March 18, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith tells you why he’s fine with the NCAA field of 68 because he knows the committee is always going to suck. West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey announces an investigation into the NCAA committee after WVU snub. And Jason hands out his NCAA Tournament picks!
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Speaker 3 (00:49):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Before we get to that big story out of the
NCAA Tournament, I'm gonna ask you this, Steve O, give
me your best guest. The Major League Baseball season kicks
off in Tokyo, as you mentioned, five hours from now.
We get Dodgers and the and the Cubs first of
two games, and they come back for the last two
and a half weeks of spring training. What do you
think the cheapest ticket still available for this game is
(01:14):
the cheapest ticket it's in the upper deck. There's not
many tickets available for this game in Tokyo. How much
is the cheapest ticket available in dollars? In dollars?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yes, and now I'm at a disadvantage here because I
don't know what the original prices were, but I know
that when the MLB played regular season in London, the
prices were ridiculous. I mean face value were ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Think about this, it's o Tani and Tokyo.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Yeah, so I've am I supposed to say minimum to
fifty for upper level.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It's more money than Lindor in London. So it is,
you know, Okay, three fifty for upper level. Three hundred
and fifty dollars for an upper level ticket you have
under both Paddington Bear and Peru. You have. I think
it's gonna be I think the price of this ticket
has made more money than Paddington and Peru. Yes, that
is a fact. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
When the Dodgers finally made the World Series, upper level
corner seats, okay, we're going for about seven fifty eight
to fifty.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Okay, uh, that's hundreds, right, that's seven hundred fifty dollars.
Do you have underbid how much money?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
You're talking about the prices hours before game time right now?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
If you wanted to go to the game and you could,
you could get there. I mean, how do you need
a supersonic jet or some kind of tailor swift you
know jet to get there?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
You need to be a Superman and the circumference of
the Earth and fly around it and it would spin
the other way, yes, back in time and save.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Lois Lane right exactly. So sorry spoiler from the nineteen
eighty Superman. Uh so you have underbid? You have underbid
how much the ticket is to get it? Upper deck
ticket in Tokyo fifteen hundred, you have underbid twenty five hundred.
Remember this is o Tawani, this is Otani and Yamamoto,
Andy Managa like this is you have underbid Steve Desager. Yeah.
(03:01):
And it seats fewer than Dodger Stadium does. Also, and
I don't think people are going to get to the
game late like they do at Dodger Stadium. Get sixty
five thousand people yep. By the way, people get to
the game late at all the other stadiums. It's just
you can't see the parking lot from the press box
at the other stadium. Thirty five hundred dollars is the
cheapest ticket available to go to the game. There aren't
(03:24):
many of them. No, Frostburg's been trying. I think frost
has been trying to find a way, like he's got
some kind of benefactor that's going to get him on
a plane to get there for the game. I've been
trying to use Harman's credit card forever. They kept it
on file here telling.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Me not enough sufficient funds.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
He's getting alerts right now, going someone's trying to steal
your identity. The last pizza took care of it. It's
it's knuckles in Japan. Oh I got thirty five hundred
dollars to go to that game. Oh that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
I wonder what the people who are actually going to
be seated there in a couple hours, what they actually
spent to get in. That would be curious, not like
the get in price at the end.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Well, we're talking about what real people, like forty thousand
people literally paid. Well, did they have a lottery for
the tickets like or did they do it ques? Like
the whole country would want to go to that the
World series TV ratings or phenomenal over there. It was
actually a fight to the death. Oh so the squid game.
So whoever won squid Game that you got to go
there with a Samurai sword at the end. Yeah, it's okay,
(04:26):
very good.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Then you had the sumo wrestle. Okay, all right, you
had that. Well you got a lock of through this again,
one ticket. Sixty five thousand people get to Tokyo. Man,
I know, it's it's I mean, it's crazy, uh thirty
five for a ticket in the upper deck to go
to that game.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
And did you see they have tickets, you know, like
the major leagues have. Now they have netting to protect
from foul balls. But there are some seats in front
of the netting where apparently they're passing out helmets because
batting helmets, like over both years, type of batting helmets
you wore in Little League are being worn by some
fans in the seats that are in the first few
(05:02):
rows in front of the net down the line past
the dug.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oh, that's gonna look, that's gonna look weird. Yes it does.
Hey is John Old at these games? John Old had
a big family he's there. What do you think if
Otani hits a home run? What do you think? What
do you think that ball? Well, okay, okay, Atani will
probably a home run if it's caught by a fan.
What do you think that ball is worth? Got million? Otan?
Because that would be his he did homer last year
(05:26):
right in South Korea? Right, he did homer in South Korea.
But so it would be what what Otani's million bucks
home run in Japan? What would that ball be worth? Wow?
I wouldn't be able to start on that. I can't.
That's invaluable. I can't. I'm a baseball fan in that country.
My goodness. I mean you think about what the uh
what it went for the fiftieth home run ball in Toronto.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Just think what the Mark McGuire baseballs were going. That
guy with the spawn money just gobbled him up.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
He actually he actually been against himself there time. That
was over twenty five years ago. Yeah, that was aiculous.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I think it's fair to say starting on a million, right,
a million dollar? You know, if I put that out there,
Darren Revel would get back to me. He'd get back
to it and say, yeah, here's what the ball would be, Oh,
I don't have his text, but we follow each other
on Twitter. He would get that. He remember, he was
the one that told us last year that Otani's first
home run was probably going to be like, what two
hundred and fifty grand I think his first home run
as a Dodger would be worth aout two hundred fifty
(06:21):
thousand dollars, but home run fifty last season was millions plural. Yeah, yeah,
and for the yeah because and now that's still in
court because there's a kid that said he had the
ball and it was taken from the bottom of the pile,
and that horm brother stole it. Yeah, his brother winds
up having the real ball. But Otani's for home run
in Japan? What would that ball be worth if it happens?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
And of course he did homer in the Tokyo Dome
in the first exhibition there over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Right, but this would be regular season. This is regular season.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
That would count like maybe against a Japanese pitcher, I mean,
like a major league Japanese pitcher. They were playing at
Japanese club over the weekend in that game.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
All right, So I'll let see if he gets back
to me by the by the end of the show
that new Twitter. Who this. Meanwhile, as we sit back
and we look at the NCAA Tournament of the day,
after all the controversy that's gone along with the selection
committee picking fourteen teams from the SEC to get in Texas.
Was there a controversy, I didn't hear it.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I know it.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, it was kind of just off track. Betting in
the Himalayas was a big hunt and then now there's this,
So it's been nothing, But what the hell is the
committee thinking the last twenty four hours right, specifically with
fourteen teams from the SEC, Texas who had a horrendous
record North Carolina, who was horrendous in quad one games,
beat one team that's any good. Basically, what you're saying
is ab one team that was any good, and fourteen
(07:39):
teams from the SEC get in. The last two teams
get in there. Six and twelve in conference. You get
in when you're six and twelve. You can't get it
when you're six and twelve in conference. There's a lot
of I don't understand. I don't understand. Well, that's why
I'm here to tell you why this decision is made.
And the six and twelve.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
You're mentioning again, got to connect the dots the way
geography in college sports has gone. Texas is an SEC team,
So nearly every team in the league made it in.
That includes somehow Texas, which just went off the reservation
the last month and a half of the season and
barely got any wins.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Now, we've told you for a long time now that
the NCAA tournaments a television show, and and you know,
for other shows and entities that don't want to piggyback
on that the last couple of days, congratulations on that.
We've been telling you that for years. It's why the
show's ahead of the curve. Like we talked about with
Saint John's, we're ahead of the curve. So it's a
TV show. So yeah, teams like North Carolina, teams like
Texas are going to get in. They should get in.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
And they are the late game Wednesday night for the
play in Texas Big Game.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
But this is why I'm okay with it, and you
kind of have to be too, because the selection committee
just sucks, right, I mean, I don't want to be
somewhere that can be okay with that. You have to
well is you have as long as you understand the
committee sucks, you will under you'll be able to understand
why decisions like this are made. Eventually, stuff like this
(09:00):
won't get made when enough teams or the right teams
get left out or upset enough to foster change. Because
right now college sports is lawless. It's the wild West
college football, college basketball. Absolutely, decisions are made by conference chairs,
by conference committee members, by ads and big conference. This
(09:21):
is who makes the decision. This is why you get the.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Absolutely recommend people. Here Steve Alford's postgame press conference from
last weekend and the Mountain West Tournament. And this is
a guy who was a college basketball superstar when he
won the title for Bob Knight in eighty seven and
has been for a very long time a college basketball coach.
He knows what he's talking about, and he was all
(09:45):
but rolling his eyes of what college basketball has become.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah, it's it's lawless, and eventually we're gonna get law
Eventually the straw is gonna break the camel's back, whatever
cliche you want to use, something's going to happen, and
we're going to get change. We're going to get commissioners,
we're going to get more powerful entities.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Congressional pressure is what made baseball move. Lawsuits is what
made NFL move.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, and West Virginia getting left out is not going
to do this really because I hear the Attorney general
is getting right. Oh yeah, yeah, Well, well we'll play
that sound because that's the best sound by the day,
Like we'll play that back coming up in a few minutes.
But but the thing is is that the reason the
committee sucks is because every year they have an agenda
(10:31):
they want to see through to the end, so they
change the criteria that means a lot to them, and
there's no consistency. And one year, one criteria could be
the end all be all, this is why this team
got in. The next year that criteria might not mean anything.
Now you have this year where the criteria changes from
team to team, and that's why you have to understand
(10:52):
the committee just sucks. Every year they want certain teams
to get in, so they are able to use their
defense argument to say, this is why this team is
getting in. And some years net ranking, net ranking. Net
ranking is the biggest thing. Net ranking, But now net
ranking doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
That's a different formula. It has nothing to do with
the votes. Of the ap pole or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
It makes no difference. Well, a couple of years ago
it was away games. Look at what this team did
away from home. Meanwhile, they don't look at what teams
do away from home. For art schools, it's just the
schools they want to make excuses for to get in.
They make excuses for down the stretch. They used to heavily.
Not heavily, but they used to wait that. And how
is the team playing going into the tournament?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yeah, well, obviously they're not caring about that because we've seen,
well we gotta mention Texas again, we've seen the Texas
Longhorns on the court. There are wins and losses to
be had, and they had twice as many losses as
wins in conference. I will defend the committee for one
thing in that North Carolina was the last team in Sunday.
(11:59):
They properly if there had been an upset of Memphis
in that American Conference final, they would have had to
take UAB the winning team and Memphis and then North
Carolina's not going at all, and then they didn't say
this out loud, and then there would be no North
Carolina controversy. It doesn't answer what you're saying right now,
there would still be a Texas controversy therein.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Because think about this, right, this is this is this
is the big hammer to prove your point. Quad one
wins has been a big thing the last couple of years,
right against the best in one wins, Right, those are
wins where you play all the other best teams and
that who were considered the best team in the country.
Quad two wins generally are what you want to look for.
You want to pile up quad two wins. But quad
one wins, boy, they mean a lot. And North Carolina
(12:40):
was awesome in quad two. Right, Texas's record eighteen and
fifteen most losses to ever get into the NCAA tournament.
But they had nine quad one wins. Now you can
disagree with that, but okay, you're telling me quad one
wins matter. Texas gets in. Fifteen losses, Texas gets in,
they're barely over five hundred again, under five hundred in
(13:00):
the conference. But nine quad one wins, North Carolina one
and twelve in quad one the stat you've been hearing
for the last twenty four hours. So the quad one
it's not like North Carolina was one Quad one win,
but their record was twenty five and five. So you're
talking about a North Carolina team that twenty two and
twelve with one Quad one win gets in, and a
Texas team at eighteen and fifteen with nine quad one wins,
(13:23):
they get it.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
In other words, the twenty two wins for the Tar Heels, well,
that includes the game against Hawaii and Dayton which is
n IT and Elon which is CBI, and LaSalle and
all the rest.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Of that was before Elon could fire people. If Elon
could have fired people they played late in the season,
they would have fired everybody from North Carolina. Don't forget
there were one hundred and forty thousand reasons why you
went to no. No, that's true. That's true. Look, it's
it's it doesn't make sense. And when you look at
the quad one argument, you can't make it. You can
individually make an argument for any team you want to
(13:55):
put in the tournament, but there's no consistency. The committee
simply puts the teams in they want to put in.
They make excuses for the teams and want to make
excuses for This is a big year for the SEC
and all the SEC teams to get in SC is
great for television, right, great, want to get all this,
want to get North Carolina, I want to get Texan. Okay,
I get it, and I get that because it's a
TV show, but you got to give me some kind
of consistency and the entire situation. It sucks because this
(14:20):
is what the committee does every single next year, whoever
they want to get in, they will find something else.
Wins against non top fifty teams at home. We really
like that. We really like those wins against it. And
look at all the blowouts and so and so have
so Really that's why once you have to understand the
committee sucks. You're used to this, but eventually we'll get changed.
Something BIG's got to happen. We'll get change in US
(14:42):
Scott not getting it now. Coming up next, Yes, you
will hear the big statement from the West Virginia governor
because trust me, you got to hear it. It's absolutely hilarious.
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Speaker 1 (16:23):
This is the cult Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon. Special delivery Steve de
Seger in for Harmon tonight and uh, you know, we
promised we would bring you the SoundBite of West Virginia
Governor Patrick Morrissey, which is the the most ido Steve,
(16:43):
the the most must listen to sound bite of the
last couple of days, like you need you need this right, Well,
he's mad, Yeah, he's he's very mad. It was wrongdoing
and he's going to take care of me. The highest level,
highest level. It was a robbery, the highest level of government.
This is like White House down where you find out
that the president's the bad guy.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Sorry spoiler. It was like something planned. There were masks involved, yeah, yea, yeah,
yeah yeah, it's the town suddenly.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, you know, we're a national organization. So West Virginia
one of the teams that is left out of the
NCAA tournament. And look it's been dismissed like Boise State, Indiana.
It's been a bad last twenty four hours for the
NCAA in general, because you had the controversy over the selections,
you had the controversy in the women's game. You have
(17:28):
the selections where the number one seed teams are fighting
over who the best number one seed is. Yeah, but
that wasn't at the highest level. Yeah, but that's the
highest level of women's college basketball, not the highest level. No,
not the highest level we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
And the nit controversy a tournament the NCAA runs.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yes, but that's not at the highest level, because what
West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrissey is telling us is at
the highest level. Politicians like to do one thing. Hey,
can I find some issue that every single voter is
going to be behind me on and not just my
voters and of my party and not the voters of
the other party, but that I can be on TV. Yeah,
(18:07):
out in front of this issue. And I want to
grand stand in front of this and I want to
look like I am I am, I'm I'm taking down
you know, spies in the country. Right.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Going back, clear, this would be a negative story. The
positive story would be politicians. You've really never heard of
make their way on stage. When your local team wins
a championship, they make sure to be in front of
the cameras in the mic in those situations as well.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
So West Virginia is left out. And this is where
West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrissey, not from the Smithsy another Morrissey, uh, decided, Hey,
you know, I want to rile everybody up, get everybody
really mad. I want to make sure people know that
we're going to get to the bottom of how West
Virginia was left out of the tournament. Here he was
(18:52):
today standing in front of a lectern that said National
Corrupt Athletic Association. He is very upset, very very upset
about why West Virginia doesn't get in. Listen to him
talk about the lengths and depths he will go to
to get to the bottom of this.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
And I've asked Attorney General mccusky to launch an investigation
into the NCAA tournament selection committee to determine if any
backyard deals, backing room deals, corruption, bribes, or any nefarious
activity occurred during the selection process. I know that the
(19:31):
Attorney General and I are going to leave no stone
unturned growing this process.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Like that.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
I think there are guys collating memos in the background.
I don't know what's going on. In the background, they're saying,
did you order the code?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Red? Did you order the code? I'll answer the question.
I have a better responsibility you could possibly fathom.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
What I would love is if he, you know, de
excuse me, the Attorney General on his behalf delves into
the truth and he finds out, Okay, we had North
Carolina the last team in, but really Boise State was
the next team West Virginia.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Don't complain you or guys are even further down the list,
like you're not even you wanted to find out the truth.
That's the truth. You can't handle the truth. You're in
next four out, all right? Just so you're your next
four round. As the people who work the ground. We'll
get to the airm in in just a moment. Colonel.
I just want to ask you one more question here
before we get to that.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I love the fact, you know, I love the backyard
deals like we do. Was there a backyard deal that
was made, some kind of deal made in the backyard?
Was there a handshake in someone's backyard somewhere?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Like?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Because I get it because what what is West Virginia
play their biggest game of the year in football at
backyard brawl?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Was there a backyard deal made during the backyard brawl?
There are no deals involved in the miss yard bro
what if there was? There are deals? Yeah, but they're
at the highest level, at the high the highest level.
If there were deals involved in the backyard brawl, that
should be investigated the high attorney jail. I don't know
what he's going to find out here, but mister mccusky
(21:01):
would have his hands full if there was a backyard
deal with the backyard brawl. I object to this, old
I strenuously objected, Oh well, yes, we're going to have
to reconsider. Uh. Yes, the highest level of keeping West
Virginia out of the NCAA tournament. We're keeping wet We're
not keeping Duke out or North Carolina or North Carolina
(21:22):
in Indiana. We're not keeping Indiana. We're not keeping Michigan
Michigan State, and not keep in Kentucky out in the
highest level to keep West Virginia out of the NCAA tournament.
When actually the committee did on national TV address this
yesterday right after the brackets were revealed, to the country. Quote,
(21:44):
player availability is something we talk about quite a bit.
They mentioned West Virginia by name, saying they had an
outstanding year and unfortunately knowing Debrees was hurt. Who's the
coach's son who was fifteen points? Again? Can you imagine
if you're JB. McCuskey, which I think was was hang on?
Was that? Uh? Was that Lloyd Bridge's name from airplane
(22:06):
was here? Mccrosskey, mccrosskey, It was close to McCuskey, JB. McCuskey.
You're imagine McCuskey, You're you're sitting at work today and
you know you're working on stuff. We have a phone call. Hey,
it's the governor. Oh, let me get through. Hello governor. Yes,
this is uh, this is Jamie McCuskey. What are you
doing right now? Uh crosskey. Let's see I got uh, well,
we got got got some education stuff going on here,
I have I have some drug cases on working. I
(22:27):
got a lot of stuff. Why drop everything and start
an investigation? And then why the Mountaineers didn't get in
the tournament? And his response, in true airplane form will
be Roger over. He would say, look like I picked
the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. Okay, great, I
picked the wrong week to stop taking him fetamines. Ta Striker,
you're coming in through fast. We really have all of
(22:50):
these landmark things we're working on here, mister Attorney General.
Drop them all. Because the Mountaineers out of the tournament.
We gotta go look at that. You get the best people,
you get Rich Rigue is on this case. You get
him back in here, You get him on this. That's
not gonna happen. This is, this is, this is what's
going on now this. I want to see a full
written report, you know, and then you can invite me
(23:10):
to the backyard. I just want to see it wherever.
We can have a little barbecue at the Attorney General's place.
Find out what sort of backyard deal. It's gotta be.
Meats of the highest level. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
got we gotta we gotta have hot dogs and hamburg
We said meats at the highest lest byard. Okay, So
(23:32):
Kobe beef, Kobe beef at the highest Tomahawk's dead.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Is almost as expensive as those tickets into you go there,
you go. Maybe everything is backyard in West Virginia. Backyard brawl, backyard,
everything is backyard. Maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Why you take me home to my backyard? Any backyard
deals going on, Let's go, let's go check Bubba's backyard
in North Carolina and see if there's a pile of
money that he dug up. We're giving it out to people.
We know what the highest level of hamburger is for you?
Oh you can, I see. I'm a simple guy. I
can be happy with with any level of burger as
(24:06):
long as it's true. So here's the thing though, generally
when I go to when I go to cookouts, I
can't say this is everybody I ever been now cookout
you drive through it. McDonald's. No, no, no, no no no. If
I ever go to a like a barbecue, someone's have
a bar and they're they're on the and they're on
the grill, I will always get a hot dog because
I I don't trust anybody to make a hamburger that
I'm gonna like. But you trust McDonald's, you're yeah, because yeah,
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because you know the key is is to always order
something that they have to make. I can't just give
you something that they made ten minutes ago, right. That
was always a key with I was always hey, give
me a big mac, but I want no pickles. So
they have to make it with make it that way.
They can't just give it something that they made right. Oh,
but I can't trust anybody, I really, I mean, decent
people are my friends. Min They're gonna ask me these questions.
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That's okay. I got to own up to it at
some point highest level. I can't trust anybody to make
a burger that's not burnt that I'm gonna nod and
that I'm gonna enjoy him. Like, I can't trust you.
You make burgers you just brought, and I get you
don't want to poison anybody at your party, but you
know it's okay to make a burger medium. You can't.
Don't have to just make it all like because then
I go up and I go after five minutes, it's
the it's the two charred burgers that are already cold,
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and I'm like, I'm not gonna I can enjoy it.
Barbecues are you going to in West Virginia. I'll tell
you no, no, no, no no, not at the highest level.
No no, no. I got to go to higher level.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Barbaris when we do go to the backyard deal that's
what they should call the party. It's a big deal.
It's a backyard deal. Backyard will Virginia. Clearly there has
to be I've looked up what's West Virginia known for it.
There has to be bluegrass music, sure, and coals will
be involved. You mean that goes without saying the store
holes no gets with a cure. I did see after
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the bluster we just heard from the governor. Another important
resource in the state is natural gas. So yeah, okay,
that kind of goes without saying hamburger.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, well, good hamburger Kentucky's like to would I'd rather go?
I don't know. I think I'd rather go to Cole's
than have a random burger because I can't trust anybody
to make it about about that was Kirk Cousins for
one thousand, I'd rather go. I'd rather with Coles Bucks.
I'd rather go. I got Coles Bucks ready to eat.
Eat in West Virginia. Highest level. This conspiracy goes to
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the highest level. Suddenly it's runaway jerk that we're dealing
with here. Good luck, we're all counting. We're at the high.
How high does this conspiracy go? You're in danger. This
could you don't know how high this thing goes. It
goes all the way to the president, it goes all
the way to the governor, right whatever it is in
a movie, it goes all the way to the White House. Except,
as we already established earlier on the show, there is
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nobody in charge at the NCAA.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
There is no.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Highest level people. Are you not paying attention? I mean,
this is my fan and I want to go back.
I want to see if we can listen and find
out who the rude people are that continue to talk
while the governor yes saying something. Listen, play it again
and you hear people to decide whatever, let's talk. Where
are we going to go for dinner tonight? Where are
we gonna go? Listen, you can hear people actually talking
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right next to the microphone while the governor is speaking.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
And I've asked Attorney General McCuskey to launch an investigation
into the NCAA tournament selection committee to determine it.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Already people keep talking a.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Right room deals, corruption, bribes, or any nefarious activity occur during.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
The selection process.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
I know that the Attorney Generals and I are going
to leave.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
No stone unturned during.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
This process that.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
The voices are getting louder, like I really had it
with this. I don't want to pay attention anymore. Talking
it's like there's in a locker room, like you're hearing
towel snap and god, yo you turkey whatever.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Well he held it in like the state House or
whatever the name of the place is. So you've got
the large American flag and state flag behind him, and
the big white columns. It's that type of thing. So
it's a large thing, which, as we know from studios,
need to be carpeted if you're having something like a
press covererance. Otherwise the sound ways simply bounce around everywhere.
(28:12):
And maybe when other stations tried to play sound bites
of you talking, they hear everybody talking.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
So you're saying patting at the highest of level. That's
what was missing. I want an investigation. Do you think
the Attorney general on that? Do you think there was
a dueling press conference going on? It's like, well, we
have the lecturn at five thirty. No, so we signed
up for the lecturn at five thirty. Look, put my
name to yeah, but this is the governor needs it. No,
we're gonna do ours the same time, and maybe they're
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right off where the governor was, maybe the lieutenant governor
was doing a press not.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Far off, because clearly he thought he would get a
big audience on this, so he held it in like
a lobby setting where it's hardwood floors and the white
columns behind him. It's not someone's office, it's not a
press conference room that would be carpeted by the way way. Instead,
it's out in the open, and anybody else who is
doing any working or just talking out in the open
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will be heard on your one microphone.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Governor from the lowest levels, he's talking at the highest level.
And then you hear that the attorney general have are
gonna leave no Stone Turkey clubs and uh and is
this over? I'm hungry, No, no colslaws. I'm not even
gonna eat it. Uh, cherry of your colslaw, cherry coke
to drink? Yeah, okay, great, thanks? Oh sorry, so sorry, sorry, governor,
(29:31):
I'm sorry about that. What just keep going? Did you
watch any West Virginia games this year? No, you know,
we're not in the watch basketball at the highest levels.
We're not in the tournament. No, I didn't know that
was a thing. That's what this is all about, oh, oh,
we didn't get in. Aren't there a bunch of tournaments?
We're gonna get in one?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Right?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Yeah? No, no, this is the big one. Oh Okay,
now I get Now, I get why we're here. Okay,
I understand. Okay, great.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Now you talk about someone who's gonna give you something
from the highest of level. Steve Desager with the greatest
update ever. He would tell you what's trending in the
wide world of sports. That's deep. Well, I know West
Virginia as they defend their schedule, will very first say,
you know.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Who we beat in our opening game, Robert Morris. That's
an NCAA tournament team. How did they get in?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
And we did? Okay, let's go to the highest levels
the NBA. Because Denver won at Golden State tonight, one
fourteen to one oh five, ending the Warriors.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Seven game winning streak. Steph Curry did play after a
strained lower back, but he was six of twenty one
shooting and the Nuggets won even though Nikola Jokich was
out with an elbow injury, Jamal Murray was out with
an ankle injury, and Aaron Gordon scored thirty eight points
for the victory, Lakers led the Spurs by twenty eight
in the third quarter, put him away one twenty five
to one oh nine. Lebron James could miss at least
(30:46):
another week with a strain growing. Phoenix with an easy
home win over Toronto one twenty nine to eighty nine,
Portland ended a five game losing streak yesterday and one
again got to face Washington tonight one twelve ninety seven.
The Wizards director fifteen and fifty two. Sacramento ended a
four game losing streak, beating Memphis won thirty two to
one twenty two. Despite forty four points from Desmond bang
(31:08):
from three point.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Range, he was seven to seven. But for the Kings,
star of theirs Dementisa Bonis left with an ankle injury.
Chicago sent Utah to another loss. That Jazz have lost
ten in a row. That is not a game that
was played at the highest level. Seed. We don't need that.
We don't need that. I literally bowls in the chess, Madsen.
If you're not nineteen ninety eight, we don't need that game.
(31:30):
You are making sure to point that out on any
Bulls matchup one eleven ninety seven in the final, although
Kobe White was named Player of the Week in the
East Today for the Bulls, he had twenty six points.
Tonight the Western Conference player of the week Anthony Edwards
of Minnesota and at Minnesota tonight, Edwards had thirty eight points,
but they lost in overtime to Indiana one thirty two,
one thirty because of Obi Toppin, who had the game
(31:51):
winning three pointer impressively from the corner, and he had
thirty four points in victory. Okay, that game is at
a higher level. Yeah, in the last but not the
highest level. But it's still at a high at the
higher level. Yes, you know what I'll be topping is
playing at the highest level. What's he playing basketball? Left
the nick? Yeah he's not alone. Tonight.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
By the way, Anthony Edwards in defeat thirty eight points,
but from three point range one of eleven, So Minnesota's
eight game win streak is over at the highest level.
Quentin Grimes for Philadelphia had forty six points, but they
blew a twenty five point lead from just after halftime
and lost to Houston in overtime one forty four, one
thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Houston's won seven in a row for Philly. Tyres Maxi
was out for an eighth straight game due to injuries.
Paul George is out for the year. New York was
down twelve nothing early but still beat Miami easily won
sixteen to ninety five. Everything nixt tonight at the highest
level in Ax win Obi Toppin' x Nick, Quentin Grimes
X Nick highest level Yeah, and for no apparent reason,
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Jason is yelling at heart. Mccal bridge is twenty eight points.
New York sends Miami to an eighth straight loss. Jalen
Brown of the Celtics is out Tuesday with backspasms. Auburn,
for what It's worth, is down to number four in
the new College Basketball polls. Duke is still ranked number
one among the five NHL games. Tampa Bay shut out
Philadelphia two nothing. In Minnesota beat LA three to one twins.
(33:16):
Third baseman royce Lewis will miss opening excuse me the
opening day with the strained hamstring.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Paul Skenes was the winning pitcher for the Pirates today,
four to two over. Minnesota had seven strikeouts in four
and two thirds. Yankees pitcher Clark Schmidt was scratched from
his start due to shoulder fatigue, but said he felt good.
After a bullpen session, Rory McElroy won the players in
a playoff. Cubs and Dodgers opened the regular season in
a few hours from Tokyo six am Eastern Time on
(33:42):
Fox TV for the first of two games overseas. The
second game Wednesday morning will be on FS one. Dodger
shortstop Mookie Betts missing the.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Two opening games due to illness. Apparently he was ill
before even taking the flight over and he wound up
missing both exhibitions there. Watched the next game. The Knicks
are playing at a very high level. Okay, the Knicks
are playing at a really high level. Not if you
got Tracy Morris. So you know there was the Heat
that weren't playing at a high level. He had to
see both of those teams. Jason, you know who else
is playing at the highest high level? Who else? Kai Beckton? Yeah,
(34:16):
congratulations x Jet now good Yeah, here we goes. Thanks
for Rosberg, Jason Smith, Steve the saga in from Mike
Harmon coming up next, gonna give you our official final
four picks. Who's going to be cutting down the nets
when it's all over, We'll tell you, Jason spid Steve
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Speaker 2 (34:35):
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Speaker 1 (34:43):
In case you didn't know, the baseball season starts in
a little over five hours. Dodgs in the Cubs in Japan.
Cheapest ticket thirty five hundred dollars. I just bought it.
I'm on my way. But the last twenty four hours
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has been owned by the NCAA Tournament, and there's been
a lot at the highest level. The highest level. The
NCAA Tournament is the highest level. We're not talking about
the NIT or the CBI, No, at the highest level.
So speaking of the highest level, my final four picks
and you want to, Okay, are you gonna stick with
what you've said for the last month about Yes, Yes,
I am my final four Duke Michigan State, Tennessee and
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your national champion Saint John's University. Everybody, everybody's getting on
the bandwagon now for the last month, I've told you,
nothing's getting me off. Saint John's. They are a march
proof tournament team. The biggiest player of the year in
r J Lewis. You have an incredible point guarded Kadari Richmond.
(35:53):
You have one of the top two or three defenses
in all of college basketball. Look the metrics of their
Tennessee is one of the top five defenses as well. Uh,
Michigan State is up there. Look defense travels in March.
And when you have the game in the backcourt with Richmond,
Davin Smith is now hopefully he's healthy. He's another big
star player. Maybe comes off the bench, maybe not. But
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Saint John's has everything you need. And Rick Patino, who
has done this a time or two, fourth team, fourth school,
you can get to the final four. He's got two
national championships. The year in college basketball has been about
two things, Cooper Flag and Rick Patino. So that's my
national championship game. Pick Saint John's and Duke and Saint
John's team. I grew up rooting for rad was red
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men before it was an orange man, red men, red men,
red storm because they were redmen in the eighties. Cut
down the nets and Patino and Saint John's. And Patino's
a polarizing guy, right, I'm not saying he's not like
very polarizing for a lot of stuff that's going on.
But Saint John's, he's turned them into an incredible story.
They haven't been this good in forty years. And I
(36:59):
look they and they got all kinds of players they need.
Dariy Richmond basically hit the nil or as a free
agent last year and said, okay, who wants me? Hey,
here's the money. Candarry, Okay, great, and he comes to
Saint John's right. Saint John's is getting a lot of
money to get players. If you can figure out nil,
guess what You're gonna be dominant in college football, college basketblay.
Players are gonna come play. You give them the most money,
(37:19):
they're gonna come play for you. And Saint John's is
cutting down the nets. They are a march proof team.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
Steve di Seger, you ignored the story that has been
Auburn the over number one overall seed.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
And I did notice you picked on because they played
really well the last couple weeks, haven't they.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
No, you're talking stories of the season. They had the
best resume for the longest time, but you picking only
one and two seeds. I don't like when people reject
picks by just saying ah, chalk.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Sometimes sometimes chuck gets there know your history. There's usually
a couple of one seeds. It's a couple of very
highly seeded teams that make the final four, like a
Florida by the way, which is in Saint John's bracket.
But what usually tournament games, guard play, having a star defense,
because these things can come through when you're not having
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a good game. It's not a best of seven.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Any number of teams over the years have had one
bad night and get saved by one of those things.
I mean, most famously the UCLA team with Tyas Edney.
He should have been out second round. Yeah, they had
guard play, and even when he was injured for the final,
the backup guard came through and they won the title.
Those three things happen all the time in the tournament.
(38:31):
And what you're saying two seed Saint John's, Yes, they
have these qualities in that bracket.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
That's a great bracket for Saint John's. They got the
bracket where Florida would be the number one team they
would play. Right, this is Michigan State's best team in
a while. Right, you're talking about a big two seed
and could play Michigan for a final four months on
the line. They're ready right, Michigan State wins regular Michigan
wins a tournament, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, But that's
Auburn who has not played great in the last couple
(38:58):
of weeks. So yeah, I like Michigan State to win there. Honestly,
I think if you're picking against Duke, you're only doing
it hoping that Duke is not going to win. And
I'll be right, right, I'll be the right guy because
I picked Alabama, or I picked Wisconsin, or I pick
but you're really picking against Duke hoping that they get
upset somewhere along the way. And I'm right because I
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think a pick against Duke is just a that's a
suckers pick.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
They just won the ACC Tournament without their best player,
and they're opening in Raleigh on Friday, twenty five miles
away from campus, so they could be playing there as
well on Sunday in the second round against either Baylor
or Mississippi State. It is a well earned one seed,
and I repeat, they are, for what it's worth, ranked
number one in college basketball in the new poll out today.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
The toughest one, honestly was I hend In had with
Houston and Tennessee. Both teams are great defensively, And I said,
you know what, Well, if I'm picking a lot of people,
you know Houston, they're going to default to Houston in
that bracket. But I'm like, you know what everybody says, yes,
see is that great let fourteen teams in and Tennessee
is at the top of the Okay, Okay, I'll roll
with Tennessee and they're orange, and I really want to
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root for an orange team in the turn.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
Now you sound like people filling out their brackets in
the office.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Oh they're orange.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
I'm gonna Houston and Tennessee each only average giving up
about sixty points a game.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Yeah, this could be. This could be a twenty five
to twenty four game. What's been a grand about Tennessee
is when they go in those offensive lulls and it happens,
the defense can save them because the other team, unless
it's Florida, usually doesn't race out and score eighty to
eighty five points against him. So it's like what we
saw with the Kevin Love UCLA teams, with the Russell
(40:42):
Westbrook and they it was Ben Howland's team just packed
it down, so to speak. They had scores, they could.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
Run a fast pace if they wanted, they didn't need to,
and they stayed in games that way.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Just get ready for Rick Patino in that white suit
to be cutting down the nets after beating Due and
Cooper flagged to put on the hat of whatever team
he wants to go to. Puts on a Laker hat.
Make the trade, Make the trade come on too late.
The tank ready for baseball at the highest the level.
Jason for Steve. I'm Jason Twitter at. How about a fresca?
(41:16):
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Speaker 3 (00:49):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Before we get to that big story out of the
NCAA Tournament, I'm gonna ask you this, Steve O, give
me your best guest. The Major League Baseball season kicks
off in Tokyo, as you mentioned, five hours from now.
We get Dodgers and the and the Cubs first of
two games, and they come back for the last two
and a half weeks of spring training. What do you
think the cheapest ticket still available for this game is
(01:14):
the cheapest ticket it's in the upper deck. There's not
many tickets available for this game in Tokyo. How much
is the cheapest ticket available in dollars? In dollars?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yes, and now I'm at a disadvantage here because I
don't know what the original prices were, but I know
that when the MLB played regular season in London, the
prices were ridiculous. I mean face value were ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Think about this, it's o Tani and Tokyo.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Yeah, so I've am I supposed to say minimum to
fifty for upper level.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It's more money than Lindor in London. So it is,
you know, Okay, three fifty for upper level. Three hundred
and fifty dollars for an upper level ticket you have
under both Paddington Bear and Peru. You have. I think
it's gonna be I think the price of this ticket
has made more money than Paddington and Peru. Yes, that
is a fact. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
When the Dodgers finally made the World Series, upper level
corner seats, okay, we're going for about seven fifty eight
to fifty.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Okay, uh, that's hundreds, right, that's seven hundred fifty dollars.
Do you have underbid how much money?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
You're talking about the prices hours before game time right now?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
If you wanted to go to the game and you could,
you could get there. I mean, how do you need
a supersonic jet or some kind of tailor swift you
know jet to get there?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
You need to be a Superman and the circumference of
the Earth and fly around it and it would spin
the other way, yes, back in time and save.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Lois Lane right exactly. So sorry spoiler from the nineteen
eighty Superman. Uh so you have underbid? You have underbid
how much the ticket is to get it? Upper deck
ticket in Tokyo fifteen hundred, you have underbid twenty five hundred.
Remember this is o Tawani, this is Otani and Yamamoto,
Andy Managa like this is you have underbid Steve Desager. Yeah.
(03:01):
And it seats fewer than Dodger Stadium does. Also, and
I don't think people are going to get to the
game late like they do at Dodger Stadium. Get sixty
five thousand people yep. By the way, people get to
the game late at all the other stadiums. It's just
you can't see the parking lot from the press box
at the other stadium. Thirty five hundred dollars is the
cheapest ticket available to go to the game. There aren't
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many of them. No, Frostburg's been trying. I think frost
has been trying to find a way, like he's got
some kind of benefactor that's going to get him on
a plane to get there for the game. I've been
trying to use Harman's credit card forever. They kept it
on file here telling.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Me not enough sufficient funds.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
He's getting alerts right now, going someone's trying to steal
your identity. The last pizza took care of it. It's
it's knuckles in Japan. Oh I got thirty five hundred
dollars to go to that game. Oh that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
I wonder what the people who are actually going to
be seated there in a couple hours, what they actually
spent to get in. That would be curious, not like
the get in price at the end.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Well, we're talking about what real people, like forty thousand
people literally paid. Well, did they have a lottery for
the tickets like or did they do it ques? Like
the whole country would want to go to that the
World series TV ratings or phenomenal over there. It was
actually a fight to the death. Oh so the squid game.
So whoever won squid Game that you got to go
there with a Samurai sword at the end. Yeah, it's okay,
(04:26):
very good.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Then you had the sumo wrestle. Okay, all right, you
had that. Well you got a lock of through this again,
one ticket. Sixty five thousand people get to Tokyo. Man,
I know, it's it's I mean, it's crazy, uh thirty
five for a ticket in the upper deck to go
to that game.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
And did you see they have tickets, you know, like
the major leagues have. Now they have netting to protect
from foul balls. But there are some seats in front
of the netting where apparently they're passing out helmets because
batting helmets, like over both years, type of batting helmets
you wore in Little League are being worn by some
fans in the seats that are in the first few
(05:02):
rows in front of the net down the line past
the dug.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oh, that's gonna look, that's gonna look weird. Yes it does.
Hey is John Old at these games? John Old had
a big family he's there. What do you think if
Otani hits a home run? What do you think? What
do you think that ball? Well, okay, okay, Atani will
probably a home run if it's caught by a fan.
What do you think that ball is worth? Got million? Otan?
Because that would be his he did homer last year
(05:26):
right in South Korea? Right, he did homer in South Korea.
But so it would be what what Otani's million bucks
home run in Japan? What would that ball be worth? Wow?
I wouldn't be able to start on that. I can't.
That's invaluable. I can't. I'm a baseball fan in that country.
My goodness. I mean you think about what the uh
what it went for the fiftieth home run ball in Toronto.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Just think what the Mark McGuire baseballs were going. That
guy with the spawn money just gobbled him up.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
He actually he actually been against himself there time. That
was over twenty five years ago. Yeah, that was aiculous.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I think it's fair to say starting on a million, right,
a million dollar? You know, if I put that out there,
Darren Revel would get back to me. He'd get back
to it and say, yeah, here's what the ball would be, Oh,
I don't have his text, but we follow each other
on Twitter. He would get that. He remember, he was
the one that told us last year that Otani's first
home run was probably going to be like, what two
hundred and fifty grand I think his first home run
as a Dodger would be worth aout two hundred fifty
(06:21):
thousand dollars, but home run fifty last season was millions plural. Yeah, yeah,
and for the yeah because and now that's still in
court because there's a kid that said he had the
ball and it was taken from the bottom of the pile,
and that horm brother stole it. Yeah, his brother winds
up having the real ball. But Otani's for home run
in Japan? What would that ball be worth if it happens?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
And of course he did homer in the Tokyo Dome
in the first exhibition there over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Right, but this would be regular season. This is regular season.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
That would count like maybe against a Japanese pitcher, I mean,
like a major league Japanese pitcher. They were playing at
Japanese club over the weekend in that game.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
All right, So I'll let see if he gets back
to me by the by the end of the show
that new Twitter. Who this. Meanwhile, as we sit back
and we look at the NCAA Tournament of the day,
after all the controversy that's gone along with the selection
committee picking fourteen teams from the SEC to get in Texas.
Was there a controversy, I didn't hear it.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I know it.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, it was kind of just off track. Betting in
the Himalayas was a big hunt and then now there's this,
So it's been nothing, But what the hell is the
committee thinking the last twenty four hours right, specifically with
fourteen teams from the SEC, Texas who had a horrendous
record North Carolina, who was horrendous in quad one games,
beat one team that's any good. Basically, what you're saying
is ab one team that was any good, and fourteen
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teams from the SEC get in. The last two teams
get in there. Six and twelve in conference. You get
in when you're six and twelve. You can't get it
when you're six and twelve in conference. There's a lot
of I don't understand. I don't understand. Well, that's why
I'm here to tell you why this decision is made.
And the six and twelve.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
You're mentioning again, got to connect the dots the way
geography in college sports has gone. Texas is an SEC team,
So nearly every team in the league made it in.
That includes somehow Texas, which just went off the reservation
the last month and a half of the season and
barely got any wins.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Now, we've told you for a long time now that
the NCAA tournaments a television show, and and you know,
for other shows and entities that don't want to piggyback
on that the last couple of days, congratulations on that.
We've been telling you that for years. It's why the
show's ahead of the curve. Like we talked about with
Saint John's, we're ahead of the curve. So it's a
TV show. So yeah, teams like North Carolina, teams like
Texas are going to get in. They should get in.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
And they are the late game Wednesday night for the
play in Texas Big Game.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
But this is why I'm okay with it, and you
kind of have to be too, because the selection committee
just sucks, right, I mean, I don't want to be
somewhere that can be okay with that. You have to
well is you have as long as you understand the
committee sucks, you will under you'll be able to understand
why decisions like this are made. Eventually, stuff like this
(09:00):
won't get made when enough teams or the right teams
get left out or upset enough to foster change. Because
right now college sports is lawless. It's the wild West
college football, college basketball. Absolutely, decisions are made by conference chairs,
by conference committee members, by ads and big conference. This
(09:21):
is who makes the decision. This is why you get the.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Absolutely recommend people. Here Steve Alford's postgame press conference from
last weekend and the Mountain West Tournament. And this is
a guy who was a college basketball superstar when he
won the title for Bob Knight in eighty seven and
has been for a very long time a college basketball coach.
He knows what he's talking about, and he was all
(09:45):
but rolling his eyes of what college basketball has become.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah, it's it's lawless, and eventually we're gonna get law
Eventually the straw is gonna break the camel's back, whatever
cliche you want to use, something's going to happen, and
we're going to get change. We're going to get commissioners,
we're going to get more powerful entities.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Congressional pressure is what made baseball move. Lawsuits is what
made NFL move.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, and West Virginia getting left out is not going
to do this really because I hear the Attorney general
is getting right. Oh yeah, yeah, Well, well we'll play
that sound because that's the best sound by the day,
Like we'll play that back coming up in a few minutes.
But but the thing is is that the reason the
committee sucks is because every year they have an agenda
(10:31):
they want to see through to the end, so they
change the criteria that means a lot to them, and
there's no consistency. And one year, one criteria could be
the end all be all, this is why this team
got in. The next year that criteria might not mean anything.
Now you have this year where the criteria changes from
team to team, and that's why you have to understand
(10:52):
the committee just sucks. Every year they want certain teams
to get in, so they are able to use their
defense argument to say, this is why this team is
getting in. And some years net ranking, net ranking. Net
ranking is the biggest thing. Net ranking, But now net
ranking doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
That's a different formula. It has nothing to do with
the votes. Of the ap pole or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
It makes no difference. Well, a couple of years ago
it was away games. Look at what this team did
away from home. Meanwhile, they don't look at what teams
do away from home. For art schools, it's just the
schools they want to make excuses for to get in.
They make excuses for down the stretch. They used to heavily.
Not heavily, but they used to wait that. And how
is the team playing going into the tournament?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yeah, well, obviously they're not caring about that because we've seen,
well we gotta mention Texas again, we've seen the Texas
Longhorns on the court. There are wins and losses to
be had, and they had twice as many losses as
wins in conference. I will defend the committee for one
thing in that North Carolina was the last team in Sunday.
(11:59):
They properly if there had been an upset of Memphis
in that American Conference final, they would have had to
take UAB the winning team and Memphis and then North
Carolina's not going at all, and then they didn't say
this out loud, and then there would be no North
Carolina controversy. It doesn't answer what you're saying right now,
there would still be a Texas controversy therein.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Because think about this, right, this is this is this
is the big hammer to prove your point. Quad one
wins has been a big thing the last couple of years,
right against the best in one wins, Right, those are
wins where you play all the other best teams and
that who were considered the best team in the country.
Quad two wins generally are what you want to look for.
You want to pile up quad two wins. But quad
one wins, boy, they mean a lot. And North Carolina
(12:40):
was awesome in quad two. Right, Texas's record eighteen and
fifteen most losses to ever get into the NCAA tournament.
But they had nine quad one wins. Now you can
disagree with that, but okay, you're telling me quad one
wins matter. Texas gets in. Fifteen losses, Texas gets in,
they're barely over five hundred again, under five hundred in
(13:00):
the conference. But nine quad one wins, North Carolina one
and twelve in quad one the stat you've been hearing
for the last twenty four hours. So the quad one
it's not like North Carolina was one Quad one win,
but their record was twenty five and five. So you're
talking about a North Carolina team that twenty two and
twelve with one Quad one win gets in, and a
Texas team at eighteen and fifteen with nine quad one wins,
(13:23):
they get it.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
In other words, the twenty two wins for the Tar Heels, well,
that includes the game against Hawaii and Dayton which is
n IT and Elon which is CBI, and LaSalle and
all the rest.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Of that was before Elon could fire people. If Elon
could have fired people they played late in the season,
they would have fired everybody from North Carolina. Don't forget
there were one hundred and forty thousand reasons why you
went to no. No, that's true. That's true. Look, it's
it's it doesn't make sense. And when you look at
the quad one argument, you can't make it. You can
individually make an argument for any team you want to
(13:55):
put in the tournament, but there's no consistency. The committee
simply puts the teams in they want to put in.
They make excuses for the teams and want to make
excuses for This is a big year for the SEC
and all the SEC teams to get in SC is
great for television, right, great, want to get all this,
want to get North Carolina, I want to get Texan. Okay,
I get it, and I get that because it's a
TV show, but you got to give me some kind
of consistency and the entire situation. It sucks because this
(14:20):
is what the committee does every single next year, whoever
they want to get in, they will find something else.
Wins against non top fifty teams at home. We really
like that. We really like those wins against it. And
look at all the blowouts and so and so have
so Really that's why once you have to understand the
committee sucks. You're used to this, but eventually we'll get changed.
Something BIG's got to happen. We'll get change in US
(14:42):
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Speaker 1 (16:23):
This is the cult Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon. Special delivery Steve de
Seger in for Harmon tonight and uh, you know, we
promised we would bring you the SoundBite of West Virginia
Governor Patrick Morrissey, which is the the most ido Steve,
(16:43):
the the most must listen to sound bite of the
last couple of days, like you need you need this right, Well,
he's mad, Yeah, he's he's very mad. It was wrongdoing
and he's going to take care of me. The highest level,
highest level. It was a robbery, the highest level of government.
This is like White House down where you find out
that the president's the bad guy.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Sorry spoiler. It was like something planned. There were masks involved, yeah, yea, yeah,
yeah yeah, it's the town suddenly.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, you know, we're a national organization. So West Virginia
one of the teams that is left out of the
NCAA tournament. And look it's been dismissed like Boise State, Indiana.
It's been a bad last twenty four hours for the
NCAA in general, because you had the controversy over the selections,
you had the controversy in the women's game. You have
(17:28):
the selections where the number one seed teams are fighting
over who the best number one seed is. Yeah, but
that wasn't at the highest level. Yeah, but that's the
highest level of women's college basketball, not the highest level. No,
not the highest level we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
And the nit controversy a tournament the NCAA runs.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yes, but that's not at the highest level, because what
West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrissey is telling us is at
the highest level. Politicians like to do one thing. Hey,
can I find some issue that every single voter is
going to be behind me on and not just my
voters and of my party and not the voters of
the other party, but that I can be on TV. Yeah,
(18:07):
out in front of this issue. And I want to
grand stand in front of this and I want to
look like I am I am, I'm I'm taking down
you know, spies in the country. Right.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Going back, clear, this would be a negative story. The
positive story would be politicians. You've really never heard of
make their way on stage. When your local team wins
a championship, they make sure to be in front of
the cameras in the mic in those situations as well.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
So West Virginia is left out. And this is where
West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrissey, not from the Smithsy another Morrissey, uh, decided, Hey,
you know, I want to rile everybody up, get everybody
really mad. I want to make sure people know that
we're going to get to the bottom of how West
Virginia was left out of the tournament. Here he was
(18:52):
today standing in front of a lectern that said National
Corrupt Athletic Association. He is very upset, very very upset
about why West Virginia doesn't get in. Listen to him
talk about the lengths and depths he will go to
to get to the bottom of this.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
And I've asked Attorney General mccusky to launch an investigation
into the NCAA tournament selection committee to determine if any
backyard deals, backing room deals, corruption, bribes, or any nefarious
activity occurred during the selection process. I know that the
(19:31):
Attorney General and I are going to leave no stone
unturned growing this process.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Like that.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
I think there are guys collating memos in the background.
I don't know what's going on. In the background, they're saying,
did you order the code?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Red? Did you order the code? I'll answer the question.
I have a better responsibility you could possibly fathom.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
What I would love is if he, you know, de
excuse me, the Attorney General on his behalf delves into
the truth and he finds out, Okay, we had North
Carolina the last team in, but really Boise State was
the next team West Virginia.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Don't complain you or guys are even further down the list,
like you're not even you wanted to find out the truth.
That's the truth. You can't handle the truth. You're in
next four out, all right? Just so you're your next
four round. As the people who work the ground. We'll
get to the airm in in just a moment. Colonel.
I just want to ask you one more question here
before we get to that.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I love the fact, you know, I love the backyard
deals like we do. Was there a backyard deal that
was made, some kind of deal made in the backyard?
Was there a handshake in someone's backyard somewhere?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Like?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Because I get it because what what is West Virginia
play their biggest game of the year in football at
backyard brawl?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Was there a backyard deal made during the backyard brawl?
There are no deals involved in the miss yard bro
what if there was? There are deals? Yeah, but they're
at the highest level, at the high the highest level.
If there were deals involved in the backyard brawl, that
should be investigated the high attorney jail. I don't know
what he's going to find out here, but mister mccusky
(21:01):
would have his hands full if there was a backyard
deal with the backyard brawl. I object to this, old
I strenuously objected, Oh well, yes, we're going to have
to reconsider. Uh. Yes, the highest level of keeping West
Virginia out of the NCAA tournament. We're keeping wet We're
not keeping Duke out or North Carolina or North Carolina
(21:22):
in Indiana. We're not keeping Indiana. We're not keeping Michigan
Michigan State, and not keep in Kentucky out in the
highest level to keep West Virginia out of the NCAA tournament.
When actually the committee did on national TV address this
yesterday right after the brackets were revealed, to the country. Quote,
(21:44):
player availability is something we talk about quite a bit.
They mentioned West Virginia by name, saying they had an
outstanding year and unfortunately knowing Debrees was hurt. Who's the
coach's son who was fifteen points? Again? Can you imagine
if you're JB. McCuskey, which I think was was hang on?
Was that? Uh? Was that Lloyd Bridge's name from airplane
(22:06):
was here? Mccrosskey, mccrosskey, It was close to McCuskey, JB. McCuskey.
You're imagine McCuskey, You're you're sitting at work today and
you know you're working on stuff. We have a phone call. Hey,
it's the governor. Oh, let me get through. Hello governor. Yes,
this is uh, this is Jamie McCuskey. What are you
doing right now? Uh crosskey. Let's see I got uh, well,
we got got got some education stuff going on here,
I have I have some drug cases on working. I
(22:27):
got a lot of stuff. Why drop everything and start
an investigation? And then why the Mountaineers didn't get in
the tournament? And his response, in true airplane form will
be Roger over. He would say, look like I picked
the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. Okay, great, I
picked the wrong week to stop taking him fetamines. Ta Striker,
you're coming in through fast. We really have all of
(22:50):
these landmark things we're working on here, mister Attorney General.
Drop them all. Because the Mountaineers out of the tournament.
We gotta go look at that. You get the best people,
you get Rich Rigue is on this case. You get
him back in here, You get him on this. That's
not gonna happen. This is, this is, this is what's
going on now this. I want to see a full
written report, you know, and then you can invite me
(23:10):
to the backyard. I just want to see it wherever.
We can have a little barbecue at the Attorney General's place.
Find out what sort of backyard deal. It's gotta be.
Meats of the highest level. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
got we gotta we gotta have hot dogs and hamburg
We said meats at the highest lest byard. Okay, So
(23:32):
Kobe beef, Kobe beef at the highest Tomahawk's dead.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Is almost as expensive as those tickets into you go there,
you go. Maybe everything is backyard in West Virginia. Backyard brawl, backyard,
everything is backyard. Maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Why you take me home to my backyard? Any backyard
deals going on, Let's go, let's go check Bubba's backyard
in North Carolina and see if there's a pile of
money that he dug up. We're giving it out to people.
We know what the highest level of hamburger is for you?
Oh you can, I see. I'm a simple guy. I
can be happy with with any level of burger as
(24:06):
long as it's true. So here's the thing though, generally
when I go to when I go to cookouts, I
can't say this is everybody I ever been now cookout
you drive through it. McDonald's. No, no, no, no no no. If
I ever go to a like a barbecue, someone's have
a bar and they're they're on the and they're on
the grill, I will always get a hot dog because
I I don't trust anybody to make a hamburger that
I'm gonna like. But you trust McDonald's, you're yeah, because yeah,
(24:29):
because you know the key is is to always order
something that they have to make. I can't just give
you something that they made ten minutes ago, right. That
was always a key with I was always hey, give
me a big mac, but I want no pickles. So
they have to make it with make it that way.
They can't just give it something that they made right. Oh,
but I can't trust anybody, I really, I mean, decent
people are my friends. Min They're gonna ask me these questions.
(24:50):
That's okay. I got to own up to it at
some point highest level. I can't trust anybody to make
a burger that's not burnt that I'm gonna nod and
that I'm gonna enjoy him. Like, I can't trust you.
You make burgers you just brought, and I get you
don't want to poison anybody at your party, but you
know it's okay to make a burger medium. You can't.
Don't have to just make it all like because then
I go up and I go after five minutes, it's
the it's the two charred burgers that are already cold,
(25:12):
and I'm like, I'm not gonna I can enjoy it.
Barbecues are you going to in West Virginia. I'll tell
you no, no, no, no no, not at the highest level.
No no, no. I got to go to higher level.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Barbaris when we do go to the backyard deal that's
what they should call the party. It's a big deal.
It's a backyard deal. Backyard will Virginia. Clearly there has
to be I've looked up what's West Virginia known for it.
There has to be bluegrass music, sure, and coals will
be involved. You mean that goes without saying the store
holes no gets with a cure. I did see after
(25:47):
the bluster we just heard from the governor. Another important
resource in the state is natural gas. So yeah, okay,
that kind of goes without saying hamburger.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, well, good hamburger Kentucky's like to would I'd rather go?
I don't know. I think I'd rather go to Cole's
than have a random burger because I can't trust anybody
to make it about about that was Kirk Cousins for
one thousand, I'd rather go. I'd rather with Coles Bucks.
I'd rather go. I got Coles Bucks ready to eat.
Eat in West Virginia. Highest level. This conspiracy goes to
(26:22):
the highest level. Suddenly it's runaway jerk that we're dealing
with here. Good luck, we're all counting. We're at the high.
How high does this conspiracy go? You're in danger. This
could you don't know how high this thing goes. It
goes all the way to the president, it goes all
the way to the governor, right whatever it is in
a movie, it goes all the way to the White House. Except,
as we already established earlier on the show, there is
(26:43):
nobody in charge at the NCAA.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
There is no.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Highest level people. Are you not paying attention? I mean,
this is my fan and I want to go back.
I want to see if we can listen and find
out who the rude people are that continue to talk
while the governor yes saying something. Listen, play it again
and you hear people to decide whatever, let's talk. Where
are we going to go for dinner tonight? Where are
we gonna go? Listen, you can hear people actually talking
(27:07):
right next to the microphone while the governor is speaking.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
And I've asked Attorney General McCuskey to launch an investigation
into the NCAA tournament selection committee to determine it.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Already people keep talking a.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Right room deals, corruption, bribes, or any nefarious activity occur during.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
The selection process.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
I know that the Attorney Generals and I are going
to leave.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
No stone unturned during.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
This process that.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
The voices are getting louder, like I really had it
with this. I don't want to pay attention anymore. Talking
it's like there's in a locker room, like you're hearing
towel snap and god, yo you turkey whatever.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Well he held it in like the state House or
whatever the name of the place is. So you've got
the large American flag and state flag behind him, and
the big white columns. It's that type of thing. So
it's a large thing, which, as we know from studios,
need to be carpeted if you're having something like a
press covererance. Otherwise the sound ways simply bounce around everywhere.
(28:12):
And maybe when other stations tried to play sound bites
of you talking, they hear everybody talking.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
So you're saying patting at the highest of level. That's
what was missing. I want an investigation. Do you think
the Attorney general on that? Do you think there was
a dueling press conference going on? It's like, well, we
have the lecturn at five thirty. No, so we signed
up for the lecturn at five thirty. Look, put my
name to yeah, but this is the governor needs it. No,
we're gonna do ours the same time, and maybe they're
(28:41):
right off where the governor was, maybe the lieutenant governor
was doing a press not.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Far off, because clearly he thought he would get a
big audience on this, so he held it in like
a lobby setting where it's hardwood floors and the white
columns behind him. It's not someone's office, it's not a
press conference room that would be carpeted by the way way. Instead,
it's out in the open, and anybody else who is
doing any working or just talking out in the open
(29:08):
will be heard on your one microphone.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Governor from the lowest levels, he's talking at the highest level.
And then you hear that the attorney general have are
gonna leave no Stone Turkey clubs and uh and is
this over? I'm hungry, No, no colslaws. I'm not even
gonna eat it. Uh, cherry of your colslaw, cherry coke
to drink? Yeah, okay, great, thanks? Oh sorry, so sorry, sorry, governor,
(29:31):
I'm sorry about that. What just keep going? Did you
watch any West Virginia games this year? No, you know,
we're not in the watch basketball at the highest levels.
We're not in the tournament. No, I didn't know that
was a thing. That's what this is all about, oh, oh,
we didn't get in. Aren't there a bunch of tournaments?
We're gonna get in one?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Right?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Yeah? No, no, this is the big one. Oh Okay,
now I get Now, I get why we're here. Okay,
I understand. Okay, great.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Now you talk about someone who's gonna give you something
from the highest of level. Steve Desager with the greatest
update ever. He would tell you what's trending in the
wide world of sports. That's deep. Well, I know West
Virginia as they defend their schedule, will very first say,
you know.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Who we beat in our opening game, Robert Morris. That's
an NCAA tournament team. How did they get in?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
And we did? Okay, let's go to the highest levels
the NBA. Because Denver won at Golden State tonight, one
fourteen to one oh five, ending the Warriors.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Seven game winning streak. Steph Curry did play after a
strained lower back, but he was six of twenty one
shooting and the Nuggets won even though Nikola Jokich was
out with an elbow injury, Jamal Murray was out with
an ankle injury, and Aaron Gordon scored thirty eight points
for the victory, Lakers led the Spurs by twenty eight
in the third quarter, put him away one twenty five
to one oh nine. Lebron James could miss at least
(30:46):
another week with a strain growing. Phoenix with an easy
home win over Toronto one twenty nine to eighty nine,
Portland ended a five game losing streak yesterday and one
again got to face Washington tonight one twelve ninety seven.
The Wizards director fifteen and fifty two. Sacramento ended a
four game losing streak, beating Memphis won thirty two to
one twenty two. Despite forty four points from Desmond bang
(31:08):
from three point.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Range, he was seven to seven. But for the Kings,
star of theirs Dementisa Bonis left with an ankle injury.
Chicago sent Utah to another loss. That Jazz have lost
ten in a row. That is not a game that
was played at the highest level. Seed. We don't need that.
We don't need that. I literally bowls in the chess, Madsen.
If you're not nineteen ninety eight, we don't need that game.
(31:30):
You are making sure to point that out on any
Bulls matchup one eleven ninety seven in the final, although
Kobe White was named Player of the Week in the
East Today for the Bulls, he had twenty six points.
Tonight the Western Conference player of the week Anthony Edwards
of Minnesota and at Minnesota tonight, Edwards had thirty eight points,
but they lost in overtime to Indiana one thirty two,
one thirty because of Obi Toppin, who had the game
(31:51):
winning three pointer impressively from the corner, and he had
thirty four points in victory. Okay, that game is at
a higher level. Yeah, in the last but not the
highest level. But it's still at a high at the
higher level. Yes, you know what I'll be topping is
playing at the highest level. What's he playing basketball? Left
the nick? Yeah he's not alone. Tonight.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
By the way, Anthony Edwards in defeat thirty eight points,
but from three point range one of eleven, So Minnesota's
eight game win streak is over at the highest level.
Quentin Grimes for Philadelphia had forty six points, but they
blew a twenty five point lead from just after halftime
and lost to Houston in overtime one forty four, one
thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Houston's won seven in a row for Philly. Tyres Maxi
was out for an eighth straight game due to injuries.
Paul George is out for the year. New York was
down twelve nothing early but still beat Miami easily won
sixteen to ninety five. Everything nixt tonight at the highest
level in Ax win Obi Toppin' x Nick, Quentin Grimes
X Nick highest level Yeah, and for no apparent reason,
(32:54):
Jason is yelling at heart. Mccal bridge is twenty eight points.
New York sends Miami to an eighth straight loss. Jalen
Brown of the Celtics is out Tuesday with backspasms. Auburn,
for what It's worth, is down to number four in
the new College Basketball polls. Duke is still ranked number
one among the five NHL games. Tampa Bay shut out
Philadelphia two nothing. In Minnesota beat LA three to one twins.
(33:16):
Third baseman royce Lewis will miss opening excuse me the
opening day with the strained hamstring.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Paul Skenes was the winning pitcher for the Pirates today,
four to two over. Minnesota had seven strikeouts in four
and two thirds. Yankees pitcher Clark Schmidt was scratched from
his start due to shoulder fatigue, but said he felt good.
After a bullpen session, Rory McElroy won the players in
a playoff. Cubs and Dodgers opened the regular season in
a few hours from Tokyo six am Eastern Time on
(33:42):
Fox TV for the first of two games overseas. The
second game Wednesday morning will be on FS one. Dodger
shortstop Mookie Betts missing the.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Two opening games due to illness. Apparently he was ill
before even taking the flight over and he wound up
missing both exhibitions there. Watched the next game. The Knicks
are playing at a very high level. Okay, the Knicks
are playing at a really high level. Not if you
got Tracy Morris. So you know there was the Heat
that weren't playing at a high level. He had to
see both of those teams. Jason, you know who else
is playing at the highest high level? Who else? Kai Beckton? Yeah,
(34:16):
congratulations x Jet now good Yeah, here we goes. Thanks
for Rosberg, Jason Smith, Steve the saga in from Mike
Harmon coming up next, gonna give you our official final
four picks. Who's going to be cutting down the nets
when it's all over, We'll tell you, Jason spid Steve
to Sagrein for Harmon. This is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (34:43):
In case you didn't know, the baseball season starts in
a little over five hours. Dodgs in the Cubs in Japan.
Cheapest ticket thirty five hundred dollars. I just bought it.
I'm on my way. But the last twenty four hours
(35:04):
has been owned by the NCAA Tournament, and there's been
a lot at the highest level. The highest level. The
NCAA Tournament is the highest level. We're not talking about
the NIT or the CBI, No, at the highest level.
So speaking of the highest level, my final four picks
and you want to, Okay, are you gonna stick with
what you've said for the last month about Yes, Yes,
I am my final four Duke Michigan State, Tennessee and
(35:33):
your national champion Saint John's University. Everybody, everybody's getting on
the bandwagon now for the last month, I've told you,
nothing's getting me off. Saint John's. They are a march
proof tournament team. The biggiest player of the year in
r J Lewis. You have an incredible point guarded Kadari Richmond.
(35:53):
You have one of the top two or three defenses
in all of college basketball. Look the metrics of their
Tennessee is one of the top five defenses as well. Uh,
Michigan State is up there. Look defense travels in March.
And when you have the game in the backcourt with Richmond,
Davin Smith is now hopefully he's healthy. He's another big
star player. Maybe comes off the bench, maybe not. But
(36:15):
Saint John's has everything you need. And Rick Patino, who
has done this a time or two, fourth team, fourth school,
you can get to the final four. He's got two
national championships. The year in college basketball has been about
two things, Cooper Flag and Rick Patino. So that's my
national championship game. Pick Saint John's and Duke and Saint
John's team. I grew up rooting for rad was red
(36:36):
men before it was an orange man, red men, red men,
red storm because they were redmen in the eighties. Cut
down the nets and Patino and Saint John's. And Patino's
a polarizing guy, right, I'm not saying he's not like
very polarizing for a lot of stuff that's going on.
But Saint John's, he's turned them into an incredible story.
They haven't been this good in forty years. And I
(36:59):
look they and they got all kinds of players they need.
Dariy Richmond basically hit the nil or as a free
agent last year and said, okay, who wants me? Hey,
here's the money. Candarry, Okay, great, and he comes to
Saint John's right. Saint John's is getting a lot of
money to get players. If you can figure out nil,
guess what You're gonna be dominant in college football, college basketblay.
Players are gonna come play. You give them the most money,
(37:19):
they're gonna come play for you. And Saint John's is
cutting down the nets. They are a march proof team.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
Steve di Seger, you ignored the story that has been
Auburn the over number one overall seed.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
And I did notice you picked on because they played
really well the last couple weeks, haven't they.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
No, you're talking stories of the season. They had the
best resume for the longest time, but you picking only
one and two seeds. I don't like when people reject
picks by just saying ah, chalk.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Sometimes sometimes chuck gets there know your history. There's usually
a couple of one seeds. It's a couple of very
highly seeded teams that make the final four, like a
Florida by the way, which is in Saint John's bracket.
But what usually tournament games, guard play, having a star defense,
because these things can come through when you're not having
(38:07):
a good game. It's not a best of seven.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Any number of teams over the years have had one
bad night and get saved by one of those things.
I mean, most famously the UCLA team with Tyas Edney.
He should have been out second round. Yeah, they had
guard play, and even when he was injured for the final,
the backup guard came through and they won the title.
Those three things happen all the time in the tournament.
(38:31):
And what you're saying two seed Saint John's, Yes, they
have these qualities in that bracket.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
That's a great bracket for Saint John's. They got the
bracket where Florida would be the number one team they
would play. Right, this is Michigan State's best team in
a while. Right, you're talking about a big two seed
and could play Michigan for a final four months on
the line. They're ready right, Michigan State wins regular Michigan
wins a tournament, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, But that's
Auburn who has not played great in the last couple
(38:58):
of weeks. So yeah, I like Michigan State to win there. Honestly,
I think if you're picking against Duke, you're only doing
it hoping that Duke is not going to win. And
I'll be right, right, I'll be the right guy because
I picked Alabama, or I picked Wisconsin, or I pick
but you're really picking against Duke hoping that they get
upset somewhere along the way. And I'm right because I
(39:19):
think a pick against Duke is just a that's a
suckers pick.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
They just won the ACC Tournament without their best player,
and they're opening in Raleigh on Friday, twenty five miles
away from campus, so they could be playing there as
well on Sunday in the second round against either Baylor
or Mississippi State. It is a well earned one seed,
and I repeat, they are, for what it's worth, ranked
number one in college basketball in the new poll out today.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
The toughest one, honestly was I hend In had with
Houston and Tennessee. Both teams are great defensively, And I said,
you know what, Well, if I'm picking a lot of people,
you know Houston, they're going to default to Houston in
that bracket. But I'm like, you know what everybody says, yes,
see is that great let fourteen teams in and Tennessee
is at the top of the Okay, Okay, I'll roll
with Tennessee and they're orange, and I really want to
(40:07):
root for an orange team in the turn.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
Now you sound like people filling out their brackets in
the office.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Oh they're orange.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
I'm gonna Houston and Tennessee each only average giving up
about sixty points a game.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Yeah, this could be. This could be a twenty five
to twenty four game. What's been a grand about Tennessee
is when they go in those offensive lulls and it happens,
the defense can save them because the other team, unless
it's Florida, usually doesn't race out and score eighty to
eighty five points against him. So it's like what we
saw with the Kevin Love UCLA teams, with the Russell
(40:42):
Westbrook and they it was Ben Howland's team just packed
it down, so to speak. They had scores, they could.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
Run a fast pace if they wanted, they didn't need to,
and they stayed in games that way.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Just get ready for Rick Patino in that white suit
to be cutting down the nets after beating Due and
Cooper flagged to put on the hat of whatever team
he wants to go to. Puts on a Laker hat.
Make the trade, Make the trade come on too late.
The tank ready for baseball at the highest the level.
Jason for Steve. I'm Jason Twitter at. How about a fresca?
(41:16):
My buddy Ben Maller coming up next. We'll take you
right into the Dodgers and the Cubs. This is Fox
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