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David Kaplan talks Cubs, Rob Dauster previews the Final 4 & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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All right, hour number two, Miller and Condon welcome back
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Iowa Sports Radio Network, all our affiliates across the state
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of Iowa. Glad you're with us here.
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Trent and I will take you until 2:00 off the bench coming up to
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until 5 overtime Iowa 5 until 6. Cappy momentarily Rob Doster
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field of 68 on the final four. Bottom of the hour.
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Let's get to Chicago. He is the cap man ESPN 1000.
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Of course, his YouTube channel is taking off and building each
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and every month. Cap Trenton.
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Ken, thanks for coming on as always.
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Enjoyed the recap last night. I was blown away Cap, by going
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on Twitter and this was not on April first.
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It was after the game last night and seeing how many people
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sticking up for PCA bunting on an O2 count when you need
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runners on. I get it, he's fast as the win,
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but the game has really changed, Cap.
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If that one's passed me by, I still think it's an egregious
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error. When you saw what he was trying
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to do, did it make sense to you? I didn't like that he bunked it
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on 2 strikes but I understood it.
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I mean, he's trying to get on and then get the tying run to
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the plate in a 2 nothing game. Look, it was a tough night to
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hit. There's no way that anyone was
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taking a ball out of the ballpark there.
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Yep, true. But I was more frustrated with
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him and you know, I'm a huge PCA fan.
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More frustrated You can't dive for that qualified field in the
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6th inning and then let it get by you.
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If you dive, you better catch it.
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If the least you got to knock it down and keep it in front of
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you. Yeah, and obviously cap it and
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Bregman had a chance. Bregman probably say that, you
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know, 9 times out of 10 he gets that ball and it was scalded.
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It was moving down to the hot corner.
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But to put runners on 2nd and 3rd and the guy that was in, was
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it Maton? Yeah, it was Maton.
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At the time I thought, I thought he was.
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Yeah. I thought he was going to get
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off the hook cap. I really did.
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Well, you can't walk the first batter as a reliever especially,
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so he walks the first hitter. Then PCA misplays the ball and
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it ends up rolling past him. So they get second and third and
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now you get a strikeout. Maiton makes a really good play
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on a hard ground ball back to the mound, looks him back,
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throws the first, got him, and then you get the ball scalded at
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Bregman and it gets past him. There's your ball game right
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there. We see Matthew Boyd, he'll be
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starting here for the game this afternoon.
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Boy, the guy that had a career year a year ago, didn't go very
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well in his last spring training start, went poorly in his
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opener. Is it lingering in the back of
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your mind, the Matthew Boyd that we saw a year ago?
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Maybe that's not repeatable at minimum and maybe there might be
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some bigger concerns. Going for your thoughts on Boyd.
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You know, he had a very good year last year.
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He really did. Now, do I think he's going to be
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an All Star again? I don't, because I don't think
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he has that type of elite stuff, like everything went his way
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last year. But he's a solid Major League
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pitcher. I mean, if you're playing today
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to win a series, you should beat the Angels.
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They're not that good. Soriano pitch really well last
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night. He's a very good pitcher.
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You made one mistake in the outfield.
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It cost you a game. You got to go out and find a way
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to win a baseball game today. You do.
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I mean, there's no, you know, panic that they're want, what
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are they, Cubs two and three? I mean, people tweeting at me
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today, it was a must win. We've got to get this one.
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Like, are you stupid? It's April first.
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I mean, talk to me in September, but.
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Love the passion, Love the passion.
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I got to ask. I got to ask you.
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It really helps our business, right?
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I got to ask you about Cabrera. I thought he was unbelievable on
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Monday night, especially I, I, I, I enjoyed seeing it more so
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watching Owen Casey in the start that he's off to with the
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Marlins, knowing that you got to give up something to get
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something. I thought Casey was going to
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play right field at Wrigley Field for 10 or 12 years, but
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Cabrera Burr was outstanding cap and I think Cubs fans wanted to
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see that and saw that from the newly acquired right-hander.
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Yeah, he was phenomenal. 6 innings, 5 KS, one hit, no runs,
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one walk. That's exactly what you're
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looking for. And you know, let him keep going
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out and throwing well and being a real good piece of your
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rotation and no one will be upset about Owen Casey.
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And he's a good player. Nobody will be upset.
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So Cabrera stud and Kate Horton Stud also, we had a lot of
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conversations last summer, Kathy, about Eddings limit and
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there wasn't anything specific, but we were just kind of
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wondering. Now, of course we know how the
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season played out a year ago with really probably both these
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guys, Cabrera, all the arm injury injuries that he has had.
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I mean, do you anticipate it's going to be a lot of short
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hooks? Hey, we're up there at 80
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pitches. We're in the 5th inning.
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We're in control of this game. We're going to pull them.
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Are they going to be careful with both Horton and Cabrera
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throughout the quarter? I mean, I don't think they're
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pulling them at 80 pitches. I do not, especially when the
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weather warms up. I mean, it's not a fun day to
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pitch today. It's 38° here.
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And I mean, I did that beat. You know, I was that teams pre
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and post host for 25 years. I can't tell you how many games.
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I still remember doing a pregame show, but for Cubs, White Sox,
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and it was like 38° and Frank Thomas is sitting next to me and
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he's literally got his arms around me.
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He's shivering, he's that cold. And I'm like, OK, Frank.
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This is this. Is absolutely awful baseball
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weather, he said. Try eating in it.
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Horrible, but it's a good day to pitch today.
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Michael Conforto, and I'm not saying he's washed up Justin
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Turner, who was in charge of the meals on the road last year, but
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Conforto's off to another terrible start.
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Yeah, I, when I look back, Cap, I, I guess I didn't recall that
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he was. He had the type of offensive
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numbers that he had not too long ago in his career.
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Now, they've clearly tailed off since that time, but Conforto
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seems to be that one guy on the roster that you're wondering,
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you know, is he going to be there for the duration or if
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there is a move that needs to be made that Conforto might be the
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odd man out. Do you see it like that?
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Because obviously he's off to a bad start Again, it's five
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games. But I'm just I was surprised at
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the signing and I'm just wondering how long he's going to
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be there for. And they signed him to a a minor
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league deal, so I wasn't surprised by the signing.
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I'll be surprised if he hangs on and still there, you know, 3-4
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five months from now unless he picks it up.
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I don't see that. I do not.
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Who worries you, Cap by the start that they've had?
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Who's worried? And again, who worries you?
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Who's concerning? I don't think anybody can.
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I'm not five games out of 162. The Brewers started O and four
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last year and gave up 47 runs in the first four games.
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They ended up leading MLB in wins, then an ERA of 346 or
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whatever, 340-7359. So yeah, there's nobody I'm
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concerned about yet. Now, do I expect Michael
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Conforto to be one of the All Star Game?
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I do not. But other than that, no, it's
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way too soon to be concerned. Early thoughts on Bregman?
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Had a couple of homers the other day, Definitely helps things
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out. Just seeing him over there at
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the hot corner a just a professional.
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And that article he wrote for the players trivia, just talking
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about playing in Wrigley Field, I think that definitely brought
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even more Cubs fans on his side side.
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But just your thoughts on Bregman and what he's going to
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be for this team going forward? Look, they brought him in a
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because he's a really good player, but B for his leadership
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and I'm a huge fan. Alex Bregman, he'll he's going
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to hit that home runs. What back to bid 2 the other day
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on Sunday. I fully expect him to be playing
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at an All Star level. I expected to be playing at a
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Gold Glove level. We're five games in and the
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conditions last night, today, no fun to play baseball, no.
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No, and again, I'm not, I'm not faulting him for that ball that
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got by him. It was absolutely moving.
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So Horner gets the extension, which is good.
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I like Horner doesn't have a ton of power, but he's a hell of a
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player and by all accounts, pretty good in the clubhouse.
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A piece today in the Athletic as to who may be next.
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And is Ian Hap going to get one of those extensions at any time
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during the season or is he going to have to wait?
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Or how's this going to play out when it comes to Ian Hapcap?
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How do you think it plays out? I wouldn't be shocked if they
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signed him after the season. I will be surprised if he gets
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an in season extension. I will.
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I'd be very surprised. Now, if you told me they locked
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up Michael Bush, that would not surprise me.
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But Ian Hap, no, I think he wants to be a Cub.
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I think he's, you know, wants his wife here.
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His wife is from Arlington Heights.
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But I do not think they extend him to the offseason.
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When it's always an offseason conversation, it'll be a big
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one. Obviously when we get to the
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deadline, it depends on how the team's playing all that.
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But financial flexibility, for whatever reason, feels like it's
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always a big topic with the Ricketts family and the way that
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they're going to spend. When you crystal ball, when we
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get to the trade deadline, say there's a move out there
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spending wise, what shape are the Cubs here as we look to the
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middle of the year? In terms of spending, I had this
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discussion with Jed and Crane Caney the other day.
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It's never about money, Jed said.
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I've never, ever been in a situation in my entire career
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where a deadline deal ever came down to money.
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It's what they want in Prospect Capital.
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Last year they wanted either Mackenzie Gore or Joe Ryan, the
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twins. For Joe Ryan literally said
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we'll give them to you. We want Kate Horton, we want
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Matt Shaw, we want Owen Casey. Only an absolute maniac would
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make a deal like that. No chance you're doing that.
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I wouldn't give you Kate Horton straight up for him.
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Why would I do that? Joe Ryan's good pitcher.
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I think Kate Horton has the upside in him to be better AB he
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makes no money. Why would I take on a big
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contract and give you a 23 year old starter who has Cy Young
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stuff? That would be a terrible deal
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for the Cubs. Capped to the White Sox, I see
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they've already postponed Opening Day, which was scheduled
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to be tomorrow, Thursday. They.
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Pushed. Well, they should have postponed
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today's game because they're down 8.
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Nothing in the fourth. Oh.
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Jesus, I thought they were going to again.
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I thought they'd get off to a better start.
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Murakami's hitting the ball. That's, I guess, the one
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positive coming out of the White Sox so far.
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Yeah, Murakami has hit the ball, no question about it.
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But unfortunately, this team, in my opinion, I said this before
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the season, as the worst rotation in baseball, it really
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does. Now they've got three guys
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coming, Tanner McDougal, Hagen Smith and Noah Schultz, and
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those guys should be in their rotation.
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I don't know, July, August, maybe sooner, but you don't want
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to rush them. You want them to be ready.
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Not just available, but this rotation.
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Shane Smith, now this is 2 straight starts.
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It looked awful. Eric Fetty.
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He's Eric Fetty. His best days are past him.
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Davis Martin pitched OK in their one win.
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It's just not a very good team. It's not.
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They have very little thump in their lineup and they've got
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terrible, terrible starting pitching.
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They're in for a long year. Good friend of mine who does
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gambling for a living, that's his job, he said all over the
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under 67 1/2. So we'll see.
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Not music to Ken's ears, that is for sure, after what he invested
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in before the season. Over to some basketball with
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you, Kathy and Billy Donovan. He remains in the predictive
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market, still the betting favorite to get the North
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Carolina job. We'll see Tommy Lloyd whenever
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Arizona season collides if that changes that.
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What are you hearing in Chicago about Billy Donovan may be
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returning to the college game at Carolina?
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I don't think that happens that in fact, The funny thing is I
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had gotten a call from someone who is very close to a form to a
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current board of trustees member at Carolina.
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And I reached out to Billy Donovan, who I've known since
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1992. And I was told, hey, Billy's on
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the court with the team at shoot around.
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He said to tell you he's not going anywhere till the end of
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the season. And then he wants to meet, which
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he said publicly, I want to meet with Jerry and Michael
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Reinstorp. But he said tell Cap if I leave,
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he's coaching. The last six games that was.
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Good stuff, captain to football. I'm sure you saw Roger Goodell's
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remarks yesterday at the owners meetings in Phoenix when he was
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asked about the Bears and he didn't give them an ultimatum.
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But I thought he was pretty clear that he would like to see
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a resolution sooner rather than later regarding where the Bears
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are going to call home. How big of a talker was that in
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Chicago today? And does that, you know, speed
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the process up at all? I wouldn't say it was a huge
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talker because people are sick of hearing about the stadium.
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They, they're literally people are tired of it.
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They, they're whatever, they don't care.
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They just want to know where they're going to be.
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I still believe they're going to be in Arlington Heights.
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And if they don't, shame on the politicians in this state
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because Indiana has got a deal on the table for him.
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Do I think the Bears want to be in Indiana?
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No. I think they'd rather play in
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the parking lot of my YouTube studio than go to Indiana.
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But Arlington Heights, 326 acres, I still believe that's
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where they'll be. Interesting cap Illinois fans
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like I anticipated and got to know a few of them in Champaign
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of different trips I've taken over there.
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We ask all the time college sports.
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We know it doesn't matter in Chicago, IL though is in the
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final Four. Has it created anything at all,
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any kind of buzz up there in Chicago land?
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Other than us mentioning Dan Hurley getting into it with the
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official and the drama of the shot the other day and we gave
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out the point spread, we have not talked one second of
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Illinois basketball this. Week.
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Isn't that something? What did you think of the the
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head bump in in with Hurley? What did you make of it Gap?
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It's nothing. I had no problem with it because
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Rodger airs that official and Dan have a great relationship.
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Does that comfort you that that his best friend is the official
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on the side for a game to go to the Final Four?
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Friends, but they have a very good relationship for many, many
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years. And Danny was just having fun
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with him. Yeah.
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No, there, there was nothing. I don't think there was anything
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malicious behind. I just thought, you know, we've
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never seen this before. If a player would have done it.
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I don't I you know what? I'm glad, cap, at the end of the
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day, I'm glad that there was no T call because Can you imagine
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that being a deciding moment in a for a for a team to go or Oh
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my God, Can you imagine? Oh God, that would that would
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not have happened. Yeah, I don't know good stuff.
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Anything else? TC Well, I mean, Illinois beat
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high. Illinois blow up wins by 7 or
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more over you can. They do.
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OK. Do they win the national
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championship? No.
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What would you say? Lose in the championship game
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yet again. What would you say to a guy
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who's got an 80 to 1 ticket on Illinois to win the national
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championship? What would you recommend he
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does? I would tell him to have a
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ticket booked for Saturday night or Sunday morning to Vegas.
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And I would tell him if Illinois advances, make sure you've got I
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don't know how much the tickets worth.
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How much did he bet on it? He's got $1200 coming his way
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$13.12. 100 that's a different 1.
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He can just hedge that. I know a guy who has $2500 at 30
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to 1. He bet in November and so he's
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got what, 70, some 1000 coming his way.
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He's literally flying to Vegas after the game on Saturday if
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they win and he's going to hedge his bet and bet the other way
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and try and what's called middle it because they're going to be
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the underdog in the game if they get there.
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He's going to take the points with Illinois and if they don't
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cover, he wins that, excuse me, he's going to lay the points
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with the other team. I think it's how he laid it out.
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So if Illinois wins, he hits, and if the other team wins, he
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hits. And the chance, the way he's
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going to do it and with the point, he's going to be able to
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find a way where Illinois covers but doesn't win.
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He would be able to hit both ends of his bat.
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He must be betting the other team on the money.
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Line. Yep.
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Well, I bought my ticket at the end of September, just so you
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know who that person is. Good stuff. 80 to 180 to one for
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the phone call, yeah. Well, I bet a lot of them,
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Kappa. You should see the final losers.
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Good stuff, Kappa. Thank you, pal.
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Appreciate it as always. I talked to you in a week's
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time. Thank you, David Kaplan, great
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day. Yep, you do the same, pal.
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Good to talk to you, David Kaplan, as we check in on
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Chicago sports with Kappa. I got marquee on here as oh
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what? Channel is it?
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What am I watching? I'll have to look up what the
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number is here with our studio TV's but cold.
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Obviously. Oh yeah.
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Boy, it doesn't have sleeves on either.
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He's he's sleeveless out there. Trent, are you concerned about
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him? Yeah.
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When it goes back to the World Baseball Classic, he was not
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sharp and that, in fact, I don't remember who they were playing
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the night that they watched him. By the way, I think the
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tournament started right after that.
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We really never got into it. People watched that.
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Tournament. Yes, they did.
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They loved it. So huge momentum for for
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baseball in the month of March, which was great to see.
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Yes, the answer is yes. Matthew Boyd was unbelievable
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last year. He can't duplicate that.
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Well, he's never done that in his career, right?
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Right, anything close to what he was a year ago, you know it, it
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feels like like it's one start. We'll see.
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This is an Angels line up. It's OK at the top, but not a
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whole lot of depth to it. And they go lefty, lefty because
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Imenaga and Imenaga was not good in his start either.
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Horton was great, Horton great, Italian was good.
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He was good, yeah. He's 5th starter.
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He's what you know. As expected, Cabrera was really
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good on Monday. In terms of Ross stuff, the best
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two guys are the young guys, yes, I mean Horton Cabrera,
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Yeah, Ross stuff is completely different than everybody else in
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that staff. Yep.
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I just that first start for and one start, I know it was opening
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day. They're even getting the ball on
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opening day. OK.
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Yeah, really. All right, we'll take a time
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out. Rob Doster is neck.
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When are they getting to Indianapolis, do you know?
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I don't know offhand, I wouldn't be surprised if they're already
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there. Though have you seen some of the
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ticket prices to get in for lower bowl?
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Just crazy money. Super Bowl type money.
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Oh, absolutely, because might have been looking.
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Oh, prior to? Yeah, just in case.
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Yes though so do you know what the get in prices like or?
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Lower bowls, like 5 grand, yes, you can sit in the corner behind
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the basket. They technically call it lower
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bowl, but it's right at the top of it.
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It's it was 1500 I think. So you can get lowers for that.
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But man, there's some expense if you want to sit anywhere
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courtside, not courtside, but you know, and not behind the
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basket. You're paying through the nose.
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I see like there's a super deal. This is on game time, the game
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time app row 127, row E or behind the basket lower bowl
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$2300 just to get in 800 bucks. Now those are upper upper
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uppers. Yeah, upper upper upper.
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Yeah, that's also Nosebleed, yes, but that's for both Monday
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night and that just a single session on Saturday though still
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the get in price 739, just get in.
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Where would you have spent it for a Final Four to see your
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squad? Yeah, I think you would have
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too. Yeah.
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Credit cards, yeah, right. Hopefully interest rates don't
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rise up on that one, but get in the building and figure it out.
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I would have no. I also might have begged my way
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and tried to get a media pass also and tried to go that.
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Direction Well, the fact that you had one for the Sweet 16
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game probably gives you no, you had you didn't have Sweet 16.
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You had a real 88. So, but still you had one down
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the stretch so so it might have. And I was given a Final Four
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pass. It was right when we were
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starting here up in Minneapolis. Minneapolis, Yeah, Yep.
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Just to cover it. Absolutely incredible to be
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there even though it was Texas Tech and Virginia.
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It's a hell of a game though. It was a great game and a great
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final four. Is McCausland next on the list
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of Donovan? Or Donovan says no, Lloyd says
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no. That's what the betting market
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is it? I think it was he was.
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They've taken TJ off the betting markets.
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No, he's still on there. Yeah, he's still like the sixth
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choice. Is he really?
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Yeah. Is McCollum still on there?
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He's not, at least the list that I saw from it was an offshore
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bet online. He's the one that I saw the
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other day. But yeah, he was not.
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I think they had 10 guys listed. Byington and Vanderbilt.
21:19
He was up there, too. I think he was in the top five.
21:22
That was another name that jumped out there.
21:25
What do you do if you're North Carolina?
21:27
This is one of the bluest of blue bloods.
21:30
They got Michael Jordan making calls on your behalf.
21:32
But. What if, and we've seen this
21:34
happen so often, guys just keep saying no, it's not like it was
21:40
in the old days. There are a lot of good jobs out
21:42
there and the ACC does not have the same financial backing as
21:46
the other conferences. It's not the SEC and it's not
21:50
the Big 10. That's a different level.
21:51
You're right. You're 100% right.
21:53
Even at a blue blood different world we're living in.
21:55
No, it is Doster next. 125 Miller and Condon on the Iowa
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Sports Radio Network. All right, 130 Miller and
22:05
Condon, welcome back. Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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Still to come, Transplays of the day.
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And there is basketball action tonight.
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The crown is underway in Las Vegas.
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Guessing Rob Doster won't be at that event and his team at the
22:21
field of 68. They'll be in Indianapolis.
22:23
It is the final four. Rob Trenton, Ken, thanks once
22:26
again for giving us a few minutes.
22:28
Greatly appreciated. Let's let's go back to the Duke
22:32
or UConn game, if you don't mind just the just the an incredible
22:37
ending when seemingly Duke had I don't know what the win
22:40
probability was. Had to be 99 something I would
22:43
think, only to be foiled by UConn in that unbelievable shot.
22:48
You see everything when you keep if you watch enough sports,
22:51
you'll see it at once. And this is one of those games.
22:54
Never seen it before, but what a finish.
22:56
How about that? Yeah, it was it was special,
22:59
man. It was one of those all time
23:00
sports moments. We're going to be watching that
23:02
highlight for the next 50 years. Anytime people are talking about
23:06
the greatest March Madness moments, greatest sports moments
23:09
is going to be up there with like Christian Leitner and Chris
23:12
Jenkins and shots like that. But I'll tell you, so much is
23:15
made of and it's actually frustrating me a little bit.
23:18
So much has been made of that last play by Kaden Boozer, the
23:21
turnover and like that was the only reason that Duke lost that
23:26
game and they blew a 19 point lead.
23:28
They're up by 17 in the second-half.
23:29
And the fact that everything has kind of been put on that play in
23:33
that moment has been. But did anybody else like watch
23:36
the game or did everyone turn it off at halftime and then wait
23:38
until they got a notification on the phone?
23:41
They said like, oh, you got a close game alert here with Duke
23:44
and Yukon. So it's that part of it's been
23:47
been frustrating. But I'll tell you what, man,
23:48
they the ratings, the the people paying attention to the
23:51
viewership that we're getting in college basketball couldn't be
23:53
in a better place right now. Well, as we're taking a peek
23:56
back, I'd love to get your perspective on Iowa.
23:59
Listen to your guys's podcast after things wrapped up in the
24:02
Sweet 16 victory. Had the lead with eight minutes
24:05
to play against the Illini halftime lead.
24:07
But alas, too big, too tough inside.
24:09
As Illinois moves on to the Final Four.
24:11
Your thoughts on Ben Mccollum's group, this run through the NCAA
24:15
tournament and kind of the future as you look at Iowa
24:17
basketball? I mean, a hell of a run, man.
24:19
Like it was, you know, you get to the Elite 8 as a nine seat,
24:23
you knock off the reigning national champion.
24:25
Like that's nothing to be ashamed of.
24:27
And we're in an era now where the top of the sport, the top
24:32
5681012 teams, whatever it ends up being, are going to be
24:36
separating themselves because of the way that Nio kind of works.
24:38
And the fact that you're able to knock off one of them and get
24:41
yourself to a point where you know what, like a couple
24:44
possessions away from, you know, landings in the final four in
24:49
Indianapolis is, is really impressive.
24:51
My big question now with Iowa and with Ben is 1.
24:56
What are you as a coach when you don't have Bennett Sturtz,
24:58
right? And we've seen him one of the
24:59
division two level, but that's very different than winning at
25:02
Division One level or in the big 10.
25:04
And then two, how do you navigate the portal when you're
25:07
at this level? Because that's the one thing we
25:09
haven't really seen him need to do.
25:12
He's plugged a couple gaps. He's found a way to be able to
25:14
build a round. Bennett, Sturtz and you know,
25:16
obviously he got started as a transfer twice, but I think that
25:19
one's a little bit, you know, that's that's a little skewed.
25:22
That's not going to be happening every year.
25:23
So how he finds a way to be able to navigate that I think is the
25:27
key moving forward. We haven't seen him do that yet.
25:30
When he's got players, you know, he can coach them up.
25:32
The question is going to be, can he get those players?
25:35
My guess is that he probably will be.
25:36
Yeah. And I love the fact that he's
25:38
been now he's been doing every national media hit that he
25:40
possibly could do to try and sell his brand.
25:43
I do want to ask you, North Carolina, they don't have a
25:45
coach yet, which tells me that their coach that they want to
25:48
get is still, he's still working.
25:49
He's either in the college, he's either in Final Four or he's
25:52
coaching the Bulls. How do you see North Carolina at
25:55
this particular juncture? Oh man, it's a load of question.
26:01
I think that at this point they're probably hoping that
26:04
they can get Tommy Lloyd. I just don't know if that's a
26:08
situation where Tommy would take it right like you, you got
26:11
Arizona rolling. You got into a final four.
26:13
You're the best team in this final four.
26:15
You got a chance to be able to win a national championship.
26:18
Is that something where you are you're going to leave even if
26:23
you end up losing to to Michigan, if you get to the
26:26
final four, Arizona, are you leaving first Final four in 25
26:29
years for the program that you're at?
26:30
Maybe you do. Maybe North Carolina is too much
26:33
to turn down, but I, that's going to be a fascinating, you
26:38
want to see how it plays out because the portal opens the day
26:40
after the national championship game.
26:42
You know, whoever's got that job is going to have to start
26:44
working immediately. Billy Donovan's season doesn't
26:46
end until April 12th. So would he end up taking the
26:50
job and then kind of starting working that?
26:52
Like you'd even be working from behind coming from the
26:54
professional ranks. So I it seems like it would
26:59
probably end up being Tommy Lowey because I don't know if
27:02
Billy Donovan is the kind of guy that's going to say, oh, second
27:04
field. Yeah, you know what, I'll come
27:06
take the job now. So if it's not, and if it's not
27:09
Tommy, then Mark Byington, is that going to be something that
27:12
wins a press conference for you if you're if you're in North
27:15
Carolina? I think that he went a lot of
27:16
games. I think he'd be very good there.
27:18
But that's, you know, that's, that's a far cry from getting
27:21
yourself like a future Hall of Fame this week.
27:23
Yeah, and if you're not going to get that, though, it's not about
27:26
winning the press conference, it's finding the right guy in
27:28
Byington. I'm with you.
27:29
I think you'd win a ton there. Let's get into the games on
27:31
Saturday starting at 5:00 Central time.
27:33
God's time zone as Illinois faces off against UConn. 2 teams
27:38
that we've seen some of the highest of highs this season,
27:41
but also some head scratching moments out of both of these
27:44
squads this year. What do you anticipate?
27:46
How do you preview Illinois and UConn?
27:48
Well, first and foremost, the game starting at six O 9 Eastern
27:51
Time zone, legitimate time zone the I think that this game is
27:56
going to come down to two specific matchups. 1 is going to
27:59
be Alice caravan against David and Mirkovic.
28:03
Will caravan be able to deal with the the physicality and the
28:06
strength of Mirkovic and and you know, will he be able to chase
28:10
caravan around all the screens and and all the actions that you
28:12
come around? I mean, we all know what Yukon's
28:14
offense is at this point, right? If you're having a six foot
28:16
eight, £250 power forward having to chase a guy that can run off
28:20
of threes and run off of curls and do all the stuff that
28:23
caravan does, you got to you got to make sure that he can
28:26
actually match up with that. So I think that's going to be a
28:28
big part of it. And the other part, I think it's
28:30
just as simple as what is stylist Emery healthy enough to
28:33
be able to stop keeping walking? Because I think Demery is one of
28:37
the better eyeball defenders that you're going to find in
28:39
college basketball. Will he be able to slow down
28:42
Walker, who is, you know, in theory the kind of player that
28:47
would be able to be guarded by Demry?
28:50
But like, sometimes guys like Wagler able to use the strength
28:54
against someone like Demry. So we'll see.
28:57
Man. I think that was going to be a
28:58
fascinating match up. I do, too.
29:00
I don't want to call it the main event.
29:01
Kind of feels like it is Arizona and Michigan.
29:04
They're playing unbelievable basketball.
29:06
Someone has to win this game, Rob.
29:09
I have no idea which of the two teams it's going to be.
29:11
Have you figured it out? Oh no, not at all.
29:15
I'm what I'm what I'm really interested to see.
29:18
So you have arguably the best 2 point percentage defense team in
29:22
in the country in Michigan going up against a team that wants to
29:25
get into the paint and score, score at the rim as as much as
29:30
anything to score in in Arizona. So it's almost kind of like you
29:32
got strength on strength there. You got you got size on size.
29:36
You got a bunch of physical dudes that get in there and just
29:38
going to be beating on each other in the paint.
29:40
So watching that match up with those front courts is going to
29:44
be something else. And I will say, I think at the
29:47
end of the day, when you have a game where it's kind of like a
29:51
like a pick them almost where the teams are so evenly matched.
29:55
I probably would leave with the team that has the best point
29:58
guard, the Big 12 player of the year, who has been the best
30:00
closer in college basketball this season.
30:03
Pretty good place to start. One thing I pointed at that I
30:08
think tilts me Michigan's way is on the sideline.
30:11
Tommy Lloyd gets a bad rap from a lot of people and it's been
30:15
flame outs in the NCAA tournament until this season.
30:17
There's been other things that overall with the talent that has
30:20
come through there, he leaves you wanting a little bit more.
30:23
Do you see a gap between Dusty May and Tommy Lloyd on the
30:25
sideline? Not really.
30:27
I look and I love Dusty. May I love Tommy Lord.
30:31
I think both those guys are very, very good at what they do.
30:33
I think if I had to pick one of them, I think I'd probably go
30:38
with Dusty just because he's been to a Final Four already.
30:41
He's had that experience. And I think turning around
30:44
Florida Atlantic the way he did and then turning around Michigan
30:46
as quickly as he did from where it was under Jalon Howard has
30:49
been impressive. But like, Tommy Lowe's been
30:52
awesome, you know, he's, he hasn't had the greatest
30:55
tournament success, but he's got a team in the fun for now.
30:58
And if you remember, like we all, there's a while where we
31:02
all thought that like Bill Self was going to be the guy that
31:05
that couldn't do it. They couldn't win in March.
31:06
And you know, he had two of the 8 exits and then he had two
31:10
first round exits. And like, is this dude ever
31:11
going to find a way to be able to get it done?
31:13
And you know, he ends at Steph Curry streak, he gets the Final
31:15
four, he wins the championship in 2008.
31:17
And all of a sudden it becomes one of the best coaches that
31:19
we've ever seen in college basketball.
31:20
So you're always the best to never do it until you do it.
31:23
Before we get field the 68 plans for a coverage of the final
31:27
four, you mentioned Bill Self, are any clarity there regarding
31:31
his future in Lawrence? I think the longer it goes, the
31:36
more likely it is that he probably ends up coming back.
31:40
You know, if he was retiring, I think that he would try to get
31:42
out ahead of it just because, you know, he's he's probably
31:45
already working on trying to get like a Tyron Stokes to commit
31:49
and trying to get some of these transfers to come into the
31:51
program. And the fact that he hasn't made
31:55
an announcement yet leaves me to believe that it's probably
31:58
trending towards him coming back.
32:00
But you never know, man. I think that's one of those
32:02
situations where it's going to be up to the doctors.
32:05
Like where? Rob Doster, one final thing for
32:09
me and that is back on the local front.
32:12
Kyle Green takes over Iowa State assistant at you and I Ben
32:15
Jacobson leaving though for the Utah State job which has been an
32:18
excellent job certainly over this last decade, 7 out of the
32:21
last NCAA tournaments. Your thoughts on Coach Jake
32:24
leaving you and I at this point and Kyle Green leaving Iowa
32:27
State to go back home and become the Panthers head coach.
32:32
I never thought we'd see Ben Jacobson leave.
32:33
It just felt like you got to this point.
32:35
He was going to be there forever.
32:36
But you know, Utah State is, is one of those jobs where you go,
32:40
you win for two years and you get a high major gig out of it.
32:43
And it was becoming clear that he wasn't be going to be able to
32:46
get a high major gig out of Northern Iowa.
32:49
So, you know, why not go take a chance?
32:52
Living in Logan is beautiful. You know, you ever been out
32:54
there? It's it's, it's a, it's a
32:56
stunning part of the country. So I hope you and I fans are
33:01
appreciative of kind of what he did there and what he built.
33:04
So yeah, I think that it's it's a pretty good situation.
33:09
Yeah, I don't, I do not see too many hard feelings, no doubt
33:11
about that. What field is 68 plans?
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We're going to be live Tom's Watch Bar, 4:00 to 7:00 tonight,
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guests on. So we we had a lot of stuff on
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the works. And you do get some big guests,
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no doubt about it. Check it out on X.
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Rob, thanks for giving us a few minutes.
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Appreciate the relationship. Rob Doster.
33:34
Thank you bud. Thanks guys.
33:36
We'll see you, yeah. Good to talk to you.
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It's not serious, but he left the game.
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His belt must have been running pretty good.
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So we come in Monday on the heels of the Elite 8, the Yukon
37:01
Shot. I was run Iowa State.
37:03
We hadn't talked since Friday night outside of the Saturday
37:06
show, so we had a lot going. On by the way, that was a blast.
37:09
Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, It was a blast.
37:11
I was only with you for 10 minutes.
37:13
It was fun, yes. I could tell you guys we're
37:14
having a good time there. It's.
37:15
Good to every get everybody. Together.
37:17
Well anyway, I thought it was perfect too.
37:19
I mean, you were the quarterback, you're remaining
37:21
the ship. Lucas is kind of asking me the
37:24
analytical angle of things and kind of breaking down the
37:26
matchup. Heather is asking me more about
37:28
kind of the social aspect like because we all have so many
37:31
different personalities and just you guys with your different
37:34
personalities, the way that married, I thought a really good
37:36
job. Went back and downloaded it and
37:38
listened to it on the way back and you guys did a great job on
37:41
that. And maybe some ideas for the?
37:42
Future I probably wouldn't be a bit surprised.
37:45
So some different things that we can do, but Friday afternoon,
37:48
right after we went off the air, there was a huge story that
37:51
happened in sports. On Friday afternoon.
37:53
And we haven't touched it, Tiger.
37:55
Oh yeah, my God. And.
37:57
And for a while, and I probably should ask you off the air, but
38:00
that's not how we do things. No.
38:02
Why would we start now? Yes, absolutely.
38:03
This is, this is how we do it and how we've done it for a long
38:06
time together. I wondered if you were
38:10
uncomfortable, disappointed. Disappointed, absolutely
38:14
disappointed. This guy, what he meant for the
38:18
sport, right? They'll they'll never be, in my
38:21
opinion, they'll be never any be.
38:23
Anybody can come close to his legacy on the golf course.
38:27
He was his. I love greatness.
38:29
And we were watching greatness every time he put AT in the
38:31
ground and specifically on Sundays when he wore the red
38:34
shirt, polo shirt, right. But what he's doing to himself
38:37
and more importantly, I mean, he's been lucky.
38:39
Hey, he's been lucky. He's walked away.
38:41
But he's been really lucky that nobody else has been involved
38:44
with his, with his carelessness, quite frankly.
38:48
Why doesn't he have a driver? He's a billionaire.
38:51
Why is he driving around? He came out and said God it,
38:55
it's a privacy issue. Please.
38:57
You don't think he signed NDA's? Didn't all of those women that
39:00
he was with have to sign an NDA at some point?
39:02
He's probably got an NDA attorney on speed dial.
39:05
What is he doing to himself, to his legacy and how we and how we
39:10
view one of the greatest athletes of our generation?
39:14
It is incredibly sad, the pictures, the the shot of him as
39:18
he's getting a ride back after being charged there.
39:22
And it's such that difficult part of we know physically what
39:26
he has gone through, the medication part.
39:29
And we know how that has become a bigger and bigger issue.
39:32
And not just in our country, worldwide of the addiction that
39:35
can happen because of that. But for a guy of his stature,
39:39
that's still, yes, there I'm sure is pain management somehow,
39:42
some way that has to happen just to give him an opportunity to
39:45
entertain us to get back out there, to walk hopefully 36
39:49
holes at Augusta and be able to to get to the weekend at
39:52
minimum, because that's a realistic baseline.
39:54
And just for our own enjoyment. I know that there is certainly
39:58
things that have to be done because of the toll that his
40:01
body is taken physically. But to have this happen again,
40:04
you said driving behind it, the addiction part.
40:09
And he's got kids now and he's got kids with a future.
40:12
His daughter's in college, right?
40:14
I'm somebody that myself, my dad was going through an addiction
40:18
problem when I was in college. It was awful, absolutely brutal.
40:21
And my heart ached, not for Tiger, but for the kids, for
40:25
Charlie and what he is going through as this budding baby
40:28
star. Golf.
40:30
And then you got dad battling addiction and what that has to
40:36
do. We know the mental part this
40:38
weekend, Gary Woodland. If there wasn't Elite Eight
40:40
games going on, I mean, that should have been.
40:42
You know what I did? I'm so glad you brought him up.
40:44
But we will next week with Matt Rudy.
40:45
What, what a win. What a what a win for humanity.
40:48
Yes, right. More than just a golf tournament
40:51
battling demons. To come back and then to have
40:56
just being lost on the course and being able to overcome it
40:59
and then lap the field and and be up five strokes at the end
41:02
and the emotion and everything with it.
41:04
And those are the stories that we love.
41:07
The mental part of golf. It's not just about putting a
41:09
peg in the ground. And I'm talented and I'm going
41:10
to do it. There's the mental aspect is so
41:13
huge in that sport. Incredibly sad, disappointing.
41:16
And I really, I feel bad for the kids.
41:18
I don't feel bad for Tiger. He's he's made this bad.
41:21
How many? Chances does he need?
41:23
There has been plenty of opportunities and there's been
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plenty of different addictions that have inflicted.
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Him and this wasn't drunk driving.
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This was pills. It's opioids, Yes.
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What'd they find in his pocket? 2 hydrocodone pills, I think it
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was. Yeah, just completely out of it.
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And you see those pictures. My good God.
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Let's make some bets and end on a wagering note.
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But yeah, I'm glad you reminded me of you about the situation.
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And next week we have our guy Matt Rudy.
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I'm guessing it'll come up as well.
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Yeah, no doubt we're making a bet.
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A bet. I already have one in the books,
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but the game's already started. And how's it going for you?
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We're scoreless. It's the Cubs, Angels.
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Who'd you take? I took the Angels.
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It was the Matthew Boyd conversation that we had
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earlier. Getting plus 143 at Circa.
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You look at some of the big shops, you would have got plus
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130 + 143 at Circa. Again, betting baseball.
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Which is tough enough to do day after day.
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It's a grind and if you want to eke out a profit.
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Get the best price. And Circa Sports has that,
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certainly in baseball more times than.
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And GG's a good one too. Yes, the other one.
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I am going to play the crown tonight.
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Good. I'm playing the Big 12, Big 10
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battle. You're oh, the late.
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Game, the late game 930 tip off perfect for me.
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Kids will be in bed. Oh, yeah.
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Just going to watch a little hoops tonight.
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Give me the Gophers plus the four against Baylor.
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All right, you don't seem sold. No, I'm OK with it.
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I'm I'm going to watch it. I'm absolutely going to watch
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it. What time is the Oklahoma
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Colorado game does it go? First it does that is 7:00. 7:00
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and that's a big number. All right, that's going to do
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it. Coming up next off the bench,
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