February 21, 2025 • 39 mins
Dan and Aaron in for C&R as they talk about the changes that are heading for the NCAA Men's basketball tournament. Dan, Aaron and the crew share their random semi-celebrity sightings. Dan Beyer has an idea for people working at a chicken wings establishment.
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Year Jason Stewart as well Iowa Sam hanging out for
Kapinino and Rich on this Friday Live from Thethiraq dot
Com Studios. Earlier in the show or earlier in the day,
we were in for Doug Gottlieb, and we talked about
the expanding world of college football where we will likely
see changes, and it's the same with college basketball in
possibly seeing changes. Pete Thammeloud reported last weekend that if
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the tournament field was to expand from sixty eight, that
it would go to seventy six, that seventy two wouldn't
be the number, that they would expand it by eight
more schools, And like reading the college football responses, I
feel a lot of people just immediately had a knee
jerk reaction and say, if it ain't broke, don't fix
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it and just keep it as it is. Just keep
it at sixty eight.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Is that fair? Am I saying that?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I think that's a majority of what college basketball, or
at least fans of the sport on the tournament are seve.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So I think that is actually probably the most important
point against expansion.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Like college football, you.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Can like it, you cannot like it, but you can
make the argument, oh, you know, if Alabama had gotten in,
would they have done some damage? And Old Miss was
pretty good? Jackson Dart might end up being a first
round pick. There is no reason to expand the play
the tournament NCAA tournament for two reasons. Besides the fact
that are we really leaving out good teams and we'll
discuss that in a minute.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
But the other thing is it's.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Perfect the way it is. Why why do.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
We have to mess with perfect? Everybody loves it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Everybody knows that First Thursday, I'm gonna get together with
my buddies, I'm gonna go to Buffalo woah Wing's. I'm
gonna go to the casino. I'm gonna do this, I'm
gonna do that. That's the part is there are things
in sports that maybe you don't wanna, you don't want
to see change, but you know have to. There's no
reason to change this other than pure money.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Some people just can't help themselves. Yes, they need they
have a great running car. I need a new car exactly.
I need to change up this room. Our living room
was super, super comfortable. Guess what I need to change it.
I'm gonna get uncomfortable furniture and new colors because I
just can't help myself. I get that. I don't think
that is the NCAA in any way for them to
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wanting to expand their tournament. But I also think when
we look at the field of sixty eight, I think
if you ask those same people who want to keep
it as it is, if you said to those people,
do you want to go back to sixty four, they
would say, yes, absolutely, let's go back to sixty four.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
That's how it was.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I don't think that there's a lot of value and
interest put into the first four games in Dayton, and
definitely compared to the rest of the tournament. But I
don't think people are really caring about those first four
games for the simple fact, Aaron, it doesn't affect the
bracket that they filled out.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Bingo.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
If you're trying to pick between the matchup of Boise
State and Minnesota in that play in game, just use
two random schools. Minnesota's got a lot of work to do,
although they've been played better basketball lately swept Own. But
if you were to pick between those schools, you know
what you're doing in your bracket. You're writing BSU slash
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MN like the winner of that game is going to
then beat whoever the sixth seed is. You're not saying
I'm not gonna pick Xavier because they're playing Minnesota. But
I will pick Xavier because they're playing But nobody does that.
Nobody when they're filling out a bracket that's six '
eleven play in window doesn't matter, and it definitely doesn't
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matter because nobody's really picking the sixteen seed to upset
a one. And so, first of all, those first four
games don't matter in the bracket. So why would adding
more of those make people so mad? Because if that's
what they care about, it shouldn't matter anyway. All you're
doing is writing in more blank slash blank teams Virginia
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slash Vanderbilt. That's who you're writing in that in that
bracket if you were to expand it by seventy expanded
to seventy six teams, because you're taking more at large
teams and having them essentially aaron playing their way into
the tournament, which is how we really look at the
first four. We look at those teams playing themselves into
the tournament. And so that's why I don't understand why
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people get mad. And if you don't care about it, now,
why would you care if they were adding to it?
If you didn't care in the first place, that's My
whole point in expansion is it's really not going to
hurt you as much as you think it is, because
everything that you do with the bracket and filling it
out in your office, bulls and contests really doesn't change
except having a few more games on Tuesday and Wednesday
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of tournament week.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Well, I think the real and I think the reason
that people are against it is kind of what you're
saying from the perspective that I think they think it
completely changes the structure of what that week looks like
for them, when in reality, all you're doing is adding
two games Tuesday, two games Wednesday to the two games
that are already there, the two games that are already
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there Wednesday. What I would also say, though, Dan and
I do think there's something to this. I think sports
fans are starting to get wise to Hey, a lot
of these decisions are only being made for money and
it does not benefit me in any way, shape or form.
So I have this thing that's perfect, and we're debating
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about teams seventy one, seventy two, seventy three that kind
of stinks, and we're not gonna get to in the weeds.
North Carolina right now is sixteen and eleven, they're one
in ten in their eleven biggest games. We call them
quad one games of college basketball. Nobody who watches them
is like, oh, I will be personally offended if they're
left out, and then on top of that, I'll take
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it a step further. I think no, most North Carolina
fans are like, I hate watching this team. I want
the season to be done. What are we gonna do
to get it right next year? And so it's not
as though there's really an argument that any of these
teams actually deserve to be in. You're then disrupting something
that we all love. Now, I do think again, I
don't think people really understand how little it will actually
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impact the bracket. But the third thing, and I really
do think this is something I think sports fans are like,
so you're just gonna expand this, so some dude that
I don't know that works at CBS gets an extra
zero on his check or some uh, you know, conference commissioner,
you know, like even like like like I don't think
like Kentucky fans are like, well, I mean it's it's
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actually kind of good for us if the SEC gets
two extra teams in because we get that much more money.
It's like, no, we watch Fandy, they kind of stink.
We watch Georgia, they kind of stink. They shouldn't be
in the tournament. So I think the part of a
bunch of old dudes in suits getting more money with
no benefit to the consumer, I do think that is
actually a factor in some of this.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
I don't disagree with that.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
And I look at your North Carolina point and the
season is so bad they just want it over, So
why why expand why extend it? It likely would be
extended a week at Yeah, a game at that. If
you get ousted on Wednesday of the ACC tournament, you
gotta wait till Sunday, play on Tuesday. It's a week
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week of your time of being around each other. But
I get it. They don't want to They just want
to end it. But if you continue and it goes
on a run, then things can get exciting.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Can I jump in on one thing real quick before?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Do you want to go? You want to go? You
want to go?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Well, I just I have a point to make about
the teams and the schools that I was mentioning. I
mentioned Virginia, I mentioned Vanderbilt, I mentioned Minnesota, but I
also mentioned Boise State, the school that I actually want
to put in because I think this enhances the argument
for seventy six is let's take last year's Indiana State team.
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I don't know the bubble teams that were left out
last year, I can't remember, except Indiana State and Indiana
State went on the run with cream Abdul Jabbar's now
at Saint Louis because that staff also went to Saint
Louis as well. So Sycamores are not the same Sycamores
this year as they were last year. But last year,
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would you rather have gone on that run in the
n or would you rather have watched that Indiana State
team lost in the NVC final to Drake get one
of those additional eight spots. So it's not necessarily going
to all Power Conference teams. You would have the ability
to have a Cinderella and say, all right, Indiana State,
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here's your opportunity. This is your chance to do it
and actually adds value to a Tuesday night or a
Wednesday night. And sometimes we've had those games. Sometimes we've
had the top of the top UCLA, you know, like
like brand Wise playing that in that first flour So
you're watching that, maybe you're watching a Cinderella. But if
you were to add that and expand that, I think
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it's more so for an Indiana State team who had
a magnificent year but loses in their conference championship game
and doesn't get the automatic bid, I think there are
now more spots for that school, as opposed to say
letting in an unworthy North Carolina team.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
So that would be the number that should be the
number one selling point. I think if you were saying
we're going to go to seventy six and one of
two things happens. One, every automatic qualifier gets into the
main field. So in other words, we have the two sixteen,
you know, the four sixteen teams that play those those
those days. But also if you said a certain and
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I know this gets into the college football automatic whatever.
But basically we're adding eight teams and four of them
are going to be from the nonpower conferences, then I
think that's where you could get away with this a
little bit. The problem is, again, fans aren't stupid. If
you're a Kentucky fan or an Auburn fan and you've
watched Oklahoma all year, who is squarely on the bubble
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they're three and ten in the league play, they're they're
the first team out right now of the bracket. According
to Joe Lenardi at ESPN, they're currently sixteen and ten,
three and ten in the SEC. And it's like if
if you were subbing that team out for say, let's
use the example, that's kind of picking up team here,
Like you see San Diego right now is twenty three
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and four, thirteen and two in their league. If you
see San Diego does not win their conference tournament, they
are probably not getting in. If those were the types
of teams that you said, Okay, let's give them, there's
a couple extra spots. Let's make sure those type teams
get in. That's fine, but it's going to be the
seventeen and fifteen Georgia team, the seventeen and thirteen you
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know whatever. I'm just using hypothetical numbers, the nineteen and
fifteen Vanderbilt team, the nineteen and fifteen Minnesota team, and
it's like, we don't want to see that.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I'll just be quick and I'll toss it back to you.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
This is what I say all the time when a
Michigan or somebody like that makes a sweet sixteen like
I remember a few years ago, Michigan was an eleven
seed and made the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Nobody remembers Michigan making the Sweet Seed.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Oh it was this incredible run.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Little old Michigan made it as an eleven seed.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
But when a George Mason, a weber staatea whoever, when
those teams win a game or two, that's when it
gets really cool. And so yes, I think if there
and I know there's no way to guarantee it, but
I think if if the benefit of the doubt was
being given to the small school that doesn't have a
ton of opportunities to play big games on this stage,
that'd be fine.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
The issue becomes that that is not what's going to happen.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Do you know what? But I'm fine.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
I'm fine with that up until your last sentence, because
that's when I read this stuff or when I see
people respond it to it and say I don't want it,
I don't want it. Well, you're not taking in the
big picture here. How can you make it in a
way that it works for you? And I think that
there are ways to do it. I do also think
that the committee would get that sense of we do
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need to put these schools in. We do need to
put a group of five or mid majors in instead
of schools from the power of the Power conferences, because
we've heard it from Mountain West days, right like, there's
there was an overcorrection.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
There were times in the Mountain Weet wasn't getting anybody in.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Now all of a sudden, Hey, everybody New Mexico, Utah State,
Boise State College, like everybody, let's everybody get in.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
San Diego State.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Obviously, great run to the final four in the National
Championship Game a couple of years ago, but there was
an overcorrection because you heard people chirping over the last
few years, why aren't more schools from this league? So
they do listen, then they do hear that stuff, and
if they hear that message, it allows for it. The
question that I think is interesting when we talk about
let's use that Indiana State team as an example here.
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Now the NIT is completely changing, postseason basketball is completely changing.
Fox is putting on their own tournament with Power five
leagues and postseason tournament outside of the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
So that NIT run.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
That you have probably not the same because the NIT
bracket isn't the same it's not the same bracket. But
if you were Indiana State, would you have traded that
run to the NIT championship game to play in a
first four game in Dayton, not knowing if you were
to win or lose? Of course, I think so as well,
and I think most people would say that. I think
most people that played at Indiana State would just have
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wanted the opportunity. So that then tells me, all right,
then it's worth it. Then let's expand it. Because the
flip side of well, maybe if we didn't deserve it,
we could still go on a run. Nobody really thinks
like that they want to be in the tournament. And
if you put those sort of schools in erin, I
actually think it makes those first two days worthy of
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the tournament to the point where again we aren't looking
at it as real games. We can look at them
as playing games, and maybe that's how we look at
them now. But I think it would legitimize it more
and it wouldn't affect us from getting our bracket pools
into the office by Thursday morning when the first round starts.
None of that would be affected. And I think that's
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the thing that most people are worried about. But there
are actually positives coming from this. If you were to
expand it to seventy six, you'd get more days of basketball.
They were going to add a site, was what Pete
Bamill reported, is you would have a separate site outside
of Dayton that would hold most games as well, which
would be easier to feed to different regions. So it's
more logical of travel wise. All of that actually even
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makes more sense to actually help the bracket and help
these teams. It's not as awful of a deal as
you think it is. People again just hate change, and
if it was an ideal world, we'd go back to
sixty four. But again that's not gonna happen. So let's
look at the positives at seventy six.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Give you Yeah, I agree with pretty much everything he said,
and I do think that.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It's just I think the other thing too, which is.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
A completely different conversation for a completely different day, is that,
and we're seeing this.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
With college football playoff, is that is that.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
If we knew they were gonna stop, Like, my whole
thing is, I just know this stuff too well, and
I know you know it just as well as I do.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Dan, But they're not gonna stop at seventy six.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
And in ten years or eight years, it's gonna be well,
you know, I mean seventy six really feels outdated. What
about you know, we gotta get to this, we gotta
get to that. And it's like, you know, at some
point it gets diluted and the other thing too. And
I you know, I don't think this is this would change,
but like, it's hard enough to get people invested in
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the college basketball regular season, and now if you're basically
saying if you finish above five hundred in a power
conference you're getting in. It's like, I don't know, man,
I just think I think the broad thing about this.
And again, I think it's different from college football. I
don't think anybody thinks that the college football playoff system
is perfect.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I think everybody thinks this is pretty close to perfect.
And the only reason you're expanding is for money. Now,
there's a difference between we can accept it because it's inevitable,
and is this actually something that is going to benefit
the consumer benefit the players involved? Now you could argue
the players involves is different, but is it going to
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benefit the consumer?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
And I don't think that it is.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
In the consumer and the consumer that I truly feel
what the part that is most important to them. Aaron
and I think Jason Stewart would agree on this, and
I think Iowa Sam would agree, and I think Mansi
would agree as well. Is just don't mess with the
first weekend because, honestly, for the excitement that is the
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first weekend. For what it's like around your office, I
mean this is we work in a really cool place
at Fox Sports Radio where we're sitting here and we're
looking at four TVs, all with sports except the one
that had the car chase on that we haven't changed back.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
But by and large, normally twenty four hours a day
there's some sort of sports.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
You get paid to talk about sports, you get paid
to watch sports, you get paid to edit about sports,
you get paid to find the topics about sports that
you want to talk about. All of that is awesome.
There is no better day in this hallway than Thursday
of the NCAA tournament, just because everybody is investing. Everybody's
got their bracket pools, which I would expect is the
same way at any other office basically around the country
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where people are interested in games are going On. That's
the part that it can't mess with. Ninety six expanding
to that point would do that, That would mean it
would mess with it. It would it would the college
football Playoff and how they set it up again. They
had four top brands in their semi final and had
two mega brands, two of the biggest, maybe if not
the biggest in all of college football playing in their
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national championship game in Ohio State and Notre Dame. It's
more important for college basketball protect that first weekend than
anything else, and so that is why I would think
that there would be some trepidation because it isn't about
finding the true champion, because it's more of a crapshoot
than anything else. Considering what they're making teams do, which
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makes Yukon going back to back even more impressive. It's
all about not what's better for the bracket as a whole,
but what you would have to do for that first weekend.
I get it, I get it looking ahead. If you
go this, then what's next. But I would hope that
the powers that be would be smart to realize that
you it just can't mess with that first weekend of
the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
And That's what I'll put a bow on, is the
idea that for me, I just that's what I worry about. Well,
you expand a seventy six, Well how soon is seventy
six not enough? And then all of a sudden, to
your point that the first Thursday to Saturday, first Thursday
to Sunday is as good as any stretch on the
sports calendar. We all agree on it. People plan their
years around it. They book this this far out, that
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far out, et cetera. And that is what I ultimately
worry about, is we're gonna keep expanding, and then all
of a sudden, there's so many games on Tuesday, so
many games on Wednesday, we can't even keep track. That Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Sunday loses some of its.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
It is funny and the exciteming you get from the
first weekend, then then you don't have it for a
couple of days, so you're like, man, I'm missing the tournament.
So then Thursday comes around and you have the double header,
the stagger double header, which gives it your phil Thursday
then gives you your fill on Friday, and then there's
Saturday and you kind of feel empty because there's not
games going on at the same time. It's the worst,
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but those games are for the trip to the final four, sure,
and then so like there is something to play for,
and if your brackets still alive, you're really into it.
The point that I'm trying to make is the national
championship game is probably the least climatic. There is the
most anti climatic of any part of the tournament, because
even the final four weekend, and we've talked about this,
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Saturday is so much better than Monday, even though Monday
you crown a national champion.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I will tell you there are no two worst feelings
in the world than the Saturday. You wake up and
they have the standalone game at noon Eastern and you're like,
I can't I have add I can't switch to another
game right now. And then to your point.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
The.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Saturday the following week to go to the final four,
and you wake up and there's just nothing on at
all until like six Eastern time.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
And that Sunday is weird as well.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
It's weird to not see a score of another game
going on on top of your screen on that regional
final Saturday. He's erin Torres, I'm Dan Byer in for
Cavino and Rich here on Fox Sports Radio.
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Last night, you also could have found our executive producer
out for sushi with his girlfriend, having a wonderful time
and bumping into stars, apparently at six six to one Sushi.
If we were to that place name named the spot.
That's right, it was six six toy one Sushi, right.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
It is uh six six one area code of Santa Coarita, California.
So I'm eating sushi and I this person like across
the restaurant looks familiar. I just can't place him. And
it takes me like fifteen minutes of it, just like
staring at this guy and telling Christina that facebooks familiar.
I need to place it, and I it's like one
of those things where I didn't want to leave until
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I figured it out. So short of going up and
asking him who he is, I just it just hit
me all of a sudden. Former Major League baseball player JD.
Drew was eating dinner at the same sushi restaurant as me,
so random, and I googled it. I googled his family,
or I googled him, and there was a picture of
his family and like two of his family members are
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at the same table, so it was confirmed. And then
I went down our JD. Drew rabbit hole. How much
money did he make over his career? He had brothers
in the game, So it was just like one of
those things where I ran into such a random celebrity
encounter somebody I haven't even thought of, and at least
what fifteen years, it's.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Been a while, and when I think of JD. Drew,
it's funny when you think of the team that he
played for all of them. He just played for notable
teams like I mean Cardinals, Red Sox, Bras.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
He won a World Series with the Red Sox. Yeah,
seven man and in the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yes, he isn't the guy I thought he played for
like twelve different teams. I don't know, know because I
thinking of his brother Steven Drew, who played for six
teams now.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
But it is, it is like on the verge of it,
teeters On, who is that I've seen? I don't know
if you guys have dealt this. I got another athlete
setting I'll tell you about in a bit. But when
you've seen commercial celebrities, I see that around, especially actually
up in Santa Clarita. Jason and I live in the
same area. Because if you're a real celebrity, you're probably
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living in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
There's somewhere up in the Hollywood Hills.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
But if you're getting nice acting work, you know, it's
a beautiful spot to live. And so they'll be like,
there's a guy who used to do the when Washington Mutual,
you wouldn't know him like you would know who he is.
I have seen him at the local barbecue spot, would
ranch at least three times and just just we go
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there a lot.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
It's great.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
But I would see him and I'm like, oh, he's
a resident limbs up here. But you would know him
from commercials. That happens maybe more often than going out
and seeing Tom Hanks at a coffee spot like it's
It's much cooler and more random when you see scenarios
like that. Do you have any celebrity settings, pseudo celebrity settings.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
There's one that may work here sometimes, but before he
worked here, I didn't I knew he played in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Hmm, I'll just say it.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I saw Ryan Hollinds out one time and I was like,
I know that guy, And now I actually know Ryan
Hollins and he's a very nice guy I've seen.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Yes, did he stand out at all just for any
reason whatsoever?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Being a legitimate seven foot was kind of a dead
giveaway of like, yeah, I should know that guy. Frohim somewhere,
but I knew he was a player from the face
and then when he stood up Ryan Hollands, By the way,
there's some guys that are listed is like, you know,
six eight sixty nine, and you're like, oh, he's pretty tall.
Ryan Hollinds is a very tall individual. When you're standing
in a room with him.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Huge seven foot you'd see it. When he came in,
Monzy took a picture of him and he went up
to his about like mid section.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
Yeah, and I was tiptoeing like an idiot, like that
was gonna make a difference.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Not naturally you rub any elbows with celebs in your circles,
Mancy that you can remember.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
I mean like a lot of commercial actors. I know
a lot of commercial actors.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
You are one, I am, I am one.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
But at Universal Studios, the tour guides, many of them
are commercial actors. In fact, do you know that commercial
I think it's progressive. The guy that is like helping
people not become their parents, he has.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Like a mustache. He's a tour guide.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
He's a he's a tour guide and doesn't have a
real mustache, but he's like a tour guide. My friend Natalie,
by the way, he does a great job that he does.
But there's like a lot of my friend Natalie. She
is on a bunch of shows. She's on Law and
Order Organized Crime with Christopher Maloney. This season she gets killed.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
She's a drug old knife.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Yeah, I like her.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah spoiler.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
Okay, do you watch the show?
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Okay, then people never get killed on Law and.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
Orgon Right, that's a that's a that's the thing. But
you know, yeah, so I because of that world that
I was part of.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
I know a lot of commercial I don't even know
if I got the team. Was it Lauren Order?
Speaker 8 (26:21):
What organized crime?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Organized crime? I just called the crime scene. Hey, come
follow twenty seven it's one.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I had the opposite situation where my buddy and I
used to go to this Buffalo Wow Wings all the
time and this girl was like she was a waitress
there and it's like, oh, I'm like an actress whatever,
blah blah blah. And my buddy took her number and
it's like, oh, yeah, we should hang out sometimes and
then he never.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Then he never like followed up. She's on some Netflix show.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Now I'm not gonna give her a name, but she
has like close to a million followers on INSTAGRAMM right, wow,
So it's yeah, he fubbled the bags huge. So I
had the opposite of was nobody anyway, go ahead, no not.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Not only are we the hotbed of of car chases
stopping outside of our building, we are also at a
nexus of celebrities at times. And you know our liquor
store that's just set the next tuck. Scott Bayo was
behind me in line.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
I believe that, yeah, and I give him a plug.
Not the liquor store. Let's call it the liquor store. Well,
go ahead, Winds of the World, Winds of the world, Scott,
your Scott Bayo was behind you at Winds of the World.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
He was.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
He was buying something for his uh, for his his
partner in line, and so it was very interesting. It's
one of my favorite stories. My other favorite story. I've
told this, and Jason, I apologize if you have heard it,
or any of you guys have heard this. But I
went when at one o'clock to Whole Foods one day
for lunch and saw Alex Rodriguez.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
What Yes, But I'm like, the Yankees aren't playing the Dodgers.
The Yankees aren't playing the Angels. They were playing the
A's that night. It's one o'clock in the afternoon, seven
oh five, first pitch in Oakland. A Rod is shopping
in Los Angeles. So I run back to the studio
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and I say, if you guys bet, I don't know
how you could bet. And this is this is years ago, obviously,
So I just saw a Rod at the Whole Foods
six hours before first pitch in Oakland. He's there's no
way he's going to do anything like that's if you bet,
and go ahead and do that. He homered in his
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first at bat, and they walked him the next three times.
He went one for one with three walks. Played in
Oakland that night, probably hopped on a jet from Van Nuys,
flew up there, landed in Oakland where the airport's right
by the stadium, went there boom.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
I legit thought when you were telling the story, was
like post retirement.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
No no playing for they That's what was so crazy,
striking it was. And I didn't know the gang's schedule,
so like I came back and I'm like, that's why
I said. I'm like, they're not playing the Dodgers, and
I don't think they're playing the Angels, so where are
they playing? And they were in Oakland that night, and
six hours before first pitch, he was shopping at old foods.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Another good one for me was it wasn't in La
but it was in Vegas. It was probably about eighteen
months ago. I was during the summertime, but it was
me and my buddy were you know, we were there
for a bachelor party whatever. While walking around, see a
guy walk through the freaking casino and we're like, god,
that guy looks familiar. My buddy's a huge Giants fan,
New York Giants, and he's like, dude, I that guy played.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
For the Giants.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
Who was it?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
It was Antonio Pierce, like six months before he became
the Vegas Raiders head coach, So it was like you
would have never known him, and then he was the
most famous person Vegas.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
And your in that spot there, in Jason spot there,
if you approached them, if you said big baseball fan,
you know you had a great career, I think that
would be I think they would appreciate that, sure, because
not everybody in that place. You may have been the
only one Jason to know that that was JD. Drew, Oh,
no doubt, you know. And on the way out, I
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thought to myself, I do want to just say his
name on the way and like wink at him, like
I'm not a guy that's gonna walk up to and
ask to take a picture or even make a scene.
I just wanted to let him know that I knew
who he was.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yeah, hey JD.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Well he's got Jason also has the end because of
his history in the business. Like I've actually seen you
do that before with people where you could go up
to him, you could just say, hey, a baseball fan.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
You know he played hard.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
And then if he ever like Volley's back for serve,
you can be like, oh, I've been you know, radio
producer with you know, booked athletes, and then it's but
he can he's able to do that. And I don't
think it would be out of the you know, would
be out of pocket for you to be like, appreciate
you playing, you know, you're a fun player to watch
or something like that.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Iowa Sam credit to Jason Stewart because I never would
have recognized JD. Drew out of like any any lineup anywhere.
That's a random player. And for Jason be like I
know who that is, or like I Recoonnie as that
person is very very impressive. I've got six quick names
to go through. I can beat rattle them off real quick.
How about you hit the top two. I gotta, I
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gotta hit all these, okay. I saw Tay Diggs at
that same Whole Foods in line. I saw Jessica Simpson
at the Blue Dog, which is right next to the
Hope for really like a beer pop.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
She was strike me as a Blue Dog kind of guy.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
I think this was before she got like sober and
lost a lot of weight. She looks fantastic. I think
she was still kind of partying and stuff. She was
with her entourage of ladies, but they came in and
everyone was like, oh, hello. For people who don't know,
the Blue Dog is not the kind of place that
a Hollywood sit I know, hang out, but it's exactly
I mean, I like it small.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
It's small.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
I think they went there and probably to kind of
get out of the public eye. I saw Mark Sanchez
on a flight back to la right before the Penn
State USC Rose Bowl with Sam Darnold. Remember the twenty
seventeen Rose Bowl. He was in coach with me amongst
the unwashed. I saw Diana Tarassi at a terminal in
Dallas and nobody recognized her. I made eye contact, I
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have one for that and I looked at and I
just she smiled at me, and I'm like, I know
who you are, but she was she was completely so
it was mutual respect between and I was like, hey,
they're Diana and she's like, hello, there Iowa sam Uh.
And then quickly I saw lamar Odom going through security
at an airport on my coming back somewhere in my
recent trip to Iowa December. And then I saw Chris
Bosh at the Bungalow in Santa Monica, So there you go.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Do I have time for one more? Because you guys, especially.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Why you just took up at two minutes and then
and used the best one first, like I thought you
were going to build.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
Up to it, but no, it was best Sanchez.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
I actually stopped listening so we can see him every week. Jase.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
I was at the Hollywood Burbank Airport about four years ago.
It was a six It was like a six am flight.
Nobody's in this place, and guy walks by me and
I was like, that can't be who I think it is.
It cannot be. So his wife is with his kids.
It was Clayton Kershaw flying to Oklahoma for a rehab assignment,
and I'm like, how is Clayton Kershaw in the Burbank airport.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
At six and nobody recognized him either.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
It was the creepiest thing because like, I wanted to
be the creep and take a picture. I may have
one on my phone because I was like, he's the star.
This was like before they had Mooki and all these
guys and show Hey, he was the face of the
organization and nobody recognized him. The Diana Torazzi point made
me remember that, and he was definitely a one through fifteen.
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We were in for Doug Gottlieb as well. He's Aaron Torres.
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Speaker 5 (33:50):
Off.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
The heels of the Four Nations face off. The excitement
from Thursday. NBA really gets in the full swing tonight.
Got back into action on Wednesday with the one makeup
game for the Lakers than a few games last night,
but really getting into the swing of things, which brings
me to this point. I mentioned last night that I
went to Buffalo Wild Wings, took my wife and three
year old son, who then spent half the time underneath
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the table going back from booth to booth, side to side.
And by the way, eight zero chicken like with like
zero like we thought, okay, maybe have one or two?
Speaker 5 (34:24):
Why not zero chicken? Last night?
Speaker 4 (34:27):
More for me was the good news, but it was
more surprising than my son not eating the barbecue chicken
tender that we gave him. Was the choice of the TVs.
So think back to last night, think back to what
was happening last night. Four Nations face off occurred last night,
and that was on the big TV Moncey NBA game
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last night. I know there was action on TNT. There
was another game that both you and I were interested
in right in the NBA last night.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
Oh yes, of course I was. I thought this was
a question.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
No it's not.
Speaker 8 (35:01):
Yeah, yeah, Clippers Bucks five Clippers Box Eastern.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
And we know that that that was locally on our
southern California LA whatever whatever channel it's on. Now we
can get it here in Los Angeles. This is what
was on the TVs in my Buffalo Wild Wings the
Four Nations face off. Then you had Monmouth against Hofstra.
Oh good on CBS Sports Network yay, NFL Network showing
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the Ladanian Tomlinson special. You had the NHL Network on
airing old Stanley Cup finals from like nineteen seventies. In
nineteen eighty, you had the NBA TV game, not the
TNT game. You had what was happening on NBATV that
was toggling between all the games, yep, yep. And then
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you had the Golf Channel okay, and so Greg Towey,
who you just heard that drop there, would probably agree
with me. These establishments, whether be a Wild Wings or whatever,
you need somebody who knows what's going on.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
The job I propose is each of these places hires
someone to just take care of the TVs. There is
no point for the NHL Network or reason for the
NHL Network to be on when the Four Nations Championship
game between the US and Canada is being played, especially
when the game is from nineteen seventy eight. There is
no reason for it. You need someone to say Clippers
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are on, they're the local team let's put it on there.
I wouldn't even have been offended if they had Lakers pregame,
being like, we want to set up because the Lakers
are here at seven o'clock at night and people want
to make sure they get to the right chairs and seats.
I'm totally fine with that. I cannot stand sports bar
establishments that just get loose with their TVs and have
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garbageohn when there's meaningful sports to watch.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
What I will say really quick, First of all, the
Buffalo owings I used to go to, they did have
like the full sheet of paper, so it'd be like, oh,
if you ask for this game, they know where to go.
Because my father in law is a huge soccer fan
and he has like asked for super obscure like.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Mexican three League whatever. So yeah, so they have that.
And then the only thing I.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Was gonna say, and I think everybody agrees, like you said,
there should never be the channel with the games that
don't have that doesn't have live stuff on, Like why
do we have on NBA TV or NHL tonight whatever
it is. Yes, if there's anything live on, like if
there's only one live thing on, put that on all
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the TVs. I don't need the replay of Bucks Falcons
Week two while I'm trying to eat Buffalo Wild Wings
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
Basics, it's an absolute mess or a show.
Speaker 8 (37:42):
They're talking, It's like I can't hear them talking or
discussing anything. UCLA Women's UCLA was playing last night. Oh yeah, perfect,
it was a last night the last night game for
women's basketball.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
You could have put that on absolutely, but instead we
had Ladanian Tomlinson the life it was and everybody's guessing
at what everybody is saying over that. It's just it's
it's neglect by the way. They seem to be understaff,
even for the few people that were there. Something that
Jason and I, Jason Stewart and I have frequent into
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that Buffalo Wild Wings service not necessarily their strong point, however,
it's doubled down by the lack of TV awareness. But
at least they had the Four Nations on the big screen.
That is the one thing, because otherwise if you actually
misdo the big screen, then you're in really big trouble.
That is yeah, all right, number one, Well that's going
to do it for us. You're in this Saturday again.
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As usual, you and Jason Martin.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Eleven and two am, Yeah, eleven PM, two am on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Eastern time, eight to eleven Pacific. I'll be in with
Kerrie Rhodes coming up on Sunday five Eastern, two Pacific
in the afternoon. Monty Blangials. You'll hear her Saturday with
Steve Hartman at six o'clock Eastern time, three o'clock Pacific
here on Fox Sports Radio. So for Manzi Blagos, Jason
Stewart Iowa, Sam and Eron Torres, I'm Dan Byer. Thanks
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Speaker 5 (00:56):
Manzi blanios this.
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Year Jason Stewart as well Iowa Sam hanging out for
Kapinino and Rich on this Friday Live from Thethiraq dot
Com Studios. Earlier in the show or earlier in the day,
we were in for Doug Gottlieb, and we talked about
the expanding world of college football where we will likely
see changes, and it's the same with college basketball in
possibly seeing changes. Pete Thammeloud reported last weekend that if
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the tournament field was to expand from sixty eight, that
it would go to seventy six, that seventy two wouldn't
be the number, that they would expand it by eight
more schools, And like reading the college football responses, I
feel a lot of people just immediately had a knee
jerk reaction and say, if it ain't broke, don't fix
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it and just keep it as it is. Just keep
it at sixty eight.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Is that fair? Am I saying that?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I think that's a majority of what college basketball, or
at least fans of the sport on the tournament are seve.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So I think that is actually probably the most important
point against expansion.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Like college football, you.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Can like it, you cannot like it, but you can
make the argument, oh, you know, if Alabama had gotten in,
would they have done some damage? And Old Miss was
pretty good? Jackson Dart might end up being a first
round pick. There is no reason to expand the play
the tournament NCAA tournament for two reasons. Besides the fact
that are we really leaving out good teams and we'll
discuss that in a minute.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
But the other thing is it's.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Perfect the way it is. Why why do.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
We have to mess with perfect? Everybody loves it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Everybody knows that First Thursday, I'm gonna get together with
my buddies, I'm gonna go to Buffalo woah Wing's. I'm
gonna go to the casino. I'm gonna do this, I'm
gonna do that. That's the part is there are things
in sports that maybe you don't wanna, you don't want
to see change, but you know have to. There's no
reason to change this other than pure money.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Some people just can't help themselves. Yes, they need they
have a great running car. I need a new car exactly.
I need to change up this room. Our living room
was super, super comfortable. Guess what I need to change it.
I'm gonna get uncomfortable furniture and new colors because I
just can't help myself. I get that. I don't think
that is the NCAA in any way for them to
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wanting to expand their tournament. But I also think when
we look at the field of sixty eight, I think
if you ask those same people who want to keep
it as it is, if you said to those people,
do you want to go back to sixty four, they
would say, yes, absolutely, let's go back to sixty four.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
That's how it was.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I don't think that there's a lot of value and
interest put into the first four games in Dayton, and
definitely compared to the rest of the tournament. But I
don't think people are really caring about those first four
games for the simple fact, Aaron, it doesn't affect the
bracket that they filled out.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Bingo.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
If you're trying to pick between the matchup of Boise
State and Minnesota in that play in game, just use
two random schools. Minnesota's got a lot of work to do,
although they've been played better basketball lately swept Own. But
if you were to pick between those schools, you know
what you're doing in your bracket. You're writing BSU slash
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MN like the winner of that game is going to
then beat whoever the sixth seed is. You're not saying
I'm not gonna pick Xavier because they're playing Minnesota. But
I will pick Xavier because they're playing But nobody does that.
Nobody when they're filling out a bracket that's six '
eleven play in window doesn't matter, and it definitely doesn't
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matter because nobody's really picking the sixteen seed to upset
a one. And so, first of all, those first four
games don't matter in the bracket. So why would adding
more of those make people so mad? Because if that's
what they care about, it shouldn't matter anyway. All you're
doing is writing in more blank slash blank teams Virginia
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slash Vanderbilt. That's who you're writing in that in that
bracket if you were to expand it by seventy expanded
to seventy six teams, because you're taking more at large
teams and having them essentially aaron playing their way into
the tournament, which is how we really look at the
first four. We look at those teams playing themselves into
the tournament. And so that's why I don't understand why
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people get mad. And if you don't care about it, now,
why would you care if they were adding to it?
If you didn't care in the first place, that's My
whole point in expansion is it's really not going to
hurt you as much as you think it is, because
everything that you do with the bracket and filling it
out in your office, bulls and contests really doesn't change
except having a few more games on Tuesday and Wednesday
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of tournament week.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Well, I think the real and I think the reason
that people are against it is kind of what you're
saying from the perspective that I think they think it
completely changes the structure of what that week looks like
for them, when in reality, all you're doing is adding
two games Tuesday, two games Wednesday to the two games
that are already there, the two games that are already
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there Wednesday. What I would also say, though, Dan and
I do think there's something to this. I think sports
fans are starting to get wise to Hey, a lot
of these decisions are only being made for money and
it does not benefit me in any way, shape or form.
So I have this thing that's perfect, and we're debating
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about teams seventy one, seventy two, seventy three that kind
of stinks, and we're not gonna get to in the weeds.
North Carolina right now is sixteen and eleven, they're one
in ten in their eleven biggest games. We call them
quad one games of college basketball. Nobody who watches them
is like, oh, I will be personally offended if they're
left out, and then on top of that, I'll take
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it a step further. I think no, most North Carolina
fans are like, I hate watching this team. I want
the season to be done. What are we gonna do
to get it right next year? And so it's not
as though there's really an argument that any of these
teams actually deserve to be in. You're then disrupting something
that we all love. Now, I do think again, I
don't think people really understand how little it will actually
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impact the bracket. But the third thing, and I really
do think this is something I think sports fans are like,
so you're just gonna expand this, so some dude that
I don't know that works at CBS gets an extra
zero on his check or some uh, you know, conference commissioner,
you know, like even like like like I don't think
like Kentucky fans are like, well, I mean it's it's
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actually kind of good for us if the SEC gets
two extra teams in because we get that much more money.
It's like, no, we watch Fandy, they kind of stink.
We watch Georgia, they kind of stink. They shouldn't be
in the tournament. So I think the part of a
bunch of old dudes in suits getting more money with
no benefit to the consumer, I do think that is
actually a factor in some of this.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
I don't disagree with that.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
And I look at your North Carolina point and the
season is so bad they just want it over, So
why why expand why extend it? It likely would be
extended a week at Yeah, a game at that. If
you get ousted on Wednesday of the ACC tournament, you
gotta wait till Sunday, play on Tuesday. It's a week
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week of your time of being around each other. But
I get it. They don't want to They just want
to end it. But if you continue and it goes
on a run, then things can get exciting.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Can I jump in on one thing real quick before?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Do you want to go? You want to go? You
want to go?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Well, I just I have a point to make about
the teams and the schools that I was mentioning. I
mentioned Virginia, I mentioned Vanderbilt, I mentioned Minnesota, but I
also mentioned Boise State, the school that I actually want
to put in because I think this enhances the argument
for seventy six is let's take last year's Indiana State team.
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I don't know the bubble teams that were left out
last year, I can't remember, except Indiana State and Indiana
State went on the run with cream Abdul Jabbar's now
at Saint Louis because that staff also went to Saint
Louis as well. So Sycamores are not the same Sycamores
this year as they were last year. But last year,
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would you rather have gone on that run in the
n or would you rather have watched that Indiana State
team lost in the NVC final to Drake get one
of those additional eight spots. So it's not necessarily going
to all Power Conference teams. You would have the ability
to have a Cinderella and say, all right, Indiana State,
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here's your opportunity. This is your chance to do it
and actually adds value to a Tuesday night or a
Wednesday night. And sometimes we've had those games. Sometimes we've
had the top of the top UCLA, you know, like
like brand Wise playing that in that first flour So
you're watching that, maybe you're watching a Cinderella. But if
you were to add that and expand that, I think
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it's more so for an Indiana State team who had
a magnificent year but loses in their conference championship game
and doesn't get the automatic bid, I think there are
now more spots for that school, as opposed to say
letting in an unworthy North Carolina team.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
So that would be the number that should be the
number one selling point. I think if you were saying
we're going to go to seventy six and one of
two things happens. One, every automatic qualifier gets into the
main field. So in other words, we have the two sixteen,
you know, the four sixteen teams that play those those
those days. But also if you said a certain and
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I know this gets into the college football automatic whatever.
But basically we're adding eight teams and four of them
are going to be from the nonpower conferences, then I
think that's where you could get away with this a
little bit. The problem is, again, fans aren't stupid. If
you're a Kentucky fan or an Auburn fan and you've
watched Oklahoma all year, who is squarely on the bubble
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they're three and ten in the league play, they're they're
the first team out right now of the bracket. According
to Joe Lenardi at ESPN, they're currently sixteen and ten,
three and ten in the SEC. And it's like if
if you were subbing that team out for say, let's
use the example, that's kind of picking up team here,
Like you see San Diego right now is twenty three
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and four, thirteen and two in their league. If you
see San Diego does not win their conference tournament, they
are probably not getting in. If those were the types
of teams that you said, Okay, let's give them, there's
a couple extra spots. Let's make sure those type teams
get in. That's fine, but it's going to be the
seventeen and fifteen Georgia team, the seventeen and thirteen you
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know whatever. I'm just using hypothetical numbers, the nineteen and
fifteen Vanderbilt team, the nineteen and fifteen Minnesota team, and
it's like, we don't want to see that.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I'll just be quick and I'll toss it back to you.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
This is what I say all the time when a
Michigan or somebody like that makes a sweet sixteen like
I remember a few years ago, Michigan was an eleven
seed and made the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Nobody remembers Michigan making the Sweet Seed.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Oh it was this incredible run.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Little old Michigan made it as an eleven seed.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
But when a George Mason, a weber staatea whoever, when
those teams win a game or two, that's when it
gets really cool. And so yes, I think if there
and I know there's no way to guarantee it, but
I think if if the benefit of the doubt was
being given to the small school that doesn't have a
ton of opportunities to play big games on this stage,
that'd be fine.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
The issue becomes that that is not what's going to happen.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Do you know what? But I'm fine.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
I'm fine with that up until your last sentence, because
that's when I read this stuff or when I see
people respond it to it and say I don't want it,
I don't want it. Well, you're not taking in the
big picture here. How can you make it in a
way that it works for you? And I think that
there are ways to do it. I do also think
that the committee would get that sense of we do
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need to put these schools in. We do need to
put a group of five or mid majors in instead
of schools from the power of the Power conferences, because
we've heard it from Mountain West days, right like, there's
there was an overcorrection.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
There were times in the Mountain Weet wasn't getting anybody in.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Now all of a sudden, Hey, everybody New Mexico, Utah State,
Boise State College, like everybody, let's everybody get in.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
San Diego State.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Obviously, great run to the final four in the National
Championship Game a couple of years ago, but there was
an overcorrection because you heard people chirping over the last
few years, why aren't more schools from this league? So
they do listen, then they do hear that stuff, and
if they hear that message, it allows for it. The
question that I think is interesting when we talk about
let's use that Indiana State team as an example here.
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Now the NIT is completely changing, postseason basketball is completely changing.
Fox is putting on their own tournament with Power five
leagues and postseason tournament outside of the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
So that NIT run.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
That you have probably not the same because the NIT
bracket isn't the same it's not the same bracket. But
if you were Indiana State, would you have traded that
run to the NIT championship game to play in a
first four game in Dayton, not knowing if you were
to win or lose? Of course, I think so as well,
and I think most people would say that. I think
most people that played at Indiana State would just have
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wanted the opportunity. So that then tells me, all right,
then it's worth it. Then let's expand it. Because the
flip side of well, maybe if we didn't deserve it,
we could still go on a run. Nobody really thinks
like that they want to be in the tournament. And
if you put those sort of schools in erin, I
actually think it makes those first two days worthy of
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the tournament to the point where again we aren't looking
at it as real games. We can look at them
as playing games, and maybe that's how we look at
them now. But I think it would legitimize it more
and it wouldn't affect us from getting our bracket pools
into the office by Thursday morning when the first round starts.
None of that would be affected. And I think that's
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the thing that most people are worried about. But there
are actually positives coming from this. If you were to
expand it to seventy six, you'd get more days of basketball.
They were going to add a site, was what Pete
Bamill reported, is you would have a separate site outside
of Dayton that would hold most games as well, which
would be easier to feed to different regions. So it's
more logical of travel wise. All of that actually even
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makes more sense to actually help the bracket and help
these teams. It's not as awful of a deal as
you think it is. People again just hate change, and
if it was an ideal world, we'd go back to
sixty four. But again that's not gonna happen. So let's
look at the positives at seventy six.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Give you Yeah, I agree with pretty much everything he said,
and I do think that.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It's just I think the other thing too, which is.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
A completely different conversation for a completely different day, is that,
and we're seeing this.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
With college football playoff, is that is that.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
If we knew they were gonna stop, Like, my whole
thing is, I just know this stuff too well, and
I know you know it just as well as I do.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Dan, But they're not gonna stop at seventy six.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
And in ten years or eight years, it's gonna be well,
you know, I mean seventy six really feels outdated. What
about you know, we gotta get to this, we gotta
get to that. And it's like, you know, at some
point it gets diluted and the other thing too. And
I you know, I don't think this is this would change,
but like, it's hard enough to get people invested in
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the college basketball regular season, and now if you're basically
saying if you finish above five hundred in a power
conference you're getting in. It's like, I don't know, man,
I just think I think the broad thing about this.
And again, I think it's different from college football. I
don't think anybody thinks that the college football playoff system
is perfect.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I think everybody thinks this is pretty close to perfect.
And the only reason you're expanding is for money. Now,
there's a difference between we can accept it because it's inevitable,
and is this actually something that is going to benefit
the consumer benefit the players involved? Now you could argue
the players involves is different, but is it going to
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benefit the consumer?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
And I don't think that it is.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
In the consumer and the consumer that I truly feel
what the part that is most important to them. Aaron
and I think Jason Stewart would agree on this, and
I think Iowa Sam would agree, and I think Mansi
would agree as well. Is just don't mess with the
first weekend because, honestly, for the excitement that is the
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first weekend. For what it's like around your office, I
mean this is we work in a really cool place
at Fox Sports Radio where we're sitting here and we're
looking at four TVs, all with sports except the one
that had the car chase on that we haven't changed back.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
But by and large, normally twenty four hours a day
there's some sort of sports.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
You get paid to talk about sports, you get paid
to watch sports, you get paid to edit about sports,
you get paid to find the topics about sports that
you want to talk about. All of that is awesome.
There is no better day in this hallway than Thursday
of the NCAA tournament, just because everybody is investing. Everybody's
got their bracket pools, which I would expect is the
same way at any other office basically around the country
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where people are interested in games are going On. That's
the part that it can't mess with. Ninety six expanding
to that point would do that, That would mean it
would mess with it. It would it would the college
football Playoff and how they set it up again. They
had four top brands in their semi final and had
two mega brands, two of the biggest, maybe if not
the biggest in all of college football playing in their
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national championship game in Ohio State and Notre Dame. It's
more important for college basketball protect that first weekend than
anything else, and so that is why I would think
that there would be some trepidation because it isn't about
finding the true champion, because it's more of a crapshoot
than anything else. Considering what they're making teams do, which
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makes Yukon going back to back even more impressive. It's
all about not what's better for the bracket as a whole,
but what you would have to do for that first weekend.
I get it, I get it looking ahead. If you
go this, then what's next. But I would hope that
the powers that be would be smart to realize that
you it just can't mess with that first weekend of
the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
And That's what I'll put a bow on, is the
idea that for me, I just that's what I worry about. Well,
you expand a seventy six, Well how soon is seventy
six not enough? And then all of a sudden, to
your point that the first Thursday to Saturday, first Thursday
to Sunday is as good as any stretch on the
sports calendar. We all agree on it. People plan their
years around it. They book this this far out, that
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far out, et cetera. And that is what I ultimately
worry about, is we're gonna keep expanding, and then all
of a sudden, there's so many games on Tuesday, so
many games on Wednesday, we can't even keep track. That Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Sunday loses some of its.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
It is funny and the exciteming you get from the
first weekend, then then you don't have it for a
couple of days, so you're like, man, I'm missing the tournament.
So then Thursday comes around and you have the double header,
the stagger double header, which gives it your phil Thursday
then gives you your fill on Friday, and then there's
Saturday and you kind of feel empty because there's not
games going on at the same time. It's the worst,
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but those games are for the trip to the final four, sure,
and then so like there is something to play for,
and if your brackets still alive, you're really into it.
The point that I'm trying to make is the national
championship game is probably the least climatic. There is the
most anti climatic of any part of the tournament, because
even the final four weekend, and we've talked about this,
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Saturday is so much better than Monday, even though Monday
you crown a national champion.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I will tell you there are no two worst feelings
in the world than the Saturday. You wake up and
they have the standalone game at noon Eastern and you're like,
I can't I have add I can't switch to another
game right now. And then to your point.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
The.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Saturday the following week to go to the final four,
and you wake up and there's just nothing on at
all until like six Eastern time.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
And that Sunday is weird as well.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
It's weird to not see a score of another game
going on on top of your screen on that regional
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Last night, you also could have found our executive producer
out for sushi with his girlfriend, having a wonderful time
and bumping into stars, apparently at six six to one Sushi.
If we were to that place name named the spot.
That's right, it was six six toy one Sushi, right.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
It is uh six six one area code of Santa Coarita, California.
So I'm eating sushi and I this person like across
the restaurant looks familiar. I just can't place him. And
it takes me like fifteen minutes of it, just like
staring at this guy and telling Christina that facebooks familiar.
I need to place it, and I it's like one
of those things where I didn't want to leave until
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I figured it out. So short of going up and
asking him who he is, I just it just hit
me all of a sudden. Former Major League baseball player JD.
Drew was eating dinner at the same sushi restaurant as me,
so random, and I googled it. I googled his family,
or I googled him, and there was a picture of
his family and like two of his family members are
(22:37):
at the same table, so it was confirmed. And then
I went down our JD. Drew rabbit hole. How much
money did he make over his career? He had brothers
in the game, So it was just like one of
those things where I ran into such a random celebrity
encounter somebody I haven't even thought of, and at least
what fifteen years, it's.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Been a while, and when I think of JD. Drew,
it's funny when you think of the team that he
played for all of them. He just played for notable
teams like I mean Cardinals, Red Sox, Bras.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
He won a World Series with the Red Sox. Yeah,
seven man and in the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yes, he isn't the guy I thought he played for
like twelve different teams. I don't know, know because I
thinking of his brother Steven Drew, who played for six
teams now.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
But it is, it is like on the verge of it,
teeters On, who is that I've seen? I don't know
if you guys have dealt this. I got another athlete
setting I'll tell you about in a bit. But when
you've seen commercial celebrities, I see that around, especially actually
up in Santa Clarita. Jason and I live in the
same area. Because if you're a real celebrity, you're probably
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living in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
There's somewhere up in the Hollywood Hills.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
But if you're getting nice acting work, you know, it's
a beautiful spot to live. And so they'll be like,
there's a guy who used to do the when Washington Mutual,
you wouldn't know him like you would know who he is.
I have seen him at the local barbecue spot, would
ranch at least three times and just just we go
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there a lot.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
It's great.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
But I would see him and I'm like, oh, he's
a resident limbs up here. But you would know him
from commercials. That happens maybe more often than going out
and seeing Tom Hanks at a coffee spot like it's
It's much cooler and more random when you see scenarios
like that. Do you have any celebrity settings, pseudo celebrity settings.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
There's one that may work here sometimes, but before he
worked here, I didn't I knew he played in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Hmm, I'll just say it.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I saw Ryan Hollinds out one time and I was like,
I know that guy, And now I actually know Ryan
Hollins and he's a very nice guy I've seen.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Yes, did he stand out at all just for any
reason whatsoever?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Being a legitimate seven foot was kind of a dead
giveaway of like, yeah, I should know that guy. Frohim somewhere,
but I knew he was a player from the face
and then when he stood up Ryan Hollands, By the way,
there's some guys that are listed is like, you know,
six eight sixty nine, and you're like, oh, he's pretty tall.
Ryan Hollinds is a very tall individual. When you're standing
in a room with him.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Huge seven foot you'd see it. When he came in,
Monzy took a picture of him and he went up
to his about like mid section.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
Yeah, and I was tiptoeing like an idiot, like that
was gonna make a difference.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Not naturally you rub any elbows with celebs in your circles,
Mancy that you can remember.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
I mean like a lot of commercial actors. I know
a lot of commercial actors.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
You are one, I am, I am one.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
But at Universal Studios, the tour guides, many of them
are commercial actors. In fact, do you know that commercial
I think it's progressive. The guy that is like helping
people not become their parents, he has.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Like a mustache. He's a tour guide.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
He's a he's a tour guide and doesn't have a
real mustache, but he's like a tour guide. My friend Natalie,
by the way, he does a great job that he does.
But there's like a lot of my friend Natalie. She
is on a bunch of shows. She's on Law and
Order Organized Crime with Christopher Maloney. This season she gets killed.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
She's a drug old knife.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Yeah, I like her.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah spoiler.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
Okay, do you watch the show?
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Okay, then people never get killed on Law and.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
Orgon Right, that's a that's a that's the thing. But
you know, yeah, so I because of that world that
I was part of.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
I know a lot of commercial I don't even know
if I got the team. Was it Lauren Order?
Speaker 8 (26:21):
What organized crime?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Organized crime? I just called the crime scene. Hey, come
follow twenty seven it's one.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I had the opposite situation where my buddy and I
used to go to this Buffalo Wow Wings all the
time and this girl was like she was a waitress
there and it's like, oh, I'm like an actress whatever,
blah blah blah. And my buddy took her number and
it's like, oh, yeah, we should hang out sometimes and
then he never.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Then he never like followed up. She's on some Netflix show.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Now I'm not gonna give her a name, but she
has like close to a million followers on INSTAGRAMM right, wow,
So it's yeah, he fubbled the bags huge. So I
had the opposite of was nobody anyway, go ahead, no not.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Not only are we the hotbed of of car chases
stopping outside of our building, we are also at a
nexus of celebrities at times. And you know our liquor
store that's just set the next tuck. Scott Bayo was
behind me in line.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
I believe that, yeah, and I give him a plug.
Not the liquor store. Let's call it the liquor store. Well,
go ahead, Winds of the World, Winds of the world, Scott,
your Scott Bayo was behind you at Winds of the World.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
He was.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
He was buying something for his uh, for his his
partner in line, and so it was very interesting. It's
one of my favorite stories. My other favorite story. I've
told this, and Jason, I apologize if you have heard it,
or any of you guys have heard this. But I
went when at one o'clock to Whole Foods one day
for lunch and saw Alex Rodriguez.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
What Yes, But I'm like, the Yankees aren't playing the Dodgers.
The Yankees aren't playing the Angels. They were playing the
A's that night. It's one o'clock in the afternoon, seven
oh five, first pitch in Oakland. A Rod is shopping
in Los Angeles. So I run back to the studio
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and I say, if you guys bet, I don't know
how you could bet. And this is this is years ago, obviously,
So I just saw a Rod at the Whole Foods
six hours before first pitch in Oakland. He's there's no
way he's going to do anything like that's if you bet,
and go ahead and do that. He homered in his
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first at bat, and they walked him the next three times.
He went one for one with three walks. Played in
Oakland that night, probably hopped on a jet from Van Nuys,
flew up there, landed in Oakland where the airport's right
by the stadium, went there boom.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
I legit thought when you were telling the story, was
like post retirement.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
No no playing for they That's what was so crazy,
striking it was. And I didn't know the gang's schedule,
so like I came back and I'm like, that's why
I said. I'm like, they're not playing the Dodgers, and
I don't think they're playing the Angels, so where are
they playing? And they were in Oakland that night, and
six hours before first pitch, he was shopping at old foods.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Another good one for me was it wasn't in La
but it was in Vegas. It was probably about eighteen
months ago. I was during the summertime, but it was
me and my buddy were you know, we were there
for a bachelor party whatever. While walking around, see a
guy walk through the freaking casino and we're like, god,
that guy looks familiar. My buddy's a huge Giants fan,
New York Giants, and he's like, dude, I that guy played.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
For the Giants.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
Who was it?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
It was Antonio Pierce, like six months before he became
the Vegas Raiders head coach, So it was like you
would have never known him, and then he was the
most famous person Vegas.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
And your in that spot there, in Jason spot there,
if you approached them, if you said big baseball fan,
you know you had a great career, I think that
would be I think they would appreciate that, sure, because
not everybody in that place. You may have been the
only one Jason to know that that was JD. Drew, Oh,
no doubt, you know. And on the way out, I
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thought to myself, I do want to just say his
name on the way and like wink at him, like
I'm not a guy that's gonna walk up to and
ask to take a picture or even make a scene.
I just wanted to let him know that I knew
who he was.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yeah, hey JD.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Well he's got Jason also has the end because of
his history in the business. Like I've actually seen you
do that before with people where you could go up
to him, you could just say, hey, a baseball fan.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
You know he played hard.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
And then if he ever like Volley's back for serve,
you can be like, oh, I've been you know, radio
producer with you know, booked athletes, and then it's but
he can he's able to do that. And I don't
think it would be out of the you know, would
be out of pocket for you to be like, appreciate
you playing, you know, you're a fun player to watch
or something like that.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Iowa Sam credit to Jason Stewart because I never would
have recognized JD. Drew out of like any any lineup anywhere.
That's a random player. And for Jason be like I
know who that is, or like I Recoonnie as that
person is very very impressive. I've got six quick names
to go through. I can beat rattle them off real quick.
How about you hit the top two. I gotta, I
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gotta hit all these, okay. I saw Tay Diggs at
that same Whole Foods in line. I saw Jessica Simpson
at the Blue Dog, which is right next to the
Hope for really like a beer pop.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
She was strike me as a Blue Dog kind of guy.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
I think this was before she got like sober and
lost a lot of weight. She looks fantastic. I think
she was still kind of partying and stuff. She was
with her entourage of ladies, but they came in and
everyone was like, oh, hello. For people who don't know,
the Blue Dog is not the kind of place that
a Hollywood sit I know, hang out, but it's exactly
I mean, I like it small.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
It's small.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
I think they went there and probably to kind of
get out of the public eye. I saw Mark Sanchez
on a flight back to la right before the Penn
State USC Rose Bowl with Sam Darnold. Remember the twenty
seventeen Rose Bowl. He was in coach with me amongst
the unwashed. I saw Diana Tarassi at a terminal in
Dallas and nobody recognized her. I made eye contact, I
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have one for that and I looked at and I
just she smiled at me, and I'm like, I know
who you are, but she was she was completely so
it was mutual respect between and I was like, hey,
they're Diana and she's like, hello, there Iowa sam Uh.
And then quickly I saw lamar Odom going through security
at an airport on my coming back somewhere in my
recent trip to Iowa December. And then I saw Chris
Bosh at the Bungalow in Santa Monica, So there you go.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Do I have time for one more? Because you guys, especially.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Why you just took up at two minutes and then
and used the best one first, like I thought you
were going to build.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
Up to it, but no, it was best Sanchez.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
I actually stopped listening so we can see him every week. Jase.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
I was at the Hollywood Burbank Airport about four years ago.
It was a six It was like a six am flight.
Nobody's in this place, and guy walks by me and
I was like, that can't be who I think it is.
It cannot be. So his wife is with his kids.
It was Clayton Kershaw flying to Oklahoma for a rehab assignment,
and I'm like, how is Clayton Kershaw in the Burbank airport.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
At six and nobody recognized him either.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
It was the creepiest thing because like, I wanted to
be the creep and take a picture. I may have
one on my phone because I was like, he's the star.
This was like before they had Mooki and all these
guys and show Hey, he was the face of the
organization and nobody recognized him. The Diana Torazzi point made
me remember that, and he was definitely a one through fifteen.
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Speaker 4 (33:40):
It's Covino and Rich here on Fox Sports Radio Lot
from the Tirec dot com studios. It's been a fun afternoon.
We were in for Doug Gottlieb as well. He's Aaron Torres.
I'm Dan byer.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
Off.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
The heels of the Four Nations face off. The excitement
from Thursday. NBA really gets in the full swing tonight.
Got back into action on Wednesday with the one makeup
game for the Lakers than a few games last night,
but really getting into the swing of things, which brings
me to this point. I mentioned last night that I
went to Buffalo Wild Wings, took my wife and three
year old son, who then spent half the time underneath
(34:13):
the table going back from booth to booth, side to side.
And by the way, eight zero chicken like with like
zero like we thought, okay, maybe have one or two?
Speaker 5 (34:24):
Why not zero chicken? Last night?
Speaker 4 (34:27):
More for me was the good news, but it was
more surprising than my son not eating the barbecue chicken
tender that we gave him. Was the choice of the TVs.
So think back to last night, think back to what
was happening last night. Four Nations face off occurred last night,
and that was on the big TV Moncey NBA game
(34:49):
last night. I know there was action on TNT. There
was another game that both you and I were interested
in right in the NBA last night.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
Oh yes, of course I was. I thought this was
a question.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
No it's not.
Speaker 8 (35:01):
Yeah, yeah, Clippers Bucks five Clippers Box Eastern.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
And we know that that that was locally on our
southern California LA whatever whatever channel it's on. Now we
can get it here in Los Angeles. This is what
was on the TVs in my Buffalo Wild Wings the
Four Nations face off. Then you had Monmouth against Hofstra.
Oh good on CBS Sports Network yay, NFL Network showing
(35:29):
the Ladanian Tomlinson special. You had the NHL Network on
airing old Stanley Cup finals from like nineteen seventies. In
nineteen eighty, you had the NBA TV game, not the
TNT game. You had what was happening on NBATV that
was toggling between all the games, yep, yep. And then
(35:49):
you had the Golf Channel okay, and so Greg Towey,
who you just heard that drop there, would probably agree
with me. These establishments, whether be a Wild Wings or whatever,
you need somebody who knows what's going on.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
The job I propose is each of these places hires
someone to just take care of the TVs. There is
no point for the NHL Network or reason for the
NHL Network to be on when the Four Nations Championship
game between the US and Canada is being played, especially
when the game is from nineteen seventy eight. There is
no reason for it. You need someone to say Clippers
(36:27):
are on, they're the local team let's put it on there.
I wouldn't even have been offended if they had Lakers pregame,
being like, we want to set up because the Lakers
are here at seven o'clock at night and people want
to make sure they get to the right chairs and seats.
I'm totally fine with that. I cannot stand sports bar
establishments that just get loose with their TVs and have
(36:48):
garbageohn when there's meaningful sports to watch.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
What I will say really quick, First of all, the
Buffalo owings I used to go to, they did have
like the full sheet of paper, so it'd be like, oh,
if you ask for this game, they know where to go.
Because my father in law is a huge soccer fan
and he has like asked for super obscure like.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Mexican three League whatever. So yeah, so they have that.
And then the only thing I.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Was gonna say, and I think everybody agrees, like you said,
there should never be the channel with the games that
don't have that doesn't have live stuff on, Like why
do we have on NBA TV or NHL tonight whatever
it is. Yes, if there's anything live on, like if
there's only one live thing on, put that on all
(37:31):
the TVs. I don't need the replay of Bucks Falcons
Week two while I'm trying to eat Buffalo Wild Wings
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
Basics, it's an absolute mess or a show.
Speaker 8 (37:42):
They're talking, It's like I can't hear them talking or
discussing anything. UCLA Women's UCLA was playing last night. Oh yeah, perfect,
it was a last night the last night game for
women's basketball.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
You could have put that on absolutely, but instead we
had Ladanian Tomlinson the life it was and everybody's guessing
at what everybody is saying over that. It's just it's
it's neglect by the way. They seem to be understaff,
even for the few people that were there. Something that
Jason and I, Jason Stewart and I have frequent into
(38:14):
that Buffalo Wild Wings service not necessarily their strong point, however,
it's doubled down by the lack of TV awareness. But
at least they had the Four Nations on the big screen.
That is the one thing, because otherwise if you actually
misdo the big screen, then you're in really big trouble.
That is yeah, all right, number one, Well that's going
to do it for us. You're in this Saturday again.
(38:35):
As usual, you and Jason Martin.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Eleven and two am, Yeah, eleven PM, two am on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Eastern time, eight to eleven Pacific. I'll be in with
Kerrie Rhodes coming up on Sunday five Eastern, two Pacific
in the afternoon. Monty Blangials. You'll hear her Saturday with
Steve Hartman at six o'clock Eastern time, three o'clock Pacific
here on Fox Sports Radio. So for Manzi Blagos, Jason
Stewart Iowa, Sam and Eron Torres, I'm Dan Byer. Thanks
(39:00):
for having have a great weekend. We'll talk to you Monday.
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