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What's up there, Chris Brockman? What's going on, man? It's going to be one of these today. It is indeed. I love it.
Good to see you, Jason. How are you? What are you doing up, Brits? I'm great. Good to see you.
TJ Jefferson, the candle is lit. What's going on? What and oh? That's what's going on for these Metropolitans. Yes, the Mets survived in advanced.
Survived. That's the phrase of the day. I don't know that that's how I would. All right. The headline of the Thursday of Sweet 16 Action.
Here on this Friday. Here's the headline: the Big Ten is dominant. But Arizona is the wagon. That is basically the way things look. As the South region.
is set In Houston, Texas. to be won by a Big Ten team. And that's because both Iowa and Illinois won last night. And we saw Purdue make it a third Big Ten team. In the Uh Suite 16 to win in the Elite Eight.
But Arizona just absolutely destroyed Arkansas last night. absolutely smoked. Arkansas, handing coach John Calapari, who I mentioned The other day, when it was the 30th anniversary of my first ever sports center, talking about how. I was there in that 1996 Sports Center studio doing highlights, most likely, of. Rick Petino's Kentucky Wildcats on that round of 32 Saturday.
The Kentucky Wildcats went on to win the championship in 1996. And the new coach at UMass, John Calapari, in 1996, took UMass to the. Final four with Marcus Cambium, my sports center line being I'm Camby, dammit. I am Camby, damn it.
So that's how long John Calapari's been at it. It's the worst loss he's ever suffered. in the NCAA tournament, wherever he has been, 21 points. Loss And you could see John Calapari last night. Exhorting his team to do something, and they couldn't do very much.
Because Arizona became the first team in NCAA tournament history. To have not one, but six players scoring at least 14 points in a game. They shot 64% from the field. Jeez. 37 of 58.
We always do the math for you. That's 64%. That's the highest field goal percentage. by any team in the Sweet 16 or later since Villanova in the 2016 Final Four somehow, someway shot 71% against Oklahoma. How are you going to lose that game?
So John Calapari did not mince any words when he hit the podium after that. Uh Arizona Wagon of a wind. Arizona is really good. And if they shoot the ball that way, And do the things they did to day, wow Um You know, I told my team after, proud of them, what they did this year. Um and I don't want them to look at one game And take away from what they've all accomplished.
But that was a hard one. You know, and uh They got us from right the beginning. We kinda kept it a little close, but They're good. Really good team. He almost looks dumbfounded.
He's just kind of like, yeah.
Well, I think he was missing a really. in that statement. Uh Tommy Lloyd. um taking this Arizona team Through the first three games of this tournament for themselves in dominant fashion. was asked if there's anything he's done differently or there's any new trends.
that he has brought to bear uh to Arizona, which has reached the elite eight. Uh in breathtaking fashion. Listen. I read this in a book. What was the best candy bar in 1946?
Oh, sure. Yeah. What's the best, the most popular candy bar today? Same as ever. I haven't flinched.
I'm playing the same exact style that we learned at Gonzaga, that I brought to Arizona, and I'm doubling down on it. I'm not worried about trends. I never look at trends. Like, I'm just like, what do I think is the most effective way for my team to play? And what are my strengths as a coach?
You got to play into that too. Like, why would I try to reinvent myself as a coach when this has been pretty effective? Can I get better at it?
Okay, can we double down on our strength? What I do every day. I look at our strengths. And when I wake up in the morning, how am I going to honor our strengths? When I go to bed at night, how did I honor our strengths?
Throughout the day, we'll work on some weaknesses, but for me, I'm always doubling down on my strength. That's 100% how I think we can be most effective. Call me crazy.
Okay, two things. First of all, I thought it was Gonzaga. I mean, the number of times I've said Gonzaga or Gonzaga in my career, and I hear from everybody up in the state of Washington, like, Rich, you're an idiot. He was there for 20 years. Yeah.
It's Gonzaga, isn't it? I thought it was good Zachary.
Okay. And Snickers? That's what I'm looking at. I I I would have thought just a plain old Hershey bar back then. How old are Snickers?
Clearly, long enough. I was thinking baby Ruth. By the way, I appreciate the analogy. Wow. But it's this whole thing's flipping me out.
More than the Arizona being a wagon, looking like the Michigan Wolverines did back in December. Fun size invented in 1968. Yeah, that logo is way too. You know what's not fun size? Arizona.
For everybody but Arizona. Because again, when Michigan was destroying everybody, including Gonzaga back in December. Um I I and everybody else, we in Michigan Sports country, we were all like, Can we start March Madness now? Let's do it now. And guess what Arizona's playing like?
In March Madness. That's That's who they're playing. And next up for them is Purdue. which advanced last night. By beating your Texas Longhorns, you came so close, man.
That was your team. Like, I'm going from first four to final four in your bracket. You look pretty damn smart about it, TJ. I was heavily invested in that. I bet you were.
Tap in. I bet you were. But Purdue is too tough. And you see this tap in by Trey Kaufman Wren, who is so good. He's so good.
He's a double double machine, although last night he came a coup couple rebounds shy of that. He he destroyed Michigan in that Big Ten tournament final. uh in Chicago a couple of Sundays ago. Uh, 0.7 remaining, and he and the rest of those Purdue Boilermakers have been playing with each other, uh, playing. with us alongside one another for quite some time.
Um Yeah.
Some of these guys Are those mid-20s players that Kalapari was joking about? I think Oscar Clough is 24, he's been around so long. Um That he was born way back when people were naming their babies Oscar. My apologies to people who just named their child Oscar. You're a throwback.
Someone at home is like, What did I do? I know that. They were like, Where is why would Rich do that? Wow, Rich. I know.
I know, but that makes three Big Ten teams in the elite eight, three of them. And good luck to Purdue. They have got their hands full, the Big Ten tournament champs taking on Arizona in that one. And then the other game that was tight. In addition to Purdue versus Texas, was Iowa versus Nebraska?
And Nebraska had uh uh a few possession lead in this game, but Iowa just has that gumption. They have that grit and determination. And they got that coach and Ben McCollum, who we'll hear from in a second. But uh the thing that everybody's talking about today Well Chris Weber, who was on the program. A couple of weeks ago, or last week, and he called Nebraska's.
opening tournament win, which is the first win in the history of Nebraska basketball in the men's NCAA tournament. They'd never won one before. And he talked about how he was in the same hotel in Oklahoma City as all the Nebraska fans and they were drinking before and they were drinking after and they're drinking now. And now they're drinking heavily because of A different reason. I mean, a three-point game.
Iowa is up with the ball late in the game, and somehow, some way, Fred Hoiberg, who has done nothing. But coach the heck out of this Huskers team all year long.
Somehow, some way, he's coaching this. Like he's Coach Dale trying to teach Raid a lesson. Yeah. Four guys on the floor. And unlike um Hoosiers No refs came up to Coach Horberg and said, Hey, Coach, you've got four on the floor.
And you could see as Iowa went down the court like a knife through hot butter for an and one, you could see the fifth Husker running off the bench trying to check in. as I was bringing the ball up. And I don't know how that happens. But It did. and Hoiburg raised his hand and said my bad afterwards.
About 58 seconds left. They had that deep ball to Alvaro for the bucket. I think there were four players on the court. Can you say what happened? I guess.
I just pressed that one, Myron. Put that one on me. It was a miscommunication, and I'm the head coach. Put that one on me. I've never been in a situation like that.
I know they always count to make sure there's not six. I don't know the rule on that with four. But yes, I mean, again, we it was a miscommunication and unfortunately, It happened. But as far as the rule, I've never been a part of anything like that. Yeah.
Again, was he insinuating that somebody should have done what they did in the movie, Hoosiers? Come up to him and say you've got four on the floor? I mean, I guess by pointing out that they do it for six, why wouldn't they do it for four? Because four's on you. Six is something that causes a technical, right?
That's true. That's how you tell the coach you've got six on the floor. They tee your team up, right? Yeah, it's exactly YP. There's no tee for not having enough people on the court.
So Listen, Iowa's just the better team right now. And they're going to be taking on Illinois, which just absolutely. Crushed Houston last night. Houston couldn't make a shot. And Kelvin Sampson has got to be sitting around right now going, What in the world do we have to do?
to get This team to cut down a net. I mean, because Houston has now made 18 trips. To the Sweet 16 in the history of their vaunted basketball program, and they're now 0 for 18 in winning the tournament. And Illinois made shot after shot. You knew when you were in sitting in half time of this game going when it's twenty four, twenty three at halftime, somebody's going to start making shots and whoever does is going to win this game by double digits.
And it turned out to be Illinois And Houston's like, got to be sitting there going, all right, so. The one seed, we're not the one seed, we're the two seed, and the one seed in this region. The one seed in this region gets bounced by Iowa. What a break. All we've got to do is beat two Big Ten teams in Houston, in our in our hometown.
And we're going to the Final Four. And Illinois' like, nuh. With get ready to feel old, I don't know if you did last night, Peja Stoyakovich's kid. Yes. You see Peja?
Pejo looked good. He did. You know? Houston didn't cross 30 points until 10 and a half. It was brutal.
They couldn't make a shot. They couldn't make a shot. And uh Iowa now has A trip to the Final Four on the line against Illinois. And they know each other, and they got a red-hot coach in Ben McCollum, who's being called the Kurt Signetti. Of basketball because this guy won four national championships at Division II, Northwest Missouri State, before Drake snagged him, and he won there.
And Google, Google it.
Okay. Now he's got Iowa in the elite eight. And he also has a way of talking that kind of makes you dig him. Hit it. Yeah, I mean, I guess there's Cinderella.
You know, we were so close in a lot of games, and I don't like to use that. And we were right there. We just and then we lost some games we probably shouldn't have. I think part of that is It's just like those games where those teams get up, we don't have enough just complete talent. to be able to overwhelm maybe the the bottom tier teams in the big ten.
And so we lose a couple of those games that we maybe should have won if we're at 97%. 97% doesn't work for us. Like, we have to be at 100%.
So, um, Yeah, I mean, Cinderella, whatever they want to call us. I mean, I just we're in the Elite Eight. That's what they need to call us. Right? That's awesome.
I'm sure people in Iowa are wigging out. Last time, Iowa in the Final Four. nineteen eighty. Last time Arizona in the Final Four. 2001.
The coach of Arizona at the time. Lud Olsen. Lou Olsen, yeah. The coach of Iowa in 1980. Lute Olson.
No way. Yes, sir. That's right. May he rest. Wow, that's cool.
And he's maybe guiding the hands here. Maybe guarding the hands. If Michigan and Michigan State win tonight. Michigan taking on Alabama. At the same time, Duke takes on St.
John's. Make sure you get yourself two screens if you can. Mandatory. Uh-huh. And Michigan State, they tin then takes on Yukon.
If Michigan and Michigan State win tonight, That would give The Big Ten An all-time record. Five Elite. Eight teams. The record is four. tied most recently by the SEC to last year.
Half of the f Elite Eight last year was SEC. The Big Ten would have five teams in It would basically be A de facto. Big 10 tournament. With a possibility, because it would be spread out amongst all the brackets. All the regions, it's possible.
The final four could be a a Big Ten tournament. in Indianapolis. If Michigan State Wins the East Michigan wins the Midwest. Purdue wins the West, and we know a Big Ten team is winning the South because it's Iowa versus Illinois there. And that's the state of affairs in the big Ten, if you will.
Men's Basketball tournament. The big dance. Man, St. John's and Duke tonight, Petino versus Duke. Oh, one of them.
But I'll be watching the other one. Oh boy. You got I know you got a split screen on the tele I got I got myself some uh I'll I'll use that of respect to the campus that Ah, screw it. I got YouTube TV. We're on top of campus.
I was trying to save you. TV is awesome. It's great. You know, I'm looking at you. That's all right.
Not like there's only one TV in the house. It's okay. Is that?
Well, I mean. Yeah. All right, enough. You know how this show is hosted. I mean, nominated.
Okay. Freshness. Freshness. Freshness. Okay.
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Probably better for us. It's better for us to just flush it, if you will. Everybody loves ribs. All right, baseball. How much for one rib?
Let me tell you something.
Somebody in this room. Uh uh Was fellas. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I got something for everybody. Good.
What?
Somebody in this room is like, I appreciate the charm. Of the human element of Major League Baseball, where an umpire blows a call, and it's too bad. It's just too bad. There's no reason to have this ABS automatic balls and strikes system. There's no reason to have that.
Why? What's the point of it? Charm. It's the charm. It's going to ruin.
You don't need to get it right. You know who agrees with me? Barry Bonds. Oh, great. That's great.
He sounds like a reasonable man whenever he talks. Oh, I shouldn't say that. He loves Susie. He stares a hole through me. It's okay.
And I don't mind people who do that. Oh, God. Yeah. Everybody loves Susie. I have no problem with that.
But I know about this Bar was Barry Bonds on the baseball? Wow. Was the Yankees shit like that?
Well, like a code. Barry Bonds did. Did you hear the story you told during the Netflix game? By the way, Netflix had some bad luck the other night when they had Manfred in the booth and they also had Barry Bonds in the booth. And I believe the Yankees made short work of the Giants in both innings.
Like Freed had like an eight-pitch inning and a six-pitch inning, and that was the end of it. But Bonds told a story about how he was almost a Yankee before he was a Giant, where George Steinbrenner called him up, offered him a contract, and said, you need to sign it by 2 p.m. He said he hung up on George. I read that. And Dennis Gilbert, one of my favorite people I've gotten to meet.
Throughout my sports. Um career You can also see him frequently behind home plate at Dodger Stadium because that bonia bonds and bonilla money is really pays for those seats. Oh, okay. Um amongst many. And apparently Gilbert's like, what are you doing?
And he he's like, I need to think about it. Uh and he he signed with the Giants. End of inning. Thanks for coming, Barry. What?
But at any rate That was everything. Don't get me off the point of you saying, oh, I don't like this ABS system. I don't like it. I don't. I don't like it.
It's a one-nothing Red Sox lead in your opening day in Cincinnati. Roman Anthony's at the plate. Called strike three. And he's so quick to tap his helmet. Look at this.
The umpire is still in the middle of him, either punching him out or pulling the string. It looks like a punch out.
Okay. And Anthony's already touching his helmet. Like the catcher isn't even out of his crouch to. to throw the ball around or back to the pitcher 'cause there's a man on base. This is ending the inning would have been a 1-0 lead.
And I know how great Aroldus Chapman is for you guys. But He's tapping the helmet. What happens next? Wait a minute. I get it.
It's ball four. That Keeps the inning alive and the Red Sox. Score not one, but two more. Insurance runs for you. How'd you like the charm of this moment, Chris?
Huh? And here's the thing. If there's no box, I think the box has ruined our viewing experience for Facebook. If there's no box, it looked like a great pitch. And you're like, oh man, he got us.
Let's go hold this lead. Like we added seven, eight minutes to the game.
So now you're railing at technology as a whole? Come here, break. Kind of for baseball, yes. Ten extra minutes to the game. He ten years added eight minutes to the game.
Because more than four or five more batters. We scored two more runs. Like, here's the thing: what I don't understand about Major League Baseball is what do you care about. Keep that face on your face, Jason. What do you care about?
Because you're like, he's looking like you're railing at the moon. For years, it was we got to speed up the game. We got to speed up the game. We got to speed up the game. Yeah, I was like, let's add something that makes the game longer.
No, we're adding what's right, which is Roman Anthony on first base. Who cares? It's the first game of the season. Oh, God. Then have this for the playoffs if it matters so much.
It's going to be in the playoffs, dude. Then why do we need it for the regular season? Because you need it because that was a moment. The Red Sox were. I can't believe I'm defending the Red Sox here.
You're looking at me and him like he's crazy, right? I'm trying to. Follow his reasoning, he just won't admit he's wrong about the charm.
So, you want this to show up in the playoffs after not having it all year? Yeah, just accepting baseball for years have been telling us they want to speed up the game. We have added something to the game that makes it longer. Which is it? It's speeding up the game.
So, making it longer makes it, we have time. We have time for this. How many times can you do this in a game? Oh, God, get it right. Twice?
Bottom line is get it right. No, you could do it multiple times as long as you keep getting it right.
Okay, as long as you get it right.
So, it's not like every single batter, every single pitch is doing that. Nope. As a matter of fact, you saw Stephen Kwan tap his helmet on a strike three, and man, was that a strike three. You get it wrong. Get it wrong.
And it's a big womp womp moment that's tough for the hitter. Like, oh, geez, I blew that one because we could use that later on. It's cool. It helped my team. But, like, in general, I can't just like flip-flop.
This has been my stance, and I'm sticking with it. I don't like it. Consistency. That's the thing, Chris. You can flip-flop.
You can't look at something and say I was wrong about it. I appreciate your consistency, especially when you are very wrong about it. It's great. Keep, keep, this is going to get, this is going to, this is going to be great. This is going to be a year-long, fun, fun journey.
May I? In the meantime, what do you got? Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Perfect use of our new John C. McGinley.
Drop everybody. Just I don't know. It's wrong it's wrong o'clock. I mean. What are you doing?
Great use of the wrong rice. Nicely done, Jason. Thank you, sir. Hey, I got something for you. Oh, hey, it's so you know, you know what's the majesty of baseball?
There's charm and then there's pageantry. The pageantry is when you go to beautiful Dodger Stadium. And you see that sunset over the mountains, right? Ain't let them like it looks like it. Oh, man, the NBC cameras had that beautiful shot of the stadium with the sunset and the colors in the sky, and there's downtown Los Angeles.
And then now, you know what? It's a beautiful shot. Uniqlo Stadium. Oh, pardon me. It's UniClove Field.
It's the field.
Okay. Uni. It's Uniqlo. Uniclo. Uniqlo.
Everybody. Niklo. Yeah. What is it? Hold on a minute.
I got it. It's not Dodger Stadium anymore. That's what it is. It's. Uniklo.
Uniklo. Yeah, Uniqlo. Uh apparently the Japanese, according to Google, call it Unikuro. Which is part of the reason why they have that. Because there is a ton.
of folks from Japan watching Dodger games every single Dodger game. Certainly with Otani at the top of the lineup and Yamamoto on the mound as they were last night against the. The Diamondbacks, who took a 2-0 lead until Andy, if Andy Pahez starts hitting three-run jacks, let's just call the season. For real. Let's call the season, it's over.
All right, so. Three-run jacks by Andy Pajes. By the way, that pitch was like shining his shoes almost. He went down and got it. Oh, you didn't even got it?
He got it. Three run shot. And the fans at Dodger Stadium at Uniqlo Field. That was amazing. When you say Dodger Stadium, what is that?
It's the place where it's a Uniqlo Field at Dodger Stadium. What's with the gold hats? What was that? Oh, that's because we're champions. Oh.
Oh, boy. I mean, I think that's why. Is that why? Yeah. Or it was like, you know what?
Hey, hey, hey, Dodger fans, get your fifty dollars on your hat. Look at Will Farrell driving the convertible with the Pieces of metal. In the back there.
So dumb. I bought you. Freddie Freeman, who basically, of course. Freddie Freeman, who was the MVP of the World Series two years ago, and Miguel Rojas, who was the MVP of Game 7 last year. Triple F.
By the way, I was told that Yamamoto became the first. World Series MVP To start the first game of a title defense season since Sandy Koufax last did it. That's what I was told. Wow. And so look at Will Farrell just showing.
Is that a Los Angeles sports moment or what? Jackie Moon driving around, two Dodgers with their championship trophies. A great joyride around Uniqlo Field at Dodger Stadium. Uniqlo. They gotta have a sushi roll for that, right?
Like Uniqlo roll. I don't know. Clothing company, it's a clothing company. Come on, bro, Jason. You guys left that out.
Yeah. Everyone else got new food. Dude, be careful. Mute your own mic. I got in massive trouble.
Massive trouble. At um At Sports Center one year. When Deki Arabu showed up and he was called a fat pussy toad by George Steinbrenner, you remember that? Yep. Yeah.
And I w went on sports and I said, what's in his sushi? Peanut butter? I got in massive trouble. Oof, massive trouble. Forgive me.
That guy took all my favorite food. Unecessary heat.
So, why am I repeating a line 30 years ago? I was thinking I didn't think you'd actually say. No, we're not on Sports Center. No, I know, on the Rich Isen Show, where people could be equally as offended. At any rate, congratulations.
Dodger Stadium at Uniclo Field. Did I get it right? Uniqlo is now one and oh yeah. Very good. Because all that money from Uniqlo is just going to be what?
Well, who's the next big free agent? I don't know. Look it up. They're coming. Like hashtag money.
Paul Steams. Let's see. I don't know. For a while. Did the Dodgers take that money?
From Uniqlo To put their name on the field and all over the place. Are they taking that money in deferral Is that going to pay for Otani and Yamamoto's salary 30 years from now? Is that the way it works?
Something's got to. Is that how this all works?
Something figured out.
Okay. How good is Yamamoto, dude? He's amazing. This team is so good. Yeah, this is like, we're all playing for second.
This seems. Oh, I mean, Schoolbull is going to be on the Dodgers next year. There you go. Yeah. All right, Phil.
He's going to look great at Dodger Stadium at Uniclove Field. Again, I need to write that down. I keep messing it up. You're saying it backwards. I think I am.
Yeah. But uh Dodger Stadium, what is that again? And the Mets took care of business yesterday, man. Mets got an awful lot of money.
Okay. You took care of business. Yeah, well, they heard you. Like, your comments were piped into the clubhouse, from what I understand, and they didn't like the stuff you were saying. That took such a turn yesterday of us being like, Skeens has run support.
This is awesome. And it was just like immediately. By the way. Let's not forget. while we're talking to our Southern California audience.
Mike Trump homered yesterday. Yeah, buddy. Fifth time on opening day that. He yanked that one way. Absolute nuke.
Dude, if that guy.
Well, I mean, how many, by the way, is that the time of year to say that? If that guy And just And you don't have to finish the sentence. Iffy what, though? Says healthy. Come on.
If he stays healthy. You never know. You never know. One never knows, man. It would be awesome to see Mike Count like a throwback, 45-homer, hit 310, steal 30 bases, have that MVP type season.
That would be awesome. Right. But I've seen all that. Right? We've seen all this.
I'm saying, like, oh, we haven't seen it in October. That's what I'm saying. That's my question. What if the Angels trade him for A.J. Brown?
Ha ha ha ha. I think now we're getting somewhere. You know what I mean? Yeah. Now we're getting somewhere.
A.J. Brown wants out. Miles Carrot. Trout. Yeah, Miles Carrot.
Philly wants trout. The problem is that not for baseball. Billy does want trout. I mean, not for football, right? Right, right, right.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Could A.J. Brown play baseball? I think he can do anything.
Yeah, he seems athletic enough. At least come as a pitch runner. 3-0 over the Astros. Boy, the Astros have just. Hunter Brown was dealing, too.
All those runs came after they pulled him in the fifth kind of weird league. He didn't last as long as I would have hoped. Nationals went. Brewers put up 14. Yeah, Brewers, yeah.
And that's the team that that got smoked last year by the Yankees on opening day.
Now they They put up two touchdowns. Hey, let me ask you guys this. What do you have? Come on, DJ. Because you guys, obviously, you're more in tune with baseball right now than I am.
You know, we talk about because you guys watch more baseball, though.
Okay. And we're in fantasy leagues. Yeah, I do not.
Okay. So obviously, we talk about the Mets, the Sox, the Yankees all the time. But like, as I'm thinking of the business, someone who's, well, you know, but as someone who's listening, right, and they're not as into baseball, like.
Okay. What?
Is there a surprise team or two out there that you guys think could make some noise? Look at you wanting to. you know, test test the knowledge here. You can't figure that out, man. I'm just saying that.
It's not like football. I get it. Right. But let's see what they look like in June. And even if they don't look great between now and June, July hits, and then all of a sudden, here we go.
Yep. It doesn't matter. I mean, there's always a team in July that catches fire, and here we go. I think last year, was it the Blue Jays that caught fire in like May, late May? Blue Jays, yeah.
And then off they go. But right at this point last year, is anybody going, look at that Blue Jay team, keep an eye on them? No. No. Don't forget.
The uh What, their World Series game one and five starter was I I keep mentioning that story. Cooper saw him, he saw you savage in double A in summer camp in Maine. last July. That's the difference with baseball and so many other sports. It just takes, it just lasts forever.
the regular season, which is its beauty as well, its charm. Thank you. Who you are in April and May and June is not who you are in August. Or it doesn't have to be. It could be.
If you're the team that plays at Uni Close Stadium at Dodger Field. True. Is that the whole name? Field. I'm sorry.
I keep, I got to write it down. But if you look at the top of the odds board, it's all the usual suspects. It's Dodgers, Yankees, Mariners, Mets, Phillies, Sox, Blue Jays. And then, you know, there's kind of a drop off. Like, Cubs and Tigers are there.
You know, Orioles kind of have a lot of high hope. They made a lot of moves this offseason. Obviously, Petalonzo is there. You know, Braves, but their pitching staff is pretty decimated by injury at the moment. But, you know, who's it going to be?
Is it the Brewers, Royals, Padres? They're in that 30-to-one odds. And then, you know, could the Reds make some moves? You never know. That's where Toronto was last year at this point.
Correct. They were in kind of that middle tier. And then they just kind of skyrocketed as the season progressed through the summer. And I asked that because we kind of poo-pooed the Angels. And I was like, well, wait a minute.
You ever know? I mean, again, if Mike Trout stays healthy. Dot dot dot. Can they get the pitching? Dot, dot, dot.
Yeah, of course. Yeah. Never know. Never, never know. The Thundersticks and the Rally Music.
Rally Muslim Max, man. God, I, as a Yankee fan, that was a cauldron. going into that stadium. That was a scene in the early 2000s. The before there was the can't get this guy out of Bregman.
and Altuve and Devers, just to name a few. The Yankees just can't get that guy out. Long before that was Garrett Anderson. Oh, man. And Edgar Martinez.
Well, no one could get him out, though. That's true. But Garrett Anderson, man. And Ersted and Salmon and all those guys. Edmunds.
Oh, diving canes. the Thundersticks and Percival and all that business.
So You never know. One never ever knows. On that front with baseball. Philly Diehard sports friend Jay Culp, who does all of our social media. Yes, he texted me and said A.J.
Brown was drafted by the Padres in 2016. How about that?
So maybe we can do it. Yeah, he just wants trout. He wants trout on the Phillies in the worst way. Jake, it's not going to happen.
Okay. Jake wants Trout on the Phillies in the worst way. Not going to happen. I shouldn't say that. One doesn't.
Who knows? I don't know why. All right. When we come back, I don't know. I haven't seen the rundown.
I should look at it. But I have a different take on the Browns' rule of wanting to go deep into the future with first-round draft choices. Oh. I have a different take on that than the one that I have had in recent shows. Oh.
So you're going to pin it. How about that?
It's part of the charm of this program. back in a moment. Ha ha ha ha. The Rich Eisen Show, the podcast. Let's take some phone calls, shall we?
Hey, 844-204-Rich. All rise, Terzo in Iowa wants to talk Iowa basketball. That's a shock. I didn't see that. What's up, Terzo?
Right, Rich. I got yelled at at the bar yesterday that I don't talk enough about it. But I got something for you first before I get to the Iowa basketball. All right. A good buddy of mine was at the campus of you and I back whenever our buddy Kurt Warner was there.
And he told me that he was probably the best basketball player that was on campus.
Okay. Listen, he loves playing basketball. I think he broke his nose a couple years ago. Oh, yeah. Remember that?
He loves playing. He's a big jaw.
Something well, yes, it's John. Yeah, right. I found that pretty cool just knowing that how athletic he is. But that was exciting, though, watching Iowa do what they did. I got to give my props and shout out to Ben McCollum.
Former Drake Bulldog head coach go bulldog hoo-hoo It took a bulldog to get the Huckey's To the final four or the lead eight, and I think they have a chance of making it to the final four. But I do have a question for you guys. Do you guys like how these games have been stacked? Like tonight, we have St. John's and Duke as the first game, and then your Michigan game comes on thirty minutes later.
Unless you're at a bar or somewhere, you're having to switch back and forth. I do not like how they stack these games. It's been that way forever. Terzo. I know, I don't like it.
Well, all right.
Well, let's hug it out then. You know, my whole thing is, and Richard, this is just it might just me be me, is just start them a little bit earlier so then we can watch each individual game. They all deserve it. Thank you for the call. Terzo in Iowa making his case to the jury, but I summarily reject it.
Sorry, Turzone. I love your buddy. Rough judge. Panel of one. NFL resolution proposal number two for those scoring at home in next week's.
NFL annual meeting, which is the official way of saying owners meeting. By Cleveland to allow draft selections to be traded up to five seasons in the future. Five. And I've been saying this is a terrible idea. You have.
And I've been saying it's NBAing up the. Yeah. The NFL draft, all of that business, and we'll discuss even that later on when the NBA has come up with some anti-tanking ideas. which we'll talk about next hour. And or thir hour three.
I promise we'll talk about it. And I've been saying this is Cleveland That stance doesn't change. I still think it's a terrible idea. It's an awful idea. Because You need to save some franchises from themselves.
And also franchises if they wind up trading all these draft choices for one player Suddenly that player stinks on ice. or isn't good enough or gets hurt. and ruins the franchise's ability to win to the point you have to fire the coach and the general manager. Which good coach or GM would take your job without any first round draft selections years into the future? You're handcuffing yourself.
And I even took a shot at Cleveland. saying, Of course it's the Browns coming up with this idea. Because they're the ones that are going to blow all these draft choices on the wrong guy. Just like they did, say, Deshaun Watson. And I am now saying potentially Mayor Culpa.
No. Because This business of Miles Garrett's contract being redone to move a bonus. To the beginning of the playing season, or just on the cusp of it, at the end of training camp and preseason. People are saying this gives the Browns more flexibility to potentially trade Miles Garrett. If you're going to trade Miles Garrett, And you know you're going to get at least two or three first-round picks for this guy.
Why not create a rule when you can ask for five? And who's the player out there that could actually get another team to go so deep in its. Draft pockets. that they would give you a draft choice four or five years from now. Miles Garrett.
Maybe. The Browns are playing four dimensions.
Now, again, I keep saying, why would you trade for one of those? Draft choices. Because You don't even know what the draft is going to look like four or five years from now. You're saying, I, you know, I'd just rather have a first-round pick for that high school player. Yeah.
That kid in ninth grade right now who is, or pardon me. 12th grade, 11th grade right now who's balling out. I'd rather keep one in my back pocket for that. Certainly, when you're seeing teams right now make moves for next year's draft because they know this year's draft is not as good.
So why would you do that, say why would you commit to having a draft choice and a draft four years out when it takes you some time to realize you know, right before a draft. It's not as good. But if the Browns are sitting here thinking we can get three for Miles Garrett. Five sounds better than three. Yeah, add a two, at a four, and twenty.
Don't. Go for twos and fours. Uh uh. You're going for firsts, and if you're going for firsts, Five sounds better than three. I see you browns what you might be up to with this rule proposal number two.
Rich Eisen Show Podcast. Mm-hmm.
