?

Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
I'm into this stuff? I got the inside scoop.

Speaker 4 (01:09:55):
I mean, they could surprise us, like they did with
the longer than expected concert in between that nobody needed.
But you would think with the name like the Chainsmokers,
they wouldn't have that much breath for that longer concert,
And yet here we were. By the way, I remember
when the final four was in New Jersey mid nineties,
and they said on the broadcast, this is the last
time the Final Four is ever going to be in

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a basketball arena and not a football stadium. And sure enough,
because it had been in the Kingdome in Seattle the
year before and almost forty thousand fans, and went to
the RCA Dome in Indy the next year almost fifty
thousand fans, and like you said, seventy two thousand last night,
it's gonna be in a few years back at the
Dallas Cowboys Stadium. And the last time it was there,
I think it was seventy nine thousand fans for a

(01:10:38):
Final four. How things have changed because John Wooden's final
game when he won the nineteen seventy five title, it
was at the San Diego Sports Arena with fifteen thousand fans.

Speaker 3 (01:10:49):
Oh, how funny, which is smaller.

Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
Than pretty much any NBA arena. Tait, I think that
is where the Clippers played. The San Diego Clippers wound
they were going to even in town. Yet at that point,
we've got a final to report. In the NBA's late game,
Steph Curry had the ball at the end, attempted a
three and missed at the buzzer. Houston wins won seventeen,

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won sixteen.

Speaker 2 (01:11:15):
Over the Warriors.

Speaker 4 (01:11:16):
It wass a minor victory in that they got him
on the court. The guy off the bench in twenty
six minutes had twenty nine points. Curry had missed their
last twenty seven games with his knee injury. Clippers and
Charlotte each one. Dallas beat the Lakers one thirty four
one twenty eight Cooper Flag forty five points. Oklahoma City

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won its fifth in a row. Cleveland and Phoenix with wins.
UCLA dominated the women's basketball Championship over South Carolina seventy
nine fifty one. The men's final is Monday night, NHL
late game to Saint Louis three two at Colorado. Earlier,
the Rangers won eight one against Washington. JJ spawn took
the Texas Opened by one stroke in rainy San Antonio,

(01:11:58):
his first title since the US Open n last summer.
He hadn't finished in the top twenty this year. The
Masters does start on Thursday. NASCAR's Cup series was off
this Easter weekend. Next weekend, nascars on FS one again
from Bristol, Tennessee. Ballgame tonight at Detroit went to the
Saint Louis Cardinals five to three over the Tigers, and
number one ranked UCLA baseball completed a sweep of top

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twenty USC with a win today. Twenty three straight victories
for UCLA basketball. That would be USC, but you're close.
It's the longest streak in UCLA baseball history. That program
has existed for more than one hundred years. In nineteen forty,
Jackie Robinson was on the UCLA baseball team. He wound

(01:12:42):
up being, by the way, a letterman in four different
sports in his career. There, baseball, and track. I don't
think anyone at that campus has done that. But they
play UCLA in Jackie Robinson Stadium, which is located just
across the freeway. It's right by the Veterans Cemetery. Correct,
back to.

Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
You, good, I've been there a bunch of times, have you.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
Yeah, I've been that stadium before.

Speaker 3 (01:13:06):
That's where I can cut through when there's traffic, I
cut through that, is it?

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
Yeah? Because you can just get around that easy, right, Yeah,
you la just cut right there and you miss all
the traffic. All right. When we come back, we've got
more with the saga. We've got the segment coming up.
I do want to remind everyone that when we're done,
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(01:13:31):
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Arnie real quick before Well, by the way, the saga

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is rolling in right now with the A segment. But
Doug brings up a good point here, Steve, Because Arnie,
what'd you say You're kid asked for like ten grand
or something?

Speaker 3 (01:14:02):
Yeah, for the Saber tickets?

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
Right, so, Doug Wrights, Arnie, you just spent six g's
for a first class ticket for a fur baby. Open
up the piggy bank and get your boys some coin.
Let me explain to you.

Speaker 1 (01:14:16):
What the thing what I'll the next hour after the saga,
I'll take you okay, was exactly the.

Speaker 4 (01:14:20):
Dog seems like a good point so far.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
Yeah, I think you're onto something there. Good question.

Speaker 4 (01:14:25):
Yeah, guys, An amazing thing from the NBA tonight for me,
and I assume for you. But I was notified by
the NBA that there's a player tonight that moved up
the list of top twenty all time scoring. This guy
has nearly twenty seven thousand points scored in his NBA career.
He passed Oscar Robertson tonight. It's DeMar Deroth.

Speaker 3 (01:14:48):
Oh really gosh.

Speaker 4 (01:14:50):
Former USC recruit from Compton.

Speaker 2 (01:14:52):
I looked it up.

Speaker 4 (01:14:52):
He's in his seventeenth year in the league, amazing, averaging
twenty one points a game for his career, and he's
about to pass Keem Olajuan for fifteenth.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
Arnie, do you know what team he plays on? I
had a look.

Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
I'm not Golden State, close, close, close, Not Toronto anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
He's at Sacramento. Now, that's a long day ago with Toronto.

Speaker 4 (01:15:16):
He has more points in his NBA career than the
guys right behind him on this top twenty list Oscar Robertson,
Dominique Wilkins, Tim Duncan, and Steph Curry. Wow Wow is correct.
Curry came off the bench for twenty nine points, missed
the final shot. Golden State lost the late game at
home to Houston tonight. One seventeen won sixteen. Houston has

(01:15:39):
won six in a row. Meanwhile, a UFL game in
Houston tonight, the Gamblers went on a fifty yard field
goal on the final seconds Let's go twenty two to
twenty over the Birmingham Stallions. The spring league is well underway.
There's a Tuesday night game on FS one Saint Louis
at Dallas this week. Let's Go UFL started last weekend

(01:16:00):
with Dallas beating Houston. Houston's coach is Kevin Sumlin X
of the University of Houston and Texas A and M
and Oklahoma in Arizona. Yeah yeah, yeah, Well nobody remembers
that wow, because you know Arizona football. Rick Newheisel is
the Dallas coach in this league. This brilliant yeah baby

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season had started on Fox TV with a Birmingham low
scoring win at Louisville, a new team which got the
game winning touchdown drive from quarterback Matt Carral. First year
Birmingham coach is ex Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron, who only
two years ago was the Saint Louis QB in this league.
Chris Redmond Louisville's coach.

Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
And the one he said that we didn't land on
the moon.

Speaker 4 (01:16:43):
No, that was a different Alabama guy.

Speaker 3 (01:16:46):
But was it different Alabama Guy's.

Speaker 4 (01:16:48):
Just stupid though. The UFL banned the tush push, by
the way, and also in that league. I know it
was a mere fifty yards for the game winner tonight,
but in that league, if you kick a field goal
of sixty yards or more, it's supposed to count for
four points. So they're trying some things, and we've got
the men's final Monday night for March Madness. Michigan scored

(01:17:09):
ninety one points last night. It was already averaging ninety
five points a game in the tournament, the most by
a team in route to the Final four since nineteen
ninety three. Kentucky Yukon's record over the last four tournaments
is eighteen and one. The lone loss was a year
ago to Florida, a team that went on to win
the title.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
Somebody brought up a good point, The winner of this
game should play that Mary Washington team, the team that
won Division three. Yes, exactly at the buzzer right, exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:17:36):
The All American who limped through last night's game from
Michigan Yaxel Lindborg says he's playing despite the ankle and
knee injuries. But my goodness, he looked like I won't
even insult Arnie to make the comparison.

Speaker 2 (01:17:49):
I was going to say that, but.

Speaker 4 (01:17:50):
He looked like a sixty five year old on the
court in the final minutes, like, yeah, coach, I gotta
get back up. I'm making us all wonder live on
the show last night. Why is he back on the court.
Yukon's guard Solo Ball has a sprain foot, didn't practice today.
Don't know if he's playing tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
They're both not on the injured report, so they'll both
be okay.

Speaker 4 (01:18:09):
Yes, I'm sure there's a very strict injury report.

Speaker 3 (01:18:12):
Well, I'm just telling you. I can't tell you how
strict it is.

Speaker 4 (01:18:15):
I will say, Solo Ball, if you've watched Yukon games
the last few weeks, he's had more bad games than
good shooting. So I'm not saying that this is a
good thing if he doesn't play, but he does Solo
dominate the ball sometimes, and not to the good for
the Huskies. This is a Michigan team that, let's be honest,
was just as impressive as Arizona Duke throughout the regular season.

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Those were the three that had consistently the most impressive results.
Michigan has won eleven different games by at least thirty
points this year.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
Let me tell you something.

Speaker 1 (01:18:46):
Duke would have Boat raised him had Cooper Flag stated
other year and played with Boozer, wouldn't even have been
closed can nipple?

Speaker 2 (01:18:53):
I mean that?

Speaker 3 (01:18:54):
Oh my god, Oh my goodness. How about that they
both les.

Speaker 4 (01:18:59):
Dynasty those who are unaware. On Friday, Cooper Flag for
the Dallas Mavericks scored fifty one points, and then against
the Lakers tonight he scored forty.

Speaker 2 (01:19:07):
Five, score one hundred against miss.

Speaker 4 (01:19:09):
So there's that. Duke's Cameron Boozer, by the way, said
he has a couple facial fractures from last week's loss.
Remember the look at this swelling around the eye, he says.
The result of that, Alabama gave its basketball coach Nate
Oates a new contract through twenty thirty two, and the
women's final was dominated by UCLA over South Carolina seventy
nine to fifty one. Bruins finished thirty seven to one.

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The only loss on the season was in November in
Vegas to Texas and UCLA Chess beat Texas in the
semifinals to get here. Center Lauren Betts six foot seven,
most outstanding player of the final four. Only seniors scored
for this team the entire game, and I think that
was true A couple of nights ago as well.

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
They go out winners.

Speaker 4 (01:19:52):
South Carolina had upset Number one Yukon in the semis.
The Big Ten had not won a women's national championship
since nineteen This, you know, is a Big Ten win.
UCLA has joined because there have been Packed twelve titles
Stanford USC UCLA was of course in the league for years.

(01:20:13):
I'm still getting used to the whole who belongs to
what conference?

Speaker 3 (01:20:16):
They?

Speaker 4 (01:20:17):
The Big Ten has not won a men's basketball championship
since two thousand. By the way, WNBA draft now that
apparently the labor strife is set or the draft is
a week from Monday. I expect to see multiple players
from that UCLA team today taken very early. The preseason
starts on the twenty fifth, and then we'll get the
WNBA summer season underway.

Speaker 2 (01:20:40):
Wow. By the way, I'm trying to get into the
UFL and I like watching the games, but.

Speaker 3 (01:20:46):
Nobody's there, Like, how are they making any money?

Speaker 4 (01:20:48):
They purposely went to smaller stadiums, but it's still the
same attendance. See nobody is at these at Corral for
Birmingham tonight. Two touchdowns, two picks.

Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
Hey there you go. At least we've got some stats.
All right, hour hour coming up next, we'll see if
Arnie's gonna get over this Arizona loss anytime soon. With
Arnie and Plank on Fox Sports Radio. Don't listening to
Fox Sports Radio Radio. All right, hour number three. We
call it the Power hourt Dog Sports Radio. I clear

(01:21:17):
something up real quick? Can I clear something up?

Speaker 1 (01:21:20):
I did not spend six thousand dollars on a first
class ticket for the dog. No, no, you misunderstood me. Okay,
I spent five thousand dollars for the dog. Okay, the
dog costs five thousand, all right, Wilson costs five thousand.

Speaker 3 (01:21:35):
Then I had to pay for a.

Speaker 1 (01:21:36):
First class ticket for the dog and the guy to
fly round trip. So the breeder's husband flew out from
Utah to New York, dropped us off the dog, and
turned around and flew back to Utah. And they keep
all the mileage they have so much mileage it's probably disgusting.

(01:21:58):
So that I don't know how much the first class
ticket cost. I haven't checked my credit card, so wait,
hold on, hold on.

Speaker 2 (01:22:09):
You're telling me that you just put something on your
credit card and you have no idea how much ape well,
my wife cloan ticket cost.

Speaker 1 (01:22:17):
I think it was wello ginge it up now. I
think it costs like twenty five hundred. So that's seventy
five hundred for the dog, not to mention all the
every vet visit I go up, it's like three hundred
bucks already first well, three hundred bucks please every time?

Speaker 2 (01:22:35):
Three hundred bucks please. So, yeah, you're not going to
I was trying to look up real quick. What city
in Connecticut are you in?

Speaker 4 (01:22:41):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:22:41):
What's your airport?

Speaker 3 (01:22:42):
Just we we flew to New York to jf oh.

Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
Oh wow, and then you had to drive to JFK
to go get it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:49):
It's like, yeah, an hour and a half from me.

Speaker 2 (01:22:51):
Yes, so like it for you to be out in
the public, out amongst the people.

Speaker 1 (01:22:55):
Yeah, I think a first class ticket for the guy
costs like two thousand, and then you have to pay
for the dog and the candle and the this and
the that the and he fit the dog outs to fly,
he doesn't get to be under the plane gets to
sit in first class. So I think that caused extra.
So that's what I have to pay you. I don't
know how much it costs because I haven't looked at

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my credit card statement.

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
I don't know how much to my wife won't tell me.

Speaker 2 (01:23:20):
I'm sorry. Well then I feel a little bit bad
for you.

Speaker 3 (01:23:22):
Was this your idea?

Speaker 1 (01:23:24):
Well, my wife wanted a certain breed. She wanted one
of those Saint Charles slash poodles. They're they're called kava poos.
So usually we just get a rescue that's what all
our dogs are, but she wanted this one breed. Dogs
are adorable. Yeah, it better be it for like seventy
five hundred hours, and better do tricks for crying out loud.

Speaker 2 (01:23:46):
Does it listen to you?

Speaker 3 (01:23:48):
No, it doesn't listen.

Speaker 1 (01:23:50):
Poops in the house because we can't really train it,
because we're not allowed to take it outside yet, because
the events like don't take it outside, and because we
live in the woods and you never know as animals,
and I don't know, it's just crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:24:04):
Just I'm sorry. Well then I feel bad because I
mean Nick had asked, did Arnie's dog get prime rib
and champagne with that first class ticket?

Speaker 1 (01:24:14):
The guy who brings out the dog not only did
the copy. He flies out to New York, turns around,
goes back to Utah an hour later, the next day,
flies to Florida, turns.

Speaker 3 (01:24:25):
Around, go back to Utah.

Speaker 1 (01:24:27):
They have so much mileage it's it's insane, and it
has to be first class every time. You gotta pay
for the guy to go first class. And you know,
Utah Salt Lake City to New York JFK is not cheap.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I bet it costs
me more than twenty five hundred. I bet it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:48):
I bet it did too. It's just good for you
because as did I mention this, as as Nick and yeah,
the prime rib in the champagne, I hope they got
that too. Now I want to hit some tweets here
this hour. Yeah, because I have haven't done a good job,
and you're right, we're getting a lot, mister Nobody. This
is one of my biggest pet peeves. And I don't
know who we need to talk to, but mister Nobody writes,

(01:25:08):
I appreciate the Saga mentioning the UFL game Tuesday night,
because I'll know if I want to listen to Fox
Sports Radio on the way home from the high school
baseball games I cover, I'll need the iHeartRadio app because
Series sexim prems Fox Sports Radio for anything. Buddy, I
don't know what's going on over at eighty three, that's

(01:25:29):
our channel on Sirius XIM. We get preempted for horse racing,
we get preempted for NHR drag racing, we get preempted
for UFL, we get preempted for soccer friendlies Arnie, we
got preempted for rugby. So I don't know what kind
of deal is going on there. And I mean, listen,
those are my people over at Sirius XM. But holy

(01:25:51):
smokes man, I mean come on now, let's Arnie and
playing some love right, Yeah, just go.

Speaker 3 (01:25:56):
Just listen on our app, guy, our media app.

Speaker 2 (01:25:58):
And Toord twenty four, Adam writes, what loss hurt more
Planket as Sooners or arning as Wildcats. Well, it's obviously
me because it was a championship game and I had
to deal with two of my teams losing. Oklahoma lost
in the Crown and my alma mater, the Tulsa Golden Hurricane,
lost in the championship of the n I T So
obviously this hurts more than being competitive and being in

(01:26:19):
a game than getting your asses kicked like Arizona did
last night.

Speaker 3 (01:26:23):
Boomer Sooner, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
Yeah, and Mustangmania, says Plank. Maybe you should play the
clip of Billy Simms yelling Boomer in the middle of
the Heisman presentation for Sam Bradford as a diehard Texan.
Even we hear that nonsense thousands of times of year.
It's almost as big as hashtag pony up, pony up.
That's a good one.

Speaker 3 (01:26:45):
No, I don't buy that.

Speaker 1 (01:26:46):
I do give him a credit for Gigham and for
you know, the sign for the Texas Longhorns with the hands.

Speaker 3 (01:26:54):
I give him credit for that.

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
Right, But I mean, you know, see, here's the thing.
Is bitter because his wildcat's lost. He's crying about it.
He's not he can't man up and just do a show,
so he's got to complain about something like Boomer Sooner
being incredibly known and talked about.

Speaker 3 (01:27:10):
I thought, it's not just them.

Speaker 1 (01:27:12):
I just said, there's only a certain amount of colleges
that have that, you know, because Arizona's bear down and.

Speaker 2 (01:27:17):
We have every car about every major college has one,
and you acting like they don't. You literally sat there
and yell, no one has anything like bear down and
whoop pig shuey, and you gave what even was whoop
pig and roll tight and I literally and everyone is
named like fifty others that you refuse to acknowledge.

Speaker 3 (01:27:35):
Shock I gave.

Speaker 1 (01:27:36):
I gave them that one too. Annie Oh way shi oh,
which makes me sick. By the way, Arnie just said
the best eight years of my life. That reminded me
of a line from Better Off Dead when Booger said, quote,
I've been going to school for seven and a half years,
I'm no dummy. Well, you know, crazy Tanker.

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
Shout out to you for using Better Off Dead instead
of the great Tommy Boy line, which was a lot
of people go to college for seven years. That's right,
they're call doctors now a moment.

Speaker 1 (01:28:02):
The better way was in an animal house when Blue
Tarca goes, yes word six years of college or seven
years of college now the trade.

Speaker 2 (01:28:11):
Now, I mean seven years of college, you like capped
two more years of eligibility in college football it's like
you've only been in college for seven years ago, get
yourself two more, Mayor of Simpleton Rights, Arnie. What's your
parade plans? Now? Oh that's good question. What are your
parade plans? Because you like took next week off to
go to the parade in Arizona. So what are you

(01:28:31):
gonna do now?

Speaker 1 (01:28:32):
Yeah, I got a little free time on my hand. Now, Chris,
I guess I'm going to have to wait and the
Knicks aren't going to happen for me, so I'm because
they would have to wait for college football season for
my Wildcats.

Speaker 2 (01:28:43):
Let's go, Joe.

Speaker 3 (01:28:45):
We've got a real good team this year. We should
easily win the Big Twelve.

Speaker 2 (01:28:49):
Easily, Arnie's Wildcats. Joe Judges Burner Rights. Arnie's Arizona Wildcats
embarrassed themselves last night and ruined the second game of
the Final four. Absolutely pathetic, disgraceful, disgusting performance. And Arnie
should apologize to the public for crowning this team champs.

Speaker 1 (01:29:07):
Yeah, you probably should. I make no apology. What do
you mean to apologize? We had a phenomenal season. It
was a magical season. We played one bad game, That's
what it came down to one bad game. I'll be
giving my picks later on this hour, but i'll tell
you now, Michigan by like a hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:29:24):
Okay, no rights. Marni McFly poly Market had it at
fifty to fifty that stinking genius would even show up
for this Sunday night show if Arizona loss.

Speaker 3 (01:29:35):
No, he's got us mixed up.

Speaker 1 (01:29:37):
We always wonder if you're going to show up when
Oklahoma loses. We always have to make sure. Maybe we
have to get to saga or a backup or something.
Here's a funny thing about it. This is like this
bit you did forever.

Speaker 2 (01:29:49):
Yeah, but honestly, like really pissed me off because like,
in my world, this is what I do. This is
my life. My teams lose all the time. You always here,
always here, John writes, discussing the crown and why Oklahoma
didn't like dominate or maybe how Saturday night was just
a blip for the Arizona Wildcats twenty twenty seven National championship.

Speaker 1 (01:30:11):
Wow, just a blip. I can't twenty twenty seven right now.
I'm still in mourning.

Speaker 2 (01:30:17):
Over mister Nobody's on fire tonight, he writes. I know
Arnie is miserable tonight. I'm not going to ras him.
Michigan brought my heart two years in a row in
the nineties. I'll simply say I think Michigan was simply
bigger and more athletic than Arizona. Michigan is the bigger,
more athletic team period.

Speaker 1 (01:30:36):
You know. I don't know if it's easier that we
got blown out and instead of a like a last
second if a last second shot beat us like a
they had a three pointer down by two, I'd be
sick to my stomach right now.

Speaker 3 (01:30:47):
I don't think I could. I don't think I could
do the show.

Speaker 1 (01:30:50):
Had Arizona loss like got a last second shot the
way Dukes God, oh geez, I'd be You couldn't console me.
I would I'd be in tears still, I'd be in
tears for fifty years.

Speaker 3 (01:31:02):
And No, I couldn't handle that.

Speaker 2 (01:31:04):
That I couldn't handle well, I will tell you this much. Yeah,
I wouldn't much rather lose on a last second shot
than get stuffed in a locker like you did last.

Speaker 3 (01:31:14):
Night, because at no, you would not you got smoked.

Speaker 2 (01:31:19):
You were rather that game, you were out of that
game in the in the first ten minutes of it.
Would rather me You'd rather get smoked and not be competitive.

Speaker 1 (01:31:28):
You would rather lose the way Duke loss, being up
by like nineteen and then turning the ball over.

Speaker 2 (01:31:35):
You keep moving the goalposts, you keep adding these caveats.
The simple question is would you rather lose on a
last second shot or get your ass kicked like you
guys did last night. I'd rather lose on the last
second shot. Well that in a locker roll night long.
You know you added you're up by nineteen, but no
they were shot.

Speaker 1 (01:31:52):
Okay, let's let's use the Duke Connecticut game. If I
lost the Way Duke loss, I couldn't take it. I'm sorry.
I would not be here for the show to destroyed
like you did last night. No, I can't take it.
I could at least do the show. I wouldn't be
able to do the show today.

Speaker 3 (01:32:08):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:32:09):
If we would have lost on the last second, my
heart would be ripped out. Chris, are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (01:32:15):
I wish your.

Speaker 3 (01:32:16):
Heart should be ripped out by how you played last night.

Speaker 1 (01:32:20):
Yeah, but you know what that's like taking your date
out and you know you're not gonna get action by
like eight o'clock, so you know what's gonna happen, you're
you're prepared for it. Okay, it's not like you spend
money on a big, you know, dinner, and you went
out and went to the movies and stuff like that,
and then you figured out you weren't getting any like that.

Speaker 3 (01:32:43):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
It comes back to relationship.

Speaker 3 (01:32:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:32:46):
I don't know how long have you been married?

Speaker 1 (01:32:49):
Now years?

Speaker 2 (01:32:52):
At least like twenty five years?

Speaker 3 (01:32:54):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:32:54):
Oh? Longer than that? What's wrong with you? I'm just
I got married in ninety five gosh, so you're like
thirty one years now, right, thirty one years and counting.
That's almost thirty one years of my wife's life.

Speaker 2 (01:33:06):
Well, but my point is like, that's all of your
dating analogies are like really really dated. I mean, we're
going back three decades. So I'm very impressed. I guess
I'm very impressed. When you still pull them out and
there's someone relevant, I'm like, oh, okay, that that kind
of works. I see what you're saying right now, But
how do you remember all? This is what I want

(01:33:27):
to know. We're going back a long way. Russev Rusev
is the goat right. Flying with a dog in first
class typically cost between ninety five and two hundred dollars
per one way flight for in cabin at friendly airlines.
This fee is just added to your premium ticket price.

(01:33:47):
So there you go. That's what news.

Speaker 1 (01:33:49):
The guy didn't have a premium ticket, he had a
first class ticket.

Speaker 3 (01:33:53):
And I'm sure I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:33:54):
For some reason, I think it costs more than ninety
dollars for the dog to flight first class.

Speaker 3 (01:33:59):
I don't think. I don't think that's right. It doesn't
sound right to meet Chris. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:34:05):
Wait, Arnie had his dogfly first class? Is Arnie's last
name actually Bezos or Hilton?

Speaker 3 (01:34:11):
Don't wear? How about that?

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
John Miller corrected me because I said the last expansion
was Orlando and Miami. It wasn't. John writes, the last
NBA expansion was the Charlotte Bobcats in two thousand and four.

Speaker 3 (01:34:25):
Moh wow.

Speaker 2 (01:34:26):
Miami came in with the Charlotte Hornets in eighty eight,
Orlando came in with Minnesota in eighty nine. Listen, bro
I don't want to fight with you over one freaking year, Okay,
like one year difference from Miami and Orlando coming in.
But this Sharot boy, we really wanted to make basketball
and Charlotte Worke didn't. We we gave him an expansion
team in ninety eight. We gave him an expansion team

(01:34:48):
in two thousand and four. Meanwhile, Seattle's been without a
team for like twelve years.

Speaker 1 (01:34:53):
You're gonna have to showcase them and not put him
on so late. So the people on the East Coast
and see Seattle a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:34:58):
You know, we are in state Go Blue Michigan are
both insanely popular due to their enormous alumni.

Speaker 3 (01:35:07):
We are Penn State. I got to put in there.

Speaker 2 (01:35:09):
Yes, I was talking about that. Now, bo Go.

Speaker 3 (01:35:14):
Boo is ridiculous. Okay, that's that's stupidity.

Speaker 2 (01:35:17):
Stop it. And then nature Boy writes to be fair.
The Spurs Nuggets game yesterday was one of the veteranb
game NBA games to watch all year. Lucky for the
NBA winby showed up. I was at church this morning
because it's it's Easter, and I kind of am a
CEO Christmas Easter only kind of a guy. And it

(01:35:38):
was interesting because some dude came up to me. He's like,
hege you catch that Nugget Spurs game, and I was shook.
I was like, no, I didn't. I was watching the
Final four. I was watching Arizona get smoked, and so
then I went back. It was a great basketball game.
Unfortunately it's one of like eight games R four last night.
It's just there's so much more bad than good. I'm

(01:35:59):
glad you brought it up, because I think it's a
really good point. Nature boy, but aren'tie. I mean, we
get much more bad than we ever knew good this
late in the season.

Speaker 3 (01:36:08):
You know what. I As a matter of fact, I'm
glad you mentioned that.

Speaker 1 (01:36:10):
While you were talking, I looked up this tweet by
Tim Reynolds.

Speaker 3 (01:36:15):
Okay, I don't know who he is.

Speaker 1 (01:36:19):
There have been two days in NBA history spanning eighty years,
or at least nine games were played with an average
margine margin of victory being at least twenty four points.

Speaker 2 (01:36:33):
Only two such days in eighty years. Okay, what can
you say that again? Just to real quick so my
mind can wrap around it.

Speaker 1 (01:36:40):
There have been two days in NBA history, spanning eighty years,
where they've played at least nine games on the schedule
and the average margin of victory has been at least
twenty four points for the total of the nine games
two days in eighty years.

Speaker 3 (01:36:56):
One was yesterday, the other one was Sunday. So there
you go.

Speaker 1 (01:37:01):
In eighty years, that's what you got. And they happen
to be, you know, pretty close in time. How about that?
I thought that was pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (01:37:11):
Yeah, Will Jason B. Diamond, Will Arnie bet his job
on Michigan. Well, you're gonna bet your job on that.

Speaker 3 (01:37:21):
I'm not a Michigan fan.

Speaker 1 (01:37:22):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:37:23):
Minus one hundred. Yeah, and maybe as the program director
at Fox Sports Radio, it kind of sounded like he
just did. Did you mention taking Michigan and betting your
job on it? Earlier in the show?

Speaker 3 (01:37:36):
No, I said they're gonna win by like a hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:37:38):
That sounds like you're betting your job on it.

Speaker 1 (01:37:40):
To me, they're not going to lose, you know, don't
at least let them win and look great. So it
makes Arizona look a little bit better. I need and
I need them to clabbor Connecticut. I need them to
why smack them around?

Speaker 2 (01:37:52):
Why?

Speaker 3 (01:37:53):
Well, because I'm tired of Hurley That's the first thing.
Enough of that guy.

Speaker 1 (01:37:57):
I mean, he's so smug, that guy just can't having
so great every time.

Speaker 3 (01:38:01):
He's got to suffer a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:38:05):
You know what I like about Danny Hurley? What is
I know? He listens to everything. He listens to everything.
I bet that guy listens to Fox Sports Radio and.

Speaker 3 (01:38:16):
Hardford Word Hardford, Fox Sports Radio, Hardford, there.

Speaker 2 (01:38:19):
You go in Hartford. I bet he listens to all
the local stations. I bet he hears everything because and
I bet it's not even like a he wants to
hear people say great things about him. I think he
wants to be fueled. Did you notice how he slid
in last night that they were underdogs like it was
the very first question asked. Someone said, Hey, how'd you
feel you guys play tonight? Blah blah, And this guy

(01:38:40):
asked this like two minute rambling question, and Danny Hurley
talks for like thirty seconds, and all he talks about
is how they were another I'll find the cut for
you before we get out, and then he stops and
he goes, I forgot your question. I was just waiting
to slide that in. So my point is is he
likes to fuel himself, right. He wants to get that
hate in, that anger out there. He's aren't he the one?

Speaker 3 (01:39:04):
Yeah, they think they think he's John Wooden.

Speaker 1 (01:39:06):
Now all of a sudden, it's crazy with the numbers
he's putting up there.

Speaker 3 (01:39:10):
He's pretty good, man, He's pretty good. He's a damn
good guy.

Speaker 1 (01:39:13):
And I know all the guys I play ball with,
they're all Connecticut fans.

Speaker 3 (01:39:17):
They make me sick.

Speaker 2 (01:39:18):
One more, Adam. Nothing makes the show better than hearing
Arnie in a sad, somber mood and making excuses, doesn't
matter if it's the Wildcats or the Dolphins. Well, I'll
give you credit. You know you we had who was
at Auburn Wilde who came in and was like crying
about the officials and how to ruin the game. You
at least haven't gone down that path. So I'm proud
of you on that front. I mean you did kind

(01:39:40):
of get you know, stuffed in a locker. He had
kicked in, curb stomped, Molly wopped. Is our buddy, Kevin
figured I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:39:46):
Sticking by and I'm sticking by what I said. It's easier,
not much, but easier more palatable to who's like that
than to who's the way Duke did. I wouldn't I'd
be on control, unconsolable. Are you well again? You just
again you re engineer the argument because.

Speaker 2 (01:40:05):
Then suddenly you're like, I wouldn't want to lose on
a buzzer beater, And then it became well, like Yukon
and like Duke. I mean, what if it's a great game,
back and forth and there's not this nineteen point lead
that you've blown and you just lose on a buzzer
beater in a great game.

Speaker 1 (01:40:18):
I still think I would rather get molly wopped and
then lose on a buzzer beater.

Speaker 3 (01:40:23):
I can't. I can't lose on a buzzer beater. It
dries me.

Speaker 1 (01:40:27):
Especially if you have like a turnover right before or
something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:40:30):
Oh, that just kills you.

Speaker 3 (01:40:32):
You just start to.

Speaker 2 (01:40:33):
Play in the end, all right, when we come back, Uh,
we got much much more from tonight. In the world
of the NBA, Steph Curry nearly pulled it out for
the Golden State Warriors to give him a shot in
the playoffs, and Steve de Seger has their final update.
Because we had a busy day in the NBA and
in women's college basketball, UCLA is the champs. We got
details next right here on Fox Sports Radio, Arnie, I

(01:40:59):
have a bone to pick with you on Roman numeral fourteen.

Speaker 1 (01:41:03):
Okay, and also you're you're getting called out on Twitter
personal one to me about you?

Speaker 2 (01:41:09):
Oh yeah, about what the dab.

Speaker 1 (01:41:11):
Crab says Steak a genius? Can you investigate this with
your co host? How does mister Nobody get quoted every Sunday?
And why is he always on fire tonight? Does Plank
owe the money? Is that Plank's burner account? Is it
Plank's friend or brother? You might want to you might
be getting tag team.

Speaker 2 (01:41:31):
You might be got to watch out the dav Crab.
You never know. I can't tell you if it is
or if it isn't. Just he never says anything nice
about me. It's just he's usually really good paying attention,
not just I mean, obviously dab Crab's paying attention too.
He's on fire as well. Everyone's on I mean, Adam's
on fire tonight, Gunnies on fire tonight, Jason B. Diamond's

(01:41:53):
on fire tonight. Is it my burner account? Just have
to follow along and see Roman numeral fourteenth. Yes, I
need to see your work because it is my understanding
that the highest priced ticket in sports was the World Cup,
but you're telling me that it is now the Masters.

Speaker 1 (01:42:12):
Yes, I am, I said that. Matter of fact, I thought,
I thought I said this to you. Someone put this
out on Twitter. What would you pay to attend the Masters?
The Masters has officially surpassed the Super Bowl and World
Cup as the most expensive sports ticket. Two thousand dollars
for the practice round, sixteen thousand dollars for Thursday, eight

(01:42:33):
thousand dollars for Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:42:35):
Why.

Speaker 1 (01:42:36):
The Masters have started cracking down on resellers, so the
supply is very limited. Resellers have been losing their ticket
privileges if caught, so now it's happening only on a
true black market channel. People wanted Augusta to stop reselling
for years, so they say it's a downside. If you
don't win the lottery, you're screwed, almost no chance of

(01:42:58):
ever attending before you could at least bucket list it.

Speaker 3 (01:43:02):
And do it once, So there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:43:04):
I think, though, that that might not be entirely true. Okay,
tell me, because I think that if you already are in, right,
you don't have to worry about these extra dolores. You know,
I think you're pretty good. But again if you're trying

(01:43:27):
to right now, they just get him. Like, if you're
chosen by the lottery, it's one hundred and fifty bucks
a day, So whenever he's like, it's the highest priced
ticket theoretically, if you're going on that second market, then yeah.
But if you win the lottery, it's incredibly affordable. It's
like one hundred fifty bucks a day. So I think
that's a little bit that because that's from at top

(01:43:49):
one hundred Rick, who is a great follow by the way,
a great follow, But it is a little bit what's
the word I'm looking for, it's a little bit picky
and choosy because you're saying if you buy it on
this secondary market, Like so if you go to stub
hup to try to buy him, then yeah, But if
you get chosen in the actual what am I trying

(01:44:13):
to say here, lottery, then you're in. So I don't
know what to believe in that. And that number one,
it's if you get in, if you get chosen a lottery,
you're paying those regularly. Everyone talks, Oh, I can get
a sandwich and a beer for like three bucks. Yeah,
but if you go on the secondary market to try
to get them. Sure, they're going to be more expensive,

(01:44:33):
of course.

Speaker 3 (01:44:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:44:35):
Well I just saw that and I was like, wow,
I didn't know the Masters was so expensive.

Speaker 3 (01:44:40):
By the way, I.

Speaker 1 (01:44:42):
Once went down there to do a show, or I
was supposed to go down and do a show and
I end up not going. The guys one of my
producers put my name in the lottery for to play
golf on Monday, and they drew my name out.

Speaker 2 (01:45:01):
Oh did you play?

Speaker 3 (01:45:03):
I wasn't down there, so I couldn't play.

Speaker 2 (01:45:05):
I would have walked to a gust or to play
around there.

Speaker 1 (01:45:08):
That someone wanted to take my place, but they wouldn't
let him. They're like, no, no, it's gotta be him.
If he's not here, forget about it.

Speaker 2 (01:45:15):
It is it is again. If you're talking about that
secondary market, then yeah, I'm sure it might be the
most expensive one because they're trying to raise those the
price up. But if you get chows in the lottery,
which is a whole.

Speaker 1 (01:45:28):
Tough ticket, is it tough to get even on the
secondary market.

Speaker 2 (01:45:31):
I don't know. I mean, I can't speak. I've never tried.
Everyone that is like, oh man, I want to get Matt.
I don't like I would like to play golf there,
but I don't. I'm not one of those dudes. It's
like it's a bucket list for me to be my
best friend. Well, one of my best friends at work.
His name is Mike Steely, radio legend here in Oklahoma,
literally Arnie. He takes days off work to watch the Masters,

(01:45:54):
like he's gone many right, He's gone many times, and
he loves it, probably like beach and all that. Right,
I'd rather watch a baseball game in the stadium than
go to Augusta. Is it beautiful? Is amazing? Yeah? Sure?
But going my luck, some dude named Johnny Anderson would
be in the final pairing with Scott Thomas, and I'm like,

(01:46:14):
the hell are these guys?

Speaker 3 (01:46:15):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:46:15):
I just bottom line, more than anything else is you
can still get it. It's still incredibly affordable if you
win the lottery, and not by the Mega millions or
anything like that, but the ticket lottery that they have.
So if I wanted to, I'd sell my ticket. Well
that's what the problem is.

Speaker 1 (01:46:32):
That's why it's so expensive in order to go. Hi, disager,
what's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:46:36):
Buddy? We got our final update with Steve de Saga
as he gets ready to roll through the rest of
the night. What's going on, Steve?

Speaker 4 (01:46:42):
We had the late game in the NBA at Golden
State and Steph Curry returned to play, miss the last
twenty seven games with the bad knee. Scored twenty nine
points off the bench, missed the final shot and lost
to Houston one seventeen one sixteen. Rockets have won six straight.
Easy win for the Clippers. At Sacramento, Dallas beat the
Lakers one thirty four one twenty eight. Cooper Flag forty

(01:47:03):
five points. Oklahoma City, speaking of easy, played Utah and
beat him up one forty six to one eleven. Utah
Jazz have lost nine in a row. New Orleans has
lost eight straight. They were up ten to ten minutes left,
but lost at home to Orlando one twelve to one
oh eight. Charlotte got thirty five points from lamellow ball
and one at Minnesota. Minnesota's Anthony Edwards out again with

(01:47:25):
a knee injury. He's missed eight of their last ten games.
He did play Friday, but shot three of fifteen from
the floor. At Cleveland, Donovan Mitchell thirty eight points, James
Harden twenty eight. Cabs beat Indiana one seventeen to one
oh eight. Brooklyn hosted Washington, who wouldn't want tickets to that?
The Nets record is now nineteen and fifty nine. Washington

(01:47:46):
is seventeen and sixty one. Brooklyn wins one twenty one
to one fifteen.

Speaker 3 (01:47:51):
Was it ticket to that one free?

Speaker 4 (01:47:53):
Probably not thousands of dollars, I guess exactly. The Wizards,
who had twenty turnovers, have a road record of six
and thirty now Phoenix and Milwaukee each one. Boston beat Toronto.
The women's title game was dominated by UCLA seventy nine
fifty one over South Carolina. WNBA draft is a week
from Monday. Men's final is tomorrow night, Michigan against Connecticut

(01:48:16):
Yukon guards solo ball has a spring foot Connecticut all
time six to zero and NCAA Tournament finals Michigan one
and six, which is actually worse for any team that's
made that many appearances in a final. No team has
ever lost seven NCAA basketball finals. Just for the record,
West Virginia won the Crown Basketball Final in Vegas in
overtime against Oklahoma, and then the NIT Championship went to

(01:48:40):
Auburn in overtime against Tulsa, even though Auburn had blown
a seventeen point halftime lead. Alabama gave coach Nate Oates
a new contract through twenty thirty two. NHL, the Islanders
fired coach Patrick wa Peter de Boor replaces him. The
Rangers won eight to one against Washington. Victories for Ottawa
and New Jersey. Saint Louis won three to two Colorado.

(01:49:00):
JJ Spahn took the Texas opened by one stroke in Rainey,
San Antonio. The Masters does start Thursday, and NASCAR's Cup
Series was off this Easter weekend. Next weekend, nascars on
FS one again from Bristol, Tennessee. In baseball, the Angels
in eleven innings edged Seattle eight to seven with a
sackfly in the tenth and a sackfly in the eleventh.

(01:49:21):
A's in ten beat Houston twelve to ten on a
three run homer by Brent Rooker, who had two homer
six RBIs. Houston star pitcher Hunter Brown went on the
al with a sprained shoulder. The Yankees were seven and one,
but gave up four runs in the top of the
eighth and lost at home to Miami seven to six.
Yankees left eleven men on base Atlanta one in ten

(01:49:42):
at Arizona, Tampa Bay one in ten innings at Minnesota,
Cincinnati two to one, winners at Texas. Rangers have lost
four straight, Colorado and Milwaukee with wins. Brewers record now
seven and two. White Sox shut out Toronto three nothing.
The Blue Jays have lost four straight. They'll be home
hosting the Dodgers Monday nights on FS one. The Dodgers

(01:50:04):
came back to win at Washington eight six with five
runs in the last two innings, but the Dodgers play
short stock Mookie Betts on the injured list with an
oblique injury. Padres one at Boston eight six a running
the eighths, running the ninth. Cubs and Cleveland split a
twin bill Saint Louis one tonight at Detroit, five to three.

Speaker 2 (01:50:21):
Back to you, all right, thanks a lot. Steve has
great week, buddy. That's Steve de Seger. He'll be on
updates throughout the night here on Fox Sports.

Speaker 3 (01:50:28):
Go to the met game tomorrow or Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (01:50:30):
Tuesday, But you have to pick up your dog.

Speaker 3 (01:50:33):
Yeah, I can't. I can't leave the dog alone.

Speaker 2 (01:50:36):
Well, you already got him, I thought he was getting here,
so you go, no, I can't.

Speaker 3 (01:50:39):
Leave the dog alone. I have to take it everywhere
I go.

Speaker 2 (01:50:42):
Do you have to uh, oh, everywhere you go.

Speaker 3 (01:50:45):
I can't leave it in the house by itself.

Speaker 2 (01:50:48):
Why not?

Speaker 3 (01:50:49):
I just got it a couple days ago.

Speaker 1 (01:50:51):
Come on, man, it's a dog.

Speaker 2 (01:50:55):
I mean it kind of can't he handle himself? Yeah?
What's its name?

Speaker 3 (01:51:01):
Wilson?

Speaker 2 (01:51:02):
Wilson for like you to name it?

Speaker 3 (01:51:04):
Stadium?

Speaker 2 (01:51:05):
Did you get to name it or did they?

Speaker 7 (01:51:07):
Are?

Speaker 2 (01:51:07):
They like, no, no, no, we have named this dog
for you.

Speaker 1 (01:51:09):
So you know, my wife picked the name and I
put my foot down and said, no, I will not
call this dog that. So really, at first they named
it hot Coco, Hot Coco.

Speaker 3 (01:51:20):
Yeah, okay, and then uh.

Speaker 1 (01:51:24):
The groomer named it Romeo, and I'm like, no that
that's not happening either.

Speaker 2 (01:51:29):
So I never get to name anything. Man, you got
to name your kid. You found you you won the
fight to name probably most of your dogs, because then
you have your buddy Stanley for the longest time. That's
we did Stanley Stanley Cup now Wilson named after Ralph
Wilson Stadium. I basically have nothing. I got to name
one dog. I got to name one dog, and I

(01:51:50):
named him Butters, after my favorite TV character. That's all
I got.

Speaker 3 (01:51:53):
Don't you give your kids to get the middle name
or something? Don't you get that?

Speaker 2 (01:51:58):
Well, my son is William Christ. But I mean, listen, man,
Chris come of sucks as a name. It's it's like
I don't want to name Chris. I want to name
it like Marinovitch, William Morinovitch, play It's something unique.

Speaker 4 (01:52:11):
Rights is a great name. Though, I will say you
made the most of the one.

Speaker 2 (01:52:14):
Yeah, I did. I did this, And then I also
I should say that I did get to name my son,
who is now twenty two and getting ready to go
back to college because he just got done with spring
break today. But I also got to take.

Speaker 3 (01:52:25):
Me the golf for the way to golf for that one.

Speaker 1 (01:52:28):
Today the SEGA was talking about what's her name asterix
or something? Yes, do you even care about the story
that we were just telling them here?

Speaker 3 (01:52:38):
Or are you just I mean out of nowhere.

Speaker 2 (01:52:39):
It's like I'm telling Ian about my son and coming
home and how I named something. But hey, let's talk
about asterisks.

Speaker 3 (01:52:46):
I can never forget who.

Speaker 2 (01:52:47):
Show this is. It's Arnie's all right, when we come back,
We've Arnie's picks to take us home. It's Arnie and
Plank on a Sunday night right here on Fox Sports Radio.
All right, we're getting out of here, making way for
Big Ben mallor here on Fox Sports Radio, Great John
Mary Mack Fun Show with Ian Roddy back producing the
program and has always Steve de Seger on updates, as

(01:53:10):
well as the millions and millions of editors behind the
scenes that put together all the great audio. Real quick
before we get to your pis. Jeff McClain had an
article this weekend and it got aggregated, and I don't listen.
I know you love all the aggregation Twitter feeds. You

(01:53:30):
love Dove Climbing, you love NFL r mrs, you love
the oh you love them all. Well, there was one
that blew up today. It received almost forty five thousand views,
which I think is pretty good for a tweet, and
it kind of lays out where Jalen Hurts is with

(01:53:51):
the Eagles right now, and Jeff McClain's article kind of
pointed out how Jeffrey Lourie and Jalen have a good relationship,
but the Eagles have no intention of giving Hurts a
contract extension this offseason. And again the wording of this,
it goes viral and everyone jumps with it. It's a little bit,

(01:54:12):
you know, being selective. But the tweet says, the Eagles
have no intention of signing Jalen Hurts to a contract
extension until his play improves. Now that's a little bit unfair.
But here was the quote from Jeffrey Lowry. He said, actually,
this was a quote from I guess one of the
sources that said, they want him to know that there's

(01:54:33):
a reason why they're not extending his contract. He knows
it's the last year of his guaranteed contract. He knows
the cat is out of the bag on some of
his baggage. He knows he has to produce. You can't
be near the bottom of the league in passing two
years in a row with the amount of talent that
we have. It's unacceptable. From Jeffrey on down, everyone is

(01:54:55):
on the same page.

Speaker 1 (01:54:57):
I wonder if they're really worried about his play. I mean,
let's face a look what they've done. Look at his
you know, is one loss record and what he's done
in the playoffs. No doubt he's still a very good
quarterback when you analyze the numbers though. That's what they're
doing there, they're crunching the numbers. I heard Mark Willard
read like seven or eight quarterbacks that were only worse

(01:55:21):
than Jalen Hurts, and there were none of them were
very good. I'm wondering if Philadelphia starting to pull a
power play because of his play or because they know
that next year's draft is going to be quarterback heavy
and they want to get their hands into it.

Speaker 3 (01:55:37):
I wonder if that plays into it also, Chris.

Speaker 2 (01:55:40):
And I wonder, you know, there is this constant talk
about how the Eagles are enamored, and every Eagle fan
right now that's listening knows this. They seem to be
enamored with Tanamickey. And I don't think he's gonna he's
a sixth round pick in twenty I mean he's been
in the league league for now, going on his fourth season. Actually, yeah,

(01:56:03):
going on his fourth season. I don't think you count
on a sixth round pick who, when he's had his opportunities,
hasn't necessarily wowed you to say that's our guy. Like,
I don't know if there's a better option out there,
but I mean, you know this better than anyone. We
talk about it a lot. When you invest in a quarterback,
you pay a price. I mean this last year for

(01:56:24):
the Chiefs, they paid a price for the money they
got to pay Mahmes and the Cowboys have paid a price.
So you gotta be smart. And maybe the Eagles look
at the roster and realize, all right, we gotta take
care of keeping Jalen Carter around, and keeping Jordan Davis around,
and keeping Quinnon Mitchell in the future and Jiad Campbell
down the road. I mean, I know he's the first
round pick last year, but my point is, Arnie, I

(01:56:46):
just I mean, I don't know where your better option
is right now. But it seems like they're really willing
to say, hey man, we took you in the second round.

Speaker 3 (01:56:56):
Six years, we'll on a super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (01:56:58):
But if you're not living up to that level, we're
not afraid to go to the draft and go get
somebody or maybe even find a middle of the road
veteran to bring. And I got you know, Kyler Murray
Minnesota this year on a proven deal. You know, who
knows who could that that could be for the Eagles
in the future.

Speaker 3 (01:57:13):
And a lot of question that how many teams would
want him? Chris?

Speaker 2 (01:57:16):
Who would want?

Speaker 6 (01:57:17):
Jalen?

Speaker 3 (01:57:17):
Yeah? I mean if he was a.

Speaker 1 (01:57:18):
Free agent this year, he would have been number one?
What'd you say? Not that much?

Speaker 3 (01:57:22):
Is that what you said?

Speaker 2 (01:57:22):
I don't know, I said, I don't know. I haven't
no idea he was are already one of the thirty
two teams.

Speaker 1 (01:57:27):
Will No, if he was a free agent this year,
he would have been ahead of Malik Willis for you know,
being you know, number one on availability and that teams wanted.
I think he would have been the number one quarterback
everybody would have gone after.

Speaker 2 (01:57:40):
If Malik Willis would have signed with the Arizona Cardinals,
would you say he was the number one quarterback in
free agency?

Speaker 1 (01:57:47):
It didn't matter who he signs with, he was the
number one quarterback and created to stop it stop?

Speaker 2 (01:57:52):
All right? Anyway, we're not doing this sin out your
You've been boohooing about your Dolphins all night long, about
your stupid Wildcats all that long. I can't have you.
I can't have you building up Milik Willis anymore. All right,
take it away, stinking genius. It's time for your picks.
Where do you want to go?

Speaker 1 (01:58:07):
Well, you only have two picks tomorrow. Let's start with
and give me a little music. Put me in the mood, please,
I'm very crabby. We got to talk about the NCAA Championship.
By the way, I had UCLA's women's teams winning it.
I didn't have them winning it by twenty nine, but
I had them winning him.

Speaker 3 (01:58:23):
I gotta go with Michigan, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:58:25):
I see when they flix their muscle, they'll go ahead
and crush anybody.

Speaker 3 (01:58:29):
They'll crush you.

Speaker 1 (01:58:30):
Con you maybe can keep it somewhat close. But at
the end, Michigan wins this one, Chris, eighty six seventy one,
eighty six seventy one. They win by fifteen, and then
hopefully we'll all get to see Hurley go ballistic on
the sideline, blame the officials and yell and scream and

(01:58:53):
do all that stuff, which is what people love to see.
And we got the Masters, Chris. Everybody loves betting on
the Masters.

Speaker 3 (01:59:00):
Nick or what.

Speaker 2 (01:59:02):
I didn't know people loved betting on the Mask.

Speaker 3 (01:59:04):
Of course, I'm gonna go off the border of them.
I'm going with Cameron Young. What do you think about that?

Speaker 2 (01:59:09):
Cameron Young? Love that guy. I don't think I've ever
heard you talk golf before.

Speaker 3 (01:59:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:59:15):
In fact, every single time I try to talk golf,
you're like, Wow, from the mean streets of Brooklyn or
the Bronx or whatever, we didn't play golf.

Speaker 1 (01:59:22):
I love Cameron Young because he won the Players and
his Teita Green game suits Augusta very well, Chris.

Speaker 2 (01:59:32):
Somebody was googling golf notes.

Speaker 3 (01:59:34):
So I'm going to show. I'm going with Cavern Young
to win the Masters. By the way, he's done very good.

Speaker 2 (01:59:42):
Twenty two hundred. That bad.

Speaker 1 (01:59:44):
He's done very good in his four starts. He had
two top ten finishes. I'll think I make, I make
now that I'm discovering this guy, I may put some
money out of him.

Speaker 3 (01:59:52):
Why not. So there you have my picks.

Speaker 1 (01:59:54):
Do with the Midge polease no longer strictly for entertainment
purposes only.

Speaker 2 (01:59:58):
The current betting favorite for the the Masters is Scottie
Scheffler at plus five hundred. Well Bryson to Shambeau is
plus one thousand. But apparently the Shambo played a couple.
There's a couple of golf courses in one in maybe
Dallas or Fort Worth, that is very similar to Augusta,
and they said he blew up, didn't play all that
well there, So I don't know, you know, always looking

(02:00:19):
for a little bit of an edge. But Arnie says, who'd.

Speaker 3 (02:00:22):
You say again, Cameron Young?

Speaker 2 (02:00:23):
Cameron Young.

Speaker 1 (02:00:25):
I'm glad I thought his name up on my computer.
All the ones I've ever awarded forgotten.

Speaker 2 (02:00:32):
This is the Masters is always one of the events
that sneaks up on me. Yeah right, And I mean
it's it's this week. It starts on Thursday, you know
with the first round you got the Part three is
the Part three challenge on Wednesday whenever they have all
the kids out there on where Tony Fenw like dislocated
his ankle a couple of years ago and still went
out and somehow finished his round. But no Masters next week.

(02:00:55):
Do you think we're gonna have an entertaining game tomorrow
night or later tonight? I should say, I hope not.

Speaker 3 (02:01:00):
I hope it's a blowout and everybody's bored.

Speaker 2 (02:01:03):
That's how you are now with college basketball. Everything sucks
and everything is terrible exactly. Thanks for keeping that positive
attitude with a side kid fort stinking genius, Arny Spaniel.
I'm Chris blank Stick Around, big Ben Mallard coming up next.
We'll see you next Sunday night, right here on Fox
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