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[00:00:32] It Started Raining But yeah Like But yeah Nothing Too Bad So Far Of Course We Were Supposed To Be Back Last Week And Then You Had Some Storms Roll Through Knockout Power Yeah We Did Have Some Knockout Power Knocked On In After A Couple Of Hours Yeah That's Alright Another Week Of Relaxation But yeah Man A Lot To Catch Up On Man NBA And NHL Playoffs Are Both In The Conference Finals

[00:01:01] On The NBA Side Right Now The Knicks Are Looking Really Good And Rolling They're About To Finish Off The Cavs Here When's Your First NBA Finals Since What 99 In The Shorten Season Yeah So Yeah Almost 30 Years At This Point So You Know Knicks Fans Feeling Great When Victor Wembanyama Has Come Out As A Bonafide Not Just A Superstar But One Of The Best Players In The League This Playoffs Yeah

[00:01:31] A Couple Of Things He's Consistent Doing It Too Consistent Yeah And Just Hard To Guard Hard To You Know You Know Okay He's Impossible To Guard Nobody Has Cause I Mean Not Only Does He Have The Does He Have The 7'5 Height Then He Has The Mobility Of A Guard I Mean Yeah It Was It Game He's Like A He's Like A Better Version Of Cause You Remember When Anthony Davis First Came In The League It Was A Big Deal Cause He Had That Guard

[00:02:01] Handles And Stuff He's Like A Better Version Of A.D. But When They We Forget How Good A.D. Was When He Came Into The League With His Size And His Mobility Cause You Know He Rews So Much But He Played Guard In High School And Stuff And He Came From Kentucky He's Like A Much Better Version I Wouldn't Say Much Better Cause A.D. Was Great But He's Just Like I Don't Know Just A Better Version Of A.D. Yeah Longer A Little Bit Better With The Ball And Maybe A Jump Shot I Mean That Game 1

[00:02:30] That He Had A Steph Curry Shot That Was Just Ridiculous Yeah Wild Just Yeah Absolutely Wild What He's Done We Had The NBA Draft Lottery While We Were Gone The NCAA Baseball Tournament Is About To Start The Women's College World Series Is About To Start The NCAA Tournament Basketball Is Expanding Unfortunately We've Had All The European Soccer Leagues

[00:03:00] Finish Their Seasons We Had Unexpected Passing Of Kyle Busch Unfortunately Whole Lot Of Stuff Where You Want To Start NBA Yeah We'll Go Ahead Start There Well Yeah Let's Start Since It's On Right Now We Touched On It There Nick's About To Finish A Sweep Here Cleveland Like We Said It'll Be Their First NBA Final Since 99 Was It 99 98 The Shorten Season Yeah 98 I think

[00:03:30] It was Right 98 99 Season Yeah But Yeah The Knicks I mean Overall Just A Dominant Run To The Playoffs I mean You know Last time We talked We were About To Get To The Part Where You know The Cavs The Knicks Had Been A Good Series Up Until That Game Six Where The Knicks Went By Like 70 Oh Yeah And Since then The Knicks Have Been Rolling I mean They beat The Hell Out Of Philly

[00:04:01] Which Was Kind Of Expected But And Then Of Course This Series Against Cleveland You know Cleveland Should Should Have Won Game One You know They Choked That Thing Out Way Badly And Since Then The Knicks Have Completely Dominated The Series Since Overall Though I would Say The Eastern Conference Playoffs Have Been Pretty I don't Know It's One Of The Most Down Years As Far As Like Excitement It's Been Real

[00:04:31] I The Cleveland Series It Went Seven But Man Some Of Those Games Are You're East Yeah The Way The The East Overall Has Been

[00:05:06] Not Sure How They Lost That Series Yeah Especially After The Way That Philly Got Slaughtered By The Knicks I Know Boston Is Just Wondering That Themselves How Did That Even Happen Yeah And It Opens Up Some Questions About The Celtics All Season But Yeah Go

[00:05:37] In The First Yeah Absolutely Insane Yeah Probably $50,000 A ticket But Man Yeah Some World Cup Prices Right there It's gonna be A raucous Crazy Environment

[00:06:07] And And If you Get in There And You're Gonna Have A Story To Tell Just Because I mean As I guess As much History And we Think of The Knicks The Finals History Just

[00:07:04] And Of And And They've Been Blowing Out People They Have They Look Really Really Good And The Funny Thing Is They'll Go No matter Who Wins The West They'll Go Into The Finals As The Underdog But Like You Mentioned Those Games In The Garden Are Going To Be Tough For Either OKC Or San Antonio

[00:07:39] It'll The Knicks In Their Last Playoff There That Was The Inauguration Tim Duncan's Rookie Year Of

[00:08:17] Out Their Franchise History Where They Were Terrible The Year Before They Get A Super Star And Bounce Back Really Quick Yeah And Not Just Wimby But Harper Castle I Mean Just Their Last Few Drafts They've Been Killing It They've Done A Hell Of A Job They Have A A Lot Of Talent A Lot Of Young Talent And Most Importantly And If They Can Keep This Team Together

[00:08:49] They Can Keep This Unit For Man They Might Win A Couple Titles Yeah Yeah Unfortunately Yeah But Realistically I Mean I Honestly On Facebook I Hate On All The Time You Know Spurs Fans Like To Give It To The Spurs Fans But Overall They Been A Consistent They Do It The

[00:09:19] Right Way And You Know It Pays Off For Them As We See Yeah It's It's A Little A Better Version Of Like Me And My Hatred For The Steelers Is Like I Can Always Respect The Franchise And The Consistency You Know Only What Five Head Coaches In Team History Even Though I Think They Than You Know

[00:09:49] The Steelers And But Yeah It's It's One of Those Things As A Rival You Know And Of Course Not Big As A Rival For Me As A Pels Fan But Still Divisional And It's Like You Respect Them But You're Like Damn Just Can You They're Building Toward It's Like Oh Okay

[00:10:19] Yeah You Can Tell Damn They're About To Bounce Back Yeah They Have A Vision I See What They're Building Damn And Then Sure Enough It's Gonna Work Yeah It's Not Gonna Be Like That 76ers Process No Yeah Exactly Yeah They

[00:10:48] Honestly Man We're With The 2-2 So Hopefully We get Seven On This One Because For the Most Part The Playoffs Overall Been Kind Of Lackluster For The NBA Kind Of One Sided Dominate Not A Lot Of Drama Very Unlike Last Year We Had A Lot Of Surprises A Lot Of You Know We Had A Long Crazy Pacers Run I The

[00:11:28] Knicks Will Have A Cut Out For Them Whether They're Playing The Spurs Or The Thunder Oh Absolutely Like We Said Yeah They'll Be The Underdog No Matter Who They're Playing But It Should Be Like We Said Those Games In The Garden The Knicks Should At Least If They Don't Take One Two Of Those And That Be Shocking But Yeah OKC We Mentioned OKC San Antonio That's Good And They Play Game Five Tomorrow Night Of Of Of Back In OKC You

[00:11:58] Mentioned They're In The Regular Season You That That That Second Game They Were In It For A While Before Little They Were In It Game Two They Were In For A Long Time They Kind Of Got Ran I Was Kind Of Shocked The way

[00:12:28] They Got Ran Game Three And They Came Back And Less About A Great Playoffs Like You Said But There's Some Great Stories At Least You Have Some Great Stories Yeah I Mean You

[00:12:58] Have The Knicks Story In Itself I Mean You Have The Spurs And The Evolution Of Wimby Into Maybe The Face Of The League Kind Of Situation Going On There And You Have SGA Win In The Second Straight That's Kind Of An Elite Category You Know Because You Think Of All The Greats Who Don't Have Two MVPs I Mean Kobe Shaq You Know Players Like That Do Not Not Only Did He

[00:13:28] Win Two But He Won Back To Back So That Shows How Special That Mean Does Make SGA The Greatest Thunder Of All Time You Would Have To Say I Mean Yeah He's Getting The Title They

[00:13:58] Couldn't Get It's Hard To Argue That And And Many More Years Ahead Of Them And I Forget Now Where I Heard It But Them Talking About Hey You Know What They Could Do If They Do Lose To The Spurs And They Decide Hey We Got To Figure Out This Wimby Thing You

[00:14:46] The And The Spurs Are Just A Level Above Everybody Else Right Now Yeah And They're Young So It's

[00:15:17] Most Franchises Fall Off Deep End When They Lose KD Westbrook Harden Bacher You Fall But

[00:15:46] I'm Saying A Lot Of Teams Don't Don't Bounce Back Like That But They You Know They're Another Team Had A Vision Knew Exactly What They Needed To Do And You Know Obviously They're Right Where They Need To Be And The

[00:16:17] Other Thunder Fans The Spurs Fans I Mean They're Great Great Fans Cause You Know A Lot Of NBA Fans Bases Are I

[00:16:47] So I Mean They're Really But Yeah But They're Definitely Far Above Where The Rest Of The West Is As We See But Yeah Elsewhere In the NBA Of course We Had The Lottery In This

[00:17:17] Was John Wall Was He A Number One Overall I Think So I Think So Yeah And Then The Jazz Number Two Go ahead No You Talk About The Wizards Real Quick I Was Just As Bad As Their Recent History Has Been In The In The Draft Lottery You Know You Almost Feel Happy For Just Because They've Had Some Years Where They Won 15 Games And They're Like Six How Did That Happen Yeah

[00:17:46] How Are They Not In The Top Two How Did They Not Win Yeah Some Absolutely Unlucky Lottery You Know Lottery Bounce Of The Lottery Balls What I'm Trying To Say For Them Yeah They Had Some Horrible Luck There But You Know This Is As We All Know This Is And This Is On Paper Anyway This Could Be A Historic Draft As Far As The Talent

[00:18:17] That's In That First Fifteen Picks I Mean If You Have A Even My Mavs Even Though We Didn't Go As Good As I Sills Some Guys Yeah I Mean That's Kind Of The Barron Fineline Area Yeah Exactly Yeah And You Know Once Again That's Why

[00:18:47] So Many Pelicans Fans And Critics You Know Blasted That Trade Last Year And It's Not That Derrick Queen He Was Second Team All NBA Rookie As Was Jeremiah Fear So Good Draft For The Pelicans Last Year But Yeah You Want You Want To Be In This Pick I Mean You See The Hawks Got The Eighth Pick Right There In Front Of Your Mavericks And Yeah To

[00:19:29] Hope The West Goes Seven Games So They Can Get A Little Bit Of Rest And Wear Out Whoever Eventually Comes Out The West But Should Be A Great Rest Of

[00:19:59] Montreal Buffalo Series Was Legit Montreal Man Two Straight Seven Game Series So You Know They're Going Through It Right Now They're Tired But Trying To Make A Surprise Run Trying To Be The First Canadian Team To win The Cup Since They Did It

[00:20:29] Colorado Everybody's Kind Of Favorite To Take To Take The Cup Home And They Will Need To Win Four Straight Just To Have A Chance At That Stanley Cup So Vegas Of Won The Cup A Few Years Ago Can't Remember Which Year But A Couple Years Ago Yeah I've A Couple Of Championships Yeah Speaking Of Well Run Organizations You Know An

[00:20:59] Expansion Team This Decade And They Yeah They Really Yeah They They're Right Yeah They've Done It Right But Yeah It's It's Been A Fun NHL Playoffs Dude One Thing You If You That Montreal Crowd Might Be The Best Crowd In Sports Right Now Oh Man Phenomenal I Mean They

[00:21:29] Always Of Loved Hockey There In Montreal Canadians Of Course One Of The Crown Jewel Franchises Of The NHL Still More Titles Than Any Other Franchise But That Crowd But They Man They're Second To Nine Like Man And They're I Think It Loud Enough Yeah But Yeah

[00:21:59] It's Been A Fun NHL Playoffs Like We Said Montreal Montreal Has Gone Seven In Both Their Series Complete Opposite Carolina Who Sweat Both Of Their First Two Series You Got You Know Vegas The Golden Knights Over There With The 3-0 Lead Over Everybody's Favorite The Avalanche So They Could Get Into The Cup Finals Looking For Another Win For Them Carolina Of They've Won A Few Cups In Recent Years They'd Be Looking For Another One And Like We Said Montreal

[00:22:29] Looking For Their First Since 93 Which Would Also Be The First Canadian Cup Since 93 Let's See Elsewhere Speaking Of Tournament Time Women's College World Series Is Set Speaking Of Running Through Folks Our Ladies They Got The Number One Overall Seed And Have Allowed Only One Run So Far In Five Games They Ran Through The Regional Took Care Of

[00:23:22] LSU Pretty The Super Regional Two One You know They You know They won Game One I was Like Well That's Nice That's Cool But There's No way Right There's No way They're Going to Win Another One Right Yeah Especially After Game Two Oklahoma You know Wins By What Like Seven One Six Something Like That You're You're You're You're You're You're I guess Mississippi State Did add A couple Runs At the End of That But Yeah You're Like Okay Oklahoma's Gonna Get Right And Nah Klanga

[00:24:20] Mississippi State First First College World Series For the Lady Bulldogs I mean That's You know That's Another Season When we See a Team You know Last year Texas Tech Got there First This year Mississippi State Gets there First So It's You know Pretty Cool Yeah It's You know We talk About them But Great Baseball Program There

[00:24:52] They They're Here Now Five SEC Teams In the In the In the College World Series Yeah They got Belma Mississippi State Texas Tennessee And Arkansas Arkansas That's Right The Hogs They're Another Team I think That's Their First One Too They've Been To A Couple Super Regionals But I Close The Last Couple Years

[00:25:22] So They Finally Got Through There And Of Course UCLA One Of The Premier Sop Off Franchise You know They've Been Doing It Forever Texas Tech Is Back After Coming Up Short To Texas Last Year And Then Nebraska Yeah So Two Big Ten Teams Although One You know One's Actually Pac-12 Team We All Know That But Yeah It's Should Be Fun We Mention

[00:25:52] Alabama The Number One Overall Seed Made It Texas Was The Number Two Overall Nebraska Was Four Arkansas Was Five Tennessee Seven UCLA Eight Texas Tech Eleven And That's It You know Like We Said Everybody Else You See Texas Tech And

[00:26:22] Mississippi State They Kick Off The World Series On The 28th So What's That Thursday Noon Eastern 11 Central Tennessee Texas Next Followed By Alabama UCLA And Then Arkansas Nebraska Is The Night Cap On Thursday Those Are Your First Round Match Ups Yeah Yeah Yeah And If You're A Bama

[00:26:51] Fan You're Excited Because This Team Has Looked Like We Said Super Dominant Five And Only One Run Allowed The Bats Are Going Best Yeah And We And We All

[00:27:22] Know We Had The Pitching In The Past And And Couldn't Get The Bats Going And Now We Have Both And I Feel Good About This Team I Mean They've Been They've Been Solid All Season Very Consistent You Know It's A Much Different Feeling Than You Know Like Two Years Ago When They Had To Go To Knoxville And It Kind Of Oh Man We're

[00:28:13] Just So It's Definitely Been A while Since We've Been This Dominant Yeah So It's Good To See You Know That Really You Know You Know At Times I've Been Critical Of A lot Of Fans They're Critical Of You Know Patrick Murphy But

[00:28:44] You Don't Live Up To That I Mean It's Kind Of Your Own Fault You Know You Do It To Yourself A Little Bit So You Know You Set A Certain Standard And When It's Not Reached You're Like Damn Yeah You You're Frustrated With It But This Team Is Special And You Know Hopefully We At Least Make A Long Run Here In OKC But Maybe Of Course We'd Love To Bring That Second Championship Back To Tuscaloosa Yeah Absolutely So We'll See Starting Thursday It's Been 14 Years Yeah

[00:29:14] Yeah And Then On The Guys Side Of The Diamond Baseball Team Closed Strong Win Their Last Series Did Get Get Roughed Up By Florida In The SEC Tournament In The Quarter Final Their First Game But You Know Didn't Really Affect Us Too Much Still Seven Overall See Which Means They Will Host A Regional And If They Win That They Will Host A Super Regional Yeah Would Play The Winner Of The Tallahassee

[00:29:44] Regional Yeah Could Be Which You Know We've Seen Them So Many Times In Things Off Against Alabama State On Friday I Think We Got Overall I Thought We Got A Very Favorable Regional

[00:30:14] Yeah You Got Alabama State You Got South Carolina Upstate And Oklahoma State It's A Winnable Regional We Got Good Staff Time To Do It Yeah It's Like We Said We Should Have Won Last Honestly But We Didn't Get Any Wins And Happy Oh Yeah It was A Rough And What Came Up Like What Like A Foot Short Of That Grand Slam Oh Man We Definitely Need Some Wins Here

[00:30:45] It's Tough Regional You Definitely Like To See Us Get Out Of This Regional And Obviously You Host The Super Super Super Regional It's Lined Up To Make A Run You Got Great Pitching Staff You Got Great Starters You Got Superstars And Justin LeBron You Got Heavy Bats Throughout That Lineup That Can Knock You Know Homers It's Lined Up Man But You Know Florida State Does Not Have A Easy Regional They Get St. John's And NIU And Coastal

[00:31:15] Carolina Is In Their Regional That Is Always A Tough One To Lost Like Four Games All Year Something Ridiculous They Won Every Series This Year Georgia Team Completed The Double SEC Regular Season In Tournament

[00:31:45] Champs They're Your Three Overall Seed SEC Got Seven Seeded Teams Georgia Tech Your Two Seed We Mentioned Georgia Your Three Seed Auburn Your Four Seed So They Did Jump Up With A run In The SEC Tournament There I Had Seen Some Projections Before The SEC Tournament That Had Alabama About Six In Florida Or Auburn Seven I

[00:32:15] Did See That But Yeah Auburn Your Four Seed Your Five Seed Is UNC Runners Up In The ACC They Got A Tough Little Regional There With VCU Tennessee And East Carolina Yeah That's Not It's Not Easy Your Six Seed Is Texas Your Seven Seed Is Where Is Your Seven Seed Alabama That's Right

[00:32:44] We Talked About That We're The Seven Seed Florida Is Your Eight Seed Southern Miss Is Your Nine Overall Seed Florida State We Mentioned Your Ten Oregon Eleven Texas A&M Twelve They Get A Nice Little Tricky One Too With USC In Their Region Nebraska Is Your 13 Overall Seed Mississippi State Your 14 And Your Fifteen Kansas

[00:33:14] Out Of The Big Twelve And Atlantic Ten Patriot Leads Something Like That Tough Tough Team Anyway And Then You Get Wake Forest And Kentucky In Your Regional So The Same Thing Goes For Kansas They Got Arkansas In Their Regional Florida Gets Miami

[00:33:44] And A Good Troy Team In Their Regional Yeah Troy Bradley Got In Yeah They They Couldn't Quite Get It Done In The American Tournament But It Also Would Have Made Alabama Look Better Because They Did Lose That Game To UAB Speaking Another Tough Regional Here Oregon Gets Yale But They Also Get Rivals Oregon State And Washington State So Yeah

[00:34:15] We Know Oregon State We But Yeah I Think That All Starts Friday And I Know I Mentioned It Last Year Watching It But If You Got The ESPN App They Do What Do They Call It Like Bases Loaded Or Something Like That But Their Coverage Of The NCAA Baseball Tournament Is Awesome It It

[00:34:56] Yeah If You Don't Follow College Baseball Closely But You're Interested Yeah They'll Tell You Who You Know Who These Aces On Little Teams Are You Know Why You Know Why You Should Be Scared Of Arkansas Little Rock Or You Know Something Like That Yeah It's Always Fun Man Love A good Tournament And NCAA Baseball Tournament It's Really Fun It's Really Great Now That You Can Watch So

[00:35:26] The Path Is Set Up For Us To Make The Men's World Series Too So Yeah Been A While So I Mean It'll Be The First Time We If We Get Through Our Regional First Time We Hosted A Super Regional Since What We Were School There Oh Six Yeah Oh Six It Has Oh Let's See Elsewhere In The World Of Sports Uh It Is A Good

[00:35:56] Good Week To Be An Arsenal Fan Like I Am Wrapped Up The Title On Tuesday Uh After Manchester City Could Only Manage A Draw At Bournemouth Uh Arsenal Fans Took To The Streets Of London First Title In 22 Years For The Gunners Yeah 22 Years For The Gunners First Time Since Uh The Famed Invincibles Uh So Just An Awesome Week Uh Especially At Three Straight Years Coming In Second Uh All Of The

[00:36:26] You Know The Critics This Year Of The The The The Team Plays The Style Um Which You Know Whatever Take Your Criticism But You Know Uh They Done What They Need To Do To Win And There Is Something To Be Said In The Coverage Of The Premier League That Arsenal Gets A Little Criticized For Something That Some Things That Other Teams You Know Maybe Don't You Know

[00:37:04] Set Piece Masters Um But Also Just An Incredible Defensive Team Um You Know Probably The Best Soccer Team In The World When They Don't Have The Ball And That's Uh Not Light Um Not Light Praise But It's Awesome Also Make To Be An Arsenal Fan Um Jubilation It's If You Just Even If You Don't Follow Soccer If You Just Like Watching Teams And Fans Celebrate Uh Look Up

[00:38:01] Overall Season Is Not Quite Done Yet Uh This Upcoming Saturday They Play In Champions League Final Against The Champions Uh The French League PSG Paris Saint Germain Uh They're Looking To Be The First Back To Back Champions League Winner In A

[00:38:33] Team In The World Right Now And You Can't Ever Count Out The Team That's The Best On Defense Um Let's See Absolutely Yep Be the First Time There Would Be If PSG Wins First Time There Would Be

[00:39:04] Um And Be Hosted In Budapest So Uh Looking Forward To That One On Saturday Morning Uh We Did I Mentioned Um PSG Did Win The French League As Well Elsewhere Barcelona Won La Liga In Spain Of Of Of Of Of Of Of Of Of Of Now Bayern Munich Did Win The Bundes Liga Again They've Had That Wrapped Up For A Couple Weeks Um And Then I

[00:39:34] Believe Inter Milan Won The Serie A In Italy Uh Yeah Um Over Napoli They Wrapped That Up A Couple Games Ago As Well So Uh Really The Premier League Was The Only True Drama Uh Coming Close To The End As Far As The Domestic Leagues Um PSG Had A Tighter Fight Uh Than They Would Have Imagined But Um The Real Drama I Don't Know If You Saw Scottish

[00:40:04] Premiership Um The Last Time A Team That Was Not One Of The Old Firm Clubs Celtic Or Rangers The Last Time That A Team That Is Not One Of Those Two Have Won The Scottish Premiership Was I'm Pretty Certain Was Before We Were Born In Like 81 Or Something Like That It Is Crazy These Two Have Won Like Over 90% Of The Titles In Scotland And This Year It Was Set Up For Hearts Of Heart Of Midlothian

[00:40:33] Midlothian Sorry I Think They're Just Called Hearts They Set It Up There Was A Controversial Penalty Decision On I Think It Was Last Wednesday Before Last That Set Won The Title Again Great For Their Fans But You Know It One Of Those Titles Only Celtic Fans Wanted And Everyone Else Wanted You Know That

[00:41:03] Little Guy To Win But Tough Tough Break Yeah But Like We Said Soccer Season Winding Down As Far As The Domestic Leagues Champions League Coming Up Final On Saturday And Then It's World Cup Time World Cup U.S. Men's Team Roster Was Released This Week So You Know It's Officially Getting Very Close But Yeah That's My Little Soccer Spiel There Just A Good Week For Arsenal Fans

[00:41:33] Tough Week For Manchester City Fans Like Our Own Adam Morrow Not Only Did They Not Win The Premier League But Pep Guardiola Announced He Comes Next For Him Lord Knows He's Done It All You Know Champions League Winner Multiple Places You Know Led Bayern Munich To Titles Of Course Led Barcelona To

[00:42:03] Absolutely Great Teams He's Done It Everywhere Just About So Who Knows What's Next For Him But Yeah That Is Pretty Much Everything I Had On My Notes Let's See What Else Can Talk Oh Yeah The NCAA Tournament Expanded Unfortunately 76 Now Yeah 70 It's Going To Just So The

[00:42:35] Team They're Going To A Team Like Auburn This Year Who Lost 16 Regular Season Games Has No Business In The Tournament Yeah It's Not Going To

[00:43:05] Seed Yeah Ridiculous Mediocre Power Four You Know The Power Teams And Oh Yeah We're Going To Get Like Auburn Or A 17 And 10 Oklahoma State Team Or Something Yeah Yeah Yeah The Team That Doesn't Need To Be There Media Mediocrity But Supposedly That's What We

[00:43:35] I Don't I Think We Had A Perfect Number And Should Have Changed It But Obviously They Like These Dumb Playing Games Yeah And It's You know It's The Sad Part Is It's All For TV Money And That's The Only Thing You Can't No One You Can't With A Straight Face Make These Arguments That Like Oh You Know You Know Orange Really Deserved To Be In The Tournament This Year No You Lost 16 Games There Was No

[00:44:05] Legitimate They Had No Legitimate Argument I And All It Is That Playing Games Which Is Wild

[00:44:34] Because Yeah No One Even Considers That The Tournament You Know Until You Actually In The Actual Field But You Know Your Name In The Bracket And Not Either Or Type Situation But The Other Thing I Want To Say If We're Making In And Playing Game Why They Win Their Conference

[00:45:06] Yeah It's I Can't It's Ridiculous I Always Hated That You Know That The 16 Seeds Had To Some Team Like That In

[00:45:38] Ohio And Then Move On To The Duke Game Just Let Them Enjoy The Tournament Game Because I They Do A Good Job Of Hosing Playing Games Dayton But It's Not For Those Guys That Won The Conference Tournament Just Let Them In The Tournament Yeah Let Them Other Than That We Covered Everything Well I Guess For Myself As Far As The Mavericks

[00:46:07] We're Going In Completely New Direction There New President Jason Kick I Let Go So Being A New Coach So The Interest See What We Do But Got The Former Raptors President In There So Hopefully He Can Bring What He Brought I Mean Obviously He's Won Different Spots And See What He Does In Dallas That Would Be Interesting Yeah

[00:46:37] So They Redo Dallas Yeah Yeah I Think That's About It You Know There's Talk You Know Of Course Once The Enca Tournament Expands And Talk Expanding To College Football Playoff But Let's Talk Talk Talk Another Day Sure It'll Happen Yeah Because The Big 10 Push That 24 I Just Don't Need It And If You Do Because

[00:47:07] The Worst Yeah 12 Is Too Big Yeah Well And The Worst Part Is We Know That What Happened Is Like Just Like The NCAA Tournament Expanding That If The College Football Playoff Expands To 24 They're Not Going To Give An Automatic Birth To Every Conference Winner They're Still Going To Give One Automatic Birth To The Small Conferences And So The SEC As long

[00:47:37] As long If you're Better than Eight And Four You're Probably Well That's The Problem With This It's Driven By Money These Athletic Directors Get Bonuses For Playoff And The College Presidents See The Dollar Signs From The TV Money And Everything At Some Point We Stop Caring About What Actually Happens On or real footballs here.

[00:48:07] It's like, hey, how about we just see what happens on the damn field? And if you don't make it, sometimes you're just a good team that's very talented. I mean, look at 2010 Alabama in football. Still people argue that it might have been the most talented roster Nick Saban had lost three regular season games. Three regular season games. And there was no whining about that. You know, it was just, well, blew our opportunity, you know. Yeah. Absolutely.

[00:48:35] I mean, and then that adds to that culture of quality losses. Yeah. God, I hate it. You get hung up on that. And who actually won the game? Well, you know, they played six top 25 teams really close. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It's dumb. That should be like a last gasp tiebreaker thing if you're looking at two teams and they're just so equal all the way. They had this many top 25 wins. They did.

[00:49:04] And you go down the line and you're like, all right, well, you know what? Team A lost to this really bad team. They got upset, you know, by a four and eight team or whatever. But Team B, their only loss is to, you know, a top 25 team. It's all right. Give it to Team B. That's the only time that should come in. But, yeah, other than that. Absolutely. I think we've covered everything that we missed. Probably not. Probably missed some stuff. But it is what it is.

[00:49:36] Yeah. So then I guess, Gray, unless you think of anything last second, that does it for us, folks. We're good. All right, buddy. Then I will see you next time. Yes, sir. Thank you once again for listening, folks. As always, subscribe, rate, like us, do whatever your chosen podcast platform asks you to do. Tell your friends about us. Tell your rich friends about us, especially if any of them feel like sponsoring a podcast.

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