Pardon My Take - Corona Virus Has Cancelled Sports Plus Jon Rothstein And March Sadness

Episode Date: March 13, 2020

Corona Virus has cancelled sports. We talk about the wild last 48 hours as the Coronavirus reached pandemic stage and what happened in the sports world. (2:50-23:50) With no sports for the foreseeable future we gameplan what we'll do on the show to help entertain the masses and provide an escape from what has become a crazy week. (23:51-35:30) CBS Sports Jon Rothstein joins the show to break down the decision to cancel the tournament, what would have happened if the tournament had been played, and planning his bachelor party that will now be hosted by PFT and Big Cat. (37:45-11:46) Fyre Fest of the week and a special outro song (1:16:04-1:24:50)You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

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a place that people can escape to. We have John Rothstein on the show. He talked about, well, we tried to get him to talk about what the tournament would have been like. Didn't work, it didn't go through his brain. Too painful for him, but it was also a great interview. And big news out of the interview, we are possibly going to be planning

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Today is Friday, March 13th, and PFT. I do not want to be an alarmist, but we are all going to die and the world is coming to an end. Today was the day the jock jams died. It was a harrowing 24 hours. Everything got canceled. The good news is, the good news is

there are no more sports left to cancel. You can't hurt me anymore. Yeah, it was. I'm gonna actually take that back because I'm getting really into Sri Lankan cricket. So that's the one thing I think we can still bet on right now. Darts.

But basically everything has been taken from us in the sports world, but this, in a weird way, is where I think that sometimes we have the most fun doing so. Yes, yes. And we have had our share of fun at the expense of the coronavirus.

If I may just get serious PFT for a second, right from the top, I still don't respect the virus. It's like a Raven Steelers thing. Like, no love lost. I hate it so much. I want to beat the fuck out of it. That doesn't sound serious. And I'm going, no, I'm encouraging everybody

to do everything that they can. Even if you're a healthy, young, spry, 20-year-old, just don't stay away from public places because you're gonna run into people that have compromised immune systems that you don't know- You might run into me. Could be sick.

You don't know if you're walking past somebody on the sidewalk, if they have type 1 diabetes or a lupus or if they're going through chemotherapy. Those are the people. We're gonna save lives together. As a podcast, the best way to do that is just listen to a shitload of part of my take. Yes, listen to a shitload of part of my take.

All right, so we're gonna get to our plans. And we have a lot of plans for what probably is going to be a long time without sports. And it's gonna be very weird. And the whole last 48 hours have been very, very surreal. Pretty much since the moment that I said I would inject myself with coronavirus if they cancel the NCAA tournament,

from that statement, every single second after that, it got exponentially worse. Shades of Laker Dan. And if you know Laker Dan, you know Laker Dan. And those are not getting to that. But let's kind of reset. We'll start from when it all went, started going downhill here.

The NBA on Wednesday night, Rudy Gobert, who is public enemy number one in the world, who, by the way, I'm going to defend him a little bit here. It was just a prank. When I watched that video, I was like, that's exactly something I would do. Now, that's exactly something I would have done three days ago, now that I've understood the severity

and what's going on, I would not do that anymore. But Rudy Gobert, I'm not going to just pile on this guy for doing something he thought was completely innocent. Clearly it was not. So that happened. They're short-sighted. Short-sighted. Short-sighted, stupid.

But also, knowing us, we would do the same. Probably not malicious. You made the cough joke in an elevator. I did. Right. It's not that crazy for us to say we would do something like that. So not anymore, but we would.

And regardless of if he did the microphone thing or not, if he had coronavirus, they're canceling the whole league. Like, even if it came out, he had coronavirus and he didn't fuck around with all the journalists and did that, which was fucked up. But that was, and then Woj also said, though, that he was- But people are blaming him for passing it to teammates

and shit, it's like- That's because the Woj report where he said he had been careless over the course of the last like three or four days. But everyone's been careless. But he's been- He was touching people's faces. It seemed like he was going out of his way

to touch people's faces and be like, oh, you're scared of me because I got the virus. So yeah, it was unfortunate. I'm just shocked that the first NBA player to have this disease wasn't J.R. Smith. This feels like some of that J.R. would've come down to the NBA. He's not in the NBA.

Well, he's still- He's in red circles. He's somewhere, somewhere out there. So that happens and the jazz game was very weird because they didn't know what to do. They rushed on the court to basically stop the game before it starts. The NBA quickly says we're suspending all games

for the foreseeable future. And then from that point on, it felt like every single sport. I mean, the NCAA had already said they were going to play with no crowds. It was weird watching games go on, like conference tournament games go on. Fred Hoiberg is basically dying on the sideline.

He ended up having influenza. And this all happens, I just said influenza. Yeah. That's the Instagram disease. He was an influenza. Influenza. It's when you drink too much fit tea and you just shit out your ass. Yeah, so that happens. NBA cancels, we wake up the next day thinking,

okay, things are bad, things are crazy right now, but they're going to play conference tournament games with no fans. That turns out to be not the case because everyone basically like Domino falls and everyone cancels except the Big East. Well, they started doing it in the Big East with, were there like limited fans?

It was like family? Yeah. Or is that what it was? Yes, they played the first half. They played the first half. They canceled the games. The sad mascot from St. John sitting up in the upper deck of the, of Mass in Square Garden

was, that was quite a sight. I don't know why the Big East decided that they would just like forge ahead. It was, it was crazy. It's interesting to see like an entire conference in fuck it mode. Yeah. Where they're just like, you know what,

let's just do it because canceling this seems like a big thing. James Dolan was probably on the phone with the Big East like, please, I need, I need some ticket sales. I need some concession sales. That was the best report, the report that all the owners got on a conference call and the Knicks were the only team that were like,

we have to wait until there's a like government mandate. Otherwise we've got to play. But so all these things get canceled. And also last night after Gobert was diagnosed and they clear the court, the Utah Jazz had to stay in the locker room for hours because they all had to get tested. Somehow they found how many like 40 immediate tests

weird for, for the COVID virus. And they brought them into the locker room, tested everybody. Don Mitchell has the Corona virus. I was actually surprised. I thought it was going to be more players. We're going to have it. By the way, they made it sound like Rudy Gobert

was basically just tongue kissing everyone. Right. That's a prank. And they were saying like on sports center, they were talking about how all the players would have to sit in a semi-circle. Well, they just like jammed Q-tips down their throats to get a gag reflex out of them.

And then finally get a test result back before anyone could ever leave the arena. I guess the thunder got tested too and everyone on the thunder was okay. Right. But yeah, that was, it was such a bizarre night last night. That's what, it felt like I was halfway between an acid trip and just being dead.

You just, I don't think anyone fully realized what was going on as it was going up. Like we all were just watching and be like, wait, they canceled, they suspended the NBA season. Okay, well, that's fine, but like, they're still going to play college basketball and then they canceled college basketball. They took away the fans and the big East,

they hand the, the, one of the, talk about visuals, the St. John's mascot. How about FSU getting the ACC championship trophy? They handed them the trophy, which was ridiculous. What are you going to say? The, in terms of the NBA, the Vince Carter. Yes. Getting into the last time, like the farewell tour.

That was crazy. So then we're sitting there and NHL is canceling stuff and, and, uh, MLS canceled. I mean, you know, when MLS still, WrestleMania and XFL are going to happen for the first, you know, that that was still on the table. They, we all think that maybe they will, uh, suspend the tournament, push it later, four o'clock hits,

cancel the entire NCAA tournament, cancel all spring sports, college baseball done, MLB done. We're living in no NHL, no NHL. It's, it's crazy. We have no sports. This is Marlin's man's nightmare. We, we have no March madness. We are a country of revels.

There are no brackets. We are bracketless. Well, think about that. Well, brackets can't be dumpster fires in that. True. But yeah, it's been a fucking weird day. Just like it was one thing after the other. You didn't know it was going to come next,

but you knew it was going to be bad news. There's been no good news that's come out at all in the last 40 hours or probably won't be any more good news for the next like day or two. I don't know what the hell is going on if they're going to shut down New York City. No, there's one good news. Duke, the biggest fucking pre-Madonna's drama queens

of all time, canceled their own season before the NCAA could trying to upstage everyone and be like, look at me, we're, look at us. We're Duke. Then the tournament gets canceled and then everyone gets to make the joke that Duke got eliminated first. Duke is at first.

That was the only good thing that happened. And we're going to get into it, John. Fucking Duke. To try to figure out who ended up winning this NCAA tournament. Oh, should we talk about that real quick on Joe Lennardy's bracket? Yeah.

So Joe Lennardy did put out a bracket. Thank God. So we can get mad about seedings. That's half the fun of March Madness anyways, is to just debate that on selection Sunday. So his one seed that he has, he has Baylor, he has Kansas, he has Dayton and he has Gonzaga. More than that.

Excuse me, Gonzana. More than that. More than that, I appreciate the fact that he put the times for all these games. And the spread. I'm looking at it right now. Illinois was going to play USC at 9.50 PM on Thursday night.

That game was going to be bananas. You know what the nice touch at the end of all this is? He's got the last four, the playing games, and then he has their time to play TBD. So we're never ever going to know when the winner of NC State UCLA is going to play against Penn State. Wisconsin got a four seed.

That will be North Texas. That stands where I'm on. Easy win. Vermont. Let's see where Vermont was. So Wisconsin is going to play North Texas. I think he screwed up the seeding here. I think he had Auburn as a five seed in that same bracket,

which would have been great for me because I've been calling Auburn's frauds all year. So it had a personal revenge game. We had Vermont going up against Maryland. Oh. In Greensboro. Scott Van Pelt would have melted down if Vermont beat him. SVP versus Jake March.

That's brutal. Let's see. Virginia versus Cincinnati. That would have been like 42 to 41. Great game. Over under set at 105. Michigan Yale. Michigan Yale to Blue Bloods.

Duke Belmont. Belmont would have done it. Belmont would have done it. That's probably why Duke did that. That's probably why they eliminated themselves. God damn it. This is brutal to watch. St. Mary's Ruckers at 9.50 on Friday night.

That's the game that you're like, this game stinks. What's the best? That might be great. Where's the worst? I think that's like the best part for me at least. The Thursday and Friday is when it's like, I feel like you've watched college basketball and it's like there's still four games

that are tipping off after nine o'clock and they're all as important as the games. When you take that break at like 5.45 and there's only one game being played and you're like, wait, we're about to do it all over again. Yep. It's honestly incomprehensible that this is just not happening this year

because it becomes, and I know that there's a lot of things that are bigger than sports and the health of human beings is a lot bigger than sports. And I think they made the right call knowing everything we know, but I can still in the same vein say that sports run my life and without sports, I do not know what to do.

That's really what it comes out to like. I know it sounds simple-minded. People will be like, oh my God, you know, get a life, dude. Sports aren't that important. I'm sorry, I'll admit, sports are that important to me. It is basically our entire life. Yeah, it's like, because it's our job but it's also every single hobby that we have.

So- I keep looking at my phone. You see me looking at my phone a hundred times today just looking to the, I keep opening up ESPN to see, oh, how are my bets doing? Just not, they're not happening. You are going to be rich. Yeah.

Well, maybe I would have been richer although it gets to my fire fest. Your boy was hot, real hot. It's almost a good thing for you though. No, I think they took away the keys. I think they said get him to work big cat. It gets to my fire fest. You're done.

But this is, it's just crazy. So, P.F.T., I asked you before the show started and we said we'd save for the show but if you had to guess when the next sport will be played on American soil, what would the date be? American soil. Yes. Okay, so that could be, it could be on an island somewhere.

Why do we not, if we learn- To be in Guam. If we learn anything from coronavirus and I hope everything like, I hope it doesn't get worse. I hope we can figure out a cure and a vaccine and all these things. But really what has to happen like when all the dust is settled in a year or so,

whenever it may happen, we need to have someone, Bloomberg, looking at you, Minnie Mike, build an island, a biodome. We'll talk about it with John Rossi. That basically is, if anything happens again, sports played here. Right, I mean, I was looking forward to Sean Miller in the tournament just basically playing inside

one of those giant plastic bubbles that you see people play bubbles on. No, he would, we would have put Sean Miller in like the atmosphere from American gladiators and just had him sweating around on the sideline like that. But I think the answer to your question is the XFL. I think the XFL- But what's the date?

The date. The date would be mid-May, early-May? No, I think there'll be a difference. I think, I think, I feel like baseball or soccer or MLS would count MLS. Mid to late April and XFL because I think that Vince McMahon did not want to cancel either the XFL or WrestleMania.

WrestleMania. You know how Vince feels about people sneezing in general. Right. He doesn't respect them. He doesn't think people can get sick. He doesn't believe in illness. He doesn't believe in illness. Right.

So he was definitely like, let's keep this pump going for as long as we can. I think that he's going to want to play the semifinals and the championship game in the XFL. Okay, so that would be what, mid-May? I think baseball will be back before that. I'm still absolutely claiming the XFL East for the DC defenders.

Okay. First place. First place in the XFL East. Lost the Vipers. Is it a dynasty? Lost the Vipers. See, I just don't understand why they couldn't. I really, I understand why all these things

happened in the last 48 hours, because we do not know like how to stop the virus and it seems like it's exponentially growing. I know how. How? Flatten the curve. Wait a minute. I don't know what it means,

but I've just seen people say you need to flatten the curve. And it has something to do with how many people are infected immediately as opposed to over a longer distance of time. Because we're going to. Flatten the curve. There are going to be a ton of people we just don't want them all at the same time.

Flatten the curve. So just all we have to say is just, let's work on flattening the curve. That is the part that we should just get a little serious for a minute. Like I know that everyone says that there's, or not everyone, there are people out there who are still saying

it's just the same as the flu. You know, everyone gets sick will be fine. That's not fine. Because if everyone gets sick and the hospitals are over capacity and we don't have the infrastructure to get everyone well at the same time, a lot worse things are going to happen.

I think we've got something like 130,000 ventilators in America, so that's not nearly enough. It's not just old people. Your boy's been doing some reading. I have been too. So watch out. I have been too. I've been listening to a couple of podcasts in there.

Me too. So I'm educating myself and I'm learning that. We respect. In a way we respect. I don't want to use the R word because it's like. I respect it. I'll put it this way. At the end of World War II,

did we do a Jersey swap with Hitler's body? No, we don't respect our enemies. They want to kill us, okay? You didn't have what's his name? I respect it. You didn't have MacArthur whispering into Hirohito's ear on the battleship. Hey, hey, come play with us next year.

Like he was Dwayne Wade talking to LeBron James, okay? I respect it. We don't respect our enemies. We want to kill them. Okay. I want to eliminate this virus. All right. So with all that said though, it's obviously bad.

I do think there was a little bit of everyone rushing to cancel everything as quickly as possible. When it probably wouldn't be okay to just say, hey, we're suspending the NCAA tournament. Like give us a week. We'll figure it all out later. I mean, you could cancel it in a week. I don't know.

I just felt like everyone, it almost was a competition. Who can cancel fastest? I would have rather than MLS joined in and everyone was like, who cares? I thought it was already canceled. I would have almost rather they did just, we're going to delay it two weeks. And then two weeks later they're like,

we're going to delay another two weeks until I get to football season. Let us know. Just keep pushing it throughout the entire summer and give me the hope. Give me like even maybe tweak the brackets once every month. Right. Just let us know like, hey, we're going to think about it.

Let's wait and see how things go in the next 48 hours, week or so, and then we'll reassess. It just felt very rash to be like, everything's canceled forever. I'm with the mindset that there are a lot of smarter people out there than I am, believe it or not. No, I think they got,

I think they got addicted to the sea. They got addicted to canceled culture. Yes, yes. I think they got addicted to the sea. I think that there are just a bunch of people that know way more about this than I do. So I'm at the point where I'm standing back and I'm saying, I'm going to let you do your job.

You let me do my job podcast. Yeah. Okay. Well, if the CDC president comes into this office and starts telling me to use the C word less, then I'm going to have an issue with him, but I'm not going to go tell him how to do his job. Yes.

Okay, that's fair. Jay Billis kind of pissed me off though, because he was basically the first one demanding that they cancel it. And then when they canceled it, he's like, they could have probably just waited and seen. Like, what the fuck dude? There was too many people.

And that was all across media. Everyone's just like, they got to cancel. They got to cancel. They got to cancel everything. Big time cool throne. Although the NFL hasn't really decided exactly what they're going to be doing. I think they're probably going to have the draft

in front of no people. It's just going to be Godel, which is a major cool throne for him because he's not going to get booed. Yeah. For the first time in like 15 years. We got to pipe in the booze. We'll pipe in the booze for Roger Godel and Vegas.

So that's going to be kind of eerie doing a draft in Las Vegas with no people around. Yeah. Very weird. I think it's going to be weird for like, at least a few months here. Friday, 13th. Friday, 13th.

We're in, I'm reading right now, Hank. Duke pressured ACC into canceling tournament by shutting down all blue doubles sports. That's on you, bro. Duke ruined everything. Comment. Power move. They saved the ACC.

Or you could also say that. Or in which case, so elderly that. We were going to do. He is elderly. I know. He's so elderly. And he's always sick after losses. And so you might have to get a cat

because I think we agreed that if Duke was eliminated before the sweet 16, LeBron Lockwood would become a thing, right? I don't think we, we didn't make it to that point where we made that agreement. I know we did off the air. I'm not going to sit here and pressure anyone into doing anything they might have said

on the past podcast. Yeah. By the way, I don't know how I, if I, if someone could explain to me how I could go about it, I will look into it. Cause I actually read, I did some reading last night. You should just get a vial of Corona inject that into you. Well, I did some.

Corona beer. I did do some reading last night and it basically actually would be better because the people they're paying to have Corona injected, it was only in England, not in America, but they inject a lesser strand. Right. It's like the movie outbreak.

Yeah. So they don't even, it doesn't even fuck you up. You get the virus before it's mutated. Right. But you still get the immunity from it. So if I, if someone could point me in the right direction, I will look into it. I'm going to go ahead and say,

I don't want you to get injected with a Corona virus. I'm going to, I'm going to give you, everyone gets one, get out of a vet free card. I feel like this is a safe one to use. I had, there might have been a discussion at the cat cave last night about the fact that I am a father and I need to stop putting my life at risk for stupid things that involve sports.

I did. The only problem is I just don't, I don't want the narrative to get going that I wouldn't have cut off my pinky, because I would have, you know what? I'll add a second pinky team next year. Is that fair? No, no, I think you keep it at one

because you'd almost rather have symmetrical hands at each or missing a pinky. No, no, no, no, no, no, it'll be one pinky, but two teams. So double my, double the chances. I think that's fair. All right, I'll add a pinky team. Officially I will add a pinky team next year for that. I think that's very fair.

And I also, by the way, I'm getting Corona virus for the karma. Everyone agrees, right? I think we all are. Adam Morrison is going to be sitting pretty in his apocalypse bunker. The rest of us are up here with schmucks. All right, so let's actually transition.

It's a perfect transition. One year anniversary. One year, yeah, one year anniversary. Barsalgold.com slash PMT watches. It's a perfect transition PFT because we should get Adam Morrison on the show in the next few weeks to check in with him. But here is the good news.

He's just going to laugh at us the entire time. I feel like you guys are a bunch of suckers. You thought I was insane four years ago. Nope. Well, who's laughing now? Look at me now. Here is the good news. So there's a lot of bad news, but here's the good news.

The show must go on. Pardon my take. We'll not stop. We will be putting in all the protocols so that we might have to do a Skype show, but we will do a show. And on top of that, this is actually a beautiful setting for us because I've watched around Twitter some,

I'm not going to name names, some radio hosts out there trying to, you know, crowdsource topics. We have brains that are built for a sports lockdown. It's almost better. There's no sports right now in a weird way. Don't get me wrong. I would much rather have sports,

but when we first started part of my take, it was like the beginning of March one year ago. When there was absolutely, this is when we thrive. Right. And we're, we are going to jump, we're already ahead of the competition, but we are going to re-jump ahead of the competition because I think we have things planned

that no one else is going to do. So don't worry. We're going to give you probably extra long shows. We will always have the shows. We're going to try new things. Some bonus shows, some bonus live streams. We're going to watch an old football game. Where should we start with what we're going to do?

Let's start with the movie that we're going to watch. Oh, which one? The garbage picking field goal kicker. We had that sent to us today actually by the Dallas renegades because they thought, they thought that this was one of your crazy big cat, PFT got a Dallas renegade shirt.

And I was like, Oh, what size is that? Assuming that he would want nothing to do with it. And he kind of got mad and never threw the shirt. In rivalry week. And I'm pretty sure the Dallas renegade shirt is still at your desk. No, it was just funny because I was taking, I was literally taking the shirt out of the FedEx box.

Well, no, once I saw it was Dallas renegade. As I'm removing it, it's still halfway in. Hank goes, what size is that? Well, I saw it. So that's why I was laughing at it. I saw it was Dallas renegade. So I was like, of course, PFT wouldn't want that. Hank was sizing up.

You know what Hank? There's going to be a toilet paper shortage and there's nothing better than a Dallas renegade shirt for me to use. They said there's a copy of the movie. We're getting it digitized. So we're going to be able to upload it to a burner YouTube page.

And we'll let everyone know. And then we will do a watch along. So it's going to be great. So we're going to watch that movie. We are also, we were going to do this in the summer, but because the summer is basically now, and that actually is a sneaky, like this could be unbelievable if NBA playoffs come back in like June and July.

And then we just go right into NFL. It's going to be incredible. This is going to be like a spring break away from sports. And then we just go and then sprint summer because the dog days of summer, Mount Rushmore season. Right. You want to get into that? Yeah. Well, I was going to say,

we're going, what we were going to do this summer before we do the, the, uh, Bizarro World, Mount Rushmore, we're going to do, we're going to get mad at our NFL 100. Yes. So we're going to get mad at NFL 100. We said we were going to do it. We didn't have time for it in December. We now have more than enough time for it.

So we're going to pick a position group to get mad at every single. Well, to get mad at the rankings. Should we do, I say we do, since we don't know how long this is going to last, we should ration this out. Yeah. I think we should do it every Wednesday. We get mad at one of the positions.

Okay. So that would be, we'd have tight ends. And we got to do the games and we got to do the plays. What? They did top 100 plays. Oh, and top 100 games. Oh, well, so then we might do that just every day. Different positions every day. The top 100 games is one of the most.

Okay. So, so, so we'll figure out a detailed plan that corresponds with guests that can also get mad with us. We won't start, we'll start on Wednesday. So we'll let you know on Monday what to do your research. You have to get pre-mad about stuff. There's going to be a lot of homework. Is there, are you guys writing this down? We're going to, you know what?

Let's pause for a second. Let them write it down. Okay. So look at, are we, are we going to announce what's going to be on Wednesday? No, let the, no, no, no, no, this is the pause. You don't have to pause. Just we're going to pause so that, so they can write this down right now.

Right there. You got your pen. Make sure you swab it off. Alcohol swab. Okay. Lick it. Lick it. Make sure that it's clean.

Okay. Now lick your thumb. No, we're doing rude to go bear jokes. Yep, don't, don't, don't do any of that. Rewind, cancel that. Rewind 15 seconds and don't do any of the things that we just said. Okay. Now you got your pen, your pad.

Go. What are you going to say? For what we're doing on Wednesday. Oh yeah. Let's do tight ends on Wednesday. Tight ends. Boom. Okay. Tight ends are Wednesday.

Tight ends on Wednesday. Tight ends Wednesday. Maybe we'll have somebody on to discuss. Get mad about it. Yes, we have a bunch of tight ends that we know. Like portals. Yep. There you go. All right. So yeah.

Tight ends Wednesday, get ready for that. Some people have suggested Mount Rushmore season begin early. And I see why you would say that because Mount Rushmore season was invented to bridge the gap between the end of NBA season and HL season and the start of football season in the dog days of summer.

This is going to be a little bit different. I think we're going to do our bottom four, Mount Rushmore. So Mount Flushmore. Yes. So if it's, what are some of the best topics that we had in the past couple of years? Cereals.

Cereals. The worst four cereals. The worst four cereals. Cereals in a fight. I would say like grape nuts. A bee, a single morning. No, a single bee. No, you're misunderstanding what the worst.

It's the worst four animals to have on your side. PFT, you can just pick up from your last pick and then just start over again. That's right. All right. Yeah. So we're going to do Mount Flushmore season starting Monday. We also are going to throw out,

I think everyone's going to be spending a lot of time on Netflix, trying to watch old shows, old movies. So we're going to throw out random shows that we will do reviews of. And because this is the first weekend without sports and no one knows what to do, we're going to start with, you have homework this weekend, love is blind.

Review of love is blind. On Monday. I'm very excited for this. It is such a fucked up show. I haven't even started it, but I will watch it all this weekend. Love is blind coming Monday. It is the trashiest show that you'll ever watch.

Hank, it's too trashy even for Hank. It's tough. We also were like shooting the shit and trying to figure out what to do. And we did say at one point, what about if we read a book? And it was ghost town. I mean, it's crickets.

My thought is that the United States is going to get exponentially smarter during this crisis because we're all going to be shut in in our homes and people are going to start to read. It's going to be weird. Now we're not saying that we're going to do that. Big Cat said I might read a book and I was like, dude, you're not going to do that.

You're going to say that and then tomorrow. I've collected an incredible, the only books I own are books from guests of the show. Oh. Power Shift. I got Power Shift, Curveball. Power Shift. Do you have Buseyisms?

I don't have Buseyisms. Oh, I do. I have Julian Edelman's book. Kane's book. The basketball one. Yeah, that one. Kirk Oldsbury. Yup, that's a good one.

That's mostly like pictures too. You probably like that one. Yes, so we're not going to read. The coronavirus could take our bodies, but it's not going to take our TVs. It's absolutely not. Or our internet pornography. Do we need to ration internet porn?

We might be reaching a stage in America where like, well, they're going to stop production on those the same way they started production on movies. That's right, so if you're at home, limit yourself because you don't want to get to the end of the internet. Porn can survive anything, like cockroaches. No, I know it'll still be out there,

but my fear is that you'll burn through all the porn on the internet within the first couple of days. True. All right, so, Insummation. Monday Love is Blind. Wednesday, we're going to start our Getting Mad at the NFL 100 list. And we also are going to start Mount Flushmore

starting on Monday. We have good guests already in the hole. Jay Glazer Monday was electric. And we're going to also reach out to some of the recurring guests and some different people. Yep. Well, we are going to choose this, take this opportunity and be like, let's fucking knock it out of the park.

Blake Hiddles, Mr. Portnoy. Mr. Portnoy. Whitney. Yeah, we don't have any sports. Although Whitney, I don't, we should actually just have Whitney on and just ask him hockey questions. And he probably,

He had a good tweet last night. Do you see, he said, it actually is a sick league. That's pretty good. That's pretty funny. Got to give it to Ryan Whitney. Who wrote that for him? Fuck. Because I noticed that he made a pretty good joke

in that new Amsterdam commercial about, about biz. It said more like Paul missed the net. And it's like, okay, Ryan Whitney's got a ghost writer and it's, it's my life's mission to figure out who it is. Whitney was going to, Whitney was going to come to the office and watch him games and gamble with us. I take it back. I take it back.

I love gambling with him. NHL is going to be the first one back. Yeah. Hockey tough. For sure. I'm surprised at hockey even. Mr. Shift. The money coming in is way more important to them.

Like ticket sales and stuff. They don't have as big of like TV deals. So they're, that's why I took them so long to cancel it. I agree. They'll be back first. Yeah, they will be back first. You're right. We're going to do, we're actually going to watch

an old football game on YouTube. Yeah. That'll be a live stream. We're going to do a live stream of that. We're not going to know the score of it. And we're going to bet on it. How great would it be? We're going to watch Playmakers.

Do you know, it would be so great if they just like tomorrow we woke up and the Ansible Eternity was like, we've reassessed and everything's safe. We're playing. And then we just threw all this shit. We just said it in the trash. Like, haha, just kidding. Not.

We're going to watch sports. We're going to join a cult. We're going to do airport reviews. Actually an airport review right now would be great. I just want, yeah, I would. I just want to sit down and watch a ball going back and forth on my screen. Yeah.

I don't care what kind. I want to see grass. I would watch soccer. I would watch MLS so hard. It's really just about looking, looking at a TV and seeing that beautiful shade of green. Just seeing, seeing blades of grass, maybe with the Champions League music in the background.

The annual coaches picture got canceled. I know. I know. That's tough. Coachella got canceled. It wasn't just the picture. It was the entire spring meetings I think got canceled. So.

Yeah. But it's just really just the picture. Like they're not, it's not meeting. There's also a picture. There's also Bella check having to deal with reporters at breakfast. That's pretty funny. It's crazy, man.

Darts is still going. We're living in a weird ass time. I would, I would kill to just have like a live stream of anyone playing sports against each other that I could watch, that I could look at, even if it's just like people in the office. I agree with you. I agree with you.

Like I said, just a ball moving back and forth. Maybe we'll do, maybe we'll do like a live stream of us competing against each other that you can watch if you're home from work, if you're home from school. I don't know. I'm just talking to my ass. Yeah.

By the way, Tom Hanks. We should talk about that real quick. First of all, signing his name Hanks with an X. Power move. Yeah, that's fine. You thinking about doing that? No, I don't have that in me. Okay.

And Chet Hayes, his son, maybe the most. The greatest tattoo of all time. No. I was gonna say the most like, holy shit, we're living in the zombie apocalypse is a simulation. When he did a press conference shirtless with his horrible tattoos and was like, what's up guys?

Yeah, the news is true. My parents got coronavirus. I was like, what? Shit is bonk. Shit is bonk. Listen, if Tom Hanks has coronavirus, now that's a major wake up call. That was a slap in the face to America.

Yeah. It's like, okay, you're threatening our most valuable resource. And that's Mr. Tom Hanks. This guy was in Forrest Gump. This guy saved Private Ryan. He's an American hero. So Wilson.

I hope he's okay. But if there's one person that kind of shocked America into being like, this is something real that we should pay attention to, it's probably just, it's Tom Hanks. He's the most beloved person, most beloved celebrity. He played Mr. Rogers. Yes.

He's as close as we get to Mr. Rogers in America. Fuck, man. It's all crazy. And I feel really bad for, I mean, we could do it forever, but like the trickle down, like if you're sitting there and being like, hey, I'm a young person, I don't have to worry about this. There's so many trickle down things

that are gonna happen. People in the service industry, people who worked at these games, people, you know, we were talking about it before, but if you're a parent that has to work and has like kids that are now off school, what do you do? There's so many, you know, people who are elderly people who live with their families, it's fucking crazy.

Yeah. So a world is crazy. Couples that are gonna be quarantined and placed together and get into huge fights and can't leave. Well, if you're that person, then why don't you listen to part of my take and we will make the fights for you when we do our NFL 100 list

and get really fucking pissed about it. Yeah, you guys can fight over something productive, like NFL rank, like power rankings of slot wide receivers. Yes. Okay, let's get, let's do our interview with John Rostin. We'll finish it at the end of the show with our firefest of the week, which I think it's all, this whole week is a firefest,

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recurring guest, John Rostin. This is no longer March. This is much more serious than March. I don't know where to start. It's been a bad day for a lot of reasons, but obviously the tournament has been canceled. Why don't you walk us through the last 24 hours and how quickly this has all happened?

Well, first of all, just how are you doing mentally? You doing all right? I'm okay guys, I think the big thing is this and this is I think what's kind of put me at peace a little bit. We understand why the decision is being made. People are dying out there. People are losing their lives.

People are losing loved ones and so on and so forth. But I think, and this is kind of what put me at peace, we can understand that and still at the same time be overwhelmingly disappointed that the greatest month of the year didn't come close to hitting its apex. So I think that's the best way to sum up the way that I feel,

but I'm okay, I understand the decision. I think the thing that truly changed for me was when we got through the first couple of weeks, the first couple of nights of championship week, and then we saw on Wednesday a major shift in the vibe of everything and we saw the announcement that came down from the NCAA that there was going to be a situation

where we wouldn't have fans at the NCAA tournament. That was the first time you started thinking about the tournament being canceled. And then once the NBA suspended its season, I felt like it was inevitable. I woke up after going to bed in a pretty depressed state. I woke up with some hope because I started checking in

with all the different conferences as soon as I woke up and everybody said we're on a schedule, we're going to play without fans. So late morning, I said, you know what? There will be an NCAA tournament. I'm hopeful right now that this can continue. We'll go through conference tournament week with no fans, just 100 to 150 for family members in the crowd.

And then once we saw the avalanche about noon with everybody canceling, you start to start thinking again about a cancellation and then I held out some hope that maybe the tournament would be delayed. I don't know how long. And then obviously the news came down about 430 that was canceled.

Was that ever on the table, the delay of the tournament? It doesn't sound like it. It sounded like it was going to be pretty cut and try other way. And obviously in the best interest of everybody involved, it was canceled. Now, it was there any, and I totally understand, you know, having to cancel the tournament

with the coronavirus and people don't really understand where it's going. And it feels like we don't have a grasp on any of this. Was there any feeling though with the people in the room that making a decision definitive like this in these 24 hours might have been a little rash just because like, hey, why don't we wait? Let's see how this progresses and then figure it out.

Or was it they had to make a decision right away? The feeling that I got was once we saw all the major conferences and all the mid major conferences that had yet to decide a bid, cancel their conference tournament, the NCAA had to come out and say something. I don't know if it was going to happen by end of business on Thursday,

but I thought by Friday we would have a firm decision whether or not the NCAA tournament was going to be played. And I think once we saw that avalanche of news with all these conference tournaments being canceled, we needed a decision either way if the tournament was gonna go on. So why not the possibility to delay for two weeks

or to say, hey, we'll play the tournament late April or early May? Is that just logistically impossible given schools and students? You know, PFD, one thing we gotta remember, the NCAA tournament is planned out years in advance. And one thing that started to happen last night was the NCAA from talking to numerous people

close to the situation was looking at switching venues for both the lead eight in the final four because they weren't going to have crowds. So that's what they were working on yesterday. So when you think about all the logistical things that had to take place, another thing that had to take place was you guys know how the rules work.

The automatic qualifier from each conference is the winner of the conference tournament. The NCAA would have had to make an addendum to that rule if conference tournaments weren't played. They would have had to alter preexisting rules. So there were so many different variables, but the most important thing was the health of everybody involved and not spreading this virus

right now, which has really taken over our country. Is there any back seas? Can we do any back seas on this? Could they wake up in two weeks and be like, hey, you thought about it? I don't think so. Let's just do the tournament. I'm already in my head preparing for the 2020-21 season.

I love that. Okay, it's only been like two hours and you're already thinking ahead. So what are they gonna do with eligibility? Again, Wise Man once told me a long time ago never to speculate on speculation. So I'm not gonna speculate on speculation. I could see obviously certain circumstances

where there are exceptions made and so on and so forth, but in my head right now to the 1920 season, happy trails to you until we meet again. Oh my God, how have you turned the pages quickly? I'm sitting here being like, they're gonna wake up in two days and be like, turn the machines back on. Because you can't control what happens to you in life. You can control how you respond.

Wow, that's true. And then you have to learn at some point to compartmentalize and say, you know what? It makes zero sense whatsoever to be worried or be concerned with things that you can't control. We can't control this. So we look forward to 2021. That's what Pep Hamilton taught me.

There are two things you can control, your attitude and your effort that you put into whatever you're doing. What's the opening game for 2021? I haven't gotten there yet. Is there? Oh, called you off there. So actually, this brings up a very interesting situation.

I would assume the champion's classic, that Tuesday night. This is a million percent gonna be speculating on speculation, but we do have to crown an NCAA champion, don't we? So does that go to Kansas? Does that? Wisconsin?

I think we're going to see it. You can make the argument that Wisconsin is not a scene. I think we're going to see it. Is a national champion. I think we're gonna see an asterisk there. For 2020, there will be an asterisk. Season canceled.

It's vacant. Is it still UVA? Is it still UVA? Is it to be the man you gotta beat the man? Leah, let's just pretend that it's happening. Let's talk some, like, let's talk who you like. Go in turn. Let's just suspend this.

Hey. Who are the ones? Yeah, so Dayton, one seed, coming out of the East. What do you think? Look, Dayton to me was going to be the one seed in the East. Dayton to me, you know, was having the type of season that Wichita State had in 13, 14

before they got picked off by Kentucky in the round of 32. But, you know, these right now are all stories that are never going to be finished. We got this right now. That's what we're doing right now. I get it. I'm talking in real terms. Who's the one, like, blue blood program

that has underperformed this year, but still has the horses, where you can see them making a deep run into the tournament? That has underperformed this year. You know, I thought if Duke got the right matchup and Duke got- Well, no, no, no, no, they actually- They took themselves out.

They took themselves out before the tournament. That Duke has eliminated. No, I'm aware of that. But what I'm saying is- Coach Kain said, oh, my back. I'm not playing. What I'm saying, though, is I thought all season long that if Duke could have somehow found its way

into the East region and played games across the street at the Garden, which is Cameron Indoor Stadium North, that we would have seen Duke, you know, in potentially the Final Four, because if a Dayton or San Diego State got the one seed in the East, then Duke, I thought, would have been waiting on the other side of the bracket to play a pseudo home game to go to the Final Four.

How do you beat Kansas? What's the recipe for beating Kansas in this tournament? Well, Kansas has yet to lose the game, obviously, this year at full strength. Right. And, you know, one of the things that, you know, we have seen, obviously, this year from Kansas is that they're an elite defensive team.

I think you need, obviously, people that can drag Udoka as a bogey away from the rim, because he was so obviously key to their defense in addition to their offense. So you would need, obviously, a capable big man on offense to drag Udoka as a bogey away from the rim, but also somebody strong enough on defense to deal with him in the paint.

But unfortunately, those are questions that- No, no, no, we're doing this for a few minutes. Let us have a few minutes here. A few minutes, a few minutes. A few minutes. I have a future on Wisconsin, 100 to one. I got it in early February. How was your confidence level with Wisconsin?

I had bought all the way in. That team was playing tough. After the Indiana win? Yeah, after the Indiana win, the way they finished the season, this was going to be their year. Do you think that you see them with the draw they got, they're the four seed in the Midwest region?

Do you think- What's raw? Do you think that they will have a chance to maybe get to Atlanta in the final four? It depends on how they seeded against Vermont in the first round, because Vermont would have been really scared with Anthony Lam.

Ryan Davis was the guy at Vermont that my well-embedded moles in the America East were telling me was going to be the next star that programmed really good combo forward, can pick and pop, can make shots from deep, so I was prepared to go deep on Ryan Davis. So that's one of your potential 13-4 upsets? Yeah, give me 12-5, because we all know every year.

I think if it was 12-5, darling, would have probably been ETSU. If we, I thought that would have been the team that people would have jumped on, but unfortunately guys- No. Keep going. Player of the tournament, who you got? Obi-Toppen?

Ain't no stopping. I was prepared to- You are prepared to? Yep. We need to work on your tenses here, John. I was going all in on Luca Garza as national player of the year, and I'll tell you why. When you look at right now the Atlantic 10,

there was one team that was a lock for the NCAA tournament. Dayton, when you look at the Big 10, you had a guy in Luca Garza that was putting up historic numbers that the Big 10 hadn't seen in 50 years, and think about who he was doing it against. Maryland has Jalen Smith. Illinois has Kofi Coburn.

Obviously Ohio State has Caleb Weston. There are capable big men in the Big 10. Michael Potter. Michael Potter. Michigan State has Xavier Tillman. Michigan is John Teske. You have all these players that are capable of their position.

You have- Minnesota. Minnesota, Daniel Otoro. I mean, unbelievable. And you have Matt Harms as well. You have all these guys who are capable of their position, and you have Luca Garza putting up insane numbers. What about Cassius?

Are we gonna get another year out of him at Michigan State? I feel like we should give him another year of eligibility to come back, whether that be like seven. You know, one thing too, which I've learned, which is unfortunate, but what you're really gonna see here. One of the things that has really come to the forefront

the last couple of years in college basketball is that the majority of these elite prospects just wanna start the professional clocks early, because they're so obviously consumed with the NBA. So you, I think, will see again a situation where people will now bypass obviously their eligibility, even if they're not ready to be in the NBA, to try and start their professional career.

But what's crazy is this felt like the year too for Gonzaga. It felt like this was maybe their year they were gonna get to the Final Four, and we're never gonna see that happen. I would say that Maryland also probably would have made the championship this year. Scott Van Pelt would have gone to a national title game,

and it's just not gonna happen. What team do you feel like was primed to make a run this tournament that maybe was flying on the radar? Who was gonna be your Cinderella? Like a dark horse Final Four team that's somewhat off the radar. It's a great question because we saw that a lot this year in terms of teams that probably were off the radar,

but could have went to a Final Four. Kentucky I felt all season long was hiding in plain sight because they were hiding right in front of America because this was a Kentucky team that wasn't getting the type of attention that other great Kentucky teams were. I thought if Kentucky got the right draw they could have gotten to a Final Four.

I think you look elsewhere around the country. I'm not saying that it would have happened. It would have depended on the matchup, but about three weeks ago I thought that was constant with Mike Apod. Exactly. Was totally surging. Good news though, only one senior.

Whole team's coming back. Well, when you see obviously in the next couple of days my top 45 for next season, I think you're gonna like what you see. Oh, number one? I wouldn't say number one, but I think you'll see a team that's going to, and my thing with this Wisconsin Nucleus,

there's no Decker, there's no Kaminsky, but there's everything else. It's an old Wisconsin team, pre-Decker, pre-Kaminsky with like Bo Ryan as the coach and Greg Gard as the top assistant, but now it's Greg Gard's show, The Silent Assassin. How many times were you primed to tweet January, February, Izzo?

Until they lost. And do you think they would have gone to the Final Four? I could, you know, I thought- We should just say 60 teams were gonna go to the Final Four to just pander to all the teams. Either that, or we just like create our official bracket and then that's what happened. That's what would have happened.

I had Wisconsin, Gonzaga, Oregon, Ohio State, Michigan State, Maryland, Kentucky, not Duke, Virginia, Dayton, and I'll throw Florida all in the Final Four. Okay, good, you can't lose with that group. Kansas didn't make it. No, I think the one thing that we're gonna look back on is remember the unpredictability of this season,

but I think also in the last month, we saw Kansas separate as the best team in the country. They were cut above everybody else, but unfortunately the only thing that was for sure in the last 48 hours for college basketball is that nothing was for sure. And that's why the result that we have right now. It's actually kind of like the perfect ending

to the most chaotic college basketball season of all time. Sting said that too, I think. I was so locked in, I was literally doing better gambling this year than I've ever done in the last three weeks. I was so red hot. It's amazing considering the way that the sport was that you were doing better in gambling. I know, maybe, I love chaos.

What is the... It's not anarchy, it's just college basketball. There it is, there it is. I was looking for it. All right, so what does John Rostin do now? We start preparing for the 2021 season. You start obviously trying to take in the inventory. I mean, I think you start right away.

You won't be able to sleep? Yeah, I mean. We try to go to sleep and we'll just be restless. It's March, it's March. Who knows, maybe we nap in March. I've never tried it. Oh my God, that's a scary thought. So I think you start preparing for 2021

and you'll see, I think, different scenarios where kids will obviously start the process of deciding whether or not they wanna test things in the NBA. But we know that that process has become so much more fluid right now because as we know, kids can sign an agent, retain an agent, go through the process, and then obviously disengage with the agent

and go back to school. So that's gonna be a fluid process. I do think that probably what we're seeing now from a health perspective might change, obviously, what jobs open and what don't. There wasn't a lot of jobs open to begin with, so that's another thing to kind of keep in mind. But you start preparing for 2021

and you start trying to be as sharp as you can, obviously, in preparation for that season and you cover the day-to-day news along the way. Was Arkansas gonna make the tournament? I did not have Arkansas in my bracket as of this morning, but I did play much better this year when they were fully healthy. Musselman did a good job.

Isaiah Joe, different to me. Isaiah Joe, I'm just bummed because I had all these things ready for the two of you for our selection Sunday bracket breakdown. I mean, authentic goodies that you guys wouldn't have anywhere else. Just like a little sample, what would it have been? You know what, if it's okay with you,

at some point when I get them in my hand, because they were supposed to arrive Friday by mail, I'd like to drop them off and show them to you because I had all these goodies lined up for you. We had something for you on Sunday. The water is actually getting shut down in this building all weekend, and you were gonna have to piss in a jug with us.

Really? Yeah. At the same time, it would have been awesome. Yeah, sword fight. All right, so what about your honeymoon? That is... John Ross seems not going to Europe. Yeah, that's to be determined as of right now. We may have to pivot.

I'm gonna have to discuss that with my beautiful fiance, Alana. Maybe just go to VCU instead. Maybe VCU. We've got Bar Coastal. Well, Bar Coastal, which you guys still have not been to, which is the best wings on the planet,

especially when you mix in the waffle fries with the curry sauce, I'm going to go right after I finish this interview because I'm going to celebrate the 1920 season, and I'm going to obviously say farewell, but I'm going to celebrate a great season that just did not have an ending. Don't cry. Don't cry.

Liam goes to Bar Coastal for all of us. Yeah, he does. He loves it. Bubba loves Bar Coastal. Bubba's a great American. I went there for one Saturday, and it was great. It was delightful. It was a college football Saturday, so it was like all you can drink

and all you can eat, chicken wings. I enjoyed it, and I still want to go there with you and eat, was it like all you can eat still? Curry style wings, which is an off the menu sauce, which is the eye for it. It's at Bar Coastal on 78th and 1st. It's the best wings in the city. It's an LA style bar, so I think maybe,

maybe after we all get over the March hangover, maybe in April, the three of us can go. We can break bread, have some wings, have a little wing eating contest, and do it for the people. Because one thing I've learned more than ever this year is it's about giving back. It's about being about more than just the sport,

so I think the three of us should do that, and again, continue to celebrate this season, and look forward to next year, because here's the thing too, and I've talked to a number of coaches today, and I've talked to two on the way over here. I talked to Ed Cooley from Providence. Did you take back any of your good luck texts?

What? Like, did you send a good luck, and then the game's got canceled, and you're like, just kidding. No, man. Okay, all right, yeah, the good luck stands. Hey, look, you want everybody to do well. I mean, you want root for everybody's success, and so on and so forth.

So Ed Cooley, our friend, great guy. Great guy. I talked to Ed Cooley, I talked to some other coaches, and he was just talking about how obviously disappointed that he was for his kids, and so on and so forth, but I just kinda said, like, this is the bottom line right now. If your players right now with what they're dealing with

in college basketball, if this is the worst thing that happens to them in their life, it's a great life. That's perspective. And that's what we all have to remember at this point, that this is all something that's unfortunate, it's disappointing, and so on and so forth, and that's why the big thing right now

is just make sure everybody out there is healthy, wish them luck in their endeavors, and so on and so forth, and just keep it moving. And like I said, it's an end to the 1920 season, but we just recharge, we look forward to 2021. What about Mike Bloomberg says, I'm gonna give a billion dollars, I'm gonna create a biodome,

we're gonna play the tournament in the biodome. Also, I'm back in the biodome. It's just a big bubble where no viruses can get in, we'll bring all the teams, we'll wait two weeks. Well, first we have to take him to the biodome. Yep, well, he'll do it, he's got the money. He probably has one that he's just waiting to go to. It's just called his bank account.

Could that possibly bring the tournament back? I don't think so, man, I think the tournament's done. You didn't say no, though. I didn't say no. You said I don't think so. I guarantee you, if Mike Bloomberg just put a pile of cash out on like center court of basketball court, say best team wins this big pile of cash,

we could actually get some kind of tournament going, right? Yeah. Think about that. Probably could, I mean, but we're not gonna have what we had. All right, so we're not gonna have March. No, don't say that. I've accepted that, we're not gonna have March,

maybe we'll have April, maybe we'll have May, we don't know, still could happen. But I need a John Rothstein certified NCAA champion. Who won the tournament this year? Just crowned a champion. I would have picked Kansas to win the national championship. Okay, that's fair. I would have picked Kansas to win the national championship.

They were number one in everything, literally everything. They were the juggernaut, the team that everyone was like, well, there's no good team this year. Kansas was that team. Did you have any John Rothstein isms that you were holding back? For the tournament? And you were gonna release your March,

give us one, an exclusive. No, no, to be honest with you, the biggest thing that I'm disappointed about is when you guys reached out a couple of weeks ago that we were gonna do something selection Sunday, I had all these things for the two of you. And I'm gonna have to come back at a different time and drop them off and so on and so forth.

But you're like, he stands and leaving his hat. He's trying to hang out with us. That's right. And he didn't get that reference. That's right, absolutely. Exactly, but I just want to tell you this, the jerk store called and they're running out of you. All right, so let's talk about that.

Let's talk about what people can do now that March madness is not going to happen. We think it could still happen. What are we thinking in movies? A few good men, we're thinking. A few good men. What else in the 90s? A few good men, Wall Street, somebody texted me.

They said, it's never a better time to watch The Godfather Epic. And I said, Hyman Roth, when you think about everything, was 100% correct. Good health is the most important thing. More than success, more than money, more than power. If you have your health, you got it all. You got it all.

You have to tweet out every day, like today we're watching this movie from 1994. What about Shawshank? That'll be on brand? Yeah, we could do Shawshank. Are you a Jurassic Park fan? Well, I actually thought about Jurassic Park a little bit during this whole instance

because remember in the scene when obviously the power goes off. I never saw it. You never saw Jurassic Park? What, do you hate fun? Yeah, don't worry, he's never gonna catch up. You never saw Jurassic Park? I just missed it.

You haven't seen a movie since 2002. No, that's not true. I've seen Jurassic. You see any of the Oscar movies. Jurassic World. Did you see it? And Creed. Did you see any of the Oscar movies this year?

Well, I mean, that came out during the season, so no. You saw Wolf of Wall Street a bit. Great movie. Yeah, yeah. Great movie. All right, so wait, Jurassic Park, what, blood scene, the lights go out? When they're thinking about obviously

trying to restart the system and put the perimeter fences back on. Hold on to your books. Exactly, and you know, John Hammond, who created Jurassic Park says people are dying. Please shut down the system. And I thought about that in reference to everything that was going on

because that's the big thing right here, guys. We're in a state of emergency now, not just in New York City, but nationwide and in the world. So that's the bigger thing right now. It's crazy. You created a live action targeted meme. John Hammond is the NCAA. People are dying.

Shut down. They hit the button and they closed down the tournament. Hold on to your butts. Logistically speaking, and this is a little more of a serious question, I know that the NCAA obviously makes a lot of their money from March Madness. What is this going to do?

I feel like, and I'll throw this out there, I think the NCAA probably will use this as we can't pay the players. We lost the 2020 tournament. Is there going to be like a trickle down effect here where they start crying poor or things get cut because they missed this much money? Yeah, I mean, I don't want to speculate on speculation.

I'm sure that, and this is for my bosses to handle at CBS, I'm sure that if they tweak things on the deal with CBS and Turner, because they obviously didn't get a year of the tournament, but I don't have any information on that. That's for people well above my pay grade answer. Double tournament next year. Double tournament.

Double tournament. I like that. Yeah. A field of 128. Or just double elimination, just run it back. Do the tournament, run it back. Every game is a three game series. Yeah, how great would that be?

Ooh, I like that. How about that, John? One and done's the best. No, come on. One and done's the best, man. Double tournament. No, yeah, we do one and done. We've not seen Jurassic Park.

Wait, hold on. You are so set the next time there's a blizzard. We'll do one and done, one and done tournament, champion, one and done tournament. I think that's a terrible idea. Champion, play them together. And if the one and done champion wins both times, they're the ultimate champion.

They won 2020. No. The ultimate warrior. They won 2020, they win both. What do you call an ultimate warrior before? This isn't WrestleMania 6. No, but that's what we crowned them. We crowned them.

Did you watch WrestleMania 6? I cried. The ultimate warrior. No, no, WrestleMania 6, I cried. It was a low point. Everybody's like, well, when you were a sports fan, before you got into media, what was your lowest moment? It wasn't necessarily like the Knicks in 94,

it was WrestleMania 6. Hogan lost the ultimate challenge. We're the intro too for that. It was just like, it had like that galaxy of stars. And it was like champion versus champion. Title for title, it's the ultimate challenge. You should have the ultimate warrior sprinting into the arena with Jim Nance's tie in his hand,

giving it to the best senior player. Oh, by the way, who won Jim Nance's tie this year? Well, there was no tournament. No, who will win? I would have been Devon Dotson. Congrats to Devon Dotson. Congrats to Devon Dotson, so there you go. But I mean, I just wanna let you know

that how much I appreciate being on with you guys during such a difficult day. And, you know, again, I think the big picture thing right now is like what I said when I was talking to some of those coaches, if this is the worst thing that happens in these kids' lives, they're going to have a great life. But I will be back to give you guys that apparel

because a lot like TSA Pre-Check and Clear, when you get this apparel, it will be life altering. I love that you include Clear in it now. Yeah, by the way, it's been a massive upgrade. TSA Pre-Check on Star Wars. Last time you came here, we discussed Clear for, I believe, no less than five minutes and Clear reached out to us and hooked us all up

with Clear subscriptions, so thank you. All right, that was you. You've changed my life. I was trying to help out my friends. You didn't tell me that. I paid for Clear, PFT. No, I took Hank's $100 and then I said, I signed you up.

Who makes the Rosting Life videos? Well, this guy that does work for me, he works for Kaiser Soze. Oh, so it's you. Do you get that reference? Yes, I do get that reference. Okay, I don't know if you didn't see the usual stuff. The rest of the parts, you only move when I missed.

Okay. You only move when I missed. The Rosting Life videos are unbelievable. I appreciate it, man. When you're just like, just trying to climb, man. Just Rosting Life. Just watch out. Just trying to climb.

You don't know about that life. All right, I got one last question. Seek, eat question, promo code take. Use promo code take to go to see a game at some point. And when they played the tournament in late April. Yeah, when they played the tournament. We wish. Like Bloomberg's Biodome.

Just pretend that they could wake up tomorrow and be like, Hey, just kidding. It was our fault. Yeah, what if the NCAA was just like on a bender today? They're just drunk. They wake up. Oh, holy shit. I think you guys are on the left field

with a hockey stick right now. Fran McAfrey said that if they played it in June, he'd be in. We'd all be in. And that's the thing that I was really disappointed about because I felt when we had momentum shifts about midday today with everything being canceled, I said, okay, let's just take a delay. And so on and so forth.

And then it turned out that it didn't seem like that was our possibility. Yeah, you want to tell everybody like, chill out, take a deep breath. But that's actually probably the worst advice medically to give somebody at this point. Also, it was a big missed opportunity now that I'm thinking about it for some of these teams.

Like Nebraska should have come out and been like, we are not going to be in the NCAA tournament before they could, you know, Because they won this single digit game. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. All right. My last question though, for real is now you texted me

before you got here what our address was. Cause we moved. Yeah. I don't think you've been in this one. I was in this one in the show we did in the preseason. Okay. All right. So you have been in this office,

but you forgot the address. Is that why we haven't gotten to save the dates for the wedding yet? That's a great question. I mean, are you guys going to crash? Do you want to come? We would think about it. Yeah.

Where, when is it? It is going to be over the summer. I'm a great wedding guest. Interesting. I've got my Indochino suit. We just got some good moves on the floor. We just came in and we came out. We just showed up like, like,

I'm sure you have a bunch of different mascots that are going to come and dance on the floor. Mascots? Yeah. Bucky the Badger. You've never been to a wedding where the mascot shows up? No. Electric.

Bucky the Badger. I've been to a couple of the Bucky the Badger's been at. It's awesome. So we'll, we will wear, I don't know, you pick your favorite two teams. We don't have favorite two teams, but we'll pick, we'll wear whatever mascot will show up. We'll dance a little and we'll get out.

I'll be the, the thing from Providence, whatever that night. The Fryer. Fryer, okay. I'll be the Western Kentucky guy, the big red guy. Okay. Not the mountaineer from West Virginia? I could be the mountaineer.

Oh, Hank has the beard for the mountaineer. That's Hank, yeah. Hank is even better than Ben Ralph. Yes, yes, let's do that. You don't even have to put me down for a plate. I won't eat any food, just. We're actually, we're talking about like, you know how like everybody wants to do the,

everybody's like, oh, you gotta do like the post wedding brunch or whatever. I was like, you know what? Instead of the post wedding brunch, why don't we do something like at Bar Coastal so everybody can sleep in a little bit and have an all you can like eat. Well, you can eat beer and wings.

We'll go to that. Yes, we'll go to that. Regardless of what day it is over the summer. Yes, we will go to that. As long as it's not a Sunday. Okay, but you'll be there at that regardless. I will go to that. Yes, I'll be there.

I'm Ben. Does that mean we're not gonna do like the thing and ate for a few days? No, we can do whatever you want. I want to be part of the, I want to be like, yeah, I didn't go to the wedding. Do you have a bachelor party? What?

You haven't a bachelor party? I haven't thought about it because I was trying to find out if the 8-10 is still going on. Do you want a slam? Do you want us to plan a bachelor party? I mean, have your people call my people. I mean, we could do a bachelor party just in New York City.

I was thinking about Springfield for the whole of fame. We could do whatever you want. We will, if you allow us to videotape it, we will definitely. The videotape of a bachelor party. No, we won't videotape everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just like the planning of it.

That actually would be an incredible content thing. We plan your bachelor party. We do your bachelor party. Okay. And I know we can rediscuss this one. We give you guys your apparel. This is, I like that. I want to throw your bachelor party.

We will tailor make it for John Rostin. Like, we will make it all you want. What would you do then? We will set up a beer pong, except it's just peach baskets that are nailed to each one. No, all right. So, no, here we go. Just off the top of my head.

Saturday morning, start off. Coach K comes in. He lectures us on how to be a good sport. Then, right after that, we go to, let's see. Let's go to, maybe we'll have Sean Miller show up. We'll go for Schvitz with him in the steam room. We'll just make it all college basketball later. We'll take you to Hooters.

And then you'll sit down for some wings and Dickie Vee will pop up and just go, it's awesome. Yeah, we'll have Izzo come. He'll yell at us and then we'll do a press conference after saying we actually like being coached that hard. And we will make it like a fantasy camp for John Rostin. Do you think you guys can get all those guys to show up for my bachelor party?

Yes. If you let me use your phone, yes. And you have all their numbers. Nobody uses my phone. Buzz Williams comes and wakes us up every morning at 4.30 in the morning. We bench-less with Buzz Williams. Yeah, nobody sleeps less than Buzz.

This is, but we'll get Buzz to send out the invitations. He'll write out all the letters and mail them out. Buzz sends, what's your name? Buzz sends out Christmas cookies every year. Christmas cookies, okay. Every year, yeah, I don't know. Whether it's a Virginia Tech, yeah, he's a great guy. We'll finish the day.

We'll finish the day. We'll get big, you know, frame pictures of us. And we'll finish the day with Cal doing a press conference in his living room with us in the frame pictures being like, these are my guys, I love these guys. My number one picks. Look at, oh, they just happen to be here

in these pictures, this is awesome. How about that for a day? Hey man, you put it all together. If you guys can make it happen, that's all. Dinner at Olive Garden. Rick Petino's picking up the tab. Yes, perfect. Yes, this is all set.

You can't have a bachelor party in New York City and eat at the Olive Garden. Yeah, we can. Well, when Rick's paying the tab. We're running this bachelor party. So, we'll do a periscope with Dickie V at Olive Garden. I'll buy you one lap dance and the song's gonna be one shiny moment.

Right. Well, no, I'll buy you the lap. No, I'll have PFT buy you the lap dance and then I'll say afterwards that I just trusted him too much. Okay. Yeah. All right, all right.

All right, John Rostine, thank you so much. Sorry this is all, I mean, this is, like we said, bigger than sports, bigger than basketball. It's a sad day and again, we have a right to understand why the decision was made, but we can also feel disappointed about why the decision was made. All right, wait, one last last question.

What happens tomorrow morning, we wake up, your wedding is July, let's say. We won't do it on a specific day. Mark Amherst says we're having the tournament July. We got a postpone the wedding. Wow. Okay, okay. We got a postpone the wedding.

I mean, we're not talking about kickball here. Yes, that's right. But we know what, that's not gonna happen. No, it might, we don't know that. Let me have a couple things. Has anybody told you specifically that we're not gonna have the tournament in July? Yes.

Has anyone said? Well, I know this, the NBA draft is the last week of June. Right. We're gonna eliminate a lot of the top players. No, they can push that back. Yeah. Oh, sure. Because they're not gonna finish it in July.

Let's just keep going in hypothetical. They're not gonna finish the NBA season till August. I do feel really bad for Dayton. Because that's a year they have once every 20 years. But even San Diego State, like here's the thing. No, they were a fraud. But here's the thing. I'll put them on the fraud list.

But here's the thing. Things broke right from them. And I've been saying this for weeks that San Diego State never wanted to truly be the one seed in the East if it wanted to go to a final four. It should have been the two in the West because that would have kept them in LA. They would have played Gonzaga or whatever.

And then other schools, you're right, like Dayton, like BYU. Like once the next time in the day and age that we're in right now that BYU is gonna have a player like the only child. I know. I mean, it's all disappointing. That was a team that was fun, that was old, that was an unbelievable three-point shooting team,

a breathtaking offensive team. And they're never gonna get an opportunity. But again, the moral is this, and this is again what I've gotten from a lot of coaches today, if this is the worst thing and the biggest disappointment that these kids and even us, like you don't get to cover an NCAA tournament, like you work all year for this.

I go to 40 practices a year, just watching, writing, tweeting for this and you don't have it. Write an e-book. Write an e-book. Do a fanfic of how the NCAA tournament would have unfolded. I'm not gonna do that. I'm just flipping the page.

No, I want an e-book. I'm looking ahead to 2021. I want an e-book. You know everything. I'm looking ahead to 2021. Can John Ross do this? Can John Ross do this? Yeah.

2020 National Championship. Wisconsin probably would have gone to the Final Four and then broke my heart, but that's fine. Well, I think for Wisconsin, there's a likelihood of either getting to a Final Four or having a loss in the round of 32 comparable to what Vanderbilt had when Wisconsin beat him in 2012.

Remember that game in the round of 32 in Wisconsin? Then subsequently had a tough loss against Saracuse in Boston in the sweet 16 where it could have won the game. Yeah. The amazing thing about all this, guys, is the Ivy League set the precedent. The Ivy League set the precedent and the Ivy League, okay, remember this,

up until a few years ago, did not have a conference tournament. I know. They didn't have a conference tournament. They ruined the whole thing. They ruined the whole thing. Damn. And now it's over. I'm so sad.

I'm so sad. But as you said, we can be sad about this happening, but it was the right decision. It was the right decision. And again, every day's a gift. Every day's a gift. John Rothstein, thank you so much. Thank you, fellas.

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Oh, no, really? Self-quarantine is just a ridiculous thing to say, like that's going to be, that's going to be something. Are you going to get overused? No, yeah, we're definitely going to use, that's going to be meme-able. Yeah, I'm self, I've been self-quarantining my penis for years. Right, right.

That kind of shit. So self-quarantined, Charles Barkley. And then I just- He's going to get so fat. It just tiny is, I am too. I looked at my freezer, by the way. I think I'm set. Unintentionally, I'm set.

I just got a ton of meat in there. So I'm going to go Keto, Keto. Keto. I'm going to go Keto over the course of this self-quarantine that I'm putting on myself. How about, I just realized this, talking about people who like, this actually is positive for,

the Houston Astros. They're like- And Harvey Weinstein. And Harvey Weinstein. He fucking, that's- Harvey Weinstein's probably trying to sneak out of jail right now, using this as a cover. I, we did a, the beginning of this show

was obviously a little doom and gloom. We're going to be okay. We're going to be okay, people. We'll be just, we're just going to- We're just going to take precaution. We're going to flatten the curve. Yeah, wash your hands, social distancing, follow the regulations, but don't get so down on yourself

that everything's going to, maybe I said that we're all going to die in the world's ending at the beginning, but I'm- We are all going to die eventually. That's just a fact. The world is going to end eventually. Netflix, they're also probably feeling pretty happy about all this stuff.

Stock through the roof. Is this stonk up with Netflix? Yeah, probably. I would assume so. That and, oh, I'm going to call a duty. I'm back, I'm getting back on the sticks. Do some call of duty for sure. I'm going to read.

No, I'm not. Let's do our fire fest. Let's finish with our fire fest. We have Jake Lazer on Monday. And remember, we're going to do a love is blind review for Monday. Hank. So I prefaced this before.

It was tough. I usually sometimes don't always have a fire fest. Not a lot to complain about. Last weekend, I was on Long Island. In? On Long Island. Inside Long Island. Glunny Balls, who, the inventor of the ball scale,

we've talked about him with Miles Teller and Zac Efron. He lives near where I was, and he has been talking about this deli that he always goes to. It's his favorite deli in the world. And he's a food expert. So like that obviously needs. I'm using the ball scale. Yep.

So I went with him. A place called My Hero Deli. Very good. I gave it like 4.8 balls. Very good. I took a picture of it and put it on my Instagram story. And I didn't put the song, There Goes My Hero. No, Hank.

So it was just a picture. Did you at least do, I can be your hero? I didn't do any type of hero joke. I didn't take it to that next level. What are you doing? I mean, it's all I've been thinking about, really. That's tough, man. Have you been getting roasted in the comment section?

I mean, yeah. I had a friend reach out to me, like text me on the side. I was like, dude, what are you? You missed a prime opportunity. Yeah, that's tough. I sat down. I just sat down. I took you so long to get that K.

I had to sit down on the subway. Yeah, it took you a while to get that 100 K. Damn. We'd gotten there years ago if you were able to come up with stuff like that. Damn. Is that it? What's yours? Is that not enough?

Is that your firefest? That's more than enough. My firefest of the week is, I thought that we would at least have some reprieve from having no sports on TV to maybe getting into e-sports. Maybe this was what was going to get us involved. Zach Loja said that the NBA 2K League is expected to announce tonight that it's postponing the start of its season that was going to begin on March 24th. March 24th, I was going to say.

I had that circled. Okay. Yeah. The League and 2K are working closely to see if it's possible to play the games remotely, the source says. Come on, self-quarantine? So hopefully video gamers can figure out how to compete against each other in the privacy of their own homes.

I don't know. It seems like a pretty big technological step we're going to have to make, but I have confidence that the people in 2K League will figure out a way to let people play video games in their homes. I'm no Revell e-sports expert, but I do, I'm pretty sure that the 2K League is five players. You're only controlling one player. Yeah, you only have one player. So they actually do kind of need to be.

One guy gets his leg, one the other leg, all warm, and then you stick. No, no, no. It's five on five. It's five on five, and you're only controlling one player. Oh, yeah. But you can do that remotely. Yeah. You can squat up.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, yeah. But yeah, that's tough. I hope that they can figure out a way to play video games separately. Yeah. All right.

I got two FireFest. One is I actually, and I'm not like, you know, there's no hyperbole in this one. I have never been hotter as a gambler in my entire life, 20 years of gambling than I have been in the last three weeks, and coronavirus stopped it. All sports. I think we've actually been documenting, like you do the central show, it's like 30 units. It's not like hyperbole. Yeah.

You go, I'm doing well. It's like, it's physically on record. I think I honestly have two losing days in the last 21 days. This is the universe forcing you to quit while you're ahead. No. I feel like, I feel like you were about to turn the corner and just, no. Even the game, even the Big East game, I won, I was going to win that bet. The halftime one?

Yeah. You won the half time? Yes. That probably. So even the ones that didn't finish, I was going to win. That was probably going to be a bad beat, and it was going to start a bad losing streak. I won Europa League. That's pretty impressive.

It's crazy. If you're winning soccer. The only thing that could stop me is coronavirus. I was that hot. I was in the zone. I also watched so much college basketball this year, and just watched all that knowledge down the drain. So sad.

Although you've watched a lot of college basketball in the past. Yeah, no, I know. I think. But this year I was hot. It's one of those things where if you become an expert at something, it's almost like you overthink it and you become worse at gambling. I was so hot this year. My other firefresst is Hank Tweeted out an email that I guess we weren't on, but everyone

else got in the office that everyone needs to clean up their workspace. So this is a firefresst for you too. I can't get to my desk anymore. So I didn't realize it until after the fact because I kind of caused a hysteria. Oh, you think? I tweeted it out because I got the emails on the way to work. So I was traveling. I got the email, read it, and it said hi all, and it's from one of the head of production

people. And it said hi all, and it was like everyone's got to clean up their space, blah, blah, blah. People were getting in the office like exterminated. And then a bunch of people, content people, like what the fuck, where was that from? And then I looked back and the email was only sent to like video editors and some of the producers and like control room people. So it might not have been meant for the content. So what are they going to clean my pile?

No, no, we don't. We should clean the pile. No, I think Hank, if they're not going to get exterminated, all we have to do is just open up the windows. Spray Lysol on it. Let nature take care of it. Yeah. Yeah.

I'll self-quarantine the pile. Spray Lysol on the pile. I actually think that being around the pile has probably strengthened our immune systems without a doubt. My mom saw that on Twitter and texted me also, if and when the pile in your office is cleaned, you will find it is full of niceness, it is perfect for them. No. I think she's, that's, she's being hated.

That's bullshit. We're also, let's just remind everyone the pile is for charity. That thing is ready to go for charity. Now I'm not going to let this cleaning force my hand because it's not ready yet. It's close, but it's not right. It's going to be, the pile is going to be ready to be auctioned off somewhere around, I want to say May. The finals.

The NBA finals. Yes. I will, I will auction off the pile as soon as the NBA playoffs start. If they don't have them this year, that's going to be a hell of a pile. So you're serious that Charles Barkley is actually, he's awaiting the results of the test. He's self-quarantined, yeah. He's self-quarantined, but he actually got tested.

Yeah. Because rich people can get tested, but no one else can. Geez. That's pretty sweet. Convoked, right? That's pretty awesome. I saw that they were injecting $1.5 trillion into the economy. First of all, what the fuck is $1.5 trillion?

We just had that laying around. Yeah, we sort of. Is that how it works? You throw it in the, it's like, it's like chipping in for pizza. Here you go. Here, here you go banks. Here's another $1.5 trillion. All right, what do I know?

Okay. All right. I'll just give you $1.5 trillion. That's pretty badass though that the government's just got like $1.5 trillion that they could just drop. Right. That's, that's retail therapy for the United States government right there. All right.

You want to take us out PFT? I do. I love you guys. Fuck the coronavirus, there's no more sadness, now there's only sadness. Rudy, go bare microphone, quarantine stay all alone, shutting down the Disneyland blood work done on Lindsey Graham. No more college basketball, Pornhub's going to risk it all, couples will be shut and locked up, no vasectomies, you're knocked up, fuck the coronavirus, there's no more sadness,

now there's only sadness. Diggy's tournament got tipped off just one game, it's such a rip off, sad mascots, in the stands no crying girls and marching bands, stacking up on sanitizer, check my bracket, dumpster fire, XFL is closing ranks, please God just don't take Tom Hanks. Fuck the coronavirus, there's no more sadness, now there's only sadness. Fuck the coronavirus, there's no more sadness, now there's only sadness.