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Speaker 3: To fifty All right, starting it off with softball. They
Speaker 3: lost in the Big twelve championship game to Texas Tech,
Speaker 3: but they got the thirteen seed and we'll be hosting
Speaker 3: a regional for the first time in twenty two.
Speaker 2: Were you surprised you follow it closely, your kind of clostly.
Speaker 2: Were you surprised who she went with on the pill?
Speaker 4: Yeah, in terms of how Devin was pitching at the
Speaker 4: end of the season, she loaded her You are into
Speaker 4: under two stop. I think anywhere from at like zero
Speaker 4: point eight to one point two is elite. So Devin was,
Speaker 4: you know, doing well. You want to pitch your best
Speaker 4: pitchers in the biggest game.
Speaker 2: So was anybody from here out there watch covering the game.
Speaker 2: Did they? Did she give an explanation of why she?
Speaker 4: I think it's because I don't think she gave an explanation.
Speaker 4: But I think it's because Devin went the first two
Speaker 4: games and softball is just a different world now where
Speaker 4: you just don't see they just pitch every single game,
Speaker 4: and you're going to do that in the postseason.
Speaker 2: So and if they had kept it close, maybe come
Speaker 2: in and keep it close.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And to be honest, you win that game, you
Speaker 4: lose that game. Texas Tech was the twelve seeds, so
Speaker 4: you're not moving up very much, so you want to win.
Speaker 4: But in the grand scheme of things, saving your picture
Speaker 4: for the tournament was for the postseason tournament was much
Speaker 4: more important.
Speaker 2: Let me ask a double question because if you follow it,
Speaker 2: because I haven't. The former Oklahoma pitcher who transferred to Nebraska,
Speaker 2: she still pitching.
Speaker 4: She's still pitching. She's a very good year Nebraska. I
Speaker 4: mean as a program, eh, but her herself.
Speaker 2: She's a great player, a great patag Oh yeah's are
Speaker 2: they I don't know if they're in I have not
Speaker 2: seen that.
Speaker 4: I got to look at that. But Nigie Kennedy. You
Speaker 4: know Stanford went to touch Stack. Yeah, phenomenal job. One
Speaker 4: big twelve player the year probably in my opinion. But
Speaker 4: you know, when you have the when you have the
Speaker 4: best player in the country, and I think than your
Speaker 4: Kennedy is, you're you're going to be in every game,
Speaker 4: and especially when that player is on the mound, well
Speaker 4: in the circle.
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, uh it says right here.
Speaker 3: Nebraska is going to be playing in Benton Ruge, by
Speaker 3: the way, but regional here UH goes down on Friday,
Speaker 3: starting on Friday against Santa Clara at four thirty ESPN plus.
Speaker 2: Are you a big weekend of softball like the good
Speaker 2: old days? I love it. It's so good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you've never been to hilly Rand during a regional,
Speaker 4: the super regionals are great, but the regionals where you
Speaker 4: have every team playing, the games go late and you're
Speaker 4: it's a great atmosphere, especially now that hilly Brand is redone.
Speaker 4: It's not like back in the day when there's a
Speaker 4: little band box on top of the uh the stadium
Speaker 4: for the press box.
Speaker 2: But it's a great facility. Tickets available, I know they
Speaker 2: had them for sale, Like I assume that they're going
Speaker 2: to be you know, probably about twenty five bucks. Yeah,
Speaker 2: don't doing that range. It's not bad. If this is
Speaker 2: not just get a hold of Troy keeping it on
Speaker 2: the diamond.
Speaker 3: Arizona Baseball wins their home finale versus Utah and snapped
Speaker 3: the Flower Games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a weird.
Speaker 4: That was That was rough because now I think you
Speaker 4: would have to win the Big twelve Tournament to potentially host.
Speaker 4: But TCU ranks higher than you in terms of RPI,
Speaker 4: so it is West Virginy. I think Arizona is in
Speaker 4: that fiftieth range.
Speaker 2: What all happened?
Speaker 4: They've done this every year since chip Tail's taken over.
Speaker 4: This is the Tail kind of what they do. When's
Speaker 4: the last time they advanced to the College World Series
Speaker 4: when Jay was there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of what they played. They went deep first
Speaker 2: or second year, right, and then.
Speaker 4: They they have never they made it to a Super
Speaker 4: but they never made it to the college Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: Well they have that run where they probably shouldn't have
Speaker 4: made the playoffs with chip Hail and they won the
Speaker 4: packedholl Tournament and they made it in but they poorly
Speaker 4: all season, had that run and then went out in
Speaker 4: the first time.
Speaker 2: If that happens consistently. That must be a something. It's
Speaker 2: a something. It is what it is.
Speaker 4: I don't I don't know how to take it other
Speaker 4: than that is every year at the at this time
Speaker 4: of the year, you're struggling and you're the coach. You've
Speaker 4: changed up assistant coaches, you've changed up players, and the
Speaker 4: same thing keeps on happening.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, it makes it tough.
Speaker 3: They are gonna have one more series in Houston, Tahos
Speaker 3: starting on Thursday.
Speaker 2: For you, Anglos, it's Texas told not to talk about it.
Speaker 3: But Arizona tennis, Oh, this is a fool. I hope
Speaker 3: you've listen to.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: Lost to Virginia two to four in the sweet sixteen. Yeah,
Speaker 3: in their tennis tournament. Moving on to some more national.
Speaker 2: Well, the Colton Smith went seventeen to Oh he won
Speaker 2: his Yeah, he was one of the two that win
Speaker 2: his thing. He's seventeen. Oh no, he's headed to the pros.
Speaker 2: I I do you know how this works, because I
Speaker 2: would figure that the singles people would be a long Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but he's done. I think he's done.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest. I've never covered tennis. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: I wish I would have because he's fantastic. And two,
Speaker 2: I guess there it gets kind of crazy because they
Speaker 2: let music and the cheering and in.
Speaker 4: Such an it's because it's right behind Hill and Ran. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's such a tight little area in terms of the
Speaker 4: seating and all that, and not a lot of seating.
Speaker 4: So I'm sure if you have people routing people, you're
Speaker 4: gonna hear the front house.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the front house is nearby.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I guess keeping it a little local. Uh,
Speaker 3: Carter Bryant, like you, like we talked about a little bit.
Speaker 2: Isn't gonna be uh safe? What does it? Sales?
Speaker 3: Just says measurements, Uh, not participating in drills stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Were you a little shocked on the measurements?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: What did you say? What did you say? He had?
Speaker 4: He was listed at barefoot Again, that's different when you
Speaker 4: playing and the shoes, Uh six six six seven, not
Speaker 4: that's six eighth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, but that happens a lot. The last
Speaker 2: time I saw a guy playing in feet wasn't the
Speaker 2: pro player. So he's six seven. I'm not going to
Speaker 2: make the number like me I used to be, you know,
Speaker 2: six foot two, divorced almost a seven foot wingspan. So
Speaker 2: you know you got that, didn't you? Oh yeah, keep
Speaker 2: it going.
Speaker 3: The lottery is I think starting right now. I think
Speaker 3: it's probably should be going on lottery, the NBA lottery.
Speaker 2: Oh to who's gonna pick? Who's gonna pick? Isn't it
Speaker 2: a halftime a game? Or maybe five? I think it's
Speaker 2: before a game? Yeah, maybe the next game. Is there
Speaker 2: two games today? There's two year they're probably in between games.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's the Cooper Flag Lottery, the Cooper Flag lotter.
Speaker 4: Who's number two? I saw that list of the day
Speaker 4: and I was like, guy, no, I think it was
Speaker 4: the Rucker Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you see him play?
Speaker 4: I never saw himlay Ruckers wasn't good. I know they
Speaker 4: have two top ten picks.
Speaker 2: You I thought was very good, very good, and not
Speaker 2: just in the playoffs. It was the kid from Florida,
Speaker 2: the guard who saved them all the time. The guard.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he was good. He's the second round and
Speaker 2: he's the second round. Guy, He's just he was fantastic. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he can get shots. Super. He was a little like Steph.
Speaker 4: If I'm an NBA team and you don't have that
Speaker 4: top pick, the guy and you're in that range. The
Speaker 4: guy want is v j etchcam from Baylor.
Speaker 2: I like, what what about the b Yu kid? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't. I feel like you too. I didn't really
Speaker 2: thought he was okay, yeah, he's got some IQ obviously
Speaker 2: basketball IQ, the Baylor MA, the Baylor kid. I didn't
Speaker 2: really notice enough to get that.
Speaker 4: I thought his first step and when when he wants
Speaker 4: to get to the bucket, you can't stop him.
Speaker 2: He kind of reminded me a little.
Speaker 4: Bit of Russell Westbrook athletically and being able to finish
Speaker 4: at the RAM.
Speaker 2: Houston had some guys very raw. Houston had some guys too.
Speaker 2: For sure they're gonna have some guys next year too.
Speaker 2: Maryland has a top ten pick. So let me let
Speaker 2: me ask you this. So I was playing over the
Speaker 2: weekend and one of my friends who reads me and
Speaker 2: who follows me said he wants he thinks Sara Zona's
Speaker 2: gonna get to the final four and with a chance
Speaker 2: to win it. And he and I said okay, and
Speaker 2: he says, I bet you they're going to win it
Speaker 2: or get to the final four, and this coming up,
Speaker 2: and his eyes raised and he was very serious, and
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, okay, let's bet, and he says, I'll bet
Speaker 2: you a hundred bucks and I said, okay, sure of course,
Speaker 2: and he said, whatever your odds are going to give me.
Speaker 2: He said, I'm not the one bringing up this bet.
Speaker 2: Why am I going to give you odds when something
Speaker 2: you're bringing up exactly exactly? So he says, well, that
Speaker 2: hasn't happened. I said, yeah, right, since two thousand and
Speaker 2: one exactly. Thank you for proving my point. So he
Speaker 2: says okay. Then I said, okay, I'll give you two
Speaker 2: to one that they don't get to the final four.
Speaker 2: And then let me tell you something. I want them
Speaker 2: too because it helps me with a lot of differently
Speaker 2: for sure. And he says, no, it's gotta be more.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, you're the one that is your eyebrows again.
Speaker 2: Going back, would you take what would you bet if
Speaker 2: you had a chance to get some odds and get
Speaker 2: to the final four.
Speaker 4: In terms of what I think Arizona would be in
Speaker 4: terms of getting to the final four, I think they're
Speaker 4: going to be one of the top ten teams in
Speaker 4: terms of odds five to one, six to one, twelve
Speaker 4: to one. That's probably to win it. I think I
Speaker 4: think to win it.
Speaker 2: It's going to be about that fourteen fifteen, Yeah, somewhere
Speaker 2: in the kitchen. The final four is a little different
Speaker 2: six to eight. Okay, yeah, and I would Yeah, I
Speaker 2: wasn't the one in all the enthusiastic. He said, you know,
Speaker 2: the last time I checked, you're not a casino. This
Speaker 2: is in Vegas. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, no exactly. There
Speaker 2: was the point I said, if you want to bet it,
Speaker 2: I'm not the dude.
Speaker 6: To do it with.
Speaker 2: You gotta go to Vegas. Yeah, but there's but let
Speaker 2: me say there's a good chance. Yeah, how old are you?
Speaker 2: Thirty thirty? So when you were four, when you were five,
Speaker 2: that was the last.
Speaker 4: Time they went, and they've been closed three times outside
Speaker 4: of that. And again, people have a lucky day. The
Speaker 4: ball bounces your way and you can't account for that.
Speaker 2: And the wall they used today is not very has
Speaker 2: not been very good to Arizone. No, it hasn't.
Speaker 3: All right, keeping it going with I on the sports book. Uh,
Speaker 3: kind of a little bit of a local thing that happened. Uh, yesterday,
Speaker 3: what do you guys think about the Ben Benedict Mathern ejection?
Speaker 2: Yesterday?
Speaker 4: You know, I didn't see the full play. I saw
Speaker 4: that he got ejected. He got kind of thrown down
Speaker 4: or hit down. Did they say he punched someone?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they said it was like that. Like it was like.
Speaker 3: No, no, right before that, like it looked like he
Speaker 3: like tried to hit like hip check him to get
Speaker 3: some space.
Speaker 2: But yeah, they're saying it was a close. That was
Speaker 2: That was exactly it. He was just trying to separate
Speaker 2: himself from the defender and he was like a push
Speaker 2: with open it was. It was really strange because the
Speaker 2: dude overreacted. Yeah I'm not trying to be a ben homologist,
Speaker 2: but it looked like it was over I thought it
Speaker 2: was pretty weak.
Speaker 4: I originally when I saw he got ejected because we
Speaker 4: had the volume off and it's mothers say, I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: let's turn on the volume. I he just got abjected.
Speaker 4: He must have said something. I thought maybe he said
Speaker 4: something to the ref so like he punched him, and
Speaker 4: we didn't really see the replay. They didn't really show
Speaker 4: it again. And it was not a punch. It was
Speaker 4: more like a get away from me, get away from me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think it shows how soft the NBA is now
Speaker 4: and how it's gotten over the years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I got a text from my crafty uh
Speaker 2: on field. On Field correspondent Javier A. Loewe said that
Speaker 2: she wanted to give Madix the experience of playing in
Speaker 2: a big game, and she thought everyone could have done
Speaker 2: better in the game for sure.
Speaker 4: I mean they didn't score. Yeah, so you got to
Speaker 4: score to win a game. But I just feel that
Speaker 4: when you're in a game like that, and if you're
Speaker 4: shooting for that Big Twelve title and you're going against
Speaker 4: arguably the best player in the country, maybe after giving
Speaker 4: up the first run, you needed to be quicker making
Speaker 4: a change. But again, you could say rusher for the postseason, Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I can.
Speaker 2: Agree with that.
Speaker 3: Also, in that game, Donovan Mitchell reaggravated ankle injury, so
Speaker 3: he's gonna be if he for an elimination game back
Speaker 3: in Cleveland, that's gonna be tough.
Speaker 4: You know, they're done. Yeah, even if he was out,
Speaker 4: I think they're pretty much because.
Speaker 3: I mean there's like three guys that are banged up
Speaker 3: apart from him anyways, So yeah.
Speaker 4: I think it's just another outside of Draymond Green getting
Speaker 4: suspended to help Lebron win the title, I think it's
Speaker 4: another Cleveland story of really sad sports moments.
Speaker 2: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 3: Following up with the games tonight Minnesota and Golden State.
Speaker 2: That's what time five seven.
Speaker 3: And the Celtics and the Knicks are at four to
Speaker 3: thirty by a tip off.
Speaker 2: Nick's about to take a three one lead. Oh we
Speaker 2: bet that? Okay, I gonna remember a conversation. No, you're
Speaker 2: you're just betting all over the place. No, No, twenty
Speaker 2: bucks is twenty bucks. I don't remember betting you with
Speaker 2: the Golden State, Worris. But if you said so, we did,
Speaker 2: we did, We can we can review the No, no, no,
Speaker 2: I still like my chances. Okay, Steph's coming back. Okay,
Speaker 2: wrap that baby up, Okay, wrap that baby up.
Speaker 3: Knock know what over here? All right, close out with
Speaker 3: this one, but yeah, we gotta go. Diamondbacks are calling
Speaker 3: up their top prospect and they have oh yeah, series
Speaker 3: against the job.
Speaker 4: I would know who he is, right, yeah, Jordan Laller,
Speaker 4: one of the better shortstop prospects in basebably believe number
Speaker 4: five overall.
Speaker 2: What are you gonna do with their roster?
Speaker 4: Well, Lalla will be that guy that kind of fills
Speaker 4: in every now and then short He can play some third,
Speaker 4: play some second. He will not start today, He'll start tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Perdomo will get the off day. But Perdomo has been
Speaker 4: one of the better shortstops in baseball. So just adds
Speaker 4: more depth and adds a little punch that they need
Speaker 4: on the roster right now, he's gotta be like twenty one.
Speaker 2: Maybe be twenty one and making that money and being
Speaker 2: who you are and pox you know, dangerous. Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: exactly a lot of them live in the Scots. Exactly
Speaker 2: what I asked you, Brendan says, what would your self
Speaker 2: tell you now? Then you would have told your eighteen
Speaker 2: year old self, Yeah, go to class, go to class,
Speaker 2: save money and don't you don't need to spend it
Speaker 2: on that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Anyways, big series against the Giants, Uh, three game series.
Speaker 2: Excited for that one. I know it was tough, man, but.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe they won't punt the last scheme like they
Speaker 4: did this previous series against the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Man A right, I think with that one. Goo, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: so we're not worried about We're not any concerned about
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Speaker 2: two other things up? Do Michael Jordan thing.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Michael Jordan joining NBC NBC's NBA coverage as
Speaker 3: a special contributor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's it's a cool thing. I think. I
Speaker 2: don't think he's going to be that great because he's
Speaker 2: not that great on radio or TV. But you got
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan, miael Jordan. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And when NBC was at its height in terms of
Speaker 4: NBA broadcastings out Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and then those The other one was the
Speaker 2: other one. Rich Eisen is going back to ESPN.
Speaker 4: Which is very surprising to me, especially with how like
Speaker 4: he he kind of became one of the faces of
Speaker 4: NFL network, the draft coverage and just all his shows
Speaker 4: that he's done.
Speaker 2: And I heard him on the on the show Thursday
Speaker 2: Friday when I was off going to Phoenix, and because
Speaker 2: he does a podcast, I think, and his wife and
Speaker 2: other others were on it, and it was it was
Speaker 2: kind of a cool show, I guess, But you know,
Speaker 2: all these guys are coming in. What's old is new again?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make it when I'm seventy.
Speaker 4: Well, remember ESPN did that like what was it six
Speaker 4: seven years ago where they got oh guy from Seattle,
Speaker 4: I can't remember his name. I used to do ESPN.
Speaker 4: He was the Seattle guy. They had Kenny, Kenny Maine. Okay,
Speaker 4: they brought back, he brought in Keith Olberman at him
Speaker 4: for like, yeah, a year, and then they got rid
Speaker 4: of them and they.
Speaker 2: Realized, okay, yeah, yeah, because Kenny Maine does the who
Speaker 2: does the U of a stuff? The chili, the tasting thing,
Speaker 2: the basketball time.
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, that he retired. That was Gras or
Speaker 4: something like that. But grass Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, I
Speaker 4: mean growing up in the early two thousands, that's kind
Speaker 4: of where you had the nineties ESPN two early two
Speaker 4: thousands ESPN, where you had all these well known faces
Speaker 4: and well known people Stuart's, Scott van Palp and all that.
Speaker 4: Damn Patrick. Now it's kind of like who hosts CS
Speaker 4: Nobody knows that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, No, they had a local girl here for
Speaker 2: a while. Brewer, Yeah, who's you know? Was there for
Speaker 2: a couple of coffee like a year? Or so, and
Speaker 2: then don't cray for her because she's married to what's
Speaker 2: his name, Frank Kaminski. Frank, Yeah, you have a you
Speaker 2: have a favorite player, Yeah, one of them that's not
Speaker 2: a UCLA guy. Yeah, or Darren or Darren Williams. Yeah,
Speaker 2: de Williams from Illinois. Yeah. Again, if you want to call,
Speaker 2: please do five two four one four forty. If you
Speaker 2: listen to our Bret Brennan time, that was a good
Speaker 2: fun time. Don't forget to listen to the podcast later
Speaker 2: tonight when it goes up. If you missed it, it
Speaker 2: was a lot of fun, you know.
Speaker 4: Looking if we could go back to softball real quick,
Speaker 4: looking at the regional how many times are they not
Speaker 4: just softball? They did it for baseball, They've done it
Speaker 4: for other sports. How many times are they going to
Speaker 4: continue to send will Miss the Tucson Yeah, like this
Speaker 4: is I don't ole Miss has come to Tucson for
Speaker 4: soft Did.
Speaker 2: You watch it yesterday the drawings? No? No, I kept
Speaker 2: up with it, but didn't watch it. A good question.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know whether they have grand canyon.
Speaker 4: Right, You kind of want to make that you usually
Speaker 4: have a grand canyon or California, a smaller California team,
Speaker 4: Santa Clara. But it seems like Old Miss whenever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, erizone supposing some baseball, softball whatever Ole Miss is
Speaker 2: there in doubt. Send him to Tucson. Yeah. No, they
Speaker 2: played Friday. It's four thirty. Yeah, Friday against Saturday. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that'd be fun place to go. I'm not sure what
Speaker 2: I want to do next week.
Speaker 3: Did you see the when I forget what what school
Speaker 3: it was, but when the team that got put up
Speaker 3: against Oklahoma, like they just automatically, like I saw that
Speaker 3: on that Yeah, it was like so funny that.
Speaker 4: Was I think, wasn't that Bradley I think it was
Speaker 4: or Boston.
Speaker 2: You're excited, You're excited to be in and.
Speaker 4: Then oh yeah yeah, well in another interesting is well
Speaker 4: again with all the conference alignment and all that, it's
Speaker 4: not really surprising, but seven of the eight at large
Speaker 4: bids that's gonna go to Super Regionals SEC.
Speaker 2: Where's UCLA are they? They're nine? They didn't give them one.
Speaker 2: They didn't give them one.
Speaker 4: And what's funny is Oregon was a top ten team
Speaker 4: all year long. They give them a sixteen seed. Well,
Speaker 4: really because of the conference schedule the Big ten as
Speaker 4: as a conference isn't very good outside of Oregon, Ucla, Washington,
Speaker 4: and Michigan sometimes more in Western But it's not what
Speaker 4: the SEC is. It's not what the what the PAC
Speaker 4: twelve used to be. So they went from ten to
Speaker 4: sixteen and they're gonna have to play the number one
Speaker 4: seed if they advance.
Speaker 2: So how many packed twelve teams old PAC twelve teams?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Washington, Arizona, the Stanford, Ucla, Oregon. And I want
Speaker 4: to say that's it. I might be missing one there,
Speaker 4: but yeah, you know, I'm looking at you and you're
Speaker 4: saying all these things.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you. Let me ask you something. If
Speaker 2: you if Arizona were to play Duke again, which they're not,
Speaker 2: would you go back to Duke and watch it again? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Why at Duke? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Loved it? What part the stadium was incredible? North Caro?
Speaker 4: I I loved North Carolina. I thought it was a beautiful.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I want to eat up bo Jangles again. That.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a knock on bo Jingles. I'm not having
Speaker 4: boat Jangles ever again. In salmonella, bois anything like that.
Speaker 4: It was terrible.
Speaker 2: You so you were the impressed with Duke yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't go back to Kansas because it was it
Speaker 4: was just underwhelming.
Speaker 2: It was I've been there five times and to me,
Speaker 2: it's just a game. So to me, I felt, I
Speaker 2: know what you're talking about Kansas, it's fog and everybody,
Speaker 2: but it's not what you think. And to me, Duke
Speaker 2: wasn't either. Outside of that, I would not go back
Speaker 2: because if you were if you were, if you were
Speaker 2: older and you went to Stanford when Mike Montgomery was
Speaker 2: running against Arizona, that was fantastic. It was better. To me,
Speaker 2: it's better than Duke. But Duke might have been made
Speaker 2: for TV situation and you had the Cameron crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we have a I'll get to that point. You're on
Speaker 2: the air and nine the ball. Who's this?
Speaker 12: That's Rick?
Speaker 2: Rick? What's up?
Speaker 12: Dallas? Dallas Mavericks got the number one pick in the
Speaker 12: NBA draft.
Speaker 2: Well they did, so they went through it. Just now, Dallas.
Speaker 12: They had a one point eight percent chance of.
Speaker 2: Getting That's like you win in a pooker game with me.
Speaker 2: I'll give your time to get off the chair.
Speaker 12: Yeah we're you know, we're on the air.
Speaker 2: It's because really so one point they got the title,
Speaker 2: so well, that'll give them hope. I have a top five.
Speaker 12: Do you know the listener was van Antonio was second pick,
Speaker 12: seventy six ers or the third pick, and Charlotte was
Speaker 12: the fourth and I forget who is number five? Okay, okay, anyway,
Speaker 12: that's you heard the first year of the ABC.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the breaking news. All right, brother, thank
Speaker 2: you man, thank you. You know what, They're probably excited
Speaker 2: for Cooper Flag, but I bet you they'd rather have Luca.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh I would. Cooper's good, but you know
Speaker 2: what Luca is. You're talking about a rookie compared to
Speaker 2: a guy that's gotten you to it. But according else,
Speaker 2: he's overweight and can't play well. You may look like
Speaker 2: a Pillsbury do boy, but lo the move. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't care how big he is. Five is the Jazz,
Speaker 2: by the way, is the Jazz? See and the Spurs.
Speaker 4: I think they had two shots of the number one
Speaker 4: pick because they've got Atlanta's picked too, so they I
Speaker 4: thought for sure the Spurs were going to get a
Speaker 4: pair of flag with with Wemby, and that's how they
Speaker 4: would get the Spurs back to NBA. I'm a conspiracy
Speaker 4: theorist when it comes to NBA Draft lottery. Just running
Speaker 4: that out there.
Speaker 2: Okay, what were we talking about before softball top all
Speaker 2: you know, we're talking about Duke. I'm sorry, Yeah, but
Speaker 2: you were saying one team that did make it was
Speaker 2: a s U. Did not make it? They did? Or
Speaker 2: did they made it? Yeah? They made it to the
Speaker 2: LA Regional.
Speaker 13: Wow.
Speaker 2: They had a bad year too, So you forgot about
Speaker 2: a SU. My bad.
Speaker 4: But going back to that Duke thing, the thing was
Speaker 4: Stanford in terms of it being a great environment, which
Speaker 4: it always looked that way when I was same with
Speaker 4: Washington State when Tony Bennett was there, it seemed like
Speaker 4: a crazy environment at times when it came into town.
Speaker 2: I don't yeah, I don't remember that. I don't remember that.
Speaker 2: Some of the best places were Michigan State. When they
Speaker 2: was under in Michigan State, that was crazy. The scariest
Speaker 2: place I've ever been to. And I wasn't even playing
Speaker 2: No l s U crazy crazy, yes, because they were
Speaker 2: saying some crazy stuff, not so nicely. It was crazy. Uh.
Speaker 2: And there was when we got there to ask you twice. Uh.
Speaker 2: Warry Smith kid, the father of the one who's playing
Speaker 2: now for Houston, I think it is, and uh Stroll
Speaker 2: Miles Swift kick the crap out of Arizona one time,
Speaker 2: and then another time Ricky Anderson was suspended from the
Speaker 2: team so he no, no, that was another and I
Speaker 2: didn't cover that team back then, but yeah, so they
Speaker 2: hasn't been kind of Arizona. But so there's been places
Speaker 2: with Stanford to me and then Oregon Oregon at court
Speaker 2: it is because you never knew if that place was
Speaker 2: going to fall apart during the game. Well and Stanford,
Speaker 2: the court used to shake shake and it was packed
Speaker 2: and it was crazy. See it's like the Robinson I
Speaker 2: remember the Robinson shot a three quarter court with Tiger
Speaker 2: Woods was there and they beat Arizona and they say
Speaker 2: with Andre and Sole.
Speaker 4: But the problem with that is outside of that era,
Speaker 4: that's that crowd.
Speaker 2: Went, oh, yeah, I know, it's it's it won't ever
Speaker 2: happen again. No, you're right, you're right, and Duke is
Speaker 2: Duke and it has that mistake. But it was cool.
Speaker 2: It was cool because we could leave our seats. It
Speaker 2: was it was so close to the students.
Speaker 4: And yeah, well Kansas, I mean again, it is Kansas.
Speaker 4: It is fog Allen. I get that. I get it
Speaker 4: all duked and pumping crowd noise like Kansas did. Kansas
Speaker 4: is pumping?
Speaker 2: Were they Okay, I don't remember doing that.
Speaker 4: Because you're far up. You know what you said? All
Speaker 4: they had the media on the far corner. Oh no, no, yeah,
Speaker 4: no we were not if you're in the far corner
Speaker 4: and the and the home media is up there now too,
Speaker 4: they're not on the course. I gus here here do
Speaker 4: you even worse? Like imagine being like you can touch
Speaker 4: the ceiling. Yeah, that's how you were at Kansas. That's Stanford,
Speaker 4: and I think U c l a. You're up top right,
Speaker 4: but okay, the crowd's good. But then you can hear
Speaker 4: the crowd noise being pumped in You're like this, yeah,
Speaker 4: you don't mean pumping noise.
Speaker 2: And it was visually look good, impressive for sure, But
Speaker 2: Duke is obviously made for TV. And when you get
Speaker 2: nine thousand people in a room, of course it's gonna
Speaker 2: look good. With the students.
Speaker 4: And another thing is and I hope Tommy if he
Speaker 4: is listening, I know, probably probably not listening, but schedule
Speaker 4: North Carolina.
Speaker 2: I would like to go see. I was there. I
Speaker 2: was there for that game North Carolina in ninety eight ish.
Speaker 2: I've heard that Smiles was an assistant coach when they
Speaker 2: did the home and home work.
Speaker 4: North Carolina played like mid conference during the AFC week
Speaker 4: Arizona times.
Speaker 2: It was one of the Loot's the worst defeats. Yeah,
Speaker 2: two thousand and eight, thousand and seven, But I heard.
Speaker 4: That that same is kind of underwhelming, but I still
Speaker 4: want to say it was. And then Rough Arena obviously
Speaker 4: is another one.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'd never been there. One of the biggest
Speaker 2: twos was Virginia. They had just opened the building and
Speaker 2: Loot was married to Christina at the time and she
Speaker 2: was a grad from Virginia. Yeah, that was crazy because
Speaker 2: it was the first game there and there was Chase
Speaker 2: budingers year and Marcus Williams.
Speaker 4: The one I think about watching as a kid, and
Speaker 4: I'm sure you're there at that game was Arizona at
Speaker 4: wake for It was Sliam Styler. I think that was
Speaker 4: an overtime game in the nineties hundreds. No, No, they
Speaker 4: didn't they lost, They lost, didn't go that was the
Speaker 4: That was the n I game. Oh, I thought it
Speaker 4: was New York.
Speaker 2: No played.
Speaker 4: They had Chris Chris he was the number two overall
Speaker 4: recruit in terms of point guard and Mustafa was the
Speaker 4: number one.
Speaker 2: But it was, it was, and I teach him. Okay,
Speaker 2: I just remember remember that game though, will I think
Speaker 2: that has a guy named Williams from Wake Force was
Speaker 2: fantastic too. But we had Chris Paul versus Mustafa, which
Speaker 2: which you know I'm trying. I was trying to get
Speaker 2: him on. He said he's gonna come on the show
Speaker 2: at some point. But yeah, those are the good old days.
Speaker 2: It unreal college basketball back then. Yeah, guess what's coming back?
Speaker 2: That basketball? Because Tommy's Tommy's Tommy's scheduling, like Luke did. Yes,
Speaker 2: let's pay the best and see where we're at and
Speaker 2: see how good we have to be.
Speaker 4: Not only that, and another element to that is Sean
Speaker 4: went through that one and done era of a lot
Speaker 4: of players leading even players that probably shouldn't like a
Speaker 4: Grant Jarrett. You know, second round draft chance coming out well,
Speaker 4: but now with nil was being able to get money,
Speaker 4: they're not going to leave for a second round pick now,
Speaker 4: so now you're going to see more players state.
Speaker 2: But then you have the portal that mixes it all
Speaker 2: up to sure sure because somebody else could pay you
Speaker 2: more than what you're gonna get here.
Speaker 4: But at least you're seeing more veterans college basketball now.
Speaker 2: No, I applaud Tommy for doing that because it's going
Speaker 2: to be like the good old days. You know. Unfortunately
Speaker 2: I don't travel with the team as much as I
Speaker 2: used to, but it's good to watch for you guys
Speaker 2: who enjoyed the season. That and you have the Big
Speaker 2: Twelve conference that feels did you did you go to
Speaker 2: the Big Twelve? No, that's the thing. I think that's
Speaker 2: another thing that we miss Vegas obviously right for that
Speaker 2: and in this you know, I'll pay my own dime
Speaker 2: to go to that. I I'm gonna have to get there,
Speaker 2: but I'm sure that's still that'll be fun because it's
Speaker 2: so good in Florida. Yeah, to the Big Twelve championships.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, yeah, you know, because it's good, not
Speaker 2: just Arizona playing other games. The other games, it's great basketball. Yeah,
Speaker 2: just move to Vegas. Tucson just was kind of depressed
Speaker 2: the whole time because can get to Kansas.
Speaker 11: I know.
Speaker 4: I think I'm just saying Dallas would be I would
Speaker 4: be fine with Dallas would be sweet. I think SECAs
Speaker 4: in Nashville, So you can't do Nashville, but something more
Speaker 4: in the middle. Lively, Yeah, no, but that place is
Speaker 4: to me, it's too cold, not too too cold.
Speaker 2: And then Lively, I think they have their charm and
Speaker 2: they've done and people in Kansas Vegas hell with that.
Speaker 2: We got what we got here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's nice, that's nice. Is cold and okay, you
Speaker 4: had that fan fast stuff. Yeah, a lot of them
Speaker 4: got canceled because it got too cold.
Speaker 2: So cold, that's the issue. That's the issue. But you
Speaker 2: go for the basketball show, stay, stay in the hotel
Speaker 2: and you go to the basketball I'm just saying, you know,
Speaker 2: give it. Let's get some life. Let's get some life. Well,
Speaker 2: we went to do great, we went to do and
Speaker 2: what do we either bar barbecue and we didn't do
Speaker 2: what we didn't do? We went to the hotel. Yeah,
Speaker 2: went to the place, went to the game and came home.
Speaker 2: You stayed an extra day.
Speaker 4: I stayxtra day and yeah, but no, I I tried
Speaker 4: a couple other things that were good, and then bo
Speaker 4: Jangles I ate was suggested right before I got a.
Speaker 2: Mexican placed the night before something we ate something that
Speaker 2: was a Mexican place. I think we went to a
Speaker 2: barbecue place and then that fast food.
Speaker 4: No, we went to a fast food the chuck box
Speaker 4: or whatever, I can't remember. Something something but something simple.
Speaker 4: And they had everything you could imagine on their menu.
Speaker 4: Like they had I forget what it's called. It's very
Speaker 4: well known, but they like, you had it's something there,
Speaker 4: something like that, something like that. It's like a Hamburger thing,
Speaker 4: but burgers. They had hot dogs, they had pizza, they
Speaker 4: had wings, they had ribs, they had barbecue, had everything.
Speaker 2: Their menu was like a mile long.
Speaker 9: It was.
Speaker 2: It was a good trip. I wouldn't do it again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I would do that again. But what I
Speaker 4: really want to do is the Vegas trip obviously for Florida.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah, and then they definitely have Arizona, U C.
Speaker 13: L A.
Speaker 2: And the Into don't. I don't know. I'll get to that.
Speaker 2: That's when that is like ten days after that. Oh really, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: it's same month. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't saving my pennies now Vegas than l A.
Speaker 4: I have a friend that lives in LA so I
Speaker 4: can stay with a friend not worry about the hotel
Speaker 4: and that helps.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that helps. Yeah, I've seen too many UCLA games
Speaker 2: to worry about CRONA. Yeah, well, it's funny you bring
Speaker 2: that up.
Speaker 4: I kind of want to ask Tommy next time we
Speaker 4: have a press conference, is you've scheduled all these home
Speaker 4: and homes, which is great? Was you did you want
Speaker 4: to make U c l A a home and home series?
Speaker 4: Because I bet he did. Oh, I'm sure you did.
Speaker 4: I'm sure it was more of the UCLA's side. That's
Speaker 4: that we're not doing home and home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure we did, but it's it's what's needed
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Speaker 2: that call, Richards calling it. So you were talking about
Speaker 2: the question that the top places you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, top three places you'd like seeing a game or
Speaker 3: want to see.
Speaker 2: Again, just basketball or any sport. Yeah, let's keep it
Speaker 2: College of Basketball. Yeah yeah. So my my top one
Speaker 2: again is Matt Court because it was crazy, crazy good.
Speaker 2: Organ was good at the time when when Arizona played
Speaker 2: there a lot with Ernie Kent, and then two would
Speaker 2: be Stanford, not even a question Stanford, and then third
Speaker 2: we were talking about l s U how crazy that
Speaker 2: was and it just scary Michigan State, Yukon. Arizona lost
Speaker 2: there with that goldending call for Richie Bolstaos called the
Speaker 2: Lauren Woods. But you know Vegas, Vegas Championship Games of
Speaker 2: the PAC twelve. Crazy good. They're great, crazy good, whether
Speaker 2: it's MGM or T mobile. When they played Ucla, you
Speaker 2: were there, right two you two three years ago?
Speaker 4: Well they I think they played, didn't They played Ucla
Speaker 4: and back to back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was it was crazy.
Speaker 4: I mean you had that last second shot by UCLA
Speaker 4: guard wide open?
Speaker 2: Yeah, who was that guy? I can't remember the wide
Speaker 2: open shot and missed it? Missed it and Arizona like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, well what's the name? Who was who
Speaker 2: hit the shot? Ben?
Speaker 6: Was it?
Speaker 2: Ben?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: To kind of tie it to keep it close, and
Speaker 2: they eventually wanted.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm talking about the year for Caleb's first year.
Speaker 2: Oh they won. No, I'm talking about this is a
Speaker 2: couple of two three years ago when when Ben that
Speaker 2: was a good one too. It was a yeah, they've
Speaker 2: all had been good.
Speaker 4: Anytime you get Arizona U c l A in Vegas,
Speaker 4: pack roll tournament, unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Vegas, Arizona for the most part, getting drunk afterward, debauchery,
Speaker 2: the New York New York Central Bar becomes yeah, you'll
Speaker 2: be no question. You remember ten Commandments showed and when
Speaker 2: Moses came down with the tablets and they're all partying.
Speaker 2: I know of the well, is there a show called
Speaker 2: the No No Commandments You come back with the tabs?
Speaker 2: And he saw everybody partying and having that was the
Speaker 2: York York Bar. It was like, it's like, holy crap.
Speaker 2: It was crazy. And you go, oh, I didn't know
Speaker 2: you're here. Oh you're here. Oh yeah, that's that Friday
Speaker 2: and Saturday nights. Oh yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: No for me, I mean again, my list is shorter
Speaker 4: because I haven't been doing this as long, but uh,
Speaker 4: Duke would be number one easily. I would say Vegas
Speaker 4: the pack whole tournament easily number two. And you know,
Speaker 4: I guess I'm gonna have to throw Kansas on there
Speaker 4: as of right as of right now, but again, not
Speaker 4: a long time doing it, and I'm not going to
Speaker 4: put uh well was far in it because that's very underwhelming.
Speaker 2: No, that's not well. What about what about well Phoenix
Speaker 2: even Phoenix, apt America West or what are they call it?
Speaker 4: All talking sick or whatever? Yeah, where the Sun's place?
Speaker 2: That was? It's yeah, because it's it's uh no no,
Speaker 2: And that's why it was almost shouldn't have the Red
Speaker 2: Blue game out there because it's not enough interest honest,
Speaker 2: they put it in a smaller, smaller ovenue.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but then what's what's the point at that point? Yeah, No,
Speaker 4: I want to try to get out to the pit.
Speaker 4: That's yeah, it's great.
Speaker 2: It's good because New Mexico fans are crazy because they
Speaker 2: hate Arizona. Uh And I've been to a few of
Speaker 2: those for that game and Loot would never to go back,
Speaker 2: but I think Tommy could go back.
Speaker 4: You know which one I would love to do, but
Speaker 4: we're probably never going to see it is Arizona Gonzaga's Yeah,
Speaker 4: that will never happen. They again, First of all, they're
Speaker 4: missing a game. They were supposed to reschedule that game
Speaker 4: and it never got done. Second of all, it's not
Speaker 4: like you're facing each other in the tournament. You guys
Speaker 4: are really close friends. It's a one offer, and the
Speaker 4: college basketball season is crazy. You're gonna have a lot
Speaker 4: of other opportunities. Just do it and get it done.
Speaker 4: Do you want to do it now in a non
Speaker 4: conference meaningless game, or do you want to do it
Speaker 4: in the tournament for the first time.
Speaker 2: That's what's going to happen. It's going to happen. It's
Speaker 2: going to happen. Some point. Yeah, yeah, I don't know
Speaker 2: if you will be around by that time, but we'll see.
Speaker 2: We're always who will be here? Yeah, but will you be?
Speaker 4: The kennel is supposed to be a very intense place.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to go down the road. Uh Stanford
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. Col is horrible. Uh U c l
Speaker 2: A two U c l A two? When When when?
Speaker 2: Because you see, I only drew where Arizona games? Arizona.
Speaker 2: We got a call. Hello, you're on the air and
Speaker 2: one on the mall. Who's this.
Speaker 3: Nico?
Speaker 2: What's up? Nico? Hey?
Speaker 13: First up?
Speaker 17: Man, that was a great interview for Brennan.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you? You know what did you like? Tell
Speaker 2: me what you liked about it? Because I know what
Speaker 2: I liked about it.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: I just like that I gotta kind of know the
Speaker 2: gay exactly, exactly exactly and then not just last year.
Speaker 17: It's like, yeah, he's a great guy, but I'm like,
Speaker 17: I don't know if he's a good guy.
Speaker 2: And the way he spoke today to us, at least
Speaker 2: it made you feel that, didn't it.
Speaker 17: Yeah, when he wanted to do the barbecue thing, that
Speaker 17: was pretty good.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 2: Did you hear what he just did we cut him off.
Speaker 2: We cut it off in time.
Speaker 17: Oh well, I heard him say something about an ass.
Speaker 2: No, he said that. He said it was it was
Speaker 2: good though, it was good job, it was good. No,
Speaker 2: thanks Nic, because I agree with you. I mean just
Speaker 2: kind of showed that he was just a dude.
Speaker 17: I mean, he went a lot more fans over.
Speaker 2: He just did that, Toy said. Toy said that exact
Speaker 2: same thing when he got.
Speaker 4: Off here, especially especially I think post game or just
Speaker 4: weekly press conferences, just being a little bit more laid
Speaker 4: back and not I don't want to say worrisome, but
Speaker 4: you know, your first year head coach had a major
Speaker 4: program after going from San Jose State. I think you're
Speaker 4: tippoing around some stuff and you just got to relax
Speaker 4: be who.
Speaker 2: You are exactly.
Speaker 17: Man and my second poet, man careble Man.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think we might have had to buzz you.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if that's a good word, but I.
Speaker 17: Got to get it under control.
Speaker 2: Man. Yeah, like ulous, Well, you know what, you know what,
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's it's not unpossible, but it's
Speaker 2: not possible because they're so damn good. I mean the
Speaker 2: problem is is that the PAC twelve is gone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the major powers in the PAC twelve Arizona,
Speaker 4: Ucla are no longer together. Yeah, softball specifically, and you
Speaker 4: look at the SEC, Well they just added Oklahoma and Texas,
Speaker 4: who are amazing teams in amazing history. Okay, maybe a
Speaker 4: South Carolina shouldn't be an eight seed, maybe a Tennessee
Speaker 4: shouldn't have been a seventh seed this year, but in general, yeah.
Speaker 2: They're by far the best softball conference. It's not even close.
Speaker 2: So Nico, did you feel that way in basketball too?
Speaker 17: Eh? I don't know, as I don't really care as
Speaker 17: much about basketball stuf though.
Speaker 2: Oh well, okay, no, because they were good in softball
Speaker 2: in basketball too, obviously they took all those spots.
Speaker 4: Now the Big twelve, I think, well, SEC won the title,
Speaker 4: but I think over the course of Big twelve, secs
Speaker 4: one Big twelve did a better job. But first stoppall, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think back in the day when you had the
Speaker 4: Pack ten and really in its heyday with Washington, Stanford, Oregon, Arizona,
Speaker 4: A s U always being really relevant and really good,
Speaker 4: and yet you would see those SEC schools get the
Speaker 4: top eight seeds. That was ridiculous And I think now
Speaker 4: it's just a hard argument not to argue for anybody.
Speaker 4: But then because they have all the teams, they hit
Speaker 4: them up.
Speaker 2: Nico has your life doing? Okay, I haven't heard from you.
Speaker 17: It's all right, man.
Speaker 2: I had to kick my girlfriend to say you still
Speaker 2: love I guess not.
Speaker 17: Well, she wanted me to get rid of the dog.
Speaker 1: I read.
Speaker 17: You're gonna hit the bricks before that dog.
Speaker 2: That sounds like a country sound on its way. That's right,
Speaker 2: that's right. Thanks, thanks for calling it dogs dogs before
Speaker 2: girls take the dog. We got. It's a good time.
Speaker 2: We got five minutes, more minutes. Okay, call anybody calls
Speaker 2: once once anybody wants to call, please do five two
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Speaker 2: four zero.
Speaker 4: You know what, I was surprised just looking at the
Speaker 4: I saw some predictions in terms of the lottery setting
Speaker 4: and where guys are going to stack up. The big
Speaker 4: man from Duke Men's Big yeah, top ten, big yeah.
Speaker 4: In today's game, well, the guard, yes, yes, the guard yes, ippol.
Speaker 2: Oh. We got another. Hello, you're on the air and
Speaker 2: I on the ball. Who's this Hey? It's team money
Speaker 2: t money. Good to hear from you, Hey, that that
Speaker 2: call from Nico.
Speaker 1: Might have been the greatest call to sports radio of
Speaker 1: all time.
Speaker 12: I've never heard a.
Speaker 2: Call in that way that was outstanding. But hey, I
Speaker 2: just wanna I'm kind of confused.
Speaker 3: I heard I was looking through the stations landing on
Speaker 3: you guys and it says there was a wreck on
Speaker 3: lock Canada.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, it might have been us. Because I
Speaker 2: heard something like that last week. I'm thinking, oh god,
Speaker 2: they need to start telling these people.
Speaker 4: Where Google Maps does the same thing. It's lock CANDAA
Speaker 4: drives Lanata people.
Speaker 2: Well, team Money, have you been on a Chola lately?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, I mean I've drivened on Ajo, but yeah, yeah no,
Speaker 2: I hear you on that because it's funny when when
Speaker 2: you say it. When they said thank you Verda.
Speaker 17: Hey, hey Nick, I just want to say, hey, nic
Speaker 17: go keep your head up man, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah thanks man, thanks to money. Wait wait wait wait wait,
Speaker 2: oh okay, cool. Thanks. I was asking me if you've
Speaker 2: been telling the places that to see a game or not. Yeah,
Speaker 2: plenty of time for that. Where your career, you got
Speaker 2: another twenty five years left, hopefully hold on. If the
Speaker 2: business has twenty five four years left, it it Hey,
Speaker 2: I is coming, man, Yeah, I was coming. They try
Speaker 2: to do that games, just throw the information and just
Speaker 2: tell you.
Speaker 4: I think they've done that with a couple of ESPN right,
Speaker 4: says spy ESPN machine that wrote that.
Speaker 3: Well, it's just like I feel like the because I
Speaker 3: remember someone asked me this when I was like working
Speaker 3: the other day. They said, how do you feel about
Speaker 3: like AI, like you know, because they get over, yeah,
Speaker 3: taken over, And I'm like, well, it's just not definitive enough.
Speaker 2: It's not going to have like a real take. It's
Speaker 2: going to be like this is what you can think,
Speaker 2: and this is what you can think, but it will
Speaker 2: never give you a full take. You know what.
Speaker 4: I'm going to sound like the crazy uncle with the
Speaker 4: like you know, the on everybody saw Terminated to right
Speaker 4: and Terminator movies, Right, don't temp fate don't.
Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying. Yeah, I know you need some opinion,
Speaker 2: you need some style in the stories. Yeah, there's humor
Speaker 2: and a human element that you Yeah, that's what you
Speaker 2: say today because it affects you that way. But when
Speaker 2: it comes to money and people like that, things like that,
Speaker 2: they'll go with you. But you know what, one quick call. Hello,
Speaker 2: you're on, got a quick call, thank you. Hello right there, Yes,
Speaker 2: are going good, good, We only got like ninety seconds. Okay.
Speaker 13: Places I like to watch, you know, great places to
Speaker 13: see back in the day when the U A Wildcats basketball, Yes,
Speaker 13: even at home.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, back in the day. Yeah. Compared to back then,
Speaker 2: this is nothing. Even when I go.
Speaker 13: When the fans you know, even back because I'm a
Speaker 13: lot older. If you would have been around to watch
Speaker 13: the fans during the snow early snowed in years, they
Speaker 13: were they were crazy too, Oh okay, because they had
Speaker 13: some really good teams and had great players. Sure, and
Speaker 13: you know to me, that's I mean. Nowadays it's it's
Speaker 13: more so it's so commercialized to go to any places.
Speaker 13: It's just not much fun to you know, to go
Speaker 13: to stuff.
Speaker 2: No, you hit it on the head with the commercial
Speaker 2: because that's the issue they have to worry. That's that's
Speaker 2: the thing they have to conquer now. And I have
Speaker 2: to figure out how to fix that. But we got
Speaker 2: to go, Brian, Thanks for the call, this last second
Speaker 2: call question it Hey. Thanks thanks to everybody for listening.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the calls. If you didn't listen to Brendan's
Speaker 2: stuff get into the podcast. It was a lot of
Speaker 2: fun and he was kind of relaxed. He was cool.
Speaker 2: Thanks everybody,