Postgame Show: Let's Get Toasty

If this were a Reese's TV ad, you'd be staring at a Reese's peanut butter cup.

And sure, my voice is peanut buttery smooth, but still, you need to see the peanut butter cups, right?

No? I can really just say Reese's and you'll go get some?

Okay. Reese's.
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Really working, actually. Reese's.
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This, I'm on to something. Reese's.
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Reese's. You feel that warmth, guys? It's nice and toasty in here.
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How warm is it in here? It's a little too warm. I'm in a sweater.
Probably shouldn't have worn a sweater for this toasted segment. It is getting a little toasty.
But I'm excited because I filled out my bracket yesterday. Oh, you did? And I have two one seeds.
Let's go around the room because everyone's afraid of chalk. I got two one seeds in my final four.
Jeremy, how's your final four looking? I have three one seeds, I believe. I know the big upset that I have early, like when you're looking for what's going to change, in the which side of the bracket is this? I'm not entirely sure.
Oh, it's the South. So Auburn is the one seed in the South, and they've lost three out of their last four games going into March Madness.
Creighton is a nine seed, so they would play Auburn in the second round. Creighton has a seven-foot-one center named Ryan Cockbrenner, who is a four-time Big East defensive player of the year.
I believe Patrick Ewing is the other player to have done that four times. So you've got a senior 7'1 center who can really disrupt things defensively.
To me, that's the perfect type of team to look at and go, that can mess with some people. So Creighton making a fun little run as a nine seed is where if you want to get kooky and knock off a one seed in the second round, that might be the way to do it.
We're not trying to get kooky. We're getting toasty.
I'm going to take my sweater off. But Jimmy John's cookies are actually really delicious.
I love Jimmy John's. Greg, you feeling toasty? I am.
I'm wearing a zip line or whatever you call these. It's a quarter zip.
No, it's a zip line. Quarter zip.
Is this a sweatshirt? I don't even know the word for this. No, it's a zip line.
A zip line. A zip line? Yeah.
I haven't filled out a bracket yet. All right.
Thanks for participating. Do you do the play-in games, Greg, when you do? No.
Do you do the first four, or do you start, like, your bracket starts with, like, the winners are just plugged in? Yes. I start with when the 64 begin playing.
I'm thinking I'm not filling out a bracket in memoriam for Miami Hurricanes basketball, which doesn't have either team in the NCAAs. Jimmy Johns wouldn't love that, but I'm glad that you're taking a stand on it.
That's not toasty. I will fill out a bracket.
I haven't filled out a men's bracket yet, but I have filled out my women's bracket. It's very chalky, except for UConn upsetting USC in the lower left quadrant.
But when I fill out my men's bracket, I imagine I'm just going to go straight chalk, because I don't know what I'm doing. You can go Jay Williams and have all ones and two seeds in the Elite Eight.
Zagak. Listen to the underdogs.
They gave us five sleepers that you could pick. Pick Wofford in my final four.
Yeah. The Terriers? Mm-hmm.
Yeah. You've got to take an 11 to beat an 8, right, as we mentioned earlier? Six.
If an 11 played an 8, that would be probably a release. It would be later in the round, probably.
Super helpful in this segment so far. I've got all the 16s beating all the ones.
I don't know if I'm alone on that, but it's just a hunch. I also have the Dodgers finishing 162-0.
Wow. I don't know about you guys.
I don't think that's this bracket. I know you're all college sports fans, but I am a big college sports fan, and I find it really hard to pick teams that I don't like to do well.
So I kind of sometimes will just make a haters bracket and just root for the downfall of all of my haters. Right, like I had Florida going far, and then I was just like, what am I doing? Ew, I don't want that.
Get out of here, Florida. Oh, USC in my final four.
I don't want Ethan to be happy. Ethan Badowski's Gators.
If you were to kind of do a scale, your sports fandom, what percentage is love and what percentage is based off of hate? That's a good question. A lot.
I would say the best thing in sports is when your team wins everything.

Against your friend's team.

The very close second best thing is when,

Lewis, what are you doing?

Bringing in a Jimmy John's thing.

I wasn't distracting at all that you just carried in a ginormous bag of chips.

Wow, look at that. Toast that.

The second best thing is when your team doesn't win anything, but the teams you hate are doing worse. I think I'm in a position where the teams I love are not succeeding.
So right now my sports fandom is largely driven by hate. Yeah.
Yeah, and it's great. I love it.
Who do you hate the most? Ooh, wow, that is such a great question. Other than all the teams that the people here support, because that's kind of how it works in our office.
We all sort of root against our coworkers. You don't like the heat? Really? When UCF loses a football game, I get really, really overjoyed.
And text me. Yeah.
It's a good question. Let me think about this one.
Is it Miami? Miami football? The Miami Hurricanes.

Is it Miami?

That's my favorite one.

Miami Hurricanes.

Why are we whispering?

I feel like I'm toasted enough.

This is good.

Yeah.