Pardon My Take - CBB With John Fanta, Steve Smith Sr Dominated The Weekend, Picking A New Pope, Who's Back Of The Week + Monday Reading

Episode Date: February 24, 2025

Steve Smith Senior has dominated the weekend after a guy took to the internet declaring he had been cucked by the future Hall of Famer(00:00:00-00:17:07). Ovi gets closer to the goal record. The Yankees change their facial hair policy and we pick a new pope based on names alone. Who's back of the week(00:17:07-00:51:56). John Fanta joins us to talk college basketball, what teams can make a run, the resurgence of St Johns, plus a bonus dunk on his new mini hoop(00:51:56-01:39:29). We finish with a Monday Reading and remembering Hooters(01:39:29-01:56:24).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/pardon-my-take

Hey, pardon my take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad free on Amazon Music. On today's pardon my take, we have our good friend, the face of college basketball, Johnny Fanta. It's about to be March, so we catch up with John Fanta, talk some teams that could make a deep run, what's going on with St. John's, Duke, SEC, just being a powerhouse. Great time with John Fanta and stick around for a bonus dunk at the end on his little mini hoop in his office. We're going to talk whatever happened this weekend, mostly Steve Smith. We have Who's Back of the Week and we have a Monday reading for the people and it's all brought to you

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That's code take for new customers get $150 in bonus bets when you bet just five bucks Only on DraftKings the crown is yours today is Monday February 24th and just when you think we don't have any sports to talk about Steve Smith fucks have any sports to talk about. Steve Smith, Fox, some guy's wife. Yeah. So viewer discretion is not just Fox. He rearranges her IUD. Yeah. So viewer discretion advise if you're taking your kids to school right now. The biggest story from the weekend. They might be Steve Smith kids. It might be Steve Smith kids. The biggest story of the weekend was Steve Smith, a senior, recurring

guest, friend of the program. Would love to actually have him on to talk about it if he ever gets to a point where he can. I'm guessing right now probably. Maybe having some harder conversations with family. Might be a little bit busy right now. But yeah, the weekend, just when you think like, hey, there's not a lot going on. Yeah great college basketball slate little hangover from the NHL all-star game We have a guy who in His his his at was limb limb Lamboni so Lambeau field and lamb Lamborghini. I think mm-hmm decided to take to Twitter on

Saturday morning and tagged AB ESPN TMZ the Panthers Steve Smith NFL NFL Network Ghost Golf Club TaylorMade Golf and Yeti Coolers and said my wife works for the Marching Ravens she met Steve Smith senior at work Steve Smith has been fucking my wife. I got receipts. I got a lot more homie Wow Now what was this guy's end game? He I I went and I followed him right away. I don't know if he's deleted if he's new to his account since

Uh, I think it was yeah, he did so he did delete everything. Um I think he was just like hey, i'm mad mad. I'm going to get divorced. I'm going to try to make this miserable, uh, miserable for Steve Smith. But yeah, it was, it was quite quite a decision to essentially wake up on a Saturday morning in February and be like, Hey world, I got cucked by Steve Smith. Yeah. Here's all the proof attention world and also yeti Coolers. Yeah. So he did have a lot of proof. I'm going to read some of the proof. It was quite something. Steve Smith definitely is going to have to get a new cell phone number because he, oh

yeah, this is, this is Facebook post that says, hi, I am Nicole Martinez. Uh, though I won't be a Martinez much longer. So he's writing under his wife's Facebook. Yeah, this is fire. Yeah. You see, I've been cheating on my husband, and I've been doing so with the very famous Steve Smith Sr. Picks attached for reference.

I had him hidden under number three, but that's been fixed. My husband bought me a house. He stood by my side after I had been arrested twice for domestic violence. And this is how I repay him and our son. There's plenty of messages here. Steve crazy, the kind of revealing messages a celebrity will send Baltimore Ravens. He tagged him. I am also a member of your team band. I believe I violated some fraternization rules by hooking up with Steve at the training facility and then tagged ESPN TMZ Carolina Panthers Antonio Brown. Now I do feel bad for the kid. This is sad in that respect, but yeah, this guy

decided to take it. So would you like to hear some of the text that Steve Smith sent this guy? I would very much like to hear some of it. The pictures are all time too. Yeah, so Steve said, see now you're teasing me. Wow, you look stunning. About to go to work, I'm getting a little chuck and then auto corrected chunky. And then he said, take me deep down your throat

like you kind of like. You wanted to suck me off. She said, I did. I would have gagged on it, but I had to come home. He wrote back, you enjoy it. You like to feel it. She said, I like feeling it deep in my wet pussy. He replied, me too.

Her wet pussy. Yeah, that's... Yeah. Does Steve Smith have a pussy? He might have a little oldie situation going on. Front pouch. Letting you taste it though would be a turn on. Yeah, does Steve Smith have a pussy? He might have a little oldie situation going on front pouch Letting you taste it though would be a turn-on. I would have shot my nut all inside your pussy so brutal She replied I love making you come I enjoy it more when you come inside me. He replied noted

Bookmark noted noted there is like hey honey can you can you make sure that you remember to like get this before you come home yeah take the trash out tonight not hey hey Steve Smith can you make sure that you come inside of me when you come noted noted emphasized noted and then let's see it keeps going on and all on yeah, he said it's 20 degrees. He sent a selfie That's nice turn you over and get deep inside of you. She replied. You're so hot deep is an understatement It felt like you were going to rearrange my IUT. You were so deep. Lol That's a wild thing for for somebody's wife to be posting to another guy. Yeah. This whole thing is crazy. Oh, whoa. This is one I hadn't seen yet. So she replied, the connection was something I couldn't just walk away from.

The passion is hard to forget. He said, I wasn't alone with it. She said, no, I was right there with you. Stadium full of people and I only saw you again he said you had me wanting to explode Friday but holding you was quiet all right with me she said that spark lit fireworks you were a gentleman and that was part of the reason I came back wanted to give you a proper goodbye so she was part of the Ravens band and there's people then found clips of Steve Smith Directing the Ravens band. What now? What instrument did she play? That's a huge question. It's a big question

I would like to know the answer to it's gotta be it's Really flute is really the only thing solid drum maybe no Saxophone is sexy saxophone is sexy. But yeah, if it's a tuba if it's a drum You got a problem should beat the dick like a drum a chick Yeah, here's Steve Smith. This is I Mean Steve Smith has to be like fuck this could have happened like

Masters weekend or Yeah, this is the right conference. The guy, the husband understands the sports calendar when he releases. Yeah, he waited on this for the perfect time. Yeah. What does this tell us about Lamar Jackson as a leader? The fact that this type of fraternization is going on between the marching band and former athletes from the team. I like that that was his main point that he made at the end of the Facebook post.

I'm pretty sure that my wife getting her IUD flipped inside out by Steve Smith is technically a violation of the band's fraternization policy. Yes. You're gonna wanna look into this Ravens. Something you might want to be aware of, Baltimore. Yeah.

It's also like the Ravens aren't, when you think of Steve Smith, no one's thinking Ravens. No, you think Panthers first. You do the little Ravens. There also was a clip that the guy posted of him calling Steve Smith and being like, hey, you fucked my wife. And Steve Smith just said, I'm sorry.

And then stayed on the phone call for about a minute and a half. Not saying anything. It was- Facing the music. So, yeah, you want to play it? Play it. It's, it's, it's very, it's,

I don't think- This is our Saturday. I don't think we're going to get those hats, big cat. No, we already got them. Oh, we did? Yeah, we got them. He sent it to us right after the Super Bowl. Okay.

They're up in my office. Okay, here's the call. Yeah, you've been fucking my wife, bro What you gotta say for yourself? I'm sorry Good guy That was pretty nice. He doesn't run from it I'm sorry. Yeah, I said I was sorry. What else do you want? I do think he should probably be more mad at his wife. I mean he is very mad at his wife

Yeah, I guess he is very mad at her thing on her Facebook. Yeah. Yeah, uh I mean he is very mad at his wife. Yeah, I guess he is very mad posting on her Facebook. Yeah, I know But yeah, what a story Yeah, it's pretty wild It took me about I'd say 30 minutes to get fully caught up on this story when I woke up this morning Going back cuz I was trying to figure out why Yeti coolers was trending Yeti coolers, by the way has been silent Yeah, there's on the story speaks volume. I would really like I think Shady Rays our good friends at Shady Rays might have been tagged as well This is one of those situations where Yeti coolers you gotta have you gotta act fast You gotta stand up you gotta you gotta release like an anti-cuck cooler. Yeah put it on sale

It would go nuts online. Yeah, no cheating allowed with this cooler Yeah, or yeah, this cooler is perfectly engineered to keep sperm at perfectly frozen levels. Now, TaylorMade Golf, that's one company that we could probably lean on a little bit. And Shady Rays. TaylorMade, to my knowledge, hasn't said anything. No. We need some statements.

What was the, why was he doing that? I have no idea, but it is. Maybe they sponsor some of his pods or something? I don't know. Maybe. Maybe they're just like, we know Steve Smith likes to golf well yeah when I saw Shady Ray's I thought this might be this might be pod related yeah but uh not a great weekend for for Steve Smith I would say what you got Hank what what do

you know I'm trying to find a Taylor made connection what is what do we think he's uh what do you think he's doing right now? Steve Smith? Yeah. Probably well I don't know what his family situation's like. I don't know is he married? He is married. So he was probably a lot of kids. He got probably got the call. Not good. He probably got the call a couple days ago and then was just waiting like this is going to come out and then he was probably he probably tried to take his wife on a vacation somewhere where they're off the grid I don't even know if he got the call this guy felt like he went zeroed like I think he might have found out late Friday night he didn't have time nuts

because if you're Steve Smith and you get that call you have to be like yeah honey we're gonna go to Alaska you've always wanted to go check out Denali National Park let's go hiking let's do the whole thing. Honey, I was reading up about Aaron Rogers staying in a Gnomes closet in Oregon, where they just sit in silence for three days. I think we should really do that. Yeah. Got us something special.

Let's just get off the grid. Let's go to South America for a while, just hang out in the rainforest. You don't need that phone. We're on our phones too much, I've realized, as a family. Yeah. Too much screen time. I can't get over the fact this guy just decided, hey, today's the day I'm just going to let everyone know that I got cucked by Steve Smith. Again, I like, he has every right to be upset. Yes. Fucked up. Um, just get divorced before you cheat and especially with kids involved and all that stuff. But

you don't have to also go online and let everyone know mm-hmm And then I think you might have some regret because he did nuke his whole account was like whoops She probably should have done that I'm the world's most famous cock Yeah, right now you know that's a title you never want to hold the I will say though credit to him I mean releasing the text the text were you can't come back from the text that might That might be worse than the Ray Allen tweet. I think it's a little bit different because one was the tweet accidentally The other was meant to be a text. Yeah, the other was just just two consenting adults firing at each other hot and heavy Letting you taste it though would be a turn-on. I would have shot my nut all inside your pussy

What what is he saying deep in your throat like you kind of like did he say letting you taste it? Yeah Talking about his nut Yeah, and that's when she said I I enjoy it more when you come inside me, and he said noted Mm-hmm. I also think that's the one I'm gonna take away from this whole thing Steve Smith's replying noted to a married woman Yeah, like I would like for you to come inside That would be good Mount Rushmore to save up for the summertime Mount Rushmore of professional athletes that you would not want to find Out that your wife is cheating on you with see sis up there He's definitely cuz he's a dog like you see how he plays he gets inside the pads. He plays through the whistle

Yes, he's not going to take any he's not gonna cut any corners. No, he fucks through the whistle. Yes. He's not going to take any, he's not going to cut any corners. No, he fucks through the T and nut. He's going to find the corners. Yeah. He's going to get inside the corners. Yeah, targeting. All the way inside them. That's got to be pinnally removing an IUD with your dick.

That's also one of those problems that I'm just blessed to never have to worry about in my life. Yeah, but it was, it was what? To bus up an IUD? Yeah, to like accidentally remove an IUD with your penis I'm that's that's one thing. I will never be accused not same zip code that thing yeah, that's uh That's like you get we we've never How do you like there's a certain level that we've been able to drill into the earth's core?

We're never gonna be able to get to the middle of the earth. Yeah, you just can't That's me an IUD. I have better luck catching a lanternfish with my dick Yeah, then I would finding an iud with it if there's oil at the surface. I can find it. Yeah Anything deeper than that? No, it's not for me. Who else would be on that Mount Rushmore athletes Shaq probably Sharp chiffon digs sharp after hearing him fuck. Yeah stall. Richie incognito incognito probably. Yeah Yeah, there's we that would be a good Mount Rushmore. Mm-hmm Mount Rushmore of guys You don't want to wake up one day and be a cuck to yeah, oh Nick folds ill J Simpson. Yeah, Nick falls is a yeah, that's an underrated one

But yeah, that was the biggest story of the weekend. Yeah, that was he Smith dominated the weekend and the the woman also Obviously her she was her pictures were put out there and there's a lot of people who are having a field day. Yes Making a lot of someone might have said Someone might have said Steve Smith really cheated Someone might have said Steve Smith really cheated, like blew it all up for sex with Jeff Van Gundy. Someone might have said that. That's a little unfair. The glasses.

I think it's more about the glasses. Yeah. Because he's a bald man. That is a bald bald man. Oh man. Yeah. Steve Smith cheated on his wife for Jeff Van Gundy I'll come up and throw away the key brah I think is using Jeff Van Gundy's name in a post

is a cheat code because whenever you see a written you think about Mark Jackson saying it yeah yeah just really you say it in that word yeah okay so I like also like I had a few people tweeting being like are you like you guys better address the Steve Smith thing? We will in the back of my head. I was like dude. It's leading the show Nothing else going on consider it addressed we could we I could know oh should I yet noted should I lead the show with? this story that is captivating and and

Just like I couldn't get enough of it Or should we maybe guess where Matt Stafford might get treated? Giants probably. Giants, sure. I don't understand that by the way to segue. The Rams were, the Rams played the Eagles the best out of any team in the playoffs. I know Matt, Matthew Shriver's old and they're in a transition. But I went away from the playoffs being like the Rams were right there.

If a couple of things break differently, they could have feasibly won the Super Bowl. I think it's also like Matt Stafford not wanting to commit right after the season was over and being like, I got to think it over. So, you know, he's thinking about retiring. So you might as well get something for him at the end of his career. It also might be that the Rams are like, Hey, we can get Sam Darnold younger, cheaper, a younger version of Matt Stafford. Yeah. Yeah. Matt Stafford is significantly better than Sam Darnold, but still that would be, he stays in the, the Sean McVay coaching tree. You could,

you could probably talk Sam Darnold into, he's a SoCal guy, you could talk Sam Darnold into taking maybe a little bit less because you're like, this is the situation where, hey, last year was pretty awesome. You want to keep doing that or you want to go be the Titans starting quarterback and be back to square one in three years. I think that's the one, because he's like a dog that's gone through like four or five different homes. Right. And he wants a familiar place. He wants to he values going to a good coaching situation over anything else, because he knows how bad it can be if it's not. Yeah, so yeah, I think he probably would take a little bit less money to play for for Los Angeles and another team if it came down to that. But yeah, it also makes perfect sense for the Giants. Yeah, because right now it's like dable has to win

You got to win he has to win something and you might yeah And you and you you knocked yourself out of the top three pick or no, what are they three? Yeah, right. So they might have knocked themselves. I think they still will be a cam warders doors Sanders I would go cam ward. I would to big time. I'm not a sure Sanders believer Love his dad. Yeah, But I'll just say it. I'm also not really a Cam Ward guy either. I like Cam Ward. Tyler Schell. I like Cam Ward, which is why I would be,

I'd be very happy with the Giants getting Stafford, short term rental, maybe not getting Cam Ward. Yeah, Matthew Stafford's still a very good quarterback. It's just a question of how long will he quarterback for? We'll have to have Jerry O'Connor listen to his wife's podcast. Yep. What's going on for that situation. We are gonna, so this is Combine Week technically. We're gonna be down in India on Tuesday and Wednesday

doing interviews. We will get Schefter on. We'll get Racini on. So Friday's show we're gonna get all the buzz from the Combine to get us all the information. Another football related topic Hank Did you see Your coach's girlfriend and how she wears her coat Yes fashion. Yeah That's fashion. So is that that that's what we're talking It's fashion for like somebody in elementary school, who are you guys to say I was just asking a question I'm a fashionista Bill Balachek was at the UNC game and his girlfriend was wearing her

jacket like she was 15 mm-hmm I thought it looked good I thought it was okay all right good out there we go that enough said we don't have it there's't need to be anything else. I just wanted to ask if you had seen it Well, I mean to her to her defense basketball games. It's very tough to dress for a basketball game Yeah, because it's always super hot when you're next to the court sure and it's kind of cold outside right now in Chatham Hill, so yeah, she's going half on half off. It's kind of a utilitarian It's actually the same way that I mean Bill Belichick is the king of inventing new ways to wear his jackets. True.

Cutting the sleeves like 2 thirds of the way off. It was a funny visual, you have to admit that. It does look like that's his daughter. It's a funny visual. I thought it looked good. I thought it was perfectly normal. OK. By the way, PFT, Ovi, hat trick.

Huge. Ovi's back. Anytime that there's like a short little break for some of these Russian players, they somehow come back playing really, really well afterwards. So yeah, I think this was supposed to be the game that he was going to break the record at. That was my initial prediction before he got the injury.

And now I think he's gonna do it this year. I think he's gonna do it against the Penguins at the end of the season. I would agree. The pace that he's on is absolutely incredible. the Penguins at the end of the season. I would agree. The pace that he's on is absolutely incredible. It's so cool too to watch him after he scores a goal. He skates right over to his son, who's in the first row. That's awesome.

Pounds the glass for him. Yeah, Ovi's really fucking good. And the caps are, the caps are- Is the caps here? Yes, it is. It is the caps here. I'm all in on the caps. There we go.

They're legitimately a good team. They've got a bunch of great players. They did it somehow. They, it felt like they were just just gonna re-engineer their whole roster To ensure that Ovi breaks the record and that was gonna be the reason to pay attention to the caps for the next like two Seasons but somehow in that rebuild they also were able to get good again, which is here like yeah I think it is the caps here. I believe they have the best record in hockey. Whoa, it's them or the Jets Whoa, but I think the caps are number one. I got them at, I think it was 20, 20

to one or 25. I think it was 20 to one when I bet on them earlier this season. They're watch out. Watch out for the caps. Everyone's on notice. Yep. Everyone's officially on notice. The league should be on notice. They have 84 points. Go to the, we have Shane by the way. Uh, max is still on vacation. Yeah. They have the points. Go to the, we have Shane by the way, Max is still on vacation. Yeah, they have the most points in the league. I was thinking about, you tell me if this is a good idea or not, trying to time it to go to the game that Ovi breaks the record at, but I only get one game to do it. You should. Yeah, I only get one game to pick. Why not? I think I can do it. Why not? So what in the next?

15 games you think I don't know if the net I mean 20 He's what 13 away you said the pace that he's on has been incredible. So it could happen in the next 15 games Yeah, but I'd say more likely I think it's the game against the the penguins towards the end of the regular season Let me see when that is That's the one I think if you're looking at league-wide narrative having him break it right in Sidney Crosby's face would be incredible. April 17th. What is now they are they going to play him though when he's like yes. But depending on playoffs no he's playing. They're going to play him. April 17th. What day of the week is that. You got to go. Is that That's the last game of the regular season? At, in Pittsburgh?

Yeah. That would be awesome. To Thursday. Shane's doing a great job, by the way. Yeah, you're crushing it, Shane. You're crushing it. Yeah, Max is out for another day. He took his vacation a week after we took our vacation.

And yes, we do miss Oldie. I wish, I'm happy Shane's here. Oldie hung out for pretty much the whole day on Friday, just chilling in the office. That man is incredible. I miss him so much already. He was texting me this weekend, just texting me. Like it was just a picture of him. Here, I'll show you. It was just a picture of him, uh, on the ice, uh, taking a slap shot. That was it. Like it was like an update. That was no context. We're back boys. Just that just him on the ice good form bumping and grinding Yeah, so Ovi I think credible day yeah, we find out what day the weekend is Shane Thursday Thursday Thursday April 17th

That might be a field trip get it done. It might be feel I might have to bring home the record Get it done, It might be a field trip. I might have to bring home the record. Get it done. But yeah, great weekend. They scored eight against the Penguins on Saturday, seven against the Oilers, 15 goals in like 24 hours, basically. Hockey's back.

Hockey's so bad. Hockey's so bad. And I wish Max was back too, just because I wanted to talk to him about Embiid. Yeah. And what's going on with that. Yeah. That was the most depressing series

of press conferences that I've heard in a long time when they're explaining like obviously he's he doesn't feel good. They got to just shut him down. Yeah. Well, the Sixers are exploring options for the knee injury. Okay. So here's here's here's a crazy stat about the Sixers. Guy, NBA Twitter guy, good reporter Stefno tweeted this. The Bulls have held on to the 10 seed for every single day since January 1st. They've gone 7 and 16 in that stretch. The Sixers have gone 7 and 18. During that same stretch and dropped from 11 to 12. Like the Bulls were actively trying to get worse and they still can't get rid of the 10 seed

because the Sixers were that bad. Another fun stat I saw over the weekend was the games with at least 20 points this year, Paul George has nine, Payton Pritchard has 17. That is a fun stat. Now, this is just hindsight guys. No one could have ever expected the Paul George to Philadelphia thing not working. Well the funniest part about that is that-

Wait we all said it wouldn't. Paul George is now the one that's- he's a little bro-ing Joel Embiid. Yeah. And being like when I was going through this, the multiple times I've gone through this Joel, I found that just playing makes me feel better. Yeah. Like that's the only way to get better is to just play your way through it and Joel and be just like nah man I'm not gonna do that I just don't feel I'm not going to do that and then he should just get mono he has it basically yeah I'll call Max let's just

see if we can he's still on vacation so he's probably at a John Summit concert right now. Do you think he misses us? No. Good, because I, Oldie was, although Hank and I were laughing, people being like, uh oh, Max. Hey, statement on the Sixers. They stink. Joel and Bede, they should shut them down for decision and they should tank for Cooper Fleck.

And what about, should they trade Joe O'Ombiid? No. Next year. We're on to next year. How do you feel about his contract? He's worthy of that contract for sure. He's an MVP. He's one of the best players in the league.

Went healthy. Just got to get healthy. How is he worthy of the contract though? He didn't really play. He hasn't played. He's going MVP is one of the best players in the league went healthy just gotta get help How is he worthy of the house really play? He hasn't played He's he's going to play Hank hit him with the stat Most I'm done with this. No, no, this is that you need the stat Steakhouse meal right now. Okay Okay, listen to that 20-point games this season Paul George has nine Peyton Pritchard has 17 Payton Pritchard has 17 20-point games Paul George has nine

Paul George is horrendous. Okay, so you admit that max your entire statement on the Sixers should have just been birds Okay, all right, what about Yabu But he's too good he's not going to come back. But he's too good to tank. With a guy like Yabu, you're not going to get Cooper Flag. Are you feeling a little pressure from Oldie in his performance? I'm happy, what do you mean? I'm happy that he had a good performance.

Yeah, but he's good producers. Good for the show. Good for the show good for the company great great what do you think about Steve Smith Max what do you think about Steve Smith we let we led the show with it with Steve Smith have to all right. Okay. Enjoy the rest of your fitness vacation. We'll see you tomorrow. All right I was Hank and I were laughing because people were like, oh Max is in trouble oldie sitting in the producer chair Oldie does not he doesn't own a computer Being like you guys found a Canadian who can also produce a podcast. Oh, I was like I said the last thing

I said to oldie. I was like hey Do you have a computer like if we ever want you to zoom in and and we'll oldie will we'll see him at some point In the future. He's he we're working through it. He's got a wife and kids back in Canada, but he was just like oh, yeah My wife's got an apple. I was like, okay, no chance. He knows how to work it already. No, I mean, say what you want about Max. He is capable of pressing a button. Yeah. Oli, I don't think if we told him press the button.

I don't want him to though. What's a puck? Yeah, he's a beauty. But yeah, Oli's gonna be part of something going forward. So we do miss him. All right. Other things I had written down for stories. Yep. I've got one we fought. Yeah, you go

Okay, the New York Yankees. Oh, yes, how the how the mighty have fallen The New York Yankees are relaxing their grooming standards after all these years The Yankees used to stand for something. You know that you could set your watch to the New York Yankees Yep, you weren't allowed to have sideburns couldn. They made Johnny Damon cut his hair and trim his beard. And now this, now the statement from Hal Steinbrenner on the alteration of Yankees facial hair policy, which is very funny that the Yankees have

a facial hair policy. In recent weeks, I've spoken to a large number of former and current Yankees spanning several areas. Here, I got you. I got you. To elicit their perspectives. Yeah, there we go. To elicit their perspectives on our longstanding facial hair

and grooming policy. And I appreciate that their current. You go ahead. I can't read this. And appreciate their earnest and valid feedback. These, can you make it a little bit bigger? I'm getting fucked over here. These most recent conversations are an extension of ongoing internal dialogue that dates back, stop, stop messing with it, that dates back

several years. Ultimately, the final decision rests with me and other great, and after great consideration, we will be amending our expectations to allow our players and uniform personnel to have well-groomed beards moving forward. It is the appropriate time to move beyond the familiar comfort of our former policy. Wow. We used to be a country. Wow. A proper country.

And then this and Don Mattingly and his sideburns, it'll be a tail loss to the ages. Kids won't understand that anymore. Goose gossage. Yeah. Punch and air. So why? Yeah. Why now? Good question. Who are they? Who are they specifically going after? Do you think maybe Juan Soto was like, I really wanted to grow a beard? This might, this might've been part of Juan Soto's contract What's the free agent class coming up? Maybe there's something there. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. There's got to be an angle Can we look that up 20 20 25? Or somebody that that might be key in the tread trade deadline this year. Yeah, because it does

It does feel weird that it just happened now. Yeah You have to think Derek Jeter signed off on this right? Yeah have to Vlad E jr. These he's got a beard right these are No Schwab er Sure, we're hit so many bombs that sure what he'll love it. Yeah. Yeah, I think the Yankees have just lost their luster They're listen boba shit. He's got he's got some flow to him. I know I know that it's like half joking, but the Yankees

Their douchebags and I look like they need to stay that yes I agree this is what makes the sports gay, I think it's the old George is anymore. Yeah. The old George Steinbrenner quote, like there are MLB players in their Yankees. You want the Yankees to have that type of arrogance compared to everyone else. And part of it is these antiquated, you can't have, you know, a mustache that goes beyond your lip. I, I hate this. You think if they won the world series, they wouldn't have you know a mustache that goes beyond your lip. I Hate this you think if they won the World Series they wouldn't have done this. I don't know. I hate this I hate this the Yankees should stay the Yankees like that. That's a whole evil Empire thing. That's the whole point It's so funny that they they just

Resigned Aaron Boone, right? Yeah. Yeah, and then well deserved. Yeah, well deserved Congratulations to Aaron Boone so that people were mad at them at that and they're like don't worry about it We're gonna we're gonna make up for it next week with big announcement. You can have a mustache now. Yeah This is stupid. I don't like this. I hope that the Yankees as a team and a clubhouse Silently protest by not having long beards. What if they all grew beards instead? That would suck. That would suck, wouldn't it? I mean, it would be stupid. The thing would look stupid.

George Steinbrenner's spinning in his grave. They're trying to have a good moment of PR after what were those brothers out in right field last year? Oh yeah, that was a flash in the pan. Caponegro? We forgot it yet. The Caponegro brothers. After that, they're like,

we gotta do something that will make people happy with us Okay, you're allowed to have a go Tino. Yeah, by the way speaking of the Caponegros I my other thing that I had was That we might get a new pope. Yeah, so I did a little research on some names what Hank what a while transition Italian name I literally looked up the potential Pope's and I just based it on names Alabama beat this shit out of Kentucky this weekend in college basketball and in other news of Pope's taking and beating there we go You like that on his death stop listening. Yeah, we're gonna talk some college basketball with Johnny Fanta, by the way Mm-hmm. So anyway the

Pope Francis he is on his deathbed. Yeah Yeah, kidney failure doesn't sound good Hopefully he's okay. I'm gonna guess he's probably not gonna be because he's pretty old. But anyway, hopefully he's not in pain our colleague KFC actually is like a he's a He's like a number one Pope rider. He loves the Pope talk So he actually broke down in a great blog about who could be the next Pope based on Actual Intel like stats. Yeah, and like what what they do normally by the way, I watched the conclave

Good movie weird ending but good movie Conclave good movie weird ending but good movie So Pope the Pope talk is like hot right now because that's actually a movie that's gonna be is up for an Oscar Yeah, he broke it down and he he was like he had actual stats like the most the majority of Popes Don't get chosen from here and there and whatever. I just looked up names. So I wanted to throw out some names for you I'm going off straight names vibes So I want to throw out some names for you. I'm going off straight names vibes Popable guys in my opinion and they probably have no chance, but I want to throw some names you guys ready Yeah, okay. We do have one guy from the US that has a chance. He's from Wisconsin I think he's the Cardinal in st. Louis. His name is Ray Burke. He's a st. Louis Cardinal

No, he's he's from Wisconsin. He I think yeah, he I guess technically he would be I don't know where he is right now Okay, but yeah. All right. So here we go This is my num my one one pick Cardinal Pierre Batista pizza Bala, okay What do you think? I like the pizza Pope is he big ball? Is he a big boy? I don't know. Can we get it? Can we get some eyes on his ball? Pope is he a big boy? Is he a big boy? I don't know. Can we get a,

can we get some eyes on cause because here's what I think the Vatican desperately needs. We need a fat Pope. Yeah. A fat Pope would absolutely rock wouldn't it? Pierre Batiste. I want that little cap on that they were skinny to be so tiny. Yeah. Pizza Bala. What a name. Uh, then I also have Cardinal Matteo, Maria Zuppi. We have a Zuppi here. Thought that would be good. Matthew Liberatore.

Gordon Griceffo. These are all names that I think could make big time popes. Lorenzo Baldessari. That's pretty good. Yeah, I like a Lorenzo. They don't keep their name, do they? No, they have to change it, but this is, I like a I like a Lorenzo. They don't keep their name. Do they know they have to change it But this is I'm just going off of just vibes just just off of name this baldacero guy

Francis or something this Lorenzo he looks like a pope Yeah, isn't he like he's got a little dick Cheney vibe to him, but he looks like a pope from central cast. Yeah, Victor Demoukhaji That would be a good Pope and then here's the last two I got for you. Are you looking these up? What what are you laughing at Shane memes wanted me to Google fattest Pope? Oh in the world? Yeah. No, we need a fat Pope Yeah, yeah, we do need a fat Pope Alright, here's a couple heavy hitters for you ready if we get a pope that's above 350 pounds, I will become a Catholic. Hey, it would be awesome.

If we just had a fucking haus of a pope. It's the fattest... I'm sure there's been a pope that was so fat. Look at that guy. See? Would that be awesome if that was a pope? Okay, here's the last two that I got for you guys. You ready for this? Francesco Coco Palmeiro, okay, pretty good. Yeah, and then another one So I have the two the two that I'm leaning towards are

Pierre Batiste to pizza Bala and then Fabio Baggio Yes, so it's Pope talk I like that if you had a fat pope you could have a mass mass Yeah, that'd be pretty good. That's my analysis Fabio Bajio. How do they how do they elect them? They get together in a room I know you saw the movie. So I'm actually kind of an expert on this They get all the Cardinals under 80 In a room together. They shut everything down. Basically they can't talk to the outside world and they all vote until they can get, I think it's, I think it's two thirds majority.

And then that person's the new Pope. So they sequester them. They can't, they're like a jury. They can't talk to anybody. Yeah, yeah. And it could take weeks. Okay. And then they like, do a vote. Then they like smoke and when the gray smoke comes out a new pope has been

Elected no white smoke white smoke. Okay, gray smoke is when they haven't so yeah, that's them They should do a different color besides gray and white. That's those are too similar Yeah, that is a little similar. But yeah, so they sit there again. I'm an expert because I saw one movie about it on a plane they sit there and they politic and The first time they vote there will be I don't know 20 guys getting receiving votes and then they'll slowly get it down to a couple people and they'll go against each other And then we'll get a new pope. Do you think that'd be a good job to be pope? Probably not. I don't think I don't think it'd be any fun

I mean for a lot of shit you get blamed for a lot of stuff you do get to meet Jim Harbaugh once a year yeah so that's cool and God I would assume you got to get to meet God eventually yeah but the Harbaugh's they always bring you like a set of cleats like here's some Air Jordan cleats yeah yeah you probably do get some cool trinkets yeah but you never get to fuck yeah but I'm guessing most of these guys probably do the celibacy thing yeah Yeah, I think the Cardinals all have to yeah last pope the one that was like tongue-kissing kids. It's Dalai Lama Oh, yeah, my bad, but there have been other issues the Vatican's never done anything like that. No. Yeah, so yeah

That's why that's my breakdown. I'll send you all the names memes. You could put them on a graphic for best names I think would make new pope. Yeah fantasy celibacy boys But Kevin does actually have like he was breaking it down like it was a futures market and I read the whole blog It was great. So can you actually bet on who the next Pope's gonna be? I would like to if you can yeah They should make commercials. They should do like attack ads on each other Yeah He was saying there's one guy who who everyone thought was gonna be the last pope and he lost and it's like he's just always a bridesmaid.

He can't win the big one. It's fucking awesome. That's so funny to me. There's some cardinals sitting out there and you go and do mass and then you talk to him after and he's like, yeah, you think you can be able to beat Mahomes this year? Probably not.

Probably not. All right, so what is it? Pietro Perlin is four to one odds favorite. Okay. I want the pizza guy. Yeah, I want Fabio Baggio or Pizzabella. Also having an American pope would be awesome. Yeah, it would.

That'd be great. We'd get to flex. We need a little swag after we lost the All-Star game. Would that be like the US winning the World Cup in soccer? Is if we got the pope. We probablys. Winning the World Cup in soccer is if we got the pope mm-hmm We probably would end up winning the World Cup that okay. That was all I had let's do who's back Who's back the week then we'll talk some college basketball with Johnny Fanta who's back the week is brought to you by our friends It truly truly unruly is the first high ABV hard seltzer that actually tastes good

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National Sports Podcast. There some some talking heads in the national media this week, this past week saying that the Knicks were actually going to be, you know, a good test for the Celtics. They might be coming for the title. They played so they put on Sunday in the Celtics waxed waiting talking heads. You are the talking heads. You were the talking head that were saying there's something wrong with the Celtics. No, they had a data. They got off to a rocky 2025, but they've with the Celtics. No, they had a, they got off to a rocky 2025, but they've since course corrected easily.

Okay. They're five, no, they're the last five, they've won each by minimum 13. So back on. Couple 20 pieces. It's back on. All the way back on. So who are you calling out?

Say it with your chest. PFT Cometor. Oh. Oh. I'm a talking head? That's what you're doing right now. My head is talking your head is talking. Yeah Well, I put a bet in on the Knicks last week Oh win the championship and yeah, I told Hank about it and We had a little a little off-air part of my take embrace debate and I want to say for the record

I was wrong. I'll admit it after after like four days might as well like that on fire So the future had four days is the shortest future of all time. Yeah, Russell Wilson wants to raise that future It was bad. It was bad. It was a bad bet The Celtics are much better than the Knicks although come playoff time. Yeah, I'm gonna be teaming up with Jerry We're gonna be being going. Yeah, we're gonna be bing bonging you Yeah, you don't have to play the Celtics. Yeah Well, so part of the bet in theory was that the Magic might have to play against the Celtics.

I think the Magic could beat the Celtics. Oh, okay. Sure, why? Anything could happen. And then you might ask why then wouldn't you just bet on the Magic to beat the Celtics? And to that I said, that's a great point. I don't really have an answer to that.

Good point. Yeah. So you're back. Celtics are back. Okay. Pft. My who's back of the week is JJ watt. JJ watt is back. He is probably going to come out of retirement to play for the Bengals. Yeah, because he owns one of those English football teams. Burnley, right? Yep. And their goalkeeper hit him up,

slid into the DMS and was like, hey, JJ, any chance that you could come back to play for the Cincinnati Bengals? Because their goalie is apparently a Bengals fan. And then JJ said, if you don't let in a goal for the rest of the season, then yes, I will do that. I think, has it been seven games? Yeah. Clean sheets.

Clean sheets for seven games. And JJ is now looking at Zillow. He's cruising Zillow in Cincinnati saying like, this is awesome. It might actually happen. I think there's probably too many games left for the rest of the season. There's no, when does it end?

April? Yeah. I don't know what league they're in, but I mean, they are in the championship league. So they're, okay. championship league. So they're. OK, so how many games they got left? They have Shane, use your words when you're doing a podcast. They've got a lot of games. That's 13. 13. Thank you.

She was just going over it with a mouse. Yeah. You got this. But this would be got this. That would be an incredible story if JJ actually came back. He has to. He has to. He has to if they do it. So that's I'm rooting for that to happen. I don't know. Like you probably get cut what first week of training camp

you think? No, you don't think so. You think JJ could still play right now? Yes, he looks light. He looks skinny. I think he has to take it seriously. And he I yeah, he'd have to make a comeback. I think he would I think he would be able to do it

Yeah, it would rock. I hope that it does happen Yeah He so and this is big for for Burnley because they will be if he stays this hot They'd be promoted into the EPL in the league below so and they've been on a tear man What a story that is an awesome story. Yeah. I hope, I hope this guy keeps it up because I rock. Yeah. Clean sheets. Uh, okay. My who's back is, um, Jed Hoyer for, uh, who is the Cubs president of baseball ops, mixed bag for the free agency. But, uh, we just found out. So Pete Crow Armstrong, Cubs center fielder,

really fast guy, changed his number from he was originally, or he had been 52 and he changed his number to number four. And the story goes, it happened like a week ago or so. P Crow Armstrong was shooting hoops with Dan's B Swansea with Dan's B Swanson and Nicky Lopez. When Jed Hoyer stopped by and Hoyer had seen enough of P Crow Armstrong's number 52 alignments number, he said,

it was time for the center fielder to have a fast guy digit on his jersey. He said if he makes a shot, I've got to change it. I was like, that's fun. Why not? Let's do it. So Jed Hoyer took a shot from about 12 feet away, drained it. And now Pete Crew Armstrong's number four. I love that.

That's a good, that's good GMing because it's, we've talked about this before. There are such things as slow guy numbers and fast guy numbers. Yes. especially in football I don't really think about in baseball that much but that maybe that's the new moneyball Yeah, it just make your guys change their numbers. That's I mean it matters. Yeah, he will be significantly faster He's already very fast, but he'd be significantly faster in number four. Well, it's the uniforms gonna weigh less Yeah, because it doesn't have that extra digit on there. That's true Yeah uniform is going to weigh less. Yeah, because it doesn't have that extra digit on there. That's true. And yeah, if you were to say winners and losers in baseball this weekend,

winner the Cubs for having a GM that knows what he's doing, loser the Yankees for turning their back on tradition. That's fact for spitting in the face of honor. That's facts. Also, sticking in baseball, I believe that I saw Trevor Bauer released a video that says why I chose the Czech Republic to continue my baseball career. So if you want to watch that video. They have baseball there? Apparently. Why I chose baseball in the Czech Republic. I wonder why. They probably have a very liberal policy when it comes to filming YouTube videos during the season. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. Drones.

Yeah, that's exactly what it is drones. Yeah drones Okay, let's get to our interview with JJ watt or what JJ watt He's the picture right in front of us our interview with John Fanta. What are you boys doing in the studio right now? They're getting ready for pugs about to nail this number. We got a Monday reading Hey Shane told us to come in here it's on now no all I said was big cat was doing is who's back mmm we got a Monday reading I miss max max would have never made that mistake I miss oldie oldie would have taken a piss and thought we were gonna leave you guys can save for

the Monday reading if it's cool I'll'll stay, as well as Jack, Pug. Yeah, I like that. By the way. You are Jack's boss. Pug is a weapon on the roulette table. We should have known that, right? Of course. With the lotto ball. Pug is a walking lucky machine.

Pug is a dynamo when it comes to roulette. Look at him. He's the cutest guy we got and good things happen to him. You need a guy like that around. Or it's like something just crazy happens. He's like, oh, Pug did it again. He just was Pug. Thanks guys. Okay, let's get to our interview with Johnny Fanta talking college ball getting you ready

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Like I said, super lightweight, super comfortable, noble. Go get them right now. Use that backslash slash PMT for 30% off your order. Okay, here he is, Johnny Fanta. Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. He is the face of college basketball. It is John Fanta. Uh, Johnny, great to see you. Great to, to, to, to feel March creeping up here. Uh, did you actually

see that you were the face of college basketball? Did you see that tweet go viral? I don't know if you saw it, but someone from the stands, I don't know if you saw it, BFD, someone from the stands, I don't know if you saw BFD, someone from the stands caught John Fanta mid full fisted popcorn in his mouth and was like, this is the face of college basketball, whether you like it or not. And I was like, that's my fucking guy. He is. That's that was a help. That was, you know what? And I'm saying this as someone who does the same thing, because my wife always gets mad at me when I take a handful of popcorn, you can feel that I'm taking a handful of popcorn. Absolutely. There's an aura about a box or a bag of popcorn. And the fact of the matter is this popcorn. And I'm serious about this is my absolute favorite snack. I can't live without it. I have to have like if I'm, if I'm at home chilling

and watching the game that I'm forget the chips forget the pretzels forget the veggies and dip go straight for the Orville Ridenbackers and don't look back. Okay hold on very important question because I find myself as a popcorn connoisseur as well do you always go microwave or do you get fancy with it I have the the air it's not air fryer but the air blower thing. And I also sometimes do it on the pan to give it a little extra taste. Do you do that?

Yes. I've got a couple. I've got the O-Pop Pop, which you can get on Amazon or any site. I highly recommend. We could put the kernels in. It's like a yellow, it looks like a silicone bowl, but it, but it's, I promise you it's totally safe. You could pop, I have that as well popcorn. And then all you have to do is take the top off. Yep. And it's the, it doubles down as the bowl. So it's, it saves you the glass. It saves you having to

pull out the plastic bowl. No, if it went home, it's homemade. It's I have the old school Orville Ruddenbacher, the electric spinner that goes around. And then you take it and you flip it upside down. And then that becomes the bowl or you can put it in a bowl. But we've got a couple of homemade makers and I've got the Whirly Pop too. On a summer night.

Yes, yes. On PFT when I'm really feeling it and got the bonfire going in a movie or something, it's downtime. And you know, you, you could throw something in the, in the dishes and say, ah, I can wait till Sunday morning. I've had a couple of pops. I'll go with that too. But popcorn to me, you, if you're home, if you're not on the road, what are you doing? Make it homemade, make it the right, right way, The way it was meant to be made. Yes. Look, here's the bonus of your entire house smelling like popcorn, which is better

than any candle out there. And I like to, I like to mix it up too with the different seasonings. I like to go not strictly butter all the time, but I'm a big fan of the, uh, like the white cheddar cheese. I like that taste. I like to put a little lemon pepper on there too. Lemon pepper seasoning on the popcorn is a nice treat. I got the machine that melts my butter on top. So you put the butter on top and then it melts it for you and then you put it on, look here's the tweet of Johnny Fanta in action. Yeah, but I'm seeing all those kernels going into the mouth.

You've got to... No, it's clean. He's just going like that. Super hot fluid. That's a man's handful. No dainty shit. It's an efficient shovel of popcorn. You're not,. Yeah, that's a man's handful. No, no dainty shit efficient shovel of popcorn You're not you're you know, it's it's a dunk. You should be making all those listen. That was a situation where I had

My wife and I are very excited. We're expecting we're thrilled. We're looking grass grass. Thank you. Thank you Baby boy doing may we had the one o'clock appointment, right, on Friday. I had a game on Saturday that I was calling and it was in Philadelphia, it was at Drexel, Charleston and Drexel, a mid-major game. I'll do any game in the country. Every college basketball game is beautiful to me. Yup. And hop in the car rental, zip down to downtown Philly. Well, as you guys know, it was congestion on a Friday evening. Get in the hotel room, take a quick shower, zip over to Wells Fargo, sat down.

I'm not a big, like, let me sit down in the building and go get dinner. Like that's not who I am. I'm like, but I gotta have something. And so I went up and got a big box of corn and sat down and enjoyed some Friday night hoops. I love it. Had a blast doing it. I love it. You have to. You gotta do it. All right, well thanks for joining us, John.

That's all we had. It was just popcorn talk. We're gonna do thoughts on smushed food. Talk to you in three weeks for Selection Sunday, thanks. All right, so I got my bone to pick with you. You ready for it? It's not really, it's not a serious one, but you know, I I love college hoops

I watch way too much college hoops. I bet on every game I needed a little more sense of urgency from you when Xavier was blowing the cover today against Seton Hall I needed a little bit more they were up like 20 with five minutes left That's going around right now my Bad badgers in all time bad loss on Saturday. But Xavier cutting the lead and it was like one of those situations that that Seton Hall was never going to win the game but they went from no chance of covering to covering. I needed a little more urgency from you to let us know that this was you know threat level midnight. And if you had watched the whole game like I had to watch Xavier cover and then just be like, what the fuck just

happened? I needed something there. Your dedication level to watching that that game was stuck in neutral for a good 45 minutes. That just shows why you're, you're different. You're a different breed to be able to go all the way through. Thanks for joining us. What was the spread? It was nine and a half. And I was like, this is, I had it as like, Oh man, this is easy. They were up 10, they were up 15, they were up 20. It was so easy. And then it was just like, no, let's, let's fuck around and let Seton Hall cut it to five with 40 seconds left.

So to me, this embodies college basketball. Sorry that I didn't have more urgency there on the, on the spread. I appreciate that that really that that's an apology there. And you can you can pick that bone anytime because I don't want to see you get your money taken from me. What I will say is this, this is why I tell people on the on the tournament, when people say when, when the non when the non casual better like the guy who literally puts down two or three

or four things in the entire year, Superbowl, March Madness, and maybe they do something during the NBA finals or World Series or whatever. I tell them, just play any 13, any 14, any 15, and go ahead, dump, dump 50 bucks, $30, whatever, on any 16, you're gonna come out okay. Because this is the sport, like yes, whatever on any 16. You're going to come out okay. Yeah. Because this

is the sport. Like yes, college football has insanity. There's no question about it. It has some absolutely bonkers results. But college basketball from that perspective, guys, is just at times, I don't, I mean, for lack of a better term, disgusting with the endings of games. And, you know, whereas you might need to go 90 yards for a touchdown, if it's a bucket, if the difference is literally a basket, somebody could heave the ball 50 feet and it could go into the basket

and it could produce a total turn of events in Vegas. So that's why I say, you know, there's nothing, we call it marked madness. Nobody ever rolls their eyes when you say it. People say it's the best. It's the best, I live for it. I can't wait. The only part I hate about is that it only lasts three weeks

and it really lasts two weeks because then you got the final four and it's a matter of three games. That's, Seton Hall was down by 21. They trailed by double digits the majority of the game. They were within three with a minute to go. Yeah. It embodies this sport.

Expect the unexpected. And if you want to have fun in a sport, go ahead and have fun in college basketball and take the home dogs and let it fly. Yeah, it is. It's crazy. I mean, the Oregon Wisconsin game, which I should be more mature to not let it ruin my Saturday, but it 100% ruined my Saturday. They were up 16 with six minutes left or Arizona

BYU late night last night where it's like you got phantom calls. Yeah, go, go. Best thing that ever happened to Wisconsin. Thank you. Never happened. They're going to go back in the lab. Right? Greg guard is going to rip his team apart over the next couple of days. I think guard, I understand Wisconsin fans have been frustrated at times because they've been looking for his teams to turn a corner offensively. This is his best offensive team. Yeah, the ball pops. John Tonjai is a beast. Blackwell, fantastic player. Max Klezman, a matchup problem. Wisconsin can still be trusted. Don't let one unravel job at home. Big cat tell you, and I, and I tell you're not one of those guys, but you know, you know,

there's badger fans out there who are like same old, same old. I'm here to tell you right now it's not the same old Wisconsin. And I believe in this team. I believe in this team as much as, as any of the top teams in the big 10. Yeah, no, I agree. I listened. Kirk Penny has done a great job, you know, making that a modern offense. And, uh, it was just a bad, it was just one of those games that like you just, it just ruins your mood. But I agree. You need, you need, it's hard to win in conference. Oregon's a good team. They're a tournament team. Yeah. Hopefully they can galvanize around it.

Yeah, that's what you hope for. And By the way, Oregon just gave you all a lesson now, because when, if Dana Albin makes a sweet 16, everybody's like, how did that just happen? What just happened? They're talented. You can't, I would urge you, if you're just joining college basketball, you know, because you, you were involved with football, which a lot of fans are, don't watch a team play once and say, now that's what I think of them. Cause if you do that, you're doomed for failure

when the madness comes. Oregon won the players era back in November. The joke was they played for money and they played totally better than they've played the rest of the year, even though the guys are still getting paid pretty good money. And Phil Knight's got deep pockets out there, but they're a dangerous team.

The Oregon Ducks with Jackson Shell, Stad and Nate Biddle, who's a seven footer, who's a matchup problem. Don't sleep on the ducks. Don't sleep on the dog. I will. I do. I do make that mistake every year. I, I really start paying attention to college basketball right? Like the day after the super bowl. That's when I like go binge all in on it. And so I get a couple of games under my belt But it just confuses me because I make my snap judgments

And then I find out that I'm totally wrong about my snap judgments Then I go into the tournament just having no idea what to do Would you say because I actually thought the same thing that you just said about Wisconsin and the loss they had to Oregon I kind of felt the same way about Kentucky getting their ass kicked a little bit. I mean, it was a different game, obviously, Wisconsin and overtime, but Kentucky getting getting handled by Alabama. I thought that Pope is going to do a good job in turning his guys around and having them ready to play in the tournament. Is that is that crazy for me to think that? It's not crazy provided that Lamont Butler and Jackson Robinson are healthy for Kentucky.

If those two guys are healthy, PFT, then you're going to be talking about, uh, a, a situation where Kentucky's offense is as dynamic as many of the top offenses in the country, uh, because they've got flamethrowers. Kobe Bryant is a stud. He's one of the best pure shooters in the sport. Amari Williams, as a big man on both ends of the floor, really good defender. I think that that's the biggest what if for Kentucky. Are they going to be able to play defense in the tournament? They could score at will, which I love.

Like, if I'm picking between a team that's just defensively stout or a team that can get buckets quickly, I'm taking the ladder in today's day and age. Ask, Tennessee's been better the last two years, but like that held them back. Texas A&M, I don't trust them. I don't trust them in the tournament because at times they get stuck in the mud.

Being physical is great until every ref in America calls a foul two minutes into the game because they say, in March Madness, the officials are getting evaluated for the next rounds. Just like the teams are trying to move on, the officials get told whether or not they're moving on to the next round. So when there's a bunch of calls in a game,

it's cause they're trying to follow the rules so that they can advance and make more money. The fact is Kentucky, I like Kentucky's upside still. I am not out on Kentucky. I don't think anybody should be. But we know this when this team shows up for their first round game, there's going to be the narratives, the spotlight now on Mark Pope.

Can he be different than cow? Can he, can he spin a different song? And if they make the sweet 16, people didn't know what to expect from Pope in year one. They haven't done that since 2019. I do like, I still like their upside, but they've got to get healthy. If they're not fully healthy, they're a team that maybe they went a first round game. I don't trust them enough to make the sweet 16. They need Robinson. They need Butler, but they've got dudes, man. They, that team put together some terrific early

season results and they're very difficult to defend. Yeah. They can light it up. Your Big East has, let's just be honest John, down year. Some of the teams have been down, you know, UConn has been, I would say Danny Hurley would say it, has been a disappointment overall. But St. John's has been the bright light. In St. John's We had coach Patino in here last week. They look for real and I think, you know, they, they're, they might be more towards the techs, a and M than a Kentucky where they do struggle shooting the ball at times, but their defense is ferocious. And I trust Rick Patino in a tournament setting. What do you think the ceiling is for St. John's and maybe like the big East overall? Do you think there's maybe a chance that some

of these big East teams of Marquette could surprise teams even though the conference as a whole is a little down compared to last year? So first and foremost St. John's can make the final four and the statistical data backs it up. Just this past week. This was on social since 2011. There have only been two teams that have shot less than 32 and a half percent from three and have made the final four. They are Rick Patino's Louisville teams, one of one of which won a national championship. No NCAA. You can't take away a banner and a trophy from Russ Smith and paid and see, but that's not, I don't know where you two stand. Yeah, he's got a tattoo. He had to get the tattoo removed. He's got a tattoo.

Yeah. Yeah. Forget it. Yeah. Come on. Now this St. John's team plays a lot like those Louisville teams. They are relentless. So here's what they've got going for them. Multiple explosive guards who make plays for their teammates. R.J. Lewis, he could be Big East player of the year. That kid never stops. He has fully understood what Rick Pitino's about. Kadari Richmond, Brooklyn boy, putting on for his city, living for the big spotlight, and delivering in that spotlight.

So those two, they get everything started for this team in a lot of ways. When you can dump it into Zuby Ejiofor and he's playing at the level that he's playing at. Davon Smith brings the fire. Smith and Richmond are like fire and ice. Smith with his pace. Richmond kind of this back to the basket, Uncle Drew, I'm going to put you to sleep but then make you pay type game. St. John's is a New York team that has a New Yorker who's out to write his last chapters his way, to go out his way.

What Patino is doing, as you guys felt in your studio, you felt what I'm feeling covering Patino. This is a guy who's been through everything in his career and now is a really refreshing personality who's been through everything in his career. And now is a really refreshing personality in college basketball because he doesn't give a damn and he's out to do one thing, win. Win, win, win. And he's got Mike Rapoli backing him with money.

He's got Madison Square Garden on fire again feeling like Nick Playoff games for a Big East contest against the likes of Creighton or Xavier or over the weekend now, Connecticut. And they are a real threat to make it to San Antonio this April. And oh, what a scene that would be.

If Rick Pitino is down there at the final four, that would be wild. In terms of the rest of the Big East, I'm with you. Marquette has definitely struggled as of Lake Camp. Jones is still a stud. Connecticut has to have a, they're just not what they've been the last two years. The question now is can they win two tournament games

and be one in the Sweet 16? For them, I think they're a victim of their success in terms of the narrative. You know, Dan Hurley, we know what he said and that he's certainly made headlines with with all of that. I think they've had trouble accepting the fact that they're not a national title contender. Right. And as a result, things have sort of spun off. Like it's not good. But because there's just an okay team, a solid team. Now people are going crazy. Some people are like,

well, they stink now. Well, right. Compared to last year, you weren't going to duplicate that guys. There's a reason why John Wooden's the only guy who's done that. Yeah. Part of my take is sponsored by BetterHelp. We often hear about the red flags that we should avoid. But what if we focus more on looking for green flags in friends and partners?

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And I actually, I enjoyed hearing his honesty over the weekend, that clip where he was like, you know, we lost our swagger in Maui and I can't coach them the same way. And I can't be as tough on them. That probably hurts some of those guys. But you never know. I mean, that's why the tournament is a tournament. You get hot at the right time. You can, they still have guys that, you know, have been there.

100%. You still have people who understand what it takes to perform on that stage. And in the NCA tournament, that's very helpful because I can't tell you how many teams and you can't won't be one of these teams. They play in an NCAA tournament, first or second round game, and you watching them, you don't recognize them. Like you genuinely do not understand what you're watching. You're like, this is not the team that I watched throughout the season. So you're exactly right, Big Cat, is this is a Connecticut team that I still think

with Liam McNeely, solo ball, and if Hassan D'Arc can stay healthy. The problem is you went from Adamo Sanogo, Donovan Klingon, to Donovan Klingon, Samson Johnson, Samson Johnson and Terris Reed. Neither one of them is a one on an elite team. And that's that's where that's where things have gone wrong. Watch out for Creighton still. Ryan Kalkbrenner is an absolute beast. Steven Ashworth is a terrific point guard. And you just know the Big East tournament could throw a curve ball or two,

but St. John's hasn't won it since 2000. And I can't help but think that Lou Karnaseca is smiling down on this team and providing some magic. fun, you know, just a touching note, but an interesting note when when John Thompson passed away in 2020 Georgetown proceeded to win the Big East tournament and Patrick Patrick Ewing told me John Thompson was here with us. He made this happen You know Rick is an unbelievable coach But if st. John's were to win this and they haven't done in a quarter century It's it is patina, but the year that louis passed That that I wouldn't bet against the red storm because not only are they really good guys

But there's something magical with this team. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I'm hoping they get to San Antonio, too That'd be so much fun if they were in the final four. Yeah, Enrico Bosco would look like the dumbest person alive Yeah, that's true. So back back to Dan Hurley again real quick Do you think that if you were to give him, you know, truth serum and and hook him up to lie detector and ask him, do you regret not taking the Lakers job this offseason? What do you think he'd say? I don't think that he would regret it. He would. I don't think I know I don't think he lives with regret that he didn't take that job. I don't think that he would, I don't think, no, I, I don't think he lives with regret that he didn't take that job. I don't because I think that Dan is so happy with his wife and his situation of being the

king. And this goes back to why I feel he didn't take it. If you go to the NBA, you become secondary, if not tertiary, if not whatever the next wheel is, fourth, fifth, sixth wheel, you could get in the headlines, but not for the right reasons. Think about the best NBA coaches. Like okay, Joe Mazzullo goes crazy on an official. And so yes, that makes headlines. But like, are we talking daily about how great Joe Mazzullo is?

No, we're talking, I mean, for better, for the right or wrong reason, we're talking about Jason Tatum, and we're talking about Brown, and we're talking about their core of players, White and company, who make them a championship team. The coach's story gets told by the local press and people covering it, and you guys will bring it up

if they win another championship. But like, we're not breaking down NBA head coaches during this time of year. Hurley's in the headlines every day. And don't tell me, don't tell, he loves it. And that's a good thing. Like, we need more of that energy in college basketball. My reason for it is,

there are some people out there who despise him. There are some people out there who love him. You two do a show, that's the premise, in a good way. We wanna be talking about it. During Conference Championship Week of the NFL, they got done breaking down Mahomes and Allen and what would happen in the NFC and if the, if the commanders could pull it off and what the Eagles would be doing. They got

done with the segment on debate shows and the B block was hurly saying he's the best coach in the sport. And what do we make of this or or that he went off on another official that he went crazy here he is who he is unapologetically but you're not getting if he's doing that in the NBA guys we're look the NBA people are looking at it as this isn't going to last right yeah it's just not going to last he would have he would have to change everything about his act I feel to be in the NBA where coaches to, to me, are not the priority. The NBA is the furthest thing from a coach's league. If you even so much as make one mistake,

you could be eaten up and thrown out immediately. He is best in college. I don't think he regrets it. I agree, I like him in college as well. I wanna go down to the ACC real quick, because you just had a take, and you think that Maryland is a dark horse to reach the final four. How much did that pain you to say that, John Fanta, because we all know that you hate Maryland and you've hated them.

And now you're all of a sudden out of nowhere, you're giving credit to the Terps. They're good. Well, I love that you went down to the ACC to talk Maryland because Maryland deserves to be in the ACC. They're an ACC team and they always will be. So that was really, that was so well done by you. By the way, that tournament should be in Greensboro every year for the record. 100, 100 million percent. The ACC tournament should never be anywhere but Greensboro.

Keep your conference tournament in the same location every year. Why? Familiarity is good. As for Maryland, they are dangerous. Kevin Willard has done a terrific job with this team. Why? Derek Queen, throwback player.

He's got this Moses Malone style to his game, as style as that could get in 2025. When he's got the ball, the game slows down, but you're forced to play it that way. Julian Reese, tough. I mean, this guy plays with muscle. He's on the attack. He's a good defender.

He understands the assignments. And then last year you talked about Maryland's front court, but last year they didn't have enough guard play and they certainly didn't have enough shot making. So I think much like Greg guard and his staff, Kevin Willard and his staff went to the lab and they said, look, we want to play hard, we want to be gritty. That's all nice and whatnot. Toughness is awesome.

But at the end of the day, we don't even have a Jack Goukki on our team. We need to find shot making. Jacoby Gillespie's been that. Selden Miguel's been that. Rodney Rice is that as well. The Crab Five is outstanding. By the way, whoever came up with Crab Five to describe the Maryland starting five,

that is an elite job right there. You've got Scott Van Pelt courtside, cheering you on. He's so into it and I love it about him. And Maryland basketball, when they're cooking, they're one of the brands that's fun in the sport. That fan base is electric. They're gonna be all over us talking about them

right here, right now. I think they're dangerous. You know why? They're not over reliant on any one or two piece pieces to win. They've got a nice complimentary balance to their group in terms of they don't, they don't say we got to get post scoring. No, they, they use the drives to kick and hit threes and because they're hitting threes, Maryland can go deep.

Yeah, no, I agree Maryland. Like the one thing you could say about Maryland is they have maybe a thin bench. I always will take a great starting five over like, like I never understood when T when people are like, Oh, you know, we go 11 deep, we go, you know, 10 deep. Listen, when it gets crunch time, you got to have your best five guys and Maryland has an incredible five guys. It's a load of crap when people are like, yeah, I go, I've got nine or 10 deep. Okay. Do you put nine people on the floor at the end of the game in the sweet 16? No, give me your best five. They're 18 to 22 year old kids. I also laugh when people are like, yeah, they're getting tired.

This guy's wearing down. Yeah. They, these kids come back to campus in July. It's too long. In college basketball, like they get three weeks off and they have to come back and start working out. That's the problem with the calendar. The kids want to play in the games. The games are the fun of this sport, not the transfer portal chaos. You need five or six.

You need five or six guys. You need a six man and maybe a body, a post body at seven or eight. Jay Wright won a national championship with six players. Yeah. Yeah. It's the old Pat Riley where it was like play six trust five. Yeah. You know what it is when you're right. You know what it is when, when you say, Oh, I can go eight or nine deep. Yeah. That that's my life during Brown's training camp this upcoming summer. We feel, we feel that we've got two or three really strong options, you know, potentially a quarterback. And I'm going to be staring at a rookie, another

backup who should be a Walmart and a veteran pickup, probably Kirk Cousins. That's probably what I'm going to be staring at. And you know what happens when they say to you, we've got two options here. It means you don't have one that's facts. That's facts actually talk about the ACC. This is my strategy Tell me if it is a sound strategy or really stupid I Have just ignored Duke. I am gonna ignore Duke and I'm gonna say the ACC is so bad That Duke is completely inflated and once they get into the tournament I'm not going to have to worry about them. I mean the ACC

might have three teams in the tournament. SMU might be their fourth but Clemson Louisville are good. Duke obviously is great but am I making a mistake by just completely ignoring Duke and being like look they played nobody that that whole conference sucks as soon as they step up into the tournament, they're going to get a rude awakening. I'm not going to have to worry about them. No, it's not the right strategy. God damn it. I knew I know it's not, but it's the only way I can deal with it. Do you think a buddy texted me on Saturday night and they said, you know, and, and I couldn't help but chuckle in a good way. I mean, I know you have your own, so I'll bring it up on the show. But, uh, they said, uh, coach K cuts down the nets this April. Shire takes down his piece and hands Mike the scissors.

Man, that would kill me. I mean, I know they're killing teams, but they see, see sucks. John, it's Illinois, Illinois. Are they in the ACC? Now they, Illinois is very injured. You know that they're, they had the flu. Their season has completely gone sideways. Duke is damn good. They are, they are a spectacular team. They're a wagon defensively. I just think the amount that their length does to alter, you can't run your, your game plan, plan a or B against what they're gonna do because they're gonna come out. Sion James said, I'm gonna get on Kaspera Shakotonis

who's a top five pick in the draft. And he said, I'm gonna limit him. And even if he makes some shots, I'm still gonna do what I can to shut him down as much as possible. But then it goes beyond that. To me, the fact that they were dominating to the level that they dominated

in that first half against Illinois held them to 0 for 16 from three. I had Illinois fans being like, it's not them holding us. We're just, we can't make a shot. Get out of here. You couldn't make it because of how they defended you. Oh, number two,

Cooper Flagg only had one field goal making the first half. This is not just because of Cooper Flagg. Like he has a lot to do with it. And I think Cooper is a fantastic player and will be the number one pick in this draft. Full stop, it's over. If on draft day you wake up and the batting lines are getting shaken up

by insiders and stuff, enough. It ain't happening. He's going number one. There's no reason why anybody should pick anybody else there or take that risk on. You gotta pick him first, but it goes beyond him. This team, Isaiah Evans has turned into a different player. Now con canipple. He plays the game a little crazy intensity wise in a good way. He's got cam Spencer like jeans. Remember Spencer for you, con last year, a little bit like Canipal's always going crazy. Yeah.

Malawatch really strong. They didn't even have Malik Brown, but like they, if they're making any perimeter shots, any, it's over. They are not going to lose. Now your hope big cat is that they show up to the Alamo dome. If they do, let's say they make the final four, I'm sorry. It is a football stadium. There is a unique shooting background. And sometimes teams that are kind of iffy from a shooting perspective can shoot miserably.

And then the game looks a whole lot different. Game always look better when the shots are going in. But right now, if you force me to take Duke slash Auburn or the field, today, I would take Duke slash Auburn. You wouldn't listen. Florida's good. He's good. The entire Texas tech is really good.

It's awesome. Like if you were to say, do you think that the winner of the SEC tournament is also going to play in the championship game or not? What would you say to that? No, I'd say no, because I think Auburn could get taken out of that earlier than expected. Cause I think there's gonna be some teams that may be a little more desperate.

And I also don't trust conference tournament champions. Just by virtue of, it takes a lot for you to do that, to win it. And then you've got to go right back to the road and play in the NCAA tournament and you just played till Saturday or Sunday. I always look, bracket help here, at Thursday or Friday at the latest,

losers in their conference tournament if they're a steady NCAA tournament team because I like the fact they can go back, they're pissed off they didn't win their conference tournament, they got a couple extra days to rest, they went back, they saw their girlfriends on campus, get a nice free weekend with your money. And then you say, here's how I, here's how I go dancing. Yeah. Last year though. That was desperate.

They needed it. Yeah. Last year was that was they, they kept it going. One of the wildest Cinderella's we've, we've ever seen. And that's inexplicable, but that's why we watch. You know, I'm saying about that, like even, here's the best part about March Madness. By the championship game, even somebody who, I love the sport, I'm like bummed out that it's over and it's one game.

So let's just say it's Duke and Auburn. It's a dream matchup for the sport. But the best part is Duke's in one region, Auburn's in another region. That means there's two, like let's just say, and by the way, I would say if you made me bet, I'd say, okay, I'm gonna be wrong on one of them and one of them bows out earlier than expected.

But I'm saying I'm getting one of them to win it all. There's still two other regions that Duke and Auburn have no control over that the chaos is gonna happen. That's why the madness is the best. It's nonstop you looking, going from true TV to TNT, to TBS, to CBS, and saying, what the hell is going on

right now in my life? And then you get your Jack Goukis involved, you get your magical moments like that. It really is the best. It's the best event that you wake up a day, you wake up on a sports day and you're, it's a glorious day. But by the end of the day, you are saying someone's name that you didn't know existed at the beginning of the day. Yeah. Don't sleep on Florida, John. Love them.

Florida is good. And they're getting guys back and it's like their size is a problem. They've, you know, they're there. They have three losses on the season. I know that two of them were away. Um, they've only lost once at home. They're a good team. Really good. Very good. And, and Walter Clayton and Elijah Martin are studs at Walter Clayton isn't all American. When Elijah Martin's on, he's one too. And chin yellow, uh, had a very good performance this past weekend. They're big. Alex Condon's taken that next step. They just got hand logged them back. They are tough, man. Like that team is very, very good.

They are an offensive juggernaut. They can come at you in waves. I agree with PFT. Texas Tech, tough. Grant McCaslinson, a great job. JT Toppin, absolute stud. They've got depth. Elijah Hawkins is a really good distributor

of the basketball in terms of other teams, like teams that are not at the top of the country, but I still like a lot. Not the very top of the country anyways. Don't let a Michigan loss to Michigan State get you out on Michigan. Oh, I think Michigan's overrated. Although I love Danny Wolfe, I think Michigan's overrated. I think Michigan State is the team. Well, Tom Izzo, he's got a group that, how magical would it be if Izzo in year 30 made the final four? Yeah. But wait, go on Michigan though, because my problem in Michigan is they're sloppy with

the ball, and I think that just kills you in the tournament. Yeah, it can be. But sometimes when you play together that long, your numbers don't tell the full story when you get on the big stage. And that's kind of where my argument is, is like at some point, the Mari Burnett, Trey Donaldson, and Roddy Gale and company are just, I'm betting on them.

I'm betting on Dusty May, who's made a final four run, and I'm betting on veteran players. Like they might be turnover prone, but I just know that I've got Vlad Golden and Danny Wolfe and in the NCAA tournament, you my opponent have likely never seen any combination like that because of the uniqueness of it.

Yeah. So I think they pose matchup problems to what they can do. But there's a number of these types of teams that could be really interesting in the tournament. I mean, you can go right down the the line like Mississippi State down there in Starkville He's Christians has a really intriguing team st. Mary's is tough again, and they're gonna win the WCC How about Randy Bennett and the job that he does?

Year in and year out having them as good as they are and there are Cinderella teams There are a couple of teams wearing the slipper again. Drake can wear that slipper. Yale is back and loaded. And don't sleep on the Akron Zips out of the Mid-American. Okay. Yeah. What about Houston? I keep waiting for Houston for it to finally be their year.

And last year, it did feel like it could have been different until the unfortunate injury. But I still think from what I've seen from Houston, they're very tough team. They're a team that you don't want to play against. That's kind of the style they always play. Do you think that they would have a chance? Do you know what the difference is? PFT that makes me say they have a chance?

They're shot making. Houston's always been held back by having multiple guys who can dial it up from downtown. So they've had Marcus Sasser, they've had Jamal Shatt, they've had some talented individuals. This feels like a perimeter that really can share the sugar and make threes in waves. LJ Cryer had 28 points in the win over the weekend over Iowa State. Cryer had a couple of step backs that were flat out ridiculous. Emmanuel Sharp is steady.

He's tough. If you're gonna go to Houston, you have to be tough. You know, it's like going to, you know, like if you're not gonna play hard for Kelvin Sampson to be tough, you're gonna go get sent to Weenie Hut Junior's. Like it's just how it is. It's a non-negotiable. Like he has someone stand there at the front of the club and if you don't bring that, you're done. And I don't care if it's practice, I don't care if it's summertime, I don't care if it's a team bonding trip to a lake. You have to be tough. Yeah. And they have, but the guy that's opened things up

for them is Mylos Yuzan. Mylos Yuzan is a clutch shot maker, big time shot maker. And they, Jawan Roberts is a guy who's embraced his role. This is Kelvin's best offensive team. I'm never worried about whether they can get stops or not. But in the past, you guys know this, Houston, Tennessee, like A and M's good, but I w when you get, when your goal is to get teams stuck in the mud in a game of shot making where the opponent has those types of players at some point, you can't get them into the mud. Houston can win a game out of

the mud this year. Yeah, I agree with that. Um, all right. Uh, a couple last questions. Who's going to be the Indiana neck next coach for Indiana? If I had to make a prediction right now, I would say TJ Otsilberger. I think he makes a lot of sense. Yeah, very good. I think he's done a phenomenal job at Iowa state and I think he's been outstanding at Iowa state. But I think that this guy is one of the best coaches in the sport who can take on the Indiana fan base and will be strong. So if I were to, it should be the guy that Indiana pursues the most. And I'm just thinking if I'm Scott Dolson, who's running this search, you got to bow down to whoever you're hiring and say, like, look, we, we need you.

You know, everyone's like, oh, it's Indiana, the aura, the, come on, man. Kids don't know about that. They don't. You know, everyone's like, oh, it's Indiana, the aura, the come on, man. Kids don't know about that. They don't like they see the candy cane pants. But the days of coach night, I mean, you know, God, God bless them. And they rest in peace. But like the fact is, that was a long time ago. You got to get a guy

who coaches with toughness, who gets his teams to play endlessly hard and a guy who can educate the kids on what it means to play in Indiana. I think Gotzelberger is one of the best three coaches in the sport. The building job he's done at Iowa State, think about this. Iowa State hasn't made a final four since 1944. He could lead them to the only their second final four ever this year. Yeah. He's been awesome. And they're a good team. They've been a little banged up,

but they're a very good team. All right. Uh, how I, I enjoy so much the John Fanta, uh, X can I give one before I'm sorry to cut you off my favorite. My favorite ending would be Indiana who just beat Purdue makes the NCA tournament. They're on the bubble. They win a game or two and Mike Woodson sits down and says after the game, you know what? I actually have had second thoughts. I'll be back next year. They are a bubble team. I mean, this was a big win for them today and they they've had flashes where they've looked really good. Even the

first time they played Purdue, they played their balls off. They, they, they lost it back. But what's it can do that though? Yeah. Yeah. No, he's got, he's still the coach. It's absolutely true. So all right. So I love the Twitter lives and Twitter spaces you do when you fly off the handle of people. What's it like? Cause I feel like it's, it's almost like a, you got a Francesca thing going where it's like, Hey, if you, if you come at me incorrect, you're going to get shown the door pretty quickly. What's a big like no, no. When someone comes at a John Fanta in your spaces. Well, when a caller says, excuse me, I'm talking or John, this is where you're wrong or no,

John, you're not listening to me. And it's like, I just got done listening to you for two and a half, three minutes. Yeah. I love the fans. Love it. Just like you guys do too. And we, and we bring them into different stuff and engage, but there's a, Hey, like it's somebody, somebody came on like two weeks ago and it's like, here's where you're wrong. I'm Providence. Here's where you're wrong. And all these things and like is talking down to me. Come on. It's your space. I'm not putting up with that. That's not like there's a line to cross there. And it's, it's like when I was growing up and my dad said, these are the things that you have to do on Saturday. These are your chores. And if you

started to speak up and say why one of the chores was a bunch of bullshit, you got caught. That was the end of it. Yeah. You got hung up on it. It's a non-negotiable. You were sent out to the yard and you were picking the weeds in the mulch. And maybe that night you got to sit out on the patio and have a diet coke. But the fact is like that's not you don't come into the space and start trying to run it. Then we have because of spaces. It's not radio. So like I like what people come on and you guys know this. Like they start telling me

everything they know about the game. But like we're talking X's and O's in the weeds deep and they get and it's like four and a half? And the guy will say back to me like, yes, I do. I go, well, one, does she ever get a word in edgewise? Like, does she ever listen to yourself? You know, we've all been at the cocktail party or the wedding or the thing where we love somebody. We love our parents' friend or the friend of a friend, but you know when you're having a beer or a wine, you've got to budget out about 10 to 13 minutes to get their latest thoughts on

whatever's happening in the sports world. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What fan base is it that gives you the most grief? Oh, boy. I mean, the fan bases that cause the most chaos up in the northeast. Look, the Yukon fans are relentless in their pursuit. Providence fans can be absolutely unhinged out of control. You don't know where

things are gonna go. And it's just how they are. That's Friartown. What they do, they can't forget about Ed Cooley. And so every space has at least one caller who just turns it up, up on the intensity meter, and they get started. Who else has come at me? I mean, Big Blue Nation and I are very close. Like, we're in a good place. I get the ACC fans who are mad at me sometimes when I'm like look like I'm sorry, but North Carolina They're not a tournament team. No, and if they didn't have the North Carolina name We wouldn't even be talking about them. Like that's just that's just a fact, you know, who got on me this year a lot

Purdue fans For not having them in the top 10 during times when people thought it one week I ranked them like 21st now with the way they're playing recently. They just lost Indiana like they're back to the 20s. Not just on the edge there. They're not a top 10 team. They're not a top 12 team. They're just not. No, they don't. They don't defend well. Like we miss Edie so much. They should just keep them forever. Should have been like, hey, like sue the NCAA for a lifetime deal with Edie. Whoever makes the Edie statue should one, demand triple

the money because it's a seven foot four statue and two, like you have to get that right. Yeah. Like sports subculture thought here, what's going on with statue makers lately? I know. They've been bad. They, yeah, yeah. I mean like wired, tired. Yeah. Or statue makers, tired. Who's, who's somebody, whoever the statue maker is out there, this is your chance to step up. Yeah, I don't agree. I'm not teaching statue making anymore. What's that?

We're not teaching it. The kids don't learn how to make a statue in school anymore. Mm-hmm. No. I mean, come on. Wake up. And whoever's tasked with that, get it right. Yes. I agree. I mean, the Washington Commander is the one good thing that they ever did with Dan Snyder was the Sean Taylor statue because it didn't have a statue to it.

So you couldn't screw it up. It was just an empty suit. It was perfect. Yeah. Yeah. All right, John, I got one last question for you. Row back question, R H O P A C K.com promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Q zips, polos, hoodies, joggers,

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Wow, what if John Fenton brought down the whole house? Tear that shit down, John. It's a load bearing hoop. All right, he's going up. Oh, man, what a slam. What a slam. Oh, another one. Is he gonna triple slam. Oh, wow. Hey, there we go. That's some lateral quickness for you. Let's dance. Here comes the madness. Let's dance. You're the best.

Uh, we'll, we'll definitely have you back on when we get to conference championship week and the tournament, um, love talking to love talking to you and you are the face of college basketball. Thank you guys. That's very, very humbling. I appreciate that. And if you're a fan out there as we're talking and when this goes live, you are inside three weeks away from the best postseason tournament in American sports. Facts. Gonna be great. Facts. All right.

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We I saw it a couple of weeks ago and because we've been traveling and everything. This was just the tweet of the guy who said the world needs to see this. Met this guy at the bar on Saturday ball knowers find ball knowers Telepathically an hour later. We exchanged numbers now We've been tossing names back and forth all week and saying where they went I know you're here somewhere brother and it was just a dude who met a random dude at the bar and They just they linked up and that's all they've been doing with this guy go to school They yeah, like he just sent Jamal Charles and then Texas Texas and Dexter McCluster Back to him. I love it, South Carolina and like, you know, Jason Witten

Blank gabber like back and forth. This is how dudes meet each other. Yeah Friendship and people were hating on him them there should be there should be tinder it should be a tinder app for guys that just want to say dudes names to other dudes also just gonna throw this out there Steve Smith if you had found someone like this maybe you wouldn't be rearranging the IUDs mm-hmm you know be productive sometimes you just need someone you know when when you're thinking hey I want to noted I would like to come in some some guy's wife instead just text your buddy and Just be like I don't know but Wallace where'd he go to school? Yeah, it's honestly a very productive thing

I think that dude should do this just have a way to link up with other guys online just to say names Okay, also Kyle Hamilton put out a thought-provoking question last week on X the everything app Oh In a Royal Rumble format between every president that's ever lived who wins Lincoln you think Lincoln? Taft probably has him by about I don't know a hundred pounds. Does he have the stamina? Teddy Roosevelt got shot and gave the rest of his speech. No other president's done that, Hank. Per Hank. Clinton's got them silent killers.

Yeah. Just choke you out with his dick. I was under Hamilton. Kill the guy. Oh, I was saying actual people that will kill you. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, if Obama was allowed to use his drones.

Yeah. Wait, you think Hamilton? He's got bodies. What? No, yeah if Obama was like to use his drones. Yeah, wait you think Hamilton He's got bodies. What no, he didn't he get shot. I thought he killed the guy in a duel Aaron Burr never saw the Hamilton Musical me neither. I think Ben Ben Franklin Ben Franklin would be a good one. He'd be a really short snager. Yeah, how do we not pick him first? Yeah, he would not 100% be it Yep. All right. So Monday reading This is from reddit

Am I the asshole for pretending to think beans and chili are awoke to prank my cousin? Who is obsessed with being anti woke and who loves chili? My cousin is known for making chili and he's good at it He makes his own chili flakes from his secret combination of various dried chilies. It has a very nice kick It's like the perfect amount of spice. It's hot but not too hot He also always adds kidney beans not canned beans either. That's a process. Yeah cooking your own beans. Yeah committed to it I like beans and chili. I'll just say it. I think it might be woke Okay

anyways for the past two or three years My cousin has become obsessed with all this bullshit about what is or isn't woke and how woke things are the end of the world He's always been a good dude. So I don't know what his bag is, but he's completely obsessed. It's annoying So the other weekend I was at his place and he was making his famous chili So I got the idea for a little prank. I was like, I'm surprised you still put beans in your chili He was like what why I was like beans and chili are so woke everyone's saying so he was like What do you mean? And he was genuinely concerned as if this was something serious I said something like yeah beans and chili are woke the original conservative Texans who made chili only use meat and chili

San Francisco Libs started as adding beans and chili in the 60s because so many hippies were Vegetarian now all the woke scientists are saying beans are a better protein source than meat He didn't say anything to that. I imagine he just stood on it. Yeah after that. Yeah, literally I kind of just assumed he'd know I was fucking with him and get the joke We've always fucked around with each other and jokes about and all but he was quiet all dinner Just yesterday. I was back again at his place, and he was making his chili again. There were no beans It was a totally different chili this guy's been making his chili with beans for 15 years. I was like what's up? Where's the beans? He's like I don't fuck with that woke shit. I

Was like what he was like beans and chili are woke. Even you know that. Everyone else was like, what? Because what? I was like, dude, I was just fucking with you. He got really angry. He dumped his chili in the sink and told everyone to go home. I thought he was pranking me back or something,

but he was serious. This dude totally lost it. He texted me later and said this exact thing. I researched this online and it turns out you really were lying to me. Beans are not woke. How could you do this? We went back and forth for a bit.

His position is even though we have historically pranked each other, I went too far that I betrayed him, that I made him question his chili. I tried to ask him if this at all made him think he cared too much about woke. Like what if Beans and chili was woke? So what?

He ignored that and demanded I apologize. Did I take this too far? Oh man. No. Not far enough? All right, you did take it too far in the fact that if he makes really good chili, you might've just lost your chili guy.

You lost your chili guy. I'll say he had very good reasoning for why beans and chili might be woke. Yeah, it sounded real. And in Texas, a lot of chili is made with no beans. He had very good reasoning for why beans and chili might be woke. Yeah, it sounded real and in Texas a lot of chilies made with no beans that that part is true But the San Francisco hippie libs at adding the beans as protein that this is a very well constructed prank I I love this story just because it's it's just perfect for where we're at overall. Did you guys see by the way?

It's just perfect for where we're at overall. Did you guys see, by the way, Ballsack Sports had a very real tweet this weekend about Elon? Did they go woke? They broke character. What they say. Just talking about Elon being a bad guy and misinformation and stuff. Listen, everyone could have their opinion,

but it was just very funny that it came from Ballsack Sports. Yeah, Ballsack. Sometimes you need to use your platform. You must use your platform. But Elon, also another rearranging I sack sports. Yeah ball. So sometimes you use your platform. You have to you must use your platform But Elon also another rearranging iud guys. Yeah, but probably through like starlink. Yeah But not not even doing it in the fun way. Yeah, I feel like he uses a satellites to like disable women's birth control Yeah, does he is he actually is he fucking I don't think I like mailing his sperm. I think he's just yeah He's just repopulating the earth. What a weirdo. Anyway, this guy might have lost his chili supply Yeah, which is not worth it if that's if your cousin made that go to chili. It's a hilarious joke

But you got to figure out a way to get this back. Yeah, I mean it's great that It was a perfect prank because this guy took his chili so seriously right that he would then question his entire life I just loved you probably thought he might be gay. Yeah, like I've been jumping it all out I've been enjoying beans in my chili this whole time. What's wrong with me? No, we're not doing this shit anymore. Yeah, I don't make it They're trying he's trying to find the ball sack sports, but he all he could find was I'm letting my one nut hang Post-cancer, I'm tired of Elon. Oh, okay. That was a precursor All right, so he ball sack sports. Well, that's a that's ironic that he had nut cancer

Is that real ball sack sports? Yeah. Oh Can I realize congratulations to ball stacksak Sports for beating cancer. He has he has multitudes. Yeah. Wow. Big, big week. Listen, the Internet picked up where sports left off this week. His name is Ballsak, not balls sack sports. So yeah, that makes a handle. Yeah. Yeah, there was also the guy. Did you see the guy playing Russian roulette? I Yeah. Yeah, there was also the guy.

Did you see the guy playing Russian roulette? I lost. Yeah. That was bad. I don't know why that got my algorithm. Yeah. Oh, why are you looking at me like that, Mr. Goon? It just sounds awful.

Stuffed Sidios, they're back on X. I also found out that it was the guy who did the 360 puke. Yeah, it was. So that's sad, because that 360 puke rocked. The guy was angry about meme coins. Yeah. Yeah. Ah Don't do that. Yeah stick to just making jokes about Steve Smith. Mm-hmm That's a cleaner way to do it and and jokes about beans and chili. You guys like beans and chili? I do. Yeah. Yeah, I don't mind them, but it is like Texas. Chili is just meat. It's basically just meat

So it kind of is correct. There is some truth to it. Yeah, no, I, I, I know this guy did as a joke, but I think I agree with him that beans and chili are woke. I just would never, if I had like an insane chili plug, I would do everything in my life to keep that relationship alive. Also is maybe beans. No beans and chili might be woke now that I think about it. Because chili dudes eat chili then they sit around farting for the next day. True. This is like nerfing chili. Yeah, it's not letting dudes fart. Dudes can't even fart anymore. Yeah, because we're taking the beans out of chili. Yeah, good chili gets you all hot and bothered.

Yeah, there's nothing less woke than dude sitting in a room with each other farting on each other Yeah, after enjoying a nice pot of chili all you're gonna get out of beanless chili is a queef. Maybe yeah, that's extremely Okay, pug got anything on the chili chili is delicious With or without beans bothers your tummy though Not chillies. Okay, you can't put sour cream or cheese is you do very bad you have a sensitive tummy lactose intolerant yeah which we've done this before that's fake it's real it's it's fake it hurts no

it's fake everyone's lactose intolerant if I eat too much ice cream my tummy hurts. Am I lactose intolerant a little bit probably But so everyone is Yeah, there's levels. So no levels to it. No it is how long have you been lactose intolerant? Found out like two years ago See, this is not true. So you just were you were eating ice cream drinking milk all your life And then all of a sudden someone told you you lactose intolerant Yeah, that is yeah being lactose intolerant spoke. That's bullshit. Oh We didn't even talk about the fact that Hooters is bankrupt. It's true. Yeah guys don't even like boobs

I was thinking about it because they it's the old meme like they feed us poison and they and they take away the cure Taking away breasts. Yeah, uh Special shout out to Devin Booker. I feel bad for him I don't know if you guys saw but he has been a Hooters fan for I mean life They have as John Gruden commented on this yet. He's got to be beside himself Beside himself John Gruden might buy Hooters. Yeah, Devin Devin Booker had a his tweets from 2012 So what was he? How old was he? How old is Devin Booker? That was when he was in college?

No. Maybe high school? 2015, I want to say he was in college. How old is Devin Booker? You could just Google that. You don't have to follow... Shane's all over the map. He's 28 years old. So how old would he be in 2012? Someone do some math

1996 28 so be 415 16 yeah 15 16 he said I'm thinking Hooters tonight with the fellas mm-hmm at Hooters chillin headed to Hooters and Then and then yesterday said please don't go Hooters. Yeah, headed to Hooters, and then yesterday said, please don't go Hooters. Yeah, it's tough. I love that. He's committed to it.

Tough break for him, tough break for Gruden, tough break for John Daly. Yeah, brutal. Tough break for guys, taking away tits. Restaurants. It's bullshit. Yeah. If Twin Anchors goes, there goes the whole shit.

Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks, Twin Anchors has great ribs in Chicago. Tilted kilts, all the restaurants. Twin Anchors is, shout out Twin Anchors. Awesome. Was in the Dark Knight Rises. Fun fact. Fun fact that no one cares about. I feel like this Hooters thing might be, because if you work in marketing at Hooters, you know that putting out a release being like yeah We're probably gonna have to close everything up. People are gonna be like no, please don't go Hooters Well, that's what happened with the red lobster, right? Yeah, until Blake Griffin saved them Have you seen his commercials? Yeah, they're great. We should pull our money together and buy Hooters and big dog shirts

I like that and then just retire. Yeah. That would be, that's it right there. You know, Kevin Love posted a picture of him when he was like 10 years old at Hooters. Love it. Yeah, see Hooters? There's memories at Hooters. Yeah.

Is that a real picture of Booker and Durant? No. No? At Hooters? No, I don't think so. I don't think so. Okay. Numbers. Four. Combine week. No, no, but Hooters no, I don't think so Okay numbers for

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