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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've been Fletcher. That's Sammy Long I'm excited about it. It
brings a lot of fuel together.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Now live from the East Set Studios of San Diego
Sports seventy sixty. Wee ago in the zone with fletching Sammy.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Hey, it's our number two here on San Diego Sports
seven sixteen.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Busy day on the station.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Once we get off the air here at two o'clock,
Sammy's going to take over for another hour talks to
Padres Baseball. Maybe the Padres will be finished up by
the time Schaeffer and Sliwa are off the air tonight,
so you'll be able to hear their postgame reaction. And
then tonight Lakers Rockets Game five, potential closeout game. In fact,
it needs to be a closeout game if we want
long shots to hit tonight for the Los Angeles Lakers.
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All right, Our buddy Derek Togerson texted me in the
middle of the first hour. He was listening when we
were talking about Tatusa's power issues. He seems to have
cracked the code. According to him. He says, Tatisa's issue
is pretty easy to figure out. It's his attack angle.
The way the bad is traveling through the hitting zone
at contact. For his career, it's been about twelve degrees. Otani,
Judge Schwarber are all between thirteen and fourteen degrees. This year,
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Fernando Tatzis junior swing has changed. It's at six degrees.
He's flatt in the swing so much that he can't
generate any loft. I saw a breakdown, and thank you
Derek Togerson for bringing some science to this very silly show.
I saw a breakdown of Tatis's swing the year COVID
year where it was a sixty game season and he
had a million home runs it felt like, and was
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top five in NLMVP voting compared to this year's swing.
And what I've seen out of it is that he
is much more quiet before the swing, which I'm okay with,
but also he almost has a completely even field when
he's swinging through. So it is and that's the attack
angle that Derek Togerson's talking about. It's not necessarily where
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he's at when the ball's making contact, it's where he's
starting his swing from. So old Fernando used to be
very demonstrative and have that big leg kick and really
get under balls and finished like he was on a plane,
like one of those Greek god statues throwing a javelin.
That was old Fernando. Current Fernando much more balanced, which
is leading to great contact, which is why he leads
majors in an hard hit percentage. But it's leading to
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zero loft on the baseball. And I don't know what
the fix is for that. Padres is a lot of
people get paid a lot of money to fix that, right.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Well, that's it.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
We'll see if they can.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
That's why. I mean, have we ever seen a player
that again is sixty six point seven percent hard hit
percentage but one hundred and seventy six out of one
hundred and eighty and qualified players in loft angle? And
like it's this is something that the pottery staff should
be able to figure out. I mean, obviously we're not
sitting here with Fernando Tatis going the tools aren't there.
We've seen him do this before. We've seen him destroy
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home run balls that it is.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
In a freaking plaquet Dodger stadium, right.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I mean, this is the kind of guy we're dealing with.
This isn't you're trying to create power with the guy.
It's obviously there, and it does feel like he's in
his head right now and every star has gone through it.
And then to the other point about Jackson Merriw, you
do kind of feel like we're not we're focusing so
much on Tatis rightfully show because he's the face of
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the franchise. No matter how good Jackson merl plays, Fernando
Tatis is the face of the San Diego Patres with
that three hundred and forty million dollars contract. But it
does feel like Jackson Merrill is also having massive swing
problems in probably is not getting the coverage that it
should because of the fact that Tatis is not hitting
the ball wells. People are kind of giving Meryl pass.
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It is shocking that. I mean if you would have said,
what twenty games in the season, that Xander Bogarts and
Luis Capisano would be the MVPs of this team. I mean, again,
it's it's two ways to look at it. You look
at it as, wow, that's great that the Pattery's have
depth in some of these guys that haven't come through
over the last couple of years are coming through. But
then at what point if the Potter's want to reach
the next level. You need the stars start playing like stars.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Well, we went through it yesterday and hear Ty Franz
and Xander bogartz A the three leaders in batting average
so far this year. They've been the most consistent hitters
this year. And that's great, and that's really good. If
those guys stay where they're at all year, that's fantastic
for the Padres.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
But you can't have that be the case.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Like Fernando Tatis Junior, Manny Machado in Jackson Merrill for
that matter, need to be up there as well. All Right,
it is San Diego Sports seven sixty. We got a
couple of comments on this. I'll rip through them real quick.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Elease.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Alicia on YouTube said, I'm starting Tony Gwynn, Jake Peevey,
and Trevor Hoffman. I'm cutting Tatis, Machado, Gonzalez and Caminetti easy.
I don't know how it's easy when you're cutting Caminetti
and Adrian Gonzalez and man but.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I do appreciate the confidence. Eight five eight says Gonzalez.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And Manny can only be honorable mentions because they both
played for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
If we played for half a year and Dodger fans
hate him, so that's a fact.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Actually, Yeah, Dodger fans wish that ever happened with Manny Machado.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yeah, he's one of the worst traits for them in
Dodger history.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I don't know. I'd have a real tough time cutting
Ken Caminetti.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I really would, But I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Know that I could cut off many.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
But it is funny, like we get to that, like
obviously all the legends you're talking about, but you get
to Tatis in Machado. I wonder who people would, Well.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
If they win a World Series all of a sudden
they're uncuttable.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Well, I'm saying right, we obviously, but if they if
they right now, like we had this discussion of the
seven players that if you had to start three, cut four,
I'm curious where San Diego would go. If they would
lean more Tatis or they'd lean more Machado.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Well, probably Tatis, Probably Tatis, I would imagine, even though
I would assume Tatis by the numbers, Manny Machado has
been the better padre, but Tatis you feel a little
more ownership over him in a lot of ways. And
Tatis like signed that contract to be the next Tony Win.
He hasn't lived up to it yet, right, that was
the thought.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
It's signed, Like the buzz of Fernando was way more
than Machado and his people. You could also argue that
Machado kind of reignited the franchise when he decided to
sign with San Diego.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Well, really, it's like, how much do you owe Eric Osmer?
Like Eric Hosmer was that guy who kind of reignited
the fan base though, like, oh my god, they're spending money,
Eric Hosmer, Padre.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
He was bout out to Eric Hosmer.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, do you hate Jim Russell? You don't, That's all
I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
But here's the thing, Like, I look at this list,
and if you don't know what we're talking about, I
was saying, start three, cut four, Ken Caminetti, Manny Machado,
Trevor Hoffman, Fernando Tatzis Junior, Tony Gwinn, Adrian Gonzalez.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Jake Peeve.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
If everything goes perfectly in this situation, your list is
gonna be Manny Tatis and Tony Gwinn. Because if everything
goes perfectly, Manny Machado and Fernando Tatis Junior bring the
first World Series to San Diego, like that should be
the hope for every Padres fan that they jump over
some of these legendary names. Well it happened, who knows,
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but ten years we could be having a very different
conversation if that ever happens. I would love to see it,
and Mudcat would be leading the parade from alpine to
ocean side and be very very.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Cool to see all that happen, and I hope it does.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
All right, let's get to the Big three Padres about
to get started, so we'll probably leave that on the
back burn of the rest of the show. But we
got lots to talk about with the NBA playoffs, cooking,
some drama in the NFL, and what the hell is
college basketball doing. That's your next forty five minutes, plus
Molly cruzickets are coming up very very soon. We're not
gonna tell you when, but it's just gonna happen at
some point in the next forty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Sammy, go ahead, smash you look.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Frank is here.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Ready to go back to the office and knock that
socks off your friends, I mean co Workers's time for
the top stories of the day.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Game three great, great.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Can you imagine Mark Mudcat Grant leading a parade from
Alpine where he lives, all the way out to Oceanside.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Walk in the whole way. Come on, mud you can
do it. I Uh'd be pretty stinking cool man.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
It'd be crazy city. You'd be going absolutely nuts. All right,
let's go to uh, let's go to the NBA. So
last night, the Boston Celtics surprisingly do not close out
the series get whooped up on by the Philadelphia seventy
six ers. Do we a do we think the series
is in jeopardy? And number two? Did we over rate
the Boston Celtics heading into the NBA playoffs as on
the same playing field as the Spurs in Oklahoma City?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I don't think we did.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I do think Boston has the talent to be a
problem for whoever they are up going against. And I
do think this series is over. Let me start with that.
I thought Joel Embiid was terrific last night, Maybe the
best we've seen out of Joel Embiid in the last
couple of years.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I got.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
When he's that dominant, You're like, oh, what could have been?
You're talking about a potential top what fifteen player of
all time. If Joel Embiid was healthy and had those
kind of performances on a regular basis, when he can dominate, man,
he is as dominant as it gets. But I'll also
say this, this is my big problem with this early
seven game series format that the NBA has switched to
over the last handful of years. The Celtics were fine
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losing that game last night. You could tell. And I
really tried not to do this, But compare that to
the NFL. Is there ever a situation over an entire
season where a team is fine just kind of throwing
in the talent losing the game. It's kind of putre
that there are acceptable losses in a post season.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Of a major professional sport.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
And Boston looked from opening tip like that was an
acceptable loss.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
The Celtics, I think will win the series. But if
I was the Celtics, the game wasn't Boston, so everyone
thought it was gonna you know, they were gonna close out,
So like, I wouldn't play with your food too much
because it is going back to Philly, and it's not
crazy to think that they might win that game in
Philadelphia and push it to Game seven, and a game seven,
you kind of throw everything out. I mean, some guy
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gets a foul trouble, someone gets hurt, someone has an
off shooting night, it becomes March madness. I do think
the Celtics are on the playing field of Oklahoma City
and San Antonio because they have the ingredients of a
team that has two stars who have been there before,
who have won a championship, as well as a supporting
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cast and Peyton prisherd and Derek White and Cada and
Vucevic that can get it done. We've seen that change
in the NBA. Used to be about get a big
three when it was Miami with Lebron and Wade and
Boscher's get a big three. We've seen big threes ever since.
The not work, whether it was in Brooklyn or Phoenix
or with the Lakers or whoever it was. It didn't
work with the Lakers with Russell Westbrook because it's all
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about kind of filling out the I give the roster.
I think I think they have the ingredients to to
do it. But certainly the Sixers are a much better
team than their seat if they're healthy, and it'd be
fun to see you go to a game seven. If
if it were to get there. All right, let's go
to the Lakers tonight. Now, it came out per shomps
Strania that even if the Lakers win this game or
they close out the series, Luka Dancic will not be
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playing next round against okom So obviously not great news
with the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
But are you okay?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
I was bummed, But that's like Mike King getting to it.
The chances of the Lakers beating the Oklahoma City Thunder,
even when healthy, are not great. So I think they
can win a game or two, Yeah, I do. I
don't think they're as bad as that one night a
month ago, but the chance of them winning a series
over seven games pretty slim to none. If there's a
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risk of re injury, I don't want to just throw
in a towel. But bringing him back if you one thing,
If the Lakers were favorites in the West, and they're
sitting there going we're the best team when he's healthy,
we're gonna risk an injury to bring him back. To
bring him back against a team that you're probably not
competing with outside of them having a massive injury. Anyway,
it's probably on the safer side to put him on
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the bed.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Now, that conversation is finding Dandy.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Now, what happens if somehow and there's a blue moon
and things get crazy. Lakers won the first two games
of this series. Is this still the situation where Luca's
not playing the entire say?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
I think it change.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I think it would change in a heartbeat.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I do think we're in a situation right now where
the Lakers themselves in the front office and if we're
being completely honest, everyone probably should be thinking this way
that OKC is going to dominate this series.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I wonder if there's a change of thought if the
Lakers do. I don't know what they just did against
the Rockets.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
We were having a very similar conversation just a week
and a half ago. I didn't give the Lakers much
of a chance in this series, but things have happened.
There's been an injury with KD that's been, in my opinion,
underreported on and we're not really talking enough about whether
he's playing or whether he's not playing, and it's been
kind of a mystery this whole time. But the Lakers
have been able to take advantage of a Rockets team
that is without a point guard for the entire season
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and without KD for the majority of this series. The
Lakers have taken advantage of that, and they look like
they're dominating this first round series. So you get to
okac if something changes, When does Big Bad Luca make
his way back? Why win's the hamstring all of a
sudden better?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I think it also in the long In the long term,
the big question mark in Lakerland is can should Austin Reeves,
a free agent, get a max level deal. Can a
backward of Luka Dagic and Austin Reeves co exist and
win a championship. A lot of people think they can.
I would pay Austin Reeves. A lot of people think
that with the lack of defense, you can't do that
in the Western Conference. It's a big when Reeves comes
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back either tonight and if they were to win and
then move on to next series. Austin Reeves is a
guy who has a lot to play for, not only
for his contract, but to prove that he can be
the guy going up against the elite defensive team in
Oklahoma City. Not saying answer win the series, but he
has to look good in the series and put up
big numbers. So could be a weird blessing in the
skies for the long term. If you get to really
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truly find out if Austin Reeves is that dude, all,
let's squeeze one more in here. I said to the NFL, well,
pre yesterdear. Yesterday Sourtses came out there was a procedure
on Bonnicks. Is a second procedure on his right ankle
that he injured in the AFS or in the AFC
Divisional Round. Expect to be ready for training camp. But
it kind of got me thinking, what quarterback? What now?
Third year quarterback has the most pressure going into this year.
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Jayden Daniels, Caleb Williams, bo Knicks or Drake may See.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
The gut instinct would probably be Drake may He was
just in a Super Bowl. I don't think that's where
I'm going because I don't think the Patriots have much
of a shot this year. My sights would be squarely
on Caleb Williams and Jayden Daniels. Bo Nicks just proved
he could get you to an AFC Championship game. Also,
Bonnicks just proved that if he would have been healthy
in that AFC Championship game, we saw a very different
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Super Bowl and I would stand by that forever. Jayden Daniels, Yes,
injuries were a thing last year, but we were already
having a conversation about him being a potential top five
quarterback in this league after his rookie season. He is
terrific man. I can't wait to see what he does
this year. But Jayden Daniels injuries were part of it.
He also didn't look that good when he was healthy
a year ago, and he had kind of the opposite
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of Kaylen Williams where Kaylen Williams really struggled. His rookie
season looked great, especially the second half of his sophomore season.
Jadan Daniels terrific rookie season, injured and kind of bad
at times sophomore season.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Those who are my pressure.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Points all four of a lot of pressure because all
four of rosters maybe take Washington to less degree, but
they also had a lot of injuries that they feel
like they can compete.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I'm dropping the Patriots off for the me too.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I don't think I think, I will go on record,
I don't think they're a playoff team this year. I
really firmly believe that Bonix is pressure and that the
division just naturally got better. Mendozes with the Raiders, Mahomes
back with the Chiefs, and the Chargers are gonna have
a good team this year. But Jaydon Daniels I would
go with because Jaydon Daniels, we had that combo. We
were like, this is the next star in the NFL.
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Jadan Daniels is an absolute beast and he was Remember
he went on the road beat Baker in the playoff game.
That went on the road and beat the number one
Lions and Jared Goff put up like forty eight points
something like that. So Jane Daniels, I think is gonna.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Remind at the NFC Championship that was the Philly right, you.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Got blown out by Philly, but that team was not
even on par with the Eagles that year. I think
Jane Dane's gonna remind a lot of people on who
he is and then he's the man in the NFC
and try to go, you know, back and forth with
Caleb Williams. But all four of a lot of pressure.
Bonix I also would say was second just because of
the division. I don't know if outside of with Caleb Williams,
outside of the Lions, I think that division just got
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worse with the Packers and Vikings, and.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
So it's a sneeze.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
They don't want to hear you sneezing.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
All right, So the people of San Diego that just
missed that I sneezed YouTube, you got it. Everybody else
missed it because Sammy dumped it, all right. In San
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Speaker 3 (15:52):
I will say Matt Waldron actually looked pretty decent in
the first inning today. There was a couple like there
was an infield pop up that just landed in between
three padres, and there was a c and I grown ball.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Matt Waldron actually was looking okay.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Bogart's getting out of the jym.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Bogarts did get him out of the gym, all right.
It is San Diego Sports seven sixty. We do have
Motley Crue tickets for you, which is one of the
better prizes we've ever had, so we will be giving
that away very very soon. Here, what do you think, Sam,
you want to go with the NBA lottery here and
the changes that are coming to it, or the NC
Double A tournament, making the probably very stupid decision to
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look to.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
The NCAA tournament. We'll get to the NBA on on
the in ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Okay, So what's the number right now?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
There are three hundred and sixty five Division one NC
DOUBLEA basketball teams. Three hundred and sixty five teams that
have a chance each and every year at the outset
of it. Group of five Power five doesn't matter. If
you win your division in the Power five, you or
you win your conference in the Group of five, you
are automatically entered into the NC Double A tournament. And
then of course there's the group or the Power four
teams who if they have like a five hundred record,
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they're making the NC Double A Tournament. But seriously, that's
three hundred and sixty five teams for currently sixty eight spots.
That is eighteen percent of college basketball gets into the
NC DOUBLEA Tournament each and every single year.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Eighteen percent. That should be a very doable number.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Honestly, if you go four years of really building out
a program, you don't get totally poached by nil. You
have a good head coach, you should be able to
make the NC doublea tournament. I would say conservatively fifty
percent of the years is what you should be able
to do, even at a group of five conference. If
you have a great head coach, if you have decent nil,
fifty percent of the years you should be able to
be contending for a March Madainess spot. They want to
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bump the number up to what sammy.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Seventy six. So sixty eight teams get in now, seventy
six teams will be getting in next year.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Which is that official? That's happening.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's about to happen. They're about to
approve it. So selfishly for us in San Diego, Sante Goo, say,
would have got in last year, which has been great.
But my problem with it is.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Is twenty percent of college basketball team, I mean six
to one, it's a fifth of college basketball makes it.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
We got texts earlier, six to one five. It doesn't
do anything for now. Like so now the sixty ninth
and seventy eighth and seventy first team complained that they
didn't get in the tournament. Well, so now the seventy
seventh and seventy eight to seventy nine team are going
to complain they didn't get in the tournament. I mean,
this is we're talking about from college basketball. A large
portion of teams get in. And again the criticism of
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college basketball has been at the regular season. Although the
postseason is great and conference championship weeks are great, that
is for some schools, not for all schools, but for
some schools, the chances that you missing the tournament are
next to none, especially when you're playing in a Big
Ten and sec a Big twelve, where you have ample
opportunities to get quad wide wins. So having eight nine
ten losses isn't that big of a deal. Whereas we
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saw it with San Diego State, because of the lack
of competition that they played in in conference schedule. They
went out and challenged themselves against Arizona and Michigan and
schools like that, but they came up short in a
couple of games and they're not in, by the way.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
The year prior, it was the win over heat Houston,
whom the number two overall seed, that got them in,
and this year, if they would have honestly lost by
five to Arizona or Michigan, they probably would have been in.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
It just feels unnecessary, and I feel like it's it's
rash because the last two years we haven't seen upsets,
and people have complained in the tournament that it's taken
some of the fun away, that we haven't gotten the
Cinderella stories that everyone roots for. So now all of
a sudden, we're gonna allow more teams in in the
hope of right this year in San Diego State, New Mexico, Auburn,
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one of these schools with a decent NIL budget can
upset a big school, and I think it just goes
to show how much NIL has changed college sports.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, I don't love it.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
If I'm being completely honest, I think you're taking away
a little bit of what makes March Madness special. And look,
you're always gonna have five or six teams in every
year's March Madness.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Who probably don't belong to be there, but they.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Win the Big West, they win one of the smaller
the Sunbelt Conference, like Troy did this year.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Like it's sacrificial lambs and it's always gonna be a thing.
And guess what, I think that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Like it should be a thing for those schools to
get in because it gives cal Poly and you see
her find and teams that are in the Big West
something to shoot towards every single year. It gives financial
implications to those programs, like it is a good thing
and college basketball should not go away from it. How
with all that being said, I'd be fine if they
lopped off the first four games, making a true sixty
four team tournament.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
We're probably never.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Gonna get that again, and I'm probably belly aching at
clouds right now.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
It's just the way I feel.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I think you're taking away something that's very, very special,
and you're making it less special.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I know we're going to break, but to that end,
if you actually reduce teams, which is not what they're doing,
but if you reduce teams in the tournament, you would
make the college basketball regular season way more important, way
more important, and I think the interest in college basketball
would start earlier when it starts in November. But expanding
the field only dilutes the product during the regular season,
and I think you're gonna see that in the ratings
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going forward. Who was the.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Team this year that went undefeated all the way U
until the conference tournament in one of the smaller.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Conference Michigan, Oh oh, Miami, Miami Wi High.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
That's exactly right. They ended up making NCUBLEA tournament. Auburn
got left out. That was the big controversy at the bubble,
right because.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Mind meal how it didn't play anybody, and during their.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
They went thirty and one, the only loss coming in
their conference tournament. It was a magical college basketball season.
They probably deserve to get in. So now you're telling
me that an Auburn team with what sixteen losses is
gonna deserve to be in NCAA tournament every year, you're
gonna get a team that has sixteen losses in the
NCAA Tournament every year. That seems wrong, suggressive, it seems
wrong to be all right, San Diego Sports seven sixty.
On the other side, we got new news coming out
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of the NBA talking about things that are changing. I
actually think this one's a really positive change. So this
was just negative next year, getting positive next year, also
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Speaker 4 (21:40):
Rich McGuire man, loyal loyal listener, right there.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Love you Pal, He says, it was cool listening to
Matt Devine on the way down to peck Coo Park.
It's like Wrigley West down here today. So lots of
trash talk, lots of Cubby fans here in San Diego.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
I know, I got. I got a bunch of friends
who are randomly Chicago Cubs fans like die Hard.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
It's interesting.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
One of the things I love about San Diego more
than anything is if you were to walk downtown or
just do a quick Google search, there is a different
NFL bar for pretty much every team here, and they're
all packed on Sundays. Like I've been to a Saints
bar in San Diego that was packed on a Sunday.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I've been to a Steelers bar.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
There's a Broncos bar named Chiefs up in Salona Beach
that's actually a great spot with a great burger. But
it's all over San Diego. There's these different pockets. And
of course Mavericks out in Pacific Beach is a Niners bar.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
What up.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
So there's all these different places that love to celebrate
their different NFL teams. But it's the same with baseball,
Like there's a Bears bar, and I know it's packed
today with Cubbies fans.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Like I said, the gym earlier and I saw like
a Miami Heat hat, a Carolina Panthers sweatshirt, like just
you see stuff from all over, which is so cool
because it's a you know, city of transplants. Really kind
of got everyone in here.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Well all you people from all over, we're you're home.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Welcome in because you know what the universal language is,
you don't need a team.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
If you want to gamble, you're on your own team.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yes, that's what we excel in.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
In fact, we'll reset long Shots here coming up at
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you could win yourself a pair of tickets to go
see Crew out at North Island Credit Union Amphitheater. So
what they're doing I actually think is a very positive thing.
Now this isn't official yet. This is being drafted out
by Adam Silver and some of the people in power
in the NBA. I would imagine this does get pushed through,
maybe as soon as next year's draft. But what they're
doing is essentially building out a little bit of a
relegation zone in the NBA. This is to combat tanking.
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This is to combat teams just going for the bottom
three pick or for the bottom three records in the
NBA to try to get the most ping pong balls
in the draft lottery. Starting next year, potentially those three
teams at the bottom of the league might actually get
less balls in the lottery, and you're going to have
the rest of the positions which they're adding to to
be included in the lottery. So sixteen teams total, the
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bottom three will have less balls, and then the top
thirteen of the bottom half of the league are going
to have pretty standard numbers to try to get the
number one overall pick in the draw.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
And it will include part of the playing So if
you're the loser of the nine to ten game, I
believe you get two ping pong balls. For you're the
loser of the seven to eight game, you get one
ping pong balls. So why like that is a incentivizes
teams to try to get into the postseason because making
into the playing tournament means something. You could make the
playing tournament, win a playoff game or two, and you
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still could get ping pong balls if you can't make
it through. And I also love a team cannot have
number one the number one pick back to back years.
That is fantastic. So in the bottom three rule that
you kind of alluded to there where the bottom three
records actually only get two ping pong balls versus three
from the majority of the rest of the draft lottery,
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I love that because A you're going to see at
the end of NBA seasons now, which it was really
bad this year because of all the college basketball talent
Darren Peterson, Cam Booser, a Cuff Bonds. I mean, there's
so much talent that everyone wants that wants a piece of,
and I mean it was bad. You saw the Utah
Jazz in the Wizards barely playing anybody playing. I consider
(25:12):
myself a diehard NBA fan playing guys that I was like,
who like literally, like I've never heard that heard that
name before.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
What was the team that bam Outebayo absolutely to Wizard
Wizards with like a bunch of nineteen year old best player.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Yeah, I mean, so it'll prevent that because if you
are a bottom three record, you actually don't benefit. You
get less of a chance to give a ver one
overall pick. So this need to happen for so long
now in the NBA, and hopefully hopefully it kind of
cures the tanking because it really kind of has been
a bit of stain on the sport for for a while. Now.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Here's what Adam Silver had to say.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
He said, I do think ultimately this is a decision
that needs to be made at the ownership level. It
has business implications that has basketball implications, has integrity implications
for the league. So it's one that we take very
very seriously and we're gonna fix it full stop. Talking
about tanking, obviously, it's hit basketball the hardest.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Baseball. You really don't see tanking nearly as much.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
You just see teams not trying to win from the.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Right well, not trying to spend is the biggest thing
in baseball. In basketball, that's not necessarily the issue. Every
team is spending money, but the biggest issue is you
have half the teams who feel like they're trying every
year to be the worst team in the league. And
this hopefully does fix that. The relegation thing I think
is smart. I think it's smart to actually punish the
worst three teams in basketball.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Right because even to give a little credence to those
teams that tank, the players aren't tanking, the players aren't taking,
the teams are looking at it. And to be fair
to the owners and coaches. And while I don't want
teams taking the NBA to be fair to them the
way the NBA is set it up with the fact
that you can pay more money to guys who who
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are drafted by that team to it's hard to make
trades in the NBA because you have can match salaries.
It is the most effective way to become relevant again
is by getting a franchise player. Right.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
We all remember the scene from from the New Orleans
Pelicans draft room when they got right up the lottery
pick and they got Zion. They thought that their entire
world had changed. And that's a credit to like they tanked,
they really didn't. They didn't have the best odds to
get him that year.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
They just weren't a very good team.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
They just weren't very good. But they thought that everything
was turned around.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
They were up for like a decade of success because
they got the number one player in college basketball, the
most campus prospect. It hasn't necessarily worked out like that
for Zion, But I don't think there's a ton of
NBA teams out there who are like trying to suck
for five years at a time, or they want to
be good, but tanking is the best way to get good.
But that needs to be eliminated from the sport.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
And take take NBA start. The NBA might be the
sport where the spot the stars have the most power. Sure,
because nothing's bigger than the shield in the NFL, I
don't care if it's Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson,
Joe Burrow, nothing's bigger than the shield. MLB as a
case of that, certain stars are maybe bigger than their
teams that they play on. But you guys, he's signed
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to long term deals. You've also seen in the NBA
a lot of players who want out want to go
to big markets. It's rare that we see someone playing
for the Lakers or the Knicks that go, you know what,
take me to Portland like that, just or or Milwaukee
or Charlotte. That doesn't typically happen a lot. So usually
we're seeing Yannis with the Bucks wanting to go to
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New York, wanting to go to an LA or a
team like that. So really, these these these smaller franchises
and not quote luxury spots with big markets. It really
is the only way to become a relevant franchise, like
the Indiana Pacers and the OKAC thunder.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Well, to put it in perspective, like the Indiana Pacers
have a fourteen percent chance to get the number one
overall pick, the Wizards have a fourteen percent chance to
have the number one overall pick, and the Nets have
a fourteen percent chance. Those three teams, based on the
record from this year would be in the relegation zone.
Those three teams based on the record from this year
would only have two lottery balls apiece. This year they
have more than anybody. I think this is the right
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move for the NBA. I actually applaud the NBA on
this good work. Adam Silver, See if we can get
tanking out of this league forever. Also, the Indiana Pacers
have a chance of the number one overall pick. By
the way, Tyrese, Haliburton coming back next year, Andy, you
talk Abou'm kind of here for it personally.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
You take it, okayc type like teams that get that
are able to build Haliburn's back, Sika, They're all still there.
And you added Darren Peterson right like that team, That
team could be really good next year.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
What a sneaky tank job they did, yet, Tyrese, you
know what, no sit out this year?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Like, no, don't come back, baby, don't rush it.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
We care about you, we care about your help. Also,
number one overall pick, come on over uh.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
By the way, the most bonkers think about the NBA
this year, And this is not the NBA's fault. This
is the Los Angeles Clippers fault. Oklahoma City Thunder has
a one point five percent chance to get the number
one overall pick in the draft.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Can you imagine that the Oklahoma City Thunder got Shay
and draft picks for Paul George.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
This was twenty nineteen, right, the twenty nineteen trade that
sent Paul George away from OKAC to the Los Angeles
Clippers has resulted in a multitude of draft picks that
they've turned into this juggernaut that they have right now.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Chet And by the way, and SGA was on the Clippers. Well,
and if you the Clippers, you're the team that got
to watch him in practice every day. You got to
see him destroying these guys and starting the utation. And
you go, no, no, no, no, give us Paul George, no wonder
why you're LA's little brother. Come on, Clippers, be better. Yeah,
all right, it's San Diego Sports seven sixty. You've all
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Speaker 4 (31:05):
I have a boxing show on a five seventy up
in La on Saturdays nine to ten am called not
Quite Ringside with my guy klan Yee the Benavidez Zerdo
Ramirez Massive fight out in Vegas this weekend. They're flying
us out. We're covering the fight. So it's gonna be
a radio road the next couple of days. Hopefully maybe
some maybe some big fighting I guess coming and coming
(31:27):
by that we might have.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
So all right, Sammy's not telling you we have Mike
Tyson on the show. I'm kidding.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
If we had Mike Tyson on the show, could you
imagine stop everything? I would be like, I don't even
know if I could talk. I'd be like a little kid.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I'd be like I'd pick up the phone being what
the Mike.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Actually, here's what would probably happen because Ben would be
back in studio, He'd have no problem saying whatever, and
then I'd be left to deal with if Ben pissed
Mike Tyson off.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Yeah, my whole entire goal would be to get Mike
Tyson to punch you in the face by the end
of the interview, so that you could tell future generations
of perfect haired, glasses wearing Sammy spawns that you got
punched by Mike Tyson. That would bump your cool factor
by about a million percent.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Dude, what would so the age old debate? What would
be the number? Well, how much money would you Ben
Fletcher sit there and let Mike Tyson use you as
a heavy bag.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
For one punch?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Less than you'd think if I could be promised that
my medical bills would not fall on.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Me, no medical be taken care of.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Okay, and we're talking about like post tax income on this, yes,
like whatever monkey.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Well dropped into your bank account, you're not paying taxes
on that low Really do the trick? Would you rather
have the punch in the ribs or the head?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I'd want it in my face so I can tell
the story, So I can tell the story. I'd like,
I mean, I'm probably I'm okay with taking a concussion
on it. I'm okay with like taking a dab of CTE.
I don't want the full blown season, a little bit,
just a sprinkle of the ct I would take that
to get punched in the face by Mike Tyson. But yeah,
a hundred thousand dollars feels like the number to me.
Anything more than that I would take. But anything less
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than that feels a little irresponsible.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
See, if it was to the ribs, I would just
take the broken ribs.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
And yeah, but Mike Tyson punches you in the ribs, man,
you're talking about a potential collapse lung.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Yeah, but I don't want longer damage. I mean, you
hit in the phase. Are you going to talk right
over again?
Speaker 3 (33:30):
So anyway, Sammy asked me before we get back on air.
He says, Hey, I'm gonna be out in Vegas, Like,
you want to give me any money right now?
Speaker 4 (33:37):
We could.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
I could place a couple of bets for you, which
is totally legal, and it's called a proxy.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
And I said, there's only two bets I.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Can These are all theoretical discussions that would be you know.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
There's only two I care about Rockbirdy MVP, Oh God
nine or Super Bowl parlayem hundred bucks?
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Hold on, So I was this weekend like if I'm
gonna drop a big bet on the Benefitezerto fight, if
you want to tag in on that, we got the
Kentucky Derby on Saturday. There will be a big bet
on one of the ponies out there in out here
in Kentucky at MVP, Major League Baseball and Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Make me rich. That is my new roth.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
IRA six one five, one hundred K. I swear to God,
I say this with all seriousness. I would do it
for a hundred bucks just to say I did it.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
See that's part of it. Like that's one to five.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
What's a punch from Mike?
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Like Sammy's saying, yeah, you go that low with one
hundred thousand dollars, Like that's my high end.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
I'd be willing to negotiate at fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Yeah, but here's the problem. If you get punched and
you your your professions, you talk, sure you're gonna get
your jaw broke.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
And with that one hundred thousand dollars is going straight
into a little investment. Maybe IRA one special day of
the maxim. That's like seventy five hundred a year. But
maybe that's going to one Sammy's long shots. I'm turning
into like five hundred CA. Lots of pressure on you
in that situation, Sammy.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Yeah, I would. I really have to cook a parlay
out that we feel good about.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Speaking of long shots, pull your long shots up so
we can go ahead and reset that by the end
of the show. Here today eight five eight, very funny
text from earlier today saying at.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Did Campy get a hit today?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Has got to be my new favorite page on Instagram
this season, lfgl Campy.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
I did find that Instagram account.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
It's very funny and wouldn't you know it, it didn't
happen right there.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
But Louis Campisano is up to bat.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
I love that answer for Matt Devine, by the way,
we were talking earlier to him on the show and
we talked about Louis Campisano for a second, and I
thought the perspective he put on what Louis Campisano has
eight gone through as a Padres player and what he's
been doing so far this year was fantastic. If you
miss that, you could either scroll back on the YouTube
video at San Diego Sports seven to sixty or find
it on the podcast later on. Add us to your
(35:52):
presets on the free iHeartRadio app. That helps us out
with the bosses. It helps you us out finding us
bright and early every single day. All right, Sammy long.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Shots, we do magic in the Pistons. I like the
under two eleven and a half. The injury to Franz
Wagner and him not playing in the Pistons. They can't
score against this team, and they don't have three point shooters.
It's a real problem for them. I think they win
tonight and he send the series, but I do think
it goes under too eleven and a half. Raptors in Cleveland.
I like the over to eighteen and a half. The
Raptors shot four to thirty from three. The other night
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they won nine three to eighty nine. Both teams did
not score very well. The benches were not a part
of it. I think that changes tonight. They're hitting the
over to eighteen and a half, and I do have
my Los Angeles Lakers minus four and a half getting
it done. Austin Reeves coming back, no Kevin Durant, A
little regression to the mean for the Houston Rockets, who
had a very good shooting night in Game four. I
think the Lake Show get it done and send Houston packing.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
I'll be back with you tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Sammy.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
What do we got coming up next?
Speaker 4 (36:46):
I got we got to little u NBA lottery talk.
We have, we have, We're gonna get into the NCAA
expansion field, have a possible as text guest coming on
two thirty. We're gonna gonna figure that out there. But uh,
I'm gonna get into a lot different stuff in the
next hour.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Love to hear it.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Tomorrow we are gonna be jammed up a busy show.
Coach Kinterera should be by for his usual chat, and
then we got a special SDFC guest that I just
found out about that is gonna knock your socks off.
And then we will also have the head coach of
the San Diego Seals stopping by tomorrow for a little
bit as well. Busy show coming up, Sammy Long, Ben Fletcher,
we out. We'll see you tomorrow.
I've been Fletcher. That's Sammy Long I'm excited about it. It
brings a lot of fuel together.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Now live from the East Set Studios of San Diego
Sports seventy sixty. Wee ago in the zone with fletching Sammy.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Hey, it's our number two here on San Diego Sports
seven sixteen.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Busy day on the station.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Once we get off the air here at two o'clock,
Sammy's going to take over for another hour talks to
Padres Baseball. Maybe the Padres will be finished up by
the time Schaeffer and Sliwa are off the air tonight,
so you'll be able to hear their postgame reaction. And
then tonight Lakers Rockets Game five, potential closeout game. In fact,
it needs to be a closeout game if we want
long shots to hit tonight for the Los Angeles Lakers.
(00:40):
All right, Our buddy Derek Togerson texted me in the
middle of the first hour. He was listening when we
were talking about Tatusa's power issues. He seems to have
cracked the code. According to him. He says, Tatisa's issue
is pretty easy to figure out. It's his attack angle.
The way the bad is traveling through the hitting zone
at contact. For his career, it's been about twelve degrees. Otani,
Judge Schwarber are all between thirteen and fourteen degrees. This year,
(01:03):
Fernando Tatzis junior swing has changed. It's at six degrees.
He's flatt in the swing so much that he can't
generate any loft. I saw a breakdown, and thank you
Derek Togerson for bringing some science to this very silly show.
I saw a breakdown of Tatis's swing the year COVID
year where it was a sixty game season and he
had a million home runs it felt like, and was
(01:24):
top five in NLMVP voting compared to this year's swing.
And what I've seen out of it is that he
is much more quiet before the swing, which I'm okay with,
but also he almost has a completely even field when
he's swinging through. So it is and that's the attack
angle that Derek Togerson's talking about. It's not necessarily where
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he's at when the ball's making contact, it's where he's
starting his swing from. So old Fernando used to be
very demonstrative and have that big leg kick and really
get under balls and finished like he was on a plane,
like one of those Greek god statues throwing a javelin.
That was old Fernando. Current Fernando much more balanced, which
is leading to great contact, which is why he leads
majors in an hard hit percentage. But it's leading to
(02:05):
zero loft on the baseball. And I don't know what
the fix is for that. Padres is a lot of
people get paid a lot of money to fix that, right.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Well, that's it.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
We'll see if they can.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
That's why. I mean, have we ever seen a player
that again is sixty six point seven percent hard hit
percentage but one hundred and seventy six out of one
hundred and eighty and qualified players in loft angle? And
like it's this is something that the pottery staff should
be able to figure out. I mean, obviously we're not
sitting here with Fernando Tatis going the tools aren't there.
We've seen him do this before. We've seen him destroy
(02:36):
home run balls that it is.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
In a freaking plaquet Dodger stadium, right.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I mean, this is the kind of guy we're dealing with.
This isn't you're trying to create power with the guy.
It's obviously there, and it does feel like he's in
his head right now and every star has gone through it.
And then to the other point about Jackson Merriw, you
do kind of feel like we're not we're focusing so
much on Tatis rightfully show because he's the face of
(03:01):
the franchise. No matter how good Jackson merl plays, Fernando
Tatis is the face of the San Diego Patres with
that three hundred and forty million dollars contract. But it
does feel like Jackson Merrill is also having massive swing
problems in probably is not getting the coverage that it
should because of the fact that Tatis is not hitting
the ball wells. People are kind of giving Meryl pass.
(03:23):
It is shocking that. I mean if you would have said,
what twenty games in the season, that Xander Bogarts and
Luis Capisano would be the MVPs of this team. I mean, again,
it's it's two ways to look at it. You look
at it as, wow, that's great that the Pattery's have
depth in some of these guys that haven't come through
over the last couple of years are coming through. But
then at what point if the Potter's want to reach
the next level. You need the stars start playing like stars.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Well, we went through it yesterday and hear Ty Franz
and Xander bogartz A the three leaders in batting average
so far this year. They've been the most consistent hitters
this year. And that's great, and that's really good. If
those guys stay where they're at all year, that's fantastic
for the Padres.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
But you can't have that be the case.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Like Fernando Tatis Junior, Manny Machado in Jackson Merrill for
that matter, need to be up there as well. All Right,
it is San Diego Sports seven sixty. We got a
couple of comments on this. I'll rip through them real quick.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Elease.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Alicia on YouTube said, I'm starting Tony Gwynn, Jake Peevey,
and Trevor Hoffman. I'm cutting Tatis, Machado, Gonzalez and Caminetti easy.
I don't know how it's easy when you're cutting Caminetti
and Adrian Gonzalez and man but.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I do appreciate the confidence. Eight five eight says Gonzalez.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And Manny can only be honorable mentions because they both
played for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
If we played for half a year and Dodger fans
hate him, so that's a fact.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Actually, Yeah, Dodger fans wish that ever happened with Manny Machado.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yeah, he's one of the worst traits for them in
Dodger history.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I don't know. I'd have a real tough time cutting
Ken Caminetti.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I really would, But I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Know that I could cut off many.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
But it is funny, like we get to that, like
obviously all the legends you're talking about, but you get
to Tatis in Machado. I wonder who people would, Well.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
If they win a World Series all of a sudden
they're uncuttable.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Well, I'm saying right, we obviously, but if they if
they right now, like we had this discussion of the
seven players that if you had to start three, cut four,
I'm curious where San Diego would go. If they would
lean more Tatis or they'd lean more Machado.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Well, probably Tatis, Probably Tatis, I would imagine, even though
I would assume Tatis by the numbers, Manny Machado has
been the better padre, but Tatis you feel a little
more ownership over him in a lot of ways. And
Tatis like signed that contract to be the next Tony Win.
He hasn't lived up to it yet, right, that was
the thought.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
It's signed, Like the buzz of Fernando was way more
than Machado and his people. You could also argue that
Machado kind of reignited the franchise when he decided to
sign with San Diego.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Well, really, it's like, how much do you owe Eric Osmer?
Like Eric Hosmer was that guy who kind of reignited
the fan base though, like, oh my god, they're spending money,
Eric Hosmer, Padre.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
He was bout out to Eric Hosmer.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, do you hate Jim Russell? You don't, That's all
I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
But here's the thing, Like, I look at this list,
and if you don't know what we're talking about, I
was saying, start three, cut four, Ken Caminetti, Manny Machado,
Trevor Hoffman, Fernando Tatzis Junior, Tony Gwinn, Adrian Gonzalez.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Jake Peeve.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
If everything goes perfectly in this situation, your list is
gonna be Manny Tatis and Tony Gwinn. Because if everything
goes perfectly, Manny Machado and Fernando Tatis Junior bring the
first World Series to San Diego, like that should be
the hope for every Padres fan that they jump over
some of these legendary names. Well it happened, who knows,
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but ten years we could be having a very different
conversation if that ever happens. I would love to see it,
and Mudcat would be leading the parade from alpine to
ocean side and be very very.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Cool to see all that happen, and I hope it does.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
All right, let's get to the Big three Padres about
to get started, so we'll probably leave that on the
back burn of the rest of the show. But we
got lots to talk about with the NBA playoffs, cooking,
some drama in the NFL, and what the hell is
college basketball doing. That's your next forty five minutes, plus
Molly cruzickets are coming up very very soon. We're not
gonna tell you when, but it's just gonna happen at
some point in the next forty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Sammy, go ahead, smash you look.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Frank is here.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Ready to go back to the office and knock that
socks off your friends, I mean co Workers's time for
the top stories of the day.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Game three great, great.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Can you imagine Mark Mudcat Grant leading a parade from
Alpine where he lives, all the way out to Oceanside.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Walk in the whole way. Come on, mud you can
do it. I Uh'd be pretty stinking cool man.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
It'd be crazy city. You'd be going absolutely nuts. All right,
let's go to uh, let's go to the NBA. So
last night, the Boston Celtics surprisingly do not close out
the series get whooped up on by the Philadelphia seventy
six ers. Do we a do we think the series
is in jeopardy? And number two? Did we over rate
the Boston Celtics heading into the NBA playoffs as on
the same playing field as the Spurs in Oklahoma City?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I don't think we did.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I do think Boston has the talent to be a
problem for whoever they are up going against. And I
do think this series is over. Let me start with that.
I thought Joel Embiid was terrific last night, Maybe the
best we've seen out of Joel Embiid in the last
couple of years.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I got.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
When he's that dominant, You're like, oh, what could have been?
You're talking about a potential top what fifteen player of
all time. If Joel Embiid was healthy and had those
kind of performances on a regular basis, when he can dominate, man,
he is as dominant as it gets. But I'll also
say this, this is my big problem with this early
seven game series format that the NBA has switched to
over the last handful of years. The Celtics were fine
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losing that game last night. You could tell. And I
really tried not to do this, But compare that to
the NFL. Is there ever a situation over an entire
season where a team is fine just kind of throwing
in the talent losing the game. It's kind of putre
that there are acceptable losses in a post season.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Of a major professional sport.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
And Boston looked from opening tip like that was an
acceptable loss.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
The Celtics, I think will win the series. But if
I was the Celtics, the game wasn't Boston, so everyone
thought it was gonna you know, they were gonna close out,
So like, I wouldn't play with your food too much
because it is going back to Philly, and it's not
crazy to think that they might win that game in
Philadelphia and push it to Game seven, and a game seven,
you kind of throw everything out. I mean, some guy
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gets a foul trouble, someone gets hurt, someone has an
off shooting night, it becomes March madness. I do think
the Celtics are on the playing field of Oklahoma City
and San Antonio because they have the ingredients of a
team that has two stars who have been there before,
who have won a championship, as well as a supporting
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cast and Peyton prisherd and Derek White and Cada and
Vucevic that can get it done. We've seen that change
in the NBA. Used to be about get a big
three when it was Miami with Lebron and Wade and
Boscher's get a big three. We've seen big threes ever since.
The not work, whether it was in Brooklyn or Phoenix
or with the Lakers or whoever it was. It didn't
work with the Lakers with Russell Westbrook because it's all
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about kind of filling out the I give the roster.
I think I think they have the ingredients to to
do it. But certainly the Sixers are a much better
team than their seat if they're healthy, and it'd be
fun to see you go to a game seven. If
if it were to get there. All right, let's go
to the Lakers tonight. Now, it came out per shomps
Strania that even if the Lakers win this game or
they close out the series, Luka Dancic will not be
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playing next round against okom So obviously not great news
with the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
But are you okay?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
I was bummed, But that's like Mike King getting to it.
The chances of the Lakers beating the Oklahoma City Thunder,
even when healthy, are not great. So I think they
can win a game or two, Yeah, I do. I
don't think they're as bad as that one night a
month ago, but the chance of them winning a series
over seven games pretty slim to none. If there's a
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risk of re injury, I don't want to just throw
in a towel. But bringing him back if you one thing,
If the Lakers were favorites in the West, and they're
sitting there going we're the best team when he's healthy,
we're gonna risk an injury to bring him back. To
bring him back against a team that you're probably not
competing with outside of them having a massive injury. Anyway,
it's probably on the safer side to put him on
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the bed.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Now, that conversation is finding Dandy.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Now, what happens if somehow and there's a blue moon
and things get crazy. Lakers won the first two games
of this series. Is this still the situation where Luca's
not playing the entire say?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
I think it change.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I think it would change in a heartbeat.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I do think we're in a situation right now where
the Lakers themselves in the front office and if we're
being completely honest, everyone probably should be thinking this way
that OKC is going to dominate this series.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I wonder if there's a change of thought if the
Lakers do. I don't know what they just did against
the Rockets.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
We were having a very similar conversation just a week
and a half ago. I didn't give the Lakers much
of a chance in this series, but things have happened.
There's been an injury with KD that's been, in my opinion,
underreported on and we're not really talking enough about whether
he's playing or whether he's not playing, and it's been
kind of a mystery this whole time. But the Lakers
have been able to take advantage of a Rockets team
that is without a point guard for the entire season
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and without KD for the majority of this series. The
Lakers have taken advantage of that, and they look like
they're dominating this first round series. So you get to
okac if something changes, When does Big Bad Luca make
his way back? Why win's the hamstring all of a
sudden better?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I think it also in the long In the long term,
the big question mark in Lakerland is can should Austin Reeves,
a free agent, get a max level deal. Can a
backward of Luka Dagic and Austin Reeves co exist and
win a championship. A lot of people think they can.
I would pay Austin Reeves. A lot of people think
that with the lack of defense, you can't do that
in the Western Conference. It's a big when Reeves comes
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back either tonight and if they were to win and
then move on to next series. Austin Reeves is a
guy who has a lot to play for, not only
for his contract, but to prove that he can be
the guy going up against the elite defensive team in
Oklahoma City. Not saying answer win the series, but he
has to look good in the series and put up
big numbers. So could be a weird blessing in the
skies for the long term. If you get to really
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truly find out if Austin Reeves is that dude, all,
let's squeeze one more in here. I said to the NFL, well,
pre yesterdear. Yesterday Sourtses came out there was a procedure
on Bonnicks. Is a second procedure on his right ankle
that he injured in the AFS or in the AFC
Divisional Round. Expect to be ready for training camp. But
it kind of got me thinking, what quarterback? What now?
Third year quarterback has the most pressure going into this year.
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Jayden Daniels, Caleb Williams, bo Knicks or Drake may See.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
The gut instinct would probably be Drake may He was
just in a Super Bowl. I don't think that's where
I'm going because I don't think the Patriots have much
of a shot this year. My sights would be squarely
on Caleb Williams and Jayden Daniels. Bo Nicks just proved
he could get you to an AFC Championship game. Also,
Bonnicks just proved that if he would have been healthy
in that AFC Championship game, we saw a very different
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Super Bowl and I would stand by that forever. Jayden Daniels, Yes,
injuries were a thing last year, but we were already
having a conversation about him being a potential top five
quarterback in this league after his rookie season. He is
terrific man. I can't wait to see what he does
this year. But Jayden Daniels injuries were part of it.
He also didn't look that good when he was healthy
a year ago, and he had kind of the opposite
(14:07):
of Kaylen Williams where Kaylen Williams really struggled. His rookie
season looked great, especially the second half of his sophomore season.
Jadan Daniels terrific rookie season, injured and kind of bad
at times sophomore season.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Those who are my pressure.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Points all four of a lot of pressure because all
four of rosters maybe take Washington to less degree, but
they also had a lot of injuries that they feel
like they can compete.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I'm dropping the Patriots off for the me too.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I don't think I think, I will go on record,
I don't think they're a playoff team this year. I
really firmly believe that Bonix is pressure and that the
division just naturally got better. Mendozes with the Raiders, Mahomes
back with the Chiefs, and the Chargers are gonna have
a good team this year. But Jaydon Daniels I would
go with because Jaydon Daniels, we had that combo. We
were like, this is the next star in the NFL.
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Jadan Daniels is an absolute beast and he was Remember
he went on the road beat Baker in the playoff game.
That went on the road and beat the number one
Lions and Jared Goff put up like forty eight points
something like that. So Jane Daniels, I think is gonna.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Remind at the NFC Championship that was the Philly right, you.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Got blown out by Philly, but that team was not
even on par with the Eagles that year. I think
Jane Dane's gonna remind a lot of people on who
he is and then he's the man in the NFC
and try to go, you know, back and forth with
Caleb Williams. But all four of a lot of pressure.
Bonix I also would say was second just because of
the division. I don't know if outside of with Caleb Williams,
outside of the Lions, I think that division just got
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worse with the Packers and Vikings, and.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
So it's a sneeze.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
They don't want to hear you sneezing.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
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Speaker 1 (15:50):
You're listening live I Heart Radio app.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I will say Matt Waldron actually looked pretty decent in
the first inning today. There was a couple like there
was an infield pop up that just landed in between
three padres, and there was a c and I grown ball.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Matt Waldron actually was looking okay.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Bogart's getting out of the jym.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Bogarts did get him out of the gym, all right.
It is San Diego Sports seven sixty. We do have
Motley Crue tickets for you, which is one of the
better prizes we've ever had, so we will be giving
that away very very soon. Here, what do you think, Sam,
you want to go with the NBA lottery here and
the changes that are coming to it, or the NC
Double A tournament, making the probably very stupid decision to
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look to.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
The NCAA tournament. We'll get to the NBA on on
the in ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Okay, So what's the number right now?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
There are three hundred and sixty five Division one NC
DOUBLEA basketball teams. Three hundred and sixty five teams that
have a chance each and every year at the outset
of it. Group of five Power five doesn't matter. If
you win your division in the Power five, you or
you win your conference in the Group of five, you
are automatically entered into the NC Double A tournament. And
then of course there's the group or the Power four
teams who if they have like a five hundred record,
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they're making the NC Double A Tournament. But seriously, that's
three hundred and sixty five teams for currently sixty eight spots.
That is eighteen percent of college basketball gets into the
NC DOUBLEA Tournament each and every single year.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Eighteen percent. That should be a very doable number.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Honestly, if you go four years of really building out
a program, you don't get totally poached by nil. You
have a good head coach, you should be able to
make the NC doublea tournament. I would say conservatively fifty
percent of the years is what you should be able
to do, even at a group of five conference. If
you have a great head coach, if you have decent nil,
fifty percent of the years you should be able to
be contending for a March Madainess spot. They want to
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bump the number up to what sammy.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Seventy six. So sixty eight teams get in now, seventy
six teams will be getting in next year.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Which is that official? That's happening.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's about to happen. They're about to
approve it. So selfishly for us in San Diego, Sante Goo, say,
would have got in last year, which has been great.
But my problem with it is.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Is twenty percent of college basketball team, I mean six
to one, it's a fifth of college basketball makes it.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
We got texts earlier, six to one five. It doesn't
do anything for now. Like so now the sixty ninth
and seventy eighth and seventy first team complained that they
didn't get in the tournament. Well, so now the seventy
seventh and seventy eight to seventy nine team are going
to complain they didn't get in the tournament. I mean,
this is we're talking about from college basketball. A large
portion of teams get in. And again the criticism of
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college basketball has been at the regular season. Although the
postseason is great and conference championship weeks are great, that
is for some schools, not for all schools, but for
some schools, the chances that you missing the tournament are
next to none, especially when you're playing in a Big
Ten and sec a Big twelve, where you have ample
opportunities to get quad wide wins. So having eight nine
ten losses isn't that big of a deal. Whereas we
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saw it with San Diego State, because of the lack
of competition that they played in in conference schedule. They
went out and challenged themselves against Arizona and Michigan and
schools like that, but they came up short in a
couple of games and they're not in, by the way.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
The year prior, it was the win over heat Houston,
whom the number two overall seed, that got them in,
and this year, if they would have honestly lost by
five to Arizona or Michigan, they probably would have been in.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
It just feels unnecessary, and I feel like it's it's
rash because the last two years we haven't seen upsets,
and people have complained in the tournament that it's taken
some of the fun away, that we haven't gotten the
Cinderella stories that everyone roots for. So now all of
a sudden, we're gonna allow more teams in in the
hope of right this year in San Diego State, New Mexico, Auburn,
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one of these schools with a decent NIL budget can
upset a big school, and I think it just goes
to show how much NIL has changed college sports.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, I don't love it.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
If I'm being completely honest, I think you're taking away
a little bit of what makes March Madness special. And look,
you're always gonna have five or six teams in every
year's March Madness.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Who probably don't belong to be there, but they.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Win the Big West, they win one of the smaller
the Sunbelt Conference, like Troy did this year.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Like it's sacrificial lambs and it's always gonna be a thing.
And guess what, I think that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Like it should be a thing for those schools to
get in because it gives cal Poly and you see
her find and teams that are in the Big West
something to shoot towards every single year. It gives financial
implications to those programs, like it is a good thing
and college basketball should not go away from it. How
with all that being said, I'd be fine if they
lopped off the first four games, making a true sixty
four team tournament.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
We're probably never.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Gonna get that again, and I'm probably belly aching at
clouds right now.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
It's just the way I feel.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I think you're taking away something that's very, very special,
and you're making it less special.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I know we're going to break, but to that end,
if you actually reduce teams, which is not what they're doing,
but if you reduce teams in the tournament, you would
make the college basketball regular season way more important, way
more important, and I think the interest in college basketball
would start earlier when it starts in November. But expanding
the field only dilutes the product during the regular season,
and I think you're gonna see that in the ratings
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going forward. Who was the.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Team this year that went undefeated all the way U
until the conference tournament in one of the smaller.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Conference Michigan, Oh oh, Miami, Miami Wi High.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
That's exactly right. They ended up making NCUBLEA tournament. Auburn
got left out. That was the big controversy at the bubble,
right because.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Mind meal how it didn't play anybody, and during their.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
They went thirty and one, the only loss coming in
their conference tournament. It was a magical college basketball season.
They probably deserve to get in. So now you're telling
me that an Auburn team with what sixteen losses is
gonna deserve to be in NCAA tournament every year, you're
gonna get a team that has sixteen losses in the
NCAA Tournament every year. That seems wrong, suggressive, it seems
wrong to be all right, San Diego Sports seven sixty.
On the other side, we got new news coming out
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of the NBA talking about things that are changing. I
actually think this one's a really positive change. So this
was just negative next year, getting positive next year, also
getting Motley krutzickets. On the other side at San Diego
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Speaker 4 (21:40):
Rich McGuire man, loyal loyal listener, right there.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Love you Pal, He says, it was cool listening to
Matt Devine on the way down to peck Coo Park.
It's like Wrigley West down here today. So lots of
trash talk, lots of Cubby fans here in San Diego.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
I know, I got. I got a bunch of friends
who are randomly Chicago Cubs fans like die Hard.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
It's interesting.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
One of the things I love about San Diego more
than anything is if you were to walk downtown or
just do a quick Google search, there is a different
NFL bar for pretty much every team here, and they're
all packed on Sundays. Like I've been to a Saints
bar in San Diego that was packed on a Sunday.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I've been to a Steelers bar.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
There's a Broncos bar named Chiefs up in Salona Beach
that's actually a great spot with a great burger. But
it's all over San Diego. There's these different pockets. And
of course Mavericks out in Pacific Beach is a Niners bar.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
What up.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
So there's all these different places that love to celebrate
their different NFL teams. But it's the same with baseball,
Like there's a Bears bar, and I know it's packed
today with Cubbies fans.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Like I said, the gym earlier and I saw like
a Miami Heat hat, a Carolina Panthers sweatshirt, like just
you see stuff from all over, which is so cool
because it's a you know, city of transplants. Really kind
of got everyone in here.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Well all you people from all over, we're you're home.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Welcome in because you know what the universal language is,
you don't need a team.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
If you want to gamble, you're on your own team.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yes, that's what we excel in.
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what they're doing I actually think is a very positive thing.
Now this isn't official yet. This is being drafted out
by Adam Silver and some of the people in power
in the NBA. I would imagine this does get pushed through,
maybe as soon as next year's draft. But what they're
doing is essentially building out a little bit of a
relegation zone in the NBA. This is to combat tanking.
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This is to combat teams just going for the bottom
three pick or for the bottom three records in the
NBA to try to get the most ping pong balls
in the draft lottery. Starting next year, potentially those three
teams at the bottom of the league might actually get
less balls in the lottery, and you're going to have
the rest of the positions which they're adding to to
be included in the lottery. So sixteen teams total, the
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bottom three will have less balls, and then the top
thirteen of the bottom half of the league are going
to have pretty standard numbers to try to get the
number one overall pick in the draw.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
And it will include part of the playing So if
you're the loser of the nine to ten game, I
believe you get two ping pong balls. For you're the
loser of the seven to eight game, you get one
ping pong balls. So why like that is a incentivizes
teams to try to get into the postseason because making
into the playing tournament means something. You could make the
playing tournament, win a playoff game or two, and you
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still could get ping pong balls if you can't make
it through. And I also love a team cannot have
number one the number one pick back to back years.
That is fantastic. So in the bottom three rule that
you kind of alluded to there where the bottom three
records actually only get two ping pong balls versus three
from the majority of the rest of the draft lottery,
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I love that because A you're going to see at
the end of NBA seasons now, which it was really
bad this year because of all the college basketball talent
Darren Peterson, Cam Booser, a Cuff Bonds. I mean, there's
so much talent that everyone wants that wants a piece of,
and I mean it was bad. You saw the Utah
Jazz in the Wizards barely playing anybody playing. I consider
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myself a diehard NBA fan playing guys that I was like,
who like literally, like I've never heard that heard that
name before.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
What was the team that bam Outebayo absolutely to Wizard
Wizards with like a bunch of nineteen year old best player.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Yeah, I mean, so it'll prevent that because if you
are a bottom three record, you actually don't benefit. You
get less of a chance to give a ver one
overall pick. So this need to happen for so long
now in the NBA, and hopefully hopefully it kind of
cures the tanking because it really kind of has been
a bit of stain on the sport for for a while. Now.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Here's what Adam Silver had to say.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
He said, I do think ultimately this is a decision
that needs to be made at the ownership level. It
has business implications that has basketball implications, has integrity implications
for the league. So it's one that we take very
very seriously and we're gonna fix it full stop. Talking
about tanking, obviously, it's hit basketball the hardest.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Baseball. You really don't see tanking nearly as much.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
You just see teams not trying to win from the.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Right well, not trying to spend is the biggest thing
in baseball. In basketball, that's not necessarily the issue. Every
team is spending money, but the biggest issue is you
have half the teams who feel like they're trying every
year to be the worst team in the league. And
this hopefully does fix that. The relegation thing I think
is smart. I think it's smart to actually punish the
worst three teams in basketball.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Right because even to give a little credence to those
teams that tank, the players aren't tanking, the players aren't taking,
the teams are looking at it. And to be fair
to the owners and coaches. And while I don't want
teams taking the NBA to be fair to them the
way the NBA is set it up with the fact
that you can pay more money to guys who who
(26:48):
are drafted by that team to it's hard to make
trades in the NBA because you have can match salaries.
It is the most effective way to become relevant again
is by getting a franchise player. Right.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
We all remember the scene from from the New Orleans
Pelicans draft room when they got right up the lottery
pick and they got Zion. They thought that their entire
world had changed. And that's a credit to like they tanked,
they really didn't. They didn't have the best odds to
get him that year.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
They just weren't a very good team.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
They just weren't very good. But they thought that everything
was turned around.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
They were up for like a decade of success because
they got the number one player in college basketball, the
most campus prospect. It hasn't necessarily worked out like that
for Zion, But I don't think there's a ton of
NBA teams out there who are like trying to suck
for five years at a time, or they want to
be good, but tanking is the best way to get good.
But that needs to be eliminated from the sport.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
And take take NBA start. The NBA might be the
sport where the spot the stars have the most power. Sure,
because nothing's bigger than the shield in the NFL, I
don't care if it's Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson,
Joe Burrow, nothing's bigger than the shield. MLB as a
case of that, certain stars are maybe bigger than their
teams that they play on. But you guys, he's signed
(27:55):
to long term deals. You've also seen in the NBA
a lot of players who want out want to go
to big markets. It's rare that we see someone playing
for the Lakers or the Knicks that go, you know what,
take me to Portland like that, just or or Milwaukee
or Charlotte. That doesn't typically happen a lot. So usually
we're seeing Yannis with the Bucks wanting to go to
(28:17):
New York, wanting to go to an LA or a
team like that. So really, these these these smaller franchises
and not quote luxury spots with big markets. It really
is the only way to become a relevant franchise, like
the Indiana Pacers and the OKAC thunder.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Well, to put it in perspective, like the Indiana Pacers
have a fourteen percent chance to get the number one
overall pick, the Wizards have a fourteen percent chance to
have the number one overall pick, and the Nets have
a fourteen percent chance. Those three teams, based on the
record from this year would be in the relegation zone.
Those three teams based on the record from this year
would only have two lottery balls apiece. This year they
have more than anybody. I think this is the right
(28:51):
move for the NBA. I actually applaud the NBA on
this good work. Adam Silver, See if we can get
tanking out of this league forever. Also, the Indiana Pacers
have a chance of the number one overall pick. By
the way, Tyrese, Haliburton coming back next year, Andy, you
talk Abou'm kind of here for it personally.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
You take it, okayc type like teams that get that
are able to build Haliburn's back, Sika, They're all still there.
And you added Darren Peterson right like that team, That
team could be really good next year.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
What a sneaky tank job they did, yet, Tyrese, you
know what, no sit out this year?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Like, no, don't come back, baby, don't rush it.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
We care about you, we care about your help. Also,
number one overall pick, come on over uh.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
By the way, the most bonkers think about the NBA
this year, And this is not the NBA's fault. This
is the Los Angeles Clippers fault. Oklahoma City Thunder has
a one point five percent chance to get the number
one overall pick in the draft.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Can you imagine that the Oklahoma City Thunder got Shay
and draft picks for Paul George.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
This was twenty nineteen, right, the twenty nineteen trade that
sent Paul George away from OKAC to the Los Angeles
Clippers has resulted in a multitude of draft picks that
they've turned into this juggernaut that they have right now.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Chet And by the way, and SGA was on the Clippers. Well,
and if you the Clippers, you're the team that got
to watch him in practice every day. You got to
see him destroying these guys and starting the utation. And
you go, no, no, no, no, give us Paul George, no wonder
why you're LA's little brother. Come on, Clippers, be better. Yeah,
all right, it's San Diego Sports seven sixty. You've all
(30:16):
been patient long enough.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
It's that time.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
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Speaker 1 (30:52):
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Speaker 4 (30:53):
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Speaker 4 (31:05):
I have a boxing show on a five seventy up
in La on Saturdays nine to ten am called not
Quite Ringside with my guy klan Yee the Benavidez Zerdo
Ramirez Massive fight out in Vegas this weekend. They're flying
us out. We're covering the fight. So it's gonna be
a radio road the next couple of days. Hopefully maybe
some maybe some big fighting I guess coming and coming
(31:27):
by that we might have.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
So all right, Sammy's not telling you we have Mike
Tyson on the show. I'm kidding.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
If we had Mike Tyson on the show, could you
imagine stop everything? I would be like, I don't even
know if I could talk. I'd be like a little kid.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I'd be like I'd pick up the phone being what
the Mike.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Actually, here's what would probably happen because Ben would be
back in studio, He'd have no problem saying whatever, and
then I'd be left to deal with if Ben pissed
Mike Tyson off.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Yeah, my whole entire goal would be to get Mike
Tyson to punch you in the face by the end
of the interview, so that you could tell future generations
of perfect haired, glasses wearing Sammy spawns that you got
punched by Mike Tyson. That would bump your cool factor
by about a million percent.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Dude, what would so the age old debate? What would
be the number? Well, how much money would you Ben
Fletcher sit there and let Mike Tyson use you as
a heavy bag.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
For one punch?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Less than you'd think if I could be promised that
my medical bills would not fall on.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Me, no medical be taken care of.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Okay, and we're talking about like post tax income on this, yes,
like whatever monkey.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Well dropped into your bank account, you're not paying taxes
on that low Really do the trick? Would you rather
have the punch in the ribs or the head?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I'd want it in my face so I can tell
the story, So I can tell the story. I'd like,
I mean, I'm probably I'm okay with taking a concussion
on it. I'm okay with like taking a dab of CTE.
I don't want the full blown season, a little bit,
just a sprinkle of the ct I would take that
to get punched in the face by Mike Tyson. But yeah,
a hundred thousand dollars feels like the number to me.
Anything more than that I would take. But anything less
(33:13):
than that feels a little irresponsible.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
See, if it was to the ribs, I would just
take the broken ribs.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
And yeah, but Mike Tyson punches you in the ribs, man,
you're talking about a potential collapse lung.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Yeah, but I don't want longer damage. I mean, you
hit in the phase. Are you going to talk right
over again?
Speaker 3 (33:30):
So anyway, Sammy asked me before we get back on air.
He says, Hey, I'm gonna be out in Vegas, Like,
you want to give me any money right now?
Speaker 4 (33:37):
We could.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
I could place a couple of bets for you, which
is totally legal, and it's called a proxy.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
And I said, there's only two bets I.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Can These are all theoretical discussions that would be you know.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
There's only two I care about Rockbirdy MVP, Oh God
nine or Super Bowl parlayem hundred bucks?
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Hold on, So I was this weekend like if I'm
gonna drop a big bet on the Benefitezerto fight, if
you want to tag in on that, we got the
Kentucky Derby on Saturday. There will be a big bet
on one of the ponies out there in out here
in Kentucky at MVP, Major League Baseball and Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Make me rich. That is my new roth.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
IRA six one five, one hundred K. I swear to God,
I say this with all seriousness. I would do it
for a hundred bucks just to say I did it.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
See that's part of it. Like that's one to five.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
What's a punch from Mike?
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Like Sammy's saying, yeah, you go that low with one
hundred thousand dollars, Like that's my high end.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
I'd be willing to negotiate at fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Yeah, but here's the problem. If you get punched and
you your your professions, you talk, sure you're gonna get
your jaw broke.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
And with that one hundred thousand dollars is going straight
into a little investment. Maybe IRA one special day of
the maxim. That's like seventy five hundred a year. But
maybe that's going to one Sammy's long shots. I'm turning
into like five hundred CA. Lots of pressure on you
in that situation, Sammy.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Yeah, I would. I really have to cook a parlay
out that we feel good about.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Speaking of long shots, pull your long shots up so
we can go ahead and reset that by the end
of the show. Here today eight five eight, very funny
text from earlier today saying at.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Did Campy get a hit today?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Has got to be my new favorite page on Instagram
this season, lfgl Campy.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
I did find that Instagram account.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
It's very funny and wouldn't you know it, it didn't
happen right there.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
But Louis Campisano is up to bat.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
I love that answer for Matt Devine, by the way,
we were talking earlier to him on the show and
we talked about Louis Campisano for a second, and I
thought the perspective he put on what Louis Campisano has
eight gone through as a Padres player and what he's
been doing so far this year was fantastic. If you
miss that, you could either scroll back on the YouTube
video at San Diego Sports seven to sixty or find
it on the podcast later on. Add us to your
(35:52):
presets on the free iHeartRadio app. That helps us out
with the bosses. It helps you us out finding us
bright and early every single day. All right, Sammy long.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Shots, we do magic in the Pistons. I like the
under two eleven and a half. The injury to Franz
Wagner and him not playing in the Pistons. They can't
score against this team, and they don't have three point shooters.
It's a real problem for them. I think they win
tonight and he send the series, but I do think
it goes under too eleven and a half. Raptors in Cleveland.
I like the over to eighteen and a half. The
Raptors shot four to thirty from three. The other night
(36:21):
they won nine three to eighty nine. Both teams did
not score very well. The benches were not a part
of it. I think that changes tonight. They're hitting the
over to eighteen and a half, and I do have
my Los Angeles Lakers minus four and a half getting
it done. Austin Reeves coming back, no Kevin Durant, A
little regression to the mean for the Houston Rockets, who
had a very good shooting night in Game four. I
think the Lake Show get it done and send Houston packing.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
I'll be back with you tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Sammy.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
What do we got coming up next?
Speaker 4 (36:46):
I got we got to little u NBA lottery talk.
We have, we have, We're gonna get into the NCAA
expansion field, have a possible as text guest coming on
two thirty. We're gonna gonna figure that out there. But uh,
I'm gonna get into a lot different stuff in the
next hour.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Love to hear it.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Tomorrow we are gonna be jammed up a busy show.
Coach Kinterera should be by for his usual chat, and
then we got a special SDFC guest that I just
found out about that is gonna knock your socks off.
And then we will also have the head coach of
the San Diego Seals stopping by tomorrow for a little
bit as well. Busy show coming up, Sammy Long, Ben Fletcher,
we out. We'll see you tomorrow.
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