Back by popular demand, April 2nd, 2025. Welcome
to season two of The Bristle Boys. Returning
to Mac, Angry Jay, The Donfather, our new host
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We've been away high school basketball season
took a toll on us college season the NBA season
All of us have different interests Lottie and
a commish They're out on a work leave here. We
hope to get them back. Would you believe we haven't
been here since the Super Bowl and before that,
but luckily we weren't because we didn't have
to talk about the freaking Eagles and Saquon
and all these guys. Angry Jay would have been
gloating. You know, he's so positive he would
have been bragging about his team. But this just
in in football. Interesting news. The tush push.
I believe it's been tabled. several teams not
in favor of this rule, this play that's allowed.
Guys, what are your thoughts on the tush push,
and will it be banned? Will it be banned? I don't
think so. They only got 16, I think, votes. They
need 24. I don't think they're gonna get the
other eight votes. I'm a Giants fan, not an Eagles
fan. I don't care if they ban it. They can do
it better than we can, so I'm not mad at it.
I don't like it, but to be honest with you, we're
gonna take away every hard play that people draw
up. I mean, if you can't defend it, figure it
out. Will it be banned? No. Angry? Do you want
my opinion on this thing? No, I'm asking for
everybody's opinion. I think it's absolutely
horse shit that they're bringing it up now. One
team is good at it. Have you guys been paying
attention to it? Sean McDermott is out there
yapping about. player safety in three years.
They've been doing it. Zero people have gotten
hurt. Um, and it's, it's hilarious that he's
talking about safety because the MVP, his quarterback
of the league ran at the second most times behind
the Eagles. If everybody was good at it, like
I would seriously consider saying, yeah, but
the Eagles are good at it. They figured something
out. Um, I think it's a bunch of, If you're asking
me too, do I think it's gonna be banned? I don't
know if it'll be banned this year, but maybe
one more year tops. Cause they had less than,
they had like four or five people vote against
it last year. I think Goodell's behind a lot
of it. He doesn't like the play. For the people
who say it doesn't look pretty. Like who cares?
Like. It's old school football. Exactly. It's,
it's mano a mano. The Eagles have a great offensive
line that people seem to think like Saquon Barkley
or the Eagles run it with Devante Smith sometimes.
in the backfield. They think that's the whole
reason they get the actual first down or a touchdown.
It's comical. And it has been stopped. They just
run it a lot because they're good at it. It was
stopped like eight to 10 times this year. Jacksonville
stopped it twice. Yeah. Packer stopped it twice
in the first game of the year. Washington stopped
it on a two -point conversion in the NFC championship
game. To say it doesn't get stopped, it's literally,
I mean, look at Buffalo. They did try it three
times against Kansas City in the AFC Championship
game and got zero. Makes for an interesting watch.
But yeah, well, you know, if you're throwing
the ball, if you're a basketball player and you
keep throwing the ball inside and keep scoring,
are you gonna keep doing it? Chief, one flew
over. You know what I'm saying? So like, it's
like, who cares what it looks like? Like who
cares, if you're, you know, let me ask you guys
this, if your team was really good at it. The
only team that was really good at it. Would you
want a band? Well, my team's not good at anything
except throwing it to the other team. So but
that's not the question The Cowboys are really
good at it and nobody else was well, I am gonna
say it's a boring It's not it's not like fun
to get the red zone going and then they go they're
in the red in the red, we're watching the red
zone. They're in the red zone and they're running
out. It's like, come on, man. And it makes me
think like, will Derrick Henry, will they put
in a package where he's the tush push guy next
year? I mean, I would. Some teams have tried
with the tight end. But should it be banned?
No way. It's a football play. It's like old school
football. Does it remind me of the beginning
of a rugby game? Yeah, but it's old school football.
I mean, Djorkovic. Couldn't they have run the
tush push down there? Yeah. None of the right
moves. If they do ban it, they have to ban. How
about crack? If Tomlin came up with it, would
you be bitching about it? Jay's argumentative,
but I agree with him. Jay's not argumentative.
Jay's agreeable, easy going. I have no problem
with it. I don't really love it, but figure it
out. People gotta figure out how to stop it.
Don father. Yeah. No, it's not going to be banned.
Probably shouldn't. My only question is, they
go back to their rule where a defensive player
can't push another guy, but the offensive player
can. Let him do it on defense then too. So I
agree with that. But here's the thing, like you
guys watch football all the time. If a running
back runs through the line of scrimmage, and
it happens at least once a game, the guy, he
gets stacked up, not tackled, but just stacked
up on defense, and the line would come down and
start blasting the guy forward. and hear the
announcer go, oh, we're going to leg drive. And
we think that the 1 ,200 pounds of humanity push
them in the other direction. Yeah, whatever happened
to forward progress? That, I think, should be
banned. So that's my point. So if they're going
to stop the tush push, that has to be stopped,
too. Remember when it was banned and USC Notre
Dame played an act? and like the most obvious.
Reggie Bush pushed in Leonard, right? Yeah, I
thought it was white. It might have been Lendell
White. Lendell White. But executive producer,
you're the only one that has been in the trenches
here. What do you think? Like you said, I think
it's old school football. And unless the rulebook
is states that you can't push another, you know,
like push the player. But we've been doing that
since day one, you know. Just make the pile move,
you know? And again, it's only for the last,
what, two, three yards, usually. They're not
going five, 10 yards, you know? So it's a goal
line stand, just like it used to be. And if you
have the best offensive line, you're gonna win
that eight out of 10 times. All right, close
the book on football, Cowboys in 2025 or six
or whatever you're gonna call it. Okay. hoop
season, the NBA's coming to an end, which means
we have about six months of playoffs coming up,
right? NCAA tournament being wrapped up and the
high school season's over. Let's talk about the
NBA. First of all, who gets rookie of the year?
Is it our guy? One of our guys? It's Castle,
right? It's gotta be, right? And did McCain ever
have a shot at this? I mean, does him being out
hurt him? I don't know, that's a good question.
I don't know, I don't know. And Donovan, how
many do they list as receiving votes, like five,
six? I think it's five. He's gotta get votes,
right? I mean, he had a phenomenal year. Probably
he'll get votes, yeah, I'm sure. I mean, unless
you're just gonna fall in love with points per
game, he's had a phenomenal year. And some people
are like, oh, they expect him to do more. Who's
that? He's learning the game. He's getting up
and down the court. He's been pretty durable.
He's second in the NBA in blocks. Second in the
NBA in blocks. I thought it was maybe in top
five rebounds for 32 minutes. Yeah, per 32. I
think that's unbelievable. I think that the off
season is a time when polish needs to occur on
the offensive end. As you said, if you throw
the ball inside and score all the time, well,
they don't throw the ball inside. You know, you
come down one end of the court, three, go down
the other end of the court, rebound to three,
go down the other end of the court. Some other
clown in your team takes a three. It's a three
-point shooting contest. I thought I would love
it, but the true Renaissance man, Steph Curry,
you know, people say he changed the game. He
did. He changed it for the worse. All these kids
want to be hit. Well, it's not really his fault,
though. Yeah, it's not. I mean, because he's
so good at it. Yeah, and everybody else thinks
they can pay that credit. So just by emulating
him, they've really killed this sport, I think.
I had a big question, we might as well get into
it right now. Of the big sports, so we're gonna
exclude hockey. NFL, MLB, NBA. I mean, what right
now, which one of those sports has the upper
hand from an entertainment and just a sheer sports
fan standpoint? NFL. But the NFL was terrible
this year. The first six or seven weeks there
was garbage scoring. Like the quarterbacks weren't
as good as they've been. I don't know if that's
due to the preseason and nobody plays in it or
you can't play football during the week and then
you only play on Sunday. Can't tackle anybody.
And if you get tackled one time, you get hurt.
Angry, what do you think? I think it's, I'll
agree with these guys. I mean, football is the
most popular. I think part of it is. they play
once a week. You know, you look, like I don't
know about you guys, but I'd love, there's nothing
like Sundays for me. Like I literally at like
12 45 to 12 45 at night. That's all I do is watch
football. Like I watch the terrible teams. I
watched the Thursday game. I watched the Monday.
It doesn't matter. Like I think it's taken a
huge step back. I tell you what, I tell you what,
I think the NBA is in, like there's some things
that are, you had mentioned about all the threes,
but Like if you look at it man, just some of
these teams are it's brutal like The top five
or six teams in the East are playing and everybody
else is basically tanking I mean you see what
Utah does every like they haven't tried to They're
trying so bad to get Cooper flag. They haven't
tried winning They take their starters out in
close games in the fourth quarter. It's it's
it's awful the Sixers Like they're a team that
was supposed to be one of the better teams in
the East. They're an embarrassment. They're on
the shelf. Yeah, I mean, first of all, the fact
that aren't that he doesn't play here, aren't
they? He just denounced that he's getting knee
surgery again. Good thing the way that it sounds
like the Yankees wait till the year is over to
get it. But then, you know, poultry, they don't
even let Maxie play. They just make up, you know,
like he's fun to watch. Like he's awesome. But
they they're like, hey, we can't win it. So we're
not going to win any games. That's why I think
they got a huge problem. Never mind just shooting
threes. I mean, Look at that. If you look at
like the six years are literally like three and
twenty five in the last twenty eight games and
they tried losing the other three that they won
and they were supposed to be good. Yeah. But,
you know, they're all in on the tank because
they know they can't win. That's that's that's
to me is a problem, you know, because they've
tried to take steps toward it by including two
more playoff teams and that kind of stuff. Yeah,
it's not working. So what's going to happen this
year in football? The tanking is going to be
crazy. The tanking for Arch Manning this year,
it's going to be. Insane. What's going to happen?
You guys agree with that, Don Father. I think
you're way off with that. No way. They already
talk about it. Why didn't you play Manning? If
he's that good, why didn't he play? He's they're
going to tank for him. There's always been tanking
in every sport, but maybe the NBA has just gotten
so like somebody like there's literally like
10, 10 to 12 teams that don't try to win now.
Like they've made rules that you're not as actually
like I pick them to like win less than 20. I
don't know if you remember this. Yeah, they they
want a bunch they they keep playing but there's
like some of these teams. It's like it's embarrassing
So my question here's another one only three
games. So so like how good is how good is somebody
like Oklahoma City? Like yeah, right there on
pace to win like 67 68 games. They think I'm
thinking about like ten teams don't even try
to win Yeah, so there's I mean so like are they
are they like legendary good if they win the
championship or they just kind of like Pretty
good. I don't think they're legendary good. If
they win close to 70 games, like you start talking
about like, only one team has won 70 games, or
two teams actually, the Bulls and the Warriors,
right? Have won 70 games. Like they have a shot
at it. One of them didn't win the trip anyway,
so. Yeah, but track me. But these teams, they're
like, I don't know, it's, you know what they
say to plumbers and all that in the 80s? Yeah.
They would pound on that team. I mean, I know.
from a talent standpoint, it'd be hard to keep
up with some of those guys, but like from a tough
guy standpoint, depending on the rules you're
using. They're one of the few teams that actually
plays solid defense. OKC, they have good defenders
up and down the lineup and they're different
than most of the other teams. Celtics do, though.
They can defend when they have to. Most teams,
I don't think can, but I think the best three
teams in the league can all play clean when they
play defense, Celtics and OKC. Celtics kind of
scare me with the they can turn it on type of
thing. I don't think it's been as consistent
as a, they're playing pretty well now. I know
they are, but they've had some bad ones. They
just gotta stay healthy. They gotta keep Porzingis.
He's gotta be able to play in the playoffs. They'll
have a tough time beating Cleveland without him.
Cleveland for real? Absolutely. How about the
West? West is so interesting to me. Maybe just
because I kinda got it for Steph. I have a question
for you guys in a minute, but you got LeBron
and Luca on the same team. You got the joker,
who after Steph goes off last night, throws up
a 60 point triple double. Draymond gets a triple
double. In a loss, by the way. Butlers, you know,
I think he's made quite an impact on the Warriors.
And like, how about this? As of today, the Warriors
and Lakers would play the first round after that
play -in nonsense. At least one of them has to
lose. That's the only good thing about it. That
is great. I just hope it's the Lakers. My words
are 18 and two and Stefan but we're playing the
same game 18 to pretty nice at Jimmy Butler start
playing again, huh? There was another problem
with the NBA. Yeah, right. You didn't feel like
playing in Miami and now he goes there and he
doesn't miss any. Well, it's guaranteed money,
which is going to be a huge theme throughout
this pod. Guaranteed money so you get to do whatever
you want and you don't care how you're perceived.
That's this we've. You think our predecessors
went through this? Because I can remember my
dad and stuff like that being disenchanted with
pro sports. And you're like, how could they not
love it like I do? And now I feel like that.
I'm starting to be salty about stuff. Now I'm
sure back then it was, they spiked the ball in
the NFL. I'm not going to ever watch it again.
But tanking and sitting out and being a baby
and making gun gestures and getting your coach
fired, these guys are crazy. You think that,
I mean, the cycle of life, I guess that are we
being our fathers? Is that what's going on? Basketball
is the most frustrating sport to be a fan of
with everything you just said. It's the most
frustrating sport because I love watching it
in the playoffs. But the regular season is so
frustrating because of all the things that you
just said. It's so frustrating. I wish I was
open minded enough to consider hockey a sport.
No, it's a sport, but like, I just don't like
it. We don't have the whalers, so I don't want
to watch it. If the whalers were still here,
you'd like it. I know I like it then. Yeah. What
hockey game in person? Yeah. Yeah. Playoff hockey.
Grim Reaper. Yeah. Yeah. Tipit and Deneen. Blaine.
Yeah. That number was Blaine Stouten. Oh, God,
I forgot it too. Killing me. Yeah, I know. 28,
Liute. Leah was one. Weeks? 31. Every time I
went weeks was in goal. Frickin' Leah had 100
saves the night before I got to see Weeksy. I
like Darren Tarkat, but. Anyway, interesting
first round if it's Warriors, Lakers out there
in the West. So guys, dead serious here. When
is Steph Curry gonna get mentioned in this goat,
not goat, but like, when are we gonna say? Who's
better LeBron or Steph? I mean, this guy's amazing.
He's getting double digit threes in a lot of
these games, and that's with another alpha on
his team now. He's completely said, and then
he said last night, I got a lot in the tank still,
or the tanks on full. You have 12 last night,
12 threes last night? People think he's on the
way out. I mean, his teammates have so much confidence
in him. Now they're doing the turnaround thing
on the bench when he shoots a three. Like, when
is he going to get mentioned in these kind of
debates? And just real quick, do you got him
in your top 10 of all time? I think he's right
around that 910 for me. He's moved up a couple
of notches the last couple of years for sure.
Winning that championship without Durant for
me moved him up over Durant and into that top
10. Well, Durant just needed to stay healthy.
And by the way, what a gamer like these guys
that don't play. This guy said, all right, I
got an Achilles is going to snap any second.
Tape it up. We're going to try to beat the Warriors
or the Raptors. Right. And then those loser Canadian
fans are booing them. Right. cheering him when
he went down that day. I thought it was a heroic
thing. I know he's got like a weird big mouth
and political views and stuff like that. But
like he shouts back at people that roast him.
But he's a basketball player. He's one of the
best scorers, I would say, of all time. Right.
I mean, but absolutely. So, Jay, what do you
have? What do you have, Steph? That's a good
question. I definitely have him probably in the
top 15. What position would you say is? First
of all, are there positions anymore? I am not
asking that what position would you say a shooting
yard? Isn't there's no way he's a point guard
see six four six three He's they'd list them
as a point guard to it, which is comical I mean
have you ever seen a point guard who comes down
and passes the bottle guy and then runs off 47
screens to get a shot boy He gets a lot of steps
in doesn't he? Yeah, I mean, I'm not should be
like that curry. How was he? Yeah How was he
how was he a point guard? He shoot first, right?
And he should be. You could be soft and calm,
what everybody else does that can't make up their
mind. A combo guard, right? Come on. He's a shooting
guard. He's a two. But they list him as a point
guard. People say, like, oh, he's the best point
guard of all time. Do you consider him a point
guard? No, I think he has amazing handle, but
that doesn't make him a point guard. Yeah, I
agree with that. But to me, a point guard is
a guy who sets up his teammates first. And he's
not that. He's... get him the ball so we get
him a shot. And he's the new assistant GM of
the Davidson whatever they're called. We'll get
back to that in a minute. Wildcats. Is it the
Bobcats? Bob McCollip. Bob McCollip. He retired
a couple years ago. Anyway, he has a new GM and
Trey Young's the assistant GM for Oklahoma after
he spent three months or four months there. We'll
get back to that in a minute college GMs and
assistant GMs. NBA, whatever, playoffs will be
fun. Maybe teams will play hard for, you know,
how many minutes is it? 48? 48? Maybe they'll
play hard for 48, maybe they won't. But that's
always a fun four or five months, the NBA playoffs.
Not like Don Fowler said though, like the playoffs
are a whole different. It's a whole different
season. It's four months. We're gonna be watching
in July, dude. Outside, right there. Yeah, right
there. We'll be watching the finals. Don Father
Studio. The season starts two months later. You
were talking about Steph and how he ranks. Somebody
today on ESPN was mentioning, where does Jokic
rank now among the greatest, not players, but
centers? And somebody today said they had him
ranked as the second all -time. It was Jay Williams
talking about saying he is everybody as good
as Kareem Hakim and Shaq. I'll call BS on that.
I love the guys. Is that from all the times Jay
Williams watched Kareem? Yeah, must have been.
Somebody else said he was not in the top four,
couldn't be in the top four, but right after
that. I mean, he could have played against Shaq
and he decided to run a motorcycle into a wall
so he didn't have to, so I don't want to hear
about that. I think it was a tree. Whatever.
Ask Chris Dudley the same question. Yeah. I don't
agree with that. Championships have to count
for something, and he's talking about 60 points
or whatever, blah, blah. Totally bagged him.
All right, so moving right along to the best
sport ever besides baseball, college hoops. Boy,
I used to, college hoops was the best sport,
but it's over now. We don't have it anymore.
And it's almost fitting that this is the worst
tournament I can ever remember. Not just in terms
of the one buzzer beater when a guy traveled,
but like. just there wasn't any good games. There's
nothing coming down to the wire. I guess there
was a good weekend this past weekend. Very competitive
teams. I'd love to know the salaries that they're
starting, you know, five minutes. This is what
have we or they done here? I mean, we've been
talking about it a little bit off and on. What
have we done? We've eliminated mid -majors being
any, being relevant ever again. Because if you
have a good mid look at the kid for Florida Like
he's been the best player in the tournament.
I learned and play actually played men the best
player the shots He made against you can play
in yeah, and the other night. He's a man like
this. Where's he from? made major yeah, was he
Iona or I Was he from my farm? Yeah, he's not
from my farm. I don't know where he's from. Like
it's hard to keep track anymore. They used to
take pride in knowing like most of the starters.
So if you're any good in the ACC or something.
If you're any good in the mid -major, you're
playing somewhere else. And I don't even, I don't,
as bad as it is, yeah, it's basically, there's
a farm team for, you know, there's new teams.
Like Indiana has no players. Did you see that?
Look at Drake and McNeese State. Their entire
starting five are transferring. Indiana had no
players roster of as of like four or five days
ago six guys graduated seven guys in the portal
Yeah, well on that same subject I know you know
wasn't a good year for the scarlet Knights given
those two guys that they have but the next best
freshman they had Arguably the inside presence
Lathan Somerville who can't dunk the ball because
he can't get over ten feet But he got a smooth
touch and he's got some mocks. He complains a
lot but like During the NCAA tournament, him
and many others entered a name in a portal. Which,
why are we doing it during the tournament? What
are you, a rider announcing an extension during
a World Series? I mean, do you need the attention
that bad? Did you get any toys when you were
a kid? I mean, seriously, can you wait? But why
Washington? They don't have the portal open in
the middle of the tournament. That's what I'm
talking about. It's not their fault. The portal
is just open. I agree with you, executive producer,
but here's the thing. Like I said, what have
we done to this game? When I say we, it's not
us, it's the NCAA who has the most spineless
group ever. Football is probably a year or two
from just saying bye -bye. I gotta say this,
I don't blame the players though. I don't blame
the players. You can't, it's human nature. The
NCAA is getting what they... So years ago, it's
coming back to haunt them. But the problem is,
it's the Supreme Court rulings that are allowing
all of this to happen. And the question is contracts.
Like, all right, you're being paid. You're getting
paid. The minimum two -year contracts with these
teams. Something. Every year, moving around,
it's not good for the players. It's not good
for the teams. It's not good for the fans. It's
not good for the product. And again, and maybe
a cap, maybe the NCAA has to say some kind of
cap, because the SEC is supposed to come out,
right? The settlement in July 1st or whatever?
Eat everyone's lunch, because of all the football
money they have. Well, and that's happening right
now. Why are there 14 teams in the NCAA tournament?
Well, hold on. While we're on that, J. Billis,
him and Shashevsky were chatting. Did you guys
see this? Billis said, I think it needs tweaking,
but I think this is his idea. When you sign an
NIL deal, which by the way, name, image, likeness,
what happened to you making money off of working
at camp and a t -shirt with your name on it?
I mean, Jesus, straight up cash and bags? What
is that? Now it's legal. NIL. But Bill has said
- It's paid out by them making appearances and
doing work. I don't freaking care. I'm not saying
they have to do that stuff, but it's not just.
for the basketball. Don't care. I get you. No,
but Jay Bill has said something to the effect
of when you sign with a school, it's a three
year contract. And if you want out, you have
to buy it out. So if Washington wants to buy
out Lathan Somerville, then they got to pay back
Rutgers the money that he was going to be getting
or got a record like not. to the cent, but there's
gotta be some sort of buyout where, and by the
way, I think it's heading in this direction.
If these schools are hiring GMs and assistant
GMs. Well, they all are now. This is something.
I wouldn't be surprised if in two or three years
they start trading players. I'm not even kidding.
This is nuts, but I don't think you can do that.
and the coaches all meet and they say, we'll
give you this guy for that guy. I'm not saying
it's gonna happen. That's not what I'm saying.
I'm saying that's the next step. You have a kid
who's a freshman, like he gets traded to Washington,
you're gonna say, okay, he's gonna move across
the country? Well, this is a different story.
These guys aren't paying for anything, man. They
don't pay for anything, right? Now they definitely
aren't paying for anything. But anyway, gotta
be a buyout. So the Somerville thing, it's just
one instance. It's not like I'm like... all upset
about it, but like he announces it, but a week
or two ago, week ago, and he's already signed
with Washington or committed to Washington. So
when did Washington tell him that he was going
to be getting a better deal? So exactly for years,
they're talking about this and that and tampering
and phone calls. And, you know, Jim Calhoun gets
in trouble for this or that. Now they're just
doing whatever they want. Supreme Court don't
care. States don't care. Somebody's gotta put
some sort of legislation here in place or very
strict rules. But then what happens when they
break them? Because they never used to break
the recruiting rules, right? Never, no. And Reggie
Bush never got any money at USC, right? And nobody
goes to a team luncheon in football and shakes
hands with guys and walks out with four or five
grand in their pocket, right? That never happened.
That never happened. But like, I don't know,
when's it end? It doesn't, it's not going good.
I mean, it's like girl, it's the girls in basketball
too. You know, they're staying because they know
the money's there. Oh yeah. Better than the WNBA,
cause season's too short and the money's just
not there. Some of these guys are the same way.
Like, if they're looking at the tea leaves, they're
like, well, I'm not gonna make the NBA money.
I have to play in Europe. And someone's offering
me $2 million to play this year. Like they said,
it's life -changing money. McNeely coming back.
He's already I know I know is he coming back
No, I mean they got him as a load low first rounder
right now like 14. Oh that high okay? So I'm
asking you like we don't have that kind of talent
or size or whatever it is or the combination
of both would you rather? Take another million
and go play at Yukon or go try to like I'd fight
my way to get that second NBA contract. You got
a better chance to get it by coming back to UConn
and lifting weights for a year? No, but that's
the argument, though. They say if you can get
out of your rookie deal sooner, the money's out
there. So by risk and injury, staying maybe for
a million or two in college versus getting out
of that first agreement for the NBA, it's a big
difference. For the NBA, guaranteed. First rounders
are guaranteed, yeah. But it's that second step.
Yeah, it's quicker. Yeah caravan coming quicker
to the second one. Yeah caravan coming back.
I Would say no, what does he ask the proof left?
You know, where's he going? I'll get drafted
first round. I Don't know now, but he'll make
a roster he's a 3d guy that you have to guard
him He's going to have to guard them. You had
mentioned the death of the mid -majors and the
tournament and lack of Cinderella's and things
like I think that's personally I think that's
a good thing. I hate Cinderella's. I don't want
to see St. Peter's playing Kansas or playing
Duke because you know they're going to lose eventually.
I don't disagree with something like I don't
like I like in the first like loyal Chicago.
Yeah. The first couple of rounds like when it
gets to if it gets to a final four like loyal
to Chicago because it's going to happen eventually.
Just don't make me watch it then then lose by
30. I don't like none of them, you know? Like
you said, there's no really close games with
any of these lower seed this year. I don't know.
Don father. I'm disappointed in you. I'm disappointed
in you. You don't like the Cinderella. Give me
Duke forward over VCU and whoever, Auburn, whatever
it is. Give me Duke forward. I don't like either
team. That's the best basketball. Auburn Duke
Duke Florida. I hate Duke. I don't want them
to win. You sound spoiled You got to order up
Duke UNC now the first you know, it's fifth time
in the year I mean come on man. Not this year,
but whatever. Is Cooper the real deal? Yes. Yep.
He plays both sides in a ball too. He plays good
D. I made a comment to a friend that he hated
and I was kind of kidding, but I was like Is
he the best white American born player since
Larry Bird? Does he have a chance to be? Does
he have a chance to be? Hard to say. Knipple's
pretty good too. He's not even close to this
guy though. I'm talking like, is he gonna end
up being Tom Chambers or are you gonna end up
being a rival to Larry Bird? And Tom Chambers
is pretty damn good. Very good. Is he gonna be
a Gugliata or is he gonna be a Bird? Let's throw
something else out. There's gonna be Christian
Leighton or is it gonna be Bird? You know what
I'm saying, Odo? Those are like dime a dozen
guys in the NBA. I mean, they're good players,
but they're all good players. It's the NBA. Yeah,
I don't think it's fair to compare them to the
legend. Danny Ferri or Larry Bird? No. What number
was Danny Ferri? The crazy part about Flag is
he should be a senior in high school. That's
amazing. Right. So that's the other point. Is
that brother of his a twin? Yes. He's still in
high school. Yeah, he reclassed up and Wow Now
he there was some there's probably a fake Twitter,
you know comment but like You guys I'm sure read
that he was thinking about coming back. Yeah,
he doesn't want to play for Washington So Danny's
doing everything he can by taking his starters
out second half in Utah. Oh We got a chance to
win this one. Let's wrap that up One of the guys,
Walker Kessler, just I'm not kidding, this is
what I'm laughing about. The other day they took
him out. He missed a couple games and they declared
him ready to play. And then they pulled him like
right before the game saying he needed a, the
injury was listed as like cardio management.
He wasn't a game chef. Yeah, it's basically what
it was. It was basically Jacobi Ellsbury. Utah
and Washington are tied for the win. That's what
I'm saying. And they have a three game lead.
I want to know who has the tiebreaker neck, because
neither one of those teams. Washington guys actually
try. They're just bad. Sounds like camouflage.
But Utah is all in on getting the most ping pong
balls. Technically Utah is behind them by percentage
points. Yeah. So my question is, they have the
same amount of wins. And they're going to finish
with the same amount of wins. So who gets the
tiebreaker? That's what I wanna know. That is
a fantastic, yeah, what is the tiebreaker? Is
it conference record? I don't know if it's head
to head first or, I don't know, good question.
Head to head, they're probably one on one. I'm
still chuckling about cardio management. I wanna
use that line the next time my wife asks me to
go for a walk. Cardio management. It was something
like, yeah, it was like cardio. General fatigue.
High ranking official. Yeah, we're in camouflage.
General fatigue. Jesus. All right, don't answer.
Your favorite. are the best NCAA coach of all
time. This segment is sponsored by Capital Securities,
Joe Moriello of Life. Well planned. Angry Jay.
Are we going into a game? Is that what we're
doing? Yeah, we're going into a who would you
rather this time? And we are gonna... High life.
Live in the high life. Each coach that comes
out with the highest votes moving on to the next
round, we're actually gonna come out with a champion
tonight. Without further ado, we will skip Mr.
Ross, unless he makes it back here. No, he's
here, he's here, executive producer. So I rank
these guys one through 16, all right? And we'll
start off going with you, Crocker. All right,
who would you, this is for the who would you
rather? Like who would you rather have your son
or daughter play for? That's how we're doing
it. Now who's the better coach? Now one more
championships, who would you rather have your
son or daughter play for? We understand the rules.
Yeah, okay. All right John Wooden Lou Olson This
is around a 16 so I guess wouldn't wouldn't All
right, I'll go Lute Olson the guy's dead the
other guy so but he's advances to the lead eight
right? Yeah I doubt father. We're go you perverse
order now Tom Izzo, Jim Bayheim. It's a no brainer.
Is Bernie Feinstein the assistant? You're a guy
you wish. Jimmy Bayheim all day. That's what
Don Father said. I'm gonna go Izzo. Izzo without
a doubt. Izzo. That's a wrap, Izzo Vantis. That's
three, right? Nonsense. All right, we're going
back to you, Crogger. You're not voting, Jay?
I'll go Izzo too, it doesn't matter. Roy Williams,
Jay Wright. son or daughter now remember playing
for him i go jay right right jay right my son
plays one jay right wow i'll go roy williams
all right a little spiced up he's corny yeah
there's something about that shtick okay i don't
know what it is all right back to you don father
dean smith bill self dean smith dean smith self
dean smith I'll go with Dean Smith, too. I don't
like Bill Self, but he's done a hell of a job.
Jordan roasted him in his... All right, we're
going to the other side of the bracket. Back
to you, big man. Mike Szaszewski, Jim Valvano.
Anybody but Szaszewski. Son or daughter? Yep.
Gotta be Coach K. Valvano. Valvano. Wow. Coach,
I would have went with Coach K, there's an option.
Something you don't see every day. Valvano upsets
Coach K. He wants it to be Wooden and Gino here.
This is strictly men, okay? All right, back to
you. Eight all for up, Rick Pitino. Rick Pitino.
I don't know the other guy that's so Pitino.
Kid Pocky, man. I don't know enough about Adolph
Rupp other than the arenas named after him. I
gotta go Petino. That's it. I'm gonna go Rupp.
I'll go Petino too, but yeah. I had to slide
one in there. I gotcha. Back to you. Yeah. Jimmy
C, Dan Hurley. Oh, Jimmy Calhoun all day every
day. Hooner. Calhoun. Wow. I go Hurley. Because
he's Crybaby? Nah, I'd like to play four. He
didn't take the Laker job. He didn't take the
Laker job all of a sudden. Oh yeah, it's championship
or bust at UConn. I guess you had a bust of a
year then. Jesus. Expectation level is high.
That's all I'm saying. I don't like that. I hate
John Shire. All right. John Shire. Bob Knight,
Mark Few. That's a tough one. Son or daughter
now? Close, it is close. Is that a 5 '12"? It
is a 5 '12", yeah. Okay. Bob Nick. I don't want
my son or daughter anywhere near that maniac.
I don't care what a good, you know, I don't care
how genius he was for the motion offense. He's
a torturous man. You could just say Mark Feud.
Mark freaking Feud. No, cause you're a night
guy. I mean, I love a lot of stuff he represented,
but asshole. I mean, jerk. He was an asshole.
Two to one. Here we go. You know what? I was
in between it, but Bobby sold me. I'm going to
go Bobby, too. Wow. There's another upset. I'm
going nice. It was three, two. That was three,
two. Night was a 12 seed. He was five. He was
five. All right. So we got to go back. A lead
eight now. Let's go back to you. John Wooden,
Tom Izzo to get to the final four. I'm going
Izzo. Wooden. I'll go with Wooden. Wooden. I'll
go Izzo. Chalk. Free two. Back to you, Don Father.
Jay Wright, Dean Smith. Jay Wright. Final four.
Jay Wright. Oh, that was easy. Dean Smith. Wright.
Wright. Oh, wow. I'd go Dean Smith. Jay Wright
in the final four. Nice suit. Double breasted.
Don Father special. Remember, we're coaching
our kids here. Valvano Pitino. Valviano. Rick.
Valvano. Galvano. Oh my god, Patino. I'm going
Patino, but Valvano advances. Holy cow. He only
had one good tournament. He's a compiler. No.
Patino is? No, I'm kidding. I'm talking about
one good tournament. No. Jim Calhoun, Mark Few.
Mark Few. Calhoun. Hooner. I'm few. I'm going
Calhoun. Let's go, Jimmy. So he's in the final
four. We're in the final four. Two -time Hall
of Famer. John Wooden, J. Wright. What do you
mean J. Wright? Wow. Who what? Focus. Come on.
Who? J. Wright. Jesus Christ. John Wooden, J.
Wright to the championship. J. Wright, Guard
University. Wooden and J. Wright? We got Wooden
and J. Wright. I'm going with Wooden. I'm going
with J. Wright. I'm going John Wooden and J.
Wright to the title. Oh, Don Father, no double
person. Don Father, coming back to you. We got
Calhoun and Valvano. Valvano. What? Valvano makes
the change. I did not think he would make it.
You own the Hooner? Yes. The Hooner? Jay Wright
was my one seed, so. He chews gum way faster
than anybody else in this field. Got it. One
red seed. So you got to go back to the kids.
What was it? It was Calhoun and... Calhoun and
Valvano. Derek Wittenberg? Derek, come on. Valvano.
You can't ride a bike, you can't coach. I'm going
Calhoun. So we are in the title game. This is
the Monday night 921 tip off for the... Coaching
championship. Coaching championship of son or
daughter. We got Jay Wright against Jim Calhoun
to win it all. I thought Jay Wright got beat.
I thought Jay Wright got beat. Jay Wright beat
John Wooden. You guys. We were 2 -2. I thought
you turned. Nah, it was 3 -2. 3 -2. Jay Wright
won. Who'd you say? I said Wooden. They both
said Wooden. I said Wooden. You said Jay Wright,
dude. No, I said Jay Wright. Kroc said Jay Wright.
No, I did. Guard University. He's right. Yeah,
thanks. But you went there. I went with Warden.
So it's 3 -2. So it's 3 -2. So we got Jay Wright
and the Hooner in the championship game at 921
Tip in the San Antonio Dome. I can't believe
it. I'm giving it to Jay Wright. I can't believe
my answer because he frustrated me. The Hooner.
I like Calhoun. Jay Wright? Jay, it's up to you.
Hooner or Jay Wright? I gotta go Calhoun. Let's
go! The index cards to beat them. Let's go. Yeah,
I'll admit it. I don't have kids. That's right.
I want them to get abused. How great is it that
we had two Big East coaches in the finals? I'm
actually a little surprised at some of your answers,
but I guess if it's son or daughter. It's about
the son or daughter. That's what changed me.
I'm surprised you didn't have Calipari in there.
Billy Donovan. I thought about Donovan, but I
didn't. I couldn't put Calipari in it because
if any of you guys voted for him, I would have
been sick. That's why I left him out. Donovan
was a guy I had, I didn't know who to eliminate.
He didn't spend enough years in college. Yeah,
I couldn't put 32 either. Then I was struggling
with 32. I'm shocked you put Bayheim in there.
I honestly think we got away from the kid thing
a little bit though. I think we got away from
the kid thing. Yeah. Are we missing a Kentucky
coach in there? Tubby? Nah, he doesn't make that.
Does Nolan get a sniff? Maybe if we widen the
field? Yeah, and I thought about Tarkany and
some of those guys. A shark? I mean, your kids
would be getting paid. They probably wouldn't
graduate, but yeah. Raleigh Massimino? Yeah.
Oh, Raleigh, yeah. Val Vano would beat him. Not
compilers. Jay, that was awesome. I loved that,
man. Speaking of the coaches thing, we were talking
about a couple of these guys earlier. Which active
coach has the most tournament wins? I'd go Izzo.
I can tell you right now, it's a two -way tie.
Self. Izzo is one of the two. Self is number
three. Well, Patino has had so many tournament
games. Patino is number four. Izzo 59, Self 57,
Patino 55. One other active coach has 59. 59?
59, tournament wins. What tournament? NCAA. By
the way, Sheshesky has over 100, he's 40 over
the next coach. Wow, that's crazy. 59? His always
59, and one more active coach. Active, is he
a head coach? No, he's a shooting coach, he's
a head coach. I'm just thinking like Martelli
type of somebody on somebody's bench, okay. You
got to give us a hint. We can't be here all day.
This is he was mentioned in Jay's bracket. He
almost put him in, but he didn't. Billy Billy.
Oh, Tarkinian. Calpari. Oh, Tarkinian's dead,
right? Oh, so he's not active. Oh, they pop him
up at UNLV. As the kids say, he's telling that.
for at the active fire. I knew he'd be the one
that would stump Calabar, because I didn't get
him. Yeah, he's always advancing. He just never
wins, really. Yeah. I mean, how many schools?
UMass. Memphis. Memphis, Kentucky. Arkansas.
No Razorbacks. I mean, they do win. They do win
a couple of games every year, don't they? Yeah.
That's a great question. By the way, I don't
know if you guys - How many does Hurley got?
How about the - I mean, he's got how many? Well,
he's got 15 in a row. That's the tie for the
most in a row. Has he got a winner at URI or
two? I don't think... I think they lost in the
first round when he was there. How about the
guy from UCLA that called out his team all year,
the little Irish... Mick Ronan? He's got a few
wins? He's got a few, but they're not... Double
digits? I don't know. How about Buzz Williams?
You know who's up there was... Arizona. Miller.
He's now. I mean, he was Arizona. He was Arizona.
He said he was pretty much going to stay at Xavier
for the rest of his life. And then Texas offered
him a crap load of money. And now he's at Texas.
He took the Texas job. He's a new Texas coach.
Yeah. I'm back at Xavier for the rest of my life.
Except the Texas offers him a lot of money. He
had mid -30s trying to know where I think for
tournament wins. Really? He's been around for
a while. Yeah, he's been paying guys to throw
the pass to who? Jerome Lane. Get it, Jerome.
Send it in, Jerome. Oh, yeah, send it in, Jerome.
Who said it? Bill Rafter. Yeah, he did. Raft
making a comeback. Yeah, this year, right? Yeah,
he doesn't. He sounds more sober. Onions. Onions.
Man to man. All right, man, who wins this final
four? Duke. Duke. The last team won. I do not
like John Shire, but they are so talented. Like,
they're huge, dude. They're huge. Like, their
guards are huge. It just seems to me that that
guard from Auburn. Kenip Kanop there, whatever.
Remember that game? He's good. And the guards
from Florida are gonna make shots in, like, who
knows. Shooting over six six seven guards and
seven foot two guys as we found out the last
couple years becomes a problem. Yeah Anyway I
was gonna talk about high school hoops, but this
was so much fun. I'll just leave it at this the
school a state the size of Connecticut can have
ten state champions us We got to go back to four
If anyone would care to listen I got the formula
you got to take because now they can figure out
who the best 16 teams are so take the best 16
teams or make it you know some other number that's
not 32 like 20 kinetic is top 20 have a play
in because if you look at the at the seating
and on the cac site i gotta ask a question everyone
has a buy in the first round of the division
one tournament yeah it says 16 buys, it just
looks stupid. Yeah, and bad teams get in that.
So my question to you is, right off the shoot
here is? End of the season. End of the season,
that's when you rank them? Yeah. Okay. It can
be done easily. So, I mean, will that turn into...
On the news. Yeah, but will that turn into NBA
stuff? Like, hey... You know, we got to go play
Notre Dame at West Haven. Do we want to be 16
seed or do we want to play a Division II tournament?
If you can be one of the top 20 teams, I think
that your school should get a banner from the
state that says you made Connecticut's top 20
that year. I'm not kidding. It's an accomplishment.
I'm not saying that, but you want to hang that
thing? If you made the top 20, what if you're
a Class S school and you had a chance to win
at Notre Dame at West Haven as borderline Class
S school? You know what I mean, a true small
town school. Sacred Heart was a class S school,
they played in a class S town. You know what
I mean. If you took the towns they drew from
and had some sort of formula that way, they're
not close to a class S school. I know what you're
saying in terms of population. Okay, let's say
Chabot comes in 20th this year. Tough go of it,
they're not gonna get there. And by the way,
if there was four divisions, they might not win
it anyway, because Ellington had beat their butts.
I'm not disagreeing, but... They get that class
once every 20 years. Totally agree, but if it's
the four class system like we've always had before
this nonsense, that's no cakewalk anymore. That's
no cakewalk anymore. Dan Gazinski's Canton team
would give them a run for their money and that
Ellington team was talented. Long, I mean, geez,
they were fun. They got the, what do you, Curtis'
younger kid? They're tough, man. So, look, 20
teams. Take the rest and list them by enrollment
because you're not gonna, you're not gonna have
like these Catholic schools left anymore, right?
Most of them will be good. or an immaculate or
somebody else that's St. Paul, you know, they
don't try to get players. I know this for fact.
No, they don't go out and try to get players.
I agree with you. But that's noble, if you ask
me. But like only a few Catholic schools will
be left. Only a few magnet schools will be left.
Now you take the enrollment and take the qualifiers
and list them by enrollment like this in a list
and divide the list by three. You have the tournament
of champions, whatever you want to call it, division,
whatever. Then you have L stands for large M
and S and you like it's instead of going by the
preseason enrollment, you're taking the qualifiers
left and you won't have many buys because it'll
be about 30 teams in each. and you do it that
way. Boys and girls, instead of having two separate.
So you have to win a certain amount of games
to get in? You gotta go back to 40%. 40 % qualifier.
I mean, Jay, when we first went to high school
it was 50%. Correct. Now they got it down to
six wins and you're in. There'll be a couple
years where teams aren't, like not, I mean there'll
be like 12 teams or 16 teams in one of the divisions,
don't you think? No, if you look at the last
10 years of, Just qualifying teams. You're gonna
have somewhere around 110 -ish. Take 20 out of
there, divide the rest by three. That's an idea.
You don't got me sold yet, though. Do you have
a better one? Because this system sucks. No,
I mean, I... And I'm not saying the final sucks
and the teams that win it didn't deserve a state
championship. I coach one team that actually
won one of those, right, with five divisions,
right? Maybe two with five divisions, but here's
the thing It's just like dance a tournament now.
There's kind of crappy games and and up and down
the tournament They're always worth there, but
like I was a well, how about 16 first round buys?
What the heck is that you play one less game?
Yeah, I don't stupid. I don't I it's even stupid
I went there's just 16 teams in it and zero on
20 teams going to play The ones you just, it's
stupid. So make it 20, and you have eight teams
gotta play into the 16. Like the NBA playoffs,
and like the first four and whatever. And you
have to earn that buy, and there's only eight
of you. That's an idea, you have to. It's an
idea? Yeah, you want me to just say, oh, here
we go, that's it, yeah. It's a good idea, we
gotta give it some traction and give it a year
or two. And put it in, give it a year or two,
and then see how it is. I don't like screwing
the class S teams, dude. I think that's a problem.
Well, you got to keep that. You got to keep it
in mind. So you'll say, you know, would teams
say that Chapao should be in that top 20? In
all honesty, they shouldn't. No, they shouldn't
be. They're very talented. I mean, they got three
really good athletes and some other kids really
good coaches. Great. But like, it doesn't mean
they're as good as, you know. who would be a
late teens type of team, like some sort of city
team or a big school. But now, Sullington, they
shouldn't be in there with them. Sullington should
be in there. And the Sullington coach is nuts
enough to freaking volunteer to do it. He did.
One year. He's my guy. I know. Who wouldn't love
him? Aren't you gonna get a job at the CIAC?
I thought there was something. I tried, dude.
I tried so hard. They didn't even, no one even
said a word to me about it. Gotta be an AD. Old
lady. No, I wanna sit over there in Cheshire
and straighten these tournaments out. I'm gonna
be a baseball umpire. All right, I'm gonna be
a baseball umpire, guys. That's my new venture.
I love it. Here's the thing. It's gonna be something
to do, be involved in baseball, maybe get paid
a couple bucks, right? But I'm gonna be old school.
I'm going with the neighborhood play. Don't you
don't need to tag the guy the ball beats you
and you made his dumb base or anything. You're
out I don't care what your coach runs out there
and tells me with your fancy slide. You're freaking
out You guys disagree with that? Oh Well, I can't
do I'd like that but they won't let me enforce
that but if the ball beats you I don't care whether
that guy touch you or not I don't want to hear
you yapping about it. Okay double plays I don't
care if you're standing on the base when you
catch the ball. It's kind of a neighborhood.
But the first out in a double play is a no -brainer
anyway, so why do we have to step on it like
it's Little League or go to New York to make
sure the guy was actually stepping on it? I'm
a neighborhood guy. You guys disagree with that?
No. Okay. As long as it's not ridiculous where
the guy's running across the base, then he catches
it like three steps past the base and throws
it. Like a beast. foot is just barely off the
base. Depends on who the coach is. I'm just curious.
Nah, you can't do that. I'm kidding. I'll tell
you what I hate is I hate the NBA and even the
NCAA does it not to when the ball goes off a
guy and they're, they're looking while it just
touched his fingertip. Like if a guy's controlling
a rebound and somebody comes in and like blasts,
you know, like he's going to control and it's
like they go to the super slow moment. It's kind
of just on his, like he wouldn't have dropped
the ball if the guy didn't, you know. I hate
that. To me, it's true. Many reviews to the last
two minutes of the game. Oh, some of them are
brutal. I was watching a Southern game today.
Oh, my God. Oh, my Lord. Well, so that's what
I'm going to do. Baseball. So starts a struggle
tonight. Angry Jay is angry about the Yanks.
I want to hear his tirade about this first. Sox,
I do want some Sox talk. I think there's exciting
things happening in the Sox land. Will Dever
straighten it out? I mean, you've kind of seen
this before, like it'll be fine. It's going to
hit today. The Dodgers go 1, 6, 2 and 0. And
then we're going to bring up the torpedo bat
thing, which is a thing. But I'd love to hear
Angry Jay just, you know, wax poetic about the
Yanks. He told me they were going to win 85 games.
I mean, I said 85 to 88. He said 85 and 88, so
we're going to have a play -in game. We got an
educator over here, can't read. 85 to 88, I said.
It was 85 and a dash and 88, which means record
to me. If it was a range, you would have said
85 to 88. I'm not a math -wit, so 85 to 88 is
over 162, isn't it? We're in the playoffs. I
want to know what you think about the Yanks.
I think they're... Typically Yankee team they're
gonna beat bad teams They'll hammer mediocre
pitching and then when they have to play a good
team they are Gonna struggle because they still
can't field Apparently the first the pitchers
still can't cover I would love to know what we
do in spring training other than watch guys hit
balls 600 feet with our no torpedo bets and we
don't our pitcher doesn't cover first base and
in most games anymore, which You think after
last year, it might be a problem. I also think
that we're we're just not anywhere as tough as
the other team. So we'll win our 85 to 88 games.
Maybe we'll get hot and win 90, you know, what
we'll make. We'll struggle in a lot. If we play
and we play a central team, we'll win the play.
We'll beat the Indians or, excuse me, the Guardians
or the Twins, which we always do. And then we'll
play a good team and we'll get embarrassed. I'm
a Red Sox fan and I'm watching the ESPN and Mendoza
and all these people. Why are all these people
picking the Red Sox to win AO East? I'm like,
I'm a Sox fan. Why would anybody pick them to
win AO East? Because they got Bregman? Or because
they got Walker Buehler with his seven ERA? Like,
I don't understand why people are picking the
Red Sox. And I'm a Sox fan. Why would they beat
the Yankees in a 162 game season? You tell me.
I don't think they would. I don't think the Yankees
are very good. They're tougher, the Red Sox are
tougher. I believe Devers will get a hit this
month. He's hot, he's just warming up. Gang fight
or something? So when we play good teams, we
can't beat them, but we advanced to the World
Series last year, so do we play all bad teams
till we play the Dodgers? Yeah, basically. Wow,
so there's only one good team in baseball? Who
do we beat in the... Last whoever they put in
front of us to get to the ship. Like I said,
we'd be America League Central teams and we have
since 1996 Okay, we hey if we could get an American
League Central team in the World Series I'll
pick us to win the World Series Gonna be a problem.
I'm dead. I Mean the rules we just got out of
you know, we should be good every player From
Japan get has to play for the Dodgers every superstar
leaves their team and goes and plays for the
Dodgers. That's not a test. That's ridiculous.
Like there, there needs to be a hard cap on that
kind of stuff. And you could pay the guy $9 billion
and just defer it for the next century. What
is that? Did you see the, did you see the record
of the teams in the AL Central? I think Yanks
are going to win it. Good. Every team in the
AL Central is two and four. Yeah well, Yanks
will get them. Don Father, they play 162, who
cares? They're two and four, every team. First
place is two and four. They've only played a
week. They're so bad. Can you wait? They're so
bad. That division's struggling at the moment.
Not this year, but just in general. But anyway,
I think the Yanks are gonna win it and I think
the Torpedo Bat's gonna help them win it. What
do you guys think about the Torpedo Bat? I did
not know this, but. The Torpedo Bat has been
around for a couple years now. Did you know that?
I didn't know. I just recently heard that, yeah.
Yeah, I didn't. The Yankees were using it last
year. More importantly is why is a guy from MIT
helping the Yankees out? Wouldn't he be helping
the Sox out? Just went there. Money, money. That's
a great call. Goodwill haunting. That's it. That
was our fearless general manager. That was MIT.
We're paying, we're paying, we're paying, we're
paying math nerds. We're paying math nerds to
make a batch for us instead of getting a relief
picture and get somebody out. Hey, you know what
though? It's, I can't say on the Yankees, but
it's in the confines of the rules. They didn't
do anything illegal. So it was a tush push. I
mean, the question though is like, if you don't
hit it on that sweet spot. Are you going to flare
the ball out foul all day long? You know? Well,
no, not like some guys. Not against the Brewers.
No, well, this is they're betting on themselves
to hit it on the sweet spot, which is amazing
to me because they're going to sacrifice the
end of the bat. you know, dinker for hitting
it four hundred and twenty feet. I guess I guess
so. And, you know, Yanks had nine home runs,
one game. We're on our way to. Didn't they say
some high 90s last year got hurt using that bat
shoulders or something like that? It wasn't torpedo
bat, was it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He doesn't wanna
talk about it. Oh, they're all gonna be hurt
now. Bad adjustments, that's what they said.
Bad adjustments. Oh, that'll get your shoulders
every time, or your elbows every time. Typical
Yankee fashion. Whatever. Are you kidding me?
They went into it until spring trading did not
sit. No one's ever had that problem in the history
of baseball, and it happened to both of his,
is it his elbows or his shoulders? Elbows. Probably
has nothing to do with some of the stuff he takes
on the off -season. What do you mean? I mean
that... I mean, he must be taking some crazy
stuff. Vitamin supplements. Like Big Papi. Vitamin
supplements. I got a crazy Major League Baseball
Tournament question that I don't even think you
will get. Oh, I like it. So it's a challenging
question. And I wouldn't get it. You're gonna
need a hint. Two Major League Baseball players
who hit a home run in the same game, they won
their 200th start or 200th win as a pitcher.
CC. No, but one's new, one's old. Like one...
You know, I'd say recently. Jim Lomborg. I never
even heard of that person. Bum Gardener. Mad
bum. He didn't want to tell you. A's. A's Braves.
White or blue. Tim Hudson. Tim, how do you want
him? The other one was old. Number? 150. I was
going to say, I don't know what number this guy
was, but. Old guy, like 30s to 40s, I think.
What? Bob Lemon. You're not going to get Bob
Lemon. You could, yeah. You would never got it,
would you? With a hint. Would you really? Wow,
that's a. Yankee manager. Yeah. To go for Billy
Martin in 78. I was gonna say he was 60s, right?
He played in the 60s. Yeah. I said 70s. I would
not have gotten that without a big hint though.
Hardee's was good. I got one. That's not as difficult.
Well. It might be because you can't answer it.
I did not get the fifth guy and I wasn't, I would
have never got him. There's five guys in major
league history to walk 150 times in a season.
Bonds Bonds is correct. He did it four times
He's won 150 150 walks in a single season Maguire
Maguire's to Pete Rose. Pete Rose is not correct
Rod Carew Either is Rod Carew so so so no He
was in like the 130s one year though we only
get two so far yeah, we got Mr. Maguire and mr.
Bonds I will tell you this, all three other guys
are... Old? Older. Older. Yeah, old. Really old.
Babe? Babe is correct. That's old. He's three.
Nappla Joy. No. Should get the other guy. Nick
Fuller. Hank Aaron. No. Nick Fuller. Nick Fuller
is not correct. He has no career hits. Josh Gibson.
No. See cat are you counting those? Yeah, your
dad was a big fan of Gary Teddy Teddy bomb pop
Teddy Williams Yeah, yeah, you could have them
on a stick now. They froze them up. Are you good?
Yeah, he's four I'll give you guys a thousand
dollars if you can pick off the fifth guy without
looking 1956 Dead silence. It's over. You're
not gonna get it. Eddie Yost. I was just about
to say that. I actually shocked I looked up the
stats after I saw that. Can you name a player
that hit a home run in his first high A ball
at bat, double A at bat, triple A at bat, and
in the big leagues? Mike Trout. First at bat.
Nope. Somebody just did it. Who was the guy?
I just saw that too. This guy's got the funniest
stuff on like TikTok and all this reacting to
like current nonsense in baseball. I don't know.
Will, the thrill clerk. Oh, the natural. You
ever see the one where he slides in to break
up two and Jose Okendo? Yeah, he fought the whole
team. And Ozzy's throwing like some cheap shots
at him while he was engaged with Okendo. Candy
Maldonado comes into that pile. You're right
number 22 21 it comes in 700. Yes. Yeah He was
a key was guy with the ground ball All right
You have who'd you rather sure was it that we
know that I got coaches. Yeah, so Don father
come I got a quick one since you talked about
world Clark hitting a homerun Who did the homerun
off in the major leagues? First first that bat
brand name brand name Trevor Hoffman Nolan Nolan
Ryan, straight away Sunfield. Nolan took it out
on Ventura's head after that, I don't know if
you remember that. You guys watched the Netflix
thing on Nolan Ryan? Yes. I started it and then
it wasn't a good family watch and I had to take
it off. Jay, I know you're a history buff. HBO
series John Adams, you gotta watch that. Yeah.
You gotta watch it. I mean it starts off with
like his depiction of the Boston massacre, like
unbelievable. Really? He thought it was a fire.
He heard the words fire. So he bought this Ben
Franklin ass fire truck on this wagon, dumped
it, unbelievable. And he gets out there and the
guys are laying in the street, crazy. And did
you know he actually defended the British officers
that shot the five guys in court and won? and
the likes of his cousin were pissed at him. Samuel
Adams, some of the guys were pissed at him. Well,
there's no reason to watch the show now. No,
that's the first 20 minutes. It's like, how many
parts? Six? Yeah, at least. Samuel Adams is getting
represented right here tonight. That's right.
Crocker? Thank you. This one's for you? All right.
I got a couple. I'm gonna save the best one for
last, so the first one should be not that bad.
Most consecutive stolen bases without getting
caught. Vince Coleman baseball 50 I was gonna
say was like 48. Yeah, we're gonna go roll to
80 or 89. I think you got Crocker or Executive
producer Kevin Ross. Do you know what number?
Vince Coleman was no angry 29. What do you get
you remember? 29. Yeah, I thought that was his
teammate. Oh, wait a minute. We have a little
look it up Can you look it up? No, you're right.
His teammate. Okay. What was Willie McGee's then?
51. Same as Bernie. Got it. You're right. Do
you remember he played in a World Series and
he got injured before it started. Do you remember
where he got injured from? No. In Kansas City
they had a tarp that was by a timer or something.
He was like warming up and it rolled out. And
like landed on hit his ankle or something he
like missed the first few games or something
some crazy ridiculous. Yeah, I Got a great great
trivia question, by the way, I think it's it's
interesting What is the only? franchise in NFL
history to draft three Super Bowl winning quarterbacks
Yankees L way No, who was the third baseman we
had? I said NFL, right? Yeah, he did. No, who
was that? Only franchise in NFL history to draft
three Super Bowl winning quarterbacks. To draft
three? I think they were going over to that.
I thought it was a great question. Nope, I can
say they didn't all have to play for the team
that drafted them. Oh, yeah I'm trying to think
that Eagle said maybe they go to it. I know they
have to Cowboys to Could it have been they know
who NFC NFC NFC Because when you think about
it, you know, I don't know who is it Tampa Bay
Buccaneers. Who are the three quarterbacks? Doug
Williams is one of them. Steve Young. Steve Young.
He was a patriot. I don't know if you remember
that. No, he wasn't drafted by the Buccaneers
though. Trent Dilfer. None of them won the Super
Bowl with the Bucs. That's actually good. Dilfer
was a raven. They beat the Giants. Damn, that's
a great question. Is that it? I got an easy one
for you guys. Since Steph, talk about Steph's
three pointers. Only two players in NBA history
to have double digit three pointers in a playoff
game. Two people have had double -digit three
-pointers in a playoff game. One had it twice.
He's not one of them? Steph is not one of them.
One of them did it twice, the other one did it
once. That's the reason. Oh yeah, it's definitely,
I'll go hard on one of them now. They are both
active. Tatum? No. He's missed more than 10 multiple
playoff games, but he hasn't had 10. Just a playoff
game. Just in a playoff game. Trey Young? Nope.
And right now one plays in the Eastern, one plays
in the Western right now. One played most of
his career in the West. Now he's in the East.
John Wall? Nah, I can't shoot. Number one did
it twice. Okay, I'll give you one more hand.
One was Steph's teammate. Like oh god cheese.
That's one. He's the one that did it once the
other one did it twice And he's in the east now.
He's in the east now a spider Mitchell I'll give
you two words blood clock. Oh Danny Lillard Damn,
there you go. That sucks. I should have got that
guys Almost wrapping it up here. Are we done?
All right To DH or not to DH? What do you think?
Think we'll ever go back? No. Why? They like
offense. Every sport changes rules for offense.
They never change for defense and nobody wants
to see the pitcher hit. OK, I don't agree. Will
we ever like what's his name? Yeah. Will we ever
get rid of video correction? officiating like
instant replay and all that no NFL just put in
the thing where they the first down thing is
Yeah, they're gonna get rid of the first down
markers gonna be it's gonna be measured by it's
like if you watch tennis because of the Buffalo
Kansas City game Maybe they should on a touch
push a little better like In tennis, they have
Hawkeye. They don't need judges anymore. And
it's instant. So it's 100 % accurate. It's instant.
If it doesn't slow the game down, I don't really
care. I do not want the strike ball thing in
Major League Baseball to happen. That would be
awful. What guys being able to... Like it's part
of it, you know. But the box is based on the
size of who they are and where they are on the
plate. It's the same as if someone's doing it.
It's not just that little box you see on TV.
It's three dimensional. It's, you know, so it's
not just, you know, if the guy's crouching, the
box moves with them. It should, at least. How
are they going to do it in the NFL, though? What
are they going to put something on the ball?
They have enough cameras out there that they
can see where the ball is enough angles and they
know with the lines and the grid. And how did
they mess it up in a Super Bowl? Jesus. Or whatever
it was. Because they didn't have it. No, that
Bill's Cheese Championship. That's what it was.
Come on, man. Couldn't have been a Super Bowl.
That thing was over in a hurry. Oh, get out of
here with the tush -bush. They're not even playing
the sport. You even said they got a running back
playing quarterback. It's like rugby. Now you
love the guy? Ball instantly. That is fine. The
gambling is making another difference in this
whole thing. True story. It's too much money.
Okay, I was against though. You remember I was
against the whole instant replay thing in the
beginning Yeah, without doubt with the stupid
like we're just gonna use it for fair fall on
a you know long ball home run right Charlie Harbaugh
and then it yeah, and then it merely went to
Well, we have the technology why can't we do
it at first base? And then you know now it's
you could now they're actually talking about
the hitter can step out and say challenge that
Come on. Yeah, come on, man. Come on Can we just
live with it? Can you imagine having the balls
to challenge a... They should be egged after
that or tarred and fed. They need all this stuff
to speed up the game, now they're gonna go backwards.
Yeah, no kidding. Bring back Earl Weaver, dude.
I mean, the crazy thing is, in the NBA, you can
question a foul. And then the foul can then go
on the other player after the replay, which kind
of sucks. It's happened in games. I never knew
that till this year. That's ridiculous. Jay,
Hertz or McNabb? I think I take Hertz, no. Whoa.
I don't think he's past. McNabb or Cunningham?
McNabb. But I mean, if you're based on just their
careers with the Eagles. Yeah, you're an Eagle
guy. Yeah, but I mean I would love to see Randall
Cunningham playing in today's NFL where Michael
Vick or Jaws? Oh Vic Jaws was so overrated dude,
so overrated You know how bad he was? Vic or
Fulke? Fulkes? Fulkes. Who's Fulke, a kicker?
Yeah, yeah Nick Fulkes. That's a Super Bowl dude.
Come on. Beat the coat. I mean Jesus We held
the goat to 512 hairs patting, I think. Who would
you rather have on the podcast? The so -called
goat or Manning or none of the above? Payton
Manning? Payton Manning. Payton Brady or none
of the above. Just to talk to? I'll tell you,
Payton, he's hilarious. Okay. All right. Tom
would be measured with all his answers. Yeah,
and he had avocados over here and stuff. I mean,
you're talking about EY Manning, right? Hall
of Famer? Yes. You know, I think so. Jay, with
all the like nonsense Hall of Fame people at
this point, I just keep, when I'm bored, looking
at the stats of a Bernie Williams. Yeah. Any
shot? Yeah, he should have a shot now. I mean,
the way guys get in and out, he's the Hall of
Very Good and he was very good. So will he make
it? And the only shot he's got is like a Veterans
Committee like in 20 years. He's not dead first,
because he might be 700 pounds. Speaking of which,
they're reconsidering PD. They shouldn't, but.
Why? But he made his own bed, dude, sleeping
it. There you go. He is. He's having a dirt nap.
You can't put him in there for being a great
player. He was a great player. It's because of
that catcher? It's because he laid out that catcher?
No, because he bet Ray Fossey. Ray Fossey? Can't
even walk. He laid him out. Anyway, wrapping
it up. The season opener, season two, Bristle
Boys. We sadly missed Lottie, sadly missed a
Kamish, but the executive producer and Crocker,
you know what, filled in nicely. Looking forward
to the second one. Got possibly a special guest
coming up soon. I can't tell you guys who it
is, but we're gonna, that's a cliffhanger. And
I think the Yanks win 94 games, sneak through
a series or two. and go up against the mighty
Dodgers and we get the best of them. I think
Cole's coming back. They said he's way ahead
of anyone else that has ever had Tommy John.
That was on April Fool's Day. No, it wasn't.
He's way ahead. And Ace Bailey's coming back
to Rutgers and Caravan and McNeely. I'll bet
you right now Garrett Cole's not ready for the
start of 2026. I thought it was career ending.
It's the Yankees, dude. That's all I'm telling
you. He will pitch in May. in Tampa, 25, simulated
game in May, 2026. Somewhere around the All -Star
game. They'll bring them up and they'll celebrate
it like it's... We don't need them. You hit nine
home runs a game, we're gonna roll with Freed
and Rodan and these guys. Strowman, we got them.
Let's cork the torpedo bats. Good thing we gave
away Mike King for that clown. You see him he
can hit he he can yeah any other guy can pitch
I'll give you Devers for three torpedo bats Honestly,
would you give us Devers for um, are you guys
giving up on Devers? No, no He has a patch every
season we're over swinger He likes to play the
field he's not playing this, you know, they're
DH and he wants to play third base Yeah, we gave
you Stanton full pay No, no. Does he still chop?
Hold on, together? Stanton, Volpe. I don't know.
I thought you couldn't do that anymore. Will
you give Wellesley up for him? For Devers? Tomorrow.
Oh, Welles, Volpe, and Stanton for Devers? I'm
not sure if I'm giving up to shortstop candy.
How about Feralta? I would give up. I would give
up Stanton for Devers' sneakers that he doesn't
wear during the game. How about the captain?
The captain for Devers? Nah. We got an icon in
right field now. I know, but he smashes baseballs
in that park. He murdered me in fantasy, dude,
already. Who, Devers? No, Judgey. Judgey gave
me an out. Guy hit three home runs. Yeah. Against
me, yeah. I think I made of his performance.
Anyway, all right, signing off. We'll be back,
episode two coming up. Executive producer, great
job. Smell ya.