The Bernie Fratto Show talks Bam Adebayo's 83-point game, the World Baseball Classic, and NFL Free Agency!

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of material and we'll squeeze it into four because, let's

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face it, folks, we have hit the sports lottery. We're
sixteen hours away from selection Sunday, and you know it.
In the end, few things in life can match the
uniqueness of this month long phenomenon known as March Madness.
All the unscripted outcomes, the bragging rights, the constant reminders

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that we are always potentially witnessing something unique and always
witnessing something that is far from ordinary. We're also eighteen
hours away from what will promise to be an epic
baseball game Sunday night the United States and Dominican Republic.

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This may be the de facto World Series, this may
be the real World Series. And if you are a statmonger,
you might be interested to find out that, cumulatively, the
Dominican Republic lineup is three for twenty seven against Paul
skeins at in fifty cents to get you a cup

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of coffeed Whitecastle. Won't matter when the game starts on Sunday.
And yes, I put my butt out there. I'm not
saying I'm rooting for them, but what I am saying,
and I said it before the tournament and all the
baseball people I know, I do think the Dominican Republic
wins it this year. But we shall see eighteen hours
from now how it gets real. There were two noteworthy

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NBA performances this week. One has been completely underreported. When
I give you the context later in the show, hang
with me the whole show. We're going We're going stem
to Stern. The other one was perceived as superficial, artificial, illegitimate, controversial.

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We're going to break both down as we get into
the show. How about those Vikings, Please don't try to
force Fetus that they've found your savior at quarterback. His
former team is paying thirty eight million dollars so they
can compete against him, and the Vikings have acquote a

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guy who's missed twenty one games in the last three years.
But I digress. There are some pros and cons. There
are some pluses and minuses. We're gonna get to all
that in the show as well. And last week I
began my monologue with not that Max Crosby had just
simply signed with the Baltimore Ravens, although it wouldn't be

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official till Tuesday four o'clock Eastern, but there was a
tremendous ripple effect. Now there's a ripple effect going the
other way, and we're going to get to that too.
Lots to unpack there that you were gonna want to
hear about, But we begin with the World Baseball Classic,
which I knew was going to be epic. I knew

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it was going to be sensational. The pomp, the circumstance,
the competitive nature, the desire, the want to and at
the end of the day, the fast forward the United
States is onto the semi finals. They hung on. They
beat Canada, and I mean hung on. Canada completely pissed

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away an eighth ning possibility of a rally. They meant
on second and third with nobody out and could come
up with nothing. And you have to give it up
to giants. A slogan Webb who stepped up big and
the America's middle relief was not great, but they got
a new lease on life. And see, this whole ordeal

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has a backstory also because earlier in the week this
was a real roller coaster ride it. By the way,
with all due respect to Bryce Harper, he's three for twenty.
If Billy Martin were managing this team, he'd said, Bryce Harper,
because Bryce Harper doesn't deserve us to play, but he's
going to and here's a chance for him to step up.

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I like Bryce. He's a Vegas guy. His legacy is secure.
Buddy's three for twenty. The USA started the tournament smoothly
three wins, and then there was every indication that their manager,
Mark Derossa thought the team had clinched a knockout stage
birth with those wins. He said as much before the
US played it on Tuesday, and he also implied that

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his players partied heavily after it went over Mexico on
Monday night, and we're quote dragging on Tuesday morning. Yeah,
would that imply that he thought and they thought they
had punched their ticket. Then they faced Dilly that night
the problem the US hadn't actually clinched. DeRosa then made
a mess of the explanation. It was not good. With

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all the respect, Deroza is a good guy. He was
a good player, and he certainly has the temperament to
manage his team. But this was a terrible look. I'm
sorry he didn't know. Yeah, he tried to explain, I
know there were rules, but he didn't really know there
were rules. He went back and tried to cover up
like a cat curve on a pile he just made

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on the carpet. But that got overshadowed by the fact
Italy jumped out to it ain't nothing lead And you
know Jirosa had sat certain players that night. Okay, he
started Paul goldschm which I think was a tip of
the captain, Paul, whose best days are behind him. One
of the Major League Baseball's worst hitters against writyes that

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year started in first base against Michael Lorenzen, like Cal
State Fullerton guy who's got a phenomenal personal story. You
talk about a gritty, gutty performance. So Italy wins eight
to six. But fortunately the baseball guys are smiling down
on the USA. It worked on fine because Italy put
a herd on Mexico and the Americans move forward in

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the pool and Bada bing bought a boom. Here we go.
You've got the Dominican Republic on Sunday night. This is
a terrible check that this is a wonderful reprieve. So
there's only one thing for the US to do. Win
the damn thing. Japan is out. You get by the
Dominican Republican, by the winner of Italy Venezuela, anything less

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than a title, and I don't think DeRose Eliz is downed.
The Americans will see themselves painted as a team who
were managed by a guy who didn't know the rules
and whose star players raised questions fair or not about
how truly invested they were in the process. We're gonna
talk about this maybe a little bit. In the midnight hour.
Bryce Harper said, well, you know, this really isn't the Olympics.

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To Rex Scooble, I understand where he's coming from. He's
on the free agent tour. It wants to get four
hundred million next year. What do you do? You even
got Juliogan Zalez in the Dominican Republic saying I'd rather
win this than a World Series. Going into the tournament,
there are some who thought the Americans maybe had a
firm grasp on this, on this deal, well, I'm not

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so sure. Showtime Sunday Night, you're gonna have Ranny Cy
Young Winner, Paul Skins. He's lined up to start and
he gets to face guys like Juan Soto, Fernando Tatist Junior,
Vlad Greer, Ketel Marte Junior, Caman Arrow, hot Our, Nat
Missus Lincoln. I was in play. The Dominicans have been
crushing teams and they want this. They want this. This

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game is gonna feature on one field, maybe the greatest
collection of talent to ever appear in the Diamond at
the same time, and that includes all Star games. So
here's what you got to watch for Sunday night. These
two teams are on a collision course for a matchup
at some point, and I'm glad it's happening. I am
here for it. The Dominican Republic again. They've rode teams

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like a stick horse. They've hit the most home runs
in a tournament fourteen. The Mercy ruled Korea. Meanwhile, the
US needed help from Italy and then Logan Webb to
bail them out against Canada. This will be the first
ever US Dominican Republic matchup, well, not ever well. Since
twenty seventeen, the two sides have split the series one
to one, though Team USA ultimately got the last laugh.

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They beat the Dominicans in the quarterfinals the year the
US won the championship. This is a coin flip game.
This Dominican team is the best they've ever had.

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Now.

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One of the things to watch Sunday night is you
no longer have the Sea sixty five pitch limit in
pool play. There is an eighty pitch limit that is
now in play. That's you know, a check that that's
off the table as well. Jeezus sounded like Mark DeRosa,
forgive me Mark, don't mean to bash a fellow. Italian.
Pitchers can now pitch ninety five pitches in the semi

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finals and championships, and both starters will have the freedom
to attack hitters without having to worry about pitch selection
and the need to cover innings on paper. You're gonna
make Steens the favorite, and the US is a favorite.
I believe minus one forty, but don't go to sleep
on Louis Severino. He had a three point zero two

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ERA away from the Athletics Minor League home last year
and this matchup is a lot closer than you might
want to might want to realize again. To get past
Team Canada, Mark de Rosa made one major change to
his A lineup. He replaced Byron Buxton with Pete crow Armstrong,
who had two dingers and loss against Italy. Kro Armstrong

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rewarded that faith to it and an RBI against Canada.
What De Rosa didn't do was move Bryce Harper down
to the lineup. Why come on, you want your best
hitters getting the most at bats. On Friday, Harper was
in the two hole, going zero for five and not

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a lot around it. He kept Alex Bragman third. Okay,
if the US wants to beat the Dominican Republic, there
might have to be some tough decisions and tough conversations.
The best players need to get the most at bats.
That's a fact, and you can't say that Harper or
Bragman have been playing their best. Why not move Bryce

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Terrang and Pete Kerr Armstrong up near the top of
the order now. One of the interesting aspects of this
game Sunday Night is both managers have a lot of
managerial inexperience. Neither is an experienced manager. You could say
Pooltholes has maybe more having managed in the winter leagues.

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But this is a major league. I mean, the world
is watching this game, and so far the experience inexperience
has shown up for both managers. In dribs and drafts.
Deroza went to Brad Keller, followed by gab Spire against Canada.
Both allowed runs. Keller had already permitted two runs against Italy,
he allowed another two against Canada. Part of the calculus

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is to get fresh relievers. In Deroza was a little
mpsecre about that he stuck with an own quantity and
instead of a fresh arm, and it didn't work out.
So knowing which button depress again is a fine art
that managers learned over time. You know who's pushed all
the right buttons is Francisco Cervelli. I remember when he

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was a catcher with the Yankees. Very interesting guy with
another very interesting story. Man, gotta love that guy. So
we've hit the sports lottery and I will tell you
that tomorrow. Are some of my listening audience. It's already Sunday,
So Sunday from three o'clock Pacific, six o'clock Eastern through

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five o'clock Pacific, eight o'clock Eastern, all the way through
three hours past that. It's going to be television bliss.
You'll get your brackets, you'll get your you will have
our World Cup Finals set well, not what we won't. Yes,
this's on linked Rose again. Venezuela plays Italy Monday night.
Italy's on their way to Miami right now, so there

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all right, you'd be blue to your TV Sunday. Don't
tell me you won't be and Saturday. And if the
conference tournaments are any indication, and they usually are, they're

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just as exciting, frankly, then this tournament, Frankly, it promises
to be a banger. Yukon and Houston both fumble their
chance at are number one seed Saturday before selection Sunday,
but frankly do in spite of their injuries, I think
maintain their edge for a number one overall seat. Now,

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the committee could choose to doc Duke for potential season
and the injury to Caleb Foster, but the emergence of
Caden Boozer, the brother of Cameron Boozer, might just say
Duke's bacon. But this is why we're watching Sunday. Duke
would not surprise me. If they're still a number one seed,

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probably will be. You know, the Atlantic Ten. They should
get a lot more respect than they do. It could
be a three bid league, which would be a best
case outcome for this conference, but it would also be
a nightmare scenario for any of the bubble teams that
are non Aten teams. Okay, Now, Saint Louis lost to

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Dayton in the semis and VCU beat Saint Joseph's, But
had the Billikins won the A ten tournament and had
VCU lost to Saint Joe's, the A ten would have
been a one bid league. But if Dayton beats Virginia
Commonwealth in the title game Sunday, the Rams will still
have a decent at large case and the Flyers would
be a bid thief. Now, the long on the short

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of it is, these are the teams you watch in
the early rounds, and again, someone's going to break through.
Multiple non four powerful teams will break through to the
sweet sixteen. And I'm not saying we're gonna have a
George Mason again, that's believe it or not. This is
the twenty year anniversary of George Mason. But you're gonna

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see someone sneak through. It always happens. The Mountain West
is a conference that continually causes me to scratch my head.
San Diego State has completely underperformed by every metric this season,
and they're going to be very, very uncomfortable watching Selection
Sunday after losing to Utah State by eleven in the

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Mountain West Conference championship here in Las Vegas, and there
are fourteen turnovers they committed. Well, that's gonna be a
hard swallow for San Diego State as they want TV
on Sunday. This is a team that's been a fixture
in the tournament. Let's not forget it was just a
few years ago. They got all the way to the
final game, all the way to the final game and

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lost to a powerful Yukon team. But they're on the
cut line. Okay, they're just inside the top fifty and
wins above bubble. I don't need to bother with all
the numbers. There have been years, including last year, where
the Mountain West Conference was the four bid league, believe
it or not, and this is something to watch. Utah
State might be the only bid this year in the

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big Dance the Mountain West. While they've been not farredwell
in the tournament. Albeitt the San Diego State run to
the finals a few years ago. That hasn't happened for
this league in nine years where they only got one bid.
Bubble teams that were needing to perform well, some of
them went to bed Texas did so. In their SEC

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tournament opener, SMU flunked by losing to Louisville. Zouri couldn't
get over the hump in their SEC turnover. I'm told
by a good mole that Missouri is going to get
a playing game, and it may be against Miami Ohio,
so they'll be itchy watching the tournament selection committee on Sunday.

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Saint John's my goodness. Now they were embarrassed by Yukon
and a thirty two point beatdown on February twenty fifth.
Seventeen days later, Rick Patino completely poll axed, rode the
Huskies like a stick horse, a fifty two point turnaround.

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They beat Yukon by twenty on Saturday. And if you're
scoring at home and hope you are, the Johnnys were
getting three and a half points. This was a complete
well I almost said something bad. You get where I'm
going with that.

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Now.

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Saint John's is probably expected to stay on the number
five line, but what progress has this group made? They're dangerous.
Bryce Hopkins playing his best basketball at the biggest times.
Eighteen moments check that, eighteen points, five rebounds, Dylan Mitchell.
These guys are disruptors. They're active, they're physical. They guard you,

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they defend you. There's no free catches in space. They switch,
they rotate, they communicate, They do all the things that
you would expect a well coach team to do. And Rick,
they play with the physical attitude Saint John's proofs Saturday
they were the more athletic team. And Saint John's is

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the Big East's best team. And the irony they may
not get, they may get a lower seeded Dan Hurley
Suski's which they probably will something to watch. Florida, who
has been completely lights out the last month, could coach
Golden and his group repeat. Well, Florida did it and

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back in six and seven. So one of the biggest
storylines leading the weekend is who would be the final
number one seed in a race, A horse race that
included Florida, Duke, Michigan, and Arizona. Now, Michigan's got a
pesky perdue team on Sunday, but I think Michigan is
probably going to be a number one seed. I know
Arizona's going to be a number one seed. Duke will
see the latter three. I think they're well on their

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way to being on the top line on selection Sunday.
But there's no debate about who the check that. There
is going to be a debate on who the final
number one seed is going to be. Florida had it.
I think they were in the driver's seat until Vanderbilt
came along and again rode them like a stick horse.

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Now the Gators might have a case for being number one,
but it's going to be an uphill battle. However, I
will guarantee you there'll be plenty of folks that will
have Florida winning it all in their bracket because they
can they know what this looks like. They changed their
back court. It took half a season to acclimate, but
if you've seen them in the last eight weeks and
they have enough guys returning on their roster, they know

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what this run looks like. Oh my god, this is
gonna be fun. Now. I've always been a Chris Beard
fan because it all started years and years and years
ago at Arkansas Pine Bluff when he upset a very
good Purdue team in the tournament that I believe was
the number one seed. And then you know, he made

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his way to Texas Tech in Texas and so on
and so forth. And although Old Miss was you know what,
fourteen and nineteen heading into the tournament, the SEC Tournament,
they damn near found themselves getting another bid. They were
eleven and a half point favorites to check that, underdogs
to Alabama. On Friday, I grabbed him. They came through

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huge for me. They were nine point underdogs to Arkansas Saturday.
They didn't win, but they took Arkansas to the poll
and Old Miss was the number fifteen seed in the
SEC Tournament. They went on a more markable type Chris
Beard run, winning three games in three days to reach
the semi finals. Of course, obviously Old Miss has no

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at large case. The only way Chris Beard's team could
get in would be winning the conference title, which they
didn't do, but they pushed the Razorbacks into overtime and
Arkansas escaped ninety three to ninety because of aj Store. Now,
I had the Rebels gone all the way, it would
have gone down on one. Was the greatest and most
likely conference runs in recent history, although I'm sure Yukon

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folks would have say if you recall back in twenty
eleven with Kemba Walker, that amazing tournament run and they
had to play with five games in five nights and
then went on to win the tournament. I believe they
beat Virginia in the finals. Fran McCaffrey manages to stay relevant.
The former Isola coach, Well, he had a fifteen year

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run with the Hawkeyes and his retirement was a non retirement.
He didn't stay long. He got the job. Penn he
was he's in Aluma the Quakers, and he's not got
the Quakers. One went away from going to the Big
Dance for the first time in nine years, Penn outlasted
Harvard sixty two to sixty at an overtime game. And

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make no mistake, the Ivy League teams can play, okay.
I remember, like yesterday a very good Harvard team beat
the crap out of the third seated New Mexico team
back I think it was twenty fourteen coach by Steve Alford,
and you forget back in ninety six, Cornell or Princeton
with Pete Carrill took apart a good UCLA team. They

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can play in the Ivy League. It'd be fun to
see Penn, but they're gonna have to beat a very
tough Yale team on Sunday. But if they do an
automatic bid, awaits Michigan. Somehow does it with these guys
whose names you can't pronounce, I'll give it a whirl.
Yaxel Lendeborg, He said to anyone who would listen in

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this day Michigan that coming to Michigan has been the
best year of his life. He hit, and he punctuated that.
He put an exclamation point on that Saturday with three
tenths of a second left was Constant and Greg Gard
and they're going to be a problem for somebody in
the tournament as well. Hits a three pointer at the

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buzzer to win the game to advance to the finals
against Purdue. Came up to mc cronin and UCLA. You know,
they've taken a lot of heat recently, and I get it,
micking coach, but man, he's always got that look on
his face like he just smelled a bad fart, and
he's always, you know, coming on like thirty yards of garlic.

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Press conferences are worth the price of admission as long
as you're not one of the people who asks him
the question. But ECLA was looking fine Federal until a
couple of guys went down. But on understanding, they got
some promising injury news Tyler Billadou who had the knee injury,
and Donovan Dent from Southerner California, who played for New
Mexico went to Corona High School. They're going to be

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good to go, apparently for next week's next week's tournament,
even though they were sidelined in their loss to Purdue.
Billideo and Dent were both held out I'm told for
precautionary reasons, and Toll reporters they expect to play next week.
Keep that in mind when you fill out your bracket.
Why with those two on the floor since January first,
throughout the first five weeks of the season, since January first,

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Ucla don't look now they're a top five offense in
the country. Have to feel for Tulsa. One of the
best seasons in Tulsa history is going to end without
an NCAA tournament bid. They failed to Wichita State eighty
one to sixty eight in the American Semi Finals. Again,
injuries and foul trouble cost them one of the games

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that was disappointing to a lot of betters. Today. I'm
sure the books did quite well on Yukon betting on
the Yukon Saint John's game. Because Yukon entered Saturday evening
in a prime position to secure number one seed, especially
after Florida lost their Vanderbilt and Houston lost Arizona. They
did not take advantage, and I think it will cost them.

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Yukon will fall to a number two seed. In fact,
I think Yukon will be behind Houston for the top
two seed as far as the official seating goes. That's
the way I see it. Not Florida, but South Florida.
They look pretty impressive as well, eighty six to sixty
four game over Charlotte. There's a ton of noise around
that program. They're probably going to lose their coach. They're

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forty minutes away from punching their ticket. But if you
want to see an entertaining game, South Florida Wichita State
on sunny and don't look now. Could there be two
teams getting in from the mac Akron. They came back
from a twelve point deficit, They had a three pointed
with six seconds left. They beat Toledo seventy nine to
seventy six. And I don't know why people dog the

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mackets produced a lot of good players over the years,
and we'll never know. Back in twenty twenty, that great
Dayton team that was thirty one and oh or whatever
they heck, they were twenty nine to zero with Obi
topp and we'll never got a chance to know what
they could have do. That team could have made some
noise in the tournament. Akron's going to be in most
tell me Miami will be in, but it's going to
be a playing game. But at least they got a shot.

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And you win Tuesday, you advance to Thursday. And you know,
once you get into big dance, you get on the
dance floor, anything could happen. So these are the things
to watch on Sunday as you you know, turn on
the TV for selection Sunday. But we are twenty four
minutes away from three what I consider to be extra

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fun topics tonight, because well, one I believe is a
little polarizing, when I believe is a little polarizing, and
she'd make for good debate. But you know how I feel,
because the most boring conversations in sports are when everybody agrees,
and when everybody agrees, there's there's not much room to

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go with that, right, But we got three classic topics
for our midnight hour. See from where I sit in
twenty four minutes here, the clock will strike midnight in
Las Vegas literally and perhaps where you live the clock
strikes midnight as well. And I know I've got listeners

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in Mexico and Australia and Japan, England, Ireland, even Detroit,
certainly Canada. Our good buddy brought client in Canada. We
got regulars eight seven, seven, nine, nine, six six, three, six, nine,
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from now will be the midnight hour here in Vegas. Literally,
but figuratively, it's the midnight hour for everybody, which is

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metaphorical for you've got the last word. So I'm going
to set these topics up, and I'm going to give
a lot of sort of texture to these topics to
give you food for thought before you actually call in.
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We are sixteen minutes away from the midnight hour. It
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call it the midnight hour because figuratively it's the midnight
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So we do a little thing on the Bernie Frattle Show.

(31:27):
We've been doing it for years now and it's caught
on like wildfire. It's been a behemoth thanks to the callers.
Eight seven, seven nine nine six six three sixty nine
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Brandon will take
your calls, We'll load them up, We'll get it rolling.
These are our three topics tonight. The bam at a

(31:51):
Bio eighty three point game will not go away. For some,
it's a hell of a performance. For some, it's legitimate
for others, it's controversial, it's superficial, it's artificial. What are
the key points of contention, Well, you can't deny there

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were some late game tactics used to help Bam surpass
Kobe and his eighty one point mark. And some people
went so far as they say the achievement was an
ethical and a mockery of competitive basketball because there was
blatant stat padding. There was come on, now, you score
eighty three points in any game. That's saying something. But

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this is this messy because there were intentional fouls to
gain possessions. And this was at the point of the
game where the Heat were leading by more than twenty
And I told that Eric Spolstra allegedly ordered players to
intentionally file Wizards players to get the ball back for Adebayo.
One of his teammates, Keishad Johnson intentionally allegedly intentionally missed

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a free throw late in the game to created another
scoring opportunity for Bam. Well, by the way, Bam is
twenty nine shots, fifteen or three pointers, seven more free throws.
You imagine if he'd been hot, we might be talking Wilt,
not Kobe. And that's another reason that detractors argued to
the total was artificial. He sot forty three attempts free

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throw forty three free throws, miss seven. He was only
twenty and forty three from the field and miss seven
free throws. It's the first time a player ever scored
seventy points while shooting under fifty percent for the game. Also,
Spolstra elected to keep bam at a Bayou in the
game during a massive blowout and even used to coach
his challenge on a charging call and under four him

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and it's left to keep the sporing momentum going. And
by the way, the Horses. Critics argue that defeat came
against the team the Wizards, who are thirty one games
under five hundred, and they are tanking, YadA YadA ya.
And even though he had seventy points with nine minutes
to go, they just kept going. But the defenders, hey,

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bam Adebio himself said, I had seventy points with nine minutes,
so why would I say take me out? Blame the
Wizards coach for not doubling on me. Eric Spolzer said
he apologizes absolutely no one. When a player gets close
to history, you go for it. But other former players
not so much think he was said bad, But well,
what do my callers think? I want to We've heard

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what the coach thinks, We've heard what a lot of
media people think. We've heard what players think. I want
to hear what my callers think. Eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six
three sixty nine was bam Adebayo's eighty three point game
legit artificial FIGAISI you know where I am going with that?

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All right, if you haven't enjoyed the World Baseball Classic,
I think you might be in lying for a frontal
about me. Baseball has never been more popular. Every metric
points to it, and the World Baseball Classic has arrived
as a truly epic event. Bryce Harper said, though it's
not quite the Olympics. Well, that brings us to our

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second topic. In twenty twenty eight in Los Angeles, where
the Olympics will be hosted, Yes, there will be baseball.
As a matter of fact, there'll be games played at
Dodger Stadium between July thirteenth and nineteenth, but as of now,
there are no plans for Major League Baseball players to

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be allowed to play. However, that could change. This would
be a first. Rob Manfred, the commissioner, says he's optimistic
about the participation. What they would have to do, if
very similar to what the NHL does, is basically shut
the season down for a bit. It wouldn't be as
long as the NHL, but it'd be at least ten days,

(35:56):
if not longer, and perhaps being extended All Star break.
But you've got things like insurance coverage, roster flexibility, and
there's always going to be the concern about injuries. Okay,
my people tell me that it's likely that this could
happen because this creates a massive marketing opportunity for Major

(36:19):
League Baseball and the Players Association, and both have shown
strong interest. When you've got stars in the game like
Bryce Harper publicly pushing for it, but that helps a lot. Okay,
So the plan, the current proposal, would involve creating a
temporary pause in the Major League Baseball season. You essentially
extended Midsummer break that you know, the All Star Game

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as it were, to accommodate the tournament. That would allow
high profile stars to participate. And I think there's only
going to be eight teams. I have to check into that.
I know the Dominican Republic has already qualified, and of
course USA is already qualified because they're the host tournament.

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It's not a madic birth. And I believe the top
two teams from the Americas, including excluding the United States
and the World Baseball Team will qualify. Then there's also
going to be a tournament in November twenty twenty seven
called the WBSC Premier and the top team from Asia
and the top team from Europe will also qualify. And

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then in March twenty twenty eight there will be one
final spot. It'll actually not an eight team tournament, it's
a sixteen tournament. Bryce Harper wants major League baseball players
in the twenty twenty eight Olympics. He's made no bones
about it. What do you feel would you like to
see this happen or keep it the way it is?

(37:48):
We've got plenty of minor league talent that can step in. Look.
Team Italy didn't have a single player invited to play
for Team USA and for their starters, their third basement
or second basemin or left fielder Dante Norri from Northfield
High Score spoke at that banquet or their crosstown rival
banquet in twenty twenty four. This kick can really play.

(38:09):
It's never been hired in double A. Look what he's doing.
The Inlys got four players that aren't even the big
leagues and they're in the semi finals. So you know,
we've got plenty of talent here. And I will tell
you I went to the Olympics in eighty four in
Los Angeles and baseball was brutal. I eat brutal the team,
A lot of them foreign teams weren't that good. It's

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different now. So number one, batman of Bayo, you know I'm.

Speaker 7 (38:35):
Going with that.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Number two. Would you like to see Olympic baseball with
major league players in twenty twenty eight? Number three, take
me out to the ballgame, buy me some people. Well,
I'll tell you what. Let's say you go to a
Saint Louis Cardinal game. This year, they announced the launch
of the Coca Cola Unlimited all you can eat tickets
for regular season games at Bush Stadium. Yes, yes, sir,

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Starting as low was twenty nine dollars. You buy a ticket,
you go to the game. You include all the fountain
drinks you can drink, Coca Cola products, hot dogs, chicken, tenors, Broughtworths,
nacho chips and cheese, French fries, popcorn, beanuts, kettle chips,
and ice cream cups. I'm in myles will probably get tired.
Once you check in Unlimited ticket holders, you get a wristband.

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You may select up to three out of per visit
from one dedicated concession stand. It's going to be intersection
two sixty five. You can come back as long as
you like. Yes, that's just a good idea, or is
this a bad gimmuck pandering to our primal interests getting
people to eat to come to a game? Just a
quick yesterday, good idea? Our bad gimmut? The Coca Cola

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unlimited Cardinals all you could eat seats again, bam ad
a baio is eighty three points figasi legitimate or not?
Would you like to see our major leaguers shut down
the league during the Olympics in twenty twenty eight to
fill out those rosters in much the same way hockey
did most recently eight seven, seven, nine, nine, six six

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three sixty nine eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
Let's take your calls, Let's have some fun, let's have
some good arguments. Let's blow it up. It's the midnight
hour and you're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show, right
you heard the man. The Bernie Frale Show keeps rolling
right along. Take up to three in Pacific, six a
am Eastern. The call bank is full lined up, folks,

(40:30):
Please be patient. I really want to get to all
of you. Hear what you've got to say. We got
three great topics, bam adebio, legitimate, fagazy, artificial, superficial. Got
admit some late game tactics helped them surpass Kobe, but
there are defenders where you weigh in Olympic Baseball in

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twenty twenty eight, July thirteenth to the nineteenth, would you
like to see major league players play just like the
NHL did, shut down the season for a couple of weeks.
It could happen. It's what Bryce Harper wants. And finally
you're gonna go to Bush Stadium this year. Twenty nine
bucks get you all you can eat, hot dogs, chicken tenders, brats, nachos,
French rice, popcorn, peanuts, ice cream, cheese. Great idea or

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goofy gimmick? Would you do it? It's time for the
men at Hour. All right, here we go, that's letter
rip Bark in Maryland. You lead us off today. Welcome in, Ernie.

Speaker 7 (41:37):
It's always the pleasure.

Speaker 8 (41:38):
You're the best, my brother.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
Thanks for the first topic.

Speaker 8 (41:43):
I think you're gonna have to help me out. I'm
getting off from work. The damn thing is manufactured. It's
nobody's gonna respect that. Okay, I'm just telling you it
was manufactured. I'm a Wizards fan. Is absolute ridiculous. Bama
is a great two way player. He's more defensive. I've

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never seen him as no Kevin Durant or any prolific
offensive score. Yeah, you know, I don't respect that. I
don't like it. The way they went about it is
stat driven. Okay, it's who gays the big time? Okay.
What was the second topic, Bernie?

Speaker 2 (42:22):
The second topic is Olympics are coming to Los Angeles
in twenty twenty eight. There will be baseball sixteen tournament
from the thirteenth to the nineteenth to July. Bryce Harper
would like to see US copy of the NHL model
and have major league players shut down the season. He'd
be able to play for Team USA. Would you like
to see that?

Speaker 8 (42:41):
Yes, entirely, because now this is nationalistic. If we lose
the Olympics. Baseball is an American sport, just like the
w just like the World Baseball Championship. Okay, it's taken on.
It's just like US hockey. We got to know, we
got to defend it. If we don't win it, it's

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a indictment on American baseball. We have to we gotta
put our best in there. It's just like I grew
up in the era where where where the Olympics? It
was college and then going against European pros. Okay, I
remember all of that. I hated it, the Bobby Knight
thing at the last minute. Uh, I forget what.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Olympics Los Angeles a right.

Speaker 8 (43:31):
It made me sick to my stomach. Okay, we gotta
we gotta fight fire with fire. It's professional now. Okay,
I agree with Bryce, even though you know I'm a
I'm a national fan. He went to Philly, But I
like Bryce. But yes, he's got the right idea. Okay, no, no, no,
we gotta fight fire and let me let me tell
you something. If we don't win it, it's an indictment

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on our sports. Okay, this is what we were bread.
Basketball is ourse, Baseball is ouse. We got I'll win it.
We got to go with our best because they're not
playing around.

Speaker 9 (44:03):
What was the third for sure?

Speaker 2 (44:04):
Okay? So in Saint Louis they announced the launch of
the Coca Cola Unlimited All you can Eat seats twenty
nine bucks. There's ten items. Is it a goofy gimmick
or is it something you think? It's a great idea?

Speaker 8 (44:17):
All let me tell you something. They're onto something. Okay,
when you go to the stadium and you can get
all you can eat because you can pay for two
hot dogs and I damn near twenty dollars, you know
what I mean? You got to have it. I mean,
I think this is a brilliant idea. It's a brilliant sales,
compact sales concept. All all, all of baseball teams will

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adopt that all you can eat?

Speaker 10 (44:43):
Are you crazy?

Speaker 8 (44:44):
We need to get in. That's a that's a no brainer.
I buy a ticket if I can you all I
can eat? That's all I got to say.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Burnie, all right, Mark, good energy, great energy, thanks a lot.
Just a caveat. It's only going to be from one.
It's my understanding, one dedicated concession stand near Sex two
sixty five. So we'll unpack that later. Thanks again, Mark, Joel,
and Seattle. Welcome into the Bernie Fouder Show.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
How are you doing, Bernie?

Speaker 2 (45:09):
Good? Buddy? You good?

Speaker 3 (45:11):
Just waiting for Adam Silver to make a decision on expansion.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
It's gonna be about six years, I think, seriously. But
let's continue on. What are your thoughts on the bam
Adebayo eighty three points.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
Against the Washington Generals.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Exactly exactly all we needed was red klots. I think
that says it all right there. Let's hear your thoughts
on the Olympic baseball situation in twenty twenty eight.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
I just hope we have it. I don't know what
else to say.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Well, basically, look like Mark said in Maryland, there was
a time. I mean I went to the eighty four
Olympics in the LA excuse me. The baseball is brutal.
I mean, some of those foreign teas are terrible. We
sent a college all star team twenty three to twenty
five guys got to the big leagues and mopped up.
But we're in a different world right now. So basically

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that's what that's that involves. But you'd have to shut
down Major League Baseball for at least three weeks. There's
insurance issues, injury, there's all kinds of stuff, but it's
trending toward maybe happening. All right, What are your thoughts
about the all you can eat Coca Cola seats in
Saint Louis.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
I'm more wondering, was that last callers sound like stephen
Ah Smith.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
In what way? He has good energy?

Speaker 8 (46:33):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (46:33):
Okay, yeah, I'm all for that. Sounds good. Twenty nine
bucks for all that all that grub.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Yeah yeah, I mean there's like ten or ten or
twelve different items and they all they're all good.

Speaker 9 (46:47):
You know.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
It's not like sushi and some of these goofy things
you got at the ballpark. Okay, man, anything else tonight?

Speaker 3 (46:54):
No, you have a good You have a good night.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
Thanks, Joe, appreciate you checking in from Seattle. Tony in Miami.
How you been? Tony?

Speaker 8 (47:02):
It with Bernie.

Speaker 11 (47:03):
I'm actually cruising on Alton. The other guy brought up
Adam Silver.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
I swear to.

Speaker 11 (47:07):
God, I saw him walk out about ten minutes ago
the S and M bondage club called Twist. He had
a ball in his mouth and a chain, and I
think a taller man on stairs that could have been Lebron,
but I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
That's a bad metal picture. Tony, Oh my goodness, we
have women Filder listening tonight. Go ahead, Tony, you're up.

Speaker 11 (47:31):
Yeah, I don't have anything on the baseball. I'm down here.
So I love, I love, I love, I like BAM
a lot.

Speaker 7 (47:40):
Yeah, go back about.

Speaker 11 (47:43):
The twenty years I've got play like that. Nowhere at
all in any league, I'm sorry, Nowhere on all in
that time would that player score. His high would be
like maybe thirty one, thirty five in a league with integers,
the league where the players play hard, everyone's trying. And

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I really think this was a good for the league.
It was a kick in the mouth. And if you remember,
you got a steal chet memory, But about four months ago,
maybe five, but whever that gambling thing, I called and
I said, Bernie, one of these guys is gonna score
one hundred and fifteen points and no one's gonna care.

Speaker 9 (48:26):
You can go to the tape.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
No I know, no, I do remember you saying that,
because essentially, when you have players betting on in in
game props, on individual performances, it changes the dynamic. And
you know what's weird, We're talking about a guy who
missed thirty shots. He missed fifteen three pointers, he missed
seven free throws. Can you imagine if he hits a

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handful of those, he might have caught wilt for crying
out loud?

Speaker 11 (48:53):
Yeah, I think somebody, somebody will unless they fix this.
Like I said, am Seller's got to get shipped down
to South America, somewhere he doesn't belong here, does belonging
the NBA.

Speaker 7 (49:04):
I blame him.

Speaker 11 (49:05):
Uh, it's it's this would have never happened with a
man of integrity, a man with a backbone. And I
used to love basketball. I haven't watched, forget a whole game.
I haven't watched two to three quarters of a game
since twenty one when when Yannis won it, the game's
falling apart. It's like a Pinto. Not a Pinto, maybe

(49:26):
a Corolla that's twenty years old that's on its last limb.
And people were pissed off. But I'm like, uh, are
you angry for flooring it? You know they drive going
on a dry ride and then it just dying down.
I'm not angry. And I think Riley Exposa or whatever
I think they saw, they saw this league's like who played?

(49:46):
No one cares, so let's drive it down, let's let's
let's let's stick it down. There was there are people
complaining about the you know that was that was unsports
Look like, dude, it's like this is this is ten
years too late, you know, so I have no problem
with it. No one, I don't care. Nobody threw the

(50:06):
watching he hit forty he did, it went forty three
through at tenth.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
So here's what's interesting prior to this, and you're right,
Bam was a good two way player, never had more
than forty one points in a game in his entire career,
and all of a sudden, Bam and everybody was kind
of a little wild. Look what I did there? Didn't
you mean to do that? And everybody was in on it. Finally,
this gimmick in Saint Louis all you can eat twenty
nine bucks. You heard the food items that I you know, good,

(50:33):
good idea gimmick? Silly? What are your thoughts? Are they pandering?

Speaker 11 (50:38):
I think only here where the strip mall Kung Fu
Kung Fu Wayne, where it's fourteen ninety nine all you
can eat? Nobody thought that would work. So I think
that family is now going to Saint Louis and loading up.
I mean, garbage is garbage, Bernie. I know you got
the other callers.

Speaker 7 (50:55):
Have a great night.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
Thank you, Tony. Jim in Massachusetts bat clean up tonight.
Let her rip, Jim.

Speaker 7 (51:03):
What's going on, Bernie? The eighty three point game, Hey,
that's a good thing. But they're playing in the league
where there's no hand checking, there's no body and people
and stuff like that. So hey, they may have helped
them a little bit, but that's what the league's turn
into a joke. If he wanted to score eighty three,
let him go back and play in the eighties. Dan,
I'll tip my hat if he gets eighty three. All right, baseball, Bernie,

(51:28):
what are you talking about? They're not going to shut
down a whole business that.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
They're talking about it. They're really talking about a Jim
the commissioner. They've had discussions. Go ahead, you got the floor.
But this is not a zero. I think it's better
than fifty to fifty they do it. Continue on, it's.

Speaker 7 (51:46):
A zero, Bernie, you're talking how many countries? Twenty five guys?
Where are you gonna house all the ticket?

Speaker 2 (51:53):
Where six teams is it. It's only sixteens whatever.

Speaker 7 (51:57):
All those all those people, where are you gonna house them?
Where you're gonna food and baseball? Bernie. I can fly
from Logan out there, watch the game in the third inning,
come back to Boston, get a root canal, go back
to la and you'll still be in the third inning. Boring, boring, boring.
No one wants to see baseball in the Olympics. The

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only reason they have hockey and the other It's fast paced,
it's moving, you always see something.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
It's become a lot more of an international game now though, Jim,
I'm not dismissing what you're saying, but I think we
have to let this, let this play out. So I
know what you weigh in on that, and you know
where you're weigh in on. Vam Adebayo. So about the
Cardinals is they launched their Coca Cola unlimited tickets in.

Speaker 7 (52:45):
Food and everything. Well, you know what I'm gonna do
later on today, I'm gonna give our our FK Junior
a call and get him over there on.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
The Here you go.

Speaker 7 (52:53):
We gotta we got a country that's that's obef and
everything and kids. We're trying to get that under control,
and I gonna throw more jump food at everybody just
to get them in the stadium. Come on, give me
a break, Brining.

Speaker 2 (53:05):
You know all right, Jim, you're you're you're in rere
form tonight. Jim, I love you, man, but it's someone
no one pissed in your court flakes today. Did I
love you man, but you're you're in rere form tonight.

Speaker 7 (53:17):
That rings up the bands in Cleveland.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
Look how that Nickel beer Knight Cleveland nineteen seventy four,
My friend, what are the great sporting events of all time?
Nickel Beer Knight in Cleveland? They had to bring it back.

Speaker 7 (53:29):
It just goes to show our age Bernie. One last
thing quickly, though, Did they settle the contract with the WNBA?
Are they not yet?

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Not yet? They're still arguing. They said that if they
didn't have it settled by March tenth, uh, they'd have
to alter some things. Well, they didn't do that. It's
a clown league. Look, I know that the owners, I think,
have tended a very generous proposal. They're increasing the salary
cap by like five hundred percent, So you're gonna have
a million dollar players that play for forty four days

(53:58):
or whatever the hell of the league is. And that's
still not good enough. They want a piece of the pie.
But the short answer to your question is they don't
have a deal yet.

Speaker 7 (54:05):
Oh well, I don't think they're gonna have a season.
Then he put me, I.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
Don't figure something out. I don't know if they have one.
I don't know. I don't Yeah, I don't care. I
just don't care. Forgive me, we're good. I'll go to
confession twice this week. I don't give a damn. I'm
going to Hell on a scholarship. I couldn't care less
about the WNBA. Jim, great stuff as always. Man, We'll
see you next week. H eight seven seven nine nine
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one Fox gives a callby part of the action. We're
rocket and rolling. Andrew in Bakersfield joins us. Next. Welcome in, Andrew, Bernie.

Speaker 12 (54:40):
Oh what's up? Bernie?

Speaker 2 (54:41):
I warrer you.

Speaker 12 (54:43):
I'm all right. Quick question? Does Motown music? Do they
have to be from Detroit to be considered Motown?

Speaker 7 (54:50):
Well?

Speaker 2 (54:50):
Motown was founded by a Barry Gordy Junior, and I've
been in their studios on West Grand Boulevard, it's an
old house, it's famous, and a lot of those are
artists were from the South, and the musicians were from
the South. They're from all over. However, they formed what
became Motown Records, and it was its own distinctive sound,

(55:11):
which all these years later is universal, was timeless. Let's
face it, it feel good music. I get comments all the
time on my music. Got to night.

Speaker 12 (55:20):
Yeah that's good, Okay, so bam for me, it's just total,
total cheese.

Speaker 9 (55:29):
It's no good.

Speaker 12 (55:30):
It's a sham. Yeah. And I don't see how you
could see it any other way, you know.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
And I'm with you, man, it's just but the people
are pushing back. But when you consider that Eric Spolstro
was telling his team to, you know, fill guys, even
though they were up by more than twenty. All right
on down the line, continue on Olympic baseball in twenty
twenty eight, Would you like to see the hockey format
Olympic baseball?

Speaker 12 (55:56):
Let me just I just got to do one last
Laker thing. I can't even remember what else I was
gonna say, But I heard Lebron's clip, this audio clip
talking about the team. That's what I'm talking about. Lebron
you're the man, my friend. Good job, all right? Thanks?

Speaker 8 (56:11):
All right?

Speaker 2 (56:12):
What are your thoughts on the Cardinals and they're launching
their Coca Cloa unlimited all you can eat seats. Are
you there? Do we lose Andrew? Ah? But Lucy, all right,
I guess we have no more Andrew eight seven seven
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(56:33):
on Fox Paul in Asheville, Thanks for your patience. Welcome
into the Bernie frattlesfield.

Speaker 9 (56:38):
Hey you get me, Bernie?

Speaker 7 (56:39):
How you doing?

Speaker 9 (56:40):
Pleasure and be on with you.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
Nice to have you. Welcome in.

Speaker 9 (56:44):
Hey, So listen. So the first point the man at
a bio Bertie both both two things can be right
in a situation, and it sure was too gaisy. But
the other point of that is we have bitch to
and complain about the NBA teams tanking. And we're talking
more about bamed by the Bio's record of eighty three

(57:05):
points than we are about teams tanking. Like, let's focus
on the positives, and like you have to think of
the business decision bam by the Bio made now unto
eternity or you know, for a long time. Anytime there's
a TV that shows NBA scoring leaders. He's getting right
up there, right behind Wilt and that's going to carry
on his legacy for a long time. Without that game

(57:28):
eighty one points and not to find Kobe Bryant eighty
three points. Told to find Bam out the bio and
that's that's his legacy. So good for him. And like
he busted his ass against the team that was tanking
like advantage Bam.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
So thank you. I got to tell you I appreciate
your perspective because one of my favorite things about the
midnight hour is the most boyant conversations with everybody just
simply agrees. And you've got an alternative perspective here, and
I can respect that. So listen. It's a topic that's
had legs for a freaking full week. So they did

(58:02):
have their defenders, all right. How about the other two topics,
Olympic Baseball and Cardinals Coca Cola unlimited seats Olympic Baseball.

Speaker 9 (58:11):
Hell yes, capital letters, fifty thousand exclamation points.

Speaker 7 (58:14):
What I love it.

Speaker 9 (58:16):
Look what nationalism is doing for sports, and now that
we have professional athletes that are proud to where the
jerseys of their country, like the effort you're seeing this
World Baseball Classics is like October baseball. And if you
think about the placement of the calendar of the Olympics,
that can be Major League Baseball's introduction to people over

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the middle of the summer. Hey remember us. It would
be an introduction to some international stars. And then when
the second half of the season would pick back up,
right as school is starting, people are going to jump
in with the expanded wildfire. People are loving it and
I just think it would be a phenomenal thing.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
For the baseball well said, appreciate it now. Finally, real quick,
the Cardinals unlimited Coca Cola all you can eat Sea.
It's a great idea or goofy gimmick?

Speaker 9 (59:05):
Have you paid attention to Cardinals Murnie? Something we got
to get people of the ballpark and it's not the
baseball Listen, it's a phenomenal thing. It makes affordability for
the family to go to the ballpark. And I will
tell you there's a single baseball team here in Asheville,
affiliate of the Houston Aster. Yeah, yes, they have a section.
But like the second thing, you know, unlimited free with

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the pretty you can only go.

Speaker 7 (59:29):
Through the line maybe two times in the.

Speaker 9 (59:31):
Middle of the summer. The lines are going to be
forever like people. It's not like people are.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
Can catch that's the catch. No, Hey, a great call.
I'm not sure if this is your first time, Paul,
but don't be a stranger. I appreciate your perspectives a lot.
All right, the the Midnight Hour is off and run.
Coming up next to be Jeff and Denver, James and Tacoma,
Andy and Washington. He on the five making Minnesota. Please

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Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
Hi, We're back on the Bernie Frautle Show. The Men
at Hour continues. Caller has been fantastic so far. Let's
just keep it rolling. We go out to Denver. We're
joined by Jeff. Jeff, Welcome back into the Bernie Frattle Show.
How are you.

Speaker 13 (01:00:51):
Hey, Bernie good?

Speaker 14 (01:00:52):
Just smoking the cigar, drink your few beers. One of
the time in the bam here tonight. I mean, you
put up thirty one in the first quarter, why not
go for it? Despite fair whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
Happened later, Well, they certainly went for it. I mean
he had all kinds of help, And I think that's
where the controversy arises, when you're following guys intentionally and
you know, right down down the line like things I said.
But I was, Look, we have the segments that we
can have all varying opinions, so you feel it was legitimate.
It was a legitimate eighty three point performance.

Speaker 14 (01:01:27):
Oh just for you know whatever, When you have thirty
one in the first quarter, why not go for it?
That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
Okay, I accept that. Let's continue on what are your
thoughts on baseball in the Olympics given the popularity the
WBC and the NHL in their format recently.

Speaker 14 (01:01:46):
Absolutely, I mean there's twenty teams in the World Baseball Classic.
Why is there only six in the Olympics. But yes, well.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
They have a different qualifying mechanism. There's actually sixteen in
the World Cup. In the World Baseball it's really a
totally different tournament from the ground up, but it's an
international tournament. Nonetheless, you'll have a team from Asia, the America,
South America, and of course Europe.

Speaker 14 (01:02:12):
But continue on, Well, they need to put more in
because the World Baseball Classic is outstanding.

Speaker 15 (01:02:17):
Yes, I mean those guys are going ball to the
wall and that I didn't get to see it, but
that the Canada game where there was a bench coding
ball and they were actually throwing haymakers.

Speaker 14 (01:02:28):
I mean this matters to those countries very much so.

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
Very much so. And do you make it out to
many Colorado Rockies games?

Speaker 14 (01:02:37):
Not anymore. I went to twenty straight home openers and
I had teasing tickets.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
But you gotta love Michael Lorenzon, don't you. Right now?
Michael Lorenzen, you gotta love.

Speaker 14 (01:02:47):
Him yeah, I see that he's a Rocky and the
Rockies actually have a couple of starting pitchers in the
World Baseball Classic.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
So that, well, what a gutty performance. If you know,
and if you knew his personal story, he's an Orange
County guy. He's an amazing human beings speak speaking of baseball. So,
Samluis Cardinals and they're all you can eat ticket, what
are your thoughts on that?

Speaker 14 (01:03:07):
Outstanding? I mean it gives the family with a few
kids a chance to go to a game and I
have to spend two hundred dollars in food.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
All right, but listen here, I hear you. Good stuff, Jeff.
Always appreciate your perspectives. Thanks for checking in, James and Tacoma, Washington.
Welcome into the Bernie Frattle Show.

Speaker 16 (01:03:29):
Yeah. First, the stars of basketball. I think anything's real
shaky when somebody's trying to do somebody just get a record.
And if you remember, years ago, A C. Green was
injured and purposely came into a game, started a game,
just those contective games played, Street State Attack came in
for like one play came out Aty Green.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:03:50):
As far as the Baseball Olympics, I've already heard them
announced the reduced the season from her sky took games
to one hundred and fifty four.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
You've for that. I have not heard that reported anywhere?
Is that you can I have heard what they're talking about? Well,
go continue on. I had not heard that, James. Was
that reported from a reputable agency?

Speaker 17 (01:04:15):
I heard from Jeff Passen again, this mustn't know that
they're talking about talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
Okay, okay, So it's it's it's one of the it's
one of the talking points at this point, because yeah, okay,
I hear you. It's it's it's it's merely a talking point. Yeah,
because they didn't reduce the NHL season games. No, So
all right?

Speaker 18 (01:04:38):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
And then the same Louis Cardinals and they're all you
can eat ticket goofy gimmick or great idea.

Speaker 17 (01:04:46):
Of what's what happened at Super eleven yesterday? Hears today
is not a high day bar for three dollars and
fourteen cents, and I was eleven yesterday one for.

Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
Pretty well, it does speak to our primal interests, doesn't it, James?
So I appreciate your call, Thanks so much. We stayed
in the state of Washington, Andy. I believe it's state
in Washington.

Speaker 3 (01:05:14):
Correct, that is correct, Bernie. How are you tonight?

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
Doing well? Thanks for checking in Andy.

Speaker 19 (01:05:19):
Yeah, Hey, I just have a quick question before he
addressed the three points. Did you speak often about working
in Detroit? Did you ever work with Rod Parker?

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
Oh? My god, Yes, Rob and I are friends. We
must have done over two hundred shows together at Detroit
for ninety seven to one was w KRK at the
time those were That was between two thousand and two
and two thousand and eight. Yeah, we did it all.
We're part of the Lions pre and post postgame show
as well. Yeah, Rob, I've known Rob for many many years.

Speaker 19 (01:05:51):
I'd love to hear you guys shout it up a
little bit at some point on the radio.

Speaker 3 (01:05:55):
Here, Hey, how the bear me?

Speaker 19 (01:06:01):
I was good with you know when coming out to
the strong start and all, but I don't know, I
just don't really care for the ending and the way
it got manipulated.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
So, yeah, that was the thing as a thing is
it got goo if you the other caller brought up
an excellent point. You had thirty one in the first quarter,
but when you're following guys at cent so you get
the point. We don't need to believe it. All right,
Olympics Baseball twenty twenty eight. You want to see a
copy of what we did with the NHL?

Speaker 19 (01:06:28):
Absolutely, why not the girl the game?

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
What could it hurt us? And then the only other
thing is the Saint Louis Cridinals all you can eat ticket.

Speaker 20 (01:06:40):
I gotta just say go for it. Who cares?

Speaker 19 (01:06:43):
I would love to see a family go out and
have it to have a nice night like that and
eat and drink all they want.

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
I'll be curious to see how it plays out. All right,
thanks a lot. I appreciate your call. I know they
tried something similar here at UNLB basketball games many years ago.
I don't know that it worked that well. Hugh on
the five, Hugh, it's been a minute. How you been man?

Speaker 14 (01:07:04):
Yes, sir Bertie, just so happy to get back.

Speaker 5 (01:07:08):
On and have a chinwag with you for a minute here.

Speaker 18 (01:07:11):
All right, the three.

Speaker 7 (01:07:12):
Topics we're really begin where wanting to go first?

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Why don't we start with the bammane bio eighty three
point game seems to have the most legs. You dive
a diet right right down the middle. Controversial, legitimate, superficial.
What are your thoughts well, all.

Speaker 13 (01:07:27):
The above, it's all the above.

Speaker 5 (01:07:30):
Well, what I find interesting is that, uh, you know,
you have to bush it's Bush League, you know, making
way for him to score points. But Bernie still have
to put the ball in the hoop and that's an
accomplishment and eighty three eighty three points is not something
that everybody does, right. But the thing that I find

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interesting too is that it seems like it's a disrespect
in the public's mind to Kobe, and nobody's really talking
about Wilt. Well Will went on the next night after
scoring one hundred points and had like fifty five and
twenty seven rebounds or something ridiculous like that, So that
looked more meaningful because of That's what he did, is

(01:08:15):
he scored a lot of point all the time. So yeah,
that's my that's my take on that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
Yeah, I think the fact that Kobe has been overshadowed
therein lies. I think some of the consternation here because yeah,
Kobe was beloved by most and so it's a little
it's a little different dynamic continue on.

Speaker 5 (01:08:35):
Yeah, and it's also that it's also a sign of
time is going on, and you know, people think, you know,
Kobe is still in the it's still in the mind,
whereas Wilt and those guys in that era are starting
to fade away. And that's just going to continue on
because that's that's the way it rolls.

Speaker 9 (01:08:54):
Time to goes on. So okay, baseball, Wow, that one's kind.

Speaker 5 (01:08:59):
Of near and hearing me just like you said, I went.

Speaker 3 (01:09:02):
I was.

Speaker 7 (01:09:02):
I went to the.

Speaker 5 (01:09:03):
Nineteen eighty four Olympics at Dodger Stadium, and believe it
or not, the thing I remember most is like the
first time I experienced the wave in this in a stadium.
Later to find out I get to start it in Washington.
But it just goes to proof that the competition was
that poor that I remember I.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
Got to tell it was sitting behind first base and
the Mexican team was terrible and the Italian team was terrible.
And I'll never forget you. Somebody had a pop fly
out of the second basement and his gloves stabbed it.
He was like a high school JV player, maybe not
even that. And the ball he not only he not
only dropped it, the ball rifled in the right field

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and I hear the fans behind me yelling those smuddles,
tho smuddles, little damn funny, right, continue on, that's hilarious,
well true story.

Speaker 13 (01:09:58):
Well check this out.

Speaker 5 (01:10:00):
That's funny because I played at Dodger Stadium for the
CIF Finals in nineteen eighty seven and I played second day.
So that's that's near and dear to me too. But
I didn't drop any balls.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
What high school did you go to?

Speaker 7 (01:10:14):
Let turn of high school?

Speaker 2 (01:10:15):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:10:15):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
Listening? Okay, So was that was that? Two A at
the time?

Speaker 8 (01:10:18):
Three eight now two as?

Speaker 5 (01:10:20):
Yeah, the way we lost we loft the Capitol Valley unfortunately.

Speaker 7 (01:10:23):
Oh but I'd say.

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
Matt Morenovitch is at Taple Valley those years, believe it
or not. Yeah, you might have a picture anyway. All right, finally,
you one of your thoughts on the all you can
eat stuff at Saint Louis.

Speaker 21 (01:10:35):
Well, I'll get to that.

Speaker 5 (01:10:37):
But the thing about the previous thing was was the
point is it was taking out the ten games during
the MLB season, right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
I have not heard that. I have not heard that.
It's so I can't comment on it, but go.

Speaker 5 (01:10:51):
Ahead, okay, okay, yeah, because that would that would that's
not a bad idea. It's a long season. And now
in the era where people were making gazillions, and they're
they're they're seeing as assets rather than than you know,
than people and players, and they were getting rested and
all that stuff.

Speaker 9 (01:11:08):
Well, you know, the two dozen or so.

Speaker 5 (01:11:11):
Players that go and play during the Olympics, they're not
going to get a break. But the rest of the
all the other people are going to get a break.
And that's not a bad thing, you know, I don't
think so that might kind of there's.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
Some things daring out that among insurance and the owner. Yeah,
there are there are some things.

Speaker 13 (01:11:29):
Yep, for sure, for sure, okay.

Speaker 5 (01:11:33):
And lastly, so well in Saint Louis, it's going to
keep America fat, I guess. But just it's twenty nine
dollars ticket.

Speaker 7 (01:11:44):
That's that's a good thing.

Speaker 9 (01:11:45):
But I caught on to something that you said.

Speaker 5 (01:11:47):
That it's only going to be served from like one
concession standard.

Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
That's correct, that's correct, right, Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:11:52):
So the punny think about that is today I went,
I just walked into a seven eleven and there's a
sign on the door that says, get any large pizza
today for three dollars and fourteen cents, And I just
I didn't want one, but I asked the guy and
he's like, oh, they're all gone, you know.

Speaker 7 (01:12:07):
So it's gonna be for a limited time.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
We'll see how this plays out. You're not wrong, all right.
You always appreciate you.

Speaker 19 (01:12:16):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:12:17):
It'll be a stranger. We have so many calls. I
wish I could give people more time. Let's go to
uh Nick in Minnesota. You're up next'll do go ahead, bank.

Speaker 22 (01:12:37):
We somebody doing something for the home fans for ones
Eric Spolstra.

Speaker 9 (01:12:41):
People are going to want to go to him, all right,
that's fair.

Speaker 22 (01:12:47):
And if you're scoring anything more than what Jordan's scored
in the playoff game, and it was sixty three, then
that's but that's in a playoff game. Write anything more
than that here for yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
Oh, no question, no question. The game. The outcome of
the game was decided by the way. So okay, So Nick,
what are your thoughts on the Saint Louis Cardinals and
they all you could eat ticket?

Speaker 3 (01:13:21):
Love it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
All right, buddy, anything else?

Speaker 13 (01:13:29):
Bolts are gonna win the championships, the Bulls.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
Wolves, I wouldn't mind seeing that.

Speaker 12 (01:13:38):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
I like Michael Nory, he's Dante Nory's dad, and I
like Chris Finch too. They they're knocking on the door.
I don't know, man, I would like to see that, honestly, Nick,
thanks for checking in. Appreciate you.

Speaker 12 (01:13:51):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
The Minute hour will continue. Alan from Saint Louis, John
from Maine, you are up next, and I think Paul
had a follow up and we will allow it. We're
here to have fun in the min that hour. Hay
Ted everybody, I'm Bernie Fradder. We're coming line from Las Vegas.
Fox Sports Radio Studios. Keep it locked. You can listen
to the Bernie Frawdles.

Speaker 23 (01:14:10):
Don't listen no, Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
All right, back on the Bernie Fraddle Show. We wrapping
it up on the Men that hour. We got four
callers left. We want to get to all of them.
Let's keep the line moving. Alan from Saint Louis, welcome in. Alan.

Speaker 3 (01:14:25):
How are you, Bernie?

Speaker 24 (01:14:27):
How you doing good? Sir Man, I'm felm feeling good.
I'm enjoying this show. And first of all, and forth,
I'm at a biol concerns. It really doesn't bother me.
I've seen crazier things. And let's face it, if this
were a prolific score like James Harden, Steph Curry Kevin Durant.

(01:14:47):
I think people may talk about it, but they would
be as upset about it because Ben Malta Byo is
not a prolific score.

Speaker 8 (01:14:54):
So no, I think the Kobe.

Speaker 24 (01:14:56):
Bryant people wouldn't mind seeing Durant or Curry pass pass
him up instead.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
Fair enough, sent a bit man at Obio. Okay, fair enough, Allen.
What are your thoughts on Olympics baseball in twenty twenty eight,
just like the NHL, oh I thought.

Speaker 3 (01:15:12):
I think it's gonna be wonderful.

Speaker 20 (01:15:13):
I mean, let's face anything, anything to promote the game,
it's nothing. Let's say, there's nothing negative about it. And
I think, and you know, we call to the people
how people criticize athletes all they playing the kids game
and stuff.

Speaker 16 (01:15:25):
Sometimes I think a little rest, a little rest.

Speaker 20 (01:15:28):
Can't help players, especially once whom I have nagging injury.
So I don't have a problem with it at all.

Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
Good deal, Good deal, Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:15:37):
Louis, I love it and burn Let's face it, I'm
sixty seven years old. I have never been through something
the Cardinals are going through right now, and that's a
total rebuild. They have always retooled in the past.

Speaker 2 (01:15:54):
That's true.

Speaker 20 (01:15:54):
So every time. Every year before the season starts, they've
already sold three million kicks.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
That's very true.

Speaker 20 (01:16:01):
I think this is more about getting fans in the seats, maybe.

Speaker 8 (01:16:06):
Enjoy a game.

Speaker 20 (01:16:06):
And let's face it, i've heard some of the previous callers.
I'll see those hot dogs at Busch stadiums ain't no
kid eating more than want of them.

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
Anyway, Alan, great stuff, man, appreciate your enthusiasm. Thanks for
checking in as always, John from me, and you're up next.
How are you.

Speaker 13 (01:16:24):
I'm doing good, Bernie. I'm gonna keep it short and
sweet because I hate to sound my voice. First one
is bam. All I have to say is in twenty
years when future reporters are looking at stuff and looking
over the history and they see that record and they
see he went to the free throw line forty three times,

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they're gonna look at each other and be like, what
was this sponsored by Make a Wish Foundation.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
Or something interesting? Twenty times? Go ahead.

Speaker 13 (01:16:58):
The second one is I think that you should leave
it with the college kids or whatever. I enjoy watching
the college baseball and stuff. It's a lot of fun.
You see the up and comers.

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:17:12):
Third one is Uhi, Hey, Yeah, it.

Speaker 13 (01:17:15):
Sounds like that, sounds like a good time. But just
remember you take the kids there and stuff like that.
Just remember at the end of the game, you got
to get those sugar bombs back in the car and
the ride home.

Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
So that's all for you, all right, Thanks a lot,
John from Maine appreciated. All right, So Paul and Asho
had a quick follow up. We will allow it. Go ahead,
Paul your back up.

Speaker 9 (01:17:38):
Hey, this is a weird thing for me to say,
and I want you to hear me out, but I
really think the NBA can learn a lot from the
World Baseball Classic.

Speaker 7 (01:17:48):
Can let me explain.

Speaker 9 (01:17:49):
And it's all about changing the schedule.

Speaker 7 (01:17:51):
It's like.

Speaker 9 (01:17:54):
Nobody cares about NBA Opening Day. So if you couldn't move,
if you couldn't move the All Star Game to the
beginning of the season and do like a big FanFest
maybe some events, and then you do your also like
to do your All Star Game and you get people excited,

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and you put it on a Tuesday or a Wednesday
during the football season, anyone announce and the opening weekend
and you blow it out. And then on the back
end of that burning like when you think about the
NBA All Star Game, and everybody is complaining about leading
up to about how bad it's been, complaining about the tanking.
What if you take your Christmas Day line up to

(01:18:37):
your five mega matches and put that on the weekend
of the current All Star weekend, which is the week
after the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
Listen, but I got to get to one more caller.
We're welcome to call back in next week and talk
about some of these some of these issues. But you're
not wrong. I think the NBA is trying to spicings
up the beginning with their season tournament. So I don't
mean to cut you off, but I don't want to
get I want to get the last caller he shot.
That is our man, Poppy. Poppy, welcome in, bud, finish

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us up tonight.

Speaker 21 (01:19:08):
Hey, yes, well bam on a bio complete joke, you know,
like putting out those numbers and copying well Chamberlaine, like
come on now night, No, like, dude, dude, something new,
you know, like that's a complete joke. Adam Silver, you know,
you know you got to do something about it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:24):
You don't take all right real quickly, Poppy, what do
you got for us on the Olympics Baseball twenty eight,
twenty eight, twenty eight.

Speaker 21 (01:19:30):
Well, I love it. It shows passion.

Speaker 12 (01:19:32):
You know.

Speaker 21 (01:19:32):
It's more you know the players what national team I
am going to play? Am I gonna be a for Mexico?
Am I gonna play for Brazilian?

Speaker 8 (01:19:38):
So they got to decide.

Speaker 12 (01:19:39):
So I love that.

Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
It's very compat beautiful saint though. I saw you can
eat Poppy.

Speaker 8 (01:19:44):
You can hear.

Speaker 21 (01:19:45):
Oh yeah, we all have a bargain, especially with this recession,
with this economy.

Speaker 11 (01:19:49):
Let's call.

Speaker 21 (01:19:50):
Let's get out what you're eating, get your funk, staying
for your fuck.

Speaker 10 (01:19:53):
Let's go.

Speaker 21 (01:19:54):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:55):
Let's go, Poppy. Make sure you call back next week.
We had a ton of callers tonight. I allowed the
one gentleman this second bite of the apple. We'll get
you back on next week for more airtime. But I
appreciate all the callers checking in. For the most part,
the bamman of bio thing people agree on. But there
were some good alternative opinions too. You can't put eighty
three in without having some junk on your trunk. Coming up,

(01:20:16):
we'll talk NBA with Mark Medina. Keep it locked, listen
to the Bernie fraddle. That's right. You heard the man
Bernie Fraddle Show keeps rolling right along. My name is
Bernie Fradder. We're company line for the Fox Sports Radio studios.
We'll take you up to three am Pacific, six am Eastern.
We got lots more business to get to. Oh what

(01:20:38):
a week for the NBA in terms of NBA headlines, storylines,
and good old arguments. Yup, three words. It's that time.
Mark Medina, Medina Magic, our Fox Sports Radio NBA guru
very much as his pulse finger on the pulse of
the league. Mark as usual. We got a lot to

(01:21:00):
unpack tonight, but I kind of have to start with
bam at a Bayo. We've we've heard from the media,
We've heard from the fans, We've heard from everybody except
from your vantage point. How do the players inside the
league feel about bam at a Baio's performance?

Speaker 18 (01:21:18):
Well, I think publicly a lot of players have congratulated him,
whether it's on social media or public interviews. I want
to be surprised though, if there's some internal angst about
recognizing it a hell of an achievement you're talented to
do it, but having an issue with the way he
went about it and that's the thing here. I think

(01:21:38):
both things can be true. You have to be really
a talented basketball player to score any three points. But
the way he did it, it just felt unnatural because
they're intentionally fouling the Wizards to get the ball back,
and they're intentionally fouling him to stop the clock. It
just didn't sit well.

Speaker 5 (01:21:55):
Men.

Speaker 18 (01:21:55):
And here's the thing I think that helps crystallize my
position is that when Kobe Bryant, well before he had
the eighty one points, he had sixty two points against
the Dallas Mavericks through three quarters, and assistant coach Brian
Shaw relayed to him that the former coach Phil Jackson
wanted to know how much longer he wanted to play

(01:22:16):
in the fourth quarter, and he said, I'm good, And
Brian Shaw asked him, well, what do you mean, like
you have the chance to score seventy and he said, well,
I'll do that some other time. We've already won the game.
So clearly, Kobe Bryant, who's someone that very rarely passed
up shots and had a scorers mentality, he knew that
the record would only mean so much if it was

(01:22:37):
in the confines of an actual game. That dictated the
result here, and I think that's something that we all
have to keep in mind with debating this topic.

Speaker 2 (01:22:48):
Duley noted Narron lies the rub because Ben had seventy
points with nine minutes to go. I'm told that Eric
Spolster instructed his players to file. One even missed a
free throw on purpose. And the game was just led
by twenty against the team who was taking So I
think making that distinction like he just did is really
what brings this to light in why people felt it

(01:23:09):
was so superficial.

Speaker 18 (01:23:10):
Yeah, and here's another distinction. Lakers Raptors in shoot thousand
and six, Kobe Bryant didn't have didn't have a roster
that was very competitive. Yeah, there are respectable players like
Lamar Odom or Luke Walton, but that season, primarily he
was shooting and scoring a lot. It was his highest
scoring output in his twenty year career because the team

(01:23:33):
was very flawed. The other thing is the Raptors weren't great,
but they needed every basket out of Kobe Bryant just
to win that game. And here's the other thing. Phil Jackson,
as we all know, he often instructed Kobe to pass
and trust his teammates, so who he was playing with
Shaq to defer to him in that game, he defended

(01:23:54):
Kobe with his high volume shooting and felt like this
was an incident where his high volume scoring wasn't contradicting
helping the team, that this was helping the team actually win.
So there's very distinct differences where comparing Bam out of
Bio's eighty three point game versus Kobe bryant eighty one

(01:24:17):
point game mark.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
There was another very distinctive performance this week that I'm
very surprised isn't getting much more run. I want you,
I want to get your thoughts on SGA's breaking of
Wilt's one hundred and twenty seven straight twenty point games,
and I want to just set this up for just
a second to give it some perspective other than Will.

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The only other player to do it in seventy two
straight games was Kevin Durant. Even Lebron only did it
forty nine straight games. And when you consider in that run,
Shay Gilsey's team was one O three and twenty four,
Wills was sixty six and sixty and Shay Gildy so
only thirty two minutes a game, it took well forty
nine minutes a game on average to do it. Although,

(01:25:01):
to be fair, what broke Wilt's record streak. We's got
kicked out after four minutes of a game once because
he argued to call. But I want to get your
thoughts because the more I watch, listen, and observe Sta,
the more I like him. Why isn't this record getting
more run?

Speaker 18 (01:25:18):
Why it's not getting more run? I think there's a
few things here.

Speaker 14 (01:25:26):
We're in.

Speaker 18 (01:25:27):
We're in an era where there's just higher scoring games,
and so there is almost scoring inflation because of more possessions,
more three point shots. I think even though Wilt Chamberlain
is one of the best scores and what's the most
big men of all time, there is kind of a
mystique about them because this is before, you know, the
television era, and so to be clear, well, there's this

(01:25:50):
younger generation that doesn't believe in the hundred point game
it actually did happen. But I think what gets lost
in this is even though Wilt Chamberlain was a dominant
big men and one of the best scores in this era,
he wasn't always associated with winning basketball, you know, so
a lot of times he was seen as a guy
that relied more on his talent than his work ethic.

(01:26:13):
You may recall when he was with the Lakers, it
was seeing that Jerry West and Gail Goodridge earned more
of the line's share of the credit for the championship
run than he did. And he was a player that
alls had a reputation of not playing through injuries, and so, yeah,
maybe that's part of it. I think as far as

(01:26:34):
the current era, it might be more because we're so
used to these highest scoring performances.

Speaker 2 (01:26:40):
I think it's one of those under the radar things.
I mean, but averaging twenty points a game for one
hundred and twenty seventh straight there's something to be said
for that kind of consistency. All Right, we have to
talk about the Lakers because the narrative has been all
over the map this week. Early in the week, we're
hearing that they're ten and two without Lebron. When Luca
and Reeves are on the floor, then we're hearing that

(01:27:00):
if Lebron would just accept his number three role and
shoot less than twenty shots a game, the Lakers could
be a factor. They kind of for at least one
game proved that Saturday night against Denver, Lebron only shot
thirteen times, played forty minutes. Thought he played pretty well
daving for balls.

Speaker 19 (01:27:19):
So is this new.

Speaker 2 (01:27:21):
Laker rotation well, I can't think of the correct moniker.
Can this version of the Lakers actually sustain and maybe
make more of a playoff run than we would have
originally thought?

Speaker 13 (01:27:33):
I mean, very well. Could.

Speaker 18 (01:27:34):
It's all subjects or change. But I think, you know,
because of injuries and just how tight this Western Conference is.
But I think what's been really different here with the
Lakers is they've gotten signature wins this week against the
New York Andecks, against the Minnesota Timberwolves, against the Denver
Nuggets Saturday night and overtime. And I think when we're

(01:27:55):
talking about the Lakers flalls and all that, a lot
of it had to do with the top heavy part
of the limp and their defensive you know, their lack
of defensive depth. But I think Zen and now I
didn't really have concerns about the Lakers big three in
their chemistry. I think a lot of it just had
to do with they weren't having time on the floor together,

(01:28:16):
and when they weren't having time on the floor together,
all the rest of the roster deficiencies were too glaring
to ignore. But what changed here is there's been more
ball movement. It's not just Luca jacket up shots. It's
within the confines of the offense. Austin, Reeves and Luca
have always had a great one to two punch. But

(01:28:38):
sometimes there's been this discomfort with Lebron because I think
Lebron has been willing to take a back seat, but
he wants to make the right basketball play, and sometimes
it seemed like he was making the right play, but
Luke and Austin weren't. And then the other thing is
they never had consistent three point shooting. They didn't have
consistency with Deandraiden, they didn't have And see on defense,

(01:29:01):
all of a sudden, now all these things are coming
to full bloom. Now is it sustainable? The defense makes
me hard to believe because they're very flawed, deadre and
you never know what version of him you're going to get.
Marcus smart hitting big shots, but as we saw with
the Boston Celtics, he sees her famine. But I think

(01:29:22):
when it comes to big three, I think that is sustainable.
Hear me out, Bernie, I know the record is what
it is. The stats say what they are, but their
lack of time together really was a factor here because
Lebron missed the first fourteen games of the season because
he had that psiatic issue. Once he came back, didn't
take long for Austin Reeves to have a cast strain

(01:29:43):
on Christmas Day. So all these injuries overlapped each other,
and when they did get that rare time to play
with each other, it was a small sample size because
of those previous injuries that I mentioned. So I think
now they have a full run way to actually get
on court time together, and I think that you'll see
those numbers and prove through these next few weeks of

(01:30:06):
the last home stretch of the regular season.

Speaker 2 (01:30:08):
So we talked about use the word sustainable Lebron. It
sounds like he will accept this role, but as is
sustainable in the playoffs, because there's kind of an odd
energy around him and you never know what it's going
to emerge. But for now he's playing the role. What
happens when the playoffs starts, Yeah, I.

Speaker 18 (01:30:31):
Think I think Lebron James has shown throughout his twenty
three of your career that he's willing to you know,
be a passer and move off the ball. You know,
he obviously wants to have his fingerprints. But I think,
to be clear, JJ Reddick said, it's not like he's
a role player. He's still a high usage player. And
so I think that the tug and pool with his

(01:30:54):
time with the Lakers has less to do with on
the court than it is the front office edynamics and
his influence over basketball personnel. I think that's the big thing.
I think the other thing we have to keep in mind.
Let it pertains in his time at the Lakers, he
didn't always have the patience to have this off the
ball roll or have a reduced ball handling role, but

(01:31:16):
that's because of the teammates around him. He would eventually
he would at first defer to guys like Dennis Schroeder
or Russell Westbrook or D'Angel Russell, but then eventually he
saw that they don't always make the right basketball play,
and so he would take matters into his own hands.
Here it's luka dojo. He's what Lebron James said after

(01:31:40):
he made that game winner Saturday night against Denver Nuggets.
A generational star. So it's much different dynamic. I mean,
he is an All Star caliber player. He has a
lot of respect for Luca, So I think it is
sustainable for the playoffs. But again, I don't think what
is sustainable is the Lakers playing well defensively. I don't
think it is stable for DeAndre at And to have

(01:32:02):
a dominant performance. I don't think it is sustainable for
Marcus Smart to hit threes. Marcus Smart's always going to
defend at a high level. He's going to inject a
lot of energy into the team, but he's not always
going to make a lot of threes like he did
against the Nuggets.

Speaker 2 (01:32:16):
Tom with Mark Medina Medina Magic, our Fox Sports radio guru.
By the way, what the hell has happened to Dalton Connect?

Speaker 9 (01:32:27):
What happened to him?

Speaker 18 (01:32:28):
I mean, he's not really playing is either or Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:32:31):
I mean exactly what. He was a first round draft choice,
thought he had a good camp, showed some flashes his
rookie year. He's no where to be found.

Speaker 18 (01:32:39):
What happened, Well, I think what happened was this. They
felt that his three point shooting was inconsistent, but regardless,
he didn't bring anything else to the table. They would
always talk about when he got drafted they wanted to
make him a complete player. When I've talked to Dalton Connect,
he mentioned that that was his goal to show that
he's more than just a shooter, and they didn't really

(01:33:02):
see that. He didn't really play well defensively, He didn't
really know the plays itself, and his supposed strength as
a shooter came in a way. So as a result,
he's not really getting many rotation minutes there, and I
want to be surprised, you know, moving forward that he's
not on the team.

Speaker 2 (01:33:21):
Yeah, seems like it's trending in that direction, speaking of
a complete player, you start the arguments for MVP start
to heat up. So far it's been you know, Jokic
and Shay Gilgis, but all of a sudden, it looks
like Wimby is right there in the mix. Would it
surprised you if Victor Winbinyamo won the MVP this year?

Speaker 18 (01:33:42):
It would not surprise me because he's been very, very dominant.
I think it's telling that, you know, spurts Ketch Mcsjohnson
is saying that they're going to try to make him
available so he doesn't miss too many games because of
that sixty five game rule. Victor Webbin Yama has this
old soul that actually gives a you know what about
the regular season, and he has a shippy ness with

(01:34:02):
his opponents, but he's also a great team guy and
he's all about great war habas. So if I had
to pick an MVP, I think it is going to
go to shay Gilgess Alexander because his play hasn't dropped off,
and I think the Thunder collectively have still been doing
pretty well even though there's been overlapping injuries around the roster,

(01:34:23):
and I think that's a testament to share with his productivity.
I would put Nikole Jokic second because he's been averaging
a triple double and there's been a lot of injuries
that they've had to deal with. Jamal Murray's been mostly healthy,
but there's been very notable injuries as Aaron Gordon. He
just came back against the Lakers, but he had missed

(01:34:46):
some extended time. Same thing with Christian Brown and Peyton Watson.
But even with all those different roster combinations and Koley
Jokic has been as dangerous as ever. But this is
a very tight race, and I think it's between or
among those players. You know obviously can say that Cad
Kenningham or Jalen Brown have a puncher's chance, even Luka Doncic,

(01:35:07):
but Eying it is really among those three players because
of how dominant and consistent they've been and the fact
that they're on championship contended teams.

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
I was going to ask you if you thought Luca
had a puncher's chance, he's probably gonna win the scoring
title or at least maintain the score.

Speaker 18 (01:35:22):
Yeah, I would rank him six. I mean, he's been
playing a high level, but I think because of the
Lakers inconsistency man the fact that you know, Luca's scored
a lot, but his defense is coming on, I don't
think he's in the run.

Speaker 2 (01:35:35):
In here talk Way, Mark Madina, Medina, Magic Are, Fox
Sports Radio, NBA Guru. Is it too soon to look
ahead of the draft. We're hearing reports the kid out
of Kansas. People have been hard at him for missing games,
but apparently he's having some sort of issue with full
body cramps. Have you heard that?

Speaker 9 (01:35:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (01:35:56):
I mean that's been the thing, and the mL is like,
can he ever finish the second half? And you know
the thing that's interesting about college basketball is you never
quite know what their trajectory is going to be until
the season's actually over. Like the interview process is really important.
The full body at work is important. But the biggest

(01:36:19):
thing is availability. And so even though every prospect's young,
if you're missing a lot of games, now there are
red flags on Okay, what is this going to mean
for an age two game season? Or are they going
to hit a ricky wall? You know that much sooner,
but you know, I think the bigger things is going
to be how the NCAA tournament plays out, as well

(01:36:39):
as that interview process, because that's when they get they
have a sense of what makes each player.

Speaker 2 (01:36:45):
Took last thing for you, Mark. I think a lot
of folks had high hopes for the Knicks and all
of a sudden down the stretch they've hit some real
speed bumps. They haven't really hunkered down on defense. I
think they need more out of Karl Anthony Towns. Jalen
Brunson has been inconsistent in my view. What are your

(01:37:07):
thoughts now that Boston has emerged again with Jason Tatum.
Did the Knicks have a chance of getting out of
the Easton near.

Speaker 3 (01:37:15):
View, they have a chance.

Speaker 18 (01:37:16):
I think they're more pretender than contender the Knicks. They've
been one of the best defensive teams since January. I
think they've been playing with more physicality, but their offense
has taken a back seat. Even though you know, Karl
Anthony Towns and Jaylen Brunson have Greek chemistry and they
run a lot of pick and roll, you know, with
Kat diving to the rim or popping out for a jumper.

(01:37:39):
Their shooting's been inconsistent. Carl Anthony towns Is usage rate
has been lower, and they have really struggled with finding
a definitive third option. I mean, Josh Hart is a
great energy guy, but you never know what you're going
to get with Mikhail Bridges or Ogion Noby. You're never
going to know what you're going to get as far
as consistent playing time with Jordan Clarkson. So I think,

(01:38:01):
you know what they've been talking about winning a championship.
That's not going to happen in New York. And I
don't even think they're going to get to the conference finals.
I think it's going to be between the Boston Celis
and Troy Pistons. I think the Celtics are actually the
favorite to get to the finals because Jason Tatum's back.
But more importantly, they have played really, really well with

(01:38:21):
Jaylen Brown being the MVP mix and their role players
play out of their mind that I think you have
to actually take them seriously and not just think, oh yeah,
they are a team that was competitive but nothing more. No,
they are in continuing status mark.

Speaker 2 (01:38:34):
Hard to argue with that great stuff, and who knows
what the news cycle continues to bring as we continue
this segments.

Speaker 18 (01:38:43):
Always a pleasure, and I'm looking for your apology about
all that Luca criticism.

Speaker 2 (01:38:48):
Oh no, no, no, they're never going to win a championship.
You didn't win a champion Oh you go find a
shine box. No, no, no, that's the standard. I'm sorry.
The Lakers are the Lakers are. They are a franchise
of arrows. We're finishing up the Clown era and entering
the Luca era. He's not gonna win a championship. I
just complimented him as boat as best as I can.

(01:39:10):
I think it should be mentioned for the MVP this year.

Speaker 18 (01:39:12):
Okay, well, least let's say this isn't a trade that
makes Nico Harrison vindicatett.

Speaker 2 (01:39:19):
I said, I'd give it three years and for now
I see the same kind of defense. Well, look, he
saved him four hundred and eighty million dollars. We know
he got back Anthony Davis, which didn't amount to much,
but lebron never wanted him to leave in the first place.
So that takes us down a rabbit hole. Neither one
of us, unfortunately, have time to go down tonight, but
maybe another time.

Speaker 18 (01:39:39):
Mark the discuss.

Speaker 2 (01:39:41):
There you go, Pal, and we'll get well, we'll we'll
devote the whole segment to Bronnie James while we're at it.

Speaker 18 (01:39:47):
Sounds like a plan, all right, Mark.

Speaker 2 (01:39:48):
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In a bit, I am going to get my thoughts
on whether or not Kyler Murray will work in Minnesota.

(01:42:11):
The Pros and the Cons the first one of our
segments growing in great popularity for obvious reasons. Well, it's
the Fantasy Files with Brandon.

Speaker 6 (01:42:22):
Fantasy Files with Brandon Deutsch, your go to fantasy football
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Speaker 25 (01:42:30):
What is up, everybody? It is Brandon Deutsch on the
Bernie Freda Show and Fantasy Files and yes, Bernie, we
will be discussing Kyler Murray today and more free agent
signings and how that is impacting their fantasy value moving forward.
I first want to just get the Kyler stuff out
of the way. All he needs to do is be
a better quarterback than JJ McCarthy. They won nine games

(01:42:51):
with Max Brosber and JJ McCarthy at quarterback last year,
so I with Brian Flores still as their DC, I
think the Vikings are actually going to be way better
than people think. I think it could be a resurgence
here for Kyler Murray, and I think fantasy purposes. He's
always been pretty good because of his rushing ability, and
he didn't have much great coaching there besides Cliff Kingsbury
in his early time, and that led to a playoff

(01:43:13):
appearance in some great years from Kyler. But once Kingsbury
was gone, he had nothing else really going. And now
he is Kevin O'Connell one of the best offensive minds
in the league. I think it's a win win and
they got him for basically nothing, so I'm going to
get that out of the way. I wouldn't draft him
in fantasy. I'm not saying I would take him in
the first few rounds. In terms of quarterbacks. I'm meaning

(01:43:33):
first few rounds, round five through round ten, when you
truly start drafting quarterbacks unless you want to take Allen
in round one, but I'd consider him if we get
into those later rounds. I think he'll be a sneaky
productive fantasy player, and I think Jefferson has a bounce
back here because of it as well. I wanted to
get into my favorite fantasy signings basically how they're going

(01:43:55):
to be impacted in fantasy football. I think number one
is pretty obvious. I think some people would say the
best wide receiver on the market and out not named
Alec Pierce, who obviously resigned with the Colts, and I'll
get him into him in a moment. But Mike Evans
to the forty nine ers I think is a big, big,
big signing for fantasy purposes. I mean, Kyle Shannan's known

(01:44:15):
as like the architect of the modern NFL with the
X receiver in terms of how he's used him. I mean,
he really hasn't had one in a long time. But
Mike Evans is going to have another one thousand season,
probably this upcoming year, and I could see him going
in round five, round six in fantasy. I'd take him
in round four. I'd even consider him in round three.
I think he has one incredible year left I think

(01:44:36):
it is this year now. As long as he stays
away from the substation enough, I think he can avoid injury.
I'm just kidding, but you know it is an issue.
He wasn't injured last year, but his entire career he
wasn't injured, So we'll see. Obviously, the forty nine ers
training regimen has been people have criticized it obviously with
all the injuries the last few years. But if he

(01:44:57):
remains healthy, I love that signing. I'm going to give
that an plus, just for fantasy purposes. The one I
didn't like, though, is Romeo Dobbs to the Patriots, just
just for the money perspective. I think fantasy wise he'll
be fine. I just don't know. You know, if you're
a Romeo Dobbs dynasty holder, I would say I would

(01:45:18):
trade him because I still think they're gonna trade for
AJ Brown. I still think they're gonna trade for a
wide receiver one and Drake May last season was known
for throwing two different receivers right like he had a
kaish on Booty was having big games, Stefan Diggs to
Mario Douglas, Hunter Henriette tight end, like there were a
bunch of different factors in that offense, and it's always

(01:45:38):
going to be a run heavy offense, you know, especially
with Henderson going into year two. Right, So I don't
love the Romeo Dobbs being their wide receiver one, even
though I like Romeo Dobbs, He's a solid wide receiver
two four years. You know, sixty eight million is not
a great I know it was originally reported four years
eighty million. It was actually four years sixty eight million.

(01:46:00):
Still too much. I don't love the impact for fantasy,
especially with them still being on the wide receiver market.
Another receiver that I actually like fantasy wise is Wandeale
Robinson and the Titans. The contract. Again, you can say
what you want about the contract. It's a team that
needed to spend a lot of money at over one
hundred million in cap space, so I wouldn't be too

(01:46:21):
worried about that. But remember one of the Robinson I
said this last week wide receiver fourteen last season, once
Malik Nighbors went down, he was incredible for the Giants.
I think he can be that security blanket in a
big year for Cam Mordon the Titans. Titans are sneaky,
sneaky nine to ten win playoff team. Maybe at their peak.
I think that's a ceiling for them. I could see
it absolutely with what they've been doing in free agency.

(01:46:43):
Alec Pierce obviously, I love that Michael Pittman being traded
helps him a lot. Getting into the running backs, obvious
one is Kenneth Walker. He's going to be a first
round pick in fantasy. I would think after what he
did in the playoffs, and remember he hasn't had as
much usage as these other running backs, and fantasy we
always get concerned about usage, right, Like McCaffrey's a dangerous

(01:47:03):
pick this upcoming year because he had about five hundred touches,
just like Saquon was going into this. You know, this
time last year, I told people, do not draft Saquon Barkley.

Speaker 2 (01:47:11):
I was right.

Speaker 25 (01:47:12):
He had a bazillion touches the year before, and he
knew it wasn't gonna be that great. Kenneth Walker was
always splitting the Zach Charboney, So you know, now he's
going to be a workhorse running back in and Andy
Reid system that desperately needs a running back for him
to kind of revel, you know, revitalize his I would
say finesse in his entire system and his offense. Like

(01:47:32):
he it needs to be implemented. Then without a run game,
it was just becoming so past dependent that they couldn't
do anything. So that was that was great for fantasy purposes.
I'd consider him in round one. And another guy that
I'd considered pretty high in fantasy drafts that is a
playmaker is Traves Etn to the Saints. I like what
Tyler Schuck did last year. I think that's going to
be one of the sneakiest signings of free agency. I

(01:47:53):
love Travis Etn. He was the RB ten last year,
and he was the RB three three years ago. Twenty
twenty four, he had a down year, but these are
two top ten finishes in the last three years, and
now you know he is a young quarterback that you
can rely on a little bit. That reminds me a
little bit of Lawrence and the way he plays, a
little rushing ability, a good arm downfield. I'm not saying

(01:48:14):
he is Trevor Lawrence, but I like that one a lot.
I would consider Travis Etn in round two. I know
that might seem a little high, the price might seem
a little high, but again, Bernie. It always depends these
free agent signings. Where they go is so important. That's
why Mike Evans, if he had stayed in Tampa next year,
I wouldn't have loved it, Just like if Travis Etn
had stayed in Jacksonville, I might have cooled off a

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little bit because I think they'll have it down year
as a team. They had such a good year this year,
but they leave, Kenneth Walker leaves. He finally gets to
be the work course. I love it. So those are
my thoughts on the initial free agent signings. Obviously, next
week we'll talk about more and some more NFL draft
stuff in prospects for your dynasty teams. I'm Brandon Deutsch.
You can find me at PSD Takes, Brandon hest Deutsch

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on TikTok and Brandon Deutsch on YouTube.

Speaker 2 (01:48:57):
Back to you, Bernie, good stuff, Brandon, Like if Mike
Evans can stay healthy, which is always a question, man,
that's got the potential to explode. And you got to
believe Kenneth Walker in Kansas City. I know he didn't
catch the ball on the backfield much, but gamey reed.
Believe it or not, He's always been a run first coach.
It's just been hidden. All right, good stuff. As we

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get closer to the draft, there'll be more to add
to it, and before you know it, hell, it's going
to be football season again. Coming up, I want to
give my two cents on Kyler Murray, Mark and Minnesota
as specifically, if I would talk about this tonight and yes,
I'm going to. Is the fit gonna work? What are
the potential speed bumps? I'll give you my thoughts coming

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up because I'm really torn about this. I'm not high
in this move at all. He can prove me wrong.
Kyler Murray could prove me wrong, but he's still got
to do it. We'll see if he does it. By
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Speaker 23 (01:50:26):
You don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:50:34):
All right, back on the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio.
By the way, coming up top of the hour, the
return by popular demand, what kind of brand new food you?
Followed by what my name? Oh yeah, baby, yep. People
brought it up during football, and I said, yeah, we'll

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bring it back at some point. Football is sil voluminous.
We got to get the peeps what they want. But
it's time for a little hijinks. I'm speaking of hijinks.

Speaker 19 (01:51:07):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:51:08):
So Kyler Murray has officially signed a one year league
minimum contract one point three million with the Minnesota Vikings.
He signed Thursday, And what the hell? It's a nice
cheap flyer for the Vikings because well, his former employer
is paying thirty six million dollars of his salary this year,

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and so the Vikes, well it makes it, I guess,
a low financial risk. And what this is really sort
of being characterized as a prove it, a prove it
opportunity for Kyler Murray to rejuvenate his career after being
released by the Cardinals. All right, so does it have
a chance to work well, he's going to be he

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meeting Kyler Murray's is going to be the beneficiary of
being able to throw the ball to a handful of
elite pass catchers TJ. Hockinson, Jordan Addison, Justin Jefferson. It's
not close. That's the best receiving core Kyler Murray will
have ever worked with. He's also working for a guy,

(01:52:16):
Kevin O'Connell that's got a far better reputation for maximizing
quarterback talent than a lot of these whackass people have
been hearing on the radio for the past week ripping him. Well, well,
if he's such a great quarterback, whis Burg White, couldn't
he fixed JJ McCarthy of all. Okay, look, well he's
the only guy with Matthew Stafford. He was already established,

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was he. I guess you weren't there in Detroit when
Matt Stafford was under five hundred and would roll right,
roll right, roll right, roll right, throw across the Midland
into a sea of hands for interceptions, more pick sixes
than anybody of all time. When Matt Stafford got to
the Rams, Kevin O'Connell tightened him up. He did. If
you'd seen Matt Stafford, who does have prolific arm talent.

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But let's be fair. Okay, got to the never won
a playoff game once with the Lions, and I don't
want to hear any crap about it. He had no support. Yeah,
for a lot of the years he didn't. But there
were three or four Lions teams he was on, including
twenty fourteen where Stafford had an elite defense Pro Bowlers.
They were twelve and four Calvin Johnson. Okay, and I

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remember if Peter King told me once we were talking,
he said, you know, you think, just one time, Matt
Stafford might put this team on his back. He got
to LA they won a Super Bowl, Thank you, Chikwowski.
Dark But Stafford had a good year, had his moments,
but O'Connell tightened him up. Okay, give Kevin O'Connell credit.
He's also a good guy. He also successfully revitalized Sam

(01:53:44):
Darnold's career. You can give Kyle shanahan credit for that.
But he didn't win fourteen games under Kryle shann and
he won under Kevin McConnell. So I'm defending Kevin O'Connell.
Why it also might work well, can Kevin Connell devised
the system to help Murray's dual threat capability. Is does

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have thirty two career rushing touchdowns, and that's an element
that the Vikings offense hasn't had in previous years. The
other thing, too, is we're told, you know, I guess
Kyler Murray is a lifelong Vikings fan. I didn't know this.
He's excited to be there, but there are there's the
reality too. Okay, if you look at the scheme that

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Kyler Murray is going to be a part of, Kevin
O'Connell's scheme typically prefers your prototypical big body, tall pocket
passer will operate an under center. Now I've said it
a thousand times. Size is the least important aspect in
all the sport. If you can play, you can play.
Now Murray's five to ten, he's got to scramble. First. Mentality,

(01:54:54):
there's your issue. He's default mechanism, mister run. That's going
to clash with a system that relies heavily on timing
in the middle of the field. Reads. This has to
be ironed out. There was talk that Kevin O'Connell wanted
to get mac Jones, Mack Jones might have been fine,
and I'm not joking, he'd fit really well in that offense,

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but you probably couldn't sell that press conference and the
fan base might have lost their mind. But you might
have won more games. But listen, let's let this have
a chance to play out. But the other thing, too,
is you have to hope that Kyler Murray if you're
a Vikings fan, in one of these days, the sports
gods has to throw some pixie dust over the Vikings.

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They've been to the Super Bowl four times, lost at
four times, having been back to a super Bowl in
thirty three years thirty four years. Murray's missed twenty one
games over the past three seasons due to lots of
various injuries, so there's a durability risk there as well.
And then I'm not buying this. They're saying he's the
favorite to start, but he's still got to compete with

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JJ McCarthy. They invested in JJ McCarthy more so than
Kyler Murray. I do not think they brought Kyler Murray
in to not start, although stranger things have happened. The
Seahawks brought in Matt Flynn to start years ago, and
Russell Wilson beat him out, so we'll see. There are

(01:56:18):
other issues. Now I wasn't there, so I can't testify
to this, but there have been allegations concerns regarding Kyler
Murray's independent study happens in Arizona that remain a talking point.
There are people to this day that question, will Kyler
Murray fully come in to O'Connell's complex playbook and do

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his studying? Okay, how motivated will Kyler Murray be to
take advantage of this fresh start. He's got a ton
to proof. He wasn't a disaster in Arizona, but his
time in Arizona was really unfulfilled. I think from a
production standpoint and certainly a win standpoint. And I think
Kyler Murray's heard the criticism over the years, and I

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think he wants to show the rest of the NFL
that he can be a productive quarterback. He's s thirty
one and forty nine and seven NFL seasons not been easy,
and he's accustomed to the fact that he's associated with
a losing team in the NFL. But from what I'm
told is he doesn't like losing. Well, who the hell does.

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The good news is Murray is stepping in for a
team that frankly is ready to win now and the
Vikings have a couple of years and their Super Bowl,
their Super Bowl windows going to close. So listen, we
know what the objective is here.

Speaker 8 (01:57:36):
Can he do that?

Speaker 2 (01:57:38):
I think Murray believes he has the infrastructure to do
that organizationally and in between the Lions. But the big
question for me is how the hell is Kyler Murray
really going to fit into Kevin O'Connell's offense. If you
really look at it objectively, it's far from a perfect fit. Okay,
watch the Vikings over the last few years. Their quarterbacks

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are under center a lot. They target the intermediate middle
of the field a lot. Carler Murray is not a
player who's going under center for you know how much
of his career is Carl Murray going under center. When
he first started in the league, he was in Cliff
Kingsbury's offense, which operated almost exclusively from the shotgun now

(01:58:25):
and Drew Petsing, Murray was more often an understander, but no,
still never really threw over the middle, and for obvious reasons,
it's a little harder for shorter quarterbacks to find those
throwing windows. O'Connell's a sharp guy, better than people are
giving him credit for. I don't think he's going to
run the same type of schemes for Murray's going to
take advantage of Murray, who is very bobile. He does

(01:58:47):
have a quick release and can't throw a pretty good
vertical ball, all right, Murray's strengths are the exact opposite
of Kirk cousins strengths. And you know, O'Connell found an
offense that Cousins could do some well in. So you
will see adjustments. You will see adjustments. And how O'Connell

(01:59:09):
can figure this riddle out. And how optimistic are the
folks in Minnesota. I'm not so sure, Okay. I think
part of the reason is the Vikings officials all knowledged
about a month ago. Part of this is they want
to add genuine competition for JJ McCarthy, who finished his

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first season, you know, as a quarterback with a thirty
five QBR that ranks twenty fourth among twenty six quarterback
to start at least ten games. And let's not forget Carler.
Murray was the number one overall pick in twenty nineteen.
He has a counter for one hundred and fifty three
touchdowns and so I'll be shocked if he doesn't win
the job. What does it mean for the long term

(01:59:52):
deal for the Vikings. Well, the matters what happens next year.
That is next year is the year for the Vikings.
So I would say, you know, Kyler Murray ends up
getting it done, or he runs the risk of falling
into the category well not maybe not a Trey Lance
or a pack Still Lynch or Johnny Manziel, but he'll
fall off the radar. He'll fall off the radar. Come

(02:00:13):
it up, Come it up? What kind of brand new
fool of you? Or what my name? Keep it locked
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My name is Bernie Fraddle or Keny Lyon from the
Fox Sports Radio studios here in Las Vegas, and we'll

(02:00:36):
take up to three in Pacific six A eight Eastern,
and it's time to bring back what has been a
fan favor for a long time. We took a hiatus
during football, et cetera, et cetera. But you know, well
here on the Bernie Frattle Show, we do a lot
of observing. You can observe a lot by watching, as
Yogi Berra once said, And as we do, we discover

(02:00:59):
that people do things in the United States and certainly
around the world that catch our attention. And sometimes they're
not very bright. Oftentimes they get people into trouble and
sometimes even land them in jail. But anyway you slice it,
any way you describe it, in any way you characterize it,
they always leave us scratching our head and asking ourselves,

(02:01:21):
what kind of a brand new fool are you?

Speaker 5 (02:01:29):
So?

Speaker 23 (02:01:29):
What kind of brand new fool are you?

Speaker 7 (02:01:33):
Well?

Speaker 2 (02:01:33):
Why not we begin? We resume with what kind of
brand new fool are you? And we take you to
Palm Coast, Florida. Yep, we introduce you to a gentleman
by the name of I think his name is Lance Kurtz.
Reportally broke into a Palm Coast gas station recently stole

(02:01:56):
some items. He was identified and later arrested. And I'll
tell you why in just a minute. But deputies responded
to the business because the alarm went offer early Sunday morning,
found the front door of the business unlocked. Inside, there
was an empty gas station and there was something on
the counter that well kind of gave mister Kurtz away,

(02:02:22):
and then the gas station owner reviewed the surveillance video
and then showed a man entering his store from the back,
taking multiple items, and then unlocking the front door and
leaving well. Law enforcement officers said they recognized Kurtz from
a previous vehicle fire near the gas station that actually
happened earlier in the night, so they spoke with Kurtz,

(02:02:43):
who was found at the same location as his disabled vehicle,
and he reported admitting to breaking into the business and
taking the items. The sheriff said, well, he must have
really wanted those items to break into a closed convenience
store to get him, but that's not what did him in.

(02:03:04):
That item on the counter that they found that he
left behind, yes, his debit card with his name on
his debit card YEP. Quote Leaving behind a debit card
does not absolving from theft or committing a burgerley, the
sheriff said. The twenty year old man was arrested booked

(02:03:25):
into Flagler County Jail on charges of arm burgley of
a dwelling structure and pettit theft what YEP. He was
later released on posting a ten thousand dollars bound. So
mister Kurtz from Palm Kills, Florida, who breaks into a
freaking closed gas station to take a few items, but
leaves behind his debit card and returns to the scene

(02:03:47):
where his vehicle fire had screwed up his night. What
kind of brand new fool are you? Okay, mister Brandon Deutsch,
let a rip.

Speaker 25 (02:03:58):
All right, We're gonna stay in Florida. Here where a
man in the middle of the road climbed into an
Amazon delivery van and drove off with the driver inside.
Video shows a Marin Island man climb into an Amazon
delivery van drive off with the driver inside because the

(02:04:18):
driver wanted to move the truck. Breverd County Sheriff's Office
said on February twenty fifth, the Amazon driver stopped on
Cefas Core to make delivery when Joseph Baldy, sixty four,
and a Beije Toyota yelled at the driver, then got
into the van and drove off while the driver chased
and confronted him. According to an assault, video shows Baldy

(02:04:41):
throw the van into drive, accelerate, and later slam on
the brakes while the driver was inside The driver also
ended up striking his face and had a metal rack
thrust into his arm. According to the report, victim told
deputies Baldi got out of the vehicle, left it and
drive in The victim managed to bring it to a stop.

(02:05:02):
Who During a traffic stop on Monday, when asked why
I entered the Amazon drug, Baldy told reporters because it
was in the middle of the road. You and I
have more common sense than to not leave your truck
in the middle of the road. Baldy, what kind of
brand new fool?

Speaker 2 (02:05:19):
Are you? All?

Speaker 19 (02:05:24):
Right?

Speaker 2 (02:05:24):
Brandon? Pretty good? You've done this before, yes, in a while,
but good little story with lots of twists and turns.
We had actually people asking about this. They didn't you know,
I don't think it's appropriate to do do it during
the NFL and college football season. We just got too
much to get to. But as we get down the
rest of the year, more room for high jinks, and
I think people like it. And of course, the the

(02:05:48):
what kind of brand new fool of you? Segment wouldn't
be complete unless we followed up with our second favorite
segment that we lovingly refer to as what My Name?
And here we go? All right, guys, we're going to
start interestingly enough in the world of college football, and
you'll know why in a minute. I'm the only college

(02:06:13):
football coach in history to coach six different schools to
a bowl game. He's also a coach who won a
national championship. Brandon, what my name?

Speaker 25 (02:06:29):
I believe that this is the coach had just passed away? Rip,
This is Lou Holtz.

Speaker 2 (02:06:35):
Nicely done, outstanding winner winner. That was going to be
my next clue. He just passed away, and give him
tribute to the Goulds a couple of weeks ago. Quite
the guy. Well, while we're at it, I am the
only college basketball coach that has taken six schools to
the Big Dance. Here's a clue. I'm still coaching in

(02:07:00):
the Big East and just won my conference tournament. Mark Ramsey,
what my name.

Speaker 25 (02:07:08):
I'm thinking is it? Ami GASEI? Uh, they got Patino?

Speaker 7 (02:07:14):
You got it.

Speaker 2 (02:07:14):
That's an excellent cast. Rick Pattino. Rick Patino right somewhat lost,
guys in the in the World Baseball Classic, which to
me has just been the greatest thing since Pepperoni Pizza.
I love this so much. Is that baseball's opening day

(02:07:35):
is just around the corner. That's a couple of weeks away. Well,
there's a certain player in the American League who's hit
a home run on five straight opening days. Yes, I
play for an American League East team and I've hit
a home run on five straight opening days. Not a

(02:07:55):
lot of clues I can give on this one. It's
kind of one of those things either nobody had, don't
and it's very trivial. Brandon Deutsch. What my name?

Speaker 25 (02:08:03):
So a lot of people would say Aaron Judge, but
I'm not going to go Aaron Judge because I believe
this player played for Team Canada and he's played on
a multitude of different teams.

Speaker 26 (02:08:12):
Is this Tyler O'Neill is absolutely Tyler O'Dell nicely done,
And there's talk that he's aware that he has hit
home run.

Speaker 2 (02:08:24):
He's obviously aware that he's done it five straight years,
and he wants to do it for six straight years.
By the way, they're saying, he's lost some weight and
he's ready to go bananas. He did recently represent Team
Canada in the twenty twenty six World Baseball Classic, So

(02:08:45):
good call by you all the way around. All right, Well,
we talked about Kyler Murray and I got it. By
the way, I got an interesting tweet from a gentleman
named totally Fused. He says, Bernie, the little wee quarterback
is not what we've been told he will be. Why
is Murray constantly pushed down our throats. He's tiny, doesn't
study first, moves to run. He's not a quarterback. It

(02:09:07):
won't be. The Vikings disappointed me and Bernie. They have
a quarterback with Jagen. You're not wrong, totally Fused. But
this is a story. It is a story, and the
Vikings are desperate to get the Super Bowl. And I
think you know how I feel. I'm not quite as
demonstrative about Kyler Murray as you are. Not wrong. You're
not wrong, totally Fused. I'm not high on Kyler Murray
at all in this situation. But there is one quarterback.

(02:09:31):
I'm the only Super Bowl quarterback in history to win
the Super Bowl and be released the following season. Here's
a clue. I was an AFC quarterback and John Harball
was my coach, Mark Ramsey, what my name?

Speaker 25 (02:09:52):
See after you said Harball, I was thinking John Harball. Yeah,
at first, I was thinking all the guy that from
a Raider. But that's not right. I'm lost on this one.
I think I got this one, alrighty. You know it's
funny because Flacco played a few more seasons with Baltimore
after Is this Trent Dilfer.

Speaker 2 (02:10:13):
Is absolutely Trent Dilfer? All right? You guys on fire
molling right along. That is four in a row, all right.
I uh, for some reason, I really would have liked
to have seen Japan play Italy Monday, but Venezuela earned it.

(02:10:36):
But while we're on the subject, By the way, I'm
going to Japan later and you're with my wife and
I'm going to Tokyo Dome, all right. I, to this
day am the only Major League Baseball player with a
Japanese heritage. It's in the Hall of Fame, Mark Ramsey.
What my name.

Speaker 25 (02:10:58):
I'm thinking as Godzilla?

Speaker 2 (02:11:05):
Is it a Sui? That's a great name. Adki Matsue.
You know I interviewed him before the two thousand and
six World Well it's two thousand and six American League
Championship playoffs, and he was a really nice guy. They
lost to the Tigers that year. It's not Adkie Montsui
is go ahead.

Speaker 25 (02:11:22):
I was just gonna say he can't be the only
Japanese player in the Hall of Fame. Eachiro Suzuki, the.

Speaker 2 (02:11:28):
Owly Japanese player in the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 25 (02:11:30):
Wow, it won't be for long. But yeah, who do you.

Speaker 2 (02:11:33):
Think would be? Oh, yeah, of course ODDI yeah, you
think it is. You know, it is it. He's the
only Major League Japanese born player in the Hall of Fame.
I mean, you know, when you think about it, it's
only really been that this generation where Japanese players started
to come over, right, I mean stahower O never played
over here, and there's a lot of other guys, right,
so it's it's a relatively new thing opening the agreement

(02:11:56):
between Japanese Major League Baseball and across. These teams are
fortune to bring him over. But yeah, he's the only one,
all right, This one should be a layup for you guys.
I am the first catcher to hit fifty home runs
in a season. Here's a clue. I'm currently playing for
Team USA. Mark Ramsey went, my name.

Speaker 25 (02:12:19):
Is Does he have a nickname? Is it like Rally?

Speaker 7 (02:12:23):
You got it?

Speaker 2 (02:12:24):
It's Cayl Riley and his the name is the Big Dumper.
The Big Dumper the next clue is going to be
He refused to shake Randy a rose Aarraina's hand, and
I'm kind of wondering how the hell that's gonna work
out when those two, I'm it'll work out. The Lily
had figured out, but a rose Arena was none too
pleased about that whole deal. I'm sure you saw that, right.

Speaker 25 (02:12:45):
Brandon, Yeah, I saw that.

Speaker 23 (02:12:47):
That was he did it?

Speaker 25 (02:12:49):
Didn't he do it with the other Mariner the other
day in the Canadian game?

Speaker 2 (02:12:56):
I missed that one.

Speaker 5 (02:12:57):
I know.

Speaker 2 (02:12:57):
This was like the first game that Yeah, the e
rosarina popped off. He was pissed. Anyway, water under the bridge?
Maybe all right. I am the first switch hitter to
hit home twenty home runs from the left side and
twenty home runs from the right side in the same season.

(02:13:18):
A clue. I'm also playing four team USA. Brandon, what
my name?

Speaker 25 (02:13:25):
Yeah, this one's This one's tricky because I think it's
the same guy. I think it's gotta be cal Raally.

Speaker 2 (02:13:33):
No, it is cal Rawley. I'm a little dirty pool
by the every now.

Speaker 8 (02:13:37):
And then I will I will slip one in like that.

Speaker 2 (02:13:40):
But yeah, you're a little dirty pool by me. All right,
last one. So we have a situation where we know
that the the Japanese can't play the Americans now in
the finals because the Japanese team is lost, and I
can't lie. I've predicted the Dominican Republic. He's going to
win this thing, okay, and we will see. We will see.

(02:14:05):
But be that as it may. It just seems like
yesterday that the twenty twenty three World Cup came doing it.
What do I keep calling World Cup? It's World Baseball Classic.
Came doing it in pretty pretty dramatic fashion. I struck out.
I was the final out of the twenty twenty three

(02:14:28):
World Baseball Classic. I made the final out by striking
out Mark Ramsey, What my name? And here's a clue,
Shoho Tani struck me out?

Speaker 25 (02:14:40):
Also known as a fish. Mister Trout, There you go,
Mike Trout.

Speaker 2 (02:14:46):
Very true, and that will include the arousing editions of
what kind of brand new fool are you?

Speaker 8 (02:14:53):
And what my name?

Speaker 2 (02:14:56):
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the ripple effects that that is having. I'm Bernie Fraddle.

(02:16:07):
Were company live from the Fox Sports Radio studios here
in Las Vegas. Keep it locked or listening to the
Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 23 (02:16:16):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (02:16:23):
All right, We're back at the Bernie Fraddle Show Fox
Sports Radio. One of the big stories of the week
again Max Crosby. Stunningly, the Baltimore Ravens backed out of
their trade for Max Crosby, and their decision came after
the Raiders had already begun reaching players reaching agreements with
other players in free agency. Okay, so did Baltimore just

(02:16:48):
get cool feet or did they discover a new issue.
What this shows you is that any trade that occurs
after the NFL's in season deadline in November, it cannot
be finalized until the new league year period, which happened
to be March tenth, Tuesday at four pm Eastern. Trades

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are almost always contingent on each player passing and physical
to the satisfaction of the club position, but look based
on protocol, the Ravens likely had a good sense of
Crosby's status and what was going on before announcing the deal.
We all know in early January Crosby underwent surgery to

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repair a torn meniscuts and his left knee, and they
think it might have happened Week seven AGAINSTITUTEFS. I don't know,
and it's been I believe reported that Bolzimore was fully
versed on the status at Crosby's recovery. Before you know,
league consensuses that they simply got cold feet. So here

(02:17:52):
we are now. Last week I talked about my opening
monologue when Crosby signed with the Ravens, for minute, all
of the ripple effects across the league, for the other
teams who might have wanted to take a shot and
get him, like the Bears or the Cowboys or the Commanders,
and how that affected them, and how it affected other

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players looking for big contracts. Well, Crosby is now about
two months past postop. He's just recently gotten rid of
his crutches, and I don't know if the Raiders have
done an updated scan, since the miniscus repairs never guaranteed
and theoretically can have long term effects. Let's be honest.
So it's not a major surgery at all, not at

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all to scope. He's only twenty eight year old years old.
If you're telling me the Ravens doctors may have seen
something worse than whatever Vegas has closed. I don't know,
We don't know, we may never know. It's difficult to
believe Crosby's knees and that much worse shape than was
originally expected. Then again, when you have the discretionary nature

(02:18:58):
of physicals, even the slightest added risk could have made
Crosby's cost, which was enormous to the Ravens, too much
for Baltimore's stomach. But the notion that you know Max Crosby,
or that the Ravens would move on Trey Hendrickson so

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fast that it reduced cost without having to get up
the first round draft picks, including the fourteenth pick overall
this year, makes this a curious story. Also, there's nothing
that prevented Baltimore from simultaneously entertaining free agent Trey Henderson
to use a comparable edge rusher without the added cost

(02:19:40):
of first round multiple picks. The Ravens agreed to a
deal with Henderson, about two and a half years older
than Max Crosby, just a couple hours after the news
on Crosby. Doesn't that raise questions?

Speaker 7 (02:19:55):
Now?

Speaker 2 (02:19:56):
Intrepid journalists have been coming out of the world work.
Apparently it's not the first time the Ravens of knicks
the deal like this. It's been reported that back in
twenty twenty, their medical staff refused to sign sign off
on a three year, thirty million dollar deal with a
defensive tackle, Michael Brockers, and in twenty eighteen, when DaCosta
was Ozzie Newsom's assistant. They nullified a four year deal

(02:20:18):
with a receiver by the name of Ryan Grant after
ankle concerns led to a failed physical. That was a
twenty nine million dollar deal. Then neither Grant nor Brockers
lasted more than three seasons in the NFL after their
failed physicals, though Brockers did start thirty eight games in
its final three years. Also, back in twenty oh five,

(02:20:38):
when Iszie Newsom was the GM of the Ravens, a
guard by the name of Roberto Garza field of physical
after he unwent knee surgery. So this isn't the first time,
but now what happens. The Raiders sort of enter a limbo.
This is a somewhat of an unprecedented story in the
fact that you've got this much draft capital, this much

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star power. It's a free agent deal or a big deal,
really nothing like we've ever seen. The Raiders don't really
have any recourse. There's really no way to artificially recreate
the value that the Raiders had had or asked for.
And there were multiple teams that were interested in the Patriots,
the Bears, the Cowboys, and I think after all hell

(02:21:21):
broke loose last Tuesday. It's going to be pretty hard
for me to imagine that the Raiders would command two
first round picks for Max Crosby now, right, and then
Max Crosby's a good guy. He's already back in the
facility working out. But all these intrepid reporters want to
know that after this thirteen minute heartfelt could buy to

(02:21:42):
the Raiders fans, Well, the deal got mixed. He was
back in the Raiders' facility working out. How do those
conversations go now?

Speaker 19 (02:21:52):
All?

Speaker 2 (02:21:52):
Right? So do I think is there a reality where
the Raiders play where Max Carsby plays for the Raiders
this season?

Speaker 7 (02:22:00):
I do?

Speaker 2 (02:22:01):
I do they have the caps based to afford him?
And I think at this point it's very unclear with
their teams like Jacksonville or Dallas or Chicago are going
to come back to the bargaining table and the Raiders
have no leverage, and he's returning to a team that's
better on paper now than it was before he left. Okay,
by the way, just so you know Ravens fans. Trey

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Henderson is also coming off a season shortened by injury.
He had core muscle surgery in January for a pelvic issue,
but he hasn't taken a physical yet to the best
of our knowledge. Again, this story has become a very
curious one. Well or what eighty six days away from
World Cup Soccer, and based on the enjoyment of the

(02:22:46):
NHL Hockey and the Olympics. The Olympics, you know two
years ago with basketball and the World Baseball Classic, the
international flavor of sports does nothing except to add more excitement.
And that's a fact. It's time for Chris Purfett's World
of Soccer.

Speaker 6 (02:23:06):
The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drum, Ain't.

Speaker 23 (02:23:22):
It's all here in this report from the World of Soccer.

Speaker 27 (02:23:26):
All right, we've got a few months coming up to
the World Cup, and I want to get to some
international news because we've had quite a bit of international news.
First thing we should do is rebound to a story
we previously talked about in the World of Soccer, which
were questions about the security costs at Jellette Stadium, and
that Foxborough, the small town that it is, really couldn't

(02:23:46):
pay for it, and nobody seemed to really foot the bill. Well,
the one footing the bill would happen to be the
man who also happens to host Jillette Stadium itself.

Speaker 25 (02:23:55):
That's right. New England Patriots owner.

Speaker 27 (02:23:57):
Robert Kraft agreed this week that his company would help
pay up for the security costs necessary to play those
seven games at Chellette Stadium here this summer. It's going
to end the protracted public drama that's kind of really
gone overboard when it comes to all this again, Foxborough
had been left holding this bill. Nobody could really give

(02:24:19):
them questions about it. Almost eight million dollars that it
would have had to pay for for their plea for
police to be able to take in the massive amount
of people they'll probably be commuting up from Boston for
the games. But that's resolved taken care of.

Speaker 6 (02:24:34):
Yay.

Speaker 27 (02:24:35):
Not quite so yay is the news for Team Mexico.
Marcel Ruiz was ruled out of the twenty twenty six
World Cup. He's got a torn acl so that is
a key midfielder that is now disappearing for Mexico, who
like the United States, gets an automatic qualifier along with
Canada into this. They what he was suffered during the

(02:24:58):
CONCA CAFT Champions Cup up. He plays for San Diego
FC and just tore his acl in about the fortieth
minute of that game. It's a huge blow for l
Tree and one that they can probably ill afford at
this point.

Speaker 25 (02:25:16):
Two weeks ago.

Speaker 27 (02:25:17):
They're goalkeeper Luis anhel Malagon, who plays for Club America
in the Lega MX tore his achilles and that's going
to rule him out as well. And there's other injuries
that Team Mexico is currently battling right now that are
almost getting really kind of long to list. This could

(02:25:37):
be a really tough sledding if they don't get some
help right now. But at the very least we know this,
they'll be down a goalkeeper, it could be down a midfielder.
Heading into the big tournament now, there is a bigger
issue besides Mexico when it comes to one country, and
that could just be one country, a question of whether
or not we will see them at all in the

(02:25:58):
World Cup. And for those who might be keeping your
head down on stuff, there is a war going on.
Well it's not actually a war because wars have to
be approved by Congress. The Speaker of the House is
insisting this isn't actually a war. It's some other Orwellian
term for a war, as we clearly see a war
happening on our TVs against Iran. Now we have to

(02:26:20):
put aside the humanitarian element of the war itself. We
have to put aside the fact that the President of
the United States was awarded the FIFA Peace Award and
is now waging this war. However, we have to put
that all to the side to talk about Iran's soccer team,
because the men's soccer team actually ran through the Asian

(02:26:43):
Football Confederation to get to the World Cup. They are
in a Group G alongside Egypt, New Zealand and Belgium.
And to be honest, I know Egypt's a bit of
a powerhouse, but this was a team, and this was
a group I was really looking towards because I feel
like Iran is live in that group against an aging
Belgium and a very uneven Egyptian team, and instead there

(02:27:05):
are countless questions of whether they will even be able
to play. Now, Trump put out a very odd statement
saying that the national soccer team's life and safety could
be in danger, which is again a very odd thing
to say coming from a host where you are supposed
to guarantee the safety of those people.

Speaker 23 (02:27:23):
For a lot of things.

Speaker 27 (02:27:25):
The World Cup has tried to be above a lot
of these wars that has happened throughout its throughout its history.
It tries to keep it to the side. But that
doesn't seem like it's going to be the chance. It's
a very odd situation. Team Iran finds itself in in
the comments from Trump or one of them. Then on Wednesday,

(02:27:46):
the Iranian Sporting Sports Minister said that Iran could not
participate in the twenty twenty six World Cup. The team
itself is still saying that they want to go to
the World Cup. They say that nobody can exclude them.
There is stipulations for FIFA to follow. Yanni and Fantino

(02:28:07):
still believes Iran will play. He's trying to get Trump
to guarantee that they can play. But you know it's
the host's responsibility to do that. I don't think we
should be like debating this. However, there is if for
summer reason they couldn't. There is Article six the World
Cup regulations. There would be a financial penalty for such
a move, but also FIFA then would be able to

(02:28:28):
call up any nation it chooses to fill the void.
This has never been called before in the history of
FIFA and the World Cup. It's never been called before.
There's been Olympics where countries have had disputes with each
other and having traveled the Olympics, but it's never happened
in the World Cup. Iran's not the other the only
team being inconvenienced by all of this as well. A

(02:28:48):
Rock is supposed to play in a international playoff round
taking place in Mexico. They're due to face either Bolivia
or Suram at the end of March. However, because this
conflict is spilled over into their airspace, their coach of
the team has called for a postponement that apparently will

(02:29:09):
not happen. It's a mess all around. I'm sure we're
gonna be able to continue to talk about this because
this doesn't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. Regardless
of say it's a shame, it's a shame because the
Iranian team is very good and we all love to
see them.

Speaker 23 (02:29:24):
In the World Cup. We'll see you next time on
the World of Soccer.

Speaker 2 (02:29:29):
All right, Coming up, we wrap up the Bernie Frattles
Show and one of the NBA performances. By the way,
the Midnight Hour callers did so well tonight. As always,
we talked at linked about the shade or check that
about the bam Ada bios eighty three points. Was it real?
Was it superficial? Was it artificial? Was it a fagas?

(02:29:50):
Was it legitimate? A lot of good cross section commentary.
But when you have the coach ordering people to file
when you're up twenty all right, the point of the
matter is that particular performance took up a lot of
the air in the room for the NBA this week,
but there was another record that was actually broken. And

(02:30:11):
I really want to give this guy as Flowers because
when you when you hear what he did within the
context of but I'm about to describe, you're gonna have
probably even more respect for this guy who's really making
quite his name for himself in the NBA. A you know,
a clear front runner, if not the front runner to
win the MVP this year alongside Jokic and maybe Wemby.

(02:30:35):
And he's also the defending champ. I'll get to that
coming up. You're gonna want to hear this. This young
man deserves a lot of props for what he did
this past week in the NBA. I'm Bernie fraddleer Kemedy
Lave from Las Vegas. Fox Sports Radio Studios keep it locked.
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Speaker 6 (02:30:51):
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Speaker 2 (02:31:08):
Already, we are wrapping it up on the Bernie Frown Show,
and I want to thank my producers Mark and Brandon
for the great job turning all the dials, keeping us
glue together, keeping the airplane flying safely in mid air,
managing the time clock, certainly the run down, all the reads,

(02:31:34):
all those things that go along with being a producer,
the behind the scenes stuff. You cannot do a radio show,
particularly a national radio show, when we are syncing up
with six hundred affiliates without dedicated producers, So greatly appreciate
all the efforts. As always, that's the department of redundancy department.

(02:31:56):
Everybody talked ad nauseum at lengths, you know, from both
sides of the coin about bam Adebayo's eighty three point
game this past week. Fair enough, fair enough, but somehow
under the radar, and I do mean it seemingly must
have been under the radar that Shane Gilgess Alexander broke

(02:32:21):
a record that stood for sixty three years, and it
was held by the legendary will Chamberlain. Now the record
was for consecutive regular season games of scoring at least
twenty points. The record occurred on March twelfth, this past

(02:32:46):
week Thursday as the uh As the the Thunder beat
Boston one oh four one oh two, and Shake Gilder
scored thirty five points. That extended his streak to one
hundred and twenty seven games. Wilts was one hundred and
twenty six games. Now again this some perspective. People have asked, well,

(02:33:08):
hasn't anybody else will Well, no, Kevin Durant was the
closest at seventy two games. And I know you're gonna
ask about Lebron, so just say you right now. His
topped out at forty nine games. So see gild this
one hundred and twenty seven games. And to be fair,

(02:33:28):
got to be fair to wil Chamberlain. The reason the
streak got broken, which was back on January nineteenth, nineteen
sixty three, is because he got kicked out of a
game or rejected from a game four minutes into it
after apparently allegedly arguing with the referee about a call.

(02:33:49):
So SGA won one hundred and twenty seven games, Wilt
one hundred and twenty six. But I want to give
this some perspective that may cause you to look at
this even more favorably. Okay, So during the streak, yes,
we'll average forty nine points a game and Shay average

(02:34:10):
thirty three, but the team record of of of of
the Thunder in those one hundred and twenty seven games
was one oh three and twenty four. There were seventy
nine games over five hundred and to contrast that, in

(02:34:32):
Wilt's one hundred and twenty six games streak, they were
only six games over five hundred, sixty six and sixty
and it only took Shay Gillis thirty four minutes a
game on average to to, you know, achieve that record
of one hundred and twenty seven straight games of scoring
twenty points or more. But will actually played forty eight

(02:34:54):
minutes a game. So I would say, if you look
at SGA, you define this, you define this as modern
efficiency at its finist because he averages only two point
one turnovers during it. This is diffused ever for a
thirty point scorer, and will Will streak was basically built

(02:35:17):
an unprecedented volume. He was a volume shooter, a volume player,
and you know, when you look at the efficiency with
which Shake Gill just plays, it's really it's really an
incredible record. And I don't it just it hasn't frankly
gotten the run because it's just not something anybody really noticed.

(02:35:41):
The streak started November one, twenty twenty four. I mean
that was what a week before the presidential election. That's
how long it's been. And and sixteen months later the
game that carried, you know, historical importance because this is
now one hundred and twenty seven game honesty and continuing.

(02:36:04):
And it's a fitting record because Shake Gil just once said,
my life is all about consistency. I'm consistent in everything
I do, and he is. He is really quite the guy.
And I think the first big thing you note about
SGA's accomplishment is that he even ever even came close
to Will Chamberlain's record. Nobody else had previously done so

(02:36:27):
in the NBA, and the longest twenty points streak before
that actually even belonged to Will Chamberlain himself at ninety
two games. And so Chamberlain is kind of like this
mythical seven foot figure because this statistical feature so singular.
He was the only player to ever score one hundred
points of the game. He had fifty points in the season,
never foled out of a game in his whole life.

(02:36:49):
He was quite an athlete of Kansas, a world class
volleyball player, but no one ever really saw him play
on TV. All right, Oscar Robertson, the great Oscar Robertson,
seventy nine games in a row. That was third place.
You heard me, I talked about current players, Kevin Durant
seventy two in Lebron forty nine. There're still current players.

(02:37:14):
Chamberlain the only player to push the streak as long
as the equivalence of entire season. Even Oscar Robertson, well,
he did it for seventy nine out of eighty two games,
but that's only sixty three percent of Chamberlain's record. Now,
Kevin Barrant, I know I'm saying this for a third time.
Among current players, Kevin Durant the only other player to

(02:37:34):
get more than halfway to Chamberlain. He had a seventy
two gamer that started in his last season in Oklahoma City.
That's how long ago it's been. And then did you
know early into his Warriors career, I know you probably wonder, well,
how about Kobe Bryant. Well, Kobe Bryant actually scored twenty
points in a game sixty three games in a row,
exactly halfway to Chamberlain's won twenty six That was from

(02:37:55):
December of two thousand and five to November two thousand
and six. Now, if you're wondering about the longest current
active streak, it's actually Kawhi Leonard at forty two games.
And now Joel Embiid is injured, He's actually scored twenty
plus points twenty four games in a row. They're the
only active players whose streaks actually extend back to last year,

(02:38:17):
let alone twenty twenty four. So SGA streak isn't as
a result of the type of game being played in
this era. It's just a superlative achievement because this guy
is the reigning MVP and against all that historical backdrop,
it's worth doing some math when you look at the
extremity of the streak in context over the past two seasons,

(02:38:39):
during which SGA embarked on this mission, this record setting mission.
There have been players named to an All Star team
that have scored twenty plus points in about seventy percent
of their games. Given that probability, the odds of an
All Star reaching twenty points and one hundred and twenty
six games in a row are about three hundred and
twenty trillion to one according to these math So how

(02:39:02):
did how did sg do it? How did he beat
those odds? And by the way, during that streak he
scored forty one points. It's because he's plays smart, he
plays hard, he makes his free throws, and he takes
high percentage shots a lot of times from mid range.
SGA is not a static player. He's improved. He's terrific,

(02:39:26):
and he's getting even better. Yes, bam Adebayo took all
the air out this week, but SGA's record's better. It's
gonna do it for the Bernie Frattle Show. Keep it
locked up next to great Andy Ferman.

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