April 10, 2026 • 43 mins
On this edition of the Best of Stugotz and Company LIVE!: Stu and the guys deliver sports poems for Izzy to judge. Stu pays tribute to the legendary broadcaster Beau Bock. 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.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is the best of Stu Gotson Company Live on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
We have boots on the ground all over the United
States of America. In La at the Wooden Award, in
Miami with Israel Goodie Eras, and in Baltimore me boots
on the ground. I wanted to make sure that Lamar
Jackson did indeed show up to the voluntary workout, and
I had to see it with my own eyes and
his he I am here to report that he did.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Wow with your size. I was actually doing some watching
of things going on in Maryland as well, because I
saw Maryland versus Northwestern lacrosse game was on some sort
of CBS network, and I said, why me see, Yeah,
let me see if I can find I was going
to say a wiener, but let me see if I
(01:03):
can find Steve Gotts in the crowd. And the crowd
wasn't that let's say impressive, but I still couldn't find
it because they didn't zoom in.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Well that's on Maryland.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I mean, you bring that game to Northwestern and there'll
be ten thousand fans out there cheering on the Northwestern Wildcat.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
So if anything, that's on, uh, that's on Maryland.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Who claims they love lacrosse so much, yet when a
big game appears right in their backyard no one shows
up to it.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Go ahead, Mikey.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
H Taylor.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
The yesterday's show much better.
Speaker 7 (01:30):
Right, Jess start of the show like, yeah, already, I
miss Sal.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, yeah, listen, you volunteered to talk. I didn't go
to you. You volunteered to talk. I know with Sally,
you didn't talk for the first six or seven minutes
of the show. I'm getting tired of Sally. I got
to be honest with you right now. And by the way,
I'm so tired of him. He joined us on the
podcast today.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I got a debrief.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, yeah, listen. I spoke to mikey a this morning.
Had a very important conversation. Things to discuss with my
friend because I trust him and because he cares about me.
And he started that conversation knowing it was an important conversation, saying, listen,
I think me Sal Taylor We've got a podcast.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Going to do.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
What are we going to do?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yeah? What am I going to do?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
The Masters is going on right now. We're gonna have
melk kiper Junior joining us as well. But Israel Goudieires
was the judge at a poetry con contest recently.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Who'd you do it for?
Speaker 8 (02:34):
Is he?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Who was it for?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
It's a program called Louder Than a Bomb and it's
you know, poetry. It's high school and middle school kids
reading original poetry. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. In fact,
I'm doing another one, judging another one on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
All right, you're going to judge another one right now,
because we decided here on this show that it would
be a good idea for all of us to write
poems and for Israel Goudyeirez, who is an expert in poetry,
for him to judge these.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Are you good with that?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I'm so great with this, But I did not notice
was coming. I'm very excited about this. I will say
that I hope in tone that your poems are just
a little happier than some of these kids poems because
his high school in middle school, man, are.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
They sad about stuff? So listen yesterday with Salikata.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
He came out hot, you know, throwing some heat six
or seven minutes on dexter Lawrence. I think I can't
do six or seven minutes on anything. Yeah. So I'm
back here, and here we are doing poetry. I mean,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I don't know what to tell you. Let's go to
mikey A first.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I'm putting them in a bad spot here, but he
put me in a bad spot by bailing on me
and being, you know, falling in love with Sal. So,
mikey A, you're gonna go first. Everyone's gonna read their poems,
is he, and then you have to rank them. Okay,
that's what you have to do before we get to Melchiper.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Or you can snap.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
That's what I was getting you.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
There, And there could be a college basketball player pop
it up at any time. I have no idea. That's
what we do. That's how we roll what you got sal.
Let's go, mikey A. Mikey A, you are up first,
Go ahead, So confused.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
My poem is entitled the worst team Ever?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Uh huh.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
I root for a team that I wish I didn't.
I wasn't smart, a bad student. They cause me hurt.
They cause me pain, but I keep coming back like
I'm insane. My lofty goals are more simpler than they sound.
Just one time, I would love to be playoff bound.
I see players come, I see players go, Yet I
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remain taking each painful blow. They win in Seattle, they
win in the Bay of Green, But a championship is
something I've never seen. I cried tears. They fill this space.
I hate Woody Johnson. I hate his stupid face. I
could blame my brother, I could blame Tom Brady, I
could even blame Stu Gotts. You know that guy is shady.
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But in the end, I should accept my fate. Let
the losing cover me as I begin to suffocate. For
it is foretold that the only Jets that will win
a chip and tap that victory keg will come from
Canada and the little town of Winnipeg.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Snap, Snap, Snap, Snap. Is that what you do for poetry? Snap?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Well, if it's a good line in it, you can
snap during the good line.
Speaker 9 (05:28):
Yet long Yet, however, my favorite part of it, and
this speeds to the length, is I could feel your pain.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I could definitely feel the emotions coming out.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
I don't know how legal the music is.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
But I think for the audience, I like the music,
that's fine. A little sing song ye, you know, little
sing song y, a little kind of Doctor seussish. But
over my only real complaints so far. The scoring system
is somewhere between like one and ten. Obviously, nobody's gonna
score like below a five, five or six. So I
give that a solid eight point one, okay, but you're
supposed to just rank him towards the end.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I didn't know you were going to turn into Simon
Cowell on us. I mean, this is this is a
judge eight snaps.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Golf claps kind of like snaps.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
So it counts.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
All right, let's go to boardot Ricardo, this is gonna
be great. He's gonna pry his eyes away from watching
baseball for a moment.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
And read us a poem. Go ahead.
Speaker 10 (06:31):
Though impressed with Lucas seventy three and seventy one points
by Dame, still not second place all time like bam
Adebio's eighty three point game. It wasn't disrespectful like the
Kobe Stans claim bam ade Bio's eighty three point game.
The national media called forty three free throws Corney and
said he should be ashamed in bam ade Bio's eighty
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three point game, but as a heat fan in the
playing game, I wish to go back to the glory
and the fame of Bam out of Bio's eighty three
point game.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
I mean, I'm gonna snap forever.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I was really good talk talk about a guy who
knew how to go after the judge's heart.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Right, I'm still snapping.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Very thankful that that was the topic, and normally the
topic itself really hits the judges. That one, to me,
couldn't have done any better. I wish maybe we could
have rhymed out of Bio with something. I feel like
that's a nice challenge. But overall, I love the tone,
I love the voice, I love the it was great.
The music was even better.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Give that a solid eight point three?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Whoa, whoa wow Wow ahead of Mikey, I mean, too
tense of a point.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Let's go out for ninety five. I might have given
him nine five.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Let's go out to ep Jason in Sherman Oaks. He
has a poem here for Israel. Goody eras and I
understand why the guys want salback.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Go ahead, This poem is called not a mithy as
mikey a take that whoever you want. How to build
a farm. There once was a farm in Iowa purchased
by the NFL. Roger Goodell was tasked to make owners
lots of money, something he does very well. One day,
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he asked, how do we quickly make lots of children
to tend to these chickens and pigs? Won't? Owner replied,
Tyreek Hill is unavailable. Let's get Stefan Diggs EXAs.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
No one snapping.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I mean no, no, in large part because I had
no idea what the subject of that poem was.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
I really don't know what you're about.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, totally. My interpretation was I don't know what that
was about. So I'm going to get that one a
seven point nine.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Wow, I mean I understood it. I would have given
it a nine point two. But that's you know, it's
Easy's judge, I'm.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Not thank you. Thanks, no swaying the judges. After you're done,
let's go to update anchor Ike. This is very exciting.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I am told update anchor Ike does indeed have a poem.
I don't know if I was Sam does, but someone
will have to convey that to me, and if he doesn't,
it's fine.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Go ahead, update anchor ike this one.
Speaker 11 (09:18):
Also on the shorter side, there was once a coach
named Vrabel to beat the Seahawks in the Super Bowl.
He was unable. He retreated to Sedona, where he was
allegedly not alone. But it's still better than if the
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Pats had hired Brian Dable.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Jesus throw a dead fish on my lap?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Why don't you, I mean, my god, bars, bars, I'm
not going to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
The score six point.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Nine, all right, let's go. I am told that I
always send now tailors in a pickle. Because you know,
I haven't spoken about Diana Versiti yet.
Speaker 12 (10:07):
People shaking about Yeah, we probably should have checked everybody's topic.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
You should have prove fred them.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Listen, I'll tell you this on the front end of
any Diana Versini discussion I'm going to have. If the
athletic gets rid of her, she'll be sitting right next
to me. And is he doing the show? How does
that sound? Okay?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
I support my friends.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I don't bail on my friends, especially at their worst
professional time in their history.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I don't do that to them.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Okay, I'm going to upgrade that to a seven point
zero because I'm just remembering rhyming Sedona with a loono.
Speaker 13 (10:36):
Yeah it's a seven point oh, yes, it's a great
Do we have, I Sam, Yes, you do, we do.
He has a short one, he told me, and it
better be short short one.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Here.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Okay, guys, here go, let's get the music going again.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Roses are red, violets are blue.
Speaker 14 (10:54):
I forgot to do a poem. I had another show
to do.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Ah, okay, this to God's is strong in you.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Conflict of interest, Diana Russidi.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I mean, this entire industry is littered with conflicts of interest.
Every single take that anyone makes is littered in conflict
of interest. I don't want to hear about it. I
spoke to her. Okay, she's going through a very difficult time.
She's going to survive this, and again, anyone who wants
to get rid of her I will hire her in
two seconds.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Let's go to Taylor Tailor. Go ahead. You are up
here for poetry, Dight. Yes, oh yeah, where's my score.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I'm a little conflicted as it is, because that is
not I don't know how snapworthy it was. But I
also I'm kind of a fan of the Roses a
red vehicle, so that one's going to get a seven
point one.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
All right, we'll go I'll take it because I made
it up in about five scards thirty lines, and he
tried said, yeah, that's exactly right, Mikey.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I'll go ahead, Taylor.
Speaker 12 (11:54):
I once saw a woman so striking and round, with
a bounce in her step and a sway so profound.
She walked through the park with a confident glide, turning
each head as she strolled side to side. My brain said,
just keep walking. My feet said no chance, as I
fumbled my way into an awkward advance. So I stood
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there beside her a bundle of sweat, and somehow just asked,
how do you fit everything in those pants?
Speaker 14 (12:21):
Missus?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Mett I'm slapping.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
My initial thought was it better be relevant that this
woman was round, because nobody is gonna be I could
see that as a compliment. But once I realized who
you were speaking of, and it was about halfway through
when I heard whatever rhymes with met, I thought it
was stellar. I'm gonna go ahead and say, based on
subject matter, based on delivery and length, hmm, that's gonna
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go eight point five.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Wow, leader in the clubhouse, I believe right, Yes it
is that leaves me Yes, yep, all right. Mine is
short and sweet. Roses are red, violets are blue. I
love Salakata.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Don't you.
Speaker 15 (13:17):
Missing God?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Missing by far the best subject matter of all. Thank you,
because sal is my man.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah, but it falls just.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Below Tailor's only because we already heard the roses are red.
Vehicle that gets an eight point four winner.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
You said you like the most gator I did.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I did made a little quiz ten pages.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You could have said violets are slightly different colored, rhyming
something else than blue, you know, but hey, no shame.
Eight point four is a good score.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
All right, Thank you Ike for doing that. I appreciate it.
Thank you to all of you.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
That was my favorite portion of the show since it's inception.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yes, wow, we finally catered to you. We did something
that you wanted to do, which is amazing because usually
we don't.
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Thanks to Mel kuiper Junr for joining us. Ad Nan
Verker to join us in about fifteen minutes. Joins us
every Friday, looking forward to that the Master's second round
going on right now.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
We will get to that in just a second. Rory
is well. I heard Ike say that he's running away
with it.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
There's two and a half rounds to go in Augusta,
but he is two up right now, and it's interesting
what's going on with him.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
But we'll get to that in a second.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I am at a legendary sports radio station here in Baltimore,
w b A L Yes, speaking of legendary ease, legendary
things in sports radio. A legendary host is he has
passed away a guy that I knew very well, a
host out of Atlanta. You will know who I'm talking
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about once we play this sound for you, But this
is a tribute to and may he rest in peace.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
He is a good man. But a tribute to the
one and only bobach Tims and Stone Mountain Tim.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
How are you are we going.
Speaker 16 (15:41):
To spend the whole preseason listening to you guys trying
to be dishonest and upseal doc? Who is Rodgers? And
Harry Douglass and parade Zieri? Oh we don't finally be honest,
and that is you're a Facon fan.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
You know what.
Speaker 16 (15:55):
I've been a fac fan in my whole life. I've
been in the city for.
Speaker 17 (15:58):
No you haven't.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
No, you haven't.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
No, you haven't.
Speaker 17 (16:00):
If you're been a Falcon fan your whole life, you
realize they were on the birds of something special for
three years.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Sir, you have not been paying attention. Harry dunnness is coming.
Speaker 17 (16:11):
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. I mean, you don't know anything about what
you're talking about, and you have to pull up here.
I say, what do you say to me that we're
trying to upsell the Falcons to you. Sorry, you're not
(16:32):
a vlible fan. You haven't been, and if you have been,
you don't know what you're looking at.
Speaker 16 (16:37):
Being a homer.
Speaker 17 (16:38):
Bo was a homer.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Don't you ever call me a homer? Who the hell
do you think has.
Speaker 17 (16:44):
Been saying the truth since nineteen seventy three Atlanta Radio?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Who takes New York?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
What year was that? Do we know? When that call?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
It doesn't matter. That's what sports radio is all about.
You're a homer. I'm not a homer. Let's talk over
each other. I love it.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
So that is.
Speaker 12 (17:04):
He was the twenty eleven preseason. To Bow's credit, the
Falcons went ten and six that season, and Harry Douglas
was fourth on the team in receiving.
Speaker 14 (17:16):
Yards four hundred and ninety eight yards.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Yeah, I mean, okay, he wasn't on the verge of
something special, but no, he did have a two thousand
yard season a couple of years later, and the Falcons
you know, they.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Were better, right, I mean, the man passed away.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Do you have to criticize every word that comes out
of his mouth?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Just picking apart? I mean, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Here, I'm literally giving him credit for what he said.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
It doesn't feel like you're giving him credit.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
They wanted to hear me right well, bull Box said
they were on the verge of something. You said they
weren't really on the verge of something. And when bow
Box says you're on the verge of something, you're on
the verge of something.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
All right, I was talking about Harry Douglas.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
But that's okay.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
We can move. And the reason I asked for what
year it was is because I'm not gonna lie. I
didn't know how much longer he had after listening to that.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Yes, I'm surprised.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Six very impressive. Sad to hear, sad to hear.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I want to hear the sound one more time. Maybe
is he's right now I'm wrong one more time? Tims
and Stone Mountain. Tim, how are you are we going.
Speaker 16 (18:16):
To spend the whole preseason listening to you guys trying
to be dishonest and upsel Doc Quiz Rodgers and Harry
Douglass and Paray Jery, or we're gonna finally be honest
and say, if you're a Facon fan, you're really you
know what I'm saying, I've been a Facon fan in
my whole life. I've been in this city for.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
No, you haven't. No, you haven't.
Speaker 17 (18:34):
No, you haven't if you're a Falcon fan your whole
life in real life, they were on the birds of
something special in.
Speaker 16 (18:39):
The city for forty three years.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
All sir, you have not been paying attention.
Speaker 17 (18:44):
Harrold is 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, Harry.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
I mean, you don't know anything about what you're talking.
You have to pull up.
Speaker 17 (19:01):
Here say to me that we're trying to upsell the
Falcons to you.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Sorry, you're not a falc fan. You haven't been, and
if you have been, you don't know what You're looking at.
Speaker 16 (19:12):
Me at a Homer.
Speaker 17 (19:15):
Homer.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Don't you ever call me a Homer? Hold the hell?
Speaker 17 (19:18):
Your thing has been training the truth since nineteen seventy three,
hunted landa radio.
Speaker 12 (19:23):
Who boy, that takes me off, Stu sticking to our
connections to the NFC South. Yeah, our good friend t
Bob A Bear was hosting Wake Up barstool. Yeah, and
he was kind of wearing some short shorts. The sun
must be out in Chicago because he was kind of
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letting his legs show off. And then maybe the most
surprising tweet I've ever seen, really, Little Wayne tweeted, why Bob?
Little Wayne tweeted, T Bob, put your laid down Maine.
You can't sit like that in them nasty Daisy Dukes
king what we doing? Shout out Bobby A Bear, New
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Orleans legend.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Oh my goodness, I love that so much. I think
Lil Wayne should be like sports, television, fashion or media
whatever judge of all time because it's so true. I
don't mind the shorts. You can't be crossing your legs
with the shorts that short. Then it gives a little
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too much away.
Speaker 12 (20:31):
How surprised do you think t Bob was when he
looked down at his phone and was like, is this
the real Little Wayne tweeting at me?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Yeah? Shocked?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
How surprised were you is he? How well Taylor read
the tweet from Lil Wayne?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I mean, I'm sure he's been studying that tweet. That
is also around the Horn alumnus, by the way, So
that's why we feel that connection talking about Lil Wayne
that way.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Yes, ad Nan Verk is and is he you were
writing one hundred dollars?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Ad Dan Verkin text be sure to catch live editions.
Do gotsend Company live weekday, said three pm Eastern twelve
pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
I were thanks to mal Kuiper Junior for joining us earlier.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Michael kay is on the podcast to go out to
company the show we do before the show, check it
out right there. Ad nan Burg is on the line
with us right now. And I have a problem, man,
I'm serious. Salacotta 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 the voluntary workouts,
and he did so.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I have confirmed that. But I have a problem.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Sal was in yesterday and mikey A greeted me this
morning by saying, hey, there's a new show in the
works Me, Taylor and sal new podcast. Yes, new podcast
in the works. And I said, hey, thanks, I'm glad
you missed me. And these guys like they're not even
paying attention Tailor and mikey A. They just want Salacotta back.
And I don't know what to do with them.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
I mean.
Speaker 15 (21:53):
So many thoughts hers, dude.
Speaker 18 (21:55):
First off, I love the show before the show. It
reminds me that great line of swingers the guy behind
the Guy, which a friend of mine happened like this
Mson Messenger name. It was like what kind of double
on Todder's sexual end of it saying no the guy
behind the guy?
Speaker 15 (22:08):
What no, no.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
No, no, it's not that.
Speaker 15 (22:10):
It's a lot from swingers.
Speaker 18 (22:12):
I love that expression, just to show before the show
the guy behind the guy.
Speaker 15 (22:15):
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. What does
that mean?
Speaker 16 (22:23):
But that.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
What does that mean?
Speaker 18 (22:27):
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.
Speaker 15 (22:33):
They'll get points for fans and just just shoot the
bucking of it. To your point about.
Speaker 18 (22:36):
Salakata, having filled it many times at ESPN Radio, I
know what it's like when you're the backup quarterback. I
probably know as well as anybody. I've never had my
own show, but I've been the fill in for Mike
and Mike, and for you for Levotard Show, for Rossilo,
et cetera. It's a great feeling to have because everyone's
happy to see you.
Speaker 15 (22:52):
You're coming to go ahead, there's a right.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Movies Canada. Let's go right.
Speaker 15 (22:58):
You do it for three hours. That's it.
Speaker 18 (22:59):
And I'll tell you, in all honesty when people have
said you, wouldn't you like to have your own show?
Speaker 15 (23:04):
And I go, of course I would.
Speaker 18 (23:05):
We were all ego maybe the actually 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 to gods, I'm not iusy, I'm not anybody.
Speaker 15 (23:18):
So listen, tell sal phenomenal job.
Speaker 18 (23:21):
Congrats you come in here, find these weeks, sit in
my shoes, see how it goes.
Speaker 15 (23:24):
Then mikey A and tail them not to say.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
The same thing they got.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
TJ McConnell over here.
Speaker 15 (23:30):
Exactly years a work. Well, he can't hold down a
full time job. Quite frankly, seemile doesn't make any sense.
But he's great. For fifteen minutes you put up on
ed he's fifteen minutes. This guy's great.
Speaker 19 (23:42):
Ad Nan, you should be on my side here because
I I can spot talent coming off the bench, and
I believe I did so with one certain ad Nan
Verk filling in for Darynoka years yack, and I was like,
you know what, this guy, ad Nan, he's got something
getting more reps.
Speaker 18 (23:58):
I will always be fond of my man, my age. True,
but there's 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 HISPN News.
Speaker 15 (24:08):
You're filling in.
Speaker 18 (24:09):
I think I did a couple of times filling in
for Gottli, even that it was me and Mikey, and
of course our man Dan Stanzick ad him Klube back
in the day, and then eventually it was me and Mikey.
Speaker 15 (24:17):
How about this?
Speaker 18 (24:19):
People ask you, what was it about ESPN Radio? I
go again, how much clearer can I make this? The
money once I entered it was extra money. I go
on a hundred bucks anari.
Speaker 15 (24:25):
It is like, oh my god, I've got a second
child on the way. I'm like, I've been a hundred
I'll let repeat that, one hundred dollars in hours. What
you're paying for this? And you want me to talk
sports radio? I go, okay, I'm plainly lying, guys. I'm
telling Scott Masto. I go, I've done radio for years
in Toronto.
Speaker 18 (24:39):
Really who he goes, Nelson Melman. I go, yeah, yeah, sure,
I worked it in the bunch. It's okay, look at
my references.
Speaker 8 (24:46):
I can do it.
Speaker 18 (24:47):
And so I would show up me and mikey A
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 go, hey, buddy, I drove.
Speaker 15 (24:56):
In twenty minutes. I drove home three hundred bucks, Richard,
I don't care.
Speaker 18 (24:59):
What happened today. I'll just talk and talk and talk
three hundred bones and talk sports. Me and Mike Kate
riding shotgut.
Speaker 15 (25:05):
It's the best.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
And you got to work with a legendary update anchor.
Speaker 18 (25:09):
I mean, so this is a great point. That's a
question of the floor. Steve Levy sent me one to me.
This John stash Hour is the greatest update guy in
the history of sports.
Speaker 15 (25:18):
I said, wow, it's a hell of complies.
Speaker 18 (25:19):
Said yeah. I brought it up to Levy years later
to Stash had left, and Stash was a great guy.
Speaker 15 (25:23):
We got along well, I said, Levy, he.
Speaker 14 (25:24):
Goes well, I go what he goes.
Speaker 18 (25:26):
It's a true statement, but it's both a compliment and
a denigration.
Speaker 15 (25:29):
I go on me because all the compliments.
Speaker 18 (25:32):
He is absolutely the greatest update sports media guy ever
because he was awesome at just ripping and reading scores
and highlights. But at some point you want to graduate
beyond that. So it's to be an insult saying he's limited.
I said, I don't care if I would take it
as a compliments. I said, to me, he's the best
ever at this showing up for twelve minutes on a Friday,
and ste got to show him like, okay, I'm the
best ever at that one thing.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
I'll take them the bank.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
It's like when people tried to give me compliments as
a sideline reporter, I'm like, yeah, okay, whatever, always a game.
It's there are harder things in the world, or a
good point, but is.
Speaker 15 (26:05):
He you're right with silent reporting. It's all those things.
Speaker 18 (26:07):
Yes, you can muck it up easily, and then that's
the competent to just keep it straightforward, open ended questions,
lean neutral, getting get out because amount people who screw
that up, unlike yourself.
Speaker 15 (26:17):
That's why it's a complished don't.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
You mean you can only screw it? Just keep it on.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yes, 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 15 (26:28):
What someone someone said, I'll give it to you. If
someone said you studio the greatest.
Speaker 18 (26:32):
Psyekic of all time, offend it or like, would you
take as a complished No, I'll take it as a compliment.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I took it as a compliment all the way to
the bank. I mean, you're kidding me.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
That's a more difficult job.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
I wrote that.
Speaker 15 (26:45):
Sucker for twenty years. All right, it worked out.
Speaker 16 (26:48):
Well.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
What are you saying? Is he that particular kind of
sidekick is a is a difficult job?
Speaker 10 (26:52):
Right?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Like sidekicks in general not difficult, but being dan sidekick
is a whole different animal.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 15 (27:00):
Great question? Is a sidekick? Like if I should do
Andy Richter? Do you respect Andy Richter?
Speaker 12 (27:04):
You go.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
It's just got his own sitcom. I don't know how
long it lasted, but.
Speaker 15 (27:09):
Indy Richter saves the universe.
Speaker 18 (27:11):
Yes, I think a sidekick is harder than you realize,
and specifically pursue ricking with Dan for twenty plus years.
Speaker 15 (27:16):
That there's a lot going on.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
And what did Ed McMahon make out of his sidekick job?
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Was it star Search?
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Was that for the peak of him?
Speaker 16 (27:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 15 (27:23):
It was also one of the endorsements tailor Mike Key.
You can look it up for me. I can't real
the him it now. It's not publishing clearing House's one
of those types of things.
Speaker 18 (27:30):
If we do voiceovers and that kind of crap on
the side millions lucrative.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
We'll get to a fair or foul in just a
second here.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
But speaking of sports radio and icons in the industry,
we lost one today.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Bobach and I.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
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
what you would find is this take from bobach Tim's
and Stone Mountain Tim.
Speaker 16 (27:54):
How are you are we going to spend the whole
preseason listening to you guys trying to be dishonest, Cel
Doc Quiz Rodgers and Harry Douglass and Gray Jeri or
we gonna finally be honist and said, if you're a
Facon fan, you're really you know what, I've been a
Facon fan in my whole life. I've been in the
city for.
Speaker 17 (28:11):
No, you haven't.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
No, you haven't. No, you haven't.
Speaker 17 (28:13):
If you're been a Falcon fan your whole life in
real life, they were on the birds of something special
in the.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
City for forty three years, you have not been paying attention.
Speaker 17 (28:23):
Harry Dunnomy is coming up an injury a year before last.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
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, Harry. I mean, you don't
know when you think about what you're talking about. You
have to know.
Speaker 17 (28:40):
Roll up here, say you say to me that we're
trying to upsell the Falcony to you, sir, you're not
a Valm fan. You haven't been, and if you have been,
you don't know what you're looking at.
Speaker 16 (28:50):
Be a homer bot.
Speaker 17 (28:53):
It was a homer Don't you ever call me a homer,
Who the hell your think has been training the truth
since ninety three?
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Atlanta Radio?
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Who rip ding ding ding?
Speaker 15 (29:13):
That's great, that's great?
Speaker 4 (29:14):
It is is I love listen?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
That's the highest sports radio telling a man who's lived
in Atlanta his whole life that he hasn't.
Speaker 15 (29:24):
Right, it's a very.
Speaker 18 (29:25):
Insun You don't know what you're talking about in this case,
but it's actually not true.
Speaker 15 (29:28):
Like, no, I lived here. You know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 15 (29:32):
You're an idiot.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Seventy three that's a long time to be fair to
one hundred dollars is a lot more in twenty eleven,
is no, you're right?
Speaker 1 (29:42):
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 you haven't.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
I mean, it's unbelievable. It's amazing. Let's get to a
fair foul right now, Taylor taken away. We need the music, please, so.
Speaker 14 (30:02):
Fair foul rong music. Sam, it's the baseball instrumental one.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Wow, he knew that.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
On one note.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
The media knows he knows the songs.
Speaker 12 (30:11):
Yes, the Baseball Oregon one right, three BIS, and then
fair or foul.
Speaker 14 (30:18):
The Pittsburgh Pirates might actually be pretty good.
Speaker 15 (30:22):
Let's go fair tailor what the hell?
Speaker 18 (30:24):
Man?
Speaker 16 (30:24):
I mean?
Speaker 15 (30:24):
This is a good time right now to be a
Pittsburgh Pirates fan.
Speaker 18 (30:27):
Connor Griffin signs a nine year, one hundred and forty
million dollar contract.
Speaker 15 (30:30):
Everyone says he's the greatest thing since slice bread. His
slice Bread really the greatest thing ever? Wins another debate.
Speaker 18 (30:34):
But this kid looks like a real special talent six
four two twenty two, can hit for days, obviously a
ton of power and athleticism. And you got Paul Skins
for four more years. And I said this at the
start of the season. But 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
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five hundred. A year ago the Reds with eighty three
wins that made the playoffs. 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.
Speaker 15 (31:05):
It feels like the Pirates are having a moment right now.
It's a moment.
Speaker 18 (31:08):
It's good time to be a pirate. I would say
pirates potentially, Yes, fair, they're.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Good prea Chadman. If I never had to slice bread,
I would live a perfectly normal life.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Yeah, I tail, I don't on the pole. Is sliced
bread the greatest thing? Yes?
Speaker 7 (31:22):
Or no?
Speaker 15 (31:24):
Like, how did this respression first comet? Who was the
guy that was like, Oh my god, I just I
can't take the giant loan. I don't know how much
to have those portion control issues here.
Speaker 18 (31:32):
I got the idea, we're gonna take this and we're
gonna cut to sucker up wonderbread for days, Like, oh
my god, this is the grassticks and sliced bread.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Get this man, metal, I tell it.
Speaker 12 (31:44):
Col Rawley season last year might have been a fluke
fair foul.
Speaker 18 (31:49):
Oh jeez, I'll walk right into it. Yeah, absolutely, it's fairs.
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 hit you?
Thirty seven three at home runs in about two ten.
So he has this one year where he was unbelievable
sixty home runs. Store prayer for catchers. So for this
year has been awful. Him, Julio Rondriguez, and Josh Neil,
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which hurts me, fellow Canadian have all been struggling mightily. Now,
Raleigh 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, Cayle rally do for
a stinker.
Speaker 12 (32:23):
Joe Adell's three home run robbery game was the best
thing you've ever seen in a baseball game.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Fair foul, I mean, come.
Speaker 15 (32:30):
On, absolutely fair.
Speaker 18 (32:32):
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.
Speaker 15 (32:40):
You know a couple of these nicknames and playoff words.
Speaker 18 (32:42):
So the first time I saw Joe Adell, I said, Hello,
it's me, right the Adell saw every time I wish
they could deliver it like Boom, But every time I
said Joe.
Speaker 15 (32:49):
Adell, Hello, it's me. And the key for me is
when you deliver the line is you say it straight right,
you don't.
Speaker 18 (32:55):
You don't infer what you're saying. I don't say what
the reference is. You said, Joe Adell, Hello, it's me,
and then it's fine. And if somebody gets in thinking
that if the don't get it's fine.
Speaker 15 (33:03):
This reminds me of Carmel and Anthony. You stilways. See
you had me at Mellow and someone's like, what is that?
I go, Jerey MacGuire, you.
Speaker 8 (33:08):
Had me at Hello.
Speaker 15 (33:09):
He goes, yeah, but that lines you had me at Hello, Mike. Yeah,
he goes, you had me at Melow's.
Speaker 18 (33:13):
Well. I don't want to say if you had me
at below, because that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 15 (33:17):
You had me at Mellow, and it's posted up to
you have me at Hell, and you go, okay, Jeam McGuire,
I got it.
Speaker 18 (33:21):
Anyways, I've been using it for years and Joe Dell,
for the first few respirits stunk.
Speaker 15 (33:25):
Every year.
Speaker 18 (33:26):
He was terrible, and I go, can this guy start hitting?
I go, I'm spending gold here. Joe Dell's not even
the highlights. So work with Dan, please sect one night
and every chance.
Speaker 15 (33:33):
I got you a big game. Joe Adell, Hello is me,
Joe Adell, Hello, it's me. I'm hitting it hard. Please
take me. He's driving home and he goes Now he's
at times it's an idiot. Every time I see dam
please like he brings it up. So anything involving joy Deell,
I'm thrilled about. Whether it's Homeland robberies. Just get the highlights, kid,
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he's great, A.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Few years late from being a golden joke.
Speaker 15 (33:59):
Exactly.
Speaker 12 (34:00):
I have one more ad Nan Fairer foul. It's fair
to criticize the Mets because the vibes on their team
seem pretty terrible.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Oh good, no foul.
Speaker 15 (34:12):
I'm pro Mets.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
Listen.
Speaker 18 (34:13):
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 Studs guys, plucky underdogs. Boba Schets only hitting
two twenty two, that's okay, Louise robertsiell that they dropped
a fly ball wasn't great. A home run yesterday, though,
I will, I will call foul on that. I still
like this Mets team. Soto's out right now, but plenty
of time. That division is a little, you know, a
little more open than he might think it's not. Just
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like the Phillies are going to run and hide some
bad vibes here and there. But Stevie Cohen's bunny will
be Okay, it's been cold here in New York. Okay,
it blums up a little bit.
Speaker 15 (34:41):
Mets will be okay. I'm calling foul on that one.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
Ad Man.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Last time we talked, we talked about the idea of
eventually keeping the umpire, but balls and strike is completely
out of his hands. I think that's 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 15 (34:58):
It minds me.
Speaker 18 (34:59):
You know, I'm coaching my son in baseball and you're
throwing VP and everyone just assumes, because you're an adult,
you know what you're doing.
Speaker 15 (35:04):
But once in a while, throwers get a little walk
and they kind of give you like what does this
guy doing? Like how can you answer a groove a ball?
Speaker 7 (35:08):
No?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
I know, I know.
Speaker 15 (35:09):
Similarly with an umpire, you're like, how hard could this be?
Speaker 5 (35:12):
This is a ball?
Speaker 15 (35:12):
This is a strike? Like I mean, you think it's
a hard job.
Speaker 18 (35:15):
Like, Bro, you had enough years of training and practicing,
you should be good at your job. I can imagine
some of these guys are going home just like I am.
After a bad day at VP, thirteen kids on the team.
I threw ten picks to each kid.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
I'm my band.
Speaker 15 (35:24):
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 I am
getting shown up here at.
Speaker 18 (35:30):
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 twelve. He's an umpire.
Speaker 15 (35:40):
Clearly he's wearing a uniform. He has a pitch counter
this guy, so he has to be valued in our society.
Now this is a back on. You tapped your head.
You just tapped your head. He's wrong. Challenge it wrong again,
wrong again.
Speaker 18 (35:51):
So I'm worried to with C. B. Buckner's mental health
right now. This is not great getting challenged as much?
Speaker 1 (35:56):
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 so he's kicking y out.
Speaker 18 (36:02):
Okay, I was gonna say this feels a little premature,
but again, I'm good for fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Boys, that's it.
Speaker 15 (36:07):
The guy behind the guy.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
You get paid the same regardless, it doesn't matter. It's
very excited to have a national champion joining us. Right now,
Taylor's pumping his fists. Why are you pumping your fist?
Speaker 16 (36:22):
Man?
Speaker 4 (36:22):
All I said is that I didn't even introduce who
it was. I just said he's a national champion.
Speaker 12 (36:26):
Because I was one of the fourteen percent of brackets
that trusted my eyes and said Michigan best team all year.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Yaxel Lundenborg is with us, and he is up for
the Wooden Award Player of the Year, YAC. So 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 (36:45):
I appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
You're my guy. You're my guy. Man. How's it feel
being a national champion?
Speaker 8 (36:53):
Man? It was amazing. The moment it happened, it didn't
hit me, you know. It took a couple of days
for 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. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
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 4 (37:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (37:23):
I would say after we dog walked Auburn and San
Diego State in Gazaga. I feel like that's when we
were all like, wow, like we could be the best
team you know ever. You know, Elliot, it 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 agree in. You know, a lot of
people were declining and we can't be but man, we
just you know, we just kept our heads down and
kept working.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Man, do you feel like you guys are the best
team ever?
Speaker 8 (37:46):
I want to say yes. I thought that we could
compete with every team. Honestly, let's separate.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Yeah, I'm sorry act. So I'll just say, what separates
your team? Make the case for your team? Is that
the size?
Speaker 5 (37:58):
Is it just the depth?
Speaker 8 (37:59):
Yeah, 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 10 (38:16):
You know.
Speaker 8 (38:16):
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 10 (38:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (38:21):
So I love your your TikTok lives. They always go
they just always go completely off the rails. And some
people 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 (38:39):
I agree with what they say. We definitely aren't media trade.
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 fun.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Did that feel good to?
Speaker 10 (39:01):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (39:01):
Go ahead, sy ahead?
Speaker 3 (39:03):
All right? Actually, 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 hear from you. You're tied because there's not
that many Dominican basketball players, Karl Anthony Towns, Al Horford,
you know, Felipe Lopez back, there's not too many of them.
Just curious how tired you are to your Dominican roots
(39:24):
and and if there's any sort of inspiration you have
from from Dominican players in the past.
Speaker 8 (39:29):
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. Uh, 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
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has been great, you know, man. Man, they always talking
about how great Karnthie Towns is al Horford as well,
you know, and like being able to follow on their
footsteps of the Maraislaw?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
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 4 (40:05):
They made it and never won it. Did it feel good?
Speaker 8 (40:07):
Or what 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 right, 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.
Speaker 10 (40:23):
Man.
Speaker 8 (40:25):
It was definitely fun and excited to have those guys
having our back all year.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Yes.
Speaker 12 (40:28):
Yeah, So earlier in the show, I admitted that I
used to have a crush on Missus met the mascot.
Stu Gotts 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 3 (40:44):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
I wouldn't say, wouldn't the War finalists.
Speaker 8 (40:49):
I would say when I was a kid, maybe maybe
Lola Bunny.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
From Jessica Rabbit was a.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Time make your case if you wouldn't mind as to
why you should win the Wooden Award.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
I voted for you again just as a reminder, but
make your case.
Speaker 16 (41:13):
Man.
Speaker 8 (41:13):
Honestly, I feel like I'm not worthy the honest I'm
not really I don't think, I don't think like I
don't know, I don't know if I 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've 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
(41:34):
that national championship, right.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
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.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
No, you too.
Speaker 12 (41:47):
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 (41:55):
Na, 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'll 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 you 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 3 (42:22):
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 your play and 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. How much
of this year did you really feel like you were
(42:43):
coming into yourself and just getting the playing the best
basketball you've ever played?
Speaker 8 (42:47):
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 a companiently. That's where it started off.
And then man, they're in the Mars 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. Why was 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
want on want to make any other guys, you know,
blame me, and if they do, them kick out to
my three pointshitters.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Pallo ban Carrol's got nothing on you. Man, you're that
level of player.
Speaker 4 (43:29):
I'm telling you, he's so humble.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Yack, Sol. We appreciate you joining us. Congratulations on the
National championship. Congratulations on all your success and good luck
here with the Wooden Award.
Speaker 4 (43:42):
Man, you're deserving.
Speaker 8 (43:43):
Thank you. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (43:44):
Man now you got it, Man, Thank you for joining us.
Thanks for listening to the best of Stu Gotson Company
Live podcast. Find your local station for Stuc Gotson Company
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is the best of Stu Gotson Company Live on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
We have boots on the ground all over the United
States of America. In La at the Wooden Award, in
Miami with Israel Goodie Eras, and in Baltimore me boots
on the ground. I wanted to make sure that Lamar
Jackson did indeed show up to the voluntary workout, and
I had to see it with my own eyes and
his he I am here to report that he did.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Wow with your size. I was actually doing some watching
of things going on in Maryland as well, because I
saw Maryland versus Northwestern lacrosse game was on some sort
of CBS network, and I said, why me see, Yeah,
let me see if I can find I was going
to say a wiener, but let me see if I
(01:03):
can find Steve Gotts in the crowd. And the crowd
wasn't that let's say impressive, but I still couldn't find
it because they didn't zoom in.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Well that's on Maryland.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I mean, you bring that game to Northwestern and there'll
be ten thousand fans out there cheering on the Northwestern Wildcat.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
So if anything, that's on, uh, that's on Maryland.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Who claims they love lacrosse so much, yet when a
big game appears right in their backyard no one shows
up to it.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Go ahead, Mikey.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
H Taylor.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
The yesterday's show much better.
Speaker 7 (01:30):
Right, Jess start of the show like, yeah, already, I
miss Sal.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, yeah, listen, you volunteered to talk. I didn't go
to you. You volunteered to talk. I know with Sally,
you didn't talk for the first six or seven minutes
of the show. I'm getting tired of Sally. I got
to be honest with you right now. And by the way,
I'm so tired of him. He joined us on the
podcast today.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I got a debrief.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, yeah, listen. I spoke to mikey a this morning.
Had a very important conversation. Things to discuss with my
friend because I trust him and because he cares about me.
And he started that conversation knowing it was an important conversation, saying, listen,
I think me Sal Taylor We've got a podcast.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Going to do.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
What are we going to do?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yeah? What am I going to do?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
The Masters is going on right now. We're gonna have
melk kiper Junior joining us as well. But Israel Goudieires
was the judge at a poetry con contest recently.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Who'd you do it for?
Speaker 8 (02:34):
Is he?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Who was it for?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
It's a program called Louder Than a Bomb and it's
you know, poetry. It's high school and middle school kids
reading original poetry. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. In fact,
I'm doing another one, judging another one on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
All right, you're going to judge another one right now,
because we decided here on this show that it would
be a good idea for all of us to write
poems and for Israel Goudyeirez, who is an expert in poetry,
for him to judge these.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Are you good with that?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I'm so great with this, But I did not notice
was coming. I'm very excited about this. I will say
that I hope in tone that your poems are just
a little happier than some of these kids poems because
his high school in middle school, man, are.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
They sad about stuff? So listen yesterday with Salikata.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
He came out hot, you know, throwing some heat six
or seven minutes on dexter Lawrence. I think I can't
do six or seven minutes on anything. Yeah. So I'm
back here, and here we are doing poetry. I mean,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I don't know what to tell you. Let's go to
mikey A first.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I'm putting them in a bad spot here, but he
put me in a bad spot by bailing on me
and being, you know, falling in love with Sal. So,
mikey A, you're gonna go first. Everyone's gonna read their poems,
is he, and then you have to rank them. Okay,
that's what you have to do before we get to Melchiper.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Or you can snap.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
That's what I was getting you.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
There, And there could be a college basketball player pop
it up at any time. I have no idea. That's
what we do. That's how we roll what you got sal.
Let's go, mikey A. Mikey A, you are up first,
Go ahead, So confused.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
My poem is entitled the worst team Ever?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Uh huh.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
I root for a team that I wish I didn't.
I wasn't smart, a bad student. They cause me hurt.
They cause me pain, but I keep coming back like
I'm insane. My lofty goals are more simpler than they sound.
Just one time, I would love to be playoff bound.
I see players come, I see players go, Yet I
(04:38):
remain taking each painful blow. They win in Seattle, they
win in the Bay of Green, But a championship is
something I've never seen. I cried tears. They fill this space.
I hate Woody Johnson. I hate his stupid face. I
could blame my brother, I could blame Tom Brady, I
could even blame Stu Gotts. You know that guy is shady.
(04:59):
But in the end, I should accept my fate. Let
the losing cover me as I begin to suffocate. For
it is foretold that the only Jets that will win
a chip and tap that victory keg will come from
Canada and the little town of Winnipeg.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Snap, Snap, Snap, Snap. Is that what you do for poetry? Snap?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Well, if it's a good line in it, you can
snap during the good line.
Speaker 9 (05:28):
Yet long Yet, however, my favorite part of it, and
this speeds to the length, is I could feel your pain.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I could definitely feel the emotions coming out.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
I don't know how legal the music is.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
But I think for the audience, I like the music,
that's fine. A little sing song ye, you know, little
sing song y, a little kind of Doctor seussish. But
over my only real complaints so far. The scoring system
is somewhere between like one and ten. Obviously, nobody's gonna
score like below a five, five or six. So I
give that a solid eight point one, okay, but you're
supposed to just rank him towards the end.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I didn't know you were going to turn into Simon
Cowell on us. I mean, this is this is a
judge eight snaps.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Golf claps kind of like snaps.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
So it counts.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
All right, let's go to boardot Ricardo, this is gonna
be great. He's gonna pry his eyes away from watching
baseball for a moment.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
And read us a poem. Go ahead.
Speaker 10 (06:31):
Though impressed with Lucas seventy three and seventy one points
by Dame, still not second place all time like bam
Adebio's eighty three point game. It wasn't disrespectful like the
Kobe Stans claim bam ade Bio's eighty three point game.
The national media called forty three free throws Corney and
said he should be ashamed in bam ade Bio's eighty
(06:54):
three point game, but as a heat fan in the
playing game, I wish to go back to the glory
and the fame of Bam out of Bio's eighty three
point game.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
I mean, I'm gonna snap forever.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I was really good talk talk about a guy who
knew how to go after the judge's heart.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Right, I'm still snapping.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Very thankful that that was the topic, and normally the
topic itself really hits the judges. That one, to me,
couldn't have done any better. I wish maybe we could
have rhymed out of Bio with something. I feel like
that's a nice challenge. But overall, I love the tone,
I love the voice, I love the it was great.
The music was even better.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Give that a solid eight point three?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Whoa, whoa wow Wow ahead of Mikey, I mean, too
tense of a point.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Let's go out for ninety five. I might have given
him nine five.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Let's go out to ep Jason in Sherman Oaks. He
has a poem here for Israel. Goody eras and I
understand why the guys want salback.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Go ahead, This poem is called not a mithy as
mikey a take that whoever you want. How to build
a farm. There once was a farm in Iowa purchased
by the NFL. Roger Goodell was tasked to make owners
lots of money, something he does very well. One day,
(08:16):
he asked, how do we quickly make lots of children
to tend to these chickens and pigs? Won't? Owner replied,
Tyreek Hill is unavailable. Let's get Stefan Diggs EXAs.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
No one snapping.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I mean no, no, in large part because I had
no idea what the subject of that poem was.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
I really don't know what you're about.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, totally. My interpretation was I don't know what that
was about. So I'm going to get that one a
seven point nine.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Wow, I mean I understood it. I would have given
it a nine point two. But that's you know, it's
Easy's judge, I'm.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Not thank you. Thanks, no swaying the judges. After you're done,
let's go to update anchor Ike. This is very exciting.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I am told update anchor Ike does indeed have a poem.
I don't know if I was Sam does, but someone
will have to convey that to me, and if he doesn't,
it's fine.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Go ahead, update anchor ike this one.
Speaker 11 (09:18):
Also on the shorter side, there was once a coach
named Vrabel to beat the Seahawks in the Super Bowl.
He was unable. He retreated to Sedona, where he was
allegedly not alone. But it's still better than if the
(09:38):
Pats had hired Brian Dable.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Jesus throw a dead fish on my lap?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Why don't you, I mean, my god, bars, bars, I'm
not going to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
The score six point.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Nine, all right, let's go. I am told that I
always send now tailors in a pickle. Because you know,
I haven't spoken about Diana Versiti yet.
Speaker 12 (10:07):
People shaking about Yeah, we probably should have checked everybody's topic.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
You should have prove fred them.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Listen, I'll tell you this on the front end of
any Diana Versini discussion I'm going to have. If the
athletic gets rid of her, she'll be sitting right next
to me. And is he doing the show? How does
that sound? Okay?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
I support my friends.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I don't bail on my friends, especially at their worst
professional time in their history.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I don't do that to them.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Okay, I'm going to upgrade that to a seven point
zero because I'm just remembering rhyming Sedona with a loono.
Speaker 13 (10:36):
Yeah it's a seven point oh, yes, it's a great
Do we have, I Sam, Yes, you do, we do.
He has a short one, he told me, and it
better be short short one.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Here.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Okay, guys, here go, let's get the music going again.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Roses are red, violets are blue.
Speaker 14 (10:54):
I forgot to do a poem. I had another show
to do.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Ah, okay, this to God's is strong in you.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Conflict of interest, Diana Russidi.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I mean, this entire industry is littered with conflicts of interest.
Every single take that anyone makes is littered in conflict
of interest. I don't want to hear about it. I
spoke to her. Okay, she's going through a very difficult time.
She's going to survive this, and again, anyone who wants
to get rid of her I will hire her in
two seconds.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Let's go to Taylor Tailor. Go ahead. You are up
here for poetry, Dight. Yes, oh yeah, where's my score.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I'm a little conflicted as it is, because that is
not I don't know how snapworthy it was. But I
also I'm kind of a fan of the Roses a
red vehicle, so that one's going to get a seven
point one.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
All right, we'll go I'll take it because I made
it up in about five scards thirty lines, and he
tried said, yeah, that's exactly right, Mikey.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I'll go ahead, Taylor.
Speaker 12 (11:54):
I once saw a woman so striking and round, with
a bounce in her step and a sway so profound.
She walked through the park with a confident glide, turning
each head as she strolled side to side. My brain said,
just keep walking. My feet said no chance, as I
fumbled my way into an awkward advance. So I stood
(12:15):
there beside her a bundle of sweat, and somehow just asked,
how do you fit everything in those pants?
Speaker 14 (12:21):
Missus?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Mett I'm slapping.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
My initial thought was it better be relevant that this
woman was round, because nobody is gonna be I could
see that as a compliment. But once I realized who
you were speaking of, and it was about halfway through
when I heard whatever rhymes with met, I thought it
was stellar. I'm gonna go ahead and say, based on
subject matter, based on delivery and length, hmm, that's gonna
(12:54):
go eight point five.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Wow, leader in the clubhouse, I believe right, Yes it
is that leaves me Yes, yep, all right. Mine is
short and sweet. Roses are red, violets are blue. I
love Salakata.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Don't you.
Speaker 15 (13:17):
Missing God?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Missing by far the best subject matter of all. Thank you,
because sal is my man.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah, but it falls just.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Below Tailor's only because we already heard the roses are red.
Vehicle that gets an eight point four winner.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
You said you like the most gator I did.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I did made a little quiz ten pages.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You could have said violets are slightly different colored, rhyming
something else than blue, you know, but hey, no shame.
Eight point four is a good score.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
All right, Thank you Ike for doing that. I appreciate it.
Thank you to all of you.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
That was my favorite portion of the show since it's inception.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yes, wow, we finally catered to you. We did something
that you wanted to do, which is amazing because usually
we don't.
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(14:41):
Thanks to Mel kuiper Junr for joining us. Ad Nan
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every Friday, looking forward to that the Master's second round
going on right now.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
We will get to that in just a second. Rory
is well. I heard Ike say that he's running away
with it.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
There's two and a half rounds to go in Augusta,
but he is two up right now, and it's interesting
what's going on with him.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
But we'll get to that in a second.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I am at a legendary sports radio station here in Baltimore,
w b A L Yes, speaking of legendary ease, legendary
things in sports radio. A legendary host is he has
passed away a guy that I knew very well, a
host out of Atlanta. You will know who I'm talking
(15:29):
about once we play this sound for you, But this
is a tribute to and may he rest in peace.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
He is a good man. But a tribute to the
one and only bobach Tims and Stone Mountain Tim.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
How are you are we going.
Speaker 16 (15:41):
To spend the whole preseason listening to you guys trying
to be dishonest and upseal doc? Who is Rodgers? And
Harry Douglass and parade Zieri? Oh we don't finally be honest,
and that is you're a Facon fan.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
You know what.
Speaker 16 (15:55):
I've been a fac fan in my whole life. I've
been in the city for.
Speaker 17 (15:58):
No you haven't.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
No, you haven't.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
No, you haven't.
Speaker 17 (16:00):
If you're been a Falcon fan your whole life, you
realize they were on the birds of something special for
three years.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Sir, you have not been paying attention. Harry dunnness is coming.
Speaker 17 (16:11):
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. I mean, you don't know anything about what
you're talking about, and you have to pull up here.
I say, what do you say to me that we're
trying to upsell the Falcons to you. Sorry, you're not
(16:32):
a vlible fan. You haven't been, and if you have been,
you don't know what you're looking at.
Speaker 16 (16:37):
Being a homer.
Speaker 17 (16:38):
Bo was a homer.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Don't you ever call me a homer? Who the hell
do you think has.
Speaker 17 (16:44):
Been saying the truth since nineteen seventy three Atlanta Radio?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Who takes New York?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
What year was that? Do we know? When that call?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
It doesn't matter. That's what sports radio is all about.
You're a homer. I'm not a homer. Let's talk over
each other. I love it.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
So that is.
Speaker 12 (17:04):
He was the twenty eleven preseason. To Bow's credit, the
Falcons went ten and six that season, and Harry Douglas
was fourth on the team in receiving.
Speaker 14 (17:16):
Yards four hundred and ninety eight yards.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Yeah, I mean, okay, he wasn't on the verge of
something special, but no, he did have a two thousand
yard season a couple of years later, and the Falcons
you know, they.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Were better, right, I mean, the man passed away.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Do you have to criticize every word that comes out
of his mouth?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Just picking apart? I mean, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Here, I'm literally giving him credit for what he said.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
It doesn't feel like you're giving him credit.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
They wanted to hear me right well, bull Box said
they were on the verge of something. You said they
weren't really on the verge of something. And when bow
Box says you're on the verge of something, you're on
the verge of something.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
All right, I was talking about Harry Douglas.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
But that's okay.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
We can move. And the reason I asked for what
year it was is because I'm not gonna lie. I
didn't know how much longer he had after listening to that.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Yes, I'm surprised.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Six very impressive. Sad to hear, sad to hear.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I want to hear the sound one more time. Maybe
is he's right now I'm wrong one more time? Tims
and Stone Mountain. Tim, how are you are we going.
Speaker 16 (18:16):
To spend the whole preseason listening to you guys trying
to be dishonest and upsel Doc Quiz Rodgers and Harry
Douglass and Paray Jery, or we're gonna finally be honest
and say, if you're a Facon fan, you're really you
know what I'm saying, I've been a Facon fan in
my whole life. I've been in this city for.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
No, you haven't. No, you haven't.
Speaker 17 (18:34):
No, you haven't if you're a Falcon fan your whole
life in real life, they were on the birds of
something special in.
Speaker 16 (18:39):
The city for forty three years.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
All sir, you have not been paying attention.
Speaker 17 (18:44):
Harrold is 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, Harry.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
I mean, you don't know anything about what you're talking.
You have to pull up.
Speaker 17 (19:01):
Here say to me that we're trying to upsell the
Falcons to you.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Sorry, you're not a falc fan. You haven't been, and
if you have been, you don't know what You're looking at.
Speaker 16 (19:12):
Me at a Homer.
Speaker 17 (19:15):
Homer.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Don't you ever call me a Homer? Hold the hell?
Speaker 17 (19:18):
Your thing has been training the truth since nineteen seventy three,
hunted landa radio.
Speaker 12 (19:23):
Who boy, that takes me off, Stu sticking to our
connections to the NFC South. Yeah, our good friend t
Bob A Bear was hosting Wake Up barstool. Yeah, and
he was kind of wearing some short shorts. The sun
must be out in Chicago because he was kind of
(19:45):
letting his legs show off. And then maybe the most
surprising tweet I've ever seen, really, Little Wayne tweeted, why Bob?
Little Wayne tweeted, T Bob, put your laid down Maine.
You can't sit like that in them nasty Daisy Dukes
king what we doing? Shout out Bobby A Bear, New
(20:06):
Orleans legend.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Oh my goodness, I love that so much. I think
Lil Wayne should be like sports, television, fashion or media
whatever judge of all time because it's so true. I
don't mind the shorts. You can't be crossing your legs
with the shorts that short. Then it gives a little
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too much away.
Speaker 12 (20:31):
How surprised do you think t Bob was when he
looked down at his phone and was like, is this
the real Little Wayne tweeting at me?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Yeah? Shocked?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
How surprised were you is he? How well Taylor read
the tweet from Lil Wayne?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I mean, I'm sure he's been studying that tweet. That
is also around the Horn alumnus, by the way, So
that's why we feel that connection talking about Lil Wayne
that way.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Yes, ad Nan Verk is and is he you were
writing one hundred dollars?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Ad Dan Verkin text be sure to catch live editions.
Do gotsend Company live weekday, said three pm Eastern twelve
pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
I were thanks to mal Kuiper Junior for joining us earlier.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Michael kay is on the podcast to go out to
company the show we do before the show, check it
out right there. Ad nan Burg is on the line
with us right now. And I have a problem, man,
I'm serious. Salacotta 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 the voluntary workouts,
and he did so.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I have confirmed that. But I have a problem.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Sal was in yesterday and mikey A greeted me this
morning by saying, hey, there's a new show in the
works Me, Taylor and sal new podcast. Yes, new podcast
in the works. And I said, hey, thanks, I'm glad
you missed me. And these guys like they're not even
paying attention Tailor and mikey A. They just want Salacotta back.
And I don't know what to do with them.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
I mean.
Speaker 15 (21:53):
So many thoughts hers, dude.
Speaker 18 (21:55):
First off, I love the show before the show. It
reminds me that great line of swingers the guy behind
the Guy, which a friend of mine happened like this
Mson Messenger name. It was like what kind of double
on Todder's sexual end of it saying no the guy
behind the guy?
Speaker 15 (22:08):
What no, no.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
No, no, it's not that.
Speaker 15 (22:10):
It's a lot from swingers.
Speaker 18 (22:12):
I love that expression, just to show before the show
the guy behind the guy.
Speaker 15 (22:15):
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. What does
that mean?
Speaker 16 (22:23):
But that.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
What does that mean?
Speaker 18 (22:27):
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.
Speaker 15 (22:33):
They'll get points for fans and just just shoot the
bucking of it. To your point about.
Speaker 18 (22:36):
Salakata, having filled it many times at ESPN Radio, I
know what it's like when you're the backup quarterback. I
probably know as well as anybody. I've never had my
own show, but I've been the fill in for Mike
and Mike, and for you for Levotard Show, for Rossilo,
et cetera. It's a great feeling to have because everyone's
happy to see you.
Speaker 15 (22:52):
You're coming to go ahead, there's a right.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Movies Canada. Let's go right.
Speaker 15 (22:58):
You do it for three hours. That's it.
Speaker 18 (22:59):
And I'll tell you, in all honesty when people have
said you, wouldn't you like to have your own show?
Speaker 15 (23:04):
And I go, of course I would.
Speaker 18 (23:05):
We were all ego maybe the actually 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 to gods, I'm not iusy, I'm not anybody.
Speaker 15 (23:18):
So listen, tell sal phenomenal job.
Speaker 18 (23:21):
Congrats you come in here, find these weeks, sit in
my shoes, see how it goes.
Speaker 15 (23:24):
Then mikey A and tail them not to say.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
The same thing they got.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
TJ McConnell over here.
Speaker 15 (23:30):
Exactly years a work. Well, he can't hold down a
full time job. Quite frankly, seemile doesn't make any sense.
But he's great. For fifteen minutes you put up on
ed he's fifteen minutes. This guy's great.
Speaker 19 (23:42):
Ad Nan, you should be on my side here because
I I can spot talent coming off the bench, and
I believe I did so with one certain ad Nan
Verk filling in for Darynoka years yack, and I was like,
you know what, this guy, ad Nan, he's got something
getting more reps.
Speaker 18 (23:58):
I will always be fond of my man, my age. True,
but there's 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 HISPN News.
Speaker 15 (24:08):
You're filling in.
Speaker 18 (24:09):
I think I did a couple of times filling in
for Gottli, even that it was me and Mikey, and
of course our man Dan Stanzick ad him Klube back
in the day, and then eventually it was me and Mikey.
Speaker 15 (24:17):
How about this?
Speaker 18 (24:19):
People ask you, what was it about ESPN Radio? I
go again, how much clearer can I make this? The
money once I entered it was extra money. I go
on a hundred bucks anari.
Speaker 15 (24:25):
It is like, oh my god, I've got a second
child on the way. I'm like, I've been a hundred
I'll let repeat that, one hundred dollars in hours. What
you're paying for this? And you want me to talk
sports radio? I go, okay, I'm plainly lying, guys. I'm
telling Scott Masto. I go, I've done radio for years
in Toronto.
Speaker 18 (24:39):
Really who he goes, Nelson Melman. I go, yeah, yeah, sure,
I worked it in the bunch. It's okay, look at
my references.
Speaker 8 (24:46):
I can do it.
Speaker 18 (24:47):
And so I would show up me and mikey A
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 go, hey, buddy, I drove.
Speaker 15 (24:56):
In twenty minutes. I drove home three hundred bucks, Richard,
I don't care.
Speaker 18 (24:59):
What happened today. I'll just talk and talk and talk
three hundred bones and talk sports. Me and Mike Kate
riding shotgut.
Speaker 15 (25:05):
It's the best.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
And you got to work with a legendary update anchor.
Speaker 18 (25:09):
I mean, so this is a great point. That's a
question of the floor. Steve Levy sent me one to me.
This John stash Hour is the greatest update guy in
the history of sports.
Speaker 15 (25:18):
I said, wow, it's a hell of complies.
Speaker 18 (25:19):
Said yeah. I brought it up to Levy years later
to Stash had left, and Stash was a great guy.
Speaker 15 (25:23):
We got along well, I said, Levy, he.
Speaker 14 (25:24):
Goes well, I go what he goes.
Speaker 18 (25:26):
It's a true statement, but it's both a compliment and
a denigration.
Speaker 15 (25:29):
I go on me because all the compliments.
Speaker 18 (25:32):
He is absolutely the greatest update sports media guy ever
because he was awesome at just ripping and reading scores
and highlights. But at some point you want to graduate
beyond that. So it's to be an insult saying he's limited.
I said, I don't care if I would take it
as a compliments. I said, to me, he's the best
ever at this showing up for twelve minutes on a Friday,
and ste got to show him like, okay, I'm the
best ever at that one thing.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
I'll take them the bank.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
It's like when people tried to give me compliments as
a sideline reporter, I'm like, yeah, okay, whatever, always a game.
It's there are harder things in the world, or a
good point, but is.
Speaker 15 (26:05):
He you're right with silent reporting. It's all those things.
Speaker 18 (26:07):
Yes, you can muck it up easily, and then that's
the competent to just keep it straightforward, open ended questions,
lean neutral, getting get out because amount people who screw
that up, unlike yourself.
Speaker 15 (26:17):
That's why it's a complished don't.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
You mean you can only screw it? Just keep it on.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yes, 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 15 (26:28):
What someone someone said, I'll give it to you. If
someone said you studio the greatest.
Speaker 18 (26:32):
Psyekic of all time, offend it or like, would you
take as a complished No, I'll take it as a compliment.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I took it as a compliment all the way to
the bank. I mean, you're kidding me.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
That's a more difficult job.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
I wrote that.
Speaker 15 (26:45):
Sucker for twenty years. All right, it worked out.
Speaker 16 (26:48):
Well.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
What are you saying? Is he that particular kind of
sidekick is a is a difficult job?
Speaker 10 (26:52):
Right?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Like sidekicks in general not difficult, but being dan sidekick
is a whole different animal.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 15 (27:00):
Great question? Is a sidekick? Like if I should do
Andy Richter? Do you respect Andy Richter?
Speaker 12 (27:04):
You go.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
It's just got his own sitcom. I don't know how
long it lasted, but.
Speaker 15 (27:09):
Indy Richter saves the universe.
Speaker 18 (27:11):
Yes, I think a sidekick is harder than you realize,
and specifically pursue ricking with Dan for twenty plus years.
Speaker 15 (27:16):
That there's a lot going on.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
And what did Ed McMahon make out of his sidekick job?
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Was it star Search?
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Was that for the peak of him?
Speaker 16 (27:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 15 (27:23):
It was also one of the endorsements tailor Mike Key.
You can look it up for me. I can't real
the him it now. It's not publishing clearing House's one
of those types of things.
Speaker 18 (27:30):
If we do voiceovers and that kind of crap on
the side millions lucrative.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
We'll get to a fair or foul in just a
second here.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
But speaking of sports radio and icons in the industry,
we lost one today.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Bobach and I.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
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
what you would find is this take from bobach Tim's
and Stone Mountain Tim.
Speaker 16 (27:54):
How are you are we going to spend the whole
preseason listening to you guys trying to be dishonest, Cel
Doc Quiz Rodgers and Harry Douglass and Gray Jeri or
we gonna finally be honist and said, if you're a
Facon fan, you're really you know what, I've been a
Facon fan in my whole life. I've been in the
city for.
Speaker 17 (28:11):
No, you haven't.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
No, you haven't. No, you haven't.
Speaker 17 (28:13):
If you're been a Falcon fan your whole life in
real life, they were on the birds of something special
in the.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
City for forty three years, you have not been paying attention.
Speaker 17 (28:23):
Harry Dunnomy is coming up an injury a year before last.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
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, Harry. I mean, you don't
know when you think about what you're talking about. You
have to know.
Speaker 17 (28:40):
Roll up here, say you say to me that we're
trying to upsell the Falcony to you, sir, you're not
a Valm fan. You haven't been, and if you have been,
you don't know what you're looking at.
Speaker 16 (28:50):
Be a homer bot.
Speaker 17 (28:53):
It was a homer Don't you ever call me a homer,
Who the hell your think has been training the truth
since ninety three?
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Atlanta Radio?
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Who rip ding ding ding?
Speaker 15 (29:13):
That's great, that's great?
Speaker 4 (29:14):
It is is I love listen?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
That's the highest sports radio telling a man who's lived
in Atlanta his whole life that he hasn't.
Speaker 15 (29:24):
Right, it's a very.
Speaker 18 (29:25):
Insun You don't know what you're talking about in this case,
but it's actually not true.
Speaker 15 (29:28):
Like, no, I lived here. You know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 15 (29:32):
You're an idiot.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Seventy three that's a long time to be fair to
one hundred dollars is a lot more in twenty eleven,
is no, you're right?
Speaker 1 (29:42):
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 you haven't.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
I mean, it's unbelievable. It's amazing. Let's get to a
fair foul right now, Taylor taken away. We need the music, please, so.
Speaker 14 (30:02):
Fair foul rong music. Sam, it's the baseball instrumental one.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Wow, he knew that.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
On one note.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
The media knows he knows the songs.
Speaker 12 (30:11):
Yes, the Baseball Oregon one right, three BIS, and then
fair or foul.
Speaker 14 (30:18):
The Pittsburgh Pirates might actually be pretty good.
Speaker 15 (30:22):
Let's go fair tailor what the hell?
Speaker 18 (30:24):
Man?
Speaker 16 (30:24):
I mean?
Speaker 15 (30:24):
This is a good time right now to be a
Pittsburgh Pirates fan.
Speaker 18 (30:27):
Connor Griffin signs a nine year, one hundred and forty
million dollar contract.
Speaker 15 (30:30):
Everyone says he's the greatest thing since slice bread. His
slice Bread really the greatest thing ever? Wins another debate.
Speaker 18 (30:34):
But this kid looks like a real special talent six
four two twenty two, can hit for days, obviously a
ton of power and athleticism. And you got Paul Skins
for four more years. And I said this at the
start of the season. But 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
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five hundred. A year ago the Reds with eighty three
wins that made the playoffs. 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.
Speaker 15 (31:05):
It feels like the Pirates are having a moment right now.
It's a moment.
Speaker 18 (31:08):
It's good time to be a pirate. I would say
pirates potentially, Yes, fair, they're.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Good prea Chadman. If I never had to slice bread,
I would live a perfectly normal life.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Yeah, I tail, I don't on the pole. Is sliced
bread the greatest thing? Yes?
Speaker 7 (31:22):
Or no?
Speaker 15 (31:24):
Like, how did this respression first comet? Who was the
guy that was like, Oh my god, I just I
can't take the giant loan. I don't know how much
to have those portion control issues here.
Speaker 18 (31:32):
I got the idea, we're gonna take this and we're
gonna cut to sucker up wonderbread for days, Like, oh
my god, this is the grassticks and sliced bread.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Get this man, metal, I tell it.
Speaker 12 (31:44):
Col Rawley season last year might have been a fluke
fair foul.
Speaker 18 (31:49):
Oh jeez, I'll walk right into it. Yeah, absolutely, it's fairs.
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 hit you?
Thirty seven three at home runs in about two ten.
So he has this one year where he was unbelievable
sixty home runs. Store prayer for catchers. So for this
year has been awful. Him, Julio Rondriguez, and Josh Neil,
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which hurts me, fellow Canadian have all been struggling mightily. Now,
Raleigh 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, Cayle rally do for
a stinker.
Speaker 12 (32:23):
Joe Adell's three home run robbery game was the best
thing you've ever seen in a baseball game.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Fair foul, I mean, come.
Speaker 15 (32:30):
On, absolutely fair.
Speaker 18 (32:32):
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.
Speaker 15 (32:40):
You know a couple of these nicknames and playoff words.
Speaker 18 (32:42):
So the first time I saw Joe Adell, I said, Hello,
it's me, right the Adell saw every time I wish
they could deliver it like Boom, But every time I
said Joe.
Speaker 15 (32:49):
Adell, Hello, it's me. And the key for me is
when you deliver the line is you say it straight right,
you don't.
Speaker 18 (32:55):
You don't infer what you're saying. I don't say what
the reference is. You said, Joe Adell, Hello, it's me,
and then it's fine. And if somebody gets in thinking
that if the don't get it's fine.
Speaker 15 (33:03):
This reminds me of Carmel and Anthony. You stilways. See
you had me at Mellow and someone's like, what is that?
I go, Jerey MacGuire, you.
Speaker 8 (33:08):
Had me at Hello.
Speaker 15 (33:09):
He goes, yeah, but that lines you had me at Hello, Mike. Yeah,
he goes, you had me at Melow's.
Speaker 18 (33:13):
Well. I don't want to say if you had me
at below, because that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 15 (33:17):
You had me at Mellow, and it's posted up to
you have me at Hell, and you go, okay, Jeam McGuire,
I got it.
Speaker 18 (33:21):
Anyways, I've been using it for years and Joe Dell,
for the first few respirits stunk.
Speaker 15 (33:25):
Every year.
Speaker 18 (33:26):
He was terrible, and I go, can this guy start hitting?
I go, I'm spending gold here. Joe Dell's not even
the highlights. So work with Dan, please sect one night
and every chance.
Speaker 15 (33:33):
I got you a big game. Joe Adell, Hello is me,
Joe Adell, Hello, it's me. I'm hitting it hard. Please
take me. He's driving home and he goes Now he's
at times it's an idiot. Every time I see dam
please like he brings it up. So anything involving joy Deell,
I'm thrilled about. Whether it's Homeland robberies. Just get the highlights, kid,
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he's great, A.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Few years late from being a golden joke.
Speaker 15 (33:59):
Exactly.
Speaker 12 (34:00):
I have one more ad Nan Fairer foul. It's fair
to criticize the Mets because the vibes on their team
seem pretty terrible.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Oh good, no foul.
Speaker 15 (34:12):
I'm pro Mets.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
Listen.
Speaker 18 (34:13):
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 Studs guys, plucky underdogs. Boba Schets only hitting
two twenty two, that's okay, Louise robertsiell that they dropped
a fly ball wasn't great. A home run yesterday, though,
I will, I will call foul on that. I still
like this Mets team. Soto's out right now, but plenty
of time. That division is a little, you know, a
little more open than he might think it's not. Just
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like the Phillies are going to run and hide some
bad vibes here and there. But Stevie Cohen's bunny will
be Okay, it's been cold here in New York. Okay,
it blums up a little bit.
Speaker 15 (34:41):
Mets will be okay. I'm calling foul on that one.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
Ad Man.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Last time we talked, we talked about the idea of
eventually keeping the umpire, but balls and strike is completely
out of his hands. I think that's 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 15 (34:58):
It minds me.
Speaker 18 (34:59):
You know, I'm coaching my son in baseball and you're
throwing VP and everyone just assumes, because you're an adult,
you know what you're doing.
Speaker 15 (35:04):
But once in a while, throwers get a little walk
and they kind of give you like what does this
guy doing? Like how can you answer a groove a ball?
Speaker 7 (35:08):
No?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
I know, I know.
Speaker 15 (35:09):
Similarly with an umpire, you're like, how hard could this be?
Speaker 5 (35:12):
This is a ball?
Speaker 15 (35:12):
This is a strike? Like I mean, you think it's
a hard job.
Speaker 18 (35:15):
Like, Bro, you had enough years of training and practicing,
you should be good at your job. I can imagine
some of these guys are going home just like I am.
After a bad day at VP, thirteen kids on the team.
I threw ten picks to each kid.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
I'm my band.
Speaker 15 (35:24):
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 I am
getting shown up here at.
Speaker 18 (35:30):
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 twelve. He's an umpire.
Speaker 15 (35:40):
Clearly he's wearing a uniform. He has a pitch counter
this guy, so he has to be valued in our society.
Now this is a back on. You tapped your head.
You just tapped your head. He's wrong. Challenge it wrong again,
wrong again.
Speaker 18 (35:51):
So I'm worried to with C. B. Buckner's mental health
right now. This is not great getting challenged as much?
Speaker 1 (35:56):
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 so he's kicking y out.
Speaker 18 (36:02):
Okay, I was gonna say this feels a little premature,
but again, I'm good for fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Boys, that's it.
Speaker 15 (36:07):
The guy behind the guy.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
You get paid the same regardless, it doesn't matter. It's
very excited to have a national champion joining us. Right now,
Taylor's pumping his fists. Why are you pumping your fist?
Speaker 16 (36:22):
Man?
Speaker 4 (36:22):
All I said is that I didn't even introduce who
it was. I just said he's a national champion.
Speaker 12 (36:26):
Because I was one of the fourteen percent of brackets
that trusted my eyes and said Michigan best team all year.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Yaxel Lundenborg is with us, and he is up for
the Wooden Award Player of the Year, YAC. So 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 (36:45):
I appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
You're my guy. You're my guy. Man. How's it feel
being a national champion?
Speaker 8 (36:53):
Man? It was amazing. The moment it happened, it didn't
hit me, you know. It took a couple of days
for 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. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
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 4 (37:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (37:23):
I would say after we dog walked Auburn and San
Diego State in Gazaga. I feel like that's when we
were all like, wow, like we could be the best
team you know ever. You know, Elliot, it 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 agree in. You know, a lot of
people were declining and we can't be but man, we
just you know, we just kept our heads down and
kept working.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Man, do you feel like you guys are the best
team ever?
Speaker 8 (37:46):
I want to say yes. I thought that we could
compete with every team. Honestly, let's separate.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Yeah, I'm sorry act. So I'll just say, what separates
your team? Make the case for your team? Is that
the size?
Speaker 5 (37:58):
Is it just the depth?
Speaker 8 (37:59):
Yeah, 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 10 (38:16):
You know.
Speaker 8 (38:16):
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 10 (38:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (38:21):
So I love your your TikTok lives. They always go
they just always go completely off the rails. And some
people 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 (38:39):
I agree with what they say. We definitely aren't media trade.
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 fun.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Did that feel good to?
Speaker 10 (39:01):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (39:01):
Go ahead, sy ahead?
Speaker 3 (39:03):
All right? Actually, 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 hear from you. You're tied because there's not
that many Dominican basketball players, Karl Anthony Towns, Al Horford,
you know, Felipe Lopez back, there's not too many of them.
Just curious how tired you are to your Dominican roots
(39:24):
and and if there's any sort of inspiration you have
from from Dominican players in the past.
Speaker 8 (39:29):
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. Uh, 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
(39:49):
has been great, you know, man. Man, they always talking
about how great Karnthie Towns is al Horford as well,
you know, and like being able to follow on their
footsteps of the Maraislaw?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
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 4 (40:05):
They made it and never won it. Did it feel good?
Speaker 8 (40:07):
Or what 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 right, 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.
Speaker 10 (40:23):
Man.
Speaker 8 (40:25):
It was definitely fun and excited to have those guys
having our back all year.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Yes.
Speaker 12 (40:28):
Yeah, So earlier in the show, I admitted that I
used to have a crush on Missus met the mascot.
Stu Gotts 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 3 (40:44):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
I wouldn't say, wouldn't the War finalists.
Speaker 8 (40:49):
I would say when I was a kid, maybe maybe
Lola Bunny.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
From Jessica Rabbit was a.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Time make your case if you wouldn't mind as to
why you should win the Wooden Award.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
I voted for you again just as a reminder, but
make your case.
Speaker 16 (41:13):
Man.
Speaker 8 (41:13):
Honestly, I feel like I'm not worthy the honest I'm
not really I don't think, I don't think like I
don't know, I don't know if I 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've 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
(41:34):
that national championship, right.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
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.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
No, you too.
Speaker 12 (41:47):
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 (41:55):
Na, 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'll 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 you all year,
(42:15):
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 3 (42:22):
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 your play and 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. How much
of this year did you really feel like you were
(42:43):
coming into yourself and just getting the playing the best
basketball you've ever played?
Speaker 8 (42:47):
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 a companiently. That's where it started off.
And then man, they're in the Mars 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. Why was the big
(43:07):
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
want on want to make any other guys, you know,
blame me, and if they do, them kick out to
my three pointshitters.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Pallo ban Carrol's got nothing on you. Man, you're that
level of player.
Speaker 4 (43:29):
I'm telling you, he's so humble.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Yack, Sol. We appreciate you joining us. Congratulations on the
National championship. Congratulations on all your success and good luck
here with the Wooden Award.
Speaker 4 (43:42):
Man, you're deserving.
Speaker 8 (43:43):
Thank you. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (43:44):
Man now you got it, Man, Thank you for joining us.
Host
Doug Gottlieb
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