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(01:46):
So will he or won't he pitch in the WBC final.
It's also it's one of my issues with a tournament
like this, and I've seen the fanfare. I won't deny it,
and I watched last night. It's good theater. It is.
They deserve credit for the tournament they've created over the
last twenty years. It is a scene. It's beneficial for
Major League Baseball. It's got huge viewership by baseball standards.

(02:10):
I know it does. I haven't seen the numbers free yesterday.
I know it'll be a big number stars everywhere, right,
I mean just everywhere. Paul skiings obviously, and that US lineup,
and the Machados and the tatisas the whole Dominican lineup.
And it was very good theater. There was a lot
of intrigue. It could have gone either way. Very good
baseball game. One of my issues with it is we're

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watching what we believe to be the best of the best,
and then there's all these like usage restrictions and availabilities,
and we got to turn to the clubs and is
this player gonna be available tomorrow? Why or why not?
The season starts in about a week. You know, when
you watch the games, you can kind of turn that off,
you can push that to the side and pretend like,
you know, you're just watching the best of the best

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go out a toe to toe. But there's all these restrictions,
I mean, pitch limits, usage, availability.

Speaker 6 (02:58):
I get it.

Speaker 5 (02:59):
It happens in the regular season. It's not like you're
gonna pitch Mason Miller three consecutive days, by and large
in the regular season. But it just feels like there's
all these WBC rules that get in the way of
crowding maybe a true champion. But we'll see how it
plays out for Team USA over the next twenty four hours,
all right, as we always do.

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Who's gonna win.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
It's CAA tournament, all right, So it'll get under my
officially tomorrow. You can hear it Westwood once coverage to
the NCAA Tournament right here in San Diego Sports seven
sixty the beginning tomorrow three thirty. So I think for me,
the three that are gonna get the most buzz would
be Twoke Michigan Arizona. Who's the other number one seed

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other than Duke Michigan in Arizona.

Speaker 6 (04:00):
I should know that Florida.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
But I think for me, Duke Michigan Arizona, I have
a better argument than Florida right now. I say that
Florida won the national championship last year and has played
incredibly well actually in the second half of the year.
I'm going to go with what I saw with my
own two eyes, which was Michigan. To me, they were
the most impressive team that I saw all year, and
they played San Diego State in Vegas, and they looked
like the Harlem Blokeshotters like. They looked like the best

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team on Earth the day the Aceticks saw them. And
that's not the only team.

Speaker 6 (04:29):
That they did.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
What they did too like Michigan all year long, was
winning games by thirty or forty points all year long
at a conference in conference. Now, I know they've been
tripped up a little bit late Big Ten Championship Duke
on a neutral floor in February. I just like their roster,
I really do. So I'm going to go with you
know what, I'll go with a rematch of Michigan. Can

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this even happen? Can we get Michigan and Duke or not?

Speaker 6 (04:55):
Yeah, we can.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
I'll go with a rematch of Michigan and Duke and
I'll take Michigan in a seven v seven seventy six win.

Speaker 6 (05:02):
How about that? Give it to score?

Speaker 3 (05:04):
All right?

Speaker 4 (05:05):
Next question, who's gonna win the WBC title?

Speaker 6 (05:11):
I think it's going to be the US.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
If you get Italy, it's a rematch and you're trying
to avenge we'll played out a few days ago where
they almost were on the outside looking in into the tournament,
into the quarterfinal round. And then if it's Venezuela, I
think that would.

Speaker 6 (05:25):
Be a very good game.

Speaker 5 (05:26):
But I'm taking the US over Venezuela on home soil
in that matchup, although it's a one off, so you
never know. But I would just say, at this point,
with the US having advanced to the final, the other
two teams trying to get there, the US gets the
one extra day of rest. I'll take Team USA. And
this wasn't easy to get there again with what played
out with Italy and Mark de Rosa, but they've gotten

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their second opportunity and now they better take advantage of
it by winning the championship, which I think is tomorrow night,
pretty sure.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
Next question, which is a better NBA expansion market, Seattle
or Vegas?

Speaker 6 (06:04):
I think it's Seattle.

Speaker 5 (06:06):
You know, Seattle's had it. Seattle has passionate fans in general.
Look at the Seahawks, not necessarily the Mariners, but look
at the Seahawks, very successful NFL franchise, Super Bowl champions
and the Sonics were a very relevant franchise.

Speaker 6 (06:20):
They really were. Now they moved.

Speaker 5 (06:23):
Okay, that's the first time it will happen, not the last.
As we've talked about here locally in San Diego. I
just see it more viable long term term with like
hometown support than Vegas. I think the issue with Vegas
is like you're relying on tourism, which is fine. There's
interest if it's a weekend night. Yeah, when the Knicks
are in town, of course everyone's going to be going crazy.

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But Tuesday night against the Grizzlies. Do I think Vegas
is a better market or Seattle. I think Seattle, and
I don't even think it's close, truthfully, So I understand
the argument for Las Vegas.

Speaker 6 (06:54):
I do see it as a sports.

Speaker 5 (06:56):
Mecca at Center whatever right now, and I think there's
a lot of advertise dollars. I think there's a lot
of tourism, and there's probably support within the market itself.
But I would take Seattle over Las Vegas.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
You can't miss something you never had, right, Yeah, And
Vegas never had a basketball team. Seattle had one and
it was ripped away from them, and it was it
wasn't you know because as oh, you know, they only
got two thousand people in the arena every night.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
You know, they were a popular team.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
They you know, they went to NBA Finals when we
were kids with you know, Sean Camp and Gary Payton
and everybody else and you Tall Shrimp and all those guys.
We just dated ourselves there. But you know, they have
a proven track record where Vegas is just Vegas. That's
the only reason they want to put everything there is
just because it's Vegas and because of you know, the
sports gambling elements. So yeah, I'm with you. I think

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it's Seattle. Not even close.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
I mean, just real quick on Seattle before we move on.
They have a title, it came into seventies. They have
six retired numbers. I mean, they're fresh s. It's back forever,
like they were around for fifty years. It's basically like
ripping the Chargers away from San Diego in terms of
like the relevancy and like prominence in the market.

Speaker 6 (08:11):
They weren't around for nine years.

Speaker 5 (08:13):
They were around for fifty years before they were ripped away,
and it was a shame. And then they relocate Toklahoma
City in the mid two thousands, and it's time.

Speaker 6 (08:24):
It's probably pastime.

Speaker 5 (08:26):
I think there were a lot of periods of time
over the last fifteen or twenty years. I thought Seattle
would get a team back, and they renovated Key Arena.
I think now the stars are aligning and Seattle clearly
is going.

Speaker 6 (08:37):
To get an NBA franchise.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
Tami decided they've tortured them enough. They're like, hey, did
you guys see okc AKA used to be. You guys
win the title last year, right, that's exactly I know.

Speaker 6 (08:47):
Can you imagine that? All?

Speaker 8 (08:49):
Right?

Speaker 4 (08:49):
Next question, Well, Miami of Ohio win a single NCAA
tournament game.

Speaker 5 (08:56):
So this is one of the more polarizing topics in
college basketball. Miami of Ohio of all teams, little school
in the MAC, the Mid American Conference that most people
have never watched on a basketball floor in any capacity. Well,
they go undefeated until their conference tournament. They're upended in
the quarterfinals by UMass And now here's this thirty one

(09:18):
in one team and Brent, they just knock into this thing.
They're in the playing round. And on one hand you say,
well they're undefeated. On another hand, you look at the metrics,
which is what the sport is, and their metrics are awful.
They played no one at Ken Palm. You hear me
reference it more than I referenced my son at Kenpom.
Miami of Ohio is ninety third. San Diego State's in

(09:39):
the mid forties and outside the field. So it's the
part that's fascinating is on one hand you have people
that are just sports fans and say, how could you
leave a thirty and oh, team out essentially right or whatever.

Speaker 6 (09:52):
Thirty and one. On the other hand, you got.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
This new world where they're like, look at the math
of it, They're not good. There's fifty other teams teams
that have a better analytical argument for their team than
Miami of Ohio. So I think either thing that happens
Brent is gonna be fascinating. If they get the doors
blown off them in Ohio, by the way, and day
in an hour from their campus, less people will be like,
what a mockery to let this team in. If they

(10:16):
beat smu is now like an eight point underdog, then
what does it mean for mid major teams moving forward
that just roll through their conference? And will it then
present opportunities for teams moving forward to not schedule but
try to rattle off twenty nine to thirty wins and
sneak their way into the field as that large team.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
Teams learned in the college football playoffs this year scheduling
matters now, right, and I think that now teams are
learning in college basketball scheduling.

Speaker 6 (10:50):
Matters here too.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
If you play in.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
I'm gonna say no disrespect, but I mean a little
bit when you play in a crap conference like the MAC.
You can't just play conference schedules and then play a
crap non conference schedule on top of it, And I
think people are going to be like, oh, look at you,
you're so good. No, if you're gonna stick with that
bad conference schedule, then you have to schedule the you know,

(11:18):
non conference schedule to end all non conference schedules. Michigan
want all top twenty five teams because it's going to
have to do something to counterbalance the weakness of your conference.
So then when this time rolls around, they're not going
to go, oh, you guys been thirty one to one,
but we're going to put you in the play in
tournament because you didn't play anybody. If they would have

(11:40):
played three quad one games this season, they would have
been like an eight seed and there wouldn't be no
discussion about them, you know, potentially going undefeated and not
even you know, making the tournament.

Speaker 6 (11:54):
That's well said.

Speaker 5 (11:55):
I mean, I think the committee kind of chose the
best of both worlds where they said, we're not gonna
fully reward it by just putting them in the field
without the playing, but we're not gonna leave them out
because we kind of understand maybe the pr nightmare of
people saying what.

Speaker 6 (12:09):
Thirty and oh the other in Division one? So I
understand it.

Speaker 5 (12:13):
Here's my preference as a college basketball fan and watching
it locally in San Diego. I like the San Diego
State will play whomever. I like playing Michigan in Arizona,
I just do Now, did they lose to those teams? Yeah,
but they tested themselves. Like would you have preferred, as
an Aztec fan Arkansas Pine Bluff and NBC as opposed
to Michigan in Arizona.

Speaker 6 (12:31):
I don't. I just don't. So I say, play now.

Speaker 5 (12:35):
They're in the same league as Gonzaga, but play the Gonzagas,
play the Arizonas, play UCLA, play USC. You get my point,
And by the way, by playing those games, you don't
have to be perfect. Certainly from San Diego State's perspective,
they play a good enough brand in a quality enough
schedule where you pick someone off.

Speaker 6 (12:51):
Two years ago, they pick off Houston. They're in the tournament.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
But I think, to Brent's point, and I agree with it,
I think two years ago, if San Diego State doesn't
beat Houston and C and we turned it into Arkansas
Pine Bluff and U NBC bute bye, you nowhere near
the field. So I just that's my preference. I understand.
I understand scheduling is a little nuanced and a bit
of an art, but there's no way that Miami off
Ohio couldn't have gotten a Quad one game in their schedule.

(13:15):
You can't go on the road and play nann Arbor
or at Ohio State. There's no way they couldn't have
gotten a road game. It's not possible.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
Now their schedule was so weak. Xavier would have been
a massive improvement.

Speaker 6 (13:26):
Cincinnat Ohio.

Speaker 4 (13:27):
Yeah, there's plenty of Ohio schools that they could have played.

Speaker 5 (13:30):
Yeah, there's so many opportunities. And so listen, they're in
and now now it's going to be an amazing home
court advantage. I would think you're a Dayton Ohio. They're
playing SMU out of Texas. I wouldn't think SMU would
have more than five hundred fans in the building, maybe
a thousand fans. I would think of the ten thousand
people in the building, whatever it is. It was a
neat building when we were there last year. It really is

(13:51):
a little bit like Viejas, but a bit older, but unique.
I would think ninety percent of the fans will be
rooting for Miamif Ohio, will that make a difference.

Speaker 6 (13:58):
We'll find out.

Speaker 5 (13:59):
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Speaker 6 (14:10):
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Speaker 2 (14:12):
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Speaker 5 (14:23):
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(14:43):
We're gonna hear from Kevin ac five thirty if you
missed it earlier, and we've been talking about Mason Miller's
availability because he's just been insanely dominant, insanely dominant in
this event and obviously last September. In October for the
San Diego padres Well. According to Craig Stammond from earlier today,
his availability for the final has not been determined. So

(15:07):
that's not to say that he's not going to pitch
on Tuesday, but it's not to say he will pitch.
The exact quote from Craig Stalmmon was not ruled out,
not decided. How we do with every pitcher, we evaluate
them after they're outing, see how they feel, and then
calculate when their next outing is going to be.

Speaker 6 (15:23):
So he's in the same boat.

Speaker 5 (15:25):
I understand that, I do, but it's a little bit
of the schooble thing we've talked about. It's like, you
haven't come this far just to come this far. You
just beat the Dominican and Mason Miller played a big
role in doing that. And if you want to win
this and you're in another closely played game where it's
you know, a one or two or even three run game,

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and you're in the eighth or ninth inning, he's not
going to pitch because you're treating it like you treat
every other picture in every other other outing. On one hand,
I get it, Mason Miller is way too important or
your success in twenty twenty six and beyond to go
quote unquote risk it appearing in the WBC Final. But

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then the other side of me says, well, what is
the point of this tournament if the best aren't available
in the biggest moments. And that's the juxtaposition that's juggled
with events like the WBC being played in the middle
of March, when teams you know, aren't in season and
nobody's really fully built up, whether it's a pitcher or

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even a hitter as they get ready for the season.
I mean, all things being equal, here, you want to
see him on the mound right with a chance to
close out the WBC final for Team USA. What a
massive stage, talking about millions of viewers, huge opportunity You're
not going to see at WBC again until twenty twenty nine.

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They're not coming anytime soon. You're years away from seeing them.
So again for the United States in this opportunity, you
just hope that you have like all hands on deck,
is what I would say.

Speaker 6 (17:03):
And I don't know if they will or won't. And
by the way they might lead in the game. Ain't nothing.

Speaker 5 (17:07):
Then don't use Mason Miller. I wouldn't use hm either.
In an eight nothing game. But if you're in a
three nothing game, if you're in a four to three
game or something like that, even trailing for three and
trying to keep you know, Italy or Venezuela at four
and stay within a run, you want to have Mason
Miller available.

Speaker 6 (17:24):
And it's not back to back days.

Speaker 5 (17:25):
Brent, he threw yesterday, he's not throwing today, So the
question out becomes will he be available tomorrow?

Speaker 6 (17:35):
Stay tuned.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
I think it's kind of the thing that I thought
was interesting about the weekend was the whole time before
WBC started, you know, it was all, you know, Team Japan,
team you know, Dominican Republic. It's you know, it's good,
it's gonna be those two in the finals. It's, you know,
a no brainer because they're just so great and they're
so stacked. And Japan loses and you wouldn't even know

(18:02):
it because they haven't. They barely even mentioned that they lost.
You wouldn't even think that they were even in the
They went from being like the most talked about team
in the entire tournament, and then as soon as they lose,
it's like, oh, we weren't in that tournament, you know,
it's just like they just disappeared and now it's like
they're gone to a certain extent. Same with the Dominican,

(18:22):
but that's getting more play just because of you know,
the bad strike call to end the game. But yeah,
I thought it was kind of funny, just how you know,
the big talking point of the whole tournament was how
stacked Team Japan was, and then they lose their one game,
and then it was just like, just don't forget about that.

Speaker 6 (18:40):
Yeah, no, I agree with that.

Speaker 5 (18:42):
I mean, here's the thing with Japan, They've won this
thing multiple times. I think people recognize that in tournament
baseball play, that's almost an uxy moron. Like the game's
been played for one hundred and fifty years, how often
have won off games decided anything? Yeah, seventh game even
back in the day, Go look at the World Series

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in the first like twenty five years, they played best
of nine.

Speaker 6 (19:06):
Ninth games have decided things.

Speaker 8 (19:08):
Now.

Speaker 5 (19:08):
I know we've had wildcard formats over the years with
like a one and done. I know there's been game
one sixty threes out there, But like I do think
you have to take tournament baseball play with a grain
of salt. Like the greatest team can lose a baseball game.
Twenty seven Yankees didn't go undefeated, so great teams lose,

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and I guess that's the Maybe that's what has made
this event successful is that it is one off. Quarterfinals
winner go home, semi finals winner go home, so on
and so forth. So a ton is on the line.
But I do think we'd fool ourselves a little bit
to say that because Japan lost to Venezuela, Venezuela is
certainly the better team, right, I like if it was

(19:52):
the best of five with Venezuela win three of the
three of the five games, and I don't know the
answer to that. It's not the disrespect venezuel Well, they
probably have a very good team. I mean, Italy's played
very well in this tournament to this point. They beat
the US. But does that because Italy beat the US,
do you really firmly believe that Italy is a better
baseball nation than America?

Speaker 6 (20:11):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (20:12):
Do you want are you secretly rooting for Italy so
we get a rematch? Kind of that's a good question.
We have our actual a team instead of you know, yeah, Rosa.
I think the game doesn't matter and put the B
squad in maybe.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
I mean, I think Venezuela is a more intriguing like
lineup and team when you look at their roster.

Speaker 6 (20:30):
So on one hand, I like that idea.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
On the other hand, I do like the avenging what
played out a week ago storyline that would run through it.
I never really considered Italy from a baseball perspective. Everyone
talks about the Dominican and Japan and the US and Venezuela.
Venezuela is including that conversation, so I think that has
a little bit more star power to it if it's

(20:54):
the US against Venezuela. But I think the intrigue in
storyline might be better, to your point, with the US
against Italy. So we'll know the opponent, by the way
later tonight because they're playing tonight Italy and Venezuela.

Speaker 6 (21:04):
When will that game get underweight? Brent? Five pm? Or
is it e from four to thirty? I think five?

Speaker 5 (21:10):
Yeah, So that's tonight again, Italy and Venezuela in Miami,
And yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 6 (21:16):
I think it might be five PM.

Speaker 5 (21:17):
It looks like they're preparing the field right now, so
at some point in the next thirty forty minutes.

Speaker 6 (21:22):
We'll see that. Let me just look that up. I'm
kind of curious myself.

Speaker 5 (21:25):
WBC tonight is at five pm, five pm Pacific in
the game that's on FS one, and then tomorrow you
have five pm Pacific on a game that will be
on Fox for the WBC Championship game.

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backslash teachers. So on one hand, again, you know, as
tech fans disappointed with San Diego State not making the
NCAA tournament for the first time since twenty nineteen. I
saw so many as tech fans in Las Vegas this
past weekend, and you experienced a little bit of everything

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that his and the Lows wins over Colorado State and
New Mexico, a thrilling win over New Mexico with two
seconds left on the clock when Bjdavis hit the eventual
game winner, and then of course the disappointment of Saturday
falling to Utah State. So we've touched on that, we'll
continue to do that throughout the course of the week,
and Brian Dutcher joins us actually tomorrow right here on
seven sixty Tomorrow afternoon, I think at three pm. Is

(24:44):
that what I said earlier? Let me say yeah, Brian
Dutcher tomorrow is at two thirty. Excuse me, So Dutchell
Jonas tomorrow at two thirty. So on one hand, you
have that and we'll talk to dutch and we'll get
into the off season and discuss what's next for San
Diego State. On the other hand, you have an NCAA
tournament pod here in San Diego with four games on Friday,

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and then of course the winners will play a pair
of games on Sunday for the right to get to
the Sweet sixteen. And Brent over the years in San Diego,
because they've had a number of different regionals over the
years and not regionals like pods, you know what I mean,
first and second round games in San Diego. There was
one year where there was there were a couple of
really good games, but the schools were like so random

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in terms of proximity to San Diego. You had like
Marshall play West Virginia. You had like a random Clemson game.
You had TCU, you didn't have the brands. This year's
pod in San Diego is going to be one of
the hottest tickets anywhere in the country. By the way,
for opening round games, you have Kansas here, Kansas with

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their a million national championships. You have Saint John's with
Rick Patino playing here. Okay, You've got one of the
top overall seats in the event, the Arizona Wildcats playing here.
You have a three time national champion in Villanova. You
know they won two of them in the last ten
twelve years, Villanova, and then you've got them Mount West

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intrigue with Utah State. I'm curious, if you're an Aztecs fan,
are you rooting four or against the Aggies this week
in San Diego. My guess would be most to be
rooting against. You know that whole like thing in college
where it was like CEC SEC. I mean, really, there's
so much vitriol between like Utah State and San Diego
State fans, or San Diego's going to be rooting for

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the Aggies this weekend in San Diego after Utah State
essentially kept the Aztecs out of the NCAA tournament. I
find that interesting. Seven zero four to seven zero started
with the word team. I think these matchups are fascinating.
I think Utah State Villanova is a great game. I
think just having Arizona in the building. Their fan base
is obviously incredible. We saw a firsthand in Phoenix this
year when the Aztecs played there and then Saint John's

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with Rick Patito and Kansas with Bill Self and Darren
Peterson and all that drama and intrigue. You could be
looking at a Round of thirty two game between Kansas
and Saint John's in San Diego.

Speaker 6 (27:03):
That's insane.

Speaker 5 (27:04):
And you can also be looking at something that I
find I mean, if it's Utah State Arizona, that's interesting.
You got the Mount West angle, you got the Arizona angle.
Even Villanova Arizona would be a pretty good compelling national
matchup as well. So I think San Diegans, like and
viehas are in in San Diego State did well with
the pairings coming up this week at Villejouse, well, you

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know who.

Speaker 6 (27:25):
The real winner and this is who's that Darren Smith.

Speaker 4 (27:29):
I know, honestly, guys, Johnny's are gonna actually be in town.

Speaker 5 (27:33):
It's incredible because I actually saw him last night because
I was on Sports Night with Darnag and NBC seven
and so is Darren, and we talked about it afterwards
for like thirty minutes. He was saying, on one hand,
he feels like it's disrespectful that they're a five seed
they won.

Speaker 6 (27:46):
The Big East.

Speaker 5 (27:47):
On the other hand, he's like, I get to see
the Johnnys in San Diego, Like, what are the odds
of that? Like, I mean, the odds are one and
eight because there's eight different regional sites or first and
second round sites. But you wouldn't necessarily expect that with
the team coming from New York to come to San Diego.

Speaker 6 (28:04):
No, and it's just one of those things that's just
you know, a coincidence, you know.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
I would I would never expect, you know, the Badgers
to just randomly get put in you know, like the
San Diego Regional or anything like that. But if ever
that ever happened, that would be awesome because I don't
have to.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
Go anywhere, right right, Yeah, I mean I was thinking
about that. I mean, listen, you know again, the disappointment
of not reaching the field. I understand if you're an
Aztec fan. So I think there are some that might
be like, man, do I even want to you know, like,
I'm just kind of I'm just disappointed at all. But
it's the NC DOUBLEA Tournament. You know, come Thursday Friday,

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enjoy the tournament, put on the TV, get to the games.
It's the NC DOUBLEA Tournament. It's something that buy and
large American sports fans celebrate. It's hard to go every
year we talked about that. Did I get excited about
the idea of beating Utah State? And then maybe you're
playing Wisconsin, Brent to your point in the tournament, and
you're playing Nickboy, you're playing in Portland and all that

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history over the years between the Aztecs and the Cougars.
They'll be back, hopefully sooner rather than later. Unfortunately, they
didn't make it this year. And you know, I'm reading
the text line all day and people are telling me this,
that and the other. You know, oftentimes we react way
too positively when it's good and way too negatively when

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it's bad. I've noticed this specifically with San Diego State,
like I really have. Like I've seen everything under the
sun about this team over the last let's say, since
the season started, since the Troy loss, I've read everything
under the sun. At the end of the day, here's
the factual statement they were the third team out of
the tournament. Based on the expectations, they thought they were

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reaching the tournament and could win a game or more understandable.
So I think they would tell you they probably didn't
reach their expectations. They're judged on hanging banners and getting
ten Cuba tournaments, but they didn't go ten and twenty three.
They didn't finish in ninth place in the eleven team
Mount West. It's actually twelve teams right now. But like
it wasn't if you're it's not an abject failure, it's not.

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They went twenty two and eleven. Okay, that's just a
factual statement. And how about this, Brent. They are higher
today in net rankings and Ken Palm than they were
a year ago today when they made the NCAA tournament,
two spots higher in both of the metrics. But as
the cookie crumbled, as you put the fuel together with

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bid seilers and power conferences, this year they're on the
outside looking at. It comes down to what we're blue
in the face here, Brent said earlier at sex B
Houston and crighton last year.

Speaker 6 (30:38):
They didn't this year.

Speaker 5 (30:39):
So metrics have a role, but you also will need
a marquee winner two along the way. Unfortunately they didn't
pick it up. But they are a near identical team metrically,
if not better than they were a year ago. So
I just feel like that's good perspective on this team.
Did people think they had a higher ceiling?

Speaker 6 (30:57):
Of course they did.

Speaker 5 (30:58):
I mean we heard from Miles and Resticks and Waters
earlier they absolutely felt as if they had a higher ceiling.
And that's something to contemplate over the course of the
off season. But doesn't mean that everyone's going to transfer out.
It doesn't mean they're not gonna have nil resources, and
it doesn't mean they're not going to be contending in
the New PAC twelve or funding for an NCAA tournament
spot in twenty twenty seven. Just sports sometimes, I mean,

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you know, like you think you know until you don't
necessarily know about your team.

Speaker 6 (31:26):
That happens. That happens sometimes in sports.

Speaker 5 (31:29):
You know, there've been Padres teams that people think they
know a lot about and then the opposite plays out
and vice versa.

Speaker 6 (31:35):
I guess you know as well.

Speaker 5 (31:37):
Did did people think going into the twenty twenty two
NLDS the.

Speaker 6 (31:40):
Padres are going to be at the Dodgers. Absolutely not.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
They were terrible in the regular season against La La
had been dominating them that year, and then the Padres
made quick work of them. Did people think the Padres
would not contend in twenty twenty three coming off an
NLCS appearance against the Phillies and adding one soda for
a full year. Of course, people thought they were going
to gettend and they never really did, and they were
well under five hundred and September before. They played well

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to make it look better than it was, but it
wasn't good. And without that hot stretch in September, it
would have looked even worse for the Padres. So that's
just a couple of local examples where you know, you
think you know, but you have to watch it play out,
is my overall point. And like Miles Byrd said postgame
on Saturday, and we played it earlier, it's like, I

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think his exact word was like, it's it sucked that
it took us thirty games to kind of play the
way they were able to play on Thursday and Friday
in Las Vegas. That's what he was saying, you know,
with that level of intensity and putting it together like that.
I thought they looked really good against Colorado State. I
thought they looked very good against New Mexico. They gave
them all they could handle and that was just tough

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to get back up. Obviously for Utah State, considering the
high of New Mexico, thought that they weren't up for it.
They were playing to get to the NCAA tournament. Just
they were shorthanded and credit Utah State and they just
couldn't close in the final ten minutes. That sticks lad
with ten minutes to play, and it was a one
point game with seven minutes to play. I watched it
back last night, which is never a great idea when
you know that when you know the end result, but

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I watched it back. I mean, it was a four
point game when MJ. Collins hit that three in the
corner and the foul was called and it became a
five point possession. That was with five minutes to play.
It was a four point game, maybe just under five
when that five point possession played out.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
So those are the breaks, and that play was one
of those plays that as soon as it happened and
they had the delay and they came back, it was
just like the air getting let out of a balloon,
and clearly any momentum or it just felt like hope
that the ads had it just washed away in just

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like a heartbeat, and it was just you could tell
after that that just that was too big of a
swing that you know, their their only hope was that
they're gonna call you know, what should have been the
right call, that is a wile one on one, take
the three off and could stay within you know, who knows.
They still you know, might have lost by ten, but

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you know, at least we would have had just such
a dramatic swing literally in like ten seconds.

Speaker 6 (34:16):
It was so dramatic.

Speaker 5 (34:17):
And it's your point, the mental hurdle of playing three
games in forty five hours and then having it now
clear that it's like all right, hey, we just give
up a five point possession.

Speaker 6 (34:27):
We're all right. No, I mean, at that point, it
just it was such a big swing.

Speaker 5 (34:31):
Yeah, the five points are massive in a four point game,
and it just felt like they were on tired legs
by that point and there was no way to punch
back after that. Well, and the whole game it was
just kind of like, okay, just stay within three or four,
Just stay within three or four five, we stay within it.
You know, we got a chance, we got it, and
then you know they're up four and then like I said,
within you know, just ten seconds stretch. It's like all

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of a sudden, we went from being down five to
now we're down eight and then and you know that
started their little run.

Speaker 4 (35:01):
And you know, like I said, then we went it
went from being a four point game to like an
eleven point game just like seconds.

Speaker 5 (35:07):
Yeah, completely agree, completely agree. All right, we'll get back
to what Craig Stamon had to say about Joe Musgrove
in the five o'clock hour. If you missed our poncas
inside our Kevin A st.

Speaker 6 (35:16):
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Speaker 2 (35:18):
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Speaker 5 (35:27):
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Speaker 6 (35:44):
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Speaker 5 (35:46):
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(36:31):
That's a ridiculous giveaway and we'll give that four pack
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Speaker 4 (36:36):
They got to get it in there before the Olympics.
They're going to crown the two world flag football champion
for the Olympics.

Speaker 5 (36:42):
Flush to do that in twenty twenty eight. But isn't
this the event? Correct me if I'm wrong, Brent. Wasn't
this going to be held in the Middle East? And
then they moved it back because of the situation that's
taking helping I think it is.

Speaker 6 (36:53):
I could be wrong.

Speaker 5 (36:54):
I could be wrong, but that's a I don't know
how they would put it together so quickly. I could
be wrong on that, but that's that's ridiculous. And again,
that's Saturday, and one of our listeners is going to
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Speaker 6 (37:11):
We touched on this earlier.

Speaker 8 (37:12):
Is it?

Speaker 6 (37:12):
Am I right?

Speaker 1 (37:13):
Brent?

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (37:14):
It was supposed to be in A Yeah, they're time
where they have everything where.

Speaker 6 (37:18):
It's was it right, A, No, it's not. I know
what you're talking about. Yeah, you can.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
They always have it's they said the name of the
place in it's season, it's right at season or whatever
with boxing, but right, yeah, I can't say, but everyone
knows what I'm talking about. Yeah, it was supposed to
be held there, and then for obvious reasons, it's not
going to be there, So it's going to be at
BMO Stadium in La Okay.

Speaker 5 (37:37):
So we'll give away those tickets again. Coming up in
the five o'clock hour. I want to get back to
what Craig Stalmon had to say about Joe Musgrove. Do
you have that, Brent So again Craig Stammon today on
Joe Musgrove's availability moving forward Again, He's only made one
Cactus League appearance, hasn't pitched down over a week or

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just over a week away from opening town. And this
is the latest from Craig Stammon.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
So on Joe.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Does he start on the I L. What's the plan
on that?

Speaker 6 (38:06):
Yeah, he's most likely going to start on the I
L this year.

Speaker 8 (38:09):
I mean it's you know, we're getting to the point
where he's taking enough time off that be hard to
ramp him up, you know, to get him to be
a viable starter that can throw five innings ninety pitches. So,
like I said, this was part of the plan, right
and we knew he was gonna have to take some
time off.

Speaker 6 (38:24):
We knew we were gonna have.

Speaker 8 (38:25):
To, uh, you know, get him ready for the entire
season and not just opening day rotation. Oh, we've got
a lot of death, We've got a lot of competition
here in spring training. It's been fun to watch and
guys are competing for spots. You know, we'll miss Joe
at the beginning, but we're gonna have Joe at some
point during the season.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
So when when do you when? When do you pick spots?

Speaker 6 (38:45):
When do what?

Speaker 1 (38:45):
When do you pick pot spots in your rotation?

Speaker 8 (38:47):
Well, we'll probably pick spots probably the day before opening day.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
You're gonna wait that long?

Speaker 6 (38:52):
Yeah, We'll wait all the way until we have to
make a decision.

Speaker 8 (38:54):
I think it's probably smart to like wait as long
as you can to make decisions because you never know
what could happen in between that time period.

Speaker 6 (39:02):
So we're gonna be.

Speaker 8 (39:03):
Smart, We're gonna be patient, and we're gonna try to
make the best decision we can make with all the information.

Speaker 5 (39:09):
All Right, So, I mean, on one hand, you're not
gonna have Joe Musgrove. On the other, you didn't have
him last year. And when I say you're not gonna
have Joe Musgrove, I don't mean for the year. I
mean it's typical for players coming back from Tommy John
surgery to be dealing with ramifications of it, even as
long out as he is. I mean, he's eighteen months
out now, because he had in October of twenty twenty four.

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I mean that is a long time ago. But his
arm hasn't responded the way he wants it to or
they wanted to. And you just have to be cautious.
If you don't see him until April or May or
June for that matter, there's nothing you can do, and
you hope that you get him at some point making
a contribution in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 6 (39:51):
Can it be overcome? I think so.

Speaker 5 (39:54):
I can't guarantee it. I think it can be overcome.
Am I concerned about the rotation? Absolutely? But again and
then last year Brent, and now they're going to start
twenty twenty six likely without him as well.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
What worries me is, do you remember right before the
playoffs last year there was that rumor that started up
and it might have been all bs that, oh, you
know Musgrove, he might he might be able to give
it a go and pitch for us at the playoffs.
I do, so we've gone from at that time was

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six months ago? Six months ago?

Speaker 6 (40:31):
Crack? That's you see what I'm getting at.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
Yeah, he he could possibly be ready to throw an
inning or two in you know, the playoffs to help
out the team, and then six months later, now we
got to put him on the IR because even with
more rest, he's still not ready. So he went from potentially,
like I said, that might have been a BS rumor.
He went from potentially, you know, being ready enough that

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they thought about maybe using him or bringing him back
for the postseason, and to six months later and he's
not even gonna be ready to start the season. That
kind of worries me that it's not is that going,
It's not progressing as quickly as they thought it would.

Speaker 6 (41:14):
It is interesting.

Speaker 5 (41:15):
I mean, I do think a level of worry is
completely reasonable because you know, I think everyone responds to
this differently. What's very common today is pitchers make full
recoveries from Tommy John. It often takes between one and
two years to do that. Each pitcher is uniquely different.

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There are examples of players coming back off Tommy John.
And someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think
I have this spot on.

Speaker 6 (41:42):
There are guys that have come back.

Speaker 5 (41:43):
Within ten months, maybe not to their full capability, but
guys will come back ten months later and pitch. Other
guys will push the eighteen nineteen twenty month threshold, and
that's where we are with Musgrove. And by the way,
they come back and sometimes they're in effect with their
command and the command will come back, but just like

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another six months later.

Speaker 6 (42:06):
So it's a very long process.

Speaker 5 (42:08):
It's like the Mike Clevenger tweet a good news we've
signed Mike Clevenger to two year deal. Bad news he's
having Tommy John. Tommy John is a significant injury. Now,
guys come back from it healthy. It often does not
cost a player of their career, but it cost them
so much time. Like I don't know what the equivalent
is across all sports to Tommy John. You don't get

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it with position players. The Achilles in basketball is a
shorter return, much shorter, much shorter.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
Now.

Speaker 5 (42:36):
I think the impact of the Achilles is significant, and
I don't think you ever get back to being the
same player off an Achilles like you do off Tommy John.
There's a lot of examples of guys getting back even
being better off Tommy John. I don't know if that's
the case as well with with Achilles, but I mean
to your point, brand, I mean, eighteen months is a
lot of time, and it could be many more months

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before you see the old version.

Speaker 6 (43:00):
Now I do think, well, I.

Speaker 5 (43:01):
Don't think we're gonna be talking about this in September.
Like we haven't seen him pitch. He's going to pitch
for this team. I don't know about his effectiveness and
when he'll be truly consistent or effective. That may not
really come in twenty twenty six. I hate to say
that that may not come in twenty twenty six, and
it's hard to have a lot of expectations for him
that might be more of a twenty twenty seventh thing,
believe it or not. So that's the concerning part because

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it was all about Joe Paveda King. Everyone's like Joe
Paveta King in whatever order, they are going to lead
us to the postseason, trust me second, and maybe they will,
maybe they will. It's just now it's concerning because the
season is going to start and now there's no timetable
on Joe Musgrove and you don't have to have in
March twenty six, but you do need them.

Speaker 6 (43:43):
You would think to reach your goals.

Speaker 5 (43:45):
At some point in twenty twenty six, and I just
don't know what the expectations are this year now for
Joe Musgrove. So again that's the latest out of Padres
Spring trending. We'll have more on Joe Musgrove with Kevin
ac or Padre's Insider. You'll hear that conversation coming up
at five point thirty. Also just mention this the five
o'clock hour, great giveaway four pack of tickets to the

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Fanatics Flag Football Classic this upcoming Saturday, BMO Stadium in LA.
You're going to see players like Tom Brady and Jalen
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away in the five o'clock hour. So we're here until
six pm a WBC Semifinals about to get underway between
Italy and Venezuela. More in the Padres and the Aztecs
and Kevin