March 28, 2025 • 42 mins
Big Ben talks about Texas Tech defeating John Calipari's Arkansas squad in the Sweet 16, the top storylines of MLB Opening Day including Juan Soto's performance for the Mets, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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number ten thousand and Oh what a night it was,
Oh what a great day it was from when I
woke up until just a few minutes ago. If you
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now on YouTube, these Mallard monologues. But our lead this
hour is from The Sweetness. Now, if you're old, you
hear the word sweetness, you think, wow, that's Walter Payton,
not Walter Payton. But we're talking about the Sweet sixteen.
Of course, is we had not one, not two, not three.
How about four games on a Thursday night to kick
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off the card, and it'll be four more games on Friday,
and then we'll whittle it down a seat in the
Elite eight for those that were victorious in the games
that were played on Thursday. So I don't even saw
any of this. Maybe you were watching the baseball or
possibly you're like I was too busy. I had to
stare at a wall. Well, there wasn't a whole lot
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of drama O rama, which seemingly that's what you want.
You want those game changing moments where the game's close
and somebody has to step up and make a play. Well,
we didn't get much of that until the final act
of the night in San Francisco, the late television window
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as Darien Williams hit the tie breaking basket with seven
point three seconds on the jumbo tron in over time
after tying the game with a three pointer at the
end of regulation. He plays for Texas Tech. If you
don't know who Darien Williams is, so he ends up
hitting the three pointer late in regulation to tie it,
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then hits the tie breaking basket in the final seconds
of overtime, and Texas Tech thanks to a clankety clank
by Arkansas at the buzzer, and the Red Raiders have
advanced to the Elite eight. The first overtime game of
March Madness, and it came after Texas Tech was down
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by sixteen points midway through the second half. Now, normally
in the college game, if you're up by sixteen points,
you are going to punch your ticket and advance. But
coach John Calipari's Razorbacks, who were technically the tense seed,
although many did not perceive them as the tense seed
because of all the nil payments and just the aura
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of John Calipari. But Texas Tech has advanced. They will
play the number one seed Florida in the West Regional
final that'll take place on Saturday. The better story, now
you know where the better story is. That's right, The
better story is in the losing locker room. And man
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did that thing come apart. So let's ask the question,
did Texas Tech assert their will when they fell behind
by sixteen points or did John Calipari and his Arkansas
squad lose it? All? Right, so my thoughts on this.
I've got the trojan staples and locomotive and we'll run
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through all all of these things, all of them, and
we are going to make a nice vacation to Bahamas
because John Calipari cannot go to the Bahamas. So a
to answer the question, did Texas Tech assert their will
or did John Calipari and Arkansas lose it? Well, the
arrow is pointing at Coach cal who was at the
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controls in the cockpit on Yep, you're right. The vomit comment.
Oh my god, Arkansas was looking so good. I was like, Oh,
it's cal par is fun to talk about on the radio.
He says stupid things, he dresses, he's got this debonair
look to him and all that. But man alive. Arkansas
goes up by sixteen and the big fundamental Arkansas gets
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this massive advantage I'm relatively speaking massive, and then they
grab the sleeping bag and the only question is did
John Calipari read them some bedtime lullabies as they took
a nap? I mean a whole canoli here. The hard
drive got a trojan, a trojan horse virus and malfunctioned
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as Texas Tech was liberated and advanced to the second round.
But the things that stood out, and this is often
the case, it's not like this is just an Arkansas problem.
We're not exactly talking chess here. It's more checkers, the
little attention to detail, and I didn't think it was
going to cost Arkansas, but they had some sloppy offensive possessions.
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When they went up by sixteen, They're like, oh, let's
get some more stats going here. We'll take some circus shots.
And then they also decided they had a big enough lead.
I guess they didn't really need to lock in on defense.
They were undisciplined on defense, and you put those things
together and all of a sudden you got a swan dive.
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And how unprecedented is the swan dive by Arkansas? The
mother of all stats, the mother of all stats is
it's not Boom goes to dynamite, but it's pretty much
boom goes to dynamite. Entering this game, John Calipari had
played thirty His teams had played thirty five games in
the NCAA Tournament in his coaching career, going back to
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his days at UMAs where they led by six or
more points at halftime, and John Calipari had been thirty
five and oh his teams when leading by six or more.
That was the stat prior to the game, and that
tells you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
As a result, Texas Tech gets her done. They get
her done, and they advanced. Now elsewhere, we had the
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Duchies Cooper flag and the number one seed. Duke continue
monster mashing in the NCAA Tournament with a little controversy,
but one hundred and ninety three win as they went
turbotastic early in the second half of this game over
Arizona in the Sweet sixteen. And now the Blue Devils
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will match up with the number two seed, Alabama. So
the bracket has held. The bracket has held. One of
those teams is going to the Final four, but that'll
be the Elite eight matchup. You've got a basketball school,
Duke versus a football school Alabama. But don't bury the lead,
my man. All right, We're not going to bury the lead.
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So the lead here is the performance of the flag.
The flag is up, So how would you describe for
those that did not see it, Cooper Flags play for
Duke in this game. So having Cooper Flag on your roster,
if you don't know this already, you should know this already.
It's like that old marketing campaign from Staples back in
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the day. It's the Staples easy button when you have
Cooper Flag on your roster. He had thirty points, seven assists,
six rebounds, and we are told a partridge in a
pear tree. He had all that, had all that, and
it would appear based on his body of work here,
which is limited because he's only been at Duke one year,
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cheat code allowing the Blue Devils to level up. And
this is why you've got multiple suck bag NBA franchises
that are trying to trust the process and trying to
get in on that top pick in the draft, because
Cooper Flag will be the top pick and he's from Maine,
so they can't really rig it. So he plays for
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the team from Maine. I don't lest I checked. They
don't have an NBA team and the Celtics are not
going to be in the draft lottery, so that's off
the table. So who knows where Cooper Flag is going
to end up. But he will be the prize, the
next big thing in the NBA. But he's still got
some work to do in the college game and he's
got to earn those nil checks he's getting for the Dukies.
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All right now, the last word here, So on a
rather overcast I will use the word overcast a day
in the tournament. Go to Newark, New Jersey. They know
a thing about overcast, thing or two about overcasting in Newark,
New so mentioned Alabama and the number two seed they advanced.
They did it with a little rasthma task. So the
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number two seed Alabama set an nc doublea tournament record
for three point shots made. How many you think they made?
Did you see this game? Yeah? You know, Well somebody
else didn't see it, So I'm gonna tell them twenty
five to three pointers twenty five against the Tater Top
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kids from BYU. Yeah, that's a lot twenty five, So
a record setting, and some say for Alabama because that's
a football school, although not much anymore because Nick Saban
ain't walking through that door unless he's there to collect
a check and cheer for them on television. But Alabama
twenty five three program defining win one thirteen to eighty eight.
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That's an NBA score. That's like a matchup between the
Celtics and the Wizards. And that was the final their
East Regional semi finals. So coach Natoates and the Bama
squad knocking twenty five triples into the net and they
break the record which was twenty one held by Bo
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Kimball and Loyola Maramont thirty five years ago. Wow, where
has the time gone? So if you're old enough to
remember that that amazing magic carpet ride with Bo Kimball
and before that his buddy who passed away, Hank Gathers.
But your thoughts, what are your thoughts on Alabama setting
a new standard for most three balls knocked down? So
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obviously it's a historical night. And my thought on this
if you were to conveyor what Alabama did now, the
defense was obviously lacking for perimeter defense. You don't need
to be an insider in the NBA to know this
was not going well for the BYU Cougars defensively. But
this Christian Tides team, even if you leave guys open
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a lot in college, they'll miss. I don't know if
you've noticed that there's a theme in this tournament, in
every tournament, but the Crimson Tide were an unstoppable locomotive. True. Yeah,
of moneyballs, you get a moneyball, you get a moneyball,
you get a moneyball, you get a moneyball. And to
put into context the historical nature of this, I may
or may not remember loyal A Maramont hitting all those
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three point shots back in the day. And while in
modern basketball it's poper shot. You're expected to just shoot
three point baskets. That's it. That's today's NBA, that's most
of college basketball. If you go back a generation and
a half to the loyala Marimont team, which is a
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small school. Yeah, we're going to the hot, tough time
machine here. If you go back then, that is a
team that look like they were playing at a different level,
like they were playing a different sport. They changed the game.
This little school near Lax which was nothing athletically and
since then has been nothing athletically. And they played in
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a high school gym. And in those days, the three
point shot was considered a masculine It was he had
one guy on the team that would be a three
point specialist and the top players. It was unbecoming to
shoot a lot of three point shots. Can you imagine that? Yeah,
now if you don't shoot three point shots, it's the
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other way. But the three point shot in those years,
it was like a side table. It wasn't the sofa,
it wasn't the television. It was a side table, and
that's what it was. And so it's obviously we've done
a one to eighty since then and gone the complete
opposite direction, and so Alabama has the record. It's a
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safe bet that that record will not last another thirty
five years, that that record will be broken within the
next five years, and probably take the under. Take the
under on that. But how zany was Bama shooting the basketball?
I'm glad you asked, So here's how zany it is.
And I believe this stat is accurate. Let's say Alabama
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had not made one two point basket. They missed all
of their two point shots, so they were over from
the floor two point field goals against by U. The
Crimson Tide made enough three point shots where they still
would have won the game. They still would have won
the game even if they had not hit a single
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two point shot. Methinks that's pretty good. Methinks that's pretty good.
And yeah, you do the math math on that, and
the math works. The math absolutely worse.
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from baseball man. I had a good time. I don't
know if you saw a bunch of the games. I
got up relatively early for me, mainly because I don't
sleep well, but I was excited. I've always loved Opening Day.
I used to ditch school for Opening Day as I
felt like it was a holiday and I needed to
miss school. It was more important. I watched some ball.
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So the new beginning and the biggest name to change
teams this offseason was mister money Bags himself, who made
his debut with his new team. Nobody watches the spring
training game, so this was the game that mattered. We're
talking of course, of outfielder Wan money Bag Soto, who
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got to debut his New York Mets laundry for the
first time in a regular season game. So I don't
know if you're watching this, maybe not. The Metropolitans were
playing the cheating as one one thousand and two, one
thousand holes and one. Soto. Now, he did get on
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base three times, okay three times on base. He had
a single and a couple of walks. However, that is
not the story. Don't bury the lead, my man. So
the story here the final at bat, that is the focus.
The Mets come to home plate. They're trailing three to
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one against the cheating Astro. So down three to one one,
Soto steps into the box. There's two out in the
top of the ninth inning, runners on the corner, so
the tying runs are on. Soto represents the winning run.
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Conceivably would still have to get Houston out in the
bottom of the ninth, but the Asstros closer Josh Hater
is on the mound, so Soto steps into the batter's box.
Pitch one's a ball, Pitch two is a ball two
zero count hitters count two to zero. Pitch three and
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one Sodo digs in, he chokes up on the bat
and stands there and watches the pitch go by ball three.
So now it's the ultimate ultimate pitchers count or hitters
count rather, because the pitcher doesn't want to walk Sodo
because then the tying ronal being scoring position, and all
the Mets would need is a base hit. So it's
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a three to zero count. Surely one, Sodo is gonna
swing the bat, because why would you not swing the
bat your seven hundred and sixty five million dollars man.
So three and zero one, Soto stands there and watches
the pitch zoom by star Reik one. So it's a
it's a three to one count, but he's still in
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good shape. Three to one. Still, hitters count, so three
to one pitch by Josh Hater. He fouls the pitch
off bab ball all right, So now it's a three
to two count all of a sudden, so he's one.
Soto's gone from a three to zero count hitters count
three to one count. Hitters count. Now it's three to two.
Not so good, but still the pitcher has to throw strike.
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So Josh Hater settles in. He throws the pitch and
it's a slider. Loan, Oh, it's ball four, right, ball four,
but numb nuts runs. Juan Soto meekly swings and it
wasn't even really a swing, like it was a half swing,
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but it counted as a swing. He chased a slider
that went out of the zone. Good afternoon, good evening,
and good night. As the cheating a holes won the game. Now,
following the loss, what do you think happened? There was
a dog pile, dog pile on Juan Soto and the Metropolitans.
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So let us discuss the question. I know it's only
it's only one game. We're doing the talk show today.
We're doing the show today. So does one Soto deserve
the noise he's already getting for his lackluster performance in
the clutch for the Mets? So my observations on this,
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I've got boxing, Amazon, Prime, and Alaskan and we will
combine all of these things together and we are gonna
make the Gabba ghoul. We're gonna make the Gabba goool,
all right? So number one, number one, yeah, all right.
So to answer the question, does Wan Soto deserve all
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the noise for his unclutch performance in the mets opener. Uh,
I am nodding my head. Yes, I am nodding my eyes.
And here's why, all right, you should be n No.
It is a make or miss league, okay, And sowing
about a swing about a whiff. He whiffed an opening
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day is worth like ten games because people stop paying
attention after opening day. They do. These first games of
the season are magnified, they get covered like they mean more.
And so Juan Soto is the leading man, he is
the top performer. He is at the very center of
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the stage. He is in the eye of the storm.
And it's part of the all inclusive package. Seven one
hundred and sixty five million dollars and the great boxing
promoter Don King still alive, somehow still alive, living in Florida,
and Don King one time one of the great rants
of all time. He talked about a boxer, but it
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applies to Juan Soto. When you're in the position of
Juan Soda, you are scrutinized, despised, politicized, dramatized, chastise analyzed, moralized, stigmatized, sensationalized,
and criticized more than anyone else. So you're getting paid
seven hundred sixty five million, And so what you do
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is you go up to your penthouse apartment at the
very top on for one hundred and who cares if
you're a punching bag and one. Sodo has always been
the kind of guy who's this smug dude. He's very
easy to hate on. He's got this smarmy arrogance to him.
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Like it doesn't seem like the Mets fan base would
really embrace a guy like Juan Soto. He seems like
the antithesis of the of the Mets fan base, and
the Mets fan base is annoying, but they're not arrogant annoying.
See that's the Yankees. The Yankees are arrogant annoying now
page two here. So the one of the other storylines,
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the Podres are expected to be a contender, not they're
not gonna win the nationally West. The Dodgers, I think
have already wrapped that up. But one of the funny
things that happened on opening day was in San Diego's
win over the Atlanta Braves. Where are you at on
Padre star Fernando Tatis being caught admiring he was naval
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gazing a fly ball, which would have been fine if
it had gone into the stands, but instead it bounced
off the wall and he ended up getting a single,
one of the longest singles in baseball history. So forget
the whole opening day thing. Fernando to tease in mid
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season form, right, he has always been bold and shameless,
and why wait until June or July to get the
party started. Bring the razzle dazzle. You gotta bring the
razzle dazzle. He immediately broke into He checked me out,
jog around the bases like the dudes I see at
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the gym when they walked by the mirrors and they're
they're they're flexing and looking at how great they look
in the mirror. It was that kind of thing, right,
which again would have been fine if the ball had
gone in the stands. It did not, And I saw
this same thing happen years ago. A teammate now teammate
of Juan or Fernando Titties, Manny Machado. Manny Machado briefly
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played for the Dodgers. They were playing the Red Sox
in the World Series. This goes back a few years
and Machado hit a ball off the wall in the
World Series against Boston was at Dodger Stadium, and he
was just enjoying it. He wanted to enjoy the moment.
He was smelling himself a little bit. And then he
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ended up at first base because the ball hit off
the wall and he didn't know what to do. I
had no idea, what do Yeah? Caught peeking Now. As
for Tatis, Fernando Tatis, we believe that what he's really
doing here is waiting for his Amazon Prime delivery and
he's trying to get that shipment of that ringworm medication.
Wink wink wing. See all he needs is that ringworm medication.
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Then that ball goes in the stands, if you know,
you know? All right? Now? Final point? So what else
wide angle lens, wide angle lens? What else stood out
on opening day? Well, we had the Dodgers against the
top pitcher in the American League. Show showtime did it again?
Dodgers are now three and zero. Otani hit a dinger
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and at what point will this become annoying? The story
was not the Otani home run. The story was the
ti Oscar Hernandez three run homer, because that turned the
game upside down. That was the game winning mortal blow
that did in the Tigers and their cy young pitcher
Schooble did them in. But yet the headline is Otani
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goes deep, Dodgers win beat to Tigers, but Otani nout
a couple home runs. The Dodgers have played three games,
so he's right there. How about the Chicago White Sox,
who are supposed to be baseball's worst team, but for
one day they had the atomic elbow for the pathetic
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Angels eighth to one that the game was actually closer
than that. The White Sox put up a five spot
in the eighth inning, they blew the game open. And
someone named Sean Burke who hasn't been around very long,
and he started Opening Day. The White Socks have nobody
else and while he was out there, he shut down
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that pathetic Angels lineup. So it was so bad for
the Angels. How bad was it? Position player Nicky Lopez
that sounds like a singer. Nicky Lopez pitched in the
ninth inning there the or the eighth inning rather for
the Angels. He came in a position player pitching against
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the White Sox on opening Day. On Opening Day, So
how would you describe the vibe around the angels. How
would you describe that? So the vibe around the angels
after losing to the White Sox eight to one of
the opener, it's like an Alaskan Alaskan weather report, gloomy
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and gray, gloomy and gray. You know, Juno Alaska. Fun fact,
fun fact, fun fact, Juno, Alaska has the most cloudy
days in American territory. I know it's not north of
I know it's not the continuous forty eight, but Alaska's
part of America. They have two hundred and eighty days
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a year with cloud cover in Juneo, Alaska. Shout out
to our listeners in Juno, Alaska. Yeah, we're hanging out.
We're on earlier in Alaska now. Terry Francona had a
very tough opener his debut for the Cincinnati Reds, and
I expect Cincinnati to be via a fringe contender with
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Francona's leadership. They did not get off to a good start,
losing to the Agantes. You had the phenom of Phoenom's
Paul Skins on the mound for the Buckos the Pirates.
He went five and a third innings and he gave
up a couple of runs left the game and the
Pirates were winning, and they had lost by a walk
off to the lowly Marlins. So we'll be pirate baseball,
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Paul skeens and pray for rain. You had somebody named
wheel Air Abreu who hit a three run homer in
the ninth the Red Sox. That was his second home
run of the game, and they beat the Rangers five
to two. So the Socks off to a good start there.
Austin Wells, remember we had mentioned Austin Wells, the catcher
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was batting leadoff. First time in Yankee history that a
catcher was batting leadoff, and Wells the first catcher, whether
it's the Yankees or anyone else, to hit an opening
day lead off home run. You know, usually catchers don't
bat leadoff. You're not doing that well if your catcher's
bat and leadoff. But Austin Wells hit home run. So
first time in baseball history that's happened. The Nationals had
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a great pitching performance and then still lost to Bryce
Harper and the fight in Phils. But for the rest
of time, every time Bryce Harper goes to DC boo boo,
and rightfully so rightfully fans still booing him at Nationals Park.
He homered again, and that's it. And how about the
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story in Seattle, the Seattle baseball team versus the Sacramento
baseball team that's so embarrassed by being in Sacramento, they
don't want to admit they're in Sacramento. Before that game, though,
the story Hall of Famer fifty one year old echa
Row Suzuki. So he threw out the first pitch. Did
you see this? No? All right? Now, he's fifty one.
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He wears uniform number fifty one. He came out of
the Seattle dugout wearing a full Mariner uniform. He had
the pants, he had, he had the hat, the jersey,
the whole thing. And he went out to the mound
and he threw an eighty four mile an hour opening
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pitch on the radar in full uniform, in full uniform,
which I think is faster than half the Marinder pitching staff.
I think he has a better arm than half the
Marinder pitching staff. So very sentimental, sentimental moment there in Seattle.
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Okay, good bloop.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Adam Schefter reported on Wednesday that Abdul Carter is likely
to pick be picked number two overaw by the Cleveland Browns. Ben,
do you think passing on a quarterback is the right
move for Cleveland?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yeah? Because these guys aren't that good. It's not a
great quarterback draft. The only reason that the conversation is
camboard intruder Sanders at the top is because they're the
most the most important position. Normally they'd be second round picks,
and they're talking about drafting him at the top of
dual Carter's the guy's a monster. He's a great player,
and I would take him number one overall is what
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I would do if I was Tennessee. I would just
draft a duel Carter.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Next, there's a proposal to move touchbacks out to the
thirty five yard line. Now, the NFL believes that if
this proposal passes, it'll double the number of kickoffs returned. Ben,
do you think those extra five yards will make such
a dramatic difference.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
No, it won't. They'd have to put the ball to
fifty yard line, the mischia gost that these coaches do.
They're like, no, we'll just we'll thirty five yards. We'll
be fine. The NFL doesn't really care about the kickoff anyway.
They have appsbsolutely neutered the kickoff. The well really want more?
Kick us? Stop? You know you're just you're talking out
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of both sides of your mouth. Next.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Now, the White Socks are on pace to win one
hundred and sixty two games, but they've been given a
historically low win total by Vegas oddsmakers fifty three and
a half wins, which is still twelve and a half
more than they had last season. Bet you're taking the
over the under?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, I actually bet the over on this. I last
year was a fluke. They'll be bad, but you're still
going to win sixty games. How did we do?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
We passed?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
That is a win. The Angels didn't pass, Coop. They failed.
They've they lost.
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Here's Justin Cooper. Thank you, Marcel. All right, Ben, We're
gonna start off in the theaters, and we have a
couple movies of note to talk about it out this.
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Week's tribute to Eddie Garcia. Note the first one.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
I'm gonna bring up about in Neither of these movies,
by the way, I have been blowing critics out of
the water, but that doesn't mean that they're not fun.
So the first one is called Death of a Unicorn.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Critics, aren't real people? Death of a Unicorn. Yes, it's
like a fun movie for little girls.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
It's a rated R horror comedy and it stars Jenna Ortega,
the Great Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd and yeah basic. Uh.
The premise is this, When a man and his daughter
accidentally hit and kill a unicorn with their car, his
boss tries to exploit the creature's miraculous curative properties with
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horrific results.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Yes, is there an actual unicorn in there? Uh?
Speaker 3 (39:18):
I mean I haven't seen the trailers. I've seen posters.
It does seem to be. It seems there's like some
evil kind of twist to it.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Are unicorns real?
Speaker 3 (39:29):
I don't believe so well, no there is.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
He's on the Celtics christ Off porzingis.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
That's true and never mind, okay, moving moving on. We
also have a another horror movie out this weekend. It
is called The Woman in the Yard.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
I hate women in the yard, hate them.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Yes, especially this one. This is a scary, veiled looking
woman that kind of stalks this family, kind of kind
of death looking coolish, yeah, you know which kind of thing,
and she keeps getting closer and closer to the house
and then uh, the horror ensues.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
I'm catching a spell on you.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
That's right. So that is in theaters right now as well.
Those are the two movies that I think could be
worth worth your time. I don't know about the money.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Wow, used to be a big movie guy. I remember
you had that movie past.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Still I still have I still have that. Yeah, that's right,
So it's worth it for me to go see it
because it's you know, you're a movie guy. Yeah, but
if you're paying for each ticket, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
You're waiting for liar liar too cool?
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Please please, somebody somebody writing. You could be the.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Jim Carrey character, right, you could be the liar guy.
That's right, you could be the liar. You're all grown
up now, like the kid, the kid from Liar Liar
grows up and then you have a family and then
you and your kid comes up with the claw because
it's genetic, you know.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Right, Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
All right, I got the whole script. We got to
write it. Hey, I can write it, right, just have
a I write it. What the hell?
Speaker 3 (41:07):
I don't know if it's that good yet, but hey,
there's been there have been worse sequels to be released,
that's for sure. I'm positive.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Moving over to television, we have the premiere of the
third and final season of Bosh Legacy. Now, this is
a spinoff series from Chris No. Uh, it's a bos
Bosh yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
And this is I think that's Bose Yeah. Yeah. This
is a spinoff series from the original Bosh Uh, you know,
detective show on Amazon Prime Video. And this will be
the final season of this spinoff series, but apparently a
second spinoff series will follow later this year.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Uh.
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That is available to stream right now on Prime Video
and then coming out later. Let me see it's let
me check when this is coming out Sunday.
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Sunday Monday, Sunday Sunday one day only Sunday.
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On Paramount Plus. I don't talk about stuff on Paramount
Plus very often I do have it, actually, but this
I don't think I actually pay for it. I think
I'm like using the in laws account. Yeah. But yes,
it's called Mobland and it's from Guy Ritchie. It is
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in London set organized crime series and it stars Pierce Brosnan,
Helen Mirren and Tom Hardy. So big cast there. We'll
see how it is. That's available Sunday on Paramount Plus.
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hour is from The Sweetness. Now, if you're old, you
hear the word sweetness, you think, wow, that's Walter Payton,
not Walter Payton. But we're talking about the Sweet sixteen.
Of course, is we had not one, not two, not three.
How about four games on a Thursday night to kick
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off the card, and it'll be four more games on Friday,
and then we'll whittle it down a seat in the
Elite eight for those that were victorious in the games
that were played on Thursday. So I don't even saw
any of this. Maybe you were watching the baseball or
possibly you're like I was too busy. I had to
stare at a wall. Well, there wasn't a whole lot
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of drama O rama, which seemingly that's what you want.
You want those game changing moments where the game's close
and somebody has to step up and make a play. Well,
we didn't get much of that until the final act
of the night in San Francisco, the late television window
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as Darien Williams hit the tie breaking basket with seven
point three seconds on the jumbo tron in over time
after tying the game with a three pointer at the
end of regulation. He plays for Texas Tech. If you
don't know who Darien Williams is, so he ends up
hitting the three pointer late in regulation to tie it,
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then hits the tie breaking basket in the final seconds
of overtime, and Texas Tech thanks to a clankety clank
by Arkansas at the buzzer, and the Red Raiders have
advanced to the Elite eight. The first overtime game of
March Madness, and it came after Texas Tech was down
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by sixteen points midway through the second half. Now, normally
in the college game, if you're up by sixteen points,
you are going to punch your ticket and advance. But
coach John Calipari's Razorbacks, who were technically the tense seed,
although many did not perceive them as the tense seed
because of all the nil payments and just the aura
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of John Calipari. But Texas Tech has advanced. They will
play the number one seed Florida in the West Regional
final that'll take place on Saturday. The better story, now
you know where the better story is. That's right, The
better story is in the losing locker room. And man
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did that thing come apart. So let's ask the question,
did Texas Tech assert their will when they fell behind
by sixteen points or did John Calipari and his Arkansas
squad lose it? All? Right, so my thoughts on this.
I've got the trojan staples and locomotive and we'll run
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through all all of these things, all of them, and
we are going to make a nice vacation to Bahamas
because John Calipari cannot go to the Bahamas. So a
to answer the question, did Texas Tech assert their will
or did John Calipari and Arkansas lose it? Well, the
arrow is pointing at Coach cal who was at the
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controls in the cockpit on Yep, you're right. The vomit comment.
Oh my god, Arkansas was looking so good. I was like, Oh,
it's cal par is fun to talk about on the radio.
He says stupid things, he dresses, he's got this debonair
look to him and all that. But man alive. Arkansas
goes up by sixteen and the big fundamental Arkansas gets
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this massive advantage I'm relatively speaking massive, and then they
grab the sleeping bag and the only question is did
John Calipari read them some bedtime lullabies as they took
a nap? I mean a whole canoli here. The hard
drive got a trojan, a trojan horse virus and malfunctioned
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as Texas Tech was liberated and advanced to the second round.
But the things that stood out, and this is often
the case, it's not like this is just an Arkansas problem.
We're not exactly talking chess here. It's more checkers, the
little attention to detail, and I didn't think it was
going to cost Arkansas, but they had some sloppy offensive possessions.
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When they went up by sixteen, They're like, oh, let's
get some more stats going here. We'll take some circus shots.
And then they also decided they had a big enough lead.
I guess they didn't really need to lock in on defense.
They were undisciplined on defense, and you put those things
together and all of a sudden you got a swan dive.
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And how unprecedented is the swan dive by Arkansas? The
mother of all stats, the mother of all stats is
it's not Boom goes to dynamite, but it's pretty much
boom goes to dynamite. Entering this game, John Calipari had
played thirty His teams had played thirty five games in
the NCAA Tournament in his coaching career, going back to
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his days at UMAs where they led by six or
more points at halftime, and John Calipari had been thirty
five and oh his teams when leading by six or more.
That was the stat prior to the game, and that
tells you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
As a result, Texas Tech gets her done. They get
her done, and they advanced. Now elsewhere, we had the
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Duchies Cooper flag and the number one seed. Duke continue
monster mashing in the NCAA Tournament with a little controversy,
but one hundred and ninety three win as they went
turbotastic early in the second half of this game over
Arizona in the Sweet sixteen. And now the Blue Devils
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will match up with the number two seed, Alabama. So
the bracket has held. The bracket has held. One of
those teams is going to the Final four, but that'll
be the Elite eight matchup. You've got a basketball school,
Duke versus a football school Alabama. But don't bury the lead,
my man. All right, We're not going to bury the lead.
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So the lead here is the performance of the flag.
The flag is up, So how would you describe for
those that did not see it, Cooper Flags play for
Duke in this game. So having Cooper Flag on your roster,
if you don't know this already, you should know this already.
It's like that old marketing campaign from Staples back in
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the day. It's the Staples easy button when you have
Cooper Flag on your roster. He had thirty points, seven assists,
six rebounds, and we are told a partridge in a
pear tree. He had all that, had all that, and
it would appear based on his body of work here,
which is limited because he's only been at Duke one year,
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cheat code allowing the Blue Devils to level up. And
this is why you've got multiple suck bag NBA franchises
that are trying to trust the process and trying to
get in on that top pick in the draft, because
Cooper Flag will be the top pick and he's from Maine,
so they can't really rig it. So he plays for
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the team from Maine. I don't lest I checked. They
don't have an NBA team and the Celtics are not
going to be in the draft lottery, so that's off
the table. So who knows where Cooper Flag is going
to end up. But he will be the prize, the
next big thing in the NBA. But he's still got
some work to do in the college game and he's
got to earn those nil checks he's getting for the Dukies.
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All right now, the last word here, So on a
rather overcast I will use the word overcast a day
in the tournament. Go to Newark, New Jersey. They know
a thing about overcast, thing or two about overcasting in Newark,
New so mentioned Alabama and the number two seed they advanced.
They did it with a little rasthma task. So the
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number two seed Alabama set an nc doublea tournament record
for three point shots made. How many you think they made?
Did you see this game? Yeah? You know, Well somebody
else didn't see it, So I'm gonna tell them twenty
five to three pointers twenty five against the Tater Top
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kids from BYU. Yeah, that's a lot twenty five, So
a record setting, and some say for Alabama because that's
a football school, although not much anymore because Nick Saban
ain't walking through that door unless he's there to collect
a check and cheer for them on television. But Alabama
twenty five three program defining win one thirteen to eighty eight.
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That's an NBA score. That's like a matchup between the
Celtics and the Wizards. And that was the final their
East Regional semi finals. So coach Natoates and the Bama
squad knocking twenty five triples into the net and they
break the record which was twenty one held by Bo
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Kimball and Loyola Maramont thirty five years ago. Wow, where
has the time gone? So if you're old enough to
remember that that amazing magic carpet ride with Bo Kimball
and before that his buddy who passed away, Hank Gathers.
But your thoughts, what are your thoughts on Alabama setting
a new standard for most three balls knocked down? So
(11:38):
obviously it's a historical night. And my thought on this
if you were to conveyor what Alabama did now, the
defense was obviously lacking for perimeter defense. You don't need
to be an insider in the NBA to know this
was not going well for the BYU Cougars defensively. But
this Christian Tides team, even if you leave guys open
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a lot in college, they'll miss. I don't know if
you've noticed that there's a theme in this tournament, in
every tournament, but the Crimson Tide were an unstoppable locomotive. True. Yeah,
of moneyballs, you get a moneyball, you get a moneyball,
you get a moneyball, you get a moneyball. And to
put into context the historical nature of this, I may
or may not remember loyal A Maramont hitting all those
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three point shots back in the day. And while in
modern basketball it's poper shot. You're expected to just shoot
three point baskets. That's it. That's today's NBA, that's most
of college basketball. If you go back a generation and
a half to the loyala Marimont team, which is a
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small school. Yeah, we're going to the hot, tough time
machine here. If you go back then, that is a
team that look like they were playing at a different level,
like they were playing a different sport. They changed the game.
This little school near Lax which was nothing athletically and
since then has been nothing athletically. And they played in
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a high school gym. And in those days, the three
point shot was considered a masculine It was he had
one guy on the team that would be a three
point specialist and the top players. It was unbecoming to
shoot a lot of three point shots. Can you imagine that? Yeah,
now if you don't shoot three point shots, it's the
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other way. But the three point shot in those years,
it was like a side table. It wasn't the sofa,
it wasn't the television. It was a side table, and
that's what it was. And so it's obviously we've done
a one to eighty since then and gone the complete
opposite direction, and so Alabama has the record. It's a
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safe bet that that record will not last another thirty
five years, that that record will be broken within the
next five years, and probably take the under. Take the
under on that. But how zany was Bama shooting the basketball?
I'm glad you asked, So here's how zany it is.
And I believe this stat is accurate. Let's say Alabama
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had not made one two point basket. They missed all
of their two point shots, so they were over from
the floor two point field goals against by U. The
Crimson Tide made enough three point shots where they still
would have won the game. They still would have won
the game even if they had not hit a single
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two point shot. Methinks that's pretty good. Methinks that's pretty good.
And yeah, you do the math math on that, and
the math works. The math absolutely worse.
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from baseball man. I had a good time. I don't
know if you saw a bunch of the games. I
got up relatively early for me, mainly because I don't
sleep well, but I was excited. I've always loved Opening Day.
I used to ditch school for Opening Day as I
felt like it was a holiday and I needed to
miss school. It was more important. I watched some ball.
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So the new beginning and the biggest name to change
teams this offseason was mister money Bags himself, who made
his debut with his new team. Nobody watches the spring
training game, so this was the game that mattered. We're
talking of course, of outfielder Wan money Bag Soto, who
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got to debut his New York Mets laundry for the
first time in a regular season game. So I don't
know if you're watching this, maybe not. The Metropolitans were
playing the cheating as one one thousand and two, one
thousand holes and one. Soto. Now, he did get on
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base three times, okay three times on base. He had
a single and a couple of walks. However, that is
not the story. Don't bury the lead, my man. So
the story here the final at bat, that is the focus.
The Mets come to home plate. They're trailing three to
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one against the cheating Astro. So down three to one one,
Soto steps into the box. There's two out in the
top of the ninth inning, runners on the corner, so
the tying runs are on. Soto represents the winning run.
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Conceivably would still have to get Houston out in the
bottom of the ninth, but the Asstros closer Josh Hater
is on the mound, so Soto steps into the batter's box.
Pitch one's a ball, Pitch two is a ball two
zero count hitters count two to zero. Pitch three and
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one Sodo digs in, he chokes up on the bat
and stands there and watches the pitch go by ball three.
So now it's the ultimate ultimate pitchers count or hitters
count rather, because the pitcher doesn't want to walk Sodo
because then the tying ronal being scoring position, and all
the Mets would need is a base hit. So it's
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a three to zero count. Surely one, Sodo is gonna
swing the bat, because why would you not swing the
bat your seven hundred and sixty five million dollars man.
So three and zero one, Soto stands there and watches
the pitch zoom by star Reik one. So it's a
it's a three to one count, but he's still in
(19:00):
good shape. Three to one. Still, hitters count, so three
to one pitch by Josh Hater. He fouls the pitch
off bab ball all right, So now it's a three
to two count all of a sudden, so he's one.
Soto's gone from a three to zero count hitters count
three to one count. Hitters count. Now it's three to two.
Not so good, but still the pitcher has to throw strike.
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So Josh Hater settles in. He throws the pitch and
it's a slider. Loan, Oh, it's ball four, right, ball four,
but numb nuts runs. Juan Soto meekly swings and it
wasn't even really a swing, like it was a half swing,
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but it counted as a swing. He chased a slider
that went out of the zone. Good afternoon, good evening,
and good night. As the cheating a holes won the game. Now,
following the loss, what do you think happened? There was
a dog pile, dog pile on Juan Soto and the Metropolitans.
(20:04):
So let us discuss the question. I know it's only
it's only one game. We're doing the talk show today.
We're doing the show today. So does one Soto deserve
the noise he's already getting for his lackluster performance in
the clutch for the Mets? So my observations on this,
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combine all of these things together and we are gonna
make the Gabba ghoul. We're gonna make the Gabba goool,
all right? So number one, number one, yeah, all right.
So to answer the question, does Wan Soto deserve all
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the noise for his unclutch performance in the mets opener. Uh,
I am nodding my head. Yes, I am nodding my eyes.
And here's why, all right, you should be n No.
It is a make or miss league, okay, And sowing
about a swing about a whiff. He whiffed an opening
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day is worth like ten games because people stop paying
attention after opening day. They do. These first games of
the season are magnified, they get covered like they mean more.
And so Juan Soto is the leading man, he is
the top performer. He is at the very center of
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the stage. He is in the eye of the storm.
And it's part of the all inclusive package. Seven one
hundred and sixty five million dollars and the great boxing
promoter Don King still alive, somehow still alive, living in Florida,
and Don King one time one of the great rants
of all time. He talked about a boxer, but it
(21:55):
applies to Juan Soto. When you're in the position of
Juan Soda, you are scrutinized, despised, politicized, dramatized, chastise analyzed, moralized, stigmatized, sensationalized,
and criticized more than anyone else. So you're getting paid
seven hundred sixty five million, And so what you do
(22:15):
is you go up to your penthouse apartment at the
very top on for one hundred and who cares if
you're a punching bag and one. Sodo has always been
the kind of guy who's this smug dude. He's very
easy to hate on. He's got this smarmy arrogance to him.
(22:38):
Like it doesn't seem like the Mets fan base would
really embrace a guy like Juan Soto. He seems like
the antithesis of the of the Mets fan base, and
the Mets fan base is annoying, but they're not arrogant annoying.
See that's the Yankees. The Yankees are arrogant annoying now
page two here. So the one of the other storylines,
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the Podres are expected to be a contender, not they're
not gonna win the nationally West. The Dodgers, I think
have already wrapped that up. But one of the funny
things that happened on opening day was in San Diego's
win over the Atlanta Braves. Where are you at on
Padre star Fernando Tatis being caught admiring he was naval
(23:21):
gazing a fly ball, which would have been fine if
it had gone into the stands, but instead it bounced
off the wall and he ended up getting a single,
one of the longest singles in baseball history. So forget
the whole opening day thing. Fernando to tease in mid
(23:45):
season form, right, he has always been bold and shameless,
and why wait until June or July to get the
party started. Bring the razzle dazzle. You gotta bring the
razzle dazzle. He immediately broke into He checked me out,
jog around the bases like the dudes I see at
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the gym when they walked by the mirrors and they're
they're they're flexing and looking at how great they look
in the mirror. It was that kind of thing, right,
which again would have been fine if the ball had
gone in the stands. It did not, And I saw
this same thing happen years ago. A teammate now teammate
of Juan or Fernando Titties, Manny Machado. Manny Machado briefly
(24:32):
played for the Dodgers. They were playing the Red Sox
in the World Series. This goes back a few years
and Machado hit a ball off the wall in the
World Series against Boston was at Dodger Stadium, and he
was just enjoying it. He wanted to enjoy the moment.
He was smelling himself a little bit. And then he
(24:52):
ended up at first base because the ball hit off
the wall and he didn't know what to do. I
had no idea, what do Yeah? Caught peeking Now. As
for Tatis, Fernando Tatis, we believe that what he's really
doing here is waiting for his Amazon Prime delivery and
he's trying to get that shipment of that ringworm medication.
Wink wink wing. See all he needs is that ringworm medication.
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Then that ball goes in the stands, if you know,
you know? All right? Now? Final point? So what else
wide angle lens, wide angle lens? What else stood out
on opening day? Well, we had the Dodgers against the
top pitcher in the American League. Show showtime did it again?
Dodgers are now three and zero. Otani hit a dinger
(25:36):
and at what point will this become annoying? The story
was not the Otani home run. The story was the
ti Oscar Hernandez three run homer, because that turned the
game upside down. That was the game winning mortal blow
that did in the Tigers and their cy young pitcher
Schooble did them in. But yet the headline is Otani
(25:57):
goes deep, Dodgers win beat to Tigers, but Otani nout
a couple home runs. The Dodgers have played three games,
so he's right there. How about the Chicago White Sox,
who are supposed to be baseball's worst team, but for
one day they had the atomic elbow for the pathetic
(26:18):
Angels eighth to one that the game was actually closer
than that. The White Sox put up a five spot
in the eighth inning, they blew the game open. And
someone named Sean Burke who hasn't been around very long,
and he started Opening Day. The White Socks have nobody
else and while he was out there, he shut down
(26:39):
that pathetic Angels lineup. So it was so bad for
the Angels. How bad was it? Position player Nicky Lopez
that sounds like a singer. Nicky Lopez pitched in the
ninth inning there the or the eighth inning rather for
the Angels. He came in a position player pitching against
(27:01):
the White Sox on opening Day. On Opening Day, So
how would you describe the vibe around the angels. How
would you describe that? So the vibe around the angels
after losing to the White Sox eight to one of
the opener, it's like an Alaskan Alaskan weather report, gloomy
(27:24):
and gray, gloomy and gray. You know, Juno Alaska. Fun fact,
fun fact, fun fact, Juno, Alaska has the most cloudy
days in American territory. I know it's not north of
I know it's not the continuous forty eight, but Alaska's
part of America. They have two hundred and eighty days
(27:45):
a year with cloud cover in Juneo, Alaska. Shout out
to our listeners in Juno, Alaska. Yeah, we're hanging out.
We're on earlier in Alaska now. Terry Francona had a
very tough opener his debut for the Cincinnati Reds, and
I expect Cincinnati to be via a fringe contender with
(28:05):
Francona's leadership. They did not get off to a good start,
losing to the Agantes. You had the phenom of Phoenom's
Paul Skins on the mound for the Buckos the Pirates.
He went five and a third innings and he gave
up a couple of runs left the game and the
Pirates were winning, and they had lost by a walk
off to the lowly Marlins. So we'll be pirate baseball,
(28:27):
Paul skeens and pray for rain. You had somebody named
wheel Air Abreu who hit a three run homer in
the ninth the Red Sox. That was his second home
run of the game, and they beat the Rangers five
to two. So the Socks off to a good start there.
Austin Wells, remember we had mentioned Austin Wells, the catcher
(28:48):
was batting leadoff. First time in Yankee history that a
catcher was batting leadoff, and Wells the first catcher, whether
it's the Yankees or anyone else, to hit an opening
day lead off home run. You know, usually catchers don't
bat leadoff. You're not doing that well if your catcher's
bat and leadoff. But Austin Wells hit home run. So
first time in baseball history that's happened. The Nationals had
(29:11):
a great pitching performance and then still lost to Bryce
Harper and the fight in Phils. But for the rest
of time, every time Bryce Harper goes to DC boo boo,
and rightfully so rightfully fans still booing him at Nationals Park.
He homered again, and that's it. And how about the
(29:34):
story in Seattle, the Seattle baseball team versus the Sacramento
baseball team that's so embarrassed by being in Sacramento, they
don't want to admit they're in Sacramento. Before that game, though,
the story Hall of Famer fifty one year old echa
Row Suzuki. So he threw out the first pitch. Did
you see this? No? All right? Now, he's fifty one.
(29:59):
He wears uniform number fifty one. He came out of
the Seattle dugout wearing a full Mariner uniform. He had
the pants, he had, he had the hat, the jersey,
the whole thing. And he went out to the mound
and he threw an eighty four mile an hour opening
(30:21):
pitch on the radar in full uniform, in full uniform,
which I think is faster than half the Marinder pitching staff.
I think he has a better arm than half the
Marinder pitching staff. So very sentimental, sentimental moment there in Seattle.
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Adam Schefter reported on Wednesday that Abdul Carter is likely
to pick be picked number two overaw by the Cleveland Browns. Ben,
do you think passing on a quarterback is the right
move for Cleveland?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yeah? Because these guys aren't that good. It's not a
great quarterback draft. The only reason that the conversation is
camboard intruder Sanders at the top is because they're the
most the most important position. Normally they'd be second round picks,
and they're talking about drafting him at the top of
dual Carter's the guy's a monster. He's a great player,
and I would take him number one overall is what
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I would do if I was Tennessee. I would just
draft a duel Carter.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Next, there's a proposal to move touchbacks out to the
thirty five yard line. Now, the NFL believes that if
this proposal passes, it'll double the number of kickoffs returned. Ben,
do you think those extra five yards will make such
a dramatic difference.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
No, it won't. They'd have to put the ball to
fifty yard line, the mischia gost that these coaches do.
They're like, no, we'll just we'll thirty five yards. We'll
be fine. The NFL doesn't really care about the kickoff anyway.
They have appsbsolutely neutered the kickoff. The well really want more?
Kick us? Stop? You know you're just you're talking out
(32:05):
of both sides of your mouth. Next.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Now, the White Socks are on pace to win one
hundred and sixty two games, but they've been given a
historically low win total by Vegas oddsmakers fifty three and
a half wins, which is still twelve and a half
more than they had last season. Bet you're taking the
over the under?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, I actually bet the over on this. I last
year was a fluke. They'll be bad, but you're still
going to win sixty games. How did we do?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
We passed?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
That is a win. The Angels didn't pass, Coop. They failed.
They've they lost.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
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All the others were nines and tens, is what she said.
That's that's Tom from Indiana. It's a nice dad joke. Hey,
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Entertainment starts right now for this Friday.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Here's Justin Cooper. Thank you, Marcel. All right, Ben, We're
gonna start off in the theaters, and we have a
couple movies of note to talk about it out this.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Week's tribute to Eddie Garcia. Note the first one.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
I'm gonna bring up about in Neither of these movies,
by the way, I have been blowing critics out of
the water, but that doesn't mean that they're not fun.
So the first one is called Death of a Unicorn.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Critics, aren't real people? Death of a Unicorn. Yes, it's
like a fun movie for little girls.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
It's a rated R horror comedy and it stars Jenna Ortega,
the Great Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd and yeah basic. Uh.
The premise is this, When a man and his daughter
accidentally hit and kill a unicorn with their car, his
boss tries to exploit the creature's miraculous curative properties with
(39:09):
horrific results.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Yes, is there an actual unicorn in there? Uh?
Speaker 3 (39:18):
I mean I haven't seen the trailers. I've seen posters.
It does seem to be. It seems there's like some
evil kind of twist to it.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Are unicorns real?
Speaker 3 (39:29):
I don't believe so well, no there is.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
He's on the Celtics christ Off porzingis.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
That's true and never mind, okay, moving moving on. We
also have a another horror movie out this weekend. It
is called The Woman in the Yard.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
I hate women in the yard, hate them.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Yes, especially this one. This is a scary, veiled looking
woman that kind of stalks this family, kind of kind
of death looking coolish, yeah, you know which kind of thing,
and she keeps getting closer and closer to the house
and then uh, the horror ensues.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
I'm catching a spell on you.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
That's right. So that is in theaters right now as well.
Those are the two movies that I think could be
worth worth your time. I don't know about the money.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Wow, used to be a big movie guy. I remember
you had that movie past.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Still I still have I still have that. Yeah, that's right,
So it's worth it for me to go see it
because it's you know, you're a movie guy. Yeah, but
if you're paying for each ticket, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
You're waiting for liar liar too cool?
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Please please, somebody somebody writing. You could be the.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Jim Carrey character, right, you could be the liar guy.
That's right, you could be the liar. You're all grown
up now, like the kid, the kid from Liar Liar
grows up and then you have a family and then
you and your kid comes up with the claw because
it's genetic, you know.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Right, Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
All right, I got the whole script. We got to
write it. Hey, I can write it, right, just have
a I write it. What the hell?
Speaker 3 (41:07):
I don't know if it's that good yet, but hey,
there's been there have been worse sequels to be released,
that's for sure. I'm positive.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Moving over to television, we have the premiere of the
third and final season of Bosh Legacy. Now, this is
a spinoff series from Chris No. Uh, it's a bos
Bosh yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
And this is I think that's Bose Yeah. Yeah. This
is a spinoff series from the original Bosh Uh, you know,
detective show on Amazon Prime Video. And this will be
the final season of this spinoff series, but apparently a
second spinoff series will follow later this year.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
That is available to stream right now on Prime Video
and then coming out later. Let me see it's let
me check when this is coming out Sunday.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Sunday Monday, Sunday Sunday one day only Sunday.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
On Paramount Plus. I don't talk about stuff on Paramount
Plus very often I do have it, actually, but this
I don't think I actually pay for it. I think
I'm like using the in laws account. Yeah. But yes,
it's called Mobland and it's from Guy Ritchie. It is
(42:28):
in London set organized crime series and it stars Pierce Brosnan,
Helen Mirren and Tom Hardy. So big cast there. We'll
see how it is. That's available Sunday on Paramount Plus.
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