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Chuck & Buck 3-17 Hour 1: Happy St Patty's Day! We have a WBC gold medal game tonight and it's bracket time! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: So settle in. Great to have you with us. And
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  Speaker 1: this isn't just any old Tuesday, that's for sure. I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's a global holiday for goodness sake, Saint Patrick's
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  Speaker 1: Day to everybody.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, hey, guys, wearing green.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you really crushed me right there, just right
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  Speaker 1: out of the gates.
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  Speaker 3: Gosh, I'm sorry, because let's pretend it didn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: I sat there the entire morning, like, don't forget to
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  Speaker 1: put green on. Don't forget as I'm doing prep in
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  Speaker 1: my in my not I don't ever wear under wear
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  Speaker 1: around the house, but in my loungey, I mean, make
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  Speaker 1: sure you put something green on. And then as soon
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  Speaker 1: as I went to stand up and get dressed for
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  Speaker 1: the day, it completely slipped my mind, along with my brackets,
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  Speaker 1: which I left on my record player this morning as well.
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  Speaker 1: So I did not wear green. I wore blue.
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  Speaker 4: I sorry, I really ruined you in ten seconds.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, well, you didn't ruin me, but I was just
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  Speaker 1: going to try to keep that secret.
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  Speaker 4: I crushed you, and I didn't mean to.
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  Speaker 1: You did wear green, though, I saw you out of
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  Speaker 1: the corner of my eye. Yeah, look at that favorite. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she's in the spirit. Did you wear it on? You
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  Speaker 1: did wear it on purpose? Right? Good for you, Good
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  Speaker 1: for turquoise.
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  Speaker 4: Bucky's gonna say, this is that turk? No, it's called
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  Speaker 4: Northwest Green.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we do have a green jacket. Just to
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  Speaker 1: laze around here in the studios.
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  Speaker 4: So wear that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Bucky, you can put that on. Looks like you
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  Speaker 1: forgot green. No, I got green on. Oh you're going
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  Speaker 1: to show you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh okay, that's what I like, saying it didn't wear green?
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  Speaker 1: Like being pinched, wink it fun?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I like being pinched.
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  Speaker 1: Now, So I mean, do you you don't mind being
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  Speaker 1: pinched then all day? I don't like it. No, I
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  Speaker 1: don't like a fan and I don't want that I
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  Speaker 1: did once. Actually I don't. I don't think that's happened
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  Speaker 1: in like twenty five years on saying next day, And
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  Speaker 1: if it happened today, I'd probably slug somebody.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think i'd get angry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, think that the rule, well, I thought that was
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  Speaker 1: the rule. Wasn't growing up that you pinched growing up?
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  Speaker 1: It growing up? And then the rule became get drunk.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that was the only rule.
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  Speaker 5: So once you okay, once you get to rule two,
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  Speaker 5: rule one, yeah, you're out the window.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Rule one can get you in trouble while you're
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  Speaker 1: rule two ing, that's true. Yeah, Yeah, you start pinching
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  Speaker 1: people that you shouldn't be pinching in the workplace or otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: The next thing, you know, uh, you know you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be facing rule number three, which is which is
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  Speaker 1: here's your pink slip here? Yeah, here, there's the door. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get drunk and pinch employees at work. Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: rule number three of Saint Patrick's Day.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, don't get drunk pinch Okay, ok I'm gonna make
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  Speaker 5: sure I write these down. Do you guys do the
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  Speaker 5: old corn beefe?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I have it. I mean I wish I could
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  Speaker 1: do it every year. I don't know how to make it.
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  Speaker 1: I wish somebody would make it for me every year.
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  Speaker 1: If I do like it, I do love it. It's
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  Speaker 1: great you love it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've never been one that's really fallen into it,
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  Speaker 5: but I have had many a time on Saint Patty's
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  Speaker 5: Day where that's what I end up having. Right, you
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  Speaker 5: go out somewhere and they have a special because it's
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  Speaker 5: Saint Patty's Day. I'm like, oh, it's good, and then
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  Speaker 5: I never it's like turkey, and well, I like turkey.
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  Speaker 5: I do try to have turkey other than just Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 5: but it is one where I don't really feel like
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  Speaker 5: I want to have corn beef any other day other
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  Speaker 5: than Saint Patty's Day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit like that. I mean, cornbeef sandwich
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  Speaker 1: is great anytime, but just to have the corn beef
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  Speaker 1: and cabbage, think like to me Saint Patrick's Day, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because you do kind of drift a I never I
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  Speaker 1: didn't drink when I was younger, so I didn't really
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  Speaker 1: do the green beer. You know. I didn't do the
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  Speaker 1: green beer. And you wake up and start drinking and
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  Speaker 1: you don't. I've never done that holiday, but I do
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  Speaker 1: when I think back on it, I usually either ignore
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  Speaker 1: it completely, including not wearing green, or I go all in.
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  Speaker 1: I've had like some really memorable Saint Patrick's Day, Like
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  Speaker 1: seeing Flogging Molly play at a Chicago Irish pubs on
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  Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day was all I mean with one of
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  Speaker 1: my very good friends, was one of my great memories
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  Speaker 1: in life. That was so much fun. And then we
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  Speaker 1: used to do like an annual show from an Irish
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  Speaker 1: pub on Saint Patrick's Day and that usually ended up
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  Speaker 1: in like a day long celebration. So if I do it,
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  Speaker 1: I do like to do the whole thing, the corn
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  Speaker 1: beef and cabbage and listen to Irish music, play a
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  Speaker 1: little flogging Maley's for me, please, Colleen, let's bring the
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  Speaker 1: Oirish out and everybody. I like to do that. I
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  Speaker 1: like to wake up a lucky charms, you know. I
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  Speaker 1: like to go the entire distance on Saint Patrick's Day
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  Speaker 1: or not celebrated at all. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I can remember back a lot of those years
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  Speaker 5: in the minor leagues that you would have Trauta Jamison.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Well man, yeah, we would have a lot of green things.
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  Speaker 5: Whatever we do, just everything green green, A lot of
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  Speaker 5: green beer at that point in time. I remember, more
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  Speaker 5: so than the Irish whiskies, but a lot of them.
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  Speaker 5: Like it was a bit, you know, So you go
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  Speaker 5: out to Scottsdale or go out to Tempe and we
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  Speaker 5: the day after, Uh, Saint Patti's Day, I always remember
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  Speaker 5: not being a very fun one of spring training.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, and yeah it falls in spring training and
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  Speaker 1: it usually falls on a tournament day game. And I
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  Speaker 1: guess we do to have tournament games today. So that's
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  Speaker 1: that missed the boat a little bit. But I do
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  Speaker 1: like the way that you said that as if to say,
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  Speaker 1: and I do really want to emphasize this time a
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  Speaker 1: lot a lot because we kind of assume that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when you're playing days, you're probably tied it on on
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  Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day, but for you to go out of
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  Speaker 1: the way to emphasize it.
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  Speaker 5: Having your own keg, it was a lot there was
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  Speaker 5: I'm trying to think of.
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  Speaker 1: And Ian Ireland.
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  Speaker 5: Is it Maloney's in Tempe that has the uh? They
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  Speaker 5: they just stopped the music and play clips of movies
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  Speaker 5: at times.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that Maloney's anyway? Yeah, there are a couple there's
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  Speaker 1: rulabula down there, and then it might be is it Maloney?
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  Speaker 1: It might be Maloney Malony's.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a long time ago, but I remember
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  Speaker 5: you would have basically you would have friends from every
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  Speaker 5: organization that you played with.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: And this is where you shook hands and hugged and
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  Speaker 5: you know, played grab ass with your opponents, was on
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  Speaker 5: Saint Patti's Day and they would have a big tent
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  Speaker 5: set up. The whole parking lot was tinted, bands green,
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  Speaker 5: beverages flowing and it was was.
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  Speaker 1: That the drop kick murface? Yeah, that was played.
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  Speaker 5: That was most certainly played, and oh my gosh, the
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  Speaker 5: mayhem that would ensue. Like I said, I don't remember that.
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  Speaker 5: I do remember that The next day was not great.
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  Speaker 5: Sweating out green beer not a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: Still, rather as can I get you some of the
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  Speaker 1: block stuffs?
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  Speaker 5: That would be great. We should have done that. Matter
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  Speaker 5: of fact, I might door dash that in.
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  Speaker 1: And do it. Door dash in some corned beef and cabbage.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, do ch zero two while you're at it.
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  Speaker 4: That's great.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's in the spirit of things.
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  Speaker 3: Oh sorry, yeah about cavye coffee.
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  Speaker 1: You can do an Irish coffee. Yeah, yeah, do an
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  Speaker 1: Irish coffee. I think we should play Shenad O'Connor today, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just go all out. You know Kathy Ireland does she sing?
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  Speaker 1: I'll find you a picture. Yeah, let's at least pull
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  Speaker 1: up a picture of Kathy Ireland. We got to see
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  Speaker 1: Ireland at its finest. So anyway, welcome in Happy Saint
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  Speaker 1: Patrick's Day, whether you remembered it, forgot it, whether you're
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  Speaker 1: going to celebrate it or not. I think everybody's got
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  Speaker 1: a few Saint Patti's Day memories out there. So let's
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  Speaker 1: make some more. What do you make? Let's think some
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  Speaker 1: more here today and look in our first sports topic today.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there might be a lot of people wearing
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  Speaker 1: green today to work after yesterday's news, you might have
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  Speaker 1: cracked out your Sonics where from yesteryear? And and that's
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  Speaker 1: the crazy thing about the Sonics is that, I mean
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  Speaker 1: a twenty year dormant franchise, and yet people still buy
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  Speaker 1: new Sonics Murky all the time. It's everywhere you go, everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: and there's people have like fresh off the rack Sonics
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  Speaker 1: merchandise that they just purchased over the weekend. And so
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  Speaker 1: that hunger which has been starvation here for the last
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  Speaker 1: couple decades, well we might finally get satiated. Yesterday's news
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  Speaker 1: was certainly encouraging on that front. It was reported yesterday
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  Speaker 1: morning and a little after about this time, I guess
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  Speaker 1: Sean Sharanya saying that the Board of Governors in the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: the owners are gonna meet next week next Tuesday, So
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  Speaker 1: one week from today and Wednesday they'll meet up. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be an overnight I guess it's gonna be an
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  Speaker 1: overnight thing, profiet, little slumber party between the billionaires.
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  Speaker 4: That would be a slumber party I would like to
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  Speaker 4: go to. Not me, you'd get really fancy food.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to see any NBA owners naked.
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  Speaker 4: Well, no, I don't want to see that part.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't go to a lot of slumber parties
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  Speaker 3: where I see a lot of people naked.
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  Speaker 1: Well, how many slumber parties do you go?
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  Speaker 3: Two period like girls nights or girls we see in hotels,
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  Speaker 3: things like that.
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  Speaker 4: I don't see people make it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, Well then you're missing out. Yeah, not very far.
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  Speaker 1: And what's the point of having a slumber party? That
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  Speaker 1: was the whole point.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so merely boys and girls slumber different.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I just haven't. I just think we stop at
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  Speaker 1: some point. Yeah, But the Board of Governors are going
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  Speaker 1: to meet next Tuesday and next Wednesday, and there will
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  Speaker 1: require a vote of twenty three out of thirty in
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  Speaker 1: order to go to the next stage. And I realized
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  Speaker 1: that the walls are up with a lot of sports
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  Speaker 1: Sonics fans, or basketball fans, or just Seattle sports fans
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  Speaker 1: in general about whether or not they're going to buy
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  Speaker 1: this line, this latest line from the National Basketball Association.
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  Speaker 1: I will say, I get it, I understand it. I
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  Speaker 1: get where you're coming from. I think there are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people just completely sour on the NBA and
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  Speaker 1: don't even want it back. But for I would just
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  Speaker 1: say that this is different. This does does feel different.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is something that I think got kicked
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  Speaker 1: down the road the last couple of years. Otherwise, otherwise
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  Speaker 1: we would already be past this process. And I think
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  Speaker 1: because of how long it has stretched on Adam Silver
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  Speaker 1: a few months ago expressed like, we just can't keep
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  Speaker 1: doing this to Seattle and Vegas any longer. We've got
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  Speaker 1: to move this thing forward and make a decision one
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  Speaker 1: way or the other. I think what he was waiting
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  Speaker 1: for is that he knew that the Board of Governors
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  Speaker 1: was going to be on board with voting this through.
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  Speaker 1: And just to give you an indication, they are kind
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  Speaker 1: of skipping some parts of normal NBA expansion process because
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  Speaker 1: it's gotten stretched out for so long. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: can tell you I was an intern in Saint Louis
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  Speaker 1: back in college when they were getting ready to expand
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  Speaker 1: in the National Football League, and Saint Louis was one
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  Speaker 1: of the teams that was getting ready to expand, and
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  Speaker 1: my job at KMOX as an intern really was to
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  Speaker 1: gather the information for the expansion the Saint Louis Stallions.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they thought it was a done deal Saint
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  Speaker 1: Louis Stallions before they ever got the rams, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be one of the NFL cities that surely they're
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  Speaker 1: going to give Saint Louis an NFL franchise back. They didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Stallions died, uh, and so it never happened. But there
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  Speaker 1: was the process where they would force sort of the
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  Speaker 1: pitches from different markets to they had to do the bidding. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Adam Silver with this announcement yesterday is saying we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to kid around. It's Vegas and Seattle. That's what's
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  Speaker 1: going to be. That's what we're going to vote on
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  Speaker 1: next week and as long as we get the vote.
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  Speaker 1: And I have a feeling he thinks he knows he's
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  Speaker 1: going to get the vote, which I'm not sure he
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  Speaker 1: knew he was going to get the vote, and that's
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  Speaker 1: why you gicked it down the road the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of years. Think he knows he's going to get the vote,
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  Speaker 1: and then what the process is after that? For those
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  Speaker 1: that are worried about the second vote, the second vote
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  Speaker 1: is going to be on once the bidding war for
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  Speaker 1: the franchise, they're gonna they're what they're going to open
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  Speaker 1: it up for. Are all these billionaire to try to
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: get that price up as high as they can. Seven
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  Speaker 1: ten billion dollars is what they're estimating at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Could go higher if you get the right people bidding
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  Speaker 1: for one of these franchises. Who knows, and then once
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  Speaker 1: the bidding war stops, the second vote will be all right,
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  Speaker 1: these are the owners that we are going to allow
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  Speaker 1: into the league. They are going to own these franchises,
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  Speaker 1: and then they will vote on that, which by that
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  Speaker 1: point should also be a formality in all of this.
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  Speaker 1: So yesterday's news bottom line was the most positive momentum
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  Speaker 1: towards the Sonics returning perhaps ever. And so I think everybody,
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  Speaker 1: I get why you are a little defensive about this,
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  Speaker 1: but if you do want the Sonics back, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: you don't. If you do want the Sonics back, they're
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  Speaker 1: coming back, and it's just a matter of when not.
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  Speaker 5: If, Yeah, and the particulars and whatnot. And yet I
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  Speaker 5: think we kind of it feels like to me that
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  Speaker 5: you know, the crack and ownership and that kind of
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  Speaker 5: group is the one that's been heading this whole thing up.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, this isn't this isn't something. It's the frustrating
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  Speaker 5: part of it is that the team was taken away.
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  Speaker 5: Then this frustration continues to build and mount because basically
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  Speaker 5: since that time eighteen years ago, everybody's been like, why
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  Speaker 5: did you take them away? We didn't want them to
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  Speaker 5: go away, you know, the feeling of it was unnecessary
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  Speaker 5: to ever have a year, let alone a couple of
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  Speaker 5: decades without the SuperSonics here. And yet the there's a
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  Speaker 5: lot of people the like Wikis and that whole that
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: entire group of people that basically brought the crack in here.
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  Speaker 5: They did so with the idea of this as a
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  Speaker 5: secondary part of the plan, not like a oh and
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  Speaker 5: maybe this will happen too. I think that they were
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  Speaker 5: expecting that if we build the arena, that is also
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  Speaker 5: going to be compatible with with with basketball and being
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: able to host that along with all the other things
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  Speaker 5: that they host their climate pledge.
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  Speaker 1: I think that that was part of the plan.
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  Speaker 5: So this to me was just like they had basically
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  Speaker 5: done every everything they could possibly do to suffice what
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  Speaker 5: Adam Silver in the NBA and the rest of the
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  Speaker 5: owners would want, and yet they weren't one hundred percent
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  Speaker 5: sure if all the owners were going to vote yes, okay,
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  Speaker 5: let's continue to move forward. Now it feels like there's
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  Speaker 5: momentum moving in that direction at least, I mean, more
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  Speaker 5: momentum than we've had up to this point over the
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  Speaker 5: last eighteen years, for sure, And now we're going to
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  Speaker 5: we're a week away from getting that first vote out
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  Speaker 5: of the way. And then at that point, it's like
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  Speaker 5: you said, it's the money factor, and yet I don't
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  Speaker 5: think that even while the price is climbed up. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I want to say, a few years ago, it was
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  Speaker 5: like four billion dollars is what they were thinking about
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  Speaker 5: the stakeholder would have to come up with. Now they're
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: talking seven to ten billion dollars, and who knows where
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  Speaker 5: that number actually ends up. That probably is a little
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: bit of a sticker shock, But I don't think it's
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  Speaker 5: something that is stopping the powers that be, the folks
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  Speaker 5: behind it, of like, well, we just we don't want
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  Speaker 5: the songs back that bad. I don't think there is
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  Speaker 5: a price that these guys wouldn't be able to find
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: a way to get it done, because ultimately, as we know,
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: if you have one of the big four sports, it's
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: a license to print money. They are making money hand
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: over fist, and so hopefully, yeah, a week from today
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: or tomorrow we will find out that, yes, the ball
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: is continuing to roll downhill, and in a couple of
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: years we'll be able to have the sonics and everything
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: about it back.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: I will agree that it is positive momentum. I wouldn't
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: say it's the most momentum in the last eighteen years,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: because in twenty thirteen we thought the team that Sacramento
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: was moving here. I mean there, we had a group
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: that had agreed to purchase it, they had agreed to
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: move it, and then the NBA blocked the relocation. So
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: I think part of the thing that gets kind of
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: overlooked is that so many Seattle fans have this feeling
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: that the NBA was kind of against us because they
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: took the team, then they stopped another team from coming here,
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: and so the doubt or the it's not even doubt,
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: it's the feeling of yeah, once used, once it happens, great,
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: but I'm not going to believe that it's happening, or
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: I'm not getting over really excited that it's happening till
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: it actually happens, because we have seen too many times
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: where something gets in the way and something stops it.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: So while I agree it's positive, momentum there's I think
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: that's where the feeling of well, okay, yeah once, I'll
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: see it when I believe it, or I'll believe it
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: when I see it, Like, that's the feeling until you
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: tell me, yes, okay, Seattle, you have a team. You
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: can name him the Sonics. They're starting in twenty twenty eight.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Great.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Before that, I'll just wait and see it.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Ar Well.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm glad you have a voice on this
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: show because I think it represents the way a lot
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: of people think. But I do believe that that that
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: is just what you've been through and you're being guarded
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: against that correct where I've not experienced that, And I'm
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: telling you from my seat, my perspective, my platform, my microphone,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: that it looks all but a done deal. So if
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: that sets you up for more pain, I apologize in
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: advance for that, but I will say that this is
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: this is going. I believe he's stretched out this vote.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: The reason why it's dragged on for the last couple
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: of years is because the owners were balking at sharing
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: one thirtieth one thirty second of the revenue television revenue,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: things of that nature versus one thirtieth but once they
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: heard the sticker price on these franchise, oh okay, well
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: that makes up for it. You know, we're talking about
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: ten billion dollars. And so I think now he knows
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: he's got the vote, and that's why they're scheduling the vote.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: That's why it kind of came out of nowhere that
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: next week we're going to know this, and then from
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: that point forward, that second vote really is kind of
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: a formality. Now you're just looking for the ownership group
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: that you like the most, and then of course they've
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: got a vote on whether or not they want that
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: ownership group. So that process is going to take place
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: as well. And so I mean for them to attach
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: a date for when the year in which it's going
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: to start in their announcement here yesterday. It looks like
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: it's happening, and I get it. And they a lot
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: of hurt feelings here at Seattle. And maybe you'll never
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: get over it. Maybe some of you will never give
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: maybe you don't want the NBA back. I don't know.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: But for those of you that do, I think it's
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: a really exciting moment, and I do believe the momentum
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: is going to be building. I think We're gonna get good,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: good news next week, and I think we've got basketball
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: coming back. It's just a matter of dot and eyes
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: and crossing t's right now, all right, let's find out
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: what's on tap for the rest of the show today.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: What's on te what's on tech? No Greg Bell today,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: We're gonna give him a little bit of a break
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: until we send out the Bell signal because of the
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: latest Sea Hawk news. But we are going to fill
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: his slot today with a little bit of Sonics talk.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Basketball reporter from the Athletic Mike Vorkunoff, who does himself
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: one of them their podcasts, and who knows what else.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: He's gonna join us on the radio program today, tell
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: us what he's hearing from his perspective. At seven o
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: five the College Basketball NCAA Tournament, the madness is here.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Of course, the field of sixty four won't tip until Thursday.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: That's when we can really celebrate things. Our bracket challenge
• 20:12
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• 20:15
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• 20:17
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• 20:20
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• 20:22
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• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Tell you more about that coming up on the show today.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: The actual play in games start tonight UNBC versus Howard
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: those are two sixteen seeds that tips at three forty
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: and then Texas versus North Carolina State those are two
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: eleven seeds. They will meet up at six fifteen and
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: both those games tonight will be on True TV. In
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: case you're wondering, NCAA Women's tournament starts this week as well,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: and we do have a local participant. U dub of
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: course is part of the field and the Huskies will
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: be taken on South Dakota State Friday at eleven. The
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Kraken and the Lightning will play tonight. So the Craken
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: are playing well again, he no, I know. Everett Fittzi's
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: gonna join us today at eight thirty to preview this game.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: It's also a cracking ticket Tuesday, we got tickets to
• 21:15
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• 21:18
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• 21:21
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• 21:23
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• 21:26
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• 21:30
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• 21:37
  Speaker 1: forty nine er signed Christian Kirk yesterday, something worth talking
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: about later on in the show Mariners Spring Training. Julio
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: getting ready to go back to Peoria and regroup with
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: the guys. Dom Canzone and Miles Master Bony can do
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: that as well. Mariners will be taken on Colorado today,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: but that gives us time to talk to Rick Riz
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: today at nine o'clock and the WBC. We now know
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: who the US will play in the championship game, which
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: is tonight five o'clock on Fox. It will be US
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: versus the versus Venezuela Cal versus Gino Suarez. And we'll
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: preview tonight's matchup next. Sports Radio ninety three point three
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: kja RFM. Oh yeah, I don't know where's that team?
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Why didn't they have a representative? I don't know. I
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: guess they'd been really lucky had they gotten to this day.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Uh huh. Brendan Ryan, Yeah, Brendan Ryan been there. There'll
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: be a lot of them.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, sure, there's been a ton of them that
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: they ever have been to Ireland, right exactly.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: You can almost get to the finals that way. Well,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Italy didn't quite get there. They lost last night to Venezuela.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I am glad. I am glad that that unfolded. I
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: didn't really want to watch two American teams facing one
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: another tonight. I'm glad that it is Venezuela that got there.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that we have the pageantry and the enthusiasm
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: of that Latin American fan base that's going to show up.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: And let's face it, this Venezuela team, man, they got
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: a lineup. When you can put a lineup out there
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: where it's a you've got to win to advance tournament,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: and you sit Salvador Perez and Wilson Contreras, I mean,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: you got pretty good lineup when you're able to in
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: a must win situation not play two of your most
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: proven veteran hitters in exchange for younger, more athletic, equally
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: as good at the plate studs that they can put
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: in the lineup. I mean, Jackson Churio is Cherio is
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: hitting ninth on this team. I mean, this is a
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: loaded squad. Dominican gets all the attention and the US
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: get all the attention. But this, to me is the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: third best team on the roster wise, in this entire tournament,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: and so this is going to be a great championship. Yeah,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I agree. I was.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: I mean part of me wanted to see Italy continue
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: their little Cinderella story because it's pretty cool that. I mean,
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: even though it's it's not a bunch of real Italian born,
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: uh you know players, it still was. It still was.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't I don't want to call them JV because
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: that sounds bad. But it was not the varsity squad.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: It was not like the US roster. It was not
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: like Dominican roster. It's not even like the Venezuelan roster.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: Like you're talking about. I'm good players and they were
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: kind of playing above the over their head a little bit.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: It was.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: It was a cool story to watch, but I want
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: to see the two best play, and that might have
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: been roster wise, Dominican versus US might have been the
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: two best. But I mean I've told you before, like
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: if I'm if I'm a GM. I'm starting a team.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: I'm having a I'm having a few Venezuelan guys on
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: my team. There's just something about I played in both
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: those Winter Ball leagues. There's something about the Venezuelan guys.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: It's kind of like they are It's like they're the
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: New York Mets to the Dominican is the New York Yankees.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: If you want to just say, you know, Latin American
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: countries and who thinks they're the best. The Dominican think
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: they're better. Venezuela's like, well, let's go, let's go find out. Yeah,
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: and they just there's a there's a little extra edge
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: to the venez with the players. I think I was
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: recognizing that yesterday a little bit, the way that they
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: just kind of attack and and so it's gonna be
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: a good it's gonna be a good battle. I think
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: that whoever wins this one can can you know, wear
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: that crown proudly and say that they are the best
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: of and for the next three years.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Ye Gino on the Venezuela seem cool. Yeah, Bizardo's on
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: this team. We'll see him probably tonight. He pitched last night.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: But I would imagine we'll see him pitch tonight. They
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: got to. They got some pretty good arms out of
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the bullpen, for sure. Jonathan Diaz is on that team,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: you know, really great affect. Jonathan bucket By loves it.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I'm a big fan. I don't think we'll see him
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: pitch tonight. They've got a really good bullpen, They've got
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: a really good lineup. I don't think they have a
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: really good starter. Eduardo Rodriguez, so at one time, was
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: a really good pitcher in Major League Baseball. Never did
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: reach greatness though some thought he might, and he is
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: coming off a terrible year with the Arizona Diamondbacks. But man,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: you get that, you know, you wear that your country
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: across your chest, and you get a little extra juice.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: You saw it in Severino the other night, who's had
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: sort of a similar story. Not quite the pitcher that
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: he used to be, But put Dominican across your chest
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: and watch him throw one hundred mile per hour for
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the first four innings of that game. So he'll have
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: a little extra juice. Tonight. We'll have the younger, less experienced,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: but ridiculously talented Nolan McClain going for the US. So
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: if there is an advantage that the US has. It
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: should be in the starting pitching, but you never know
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: how it's gonna play out.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you don't know how it's going to play out.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: I mean, it would be nice to see this American
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: offense break out. I mean I'd like to. I mean,
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: we haven't seen it the entire tournament. There hasn't been
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: a game yet where this offense has just looked as
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: nasty as it could possibly look. I mean, because it
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: is there's no breaks when you see it. I mean,
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: it's one through nine danger, and yet we just haven't
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: really seen him click. So hopefully championship games and they
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: really show up.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know if Cal's gonna play. He's not gotten
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: a hit the entire series. Will Smith has been hitting.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: So you're facing a left hander tonight, at least a starter. Uh,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: and Cal's I mean, they're not going to use their
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: backup catcher, probably in a pinch hitting role. So Cal's
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: experience of the WBC might be over with. I mean,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: he was their starting catcher. When they played their first game,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Cal was behind the plate. But you're getting ready to
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: play your championship one guy doesn't have a hit in
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the series, and the other guy has been hitting. They
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: might start Will Smith. Mark de Rosa might start Will
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Smith tonight, and Cal might have already played his last
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: bit of WBC action. If that's the case, hey we
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: got through it healthy. Yeah. Yeah, I have a feeling
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: you're going to play.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: I mean I just think that, you know, I mean
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: the sample size of how many he didn't have that
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: many bats that were playing what two games?
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I think is that right now? Nine at bats?
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: Four k Yeah, So I mean to me, I think
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: you're you're probably putting Willson hasn't went out there and raked.
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's he's He's got some hits, so it's
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: better than Cow's done so far.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: But I have a feeling Cow's going to get the
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: nod tonight, I hope.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: So I would like to see him play, but I
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: would like to see him play. I feel like I
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: also think it's going to be Will Smith.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and I'd like to look at it glass
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: half full. If he doesn't like, okay, well yeah, let
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: him sit over there in some bubble wrap and we're good.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, awesome, Thank you for getting me your you know,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: early season stuff figured out, and when the season starts
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: you can mash Homers again.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: We have achieved our ultimate goal in all of this,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: and that is to get everybody through this healthy.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: Knockne what.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Coming up next, it's bracket week and I don't know,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: maybe you're putting it off till Thursday. I'm sure we
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: could break it down for you a little bit more,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: so we'll do it next. Sports Radio ninety three point
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: three kJ RFM coming up at seven oh five. We're
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: giving Greg Bell Saint Patrick's day off so he and
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Wendy can have as much corn, beef and cabbage as
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: they they please. At seven am. I don't want to
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: interrupt that meal. We're going to talk some NBA expansion
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: with Mike. Working off sounds like something that my dad
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: would have told me and my buddies.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Would you stop working off?
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: That?
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Does? Yeah?
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Get outside, stop working off?
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah you probably were. You're not supposed to do that
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: in the house, Jeff, Yeah, I want.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: To see you kids all day long.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Get out, get out of my workplace, working off around
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: my workplace.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Uh, it's juck Buck and Ashley with you. And yes,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: it is bracket week. Don't make sure you're filling out
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: your bracket. It's something you do every year, so get
• 29:34
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  Speaker 1: think this is outdated, the one I'm looking at right perfect.
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  Speaker 1: I do know that there's a Twin Peaks gift card
• 29:51
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• 29:54
  Speaker 1: card for second place, and then first place is like
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: two tickets to a game of every team in time.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, and if you get a perfect bracket, that's
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: a million dollars, so make sure you fill it out
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: at ninety three to three KJR dot com. Well, let's
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: talk about this. I mean, this is a little scary,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: by the way, this has never happened in my history
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: of filling out brackets that I went to find out
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: a little bit of information on Troy. Troy is in
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the South region, which I think is the easiest one
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: to predict. And now I know that it's the easiest
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: one to predict because I'm like, all right, I already
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: knew that Nebraska they're facing Nebraska in the first round.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I already knew. It's kind of well known they have
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: never won an NCAA tournament game. Eight appearances in Nebraska
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Corneskers have never won. So I'm like, well, has Troy won?
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: So I looked it up, and according to AI, not
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: only has Troy never won in the NCAA Tournament, they're
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: not going to win this year either. According to AI,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: they've already lost to Nebraska seventy six to fifty seven.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: Oh well, that's a bummer for them.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Oh so right, I think it's pretty smart, right, I mean, AI's.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: Got it supposed to be smarter than we are. We
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: didn't make something dumb, right, right, we would never.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: We didn't break the mold of existence and technology just
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: to make AI dumb.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: Did we any flaws in it?
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: So?
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: This may be a new way to fill out your bracket.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Just to ask AI. Because they can see the future.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: They picked a Nebraska.
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I hope it doesn't end with that final score.
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: To be honest with you, I don't want that.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: That would be creepy.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: That'd be very creepy. I would not like it. Yeah,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: seventy six fifty seven. I looked it up and they're like,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Troy is zero and four all time, and then I'm like, well,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: how did they lose to Nebraska. Nebraska's not like, wait
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: a minute, that's for this year. They've already determined a
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Hi's determined that they've lost. They've already lost by nineteen
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: points to Nebraska.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: I wrote the score on my bracket so we can
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: see what happens. We'll remember what AI said the score was.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I do think Nebraska is gonna win that game. But
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: you've got two teams that both have never won an
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: NCAA tournament game matching up. Vanderbilt was very impressive in
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: the SEC tournament. If you like guard play, they've got
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: two terrific guards, including one of the coolest. I guarantee
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: you that point guard for vanderbilt's the coolest kid on campus.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: He's got the big, giant, moppy hair. You know he's
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: an excellent player. Vanderbilt should cruise over McNeese Clemson. I
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: was eight nine. That's your toss up. You know, the
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: one seat's gonna win. North Carolina. By the way, if
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: you're looking for an upset, you don't want to do
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: just all chalk. North Carolina is playing without their best player.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: I've watched a handful of games of North Carolina this year.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: They are they are their best player. I mean he
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: is like everything too.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: You're giving away one of my upsets there.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm picking Virginia Commonwealth to beat to North
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Carolina because they're without Caleb Wilson is going to be
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: a top five pick in the draft. Illinois's going to
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: at least beat Penn and then I think they'll beat
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Virginia Commonwealth. They're that good. But Brad Underwood's not really
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: that great a coach, and Kelvin Samson will serve him
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: as lunch later on in the tournament.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Maybe or maybe not, dependent depending on whose bracket you
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: look at.
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: Some people of Illinois going far.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Well, I'd love to see it, but I've kind of
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: used the bread Underwood theory every year and it served
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: me well. Saint Mary's, Texas A and M is another
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: one that could be enough to a lot of people
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: if can Saint Mary's in that one, So to me,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: that one I feel the most comfortable with that bracket.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I think that there's some good upset advice there that
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: is being given right now. If you're looking for a
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: couple of upsets, and then I think there are some
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: no brainer they're gonna move on past the first round
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: and probably the past two past the first two rounds. Frankly,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to me, the South region looks like the easiest.
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: Who you have coming out of that one? I have Florida,
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: You have Florida. I I have Houston beaten Florida.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: See that. I definitely see that. I mean they believe
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: that they had.
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: They usually just play tough, and in Florida has been
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: pretty good most of the season.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: I'll be interested to see that.
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: Was that might be the only one that I don't
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: have the number one going to the final four.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, said though he's still might change his mind.
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: No, that's because I just don't want to have all
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: four number ones, and Houston's the one that I think.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Also takes the fifth ranked team in America to beat
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: the fourth rank exactly. Nailed it? See that? Not very chalky,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: am I? Yeah? You really changed changed your stripes. All right,
• 34:39
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