PMS 2.0 1310 - The Madness Begins, LA Rams GM Les Snead, Seth Greenberg, Jeff Passan, & AJ Hawk

Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome, on this big-time Tuesday, March 18th, 2025. This program starts now.
Madness! All is happening tonight to play in games, to get into the dance. Obviously, it's been a hot topic to discuss around the sports world on who made the tournament, who didn't make the tournament.
Well, we'll move past that tonight to see who earns their spot in the tournament. Starting at 6.40 Eastern Time on True TV.
Now, this is the time of year where we're finding where the hell channels are. Remember, this is a big deal.
We're scrolling, we're scrolling, we're scrolling, we're finding. Oh, this used to be Impractical Jokers.
I remember taking trips down here before. Okay, great to be back here.
Then you also obviously have TNT, TBS, and I think that is... CBS? Yeah.
Sorry, sorry, sorry. And CBS in there.
But nonetheless, we're going to be doing a lot of true TV-ing over the next few days. So tonight is a good time to find where the fuck that is.
That's right. Okay, so let's get on board with that.
Let's get excited as St. Francis and Alabama State kick everything off.
Alabama State favored by three and a half. They've got a good team.
I've been watching film on this Alabama State team. Oh, yeah.
I'll tell you what, the way they move the ball. Yep.
Oh, yeah. And then they'll do one of these.
Oh, yeah. And then they even got a guy who koozie and then you'll see somebody

tonight do one of these

they got one of the best one of these

and all of college ball

and then bang pow

and then that thing might rattle home

for some reason they can't find just the net

they're working around the rim a lot

but the ball does fall that's why they're favored

by three and a half and then North Carolina

Bubba Cunningham school

if you do recall

West Virginia governor's not happy. No, he's not.
Just would like to let everybody know he's not happy. Rightfully.
We don't need to talk about that at this exact moment. North Carolina Tar Heels favored by 4.5, taking on San Diego State.
Now this team out of San Diego. They do smack the whip.
Project table at Boston Conner and at Ty Schmidt.

That's what you saw when you were watching film

on the San Diego State squad.

Yeah, look, they're the underdog.

And so I said, you know, of course,

we're betting on all the underdogs.

And this is all I saw.

I saw, holy shit, they go this way.

They go this way.

Whoa.

And they're never like this.

They never stay still.

And their hands are never like this.

Are they always shopping?

Always shopping?

It's a lot of this.

It's a lot of that. You know, a lot of Tim Robinson dancing in the living room.
You know, he's always moving, and so is this team. And it's also one of those teams.
You know, the 11 seeds, we all know, sometimes they go on and run. We saw UCLA a couple years ago.
Oh, madness. That would be madness.
You remember UCLA? They started as a play-in game. Kid with the sweet hair.
Bingo. Huge fro, And they made it all the way to the Final Four.
And I believe one of those players as well is currently a superstar for the Miami Heat. Superstar.
So, look, the 11 seed games, you know, it's just a play-in game. It's just a play-in game.
They're going to lose. Look out for these 11 seeds.
Sometimes they go on those runs. St.
Francis versus Alabama State at 640 on True TV. Once again, that's good for all of us to get in there.
UNC versus San Diego State, 910 on True TV. Blake Tip.
We're going to stay up for that one because we're all mad about UNC getting in the tournament. Nobody's more mad than the governor of West Virginia.
Nope. Now, granted, is he listening to his constituents and reacting accordingly? I'd say so.
Is this the fastest you've ever seen a governor put something together? That's out. I think so.
Is it also the best podium you've ever seen for a speech from a sitting governor to the NCAA? I think so. Check, check, check.
We'll get anything done. Certainly not, but maybe changes what it looks like in the future.
Here's a couple tidbits from Governor Morrissey's press conference about the National Corrupt Athletic Association. As it says right on his podium.
111 out of the 111 bracketologists projected WVU to make the tournament. And for good reason.
The selection committee for years has talked about the importance of quad win wins. Quad one wins.
Now, for those who don't know much about a quad one win, this is when you defeat a team ranked first through 75th. Obviously, it depends upon whether you're home, neutral site, or away.
Of course we have. Well, West Virginia had six quad one wins.
That's a lot. And that was combined with an undefeated record against quad three and quad four opponents.
Three wins against top ten teams and the 24th toughest schedule in America. West Virginia deserved to be in the NCAA tournament.
That was a miscarriage of justice and robbery at the highest levels. Who was the last team to get into the tournament? Ahead of the Mountaineers.
That would be the University of North Carolina. Let's see how their resume stacks up.
The Tar Heels went 1-12 in quad one games and even had a quad three loss. Really? And we keep hearing about the importance of these quad one wins, but UNC couldn't even get more than one.
They also had the 25th toughest schedule in America right behind W wvu really so governor morrissey's saying

you tell me he also had a quote in there about north carolina having representation in the room

in baba cunningham and the way this kind of worked out and he said i just i would like to talk about

the robbery at the largest or highest level and uh i think what is happening here and i reached out

to some uh people that you know have close ties to west virginia still still live in west virginia

So I feel like I'm had to be done and it feels like we're the right team in the right time to do it now is there you know politicking happening whenever there's any type of selecting taking place amongst humans? Yes. I mean, that is just a matter of fact.
You go back to all the BCS bowl games, how problematic it was. You go to the 14 playoff, you go to just the national championship.
You go to now the 12 team playoff. You go to this tournament every single year, the bubble teams.
Anytime there's humans making decisions, there's always going to be an for relationships or uh maybe agendas or feelings about something or maybe a narrative that you don't even know is coming from person's experiences that takes place in discussion that's why like jury of your peers is such an important thing because you got a lot of people sitting around coming to a decision it's like everybody has a different angle what's the angle and the fact that you know north Carolina's guy is leading the entire committee he's the he's the the chair of the selection committee and then his team and then now there's a hundred and four thousand dollar seventy thousand dollar whatever the bonus actually is going into his pocket it's like you're setting yourself up for somebody to say what the fuck's going on here is the right things uh the main focus for this particular group or are the right things the main focus for this particular group and uh i'll be excited to see what comes of it i obviously can't turn around before tonight yeah those guidelines maybe though you never know i mean governor morrissey seemed to be pretty quick pretty direct how'd they get that thing created so fast that was high quality that wasn't just like paper buddy over his shoulder. Yeah, right here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because if you can't hear what he's saying, you can certainly see what he's about.
You know, if you're just watching this on the TV as you're walking by, National Corrupt Athletic Association. Okay, okay, okay.
I like what's going on here. And then somebody probably says, yeah, that's the governor of West Virginia.
The governor is standing in front of this. And who's that other guy? Well, that guy's on his side.
Okay, we don't know who that guy is. Got a good suit on.
Good ties, too. Both of them in uniform.
Looks like they dress the same. They are ready to do battle.
And will this make the selection committees more transparent? Will this let us in the room when the conversations are taking place? So at least there's a little bit of accountability for whenever people are pitching, whatever it is? Maybe. But I don't know what the right answer is.
And I would assume since the beginning of time when humans have got together to make a decision about things and left people out, there's always been fuckery. I assume there always has been because that's just how humans operate.
But if it can get a little bit better from this, I think more power to old Governor Morrissey. And he is no stranger to suing the NCAA.
He did this as the attorney general a few years back back we had him on the program it was about the transfer rule now with the modern nil uh some labor law was being broke because if a guy can make a million dollars over here and he can only make 300 grand here you not letting him go there to do that infringes on his employment and wage opportunity and yada yada yada so he sued the ncaa actually got a ruling changed the way the ncaa is currently operating also is now a part of trying to figure out how we get the ncaa to operate in 2025 so this dude knows his way around a courtroom and a lawsuit against the ncaa and i think that's probably why he's in his bag you know because this is his first term as governor for west virginia so he needs to put a score, you know, he needs to put a double up somewhere. And for the people of West Virginia going like, yeah.
Yeah, we should be the ones. What's the worst thing that's going to happen? The NCAA's going to hold us against us? Well, what are they going to do? Make us the biggest snub in the history of the March Madness tournament? Oh, that just happened.
And we lost our fucking coach because of it, probably. So West Virginia, interesting spot, but potentially a pivotal moment here when it comes to selection committees for the NCAA going forward.
Football, basketball. I don't know if any of the other tournaments have selection committees.
I assume that they're taking place in other places. But maybe there's a little bit of a change here.
But nonetheless, the madness has begun, potentially in a courtroom with the governor and the National Corrupt Athletic Association. And tonight the madness begins on the court.
And this is still a wonderful time of year. Even though I'm a West Virginia fan pulling for West Virginia, it's like, all right, now what's my team in the tournament? Let's live for the next couple weeks alongside of them and hopefully go on a run.
And hopefully we learn some great stories from this particular March Madness, which is normally the case. Well, and that's why we lost our wagon to St.
John's because they will be going on a run all the way to the Final Four. But that was kind of the difference with the NCAA and the college football playoff.
Like, at least there was a face of that committee and kind of came out and explained why, you know, certain teams got in, certain teams didn't, because we dealt with that for how long during the football season about, you know, South Carolina and Ole Miss and those teams that were right on the end. Bama.
Yeah Bama and that lasted a little while but at least because there was a face of it at the end of it and I forget his name but he did an interview with Reese on the show immediately after the college football playoff was announced like at least. Lieutenant General.
Yeah yeah bingo but there wasn't there isn't that basketball. It's just kind of the only thing we heard about the committee was that one of the guys in it was the AD.
No, the guy in charge of it. The guy in charge of it, yeah, sorry.
It was the AD of North Carolina. So there was this other guy, Keith, that was next to him.
Reese Davis interviewed – I think his name was Keith or Kevin. I do apologize.
Bubba's name is being the one being said, hey, this guy leads the entire thing. There was somebody else with Bubba doing this interview, but they were the ones that were saying, like, Bubba wasn't in the room when UNC was discussed.
Like defending him only. Yeah, it's like, okay, all right.
Wasn't in the room that didn't. All right, hey, well, Bubba back in.
Bubba, we have a couple questions. Do you think you're – well, you can't because I can't be a part of that discussion.
It's like that's a weird thing.

But in football, there's people that have allegiance.

I think Michigan's AD.

Yeah, Ward Manuel was there.

Yeah, people are like the ADs can't be in there.

It's like, okay, well, who are we putting in there?

Who are we putting in there?

Media.

Well, we can't put media in there, right, because media has bias as well. Also, yeah.

Can't put coaches – like who can we put in the committees?

I think that is the next question about like – I don't know if there's ever going to be a point where there won't be conspiracy fodder. No.
I don't know if there ever will be because, like, once again, humans are going to act in their own self-interest whenever they are speaking. Not all humans.
I understand. I believe Mother Teresa, she did not act in her self-interest at all.
Sure. Our Dalai Lama.
Of course. The Buddha.
The Buddha. From what I've heard, the Buddha.
No self-interest. But you would think in those selection committees, if you want to have that type of power, you probably have some sort of moxie.
You probably have some sort of ego pride. You probably have some sort of...
It's going to be tough to eliminate all conspiracy fodder, even though this one is the biggest of all time. So hopefully this will pivot and change and make it a little better.
Well, and that's what, like, a lot of people are saying, like, hey, maybe you get, like, a retired athletic director. But that's the thing with college athletics is, like, the fan bases are rabid.
So, like, it's not like, you know, if you're an NFL fan and you're a fan of a team, you could maybe be, like, a little, you know, kind of more even keel. Like, these people are to go back go to bat for the schools that they went to or that they're a fan of and you can't which is what makes college sports exactly it's what makes it great it's why everyone loves it and you can't really have just like like these people also need to know basketball because if they're going to try out all this like quad one quad two quad three quad four that's going to be part of the selection process you can't just have some slapdick in there who's just like, you know what, North Carolina's always good.
We should put them in. The person actually has to watch college basketball, has to know what's going on, but you're right.
There's never going to be a time where there's not an instance like this because it's probably going to happen next year. Every year.
Exactly. There's going to be an AD of a school, and maybe they'll win their conference championship, so it won't be a big deal, but there's also a chance that the AD, The AD, their team's going to be an ad of a school and maybe they'll win their conference championship so it won't be a big deal but there's also a chance that you know the the ad their team is going to be on the bubble and they're going to recuse themselves from the conversation again and then come right back in and be like so we get in or what yeah so what you guys say remember i can get you off this yeah no no i wouldn't do that obviously but i could but i know what I mean? I mean, it's just like, I don't know how they fix it.
Once we got baptized into the college football world over the last few years of college game day, it's like whenever we started trying to figure it out, and it's like, well, I don't know if this won. Like, obviously, fans of teams are thinking their team's always either going to get screwed, right? Like, that is what fans are are thinking but whenever we're in the middle of it and we're hearing like all every angle of everything it's like i don't know how they ever get the right answer everybody thinks it's just tv it's like if the tv people wanted everything now granted unc would certainly be one of the schools because of the uniform but it's like whenever it came to the football it's like there's like six different there's like you know like there's a lot of different potential avenues they could go.
Everything can be a story, which is why sports are great. And it's also why college ball is fantastic.
But I don't know how they fix any of it. We just need to teach AI ball.
That's the only way to do it. See, I've seen people say Las Vegas should be doing all of it for both sports.
Okay, so if the books pick the favorites and who they think would win, that's not a bad idea. you're you know you don't think those bookies have a favorite you don't think the odds makers have uh favorites as well if they start realizing that they're the fucking like okay we get a lot of action on this team just fucking put them right up there like then there's an angle for the odds makers on why they're doing it there will never be no you know and if it's ai well who coded it you it? Because now we'll start seeing Stanford get in.
Yeah, it's Stanford crap. Okay, hold on.
There's just a never-ending supply of things. So that's why you just got to hope you get the right group in there.
Legitimately, you just got to hope that you get a right group of people in there. There just needs to be a commissioner for every sport in college that has this many eyes on it like that was kind of the takeaway from

the college football was like they need a commissioner and how many times we tell Saban like hey you need to be the commissioner of college football because without just having that one supreme leader like we talk about in you know the NFL on in every organization there's a supreme leader of that team and you kind of need that when it comes to college sports because at least then you are pointing at one person like the goodell scripted thing people buy into that but we know obviously that is just the amount of humans that would have to be in on that exactly in the scapegoat like that is such an easy thing to be like oh my team got screwed this is scripted like at least here or not at least rather like in this situation it's more so like okay well this guy this is a very valid hey the reason unc got in is because of this ad like at least with a commissioner it's more so like oh this guy sucks hate this guy but it's not as if he's biased to one team or not with an ad of a school being the leader of the committee deciding it's like okay this legitimately could be collusion at the highest order, screwing over teams like West Virginia and Indiana and Ohio State.

Yeah, and do they take notes of everything said in there?

What's that called in those notes?

Stenographer?

Yeah, stenographer is the typer.

Taking the minutes.

The minutes, there it is.

Do they have the minutes of these things?

Because that would be like, you know, Governor Morrissey going,

I'm just asking for a discovery of the minutes.

I would like to see who was where, when, and who said what. Okay, and why.
I'd like to also know why they did. And then if, you know, we all get a chance to kind of see in the room where it happened, I think that'll be good for the future.
Nonetheless, let's move along. Madness begins tonight.
640, true TV, find true TV. Let's go.
It's going to be a wonderful tournament. They're saying this is the most talented college basketball tournament that there's ever been.
Now, are they saying that just because the SEC has so many teams in there? Or are they saying that potentially because the SEC has gotten very, very good, so more good teams are happening, more good coaching, more good recruiting, more good players on different teams? Just like in football, you think about the Vanderbilt story. Vandy added Diego Pavia, and their entire culture just shifted and changed.
So they got in there. Basketball, that can certainly happen in NIL.
You bring one great player, maybe you get two great players that you're able to afford, you can completely change everything. So they're saying this tournament is going to be magical.
We cannot wait to watch the madness. We'd like to send our congratulations to BG, Brandon Graham of theadelphia eagles he has announced his retirement yeah there was a post earlier today that we saw that was kind of alluding to maybe he was done playing football for a living and uh we'd like to say to brandon graham on the multiple super bowls and obviously the toughness of bouncing back this particular super bowl so he knew you know yeah yeah yeah yeah because him back was a wild, that was a wild part of the story.
Like, is Brandon Graham actually gonna, that sounds like an injury that's on. Yep, yep.
Next week we'll get in. They open his window, then bang, he's back for the Super Bowl.
I bet you Brandon Graham probably knew that this was potentially going to be his last game. What a great way to go out on top.
Congratulations to him for that. And also showcasing a toughness and a grittiness that nobody

will ever be able to question. I think Philadelphia

now loses Jason Kelsey last year.

Then they lose Brandon Graham.

Cox as well. I mean, it's like

the next generation of Philadelphia

Eagles is in a very good

spot, obviously, but it's not easy to pass the torch.

Brandon Graham obviously moving along.

Hell of a career, Bob. Hell of

a career over there. He also re-tore his tricep in that Super Bowl.
I don't think it was ever healed. I don't think it was ever healed.
I think there was a scan saying that it was a torn tricep coming after that game. No matter what.
Which is dog. That's just like, who's due for the Panthers? Linebacker? Thomas Davis.
Thomas Davis had like 13 in like 13 in his forearm look like a football i watched dwight freeney like have a broken ankle and like literally dudes were showing up in geese body experts to work on his ankle like i think it was 20 hours a day they were getting treatment on his ankle he ends up with a sack in the super bowl just to win a super like the things people do just like yeah to with his yeah he's like like yeah that's awesome just uh an incredible way to go out congrats to him not a lot of guys win a super bowl in bats no you know that is a uh that's great ray obviously jerome bettis did in his hometown with pittsburgh steelers brandon graham did i mean there's i'm sure there's a payton i'm sure there's others that have done it but that's like the dream scenario that everybody's kind of looking for. Yeah, kind of a crazy year for Brandon Graham, too, because remember during the year when he kind of broke the news about A.J.
Brown and Jalen Hurts not being friends? Oh, yeah, accidentally. Yeah, accidentally just mentioned that in a radio interview, and then for them to still kind of hang on and go win the Super Bowl, really is a storybook.
Let's talk about the Cincinnati Bengals. Obviously, they have invested mightily in the trio on offense.
That is Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, and Tee Higgins. The graphics and the posts are coming in abundance.
Oh, hell yeah. Cincinnati Bengals are already putting out a post, boys.
Obviously, this trio right here is going to lead Cincinnati Bengals into

the next era and maybe back into

the relevancy of the Super Bowl conversation.

Obviously, an immense amount of talent

can win any game on the

offensive side, can beat any defense

for sure. What would they do with the rest of the

roster to get back to the top? We'd love to see these three

win a Super Bowl. That post was

certainly something. I remember we came across

everybody's feet. A lot of people were wondering what's going on here, but I think what they were doing is just kind of, they were around something, and they were kind of just all looking in there.
But the Bengals understand what they have, and I love the move of paying both these wide receivers. Now, they're going to have to hit, but I think Duke Tobin has the ability to be able to do so.

Them saying, we want to be able to have our guys

and be able to move the ball

is a full strategy decision

knowing that you're going to have to hit on everything else.

And if they can, if they can revamp on that defensive side,

they'll be able to score against anybody.

It's like, why not the Bengals?

Why not this move?

A lot is going to be questioned, obviously, about this much of the salary cap towards the offensive finesse football, you know, as opposed to running the ball, which the Eagles just did, and they win, obviously, a Super Bowl alongside doing it. But Cincinnati Bengals, if they have the best offense on the field, on any field, they feel like they can win a game.
And it's like, why not? I'm excited to watch them go and do it. And you wonder how much of this has, like, Joe Burrow was very, very loud publicly saying, like, hey, I want my guys here.
Like, I want us to get deals done. And with everything that happened with Carson Palmer, them kind of like, you know, him basically getting to a point where he was like, hey, I'll retire before I play for this franchise again.
Like, so you can keep me here or get rid of me or whatever, but I'm never going to be a bangle again. You obviously got to do whatever you can to keep Joe Burrow happy and make sure that he's going to be around for as long as he will be.
I'd counter that. What is Joe Burrow supposed to say? True.
You know, like Joe Burrow's doing interviews, so I guess he needs to know that he's going to be asked this. But it's like Joe Burrow's always going to go to bat for his guys because Joe Burrow is an Ohio guy.
He's a quarterback.

Like when Joe Flacco was asked if he thinks he was elite,

it's like what the hell is Joe Flacco supposed to say?

I think I'm average, you know, with his little accent that he has.

Obviously he's going to say he's elite.

So when he's asked about Tee Higgins and Jamar Chase,

it's like I think he's obligated to say good things,

but I don't think he's obligated to say need to have them back like you were mentioning.

He has gone out and said like we need both these guys back.

Now he can obviously message it differently

if you just wanted to give like the politically correct answer and put over his guy i assume he was even surprised that they got the deals probably i assume joey burrow was like i did not think that this was possible i don't think many people did think it was possible to get both of the deals done especially over 100 million for both of them yeah i didn Yeah, I didn't think it was possible. Didn't think it made sense.
But it goes back kind of to the Tennessee game. Jeez, you don't know.
No, no, I don't. I don't.
But it goes back to the Tennessee game. Do you remember that scene on the sideline of Zach Taylor and Joe Burrow? And they're about to win the game.
They're up by multiple scores. But Joe Burrow is basically talking about this is embarrassing.
Who knows what he was talking about, but I feel like we just kind of saw what the Bengals look like without the defense, because that was the big thing when they went to the Super Bowl, was how good Jesse Bates, and I think that was the first year they had Trey Hendrickson. So I think that's more so why it is head-scratching.
But hey, it's going to be electric football.

Tom Telesco's been on here before talking about the Chargers. Like, hey, the brand of football that we

want is high-flying, you know,

scoring a lot of points. Mike Williams.

We're talking about the Staley. Yeah, a few

years ago when he was on here talking

about their brand. And that's

the Bengals brand. Like, it's

going to be incredibly entertaining watching them

every single week. Yeah, and it's, you know,

there's going to be some

backdoor covers coming against the Bengals. But, hey, maybe they go and win.
Joey Burrow's a winner. Jamar Chase's a winner.
Higgins is a winner. Feels like the Bengals have won before.
Tough AFC North. But why not go and get it? Tough, and everyone's comparing them.
They're saying, like, oh, they're building themselves like the Colts when they had Peyton and Marv and Reggie. But I was like, I felt like the defenses were a lot better, so I looked it up.
The year that you guys went to the Super Bowl, the defense was ranked eighth. The year before that, it was seventh.
The year before that, it was first. There was a second in there.
Now, the year they did win the Super Bowl was 23rd, so there was like the outlier in there. But those Colts defenses were good.
Those were not like absolutely but the way the colts defense was built and they have a situation in cincinnati right now is we're going to get the lead and then we're going to get the quarterback you know but currently trey hendrickson uh is potentially getting traded or not so getting to the quarterback becomes very vital especially if your offense can move because they're going to have to keep up now granted there's going to's going to be teams that are just going to continue to run. I mean, the Philadelphia Eagles down two scores, they're still handing that ball off.
But the old adage is if you get a lead, the other team's going to feel like they're going to have to catch up. So you're going to be throwing the ball a little bit more.
You take them out of control, controlling the game and the game clock. So I think Bill Pullian's idea was let's get a good offense.
Let's get the lead. And then we'll have Dwight Franey and Robert Mathis get, and then they had Bob Sanders roaming back there for a while, had smart players everywhere.
They also did it in a dome. Yeah, a little different animal.
Also invested heavily in the offensive line. Yeah, had the boys there for a while.
What a crew. That was a great group.
I don't think they get talked about much, but they had the best offense there for a while, like 10 years straight. Oh, yeah.
get tough jeff sardy gets chatted about obviously charlie johnson ryan dean lilja they can hammer some beers to their crew i met they could really do it that was a fun group they were they they were a uh yeah they were a good group hey lads you did good If you're watching, Charlie Johnson, left tackle, he was awesome.

He was cool dude card player so uh got along with him i saw him at a wwe event like i mean i hadn't seen him in probably i don't know eight nine years maybe and i'm sitting at the commentary table and there's some massive human being like sitting over here, you know his family and it's like third row and i'm looking over and i see this thing and i'm like holy shit that's charlie johnson and uh i'm like so i like try to like look at him he looks over at me one time and i go charlie what good to see you and he goes what up man i'm like why didn't you just and he goes I don't want to bother and I'm like good to see you. And he goes, what up, man? I'm like, why didn't you just? And he goes, I don't want to bother.
And I'm like, great to see you. It is great to see you.
Family. You know, everybody, it's like such a different, it's crazy to watch everybody kind of grow and get older, you know, and kind of mature, I guess is what they say.
But that offensive line never gets talked about. I do appreciate the fact, though, that maybe that is the model.
I think they're also thinking about what the Eagles did. I mean, the Eagles paid two wide receivers, paid a quarterback.
They were able to pay a running back. They had a defense, though, that they just drafted straight out of Georgia.
Yep. They just say, hey, we're going to go straight to Georgia.
Give us that defense. We'll see how they play in the NFL, and it's going to work out.
You just have to hit on your drafts. Now, let's talk about Philadelphia.
Lane Johnson has restructured his contract. Way to go, Lane-O! Lane-O! Lane-O! Obviously multiple Super Bowl champion.
People talk about this guy as being one of the GOATs, if not the GOAT, right tackle, in the NFL. $40 million guaranteed over the next two years.
Good for him. Six-time Pro Bowler.
An absolute stud. I mean, just an absolute stud out of Oklahoma.
And whenever you think about that offensive line, obviously you think about how great they are, but Lane Johnson is obviously a pillar, an actual pillar of that offensive line. Nick Sirianni knows that.
Obviously Howie knows that. Jeff knows that.
Bradley Cooper probably had to sign off on this deal. And Lane Johnson restructures his contract to be able to give them a little bit more money over there in Philadelphia.
They're always working. Feels like they always get it right, those Philadelphia Eagles.
No doubt about it. And kind of the reputation that they have now, you know, they pay their players.
Lane also now becomes that Brandon Graham kind of Kelsey role where he is now the longest tenured Eagle left on the team. So he is kind of that elder statesman.
Not that he wasn't before, but now he is number one on that list. And, you know, especially in that division with Micah Parsons, kind of everything that the commanders, they're linked to Trey Hendrickson if they do get traded.
Like those tackles, him and Maialata, they're kind of like the stalwarts of that offensive line now. Maialata mic'd up is awesome.
Oh, yeah. Singing on the field.
Great moxie. Great.
The whole lane, same exact. Yeah.
I mean, that is... You know, people want to invest in everything.
You have a good offensive line, your team's going to win games. That's just...
Doesn't matter who's your quarterback. Has to be an NFL quarterback.
Can't be a UFL quarterback. Are they still...
They might still be picking. Are they holding out? Do we know if the...
I haven't seen... Me neither.
I think so. Hey, listen, UFL boys,

respect that you're like, yeah, give me my

read the room. And I'm not just

saying that as somebody that

watches UFL. I'm just saying

the only thing that's been reported to UFL

is he's lost like $40 million or something.

A lot of money. It was

the most thing. I got great news.

They stopped their holdout? Yeah, they returned to camp.

Hey, that a boy. Thank you for doing that.
They read the room. It was a five-day holdout.
Did they get some free Gatorade? Seven million each. Okay.
Yeah. Yeah, I bet they did.
Congrats to the NFL guys. Maybe a cameo in one of Dwayne's new movies? Yeah, I mean, I don't even want to get into it.
There's a lot of that happening in the world right now. Sure.
You know, like, hey, just read the room a little bit. But nonetheless, Lane Johnson gets paid.
Congrats to him. I love everything about Lane.
You build up your offensive line. That's why there's a lot of new mock drafts coming out.
And Will Campbell's not even in top 10, right? Will Campbell was solidified first rounder. Basically, everybody's saying out of LSU.
This guy's the next one. This is the one.
And runs sub 5-0 at Combine. Showcases he's an athlete.
His arms measure a little shorter, though, than they want. Now new mock drafts are out.
Will Campbell's not even in the top 10. And I just got done doing a whole speech about if you have a good offensive line, you're going to win games.
It's interesting what's happening right now. Yeah, he's 13th in Kuypers and 10th in Daniel Jeremiah's.
In Kuyper's in general, there was not an offensive lineman in the top 10. Membu was the first one at 11.
DJ did have Membu going 7th to the Jets. So it feels like, yeah, it's a little bit of a down year for the offensive lineman in this draft.
That's probably why you saw so many teams taking risks on linemen we didn't know about in free agency. But as far as the draft goes, yeah, it's not the best offensive linemen year that we've had in a while.
Congrats to all the offensive linemen during free agency, especially those first couple of days. A lot of money going to a lot of guys we never heard of.
And good for them. I mean, I'm very, very happy for them.
But there was a lot of dudes that had like 200 snaps. Hey, you're getting paid as if you're now left tackle one.
We're going to trade this guy. Who's that guy? He's swing guy.
How's he getting $20 million? It's like, well, I guess because the draft class potentially down somebody that might know a little bit more about that. A man who has absolutely dominated the draft.
Even though at one point people said, he said, fuck these. He's a Superbowl champion.
He's been able to lead the Los Angeles Rams through an all-in phase and then a, hey, we got a developed phase. They got a young team right now, but they have a couple old core pillars.
They were just one play away, potentially, from beating the go-on, the Super Bowl champs, Philadelphia Eagles, in the playoffs. They get Matthew Stafford back.
They trade for Devontae Adams. Pook and Aku is still on their team, so the vibes are going to be high.
The general manager for whose house? Ram's house, Les Snead. Yeah, Les.
How you doing, man? How's it going? You look super cool. You know what? I was listening to y'all.
I think if you know an offensive lineman's name, usually that's he's jumped off sides or he's had a bad holding call or some unbelievable defensive end like Myles Garrett has ripped him for a sack on third down. So it's probably good that you don't know their name.
Yeah, I think so too. You're right.
That's like long snappers don't know them unless they send one over somebody's head. Offensive lineman, you don't know unless they get cooked.
I respect that. You had to build up your offensive line though, Les.
So let's talk about you in building your team. Because obviously we respected the hell out of you going all in.
We're bringing in Matthew Stafford. Obviously we've got Aaron Donald.
Jalen Ramsey's coming over here. You went all in trying to win.
And you did. Wins a Super Bowl in Los Angeles whenever there was.
You know who's going to be the team of this city, especially when it's hosting a Super Bowl. And then everybody talks about kicking a can down the road, kicking a can down the road.
Inevitably, that can's going to come to fruition. It did.
And you have transitioned now into drafting a younger team, a core team that's going to be able to come up. Do you think that is accurate, that there's two different ways that you have to build a team? And in your mind, is the draft the most important part of the bounce back after you kick can down the road as they say with the salary cap definitely i think i think you could call it there's many ways we've seen it happen where you look at all the teams that actually cashed in right won the trophy was able to do the uh the city parade there's a lot of ways to do that but i do think there's an element of uh cyclicalness to it there's a cycle where teams are going to go through it's different from or similar to college football right where you maybe you have this senior class maybe you're michigan when harbaugh had his senior class and then all of a sudden this year they go uh to a younger class so it probably depends on what phase what window uh what stage you're in as a team uh i will continue this football talk but i thought that was a picture of you that like somebody drew on your wall there uh why do i have such a good jawline right there on your uh on your wall over your left shoulder you know what this is i'm in artist twyman's office and i believe we have someone.
It works in our studios. She's an artist.
And anytime artists allow someone to do a Zoom here, she likes to, let's call it paint, draw, scribble the picture of whoever they think is the most important person on the Zoom call. Okay.
All right. In this case, it's you.
I think it's pretty good. Yeah.
It's kind of a linebacker look. not necessarily a punter look.
If you'd have gone to West Virginia, played inside backer. You know what I mean? Yeah, not tough enough, but what? It does have that feel with that jawline.
I like artists. Shout out to artists.
Hey, I'm a big fan of artists. You let artists know I respect them.
We were not always on good terms. I think that might have been a one-way street.
Then at the Super Bowl, got a chance to chat with him. Good lad.
He's a good man. And you let him know.
Isn't it good when you come together, you put your differences on the table, you know what, come up with the parameters, the partnership, and you know what, let's work this out. Okay.
You know what he told me, though? He told me it all started with a Johnny Hecker kind of misunderstanding. No and i was thinking about when johnny just signed with the titans i mean wow what a guy's 35 what a career he's had yeah crushing the carolina as well we're talking about hitting bombs over there obviously for you guys at the rams he becomes one of the greatest of all time and he continues at the tennessee titans he's gonna love it down there you know if they can get a squad, he's going to love Nashville.
And speaking of loving people, let's get back to that. You talked about, you know, coming to parameters, sitting down, putting it to the side right there with me and artists, which we certainly did at Super Bowl.
Matthew Stafford. Okay, let's talk about this situation.
He was open to go explore opportunities, I believe is how it was being worded. Is that so you can test out hey what is a fair market value what is the market saying and then when you inevitably sit down with him and i assume sean mcveigh's there as well what is that conversation to continue on and uh continue to win another super bowl for the rams yeah that was it was a really it was definitely a unique experience i it was it was really fruitful very rejuating to all of us.
And I think at the end of the day, the partnership with the Franchise QB, right, is a nickname, Franchise QB. And there comes with parameters and there's trade-offs with those parameters.
But at the end of the day, we're partnering, right, to go on this journey to chase great, to chase good, to be better than good. And there's some stress and drudgery with that but each year since the super bowl once we came back and redid his contract and once the contract and he's still under contract and we come back every year there's this element of of working through some of those parameters those trade-offs and sometimes there's you know there's an element of friction there uh when you go through those situations the neat thing about that month, even though it was a grueling month to work through, hey, are we going to trade Matthew? Is Matthew going to want to go somewhere else? Is he going to want to come back here? At the end of the day, everyone, Matthew, his family, Sean, our coaching staff, myself, our organization, we all realized, you know what, we really want to take on this journey together.
And it was a cool to, let's call it, rekindle our relationship, get rejuvenated to go chase great. Because there's stress and drudgery that comes with chasing great, especially when you're a franchise QB.
Yeah, especially when you're as great as Matthew Stafford is, and obviously with how great he has played. And Sean McVay's offense is spectacular, and I think the way he and Sean have worked together has been awesome for the Rams.
Obviously, he's been very fruitful. Allegedly, he was offered like $100 million guaranteed to go somewhere else.
So whatever the drudgery and conversation and rekindling that you guys had, seems like it was great. Legally, he turned down, you know, tens of millions.
Everybody hates moving, which I assume you did hammer home a couple times. But I think watching him go back made me feel like, okay, that's a real ramily over there.
That's a real family. No doubt.
And the stress and drudgery is the journey, right, the climb. It's a steep hill every year.
But, again, there can be some friction when you're going through, okay, what are going to be the parameters of what we're, let's call it paying the QB? And also, hey, we're trying to build a team around him. So let's go chase greatness.
That's where some of the friction comes into it. But at the end of the day, as we went through that month, you know what, it worked out and we're all jacked to be partnering him walking in 100 million guaranteed they're offering me i'm 37 years old bro what do you uh that's an interesting give and take happy you ended up where you are now i can't wait to watch him work now cooper cup obviously is a member of the seattle seahawks he goes home you guys had a great run together you've said nothing but respectful things about him and he has said the same back now you bring in davante adams who is i think eager to get back into relevant football why was davante adams a guy that you wanted in your building and uh sean mcveigh cutting up highlights and voicing over them and sending them to him while he's recruiting him is that uh always a part of your guys' process to get people to become members of the Rams? Genius shit.
Oh, yeah. Sean, he would do really well in college football.
Maybe not in the NIL era, but back in the old days when you really recruited. I do know this.
When you're a player and you really, really prioritize being really good at football and you appreciate the, let's call it the collective and what comes with winning, Sean's really, really good at connecting with those players because Sean's going to mention and he's going to outline how we're all going to go chase that greatness we were talking about. So that's, and Devontae just brings a skill set to the element, I mean, to our table.
It's the next iteration of what we want to do as Sean and his staff have worked through where we've been, where we're trying to go, what we're trying to accomplish, how you're adjusting to the league, how the league's adjusting to the defending you. The enemy has a say sometimes, and Sean, his staff, is always trying to stay ahead of that.
Gosh. You're messaging, man.
It's like, hey, this is how we operate. It's very clear that you guys have a direction over there in Los Angeles.
You and Sean being on the same page is, I think, key to all of it. Ty has a question for you.
Yeah, speaking of that, what is your relationship like with Coach McVay? Obviously, he's very passionate and kind of intense, and it seems like someone kind of needs to match his energy

in order to get along with him for as long as you guys have.

So what is that relationship, you know,

whether it's personal or your working relationship,

like with him on a day-to-day basis?

I mean, it's really, really special.

One of my favorite ones on planet Earth as we've gotten in the bunker

and, you know, tried to do hard things together. So here's what, here's a great story.
And I tell Sean all this all the time. We hired him when he was 30 years old and that, that story has been written, right? You, you reverse engineer, and it's like a no brainer should have hired him when he was 29.
I've often kidded with Sean. There's no doubt we've changed your life for the good, but boy,

did we probably ruin it as well. You just think about how many 30-year-olds that you know.
I mean,

it certainly wasn't me. It's like when you're 30 to 39, you can kind of be a professional,

but you can still goof around and maybe not have to be a head coach of the Los Angeles Rams. So

there's an element that I'm a big brother.

We have this neat chemistry that, you know what,

we can go out and have a boxing match and then go have a beer afterwards.

You know what I mean?

But you put on some boxing gloves.

And I think y'all did a video of him.

You've seen him squatting recently.

So we're definitely not going to wrestle because, boy, could he.

I mean, I'm getting jealous of him. I used to be a back in high school state champion weightlifter and man now you go grab Sean holy cow when you grab Sean now you're like man rocked up I have really gotten weak in my 50s okay so there's an element go ahead no yeah I want to oh yeah I had to bring that on only because I'm jealous human nature jealous of sean right he he gets the video i mean but again he was using that safety bar back in my day we didn't do safety bar no no this is straight bar this is old school yeah yeah put it on your back go down get parallel yeah you know kind of stare at the judges and then come up yeah not this yeah not the safety.
Yeah. Now, did I immediately text Andrew Whitworth and ask him, where can I get that safety bar for my gym? Yeah.
Is that the only bar I'm going to squat with for the rest of my life? Yeah. But Sean getting after it in there.
I mean, look at that WWE championship belt he's got on. Yeah.
Whitworth's wearing one of those as well in there. And, you know, he's got a dumper still.
Oh, Whitworth, he's still got a big pooper. You know, that thing is way out there, good explosion.
So you don't lift over at the Village? You don't get in there? You know what? It's interesting. Ryan Sorensen, who works with Whit, who trains.
I can tell you this, Pat. A little bit after COVID, got back into working out a little bit with ryan sorenson wit was still playing then so they didn't whip didn't have his gym then i can tell you this i went through about a year with ryan and i looked at him i said ryan you know what i work out to have fun this is this is just not fun i mean he would wear me out i would want to throw up doing just, a band workout.
And I'm like, you know what? I didn't come here to puke doing bands. But you know what? They've gotten Sean into doing it.
And boy, is he obviously, you know, the tail of the tape, the tape doesn't lie. The guy's got 500 pounds on his back.
They're saying Puka's puking all those workouts. Sounds like Ryan Sorensen is a puke bucket creator.
Oh, there's nothing. He's old.
Yeah, he's puke bucket. I can tell you this, though, about Puka.
I don't know. It seems like Puka pukes all the time.
It could be first quarter. It could be after a touchdown.
It could be at halftime. I think he just pukes.
Can't spell. You know, I don't know.
That's true. Puka's the best.
He is. Going back to that, I do think, here's the neat thing about Sean and working with him is, obviously, Sean, his coaches, they design the systems, right? What they're trying to get accomplished on game day, how they're going to deploy each player.
And Sean's got this way, and so why he's going to be really good on television. He can explain it in a madness way where it's plain as sight as you know exactly, right, what type of player, what edge they bring to the table, no matter where they're at in the draft, in free agency, and how they can really, really help us in a specific role.
And I think that's why Devontae watched that video and said, you know what, we're going to have fun in LA, but you know what, they prioritize football there. Guess what? When we go have personnel meetings or draft meetings or free agency meetings.
Yeah. We're going to be, we're going to be throwing around some, what's the movie, wedding crashers quotes.
But Sean's also going to really, really articulate along with his staff. Hey, you know what? this is what we need this position to do right and it might even be uh pat a punter who not only can putt but can kick off so that's why we drafted ethan evans in the in the probably fifth sixth round a couple years ago right because we knew we might have been going with an older kicker didn't want to uh you know waste his leg kicking off so uh it's it's very clear and concise on what we're looking for that's uh i love that you think that deep and i like that his communication ability probably helps out the entire building hey this is what we need this what we're looking for you can obviously go find that ethan evans is a dog you're talking about in the weight room now he's posting videos of him squatting and dead lifting and cleaning he's a monster you got a lot your producers directors whoever's down i mean i feel like we should have some clips going of ethan evans right about yeah director get to him back down uh let's go back to back kind of rich eyes in 40 this thing with you know ethan and sean squatting yeah well i think ethan's got him pretty good this is Uh-oh.
Oh, that's a hell of a job by someone in your world. That's old Zito in the back.
I don't know if he's directing anything, but he's certainly producing some magic back there. Think about this.
This is our head coach and punter. You know, this isn't an offensive lineman that you don't know their name.
This is a head coach and punter. They're saying 585 pounds right there.
Ethan Evans, the punter. It's like, uh, hell yeah.
They got dogs over there in LA. Now, speaking of that, let's go to your drafting process.
AP Tone has a question for you. Yeah.
Last people were starting to notice that you might have a, uh, kind of guy that you go after all these stud defensive linemen that you have drafted. They all started at small schools and then transferred to bigger schools and had success there.
First went to Albany. Turner was at Richmond.
Byron Young was at Georgia Military. And Fisk was at Western Michigan before they all transferred to their schools.
Is that just a coincidence, or is there something in guys going up a level, continuing to play well that you like in drafting a defensive lineman that has been so successful? You know, I think it's probably a very fruitful coincidence. It's not necessarily a prerequisite at the end of the day, but I do think that the moral to that story, or maybe a lesson in there, is right, each one of those players bet on themselves along the way.
Each one of those players had this dream to play at a certain level of the video game, maybe out of high school didn't quite get to the level of the video game they wanted to but you know what they signed up they persevered they were resilient they got better each day and they worked their way up to that next level of the video game and when they got there guess what they they dominated and and you know what we said you know hey let's make you let's bring you to the rams house for safe uh the young core d line is probably what makes you most excited about the potential next few years and what you think this team could be you have some pivotal positions on young contracts that is a massive ordeal i would assume and at what moment this past season did you know that these guys could be real? Because at the beginning, they're going into the trade deadline. It was maybe you guys are going to be sellers.
Like, hey, maybe this isn't the year. Then I think some health happened.
Is that the moment that you realized, like, maybe this year is a good year for this team? Or did you think you were a year out? How did you kind of view that young defense and defensive line throughout the season? From the start, from the start, we always knew, okay, we appreciated on paper, right, who we thought these players could be and where they could get to. Maybe they weren't there then, and probably as individuals and even as a collective unit.
But each game, you could see that group evolving, again, as individuals and then as a group. And then, obviously, at the end of the season, they were applying as much pressure.
And we even had some of those games, right, unshawn McVay-like games where we're winning 10 to 9, per se. We were a defensive bunch.
So we always felt like let's just hang in there. Let's let this group keep evolving.
Again, when you're 1-4 and you've got a thursday night game probably against the probably three and one or four and one uh minnesota vikings and boy that's when when they were rolling and coach flores had you know they were they were coming that's not where you want to be uh but you know what that challenge that you know that was a pivotal challenge that that this young. And we were taking on water too.

Some of our studs were still injured.

And we didn't have them back.

But we got Puka back that night.

He ignited confidence in the building.

Where you know what?

Originally he was going to play the following week.

He walked in on Monday and said, you know what?

Let's do it on Thursday night.

And I think from that moment on, let's go.

Let's get in the ring and make this happen. And you just take it one at a time.
But going back to the defense, you could see them, you felt like they were going to evolve, and they got there pretty quick. Yeah, I'd say.
And then I remember after that Thursday night, remember you guys ripped that helmet off the guy's head? Yeah. Right, yeah, Sam.
Right off of Sam's head there. Yeah, that's how you guys won again.
I remember that. You guys cheated.
But nonetheless, you guys get a big- nonetheless you guys get a big time win i remember that you remember that obviously you gotta every now and then you know you gotta get return on good luck every now and then official misses the call don't complain about it you know either sometimes it goes your way sometimes it doesn't amen now going your guys's way multiple times uh in big situation down in new orleans Nonetheless, nonetheless, I love, it means you guys are living right. That's why it's happening.
But from that moment, I think once you guys started winning, it was like, these guys are going to be trading at the deadline to, wait a minute, nobody wants to see the Rams right now. And that's literally how the season ended, all the way up into that Eagles game, whenever Jalen Carter just decides he's going to become a superhuman again in the middle of that.
It's like, your team was fun to watch this year. It was like watching a team kind of go, I don't want to say this is a bad example, but I just want to from JV to like varsity.
It was like watching your team evolve into like the team that they can be excited to watch them going forward. Now on that note, you had to pick or you had to fix a very important part of the team.
Good con man. Yeah.
Another, another group that evolved less was the offensive line, and you guys actually just moved on from Jonah Jackson just because of how good the draft picks that you had kind of worked out. How did that kind of progress throughout the year, and how hard is it to find the right lineman for a Sean McVay system? It's a little bit difficult, right, because we have a specific skill set but we won't get into that I think it we always want quality offensive line going to Jonah and he's a quality offensive lineman I mean we've seen what he what he did in Detroit the interesting thing there is is we attempted to move Steve Avila who had played really well at guard for us uh his rookie year to center he had been a center and guard at TCU and at the end of the day both Steve when Steve got injured during the process of you know training to be the center.
Jonah has a center background to him so we even said let's move Jonah there now that Steve's hurt and then Jonah got hurt. End of the day now we're training two two players who've been a guard in the NFL.
We're trying to make them center, and oh boy, it's not going well, and they're both injured. And so when we're in camp in pads, when you really are, you know, stressing under fire to figure out can we do this, we didn't have either one of those.
Then here comes Bo Lemmer, says I'll take the job. So at the end of the day, once we got to the end of the season, we were probably, again, return on bad luck, right? Bad luck being the injury to Steve Avila and Jonah Jackson.
The good luck we drafted Bo Lemmer. So now we felt like we were probably one extra starter in terms of Jonah, Steve, and Big KDOT at guard guard and we felt like this was the best thing for the team and even jonah because we could have brought jonah back we could have gone to a three guard rotation you might have an injury and jonah fits right in but i i know jonah really wanted to uh you know go play have a chance and then they gotta give jonah jackson credit.
You've been in the locker rooms. This guy's making $17 million.
He goes through feeling guilty. Like, I'm not starting and I'm making $17 million.
And you're like, you know what? It's okay. We got into a conundrum, but we're winning here.
And he goes out and he does scout team. I mean, he's like the leader.
I mean, that's a man and I wish him nothing. And I know why Ben Johnson and the Bears and Ryan Poles,

I know why they attacked going after him because of Ben's probably relationship

with him in Detroit and Chicago needing offensive linemen,

and let's go.

The rest is history.

Congrats to Chicago.

It sounds like you're getting a dude, you know, like that type of buy-in,

and I feel bad. Yeah, you're getting a dude.
That's a type of buy-in and uh i feel bad you're getting a dude that's a dude yeah that's what hey look at chicago hey uh last question here we're coming up on a hard out we can't thank you enough for your time honestly this is very very kind of you shout out to artists you know shout out and the artist in the office that threw my face as a jacked person what should we know about this particular draft you know there's a lot of conversation about like is there high-end talent is there more uh depth of talent like what do you think about this particular draft class as a whole and what will the storyline be you think the day after the draft you know every draft has talent it'll be a fun draft only because you think about last year seven i think we picked 19 uh, seven QBs went before pick 19. It's probably a reason why someone like Jared Verse got pushed to 19.
You never know. Maybe it would have fallen 19 anyway.
Maybe it would have gone pick 15, 16. I don't know.
A little bit earlier if it wasn't those seven QBs. It doesn't seem like this year there's going to be seven QBs that go before pick 19.
So that is going to be the, for the first time in a while, how many QBs actually go in the first round? How many go before pick 15? All those things. And what that does now is all of a sudden, let's call it position players start getting picked earlier and earlier.
So it's going to be a fascinating draft of position players and not just QB dominated. And it'll be fun to take the day after the draft, whatever that storyline is, that's going to be irrelevant.
That'll be good content for maybe your show on Monday, maybe Tuesday. But I can't tell you this, it'll be interesting to see how these players who get picked in this first round and even second round, things like that, what they're doing two and three years down the road.
Only because, hey, it's going to be the first year where it might be the least amount of QBs, you know, picked in the first round in a long time. I love the general manager saying, yeah, we're judging drafts the day after the draft.
Why don't we wait two, three years and see who's a winner, who's not? You certainly and we appreciate you taking the time les have a great day hey appreciate it always enjoy it hey can artists sign that photo and send that or is that dry erase oh we're sending it to you thank you artists i need an autograph from you artists appreciate that you're the best ladies and gentlemen let's need that was awesome artists what a relationship yeah that was an interesting little photo there yeah i don't know what happened there his example was uh the person in the office draws the person who's the most important on zoom to put over there and i think that's less trying to put us over there sure i do wonder if they just had a photo of me in artist's office there for like the last three like a dartboard type thing yeah i don't know if it's a dartboard exactly because i think uh i think some i don't know about all people but i think there is a good amount of people at the los angeles rams building who uh watch our program for sure and are fans of our program but we never reach out to them because of their pr guy artists right yes so then artists at super bowl comes over and goes hey man if i i apologize i don't this guy said it. I don't know what I yeah and I'm like that was very kind of you and I told him what happened he goes I I'm sorry I did that it was probably just like a glip a blip in his world but for me I'm like fuck that guy he's a good man.
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March Madness officially tips off with a couple play-in games on True TV starting at 6.40 Eastern. that's a question you're asking yourself you find it tonight because you're gonna need it okay you're gonna need it this weekend you're gonna need it for about the month going forward because we're about to find out who's the greatest college basketball team on planet earth madness is in store magic is on the horizon and one team will change the trajectory of their school forever and one team cheated their way in to the entirety of it in the north carolina tar heels allegedly now are they going to beat san diego state tonight they're favored by four and a half sure if they were to play west virginia would they beat west virginia no i don't think so no way especially from what i've been looking into how you quad one games unc not good how's west virginia in quad one games great ask the governor of west virginia he'll tell you all of the stats but tonight the madness starts and uh i'll tell you i'm not obviously clearly the biggest college basketball human okay i didn't grow up in a college basketball town although the pit teams were good with dixon as the coach very good they were awesome to watch they were fun to watch and i did follow along but i didn't keep track of everything going on every single year it's the same story whenever we get captivated by this particular sport we get captivated by the performances and the storylines and we get captivated by some small school that goes on a run because all you gotta do is get hot for eight games seven games whatever it is six games whatever the hell it is you get it and if you get hot you steal the show and uh some guys will launch themselves into lottery picks some guys will change an entire state's economy yeah some team will disappoint everybody and that's what the madness is all about the talks of tables here at boston connor attachment comment is the best fit you've ever had on this show wow yes thank you very agree i thought the same really while we were talking in the first hour you were speaking and i didn't want to interrupt you and just stop you from what you were saying but i was like the hat bill matches the hoodie and then i believe the under half of the yeah i mean and then the this This is blue, and on your hat on your hat there's blue.
I mean, it's... Yeah, because a lot of times the pants are black with like a blue t-shirt.
Yeah, you dress like an asshole usually. I have a purple t-shirt.
Yeah, but that looks kind of bluish, especially next to the... I was going to wear the purple wolf shirt.
Hey, this is a good fit, dude. Thank you very much.
I appreciate that. While you were talking about that...
That is magical. That's Madness March right there.
This is madness. This is one shining moment for your fit.
This is my first good fit. I really appreciate that.
This is a surreal experience. While we were talking about that, I feel like I just remembered everything about DJ Burns last year.
NC State, the big man. We were kind of having a conversation with him before.
I believe. He is now in South Korea, basically running the entire country, playing basketball over there, leading some team to what is sure the South Korean Basketball Championship, I would assume.
But there's always those players that change their lives, change the economy, but also just come out of nowhere and make a name for themselves. I'll always.
And then disappear. And then become become nothing yeah like i'll you understand what i'm saying in the bat in the basketball world like steph curry for instance became you know steph curry started as davidson i didn't know who that was until that incredible run and then now he's you know considered one of the greatest college basketball players or sorry just basketball players of all time.
Then there are DJ Burns who have this incredible run, and they just become those players that kind of define March. I mean, what was NC State last year, an 11 seed? Yeah, something like that.
Yeah, something like that. And then DJ Burns became this guy who was scoring 30 every single time they played.
Obviously, Jimmer for Dead, things of that nature as well. Golki, Robert Golki.
Yeah, boom, from Oakland. Yeah, he was incredible.
Who's the white dude Ole Miss? Henderson? Yeah, Marshall Henderson. Marshall.
There it is. Yeah.
This tournament always great. St.
Peter's, can't remember his name, but he was great. Oh, Drew Peters.
Doug Eder. Doug Eder.
Doug Eder, yes. Yes.
You're going to bump the Wild Wings. Yes.
Okay, all right. This is what we're talking about.
Play the game. And we could have never guessed any of that was going to take place before the tournament.
No. Which is why this is such a magical ride.
You know, for the next couple weeks, we get to talk about shit that's never going to be able to be talked about again. Yeah.
There's going to be some coach who's going to draw up some play at some mid-major, and he's going to be maybe talked about as going to Iowa or talking about going to Indiana or maybe going to West Virginia. He's got a three-horse race right now.
Ty, what the hell is going on with the coaching staff? I have no idea. Yeah, the DeVries situation is crazy.
Obviously, there were reports that came out that he was in Iowa City yesterday meeting with their athletic director. A little bit of background for people who don't know.
He was Drake's head coach. His younger brother was an All-American at Iowa.
Drake is in Iowa. Yeah, yeah.
Drake University, who's in the tournament this year. It's in Des Moines.
His younger brother was an All-American D-lineman at Iowa, played for the Lions. He played basketball at UNI uni but a lot of people have said hey that's that's like a dream job go back home be able to coach at iowa but now they're saying hey indiana he's the top candidate exactly he's the top candidate for that that job west virginia isn't the top candidate for de vise but that's the thing is he's currently our head coach but we haven't heard that like you know hey he's done at West Virginia.
He's going to go seek one of these jobs. Now, if he was in Iowa City, then you would think that there's a chance he is looking.
But then they're also talking about Drake's head coach, where he used to be saying, hey, Indiana also likes him. Iowa likes him.
That could be a spot, West Virginia. So it's almost like every coach who is available or who's going to take that next step up, they're either going to find themselves at Iowa, Indiana, or West Virginia.
So we really don't know what the hell's going on. I talked to Whitey earlier, West Virginia podcast host.
Of course. Great voiceover guy.
Great voiceover. Did the one whenever we went back to West Virginia.
Last place in fantasy football. Great podcast host.
West Virginia. Absolutely old grad pod.
West Virginia's being viewed as like a mid-major. Okay? You just mentioned Drake.
Yeah. Yeah, they love their coach at Drake.
It's like, yeah, West Virginia, their coach might have it. Maybe.
We're in the Big 12. Okay? We have been dancing deep in the dance plenty of times before.
Plenty? We have a, yes. Well.
Beeline did it. Huggins did it.
Hell, fucking Jerry West played for West Virginia. Okay's a good point.
Let's go back. You need to figure it the fuck out before you start talking.
I know you look cool, but let's just, you know. No, no, I forgot about Huggy, same way he forgets, you know, when he drives.
Okay. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I'm fair. I like Huggy.
I like Huggy. I love him.
I believe he is admitted to problems. Obviously, he can't be doing it.
I think he's getting healthier, hopefully, like everybody is, especially in this particular climate, a world that we're in with technology and everything like that. And, yeah, I think that happened back-to-back.
It was right, yeah. Yeah, it was back-to-back.
A lot happened there. But nonetheless, we get kicked out of the tournament for some other team.
Yeah. You know, like, clearly.
111 bracketologists, they don't know shit about this small school. Absolutely jobbed.
Almost intentionally, it feels like. And then now our coach, like, maybe he is okay down there at West Virginia.
It's like, what the... Why is this happening? Wren.
Hey, Wren. Answer the phone.
I don't know who's calling, but answer the phone. I was going to say, he's answering your calls.
It's not like he's not picking up the... Haven talked to ren in months okay i have not but ren needs to answer the phones i don't know who's calling he needs to maybe pick up the phones enough of this now he put out a statement saying the breeze and us have a very uh good convo you know heartbroken for wv hoops this is after the committee didn't last night uh ren put out a quote about like hey the future very bright together with the breeze and you know and he is our type of guy i met him at uh richrod's press conference he was there cool dude very casual just walked in dap up how you doing this will be like his kid who was a stud yeah came over from drake uh he gets hurt then like that was literally the week it happened team still goes on to win games not enough they're still in conversation, which is kind of a tough thing.
I think at West Virginia, you're like, oh, this team, how would they do if they did get, you know, like that whole conversation? They just don't like that they're getting treated as like a nothing, like getting treated like a nothing university. In the DeVries convo, it's like, yeah, I was going to hire him or Indiana's going to hire him.
It's like, I understand Indiana because we live in a we live in a state love basketball okay now Kurt Signetti what he's been able to do with the football team how much money he's been able to raise has that taken money away from the basketball thing I doubt it they fucking they love hoops out here they love Hoosier hoops out here they do not love that it has been irrelevant for a while at the Indiana basketball operation so like maybe that's like one of the schools that he could have like, whenever he was in his thing, Iowa going back home, I know it's a story and everything like that, but he just got to West Virginia, buddy. We got some special stuff to do, especially after you get a job by the NCAA.
You can literally use that as an entire motivator, like my first year here, remember what happened and then go on a run. Nobody's saying that, though, for West Virginia.
Only thing that's being being said is, this guy's gone. It's just, where is he headed to? How the hell is he getting out of the Big 12 to get to the Big 10? It's like, DeVries, we want you, bud.
So do we. So, you know, you guys are going to have to, hey, listen, you're going to have to come to the plate.
You're going to have to come to the plate and maybe give him a raise or something. I know in football, the coaching contracts are a lot bigger in the Big Ten.
I assume they are a lot bigger in basketball. Yeah, but the basketball in the Big 12, people have been talking about it.
It's good. It is good.
Is it? Because Kansas is like a seven seed now. They had a bad year.
They had a bad year. I think Big 12 basketball.
I think Kansas. Okay? And Arizona.
What's Arizona? A four seed this year? I mean, do they even have a one seed? Not bad. They're under respect as well.
So they got a little chip on their shoulder. Joining us now is a guy whose team didn't make it in the tournament, but they don't care because Ryan Day is talking about football again.
Ladies and gentlemen, college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Ryder Cup winner, A.J. Hawk.
Yeah. A.J., I don't know if your guys' coach is getting plucked everywhere, but that's happened in West Virginia right now.
And I can't wait for these games to start so that the madness isn't just about West Virginia getting fucked, you know? Like, I would like the games to start so it can just be that. I'll tell you what, Governor Morrissey and his presser that you guys showed clips of, that was amazing.
Is he citing 111 bracketologists as, like, his – this is the research. These people who are bracketologists and who names them? Experts! Do you get, when do you go from, hey, I'm a writer to a bracketologist, like I'm an expert at this situation? Well, you just got to showcase an ability.
You got to school for it. Ladies and gentlemen, Pete, yeah, you got to showcase that you're good.
You know, like how do gamblers go from gamblers to professional gamblers? I think it's like a 60-some percent hit. There's like a rate that some gambling sites hire.
You've got to quit your day job. Yeah, you've got to quit your day job.
You've got to hit a certain percentage, and then you can become at some of these professional gambling sites. So I think in this particular case, you've just got to get it right most of the time over the years.
There's 111 of them. That's a lot.
I don't know how many people are getting it right. But we do know, and the governor knows, first time ever all 111 were wrong.
Okay, not even one in 111 got it right that West Virginia wasn't going to be in. So Governor Morrissey says, they know it better than I do.
I mean, I'm about to learn it better than anybody. But I got questions, is what Governor Morrissey said.
Maybe there'll be some transparency. Maybe there'll be some transparency going forward.
Speaking of transparency, Pete Thamel is reporting that Coach DeVries is not a candidate for the Iowa job. Wow.
What? Listen, I love Pete Thamel, but he's been wrong several times. Until it comes out that he is not going to, yeah, call him.
Call Pete right now, and I'll let him know. Hey, listen, Pete, fucking back off.

All right?

He went over there and he said, this ain't it.

That's what he said.

Well, maybe he did, maybe he didn't.

But you know what?

Pete Thamel is not the arbiter on everything. Oh, he's the authority.

He is.

He kind of is.

He is.

He is.

But guess what?

Pete's been wrong before, and he might be wrong again. Okay.
Obviously, he's taking a lot of hacks in the batter's box. Every once in a while, you're going to miss the ball.
We are calling currently the authority. We are joined, ladies and gentlemen, by the authority in college football and back in college basketball full-time, Pete Damel.
Yeah, Pete. Pete.
Hey. Pete, it's great to see you.
Prison Pete. Great to see you.
Prison Pete out here. Yes, it's great to see you great to see you prison pete out here yes it is great to see uh cool pete took uh what do you guys call it in canada a toque what is that a toque is what you that's a toque yeah uh beanie a toque uh tossle you name it you look awesome pete you just obviously sent some uh shockwaves through this particular thunderdome because devries obviously west virgin West Virginia's head coach one year, got jobbed out of the tournament.
Everybody knows 111 bracketologists, probably Pete being one of them, did not see this coming. So he was being tied to the Iowa job.
This morning I woke up to a bunch of people saying he's being tied to the Indiana job. I heard nobody saying he was still tied to West Virginia, which obviously had me a bit upset.
What is the current situation with Coach DeVries, and why is he not a candidate for the Iowa job? I thought that was like dream job for him, and they need a coach for the first time in 15 years, Pete. Yeah, so all good questions, Pat.
I feel like we're going to, you know, this is a little bit of a domino effect, right? I do feel like we're going to get some clarity on where Indiana is headed here in the next couple of days. And perhaps sooner.
There's been, you know, I reported Saturday on College Basketball Game Day that, you know, the Iowa search was focused on three different candidates. Ben McCollum, Darren DeVries, and Clemson's Brad Burnell.
Kendall Tom's obviously the Drake coach. So two of those coaches are in the NCAA tournament, and one of them isn't, obviously.
You can ask the governor of the state where your alma mater lies what happened with them. So I do feel like Indiana's cards are going to be shown pretty quickly here, Pat, on, on, on where they go.
And then that will ripple into Iowa's options. Why is DeVries not? Okay.
Thank you for all that information. Why is DeVries not a candidate for the Iowa job? They just didn't like the cut of his jib.
Um, I, you know, it's a little bit offended that you guys don't want to coach i don't think that's i think iowa has been interested in darren devries um i don't think it's from i don't think it's from iowa's side uh there's a there's a lot of bio involved which which could be a factor here um yeah i was i was in an interesting uh interesting situation right now. I would expect if Darren DeVries does go to Indiana, which is at least a possibility at this point, that Ben McCollum would be right at the forefront of that Iowa search.
He's obviously right there. Drake, he's won four national titles.
He's an excellent coach. So yeah, these things are always very fluid, Pat, and it's a very interesting situation right now

between your home state and Ty's alma mater.

So let's say DeVries leaves West Virginia.

Don't love it.

What is the percentage of that?

And also, who would West Virginia hire then?

So now we're all of a sudden, what, behind on the coaching hiring cycle

and we're jobbed by the NCAA.

Where's West Virginia basketball stand in all this?

Thank you. behind on the coaching hiring cycle and were jobbed by the NCAA.
Where's West Virginia basketball stand in all this? So I think West Virginia basketball is going to be fine. They just ran a coaching search last year.
Those pools are there. Ren Baker, the athletic worker, has a background in basketball, which is pretty rare in modern college athletics.
Most of these guys come through business or football. He came up with it as a basketball manager, was actually basketball coach so he ran a full search last year i you know i think they'd be able to go and go uh and go pretty fast quite frankly because they've likely spoken to you know within the last 11 months everybody who would be at the forefront of their list so i wouldn't think it would take much time to uh to flip that and look like you know there's a you know everybody's is going to want the Alabama job, the Cowboy job.
Indiana's one of those jobs. So I don't think it's an indictment on West Virginia.
They've certainly been aggressive in trying to keep him, Pat. I just think that sometimes when you get called up, you've got to go.
So we'll see in the near future where Indiana turns. All right, we appreciate you, ladies and gentlemen.
The authority, Pete Thamel. Have a great March for Madness.
Called up. Get called up to Iowa.
You got to go. He was talking about Indiana.
Oh, I thought he meant both of them. No, he said Indiana.
Indiana. They're both in the same.
He said Indiana's like Alabama Cowboys is what he said. So, I mean, I do understand because these people in this state, like if I didn't live in Indiana and I didn't marry into a Hoosier family, Indiana Hoosiers family, I don't think I would fully understand.
These fuckers love the Indiana Ho hoosier basketball team it's a big deal which is why it has been such a heartbreaker for so long which is why it gets so loud because they haven't been good these people the parent the fodders and the fodders fodders and the mothers and the mutters mutters uh they came up with bob knight. Like, they have a Basketball Hall of Fame here.
Bob Knight was obviously here. The Hoosier Stripes, I mean, and you're talking about basketball.
You know, the high school basketball here, thousands and thousands in gyms around here. The high school state tournament, very, very big deal.
Like, they love hoops here. Before Peyton Manning got here, this was hoops and racing town in a hoops and racing state fully fully we like racing we like the indy 500 obviously we got hundreds of thousands of people coming here all the teams are basically hubbed here this is the home for an entire race league pretty much we love it here take care of them here uh and then also hoops we love hoops here we got We got the Hall of Fame here.
We got the Hoosiers here. The Pacers.
You know, when Reggie was going on, everything. It's like hoop state, which is why Signetti being able to win is pretty mind-boggling, to be honest.
So cool. That has never been even a thought that the Indiana football team was going to be good.
And nobody cared. Like, nobody.
It was like, ah, football team, yeah.

Yeah, you're right.

A couple hundred people.

Yeah, it was like, is our basketball team good or not?

Like, that was the.

When did Bob Knight leave Indiana?

For real.

That's like, he set the stage.

He set the foundation, I feel like.

Obviously, the movie Hoosiers back in the day. I don't know.

Have young kids seen Hoosiers, though?

Do they even know about it?

They know about it, yes.

And every kid in Indiana has a.

Oh, yeah.

Every single one of them.

It doesn't matter what they're built like, what they look like, how many sports they

play.

Have a good day. know about it they know about it yes and every kid in indiana has a uh oh yeah every single one of them every it doesn't matter what they're built like what they look like how many sports they play have an ability to shoot a ball you'll just learn that you go to an l.a fitness or something you'll see some bum looking kid and then he gets a ball in the corner and that thing's gonna go in somehow and it's like oh it's indiana everybody here can shoot joining us now is a man who knows more about hoops than we do and we'll ask him about everything that the authority Pete Dammel just said.
Ladies and gentlemen, front of the program now at this point, you know? I think we can say that. From ESPN's college basketball analysis, former coach in the ACC long time, Coach Seth Greenberg.
Yeah, Coach! What's up, boys? Good time of the year now. It is active time of the year.
I saw you on TV last night on a college game night. You guys were pulling different categories and spinning a wheel and giving takes with Zooming.
I saw you on Get Up This Morning, which leads me to this. For those that didn't see this man on Get Up This Morning, this was said.
So it's a fascinating thought from Patino. And here's my uncle Seth, Seth Green relation with thoughts on that you know seth we live in a world where the um where football drove conferences to do all sorts of things that made a lot of sense for financial reasons and positively no sense for any other reasons basketball on some level i guess we could say was something of a casual of that.
What do you make of the idea? He said the words in basketball. What do you make of the idea of something like the ACC and Big East forming a conference together in basketball? I think it makes sense.
Two years ago, I had a conversation with the people in the ACC office and exactly said that to them. They got to get back to to the roots.
The ACC was built on college basketball. I understand the money is in the football side of it.
But you know what? You could create a super conference, the best conference in all of college basketball. You've got to give these schools the resources.
But you know what? Merging the ACC and the Big East, think about the matchups you would have. They wouldn't be games.
They'd be events. You'd get back to the old school rivalries of the old Big East,

but then you'd bring in some new rivalries like a Connecticut against North Carolina,

a Connecticut against Duke.

To me, it makes sense.

You've got to find a way to make it happen.

And like Chip Kelly said this a couple months ago,

he said what college athletics needs to do, and this made a lot of sense,

regionalize everything else but football. If you regionalize everything else but football, to me, that's a win for everyone.
Okay, Seth, you're the first person we're hearing it from the basketball world. Obviously, we heard it from Chip in the football world.
How likely is that to happen? Because the Big East still existing, whenever the Big East football kind of got rid of, kind of leads me to think there is precedent for basketball being able to make their own decisions do you think that's ever possible with the ACC Big East for basketball because the more you talk about it and when Patino mentioned it yesterday to us that was the first time I had heard of it and then my brain did the same thing you did we got UNC and UConn happening at Madison Square Garden we got Duke taking on St. John's and like the the matchups are very strict.
What is the likelihood of that happening? How slow does basketball move versus kind of football, Seth? Basketball can move real quickly. The problem is the football element.
The football is the one that moves slowly because all these TV contracts are tied into football. So, Pat, you've got a good voice.
You can make this happen sooner than later. I mean, if you can get behind this, I mean, you could be like the guy behind changing the world of college athletics yeah just by saying wait a second regional lives hoops and all the non-revenue sports obviously hoops not the non-revenue and then let's take football put it on its own island because you know you could play one football game a week and travel across country you can't like look i'm not the smartest guy in the world but like Stanford and Cal and the ACC, I didn't take geography at Fairleigh Dickinson, Harvard on the Hackensack, but they're not in the ACC.
I'm sorry. And you've got UCLA and USC going and playing Big Ten games.
Come on, man. I mean, it just doesn't make sense.
So like, we've got to use common sense. And then for the ACC, first of all, I don't know how they didn't bring UConn in when they did expansion.
Stanford, Cal, UConn. Like, which one would you guys pick? Okay.
I mean, that doesn't make any sense, but to me, the ACC's got to get back to some way it's true. So they got four teams in the NCAA tournament this year.
That's like sacrilegious. You think about ACC basketball, you think about the best teams and great rivalries and great programs why not find a way to adopt partner with or whatever you might want to call it the biggies create this mega basketball conference have all this inventory share your your revenue share obviously football money's going to be taken out of it and create something different and special.
And think outside the box. Okay, so my question for you would be this.
We talked to Pitino later in that conversation. He talked about how St.
John's doesn't have a football team, so the revenue share thing is going to be a lot to basketball and it's going to be a lot to these other sports. Do you think the ACC will ever be able to keep up with, like the Big Ten has a lot of money, okay? They have a lot of money.
And they're putting it into football. I assume they're putting it into basketball and will only continue to do so.
The SEC is putting a lot of investment into its basketball. We talked to Greg Sankey yesterday, and he's like, there was a mission statement sent out that we need to be better at men's basketball.
And they all kind of took it here to it. And now they're record-breaking with the amount of teams they they get in the tournament will the acc ever be able to keep up with everybody else now i'm not saying big east is underhanded or anything like that but yukon all the money's probably going to be going to basketball as well st john's same exact thing the acc they still got to compete against their football teams right whenever it comes to the revenue share do they have enough nil and money to be able to keep up with everybody else for the state of basketball do you think i think they have the money well are they willing to spend the money they're willing to make the investment like you know perhaps like anything else your investment equals your expectation if you want to be good at something all right whether it's in a work or whether it's in in athletics you've got to invest in it man like you want to keep on changing coaches great you're going to hire another coach don't give him the resources and you're going to have the same result.
Like, stupid people do the same things over and over and over again. Smart people, you know what they do? They look at things through a different prism and say, you know what? If we want to be good, we've got to make a change.
And how we're going to do it, we've got to invest. Invest in infrastructure, invest in coaches, and invest in NIL.
Because without that, I don't care how good that coach is. that you don't have the resources you're not with rick patino he's got rapoli he's got the water vitamin man running around hanging out you're dropping hundred dollar bills come on man i mean like you know you i'd be a better recruiter i'd be a much better coach if i had a dude like that hanging on with me like hey let's go that dude's pretty good can we get him all right let's go let's get it done yeah that's good recruiting i think that's good tool but it's needed now you know like it is a necessity and i do wonder with some schools that are like historic if their boosters and their money people are going to understand that they need to pitch in it's not just name anymore it is uh it is a lot that has to go into a lot of commitment i um that acc big east thing would be so cool yeah that would be for basketball reasons that would be insane hopefully they're able to get it done sounds like you should maybe be a commissioner this entire thing aj has a question for you coach coach when you look at this year the bracket obviously we're entering a great time a great time for you obviously it's fun to listen to you on TV.
When you look at this, what games in this first round are you pointing out that you want to watch that you think some fireworks might have? Not maybe a big upset, but maybe some exciting games that people may not be thinking about. You're the one person who enjoys listening to me, so I appreciate that.
I do as well. We all do.
We all do. There's five of us.
I think I appreciate that. You and my kids.
You've got Oklahoma's a fascinating game. Obviously, you've got two-time defending champions.
Obviously, you have Danny. The one thing they struggle defending is the perimeter.
And Jeremiah Fierce is a bad dude. He reminds me of Kyrie Irving.
I mean, he can break people's ankles and get in the lane. They play three guards, which is going to, even though they're undersized, will put a lot of pressure on the defense, perimeter defense of UConn.
I think that game is a really interesting game to watch just in terms of, you know, Danny's going to be able to score. It's whether they can stop him.
And then, like, even right below that, Colorado State-Memphis, you know, a lot of money's on Memphis, actually. I guess Memphis is being favored.
Neat Clifford is a bad dude as well he's 6'6 they play him all over the floor Colorado State is really really efficient offensively they assist on about 60 percent of their field goals but more importantly it's just spacing and how they share the ball and play through this guy Memphis Penny's done a really good job with this team Tyrese Hunter one of his players a lot of injuries in NCAA tournament this year. He did not play in the conference tournament championship game.

They need his leadership.

But there's a dude on Memphis, P.J. Haggerty.

He is a stud.

About 22 points a game, about eight rebounds, five assists.

Goes to the line about five times a game.

Like, that dude is really different.

He'll be a fun guy to watch.

There are so many good matches. How about the conspiracy? I'm going to, do you guys, you guys buy into conspiracies? Oh yeah.
Bubba Cunningham screwed over West Virginia. Yeah, Seth, we're in on it.
I think about birds. You're all in on it.
Like, by the way, you know what a lob is? I'll tell you the lob, you know, West Virginia got beat by the lob, not getting in the tournament the tournament okay that's wins above the bubble you see look quickly on west virginia b you can spin that stuff any bitch way you want it you can say the nets most important because that wins against the field are most important you can say quad one wins are most important we need one way to evaluate teams for the ncaa tournament because every single person in the room has their own opinion. And look, I know Bubba, I think he's a really good guy.
But, you know, walking out of the room and saying he's not in a room when they're discussing Carolina, that's great. Breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
Drinks after. I mean, and it's not like something that they would say, you've got to vote for us.
It would be more like, here's our leader.

He's our fearless leader.

He's the head of the committee.

How can we leave his squad out?

And you know what they did was,

the team you guys should really be complaining about is Xavier.

Xavier's 1-9 in quad one.

Yeah, I mean, so.

Yeah, he's got to stink.

It is what it is.

I mean, you guys won two games without DeVries.

When you win at Kansas and you beat Iowa State, you're good. Iowa State was number three in the country, I believe, at the time.
I don't want to get you wowed up, Pat. We've already done enough.
The governor's handling it, Seth. The governor's handling it all.
Just wants a little bit more transparency, but it does feel like we have a lot of good matchups. It does feel like there's a lot of good storylines, which leads to AP Tone's question for you, Coach.
Yeah, Coach, I wanted to ask it because I saw this floating around the internet that this is one of the best tournaments ever, if not the best tournament ever, and they were using Ken Palm's rankings. And if people don't know, Ken Palm is a website that basically calculates offense and defensive efficiency and things like that.
It has four of the top six teams all time in his rankings with Duke, Florida, Houston, and Auburn. So is this accurate that this could be or is one of the best tournament fields of all time? Yeah, it could because it's older.
Think about the ages of these guys. I mean, a lot of these teams, you know, Mike Bray used to have to say, get old and stay old.
Like you you've got, like, Chad Baker-Mazzara would be, like,

the oldest guy on the Oklahoma City Thunder.

I mean, like, you look at Auburn's team.

There's fifth and sixth year seniors on all these teams.

So these teams are older, they're more mature, they're more physical.

And, like, the SEC, that Final Four at the SEC Championship in Nashville,

that will be as good, if not better, than the Final Four we're going to get in San Antonio. That's how good it was.
So like the teams you mentioned. I love that.
SEC, SBN, Seth Greenberg. No, no, no.
Hey, hey, hey. Now, here's the deal, Pat.
Everyone thinks I'm a homer for like John Calipari, which is my conspiracy thing. Calipari self to play Rick Pitino.
Imagine if it's Calipari and Pitino. That's the all-time conspiracy game humanly possible.
The gobble ghoul. Yeah.
Some people say I hate Duke. Some people say I hate Carolina.
So I'm in pretty good shape because I hate both Duke and Carolina, and they hate each other. So that puts me in a good place.
Yeah. The enemy of your enemy is your friend.
It seems like they both hate you. Maybe that'll be something that can rally them together.
The enemy of your enemy is your friend it seems like they both hate you maybe that'll be something that can rally them together the enemy of your enemies are your friend i like that i might have to steal i didn't create that no no do not give me credit that has been that has been around a long time i believe in political warfare it is something that has chit-chat a lot and uh i see it about me a lot you know people come together around hating me so that is a cool thing in my mentions but duke and north carolina completely opposite ends the here, right? This Duke team's supposed to be the one. They're saying this is, even the books are saying very good odds here.
This Duke team, everybody seemingly believes, you know, like they are primed to just, I don't want to say UConn this thing like UConn did, but seemingly being talked that way. I'm going to give you a little secret.
There's another team that's going to UConn this tournament, and that's Florida. Yeah, you've been on Florida.

Oh, I'm on Florida.

Now, like, Duke is – look, I love Duke.

Cooper Flick has got to be healthy.

Malik Brown has got to be able to play.

They need that experience in the front court.

If he's out and he's got that shoulder injury,

you're talking about an experienced player that can defend,

four and five, terrific passer, always in the right place, made a couple threes against Carolina.

I mean, but Florida, you know, I joke around. They're Noah's Ark.
They got two of everything. I mean, they got two 6'11 big guys.
Chinualu. Just blocks every shot, carves out space, rebounds the ball, finishes, blocks shots, does everything you need.
They bring hand-logged in off the bench. Walter Clayton is the best guard in the tournament.

We want to go deeper into the conspiracy.

If Florida gets to the

Elite Eight and St. John's

gets to the Elite Eight, that's Rick Pitino

against Florida. Oh, by the way,

Walter Clayton played for Rick

Pitino at Iona. You see, everything goes back

to the conspiracy. Yeah, and $1,100

bucks, I believe, is what was offered by Iona.

Yeah, $1,100 bucks.

And a couple t-shirts.

And a chance to be coached by Rick Pitino, who, after

I don't know. to the conspiracy.
Yeah, and $1,100 bucks, I believe, is what was offered by Iowa. Yeah, $1,100 bucks.

Yeah, to count her. And a couple of t-shirts.

And a chance to be coached by Rick Bettina,

who after talking to him yesterday,

we'd like to talk to him more.

Woo!

A cerebral dude.

Yeah.

A lot of paisans in this college basketball.

A lot of Jewish coaches of America, too.

By the way, the Jewish coaches have taken a...

I'm glad you brought that up, Pat.

We only have...

The Jewish guys only have three to four coaches

on the number one line. That's all.
It's no big thing. Yeah, but I heard.
I might make a comeback. Not a bad idea, especially if you get a little pulley in your corner like you talked about.
I saw that account, Jewish Coaches of America. Is that the? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
JCA. Yeah, I saw that picture.
We can make you an honorary member now. I mean, if you'd like.
Ooh, Mazel, Shalom. I mean, you know, we could have a – I'm not a good enough coach.

I don't have the patience in there.

But I did appreciate the fact, you know, I was like, we got to stick together.

And then I wonder if the Italians were like, yeah, we'll meet,

but we ain't fucking show anybody.

That's a little bit of the difference here.

I do respect and appreciate all of that.

Conman has a question for you, coach.

Yeah, coach, what do you think is the most important aspect when it comes to one singular part of the game to make a run in March? You know, Rick Pitino mentioned yesterday, you know, you need some luck, or maybe that was Izzo, but either way, they mentioned, you know, luck. You need some of that during March, especially, you know, the ball bouncing one way or the other, but is it shooting? Is it defense? Is it kind of, you of you know getting a specific possession correctly what do you think is the most important thing when it comes to making a run to the final four besides having dudes uh you need a guy at the end of the game you can give the ball to who can go make a play because there's a more level playing so all the teams in the tournament expect to win and all the teams in tournament uh have won a ton of games when you get you know past the first round and i think you need a guy at the end of the shot clock or at the end of the game to give the ball to to go make a play now the the thing that complements that is do you have a style of play that's different difficult to prepare for the second day of the tournament whether it's the second day the first round the second day going to the final four and second day in in the championship game because styles make fights and if you have a style of play that's hard to prepare for in a short period of time that's an advantage it's a huge advantage so i'd say style of play imposing your identity on the game no different in football and and then the other thing is having a dude like like do you have a guy at the end of the shot clock you can give that ball to? Play breaks down, and he goes and makes a play.
Do you have a Patrick Mahomes? These are all the stories we were just talking about from previous March Madness. That Doug Eder kid came out of nowhere.
He was a guy. Henderson was a guy out of nowhere.
Burns. How about the kid in Oakland last year? Golki.
we talked about him as well. Yeah, it's like those are the dudes that you're talking about.
Yeah, you got to have a closer. And that's how we find out and learn about these schools and these players.
And then we never talk about them ever again. Yeah.
It's kind of a wonderful time. It's so much fun.
It is a wonderful time. Things that will be talked about is if somebody big goes down early.
What a bummer. Ty, there's a question for you.
Yeah, Coach, when you look at all of the national title contenders going into this, which one of them do you think got the worst draw and is most susceptible to upset within the first couple days of the tournament? The overall number one seed got screwed. I mean, you can't explain it any way.
I mean, Auburn, now look, they lost three the last four, but they're overall number one seed. I mean, they're going to have to play Michigan to advance.
Now, Michigan just won the Big Ten tournament. Michigan's got two 6'11", 7-foot guys, and Golden and Danny Wolf.
All right, Danny Wolf, he's a lottery pick. He's a homeless Larry Bird in a lot of ways.
I mean, your offense through him. The guy is really, really different.
They put those two guys in a ball screen together, and it becomes an absolute problem in terms of how you're going to guard it. They got a kid named Trey Donaldson, a point guard who made that big shot against Maryland at the end of the game.
Another conspiracy, by the way, because they could potentially play Auburn and Michigan could play. Now, the Michigan point guard was the Auburn point guard last year.
Conspiracies everywhere. Oh, wait a minute.
What's going on behind the scenes here? I mean, behind the scenes here, but I like this Michigan team. They've got enough guys who can make shots.
They play really fast. Golden gets baskets around the basket.
The kid, Wolf, he really is a matchup problem. The only concern for Michigan,

they get a little loose with the ball, but I think they've got the toughest second-round

game in the tournament.

Even if they win their first game,

they get a Creighton team.

Creighton is good. The big kid

Kalkbrenner, he's like a one-man zone.

They play fast, a really good passing team.

Sneaky defensive team because of

stylistically.

I think Auburn got the toughest one

and I'd say the other toughest one

Thank you. They play fast, a really good passing team, sneaky defensive team because of stylistically.
So I think Auburn got the toughest one. I'd say the other one, toughest one, second would be used to just because Tennessee, they're so hard to play against Tennessee.
They're so physical and tough. That SEC championship game was fun to watch.
Did see your Florida team do what Florida does, though. But I think everybody came away from that game and they're like, Tennessee, real deal.
How do you feel about all these teams that played in conference finals and then they have to turn around and play the earliest? Because I heard there were some coaches and some people that are like, yeah, definitely bummed we didn't win the conference tournament, but also we got an extra five, six days before the big game in the tournament. Is that a common conversation amongst coaches about the conference? It is.
Like, guys want to win championships. You want to win championships.
You know, players want to win championships because probably with NIL, they got bonuses bought into winning championships or advancing even in the conference. Oh, yeah, yeah, good call.
Things are written. Having said that, yeah, I mean, like, especially the guys who play on Sunday, like those five championships that were decided Sunday, if you have a quick turnaround, you go Sunday, Thursday, I mean, you think about football guys are used to routine, you know, what day you're in pads, what day you're out of pads.
Well, so is basketball. So you get back on Sunday after your championship game.
You find out who you're playing. You have a team meeting.
Your coaches scatter because you're in a 14 bracket basically you're not worrying about a 68 team field you're worrying about the four teams in your bracket all right your assistant coaches are scurrying around putting together scatter reports your video guy's losing his brain all right and you're locked in but then monday is film concept work tuesday you're on a plane probably if you're playing th going to your site so Tuesday you practice at home Thursday Tuesday afternoon you probably fly into the site you get there you have dinner you do film again Wednesday you got that practice on your site Thursday you're hooping so like in recovery time uh it's it's real especially if you're going sent to the west coast yeah long flight you get sent to the west coast it changes it changes a lot like i mean you know there are a lot of interesting teams going to the west coast i mean in the west uconn's got to go cross country they lost early you know florida played on sunday i'm not sure exactly what day they're playing their first game so you know those things come into play but i do think that we're so much more aware of taking care of players in terms of hydration, rest, load management. Not load management.
Load management in college is recovery days. Like, Jay Wright started the recovery day, or at least talking about it, which means basically recovery days is walkthrough, skill work, shooting, weights, and ice bath.
And he started that. He was really big into that.
And he was one of the first guys. My daughter played volleyball at Villanova.
And Jay's a dear, dear friend. So I'd go watch him practice all the time.
And he is amazing on nutrition. Like, those guys in their meals, like, breakfast, lunch, and dinner don't need to put any crap in their bodies.
Yeah, it'd be nice to be jacked and rocked up. It'd be super jacked over here.
It'd be nice too. Unfortunately, this body's beyond repair.
No, no, I think you got a chance. I think especially, hey, the head looks very round.
It does. It's like a dome.
The dome is in good shape. Yeah, it is.
Put a little dust on the dome and send me out. Let me talk about ball..
We appreciate the fact that you were teaching us a lot about this year's particular ball. Now, with that being said, AJ has the last question for you, Coach.
Coach, we hear about a team like BYU that relies on the three so much. Do teams like this, other than BYU, but teams around this tournament that rely on the three ball so much, do they worry you possibly if they go cold for a game or two they get knocked out yeah i mean 100 but at the byu it's not just they're shooting threes it's how they get them they get them with their spacing they get them with step up ball screens they get them with shallow cuts and slot drives and kick outs and they put you in rotation so it's how they get them but that's who they are like here's.
We're like, who are you and how do you win? I don't care what sport you play. Like, who are you and how? If you can impose that identity, and all of a sudden, now, like, if you're a really great transition team, what does that do to your defense? All right? You're not sending as many guys to the offensive glass.
Because if you send a bunch of guys to the offensive glass, then you can't set your defense, people in transition, and they're're getting the shots you want. So, like, teams like that, there's a residual effect of that playing style that is interesting.
Like, shooting all those threes, what does that create? Long rebounds. All right? So now we're used to, like, hitting and going rebounding the ball.
Now you're hitting, and that thing might be flying over the top of your head. So imposing identity on the game.
So, you know, like Ryan plays them he's my former assistant he's the coach of vcu like we spent a bunch of time yesterday talking about how they're going to defend the ball screens how much pressure they can put on and then making sure they cover what i we used to call the elbows in the blocks the guards have to come back and rebound instead of leaking out those guards you can test the shot you got to come back and get ready to help rebound the ball. Most of those rebounds are going to come either off the corners or back.
If you can impose your identity on the game, even though you're not making a ton, you've got to make some. Cal Perry had a great line.
You don't have to make them all, but you can't miss them all. Some of those three-point shooting teams, they go ice cold.
saying that from, like, watching West Virginia for a while. West Virginia for a while, there was a three-point shooting team.
And boy, when they were falling, you knew early. You knew, like, in the first five minutes what the night was going to be like.
Electrifying and then whenever it was a miss, it was like, this one's going to be a grind. And then, inevitably, that was their fate.
Always, they would get cold. Now, they'd make it a long way, but they would get cold on the wrong night.
And then the other team would be able to just kind of make most of it west virginia is in the topic of discussion right now coach devries can you tell me about him and uh is indiana one of those jobs we live here in indiana we understand how the people feel about hoosiers into basketball and basketball as a whole is that one of those jobs where devries uh like coaches dream if he If he gets it, he's got to take it. Okay.
That's how you feel. If he gets it, he's got to get the Iowa thing.
I'm not so sure because it's almost a rebuild, but Indiana, you've got a built-in base of recruiting opportunity. I'm sure the money would be great, but let me tell you this along with that.
And you guys know, cause you guys are right there. The static around the program is ridiculous.
You don't answer to just alumni. You answer to the whole state.
You're giving yourself over to the state. That's basically what you're doing.
Because people in Indiana, they all think that they invented the game and they understand basketball. Everyone is coaching your team along with and like does he want to deal with that uh but the opportunity to get better uh quicker with the look they had big time nil but they just swung and missed you know you got like if you go down you better get winning dudes like you got to get winning fight this whole thing about collecting talent you got a roster construction and putting together a team team is as important as the number of great players.
Because if players don't fit, it is what it is. Coach, they want to see this, Coach.
Coach, Coach, they want to see this right here. That's what they want to see.
That's what they want to see. That is what they want.
That is legitimately what they want. And need to be able to make big shots.
But we're moving the ball. We are.
And we are. Yeah.
And next time around. Motion offense.
We are right back into this thing. And it's like, that is how the Indiana folks.
You're talking about everybody in Indiana thinks they think they invented basketball. They know basketball.
That's because they pay attention. And it's like, this is how we play basketball here.
And you talked about collecting talent and building a roster. That is not just in basketball.'s in football as well how important is a culture man it feels like we really get to see culture here during this march madness as well right because adversity's coming and then how can he continue to go how important is that culture in basketball because i outside looking in have never been in a basketball locker room or a basketball team setting it seems like to me it's like's like, we just got to keep the two guys happy.
And then everything else is good. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I tell you, you've been in a lot. All you guys have been in locker rooms.
Of course. Let me ask you a question.
You're only as good as your locker. Yes or no? Yes.
You got a crappy locker room. You got no shot.
Agreed. Right.
So like you're only as good as your locker room. So culture.
And that's why Florida, what they've done is they've gone into portland got multi-year portal guys so it's not a six six month rental so now they they develop an identity they develop a culture they have an investment but yeah i mean like you're only as good as your locker room you have a bad locker room like that tennessee team they got a great locker room because there's a kai ziegler made shock and they coached their locker room if you don't have a dude coaching your room, it's like the meeting after the meeting. Let me ask you this, Pat.
You give speeches, I'm sure, places, and then you do your thing. Absolutely.
And then everyone gets up, claps, wonderful, they go to the bathroom, and they either say like that, Pat and Axby, he's full of crap, or they say like, damn, holy mackerel, that was awesome. And here's the deal.
That's no different than you speak to your team at the end of practice, and say like X, Y, and Z. And those dudes go back in the locker room.
And they say, or maybe you gave them a real hard practice. And you were like up their ass really, really hard and challenging them and pushing them.
And like, you know, you get the wrong guy walking back in the locker room. Coach, man, he's full of it, man.
What's he talking about? We're practicing too hard. I mean, what does he expect from us? And then, exactly, it blows up.
So like, you you've got to have locker room, man. I mean, like, it's not just one.
You've got to have a voice in the locker room that one of those guys goes sideways. He snatches that guy.
Like, one of your guys, Sam Clancy, played for me at Pitt. Of course.
Absolutely love Sam Clancy. First year at Pitt, we have a good team, a little disjointed, and we lost a couple games, and we had a couple guys going to sack.
I literally said, Sam, that's you, man. You're the biggest, baddest dude.
That's you. True story.
Next day, I'm walking in the chains for practice. 100%.
Sam's got, I'm not going to mention your kid's name. He's got some dude up against the wall.
Nice. Like he's on a hanger, and he was saying, like, this is my last time, man.
I want to play in the NCAA tournament. Get your crap right.
That's awesome. And I'll tell you, we were pretty good after that.
Yeah, I can imagine. Sam Clancy was a yinzer, it sounds like.
What a dog. I love that.
And what you're saying about talking to players and policing their locker room, we do a lot of that on this particular show, and it's pissed off some people in some locker rooms because there's some traits that maybe happen for some teams it's like hey you can draft good players you can coach good players but the players gotta they gotta control what the expectations are and the standard is yep i love to hear that that's also in basketball hey you're the man thank you for joining us today and we can't wait to talk Thanks, guys. Appreciate you guys.
You got it, man. Enjoy the games.
We will. Hey, who's winning tonight?

Who's winning tonight? Alabama State and St. Louis.
I'll tell you, here's the deal. As crazy as it is, I'm going to give you two seconds.
Carolina's going to win this game. They can beat Ole Miss because, you know what, here's the deal.
They shouldn't have been in. That's just my opinion.
1-12 is not good enough. But But yet when the tournament starts, they are good enough to win this game against San Diego State who struggles scoring, but is great defensively.
And because Ole Miss doesn't have a legitimate big day, they're going to have a shot at Ole Miss who I really like because they don't turn it over. And Chris Beard is an absolutely great dude.
But to me, they don't have a bad draw to win a couple of games. He's a dog.
He's a great coach. We appreciate the hell out of you,

ladies and gentlemen. Coach Seth Greenberg.

Yeah, coach!

I think he was treated unfairly in that whole thing.

Yeah. There was no response

to that whole thing. Did you hear him

give a response to somebody

that said some pundit

or somebody said that his team was fraudulent? I did see that. And the next person asked a question.
He goes, that's a good question. Let me get back to this real quick.
And he rattles off. I'm like, that was fucking epic.
I got a chance to watch Chris Beard work down there in Texas. His boys ride for him, man.
I mean, that is just his assistant coaches, his players, they ride for him man i mean that is just his assistant coaches his players they ride for him and uh he he really much like that's his style too like hey let's go do this he's got a lot of moxie he goes old miss all of a sudden now they're back in the conversation it's like that was kind of how it was going to go i think no matter where it happened and how it ended at texas was very loud at one half and then nothing ever exactly on the other side and then you know kind of fucked up but that's the world that we live in right and then now he's got the guys rolling in this time yeah i mean texas you would assume still has uh some beard in it because they're you know in the tournament again i believe or they're in a playing game one of the other two but are they top five whenever he was there yeah yeah they're very good somebody just tell seth what coincidence or sorry yeah but what coincidence means because i think a lot of his conspiracies are coincidences yeah because i thought he was saying conspiracy because he talks like he likes those teams and like espn is deciding things so i think he i thought he was talking about that then he could sit like continued to say it yeah like a considerable amount this guy played for this team last year. That's a conspiracy.
No, no, no, Seth, that's a coincidence. Yeah, but was he meaning like they took all the information over here? Yeah, or I thought he means like, hey, no, the TV people want these people.
They know these are good matchups. So they're going to try to do whatever they can to get these matchups.
So it's best for TV.

So he goes, conspiracy, this guy played here.

That's what I took it at.

Okay.

Hey, thank you for that.

That makes more sense.

Thank you for that.

Oh, that's why the Calipari and Patino.

Yeah, because while we were here and he was on the full screen,

we were all going, what the – does he know?

TV conspiracy.

It is.

Ratings conspiracy.

Because he hears it just like the college basketball pundits and media people hear it just as much i assume as the college football people do like kirk herbstreit there was the one deciding who was playing where remember and he was getting murdered for the entire i assume seth gets a lot of heat because he's part of that college game day show okay Okay. Yeah.
It is a lot of conspiracies now that I think about it.

College basketball might have more of them than college football.

Yeah.

Hey, Governor Morrissey.

Look into that, too.

He will.

He already is.

He's getting to the bottom of that.

Part of it.

You know, that is something that we need to take place.

Okay.

AJ, you need to give us an update because there's a new update.

It's a new day on Aaron Rodgers.

He's basically waiting out the Minnesota Vikings to tell them what they want want to do they're trying to figure out what they want to do that's the newest report uh from Scoopage uh Scoop City with Diana Rossini and Chase Daniels obviously Diana Rossini an insider uh with The Athletic so this is another day this is another piece of information you know a week ago it was he's either going to the Giants or the Steelers uh he's holding them hostage now it's like well the vikings now in the game but at one point it was the vikings aren't in the game now they're the game so it feels like a lot of uh hail mares yeah six a lot of maybe that's the case but that also could be because a lot of people are getting a lot of different information, and a lot of people could have the information.

Now, speaking of having information, you're probably the only one that's got it.

What's happening, and what should we look into at this point with Aaron Rodgers?

Well, I mean, so first off, I have not reached out.

I figure he'll reach out if he wants to talk about this whole situation with me,

but I go back to what I said yesterday.

What could he possibly be doing?

Obviously, he's got multiple teams that want him to come in.

There's spots open, but I just don't know with the whole Vikings situation,

if that's truly a thing, wouldn't they say something if it was not a thing?

They'd come out and say, J.J. is our guy.

That's all I can think.

They could also say, we're not your puppet.

We're not answering every single – I mean, there's just –

Yeah.

I don't think anybody has a clue.

They want to show faith in their guy that they can stand up and say,

hey, no, JJ's our guy.

We're not going after.

I like AJ saying, yeah, it's on the Vikings.

That's what we like.

Cam Hayward said, you either play for the Steelers or you don't, Bob.

It's getting loud.

But that's football, baby.

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Yeah, anytime Connor has to squeeze out a poop in one of the breaks, usually it's not a quick shot, hey, let's get off this thing. He dropped an absolute nuke in there, and I was thinking he might be gone for 10, 15 he was sprinting as the countdown was happening he was sprinting across this basketball court and sat down literally at the exact time that the camera came on that was wonderful timing by you your bladder and your butt i think you should be pretty proud of yourself sometimes things just line up for me you know and it seems as though during that break it did and you know i i was worried deep down maybe maybe i was going to come back to you guys talking up here and I was going to have to take that walk of shame.
But, you know, some things just work out. Yeah, especially when you dress that good.
AJ, do you see this fit on this man? This is the best outfit he's ever worn. Yeah, can we see the pants? Is that a matching jumpsuit you're wearing? No, no, no.
This is a sweatshirt from a certain company. These shoes don't really fit they're free so i as i wear them he wears a half size too small shoe yeah yeah every day stay light on my feet it's helped my ping pong game actually yeah ping pong is a good battle every day you and foxy have been certainly jousting over there but he dressed good today and i think that's why the gods you know kind of blessed you with a moment there to make it back in time was hoping very very much though for a walk of shit yeah yeah i was ready for it as i was exiting the bathroom i was like okay let's just see you know where we're at because i didn't hear anybody talking out here i figured we were somewhere close to the show to the program there's a nice little social gathering that happens during the break oh yeah that's awesome quick sprint to the bathroom that nice conversation about everything going on did he say a little bit of that hey i just checked my phone did you know that he said i must have missed that you know some people slip some stuff by us uh fun day today talking about a lot of college basketball have no idea if it was good coverage of college basketball or bad coverage of college basketball but i do know we covered college basketball and uh i feel like we're doing what we're supposed to do in the sports world in the sports media world at this exact time because to be clear when i go home obviously hang out with baby girl hang out with the wife when baby girl goes to bed and we're you know in front of a tv i'm trying to find as much information as i can about this march madness that is all i'm trying to.
So literally at night, I'm thinking to myself, there needs to be more. This is going to take over our entire lives here.
Without a doubt, pumped. Every single year, it takes over everything.
I mean, it's the only thing that's on television, only thing that's being talked about, only headlines, and everybody's paying attention to it. I mean, this is just what it is.
In some years, we go in, and I feel like I'm unprepared. I feel like I have no clue what is happening.
So this year, I thought that we should at least do a little bit of research. Shout out to everybody that's come by and made us smarter.
Bettino, Izzo, fucking Seth Greenberg. I mean, he has been phenomenal in this entire thing.
Yeah, he's incredible, especially when you look at his resume. I feel like sometimes we have people on that maybe are younger in the entire thing.
He coached for 60 years. If anybody knows anything about college basketball, it's him.
And he was excited to come on the show. Very rare.
Very rare. It is nice.
Which is, you know, that's a cool thing. He loves ball.
Seth Greenberg loves ball. And that comes across when you talk to that guy.
He absolutely loves it's all that matters all we need is you tell us the shit we need to look at we respect your brain we like how much you love ball there's some people that obviously think you're wrong sometimes you're on TV but for us what you're saying right now gospel, shout out Florida, won the SEC as soon as he told me it was going to happen he literally was like florida they're gonna do this entire thing the sec best conference by far gave us that information a week beforehand 14 sec teams and the thing break the record it's like man this guy knows by you this team could have a chance to go on the entire run in this it's like everything he has kind of said to us has seen i can't remember all the names as you there's a haggerty somewhere who is uh memphis i believe memphis p PJ Hagerty of Memphis. I can't wait to watch it.
Who is it? Florida? Comparing to Kyrie. I don't know.
Fears. Outside, yeah.
Jeremiah Fears at Oklahoma. Yeah, because he can move now.
He can move. On a string.
Yeah, and UConn, you know, they got a little bit of trouble there because they can't defend the perimeter, I believe is the conversation. Florida's like Noah's Ark, right? Florida's like Noah's Ark.
They got two of everyone. So whenever you see two guys down there, yeah, they got them.
You're not seeing things with your eyes. They got two of everything.
And then Michigan, this team, they got this wolf cat. This guy howls, bro.
Homeless Larry Bird. He'll take it off the glass.
He'll go outside. Lottery pick.
Yeah, I mean, a tough draw, this Auburn team. And then they got this guy, Conspiracy, former, what was it? Clayton we're talking about? Former Florida, former Auburn guard.
Oh, yeah. You're not talking about Clayton down there.
Florida is formerly Iona. There he is.
Tino's guy. Obviously St.
John's. Conspiracy.
Conspiracies. I mean, they're all in the place.
Italians taking each other on. Yeah.
I just learned we listen pretty well. I think so.
I think we always have. I think that is the difference between our particular program.
We are in the moment. You know, we don't have teleprompter questions that are right in front of it.
It's depending on who's on it and what we're talking about. Yeah, I mean, there is a little bit of a distraction that potentially happens.
There has been basketball shots shot on this particular hoop whenever somebody takes up the full screen. Sure.
Sometimes it's like, hey, we've got nothing to talk about. Why don't you come in here? We're going to ask you six, seven questions, and we're going to let you run.
For two weeks. Yep.
Yeah, there's some talkers that come on here. One time you were breaking news during someone's interview.
I forget who was on, but you were actually walking on the gym court trying to find some breaking news for us. Yeah, that's pretty – I mean, there's some magic that takes place behind the scenes here, but there's a lot of doofuses going, I'm bored with this guy.
Are the fans? I assume they are. But we've got to show some respect.
We can't just kick him off in 5-10 minutes. Good person.
Bad day. So let's at least entertain ourselves around here.
But shout out to Seth. We've enjoyed his compost.
Faso booked Les Snead. How about that? He was good.
He was really good. Faso did the connect there.
Really? Yeah. He knew somebody did something, sent a thing.
Now we got to... It's like, thank you.
And the way he speaks, awesome. I mean, that was the parameters of an agreement.
Like that whole... His angle in which he approaches things.
Heavy

lifter in high school, he said?

Yeah. Makes sense.

Yeah, kind of approaches some things.

You don't like the safety bar, man. I know that.

Do you have one at

the house? No, I don't, but

it does kind of take some

strain off your knees and your back if you use that

when you hold on to the front.

There's a use to it, but no,

I love putting the bar on my back. You got to load your spine.
I like that. You're still squatting? Yeah.
Have to. Everybody's scared of losing your cakes.
You know that. Not everybody.
You're the greatest. We've seen the Osempic just take everybody's cheeks.
Just lift. If the people are gonna take it, just lift weights on it.
You're allowed to lift if you take that stuff yeah here's the thing go ahead people uh people who are taking a zempic not real big lifters yeah taking a zempic to not have to really change much but lose weight you know that's kind of why it's the cheat code yeah that is what it's semaglutide well this thing just kind of you do whatever you want yeah and you're just gonna. You're not going to want to eat as much.
You might not feel as good all the time, but yeah, you're going to lose weight quick. I'm talking about 20% of your body weight.
You want to knock off 20% of your body weight? How's that sound? How's a brand new life? A lot. But it does make you lose your butt cheeks and everything else.
You know, you kind of start looking. You can't, not everybody, but it seems like one of the side effects of the Ozempic that is not being chatted about is you kind of start looking but you can't not everybody but it seems like one of the side effects of the ozempic that is not being chatted about is you kind of look like your body just kind of you know starts kind of with it because i think it attacks your muscles too i think is like the so you gotta you gotta keep working out you gotta keep working out i agree but i'm happy they figured that out for people yeah legit legit i'm happy that happened because there was people that were just wasting away because they got too heavy and then yeah their discipline maybe not as great but they also maybe they get to a point where they want to change it it's like you're staring down five years of commitment here and it's like too scary too daunting of a task almost so the fact that medicine was able to figure out something to get people back into being, you know, potentially active and living their life again, that's good.
But you're going to lose your cheeks though. You're going to lose your cheeks.
I don't think you should be putting a metal bar on your spine like AJ's doing. Get that safety rack.
I'm definitely good. I realized I put the bar low when I got to the Packers.
I realized like I, when I do squats, I put the bar pretty low on my back, like not right on the top of your neck i really and i guess that's an ohio thing my strength coach like oh yeah it's like uh for some reason kids from ohio do that and is that because you don't want it to be right on the bone at the top yeah i think i was a lower guy too yeah because some people do put it right like right in your spine that bone i'm like i can that mine's like well down much farther down than other guys i never lifted in high school. And then I get to college with Mike Barwis.
Okay. And we're lifting.
Okay. We're lifting.
We're lifting very hard, very rapidly. We're moving a lot of weight.
And it was awesome. Like, it was a fun time.
But like squatting for the first time, like actually, I was in so much pain in front of everybody. Couldn't, couldn't though.
You know, couldn't, my legs very strong, upper body, not that strong, but spine bone, not calloused enough to just have a fucking metal bar just sitting on top of it. So I had to grit and bear through that.
That was like a tough six, seven months of just that thing sitting on there every single time. So I moved that down lower too.
I started doing lower, but then your arms much more important to the entire process. I mean, the we're working together with this thing now because if that fucker slides move you look like the biggest asshole yeah you're a fool of all time there's a happy happy medium that's how you it makes it easier to dump the heavyweights back in the day when you're doing one rep max you dump it you run out from you run out in front and it drops onto the safety rack yeah we never dump it we were never dumping right so we're never doing that hey do Would still max squat no way you know no chance no i'll die what are you doing like 225 for a bunch or i mean depending on how i feel at the moment but 275 for you know a good amount of reps then go up 315 go go heavy if i need to like you know high threes oh yeah you you talked to tim t remember thatbow.
It's not heavy. Remember that? Oh, yeah.
Timmy is so jacked. So jacked, Timmy.
Yeah. We're not lifting for reps.
You're right. As we said, protein.
Yeah, verbatim. In arm is all Tim Tebow's on.
He is so jacked. Yeah.
Is he trying to get into one of those shows, things? Good. He should.
He was in the show for a bit. Remember when he was just hitting dingers in those minor league fields? Yeah, robbing home runs.
He had like 67. That was kind of his downfall.
He robbed too many home runs? No, he was taking headers on fly balls. Cans of corn that he can't really do.
I haven't played in 15 years. He was trying to get back into the sport.
He was under immense spotlight. You know what he should do is he should play the competitive softball because he'd hit it fucking 10,000 feet.
Brother, I did the Oklahoma softball thing? Yeah. Oh, you're talking about slow pitch or fast pitch? Yeah, slow pitch.
Slow pitch like the old dudes are playing, hitting it 7,000 miles an hour on a line. Killing people.
Stu Roenick pitching for the Big Dogs Bar in Plumboro. Sure.
He can throw a knuckler. Yeah, I bet.
He can throw a knuckler. Don't think that ball is just coming up and coming down.
Not for Stu. That thing, ooh, he got a little shake on that thing, a little bit of bake on that thing.
I did a fast pitch thing with those Oklahoma ladies. Oh, yeah, that's impossible.
That's impossible. That's impossible.
No chance. What, dude? That thing started at my shins and then was at my face before it they call it the riser and they say the only way you can beat is you don't swing because it's not going to be a strike but boy the entire time that thing looks like it's coming right in there and then boom right off your face pretty much and this lady i don't remember her name like she transferred in from north carolina i think i'm think.
They were a great team. A lot of moxie on that team.
A lot of moxie. Champions.
A lot of games. Absolutely.
But they were throwing that shit and watching, it just gets there so quick. You know, because it's so fast.
45 feet or whatever. 48 feet, right? Or 45? Yeah, it's shorter.
Obviously very short. But the motion, too, is almost like because mess because you're like baits you you're like watching the motion you know so if you've never seen anything and i was lucky because like punt snaps they kind of throw from under here and they have to find the laces so like i was kind of a little comfortable with but the first couple times i sat in there i'm like i don't know how anybody hits this thing ever and i finally make contact but, but it was shit.
It was absolute shit. Those fast, those are hard.
Those are a, how do MLB guys do against it? Great, I assume. What they do, because the ball is bigger.
So I would assume that would help. Yeah, and I would assume so because those guys, even though it is closer, like your, I mean, they're facing guys like, you know, Skiing's who are throwing like 102.
Like your reaction time still has to be pretty fucking good. College guys though, college dudes struggling with fast pitch.
Like the elite guys, probably not. But I bet a lot of dudes would because it is, you're just not used 45, 48.
Like that is your reaction time has to be so quick. The ball movement was insane though.
That thing was like, and I think cause it's bigger, more surface area can actually potentially a little bit more right a little bit more movement on that thing you know but it looks very good until about right here and then it's and if you do square one of those up like you're hitting homer because the the fields are you know 200 feet around so it's like if you make good contact you're you're giving it a ride it's a great sport uh i enjoyed it it was electric and they pack stadium out there. Oh, yeah.
So I assume the environment is one. And that's always something that happens.
You know, Omaha takes place, then the softball one happens. And we watch it for like two weeks or a week or whatever.
And we're like, that's electrifying. And then we move on.
And then I step in a batter's box. And I watch his shit.
I'm like, geez, Luis. Oklahoma's going to win again, I think.
From what I saw, they are reloaded. They got it.
They got it. And Patty Gass will fight you.
Yeah. She's a dog.
Baseball started today. The MLB started its actual season today.
AJ, I don't know if you know that. Ty, what the hell happened in Japan? Yeah, the Tokyo Series.
So the Dodgers and the Cubs played, obviously, Shohei and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. But they also signed Roki Sasaki.
So basically all the best players in Japan play for the Dodgers right now, so it kind of makes sense. Hey, we'll go over a little bit early and kind of start the season this way.
It's a big deal to be able to give back to the people in Japan. It's the first time ever that two Japanese pitchers started an opening day for the MLB because obviously he changed his name because he just wants to go by Mike.

We had him on the show.

Imanaga for the Cubs was the starting pitcher.

So it is kind of weird because they start.

Just Mike Imanaga?

Yeah.

You don't remember that?

Like Giancarlo Stanton?

Yeah, you don't remember that?

He basically is like, I just want to be one of the guys in the clubhouse, okay? I don't want it to be. So on my nameplate, just fucking call me Mike.
I don't need people messing up my name or anything like that. I love Mike.
Shota Imanaga is a great name. Exactly.
Mike, also a good name. But he was just like, you know what? I kind of like Mike.
So just call me Mike. So Mike Imanaga took on Yamamoto.
Correct. Did he change his name or no? No, he is Yoshinobu Yamamoto Shohei still Shohei Shohei If you're a casual Watcher of baseball Obviously everyone knows about Shohei But he is so fun to watch Because he tries to hit a home He swings so violently Every single time, no matter what.
It's just a run-of-the-mill single, but boy, did he hit the fucking... 500 miles an hour.
Yeah, he hits it so hard. He had a double later.
Imanaga actually threw four innings of no-hit ball, and for whatever reason, the Cubs decided to take him out after 69 pitches. They said, hey, 70 pitches is going to be kind of your mark.

You're going to be done after that.

Of course, they go to the bullpen, and then boom, the Dodgers put up four runs

almost immediately.

They lose the game.

So it was kind of one of those –

Classic Cubs.

Yeah, classic Cubbies, and that's what a lot of people were saying.

Like, you know, awesome that the Cubs could give us our first bonehead decision

of the MLB season so early in Japan.

This guy's there in front of his – you know, he's back home.

I'll be back. You know, awesome that the Cubs could give us our first bonehead decision of the MLB season so early in Japan.
This guy's there in front of his, you know, he's back home. A lot of fans there.
He's pitching unbelievably. He had four walks, so his pitch count was getting up a little bit, but they hadn't got a hit off him.
You know, and then they decide to yank him. And obviously, the Dodgers, right as they yank him, boom, they just fucking attack the bullpen pitcher, the relief pitcher, and put up four runs almost instantly, win the game.
We got another game tomorrow who Roki Sasaki, the other big, like, you know, kind of the next, I won't say the next Shohei, but in terms of like pitching prospects, like he was a guy who every MLB team wanted. He's going to pitch for the Dodgers tomorrow.
So Central America, big for baseball, right? Yes. South America, I assume, as well.
And Japan has had a deep history in the sport of baseball, and they love it. 40,000 people were at the Tokyo Dome.
They said the cheapest ticket in the nosebleeds up there, I think, was anywhere from $3,000 to $5,000. So they said it's impossible to get into the stadium.
But yeah, the fans yeah the fans over there are rapid they love it. What was the number the global audience for Shohei's first playoff? Obviously they win the World Series.
It was yeah insane. Fox reported some absurd do you remember that AJ? Whenever it was like the total audience global audience that was watching because they started companies right 30 yeah 30 million yeah 30 million people watched a baseball game or whatever and they're like uh 10 maybe in america maybe eight in america and then like 20 plus in japan and the times difference was so insane it's like shohei obviously is i mean he's spectacular it is yeah phenomenal to watch this dude, especially the he goes about it like just like this calm confidence and obsession with baseball if you listen to what everybody's saying and remember he was a victim like a very very very huge amount of money was stolen from him by the guy who was his mouth and ears uh and it's supposed to be his tag team partner and like his best friend i would assume and his entire thing robbed him to start his entire career try almost tanked his entire legacy before it even started and all he has done is just remain committed to ball and trying to become his absolute best he goes to the dodgers they have great success his first year they're winning and uh yeah he's one of the boys now it feels.
And baseball, I assume everybody is very thankful in baseball that Joe Hayes playing, but I am as well because I'm intrigued to watch this guy do his thing. Is he ever going to get back to pitching? He's going to pitch this year.
Okay. Which, you know, if you're a Dodgers fan, obviously it's awesome, but because of how special he is at the plate, I do just kind of worry about that because that would be like the one to kind of shorten his career, if he has any arm issues or anything like that.
I mean, he did still hit last year, but if he would need Tommy John because of it or something, he's just so special at the plate. He's the first guy ever last year to hit 50 homers, steal 50 bases.
If he wants to, he could hit 60 homers and steal 60 bases. He's a unicorn, so it's one of those things where their pitching staff is already so good.

They got Blake Snell, who was arguably

one of the top free agent

pitchers. They have Tyler Glass now,

former Pirate. He is also a

stud. He got hurt last year and didn't

play. They are so deep

pitching-wise that they almost don't need...

Could they put him on an alternate rotation?

Like, hey, every two rotations

you're going to get a game?

They probably could do that, but I think

Thank you. wise that they almost don't need.
Could they put him on an alternate rotation? Like, hey, every two rotations you're going to get a game?

They probably could do that, but I think

and he is different, so maybe

it would be different, but I feel like those

guys are such creatures of habit that it'd be

weird. And now maybe if it was set like, hey,

you're going to pitch every 10 days as

opposed to every five days, then it might

work out, but for the most part, those

guys, they just we've never seen that. yeah exactly this guy's awesome he is i love him i love show hey that's why i was so you know bummed out that he was taking advantage of you know and i think a lot of people didn't think it was possible for him to be taking advantage of and then the more that's coming out it's like yeah this guy in jail yes yeah yes he better be and there's a lot of like evidence coming out now about the phone calls and the way he was working and who he was tricking and how it was all happening it's like yeah he he he fucked over shohei otani in a massive massive way and he never right this guy never flinched no i mean you yeah like you said like he he had arguably the best offensive season ever for a player.
Every time they would show him, too, his demeanor, he was always laughing in the dugout, always smiling, always having fun. Whereas a lot of guys, especially you're in a different country, that could really fuck with you.
If he ever needed an excuse to be like, hey, this is why I didn't have a very good season last year. There's a lot of them there.
Yeah, exactly. And what do they do? He wins a World Series and has a season that people will be talking about 50 years from now.
So you got Shohei, then you got Skeens, obviously. Yeah.
And Skeens was named the opening day starter in a video that was released by the Pittsburgh Pirates. And you've got a lot of people going like, yeah, the sky is sometimes blue and everything like that.
But remember last year, he wasn't even on the Buccos at this point. Not too long ago, this dude was pitching for LSU.
And then he was here with the Indianapolis Indians downtown selling this place out. I mean, just everybody was coming to watch the AAA affiliate for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Not that they don't always do it because it's a beautiful stadium. It is a beautiful night out here in Indy.
But, like, you'll get, let's say, 60% full. Every time Skeens was on there, that place was backed out.
Ticket prices were going up 50, 60 bucks, whatever it was. Then he goes right to the Pirates.
Same thing. Must watch television.
He performed wonderfully. Now, it wasn't always good wood whenever he was pitching, so maybe we didn't get all the outcome we needed.
Adds two pitches. Now he's the opening day ace for the Pirates, and he is channel changer worthy.
Without a doubt. And I think a lot of people feel that way.
So you've got Shohei. You've got Skeens.
He's only upped his game, right? Skeens in this entire thing? Yeah, I mean, same deal. He had never faced MLB hitters last year, but when you have stuff like he does, it doesn't matter.
He is another one of those guys where as long as he stays healthy, he's going to be in contention to be a Cy Young every single year. That moment where he gets told that he's starting opening day, that was really sweet.
That's a moment he's dreamed of his his entire life probably he obviously probably knew that that was going to be the case and he's one

of the best pitchers in baseball he damn near won the Cy Young last year as a rookie but just like

being told that like I'm sure that that is something that he'll remember forever too yeah

baseball seemingly has those uh moments you know when guys get called up to the big leagues and

stuff like that yeah yeah starting you know yeah there's how many years till the Yankees snatch

him up though Ty whenever he's of a seven everybody needs relax okay oh it's gonna be they got him for

Thank you. up to the big leagues and stuff like that.
Yeah, starting. How many years till the Yankees snatch him up, though, Ty? Whenever he's of a seven.
Everybody needs to relax. Oh, it's going to be...
They got him for seven years? They got him for a decent amount, yeah. That's a long time.
He's got to be able to opt out, doesn't he? He's a Pittsburgh boy. You see that mustache he's got? He's got a beard now.
He's looking unbelievable got that. He's super calm.
Super duper humble. Like unbelievable humility.
Very chill. Wanted to be a fighter pilot in this entire thing.
Still, I think donates to the military and things like that. He's got a new one.
You see off to the right whenever he gets somebody. Because there's a couple moments where he gets a strike and there's like he times up the – yeah, he's got a couple new little – oh, we're vibing right now.
Pizazz. And he's added two pitches.
And to your point about last year at this point, he had never faced MLB hitters. So now he has like half a season of experience.
Kind of knows how to get guys out, certain guys, like the really good guys. It's like, okay, he doesn't do as well with this pitch, or he doesn't like this area, or I can get him to look on this pitch.
What did he add? What are the two pitches he added? Do we remember what they were? He added two pitches this offseason. I don't know what two pitches, but that's something that's what they say.
When these guys actually get to the big leagues, and you're not doing anything else, else and this is a full-time job like when you have the ability to kind of manipulate the baseball like he does like you know they talked about his splinker that no one else had like but a couple when a guy throws this hard sometimes they don't have to rely as much on off speed pitches but that would be the thing like he'll he'll add a couple plus yeah what were they what were the two pitches cut her and a sinker and a sinker. So that's junk? Is that what that's considered? Like variations of a fastball, but just like that the movement is like, you know, those could potentially be a couple more out pitches because that is one thing like people would start to know like you get down 0-2 and they talked about the splinker all last year.
It's like you kind of understand that that but also like, you know, like Mariano Rivera threw a cutter. So like if he gets guys on base and he wants to jam guys up and try to you know like turn double plays and stuff like that like these are just options where because he he's a strikeout pitcher like and if you want to kind of manage how many pitches he's going to throw in a game because it's one of those things when you're striking out a shitload of guys like they don't want him throwing over 100 pitches every every game like they want him to have some quick innings, so you implement a cutter and a sinker where you're going to induce a lot more ground outs and stuff like that.
That might be what they're thinking. Jeez.
Is the replay going to be live this year? I think I saw some tapping of a helmet or something. No, I was just spring training.
They're not doing it. So no new rules this year? Right.
Just it'd be, yeah, all the same, like pitch clock and all that kind of shit is still instituted. But yeah, not going to the replay for, you know, balls and strikes.
Okay. So are we going to pay attention more to this baseball season? Because the Mets are now the Kings of New York.
They're not. But, you know, hey, they could be.
Season hasn't started yet. Season hasn't started yet.
Broncos will be good, so. What happened to the Yankees? The Yankees are in a bad spot.
I mean, yeah, it hasn't been the greatest spring, to say the least. The big boom curse.
Did you see what the big booms did for somebody else? They did something else. Somebody won a bunch of the big booms.
Oh, who was that? L.A. Kings, six goals straight since they had six big booms.
Yeah, the Rizzler was there for that, though. Well, again, they're just guns for hire, so they can act like they're Yankee fans.
But again, until Aaron Judge batters them to a bloody pulp, whichever one they want to put up for it, that's their call. But no, we'll see.
I mean, I'm... What are you talking about? What do you mean? It's serious business.
I'm a boom fan. We're all big boom fans.
I was. And you know what? I should have known when they went into Texas Roadhouse and did what they did.
I should have known a little bit. True.
Maybe I need to look into these folks a little bit more. The Texas Roadhouse thing was wild.
It made me want to go to Texas Roadhouse to show my allegiance to Texas Roadhouse. I did.
For sure. Yeah, me too.
Me and the wife did as well. Yeah.
Sat right down there at the bar. Hey, I need one of your chilled salads that are unbelievable.
Chicken critters are unbelievable. Fantastic.
The fries, the loaded steak fries. Come on.
The ranch dressing there, better than anywhere else. And then the chicken fried steak.
How you doing? Keep it moving. How many booms? All of the booms.
So we're going to disagree on some things. But they did say that the Yankees, since the booms have happened, has not been great.
What about the World Series performance? We don't have to throw more people under it all, but Ice Cube out in L.A. Okay, today was a good day.
No, no, Fat Joe is certainly to blame. No, I don't think Fat Joe.
He is. He was just showing up for the team, just like Tracy Morgan was last night.
Well, yeah. I hope he's doing okay.
We are happy to report via Tracy morgan's instagram that it was food poisoning and he is a okay okay good that's it he also mentioned he also mentioned um that uh thanks obviously to all the staff and his people for taking care of him and he said hey they're undefeated when i puke on the court so i might need to bring this back in the playoffs and i'll tell you what he's got the knicks onicks on his phone cover. I assume that Tracy Morgan would force himself to puke later if it was an actuality of them being undefeated.

But, yeah, this hit the Internet.

And, obviously, with everything that's happened around Tracy Morgan,

I think a lot of people were like, is he okay?

The Pranors guy right there.

I don't think Bobby Bacala wants to see that again.

Yeah, Bobby goes to every game, though.

Bobby Sheets and shit. He does.
He matches the square guard, Tracy Morgan Morgan puking all over my goddamn shoes. A lot of puke.
These shoes? Yes, these shoes. So it was puke and then there was some blood and I think all of us were just like we hope everything is he okay.
Turns out it was food poisoning and he said he'll be back. Don't you worry about it.
Okay. You need some more puke too.
We'll get it. That was a lot of vomit.
Yeah lot that was crazy that was splashed all over the court too i definitely splashed off that wood yeah and definitely you saw the uh girl sitting two down she had boots on i think but she was even like oh geez because some people get a little oh yeah absolutely reaction whenever they see it yeah this is uh okay yep there it is yep it was a stream it was, get out of my body. You know, there was something in there that was, get me out of here.
Violent. Happy he's okay.
Tracy, we're happy you're okay. Oh yeah, Tracy.
You ever watch his Comedians in Cars getting coffee with Seinfeld? I think I have seen it. He has like a Lambo or a Ferrari or something they pull up at his house.
He's got this gated area

in New York City, I think. Beautiful home.

You go through it, Tracy talking. I love that show.

It was a great show.

It was really good. They also made a tank

for him on that fish tank.

They used to build fish tanks for people. They built a sweet

one for Tracy. Tanked, I think is the name of it.

Yeah, I remember that show.

We've all watched the same things,

but you guys have watched a lot more than me. If I've watched it, I think it means everybody has watched it right.
We've all watched the same things, but you guys have watched more than me.

But if I've watched it, I think it means everybody has watched it.

Do you know that Paul Toodle Jr. and Sr.
built them a chopper as well?

Listen, Orton County choppers, okay?

It's the tunnels.

I know, but that's not the spell.

And you need to have a little bit of respect for the Borns.

I do.

I respect those guys arguably more than anyone else in the United States.

I wanted a chopper as soon as I seen one. I think they put a spider

one out.

Yankees one too. Sweet Yankees bike.

Yeah. You should get one.

They were so fiery. They were.

They were so fire. Junior

was just trying to do his art. I know.

Senior was like, this is my show still.

And it was.

Senior kicking through doors. Kicking through those flimsy

doors in that office. Bro, this chair right here, no, no shot.
This thing's on wheels and grabbable. Paul Donald Senior is going to send this fucker through a window.
He's tired of it too, Junior. He's tired.
I don't have time. What a show to Mikey? Fucking Mikey.
Mikey was such a goober, wasn't he?

Why does Junior look so small now?

He's not a small guy.

Well, this is when he was younger.

Obviously, look at the age of Mike.

We can tell by the hair and the style of Mikey.

Hey, we appreciate what you guys did.

All those Orange County choppers looked like they were very easy to ride.

Comfortable.

Fun.

They need to have him play Hogan in the biopic.

Mikey or senior? Yeah, biopic. The senior.
Oh, okay okay i didn't know mikey they both he can play his son they introduced they introduced me uh to the first ever i believe it's called suicide shift or something like that where it's like an actual gear shift on the bike yeah as opposed to like the uh so frat pitt had one of those i saw him riding around doing that yeah that seems dangerous that seems like that's a bad idea how the name came apart yeah yeah so yeah how are they getting gas in some of those tanks too some of those tanks were real slender so i'm like am i getting down the road here and then we got to refill or and then they'd always have an answer got a second tank you know down here it's, thank you, Orange County. What have we not talked about today that we needed to hit? We hit baseball.
We hit not well enough, though. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now is the senior insider for the MLB at ESPN.
Man who is the voice of a generation for a sport that is called America's pastime. Old past time ladies and gentlemen jet pass yeah jet hey uh did you watch the tuttles make motorcycles yeah i did they were brilliant i loved them it you know it all goes back to the scene in pulp fiction where Butch is confronted by his girlfriend saying, what's that? And he says, it's a chopper.
And she says, can we get on your motorcycle? And he's like, no, that's a chopper, baby. It's Zed.
Who's Zed? Zed's dead. And I love the whole scene.
So ever since then, I will never ride a motorcycle. You're a chopper fan since then? Since Zed's dead zed i don't know what zed did i don't remember pulp fiction exactly but not great well zed deserved it rest in piss that's what i think and uh he enjoyed choppers choppers are a wonderful bike my first bike was a chopper extended front you know has a longer that's kind of theper you chop it up you know you do the whole thing and uh i've always wanted an orange county chopper maybe today's the day we pull maybe park get one patrick i think senior and junior still doing things separate i don't know to be honest i just got reminded of it probably will happen by the end of the week speaking of by the end of this week the actual mlb season won't have started but we've.
Now, this is the second year, I believe, that the MLB has done this, where the games are international to start the season, but it's not actually. Everybody else is still in preseason.
I love this move, you know, because it's kind of a teaser to the regular season coming. And also, the environment, I wasn't up for it, but seeing the clips, electrifying over there.
there now is shohei the reason for this all happening and uh how often will we have this type of international crossover going forward i mean shohei is the reason for everything in baseball now right like it's it's been a quarter century since baseball's had a star like a like a star international appeal, like Shohei Otani. And the fact that they can go to Tokyo and it's not just Shohei, right? Yoshinobu Yamamoto starts the game for the Dodgers.
Shota Imanaga starts the game for the Cubs. Stea Suzuki's hitting second for the Cubs.
Shohei's hitting lead off. Roki Sasaki starting game two for the Dodgers.
Baseball has been trying to catch up internationally to other sports over the last decade or so, and we had the games in Korea last year, and they've gone to Japan before. I remember back in 2008, the A's and the Red Sox started the season there, and that was my first time visiting Japan.
So this isn't anything that's new necessarily but there's just a lot more resonance now because Japan is such an integral part of where baseball is now and where it wants to be. And listen there are not a lot of not a lot of countries around the world Pat where baseball is the number one sport.
It is unquestionably so in Japan. So to To see the game start in that environment uh to see otani get to play in front of a country where he's absolutely revered uh i think was a really cool thing for the sport i think we heard whenever shoda talked to us last year through a translator first of all he was awesome on our show said call me mike put the whole thing in there he is he is awesome he is they need to showcase him more and obviously starting on opening day here for the Cubs and throwing a no hitter uh through four and then obviously them pulling him in his home country on opening day nonetheless uh that's it's it's old old conversation there but whatever you you think about I forget which direction I was headed with this but fucking Shohei getting their entire country to kind of rally behind it.
And then the numbers are like 30 million, right? For that first playoff game, I think is what they said internationally. It would behoove the MLB to do more over there, right? Because a lot of these guys, didn't they say, and I think, oh yeah, this is where it was, Shota said like he almost didn't want to leave Japan.
Like some of these people don't want to leave Japan because of what baseball is over there. So it's like Shohei is now playing back in Japan a couple of times a year.
Shota's playing a couple of times back in Japan. I think that's a big decision for a lot of these Japanese baseball players, right? Isn't that something if I was hearing them correctly? Oh, 100%.
I mean, think about this, Pat. Think about you wanting to do the thing that you love at the absolute highest level possible.
And look, Japanese baseball is very good. It's not Major League Baseball.
The level of competition in MLB is just so much higher than everywhere around the world. And so if you want to test yourself as an athlete, if you want to push yourself to be the best you can be, you go to Major League Baseball in spite of the cultural differences and of the things that you are missing at home.
You make yourself uncomfortable. And I think that that discomfort, you know, for a lot of guys, it's what fuels them that they don't want to be the person who went across the ocean to play the game they love and came back home as a failure.
And so having that pushing them and getting to bring that to Japan, where they so deeply appreciate the sport and appreciate all the beauties of it. I understand there are a lot of fans right now who are like, why are you starting the season somewhere else? And to that, I say, let's remember, this is not about today for major league baseball this is not about this year this is about a game that doesn't have as much resonance in the united states as it did once upon a time and so how can we figure out where to find that resonance and if you can find that in japan if you can find that in other countries then then why wouldn't you bring your product there and spread the love? And showcase it.
Yeah. Like baseball showcasing how much it's loved in Japan, I think is a good thing.
Like for me, I'm watching that environment. I'm like, damn, they love it.
Like baseball is huge. Yeah.
It's like cool for me to see. I didn't wake up for it.
But like the clips, it is certainly something. Ty has some questions for you.
I'll tell you what it reminds me of quickly. Sorry to interrupt there.
What it reminds me of is baseball in the Dominican Republic and in Venezuela and in Cuba and all throughout Latin America where it's not a pastime, it's a passion. And, you know, the lack of passion domestically around Major League Baseball is alarming for the sport.
But to go and find it in other places and to show fans in the United States what baseball can be like. You know, baseball in Latin America, in the Caribbean, in Japan, reminds me a lot of college football.
Just in how much pride people take in their teams and how like truly deeply devoted they are to it

to that point college baseball right in there like uh some of these college baseball teams

we'll see out of the sec most in the south certainly don't want to you know continue to

toot greg sankey's horn down there but geez louise it seems like down in the south their

baseball teams are very passionate i still remember i think it was old miss hit a dinger

first one out of covet first thing we saw yep live audience was college baseball home run

I'm that. One, two two three uh right now is sec teams for the rankings in college baseball so what you're saying though is it does exist out there there's a chance it continues to grow but showcasing it from other places is not a bad thing especially if it's going home from a place that's 16 hour times time difference.
I mean, it is opposite side of earth and it all. Okay, Ty has some questions for you, Jet.
Yeah, Jet, to your point about how good baseball is in Japan, but still not obviously being on the level of the MLB, I mean, we saw a couple of the Japanese teams win exhibition games early here. Do you think the success that some of these guys have had in the MLB, like, do you think the dam is about to break for Japanese players coming over and playing in the MLB anytime soon? We've seen that kid who was the home run record in Japan in high school who played at Shohei High School and he's at Stanford.
He just hit a couple fucking nukes recently. Obviously, these guys are kind of starting to come over more, but do you think the dam is really about to break and we're about to see a whole bunch of Japanese players coming in and playing in the MLB soon? Yeah, Ty, you're talking about Rintaro Sasaki at Stanford and, you know, there are a couple of young right-handers, Shunpeta Yamashita and Hiroto Takahashi, who are in their early 20s and thriving in Nippon professional baseball.
And one of the things about baseball that the modern era and the technology that we have now has provided is, like, we know who's going to be good when they come here. We know what pitch shapes look like.
We know what quality stuff is. We know what a good swing is.
So it's not quite as much of a guessing game as it was in the past. And if you have a guy who is going and performing, it's not just about his ERA anymore.
It's okay. What is the shape of his fastball? And how does he throw his splitter? And all these different elements that allow us a better understanding of what a player actually is.

And yeah, because of that, I think there is going to be a flood of players who are coming over.

It's not going to be in the immediate future.

But I think now that Japan understands, okay, this is what players have to look like in order to go to Major League Baseball, a lot more players are going to focus their training on reaching that ultimate goal of mlb i've never seen uh you know okay that's my first time with eyes what big old boy gone uh he's a he's a thick boy patrick that's my first time seeing yeah that was my first time with that because ty's been talking this guy up like he is the next one when it comes to hitting in this entire thing.

That's my first time seeing him.

I love that.

That's good for baseball.

Yeah, he's not going to be getting a whole lot of extra base hits.

He's not going to be stealing a whole lot of bases.

Hey, that's like one of the things about baseball.

You think about football.

Any body type can play.

Baseball has always had that same thing.

Baseball has always had that kind of relatability. I'm not saying this guy isn't a freak athlete, which he certainly is.
Ty loves this guy. Call him the next Babe Ruth.
Is that what you said, Ty? Yeah, he kind of looks like Babe Ruth, too, in his, like, Stanford head shot. If you just put, like, a stubby little cigar and maybe put, like, a hot dog in his breast pocket, we have Japanese Babe Ruth.
You know who he looks like? He looks like Prince Fielder. That's what he is.
It's a good comp. Not a tall guy, but...
And Prince, I think there was a mistake among fans who thought Prince Fielder was fat. He was not fat.
They're just these bodies that are like... Hold on.
No, no no no i'm telling you he had some cushion it's a butt like it's a bundle of muscle it's just like a rectangular connor don't believe me connor don't believe i know yeah oh yeah connor's got a lot of room for talking about guys with bad bodies that's what i'm saying james louise take on to no one Jed I know one when i see it yeah i i got a bad body for it too you know but if you do add any thickness at all it's very visible yeah you know with the way uh a body is felt so yes i agree all these dudes that play baseball and are bigger have to be ridiculously strong like that is something to have to have but they might be comfortable you know they might they might get comfortable. They got that hand speed, man.
Ping pong, I bet they are. Oh, my God.
Oh, yeah. I bet those big boys dominating ping pong tables.
I didn't even think about that. Without a doubt.
Horse games, probably. Pretty good.
Not bad. Best ping pong player in Major League Baseball is Bruce O'Gradaral, who's like 6'3", 300 pounds.
So there you go. Good body.
He's a wall, too. 6'3", he's a wall.
That's tough to get back. If you just keep it on the table, obviously that's good.
The guy who would probably win if they did have an actual ping pong tournament, just because that's what he does, Paul Skeens. Where are we at with Paul Skeens? I talked to Paul Skeens today for about 90 minutes, actually.
It was like the first real sit-down conversation that I've had with him. And he might be the most impressive, just like as a human being, like the most impressive young baseball player I've seen in the 25 or so years that I've been doing this.
He just has it together. Like, he gets it.
He knows who he is. He knows what he wants to be.
He has so many of these external distractions that could just waylay him away from his goals. But the fact that he spent those two years at Air Force getting to know himself, preparing him for the time that he spent at LSU, which prepared him for Major League Baseball.
I just came away so impressed by the guy.

He really gets it. Absurdly

humble, isn't he? Yeah.

But you're talking about him knowing who

he is, too. It's like, he knows, too.

He knows. He's a guy.
Let's not

waste it. Let's make the most of it.

Also, let's try to get better and better. We just

talked about it. He added a sinker

and a cutter

this offseason. Uh-ohoh jet's connection is i don't want to talk about the pirates i mean i get it that does make sense ladies and gentlemen jeff passing hey jack thanks joe you can learn more about that 90 minute sit down that jeff passing had with paul skiing somewhere at some time jetpassing.com probably gonna hear somewhere.
What are we not talking about? Raw yesterday. Brussels was awesome.
That was a bummer not being there. Yeah.
Start was sweet. John Cena.
He's mad at me. I'm a fan.
What's he mad at me for? You guys are making those jokes. He's on the warpath.
The invisible joke is funny, dude. Yeah, come on.
It's funny. And don't call that little kid a son of a bitch.
Well, that kid was being a son of a bitch. No, he wasn't.
The kid was just having a time. That kid was in shock after that.
As he should have been. Yeah, that might change the trajectory of his life.
Go on, bud. You can be the next John Cena when John Cena stood for all good things.
John Cena seemed to be a little bit upset with the way he's been treated over the last 25 years. You know, because there's always been the, let's go Cena.
Cena sucks. People.
It's always been. Even whenever he was going out there every single day, every single night, living on the road, committing his whole life to it.
Boom, boom, boom. Lucky to do it.
Thankful to do it. Making the most wishes in the history of Make-A-Wish.
You know, boom, boom, boom. See, you know, it sucks.
You tell it was just kind of the whole time. And then when push came to shove, what'd he do? He snapped.
He said, I'm done with this. This is my last opportunity to let these people know that I don't like the way they've treated me.
And he said that a lot yesterday. He did.
Bone was weeping in here. Because he called out Bone.
He did. He said, the the Let's Go Cena people is who he talked to.
You're just as despicable as these people. Yeah, you're pathetic.
He's talking to Bone. Yeah.
That kid was Bone in an alternate universe. Yeah.
Yeah, younger. Started yelling just like, go, John.
Belgian Bone. Belgian Bone and D-Bone here suffered the same fate yesterday, which was heartbreak.
Yeah. Because the things that John Cena said.
I was bummed out as well. I was bummed out.
I hope he finds some happiness in there. There's a lot of us that respect the work you've done, John.
A lot of us respect. Massive respect.
Gratitude for the work. And just because we said, let's go see him there once in a while, I was just trying to tell you that.

Yeah.

Trying to get behind you.

I didn't like what I heard from him.

Me neither.

Love what I heard from Cody Rhodes. Did you start rapping again?

He should start.

Doug Anomics should have gone out there.

He should have.

You know, I thought maybe he was going to come out

and just talk about how great he was.

Didn't you?

Isn't that a...

Yeah.

I thought he was just talking about...

He could have.

Instead, he came out and said,

let me tell you how terrible you are geez louise bob all right some people say he was pat oh you could argue he was pat he was i saw people saying he was patting aj did you see that it's three oh it's 3 10 in the afternoon and john cena's pat that's what that's what i saw people saying because when you're listening to him it it was a little bit of that. I was just saying that John Cena.
I know. He was just telling the truth.
He got off the movie set. He has a quick break from the movie set, whatever he's filming, jumping off helicopters.
He's got a lot in his mind. He's still movie sets.
He's John Cena. He's a wrestler.
You're right. He is a professional wrestler.
He's also a professional actor. He's going to win an Academy Award someday.
Yeah, we would assume that is the case. Wasn't acting yesterday.
I agree. Maybe, was that the...
No. That better not have been.
That wasn't what Cena has always been. It better not have been.
No way. No way.
That's what the champ said. Because as I was watching I had a good setup in here yesterday.
Wish I was there. Crowd was electrifying.
Shout out to the Brussels crowd. Merci beaucoup.
Paul de Pachon. You get it.
Thank you. That was an awesome show.
It was. Adam Pearce was in the middle of it.
It was. Adam Pearce was really in the middle of it.

I mean, he went from one thing, boom, right to another.

Just bang, out the back.

Coming in the gorilla.

What are you doing with the contract?

I need a contract.

D'Aria Ripley. Yeah.

And then once he, I don't know how it got settled in gorilla,

then he pokes his head out and boom, there's a fight happening.

No.

Jeez Louise.

People going nuts.

Trying to put out fires all night.

Literally.

Yeah. In a different country? Yeah, it's Brussels.
That is Brussels. It was awesome over there.
Cena was not happy. He was potty.
People were saying he was potty. He was.
I don't like potty Cena. Me neither.
That better not be who, actually. It won't be.
I mean. What does the final boss got to say about what Cena said there? Maybe Cena's taking orders from the final boss and he's just a puppet again.

He wouldn't do that.

On location, WrestleOps is reporting via Professional Wrestling Insider.

On location, which is the company that kind of does all the event stuff,

is offering a special intimate meal with John Cena at a five-star restaurant

during WrestleMania 41 week.

Going for $25,000 a person. All right, we're're gonna do that.
That's it? So, how many people? How many people? Is it a table of 100? Do they limit this? Imagine we just circled John for a dinner. Just us.
He's joining us for a dinner. He's gotta sit in the middle.
Yeah, right in the middle. Bone would do much more than 25K.
It's like in the round. We're all sitting around.
Yeah. Bone.
Bone. What if it was just you and Cena in there? Oh, please.
Can you imagine face-to-face? We bought all 10 spots just for you, Bone. Wouldn't you want to tell him, like, hey, I was a Let's Go Cena guy from the very beginning.
Is that what you would want to say, Bone? How did you feel about yesterday? You were a little heartbroken like that little kid from belgium that little belgium bone boy no not really i went home and did some reflecting and i think we did fuck up can you can you oh my god no no no foxy can we get a camera straight on his face and then put that kid because you do look looks just like you look exactly like the kid uh we're gonna probably use this one here so you can just go right back. Be quick.
He smells so bad.

No, he doesn't. What? That's because he's been crying

all night. That's because Bone's been crying

all night. Because, I mean,

Belgian Bone. Do the same face

as the kid. Here we go.

Yeah. Oh, no.

He was not smart. Yeah, a little more

shock. Hey, act like you were

acting whenever John Cena came out and said it was your fault.

Yeah, a little frown. Yeah.
Oh, my goodness. Two different continents, two different age groups.
Same kid. Two different humans, same kid.
Same bum-bomb kid. All right, D-Bone, let's go.
You said you looked inwards and said you did treat him wrong. You weren't supportive enough of...
I think we were a piece of shit to John. Why? I don't think I necessarily was.
No, you were.

I never spoke ill of John in my life.

What a mark, dude. But as fans, I think we are to blame.

You think the IWC potentially?

Is that who you're talking about?

The internet wrestling community?

Or you're talking about all wrestling marks?

No, absolutely.

Everybody.

Because nobody respected his jorts or gave him enough credit?

He just could never do anything right.

We always wanted him healed.

We got him healed.

Now we hate him.

Just like he said. Oh, jeez.
Okay, Bone. John Cena's got a rating poem.
He's going to buy the merch. John Cena went out there and said, don't you even think about buying a new merch.
Okay? You get no new shirt. You get no new intro music.
You get nothing for what you've done. And D-Bone's like, holy fuck, I never thought about it.
We did misstreet Cena. He was a superstar through and through.
He was. And what do we say? Cena sucks just for fun.
Not fun now. We got our laughs in.
It's the last time is now, too. So this time I remember him forever is the guy who just was mad at us for supporting him i guess so did you ever ask him how he's doing backstage or anything all the time

oh thank you i think it was one of the first things i said you could say no every time i saw

him i said holy shit it's john cena that's literally i guess that is kind of treating

him like he's not a human there well geez i'm part of the problem the guy killed osama bin laden

he announced osama bin laden was dead yes that is accurate he gave the order yeah

Thank you. Jeez, I'm part of the problem.
The guy killed Osama Bin Laden. He announced Osama Bin Laden was dead.
Yes, that is accurate. He gave the order.
Yeah. Different.
He was watching from the Oval Office. He said, Vince, go use your office real quick.
What's going to go on with that Intercontinental title? Did you see Penta snooping up? Yeah. Boy, Dom fucked up, too.
What else is new? Well, that's Dom. Dom and Finn are certainly at odds a little bit.

They are a bit.

Last week, Dom got him a title shot.

This week, they're back to... I don't know what to make of that judgment day.

Me neither.

It's time to judge him.

Today.

Judgment disarray.

Cool.

Aren't we judging properly?

Yeah.

I think so.

I don't know how Dom is allowed in all these countries anyway.

Same. You think somebody would say no? He's got to be on a list.
No scumbags. Well, actually, over there.
What list? Where CM Punk got there? I didn't see him. Phil? I saw.
What? CM Punk. Chick Magnus.
Excuse me. Sorry.
I saw Seth Rollins. Yeah.
But they were still saying Seth freaking Rollins. That's weird.
That was an update from a website. Lost the freaking from the website.
If the report, what I read, was accurate. I haven't gone to a website in a long time.
Getting a treadmill. Getting a new treadmill.
Big deal. Speaking of websites, I've been to.
Went to a website. Went to a website.
Getting a treadmill. Very excited about it.
Going to be able to run again without uh all the it's like a little more cushion it's a uh you got the zero zero g yeah yeah oh yeah like the rehab treadmill that's sweet have you heard about this i've seen it yeah i've done it back in the day loved it it takes the weight off yeah like after you get you know your knee surgery you get in there and they say like okay you'll be running with 25 of your own weight right now and you work your way up yeah and i guess there's full workouts they have like uh oh that'd be great you could open it up too and run fast bingo yeah i think so i think there's a chance now you know with how fat i've got and how many knee things i've had and how much i ran with soccer and kicked balls which is just knee shit. Spr running is not the most fun but i do miss the feeling of running so i'm trying to combat that trying to figure that out found this company we're gonna make it happen now it might be an overpriced waste of it won't be cbt getting strapped in getting strapped you'll need you need some help getting strapped into the thing now all self all self oh good okay.
Oh, good. Okay.
Nice. Yeah.
You just got to zip. I think you just got to zip.
And then you're in. And then this thing activates.
Allegedly, some super genius created it to do the opposite from what I've been told. So they wanted to add gravity to something for a workout, I believe, is what somebody.
And then either the son of the creator or somebody around the creator was like can we invert the gravity in there and they did and then all of a sudden now they're in every building basically every single rehab facility in the way so it's like super genius is figuring something out i assume that super genius wanted uh i don't know maybe hit hills i don't know don't know. Why would you want more gravity?

Mark on speed.

Film something that you show people

that say, hey, we were here?

You want to learn how to run on Mercury?

Shut your fucking mouth.

Run on Mercury?

Oh, interesting.

Oh, you're saying the moon landing,

they did this entire thing?

When was this technology created?

1990. Yeah, so way after.
I don't know. Nice try, dickhead.
Oh, hey, I think the moon landing is real. We did it.
Okay. We made it.
Okay. I do.
I really do. Do you? Hey, you know what? I'd like to look into it a little bit more.
Everything I see really makes me wonder, but it feels like my algo is looking for me to wonder, especially if Seth Greenberg is going to be screaming the word conspiracy on this show. Just conspiracy, conspiracy.
My phone's listening, okay? Turn this fucking Siri on, first time ever. Turn it on.
Uh-oh. It's listening anyways, I knew, because we'd be talking about something, I opened my phone, all of a sudden that thing is on my phone, first time ever.
It's like, I never turned you on. How the fuck did you know that? Interesting.
Oh, you're listening without me. Oh, maybe I'll be able to sue you.
Okay, that'll take 10 years and nothing will happen. So it's listening.
Okay? And this smartphone needs to get smarter. I agree.
I'd say my smartphone is low part of class whenever it comes to intelligence. I'd say as a whole.
But yeah, this fucking thing, Wad. Let's put this in.
Come on. Yeah.
For the people. One throw only.
Okay. Okay.
One shot. You got this.
One shot in the moment. Just let it fly.
Don't even think. How many people? Way too many.
Yeah, not that. Not that.
Whoa. Got four people playing tonight.

Got four teams playing tonight.

Exactly.

Yeah, let's wait.

Yeah.

Four people.

Now's not time.

Let's go to 25 people.

Okay.

500 bucks.

All I'll have to do is make this Duke a little softer,

easier to throw and catch probably.

Definitely.

And hold on to.

Yeah, science.

Harder to kick, but everything else kind of probably is. Do you want to know why that happened?

To this ball?

Yeah.

Because in this Thunderdome?

Oh, yeah, because it was inside and it's been really warm out.

And then since the weather gets colder, air particles come closer together when it gets colder.

Got it.

So scientifically, it was proven that balls deflate when it gets colder.

Oh, okay.

So it's like when wood is in because of the molecules. Yeah.
Yeah, the whole thing. Yeah, molecules.
There you go. Well, anyways, it is softer.
It makes it easier to hold on to, throw, catch, that whole thing. Yep.
All those stats probably go up with this particular pressure. If I had to guess.
I'm not saying it was done on purpose. Science, definitely.
Well, all balls. They didn't test any of the balls on the other team.
What team was that? That was the team I was on. Okay.
How many points did you guys score? I don't remember. Ten.
I think three had like four rushing touchdowns. So I don't know.
Again. Who scored all this? Was that? LeGarrette Blount.
Oh, yeah. I still see him running.
He had like 180. I was staying at the end.
I was staying at the end of the box, you know? Yeah. This way.
Yeah, he had a big day. And I just walked.
He had three toads. He's just still running.
Holy fuck. Go down the other side.
Holy shit. We should tackle that guy.
We didn't. No.
It's hard to that year. And then we got it rubbed in our face because there was a deflate gate that was happening.
And we were just trying to move on with our lives. Everybody about everybody else instead the boys and i got just buried and i was such a low member of the team that obviously i'm not saying i got buried but we were reminded of the outcome of that game like a lot team got buried for sure logo got buried yeah and the performance the game take and they haven't even seen it got we can't believe tom got suspended for that oh yeah two years later two years later, which the performance.
The game tape.

I can't believe Tom got suspended for that.

Two years later. Two years later, which led to another Super Bowl,

but the Colts haven't even

sniffed that game since.

Colts are back this year.

This year.

Deebot had talked to me. All the blogs had talked to me.

They had to remind me,

why not believe? You're right.

Dan Jones has a lot of energy luck in him. Not just Dan Jones.
There's quarterback competition. Open competition.
Yeah, right. Yeah.
They're going to bring out the best in each other. That's what competition does.
At least this is the first year that you guys have had a quarterback carousel thing, and this hasn't been going on for like six years. I know everybody's going to point to Matt Ryan and Carson Wentz and Phillip Rivers and Jacoby Bursette and everything like that, but we also had some good days too.
It's just easy to – Remember Unitas? Yeah, it's an easy time to get behind the Colts. Play for the fucking Colts.
Bring a bell. Fran Tarkenton.
Was he a Colt? No. He's a Viking.
One of the best. Of course, at the time, yeah.
And when we're talking Vikings, football, we'll definitely talk about friends. He's one of the goats.
Who's going to play for the Vikings? AJ, do you know anybody? I wish I knew. We all do.
You call him and tell him, hey, what are you doing? I'd like to, yeah. Code FaceTime right now.
You can do it. There you go.
Do it. Passing's phone overheated.
Yeah, it makes sense. That's what I just said.
Start the car car do you hit none of the car does chemical peels or something his skin was glowing he always looks good though remember though yeah yeah and he's young i think he's older than we think because of how young he looks i believe just like less need said he was in his 50s what the fuck are these people all along yeah I know. What are you doing? He was great.
Okay. Okay.
44.

Okay.

If he was in his 50s. What the fuck are these people all along? Yeah, I know.
What are you doing? He was great. Okay.

44. Okay.
If he was 62,

that tree branch would have killed him. Yeah, you're right.

I forgot he's come back from here. He broke his back.

Near-death experience.

That's because Kirchner was standing next to him when he held it up.

Yeah, you're right. Kirchner went under.

Yeah. What did he say?

Yeah, what? Crawl out!

Get! Crawl out! I can hold it for the rest of the day! And he's still holding it. Like a yard gnome, just sitting underneath the fucking thing.
Talk about having that bar on your spine. Exactly.
That was like his workout, wasn't it? People would walk into the gym and they'd see him and he'd just be in the corner racking it, right? How long has he been covering baseball? Fucking 50 years. 45 years, 50 years.
Since Babe Ruth. Has he had the same voice the whole time? As long as I've known him, yeah.
How do you hit that? That's like rivalries with Coach Izzo yesterday.

Yeah, you just got to dig down in there and find it.

Because it's worthy because he's an icon.

Exactly.

One of the goats.

One of the goats.

This is for him.

Yep.

Hell yeah.

What would he say in this moment right here?

Just pat, wing it back and fire that son of a bitch into the hoop.

He would say that?

Yeah.

He would say son of a bitch. He would.
He's a fiery fella. Shout to him, shout to baseball.
Shout to the 25 people that win 500 bucks if I make this throw. Uh-oh.
Oh. Ooh.
All right, one shot. This is for the Indiana Pacers, okay, who have have been dancing with destiny seemingly becoming a team that has been blessed by the basketball gods in the second half of this particular season obviously a few weeks ago we remember tyrese halliburton hitting the shot of the year and one four-point play to beat the bucks well how about last night against the Minnesota Timberwolves? Obviously, Tyrese is out.

Mathurin's out. We got TJ McConnell and the boys battling on the road.

Take it to the rack, TJ

McConnell. Yenzer.

Uh-uh. Give me that.

And then Obi Toppin just goes,

second best shot of the year, maybe

best shot of the year candidate

from the corner, just like Tyrese.

Somebody in his face. Splash.
splash we win you lose in overtime don't look now the Pacers are getting hot now they gotta get healthy they gotta they they certainly have to do that but the Pacers have uh maybe a team of destiny field with these shots falling for them at very very key important times we cannot underestimate that whenever it's going forward. Knicks, Celtics, Cavs.
You don't have to say the Knicks. What? No, you don't have to say the Knicks.
So the East is Celtics, Cavs, and Pacers? Yeah. Knicks are in third.
Yeah, they're in third. Safely in third.
Okay, so I did my research. No, no, the standings, you're right, but the team, like, they don't have to.
Knicks just can't beat anybody good.

Oh, they got no quad one wins?

No quad.

Write us off.

We won't write back.

We already have.

The good thing is Carl Anthony Towns always delivers on the pressures on the biggest.

Didn't they just beat the Heat last night?

They just beat the Heat last night.

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the Pacers. Okay.
Don't love that. How many quad one wins we got? A couple.
A bunch. You got a ton.
Certainly. Cavs are the team, right? Yeah, Cavs and Thunder are, like, head and shoulders above everybody in the regular season.
Oh, yeah. I've seen OKC's been on primetime the last couple – a few times here in the last week.
They're both already north of 50 wins. They both already clinched the playoff berth, I believe.
So it's them two, like one seed's locked in home court and everything, but we'll see. And what did – Sean said about a week – when was that, two days ago? Three days ago? He said about another week left for LeBron.
Yeah, he said that Sunday. Yeah, so that's a big deal, the week for lebron because i'm obviously and luca's going crazy austin reeves going crazy awesome they got some exciting whites over there at the los angeles lakers solid connect yeah is he back obviously he's back so he's been playing because he was the nba is not hey i'll turn on yeah if you find yourself well like my kids love watching the Warriors.
They don't kick off until 10 p.m. usually because it's out there, but yeah, man, I enjoy watching them.
I enjoy watching the Lakers. Like, whatever game is on, if you actually pay attention, it's like, oh, this is pretty sweet.
Jimmy Butler, his hair is sweet. I think they played last night on, was it last night or two months ago? Last night.
Ross triple-double. Ross is awesome to watch.
He still doesn't really have a three-point shot, but he is kind of coordinating a lot of shit. They let him.
Nuggets didn't have anybody. Joker was out last night.
Jamal Murray was out last night. They still beat the Warriors.
Russ was running shit there for the time that I was watching the game. It was awesome to see.
I'm like, hell yeah. Russ loves it.
He plays so hard, man. Russ plays so hard.
I point to him like, hey, look at him. He may not make a bunch of outside shots, but this dude is moving all game.
People are trying to make him a villain there for a while. That dude just fucking loves ball.
The bug starts with March Madness. The basketball will continue to be great, and then it'll roll right into the NBA playoffs.
Pacers win the NBA title? Boom. It's on me.
Oh, no. Oh, fuck.
Just short. All right.
Another finals appearance. I guess that's the way it's going to go Bonus ball Bonus ball Bonus ball Bonus ball Yeah Turn left ball No It feels like we got a little What the fuck Undulation Yeah some undulation What was that I don't know Did you see that thing Speaking of of undulation, the Masters is happening soon.
Oh, buddy. Day after big night at the Masters start.
And they put out a video this morning, and it is, hey, celebrating the history of the course. Good video.
Great video. You know, the magical moments are there and how pumped all the patrons get and how everybody is not allowed to have their phone out.
It's like that's a thing that i hope just and i think it will oh yeah but i hope everybody continues to you know treat it as such yeah yeah i may have got to golf fair before it's pretty wild i i mean i suck at golf it would have been much more fun if i was better at golf but i got a chance to see a lot of the shots that people fucked up on. Okay, in the pine trees here.
Okay, hey, back in the woods here. Okay, hey, this is where Rory went with his drive.
Now, he was able to blah, blah, blah, and I stayed in the woods for another two. Sure.
I'll tell you what, down there I'd be a man. Oh.
Lived out a couple birdie pots. You know, you gotta really perform at the time.
But the place is beautiful. There is a sense of, like, greatness and tradition in the air.
And the way that course is kept up, new trees coming in and out overnight, the greens being perfect, the fairways being perfect. Everything is just perfect.
It's like that place is cared for and i think the golfer would really appreciate it can't wait to watch that the players got me pretty excited did not like that it carried into monday no yeah it was you know the rain delay kind of sucks but that's florida you know it's going to rain in florida that's kind of how it works so it not finishing on sunday i think was not great i think it going into monday morning kind of lost the You know, almost, and I don't want to say this because I think soccer has an opportunity. It had a soccer feeling on Sunday.
Like, okay, the guy's tired. Now they're going to play Monday morning.
It's like, all right. And we all knew what was going to happen on Monday, but we still had to watch.
Spawn even knew. Yeah, he did.
We did. Spawn even knew.
Rory McIlroy said he watched a little Devil Wears Prada, ordered some room service, and went to bed he woke up 3 a.m he said so he said he hadn't been nervous in a while so rory was a little nervous he said for that entire thing i couldn't even imagine spawn you know rory's been there done that rory openly admitted like yeah very nervous and i think spawn saw that for the first time during the press conference he was watching in the back he was like i thought it was gonna be short and that thing just kept floating. He said, it's like that juiced up.
You know, you get juiced up in those moments. Everything's a little bit different, especially when everything comes like how hard you hit something.
It's crazy. He said when he was watching the press conference, he almost yelled go because he thought it was going to be so short.
When the wind's like that and you've got a 10-foot area to hit, that tournament, yeah, not finished on Sunday was tough, but we're officially in it. We're in a good spot here as far as sports right now.
Yeah, I think off-season sports, we're all in. Oh, yeah.
Good for us. You guys know Coop is bashing dudes' faces in in Righteous Gemstones, the show? I heard he had a spectacular performance.
I saw a lot of commercials for

Righteous Gemstones. Feels like they're really promoting this.

Happy it's back. Shout out to

Kenny Powers and Squad.

Yeah, Cooper's in the first episode, right? Yep.

Colonial foot soldier. I've seen some of it.
Yeah, man.

He's ruthless.

He's doing great. Well, Cooper will do what you need him to do.

Hell yeah. That's why he's an artist.

That's why he's an artist.

You know? You need him to give a speech to rally the boys right before the Super Bowl? He'll do it. No problem.
Yep. No problem.
No problem. You need him to be in the suite, talking to the owner, where everything's looking a little sketchy? No problem.
He'll do it. Meet him in the post-Super Bowl party.
Bring the vibes. He'll do it.
If you need a cheesesteak, he'll cook it himself. He's making it.
That's Bradley Cooper. What the hell he's doing? I haven't talked to him a while.
I think he's very busy. Where's he get his bread from? I would imagine the bread is a huge part of that.
Philly. He gets it from Philly.
The place that he used to eat at, I don't know if it's Danny's or the place that he used to eat at in Philly, they were shipping him shit. Remember that what he said? Yeah.
And he would be cooking it himself, so then he

made it a thing. So it's probably considered

a franchise

or offshoot of that particular. I tried to do

Rudy's there for a bit just because I wanted their Italian

sub. Okay, how do I get you guys

just to ship me the ingredients and then I'll cook

it myself. And then once we, here's

Bradley Cooper in Righteous Gem. He looks,

yeah, he's fucking. There is a company that does that

for restaurants. Belly?

Something Belly? That's what it is. Golden Belly?

Yeah, that sounds right. Gold belly.
Yeah. I've never used it, but.
Great. My wife gets like hams from places and like New York this and like you can get some Texas this and it shows up with the, what's the cold ice? Dry ice.
The dry ice. It's like a whole thing.

Yeah, it's good. I think that's a good app.

I think it's only for big things

situations. Makes sense.
Is Rudy's on

Goldbelly? Should be.

Should be.

Come on. Nick, why don't you

call him and tell him to get on fucking Goldbelly?

Can you do that? They need to. They'd make a killing.

Just in this office.

Absolutely. Alright, let's get the hell out of here.
What a day today. Just in this office.
Absolutely.

All right, let's get the hell out of here.

What a day today.

The madness begins tonight, AJ.

Who are you picking in these games?

Let's do this.

Yeah.

Let's do this.

I'm picking Alabama State to beat St. Francis,

and I'm picking San Diego State to beat UNC because basketball gods are going to do their thing.

Okay.

I will take Alabama State to win, and I will also take North Carolina. We'll take favorites.
Chalk! Let me guess. Let me guess.
Tomorrow you want American. You got it, and we'll give you Xavier, too.
I'll take Mount St. Mary's and Xavier tomorrow.
I'm going to take American University for sure. Just strictly because I know.

What is that?

I don't know what American University is, but it sounds like a place.

They're a good ball club.

Very good this year.

Okay, yeah, of course they are.

I'm just learning of them.

Would like American University to do well.

Especially now.

We need them.

Okay?

So I'm going to pick that.

I'll save my picture tomorrow.

Sure.

AJ said he's picking an underdog tomorrow, though.

Maybe.

We don't know if that's true.

Yeah, doubt it.

I'll stick with him. Is that where Sister Jean is? is she Mount St.
Mary's Loyola Texas is live there tomorrow 3.5 what's the one where everybody's hammering there's one where a lot of people feel good about it I got a text from I don't know if I'm on a list or something I got a Stu Fe Feiner text message, and he basically teased, let me see the wording that he sent. I haven't talked to Stu in years.
So Colorado State is favored by two and a half, and they're a 12 seed against a five. Memphis is the five.
There's a game on Friday that is lineage wager. Hashtag be advised.
Lineage. That is a lineage wager is what I was just told.
So, hilarious text to get. I don't know if that's a tease.
So am I getting a follow-up on Friday? You'd probably pay for the follow-up. Colorado State Memphis is on Friday, so that might be it.
Everybody seems to be on Colorado State. We'll see what Steph just said.
Penny has the boys rolling, though. Yeah, I love that Memphis team.
I don't understand how their dogs against a 12 is a 5 seed. Have you seen much of Colorado State? Not too much, no.
I guess I can put it in a bucket. I've watched a lot of Memphis, though.
I like Memphis. You're not supposed to understand this is March.
What's that? This is March. It isn't anarchy it's just okay yep college basketball yep shot to uh johnny rothstein oh okay yes what you don't know the rosting we know i do i do i did now i get the saying i i didn't anarchy.
Yeah, it's just college basketball, yeah. This is March.
This is March. Well, it's January, February.
March. His wife said that he just walks around their place in New York just saying, this is March.
This is March. This is March.
Yeah, Rothstein's wife. She'll just hear him saying to himself in the bathroom, this is March.
This is March. This is March.
This is March. This is March.
And she smacks him in the face and then he stops for a second. And then he'll do it again like an hour later.
Smack him in the face. God loves college ball.
His entire gimmick is countdown to college ball. And then in college ball, we're in college ball.
He loves it. He was on the show right before.
There's a reason he's so into it. I forget what it is.
There's some coaching maybe? That? I forget what it is. I don't know.
He's been obsessed with it for a long time, though. Yeah, that and wrestling are really like his two things.
Because remember, he just had WrestleMania references from the mid-80s. Yes, he did.
Jurassic Park as well. Big Jurassic Park fan.
Really? I mean, you don't have time for a lot whenever college basketball is 24-7, but not the newest one. What was the newest one? World.
Jurassic World, yeah. Yeah.
That one was kind of shite, right? With the bugs, yeah. New one coming out again, though.
This one. Chris Pratt in? What? No, he's not.
ScarJo. ScarJo Hanson.
ScarJo and Mahershala Ali, actually. The trailer was pretty soft.
Is it cicadas catching on fire? I doubt it. The script was so good that Chris Pratt said it's too good.
No, it was Glenn Powell. Oh, Glenn Powell.
Yeah, that's what it was. The script's too good.
I don't want to ruin it. That's not exactly what he said.
That's what he said. The script is so good.
I can't see myself. I can't see a role for myself in here.
So, interesting. That's a hell of a way to turn down a role.
I love that that is something. I didn't know that happened, but maybe he just didn't think he fit in the movie.
Does that take place? Maybe he hates it. Maybe he thinks it's god awful.
That's what I'm saying. That's a hell of a way to turn something down there.
But also, maybe he thinks it's going to be so good. Doesn't want this to be the rest of my life.
Could be that. Sometimes actors, too, are just like, Yeah, why would you want that? This just doesn't seem right for me.

I don't want to do this.

Some of these actors don't want to be

just one character forever, brother.

You're right.

But, I mean,

they all want to get part

of a franchise

that you can make multiple movies

and that's when you get

the huge money.

Yeah, and I guess

with Glenn Powell,

he's supposed to be

the next in Top Gun, right?

Whenever it goes.

Yeah, I guess you don't want

to be typecast

as that Jurassic Park guy.

I get it.

I wouldn't mind being that. You know, I think it'd be be cool to be a Jurassic Park guy.
Tone would fucking love it. Dr.
Green did it for years and years and years and Ellie Sadler and all the cult guys. What's going on with the superheroes? We got any of those coming out anytime soon? What happened to them? Hopefully not.
Whoa. I mean, what is a superhero movie? I speak out of ignorance because I have not seen any of them.
You definitely saw the Avengers thing. No chance.
Which one were the Avengers? That was the only one I watched. If you do recall, this is a few years back, I knew none of the actual superheroes, but I watched the one where they all came together.
That's the Avengers, right? Correct. Marvel Avengers, I believe, was the movie.
I had no idea the backstory of it. Okay, that was a little bit of a, that was an interesting thing.
I actually tweeted along while I was watching it, complimenting some of these people, and obviously I guess it was all very well-known shit, but I had quite an experience. I mean, it was a fantastic movie.
Oh, you enjoyed it? Oh, okay. Oh, I loved it.
I absolutely loved it. Endgame? And then the next, I was asked, remember this whole thing? I was told that I knew the spoilers, and I spoiled it because I watched The Avengers, only thing I ever watched, and then I was asked down at Super Bowl Radio Row how I think Endgame goes, and I was just like, easy.
This is an easy one to figure out. In The Avengers, they were just trying to get the rocks.
So you just get all the rocks, and then you have all the power. That is the game.
And then old buddy gets the thing. That was the entire movie.
And that just felt like a very easy fucking thing. I got these people attacking me.
They were calling me a spoiler and saying that I ruined a movie and all this shit. I knew next to nothing about any of this shit.
I'm just literally my thoughts after watching one movie. So I will say this, Nick, super into the superheroes.
I think Ty, I think you do not get into it. I used to be.
I couldn't give two shits about it now. But there are people that love it.
And after watching that Avengers movie, I understood. I'm like, this is fucking the amount of money they spend on stuff.
It was sweet. Like, I really enjoyed it.

But I guess a lot of them have done poorly, right?

Isn't that kind of the new thing?

Yeah, they replaced all the main original actors mostly pretty much because contracts run up.

And like you guys were talking about,

people just got kind of tired of playing the same role for years and years and years.

They made all their money.

They did all these movies.

And so they tried to turn it over to newer, younger, different actors

that has not hit in the same realm. So it's a next generation of all these superheroes.
It's kind of become the issue. Pretty much.
Yeah. There's a couple of them that like Chris Hemsworth still does some stuff from time to time.
And he's got some other. He's great.
He's the guy that plays Thor. But like.
Spider-Man. Even the last Thor movie didn't do well.
I think everyone just got fatigued. Yeah.
Because there was a bunch of them there. Boom.
back though huh yeah albert downey jr's back as iron man no someone else guy who's the next iron man i don't know yeah i don't know if there will be these used to be like events though like it'd be like there was one one movie that was coming out a year and now there's there's so much of it and there's like a new series all the time like i think they kind of just hit people over the head with it so much that people are like, fuck this. It's just too much.
You can't keep up with all of it anymore. I hope it comes back for you, Nick.
I do. I don't think it's gonna.
Whoa. That's alright.
We had it. We had a good run there.
All things must come to an end. He doesn't think it's ever coming back.
I think you also get to a point where it's like, I'm 35. I don't really give a shit about this stuff anymore.
When I was 18, yeah, it was pretty cool. Seeing Iron Man.
You know, now it's like. There's storylines in here.
Great. I don't give a fuck about this crap.
It's for the superhero business. Okay.
Okay. Holy shit.
Here we go. Yes.
Nice. Still a lot.
Still a lot. Thank you.
That's huge. We got an opportunity.
Even better at 37. All right.
Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice.
It might change their life. We're in this thing together.
We'll see you tomorrow. Yeah, team on me.
Great work thus far, boys. We're off Thursday, Friday.
Remember that. Tomorrow is a Friday.

Attitudes shall reflect that.

And we will launch into a March madness

like you've never seen before.

Team on three.

One, two, three.

Team, good night.

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