04-11-24 Romi Bean with Broncos Country Tonight

Episode Transcript

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I say, Keawy comspil hotline.Bring on Roby Bean from CBS. Romie,

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how are you doing this evening?I'm doing great. Are you trusting
anybody with your banking information? LikeShowhei did with his U with his interpreter.
Look, all I'm saying is,even if you're getting a seven hundred
million dollars paycheck, you're not gonnanotice that even five is gone. Yeah

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I did. The whole thing isliterally he lost the entire Oakland Athletics payroll
gambling. No, I mean it'sjust this. There's no way he didn't
know, and Major League Baseball willmake sure that show he stays in the
league and nothing happens. I mean, come on, right, like this
is the face of baseball. Butthe whole thing is very fishy, very

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fishy. Well was detially on isroamy. And when professional sports started to
get into bed with these sports bookagencies, what did they think was gonna
happen? Look at what was happeningwith the NFO, and now the trickle
down of the fact of what's happeningin the NBA and the possibility, uh
player, Maybe I guess I wantto say throwing games based on you know

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what people were wagering from the overand under. I mean, didn't we
anticipate that this was gonna happen whenyou opened Pandora's Box? I mean yeah,
I think it's I think that they'vedone their best, if you will,
to regulate it. And the NFLis certainly levied some very heavy fines
on guys. I mean that aresuspended right for seasons or Oasriquez just indefinite

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right, I mean that, Butyou open that Pandora's box. It's the
same thing with nil guys, likehow do you You can't reel it back
in? Right? Like you hearthe story about that point guard or the
center whoever it was at Kansas whowent and said he wanted a million bucks
and Kansas said, we'll give youseven hundred fifty k. Like it's out
the bag now. I don't knowhow you reel it in. I don't

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know how you regulate it. Andso it's I mean, I don't know,
you know, I think they levythose heavy punishments. Maybe guys will
listen, but apparently they don't.So I think, yeah, the NFL
has guidelines that they put out.It wasn't Rinquez eligible for reinstatement in July.
I believe, but it's you know, it's it's it's it's permeating the
league and there are to me,I don't understand not being clear on the

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rules, but apparently there are playerswho are unclear on the rules. We
saw, you know, Calvin Ridleyand all that kind of stuff happen as
well. At the end of theday, I mean, I go,
am I to tell somebody what todo with their money. We get a
lot of text on here, wellwhy do you guys advocate for it?
And I'm like, I don't Ihave a gate for any of it.
I mean I did. I didendorse BET and GM. I had an
in the interest of old disclosure,I had an endorsement to deal with them
for a while. But I don'tadvocate for anything. You do what you

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want with your money. I'm notgonna tell you what to do or don't
do. Don't don't tell me whatto do or don't do with mine,
and we'll keep it even. Butthe only thing I think that we're concerned
about is what has happened with forinstance, Michael Porter Junior's little brother jon
Te Porter, where he found thethe one way to game the system for
your boys, and that's tell yourbuddies to go put a bunch of money
on the unders on things. I'mgonna fake an injury and I'm gonna get
out of here, and all theunders are gonna cash. Yeah. I

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mean, at the end of theday, you're depending on guys to,
you know, uphold the integrity ofthe game as they call it. You're
you know, there's you can layout the rules and you can tell these
guys not to do it, andI think most of them won't, but
there's really nothing you can do whenit comes to human nature and that you
know, ninth guy out of ever, the one guy out of every ten

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thinks he can bend the rules orget away with it. And it is
mind boggling to me when you're makingthat much money and you have that much
opportunity to just throw it all away. But you know, they don't think
they're going to get caught. AndI think again, you're just you're to
use the that's right word. You'regambling on them to do the right thing.
Yeah. Not to pivot too hardhere, but this has been an

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interesting month for sports overall, aswomen's college basketball eclipsed the basketball world.
You look at the ratings, andCaitlin Clark's certainly largely responsible, though I
think great teams from from South Carolinaand Daniel LSU and the rivalry there.
I think that all help boeth thata little bit. But does that carry
forward because we have a w NBAteam that is already changing venues and locations

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to try to make sure that CaitlinClark games are larger venues to cash in
on this. You know, thisis so funny. I was talking about
this with someone today and I'm curiousto see if it's going to continue forward
or not. I think initially itwill, right like you see that the
Aces are moving over to T MobileArena for that game already, and everyone's

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announcing. I mean, the CBSjust announced it renewed partnership with WNBA and
the ESPN and ABC. I thinkthirty nine of the forty fever games are
gonna be nationally televised or something likethat. So I think initially it will
doesn't have staying power. I mean, that's always the question, right I
think it's like anything else, thisis this is a moment for the WNBA,

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for for women's basketball specifically, andit's what you do going forward,
right. You have to keep Youcan't just sit on your laurel, so
to speak. Right, So,what what are they going to do next
to keep intentifizing people to keep wantingto keep watching the game, or does
it just have enough star power nowthat it's only going to keep building.
I'm very curious. I don't knowwhat the answer to that is. Right

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now, it certainly has a greatamount of star power and it's a whole
lot of fun, and you hopethey can continue it. I just think
it's going to be interesting to see, like mid season when you revisit this
the WNBA is there's still as muchhype. I don't know, but you
know, I hope there will bespeaking to that. I think every hero
needs a villain, and when youlook at women's basketball, that's kind of

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one of those things that propelled itto the forefront. But last night here
in Denver, there was some villainscoming into you know, the ball arena,
and that was the t Wolves,and there was this simulcas as ESPN
they do all the time, butit was on ESPN two and Kevin Hart

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was sitting with Cedric the entertainer,and he has some very interesting things to
say about NICOLEA. Yaks. Iwant you to take a listen. They
cannot give Joker anymore VP. Noget a Joker anymore m vps. It's
not good in the NBA. Jokercannot win another VP's just v P.

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That's different. That's playing, that'sthat's playing the game. But but the
league m v P. I feellike you're right, like they can't really
do that at this moment. Anda great year, but it doesn't it
doesn't feel like that dominant year theway I would say says you made a
very great man. You know whatI decided with you, Kevin, You
just did it. You just soldme anybody thanks to everybody else. Now

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that that was Kevin Hard talking withCedric Danner, tainer. But I found
that really interesting because the m vP is one of those most talked about,
you know, accolades that are giventhe sports athletes. And I feel
and maybe I've made feel a littlebiased. And you tell me based on
I've seen do here, right,Kevin haight, excuse me on point when

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he just said, well, it'snot going to be a good thing for
the NBA to give it to NicoleJokic over shy Gilgas Alexander. No,
he's absolutely wrong. The definition ofan MVP is, first of all,
you can look up at Joki's numbers, right, I think he just passed
Will for you know, however,I think he starred most now on a

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sist all time for senators. Imean, he's always doing something. You
know, He's always in the historybooks for this, that or the other.
But the definition of an MVP issomeone who makes everyone around him better.
And you look at last night andyou have got Christian Brown doing these
crazy dugs and Peyton Watson having biggames, and you know who was ever
on the floor of Nikolaokicic looks likea superstar, Right, What does Christian

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Brown look like on another team?I still think he talented, but he
met Nicola makes every single person onthat team better. Look at Aaron.
Aaron Gordon's career was like almost dyingout in the Magic here. He's the
perfect fit. He's got this incrediblechemistry with the Koliokic. I mean,
there's it's undeniable to me that Ithink that what gets lost in the MVP
is who makes It's not just theindividual numbers, but it's who makes everyone

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around them better. And that's whyI think Nathan mckinna should win the MVP
too, because if you look atthe other guys that are in contention for
the Art Trophy, the difference isMac has his whole line is super productive
as well. Everyone around him isgetting better, is doing better, is
putting up big numbers. That tome, is such a big piece of
what an MVP should do and shouldbe. So I think that there's some

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other things to this. I thinkKendrick Perkins started a whole thing last year
and if there was so much justhate and vitriol and it it was terrible.
But I don't know. I don'tknow how you can watch Nakoliokic on
a daily basis. And again Ithink this is usually people who don't watch
Nikoliokic on a daily basis because youcan't get it and it's hard to see

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it on TV and this, thator the other. But when it comes
to the playoffs, everybody's watching themand then all of a sudden, every
really like, oh wow, he'sthe best player in the world. So
I think it's it's part of thatas well. But no I like Kevin
Hart, you do not like this? Take it off? Well? Who
knew Kevin Hart could be hilarious?You know, I think it was that
funny. And then he said that, I was like, wow, okay,
oh, I'm being told he's notjoking. Yeah. First of all,

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MVPs are earned. They're not they'regiven. You know, they're awarded,
but they're awarded based on and NicoleYakice continues to earn it, and
I don't know, he's saying,it's bad for the NBA for a player,
Oh, it's bad for the NBAto think that you have to force
the award to someone who deserves itless. And then to me, it
felt like, uh, with withthe embat situation, they almost did that
because they didn't want back to backto back Nicola Jokic because you know of

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the of the connotation there, andI feel like that's stupid. I mean,
at the at the end of theday, it's here in the award,
give it to him and move onabout your day. Right, I
don't know why. You're absolutely rightit should go to the best player in
the league. And it's very clearwho the why you're in the league is
so I'm not sure why that wouldbe bad for the league in any ways,
it's really not a good take.Well he is what Ben and I

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were kind of going back and forth, and you know, he let the
cat out of the bag, andI think he just changed his answer for
the sake of the conversation. ButI asked him, I said, well,
with the Masters of you know,being played, what's just harder to
do winning a Master's or winning agold jacket and becoming a Hall of Famer

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in football? Well, I don'tknow how many people have won the Masters
historically, how many years as theMaster there's three hundred something Hall of Famers.
I guess you could look at itthat way. I don't know that's
that's that's really tough. That's that'sdebating. I don't know that's actually really

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really tough. I think the thingone thing with golf that's so tough is
it's such a mental game because you'reby yourself. I mean, yeah,
you got your caddy, but yougot to win that all by yourself a
lot of times. A Hall offamer who certainly lifts his team up a
lot, but you do have theteam around you right to support you.
A lot of time. So Ithink in that essence it's it's really hard,

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but I don't know. I don'tfeel like there's a right answer to
this one. That's thought you weregoing to ask me, Like, I
don't know, I don't know.That's yeah, I'm kind of it took
me a minute there. I'm like, for by the math, I think,
you know, maybe statistic it's thesame way if somebody asked you if
winning the lottery or climbing Mount Everestwas harder, Like, obviously physically climbing

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Mount Everest is is more difficult,but statistically speaking, it's more difficult to
win the lottery than climb Mount Everst. Yeah, I just think sometimes you'll
watch these guys, like some ofthe best golfers in the world, and
you can just see them like mentallycrumble. It's it's the individual part of
it I think makes it a littlebit more challenging to win on your own.

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But there's no one's trying to hityou, rob no one. You're
just out there and are with peoplewatching sweating. If you have you you
know you're familiar with the Georgia heat. Yes, a minute, that's just
like you're gonna tell me like thesports individuals, those are actual athletes.

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That's what you have to tell asa driver. I'm actually gonna amend my
answer, but for a different reason. Okay, it's harder to become a
Hall of Famer because even if youhave the best career, you are now
at the liberty of this voting committee, so you can put everything. At
golf, you win that message becauseyou won and you've had the best,
you know, four rounds out ofanyone. But with the Hall of Amer,

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we see this a lot. There'sa lot of guys that probably should
be in there, but it's upto the mercy of a committee, and
it's out of your hands once you'veretired. So that is a whole nother
wrench in things that I think makesit harder because there's so many pieces you
can't control. So you're saying thisa gold jacket, right, I'm going
to say it's the goal jacket.Thank you, Thank you, Robbie.

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I see you year two under coachPrime, if they sold something like eighteen
thousand, I think tickets for thefor the spring game. Is this is
this a year where CU has todeliver on wins? Or is this you
know, is this still just abuilding project for for coach Prime at this
point. I don't think the buildingproject because I think it's a very real

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question of how long he may stayfor and nobody really knows that answer.
But the way he's constructed this team, which is primarily through the transfer portal,
has been is a win now model, and he's not been hasn't been
shy about that. He said,that's exactly why it is. It's why
he doesn't have a lot of freshmen. So if you're going to go by
that model, then yeah, yougot to win now. That's the whole

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essence of the way this team wasconstructed. And I think off of last
year you went in and filled alot of holes from that wasn't there,
particularly in the trenches. The widereceiver room is obviously stacked an insane level,
so you seem to have a lotmore pieces. I think it is
it's a win this year type ofthe thing. Does that mean how many

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you got to win? More thanlast year? For sure? But this
is not this is not really along term building project. This is certainly
a win now model, right andwe look forward to seeing that along with
kind of the cultural epicenter that coachescreated here in Colorado and seeing if that
translates into wins. Whether or notthat will er won't remains to be seen.
Romy We appreciate the time Roby Bean, sports anchor reporter at CBS News

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Colorado. Always appreciate having you on. Hey, before you let me go.
How about them Piles for the nationaltitle. Let's go most in college
hockey history. There we go.That's right, go Piles. So appreciate
it. Rome talkitchle romy Be,CBS