Andy Furman and Bucky Brooks Talk Masters Tournament, OJ Simpson & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Oh yeah, he's gone.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
And guess what he's forgotten? Yes, he is.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
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(00:31):
has done it all. He's coached, he's played in the NFL,
he's a mentor, he's my partner, and he's very knowledgeable.
And tell you what his backmuster from carrying me every
single solitary Sunday.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Good morning, Bucky Brooks.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
How are you.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Well?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
He sounds like you're gargling a little bit. Get that
mouth washed out of your mouth, then we'll get going here.
Try again. Could you spin it out? Please spit it out.
We'll try again.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Here we go, Good morning, Bucky Brooks.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
All right, we'll try again.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Let him go.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
He's detained a little bit getting ready for the show.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Is always. You know, I want to talk about I know, Buck,
you'll join me. Just about him. I want to talk
about a story that's been in the news this week,
and really and truly there's a second story to it.
All right. I said he's gone and he's forgotten. Who
am I talking about? I am talking about O. J.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Simpson.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
O J.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Simpson, you know, probably the most beloved at one time
football player ever to put on a uniform for the
Buffalo Bills. All Right, very popular, Heisman Trophy winning tailback
for USC back in the late sixties. He was doing
rental car at commercials, he was running through airports. He
was a commentator if you don't remember that from Monday

(01:43):
Night Football. And he was an actor. He was a
naked gun. This guy had it all. He did it all.
And then remember he was on TV for you. Well
remember this the Trial of the Century. Yes, lead prosecutor
Marshall Clark against that dream team. And this was not
a bestketketball team either. The dream team for OJ Simpson
ed by Johnny Cochrane, who basically had that famous pleading

(02:06):
thing to the jury. He s that if it doesn't fit,
he must have quit. Okay, So this was OJ Simpson,
and he earned the fame, he earned the fortune. I
guess he did all that through football, and I guess
showed business to some extent. But the legacy of OJ
Simpson was changed forever and ever. When I'm going to

(02:26):
roll back the clock to June nineteen ninety four for
the alleged knife slayings of his ex wife Nicole Brown
and her friend Ronald Goleman in LA. All right, and
the public still split on that jury verdict.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
I'm not getting into it. Some people think that he did,
some people think he didn't. I'm not going to go there.
I just want to talk about what has happened to
a career that the guy really was the most I
guess love player ever to play for the Buffalo Bill.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
So what happens the other day?

Speaker 2 (02:59):
I go on the Busuffalo Bill's website to see if
they wrote anything whatsoever about OJ Simpson.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Guess what, nothing?

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Nothing, And I say he's gone, and yes, in fact,
he is forgotten.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
It's amazing to me.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
I mean, you talk about athletes that have played for
various teams that have passed on, and there wasn't an
athlete that had passed on from the Buffalo Bills. That
has been put on their website right now. But Oj Simpson,
I'm telling you, if you name the Mount Rushmore of
players who have played for the Buffalo Bills, you have to,
no matter what your feelings are of OJ Simpson, you

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have to put them on Mount Rushmore wearing a Buffalo
Bill's jersey, not on the website, which is amazing. So
I guess they don't want anything I want to talk about.
They the Buffalo Bill's personnel, the Buffalo Bill's front office,
they don't want anything whatsoever to do with Oj Simpson
at the course, any sort of a mess, any sort
of controversy. And I would have loved to have been

(03:55):
a little bit of a fly on the wall in
the discussion room maybe in Buffalo, to say, should we
or should we not put Oj Simpson on our website?
And really and truly, if you check them, the last
time I looked on the USC Athletic website, he wasn't
there either. You talk about a fall from grace, I
don't think I've ever seen anything so heavily as a

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fall from grace like that.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
No mention whatsoever save for USCA.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
And look the discussion is how to be really heavy,
really heavy in Buffalo. And I wonder, and I'm going
to throw out the phone number, which I've never done
really this early in the show. Anybody living in Buffalo.
What is the feeling right now for OJ Simpson? I
just want to know. I mean, he passed, you know,
God bless him, May he rest in peace. He died

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of cancer. Just the other day, I think it was
Wednesday or Thursday. We got the news. The family announced that,
and it justn't It wasn't as big as probably it
should have been because he created that fall from Grace,
two different lives really great football, great actor, great commentator,
and then after that down the Cropper.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Really you know, And I'm gonna give the number.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
I'm gonna give the phone number right now because if
you're from Buffalo, I'd love to hear. What is the
what is the reaction in Buffalo? How did the media
treat it in Buffalo? Not only the website for the
Buffalo Bills, but how did the media treat the death
of O. J. Simpson eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine.

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If in fact, you live in western New York, which
is Buffalo, and I spent some time in Hamburg, New York,
Western New York. Let me hear for you, OJ Simpson.
We'll put that to rest, as he's resting right now.
If you want to comment, I'll listen. Now. A little
good news. All right, let's transition to some good news now.
So people obviously watch many people watch the women's NCAA

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basketball final, but more so than the men's final. They say,
all right, again, we talk about comparisons, and I'll tell
you what, I'm a little tired of these comparisons because
they're really a stretch.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
They really are. Let's let's go back. I can look
at these stats right now.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
The women's game last Sunday, when Iowa was playing University
of South Carolina, the women had eighteen point seven million viewers.
The Yukon Alabama Final four game on Monday night had
fourteen point eight million. Look, the final game had just
done the fifteen million, and they say that women won,
the women got more viewership or whatever it may be.

(06:22):
Let me just say one thing, please, And I don't
think anybody else has ever said this, and maybe I'm
the guy that's got to do it.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
I don't know. You don't win when you're.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
On network TV and the other game, like the men's game,
is on TBS, you don't win like that. And then
the comparison between Pete Maravich and Caitlin Clark. Look, she's
a great player. I'm not taking anything whatsoever away from her.
Tomorrow should probably be the first draft picking the WNBA draft,
going to the Indiana Fever. I'm not taking anything away
for it, but you don't make the comparison.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
They don't.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
And look at comparing women's stats to men's status is
two different games. I don't see women's stats compared to
men's stats in any game. Look, they just had the
ncublea Final hockey deal, Okay, the NCUBA Hockey Championships. I
don't see the men's hockey teams being compared to the
women's hockey teams and statistics.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Why are basketball? I don't get it. Okay.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
TBS is the one that carried the men's game, and
it took me like ten minutes to find out where
the game was. Normally I thought it would be on CBS.
It was on TBS and out of search for that,
that's a network and let's face it, that network has
no people there on it, nobody, nobody watches TBS until
basketball time. That I'm telling you maybe a little NBA.
It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. Making their

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comparison with the men's in the women's game. The men's
game destroyed. Listen to this, you think about statistics. I'll
make a comparison. I'll compare the men's game to the NBA.
The men's game destroyed the NBA Finals, The men's game
beat up on the Major League Baseball World Series. The
men's game is fine, don't destroy the men's game.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
They don't have the superstars, praps or the name recognition
that the women's game have right now. But please don't
bury men's basketball on the college level. Yet.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
It's not men against women.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Next year, I will promise you this and write this down,
God willing, we'll all be here together next year. But
next year the women's tournament will not get even ten
million people watching that game. Why because this year it
was all about Caitlin Clark and South Carolina. If they
were against LSU, maybe Angel reaches with LSU, perhaps, but

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other than that, it was Caitlin Clark she was on
Saturday Night Live last night.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
It's all about Caitlin Clark. Don't you get it?

Speaker 2 (08:36):
These people that just take stats, put them together, mix
them up, and they mean nothing. Really, they mean nothing.
And more than that, let's remember this the start of
the men's game. The start of the men's game Monday night,
nine thirty on the East Coast? Are you freaking kidding me?
I mean, and you're gonna compare this, It doesn't make
any sense. The men's game nine to thirty. U see

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Purdue East Coast time on TBS. Women's game on ABC
on a Sunday afternoon. Come on, really, I mean, ABC
showed the women's game reaches three hundred and five million homes. TBS,
all right, there's some stats here. TBS reaches seventy one
million homes. It's unbelievable. Obviously, you had a choice, and

(09:21):
you did watch the women's game. I watched it. You
know it's must see TV. You got to see hype.
It's all about hype. You know what sports today is
no longer about which team I'm rooting for. I don't
believe it is. I really don't. I think it's all
about hype. You watch a certain player, and you want
to see that player play. That's what it's all about. Look,
even in the NBA, the NBA desperately wants Golden State

(09:45):
to get into the playoffs. Why people want to see
Steph play. That's what it's all about. It's all about personalities. Now,
we're all about hype. That's what it's all about. So
to me, you talk about the huge win of the women.
God bless the women, God blessed women's basketball. God bless
k Clark, who elevated the women's game more than any
athlete has elevated any game in the last ten to

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fifteen years.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
That I mean.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
I mean that sincerely. But to compare the men's game
to the women's game, Ah, I ain't buying it. I know,
eighteen point seven mil against fourteen point eight it's like
apples and oranges doesn't mean a thing. All right. My
name is Andy Furman. Bucky Brooks is my partner who'll
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Speaker 1 (12:47):
Buck.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
How you doing.

Speaker 8 (12:49):
I'm good, Andy, what's going on?

Speaker 3 (12:50):
You sound great? You look even better.

Speaker 8 (12:52):
Now.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
I got a question.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
You played college ball, you played in the NFL, and
I hear sometimes when a team is doing poorly on
the college level, there are booze in the stands, all right,
and commentators and coaches more than commentators, they'll say at
a news conference after the game of the team loses,
how dare you in the stands? You fans booing college athletes?
They're just kids? What's your take on that? Because they're

(13:16):
just kids, you know what, they're getting paid, they're pros.
Now they're along the kids with the nil and I'm
hearing the coaches. They only say that at a news
conference after the game. Yeah, we played poorly, but I
heard the booze in the stands. You know, they're only
eighteen year old kids. What's your take on that?

Speaker 8 (13:31):
Well, I mean, my take on it is Similarly, you
talk about nil and money coming in like people are
going to do it. I do think you want to
show discussion because they're still not fully pros. But I
understand it because you have people who do at high
school games. It's kind of part of the deal, and
I think as athletes you just kind of have to
know that kind of comes with the territory.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
I bring that up because I'm going to go back
to the college NCAA Championship game Monday night, you Conn
against Purdue, and I'm talking about the player of the
year Zach Edy on per do Really and truly, this
kid had one of the better, maybe the best performances
in the National Championship game ever on paper. But someone
said it should have been better. I'm gonna talk about that.

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In the second Zach Edy had thirty seven points. Obviously,
Yukon won, they went back to back championships, they won
seventy five sixty, and they dominated college basketball. But Edie
scored twenty one of his thirty seven points in the
second half, had a great game. He really did. Didn't
get much help, and obviously Connecticut's a great team, but
it was a job well done. This is what quote now,

(14:33):
job well done number thirty five. Okay, you did your
job tonight. It was him that made Edie quit with
about nineteen minutes to go in the second half.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Green wrote this.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Draymond Green wrote this on x He said that Zach
Edy quit. There was a turnover and he says, I
saw Edie his body language walking back. He was done.
Now rewatched the game from that point. Why would Draymond Green,
of all people say the kid quit? To me, it's
bad enough they lost. He gave his heart and soul.

(15:04):
He poured in thirty seven points. And this clown, Draymond Green,
who can't even keep himself in a game, been injected
four times this year in the NBA, and he's riding
on Twitter ex reeve you want to call it that
zach Edi quit.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
To me, that's disgusting.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
I'm a fan of Draymond Green. I like the way
he plays. He's aggressive, he's got passion to the game.
But come on to say a kid quit after that that.
That doesn't go well with me. I don't bode well
with that one.

Speaker 8 (15:32):
Okay, So wait a minute. So you're okay with fans booming,
but you're okay, I figure okay, So my thing would
be this as an observer, as Draymond Green is an observer,
I think he's viewing it as if he would be
playing against Zach Edy, and if Zach Edy's body language,
he has slump shoulders, he's walking off, he appears discouraged

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by a turnover. Look, I'm okay with a player pointing
that part out. Now. I don't know if it matches
up with the scoring output and what Zach Edie did
in terms of like putting the ball in the basket,
but from Draymond's viewpoint, he felt like he was discouraged
enough where he should he quit. I don't know, like
I saw the comments in those things, but it didn't

(16:15):
really match up with the box score. But I'm also
not a basketball player, so maybe there was something that
Draymond saw in terms of his walk, his language, his
reactions that led him to believe that Yukon had broken him.
But that's his opinion.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
You know, you know, I'm here what you said because
Draymond's running this not so much as a fan, but
as a basketball player.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
I get it. I've always was told.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
This by a former general manager at the radio station,
Jay David Martin, May he rest in peace. And he
always said to me, because I used to get myself
in a boatload of trouble by saying things, you know,
more so on the local level than the national level,
because the local level you're attacking the local teams, and
the coaches will call up, the managers would call up
the radio station. The next thing you know, you got
to go to the principal's office. And he always said

(17:00):
to me, what's the upside? What's the upside? So if
I saw Draymond Green today, I'd come to him face
to face and say, Draymond, what was the upside of
your writing? That you could feel it? But to write
that the kid felt bad enough. You know, Purdue only
scored thirty points totally in the second half. The guy
poured in thirty seven points, shot twenty one for thirty
seven something like that.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
He had a hell of a game.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
The guy played his heart out and you're coming out
there and saying he quit, and look, you may be
onto something here because with the slump shoulders and he
walked out, Yeah, maybe he did. He didn't have much help.
And then Draymond comes back and says, too bad, Eadie.
You didn't have Steph to carry you like maybe like
he does, maybe like he did, and he didn't. He
didn't have any The four of the guys didn't do

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much to help eat out on Monday night. And look,
I think going into the game, ninety nine percent of
America even thought that Yukon was gonna win anyway, right.

Speaker 8 (17:54):
Well, yeah, I mean you Kon was a prehabit of favorite.
There were a number one teams coming in. They were
going for back to back. They were the favorite. I mean,
if you look at Purdue, Jackie, he was carrying that team.
Kad a team for most of the year. We talked
about the number twenty and tens games that he put up.
Everything was on him. He was going to New Hell
from the supporting cast to be able to get it done,

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and unfortunately for him, he didn't get that help. They
didn't play their best game on Monday night when they
needed it, and that's why they throw short.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
Right.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
I don't think anybody was surprised with the fact that
that Yukon won. I think maybe people were more surprised
that even Purdue was in the finals. Player of the Year,
he had a great year. I'm not so certain he'll
have a great NBA career. But look a guy at
that height, seven to four shooting like fifteen for twenty
five from the field. You know, this guy could put
the ball in from short range jump shots. And I
think that at that height, that gives him some sort

(18:44):
of an advantage. So we'll see what happens. But I
just wasn't happy with that. Now, you played the game. Okay,
you played the game. You've been there, college pro. Has
anybody ever told you or written about you saying that
you quit or you see anybody that you thought that
you played with as a teammates quit during the course
of action.

Speaker 8 (19:04):
I mean, you're always looking at that like sports is
a matter of wills, and you're always looking to see
when the break, When is the breaking point, Where is
the breaking point?

Speaker 4 (19:11):
How can you.

Speaker 8 (19:12):
Break them mentally? And it's not necessarily that they quote
unquote quit where they don't give effort, But there is skurts,
and so you don't know if they have enough grit
or resilience to handle the circumstances. That happens often, that
happens each and every week. That is when you see
some teams in the fourth quarter kind of pull away
because the other team gets discouraged and they feel like
they can't win it. That's part of why coaches are

(19:36):
trying to build up your mental toughness. That's why they
do all those extra things in the off season to
try and make their team mentally tougher, to give them
the grit and resilience to be able to overcome those
averse circumstances and situations. That's a part of the thing.
And so a lot of times when people talk about
they quit, I wouldn't say that the opponent quits. Most
guys are prod for where they don't just look through

(19:58):
on the child. But I would say they get the
scourge to the point where they don't believe they can win,
and that little loss of energy could be the difference
between women and losing in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
That's why I love you to death, because you slapped
me around a little bit, hit me over the head
with the hammer, and now I'm seeing the light. Because
when they use the word quit, and I think that
may be the worst word you could ever use in sports.
I used to work here with a good man and
he played in the NFL. Maybe I should mention his name.
I won't mention his name. Maybe I will later on,

(20:29):
But he told me the worst word that you could
ever use to a pro athlete is the word quit.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
All right.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
He told me that, And I think that maybe what
you've told me right now, I've waken up a little bit.
Not quitting that he's not playing hard, not quitting that
he's not performing, quitting in the sense that you're putting
up the white flag, the surrendering flag, like you know,
there's no chance on God's green earth you're gonna win
this game. That's what the quitting point meant, not that
he's not playing hard. He's still giving everything he can,

(20:56):
but there's no way he's going to make it up
that hill because they're gonna quit can win the game.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
That's what I meant by that way.

Speaker 8 (21:03):
It's the discouragement. It's the discouragement. Like a lot of times,
it's the people of players of all ages. Can they
see a light at the end of the tunnel. Can
they see themselves finding a way to win games? And
you have to keep that belief going even when you're down.
That's why you're sea coaches when they peer in and
they put the mics in the huddle and guys, they're like, hey, guys,

(21:24):
we still can do this. We can do that. Like
the positive self talk, all that other stuff that is
a part of it, because when you're down, the hardest
thing to do is believe that you can find a
way to come back. And as coaches, you have to
breathe that life in the players, and then players have
to continue to talk to themselves and say, hey, we
got enough time to be able to do it. The
great coaches are able to inspire and enlighten their guys, Hey,

(21:45):
here's we can do it, but here's how we got
to do it, and then those guys kind of follow
the game plan.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
That's why you're there, That's why I listened to you
the greatest. And for those people that are scratching their headset,
I wonder, who's that guy that told Furman that that
quitting is the worst word. I'll tell you and you
know who he is, Lincoln Kennedy. I work with Lincoln
for a long time here on Fox Sports Radio. I
love Lincoln to death. He's great. And I said that
I used the word quit. He went nuts. I mean

(22:11):
he was, I mean, he was always calm and LinkedIn.
When I use that word quit. He said, don't ever
ever tell an athlete he quit. That's the worst thing
you could say. Have you heard that too? Do you
believe in that?

Speaker 8 (22:23):
I do believe in that now, Lincoln and our former
teammates we played together with the Open Raiders, and I'm
believe that because if you call if you call a
player a quitter, I mean, it is one of the
worst things. Or when we talked about what Draymond said,
he broke them, because that's what everyone is looking at,
because in a game where so much of it is

(22:44):
about the toughness, so much of it is about kind
of like the macheese mode that comes along with playing sports,
the bravado. When you talk about breaking someone and you
talk about making them quit, making them tap out, all
of those things hit you right in the gut because
there's an ath you never want anyone to ever say,
hey man, they broke me, because then they hold that
power over you for the rest of the time that

(23:07):
they compete against you. So you never want that to
be at your calling card.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Right And you know, Lincoln has his own brand of cigars.
Now you know that, Oh wow, he's good, He's made it.
He's got a restaurant. He's he's got to going. He's
got it all. And I once asked you about his name.
He's named after two presidents, Lincoln Kennedy. How do you
like that. I love Lincoln Kennedy. I really did. He's
doing well. God bless him. Maybe he's listening right now.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
But you're in there too. You're in the same class
as Lincoln.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
You really are. He's Bucket Brooks and Andy Furman. Get
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but there's still more questions. Yes, that is next, but
first Kevin Wyer with all your sports.

Speaker 9 (23:52):
Yeah, we're less than three hours away from the beginning
of Round four out Augusta. This year's Masters has Scott
Scheffler in the lead at seven under par. He shot
one under on Saturday a round of seventy one. Colin
Marikawa in second place. He has six under par, played
a great round of golf on Saturday, ran a sixty

(24:12):
nine to three under. Max Homa is in third place
at five under naw Scotti. Schefler has said his wife
is due to give birth to their child any day,
and he also said that if she were to go
into labor before he tease off, and he's expected to
do so in about eight hours, But if she were
to go into labor before he does that, then he

(24:34):
will withdraw from the tournament and go attend to the
birth of his child. So that is one thing to
keep an eye on as we roll into the final
round of the Masters UFC three hundred. Alex Perira winning
by knockout in the first round against Jamal Hill. He's
a light heavyweight champion over at the main event in
Las Vegas. Major League Baseball Dodgers Padres took a couple

(24:56):
hours to get that game going because of the rain
out here in La but La does win it five
to two as Gavin Stone taking a perfect game into
the sixth inning before it was broken up. The Cubs
beat the Mariners four to one as they get three
solo home runs in the win. The Giants got five
home runs as they demolish the Tampa Bay Rays eleven
to two. Miami Marlins over the Braves five to one.

(25:19):
The Phillies get a late run in the ninth to
get past the Pittsburgh Pirates four to three. Milwaukee eleven
to five winners of Baltimore, the Royals eleven to seven
against the Mets. The Yankees get two wins against Cleveland,
the Twins sweeping a doubleheader against Detroit. Carlos Correa though
being placed on the injured list where they strained obleague.

(25:40):
The NBA was off completely on Saturday. Every team will
be in action today, the final day of the regular season,
and there's still several different scenarios that could play out
depending on the results as we wait to see what
the final playoff field will look like. In the NHL,
that playoff picture starting to take shape as the Stars
clinched the Central Divisions. They beat the crack In three

(26:01):
to win, win a big planks Colorado seven to nothing,
and those two teams they're going to face off in
the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. And in NASCAR,
Sam Mayer wins the Xfinity Race pay point zero zero
two seconds the Cup Race coming up on FS one
at three point thirty this afternoon.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Ba's you guys, thank you keV seeing about an hour now,
how could he have not known? How could he have
not known? That's coming right up, Bucket brooks Andy Furman
right here, and we are Fox Sports Sunday on Fox
Sports Radio, and we have to asked Bucky coming up
at about seven eight minutes from now, let's talk about
this thing here with a show he Otani. This story

(26:39):
to me will never end and it has so many
open ended questions to ask about this, it's amazing. Now
his interpreter surrendered to the authorities on Friday and he
appeared in US District Court and his name is ap Mizuhara.
He was released on twenty five thousand unsecured bonds, So
I had to looked it up. What's an unsecured bond?

(27:00):
Means he doesn't have to put up any cash or
collateral to be released, and if he violates the conditions
of his bond, he will be on the hook for
like twenty five grand. All right, So now we find
out that this guy, the interpreter may get this buck
nineteen thousand bets, nineteen thousand bets and he lost what
sixteen million dollars? And my question is this charge with

(27:21):
bank freud find like a million dollars? Max And or
thirty years in prison. I get that number one. Otani.
The Dodgers are protecting this guy. There's no doubt about that,
and so is Major League Baseball because they say they
basically finished with the investigation, and they say that Otani
didn't bet on baseball, all right, he didn't talk to
the media, and he's using that excuse that he doesn't
understand English, he doesn't speak English, he wouldn't answer any questions.

(27:45):
I'll tell you this much right now. Baseball doesn't need
to have another Pete Rose situation. But I will say this,
Pete Rose did talk to the press. Pete Rose was
always available when he had his gambling situation. I don't
think it's good. I don't think it's kosher. I think
there's something going on. And you're going to tell me
that some took sixteen million dollars out of your bank account.
You didn't realize that? Are you freaking kidding me? Come on, really,

(28:06):
am I I'm not that stupid, not stupid, but I'm
not that stupid.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
Tell me buckets, stut me straight with this.

Speaker 8 (28:13):
Well, I mean, here's I'll tell you. Like they did
the investigation. I mean, obviously, when the federal government is
involved when the fairs they're in, but they have over
an eighty five percent conviction rate, so they obviously know
who's involved or whatever. And right now they haven't put
Otani into it. They put all of it on the interpreter.
The interpreter took money, had access to the account they provided.

(28:34):
I mean, I guess there's been leaked audio of the
wiretap when he was talking to the bank, like suggesting
that he was Otani trying to get the funds. Look, man,
that's a lot of money. But also Otani makes a
lot of money, like all the money that he makes
away from the game on endorsements and stuff in Japan,
the significant amount of money that he's made during his time.

(28:56):
It's not like Otani checks's banking statement every day. He
cuts on his phone and looks into that. To kind
of go over the amount of money, I think he
trusted someone that he thought had his back and unfortunately
yet back for it.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
On the question is this our grant that maybe he
doesn't check his money every day. And I don't know
how you operated when you were a pro, maybe someone
else handed your moneys and whatever it may be. But
to me, if you have that much money being drained
from your account, which is sixteen million dollars. Wouldn't someone
from the bank, wouldn't someone who's handling the money, not

(29:29):
taking the money out, handling the money, call you and say,
mister O'tani, there's been some withdrawals in your account to
the tune of sixteen million dollars. Wouldn't somebody call him
and tell him that. Doesn't he know there's something smelling
here in Denmark and it stinks. And I'm going to
go back and look at the history here back in
twenty eighteen, this is the year Tani moved to the US.
Okay and Musahara, who's interpreter, helped him open a bank account,

(29:54):
and then the fact at that time he was playing
for the Angels, that salary was deposited that account. Okay
said he never gave Musahari control of his accounts, but
Musahara allegedly told Otani's financial advisors and his accountants, none
of whom spoke Japanese, that Otani had denied them access
to the account. According to this Affidavid, so what does

(30:15):
that mean? It means that how did he get it
to the money? All right? And in the text messages
that they have now found showed that Musahara began gambling
with a book maker back in September of twenty twenty one,
and he started losing big time money, big time money
and all. The complaint state that he averaged twenty five
bets a day, ranging from ten to one hundred and
sixty thousand dollars a bet one hundred and sixty thousand

(30:38):
a bet between December twenty twenty one and this past January,
some totally nineteen thousand bets in all, and the betting records,
according to some spreadsheets that they got, reflected a total
winnings of one hundred and forty two million, not bad,
but losses one hundred and eighty five million dollars, leaving
the balance here negative forty million dollars.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
Know about that, I don't believe it. I don't believe it.

Speaker 6 (31:04):
Well.

Speaker 8 (31:04):
I think there are a couple of things without really
being privy to Otani's, like financial information in those things.
But the first thing that you told me is he
and the interpreter went to the bank and opened up
the banking account together. So at that point, if the
interpreter was shady at all, he got his name on
the banking account, which gave him access to get the money,
so he would have it without being able to get

(31:24):
alert because he is one of the primary names, primary
account holders. Two, if Atani is really trusting the interpreter
like it appears that he had, it unbelievable if he
wouldn't think anything of the interpreter either having access to
the money, doing those things or whatever. So without like
a warning sign from either the financial advisor or the

(31:45):
banking institution, how would a tiny know that so much
money is missing when I mean we're talking about sixteen
million dollars, but we're talking about him making one hundred
and fifty two hundred three hundred million dollars, you know
what I mean, like big sums. And so depending on
how it was a low trickle out of the account
as opposed to a big, a large chum that deported,

(32:05):
I think it can be hard to trace and it
takes something I won't say something like this with something
significant to tip off a Tani, a man there's a
lot of money missing from my account, you know, because
as long as he's able to spend without it being
an issue, it never becomes a problem that he feels
like he has to investigate.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
Well, the investigators said, there with some phone calls, as
they recorded phone calls from the bank and Musahara, the interpreter,
he falsely identifies himself as Otani to trick and deceive
the bank employees.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
I don't get it. I mean, if.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Someone went to the bank and I go to the
bank with a driver's license with your name on it,
with a picture of you, and I say I'm you,
there's a good chance that I will not be able
to withdraw money from your account because they probably would
call you up and say, you know, someone's come to
the bank here and saying with your license, but they

(32:56):
want to take out one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
We want to check on that. You know, the bank
does that even when I go myself, well, my own
driva's license and they know me at the bank locally here,
they take my license every time I go because they
have to double check, and sometimes they ask for a
password for my account and things like that. So I
don't understand how this guy could oppose to be Otani

(33:18):
and still get the money out and the bank permitted
him to do that, especially with those large figures of money.
I don't get it. He had to know and you
can't tell me he's not gambling. Come on, really, I
think Major League Baseball is fearful. If Otani was not
a baseball player, they would have a different verdict on
this case. That I promise you major League Baseball cannot
afford a gambling situation for one of their stars of

(33:40):
the game.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
They just can't do it.

Speaker 8 (33:43):
No, they can't do it. But I also don't think
that they would do anything like that obviously, Like you're
very upset and very aware of Otani, and so do
you think the MLB would subject themselves that they can
of scrutin me if they didn't believe that otanis was
not aware? I would say that obviously, after having the
conversation you, knowing those things, MLB felt like they could

(34:04):
back their biggest star. Look, man, maybe his navite, his
ignorance when it comes to the language bearer and those
things allowed him to be taken advantage of. I think
we have to kind of take Altani at his word
right now to otherwise proven. Look, he said he wasn't
involved in it, Like defans have said that he wasn't
involved in He hasn't been charged with anything. There's no

(34:27):
direct sides with Otani in the Gambler. I think we
have to just we have to go off that. We
can't go off for speculation any window like oh, he
has to be involved, Like people with more knowledge of
the situation than us have said that he hasn't involved.
So I have to just take them at it at
their work.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
Well, I'm with you. I mean I'm doing that too,
taking them as a word. But I think there's some
little loopholes over there as well. So that because the
star status that he has in Major League Baseball, I
question it. But you know, you're right, and I think
that that's where we're going to leave it at that.
That's just the way it is. But I still think
that's something smells over there, really does. All Right, He's
Bucky Brooks, I'm Andy Furman. We are Fox Sports Sunday

(35:04):
and Fox Sports. Ready. Now it's time for some real
answers with no filter.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Why ask Bucky is next?

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio?

Speaker 2 (35:17):
All right, it's time for ask Bucky. Let's get it going.
He's Bucky Brooks, I'm Andy Furman, and this is Fox
Sports Sunday and Fox Sports ready, but at you ready?

Speaker 10 (35:25):
Hello?

Speaker 4 (35:27):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (35:27):
You sounding good? Now you're sounding real good? Sound like
Barry White there? All right, here we go. Who wins
a championship first? Lebron, James, Steph Curry, Tiger ain't gonna
happen there? And the Yankees are the Dodgers? Who wins
a championship first?

Speaker 1 (35:43):
And why.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
Give me the teams again?

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Well, it's Lebron and Steph and Tiger and the Yankees
are the Dodgers who wins a championship first?

Speaker 11 (35:53):
Mm hm, Dodgers winning before all of those teams? You think, so, yeah,
the Dodgers win. The Dodgers are we better position and
got the best team in baseball in terms of personnel,
systematica and putting it together.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
I hate to say this, but I agree with you.
All right, here we go, Here we go. Now we
have this transfer portal? Now in basketball, it's going crazy.
I don't know why they don't have it for the women.
They only have it for the men. But I'm sure
the women will get it down the road. But your
thoughts on a transfer portal for radio broadcasters and maybe
some possible trades, because I know there's some rumblings that
you know maybe you want to get rid of me,

(36:25):
so maybe you'll trade me for someone else, like f
Nala or somebody.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
What do you think about a transfer portal for radio?

Speaker 11 (36:32):
I think they have a transfer porter first, they have
a transfer porter for women, and if they have a
transfer porter for guys, and that's called reemployment.

Speaker 4 (36:41):
You can go wherever you are. You're at will employee
if I want to go somewhere else.

Speaker 11 (36:45):
But I'm very happy with my situation with you, Andy,
so no, I'm very content.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
All right, let's talk about this. Two weeks ago, the
twenty twenty Masters winning Dustin Johnson hired a new general
manager to lead this live golf team. Now, Dustin john
And says he wants a trade deadline for golf teams.
Your thoughts on that.

Speaker 11 (37:05):
Well, I mean, look, if it works out, I mean
I think it's part of the deal. You want deadline
so you can figure out when your roster is going
to be set when it gets down to the money. Time,
the nugett and time the playoffs are those things. So
it makes sense for Justin Johnson to want some of
those things. You don't want a system where you can
just continue to make transactions leading up to.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
The final events, So it does make sense to put
some lines in place.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
I like that too.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
There we go. We're agreeing on a lot of things
right now. Let's talk about Augusta Nashville, the home of
the Masters, the potential for the club having or hosting
a ladies professional tournament. Will that ever happen at Augusta
National M.

Speaker 11 (37:45):
I don't know, because they've been really slow when it
comes to some of those things when it really raws
women when it comes to membership and those things. So
I don't know if I can ever see them getting
to the point where they're opening.

Speaker 4 (37:56):
Up like that.

Speaker 11 (37:56):
It would be nice, it'd be nice to see women
have an opper into play as such a historic course.
I'm just not optimistic that it's going to happen.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
My question is this, how do they get away with
it in this day and age? How do you get
away with that? I know they have the umbrella saying
that you were a private club, a good doing what
we will, but I just I don't get it. I
don't know how they get away with that, and I
don't know why the women are making some noise on
that either.

Speaker 11 (38:20):
I mean a lot of things that I wonder, but yeah,
it's a private club, so they can have their own rules,
and they've been very, very slow and delivered when it
comes to taking in different types of members. Hopefully we'll
get a chance to see something like that happen, but
I'm not very optimistic that we're going to see it happen.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
I would say this, and I'm not going to continue.
I just sitting and say this and let it go.
I think you and I would have a problem getting
into that club too. I'm just saying, let people figure
that one out probably, So.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
All right now, your thoughts on O. J.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Simpson. I brought that up at the top of the show.
You may have heard that O J. Simpson, and I
asked people who live in the western New York area
out of Buffalo. You know how they handle him now
because on the Buffalo Bill's website his name was nowhere
to be found after his death earlier this week. You
have thoughts on OJ, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
I'm real conflicted.

Speaker 11 (39:10):
So for disclosure, as a kid, OJ Simpson was one
of my favorite players to watch.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
I think the first book report that I.

Speaker 11 (39:16):
Did in school was on OJ Simpson and the Electric
Company on that two thousand yard season that he had.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
I was drafted by the Buffalo Bills.

Speaker 11 (39:23):
My rookie season was when the murders took place, and
so it was really hard for me because all the
people that I interacted with with the Bills, the trainers
and those things, had a hard time believing that O. J.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
Simpson would be able to would be involved in something
like that.

Speaker 11 (39:40):
Obviously, everything plays out where he's acquitted of that but
then found guilty or liable then the civil students. So
to me, it's just a tragedy because O. J. Simpson
at the time prior to the murders was the epitome
of what an.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
Athlete should do.

Speaker 11 (39:54):
Played great on the field, parlay that to outstanding opportunities
off the field, and he had it all and you know,
for whatever reason, it goes awry for him, and so
to me it's a tragedy.

Speaker 4 (40:06):
It's a learning.

Speaker 11 (40:07):
Lesson for us, like as former players in terms of
like what to do and what not to do, and
so it's just really unfortunate. I think you can acknowledge
the player while also acknowledging the heinous acts that were
evolved around him because he was an outstanding player. Hall
of Fame player and it's also unfortunate that he was
involved in incidents that led the two tragic deaths.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Will said, We'll say, okay, how surprised were you with
the naming of Mark Pope as a new coach of
the University of Kentucky basketball team. I didn't even think
he was on their radar, the coach he coached at
Brigham Young and now he replaces John Calli Perry who
went to Arkansas.

Speaker 11 (40:45):
Uh No, it's an interesting move because you know, Kentucky
fans that kind of turned on John Calipari had a
lot of success in terms of developing NBA players, won
one title, but Kentucky thirst for more.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
Mark Pope, a former player.

Speaker 11 (40:57):
Won a title in the ninety six, and the Rick
Patino and those guys, maybe he can bring them back.
I don't know, you know what I'm saying. I think
it's an interesting high. I think it would be interesting
to see how kenteck he looks going forward.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
There you go. Now, we thought this night was for
the kids. That and more right here on Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 12 (41:13):
Next you're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio, Well, get
ready for a slap in your face.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
We'll explain that Hey, just about a minute. Good morning, everybody.
This is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. He's
Bucky Brooks.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
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Speaker 3 (41:45):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (41:45):
Now you're sounding great?

Speaker 4 (41:47):
Yeah, everything is great. Man, can't complain. Life is good.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
There you go. You know I heard this the Sports
Report at the top of the hour. Kevin gave us
that and he said, Scottie Scheffler, his wife is in
labor and instead of in fact, she gives birth, he's
gonna leave the masters. And that's a beautiful thing. But
would you or have you ever been in a situation
like that playing in the NFL if there was a
situation where your wife was in labor and there's a
game on Sunday, would you leave? And players that you

(42:12):
have known that have done that? Is that commonplace?

Speaker 11 (42:16):
I think everyone understands that if someone has a kid
on the way, a kid on the horizon. It's a
once in a lifetime deal, you know, and so you
have to give them grace, like if they ought to
be there for the birth of the kid, like, no
one can hold that against them. And I think as
a team you have a policy that opens that up.

Speaker 4 (42:35):
You encourage that.

Speaker 11 (42:36):
You always tell people a family first. So that's one
of the things. I mean, my kids are born well
after my playing career were done, but it was a
situations where my kids were due and the birth was
impending in the place of a game. Yeah, I absolutely
believe because you want to be there. You want to
be there for that because after your playing career is done,
you still have an obligation to your family to be

(42:59):
there and support them. You want to do that from
day one. So I think most players can understand and
respect a teammate's decision to be away when the birth
of a kid is involved.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
I think it's a beautiful thing that Scotti Schiff was
willing to walk away from the Master's Tournament for the
birth of his kid. And that brings up something that
I've heard Marty Burnham in the Hall of Fame announcer
from the Cincinnati Reds, who retired like five years ago.
He broadcasts Reds game for like something forty five, forty
eight years, whatever it may have been. And when he retired,
he made a speech and he said that the one

(43:30):
thing he regretted is that he missed so many graduations
and so many family functions. He missed the July fourth
parties and things like that. You know, you have to
give up a lot when you do that. You're traveling
six six and a half months a year, and you're
away from your family. And I don't think people realize that.
You know, you turn on the radio, you hear the
golden tones of the Marty Burnhaman broadcasting Cincinnati Reds games,

(43:52):
and you say, Wow, the guy's the luckiest guy in
the world doing that, going to baseball games and just
talking about that.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
But there's a price to pay.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
People don't realize that doing NFL games is a lot
easier than doing Major League Baseball games, that's for sure.

Speaker 11 (44:06):
Well, I mean, you're talking about once a week compared
to multiple times a week. And you know the road trips,
the road trips to baseball players are on ten, eleven,
twelve days, two weeks in a row away from the family.
You are missing a lot, and it's one of the
sacrifices that you make as a player, but also one
of the sacrifices that your family has to make for you.
They have to accommodate the fact that dad or mom,

(44:29):
depending on the sport, may not be.

Speaker 4 (44:30):
Available for some of these big, big.

Speaker 11 (44:32):
Moments, and you try the best that you can to
make up for when you are there and you are present.
But unfortunately, when you're involved in pro sports, you're gonna
miss some big moments.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
You're exactly right. You have to be a little selfish,
I think, don't you think. I mean, you have a
love for what you want to do, you have a
passion for what you want to do. But you know,
it's like you come first, you come before family. I'm
not saying it's a bad thing, but I think you
have to have that, and you have to be a
little selfish to say, you know, I'm going to be
away for six months. I'm sorry, but this is my
job and this is my calling and this is what
I want to do.

Speaker 11 (45:03):
Oh, you're selfish. I mean, yeah, you're selfish. That's that's
a part of the deal, and that's what, in a way,
you sign up for when when you're dealing with the
pro athlete that there is some selfishness there, because without
being selfish, you won't make the sacrifices that are needed
uh to succeed in your your field. You won't miss

(45:25):
some of those events to go practice, play to make
sure that you're available for your team. It's one of
the things that you have to be okay with when
you're an athlete that he I'm going to miss some
of these things, but the payoff is going to be
so great in return because I'm going to provide for
my family in a way that I wouldn't be able
to do it if I wasn't participating in pro athletics.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
Good point.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
Okay, I mentioned coming up to this segment, and get
ready for a slap in your face. Let's talk about
that for a second. Philadelphia, the Eagles and the Green
Bay Packers. They could open the NFL season on Friday,
the sixth of September and settle Paulo Brazil. And that's
going to make history not only one way, but two ways.
It's the first NFL game in South America, and it's
the first Friday games is nineteen seventy the game and

(46:08):
this makes me sick. The game will also exclusively stream
on Peacock, a sign of the NFL saying I want
to see the money. That's basically it. So yeah, when
I say slap on the face, the peacock thing makes
me sick. But more than that, there's a third thing.
There's a third thing that makes me crazy. I thought
Friday night was reserved for high school football.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
This is a bad move.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
This is a bad move for the NFL because these
are NFL players on the rise playing high school football.
This is a night for family to reserve on a
Friday night going on to high school football games.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
I did it well. My son played high school football.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Friday night was reserved to watch him play football on
a Friday night. And now you got the NFL on
a Friday night. Shame on you.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
Shame on you.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
Roger Goodell, you money hungry. You know what, that's what
you are. I get it. And this game is not
such a great game anyway. Packers Eagles. Yeah, it's decent,
but it's one of those mussy games. But since it's
the first game of the year, it will be a
mussy game. And the fact that it's in Brazil, I
think out of curiosity. People are gonna watch it, and
you're gonna have to pay to watch It.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
Makes me sick. It's going down the wrong hill.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
To tell you what, Roger Goodell, you in the NFL,
They're gonna pay for it down the road. I'm telling
you it's gonna happen.

Speaker 11 (47:18):
Well, I mean, my only thoughts on that. Are you
so outraged by college football also playing on Friday night?
Because we've seen a bunch of college football games that
have started to pop up on Friday nights. The Pac
twelve was playing some games on Friday nights. If I'm
not mistaken, maybe the MAC would play random games throughout
the course of the week. If you're gonna be mad about, yeah,

(47:41):
like Mac, if you're gonna be mad about like people
invading the Friday night's face, then we have to take look.

Speaker 4 (47:47):
We have to point to.

Speaker 11 (47:48):
What started in college because college led to the gateway
of the NFL playing on Fridays. Because in the past
they always left that open. That was always kind of
like a sacred day. Everyone wanted high school football to
be able to get their shot. But when college football
started infringing upon that, you knew pro football wouldn't be
far behind because of the money. The money's too big,
and so they had a chance to sell off some

(48:09):
inventory a two peacock streamer service that is associated and
affiliated with NBC. Yeah, they're gonna do it. They always
go for the check. I mean, that's just the way
of the world.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
Look, I remember watching that movie that Greed is Good
by Wall Street Greed is Good Gordon Gecko, and I
think that Roger Goodell has taking that to the next
step because greed is good. And when I say that,
I mean because look, there's money to be made. They
want to have a footprint. The NFL does all over
the world. They played in Germany, they played in Canada,
play in Mexico. Now they're playing in South America. I

(48:42):
get it. It's the most popular sport. It's going to
be the most popular sport worldwide. It really will be,
with wagering and whatever it may be. And what they're
doing now is they're playing Friday night. They're playing during
the week. It used to be the NBA, which was
reserved for the Christmas Day. They're playing on Christmas right now.
They're playing a Thanksgiving the day after Thanksgiving. So, look,
greed is good, and I guess greed is good for

(49:04):
the NFL. I'm not too happy about that. And what
they're doing is that they're a bully. I mean, I'm
rightfully so. They're the most popular sport and you mus
well spread your wings and do that because everybody loves
it and give it more. People want more, and the
fact that they're getting more NFL hurts the other sports.
Baseball can't compete with the NFL. The NBA is having

(49:26):
a tough time. Baseball and the NBA have now become
regional sports. They're not national. The National Football League is
in fact a national sport. And the story, that's the
way it is, and they're gonna do it, and they're
gonna do it until it got to squeeze the other teams,
not out of business, but out of interest. That's what
they're doing, squeezing them out of interest.

Speaker 4 (49:44):
Oh well, yeah, National Football League is king. They've seen it.

Speaker 11 (49:47):
The fact that the combine and the NFL draft outrate
some of the prominent sports in the middle of their
main season, it says you everything that you need to
know about the popularity of football, particularly football. They've now
decided to take over. They took over Christmas because that
used to always be the NBA's holiday. That was when
really everyone the viewing public we kind of recognize the

(50:11):
NBA kicking off and that was a big deal. Well,
the NFL started putting games on Sunday, Sundays, Christmas, Christmas Day,
and they will continue to do so because they have
seen the numbers and the numbers are terrific for those
holiday games. That's why we may see games on Wednesdays.
So it's just the league maximizing everything. And everyone will

(50:31):
point to Roger Goodell, but he couldn't do anything without
being at the urging.

Speaker 4 (50:37):
Of the owners. Ownership wants to cast those checks. Ownership
wants to continue to strengthen the.

Speaker 11 (50:42):
Brand and make it a bigger part of the American landscape.
And we can point to Roger Goodell, but really is
the third or two owners that have kind of driven
this expansion.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
Yeah, he works at the request of the ownership, I
mean at their record. He has to do. He has
to They're his bosses. There's no doubt about that. I
will say this that the NFL has really taken over
as far as sports is concerned. And I get it,
and the NFL is king, But to me, I would

(51:20):
say this, if in fact they are so strong, why
not do what you Why are they doing what they're doing?
I mean, they would still be strong if they didn't
expand and put their footprint and put their foot on
the face of other sports. And look, if I was
a commissioner of the NBA, if I was a commissioner
of Major League Baseball, I would take a page of

(51:41):
the NFL and say, look, how could we be as
popular as them? All right, they never will be, but
what can they do? My take is less is more?
What do I mean by that? The NFL is successful
because every game means so much. And if they stop
moving to eighteen nineteen twenty games, it may hurt them
a little bit. Seventeen this stretching. It's going to be eighteen,
I know that. But what baseball should do? And they're

(52:04):
never gonna do less than one hundred and sixty two
because they're gonna lose money, But at least maybe make
it two half seasons. Make it two seasons of eighty
one games apiece, so you have winners in the first
half and winners in the second half, and they could
play and if you win the first half, you're automatically
in the playoffs, so you have some interest because right now,
if you have a team that's twenty five games out

(52:24):
of first place in August, you might as well shut
the door down and go home.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
Now might a close shop? Really?

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Like right now the Oakland A's by the time August
comes around, they'll have lost ninety five games. Really, so
less is more and maybe that's what the NBA should do,
and they're taking the other approach the NBA right now
is accepting teams in the playoffs that have five hundred
or some five hundred records. Forget about that. Less is more.
That's the key right now? Do you agree with that?

Speaker 1 (52:51):
Buck?

Speaker 4 (52:52):
I mean, less is always more?

Speaker 11 (52:54):
I mean because then what you do is you force
people to build up an appetite for it. If you
give them too many games, then it becomes a situation
where they see it all the time, you take it
for granted, so you're not as interested. Yeah, the NFL
has always benefited from having one game a week. They
stretch it out as far as they can, and they've

(53:15):
been able to take a season that really starts at
the end of the end of July and take it
all the way to the sweeps.

Speaker 4 (53:21):
The middle of February.

Speaker 11 (53:22):
That's I mean, that's there is always something when it comes.

Speaker 4 (53:26):
To that league.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
It's amazing. Look, I'll go one stuff further. I mean,
when you talk about the big four sports, I didn't
think you'd have to say it's hockey, basketball, baseball, and football.
I mean, that's it. So I think knocking on the
door for the fifth spool with the MLS, Major League Soccer,
and Major League Soccer, to me, they start in February
and then in November really condensed it a little bit.
I've worked in the North American Soccer League way back

(53:49):
in the day, back in the seventies, I was the
PR director for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. We only played
thirty games, and that's enough. Fifteen home games, fifteen away games.
That's it. I think we start it basically maybe in March,
and we ended around maybe October, maybe October, and that
was long enough. But you have to have some sort
of a stretch because that's a grueling game and you

(54:09):
can't play more than one, one or two games a week.
But still this season from February to November, are you kidding?
It's too long and you're overlapping every other sport. It's
just it's not gonna work. I mean, it works in
some cities. It works in Cincinnati, the average about twenty
five thousand a game, but still in all maybe it's
the newness. Maybe it's just a honeymoon period. I don't

(54:30):
know what it is. But you just can't do that.
You can't do that to people. It's too long. Make
it sure, to condense it. Less is more. That's that's
all I have to say about that.

Speaker 4 (54:41):
I mean, the simplification is good.

Speaker 11 (54:42):
You do want to keep it down, keep it simple
and make it easy for the fans to digest. You
just have to be careful. Then ask for football legue,
don't do too much. You don't want over exposure.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
Right, you're exactly. And I don't want to pay for
it either. Forget about the peacock stuff. That's not gonna happen.
You know, I don't probably end up paying for it anyway. Still,
I just don't like them. Again, I don't blame them.
You know, there's an audience out there. The public's gonna
do it, and they're gonna pay for it. You know,
it's a great situation for him. You know, if baseball
did that, I don't think it would work. If the

(55:12):
NBA did it for their playoffs, I don't think it
would be successful. I really don't. Maybe it would be
successful in the teams that are in the playoffs, but
if if Utah and New Orleans are in the playoffs,
I don't think anybody in New York or LA is
gonna pay for that, really, because it's a regional sport.
That's just the way it is. All Right, he's Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 3 (55:50):
You know that.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
And our number three, the blame game, the blame game
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posted right after we get off the air. Now, let's
talk about one of the guys in the NFL. I'm
really surprised at him. I really am. Talk about Jared Goff.
Jared Goff was on the Trading Cards podcast just the
other day. I want you to take a listen to
what you have to say. Go ahead, Jared, stop talking.

Speaker 13 (56:49):
I have this, like I probably need to drop it
pretty soon here because I'm gonna hopefully be in Detroit
for a long time. But I have this thing with
our local media where like they almost like relish and
negativity at times, and maybe that's what gets clicks, and
that's what sells. It's it's it's no longer what they
need to live in. Like, hey, guys, like we have
a good team, we've had success, Like we can be

(57:11):
happy about that, we can celebrate that and not have
to write about how like we're constantly the underdog, Like no,
like teams are gonna be gunning them for us now,
like we're we won.

Speaker 4 (57:20):
The division and all that.

Speaker 13 (57:21):
And I'm probably overthinking in my head just because it's
the chip on my shoulder and the the competitor in me.
But in that moment, I was just giving that guy
a hard time. I actually really like him.

Speaker 2 (57:32):
Jared Golf, quarterback for the Detroit Lions, and the Trading
Cards podcast is earlier this week. You know, you got
to you got too much free time on your hands,
you really do. You're never gonna win. You're never gonna
win against the media. Why would you even do that?
What what prompted you to attack the media? Like, look,
the media, maybe they do love negativity. Maybe maybe that's
the way it is. Is it always been that way

(57:53):
you played the game? You you read about what your
game was all about when you play there? Buck was
it always us against them? Is that the mentality when
you played the game. I think coaches use that as motivation.
They say, look what they wrote about you, Look what
they're saying about you, and you go out and win.
I mean, who cares? First of all? Ninety nine percent
of people. When I was doing sports talk locally and

(58:13):
I was attacking, yes, attacking local teams that didn't do well,
they always.

Speaker 3 (58:17):
Say, we don't listen, we don't listen.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
But when I went down to the clubhouse, Oh baby,
did they listen because they all circled around me like
Cluster's last stand, ready to scout me. That's what they
wanted to do.

Speaker 4 (58:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (58:29):
No, it's a unique situe, is so so unique when
you just talk about all of those things and you
talk about rallying the troops and getting everyone behind everything. Yeah, Andy,
you can be public and mean number one when you
do those things. And so that's just kind of part
of the deal, you know. That's that's what it is.
No one likes all that outside noise, the outside chatter,

(58:50):
as they say, they circle of wagons for sure.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
Yeah, but why would he do that? That's my question
to me. You know, again, he's on this podcast and
next thing, you know, his mindstarts to wander. Stuff's talking
about media? First of all, who cares? If I'm a player?
I don't care. Look, I still get some tweets right
now in an ugly emails about doing this show, people say,
I'm stupid. It's guy, you allow, You're crazy. You know

(59:13):
what you don't like it? Turn the radio off.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
I don't care.

Speaker 6 (59:16):
This is me.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
This is what you get when you turn the radio,
and this is what you get. I'm sorry. It doesn't
bother me. I'm sure you've gotten comments right be it
in what you do right now when you were a player?
Who cares? Why would Jared Gov care?

Speaker 1 (59:28):
Guy?

Speaker 2 (59:28):
The guy could buy the newspaper that's writing about him
and he's well, gee.

Speaker 11 (59:33):
Well, because I think like we're in an era where
everyone has a comment, everyone has an opinion, and I
think like people think those opinions just go into the
their like no one, it doesn't resonate. But like players,
hear everything and it impacts him in such a way.
And a lot of people say, well, if I was
making that much money, it wouldn't matter to me. But yeah,

(59:55):
but these players have grown up in the social media
era where everything they've done has been documented talked about
disgust in those things, and a lot of times they'll
self esteem, their self belief, their self worth is tied
into what others on the outside think of them.

Speaker 4 (01:00:12):
And as mature those we say, I don't worry about that.

Speaker 11 (01:00:15):
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter all
those guys that never really were in your corner anyway.
But I think for Jered Goff, he has grown tired
of hearing it, and in terms of the Detroit Lions,
he's like, hey, you guys have to get out this
negativity and quit believing that we're not good enough.

Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
We won enough games.

Speaker 11 (01:00:32):
The franchise is at a point where we expect to win.
You guys got to come along with us for the ride.
Don't be so negative.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
Do you think, Bucky Brooks, do you think that the
media basically is negative? Do you think they are?

Speaker 4 (01:00:44):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
I agree, and I'm part of it.

Speaker 11 (01:00:48):
I believe there are times we choose to look for
the negative slant as opposed to the positive part of it.
I believe that, you know, some of the worst things
happen with hot take culture is we've created these things
to debate, to argue, to point out, to compare and

(01:01:08):
contrast this player against that player or whatever, and it
has become more of a negative thing as opposed to
being positive.

Speaker 4 (01:01:15):
Dol if.

Speaker 11 (01:01:15):
Now, the media always was supposed to hold people accountable.
That's part of journalism, that's part of what you know,
great journalists do. They hold people accountable. But it has
become one where everyone is so negative about it. And
also it's a different medium because anybody with a phone,
anybody with a keyboard is a journalist. Now technically like anyone,

(01:01:40):
like social media platforms has given everybody your voice, given
everyone an opportunity to put their opinion out there, whether
it's nuanced and educated or not. So it does become
a little more negative because as more people are trying
to catch attract eyes to become relevant.

Speaker 4 (01:01:57):
You have wild and outlanded stuff said all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
I don't consider myself a journalist behind a microphone. I
think I'm more of a like what a newspaper columnist is,
You have an opinion, that's what you do a journalist.
The newspaper guy is a journalist because or writers are journalists.
There's a lot of research and fact checking and things
like that. You know, we're like a couple of guys
that go to the local bar and talk sports. That's
what we do. But I will say this, I did

(01:02:22):
a postgame show for the Bengals on the radio locally
in Cincinnati during the Lost Decade, which was the nineties.
They couldn't win, they couldn't find their own way. And
I will tell you this much, after the game was over,
every phone line would be lit before I even gave
out the phone number. People loved to rally and rant
after a team loses. You know, shows were better really

(01:02:43):
and more entertaining when they lost. That's the same way
with the Cincinnati Reds. When they lose, there's more to
talk about, there's more to pick apart. When they win,
it's like no, no big whoops. But when they lose,
I'm telling you, every line was lit before I even
got on the air. You know, there was a fumble, heat,
miss tackle here, guy dropped the pass, a bad coaching call,

(01:03:04):
whatever it may be. Everybody had an opinion. So in
a way, I'm not saying I rooted for the team
to lose, but certainly it was a lot more of
an entertaining show when the team lost.

Speaker 11 (01:03:15):
Yeah, I can I can see that. And one of
the things that happens when you jump on this side
of the business. You go from rooting for teens to
rooting for storylines. It will be the most intriguing or
compelling conversation to have following the game. Well, if this happens,
it gives us an opportunity to bring this in and
it just creates better conversation.

Speaker 4 (01:03:34):
I understand that part of it.

Speaker 11 (01:03:37):
But going back to Jerry Goff and the negativity, Yeah,
there's a lot of negativity to Surrounder franchise for a
long time, and one or two good seasons back to
back one wipe that away.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
You know, doubt about that. He's Bucky Brooks.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
I'm Andy Furman. We on Fox Sports Sunday on Fox
Buds Radio. Now, did you hear what one college football
coach had to say about the NFL? That's next and
it's coming up next on the Tirack dot Com studios.
But our guy Kevin Wyatt with Oawyer Sports.

Speaker 9 (01:04:02):
Yeah, we're less than two hours away from the beginning
of the final round of the Masters Tournament. Scotty Scheffler,
he is in the lead, not due to tee off
until two thirty five Eastern time, but he is in
the lead at seven under par. Colin Morikawa in second
place by by one stroke, as he's six under par
Max homa At in third place, he is five under

(01:04:25):
Scotty Scheffler, though, has said that his wife is due
to give birth any day and that if she were
to go into labor before he tease off this afternoon,
and that he would withdraw from the Masters to go
attend to the birth of his child. So that's one
thing to monitor as we begin the action. In augusta
Mixed Martial Arts UFC three hundred, alex Perira winning the

(01:04:48):
light heavyweight title over Jamal Hill by first round knockout,
a big ending to a great series of fights they
had at there in Las Vegas on a Saturday evening.
Major League Baseball, the Dodgers and Padres had to wait
a couple hours because of rain in Los Angeles, but
LA wins it five to two because Gavin Stone took

(01:05:09):
a perfect game into the top of the sixth inning
where it was broken up at LA getting the win
after falling to the Padres and extra innings. On Friday,
Cubs for one winners at Seattle Chicago, getting three solo
home runs in the process. The Giants got five home
runs with their own as they beat Tampa Bay eleven
to two. Marlins over the Braves five to one. The

(01:05:31):
Philadelphia Phillies get a late run in the night to
get by Pittsburgh four to three, The Brewers eleven five
winners at Baltimore, and the Royals beat the New York
Mets eleven to seven. The Yankees and Twins each sweeping
double headers, and the Twins, though gonna be without Carlos
Korea for a little while as he's been placed on
the injured list with a strained oblique and the NBA

(01:05:54):
last day of the regular season is upon us. There
was no action on Saturday. They had it purposely scheduled
to every team play today as the last day of
the regular season. There's gonna be plenty of playoff implications,
plenty of playoff scenarios that could happen depending on the results,
so we'll have to see exactly how this playoff field

(01:06:15):
it takes shape. The NHL Stanley Cup playoff field starting
to get a little clearer as the Dallas Stars have
clinched the Central Division a three to one win against
the crack In. The Winnipeg Jets beat the Colorado Avalanche
seven to nothing, and what could be a prial? What
is going to be a preview of the first round
matchup as these two teams already locked into playing each other.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
Back to you, guys, thank you. keV seeing it now
now he knows because he played in the Elite that's
coming right up.

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
He's Bucky Brooks.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
I'm Andy Ferman And by the way, we got bon
and Barrel Betty coming up in about six seven minutes
from now. But I want to talk about retirement. Okay,
and you played the game. What was it like when
you walked away and you say to yourself, you know what,
maybe I could squeeze one more year, get a couple
of more checks.

Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
And what was it like? Did you miss it?

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
Your feeling? I miss like, Wow, I have a job
and now what am I going to do? What is
it like to have a retirement come to a professional
football player? I want to hear from you.

Speaker 4 (01:07:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:07:08):
No, it's tough because there's nothing that gives you that
same thrill. You have to find something that you're passionate
about that kind of really makes you wake up. Like
people talk about their family, they can talk about second
interests and that stuff. But at your core, you're a gladiator.
You used to being in the middle of the coliseum.
You used to dealing with the slings and arrows that
come along with playing at the highest level, and you

(01:07:28):
actually feed off of that. When you remove that competitive environment,
you that element where you can have those testy moments,
you can have interactions and fights and have a lot
of success.

Speaker 4 (01:07:39):
It's hard.

Speaker 11 (01:07:39):
It's hard to find something that will give you the
same amount of joy, which is why so many former
players struggle.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
Well, I think you missed the brotherhood that you have
in the clubhouse every day and you know, just going
to work. I mean, you have a sense of being
I get up, I got to practice, do this whatever,
watch game film and go home. And now you're just
like on an island. You don't know what to do.
And I will tell you this much. Tom Brady said
he once played till he be fifty, and now he

(01:08:05):
says he may come back again. How do I know
that because I heard it on the Deep Cut podcast.
Let's take a listen to the goat right now.

Speaker 5 (01:08:12):
One day there's a situation, right, maybe it's the forty
nine ers, maybe you know, headed to the playoffs, offense
is great.

Speaker 4 (01:08:18):
Patriots, somebody raiders could be you never know.

Speaker 5 (01:08:21):
Scott forbid, somebody goes down, would you pick up that phone.

Speaker 4 (01:08:25):
I'm not opposed to it. If they would, I don't
know if they're gonna let me if I become an
owner in the NFL team, but I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:08:30):
If I don't know, I'm always going to be in
good shape.

Speaker 4 (01:08:33):
I always be able to throw the ball, so to.

Speaker 1 (01:08:35):
Come in for a little bit like MJ coming back.
I don't know if they let me, but I wouldn't
be opposed to it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
No, here's the deal, Okay, I know he's the goat.
He was great, he had a great, great career. Let
it go, hang it up, move on. You're forty six
freaking years old. I mean I think that right now
your verge. You're in the verge of becoming a an
ego maniac because she can't stay away. You miss it,
you miss the limelight, you miss everything. There.

Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
I get it. Also, maybe you're promoting your brand because
I know he's.

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
Got all his clothing lines that going on there, so
he could do that to help his brand. But still,
in all your forty six you do what you had
to do. And people remember what you've done, and you
did it well better than anybody else. Come back at
forty six. That's the way people are going to remember you.
And you don't want it. I mean, I just think
it's almost disgusting that you're even talking about coming back

(01:09:26):
at the age of forty six.

Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
Don't do it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
Please. Did you ever have the urge to come back
after you retired maybe a year or two.

Speaker 4 (01:09:37):
Age, Yeah, like so for a little bit.

Speaker 11 (01:09:39):
Yeah, you always want to come back because man, it's
the comfortable shoe. So as you're making a difficult transition
into civilian life, you missed that part of it. You
missed the locker room, you missed the competition, you miss
the paychecks and those things that all can drive it
for a get like Tom Brady, you missed being in charge.
Remember Tom Brady left, He went out on top. He
didn't go out like a fleasling quarterback who couldn't stream

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together completions. He was still playing at a high level
when he nouced retirement, which is why it maybe even
a bigger and more difficult struggle for him because he
hasn't hit like quote unquote rock bottom. When it comes
to that part of it, you know, like he was
still playing at a high level.

Speaker 4 (01:10:15):
That's how he remembers himself.

Speaker 2 (01:10:17):
He's also smart enough to realize that this is almost
like a dead period in news for the NFL because
the draft is coming up on Thursday and then all
of a sudden it picks up again. But this is
sort of like a dead period. And he's on this
podcast and if he drops a bomb like that, a
bombshell saying that, yeah, I think I might do I
might consider if someone calls me boom, there you go,

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And now it's a story. People are talking about it.
But whatever happened now to that ten year deal with
Fox to serve as the elite NFL game analyst for
something like three hundred and seventy five million, he said
he'd like to do that. He said he could be
prepare very hard and seriously for that, I'd like to
hear him on the games on Fox, I really would.
But for him to come back at the age of forty, please,

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well come on. And people are saying that, well, Lebron
is playing, but thirty nine, he's playing, He's playing, he
got something to chase. He's still chasing the Lebron ghost.
If you will. I mean, he's chasing the ghost over
the Lebron's chasing the ghost of MJ. That's what he's doing.
But as far as Lebron, he's playing, he's thirty nine,
he didn't leave and come back. This guy's forty six

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years of age.

Speaker 3 (01:11:24):
Let it go.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
I mean, come on your take on that. I mean,
I just think it's wrong. I think it's just an
ego thing.

Speaker 11 (01:11:32):
You know, I do think it's wrong, And I think
people have to understand and appreciate Lebron for what he's done.
He enforcing HI would be one of those those athletes
that we celebrate ten to fifteen years after he's done
giving him his flowers. Right now, there's been no one
who's coming to league with more fanfare as a number
one over our pick from high school and exceeded all

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expectations of what he could become.

Speaker 4 (01:11:57):
Yeah, he's unique, and I just think we have to
have a great appreciation for these guys.

Speaker 2 (01:12:02):
You know, you know, there's also something to be said
about what you've accomplished, and really there's nothing else you
could do. He obviously he's not going to come back
for the money. He's not going to come back to
set more records because the records he has don't have
to be broken them out of the super Bowls that
he's won. So what is he coming back for just
just because he misses the game? You know, why would

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you want to miss workouts and being hit and being sacked?
Why would you want to miss that? I don't get it.

Speaker 4 (01:12:31):
Yeah, I mean, you just love the competition. You just can't.
You can't.

Speaker 11 (01:12:34):
These guys are altra competitive. They can't turn it off.
There's nothing to him. You talked early in the first segment,
we talked about Otani and gambling and those things. And
though he wasn't directly implicated as a part of you,
that understands why. Because some guys are invigorated by the
fact that you know, I could lose this money. It's
not a given. It's uncertainty around it that keeps them

(01:12:56):
coming back. You live for the thrill of the victory.
And that's where right now it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
I just you know what, I don't have it in
my DNA, so I can't relate to it. I could
comment on it. I think it's wrong. And look, maybe
it's the same thing that if I were to leave
behind the microphone here I get I got crazy, and
I'd want to come back. May Maybe it's the same thing.
If you have a passion and love for something, you
just don't want to let it go. You just can't
get away from it. Really, And you've seen people in

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the broadcasting industry. You look at Barbara Walters, I mean,
you know how long she'd gone, right, And people just
keep on going on and on and on. You can't
pull the microphone away from them, right. Maybe that's the
same thing. You just love it. It's not the money.
It's just you love that part of your life and
it's just part of you. It's you just grow attached
to it.

Speaker 11 (01:13:45):
Maybe you do, No, you do you you do get
attached to it, you do fall in love with it.

Speaker 4 (01:13:50):
You can't let it go. It is one of those
things that's hard.

Speaker 11 (01:13:52):
And even when you let it go and you feel
like you've made peace with it, it never leaves you
because there's nothing like it. There's nothing that can replicate it.
There's nothing that can bring you the same type of
juice and energy and all of that. And so that's
why the path, you know, the path from being a player,
from being a player to a former player is a

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hard one to navigate, because you've got to find a
passion that pleases you enough that you can pursue it
to the level that you pursued your in aw I.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
Would say, yet I agree, and I would say people
who who And I hate to use the term work,
but people who do a function that they truly enjoy
that's kind of like a hobby, they don't want to
leave it because to me, people come to me and say, well,
I can't believe you're still working. This isn't work.

Speaker 3 (01:14:37):
This is fun. Talking to Bucky Brooks is not work.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
It's fun. I enjoy it. I could do it every day.
I would do it, you know, tomorrow morning I do.
But have a cup of coffee together, just talk to me.
So it's not work. It's not like heavy lifting, And
it is a difference. I understand that if you're doing
heavy lifting, and I'm not degrading any other job out there,
but if you're doing heavy lifting, well, maybe if you're
a doctor performing surgery, there's a lot of pressure there.

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God could die in the operating table. I can understand
why you're looking forward to retirement, you know, but maybe
doctors don't want to miss it either. But af there
a certain age, maybe your hands starts to shake a
little bit and you can't hold this scalpel and you
don't go. You can't cut anybody open to operate. I
get that. So there's a passion to what you do
in certain professions. You know, if you're a mover and

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work for a moving company and you're going to someone's
house and you're moving pianos every day, I can see
why you want to look forward to retirement. You want
to move a piano and carry a piano on your back.
I get it, right, I mean, but you're talking sports
to Bucket Brooks.

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
Is a lot different that I tell you right there.

Speaker 4 (01:15:39):
Yeah, it's a lot different.

Speaker 11 (01:15:40):
But it's one of those things that you have to
grow increasingly comfortable kind of living a new life, being
in the second phase of your career. It's one of
the things that you want to do even though you
miss the passion that you've always chased in pursuit.

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
There you go, all right, here we go. He's Bucket
Brooks on many firm and where you are Fox Sports
Sunday and Fox Sports Ready can he meaning me make
it two in a row? Bottom barrel betting. It's freaking
next Bottom Barrel betting coming right up about eleven minutes
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Sunning on Fox Sports right now. He is Bucky Broke

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some Andy Furman, and we're live from the tie rat
dot Com studios. But we have a game to play,
So let's play.

Speaker 1 (01:16:19):
It's bottom Bottom.

Speaker 4 (01:16:20):
You thought you was late? Funny to sleep people, get
my money.

Speaker 10 (01:16:23):
I'll put your brain to sleep.

Speaker 8 (01:16:25):
Betting.

Speaker 3 (01:16:25):
Yeah, he's the eye man, the eye man. What's happening Iman,
what's up?

Speaker 10 (01:16:29):
Guys?

Speaker 5 (01:16:30):
So Andy, I know how excited you were about your
win last week, but it appears that the eclipse was
what caused it. And and Bucky did retake the lead.
Well you know, he's had the lead the whole the
whole way, but he won this week.

Speaker 4 (01:16:42):
Again.

Speaker 5 (01:16:43):
Is the point Bucky three? Andy two? It was close
this week? It was close.

Speaker 10 (01:16:47):
Okay, you're getting there. You're closing the game.

Speaker 2 (01:16:49):
I could live with it, yes.

Speaker 5 (01:16:50):
Okay, but let's let's jump into it. We're starting with
the World of Highlight. We're going back there. It's been
a few weeks. So first Hernandez at plus one sixty
versus Huland at minus two ten and We're gonna start
with you today, Andy.

Speaker 2 (01:17:05):
Okay, is this match in Florida?

Speaker 5 (01:17:08):
I would assume so, because that's we're pretty much all
of right, because I.

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
Used to go to a lot of the highlight front
times in Florida, and I think I remember who Land
I'm going with whuland I like who I remember?

Speaker 3 (01:17:18):
Okay, I think I do.

Speaker 11 (01:17:20):
Okay, I'm gonna go with her nandas I'm good with that,
I am okay with Andy taking the other.

Speaker 10 (01:17:24):
Guy, all right.

Speaker 5 (01:17:25):
Andy is rolling with the favorite here, all right. Next
Australian Football League, the Western Bulldogs at plus one ten
versus the Saint Kilda Saints at minus one forty.

Speaker 10 (01:17:37):
Bucky, who you got?

Speaker 11 (01:17:38):
Well, I'm a dog lover, so I'm gonna go with
the Bulldogs, the Western Bulldogs at my team Andy.

Speaker 2 (01:17:44):
Uh you know what though, I'm going with the Lord.
I'm going with Saint Kilda. Really, I'm going with with
the with the higher being.

Speaker 3 (01:17:51):
Yes, okay.

Speaker 5 (01:17:53):
Next to the g WS Giants at plus one oh five
versus the Carlton Blues at minus one forty.

Speaker 10 (01:18:00):
That's also Australian Football. Andy will start with you.

Speaker 2 (01:18:02):
The Calton Blues. Huh uh huh I'm gonna go with
the Giants, okay, because to have a team like the Giants,
you have to be big, if you have to deserve
that name. I'm going with the GW Giants. I don't
look at the odds. I go with the names.

Speaker 11 (01:18:18):
Okay, Well, I can't go with the Giants. Have to
go the other way.

Speaker 12 (01:18:22):
Like because I took the Giants. That's why you're going
with the Blues, all right, Blues. The world of esports,
this week's esport line is a call of duty league.
It's the Atlanta Phase at minus one eighty five versus
Optic Texas at plus one forty bucky. I know you're
an expert in call of duty, so.

Speaker 4 (01:18:43):
Who you go?

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
Wait?

Speaker 5 (01:18:44):
Is he?

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
Are you an expert in call of duty?

Speaker 4 (01:18:47):
This is tough. I would go with let's go with
Optic Texas. Let's go with Texas. Things are bigger in Texas.
Don't mess with Texas?

Speaker 2 (01:18:53):
All right, Andy, No, wait just a second before we
move on to these wages yet, Are you an expert
in this call of duty? I just need to know that,
is okay.

Speaker 4 (01:19:00):
I'm not I'm not an expert and I'm not familiar
with the game.

Speaker 2 (01:19:03):
I'm I think it's a little bit of a conflict
of interest over here that you know the eye man
is like forcing forced feeding you.

Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
That you know of well.

Speaker 5 (01:19:12):
And he's an He's an expert in call of duty.
You're an expert in things like darts, and I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:19:18):
I'm not an expert even I'm an idiot. Look at
the results of this every week. Really, I would I
would like to make a plea if I may, that
no more call of duty because there's a conflict of interest.
That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (01:19:32):
We haven't done. We've done leak of Legends. We've done
call of duty like we do various video games.

Speaker 5 (01:19:38):
Yeah, go back and check if I've ever truly no
advantage for Bucky and call of duty all jokes are
sign here, Andy.

Speaker 2 (01:19:44):
Okay, I'm gonna go back and to see if I've
ever won an e any wager, any sport wager.

Speaker 10 (01:19:49):
I can go back and check that easily.

Speaker 2 (01:19:51):
We're going to do that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:52):
So I'm gonna go with the Atlanta phase.

Speaker 5 (01:19:54):
Atlanta phase, all right, and the last line of the
week is darts.

Speaker 10 (01:20:00):
So Andy, this is your area of expertise for going.

Speaker 2 (01:20:02):
We'll be saying that because Bucky's either think there's a
confidence of interest over there, So don't it be even
saying that?

Speaker 3 (01:20:07):
Right, don't go there.

Speaker 5 (01:20:08):
Darts Cameron Menzies at plus one fifty two.

Speaker 3 (01:20:11):
Wait wait, oh, where's the match taking place?

Speaker 10 (01:20:14):
I'm not sure about that one.

Speaker 5 (01:20:16):
Cameron Menzies plus one fifty two versus Ross Smith at
minus one eighty six.

Speaker 10 (01:20:22):
Andy, who you got?

Speaker 2 (01:20:23):
I'm gonna go with Ross Smith, But I don't think
that's his real name. I think it's a phony. But
I'm gonna go with it anyway. Yeah, it does it. Really,
it's gonna one of those guys that check out to
a motel with a woman, okay, cheating on his wife.
My name is Smith, Okay, Ross Smith.

Speaker 3 (01:20:36):
That's what it is. Buggle with him.

Speaker 11 (01:20:39):
Good mensis, Like I understand all the backstory, but I'm good,
So go to the other guy.

Speaker 5 (01:20:43):
All right, all right, Andy, let's see if you can
do it this week. Now, that'll do it. That'll do
it for this week.

Speaker 2 (01:20:50):
Could you can you give us some different sports that
could you like shake it up a little bit?

Speaker 5 (01:20:55):
I wish DraftKings had more more options out out of
uh the obscure sports. But we'll you know what I'll
make a deal with it and maybe next week will
come in with all new sports, no repeats, no, and.

Speaker 2 (01:21:06):
Maybe you could throw in like a mainstreamer. You know,
the UFL is like an off beat sport. You know
it really is. We'll see.

Speaker 3 (01:21:12):
I mean the segment is the bottom and what all
these numbers really mean? That and more? Where a Fox
Sports Sunday coming up right here next.

Speaker 1 (01:21:20):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:21:23):
All right, please please please stop with the comparisons that's
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Speaker 8 (01:22:01):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (01:22:01):
What's going on? Andy? How you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:22:03):
I'm doing super with you. I'm always happy to be
with you on Sunday mornings. Now, I got some final
thoughts on the NCUBA basketball season, and I don't want
to beat a dead horse here, but I want to
share it with you and see you if you agree. Okay, this,
Caitlin Clark's unbelievable what she's done now on and off
the court as far as promoting women's basketball. She was

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on Saturday Night Live last night. So Caitlin Clark was great,
There's no doubt about that, and so were Iowa Hawk guys.
But I still have a problem comparing her records to
pistol Pete Maravich. Okay, we don't compare women's nc Double
A hockey too, men's nc Double A hockey. We don't
compare men's track and field records to women's track and
field records, although there were some trans guys that are

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running on women's teams. That's another story for another day.
Why are we comparing basketball records together? Help me out
over here. I don't get it. I don't get it.

Speaker 4 (01:22:56):
I don't know.

Speaker 11 (01:22:57):
I mean, I think people are trying to likelidate or
add context to what Kaitlyn Clark has accomplished, even though
it's not the same as a different ara piece de
Pete played in the air when they weren't three point shots, like,
he's recognized as like the scoring champ, like the ultimate score.

Speaker 4 (01:23:13):
So to add.

Speaker 11 (01:23:14):
Context to what Kaitlyn Clark has accomplished, they're saying, hey,
look if you compared what Pete Marrivage did to what
Kaitlyn Clark did, Like, hey, she is one of the greatest.
Let's give her that kind of recognition, even though it's
a different thing.

Speaker 4 (01:23:27):
So it's just a contextual thing.

Speaker 11 (01:23:29):
It's not a we're trying to say that Kaitlin Clark
is a better player than Pete Marrivitch. I think it's
trying to provide context to the viewer.

Speaker 2 (01:23:36):
I knew you'd have the answer.

Speaker 3 (01:23:37):
I knew you would.

Speaker 2 (01:23:37):
I mean that's why I asked it. I knew it
because I didn't know it and knew did. Okay, But
I want to get this out of the way as well.
The men's national championship game Monday night between you kind
of Purdue average fourteen point eight million viewers. All right,
a little bit more than last year's game, but look,
four million viewers less than the day before. Sunday afternoons
women's game against the I went South Carolina. And look,

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there's a big difference here. Number one, The men's game
started nine to thirty East in time. A lot of
people can't stay up that late. It ended about eleven
eleven thirty at night. Okay, the game was on TBS.
You know what, you can't even find freaking TBS. The
only time you watch TBS is for the NBA, that's basically,
And how many people are even watching NBA games? Think
about that, NBA playoffs maybe not NBA regular season. The

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women's game was on Sunday afternoon on ABC network ABC,
so to compare that wasn't fair as well.

Speaker 3 (01:24:29):
And now people are.

Speaker 2 (01:24:30):
Saying the women's game is better than the men's game.
Maybe the women's game is a better product. I don't know.
I can't make that assessment. I don't know if it
is or not, but I will tell you this much.
There's more stars right now, and one of the reasons
being is that the guys are leaving. You can't name guys.
I mean, if you want to see who's on a
roster of a team, you got to google it now,
you really do? You have no idea who's on various

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teams right now? Because the transfer portals and also guys
leaving early to go to the NBA. At least there's
some stability in the women's game, right or wrong. I
think that's the way it is, bug, isn't it?

Speaker 4 (01:25:03):
Popularity matters the game?

Speaker 11 (01:25:06):
Well, one, they're more stars in the women's game than
in the men's game because we've been able to follow
along for three four years when it comes to the women,
where's the men? The defections of most of the top
guys early to the NBA, and the transferporter, even though
the transferporter is active with women, it has made it

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kind of harder to follow along and to fall.

Speaker 4 (01:25:29):
In love with the team. And let's be honest.

Speaker 11 (01:25:33):
You talked about the differences ABC and the platforms or whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:25:36):
There's just more interest.

Speaker 11 (01:25:37):
Has been a groundswell of interest in the women's game,
which made it more compelling to watch this year where
you can see South Carolina continue to go undefeated versus
Caitlyn Clark maybe a once in a lifetime type score.

Speaker 4 (01:25:50):
So the interest is just there. Where is let's be honest,
and the men.

Speaker 11 (01:25:53):
It wasn't the same thing it was Yukon, But I
don't know if we pulled anybody on the Street. Could
they name three or four of the players from Yukon
didn't have the same star power.

Speaker 3 (01:26:03):
No, you're exactly right.

Speaker 2 (01:26:05):
You know, it's funny you bring that up, because as
great a team as South Carolina was, and they were undefeated,
they didn't get half the publicity and exposure and promotion
that Iowa did. Why. I guess Caitlin Clark that was it.
I mean, I think about it, South Carolina. I don't
think they were even on as TV. They weren't on
TV as much as as Iowa was. It was Caitlin

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Clark that got it done, and she carried the banner
for women's college basketball, and rightfully so, of course. But
you know, there was a lot of national games on
ABC with Caitlin Clark during the year. I saw the
Wisconsin game was on I watched that, and I saw
the I think Ohio State was on national and ABC
as well. I watched those games. And look for me,

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and I'm a lazy guy. For me to get in
my car and drive to Bloomington, Indiana from where I
live to watch Caitlin Clark play Indiana, that's huge. I
don't go around the corner to get get a candy bar. Really,
I'm got to leave my house. I don't go see
the University of Cincinnati Xavier play, or Northern Kentucky University
or UK I live. I live right in the middle

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of that, and I don't go. I stay and watch
on TV. But to God to drive to Bloomington. You know,
she's maybe like one of you say, once in a
lifetime performer. And next year she's not gonna be too
far from me either. She'll be playing. Tomorrow's the drafts.
She would be drafted number one by the Indiana Fever.
I'll drive out to Indianapolis. I'll watch her play, and
I'll got a corn beef sandwich at Shapiro's in Indianapolis.

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That's what I'll do.

Speaker 4 (01:27:28):
Okay, all right, Well that's that's great. I mean corn
beef sandwich superio.

Speaker 2 (01:27:33):
But but it's personality, right Buck, It's not the team, it's her.
You got a personality on your team, you go and
watch him play.

Speaker 3 (01:27:39):
That's what it's all about.

Speaker 2 (01:27:40):
Hype. It's changed from what it used to be. Like
people want to go watch, you know, the Celtics play.
Maybe they didn't have a great play that Bill Russell
back in the day when they dominated but they wanted
to watch them play because maybe you want to see
your team beat them. You know, there there was a devil.
You gotta have the devil, the guy who was the enemy.
You know, the Yankees when they dominated, you want to

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see that. But you know you're not Mickey Mannel and
stuff like that. But those guys didn't really get a
lot of hype. It was the team that got the hype,
not the individual.

Speaker 11 (01:28:10):
Yeah, I mean it has changed and it is about
the team. But basketball has been one where NBA wise,
it's been about selling the player more so than the team.
The NFL has gone about it differently because the NFL
has always sold us on the team. You know, the
team is everything no matter what players come and go,
but the team remains the same. It's really just a

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matter of I would say, the marketing.

Speaker 4 (01:28:35):
Tactics that leagues and sports have used to build up
the game.

Speaker 11 (01:28:43):
In the women's game, it was easier to sell the
stars because you had recognizable names Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese,
you know, and others Cameron Brink, you had others that
had name value in the home.

Speaker 4 (01:28:59):
Page, Viekers.

Speaker 11 (01:29:00):
So it is different, whereas in the men you can
name zach Edie, But how many college players could we
really name and treat as stars? And remember, we look
at the guy's game differently. If the stars aren't pros,
we kind of dismissed them. Where we don't have the
same expectation of the women's stars. We don't necessarily project

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them or make everything about what they're going to do.
With the pros, we take them for where they are
and we respect the level of game that they have
based on the collegiate game as opposed to always trying
to fast forward ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:29:34):
You make a great point. Then you're talked about promoting stars.
I think Baseball to have a star in Otani, I
think they were afraid. You're afraid to promote a star.
You know what's going to happen with these guys in
the NBA Moran from Memphis, the Grizzlies. How do you
promote a guy like that? You're afraid the guy could explode.
He's very combustible. That's the problem with the stars right
now in various sports leagues. You just can't do it.
I mean, you got to get a guy who's somewhat

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wholesome and is going to stay out of jail. That's
the problem. I think maybe I'm wrong, but you know,
it's hard for a sponsor who's going to take a
guy to represent their product and next thing you know,
he's getting arrested for wife beating.

Speaker 3 (01:30:10):
You know, you just can't do that. That's the problem.

Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
I think that's why the women's game to me, I
guess and the sponsors as well, a little more wholesome.
Caitlin Clark was doing commercials for an insurance company, a
little more wholesome, that's what they do.

Speaker 11 (01:30:24):
Uh yeah, I mean I would say I don't necessarily wholesome.
I just think it's just just an easier seal, just
because like the name, name brand, the value of the brand,
you just kind of know what you're getting and you're
willing to kind of invest in that. Because of the consistency,
You've seen Kaitlyn Clark perform on a high level for
multiple years. You've seen what South Carolina has been able

(01:30:44):
to do. Regardless of whether they lose their entire certain five,
they continue to be one of the top teams. You
can say the same thing about Yukon in their prime,
in their heyday, the top teams, the top players have
been able to kind of stay on top, and it's
just one of those things that we appreciate.

Speaker 4 (01:30:59):
We celebrate that.

Speaker 11 (01:31:00):
Consistency, and that's one of the reasons why the women's
game has continued to grow in popularity.

Speaker 2 (01:31:05):
You know, I'm going to stretch a little bit over here,
because you talk about popularity and personality. That's why last
year University of Colorado football team was on TV so
many times. The team wasn't that great. They started off great.
What they won their first two three games and that
was it. But they didn't go anywhere really, But because
to Dion, he sold the team. He's the guy and

(01:31:25):
Deon Sanders shook up the college football world how because
he was there. What he did got rid of all
those players in the portal, got new players right there.
But he talked about the state of college football just
the other day on the Front Office Sports Today podcast.
To discuss the state of college football. Let's take a
listen to Dion Neon Dion Sanders.

Speaker 14 (01:31:45):
Of course, we're seeing thousands of players each year now
enter the transfer portal.

Speaker 3 (01:31:49):
Do you think that's an issue that needs to be
addressed or is this just the new reality?

Speaker 15 (01:31:53):
Are you going to address are you going to address
somebody taking another opportunity. They just like somebody on a
job on a nine to five and you quit because
doing this on one l They's just like you're getting
in the portal. It's good for the everyday man. I
think it's good for the collegiate athlete as well.

Speaker 3 (01:32:06):
Of course it's great.

Speaker 2 (01:32:08):
I mean I think he hit it right on the head.
I mean, look, he should talk. I mean, he left
one school going to another. If a coach could go,
why can't it play a go? I mean, I don't
know why people are got so bent out of shape,
but I think that the portal is a lot different
than NIL. But I think they're somewhat related. Because a
guy who's in the portal will go to another school

(01:32:29):
because of NIL possibilities. That's the situation. NIL is the problem,
not the portal.

Speaker 11 (01:32:36):
And I wouldn't even say NIL is the problem. I
would just say that what we have is a different
time where everything is so transient.

Speaker 4 (01:32:43):
Everyone is leaving and going.

Speaker 11 (01:32:45):
The relationships are not transformational, they're transactional, and players are
looking for the best deal, which is in a capitalistic society,
that's what you do.

Speaker 4 (01:32:54):
You have the.

Speaker 11 (01:32:54):
Willingness to move on and take the best deal for
you and your family as opposed to the team and
those things, and we are having a tougher time. I
think the public is having a tougher time with players
having that power because before the only people who had
the power were coaches. Coaches can pounce around and come
and go. We just saw John Caller Party leave Kentucky
to go to Arkansas. Even though he took a pay cut,

(01:33:16):
he still just decided to up and leave, and that
kind of left a lot of players behind who now
we have to jump in the portal and find their
next situation. We have to be okay with knowing that
people come and go. Just like what we deal with
at our jobs as civilians. The same thing is now
happening in our college sports and we're just seeing more

(01:33:36):
people go. And because the players are getting money, people
believe that the money ties them to a certain school.

Speaker 4 (01:33:42):
But it doesn't.

Speaker 11 (01:33:43):
Just like you get paid at your job, but if
you have a better situation come up, you have the
opportunity to take that if you feel like that's a
better situation for your family. That's what everyone is doing
right now. It is just extended beyond the coaches and
then the players able to cash in on those opportunities well.

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
Forma Alabama coach Nick Sabe and said that the college
football is now all about how much you can pay
a player.

Speaker 3 (01:34:03):
And not how well you can develop them. I'm not
so certain that's true.

Speaker 2 (01:34:07):
And Dion came back and he said, look, I don't
attract that kind of a player. I attract the type
of player that wants to be great, that understands he
has a window of opportunity, and he has the commitment
to excellence. And I got to believe that if you're
a player, if you're a five star play, maybe a
four star player, and you decide to got a color
out of the play for Deon Sanders, you want to
play for him because a he was a pro be,

(01:34:27):
He's got a name, and see he could mold you
and help you get to the next level. If you
want to be a pro That's why I think you
go there. I don't think I think what Deon said
is true. I don't think he goes there and get
players that just because they're going to get paid.

Speaker 3 (01:34:40):
I really believe that.

Speaker 11 (01:34:43):
No, I won't say that they go strictly because they
want to get paid. But when you're recruiting, you have
to understand what you're going for, like character has to matter,
and you got to really investigate the type of players
that you're recruiting. And if you know early on any
recruiting process that money is a big factor and it's
going to continue to be a big factor, then you

(01:35:04):
have to make a decision, can I live up to
the expectation that this family has or should we let
this this family pursue other opportunities.

Speaker 4 (01:35:13):
Coaches and universities have to do a.

Speaker 11 (01:35:15):
Better job of kind of like weeding out the types
of players they won't in and out, vetting out the
types of players they won't in and out the program,
and that vetting our process also includes evaluating the parents.

Speaker 2 (01:35:27):
There's no doubt about that. I'll tell you why. Dan
said a lot more. We'll get into that and so
much more. He's Bucket Brooks and Andy Furman.

Speaker 3 (01:35:32):
We got the blame game.

Speaker 2 (01:35:33):
At the end of this hour, you get us on
Twitter at Bucket Brooks and Andy Furman FSR, or or
my bell the telephone. Yes it's still worse. Get on
that phone. We'd love to hear from you. At age seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox That translates to eight seven, seven, nine, nine,
six six three six nine and one Fox Talker. They
said the NFL could not come fast enough. We'll explain

(01:35:56):
that next. The NFL has been manipulating players, Yes they are.
We'll get to that in just about a minute. He
is Bucky Brooks, oh many for I'm going to we
off Fox Sports Sunday of Fox but it's ready alive
from the tire Raq dot com studios and Buck, if
I may, I'm going to go back a little bit
from this Front Office Today podcast for Deon Sanders. He
taught on a lot of subjects. We talked about the portal.

(01:36:18):
We mentioned that, but how NFL teams manipulate players and
their dreft positions, and he says, you got guys that
are slated to go, and they're slotted to this number pick.
Randomly something comes out that they flunk their drunk test,
or they got this type of injury, or they were
seen with this and that, and Wiley, their draft grade
drops later in the round or even in the next round.

Speaker 3 (01:36:39):
How does it happen?

Speaker 2 (01:36:40):
He says, How does that mysteriously come out right before
the draft? That's even more harsh than the players refusing
to sign with teams because now you're affecting someone's livelihood
and you're putting a tremendous rumor on somebody that may
not even be true. And he says it's done every
single year, and he says, the reason I know is
that I worked the draft for about ten to twelve

(01:37:01):
years straight.

Speaker 3 (01:37:02):
I know that's true. What is he talking about?

Speaker 2 (01:37:04):
Is it true?

Speaker 3 (01:37:05):
I believe Dion, it probably is true.

Speaker 2 (01:37:07):
Probably ruffled some feathers yet by saying that, but it
probably is true.

Speaker 11 (01:37:13):
What's true about it is we are increasingly seeing more
leaks regarding top prospects come out in the weeks leading
up to the draft. Last year, it was about c
J Stroud and c J Stroud not performing well on
a cognitive test, the S two tests, and so that's
in the Twitter verse. Intuitizzy and everyone started questioning c J.

(01:37:34):
Stroud's intellect and his diagnostic skills and all those things,
even though none of us have really taken the S
two tests, and do we really even know what it meant.
This year of late, we've seen things come out about
people talking about Molik neighbors and worrying about him being
in a big city and adjust to the lifestyle, even
though none of these things are really substantiated or validated

(01:37:59):
like this just and you endoing speculation, But Malik neighbors
in this family would have to endure those kinds of conversations,
and it goes on with others. There are other conversations
that are coming out about top prospects, Jayden Daniels and
other stuff, you know, and it's just unfortunate. But that's
where we are because what happens is information that's supposed
to be just for internal discussion has been increasingly passed

(01:38:22):
on to media members and they put that stuff out there.
And what never happens is whether there's story is real
or not, you cannot change how it impacts the prospect.
You know, when something comes out, whether it's true or not,
it impacts the way people perceive that prospect to be
because the more people hear about it, the more they

(01:38:44):
take it in as the truth. And they're really really hard.
It's really hard to change someone's mind and first opinion
on a player.

Speaker 4 (01:38:51):
So that's what Diana is alluding to.

Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
No, No, when Team A would do that to a
prospect that they're looking to draft, and they do that
maybe so known else would draft that player?

Speaker 3 (01:39:01):
Is that why they do it?

Speaker 4 (01:39:03):
Sometimes? I mean, like I wouldn't.

Speaker 11 (01:39:05):
I can never say the intentions behind any of it
without knowing the people that have been associated with it.

Speaker 4 (01:39:11):
But the speculation.

Speaker 11 (01:39:13):
Would be, Okay, somebody put some bad intel out there,
they have someone carry the bone. It now goes from
being something that's internal with the team to external. The
media has it, and because it's repeated over and over
and over again on all.

Speaker 4 (01:39:27):
The shows, people believe it.

Speaker 11 (01:39:29):
So if you say that I say that any firmer
has purple hands, and it goes out and then like
Adam Schefter or whatever comes out and says, yep, you know,
any firmer has purple hands, And then it becomes a
thing where we say that you have purple hands, regardless
of whether you do or not. The more you hear,
the more likely people are going to believe that it's true,

(01:39:50):
and it paints a picture, a negative picture over you.

Speaker 2 (01:39:52):
Yeah, a couple of years ago. I think doing it
before prior to the draft, that has one of the
quarterbacks that he had small hands. Remember that did doubt
that could be damaging too. I mean, why would you
do that? I mean the guys that draft to pick.
Someone's gonna pick them anyway. But the city had small hands,
and everybody started talking about you know how big various
quarterbacks hands were. Hey, it's a media story. It's a
media florry. They go crazy and it's a talking point.

(01:40:15):
And something says, it's gonna happen this week. I'm sure
draft is Thursday night. Prior to Thursday, someone's gonna say
something about some high draft pick that that he's got
one leg shorter than another or something like this, and
it's gonna come out.

Speaker 3 (01:40:28):
It's gonna come out.

Speaker 2 (01:40:28):
Always does.

Speaker 4 (01:40:30):
Yeah, this is the time of the year, this is
this is what happens.

Speaker 8 (01:40:32):
Like.

Speaker 11 (01:40:33):
All those things tend to come to the surface. You
hear the craziest stuff, and as you get closer to
the draft, you have to ignore, ignore all the noise,
all the noise that goes on around you. You can't
you just can't believe what you hear. You have to
kind of let it go and kind of, you know, uh,
trust what has already been given, the information that has

(01:40:54):
already kind of come to fruition, and just leave it.

Speaker 4 (01:40:57):
Leave it like that.

Speaker 2 (01:40:58):
What did they say about Bucky Brooks prior to the draft.

Speaker 4 (01:41:04):
What would they say about Bucky Brooks.

Speaker 11 (01:41:06):
They were probably I think going back and looking at
some of those reports, they may have said, like toughness
might have been a thing in question.

Speaker 4 (01:41:15):
Because some of the things I went through. Yeah, and
ill it was like because I had a.

Speaker 11 (01:41:19):
Couple of injuries and I may not have been regarded
as the toughest guy.

Speaker 4 (01:41:23):
So that stuff came out.

Speaker 11 (01:41:26):
Might have been some questions not character wized with questions
about like hands is he a natural pass.

Speaker 4 (01:41:33):
Catcher versus a body catch away he creates it in
his body.

Speaker 11 (01:41:36):
But all of those things like come out and you
just have to kind of deal with them up front.
Is it gonna be tough enough to kind of handle it?
And so you have these interviews and you have these conversations.

Speaker 4 (01:41:45):
And talks and all of that.

Speaker 11 (01:41:47):
But at the end of the day, man, how you
play is how you play, and it's on the player
to disprove some of the stuff that has been attached
to his name. And that's all you can do is
you just got to play.

Speaker 2 (01:41:57):
What's the most important part of a player's I guess
resume is three years or four years in college?

Speaker 4 (01:42:06):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:42:06):
The senior day is it the meetings, the personal meetings,
or is it film work? Is it film study which
is the most important when you're making that decision to
draft the kid.

Speaker 11 (01:42:17):
I mean film study outweighs most of it. But character
assessment is everything. And character has to be broken down
into two different characters categories. So you have football character,
which is directly related to the things regarding football. How
hard you work your study habits, what do you know?

(01:42:37):
How important is football to you? Those things? Moral character?
Does this person have the ability make good decisions away
from the field, Is he a good person? How does
he treat people around the building? All those things? So
I would say that the first thing is like the film,
like making sure that they're good enough. The second part
is the character. Are they good people in the building,

(01:42:59):
Because as the majority of teams, if you assembly it
where you have a collection of good players who are
trying to do the right thing, you're gonna win games.
If you had bad apples, it's gonna spoil the entire bunch.
And you're trying to really minimize how many of those
guys are in your program?

Speaker 2 (01:43:14):
Yeah, and how much is it that these scouts or
personnel people do they talk to the college coach or
do they at all.

Speaker 4 (01:43:22):
Talked to everybody?

Speaker 11 (01:43:23):
You talked to everybody in and around the program. Good
scouts continue to dig. So, going back to my days
as a scout, not long do you talk to the
college coaches and some of the administrators like the academic
advisor around the program.

Speaker 4 (01:43:35):
You also venture in the town.

Speaker 11 (01:43:36):
Depending on how serious the team is on selecting the player.

Speaker 4 (01:43:40):
You ventured into the town.

Speaker 11 (01:43:41):
You may go to random restaurants and spots and casually
strike up conversations and ask, hey, do you know player X?

Speaker 4 (01:43:50):
Oh, we know him. What kind of player is he?

Speaker 11 (01:43:51):
Oh he's a good dude, he's always in here. Oh no,
he's a bad He's a bad dude. He used to
day one of my roommates and do this and that.

Speaker 4 (01:44:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:44:00):
So, I mean, so all of that stuff matters because
you have to remember you don't have many interactions with
the prospect before you draft him, and so you need
to kind of build a profile on them based on
what other people say, what the recommendations that you get
from people, and what your instincts tell you about someone.

Speaker 4 (01:44:17):
When you finally had the face to face.

Speaker 2 (01:44:19):
Have they called you? I mean, you get involved with
that too. I mean the draft coming up, but you
do work for Jacksonville.

Speaker 4 (01:44:24):
They they bring you say, I'm out of now, I'm
out of, I'm out of, I'm out of, I'm out
of dead loop.

Speaker 8 (01:44:30):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (01:44:31):
But back in the day when when you're scouted you're
in the business, or they know that you know someone,
uh there's someone that's tight. Yeah, they can call for
a character reference and you can kind of rubber stamp
a kid.

Speaker 4 (01:44:44):
I say no as a good kid. I've been around him.
I know what he does. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like all
the suff matters.

Speaker 2 (01:44:50):
Wow, that's great, it's it's it's unbelievable, really, the business
of football and scouting and drafting, the whole deal. Will
see that this Thursday night when the draft comes up.
But by the way, shortly after the show today, our
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Speaker 3 (01:45:14):
Again.

Speaker 2 (01:45:14):
Just search Fox Sports Ready wherever you get your podcasts.
You'll see this show Fox Sports Sudden. They posted right
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Speaker 3 (01:45:29):
But first, Kevin Wired, what are your sports well.

Speaker 9 (01:45:32):
Scotty Scheffler currently in the lead to win some big
bucks at Augusta as we're heading into the final round
of the Masters Scheffler at seven hundred part through the
first three rounds. Second place is Colin Mara Cowa. He's
run stroked back at six under Max Horma Max Homa
at five under he is in third place. But Scotti
Scheffler has said that his wife expected to give birth

(01:45:53):
to their child any day and that if she were
to go into labor before he teas off, he will
withdraw from the tournament. He is currently scheduled a tee
off at two thirty five pm Eastern times, so we've
got a little more time to go before he gets going,
but that is something too monitor. As we head into
the fourth round to play out Augustin National In at

(01:46:16):
UFC three hundred, Alex Pereiro first round knockout of Jamal
Hill as he claims the light heavyweight title at the
main event in Las Vegas. Major League Baseball Dodgers padre
is delayed by a couple hours, but La wins at
five to two behind a strong start from Gavin Stone,
who took a perfect game into the sixth inning. The
Cubs beat the Mariners four to one behind three solo

(01:46:37):
home runs. The Giants demolished the Rays eleven two behind
five home runs. The Marlins over the Braves five to one.
The Phillies score run in the ninth to get by
the Pittsburgh Pirates four to three. Brewers eleven to five
winners at Baltimore, the Royals eleven to seven victory at
the New York Mets. The Yankees get two wins against Cleveland.
The Twins sweep their doubleheader with Detroit, and the Twins

(01:46:59):
though gonna be without Carlos Korea for a little while
as he has been placed on the injured list with
a strained oblique and the final day of the NBA
regular season is upon us. Every team in action after
there were no games at all on Saturday and plenty
of playoff implication. Still some playoff scenarios to be sorted
out as the postseason begins this week with the play

(01:47:22):
In Tournament in the NHL, their playoff field starting to
get a little more clear as Dallas clinching the Central
Division by beating the Krack in three to one. The
Jets blank the Avalanche seven to nothing, and those two
teams are going to see plenty of each other as
they are locked into playing in the first round.

Speaker 3 (01:47:38):
Back to you guys, all right, kat, thank you so much.
Have a great day.

Speaker 2 (01:47:41):
Now. This guy even wore a uniform. We'll get to
that in just about a minute. He's Bucky broke some
Andy furman toa We got the blame game coming up
in about six seven minutes from now. I want to
share this story with you. BUCKA not gonna get some
heavy duty football with you, but at Oklahoma Judge, he
going to a Kansas City Chief super fan. This guy
was known as Chiefs Chiefs of Hallock has to pay

(01:48:02):
up ten point eight million dollars in damages to a
former Oklahoma bank teller. He threatened his tailor with a
gun back in December of twenty twenty two during a
string of robberies. According to the Tulsa County District Court, Okay, Now,
on April third of this year, April third District Judge
Tracy L. Pretty ordered XAVR. Babadar to pay Peyton Garcia

(01:48:23):
seven point two million dollars for punitive damages and three
point six million for inflicting physical harm and emotional distress.
According to a journal entry of judgment in the civil case,
Heer Bubadar, twenty nine years old, reached a federal plea
agreement in February after admitting he committed robberies across seven
states in nineteen, twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three.

(01:48:45):
He stole more than eight hundred thousand dollars. Then he
launded the money in casinos. He's twenty nine as a
mansioned subject to a sentence of up to fifty years
in prison without parole. Sentencing a cent for July tenth.
Why do I bring this up? This guy became famous
by wearing a gray wolf suit to Chiefs games and
was always seen on TV during Kansas City Chiefs games.

(01:49:06):
This guy's a lunatic, Okay, So I want to let
you know about the chief super fan, the super fan.
I'm sure that Kansas City Chiefs are real proud of
their super fan right now. All right? You know another thing?
You know, I watched these games on TV. I see
so many uniforms and some of the costumes people wear
the games. I would never do that. I mean, I'm
sure you've never done that going to a game. You know,

(01:49:28):
you're working for a ball club. You can't wear through
a game. But I often wonder that you drive in
your car to the games. I mean, if I'm driving
downtown to the ballpark on a Sunday and I turned
to my left or right and see a guy stop
to the light next to me? Is he wearing this
costume behind the wheel driving to a game like this?

Speaker 3 (01:49:45):
And what's the purpose? Did they do it just to
get on TV?

Speaker 1 (01:49:47):
Buck?

Speaker 3 (01:49:48):
Is that why they do it?

Speaker 11 (01:49:49):
Yeah, trying to be different, trying to get on TV,
trying to get a little strict, you know, a little
lightning in a bottle real quick. See if you can
kind of polay that into some fame and fortune. That's
why you have people doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:01):
Amazing. Okay, now this is for you. Here's some meat
and potatoes for Bucky Brooks. Okay. I'm watching that TV
show the other the First Things First on Fox, all right,
and Nick Wright was on there, and I guess this
guy is like salivating for the NFL season to start.
So what he did he put the NFL quarterbacks into
four tiers, all right, and I'm going to put the
tier one for you, and you tell me if you

(01:50:22):
agree with Nick Wright, because I want to start a
little controversy here between you and Nick Wright, because I
know you know more football than Nick Wright. I like
Nick Wright, but he's not Bucket Brooks, that's for sure.
Here's Tier one already, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow,
Josh Allen, Matthew Stafford. Okay, anybody in there that shouldn't

(01:50:42):
be in there? Or would you like to put somebody
else in that tier one?

Speaker 8 (01:50:46):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:50:47):
Give me the last two names in that tier one.

Speaker 3 (01:50:49):
Josh Allen, Matthew Stafford.

Speaker 4 (01:50:53):
Man, Matthew staff Question, Statafford there. I don't know if
I can put Stafford up there. I mean, I like him,
but I can't put him into your one like that.

Speaker 2 (01:51:00):
Okay, So I'm writing this down, so I'm gonna send
an email to Nick Wright. All right, I'm gonna do that.
It's tier two, all right, justin Herbert C. J. Stroud,
Trevor Lawrence.

Speaker 8 (01:51:13):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:51:13):
I wouldn't put Trevor in there. Really, I wouldn't put Trevor.
I wouldn't.

Speaker 11 (01:51:18):
I don't know if I would put Trevor right there
tier two yet. I think if we're doing with consistency
in those things, I don't know if he was as
consistent and coming off last year it was an injury plague,
but the numbers at the end of the year, I
don't think you could put him. If we're talking about
like an A performance being the first group B B plus,

(01:51:38):
I think he can't fall in that category right now.

Speaker 2 (01:51:40):
All right, you know he has a Tier two like
with an asterisk of potential stars. All right. I don't
know how in the hell he's putting Caleb Williams in
Tier two potential stars hasn't taken a snap in the NFL.

Speaker 14 (01:51:51):
Yet.

Speaker 2 (01:51:51):
But you know it's great because if it works out, great,
he'll say I told you so. You know, it's one
of those deals. If it doesn't work out, no one's
gonna know. No one remembers, right, It's like that guru,
that draft guru on ESPN, No one, no one challenges him, two, three,
four years down the road. It's the greatest gig in
the world. Is like being a TV weather man. You
know you could be wrong. Sixty percent of the time,
no one cares. Right, it's the greatest job in the world.

(01:52:13):
But he puts Caleb Williams as a Tier two potential star,
Anthony Richardson and Jordan Love.

Speaker 4 (01:52:21):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:52:22):
I like Jordan Love there, but I don't know about
the other two.

Speaker 4 (01:52:24):
Oh, Anthony richard and he ain't played enough to get here.
I know incomplete.

Speaker 3 (01:52:28):
He hasn't coming off an injury too.

Speaker 4 (01:52:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:52:30):
And the fact that Anthony Rison was listed ahead of
Jordan Love like that is problematic.

Speaker 4 (01:52:35):
Like I would not put him. He does not deserve
to be in those early tiers for sure. Thanks the
who's the other person?

Speaker 3 (01:52:42):
Caleb Williams.

Speaker 2 (01:52:43):
Caleb Williams and Jordan Love potential star?

Speaker 4 (01:52:46):
Old on, we're putting Caleb Williams in there. We haven't
even seen him play.

Speaker 3 (01:52:49):
I know, I know it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:50):
It's crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:52:51):
No, we can't put him.

Speaker 3 (01:52:52):
Come on, come on, you're better than that.

Speaker 2 (01:52:55):
Really, Okay? Tier three now, he's a solid start, all right,
solid starters. I kind of agree most of these guys,
all right, Dak Prescott, Jalen Hurts, Kyler Murray, I don't
know about that. Kirk Cousins and Jared Goff solid starters.

Speaker 4 (01:53:18):
M so I would say, because I still I don't
know Kirk Cousins. All those guys are solid starters.

Speaker 11 (01:53:26):
I think what what you have is you have some
guys ranked in the previous categories that I wouldn't put
ahead of those guys like Kirk Cousins is fine, like
Dak Prescott is fine. Like I just when you when
you tell me that Anthony Richardson on four games is
better than Dak Prescott and Kirk Cousins, I can't Kevid Williams,

(01:53:48):
I can't go with. So that's why the tears for
me are all messed up. Because Dak Prescott and Kirk
Couins I can win with, and I can win eleven
twelve games within the regular season. We could talk about
their post season struggles, but I bet you if we
go back and look, there's some other issues that also
plagued the team in the postseason.

Speaker 4 (01:54:06):
Yeah. I don't like these tiers. I don't like these groupings.

Speaker 2 (01:54:09):
Nick right, We're coming for you, hero, Nick right on
the show next week.

Speaker 3 (01:54:13):
How's that? We're coming for your Nick?

Speaker 2 (01:54:14):
Okay, he's got a Tier four now, like a little
aster solid stars. I guess be stylists. I don't know
why it's another tier, but a Tier four and the
more solid stars Tua Baker Mayfield, Gino Smith, brock Purdy.

Speaker 11 (01:54:30):
Oh man, we have all those guys down at the bottom. Yeah,
we have all those guys like that. You're crazy, Tua
brock Purdy deserve to be highed. Baker Mayfield deserves to
be higher coming off last year, right, Yeah, Like those
guys cannot be Tier four. So you can talk about
Tier three maybe, but they cannot be Tier four.

Speaker 2 (01:54:50):
Putting these notes here, sending an email to Nick Right,
I'm challenging Nick Right, not so much for him to
come on our show. I think that Bucky Brooks should
go on First Things First on Fox TV. How's that?
That's what I want to see. I'm gonna get that
going right now. I'll get that email out today. Thank you, Buck.
I appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (01:55:11):
Good.

Speaker 2 (01:55:12):
And you got a pair of hanging downs you're going
after Nick Right, which is good. A lot of people
just suck it there. Really a lot of people would
just suck it up, and you didn't. That's why I
love you all right, But he's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman.
It's time to get it off your chest. Why that
blame game is next. The blame game coming right up
right here on Fox Sports Sunday, Fox Sports Radio about

(01:55:33):
twelve minutes before the top of the hour, and by
the way, at the top of the hour, nine o'clock
Eastern time, my good friend Jeff Schwartz who played in
the NFL but also as an author get his book.

Speaker 3 (01:55:43):
Jeff Schwartz and Mike.

Speaker 2 (01:55:44):
Harmon the Swollen Dome will join you at nine am
right here Eastern time on Fox Sports Radio. And a
big tip of the cap thank you to our staff
right now, Kevin Kevin Wyatt doing the sports update. Mark,
he's the best. Mark's the best. Got you hooked up there,
got you hooked up, no doubt about that. Of course,
the eye man. So we got the eye man right here.
So let's do the blame game. Iman, you with me.

Speaker 1 (01:56:06):
It's all your fault. No, it's your fault?

Speaker 2 (01:56:09):
What all your fault?

Speaker 3 (01:56:14):
Maybe it's everyone's fault, the liar.

Speaker 1 (01:56:17):
That's why there.

Speaker 14 (01:56:18):
Is the blame game, the blame game. Let's figure out
who to blame all right away? Well, live fings, I'm
gonna mention this. They'll before we do this with a
live for the tirap Dot com Studios. Now it's your turn,
eye man, Go ahead, baby.

Speaker 1 (01:56:30):
There we go.

Speaker 10 (01:56:30):
Gott to cover the bases.

Speaker 5 (01:56:32):
Uh, all right, First question Toronto Raptors forward Johntay Porter,
who's actually the younger brother of Denver Nuggets forward Michael
Porter Junior.

Speaker 8 (01:56:40):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:56:40):
He's under investigation by the NBA surrounding over underwagers.

Speaker 10 (01:56:46):
Who do you blame Andy?

Speaker 8 (01:56:47):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (01:56:48):
Initially you could say, blame him because he's too stupid
to know the rules. But I'm not gonna blame him.
I'm gonna blame that. You're so surrounded with gambling right now.
It's a mainstream deal. It's on your phone, it's on
the TV. Every other commercial is game. You got a
lot of free time in the NBA. You're gonna do
a fool around your phone next to you know, but
a being but a bang. You're punching it up. You're gambling,
and that's what you're doing. Yeah, you should have a

(01:57:08):
little more self control. But you know, we're in a
world right now that everything is gambling. It's unbelievable. Back
in the day, used to be a once a week
you play a little bingo. That was the extent of gambling.
Now you can't get away from it. And that's a problem,
it really.

Speaker 10 (01:57:22):
Is, Bucky.

Speaker 4 (01:57:24):
Yes, the NBA's problem.

Speaker 11 (01:57:25):
You know, when Lee's got embedded with gambling, you had
to know that some of your players were going to
get involved in some of these things.

Speaker 4 (01:57:31):
It's unfortunate, but it changes the intigrity of the game.

Speaker 11 (01:57:34):
And so when the NBA and the NFL decided to
lay down and get with gambling to take the money,
they put themselves at risk. And so it's the NBA's problem,
not the player's problem.

Speaker 5 (01:57:43):
Kentucky had basketball coach John Calipari left Kentucky the other
day to accept the same position at Arkansas. Bucky, who
do you blame?

Speaker 11 (01:57:51):
I blame Kentucky because I don't think there's a great
appreciation for John caler Pari. John Calipari might have come
up short in a couple of tournaments, but you can't
knock what he was able to do. All the NBA
players that have come through their national title on his belt.
Any stayed dif for fifteen years, longer than anybody that
we've seen since Adolph Rupp.

Speaker 4 (01:58:09):
Kentucky drove him crazy, he ran him out and there
they'll paid.

Speaker 2 (01:58:12):
For it, you know, why played the fans They expect
too much. You know, Adolf Rupp is not coming through
that door anymore. It's all over. They're not going to
dominate the way college basketball is. The landscape's a lot different.
The fans wanted him out because, look, they lost to
Oakland several years ago, they lost to Saint Peter's, They
lost to Duke Kine several years ago in the first
round of the n IT.

Speaker 3 (01:58:30):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:58:31):
I understand you want greatness, but it's not gonna happen
every year. And you know what you talk about Jay Wright.
They want this guy. They want Dan Hurly. It took
Jay Wright eleven freaking years to win an NTAA game
at filling Over. It doesn't happen overnight. I tell you what,
Mark is gonna be the nuts coach Mark Pope. I
wish you well. You played for Kentucky. You know what
goes on there. You know the pressure cooker that it is.

(01:58:53):
I wish you well, But those fans are ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (01:58:56):
Hey, Jerry very dixus relentless super.

Speaker 10 (01:59:00):
Uh pitcher injuries have been ravaging the MLB this season already.
Who do you blame? Bucky?

Speaker 11 (01:59:06):
Youth league coaches youth and high school coaches. They're throwing
the guys too much too soon. Travel teams, you got
guys thrown seventy eighty pitches and so the cumulative effect
of all of that throwing has worn them down, so
they don't have anything when they get to the majors.

Speaker 3 (01:59:22):
You know what the problem is, these guys throw too hard.

Speaker 2 (01:59:25):
I look at hunt the green, the hunt the green
on the Cincinnati RESI third the year, He'll throw the
pull one hundred and two hundred three miles and now
he throws it one on three point two. He throws
at FM numbers. That's what he does. But the point
this is he has no other pitch. You know, you
can't rely on the fastball, and that's what these guys
wanna do. They want to overpower you with the fastball,
and it's gonna kill you. On that's the problem. Learn
how to pitch, don't learn how to throw. Learn how

(01:59:47):
to pitch.

Speaker 5 (01:59:48):
Throwing an FM numbers it's a good one. While some
NBA teams are clinching postseason birth the Detroit Pistons actually
just clinched their worst season ever in the franchise history.

Speaker 10 (01:59:59):
So Andy, do you blame.

Speaker 3 (02:00:00):
Well, obviously the management.

Speaker 2 (02:00:02):
They're drafting the wrong players, got maybe even the wrong coach,
They got the wrong chemistry over there. That was a
once proud franchise, but you know, short lived. And look
they'll be back because that's just the way it is
in basketball. All you need is maybe one, perhaps two
players to turn it around. But they got to make
the right picks. That's what they gotta do.

Speaker 10 (02:00:18):
Bucky.

Speaker 11 (02:00:20):
Yeah, No, it's unfortunately the bad boys are no longer
what they once were.

Speaker 4 (02:00:24):
I think it's everybody.

Speaker 11 (02:00:25):
I think it's the front office not putting together the
great rosses that they used to have. I think many
Williams has to continue to adapt and adjust to playing
young players, and you hope down the line that they'll
get better. For right now, it's a mess, and a
lot of it is due to the front office just
being unable to put together at top nice team.

Speaker 10 (02:00:41):
All right, last one for you guys.

Speaker 5 (02:00:42):
Current Masters tournament leader Scottie Scheffler said he would withdraw
from the tournament.

Speaker 10 (02:00:46):
Kevin touched on this in the update.

Speaker 5 (02:00:47):
If his wife, who's nine months pregnant, goes into labor,
I guess I'll word it like this, Andy, do you
blame him.

Speaker 4 (02:00:55):
I don't blame him. You got to go take care
of him.

Speaker 2 (02:00:58):
All I could say is fuzzel tov mozzel tov to Scheffler. Really,
and you know what, I hope it happens today because
it's ahead of a move. Maybe we'll say as trend,
maybe other athletes will do the same thing. I think
it's great. I think it's wonderful.

Speaker 4 (02:01:10):
I really do.

Speaker 2 (02:01:11):
How's that there you go, By the way, thank you
very much, Thank you guys for helping us. Stay tuned.
Mike Harmon, Jeff Schwartz coming up next right here on Fox.
Stay with him really today

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