Pardon My Take - Bracket Breakdown With Matt Jones + Bortles In LA

Episode Date: March 20, 2019

The BOAT has found a safe harbor in LA. Eli Manning is NOT BAD (2:27 - 7:05). March Madness preview and our Final 4 picks that no one probably cares about (7:05 - 14:17). Hot Seat/Cool Throne including Robert Kraft and  Gambling because the NCAA doesn't want you to gamble (14:17 - 27:26). Kentucky Sports Radio Matt Jones joins the show to talk about the Tournament Field, how far Kentucky can go, Zion, and who he has winning the Tourney (27:26 - 54:00). Segments include way to stay relevant baseball for Mike Trout, Respect The Biz, PR 101 for Shane Dawson the not cat fucker, and Guys on Chicks. You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

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Go subscribe right now. Today is Wednesday, March 20th and I would like to start with a statement. This narrative that Eli is overpaid and can't play is a crock. Dave Gettleman, the quote machine. Just wanted to get that out of the way. All you asking out there, the Giants know exactly what they're doing. Eli is still good. Three lie is going to bring the band back together.

Let's go. I like that. He's all manning and you know what, Gettleman, I think that he does know what he's doing because he basically, he did that thing where you describe if you're like on the phone with the cops in a hostage situation, exactly what the problem is as you're saying. He's like, Eli Manning is not overpaid, he's not old, he's got a great mouth that is always closed. Stop saying it.

Yes. Exactly. Exactly what he's doing. His shoulder's fine. It's always been fine. Everything's fine. All right. So we're going to get to March Madness talk, a lot of it.

We're going to do a little with Matt Jones, we're going to do a little before that. We have to at least mention the fact that we are now the number one podcast for the Los Angeles Rams quarterbacks. I love it. The quarterback room is essentially our playroom, Sean Manion, kind of awkward, bro. We don't really know you, but he's going to have to become the biggest PMT fan of the time. The rest of you, let's go Blake Bortles in LA, Blake and Jared together.

There's always got to be a Blake in LA and it feels good to see the boat get a beautiful docking spot. Sean McVeigh is about to get his hands on that clay and mold him into the greatest quarterback of all time. Well, second, one and one, one and one a with him and Jared off. I'm so excited for the Bortles. We need to get a half Bortles, half, half golf jersey, Rams, blue and white, yeah, Gordles, Gordles.

I love that. So official statement or Boff. Boff would actually be fire. Yeah. Bortoff. Yeah. Um, official. Jared Boff.

Official statement from, uh, from head coach Sean McVeigh. Oh, this is PFT newsbreakers. Yeah. Newsbreakers. Uh, he says, this is just PFT flexing, texting with Sean McVeigh. Yeah, exactly. Uh, my man excited to have him with us. Oh, wow.

Yeah. Nice. So he's excited. So I'm excited. I'm excited. Um, looking forward to the Rams going back to the Super Bowl, Bortles hoisting that Lombardi trophy over his beautiful, beautiful, full head of hair. What if you moved out there and he got surfer hair?

What if all he needed was like the West Coast hair? Why not? Just a little bit of sun. Yeah. That's, that's a great point. Heck, now's the time to do a total makeover for Blake. Yes. Absolutely.

Not that you need it. But do it. Like a minor tweak. Because no one really knows you right now. So you got to show up the first day. It's like the person who gets like a nose job or a dye hair, you know, they get like fake hair. You got to do it before the first day of school.

So make sure you do it right now, Blake. That surfer hair, that flow. And yeah, I'm excited. This is going to be awesome. It's going to be great. I'm, I'm super pumped for Blake. Should we talk about March Madness because it is coming up and I'm very excited for that as well.

Let's hear it on Thursday. Is it, is it March? It starts this is March. This is March. When are the playing games? The playing games have started. If you're listening to this right now, it's too late. Your bracket is already busted because you probably had Temple and Belmont one.

And if that didn't happen, reverse it, Belmont one, but you lost. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. So I actually have two stats for everyone. Which one would you like? First Hank, do you want the good one, the fun stat or the stat that will help everyone win their bracket?

Fun stat. Okay. The fun stat. Here is the fun stat. Dukes Mike Shashevsky has made the NCAA tournament every season he's coached since 1983 had back surgery in 1995 when blue devils missed the field. That was the fun. That was a pretty good set.

Yeah. That was the best stat I've ever done. That was fun. Yeah. That was very fun. Yeah. Exactly. Okay.

You want the real stat now? This is for all you people trying to figure out your brackets. These are actually real stats. There has been no team that has ever won the tournament that hasn't finished in the top 20 in adjusted offense and adjusted defense. Okay. We're getting real nerdy on it. I'm going to give you the teams right now.

So if you're waiting to fill out your bracket, here are the teams that you should pick from. Virginia, Duke, Michigan State, North Carolina, Gonzaga, Michigan, Kentucky, and then there's a few. The rest are like right on the cusp. And if they have a good turning run, they could finish in the top 20 adjusted offense and adjusted defense. Okay. Well, I mean, those are all the teams that anybody's going to pick anyways.

But I'm saying don't be a hero. What I'm saying is don't be a hero. Don't try to pick Tennessee or Texas Tech or Purdue or Virginia Tech or any of these other teams. Pick to the basics and you actually pick the teams that are in the top 10. Those are the teams that always win. Top 10 adjusted offense, adjusted defense. That's simply Virginia, Duke, Michigan State, North Carolina.

Is that in terms of scoring or yards? That's both. Okay. Yeah. Combined stat. So Virginia, Duke, Michigan State, North Carolina, if your champion's not from that four, you're doing your bracket wrong. I know it sounds terrible, but just don't be a hero.

Also, here's a fun little stat. Hanks three point percentage is 30.2. It is the lowest in division one men's basketball. I think it's like 320 something overall in men's college basketball and no team. I repeat, no team has ever gotten to the championship game with a three point percentage that low. What about the elite eight? No, I don't think that's happening.

That's probably not happening. You're talking about the elite eight. I just looked it up and it hasn't happened either. Yes. Also, it says Hanks sucks in the stat. I don't know why they included that. Do you guys want to say your final fours? Yep.

Do it. Give me a one minute. Oh, okay. Because the brackets haven't been out for two days? Mm-hmm. Just now looking at your brackets. And it's filling my bracket out. No, we'll wait.

We'll wait. We'll wait. In the top left. PFT and I will wait for you to figure out your bracket because you got to go first to your Hank. Okay. So we'll just wait. PFT, what are you thinking?

Well, one thing I'm thinking about is Roy Williams, who's just named coach of the year. Interesting. He was. Over coach. Okay. They didn't announce it today. Coach of the year awards. Oh, okay.

Because, yeah. Yeah. The first one is only one that counts. Got it. Honestly, that's a good lesson in life. It doesn't matter who the main award is. If you just say it first and say it loud enough, people will be like, oh, that's the real one. That's the coach of the year, even though I just said that's not the real coach of the

year. But it is. But it is now. Okay. Because I said it louder. All right. All right, Hank, who you got? I got Duke, Gonzaga, Villanova, and Iowa State.

Villanova's not in that. Did you listen to anything I fucking said, Hank? God damn it. I was filling out my bracket as you were saying. You overthought it, Hank. Okay. You overthought it. All right.

My final fours. I literally filled this out from when the show started to right now. People need to remember. I'm on the Virginia bandwagon now, so I'm going to bring them to, what did I say there? I guarantee they'll be in the Elite Eight at least. That's in the Grind region. Yes. I'm going to bring them to the Elite Eight and to the Final Four.

So my Final Four is Virginia, Duke, Kentucky, and Michigan. Okay. All right. I have a couple of two seeds and a one seed, a couple of one seeds and a two seed. I have Duke, Gonzaga, Virginia, and UNC in my Final Four. Okay. And now I don't want the problem with Duke's this. Now nothing really, what we just said really doesn't matter.

No one cares about your bracket. But that was, oh, I'm getting a phone call. Who is it? Is it Sean McVeck? No, it's just fucking random numbers. Have you guys gotten the numbers now? They basically have made. They take your area code?

They take it. They, it's, and they give them more than that. It's like almost the exact same number. They're calling you. So you think you're calling yourself? Mm-hmm. The fucking robo callers. It is crazy.

It makes you way more likely to pick up the call. Right. What's that movie where they, they like build, oh, it's like Contact. Remember in Contact where she goes to the other planet and the aliens design like a holograph alien that looks like your dad because she'll be more likely to trust it? Exactly. That's what, that's what big phone company is doing to you right now. Big brother's real.

I just want to tell everyone though before, you're probably listening to this on Wednesday, but make sure you do this on Thursday right before tip off. Take a deep breath, visualize yourself winning and feel good about what the next four days are going to be. And you do, remember we used to do this with the NFL season. Remember you had to take a picture. You had to take a picture in your mind around week 13 because we're going to lose football eventually.

Take a picture right before the tournament starts because it's the best four days of the year. Mm-hmm. Raisely. I think as close as you'll get to heaven on earth is that first Thursday at about 3.20 in the afternoon when you're just surrounded by basketball games. So much basketball. And it just doesn't end.

Yeah. And it just feels so good. You like got your first little bit of a buzz going. So excited. Maybe you're full from the first round of wings. Yes. That is the best feeling. That's better than sex.

I just printed out 169 page Google Doc with all the stats and I'm not going to read any of it, but just holding it makes me feel like I'm going to be doing better this year than I've ever done. That's your Bible right there. I got shot charts for fucking Iona. They're going to be in the tournament for like four seconds. I don't care. Really the only bracket I ever care about is Greeny's bracket because he only does the

one and he looks down on people that do more than one. He calls it the sheet of integrity. That's his name for it. It's pretty cool. Here's the thing though. I honestly like going back to the stat about the top seven teams and statistically like looking at the history of the tournament. Don't let people bracket shame you.

Don't let people say like, oh, that's really chalky. Guess what? The chalk usually wins. Pick a couple of upsets in the beginning. If your Final Four isn't the best, don't get crazy. You're never going to be able to predict the sixth seed that goes to the Final Four. You're never going to be able to predict Yukon going to the Final Four as an eighth seed. And you know what?

If you do have that weird Cinderella, if you had Chicago last year, loyal Chicago last year. You're weirdo. Yeah. It's weird that no one's impressed that you got that. Yeah, you're weirdo. You're weirdo and you probably had a lot of other stuff wrong in your bracket too. I'm going straight chalk this year in every game.

I think the committee, again, this is the year they get it right and I'm going Oregon over Wisconsin. That's my only upset. Got it. It's not an upset because Oregon's favorite. Everything else. That's my only upset. Oregon's favorite.

I thought you wanted me to get it so my hopes get up. I do, but that's me. So now you're being contradictory to yourself. No, I had some time to think it over. Oh, so you just want my team to lose right away? I spoke to my family. I don't want you to get your hopes up and get broken hearted. Got it.

So you just want me to lose right away. I care about you so much. I have your guys' nearly date. Thank you, Hank. It's probably not going to happen. But I thank you. I appreciate the respect. Kansas State's going to get upset, which leaves the classic second round.

It's constant being favored. Yeah. And then Oklahoma is going to upset Virginia. Wisconsin's going to beat Oklahoma. There's always that easy second round game. Every fan base has probably had this. If you root for a team that goes to the tournament, you have the second round, the upset on the other part of your bracket and you're like, man, this is going to be so easy.

And then you get upset again. That's how like the 13 seed gets to the sweet 16. Everyone's looking at it like cakewalk to the sweet 16. Nope. I'd like to issue Darren Ravel a one week reprive. He is allowed to do water cooler talk. This is the one water cooler week of the year. This is actually the one time where people I feel like still gather around and then just

have the same conversation over and over about how's your bracket. All right. Let's do hot seat, cool throne, cool throne, everyone's other bracket because everyone's other bracket always crushes. Hank, get us going with hot seat, cool throne. My hot seat is ESPN. Okay. Go on.

They released the women's bracket like three hours early. Yeah. I saw that. It's tough. It's tough. So you're talking about it. Was there a riot in the streets? Yeah.

I mean, I'm sure there was. I wasn't on top of the top of the situation, but it's just a tough look. Well, what ended up happening was they had to. I'm sure they had to spend a lot of money. They had a whole reveal. They probably had all the camera crews set up at all the places waiting for their different brackets. And I was just like, Oh, this has been released.

So what happened was they accidentally released it early. And then they had the camera crews that were in place, but the teams weren't there yet because they had a whole like unveiling show and they had to bring the teams in like way ahead of time. When they were practicing, it was a big cluster fuck on the ladies side. Damn. I love. Listen, women's final four.

Don't sleep on that. Some electric moments. Itty bitty. You remember that? Yeah. Electric moments. My cool throne is onions. Yeah.

Yeah. Onion season. Bill Rafferty. Yeah. But he's on Fox now. He's not doing the tournament. I mean, he's on Fox. I assume he's not.

Onions. Pretty sure he hasn't done the tournament. I'm pretty sure this face just dropped. This is the one time a year where they should just let him do like bring the big names in the guy. Johnson. Dickie V. Contract.

No, I thought I was watching him on CBS on you. He is on. He might, he might be still do onions for the Michigan, Michigan State game. He might get. I heard him. I heard it with my own ears. Okay. So he might, I thought he was doing Fox with Gus Johnson unless someone copyrighted.

I don't know. I think, I think Hank might be right. What? Wait, I definitely listened to, I heard him over the weekend. Maybe, maybe I've, maybe I made that up. Who's with, who's with Gus Johnson? Okay. Maybe I totally dreamed it.

Maybe I'm just in the whole Gus Johnson should be in the NCAA tournament mode. You're right. I think you're right. It's Grand Hill, Bill Rafferty and Jim Nance. Okay. Also, I'm sorry. I'm sorry for the momentary lapse in judgment there. Who's Gus Johnson's?

I don't know. I just heard, I, because I was watching the game on Sunday and I heard him do. He did onions. Minuteman. I'm definitely in Big Cats boat too because there have been times when I've dreamed of different announcing teams together. They get all. That's how weird our brains are.

Well, it's also. We're going to sleep in Dicky V's calling a Thursday night football game with Chris Collins conference championship week. I've watched, you know, 300 basketball games. So that's, that's also what is basically, I'm, I have brain bleeding. I think Hank, you're good. Onions are safe. Cool.

I just looked it up. You're fine. PFT. What do you got? My hot seat. My first one. I scared myself. I scared myself.

My first one is Vas deferens. Okay. Or on the hot seat. America's Vas deferens is on the hot seat. That's the little tube that takes your balls to your urethra. Because this is the week where every single vasectomy clinic advertises for guys to get away from home and to get a cheap half price vasectomy and then sit their ass down on their couch with a bag of frozen peas watching.

Why is it frozen peas, by the way? I think the peas naturally fall into the dimples of the scrotum in a more natural fashion. Wouldn't you just use like a ice pack? No, but the peas, they get into the crevices. Right. But like the gel ice pack seems like, seems like we've gotten science past the point where we need to be putting like food on our balls. I also think it's, it just looks cooler.

Like you ever seen an old movie where like a kid's got a black eye and he puts a big steak on his face? On his t-bone steak. That looks pretty awesome. I feel like it's just the universal thing that's in your freezer, but not good enough to ever make. Right. Like a bag of peas.

Yes. You do always have a bag of peas. That's true. One of these clinics definitely needs to get Cramarty sponsored during March Madness. There's no way he's ever going to do it. His sperm have busted through two vasectomies. It's insane. He's the most potent man in the world.

Legend. They're like the size of cattle, baby cattle. My other hot seat is NFL approved charities because Vontes Perfect has been cut from the Bengals and so now they are losing a huge source of income from all his disciplinary fines. So really, Roger Goodell hates charity. Yes. And that's what I'm taking from this news.

And basically everyone in the NFC North can breathe the sigh of relief when they try to go over the middle of the field. Yeah. Big Ben just wheezed a huge sigh of relief. Yes. Yes. By the way, Hank, I'm looking it up. Bill Raftery did do the Big East Championship.

So now it's like, I have no idea. I'm reading Bill Raftery tells us all the reason why the Big East tournament is so special. I don't think he did CBS on Sunday, but I think he will be in the tournament. My fingers are crossed. I heard him. He was with Gus Johnson. I haven't lost my mind totally. I think Bill Raftery gets both of the, I think he gets to do Fox and CBS.

He gets to do what Gus Johnson shouldn't get to do. He's like an independent contractor. That's perfect. Freelance. Freelance Bill. My cool throne is being found guilty of not being entirely innocent because Bob Kraft was offered a plea deal that would mean that he would not be guilty for the prostitution charges, but he would admit that if he were prosecuted, he would have most likely been

found guilty. Wait, so he's not guilty. Well, if he takes the deal, he's saying that he is not guilty of being innocent. That's okay. Yeah. So he's saying that they would have got him if they really wanted to. But they didn't want to. But they didn't want to even.

It's basically like we're just giving up. Yes. We're just ending the game. The flake gate all over again. Yeah. It's like, yeah, there you go. It's like unplugging the controller when you're down by 14. Yeah, whatever.

The game's over. We don't know who actually won or lost. More probable than not that he did something illegal. Yes. Exactly, Hank. That's what it is. There you go. But I don't think he's going to take it.

Caddell's gotten his way into the judicial system. No, I don't think so either because he probably has like the best lawyers ever and they're like, shit, we thought we could have like just, you know, the state's attorney fight this hand job case. Yeah. Not the case. Not against Bob Kraft's like high, you know, he probably has the A team going. He's probably got OJ's team.

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that if somebody offers you a deal saying like, okay, so you're not playing guilty, but you are playing that like, you know how good we are at our jobs. Right. You would have beaten you, right? Right. Just admit you would have lost. Yeah, we have you.

Yeah. It's like Bobby Fisher. I've got you beat. You just don't know. Let's do a draw. Right. No, it doesn't work in real life that way. Okay.

My other cool throne is tables. Yeah. Because Beto O'Rourke has been standing on every single table and every single diner in America and not diving through them like he should be as a member of the Bill's Mafia. Wait, so that was, so I saw a picture of that. He does that everywhere? Yeah. He's done it at like four different restaurants.

Cause I, I mean, you hear about coaches in NFL being like, I'm going to stand on the table for that guy. I think he's just standing on the table for, for himself. That's what it means. Yeah. That's kind of annoying. Yeah. Imagine.

Why don't you just stand and talk to people? Sir, can you please get off the table? They have reservations. Hey man, we eat off this table. Could you please get off this table? Yeah. The old Beto would do it. The old punk rock Beto would dive through tables.

I still don't understand why he just doesn't go by Robert because I don't know how Beto Beto Beto. What is his name? Beto. What is his name? Well, that was actually the Fox News has a, has a new nickname for him, Beto O'Dork. It's just, it's Beto. If you want to, if you want to say something like the, how do you say his name?

Beto. See, this is, this is, listen, a tip for anyone who's running for president. You better be able to like, I better be able to say your name instantly without having to second guess myself because when you make me think that I'm dumb because I don't know how to use words, you're out. Yeah. His real name is Robert. Yeah.

Right. So go by Robert. Cause you know that thing when someone like, I'm sitting here and I don't know how to pronounce it. So I don't really want to say it because I don't want to sound dumb and uninformed. So guess what? I've already canceled you. You're, I push, push you to the side, Beto, and you're done cause I can't, I can't say

your name. Okay. It's a very simple task. Beto is pretty easy to say. I need to be able to say your name. Bet, no, but it's Beto. It's like you bet every day, right? Beto.

Beto. Yeah, there you go. What's that? Beto. Robert. Beto, Robert. Bobby. Bobby O'Rourke.

Bobby O'Rourke. Bobby O'Rourke. Sounds like a fucking quarterback right there. Yeah. He sounds like he went to Yale and he's, you know, from Greenwich, Connecticut and he's probably going to fucking win the election with a billion dollars of private donations. Bobby O'Rourke. That's perfect.

It is. We just fixed your, your campaign for you. All right. My hot seat is gambling. Statement from the NCAA.org. The NCAA opposes all forms of legal and illegal sports wagering, which has the potential to undermine the integrity of sports contests and jeopardize the welfare of student athletes and the intercollegiate athletics community.

I'm out. I can't do, I can't, if the NCAA tells me it's the best rules. Hold on. Hold on. My cool throne. Also gambling because on the NCAA.com website, seven of our best NCAA bracket tips that just might make the difference this year. Okay.

All right. So we're back. I love the NCAA. They are the best. It's unbelievable. There's also, they also had a note that they put out there about how you don't bet on it. It's called, it's a little graphic, don't bet on it, risk plus reward equals violation. And it's basically saying anyone who's part of a university cannot give any tips.

And it says, do not share information that can be used to bet on games. This includes team disciplinary actions, team morale and injuries. So if you, if you say the team feels like they're going to win today, that's a no-no. Yeah. We have a bunch of crippled depressed kids in, in the house. So don't bet on them. Guys are feeling good. You're in jail.

Yeah. What, what, what do they say to the media then? Is it literally everything that they say to the media considered giving away betting tips? Pretty much. All right. If you place it better, let's start with coach K and reporting them. You can't place a bet on a March Madness, Bracket, Fantasy League or sports pool.

Otherwise you're in violation of the NCAA rules. But again, seven of our best tips for how to make your winning bracket right on the NCAA website. The NCAA is so fucking stupid. They would be such a good mafia organization if they just admitted, like do the opposite of the mafia. You know how the mafia goes clean when they want to like, you know, start being legit. Make an olive oil business.

That's what the Kennedys did with their bootlegging and stuff, what the Bushes did. So if, if you were heading the NCAA right now, I would highly recommend to you that you just switch it all up and you just say, fuck it. You know what? That dude in Staten Island just got killed by the NCAA cartel. We've got millennials. They've done a great job at suppressing millennials. Yes.

Over the years. Yes. They'll be able to get away. Scott Frew that shit. They got this. NCAA. I love you. I love you.

NCAA. You're so stupid, but I love you. I'm not, I'm not going to do the J. Bills preachy thing because guess what? I love March Madness. So if you want to make the rules that we're not allowed to gamble, but then also give us tips to gamble, more power to you. That's called left brain, right brain. It's just using all the 100% of their brain.

We could only be so lucky. It's called covering both your ass cheeks. Yeah, exactly. Some of us, the rest of us here using like 8% of our brain power, we wouldn't understand that they're actually thinking at a higher level. I'll bet you the guy that typed up that thing about do not gamble on college basketball, was he typed it one handed and was just doing the jerk off motion with his other hand as he was typing it.

He was actually, his other hand, he was filling out his pool and he was actually hitting up everyone. Like, hey, please Venmo me the entry fee for this pool guys. Like Alicia Key is playing two pianos at once. That's actually more impressive. You're telling me that the fucking head of the NCAA doesn't fill out a bracket? Everyone fills out a bracket. Even Darren Ravel fills out a bracket.

Think about that. Yeah, he was the last guy. Everyone in America fills out a bracket now. He was literally the last one standing and now we're here. All right, let's do our interview. We got Matt Jones. Before we do that, it's time to talk about the cash card from the cash app, the number one finance app in the app store for a reason.

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a Kentucky sports website. So he's the perfect person to break down the bracket with us. Let's start with the, with your Kentucky Wildcats. I want to start with Saturday. What the hell happened? Well, they kind of fell apart down the stretch. By the way, I liked that intro. You're like, there's nobody who has a job who would require to watch more bad college

basketball than if you were a Kentucky fan. Correct. We do. We don't have any other pro sports, but it was a, they kind of fell apart there at the end of the tournament. It was a great environment though. You guys would have loved it. It was half Kentucky fans, half Tennessee fans, they hate each other.

They're cussing at each other. It was an awesome game, but Kentucky fell apart in the last three minutes and ended up losing. So is that something that you're, you know, you're worried about with this team? Cause I've loved this Kentucky team basically all year. I thought, you know, after the, they got blown out by Duke, which seems like 10 years ago, you know, they had some good road wins. They played some tough games. The SEC had some good teams, but watching them crumble there, I was like, what's going

on? I thought that they had a little bit more, you know, resolve in those big moments. Yeah. I did too. But, you know, it happens. It was one game. I will say, you know, they have an injury, uh, potentially PJ Washington, maybe their best player.

It just came out a little bit ago, then walking around in a boot, uh, there's some rumors. He might be hurt. Now, if he's hurt, everything changes for Kentucky and we'll find that out on Wednesday. You know, the keeper, Kentucky's your boy, Tyler hero from Wisconsin who had committed to your badgers, he committed and came to Kentucky and he's been awesome. He's going to end up a top 20 pick in the NBA draft and, uh, he has been an absolute star and in the last few weeks probably been Kentucky's best player. Now PJ Washington, have you found like where it happened on tape?

Was it, was this an injury that happened in a game that you can identify what it is? Or are you just kind of left guessing at this point? I, everybody's guessing that the speculation is on the very last play PJ Washington missed the shot. He got it, tried to put it back and he missed like a one footer. And when he missed that one footer, he hurt his foot, which may just be the excuse for missing the one footer, but that's the play that everybody's pointing to. But, but really, nobody knows a whole lot about it yet.

So here's the other theory. We do this, uh, I, it's a long time pool that I've done. I haven't done it in probably a decade, but I loved it when I used to do it. And it's a player pool where you draft eight players in the tournament and you just get total points. So we did that draft today in the office and my third pick in the draft was PJ Washington. So I think he got injured simply because I put the jinx on him. Well, if he plays, that's a really good pick.

Uh, I would take him. I would say you should get the trade out for Tyler hero. Cause if he doesn't, if PJ does not play, Tyler hero will have to score about 25 a game for Kentucky to have a chance. I have Tyler hero. So maybe we could make something happen. Yeah. Listen, you can grease the wheels a little bit.

Okay. Uh, all right. Let's talk. Oh, actually one last question about Kentucky. Would you make of, uh, Cal's living room where it's just a cow apparently lives in the Naysmith Hall of Fame and, uh, he has every Jersey that's ever been drafted in the NBA draft. You know, people think that Cal Perry did that living room just for the TV interview.

He did not. That's what it's like. Cal Perry's house. It's a really nice house, but you know how when you go into an apartment complex and they show you the model apartment. That's kind of what his house is looked like. It sort of always looked like a hotel room and I, it didn't surprise me at all. He had that stuff up.

He has pictures from every game. His house is basically a museum to all things Cal Perry. So that interview, people think he set that up. I guarantee you that he has those things just in that room and they just happen to put the camera there. He's got the, uh, the saran wrap on all the couches and love seats and everything. Yeah. That's exactly right.

Let me tell everybody the best Instagram account outside of the ones associated with Barstool is John Cal Perry's wife. She might be the funniest person in college basketball and she has everything Cal isn't. She's sarcastic. She's sort of like self-knowing. She makes fun of him constantly. I think it's Cal underscore MRS. I highly recommend it.

You guys would really like it. And she was raised on a farm too, right? So that's like the exact opposite of him. Exactly. No, because Jack Cal Perry says he's the grandson of a coal miner. He also is in an argument with Mark Few that if he got dropped into the wild of Alaska, he could survive. I think there's zero chance that's true.

I don't know. It's Trajan Langton up there because he sniffed him out and make his way to his house and make him an offer. He couldn't refuse. You guys remember the Kentucky player, Wayne Turner, that's the true story. Kentucky played in the great Alaska shootout in the 90s and they did a like snow, like with wolves, the snow thing, and he got lost. They thought they had lost him.

It was the 98 team that won the title. They thought they had lost him out in the woods and there was like this big panic and they found him. That would actually be a great remake of the Pine Barons episode of Sopranos. Cal Perry and Rick Petino stranded in the Alaskan wilderness like Survivor Man. Good segue there, PFT. Thank you. Do you think Rick Petino will be at the Minnesota Louisville game, which is kicking off the

entire tournament is the first game of Thursday? Do you think Rick Petino will be in attendance? Do you think he will be cheering loud? And what do you expect from old slick Rick? He swears he will not, but that of course means he will be sitting behind the Minnesota bench. He'll have on a Greek scarf, his hair will be fluffed up and Louisville fans will be furious.

I love the NCAA putting that together. Rick Petino and his son, Richard, who's basically Fredo Corleone, the fact that he has to go and sit and cheer him on against his former team. I can't tell you how happy it makes me and I think Louisville's going to win, which will make it even better. Yeah. Now, what's the, what's the temperature of Louisville fans like do they, do they hate Richard Petino?

Yeah, they all kind of, well, here's the thing that none of them, even the ones that really liked Rick Petino, nobody wanted Richard to be the coach. When Rick, before the Italian restaurant and the strippers and the hookers and the FBI and all that, his, the plan was for Richard to go get groomed at Minnesota and then take over. So when they got rid of Rick, there was a part that was like a deep breath. They're like, okay, we lost Rick, but at least we got rid of Papa John and we got rid of Richard Petino.

So I think they felt like that was a pretty even trade. I don't think they hate him. I just think they're glad that they don't have to deal with him and they, they now have Chris Mack, who his big thing is he likes to go to all the sort of common man restaurants in Louisville after games and eat with the fans. And recently the team, when it struggled, he didn't do it as much because people were kind of being rude to it. Yeah.

Careful, not all the restaurants. There's a couple of sticky ones there. All right. So, uh, talk to us about the rest of the bracket. You obviously, like we said at the top, watch a ton of college basketball. Are there specific teams that you are looking at? Obviously the big story is Duke this year, but any teams that you, you're, you see, you have your ions like this team, I've seen them play and they're ready for a run.

Well, all right, first of all, you have to talk about Duke for a second because design thing, I know they can't, you're like me. You got to be out of control. Like design things over the top, but my question, I can't tell if he's as good as everybody thinks and I'm just a hater or if he's also overhyped. I'm really like, I tend to think for a long time, I thought he was overhyped and, and then I've, I've kind of started to accept, you know what, maybe he's just that good and I'm a complete hater for not wanting him to succeed because he's on Duke.

I mean, we all grew up where Duke was the least likable program in, in all of sport. And now they've got the coolest player in a decade and I just don't know how to process it and it's really screwing up my entire enjoyment of the third. I think he's really, really good. Why would you think he like, what was your bone to pick with? I mean, he can't shoot the three fat. I mean, I thought he was fat and he is fat, but he's fat and strong. Like he, he weighs, there's only one player in the NBA that Bogan guy is the only

dude in the NBA that weighs more than Zion. You know, I used, I had a teacher once who said, if you're fat at 17, wait till you're 25. So if you're fat at 18 or 19, what's he going to be? You know, think about Eddie Curry, but he's also crazy muscular. So I don't know. Like I said, I think I'm a hater. What I want to see is in the second round, I want to see him go up against

seven, six taco. If you, have you guys spent any time watching taco fall at Central Florida? Yes. See, nothing's going to happen though. Taco can't move. Like he's just like any seven footer. He can't really move around. You know, he's not as bad.

He's not like, no, he's fine, but you know what I mean. Like he can't move. Like I think the thing with Zion is he is so much more physical and so much like the way he finishes at the rim and the way he can attack the, you know, the rebounds, it's, you don't see that in college basketball. You don't see guys kind of take control of the game the way that he can. You see sometimes guys get shot, you know, hot shooting the three in college basketball, but I'm talking about a guy who could basically like that ACC tournament.

He just basically just controlled everything. You know, I mean, the UNC game was a coin flip, but Florida, St. Syracuse, he just willed them and said, I'm going to just physically dominate everyone. Yeah. I'm not, he's not taco fall is not going to stop Zion. Don't get me wrong, but there, you know, Zion's going to try to dunk on him. And that's going to be one of the best posters one way or the other of all time.

Plus the dude's name is taco and he's the all time leading NBA or NCA field goal percentage. He's shooting 75% for his career, which is really unbelievable. If you think about it, it was like Boban. All he does is he just stands next to the hoop and just puts it in. So like he's not taking any shots. One, uh, one thing I've noticed about Zion, yeah, you make, you make some good points about him.

There's some things about him that you can't really teach that he's really, really good at like his timing when it comes to blocking shots. He always seems to jump almost a half second too late to block a shot, but then it turns out it's exactly at the right time. And he's got like a lot of these little nuances about him, like, especially when it comes to rebounding, um, that his timing is just like, it's strangely good for a 19 year old. I think you're exactly right about that.

That there was, you may remember, well, I know he's in the NBA, you know, it's the Nurellins, Noel Nurellins was like that too. Before he got hurt at Kentucky, where he would just block shots on timing. Zion is amazing like that. I agree, but I just do shoot 30% from three. There's never been a team when the title who shoots worse than like 35 and they're at 30, so we'll see. I'll tell you my, a big upset.

I like, I like UC Irvine to the sweet 16, uh, they're, they play Kansas state. Dean Wade's not going to play. I don't like Kansas state at all. I think that bracket's open and UC Irvine's the only team in the tournament with 30 wins. And I've actually stayed up some nights when I have insomnia and watch them play and the anteaters are actually a pretty awesome team to watch. I really like them getting to the sweet 16 as the double digit C.

Okay. Uh, what other, and that's that, by the way, we should mention has nothing to do with the fact that Kansas state beat Kentucky in Atlanta last year and the ugliest game of all time when you guys easily should have won it, right? That was a brutal game. Cause then could the final four was set up for Kentucky. We could have taken out the 98 year old sister Jean. By the way, they play in the NIT.

Do you, the sister Jean, is, does she go to NIT games or she gave him a pep talk? She gave him a pep talk. I saw she gave him a pep talk today. Um, I bet on that game. That's not proud of it, but yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. That game's going on. They're playing Creighton.

Um, how mad are you or how happy are you for how mad Tennessee fans are because of their draw? Yeah, I love there. I've decided for years, I used to really enjoy screwing with, uh, with Louisville fans, Tennessee fans are worse because Tennessee fans honestly believe that they are good at every sport, even though nobody can remember the last time Tennessee was good at football and in their entire history of the basketball program, they've only been to the elite eight one.

So if they go this year, it will double their all time elite eight appearances. I think they could lose in the second round. Now I picked them to the final four. I think they probably make, but that second round gaming at Cincinnati in Columbus, Tennessee fans, most of them aren't even allowed out of the state. So Cincinnati being just down the road from Columbus. I actually think that's an upset that could potentially happen. And I really want to see Tennessee go down because honestly, Tennessee fan

complaints are like getting me banned from radio shows that I used to go on now, because they say I pick on them too much. Well, so when you, whenever you come on, people love it, but then we have people who are, uh, you know, rivals of Kentucky complain that you are so overly biased towards Kentucky. And you know, Louisville fans will say it's not fair. I'm imagining Tennessee fans. I have to give you credit.

You probably had the saltiest, pettiest tweet that I've seen in a very long time. This past weekend, I'm pulling it up right now. So this was after Tennessee beat Kentucky in the SEC, uh, uh, semifinals, right? Semifinals. Yeah. Semifinals. Okay.

So you tweeted, hold on, I'm going to find this. Uh, let's see. Oh fuck. What day was it? This is on the 16th. It's on Saturday. We'll cut this. I'm not, hold on.

No, no, no, no, no, I'm, no, I'm not going to let you. I want, I want the world to know that I'm being fair and in balanced here because you're never fair and balanced. All right. Here we go. It is, uh, this was after, so after Kentucky lost to Tennessee, he, Matt tweeted, went to the Twitter machine and he said, oh fuck, I can't find it. Well, did you delete it?

No, I don't know what you're talking about. I was actually very nice. I, I, I did something about Tennessee weeks ago when they beat them in Lexington where I said something about them not being able to win a basketball championship either, but what they really get mad at is noting the truth. You remember, I was on your all shows even before the FBI got Petino and I was telling everybody, Petino's dirty, dirty, dirty. And then everybody ended up getting there.

You guys were ahead of the curve on the world on that story. After we would talk about it, people just don't like the truth. And unfortunately the truth is Tennessee in general sucks. And this year they're, I think they were overrated except for when they played you, okay, I found it, I found it. I found the tweet. This is all time passive aggressive tweet by you, Matt Jones. Congrats to the falls.

Great team and an awesome rivalry this year. Yes, exactly. Yeah. That's that is, I would, if I were Tennessee fan, I'd be going nuts when you treat that cause that was so perfectly put to be like, Hey, good job guys. You finally made a rivalry this year. Well, they deserve, they deserve it. They're never going to be good again.

Let me ask you, let me ask you a question. We did this last year and I got a ton after this of nasty messages from Virginia. You remember, you had me on a couple of weeks before the tournament, brackets weren't out yet and I said, you couldn't make me bet on Virginia. Virginia was never going to win anything. I, of course, didn't, I didn't believe they would lose in the first round to a 16 and, but then they did and I was validated. Do you guys believe in Virginia this year?

Because I still think they're the worst form of basketball, only nerds like them. And I want to see them go down in the sweet 16 again. Okay. I, I believe in Virginia this year simply because of the bracket that they're in. So if you look at the teams that are in their bracket, you mentioned Tennessee, who you think is kind of overrated. The other top seeds in their bracket, Cincinnati, who might beat, you know, Tennessee, Purdue, uh, Oregon, Wisconsin and Kansas state, all those teams slow it

down, want to, want to control the pace, want to play defense. And that's perfect for Virginia because if, you know, if they had a Kentucky or someone else like that who could maybe push the pace on them, I think it's a different story, but I think everyone kind of plays into Virginia's hands where they're going to play these 55 to 53 games and get to the final four. I actually agree with you. I think that Tennessee and Virginia are lucky because they're of the elite teams. Those are the two teams that can beat each other.

So they're lucky. They actually got in each other's bracket. I just refused. My view is if they're college basketball God, they're not going to let Virginia win because all they do is they get all these reporters who wish that basketball were like it was in like 1965, they get to watch Virginia and pine for the old days back before people were dunked all the time. And it drives me nuts.

And they all want them to win. I love it when they fail in the tournament every year. And I just cannot believe that the people that college basketball karma would let the Hokies go to a final or excuse me, the Cavaliers go to a file for, I'm picking them to lose again before they get to finally, you know, they've played worse to their seed than any team in college basketball. In the last 20 years, I believe that that's not surprising to me. But I also think that you should absolutely bet on Virginia in the opening

game this year, because they're, they're going to come out there with something to prove and try to win by 40 points to make sure that a repeat of the retrievers doesn't happen. They have Gardner Webb. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah. The juggernaut.

Yeah. That's the team that beat Kentucky about 10 years ago and with Billy Gillespie. The only thing I wish for part of my take, I wish you guys could have been on the air during the Billy Gillespie years. You all would have. The love you have for Rick Bettino, you would have had love for Billy Gillespie, who was hanging out in hotel pools the night before game with college students.

Look, there's fair and balance. Let's talk about another one seed that Kentucky played this year. UNC, do you think, are you believer in UNC? And I mean, I think they've been fantastic. They obviously played Duke twice without Zion, but that game in the ACC semi-finals, that was truly a coin flip where either team could have won. Yeah, I think they're really good. When Kentucky played them earlier in the year, they, Kobe, it's all about Kobe.

Why? When he played earlier in the year, he wasn't the player he is now. And the thing is they should be better. I mean, they should be, but they still don't get all that they should from little, the freshmen, uh, who's so talented. So I, I actually think they, if I were ranking the teams just based on how good they are right now, not on resume, I would probably say Duke one. I would say Kentucky and Carolina kind of two A to B.

And then probably Tennessee, Virginia, Gonzaga. And then I think everybody else kind of stuff. I think the, I think the champ's going to be one of those six. It's just kind of about who gets hot, who does, who avoids the upset. I would take, if you gave me those six against the field, I would bet everything. Cause I just don't think any of the other teams are in the league of those six. Okay. All right.

Now, uh, earlier today, the announced Roy Williams was the USA today coach of the year, uh, if you were to take one coach and, and, oh, okay, go on. Why do you say that he's, he's got a better record. He's got a better, he is dominating Duke in terms of final four appearances in terms of ACC titles. He, uh, he's an underrated coach. If that's possible. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Was it coach of the year this year or in general? No, this year he was, this year it was USA today. Cause that team, that team was good, but like that team is talented and they should be about as good as they are. So I think that, I think that's sort of absurd. To me, if you're going to do coach of the year, you take a team. I actually think you take Rick Barnes. I mean, Rick Barnes, whatever you want to say about Tennessee, they have not one

first round draft fit. They are basically a bunch of second round guys, probably none of whom will have long MBA careers and he's got them with a chance to win a national championship. So I, I would, I, even though I was just dog in Tennessee, I would actually take Rick Barnes, who at Texas was, I thought the worst coach in the country and somehow has become Bobby Knight here in the last couple of years. Bruce Pearl's not doing a bad job either though. Yeah, dude, I love Bruce Pearl.

Have y'all ever had Bruce Pearl on? No, we need to. He's a big shirtless guy. You guys would love Bruce Pearl because he, he's the kind of guy that after 10 minutes, if he lets his guard down, he'll start saying wild conspiracy theories and start sweating profusely. He would be one of your all time guests. You got to get him off.

That is, that's my kind of guy. But if you were to take any coach, let's say you can't pick Cal because I know he'll have you assassinated if you don't pick him. So I'm, I'm sending the ground rules. If you were to take any other coach in this tournament right now, who would you say is the best coach? So we're talking like the best coach for one game or to build a program? For, for this tournament, who do you think is the best coach right now in this tournament?

I got to name you go first. I actually think if you, if you, I think the best pure X and O coach in the tournament, John Bale, that's exactly what I was going to say. Yeah. Because even though like everywhere he goes, they do better than they should. He never has guys that are super talented. I mean, take Charles Matthews, he's on their team. He was at Kentucky.

When he was at Kentucky, I thought he was awful. Like he couldn't get in the rotation and he goes to Michigan. He's their best player in their team at the two seats. If I don't know why he can't seem to get top level recruits, because I just think as a pure coach, he's the best in the country. Yeah, I agree. That was exactly what I was going to say. I mean, what he does year and year out and thinking about like what Michigan

has had in the last few years, it's been incredible. You, by the way, you got caught in, in what PFT is doing to take validation where he has a take, he gets questioned and then for the rest of time, he's going to ask every guest about, about the Roy Williams versus Coach K until one person says Roy Williams and then he says, see, I told you, I mean, USA today already validated. I don't need to, oh, by the way, do you know anything about passport day? That's another take that I have.

We can talk about passport day for college programs where they sit all the players down and take their picture and give them a passport in case they have to go overseas. I like it. That would, that was basically U of L's entire tenure during Rick Petito. Every player he had ended up overseas. I like that. Well, no, he just also had that so that he could have extra passports to use in

his go bag. We had to flee the FBI. Yeah. Yeah. All right, Matt, my last question. It is the Seek Geek question, put in promo code take, you get $10 off your Seek Geek purchase. You can go to a, a tourney game, give us your national champion and you can't say

do, well, no, would you say do give us your national champion? Yeah. I mean, like if you make me take one, I would take Duke, but I would say I, I think this is real chalk, okay? But I, this is actually what I believe. I think Duke's the favorite. If they get upset, it'll be whoever wins the Kentucky Carolina game. I just think those teams are better.

Um, as far as one, a team that maybe comes off the beaten path. The only one I would say, I haven't seen anybody pick Tennessee to win the title. If, if they get hot, they can't beat Duke, but if they could somehow avoid playing Duke, I could see them potentially getting it too. Okay. That's all right. I, and I can talk to you. Carolina game would be all time that that's the Sunday afternoon, five

o'clock game on CBS. And it's just that, that we need that game to happen. Yeah. And it's in Kansas city. Also, you know, you might get the sweet 16 Carolina in Kansas, Roy returns to coach against those people in their backyard. You talk about some secret hate. I mean, there's some simmering still disdain about the fact he left.

And if he were to come beat them in their backyard, that would be a good one to watch. I don't think Kansas is going to survive that far because they seem like a mess this year, but yeah, by the way, I don't think they will either. And I, I just like prime time games though, for Bill, self to pay best to pay in sports. Like folks try to act like, I don't know why people don't talk about his to pay more because it exists.

It's immaculate and it's clearly a to pay and it deserves its own, like high level of attention for how good Kansas is. I am envious of it. One day, one day I'm going to need one and I'm going to go to bill. Well, it's because everyone's looking at that pouch that he has under his belly, right? The, the sad bill self, uh, like the fanny pack of flab that he's got down there. He does kind of have like a little, I liked it.

That's a good call. Does he, uh, does he have a formal to pay like one that he breaks out for the tournament? It's like, this is my March to pay. Listen, I've sat next to him. I sat next to him at a recruit, an AU event one, and I was looking for the staples in his head because I wanted to like see it. And I saw the little line where the hair changed and even like two feet or five

feet from him, where I was, it was almost imperceptible. I think whoever did that, they are the number one seed in terms of hair plugs and transplants because what they do for bill self is an amazing, amazing accomplish. That's now I'm not going to be able to look at anything else. I love it. So does once you see it, once you see it, big cat, BFT, you'll never unsee it. That's the thing.

Once you see the line, you'll look for it every single time you see it. Uh, Matt, thank you so much. Thank you, uh, for joining us while you're driving down to Jacksonville. Shout out to all your guys in the car, uh, and we appreciate you coming on. Hopefully we'll see you in Minnesota. Did you guys are the absolute best, not just at podcasts, but if for people who listen, they're actually as nice as they seem, they are. I appreciate it.

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That's the biggest contract in the history of pro sports by what? A hundred and 10 million, something like that? A hundred and, uh, well, no, didn't Bryce Harbour just sign for 330 million? 330. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So Mike Trout just cucked him like one week after it was Manny Machado,

then Mike, then Bryce Harbour, then Mike Trout. I got to say, even Mike Trout's contract extensions are boring because I feel like he does this every few years and obviously he hasn't, but this is just, I'm just talking from the gut here. Yeah. Every few years is just like Mike Trout's going to be an angel till he's 45. Top of, yeah. You're right.

Like the, the, the, the very front part of my lizard brain when, when this news came across, it was just like, okay, I mean, yeah, sure, that makes sense. You know what he didn't do? He didn't make a thing out of it. I didn't know that they were working on an extension. No. Like he didn't, there was no buzz. There was no opening act for his extension.

There was a little buzz that he was going to go to Philly because, you know, he has Eagles tickets and that's always a fun connection to make. And then Bryce was like, I'm going to recruit him to Philly when his deal comes. He's just done some fun, like died his soul patch blonde, like Antonio Brown or something, but it's Mike Trout, but it's Mike Trout and that's who he is. $430 million to be on the angels for the next 12 years. Translates to infinity dollars per postseason series win for him.

Yep. Pretty much. And I actually have an idea to fix the Mike Trout problem that baseball has because, you know, he is the best player and rename himself Beto. There we go. Much, much more interesting people will stop wanting to say it. The Mike Trout, they should, the MLB should buy airtime on every station, every cable station out there.

So every time Mike Trout comes to the plate, it's a live looking in the bottom left corner. I like that. Even if you don't like baseball, even if you, it will just get everyone to watch Mike Trout's at bats. I've got another idea for him. Just give the angels pinstripes. That works.

I feel like that adds a little bit of excitement, right? When you see a pinstripe or move them out of Anaheim. Yeah. Maybe that the big knock against New York City. You hear it? Yeah. There you go. The journalists will care.

Yeah. Give them, give New York a third team. Yeah, Brooklyn Dodgers. Uh, I think that with Mike Trout, it's like the big knock against them is you would, everyone always says you wouldn't know him if you ran into him in public. They just need to do a bunch of like almost hidden camera shows with Mike Trout, just in public, getting recognized by people. That way awareness is spread.

Like, Hey, Mike Trout could be anywhere we go and you learn what he looks like. Our good friend, Kale Presley, had a great idea. He just needs to add an S to his last name. So it feels like there's more of them. Mike Trout's. That's not a bad idea. Doesn't it feel stronger already? Mike Trout's Mike Trout's Mike Trout's.

Yeah. Or just get a, get a skull tattoo. Your hair is always cut so close. That works as well. Get a fucking skull tattoo. Don't be a pussy. Yes. See the, the knock against having face tattoos is, Oh, you'll never get another

job if you have a face or neck tattoo. Mike Trout doesn't need another job. He's got $430 million. Get a teardrop for every home run you hit. But that'd be fucking sweet. And then eventually you're just, your whole face will just be covered in tattoos. He looks like a face tattoo guy. Not at all.

I think he does. He's got that big, that big head. Exact opposite. The fight shot is the most plain looking guy ever. He looks like generic player. Number three that you pick in the, in the show solution. Mike Trout, get addicted to meth, then get a bunch of teardrop tattoos. Then people know exactly who you are.

How about just do a steroid scandal? That's when baseball was fun. Mike Trout, see if you can get even bigger and hit even more home runs. What if Mike Trout hit a hundred home runs? That'd be amazing. Like Rob Manfred, Mike Trout, Hey, do some steroids. We won't bust you. Just hit a hundred home runs.

Yeah. Please bring it, bring back baseball to Anaheim. Make, make, make baseball fun again in Anaheim. That's, it really, just tell me when Mike Trout gets traded somewhere else. Or if he saw, if somebody gets off murder because they were at his game and got caught on camera, like the dude in, in LA did, or here's actually a very simple way to solve Mike Trout problem. Playing the playoffs.

That's also good. Yeah. I still don't think it would happen. Um, that's too far. Here's, here's how little Stephen A Smith knows about Mike Trout and the Los Angeles angels of Anaheim. Um, he said, I'm interested to see how this is, this contract extension is going to impact their manager, Mike Socia.

Hmm. That's a good question. And it's, it's a fair, like two years ago, when Mike Socia, yeah, he hasn't been around for a while. Yeah. It's a fair question to ask how is this going to impact Mike Socia, even if he's not the manager. Right.

Well, like what is, what is Socia thinking right now? Right. He's got to have some thoughts on it. Right. His thoughts are just as boring as Mike Trout thoughts. His, here's, here, no, last year was his last year. So it was close enough. A look inside Mike Socia's head.

You ready for this? Yeah. But steel, steel, but rest my hands on my fat, but yeah, I'm going to waddle out to the mound, but that's it. Mike Socia. Yeah. I listen, Stephen A Smith, someone needs to help him. Some stat person like needs to run around and just fill his head with the

correct stats. You think maybe it's someone who's like trying to sabotage them. I think he's just too horny. I think the book is out, the book is out on Stephen A Smith. And, uh, he has stopped, he says that he's only horny for two hours a day. Um, that's that, that can't possibly be true. Yeah. He's getting too horny and he's forgetting every single thing.

Just not every morning, Stephen A Smith, listen to me, just not. Yeah, just do it. Uh, all right. We have a respect the biz. PFT, you had this. Yeah. So Mark Barron, he played for the Rams. Now he's going to be, uh, like a safety linebacker hybrid for the Steelers.

Uh, he was introduced today. He did his, his interview in Pittsburgh. And according to Mark Cabley from, uh, Pittsburgh, I think like the, uh, one of the Pittsburgh papers, Barron shook hands with every member of the media after the interview. Damn. So salute to you, sir. Wow.

What a move. What a move. Yeah. So now the Pittsburgh press is going to cover Mark Barron and the Steelers because he shook their hands because they would not cover anybody there that was not, uh, giving to the local press. Right. Exactly.

They would, they would cover basketball and baseball instead in Pittsburgh. Big Ben fumble. Yeah. On purpose. Oh, that's, that's a big time stay woke. I'm going to say no, but I want to believe yes. I say yes.

Absolutely. Yes. Bruce Krakowski had a pretty compelling pay case, especially because he was like listening to the play and standing on the sideline. But we do know that big Ben despises Todd Haley to the point that he would throw a game. I mean, he kind of, you could actually, you should actually point to the time when he threw that interception was against the Patriots after the Jesse

James rule. Yeah. That was probably more big Ben fucking with Todd Haley than anything. I think, yeah, there was one time when he, he didn't, he run a fake snap that Todd Haley didn't call or a fake spike. I don't know, but he ran a fake spike. Yeah. Just to like piss Todd Haley off.

I think, well, if you look at, at what Krakowski's explanation was, his whole explanation was Ben's so dumb that he turned the wrong way, which I do believe that big Ben is very capable of mistaking right from left. Yes. Uh, but I still, I'm with you. I want to believe that it's true. Here's where I think it actually happened. I think he probably listened to Todd Haley call the play, but didn't.

It was like, fuck this guy. I'm not listening. And then ran the wrong play. Uh-huh. You know what I mean? So it wasn't, it wasn't like egregious. He wasn't like, I'm going to fumble. He just was like zoning out his parent kind of thing.

He does big, he's big, Ben sixes balls in place. They don't belong. That's true. That is true. Uh, all right. We have last up before we get to guys on chicks. We have a quick PR one on one for Shane Dawson. You probably know his name by now.

He is a YouTuber conspiracy theory guy and non cat fucker. So he actually tweeted out, this is relevant Hank, please pay attention. I didn't fuck my cat. I didn't come on my cat. I didn't put my dick anywhere near my cat. I've never done anything weird with my cats. I promised myself I wasn't going to make apology videos after last year's thing.

So I'm just trying to be as short and honest with this as possible. What was last year's thing that he needed to apologize for more than an allegation of coming on his cat? I just know that when you tweet that you did not come on your cat, chances are people are going to think that you came on your cat. Yeah, it's called the Streisand effect. We're very familiar with it. Yeah.

Um, I totally think that this guy came got, no, I'm going to change it. I think he got come on his cat, which is, or purpose he got come on his cat. It's very, very different than fucking cat or coming onto a cat. Yeah. Cats are just like, they're like little dust mops. You know, they pick up everything in a round. Yeah, right. So you've probably gotten come on a cat before you don't even know about it.

Okay. That's a little crazy, Hank. Are you nervous at all about this idea that cats just like attract come? Well, I'd be nervous. Okay. I'm not getting a cat and you don't come. Yeah. There we go.

The easiest way to the easiest way to not come on a cat or ever be like alleged to have come on a cat or accused of coming on or near or inside of a cat is to not own a cat. Little LeBron Lockwood, just a little cum dumpster running around your house. I would have thought you guys would have picked Duke as an upset, just, just for the hope, but it seems like you guys have lost. No, it's their year, dude. It's their year.

They're definitely going to win. You got it. No, no question about it. Come on. I gave you the stat. My stat, my buddy Vegas refund hit me up with the top seven teams. No, it is. It's a real person.

Vegas refund. Yeah. That's all right. You should follow him on Twitter, the Vegas refund, but he hit it. He gave me that stat and Duke is good. They're Gucci. I, yeah, they're Gucci. They're Gucci.

Say they're Gucci. I think that they're Gucci. No chance. Duke doesn't win the title. Put it on set, put it on a shirt, set in stone, put it on a neck real, real quick. Back to cat coming. Do you think that everybody that hasn't tweeted out that they've never come on a cat has probably come on a cat now?

Was this a paradigm shift? This guy is the only guy that's, that's denied it. Yeah. This is like John McAfee with his whale fucking. Yeah. What's up with that? We're just, we're just talking a lot about BC ality out in the open now. Twitter is, Hey, Jack, maybe worry about this.

We had a good one online. Just shut the whole thing down. Stop the shadow bands, Jack. Learned a code. What's that? That's like a, like Twitter's banning people that say that. Oh, really? What?

What about Twitter is not real life? Are they banning that phrase yet? Shadow ban, shadow ban is the worst are so funny because they're just people that suck at Twitter complaining about not enough people liking their tweets. Correct. Correct. They're like, damn, I didn't get any interaction on this tweet. Must be shadow band.

Not the fact that I have six followers. Go Hank. Guys on checks. Guys on checks. Hey, PMT boys, especially PFT. So if our bodies are cold and we are outside in the winter, how come our P remains warm? Thanks. Bodies are cold and we're outside.

When she said our bodies are cold, our bodies are 98 degrees, right? 98.6. Lizard piss. Cold. If you're a lizard, if you're a reptilian, check all documents. Your piss is cold, but as, as a warm blooded American male, my piss comes out of the sultry 98.6 degrees and very brown. Also, God just wanted to give you a little treat.

He was like, you're going to be cold outside. So I'm going to make your piss warm so that you can write your name and things. Best, best piss ever is actually, oh, quick power rankings, the pisses. Hmm. Post, post road trip piss, post airplane, piss, post airplane, piss, pissing in the snow. Mm hmm. I would say piss after sex. Yeah.

Uh, mm hmm. What else? What other piss is great? Thank you to never come. How do you know breaking this? The breaking the seal, piss is good and bad. Like at a stadium, if you can really last a long time, but then you're kind of fucked after that, or if you like have to piss so bad and it's like 10 minutes past the point

where you already had to piss and you're like holding it in so bad and then you finally make it to the bathroom, that's a great feeling. That's a good one. How about shower piss? Yeah, that's, I mean, that's more just like reactionary. I mean, that's not even a thing. I don't even think I'm going to put this one out there. Pool pissing.

Pool pissing is great. Or just pissing when it's so cold and the steam comes up. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. All good. Okay.

Uh, hey, PM team boys. I started talking to this guy for a couple of weeks. We finally hooked up and to say he was a two-pop Trump is an overstatement. Do I just give up on him and move on before things get official? Or do I just keep trying hard and hoping for the best? You got to give him a shot like right after that first time. You got to buy him some Roman swipes. Sounds like, you know what?

It's probably your fault. You're too hot. You're too hot. Yeah. Yeah. The blood is just rushing from his heart right to his dick. Yeah. So give yourself a stupid haircut and then try having sex with him.

It's just too damn sexy. Hey, PMT boys, especially Bubby. My boyfriend told me he wants to go on a break for about three weeks to figure out some things out in his life. Is he just trying to watch March Madness in peace? Thanks. Breaking up for March. That's not something that we had considered when we got into your job thing.

That's the next level. Uh, yeah, I, I think he just like, he really likes basketball. He loves Jim Nance. That's what it sounds like to me. Yeah. You should be happy that he's trying to break up with you for three weeks to figure things out and not for a girl, but for just way too many college basketball games for a bunch of 19 year old dudes.

Sup PMT, especially future slim cat. Probably not for being honest with ourselves. Probably not. I've been dating the same guy for two years and he always just skipped straight to sex after only a few minutes. I always seem to be going down on him, but don't get the same return. How do I get him to go down on me more? That's a, I mean, if you can figure out the answer to this, uh, I think there are a lot

of women that are going to be interested. Yeah. Put a T write a TV guide, like right above your clitoris. So he can, he can check this. You know what? Check, here's what you do. You update your vagina with the current scores of whatever game he's interested in at the moment and then you just send him down there and let him check it out.

That works too. Yeah. Hey boys. Hey. Sup. Is it bad that every time I start talking to a guy, he becomes my best friend on Snapchat after like three snaps. Do guys pay attention to stuff like that?

Cause I don't want guys to think it means that I'm definitely into them when I really just don't use Snapchat that much. Wait, explain this to me. Say it again. Hey boys. Oh, it's like my space. It's in his top five. Oh, like if you snapchat someone back, yeah, then they become like your top friend.

And she's saying that every time she responds to a guy, they become one of her top friends, but she's not trying to, she just doesn't use Snapchat. So Snapchat is making her look like she's coming on strong. Snapchat still think I think so. We have a Snapchat show. We, oh, that's right. Yeah. We do that every Sunday.

Snapchat's huge. Tune in Snapchat, Barstool Snapchat show. Fuck. I just like, you know, when these things come up and you're just like, I can wait on that and I hopefully will like never mind. Just tune into the big cats, big cats doing what I did for daylight savings time until the clocks go back. He's just sitting out for Snapchat until it becomes extinct.

Yeah. But it's never because of the Barstool Snapchat show. That's true. Right. With great content like that, that we put so much effort into. Shout out to people that recognize us every now and then we'll get it. Like there'll be someone like, Hey, I love your Snapchat show. Like, Oh, yeah, that's right.

I am on a Snapchat show and fucking crush it, dude. Here's, honestly, here's what you do. Just start sending Hank all your nudes on Snapchat. And then that way Hank will be your best friend and no guy will ever think that you like him because you're best buddies with Hank. Hank, you know something about that. Last one. I have a huge crush.

RIP. TVT. She died. No, just R.P.R. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. It's a nice little thing going for a while. Tell me the fucking ass stage.

Ashley died. It's like Jerry McNamara. I have a huge crush on this guy, but my dad and him recently became friends and go to lunch sometimes because they're both coaches. Am I actually out of the game? No, you just fell in love with your dad. Yeah. It happens from time to time.

That's awesome. They're just best buds. I actually, I like, I know that's probably weird, but you'd probably prefer that than the alternative. Then have them hate each other. Yeah. I think that would probably be way, way worse for a long time. You want this guy to be exactly like your dad in all fast as possible.

Right. You want to even start sleeping with your mom. Yep. Do it all right. Yeah. Just, just be, just like your dad walking around in sweats all the time. That's why you're attracted to him. You got some deep, deep seated issues and it will all be okay.

Just let your dad and your boyfriend be best friends. They're, they're actually dating. Yeah. Your dad and your boyfriend harder than you are with your boyfriend. They bond over deeper subjects like coaching and sports and coaching sports. Uh, all right. That's our show. Good luck to everyone.

Keep your wits about you. Don't get crazy. Stay calm. I'm just talking to myself right now. This is me projecting to myself. Stay calm. Don't bet every over, bet some of the overs. It's all going to be okay.

Don't live bet. What's your, what's your preferred strategy for betting on March? Menace, do you try to keep the units constant in that first weekend? Cause it's tough. Cause usually what I'll do is I'll be like, okay, this is going to be how much I gamble on each game. And then by the time the evening, the night games, when the sun goes down and the wolf man come out, I usually like double that out.

Yeah. No, it's, it's a shit show. It's a shit show. So, uh, good luck to everyone. Stay calm. Love you guys. My life is pretty plain. I just want someone to say, I mean, no, I'll always be there when you wear

Hey, you know, I'd like to keep my feet dry today, so stay with me and I'll have it made. And I don't understand why I sleep all day. And I start to complain that there's no way. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, heyue All I can say is that my life is pretty plain You don't like my plushness in the middle of the music

It's so funny, it's so funny I just want someone to save me, no, no, no, no I'll always be there when you're ready Yeah, you know I like to keep my cheeks tight today So stay with me and I'll have it made Oh, I'll have it made Oh, I'll have it made Oh, no, no, no

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