The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 2 - Manicotti, Bears, Sharks & Beiber's

Episode Date: March 26, 2025

Covino & Rich ask if a billionaire funded NIL for a small school, could they win the Tournament? They have a fun random call & a "Soup" story. They talk awkward returns, as Jimmy Butler's "revenge game" didn't quite pan out in Miami. Plus, 'MID WEAK MAJOR,' the Yankees valuation & Rich's hypothetical Dodger question!   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I was just going to say, Doug, I think, is tied for third. I would imagine so. The guy knows his stuff. Well, that's the whole thing about it. Doug filled out a bracket on who had the most money in NIL. And so far, it's worked out pretty well. Now, I'm not saying that was his goal, but. He used it as a guiding force.

Yeah, guiding principle. So Steve Hartman, great Steve Hartman. I think he's still in first and maybe Brady Quinn is in second. Last time I checked. There, there you go. Top three right there. All guessing games. Rich had a dumb hypothetical, but not really recently.

Like what happens when some multi-billionaire one day just wants to mess with how college basketball works in NIL? Because somehow finagles a loophole. The loophole could be if Jeff Bezos, just for the hell of it. In fact, just for the smell of it was like, pick the worst college ever. as far as sports coastal Florida of something wasn't St. Francis your example? I don't know.

Every time we talked about it. No, because they were in the tournament. I'm saying like, oh, even worse. Like, just pick a team that has like one win. What if Jeff Bezos was like, you know, I'm going to sponsor the top 15 college basketball players, give you 10 mil each, which is chump change for a Bezos.

We want you to be the face of Amazon. Could he automatically buy himself an NCAA tournament championship? championship. Yeah. I guess like in that way, for sure. There's loopholes behind it. Yeah, if they're using their name image and likeness to promote, yeah, through donations

to promote whatever product he's pushing or whatever, then he could find a way to manipulate the outcome or at least change it up a little bit. Any rich person, not just a Jeff Bezos. A rich person can manipulate college sports easily. And, you know, it obviously would have to go through whatever process it needs to go through. But that's also part of the problem is right now. Exactly. Nothing to legislate anything.

So when they use the term wild, wild west. Really? Like, yeah, it kind of is to that aspect. So the lowest ranking team right now is Mississippi Valley State. So Mississippi Valley State. That was mine. I said Mississippi Valley State. That's where Jerry Rice went, right?

He did. But in men's basketball, women's basketball, football, they're traditionally lately very bad. So if Elon Musk was like, put aside SpaceX for a second, I'll give the best players, you know, 10 mil each, just for S and giggles. I want you to be the spokesman for Tesla. Pay them crazy amounts of money. And all of a sudden they beat Duke in the finals. I'll pick the second to last, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

They could compete with the right money. I think Spot would love their logo. When we showed her to Monty, she, fell in love. It's a lion head, but it's UAPB if you can see it. If you can see it, the pine That's pretty cool. Yes, I figured you'd like

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LeBron talked a lot of smack. It was a fun conversation on McAfee smack in the form of entertaining. Do you feel bad for Winhurst? That was the other story too, right? He thought he's probably pals of LeBron and LeBron's like, oh, that chump essentially. It felt a little mean, but that's his truth, I guess, whatever. The big story, too, was that he said Janus would score 250 points in the 70s. I think what we established in our conversation, yeah, he's speaking the truth there because

sports has evolved. competition has evolved conditioning has evolved but when we talk about the arts it's very different in fact we've gone backwards in a lot of ways as Danny G pointed out off the year you know musically

comedically artistically we just push out garbage comedically movies other than Richard Pryor and you kidding me they spent years crafting an act now we just fart out specials because they're under contract you lost a lot of quality arts debatable everything

else not so much. Art is debatable. Art not necessarily because we fart out music because it's so easily created in someone's basement when years prior there was artist development and years and years went into the craftmanship and the development of that product.

Art not in that conversation the same way sports is. So we established that again where Kavino and Rich will take your phone calls at 87799 on Fox. We still have midweek major to get to. Plus Jimmy Butler's awkward return and and more.

Yeah, say hi to Gary in PA. Gary! Hey, Gary. It's Derek, but nice talk to guys. Wait, what's your name? All that buildups just to get it wrong. Derek. Yeah, Derek, you know, it's fine.

Oh, my name is Derek, and I can sing hi like that. Name the movie. What's up, Derek? No, is that a movie? Yeah, stepfather. I don't think he's failing. Yeah, he doesn't like you, Rich. He doesn't like your goofy.

He called him Gary and you made a bed. joke yeah keep going oh no i'm not gary i'm derrick but uh no yes i just wanted to just wanted to say you guys are absolutely hilarious thanks gary the only thing that i've been able to think about for a while is just a bunch of jesus and beavers rushing at me yeah how many think he could beat up i'm not eight like i no not eight i don't know i'm kind of a lazy dude maybe three i's in really in shape these days. Yeah. But we're talking floppy-headed, you know, 2000s, baby, baby.

But they got that pubescent strength. They're stronger than you think. Thanks again, Gary. Thanks, Chuck. Thanks for calling Chuck. I've heard of old guy strength. What's pubescent strength? Just like teenage boys are much stronger than you think.

They've got that muscle mass. Yeah, I guess so. They're coming into their own body. Just stops him. Going to middle schools and fighting kids. They're coming into their mom. They're coming of age. Stop it.

Let's go to E-Dog on Long Island. E-Dog, what's up, man? E-Dog says he has two random stories that have nothing to do with what we're talking about. Perfect. You don't say. So does Rich, so don't worry about it. So did Gary. E-Dog said to pick one of the stories.

It's choose our own adventure with E-Dog? Sweet. What do you got, E-Dog? I'm both in the corner. Okay, that's cool. I like that. I like that story. Visualization.

Okay, and another one, another story is this. We're going to have both of them? I was in King. Yeah. What? Pesci. My cousin Vinny, the best. Eat, dog.

Interesting guy. Oh, yeah. Two years. I really wanted to see how that story panned out. Something about Joe Pesci. What happened there at the end? I think he just watched the movie with a girl. Liar Lyer Lai or Lyer.

With our very own Justin Cooper from the network. But not as good as my cousin Vittian. I kind of agree. I kind of like that guy. Because it's like doing a show at Rich Davis. They're both from Long Island. They're both from Long Island. They're both from Long Island.

And they just start talking about random things out of nowhere. Like manicotti. Yeah, exactly. I think that was good. I got one more thought before we get into midweek major and I know we're going to talk to Jimmy Butler. So last night after my daughter's softball game, after our big

win, I coached the hell out of that game. I dragged the field, put on the sprinklers and do all the stuff that parents do now. I just have to ask. Am I out of my mind to think that when we were kids? Not that it's a big deal, but when we were kids, I feel like no one did that to the fields. Do you listen?

a YMCA while you do it. You just had a crappy Little League program because my parents did that. Union Little League all the way. Your parents care. Yeah, my mom would work the snack stands. That's what parents do. Dads would rake the fields. Do you do the macarena while you do it? Yeah, I know. I'm saying you, I grew up where the field was sort of what the field was. And that's why you got bad hops and it wasn't really manicured well. Sounds like you had a crappy Little League. Maybe I did, man. I'm sure not everyone had your great Little League field. I mean, I imagine your Little League had a short fence too with all the home runs you hit. The dads raked the field.

That's how it was. But you're not any more special of a dad. Are you here to tell us that little league coaches have evolved to? Well, actually, the way they teach kids. Yes, in a overabundant way. My dad was raking the field in the 80s. Where I have girls on my team that are seven and they have private softball pitching lessons. That's wild.

I would think nowadays you would have competitions for dads competing on whose field would look better. Because of lawns, I'm totally in the reducing. doing part of my lawn right now, and I think that there are a lot of people like me. That you, if you gave a couple of dad saying you've got diamond two or you've got Steve Kavino Memorial Field to take care of. Like they would want to have some Kentucky bluegrass on that. Yeah, they would want to make it like the best diamond compared to everybody else. Did the guy drop to Thatcher reference the other day?

To Thatcher, yeah. I had to look up what the De Thatcher was, and I'm a guy who's done a lot of landscaping. I enjoy that stuff too. And I'll name drop the guy that runs my son's pony ball league. Jeff Supon, former Major League Baseball pitcher, played for almost 20 years. Sure. Soup is so adamant about making sure. Wait, you call them soup?

That's his and everyone calls him soup. You know, soup. My best friend, Sue. You call him soup, I call him soup. Get with it. So soup, make sure these fields. These fields are so manicured. They're like Major League Baseball Stadium.

Like the grass where you almost like, wait, is that real grass or turf? Because it's that, it's like, it's like, so short, like perfectly manicured. I must have just played on the crappiest fields on Long Island where there were rocks on the infield. They were the remnants of the foul line every game. I get the little thing, you know, you're making the line, the straight line. To me, I just feel like kids now have way nicer facilities. I think that, and I may have mentioned this on the show, but as a right-handed hitter,

the first time you stepped in a battered box that was level with home plate was new because it was always had the dip. The dip. Because everybody was a righty. So you're like three, four inches below home plate. When you actually went to a real diamond and you were even with home plate, it freaked the crap out of it. You know who doesn't let the hole in the battered box? You know who doesn't let that divot happen? Soup.

Soup. You know, whole soup. To jour. My pal, soup. Rich dropping names. So again, that's Rich Davis, the coach. We're Kavino and Rich. Kavino and Coach Rich.

And we'll take your random stories and your phone calls. but we got to talk about Jimmy Butler back in Miami. It was one of those anti-climactic. You could say awkward moments. It was an awkward return. Well, what was his quote, DENIG? Something like, yo, I was... Yeah, that the video tribute was nice,

but he didn't really feel a lot of emotions. Yeah, I guess it's... He didn't feel a lot on the court either. He only scored 11 points. He was 5 at 12. What was more of an awkward return? Jimmy Butler, or when I returned those curtains to bed, Bath and Beyond after I had him for like three years.

I kept the bag. I was like, hey, man. These things, they just don't work right. Awkward return. There are some stores that are like, we'll take it back whatever. Yeah, so awkward returns. They showed the video. They showed the montage.

He showed no reaction. It was sort of an awkward moment. The crowd in the arena looked kind of confused. They didn't know how to react or boo. He said it was nice, but he had no emotions behind. He didn't want to deal with Pat Riley. It was an awkward return, man. Can I tell you that crowd reaction is almost the worst reaction because what do they say in

relationships? What's the worst thing? Apathy, right? Like, you may hate an ex-girlfriend or still be in love with her. Indifference and apathy is the worst because that means like, you just don't even care. Like, you almost wanted the fans to be like, thanks for all the years, Jimmy Butler. You know, happy face coffee. We miss you, bro.

Or, boo, you left a. The fact that there was that sense of like, that's like, that's the emotion you don't want, Kavino. No, he said. Out of a relationship, a job, or anything. Again, he spoke on his return and the tribute to him. The video was nice. And again, they were just doing the right thing.

But there wasn't a lot of emotions. Here's the clip. Like I always say, I got a lot of love for the city for the fan base here. Video was nice. I won't say that there was a lot of emotions, though. I mean, it takes me back to. some good times when I was running in Miami, he Jersey. I'm very appreciative of those times

to help me become the player that I have in his league, the individual that I am in his league, the teammate, the leader, all of those things. I don't think I could be who I am today without my opportunity here. I had an awkward return. You know, Rich and I built our talk show at Sirius XM, right? That's where we started as a talk show.

I remember when I first started dating my girlfriend, we went back to New York City. And I was like, yeah, you know what? that's where I work. And we still work there, but I hadn't worked in that facility anymore. And I wanted to go into this building, this real nice building we worked at, like a big shot. And I got there and they wouldn't let me in. I didn't work anymore.

And I'm trying to show her just how cool the facility is and the security got involved. And then they're calling upstairs to see if I even work there anymore. And I'm like, I do work there. and then you go back and like none of the people you used to work with or even there anymore. It's how a lot of people felt after COVID. You didn't even know where anyone worked anymore or where they were. Steve, I found exclusive audio of you that day.

I don't even really work here. Yeah. It was so embarrassing because it was like, do I even work here? I felt like such a slub. They wouldn't even let me in the building. Didn't your girlfriend say, are you lying? Yeah. It's like the video of Jamal Adams getting locked out of the Jets facility, remember?

Oh, so weird. Let me tell you, when it comes to awkward returns, I guess you could consider reunions returns, right? Like when people get together, haven't been together in a while. I had my 20-year high school reunion recently. And recently 20 years ago. How dare you. When I recently had my 20-year reunion,

all the guidos that I grew up with on Long Island, all the guys you could picture. Like, oh, hey, Tony and Anthony and, you know, Gino. all the Italian Guidos I grew up with. What about Carmine? I didn't go to school of the Carmine. Of course you did. Of course, why not?

So, all those guys, you know what the most Italian name is, though? For real. Proven fact. Vito. I went to high school. I'm not to be joking. I'll give him a shout out. We got a veto here.

I went to school. It is. I'm not even BS in you. I went to school on Long Island, graduated class with a guy named Vito Vidi. I mean, we work with a guy Vito here. He does great. work, but it's one of the most Italian names you could have.

According to... I think Giovanni. According to TikTok. What about Giuseppe? Oh, that's a good one. That's pretty Italian. But it's like real, like, it's like real Italian. It is.

Like Italian American, like Beido. Managato. Manzarella. So, Giuseppe. We go to my high school reunion and all the Guido tough guys that thought they were hot S. And like the nerdy, like good kids were all getting along. Like, everyone's like, hey, it's 20 years later.

It's nice to see it. It was like the most, like, beautiful mesh of, meaning all differences were aside your grownups now and you all come from the same place. Because think about it. You're 20-year reunion a couple years ago for me. Not long ago, but you're like... Or as my mom says, it must be like a Mexican expression because it sounds weird. She's like, we all come from the same whole.

What? Meaning like you're no better than anybody else. You're all from the same place. So you realize that when you're older. I know sounds weird. Face looks confused. I don't think that's her. I think you messed up the phrase.

It sounds better in Spanish. Well, anyway, meaning time has passed. You're all from the same high school. You all grew up together. I was C-section. There was a different sense of who was cool and who wasn't back then, but

that no longer exists. Time is a great equalizer, bro. All the burnouts, all the guidos, all the nerds, all the drama kids. Everyone was getting along. Would the word be swimmingly? Sure, if you're Michael Phelps. It's a beautiful night.

And then comes in one of like, I guess you would say like the real nerdy kids that may have got bullied a little bit back in the day. He comes in and one of the Guidos is like, hey, John. And he pulls this. Yeah. You're going to be nice to me now? You think I forgot when you threw me in a locker? I didn't forget. And, yo, this dude made the whole room feel like, what is going on?

He didn't roll with it. He had resentment. Awkward returns. Awkward returns. turns. Jimmy Butler had one. Maybe it was too soon, right? Maybe it's the pain hasn't dry yet. The ink hasn't dried.

Like, this is months ago. I think when a player comes back like a year or so later, maybe there's a little more of a, oh, hey, we missed them. Also, the fans, the reason they were kind of, you know, standing on there or sitting on their hands was the heat have been struggling

since he has moved to Golden State and the Warriors, except for yesterday's game, And Steph Curry is out hurt right now. But the Warriors have been thriving ever since Butler got there. Yeah. It's almost like your ex moved on and she's really happy. It's too soon, bro.

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Let's take one quick phone call before midweek major. Oh, geez. All right. Ohio. Josh, what's up? Hey, guys. I just want to speak on the awkward returns. So the 1994, I believe, was the year MTV music videos.

Van Halen was presenting and Beck won. And it was when David Lee Roth came back to the band. And he awkwardly made it all about himself. They get to the backstage. And he's just yelling, this is all about me. You guys don't have anything to do with this. And I guess Eddie Van Halen told him, if you ever speak to me like that again, you better be wearing a cup.

I do remember that. It happens in life, happens in bands. It happens at reunions, like Rich said. It happens when you go back to your favorite spots. And the people that you expected to be there are all different. It's not the same anymore. You know, it was awkward last night when Jimmy Butler went back. Again, they didn't leave on good terms.

And of course, the Golden State Warriors got blown out. So awkward return last night. And now it's time. Midweek major. Let's go. and Rich get you over the middle of the week with Midweek Major. I love that. We throw sports and pop culture headlines and topics at the fellas, and it's like the kids say.

That's so midweek, definitely major. CNR scoring. Midweek Major. I'm gonna go fast. We give Spotty eight full minutes here. Why bother anymore? Before we hand things over to the number one and only host of this segment, we like to roll the two. meant we like to roll the two big red love dice in the main studio.

Yeah, let's see. What did you get, Covino? Yeah. 11. All right, and now a rich roll. This is to see who gets first take. It's called a rich roll. No, I got a one on the first dice.

I'm not even going to, not even rolling the other one. Nice job, Ashley. All right, Covino gets to go first. And now, ladies and gentlemen, the most famous person besides Judy Bloom from Scotch Plains, New Jersey, Spotty Boy. Hey, guys, sir, let's jump right in. You gave me no time. Kendrick LeWarres, halftime show.

As we know, has been one of the most watched shows in history with a whopping 133.5 million people viewing. But, of course, not without some criticism and complaints from viewers. Official tally is in on FCC complaints, totaling 125 complaints. A lot of the complaints had to do with the usage of the red, white, and blue representation of the flag. Some crotch-grabbing gestures. At least 10 complaints had to do with him using the platform to go after Drake, claiming it was a personal vendetta. Some had to do with Serena Williams dancing as a gang affiliation.

In comparison, just so you know, Rihanna's show last year had just over 100 complaints, while Jailo and Shadira had over 1,300 complaints. So not that crazy. Midwaker Major. I think it's a mid-story. When you factor in 133.5 million tuned in most ever, and you only got 125 complaints, is that like 0.001. That's not that bad.

Yeah. I mean, when you factor in that many more people were watching, plus people in today's culture just love to complain anyway. Have you been on social media? A bunch of Darren's and Karen is just complaining all the time. I thought it was, how many of them do you think are actually named Karen, coincidentally? You think one of the 125 is a Karen? I'm actually surprised it's not more. Yeah, I'm with you.

I think it's a mid-story. People will complain about anything. And what really can you complain about? And who cares? Just think that's how many people. Those people are definitely, can I talk to the manager on a regular? Yeah, they all have that Johnny Resnick Karen haircut. That's funny.

All right, LeBron finally addressing his viral confrontation with ESPN host Stephen A. Smith while appearing on the Pat McAfee show earlier today, he spoke about the incident saying it's not necessarily about Stephen A criticizing, which is his job. But when he makes it personal, he said, when you take it and make it personal, it's my job to not only protect my household, but the players specifically referenced Smith criticizing Brani. and when he saw him on the court, he was saying stop talking stuff about my son. That's my son. That's my son. That's my son. Leave him out of it.

He even made like a Taylor Swift joke said he's on a Taylor Swift tour right now talking about this incident, speaking about Stephen A. So midweeker major. Major because it was a big national story. We also played out on the court. And it's fun to see LeBron's side of things. But you know what he did? He gave Stephen A exactly what he wanted again. More things to talk about.

The fact that LeBron James is talking about Stephen A again on a public platform on a big show like that. Just feeds into what Stephen A is all about. He loves that. I think it's major because it's the biggest, one of the biggest sports personalities and one of the biggest sports media members. And again, Stephen A loves it. And LeBron pointed out that out saying that he could picture Stephen A eating ice cream and his tidy white. He's getting all excited about this. Because you know what?

You're right. I love when LeBron's like, he made it seem like, I didn't. didn't want to address this. Like, come on, of course. You were itching to address it. So, I mean, I do agree with the point, though, that you shouldn't make it personal, but LeBron makes it hard not to when he involves and fit his family into the game, right? I mean, it's a very unique situation because you are talking basketball, but you're also talking about his son. All right, WMBA star Nefisa Collier isn't thrilled about the upcoming WNBA season coverage and is setting her sights on none other than Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever.

So the TV schedule for the 2025 season, 2025 season has been revealed. And the fever are said to have 41 of their 44 games being televised or streaming in comparison to the last season champion, the New York Liberty, who only have 32 of their games being televised nationally. Colliers on the links who lost to the Liberty last season. Just questioning why this spotlight isn't being shown on other. WNBA stars. Of course, she fully acknowledges

how Clark has attention. She drew attention to the WNBA but said there are stars all over the league. And if you want to watch good basketball, you have to feature the other teams. Not trying to take away from the fever, but lift up the other teams. Midweek or major? It's a major story because people are going to talk about it. Anything Caitlin Clark related is major. But guess what? You know who's not major? Collier. Unfortunately, Liberty, even though they won. The links.

No one cares about that as much as they care about Caitlin Clark. That's the bottom line. She is the reason that anybody cares right now. I rather watch a YouTube video of someone making sausage links than watch the Minnesota links. I mean, I think that's pretty fair, right? If Caitlin Clark is getting 41 of 44 games aired and the Liberty, who won, are getting 32 still a decent amount of games. I mean, I'm actually surprised they're getting 32 games. You know, take it easy, ladies, because I remember when, like, Angel Reese was like, maybe we should strike.

If they strike, you're never going to see the NBA, WMBA again. Jeez, A, B, relax. Like, I agree with him. That's the one thing, Antonio Brown said that wasn't crazy. Listen, 32 games televised, that's big. I would say that's, that's an improvement. Caitlin Clark's a star. We'll see what the rating show.

I bet you, I bet you can find sausage link videos. I have more. Honestly, you probably could. Let's see, the 2024 World Series. Series champion Dodgers have officially accepted their invite to the White House and will officially take place on April 7th when they're in D.C. to play the Nationals. Dodgers manager, Dave Roberts, said it's certainly a huge honor to get the invitation to the White House, respects the position of the president, says it's the highest in the country,

certainly in the world, so they're looking forward to it. No official word on who from the team will be in attendance. But Roberts did get some criticism back in 2019 when he said he would definitely turn down the chance to go to a Trump White House. if they won that season. They did win in 2020 when Biden was in office, so they went to visit. But he is switching his stance,

and they are going April 7th. And the OSU Buckeyes also accepted their invitation. They'll be there on April 14th. I think that's major. Definitely major. Whatever your political stance is, that's your business, and you have your right to that.

I think to turn down the honor of going to the White House is foolish. And I don't think that's fair for the other players that looked at that as an honor if they wanted to go. So I'm glad they're going and they're being honored and the way they deserve to be honored.

I think it's great. I don't, major news, I guess. I think you put your differences aside for an honor. No doubt. I always tell you guys that we've interviewed so many celebrities, musicians, we've never interviewed a president sitting or, you know, had served in the office.

I bumped into Jimmy Carter was. I would love. Be sure it was Jimmy Carter? Yeah, man. I turned around the corner. I bumped into the Jimmy Carter. You never met Jimmy Carter. I did. Clinton, Obama. I did bump into Jimmy Carter.

Bush, Trump. I would love to just have the opportunity to meet anyone. I thought you was someone else. Would you like a peanut son? You punched you in the face? By the way, what kind of set this ablaze on the internet was the fact about the Jackie Robinson website drama. Yeah.

And so that's what makes this story. And that's what makes this story. It blew up a little bit yesterday because of that. Did you say an AI thing? Yeah. Then it wasn't Jackie Robinson taken out by an AI program and then they put it back in?

Oh, okay. Gotcha. Well, thank you. I'm glad they're putting their differences aside to receive their accolades. They had a hell of a season. Regardless of your political stance, I think that's great. All right.

Let's go to DB for an update. Dan Meyer. What's up, buddy? Guys, Russell Wilson has signed that one-year deal with the New York Giants speaking with reporters today via a Zoom call. This might be my 14th year. to be able to lead an amazing group of men that really have, you know, big hopes and goals and dreams and desires.

And we all have to share the same goal. And so I think that's the best part about it is I get to be around a lot of, you know, extremely extremely, extremely talented guys. Wilson also says he expects to be the starter for the Giants in week one. Hey, D.B, I hate to interrupt your updates. But in the other clip you played, he uses the term rock and roll. I want to rock and roll. Something like your dad would say.

Danny Zucco. Yeah. It's like going to work in, rolling. Isn't it what every old white dad says when he closes out to build at a restaurant? Let's rock and roll. Let's roll his pop stand. But he sounds very upbeat. I like it.

I like it. We were watching an old episode of the Brady. Well, they're all old, but an episode of the Brady Bunch last night. And Greg wanted to go to the rock concert. He wanted to go to the rock concert. Rock and roll, bro. Couldn't drive, though. So he used his buddy's car and exact words and the whole deal.

All right, Yankees valued at $8.2 billion, according to Forbes. the first baseball squad to break the $8 billion barrier. Dodgers in at $6.8 billion in second place. Red Sox game in third valued at $4.8 billion. Celtics upgraded Jason Tatum to questionable tonight against Phoenix. Bucks ruled out Janice and Tedocumpo against the Nuggets because of a foot sprain. And West Virginia's found their new men's basketball coach comes from North Texas. Ross Hodge now leading the Mountaineers men's basketball program.

Guys, back to you. Thank you, DB. And you know the downside of that information? Yankees worth $8.2 billion. All right. So what are we going to do about Garrett Cole? And what are we doing about third base? I don't want to hear about you can't afford it.

You're exceeding budgets. If you're 8.2, you better be doing something. Pay all the luxury tax that you'd have to. But that's how the fans are going to think. We don't want to hear all of the first team to surpass 8 billion. How about you do something at third base, buddy? No, well, hey, one sleep until baseball. We got more, Kavino and Rich, with a hypothetical about baseball.

fall starting tomorrow next to wrap the show hang tight hey it's us the jonas brothers and guess what we have some big news what's the news news news news we created our own podcast called hey jonas we invented a podcast well we didn't invent it we just contributed to it first people to do podcasts pretty yeah pretty wide range of podcasts we're starting a trend but this one's extra special so how did we how do we actually come up with a name hey jonas guys i honestly don't remember i think it was on a call about what we should call it. Oh, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers.

This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, Hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or where you're

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Now, I have a question to end the show with. You cool with this, you down? I guess. One day. Sure. Well, we have to make a decision now because baseball starts tomorrow. Yeah. Raceball.

Wait. I'm excited. You're going to go over your baseball fantasy team? No, I get to put my Yankee bedsheets back on tonight. Baseball. You know, the Mets were just rated, you know, they never went anything of value like a World Series, but they just were named the, for the third year in a row, best stadium food in Major League Baseball. But then again, the Mets have New York City pizza in their stadium.

They have Shake Shack. They have sushi. They have, you know, steaks. The Mets have good food. City Field, a great spot. I'll give our buddy Jim credit. Our buddy Jim, who lives in Charlotte, said, if you guys had to right now, bet your savings. Like, if I went into your bank account.

and took all $4. If I went into your bank account and took you millions and millions, your house, whatever you have, and you had to wager it today, here's the bet. Dodgers or the field to win the World Series.

Dodgers or you get all other 31 teams. I'm sorry, baseball, 29 teams. Do you go 29 teams or do you go Dodgers? You have to bet your full savings. today to win the World Series. Based on right now, I would have to say, I'm going, I'm going the field. Field? Yeah, you know why?

Because it's just not easy to do. I believe the Dodgers could do it, obviously. They're stacked. But it's so not easy to do. It hasn't been done in how long? A five or seven game series could get tricky and weird and wonky. But when's the last repeat? The Yankees, right?

Last repeat was a while ago, yeah. It's been a minute. Because it's not easy. Yeah. I'm a Dodgers Homer, so not really fair to get an answer for me. I will say this, though, the Dodgers pitching situation has me feeling like they can repeat. I think it's so stacked. I look at it this way.

But again, yeah, one team or 29. There have been stacked teams that couldn't do it. Like I remember the A's when we were kids, the Bash brothers. I remember there was, you know, there were Texas Ranger teams that lost back to back. They were the royals had two years in a row. They lost and then they won. It's hard to win. We saw that with the Chiefs.

to three-peed, hard to repeat. In baseball. But if there were any team to do it, this Dodgers team seems so stacked and so ready, but if you were to bet your life savings, Dodgers or, as they say, the field, the rest of the, the rest of Major League Baseball. It's crazy that it feels like a risk to take the field. That's how good the Dodgers aren't. That's the whole point of this hypothetical. I'm going with the field on this.

That's just, you know, my take on it. And a quick reminder, yesterday was team mobile Tuesday if you have team mobile you get the MLB for free the app for free so better believe i did that yes or are you the greatest guy yeah just a reminder if you have 18 t or verizon you don't get that but you just get better coverage dang your phone works exactly that's a great hypothetical ask your friends you know what would you do i was sam your thought most people don't have a savings do you have do you have a thought like if i said sam put it all in the letter coverage i agree with that what do you think i have t mobile and uh sadly. I would say I would take the field as well.

I just think, yeah. Isaac Lowencrown. I know you're just chiming in now. There he is. Taking over for Dan By. He's like, I'm not on the clock yet, jerk. Isaac, would you choose the Dodgers or the field, essentially, if you had to bet everything Isaac Lowencrown owns? The Dodgers, and if not, they will buy the field. Hmm.

Man, that doesn't that good, though. That's what's crazy about it. And that's what makes the season even more interesting. Imagine the Dodgers have a weakness midseason and actually get someone at the trade deadline. Like that, you forget that too. Barf. Yeah, I know. Barf, barf, barf. Barf, barf. And that's why I'm so excited to watch.

So enjoy your baseball eve. And we'll be talking about it tomorrow. Nothing like opening day. We'll see you then. And of course, the Sweet 16 continues. Until then, have a great Wednesday night. Aririva d'erchi, baby. We'll see you in the promised land.

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