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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Elite eight and crazy, how fast this is?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
No buzzer beaters in the Auburn Michigan game this time around.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Here mich we're seeing that. Yeah, starting to get away
here the second half, final three minutes coming up there,
sixty seven to fifty six, Houston now up five, a
little less than thirteen minutes remaining in that one. In
the Midwest Regional semis. So we got that. We got
Dodger Baseball on. It was Ring night. I sent you in, Shay. Yeah,
(01:03):
the detailed breakdown of what the Ring consists of all
these symbols and everything else that are part of it. Unfortunately,
since we're not a video. There's no video component where
I can have the giant graphic behind my big bulbous head.
There's no need to really break it down in earnest
for you know, I have to say it's large with
a lot of jewels.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Come, I didn't get what I was just thinking about that.
I felt like everybody who works for the Dodgers, in
the front office and even the secretary. And because I did,
you know, I did do a show on the Dodger flagship.
You think I would have gotten a ring, wouldn't I.
I mean that that'd be the nice thing to do.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Well, there's guys that do pregame and post.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Back to when I used to do that, when I
used to be.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
You know what, that's a long time ago, that's true.
It's a long time ago. Statute to limitations for looking
for stuff from nineteen eighty eight and all on now.
The fact that we are on the flagship of the
Dodgers uh AM five seventy l A Sports. We had
a clip from our guys Petros and Money with Don
(02:05):
McLain earlier in the show. That's part of the podcast
get it wherever you get your audio. I guess we
can claim We're part of the larger Dodger network that way,
so we're still there. Arnie made your show and with
Chris on Sundays and and when you're filling in and
being part of the network during the week with us
and Saturdays, when you get to the call uh to
(02:28):
to join the airwaves, I mean, I guess you still
have you know, some activity there that we can claim it.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Surprise you haven't as you and Smith haven't asked for
a ring or any No, I still need one from
the Rams. Is that what it is?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah? Because Eric Dickerson had his famous rant against the
Rams and Jeff Fisher when he was on our show,
and then Fisher was ousted bringing Sean McVay to la
a super Bowl because yeah, so dot dot dot, where's
my ring?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
You should get one? Because of that?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, I didn't ask the right leading questions to have
already hyped up Eric Dickerson down a deep dark path.
I mean that might not have happened. We might have
had another eight to eight season from Jeff Fisher.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Oh, I'm sure you would have. That's what he was
known for, right, being.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Five seven and nine. I'm not seven and nine. I
had a couple of big years along the way. I
don't want to, you know, take take short the largesse
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tire buying should be. We'll keep an eye on the
NCAA Tournament games as we go. We're into the eighth inning,
brisk pace there as Spencer Torkelsen stands in, Tigers and
Dodgers tied at two into the pen, as you would expect,
all the luminaries still there. I think Mary Hart's still
in her seat there, Arnie, So you got that going
(03:59):
for you as well.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I saw pictures of everybody at Dodger Stadium. There was
a line out the Dodger store and people wanted to
buy merchandise. And there's nothing like Dodgers Opening Day at
Dodger Stadium. It's it's it's fantastic. It's a lot of fun.
I've been to so many games. I love going to
that ballpark.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, you ought to come back and you know, take
us to a game.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Uncle Larney, I will do that.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I made Mary and Cher like, hey, you know, as
long as we get a couple of hot dogs and
maybe a beer or two, they'll sit with you for
a couple hours.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
French fries are always better when it comes into Dodger helmet.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Well, all if it's better when you're paying for that's
really when it comes to that. Well, hey, I gotta
call it what it is, all right. So a story
that got me excited in a day and age where
we're seeing spring football trunk aated and games canceled left
and right, there was an innovation that was going to
the NCAA from Colorado coach Deon Sanders. We talked about
(04:55):
him a little earlier with his contract extension and over
at Syracuse. The one time that I'll actually say something
positive about Syracuse and Fran Brown and what they're trying
to do is that they were proposing spring workouts and
a game together, right right, because a lot of focus
now of hey, I don't want to expose any player
(05:16):
that might be a little further off on our depth
chart in any of these workouts to a larger audience, because,
let's face it, more and more television coverage it's big business.
So we saw a lot of that, Fox, ESPN, a
lot of other entities getting involved with Hey, here's a
Saturday morning spring game followed by a Saturday afternoon spring
game followed by a Saturday night Well, a lot of
(05:38):
those schools have decided, you know what, we're not going
to do this to eliminate as much poaching potential as
we can. It's still gonna happen. There's people are gonna
be that. Right. But now the NC double A, according
to on three later put out by Florio at Pro
Football Talk and others, is that the NC DOUBLEA has said, Nope,
(05:58):
that's not allowable under the rule because of it's not
going to allow other people to do it because you're
they're too far along in their programs. That seems like
a bad argument. Uh, academic concerns, think of the children
the end all the time.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I don't know what academic concerns we're talking about, but
go ahead.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And quote potential recruiting advantages not available to other programs,
like just because they're looking to be innovators and first movers.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
So we could do it next year when everybody has that.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
That's the larger thing, right, It shouldn't this be on
the table of Hey, maybe this works as a new
bottle for this.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I don't see how, But how does that solve the
problem that if you didn't want to do it to
begin with because you're afraid your players were going to
get poached? How does this solve the problem? Though? It
doesn't solve it? So what are we trying to do here?
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
No, But that's the thing, right is if you're not scared, like,
that's the thing some schools might just say, you know what,
it's to our advantage to keep putting our brand in
front of other people.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Have your own scrimmage. Then just go ahehad and just
do it like it was. Have it for your own people,
have your fans come to the game. I love when
the brass don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
But the point is that they're not even doing that, Arnie,
They're not a lot of schools aren't doing that because
we're showing up at the building. A lot of people
that might be checking the tape looking at it twice,
running down towards the side of that, Hey, where are
the parents of number twenty two? Right?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I understand that, but this is having it with another
team isn't going to solve that problem.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
No, no, no, But why should you penalize teams that and.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Schools that are not want to do it anyway? Right?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Right, that want to do it if they don't think
it's going to ultimately be a negative for them, why
not allow them to do it and showcase their programs.
And it's more people that apply to their schools. Maybe
there's another player that says, hey, that's another opportunity for
me to showcase exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
That's fine, and I'm for it. I'm like, go ahead
and do it. Don't worry about your players getting poached
or anything like that. And like I said, this used
to be a pretty fun day in the world of sports.
When you see Nebraska getting seventy thousand or Alabama getting
seventy or eighty thousand just to watch spring games spring practice.
(08:10):
I mean it was awesome. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Well, but that's just it, right, It's a fan fans opportunity,
boost your opportune because that's the other part. When we're
talking about the nil and shaking hands, kissing babies, all
of those guys can line up five bucks a pop
for an autograph and a picture right, and it goes
into your coffers. I'm just saying, like, everybody can win
out of this, and you know that's around there. And look,
(08:33):
if the kid's gonna go and he's thinking about going,
guess what it's like the retirement thing. Right, If they're
thinking about it, then they're they're probably one foot out
the door, which means you might as well give the
little nudge and send them on their way.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
And you could do free admission or whatever. There's so
many things you could do.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Why are you doing free admission, Arnie?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Why are you gonna turn it away?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Well?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Do you could charge and give it to charity? You can?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Or are you in charging now? It's that extra wide
receiver you needed.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
There's plenty of money. That seems like we've learned that, right.
There's plenty of money to go around in the NIL
right now, especially when you're a top eight in basketball.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I guess, well, but that's the thing, right, going back
to what we have the sound clip from Don McClain,
the all time leading score of the now abandoned Pac
twelve UCLA star played in the NBA. He was saying,
you know, from a good source, if you're a rotational
guy in the top eight playing college buckets. The asking
(09:30):
price in the NIL world is a minimum of five
hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
That's just the Mets. Four hundred thousand for the team.
How about that four million for the team? How about that?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well, but that's the you know, the price of admission.
Like we're talking about some of these contracts, and certainly
the TV deals with with CBS and go to TBS
and True TV and all the different extensions when we're
talking about the tournaments and turn the regular See.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
If you're like a McDonald's top ten All American or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
You're talking I mean lea, I mean Lakers drafted a
guy and give me eight million guaranteed. How much you
see what I did for you there?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah? How much is Cooper Flag getting? Well?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
But that's the like we because I don't think you
know well, But that's the thing. It's it's all guestimates, right.
So Juju Watkins, who we talked about a little bit earlier,
the horrible injuries she sustained playing for USC. Earlier in
the week, there were estimates that she was north to
ten million dollars. I'm contracts and what she's got so
cool the.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Whole I'm selling my whole reap thing. I'm like, who
wants to go ahead and be along with me and
film the thing and you know, get and I l
money and all that. I'm taking everything along with my
reapp thing. I'm gonna get all kinds of sponsors giving
me money while I rehab myself.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And think about where she's at and where the women's
college game is and the curiosity going forward where they
can't go to the w NBA. She still has two
more years in college before she's eligible.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Wow. Wow, that's that's two more years.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
You can't go in till the twenty seven draft.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Wow. So she's got a long way to go. When's
she gonna be okay? From her?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Well, that's the question. Yes, how quickly do you rehab?
How quickly do you get her on the court? I
would say, since we're looking at the end of March
where some of the comebacks that we've seen, maybe you're
talking conference season, that you can get her back on
a court. I mean, you have no idea, because we
have no idea what the extent of the damage was, right,
(11:31):
and how quickly you progress and not everybody's going to
heal the same. And I think we've gotten used to
people coming back from injuries so quickly that you know,
we are going back to the what the hell's in
the water? I got hurt when I was a kid,
and like you know, stone ages, and I couldn't get
a doctor to sign off on my leg for the
(11:53):
rest of any for.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
The rest of your life. No.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Legitimately, Hey, I'm trying to go to They started a
wrestling team my senior year of high school. It's like,
all right, I want to do that, guys, like, I'm
not signing off on that second doctor. No chance in hell.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And so I became team manager and you know, working
in the weight case, everything else.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Trust No, But.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
It was it was just the idea. I wanted to
try it. I mean, I didn't know how well or
poorly it would go, but I was never given the chance. Nope,
not signing off on that. Hell, I couldn't go to
West Point because of my knee.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Ooh, now you're really holding on now, now you're really
getting bitter.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Well, But legitimately, it just like now it's like, wait,
you got what I don't care, Come on in because
we need bodies. Once upon a time, it was, yeah,
you know what, we're good. Go go have a good,
good life, which I have. I'm certainly not complaining, but
I just remember a forty five minute conversation cut short
(12:53):
with oh, good luck wherever you go as soon as
I mentioned where what my need jury was have fun there,
luck with that pal. You know, different times Bernie.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Frattle texted me and he wanted you to know that
UNLV gives free admission for their spring football game. So
I just wanted you to know that there.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Well, I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I don't know what you didn't like my eyes because
you didn't like my eye.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I don't, I don't. I don't even if it's a dollar,
whether it goes to charity or into coffers for something else.
You know, when you then have a coach you want
to re sign, or a player or facilities thing, it's
a dollar. It's a nominal charge because you do have
to pay people to come and orchestrate those things. That
isn't free.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah, I don't think they're hurt at all.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's not the point though. It's the the old joker
Heath Ledger line. Never do anything for free that that
you can get paid for. For free.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
That's true, Yes, true.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
By the way, it is a final. So where Auburn
gets a thirteen point victory over Michigan seventy eight sixty
one game left Houston with a ten point lead over Purdue.
Well a little under eight minutes left in that.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Wait to jump in on there, Arnie at Sticking Genius
one is where you find him in the Twitter verse.
Find me over at Swollendo. Thanks to Bernie Fratto for
listening to the show. You can hear him tomorrow night,
eleven o'clock Pacific time for four hours of fun on
the Bernie Fratto Show. No question about it all right,
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(14:26):
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Radio Radio. Welcome back in Fox Sports or Radio Jason
Smith Show with me Mike Carmon. There is no Jason
Smith to night. Instead, it's a stinking genius himself. It's
Arnie Spanier and Arnie with one swing of the bat,
a man whose health we've been worried about, Birk couple minutes. Well,
(15:56):
thanks for letting me build that up. I'm sorry Is
this what you do on Sundays? You know with your
guy Chris, Yes, I do.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Does he strangle you down the Yes he does. Steve
is laughing his ass off doing a setup. Hey, what
are we talking about? Excited utterances?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
He had a home run? What do you want me
to say?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
It was a big blast three two Dodgers. As we
go towards the ninth inning, Dodgers Place just exploded as
the ball left the bat.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Still upset at trade.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Well, but it's good to see Mookie back on the field. Yeah,
because Red Sox fans could be mad. Get over it, right,
It's it's the ebb and flow of these games, and
you know you're cheering for laundry at the end of
the day. Guys staying in one place for twenty years
at a time. It's it's the rare you would love
(16:55):
to see it, right. The nostalgia you and me and
I know Steve perhaps a little more than some of
our brethren here, you know, Shay and Mary and the
guys in the back is you know, I guess they're
they're more used to the transient nature of things, the
more transactional side of sports. At this point where guys
if you get them for three or four years. And
(17:16):
that's why you know, the college world and IL and
transfer portal, which we'll get into in a second here,
you know, is something that they embrace. Right. The idea
that you stay at a company for forty years and
retire with a gold watch. That's a that's a past
generation kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
You get the gold watch though you know, well hopefully.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It's real gold, but you get. My point is that.
But the idea that you join a company and that's
where you stay until you retire, I mean, that's a
long I mean, that's the pipe dream at this point.
Maybe for your own Hey, I wanted to move, I
want to advance, I want to do something different, and
you get a little you know, happy feet where you've
got to move every couple of years, versus, hey, the
(17:59):
company moves on and your time is up right. Certainly
in the business we operate in, that's generally the case.
You don't get to, you know, get comfortable, sit a spell. Right.
The numbers, it's kind of like the NFL numbers. It's
three and a half years. Well, there's a lot of
guys that get that one game, that cup of coffee
and it's a long tail of one, two games, et cetera.
(18:22):
But we're watching this, and so to the Red Sox fans,
I say, get over it, replenish the farm system, get
the next group of guys in. And they've got a
lot of talent. They traded a number of guys to
the White Sox and they still had ample minor league
talent ready to come in. Not to mention, whatever that
fight becomes between Devers and Bregman, that's gonna be fun
to watch. I want to play third base? No, I
(18:44):
want to play third base. No, you will DH and
you will like it. So we'll keep an eye on
that as it goes. They're helped by the fact that
the Yankees have so many injuries right now to deal with.
That helps a bit. The Orioles, slug and O's are
out there, They've got some injury issues.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
How is it gonna play out? I just with all
the like top five World Series favorites coming out of
the National League and.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, four out of five? Right, what is how's that
going to play out?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Are we gonna be bummed about that?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
As well? The NL East is gonna be fun, right,
and then the it's the best is out right. I mean, look,
you still gotta go out and win four games, because
I mean, if you listen to most folks right now,
the Dodgers are plus two thirty. All right.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Are we gonna say the NLCS is the real World
Series and then the nl the Dodgers be whoever in
the American League?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
No, because the World Series is on Fox. You shut
your mouth.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Every game we're gonna live and die with every pitch.
Arnie Spaniard, how.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Dare you it's gonna go eight games?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Man is right. We're gonna need to keep going into overtime,
no question about it.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
As many as you want.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Hey, just keep it going. You guys want to you
think we need one more, Let's have one more. Inside
of four minutes, Houston a two point lead over Purdue. Earlier,
we we saw the Auburn Tigers take down Michigan seventy
eight sixty five. Was your final pulling away down the stretch.
Tennessee over Kentucky seventy eight sixty five, and then you
(20:14):
had the Spartans over Ole miss seventy three seventy Again,
that was fun for betting odds.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
But he used to, let's this one sip away. They've
got nobody to play but themselves. They went through like
a three minute scoring drought. What they did was, with
about four and a half minutes left, they had like
a seven eight point lead, decided we want to take
the air out of the ball. What does that do?
It takes you out of your offense. Next thing, you know,
you go stag. You don't hit his shot, You leave
John Caliperry alone. Oh wait, yeah, yeah, I forget about that.
(20:45):
And then the new comes back hits a couple of shots.
Now it's a two point game and they've got all
the momentum. There was too much time left to take
the air out. Yes, you work your offense, but you
just don't, you know, try to, you know, take the
air out of the ball and take the time you
have to still work your offense.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
At that point, largest lead for Houston that I was ten.
You're talking fast break points. Not a whole lot going
on in this game. Points in the paint, slight edge
to Houston as we go through it. So watching this
one come down in the final minutes, go Boilers. My
big ten honk thing goes out in that Oh you know,
well except for Illinois just the United State, except Underwood.
(21:27):
I kind of like him because he had the great
quote on Cooper Flag saying, Hey, you know what, stick
around college a little while longer, get a girlfriend, hang out,
get paid.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
If you knew that you were going to either go
to the Washington Wizards or you can go back to Duke,
which would you choose.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I'm taking my sixty million dollar contract guaranteed and not
leaving anything to chance. I know you can you.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Go to the Wizards. Then you're going to go to
the Wizards.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah, I only have to be there for my first contract.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I don't have to take Well that's like what five years?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Well, I can also be like so many others.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Could be like dog years. That could be the worst
thirty five years of your life.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Well maybe, but you're also going to get a guaranteed deal.
And if you don't like it, there, guess what you
complain enough you can force your way.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
You would you say you're an NBA player When you
say you guaranteed deal, are you worried that you're gonna
get hurt knock Wood and you're not gonna get the
money Bausei's insurance and you are getting money when you
go back to college. Oh sure, but so what are
you afraid of?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
But in Cooper Flagg's case, he accelerated to reclassify so
we can get to college, right, which means he really
wants to get to the NBA.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Well, it's fourteen percent that Utah and fourteen percent that
Washington will have the number one shock in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Draft right in the end. Next year, you're probably gonna
have terrible teams at the top. Again, aren't that the
whole point of this time?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yeah? But it's that, you know, when I look at
the terrible teams though that are in it, most of
them don't bother me other than Washington. I don't know
if that's you know, that's a meat problem or what.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
But I mean, there's already it's not a political show.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I'm not saying anything about that. But I wouldn't mind
going to Phoenix or Portland or San Antonio or New
Orleans or Charlotte, Brooklyn, even Philly or Toronto. It's just Washington.
I wouldn't want to go to just Washington, just Washington.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Why is that? I need a legitimate reason at this point.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Because it's been so bad and they're so dysfunctional, But
all these other places are dysfunctional.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Virtually every one of these places has been abysmal.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
But you see, first of all, you see san Antonio
on the upswing with whom Byama and all that, and.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
There may be a frozen envelope according to Lebron waiting
at the end of.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
It, how great is that? Uh? How fun is that? Well?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I here, I want to own a team in your league. Hey,
I'm gonna tell everybody that all of this stuff, all
the conspiracies are true and it's fixed, which is really
what Lebron did as part of that interview.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
The other I want to have a team now, and
my first pick want to be Cooper Flag how about that?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But that's the thing, right is, when we get down
to it, I understand. Look, if he wanted another year
at the college, I certainly whatever his heart's telling him
to have that.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
If it's me, I'm gone. I've gotta be gone, right Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Right, I have to. I've got to take my contract.
And again, if I don't like it there and they
can't build around me, then I'm able to leave.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
It's yeah, but it's harder for you to leave, is
the overall number one pick? Because they throw so much
money at you and they want you to stay, and
you might have to do a whole career there. That's
why you really gotta think of what you do. But
you're right, next year doesn't mean it's going to be
any better for you.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
But it goes back. And several people have said this,
and Josh Allen did it and he got crucified for it,
but he said the quiet part out loud. What's another
five million on my contract of this size is going
to do for me in the NFL? Right? It's five
million that gets left for somebody else to help my
team be better. Cooper Flag, Yeah, he wouldn't get a
(24:53):
Supermax if he declined it, right, and he wouldn't get
that massive deal, but he he still gonna get what
twoin fifty? Could you have made that contract if he
performs as well as expected?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
You know, back in the old day, Boston took Larry
Bird before he came out of college, you know that, right, right?
So could you imagine if somebody wanted to take Cooper Flag,
if he was gonna say another year and they said
we'll wait a year. If the Lakers took him with
their first pick of their second victs, they.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Won't wait for no big deal, and so I know
some folks back can't do it anymore.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
He can't do that well.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
But back in my hometown of Chicago, right with some
of these wins down the stretch, they're playing really good basketball.
Once Levine was gone, Rosa was gone, and they've changed
the style that they're playing with Kobe White playing out
of his mind. He's the favorite player of your favorite
player and has been for the last couple of years.
Kevin Durant and so many other guys. Oh, I love
(25:48):
this kid, can't wait to see what he does and
all that. And now he's performing really well. Josh Giddy
coming along. But they're winning too many games. They were
on the fringe of potentially being part of the lottery.
Now they would only have a couple lottery balls and
not a high percentage chance. But going to Chicago, yeah,
it's it's much more attractive. But in the end, unless
(26:09):
you abolish the system altogether, generally speaking, the numbers say
you're gonna be with an organization that generally doesn't know
what they're doing. You can't get out of their own way,
and you just become the latest guy.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Well, it doesn't have to go to the first two
that are fourteen percent. Sometimes it does go to no sure, third, fourth,
fifth choice, and sometimes those picks have been traded to
a decent or a good team because of an earlier trade. Well,
but that's never known.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Well, that's just it. Right, when you start conferring other
draft picks and opportunities, yeah, you're you're gonna have that.
But for Cooper Flagg, a lot of discussion of what
he should do again reesa sche got nearly fifty eight
million dollars. It's awful hard to say, Okay, I'm gonna
go do that. And I don't know what the real
math is on his nil deals, like we talked about before,
(26:56):
I have no idea, right is it eight million? Is twelve?
Is he already had fifty?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Think he's gonna be how good?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
He's a beast and you've heard a lot of people
talk about it. You know he can shoot and obviously
had the big dagger at the end of the first
half against your Wildcats yesterday. But is a guy that
plays with a tenacity, works around the rim, isn't afraid
to go inside. Well, we'll body up. We watched that
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a lot yesterday.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
When when you say he's a beast, though, then you're
telling me he's gonna come in and take Washington to
the playoffs. And and he's because he's not still but exactly,
but Washington is not going to get to the playoffs
with it next year. I want you to know that.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Well, it is the Eastern Conference. Anything can happen in
the Eastern Conference at that back end, because getting to
the playoffs means I only got to get you to ten.
That's true, But you have no idea when it comes
to contracts, like I haven't looked ahead. What's what they're
on the books for?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Right? Right, They're gonna have to obviously make wholesale changes,
but him by himself is not going to make that
much of a difference. They've got to build a round
them up.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Oh but generally that's the case. Right, Guys come in
and they're great, but you need help. But the NBA
you can make more of an impact and change.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
And if he was on san Antonio, if san Antonio
somehow got him, I'd be picking them the win the
championship in about three years.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Well, but that's the thing, right, if suddenly san Antonio
walks off with Cooper flag uh, you know, but yeah,
and every everybody's running and Stefan Castle and go on
down the leg. Yeah, then suddenly we should all have
little tinfoil hats off because there is more to this.
And Lebron said the quiet part out loud.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
We just put it in the freezer. We just put
the card that we didn't know it was gonna be.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Called legitimately like everything he said. We could joke about it.
But if suddenly San Antonio were to win the lottery
at this point, I think you'd have a lot of
folks that would be turned off by it, as excited
as you would be to that.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Twitter would be the best thing to read that.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Oh absolutely, I think I do four hours of dramatic
Twitter impressions with random royalty free music playing under me
violins and other things all night long.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
It's because you know it's going to be the full,
full on conspiracy theory if that happens. By the way, p'
doing Houston all tied up with thirty seconds left, we
may have a buzzer beater Bodley in this NC double A.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
At some point I'll get to do an update on
the show.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Yeah, do the updates, thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Three to three bottom nine Detroit and Los Angeles, and
that had some drama to it, and I saw him
in the at the news desk. He was getting out
of his chair. Excitable moment for one, Steve de Sego.
Let's get an update as we get ready for the
end of the NC DOUBLEA tournament and an update of
what actually happened to elicit such a response.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Oh, these both have been sensational. Here we are at
this leag eight, still great stuff going on. Since you
mentioned that Dodger Stadium. It was Mookie Betts with a
two out solo homer bottom of the eighth to give
LA the lead on the Tigers three to two. Tanner
Scott new La closer came on and allowed we thought
two runs and giving up the lead. In the top
of the ninth, there was a Manuel Margo RBI single
(30:20):
and he came around to score. It appeared on a
double from Riley Green, but after video review turns out
Margo in reaching for the plate, his leg bent back
backwards and right into the catcher's gloves. Out overturned on review,
it's a three to three tie. Tigers at Dodgers bottom
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of the ninth and former Dodger and Yankee reliever Tommy
Cainley on to pitch the bottom of the ninth for Detroit.
Perdue getting to play in Indianapolis, by the way, nearby
as a four seat exactly what is the advantage being
a one seed in this region? It is a road
game for the Houston Cougars tonight and Purdue has just
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hit the tying three pointer with about thirty seconds left.
It's sixty to sixty against the Cougars, and it was
seven of twenty five from long distance four per Due
tonight until they hit that one. Houston, known for its defense,
shooting thirty eight percent from the floor.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Cougar's with the.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Ball tie game about thirty seconds left. The winner faces
Tennessee Sunday in the Midwest Region Final. The Balls led
Kentucky by nineteen late in the first f and eliminated
the Wildcats seventy eight to sixty five. Yes, the Wildcats
are out Auburn I didn't like that and Michigan state
winners in the South Region. One seed Auburn led by
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one against Michigan with eight and a half minutes to go,
beat the Wolverine seventy eight to sixty five. Two seed
Michigan State advanced over Ole Miss seventy three to seventy.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
The Michigan State.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Game Sunday is at five pm Eastern Time. The Final
four is next weekend in San Antonio. Houston Cougars to
update ball in that sixty to sixty tie against Purdue.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
They're running the clock down.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
It's not gonna make it all the way to Zeros
because of the shot clock, but they've missed the shot
and missed a putback attempt two seconds left as the
ball goes out of bounds in a tie game. Dodgers
tied one out bottom of the ninth, three to three
against the Tigers. Everything else Final San Diego beat Atlanta
four to three on a solo homer bottom of the
(32:26):
eighth from Jake Croninworth. A's got a seven to nothing
win at Seattle to win to Jeffrey Springs with six
innings and nine strikeouts, the Mets Juan Soto with a
solo homer, and a three to one win at Houston
save to Edwin Diaz Arizona eight to one over the Cubs,
who are now one in three, including the two losses
to La and Japan. Comes offense tonight went three for
(32:47):
thirty one wins for Texas and Pittsburgh. For Toronto and
Tampa Bay, which today won on a walk off homer
three to two against Colorado. Scottie Scheffler leads by one
stroke late in the second round in Houston. Baltimore Ravens
gave coach John Harbaugh an extension through twenty twenty eight.
Dion Sanders got a five year extension from Colorado. The
(33:07):
Memphis Grizzlies fired coach Taylor Jenkins after six seasons. John
Morana Memphis listed as questionable for Saturday against the Lakers.
He's missed the last six games. Boston's Jason Tatum returned
Saturday after an ankle injury. Philadelphia's Tyres Maxie out again
this weekend sprained finger.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Update.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
The Dodgers have been retired and go to the tenth
Wild Game in LA. Tigers and Dodgers even at three.
Believe it or not. The Detroit Tigers with runners in
scoring position, I believe it's up to z for nineteen
until the race it hit. In these two games they
do actually finally have won as they've tied the thing.
But my goodness, and there's a video review in that
(33:48):
Houston at Purdue game going on with two seconds left. Yeah,
Purdue's the home team.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Beck to you, it's an awful long review on this
all here, it looked like a game off the you.
I was gonna ignure myself. Thanks Steve.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I'm not sure. I've looked at it a bunch of
times and slowed down. I'm looking at the face of
the referee and he's like, I you can tell us
that he's just perplex he has no idea who it's off.
It's so hard to tell, Mike, I can't be one
hundred percent sure who it's off of.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Well, maybe it's like Steinbrunner Field and he's getting a
chance of sell the team or something like that. Back
at him. Sixty sixty two point eight. They put point
six back on the clock, waiting for the.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
They're gonna have to give it. They're gonna have to
give it to Houston if there's not a clear cut
view of who hit it out of bounds, because that's
who they said out of the ball, so Houston can
get it. With two point eight seconds left, it.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Looks like they're they're gonna set underneath, set up underneath
the basket here along the baseline. We'll keep it here
see if we can get a conclusion of this game
or whether we're getting some more free basketball to go
with our free baseball. Houston looking to imbound and having
some difficulty in the moment.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
I'm behind you, so you're gonna have to tell me
what goes on.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
On the give and go coming off to the inbounder and.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
He lays it in a play.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
What a fantastic design call by Kelvin Sampson and Company
at sixty two to sixty point eight. Wow, We're going
back to more official reviews. We'll find out if this
is gonna stick, and we'll tell you all about it
as we continue here. It's Fox Sports Radio and exciting
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Speaker 2 (35:47):
Oh my goodness, chaos in the NCAA tournament in those
final waning seconds of it all as we come to
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we got, Arnie Spaniard, we got a fantastic finish in bounder.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Use hand ready looking use Ant, holds it in his hill,
fires at left side, bounce.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Back to use Ants to the ram. He lays it
in sixty two sixty eight tenths of a second remaining
in this one.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
West Wind won on the call.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
I was on Twitter and I saw at least ten
tweets that people said, what an out of bounds play?
What an out of bounds I'm speechless for this out
of bounds play. It was fantastic. Everybody's saying this same thing,
what a grid out about to play? It was for
Houston Way to give it right back to the inbounder.
He was by himself made the shot. He was a
(37:08):
guy in front of him, but he put it in
great play.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
That was so great lay in the fact that he's
able to come in off of the baseline unfettered. Right.
Everybody back to him as they go to collapse the lane,
and instead he gets it back and he lays it
in a little bit of a review trying to make
sure they got the right time as the timeout gets
called on the court and everything. So reset Purdue. One
(37:34):
last heave that falls short in Kelvin Sampson and company.
Don't call him Kevin. They advanced once once again. Something
I brought up with Dan Bayer yesterday, Arnie was the
fact that looking at the coaches for the Sweet sixteen,
you had nine coaches here in the Sweet sixteen that
had been at their school three years or fewer. Oh really,
(37:56):
you have Tommy Lloyd at your Arizona year four, and
then you've got all the grizzled veterans where we're talking about,
you know, Painter who's been there forever, is though forever,
all of those things. Yeah, I mean you look at
the SAMs, how quickly it all comes together. He's in
year eleven as you look at him right now, right
(38:17):
second in the Big twelve following the move, so you
go all the way down the line. Just the amazing disparity.
You know, when we talk about players moving all the time,
recognizing coaches do and and how quickly you can turn
around to program. You get a little bit of a break,
a good draw, opportunity can knock and propel you forward.
(38:39):
But for Kelvin Sampson and company, look they win the
rock fight sixty two, sixty is your final in this
one as the Boilers fall. It's really just that play
is one that will live right. As much as we
talk about it's not technically a buzzer beat Arnie, So
maybe you're not satisfied with it, but you have that opportunities.
(39:02):
Third Elite eight appearance since twenty twenty one and their
eighth in their history.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
You mentioned the coaching in Saint John's and Patino what
he did to r. J. Lewis when he put him
on the bench at the end of the game. He's
their big player today. He's come out a couple of
hours ago and said he is going to put his
name into the four. That's because it's not because of money.
(39:28):
It was because of the way the situation was handled
the end of the game. They also say it's because
he doesn't get enough support from the fan base, so
he's gone. He is right now considered the number one
kid in the portal. Right now in college basketball.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Every big he's Player of the year, eighteen points a game,
had a terrible shooting game. And you want the honest moment,
I think from Rick Patino of what else was it?
Because if it's just three for seventeen, guys have bad
shooting nights, he's your leading scorer.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
You gotta leave him in.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
I think you're going to go and get it back
and find the stroke once again. So yeah, it's but
it's the portal, right, this is a guy that will
command a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Well, I don't think it was the money. I think
it was the way he must treat.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
But that's the thing, right, And it goes back to
the Don McClain quote that we used earlier in the show. Right,
you're talking some guys will leave because of their place
in a system, rapport or lack thereof with the coach.
Others are just in for money. Guess what for r J.
Lewis He gets both.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Yeah, and he's he's got a lot of people gonna
want to get him. There's no doubt about.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
That, because everybody has a bad night shooting. And you
know Patino in his post, even though he was like, oh,
I'm not gonna buy into your stuff, you know he
was three for seventeen when I said, oh, way to
go Rick, the way to not throw your guy under
the bus. Hey first Pearl Victorious Tonight also had his
thoughts about the portal and what's transpired this week. He's
(40:57):
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
No buzzer beaters in the Auburn Michigan game this time around.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Here mich we're seeing that. Yeah, starting to get away
here the second half, final three minutes coming up there,
sixty seven to fifty six, Houston now up five, a
little less than thirteen minutes remaining in that one. In
the Midwest Regional semis. So we got that. We got
Dodger Baseball on. It was Ring night. I sent you in, Shay. Yeah,
(01:03):
the detailed breakdown of what the Ring consists of all
these symbols and everything else that are part of it. Unfortunately,
since we're not a video. There's no video component where
I can have the giant graphic behind my big bulbous head.
There's no need to really break it down in earnest
for you know, I have to say it's large with
a lot of jewels.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Come, I didn't get what I was just thinking about that.
I felt like everybody who works for the Dodgers, in
the front office and even the secretary. And because I did,
you know, I did do a show on the Dodger flagship.
You think I would have gotten a ring, wouldn't I.
I mean that that'd be the nice thing to do.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Well, there's guys that do pregame and post.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Back to when I used to do that, when I
used to be.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
You know what, that's a long time ago, that's true.
It's a long time ago. Statute to limitations for looking
for stuff from nineteen eighty eight and all on now.
The fact that we are on the flagship of the
Dodgers uh AM five seventy l A Sports. We had
a clip from our guys Petros and Money with Don
(02:05):
McLain earlier in the show. That's part of the podcast
get it wherever you get your audio. I guess we
can claim We're part of the larger Dodger network that way,
so we're still there. Arnie made your show and with
Chris on Sundays and and when you're filling in and
being part of the network during the week with us
and Saturdays, when you get to the call uh to
(02:28):
to join the airwaves, I mean, I guess you still
have you know, some activity there that we can claim it.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Surprise you haven't as you and Smith haven't asked for
a ring or any No, I still need one from
the Rams. Is that what it is?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah? Because Eric Dickerson had his famous rant against the
Rams and Jeff Fisher when he was on our show,
and then Fisher was ousted bringing Sean McVay to la
a super Bowl because yeah, so dot dot dot, where's
my ring?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
You should get one? Because of that?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, I didn't ask the right leading questions to have
already hyped up Eric Dickerson down a deep dark path.
I mean that might not have happened. We might have
had another eight to eight season from Jeff Fisher.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Oh, I'm sure you would have. That's what he was
known for, right, being.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Five seven and nine. I'm not seven and nine. I
had a couple of big years along the way. I
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tire buying should be. We'll keep an eye on the
NCAA Tournament games as we go. We're into the eighth inning,
brisk pace there as Spencer Torkelsen stands in, Tigers and
Dodgers tied at two into the pen, as you would expect,
all the luminaries still there. I think Mary Hart's still
in her seat there, Arnie, So you got that going
(03:59):
for you as well.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I saw pictures of everybody at Dodger Stadium. There was
a line out the Dodger store and people wanted to
buy merchandise. And there's nothing like Dodgers Opening Day at
Dodger Stadium. It's it's it's fantastic. It's a lot of fun.
I've been to so many games. I love going to
that ballpark.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, you ought to come back and you know, take
us to a game.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Uncle Larney, I will do that.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I made Mary and Cher like, hey, you know, as
long as we get a couple of hot dogs and
maybe a beer or two, they'll sit with you for
a couple hours.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
French fries are always better when it comes into Dodger helmet.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Well, all if it's better when you're paying for that's
really when it comes to that. Well, hey, I gotta
call it what it is, all right. So a story
that got me excited in a day and age where
we're seeing spring football trunk aated and games canceled left
and right, there was an innovation that was going to
the NCAA from Colorado coach Deon Sanders. We talked about
(04:55):
him a little earlier with his contract extension and over
at Syracuse. The one time that I'll actually say something
positive about Syracuse and Fran Brown and what they're trying
to do is that they were proposing spring workouts and
a game together, right right, because a lot of focus
now of hey, I don't want to expose any player
(05:16):
that might be a little further off on our depth
chart in any of these workouts to a larger audience, because,
let's face it, more and more television coverage it's big business.
So we saw a lot of that, Fox, ESPN, a
lot of other entities getting involved with Hey, here's a
Saturday morning spring game followed by a Saturday afternoon spring
game followed by a Saturday night Well, a lot of
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those schools have decided, you know what, we're not going
to do this to eliminate as much poaching potential as
we can. It's still gonna happen. There's people are gonna
be that. Right. But now the NC double A, according
to on three later put out by Florio at Pro
Football Talk and others, is that the NC DOUBLEA has said, Nope,
(05:58):
that's not allowable under the rule because of it's not
going to allow other people to do it because you're
they're too far along in their programs. That seems like
a bad argument. Uh, academic concerns, think of the children
the end all the time.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I don't know what academic concerns we're talking about, but
go ahead.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And quote potential recruiting advantages not available to other programs,
like just because they're looking to be innovators and first movers.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
So we could do it next year when everybody has that.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
That's the larger thing, right, It shouldn't this be on
the table of Hey, maybe this works as a new
bottle for this.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I don't see how, But how does that solve the
problem that if you didn't want to do it to
begin with because you're afraid your players were going to
get poached? How does this solve the problem? Though? It
doesn't solve it? So what are we trying to do here?
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
No, But that's the thing, right is if you're not scared, like,
that's the thing some schools might just say, you know what,
it's to our advantage to keep putting our brand in
front of other people.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Have your own scrimmage. Then just go ahehad and just
do it like it was. Have it for your own people,
have your fans come to the game. I love when
the brass don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
But the point is that they're not even doing that, Arnie,
They're not a lot of schools aren't doing that because
we're showing up at the building. A lot of people
that might be checking the tape looking at it twice,
running down towards the side of that, Hey, where are
the parents of number twenty two? Right?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I understand that, but this is having it with another
team isn't going to solve that problem.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
No, no, no, But why should you penalize teams that and.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Schools that are not want to do it anyway? Right?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Right, that want to do it if they don't think
it's going to ultimately be a negative for them, why
not allow them to do it and showcase their programs.
And it's more people that apply to their schools. Maybe
there's another player that says, hey, that's another opportunity for
me to showcase exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
That's fine, and I'm for it. I'm like, go ahead
and do it. Don't worry about your players getting poached
or anything like that. And like I said, this used
to be a pretty fun day in the world of sports.
When you see Nebraska getting seventy thousand or Alabama getting
seventy or eighty thousand just to watch spring games spring practice.
(08:10):
I mean it was awesome. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Well, but that's just it, right, It's a fan fans opportunity,
boost your opportune because that's the other part. When we're
talking about the nil and shaking hands, kissing babies, all
of those guys can line up five bucks a pop
for an autograph and a picture right, and it goes
into your coffers. I'm just saying, like, everybody can win
out of this, and you know that's around there. And look,
(08:33):
if the kid's gonna go and he's thinking about going,
guess what it's like the retirement thing. Right, If they're
thinking about it, then they're they're probably one foot out
the door, which means you might as well give the
little nudge and send them on their way.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
And you could do free admission or whatever. There's so
many things you could do.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Why are you doing free admission, Arnie?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Why are you gonna turn it away?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Well?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Do you could charge and give it to charity? You can?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Or are you in charging now? It's that extra wide
receiver you needed.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
There's plenty of money. That seems like we've learned that, right.
There's plenty of money to go around in the NIL
right now, especially when you're a top eight in basketball.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I guess, well, but that's the thing, right, going back
to what we have the sound clip from Don McClain,
the all time leading score of the now abandoned Pac
twelve UCLA star played in the NBA. He was saying,
you know, from a good source, if you're a rotational
guy in the top eight playing college buckets. The asking
(09:30):
price in the NIL world is a minimum of five
hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
That's just the Mets. Four hundred thousand for the team.
How about that four million for the team? How about that?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well, but that's the you know, the price of admission.
Like we're talking about some of these contracts, and certainly
the TV deals with with CBS and go to TBS
and True TV and all the different extensions when we're
talking about the tournaments and turn the regular See.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
If you're like a McDonald's top ten All American or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
You're talking I mean lea, I mean Lakers drafted a
guy and give me eight million guaranteed. How much you
see what I did for you there?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah? How much is Cooper Flag getting? Well?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
But that's the like we because I don't think you
know well, But that's the thing. It's it's all guestimates, right.
So Juju Watkins, who we talked about a little bit earlier,
the horrible injuries she sustained playing for USC. Earlier in
the week, there were estimates that she was north to
ten million dollars. I'm contracts and what she's got so
cool the.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Whole I'm selling my whole reap thing. I'm like, who
wants to go ahead and be along with me and
film the thing and you know, get and I l
money and all that. I'm taking everything along with my
reapp thing. I'm gonna get all kinds of sponsors giving
me money while I rehab myself.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And think about where she's at and where the women's
college game is and the curiosity going forward where they
can't go to the w NBA. She still has two
more years in college before she's eligible.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Wow. Wow, that's that's two more years.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
You can't go in till the twenty seven draft.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Wow. So she's got a long way to go. When's
she gonna be okay? From her?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Well, that's the question. Yes, how quickly do you rehab?
How quickly do you get her on the court? I
would say, since we're looking at the end of March
where some of the comebacks that we've seen, maybe you're
talking conference season, that you can get her back on
a court. I mean, you have no idea, because we
have no idea what the extent of the damage was, right,
(11:31):
and how quickly you progress and not everybody's going to
heal the same. And I think we've gotten used to
people coming back from injuries so quickly that you know,
we are going back to the what the hell's in
the water? I got hurt when I was a kid,
and like you know, stone ages, and I couldn't get
a doctor to sign off on my leg for the
(11:53):
rest of any for.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
The rest of your life. No.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Legitimately, Hey, I'm trying to go to They started a
wrestling team my senior year of high school. It's like,
all right, I want to do that, guys, like, I'm
not signing off on that second doctor. No chance in hell.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And so I became team manager and you know, working
in the weight case, everything else.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Trust No, But.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
It was it was just the idea. I wanted to
try it. I mean, I didn't know how well or
poorly it would go, but I was never given the chance. Nope,
not signing off on that. Hell, I couldn't go to
West Point because of my knee.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Ooh, now you're really holding on now, now you're really
getting bitter.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Well, But legitimately, it just like now it's like, wait,
you got what I don't care, Come on in because
we need bodies. Once upon a time, it was, yeah,
you know what, we're good. Go go have a good,
good life, which I have. I'm certainly not complaining, but
I just remember a forty five minute conversation cut short
(12:53):
with oh, good luck wherever you go as soon as
I mentioned where what my need jury was have fun there,
luck with that pal. You know, different times Bernie.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Frattle texted me and he wanted you to know that
UNLV gives free admission for their spring football game. So
I just wanted you to know that there.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Well, I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I don't know what you didn't like my eyes because
you didn't like my eye.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I don't, I don't. I don't even if it's a dollar,
whether it goes to charity or into coffers for something else.
You know, when you then have a coach you want
to re sign, or a player or facilities thing, it's
a dollar. It's a nominal charge because you do have
to pay people to come and orchestrate those things. That
isn't free.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah, I don't think they're hurt at all.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's not the point though. It's the the old joker
Heath Ledger line. Never do anything for free that that
you can get paid for. For free.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
That's true, Yes, true.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
By the way, it is a final. So where Auburn
gets a thirteen point victory over Michigan seventy eight sixty
one game left Houston with a ten point lead over Purdue.
Well a little under eight minutes left in that.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Wait to jump in on there, Arnie at Sticking Genius
one is where you find him in the Twitter verse.
Find me over at Swollendo. Thanks to Bernie Fratto for
listening to the show. You can hear him tomorrow night,
eleven o'clock Pacific time for four hours of fun on
the Bernie Fratto Show. No question about it all right,
As we continue, we'll recap a little what Bruce Pearl
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Radio Radio. Welcome back in Fox Sports or Radio Jason
Smith Show with me Mike Carmon. There is no Jason
Smith to night. Instead, it's a stinking genius himself. It's
Arnie Spanier and Arnie with one swing of the bat,
a man whose health we've been worried about, Birk couple minutes. Well,
(15:56):
thanks for letting me build that up. I'm sorry Is
this what you do on Sundays? You know with your
guy Chris, Yes, I do.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Does he strangle you down the Yes he does. Steve
is laughing his ass off doing a setup. Hey, what
are we talking about? Excited utterances?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
He had a home run? What do you want me
to say?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
It was a big blast three two Dodgers. As we
go towards the ninth inning, Dodgers Place just exploded as
the ball left the bat.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Still upset at trade.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Well, but it's good to see Mookie back on the field. Yeah,
because Red Sox fans could be mad. Get over it, right,
It's it's the ebb and flow of these games, and
you know you're cheering for laundry at the end of
the day. Guys staying in one place for twenty years
at a time. It's it's the rare you would love
(16:55):
to see it, right. The nostalgia you and me and
I know Steve perhaps a little more than some of
our brethren here, you know, Shay and Mary and the
guys in the back is you know, I guess they're
they're more used to the transient nature of things, the
more transactional side of sports. At this point where guys
if you get them for three or four years. And
(17:16):
that's why you know, the college world and IL and
transfer portal, which we'll get into in a second here,
you know, is something that they embrace. Right. The idea
that you stay at a company for forty years and
retire with a gold watch. That's a that's a past
generation kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
You get the gold watch though you know, well hopefully.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It's real gold, but you get. My point is that.
But the idea that you join a company and that's
where you stay until you retire, I mean, that's a
long I mean, that's the pipe dream at this point.
Maybe for your own Hey, I wanted to move, I
want to advance, I want to do something different, and
you get a little you know, happy feet where you've
got to move every couple of years, versus, hey, the
(17:59):
company moves on and your time is up right. Certainly
in the business we operate in, that's generally the case.
You don't get to, you know, get comfortable, sit a spell. Right.
The numbers, it's kind of like the NFL numbers. It's
three and a half years. Well, there's a lot of
guys that get that one game, that cup of coffee
and it's a long tail of one, two games, et cetera.
(18:22):
But we're watching this, and so to the Red Sox fans,
I say, get over it, replenish the farm system, get
the next group of guys in. And they've got a
lot of talent. They traded a number of guys to
the White Sox and they still had ample minor league
talent ready to come in. Not to mention, whatever that
fight becomes between Devers and Bregman, that's gonna be fun
to watch. I want to play third base? No, I
(18:44):
want to play third base. No, you will DH and
you will like it. So we'll keep an eye on
that as it goes. They're helped by the fact that
the Yankees have so many injuries right now to deal with.
That helps a bit. The Orioles, slug and O's are
out there, They've got some injury issues.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
How is it gonna play out? I just with all
the like top five World Series favorites coming out of
the National League and.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, four out of five? Right, what is how's that
going to play out?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Are we gonna be bummed about that?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
As well? The NL East is gonna be fun, right,
and then the it's the best is out right. I mean, look,
you still gotta go out and win four games, because
I mean, if you listen to most folks right now,
the Dodgers are plus two thirty. All right.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Are we gonna say the NLCS is the real World
Series and then the nl the Dodgers be whoever in
the American League?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
No, because the World Series is on Fox. You shut
your mouth.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Every game we're gonna live and die with every pitch.
Arnie Spaniard, how.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Dare you it's gonna go eight games?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Man is right. We're gonna need to keep going into overtime,
no question about it.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
As many as you want.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Hey, just keep it going. You guys want to you
think we need one more, Let's have one more. Inside
of four minutes, Houston a two point lead over Purdue. Earlier,
we we saw the Auburn Tigers take down Michigan seventy
eight sixty five. Was your final pulling away down the stretch.
Tennessee over Kentucky seventy eight sixty five, and then you
(20:14):
had the Spartans over Ole miss seventy three seventy Again,
that was fun for betting odds.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
But he used to, let's this one sip away. They've
got nobody to play but themselves. They went through like
a three minute scoring drought. What they did was, with
about four and a half minutes left, they had like
a seven eight point lead, decided we want to take
the air out of the ball. What does that do?
It takes you out of your offense. Next thing, you know,
you go stag. You don't hit his shot, You leave
John Caliperry alone. Oh wait, yeah, yeah, I forget about that.
(20:45):
And then the new comes back hits a couple of shots.
Now it's a two point game and they've got all
the momentum. There was too much time left to take
the air out. Yes, you work your offense, but you
just don't, you know, try to, you know, take the
air out of the ball and take the time you
have to still work your offense.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
At that point, largest lead for Houston that I was ten.
You're talking fast break points. Not a whole lot going
on in this game. Points in the paint, slight edge
to Houston as we go through it. So watching this
one come down in the final minutes, go Boilers. My
big ten honk thing goes out in that Oh you know,
well except for Illinois just the United State, except Underwood.
(21:27):
I kind of like him because he had the great
quote on Cooper Flag saying, Hey, you know what, stick
around college a little while longer, get a girlfriend, hang out,
get paid.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
If you knew that you were going to either go
to the Washington Wizards or you can go back to Duke,
which would you choose.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I'm taking my sixty million dollar contract guaranteed and not
leaving anything to chance. I know you can you.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Go to the Wizards. Then you're going to go to
the Wizards.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah, I only have to be there for my first contract.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I don't have to take Well that's like what five years?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Well, I can also be like so many others.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Could be like dog years. That could be the worst
thirty five years of your life.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Well maybe, but you're also going to get a guaranteed deal.
And if you don't like it, there, guess what you
complain enough you can force your way.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
You would you say you're an NBA player When you
say you guaranteed deal, are you worried that you're gonna
get hurt knock Wood and you're not gonna get the
money Bausei's insurance and you are getting money when you
go back to college. Oh sure, but so what are
you afraid of?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
But in Cooper Flagg's case, he accelerated to reclassify so
we can get to college, right, which means he really
wants to get to the NBA.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Well, it's fourteen percent that Utah and fourteen percent that
Washington will have the number one shock in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Draft right in the end. Next year, you're probably gonna
have terrible teams at the top. Again, aren't that the
whole point of this time?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yeah? But it's that, you know, when I look at
the terrible teams though that are in it, most of
them don't bother me other than Washington. I don't know
if that's you know, that's a meat problem or what.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
But I mean, there's already it's not a political show.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I'm not saying anything about that. But I wouldn't mind
going to Phoenix or Portland or San Antonio or New
Orleans or Charlotte, Brooklyn, even Philly or Toronto. It's just Washington.
I wouldn't want to go to just Washington, just Washington.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Why is that? I need a legitimate reason at this point.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Because it's been so bad and they're so dysfunctional, But
all these other places are dysfunctional.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Virtually every one of these places has been abysmal.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
But you see, first of all, you see san Antonio
on the upswing with whom Byama and all that, and.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
There may be a frozen envelope according to Lebron waiting
at the end of.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
It, how great is that? Uh? How fun is that? Well?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I here, I want to own a team in your league. Hey,
I'm gonna tell everybody that all of this stuff, all
the conspiracies are true and it's fixed, which is really
what Lebron did as part of that interview.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
The other I want to have a team now, and
my first pick want to be Cooper Flag how about that?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But that's the thing, right is, when we get down
to it, I understand. Look, if he wanted another year
at the college, I certainly whatever his heart's telling him
to have that.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
If it's me, I'm gone. I've gotta be gone, right Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Right, I have to. I've got to take my contract.
And again, if I don't like it there and they
can't build around me, then I'm able to leave.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
It's yeah, but it's harder for you to leave, is
the overall number one pick? Because they throw so much
money at you and they want you to stay, and
you might have to do a whole career there. That's
why you really gotta think of what you do. But
you're right, next year doesn't mean it's going to be
any better for you.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
But it goes back. And several people have said this,
and Josh Allen did it and he got crucified for it,
but he said the quiet part out loud. What's another
five million on my contract of this size is going
to do for me in the NFL? Right? It's five
million that gets left for somebody else to help my
team be better. Cooper Flag, Yeah, he wouldn't get a
(24:53):
Supermax if he declined it, right, and he wouldn't get
that massive deal, but he he still gonna get what
twoin fifty? Could you have made that contract if he
performs as well as expected?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
You know, back in the old day, Boston took Larry
Bird before he came out of college, you know that, right, right?
So could you imagine if somebody wanted to take Cooper Flag,
if he was gonna say another year and they said
we'll wait a year. If the Lakers took him with
their first pick of their second victs, they.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Won't wait for no big deal, and so I know
some folks back can't do it anymore.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
He can't do that well.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
But back in my hometown of Chicago, right with some
of these wins down the stretch, they're playing really good basketball.
Once Levine was gone, Rosa was gone, and they've changed
the style that they're playing with Kobe White playing out
of his mind. He's the favorite player of your favorite
player and has been for the last couple of years.
Kevin Durant and so many other guys. Oh, I love
(25:48):
this kid, can't wait to see what he does and
all that. And now he's performing really well. Josh Giddy
coming along. But they're winning too many games. They were
on the fringe of potentially being part of the lottery.
Now they would only have a couple lottery balls and
not a high percentage chance. But going to Chicago, yeah,
it's it's much more attractive. But in the end, unless
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you abolish the system altogether, generally speaking, the numbers say
you're gonna be with an organization that generally doesn't know
what they're doing. You can't get out of their own way,
and you just become the latest guy.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Well, it doesn't have to go to the first two
that are fourteen percent. Sometimes it does go to no sure, third, fourth,
fifth choice, and sometimes those picks have been traded to
a decent or a good team because of an earlier trade. Well,
but that's never known.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Well, that's just it. Right, when you start conferring other
draft picks and opportunities, yeah, you're you're gonna have that.
But for Cooper Flagg, a lot of discussion of what
he should do again reesa sche got nearly fifty eight
million dollars. It's awful hard to say, Okay, I'm gonna
go do that. And I don't know what the real
math is on his nil deals, like we talked about before,
(26:56):
I have no idea, right is it eight million? Is twelve?
Is he already had fifty?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Think he's gonna be how good?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
He's a beast and you've heard a lot of people
talk about it. You know he can shoot and obviously
had the big dagger at the end of the first
half against your Wildcats yesterday. But is a guy that
plays with a tenacity, works around the rim, isn't afraid
to go inside. Well, we'll body up. We watched that
(27:24):
a lot yesterday.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
When when you say he's a beast, though, then you're
telling me he's gonna come in and take Washington to
the playoffs. And and he's because he's not still but exactly,
but Washington is not going to get to the playoffs
with it next year. I want you to know that.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Well, it is the Eastern Conference. Anything can happen in
the Eastern Conference at that back end, because getting to
the playoffs means I only got to get you to ten.
That's true, But you have no idea when it comes
to contracts, like I haven't looked ahead. What's what they're
on the books for?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Right? Right, They're gonna have to obviously make wholesale changes,
but him by himself is not going to make that
much of a difference. They've got to build a round
them up.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Oh but generally that's the case. Right, Guys come in
and they're great, but you need help. But the NBA
you can make more of an impact and change.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
And if he was on san Antonio, if san Antonio
somehow got him, I'd be picking them the win the
championship in about three years.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Well, but that's the thing, right, if suddenly san Antonio
walks off with Cooper flag uh, you know, but yeah,
and every everybody's running and Stefan Castle and go on
down the leg. Yeah, then suddenly we should all have
little tinfoil hats off because there is more to this.
And Lebron said the quiet part out loud.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
We just put it in the freezer. We just put
the card that we didn't know it was gonna be.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Called legitimately like everything he said. We could joke about it.
But if suddenly San Antonio were to win the lottery
at this point, I think you'd have a lot of
folks that would be turned off by it, as excited
as you would be to that.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Twitter would be the best thing to read that.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Oh absolutely, I think I do four hours of dramatic
Twitter impressions with random royalty free music playing under me
violins and other things all night long.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
It's because you know it's going to be the full,
full on conspiracy theory if that happens. By the way, p'
doing Houston all tied up with thirty seconds left, we
may have a buzzer beater Bodley in this NC double A.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
At some point I'll get to do an update on
the show.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Yeah, do the updates, thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Three to three bottom nine Detroit and Los Angeles, and
that had some drama to it, and I saw him
in the at the news desk. He was getting out
of his chair. Excitable moment for one, Steve de Sego.
Let's get an update as we get ready for the
end of the NC DOUBLEA tournament and an update of
what actually happened to elicit such a response.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Oh, these both have been sensational. Here we are at
this leag eight, still great stuff going on. Since you
mentioned that Dodger Stadium. It was Mookie Betts with a
two out solo homer bottom of the eighth to give
LA the lead on the Tigers three to two. Tanner
Scott new La closer came on and allowed we thought
two runs and giving up the lead. In the top
of the ninth, there was a Manuel Margo RBI single
(30:20):
and he came around to score. It appeared on a
double from Riley Green, but after video review turns out
Margo in reaching for the plate, his leg bent back
backwards and right into the catcher's gloves. Out overturned on review,
it's a three to three tie. Tigers at Dodgers bottom
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of the ninth and former Dodger and Yankee reliever Tommy
Cainley on to pitch the bottom of the ninth for Detroit.
Perdue getting to play in Indianapolis, by the way, nearby
as a four seat exactly what is the advantage being
a one seed in this region? It is a road
game for the Houston Cougars tonight and Purdue has just
(31:00):
hit the tying three pointer with about thirty seconds left.
It's sixty to sixty against the Cougars, and it was
seven of twenty five from long distance four per Due
tonight until they hit that one. Houston, known for its defense,
shooting thirty eight percent from the floor.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Cougar's with the.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Ball tie game about thirty seconds left. The winner faces
Tennessee Sunday in the Midwest Region Final. The Balls led
Kentucky by nineteen late in the first f and eliminated
the Wildcats seventy eight to sixty five. Yes, the Wildcats
are out Auburn I didn't like that and Michigan state
winners in the South Region. One seed Auburn led by
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one against Michigan with eight and a half minutes to go,
beat the Wolverine seventy eight to sixty five. Two seed
Michigan State advanced over Ole Miss seventy three to seventy.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
The Michigan State.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Game Sunday is at five pm Eastern Time. The Final
four is next weekend in San Antonio. Houston Cougars to
update ball in that sixty to sixty tie against Purdue.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
They're running the clock down.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
It's not gonna make it all the way to Zeros
because of the shot clock, but they've missed the shot
and missed a putback attempt two seconds left as the
ball goes out of bounds in a tie game. Dodgers
tied one out bottom of the ninth, three to three
against the Tigers. Everything else Final San Diego beat Atlanta
four to three on a solo homer bottom of the
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eighth from Jake Croninworth. A's got a seven to nothing
win at Seattle to win to Jeffrey Springs with six
innings and nine strikeouts, the Mets Juan Soto with a
solo homer, and a three to one win at Houston
save to Edwin Diaz Arizona eight to one over the Cubs,
who are now one in three, including the two losses
to La and Japan. Comes offense tonight went three for
(32:47):
thirty one wins for Texas and Pittsburgh. For Toronto and
Tampa Bay, which today won on a walk off homer
three to two against Colorado. Scottie Scheffler leads by one
stroke late in the second round in Houston. Baltimore Ravens
gave coach John Harbaugh an extension through twenty twenty eight.
Dion Sanders got a five year extension from Colorado. The
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Memphis Grizzlies fired coach Taylor Jenkins after six seasons. John
Morana Memphis listed as questionable for Saturday against the Lakers.
He's missed the last six games. Boston's Jason Tatum returned
Saturday after an ankle injury. Philadelphia's Tyres Maxie out again
this weekend sprained finger.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Update.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
The Dodgers have been retired and go to the tenth
Wild Game in LA. Tigers and Dodgers even at three.
Believe it or not. The Detroit Tigers with runners in
scoring position, I believe it's up to z for nineteen
until the race it hit. In these two games they
do actually finally have won as they've tied the thing.
But my goodness, and there's a video review in that
(33:48):
Houston at Purdue game going on with two seconds left. Yeah,
Purdue's the home team.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Beck to you, it's an awful long review on this
all here, it looked like a game off the you.
I was gonna ignure myself. Thanks Steve.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I'm not sure. I've looked at it a bunch of
times and slowed down. I'm looking at the face of
the referee and he's like, I you can tell us
that he's just perplex he has no idea who it's off.
It's so hard to tell, Mike, I can't be one
hundred percent sure who it's off of.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Well, maybe it's like Steinbrunner Field and he's getting a
chance of sell the team or something like that. Back
at him. Sixty sixty two point eight. They put point
six back on the clock, waiting for the.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
They're gonna have to give it. They're gonna have to
give it to Houston if there's not a clear cut
view of who hit it out of bounds, because that's
who they said out of the ball, so Houston can
get it. With two point eight seconds left, it.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Looks like they're they're gonna set underneath, set up underneath
the basket here along the baseline. We'll keep it here
see if we can get a conclusion of this game
or whether we're getting some more free basketball to go
with our free baseball. Houston looking to imbound and having
some difficulty in the moment.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
I'm behind you, so you're gonna have to tell me
what goes on.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
On the give and go coming off to the inbounder and.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
He lays it in a play.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
What a fantastic design call by Kelvin Sampson and Company
at sixty two to sixty point eight. Wow, We're going
back to more official reviews. We'll find out if this
is gonna stick, and we'll tell you all about it
as we continue here. It's Fox Sports Radio and exciting
Friday night into Saturday morning. Stay with us.
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Speaker 2 (35:47):
Oh my goodness, chaos in the NCAA tournament in those
final waning seconds of it all as we come to
you live from the tyrac dot com studios. That's already
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I'll get that chicken coop. But you know what else
we got, Arnie Spaniard, we got a fantastic finish in bounder.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Use hand ready looking use Ant, holds it in his hill,
fires at left side, bounce.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Back to use Ants to the ram. He lays it
in sixty two sixty eight tenths of a second remaining
in this one.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
West Wind won on the call.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
I was on Twitter and I saw at least ten
tweets that people said, what an out of bounds play?
What an out of bounds I'm speechless for this out
of bounds play. It was fantastic. Everybody's saying this same thing,
what a grid out about to play? It was for
Houston Way to give it right back to the inbounder.
He was by himself made the shot. He was a
(37:08):
guy in front of him, but he put it in
great play.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
That was so great lay in the fact that he's
able to come in off of the baseline unfettered. Right.
Everybody back to him as they go to collapse the lane,
and instead he gets it back and he lays it
in a little bit of a review trying to make
sure they got the right time as the timeout gets
called on the court and everything. So reset Purdue. One
(37:34):
last heave that falls short in Kelvin Sampson and company.
Don't call him Kevin. They advanced once once again. Something
I brought up with Dan Bayer yesterday, Arnie was the
fact that looking at the coaches for the Sweet sixteen,
you had nine coaches here in the Sweet sixteen that
had been at their school three years or fewer. Oh really,
(37:56):
you have Tommy Lloyd at your Arizona year four, and
then you've got all the grizzled veterans where we're talking about,
you know, Painter who's been there forever, is though forever,
all of those things. Yeah, I mean you look at
the SAMs, how quickly it all comes together. He's in
year eleven as you look at him right now, right
(38:17):
second in the Big twelve following the move, so you
go all the way down the line. Just the amazing disparity.
You know, when we talk about players moving all the time,
recognizing coaches do and and how quickly you can turn
around to program. You get a little bit of a break,
a good draw, opportunity can knock and propel you forward.
(38:39):
But for Kelvin Sampson and company, look they win the
rock fight sixty two, sixty is your final in this
one as the Boilers fall. It's really just that play
is one that will live right. As much as we
talk about it's not technically a buzzer beat Arnie, So
maybe you're not satisfied with it, but you have that opportunities.
(39:02):
Third Elite eight appearance since twenty twenty one and their
eighth in their history.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
You mentioned the coaching in Saint John's and Patino what
he did to r. J. Lewis when he put him
on the bench at the end of the game. He's
their big player today. He's come out a couple of
hours ago and said he is going to put his
name into the four. That's because it's not because of money.
(39:28):
It was because of the way the situation was handled
the end of the game. They also say it's because
he doesn't get enough support from the fan base, so
he's gone. He is right now considered the number one
kid in the portal. Right now in college basketball.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Every big he's Player of the year, eighteen points a game,
had a terrible shooting game. And you want the honest moment,
I think from Rick Patino of what else was it?
Because if it's just three for seventeen, guys have bad
shooting nights, he's your leading scorer.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
You gotta leave him in.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
I think you're going to go and get it back
and find the stroke once again. So yeah, it's but
it's the portal, right, this is a guy that will
command a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Well, I don't think it was the money. I think
it was the way he must treat.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
But that's the thing, right, And it goes back to
the Don McClain quote that we used earlier in the show. Right,
you're talking some guys will leave because of their place
in a system, rapport or lack thereof with the coach.
Others are just in for money. Guess what for r J.
Lewis He gets both.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Yeah, and he's he's got a lot of people gonna
want to get him. There's no doubt about.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
That, because everybody has a bad night shooting. And you
know Patino in his post, even though he was like, oh,
I'm not gonna buy into your stuff, you know he
was three for seventeen when I said, oh, way to
go Rick, the way to not throw your guy under
the bus. Hey first Pearl Victorious Tonight also had his
thoughts about the portal and what's transpired this week. He's
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