March 20, 2025 • 42 mins
Aaron Rodgers is in no hurry to make his decision
Is MLB smart to start their season in Japan?
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Wherever you may be and however you may be making
this part of your day. Thanks so much. I'm Doug
Gottlieb in for Colin Cowherd and on the first day
uh the NCAA Tournament, I want to talk sports with
you from Powway to Escondido, from Tijuana to Sherman Oaks
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for the next couple of hours. If you know, you know,
by the way, the blue Jays are putting on the
Cardinals as Creighton is up forty seven with a minute
forty eight to go.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Wow Wow, Omaha.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
That's where Creton is. By the way, you guys know
who the Creighton is in Omaha. Traiden's in Omaha. Anyway,
my dad coached you Creighton no long, long, long, long
time ago. We got a lot to get through this hour,
will keep you updated on all the scores. Perdue and
high point learn a tight one as Purdue is up
eighteen to fourteen eleven minutes ago in the first half. Anyway,
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we'll keep you updated on scores. You'll look at your brackets.
If you pricked Louisville, you're probably not in great shape.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
So.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
That tournament is going on. You know, there are certain
things where once you get to I think once you
get to forty, you are who you are right now.
There are a lot of people in my life and like, man,
you're different now than you were a year ago before
you got this college head coaching job.
Speaker 7 (02:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Maybe I'm definitely busier. My life in Green Bay is
way easier. You know, it's two hours to get here
twenty two to the four or five. Today it's four
minutes to work in Green Bay, so I got more
time to be more productive. But I I just kind
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of think, like, Okay, so who am I I'm not
great with time. I think everybody meting knows that, Okay,
I am a really good communicator, probably over communicated, especially
via text. I generally am a pretty thoughtful person that
doesn't I don't doesn't take extra things to do the
extra things.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I'm I.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I completely disagree and always have with colle. I wear
my hat backwards, always have, probably always will. That's who
I am, right, Oh. I like comfortable sweats, comfortable t shirts.
I don't overdress, I don't underdress. I just dress. I
know what I like to eat. I mean really, I
like to eat just about anything. I don't eat pasta
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because I stay for the most part, because I stay
away from the carbs. And I don't eat Indian food
because I just don't like it. Right, Stop trying to
convince me that no, no, no, no, this chutney is I
don't like curry. That's just Steph Curry like Seth Curry
impressed by but like no one has a Seth Curry
fan actual Curry. No, not so much. Once you're forty,
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like you kind of are who you are and you
surround yourself with people who they don't have to like
every part about you, but they accept you for who
you are. Aaron Rodgers forty is he not okay? So
he still has no decided or publicly announced if he's
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playing next year. And with that, not only has he
not decided or announced if he's playing next year, but
the thought is that the one team he can still
go start, and it's a playoff caliber team that just
added an absolute stud at wide receiver, is the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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There's an expression that I think most of us know
and we use and it probably gets overused, which is
that tracks. That tracks, and that tracks generally means like, yeah,
I got it, that's kind of par for the course, right,
that's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I get it.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Yep, that's him, that's who he is, he's forty. We
got it, right. Can we all come to the conclusion there,
Aaron Rodgers is going to make a decision about playing
football next year over this weekend. I again, I don't
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think it will hijack the NCAA tournament, and I don't
necessarily think he's going to do it because it hijacks
the NCAA tournament. I just think he's going to do it,
and it will partially hijack the NCAA tournament because that tracks.
Making sense A surprise to absolutely positively no one. Cam
Heyward is kind of the spokesperson for the the the
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current Steelers, right, he actually has his own podcast. I
thought he'd put it best when he said this the
other day.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I ain't doing that or darkness, darkness, treat retreat. I
don't mean any of that crap. Like either you want
to be a Pittsburg Steeler or you don't. That's that's simple.
That's the pitch. If you want me to recruit, that's
the recruiting pitch. You know, Pittsburgh Steelers. If you want
to be part of it, so be it. If you don't,
let's get on my back.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Uh that's perfect, right?
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Is there?
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Is it that much? It's not like, do you know
the culture of Pittsburgh? No, okay you don't. But Aaron
Rodgers has been a professional football player for almost as
much time as he has not been a professional football player.
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I'm making sense, right, Like he came out of cow
so he was what twenty one, twenty two years old? Right,
So it's about even basically his entire adult life. This
is what he's done. So it's not really there's not
really a lot of suspense. Is there a newness to
playing for a new organization?
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Sure? Do I do?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
I I think I don't know. And Mike Tummlin hasn't said.
But my guess is, hey, dude, if you're gonna come
play for us, you're not gonna do McAfee's pot. We
know McAfee is a Pitts guy. Okay, you can appear
on it, but you're not doing the weekly thing like
we want to win football games and the rest will
take care of itself. And look, there's a good part
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of me that feels empathetic towards Aaron Rodgers and the
report that came out yesterday, which is that apparently TV
isn't interested in him. TV is an interested and I
think they're not interested in him for reasons that I
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understand completely. Like what I call basketball games, I know
it's about the basketball game. It's not a radio show.
I've obvious had to learn the cadence and not to overtalk,
and that takes time, and that the pace of things
and getting in and getting out. And look, there's occasionally
like we'll have we had fun moments when I would
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do games. But the issue that corporate America has is
they want safe. They want safe. When I was at CBS,
the now president of CBS D person who's a friend
and I think I was good leader, was there and
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he said, hey, are our only issue with you is
we don't know what you're going to say next? And
I said, Dave, isn't that like a good thing? Like
like you want to know what was he going to
say next? He's like, Eh, it's like at the profile
of games and studious stuff, you're going to be calling
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like Barkley can get away with that? You can't, You can't.
And again you look and Matt Ryan is in studio
for CBS, right, and I think Matt Ryan's really good.
JJ Watt is in studio for CBS. Tom Brady is
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calling game for Fox like Tom Brady, He's not. He
hasn't figured it out yet. He will at some point
he'll be the real Tom Brady on air because I'm
sure the real Tom Brady he wouldn't have that many friends.
And I mean Edelman is an awesome dude, right, once
he gets away from being corporate tom Brady, like, he'll
be really, really good. But the point is that the
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reason they like tom Brady is not just all of
the rings. It's that Tom Brady's safe. And I'm empathetic
towards Aaron Rodgers because he has all these different thoughts.
He wonders about things and he's been open about it,
and there's been a docuseries about him, writing a book
written about it, and he's on McAfee and he expounds
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on it. My guess is, if he's gonna call a game,
he'd actually just call a game, But TV, like, man,
I do want to take that risk. So I'm empathetic
towards Here's a super bright guy, a multi time MVP,
a first ballot Hall of Famer, a guy who checks
has checked every box. There's not a box that Aaron
Rodgers doesn't check as a player. Intelligence, athleticism, accuracy, arm
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strength like a clutch in key moments, toughness, all of
those things he checks. And yet there's like one good
team in the NFL that wants him, and TV doesn't
want him. So I'm empathetic towards it. But dude, Pooper,
get off the pot, right, right? I mean you got
Cam Heyward sitting there going like, if the Pittsburgh Steelers
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just had a quarterback. They haven't had a quarterback since
Ben Roethlisberger's before his last two years.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
Right.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Remember when Antonio Brown you like no showed it practice, right,
that was the last time that Ben Roethlisberger was a
relatively decent quarterback after that is they haven't had an
elite level quarterback. If you just put an elite, a
high quality quarterback on the team last year, they might
go to the super Bowl and Cam Hayward's like, hey, dude,
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I'm not doing any of that stuff. Do you want
to play first or not. So the idea that Aaron
Rodgers will hijack the well hijack the NCAA tournament is,
if I had to give a percentage, ninety five percent, right,
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there's like a ninety five percent likelihood that Aaron Rodgers
will make some sort of tweet or announcement or schefter
will put it out there or Glazer put it out
there probably in the next two days. It feels like
ninety five percent possibility because that's who he is, and
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once you're forty years old, like, it's kind of who
you are, right, lean into who you are, Hire people
or be around people who can either fill those voids
or accept what you don't do. Because this whole idea
of I'm going to remake myself, Come on, man, all
those guys that remake themselves go to Turkey, get a transplant,
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buy a Porsche, change jobs. They're still the same guy
at their core, all right. Coming up next in the Herd,
I'm Doug gottlieb In for Colin Cowherd. The Dodgers go
out and win a couple in Japan. I was the idea?
Was this series Cubs versus Dodgers real games in Japan?
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Was it a win for Major League Baseball? We'll discuss
next in the Hurd.
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Speaker 5 (12:34):
Doug Gotliebin for Collins heard Fox Sports Radio, iHeartRadio app. Welcome, Welcome,
Welcome in. We'll get you updated on scores from the
first two games of the NCAA Tournament taking place Purdue
leading High Point and Creighton all over Louisville right now.
That game is in Lexington, Lexington. The winner will most
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likely get Auburn, who takes on Alabama State one just
a crazy finish the other night in the first game
of the first four. We've got a Herd line news upcoming.
But before you get to that, let's get to John
Paul Morosi. JPM Morosi joins us, of course, works for
MOB Network. He's our Fox Sports Radio MLB insider and
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the Dodgers go and play the Cubs, and in Japan
and JP I obviously have five Japanese players. It's a
celebration of the sport. How much different is it this
year because they're real games being played in Japan?
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Well, Doug, good afternoon, good morning out in California. It
really does add a boost in energy, in relevance for
the sport around the world. And I think the television ratings,
the attendance in Japan, I think speaks for itself. But
I think just look at social media even here in
North America the last several days, and certainly plenty of
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talk about college hoops, as we should, but Otani homering
in Japan team to really break through and get a
ton of attention, and the debut of Sasaki yesterday and
the first game matchup between Yamamoto and Imanagas it's a
showcase of Japanese talent, and not just not just Japanese talent,
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but the way the game is received there, and there's
something invigorating, I think, Doug, that when you see something
that you have loved for a long time, as the
American public has in baseball, but maybe at different points
football is passed by perhaps and the relevance of national conversation.
I think we could say, but maybe it allows the
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American public to appreciate our national pastime in a different
dimension when you see just how much it matters around
the world. And I do believe that there might be
this renewed sense of appreciation of what we've got that
all it took was a couple baseball teams and certainly
a couple of high profile teams to fly over the
Pacific and then be greeted as as heroes in Japan.
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And by the way, not just Otani, but indeed everybody
was regarded that way. It seems to varying degrees. Obviously
only one Otani, but all the players in the Dodgers
and Cubs, Like you're hearing their comments about just what
the experience was like and what it meant to them.
It just it gives the sport a real boost as
the new season begins.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Okay, with that said, I mean, Dodgers went out, spent
a bunch of money and added to what was already
a World Series champion. How'd the look.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
Pretty good, Doug. They've got a They've got a pretty
talented team. But when you think about it. They they
didn't even have to have Blake Snell, bitch, and he
was their their highest profile in terms of dollars pitching
acquisition in the over the off season. Of course Tosaki
in terms of name value, but that was a relatively
inexpensive investment of money to get to Asaki. But you said,
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Blake Snell, you're a year removed from extending glass now,
and Otani and Kershaw aren't even ready to pitch yet,
and you still go out there and win two games
in fairly decisive fashion. They just have so much talent, Doug,
And certainly it's it's possible that they will have injuries.
And there's a reason why that we have not seen
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a team repeat as the World Series champion in a
quarter century since the Yankees back in two thousands, So
what they're trying to do has not been done in
a very, very long time. But it's it's hard to
imagine a more impressive team as the season begins, in
a team that deserves to be regarded as a more
prohibitive favorite than what we're seeing right now from the
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Los Angeles Dodgers. And in some ways, Doug, they're only
going to get better once once Otani can pitch, and
once Kershaw comes back, and once Freddie Freeman comes back
from this intercostal issue, once Mookie Betts is healthy. He
missed those those two games due to illness. So of
the of the big three, if you will, offensively, two
were out and they still look great and had been
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stepped up, and Confordo got some starts. They're just the
depth of this team is unlike any that I have
ever seen in my years covering the sport.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
That said, Uh, there's obviously a tremendous bout of pressure,
but you know, Dave Roberts got a new big contract,
they finally did win one.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Uh does it.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
And again you can't know or get a read. Does
it feel different though around the Dodgers in regards to
the pressure to win one?
Speaker 7 (17:38):
M That's a really good question, because I I think
in some ways there was more pressure on them perhaps
last year.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Now that's why I mean, That's what I mean. I
mean in terms of the relief of pressure. Right, like
they they had won a World Series, but it was
it was during COVID, right, so they had and they
had been to the playoffs so often and the Padres
felt like they were coming on strong, right, you're like that,
all right? I just I just wonder if there's a
different kind of confidence to their gait in that. All right, Now,
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we banked a World Series, and truthfully, we have two
in the last five years. Uh, you know, we're not
Dave Roberts jobs on the line. Is there any difference
in that in that sense?
Speaker 7 (18:20):
I think there is? And and there is, I would say,
by any reasonable thought on on kind of this, just
the the circumstances here, there is less pressure on them
now than there was a year ago.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
And and I.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
Got the sense just in in seeing the images and
the and the smiles on this on this team as
they were going to the experience in Tokyo. It seems
to me that that, for lack of a better description,
they're just enjoying being the sports world's version of the
Beatles right now. They're having fun with this. And and
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baseball becomes a much easier game to play when there
is a a context of fun. This is a stressful game.
There's a lot of failure in it. And when you
are failing a lot, and and even you think about
the Yankees and the way they struggled in the World
series last year, when you're supposed to win, this sport
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can really snowball on you in a difficult way just
because of how much failure is baked into it when
when you're putting pressure on yourself and and to that extent, Yeah,
they've added talent, which maybe on some level ups the expectation,
but it can't be any any higher than it was
last year when the expectation was championship or failure. And
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so that they're used to that, I think it's I'll
be curious to see as the year goes along. We
have not seen baseball teams feel inevitable right and and
whether it's the modern Chiefs in the NFL or or
the Warriors during during their their dynasty runs there, there's
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it's rare in a American sports that making the playoffs,
at least in this one is a given, is an
absolute given when the season begins, and it's just a
question of how you get there and who the different
heroes are. People want to play for this team because
they want to be part of what is one of
the great shows in American sports really global sports, as
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we just saw this week. So this is the fun
part for them and I also like by the way
that they've brought in some players that haven't won it
all yet. In the case of Blake Snell, for example,
you sign him and you know he's from the West Coast.
Originally he was a padre, he was a Giant, and
now he comes in and there's a little extra motivation
for him. There's motivation for Michael Conforto. You bring in
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Sasaki and he's got something to prove in his first year.
So there's there's something for a lot of at least
a number of the players to prove. Tanner Scott comes
to mind. He hasn't won a World Series yet. And
I think that when you have success, it's important to
change out a few players to avoid the complacency. And
I think that they have. They have really helped combat
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the complacency. Douglas just how much fun they're having this
This is a fun product to watch, and they're certainly
the kind of team where if you're a baseball fan
in Saint Louis and in Washington, d c. And in
Milwaukee and Houston, you want to buy a ticket to
watch this team play because in a way that very
few baseball teams are. They are a spectacle unto themselves
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when they come to your town.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
John palm ROSSI joining us here, Doug Gottliebin for Collins
to hurt Foxford Tradio, iHeartRadio app been told Red Sox
incredible farm system, right, they try to build it ground up.
What about the product on the field this year in Boston, the.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Boston Red Sox have a reasonable expectation of winning this
division this season. Now, there are still some complexities how
things play out with Devers now being more of a
full time DH as they're working Bregnant middle lineup. Bregman,
by the way, has had a nomenal spring. Devers was
late to debut, is really really not himself yet. Trevor
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Stori has had a really good spring. Constas looks like
what he can do for you at first base. So
they have, in my opinion, you're right, one of the
very best farm systems in the game. Marcelo Meyer is
coming at a really good spring training. We've seen I
think different flashes from Christian Campbell over at second base,
Roman Anthony in the outfield. Not all of them will
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be on the opening day roster, but they all can
make an impact in the major leagues. This season, or
at the very least, as we saw with the moves
they made with Chicago White Sox and a quiem Garrett Crochet,
they have the assets to get out, you know, bring
in whatever pitcher they want at the deadline from the
standpoint of just how talented their system is. So the
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Red Sox have I think a lot of resources right
now at a time where the Yankees, with all the
injuries they're dealing with, look pretty vulnerable and out west
of the American League, the Range, who were the defending
World Series champions at this time last year, they've got
some injuries. So the American League is more winnable right
now than the National League. The National League is the Dodgers.
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It's their sport, their game, their league until someonem proves otherwise.
But in the American League, there is a there's a
bid to the World Series. Unless they've changed the rules,
it's one National League team, one American League team, So
you get a chance, if you're in the American League
to get your way through without having to beat the
Dodgers until the final, the final step, and I think
that that should create a lot of aggressive plays on
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the on the trade market. The Red Sox have the
wherewithal to do that. In addition to now having a
healthy Trevor story they just signed Bregnant. It's one of
the better and more athletic left sides of the inter
that you're going to see in baseball. So I like
the Red Sox right now and their chances to win
the American League East in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Okay, again, I don't forgive me because I don't know
how many people truly care and I haven't kept up
with it. Okay, the Asia and Sacramento, right like, are
they going to build the stadium in Vegas?
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Like, yes, they're in Sacramento, I can confirm that.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
But are they actually going to build the stadium at
the trumpic Caana site? Like, is that actually still going
to happen?
Speaker 7 (24:12):
That is so, that is what has been said that
are there shovels in the ground right now? Not to
my knowledge, but every time the commissioner has been asked,
he has said they are going to move to Las Vegas.
So that is uh. And now, by the way, the
Sacramento plan is not just for one year, it's for
several years while they're building the stadium in Las Vegas.
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So it's going to take some time. They can settle
in here for a little while. And just given the
relatively transient nature of baseball and how rare it is
that any one player stays with any one team for
more than three or four years in a row, there
a lot of the players that are on the A's
roster now are going to be in Sacramento for a
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substantial portion of their time with the club, And I
think that's how they're they're looking at it. But eventually
the idea is they're going to go to Las Vegas. Now.
The other thing is you've got the Rays are playing
at Steime Brednerfield, which is the spring home of the
New York Yankees, and their situation in Tampa Bay is
is certainly more tenuous than what the A's have, And
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they're looking ahead to Las Vegas because no one really
knows where the Rays are going to play in a
few years. Will it be in Tampa, Will they have
to be sold and relocated? Will Stu Sternberg try to
relocate them? But all these questions, the shovel in the ground,
the ballpark in Las Vegas, the future home of the
Tampa Bay Rays, all those things have to be resolved
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or at least on their way to being finally resolved
by the time Baseball talks about expansion, and Baseball wants
to do this. For a while, the pandemic was a
bit of an issue with respect to that, and now
the stadium situations for the A's and to a greater extent,
the Rays are hampering those efforts until that thing gets resolved.
They can't go to thirty two teams because you can't
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start awarding awarding expansion of fran ties in the city
if you need to keep them in play as possible
relocation fight. So it's uh. And meanwhile, of course we've
got two years left on the CBA before this one
expires after twenty six, so a lot of business of
baseball important conversations are happening right now.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Doug JP, great stuff is always love your energy and enthusiasm. Listen, Uh,
I'm interested. I watched you see San Diego. They're really good,
really good. They in layup lines. You'd be like, no way,
no way. They're one of the worst teams in your
looking in layup lines ever, but they can really play.
I do think Michigan's gonna win, but it is a
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pick that everybody seems to have. Everybody seems to have,
so I wish I could tell you tell you better
things in that, but that's whatever. Enjoy the day, Thanks
so much for joining us, and we'll catch up with
you soon.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
Sounds great, looking forward to it and enjoy the tournament,
my friend, all the best.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
All right, that's my guy JP Morossi joining us here
in the Herd. I'm Doug Gottliebin for Collin. Let's get
you to Ryan Music with news.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
No, no turn on the news.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
This is the Herd Line news.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
All right, Doug.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
Of course, we have the opening of March Madness today,
so let's take you around where we're currently at halftime.
Four seeded Perdue against thirteenth seed high Point, up by
ten thirty seven to twenty seven. We have early in
the second half, ninth seed Creighton taken on eight seed Louisville.
Creighton is up currently fifty eight to forty four and
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very early just tipped off not too long ago, Wisconsin
with an early lead. Third seeded Badgers taken on fourteenth
seed Montana. So that's currently where we stand in the
three games.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Louis will start to be competitive here in the second half,
they've cranked up some of the pressure. But I think
Stephen ashworthough honestly, he's like a friend. I've covered him
when he's at Utah State for a couple of years.
This his second year at OHI just hit a deep three.
He's twenty five, married with a kid. You know, he
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went on his LDS mission obviously, and they just they
look like the more experienced team than Louisville does in
this tournament. Louisville kind of settling for bad shots.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Sure, all right, So that's where we stand with the tournament.
We will keep you updated all throughout the morning here
or afternoon if you're on the East coast. But let's
turn our attention back to professional basketball here. Trouble for
an NBA title contender. Yeah, Milwaukee Bucks sliding, losing five
of the last seven, including a loss to the Warriors,
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who were without Steph Curry. NBA insider Chris Haynes is reporting.
After that loss to Golden State, head coach Doc Rivers,
Jianna Santetokumpo, and Damian Lillard held the meeting to air
the grievances and concerns about the current state of the team.
It was described as mostly positive for everyone to get
on the same page. But as you and I would say, Craps, yes,
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that is exactly where I was having.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Good teams don't don't have players only, or don't meetings.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
Not only do you not have those meetings, but you
certainly don't have those meetings after you've lost five of
seven and had an incredibly disappointing loss to a Golden
State Warriors team who were without Steph Curry, and try
and spin that as all good here, Mark, We're good.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, we're good.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Hey man, we're good.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Yeah, I don't buy that either.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Yes, things not looking good for Milwaukee.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
You know, Okay, now they play the Lakers tonight, then
that is correct, the Lakers. You know, it's interesting with
Colin yesterday.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
I believe after that loss, you know, sort of looked
at Giannis and you know, he went from such an
unknown to exploding onto the scene as a two time MVP,
had that great run to win a title, but mostly
questioning that, you know, he still isn't a great shooter,
and at what point, now that he's thirty, do we
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start to wonder how much longer will that window of
dominance last in a league?
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Today. That's all about sort of space and shoothooting.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
It is, but you just had to put shooting around
like he's so physically dominant that he can get to button. Yeah, no,
I mean that. It's weird. Most guys shoot better the
longer they're in the league, and he's worked the opposite way.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Yeah, he has not quite developed that sort of skill
that we thought we could maybe see. And you know,
obviously now he's gone from being the Greek freak to
now people call Wemby the alien, and Wemby comes in
and has all those skills plus even taller, longer.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
So keeping an eye on Milwaukee, things not so rosy.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
But as you pointed out, they played the Lakers tonight,
who are still without Lebron James Soul could end up
bouncing back into the win column.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
All right, let's talk to some NFL football here.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Lots of moves in free agency, including an exodus of
players departing the forty nine ers for new teams. Well,
their general manager, their general manager, John Lynch, he spoke
on that and here's what he had to say. Bottom line,
you're always looking at years out. We forecast it. We
got some big things coming our way. And you have
to clear their requisite room to be able to do that.
You don't want to get to a point where you're
(31:03):
doing things where you have to sacrifice things to keep
the roster afloat.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
You want to have flexibility.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
I believe the insinuation there with big things coming is
obviously the large contract that people expect brock Perty is
in line to receive at some point of the near fews.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Have you seen all the players, all the star players
that they've kind of jettison, they've crater walked away from.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Yeah, quite a bit.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
I just like, I get it. He's really good. But
Colin and I we don't agree on a lot. But
I think all of us agree, like he's good. But
is he fifty sixty million dollars good? No?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
No, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
I think the clearest thing which Colin has said is
what we know about brock party as he has been
better with the San Francisco forty nine ers than Jimmy
Garoppolo was. Yeah, outside of that where you want to
write ken but.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Part of why he's been better, he's been better, okay,
but he hasn't been like super clutch, and that was
a big thing with Jimmy Garoppolo was, he was hurt
and then he kind of butchered away a super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Right.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
Sure, it's not like Brock Ferdy's been great in the playoffs, right,
you know and been surrounded by better players I think
than even Jimmy Garoppolo was. Sure, And the more you
pay him, it doesn't mean that they're not going to
have talent around me, but they'll be less talent. There's
just no something has to give when you give a
guys that big contract.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Definitely, and then we'll wrap up with this. Also this
time of year, we get some proposed rule changes thrown
out from around the league for the Competition Committee to consider.
This time around, we will focus in on banning the tushbush.
This is being proposed by the Green Bay Packers, and
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essentially the rule change they are trying to suggest is
to outlaw this seemingly automatic play that the Philadelphia Eagles
have become to know come to be known for. And
what this rule would say is you cannot line up
a teammate directly behind a player who receives the snap
(33:09):
and push them from behind to advance them past the
line of scrimmage. So they're not trying to ban the
QB sneak by any means, you just cannot have a
teammate directly behind someone who takes the snap and immediately
pushed them forward once the snap has been received.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
I think that's the easiest way to make it an
illegal play, right, is the you can't you you can
have the tush, you can't have the push.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
Oh, okay, tush, no push, that's that's fine. We're fine
with the tush, just not the push. Correct, yep. Now,
so you're you're good with the brotherly Just no shove, Yes, okay, brotherly,
just no shove, got it?
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Got it?
Speaker 5 (33:49):
I like Philly not that special.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
And that's right.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
The news, Well, that's the news.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
And thanks for stopping by The Herd.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Lie, I knew I got live in for Colin. What
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Speaker 5 (35:13):
You know, there's no real analysis that went with it.
There was just emotion and so now the dust is settled,
and look, I'll just tell you, quite honestly, that my analysis,
and again, if we're being honest, right in the middle
of my season. So when I saw it, I called
(35:34):
a bunch of my NBA guys like, Okay, how does
this make sense? And most of them said, well, it doesn't,
but it does from this standpoint, if Anthony Davis was
healthy and Kyrie Uring was healthy, that team that went
to the NBA Finals last year was better than it
was in regards defensively then they had been previously. And
(35:59):
one of the reasons and as they went to the
NBA Finals the previous year was yeah, Luca was amazing,
but the rest of the team was incredible defensively.
Speaker 7 (36:08):
Right.
Speaker 5 (36:10):
So I thought that the Mavericks they didn't have a
point guard. And I know what you're thinking, Kyrievering's a
point guard. No, he's not bringing the ball up from
one baseline to the front court. Does not a point
guard make he's a score canny pass, yes, But they
didn't have anybody who was a table center for them.
It was like the one flaw in the makeup of
(36:32):
the Mavericks. Well, Anthony Davis gets hurt and is out,
you know, start going to come back, and then of
course Kyrie tears his acl and we'll never know what
that team looked like.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
The Lakers.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
Meanwhile, it felt like at the time of that trade
that they got worse defensively, but they solidified one. Rob
Polinka is going to have a job for the next
five years. I guess he's got Luca and they had
the next star for whenever Lebron wants to retire. And
(37:04):
it also feels, does it feel to anybody else, like
he's gonna have Bryce on the Lakers in two years
as well? He's gonna keep doing this thing. It does
kind of sort of feel that way. And Bryce is
not nearly as far along as Bronni was coming out,
but you know, he's been able to be so successful statistically,
(37:27):
and the team is competitive, and when you have Luca,
he doesn't have to do as much. Most people I
know thought he did the Browny thing and then next
year is the kind of grand tour and bye bye.
I'll ride off into the sunset, you know, do movies
and whatever, maybe do some TV. I don't know, And
not crazy to think that he stays around as long
as his body is healthy. You know, he takes his
(37:47):
March break as he does every March. You watched Luca
last night. You look at the success of this team,
how talented they are offensively, And then again, if you're
honest with yourself, the Nuggets aren't nearly what they were
a couple of years ago. The thunder are the favorite,
but they haven't done it in the playoffs. The Mavericks
(38:09):
have no shot. The Warriors, we think they're better than
they've been with Jimmy Butler, but are they actually good?
Speaker 2 (38:16):
So?
Speaker 5 (38:16):
Do I think they're a favorite? No, But when the
trade was made, I thought they weren't contenders. I take
that back again, and that's under the purest definition of contender. Contender.
They're in the discussion of if things go right, that
(38:38):
could go really right. You know, they get the right
draw the right teams. Like again, I don't think uh.
I think Minnesota's right there, you know, although I don't
know if Julius Randall is an upgrade. He's just different
than Karl Anthony Towns. But they've never won anything.
Speaker 7 (39:04):
Right.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
Denver's won it, but not nearly the same. Oklahoma City
has the best team, but they haven't done it. And
the Lakers, they're going to get every call with Lebron
and Frankly with Luca and they have an unbelievable offensive team.
So this is not me saying, hey, my bad, Lakers
are favorites Lakers and five. But you look at Luca
(39:29):
and he's a guy who is able to carry a
team last year to the NBA Finals. Not crazy, not crazy.
That's not hedging, that's not well, you're just no, no, no,
it's it's just honest. Oklahoma City is the favorite. You know,
Houston hasn't really done it super young, feels like Oklahoma
(39:50):
City of last year, and the rest of the league
all has. The rest of the conference all has like
two guys and trying to figure out who else can
make plays now. On the same token, I would say
that the Warriors are also contenders, but would slot them
(40:12):
behind the Lakers. So contenders is not favorites, but it
is also not hey, man, don't buy green bananas because
they're gonna be at the playoffs after one series. Fair.
I just I think that's what was has been lacking
in regards to the Lakers and the Mavericks. Is honest,
(40:39):
take a breath, Let's see what it actually looks like analysis,
because the emotion of it is like you traded Luca
at twenty five because he was out of shape and
couldn't stay healthy. For Anthony Davis, who, though in shape now,
was out of shape for a good portion of his career,
and Shocker got hurt. Yet again that one seemed weird.
(41:00):
I will also I will also point out that the
Celtics were sold today for six one point one billion dollars,
and again I don't know, I mean with grosspec Like, look, dude,
you you buy a team for three hundred something million
dollars and you can sell for six point one billion dollars.
How quickly can we get that ink to dry?
Speaker 3 (41:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (41:20):
Like wait, wait you want to pay how much? Six billion? Yeah,
we're good. Like I'm not even sure I would ask
for like lifetime season tickets. Like now you just listen,
you take it. It's a lot. Like I bought a
house in Green Bay. I don't know if I told you,
told you guys this. I bought it with the furniture
and with everything else in it. I was just like
I just just wrap it up. I'll take it as this,
Like really, yeah, yeah, I don't want to go out
(41:41):
and buy a bunch of like I'm gonna buy furniture,
but like not right now. I feel like, if you're
selling the Celtics for six point one billion dollars, you're like, hey, dude,
take whatever you want. Just let's get this thing done.
But the point is there has to be at least
a portion of it where your own. You own a team,
you win two championships, and you know that you have
two three, one hundred million dollar contracts in two players,
(42:03):
and you're like, this is probably not great business long term.
I'm gonna get out while the getting's good. And I
use that as the jumping off point for well, that
makes a little bit more sense with Dallas, where like, look,
do we love Luca, Yeah, do we love Luca at
three hundred and fifty million dollars and knowing he's still
(42:26):
not getting get in shape and still drink too much
in the offseason. All right, coming up next NCAA tournament
has has kicked off, and I think the gap between
the haves and have nots is greater than before. How
So I'll share with the next I'm Doug gotlieve this
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Wherever you may be and however you may be making
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Gottlieb in for Colin Cowherd and on the first day
uh the NCAA Tournament, I want to talk sports with
you from Powway to Escondido, from Tijuana to Sherman Oaks
(00:52):
for the next couple of hours. If you know, you know,
by the way, the blue Jays are putting on the
Cardinals as Creighton is up forty seven with a minute
forty eight to go.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Wow Wow, Omaha.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
That's where Creton is. By the way, you guys know
who the Creighton is in Omaha. Traiden's in Omaha. Anyway,
my dad coached you Creighton no long, long, long, long
time ago. We got a lot to get through this hour,
will keep you updated on all the scores. Perdue and
high point learn a tight one as Purdue is up
eighteen to fourteen eleven minutes ago in the first half. Anyway,
(01:37):
we'll keep you updated on scores. You'll look at your brackets.
If you pricked Louisville, you're probably not in great shape.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
So.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
That tournament is going on. You know, there are certain
things where once you get to I think once you
get to forty, you are who you are right now.
There are a lot of people in my life and like, man,
you're different now than you were a year ago before
you got this college head coaching job.
Speaker 7 (02:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Maybe I'm definitely busier. My life in Green Bay is
way easier. You know, it's two hours to get here
twenty two to the four or five. Today it's four
minutes to work in Green Bay, so I got more
time to be more productive. But I I just kind
(02:31):
of think, like, Okay, so who am I I'm not
great with time. I think everybody meting knows that, Okay,
I am a really good communicator, probably over communicated, especially
via text. I generally am a pretty thoughtful person that
doesn't I don't doesn't take extra things to do the
extra things.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I'm I.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I completely disagree and always have with colle. I wear
my hat backwards, always have, probably always will. That's who
I am, right, Oh. I like comfortable sweats, comfortable t shirts.
I don't overdress, I don't underdress. I just dress. I
know what I like to eat. I mean really, I
like to eat just about anything. I don't eat pasta
(03:19):
because I stay for the most part, because I stay
away from the carbs. And I don't eat Indian food
because I just don't like it. Right, Stop trying to
convince me that no, no, no, no, this chutney is I
don't like curry. That's just Steph Curry like Seth Curry
impressed by but like no one has a Seth Curry
fan actual Curry. No, not so much. Once you're forty,
(03:41):
like you kind of are who you are and you
surround yourself with people who they don't have to like
every part about you, but they accept you for who
you are. Aaron Rodgers forty is he not okay? So
he still has no decided or publicly announced if he's
(04:03):
playing next year. And with that, not only has he
not decided or announced if he's playing next year, but
the thought is that the one team he can still
go start, and it's a playoff caliber team that just
added an absolute stud at wide receiver, is the Pittsburgh Steelers.
(04:27):
There's an expression that I think most of us know
and we use and it probably gets overused, which is
that tracks. That tracks, and that tracks generally means like, yeah,
I got it, that's kind of par for the course, right,
that's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I get it.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Yep, that's him, that's who he is, he's forty. We
got it, right. Can we all come to the conclusion there,
Aaron Rodgers is going to make a decision about playing
football next year over this weekend. I again, I don't
(05:11):
think it will hijack the NCAA tournament, and I don't
necessarily think he's going to do it because it hijacks
the NCAA tournament. I just think he's going to do it,
and it will partially hijack the NCAA tournament because that tracks.
Making sense A surprise to absolutely positively no one. Cam
Heyward is kind of the spokesperson for the the the
(05:34):
current Steelers, right, he actually has his own podcast. I
thought he'd put it best when he said this the
other day.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I ain't doing that or darkness, darkness, treat retreat. I
don't mean any of that crap. Like either you want
to be a Pittsburg Steeler or you don't. That's that's simple.
That's the pitch. If you want me to recruit, that's
the recruiting pitch. You know, Pittsburgh Steelers. If you want
to be part of it, so be it. If you don't,
let's get on my back.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Uh that's perfect, right?
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Is there?
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Is it that much? It's not like, do you know
the culture of Pittsburgh? No, okay you don't. But Aaron
Rodgers has been a professional football player for almost as
much time as he has not been a professional football player.
(06:28):
I'm making sense, right, Like he came out of cow
so he was what twenty one, twenty two years old? Right,
So it's about even basically his entire adult life. This
is what he's done. So it's not really there's not
really a lot of suspense. Is there a newness to
playing for a new organization?
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Sure? Do I do?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
I I think I don't know. And Mike Tummlin hasn't said.
But my guess is, hey, dude, if you're gonna come
play for us, you're not gonna do McAfee's pot. We
know McAfee is a Pitts guy. Okay, you can appear
on it, but you're not doing the weekly thing like
we want to win football games and the rest will
take care of itself. And look, there's a good part
(07:10):
of me that feels empathetic towards Aaron Rodgers and the
report that came out yesterday, which is that apparently TV
isn't interested in him. TV is an interested and I
think they're not interested in him for reasons that I
(07:32):
understand completely. Like what I call basketball games, I know
it's about the basketball game. It's not a radio show.
I've obvious had to learn the cadence and not to overtalk,
and that takes time, and that the pace of things
and getting in and getting out. And look, there's occasionally
like we'll have we had fun moments when I would
(07:52):
do games. But the issue that corporate America has is
they want safe. They want safe. When I was at CBS,
the now president of CBS D person who's a friend
and I think I was good leader, was there and
(08:13):
he said, hey, are our only issue with you is
we don't know what you're going to say next? And
I said, Dave, isn't that like a good thing? Like
like you want to know what was he going to
say next? He's like, Eh, it's like at the profile
of games and studious stuff, you're going to be calling
(08:34):
like Barkley can get away with that? You can't, You can't.
And again you look and Matt Ryan is in studio
for CBS, right, and I think Matt Ryan's really good.
JJ Watt is in studio for CBS. Tom Brady is
(08:54):
calling game for Fox like Tom Brady, He's not. He
hasn't figured it out yet. He will at some point
he'll be the real Tom Brady on air because I'm
sure the real Tom Brady he wouldn't have that many friends.
And I mean Edelman is an awesome dude, right, once
he gets away from being corporate tom Brady, like, he'll
be really, really good. But the point is that the
(09:16):
reason they like tom Brady is not just all of
the rings. It's that Tom Brady's safe. And I'm empathetic
towards Aaron Rodgers because he has all these different thoughts.
He wonders about things and he's been open about it,
and there's been a docuseries about him, writing a book
written about it, and he's on McAfee and he expounds
(09:39):
on it. My guess is, if he's gonna call a game,
he'd actually just call a game, But TV, like, man,
I do want to take that risk. So I'm empathetic
towards Here's a super bright guy, a multi time MVP,
a first ballot Hall of Famer, a guy who checks
has checked every box. There's not a box that Aaron
Rodgers doesn't check as a player. Intelligence, athleticism, accuracy, arm
(10:02):
strength like a clutch in key moments, toughness, all of
those things he checks. And yet there's like one good
team in the NFL that wants him, and TV doesn't
want him. So I'm empathetic towards it. But dude, Pooper,
get off the pot, right, right? I mean you got
Cam Heyward sitting there going like, if the Pittsburgh Steelers
(10:24):
just had a quarterback. They haven't had a quarterback since
Ben Roethlisberger's before his last two years.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
Right.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Remember when Antonio Brown you like no showed it practice, right,
that was the last time that Ben Roethlisberger was a
relatively decent quarterback after that is they haven't had an
elite level quarterback. If you just put an elite, a
high quality quarterback on the team last year, they might
go to the super Bowl and Cam Hayward's like, hey, dude,
(10:52):
I'm not doing any of that stuff. Do you want
to play first or not. So the idea that Aaron
Rodgers will hijack the well hijack the NCAA tournament is,
if I had to give a percentage, ninety five percent, right,
(11:15):
there's like a ninety five percent likelihood that Aaron Rodgers
will make some sort of tweet or announcement or schefter
will put it out there or Glazer put it out
there probably in the next two days. It feels like
ninety five percent possibility because that's who he is, and
(11:38):
once you're forty years old, like, it's kind of who
you are, right, lean into who you are, Hire people
or be around people who can either fill those voids
or accept what you don't do. Because this whole idea
of I'm going to remake myself, Come on, man, all
those guys that remake themselves go to Turkey, get a transplant,
(12:01):
buy a Porsche, change jobs. They're still the same guy
at their core, all right. Coming up next in the Herd,
I'm Doug gottlieb In for Colin Cowherd. The Dodgers go
out and win a couple in Japan. I was the idea?
Was this series Cubs versus Dodgers real games in Japan?
(12:25):
Was it a win for Major League Baseball? We'll discuss
next in the Hurd.
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Doug Gotliebin for Collins heard Fox Sports Radio, iHeartRadio app. Welcome, Welcome,
Welcome in. We'll get you updated on scores from the
first two games of the NCAA Tournament taking place Purdue
leading High Point and Creighton all over Louisville right now.
That game is in Lexington, Lexington. The winner will most
(12:56):
likely get Auburn, who takes on Alabama State one just
a crazy finish the other night in the first game
of the first four. We've got a Herd line news upcoming.
But before you get to that, let's get to John
Paul Morosi. JPM Morosi joins us, of course, works for
MOB Network. He's our Fox Sports Radio MLB insider and
(13:17):
the Dodgers go and play the Cubs, and in Japan
and JP I obviously have five Japanese players. It's a
celebration of the sport. How much different is it this
year because they're real games being played in Japan?
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Well, Doug, good afternoon, good morning out in California. It
really does add a boost in energy, in relevance for
the sport around the world. And I think the television ratings,
the attendance in Japan, I think speaks for itself. But
I think just look at social media even here in
North America the last several days, and certainly plenty of
(13:58):
talk about college hoops, as we should, but Otani homering
in Japan team to really break through and get a
ton of attention, and the debut of Sasaki yesterday and
the first game matchup between Yamamoto and Imanagas it's a
showcase of Japanese talent, and not just not just Japanese talent,
(14:20):
but the way the game is received there, and there's
something invigorating, I think, Doug, that when you see something
that you have loved for a long time, as the
American public has in baseball, but maybe at different points
football is passed by perhaps and the relevance of national conversation.
I think we could say, but maybe it allows the
(14:42):
American public to appreciate our national pastime in a different
dimension when you see just how much it matters around
the world. And I do believe that there might be
this renewed sense of appreciation of what we've got that
all it took was a couple baseball teams and certainly
a couple of high profile teams to fly over the
Pacific and then be greeted as as heroes in Japan.
(15:04):
And by the way, not just Otani, but indeed everybody
was regarded that way. It seems to varying degrees. Obviously
only one Otani, but all the players in the Dodgers
and Cubs, Like you're hearing their comments about just what
the experience was like and what it meant to them.
It just it gives the sport a real boost as
the new season begins.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Okay, with that said, I mean, Dodgers went out, spent
a bunch of money and added to what was already
a World Series champion. How'd the look.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
Pretty good, Doug. They've got a They've got a pretty
talented team. But when you think about it. They they
didn't even have to have Blake Snell, bitch, and he
was their their highest profile in terms of dollars pitching
acquisition in the over the off season. Of course Tosaki
in terms of name value, but that was a relatively
inexpensive investment of money to get to Asaki. But you said,
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Blake Snell, you're a year removed from extending glass now,
and Otani and Kershaw aren't even ready to pitch yet,
and you still go out there and win two games
in fairly decisive fashion. They just have so much talent, Doug,
And certainly it's it's possible that they will have injuries.
And there's a reason why that we have not seen
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a team repeat as the World Series champion in a
quarter century since the Yankees back in two thousands, So
what they're trying to do has not been done in
a very, very long time. But it's it's hard to
imagine a more impressive team as the season begins, in
a team that deserves to be regarded as a more
prohibitive favorite than what we're seeing right now from the
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Los Angeles Dodgers. And in some ways, Doug, they're only
going to get better once once Otani can pitch, and
once Kershaw comes back, and once Freddie Freeman comes back
from this intercostal issue, once Mookie Betts is healthy. He
missed those those two games due to illness. So of
the of the big three, if you will, offensively, two
were out and they still look great and had been
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stepped up, and Confordo got some starts. They're just the
depth of this team is unlike any that I have
ever seen in my years covering the sport.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
That said, Uh, there's obviously a tremendous bout of pressure,
but you know, Dave Roberts got a new big contract,
they finally did win one.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Uh does it.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
And again you can't know or get a read. Does
it feel different though around the Dodgers in regards to
the pressure to win one?
Speaker 7 (17:38):
M That's a really good question, because I I think
in some ways there was more pressure on them perhaps
last year.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Now that's why I mean, That's what I mean. I
mean in terms of the relief of pressure. Right, like
they they had won a World Series, but it was
it was during COVID, right, so they had and they
had been to the playoffs so often and the Padres
felt like they were coming on strong, right, you're like that,
all right? I just I just wonder if there's a
different kind of confidence to their gait in that. All right, Now,
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we banked a World Series, and truthfully, we have two
in the last five years. Uh, you know, we're not
Dave Roberts jobs on the line. Is there any difference
in that in that sense?
Speaker 7 (18:20):
I think there is? And and there is, I would say,
by any reasonable thought on on kind of this, just
the the circumstances here, there is less pressure on them
now than there was a year ago.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
And and I.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
Got the sense just in in seeing the images and
the and the smiles on this on this team as
they were going to the experience in Tokyo. It seems
to me that that, for lack of a better description,
they're just enjoying being the sports world's version of the
Beatles right now. They're having fun with this. And and
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baseball becomes a much easier game to play when there
is a a context of fun. This is a stressful game.
There's a lot of failure in it. And when you
are failing a lot, and and even you think about
the Yankees and the way they struggled in the World
series last year, when you're supposed to win, this sport
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can really snowball on you in a difficult way just
because of how much failure is baked into it when
when you're putting pressure on yourself and and to that extent, Yeah,
they've added talent, which maybe on some level ups the expectation,
but it can't be any any higher than it was
last year when the expectation was championship or failure. And
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so that they're used to that, I think it's I'll
be curious to see as the year goes along. We
have not seen baseball teams feel inevitable right and and
whether it's the modern Chiefs in the NFL or or
the Warriors during during their their dynasty runs there, there's
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it's rare in a American sports that making the playoffs,
at least in this one is a given, is an
absolute given when the season begins, and it's just a
question of how you get there and who the different
heroes are. People want to play for this team because
they want to be part of what is one of
the great shows in American sports really global sports, as
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we just saw this week. So this is the fun
part for them and I also like by the way
that they've brought in some players that haven't won it
all yet. In the case of Blake Snell, for example,
you sign him and you know he's from the West Coast.
Originally he was a padre, he was a Giant, and
now he comes in and there's a little extra motivation
for him. There's motivation for Michael Conforto. You bring in
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Sasaki and he's got something to prove in his first year.
So there's there's something for a lot of at least
a number of the players to prove. Tanner Scott comes
to mind. He hasn't won a World Series yet. And
I think that when you have success, it's important to
change out a few players to avoid the complacency. And
I think that they have. They have really helped combat
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the complacency. Douglas just how much fun they're having this
This is a fun product to watch, and they're certainly
the kind of team where if you're a baseball fan
in Saint Louis and in Washington, d c. And in
Milwaukee and Houston, you want to buy a ticket to
watch this team play because in a way that very
few baseball teams are. They are a spectacle unto themselves
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when they come to your town.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
John palm ROSSI joining us here, Doug Gottliebin for Collins
to hurt Foxford Tradio, iHeartRadio app been told Red Sox
incredible farm system, right, they try to build it ground up.
What about the product on the field this year in Boston, the.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Boston Red Sox have a reasonable expectation of winning this
division this season. Now, there are still some complexities how
things play out with Devers now being more of a
full time DH as they're working Bregnant middle lineup. Bregman,
by the way, has had a nomenal spring. Devers was
late to debut, is really really not himself yet. Trevor
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Stori has had a really good spring. Constas looks like
what he can do for you at first base. So
they have, in my opinion, you're right, one of the
very best farm systems in the game. Marcelo Meyer is
coming at a really good spring training. We've seen I
think different flashes from Christian Campbell over at second base,
Roman Anthony in the outfield. Not all of them will
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be on the opening day roster, but they all can
make an impact in the major leagues. This season, or
at the very least, as we saw with the moves
they made with Chicago White Sox and a quiem Garrett Crochet,
they have the assets to get out, you know, bring
in whatever pitcher they want at the deadline from the
standpoint of just how talented their system is. So the
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Red Sox have I think a lot of resources right
now at a time where the Yankees, with all the
injuries they're dealing with, look pretty vulnerable and out west
of the American League, the Range, who were the defending
World Series champions at this time last year, they've got
some injuries. So the American League is more winnable right
now than the National League. The National League is the Dodgers.
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It's their sport, their game, their league until someonem proves otherwise.
But in the American League, there is a there's a
bid to the World Series. Unless they've changed the rules,
it's one National League team, one American League team, So
you get a chance, if you're in the American League
to get your way through without having to beat the
Dodgers until the final, the final step, and I think
that that should create a lot of aggressive plays on
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the on the trade market. The Red Sox have the
wherewithal to do that. In addition to now having a
healthy Trevor story they just signed Bregnant. It's one of
the better and more athletic left sides of the inter
that you're going to see in baseball. So I like
the Red Sox right now and their chances to win
the American League East in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Okay, again, I don't forgive me because I don't know
how many people truly care and I haven't kept up
with it. Okay, the Asia and Sacramento, right like, are
they going to build the stadium in Vegas?
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Like, yes, they're in Sacramento, I can confirm that.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
But are they actually going to build the stadium at
the trumpic Caana site? Like, is that actually still going
to happen?
Speaker 7 (24:12):
That is so, that is what has been said that
are there shovels in the ground right now? Not to
my knowledge, but every time the commissioner has been asked,
he has said they are going to move to Las Vegas.
So that is uh. And now, by the way, the
Sacramento plan is not just for one year, it's for
several years while they're building the stadium in Las Vegas.
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So it's going to take some time. They can settle
in here for a little while. And just given the
relatively transient nature of baseball and how rare it is
that any one player stays with any one team for
more than three or four years in a row, there
a lot of the players that are on the A's
roster now are going to be in Sacramento for a
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substantial portion of their time with the club, And I
think that's how they're they're looking at it. But eventually
the idea is they're going to go to Las Vegas. Now.
The other thing is you've got the Rays are playing
at Steime Brednerfield, which is the spring home of the
New York Yankees, and their situation in Tampa Bay is
is certainly more tenuous than what the A's have, And
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they're looking ahead to Las Vegas because no one really
knows where the Rays are going to play in a
few years. Will it be in Tampa, Will they have
to be sold and relocated? Will Stu Sternberg try to
relocate them? But all these questions, the shovel in the ground,
the ballpark in Las Vegas, the future home of the
Tampa Bay Rays, all those things have to be resolved
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or at least on their way to being finally resolved
by the time Baseball talks about expansion, and Baseball wants
to do this. For a while, the pandemic was a
bit of an issue with respect to that, and now
the stadium situations for the A's and to a greater extent,
the Rays are hampering those efforts until that thing gets resolved.
They can't go to thirty two teams because you can't
(25:57):
start awarding awarding expansion of fran ties in the city
if you need to keep them in play as possible
relocation fight. So it's uh. And meanwhile, of course we've
got two years left on the CBA before this one
expires after twenty six, so a lot of business of
baseball important conversations are happening right now.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Doug JP, great stuff is always love your energy and enthusiasm. Listen, Uh,
I'm interested. I watched you see San Diego. They're really good,
really good. They in layup lines. You'd be like, no way,
no way. They're one of the worst teams in your
looking in layup lines ever, but they can really play.
I do think Michigan's gonna win, but it is a
(26:36):
pick that everybody seems to have. Everybody seems to have,
so I wish I could tell you tell you better
things in that, but that's whatever. Enjoy the day, Thanks
so much for joining us, and we'll catch up with
you soon.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
Sounds great, looking forward to it and enjoy the tournament,
my friend, all the best.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
All right, that's my guy JP Morossi joining us here
in the Herd. I'm Doug Gottliebin for Collin. Let's get
you to Ryan Music with news.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
No, no turn on the news.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
This is the Herd Line news.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
All right, Doug.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
Of course, we have the opening of March Madness today,
so let's take you around where we're currently at halftime.
Four seeded Perdue against thirteenth seed high Point, up by
ten thirty seven to twenty seven. We have early in
the second half, ninth seed Creighton taken on eight seed Louisville.
Creighton is up currently fifty eight to forty four and
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very early just tipped off not too long ago, Wisconsin
with an early lead. Third seeded Badgers taken on fourteenth
seed Montana. So that's currently where we stand in the
three games.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Louis will start to be competitive here in the second half,
they've cranked up some of the pressure. But I think
Stephen ashworthough honestly, he's like a friend. I've covered him
when he's at Utah State for a couple of years.
This his second year at OHI just hit a deep three.
He's twenty five, married with a kid. You know, he
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went on his LDS mission obviously, and they just they
look like the more experienced team than Louisville does in
this tournament. Louisville kind of settling for bad shots.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Sure, all right, So that's where we stand with the tournament.
We will keep you updated all throughout the morning here
or afternoon if you're on the East coast. But let's
turn our attention back to professional basketball here. Trouble for
an NBA title contender. Yeah, Milwaukee Bucks sliding, losing five
of the last seven, including a loss to the Warriors,
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who were without Steph Curry. NBA insider Chris Haynes is reporting.
After that loss to Golden State, head coach Doc Rivers,
Jianna Santetokumpo, and Damian Lillard held the meeting to air
the grievances and concerns about the current state of the team.
It was described as mostly positive for everyone to get
on the same page. But as you and I would say, Craps, yes,
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that is exactly where I was having.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Good teams don't don't have players only, or don't meetings.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
Not only do you not have those meetings, but you
certainly don't have those meetings after you've lost five of
seven and had an incredibly disappointing loss to a Golden
State Warriors team who were without Steph Curry, and try
and spin that as all good here, Mark, We're good.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, we're good.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Hey man, we're good.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Yeah, I don't buy that either.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Yes, things not looking good for Milwaukee.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
You know, Okay, now they play the Lakers tonight, then
that is correct, the Lakers. You know, it's interesting with
Colin yesterday.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
I believe after that loss, you know, sort of looked
at Giannis and you know, he went from such an
unknown to exploding onto the scene as a two time MVP,
had that great run to win a title, but mostly
questioning that, you know, he still isn't a great shooter,
and at what point, now that he's thirty, do we
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start to wonder how much longer will that window of
dominance last in a league?
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Today. That's all about sort of space and shoothooting.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
It is, but you just had to put shooting around
like he's so physically dominant that he can get to button. Yeah, no,
I mean that. It's weird. Most guys shoot better the
longer they're in the league, and he's worked the opposite way.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Yeah, he has not quite developed that sort of skill
that we thought we could maybe see. And you know,
obviously now he's gone from being the Greek freak to
now people call Wemby the alien, and Wemby comes in
and has all those skills plus even taller, longer.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
So keeping an eye on Milwaukee, things not so rosy.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
But as you pointed out, they played the Lakers tonight,
who are still without Lebron James Soul could end up
bouncing back into the win column.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
All right, let's talk to some NFL football here.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Lots of moves in free agency, including an exodus of
players departing the forty nine ers for new teams. Well,
their general manager, their general manager, John Lynch, he spoke
on that and here's what he had to say. Bottom line,
you're always looking at years out. We forecast it. We
got some big things coming our way. And you have
to clear their requisite room to be able to do that.
You don't want to get to a point where you're
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doing things where you have to sacrifice things to keep
the roster afloat.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
You want to have flexibility.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
I believe the insinuation there with big things coming is
obviously the large contract that people expect brock Perty is
in line to receive at some point of the near fews.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Have you seen all the players, all the star players
that they've kind of jettison, they've crater walked away from.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Yeah, quite a bit.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
I just like, I get it. He's really good. But
Colin and I we don't agree on a lot. But
I think all of us agree, like he's good. But
is he fifty sixty million dollars good? No?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
No, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
I think the clearest thing which Colin has said is
what we know about brock party as he has been
better with the San Francisco forty nine ers than Jimmy
Garoppolo was. Yeah, outside of that where you want to
write ken but.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Part of why he's been better, he's been better, okay,
but he hasn't been like super clutch, and that was
a big thing with Jimmy Garoppolo was, he was hurt
and then he kind of butchered away a super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Right.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
Sure, it's not like Brock Ferdy's been great in the playoffs, right,
you know and been surrounded by better players I think
than even Jimmy Garoppolo was. Sure, And the more you
pay him, it doesn't mean that they're not going to
have talent around me, but they'll be less talent. There's
just no something has to give when you give a
guys that big contract.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Definitely, and then we'll wrap up with this. Also this
time of year, we get some proposed rule changes thrown
out from around the league for the Competition Committee to consider.
This time around, we will focus in on banning the tushbush.
This is being proposed by the Green Bay Packers, and
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essentially the rule change they are trying to suggest is
to outlaw this seemingly automatic play that the Philadelphia Eagles
have become to know come to be known for. And
what this rule would say is you cannot line up
a teammate directly behind a player who receives the snap
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and push them from behind to advance them past the
line of scrimmage. So they're not trying to ban the
QB sneak by any means, you just cannot have a
teammate directly behind someone who takes the snap and immediately
pushed them forward once the snap has been received.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
I think that's the easiest way to make it an
illegal play, right, is the you can't you you can
have the tush, you can't have the push.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
Oh, okay, tush, no push, that's that's fine. We're fine
with the tush, just not the push. Correct, yep. Now,
so you're you're good with the brotherly Just no shove, Yes, okay, brotherly,
just no shove, got it?
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Got it?
Speaker 5 (33:49):
I like Philly not that special.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
And that's right.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
The news, Well, that's the news.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
And thanks for stopping by The Herd.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Lie, I knew I got live in for Colin. What
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Speaker 5 (35:13):
You know, there's no real analysis that went with it.
There was just emotion and so now the dust is settled,
and look, I'll just tell you, quite honestly, that my analysis,
and again, if we're being honest, right in the middle
of my season. So when I saw it, I called
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a bunch of my NBA guys like, Okay, how does
this make sense? And most of them said, well, it doesn't,
but it does from this standpoint, if Anthony Davis was
healthy and Kyrie Uring was healthy, that team that went
to the NBA Finals last year was better than it
was in regards defensively then they had been previously. And
(35:59):
one of the reasons and as they went to the
NBA Finals the previous year was yeah, Luca was amazing,
but the rest of the team was incredible defensively.
Speaker 7 (36:08):
Right.
Speaker 5 (36:10):
So I thought that the Mavericks they didn't have a
point guard. And I know what you're thinking, Kyrievering's a
point guard. No, he's not bringing the ball up from
one baseline to the front court. Does not a point
guard make he's a score canny pass, yes, But they
didn't have anybody who was a table center for them.
It was like the one flaw in the makeup of
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the Mavericks. Well, Anthony Davis gets hurt and is out,
you know, start going to come back, and then of
course Kyrie tears his acl and we'll never know what
that team looked like.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
The Lakers.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
Meanwhile, it felt like at the time of that trade
that they got worse defensively, but they solidified one. Rob
Polinka is going to have a job for the next
five years. I guess he's got Luca and they had
the next star for whenever Lebron wants to retire. And
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it also feels, does it feel to anybody else, like
he's gonna have Bryce on the Lakers in two years
as well? He's gonna keep doing this thing. It does
kind of sort of feel that way. And Bryce is
not nearly as far along as Bronni was coming out,
but you know, he's been able to be so successful statistically,
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and the team is competitive, and when you have Luca,
he doesn't have to do as much. Most people I
know thought he did the Browny thing and then next
year is the kind of grand tour and bye bye.
I'll ride off into the sunset, you know, do movies
and whatever, maybe do some TV. I don't know, And
not crazy to think that he stays around as long
as his body is healthy. You know, he takes his
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March break as he does every March. You watched Luca
last night. You look at the success of this team,
how talented they are offensively, And then again, if you're
honest with yourself, the Nuggets aren't nearly what they were
a couple of years ago. The thunder are the favorite,
but they haven't done it in the playoffs. The Mavericks
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have no shot. The Warriors, we think they're better than
they've been with Jimmy Butler, but are they actually good?
Speaker 2 (38:16):
So?
Speaker 5 (38:16):
Do I think they're a favorite? No, But when the
trade was made, I thought they weren't contenders. I take
that back again, and that's under the purest definition of contender. Contender.
They're in the discussion of if things go right, that
(38:38):
could go really right. You know, they get the right
draw the right teams. Like again, I don't think uh.
I think Minnesota's right there, you know, although I don't
know if Julius Randall is an upgrade. He's just different
than Karl Anthony Towns. But they've never won anything.
Speaker 7 (39:04):
Right.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
Denver's won it, but not nearly the same. Oklahoma City
has the best team, but they haven't done it. And
the Lakers, they're going to get every call with Lebron
and Frankly with Luca and they have an unbelievable offensive team.
So this is not me saying, hey, my bad, Lakers
are favorites Lakers and five. But you look at Luca
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and he's a guy who is able to carry a
team last year to the NBA Finals. Not crazy, not crazy.
That's not hedging, that's not well, you're just no, no, no,
it's it's just honest. Oklahoma City is the favorite. You know,
Houston hasn't really done it super young, feels like Oklahoma
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City of last year, and the rest of the league
all has. The rest of the conference all has like
two guys and trying to figure out who else can
make plays now. On the same token, I would say
that the Warriors are also contenders, but would slot them
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behind the Lakers. So contenders is not favorites, but it
is also not hey, man, don't buy green bananas because
they're gonna be at the playoffs after one series. Fair.
I just I think that's what was has been lacking
in regards to the Lakers and the Mavericks. Is honest,
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take a breath, Let's see what it actually looks like analysis,
because the emotion of it is like you traded Luca
at twenty five because he was out of shape and
couldn't stay healthy. For Anthony Davis, who, though in shape now,
was out of shape for a good portion of his career,
and Shocker got hurt. Yet again that one seemed weird.
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I will also I will also point out that the
Celtics were sold today for six one point one billion dollars,
and again I don't know, I mean with grosspec Like, look, dude,
you you buy a team for three hundred something million
dollars and you can sell for six point one billion dollars.
How quickly can we get that ink to dry?
Speaker 3 (41:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (41:20):
Like wait, wait you want to pay how much? Six billion? Yeah,
we're good. Like I'm not even sure I would ask
for like lifetime season tickets. Like now you just listen,
you take it. It's a lot. Like I bought a
house in Green Bay. I don't know if I told you,
told you guys this. I bought it with the furniture
and with everything else in it. I was just like
I just just wrap it up. I'll take it as this,
Like really, yeah, yeah, I don't want to go out
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and buy a bunch of like I'm gonna buy furniture,
but like not right now. I feel like, if you're
selling the Celtics for six point one billion dollars, you're like, hey, dude,
take whatever you want. Just let's get this thing done.
But the point is there has to be at least
a portion of it where your own. You own a team,
you win two championships, and you know that you have
two three, one hundred million dollar contracts in two players,
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and you're like, this is probably not great business long term.
I'm gonna get out while the getting's good. And I
use that as the jumping off point for well, that
makes a little bit more sense with Dallas, where like, look,
do we love Luca, Yeah, do we love Luca at
three hundred and fifty million dollars and knowing he's still
(42:26):
not getting get in shape and still drink too much
in the offseason. All right, coming up next NCAA tournament
has has kicked off, and I think the gap between
the haves and have nots is greater than before. How
So I'll share with the next I'm Doug gotlieve this
is the hurt
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