April 10, 2026 • 38 mins
Adnan Virk joins Stu and the guys to play a game of "Fair or Foul?". Stu and the fellas welcome Michigan star Yaxel Lendeborg to talk about the national championship and him declaring for the NBA Draft. Darius Acuff Jr. joins the show to talk about his college season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Michael kay is on the podcast to got to the
company the show we do before the show, check it.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Out right there.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Ad Nan Burg is on the line with us right now.
And I have a problem, man, I'm serious. Salakotta filled
in for me yesterday. I'm in Baltimore. I have boots
on the ground. I had to make sure that Lamar
Jackson did indeed show up to voluntary workouts, and he
did so. I have confirmed that. But I have a problem.
Sal was in yesterday and mikey A greeted me this
morning by saying, hey, there's a new show in the
(00:58):
works me Taylor and see new podcast. Yes, new podcast
in the works, And I said, hey, thanks, I'm glad.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
You missed me.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
And these guys like they're not even paying attention Tailor
and mikey A. They just want Salvacatta back, and I
don't know what to do with them.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I mean.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
So many thoughts heres to First off, I love the
show before the show reminds me that great line in Swingers,
the guy behind the Guy, which a friend of mine
had that like his Mson Messenger name. It was like, wait,
what kind of double on Todder's sexual end of it?
Like the guy behind the guy? What no, no, no, no,
not that it's a lot from Swingers. I love that expression,
just to show before the show the guy behind the guy.
(01:35):
I also like in sports. I did this last night.
I think this is one of the most silliest things.
People say, that's a real goal scorers goal.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
What does that mean?
Speaker 6 (01:43):
But thats what?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
What does that mean? It's a real goal scorers goal. No,
he took the punk, he shot it, he scored. What
makes that better than anybody else? There's no goal scorers goal,
don't get points for fans, Just just shoot the bucking
of it to your point. With Salakata having filled it
many times at ESPN Radio, I know what it's like
when you're the backup quarterback. I probably known as wall
as anybody. I've never had my own show, but I've
been the fill in for Mike and Mike, and for
(02:06):
you for Levotard Show, for Rossolo, et cetera. It's a
great feeling to have because everyone's happy to see you.
You're coming and go ahead, there's a right.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Movies Canada.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Let's go right, You're do it for three hours and
that's it. And I'll tell you, in all honesty, when
people have said you, wouldn't you like to have your
own show? And I go, of course I would. We
were all ego maybe the action narcissists, and quite frankly,
I want the money. But more than anything, I don't
know how effective i'd be. I go, I think I
am terrific off the bench, I go. I will give
you energy in a spark, But five days a week,
I'm not too Gods, I'm not iusy, I'm not anybody.
(02:38):
So listen, tell sal phenomenal job. Congrats. You come here
five dayse weeks sitting my shoes. See how it goes.
Then Mike, Ye and Taylor will not have to say
the same thing.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
The TJ McConnell over here.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Exactly years in a happen that damn work. I'm well,
he can't hold down a full time job quite frankly,
seenhile doesn't make any sense, but he's great for fifteen minutes.
You put him on Eddy Strip. This guy's great.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
Ad Nan, you should be on my side here because
I could spot talent coming off the bench, and I
believe I did so with one certain ad Nan Verk
filling in for Darynoka years yeack, and I was like,
you know what, this guy, ad Nan, he's got something
getting more reps.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
I will always be fond of my man, Mikey.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
AE.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
True, But just one thing you have in life, you
have a fond memory of those that were nice to
you when you were nobody, which Mikey was to me.
I'm just some guy at hispen news you're filling in.
I think I did a couple of times filling in
for gotl even though it was me and Mikey and
of course our man Dan Stanzick Adham Klube back in
the day, and then eventually it was me and Mikey.
How about this? People ask you, what was it about
(03:40):
ESPN Radio? I go again, how much clearer can I
make this? The money once I entered. It was extra money.
Go a hundred buck scenario. It is like, oh my god,
I've got a second child on the way. I'm like,
I'm in a hundred Let repeat that, one hundred dollars
in hours. What you're paying for this? And you want
me to talk sports radio? Okay, I'm blattly lying, guys.
I'm telling Scott Masto. I go, I've done a radio
for years in Toronto. Really who he was, Nelson Melman?
(04:01):
I go, yeah, yeah, sure, I worked with him a bunch.
It's okay, look at my references. I can do it.
And so I would show up me and mikey eight
and John stash hour Saturday morning seven to ten am.
What a plush time slot. And everyone's like, oh my god,
who's listening to that? I goes, hey, buddy, I drove
in twenty minutes. I drove home three hundred bucks, Richard.
I don't care what happened today. I'll just talk and
(04:21):
talk and talk three hundred bolls of talk sports. Me
and Mike Kate riding shotgun. It's the best.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And you got to work with a legendary update anchor.
I mean what it is.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
So this is a great point, that's a question of
the floor. Steve Leevy sent me one. To me, John
stash Hour is the greatest update guy in the history
of sports. I said, wow, it's a hell of complies.
He said yeah. I brought it up to Levy years
later after Stash had left, and Stash is a great guy.
We got along well, I said, Levy, he goes, well,
I go on, he goes. It's a true statement, but
it's both a compliment and a denigration. I can mean
(04:50):
because all the compliments, he is absolutely the greatest update
the sports media guy ever because he was awesome at
just ripping your reading scores and highlights. But at some
point you want to graduate be on that. It's insult
saying is limited. I said, I don't care if I
would take it as a compliment, and I said to me,
he's the best ever at this showing up for twelve
minutes on a Friday in Stegot to show. I'm like, okay,
I'm the best ever at that one thing.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I'll take it the bank.
Speaker 9 (05:12):
It's like when people try to give me compliments as
a sideline reporter, I'm like, yeah, okay, whatever. There are
harder things in the world.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Or my good point. But is you're right with silent reporting,
it's all those things. Yes, you can muck it up easily,
and then that's the competent. It said, just keep it straightforward,
open ended questions, lean, neutral, getting get out because the
amunt of people who screw that up, unlike yourself. That's
why it's a.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Complied don't you can only screw it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Just keep it on. Yes, you're right.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And by the way, John Mako is the greatest update
anchor of all time to make man, I mean, come on,
what are we doing here?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Someone said, I'll give it to you. If someone said
you studio the greatest sidekick of all time, offended or life,
would you take as a complished.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
No, I'll take it as a compliment. I took it
as a compliment all the way to the bank. I
mean you kidding me.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
That's a more difficult job.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
I wrote that socker for twenty years, al Rich it
worked out.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
What are you saying, is he that particular kind of
sidekick is a is a difficult job, right like sidekicks
in general not difficult, but being dan sidekick is a
whole different animal.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Is that what you were saying?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
It's A great question is a sidekick, like if I
should do Andy Richter? Do you respect Andy Richter to go?
Speaker 9 (06:24):
Eh, it's just got his own zitco. I don't know
how long it lasted, but he's.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Andy Richter saves the universe. Yes, I think a sidekick
is harder than you realize, and specifically pursue working with
Dan for twenty plus years that there's a lot going on.
Speaker 9 (06:37):
And what did Ed McMahon make out of his sidekick job?
Was it star search?
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Was that for the peak of him?
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Yeah? It was also one of the endorsements. Tailor Mikey
can look it up for me. I can't red him
it now. It's not publishing clearing house, one of those
types of things. If we do voiceovers and that kind
of crap on the side millions lucrative.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
We'll get to a fair or foul in just a
second here. But speaking of sports radio and icons in
the industry, we lost one today, Bobak and I want
to play this sound for you because I believe that
this is what sports radio is all about. If you
looked up sports radio in the dictionary, you would uh,
what you would find is this.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Take from Bobak Times and Stone Mountain, Tim, how are
you are we.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Going to spend the whole preseason listening.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
To you guys trying to.
Speaker 10 (07:18):
Be dishonest and upseal doc Quis Rodgers and Harry Douglass
and Great Jeer or we gonna finally be honest as
if you're a Facon fan, you're really.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I've been a Facon fan my whole life.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I've been in the city for No, you haven't.
Speaker 11 (07:32):
No, you haven't.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
No, you haven't.
Speaker 11 (07:33):
If you've been a Falcon fan your whole life in
real life, they were on the birds of something special
in the city for fourty three years, you have not
been paying attention.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Harrd.
Speaker 11 (07:43):
Dunney's coming up an injury a year before last. Last
year was his rehab year. He's going to be a
dynamic receiver. If not, come up here and I'll give
you one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Harry, you don't know anything about what.
Speaker 12 (07:57):
You're talking about. You dare say?
Speaker 11 (08:01):
Do you say to me that we're trying to upselll
a balance to you? Sure you're not a fan, you
haven't been, and if you have been, you don't know
what you're looking at.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
A Homer's a homer.
Speaker 12 (08:14):
Don't you ever call me a homer?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Who the hell do your thing?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Has been traying the truth since.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 11 (08:20):
Atlanta Radio who by Arctic.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Ri ip.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Ding ding ding.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
That's great, that's great.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It is is? I love listen.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
That's the highest sports radio telling a man who's lived
in Atlanta his whole life that he hasn't.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Right, it's a very andsun You don't know what you're
talking about in this case, but it's actually not true.
Like I lived here, know you know what you're talking about.
Speaker 12 (08:50):
I don't know here.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
You're an idiotteen seventy three.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
That's a long time.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
To be fair to one hundred dollars is a lot
more twenty eleven, isn't No?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
You're right?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yes, But I love that as a like, just as
a microcosm of sports radio. A guy who moved down
there from New York to Atlanta telling a guy who's
lived there his entire life.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
You have it.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I mean, it's unbelievable, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Let's get to a fair foul right now, Taylor take
it away.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
We need the music, please.
Speaker 12 (09:22):
So fair foul wrong music, samm it's the baseball instrumental one.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Wow, he knew that on one note, the media knows
he knows the songs.
Speaker 12 (09:30):
Yes, it's the baseball Oregon one right to remix and
then fair or foul. The Pittsburgh Pirates might actually be
pretty good.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Let's go fair, Taylor, What the hell man?
Speaker 9 (09:43):
I mean?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
This is a good time right now to be a
Pittsburgh Pirates fan. Connor Griffin signs a nine year, one
hundred and forty million dollar contract. Everyone says he's the
greatest thing since slice bread His slice breader really the
greatest thing ever withs another debate, But this kid looks
like a real special talent. Six four two twenty two,
can hit for daze, obviously a ton of power. I thought,
and you got Paul Skins for four more years. And
I said this at the start of the season. But
(10:04):
with their pitching staff beyond Skemes, is still pretty good.
Jared Jones will be back mid season. Mitch Keller Ashcraft,
I think is really good. You say to yourself, you
know what, if they can score four runs a game,
they'll be competitive. So just get to five hundred. A
year ago, the Reds with eighty three wins that made
the playoffs. So the Pirates, by virtue, even being a
five hundred team, you could be in the mix for
a playoff spot. Imagine playoff baseball in Pittsburgh. It feels
(10:25):
like the Pirates are having a moment right now. It's
a moment. It's a good time to be a pirate.
I would say Pirates potentially, Yes, fair, they're good.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Preachadman. If I never had.
Speaker 9 (10:34):
To slice bread, I would live a perfectly normal life.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah, tail, I don't know on the poll. Yeah, is
slice bread the greatest thing?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yes? Or no? Overrated?
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Like how did this expression first come? Who was the
guy that I was like? Oh my god, I just
I can't take the giant loans. I don't know how
much to have. There's portion control issues here. I got
an idea, we're gonna take this and we're gonna cut
this sucker up wonderbread for days, like, oh my god,
this is the grastis and slice bread.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Get this man metal.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Tell it.
Speaker 12 (11:03):
Cal Rowley's season last year might have been a fluke
fair foul.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Oh jeez, I'll walk right into you. Yeah, absolutely, it's fair.
He's a bomb. He's completely overrated. Sixty home run season
was a joke. Listen, cal Rawley in his career prior
to last season was what a guy would each thirty
seven three home runs in about two ten. So he
has this one year where he was unbelievable sixty home
runs Store Preyer for catchers. So for this year has
been awful him, Julio Rodriguez, and Josh Neil, which hurts me,
(11:31):
fellow Canadian have all been struggling mightily. Now Ralegh last
year didn't get rolling until later in the year. But
what the hell, sure he's overrated. He's not gonna hit
forty home runs this season, cal Raley do for a stinker.
Speaker 12 (11:43):
Joe Adehill's three home run robbery game was the best
thing you've ever seen in a baseball game. Fair foul,
I mean, come.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
On, absolutely fair. And sometimes you fall in love with
the guy just because of his name. So going back
to my years on Sports Center, of course, you know,
inspired by Boomer and Oberman and all these guys you know,
comele of these nicknames and play on words. So the
first time I saw Joe Adell, I said, hello, it's
me right saw every time I wish they could deliver
it like Boom, But every time I said Joe Adell, Hello,
it's me. And the key for me is when you
(12:11):
deliver the line is you say it straight right, you
don't you don't infer what you're saying, or don't say
what the reference is. You say Joe Adell, Hello, it's me,
and then then it's fine. And if somebody gets to think,
and if they don't get it's fine. This reminds me
of Carmel and Anthony. You suti always see you had
me at Mellow and someone's like, what is that? I go,
Jerry maguire, you had me at Hello. He goes, yeah,
but that lines you had me at Hello? Like yeah,
he goes, you had me at Melow's like, well, I
(12:33):
don't want to say if you had me at below
because that doesn't make any sense. You had me at Mellow,
and it's posted up to you have me at Hell,
and you go, Okay, Jermy McGuire, I got it. Anyways,
I've been using it for years and Joe Dell for
the first three d scuers stunk every year. He was terrible,
and I go, can this guy start hitting? I go,
I'm spinning gold here. Joe Dell's don't even the highlights,
so Mark with Dan, please set one night and every
chance I got you a big game. Joe Adell, Hello,
(12:55):
it's me, Joe Adell. Hello, it's me. I'm hitting it hard.
Play next to me. He's driving home and he goes
now times it's an idiot. Every time I see dam
please that he brings it up. So anything involving Jo Adell,
I'm thrilled about. Whether it's home run robberies. Just get
the highlights.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Kid.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
He's great, A.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Few years late from being a golden joke.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Exactly.
Speaker 12 (13:19):
I have one more bad nan fair or foul. It's
fair to criticize the Mets because the vibes on their
team seem pretty terrible.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Wow, no foul. I'm pro Mets.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Listen.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Maybe it's just because the fact that I live in
Jersey now I'm surrounded by Yankees and Mets fans. But no,
I love stews, guys, plucky underdogs. Boba Schett only hitting
two twenty two, that's okay, uh loose Robertson that they
dropped a fly ball, wasn't great at a home run yesterday? Though,
I will I will call foul on that. I still
like this Mets team. SODA's out right now, but plenty
of time. That division is a little, you know, a
little more open than you might think. It's not just
(13:53):
like the Phillies are going to run and hide some
bad vibes here and there. But STEVIEE. Cohen's bunny will
be okay. It's been colder in New York. Okay, what's
lumbs up a little bit? That's will be okay. I'm
calling foul on that one.
Speaker 9 (14:02):
And then last time we talked, you talked about the
idea of eventually keeping the umpire but balls and strikes
completely out of his hands. I think that getting closer
and closer because some of these challenge calls. There was
one right down the middle that was called the ball,
and it's just like, all right, you guys are embarrassing
yourselves easier.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
It minds me. You know, I'm coaching my son in
baseball and you're throwing BP and everyone just assumes, because
you're an adult, you know what you're doing. But once
in a while, throwers get a little walk and they
kind of give you like what this guy doing, Like,
how can you answer a groove a ball?
Speaker 11 (14:28):
No?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
I know, I know she's living with an umpire. You're like,
how hard? Could this be? This is a ball? This
is a strike? Like I mean you think it's a
hard job. Like, Bro, you had enough years of training
and practicing, you should be good at your job. I
could imagine some of these guys are going home just
like I have. After a bad day at bpkid thirteen
kids on the team, I threw ten pitches to each kid.
I'm like, bad, I gotta go ice of the arm.
Some of these umps are going home popping a few excentrics,
going hey, is this the right job for me? Like
(14:48):
I am getting shown up here time and time again.
And think of how much easier umpires have the past.
You blew a call, nobody had any idea. Everybody respected
authority back then. You respected the president for god six Twell,
he's an umpire. Clearly he's wearing a uniform. He has
a pitch counter this guy. So we hast to be
valued in our society. Now this is a back on
you topped your head. You just topped your head. He's wrong,
challenge it wrong again, wrong again. So I'm borried you
(15:11):
with CB Buckner's mental health right now, this is not
great getting challenges as much?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Uh add Dan enjoy the weekend. Enjoy the masters, get
out of here. We have a guest coming up that
Taylor's very excited about.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
So he's kicking. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Okay, I was gonna say this feels a little premature,
but again, I'm good for fifteen minutes. Boys, that's it,
the guy behind the guy.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
You get paid the same regardless, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
It's some points now to.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Godson Company
Live Weekday. Said three pm Eastern, twelve pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Very excited to have a national champion joining us right now,
Taylor's pumping his fists.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Why are you pumping your fist?
Speaker 11 (15:51):
Man?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
All I said is that I didn't even introduce who
it was. I just said he's a national champion.
Speaker 12 (15:56):
Because I was one of the fourteen percent of brackets
that trusted my eye.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Michigan Team all Year, Yaxcel Londenborg is with us, and
he is up for the Wooden Award Player of the Year. Yea, Actually,
let's start here. I don't have a vote, but I
just wanted you to know that I voted for you. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Thank you. You're my guy. You're my guy.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Manh how's it feel being a national champion?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Man?
Speaker 8 (16:24):
It was amazing. The moment it happened, it didn't hit me.
You know. It took a couple of days for at
the settle in and like realize, actually, you know, we
won the championship. But man, it's an amazing feeling. You know,
we worked really really hard to get there, and uh,
it's a big accomplishment. Yac.
Speaker 9 (16:37):
So when did you know there's been doesn't happen every year,
but a lot of years when the national champion comes out,
you look back and say, oh, yeah, there was a
point where it was pretty clear they were the best team.
Was there a point where you and your guys just
knew was it the tournament? Was it before the tournament?
Speaker 8 (16:52):
Yeah, I would say after we dog walked Agurn San
Diego State in Gonzaga. I feel like that's when we
were all like, wow, like we could be the best team.
Speaker 11 (17:00):
You know.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
Ever, you know, Elliott was the first guy to say that,
and then I pretty much like was rolling without seeing
in the media, and then everybody else started agreeing. You
know a lot of people are declining and we can't
be but man, we just you know, we just kept
our hands down and kept working.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Man, do you feel like you guys are the best
team ever?
Speaker 8 (17:16):
I want to say yes, I feel like we could
compete with every team honestly.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
Yeah, I'm sorry. So I'll just say what separates your team?
Make the case for your team?
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Is it the size? Is it just the depth?
Speaker 12 (17:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (17:29):
I would say the size we have. We have both.
We have a lot of size. We have death. We
have a very very unselfished group. You know, that really
goes a long way. You know, it's kind of hard
to game plan for Michigan because you don't know who's
going to be the main score at night. You know,
you can game plan for one guy, then the other
guy's gonna go for thirty. That guy that you game
plan for maybe have five points.
Speaker 12 (17:46):
You know.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
It's like it's different ways that we can attack. And
I feel like that's the main reason why we won
this year.
Speaker 12 (17:51):
Yeah. So I love your your TikTok lives. They always
just go they just always go completely off the rails.
And some people I would look at this Michigan team
and say they are the worst media trained team. I
just say, hey, you guys are just being your authentic selves.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
I agree with what they say. We definitely are media trained.
I know I'm the like head hont of that that
that's on me, but man, it's really fun. I feel
like it helps us get together. It helps us like
all kumbaya, you know. So I feel like those lives
definitely helped out. And eventually it became like a tradition,
like we won because we were all live last night,
so let's do it again, you know. But it was very.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Fund feel good.
Speaker 9 (18:31):
I'll go ahead, go ahead, all right, dactual during the
I'm a fellow Dominican during the National Championship game, it
kind of drove me crazy because they only mentioned where
you were born. They didn't mention your nationality, and so
I'm just like, I just want to.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
Hear from you.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
You're tied because there's not that many Dominican basketball players,
Karl Anthony Towns out Horford, you know, Felipe Lopez back,
there's not too many of them. Just curious how tired
you are to your Dominican roots and and if there's
any sort of inspiration you have from Dominican players in
the past.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
Yeah, well, I've been getting way more involved in with
like my Dominican side. These past couple of years, I've
been getting a lot of support from the Dominican people
as well.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
The President actually invited me to go over there and
meet him really, so hopefully I'll get a chance to
go do that. You know. It's there's been an honor,
you know, just representing my country, uh, represented my mom,
you know, doing all that stuff. It has been great,
you know. Man, Man, they were talking about how great
Karthie Towns is al Hortford as well, you know, and
like being able to follow on their footsteps of the marais?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Did it feel good to finally shut up the Fab
five because they told you to make it to a
championship game and win it, and you guys made it
to the championship game and you won it.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
They made it and never won it. Did it feel good?
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Or what?
Speaker 8 (19:38):
I wouldn't I wouldn't say like like shut them up?
You know, we still were looking up to them all year,
you know, but but man, it definitely felt good to
you know, be able to get that blessing. I think
I'm still waiting for them to you know, put us
on the pedestal. Uh Uh. It was definitely fun and
excited to have those guys having our back all year.
Speaker 12 (19:58):
Yes, yeah, so. Earlier in the show, I admitted that
I used to have a crush on missus Met the mascot.
Stu Gotta said he's had a crush before on Betty Rubble.
I'm wondering who's who's the strangest person or maybe cartoon
you've had a crush on.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
That's a good question.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
I would wouldn't the War finalists.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
I would say when I was a kid, maybe maybe
Lola Bunny from.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
Jessica Rabbit was a famous woman that before your time.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Make your case if you wouldn't mind as to why
you should win the Wooden Award. I voted for you
again just as a reminder, but make your case.
Speaker 12 (20:43):
Man.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
Honestly, I feel like I'm not worthy. Honestly, I'm not really.
I don't think I would think like, I don't know,
I don't know if I'm belonging with these guys. Man,
these guys have been doing so much for the team.
You know, they pretty much been putting a team on
their back. I just, you know, really good player on
a really good team. Honestly, you know, that's pretty much
my mindset here. But if there was any scenario where
I would win. It would probably just be because of that
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national championship, right.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
But you really like you're being honest there. You don't
feel like you belong in this conversation. Of course you do.
I mean you're one of the best players in the
game now.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah too.
Speaker 12 (21:17):
How many regular season games do you think you would
have missed with your injury in that national championship because
it seems like you were just powering through it.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
Nah, Honestly, I had. I had a similar kind of
injury with like my calf that was kind of bothering
me earlier in the year. My numbers dropped, but I still,
you know, I still want to be on the court
no matter what. You know, it's like experience, and my
mom always had a saying like no pay, no game,
as cliche as it is, like I actually live by that.
So I just you know, I'm gonna do the best
I can to get on the court. And you know,
there's many kids at Michigan that were supporting me all year,
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and it's like maybe they come to the game for
the first time and they can't watch me play, you know,
So I don't want everyone to make it be that
case for anybody.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
Actually, maybe it could be a little less humble with
this question, because it feels like there were times during
the season where you watch you playing, you, despite having
great teammates, could absolutely take over a game, and the
things you can do at your size just so unique
and very much seems like NBA ready.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
How much of this.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
Year did you really feel like you were coming into
yourself and just getting the playing the best basketball you've
ever played.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
Man, I would I would definitely say in Vegas, I
definitely grew a lot of confidence, especially in my three
point shot. I worked so hard to you know, just
be able to shoot it compidently. That's where it started off.
And then man, they're in the marsh manister, and I
feel like those games against Alabama, Tennessee and Saint Louis,
It's like, now it's my time to you know, really
take over and show these guys while with the big
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ten player against stuff like that, and man, I started
showing all three levels of my game, and pretty much
it felt like nobody could you know, stop me in
the in the in the range. And then I started
realizing my fast break game is pretty much an easy
way to get going. If I started driving downhill guys
one on one to make any other guys you know,
blame me, and if they do, them to kick out
to my three point shooters.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Paalo Ben Carrol's got nothing on you, man, You're that
level of player.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I'm telling you. He's so humble, Yaxel, We appreciate you
joining us. Congratulations on the national championship, Congratulations on all
your success and good luck here with the Wooden Award. Man,
you're deserving.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
Thank you, thanks for having me men.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Oh you got it man, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I mean they're six and six, they've won too straight.
Speaker 9 (23:22):
That man is a one of the lasting images for
a Marlin's World series that brought so much joy to
this town.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
And Chicago hates him.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yes, the nun no used to mean something, it no
longer does.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
How does bord Ot Ricardo feel about a picture being
bold in the six they after striking out two and
having a no hitter going?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Is he is he glued to it? Does he have
a thought on it?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:44):
Yeah, of course I was actually going to talk.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
About about it with Taylor on the break.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
But you know how he is. He doesn't.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
He's a one word answer guy, but very upsetting, very
upsetting what's going on in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
The nerds need to get out of baseball.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
To be honest, didn't.
Speaker 9 (23:56):
Craig Council just have an episode with or a little
bout with the tobacco where he.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Was just cut on the ones like gagging?
Speaker 9 (24:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have no experience with chewing tobacco.
Did Was he just a novice or did he just
have something he wasn't expecting.
Speaker 12 (24:10):
I think I think he was. I would assume he's
not a novice. I think he just had an unexpected
about there.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Really, because if you try chewing tobacco for the first time,
it's a dangerous game.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I mean, you could spend the next twenty four hours
throwing up all over yourself.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
You can.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
That's what it looked like he was about to do,
like the sandlight lie like that part.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Of the sidline, right, yes, exactly right?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Uh, Taylor, Mike is on now, So this is a
different tailor that we're talking to. It's not Taylor off
air where he gives one more to answers, how do
you feel about a picture being pulled for a no hitter?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Like what is Council doing in that spot? Let's go
I want to see a no no.
Speaker 12 (24:45):
Yeah, it's a terrible decision. They're going to blame it
on that it's April long season ahead of them, cad
Or in their their projected ACE is out for the
season now with Tommy John. You gotta go for cool.
If something's going to be cool in sports, you gotta go.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, it is super interesting what's going on at the
Masters with Rory right now? Because I had the tournament
basically overwhelming his up two strokes with two and a
half rounds to go.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I'm not gonna let him forget it.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
There's two and a half days to go, including a
day that's called moving day.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
It's called moving day.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
When I said that he was running away with it,
I actually meant that he was running away with it
at Loewen Krawn.
Speaker 12 (25:27):
Speed, which is given to be correct.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yeah, very slowly, right, Isaac, I thought you meant he
stole the green jacket, was running away with it like
Shooter McGavin and Happy Gilmore. But now he's a stroke
up on Patrick Reid, who was also won a green
jacket as well, And so golf is funny?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Is he? Because I like Rory? But you want Rory
not to run away with the tournament. You don't want
anyone running away with that tournament.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
It's all about positioning for Saturday and Sunday, and what
you really want is a great final round. But what's
interesting about Rory is and that tournament. He wanted to
win it so badly, and now he's won one, and
he has that off of his back, like no one
can ever say, hey, he never won a green jacket. No,
he's won a green jacket, and the first one is
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the most difficult to win. And he is such a
talented golfer. When he is right, when he's hitting the
ball correctly, he's probably the best golfer in the world.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
And now that he has that one, it.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Feels like Rory could win four or five more here
over like the next ten to twelve years. He's still young,
he's still in his prime, and he's that good of
a golfer. But that first one is the most important one,
and now that he has it, it feels like he's
playing with house money.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
It could go on to like a little bit of
a run here winning green jackets.
Speaker 9 (26:40):
You know, it did for a few holes, to the
point where I mentioned that he was running away with it.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
But now I'm getting carried away.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Yeah, well you are a little bit.
Speaker 9 (26:48):
Because the funny part about this is, you know, he
talked about thinking that getting the Grand Slam for his
career was, you know, the destination for his career, and
then he said, no, it's not. After doing it, still
had more that he wanted to accomplish. And you think
you want to go out here and be like, oh,
I won one already. It's pressure free until the pressure
reintroduces itself, until you're up three with you know, four
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holes to go, and then start maybe thinking, oh, no,
I might actually do this, or even if you are,
you know, up early in the second round and you're
getting a little too confident and all of a sudden, okay,
there's a bogie and now I can't find another birdy.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
Now the pressure's back on.
Speaker 9 (27:26):
So I don't think it's going to feel as pressurized,
let's say, if he's on the eighteenth hole with a
big moment on Sunday. But for the totality of it,
I still think he the pressure reintroduces itself and it's.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
No different, not very different than it was before.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
All Right, we have Darius Aikoff, who's going to join
us here as well. So this is a very exciting
the Wooden Award. I've never had people with boots on
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Speaker 1 (28:46):
He is the best guard coach Calipari has ever coached.
He's the SEC Player of the Year, he's the Koozy
Award winner, and he is my vote to win the
Wooden Award as the nation's best player. Darius Acuff Junior
is with us. You're my guy, man. I voted for you,
just so you know. I wanted you to know that,
even though I don't have a vote.
Speaker 10 (29:07):
You know what I'm saying a vote, Appreciate you, Appreciate you,
Thank you having me.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Got sorry, I don't still got said there.
Speaker 9 (29:17):
You know that you're the best guard that coach cal
Perry as ever is each and I know a lot
of people are suggesting that even after just one year.
When you think about that concept, given how many great
players coach cal Perry has coached, what goes through your mind.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
It's crazy when you look at the list you see
a picture of it. It's crazy to coach so many
legends from like throughout, like I don't even know, from
how so long Gootes and now he's still you know,
he's still.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
He's been it's been so long, so I don't know.
Speaker 10 (29:50):
It's it's a it's a great feeling, you know, to
be in a conversation with those guys. For sure, I
looked up to those guys, So it was definitely Burt.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
How did the season play out in your mind versus
the expectations you had headed into this season.
Speaker 10 (30:04):
It started off a little rocky, I will say, but
we picked it up. I think, like early February going
into March, I think we started you know, we got
closer for sure.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
We just start you know, playing with a.
Speaker 10 (30:15):
Little more energy and wanted to We wanted to win
way more. So we knew what was at State, and
I think we picked it up. We failed short, of
course in the sweet sixteen, but you know it was
it was a great year. Uh, not even basketball, just
for as a brotherhood.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
We built a great bond for sure.
Speaker 10 (30:31):
God We're gonna be speaking for each other to each
other for life. So I think that was the best
part about.
Speaker 12 (30:36):
It, Darius. A lot of people when it comes to
college basketball are doing like a crash course learning when
it gets to March Madness, trying to figure out who
the best players are for the best teams. What was
it like for you when you see all the coverage
for March Madness and going into the tournament, nobody could
say like five sentences before saying, Darius, a cuff is
(30:57):
the player that you have to watch.
Speaker 10 (31:01):
I always say, like, it's a great feeling to we
talked about, Uh, never gonna downplay that. No, just the
love and the support, you know, I always appreciate it.
But you know, like I said, around that time, I
was just focused on trying to win a national championship.
Uh didn't didn't get to do it. But like I said,
it was a great year as far as the team,
(31:22):
I would say, not even myself.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
As far as the team, it was a great year.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
We did something much together, Darius.
Speaker 9 (31:28):
As as you got more you know, popular, you got
more attention, people started obviously making comparisons to you to
NBA players. I think the name I heard the most
was Damian Lillard. Can you sort of describe your game,
how you know you create your offense for yourself and
what separates you from some of the other guards out there.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (31:48):
Yeah, I heard Damie a little a lot too, Like
that's pretty accurate.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Yeah, I think it's pretty pretty accurate.
Speaker 10 (31:53):
I think we kind of moved the same, we get
our shots off a little similar, But I think I
got my own game kind of two. It's I think
I do a lot of you know, stuff like differently,
like some people don't do I don't do what Damian
Little does. Sometimes he don't do it, you know, so
in that case it's different. But you know, Damian Little
(32:14):
is a legend. It's one of the players I watch
a lot, for sure, But just to be in the
same sentence as him and other players is definitely great.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
If there's a part of your game, and again, you're
my player of the Year, I voted for you, even
though I don't have a vote, But if there's a
if there's a part of the game that you have
to work on, what's the part you need to work
on the most?
Speaker 10 (32:35):
Definitely defense, just being more more involved. I don't think
I'm like like, it's not that I don't want to
do it. It's just, you know, sometimes it's just something
to work on. It takes time. Just got to take
more pride in it. Just I just say, my biggest
thing is being more aware, especially off the ball. I
think I gotta get better at that, but you know,
(32:55):
it takes time.
Speaker 8 (32:56):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
I'm still young, so I'm definitely gonna work on that
a lot.
Speaker 9 (32:59):
Even though oh, you know, five Star Recruit and everything
else had a lot of attention coming out of high school.
Not everybody really gets that feeling of they belong right
until they actually maybe experience it.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Was there a time coming up where you're just like, yeah.
Speaker 9 (33:13):
I'm definitely the man here, I will be in the
NBA within whatever it is, eighteen months or do you
almost have to like experience it every step of the
way and check, Okay, I'm good enough against these guys.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Now I can feel that confidence to go to the
next level.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I felt it early.
Speaker 10 (33:29):
I will say I always thought I was the best
player or worse like a Swiss term. Definitely eleventh and
tenth grade summer going into a junior year. Okay, I
went to IMG and just you know, I was playing
against some of the best players. You know, I was
playing well. You know, once I got the senior year,
I was. I was ready for sure, I would say,
(33:50):
But no, I always knew any time I ever played
on I feel like I was the best player.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Any tournament I was in, I feel like I was
the best.
Speaker 12 (33:56):
Darius last May, you made headlines when you signed with Reebok.
He had a whole photo shoot with Alan Iverson. That's
another person. I feel like people compare you to what
was it like getting to meet Alan Iverson and having
him kind of come into your life.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Yeah, people don't know that was.
Speaker 10 (34:15):
I signed with him last year like that photo shoo
was last year before I came into school. But yeah,
I haven't seen him since, but it's great. He's like
he's the best ever to me. He's like he's my
favorite player ever. I watched him all the time. I
definitely think we have some similar things in our game.
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I think we like we're both too tough minded guards.
Nobody could stop us from getting downhill. And you just
you just feel that, you just feel that swagger and
that that you know when we're when we're both on
the court, you can just feel.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
It for sure.
Speaker 9 (34:47):
Davis, what's the most helpful thing so far that coach
cal Parry has told you to prepare you for the
next level.
Speaker 10 (34:57):
I would say, always stay level headed, don't never get
too high, don't get too low.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Just always stay one way, no.
Speaker 10 (35:03):
Matter how bad things are going on, no matter how
good things are going just you know, just always stay yourself.
Like that's the biggest thing he taught me, and he
always just taught me just just be a leader as
the point guard.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
You got to take control of the team. You got
to be the most vocal.
Speaker 10 (35:16):
So but Kyle definitely taught me those things.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Darius, why are you the player of the year.
Speaker 10 (35:30):
I got a lot of reasons, but you know, it's
not my opinion, it's not it's not my vote.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
I don't I don't got nothing, you know, to do.
Speaker 10 (35:37):
But I know what I've done. I know how good
of a player I am. If I get it. Like
I said, I'm blessed to be here. It's mister Wooden.
You know, it's John Wooden. So it's a legendary event,
you know. But yeah, I definitely I feel like I
done a lot of great stuff and these guys have too,
So whoever wins it, I'm you know, I'm still be proud.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
All right, man, Well, good luck this weekend, good luck
moving forward. Congratulations on all your success. Man, it's exciting
time in your life. We're happy for you.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Thank you so much, thank you.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
All right, you got man of a draft.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Two gets.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
Oh it is a great draft.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I know, very humble guys, these guys, I.
Speaker 12 (36:12):
Mean, nobody ever saw Jordan. Yeah, nobody wants to claim
the award.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Well, and no one saw Jordan play.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I mean, you can't say Iversin is the greatest of
all time, even though I voted for him and I
do think he's the player of the year, and I
don't have a vote, but I mean it's clearly Michael
Jordan Taylor. Do we have polls to update here? Or
are we good here?
Speaker 4 (36:28):
We do?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Oh? We do? Look the music. This is amazing, unbelievable.
I was Sam, you're on your game today.
Speaker 12 (36:35):
Does being tan automatically make you better looking?
Speaker 6 (36:38):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (36:38):
With t Bob not one hundred. Seventy seven percent of
the audience said yes, it does.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Baby.
Speaker 12 (36:51):
Would you take Tommy Lloyd more serious if he was
Tom Lloyd?
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Yep, yep, everyone would.
Speaker 12 (37:00):
Seventy four percent of the audience said yes.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 12 (37:05):
Do the Marlins lead the mlbing feisty?
Speaker 2 (37:08):
They do? Yes, We asked Michael, question yes and feist Yes.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (37:16):
Sixty percent of the audience said yes.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
Nice Lory mclid.
Speaker 12 (37:21):
Yeah, they can hate the fatter in Long Depot Park
number one in feistiness. Does being a Jets Mets fan
age you and dog years?
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Yep, it does, it does.
Speaker 12 (37:39):
Overwhelming eight percent of the audience.
Speaker 9 (37:42):
Yes, mikey A is nineteen years old.
Speaker 12 (37:47):
This is a big one for Stu gots here.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
And the Jets will do it to you by themselves.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Go ahead.
Speaker 12 (37:52):
Who asked for elevated courts at the final four, seventy
percent of the audience said no.
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
Out right there.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Ad Nan Burg is on the line with us right now.
And I have a problem, man, I'm serious. Salakotta filled
in for me yesterday. I'm in Baltimore. I have boots
on the ground. I had to make sure that Lamar
Jackson did indeed show up to voluntary workouts, and he
did so. I have confirmed that. But I have a problem.
Sal was in yesterday and mikey A greeted me this
morning by saying, hey, there's a new show in the
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works me Taylor and see new podcast. Yes, new podcast
in the works, And I said, hey, thanks, I'm glad.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
You missed me.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
And these guys like they're not even paying attention Tailor
and mikey A. They just want Salvacatta back, and I
don't know what to do with them.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I mean.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
So many thoughts heres to First off, I love the
show before the show reminds me that great line in Swingers,
the guy behind the Guy, which a friend of mine
had that like his Mson Messenger name. It was like, wait,
what kind of double on Todder's sexual end of it?
Like the guy behind the guy? What no, no, no, no,
not that it's a lot from Swingers. I love that expression,
just to show before the show the guy behind the guy.
(01:35):
I also like in sports. I did this last night.
I think this is one of the most silliest things.
People say, that's a real goal scorers goal.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
What does that mean?
Speaker 6 (01:43):
But thats what?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
What does that mean? It's a real goal scorers goal. No,
he took the punk, he shot it, he scored. What
makes that better than anybody else? There's no goal scorers goal,
don't get points for fans, Just just shoot the bucking
of it to your point. With Salakata having filled it
many times at ESPN Radio, I know what it's like
when you're the backup quarterback. I probably known as wall
as anybody. I've never had my own show, but I've
been the fill in for Mike and Mike, and for
(02:06):
you for Levotard Show, for Rossolo, et cetera. It's a
great feeling to have because everyone's happy to see you.
You're coming and go ahead, there's a right.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Movies Canada.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Let's go right, You're do it for three hours and
that's it. And I'll tell you, in all honesty, when
people have said you, wouldn't you like to have your
own show? And I go, of course I would. We
were all ego maybe the action narcissists, and quite frankly,
I want the money. But more than anything, I don't
know how effective i'd be. I go, I think I
am terrific off the bench, I go. I will give
you energy in a spark, But five days a week,
I'm not too Gods, I'm not iusy, I'm not anybody.
(02:38):
So listen, tell sal phenomenal job. Congrats. You come here
five dayse weeks sitting my shoes. See how it goes.
Then Mike, Ye and Taylor will not have to say
the same thing.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
The TJ McConnell over here.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Exactly years in a happen that damn work. I'm well,
he can't hold down a full time job quite frankly,
seenhile doesn't make any sense, but he's great for fifteen minutes.
You put him on Eddy Strip. This guy's great.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
Ad Nan, you should be on my side here because
I could spot talent coming off the bench, and I
believe I did so with one certain ad Nan Verk
filling in for Darynoka years yeack, and I was like,
you know what, this guy, ad Nan, he's got something
getting more reps.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
I will always be fond of my man, Mikey.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
AE.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
True, But just one thing you have in life, you
have a fond memory of those that were nice to
you when you were nobody, which Mikey was to me.
I'm just some guy at hispen news you're filling in.
I think I did a couple of times filling in
for gotl even though it was me and Mikey and
of course our man Dan Stanzick Adham Klube back in
the day, and then eventually it was me and Mikey.
How about this? People ask you, what was it about
(03:40):
ESPN Radio? I go again, how much clearer can I
make this? The money once I entered. It was extra money.
Go a hundred buck scenario. It is like, oh my god,
I've got a second child on the way. I'm like,
I'm in a hundred Let repeat that, one hundred dollars
in hours. What you're paying for this? And you want
me to talk sports radio? Okay, I'm blattly lying, guys.
I'm telling Scott Masto. I go, I've done a radio
for years in Toronto. Really who he was, Nelson Melman?
(04:01):
I go, yeah, yeah, sure, I worked with him a bunch.
It's okay, look at my references. I can do it.
And so I would show up me and mikey eight
and John stash hour Saturday morning seven to ten am.
What a plush time slot. And everyone's like, oh my god,
who's listening to that? I goes, hey, buddy, I drove
in twenty minutes. I drove home three hundred bucks, Richard.
I don't care what happened today. I'll just talk and
(04:21):
talk and talk three hundred bolls of talk sports. Me
and Mike Kate riding shotgun. It's the best.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And you got to work with a legendary update anchor.
I mean what it is.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
So this is a great point, that's a question of
the floor. Steve Leevy sent me one. To me, John
stash Hour is the greatest update guy in the history
of sports. I said, wow, it's a hell of complies.
He said yeah. I brought it up to Levy years
later after Stash had left, and Stash is a great guy.
We got along well, I said, Levy, he goes, well,
I go on, he goes. It's a true statement, but
it's both a compliment and a denigration. I can mean
(04:50):
because all the compliments, he is absolutely the greatest update
the sports media guy ever because he was awesome at
just ripping your reading scores and highlights. But at some
point you want to graduate be on that. It's insult
saying is limited. I said, I don't care if I
would take it as a compliment, and I said to me,
he's the best ever at this showing up for twelve
minutes on a Friday in Stegot to show. I'm like, okay,
I'm the best ever at that one thing.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I'll take it the bank.
Speaker 9 (05:12):
It's like when people try to give me compliments as
a sideline reporter, I'm like, yeah, okay, whatever. There are
harder things in the world.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Or my good point. But is you're right with silent reporting,
it's all those things. Yes, you can muck it up easily,
and then that's the competent. It said, just keep it straightforward,
open ended questions, lean, neutral, getting get out because the
amunt of people who screw that up, unlike yourself. That's
why it's a.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Complied don't you can only screw it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Just keep it on. Yes, you're right.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And by the way, John Mako is the greatest update
anchor of all time to make man, I mean, come on,
what are we doing here?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Someone said, I'll give it to you. If someone said
you studio the greatest sidekick of all time, offended or life,
would you take as a complished.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
No, I'll take it as a compliment. I took it
as a compliment all the way to the bank. I
mean you kidding me.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
That's a more difficult job.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
I wrote that socker for twenty years, al Rich it
worked out.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
What are you saying, is he that particular kind of
sidekick is a is a difficult job, right like sidekicks
in general not difficult, but being dan sidekick is a
whole different animal.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Is that what you were saying?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
It's A great question is a sidekick, like if I
should do Andy Richter? Do you respect Andy Richter to go?
Speaker 9 (06:24):
Eh, it's just got his own zitco. I don't know
how long it lasted, but he's.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Andy Richter saves the universe. Yes, I think a sidekick
is harder than you realize, and specifically pursue working with
Dan for twenty plus years that there's a lot going on.
Speaker 9 (06:37):
And what did Ed McMahon make out of his sidekick job?
Was it star search?
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Was that for the peak of him?
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Yeah? It was also one of the endorsements. Tailor Mikey
can look it up for me. I can't red him
it now. It's not publishing clearing house, one of those
types of things. If we do voiceovers and that kind
of crap on the side millions lucrative.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
We'll get to a fair or foul in just a
second here. But speaking of sports radio and icons in
the industry, we lost one today, Bobak and I want
to play this sound for you because I believe that
this is what sports radio is all about. If you
looked up sports radio in the dictionary, you would uh,
what you would find is this.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Take from Bobak Times and Stone Mountain, Tim, how are
you are we.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Going to spend the whole preseason listening.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
To you guys trying to.
Speaker 10 (07:18):
Be dishonest and upseal doc Quis Rodgers and Harry Douglass
and Great Jeer or we gonna finally be honest as
if you're a Facon fan, you're really.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I've been a Facon fan my whole life.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I've been in the city for No, you haven't.
Speaker 11 (07:32):
No, you haven't.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
No, you haven't.
Speaker 11 (07:33):
If you've been a Falcon fan your whole life in
real life, they were on the birds of something special
in the city for fourty three years, you have not
been paying attention.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Harrd.
Speaker 11 (07:43):
Dunney's coming up an injury a year before last. Last
year was his rehab year. He's going to be a
dynamic receiver. If not, come up here and I'll give
you one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Harry, you don't know anything about what.
Speaker 12 (07:57):
You're talking about. You dare say?
Speaker 11 (08:01):
Do you say to me that we're trying to upselll
a balance to you? Sure you're not a fan, you
haven't been, and if you have been, you don't know
what you're looking at.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
A Homer's a homer.
Speaker 12 (08:14):
Don't you ever call me a homer?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Who the hell do your thing?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Has been traying the truth since.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 11 (08:20):
Atlanta Radio who by Arctic.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Ri ip.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Ding ding ding.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
That's great, that's great.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It is is? I love listen.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
That's the highest sports radio telling a man who's lived
in Atlanta his whole life that he hasn't.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Right, it's a very andsun You don't know what you're
talking about in this case, but it's actually not true.
Like I lived here, know you know what you're talking about.
Speaker 12 (08:50):
I don't know here.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
You're an idiotteen seventy three.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
That's a long time.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
To be fair to one hundred dollars is a lot
more twenty eleven, isn't No?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
You're right?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yes, But I love that as a like, just as
a microcosm of sports radio. A guy who moved down
there from New York to Atlanta telling a guy who's
lived there his entire life.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
You have it.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I mean, it's unbelievable, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Let's get to a fair foul right now, Taylor take
it away.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
We need the music, please.
Speaker 12 (09:22):
So fair foul wrong music, samm it's the baseball instrumental one.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Wow, he knew that on one note, the media knows
he knows the songs.
Speaker 12 (09:30):
Yes, it's the baseball Oregon one right to remix and
then fair or foul. The Pittsburgh Pirates might actually be
pretty good.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Let's go fair, Taylor, What the hell man?
Speaker 9 (09:43):
I mean?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
This is a good time right now to be a
Pittsburgh Pirates fan. Connor Griffin signs a nine year, one
hundred and forty million dollar contract. Everyone says he's the
greatest thing since slice bread His slice breader really the
greatest thing ever withs another debate, But this kid looks
like a real special talent. Six four two twenty two,
can hit for daze, obviously a ton of power. I thought,
and you got Paul Skins for four more years. And
I said this at the start of the season. But
(10:04):
with their pitching staff beyond Skemes, is still pretty good.
Jared Jones will be back mid season. Mitch Keller Ashcraft,
I think is really good. You say to yourself, you
know what, if they can score four runs a game,
they'll be competitive. So just get to five hundred. A
year ago, the Reds with eighty three wins that made
the playoffs. So the Pirates, by virtue, even being a
five hundred team, you could be in the mix for
a playoff spot. Imagine playoff baseball in Pittsburgh. It feels
(10:25):
like the Pirates are having a moment right now. It's
a moment. It's a good time to be a pirate.
I would say Pirates potentially, Yes, fair, they're good.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Preachadman. If I never had.
Speaker 9 (10:34):
To slice bread, I would live a perfectly normal life.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah, tail, I don't know on the poll. Yeah, is
slice bread the greatest thing?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yes? Or no? Overrated?
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Like how did this expression first come? Who was the
guy that I was like? Oh my god, I just
I can't take the giant loans. I don't know how
much to have. There's portion control issues here. I got
an idea, we're gonna take this and we're gonna cut
this sucker up wonderbread for days, like, oh my god,
this is the grastis and slice bread.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Get this man metal.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Tell it.
Speaker 12 (11:03):
Cal Rowley's season last year might have been a fluke
fair foul.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Oh jeez, I'll walk right into you. Yeah, absolutely, it's fair.
He's a bomb. He's completely overrated. Sixty home run season
was a joke. Listen, cal Rawley in his career prior
to last season was what a guy would each thirty
seven three home runs in about two ten. So he
has this one year where he was unbelievable sixty home
runs Store Preyer for catchers. So for this year has
been awful him, Julio Rodriguez, and Josh Neil, which hurts me,
(11:31):
fellow Canadian have all been struggling mightily. Now Ralegh last
year didn't get rolling until later in the year. But
what the hell, sure he's overrated. He's not gonna hit
forty home runs this season, cal Raley do for a stinker.
Speaker 12 (11:43):
Joe Adehill's three home run robbery game was the best
thing you've ever seen in a baseball game. Fair foul,
I mean, come.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
On, absolutely fair. And sometimes you fall in love with
the guy just because of his name. So going back
to my years on Sports Center, of course, you know,
inspired by Boomer and Oberman and all these guys you know,
comele of these nicknames and play on words. So the
first time I saw Joe Adell, I said, hello, it's
me right saw every time I wish they could deliver
it like Boom, But every time I said Joe Adell, Hello,
it's me. And the key for me is when you
(12:11):
deliver the line is you say it straight right, you
don't you don't infer what you're saying, or don't say
what the reference is. You say Joe Adell, Hello, it's me,
and then then it's fine. And if somebody gets to think,
and if they don't get it's fine. This reminds me
of Carmel and Anthony. You suti always see you had
me at Mellow and someone's like, what is that? I go,
Jerry maguire, you had me at Hello. He goes, yeah,
but that lines you had me at Hello? Like yeah,
he goes, you had me at Melow's like, well, I
(12:33):
don't want to say if you had me at below
because that doesn't make any sense. You had me at Mellow,
and it's posted up to you have me at Hell,
and you go, Okay, Jermy McGuire, I got it. Anyways,
I've been using it for years and Joe Dell for
the first three d scuers stunk every year. He was terrible,
and I go, can this guy start hitting? I go,
I'm spinning gold here. Joe Dell's don't even the highlights,
so Mark with Dan, please set one night and every
chance I got you a big game. Joe Adell, Hello,
(12:55):
it's me, Joe Adell. Hello, it's me. I'm hitting it hard.
Play next to me. He's driving home and he goes
now times it's an idiot. Every time I see dam
please that he brings it up. So anything involving Jo Adell,
I'm thrilled about. Whether it's home run robberies. Just get
the highlights.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Kid.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
He's great, A.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Few years late from being a golden joke.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Exactly.
Speaker 12 (13:19):
I have one more bad nan fair or foul. It's
fair to criticize the Mets because the vibes on their
team seem pretty terrible.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Wow, no foul. I'm pro Mets.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Listen.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Maybe it's just because the fact that I live in
Jersey now I'm surrounded by Yankees and Mets fans. But no,
I love stews, guys, plucky underdogs. Boba Schett only hitting
two twenty two, that's okay, uh loose Robertson that they
dropped a fly ball, wasn't great at a home run yesterday? Though,
I will I will call foul on that. I still
like this Mets team. SODA's out right now, but plenty
of time. That division is a little, you know, a
little more open than you might think. It's not just
(13:53):
like the Phillies are going to run and hide some
bad vibes here and there. But STEVIEE. Cohen's bunny will
be okay. It's been colder in New York. Okay, what's
lumbs up a little bit? That's will be okay. I'm
calling foul on that one.
Speaker 9 (14:02):
And then last time we talked, you talked about the
idea of eventually keeping the umpire but balls and strikes
completely out of his hands. I think that getting closer
and closer because some of these challenge calls. There was
one right down the middle that was called the ball,
and it's just like, all right, you guys are embarrassing
yourselves easier.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
It minds me. You know, I'm coaching my son in
baseball and you're throwing BP and everyone just assumes, because
you're an adult, you know what you're doing. But once
in a while, throwers get a little walk and they
kind of give you like what this guy doing, Like,
how can you answer a groove a ball?
Speaker 11 (14:28):
No?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
I know, I know she's living with an umpire. You're like,
how hard? Could this be? This is a ball? This
is a strike? Like I mean you think it's a
hard job. Like, Bro, you had enough years of training
and practicing, you should be good at your job. I
could imagine some of these guys are going home just
like I have. After a bad day at bpkid thirteen
kids on the team, I threw ten pitches to each kid.
I'm like, bad, I gotta go ice of the arm.
Some of these umps are going home popping a few excentrics,
going hey, is this the right job for me? Like
(14:48):
I am getting shown up here time and time again.
And think of how much easier umpires have the past.
You blew a call, nobody had any idea. Everybody respected
authority back then. You respected the president for god six Twell,
he's an umpire. Clearly he's wearing a uniform. He has
a pitch counter this guy. So we hast to be
valued in our society. Now this is a back on
you topped your head. You just topped your head. He's wrong,
challenge it wrong again, wrong again. So I'm borried you
(15:11):
with CB Buckner's mental health right now, this is not
great getting challenges as much?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Uh add Dan enjoy the weekend. Enjoy the masters, get
out of here. We have a guest coming up that
Taylor's very excited about.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
So he's kicking. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Okay, I was gonna say this feels a little premature,
but again, I'm good for fifteen minutes. Boys, that's it,
the guy behind the guy.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
You get paid the same regardless, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
It's some points now to.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Godson Company
Live Weekday. Said three pm Eastern, twelve pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Very excited to have a national champion joining us right now,
Taylor's pumping his fists.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Why are you pumping your fist?
Speaker 11 (15:51):
Man?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
All I said is that I didn't even introduce who
it was. I just said he's a national champion.
Speaker 12 (15:56):
Because I was one of the fourteen percent of brackets
that trusted my eye.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Michigan Team all Year, Yaxcel Londenborg is with us, and
he is up for the Wooden Award Player of the Year. Yea, Actually,
let's start here. I don't have a vote, but I
just wanted you to know that I voted for you. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Thank you. You're my guy. You're my guy.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Manh how's it feel being a national champion?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Man?
Speaker 8 (16:24):
It was amazing. The moment it happened, it didn't hit me.
You know. It took a couple of days for at
the settle in and like realize, actually, you know, we
won the championship. But man, it's an amazing feeling. You know,
we worked really really hard to get there, and uh,
it's a big accomplishment. Yac.
Speaker 9 (16:37):
So when did you know there's been doesn't happen every year,
but a lot of years when the national champion comes out,
you look back and say, oh, yeah, there was a
point where it was pretty clear they were the best team.
Was there a point where you and your guys just
knew was it the tournament? Was it before the tournament?
Speaker 8 (16:52):
Yeah, I would say after we dog walked Agurn San
Diego State in Gonzaga. I feel like that's when we
were all like, wow, like we could be the best team.
Speaker 11 (17:00):
You know.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
Ever, you know, Elliott was the first guy to say that,
and then I pretty much like was rolling without seeing
in the media, and then everybody else started agreeing. You
know a lot of people are declining and we can't
be but man, we just you know, we just kept
our hands down and kept working.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Man, do you feel like you guys are the best
team ever?
Speaker 8 (17:16):
I want to say yes, I feel like we could
compete with every team honestly.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
Yeah, I'm sorry. So I'll just say what separates your team?
Make the case for your team?
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Is it the size? Is it just the depth?
Speaker 12 (17:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (17:29):
I would say the size we have. We have both.
We have a lot of size. We have death. We
have a very very unselfished group. You know, that really
goes a long way. You know, it's kind of hard
to game plan for Michigan because you don't know who's
going to be the main score at night. You know,
you can game plan for one guy, then the other
guy's gonna go for thirty. That guy that you game
plan for maybe have five points.
Speaker 12 (17:46):
You know.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
It's like it's different ways that we can attack. And
I feel like that's the main reason why we won
this year.
Speaker 12 (17:51):
Yeah. So I love your your TikTok lives. They always
just go they just always go completely off the rails.
And some people I would look at this Michigan team
and say they are the worst media trained team. I
just say, hey, you guys are just being your authentic selves.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
I agree with what they say. We definitely are media trained.
I know I'm the like head hont of that that
that's on me, but man, it's really fun. I feel
like it helps us get together. It helps us like
all kumbaya, you know. So I feel like those lives
definitely helped out. And eventually it became like a tradition,
like we won because we were all live last night,
so let's do it again, you know. But it was very.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Fund feel good.
Speaker 9 (18:31):
I'll go ahead, go ahead, all right, dactual during the
I'm a fellow Dominican during the National Championship game, it
kind of drove me crazy because they only mentioned where
you were born. They didn't mention your nationality, and so
I'm just like, I just want to.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
Hear from you.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
You're tied because there's not that many Dominican basketball players,
Karl Anthony Towns out Horford, you know, Felipe Lopez back,
there's not too many of them. Just curious how tired
you are to your Dominican roots and and if there's
any sort of inspiration you have from Dominican players in
the past.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
Yeah, well, I've been getting way more involved in with
like my Dominican side. These past couple of years, I've
been getting a lot of support from the Dominican people
as well.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
The President actually invited me to go over there and
meet him really, so hopefully I'll get a chance to
go do that. You know. It's there's been an honor,
you know, just representing my country, uh, represented my mom,
you know, doing all that stuff. It has been great,
you know. Man, Man, they were talking about how great
Karthie Towns is al Hortford as well, you know, and
like being able to follow on their footsteps of the marais?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Did it feel good to finally shut up the Fab
five because they told you to make it to a
championship game and win it, and you guys made it
to the championship game and you won it.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
They made it and never won it. Did it feel good?
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Or what?
Speaker 8 (19:38):
I wouldn't I wouldn't say like like shut them up?
You know, we still were looking up to them all year,
you know, but but man, it definitely felt good to
you know, be able to get that blessing. I think
I'm still waiting for them to you know, put us
on the pedestal. Uh Uh. It was definitely fun and
excited to have those guys having our back all year.
Speaker 12 (19:58):
Yes, yeah, so. Earlier in the show, I admitted that
I used to have a crush on missus Met the mascot.
Stu Gotta said he's had a crush before on Betty Rubble.
I'm wondering who's who's the strangest person or maybe cartoon
you've had a crush on.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
That's a good question.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
I would wouldn't the War finalists.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
I would say when I was a kid, maybe maybe
Lola Bunny from.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
Jessica Rabbit was a famous woman that before your time.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Make your case if you wouldn't mind as to why
you should win the Wooden Award. I voted for you
again just as a reminder, but make your case.
Speaker 12 (20:43):
Man.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
Honestly, I feel like I'm not worthy. Honestly, I'm not really.
I don't think I would think like, I don't know,
I don't know if I'm belonging with these guys. Man,
these guys have been doing so much for the team.
You know, they pretty much been putting a team on
their back. I just, you know, really good player on
a really good team. Honestly, you know, that's pretty much
my mindset here. But if there was any scenario where
I would win. It would probably just be because of that
(21:04):
national championship, right.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
But you really like you're being honest there. You don't
feel like you belong in this conversation. Of course you do.
I mean you're one of the best players in the
game now.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah too.
Speaker 12 (21:17):
How many regular season games do you think you would
have missed with your injury in that national championship because
it seems like you were just powering through it.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
Nah, Honestly, I had. I had a similar kind of
injury with like my calf that was kind of bothering
me earlier in the year. My numbers dropped, but I still,
you know, I still want to be on the court
no matter what. You know, it's like experience, and my
mom always had a saying like no pay, no game,
as cliche as it is, like I actually live by that.
So I just you know, I'm gonna do the best
I can to get on the court. And you know,
there's many kids at Michigan that were supporting me all year,
(21:45):
and it's like maybe they come to the game for
the first time and they can't watch me play, you know,
So I don't want everyone to make it be that
case for anybody.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
Actually, maybe it could be a little less humble with
this question, because it feels like there were times during
the season where you watch you playing, you, despite having
great teammates, could absolutely take over a game, and the
things you can do at your size just so unique
and very much seems like NBA ready.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
How much of this.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
Year did you really feel like you were coming into
yourself and just getting the playing the best basketball you've
ever played.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
Man, I would I would definitely say in Vegas, I
definitely grew a lot of confidence, especially in my three
point shot. I worked so hard to you know, just
be able to shoot it compidently. That's where it started off.
And then man, they're in the marsh manister, and I
feel like those games against Alabama, Tennessee and Saint Louis,
It's like, now it's my time to you know, really
take over and show these guys while with the big
(22:37):
ten player against stuff like that, and man, I started
showing all three levels of my game, and pretty much
it felt like nobody could you know, stop me in
the in the in the range. And then I started
realizing my fast break game is pretty much an easy
way to get going. If I started driving downhill guys
one on one to make any other guys you know,
blame me, and if they do, them to kick out
to my three point shooters.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Paalo Ben Carrol's got nothing on you, man, You're that
level of player.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I'm telling you. He's so humble, Yaxel, We appreciate you
joining us. Congratulations on the national championship, Congratulations on all
your success and good luck here with the Wooden Award. Man,
you're deserving.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
Thank you, thanks for having me men.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Oh you got it man, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I mean they're six and six, they've won too straight.
Speaker 9 (23:22):
That man is a one of the lasting images for
a Marlin's World series that brought so much joy to
this town.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
And Chicago hates him.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yes, the nun no used to mean something, it no
longer does.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
How does bord Ot Ricardo feel about a picture being
bold in the six they after striking out two and
having a no hitter going?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Is he is he glued to it? Does he have
a thought on it?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:44):
Yeah, of course I was actually going to talk.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
About about it with Taylor on the break.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
But you know how he is. He doesn't.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
He's a one word answer guy, but very upsetting, very
upsetting what's going on in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
The nerds need to get out of baseball.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
To be honest, didn't.
Speaker 9 (23:56):
Craig Council just have an episode with or a little
bout with the tobacco where he.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Was just cut on the ones like gagging?
Speaker 9 (24:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have no experience with chewing tobacco.
Did Was he just a novice or did he just
have something he wasn't expecting.
Speaker 12 (24:10):
I think I think he was. I would assume he's
not a novice. I think he just had an unexpected
about there.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Really, because if you try chewing tobacco for the first time,
it's a dangerous game.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I mean, you could spend the next twenty four hours
throwing up all over yourself.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
You can.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
That's what it looked like he was about to do,
like the sandlight lie like that part.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Of the sidline, right, yes, exactly right?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Uh, Taylor, Mike is on now, So this is a
different tailor that we're talking to. It's not Taylor off
air where he gives one more to answers, how do
you feel about a picture being pulled for a no hitter?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Like what is Council doing in that spot? Let's go
I want to see a no no.
Speaker 12 (24:45):
Yeah, it's a terrible decision. They're going to blame it
on that it's April long season ahead of them, cad
Or in their their projected ACE is out for the
season now with Tommy John. You gotta go for cool.
If something's going to be cool in sports, you gotta go.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, it is super interesting what's going on at the
Masters with Rory right now? Because I had the tournament
basically overwhelming his up two strokes with two and a
half rounds to go.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I'm not gonna let him forget it.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
There's two and a half days to go, including a
day that's called moving day.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
It's called moving day.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
When I said that he was running away with it,
I actually meant that he was running away with it
at Loewen Krawn.
Speaker 12 (25:27):
Speed, which is given to be correct.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yeah, very slowly, right, Isaac, I thought you meant he
stole the green jacket, was running away with it like
Shooter McGavin and Happy Gilmore. But now he's a stroke
up on Patrick Reid, who was also won a green
jacket as well, And so golf is funny?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Is he? Because I like Rory? But you want Rory
not to run away with the tournament. You don't want
anyone running away with that tournament.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
It's all about positioning for Saturday and Sunday, and what
you really want is a great final round. But what's
interesting about Rory is and that tournament. He wanted to
win it so badly, and now he's won one, and
he has that off of his back, like no one
can ever say, hey, he never won a green jacket. No,
he's won a green jacket, and the first one is
(26:11):
the most difficult to win. And he is such a
talented golfer. When he is right, when he's hitting the
ball correctly, he's probably the best golfer in the world.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
And now that he has that one, it.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Feels like Rory could win four or five more here
over like the next ten to twelve years. He's still young,
he's still in his prime, and he's that good of
a golfer. But that first one is the most important one,
and now that he has it, it feels like he's
playing with house money.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
It could go on to like a little bit of
a run here winning green jackets.
Speaker 9 (26:40):
You know, it did for a few holes, to the
point where I mentioned that he was running away with it.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
But now I'm getting carried away.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Yeah, well you are a little bit.
Speaker 9 (26:48):
Because the funny part about this is, you know, he
talked about thinking that getting the Grand Slam for his
career was, you know, the destination for his career, and
then he said, no, it's not. After doing it, still
had more that he wanted to accomplish. And you think
you want to go out here and be like, oh,
I won one already. It's pressure free until the pressure
reintroduces itself, until you're up three with you know, four
(27:12):
holes to go, and then start maybe thinking, oh, no,
I might actually do this, or even if you are,
you know, up early in the second round and you're
getting a little too confident and all of a sudden, okay,
there's a bogie and now I can't find another birdy.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
Now the pressure's back on.
Speaker 9 (27:26):
So I don't think it's going to feel as pressurized,
let's say, if he's on the eighteenth hole with a
big moment on Sunday. But for the totality of it,
I still think he the pressure reintroduces itself and it's.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
No different, not very different than it was before.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
All Right, we have Darius Aikoff, who's going to join
us here as well. So this is a very exciting
the Wooden Award. I've never had people with boots on
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Speaker 1 (28:46):
He is the best guard coach Calipari has ever coached.
He's the SEC Player of the Year, he's the Koozy
Award winner, and he is my vote to win the
Wooden Award as the nation's best player. Darius Acuff Junior
is with us. You're my guy, man. I voted for you,
just so you know. I wanted you to know that,
even though I don't have a vote.
Speaker 10 (29:07):
You know what I'm saying a vote, Appreciate you, Appreciate you,
Thank you having me.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Got sorry, I don't still got said there.
Speaker 9 (29:17):
You know that you're the best guard that coach cal
Perry as ever is each and I know a lot
of people are suggesting that even after just one year.
When you think about that concept, given how many great
players coach cal Perry has coached, what goes through your mind.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
It's crazy when you look at the list you see
a picture of it. It's crazy to coach so many
legends from like throughout, like I don't even know, from
how so long Gootes and now he's still you know,
he's still.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
He's been it's been so long, so I don't know.
Speaker 10 (29:50):
It's it's a it's a great feeling, you know, to
be in a conversation with those guys. For sure, I
looked up to those guys, So it was definitely Burt.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
How did the season play out in your mind versus
the expectations you had headed into this season.
Speaker 10 (30:04):
It started off a little rocky, I will say, but
we picked it up. I think, like early February going
into March, I think we started you know, we got
closer for sure.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
We just start you know, playing with a.
Speaker 10 (30:15):
Little more energy and wanted to We wanted to win
way more. So we knew what was at State, and
I think we picked it up. We failed short, of
course in the sweet sixteen, but you know it was
it was a great year. Uh, not even basketball, just
for as a brotherhood.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
We built a great bond for sure.
Speaker 10 (30:31):
God We're gonna be speaking for each other to each
other for life. So I think that was the best
part about.
Speaker 12 (30:36):
It, Darius. A lot of people when it comes to
college basketball are doing like a crash course learning when
it gets to March Madness, trying to figure out who
the best players are for the best teams. What was
it like for you when you see all the coverage
for March Madness and going into the tournament, nobody could
say like five sentences before saying, Darius, a cuff is
(30:57):
the player that you have to watch.
Speaker 10 (31:01):
I always say, like, it's a great feeling to we
talked about, Uh, never gonna downplay that. No, just the
love and the support, you know, I always appreciate it.
But you know, like I said, around that time, I
was just focused on trying to win a national championship.
Uh didn't didn't get to do it. But like I said,
it was a great year as far as the team,
(31:22):
I would say, not even myself.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
As far as the team, it was a great year.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
We did something much together, Darius.
Speaker 9 (31:28):
As as you got more you know, popular, you got
more attention, people started obviously making comparisons to you to
NBA players. I think the name I heard the most
was Damian Lillard. Can you sort of describe your game,
how you know you create your offense for yourself and
what separates you from some of the other guards out there.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (31:48):
Yeah, I heard Damie a little a lot too, Like
that's pretty accurate.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Yeah, I think it's pretty pretty accurate.
Speaker 10 (31:53):
I think we kind of moved the same, we get
our shots off a little similar, But I think I
got my own game kind of two. It's I think
I do a lot of you know, stuff like differently,
like some people don't do I don't do what Damian
Little does. Sometimes he don't do it, you know, so
in that case it's different. But you know, Damian Little
(32:14):
is a legend. It's one of the players I watch
a lot, for sure, But just to be in the
same sentence as him and other players is definitely great.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
If there's a part of your game, and again, you're
my player of the Year, I voted for you, even
though I don't have a vote, But if there's a
if there's a part of the game that you have
to work on, what's the part you need to work
on the most?
Speaker 10 (32:35):
Definitely defense, just being more more involved. I don't think
I'm like like, it's not that I don't want to
do it. It's just, you know, sometimes it's just something
to work on. It takes time. Just got to take
more pride in it. Just I just say, my biggest
thing is being more aware, especially off the ball. I
think I gotta get better at that, but you know,
(32:55):
it takes time.
Speaker 8 (32:56):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
I'm still young, so I'm definitely gonna work on that
a lot.
Speaker 9 (32:59):
Even though oh, you know, five Star Recruit and everything
else had a lot of attention coming out of high school.
Not everybody really gets that feeling of they belong right
until they actually maybe experience it.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Was there a time coming up where you're just like, yeah.
Speaker 9 (33:13):
I'm definitely the man here, I will be in the
NBA within whatever it is, eighteen months or do you
almost have to like experience it every step of the
way and check, Okay, I'm good enough against these guys.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Now I can feel that confidence to go to the
next level.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I felt it early.
Speaker 10 (33:29):
I will say I always thought I was the best
player or worse like a Swiss term. Definitely eleventh and
tenth grade summer going into a junior year. Okay, I
went to IMG and just you know, I was playing
against some of the best players. You know, I was
playing well. You know, once I got the senior year,
I was. I was ready for sure, I would say,
(33:50):
But no, I always knew any time I ever played
on I feel like I was the best player.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Any tournament I was in, I feel like I was
the best.
Speaker 12 (33:56):
Darius last May, you made headlines when you signed with Reebok.
He had a whole photo shoot with Alan Iverson. That's
another person. I feel like people compare you to what
was it like getting to meet Alan Iverson and having
him kind of come into your life.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Yeah, people don't know that was.
Speaker 10 (34:15):
I signed with him last year like that photo shoo
was last year before I came into school. But yeah,
I haven't seen him since, but it's great. He's like
he's the best ever to me. He's like he's my
favorite player ever. I watched him all the time. I
definitely think we have some similar things in our game.
(34:35):
I think we like we're both too tough minded guards.
Nobody could stop us from getting downhill. And you just
you just feel that, you just feel that swagger and
that that you know when we're when we're both on
the court, you can just feel.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
It for sure.
Speaker 9 (34:47):
Davis, what's the most helpful thing so far that coach
cal Parry has told you to prepare you for the
next level.
Speaker 10 (34:57):
I would say, always stay level headed, don't never get
too high, don't get too low.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Just always stay one way, no.
Speaker 10 (35:03):
Matter how bad things are going on, no matter how
good things are going just you know, just always stay yourself.
Like that's the biggest thing he taught me, and he
always just taught me just just be a leader as
the point guard.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
You got to take control of the team. You got
to be the most vocal.
Speaker 10 (35:16):
So but Kyle definitely taught me those things.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Darius, why are you the player of the year.
Speaker 10 (35:30):
I got a lot of reasons, but you know, it's
not my opinion, it's not it's not my vote.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
I don't I don't got nothing, you know, to do.
Speaker 10 (35:37):
But I know what I've done. I know how good
of a player I am. If I get it. Like
I said, I'm blessed to be here. It's mister Wooden.
You know, it's John Wooden. So it's a legendary event,
you know. But yeah, I definitely I feel like I
done a lot of great stuff and these guys have too,
So whoever wins it, I'm you know, I'm still be proud.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
All right, man, Well, good luck this weekend, good luck
moving forward. Congratulations on all your success. Man, it's exciting
time in your life. We're happy for you.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Thank you so much, thank you.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
All right, you got man of a draft.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Two gets.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
Oh it is a great draft.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I know, very humble guys, these guys, I.
Speaker 12 (36:12):
Mean, nobody ever saw Jordan. Yeah, nobody wants to claim
the award.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Well, and no one saw Jordan play.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I mean, you can't say Iversin is the greatest of
all time, even though I voted for him and I
do think he's the player of the year, and I
don't have a vote, but I mean it's clearly Michael
Jordan Taylor. Do we have polls to update here? Or
are we good here?
Speaker 4 (36:28):
We do?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Oh? We do? Look the music. This is amazing, unbelievable.
I was Sam, you're on your game today.
Speaker 12 (36:35):
Does being tan automatically make you better looking?
Speaker 6 (36:38):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (36:38):
With t Bob not one hundred. Seventy seven percent of
the audience said yes, it does.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Baby.
Speaker 12 (36:51):
Would you take Tommy Lloyd more serious if he was
Tom Lloyd?
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Yep, yep, everyone would.
Speaker 12 (37:00):
Seventy four percent of the audience said yes.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 12 (37:05):
Do the Marlins lead the mlbing feisty?
Speaker 2 (37:08):
They do? Yes, We asked Michael, question yes and feist Yes.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (37:16):
Sixty percent of the audience said yes.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
Nice Lory mclid.
Speaker 12 (37:21):
Yeah, they can hate the fatter in Long Depot Park
number one in feistiness. Does being a Jets Mets fan
age you and dog years?
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Yep, it does, it does.
Speaker 12 (37:39):
Overwhelming eight percent of the audience.
Speaker 9 (37:42):
Yes, mikey A is nineteen years old.
Speaker 12 (37:47):
This is a big one for Stu gots here.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
And the Jets will do it to you by themselves.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Go ahead.
Speaker 12 (37:52):
Who asked for elevated courts at the final four, seventy
percent of the audience said no.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
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