Sports Cave Goes Live, Final Four Comes to Town, & MLB Opening Week Drama

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lida bean Lie Bean, lie Be, lie Be.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh my goodness, let's see if I remember how to
do this. Light the beam, light all of the beams.
In fact, the Sports Cave is back for business. We
are back in the Sports Cave, broadcasting live for once,
not no longer live to tape, broadcasting live from an
undisclosed location somewhere here in San Antonio, a familiar location

(00:38):
to say the least, but yet undisclosed location.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Hopefully we keep it that way.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I am your host, Sam Freeze, also known as the
Biggest Puma. Where we find ourselves twenty four days away
from the start of the NFL Draft with the show
as always, we gotta have something to count down to,
gotta have something to look forward to. We're going to
talk a lot of NFL Draft as we get closer.

(01:05):
But with this being the live return of the show,
not quite yet, We've got that. With it being the
live return of the show, you're gonna hear a few
other voices besides just me. If you do want to
reach out to me, you can find me on x
at Biggest Puma on Instagram Biggest Dot Puma. I swear

(01:25):
I am making a more of a commitment to Instagram.
Moving forward, especially now that we have a bit of
additional support on the program, we'll go with that phrase.
We'll go with additional support. I am joined, as you
can see on camera across from me here in the
room by the Captain, Steve O himself, Captain.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Let the people hear from you.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Hello, I am Steve O, the Captain. I have made
an appearance once or twice on previous shows. I am
excited to be here and I will get to work
on getting all the handles like Twitch, Twitter, Instagram. I'm
an old man. I do Facebook, Facebook. That's all I do.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
So there were there were past episodes where I said,
you know, for for all of my boomer affiliates out there,
you can also just find me on Facebook, Sam Freeze,
nice and easy.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
And I still catch so much hell because when when
the roommate sends me anything on Instagram, I see it
on Facebook because I'm never on Instagram, because I'm still like, dude,
I'm in a reptile like I'm in a snake identification
group on Facebook. I am still that much of a boomer.
Uh So, don't don't feel bad that you don't have

(02:43):
all of the handles. None of them are necessary. I
will get there and NFL.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
I will come to age sooner or later and break
down and get a Twitter is sweet OJ, Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
I fully get well, it's not rest in people. I'm
fully given in on it is it is. I think
I've broken the habit for the most part.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
I still call him tweets, but I at least.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Call it x now it because I don't want to
be charged with any domestic terrorism. Also, I don't know
do we have a camera in in our producing room
or do we just have a disembodied voice of the familiar?

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, where is my old friend? Where is he? He's somewhere?

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Is he holding out?

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Oh? There it is Sorry, I was trying to fix
the chat widget.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Ageless wonder himself.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Oh no, I I I it's it's going to take
him there.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
I was describing to the boys here.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Right, honestly, like thirty seconds before we went started. So
LG does have a camera spectacular No Max Kellerman around
the horn, disembodied voice, poor one out for around the horn.
But now, I was telling the boys at the beginning
of the episode here, this is like, first of all,
think about the last four months as your favorite TV
show going Away at the end of the season, you

(04:10):
know John Oliver takes four months off and then comes back.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
We got picked up you know Netflix, so we we
had you know, one season came to a close and
we are launching officially. We'll call this season two of
the Sports Cave with Biggest Puma. But I was describing
it to the guys that this is from my pr
days in a past life. This is like when you're

(04:36):
opening a new restaurant and you have a soft opening.
We're not even open to the public. This is this
is friends and family. That's exactly right, And we gotta
this isn't even a full stress test where we allow
a small amount of the public. This is friends and family.
This is if you were in on this episode. Uh,

(04:57):
you were getting to see the off launch of our
new restaurant.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Been to many soft launches.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
I bet you have so to speak, I could have
just I know, I well, I mean you with your
connection to the restaurant industry, restaurant business as well, I
know that analogy plays well for you. But first of all,
I got to start with just saying how amazing all

(05:25):
of y'all friends and family have been in supporting the
program as it was before, the program as it's going
to be going forward, and we're going to talk about
that right here off the top, basically just explaining what
we're doing here on a Monday night doing a live stream, uh,

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and what you can expect from the program moving forward.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
First of all, if you are not a YouTuber.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
If you could care less about seeing us on camera,
trust me, I understand this is this is not.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
We both got our haircut, okay, our one year haircuts
we got today. I got it today.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
That's going I look at all this, I did notice
the beard. I appreciate your commitment.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
We'll hit that in the weekend recap the because I
also I got my second haircut in.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Fifteen years, and I want to pack.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah you're you're a better man than I am. Uh.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
But if you're if you don't give a damn about
seeing us, fear not. Everything will still be audio only
posted everywhere it had been before. Will still be Spotify anywhere, Yeah,
anywhere you get well hold on.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
First of all, we'll still be on iHeart.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Because that is still give me the key to this
whole operation. Uh, iHeart Spotify, Apple anywhere you get your podcast.
We will still be posting the audiover of that, uh,
but frankly doing doing the audio version uh for for

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the last few months. It doing it all solo is
just not good content in my eyes.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
I mean, I know the problem.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
I'll tell you.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
The hardest thing is the only person that was telling
me that was me. The only everyone else was like, oh,
it's great, I love it, Like why where where the
new episodes at? And I and I think there's there's
a balance between being overly critical of oneself while also
knowing that you're right.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
And so I think.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
You're not feeling it. It's hard to fake and make
you know, the audience.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
As it started feeling at times like it was more
of a it was more of an early nineties talk.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Radio show where it well yeah, or or like the early.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Days of you know, one of my eyes, like Norm
hitch Us up in the Metroplex, just one man ranting.
And it also it didn't help that it was Cowboys season,
with the Cowboys season from Hell that we just went through.
And so being the only voice, I'm sure you loved it,
being your team.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
We'll talk about your team coming up.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Being the only voice trying to describe the dumpster fire
that was the Cowboys season. I think that attributed heavily
to feeling like it's just it's not good content that
I could go on. I could bitch about Jerry every
day of my life.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
You gotta push through it. You got the draft is coming,
we'll get to that. We got twenty four days away.
Twenty four days. You gotta find something else.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Uh, And the best solution I could come up with,
along with the help of Cap and Corse, LG was
adding more voices to the operation here, which leads me
to why we are here on Monday nights streaming this. Now,
we're going to do this Monday night. Lock it in

(09:06):
eight o'clock, LG. Lock it in, Man, I missed those. Yeah,
I think the time we're going to do these Monday nights.
And I'll tell you why. The time is going to
fluctuate because one, LG is a freelancer and we are

(09:28):
at his scheduling, the mercy of his schedule. But two,
obviously summer time is going to be really easy. We're
not going to be I mean, there's going to be
a lot of baseball on I know you. One thing
I love about talking sports with you is exactly same
same with me. It's the the sport that raised me
to become a fanatic like I am. But the you know,

(09:52):
come the fall, Mondays are dominated by football. Absolutely and
absolutely there is no way we would ask you to
try to split your time and attention between us and football.
So we're going to again this is the soft opening.
We're going to be molding the schedule and the operations here,

(10:14):
but as far as the content, expect exactly what you
got previously with the Sports Cave now with some additional voices,
and then also come Mondays in the fall, potentially pushing
that back and being more of a Monday night football
postgame show where we actually recap all of the NFL

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that week. So again, soft opening, we're finding our.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Sea Labs will come.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, I'm not that is one thing. That is one
thing I am not worried about is the ideas coming.
But biggest thing, so to speak, biggest thing is just
appreciate the support y'all and appreciate the support. Move moving
forward as we start this new endeavor. But as I promised,

(11:06):
it will not sound that different than it did before,
which means, as always, we start with what I watched
last night, and we're going to stretch this really into
what we watched last week and dominating my viewing habits
were two NCAA tournament and MLB Opening week, So that

(11:28):
will end up constituting the main segment today. We're gonna
course talk about the Final four coming to town this weekend,
going to talk about the early headlines we got coming
out of MLB Opening Week. Of course, the Yankees' Bats
stole a lot of those headlines, but and I know
you have a lot as a as a Yankee fan,

(11:51):
I know you have a lot of hot hot lumber
opinions regarding those bowling pin and bats are using. But
we'll get into all that in the main segment. Since
we are doing this on Monday nights, it only seems
appropriate that we start with a little bit of a
weekend recap because I know, you know, we are three

(12:17):
fairly we're older by the second, older by the day,
but we're still still fairly active and engaged members of
our community. So I thought we would start basically every Monday,
we'll just start the show with a little weekend recap
roundabout see what everybody did over since the last time

(12:39):
we were together. And I should say we're doing this
live stream on Mondays the Wednesday. We're gonna do Monday,
Wednesday Friday to start, and we're gonna leave some room
Tuesdays and Thursdays for me to either you know, potentially
record some interviews if I get some guests lined up,

(12:59):
or we also we are live on YouTube sports Cave
at sports Cave Live, but we are also live on
Twitch at sports Cave Live, which brings me. That's what
my son uses, that's where the kids are at, or
at least that's what they Diellcord.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
I'm like, how many apps do you need to talk
to each other?

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, Discord, Discord is still waters. I'm not swimming in.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
But now we sound like old men, as I already
had burped without using the cough button. The being on
Twitch opens up some other opportunities as well, because, of course,
if you know me, if you were familiar with me before,
if this is the first time you're watching or listening,
I am a thirty nine year old man who still

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loves video games, and there is no shame. I've long
passed the point where I feel any shame about that.
Mainly it's it's sports games because I like to play
general manager and.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Sport sport people get paid. There's millionaires that do it,
so therefore no shame.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
I play video games exactly, and you know what LG does.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
LG spins records.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
So potentially in the future on Twitch maybe Tuesday or
Thursday nights, we end up doing a Twitch stream where
it's not a show, it's just we're literally playing video
games LG spinning records. Honestly, the yeah, the overarching, the
overarching kind of view I have of this is just

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come in and hang out with us, like, yeah, we're
gonna do a show.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
I've got, of course, my notes.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
I've got an entire page of notes uh that that
we we have content, we have structure, but I wanted
to just be a hangout. I want it to be
We're gonna have some We're gonna have some potential uh
sit in guests moving forward, you know, have someone throw
someone else on the mic for for an episode to
have uh you know, spotlight some of the other uh

(14:59):
you know, content creators or not even content like that.
I got a local stand up comedian. I'm trying to
to get booked, so we're just.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Come up with new shows.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
We're hanging out.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
We're just we're hanging out talking sports because sports are fun,
so we talk about them. And on top of sports,
as I was saying, we talk about what we did
this past weekend. And I'll start with this one because
I for the way it worked out, I ended up
having one of the busiest weekends I've had all years

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so far. Uh, the weekend before we start doing this thing.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
So it uh you know, LG.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
You know, we put the picture out last Wednesday of
us meeting and you know, kind of brainstorming. Uh whatever
this was is going to become. So starting from there,
as you mentioned, last Thursday, I got a haircut, and.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
I know that that's not headline news.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
I know a lot of Immediately it's like, okay, yeah whatever,
like this is short for this is the shortest it's
been since my wedding day seven.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
I see the curls coming back.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
Yeah, seven years ago. I have for a Yeah, buddy,
So just wait.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
So Thursday go in. I've gotten I got my haircut
last Thursday. I got my haircut the day before my wedding.
I got my haircut February nineteenth, twenty and eighteen, the
day before my wedding. Or no April April nineteenth.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
I was about to say, you're about to You're gonna
mess up this day. April's gonna get you Like you
don't know our anniversary. Oh, I'm the one you don't know.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
I'm the one that can recall the year I was
quicker than she was. I was, so I don't have
to worry too much about that.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
But ended up it's the fear of getting in trouble. Yes,
why we remember, and we got fear thousand percent. We
have trauma.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
That's that's the That's the all I'm gonna talk about
trauma too.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
The Let me propose a question. Who cuts your hair? I?

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Actually it is quite funny. Is I get my haircut
by one of my best friends? Her name is Casey.
Her name is Casey. She owns a salon down in
Alamo Heights, one of the most boogiest, fantastic, like I
swear it is premier. The clientele she tells me about

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it still blows my mind. But every time I walk
in there, it goes dead silent because they're like, who
is this mammoth of a man? This guy is one thing.
The cut off shirt with scraggly beard, walking in here
and I got casey like Steve O. And then they're like, okay,

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they all can let out a side re leave like
they're all not getting there.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, there's a comfort. Yeah, there's now a level of
comfort established someone someone can vouch for you there.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
It's the same joke my bodyguards here. They I've heard
it a thousand times and I'm just like, yeah, that's.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Not Yeah, but I mean, what do you what do
you don't want to be the a hole that says it.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
That's not the first place I walk in where I
shut the room down.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
That again.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
As a six foot four, long haired redneck, I can
understand that immensely. So the reason I ask the last
time I got my haircut the week of my wedding,
you can tell how much I was really worried about it.
Then I just went to a random barber shop, like
nothing like it was one of the it was one
of these men themed barbershop where it's like, we'll give

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you a beer. I wish that would have That would
have eased the anxiety of getting married a lot more
than just getting.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Warm, warm, warm towel or the.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Warm shaving cream, you know, and all that.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
The so I went to one of the word those
poor girls man like you. Literally you can tell like
the weirdo who gets the full package. Oh yeah, they're
just like I'm not.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
I'm not made for that life.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
I I'm the one that gets awkward before they can
even get awkward, Like, I'm I can't do that. But
so I went to one of these like man themed
barber shops the last time I got my haircut, and
I told Steph. I told the roommate, you know, I was,
I was considering getting another haircut, and she suggested I

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use her hair.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
Girl, Hey, you have long hair like a girl, why
not go to a girls salon? And that's the way.
That's the way I put it. My hair is I
look like back in the day. I will not say now,
but if you've ever watched Legends of the Fall Bride Pit,
that was my gorgeous locks. They were beautiful, full head
of hair, blonde flowing. Yes, the girls were privileged to

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cut that hand.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
See you were Samson getting the full salon treatment. The uh,
the logic there makes perfect sense, which is why I
immediately agreed to. I mean, the roommate has pink hair,
she's got all kinds you know her hair chick is
really good. I know that because I see I see
stuffs here. So I had no fear or concern that

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it would be a bad haircut. But I underestimated a
bit of the awkwardness.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
Of like.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Trying to do the small talk exactly with Casey there
and it's her. She has a private room, so see
and I get to escape that I was.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
I was in a private room, which arguably again I
in some ways made it worse too, because then it
was like, I'm a guy that when you know, when
I when I get a haircut, or when I get
any kind of like a massage or anything where I
am stationary and not moving, I don't need a whole
lot of conversation, like I'm not we're not here too.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
It's it's the bathroom rules.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
It's exactly.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
We don't talk.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
We don't talk, and I'm and there's it's nothing rude,
don't take it as such, but I'm here for a service,
not a conversation. I underestimated how much I was going
to have to conversate because this is basically an auxiliary
friend that I mean, stuff's been going to this girl
for eight years.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
Oh she wants all the dirt, of course.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
And so I am instantly like, and she's telling me
about her husband, like, oh, he loves sports, he's he
goffs all the time.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Oh tell me that she tried to set you up
with on a mandate.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Buddy, we might be on double dates. So that's yeah, again,
great people. They seem they seem like, I mean, it
seems like it would be a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
But I did not really think.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Through there's an ulterior motive, a thousand.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Percent the motive. And so you mentioned the curls coming back.
So I walked out of this salon. She had used
some kind of like curling lotion.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
I walked out of there.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
It out, dude, I.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Looked like a nineteen eighties middle reliever for the Indians,
like I looked.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
It was.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
It was it.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
I immediately went home and washed my hair. I washed
curling ag out.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
I couldn't do it. I couldn't.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
I know, it stays in there for a little while.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yeah, No, I couldn't live with it.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
So he gave me a Brazilian like whatever, a Brazilion
blow out for free. Oh whoa, whoa, whoa. I was
about to say, like I was married at that time.
It was just of the wife service. The wife was
very pissed because she's like, you know how much that
was and I'm like, I have no idea, No, it's

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way too long. It was two hours of like it
wasn't what I asked for, and she's like, that's like
a four hundred dollars thing, and instead of saying your
hair looks good, she was just mad.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah, no, she's jealous. It was jealous.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
So to show you the dedication first of all, second
haircut in fifteen years, that's how you know I'm serious.
That's how you know we're on the sun. Cap got
his haircut. So that was Thursday, going in. We looked better.
We look better, and I'm not ready to go good.
Going into the weekend, I mentioned it was one of

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the busiest weekends I've had all year. It was you know,
I live. For those that don't know, I lived downtown literally,
uh you know, can can throw a rock and hit
the parking lot at the Alamodome there on the East Side.
And something I love about living downtown is when there is,

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you know, a big event or a big weekend, the
amount of locals that will come downtown that normally wouldn't,
and this past weekend was one of those. We had Spurs,
We had the Celtics in town, Spurs Celtics, and it
was an earlier tip. So by the time, you know,

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we were actually out from the event we were at,
which I'll talk about here in a second. Uh, the
river walk was full of Spurs and Celtics gear, so
you know, you know, you know, it's more locals than
tourists because they were at the game. You're seeing them
on the river. I think there was the the Aztec
Theater had something going on, but we were at the

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roommate and I went with another couple that invited.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
And this is one of those moments.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
It was one of those deals where U three maybe
four weeks ago, we were at a random watering hole bar.
Establishment ran into this couple that we're friends with, hadn't
seen in a long time, end up drinking longer than
like we were, we were getting ready to leave, run

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into them, end up staying, you know, three more hours.
It was a great night. So I woke up the
next morning and I got it. I had a text
from the guy that was like, hey man, just so
you know, I snagged those tickets. We were talking about
last night and I was like, I was like, uh, yeah, man,
looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Uh like steph, w when what do we what do
we commit to? When?

Speaker 3 (25:42):
When's the event?

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Again?

Speaker 2 (25:44):
Like when's the like very generic wording like when is
the obligation that we committed to scheduled for?

Speaker 1 (25:52):
I need to check my books.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
That's exactly right out, buddy.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
Uh yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
It was turned out all great because what we committed
to was actually going to see Taylor Tomlinson stand up comedian.
She was at Majestic Saturday night. She was actually at
Majestic Friday and Saturday night, And if you don't know
who that is, she does the after Midnight show, which
now it turns out, had just been announced that she

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was leaving that show, so these were her first stand
up dates since that announcement. She has a couple really
funny specials on Netflix, but she was someone that you know,
I not necessarily would have thought to get the tickets myself,
but I'm glad we ended up going.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
It was funny. It was really funny, a.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Solid solid hour, fifteen minute our twenty minute set of
stand up. But the biggest takeaway through all of it
a couple notes. First of all, I hadn't been to
a comedy show in a while. I don't know about y'all.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Uh when the lo O L Whitney Cummings was the
last one out? Funny funny?

Speaker 3 (27:06):
Uh, I'm supprised she was only playing LOL Club.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Is that the that's the one over by north Star, right, Yeah,
that's that's a comedy club.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
But this was I want to say, about four years ago.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Okay, yeah, I guess her popularity is stick to the
North Side.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
Yeah. So uh.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
You know, first of all, anytime you go into Majestic,
it's it's it's a great experience just because it's an
awesome old theater. It's not great for someone our size
to try to fit in those chairs with people in
front of you throwing their head back, laughing every five minutes.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
You have the man spread just to get in there.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Oh and and that alone, that alone was a struggle.
So as we sit down, the opener, I think the
opener described Majestic Theater as an evil looking Disney ride, like,
you know, it looks like an animatronic, like you know,
it's a small world world.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
But the scary little animatronic.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Exactly what the pirates chasing the woman on the Old
Pirates of the Caribbean. It's what the that's what the
woke took away from us, the Old Pirates of the Caribbean.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
The Uh.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
The first thing I noticed was during the opener. It
wasn't even the main headliner yet. During the opener, Uh,
the guy in front of me is a guy that
just yells facts.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Fos Oh. He's the one that wants attention, truth like
he just wants oh. Man, I can't say so.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
I immediately thought, this is going to be a long
night if I'm gonna have to hear this. But the
funny thing is, so the opener was a dude. Taylor
Tomlinson is a.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Chick, and the tale was about to turn on.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
And not only that, she apparently I had no idea
what the tour was going to be about.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
Uh she had.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
She's apparently just come out as bisexual. A lot of
good stories to tell there, I thinks buy and also
did anything wrong with as Rivers Puomo said, everyone's a
little queer.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
Why can't she be a little straight? You know?

Speaker 2 (29:12):
It's Uh, the first part of it, it was a
lot of her talking about that. Uh, and then the
second part was religious trauma. She was raised like real strong,
like fundamentalist Christian. Uh So it was a lot of Yeah,
it was like it was, you know, that part I
can relate to growing up like pseudo Calvinist. Uh But

(29:34):
the bisexual part I did not see coming. And I
don't think the guy in front of me saw it
coming either, so to speak, because real quick.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
He didn't have a whole lot to say.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
There weren't a whole lot of facts once she got
on the stage, which this is always my favorite thing
about seeing a comedy show, when you know we were
there with another couple and seeing the dyna of when
a joke gets told and you hear, oh, that was

(30:04):
mainly all the women that laughed, And then another joke
it's like, oh all the all the dudes thought that
one was funny, but didn't hear as many. And then
of course, you know when when you can get them both,
it's it's like, all right, you're hitting.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
It's the setup. You got to try to pit them
against each other and then bring them all in. It
was a lot of the former and not the latter.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
There was a lot of There was a lot of
female laugh track mix in with my like, oh.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
So it was one of those making the plans.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
That's correct, and again it's it's I mean, the set
was hilarious that there was nothing.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
I'm always curious.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
When a you know, more liberal leaning comedian plays a
show here, just what that crowd is going to be like.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
There was.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
She didn't get political or anything, but you know, you
talk about religion in this city that I mean that
can quickly.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
You can quickly turn on you.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
But all in all, it was, you know, pretty pretty
well accepted set. It seemed like a good night. But
the some of the some of the specific jokes she
was making about the differences of being in a relationship
with a man versus a woman. That was about the
point where the guy in front of me started up

(31:27):
looking at the watch, pull pulled his phone out to
look at the Duke Alabama score, like, oh wow, Duke's
really putting it on them now that game's getting out
of hand. He lost interest pretty quick.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
That's one of those things where the guy knows that
his girl has been with another girl and is very
insecure about that.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
I think you might be onto something, yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
And he's like, let me get her out of here
because she's going to start talking about, oh, it was
such a great time, and boom, they got her back
two chicks at the same time. That's right.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
You don't have to have a million dollars to do that.
So all in all, it was a pretty eventful weekend.
I hadn't been on the river walk in like, you know,
the roommate and I will go, you know, during the day.
You know, she works from home. So trying to be
more active these days. Starting to feel the early onset

(32:16):
gout creep in, So just trying to do more. My
grandpa will like that joke.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
My knees are bad. I'm starting ack with therapy tomorrow
and I can't wait to start cracking up these old
blue hairs in the aquap.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
I was about to say, report back, that sounds like
content right there. So we were, you know, we we
will walk the river in the evening sometimes or in
the afternoons on weekends, but I hadn't been on the
river after midnight or really after dark in a long time.
And you know, we got out of the theater around

(32:51):
eleven o'clock, went to one of my favorite spots on
the river, went down to Waxies. I was working at
Aztec when Waxes had the fire God what was that now?
Five six years ago? But I'm proud and happy to
report Waxies is fully back, operational.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
Slinging drinks, good drinks for locals down there.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
This is not a plug. It's just where we ended up,
and I say ended up. We ended up closing it
down damn near. But just people watching on the river
on a Saturday night for the first time in forever.
You know, the the ratio of full families with multiple

(33:35):
kids even strollers out after one am, and then you
just have a group of British soccer hooligans walking by,
singing the you know, anthem of the Three Lions, or
you know, singing you know some mill Wall fight song
or whatever it is they're going off on, you know
one Just the amount of international tourists, you know, I

(33:57):
take for granted.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
I forget. I did work.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
My first job ever in San Antonio was waiting tables
at the original down on the river Walk. I did
that for two weekends because I needed some cash.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
I think it's still there. I didn't last long, but
I'd forgotten.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Just you know, how much international tourism we have, not
just from our side of the pond, but a lot
of a lot of Europeans. But the amount of families
out after one and I understood you're on vacation.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
See, this is the thing is you don't have a kid.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
That's correct.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
You keep them up as long as possible so you
could sleep in because if they go to sleep at
a normal time ten eleven o'clock, you're going back out.
You're sitting there calling the hotel looking for like, hey,
do you have a babysitter service or somewhere, or you're
just saying ef itt and you go out there and
you know, go to the hotel bar. What's the worst

(34:55):
that can happen? But that kid's gonna wake you up
at eight o'clock. You keep them up till three, you
get to sleep in a little bit. Well, I have
a little life hack for you.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
I was about to say, hopefully it's a life hack.
I never have to take advantage of, uh, especially not
at this point. But it just blew my mind seeing
you know, we're sitting there getting we had been drinking
at the theater, drinking on a you know the locals
menu basically, you know when the martender you order around

(35:28):
for four and you only get charged for two you know,
the locals discount discount.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
They just put it on the tourism exactly like I're
gonna put those those last two shots over on them.
They're not gonna notice they're they're tanked.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
Yeah, all of the they're all one eye in it.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Basically the bottle of Don Julio that we consumed, I
didn't see any of that on the tab. Again, this
is not a paid plug. This is just a thank
you Waxies for giving us the local discount.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
But it was good. It was a good weekend to
be out.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Speaking speaking of tourism, you're gonna you should have a
lot of fun because we got the final four coming.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Up, see, and we're gonna talk about that in the
main segment. Because I am driving home last night. We
did a little uh you know, pre pre prep yesterday, uh,
trying to get everything in line for tonight. And as
I was driving back into the neighborhood, I saw the

(36:27):
Charles Barkley Capital one blimp floating right over my house, right,
and it's the one, you know Barkley's it's his head
out at the front.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
It's like his arm. I want to google it. I've
never I have not seen.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
It because the roommate thought it was a giant black
dell on the side of us. That is, she was
asking she because she's she is aware of what's about
to happen in our neighborhood this weekend. Uh but you
know on Sunday afternoon, she's not thinking about that, you know,

(37:06):
top of mind. Uh So, yeah, no, the the downtown,
the neighborhood's going to be crazy this coming weekend. So
you know, I'll have plenty of content for the weekend
recap next week. But it was good to see, you know,
the calm before the storm. It was a locals weekend downtown,
all the events that brought the locals in.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
And it didn't feel it didn't feel like we were
completely outnumbered by the tourists. I mean, I even we
were sitting outside at Waxi's and there were three people,
three different groups of people that just walked by that
we knew that we're either at the gay had been
or yeah, and so like they were. It's always good,

(37:49):
I know, that's correct. I know a lot of people,
you know, give downtown area a lot of hell because
it is majority of the time just tourists.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
Uh So when we.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Get a weekend like that, I love to see it.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
A good strong local showing locals, uh programming, locals oriented
weekend downtown. But yeah, as you mentioned, this next weekend
will be quite the opposite, quite the opposite of that,
So I'm sure that will probably lead to more exciting stories.

(38:25):
But as I mentioned, as always, let's go around the room.
What I asked LG, I know you've got something for us.
I asked LG if he had anything, and I got crickets.
I got no reply, so.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
I passed out early last night after our little rendezvous.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
Hey dude, and is I think it was?

Speaker 2 (38:53):
I think it was the four plates and three roles
that we ordered.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
Yeah, that that Chappelle's show is Japanese.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Isakaya is just a Japanese pub and that will knock
you out if you have it. We ate it like
what four o'clock, three o'clock, whatever time it was. But
we'll save LG for last captain. What give us a
give us a weekend recount?

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Just regular weekend, just out and about, but a funny
story which might want to tried to a segment of
how to Video. We like funny stories, I think we do,
and so As I'm leaving the said pub on North Side,
I see these two, these four girls, and one of

(39:40):
them is she's cracking me up. She's an amputee. She's
taking off her leg.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
It feels like an unnecessary detail.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
It'll wrap back in, it'll come full circle. And we're
sitting there cutting up. She's I mean, they're about twenty
four years old, so I'm sure they're straight out of
And as I'm as I'm leaving, they're leaving too, and
they're like, yeah, we're about to go change this tire.
And that was the young lady with the with the
uh with the fake leg, And I was like, have

(40:14):
you ever changed the tire yet? And she said no.
And I looked at all the other girls. I was like,
have y'all any of y'all changed the tire? And one
girl says, don't worry, there's a book. You can just
read it. And I already knew right there. I looked
at the other girl and was like, you're about to
lose your other leg.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
Yeah, I was, girls are in trouble.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
I have a nineteen year old, so I was just
he learned. He's he wasn't a young he's a he's
a man. He's a little man, but I taught him
how to change a tire at an early age. And
I looked at it. I looked at him. I was like, so,
your dad's never changed a tire. And I got the
two of them didn't have a dad, and two of
them didn't show him how. And I was like, all right,
where's the car. I'll help you out. And of course

(40:58):
you know they're radar our detector goes off like this
giant older man wants to come help change the tire.
Good for them, yeah, you know it should be because
the questions. They all came as a group. That's smart,
all four of them. And as we get there, I
look at them in and say, okay, let's see how you
change a tire. I did not help him one bit.

(41:21):
I was just supervision directed.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
Every job needs a supervisor, supervisors.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
And I have not done this once. I have not
done it twice. I've probably done it about half a
dozen times with my girlfriends, friends that are girls and
random people. They think I'm gonna sit there and do
all the labor. Uh huh, You're gonna learn a lesson today.
And of course, at least it's a valuable lesson. It's
a valuable lesson. And this is where it came to.

(41:48):
They had one of the accordion.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
Jacks, just the one that comes with the A.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
They tried to they tried to do it on gravel
and I was like, let's put this on flat surface.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
And she really was gonna lose her other legs.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
She was trying to jack it up with her amputee leg.
Thank god, the ampute leg was under the car so
I couldn't It's yeah, you couldn't get any worse than
that ppect. That's where I'm like, get your limbs out
from underneath the car. And of course there's still the
one girl reading the book being like, well do you
do it? And I'm like, put the book away or

(42:22):
I'm gonna throw it over the fence.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Oh I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
It was a wait, no, that's not what the book says. Like, no,
I think you're you're doing it wrong.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
That's that's what I used to do with my dad.
It would be like, I will never forget we were
changing an alternator on a car. I was like, it
says we need to disconnect the batteries. Oh no, it'll
be fine.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
Book, that's how you get at you exactly exactly.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
So there's a balance between like, Okay, you're about to
kill yourself, book says so versus all right, no, you
teach me, I'll do it your way.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
I'll learn your way.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
And one of these girls she went home, I guess
they lived right around the corner, went home and grabbed
a couple of silver bullets and was like, would you
like one. I'm like sitting on the back of my
truck tailgate and I'm like, as well, I'll turn off
your lights. Girls. We don't need the cops pulling up
on us.

Speaker 3 (43:08):
Yeah, we're already attracting enough attention.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
So they sat there and it was It took him
about forty five minutes an hour to change the tire.
You look like the.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
North Side pimp, just watching your your employees and my employees.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
Yeah, that's the man exactly. Man. My lot lizards are
doing really good. They're workers.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
We respect the we respect the sex industry workers.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
But they did good, they did excellent. They learned why
you do the lug nuts and a star pattern because
of if you did not know it, does it makes it? Uh?
What's one of my things balanced?

Speaker 3 (43:43):
Oh? Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Balances, so you don't have any you don't have anything
on one side. Yeah, no shaking. But I love the
hilarious I love the idea that the four of those
girls will remember you forever the next time, Like, it
won't even be them that gets us. They'll just drive
past somebody changing a tire on the side of the
road and remember.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
That that big guy that taught us how to do that.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
Exactly at the end, they all were like, I'm so
glad that I learned how to change a tire. And
I was like, now you don't have to wait for
another big creep to come over here and say, hey,
let me help you. And I was like, that's why
I threw it off on him, is the fact that
I didn't do any of the work. It kind of
like they took him off guard and they let the

(44:28):
wall down. They learned, And I'm like, I'm doing this
as a father figure because I have a nineteen year
old you know, you're almost old my kid.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
I a father figure. You girls don't don't get any idea.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
But then I got to learn that, hey, you guys
have no I'm not going there. I was like, oh,
you have daddy problems. Elsie.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
I was about to say, that's a story for another episode,
that's a story for a twitch stream.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Maybe.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
Well, it's good to know that the girls are taking
care of it.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
They got home safe. They even text me they got home.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
We made it home, Dad, everything's everything's good.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
Oh they got my number. I don't know. That's amazing.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
It must have just gotten sucked in. It just got
sucked into the group chat. I hear that happens a
lot these days.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
Uh LG.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
What do you have for the weekend besides.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
Scrambling to get all of this set up for us,
which I think forty five minutes into it, so far,
so good.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
Hey, my weekend was pretty chill. Man.

Speaker 3 (45:28):
I did nothing, so I kind of feel like we could.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
Just sat around.

Speaker 4 (45:32):
I rearranged the studio, rebuilt some things.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
You know.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
I kind of feel like we could just cut everything
you just said right there and probably replay that most weeks.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
Yeah, Oh my god. I'm kind of a hermit these days.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
Get out to get him out is a struggle. Wow.
I try to get him out at least once a
week or two.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
And man, well here's the goal, here's the here's the task.
We have between us here in this room. Then, as
I said, this whole show is just it's the boys
hanging out like we're your boys, y'all are our boys.
We're just hanging out. We're talking sports, We're talking about
the crap we got into this weekend. We need to

(46:12):
take it as our personal responsibility to get LG out
more often.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
Nothing crazy, nothing crazy, we'll.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
See, we'll see as long as there's food.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
To move. Man.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
No, I was about to say, Sunday afternoon, not only
did we get LG out for a happy hour, but
he picked the place.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Hey, if you add food, if you had food in
the mix, you might win. Yeah, that's what I'm all about. That.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
So I think we've already cracked the code, Iraed, This.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
Code happy hour is the code.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
Happy hour is absolutely good.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Lord.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
The again not a paid plug, but if you want
to eat well for cheap, Yeah, Piranha is a kaya
happy hour.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Lord. Yeah, y'all had drinks, just want nothing crazy?

Speaker 2 (47:00):
One each one each left the record show. But again,
we'll start every episode off the top. Probably of course,
won't go almost a full hour without talking sports normally, but.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
Again, this is a soft open.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
We had to set the table at the top before
we got into our weekend recap. But weekend is now
in the rearview mirror. It is in the past. Now
we look forward, and that brings me to this coming weekend.
We of course final four is in town. We have
all of the teams, uh we know will be appearing, and.

Speaker 3 (47:41):
It brings me we're gonna we're.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
Gonna talk at a larger level of what the tournament
is when it's at its best, or what it is.

Speaker 3 (47:51):
That we prefer to see.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
Uh, you know, what we want in terms of the
teams that make it to the final four. Because for
the only the second time ever, y'all all know by
now all number one seeds will be at the final four. Coincidentally,
it's the only other time was two thousand and eight,

(48:15):
also here in San Antonio. That's when we got the
Mario Chalmers buzzer beater for the Kansas National Championship. Back
then in eight Chalmers makes the game winner in college,
ends up making that three for the Heat later in
his career when he got to the to the League.
But only the second time that's ever happened. Saturday night,

(48:38):
we're gonna get Florida versus Auburn first, Houston versus Duke
in the second game, and that brings me to my
first point. We're not going to do y'all all watched
the games. You don't need postgame reports, and frankly, you.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Know, I'm I'm married to a Red Raider. We're going
through it right now.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
There's not We're not going to talk a whole whole
lot about how those four teams got to the final four.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
I will say just quickly about Tech. It feels like
it was a it was.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
A rebalancing of purposes, but they should have lost to Arkansas.
The amazing sixteen point comeback, but what biggest or tied
for biggest comeback in Sweet sixteen history. Force overtime win
that game in overtime. Couple defensive stops.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
That was amazing.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
It was a great game, mate, it was amazing. And
then the other side of that coin is the way
they blow the ten point lead against Florida, can't make
any free throws at the end of the game. Again,
I've said more than I intended to, but really really
was hoping we would end up seeing a TECH appearance
down here, because you know, having Duke, which if you

(49:53):
can't see I got my little Duke Garden gnome here.
He's missing part of his trident. That things traveled with
me in multiple cities in the state. That's Duke is
my team from childhood. I know that's generic small town
white boy stuff. I mean it's like Steve Wojo slapping
the court. Of course, Grant Hill drinks sprite Christian. You know,

(50:15):
I could go through. The first team I really fell
in love with was that Corey mcghetti, Elton Brandt, you know,
that kind of second era of the late nineties. But
anytime Duke has a transformative talent like Cooper Flag, like
a Zion, you know, anytime they have someone, well, frankly,

(50:38):
that's gonna be the one to one pick in the
NBA Draft. That's a year where I watch a lot
of college basketball because I'm watching every one of their games.
I couldn't get enough of Cooper Flag this year. I
also fell in love with a couple of guys that
the Spurs might.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
Be interested in.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
Spurs looks like they're gonna pick somewhere around the eighth
and sixteen pick in the draft. That eighth pick could
end up being, uh, you know, the Duke big Man
malawatch who just started playing basketball a couple of years
ago out of Sudan, I believe.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
And then the Conker Nipple, the funniest name in college
basketball this year. It's the most Wisconsin name ever.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
Love it.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
I could have given you two guesses and you would
have either it's it's Minnesota or Wisconsin.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
Somewhere in the iron it's the it's the.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
Most Midwest name ever.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
And he's only uh, you know, it turned out to
show that he is is a fringe top ten pick.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
So we'll talk. We'll talk a little bit about the
spurs angle of it.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
But you know, ad Trey Johnson, you know, when Texas
has a has a top talent, uh, Trey Johnson should
be a top ten pick as well.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
You know, I think back.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
To those, you know, the years, the back to back
years of Durant at Texas and Michael Beasley at Kansas State,
A c Law at A and m you know, it's
those tech teams were good with andre Emmett. So anytime
there is a local appeal or local attraction, it's a
year where I end up watching way more college hoops

(52:10):
than usual. And I would say, you know, this year
it was probably the most college basketball I've watched since
the Zion year at Duke, since Zion blew out the
pair of Nikes. So I feel like I feel like
I'm being rewarded by the four teams that made it
because I watched a lot of Houston Koog's game this year,

(52:32):
watched a lot of Duke, watched a lot of the SEC,
the best conference in basketball. And you know, I'll pull
off our text messages because Cap asked me the week
the NCAA Tournament started. It was, you know, from Cap,
need a cheat sheet for some brackets, and this is

(52:53):
this is what I said on Wednesday, March nineteenth. Okay,
it feels like a good year for one in two seeds.
The top eight teams were clearly better by a wide
margin than the.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
Rest of the country.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
This year.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
I think there will be a couple four and five
seeds that lose, but I expect the final four to
have no seeds worse than a three seed.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Yeah, so you could see it.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
And I don't think I don't say that to have
any kind of you know, credentials established.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
It was it was just true.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
If you watched college basketball all year, I mean Duke
or I mean, Tech was. Honestly, when I said any
team's worse than a three seed, I thought Tech was
gonna I thought Tech was gonna be there. And I know,
again that hurts to hear me say it, because I
know there's a bunch of Tech, a bunch of y'all
are you know, either a T shirt Tech fans or alumni.

(53:44):
And you know, ever since losing that national championship game
to Virginia when they should have won, Virginia forces overtime,
end up losing, they had some heartbreakers and they've just
been right there on the cusp. But getting back, you know,
that was a great Tech team this year. I thought
they would be the one three seed that would appear.

(54:04):
But if you watch college basketball all year, you knew
Duke was gonna have a chance, just because of how
good Cooper Flag was. And then when you saw the
development of the other freshman Malawash and Canipple mixed with
you know, Proctor and some of the veteran talent. It
never gets old. I tried to say it as often
as possible. You could see that Duke was going to

(54:26):
be a force. Auburn has grown ass men playing. I
mean they have four five six year guys.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
I haven't seen them struggle all tournament. No, no, they are.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
They are the most I think the potential of a
Houston Auburn matchup in the National Championship game, that's going
to be a more Auburn playing. So Auburn plays Florida,
and this.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
Is where that little fellow in Florida, he's good.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
Yeah, the the Iona transfer, Yeah yeah, he's uh, he's
an insane But you look at that side. You know,
Florida has Florida has a couple seven footers that will
play in the NBA just because they're mobile seven footers,
they will find a home. But Florida doesn't really have
that lottery.

Speaker 1 (55:12):
Don't think you have a seven foot nine guy that's redshirt.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
Yeah, but he's that's a bit.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
I mean he like he's you know, think about like
Zach Edy now for the Grizzlies. You know, his freshman
year at Purdue, it was it took so much to
get him to National Player of the Year by the
time he was a junior and a senior. That kid
at Florida has a long way to go. But you know,
neither Florida or Auburn have any of that upper tier

(55:41):
lottery talent. They are just incredibly well coached, incredibly physical,
and you know, have the Florida kid can take over
a game.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Auburn it's still.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
The big man taking over a broom who got hurt
but came back. I just wish these matchups were flipped.
I wish the two sec team like I've seen Florida
and Auburn play each other twice already this year.

Speaker 1 (56:06):
You want three times? You want the rubber match.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
I would just rather see I would rather.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
But you want Duke to go to the finals. You
want the rubber match, And wish I wish all that.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
In the National check.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
Right now, Yeah, I wish. Well.

Speaker 3 (56:26):
I mean, Houston's gonna bring a hell of a crowd.

Speaker 1 (56:29):
You know, they're gonna be They're gonna be.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
Loud, They're gonna fill the dome. The domes already all
the games are sold out. But I wish we were getting,
you know, either Houston versus Florida and Auburn and Duke
versus the other.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
Uh, well, we can't get it all, I know, I know,
and we we already got what I was, you know,
hoping for to begin with.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
You mentioned the you know that Florida team, That Auburn
team not really having a whole lot of the top
tier talent, But what they have is the upward mobility
of these middle of the road conference team. You know,
the the mid major players of the year are transferring

(57:12):
to Auburn, to Florida, to Alabama. You know, Alabama had
the kid with the nasty mustache, the white boy. He
was a small transfer. You know, a lot of people
speak of NIL as the death of the sport, and
it's making the you know, upper tier of college basketball

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even better.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
And I argue, why is that a bad thing?

Speaker 2 (57:41):
Like I want to see I don't want to see
like the kid at Florida, the Florida point guard, I
don't want to see him continue to play at IONA.
If he can be on the biggest stage for one
of the four best teams in the country, that to
me is a good thing that the talent is moving
to the top tier of the.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
I feel like the NIL got rid of the participation
trophies for the other schools who are hanging on one
good talented kid that he can make it to the tournament.
We can get some Cinderella's stories, but inevitably, the better
team the better coach team, the bigger brand name you

(58:21):
know was going to win, and you're going to see
them in the Elite day. You're going to see them
in the final four, which is going to be a
better game, It's going to be a better product. But
you know, yes, we still will see Cinderella stories. But
at the end of the day, when I'm watching the finals,
I want the two best teams. I don't want the
luckiest team.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
And that's exactly that's exactly where I fall because I think,
you know, I had on the run sheet. Here is
the tournament better with upsets and Cinderella's or top seed
chalk winning like we're seeing this year. And I understand,
you know, like this you mentioned in our pre show meeting. Yes,

(59:01):
we're doing pre show meetings, believe it or not. You
mentioned the Steph Curry Davidson years that was so electric. Yeah,
but never one time did I think Davidson was going
to win a national champion.

Speaker 1 (59:13):
When did they leave like lead eight, right, Yeah, they
got so got that's.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
When they think it was Sweet sixteen one year and
then Elade eight the next year maybe vice versa and
they but still.

Speaker 1 (59:22):
That's the exciting part. But right after a lead eight.
I want the best teams.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
But that's the problem because that year, you know, Davidson
is upsetting the best teams to get there. Yeah, you know,
we had George Mason in a final four not that
long ago.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
So if you think Steph Craig didn't want to go
to like a Kansas or George, I don't know if
Georgetown was relevant then or Duke.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
Or Georgetown's always relevant in my book, they might not be,
but I'll always remember.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
But if he couldn't go to one of those after
his first year Davidson, and then all of a sudden
he can go get a couple million dollars and go
to somewhere where he actually has a chance to win
the whole chip. I think Curry's gonna take that. I
guarantee you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
It'd be curious to see how nil how he would
have handled in it, because he would have had every
office Like.

Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
You know, he's gonna say he wouldn't have. I would
have stayed at Davidson because Carrie's Curry's so pure. The
perfect example.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
Now that you say that, Seth Curry his brother transferred
to Duke.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
See there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:00:29):
At that like that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
Next year or two years later, and he obviously wasn't
anywhere near as good as Steph, but he took that
route that you're describing. I wonder if Steph would have
if there had been more incentive like nil at the time,
because he would have Yeah, I mean, you could go
out on a limb. I don't know he loves that
Davidson coach.

Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
But he's gonna love that million dollars in the Duke
Jersey too.

Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
That's fair.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
So I think at the end of the day, you know,
a five twelve upset that doesn't Those are the kind
of upsets I like to see because a five to
twelve upset doesn't destroy personally, not that I care about
my bracket, yeah, but it just it doesn't destroy the
long term potential for the best product rising to the top. Yeah,

(01:01:18):
a five seed rarely is a five seed ever gonna
win the national championship anyway. So when a twelve seed
beats a five in the first round, or eleven beats
a six exactly, that feels like we're you know, a
five or a six seed was the middle tier test
front twelve or sec.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
Right, that's entertaining in the beginning of the tournament, right,
and then now we get down to the nitty gritty.
Let's see let's see the boys. Let's see the people
who are actually going to win the thing, the top
elite tournament, best coach.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
Let's see the guys that are gonna play in the
NBA for a decade plus.

Speaker 1 (01:01:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
Like, let's see the actual top talent play each other
at the highest level of college basketball. And that's why.
You know, if if you told me every year you
could get one seeds in the Final four and you
weren't going to get any upsets in the first round,
I would take that every year because at the end

(01:02:15):
of the day, I want to see the four best teams.
Especially I go back to in a year like this
where the top eight to you know, nine teams.

Speaker 3 (01:02:27):
Were just so much better.

Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
And it's not like that everybody didn't have adversity. I mean,
Auburn was probably the only one that didn't really have much,
but they did.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
The first week of the season, the Auburn players were
fighting each other on the charter jet so so much
so that they had to turn the plane around as
they were flying to a road game because two of
the guys were beating the hell out of each other
in the.

Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
Back, so an they had adversity.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
Just not through the tournament. Yeah, you're the only crazy
one I know who watches college basketball when football is
still playing.

Speaker 3 (01:03:05):
Yeah, that's probably fair.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
That's probably fair again, especially usually usually I don't lock
into college basketball until some of the bigger holiday tournaments, uh,
and then of course conference play. But you know, when
there's this much potential generational talent in college basketball, and
I'm watching Duke beat the hell out of University of

(01:03:30):
Maine and in the third game of the season, because
I'm I want, I want to see every second I can,
and that's hit. Well, you already knew that, so did
most everybody else. That is where, you know, specifically looking at, uh,
the the next kind of generation of where the NBA

(01:03:52):
is going. You know, we've we've talked a lot in
the past about you know, the NBA is having a
bit of a baton change right now. You mentioned Steph
Curry thirty seven years old, Kevin Gurant, Lebron forty, you know,
Chris Paul thirty nine to forty, like all of these
guys that had been great for so long. And I

(01:04:13):
heard Bill Simmons talking about this I've been listening to
a lot of Simmons again lately too, because my NBA
fandom is shifting. We'll talk about that later too, So
I've gotten more back into the overall talk about the
NBA as a league instead of just individual, you know,
team talk. The league is going through a generational shift,

(01:04:36):
and we already see some We already see Tatum, we
see Luca, We see some of the guys that are ready,
you know, Jaw when he's not beaten the crap out
of a fifteen year old in a pickup game. You know,
we've seen the guys that are ready to accept the baton.
But as much talk as there has been about this

(01:04:58):
draft class coming up, we might already be seeing the
guys that are going to form, you know, because it's
a sliding window.

Speaker 1 (01:05:05):
So you're saying, super team could be formed through this
draft with some already young.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
Talent, right and the the overall, the old guard, the
overall level of talent in the league is about to
have potentially the same kind of influx it had in
three when we when we first started to get mellow
d Wade.

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
Lebron, Darko Milicic.

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
When uh, yeah, you know you like when those guys
went CP three out of way. You know when when
those guys all entered the league together, it was like
all of a sudden, like every team has a superstar.
I mean like Utah had Darren Williams and Carlos Boozer,
which were absolutely second tier to those elite guys. But

(01:05:56):
that's still really really good talent.

Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
They were still they could make the playoff.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
That's more talent than most NBA teams have. Right now,
you know that there is.

Speaker 1 (01:06:03):
A Charlotte Whoever's playing on that team.

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
Yeah yeah, I mean, well they could they could be,
they could be one of the teams. Yeah, exactly, it's
a pair with LaMelo.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
But I want to lead into your struggle, your struggle,
so let me hear about this now.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
Oh oh okay, yeah, so the the struggle. Well, I'll
talk a little. I don't want to talk. I don't
want to make it all about the Luca trade. But
there are a few moments in my life of being
a sports fan where a trade has actually emotionally affected me.

Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
Give me your top three Luca Luca, that's number one.
That's no question, number.

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
One, it's no question, and there's really not even I
mean there's really not even a close close second. I mean,
it's uh, that one is just so every other trade,
Dallas fan, I mean, the Stars traded Mike Madonna to
the Red Wings like that hurt, but it felt nothing

(01:07:11):
like what the Luca trade felt like. You know, like
the Rangers let you know one, uh you know, let
Gonzalez walk. Let let well a Rod was fine, a
Rod can could go the you know, they let Raffy
go back to Baltimore.

Speaker 1 (01:07:29):
It uh, you.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
Know, I I've traded traded Pussage to the Marlins to
win a World Series like.

Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
I wasn't the Rangers.

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
And those emotionally, those stirred certain emotions, but again, nowhere
close to the the gut reaction to the fact that
the fact that the head, the lead insider in NBA
circles had to tweet out I did not get hacked.

Speaker 3 (01:08:02):
This is real.

Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
Oh yeah, I reme. I remember when everybody, everybody looked
at their phone and went to Google because they didn't
believe it. I didn't believe ESPN.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
No, you couldn't, because it was so unbelievable that it
would even be a consideration.

Speaker 1 (01:08:19):
And I know you've heard all the conspiracy theories about it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
Yeah, and that's where you know, the the it we
could run down.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
You know, there's there's so many I think at the
end of the day, like most conspiracy theories, what usually
ends up being true is that the dumbest, most obvious
possible answer is the truth. And I think the dumbest,
most possible answer is that Nico Harrison is an absolute

(01:08:46):
control freak, fragile man who didn't like the fact that
Luca got more credit than him.

Speaker 3 (01:08:56):
L and the fact that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
Luca was Luca's a child. Let's let's let's call spade
a spade. Twenty five doesn't run back for defense. He's
the most gifted person I've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
But you know what that equates to numbers that Lebron
hadn't even accomplished by the time he was twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
Ridiculous. I understand, ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
I understand all of the uh And on top of
it all, you were in all of all of those
things are absolutely true. Those are all faults of his personally,
But you were in the NBA finals with him last year.
You had built, you had constructed.

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
Your own Jerry Jones, Jimmy Johnson.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
It's a one thousand percent what it was, but instead
of it being coach, can.

Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
You get that drama exactly? So as you say.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
You're Spurs man, now, well hold on, hold on.

Speaker 3 (01:09:48):
So this is there, This is the way I view it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
I moved to San Antonio in February of twenty eleven,
so we have crossed the fourteen year mark. I've lived
in the city fourteen years in two months. I lived
in my hometown obviously for eighteen years, the first eighteen

(01:10:12):
years of my life. I am almost to the threshold
where San Antonio is the city I have lived in
the most my entire.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
Life, downtown by the stadium.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
So well, even more so if they if Project Marvel
goes through, and we'll talk about that on another episode.

Speaker 1 (01:10:30):
But I.

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
The thing is, and I've, of course, you know, for
the last month talk to a lot of my you know,
childhood friends, childhood buddies that we grew up, you know,
we grew up going to MAVs games. When Dennis Rodman
got ejected and just set you know, cross leg on
the free throw line on the it is like, I'm
not leaving, are you you ejected?

Speaker 3 (01:10:53):
I'm not going.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
You're gonna have to take carry me out of here
like I you know, we were MAVs fans when Mark
Cuban managed to Darery Queen because the league find him
for saying the head of officials couldn't even manage a
dairy queen.

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
You know, we were.

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
Uh you know, I remember going to boy Scout nights
whenever I was a little kid, where literally the only
people in that arena were boy scouts. That's the only
way they could get people to go to the game
was to give the tickets away for free.

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
The nineties were the.

Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
Worst professional sports run of any team in American history.
The Dallas Mavericks winning percentage was absolutely the worst. The
Green Jerks, the jerseys were fine. The jerseys were good,
and everyone, uh, you know, everyone loved Tony Braxton in
that locker room, which is why they had to trade
everybody when she.

Speaker 3 (01:11:47):
Yeah, they were sidetracked, that's correct. Yeah, they were distracted.
Let's say.

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
So all of that being said, there's no scenario. Uh
you know, there was a couple of times where I
had to stop myself from posting like that's it, Mavericks,
I'm done for, Like, I'm not that guy.

Speaker 3 (01:12:05):
I'm not going to react like.

Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
They got Wimby. We got always.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
Going to have. The Mavericks are always going to be
my childhood team. That's just the way it is. I
grew up there to grow up. I fell in.

Speaker 1 (01:12:16):
Bingo, you grow up.

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
We are about three years and ten months before I
personally feel comfortable saying I am a Spurs fan.

Speaker 1 (01:12:30):
Three years and ten months is your countdown clock?

Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
Eighteen years?

Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
When I have lived in San Antonio for longer than
I lived in the DFW market, then I will feel
comfortable saying, yeah, I'm a Spurs fan.

Speaker 1 (01:12:43):
So this is this is my gotcha moment. So eighteen
years we can we can now know you live and
you're gonna quit on an organization because of how poorly
and how mismanaged egos to take over all this and
that is the Mavericks. Yes, so therefore when that clock ticks,

(01:13:07):
are you going to do it for the Cowboys?

Speaker 5 (01:13:10):
Well, I don't have any that's so different, got Stroud,
that's so different.

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
Cowboys gave me a great reason why not to be
a Dallas Mavericks fan anymore. So why can we not
use the same logic for the Cowboys?

Speaker 3 (01:13:33):
Because the Mavericks were never ever the level of.

Speaker 1 (01:13:38):
They won a championship. Yeah, but it was they bought
the Spurs legendary fight.

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
But they were in the same way, you know they were.
They were always the Spurs little brother. They were always
the little brother to the Lakers in the eighties, you know,
the moody madness could never get past them. The other time,
they were actually decent good in their history. The MAVs
were never it. It feels almost like like liking the

(01:14:03):
MAVs was like liking a indie hipster band. It was like,
it's not it was cool for in a weird way.
It's exactly right. They never had the status anywhere close
to what the Cowboys have.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
The Cowboys.

Speaker 1 (01:14:22):
Bullshit.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
Well maybe maybe maybe a little bit of It doesn't
matter where you are.

Speaker 1 (01:14:29):
You can have a team and be living somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
Hold on, I don't disagree with you, but I do
think if you grow up, yeah right, well.

Speaker 1 (01:14:47):
With the wife. I was a ut fan.

Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
I love Tom Pender's ball gave me neck back in
the day. Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
I saw Chris Ogden's bare ass when he mooned the
team bus outside of the Spirit Arena and lobb it
one year. My mom would love that I told that
story because she was standing right there.

Speaker 1 (01:15:04):
Off the dropping it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
She shows it and then realizes my mind and he
and me is like, ma'am, I am so sorry, and
she's like, honey, I raised two boys.

Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
This is nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
I've seen it plenty of time, like it was was great,
But I I just think there's there's so many differences
when it comes to being a fan of a football
team than a basketball team. Basketball still feels and the
MAVs again, it was never a lot like the Rangers.
You know, there were there were games where you could
go buy cheapest seats and sit damn near on the

(01:15:39):
court because they there was just nobody there.

Speaker 3 (01:15:41):
Yeah, Cowboys in my lifetime.

Speaker 2 (01:15:43):
Even this past year, as bad as things got, Jerry
was still making money every home game because salesman. The
apathy is not near what it was like. That was
the thing for me, as you know.

Speaker 1 (01:15:56):
Growing up saying the arguments weak basketball is different. Dallas
Mavericks are niche, Cowboys were established.

Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
I think if you grow up, if you grow up
in a city, it's really hard.

Speaker 1 (01:16:10):
Austin and then San Antonio when I was in middle school.
So but you're a Spurs fan, I'm a Spurs fan.
But what what what? What? What football teams? I supposed
to be supposed to be a Cowboys fan.

Speaker 2 (01:16:22):
Well, see that's where I say it's different though, because
I know tons of Calvary Cowboys fans here in San Antonio.
But I think it is different when you grow up
in the market, like.

Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
You see they grow up in the market.

Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
No, but like growing up in the DFW area, it's
like it's Cowboys, it's Stars, it's Rangers, it's MAVs, there's
you have all four throw FC Dallas in.

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
That they go harder in San Antonio for the Cowboys,
of course thousand.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
But I'm talking about the media influence, the amount of
times you're getting non stop propaganda about the local teams
versus them, not just throwing a bone to a San
Antonio station for here's a backup linebacker to do a
weekly radio show.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
You rate a sales pitch. This is our year, Well,
I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
Yeah, every year we're gonna I can already tell we're
gonna have some We're gonna have some heated arguments about fandom,
especially once it gets to football season. Because for those
that don't know, Captain is setting me up right now.
He is a Niners fan, great team, A fan who
let the record show Cowboys have won.

Speaker 1 (01:17:34):
A Super Bowl one? Are we not going with you?
Berry Switzer?

Speaker 3 (01:17:41):
Are we? Are we not doing math?

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
Now? I'm still is that not? Is the My favorite
thing is Cowboy fans saying I would I would rather
not go to NFC Championship half a dozen times like
we have Super Bowl three times, like we have because
we lost. I would Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (01:18:01):
Let's celebrate. No, I'm kidding, I know.

Speaker 1 (01:18:03):
I completely broken way more.

Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
I'm in the Cowboys that defends solid.

Speaker 2 (01:18:12):
I defended James Harden for years because if you put
up the numbers, you get your team to the playoffs
every year, and then you lose in the playoffs. At
some point, you've got to get credit for doing what
you did. Jeff, I will give you credit for having
more sustained success, uh, because I do believe. I mean,
I defend the Cowboys previous three years winning twelve games

(01:18:36):
every year. That's a huge accomplishment in and of itself.
Is it the same as winning playoff games?

Speaker 3 (01:18:42):
Not even close?

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
But you got to win the twelve games to get
to the playoff games, and then you know, so I
I understand that logic that argument.

Speaker 1 (01:18:51):
Four days away, twenty four days away. We'll get to it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:53):
We'll get to it twenty four days till the NFL Draft.
We're gonna talk a lot of NFL as we get
closer to that, a lot of Cowboys talk. Specifically, of course,
the Mica contract situation still hanging over everything. We'll see
what happens there. The last thought on college basketball real
quick before we talk a little baseball opening week and get.

Speaker 3 (01:19:14):
Out of here. The men need to adopt quarters. It's yeah,
it's ridiculous. It's beyond time now.

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
Like why we were watching uh, you know, chick ball
game earlier, the U t TCU game and what well
fundamentals they still kind.

Speaker 1 (01:19:32):
Of they passed the ball around the horn very feature.

Speaker 2 (01:19:35):
Dallas wing Page Becker's had a career.

Speaker 3 (01:19:37):
High game against Because I can't help.

Speaker 2 (01:19:43):
But if there's sports on, I'm watching and I will.
Honestly this is I am one of the guys that
Caitlyn Clark affected. It was it was actually appealing, it
was actually good to what it was entertaining. It held
my attention.

Speaker 1 (01:19:58):
She looks like a bird.

Speaker 2 (01:20:00):
Well it doesn't matter, she looks like Larry Bird. When
she's shooting sometimes, but it's it's time. The fact that
you know, the boys play quarters in high school and
then they're the only ones that play has in college.

Speaker 1 (01:20:15):
And it's time out situation, every game plan.

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
And who At this point, what's the argument for it
besides just traditionalism?

Speaker 1 (01:20:25):
There is no argument.

Speaker 2 (01:20:26):
It doesn't feel like and if there is, someone tell
me where I'm wrong, because I'm where a like, look
at this, This does not look like a sports traditionalist
I view myself. I like the baseball rules. I was
really hesitant to embrace against it as well, and was

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really questioning the necessity of them.

Speaker 1 (01:20:50):
Why it's not that bad?

Speaker 3 (01:20:53):
It's and I would argue, not that bad.

Speaker 2 (01:20:55):
The pitchclock, it removes some of the drama in playoff game.
The long holds on the mouth, Yeah, the pickoff attempts
that there are those still kind of bother me, but
they don't bother me as much as I anticipated they would.
The one that I will say, uh absolutely, I think
saved the game of baseball more than you know saved.

Speaker 3 (01:21:18):
It didn't need saving, but it helped. I know what,
you want to take a guess.

Speaker 1 (01:21:22):
The battery with the gloves.

Speaker 3 (01:21:25):
Okay, that's a good one too.

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
That's that that speeds the game up, but eliminating the shift,
the shift, going back to playing baseball as it was
like for years we were able to rely on gentlemen's
rules of where you position your guys and then crazy, yeah,
crazy Joe Madden changes all of that, and and Hugh's right,

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it works all of a sudden incredibly. It creates a
game where the outcomes are uh imperial reduced to either
out or home run.

Speaker 1 (01:22:03):
You take away talent, like you have something but he
pulls the ball. Yeah, now let's go ahead and take
away this talent. That could make the game more interesting
by making it very much harder to wear, Like, oh,
you should just lay down a bunch if because there's
no one at third, But that makes the game like
that would be boring to see a slugger lay down

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a bunt to third. Well, they'll stop, No, they're not, no,
they want they're gonna give up that first base and
try to get a double play. They wouldn't stop doing
the shift, so don't tell me they would. And a
bunt was going to end all of it, It wasn't.

Speaker 2 (01:22:39):
That's where I still view myself as a traditionalist but
if that's the only argument for keeping halves in men's
college basketball, let's move on to ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (01:22:52):
I think everybody's on board on that.

Speaker 2 (01:22:54):
Yeah, let's so their last thought they're on college basketball.
Of course, as we get close, sir, you asked me
pre show when the NBA Draft lottery takes place May twelfth.

Speaker 1 (01:23:07):
I believe I looked it up.

Speaker 2 (01:23:08):
I think it's it's usually right there during that first
round of the playoffs. So of course, after we get
through the NFL Draft here at the end of April,
we will turn our attention. Once we know for sure
where the Spurs will be picking, then we'll have some
deeper arguments because I wrote some names down, you know,

(01:23:30):
are what one what position are they looking for? Are
we looking at guards? Is Trey Johnson gonna fall? Is
Jeremiah Fear is gonna fall? The kid from Oklahoma?

Speaker 1 (01:23:40):
All depends.

Speaker 2 (01:23:41):
Jase Richardson, Uh, just had a great NCAA tournament. Jason
Richardson's son, Uh, he's probably going to be in that
eighth pick range.

Speaker 3 (01:23:51):
Conk Nipple, who we've talked about. If they go big, you.

Speaker 2 (01:23:54):
Know, there's a couple of big man options that would
be enticing to pay for or to pair next to
Wimby uh, to be more of a defensive big man,
allow Wimby to float uh and not have to worry
about rim coverage as much. So we'll talk about a
lot of the because I'm an off season guy. I
love like I watch the games every night, but my

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favorite thing to talk about is off season acquisitions, free agency, draft, trade.

Speaker 3 (01:24:22):
Oh, that's what the drama come, that's where it is,
and so we're fear not.

Speaker 2 (01:24:26):
We will talk a lot of NFL draft over the
next couple of weeks, and then after that talk a
lot of NBA draft as I as we start the
countdown clock on my potential flipping a fandom there. Uh, well,
you know, and you know who else's argument like, the

(01:24:48):
MAVs are undefeated when Anthony Davis plays since the trade,
So Nico, that's it's even worse. Nico can say, look y'all,
chant chan't fire me, know all you want, I'm six
and oh when he plays still trade ever, well, yeah,
and again the fact that it's only six games because

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Anthony Davis immediately got hurt. The guy nicknamed street clothes
it gets hurt in his first game with the new
team like, it's yeah, enough of that, I'm going to have.
I'm going to bring on UH in the coming weeks.
I'm going to bring on some of my my childhood buddies,
some of my MAVs fans UH, because we are going

(01:25:30):
to have UH. I want to get there. I want
to see where they are at in this process. Are
they because the MAVs team. That's what I want to know.
That's what I want to know. So we'll talk about
that more coming up. We've almost gotten an hour and
a half here already. Well, let's roll into some MLB

(01:25:50):
Opening week thoughts because this is my favorite.

Speaker 3 (01:25:54):
This month is my favorite time of year every year.
I love.

Speaker 2 (01:25:58):
The NCAA tournament will always be one of my, if
not my favorite events. I love the nc Double A tournament.
You combine them, You combine that with MLB Opening Day,
the NHL and NBA seasons rounding into playoff positioning starting

(01:26:19):
their playoff run. You know this this stretch from you know,
mid March opening Day through uh you know, the NBA
and NHL playoffs.

Speaker 3 (01:26:29):
This is my football season.

Speaker 2 (01:26:31):
This is the time of year I love, and so
I'm in I'm in heaven, right now I got my
Stars of the Stars are potentially gonna break their all
time wins record.

Speaker 3 (01:26:41):
They're amazing. They made a big trade.

Speaker 2 (01:26:44):
Uh, the you know, the n C Double A has
all the number one seeds. My Rangers took three out
of four from Boston.

Speaker 3 (01:26:52):
To start the season. I bet, I bet you do
love that, mister Yankee.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
Uh, we're gonna talk about your Yankees because I teased earlier.

Speaker 3 (01:27:01):
They stole all the headlines.

Speaker 1 (01:27:04):
I think this week besides breaking record after record after record.

Speaker 2 (01:27:08):
Well you know who else broke records? Someone who you
will appreciate seeing the demise of Raphael Devers.

Speaker 1 (01:27:16):
Ah strikeout king right now rough start to the year.

Speaker 2 (01:27:20):
So the Rangers win three out of four against Boston,
Devers strikes out twelve times and is fifteen at bats
in the series. And to make it even worse, earlier
today he struck out three more times.

Speaker 3 (01:27:32):
So what's that fifteen strikeouts? Now in eighteen.

Speaker 1 (01:27:36):
Played a parents kills the Yankees, Like I could not
be happier. But like, as soon as he walks on
and plays the Yankees, he's gonna hit three.

Speaker 3 (01:27:43):
Four, that'll be the slump buster.

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
Yeah, but we don't play Boston for another month. So
let the slump continue, Let the Boston get in the hole.
Because I still will say AL East is the is
the toughest division in baseball.

Speaker 2 (01:27:58):
At least it's the toughest vision in the AL.

Speaker 1 (01:28:03):
We could say NNL West would be Padres never live up.
Diamondbacks are looking good, Dodgers, you know, you.

Speaker 2 (01:28:12):
Know, yeah, the Dodgers, Tokyo Dodgres.

Speaker 1 (01:28:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:28:19):
Probably top to bottom it is Ale West. I'll give
you that. The NL West is just so top Heal East, yeah,
Ale East, Yeah, yeah, yeah, the NL is just so
top heavy with the Dodgers. But you mentioned the you know,
Devers will bust out of it against the Yankees. That's
the thing about, you know, taking these first four games

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of the season and extrapolating them out any further than
just the four games we saw, because if you think,
if you think Rafael is going to strike out seventy
five percent of the time for the rest of the season,
that's not going to happen, going to balance out. He
signs the ten year, three D and fourteen million dollar

(01:29:00):
deal in the off season, there's some pressure of that.
He doesn't want to DH. The Red Sox signed Bregman,
give him the third base job. Tell him you know
you're the DH.

Speaker 1 (01:29:12):
Nowman didn't want the third basic, he said, I'll play
something else.

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
It's a weird vibe with Boston. Weird right now with
especially after just committing all that money to him, and
on top of all of that, it should also be noted,
I think he only had five at bats in spring training. Yeah,
so he's basically going through spring training.

Speaker 1 (01:29:33):
It was like it was like the beginning of last
year exactly. If we took Aaron Judge without the beginning
of last year, he would have broke so many records,
fifty eight home runs and he still didn't get a
home run until he only had like two home runs
in April and.

Speaker 3 (01:29:51):
Then ends up with yeah, damn near sixty.

Speaker 1 (01:29:53):
And then something happened in the playoffs. I don't remember it,
just it's kind of it's gone.

Speaker 3 (01:29:58):
I'm sure he would like to know.

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
I'm sure he would like to have that same loss
of memory you have.

Speaker 3 (01:30:03):
But I think that.

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
The the short Yeah, they just can't.

Speaker 3 (01:30:08):
There was another strike. There was a strike. The expos
won it.

Speaker 2 (01:30:11):
Uh there there there's such a small sample size to
take from this opening week that I think the same
way you would talk about Boston's offensive struggles.

Speaker 3 (01:30:27):
I think you can say.

Speaker 2 (01:30:30):
Some of that might also apply to the Yankees record
setting home run pace. And it I understood. We're going
to talk about the bat.

Speaker 3 (01:30:37):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:30:38):
The Brews are no joke, they're playoff team, right, and
and what the talent they got? The yellis back?

Speaker 3 (01:30:45):
Yeah, yellis back, ye back man.

Speaker 1 (01:30:47):
That guy was what an All Star two years ago?
Three years ago? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:30:51):
I mean he was, yeah, I mean he's or he
was second and not a m v P.

Speaker 1 (01:30:57):
That's why. Yeah, MVP yeah yeah. Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
But you know, Yankees go out tie the record fifteen
home runs in the first three games of the season.

Speaker 1 (01:31:05):
And did we did we lose you on camera?

Speaker 2 (01:31:08):
The biggest storyline is the new bats. They're you And
this is where I want to specifically talk. We're going
to talk a lot of Rangers and a lot of
astros throughout the season. Uh, you know, both teams integrating
new pieces, losing some pieces.

Speaker 3 (01:31:26):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:31:26):
But the story coming out of the first week of
the season, are these new bowling pin bat?

Speaker 3 (01:31:34):
Well, this is a normal bat, torpedo tornado.

Speaker 1 (01:31:37):
What are we calling them? Uh, They're called the home
run bats. So this is a normal bat right here.
Oh god, yeah, most Derek Jeters Hall of Fame bat. Yes,
that is so if you all can't see it right there,
the sweet spot is what we call right here, all right,
this is the sweet spot right here. That's the biggest

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part of the bat. That's where you want to hit
the bat. So when people say he pulled his hands
in on an inside pitch, they're trying to get the
sweet spot inside so it can hit the furthest it
canon you get that crack at the bat. When you
hear that crack of the bat, they're hitting the sweet spot.
So the torpedo bats have made this part smaller and

(01:32:22):
they put the big part bigger here.

Speaker 2 (01:32:25):
So I get like they called bowling pinch. So just
imagine the end of a bowling pin and how it
gets smaller at the end instead of keep getting you know,
extended thick like that.

Speaker 1 (01:32:37):
Okay, God, you're the champion.

Speaker 3 (01:32:40):
Yeah, so I thing that the thing that interests me.

Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
I don't really care or I don't really think that
there's a whole lot of controt because every team can
do it.

Speaker 1 (01:32:50):
They've been playing with his bat in spring ball and
fall ball for the past two years. Right, this is
not new. It's only new because the Yankees came out
and actually used it during regular season and you had
a Bellinger, former MVP. He has success with it. Guess

(01:33:10):
what that guy kid's gonna have success with the regular
bat Vulpi. I think he's the biggest one to actually,
uh actually is going to get advantage of it because
he always hit it on the inside of his bat.
He was We thought he was going to be a
breakout star. He was going to be our short might
have been a year or two early, you know, it
might have been the year. But he's still he's he's sold.

(01:33:33):
He's come out, He's come out on record and said,
I'm sold on this bat.

Speaker 3 (01:33:36):
I saw Jazz say earlier. He's like, why would I change?

Speaker 1 (01:33:41):
Would I? Why would I not give myself an advantage?
Not against the rule.

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
It's it's literally like it's like bitching about the rich
person that doesn't pay his taxes. Yeah, then change the rules,
then change the tax but like you'd be stupid not
to use the tax cheat, the tax workaround or the
bowling pin back.

Speaker 1 (01:34:04):
We're not Sammy Sosa in it, you know, we just
the first ones use it. And you know what the
last Yeah, the catcher from the Cleveland Indians already use it.
Everybody will start there was someone in the team. Uh,
and every team will use one of these bats for
their mid range players, not their heavy hitters. Because when

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Judge was asked, why don't you use a torpedo bat,
he said, I think my stats speak for themselves. Hard
to argue, hard to argue. I mean sixty two fifty
eight last year, which like that's the p's the sweet spot.

Speaker 2 (01:34:41):
That's the part where again it's it's really easy to
see the potential advantage it gives an average player, yeah,
to become potential All Star level contributed.

Speaker 1 (01:34:54):
And I watched all three of those games. Eighty percent
of those home runs high fast balls. And you got
Nestor Cortez, someone that we had the Yankees, and I
love me some nasty Nester. Love you, Nestor, Thank you
for what you did for us. We should have got
a chip. But he lost his stuff. He lost his stuff.
That's all we got rid of him. Last year. He

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was a shell of himself. The year before he was great.
The year before that he came off. He was supposed
to be a long ending reliever, but we needed a starter,
and he started. He became a starter for us, and
he had success with his crazy movements. Different he would
release the ball on different angles, so your eye is

(01:35:35):
not picking it up at the same place every time.
But the Yankees knew him, and every time is his fastball.
One goes up to about ninety two, and sometimes he
doesn't get it high enough out of the zone or
on the edge, and it's just a high fastball, just
a big old meat ball for you to hit it
out to our short right porch.

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
And when you have a bat that allows you to
put the sweet spot on an inside fastball a lot
easier and get around on it again, it makes again,
I don't feel.

Speaker 3 (01:36:07):
Like the story.

Speaker 2 (01:36:08):
To me, at least, the story is not that the
Yankees are using them.

Speaker 3 (01:36:14):
It's that the league.

Speaker 2 (01:36:16):
Has such vague rules about specific dimensions of a bat
that an MIT graduate was able to design something that
gives his team the advantage. And that's where the interesting
thing to me is the development and the process that
God is here versus the fact that the bats are

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being used. Because I do think the I do think baseball.

Speaker 1 (01:36:43):
There's another analytics type thing.

Speaker 2 (01:36:44):
I think baseball now they have shown that they are
not scared to change the rules.

Speaker 1 (01:36:51):
They're not scared to be like this.

Speaker 2 (01:36:54):
This gives teams a analytic advantage, that is that the game.

Speaker 1 (01:37:00):
But I'll tell you one thing right now, you know
why they're not going to change it. And the reason
why they change the shift is because baseball likes run.
It likes offense, and they want to see run runs.
They let him juice up for if.

Speaker 2 (01:37:15):
You asked me, if you asked me how baseball is
going to handle this, I think there's a better chance
that they just say, look, they're legal, y'all can all
use them, versus them saying now we're taking all away.

Speaker 1 (01:37:29):
Everybody can use them. Right, They don't have a pattern
on them.

Speaker 2 (01:37:33):
So the reason the reason the Yankees are the first
team to do it, this guy named Aaron Leanhart. He's
the mastermind behind the torpedo bats.

Speaker 3 (01:37:42):
He earned his PhD from mi T. Shout out mi
I T.

Speaker 1 (01:37:47):
My my cousin in Boston.

Speaker 3 (01:37:50):
In Boston.

Speaker 2 (01:37:51):
Yeah, she's a nuclear physicist from mi I T.

Speaker 1 (01:37:55):
Nate and Navy.

Speaker 3 (01:37:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:37:58):
He worked on a NASA funded re search team and
then he was a physics professor at University of Michigan
for seven years. So the guys going through his life
being a physics nerd, being a borderline genius, loves base
because usually baseball is the numbers game.

Speaker 3 (01:38:16):
It's numbers game, it's the it's the.

Speaker 1 (01:38:19):
The number mattress the numbers.

Speaker 2 (01:38:22):
So at forty years old, he decides to leave academia.
He starts uh takes a job at Dawson Community College
in Montana before becoming a minor league coach for the Yankees.
So it was his role with the Yankees was basically.

Speaker 1 (01:38:43):
I don't even know.

Speaker 2 (01:38:44):
I did some because I was so interested to see
how this like, how it came about, like because it
wasn't like.

Speaker 1 (01:38:50):
So that's why he specifically can't design it for other
teams exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:38:55):
So he he can't just the bad the design is
out there.

Speaker 1 (01:38:59):
That's just smart. Yeah, it's not.

Speaker 2 (01:39:01):
It's not exclusive to the your nerd. But they just
got it first because they got the nerd first.

Speaker 1 (01:39:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:39:07):
Again, it's the same way like the Rays were the
first team to do the shift because they had a
nerd that said the team mathematically, this will serve an
advantage to us.

Speaker 1 (01:39:17):
Raise.

Speaker 2 (01:39:19):
So this guy, lean Hart, he gets moved up to
the big league club, and he basically serves as like
a you know, a translator for all of the deep,
deep analytics nerds the Yankees had on staff and Aaron
Boone and the coaching staff. He serves as that middleman
to be like, well, look, this is what the numbers say,

(01:39:43):
but you know this is play exactly. This is how
it can kind of be applied to the big league
Like los.

Speaker 1 (01:39:52):
Opie, you're you're you're missing your inside. That's why you're
getting weak grounders to this, you're not. You know, if
you actually had the sweet spot, you would have gotten
extra twenty thirty feet exactly. And with that short porch
or this, yeah, why not why not use it? I
mean again, baseball has all been about mathematic and numbers.

Speaker 2 (01:40:11):
And it's like the it's like the rich guy not
like why would you Why would you choose to pay
more in taxes when you can legally pay less. That's
what the Yankees are doing. Why would we choose to
use an old bat when we can buy the rules?

Speaker 3 (01:40:25):
Use this?

Speaker 1 (01:40:27):
You got you got the mess? Spending Tornado fortune, Yeah,
buying Juan Soto, I still have feelings about that. Buying
anybody they can and we over here sneakily but got
a nerd to become a minor league coach.

Speaker 2 (01:40:40):
I mean, and all of a sudden, Jazz Chisholm is
Juan Soto two point zero. No, I just I think
it'll be. I here's the other thing, and I think
you'll agree with this. If it was if it was
Tampa that we're using.

Speaker 1 (01:40:56):
Those bat celebrate them, there would be the evil Empire man,
evil and fact.

Speaker 2 (01:41:00):
I think the fact that it's the Yankees draws so
much more attention to it that it's a story that's
not going to go away.

Speaker 1 (01:41:07):
I couldn't find my Bronx Bombers hat where a team
that hits home runs were built for home runs, and
surprisingly we set a record for home runs on the
opening day.

Speaker 3 (01:41:19):
Wow. Who saw that?

Speaker 1 (01:41:20):
Who saw? Like? Wow? This is so amazing. And it's
only because of the bats. It's not because Aaron Judge.
It's not because wells our catcher is not Chisholm. It's
not no Bellinger coming over. I feel he's going to
have a breakout year, He's gonna come back art. I mean,
it's not because of that at all. It's the bat.

Speaker 2 (01:41:40):
Yeah, yeah, all of it's all the bats again, I
think because it is the Yankees, eventually we're going to
get some kind of response from the league.

Speaker 3 (01:41:49):
But we'll see this year.

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
I'd be curious to see they've made changes at the
All Star break before, Like I would be curious.

Speaker 1 (01:41:56):
To see they do that's a.

Speaker 3 (01:41:58):
Thousand percent of what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:41:59):
But I strike I'm curious to see what the league's
response is going to because they're going to have to
say something because it is the stories. But I also, yeah, great,
exactly when Sports Crossover is.

Speaker 1 (01:42:12):
Talking about this, saw that when I left my house
and I'm like, oh, this story is gonna this story
is going to have a two week's shelf Live. Everybody's
gonna get their own nerd and they're all going to
be using torpedo bats and guess what, the Yankees are
still going to be bombing home runs. It's what we
do or.

Speaker 2 (01:42:30):
Could absolutely be the case, or kind of like we were
talking about with Dovers. The the strikeouts are going to
average themselves out. The Yankees home runs are going to
average them first.

Speaker 1 (01:42:43):
Game we only scored four runs. The first game. We
had two ridiculous games the fifteen.

Speaker 2 (01:42:48):
The Yankees aren't going to hit fifteen home runs in
every series as the team.

Speaker 1 (01:42:53):
We scored four runs the first series. So the first
game we'll see, Uh, don't hey, buddy, you got a
long year. Don't get even don't even talk to me
about blowing sales.

Speaker 3 (01:43:07):
Right now, the Yankee or the Rangers have.

Speaker 2 (01:43:09):
No closer on their right now. We have Luke Jackson
as the best option right now. So we'll talk, I
got it. We'll talk a lot of Rangers and Astros
in the coming weeks because we're and of course talk
Yankees because the Al race this year I think is
potentially really really exciting, because you got to say the

(01:43:30):
Yankees are the favorite since they were the representative in
the World Series last year. Don't have your ace and
you lost Soto, which it is what it, you know,
we'll see, but losing him to you know, Crosstown rivals
to the Mets, I the a l you know, Astros

(01:43:51):
lose Bregman. Rangers add pieces to their lineup that are
that compliment really well, but they don't have a full
five person rotation and much less they and their bullpen
is even worse in an even worse position. So I
think there's going to be and one of those AL

(01:44:11):
Central teams always becomes.

Speaker 3 (01:44:14):
A thorn in the side.

Speaker 2 (01:44:16):
You know, whether it's gonna be City, you know, Kansas,
Kansas City has the second best player in the American League,
the best player not named Aaron Judge.

Speaker 3 (01:44:24):
Bobby Witt Junior is a stud.

Speaker 2 (01:44:26):
Yeah, Bobby Witt Junior might be the third best player
in all of base or maybe fourth if Trout is healthy.

Speaker 1 (01:44:32):
He's a young Mike Trout, Oh, Tawny.

Speaker 2 (01:44:34):
Trout Judge, and then it's probably Bobby Witt Junior if
we're talking position players. So the AL I think is
completely wide open.

Speaker 3 (01:44:43):
Uh. The Dodgers are just such massive favorites in the NL.

Speaker 1 (01:44:47):
It would be how do you defer all that, Bunny?
You know, like I want to know the secret to that.
You just Hey, we're just gonna catch every player. No,
we're gonna defer thirty years down the line. You know.

Speaker 2 (01:44:57):
You know what the great thing about baseball is, though
you really can't buy a championship, like, it's still streaky.
They're still going to have to rely on injury luck.
They're still going to have to rely on guys replicating
previous years performances. You know, I just I think it
would be a massive surprise if the Dodgers aren't in

(01:45:20):
the World Series. But the NL race this year is
not nearly as exciting to me as they. I mean
a little bit of animosity between Padres and Dodgers, that's fun.
The Mets have spent a crack ton of money, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:45:35):
But they will see what that works.

Speaker 2 (01:45:37):
And well, yeah, something I don't like from opening week.
As much as I don't particularly care what happens to
the Astros, I hate seeing them open with an interleague series,
seeing the Mets in Houston. And I know the Astros
were longtime l but you're an AL team. Now, let's play,

(01:46:01):
let's keep let's make Inner League somewhat exclusive.

Speaker 1 (01:46:04):
You should be playing. I think the opening day start
with Division games. I completely Division And to make it.

Speaker 2 (01:46:10):
Even worse, the Astros so they opened with the Mets
at home. They're now traveling to San Francisco to play
the Giants. Back to back interleague series to start and
it doesn't matter because everyone's got the d H and
it's not the same, and it really at this point,
it's basically like it's like the Spurs playing the Bulls.
It's like a West Western Conference team playing and it's

(01:46:33):
they play with the same.

Speaker 3 (01:46:34):
Rules now, so there's there's no there's no history between them.

Speaker 2 (01:46:38):
But it still just kind of bothers me when I
see it in the box score. Uh, you want to
go on the record with a H you want to
make an A L N L just.

Speaker 3 (01:46:49):
Throw away prediction rematch? I kind of think so too.

Speaker 1 (01:46:53):
Rematch.

Speaker 2 (01:46:54):
Yeah, unfortunately, I think so too. But I do think
the al I think is going to have a lot
more storylines, so which lines up well with our content.
Because Ranger Dr Pepper Junior Ranger since the nineties Yankees fan.

Speaker 1 (01:47:12):
See y'all make I'd like to see y'all make the
playoffs and see all these Astro fans become raging fans.

Speaker 2 (01:47:16):
And I know the majority of most people out there, watching,
listening are Astros fans. So hopefully, on paper, those are
the three teams that we're talking about the most as
the season goes along.

Speaker 1 (01:47:29):
Ah cat, Hey, it was fun.

Speaker 3 (01:47:33):
I believe we're coming.

Speaker 2 (01:47:34):
We're coming to the close of our official super Soft
opening for friends and family here. Uh coming up on
the pod rest of the Week Wednesday, while have an
episode I'm gonna have I'm gonna start having Bama Bama
Brown if you haven't listened to the podcast I do
with him, the Bama Brown Experience. Wherever you get your podcast.

(01:47:58):
I'm gonna have him on a lot of Wednesdays, but
I'm also gonna use Wednesday as my you know, episode
to have with a potential you know, like one of
my old MAVs fans call them up and talk about
the Luca trade or focus on a specific topic instead
of doing a full episode. But I'm still you know,

(01:48:21):
Wednesday and Friday episodes will still have I'll be honest,
I'm basically I'm kind of copying Bill Simmons in a
way because I've been listening to it a lot more recently.
You'll get ten to twenty minutes at the beginning of
me doing the monologue basically as like a late night show,
you know, stand up monologue. I'll talk at the beginning,

(01:48:42):
and then we'll have a guest, uh And then Fridays
we're going to go back to doing something I really
really enjoy and that is who won the Internet with
the roommate. So Steph will join me Fridays, Bama will
join me most Wednesdays, and then of course Kat and
LG here. We will be live Monday nights on YouTube

(01:49:03):
on Twitch at sports Cave Live again. I cannot tell
y'all how much the support has meant to get to
this position, to get to this spot.

Speaker 3 (01:49:18):
Uh and now I am. I am beyond stoked.

Speaker 2 (01:49:21):
I'm trying not to drive the guys crazy here with
my level of excitement for what we actually are planning
on building and and not just planning on it, but
can actually see where we are going. You know, we're
in the car, We're going down the highway to me

(01:49:41):
and I can see the mecca of where we are
traveling to as far as tonight. We got Stars at
Kraken Late Night Hockey Magic at Spurs tomorrow night. So
hopefully the Spurs break that four game losing streak, although
at this point, keep losing games help draft status because

(01:50:03):
we have this is a great draft. So let's not
get too crazy, LG. Whenever you are ready, my man,
I think I think it's about time we get out
of here.

Speaker 1 (01:50:15):
Let's call it this beverage.

Speaker 3 (01:50:18):
Holy hell we went to Yeah, we're out of here.
Let's get out of here, Get us.

Speaker 1 (01:50:22):
Out of here, LG. Kids, what do we say about drugs? Yeah,

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