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Speaker 1: Our lead this hour. We start from the Selection Committee. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the Selection Committee. Selection Sunday has come and now gone.
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Speaker 1: The twenty twenty six NC DOUBLEA men's basketball bracket, Locked
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Speaker 1: in Stone, Locked in Stone, And as I mentioned, if
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Speaker 1: you were listening to the Fifth Hour podcast, the early
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Speaker 1: Sunday edition with Danny g and Me mentioned that this
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Speaker 1: time time of the year is one of my favorite
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Speaker 1: times of the year. Every everyone that does this for
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Speaker 1: a living, every bloke, as our friends in Australia say,
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Speaker 1: every bloke that does this kind of work for a living,
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Speaker 1: and we completely ignore men's college basketball unless there's some
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Speaker 1: kind of ridiculous blow up like our friend gottlieb our
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Speaker 1: old teammate who just starts screaming at the referee. Well,
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Speaker 1: if that happens, we talk about it, right, But the
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Speaker 1: exact same playing, the exact same play exactly outside of
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Speaker 1: that though, Yeah, come on, what do we doing? We
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Speaker 1: don't talk about it. And now, through the magic of
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Speaker 1: talk radio, we are all bona fide experts, bonafied experts
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Speaker 1: when it comes to the men's basketball tournament, and we
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Speaker 1: are fully guilty. We're no different. We are no different. No,
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Speaker 1: I have occasionally been watching some of these college games
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Speaker 1: because I was so burn burned out the on the
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Speaker 1: NBA product that I have watched more college basketball last
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks and during the All Star break in
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Speaker 1: the NBA, which wasn't that long ago, I watched a
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Speaker 1: lot of college basketball. So I have watched it. And
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Speaker 1: so if you didn't keep tracked, these things have been
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Speaker 1: telegraphed for some time. The top seeds in the men's tournament,
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Speaker 1: and so if you missed it for some reason, you've
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Speaker 1: got Duke. So I see a lot of blue ballige.
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Speaker 1: They got Duke Arizona, of course, Arizona now moving on
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Speaker 1: to the Big Twelve, but Duke Staple, the acc Arizona,
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Speaker 1: Michigan and the Florida Gators that's it. That's all those
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Speaker 1: teams separated by a few millimeters, but they had separated
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Speaker 1: themselves from everyone else in college basketball. So those are
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Speaker 1: the four pack of the top seeds. Now, last year
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Speaker 1: we had all Chalk, all Chalky mcchalk in the final four.
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Speaker 1: I think Florida won last year. I remember. If I
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Speaker 1: think the Gators won last year, I don't even remember.
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Speaker 1: I believe it was the Florida Games. But anyway, the
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Speaker 1: point is that those of the four teams that are
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Speaker 1: head and shoulders but by everyone else, Duke the king
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Speaker 1: of the Atlantic Coast Conference of the ACC. They won
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Speaker 1: the regular season and then they won the conference tournament.
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Speaker 1: So they doubled up on that. Arizona the big bad
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Speaker 1: bully of the Big twelve all year, the Wildcasts. They
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Speaker 1: won the regular season title and the conference tournament as
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Speaker 1: well Michigan and Florida. It is interesting to node, and
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Speaker 1: as the late Vin Scully would say, it's interesting to
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Speaker 1: note that the Florida and Michigan squad did not did
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Speaker 1: not win their respective conference tournaments. However, both considered the
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Speaker 1: cream of the crop by the selection committee from the
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Speaker 1: Big Ten and the Southeastern Conference, respectively, so they are
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Speaker 1: in as the number one season. Now some of the
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Speaker 1: so called experts, these so called experts in college basketball
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Speaker 1: are saying that all four number one number of seeds
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Speaker 1: advancing to the final four is firmly in play again,
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Speaker 1: that this could be back to back, which seems odd
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Speaker 1: to me considering the fact that in college football and
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Speaker 1: the nil era, you had a team like Indiana, a
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Speaker 1: suck bag football school like Indiana win the championship because
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Speaker 1: they just bought the right players. So you're telling me
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Speaker 1: that we can't have that same thing happened in men's
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Speaker 1: college basketball. That it's just the top teams get all
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Speaker 1: the top players and that's it and it doesn't matter.
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Speaker 1: And so that's all a good jumping off point. Let
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Speaker 1: us discuss the question which top seed again Duke, Arizona, Michigan,
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Speaker 1: and Florida, which are the top seeds, is most likely
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Speaker 1: to go down to go belly up before reaching the
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Speaker 1: final four, not necessarily losing the first three weekend, because
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Speaker 1: very rarely does that happen when I know there's a
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Speaker 1: playing situation and all that they've had that for years.
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Speaker 1: In beautiful Dayton, Ohio, the home of Dick in Dayton,
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Speaker 1: who calls the show after that, though, the real tournament
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Speaker 1: begins on Thursday. And so that's what we've got again.
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Speaker 1: Who is most likely of the top seeds to go
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Speaker 1: belly up? That is the question on the panel. And
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Speaker 1: so I've got a Rush Limbaugh, Apple Store and dust
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Speaker 1: Devil and those are the three things. And we'll combine
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Speaker 1: all of those things together and we are going to
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Speaker 1: make a smash burger with delicious melted lava cheese on
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Speaker 1: top and some onion rings and some fries. Man. That
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Speaker 1: sounds like a good, good meal to eat at this point,
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Speaker 1: all right, So a to begin the festivus of talk
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Speaker 1: here after a literally minutes long Mallar style deliberation, the
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Speaker 1: team most likely to lose Duke Duke. I'm gone with Duke.
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Speaker 1: I'm gone with the Doe case. I'm going with Duke. O.
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Speaker 1: Now here's why that make explain the Blue Devils. Now,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold your hand and walk you through this.
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Speaker 1: Why I believe Duke is of the number one seeds,
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Speaker 1: the one most likely to go down first in the tournament.
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Speaker 1: They're like the land Rover of this now, the land
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Speaker 1: people love Land. I've had friends that have had the
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Speaker 1: land and they all have issues. Right, there's a very
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Speaker 1: expensive to fix, very expensive to fix. And whether it's
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Speaker 1: that luxury off road system or the air suspension or
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Speaker 1: whatever it is, things are fed up all the time.
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Speaker 1: And from just my I've never owned one my friends
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Speaker 1: that have had been very expensive, very expensive to fix.
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Speaker 1: The better be under warranty. You're you're you're completely screwed. Well,
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at Duke here, and yeah, Duke's got Cameron Boozer,
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Speaker 1: top five NBA pick locked in stone. You can get
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Speaker 1: arrested with two hookers and some cocaine. He'd still be
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Speaker 1: a top five pick in the NBA. Okay, so top
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Speaker 1: five pick in the NBA in a couple in a
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Speaker 1: couple of months. However, the rest of the roster, if
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Speaker 1: you look at the rest of the Duke roster, and
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Speaker 1: they're all waiting in the not necessarily emergency room, they're
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Speaker 1: going to the walk in clinic. They're in the walk
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Speaker 1: in clinic. Big part of that roster, Guard Cavin Foster
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Speaker 1: had foot surgery. He's out indefinitely. They say he may
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Speaker 1: be able to come back if Duke gets to the
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Speaker 1: final four. May is a weasel word. The starting center
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Speaker 1: he's out missed the ACC tournament out of my aching foot,
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Speaker 1: like he stepped on some legos or something like that,
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Speaker 1: So who knows if he'll be back. So using the
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Speaker 1: law of averages here, So two of the starting players
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Speaker 1: for the Duke Blue Devils, if I'm corrector two of
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Speaker 1: the starting players for Duke are down for the count.
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Speaker 1: One for sure is down for the count heading in
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Speaker 1: to the tournament. So even though they're the number one
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Speaker 1: seed in their region, it's kind of like going to
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Speaker 1: a bar fight and you've got one arm tied behind
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Speaker 1: your back. Now, now they're gonna need a Wiji board
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Speaker 1: going in if they do have both starters out in
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Speaker 1: the tournament. Here and channel the Lake Great Rush Limbo.
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Speaker 1: We're actually broadcasting from one of Russia's old studios here.
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Speaker 1: And because Rush, one of his famous catchers, is he
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Speaker 1: dominated with half his brain tied behind his back, just
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Speaker 1: for just to make it fair. So Duke, if they
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Speaker 1: were able to go to the final four with two
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Speaker 1: of their starters down, well that would be pretty impressive,
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Speaker 1: wouldn't it. Yet And the other problem is you've got
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Speaker 1: that brutal bracket, the brutal bracket, Murderer's Row. You got
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Speaker 1: Yukon that psycho coach, Dan Hurley at Yukon fire breathing
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Speaker 1: head coach. You've got tom Izzo lurking at me, Chagan
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Speaker 1: with old Sparti Michigan State of course, and Bill self
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Speaker 1: and Kansas waiting with brass knuckles. All of those teams
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Speaker 1: are in the East region. So it's a shark tank
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Speaker 1: for the Duke Blue Devils, John Shires Duke squad. They're
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Speaker 1: gonna need pep goo bismo. He's gonna need it. He's
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Speaker 1: gonna need it, and some advillain all that and without
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Speaker 1: a loaded roster opportunity for people to step up, do
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Speaker 1: your job. Do your job now. Meanwhile, looking a little
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Speaker 1: deeper here other question that we like to ask as
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Speaker 1: we head into the madness of it all here is
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Speaker 1: the selection Sunday has come and gone. So the question
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Speaker 1: which teams are most likely to blow up the bracket
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Speaker 1: now mentioned Duke, the team most likely to lose early
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Speaker 1: in the tournament as you start filling out your bracket,
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Speaker 1: But the team most likely to blow up your precious
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Speaker 1: NC DOUBLEA tournament bracket? Which team would that be? And
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Speaker 1: after a lengthy review of the available teams in this
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Speaker 1: and looking at the teams that are not all that exciting,
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Speaker 1: the teams there at the bottom there. What I did
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Speaker 1: is I took a field trip. Actually, I went to
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Speaker 1: the Apple Store and I went to the Genius Bar
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Speaker 1: at the Apple Store. So I was able to reboot
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Speaker 1: my bracket and I went there and the Genius Bar
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Speaker 1: helped me out there. I've got three suspects, three of them.
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Speaker 1: I'm never wrong about these things. So I got three
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Speaker 1: teams that are most likely to be able to wear
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Speaker 1: the ski mask and carry the crowbar. All right, So
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Speaker 1: you go in there and just vandalize, just vandalize things.
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Speaker 1: First off, Northern Iowa. What yes, Northern Iowa, number twelve seed.
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Speaker 1: They take on Saint John's and Rick Pattino a number
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Speaker 1: five seed. That twelve five things always always an issue.
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Speaker 1: Now Northern Iowa, I'm told they're the Panthers and they
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Speaker 1: are the basketball equivalent of quicksand meaning, you step into
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Speaker 1: that game playing Northern Iowa and you think it can't
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Speaker 1: be that hard. It's Northern Iowa, for God's sakes, that
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Speaker 1: is easy. Next thing you know, you are sinking and
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Speaker 1: screaming just like that. So preview of what's to come here.
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Speaker 1: They do based on their season, play defense like a
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Speaker 1: pack of junk yard dolls, and so they do that
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Speaker 1: and they just play ugly basketball. And usually we get
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Speaker 1: so excited for this, and typically it is a brick house,
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Speaker 1: brick house in these early games in the tournament. A
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Speaker 1: lot of mishots ugly basketball. People have tight tucka syndrome
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Speaker 1: the players. And so if you're able to win games
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Speaker 1: that are muddied up, I mean really good shape, really
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Speaker 1: good shape here. So I got that circled Northern Iowa right,
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Speaker 1: They're very effective that style of play in the tournament.
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Speaker 1: McNee State another team not exciting. You don't get fired
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Speaker 1: up for McNeice. They play Vanderbilt in a regional broadcast
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Speaker 1: here and that match up the Cowboys, I am told
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Speaker 1: McNee State the Cowboys another generic name, hate that and
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Speaker 1: so they don't have the razzle dazzle of the Power
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Speaker 1: Conference teams. Now Vanderbilt doesn't either, but they're in the SEC.
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Speaker 1: And so another team here that likes to play McNee
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Speaker 1: State muddy pig pen basketball. And that's what I'm leaning
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Speaker 1: into here. These are the teams that I'm leaning into.
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Speaker 1: And if you can win a rock fight. You're in
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Speaker 1: pretty good shape here to mess up these more established
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Speaker 1: with bigger named players, opponents that you're gonna play against.
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Speaker 1: And and then there's Santa Clara. That's right, I'm putting
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Speaker 1: Santa Clair out there against Kentucky. Sayre's no way, there's
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Speaker 1: no coach. Kalapar is not at Kentucky anymore. He's at Arkansas.
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Speaker 1: He's not walking through that door to save Kentucky. Not
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Speaker 1: that he did it. They had been underachieving in the
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Speaker 1: tournament anyway. So Santa Clara, though, the Broncos of Santa Clara,
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Speaker 1: they do share the ball, little Scotty report. They share
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Speaker 1: the ball. They stretched the floor. And it's an opportunistic,
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Speaker 1: gambling type of defensive team based on the stats during
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Speaker 1: the season. So that's the kind of team that again,
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Speaker 1: you look for, that type of team that can upset
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Speaker 1: early in the tournament. And those are three. Now, none
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Speaker 1: of them are sexy, none of them get you all Tingley,
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Speaker 1: and yet it's march ugly does win. It'd be nice
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Speaker 1: if you just made the most three point shots and
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Speaker 1: you played smooth, smooth, silky basketball and you wont, but
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Speaker 1: that's not how that works. And these teams are like
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Speaker 1: termites in the tournament. I didn't they just eat your
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Speaker 1: bracket alive, just like they're eating the wood in your house. It's, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you've been moored all right. Meanwhile, so the last part
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Speaker 1: of this, the last part of this, we go to
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Speaker 1: thirty thousand feet up in the sky. Here. The NCUBLEA
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Speaker 1: Tournament is actually the annual NBA Scouting Convention. Now it's
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Speaker 1: the sky. So a lot of people don't realize this.
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Speaker 1: It's disguised as March madness. It's got all the marketing
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Speaker 1: and all that. And so three week though pop quiz,
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Speaker 1: three week pop quiz for a bunch of teenagers who
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Speaker 1: are being paid a ton of money, but they're also
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Speaker 1: auditioning for the billionaire franchises of the NBA while the
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Speaker 1: rest of us pretend that that's not going on. While
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Speaker 1: our brackets are smoldering like a cheap cigar, and there's
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Speaker 1: scouts eating soggy nachos watching all of these games. So
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Speaker 1: the question is this, who are the players that we
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Speaker 1: need to watch? Who are the players that we need
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Speaker 1: to watch here? Going into this the men's basketball tournament
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Speaker 1: kicks off the real one on Thursday, So think of
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Speaker 1: this as a dust devil, like a dust devil, a
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Speaker 1: cloud of dust, a lot of star dust out there.
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Speaker 1: And you start with Aj the Banza. AJ de Bonza
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Speaker 1: of BYU, the Cougars men's basketball squad, projected as the
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Speaker 1: number one pick in the summers NBA Draft. The Bonza
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Speaker 1: a smooth operator at the wing and has all the
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Speaker 1: tools that make NBA scouts get a little you know what.
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Speaker 1: So that's one that's the big guy. And then every
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Speaker 1: lottery team that have made an atrocity of professional basketball
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Speaker 1: by not trying to win, the Washington Wizards, the Utah Jazz,
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Speaker 1: all those teams. They have a Sacramento teams that just
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Speaker 1: blow and they have a bullseye on De Bond's of BYU.
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Speaker 1: But he's not alone. You've got the magical mystery tour
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Speaker 1: of Darren Peterson of Kansas, the Jayhawks, the men's basketball
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Speaker 1: team there always one of the better teams in the country.
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Speaker 1: And Peterson, if you look at him when he's engaged,
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Speaker 1: oh man, this guy's going to be a good NBA player.
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Speaker 1: Of course, the problem is his superpower appears to be
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Speaker 1: that of a distant relative of Humpty Dumpty, who took
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Speaker 1: a spectacular fall and they couldn't put him back together.
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Speaker 1: They've been trying to put him back together. It seems
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Speaker 1: like the perfect modern player doesn't really seem to want
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Speaker 1: to play that much, and so that's a mess. But
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Speaker 1: we'll see how if he shows up and plays at
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Speaker 1: all for Kansas Peterson. And then we mentioned Boozer from
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Speaker 1: Duke Cameron. Boozer legit polished all that stuff and NBA
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Speaker 1: bloodlines his daddy. It's the family business there, so the
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Speaker 1: bloodline thicker than the nacho cheese the scouts are eating
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Speaker 1: while they're watching the competition. And also from the all
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Speaker 1: name team from Houston, Kingston Flemings. Love the name like
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Speaker 1: King Flemings. He's just go by King, not Kingston. Go
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Speaker 1: ahead King, right, it's Kingston Flemings guard from Houston. And
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Speaker 1: then CAPB. Wilson of North Carolina. Those are all projected
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Speaker 1: to be the top players in the summer's NBA Draft
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Speaker 1: and they will all be on display in the Madness
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Speaker 1: of March, which begins this week.
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Speaker 1: This thing in Miami. It's so odd to see a
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Speaker 1: baseball game in Miami with fans. It's wild. It's like, wha,
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Speaker 1: this is Twilight. So there's actually people that liked baseball
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Speaker 1: in Miami and they went to watch a game.
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Speaker 4: Whoa.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, that was the stage for the championship game of
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Speaker 1: the made for television World Baseball Classic. You had Venezuela
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Speaker 1: on one side versus the USA on the other. Metal
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Speaker 1: and a trophy, medals and a trophy, or as Rob
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Speaker 1: Manford would say, just a piece of metal. Anyway, stadium
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Speaker 1: was packed, The energy seemed pretty good. Stadium that's normally
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Speaker 1: a ghost town. Marlin's man was there and he doesn't
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Speaker 1: usually go to Marlins games because why would you. Uh,
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Speaker 1: he was checking it out. You had a Eduardo Rodriguez
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Speaker 1: for the team representing Venezuela versus Nolan MacLean of the
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Speaker 1: Mets for Red, White and Blue wrapping himself in the flag,
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Speaker 1: big opportunity. Did you watch any of this? He was
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Speaker 1: on Fox. It wasn't onn FS one or FS two
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Speaker 1: or FS thirty three, It was on Big Fox. Did
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Speaker 1: you check it out?
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Speaker 4: No?
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Speaker 1: Maybe not? Well, the game was most of the game
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Speaker 1: was two nothing in favor of Venezuela, and then then
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Speaker 1: the USA tied it up. But in the in the
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Speaker 1: end heartbreak hotel As Venezuela wins the World Baseball Classic
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Speaker 1: for the first time after choking away a lead in
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Speaker 1: the eighth inning, blowing a lead, that two to nothing lead,
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Speaker 1: and then they end up beating the team from the
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Speaker 1: US three to two on a Uhenio Suarez tie breaking
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Speaker 1: home run or not homer, it was a double tie
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Speaker 1: breaking double the in the ninth inning. There and Bryce Harper,
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Speaker 1: who has not been very good, he did have a
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Speaker 1: big moment temporarily in the eighth inning, Harper hit a
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Speaker 1: two run dong for the team representing America there in
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Speaker 1: the eighth before Red Sox relief fitcher Garrett Whitlock came
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Speaker 1: in there and coughed up a fur ball and turned
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Speaker 1: out the last the parties over. Now, Team Venezuela third
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Speaker 1: baseman Michale Garcia wins the WBC MVP Award. I don't
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Speaker 1: know what that looks like, but he won it, So
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Speaker 1: congratulations there. The better story is in the losing locker room,
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Speaker 1: and there are some people questioning the relief strategy for
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Speaker 1: Team USA and the decision and who was available, who
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Speaker 1: wasn't available. The person who's getting absolutely charbroiled more than
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Speaker 1: anyone is El Capitan Airin Judge all rise except in
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Speaker 1: big games aerin Judge. There he was getting a lot
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Speaker 1: of the blame, all right. So let's good jumping off point.
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Speaker 1: Let us discuss, and I need you if you want
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Speaker 1: to have baseball people, I need you. This hour is
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Speaker 1: a big hour, the baseball hour. So the question is
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Speaker 1: it true that Team USA slugger Star Airin Judge choked
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Speaker 1: yet again yet again on the big stage. So I've
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Speaker 1: got playing scrabble Russell Crowe and Banana Hammock, and we
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Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we're gonna
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Speaker 1: get saucy is what we're gonna get, all right. So
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Speaker 1: a to answer the question, is it true? Oh thousand
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Speaker 1: percent true? That is the textbook definition of el slumpo.
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Speaker 1: For Aaron Judge. It is an open and shut case.
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Speaker 1: It is very straightforward. There is no gray area. And
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Speaker 1: as much as the people that are on the payroll
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Speaker 1: for miche League Baseball would like to defend Aaron Judge,
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Speaker 1: I'm not on the dime for baseball. They're not paying me.
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Speaker 1: I would they would. I'd suck up to Aaron Judge
21:30
Speaker 1: like all these other hacks are. I could lie to
21:33
Speaker 1: you and say how great Aaron Judge is in big games.
21:36
Speaker 1: That would be a lie. I'd get paid for it.
21:38
Speaker 1: They get paid for it. I'm not getting paid for it.
21:40
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna tell you what really happened. And what
21:41
Speaker 1: really happened is Aaron Judge, who is the size if
21:45
Speaker 1: you go to the zoo, he's the size of an elephant.
21:49
Speaker 1: It looks like a glitch. We always goof on Kyler
21:51
Speaker 1: Murray alligator arms Murray because it looks like a glitch,
21:54
Speaker 1: like who let the little kid in there? There's a
21:56
Speaker 1: toddler playing quarterback in the NFL. Well, Aaron Judge is
21:59
Speaker 1: like an elephant playing baseball, and yet when it's a
22:03
Speaker 1: big mall met he's like a pigmy mouse. He's a
22:07
Speaker 1: little tiny mouse, a little tiny mouse when the lights
22:11
Speaker 1: get bright, and don't give me the months march, he's
22:14
Speaker 1: still trying to find his swing. Everyone is in the
22:16
Speaker 1: same boat. There's no one who wasn't in the same
22:20
Speaker 1: situation there. This is not some spring training karaoke night.
22:26
Speaker 1: It's not that right. This is supposed to be. And
22:28
Speaker 1: I don't want to get this wrong because what we
22:30
Speaker 1: were talking about in the previous episode bigger than the
22:32
Speaker 1: World Series. Those aren't my words. I didn't say that.
22:35
Speaker 1: I don't think this is bigger than the World Series.
22:37
Speaker 1: You know who does Aaron Judge? He said it, he
22:40
Speaker 1: said it, He said it, and he sucked. He sucked,
22:45
Speaker 1: and he sucked. Okay, and so he goes out. There
22:49
Speaker 1: had four at bats, all for four and I am
22:52
Speaker 1: relatively confident that for three of those at bats, you
22:56
Speaker 1: and I would have done the same thing. Strikeout, strikeout, strikeout. Yeah,
23:01
Speaker 1: who goofed. I've got to know against a patchwork Venezuela
23:06
Speaker 1: pitching staff, team USA suffering and Aaron Judge at the
23:11
Speaker 1: very top. My diagnosis, doctor Mallers diagnosis. Tight took his
23:15
Speaker 1: syndrome for much of that game. Tight took his syndrome. Well,
23:19
Speaker 1: I am not a doctor, but I do play one
23:22
Speaker 1: on the radio. And so Erver four again. Three punchouts
23:26
Speaker 1: for Judge and that is not a slump. That is
23:28
Speaker 1: a Houdini vanishing act. And he said, well, it's a
23:32
Speaker 1: team effort. Yeah, but when you're the biggest star, you
23:35
Speaker 1: gotta get it done. You gotta get it done. He's
23:38
Speaker 1: already had some experience in the past and big games.
23:40
Speaker 1: It has not gone well. And he's at the point
23:44
Speaker 1: in his career he's only got a couple more years
23:45
Speaker 1: left of domination. Then there's the slow decline unless he
23:49
Speaker 1: can get some good pharmaceuticals and keep playing at a
23:52
Speaker 1: high level. But you look at it and it's like
23:54
Speaker 1: now you see me, now you don't. Now you see me,
23:57
Speaker 1: now you don't. And it's the same movie. It's the
24:01
Speaker 1: same movie every time. Different theater. Obviously, a theater is
24:05
Speaker 1: much different here than the same inning. So playing scrabble.
24:09
Speaker 1: The phrase for this is common denominator. The common denominator
24:16
Speaker 1: is Aaron Judge, and we love when things line up
24:19
Speaker 1: as human beings. One of the weird things about us.
24:21
Speaker 1: There's a lot of weird things about all of us.
24:23
Speaker 1: We're all related in one way or another. But one
24:25
Speaker 1: of the weird things about this is the way that
24:28
Speaker 1: we love the symmetry. When Aaron Judge was playing in
24:32
Speaker 1: the World Series in twenty twenty four, he played my
24:35
Speaker 1: favorite defensive inning in the World Series game. It was
24:37
Speaker 1: a fifth inning of Game five of the World Series.
24:39
Speaker 1: My favorite inning I've ever watched baseball was the fifth inning.
24:43
Speaker 1: It was top of the fifth just amazing, just absolutely
24:46
Speaker 1: chef's kiss, and Aaron Judge was part of that that
24:48
Speaker 1: butchered a ball in the outfield. Terrible. In that World Series,
24:52
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge batted two twenty two. Well bettering everage doesn't matter, Boomer. Okay,
24:57
Speaker 1: well fine, you can think that way. Two twenty two
24:59
Speaker 1: batting average in the World Series in twenty twenty four,
25:02
Speaker 1: so we obviously did better in the World Baseball Classic,
25:04
Speaker 1: unless he did exactly the same. He batted two twenty
25:08
Speaker 1: two in the World Baseball Classic, and again Aaron Judge said,
25:11
Speaker 1: this is bigger. This is bigger than the World Series
25:14
Speaker 1: and its common denominator. Theater is what it is. And
25:18
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge, you can like him and have a fat
25:21
Speaker 1: head on your wall and have all kinds of Aaron
25:23
Speaker 1: Judge merch. The reality is, though, that Aaron Judge commandeered
25:28
Speaker 1: the vomit comment and he didn't even bring a parachute.
25:31
Speaker 1: There was no parachute for Aaron Judge. There was none.
25:35
Speaker 1: And he needs some scrubbing bubbles because he really has
25:38
Speaker 1: to clean some stuff up here. This guy's got he's
25:40
Speaker 1: got that big game Kotie thing going on. There's some
25:44
Speaker 1: stank and it won't wash off. It will not wash
25:47
Speaker 1: off now. Fortunately he's playing for the Yankees and their
25:49
Speaker 1: ownership doesn't seem to care about winning anymore. It's old
25:52
Speaker 1: family money. George Steinbrenner is dead, he's not coming back.
25:55
Speaker 1: The kids just don't care as much. They don't. That's
25:58
Speaker 1: the reality. So it's okay. I mean, imagine, if I'm
26:01
Speaker 1: dating myself this, a guy named George Steinbrannder used to
26:04
Speaker 1: own the Yankees, and he was a complete lunatic, complete
26:08
Speaker 1: nut job, right, and he's the guy nicknamed Dave Winfield
26:12
Speaker 1: mister May because it's Dave Winfield's big starbacking a million
26:14
Speaker 1: years ago and played really well in May and down
26:18
Speaker 1: the stretch would always fall apart, at least in the
26:20
Speaker 1: eyes of Sime Renner. And the kids just don't have that.
26:24
Speaker 1: They don't have that thing. The apple occasionally does fall
26:27
Speaker 1: far from the tree and it rolls down a hill
26:30
Speaker 1: and into a creek. And that's what's happening for the Yankees.
26:33
Speaker 1: So that's a good thing, because if this was the
26:35
Speaker 1: old Yankees, they'd trade Aaron Judge and say, my god,
26:38
Speaker 1: this guy can't perform in big games. We're all about
26:39
Speaker 1: big games. He just can't get it done. We've got
26:41
Speaker 1: to get rid of his guy. If it looks like
26:45
Speaker 1: a choking dog and it bats like a choking dog,
26:49
Speaker 1: it's a choking dog. Arf that's Aaron Judge, So stop
26:54
Speaker 1: defending it. I know you're all on the take. I
26:56
Speaker 1: got you all your baseball scribes that have jobs around
26:59
Speaker 1: madj Legu based some of the broadcasters that are approved
27:01
Speaker 1: by Major League Baseball. I get it. I understand that
27:06
Speaker 1: hopefully some of you will have enough common sense to
27:08
Speaker 1: realize you're being fed propaganda. You're being fed propaganda. And judge,
27:13
Speaker 1: would I want them on my team in May or
27:15
Speaker 1: June or July. Absolutely, of course I would. Unfortunately, when
27:20
Speaker 1: there's a big game, he turns into a cardboard cutout
27:24
Speaker 1: and it's raining and it's not covered any kind of
27:27
Speaker 1: protective stuff there. So anyway, all right, now turning the page,
27:30
Speaker 1: but not far Now that the twenty twenty six World
27:33
Speaker 1: Baseball Classic has been stuffed into a time capsule. All right,
27:40
Speaker 1: let's slap a malor approved review label on this. Bad boy,
27:46
Speaker 1: bad boy, bad boy? What are you gonna do? All right?
27:48
Speaker 1: So the question, did the latest edition, the latest installment
27:53
Speaker 1: of the World Baseball Classic live up to your expectations?
27:57
Speaker 1: Did it live up to expectations? So the way I'm
28:00
Speaker 1: going to tackle this one, I'm gonna surprise you. Not
28:04
Speaker 1: only did it live up to expectations, it pull vaulted
28:08
Speaker 1: over them like an Olympic gymnast that has been drinking
28:13
Speaker 1: can after can of red bull, if you know what
28:17
Speaker 1: I'm saying. All Right, so let's be honest. Here the
28:20
Speaker 1: secret sauce. What was the secret sauce? Well, the secret sauce.
28:24
Speaker 1: The reason I am Benny Bright's out on this is
28:27
Speaker 1: the blessing of low expectations. I've been asked do these
28:32
Speaker 1: radio hits on different shows and whatnot. And I got
28:35
Speaker 1: asked a few times doing these things. I say, what
28:37
Speaker 1: are you Are you excited for the World Baseball Classic?
28:39
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, not really, Like I'll watch
28:41
Speaker 1: it for the talk show. I got to come up
28:42
Speaker 1: with stuff to talk about it. I'm not that excited
28:44
Speaker 1: about it. My expectations were rock bottom, and the lower
28:48
Speaker 1: the bar, the lower the bar, the easier is to
28:53
Speaker 1: zoom past it. And that's exactly what happened here. And
28:56
Speaker 1: so this thing had some juice. There appeared to be passion.
29:01
Speaker 1: There was a lot of dancing, shaking your tushy. There
29:05
Speaker 1: was some drama, little Shakespearean type situation here, which we like.
29:09
Speaker 1: And you had heroes rising up like sour dough bread
29:13
Speaker 1: and others crumbling like a day old cookie. So you
29:15
Speaker 1: had a little bit of that, and it's always fun.
29:17
Speaker 1: We see pressure, pressure, pressure, but it's one of the
29:20
Speaker 1: great things that the reason we watch these games, right,
29:22
Speaker 1: the reason we love sports, and it's who performs and
29:25
Speaker 1: who does It's make or miss league and all that,
29:27
Speaker 1: and some guys rise up there and they turn into
29:30
Speaker 1: a fire breathing dragon in the big moment. And then
29:33
Speaker 1: there's others that turned into a lizard under a heat lamp.
29:37
Speaker 1: So there is that this was gladiator stuff. The World
29:40
Speaker 1: Baseball Classic was gladiator stuff. Ergo the old the character
29:45
Speaker 1: Russell Crowe back in the day in the arena screaming
29:47
Speaker 1: are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Yeah? Like that?
29:53
Speaker 1: And for once, the answer was not a sarcastic shrug
29:58
Speaker 1: which I normally give and give side eye when I'm
30:02
Speaker 1: asked that question, were you not entertained? Off? Please losers? No,
30:07
Speaker 1: this was a full throated yes, Benny Brightside Again, even
30:12
Speaker 1: Rob Manford could not mess this up, which is shocking.
30:17
Speaker 1: Which is shocking. And the timing people keep saying we
30:20
Speaker 1: got to move it. We was not more about this minute.
30:21
Speaker 1: They can say we got to move the World Baseball
30:22
Speaker 1: Classic to the either after the World Series or do
30:25
Speaker 1: it do it at the All Star break. I think
30:29
Speaker 1: the timings a chef's kiss, I really do. And here's why.
30:34
Speaker 1: It's right in that Bermuda triangle on the sports calendar.
30:39
Speaker 1: You feel me on that. So the Bereana Triangle is
30:42
Speaker 1: post Super Bowl, post NFL free agency, before March madness,
30:47
Speaker 1: so this is kind of there's like a couple of
30:49
Speaker 1: weeks and they timed. I know that, the marketing people
30:51
Speaker 1: to Baseball, they said, we'll put it here. This is why.
30:54
Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons they put it there. And
30:56
Speaker 1: it makes perfect sense. So two enthusiastic thought comes up,
31:00
Speaker 1: which almost never happens, to the World Baseball Classic, a
31:05
Speaker 1: rare win for Major League Baseball. And it was not
31:08
Speaker 1: well it wasn't major League Baseball production, but it was yeah,
31:11
Speaker 1: all right, last word. Now, speaking of the timing of
31:14
Speaker 1: all this, some comments made my USA skipper Mark DeRosa,
31:19
Speaker 1: who will return to his TV job. He believes that
31:21
Speaker 1: every player and paraphrasing every player would volunteer to play
31:28
Speaker 1: in the World Baseball Classic if it is moved to
31:30
Speaker 1: the All Star Break. Now, I just explained, I like
31:32
Speaker 1: the fact that this is in March and it's around
31:36
Speaker 1: big events and all that stuff, so they would be
31:39
Speaker 1: according to this, a quote from Derosi said, they would
31:42
Speaker 1: be more prepared and more dialed in. Team USA skipper said,
31:46
Speaker 1: and we'd be dealing with way less restrictions and way
31:48
Speaker 1: less guidelines on the pitching, He stated, the pitching if
31:54
Speaker 1: it has moved to mid season, no question about it.
31:56
Speaker 1: So the question for us again, Mark de Rosa believing
32:01
Speaker 1: every player would volunteer for the World Baseball Classic if
32:05
Speaker 1: it has moved to the All Star Break? How realistic?
32:08
Speaker 1: Here's the question, how realistic does this come across? So
32:12
Speaker 1: my reaction is what planner are you living on? That's
32:15
Speaker 1: my reaction. And where you're at here? Maybe you're on
32:19
Speaker 1: an island somewhere? Is it fantasy island? Is it? I
32:22
Speaker 1: don't know. That is My word is humbuggery. That is
32:26
Speaker 1: some humbuggery by Mark de Rosa, And it sounds good
32:31
Speaker 1: in a press release to send it out there, grow
32:33
Speaker 1: the game for the good of baseball. You throw that out. Meanwhile,
32:38
Speaker 1: all the players here is goodbye vacation, Hello extra work, right,
32:47
Speaker 1: hello extra work. The All Star break is sacred. Baseball
32:53
Speaker 1: Teams play anywhere from six to seven days a week.
32:58
Speaker 1: They normally get a couple days off month, but they're
33:00
Speaker 1: playing every single day. There's travel days and things like that,
33:03
Speaker 1: and they get paid a lot of money. And trust me,
33:06
Speaker 1: they travel like kings, travel like kings, but they still
33:11
Speaker 1: complain about it, because everyone complains about everything. And so
33:14
Speaker 1: the All Star break is a very special time. That
33:16
Speaker 1: is a time for the banana hammock, the umbrella cocktail drink.
33:22
Speaker 1: And you're asking, guys, if you play the World Baseball Classic,
33:26
Speaker 1: to swap Cabo for Tokyo is what you'd be doing.
33:30
Speaker 1: And spring training World Baseball Classic it works because it's
33:34
Speaker 1: a field trip. It's like you're getting out of something.
33:37
Speaker 1: You're escaping the monotony of the Grapefruit and Cactus League.
33:41
Speaker 1: And let's not ignore also that this myth that the
33:46
Speaker 1: owners and the executives and the nerds in baseball are
33:52
Speaker 1: going to all of a sudden stop hovering like overprotective parents.
33:55
Speaker 1: That's not gonna stop. Don't touch my two hundred and
33:59
Speaker 1: fifty million pitcher. You think they're gonna loosen restrictions, like
34:04
Speaker 1: that's what Mark de Ros's pitching. He's like, Wow, we
34:06
Speaker 1: move to the All Star Game, it will be less
34:07
Speaker 1: restrictions on pitching. Really, I want to bet on that,
34:10
Speaker 1: no chance. Plus the other thing is if a guy
34:13
Speaker 1: gets hurt in March, it's not good. However, you haven't
34:17
Speaker 1: played a regular season game yet. You can adjust and
34:20
Speaker 1: say well, he wasn't part of the team. You have
34:23
Speaker 1: you have time just in July. If this thing goes
34:26
Speaker 1: on in July, it's Oregon Donors stuff, is what it is.
34:32
Speaker 1: You know, unless there's a giant bag of endorsement money,
34:36
Speaker 1: the idea would be da dead on arrival. That would
34:40
Speaker 1: be That would be that. Plus you'd have to have
34:42
Speaker 1: what a month off for the All Star break because
34:46
Speaker 1: this thing two weeks. You'd have to have a week
34:48
Speaker 1: to gear up for it, get the players get together
34:52
Speaker 1: and sing Kumbaya, and then you'd have to have a
34:54
Speaker 1: week after it where the guys could go on vacation,
34:57
Speaker 1: So it would be a four week pause in the
35:00
Speaker 1: Midsummer portion of the baseball schedule.
35:03
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35:08
Speaker 1: All right, anyway, all right, let's let's get to the game.
35:10
Speaker 1: What do you say here? Game time? Game time? Game time,
35:13
Speaker 1: game time, game time, game time. You know we need
35:17
Speaker 1: to design. Are we playing the imaging before or after the.
35:20
Speaker 2: Get to the top.
35:21
Speaker 1: Well, you already decided lo rain and you just played it,
35:23
Speaker 1: so you made it seem like I needed to play
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Speaker 1: something I don't care. It's fine, it's all right, it's
35:30
Speaker 1: all good. We've got let's see here menie money mode.
35:34
Speaker 1: D block is in Miami. Hello, d Block, welcome, good.
35:39
Speaker 2: Morning, Good morning on a rainy Miami day.
35:41
Speaker 1: Man, it's a typical chamber of commerce Miami day, a
35:44
Speaker 1: little tropical rain for it. All right, Buke, you're gonna
35:49
Speaker 1: play the game. Who do you? Who do you want
35:51
Speaker 1: to partner on with D block? With two? Well, thank you?
35:54
Speaker 1: All right, hold on a second, mister popular Lorraina picked
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Speaker 1: door number one or doornumber three? I like door number
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Speaker 1: three today? Okay, well you have picked j C, who's
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Speaker 1: just down the street from us here in beautiful Sherman Oaks, California.
36:09
Speaker 1: Hello j C. Oh my god, it's bag big bean.
36:14
Speaker 1: And just actually know Dorena.
36:16
Speaker 2: The reason why I caught in you play that song
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Speaker 2: by the Eagles, big big fan.
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Speaker 1: And I was I was motivated. That was actually the
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Speaker 1: MAM's in the papas.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 1: Oh, okay, who cares? Alright? I want to win. I
36:32
Speaker 1: want to win, Benny.
36:33
Speaker 2: I want to win, Benny.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Well you're in it. You're you're gonna play the game,
36:36
Speaker 1: jac and let's go you want to partner up with
36:39
Speaker 1: Lorena or Coop? Coop? Okay, I want to win choice good? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: good good good.
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Speaker 4: Call hurry, we're categories here, Coop all right, gentlemen, this
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Speaker 4: is good. This is Mallard's Mount of Money. Billy Corgan edition,
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Speaker 4: lead singer of the Smashing Pumpkins. Yes, I lookcited. He
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Speaker 4: turns fifty nine years old today. The categories are share
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Speaker 4: a Rock, nineteen seventy nine, bullet with butterfly wings, and zero.
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Speaker 1: And let's se let's see d block. You're on the
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Speaker 1: r first. Which category would you like? Nineteen seventy nine?
37:14
Speaker 2: All right?
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Speaker 4: One?
37:15
Speaker 1: That one? Which category would you like? Jac Man? Well,
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Speaker 1: I know you can't get now, which one do you want?
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Speaker 1: All right?
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Speaker 2: Rock?
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Speaker 4: Rock?
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, very good. I feel like there's some
37:28
Speaker 1: pregame Saint Patti's Day celebration going on with JC. I
37:32
Speaker 1: feel like he's starting the party early. Everyone hold on here.
37:36
Speaker 1: We don't hang up. And if you're on hold as
37:38
Speaker 1: one of our backups, you stand by. If one of
37:40
Speaker 1: these guys hang up, we'll go to the bullpen and
37:43
Speaker 1: you'll get the chance to play. It's going to be
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Speaker 1: moments from now. Malors mountain of money. We'll get to that,
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38:07
Speaker 1: Alright, back to it.
38:07
Speaker 4: Here we go.
38:08
Speaker 1: Let's play the game. We've got my guy, d Block.
38:13
Speaker 1: You cut him open. It's like deep dish Chicago pizza.
38:17
Speaker 1: But he's in Miami. Geez. He's enjoying the nice weather
38:20
Speaker 1: and JC in southern California and he's also enjoying the
38:26
Speaker 1: nice weather. All right, here we go, gentlemen, let's play
38:29
Speaker 1: the game. Coop, who's going first? I believe I am
38:31
Speaker 1: going firstus that it's correct? All right? You picked nineteen
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Speaker 1: seventy nine. D Block? Are you ready? Does not sound
38:42
Speaker 1: like d Block is ready?
38:44
Speaker 2: Hello? Yes?
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Speaker 4: Third?
38:45
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. Here we go, d Block?
38:47
Speaker 1: Are you at work right now?
38:50
Speaker 4: All right?
38:50
Speaker 1: I do not want to get you in trouble. Are
38:54
Speaker 1: these athletes we're all born in nineteen seventy nine. Then
38:58
Speaker 1: we need first and last name and we're on our way.
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Speaker 4: Go.
39:01
Speaker 1: Greatest quarterback in New Orleans Saints history. He almost signed
39:08
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins. All right. The greatest running back in
39:13
Speaker 1: San Diego Chargers history also played with the Jets. Oh boy,
39:20
Speaker 1: all right, we're doing very well. The Greek god of
39:23
Speaker 1: walks for the Boston Red Sox. I think you should
39:28
Speaker 1: go to somebody else, all right, tight End for the
39:31
Speaker 1: Colts with Peyton Manning in the early two thousands. The
39:34
Speaker 1: tight End then you you. I'm sorry, man, I'm breaking
39:40
Speaker 1: part different. I'm sorry, man. Okay, NBA player changed his name. Wow,
39:47
Speaker 1: I think we still have time. You can have someone.
39:49
Speaker 1: You could have gone to the bullpen at anytime, all right,
39:51
Speaker 1: d Block, I love you, man, I'm going I'm hanging
39:54
Speaker 1: up on you next time. All right, next time. Ray,
39:56
Speaker 1: you're my bullpen guy. Ray, I'm coming to the I
39:58
Speaker 1: need you out of the bullpen. All right, hold on,
40:00
Speaker 1: all right, jac we have Cherub Rock right by the way,
40:06
Speaker 1: Drew Brees, Ladanian, Tomlinson. What else did it? Kevin Yuclus,
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Speaker 1: the Greek Gota walks, Dallas Clark, My god? All right, Jac.
40:14
Speaker 4: These athletes were or are so clean cut that they're
40:18
Speaker 4: almost angelic.
40:20
Speaker 1: In your opinion, Coop forty that's objective. Forty five seconds
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Speaker 1: on the clock.
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Speaker 4: Let's begin, longtime quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks, went to
40:28
Speaker 4: the Broncos and the Giants and he sucks.
40:31
Speaker 1: Now, Wilson, what's his full name? Your name is.
40:42
Speaker 4: One of the best pictures of all time for the
40:44
Speaker 4: Los Angeles Dodgers. He just retired. What's his first name?
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Speaker 1: I need the full name? I don't know.
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Speaker 4: Okay, how about the quarterback from floor who who kneeled
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Speaker 4: and he was he was drafted by the Broncos Heisman
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Speaker 4: Trophy winner.
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Speaker 1: His name is Oh did this really happen? This? There's
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Speaker 1: no way this is happening, right you? Jay C. Russell, Wilson,
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Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw, I got I got it right. Well, you
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Speaker 1: know you got to say the full name. That's the bit.
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Speaker 1: The bit is the full name. And then Tim Tebow?
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Speaker 1: Tim Tebow bad clues by you, Coop. I think I won.
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Speaker 1: I've got better. Well, the game's not over yet. So
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Speaker 1: just for the record, the listeners so far do not
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Speaker 1: know who Drew Brees, Ladenian Thomlinson, Kevin Eyuklis Dallas, Clark Russell, Wilson,
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Speaker 1: Clayton kershar Tim T. Barr. And we're doing a sports
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Speaker 1: talk radio show. Yeah, how about all right? Nobody the
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Speaker 1: bullpen for me. I'm going to I'm going to my believer,
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Speaker 1: Ray from Milwaukee. Hello, Ray, okay, we've we've got bullet
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Speaker 1: with butterfly wings and zero? Which category?
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Speaker 4: All right?
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Speaker 1: What do you say? He says? Zero? Okay? These athletes
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Speaker 1: all war? Or where number zero? Are you ready? All right?
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Speaker 2: Here you go?
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Speaker 1: Forty five seconds? Journeyman guard. He's for the Sacramento Kings.
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Speaker 1: Now he had a triple double. He averaged the entire
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Speaker 1: season for Oklahoma City. He's still playing. Yes, start for
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Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics. He's he was out most of this year.
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Speaker 1: He just came back, helped the Celtics win the championship.
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Speaker 1: Forward for the Celtics, no played. How about this guy
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Speaker 1: played for the Milwaukee Bucks. Number zero was traded back
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Speaker 1: to the Portland Trailblazers. Oh my god, all right, we're
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Speaker 1: getting punked her coop. Yeah, there you go. All right,
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Speaker 1: Agent zero for the Washington Wizards back in the day. Alright, wow,
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Speaker 1: what are we doing?
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Speaker 4: Well?
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Speaker 1: You got forty points? I need Andrea? Andrea is there's
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Speaker 1: something going on with the moon.
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Speaker 4: Alright, all right, JC, we got we got bullet with
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Speaker 4: butterfly wings. You said that last time he said that
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Speaker 4: last time. These athletes all struggled with fame. All right,
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Speaker 4: get these athletes, all these athletes all struggled with fame.
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Speaker 4: All right, forty five seconds. Let's begin. Boxer who bit
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Speaker 4: somebody's ear off. Yes, let's go, all right, running back
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Speaker 4: for the Dolphins back in the day. He smoked a
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Speaker 4: bunch of weed.
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Speaker 1: His name, all right.
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Speaker 4: This guy was the worm on the bulls. He had
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Speaker 4: colored hair, was all right, this guy was his nickname
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Speaker 4: was Money. He did the money sign. He played for
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Speaker 4: Texas A and m or.
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Speaker 1: He all right. Uh.
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Speaker 4: This guy was the power forward for the Cavaliers and
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Speaker 4: the timber Wolves. H is white guy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go. Let's go. Come on, I think that's it.
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Speaker 1: We win, We win. Good job, Jeal. You won't listen.
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Speaker 1: D Block, I don't know what happened. D Block took
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Speaker 1: he took the wrong medicine today. He took stupid pills today.
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Speaker 1: D Block, you didn't do much better, by the way, Uh,
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Speaker 1: Jay C you gotta go to ticket jay Z all right,
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Speaker 1: all right, fake, all right, get back to your party.
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Speaker 1: You know what's going on. Everyone's they're doing the Saint
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Speaker 1: Patty's Day thing. I'm convinced. Now, normally that doesn't affect
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Speaker 1: the show because we have drunks call the show all
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Speaker 1: the time. But I feel like there's something going on
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Speaker 1: with Saint Patty's Day. And I thought, normally you wait
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Speaker 1: till the sun comes up on Saint Patty's Day to
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Speaker 1: celebrate the day. But these guys, these guys are pregaming
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Speaker 1: for saying they're drinking the green beer. They're having a
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Speaker 1: grand old time here. They celebrate green bagel, yeah, eating
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Speaker 1: the grain I mean, or smoking some green stuff. They
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Speaker 1: got a lot going on here, man,