March 20, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and mike explain how the last two nights shows you why the NCAA Tournament needs to expand. And the guys dish out some BIG bold predictions for the first weekend of the tournament!
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be well. Yep, another big day in for the Dodgers
Major League Baseball. We got some more on that coming
up in about twenty minutes. The big takeaway from the
first two games in Tokyo, and I don't mean hey,
was Otani's home run a home run or not? I'm
(01:11):
trying to look and see. Yeah, okay, it's home run.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
It's a home run. Okay, yeah, fan went and grabbed
it was a home run. Could you tell what's going
over the fence?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Did Pete krow armstrong manne cost himself millions of dollars
by throwing the ball back into the stands? Yes, okay,
home run?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Otanna, Well, I mean bad move by him? Happy uh,
happy souvenir for a youngster.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Ten year old kids? Okay, immediately, Well that's you know,
but that's the thing you talking about. That's the thing
is that I wonted. We talked about this Monday night
a little bit like if Otani homers for the first
time in Japan as a member of the Dodgers, how.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Much is that works? Seven figures? Easy? Seven figures easy? Really?
Because he's hit home runs in Japan? People have home
run balls and Otani is it before? This is the
first major league dodge or seven figures right away?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
This ten year old kid more mighty will be more
more than the fifty to fifty ball.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah? Really, Wow, I should have gone to Japan.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I wish I was that kid out with Rodney beat
I can be catching foul balls, snatching balls away from
Max Monthy like that. That now we get to the
spro film, but we got to compare where glove levels are.
Months he missed the ball and Rodney Pete caught it.
That That was my my evaluation.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I don't obviously I need the overhead view of exactly
where the ball was. It looked to me like months
he missed the ball, and I think.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
He was mad and and maybe he got a little
distracted by the fact that somebody else Rodney Pete uh
stuck out his arm or call.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Him out on air or anything to where maybe they
had beef previous.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I don't know, but there will be beef now. There
will be beef now. But I mean Rodney made a
nice catch on the foul.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Ball, a good run. Sure had to clear up immediately
because everybody's like, why does he have a glove?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, Well, gets a little embarrassing when you bring one
an adults glove to a baseball.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Evidently down that And he explained this in showing up
with Tim Kates and the post game of they were
on the seats. That and a helmet to protect yourself
based on there being no netting. Yeah. OK.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Japanese custom. Now, yeah, should you be wearing it? Yeah,
that's what you can fight about it.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
But the fact that it was presented as an option
to you, you didn't have to actually bring it because
my first thought was, oh, he must have gotten it
from his kid who's a clubby, So maybe he just
had one of the extras from the dugout where he
just said, hey, I'd like a glove.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
My first thought is this, if we did that in
the United States. Okay, let's just say we took the
netting down and we put gloves and helmets on every seat.
How many gloves and helmets do you think would still
be put back on this one the other the night?
How many the helmets maybe because the helmets might be
tough to go the gloves forget gloves, the gloves forget it.
They'd all babe.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
They would all have to be you know, painted like
neon pink and green as you were walking by. There
was no chance that you were getting out with him,
and then they would have to glow as you tried
to hide them under your jacket or whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
To up scun can we send an intern to play
it against sports and buy a bunch of you know
it doesn't matter. We're just gonna lose them every day.
Let's just let's let's put the net. Let's put it's
a part of the show where we uh introduced millennials.
You gotta let them know who Rodney Pete is. Oh,
I'm so sorry, Rodney pe Okay, I'll do it. I'll
do it the normal.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Side for the guy who stole Munsi's foul ball, right.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Rodney Pete was a quarterback at USC and later on
in the NFL for teams such as the Detroit Lions.
He caught a foul ball today in the near the
field of play and stealing it away from Max Munsey,
third baseman who really should have caught the ball.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Went viral. Before that, the former coworker of mine, I
worked with him at Fox Sports dot Com for quite
quite a while doing stuff on Sundays. That was a
good time. And then he's our our team made over
at AM five to seventy LA Sports doing the midday show.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And now he's gonna be the third basement for the
Dodgers because clearly he's better than Muncie.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
It was it was not like he's a great fielder.
It's not like he's a great fielder. It was a
great catch and a mean mug in the whole nine yard.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
How long do you think, Max, how long do you
think till you're ready to take on a full time
DH roll? Yeah, but show he is a DH. Yeah,
but we're gonna petition major League Baseball for two DH's.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
We're gonna have it.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
We're gonna have a DP it like they do in softball,
a designated player where you just hit and you just fielder. Max,
You're gonna be the guy who hits all the time.
I kind of dig that he said he was protecting
his wife. Uh thespian longtime star of television shows. Sure,
Holly Robinson, P Yeah, I'll tell you that was That
was some.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
That was some.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
There was no twenty two jumping off that street TJ
for him to catch that fella.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Now, I gotta explain to millennials about what jump street.
But maybe they've gone back and watched the Channing Tatum
Jonah Hill. Oh yeah, okaycause that was actually pretty pretty well.
The first one was funny. The second one had This
first one was really fun the second one was clearly. Hey,
we profited really well off the first one. So let's
get that second one in production now. I like that
it's been a couple of years. If we revisit it now,
(06:09):
it'd be be kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
So we'll have more on this. More on the first
weekend or first week of Major League Baseball. Now in
the books, the Dodgers sweeping the Cubs in the final series. Yeah,
the final series. According to La may or Karen bass Is,
we won the final series. Final had a good She
needs to stay away from phones, computers. Baseball season's over phones.
Baseball seasons just won the series. We had thirty teams
(06:33):
ready to go. They picked the Dodgers and the Cubs
to go play in Japan. The Dodgers won two games.
Series is over. Won a series, But we're watching. We
are now on NCAA Tournament eve as, the final two
of the first four games being played tonight. Earlier, Mount
Saint Mary's with a win over American eighty three seventy two,
and now Texas, wanting to prove that their thirteen and
(06:55):
nineteen record is worthy of going in the tournament, is
up by nine over right now late in the first half.
Now here's the thing. This is why, And forget about
how many teams should be in and what it is for. Oh,
you're really diluting the tournament, bab forget all of that
crazy ass crap. The last two nights clearly is why
(07:19):
the tournament should expand to seventy two teams because the
first four is fun beginning tournament people watch, but it's
really difficult to get people invested in to sixteen versus
sixteen games and an eleven versus eleven game. Now I
understand this is how you do it. So Okay, when
you can and you try to put teams in the
people want to see, right, Hey Texas getting you know,
(07:41):
this this window to themselves. North Carolina getting the windows
to themselves last night, two big teams. We know the
NCAA Tournament is a television show. You've said that for years,
and congratulations to everybody who has picked that up the
last few days and use that on all of their
shows on radio and TV. So the thing is is
that now I understand that it's hard to get in, right,
because here's okay, this game, it's a ten point game.
(08:03):
You expand to seventy two teams, and then you have
four games a night, right, and then you can have
you expand past that you can have four games a night.
And if you have four games a night, it's like
a mini Day one or Day two of the NCAA tournament.
You have four games in a primetime window. That works, right,
that absolutely works. You can expand these teams out to
(08:23):
seventy two, seventy six, however you want to do it,
and then that's what you have. Then you have a
night like last night where okay, you have an eleven
to eleven game, you have a sixteen sixteen game, you
have another sixteen sixteen game, or another eleven eleven game,
or whatever you want to do, or however you want
to parse it out to put more playing teams in,
parse it out and have the first two nights be
(08:43):
mini NCAA Tourna nights. Then everybody is glued to their
televisions there, back and forth between True TV, Thei're back
and forth on TBS or TNT. You put some high
profile teams on there. You have to overwhelm with quantity
when you're not sure of the quality and you can't
guarantee equality. When you have the games that we've seen, well,
you get guarantee me quality now. But that's why any
(09:04):
point in this sure why do you think the tournament
that's why we give you all the games every day
because eventually you're gonna find a game.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yes, so that's what you need to You need to
throw quantity at it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And and these first two nights now, obviously they have
become a thing. It's part of the schedule. I love
the I love the play. It's it's helping the tournament
own the week. But it owns the week more if
you have two more games on each night. Right, So
so put eight more teams in all in playing situations, right,
make them play in I don't think you're gonna get
a lot of people upset at Hey, we're adding teams
so you don't get snubbed. This is gonna happen. And
(09:36):
you got to play your way in right, you gotta
win an extra game, then you gotta win again. You
gotta win three games in the week if you want
advance of the Sweet sixteen, and you gotta do it
against high seats. No one's going to complain. You're not
watering down the tournament because you already have a first
four event, So why not make it an event that
people really are going to make sure. I'm at the
television four, Because what's better than the than the two
(09:57):
first days of the tournament Thursday and Friday, having primetime
nights on Tuesday and Wednesday being full half day tournament
or a quarter day tournament nights. We've got four games
going on at once on Tuesday, four games on Wednesday,
the full slate Thursday, Friday.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Really go all out for it.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
At this point, what what what do you you? You've
broken past the seal of sixty four. So once you've
broken past that seal, hey, you know, let's add more
teams and let's have that turna.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Look, we've already gone past the charade of anything having
to do with education at this point in the way
that everything gets scheduled, that's long gone. All right. We
pushed that out the out the window, and eventually they'll
realize that on the football side and stop clinging to
that that last bashing of things. Look, we started the
week by joking about the NC Double A as North
(10:45):
Carolina got in. I liked that they went out and
kicked ash yesterday. See we belonged. Okay, great, maybe you did,
maybe you didn't. You beat it. We beat another eleventh seed.
We belong clearly you know, because that became a big
hot top for debate. Hey, did this prove that the
committee got right?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
That to our quad two win total? Our quad two,
don't ask about quad one. Wow, two win totals are
really good. It's fuzzy math, but all of it to say,
it's all a giant television show. It's all a giant
bettings show.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I mean, how many articles before and we get into
the Challenger and Christmas, the old surveys they do and
estimates of how much productivity is lost in the first
week to deal with it, add another couple of days
because people need to get on the roads because they
got to watch and bet and be part of these
games as well. So push all that aside, all of
(11:38):
those charades. You know, the suspension of disbelief we do
when we walk into a movie theater. Same thing here.
Trying to cling on to any bit of the integrity
of NCUBA and student athlete that's long gone. So let's
just keep expanding it. Add more and more teams. Does
(12:00):
it matter because we're eventually whittling it down to one anyway,
So if everybody that played a Division one game gets in,
who the hell cares give us full days of games
from sun up to sundown, like it's a college football Saturday.
We'll all be grinning and happy because our brackets are
alive or they're dead, or because these all count is
(12:22):
one point. We don't care. Give us more games, more
betting opportunities, and more TV windows. Everybody wins.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
See, I'm up for every D one team getting in
right everything one through. I went at three hundred and
thirty whatever it is, and then you just play every
day and every day the field is halved until you
have a champion.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
So you play for like.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
What's our halflight. I don't know, Like maybe I don't know.
It's like fourteen days in a row you would play.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Let's see that. Let's see what's at the end of it. Right,
Watch the broadcast team. They look like they're at the desk.
Remember in Batman when they couldn't use any of their
makeup and stuff because the Joker contaminated all. Let's see
how they look after four or five days.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
At act Rick Patino's white suit, he'd look like Slash
by the end of the.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yeah, I'm playing fourteen days in a row. We won.
I got his gouty to keep wearing it. The drumber
quit today. Yeah, yeah, I saw that, good old Frank. Well,
that's a good runs. Frank Frere was a good run.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, I means coming back, I would I would think so,
I mean I think that would open the door.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
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Don't forget about me, guys, don't forget. Don't forget too
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not expect this? Last two night shows you. This is
(13:57):
why the tournament should expand own the nights even more.
Now we got more NCAA tournament on the way, but
a big story out of the NFL coming up next.
We are now playing survivor with teams that are going
to sign a quarterback in free agency, and we can
now knock one off the list and eliminate them.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
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Speaker 1 (14:17):
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Speaker 3 (16:01):
Hi from Canada. Ay, it's Jason Smith and my got it.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
You know it's it's it's NCAA tournament Eve night. I
give you my credit card to buy wings for everybody,
and you play this song like, come on man?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
What Like I'm being.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
A nice guy all the time. I buy it and
here's what happens. This is how I get fat. How
long have I been on the show? At least three years? Okay,
here's the secret. When you hate something, what do we do?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
You keep playing it? So what HAPs when you like it?
It doesn't matter, you would still play it. It doesn't
matter what you're catching on.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I could say I love this song and you would
say yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Okay, you know in just a couple of days, we're
gonna celebrate the fortieth anniversary.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yes, song, we're not gonna celebrate anything. Oh, we are
gonna play it. And it's gonna be one of those
things where we actually he'll be gone. So what does
he care? Sure he's taking like a month off. Lakers
and the Nuggets underweigh, And I'll tell you what, what
an incredible night? Yo could Frostburg? How many points for
Yo Kitchen Murray so far in this game?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
That would be as many as the Knicks had against
the Lakers. Zero.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Okay, Yes, the Nuggets resting everyone tonight, and I thought
for sure, Hey, Nuggets doing the right thing here, rusting
Jokic the first game of back to backs, resting last nights.
You're gonna play Wednesday. No, no, no, no Nicola Jokic,
no Jamal Man elbow contusion, no Danissel, no Kiki vandaway
not happening.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Lakers with the lead right now early over the Nuggets
eighteen to twelve. Yeah, we gotta be careful like you
start going down Nuggets legends.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
A bunch of those guys have passed. Alex English, I can't,
I can't go too deep. Yeah, uh yeah, Okay, what
Nuggets legends could be? You know, you can go to
like Robert Pack, I think, and you know got Nuggets legends.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, I mean this game in one title they get legends.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
No, no, no, but I mean guys that are you know
in the lexicon that you remember from your trading car.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, you know package. Oh yeah, like the guys from
the nineties.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Guys one guy from the nineties, what was his name,
macmudab du Rabu, No, no, Matumbo. Well obviously the more
Hawks yeah yeah, oh yeah, sure, Lafonzo Ellis.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Yeah, and Carmelo Anthem Yeah yeah, Nuggets legend.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I forgot that this This game looked great on the
schedule when it was Wow, man, this is gonna be
Lebron and Luca and Jokic and Murray.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
And no games eight days. Look at that one. You're
just gonna get Luca. Okay, you're just gonna get Lucy.
He's already got a couple of big shots. A nice
finger roll. Yeah, I mean that was good. Tell you
the six games an eight days thing. When that ends
to the Lakers, hey, welcome back Lebron.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Is it like he's gonna be like he's in the
elimination chamber from the WWE. When you're standing in a
corner he is, and then the lights start going, and
then there's a countdown, and then the door opens and
you can run out.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
He is.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
He is absolutely going to come back the first game
after the six and eight are over. He is absolutely
coming back Saturday.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
That's it. Hey, we're gonna get Lebron. All right, that's
great for his first He's gonna do the splits. He
already did that his kids state championship game. Imagine your
kid doing that. No, No, I have no doubt. Hey,
good for him, except when you're claiming that you're out
for two weeks because of a groin injury like a
(19:19):
backup dancer for any of the UH Stadium Tours eighties.
But fan, I know they don't seem to have an issue.
Nobody cares. They don't seem to care. No, it doesn't,
And Adam Silver has no hell out or anything because
the last couple of weeks, every star player and team
they're doing the old Uh. Look up the album cover
from Too Old to Rock and Roll Young to Die
(19:41):
from jethrotell Uh. It's a kind of a gesture you
would get in a lot of uh Italian and Irish
neighborhoods back in the day to tell you to beat it.
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gonna build a chicken coop when I win. Okay, wise, okay,
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leather face. Sure that sounds that sounds like a good
thing to do.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I'm gonna build their face. You're gonna build a chicken coop?
What do you mean? Hey, I'm taking down my cost
of eggs? Hell?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Are you talking about picturing you with the with the
with the the butcher's apron and the and the pig face.
It's you know, you slide over, you going around holding
the chainsaw up in the middle of the road and
dropping it and holding it up and dropping it and
holding it up and dropping it at the end. Sorry
spoiler alert, except just picturing you doing that with the
(21:06):
the uh the bateman from from the American psych.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
So the uh.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
The six games and eight nights ends for the Lakers
tomorrow when they play back to back against Milwaukee. So okay,
I gotta think Saturday against the Bulls, Lebron's gonna be
fresh and rare and and ready to.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Go ninth place in the Eastern Conference. Chicago. Bu okay, Hey,
you are playing dangerous? Kobe White play Eastern Conference. Just
texted me he's not playing tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Really is Doc still coaching tomorrow? Taking off? Docs? Taking off? Okay,
that's fine. What do you think that meeting with Johannison
Lillard was Listen, I need some time off. I gotta
go watch White lotus.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I mean, everybody's talking about the Sam Rockwell stuff and
I gotta watch it. I mean they say I always
got this big long thing and and a whole monologue.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
That I gotta watch, and it's really weird. I don't know,
I do know anything about it, but I gotta go
watch it because that's what they were saying about as
in Isaac's okay now.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
But it's it's more uh yeah, you know, the more
I read about it, the more I just don't understand
what like what like this is about?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
What? Okay?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Like this is why I think AI is taking over
too much of the Internet, because now with with a
I writing so many articles, I'm like, all right, I
don't really understand what you're saying here. Okay that that's great,
all right, that's fine, that's all right, that's so I know,
big scene Sam Rockwell monologue plays a really weird character
where weird stuff happened.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
That's about all I know.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
No spoilers Sam rock Well, he doesn't understand it. How's
he gonna stand it? I can't spoil that. I don't
understand figure out what the hell is understand hot people
on a beach, No I do.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
But it's worse. It's worse. It's like you got to
take it a layer beyond the new with murder.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Uh yeah, yeah, there is no But I think it's
like it gets like it's dark, like his character is dark.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Like like it's I think it is without knowing something
is get a fight iron Man again.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I just know because every time I go through like
show up with a bad Russian accent, I go through
like Yahoo and I go I don't understand all this.
I feel like that sketch from Saturday Night Live when
when Dealer No Deal came out and Antonio Benderis was
the contestant and he had no idea what was going on.
He just kept hitting the button. Yes, okay, when you
want a deal, you hit the button.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
No deal.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
No, No, you don't hit the button. He says, I
don't know what's going on, but I'm so excited. No deal,
and he gi me what no deal? No deal? But
speaking of no deal, no deal, no deal for Aaron
Rodgers and the Vikings. According to reports earlier today, the
Vikings have decided against signing Aaron Rodgers and now they
go forward saying we are really really confident in JJ McCarthy. Okay,
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first of all, I gotta give the Vikings credit, but
not too much credit, because they dangled their waters, their
feet in the waters or whatever waters they wanted to
dangle their feet in thinking about doing something so stupid
as kicking Sam Darnold to the curb to say we
believe in JJ McCarthy, but oh no, no, we're gonna
go get Aaron Rodgers to come in. And Rogers is
not coming in to sit on the bench. He's coming
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in too starts right, he'd be young or.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Not coming into sit anywhere.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
He's coming into start, Which tells you, Number one, that
just the fact they were thinking about this, Number one,
this tells you the Vikings are not as confident in
JJ McCarthy as they want to say they are. But
they are forced into this, and they've been forced into
it from the beginning because Donald played great last year,
McCarthy got hurt. Donald played great. Now what the hell
do you do? And they decide we're gonna go with
(24:24):
JJ McCarthy. Now, this should have been JJ McCarthy all
full steam ahead, right if you believe in JJ McCarthy,
you weren't gonna bring Sam Donald back right away. It
was we love Sam, we're letting him at free agency.
We love jjjj's our guy. But now with Aaron Rodgers
being a story, the last year is oh, we've decided
against it, Like why are you even kicking the tires
on this? Like this is where I know I could
be a better general manager and I can run a
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football team sometimes better than teams do. Because this is
I would say, what the hell kind of message you
putting out there? Either you like JJ McCarthy or you don't.
You look stupid for how you got rid of Sam Donald.
You looked even stupider if you went out and signed
Aaron Rodgers. But this shows you no matter what, they
don't believe in McCarthy as much as they say they do.
Now that being said, I'll finish on the positive with
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this point is that they did the right thing. If
they brought in Rogers, it would just be an absolute
mess because then suddenly all the questions come up and
let's say Rogers beats out McCarthy in the summer, is
McCarthy even gonna play. No, we're not taking trade phone
calls on JJ McCarthy, And instead you're starting a guy
that the Jets kick to the curb instead of a
(25:28):
guy you could have been starting who was a Pro
Bowl quarterback last year, walked in off the street and
threw for four thousand yards and thirty five touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
And before you sit.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Here and tell me, well, you know the money that
they saved not having Sam Donald, we signed other players
are yeah, but quarterback is the most important position. It's
the one you're supposed to pay for because it affects
every single other position. So don't give me this why
you know, he wouldn't have gotten a tackle, It wouldn't
have got woudn't gotten this guy, wouldn't got got. No,
you have to take care of the quarterback when you can't.
So the Vikings they made the right decision. But it
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doesn't mean they're innocent, right, That's what I'm saying, made it,
But they're not innocent in screwing up and being stupid.
But they made the right decision in the end.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
But this is as we sit here on Wednesday, March nineteenth,
the eve of the NCAA Tournament, watching the Lakers and
Nuggets get after it in the first four games and
all of these fun and excitement. Jason is Brett fav
You know what day he signed with the Vikings when
he was allegedly done and out of the running of anything.
(26:27):
Ah no deal, August eighteenth, which means for March nineteenth,
they're out, and now it becomes the all right, let's
let's not have this hanging over. JJ McCarthy said, it's
a lesser version of the bastardization of things that we
saw in Cleveland with Deshaun Watson and why Joe Flacco
couldn't come back. Yeah, we couldn't have him in the
(26:50):
locker room. I think it's the same idea. But they
still have some concerns about what they have with JJ McCarthy,
which is why that door was cracked open. So what
Adolt Famnza and O'Connell and everybody. It's kind of going, well,
we love JJ McCarthy to a point because they don't
know where he is physically. You can tell me all
(27:10):
the things about the whiteboard and what he learned while
he was on the sidelines and all of that. Physically,
can he take a hit right now?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I know we have a few months before we have
to put that to practice, but physically, as he recovered
from both those knee surgeries, and tell me all you want,
the second one, well was just clean up.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
That means it was an issue from the first one.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I mean, so now you're trying to figure that out
and you still have to have a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Now.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I like what they did with the roster, I really do,
but that was all predicated on me. We love JJ McCarthy,
and clearly they don't. They don't love him nearly as
much as they say.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
And that's that's that's when I that's what I mean
when I say, boy, I could have done this job.
I could have walked in and said, Okay, here's what
you guys mean.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I'd have been that.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I'd have been that big consultant that comes into nobody like, uh,
you got this crazy ass consultant coming in from well.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
They normally take everybody that's already in the building's idea,
repackage him, slap their label on it, and then charge
you a million dollars.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I just keep thinking back to mythiquest to keep referring
to Montreal. Montreal is gonna come in here, and David
Biddle's be saying Montreal's.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Gonna come in.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I got something I think I kick like I would regain.
I would say, okay, let let's let's let's let's everybody
calm down here. Yes, did Sam Donald have a bad
last couple of games? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
He did?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Uh? Do we know that JJ McCarthy's good, Well, we
did not. Do we know he's any good? Do we
know he's gonna be healthy?
Speaker 3 (28:24):
All right?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Right, so let's do this. Then let's franchise Sam Donald
for a year. But that costs forty million dollars. Yes,
but look what Sam, what was your record last year?
Fourteen and three?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Right? Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, yeah, okay? And uh was he or was he not?
One of the top three quarterbacks in the NFC?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
He was?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Okay, So this is the guy you want to get
rid of. And this is the guy you want to
look at me defending Sam darg This is how crazy,
topsy turvy the world is.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Hey, so this is what you want to do. Great,
this is what you want to do.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
You want to say goodbye to this guy and go
to this guy, right because you love him so much.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
That's really what you want to do, right.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah, I get it's gonna be difficult, but you kind
of lucked into a golden goose here. Don't you want
to see if he can be the guy? And then
if Sam Donald plays well again next year, guess what
you could trade JJ McCarthy and get something for him.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
And here's the other parts. If Sam Donald's not good.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Next year you can put JJ McCarthy in and he's
still in a rookie deal for you. So I get that. Well,
we're not gonna get that left top, We're not gonna
get this the right. Yeah, I get it. You're gonna
be a little hamstrung because you're spending money on a
quarterback for one year, or if you love the guy,
hey go three years, spend less money on him. But no,
this is what you wanted to do to have a
(29:33):
situation where you were debating signing Aaron Rodgers. But we
love JJ McCarthy so much. The Vikings are full of it.
They're absolutely full of it. And I get to laugh
a little bit even though they didn't really sign right,
because boy, that would have been great. But I mean,
when it comes down to it, they did what they
needed to do because they knew, Okay, we can't save
face if we go on get Aaron Rodgers. But boy,
(29:54):
just the fact that they went down this road, you know,
that's finding good.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
It's like the Motley Crew, Hey this is our last show, nonsense,
and any other band that said, hey we're done, this
is really the last time you're gonna see us, and
then six months later, Wait, you lost all your money
doing what? Damn it? We gotta go back out all right,
Well we're really not that old. Everybody's still kind of healthy.
(30:18):
We like money, we don't like sitting at home. Let's
go back on a tour. Same thing, but for the
vice case is also you need an insurance. Play here right,
it's required. It's required by law to have guard insurance.
Same thing here, it's do you have to have the
expensive package? No, but you need something because right now
you got nothing. Remember Daniel Jones was that guy we
(30:40):
talked about him as a wild card scenario. Maybe he
would be the next Sam Darnold, and just guess what,
the Colts decided to spend a lot of money and
bring him on as their guy. Now they lost a
bunch of the offensive linemen to wear Tada Minnesota, so
they lost a little bit in that process. But now
you still need that insurance policy. Whether it's gonna be
(31:03):
Aaron Rodgers eventually or Russ Wilson or whatever's behind door
number three, you still need to go find it because remember,
up until twenty four hours ago, there was still the
Hey JJ McCarthy teams weren't kicking the tires, saying, well,
maybe you don't love him so much, so we'll trade
for him. We'll bring him on and make him our guy.
So you at least to shoot that part.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
But you still haven't put another guy in a uniform
in the locker next to McCarthy exit out about a
Fresco exit, Swallen Dome, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live from
the tire rack dot Com studio.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Congratulates, but you backed up into doing the right thing.
Kind of mind. It time not to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports. So someone who's
been called the Aaron Rodgers of Fox Sports Radio a couple.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Of times a year, she goes in a darkness retreat.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
We don't know where she is for a few days,
comes back out, comes to work.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
It's Monty Belano's I mean, no cap, I get that.
I'm into it. I'm into it.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Guys.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
We're gonna start in the end because Luka Dancic has
twenty points in the first quarter and there's still ninety
seconds to go. Nuggets playing with aut Nikola Yogic with
au Jamal Murray, both dealing with ankle injuries, so the
Lakers are on top forty two to twenty seven, again,
still ninety seconds to go in the first quarter. A
couple of teams playing spoiler today. I'm gonna begin with
the Spurs. The Spurs spoiled the Knicks. I'm sorry, Jason,
(32:22):
but it was thanks to this guy.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Mambo kaylashey outside right, hands it off the castle, then
sets a screen form back to Mamo straight away, fakes
the Pickupop three, drives it inside white hatch flab for
Sadro Mambo Kaylas freely.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
I've never heard that name in my life. Thank you,
Spurs Radio Network, Sandro Mamu Kailashvili.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
That's a fake highlight. You played a fake highlight that
was Ai generated. Stop it.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
That was absolutely quite not happened. Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Off the bench fourteen, thirteen to fifteen from the field,
seven of seven from the three point line, thirty four
points for this guy, the leading scorer.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
They beat the Knicks.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Pelicans also decided to place spoiler against the Timberwolves in Minnesota.
They won it one, nineteen to one, fifteen Zon Williamson
twenty nine points and eight assists. Rockets have won eight
in a Row after defeating the Magic One sixteen to
one oh eight, and the Pistons came back to beat
the Heat in Miami went sixteen to one thirteen. Cad
Cunningham with the game winning three pointer over bam Adebayo
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triple double twenty five points, twelve rebounds and eleven assists.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
The first four continues in the opening round.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
We'll call it of the men's NCAA tournament, And right
now it's still fifteen minutes to go. In the second half,
Texas is on top of Xavier fifty seven to forty seven.
The winner is going to face Illinois in the first
round officially, and Mount Saint Mary's took down America in
eighty three to seventy two, so the Mountaineers are going
to face one seed Duke in the first round on
Friday and in the NFL. In case you missed it,
(33:49):
The Athletic reported not long ago that free agent wide
receiver Stefon Diggs is in Foxborough today or was in
Foxborough today meeting with the Patriots and Texans and defensive
end Danil Hunter have agreed to a one year, thirty
five point six million dollar extension, making him the second
highest paid defensive end in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Back to you.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
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Speaker 1 (34:10):
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Speaker 3 (34:19):
Mamu, Emmy, have you okay? He you doing get half
of it? Like thirty percent?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
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Speaker 4 (34:26):
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Speaker 3 (34:26):
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Speaker 5 (34:33):
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of Day one, Mike and I give you some big
(35:01):
fearless Bowl predictions. What we're gonna see over the next
few days. That's coming up next right here, Jason to Mike.
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Mike Harmon, Texas with a ten point lead over Xavier,
final game of the first four, twelve and a half
to go in the second half. Meanwhile, right now, Luka
Doncic is on pace for eighty four points. Lakers are
thumping the Nuggets right now, playing without Jokic, without Murray
(35:37):
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take a look. Now, what are we going to see
in the next few days some Big Bowl predictions for
the first weekend of the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
You're ready? Yeah, it's number one.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Everybody's favorite team because and I say that facetiously, because
they're not. North Carolina will validate by getting to the
sweet sixteen. Right, they don't have very difficult games ahead. Oh,
missus winnable. Iowa State likely is going to win over
Big Daddy Lipscomb and move on.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
So, yeah, this is not tough. RJ.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Davis is a terrific workhorse guard. You saw how well
he played the other night. Uh, North Carolina is playing
with a chip on their shoulder. And I and the
ACC it wasn't a great year for them, but it's
still a little bit better. The a SEC is better
than people think, and the SEC is not quite as
good as people think it is. But North Carolina here
winning this game. They seem to have a little bit
(37:12):
something about them, and you know when it comes to
guard playing the tournament, Davis is hot already going into this.
It's not like they have Michigan State coming up next
to Auburn. So now they got a couple of winnable
games coming up with Ole Miss and Iowa State. Give
me North Carolina the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Yeah, I kind of went the same route again owing
to what we saw from Davis yesterday. Can fill it
up and we know about just having that one guy.
It's like the hot goalie theory. When we get to
the NHL. I'll give you one Danny Hurley. Enjoy him
for the forty minutes. You're saying he's gonna fight you
(37:47):
for that, He's not. He's gonna be gone.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
He's leaving. No, he's leaving the game right now to
come fight. He just heard that. He's turning break, turning
the car around. He's going home. He'll be at at
at a desk as part of the studio show.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
He'll be here before we get off the air at
eleven o'clock. He's come inting and go where's that Harma?
Kick his ass? I'm the best coach in college yeah,
I'm the best radio host. Get the hell out of here.
Number two.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Speaking of the SEC, I will say this, after this weekend,
four four SEC teams will be left.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
That's it now.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
The best you're killing off all of those teams Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Those what you're saying more teams. Rest of those teams
did not deserve to come to the term.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Well, the rest of the teams either aren't very good.
Because I'm sorry, you got teams in that are six
and twelve and eight and eleven in conference. But it
was hard, not that good man. It just isn't hard.
It's not you ge't hard to win on the road. Now,
it's hard to win at home. It's just that tough.
Most most of the teams honestly have two difficult draws
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or a combination of not being good enough what you're
gonna see or their draws are a little difficult to
try to move on right that that that's gonna be.
That's gonna be the tough part for getting on right.
A team like Mississippi State, right like, okay, you got Baylor,
but then you're playing Duke. Okay, so you're not going
to the sweet sixteen. So it's just yes, it's great
to have these teams in, but four four SEC teams
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will be alive after this weekend. Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
We only get one win from Gonzaga before they go
home a wow.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
So Kenzaga is kind of going from Hey, we we
sneak into the tournament and we pull up sets. Now
we're a big dog, and now we're going back to
where we sneak in time. I mean we drew an
eight seed.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Okay, that doesn't mode well with Houston sitting there as
the one. There are other number ones that you can
you can topple. I don't think that's the one to
go get last one.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Yeah, two players, not sorry, two non Cooper flag players
will be talking about a lot over the course of
the next couple of weeks because every every year we
get the big stars coming out of college basketball, we
get the big stars coming out Number one. I kind
of let the cat of the bag in it last night.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
R J.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Lewis the Saint John's Big East Player of the Year.
He's athletic. You're gonna see his stock rise. People are
gonna see him as boys he's the next great two
way player. He does did a lot of shots on
the outside, but he is the go to score for
Saint John's. He is the the catalyst for what they
can do defensively. He's going to be the guy we
talk a go wow, look at this big EIAST player
of the year, argue, he's the guy.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
We'll talk about.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Canary Richmond Short and and David Smith and but but
he's gonna be the guy. He's gonna get all the
ink because Patino's gonna win. We're gonna talk about the
white suit.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
But there's your guy. We're gonna talk about a little
Patino and eventually face it off. Literally duking it out
with Caliperry could be fun. Uh, Wafford's not winning, but
we're gonna watch the guy with his granny style free
throw hunting so he'll become a legend. And I've already looked.
He doesn't have any training cards for me to profit.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Another guy, just really quick, I'll give him to you.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Jace Richardson. Jason Richardson's kid, which shows you how old
you are, how dare you didn't start didn't start from
Michigan State till like a month ago. But wow, has
he been something. Watch a lot of the Big ten tournament.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Watch him.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
He's gonna be another guy. We start talking about a
ton as as a tournament goes.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
What kills me is the fact that Iszo got me again. No, yeah, sorry, sorry,
but I'm sorry about that. Every year I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
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Major League Baseball. We got some more on that coming
up in about twenty minutes. The big takeaway from the
first two games in Tokyo, and I don't mean hey,
was Otani's home run a home run or not? I'm
(01:11):
trying to look and see. Yeah, okay, it's home run.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
It's a home run. Okay, yeah, fan went and grabbed
it was a home run. Could you tell what's going
over the fence?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Did Pete krow armstrong manne cost himself millions of dollars
by throwing the ball back into the stands? Yes, okay,
home run?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Otanna, Well, I mean bad move by him? Happy uh,
happy souvenir for a youngster.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Ten year old kids? Okay, immediately, Well that's you know,
but that's the thing you talking about. That's the thing
is that I wonted. We talked about this Monday night
a little bit like if Otani homers for the first
time in Japan as a member of the Dodgers, how.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Much is that works? Seven figures? Easy? Seven figures easy? Really?
Because he's hit home runs in Japan? People have home
run balls and Otani is it before? This is the
first major league dodge or seven figures right away?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
This ten year old kid more mighty will be more
more than the fifty to fifty ball.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah? Really, Wow, I should have gone to Japan.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I wish I was that kid out with Rodney beat
I can be catching foul balls, snatching balls away from
Max Monthy like that. That now we get to the
spro film, but we got to compare where glove levels are.
Months he missed the ball and Rodney Pete caught it.
That That was my my evaluation.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I don't obviously I need the overhead view of exactly
where the ball was. It looked to me like months
he missed the ball, and I think.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
He was mad and and maybe he got a little
distracted by the fact that somebody else Rodney Pete uh
stuck out his arm or call.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Him out on air or anything to where maybe they
had beef previous.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I don't know, but there will be beef now. There
will be beef now. But I mean Rodney made a
nice catch on the foul.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Ball, a good run. Sure had to clear up immediately
because everybody's like, why does he have a glove?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, Well, gets a little embarrassing when you bring one
an adults glove to a baseball.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Evidently down that And he explained this in showing up
with Tim Kates and the post game of they were
on the seats. That and a helmet to protect yourself
based on there being no netting. Yeah. OK.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Japanese custom. Now, yeah, should you be wearing it? Yeah,
that's what you can fight about it.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
But the fact that it was presented as an option
to you, you didn't have to actually bring it because
my first thought was, oh, he must have gotten it
from his kid who's a clubby, So maybe he just
had one of the extras from the dugout where he
just said, hey, I'd like a glove.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
My first thought is this, if we did that in
the United States. Okay, let's just say we took the
netting down and we put gloves and helmets on every seat.
How many gloves and helmets do you think would still
be put back on this one the other the night?
How many the helmets maybe because the helmets might be
tough to go the gloves forget gloves, the gloves forget it.
They'd all babe.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
They would all have to be you know, painted like
neon pink and green as you were walking by. There
was no chance that you were getting out with him,
and then they would have to glow as you tried
to hide them under your jacket or whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
To up scun can we send an intern to play
it against sports and buy a bunch of you know
it doesn't matter. We're just gonna lose them every day.
Let's just let's let's put the net. Let's put it's
a part of the show where we uh introduced millennials.
You gotta let them know who Rodney Pete is. Oh,
I'm so sorry, Rodney pe Okay, I'll do it. I'll
do it the normal.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Side for the guy who stole Munsi's foul ball, right.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Rodney Pete was a quarterback at USC and later on
in the NFL for teams such as the Detroit Lions.
He caught a foul ball today in the near the
field of play and stealing it away from Max Munsey,
third baseman who really should have caught the ball.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Went viral. Before that, the former coworker of mine, I
worked with him at Fox Sports dot Com for quite
quite a while doing stuff on Sundays. That was a
good time. And then he's our our team made over
at AM five to seventy LA Sports doing the midday show.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And now he's gonna be the third basement for the
Dodgers because clearly he's better than Muncie.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
It was it was not like he's a great fielder.
It's not like he's a great fielder. It was a
great catch and a mean mug in the whole nine yard.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
How long do you think, Max, how long do you
think till you're ready to take on a full time
DH roll? Yeah, but show he is a DH. Yeah,
but we're gonna petition major League Baseball for two DH's.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
We're gonna have it.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
We're gonna have a DP it like they do in softball,
a designated player where you just hit and you just fielder. Max,
You're gonna be the guy who hits all the time.
I kind of dig that he said he was protecting
his wife. Uh thespian longtime star of television shows. Sure,
Holly Robinson, P Yeah, I'll tell you that was That
was some.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
That was some.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
There was no twenty two jumping off that street TJ
for him to catch that fella.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Now, I gotta explain to millennials about what jump street.
But maybe they've gone back and watched the Channing Tatum
Jonah Hill. Oh yeah, okaycause that was actually pretty pretty well.
The first one was funny. The second one had This
first one was really fun the second one was clearly. Hey,
we profited really well off the first one. So let's
get that second one in production now. I like that
it's been a couple of years. If we revisit it now,
(06:09):
it'd be be kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
So we'll have more on this. More on the first
weekend or first week of Major League Baseball. Now in
the books, the Dodgers sweeping the Cubs in the final series. Yeah,
the final series. According to La may or Karen bass Is,
we won the final series. Final had a good She
needs to stay away from phones, computers. Baseball season's over phones.
Baseball seasons just won the series. We had thirty teams
(06:33):
ready to go. They picked the Dodgers and the Cubs
to go play in Japan. The Dodgers won two games.
Series is over. Won a series, But we're watching. We
are now on NCAA Tournament eve as, the final two
of the first four games being played tonight. Earlier, Mount
Saint Mary's with a win over American eighty three seventy two,
and now Texas, wanting to prove that their thirteen and
(06:55):
nineteen record is worthy of going in the tournament, is
up by nine over right now late in the first half.
Now here's the thing. This is why, And forget about
how many teams should be in and what it is for. Oh,
you're really diluting the tournament, bab forget all of that
crazy ass crap. The last two nights clearly is why
(07:19):
the tournament should expand to seventy two teams because the
first four is fun beginning tournament people watch, but it's
really difficult to get people invested in to sixteen versus
sixteen games and an eleven versus eleven game. Now I
understand this is how you do it. So Okay, when
you can and you try to put teams in the
people want to see, right, Hey Texas getting you know,
(07:41):
this this window to themselves. North Carolina getting the windows
to themselves last night, two big teams. We know the
NCAA Tournament is a television show. You've said that for years,
and congratulations to everybody who has picked that up the
last few days and use that on all of their
shows on radio and TV. So the thing is is
that now I understand that it's hard to get in, right,
because here's okay, this game, it's a ten point game.
(08:03):
You expand to seventy two teams, and then you have
four games a night, right, and then you can have
you expand past that you can have four games a night.
And if you have four games a night, it's like
a mini Day one or Day two of the NCAA tournament.
You have four games in a primetime window. That works, right,
that absolutely works. You can expand these teams out to
(08:23):
seventy two, seventy six, however you want to do it,
and then that's what you have. Then you have a
night like last night where okay, you have an eleven
to eleven game, you have a sixteen sixteen game, you
have another sixteen sixteen game, or another eleven eleven game,
or whatever you want to do, or however you want
to parse it out to put more playing teams in,
parse it out and have the first two nights be
(08:43):
mini NCAA Tourna nights. Then everybody is glued to their
televisions there, back and forth between True TV, Thei're back
and forth on TBS or TNT. You put some high
profile teams on there. You have to overwhelm with quantity
when you're not sure of the quality and you can't
guarantee equality. When you have the games that we've seen, well,
you get guarantee me quality now. But that's why any
(09:04):
point in this sure why do you think the tournament
that's why we give you all the games every day
because eventually you're gonna find a game.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yes, so that's what you need to You need to
throw quantity at it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And and these first two nights now, obviously they have
become a thing. It's part of the schedule. I love
the I love the play. It's it's helping the tournament
own the week. But it owns the week more if
you have two more games on each night. Right, So
so put eight more teams in all in playing situations, right,
make them play in I don't think you're gonna get
a lot of people upset at Hey, we're adding teams
so you don't get snubbed. This is gonna happen. And
(09:36):
you got to play your way in right, you gotta
win an extra game, then you gotta win again. You
gotta win three games in the week if you want
advance of the Sweet sixteen, and you gotta do it
against high seats. No one's going to complain. You're not
watering down the tournament because you already have a first
four event, So why not make it an event that
people really are going to make sure. I'm at the
television four, Because what's better than the than the two
(09:57):
first days of the tournament Thursday and Friday, having primetime
nights on Tuesday and Wednesday being full half day tournament
or a quarter day tournament nights. We've got four games
going on at once on Tuesday, four games on Wednesday,
the full slate Thursday, Friday.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Really go all out for it.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
At this point, what what what do you you? You've
broken past the seal of sixty four. So once you've
broken past that seal, hey, you know, let's add more
teams and let's have that turna.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Look, we've already gone past the charade of anything having
to do with education at this point in the way
that everything gets scheduled, that's long gone. All right. We
pushed that out the out the window, and eventually they'll
realize that on the football side and stop clinging to
that that last bashing of things. Look, we started the
week by joking about the NC Double A as North
(10:45):
Carolina got in. I liked that they went out and
kicked ash yesterday. See we belonged. Okay, great, maybe you did,
maybe you didn't. You beat it. We beat another eleventh seed.
We belong clearly you know, because that became a big
hot top for debate. Hey, did this prove that the
committee got right?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
That to our quad two win total? Our quad two,
don't ask about quad one. Wow, two win totals are
really good. It's fuzzy math, but all of it to say,
it's all a giant television show. It's all a giant
bettings show.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I mean, how many articles before and we get into
the Challenger and Christmas, the old surveys they do and
estimates of how much productivity is lost in the first
week to deal with it, add another couple of days
because people need to get on the roads because they
got to watch and bet and be part of these
games as well. So push all that aside, all of
(11:38):
those charades. You know, the suspension of disbelief we do
when we walk into a movie theater. Same thing here.
Trying to cling on to any bit of the integrity
of NCUBA and student athlete that's long gone. So let's
just keep expanding it. Add more and more teams. Does
(12:00):
it matter because we're eventually whittling it down to one anyway,
So if everybody that played a Division one game gets in,
who the hell cares give us full days of games
from sun up to sundown, like it's a college football Saturday.
We'll all be grinning and happy because our brackets are
alive or they're dead, or because these all count is
(12:22):
one point. We don't care. Give us more games, more
betting opportunities, and more TV windows. Everybody wins.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
See, I'm up for every D one team getting in
right everything one through. I went at three hundred and
thirty whatever it is, and then you just play every
day and every day the field is halved until you
have a champion.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
So you play for like.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
What's our halflight. I don't know, Like maybe I don't know.
It's like fourteen days in a row you would play.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Let's see that. Let's see what's at the end of it. Right,
Watch the broadcast team. They look like they're at the desk.
Remember in Batman when they couldn't use any of their
makeup and stuff because the Joker contaminated all. Let's see
how they look after four or five days.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
At act Rick Patino's white suit, he'd look like Slash
by the end of the.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yeah, I'm playing fourteen days in a row. We won.
I got his gouty to keep wearing it. The drumber
quit today. Yeah, yeah, I saw that, good old Frank. Well,
that's a good runs. Frank Frere was a good run.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, I means coming back, I would I would think so,
I mean I think that would open the door.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Baby. Steven Adler was like, hey, don't forget about me.
Don't forget about me, guys, don't forget. Don't forget too
many lawsuits.
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why the tournament should expand own the nights even more.
Now we got more NCAA tournament on the way, but
a big story out of the NFL coming up next.
We are now playing survivor with teams that are going
to sign a quarterback in free agency, and we can
now knock one off the list and eliminate them.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
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Speaker 1 (14:17):
They still say that when they blow out the Oh yeah,
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Speaker 3 (16:01):
Hi from Canada. Ay, it's Jason Smith and my got it.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
You know it's it's it's NCAA tournament Eve night. I
give you my credit card to buy wings for everybody,
and you play this song like, come on man?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
What Like I'm being.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
A nice guy all the time. I buy it and
here's what happens. This is how I get fat. How
long have I been on the show? At least three years? Okay,
here's the secret. When you hate something, what do we do?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
You keep playing it? So what HAPs when you like it?
It doesn't matter, you would still play it. It doesn't
matter what you're catching on.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I could say I love this song and you would
say yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Okay, you know in just a couple of days, we're
gonna celebrate the fortieth anniversary.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yes, song, we're not gonna celebrate anything. Oh, we are
gonna play it. And it's gonna be one of those
things where we actually he'll be gone. So what does
he care? Sure he's taking like a month off. Lakers
and the Nuggets underweigh, And I'll tell you what, what
an incredible night? Yo could Frostburg? How many points for
Yo Kitchen Murray so far in this game?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
That would be as many as the Knicks had against
the Lakers. Zero.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Okay, Yes, the Nuggets resting everyone tonight, and I thought
for sure, Hey, Nuggets doing the right thing here, rusting
Jokic the first game of back to backs, resting last nights.
You're gonna play Wednesday. No, no, no, no Nicola Jokic,
no Jamal Man elbow contusion, no Danissel, no Kiki vandaway
not happening.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Lakers with the lead right now early over the Nuggets
eighteen to twelve. Yeah, we gotta be careful like you
start going down Nuggets legends.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
A bunch of those guys have passed. Alex English, I can't,
I can't go too deep. Yeah, uh yeah, Okay, what
Nuggets legends could be? You know, you can go to
like Robert Pack, I think, and you know got Nuggets legends.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, I mean this game in one title they get legends.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
No, no, no, but I mean guys that are you know
in the lexicon that you remember from your trading car.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, you know package. Oh yeah, like the guys from
the nineties.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Guys one guy from the nineties, what was his name,
macmudab du Rabu, No, no, Matumbo. Well obviously the more
Hawks yeah yeah, oh yeah, sure, Lafonzo Ellis.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Yeah, and Carmelo Anthem Yeah yeah, Nuggets legend.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I forgot that this This game looked great on the
schedule when it was Wow, man, this is gonna be
Lebron and Luca and Jokic and Murray.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
And no games eight days. Look at that one. You're
just gonna get Luca. Okay, you're just gonna get Lucy.
He's already got a couple of big shots. A nice
finger roll. Yeah, I mean that was good. Tell you
the six games an eight days thing. When that ends
to the Lakers, hey, welcome back Lebron.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Is it like he's gonna be like he's in the
elimination chamber from the WWE. When you're standing in a
corner he is, and then the lights start going, and
then there's a countdown, and then the door opens and
you can run out.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
He is.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
He is absolutely going to come back the first game
after the six and eight are over. He is absolutely
coming back Saturday.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
That's it. Hey, we're gonna get Lebron. All right, that's
great for his first He's gonna do the splits. He
already did that his kids state championship game. Imagine your
kid doing that. No, No, I have no doubt. Hey,
good for him, except when you're claiming that you're out
for two weeks because of a groin injury like a
(19:19):
backup dancer for any of the UH Stadium Tours eighties.
But fan, I know they don't seem to have an issue.
Nobody cares. They don't seem to care. No, it doesn't,
And Adam Silver has no hell out or anything because
the last couple of weeks, every star player and team
they're doing the old Uh. Look up the album cover
from Too Old to Rock and Roll Young to Die
(19:41):
from jethrotell Uh. It's a kind of a gesture you
would get in a lot of uh Italian and Irish
neighborhoods back in the day to tell you to beat it.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
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gonna build a chicken coop when I win. Okay, wise, okay,
(20:33):
leather face. Sure that sounds that sounds like a good
thing to do.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I'm gonna build their face. You're gonna build a chicken coop?
What do you mean? Hey, I'm taking down my cost
of eggs? Hell?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Are you talking about picturing you with the with the
with the the butcher's apron and the and the pig face.
It's you know, you slide over, you going around holding
the chainsaw up in the middle of the road and
dropping it and holding it up and dropping it and
holding it up and dropping it at the end. Sorry
spoiler alert, except just picturing you doing that with the
(21:06):
the uh the bateman from from the American psych.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
So the uh.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
The six games and eight nights ends for the Lakers
tomorrow when they play back to back against Milwaukee. So okay,
I gotta think Saturday against the Bulls, Lebron's gonna be
fresh and rare and and ready to.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Go ninth place in the Eastern Conference. Chicago. Bu okay, Hey,
you are playing dangerous? Kobe White play Eastern Conference. Just
texted me he's not playing tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Really is Doc still coaching tomorrow? Taking off? Docs? Taking off? Okay,
that's fine. What do you think that meeting with Johannison
Lillard was Listen, I need some time off. I gotta
go watch White lotus.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I mean, everybody's talking about the Sam Rockwell stuff and
I gotta watch it. I mean they say I always
got this big long thing and and a whole monologue.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
That I gotta watch, and it's really weird. I don't know,
I do know anything about it, but I gotta go
watch it because that's what they were saying about as
in Isaac's okay now.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
But it's it's more uh yeah, you know, the more
I read about it, the more I just don't understand
what like what like this is about?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
What? Okay?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Like this is why I think AI is taking over
too much of the Internet, because now with with a
I writing so many articles, I'm like, all right, I
don't really understand what you're saying here. Okay that that's great,
all right, that's fine, that's all right, that's so I know,
big scene Sam Rockwell monologue plays a really weird character
where weird stuff happened.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
That's about all I know.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
No spoilers Sam rock Well, he doesn't understand it. How's
he gonna stand it? I can't spoil that. I don't
understand figure out what the hell is understand hot people
on a beach, No I do.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
But it's worse. It's worse. It's like you got to
take it a layer beyond the new with murder.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Uh yeah, yeah, there is no But I think it's
like it gets like it's dark, like his character is dark.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Like like it's I think it is without knowing something
is get a fight iron Man again.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I just know because every time I go through like
show up with a bad Russian accent, I go through
like Yahoo and I go I don't understand all this.
I feel like that sketch from Saturday Night Live when
when Dealer No Deal came out and Antonio Benderis was
the contestant and he had no idea what was going on.
He just kept hitting the button. Yes, okay, when you
want a deal, you hit the button.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
No deal.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
No, No, you don't hit the button. He says, I
don't know what's going on, but I'm so excited. No deal,
and he gi me what no deal? No deal? But
speaking of no deal, no deal, no deal for Aaron
Rodgers and the Vikings. According to reports earlier today, the
Vikings have decided against signing Aaron Rodgers and now they
go forward saying we are really really confident in JJ McCarthy. Okay,
(23:36):
first of all, I gotta give the Vikings credit, but
not too much credit, because they dangled their waters, their
feet in the waters or whatever waters they wanted to
dangle their feet in thinking about doing something so stupid
as kicking Sam Darnold to the curb to say we
believe in JJ McCarthy, but oh no, no, we're gonna
go get Aaron Rodgers to come in. And Rogers is
not coming in to sit on the bench. He's coming
(23:58):
in too starts right, he'd be young or.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Not coming into sit anywhere.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
He's coming into start, Which tells you, Number one, that
just the fact they were thinking about this, Number one,
this tells you the Vikings are not as confident in
JJ McCarthy as they want to say they are. But
they are forced into this, and they've been forced into
it from the beginning because Donald played great last year,
McCarthy got hurt. Donald played great. Now what the hell
do you do? And they decide we're gonna go with
(24:24):
JJ McCarthy. Now, this should have been JJ McCarthy all
full steam ahead, right if you believe in JJ McCarthy,
you weren't gonna bring Sam Donald back right away. It
was we love Sam, we're letting him at free agency.
We love jjjj's our guy. But now with Aaron Rodgers
being a story, the last year is oh, we've decided
against it, Like why are you even kicking the tires
on this? Like this is where I know I could
be a better general manager and I can run a
(24:45):
football team sometimes better than teams do. Because this is
I would say, what the hell kind of message you
putting out there? Either you like JJ McCarthy or you don't.
You look stupid for how you got rid of Sam Donald.
You looked even stupider if you went out and signed
Aaron Rodgers. But this shows you no matter what, they
don't believe in McCarthy as much as they say they do.
Now that being said, I'll finish on the positive with
(25:07):
this point is that they did the right thing. If
they brought in Rogers, it would just be an absolute
mess because then suddenly all the questions come up and
let's say Rogers beats out McCarthy in the summer, is
McCarthy even gonna play. No, we're not taking trade phone
calls on JJ McCarthy, And instead you're starting a guy
that the Jets kick to the curb instead of a
(25:28):
guy you could have been starting who was a Pro
Bowl quarterback last year, walked in off the street and
threw for four thousand yards and thirty five touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
And before you sit.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Here and tell me, well, you know the money that
they saved not having Sam Donald, we signed other players
are yeah, but quarterback is the most important position. It's
the one you're supposed to pay for because it affects
every single other position. So don't give me this why
you know, he wouldn't have gotten a tackle, It wouldn't
have got woudn't gotten this guy, wouldn't got got. No,
you have to take care of the quarterback when you can't.
So the Vikings they made the right decision. But it
(25:57):
doesn't mean they're innocent, right, That's what I'm saying, made it,
But they're not innocent in screwing up and being stupid.
But they made the right decision in the end.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
But this is as we sit here on Wednesday, March nineteenth,
the eve of the NCAA Tournament, watching the Lakers and
Nuggets get after it in the first four games and
all of these fun and excitement. Jason is Brett fav
You know what day he signed with the Vikings when
he was allegedly done and out of the running of anything.
(26:27):
Ah no deal, August eighteenth, which means for March nineteenth,
they're out, and now it becomes the all right, let's
let's not have this hanging over. JJ McCarthy said, it's
a lesser version of the bastardization of things that we
saw in Cleveland with Deshaun Watson and why Joe Flacco
couldn't come back. Yeah, we couldn't have him in the
(26:50):
locker room. I think it's the same idea. But they
still have some concerns about what they have with JJ McCarthy,
which is why that door was cracked open. So what
Adolt Famnza and O'Connell and everybody. It's kind of going, well,
we love JJ McCarthy to a point because they don't
know where he is physically. You can tell me all
(27:10):
the things about the whiteboard and what he learned while
he was on the sidelines and all of that. Physically,
can he take a hit right now?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I know we have a few months before we have
to put that to practice, but physically, as he recovered
from both those knee surgeries, and tell me all you want,
the second one, well was just clean up.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
That means it was an issue from the first one.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I mean, so now you're trying to figure that out
and you still have to have a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Now.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I like what they did with the roster, I really do,
but that was all predicated on me. We love JJ McCarthy,
and clearly they don't. They don't love him nearly as
much as they say.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
And that's that's that's when I that's what I mean
when I say, boy, I could have done this job.
I could have walked in and said, Okay, here's what
you guys mean.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I'd have been that.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I'd have been that big consultant that comes into nobody like, uh,
you got this crazy ass consultant coming in from well.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
They normally take everybody that's already in the building's idea,
repackage him, slap their label on it, and then charge
you a million dollars.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I just keep thinking back to mythiquest to keep referring
to Montreal. Montreal is gonna come in here, and David
Biddle's be saying Montreal's.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Gonna come in.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I got something I think I kick like I would regain.
I would say, okay, let let's let's let's let's everybody
calm down here. Yes, did Sam Donald have a bad
last couple of games? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
He did?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Uh? Do we know that JJ McCarthy's good, Well, we
did not. Do we know he's any good? Do we
know he's gonna be healthy?
Speaker 3 (28:24):
All right?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Right, so let's do this. Then let's franchise Sam Donald
for a year. But that costs forty million dollars. Yes,
but look what Sam, what was your record last year?
Fourteen and three?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Right? Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, yeah, okay? And uh was he or was he not?
One of the top three quarterbacks in the NFC?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
He was?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Okay, So this is the guy you want to get
rid of. And this is the guy you want to
look at me defending Sam darg This is how crazy,
topsy turvy the world is.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Hey, so this is what you want to do. Great,
this is what you want to do.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
You want to say goodbye to this guy and go
to this guy, right because you love him so much.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
That's really what you want to do, right.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah, I get it's gonna be difficult, but you kind
of lucked into a golden goose here. Don't you want
to see if he can be the guy? And then
if Sam Donald plays well again next year, guess what
you could trade JJ McCarthy and get something for him.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
And here's the other parts. If Sam Donald's not good.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Next year you can put JJ McCarthy in and he's
still in a rookie deal for you. So I get that. Well,
we're not gonna get that left top, We're not gonna
get this the right. Yeah, I get it. You're gonna
be a little hamstrung because you're spending money on a
quarterback for one year, or if you love the guy,
hey go three years, spend less money on him. But no,
this is what you wanted to do to have a
(29:33):
situation where you were debating signing Aaron Rodgers. But we
love JJ McCarthy so much. The Vikings are full of it.
They're absolutely full of it. And I get to laugh
a little bit even though they didn't really sign right,
because boy, that would have been great. But I mean,
when it comes down to it, they did what they
needed to do because they knew, Okay, we can't save
face if we go on get Aaron Rodgers. But boy,
(29:54):
just the fact that they went down this road, you know,
that's finding good.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
It's like the Motley Crew, Hey this is our last show, nonsense,
and any other band that said, hey we're done, this
is really the last time you're gonna see us, and
then six months later, Wait, you lost all your money
doing what? Damn it? We gotta go back out all right,
Well we're really not that old. Everybody's still kind of healthy.
(30:18):
We like money, we don't like sitting at home. Let's
go back on a tour. Same thing, but for the
vice case is also you need an insurance. Play here right,
it's required. It's required by law to have guard insurance.
Same thing here, it's do you have to have the
expensive package? No, but you need something because right now
you got nothing. Remember Daniel Jones was that guy we
(30:40):
talked about him as a wild card scenario. Maybe he
would be the next Sam Darnold, and just guess what,
the Colts decided to spend a lot of money and
bring him on as their guy. Now they lost a
bunch of the offensive linemen to wear Tada Minnesota, so
they lost a little bit in that process. But now
you still need that insurance policy. Whether it's gonna be
(31:03):
Aaron Rodgers eventually or Russ Wilson or whatever's behind door
number three, you still need to go find it because remember,
up until twenty four hours ago, there was still the
Hey JJ McCarthy teams weren't kicking the tires, saying, well,
maybe you don't love him so much, so we'll trade
for him. We'll bring him on and make him our guy.
So you at least to shoot that part.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
But you still haven't put another guy in a uniform
in the locker next to McCarthy exit out about a
Fresco exit, Swallen Dome, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live from
the tire rack dot Com studio.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Congratulates, but you backed up into doing the right thing.
Kind of mind. It time not to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports. So someone who's
been called the Aaron Rodgers of Fox Sports Radio a couple.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Of times a year, she goes in a darkness retreat.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
We don't know where she is for a few days,
comes back out, comes to work.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
It's Monty Belano's I mean, no cap, I get that.
I'm into it. I'm into it.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Guys.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
We're gonna start in the end because Luka Dancic has
twenty points in the first quarter and there's still ninety
seconds to go. Nuggets playing with aut Nikola Yogic with
au Jamal Murray, both dealing with ankle injuries, so the
Lakers are on top forty two to twenty seven, again,
still ninety seconds to go in the first quarter. A
couple of teams playing spoiler today. I'm gonna begin with
the Spurs. The Spurs spoiled the Knicks. I'm sorry, Jason,
(32:22):
but it was thanks to this guy.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Mambo kaylashey outside right, hands it off the castle, then
sets a screen form back to Mamo straight away, fakes
the Pickupop three, drives it inside white hatch flab for
Sadro Mambo Kaylas freely.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
I've never heard that name in my life. Thank you,
Spurs Radio Network, Sandro Mamu Kailashvili.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
That's a fake highlight. You played a fake highlight that
was Ai generated. Stop it.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
That was absolutely quite not happened. Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Off the bench fourteen, thirteen to fifteen from the field,
seven of seven from the three point line, thirty four
points for this guy, the leading scorer.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
They beat the Knicks.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Pelicans also decided to place spoiler against the Timberwolves in Minnesota.
They won it one, nineteen to one, fifteen Zon Williamson
twenty nine points and eight assists. Rockets have won eight
in a Row after defeating the Magic One sixteen to
one oh eight, and the Pistons came back to beat
the Heat in Miami went sixteen to one thirteen. Cad
Cunningham with the game winning three pointer over bam Adebayo
(33:20):
triple double twenty five points, twelve rebounds and eleven assists.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
The first four continues in the opening round.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
We'll call it of the men's NCAA tournament, And right
now it's still fifteen minutes to go. In the second half,
Texas is on top of Xavier fifty seven to forty seven.
The winner is going to face Illinois in the first
round officially, and Mount Saint Mary's took down America in
eighty three to seventy two, so the Mountaineers are going
to face one seed Duke in the first round on
Friday and in the NFL. In case you missed it,
(33:49):
The Athletic reported not long ago that free agent wide
receiver Stefon Diggs is in Foxborough today or was in
Foxborough today meeting with the Patriots and Texans and defensive
end Danil Hunter have agreed to a one year, thirty
five point six million dollar extension, making him the second
highest paid defensive end in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Back to you.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Guys, thanks a bunch, Sandro, Sandro, Mamukelavili very done.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
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Don't break eye contact with me. One hundred dollars. You
could spell his name without them, no, mamu.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Mamu, Emmy, have you okay? He you doing get half
of it? Like thirty percent?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Because I was like thirty percent.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Of the name.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
That's not that's like twenty seven letters. It's not thirty eight.
It's fuzzy mad.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Girl math It's math In. It's math In.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
I'm math In, I'm Monsey and I'm math In.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Thanks a much time for math In with Monts. Be
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of Day one, Mike and I give you some big
(35:01):
fearless Bowl predictions. What we're gonna see over the next
few days. That's coming up next right here, Jason to Mike.
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Mike Harmon, Texas with a ten point lead over Xavier,
final game of the first four, twelve and a half
to go in the second half. Meanwhile, right now, Luka
Doncic is on pace for eighty four points. Lakers are
thumping the Nuggets right now, playing without Jokic, without Murray
(35:37):
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(36:22):
take a look. Now, what are we going to see
in the next few days some Big Bowl predictions for
the first weekend of the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
You're ready? Yeah, it's number one.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Everybody's favorite team because and I say that facetiously, because
they're not. North Carolina will validate by getting to the
sweet sixteen. Right, they don't have very difficult games ahead. Oh,
missus winnable. Iowa State likely is going to win over
Big Daddy Lipscomb and move on.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
So, yeah, this is not tough. RJ.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Davis is a terrific workhorse guard. You saw how well
he played the other night. Uh, North Carolina is playing
with a chip on their shoulder. And I and the
ACC it wasn't a great year for them, but it's
still a little bit better. The a SEC is better
than people think, and the SEC is not quite as
good as people think it is. But North Carolina here
winning this game. They seem to have a little bit
(37:12):
something about them, and you know when it comes to
guard playing the tournament, Davis is hot already going into this.
It's not like they have Michigan State coming up next
to Auburn. So now they got a couple of winnable
games coming up with Ole Miss and Iowa State. Give
me North Carolina the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Yeah, I kind of went the same route again owing
to what we saw from Davis yesterday. Can fill it
up and we know about just having that one guy.
It's like the hot goalie theory. When we get to
the NHL. I'll give you one Danny Hurley. Enjoy him
for the forty minutes. You're saying he's gonna fight you
(37:47):
for that, He's not. He's gonna be gone.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
He's leaving. No, he's leaving the game right now to
come fight. He just heard that. He's turning break, turning
the car around. He's going home. He'll be at at
at a desk as part of the studio show.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
He'll be here before we get off the air at
eleven o'clock. He's come inting and go where's that Harma?
Kick his ass? I'm the best coach in college yeah,
I'm the best radio host. Get the hell out of here.
Number two.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Speaking of the SEC, I will say this, after this weekend,
four four SEC teams will be left.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
That's it now.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
The best you're killing off all of those teams Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Those what you're saying more teams. Rest of those teams
did not deserve to come to the term.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Well, the rest of the teams either aren't very good.
Because I'm sorry, you got teams in that are six
and twelve and eight and eleven in conference. But it
was hard, not that good man. It just isn't hard.
It's not you ge't hard to win on the road. Now,
it's hard to win at home. It's just that tough.
Most most of the teams honestly have two difficult draws
(38:51):
or a combination of not being good enough what you're
gonna see or their draws are a little difficult to
try to move on right that that that's gonna be.
That's gonna be the tough part for getting on right.
A team like Mississippi State, right like, okay, you got Baylor,
but then you're playing Duke. Okay, so you're not going
to the sweet sixteen. So it's just yes, it's great
to have these teams in, but four four SEC teams
(39:12):
will be alive after this weekend. Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
We only get one win from Gonzaga before they go
home a wow.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
So Kenzaga is kind of going from Hey, we we
sneak into the tournament and we pull up sets. Now
we're a big dog, and now we're going back to
where we sneak in time. I mean we drew an
eight seed.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Okay, that doesn't mode well with Houston sitting there as
the one. There are other number ones that you can
you can topple. I don't think that's the one to
go get last one.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Yeah, two players, not sorry, two non Cooper flag players
will be talking about a lot over the course of
the next couple of weeks because every every year we
get the big stars coming out of college basketball, we
get the big stars coming out Number one. I kind
of let the cat of the bag in it last night.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
R J.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Lewis the Saint John's Big East Player of the Year.
He's athletic. You're gonna see his stock rise. People are
gonna see him as boys he's the next great two
way player. He does did a lot of shots on
the outside, but he is the go to score for
Saint John's. He is the the catalyst for what they
can do defensively. He's going to be the guy we
talk a go wow, look at this big EIAST player
of the year, argue, he's the guy.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
We'll talk about.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Canary Richmond Short and and David Smith and but but
he's gonna be the guy. He's gonna get all the
ink because Patino's gonna win. We're gonna talk about the
white suit.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
But there's your guy. We're gonna talk about a little
Patino and eventually face it off. Literally duking it out
with Caliperry could be fun. Uh, Wafford's not winning, but
we're gonna watch the guy with his granny style free
throw hunting so he'll become a legend. And I've already looked.
He doesn't have any training cards for me to profit.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Another guy, just really quick, I'll give him to you.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Jace Richardson. Jason Richardson's kid, which shows you how old
you are, how dare you didn't start didn't start from
Michigan State till like a month ago. But wow, has
he been something. Watch a lot of the Big ten tournament.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Watch him.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
He's gonna be another guy. We start talking about a
ton as as a tournament goes.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
What kills me is the fact that Iszo got me again. No, yeah, sorry, sorry,
but I'm sorry about that. Every year I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
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