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Terminello's Take on Final Four Matchups and TORPEDOGATE 3-31-25 · OneLegUpAlex Sports

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garren.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's the final day in March, and a little
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  Speaker 2: man this has been happening over the weekend. We've got
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  Speaker 2: a final four set, but luter Manello, we're gonna get
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  Speaker 2: your take on all that. I want to alert you though.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we got to interview next month Jim Abbott
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  Speaker 2: because lim loss Awareness month next month, so we got
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  Speaker 2: to find a way to get him on.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, outstanding pitcher picture no hre there was I able
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  Speaker 1: to overcome his handicap to have a real good major
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  Speaker 1: league career and he would be an interesting interview. And Alex,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, good afternoon, after noon, goodnight, as they and
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  Speaker 1: thanks for having me back as you always do. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, he just found this thing from Naked Prosthetics
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  Speaker 2: about limb loss awareness. Turns out the Chiefs have an
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  Speaker 2: above albue amputee assistant coach Porter Elliott. Did you know that?
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  Speaker 2: I did not, So we'll be highlight a lot of
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  Speaker 2: that in the next month. And as you know, one
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  Speaker 2: leg up for a reason and I'm not an amputee.
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  Speaker 2: That's the most interesting part of it all. But the
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  Speaker 2: name just fits. So there you go. All right, let's
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  Speaker 2: talk about this weekend. And firstly, I gotta give a
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  Speaker 2: shout out to a kid I met at the Intercollegiate
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  Speaker 2: Broadcasting System conference from Houston. Yes, the University of Houston
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  Speaker 2: KOOG radio is what they call it, Jacobsen because his
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  Speaker 2: school for the first time nineteen eighty four are going
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  Speaker 2: to the final four. And lou you saw Jim Nance
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  Speaker 2: get in the picture there, but that was pretty cool
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  Speaker 2: because he's alumnus of University Houston.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he's an alumnacy University of Houston. He's credited with
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  Speaker 1: a five slam a jama of giving the Houston team
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  Speaker 1: in the eighties. They went back to back to the
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  Speaker 1: final four in eighty three and eighty four. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: get him win it, but he's created with that. I
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  Speaker 1: think Freddy Couples was his college roommate.
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  Speaker 2: The golfer, if I'm not mistaken, right, Yes.
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  Speaker 1: The golfer. Freddy Couples was a college room I'm almost
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  Speaker 1: sure of that. Nance is a great broadcaster, obviously no
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  Speaker 1: longer doing the tournament.
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  Speaker 2: And correct me in the rule. He's gonna get the
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  Speaker 2: call as Alma Modern next week, right, excuse me, He's
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  Speaker 2: gonna get the call as all monitored. He didn't retire
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  Speaker 2: from the March Madness? Did he already? I don't remember?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, no he did, Oh yeah, no he did,
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  Speaker 1: he did. I mean, this is Ian's gonna do it.
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  Speaker 1: Iron Eagle's gonna do it. This is his second year
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  Speaker 1: that Ian's going to do it. And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you saw. Jim Nance is going to continue to
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  Speaker 1: do the Masters through twenty thirty six, which is the
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  Speaker 1: one hundredth anniversary of the Masters, and then Jim Nance
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  Speaker 1: will retire. He probably will be probably in his mid
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  Speaker 1: seventies by then. So great broadcaster, a Jersey Shore guy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Jersey Shore.
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  Speaker 2: So kudos to him for being on the mic for
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  Speaker 2: all those years and to get to see his Houston
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  Speaker 2: team is pretty special. And then so you got that.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, seventy five percent of my picks
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  Speaker 2: we talked about the very first week of after selection Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still proud of seventy five percent. Maybe by one
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  Speaker 2: with Florida, i'd being one hundred percent. But maybe I
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  Speaker 2: did go with my heart with Saint John's a little
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  Speaker 2: bit there. What do you think you.
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  Speaker 1: Probably did go with your heart because I don't think
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  Speaker 1: Saint John's could have beaten Florida. But let me say
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  Speaker 1: one thing about Florida. They haven't played They've gone to
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  Speaker 1: the Final four, they haven't played their A game yet,
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  Speaker 1: and Walter Clayton Junior has come up with some clutch
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  Speaker 1: shots for them. And the ironic thing is Walter cla
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  Speaker 1: Clayton Junior came from my owner. He was for my
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  Speaker 1: owner in the portal. So you're not gonna see players
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  Speaker 1: sticking with iona or those type teams as we move forward.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I think we have all number ones for
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  Speaker 1: the first time since two thousand and eight. I think
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna see all a lot of highest number one
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  Speaker 1: and number two seeds moving forward. We're not gonna see
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  Speaker 1: like North Carolina stay in eleventh seed very often anymore
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  Speaker 1: like last year. But the four teams that are here,
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  Speaker 1: they're all all can win it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, wait, man, you say, why is that because of
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  Speaker 2: the money factor?
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  Speaker 1: The course of the money because of because of the
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  Speaker 1: money factor. I mean, guys were in the portal before
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  Speaker 1: their team was not out of the tournament.
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  Speaker 2: I know that's crazy, even some coaches were, but that's
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  Speaker 2: a different.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And the same thing with the coaches you're one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent correct. Alets that that is just as bad.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll tell you this, We'll get to the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the bracket because yesterday Johnny Broome Auburn. We talked
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  Speaker 2: about this a little bit off air last week. Some
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  Speaker 2: of these kids, you don't know their names until the
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  Speaker 2: big stage, Am I right?
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  Speaker 1: You're one hundred percent right. It's because college basketball, and
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  Speaker 1: this is before even before the portal and the nil
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  Speaker 1: money had become very transient one year and you can't yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can't draw a connection with the guy. That's why
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  Speaker 1: coaches are dominant figures in college basketball, not the players.
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  Speaker 1: The coaches are because the coaches are more steady, uh
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  Speaker 1: in there in staying at these at these colleges. But
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  Speaker 1: you're right with the players, I don't care who they are. Now,
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  Speaker 1: watching them in the tournament might be the first time
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  Speaker 1: we've seen some of these guys without a question. And
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of good talent out there. We just
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  Speaker 1: we just don't know them like we used to and
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  Speaker 1: used that that connection that you had between Saint Georgetown
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  Speaker 1: where Patrick viewing in that great Georgetounty he played four years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah I know, he only won one championship, but they
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  Speaker 1: got to the final four three out of those four years.
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  Speaker 1: He had a connection Louisville in the eighties and obviously
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  Speaker 1: when I was growing up in the sixties and seventies,
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  Speaker 1: U c l A. Yeah, it doesn't happen anymore, doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: It's sick.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know the portallet's change everything, right. So even
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  Speaker 2: in we often wonder with pro program can they spend
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  Speaker 2: the whole career with their team? Now we literally have
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  Speaker 2: to ask ourselves can the guy spend the whole career
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  Speaker 2: in the college level? And now we're seeing we're seeing
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  Speaker 2: after the big run by Saint John's and I mean
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  Speaker 2: the regular season, the Big East getting the tournament win
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  Speaker 2: the first time that maybe that five minutes against Arkansas
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  Speaker 2: led to the biggest decision for Saint John's has to
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  Speaker 2: deal with now, which is R J. Lewis entering the portal?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, is he that salty? Can I can I
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  Speaker 2: use a little mono day lingo? Is he salty about
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  Speaker 2: this or what.
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  Speaker 1: He could be? Now? He said? Somebody close to him
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  Speaker 1: said no, so that he has great regard for Rick Patino.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that NBA scouts say he won't be
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  Speaker 1: a first round pick. I was a little surprised by that.
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  Speaker 1: I thought maybe at the lower end of the first
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  Speaker 1: round or the second obviously maybe a second round. But
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  Speaker 1: if he goes to all the school, this is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be his third school, just like Kadari, Richmond, Sirrahcuse, Ston,
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  Speaker 1: Saint John's, Louis Junior, UMass Saint John's, and question Mark
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  Speaker 1: if you go somewhere else. Even Johnny Broom, he's one
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  Speaker 1: of the probably the second best player in the country
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  Speaker 1: or third, second or third whatever, behind Cooper fled who's
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  Speaker 1: definitely the best and h but he came from Murray State,
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  Speaker 1: Mary State, which has made runs in the tournament. They've
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  Speaker 1: won a couple of games. You can't lose a guy
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  Speaker 1: like Johnny Broom. You can't. And that's why I don't
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  Speaker 1: think we'll ever see those teams again unless there's changes.
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  Speaker 2: And what can the NCAA do, Because I mean a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people actually find it outrageous that all number
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  Speaker 2: ones made. It is the world we're in. It's like
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  Speaker 2: number one is making its controversial? Now can you believe that?
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  Speaker 1: Well it's controversial because let's face it was for these
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  Speaker 1: first two weeks of the tournament a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a snooze fest. Was there really any compelling games and situations? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there were some close games Arkansas and Texas Tech. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we could pick out some close games, but there was
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  Speaker 1: nothing that was super compelling. There just wasn't. Now again,
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  Speaker 1: this could just be this year that all these one
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  Speaker 1: seeds make. It doesn't mean it's going to happen down
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  Speaker 1: the road. I think it's probably gonna be close to
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  Speaker 1: the one and two seeds every year moving forward, unless
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  Speaker 1: there's changes in the NCAA. And we don't know that
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  Speaker 1: it is the SEC and the Big Ten going to
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  Speaker 1: split from the NCAA. Where does that leave some some
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  Speaker 1: of the other conferences. We really are in uncharted territory
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  Speaker 1: moving forward, and I don't know if it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be great. I really don't.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll have to find out one last thing on
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  Speaker 2: the Johnnies and we can get to them the whole
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  Speaker 2: episode here, because I was I think we all fell
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  Speaker 2: in love as a city with this team's run. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they win the first tournament game in twenty five years. Patino.
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  Speaker 2: You could say it was out coached by by cal Perry,
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  Speaker 2: but I just don't know why they weren't making their shots.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're under the hoop at sixty two to
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  Speaker 2: sixty and you miss it. Patino's not making that shot.
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  Speaker 2: What happened? Was it evens that good? Or would Saint
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  Speaker 2: John's nervous? What do you think?
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  Speaker 1: Well, anything can happen, as I always beat a dead horse,
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  Speaker 1: can happen in one game. I think that they could
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  Speaker 1: have been a little uptight. Now, Arkansas also missed a
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  Speaker 1: lot of layups in that game.
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  Speaker 2: I mean nearly had three three pointers by the way
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  Speaker 2: the whole game are but a mistake, right.
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  Speaker 1: And I think in Arkinsaw, I think only shot two
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  Speaker 1: for nineteen from the from behind the ark. He can't
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  Speaker 1: blame the coach, but I'm gonna I think I think
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  Speaker 1: that Patino might have got out coached by cal down
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  Speaker 1: the stretch. Not I don't care that Luis Junior was
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  Speaker 1: three for seventeen. He's come through for you all. He
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  Speaker 1: he's the biggest player of the year. It's a close game.
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  Speaker 1: You just need a couple of shots. Look at the
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  Speaker 1: Texas Tech Arkansas game. At the end of the game,
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  Speaker 1: guys who hadn't hit shots with Texas Tech the whole game,
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  Speaker 1: came through making big shots and got them a win
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  Speaker 1: that they probably didn't deserve. The ironic thing is Texas
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  Speaker 1: Tech didn't deserve to be Arkansas. They were outplayed most
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  Speaker 1: of the game, and Texas Tech probably outplayed Florida, and
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  Speaker 1: Florida came through at the end. That's what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: And he's won. And these one offs, these single eliminations,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta every every possession, every free throw is the
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  Speaker 1: detail orientation's gotta be there. If you're not detail orientale
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  Speaker 1: on every possession that can that can cost you tournament.
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  Speaker 1: Now Saint John's going forward, they'll be fine, they'll be good.
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  Speaker 2: I hate to say this because so much was made
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  Speaker 2: about Zoobie returning, remember that whole big deal last week.
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  Speaker 2: I almost feel like the free agency is going to
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  Speaker 2: hit the NCAA. I feel like we're in a free
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  Speaker 2: agent market, no.
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  Speaker 1: Question, that is a free agency mark. And and they
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  Speaker 1: even talking about that some of these players that the
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  Speaker 1: NCAA might say, these guys have to sign contracts. So
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  Speaker 1: who knows what's you know, what's gonna be, how it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be.
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  Speaker 2: So but off there we've been a battling about this.
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  Speaker 2: I still think Saint John's needs more funding even though
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  Speaker 2: they have Repelly. Are we gonna see both Cohen and
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  Speaker 2: Repelly just inject all the money in the world, and
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  Speaker 2: Queens and and and both these teams, the Mets and
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  Speaker 2: Saint John's gonna win championships? Was gonna happen here?
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  Speaker 1: Well? Still, you have to you have to win it
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  Speaker 1: on on a court, on the field. You know. I
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  Speaker 1: assume that whatever Repelly is asked for by coach Beatino,
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  Speaker 1: as far as money, he's gonna get, I don't. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he Repell's a billionaire, and you know, obviously he's a
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  Speaker 1: horse guy and sports guy. When I was with the Nets,
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  Speaker 1: he almost brought the Nets. And I think he's a
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  Speaker 1: Mets fan too, And I think he might have been
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  Speaker 1: in the mix for the Mets before Cohen got involved.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not so sure about that. But Saint John's has
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  Speaker 1: already signed this Joshin Sannon, a sharp shooter from from Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be on the team. They might get the kid
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  Speaker 1: from Providence, Bryce Hopkins, very good player originally at Kentucky,
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  Speaker 1: recruited by Cala Parry. And they're looking at some of
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  Speaker 1: European sharpshooter who I don't know anything about, but apparently
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  Speaker 1: he's a sharp shooter from from Europe.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean, my god, you were in talking like
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  Speaker 2: this during the Kurd of Second days, were you This
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  Speaker 2: is not this is such a totally different area.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's because it's a different era, it really is.
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  Speaker 1: But that being said, as we go to the finals
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  Speaker 1: and when we wrap up with Sain John, They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be fine. They'll be fine. And the Big East is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be interesting next year because you have Richard Patino
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  Speaker 1: becoming the head coach at Xavier and Kevin Willard officially,
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: which the worst kept secret in the world the last
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  Speaker 1: two weeks, becoming the head coach at Villanova. So we
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  Speaker 1: got some good coaches in the Big East. Now they
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  Speaker 1: gotta get they gotta get the talent. So that's that
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  Speaker 1: would be interesting. And you know twenty twenty five twenty
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  Speaker 1: six season on the here before you know it.
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  Speaker 2: But by the way, if Patito won on Saturday, he
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  Speaker 2: would have still gone out to see his son. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the idea that, oh, well, Abury Loss is gonna go
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  Speaker 2: see your son. Why wouldn't he go see his son play?
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  Speaker 2: The coach the next day.
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  Speaker 1: That's oh, absolutely, without question, anybody who criticized his saying,
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  Speaker 1: what is he supposed to be in mourning because he lost?
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  Speaker 1: Of course he's unhappy that he lost, but you know
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  Speaker 1: he had to go see his son the next day.
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  Speaker 1: You know it was it wasn't like he went he
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  Speaker 1: had to go to Cleveland. The game was in Cleveland's.
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  Speaker 2: He did the right thing, absolutely all right. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to torpedo this episode at all, but we gotta
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  Speaker 2: go there, Louis, We gotta go there. Thirty six runs
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  Speaker 2: for the Yankees opening weekend and two games, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to believe it's all because of a bat.
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  Speaker 2: They've maybe got a different mindset about themselves beyond just
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  Speaker 2: a new bat.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think, Well, alex As I told you
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  Speaker 1: or Fair yesterday, I knew nothing about these torpedo bats
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  Speaker 1: until this weekend, my guest. Major League Baseball has initially
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  Speaker 1: approved and approved them. So it's not like the Yankees cheated. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: after getting swept by the Braves this weekend, the Braves
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  Speaker 1: getting swept by the Padres this weekend, they are now
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  Speaker 1: going to order torpedo bats.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you know what I say if it's the Yanks
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  Speaker 2: have one leg up right now. That's how I look
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  Speaker 2: at it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay, I hear you, and I agree with you.
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  Speaker 1: But the five Yankees who use the torpedo bats this
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  Speaker 1: weekend all had big weekends. I mean, is Chisholm gonna
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  Speaker 1: hit forty home runs this year? A guy who might
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  Speaker 1: hit fifteen? Is Valty gonna hit thirty five? Is Goldschmidt
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  Speaker 1: going to find that fountain of youth? A Bellinger's gonna
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  Speaker 1: start hitting home runs? And I mean that home running
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  Speaker 1: hit the other day. I mean he I thought that
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  Speaker 1: was gonna go through the bleachers. So and I had
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  Speaker 1: no idea about the torpedo bats when I was watching
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  Speaker 1: that barrage on Saturday. But if other teams are gonna
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  Speaker 1: start using them, and I guess this physicist that the
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Yankees hired, this Aaron lenn Hart from a former MIT physicist,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know I heard. I don't know if this
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  Speaker 1: is confirmed that the Marlins have already had him come
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  Speaker 1: down or gonna he's coming down to see them. This
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  Speaker 1: is the problem. If we're gonna see eight or nine
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  Speaker 1: home runs a game and see fifteenth, twenty to nine,
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  Speaker 1: fifteen to five, fifteen to eleven. It's almost like what
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  Speaker 1: happened at the end of the last century with Maguire
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  Speaker 1: and Sosa. I mean semi so said six feet home
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  Speaker 1: home runs three years in a row. You know that.
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  Speaker 1: That's so we'll have to wait and see the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: to do anything wrong now all the teams know.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean the other thing I say is it
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  Speaker 2: still don't have to hand eye coordination. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe there's just some kind of different mindset that well.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Volpi's bat speed increased by three miles per hour,
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  Speaker 1: so they all of the five Yankees who use the
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  Speaker 1: torpedo bat, their bat speed increase. Uh with the with
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  Speaker 1: the new torpedo bat.
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  Speaker 2: Now again, Dave Portnoy, judge and not use the bat.
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  Speaker 2: Just to get that clear. Aaron judges and not use
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  Speaker 2: the bat, and.
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  Speaker 1: Lot if he does. If he does, he might he
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  Speaker 1: might hit. He might hit over the Hudson River.
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  Speaker 2: Oh but onto one sixty first Street. Really that's yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Whoa so, But it will be it's in its infancy.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see where how how it progresses during the course
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  Speaker 1: of the year, and if if it becomes if it
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  Speaker 1: makes the game a joke. Then Major League Baseball might
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  Speaker 1: have to step in. You know, they've changed the baseballs
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  Speaker 1: over the years. One year that has a rabbit in it,
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  Speaker 1: other years they make it better.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see, We'll have to see. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: the pitching held its own. Look, the answers were all
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  Speaker 2: that runs, but he still got a pitch and they
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  Speaker 2: held their own against the Brewers. Do you think, because
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: I see now Milwaukee's going back home, do you think
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: there's a psyche thing with Nestor because obviously had a
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: home run. Giving up to Freeman would damage anybody's psyche
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: and the last year's World Series. Yes, you're asking him
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: to recover from that in a few months time. I
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: don't know if he's fully recovered from that loop.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Well, many times I can't say, you know, I can't
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: say that you're wrong. I can't I don't know. I
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: can't say that you're right. But to have the combination
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: of the poor guy throwing the home run ball to
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Freeman in Game one of the World Series and then
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: have his first three pitches back in his old ballpark
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: against his old team.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Is almost again the base that's already mad at him
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: for that pitch against Freeman by Day.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was unbelievable.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Five homers.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: That was unbelievable. Though.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: I don't blame him for leaving the leaving the media
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: in the lurge, but I guess he handled it pretty
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: poorly on Saturday.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Well again, I get I think, and I'm not sure
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: he was supposed to talk to the media before the
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: game yesterday. That's fine, obviously, basically what you said that
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: between what happened last year in the World Series, the
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: uh pitch to Freeman and what happened Saturday, you gotta
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: give the guy, the guy a chance to decompress. I mean,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's a human being. Maybe he doesn't want
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: to talk to the media. Maybe he's a phrase. He's
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: gonna say the wrong things if he speaks to the media.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: So he gave him twenty four hours, and he was
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: supposed to speak to the media before the game yesterday.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I do not know if he did, but I know
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: he was scheduled too.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: So so another thing I heard about this weekend was
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: a couple of Rays also used the bats, And my
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: joke was, were they left over at sanburn Or Field?
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Is that why they're using them?
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Or maybe that's right, Maybe they will. I think the
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Red Sox used them in pre season in spring training,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: but they did not use them in this weekend series
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: with the Rangers. We'll see the torpedo bat, unfortunately, is
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: now going to become front and center.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: You mentioned the Marlins, though, I thought they had the
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: most competitive weekend of all the teams because they really
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: got it out there a couple of wins there against Pittsburgh.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: They had a couple of walk off wins and they're
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: three in one, So we'll see how long that lasts.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: I had made the joke opening day that it's gonna
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: be Marlin's White Sox because they both won on opening Day,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: and you know the White Sox, look, they're actually doing okay.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: And then the rain delay hits. I don't know if
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: they won yesterday or not, but no, they did lose
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: that game. I mean, what fortunes for that team. Man,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: it's just crazy.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Anyway, the over and under in Vegas is fifty three
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: and a half. Yes, I think I told you some
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: baseball people like Steve Phillips and Buster Only don't think
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: they can make they can hit forty five.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: So all right, Well, let's get to a guy who
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: won't need a torpedo vant anytime soon. And he's on
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: the Mets, and he silenced his critics after striking out
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: to end the first opening day with a monstrous home
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: run the next night. I'm of course talking about Won Soto,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: and yes, I align myself with the Yankees, media community,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: whatever a little more than the Mets. But I'm gonna
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: report on this guy because he's a sports story. He's
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: a New York sports story, and I wouldn't be doing
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: this podcast just as if I didn't talk about him
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: just because he left the Yankees. The guy's a story,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Lou and every moment he says in the Mets pinstripes
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: is going to be looked at very closely, wouldn't you say?
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Of course, he plays for a New York team that
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: gets a lot of attention, that has a loyal and
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: large fan base, And obviously I don't care what anybody says. Yes,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: they're in the division, are the Phillies and the Braves,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: but their rivals are also the Yankees. And if anybody
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: thinks that's not true that Yankees Mets Mets Yankees, there's not.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Everybody's looking at what the other team is doing. They're
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: out of their mind.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: This move puts it back on the map, though, because
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Judge Soto is such a marketable matchup. You know, NB,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: ESPN and all these outlets are going to be all
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: over that match when it comes May and Junior.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: No question about it. There are different type of players. Obviously,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Judge is more of a home run hitter. Soto hit
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: his career high last year, and he was a left
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: hand batterer, as we've talked about in the past, had
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the short right field porch last year. I don't think
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: he's gonna have forty one home runs this year. He
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: could have a better year, but that doesn't mean he's
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: gonna hit forty one dingers. I think though people gloating, criticizing,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: making making focus of that last at bet against you know,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: against the Astros. I mean, that was that was ridiculous.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: But what you know, whatever, I mean, if they if
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: fans want to get on them, fine, I mean Yankee
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: fans myself, I think they're entitled.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I think they're entitled. They gotta get every great player.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: If they don't get every great player, something's wrong. No
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: team has gotten has utilized an outspend for more free
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: agents since it started back in nineteen seventy five, since
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the then the Yankees. You know, he decided to play
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: for the Mets, you know, and that's that was his decision.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: We'll see, but it was just ridiculous that they made
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: such a big deal out out of one at that,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: out of six hundred at back, this guy's going to
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: get this year.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: But you know what I'm gonna notice. I want to
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: notice about this Met team too, is how different the
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: culture is. Because I felt like when Soto was in
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: the Yanking lineup, they were so much more patient at
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: the plate. They drew their walks, they they were able
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: to not swing and everything. And I think Soto teach
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: that a little bit. I think he's gonna do the
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: same in Queens. They might have a lot more walks
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: this year, Lou because of that, that kind of patient
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Soto preaches, well that.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: That definitely could be I mean, that could be contagious.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: And even against Josh Hater when Hater struck him out,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: he was ahead on the count three and oh, I
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: thought he was going to get the swing sign on three,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: and oh, I really did he did it? Maybe he did,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: but he decided not to swing, and you saw him
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: swing at a pitch that usually an undisciplined picture, undisciplined
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: hitter swings at so that the fact that he swung
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: at that pitch that was way outside, he must have
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: been fooled by the motion. And you know, Josh Hader
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: is a terrific picture. That's why they're paying them fifteen
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: million dollars a year. But he's fine. I mean, I
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: mean to question the other questions about the Mets. Do
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: they have enough pitching? And they pitched very well this weekend,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: both the stars in the bullpen. Holmes was okay. He
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: was nowhere near like he was in Florida during spring training.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I think they'll be okay. I think they'll add a
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: pitcher during the course of the season.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: All right, one of the storyline to me. The other
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: one about this opening weekend is the Dodgers are five
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: and oh when will they get their loss? Lewis It's
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: got to come at some point, right. They're not gonna
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: go one sixty two and out. That's impossible.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: No, I mean, I think the Dodgers, if they keep
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: their foot on the gas pedal, could win one hundred
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: and ten, one hundred and eleven games. I really do
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: their bullpen is unbelievable, their lineup is unbelievable. They'll be
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the heavy favorites they should be. But will they lose
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: a game? They can? They gonna lose. That's the one
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: thing about baseball. Even who was at least fifty five
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: to sixty games every year, no matter how big you are,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: so so, they'll lose games. But yes, they've gotten off
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: to a good start.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I'd say, all right, one last baseball trivia for you here.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Do you know what yesterday was? And as as my
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: dad's was a Cub fan, I had a fella acknowledged.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: You know what happened on March thirtieth, nineteen ninety two.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: March thirtieth, nineteen ninety two, So usually baseball seasons didn't
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: start to April, but that one, I guess must have
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: started in March. Oh.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: It was actually a transaction more than anything else. It
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: was actually a trade that happened in the Windy City
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: that brought Sosa to the cub.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Can beat me too, I was gonna say, between the
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: two Chicago.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Teams, Yes, between the crosstown rivals, and what a historic
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: move that ends up being right, But that happened on
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: that date nineteen ninety two. Oh yeah, the White Sox
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: lost that trade in a lot of ways.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: I would and that's why you really don't make trades
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: with your incity rival. You really don't. I don't care
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: what the sport is because that blew up in the
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: White Sox face.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: It really did. And we'll have to see, well, we
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: did see how that happened. We'll have to see what
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: other trades go down, and we'll have to see how
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: the Crosstown conversion goes for Soto in the loan. And
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: he's got fifteen years here, so we'll have to see.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: How he does have fifteen years by again, he does
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: have it out after five, so it might be just
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: five years.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: So we'll see, Yes, we will, all right, Lou, I
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: know you want to talk about hockey as well, because
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: the Grade eight is literally what five goals away or
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: four goals away now, at least from tying him and
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: then passing him. We've talked about it. To get it
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: this year, To get it this year was unthinkable. At
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: the start of the season, it was unthinkable.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: He got off to a fast start and then he
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: broke his leg and he missed sixteen games, and I
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: thought he was going to miss much more than that.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: And when he came back from the broken leg, he
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: started scoring again, picked up where he left off. He's
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: the greatest goal scorer I've ever seen. He is in
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: an era where scoring is not like it was in
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Gretzky's time and of the you know, the eighties and nineties.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Can he do it this year? He's got nine to
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: ten games left to score five goals. He can do it.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: It's going to make it interesting for these last three weeks,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: not only with Theovechkin race to become the old time
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: NHL goal scorer, but to see which one of these
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: very very floored teams gets that last playoff spot in
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: the East. You got Montreal, you got the Blue Jackets,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: you got the Red Wings, you got the Islanders, and
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: you got the Rangers. None of them are above five
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: hundred in the last ten games. They're all bunched up.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Montreal has a two point lead on the Rangers. They
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: also have a game in hand on the Rangers. Montreal
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: had lost five in a row, and you figured they
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: would have lost six in a row, but somehow they
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: won down in Floria against the Stanley Cup champions yesterday.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: I still think the Rangers will sneak in. But the
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Rangers are very fortunate that the teams around them are
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: playing just as bad as they are. So that's going
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: to go right down to April seventeenth, Alex. I really
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: believe that. The other thing about hockey that is really
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: driving me crazy, and it's course the Islanders at least
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: two points in the standings, maybe three, is this goal
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: tender interference. They were absolutely jobbed out of a win
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: with nine seconds to go last week against against the Canucks,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: and the week before that Montreal was credited with the
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: goal that was incredibly more obvious as goal tender interference
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: than the August call last week on Kyle Palmry. So
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: that's two points right there that the Islanders would have gone.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: So that's how close this is. But the NHL has
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: got to get a grip on this goaltender interference. It's
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: really that was that was a joke the other night.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: So of course the Islanders went, you know, put them
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: ahead with nine seconds to go, and that's a point
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: they didn't get.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Doesn't have anyone that second wild card spot though, I mean, seriously,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: I feel like no one wants it, as people have
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: been pointing out, so.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: It looks like no one wants it. I still think
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: the Rangers are going to get it, but huh, the
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Blue Jackets might. Hey, the Blue Jackson it looks like
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: they're going to turn it around, and they haven't. I
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: think the I think the Range are going to sneak in.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I really do. I think they'll get that last spot.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: And if they don't, what's the future of Coach Lavalette.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: If the Islanders don't get in, what's the future of
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Patrick Waugh. I mean, I'm some prize that he hasn't
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: put more of his stamp on the Islander team. I
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: thought they'd be more detailed, the oriented on the ice.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Just too many bonehead plays on the ice, no no
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: attention to these little things that that separates winning from losing. Obviously,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: their power play and their panty kill are horrendous and
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: that's caught. That's cost in the playoff spot for sure.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: So uh, just we'll see if they don't make it, Alex,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: what's gonna happen Rangers from President Trophy to uh to
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: odd of the playoffs or even to the eighth spot again.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Even the Devils. Now the Devils have lost their best defenseman.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: They've lost Jack Hughes. Next year, yeah, it's a great
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: they have a young talent, but next year they gotta
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: they gotta make that big jump. I don't I don't
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: expect them to be a Stanley Cup deep run, make
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: us deep run the Cup. But next year they got
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: they gotta be a contenter. So I wonder what general
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: manager Tom Fitzgerald thinks of his team team in the
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: off season. Yes, they're gonna get those injured guys back
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: and uses a point the game guy. But that's going
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: to be an interesting also team to look at in
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the off season. So the three local hockey teams keep
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: a close eye on them.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Well, guess what, I'm hoping it keeps something eye we're
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: going to I'm hoping to take Gaby in Newark and
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: see the Rangers put the Devils. But we'll see. It's
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: a bit of a hike from the train to the arena,
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: so we gotta see how that's gonna work out. But
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be a pivotal game Saturday. It is, it
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: really is.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: It is. And you know, even though the Devils have
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: a little cushion, you know, they want they would love
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: to knock the Rangers out.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: They would love about a rivalry, and I often felt
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: the Devil's Ranger rivalry was so strong. But I don't
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: know when they left the arena and moved further into Jersey,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: it wasn't the same. I mean literally, you could just
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: take a bust over the Continental Airlines Arena for that
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: matchup or a bust to the Garden and now it's
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: all different. Yeah, it is.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: It might be a little bit different, but I think
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: I think it's still it's still It's obviously it is intense.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's as intense as Range as Islanders,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: which I think is the best rivalry in New York sports.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Uh when they play on the when they play on
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: the ice. So uh So the Devils will try to
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: We'll do everything in their power to op the Wolf.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: And here got I gotta really give And we've talked
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: about him in the past, but I gotta give a
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: plug to a Nico Nicohiesha. That guy. That guy has
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: a little bit of Brian Trotchi ate him and he's
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: a two way player. He reminds me of Trachy a
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: little bit. He's the captain. Uh. You know, they have
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: so much talent they really they really just got to
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: get over that hump and go deep in the players.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: They really have a good roster. So we'll see. We'll
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: see how far they can go without their best defenseman
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: and Dougie Hamilton, without their best player in Jack Hughes.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: We'll see how far they can do.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Absolutely correct, We'll have to see. It'll be fun. And then,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: you know, it's funny that the Capitals are the first
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: team to clinch the playoffs spot because they're just they're
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: they're the highlight right now. And this whole thing on
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: the Western side of things though, I mean, we should
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: cover them for a minute because the Oilers are just disappointing.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: And I know we talk about it every year, but
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: just not with Connor McDavid. How do you rank that
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: look in the West? I just don't understand it.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Lewis well everything and he's missed the last week that
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: the playoffs are gonna be everything to them. They got
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: they gotta again make another deep run. I don't think.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna get to the Stanley Cup
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Final like they did last year. I actually have more
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: confidence in the most popular Canadian team, the Toronto Maple Leafs,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: to finally go deep into the playoffs. Uh. John Taveres
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: is having a great second half of the year. Uh,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: he really is. And you know he's on the now,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: he's really on the Hall of Fame path. So but
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: the but for that, for the Maple Leafs, it's all
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: about the playoffs. If they flame out in the playoffs
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: and loose to the Panthers, whether or or the lightning, uh,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's failure. It's failure. I mean, Alex,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: I was fourteen years old the last time the Toronto
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Maple Leafs won the Cup. And let me tell you, buddy,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: that was a long long time ago.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Austin Matthews, though, is just is killing it. And I
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: know he had that rough final against Canada, but hey,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I still want to see the guy succeed. He's a
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: great player.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: He's a fantastic player.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: And but that and by the way, have of that stuff.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: But against Canada was on its fault. Binghamton was on
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: his head though.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Absolutely time you're on a hundred percent right. It's not
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: that he missed the wide open net or anything. They
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: got a great team. William Niland has watched forty two
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: forty three goals Matthews did Tavares. I know this guy
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: is underrated. Mitch Mahner. I mean, the guy's a great player.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: He played for Team Canada. He scored a goal overtime
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: against Sweden to win to win that game in the
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: in the Four Nations. He's a great passer. He can
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: penalty kill, he can score on the power play, can
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: score five on five. Oh I would love to have
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: him on the Islands. Oh, oh my god, I really would.
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  Speaker 1: But again, the pressure is going to be on come
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: playoff time.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: By the way, I'm rocking o'haris today because it's the shamrock.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: It's the last day of March. This is always Saint
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Patrick's same month, so why not end it with a
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: little bit of a shamrock.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Alex, you look great and at that shirt?
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Thank you? All right? One other things, and we got
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: to cover it basketball. I mean, look, we've said it
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: time and time again, but the Carl Anthony Towns trade
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: is just brilliant. And then I see people saying how
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: they miss Dante, and look, if you kept Dante with
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: this team, they would be electric, There's no doubt about it.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: But I would take Towns over Dante, you know, I
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: really would.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, Dante Devincenzo fit the Knicks last year, no
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: question about it. But no, Carl Anthony Towns may not
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: be a great defender, but he's he's an excellent rebounder.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: He can hit the three, he can score off, he
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: can put the ball on the floor. For a guy
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: that big, he can score. No, and yeah, no, don't
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: worry about By the way, see Dante de Vincenzo again
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: into a huge fight last night. There was a huge fight.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Between Oh my gosh.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: There. It's gonna be interesting to see what Adam Silver
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: does as far as discipline. I mean, a bunch of guys.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, uh, I remember that night. I was watching
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: live that night.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: I know it twenty years ago already. That's crazy, that
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: time's flying. But I think it was two thousand and four, Yeah,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: about twenty one years ago. And I just I got
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: a flashback of that. And by the way, I really
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: thought the Brewers were gonna plunk some of the one
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: of these guys before they left town. I really was
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: waiting for that. But it didn't happen a lot.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: I'm surprised that they did it. That's that's true. So
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: it was no ball in the Bronx. But there was
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: a brawl in the NBA last night.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: And the one last interesting thing about all this is
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: that Detroit's actually doing better than you know, they have
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: in previous years. And when teams are successful, it pisses
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: off people.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: You know, Well, I mean I think last year they
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: won fourteen games. And what's happened is they've gotten all
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: these young and they've had these draft picks. They've hit
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: on some of these draft picks, and now they'll they've
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: they've learned how to play at the NBA help, So
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: they've done a great job. The Houston Rockets have done
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: a great job. Emi Adca has just on a fantastic
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: coaching job at the Rockets two years ago. When twenty
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: two games and their next one will be number fifty,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: that's tremendous.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: So shatout was it wasn't he in the running for
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: the next job or had the Net job?
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Well, he was a Net assistant coach, went to Boston,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: had that incident, yeh with uh with us with someone
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: in the Celtics organization, and uh, then the Nets, we're
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: gonna hire them, but backed off and then they hired
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Jordi Fernandez who's who's done an outstanding job. I mean
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: that they're winning games with the G League team when
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: when they really don't want to see them win games. Uh,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: because I wanted to see them be in position to
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: get a Cooper flag, which they're not. But Cooper flag,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: by the way, and we'll finish here. Cooper Flag is
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: better than I thought. He's getting better every game. Duke
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: is most talented team left. I don't know if they're
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: gonna win, but every one of those guys are so
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: good and John Shire has done such a fantastic job
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: right with this team. They might they could lose to
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: a veteran team, a team of more you know that's
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: a little deeper, like a floorer, like an Auburn who's
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: more of a veteran team. But it's gonna be an
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: interesting It will be an interesting final four. Yeah, Alex,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: you do have the four best teams really left.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: There were ones for a reason. Now we got to
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: see where we carry where it gets carried to ye
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: all right, lou loved our chat today. I feel like
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: there's so much more we can unpack, but we'll do
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: that next time as the final four hits here. Juan
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: Soto's opening appearance in Flush this week. I mean, look,
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: it's just fun and it's just rolling. And by the way,
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: I hope if I get to a game this week,
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: crutch is not breaking, right.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: I hope that's not so bad for you. I knew
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: you were going to the game Saturday, so I, as
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: you know, I text you we have those three home runs,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: and I said, I hope you were sitting in your
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: seat to see this history. And then you text me
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: saying I broke my crutch on the on the l
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: I r R so sorry about that. My friend can't
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: make it up.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: But my point to finish off here is what I
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: was going to say, is this, if they're the if
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: I'm the reason they lose the first game of the season,
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: I might not show up at the same rest of
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: I really want to know when I'm there, Okay, I
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: don't want to be there when they lose their.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Well, don't worry. If you're there and I lose the
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: first game, it's not because of you. That I could
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: tell you.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: It will all be because of you, and I see
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Jazz posted up about fourteen minutes ago sounding off about
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: the Yankees torpedo back. He said okay, explanation, the barrel
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: is bigger and within MLB regulations. Jazz went on to
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: a right for the idiots that say he's moved to
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: the label, you're an idiot. No one is trying to
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: get jammed up. Just move the wood from the parts
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: you don't use to the parts you do. You're welcome.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: No more stress for y'all. So there you go.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: The torpedo bats will become part of this early part
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: of baseball season, for sure, There's no doubt about it.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: So it'll be fun, all right. It'll be something to watch.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Torpedo gated, I guess we'll call it.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: It's something that Major League Baseball just has to keep
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: an eye on. They don't want to make a mockery
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: the game, and if they start getting skewed, it's not good.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: But Alex, always a pleasure, Thank you very much, and
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: I look forward to next week.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, indeed, all right, thanks so much. Luke Terminolo
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: on the Alex Garrett's One Leg Up Network