March 20, 2025 • 41 mins
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Ten minutes ago in the fourth quarter, Lakers lead the
Nuggets by twenty eight yay, one.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh seven seventy nine. Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Not quite good to be the eighty point game we
thought we were getting from Luca early on, but still
a big night for Luka Doncic and the Nuggets. Of course,
playing without Nicola Jokic and Jamalmer doesn't matter. It has
been all Lakers from the jump on this one. Luca
not even on the court.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
You got all five starters and double figures plus. This
has just been an absolute Lakers roll over. We have
more NBA coming up in about twenty minutes. Rick Bucker
stops by and we talk about resting players in the
return of Lebron James, and all of a sudden, we're
getting ready for the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Right now, it's Lakers minus twenty four live action.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
What do you think, Hey, I told you er when
you said it was Lakers minus twenty one, I said,
give me that, give me that action tonight, and I'm
feeling pretty good. You're at twenty one and a half.
So we got going down. But thanks to Marcus Fouster
for stopping by twenty two.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Points to night.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Xavier comes from behind to beat Texas, knocking the Longhorns
out of the NCAA term again. The Texas led all
the way and just had nothing left at the end.
Some big buckets by him. They had a big offense
have put back that clinched the game off of an
air ball, and Xavier moves on to face Illinois in
the NCAA Tournament. Now, now that we've seen the first
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two nights of the tournament again, the first four. We've
seen this for a while, right, and the first four works.
It's interesting people watch. However, it's not quite as good
as it could be.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I get that when we're first putting the first four
out there, we don't know how it's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Are people gonna like it? Are they not?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
We also have to understand that once you do something,
you're not going back. Right, They're not going to expand
a tournament to sixty eight teams then say.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Oh no, no, no, we're going back. We don't like this, so.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Are days of TV there's more money being spent. No,
they're not going So I get it, and I get it.
And the first four has been successful. They've done what
they need to do, which is when they can put
the high profile teams on the first two nights. We
had North Carolina play last night, Texas played tonight. All right, right,
storylines around both them. Do either of them deserve to
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be in the tournament? Now Texas, you realize, okay, maybe not,
but you know they try to do the best they can.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
As we've told you for a long time, the NCAA
term is a television show. It congratulations to all the
shows who have been using that this week, you've only
been saying that for a few years. So congratulations, But
this shows you and forget about your watering down the
tournament while why are we doing this? But what we've
seen the last couple nights, what we've seen so far
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with the first four, tells you that this is why
the tournament needs to expand because on nights like tonight,
college basketball sort of owns the night, but not really
because every game for the for the first four is
two eleven seeds and two sixteen seeds and it's really
hard because the sixteen seeds are teams that nobody cares about.
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And is there any real desire to have to get
to the television set to watch Mount Saint Mary's an American?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
There isn't. Is there enough to get there to watch
Texas and Xavier? Yeah somewhat, but.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Yeah, but you're anti American if you didn't turn on American.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Sorry Mount Saint Mary's beating Canada tonight, that's sorry, eighty
three seventy two. So there's not enough to really. While
you kind of own the night, you don't really own
it because the games aren't that grabbing now in the
NCAA Tournament. That's why it's the tournament, right, This is
why the tournament gives you all kinds of volume the
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first couple of days because you're gonna see blowouts, yeah,
You're gonna see close games, yeah, but just the fact
that you have wall to wall games that makes this
an event you don't want to miss. And you could
see a great game at any moment. You can see
it upset at any moment. You gotta have your TVs on.
You're flicking back and forth between four games at any
one time, sometimes more than that. Oh, turn on True TV,
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that game is better. No, go to TBS, that game
is better. Oh, this game's coming down to the end.
To go back to True TV. You need the first
two nights to be that way, and by that I
mean Tuesday and Wednesday. The tournament should expand just to
have four games on each of the first two nights.
Is it too much to you get more than that
to say we're going to start middle of the day. Yeah,
I could see that maybe in the future. But what
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they should have is you should have four games on
in the primetime window because that's basically what you get
at the end of every night on Thursday and Friday.
Right when you get to primetime, there's four ish games
left that we haven't seen. Now you have a whole
day of gluttony that you have the first two days,
and then you have a little bit of time off,
and then you get the four games at night. All right, great,
that's kind of what the first two nights should be
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because then you are mitigating the possibility of a we
don't might not have great games. We got lower seeded teams,
but you're putting volume out that you're throwing volume at
me of these four games. Now you have a couple
of teams that are high profile, a couple of teams
that I'll be following. Maybe you get an upset or
two here or there, but by throwing volume at this,
you make it an event that I don't want to miss.
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I want to have all four of my televisions on.
I want to be watching all four of these channels.
I want to be watching TBS while seeing the game
and TNT and the game on True TV and the
game on USA up in the corner. That's why this
should expand to get four games a night the first
to nights, because it is a television show, and it's
a better television show when you can give me more
options because you can't guarantee me great games, you can't
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guarantee me a lot of drama. It's not the Sweet
sixteen or the Final Four. This is the first few
days where yeah, good games come and go, so give
me volume, hit me with numbers. And then suddenly the
first Tuesday and Wednesday, this whole week then becomes it's
all NCAA turner. It's high profile, and it's primetime every
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single night from Tuesday through Friday. That's why it makes
sense to increase the teams. All the other arguments can
go by the wayside this television. Now you're saying, nodding head,
going oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why it makes sense.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Well.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
But one of the things we always talk about is
the gluttony of Thursday and Friday, both from a game
watching experience. My brothers are out in Las Vegas right
now and you know, getting ready for the chaos to ensue.
But all of that, those games, those betting opportunities, and
the food and the beverages and everything that flow. When
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do we say there's too much made? We can get
biblical and stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
But in our culture. No, we want more, and we
want more.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Games, we want more betting opportunities, we want more viewing opportunities.
You're not going to turn down another couple of games.
And anybody that goes to the tradition and all traditional
college sports, I got news for you that left a
long time ago, and the sanctity and purity of the sport.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
When folks start to bemoan that, get out of here.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
We know guys were getting one hundred dollars handshakes and
envelopes going back to the sixties. Okay, so all of
that has been debunked, and that myth has.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Been murdered a million times over.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
So to complain that it got to sixty eight, or
that it would get to seventy six or eventually to
all three hundred plus teams being involved, you lose me.
You've lost me if you're still trying to make those arguments.
Because it's all about give a richer, more robust experience,
and for the television partners more opportunities to sell advertising
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dollars for players in this new nil era, more opportunity
for those players to make more money, the coaches to
raise their profiles. Just keep going on down the line,
everybody wins from the experience. Are you gonna get some
bad games? Absolutely, we get a bunch of those the
first two days of the tournament, whether you like it
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or not, at your old traditional settings that we had
for all those years when it was you know, the
sanctity of the sixty four. No, there were a lot
of crappy games, So don't try to romanticize that so
and say that you know, suddenly this is gonna be
get more of those, like people tried to do with
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the college football experience.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Oh we got bad game. There were always bad games. Yeah, yeah,
So you know what the old Kevin Durant. You don't
like it, don't watch.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
More people are gonna be involved, more people are gonna bet,
and your audience will be there. You're not gonna oversaturate
the market because just as soon as you decide maybe
I don't love this, it's gone. And we're into the
third week of opening day of the Major League Baseball season.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I mean, look, college basketball has become It always was
a I don't want to say was always was a
one month sport, but it always owned the month of March, right,
But now college basketball has strictly become a one month sport.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Right, you watch your your conference and maybe if you
have a team like your Syracuse Orange.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
You lived and died with me and min Nor back
and we used to go to the tournament. Boy, those
are the days.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Well, you know, I got to hear Beheim talk a
lot the last couple of days, So that was good thinking.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Of the better days.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But the whole, the whole thing is that when when
you when you think about the NCAA basketball tournament in totality,
it's it's become less of a land escape, less real
estate to own. So what you need to do is
own the real estate that you have. If you own
the month of March, why do you have all these
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down days when you can own other days?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Why can you do it? Because if we start paying,
it's all of a sudden we go from really the
the conference tournament week is when everything really starts to
heat up. Right, Like, up until that point, what are
the big headlines? You know, something happens as a big
game involving Duke or Cooper Flag or when Cooper Flag
got hurt. But generally you get to conference tournament week, Okay,
this is when we ramp up and then we go
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right into the NCAA tournament. So you own that time
all the way through the end of the month, and
you know you can't do anything and play more games
during sweet sixteen week. You know, maybe you could have
a spend an nil special, we let guys at the
portal and sign live on television. But when you have days,
you can say, okay, we can own this day even more.
(10:53):
Why would you not do that? Like, I don't get
where there's real opposition to increase the tournament, and it
may get to a point where after a few years it's, well,
all right, we got four games on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Why don't we add Why don't we add four more teams?
Why don't we add more games? Why don't we have
six games at night? Why don't we have Because you
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can have all those lower slots be playing slots, you
can make the you can actually make the regular season
worth something and say, okay, the first you know, say
the first eight seeds, whatever you want to say, the
tournament these are. But everything else is a playing slot.
So you want to play as well as you can.
You want to make sure you're killing yourself in this
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in their season because you want one of those top
by you don't have to play and win that extra game.
You could make the nine seeds and the ten seeds,
the eleven sees. You can make them all playing playing
games and nobody would care.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Okay, great, you're in. Now, now you're a twelve seed. Right.
You could even lengthen it like this.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
How about this, You have the conference championship week and
then the next week becomes the play week to get
to the tournament. Right, you could now you're now you're now.
This is really outside the box, but I love this thought.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Just that created hundreds of millions of I just did
I just did you have?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
You have the it's playing week, it's playing week here
in the tournament, and it's it's four nights where you
have to wear. Teams play and they play. Maybe you
have to play where you have to win too. Get
but however you want to do it. You can have
all these teams play. You could have you can have
four games a night Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and those
winners are going to the tournament the following week. Now
you can say, oh, so a team's gonna go a
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week without playing. I think a team will be Okay,
a week without playing when you're talking about the top
seeds playing Loyd, I think you'll be okay. I don't
think Duke with a week off will have too much
trouble with a sixteen. See, I don't think a three
seed will have that much trouble with the fourteenth because remember,
those teams aren't playing you know either it's because your
conference champions you're in. But you can make that now suddenly, whoa,
we just we just expanded the NCAA tournament by a
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week by having playing week.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Yeah, because the other part that that flows off of that, right,
play in week gives us more opportunities, more games, more viewing, and.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
To learn more of these players. Right, Because that's the
other part, Marches.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
If you're an NBA fan and your team is in
the lottery, this is where you're gonna meet guys and
not named Cooper Flag that might be instrumental to your future.
But all of that to say, you know, again, going
to the sanctity of the college, what are you gonna do.
You're gonna mute the importance of the regular season. Again,
the people who cared aren't going anywhere, right. The people
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that were already in and watching their favorite college, watching
their favorite conference, or watching.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
The sport as a whole.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
They've been with you through the end of the football
season from those early Marathon Oil games. Shout out to
all my old Marathon Oil talking Marathon Oil.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Should play Marathon Oil every year. Marathon Oil play Marathon Oil.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
So all of those games that you remember, people that
were invested, they're not going. They're already in and they're
not gonna suddenly be mad that there's an extra week
or later add it. Ind it's like, oh, you killed
the sanctity in the radio. No, No, it's just more
games and more opportunities for you to buy a widget exit.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
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Speaker 3 (14:20):
So just think about that.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yes, expanding the tournament, but how about you expand the
tournament to playing week.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Think about that. True TV would be so happy.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Oh my goodness, we can we can only have we
can only order two hundred episodes of Impractical Jokers for
next year instead of two fifty.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Oh why did we take a pay cut?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Well, the NCAA did something well, I mean now they
show NBA games.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yeah, I mean, come on now.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
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live from the tire rack dot Com Studios, Lakes putting
the finishing touches a big win over the Nuggets. And
I say big win because they're gonna win. Buy a
lot of points, not because you know Jokich and Murray played,
which they didn't.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
But teams resting players.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Well, that is square in the wheelhouse and the crosshairs
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Speaker 4 (16:37):
Oh, I'm living life large, just not as large as
Luca doncon trade.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Now, No, I'll tell you what and this you know,
Mike and I talked about this last hours. This is
one of those we talked about this when the trade happened.
There's gonna be an unforeseen effect of this trade, and
that is when, hey, when Lebron is out, because he's
gonna miss time as he's getting older, he's not going
to play.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
The minutes aren't going to be there. The Lakers will
be just fine.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
In certain games because Luca's good enough to get We
watched them carry bad Mavericks teams. He will be able
to carry bad Lakers teams when Lebron's not playing.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Yeah, no, there's no question about it. What's going to
be interesting is like they were doing a pretty good
job of sharing the ball and sharing the responsibility of
playmaking and all of that. But this has become the
Luca Dnson show. And what will be interesting and I
don't have any reason to believe it that Lebron won't
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take part in this, but Lebron really becomes sort of
a spacer and a off the ball fake creator. If
Luca is going to continue this way, and why wouldn't
you because he's on one right now, the dynamics will
just be interesting. That's the thing that I think ultimately
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is going to be the challenge is as Luca expands
his footprint on this team. Obviously, Jackson Hayes will feed
off of that, the spot guys will feed off of that.
In Austin Reeves and and Lebron James, They'll still be effective.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
But can they be as effective as they've been?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
That is going to be the challenge because those guys
are at their best still when they have the ball
in their hands, and the way lucas going right now,
it's going to be awfully hard to say we don't
want the ball in Luca's hands.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Yeah, And and based on the splits Lebron did at
his kids championship game, he looks like he should be
ready to get back on the court here soon.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Right.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Yeah, I mean I'm going to leave I'm going to
leave that alone.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
I'm going to how about we go to load management
as a whole, Rick and what we saw and guys
getting the parenthetical rest and the investigations that the league
is supposedly under going.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Any Yeah, but I'm not going to leave the Lebron
James thing alone. Forget it. This is this is I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna get into why he's there
and he has this injury and he's skipping around and
dancing and all that, because I don't know what kind
of injury he has and all that, But I just
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I've always had this thing like you're going and your
kids having a championship game, and you are Lebron James
and every other player that I've known in those situations,
they sit, they try to be as inconspicuous as possible.
And I know that that's really hard for Lebron James,
but I've seen guys do it. They come in late,
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got their hat low, they're sitting in the back there,
they're sitting, sitting some place where they can they can
sneak in, or where they're not front and center. And
I just I don't know whether if Lebron doesn't care
or whether he doesn't recognize, but I'm just looking at
it and saying, the kids love, no doubt love that
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Lebron James is there, certainly, but when he's front and center,
how does it not become Lebron James? And maybe the
kids don't care, maybe the parents don't care. I'm just
looking at this is the one and only time these
kids get to perform and play for something, and maybe
Bryce James is used to it at this point, but
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I just I think I would like him to be
a little more inconspicuous when it's not his rather than
like sitting courtside, like how does it not become them
Lebron James sing? And you guys tell me if I'm
barking up the wrong tree or this I'm taking. I
am taking exception to something that I should not take
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exception to. But and I don't feel like strongly about it.
I've just seen whether it's Steph Curry or any number
of guys who like they sneak in and they trying
to make sure that they want to be there to
support their kid, and their kid knows that they're there,
but they don't want to steal the spotlight from their
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kid or anybody else's kid, because this is this may
be the biggest game that they ever play.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Rick, you realize you're talking about Lebron James. You mean
this is Lebron. Lebron James has never you know, walked
in with his hat low anyway.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Hey, I don't want to make any waves here. He
doesn't do He hasn't done that for twenty years.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Yeah, I would just you're right, you're right.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
But I would think that maybe he'd make an exception here,
I can, I can still hold out hope, right, just maybe,
just maybe.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Anyway you're supposed to say, this is your best soap
opera after voice, if you're going to do this right.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
It would be one thing if Lebron had an older
kid that he got into the NBA all by himself.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
But he hasn't done. Oh wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Oh you know, you know you want a great Lebron.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I got a great Lebron hotte for you, right right,
Lebron hot Tech.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Who were talking about how injury Okay is and I
said this when had happened. H Lebron is magically going
to heal when the Lakers six games and eight nights,
which is ridiculous. I don't know how you put that
on the schedule. But when the Lakers six games and
eight nights expires tomorrow, I think you'll be ready to
play Saturday for the first I think that's when he's
coming back to the line up against the Hawks.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
I will be interested to see that and whether that
is a conspiracy theory that actually comes true because every
other conspiracy theory that I've heard over the last forty
eight hours has not happened. Like the Denver Nuggets rested
Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic and Kristin Brown so that
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they would be fresh and be able to take down
the Lakers. Oh wait, Nikola Jokic Jamal Murray actually might
be injured. They might they might be missing time because
they actually physically can't play. How about that? Or let's
say Oklahoma City because they own the rights to Philadelphia's
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first round pick if it is seventh or lower, and
they played Philly tonight and you know what they're not
playing shell Shay Gildess Alexander. Is that because they went
to seventy sixers to win, and then the fall or
move higher up in the standings, and then as a result,
there'll be a better chance that they actually fall seventh
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through thirtieth, as if the Oklahoma City thunder don't have
enough draft picks already. And oh wait, Oklahoma City, even
without Shake Gills is out of the center for stomp
the Philadelphia seventy six ers by thirty three points. I
just I think maybe part of it is that we're
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in this kind of this low point in the in
the in the sports schedule where we have to create
drama or controversy. And so we're now talking about guys
team sitting stars for various games and various opponents and
figuring out some sort of you know, underhanded reason why,
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some sinister reason why they're they're doing that. And then
I'm just looking at it. First of all, any any
thought that like any one game is going to tip
the scales when it comes to the draft or draft positioning.
Do people realize one that we're talking about one game
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out of a remaining fourteen when it comes to Oklahoma
City and Philadelphia, as if somehow losing the Philadelphia is
now going to do what in comparison to what happens
in the other thirteen games to Toronto Raptors are still
one game ahead of them that they don't Oklahoma City
doesn't control anything by resting Shagus Alexander in this particular game.
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And then regardless of where they finish in the standings,
we then have the lottery which is going to determine
them the actual positioning of the draft. And then we
can look at the fact that even if you happen
to get the number one pick, you still may not
pick the right player or get the best player in
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the draft unless it's just clear cut. And Antonio Spurs
did not have the worst records in the league. They
wound up with the number one pick and they got
Victor Wembanyama. The Atlanta Hawks had a chance of getting
the number one pick, lo and behold they got the
number one pick and mixed blessings because they got Resa
(25:41):
scha So like this idea that there's like this master
plan going on, We're going to rest these guys now,
and that as a result, this is going to happen.
It's just kind of goofy because there's so many variables
and layers to it. I can't help but feel like
it's and it's you know, we media members who covered
(26:01):
the NBA out there shouting for the tree tops. This
is totally unfair, This is uncalled for. This makes the
league look bad. Okay, what do you say now when
none of the things you suggested were going to happen
actually happen.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Well, it was more fun than the old argument and
take of the children, take of Johnny and Susie up
in the three hundred level. Rick I mean this, This
at least gives it some GRAVI toss and.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Wait, yeah, well I will I will say this. I
feel like I don't know how you guys feel about this,
but I've been thinking about this, Like you go when
you buy a three hundred dollars ticket to go watch
a game, and I'm thinking, you know, at this point,
if you go pay three hundred bucks for a ticket
(26:44):
and you're it's and it's because you want to go
see a particular player, You're not you're not a very
smart investor of your money because there's a good chance
you're not gonna see that. But if it's all about
one player that you want to go see them, and uh,
you know what, watch his highlights on YouTube, so you
don't have to spend three hundred dollars because it's it's
(27:07):
who knows, you know, what happened to going to watch
your favorite team play. I just I look at that,
and I can't help but think that some of the
ego or some of the complaint is, you know what,
I bought these tickets and I told my kids, I
am going to take you to go see Lebron James.
(27:28):
And then Lebron James doesn't play and dad has egg
on his face. I think that's what drives me.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
I can't believe that.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Guy didn't play because I promised my kid he was
going to play. You know what, should be careful what.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Those promises, because like I said, it's a bad investment.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
At this point, you're going out and and want to
guarantee anybody that are going to see a particular play
on a given night.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Well, see that's rick where I think you do?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
You and your other you know, NBA media breath are
in all the insiders reporting. You need to stand up
and say, hey, you know we're going to take some
time off. You know I worked yesterday, I'm not gonna
work today. Wait, but there's appreciation. No, I'm not gonna
not gonna talk about you, not gonna talk about Lebron,
not gonna talk about Steph, not gonna talk about Giannis.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I'm telling you, I need you know, these back to backs.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I got to pick the night I want to work
and say stuff about Steph and Jannis and Lebron. I'm
gonna do it on Monday night, not Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
You know what. You know what I could I could
name you just about every NBA media person who would
be all in on that, and then their their producer
or their editor or their boss that say you're gonna
do what now? You're threatening to do what now?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, I turned on FS one to see Rick Buker.
Turns out he's sitting out because his kid has a
championship game. Look at him, He's running on the floor,
he's upset with the referee. He's on TMZ.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Now, there have.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Been there have been plenty of uh former FS one
people who for one reason or another failed to show
up when they were supposed to or were late, and
you'll notice they're not on air anymore.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
So all right, I got.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
It may work for players, it does not work for
media people. Hey, you know what, in fact, in fact,
why don't you guys be the first one's experiment with it?
Speaker 6 (29:20):
You just go ahead and decide, you know what.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Hey, by the way, I'm not doing the show on
I'm not doing the show on Thursday. Okay, I'm going
to protest because because Shay gilds Is Alexander did not
play for the Thunder on Wednesday night, and I just
don't feel that I should have to show up and
do the show on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I should be able to claim a mental health day. Yeah,
you can do. Sure, I mean it left, it rocked
me to my core.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Rick, Yes, I am, I am.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
I am wounded.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
I am wounded as a result of Shay Gills just
out Alexander not playing against the Philadelphia seventy six ers.
That hurt my souls and I need to I need
to end it.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Let's see how that flies.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Let me know, all right now, less, I want, I want.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I want to leave you with this because now I've
figured out a way I have. I can solve all
the Knicks issues. Boy, solving all right now, solving them all.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
That's the greatest villain laugh I've heard a while. Yeah, yes,
mister Bond, I expect.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
You to die.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Okay, you ready.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
It's very simple.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
It's very If the two words are Jim Dolan, then no.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
No no no no no no no nothing, no no.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Tracy Morgan, he even said, throwing up at the game,
maybe I'm the Knicks good luck charm. He comes to
every game he throws up. He becomes the Knicks Grimace
like the Mets had Grimace last year. And the Knicks
go on to run all the way to the East
Finals and beyond.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Oh you know what, This would be the true test
of a Knicks fan. Are you willing to watch Morgan
throw up night after night for every.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
W Are you kidding? Why do I get him sick
with today's bad chicken? Are you kidding? I've been the
best TV possible.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
You'd be right there next to him throwing up. Let
me do it, sympathy, throwing up my finger down your throat,
so you got help, Tracy.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
He's on Twitter at Rick Buker. That is at Rick Buker.
Check out on the Ball podcast as well. The quad
up there as well, with more stuff on the Celtics,
the Nuggets and a very stubborn Tom Timbodow and beyond.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Rick is always buddy, appreciate it, man, We'll talk to
you next.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Week proj style, Yo.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
What i'd be willing?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
I'd watch Tracy Morgan if I knew the next good
I'd watch them throw like I've never seen people throw
up before.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Yeah, exactly, I've seen that many a time.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
You kidding, We kids, You've seen that lot of things
you never thought you'd seen.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I just have to watch it on television. I don't
have to have I just watch it until it's all good,
no good.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Yeah, fast forward.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Time out to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. From someone who's been called the Tracy
Morgan of Fox Sports Radio, she wants a big guest
star on thirty Rock.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
It's Monte Malanius.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
I never watched thirty Rocks.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
I know Rock is probably the best comedy of the
last fifteen years.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
I think I just missed it, and I think I
would like it. I just I just missed it when
it was happening. But I all the stuff I heard.
I was like, I feel like I should get it.
Get onto. Tina Fey wasn't there. Yeah, I know what
you're Yeah, I didn't. I never watched it. Maybe I should.
I need a new show. The Cavaliers might need a
new something. Guys. They've lost three in a row.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Oh my goodness. Nos.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
Remember they want like sixteen in a row. Now they've
lost three in a row, one of them to the Clippers.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
But anyway, the Kings meet them today one twenty three
to one nineteen in Sacramento. That just wrapped up Luka
doncic And did with thirty one one points, nine rebounds,
and seven assists. He had twenty one on the first
quarter as Lakers crews passed the Nuggets one twenty to
one oh eight. Denver didn't play Nikola Yogic oh Orgemal
Murray because of injuries. The Suns did take down the
Bulls one twenty seven to one twenty one. Kid Cunningham
(33:15):
hit a game winning three pointer over Bam out of Bayo,
and the Pistons came back to defeat the Heat, win
sixteen to one thirteen. Cunningham ended with his ninth triple
double of the season. The Rockets extended their winning streak
to eight after topping the Magic, won sixteen to one
oh eight. The Spurs had a one twenty to one
oh five win over the Knicks and off the bench,
Sandro mamu Kelashvili.
Speaker 8 (33:37):
No, that's not it, but we're gonna pretend it is.
Speaker 7 (33:39):
He was seven to seven from deep, ended as a
leading scorer with thirty four points off the bench, and
he did it in nineteen minutes.
Speaker 8 (33:47):
No player has done that in the Who.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I'm sorry I've tided to here.
Speaker 8 (33:50):
Who just say Sandro mamu Kelashvili. Okay, I think that's right.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
If it was hit Nikolai Skittishvili when he played a
long time with no but I'll telling you I think
that's right.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
All right, Wait, wait, who was it again?
Speaker 8 (34:04):
What was the name again, Sandro Mamukelashvili. Okay, all right,
I'm sounding like it's fast.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Time definitely gets fast. Actually it's drifting, Hobby Moulin.
Speaker 8 (34:15):
Don't confuse me.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
The Pelicans also played spoiler after topping the timberwise in
Minnesota one nineteen to one fifteen in the men's first
four the game that just ended with Xavier coming back
to top Texas eighty six to eighty. The Musketeers are
going to take on Illinois on Friday in the first round.
Mount Saint Mary's defeated American eighty three to seventy two.
The Mountaineers will face one seed Duke on Friday in
the first round as well. On the ice, the Maple
(34:38):
the Maple leaves edge of the Avalanche two to one.
If you're going back to you know, three am this morning,
we'll talk.
Speaker 8 (34:44):
About the Dodgers.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
They hit three homers, including one from shoe Atani as
they beat the Cubs again in Tokyo six to three.
Speaker 8 (34:50):
That's right back to you.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Guys who had that big night against the NIXT I
tried to write it down.
Speaker 7 (34:55):
I try to write that, No, Sandro Sandro, not Sandra Sandro, Mamukelashvili,
mamukelashly product.
Speaker 8 (35:04):
Yeah, yeah, all they call him mamu short, mam mam Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Well they also had our tourist Carnichievis. Oh yeah, NFL
Andrew Gays. Yeah, sure many, Thank you very mama.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
You really you jump back a game. I was thinking
all the Internet.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Then I went to International Stars of the nineties, and
so I went with Andrew Days. Yeah, and Days who
looked like he was forty when he was playing. Well,
that's okay, might have been who is that again, Monsi, Sandrew?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Now you're got Now you're having trouble the first name. Yeah,
I know, I am.
Speaker 8 (35:37):
I want to say Sandra Mamu kailash Vili very good.
All right, Yeah, listen, it's gonna be I'm gonna start
calling you that. Mom's gonna be your nickname.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I'll just be Mama good from on, He's the big mamou.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Thanks Manzi. Coming up next, was there a million dollar
souvenir let loose in the world of sports today?
Speaker 3 (35:58):
That's next. Jason the Mic Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (36:09):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon live from the Tirack dot Com studios.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
And today went pretty much how the day before went.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Opening Day Major League Baseball season in Japan, Dodgers beat
the Cubs. Day two, Dodge beat the Cubs.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
And there is a.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Million dollar question following this two game series. It's because
of this home run.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
On Otani. Hammer's why, oh this ball is well struck.
Speaker 9 (36:45):
Deep bright center, back to the wall, that's off the
top of the wall. O'tani around first, he said the second, Well,
they're saying home run looked like it came off the
top of the wall initially. But O'tani comes around with
his first home run of the season.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
So that was FS one on the call. It was
challenged our Dodgers Radio.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Sorry, the game was on FS one earlier today and
you know watching the replay, Yeah, did a fan reach
for the ball, yes, but did it look like it
wasn't going to be a home run? And it's not
like Pete Krow Armstrong was going to catch it, so
they let the home run stand, right.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
I was fine with it.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
And when you hear it about controversy surrounding the surrounding
this home run, like it's really not that big a deal.
The bigger question is this The ball's a home run?
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Bounces back out on the field, right. Pete crow Armstrong
grabs it.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Has an untold amount of money in his hand, and
he throws the ball back into the stands where a
ten year old kid catches it. This is sho Heo
Tani's first home run in Japan as a member of
the Dodgers. Now, he's at plenty of home runs in
Japan before, but his first major league home run in
(37:57):
Japan were game that counted. Right, It's the first home
run in Japan. What is this ball worth?
Speaker 5 (38:04):
I would say, Seth Viggers, you'd start right at a
million dollars at least, right, because this fifty to fifty
went for over four million. Right now, it's become part
of a national Hey, come visit o'hanne's ball right as
you're you make a pilgrimage to go see it. It's
got to be a million dollar ball because there's got
to be that one collector because look, this was a
(38:26):
ridiculously difficult ticket to get the lottery that they had
didn't have a ton in the marketplace because there is
no secondary ticket market in Japan. Right there are a
couple of folks that you risk years in jail for
selling your seats above face value, which means you were
(38:47):
going to see this game, which I got to think
there's at least one person in that audience.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
From either of these games.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
That would say, all right, I'll pay whatever it takes,
and not to mention just the hotel. Any global marketplace
is just absurd right now with memorabilia, autographs, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Because I thought it would be I'm thinking like five
hundred grand, But you know the memorabilia market better than I.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Do, no matter what.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
I'm stunned Pete Crow, and I'm glad he did, because
what a cool thing to do, right, to throw it
to a fan, making a fan's life and they're gonna
make a lot of money. But Peter Karl Armstrong is
not a guy that's contract or a collection. But I'm
really stunned he threw it back into the stands like
that's a that's a ball. That's worth a lot of money. Like,
as a baseball player, you have to know the Otani's
(39:36):
first home run ball in Japan is gonna be worth something.
And the fact that he still picked it up. I
would have said, hey, the oh wait a minute, and
I would have given it to one of my guys
like I would hey, and pe Kromes walking to his
own dugout, this all mine. He's got the Otani ball.
So Tana, you can give me a million dollars and
I'll give you this ball, no problem.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
I don't want strong arm like that couple did early.
Remember remember that story we covered. Here's a couple of
autographed bats.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Beat it.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
I mean I'm in that Paul Skin's cards up to
seven hundred thousand dollars. Yeah, right for frame of reference,
right with still it's inside the final day. But fifty
nine bids at seven hundred k for a patch that
was on his debut jersey.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Really cool. This is the first home run that Otani
hit as a major league player in Japan as part
of a showcase series. It's worth more than that.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Yeah, I mean this is the I mean Petek Crow
Armstrong hasn't made It's his second year in the bigs,
the former Mets prospect to the Mets side.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Yes, we're gonna trade you our.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Number one pick in the draft of year ago for
for three months of hobby baias, Like what are we doing?
But like that could have he could have been on
Easy Street. Hey, I could have got a million dollars.
But he threw the ball to a kid in the stands.
All right, that's kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Good guy.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yeah, might rue it on the flight home. Oh I
had a million dollars in mind. Would you throw a
million dollars to someone else? No, that's a good question.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
I like I like that.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
It's the cut of your jib.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Wait to get the brass tacks exit up out a
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Speaker 1 (00:51):
Ten minutes ago in the fourth quarter, Lakers lead the
Nuggets by twenty eight yay, one.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh seven seventy nine. Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Not quite good to be the eighty point game we
thought we were getting from Luca early on, but still
a big night for Luka Doncic and the Nuggets. Of course,
playing without Nicola Jokic and Jamalmer doesn't matter. It has
been all Lakers from the jump on this one. Luca
not even on the court.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
You got all five starters and double figures plus. This
has just been an absolute Lakers roll over. We have
more NBA coming up in about twenty minutes. Rick Bucker
stops by and we talk about resting players in the
return of Lebron James, and all of a sudden, we're
getting ready for the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Right now, it's Lakers minus twenty four live action.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
What do you think, Hey, I told you er when
you said it was Lakers minus twenty one, I said,
give me that, give me that action tonight, and I'm
feeling pretty good. You're at twenty one and a half.
So we got going down. But thanks to Marcus Fouster
for stopping by twenty two.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Points to night.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Xavier comes from behind to beat Texas, knocking the Longhorns
out of the NCAA term again. The Texas led all
the way and just had nothing left at the end.
Some big buckets by him. They had a big offense
have put back that clinched the game off of an
air ball, and Xavier moves on to face Illinois in
the NCAA Tournament. Now, now that we've seen the first
(02:10):
two nights of the tournament again, the first four. We've
seen this for a while, right, and the first four works.
It's interesting people watch. However, it's not quite as good
as it could be.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I get that when we're first putting the first four
out there, we don't know how it's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Are people gonna like it? Are they not?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
We also have to understand that once you do something,
you're not going back. Right, They're not going to expand
a tournament to sixty eight teams then say.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Oh no, no, no, we're going back. We don't like this, so.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Are days of TV there's more money being spent. No,
they're not going So I get it, and I get it.
And the first four has been successful. They've done what
they need to do, which is when they can put
the high profile teams on the first two nights. We
had North Carolina play last night, Texas played tonight. All right, right,
storylines around both them. Do either of them deserve to
(02:58):
be in the tournament? Now Texas, you realize, okay, maybe not,
but you know they try to do the best they can.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
As we've told you for a long time, the NCAA
term is a television show. It congratulations to all the
shows who have been using that this week, you've only
been saying that for a few years. So congratulations, But
this shows you and forget about your watering down the
tournament while why are we doing this? But what we've
seen the last couple nights, what we've seen so far
(03:23):
with the first four, tells you that this is why
the tournament needs to expand because on nights like tonight,
college basketball sort of owns the night, but not really
because every game for the for the first four is
two eleven seeds and two sixteen seeds and it's really
hard because the sixteen seeds are teams that nobody cares about.
(03:46):
And is there any real desire to have to get
to the television set to watch Mount Saint Mary's an American?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
There isn't. Is there enough to get there to watch
Texas and Xavier? Yeah somewhat, but.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Yeah, but you're anti American if you didn't turn on American.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Sorry Mount Saint Mary's beating Canada tonight, that's sorry, eighty
three seventy two. So there's not enough to really. While
you kind of own the night, you don't really own
it because the games aren't that grabbing now in the
NCAA Tournament. That's why it's the tournament, right, This is
why the tournament gives you all kinds of volume the
(04:22):
first couple of days because you're gonna see blowouts, yeah,
You're gonna see close games, yeah, but just the fact
that you have wall to wall games that makes this
an event you don't want to miss. And you could
see a great game at any moment. You can see
it upset at any moment. You gotta have your TVs on.
You're flicking back and forth between four games at any
one time, sometimes more than that. Oh, turn on True TV,
(04:42):
that game is better. No, go to TBS, that game
is better. Oh, this game's coming down to the end.
To go back to True TV. You need the first
two nights to be that way, and by that I
mean Tuesday and Wednesday. The tournament should expand just to
have four games on each of the first two nights.
Is it too much to you get more than that
to say we're going to start middle of the day. Yeah,
I could see that maybe in the future. But what
(05:05):
they should have is you should have four games on
in the primetime window because that's basically what you get
at the end of every night on Thursday and Friday.
Right when you get to primetime, there's four ish games
left that we haven't seen. Now you have a whole
day of gluttony that you have the first two days,
and then you have a little bit of time off,
and then you get the four games at night. All right, great,
that's kind of what the first two nights should be
(05:27):
because then you are mitigating the possibility of a we
don't might not have great games. We got lower seeded teams,
but you're putting volume out that you're throwing volume at
me of these four games. Now you have a couple
of teams that are high profile, a couple of teams
that I'll be following. Maybe you get an upset or
two here or there, but by throwing volume at this,
you make it an event that I don't want to miss.
(05:49):
I want to have all four of my televisions on.
I want to be watching all four of these channels.
I want to be watching TBS while seeing the game
and TNT and the game on True TV and the
game on USA up in the corner. That's why this
should expand to get four games a night the first
to nights, because it is a television show, and it's
a better television show when you can give me more
options because you can't guarantee me great games, you can't
(06:11):
guarantee me a lot of drama. It's not the Sweet
sixteen or the Final Four. This is the first few
days where yeah, good games come and go, so give
me volume, hit me with numbers. And then suddenly the
first Tuesday and Wednesday, this whole week then becomes it's
all NCAA turner. It's high profile, and it's primetime every
(06:31):
single night from Tuesday through Friday. That's why it makes
sense to increase the teams. All the other arguments can
go by the wayside this television. Now you're saying, nodding head,
going oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why it makes sense.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Well.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
But one of the things we always talk about is
the gluttony of Thursday and Friday, both from a game
watching experience. My brothers are out in Las Vegas right
now and you know, getting ready for the chaos to ensue.
But all of that, those games, those betting opportunities, and
the food and the beverages and everything that flow. When
(07:03):
do we say there's too much made? We can get
biblical and stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
But in our culture. No, we want more, and we
want more.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Games, we want more betting opportunities, we want more viewing opportunities.
You're not going to turn down another couple of games.
And anybody that goes to the tradition and all traditional
college sports, I got news for you that left a
long time ago, and the sanctity and purity of the sport.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
When folks start to bemoan that, get out of here.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
We know guys were getting one hundred dollars handshakes and
envelopes going back to the sixties. Okay, so all of
that has been debunked, and that myth has.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Been murdered a million times over.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
So to complain that it got to sixty eight, or
that it would get to seventy six or eventually to
all three hundred plus teams being involved, you lose me.
You've lost me if you're still trying to make those arguments.
Because it's all about give a richer, more robust experience,
and for the television partners more opportunities to sell advertising
(08:09):
dollars for players in this new nil era, more opportunity
for those players to make more money, the coaches to
raise their profiles. Just keep going on down the line,
everybody wins from the experience. Are you gonna get some
bad games? Absolutely, we get a bunch of those the
first two days of the tournament, whether you like it
(08:30):
or not, at your old traditional settings that we had
for all those years when it was you know, the
sanctity of the sixty four. No, there were a lot
of crappy games, So don't try to romanticize that so
and say that you know, suddenly this is gonna be
get more of those, like people tried to do with
(08:50):
the college football experience.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Oh we got bad game. There were always bad games. Yeah, yeah,
So you know what the old Kevin Durant. You don't
like it, don't watch.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
More people are gonna be involved, more people are gonna bet,
and your audience will be there. You're not gonna oversaturate
the market because just as soon as you decide maybe
I don't love this, it's gone. And we're into the
third week of opening day of the Major League Baseball season.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I mean, look, college basketball has become It always was
a I don't want to say was always was a
one month sport, but it always owned the month of March, right,
But now college basketball has strictly become a one month sport.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Right, you watch your your conference and maybe if you
have a team like your Syracuse Orange.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
You lived and died with me and min Nor back
and we used to go to the tournament. Boy, those
are the days.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Well, you know, I got to hear Beheim talk a
lot the last couple of days, So that was good thinking.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Of the better days.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But the whole, the whole thing is that when when
you when you think about the NCAA basketball tournament in totality,
it's it's become less of a land escape, less real
estate to own. So what you need to do is
own the real estate that you have. If you own
the month of March, why do you have all these
(10:09):
down days when you can own other days?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Why can you do it? Because if we start paying,
it's all of a sudden we go from really the
the conference tournament week is when everything really starts to
heat up. Right, Like, up until that point, what are
the big headlines? You know, something happens as a big
game involving Duke or Cooper Flag or when Cooper Flag
got hurt. But generally you get to conference tournament week, Okay,
this is when we ramp up and then we go
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right into the NCAA tournament. So you own that time
all the way through the end of the month, and
you know you can't do anything and play more games
during sweet sixteen week. You know, maybe you could have
a spend an nil special, we let guys at the
portal and sign live on television. But when you have days,
you can say, okay, we can own this day even more.
(10:53):
Why would you not do that? Like, I don't get
where there's real opposition to increase the tournament, and it
may get to a point where after a few years it's, well,
all right, we got four games on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Why don't we add Why don't we add four more teams?
Why don't we add more games? Why don't we have
six games at night? Why don't we have Because you
(11:15):
can have all those lower slots be playing slots, you
can make the you can actually make the regular season
worth something and say, okay, the first you know, say
the first eight seeds, whatever you want to say, the
tournament these are. But everything else is a playing slot.
So you want to play as well as you can.
You want to make sure you're killing yourself in this
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in their season because you want one of those top
by you don't have to play and win that extra game.
You could make the nine seeds and the ten seeds,
the eleven sees. You can make them all playing playing
games and nobody would care.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Okay, great, you're in. Now, now you're a twelve seed. Right.
You could even lengthen it like this.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
How about this, You have the conference championship week and
then the next week becomes the play week to get
to the tournament. Right, you could now you're now you're now.
This is really outside the box, but I love this thought.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Just that created hundreds of millions of I just did
I just did you have?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
You have the it's playing week, it's playing week here
in the tournament, and it's it's four nights where you
have to wear. Teams play and they play. Maybe you
have to play where you have to win too. Get
but however you want to do it. You can have
all these teams play. You could have you can have
four games a night Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and those
winners are going to the tournament the following week. Now
you can say, oh, so a team's gonna go a
(12:33):
week without playing. I think a team will be Okay,
a week without playing when you're talking about the top
seeds playing Loyd, I think you'll be okay. I don't
think Duke with a week off will have too much
trouble with a sixteen. See, I don't think a three
seed will have that much trouble with the fourteenth because remember,
those teams aren't playing you know either it's because your
conference champions you're in. But you can make that now suddenly, whoa,
we just we just expanded the NCAA tournament by a
(12:54):
week by having playing week.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Yeah, because the other part that that flows off of that, right,
play in week gives us more opportunities, more games, more viewing, and.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
To learn more of these players. Right, Because that's the
other part, Marches.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
If you're an NBA fan and your team is in
the lottery, this is where you're gonna meet guys and
not named Cooper Flag that might be instrumental to your future.
But all of that to say, you know, again, going
to the sanctity of the college, what are you gonna do.
You're gonna mute the importance of the regular season. Again,
the people who cared aren't going anywhere, right. The people
(13:31):
that were already in and watching their favorite college, watching
their favorite conference, or watching.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
The sport as a whole.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
They've been with you through the end of the football
season from those early Marathon Oil games. Shout out to
all my old Marathon Oil talking Marathon Oil.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Should play Marathon Oil every year. Marathon Oil play Marathon Oil.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
So all of those games that you remember, people that
were invested, they're not going. They're already in and they're
not gonna suddenly be mad that there's an extra week
or later add it. Ind it's like, oh, you killed
the sanctity in the radio. No, No, it's just more
games and more opportunities for you to buy a widget exit.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
How about a Fresca exit swollen dome Jason Smith Mike
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Speaker 3 (14:20):
So just think about that.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yes, expanding the tournament, but how about you expand the
tournament to playing week.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Think about that. True TV would be so happy.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Oh my goodness, we can we can only have we
can only order two hundred episodes of Impractical Jokers for
next year instead of two fifty.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Oh why did we take a pay cut?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Well, the NCAA did something well, I mean now they
show NBA games.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yeah, I mean, come on now.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
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the finishing touches a big win over the Nuggets. And
I say big win because they're gonna win. Buy a
lot of points, not because you know Jokich and Murray played,
which they didn't.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
But teams resting players.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Well, that is square in the wheelhouse and the crosshairs
of our next guest joining us now in the hotline
Fox Sports won NBA Inside or Extraordinaire. He is on
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the Ball podcast as well, Rick, What's Happening, bud.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Oh, I'm living life large, just not as large as
Luca doncon trade.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Now, No, I'll tell you what and this you know,
Mike and I talked about this last hours. This is
one of those we talked about this when the trade happened.
There's gonna be an unforeseen effect of this trade, and
that is when, hey, when Lebron is out, because he's
gonna miss time as he's getting older, he's not going
to play.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
The minutes aren't going to be there. The Lakers will
be just fine.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
In certain games because Luca's good enough to get We
watched them carry bad Mavericks teams. He will be able
to carry bad Lakers teams when Lebron's not playing.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Yeah, no, there's no question about it. What's going to
be interesting is like they were doing a pretty good
job of sharing the ball and sharing the responsibility of
playmaking and all of that. But this has become the
Luca Dnson show. And what will be interesting and I
don't have any reason to believe it that Lebron won't
(17:35):
take part in this, but Lebron really becomes sort of
a spacer and a off the ball fake creator. If
Luca is going to continue this way, and why wouldn't
you because he's on one right now, the dynamics will
just be interesting. That's the thing that I think ultimately
(17:57):
is going to be the challenge is as Luca expands
his footprint on this team. Obviously, Jackson Hayes will feed
off of that, the spot guys will feed off of that.
In Austin Reeves and and Lebron James, They'll still be effective.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
But can they be as effective as they've been?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
That is going to be the challenge because those guys
are at their best still when they have the ball
in their hands, and the way lucas going right now,
it's going to be awfully hard to say we don't
want the ball in Luca's hands.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Yeah, And and based on the splits Lebron did at
his kids championship game, he looks like he should be
ready to get back on the court here soon.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Right.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Yeah, I mean I'm going to leave I'm going to
leave that alone.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
I'm going to how about we go to load management
as a whole, Rick and what we saw and guys
getting the parenthetical rest and the investigations that the league
is supposedly under going.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Any Yeah, but I'm not going to leave the Lebron
James thing alone. Forget it. This is this is I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna get into why he's there
and he has this injury and he's skipping around and
dancing and all that, because I don't know what kind
of injury he has and all that, But I just
(19:21):
I've always had this thing like you're going and your
kids having a championship game, and you are Lebron James
and every other player that I've known in those situations,
they sit, they try to be as inconspicuous as possible.
And I know that that's really hard for Lebron James,
but I've seen guys do it. They come in late,
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got their hat low, they're sitting in the back there,
they're sitting, sitting some place where they can they can
sneak in, or where they're not front and center. And
I just I don't know whether if Lebron doesn't care
or whether he doesn't recognize, but I'm just looking at
it and saying, the kids love, no doubt love that
(20:06):
Lebron James is there, certainly, but when he's front and center,
how does it not become Lebron James? And maybe the
kids don't care, maybe the parents don't care. I'm just
looking at this is the one and only time these
kids get to perform and play for something, and maybe
Bryce James is used to it at this point, but
(20:27):
I just I think I would like him to be
a little more inconspicuous when it's not his rather than
like sitting courtside, like how does it not become them
Lebron James sing? And you guys tell me if I'm
barking up the wrong tree or this I'm taking. I
am taking exception to something that I should not take
(20:48):
exception to. But and I don't feel like strongly about it.
I've just seen whether it's Steph Curry or any number
of guys who like they sneak in and they trying
to make sure that they want to be there to
support their kid, and their kid knows that they're there,
but they don't want to steal the spotlight from their
(21:09):
kid or anybody else's kid, because this is this may
be the biggest game that they ever play.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Rick, you realize you're talking about Lebron James. You mean
this is Lebron. Lebron James has never you know, walked
in with his hat low anyway.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Hey, I don't want to make any waves here. He
doesn't do He hasn't done that for twenty years.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Yeah, I would just you're right, you're right.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
But I would think that maybe he'd make an exception here,
I can, I can still hold out hope, right, just maybe,
just maybe.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Anyway you're supposed to say, this is your best soap
opera after voice, if you're going to do this right.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
It would be one thing if Lebron had an older
kid that he got into the NBA all by himself.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
But he hasn't done. Oh wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Oh you know, you know you want a great Lebron.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I got a great Lebron hotte for you, right right,
Lebron hot Tech.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Who were talking about how injury Okay is and I
said this when had happened. H Lebron is magically going
to heal when the Lakers six games and eight nights,
which is ridiculous. I don't know how you put that
on the schedule. But when the Lakers six games and
eight nights expires tomorrow, I think you'll be ready to
play Saturday for the first I think that's when he's
coming back to the line up against the Hawks.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
I will be interested to see that and whether that
is a conspiracy theory that actually comes true because every
other conspiracy theory that I've heard over the last forty
eight hours has not happened. Like the Denver Nuggets rested
Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic and Kristin Brown so that
(22:43):
they would be fresh and be able to take down
the Lakers. Oh wait, Nikola Jokic Jamal Murray actually might
be injured. They might they might be missing time because
they actually physically can't play. How about that? Or let's
say Oklahoma City because they own the rights to Philadelphia's
(23:05):
first round pick if it is seventh or lower, and
they played Philly tonight and you know what they're not
playing shell Shay Gildess Alexander. Is that because they went
to seventy sixers to win, and then the fall or
move higher up in the standings, and then as a result,
there'll be a better chance that they actually fall seventh
(23:26):
through thirtieth, as if the Oklahoma City thunder don't have
enough draft picks already. And oh wait, Oklahoma City, even
without Shake Gills is out of the center for stomp
the Philadelphia seventy six ers by thirty three points. I
just I think maybe part of it is that we're
(23:47):
in this kind of this low point in the in
the in the sports schedule where we have to create
drama or controversy. And so we're now talking about guys
team sitting stars for various games and various opponents and
figuring out some sort of you know, underhanded reason why,
(24:12):
some sinister reason why they're they're doing that. And then
I'm just looking at it. First of all, any any
thought that like any one game is going to tip
the scales when it comes to the draft or draft positioning.
Do people realize one that we're talking about one game
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out of a remaining fourteen when it comes to Oklahoma
City and Philadelphia, as if somehow losing the Philadelphia is
now going to do what in comparison to what happens
in the other thirteen games to Toronto Raptors are still
one game ahead of them that they don't Oklahoma City
doesn't control anything by resting Shagus Alexander in this particular game.
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And then regardless of where they finish in the standings,
we then have the lottery which is going to determine
them the actual positioning of the draft. And then we
can look at the fact that even if you happen
to get the number one pick, you still may not
pick the right player or get the best player in
(25:19):
the draft unless it's just clear cut. And Antonio Spurs
did not have the worst records in the league. They
wound up with the number one pick and they got
Victor Wembanyama. The Atlanta Hawks had a chance of getting
the number one pick, lo and behold they got the
number one pick and mixed blessings because they got Resa
(25:41):
scha So like this idea that there's like this master
plan going on, We're going to rest these guys now,
and that as a result, this is going to happen.
It's just kind of goofy because there's so many variables
and layers to it. I can't help but feel like
it's and it's you know, we media members who covered
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the NBA out there shouting for the tree tops. This
is totally unfair, This is uncalled for. This makes the
league look bad. Okay, what do you say now when
none of the things you suggested were going to happen
actually happen.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Well, it was more fun than the old argument and
take of the children, take of Johnny and Susie up
in the three hundred level. Rick I mean this, This
at least gives it some GRAVI toss and.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Wait, yeah, well I will I will say this. I
feel like I don't know how you guys feel about this,
but I've been thinking about this, Like you go when
you buy a three hundred dollars ticket to go watch
a game, and I'm thinking, you know, at this point,
if you go pay three hundred bucks for a ticket
(26:44):
and you're it's and it's because you want to go
see a particular player, You're not you're not a very
smart investor of your money because there's a good chance
you're not gonna see that. But if it's all about
one player that you want to go see them, and uh,
you know what, watch his highlights on YouTube, so you
don't have to spend three hundred dollars because it's it's
(27:07):
who knows, you know, what happened to going to watch
your favorite team play. I just I look at that,
and I can't help but think that some of the
ego or some of the complaint is, you know what,
I bought these tickets and I told my kids, I
am going to take you to go see Lebron James.
(27:28):
And then Lebron James doesn't play and dad has egg
on his face. I think that's what drives me.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
I can't believe that.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Guy didn't play because I promised my kid he was
going to play. You know what, should be careful what.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Those promises, because like I said, it's a bad investment.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
At this point, you're going out and and want to
guarantee anybody that are going to see a particular play
on a given night.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Well, see that's rick where I think you do?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
You and your other you know, NBA media breath are
in all the insiders reporting. You need to stand up
and say, hey, you know we're going to take some
time off. You know I worked yesterday, I'm not gonna
work today. Wait, but there's appreciation. No, I'm not gonna
not gonna talk about you, not gonna talk about Lebron,
not gonna talk about Steph, not gonna talk about Giannis.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I'm telling you, I need you know, these back to backs.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I got to pick the night I want to work
and say stuff about Steph and Jannis and Lebron. I'm
gonna do it on Monday night, not Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
You know what. You know what I could I could
name you just about every NBA media person who would
be all in on that, and then their their producer
or their editor or their boss that say you're gonna
do what now? You're threatening to do what now?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, I turned on FS one to see Rick Buker.
Turns out he's sitting out because his kid has a
championship game. Look at him, He's running on the floor,
he's upset with the referee. He's on TMZ.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Now, there have.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Been there have been plenty of uh former FS one
people who for one reason or another failed to show
up when they were supposed to or were late, and
you'll notice they're not on air anymore.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
So all right, I got.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
It may work for players, it does not work for
media people. Hey, you know what, in fact, in fact,
why don't you guys be the first one's experiment with it?
Speaker 6 (29:20):
You just go ahead and decide, you know what.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Hey, by the way, I'm not doing the show on
I'm not doing the show on Thursday. Okay, I'm going
to protest because because Shay gilds Is Alexander did not
play for the Thunder on Wednesday night, and I just
don't feel that I should have to show up and
do the show on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I should be able to claim a mental health day. Yeah,
you can do. Sure, I mean it left, it rocked
me to my core.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Rick, Yes, I am, I am.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
I am wounded.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
I am wounded as a result of Shay Gills just
out Alexander not playing against the Philadelphia seventy six ers.
That hurt my souls and I need to I need
to end it.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Let's see how that flies.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Let me know, all right now, less, I want, I want.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I want to leave you with this because now I've
figured out a way I have. I can solve all
the Knicks issues. Boy, solving all right now, solving them all.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
That's the greatest villain laugh I've heard a while. Yeah, yes,
mister Bond, I expect.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
You to die.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Okay, you ready.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
It's very simple.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
It's very If the two words are Jim Dolan, then no.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
No no no no no no no nothing, no no.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Tracy Morgan, he even said, throwing up at the game,
maybe I'm the Knicks good luck charm. He comes to
every game he throws up. He becomes the Knicks Grimace
like the Mets had Grimace last year. And the Knicks
go on to run all the way to the East
Finals and beyond.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Oh you know what, This would be the true test
of a Knicks fan. Are you willing to watch Morgan
throw up night after night for every.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
W Are you kidding? Why do I get him sick
with today's bad chicken? Are you kidding? I've been the
best TV possible.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
You'd be right there next to him throwing up. Let
me do it, sympathy, throwing up my finger down your throat,
so you got help, Tracy.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
He's on Twitter at Rick Buker. That is at Rick Buker.
Check out on the Ball podcast as well. The quad
up there as well, with more stuff on the Celtics,
the Nuggets and a very stubborn Tom Timbodow and beyond.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Rick is always buddy, appreciate it, man, We'll talk to
you next.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Week proj style, Yo.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
What i'd be willing?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
I'd watch Tracy Morgan if I knew the next good
I'd watch them throw like I've never seen people throw
up before.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Yeah, exactly, I've seen that many a time.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
You kidding, We kids, You've seen that lot of things
you never thought you'd seen.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I just have to watch it on television. I don't
have to have I just watch it until it's all good,
no good.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Yeah, fast forward.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Time out to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. From someone who's been called the Tracy
Morgan of Fox Sports Radio, she wants a big guest
star on thirty Rock.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
It's Monte Malanius.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
I never watched thirty Rocks.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
I know Rock is probably the best comedy of the
last fifteen years.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
I think I just missed it, and I think I
would like it. I just I just missed it when
it was happening. But I all the stuff I heard.
I was like, I feel like I should get it.
Get onto. Tina Fey wasn't there. Yeah, I know what
you're Yeah, I didn't. I never watched it. Maybe I should.
I need a new show. The Cavaliers might need a
new something. Guys. They've lost three in a row.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Oh my goodness. Nos.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
Remember they want like sixteen in a row. Now they've
lost three in a row, one of them to the Clippers.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
But anyway, the Kings meet them today one twenty three
to one nineteen in Sacramento. That just wrapped up Luka
doncic And did with thirty one one points, nine rebounds,
and seven assists. He had twenty one on the first
quarter as Lakers crews passed the Nuggets one twenty to
one oh eight. Denver didn't play Nikola Yogic oh Orgemal
Murray because of injuries. The Suns did take down the
Bulls one twenty seven to one twenty one. Kid Cunningham
(33:15):
hit a game winning three pointer over Bam out of Bayo,
and the Pistons came back to defeat the Heat, win
sixteen to one thirteen. Cunningham ended with his ninth triple
double of the season. The Rockets extended their winning streak
to eight after topping the Magic, won sixteen to one
oh eight. The Spurs had a one twenty to one
oh five win over the Knicks and off the bench,
Sandro mamu Kelashvili.
Speaker 8 (33:37):
No, that's not it, but we're gonna pretend it is.
Speaker 7 (33:39):
He was seven to seven from deep, ended as a
leading scorer with thirty four points off the bench, and
he did it in nineteen minutes.
Speaker 8 (33:47):
No player has done that in the Who.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I'm sorry I've tided to here.
Speaker 8 (33:50):
Who just say Sandro mamu Kelashvili. Okay, I think that's right.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
If it was hit Nikolai Skittishvili when he played a
long time with no but I'll telling you I think
that's right.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
All right, Wait, wait, who was it again?
Speaker 8 (34:04):
What was the name again, Sandro Mamukelashvili. Okay, all right,
I'm sounding like it's fast.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Time definitely gets fast. Actually it's drifting, Hobby Moulin.
Speaker 8 (34:15):
Don't confuse me.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
The Pelicans also played spoiler after topping the timberwise in
Minnesota one nineteen to one fifteen in the men's first
four the game that just ended with Xavier coming back
to top Texas eighty six to eighty. The Musketeers are
going to take on Illinois on Friday in the first round.
Mount Saint Mary's defeated American eighty three to seventy two.
The Mountaineers will face one seed Duke on Friday in
the first round as well. On the ice, the Maple
(34:38):
the Maple leaves edge of the Avalanche two to one.
If you're going back to you know, three am this morning,
we'll talk.
Speaker 8 (34:44):
About the Dodgers.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
They hit three homers, including one from shoe Atani as
they beat the Cubs again in Tokyo six to three.
Speaker 8 (34:50):
That's right back to you.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Guys who had that big night against the NIXT I
tried to write it down.
Speaker 7 (34:55):
I try to write that, No, Sandro Sandro, not Sandra Sandro, Mamukelashvili,
mamukelashly product.
Speaker 8 (35:04):
Yeah, yeah, all they call him mamu short, mam mam Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Well they also had our tourist Carnichievis. Oh yeah, NFL
Andrew Gays. Yeah, sure many, Thank you very mama.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
You really you jump back a game. I was thinking
all the Internet.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Then I went to International Stars of the nineties, and
so I went with Andrew Days. Yeah, and Days who
looked like he was forty when he was playing. Well,
that's okay, might have been who is that again, Monsi, Sandrew?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Now you're got Now you're having trouble the first name. Yeah,
I know, I am.
Speaker 8 (35:37):
I want to say Sandra Mamu kailash Vili very good.
All right, Yeah, listen, it's gonna be I'm gonna start
calling you that. Mom's gonna be your nickname.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I'll just be Mama good from on, He's the big mamou.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Thanks Manzi. Coming up next, was there a million dollar
souvenir let loose in the world of sports today?
Speaker 3 (35:58):
That's next. Jason the Mic Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon live from the Tirack dot Com studios.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
And today went pretty much how the day before went.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Opening Day Major League Baseball season in Japan, Dodgers beat
the Cubs. Day two, Dodge beat the Cubs.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
And there is a.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Million dollar question following this two game series. It's because
of this home run.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
On Otani. Hammer's why, oh this ball is well struck.
Speaker 9 (36:45):
Deep bright center, back to the wall, that's off the
top of the wall. O'tani around first, he said the second, Well,
they're saying home run looked like it came off the
top of the wall initially. But O'tani comes around with
his first home run of the season.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
So that was FS one on the call. It was
challenged our Dodgers Radio.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Sorry, the game was on FS one earlier today and
you know watching the replay, Yeah, did a fan reach
for the ball, yes, but did it look like it
wasn't going to be a home run? And it's not
like Pete Krow Armstrong was going to catch it, so
they let the home run stand, right.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
I was fine with it.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
And when you hear it about controversy surrounding the surrounding
this home run, like it's really not that big a deal.
The bigger question is this The ball's a home run?
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Bounces back out on the field, right. Pete crow Armstrong
grabs it.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Has an untold amount of money in his hand, and
he throws the ball back into the stands where a
ten year old kid catches it. This is sho Heo
Tani's first home run in Japan as a member of
the Dodgers. Now, he's at plenty of home runs in
Japan before, but his first major league home run in
(37:57):
Japan were game that counted. Right, It's the first home
run in Japan. What is this ball worth?
Speaker 5 (38:04):
I would say, Seth Viggers, you'd start right at a
million dollars at least, right, because this fifty to fifty
went for over four million. Right now, it's become part
of a national Hey, come visit o'hanne's ball right as
you're you make a pilgrimage to go see it. It's
got to be a million dollar ball because there's got
to be that one collector because look, this was a
(38:26):
ridiculously difficult ticket to get the lottery that they had
didn't have a ton in the marketplace because there is
no secondary ticket market in Japan. Right there are a
couple of folks that you risk years in jail for
selling your seats above face value, which means you were
(38:47):
going to see this game, which I got to think
there's at least one person in that audience.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
From either of these games.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
That would say, all right, I'll pay whatever it takes,
and not to mention just the hotel. Any global marketplace
is just absurd right now with memorabilia, autographs, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Because I thought it would be I'm thinking like five
hundred grand, But you know the memorabilia market better than I.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Do, no matter what.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
I'm stunned Pete Crow, and I'm glad he did, because
what a cool thing to do, right, to throw it
to a fan, making a fan's life and they're gonna
make a lot of money. But Peter Karl Armstrong is
not a guy that's contract or a collection. But I'm
really stunned he threw it back into the stands like
that's a that's a ball. That's worth a lot of money. Like,
as a baseball player, you have to know the Otani's
(39:36):
first home run ball in Japan is gonna be worth something.
And the fact that he still picked it up. I
would have said, hey, the oh wait a minute, and
I would have given it to one of my guys
like I would hey, and pe Kromes walking to his
own dugout, this all mine. He's got the Otani ball.
So Tana, you can give me a million dollars and
I'll give you this ball, no problem.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
I don't want strong arm like that couple did early.
Remember remember that story we covered. Here's a couple of
autographed bats.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Beat it.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
I mean I'm in that Paul Skin's cards up to
seven hundred thousand dollars. Yeah, right for frame of reference,
right with still it's inside the final day. But fifty
nine bids at seven hundred k for a patch that
was on his debut jersey.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Really cool. This is the first home run that Otani
hit as a major league player in Japan as part
of a showcase series. It's worth more than that.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Yeah, I mean this is the I mean Petek Crow
Armstrong hasn't made It's his second year in the bigs,
the former Mets prospect to the Mets side.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Yes, we're gonna trade you our.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Number one pick in the draft of year ago for
for three months of hobby baias, Like what are we doing?
But like that could have he could have been on
Easy Street. Hey, I could have got a million dollars.
But he threw the ball to a kid in the stands.
All right, that's kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Good guy.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yeah, might rue it on the flight home. Oh I
had a million dollars in mind. Would you throw a
million dollars to someone else? No, that's a good question.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
I like I like that.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
It's the cut of your jib.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Wait to get the brass tacks exit up out a
Fresco exit swollen dome. Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Life from
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