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brad and Chris.
Brad, how are you doing tonight?
Fantastic, that's all right.
We'll move on to Chris.
Chris, how are you doingtonight?
Great.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
How are you doing?

Speaker 1 (01:15):
I love to hear it.
Love to hear it.
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oh my goodness, uh, segment,sure segment.
Thank you very much, chris.
See, this is why chris isbetter than you, brad, because

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he knows things.
Moving on, we have somethingwe're going to do for the rest
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Speaking of the NFL, let's getinto the recap here for the

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weekend.
If you're Patrick Mahomes, areyou just?
What do you do when you go home?
Are you just bored?
At this point, you don't evenhave to play good, and yet you
still win games.
And if you're Josh Allen,you're on Jeff Epstein's suicide
watch right now.
No one's really payingattention, but they should be.
So what do we think?

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What are you guys' thoughts onthe game on Sunday?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Brad do you want to go first?
No, I will let you debunk that.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
I don't know how you could say Mahomes didn't play
well, I mean, he didn't play bad.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
No, no, not at all.
Didn't play bad but at the sametime to be considered,
quote-unquote, the greatestquarterback in the league and
not even be in the top five forMVP voting, going 15-2?
.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
I think that was the best that he's ever done here.
Here their line looked betterthan normal.
They're blocking for hunt andpacheco.
I don't know I somehow kelseywasn't part of the game plan,
which was weird that had alittle bit of vegas call to it.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
to me, honestly, for a guy that averages a touchdown
every AFC championship and he'splayed in what like six of them,
a little weird that he justwasn't a part of the game plan
at all.
But when I look at who do youthink played better?
Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes?
But, when I look at who do you?

Speaker 2 (04:29):
think played better Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes,
it doesn't matter.
The only thing is such acoaching deficiency that the
quarterback play doesn't matter.
Josh McDermott doesn't knowwhat he's doing, can't beat
these guys in the playoffs.
He's a small person.
Like the calls that he'schallenging and everything else.
It's just unreal what he doeson the sidelines for these games

(04:51):
.
I'd rather have Bricks.
Kids play Madden.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
I would have challenged that pass.
They ruled a catch anyway.
I mean, I don't disagree withthat one.
I don't know whether it was orwasn't, you can argue that
either way, but it seemed likeone.
The Bills guy had his hands onthe ball and more of it, and
then the ball touched the ground.
I don't know, I don't thinkPretty clearly Before we get too

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far.
This game's not rigged.
Okay, no, we know, just stop.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
This was not a rigged game.
However, that was a first downon the 40-yard line, for sure.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Okay, I don't know.
One more thing how does he nottake a timeout on the fourth
down play?
You have the biggest play ofyour season and you don't take a
timeout there.
I just don't understand.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
You need all three.
Why If you don't take a timeoutthere?
I just don't understand.
You need all three, why, if youdon't get?

Speaker 3 (05:47):
it, you need it all three.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Pretty simple.
You need it all three.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
All the timeout, get the first down, or they could
have just ruled that DaltonKincaid had got the first down
on third down.
Didn't they have a?

Speaker 1 (06:03):
different, different, different place.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
No, you find it funny that the you find it funny that
the fans in return donated toDalton Kincaid's charity After
the bill donated to Mark Andrewsthe week before.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
People, helping people man.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
You know what?
It's not the worst way to chirpsomebody.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, I like that better than half this other
nonsense that goes on.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, you knew.
When they got that fourth down,it was kind of a feeling that,
yeah, this game's over, whichthat's what happens when you run
into the Chiefs in the playoffsand you give them both a chance
to win the game.
They're going to do it.
So, however, more excitinglyand personally my favorite part
of the weekend, the Commandersgot their backs blown out on

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national television and I was soexcited to see Jamie Daniels
like shit and be proven as thefraud as he is against a good
defense.
Um, Chris, I know you're anEagles fan and I'll be honest
with you.
This was a closer game than forcloser game.
For a majority of it.
It went on for longer than Ithought it would.

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Um, Brad, congratulations.
Somehow Saquon's under hit Inthe over of the game.
That's only because he didn'tplay in the fourth quarter,
because the commanders arefrauds and we knew it the whole
time.
Black magic did not work.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Alright, alright, alright, let's hang on.
Time out.
There's no time out.
There is time out.
There is time out.
I just called one.
I get three.
Jane Danes didn't play that bad, okay.
Every time the commanders weretrying to get back into that
game, somebody fumbles the ballaway.

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I don't understand what thehell happened, but who are these
guys that are fumbling the ballaway?
I don't understand what thehell happened, but who are these
guys that are fumbling the ball?
This was ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
I don't.
I think it was popcorn in thelocker room.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Chris, yeah, your season's on the line.
What are we doing here?
They also decided not to runthe ball at all.
I mean partially because theycouldn't, but they also didn't
try.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
No, they were running a two-back system the last four
weeks and then all of a sudden,austin Eckler gets three
carries, fucks my bet over.
But you're right, they reallydidn't try and run the ball.
I feel like after theirdefensive coordinator made that
statement about Jalen Hurts,their head coach goes oh fuck,
jaden can't run.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
He's going to get killed.
He's a little small.
He's going to get murdered.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
He's going to die.
They're going to be going forhis head.
However this was exactly what Ineeded.
I can't wait until they missthe playoffs next year.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
You're such a hater I am, you don't need other people
to fail to make you feel betterabout how shitty the Bears were
this year that's not true.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
100% makes me feel better.
It is, it works.
You should try it.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
It feels great no, the only person I do, the only
person I wish misery upon, isNick Sirian.
Unfortunately, he's probablygoing to win a Super Bowl in
spite of himself.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Because now I can sit here and laugh and go ha-ha,
you got no trophy, Ha-ha.
You have the fourth pick in thedraft, or, sorry, the 28th pick
in the draft now.
Good luck getting what you need.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
They are going to get what they need.
He's in South Florida.
His name is Tyreek Hill.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Go get Tyreek Hill.
I don't know if he's a goodcomp with Terry McLaurin.
Tyreek Hill doesn't do well intwo wide receiver one setups.
Have fun.
Plus.
I don't think DC allows you tohave 12 kids in that city so
sure.

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I think they've got populationissues.
I don't think they're going tolike it, but whatever.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
I think they're going to have it, but whatever, I
think they're going to have aproblem.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Just to fact check the post.
Tonight they play in Landover.
Maryland.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
They're the Washington DC commanders Fuck
off.
Secondly, moving forward, wenow have possibly in my opinion
as an outsider two of the worstmatchups possible you had for
the college football playoffwith Ohio State and Notre Dame,

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and now in the Super Bowl withthe Chiefs and the Eagles.
Brad obviously has a bet on theEagles and Chris is an Eagles
fan.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
I am not an Eagles fan.
Why do people keep lumping meinto these damn Eagles?
I can't stand.
Nick Sirianni.
Chris is an.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
Eagles fan.
That's only the kind of hateyou have.
When it's your team, you canget out of the closet.
We all know it's true.
Does that make?

Speaker 3 (11:47):
me an Ohio State fan too.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
No, no, everybody hates Ryan Day.
Yeah, I mean as an outsider,this is the most boring possible
championship weekends.
I could ask for the mostupsetting for sure.
It's kind of you look, oh, youopen ESPN on your phone, you see

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Super Bowl LIX and you go fuckBecause you know it's just no
matter what I get it.
The Eagles have had a lot ofsuccess over the last eight
years and really don't have alot of hardware to show for it,
and the Chiefs are going on athree-peat which nobody wants to

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watch.
So, yeah, I'm going to probablybe rooting for the Eagles
because I hate the Chiefs.
The same way I hate JaneDaniels and the Commanders Not
as much, probably not as much,but I am sick of the whole
Travis Kelsey.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
You hate the Chiefs because they are everything you
wish the Bears could be.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
No, I hate the Chiefs for the way they play the game.
It's like if you had 11 gamemanagers on both sides of the
ball and it's like, yeah, we'rejust looking to not get beat,
we're not going to beat you,we're just looking to not get
beat.
Honestly, when I watch theChiefs, that's what I see.

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It's like we're going to putyou in some tough spots.
You're going to have to makeall your plays to beat us.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
That's great.
They've done it different waysevery time.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
I understand it's great, but it's like watching 11
Kirk Cousins out there.
It's fucking boring, and whenit happens 15 times in a season,
I want to shoot myself.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
I wish I was a Chiefs fan.
I'd be having a lot of funright now.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
unfortunately, I'm sure everybody in Kansas City,
missouri, is having a blastbecause, god knows, there's
nothing else to do there.
So good for you.
Well, brad, you've been awfullyquiet tonight.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
I feel like it's the person who's running the show to
just be a hater on everything.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
So I guess you're taking that mantle very well.
I'm not trying to be a hater.
These are stances I've hadsince the start of the season.
Was I wish you know what?
Not since the start of theseason?
I guess the Chiefs probablypicked up around week 8 when
they were 8-0.
And the Commanders after theHail Mary, that's fair.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Those are both fair the.
Commanders somehow made it asfar as they did.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
For not really being that great of a team.
They got up farther.
They were never good.
They played one good game allseason and it was against the
Lions.
You shouldn't have beat theBucs.
You shouldn't have beat theEagles in.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Week 17 17.
I would have much rather seenBaker Mayfield.
You shouldn't have won theleague in week 18 Against Dallas
.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
You should have lost to Dallas again.
They're not.
They weren't good.
They are exactly who we thoughtthey were.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, but if you remember correctly, I brought up
the trend that every time ateam plays the Lions, they one
don't cover and B flat out lose.
So that trend continued, withthe Vikings losing and not
covering and the Commanderslosing and not covering.
Wait, what.
Yeah, I brought this up earlierin the season.

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Every time a team plays theLions the week after, they do
not cover or win.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Interesting.
Well, we'll have to track thatin the next year Because that's
not going to happen again forthe rest of the year.
An important topic I wanted totalk about that we really didn't
get into last week, which Ifeel like we should have Is
Should Playoff matchups andplayoff games affect MVP voting?

Speaker 2 (16:24):
No, they don't.
The votes are casted before theplayoffs even start.
If you knew ball, you'd have achance.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
I understand.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
That's why I know how the system works, should they
matter?
Because, let's be honest,nothing matters until the
postseason.
You just got to get there.
We can look at Jared Goff, whohad a legitimate mvp candidacy
this year maybe not, maybe,maybe whatever wasn't bad.

(16:53):
But then why not throw joeburrow in there?
Because he was clearly thebetter quarterback, but yet his
team didn't make the playoff, sothat's why he's not a favorite.
So it does matter.
But then you don't want to takethe playoffs into account.
Why?

Speaker 3 (17:11):
alright, so what you just said was so stupid.
If Burrow's not on that team,they're still not in the
playoffs.
So he wasn't very valuable.
Yeah, did he have the beststats?
Yeah, should this be a statsthing?
No, is it kind of a stats thing?
Yes, so he wasn't very valuable.
Yeah, did he have the beststats?
Yeah, should this be a statsthing?
No, is it kind of a stats thing?

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yes, it is definitely a stats thing.
Fuck the kind of so Lamar's.
If it wasn't a stats thing.
If it wasn't a stats thing,then Patrick Mahomes would have
won the MVP.
All right, It'd already behanded to him.
His team won 15-2.
It's not a stats thing.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
He's the quarterback on the best team in the league.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
Valuable Okay.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
If some other schlub is on the Chiefs.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
Are they winning 15 games?
No, no, 13.
Okay, carson Wentz looked realgood in Week 18.
What?

Speaker 2 (18:18):
was Alex Smith's record before Mahomes took over.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
What was Matt Castle's record the year he
played for Tom Brady?
Why are you?
Yeah, exactly, it's the system.
So Tom Brady wasn't good.
I mean he went he was good.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
If Matt Castle can do it, anybody can do it.
You can be good and have a goodsystem.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Whoa, whoa, whoa Put some respect on Matt.
Castle's name.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Don't let Joey out of here Because he's making Stupid
.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
What are you doing over there?
Who me, yeah, come out fromunder your bridge.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
You're just sitting there Quiet tonight Like someone
pooped in your cereal.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, it's called Xavier.
Fuck them.
I don't know why.
I thought they'd Do anything.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
I don't know why you thought they'd win either.
They're bad First team out fora reason.
But we'll get into collegebasketball later.
What are your thoughts here?
Because you just seem like thebiggest negative Nancy in the
world right now.
But we'll get into collegebasketball later.
What are your thoughts here?
Because you just seem like thebiggest negative Nancy in the
world right now.
I'm not loving it.
Thoughts on what.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Anything we've said today.
I correctly predicted thecollege football playoff bracket
.
I correctly predicted the SuperBowl.
What else?

Speaker 3 (19:47):
do you want me to say Okay?
Thank you, lord, in a secondOkay, thank you, lord and Savior
, Bradley, yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
I don't know who put a stick up there, but you can
get it out yourself.
I mean, I'm not going to take avictory lap, but that sounded
like a victory lap.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
It for sure sounded like a victory lap, to be
completely honest.
I'm the best, and yet mybetting record is still negative
.
We're not playing this game.
I'm 32 and 31, but I'm the I'mtired of this bullshit.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Put him in the butter box for a second.
Those games were boring.
I did not watch either of them.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
So how can you say they were boring if you didn't
watch either of them?
Saw the highlights, saw thestat boxes?

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Right, exactly this is the same shit with my sources
.
It said that they were boring.
There's an unmute button, bythe way.
Just letting you know All rightJoe.
You know what You're done,you're done.
You had your chance to talk,you didn't talk, you're done.

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We're going to move on to therecent news in Illinois here.
I guess it's not so recent, butwe haven't had a chance to talk
about on the podcast yet.
Illinois is the first state toban kicker props, as well as
first plays, replay outcomes orwhether a kicker will or will
not make a field goal.
They say these bets aresusceptible to manipulation and

(21:26):
are predetermined or a hundredpercent determinable by one
person.
That's why they're getting ridof these bets.
However, that makes me question.
I feel like a lot of otherthings in sports can be
determined by one person.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
I believe it was a push by the NCAA at first in
Illinois.
It just decided to run with itbecause that's what Illinois
does.
They're really bad.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
But as far as I mean some of this stuff, I would
agree.
Right, so color of the Gatoradedumped on the head coach.
Somebody knows that in advanceLength of the national anthem,
there were people that watchedpractice.
Yeah, we had.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
You haven't heard that story, Chris.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
I have heard the story, which is where I was
going to.
Trying to lead this podcastsomewhere is getting difficult.
I'll just tee it up for you andthen you question whether I
heard the story or not.
Please tell the story.
No, now you're not going totell the story, just tell the
fucking story Brad.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Just tell the story.
One year we had one of our manysources.
He was in the National Guardfor the National Anthem.
He was at all the rehearsals,timed every single rehearsal.
So we had the National Anthemdown to the second.
So we had Unders, alternateUnders.

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It was a joyous day in Fenwick305.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
Those are some of the bands.
I think that should be bannedbecause that is ridiculous
they're correct and they're onlysusceptible to the super bowl.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
I mean, we're talking about picks that are once in a
year, so those getting banned,not a big deal.
However, your first plays thoseare every week your kicker to
miss or make.
Those are every week yourkicker to miss or make.
Those are every week.
And your lightning bets, youknow, 16 times a week.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
What else am I missing here?
We'll see what they do with it.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
I'm not sure if I've ever seen a replay outcome bet.
I don't know if you guys have.
I've never thought that wasbettable at all.
I have not, so maybe that wasonetable at all.
I have not, so maybe that wasone that went into immediate
effect.
But I just thought that was agood piece of sports betting
information that all you guysshould know.
Does anyone have a pooped intheir cereal this week?

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Anything bad happen to anyonethis weekend?

Speaker 2 (24:02):
I can laugh at yeah, Xavier Basketball didn't cover
again.
They suck.
They're going to be in the NIT.
They should, as of January 30th2025, fire Sean Miller.
Fire Sean.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Miller, I'm going to be completely honest with you.
I don't know if it's SeanMiller's fault.
I just don't think they havethe talent.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Who builds the roster ?
The coach.
So I already have my coach inplace that's going to replace
and rejuvenate the Xavierprogram.
I want Sean Miller to the curb.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
Thank you.
Who's the person?

Speaker 2 (24:42):
you want.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
Who's this coach?

Speaker 2 (24:47):
As the general manager of Xavier Musketeer
Basketball, I will be givingWill Wade a blank check.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
I like how easy it is to write these blank checks.
When it's not your money, it'snot their money either.
Let's be honest.
That's a good point yeah, yeah,all right, it's not their money
either.
Let's be honest, that's a goodpoint.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Yeah, yeah, all right .
Speaking of xavier time to moveinto some college basketball
here wait nobody else hadpooping I had nothing.
I had a great weekend.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
I met the don that's pretty cool, a few.
Um, anybody on twitter who'syelling at josh allen, they
should have thrown the ball toshakir on the orbit motion has
never played football before.
Um, anyone saying he shouldhave checked the protection has
never played football before.

(25:42):
And uh, yeah, all of you ontwitter, just shut the hell up,
because you don't know whatyou're talking about.
So stop saying oh, I watchedthe video of the dots of the
guys moving, and no one wentthat way.
Yeah, that's not how footballworks.
Played in real time, and he wasnever going to throw it.
Eight yards behind the line ofscrimmage on fourth and five

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against the zone defense, whichis what he read before the play,
and it's pretty much what hegot.
Well, no one moved out therefast enough.
If you were watching the dotsin the video, they had don't
care, shut up.
So you play sports and that'sit.
In your mom's basement typingon your computer.
Go somewhere else.

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That's what I got for you.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
That's grass more importantly, all right.
Thank you, that was a great whomoved in your series.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Way to ask.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
All right Time to move on to some college
basketball.
Obviously, we just talked aboutXavier being one of the first
teams out.
Obviously, that's not going tochange after tonight.
Something that I find prettycool is the SEC has now turned
into a basketball conference.
They've given up on footballafter probably the most abysmal
season in the SEC in the last 25years.

(26:58):
Ha-ha, get fucked.
Now you're going to basketball.
Good for them.
I'm glad they're excelling atsomething, because it's clearly
not academics.
Ten teams in the top 25, sevenof those teams in the top 15.
What do you guys thinkdetermines this change?
Do you think NIL has anythingto do with this?
To do with what exactly?

(27:23):
The recent success of SECbasketball?
Oh, I just had.
I went on a whole 30-second rantabout it Exactly the recent
success of SEC basketball.
Oh, I just had.
I went on a whole 30-secondrant about it.
Chris, nothing.
Maybe it is NIL, maybe it's not.
Maybe it's good coaching Comesand goes.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
I mean NIL, I think, has more to do with spreading
out the talent, but that's aboutit.
I don't know that.
That's why a conference is good.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah, they're not all going to Duke and North
Carolina anymore.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
I think NIL and college sports each sports its
own separate entity.
I think college basketball weget years where conferences are
super up and super down.
You look at, a couple years agoWest Virginia finished 8-10 in
conference and made the NCAAtournament.
The Big 12 was stacked lastyear.
So I just think it's kind ofthe chips fall where they may.

(28:22):
I mean you had Vanderbilt andMississippi State come out of
nowhere.
You had Florida come out ofnowhere.
You knew Alabama, auburn andTennessee were going to be
pretty good.
Kentucky's a nice surprise.
You knew they would be somewhatcompetent.
And then you know Arkansas andOklahoma hanging around.
It's a good league.
You got a lot of good coaches.

(28:43):
So and you know they, they'reup.
And look how many conferencesare down.
I'd say the big east is downthis year.
I'd say the big, the big 10s,the big 10, that's fine.
I'd say the big 12 is down thisyear.
From the overall competitivestandpoint.
The ACC is really down.

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It's just Duke and Louisville.
Everybody else is not goodSpeaking of.
I just don't know if thelisteners know there's a new
tournament this year.
The top two teams that don'tmake the NCAA tournament in

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every conference play in somelike cup.
I don't know what it's called.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Crowns Cup Is it?

Speaker 2 (29:36):
the Crowns.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Something like that.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
So if you're a power five school, don't make the
tournament.
You're in the Crowns Cup and Iassume that it would also be
taking place.
But yeah, I mentioned this afew months ago but I'm sure none
of you remembered.
Joey didn't remember Utah State.
That's the team.
Bet them, watch them, ride them.

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They're going to be America'steam in March.
Heard it here first.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Is this our new Oakland?

Speaker 2 (30:11):
No, no, because Utah State's going to be a five seed
and they're going to be heavilyfavored.
They're going to be a top seed.
They're going to be heavilyfavored in their first-round
matchup.
So unfortunately, they're notgoing to be our darling at a

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high seed.
Will Wade's probably going toget McNeese State back in.
They'll be a 13-15 seed.
So look for them.
Also, look for whoever wins.
The MAAC is going to be a toughout.
I'm excited.
I project at least two SECteams will make the Final Four.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
Yeah, while we're speaking about conferences in
March, madness, what do we thinkis going to be our champion
this year?
Which conference is ourchampion going to come out of?

Speaker 2 (31:04):
The SEC Alabama's cutting down the nuts.
Marcus Sears is the best playerin college basketball.
They made the Final Four lastyear.
I think they get it done.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
All right, chris, anything.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
I can't disagree.
They have the best teams, sothe best shot to win.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah, luckily Alabama has faded a player killing
someone this year, so that'slooked good for them.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Allegedly Sorry, I guess the court cases are still
going Also did not kill the guy,it was just his gun allegedly
allegedly, but he's hanging outwith Chris down in that tertiary
city.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
So Brandon Miller allegedly what else Brandon
Miller, what else do?

Speaker 2 (32:05):
you got.
We got the Pro-Am this week atPebble Beach.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Pebble Beach Pro-Am Signature event First signature
event for the PGA.
I don't know, I'm in shamblesafter picking Max Homa last week
.
I don't know my rights for mylefts.
Max Homa with one of the mostabysmal performances that a top

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PGA Tour player has ever put onan event with a solid plus 11
through 36 holes in the WD,which is shameful.
Going into Pebble Beach thisweek.
My pick for the week is RoryMcIlroy.
I feel like it's a good wastepick because I'm definitely not
taking him in a major,considering he fails to succeed

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in those.
So we're going to look at himin a signature.
Maybe he'll treat this like theDP World Tour Championship and
make some money for me TourChampionship and make some money
for them.
Chris, I don't know how keenyou are on following the golf.
Anything you enjoy in there, no.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
I got nothing on golf , at least not yet.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Hockey's still hockey .
Everything's starting to sortitself out now.
We've gotten past that weirdphase where bad teams are good
and good teams are bad in thebeginning of the season and now
the good teams are starting toshine above the rest.
As we get into the dog days ofjanuary and february here before
we hit postseason in april,baseball sneaking up on us.

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Uh, I can't wait.
We gotta have a whole talkabout this deferred payment
bullshit, like someone's tryingto buy a Hellcat.
It's terrible.
It should be banned.
However, it's bullshit.
It should be regulated to somesort.
Someone should have somethingfigured out here, because the

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Dodgers are just taking it whenyou buy your house.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
What's?

Speaker 1 (34:00):
the difference.
This is the MLB, notWestchester.
Okay, but it's about time wemove into the picks here.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
You want my team for the MLB or no, I'm sorry.
You want my team for the MLBthis year?
Last year I had Kansas CityRoyals, you ready for it this
year?

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Sure, I think everyone had Kansas City Royals.
You ready for it this year?
Sure, I think everyone hadKansas City Royals, because
Bobby Wood Jr's dog but, sure.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Go ahead, okay, cincinnati Reds.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
I'm out.
Why are you out?
That's a homer pick.
What do you mean?
Why am I out?
I was at a homer pick.
What do you mean?
How is that a homer pick?
You love the Reds.
You've loved the Reds sincethey were shitty.
They're still shitty.
No, they're good this year.
How'd they get better?

Speaker 2 (34:52):
They hired.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Lodolo back on the mound.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah, lodolo's good, hunter Green's good.
They just got Taylor Rodgershe's good.
Taylorgers, he's good.
Taylor.
Okay, they also just hired aWorld Series champion manager.
But okay, we'll get into thepicks.
How do we do that?

Speaker 1 (35:16):
Let's move into the picks, brad, brad, you kicked us
off last week.
Why don't we have Chris get usgoing?
Chris hasn't got us started ina while.
We're not going over the stats.
I don't really want to, to behonest with you.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
They've not been good .
All right, I'll go first.
Not a lot to pick from thisweek.
I'm going hockey.
I'm going to take the Vegasgolden Knights minus one and a
half.
It's plus 100.
They're covering the puck line65% of the time.
Why not do it again?

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Vegas golden Knights minus oneand a half.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Love it.
I'm going to take us in herefor pick two bread.
Go last, because fuck you Picknumber one for me.
I'm going to go over to thePremier League.
We're going to go with Evertonminus 125 versus Leicester City
at home Excuse me, everton's athome.

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For that one, we're going to gowith Everton.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
All right, staying in the same city as Joe, I'm
taking Liverpool.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
Liverpool on the money line.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Liverpool minus 150,.
By the way, that's the minimumodds requirement to place a bet
here on the show.
Just want to point that out.
Chris, pick number two for you.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
I'm sticking with hockey.
I'm going to go.
The Blackhawks have actuallybeen playing surprisingly well
in the last couple games.
Somehow, I don't know, theywere winning and scoring.
It's weird.
They beat the Lightning withouttoo much trouble.
And, yeah, I'm going to takethe Hawks plus one and a half.

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So we're getting a goal and ahalf at plus 135 against my
Carolina Hurricanes.
When is that?
On Sunday, that's tomorrow.
Well, I guess today, tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
So they were in Tampa yesterday or Tuesday I guess,
and now they're going toCarolina tomorrow and come back
to play a 1 pm game on Saturdayin Florida against the Panthers.
Oh God, I'm hammering Floridaon Saturday.
The odds haven't come out forthat, but definitely going to be

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taking that one For pick numbertwo.
We're going to go back to thegolf.
We're going to be taking RoryMcIlroy top 20 at minus 140.
Hoping he does well for us thisweek.
Need a big win in the pool here, so need something big All

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right Staying with Joe.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
Different guy, same event.
I'll take Justin Thomas top 20.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
JT top 20.
Love it, love it, love it.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
All right For my final pick, I am staying with
hockey.
I'm gonna take a team.
That's not very good.
Uh, I'll take the sharks also,plus one and a half, because
they've covered the puck line 62and a half percent of the time.
Sharks plus one and a half,that's all I got.
Hockey, hockey, hockey.

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All right.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
Yeah, no, I love it.
Pick number three Good for thesport.
Pick number three we're goingto go back to the PGA here.
We're going to go with a funone.
We're going to go topScandinavian player.
Give me Ludwig Eberg plus 115,excuse me, pretty much just got
to beat Victor Holland.

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It's always a race betweenthose two.
Ludwig's been playing good golf.
I think he would have won thefarmer's insurance last week if
he wasn't sick.
So I like him this week.
He's fresh off the sickness.
He was in an interview saidhe's feeling good.
We're going to go with Ludwig.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
For my third and final pick, staying in that
continent.
Going back to the Prem, takingNottingham Forest's money line
against Brighton plus 145.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Love it.
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(39:50):
Uh, guys, any closing stats forus?

Speaker 2 (39:54):
I know what the gatorade color is.
See you next week.
Goodbye.