Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Transition: Harris is all about seeing Matas Buzelis' development

Episode Date: March 11, 2026

Leila Rahimi and Marshall Harris welcomed on Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes for the daily transition segment.

The score. It was, you know, like a snowball at a bar mitzvah, but when they say snowball, you're not going to any other partners. You're just staying there with your one boo thing. Like, yeah, they were absolutely, that's a Jewish reference there that maybe flew right over everyone. It's okay. I'm telling you. I appreciate the explanation.

I've never heard the I pronounced in Booth thing. I've said, I said Boothang, but not, or Boothang. I can't say that I've ever said Boothang. But he said Booth thing. Like, this thing. Don't you know the song that? Everybody plays on TikTok. They say,

you're my little boo thing. Don't they? And that song? Maybe it's two Americas. I don't know. The song that took over Instagram for a billion years. Yeah,

but usually it's like boo thing. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Right. But some of us sound silly saying it that way. It's got like an accent mark on it or something. I don't know. You just didn't say us.

I don't know you, you of all people, Mike Jones. I know you was now you're talking about us. But I'm still quoting Mike Jones. Back then they didn't want me. Now I'm hot. Yeah.

But when we hanging out. The story of C.D. Gardner Johnson's career with the Bears. When we be hanging out, you say, Mike Jones. Oh, but, but I don't know that all, maybe, maybe it's because I think to harken back to last transition from yesterday, one has to have a boo thing to say the phrase. This is true. I know one of us has a boo thing because he was like, can y'all get some more boothings? And then we had to explain that that supply was not as plentiful as we would also.

just like to let you guys see curtain jerker game going on right now. No, DePaul. That's not the curtain jerker. That was one earlier? It was Arizona State, Iowa State. Iowa State shouldn't be a curtain jerker. But they were, that's why

it was the curtain jerker. They were up by like 45 points in the second. You see the number one picking the draft last night? See A.J. DeBonsa of BYU? You think he's the number one pick? Absolutely. Oh. I was watching the Italy World Baseball Classic the game that nobody thought counted. I understood.

I wasn't watching AJ DeBonson live. I'm still a Darren Peterson guy. I know. I'm telling you it's AJ DeBonson. Matt. It's AJ DeBonza. That dude is long and fluid. He can shoot and he can finish.

He's smooth. He put up 40 in the Big 12 opening. He's way too smooth to fall to where the Bulls will be No, and Bulls have no chance. I actually think the Bulls are going to be all right. I think this is a draft that is deep enough that they can find a difference-making player.

More importantly, it might be deep enough It might be just deep enough that they don't have to worry about picking the guy because the guy falls to them much like Modis Bluzellis because if they pick too high, they might pick the wrong guy. But now it might be, you're on the cusp of the last really, really good guy. I told you, I like Braden Burys. And I've seen a bunch of mocks that have him go to the Bulls at like eight or nine or something like that. They can't go eight. From the team that brought in Noah Essing game. This is what Marshall.

Well, they physically, we were being a little bit dramatic. Mathematically, it doesn't seem like they can be. They can't fall any farther. Four or you fall down from where you are, and they're not getting up to seven or eight at this rate. They're just not. They've won three or five. I know. Win and down Warriors, win and doubt Bulls pick seven.

That's what I always joke. But Marshall, Modis had some moments last night. I'm good with Modis. I'm good with- 41 of them. The question we had in five on it is, are you okay with the win considering Modis is taking steps? No. Number three.

That should be no. No, the answer is yes, because he's got either develop or not. And you have to turn them loose. No, that is a tank loss. That is a fail last night. But that's not on modest. No. But you're not okay with the win.

The answer is no. I'm not okay. Let me help you with your answer. No, I'm just kidding. Number two. I want to get back to number three before we get to number two. The options were either modest develops or the bulls they lose. I said modest develops.

Oh, I see. Those were my given options. And listen, if they want a tank, they could tank. I don't know. Jaylen Smith, who's missed some time with a calf injury? Maybe he should be on a minute's restriction. Just kidding. We were talking about, he played 34 last night.

We were talking about giddy being out for the rest of the year, and then he came back like two days later. That's a way that the front office can assure that you do lose games. Like, oh, Josh, I'm so sorry about your back. What do you mean? There's nothing wrong with it. Oh, there is something wrong with it. I don't think it has to be that serious.

Just minutes restrictions on everybody. Just minutes restrictions. Like Jaylin Smith. That would require a tell. telling Billy what to do and they don't have the balls to do that. They don't. You don't have to tell Billy what to do. You tell medical what to tell them.

Well, they don't have the balls to helm the full thing. Isn't there some moneyball procedure that can be done here? First base is incredibly hard. You keep taking the players away. Yeah. The Carlis Pettysen's away. They take Henry Simons away. They took Jayne ivy away.

Jayden Ivy might have taken himself away. That was somber. Rob Dillingham's got assist on his shooting. Like, there are there are. There are avenues. Rob Dillingham exists. No, they could lose better. Oh, he did.

He tried that steal and then the dunk and it didn't go dunk. If he plays, they could lose, they could lose better. He would help them lose by playing. That is really how you're supposed to do it. I was saying the same thing about Patrick Williams. You're not supposed to get players that are decent enough to be a problem as you try to lose. Well, that way you just make them unavailable. I mean, we got Todd in Philly.

You know how to do it. I got a master class in that. But what I'm saying is I thought that was the case with Pat. Patrick Williams. He's out here playing and they're out here winning three or five games. That's my point. I would like to thank our guests because we had a Ray and a ray of guests. Mike Florio, Danny Parkins and Roberto Garza. Roberto Garza.

I did not think that that was going to happen today. That was an amazing get. An amazing get by Ray. Ray, tell everybody what you told me about Roberta Garza. Oh, yeah. And I let Roberto Garza know this. I'd never fanboy out on our guests or anything like that because that's unprofessional. but I did let him know

I used to get fired up watching him when I was a kid when I would see Garza on the field I'd see that name, that Mexican name Jersey. That's cool. Representation. That's right. So I let him know that. That's what's up, Ray. That is, you didn't, yeah, that should have

that's great, man, for him to know that. That's a beautiful thing. When he was first in the league, I think it was 2007, so maybe a few years in. I think at the time they measured there were fewer than players of Hispanic origin in the NFL. Wow.

That was a stat I had read. It's incredible. And he was very nice and interesting to talk to. And Trudeau Forum. Tell us about havelinas and the dangers. And a good center. You grow up learning this stuff, man. I'm just telling you.

Very solid center. And doing it with no ACLs. I mean, that's the thing, right? Okay. I didn't want to joke about this because I was very curious about the process of a physical and what they told him. You know, about the liability forms and all. of that, that is really the crux of this.

But how many times have we all complained about ACLs? We as a society, you know, and as somebody joked about it on Twitter, they were like, you never hear anything good about them. That's a blank-ass ligament. So, which is true, except they said a different term. And then it's like, oh, well, shouldn't that be the dream to not have the ACL? Wait, that's a problem too, because you can't tear the ACL if you don't have it. Well, yeah, that's the thing.

Like, when I, I didn't know about the whole not having ACLs, this was not my introduction to it. Mine was DeWan Blair when I covered him at the University of Pittsburgh. He did not have ACLs in either leg. And yet he went on to be drafted. I love that. I love that. I called his games against DePaul. Oh, that's right. You just don't think that it would be a problem. Like, I would think it would be an event. I was only born

with two wisdom teeth on one side. And it made me really happy because I didn't have to worry about the other two. And that's how it should be. It reminds me of a pitcher without a UCL, an owner collateral ligament. R.A. Dickey. He won a Sy Young Award with no U.S. He won a Siong Award with no UCL at all. Knuckleball, an incredible career.

Do you know what happened? The Rangers team doctor looked at a composite picture and saw the way his arm was hanging. And he realized based on the way his arm was hanging at rest that he was missing a UCL. Now, obviously, they confirmed it. But exactly. See, think safe. Point to your head, smirk.

Yeah. Because you can't tear something. you don't have. Right, but it probably limits the ceiling. I'd like to go back to yesterday's transition where I it was alerted to me that perhaps you guys might have felt accosted in any way

about not having a relationship of consequence so you can't bring it to the air. And really I was just making a plea for the content. I didn't mean to make anyone feel judged about their relationship or their lack there of or anything like that. This has been my statement and I apologize. I was not offended. Marshall and I joke about being single all the time. Okay, good.

Yeah, I'm good. If I, I'll It's just a lot of pressure to have to bring about my way. But you don't have to. That's another fair point by my partner. That's fair point. Here's my thing on this, Matt. What's that, Marshall? I am single, but I am single by choice.

I do not pretend that if I wanted to, quote, unquote, have a significant other. If I wanted to have a girlfriend, I could have one. Oh, yeah. I just got other priorities right now. I got you. He's got to get through March Madness first. That's facts. We're in our work season here at the score.

And I would just like to offer to everyone, curtain jerker games. Here they are. Stop saying it. Loyola versus Richmond. It's uncomfortable. At the At 10, that's a curtain jerker game. How dare you do that to the spiders?

I will not have this spider slander in my house. The curtain jerker game feels like something that comes up in like a joke about a sperm bank or something. Like it just makes me uncomfortable. Look, the fact that there are conference tournament games that are already over. Those were curtain jerker games. I don't know. I'm beating Maryland this morning. is a curtain jerder day.

You guys know the sperm bank joke, right? You know that one? I'm scared to ask. No, it's a good one. It's a good one. 80-year-old guy goes to the sperm bank. Says, hi, I'm here. I'd like to donate. They're like, here you go. All right, sir, here's it. They give him a jar, and they tell him to go behind a curtain, right?

And he's back there for 10 minutes. It's back there for 20 minutes. And he comes out and he says, ah, I just can't do it. I tried my right hand, tried my left hand. I tried both hands. I can't open the jar. That's the joke.

Come on. dump him. That's a good joke. Lawrence, could you please hand me a spoon? He couldn't get the jar open. That's a joke, come on. I think that's just on the line. That's a winner. No, it's totally clear.

He's on the edge. He's on the edge. That's a Herb Spiegel special. What do you know from funny, you bastards? Oh, no, it is funny. It is funny. Lawrence is the only Jewish friend I have anymore at this radio station.

Thank God you're here. How's that work? All right. Just take it. Whatever group will have. me. I call myself a friend of the tribe. That's good. You know what I tell you? If you don't play for your guy,

we don't get our guy. Wow. That's right. It's a partnership. And look, if you've been watching the WBC, you've been learning a lot about that guy during commercial breaks. Yeah, you pointed out, Bothery. You have been learning

a lot. Thank you, Mark Wahlberg, for that information. And thank you, Zachary Levi. Uh-huh. But also, This is why you got to watch on Tooby. The unfortunate tweet from Fox. Oh, my God. What were they thinking? Flabbing?

They put, I think they have since taken it down, but they initially had put out Israel eliminated. With a giant star of David. Israel has been eliminated. I didn't even think about that. From the world. From the world baseball classic. I just thought it was a world baseball classic. He said from the world baseball.

No, it did not. It just said Israel eliminated. That's not. And considering, you know, events that are outside of our purview, it's a little scary. Every time you open a news app, you're wondering if such things are true. Yeah. It's tough. So, danger.

I'm sorry because I saw that, and I was like, oh, they got a little bit for the World Baseball Classic. I didn't even think about the other thing. That's funny. Inside the mob said Sammy Davis Holmes, Jr. That's good. Hey, he converted. He converted?

Yeah, but apparently he was into some other stuff, too. I want to say Eddie Murphy had said during, what's Seinfeld show? Comedians in cars, that in coffee. That apparently Sammy was like kind of hinting it like Satanism with him one day. It was like, you know, God's powerful, but so is the devil. Eddie was like, all right. Was that a sales pitch? Apparently he was lining up for one.

That's some point. When I interest you in Satan, keep talking. Keep talking. Go on. That's crazy. Which naturally reminds me of of Russ Wilson saying Not today, Satan, not Twitter.

Not today. What was that one over? All hot ones. No, no. Because he, Russ Wilson. Oh, this is the Epstein files. Yeah, yeah. That's right.

Not the hot ones. They were like trying to sell him a yacht. He's like, not today. I was just there to buy a yacht. So speaking of it. No, they were pitching a yacht to him, right? Wasn't that it? Yeah, that's it.

They came to him. Speaking of Russell Wilson, he had previously set the record for dead cap money with the Broncos, right? And then Tua broke that record. There's 99 mil of dead cap money. But when you do all the math on the dolphins, including who is it, Bradley Chubb? Jalen Ramsey. Is Tarynx money still part of that deal? Tyree Kill, thank you.

$151 million this year alone in dead salary cap money for the Miami Dolphins. So it's a rebuilding year is what you're saying. A hundred and fifty-one. My God! I got a couple of fouls to give. Let's go. That's mismanagement right there. Dude, and yet, but it's the NFL, man.

I don't know. Do you have fouls to give? You have fouls to give. You should go immediately and sign up to play for the Washington Wizards. That's what I. I always say I've got six fouls to give. Don't I? Those are useful.

What else am I going to do out there? Bam was making those free throws, though. Yes, he was. You foul them all you want. I just don't. The shade, like the gatekeeping of an 83. No, but Brian O'Keefe

was the best because I think he realized if we had maybe played a little bit more defense in the first half, we wouldn't be in this match. Says every NBA team ever. What do you have? 32 in the first? 31 in the first, 43 in the half. So guess what? So guess my ass. How about that? You get what you come.

You get what you get. 62 through three quarters. By the way, bam, going behind the back between the legs, spinning and putting up a left hand finish in the first half. Like that dude, his skills, have gone way bigger than people have perhaps realized. How about this?

The press conference was him in Asia. It was gorgeous. I loved that. I loved it too, dude. I thought it was beautiful. I thought it was absolutely beautiful. People said she taught him a few things, and now he wants to unleash it on the world.

She said, I no longer have the high-scoring game in my house. She had 53. Yes, but they both, they're the first couple to ever both hold the single season mark, high mark in concurrent season. How great is that? Their relationship looks beautiful. It really does.

Those kids. On the outside. What do we know? Think about in the crowd, we were talking about this, like during the, what was actually brilliant work by everybody at CHSN, Adam and Me and the Bulls crew, when they had to fill the time during trying to figure out if the game was going to get postponed or not with the heat and then the condensation on the court. They started following around Asia Wilson because she was taking pictures of people. She was there. And there were people wearing Asia jerseys in the stands.

So cool. So, they started talking about their relationship. Her shoes are really. dope too. If I play ball, I would get a pair of Asia Wilson's shoes. The hot pink. Yeah, those are fly. Like the blue ones? But I'm done playing ball. It just says nice to hear people

support each other. Rubin likes pink shoes. So Asia's got good pink shoes? Yeah. I mean, her whole line, like the line of shoes for Asia Wilson is really dope. Like the style of it. The pink, the blue. It doesn't have to be pink. I'm just saying like the actual style. They have more heel cushioning, too.

Yeah, they've got a few different color ways. The pink is what stood out to me. Don't say teal. It's a wrong day for white socks fans, tell you talk about Teal. No one is not yet? Oh, yeah. We don't know how healthy he is. Team USA got white socks last night, fella.

Paint the town, Teal. That's right. How about that? Teal and Antonachi in here. Tish. Tishinjee. No,

I'm saying that Tile and Antonachi put the USA's life out. For the home runs. We're courtesy of Chicago people. It would have been nice if the guy in charge would have known, you know, the rules. Well. Or anyone in USA baseball. Baseball would have been like...

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Speaking of Cubs, congratulations to Andre Dawson for getting the blank cap on the Hall of Fame plaque that he wanted the C he wanted the Cubs but he at least gets the blank which was instituted after he got in but now we'll be a little more representative he never wanted the Expo's plaque he didn't get to choose

ever since Wade Boggs tried to pirate the entire thing by telling the Tampa Bay Rays that he would wear their cap and the hall rightfully took it back from the players in that sense now you get to be a collaborative thing but they didn't have it for Dawson now this is good for Andre to have a blank cap good for him

Congrats Tampa still doesn't have a Hall of Famer, right? Is that true? I don't believe they do. It would have been McGriff, right? No, but he, that's not, no. I'm not sure if they do.

No, I'm saying if it would have. No, I don't think he would have gone in his array. Yeah. He would have gone in with the Manski cap on. Tom Manski, the drills. Maybe the Braves is what I would think, afraid, but maybe I'm off on that. I forget which one.

Maybe Fred went blank. I'm not sure. Let's see. Yeah. I'm looking at Fred. He wasn't with the race very long. No. That's where he ended the career, right?

It's blank. Fred has a blank cap. A lot of people do. Jim Leland has a blank cap. Did our guy Dave Wills? Did he end up getting the Ford Frick? Because that would be a Ray in the Hall of Fame. So the first Hall of Fame would be, oh, wow.

A non-player? No. So Fred McGriff is blank. Mike Musina is blank. Musina's blank? Yeah, Roy Halliday. I think of him is either an oral. Mouserian.

Greg Maddox. Maddox went blank. Catfish hunter by choice early on. He fought for that one. Then both Larusa and Leland have blank caps. And now Andre Dawson will join them. The hard part about players, even of that era, who are still young, relatively speaking,

you think of them where you found them famous because of broadcast at the time. And that's not, you know, as a fan when you're a child or you're younger growing up, you're thinking of them as how you know them rather than how. That's why the Cubs and the Braves are so popular to this day because there's a group of kids that. Superstation kids. I mean, Alex Breitman is still talking about watching Cubs games in Albuquerque

growing up because of the Superstation. So you could get the Rangers not as easily on television at the time that I could watch the Braves and the Cubs games. games. What year did the Superstations go away as the carriers? It's a good question. Oh, this is early 2000s at least. Yeah. It was, maybe even earlier? Because there was late 90s, they're very much still, I was watching like, saved by the bell and TV. I watched Kerry Wood. Do his thing on WGN. It's 1998. My first week here. I remember. That's when they stopped. That's when 98. The Carrie, the Kerry is my first week at the score. No, it was definitely

early 2000s before they cut it off. Always says he threw a horrible bullpen that day. So the Superstations lasted, well, WG and America lasted until 2021. Yeah. Now we got to find out how long the Superstation. Yeah. Because it changed to that. Because it changed to that. The News Nation after that, right?

When the Braves came to the ballpark in Arlington, I will never forget my co-host because we were talking about how packed the ballpark was when it normally was not at the time. And he goes, it's all those Gen Xers watching that damn super station. I mean, that's true. That's true. That's not wrong. He's not wrong.

That Ted Turner's trying to take over the world. Yeah. I notice how all the old people always hate on the young people, no matter what generation it is. Like, I'm sorry that I watched syndicated programming. But, I mean, you can literally find newspaper articles from like the 1850s of people being like these young people don't have the work ethic, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You could have just stopped at these young people, period. And that's kind of the sentiment, right?

Like these young people. They have no idea how it is. The fun part is they have the resources now to complain about us on Mass. Did we ever think about that? No, we didn't. We did not think about any of it. Social media is real. I heard a little bit about some of it.

Here's what we're doing on today's show. Mike Ferrin is going to join us. He'll be on the call tonight at the WBC. He's done this before. He called Otani versus Trout. Yes, he did. He's calling all the games in Houston for Sirius. and he's got managers meetings today.

I bet he does. Someone should have them. Maybe they should take those meetings a little bit more seriously. So he's going to join us at 425. Brandon Thorne is going to break down some offensive line play for us at 3 o'clock. We're going to talk about the Crosby situation, and it was great to see Mike Florio mentioned something that he often mentions here on the score. We'll do some of that.

But when we come back, let's talk. about the Max Crosby stuff, because it is me tea, and we're going to enjoy it. After Tanny's open, which you know is must listen radio. It is next here on the score. Good job, Tyler. Thanks, Lawrence. And this segment is brought to by almost free teeth.com. Save on dental implants today.

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