Jason Fitz & Buck Reising talk Masters final round, Rueben Bain, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. You weren't ready for
this level of chaos to come at you on a Sunday,
But that's exactly what's about to happen for the next
three hours. Buck Risey, Jason fitz hanging out with you
Fox Sports Radio. It's the final day of the Masters.
It's coming down to the wire. We've got all the drama.

(00:21):
Everybody's glued to their TVs. Rory McElroy is coming all
the way down to Justin Rose, who looks like he's
collapsing in front of our very eyes. The world's just
glued to it. Buck Rising, you are the ultimate elitist.
So I have to go straight to you, my friend,
like you went on this Like are you? Are you
just glued and gravitating to all things Masters on Masters Weekend?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Absolutely? You kidding me. I'm the waspiest guy.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
You know.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
This is my favorite week of the year. That's outstanding.
I love the Masters. I'm watching Rory McElroy after a
really tough outing yesterday in which he had a twelve
stroke lead going in to yesterday round and then very
quickly gave up that lead in a way that felt
reminiscent of Rory McElroy collapses in the Masters of years past,

(01:10):
but to see him and Justin Rose in a situation
late into the final round battling it out for Birdie
for the co lead, potentially with Henley there at the
getting the opportunity to try and put one in. I
am so locked in two Masters every year. I think
this is it's a great It's it's not even I'm

(01:32):
not even a golf guy like I don't I wouldn't
say that I play. I occasionally get out on the
golf course and embarrass myself and I can get through
a round if absolutely need be, but it's gonna be
hideous and I'm gonna lose a million balls along the way.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
I don't watch golf year round.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
I really just dial in for the Masters, even though
I know all the figures who are participating in all
the live golf drama that's been around the sport, and
having guys like Brooks Koepka back in in the for
the first time since he defected to live and all
these different things, these dramatic points that make the characters

(02:08):
in this game fun and the characters in this tournament fun,
and also the golf itself It's just it's a great tradition,
the Masters. And I'm not one of these people that
was Pearl clutching over Jason Kelsey and Bert Kreischer being
a part of the par three and all these different things.
I'm not one of those people. I get why they're mad.
I don't really care. I just enjoy the spectacle of
it and that we get a dramatic final round today

(02:29):
Cherry on top.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
So this is the thing, and I'm not here to
yuck anybody's yum. I love Caroline Fenton, my co host
and Yahoo says that all the time. And I think
there's really important too. If people love the Masters, great
and good on you. I get it. I don't actually,
but if you love it, then great. I want you
to be happy and I want you to absorb every
oance this. I genuinely came in because not just because

(02:51):
we're doing radio today, We're also going to be in
for two Pros and a Cup of Joe tomorrow and Tuesday,
and you know, hosting daily content for Yahoo, I knew
that the Masters would be an important part of what
we're going to be talking about for the next few days.
So I, you know, I hunkered down over the course
of the last couple of days. And I'm trying, like dude,
I am genuinely trying for you.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
My god, can I get Do we have any world's
smallest violin lawyers in the background.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
By the way, our smallest violin would be very difficult
to play, by the way, I would rather listen to Soldier.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Through the Master's coverage with the.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
You this sucks.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
I don't care like story. We now have the violin
music in the background. Tell your sad story.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Go ahead.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Just I don't connect any of this, like genuinely. I
was just texting one of our producers at Yahou and
I said, if they interrupted this coverage and decided they
were going to put on a Little House from Prairie,
I wouldn't care, like I just I don't care about
any of this. I watching a bunch of people play
golf like that's almost as bad as having to play
golf with a bunch of people like it. Just none

(03:56):
of this appeals to me at all. And this is
where you know, fine, I'll be the ultimate the elitist
for a moment, because you and I when we first
met years ago and I was working in Nashville, you
know my first time cover in the Masters, I was
on morning radio and my co host at the time,
Breaking Golf, I've Braiden, a big golf guy, and he said,
at the time, live on there, he said, you just
got to go to Augusta, like you just haven't experienced

(04:17):
it and if you, if you were around Augusta, you
would get it. And I said, at the time, it's
almost a decade ago. I was like, okay, sure, yeah,
maybe you're right. We went to Break and I look
down in Nashville and my phone's blowing up with everybody
I ever toured with, and I'm like, why is what
did I just say that people are freaking out about
the band that I toured with. We went to the Masters,
or we went to Augusta twice, like we played the

(04:39):
Eighteenth Toll. We did private events. I had the opportunity
to play Augusta as a golf course, and I gave
it to one of the crew guys because I don't
play golf, so I don't really care. So like I've
walked the hollow grounds of Augusta. It's just a golf course.
I'm watching a bunch of super rich dudes play golf
in a way they like I don't really get it
doesn't really connect to me. Is this the whole concept

(05:01):
of what the Masters is? I just I don't understand it, Like,
especially in modern society where there's a whole group of
people that seem to only want to attack people that
are celebrities are the one percent, Like there's this whole
take down the celebrity culture. Well, this is the ultimate
one percent event. And then there's a whole other group
of people that are like, oh, we have to care
about the past of all of these different events and
the problems of their past and blah blah. Nobody cares

(05:23):
about that with the Masters, like everybody seems to just
turn the other cheek to everything. And to me, it's
just a bunch of super rich elitists that somehow find
a way to get into this kind of fancy country
club playing a game that's super boring to watch. I'm out,
I'm out on the whole thing.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Didn't you start this whole diatribe by saying I'm not
here to yuck anyone's yum?

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah, Like, I don't care if you like it, that's great,
Like yes or no question?

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yes or no question? Slow down, yes, or no, yes, Okay,
what did you just do? I just explained why I
don't like it. No, no, no, you yucked everybody'syell. That's exactly
what you did. Said I'm wanting to do a thing,
and then you proceeded to do the thing for like
five minutes.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Like, look, I don't like toppings on my pizza. I
like cheese pizza. If you prefer pepperoni pizza, good on you.
There's gonna be more for everybody knows I hate pie.
We talk about that all the time, Like I hate pie.
That's fine. Like if you like pie, you go to
the buffet. You want to go to a buffet with me?
You want to go to the Golden Corral with me? Buck,
because I'm not gonna get in the way. When you
get to the dessert line, you're gonna go for the pie.

(06:30):
I'll go for the cake. Like, hey, look, everybody can
have their own thing. A lot of people are gonna
watch The Masters, and that's cool. I'm genuinely I've spent
days asking everybody I can what am I missing? Because
I want to be part of this, like infatuation on
Sunday of the Masters and I'm watching Rosen Macelroy go
down to the wire like, I don't find any of

(06:52):
this to be dramatic. I'd rather watch you in a
horror movie than any of.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
This, buddy.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
There's a four way tie for second place right now
and the leader has a one stroke advantage.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Shit.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
At this point, it just it's it's do you care
about drama and sports? That's what this is?

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Is it is it? None of it really is a
very dramatic for a final round of golf. This doesn't
feel dramatic. What am I watching that? Like?

Speaker 2 (07:13):
How am I supposed to feel the dramatic?

Speaker 1 (07:15):
It doesn't. It doesn't whether it's the whispering. Like you
think about when you watch a movie and it doesn't
have a soundtrack to it, you're like, oh, yeah, that
movie kind of sucked. And then they put the soundtrack
on it, You're like, oh, you gave me the drama
in the soundtrack, Like Star Wars a great example of
a movie that, when it first tested for some audiences,
did not have John Williams soundtrack, tested particularly poorly. When

(07:37):
they retested it with the soundtrack added to it, it
tested much better, right, Like, because sometimes you need help
with the drama, like I people whispering while some guy
stands there and looks for three minutes before he puts
inevitably two feet short. And then everybody says, oh wow,
like who.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
Cares, a lot of people care, A lot of people
are better. And I'm I understand what you're saying. It's nonsense.
Your argument is nonsense. This is a It's not even
that because I know it's not a position, right, it's
how you feel, and I understand that it is also
an opinion. You're not You're not trying to win anybody over.
FITZI is not here to convince you as to why

(08:15):
I'm having to fitzxplain to the audience. I feel like
at this point, because God doesn't translator, how the hell
am I the more relatable one in this situation?

Speaker 2 (08:24):
I mean, it is golf.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
It is pretentious, so this is my lane, but like,
come on, like I anyway, for the audience's purposes, Fitz
is not trying to tell you why you shouldn't like
the Masters. He's simply telling you that he doesn't like
the Masters. Now he's dumb and he's wrong, But that's
just what happened there.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
I mean, we set look, as you well know, I
grew up poor. Like you know, I've made the comment before,
like my family growing up, we had one box of
mac and cheese for the day and that was going
to be the food for everybody. So like I watch,
I looked at all the videos this week. Everybody's putting
out like pimento g sandwich, Like that's all right, it's
it's government bred with pimento cheesy. You can down the

(09:00):
road like we're and we're impressed that it's only whatever
a buck fifty for the samwisi. I don't even know,
but everybody's making this huge deal about, oh, the sandwiches
are so affordable. Yeah, because like the only people that
get into this thing can laugh at the fact that
the people that can get into this thing can pay
a thousand dollars for the sandwich, Like who can. It's cute.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
It's cute that they're only charging a dollar fifty for
the sandwiches when you know the tickets cost what. I've
never been so I wouldn't pretend to know what the
tickets cost, but I know they're not cheap.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
It's like complaining about a five dollars beer when you
spend eleven thousand dollars to get into the World Cup. Like,
if you can afford the eleven thousand bucks for the
World Cup ticket, you could probably afford the ten dollars beer.
Whatever it is. So like, I don't know all of
these things that they call institutions that are supposedly supposed
to make the Masters relatable for me, just doesn't Like
maybe that's maybe that's the crux of the Issue's trying.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
To make the Master's relatable.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
ESPN tried this year and everybody freaked out about it,
Like nobody's trying, nobody's trying to.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Capitulate to an audience.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Now, I think that ESPN is looking at the part
and saying, how can we juice the ratings on the
par three Let's just throw a bunch of nfl at
it and see what sticks and see if Saquon Barkley
and Jason Kelsey and I know that Laura Rutledge regularly
participates and contributes and Jeff Darlington regularly participates and contributes

(10:18):
to the golf coverage at ESPN, But still it felt
like they just tried to nfl their way through the
par three competition and throw a little extra jazz hands
with Kreischer and whatever else. Kevin Hart at the par
three and see if they couldn't get a ratings bump
out of it.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
That's not that's.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Not one of those things that I think is going
to appeal to the golf fans, and the golf fans
freaked out, but they already have. The golf fans. You're
a captive audience. If you like golf, you're going to
watch the Masters, You're going to watch the par three competition.
It's about ESPN trying to broadening that tent and then
CBS very quickly trying to shrink it afterwards.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Well, the ESPN element of this I find wildly interesting
also because you know, full transparency, I worked there for
whatever it was, seven years. One of the interesting things
about ESPN is when they don't have the rights to something,
they simply don't cover it. So when I was on
radio when I first started at ESPN Radio, and we
were gonna have Ariel Hawani on to talk about something

(11:16):
with MMA, the bosses at radio at the time came
back and said, Nope, nobody cares about UFC. We don't
need to talk about it on radio. Like a month later,
UFC did the deal with ESPN and literally the same
boss came in and said, hey, we need you to
start having Area Hawani every Friday to promote the UFC
events that we're broadcasting at ESPN. So I say that
because like when I worked there, you know, the NCAA

(11:38):
Final Four never never sent ESPN crews to the Final
Four from most of the shows because it wasn't a
property that ESPN televised. I think it's incredible to me
that you got SVP and everybody from ESPN out of
the Masters, even though it's a CBS event all weekend long.
It's like the one thing ESPN sends everybody because everybody

(11:58):
up here in Bristol, ten minutes where I'm sitting right now,
they all love golf, so they just want to be
around the Master. So like, it's funny that, even to
your point of trying to make it relatable, ESPN is
just trying to find a reason to make sure that
all of their shows can go there because everybody freaking
loves golf. Like ESPN. In the middle of layoffs, when
everybody was getting fired at ESPN, even before I got fired,

(12:21):
Jimmy Petero put a putting green on campus, like because
they just wanted to have an opportunity for talent to
stand out and relax a little bit and put on campus.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
I love it is. Yeah, you ever try it.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Oh, it is maddening to many of my friends that
I am an excellent putter. I am an excellent putter.
Like we were doing a we were filming a feature
where we had to do all of these crazy putts
for an NHL playoff feature that we were doing on
digital at the time, and they set up ten balls
and they were like, hey, we can take this as
many times as you need. And I of the ten,

(12:54):
I think I made seven of the putts long distance.
Like putting is simple, Like I know, I'm out right
the outrage I can hear from golf fans putting is
just something I find it beast.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Like you want them to actively hate you. I know,
I just don't, but I don't like it.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
That's why all my friends asked me to play golf
all the time, because I can putt. But I'm like,
I'm the first to admit I can barely hit a
ball off a te so like, look, unless there's a
cart path for me to hit with the ball, so
then the ball rolls. I got nothing. I got nothing.
I'm not pretending to be good at this sport at all. Game.
I don't know if it's a sport, we'll call it
a game. I'm gonna keep throwing all sorts of shade

(13:30):
at the Masters. McElroy is up by one stroke right now,
sitting at minus eleven. Justin Rose, trying not to melt down,
he is at minus ten. We will keep you updated
on the Masters as we continue over the next couple
of hours. And yes, I'm sorry in advance from my
menches for all of you they want to get at me.
In the meantime, there was also a tremendous controversy around
the NFL this week, but it had nothing to do

(13:52):
with the actual players and everything to do with the
reporter and a coach. We'll tell you about it next.
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Speaker 1 (14:41):
Fits on Fox Sports Radio, hanging out with you a
Master Sunday, It's gonna come down to the wire. There's
going to be Jiromo all the way down to the wire.
We'll see what we get. Right now, the story of
this couple of days ago looked like it was gonna
be Rory McElroy's implosion after a massive lead, the lead
ever after thirty six strokes, and then it looks like

(15:03):
as if today the story could be the implosion of
Justin Rose. So plenty of time to figure out who
can out implode who over the course of the next
couple of hours. We'll keep the updated on all of it.
Oh sorry, thank you, thank you so much, Buck Rising
making sure to correct. So is it who?

Speaker 3 (15:19):
I'm just thrilled to show up to work today? I
mean it's lovely. It's lovely too. I was so excited
to do a Saturday evening show with you on a
regular basis for Fox Sports Radio. And I mean, I
just I can't even I can't even think of the
last time we did the show together.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
So it's just it's it's so swell of you to
show up to work today.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
It was it was last Saturday, not last night, but
this Saturday before you know.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Yeah, but you're talking into your phone. I have to
drive like it was very inconvenient.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
The whole thing.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
My bad. You know what I forgot. I haven't had
the chance to apologize to you for working hard to
make sure that we can do the show together. But
I fear not. We're gonna have two pros and a
cup of Joe Monday morning and Tuesday morning, where it
is as yet undetermined, if there's anything. I know, Buck
will show up in a in a bathrobe. I think
that's pretty we're pretty standard on that. It's six to
nine am, which is five to eight your time.

Speaker 5 (16:07):
Zero, Okay, I mean maybe maybe a one percent chance
we know like some okay, all right, I'm uh, which
is only delightful because I'm working with Youbaca.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
So I'm just letting you know that it's a there's
just a lot of.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Chess Aaron Orange Juice Baby, six to nine am Eastern.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
We're having a big.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Time good lord, all right. So speaking of the drama,
we're getting it right now. By the way, Rory McRoy
is up to a two stroke lead. So Rory trying
to go back to back. We'll keep you updated. But
that's not the only drama we've got going on right now.
Drama in the NFL, but not from the players, not
from the teams, not from the usual spots. Drama in

(16:47):
the NFL in the form of salacious TMZ tech drama.
As many people saw this week, what became a massive story.
Whether you follow sports or not, it became a massive story.
Athletic reporter Diana ever Seen was photographed by some photographer
hidden somewhere outside of a resort in Arizona. She was
photographed holding hands with sitting in the tub and the

(17:10):
hot tub and the pool with Patriots head coach Mike Rabel.
Of course, that raises some questions because certainly Diana has
known Mike Rabel for a very long time. You and
I have a lot of experience in and around Nashville.
You are currently on air there. I was on air
there for a while, lived there for over twenty years,
and it was always sort of a I don't want

(17:30):
to say a joke, but it was definitely a rumor.
There was always a rumor around Nashville of up Rassini
and Rabel, and she always seemed to have the reports
and all of these different things. When this broke, it
felt like the Dan broke for a lot of people
in and around Nashville that suspected some things. And even
though these pictures don't necessarily according to Rabel and receiving

(17:52):
these pictures don't paint the entire picture of what was
going on, there were other adults there. We haven't seen
where it goes from there. But this has gotten really
complicated really quickly.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Book sure, so of the story itself, and it's been
talked to death. God knows, because not only is it salacious,
which people love, this is a male soap opera for
all time, right, this is something this is something that
E News and ESPN can get in on, and it's
a rare ven diagram of interest in the worst parts

(18:22):
of humanity.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Right. The fact that it's this much of a story
and that.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
People are this kind of invested in what it could
even be without there being official, for lack of a
better term, documentation of the conclusions that they're jumping to
that it is right. So for me, I covered Mike
Vrabel for six years here. Not only do I know

(18:47):
him well, I know his family very well. I know
Jen and Carter and Tyler, his two sons. I know
Diana very well, as do you. Diana is a great
friend of mine for many years when she would when
she was working for ESPN, she would often come to
Tennessee to cover them on television for the ESPN for

(19:08):
when they were good, right when they were good under Vrabel,
when they were sending, when they had Derrick Henry, when
they were worth watching, kind of at the point where
as a small market team you couldn't avoid them for
how pesky they were during that time period. Diana was
here a lot, in the same way that Mike Giardi
for the NFL Network was here a lot when they
were competitive like those were there those this was one

(19:29):
of their regional teams. For lack of a better term,
and to your point, Diana, while Mike Vrabel was the coach,
always got a ton of news, always got a ton
of news. And that's not as somebody who covers that
team also as somebody this is my tenth season covering
the Tennessee Titans.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
Sure does it?

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Does it bother you when somebody national gets something hyper local,
not saying that it's the job of the team any
of these other team sources to feed local people versus
national people or whatever.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
But yeah, I was.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
It'd be like, okay, well, how did that end up
out there in the national newscape? And people do jump
to conclusions. Right for me, because I know both of
them really well, I understand, and nor would I defend
the way that it looks okay, But I will say
that I personally can't get to a place where what

(20:27):
is being alleged is true, no matter what that looks like. Okay,
now that's me, that's just me personally. I understand that
the rest of the world is, you know, calling me
an idiot or saying that I'm caping up for my friends.
And Diana is a friend, Mike is somebody who I've
covered for a long time and don't cover on a
day to day basis anymore. But obviously this is a

(20:48):
talking point here in Tennessee. So we talked about it.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
We'll see what is true or not.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
Because the Athletic is now conducting an internal investigation on
Diana's reporting. There will be additional reporting on this story,
even if the Athletic just put it out on their website,
what today, yesterday, within the last twenty four hours, and
this has been out there in the news cycle or
TMZ cycle.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
Actually this was too that this was too taboo or
too open ended for TMZ to want to buy the pictures.
That that's the reporting on this, that the New York
Post bit on something that even TMZ was kind of like, No,
that's too icky for us. That's jumping to too many
conclusions without verifiable facts. Now it's everywhere, right, So we

(21:34):
will find out what the truth is now. I personally
have talked to Diana about this, understanding that this was
going to be a talking point for us here in Nashville,
and that you and I do a national show together,
and we both have known and worked with Diana for
a long period of time. Basically, just to sum up
the conversation, she told me she trusted me to be
fair on this and That's about as fair as statement

(21:55):
as I can say. Until we know something definitively, I'm
not going to jump to inclusions. If my friend is saying, no,
I didn't do this thing and these were the circumstances,
I'm gonna believe her until I have a reason not to.
Now whatever. If that makes me ninety naive, We'll find
out find out more information as information becomes available. Because
the Athletic very quickly, the managing editor of the Athletic

(22:18):
came to her defense very quickly, and now all of
a sudden, they're conducting this internal investigation, and nobody with
the Athletic, including Diana or this managing editor, are giving
quotes in the Athletics.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
On peace on their website. So you know, I mean
this is this is messy.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
It is messy, and it is complicated, and unfortunately we
don't allow things to be complicated so often like this
is where people just like to take something they see
and turn it into a definitive statement. To your point,
I have struggled to figure out the right way to
cover this because I've certainly never seen anything like what
you know Diana and Mike are being accused of in

(22:56):
my time working with Diana certainly never never saw any
sort of impropriety at all at any level, and so
neither for what it's worth. Yeah, and so for me,
I yeah, I've heard the rumors. Everybody said the rumors,
and I've I've laughed at the rumors for a long
time because you know, certainly rumors fuel so much of
sports media in general. And when I was asked on

(23:20):
y'all Who's Sports Daily whether or not we were going
to cover this, my answer was, what are we covering?
Like a lot of people have said, well, why isn't
you know this network talking about it? Why hasn't this
statement been made? Well, I think we have to understand
what we're covering. Let's get an update from Moncy Belanos,
and then I want to explain more of what I
mean when I say I think the coverage of this
has actually, in many ways been done the right way.

(23:40):
I'll tell you why, but first Monci, get us caught
up on the scoreboard. What's going on to the Masters?

Speaker 6 (23:45):
Guys, so happy to be hanging out with you. It's
been a long time since having both of you on
the show.

Speaker 7 (23:51):
As you mentioned, Fitz, how is it going with the indoor.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Football that you're covering indoor football league ball.

Speaker 6 (24:00):
It is awesome.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
It's so much fun. I keep working Chili's into my
touchdown calls, but they have not given me any endorsements yet.
Chili's call me. I'm trying here, David Busters is about
to take your seat. More calls for Chili's, No more freebies.

Speaker 7 (24:12):
I love it, and you know I loved also that
but called you at the start of the show that
you were like, no, I'm not trying to talk smack
on this, and then proceeded to talk smack on the
Masters for five minutes.

Speaker 6 (24:22):
I loved it, loved it.

Speaker 7 (24:23):
But yes, Rory McElroy, guys, he's at the top of
the leader board, the defending champion of the Masters. He
is one under through twelve holes on the day, twelve
under four the entire tournament, two shots ahead of everybody.
Tyrrell Hatton, He's done, Russell Henley, Justin Rose, Cameron Young,
they're all two shots back of McElroy, while Colin Morrikawa
and Scotti Scheffler they are three shots back of McElroy again,

(24:46):
final round here at the Masters. We also have a
NASCAR Cup series going on right now. You can catch
all the action on FS one. After three hundred and
eighty eight laps, Ryan Blaney is still in the lead,
Kyle Larson following Blaney.

Speaker 6 (25:00):
It comes to base a ball.

Speaker 7 (25:01):
The White Sox and the Royals were on a weather delay,
but they're officially under way and Chicago is up to
two zero bottom of the second inning. Padre is holding
onto a three to two lead over the Rockies. At home,
it's the bottom of the fifth inning. The Mariners are
shutting out the Astros for zero top of the fifth
inning there, while the Rangers lead the Dodgers two to
one top of the fifth inning. In LA, the Yankees

(25:22):
loss and the Mets loss. Both those New York teams
have lost five in a row, and the Nationals had
an eight to six win over the Brewers. It is
their first sweep of Milwaukee since two thousand eleven. In
the NHL, the Capitals are trying to keep their season
alive with hopes of making it to the Stanley Cup playoffs.
They lead the Penguins right now to zero late in
the third period, less than four minutes to go, but

(25:43):
the only clinching scenario in the.

Speaker 6 (25:45):
NHL, it's for the Ducks if the Ducks win.

Speaker 7 (25:48):
Later today they are in They're hosting the Canucks with
the puck dropping at eight pm Eastern time.

Speaker 6 (25:53):
And lastly, here guys out.

Speaker 7 (25:54):
Of college hoops, Oregon guard Jackson Shelstead and Kansas big
man Flory Badunka have both committed to Louisville.

Speaker 6 (26:02):
Back to you, guys, no that it.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Does it better than Moncie Belanias be appreciate it, hanging
out with that ship. It's just the best.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
You was just like just said there last week and
Martin got so butt hurt. Martin got so butt hurt
of me.

Speaker 6 (26:14):
And Mark Martin knows it's true. Martin knows it.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yeah, we finally got.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
Him at too admitted on area yesterday would be at
Bridget like just just say it.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
It wasn't on me, It's not on me.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Monzi's got a spirit like the way Monsey just says
anything just makes me smile. I'm just I'm gonna stop it,
stop it, thank you. It makes me happy. As opposed
to Buck Rising, he's Buck Rising, I'm Jason Fitzpucking. Vint's
taking over Fox Sports Radio. Uh So it's interesting to
me because what about ism is such a huge thing
anytime there's a controversy. So the minute there's some sort

(26:45):
of a you know, a statement or you know, in
this case, maybe a lack there of everybody starts presuming something.
So as the news broke last week, and I say
news as the pictures circulated last week from the New
York Post of Diana Rossini Mike Rabel, again, I want
to stress, like, you know, we sat down when we
were prepping you out who Sports Daily that I host

(27:05):
Monday through Friday, and the question was do we want
to talk about this? And my my response to that was,
what exactly are we talking about? You know, are we
talking about pictures between a writer and a coach? Because
if we are, what's our twelve minute conversation? That's so
much of what we do in this business is you know,
when you think about radio, it's we're gonna have a
twelve or fourteen minute conversation. What are we actually talking

(27:27):
about for the duration of that? Now, if your concern
is journalistic integrity, then I would just say to that,
whether you you know, two adults, I'm not here to
talk about whatever Diana and Rabel may or may not
be doing. Like again, from my my dvantage point and
Diana She's never been anything other than awesome and I've

(27:48):
never seen anything inappropriate from her in any way, shape
or form. But frankly, if two grown ass adults are
having an affair, that's really not my business, all right.
So then if you come in and say, well, what
about the integrity of the writing blah blah blah blah blah,
I just I look at that and say, Okay, I
get informed all the time by people I genuinely can

(28:08):
I genuinely can think are friends. Like I've got people
in different NFL buildings that I've created friendships with and
it helps inform me. So at some point, if your
friendships help inform you, I mean, that's like I've watched
the best insiders in the business use their friendships. Is
it the same?

Speaker 2 (28:25):
No?

Speaker 1 (28:26):
But like again, I just why do we care? Do
we care because we're really worried about journalistic integrity or
do we care because it's really salacious to think about
a reporter having an affair with a very prominent head
coach and everybody just loves that sort of celebrity drama.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Well, it's cute that now the general public cares or
acts like they care about journalism.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Right, like, no, now are you now? As journalism falls
down all around us?

Speaker 3 (28:54):
And I'm not saying, you know, media media by far
and away is not blameless and why there is a
deg gradation of the journalistic atmosphere. Okay, that this is
the thing that's going to bring people out banging the
drums for journalism is kind of a crazy It's a
crazy turn of events. So forgive me if I take
those people a little less seriously on it.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Now, for me, let me let me ask you.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
I I do care, Okay, I care like that, but
I'm not you know, I'm not the average sports fan.
I'm somebody who does sports journalism for a living, and
do I do it to the perfect ethical standards every
time my entire career.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
No, I've definitely made.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Mistakes that would put me in less than ideal situations
or compromise some of the things where I might not
have realized that I have biases or blind spots, like yeah,
that's it's nobody's perfect at their job. You get better
by learning from mistakes and growing from them. So but
I personally don't think there's any reason, any explanation, even

(30:01):
if the allegations are incorrect for the two of them
to be in the situation that they're in. There's no
reason for that, and I think that that is where
we start to see a level of blurred lines because
the statement from Diana and I read it, and like
I mentioned, I talked to her about this, was that
journalists talk to sources outside of stadiums and arenas all

(30:22):
the time, which is accurate. It's like the reporting in
the New York Post was that they had breakfast together
at ten thirty in the morning, completely normal for a
journalist and a coach, or a journalist and a source
to have a meal or something like that, you know,
under the right guidelines, as long as it's okay, I
paid for my side, you paid for your side, type
of situation, and we're here to have a conversation about

(30:44):
a story that she could be working on, on the
New England Patriots or what you know, anything else rabel
adjacent in the world. Yeah, there's plenty of good explanations
for that situation. The images. It almost doesn't matter whether
the allegations are true or not, because now the image
is you've put yourself in a compromising position to where

(31:06):
the entire world thinks that this is what happened, whether
or not that's the truth, and that sucks. I mean,
if you're the two people in that compromise situation, Oh now,
I think it's curious as to who was not no
shade on that. I am, like, I don't think the
average sports fan is recognizing Diana reciding on the street.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
And these these pictures that were picking.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
Are certainly not iPhone quality, right, Like, somebody knew that
these two individuals were going to be in the place
that they were over the course of multiple days and
with their photographed them and then sold them to the
New York Post reportedly eight thousand dollars these pictures. So
there's there's a lot of different layers to the story
that make it enticing for the average person. Right it

(31:48):
reads like some kind of like some again male soap
opera type of situation with all the all your favorite
elements of coach that just in Super Bowl, a reporter
that is that is high some previous allegations in her background,
and oh my god.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
Here it is the thing that we all knew was happening.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Here it is plain his day in front of us.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
When it's still not as a clear cut as people
are trying to make it, no matter what rumors preexisted
or pre dated this.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
So let me be deep for a minute. Okay, I'm
not a journalist, and I say that all the time.
I do not pretend to be a journalist. I didn't
go to journalism school. I'm an opinion guy in sports,
and for that I take my reputation seriously. With the
opinions that I give out, I try and become as
informed as possible. I'm not a journalist. Like when I

(32:38):
look at our business, Seth Wickersham is a great example
of a journalist, right, Like Seth is doing Don van Noyana,
I should say Don is doing good, like those guys
are doing deep dive pieces about something truly important. Ross
Dellinger that works at Yahoo Sports is a journalist, right.

(33:00):
He's working on congressional stories about football and what it
means for the future of college sports. Like these guys
are journalists, are insiders journalists. And I think that part
of what really bothers me here is that I get
this all the time on Twitter, where people are like, oh,
modern journalism, y'all are too stupid sometimes to understand what

(33:22):
you're asking for. When you're asking for a journalism because
journalism is totally different. Like there are people that sit
in front of a mic every day to give their
opinions that are never, were, never, and will never be journalists.
Stephen A. Smith is not meant to be a journalist
at this point in his career. I know at one
point he was a writer, and I'll even say that

(33:43):
I think writer is different than journalists. At one point
he was a writer. He is now an opinion guy.
Pat mcaveee is not a journalist, right, I would argue
Colin Coward is not a journalist, right, Like two pros
and a cup of Joe, we're going to be filling
in for a couple of days. They aren't journalists, their
opinion guys. So to me, part of what I just
roll my eyes at is this concept of like where

(34:05):
is modern journalism? If she's out with Rabel, she's not
a journalist. Like, she's not here doing deep dive pieces
on ct and the ramifications of lawsuits. She's not here
doing deep dive think pieces about the future of the league,
sourcing all of these different things, trying to figure out
what's She's an insider, she's breaking trades, she's breaking coaches,

(34:27):
she's breaking movement like and to me like, look I personally,
I'm again, I'm not here to condemn one way or
the other. Whether or not she is or isn't sleeping
with Rabel not my business. I've been to the Senior Bowl.
I have watched noted insiders get so tanked with head
coaches that none of them can function. And we have

(34:48):
no problem with the concept of a guy going out
and being at the bar until four you were at
the scouting combine, in the bar until four thirty in
the morning, getting hammered with coach. That's like everybody's out
there getting drunk. So it's okay for the journalists air
quote who are actually insiders to get drunk with everybody,
to party with everybody, and to know the affairs half

(35:09):
these coaches are having on the side, know about their
side pieces on the side. But it's not okay the minute.
This is the line that.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Well, FITZI if and I don't know how she like,
how she would react to what you're what you're posing there,
but I'm willing to bet that Diana would would would
identify herself as a journalist.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
That's fair, and that that's one hundred percent fair. It is,
and I'm not here to speak for her on that.
As much as I love Diana and know Diana, I'm
not here to speak for how she is perceived. I
just think sometimes we use the big J word as
a weapon when we look at things we do and
don't like. More to come on this and we'll get
you updated on the masters. It's coming down to the wire.
Buck and Fits hanging out with you. I'm Fox Sports Radio,

(35:57):
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(36:21):
the news cycle has been a little overtaken obviously, as
we've been talking about the controversy around the athletics, DIY
and never see the and Mike Vrabel. But Buck, I
think we can all agree that there's one thing that
will solve all of this for everybody involved, and that's
I don't know. The NFL drafts a week and half away,
Like it just feels like part of the reason there's
been so much obsession is that there isn't a lot

(36:42):
out there, and like, look, we expected AJ Brown, for example,
to be traded, but for anyone that hasn't stuck their
heads into the minutia of the salary cap, congratulations, never
do it. It's pouring. But when you do do it,
you'll find that AJ Brown can't be traded till after
June first. It's that simple, So like he's not going
anywhere till after June first. I talked to Mike Silver,
also of the Athletic last week on the Yahoo and

(37:05):
I asked him if there was a big move coming in.
He said, look, I don't think we're subtly hinting at it.
AJ Brown can be traded after June first to the Patriots.
So like most people, it feels like in league circles
expect AJ Brown to end up a Patriot after June first.
Those are the sorts of things that will distract us
because all like there's just this element buck of news
will overtake news when we actually have news about the league.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
Yeah, but even then, and this is the complication of this,
right because this has layers and there are football reasons
to talk about it. When that happens, it's not going
to it'll take some spotlight off the u Vrabel and
Diana Russini story. But Philadelphia fans are very upset with

(37:53):
the idea that they've They basically feel that the person
who's done the bulk of the AJ Brown trade reporting, Diana,
has bit a Patriots mouthpiece in the middle of this circumstance.
And I'm not saying that that impacts the trade market
for AJ Brown or whatever like it's it's a given
on a number of different fronts. That not just because

(38:14):
they traded for Dontavian Wis on Friday. I think it
was to bolster their receiving depth. That can just be
a smart business move no matter who's on your roster,
Dntavian Wicks is not there to replace AJ Brown. That's
not not saying that you could just find another AJ Brown,
but that's not what's That's not a one to one
correlation there.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
It will it will.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Be interesting to see what can take the spotlight off
of the of the salacious story for the purpose of
actual football. But if that in that specific transaction, given
that it involves the Patriots and Mike vrabel is not
participating in the Pat's pre draft press conference, reportedly, they're
just going to send Elliott Wolf out there to deal

(38:56):
with the Boston media instead.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
God bless him. That's a tough spot.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
That's a tough look.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
It's tough, right.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
So you've already got the coach who's not going to
be a part of the pre draft press conference for
at least this reason, right, And so if that player
gets traded to the Patriots, and Diana Russini, for example,
I know the athletics basically put her on ice. She's
not reporting right now, so she can't break the AJ
Brown trade.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
I just don't think that it completely that specific transaction
takes much attention off this particular story.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
What's interesting is that it's sort of damned if you do,
and damned if you don't. If Diana wants to just
go about move about the cabin, you know, I always
say that, like she just wants to get back to
normal life.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
And she tweeted something about the replacement refs the other
day right.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
I saw her tweet that, and it's like, man's that's tough,
because the only way that she can get anybody to
move past this is if she continues to go back
to business as usual but also really going to be
difficult to go back to business as usual, but also
she disappears for a long time. That's only gonna feel
more conversation that isn't necessarily right or fair depending on

(40:07):
what happens like, It's just it's all very it's very
murky right now. And that's part of why, no matter
what we think of all of this, you have to
be careful. If there was nothing, if everything was innocuous,
you shouldn't have put yourself in this situation in the
first place. If everything wasn't innocuous, you certainly shouldn't have
put yourself in this situation. We will catch you up
on the Masters. Rory's trying to pull away. Canny will

(40:29):
answer that next Bucking fits on Fox Sports Radio. It's
coming down to the wire. I'm telling you, all eyes
are on a bunch of unrelatable rich dudes walking around
on a beautiful golf courses. Supposedly this is the suspense
we need. Look the Masters has come down to this.
Rory McElroy two stroke lead late in this thing bucket

(40:51):
fits on Fox Sports Radio, we've already established I don't
get it. I don't really understand it. Buck give me this,
give me this. Would you rather see Rory McElroy go
back or Scheffler complete the wild comeback and turn this
into an epic win?

Speaker 3 (41:06):
Ooh, I think I man.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
Scotti.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
Scheffler is excellent, but he has no personality, So I
mean his excellence is in his game, right, he is
an assassin, but on the course, but in these press
conferences he's just basically like your buddy's dad, even though
what is he twenty eight and he's not very he's
not very old, but he has the behavior of somebody

(41:32):
who's sixty five. Rory won last year, and it would
be cool to see him go back to back given
what the lead up to last year was for him,
and basically a good chunk of his career had been
all right. He just seems to fall short or has
these epic collapses, not quite like Jordan Speith where he
never comes back from it. He's always still hovering around

(41:54):
the top level of the sport. But he hadn't been
able to get the job done truly, and then last
year to see that culminating moment for him, especially in
a playoff, was awesome to see Scheffler come back, especially
if it gets down to the wire here with Rory
at thirteen under and Scheffler just two strokes behind him. Man,
Justin Rose, for what it's worth, also tied for second

(42:17):
with Scotty Scheffler.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
Yeah, I mean Justin Rose. I can't figure out which
collapse we're going to talk more about over the course
in the next twenty four to forty eight hours, because
it certainly looked like Rose was in a really good
situation until he wasn't in a really good situation. But
let's also acknowledge that Rory started this thing so on fire,
right like when you start talking about historic lead after
thirty six holes, that has to mean something. I think

(42:41):
Rory is just proving to be a stabling force. And
to your point, maybe the whole monkey off your back.
You know, you can't break through, You always find a
way to choke. Then you get the big win. Now
all of a sudden, you go back to back. Maybe
it forces us to see Rory differently. None of these guys.
Not a single one of these guys that I've been

(43:03):
watching all day have that level of gravitas that I
think makes the entire world stop and say, oh my god.
Scheffler would be the closest thing to that as a golfer,
but you're right as a personality, he sort of lacks
some of that fire. I don't think any of them
necessarily have that it factor the same way that just
makes the whole world stop. And that's part of what

(43:25):
every time we talk about Tiger, and that's just talking
about replacing Tiger's greatness. I think part of what that conversation,
the part of the crux of that conversation is destination watching.
Can you be destination watching simply by being great? Or
do you also have to be the type of personality
people want to see and hear more from in order
to have that same level of I don't know, spark

(43:48):
every time you tee off.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
Yeah, And I think it's an upsick that we made
in an hour and four minutes into the show with you,
especially on this broadcast talking about the Masters before we
mentioned Tiger Wood. So well done by you. You avoided
the lowest common denominator. Thank him Golf conversation by instill
instead just choosing to tell the world how much you
hate this sport that everybody else.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
I mean, this sucks, like all of this sucks. I'm
completely disinterested in it. But we'll keep going. We'll keep going.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
Again, very noble of Jason Fitz to persevere broadcast this way.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
So from my standpoint, I.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
Think that as far as this goes, and as far
as the sport of golf goes, we keep waiting for
somebody to fill that Tiger Woods esque void.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
Right.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
I mentioned Speth earlier in the show, and Justin Speith.
I mean, he's not a bad golfer by any stretch
of the imagination, but he was anointed as essentially the
second coming for the hot start that his professional career
got out to, and he's just not gotten any We're
close since he had one of those epic meltdowns that

(45:08):
I mean you make. You make TV shows like what's
what's the the Owen Wilson Golf Show on h or
on Apple TV.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
You know what I'm talking about. You haven't seen it?

Speaker 1 (45:17):
No, you missed me. You can miss me on both
of those Owen Wilson and Golf.

Speaker 8 (45:22):
It's just.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Whatever.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
But it's about a crash out golfer who you know,
was an excellent pro had this had this pivotal moment
where he had a terrible loss in his personal life
and now he just takes the booze and he's a
golf coach and it's a redemption story in all these
different things. Right, Stick Stick very well named, so it's
not like the plot line of Stick for Justin's pith, Right,

(45:46):
But it does feel like we just keep waiting and
wishing and hoping that one the tiger Woods will just
magically reappear in our golf lives and that everybody will
go back to placing the most amount of interest in
the most popular figure in this sport, no matter what
he seems to do in his personal life, which obviously
is the biggest talking point in these last few years.

(46:08):
Scheffler is excellent, Rory is always going to be a
popular figure. I don't know that there's I just feel
like we have to stop chasing that Tiger Woods high
until we get it organically again, if that's even possible.
Because again, it was unlike anything we've ever seen in
that sport, that level of dominance, that young, that sustained.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Yeah, I don't think it ever is possible, and I
think it's great for everybody when we just get out
of the cloud. For me, I mean the cloud that
sort of Tiger can can be over everything. Like, I
think it's actually a huge win for the Masters that
Tiger's nowhere near it this week, right, I think these
are great opportunities. To me. What's surprising because as we
open the show and I explained to the world that

(46:49):
I don't really love this event the way many people do.
But you talked a little bit about, you know, the
Live storylines. I thought Live was gonna give us what
you need more than anything in the world to have
great casual interest in your sport, which is heroes and villains.
Like the best Batman movies are never about who plays Batman.
It's about Heath Ledger playing the Joker, right, Like it's

(47:12):
about Bane. It's about great villains. So I think when
you talk about these stories, you need good guys and
bad guys on both sides that everybody's rooting for. That's
one thing that you know. The Warriors run was interesting
until KD became a Warrior and then all of a sudden,
now you've got this huge you know, good guys, bad guys,
you love them, you love to hate him. It's the

(47:34):
Howard Stern effect. You're paying attention to it. I truly
hoped that Live would give us enough of a lasting
divide that there would be this sort of like up
yours to everything, a different level of aggression between the
good guys and the bad guys clearly defined in a
way that we would end up with that sort of

(47:54):
Avengers topic sort of feel to all of it. That
just hasn't happened. There's no question that the level of
golfer is absolutely incredible. Much like in the music business,
rarely do the best musicians rise to the top, the
best performers rise to the top, right Like, I'm just
waiting for that personality that is infectious that the whole

(48:17):
world just says, Oh my god, I don't I don't
really care. I want a rock star. I want a
rock star on a golf course. And I don't I
don't really care which one of these guys it is.
I think that I just want to see that level
of personality that the whole world buys into.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
Okay, but Tiger was never that Like Tiger Tiger the
personality of your shoes.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Well, okay, but he he didn't have to be because
he was actually and b he did have like the fish.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Pump and the yeah okay, but like that, that's just
a little fist pump.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
I mean, you know what golf, it's golf like gold.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
No, That's what I'm saying to you, Like you keep
waiting for something that's never existed in that sport and
the one time it does, I mean, what's the closest thing,
like Dustin Johnson dating Paulina Gretz and having you know,
a bit of drug scandal in his background, Like that's
as close to a rock star that that sport is
probably no. Okay, who's John Daily, John Dayly, John Daely? Yeah, yeah,

(49:11):
we've had John Daly. When when has that sport ever
allowed for another John Daily to exist?

Speaker 1 (49:16):
I mean you're right, like golf is so buttoned up
that somebody wearing a red shirt instead of just a
normal one became a phenomenon like, oh my god, he's
wearing the red shirt.

Speaker 4 (49:25):
What do we ever going to do?

Speaker 2 (49:27):
Like that's I just want to be clear.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
You're not moving me off my position that this is
enjoyable just because it's elitist and pretentious, but your points
are well made about the lack of flare that this
sport goes out of. Like we talked about this on
the Local Show this week, FITZI, because it's always, you know,
a sports radio or a sports media bit to do.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
What would your master's order be based on this?

Speaker 3 (49:46):
And we went through this exercise on the Local Show,
which is basically just an excuse for Robert and Lucas
to sit and think what a think about what they
want for lunch, to kill fifteen minutes of a radio segment. Fine, whatever,
But we go through this menu and I'm like, oh
my god, this is the most bland men you've ever
heard in my life, Like this is this is It's
as if dan Orlovsky and everybody with dan Orlovski's food

(50:08):
sensibilities came up with the masters men of Like okay,
like the big you know, the big jazz hands thing
is the peach peach ice cream because they're in Georgia.
Like that's about as that's about as funky as we're
getting with it. No, I mean, golf is the way
that it is for a very particular reason, and that's
why people who love this thing, who are peerist of
the sport get upset at things like ESPN's coverage of

(50:28):
the par three competition. That's Golf is trying to figure
out ways and Golf's partners are trying to figure out
ways to broaden that appeal. And to your point about
Live Golf, I mean we were trending in that direction
no matter what you thought of the Live Golf, like
how live golf came to be, right, because there's obviously
always going to be a talking point about the level

(50:49):
of Saudi government investment in this and all the different
things that that leads to, even though it's infecting everything
in sports, right, the term sports washing by foreign entities
that have that have human uh uh human rights violations
basically uh. And that's probably putting it pretty diplomatically. So

(51:10):
even if you put aside all of the geopolitical stuff
around live and that you had figures like you were describing,
like these these anti hero types Brooks Koepka and for
different reasons, Patrick Reid a part of the Live tour,
what they do they defected. They're like, no, this isn't
really for me. I took your money on the front end,

(51:30):
but now this isn't actually what we This is not
what you aspire to. It's just this cheap, knock knockoff
thing that's throwing money with the means of being the competitor.
It's it's like what happened to the USFL with the NFL.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
I look, I admit I'm not the target audience. I
just I would kill for a golfer to come out,
rip the sleeves off his shirt, have you know tattoos
that are running all the way up his sides, like
wearing short shorts like that show way too much thigh
and then he's got like the tattoo who's going down
his legs. You know, maybe he takes a couple of
lines off a mirror and then goes out in place.

(52:04):
That's what I'm looking for. I just want chaos. Everything
I want out of this is chaos. It's too buttoned
up for me. As we sit right now, Rory sitting
at thirteen under, he just completed the fifteenth hole. Scottie
Scheffler nipping at his heels as seventeen holes in at
minus eleven. Also justin Rose at minus eleven. We will

(52:25):
keep you updated on all that that means. But in
the meantime, it's the last day of the NBA regular
season and maybe, just maybe there's finally gonna be something
worth paying attention to. We'll tell you about it next.
Bucking Fits hanging out with you on Fox Sports Radio
and it's an actual payoff. That's pluck rising. I'm Jason
fitz Bucket Fits hanging out with you Fox Sports.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
Radio and Mary Mary's here. That's how you know we
got our rejoids.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
Oh, Mary Mack doing got'sworth? Oh that makes me happy.
Scotty Scheffler done for the day at minus eleven, so
eleven under for Scottie. Rory McElroy right now is on
the fifteenth hole at thirteen unders who he has a
two stroke lead. We will see if he can hold

(53:13):
it and become a back to back Masters champion. We'll
keep you updated on all of the chaos here. Also
the end of the NBA regular season, which to me,
Buck is such an exciting time. You know why it's exciting.
It's not exciting because I'm sitting here saying huzzah the
regular season finale. Oh my god, it's so exciting. It's
exciting because we can finally stop talking about things that

(53:34):
people don't really care about Like everybody sits here and
complains about load management without acknowledging the nuance to that conversation,
by the way of how many people this year are
actually injured. Then you have all the people that say, well,
in the nineties they played every minute without acknowledging the
nuance of the conversation of how many more miles are
run in the pace play and what it does to

(53:54):
the bodies, And you know, nobody really cares about any
of that because people just want to complain all year long.
People just want to complain constantly about the NBA. So
it's load management sucks, it's I hate the way the
game is played. Then it's now it's the how could
they possibly have sixty five games? Is the cap? It's
going to ruin the game? And yeah, now I think

(54:15):
it's it's it's pretty stupid. I think it's okay, it's
pretty stupid. But realistically we get the great distraction we
need when the playoffs start, because now people will actually
pay attention to NBA basketball just being NBA basketball. It's
like a cycle. Every year people can plain about load management,
then every year can people can plain about injuries. Then
the playoffs start and everybody stops complaining.

Speaker 3 (54:35):
So how do we rectify them? I mean, I'm not
saying that we can solve all the NBA's problems. And
this I can't remember. Somebody smarter than me made this point,
and I want to give proper credit, but I'm not
remembering off the top of my head. So forgive me
if I'm co opting an idea. I'm not trying to
steal it. I just can't remember who said it first.
But the idea that the NBA's regular season has now

(55:00):
gotten to a place where we used to, where we
used to talk about baseball and fixing baseball.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
Have you watched much baseball so far to the start
of the suit.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
It's it's it's electric. Baseball is so much fun right
now to watch the pace play. Yeah, I've actually.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
Okay, facetious or.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
So like in fairness. A couple of years ago, one
of my buddies, Geo, a massive Dodgers fan, right and
so a couple of years ago when the playoff run
started and he was a heartbroken Dodgers fan, he was like,
you gotta come and hang out with me. So I
hung out with you at the dive bar, and I
watched the Dodgers win a World Series, and last year
I watched the Dodgers win another World Series. And now yes,
like I find myself casually putting baseball on in the background,

(55:41):
and it makes me happy. The pitch clock abs like
all of it has worked really really well for me.
I love going to minor league games. Hartford Yard Goat's
gonna go next week. I am all in on the
fun of what pace plays become. I think baseball has
done a better job than any modern sport at true
listening to the feedback and fixing itself. How's that for

(56:03):
a hot take?

Speaker 2 (56:05):
I mean.

Speaker 3 (56:07):
So, I ask in the sense that it now feels
like the NBA and the conversation around the NBA during
the regular season outside of whatever Pablo Tory is investigating,
has become what baseball's used to be before they added
the pitch clock and all the different adaptations to adjust
the pace of play and make baseball a far more

(56:27):
understanding that the inventory is still ungodly it's one hundred
and sixty two games, the number of the number of
games in the NBA, and the way that the players
themselves handle the regular season. It has pivoted now to
what we used to talk about with baseball, which is
not even about the sport itself, not the storylines in

(56:49):
the sport itself, And they're still all manner of Lakers conversation.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
When the Knicks are more competitive.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
It feels like the Knicks are overwhelming in the coverage
as they werelast year when we were talking about their
run through the Eastern Conference playoffs.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
But as far as as far as the.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
Regular season in the NBA goes, and I've got the
NBA tip off on right now on ESPN, I think
that it they have to find a happy medium between
a reduction in inventory and them them making sure that

(57:27):
they're made whole, or them being made whole by their
broadcast partners. For the reduction in inventory, understanding that they
are operating at a certain price point, and the only
reason I think that they're still holding firm other than records.
I do think that I understand that that might be
silly to some people to say, well, for the purposes

(57:47):
of historical clarity and upholding these these benchmarks and these
historical great moments in whatever sport it is, whether it
be baseball, basketball, football, what have you. The NFL is
more comfortable being like, Okay, so what the passing record
was this when we were only at sixteen regular season games.

(58:08):
Now we're going to eighteen weeks of the regular season,
and how that affects the record books? Come what may
Baseball is, you know, more rigid when it comes to that.
Basketball has mentioned that as an idea of not wanting
to reduce the amount of inventory to sixty four games
or whatever the suggested number has been in years past.

(58:29):
I really think it's the only way to up the
interest level in what's happening in the regular season. I
think it's the only way to find the compromise with
the players. I just don't know that it will ever happen.
Happen unless you know, some network is very benevolent in
their negotiations. It said, yeah, okay, so you're cutting your
games by twenty What do I care. I'm just going
to have to figure out something else to put on
for twenty weeks of the year.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
The only so I've always agreed with you and Tom
Haberstrow actually opened my eyes to the concept of limited
inventory means more money. And I think sometimes because what
we all say, we all say, well, you can't have
less games because nobody wants to make less money. But
the argument is ratings will go up with less games,

(59:10):
because less games means the games that we have will
mean more, and an increase in ratings will mean an
increase in ad revenue. And Tom is a big believer,
and I'm not sure he's wrong that. Frankly, by eliminating,
you know, twenty games out of the season, you'll create
more urgency for the games that you have, which will
create a larger audience, which will then create more revenue

(59:31):
for those games, which will make up for the shortfall
that we would anticipate from having less revenue. And I'm
not sure he's wrong about that. And Frankly, you know,
I hear you when we talk about the records, But
I think there's a very clear and obvious answer to
the records, and that is who cares. Like right now,
this year, nikol Jokich is going to lead the NBA

(59:53):
in rebounds per game and assists per game. For anyone
that hasn't seen this, this is an important historical nugget.
No player has ever led the NBA in rebounds per
game and assists per game, not just in the same season. Ever,
so no player one year has led the league and
assists and another year led the league in rebounds, like

(01:00:16):
Jokic is doing things that are physically impossible night in
and night out, and best case scenario, he's gonna finish
third in the MVP best case scenario. So to me,
there is this moment here where I keep looking at
it saying, you know, at some point, as much as
we're talking about records, I don't care about the records because, frankly,

(01:00:37):
at the end of the day, records at this point
are just being broken all over the place. Yeah, and
people are numb to it. So for me, I just
I think that we just needa have.

Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
An eighty three point game and everybody can bitch and
moan about it after the fact because how dare he
get that close to Kobe Bryant?

Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
Oh yeah, And then even in that eighty three point game,
they're like, oh, look at how much it was fouled,
And I will I will thank historians that reminded us
that that is not the first time that happened. We
need to get you caught up on the masters, figure
out what we've got going on right now, as it
is just absolute chaos. Chris Purfett is in to give
us the update, Chris, what do you got for us?

Speaker 9 (01:01:14):
Chaos is right, but Rory McElroy looks like he's holding
a firmer and firmer grip on to become the first
repeat Green jacket winner since Tiger Woods in two thousand
and two. There's only three men who have repeated at
Augusta Jack, Nicholas Woods and Nick Faldo in the nineties'
that's the list, and Rory, of course has got his
first one last year, so this would be something He's

(01:01:35):
been even the last three holes at par. But he
holds a two stroke lead at thirteen under over Scotty Scheffler,
who's in the barn right now. He shot sixty eight.
He's done for the day, so all he can do
is watch Terrell Hatton also done at ten under. But
we got this big pile up at ten under. Justin
Rose and Cameron Young both out there on the course

(01:01:56):
right now, Young of course in that group with Rory
as they're coming down there. Justin Rose is on eighteen,
Rory is on seventeen, so it's it's getting late early
and I think at this point the fates all in
Rory's hands at this point, I would say, so we
will see. By the way I've been trying to check
on him, Haltung Lee had a very good, very good

(01:02:19):
first three rounds, but he's dropped to tide for thirty
eighth and I kind of had to look up why
on thirteen. On twelve, which is a par three, he
shot six. On thirteen, which is a par five, he
shot ten, So he has completely collapsed. He has now
won over for the tournament. He has finished with a
two eighty nine on the scorecard in eighty on the day.

(01:02:41):
So a very very epic collapse there By the way,
Scotty s Sheffler, I've got to mention this, he becomes
the first ever golfer at Augusta to have a bogie
free weekend since nineteen forty two. So a remarkable performance,
right him. Regardless that he I don't think he's gonna
Rory is just not gonna let him in. Meanwhile, in
other sports out there NASCAR Cup Series, Ty Gibbs took

(01:03:04):
victory at Bristol in Major League Baseball three to two
lead for the Rangers over the Dodgers at the top
of the eighth inning. The Rockies and Padres tie. I'm sorry,
Padre's got a seven to two lead over the Rockies.
Right now, bottom of the seventh in the NBA. Watching
a couple of playoff scenarios. The one to watch right
now is what's gonna happen with the Magic and the Raptors.

(01:03:26):
The Magic have a twenty three eighteen lead over the Celtics,
while the Raptors are holding a twenty three fourteen lead
early in the first quarter over the Nets. The Magic
would need a win and a Toronto loss to slip
into the sixth seed and get out of that play
in tournament. Hawks and Heat twenty six thirteen heat over Atlanta. Earlier,

(01:03:48):
Baseball Rays got the sweep on the Yankees. New York
has lost five in a row. Red Sox beat the
Cardinals nine to three, and in the NHL. Something to
watch out tonight for for a playoff scenario. Capital shut
out the Penguins three zero, which means for the Anaheim
Ducks win and they are in. They will be hosting
the Vancouver Canucks at eight pm Eastern. Back to Bucking

(01:04:11):
fits for a very thrilling finish to the Masters.

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
You're that fitsy thrilling, thrilling.

Speaker 8 (01:04:18):
No, this is this is fun.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
You jerk.

Speaker 9 (01:04:22):
Look, I think you're I think you're ever selling how
snooty it is, just because I think we need to
get you to the Waste Management Open just to see
how the rest of the ninety nine percent party with
with golf as well.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
The waste Management Open does sound like a good time. Also,
I'm right down the road from Travelers and every year
Travelers is like they used to do and all you
can drink tent at Travelers. I was interested in that,
but I think they've stopped the all you can drink tent,
which you know is a mistake. Let's just be honest
about that. The Buck Rising Jason Fitzbucket fits hanging out
with you on Fox Sports Radio. Obviously, this is this

(01:04:56):
is coming down to the wire. And you know for
Rory that you chants to go back to back. I
know that I've spent much of this showbuck sort of
under selling the Masters because it's not something I personally
connect to. But anytime you can go back to back,
it's such a historic moment for the sport, for the individual,
for everybody involved. It does cement sort of a different

(01:05:19):
level of superstar status, like to be handling the pressure
in the moment the way that Rory is, even with
a charge that came over the course of the day
from Scheffler. Now who's now done in eleven under, I
have to tip my cap to Rory, who so far
just I mean, even watching on the screen, just doesn't

(01:05:39):
look at all like he's stressed through the moment.

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
No, And it's very vindicating I'm sure for Rory, especially
given his career and what a moment that was for
him last year, and to see him walking, you know,
with his head held high down the green at Augusta
National it's a really cool, really cool moment for him.
I mean, he's always been one of the best in

(01:06:03):
his sport, but now with the opportunity to close this
thing out, uh, and to to solidify himself among one
of the greatest to play the game. I think it's uh.
I think it's a really it's a it's a special
opportunity for him. Again, we are talking about, like Fitzy,
what would I have to do to get you interested
in this sport? Because Chris brings up a good point about,

(01:06:24):
you know, the idea of you with the waste management
or something like that, but you don't drink like I mean,
not not that you not that you need to to know.
You're not somebody personally who I think needs to partake
to have a good time.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
Yeah, well no, I mean, look, I can find fun
anywhere we go.

Speaker 4 (01:06:39):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
I would go off the wagon for a like for
anyone that doesn't know I'm not on the wagon for
for any reason other than personal choice. I feel so
weird sometimes when people that you know, people that are
so nice to come up and and talk to me,
that consume the work, are like, oh, congratulations, I'm not drinking,
And I'm like, I just made a help decision couple

(01:07:00):
of years ago that sort of avalanched into a life
or an addict. Yeah. It's like, yeah, the number or
if I go to a bar and I'm like, I'm like,
I'll order a non alcohol or drink and the number
of times somebody comes up there like, oh, you know,
how long have you been sober? A couple of years? Congratulations?
I smoke a lot of weed? Like, no need to
congratulate me, Like, I'm just but I come off the

(01:07:21):
wagon for a weekend with buck at at the waste Management.
You know, come on like that, you know, I say that,
but I would probably have like one drink and then
be like I like this anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
So yeah, and I think that's the reaction to a
lot of people will give it. But like what I'm
what I'm saying is is there anything? Is it just
the sport itself where you're you're out on it no
matter what, Because like some people in this country are
like that with soccer, right, there's nothing that you can
do to get certain people who are hell bent against
any interest level in soccer, no matter if Messi is

(01:07:52):
playing in MLS, no matter Like in Nashville anymore, the
best team by a mile here is Nashville. See the
soccer team, They're excellent. The interest level has not yet
latched onto the general sports consuming public in Nashville, Tennessee. Now,
I think it's possible. The Nashville Predators were able to

(01:08:13):
do that. They made the Stanley Cup a couple of
years ago. What was that twenty seventeen against the Pittsburgh
Penguins when they lost in six games, And for for
hockey to have that kind of a grip over a
Southeastern audience was not something terribly common. Kind of like
Atlanta with Atlanta, Atlanta united with the MLS team and
the success that they were all able to have.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
I don't know if it's if it's just right market,
right time, right place type of situation. But I would
say that the larger portion of people here in Nashville,
Tennessee have not yet gravitated towards what is the best
team in this city by miles and miles. So is
it just golf for you and it's never gonna happen
for you, or is it just the fact that it's
a bit started and stiff.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
I don't know, And this is why I was interested.
Did you know full Chaine Spanish? If you pull back
the curtain, you know? Buck and I when we were
texting earlier today, I said, let's talk about the Masters
because I'm so open about the fact that I don't
connect to it. And for me today, the goal was
not to turn it on and poopoo it the whole time.

(01:09:20):
The goal for me was to turn it on and
connect to it. And I just personally don't like and
no discredit again to people to do like. I love hockey.
I loved hockey my entire life. When I was a
little kid, my dad would get because we didn't have cable.
My dad would get a box from one of his
buddies that had all the VHS tapes of Edmonton Oiler games.

(01:09:40):
So when I was a little kid, we would watch
Gretzky and the Oilers in the playoffs. Like a month
after the playoffs were over, we watched the whole run.
I just I love hockey. I've always loved hockey. Not
everybody loves hockey. And I'm the first to admit that
I think hockey on TV at times.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:09:57):
Again, I don't care about hockey at all. I love
going to games, but like I'm not gonna watch it
on TV.

Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
So for all I know to that point, as I
mentioned earlier, I've been to Augusta, but I haven't been
to the Masters. So maybe being in the crowd and
the thick of it, and maybe maybe what I lack
is connective tissue to the game, right, And I think.

Speaker 3 (01:10:15):
Like the twenty nineteen Tiger thing didn't do anything for.

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
You, No, no, no, not at all.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
Yeah, I think I think at that point you're lost.

Speaker 4 (01:10:22):
You.

Speaker 1 (01:10:24):
Know, And it was funny because I came in.

Speaker 3 (01:10:26):
That's as broad appeal as golf is ever going to have.

Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
Buddy, Like, I.

Speaker 3 (01:10:29):
Hate to be the one to tell to tell you that,
you know, it's thea this this potential interest, this potential
affair with golf. But no, I think if that was
the moment, if that moment passed you by and you
felt not even an ounce of whatever, joy, excitement, help,
a little bit of patriotism, whatever, whatever, you know, whatever

(01:10:49):
was flying through the air at that particular point in time,
if that can't do it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
For you, golf is not for you.

Speaker 1 (01:10:56):
I distinctly remember because I was working at the time
Trey Wingo was was obviously it was God with a Window,
and so I was working on that show, and Trey
is such a massive golf fan, and I knew we
were going to spend the next day on it, and
I was so bothered because I was sitting there trying
to do all this draft research for the draft show
that I had to host right after that, I was
just I just remember distinctly being like, you know, so yes,

(01:11:18):
I think that just speaks to the fact that you know,
so often when you have a great connection to the
sport is because you have some sort of connective moment,
whether it's you know, you sat down and watched with
you know, your friends or your family, Like you know,
I'm a Raiders fan and because when I was a
little kid, my dad would go get a dozen donuts

(01:11:39):
and we would sit down and watch the Raiders together
every Sunday. That's why I love the Raiders like it's
a simple thing that's been part of my life since
before I can remember how old I was. So I
lack that connective tissue with golf, and so it's hard
now because you know, I think sometimes what you need
is whether it's your at an event, or whether you

(01:11:59):
connect to one of the athletes, whether it's like something
about that athlete you see a little piece of yourself.
And I don't. Country club lifestyle is not something that
I really find resonance with. So I think all of
those things together just sort of leave me on the sidelines.
I'm not the target audience for and I try to

(01:12:21):
respect it. But it took me a long time to
connect to baseball. Honestly, it took me a long time
to connect to baseball. So you know, maybe there will
be this moment or this one particular golfer that makes
it all connect differently, But for me right now, I
watch it and I know that our audience cares about it,
so that makes it important, But it doesn't. It doesn't

(01:12:42):
connect with me. That being said, it is coming down
to the wire. We will keep you updated this thing,
no interest in whatsoever. It's almost over, thank god. Look
it's not just about me, all right, It's about everybody listening.
Everybody listening right now is on pins and needles trying
to figure out if Rory can go back to back.
When we come back, we'll give you the answer to that.
He is almost dumb for the day with the two

(01:13:03):
stroke lead. Can he hang on and become back to
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don't you never like my whisper?

Speaker 3 (01:13:36):
You never liked crap with Oh, by the way, we
had a nark. Mary, you want to talk about the nark?

Speaker 6 (01:13:41):
Why are you doing you You're messing up the scene,
You messing up the vibe. What's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:13:45):
No, no, no, I'm this is this is real, hard fact
based sports talk radio that we're doing. We gonna talk
about this nark.

Speaker 6 (01:13:53):
Yesterday for the past. Bro, it's a new day.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
I don't I don't know. I don't approve of avoidance.

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
Hold what what what happened here? What happened?

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
Correct? That's what I was waiting for.

Speaker 6 (01:14:04):
That's the record show.

Speaker 8 (01:14:07):
I didn't even nark.

Speaker 1 (01:14:08):
No, no, no, you didn't nark. One of the listeners knarked
on me and I did see that on Twitter. Somebody
said you were just getting handed handed by it. Like
I heard. It didn't go well for you yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
Bridge and Mary took me for a walk for two
hours yesterday basically.

Speaker 6 (01:14:23):
You and it was true.

Speaker 1 (01:14:27):
Wow wow.

Speaker 3 (01:14:28):
So did I say anything nasty about Bridge of Condon
the last time you and I were on the air.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:14:33):
Nor.

Speaker 3 (01:14:35):
A listener texted Bridget apparently somebody who has their number
and said, hey, the guy that you filled in with
a couple of weeks ago on Fox Sports Radio is
saying how much he didn't like having you as a
co host.

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
So we have a note.

Speaker 1 (01:14:46):
You did say you liked having me back on, but
but I don't remember you saying anything negative about Bridge.
I thought you were just kind of, you know, fluffing
my feelings a little bit when I came back.

Speaker 3 (01:14:56):
And I'm certain I was saying in a sarcastic way,
because I would never say that to you.

Speaker 1 (01:15:00):
That is correct, that is that is very correct. But
then I mean, what the records straight? Okay? Okay, So
as a result, you got dragged for two hours?

Speaker 3 (01:15:10):
Well yeah that Mary, Mary sells me out to Bridget
anytime the Bridget steps in, And that's fine, Like, that's
fine if I've got to be if I gotta be
the punching bag for two hours, I can play that
role if need me. Turns out pretty good at it,
especially because Bridget and Marry a much smarter.

Speaker 2 (01:15:26):
Than I am.

Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
So I'm just kind of from actual and dock and
dip and dive the entire time.

Speaker 1 (01:15:31):
Is it a roll? Or are you just a punching bag? Mary?
How did I mean? If you had to grade his
boxing performance yesterday? Was he simply all the.

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
Defense of the entire time. No, I was Floyd Mayweather
out there.

Speaker 1 (01:15:45):
Against the ropes the entire time.

Speaker 8 (01:15:47):
Mary Mack, I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 6 (01:15:48):
All I was saying yesterday was that Buck turned into
you and we turned into Buck.

Speaker 1 (01:15:54):
Oh oh does that? Wait? Does that mean I'm usually
the punching bag? Come on?

Speaker 3 (01:16:03):
Belief to him?

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (01:16:05):
You know what, I that's fine. I don't mind. I
don't mind taking that role if that's.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
What about driving where people just want to fight with you.

Speaker 6 (01:16:13):
But that's why, you know I come and defend Jason
because you know that's my dog.

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
Sat doesn't nobody ever comes in.

Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
I just want that. I want that known to.

Speaker 1 (01:16:21):
Well, yeah, because I mean you've got to you've got
a SaaS problem. I mean I said gently, like you're
a bit of a sashole. I mean I mean I
think I think we could say that right like, I
think you better Damn No, I think you've got a
bit of a sass problem.

Speaker 3 (01:16:37):
How scared than everybody in the l I s.

Speaker 1 (01:16:41):
Oh, we always wonder when we'll find the line. I think,
you know, gradually, Congratulations to me, I guess we finally
did it. Uh, spectacular. Also will be on two Pros
and a Cup of Joe maybe Monday and Tuesday, hanging
out Buck Rising, Jason Fitz, Rory McElroy trying to close
this thing out third under on seventeen right now, trying

(01:17:04):
to figure out or seventeen down, I should say, trying
to complete the victory here. So a big moment for
Rory is he's taking a look at it. He got
himself into a little bit of trouble, shot it into
the trees and then manage to get from the trees
to the sand and now the sand to the green.
So he's handling all of this chaos as well as

(01:17:24):
can be expected, but trying to close it out with
the two stroke lead over Scotti, Scheffler, Scheffler, don't for
the day. Nothing else he can do to apply any pressure.
It's just a matter of can Rory finish this thing out?

Speaker 3 (01:17:37):
Yes, and Rory's family looking on everybody anticipating that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
I mean, this would be not that you're rooting for it,
but this would.

Speaker 3 (01:17:45):
Be one of the most catastrophic collapses of all time.
As he gets ready to round out this final round
here at Augusta National, if he were to slip up
in any way, shape or form, because that two stroke
lead man, that is not something to feel comfortable about,
especially if you're Rory.

Speaker 2 (01:18:03):
With Rory's past.

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
Yeah, he's uh, he's sitting back and getting emotional. So
I feel like he's, uh, it's done everything he needs
to do at this point, He'll go back to back
and we'll hope do the menu is a little better
next year. I think you were right.

Speaker 2 (01:18:19):
His dinner menu was excellent.

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
No, no, no, fine, what dinner menu was fine?

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
Are you insane?

Speaker 4 (01:18:26):
It was?

Speaker 1 (01:18:26):
Okay? You shut up right now. That's the most ignorant
thing you've ever said.

Speaker 3 (01:18:32):
Just okay, it was okay, yellow fit carpaccio.

Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
Just okay.

Speaker 1 (01:18:37):
I mean I can get that at ten places down
the road from here.

Speaker 2 (01:18:40):
It doesn't mean it's good.

Speaker 1 (01:18:42):
Okay, I mean it was fine. It's fine. I got kid.
I have the the the sensibilities are offended for Buck
Rising because I did not. I didn't fallna grow up
one time. Look, I have elite like I can be
of foodie likes he of a.

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
Five year old. You're with your with your with your
grilled chicken and your your broccoli.

Speaker 1 (01:19:06):
I have the ability to eat like a five year
old and enjoy it. But I also have the ability
to eat exotic foods all over the world and also
enjoy them. Rory enjoying now, letting out just a guttural yell.
It is his year. He has won the masters. It
has done. They're hugging congratulations, Rory Vaceleroy. Back to back

(01:19:26):
with the green jacket, even if the menu was just
mid We'll get you caught up on what it means
and some NFL Draft news that's broken today. We'll tell
you about it next. Bucking Fits Fox Sports Radio. We
are about a week and a half away from the
NFL Draft, which means we're right at that sweet spot
where suddenly stories will start to come out, research will

(01:19:48):
start to be made public, and opinions will start to shift.
We're seeing that today as we get a story out
on one of the hot prospects in this year's draft,
Rubin Bain, that has everybody wondering why now and what
it means? Bucking fits on Fox Sports Radio, Hanging out
with you, Ali Connolly tweets out news Rubin Bain was

(01:20:09):
cited for careless driving after a March twenty twenty four
crash in Miami that left a passenger in a coma.
That passenger, a twenty two year old student, died three
months later. NFL teams are aware and investigating, per sources.
I want to stress the last portion of that, because
Ruben Bain is somebody that before the draft process many
people thought would be in contenent to be a top

(01:20:29):
five pick, and then goes into the scouting combine his
arms now famously short, very short for an NFL prospect,
and that has meant that he's fallen on some draft boards.
And now with the week and a half before the draft,
what we end up with is a story coming out
about an incident from twenty twenty four, an incident that
was fully investigated, an incident that the police looked at,

(01:20:52):
but an incident that was not necessarily publicly talked about
until now. But Buck, that doesn't mean that teams weren't
already well aware of this incident. So it's curious to
me that this comes out when, frankly, as you well know,
teams have been doing their research. This was not a
surprise to any NFL organization.

Speaker 3 (01:21:11):
Yes, and the thing I mean, you hear rumors right
in the off season cycle and some things get confirmed,
some things you follow up on, some things you don't.
This has been and I'm sure somebody else has said
it on social media, but since we're live on the
air talking about this story, this has been something that
teams have been aware of for at least two weeks,

(01:21:33):
if not more. Obviously, the story itself dates back to
twenty twenty four, but at least for me, the first
time that I heard any mention.

Speaker 2 (01:21:40):
Of it was two weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (01:21:42):
So now Ali Connelly has done the reporting on this.
I do subscribe to his sub stack so I can
read some additional details here. It's called the read Optional.
For what it's worth, he and John Ledger do a
very good podcast scouting, film analysis, draft prospect research. I
find it invaluable this time of year and well worth
the subscription.

Speaker 2 (01:22:02):
No, no, not a plug. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:22:03):
I mean, I know Ledyard well, but just saying really
really good stuff. They do a good job. So the
details of this, the incident itself, one of four passengers
in Reuben Bain's car that was driving on Interstate ninety
five in Miami at four am on seventeenth On March seventeenth,
twenty twenty four, his vehicle struck another car before careening

(01:22:26):
into a concrete barrier on both sides of the highway,
According to the police crash records, which ally connolly reviewed,
one of those four passengers in Bain's car, a woman
named Destiny Betts, a twenty two year old college student
from Georgia who was visiting Miami for spring break, suffered
incapacitating injuries, was rushed to the Writer Trauma Center from

(01:22:49):
the scene. She never regained consciousness. She died on June
the thirteenth of that same year, So June thirteenth, twenty
twenty four, after a March seventeenth incident.

Speaker 2 (01:22:59):
She spent three month Sinacoma.

Speaker 3 (01:23:01):
Leading up to that, Apparently there was a second passenger
who was also hospitalized with injuries to Other University of
Miami players were in the car at the time of
the crash. Linebacker Wesley ba Saint forgive me if I'm
mispronouncing that, and nygelac Kelly again, I apologize if I've
just butchered that. Nyja l ik Kelly. That player later

(01:23:23):
transferred to UCF, both teammates of Ruben Bain at Miami,
both eligible, ironically enough, for this year's draft, so It's
essentially a two year old story, more than two years
old as the time of this reporting, and it does
beg a million different questions ten days before the NFL Draft,
Who put this out there now and why? Because it
has been out there in the ether, at least the

(01:23:44):
rumors of it have been out there in the ether
for a while. And I'm not saying that journalism can
be done overnight and that you can't spend the additional
two weeks vetting and reporting and making sure that you've
got your facts straight. Because this is a This has
the potential to impact him financially. How much it will
versus what we were already talking about. I'm sure people

(01:24:06):
will say as we get to the draft itself and
he potentially slides, well, this story immediately hurt him. But
again I would remind you teams have known about this
story for quite some time. They have a number of
different resources. This is the first that this story in
particular has been out there in the public, and I wonder,

(01:24:26):
I don't know if the audience cares about, like, does
Miami have a responsibility to disclose this information, especially since
one of the passengers in the vehicle that Reuben Bain
was driving passed away after being in a three month kona.
Does the University of Miami have any responsibility to publicly
put this out there, at least in the ballpark in

(01:24:47):
the vicinity of when this happened. Again, we're more than
two years removed from the incident itself, almost two years
removed from this woman's death, the twenty two year old
college student from Georgia. So I think that it's going
to be about a number of questions, ruben Bain. I mean,
you hate to turn it immediately to business and say, well,
does this hurt his draft stock or those kind of things.

(01:25:09):
It's worth digging into, right, Why were you in that position?
Why were you going at that rate of speed? Were
you operating under the influence of any kind like This
begs a million different follow ups of which will have
already been asked again, because teams have known about this,
and ruben Bain has continued to go on thirty visits,
which are the allotted number of visits that teams have

(01:25:30):
in the post combine process leading up to the draft,
where they can bring a player in where they can
visit with him throughout the duration of a day, where
they can ask him in a more team centric setting
these kind of questions as opposed to the fifteen minutes
that they get to the combine, which is basically speed dating.

Speaker 1 (01:25:47):
You mentioned the thirty visits, and I think it's important
to stress to everybody there are no constraints on what
teams can use and how teams can utilize their own
resources to investigate every single player they're considering drafting. So
that's why some teams famously for high draft picks have
hired private investigators that have followed people, that have gone

(01:26:09):
around and talked to people from their lives. Like, if
your team you can choose to investigate as much about
every one of these human beings you're considering drafting as
you want, even outside your thirty visits, you can hire
firms to go out and find out everything there is
to know. So I would be stunned to see any
team select Ruben Bain in the first round of the

(01:26:31):
draft and be even remotely surprised. Right, Like, whatever they're getting,
they understand exactly what they're getting. Now. I think the
immediate comp for some people, in the minds of some
is going to be the Jalen Carter incidents driving at Georgia.
What we don't know is is this a one off?
This was a random night, This was a random moment.
To your point, we don't know the full details of

(01:26:52):
what may or may have not impacted Ruby Bain as
a driver. Was it just a mistake? Were there any
other things at play? We don't know. Was this one
incident of many? Is this one incident of one? These
are all things that teams are gonna have to factor in.
I just don't think more often than not, teams are
not surprised by these things. So really, when it gets released,
it's about the court of public opinion more often than not,

(01:27:14):
because teams should If a team's doing their job well,
then they shouldn't be finding anything out of Ali Connolly.

Speaker 2 (01:27:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:27:22):
Again, some additional details from on Ali Connolly, who has
this report up at the read optional. It's a sub
stack that he and John Ledyard operate. Ruben ban The
story is Ruben Bain, the Miami edge rusher who's of
course talked about as a first round pick in this
year's draft, linked to a twenty twenty four Miami crash
that left a passenger fatally injured. A woman did pass

(01:27:43):
away months after the initial incident. So what Ali continues
to report on as far as the police record shows.
The police crash report states that Bain operated his vehicle
in a careless or negligent manner following the collision with
the second vehicle. Bain's car owned by a company named

(01:28:05):
Miami Sports twenty seven Incorporated. Okay, so, who's giving him
the right to use this car? How does that factor
in from a liability standpoint? Additional questions there This vehicle
struck the east concrete wall before being redirected into the
west concrete wall, so basically pinballed where it came to rest.
It was later towed after sustaining disabling. It damage no

(01:28:26):
field sobriety test was administered at the scene. Bain was
cited for careless driving. That charge was dismissed approximately two
weeks before the twenty two year old passenger passed away
while she remained in a coma. Multiple league sources confirmed
that they are aware of the incident and are continuing
to investigate. It remains unclear if it will affect Bain's

(01:28:47):
draft stock.

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
I want to quickly chime in there. I have a
very close friend that has a national prominence and was
in a car accident by himself, and he was cited
for careless driving. Was he driving carelessly? No, but he
lost control of his vehicle on the highway and careened
off the cement walls and into another cement wall, and
automatically that carries with it reckless driving, careless driving, It

(01:29:13):
carried an immediate This is what you know because somebody
is held accountable for the damage to the wall. Obviously,
the argument was even though he was driving in the rain.
The argument was, had he been driving slower, he would
have been able to control his car. So when we
hear reckless driving, we think that that means somebody is
driving like a moron. I learned, you know, from my
own personal experience to my body, that that can be

(01:29:35):
something assigned to almost any any driving incident. So again,
I'm just not jumping to a bunch of judgment on this.
I think teams at this point it all becomes how
comfortable are they with the entire body of work of
everything they're discovering on ruben Bain, And then how comfortable
are they with his arm length. Let's be honest, if
his arm length were absolutely spectacular, most people wouldn't care about.

Speaker 3 (01:29:58):
This report that's that's that's what it really boils down to,
is if if he was, if he was a prospect
without any kind of physical or you know, tangible questions
about his ability to do the job at the next level,
would there be you know, much concern from NFL teams,
Because for what it's worth, this feels important to add,

(01:30:20):
no finding of criminal liability has been made in connection
with the crash or the victim's death who passed away
as a result of the crash, so no no charges brought.
The reckless driving charges dismissed. Trey Wallace of OutKick is
also adding that Bain was again cited for careless driving
in twenty twenty five, but that case was also dismissed

(01:30:42):
because of something called a defective citation, which I've.

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
Never heard of before.

Speaker 3 (01:30:46):
So what is the like did the did the cop
forget to sign the citation or something like that, Like
what constitutes a defective citation? I've never heard of that term.

Speaker 1 (01:30:55):
That is now, all of a sudden, that's just curiosity,
right because now you have two reckless drives I means
stacked together. This is going to create a conversation. And
again the timing, like we all remember waking up on
draft day and suddenly videos of Lerryman Tunsil out there
smoking weed and absolutely plummeted his draft stock. Right we
world we see much of nowadays. People be like, yeah,

(01:31:16):
I know he smoked weed right on, brother, but one
hundred percent, well it keeps it keeps him, you know,
it keeps him level headed. So let's see what this
all plays a week and a half away from the draft,
something like this leaking, you know, this is a moment.
As I mentioned, every team has private investigators. Sometimes I
wish agents used their same resources because they certainly have

(01:31:37):
the wealth to do it, to find out who leaked
these things, so that we get a sense of why,
because this certainly from the outside looking in, it feels like, yes,
it could just be a really good, really important news story,
I should say. It also could be somebody trying to
make sure that you know, Ruben Bain falls on the
draft boards.

Speaker 2 (01:31:53):
Yeah, for what it's worth.

Speaker 3 (01:31:55):
The reporting of Olie Connelly at the read Optional, which
is where this story is emanating from, does have multiple
quotes from the victim who passed away. The twenty two
year old college student from Georgia has multiple quotes from
her family about basically seeking a resolution in this So
it may not even necessarily be a team pushing this

(01:32:17):
story forward. It's that it seems that the family has
been trying to get this out here, and it could
be I mean, it could be a team that did
because again, teams have known about this, so somebody could
have let it slip, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and said
too much. I mean, we just don't know the full
scale of how this report came to be put out

(01:32:38):
in the universe. But based on reading some of these
quotes from the victim's family who passed away after that
period of months in a coma, it does sound like
this is a story that they have been trying to
get to the forefront for quite some time. No graceful
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Speaker 1 (01:33:17):
With the NFL Draft right around the corner, one of
the most important players in last year's draft is speaking
out and it could impact this year's draft. We'll tell
you about it next. Bucket Fits hanging out with you
on Fox Sports Radio. He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz.
Bucket Fits hanging out with you on Fox Sports Radio.
I know, sorry, excuse me, got a frock on my throne.

Speaker 2 (01:33:37):
Have a co parton to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:33:38):
I don't have a cop button and just came out
of nowhere. I got nothing. I did it. My fault. America,
the whole world.

Speaker 2 (01:33:44):
Really swiming all over America.

Speaker 1 (01:33:46):
Thank you so much. Buck. I know you are not
a movie guy. You don't go to the movie theater.
I know you don't go to the movie theater. Let
me say, but can I just implore you speaking of
popcorn of a horror movie that you need to see.
I know, but it's just shot.

Speaker 2 (01:34:05):
You're getting me to a horror movie.

Speaker 1 (01:34:07):
Well, you can rent it. It's called Dolly. It's called Dolly,
all right, and it's got Nashville ties. The filmmaker is
a Nashville guy, and.

Speaker 3 (01:34:16):
Which is not the conclusion that most people jump to.
When they say there's a horror movie about Dolly.

Speaker 1 (01:34:21):
But it's not about Dolly. It's called Dolly. Uh you know,
I know, but uh yeah, it's If you for anyone listening,
if you love seventies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, like old
school seventies horror movies, this is it's one of the
most disturbing, uncomfortable, incredible horror movies I've ever seen in
modern horror cinema. Like it is absolutely I had to

(01:34:45):
I had to stop it at one point because I
was like, man, I'm not ready for this, and then
I had to go back into it. Worth It makes you.
It makes your entire hebe GB's run up and down
your spine the entire way. I hope it becomes a franchise.
It is Uh, it is wild, So Dolly check it
out bookt Like, you know, just pop some popcorn, watch
a scary movie. I'll come over, we'll cuddle on the couch.

(01:35:05):
I'll be there to be, you know, big spoon for
you see you don't feel vulnerable, and you'll watch a
very demented horror figure wearing a porcelain doll mask, and
it will it'll rock your world.

Speaker 3 (01:35:17):
What would be scarier me and fits cuddling on the
couch or the horror movie both.

Speaker 1 (01:35:22):
I mean, no, the scary part is the fight for
Big spoon because I never win. But I'm gonna put
up enough of a fight that you're just gonna have to.
I'm wiry, You're gonna have to deal with a lot
of that. So a lot of positions rather the worst
would you rather have all time? No, Imagine a very
scared buck rising and I'm big Spooner and I just

(01:35:44):
lean and goes It's gonna be okay, buddy.

Speaker 3 (01:35:46):
That's just funny because you would be like a koala.
You're like four foot five and I'm six to I'm
five nine.

Speaker 1 (01:35:52):
Five nine and one hundred and fifty nine pounds of.

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
Pere some inches eight and some quarters of inches.

Speaker 1 (01:35:59):
You know, I was five nine and a half. I'm shrinking,
all right. So much taller than five to nine and
a half is one Travis Hunter. Now you may remember
just a year ago in the draft, the Jacksonville Jaguars
traded up to the number two overall pick to select
Travis Hunter. That was a massive deal with the Browns.
They sent the five to thirty six their second round
pick one hundred and twenty six and a first rounder

(01:36:20):
this year to move up to acquire Travis Hunter. And
the justification at the time was they weren't just getting
one star, they were getting two because Travis Hunter had
the ability to impact the game as a corner and
as a wide receiver. Right, So, all of the concept
here was Travis Hunter is going to be worth it
because he does so much for the Jags. So now

(01:36:41):
the question is what are we gonna do because we
are getting all sorts of reports. We're getting all sorts
of reports out there that he's gonna be a full
time corner, that the Jags after one season, one season
that he only played a few games in due to injury,
have decided to move into full time corner. And he's
out here in the streets on social media say, way
to hear that from what do we make of this?

(01:37:02):
Because it feels like this is the toughest part buck
because they gave up so much that now there's this
expectation that in order to justify that value, he has
to be great at two positions, not just one, and
it feels like they're giving up on that before they
even got started.

Speaker 3 (01:37:18):
Well, and the question becomes, okay, does he know like
his has his organization made him aware that this is
their plan for him? And Ian Rappaport gave up the
goods before Travis Hunter got to hear it from the
powers that be, because that would also be a really
poor way to handle an already complicated situation with a
very talented player. And here's the thing, all right, you

(01:37:40):
you have done significantly more like draft night coverage. Well,
you do different draft covers than I do. You are
on air usually, Are you doing a draft show this year?

Speaker 1 (01:37:51):
Yeah? Yeah, I'll be hosting the Day two of the
draft Siciliano stepping in for Day one, but yes, And
I'll be doing the Day one stuff with some but yes.
I've covered the draft every year of my professional career
for ESPN, now for y'all.

Speaker 3 (01:38:04):
But you're doing a draft show, like yes, during the
process of the draft, whereas me, I am covering the
draft at an organization, at an organization's practice facility, the
Titans specifically, that's the team that I cover for three
days and I do press conferences and they put the
kids on a zoom call with us afterwards, and like
that's my version of draft coverage. So we both do
draft coverage, we just do it differently. The component of well,

(01:38:31):
when I was studying for last year's draft and Travis
Hunter obviously one of the top prospects, and the whole thing.
I don't know if you remember the news cycle the
Titans president and general manager both saying that they would
take a generational talent with the number one overall pick,
which felt like a little bit of Okay, Are they
talking about Travis Hunter because he is in fact a
once in a generation type of college player.

Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
Is he a generational player at the NFL level?

Speaker 1 (01:38:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:38:55):
Are they talking about Oh, I'm blanking Adual Carter, the
pass rusher ended up going to the Giants. Are they
in fact talking about cam Ward with the number one
overall pick? Is cam a generational talent in that sense?
I mean it's almost like reading too much into something
that a team with the draft the top draft pick says,
which nobody would ever do that, right, especially in a
slow news cycle with months and months of draft coverage

(01:39:17):
in lead up to this thing. The Travis Hunter conversation,
correct me if I'm wrong, was that he was a
better corner as a prospect than he was a wide
receiver correct, and despite that being the case, the wide
receiver snaps for Travis Hunter, especially after Brian Thomas Junior.

(01:39:38):
Whatever the hell was going on with Brian Thomas Junior
last year, I don't know if it was.

Speaker 1 (01:39:41):
A weird year.

Speaker 3 (01:39:42):
Yeared weird year where he looked like almost sometimes he
was avoiding contact while not even really attempting to make
some of these contested catches, catching contested catch opportunities that
he had. And then prior to Travis Hunter being placed
on IR, it felt like we were on track for
him to be their top receiver option. I'm not saying

(01:40:02):
that he was a wide receiver one proper, but that
we seem to be on that course. And so now
the course correction reported course correction is now you're gonna
play majority corner. We'll give a we'll give them a
few snaps here or there. And Travis Hunter has not
yet been informed of that plan or how does how
does something like that fall through the cracks. That's a

(01:40:24):
very specific thing that RAP Reports not just putting out
there into the ether. That's not RAP Report's opinion that
that's what they should do with Travis Hunter. He is
saying that that's their plan.

Speaker 1 (01:40:35):
And that raises so many difficult questions because how good
does a corner have to be to make it worth that?

Speaker 3 (01:40:46):
He's got to be Dion And even then it's it's,
you know, at least a conversation.

Speaker 1 (01:40:52):
That's the hardest part about draft day trades.

Speaker 10 (01:40:55):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:40:55):
There's there's something I think we all forget when it
comes to the NFL Draft. I'll say what it is,
but first, Chris Prophet's gotta get us caught up. Chris,
what's going on on the scoreboard, my friend?

Speaker 9 (01:41:05):
Well, let's wind back a little bit and talk about
your twenty twenty six Masters winner, Rory McElroy becoming just
the fourth person ever along with Nick Faldo, Tiger Woods
and Jack Nicholas, to go back to back at Augusta
for the Masters tournament. He does it with a twelve
under and it was a bit of an adventure on
that eighteen hole where he went from the tee to

(01:41:27):
shanks it into the pine, to hits it into the bunker.
But he gets it clean onto the green one tap
right there. He's got a stroke despair and to stay
ahead of Scottie Scheffler, who went bogey free for the weekend.
Nobody's done that since nineteen forty two. He taps it
in and afterwards on CBS talked with Jim Nance Hello friends,
on what it means to repeat.

Speaker 10 (01:41:49):
I just can't believe I waited seventeen years to get
one green jacket, and you know, I get two in
a row.

Speaker 8 (01:41:55):
It's just sort of the way.

Speaker 1 (01:41:56):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (01:41:57):
I think all of my perseverance this golf tournament over
the years has really started.

Speaker 8 (01:42:03):
To pay off.

Speaker 10 (01:42:04):
It was a tough weekend. I did the bulk of
my work on on Thursday and Friday, but just so
so happy to hang in there and get the job done.

Speaker 9 (01:42:14):
This also makes a two for two for me being
here around this time period where Rory McElroy wins at
Augusta and there's a certain viral tweet post out there.
I think about that white men of a certain age
have very strong emotions for Rory McElroy, and I am
absolutely in that camp.

Speaker 8 (01:42:32):
I am one of the millennials.

Speaker 9 (01:42:33):
Weeping very very great for the struggles of Rory McElroy,
which is Sissyphian in nature to go all this time,
as he says, before getting these these wins, you get
emotional about it. I don't know what else to say. Huh,
you to shut up?

Speaker 3 (01:42:50):
You know, reader update would dismiss your feelings for them.

Speaker 9 (01:42:57):
I appreciate that, and I will try to We'll try
to find some fun and golf for you. Anyway, Let's
get you on that NBA score board, because there was
a couple of games that matter here. The Magic have
a sixty one to fifty two lead at the half.
If they win in Toronto loses, they'll take the sixth
seed and avoid the play in tournament. Unfortunately, the Raptors
right now, middle of the third quarter seventy five sixty

(01:43:18):
three over the Brooklyn Nets. We'll see how that all
plays out. I think most of the other scenarios really
keep an eye on, are going to be in the
West later tonight. I think the Hornets can maybe move
around a little bit. And but you know, sixty nine
to fifty nine Hornets over the Knicks. Knicks aren't really
playing anybody. So what am I gonna talk about here?
Am I gonna talk about them beating up on some

(01:43:39):
tin cans? No? No, We're gonna talk about how the
Yankees got swept by the Rays. They have now lost
five straight. The Dodgers end up falling to the Rangers
five to two to end the weekend. Here over there,
Ty Gibbs picks up your victory for NASCAR at Bristol
in the NASCAR Cup Series, and keep an eye again.

Speaker 8 (01:43:59):
Tonight.

Speaker 9 (01:44:00):
HL Capitals defeated the Penguins three zero, which sets up
a situation for the Anaheim Ducks hosting the Vancouver Canucks
at eight pm Eastern. Win and the Ducks are in
for a tournament that everyone likes to talk about.

Speaker 8 (01:44:13):
But to be quite honest, if I may.

Speaker 9 (01:44:15):
Throw my own little shade, I can't remember last time
I watched the Stanley Cup.

Speaker 6 (01:44:19):
Facts confets, everyone's as crazy?

Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
What's wrong with you people?

Speaker 9 (01:44:24):
I'm and I'm from like detrim I'm from Toledo. I
I grew up as a Red Wings fan too. But
I just I don't know. I think ice belongs in drinks,
which I will drink then at a US Open hospitality
hut while enjoying golf.

Speaker 1 (01:44:37):
I would I would watch a hockey preseason game before
I would watch the Masters if I had a choice.
But uh, you know, it doesn't have to be a contest.

Speaker 2 (01:44:48):
And who could dismiss great moments in sports?

Speaker 1 (01:44:52):
More. It just speaks. It speaks to the fact that
people different people like different things, and that's that's okay.
Everybody's like love like different things.

Speaker 3 (01:45:00):
By the way, Okay, okay, Buck hates everything that see.

Speaker 1 (01:45:05):
Buck is universally anti everything but also pro everything all
at once. It's it's it's really spectacular work crisis. Well,
but it's just a bit. So you mentioned earlier, or
we were talking a second ago, I should say about
the draft, and I think part of what we we
become so infatuated with somebody every year that we just

(01:45:27):
have this concept we want our team to go out
and be aggressive and get more and more and more
because right now, we want our team to get better
right now. I tell you all the time, I think
we live in this sozimpic society where people want some
sort of an injection that's going to make their favorite
team better immediately overnight. And the real way to sustainable success,
in my opinion, is doing the right thing the right
way a very long time, so it takes a minute,

(01:45:47):
and I think we're seeing that. Like, look, Jacksonville had
a better season last year than many people, myself included,
expected that they would have. And it looks right now
like they're riding hot in a division that's very winnable. Okay,
that's that's all true. You want to tell me the
Jacksonville wouldn't be better off right now having their first
round pick, Like, did they get so much out of
Travis Hunter in his limited time and now in his

(01:46:10):
much more clearly defined role. Are they getting enough that
it was worth a first round pick, a second round
pick whatever that won something, was the third or fourth
and then also this year's first round pick, Like this
is still a team that long term needs an injection
of talent if they want to be competitive with the
best of the best in the AFC. They're not a
Super Bowl contender. I think they wish they had their

(01:46:33):
first round pick right now instead of the Travis Hunter
simply because they gave up so much to move up
to get him.

Speaker 3 (01:46:40):
Yeah, no, I mean it's it's it's opportunity cost, right,
especially like you could justify it by saying, well, yeah,
this is a player that nobody's ever seen before, really,
and he's going to do things that nobody's ever seen before. Okay,
And it looked like he was on track to do
exactly that, and by then by that.

Speaker 2 (01:47:01):
Metric, you could justify it. Now.

Speaker 3 (01:47:04):
I'm also the belief because I don't know if we
talked about this last week when you were on Fitzy
last Saturday when you were on But while I was
at owners meetings, I went around and asked a number
of different coaches basically how you balance a player with
versatility versus needing to find a home for that player
first and foremost, and then expanding their skill set. As

(01:47:27):
a result, I got a number of different interesting answers
from a bunch of different coaches, NFC and AFC, and basically,
almost to a man, it was you got to start
them someplace first. So maybe is it justifiable if Jacksonville says, Okay,
maybe we did too much last year, maybe we'd be
a little too extra. Maybe we're trying to justify the

(01:47:49):
trade in real time, but we think it's best for
the player that we start him out in one specific
home and we give him an occasional package of plays doing.

Speaker 2 (01:48:00):
The other thing.

Speaker 3 (01:48:01):
And if down the road, should this player become the
player that we think he's going to be, then we
can expand that role, that side role, that uh, you know,
that party trick. Basically, we can expand that further and
turn it into a more full time skill set once
we've properly studied all the different metrics that need to
be studied, all the different strains and stressors on a

(01:48:23):
player's body. If he was to do what he did
in college at an unbelievable rate at the NFL level,
maybe it's making an excuse for Jacksonville, who doesn't deserve one.
I don't know, but I do think whatever is best
for the player needs to be the approach here first
and foremost. And so if this is ultimately what they
discover is the best best developmental track for Travis Hunter, Okay,

(01:48:48):
so be it. The question is is he going to
buy in because he thinks he can do both?

Speaker 1 (01:48:53):
But the also, but also everything you just said is
very true and very right, and it's part of the reason.
Like look as a Raiders fan, and I'm so happy
that my favorite team has signed Kirk Cousins because, frankly,
if Fernando wins the job, great, let him play. If
Fernando doesn't win the job, if he's not ready, you
don't have to rush him. I love the concept of
development of players. I'm all in for long term development.

(01:49:15):
Of players. The only thing I would say this sort
of counters the Travis Hunter thing is this is the
same regime that drafted in, so they had to see
this coming. Like what did they see in their limited
time having him out there that surprised them versus what
they expected to now have that measured approach, Like if
they had come out the day they drafted him and said, hey,

(01:49:37):
we're gonna worry about making him a great corner, and
once he's a great corner, we'll start adding the wide
receiver position to him. If that had been the case
from the get go, I'd say, Okay, that makes sense.
If this was a new coaching staff there have been
wholesale changes to the way they do business, and the
new staff comes in and says, hey, we're going to
really focus him. Okay, that makes total sense. This is
a player that was drafted by this regime and this
coaching staff to be something, and now all all of

(01:50:00):
a sudden, it feels like the coaching staff has decided
they need to centralize their efforts and he doesn't seem
to be aware of that. Like, that's just a lot
of missteps along the way by the same group of
people that brought him in the building. And that's for me,
the most accountability you'll ever have is did I draft him?
Was I part of the coaching staff or the front
office when he was drafted? Was I part of the

(01:50:21):
conversation to bring him in? I would love to know
what changed in their conversation that they saw, because everything
you just said, I think is the right way to
bring Travis Hunter along. It's just that was the right
thing last May when he had just been drafted. Why
is it now the right thing but it wasn't the
right thing a year ago?

Speaker 2 (01:50:36):
Yeah? For sure.

Speaker 3 (01:50:38):
It puts James Gladstone, who last year was a first
year general manager, squarely on the spotlight, especially given that
he's taken the same tact that the Rams take where
he doesn't go to the combine. They feel secure enough
in their scouting and research and development process that they
don't have to spend time that they consider to be

(01:50:59):
friv us doing what everybody else in the league does.
They may still be right about that, I'm not. I'm
not here to question their process. That was playoff team
last year. I could have made the argument if I
wanted to, for James Gladstone as executive of the year
with the Travis Hunter situation. So I don't want to
just completely turncoat and say, no, this guy's a bomb.
He doesn't know what he's doing because they've screwed up
the developmental plan for this. It can be though, that

(01:51:22):
the coaching staff said, no, we can handle this. We
can we can we can manage this situation. We can
turn him into exactly what you think he is with
the kind of draft capital that you just gave up
to get him. And then the coaching staff spends a
year doing and I was like, oh, okay, this is
not gonna meet it as easy as.

Speaker 2 (01:51:37):
We thought of it, right. You know, that's on me.

Speaker 3 (01:51:42):
You know, they do the thing after receiver drops the
ball on third and five, they tap their tests, say
that's my bad, my bet, you know, okay, but still
still drop the pass.

Speaker 2 (01:51:50):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:51:51):
We will see what happens with Travis Hunter. I never
got a chance to see him in person last year
because he was hurt by the time the Titans played
the Jags at the back half of the regular season.
Both of those Jags games were late here where I
am covering an AFC South team for every game, so

(01:52:11):
I never actually got to watch Travis Hunter up close
and personal the way that I was looking forward to.
Hopefully I'll get that opportunity in twenty twenty six. Whether
it be a wide receiver or quarter maybe potentially both,
by the time the Titans play him, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:52:24):
And to that point, it is also possible they got
him in the building, they're working it, he gets injured,
and now they're sitting there saying, well, what we don't
want to do is slow down any more development. He's
already lost a lot of time to injury. We need
to fast track what we think he's going to be
best at first, and then we'll worry about it. So,
in fairness, as you're talking, there is another side to this.

(01:52:45):
I should give it credit. And you know, right now,
as opposed to what we're used to from an entire generation,
right now, the Jags deserve a heaping amount of benefit
of the doubt. Like it looks like they have turned
the corner. Let's see if that's sustainable. Right now, it
all looks really smart. In twelve months, we'll be talking
about Jacksonville the same way. Here's one thing I'm sure

(01:53:07):
of coming up next. The greatest game show in the
history of Sports Talk Radio. Would you rather coming into
next Bucket Fits on Fox Sports Radio. You're welcome, America,
Bucket Fits Fox Sports Radio. Just I mean, that's just
had a vibe. I just watched bucks eyebrows raised to
a level that made me a little uncomfortable.

Speaker 2 (01:53:28):
They can't they got too much botox in my forehead.
What do you mean?

Speaker 1 (01:53:31):
Wow? Much younger than I am, but he's the one
that's had botox. I'm just just throwing that shade right
after the BAF. You look good? You do you look really?
You look like you look well, I mean good. We're
gonna go with good, not great. If you're just tuning in,
we'll be back tomorrow morning on two pros and a
cup of Joe. That's right there. They're letting us sit

(01:53:53):
in the big boy chairs and have some fun early
in the morning. There's a couple of things I can guarantee.
I can guarantee you number one, Buck's not gonna work close.
And I can also guarantee you it's too early in
the morning. I can also guarantee you that we'll we'll
end that show the same way we're about to end
this one. It's time for the single greatest game show
in the history of sports talk radio. It is time
for wood you rather we just nail in front of

(01:54:19):
you guys. That was so good?

Speaker 6 (01:54:22):
Would you rather bucket?

Speaker 3 (01:54:24):
That's good, That's accomplished as I've ever felt in my
life that.

Speaker 1 (01:54:28):
He's not wrong. This is where Bo's gonna give us
some questions. We're gonna figure out would we rather this
or that? And we'll go through it. We we I
feel good now, But what do we got?

Speaker 8 (01:54:36):
Yes, there is a theme. There's a theme today, so
we'll see if you guys can figure it out. But
you guys were talking, yeah, yeah, fuck was talking about
Coachella in the break, So I do need you guys
to settle a fake argument between my wife and I.
Would you rather see Katsaye at Coachella or Turnstile at Coachella?

Speaker 2 (01:54:53):
What the hell are those?

Speaker 1 (01:54:54):
Oh? My god?

Speaker 8 (01:54:56):
Katsai is like a K pop kind of girl group.
Turns to I is a hardcore band. My wife and
I absolutely would have fought over which one we're gonna
go see? Were we at Coachella? Thankfully? Would just watch
them on the live stream in separate rooms?

Speaker 2 (01:55:10):
Are we are we idiots?

Speaker 3 (01:55:11):
Because both Fitzy and I looked at each other, like,
what the hell is he talking about?

Speaker 1 (01:55:15):
Cats? I've have at least heard of Turnstyle. I've not,
so I'd like. I'm gonna just be honest, I've.

Speaker 2 (01:55:20):
He's talking about like different kind of drugs that you
do a Coachella.

Speaker 8 (01:55:22):
I mean you could there's problems or nothing like that.
I guess. Go listen to Turnstile and get back to me.
Kats Ice trash, there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:55:30):
Look, I like K pop up. I'm not afraid of
some K pop. I'm not afraid some bouncy, high pitched pop.
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:55:35):
I'm sure that's what Mary just called trash spitting the way.

Speaker 8 (01:55:38):
Yeah, all right, so I do.

Speaker 1 (01:55:39):
I like trashy pop.

Speaker 2 (01:55:41):
I'm in for trash pop.

Speaker 8 (01:55:42):
Guys, would you rather play in and win?

Speaker 1 (01:55:45):
Wait?

Speaker 3 (01:55:45):
Wait wait wait wait, you're going before the wheel is
landed on a topic?

Speaker 1 (01:55:48):
What the hell?

Speaker 8 (01:55:49):
Yeah, we're just gonna go.

Speaker 1 (01:55:50):
We're up. Basically, this is like people are supposed to
think that the wheel is giving you a quick but
that's it's fine, that's fine.

Speaker 8 (01:55:55):
Would you guys rather play in and win super Bowls
or get traded somewhere?

Speaker 1 (01:55:58):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (01:55:59):
That picked third? Or for all just two years.

Speaker 2 (01:56:00):
Ago, duh play and win super bowls?

Speaker 1 (01:56:04):
Right? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:56:06):
Yeah, pretty obvious. What's what's the appeal of the other one?

Speaker 8 (01:56:09):
Okay? Would you guys rather trade a mail content to
a team that he wants to go to or trade
him somewhere else out of spite?

Speaker 1 (01:56:16):
I think this is all gonna lead us to a
certain player. Uh, I like I would rather trade somebody
out of spite? Yeah. No, I'm gonna trade somebody out
of spite the whole way. I'm gonna trade you to
the plice you don't want to go, and then I'm
gonna text you all the time and say how's it going?

Speaker 3 (01:56:31):
Why for what? What did this person do to you?
And also why is Chris talking about a J?

Speaker 2 (01:56:35):
Brown?

Speaker 1 (01:56:36):
Yeah? One hundred percent, like this is this is all
ag Like, this is all a J.

Speaker 2 (01:56:39):
Brown? Right?

Speaker 1 (01:56:40):
Like that's that's where where were you're The first question
was would you rather play in a Super Bowl team
in Super Bowl or team that just had the third
overall pick not acknowledging that the Patriots just played in
the Super Bowl.

Speaker 8 (01:56:53):
Yeah, and that goes into the next one though, Would
you guys rather catch passes from the Super Bowl MVP
or catch passes from someone who looked lost in the
Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (01:57:02):
I would rather catch passes from Drake May than Jalen Hurts.
I wouldn't say that.

Speaker 3 (01:57:07):
This feels like, this feels this feels like bias this
a little bit, This feels like a lack of journalistic
integrity with these questions.

Speaker 2 (01:57:15):
I feel like relating the witnesses, we like, are.

Speaker 1 (01:57:18):
We working through something here, buddy with aj Brown?

Speaker 8 (01:57:20):
How we feel I'm in like I'm in the acceptance stage,
like it's gonna happen. I just don't get it, truly
don't understand it.

Speaker 1 (01:57:28):
But what if what if this? What if you want
to keep him?

Speaker 2 (01:57:31):
He's got bad k needs and he didn't try last year.

Speaker 8 (01:57:34):
I mean that's the part of the acceptance. I've come
around to that.

Speaker 1 (01:57:37):
I guess, what if it's better for everybody. What if
he goes somewhere and it's like, hey, he can be
re energized and have a good time in New England, which,
by the way, was playing above their skis and they're
not going to be back in the Super Bowl. And
at the same time, just by not being in Philadelphia anymore,
maybe there's just a light in all of this, and
the Eagles feel less pressure to pass the ball, which
isn't really what they need to do anyway, and then

(01:57:57):
the Eagles get right back.

Speaker 8 (01:57:59):
What about the Yeah, no that that helped?

Speaker 1 (01:58:01):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:58:01):
Have you guys heard about the chimpanzees fighting a civil
war in Uganda?

Speaker 2 (01:58:05):
Yes? I saw this was on my algorithm the other
day that GEO.

Speaker 8 (01:58:08):
Would you rather fight in that chimpanzee civil war or
fight in the emu war of nineteen thirty two.

Speaker 1 (01:58:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:58:16):
I feel like, uh, Emu's a scary I feel like
I got I got a better chance against a bird
than I do a chimp.

Speaker 1 (01:58:24):
I just saw that horror movie about the chimp with
the rabies, and that that scarred me. So I'm gonna
take on the EMU because I'm wildly scared of the
concept of having my face ripped off by a chimpanzee. Like,
I'll take on the EMU and then I'll just hope
that they're all as nice as the ones in the commercials.
All right, he's buck rising got Jason Fitz will be
back here tomorrow for two pros and a cup of

(01:58:45):
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