Happy New Year, Bristol boys back in the studio.
Been a month or so. Busy holiday season.
NFL wrapped up, playoff started.
We're at Lotties. Did you know the playoff started Lottie? Yeah, it started today.
Today at 4.30. I believe they started yesterday.
There was a football game yesterday that I was watching. Yeah, it was over pretty quick, huh?
Lotties in the studio, angry Jay tired. ECSU with a dub yesterday.
The Don father picking up a big, big one for St. Joseph's
school. What are you, the Panthers? You're on the Panthers. Guys are loaded this year.
Don father got teed up in a... Did you really? Did you?
No, the loser dude. That's embarrassing.
I was talking to the other coach and I got teed up for talking to the other coach and telling him to stand up
because he's 5'1". I couldn't hear him. I said, he's standing or sitting.
Now, correct me a tee for that.
Catholic school, grammar school. The coach gets teed up. Oh my god. Did you have to go see
the priest on Monday or whatever? That's tomorrow. I'm not sure yet. Higgy, would you
hire a guy like that at your school? I love the passion.
The commission is back supporting the Husky blue and red today.
Husky's taking on Georgetown and the boys.
But happy to be back here on January 14th.
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Blowing other sponsors out of the water. The Skygazer
checks have stopped coming in.
But dry January. Dry January.
But we do want to say good luck to another partial sponsor
known as The Champ, our most recent interview subject.
The Champ is in Florida, ready to roll. And if he wins this tournament
out of 60 participants, he comes home with another million.
It's another set of cameras for us I think. You know what is. The Champ will take care of us.
Good luck Champ. Don father, do you like The Champ's chances?
60 people. I mean he won out of 187,000 last time.
So I like his chances with 60. He's got my input so he's probably not going to win.
He uses any of the advice I gave him this morning. You didn't have him take any browns did you?
It's only today. It's interesting. Three games. It's always picking.
The original three games for today's slight, the only games that they're allowed to pick from.
So Bill Steeler still included on that slate? It is because people could start
picking starting on last Wednesday I believe. So they already submitted them. So yeah,
they can start those. If it started yesterday and he took the Texas defense, he would already clinched
it. He'd already had the million be flying home. With a mill.
I thought it, ah, they include yesterday's games. That didn't make sense but
really they're good at games. They were awful games. Or if you're a Texans fan.
How about the Bill Steeler's not playing because it's, is it cold? Because it's cold or snowy?
No, it's all the above. The governor is a travel band in Buffalo.
He came people $20 an hour to shovel the field yesterday. Did you see the stadium? Yeah.
You couldn't see it. You couldn't see it when you were in there. You couldn't see the turf.
That would have been awesome to watch. I couldn't imagine it would be colder than Selington High's playoff game
at the Man Chester. That was my debut with Handwormers that night. Yeah, exactly.
Don't tell Tyce that. Also known as gloves? No, real Handwormers. He bought the Handwormers in the
concession stand. I bought a hot chocolate, poured it down my pants and Handwormers.
Oh, shit. What was it called? Alright, we got to start with the Yanks, man.
I mean, the Yanks made some news. We got Soto in the house, number 22 in the house.
Who was the last guy to wear 22 for the Yanks? Cannell. I think it was Bader, right?
It was Bader. Yep. How about a Red Sox bust that wore 22?
Lemons. He did wear 22. This guy was a bust.
Spent a lot of time in Florida. Elspere. Yep. Okay.
A lot of talk about Snell. I don't think it's going to happen after Strowman.
What are your thoughts on Strowman, Snell and the whole pitching thing?
Did you give guys up for Cease? Would you ship Spencer Jones off?
I mean, we're shipping a lot of guys off. I wouldn't ship any of those guys off right now.
They'll make a move at the deadline if they need to. I thought we talked about it before.
I thought they addressed the offense, which we said a year ago. They needed some bats.
They got Soto and Verdugo. You could say what you want about Verdugo.
Don't sleep on Grisha, either.
Grisha puts the ball in play. I'll feel defense is a little suspect.
I'm not worried about the pitching right now. Let's see some of these young arms come up that they've been talking about.
I'm going to Schmidt's your fifth starter. The key is Rodon and Cortez.
How long do they have Soto for? One year.
You're concerned about the prospects they gave up for a rental? No. A possible rental.
We're going to sign them. If you sign them, it's a great trade.
You get an opportunity to get a nice clash. You go for it.
We're getting at least closer to the back end of the stand. We've got to put all of our resources into keeping Soto there.
We have a star. Yeah, because Stanton's in his prime. We've got to win while Stanton's.
He's got four years. He's still got four years.
After next year, it'll be three. I'm saying we're at the back end of it.
D.C.O. Skinny, he's got one. We're not at the back end of it. Angry J.
A lot of yoga this off season. Angry J. We're not at the back end of it. You're shaking your head.
Keep those hamstrings to ten years. Well, it's ten years. I guess it just started at the back end.
He hasn't played for four years. Are we at the back end of it? No.
What's right in the middle? The middle is four and five and six.
Yeah, this is like six. Then after next year, when Soto, when we have to put the money into Soto.
So we've got to watch this guy bat behind Soto and judge and drive in 70 runs.
We're going to save him for the playoffs because you know what he does in the playoffs.
He strikes all on. He'll be hurt. I'm not worried about Stan because he'll be hurting.
I'm all for Blake Snow, by the way. If they could somehow get him to like four or five years
instead of 200 million because we need some pitchers and Strohman does nothing for him.
He's a lunatic. What are your thoughts on Bauer? I'm saying that online. What do you think about that?
You know something? I'm all for it. He's not a lunatic. He's a good pitcher. He's a freak.
He's a freak in the bed. I mean, good for him. Like he's, you know, you know.
He's got some bite to him. That's right. He's got a hell of a curve ball and fastball.
Strohman is only two-year deal, whatever. Him and Strohman in the clubhouse, though.
We're doing it. The Bronx. Bronx Zoo is back. Yeah, exactly.
We need it. That's all right. We need a little juice. We need some tabloid stuff.
He's jumping again. Yeah, he's. Don Lemon's going to come back to coach this year.
Can we let these guys grow their hair? Wait, Bob. Bob Lemon.
Don Lemon's got other stuff going. Don Lemon's got other stuff going.
He's on CNN. They're on fire from CNN. They're drunk on New Year's Eve.
They all do, though. All those guys get drunk on New Year's Eve, though.
How about the hair thing? They could have whatever tattoos they want, but the hair thing, you got to be tight.
No facial hair, but you could have necktie. You got to look like the Don Father.
I hate that policy. I hate that policy. You got to put Pommade in like the Don Father.
I'm not a fan of that policy, as you know.
Hey, what about areas for Taurus? You see that?
Yeah, I love that. I'll bet him before Judges and Sons.
Yeah, lead off. Lead off with all those guys behind him. Definitely. I'm not a Gleber Taurus guy.
Well, Gleber's energy, though. Yeah, right. Speaking of energy.
His sprint time, yeah. Speaking of energy, we have a first timer in the studio today.
And this guest, this participant, this audience member is known as L. Princey Powell.
And let's just leave it at that. Welcome, L. Princey Powell.
Top of the morning to you, boys.
We've got to make a big call on Monday. A storm coming in, right? Monday into Tuesday.
Just call it. Call it. Call it.
Big rainstorm coming, but a cancel again.
Only in Bristol. Have we talked about Winder Franko yet on air?
Man, what a scumbag. That means he's available.
The only person that's a bigger scumbag than him is probably the mother.
Oh, my word. That's the great parenting there, huh?
And here's a couple hundred thousand. You got my kid.
Is there a female version of the word scumbag, or is it the same? It's gender neutral.
I don't know. He's she and they. I think it's gender neutral.
Whatever. Yeah, he's careers over, though. No. Oh, yeah, he's done. He's done.
Now, come on, he's a grab in a couple years.
From the farm system changes name. Be fine.
Like David Ortiz with change. They take him in Japan, honestly.
Of course they would. It was gonna be hard to get him out of the slammer, no.
They'll bust him out. They'll bust him out.
Hey, is, uh, is, uh, Manny still under contract over there?
No. No idea.
Um, all right. So no interview. We got a bunch of stuff.
We're gonna jump around a bunch, but, uh, it's, we, it's been a while since we've been here.
Draymond update. Apparently he's coming back. He's getting all this help.
Well, if we, are we pivoting off baseball? We don't have MLB.
You didn't talk about the biggest signing in the history of baseball. We haven't been here since.
Not that long. Yeah.
There's only one team that signs all those guys.
Seven hundred mil, right? We haven't talked about that. That's why baseball sucks. Thanks.
Why?
Because the Dodgers spent a billion dollars on two players.
Well, they apparently have a billion dollars to spend.
They don't spend the money if they don't have it.
I'm not blaming the Dodgers. I would do the same thing.
What's your problem with baseball?
Salary cap, man. Come on.
I don't have any problem with the spending. I got a problem with the teams that don't spend.
Should be a salary floor.
All these other teams are pocketing all this, uh, TV revenue and the,
the profit sharing and like the Oakland A's before they moved, what were they spending, twenty six million dollars on a payroll?
That's embarrassing. Sell the team or, or spend the money.
I don't have any problem with people spending the money.
When you're charging 18 dollars for a beer, they got the money.
Sixty dollars the park, you got the money.
Oh, again, I'm fine with them spending the money, but baseball's got a woman. How much you could spend?
It's not everybody can spend a billion dollars. It's supposed to be equal playing field. It's not.
They got the magic man involved out there. Of course they're going to spend the money. They got it.
They got the magic man. They don't have that, the healthiest guy on the planet.
I'm not sure I'm going that far.
Oh, but, well, you know, that's about 30 years ago.
It's been around for 30 plus years. I mean, it's pretty tough.
It's quite, they were burying them 30 years ago.
Quite a medicine cabinet.
I made a comeback.
Please. That's a thousand pills a day.
I don't care about Shohei. I don't care about the Dodgers.
That stuff doesn't ever seem to work. They've tried to show him.
Yeah, you're still going to choke in October.
It'll be so enjoyable if they don't win at all.
Yeah. And is he going to pitch? Like, what's this plan?
He can't pitch this year. No, he's not pitching at all.
They got Yamamoto for that now.
70 million dollar DH.
He's got a pitching a couple years.
He can hit. He can hit, man.
He is fun to watch.
Imagine him at the stadium.
It's amazing.
It's amazing that he's getting Tommy John surgery.
Our guy has a strained calf. Can't play for three months.
Don't worry about it.
You got a Nero down. What's he in here?
Talking about the biggest fraud in franchise history.
Jesus.
Talk about Chris Sale for the Red Sox.
Crazy when the guy stole the matches.
He's coming back earlier than expected.
He'll be ready for spring training.
That was the greatest news I heard.
I know, but where's he going to play?
Do you think he's going to play?
I think he's going to probably get a minor league stint for a month.
No, no. When does he play for the Yankees?
May.
When you want to bet on that?
Yes, on air. Let's go.
What's the bet?
No, you and him. You tell.
When you think he's coming.
He's coming back.
He'll be playing by, I'll go Memorial Day.
If you're going June, I'm going late May.
What's the bet?
Humo, his lawn or Humo's your lawn?
That's it.
There you go.
What's the date? May 1st?
Memorial Day.
Under over.
He could get your father and you could get Dennis Leary.
There you go.
He's coming back.
He'll be back by then.
No shot.
Forget about baseball.
Two cold.
Baseball is miserable and a cold.
What's up with Draymond coming back?
There's all this drama.
ESPN with all this fake news.
Durant said this. That's a story.
Draymond is going to get help now.
He's getting counseling.
He's mad at this guy for saying this.
Mad at this guy for saying that.
Is he ever going to change when he comes back?
He's not going to kick people in the balls.
He was considering retirement.
Did you say that?
Would I wrote about that?
Why are we talking about off the ledge there?
Go away.
You said Silver told him not to retire, right?
Yeah, that's what I mean.
He's good for ratings, right?
That's why I said, Adam, chill out. Let it happen.
That's a non-story for me.
I can care less about that guy.
Tray Donovan Mitchell to the Warriors.
He's in Cleveland.
They give him a couple picks in Wiggins.
Trade for Randall. And the Warriors are back.
I got to tell you something.
I can't get enough of stuff, Curry.
Did you see Shax said,
when are we going to start mentioning this guy as the goat?
At least get him in that conversation.
In the conversation, yeah.
Because only two people are in it all the time
and it's ridiculous that the Jabars aren't in it.
But when are we seriously going to consider him?
He's small. He can't be stopped.
By the way, Mack, we talked to you and I
about two, three years ago.
I thought he was top 10-15 at that point.
Yeah. And he hasn't...
My mind hasn't changed at all.
He's one of the best players of all time.
He's carrying Clay up and down the court.
Clay, drop what? 30 something there?
I agree with you for the most part.
But yeah, I mean, Traymon won't be with the Warriors next year.
Inside sources at the NBA.
You know we have high inside sources.
They said he won't be with the Warriors next year
because they need ratings.
East Coast. He'll be an East Coast team next year, I heard.
I don't want any points.
That's another Donfather bond right there.
Curry's going to be that guy that the kids nowadays
when they're older are talking about.
You can't shoot like Curry Shaw.
He's not as good as Curry was.
He's one of the most influential players in basketball history.
Him and MJ and Carl B.
and Iverson, like those guards.
Not nothing against him, but not always
in a good way.
Because he's such a good shooter.
He changed the game.
I agree with you.
They think they can shoot from the logo.
Yeah, it's not from the 20 foot line.
It's from the 25 to 28 foot line.
Very few high school shooters
can make him from that deep.
Hint.
What are you talking about Bobby?
I'm kidding.
Subtle, subtle there, huh?
So, Nix.
This Randall Hubbub
and then a big move they made.
And by the way, Ochi's pretty good.
He's what they needed.
He's a defense first guy with Beirut.
And quickly they were more ball dominant guys.
And they already had two ball dominant guys.
So they had to unclutter that position
as much as I do like Beirut and quickly.
And they're doing very well in Toronto.
Yes, they are.
They've been kind of giving the keys a little bit with Barnes.
But the Nix are more like a
TIBS team now.
Like the Bulls, right? More defensive minded.
Two guys
have the ball in their hands like D. Rose did
back in the day.
Everybody else kind of fills their role.
D.D.V. is playing better.
Grimes is finally getting an opportunity.
Deuce McBride.
I don't believe the Randall stuff.
You guys know I'm as big as critic.
And he gets 25 in 10 a game.
So, I don't think he's going
anywhere at the trade.
Maybe in the offseason they might make a push
if things don't work out.
I still think they're a second round ouster.
That's just my opinion.
They didn't trade for Anno Nobby to get rid of Randall.
He's a great
third or fourth guy. They gave up a lot though.
I like quickly too. Never been a Barrett fan.
Volume shooter, volume
scored. He's been more efficient though.
Barrett this year. He was shooting well.
He started out very well.
And then if you guys remember he had those migraines.
He missed like two weeks. He was never the same.
And now he's gone to Toronto. He's had some games where he's
10 for 13, 8 for 12 shooting.
Like the ball's more in his hands.
That's the Molson triple X. That's like moonshine up there.
What about any other trade rumors?
There's a few out there.
Hold on. Before we talk about that trade stuff
while we're on the Raptors
the Lakers Raptors
thing the other night
did you see the discrepancy in free throws
and then the calls versus the non-calls
and like
that's not a conspiracy theory man.
Coach was awesome. The coach was awesome.
That was crap.
We need more of that man.
Yeah that was crazy.
23-24
The fourth quarter.
They'll do anything to have LeBron be relevant man.
The offensive foul that they called.
Oh I'm on Beirut.
That was Beirut on a moving screen after he made the pass.
That was sick man.
So let me ask you guys something.
What happened to a couple years ago they put in the big flopping rule?
The guy flops.
A couple times he gets suspended
and it's fine.
Did they just throw that thing out?
Yeah that was just.
That's not a flop?
He dove into the wrong.
They missed it then. Investigate it now.
They're not doing it anymore?
It's a serious question man.
They don't find guys anymore?
Not their hero anyway.
They did it for like two guys.
They first started to try to prove a point
and now it's just not around.
A little trailer here.
I actually wanted to ask you guys off the air.
I'll just ask you now.
I think maybe you know Mike Donahue.
The kid played at Shabak.
Works for the NBA now.
After retiring from the Secret Service.
I asked him to come on.
He said there's a big public relations thing with the NBA.
Making sure that certain things don't get out there.
I would have them on just because of the Secret Service angle.
To be honest with you.
I think his father was a biggies ref.
Donahue?
Well it was the.
Not that guy.
Do you remember back at the old biggies?
I do remember in the 80s there was a Donahue
in the biggies.
Yes.
Mike also.
You must remember that name.
Mike also played football at Brown
and his roommate was none other than Bill O'Brien.
So he's been to Bama.
He's been to the Texans.
And he's got a lot of stories to tell.
I would love to hear.
Because they investigate.
Believe it or not he works security for the NBA
but they investigate every situation
and they're involved in it.
When the Rondo, Chris Paul spitting thing.
He was investigating that.
When the guy.
Oh Jesus.
When the guy.
The big for the Oklahoma City.
He didn't go to Europe that year.
Because they were afraid that.
Oh yeah.
Mike had to go over and he were casing out in England
or whatever.
Canter.
They were going to whack him over there or something.
He's on the most wanted list over there.
Would you guys mind if we got Mike down here one night?
I don't know.
Awesome.
Even if he wants to do it off there.
I love it.
So they investigate that.
It's got to be a flop.
Mark number one on whoever it was.
That's a flop.
Yeah but it's the Lakers so they need a win.
You guys are right about the Lakers
and they're playing 500 ball.
19 and 21 here.
NBA trade rumors.
I mean, Siakam to the Mavs.
That's what I heard.
That's a perfect fit.
Mavs need defense because their two best players
cannot stop anything.
Siakam is great on both ends of the floor.
Who cares where they give up?
They're going to give up Tim Hardway Jr.
and a bunch of role players.
Siakam was going to go to Sacramento.
He's a free agent at the end of the year.
So he wouldn't have to give up.
He said he already said I'm not going to Sacramento
because that's not where I want to end my career.
Dallas is more willing to go to
because he said that's a place he can see him
ending his career.
Dallas is playing good basketball with zero defense.
He's a good player though.
Get him there.
Everybody heard the Jonte Murray to the Lakers
for Austin Reeves.
But the Lakers say they don't want to trade Reeves.
They'll trade Reeves if they can get Jonte Murray.
That's stupid.
I agree for money.
What does he do for the Lakers though?
He has to have the ball.
Yeah, they need that but he needs the ball in offense.
One guy gets the ball in offense.
He runs the offense.
That's why he was rumored to the Knicks
and they shot that down pretty quick.
The Knicks were looking at Brock.
How bad is that trade by the way?
They gave him four first round picks for that guy.
He looks the part though, doesn't he?
You're going to build a player.
He might end up looking like Murray with the shoulders.
He can play better than that though.
Yeah, I get it.
They're talking about Reddish in that deal too, right?
Yeah. That's too much.
He's not on the right.
He can't find a home.
We don't have any Celtic rumours.
You guys don't need anybody.
Are we 19-0-0 or 18-0-0?
19-0-0-0.
We're only 40 games behind the Warriors
from 2014 to 2016.
Bottom line is...
I'm sorry, that was bad.
Score is they got to stay healthy.
Bottom line, right?
You see Jalen got dropped the other night though?
Was it LeBron?
Tell me it wasn't LeBron.
No.
Jalen promised.
I didn't see that they got smashed in the first half.
They didn't even play.
Jalen Brown's been playing fantastic.
They punted on that game pretty quick.
Did he even play in the second half?
Did you guys see the video in the preseason
of him trying to dribble the ball with his left hand?
Oh, yes, it was so embarrassing.
I want the angry Jay's take on this.
I want the angry this guy is.
It is such crap.
This guy catches so much crap for no reason.
He's a fantastic player.
At any time he loses the ball and now somebody's like,
oh, he can't dribble with his left hand.
What did he have last night?
31, like 28 minutes?
Nobody mentioned it. There's no mention of it.
We couldn't dribble with his left hand last night.
Hold on. Both ends of the four.
I just want to say he had 31 points last night
in 28 minutes and he's a hell of a player.
I'm asking you, as a basketball coach,
would you want him to improve
on his left hand?
Yeah, you don't think he is? I don't know.
So it's Twitter. Like, he makes a mistake
and they put it out there and it's all you say.
Like, he does it every possession.
I have a question for you.
So he's an un-dominated player,
but since he's making so much money now,
he's like, he can't make a mistake.
Anger Jay, I got a question for you.
And this is not a knock on Jay and Bron.
I love him.
If he was playing on another team,
would he be considered
top 10, 15 in the league
or is his tandem with Tatum
take a little bit away from
what his numbers could be
and how he's viewed?
You know what I'm saying?
I'll actually totally agree with you.
Yeah, is he a top 10, 15?
No. 25, top 25?
Yeah. But would he be top 10, 15
if he had his own team?
No, probably not. No, he's definitely behind Tatum.
If he's in Atlanta...
He's scoring a lot of points
and people say he's a nice player.
You know why they win?
They're winning this year. Tatum and Brown,
two younger guys are actually making sacrifices.
They're taking less shots.
They have a better team, but they're taking less shots.
They're scoring less if you look at their averages.
And people will say,
when he's
Brown for summer, because he signed that contract,
as soon as he has a bad game,
they're like, oh, he's not worth that.
In the last two weeks, he's been phenomenal.
He's been their best player.
I think they realize they can't win in the playoffs without that third option.
So they're starting to defer to Prazengas,
who is a legit third option in the APA.
Those guys are like, with White and Holiday,
two guys that don't care if they score.
One game, if you notice, they score 20.
And then the next game, they might score 3.
But they're actually...
It's a team. It's kind of fun.
They're running basketball plays.
Sure, refreshing.
Nobody will win an MVP, but they win more games.
Who's the most surprising team in the NBA right now?
Good or bad?
I mean, the Lakers are surprised.
Okay, see.
You see, they call KC was going to be this quick.
No, I got one. I got you Minnesota, man.
I thought they were good to Holy Cow.
They're good. They're really good.
I think it's a spurs.
I mean, they got the goat in there.
The worst team in the West are Comfort.
You said he was going to be awful.
The team has got seven wins.
I'm talking about your boy Wemby.
It doesn't matter. He could shoot any time the game.
His team sucks. Who cares?
You said he was going to be a bust.
He is a bust.
Giannis is amazed with him.
What brought him on 35 games this rookie year?
He's not going to win 35 games in his first three years.
Oh, my God.
Is it a joke?
You guys know how many games Larry Bird won this rookie year?
More than seven.
60.
29 to 60, that's all I'm saying.
I mean, the goat won 35 this rookie year.
You just said Wemby was going to be a bust.
You're very sensitive.
He is a bust.
Who cares? It's just 40 points a game.
His team has made their point.
It's 10, 30 in the morning.
We're all losing to be drinking.
Bobby Mack, you know who is also a bust?
Jordan Hawkins.
He only had 34 points last night.
Did he? You only had 34.
You guys watch him guard?
He had 34 points. Does anybody guard?
Come on, let's just guard.
Hawkins for what team is he on?
Hawkins.
How are they doing this year? They're doing great.
Hawkins is awesome.
He's better.
His team is better.
Chad Holmberg is playing.
I was off on chat.
You also said he was going to get back.
I was off on chat.
He's playing great defense.
Both sides of the ball.
He's a big reason. Wemby on us?
Nobody's going to see him play after this.
Hawkins is playing better than I thought.
Jackson actually started a few games.
If you guys know this recently.
He's not really a born much but...
Did you know that?
But he started a few.
Is Sonogo playing at all or no?
No, no. He had a good night a couple weeks ago.
A little bit. Not like these other two guys.
Jackson plays.
All depends on the fit. The organization.
Speaking of funny video.
Did you guys...
There's one going out. Yanis's brother.
Oh, it's hilarious.
You saw it. Holy cow.
He looks like a YMCA player.
If you see the video, you're going to be like...
It's cool.
You wouldn't mess with him.
No, he's put together.
You wouldn't want any part of him in a squared circle.
He's on the team because...
They have a skill set.
Maybe like Brownie in a few years.
Enough NBA?
Yes.
I'm going to play.
Yes.
It's playoff time.
Please.
Stick with basketball for just a moment though.
A couple big games going on in an hour
from this recording.
Huskies should probably
take care of business against Georgetown.
And take over the number one spot in the country.
Maybe on Monday?
Yeah. Would have dubbed.
I'm hoping that the oak comes back soon.
I saw the oak last weekend.
The oak said maybe one more game.
And the most popular tree in Connecticut
might be back.
Just make sure you're 100% healthy.
Don't rush back for anything.
Not worth it.
Not for this year or his future.
Huskies got things intact
at the moment. Hopefully it stays like that.
Was Butler and Creighton this week?
Butler's Wins...
No, I thought Xavier was Wins.
They got Creighton.
Creighton and Winsday at gamble.
They're playing pretty well for the while.
The Wins last this past week
where those are tough Wins on the road.
Yeah. East Wins.
He's only 8 million rotation.
I love it.
Just narrowed it down.
I know. It was freshman.
Spencer's been phenomenal.
Phenomenal.
They run great stuff for him.
Castle's playing.
Castle's starting to look up to the player.
They're fundamentalized.
Their offensive stuff is phenomenal.
He had
a phenomenal quarterback.
Caravan in there too.
When he got stitched.
He was talking about
like a
zero
maintenance guy.
Like every day, the first guy in the gym
and the last guy to leave.
Doesn't do any of the
gang signs. He makes a three-point.
It's all business guards.
He's
a sophomore.
When he leaves, I'm going to miss him.
Danny Hurley doesn't throw a couple months like that.
Cal Hoon has talked about Caravan too.
I'm going to do like some too.
The Hooner? The nerf.
You see how much Hurley loves playing the villain
in Taunton like the visiting crowd.
He's so into it now.
How about the St. John's thing too?
Got a nice little rivalry.
Some of the best times of my life in the garden
with you.
I'm going to have a rivalry there.
St. John's could have beaten him the first time around.
Did they hang in there last night when that game?
St. John's lost by one.
I saw them earlier in the year in an exhibition.
That guy, Soriano, was not small.
He's psycho.
He wants to fight you on every possession.
That's good for basketball.
Their best player is the kid Jenkins.
The one from my owner that came with Patino.
He's a very good guard.
Aline's there.
Aline played a lot yesterday.
They got a double overtime in the game I was at.
They got a
Midwest looking white kid
coming off the bench.
I could just stroke it.
No, it's like a shit.
James, you know who I'm talking about?
He's like number 44.
He didn't play yesterday.
He's a freshman.
They got guys.
They got a lot of guys.
They're like muscular.
They pick up me in the full court for 40 minutes.
They just grind you.
Talking about guys.
We know a team that's got some guys coming in next year.
Let's shift gears.
Let's pivot to the rut.
Okay.
One more thing about Caravan.
Executive producer, extraordinary Kevin Ross,
as said, because they're like sweet mates or whatever.
The kid...
Kevin and Caravan?
No, no, no. The Oak.
According to him,
he either is at the gym or studying in his room
and he does nothing else.
He's at college for the right reasons.
I'm not sure I would follow that.
How about Ted's?
That schedule.
But he's there for the education.
He's trying to get paid.
He's trying to get paid professionally, yeah.
The rut.
Now, Skygaze or Brewing
has been a large backer of the podcast.
Not so much as Capital Securities.
But I mentioned that this Rutgers segment
is brought to you by Joe Moriello
and Capital Securities.
A life well-planned.
So, Coach Pichl's plans
are working out for next year
because he's got the Fab Five
coming in, for real.
Like, this year, if some of these guys
hit that portal up, see ya.
You know, good luck to ya.
Because you might not be playing anyway.
I mean, I'm hoping guys like Simpson stick around
because I'm a big fan.
But that ball's going to be given to Dylan Harper.
And they say Ace is the real deal.
They got a center coming in
who's got guns.
He's a big 10 looking guy already.
And then the other two wings,
Dorch and the other guy, right?
So, Skygazer
and John Tice,
the contingent is out there today
at Sparty.
Looking for a huge win
against the struggling Sparty.
And a struggling Rutgers
got to win a game against the struggling Sparty.
He's short in his rotation too,
if you've noticed, because
Gav is pretty much
he's token minutes.
Fernandez is, you know,
it's been your guy, Davis,
who you were on right from the beginning.
Williams, right?
And then,
Maggs, reemergence
from injury has really helped them.
Like, he's scoring a lot more than I think
even Steve would
thought he could. Did you see the ejection
player? Number zero?
Oh, that was Xavier Johnson.
Yeah, Johnson, he got in a dust-up with them
two years ago. Yes, he did.
And I can remember thinking he was
a punk then and he's still playing like that.
What's the matter with Woodson out there?
Come on, man. He's not getting the job, then.
Is that IU to you? No.
Is that the IU you grew up loving?
IU hasn't been IU in 30 years.
They haven't figured it out.
What's his face I thought had a shot?
Cream.
He passed up and down the sideline.
He had like 75 plays.
Keep it simple, man.
He was loaded, too. He wanted the best
recruiting classes in the country with Zeller
and Yogi Farrow and all those guys.
And they lost in the sweet 16 to Syracuse.
They couldn't handle the zone.
What do you think about that, Don, father?
How's Red Autry doing?
I don't know who Key Smart is.
I don't know what you're talking about.
That was in 1987, but I'm talking about 10 years ago.
I don't remember that either.
They didn't war yesterday.
They were by 30 in North Carolina yesterday.
That was a close one. I think it was 40, actually.
Can they get Hopkins back?
Can they lure Hopkins back?
Everybody's leaving Washington now, right?
Why is he still got a job up there?
Who? Hopkins.
Because he started off like gangbusters, right?
And he's going down every sentence.
They've been irrelevant for years.
I mean, not that there's anything left in the pack 10, but...
I mean, Autry's first year of the Q's.
He's got to get his own class.
They play 2-3.
They move around a lot.
They're switching pressure a lot.
A lot of man now, too.
Speaking of what's left in the pack 12,
do you think that there's any possibility
that football will end up having
different conferences than all the other sports?
Yeah, what's his name?
The UCLA coach and Rick Patino actually came out.
Chip Kelly and Rick Patino came out
with that football should have
their own schedule
and own conferences,
and then everybody else can be their more regional
conferences.
We know guys
that know the back, the ins and outs
of the college game.
And our buddy said
probably 10 years ago, it's going to be 5
big conferences, and that's it for football.
It's going to be 60 teams.
And he's been
prophetic, right? Yeah, it's only one that's
relevant anyway, are those teams.
And Mack and our wretch have Kelly's house
and we've been talking about that, and he kind of agreed
with it a long time ago.
Yeah, we were there.
Portsmouth, yeah.
He was a coach at New Hampshire for a while.
Oh yeah, he was.
He has a place in Portsmouth.
He has nice lawn ornaments.
Yeah, we went to a, I believe a Yukon football game.
Were you allowed to be on his property?
I don't know the back story. We went back to a Yukon football game
back in the day when the
commissioner ran out onto the,
ran out with the... He was the coach then?
I don't think he was the coach, but it was New Hampshire
that we were at.
I think he was gone. Yeah, I don't think Chip was the head coach.
Chip was the coach.
What a big story.
We went to the commissioner and ran out with the coaching staff.
We had time.
Wait a minute, could you make it a 30
second story? Yeah, they were coming.
We didn't have tickets. We were watching outside
at the old field at Yukon,
and they were running in from half time
and I had the same matching spot pants on.
So I just jogged in with them.
They had to come from around
the back of the stadium from the
Prescott. Do you own memorials there?
I turned around and I was like...
Did you guys went in with me too?
We were looking at each other and we were like,
what the hell? We started running too.
We were like, where's Johnny?
And he turned around and he's got a slight jog running.
I thought you needed a pair of blue and pants.
I'm right on there.
I don't know if you can't sweat your mind about that.
We got it for free.
We set it to 50 after that.
We did it.
He's paying that $7
to cost to get in.
Alright.
This is fun.
So, let's get into the NFL.
Don, Father, you're on.
What are we talking about?
Not through fantasy. Fantasy is done besides
Champ Terresso. The only thing I'll say is...
Champ. Just Champ.
Anybody win the league?
Hig.
You won one? I won out of two. Higgy won two.
Excuse me. I'm in L. Prince and Paul.
I lost three semifinals
because of Amari Cooper scoring
57 points including me and Mack.
I had one. One league.
I had Kyron Williams
in a final against the
Giants, I believe.
Three touchdowns.
Let's not talk about that.
He saved me.
Who was the MVP of the fantasy season?
It's easy, right? Give me.
It's McCaffrey.
He was 120 points
over the next running back
for fantasy football.
120 points over the next
running back.
Kyron Williams was phenomenal too.
He missed five games though.
Who was the biggest sleeper this year?
Him or...
Puka.
Porta had more points
than Kelsey this year.
Strat was phenomenal too.
Is that close
for offensive rookie this year?
Is it a game for Strat or Porta?
Who's going to be better?
Strat or Bryce Young?
TBD?
That's so interesting though
because these quarterbacks that are now available
and the teams that need them,
which one's going to be a bus?
Who's going to be the bus?
Let me throw this out there.
Did you guys see Caleb Williams?
He's already complaining.
He's going to play for the Bears.
Go to Seattle then.
Play for Argonauts.
Yeah, the end zone's huge.
Go for it.
Maybe he'll stay, right?
What is that?
You want to be a pro or not?
They got to pick the team.
He'll play for the pros.
Everybody thought Harrison was going to stay too
because Ohio State was offering
$15-$20 million to stay for a senior year.
So what's the best job
opening Lottie right now?
The best half of the season?
We're not going to go over all the vacancies.
You've got the Chargers because
they have their so-called franchise quarterback.
They're a disaster all around now.
They are.
I'm going to go out on a limb
and this is going to be probably not what anybody else is thinking.
Washington.
Yeah, you're right. Nobody was thinking.
Washington.
Because that fan base is dying
for something good to happen.
They got the number two pick, right?
The limit just broke.
They're going to overhaul their whole organization.
The magic man is involved.
Right?
But do you want to be involved in a complete overhaul?
Because there's no expectations?
Yep, built from the ground up the way you want to build it.
You think it needs to be built from the ground up?
They got talented players.
They got ready to trade it.
They've been bad for 20 years.
How about I got one for you
that's not open yet that might be...
Dallas? Cowboys? No. Well...
It could be if they get beaten today.
Eagles? Yeah.
They lose tomorrow night, man.
I don't know if he's out, but it went from
six weeks ago like no chance in hell to...
Because they're in a win-n-out mode
and they have talented guys
and they're... man, they're defense.
The Boopards are out tomorrow.
Their defense is horrific
and A.J. Brown's not playing on Monday night.
Wait calling. The Boopards are out, too.
They're off.
Timmer Peterson, gun to your head right now.
Well, Peterson wants Super Bowl, so I got to lean towards him.
Okay.
Would you take Belichick if he wanted the job?
Yeah. Maybe we would take him.
Him or Harbaugh?
Harbaugh's meeting with San Diego.
He's going to the Chargers, right?
What about the Falcons?
I actually just read this morning
that Belichick is interested.
But the Chargers problem, they're in salary cap
nightmare right now.
They have no room. They're like 30...
They're the highest over salary cap project for next year
and they're the top 9 team in the NFL.
Keenan Allen's going to be a free agent.
Austin Eckers is going to be a free agent.
He's definitely gone. Eckers is definitely gone.
Yeah, he wants a franchise quarterback,
but you have no money.
Atlanta's way under salary cap.
Seattle looked at it. Is it a good job?
I think so. They have great offensive talent.
I mean, their salary cap position is pretty good
because Geno took a pretty team-friendly deal.
They need a quarterback, I agree.
Doesn't take much to turn on.
What's better than Atlanta?
Atlanta's division.
You have a franchise running back, franchise tight end,
good receivers,
you control the climate.
You've got a pretty decent defense.
You need one position and you have a lot of money.
It just happens to be the most important.
Just like everybody else.
Come on, Belichick will go there and bring Garoppolo over.
You know?
Mike. Mike. Why not?
All right. That's where I would go.
Jalen Hertz, stocked
slightly down.
I don't know.
It couldn't get higher than it was.
He needs an off-season to get his knee better.
I think.
He hasn't been as good as last year, but
schedule has been tougher.
Lost some weapons, as you said.
No, wow. Surprised me, too.
He's got to be really banked up.
Who's going to win this thing? Chiefs?
San Fran.
I think. San Fran, Chiefs? Bravance.
I agree. I agree with Lottie
because I hate San Fran, but I would say them.
Just not the Chiefs.
Commit.
Bravance.
You don't want to see Taylor Swift all Sunday long.
She was dancing in the suite last night.
We all texted in the podcast.
I think Mack and I both said Chiefs.
Last night was easy, right?
Especially once the weather was going to be like that.
By the way, remember the boy wonder coach
for the Dolphins? What happened to him?
Yeah.
Joey, nice guy. Hug everybody when they come out.
You guys watched that game?
He's got a quarter bet. He can't throw the ball
more than 30 yards in the air with the two fastest receivers in the NFL.
Can he throw the ball?
It's a waddle, by the way.
It's a freaking turdy kill. Every single play.
Here's the waddle, baby.
This is why you kind of need an arm like last night.
He couldn't throw a pass, but 10 yards.
And he is accurate.
The Holmes was throwing it, but
with the weather, that was T-B-O-S.
Some of the throws.
Tomlin going to get fired?
No. No, I'm serious, man.
No, I know there's talk about it.
Former players turned on him, which pissed me off.
You know, Rob, this burger, and Clark
are on the air and on podcasts and stuff.
I take that guy as second.
Ryan Clark's a beautiful phone.
What about the conference?
What about the conference, Lottie? All four teams
with a winning record? Of course. I mean, it's the AFC North.
I mean,
Lottie's guy is going to want to work as a coach at a year.
That guy's the guy I would pick, Stephansi.
I think I did go over there.
D'Amigo is going to win it, right?
Mermich.
Five starting quarterbacks, four of which won a game.
Yeah, they won 11 games.
They lost the best player on their team the second week of the season.
All the Lottie had to talk about it.
27% of their salary cap is on IR.
Cleveland.
No excuse for yesterday what happened, but, yeah.
He did a great job.
They won 11 games. Unbelievable.
Hey, Lottie, where'd you watch it yesterday here?
Right here by myself.
I was watching a movie by the third quarter.
What movie?
Society of the Snow.
Oh, yeah.
I haven't seen that one yet.
True story. Don't watch it with eight guys in a basement.
You don't want to watch it with them.
Everyone, Mad Dog said true story on there.
Did Derek Casson America?
True story, Mikey?
True story? No, it's fictional.
It's a cartoon.
Um,
The Brownies.
Did they beat the Ravens in the Niners?
They beat the Ravens at Baltimore
and they beat the Niners at home.
Jeez, they're going to beat the two teams in the Super Bowl.
Possibly.
Did they play the Chiefs?
No, next year though.
Remember, Bake had the Chiefs on a rope?
They had them and the guy's neck snapped
in half at the goal line
and KC didn't get called for the spear.
That's right.
How you feeling about that?
Still, it's been a couple of years.
It'll be half year raw with the air though, right?
It's thrilled with the air.
I still think they need a choir back.
Who wants to run it back before Chubb?
Or Wichubb maybe.
The big game yesterday.
They had their only two touchdowns.
Any wild cartoons going to win this weekend?
Um...
Yeah, Philly.
God. Rams?
I got it. That was who I was going to pick.
I think the Rams are going to beat the Lions.
I mean, it's very even line right now.
What was the last wild card?
The Porter's playing though.
He's playing.
Who's the last wild card team?
I'm kind of...crivious.
Last wild card team to lose in a Super Bowl.
Last wild card team to lose a Super Bowl.
Eagles?
You're just guessing because Angry's here?
He threw his pen down when you gave the answer.
So that was pretty much...
That's not the Eagles.
Do you know it, Angry?
No.
I can tell you we're here. 99.
They lost in a Super Bowl? 99.
Oh, 99. No, I remember.
That's when you were running onto the field with Chip Kelly.
Yeah.
1999.
UConn won. I think the Yankees won.
They lost to the Titans.
The Yankees won the World Series in 1999.
Yeah, UConn won.
Rams Titans?
So it was Dyson. Dyson was out.
Dyson at the goal.
Steve McNair.
Number?
Nine.
Who cares about the NFL?
Nobody cares now.
We got to get to the next fantasy season, right?
That's what we got to get to the next fantasy season.
It's time for Who'd You Rather?
And this segment is brought to you
by Capital Securities
and Joe Morello, a life.
Every segment brought to you.
Well, Clint, that's it.
You see the stack of bills on the desk right now?
And that's right here.
They're all marked on pay, too.
Oh, Shifting Gear is here today.
Jay's going to make his debut hosting Who'd You Rather.
So, angry?
Take it away.
It's not my debut.
I'm a sophomore now.
Your debut.
Here we go.
Allen Iverson and Dwayne Wade. We're going right to it.
Iverson.
Angry? I'll go AI.
Guys, jump right in if you want.
AI.
Yanis or Joel and B.
Downfall, we're going to you.
Yanis.
All right.
No dissenters here? No dissenters?
We hate consensus.
Paul, Giselle, or Chris Bosch?
That's a good one.
Going a lot his way.
Um...
I'm going to go Giselle.
I'm going to go Pao just because he's healthier, it seems.
Giselle.
I'll go Bosch.
He was way more skilled. Me, too.
Toronto Bosch was sick.
He was. He was very good until he got with LeBum.
Yeah.
Did he say Miami Bosch or just Bosch?
You just said Bosch.
He said Bosch, yeah.
We'll look down for him.
He's too early for that.
Downfall, you're leading us off here.
Ray Allen, Clay Thompson.
Anybody but Ray Allen. Clay Thompson.
Ray, Ray, all day.
All day, Ray.
Not close.
I think it's close.
I'll go Ray, Ray.
Thank you. I'll go Ray, Ray, too, but it's much closer than you think if you look at the stats and stuff.
The studio audience all said Clay Thompson just so they'll listen to him.
No.
Not Capital Security.
Next question?
Why is he leading us off here?
Antonio Brown or Larry Fitzgerald?
Fitsy.
I don't think it's close, Fitsy.
That's...
I'll take Fitzgerald.
Antonio Brown.
I'll take Fitzgerald just because of the baggage.
I don't want the baggage.
Antonio Brown is as good as...
Yeah, the longevity for Fitsy.
Baggage? We're talking about on the field, right?
We're talking about on the field.
There's baggage with it though because he leaves the field with no shirt on, too.
Agree.
Before you give the next one,
veteran receiver Heinz Ward
at one point for the curtain.
They had three young receivers.
They would dub themselves Young Money.
Brown was one of them.
Do you guys know the other two?
Plaques.
No. Good call.
They three were all similar age.
Antonio Holmes.
Did you ask a question?
Do you know the answer?
No.
Classic Bobby.
Bro, when you get the answers, let us know.
I remember Emmanuel Sanders.
I remember Emmanuel Sanders said 18.
And then you threw me off
when you said whoever you said.
Who was the one, number 10, that ended up with the Broncos?
Antonio Holmes.
Oh, the Broncos was...
Oh, you...
He was a little touchdown machine there.
He ended up with the Broncos.
Come on, man.
Antonio Holmes was number 10.
That's why I'm throwing off.
Emmanuel Sanders went...
He went with Denver.
Yeah.
Sanders...
Oh, Mike Wallace.
Mike Wallace.
He's pretty old.
You guys killed me on that.
Lottie, here we go.
Aaron Rodgers, Dan Marino.
Uh, Dan Marino.
Dan, Dan Mann.
Prolific.
Change the game.
No Super Bowls, but I got to go Dan and Mann.
Shook his hand one time.
Did he have gloves on?
No.
Marino.
Not even close. Aaron Rodgers.
I'll go Aaron Rodgers.
Because of the one Super Bowl?
I'll just go now.
You want to go first?
You made your debut before.
We thought you said the tribute question.
You've been going first for...
Year.
I'm the host.
You're not hosting this segment.
I got a capital secret.
I got an administrator here.
Alright, here we go.
Going back down, Father.
Julius Pepper is JJ Watt.
JJ Watt.
I thought I was going to go first.
JJ Watt.
I'm going to go with Julius.
I'll go with Watt.
I'm going with JJ Peppers too.
JJ Peppers?
You can't be wrong if you're going to hit someone like that.
You don't know his real name, so it was Julius James Peppers.
He just won by...
Julius.
How about that?
You believed that for a second.
I did for a second.
JJ Fad?
Julian J.
Here we go.
The big ticket, Garnet.
Or Charles Barkley.
Lottie.
Garnet.
Tough.
I got to say...
Round Mound was...
He was an overachiever.
Barkley too.
I'm going to go Garnet.
I'm going KG too.
I'm going KG because...
Audience?
Just defensively.
What do you want to be beer with?
It's Barkley.
That's right.
There was a phenomenal Charles Barkley story I just saw yesterday.
I guess we'll have to tell you off the air because it's absolutely hilarious.
Steve Smith.
Carolina Panthers.
Andre Johnson.
Houston, Texas.
Steve Smith.
Paul Zarell, I think though.
So I'll go Andre Johnson.
Smitty. All day.
We'll go Lottie.
Chris Paul, Russell Westbrook.
I love Westbrook though.
So I'm going Westbrook.
His numbers are off the chart.
Okay, see.
Both of them...
This is a great one, Jay, because the beginning of their careers is just...
So different than where they're both at now.
But that downhill play of Westbrook early in his career...
So physical.
Trying to kill you on every play.
Him and the Pat Bev stuff early.
I got to go Westbrook.
I like your answer.
That's how I answer it and you yell at me all the time because you didn't give me a one word. Go ahead.
Westbrook.
I'm going to yell at you now.
I'm going to say Chris Paul because both sides of the court he was way better in defense.
I will take Chris Paul also, but it's very close.
Chris Weber or Chris Bosch?
You're going first, down father.
Jesus, I never go first.
You're not going first ever.
Weber.
I'm going to go Chris Bosch.
I'm going Bosch as well.
Weber.
I'm going Weber also.
We got a few more on us.
Magic Johnson.
LeBron James.
Lottie.
It's easy for me.
Because that was my guy.
That's that it is.
Talk about it though.
It's personal.
That's the magic.
Is there wrong going magic?
That's the easiest question I've ever answered.
It's to go, of course.
George is not in this conversation.
I know, exactly.
It's easy. LeBron, come on.
It's magic, man.
He beat AIDS.
Is he contradicting your door statement?
I don't know.
We're wanting to tape, angry.
He's white over his AIDS.
That's a great answer.
LeBron takes days off.
He's got his runny nose.
He's got beat AIDS.
It's magic, man.
I'll go with magic just because I don't know if it's the right answer.
The black sports illustrated cover?
Lottie, this was a tough one for me.
Shaq or Hakeem Elijahwan?
Elijahwan.
We got a net.
Very quick for me.
I can't say anything, but one more question.
That's how I answer.
I don't yell at my guests.
The footwork of Elijahwan is
second to none.
If you ask me in the post,
very fun to watch even as highlights today.
But Shaq was the most dominant center,
physically, so I got to go Shaq.
I go Hakeem.
What do you say?
My answer is the same as you.
I don't know what you mean, but Shaq was a little more dominant.
Who would Chris Dudley take?
He would take Elijahwan.
Chris Dudley got teabagged a couple of times by Shaq.
Here we go.
Where'd he go to school?
Dudley? Yeah.
I couldn't make a free throw, though, which is amazing.
No, he couldn't.
Steve Nash? Jason Kidd.
We've evolved.
Jason Kidd.
Nothing Nash.
Canadian zone?
I'm going Kidd.
I love J Kidd.
A real American.
Is he a multiple MVP?
Steve Nash won.
Shaq is pissed about one of them.
It should have been.
You guys feel like Andrew J and the Donfather formed an alliance a little bit?
No.
It's cute how the relationship has
grown over the years.
Those are fighting wars.
Jay, if you start putting Pahmian in.
Merry Christmas.
I'm going to Texas every other week.
I got plenty more.
I got one trivia question guy do it at the end.
He can do whatever he wants.
We got one more segment after this.
Jay, I'll give you one more.
One more good one, Jay. Stubbous.
We're going to coach you one.
Popovich or Phil Jackson?
Pop.
Phil Jackson.
You're going on a turn, dude.
Popovich has seven wins this year.
Phil Jackson.
Seven wins.
With the best player in the history of the world.
Win by Yolkham.
Not even close.
I'll go Phil.
I'm going to take Pop.
It was given to Phil.
Careful though. Pop was loaded too.
You're right.
But underappreciated, loaded, weird.
Were they considered West Coast?
Did they play late at night?
8.30 tips.
They weren't prime time on all the time.
They watched the playoffs.
What an appreciation for the
the Producers, the Genoblees.
Sean Elliott.
The big guys are just undisputable.
So, who did you say?
Pop, all day.
You just talked about all the great players you have.
The great players you had. Look at Phil.
I'm not saying he didn't, but you were saying,
oh, he managed this guy.
Phil made him like...
Come on, man. Kobe and the GOAT.
The GOAT is still playing.
He had Kobe and Shaq together, dude.
Come on.
And Pippen ain't easy. He had Jordan and Pippen.
Pippen ain't easy.
Jesus.
He had Craig Hodges.
I'll go Phil. I'll go Phil too.
You're right again, Henry.
Jay, I'm surprised by that.
I hate the guy, but he won.
Shoshoski or Dean Smith?
Shoshoski.
Yep.
Shoshoski. Hooner or Dean Smith?
Who?
The Hooner. The Nerf.
National Championships.
What do you say again?
Well, Calhoun did at UConn is one of the best jobs
ever in college sports.
In any sport?
Ever. The Yankee Conference playing in that gym.
There was 4,000 people
in the old field house.
The program now. Calhoun.
Yeah. He built it.
And they came.
This next segment brought Jay.
Great job.
I don't know if you need to be so bristly with me,
but like,
you are a bristle boy.
Boy, you bristle.
This next segment brought to you by Capital Security.
This is a new segment
we're debuting
a word association
segment called
What's the first thing you think of?
I'm going to say a name.
And you're going to tell me the first thing you think of.
Now, don't be influenced by what other people say.
It could be anything.
The thought that comes into your mind when you hear this player's name.
It could be a certain play,
a team,
a moment,
an opponent, whatever.
The first thing that comes to mind
when you hear this player's name, and the first one
we get it, is Derek Jeter.
Champion.
Rings.
The flip.
Minka Kowee.
Capital Security says the flip.
El Princey Paul.
Lady Deathchart.
Solid Deathchart in terms of female companions.
Crocker.
I do like the gift bag.
I bet you do.
Fist pump.
That's what I think of.
Boy, do we need more of that.
Speaking of goats,
what do you think of when you hear Michael Jordan?
First thing you think of.
Gambling.
Father.
I always think about his father.
I think of Craig Ulaw.
I think of him as a killer.
Winner.
Gatorade.
I want to be like Mike.
Confident.
Remember that? The old Gatorade commercials?
Remember they were in bottles by the way?
No. Nobody remembers that.
Like today's generation.
Brick it on the playground.
The first thing I think of is that
tongue waggy had
all the old pictures before
I bet it is.
No, seriously.
This guy is freaking out.
Family show.
That's what happens when you have a family show.
Sports Illustrated on Thursdays
and the sporting news was halfway decent
when it was a bigger magazine.
Sporting news was awesome.
Yeah, but all those old pictures
he always had his mouth open
and the tongue out making those crazy plays.
What an acrobatic player.
You mentioned this guy before.
Damarino. First thing you think of?
Mark's Brothers.
Isotoner.
I agree with Isotoner.
That's the first thing I think of.
I think of the Orange Bowl where they used to play.
Jerry Carroll.
Leases out.
The release.
The very first thing I think of is the fake
Spike.
Jets.
Mike Trout.
First thing. Overrated.
He was going to hate some.
I.L.
I said Greg Morehart.
He signed them.
Eagle Fan.
Anybody else?
Ballplayer.
I think of the Yankees, honestly.
I always envisioned him in the Bronx
and I can't believe we didn't get him.
Not over yet.
Larry Bird.
Magic Johnson.
The King.
Garbage Man.
Greatest, greatest cost player ever.
Three-pointer, I think.
You already had your turn.
I don't give a shit.
I've already had your turn.
Trash Talker of all time.
The finger up after the three-point cut.
The crooked finger.
He was so good that night.
I think we're giving each other five.
Remember that?
First thing you think of when I say Tom Brady.
He's the goat.
Winner.
Deflated football.
I think of Belichick because he made him.
Lombardi Trophy.
He made him.
First thing you think of when I say
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
The captain. Skyhook.
Overrated.
Oh my God.
That's funny.
The hook.
The hook against the Celtics.
Come on, baby.
When I say A-rad, what are you thinking of immediately?
You don't want to know.
J-Lo.
Cheater.
Steroids.
Could have been the best.
Steroids, too.
Could have been the best.
I think of what's going on here.
We're in a pool hall.
I think of Texas.
Because he took the contract based on the
income tax.
That's kind of ridiculous.
That's smart.
J-Underrated.
That's what I'm saying.
He could have been the greatest of all time.
Big news. We didn't talk about this week three
iconic coaches stepping down or fired or whatever
happened to him.
What's the first thing you think of when you hear
about the system?
Hoodie.
Loser.
Stoic press conferences.
I'm going to say press conferences.
Anybody else?
Thorough. Very thorough coach.
That's what I think of.
Covers everything.
What's the first thing you think of
when I say Nick Saban?
Go.
Winner.
Leader of men.
Yeah, I would say the greatest of all time.
College football.
I think of the dolphins.
One year there, right?
Not even.
What's the first thing you think of when I say
Pete Carroll?
Winner.
Gumb.
He just chooses gum like it's
gives it a workout on the sideline.
Nike Monarchs.
I think legends.
I think it's a good question.
I think that's a good question.
I think it's a good question.
Because I mean, this is a champion
at the collegiate level.
This is a champion at the professional level.
But how the checks a loser with this?
Yeah.
You're going to argue with Pete Carroll?
Yeah.
You always break out.
Didn't that championship get Pete Carroll
was ahead of his time?
Did he actually get an NCAA championship?
I think that's a good thing.
You got to get inside the game.
It was vacated for a long time, yes.
I think we covered it all, guys.
Ruckers and Yukon, good luck to both today.
Our contingent out there
at Sparty.
Be safe.
Get a win.
How many guys are out there?
I don't know.
Joey Pichles in charge.
We know that.
Great job, guys.
Angry J stepping up there.
We got to get back here
before a month, like the last one.
Don Fathers busy.
This high school basketball season
was crazy.
Midway already.
Angry J, Connecticut Hoops.
Who have you seen that you're impressed with
that the normal person wouldn't know?
The normal person?
What players are out there that you've seen
that you're pretty impressed with?
To go to your level or higher?
There's a kid from Berlin.
I actually like River Eberhardt.
Nice player.
Right around here in Southampton High School.
Ryan Hammerlin.
Nice player, yep.
Terrific player.
Northwest Catholic has a little kid.
You like him? Is that Marabello?
Yeah, Gianni Marabello.
He's like 5'7", but he's...
They might have to drug test him.
He's a great kid.
There's a few.
They're not...
It's not a great Northwest Catholic talent team.
Will they be there at the end?
They will be in the final four.
Final four.
Christ the King yesterday by 30.
That's pretty cool that they played him.
That was East.
I'm sorry.
East, Peter.
They're tough.
They said they won 40 in a row.
39 or 29 or something crazy.
They got handed to them though.
By the Christ the King.
Different levels.
Did you go?
We had a game.
House Crosby in the top ten.
They're fast.
They're pressing trap.
They remind me of an old Harding team.
I can't tell who their best player is.
A lot of kids.
A lot of kids moved in with uncles.
They're not overly skilled.
I don't say, wow, they got unbelievable basketball players.
But they just keep coming with those double teams.
They're guys.
Who's the coaches?
Still Nick.
40 years.
You know who the AD is.
The great Dave Iran.
Brass City Brewery.
Go check it out.
Nice.
Anybody else?
There's a bunch of prep school kids.
Stick with CIC.
I want to know about your buddy Ed Quick.
Our dear friend Eric O'Toole
who's been on this podcast.
Excited for the Niners coming up here.
But 16 teams
are chosen
to the Division 1.
I love that CIC has figured at least
that part out.
And any team can opt in.
There are 17 teams because
Selington opted into one.
That's crazy.
They're Division 2 this year
but they said right away
we want to play with the big boys.
Is it ballsy or stupid?
Do you owe it to your school to have a chance to win
your division?
And who makes the call?
Just the coach?
Does the AD have to sign off on that?
How about the principal?
Principal, man.
Does the principal weigh in on something like that?
Not typically, no.
So let me ask you guys
that Coach Quick is a good friend of mine.
What do you guys think about that if you're a player?
He's like convincing them
we're playing and we want to play with the big boys.
He's actually turned the program around.
They play much different styles.
No pun intended.
I think it would be harder to convince the parents.
So if they're Division 2
they obviously have a better shot
of more success in the state tournament.
But he wants to play with the big boys.
He schedules the big boys
out of conference.
You guys have a favorite?
I'm sure he talked to his players obviously
and I'm sure they were on board
for the majority of them.
I love it personally
from a competitive standpoint.
There's only five champions anyway.
So let's try to figure it out.
You've got a better shot to be one of them.
You've got to look at both sides.
I am looking at both sides.
Would you do it, Lottie?
Probably not.
Why?
Because I think that Southerners would have a chance to go real deep in D2.
And they could be a first round Alistair
in D1.
And if they go like 16 and 4
look at the teams that are in there
that they would have to compete against in the first round.
WCA or something the first round.
I think you've got to know your team and your players.
Again, I would assume he consulted with his kids
and maybe...
Can they hang with them?
A lot of teams, yeah.
They scrimmaged Notre Dame and West Haven
and all that.
Are they good?
They're right there.
How about the other Notre Dame?
They're good.
They can definitely hang with them, yeah.
I like to see Southerners
play Waterbury's career.
Waterbury's career is Division 1-2.
Have you seen career?
They don't waste much time
getting up to court.
The old shot clock is not a factor.
Let's just throw that out there.
Lottie, you're talking about practice.
The shot clock hasn't
been much of a factor at all.
No, no. Once I don't even find myself
on the floor of the game looking at it,
the only time I look at it is like a baseline
out of bounds play to see how much time we have.
There's no...
They hasn't really gone off much.
I think we held maybe three violations this year.
I've seen two violations
in boys' games and about four in girls.
Kids want to play.
I think it's
not a factor because it's maybe just encouraged
coaches and players.
Let's get going. Let's try to see if we can score.
Thankfully, it's not an issue.
It's not an issue.
You know what is weird is
if a WCA
or Newington, who I saw when they only had two wins
and by the way, they're pretty good.
They'll pass the ball
around. It'll go from one side of the court
to another. It'll see three sides and all of a sudden
and I'll be like, Jesus, it's got to be close.
You look up and there's like 17 seconds
and it's only half of it.
Because the ball's moving fast with these good teams
and it's just a complete,
complete non-factor
and
it's just embarrassing we didn't go to it earlier.
The bad teams too. They can't hang on to it
for 35 seconds. Oh, don't turn it over before 35.
Yeah. So.
I always used to say, shoot it before we turn it over.
I do not let me ask you this spotty too.
After watching all the high school games
now this year,
I can't stand a new foul rule
that they put in with the five fouls
at the end of each quarter.
It bothers me for some reason. I don't...
It actually hurts
it hurts the better team because
like if you're getting a team and foul trouble
early, it just goes back to zero to next quarter.
That's been the biggest
adjustment for me. We use
obviously we're not as talented as all these other teams
you're talking about. We used to use it strategically.
Yeah. Like when we got to six fouls
like we got three
to give here in a close game. Let's make
them make free throws and now that's completely
wiped out.
So I don't love that.
You know what I wish they would wipe out
is
is the pregame
handshake when your name is announced
when you got to go out there and do a
fancy handshake. Do you
have to do it in high school? I don't know
if you have to but everybody's got like a three
minute handshake and then they put a crown
on you. You scored two points in a game.
All you're talking about that with your own kids?
The kids I mean yeah.
This is what a show that has become
and then they're
giggling while they do it and then you got to lace them
up after that. They're going to throw the ball
up and you're out there giggling making like patty
cakes with somebody and then you put a crown
on you. Are they frisky? They do like
the fake frisk. That's been going on for a long time.
That's nonsense man.
It doesn't happen in all places.
It doesn't happen in a crown ball I can tell you that.
George Pernolda.
They take a charge. You know what
I love about it because we were talking
because we were scrimmage them. They do varsity
only practices. Yeah.
How's that kid? Pain. He's very good.
What level will he play at?
I don't want to discourage anybody.
I'm not.
That's not for you.
Will he play in school?
He'll play as a college player. Absolutely.
Is
Zair a college player? Yes.
How about the thick kid from WCA to have
37 at. He's so good.
He looks like he saw stuff. He just scores
all the time. His spindrable is
legit. Will he play in college with that body?
Yeah. Yeah if he wants to.
I would agree with that.
I think
they got two of the best four or five players in the NBA
just on one team.
Alright guys.
Congratulations
to Thomas and Nicole Decker
with her thousandth point.
Congrats. I didn't know that. Coach Moslak
has given her the keys to
drive the bus.
Boy is she pretty good. Don't come to former coach
then do that.
She wasn't ready. Shut up.
That kid, willing
passer. Willing passer.
Willing passer. Has she narrowed her choices?
Yeah.
She has a few offers, right?
Yeah. She's definitely going to play.
By the way, Ava Harkness
is getting closer. So it would be neat
if the two of them both got it.
I know they're individual things but that's kind of
cool for kids. Yeah, it's a thousand points to a thousand points.
They might not score it down. She's missed a lot
of games just because of her injuries, right?
Yeah, she's awesome though.
One of the nicest kids you ever want to meet.
Both of them. I wonder if Coach Moslak hangs
it up after this year, after those two.
I wonder if he walks away or if he's willing
to dig in for the rebuild.
I thought it was season.
He's rebuilding you.
Alright, keep bristling boys.