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00:00Two days ago the university president tweets huge announcement coming tomorrow and everybody's like
00:05oh we were wrong like we're so sorry Willard's coming back we're such pieces of shit we're so
00:11sorry you know what the big announcement was Kermit the Frog is the commencement speaker
00:20It's the rundown it is Thursday March 27th and it is me it is Clem and it is Tommy
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01:45I love Major League Baseball. God bless them. And they always get made fun of for being behind
01:50the times and this and that. There's a lot of days you can make opening day. There's so many days.
01:57Why the day of the Sweet 16? Or is it like two competing leagues not trying to, like,
02:06I'm not going to budge, you're not going to budge, so they just have Sweet 16 open day on the same
02:11day. What are they doing? I think Sweet 16 is always today. Opening day is not always the same
02:16day though, Clem, is it? No, it's April sometimes. Sometimes it's the end of March. Sometimes it's
02:20a week earlier in Japan at fucking five in the morning when no one's watching, which is exactly
02:24what happened this year. Out of all the, I'm trying to think, like, so we have Major League
02:29Baseball is like the idiots that are, like, run by money. FIFA and the Olympics, they're like
02:35the cunning dickheads who are run by money. But, like, they are so, they have no heart. Baseball
02:41just seems dumb with all their decision making. And this is just, and Clemmer blogged about this,
02:45actually, and he was like, there's really, a lot of the games are at four o'clock today,
02:49so they should be done by the time of the Sweet 16. But, like, I think Paul Skeens is pitching
02:52at seven, which would be like a sweet, like, oh, I want to watch Paul Skeens, but there's other
02:56very important college basketball games at the same time. So if I'm getting my part of my cheese
03:00steak and can only watch one, if I only have one screen available to me, I'm going to probably
03:03choose the playoff game. So, absolute buffoons. I imagine Tommy agrees with this.
03:07Yeah, I've never felt less like it's opening day than I do today. Like, it's March 27th. It just
03:14feels early. I know they've been starting late March, but I feel like the 27th is specifically
03:19early. Maybe it's because the Yankees went, like, late in the, like, as far as they could go,
03:25like, in terms of the World Series. So it feels like the offseason wasn't that long, but it,
03:30like, I, like, I mean, when I was a kid, like, you wake up, it's like, it's opening day, let's go.
03:35I did not have that energy today. It's opening day today? Well, it doesn't feel right.
03:41It's always supposed to be, like, April 3rd and the birds are chirping outside. It's a random
03:47Thursday that it feels like it has no juice. The Dodgers are already 2-0. They go to Japan,
03:53they win two games, they come back, they play more spring training. I don't understand how that
03:57happens at all. That blows my, like, guys are cut between opening day and new opening day.
04:03The whole baseball thing. But I am, I am going to try to be a better baseball fan this season.
04:09The Nationals got me very into baseball. Like, I was out on baseball. The Nats got me back into
04:14baseball during college. We were good for a while. And then the Nats stink again. I still follow,
04:19but I don't, like, tweet about them or watch every game. I'm going to try to be a better
04:23Nats fan this season. I was, uh, every opening day or this week, me and my dad send each other
04:28our season predictions for all the divisions, playoffs. And so I was earlier going through,
04:34like, a lot of the rosters. There's a lot of fucking names. I don't know. Like,
04:38I've been pretty keyed in on just, like, you know, I watch every Yankee game pretty much.
04:42But, like, if they aren't playing, like, I'm not going to tune in. You know, NFL,
04:47I would, I'll watch the Bucks and the Steelers. I'm not going to watch the Pirates and the Rays
04:53play each other. You know, I would put the Yankees as my number one team, but I'm pretty
04:57keen on Yankee baseball. I would like to be, but I say this every year, I'd like to follow more
05:02random baseball, maybe do some DraftKings, um, Daily Fantasy or, like, just regular betting. But
05:07I, I think I'll end up just watching the Yankees and nothing else.
05:10So middle school and high school, I knew every player on every team in every league
05:15because I played video games nonstop. So I knew everything, and I read the newspaper and the box
05:20scores. Like, I was so tapped in. And fantasy, I played every sport fantasy. Playing fantasy NBA
05:26has made me pay way more attention to the NBA and know a lot more players. I might do a quick
05:31fantasy baseball draft today just so I'm a little more in tune. I am on my fantasy draft, and this,
05:37I think it's the 24th year, and I thought about just killing it. I'm just a commissioner. It's
05:40not a lot of work, but it's more work than I should have to do, right? And I was like,
05:44you know what? I'm not going to care about anyone outside of the Mets if I don't do this league.
05:48So that's why the league survives another year. But Tommy, I'm right there with you. Like,
05:51I'll be like, who the fuck is this guy? And so who actually follows me is like,
05:55that guy's like a top five MVP candidate. No clue. And I, I have, I would love to see the
05:59research on it. I'm going to blame Moneyball because that's just what everyone does.
06:02I feel like players are more disposable these days, where it's like you, you, you get these
06:07guys and if they don't do exactly what they're right out of baseball, where back in the day,
06:10maybe the stats weren't as important or they didn't really have different ways to
06:16go after a certain strategy. So players stuck around longer and he kind of got like a vibe.
06:20But I thought this was because I'm old and out of touch. But if Tommy, you're,
06:24you're young and I guess in touch with like the shit. So, and you're a baseball guy.
06:28You're a legit baseball company. Yeah. I do worry like, you know,
06:31dozen trivia, like, cause a lot of the questions are like tooth out the aughts and the teens.
06:36And like, I know all those very welcome following, but like,
06:39you know, dozen, 10 years from now, dozen season 17,
06:42if we're asking like early twenties MLB questions, I don't know how good I'll be.
06:46Dude. Hubs and Clemmer will be having the most heated argument of all time.
06:51It should be on the Maury Povich show about a player that I've never heard of. And as you said,
06:56Clinton finished like fifth and MVP voting last year. I'm like, who is this guy? I,
07:01and I don't think sports have passed the spot. I don't, I think
07:05I, there's something that is happening in sports. As you said, Clem,
07:09we're not the old people. They're too young. I do think part of it was one of the things
07:14that you were saying when you were like growing up, reading the paper, yada, yada,
07:17like watching baseball tonight was something you did every single night and you got your
07:21fix through that way. Now that doesn't exist. Cause nobody really watches ESPN anymore.
07:26Brent Rooker, by the way, Brent Rooker, I'm like, Oh, this guy is like,
07:28high on my fantasy board. I'm like, who the fuck is Brent Rooker?
07:3130 home runs is working here. 39. The next year, no clue. He existed until,
07:35you know, a week ago. It's crazy how that works. I'm signing up for a fantasy baseball team right
07:41now. I'm going to do that right now. I'm going to be more in touch with fantasy, with the sport
07:47of baseball. I was, I used to be the greatest fantasy baseball player of all time in high
07:52school. I went 22 and Oh, and won the championship. Like it was a week long. And like, I was so
07:57locked in where it was like, I w I was the dynasty. And now, I mean, I think if I don't
08:02want to do a fantasy baseball league, if I did, I don't know how I'd do.
08:05And like, I do feel you said that doesn't feel like opening day. You're right. And I don't know
08:09if there's anything major league baseball could do about this, but I feel like I'm getting more.
08:13It's opening day from fans that I'm like on social media, I'm not getting any good,
08:17like hype videos or any other kind of like, I don't know what else you could do to hype it up
08:21more, but even like, I was like, you know, maybe I'll just throw whatever the one o'clock game is
08:25on in the background as I'm working. There's not a one o'clock game. So it's like, why don't you
08:29just have a one o'clock game or like a handful of them? And then when there's like a crazy ending
08:34in one of them, everyone watches. Cause everyone has like that baseball fever in the beginning of
08:38the season and then the fours and then the sevens. And that's the way it used to roll.
08:42And I used to block this all the time is I think for the first like month of the season,
08:45they try to get like one afternoon game. Even if you're at work, you're watching it on your
08:49fucking screen or you're, you know, watching the game cast or you have something to bet on at
08:52least. And I don't know. I just feel like there are a bunch of buffoons who don't know how to run
08:55this. Remember when they, they talked about this in the dog walk this week. Remember when COVID
08:58struck and fucking, they like, we're just arguing about money the whole time. And there would have
09:02just been nothing but baseball on TV. And it said they fought and fought about money. And we were
09:06all watching Korean baseball. We were such like needed anything in our lives. And they ended up
09:10having a 60 game season that everyone completely dismisses now, like five years later. It's crazy
09:15to me. Who won that world series, the Dodgers, Mickey mouse, any, uh, any what's ever any bold
09:23takes. I, uh, my two is I think the pirates and the blue Jays both make the playoffs looking at
09:29their rosters today. They're, and I'm going to take the Dodgers to win the world series. Cause
09:32I'd be, I think they might set the win record. Like they're just ridiculous. Obviously
09:38they're free. I don't have anything Tommy. Cause again, I look at these rosters and don't know
09:42who the fuck half of these guys are, you know? So I know people say the pirates might better than
09:46you think. Fuck it. You're like, give me the diamond backs are going to be a sneaky team.
09:50Like you could just say that about the diamond backs, right? The diamond backs and the blue Jays
09:53were made for the sneaky team label. I feel. Yeah, man, diamond backs are such a cool team
09:59to take. I've always been a big fan of their colors. Um, how are our Rockies looking now?
10:03You can't win a course field, right? Yeah. I know. Give me the most forgotten team in baseball,
10:11the Cincinnati reds. He must be in his eighties. He was managed. He was managing when I was a
10:22child. Yeah. He's probably early seventies. Maybe I'm putting a bed in right now. Live on the pod.
10:27Um, reds to win the NL reds to win the NL central. That's how much I believe. That's all I need to
10:32hear is Terry Francona. Yeah. You know? So love it. Hey, add one extra unit for me at 10 more
10:38dollars for me. Thank you. Okay. It's sold by the way. I'm on a heater on the draft Kings sportsbook
10:44betting for ops for NBA. I've won like 12 out of my last 15 bets. They're all $10 vets. It's amazing.
10:52Huge heater though. Alex are just unbelievable to bet on. Um,
10:58topic two, we can talk Steven, a Smith and LeBron, if you guys want.
11:02Sure. So they're in a fight. Um, see it. I'll just read the Greeny headline. I think it's,
11:09it's one of Greeny's finest Steven, a Smith responds to LeBron by making it clear he does
11:13not wear tight, tighty whiteys, and that he was ready to swing on LeBron during their confrontation.
11:18So that was funny this morning, waking up, seeing that Steven, a said that if LeBron touched him,
11:23when LeBron confronted him on the sidelines, Steven, a was ready to swing on him. It's opened
11:29up the world of memes. Uh, the, the video of Steven, a boxing in slow motion is very funny.
11:34I mean, LeBron is the closest we have to like a modern day gladiator. He is just a wrecking
11:41machine. Steven, a would be broken in half and you would look like Mick Foley after being tossed
11:46off hell in the cell. I love Steven, a because he's in on the bit, but like, he always knows
11:55how to take it to the next level. He he's, but he's like respected at the same time. I don't
12:00know. He's such an enigma. I really like Steven, a Steven, a give him an inch. He'll take a mile.
12:05He's going to do this LeBron thing forever. I didn't even think him and LeBron had beef.
12:09I thought it was more of a skip Bayless thing. And now it's funny that skip can't even get a
12:13mention from LeBron. LeBron's also throwing windy under the bus saying this guy wants to
12:18be my best friend and it's fucking weird. Uh, what do you got on Steven, a versus LeBron,
12:23my friend? I fucking just hate this shit. We are in the, I just like, I understand what it is.
12:29Hey, each their own entertainment. Yeah. The first take of vacation of like the media and sports.
12:35That's another reason why I'm just out on it. Like, I don't even want to turn on ESPN and
12:40now all the other, I think sports and I'll just do the same shows now, uh, for the same reasons
12:44because it gets ratings or at least it gets like clicks on the internet. But that was the bet.
12:48Like LeBron's just going to keep falling in, in Stephen, his trap. And it's like a Chinese
12:52figure trap. The more he fucking pulls them tighter. It's going to get, that was the best
12:56thing that ever happened to Stephen, his career. Uh, I know we send that ESPN deal like pretty
13:02recently. I feel like if he hadn't signed it by that point, he probably could have gotten like
13:05another 50 million from ESPN. Cause he's just going to keep referencing it, bringing it back.
13:09And there's a world where the big cat rule is invented, where he's allowed to hit one person
13:13a year. LeBron is an NBA player. He just fucking hit Stephen a, he explodes and we never have to
13:18hear it again. And like the people like skip is like, shit, I have to kind of watch out what I
13:22say. Cause I might get killed by LeBron once he gets reset and gets his free punch next year.
13:26So, uh, I wish he punched him too bad. He didn't. I never thought Stephen a were tight. Stephen a
13:31Smith has no tidy whitey energy though. Definitely like silk boxer energy. I, I, I, I love this.
13:38Like, I love that we have a rivalry between LeBron and Stephen a out of nowhere. Like, right. I
13:42actually, uh, I think it was Jack Mack that tweeted, like, he's woke that this was an NBA,
13:47like set up to have LeBron versus Stephen a right before the playoffs.
13:50Like I liked, I don't know. It's a fun storyline. I did think it was funny that Stephen a was like,
13:55once you retire, like, I'm never going to talk about you. No, one's going to talk about you.
13:59Like he's still going to be like one of the two greatest players of all time. I think people will
14:03still be talking about LeBron, uh, after he's gone. But yeah, I like, I hope the, like the
14:08Lakers making a deep run, I think is, would be good for basketball. Like LeBron Luca, you know,
14:12one of his last rides, if we get Bronnie James, getting some playoff minutes, like give me,
14:17give me Lakers Celtics or Lakers Knicks or something to get the juices flow or Lakers
14:21cabs. Honestly, the NBA set up really well. The Lakers make the finals, neither at Lakers,
14:25Knicks Lakers Celtics or LeBron versus Cleveland. Like that would be I'm there. I'm seated.
14:31Do I have to go on to a second life bet and run down history and bet the Lakers to make the finals
14:35by the way, reds plus five 50 Nate dog. We're looking pretty good with that. I'm happy with
14:39that. I love it. And we have, we have multiple units on it. Yes. Multiple. Wow. Uh, Tommy,
14:45you want to join us on the reds bandwagon? I would bet the pirates, the pirates are my
14:49NL central pick. What are those odds? Probably plus a thousand. That's probably pretty,
14:52that's probably pretty decent. Yeah. I don't think 700. I don't think they have the lineup
14:57to, to compete. And O'Neal Cruz, Brian Reynolds, Brian Hayes. Those are three names that I know.
15:03Brian Giles. No, Brian Hayes. Uh, is Brian Giles still in the league? No,
15:10no. He's a big dozen answer though. You'll get him like three times a season on the dozen.
15:14Him and B O B for a music question. The big, the big two, uh, next topic.
15:23Um, do you want to talk Kevin Willard situation? Yeah. So Nate, I want you to set us up for this.
15:29Like Tommy was saying, he needs like a refresher. I know like the Villanova hiring or like, and I
15:36don't know exactly what it is, but you give us, you know, kind of like the lay of the land as
15:40well as your take and the fallout from everything. Okay. I'll keep it short. Kevin Willard is the
15:45head coach of Maryland basketball. He's a average coach. Like he he's nothing great. He's nothing
15:50bad. He's kind of just like your average dopey white bald head coach in college basketball.
15:57Last week before the tournament started, he was asked about his future at Maryland. Cause he's
16:00not under contract. And he kind of went off on the Maryland athletic program and the AD who just
16:06quit and went to SMU. And he was like, I don't even have an AD to talk to the college. Didn't
16:11give me enough money to compete. Uh, the NIL deal isn't what it should be. He's like, I want to build
16:17a national relevant competing program at Maryland. They're not giving me the resources to do it.
16:22And at the time, this is a week ago, everybody's like, wow, very honest answer.
16:25Uh, we don't see that a lot from coaches as it turns out. He was, this is all conjecture
16:31or rumors, but it's like smoke where there's smoke, there's fire. He was negotiating with
16:35Villanova to be their new head coach while saying this. So he was kind of just like
16:40trashing university of Maryland, blasting them, putting everything that he didn't like about them
16:46on blast. People thought it was like, Oh, is he trying just to get more money from Maryland or
16:52like what basically he's just an asshole. And he was never going to stay. He was always going
16:57to Villanova and he just, he just had a, he has a gripe with Maryland, which I think is fair.
17:02I think people aren't giving him credit for that. If what he's saying is true, which means there's
17:06been way more arguments and disagreements behind closed doors and it boiled up to the point. He
17:10said it publicly, but the fact is he said it publicly while coaching a team to the sweet 16.
17:17So now for the last week while coaching the best Maryland team in a decade,
17:21it's been like this fucking snake doesn't even want to be here. He just used Maryland for leverage
17:26to get more money from Villanova. And now all hell is breaking loose. We don't have an athletic
17:31director. Our basketball head coach is saying, uh, the athletic department doesn't know how to
17:37use NIL money. They're not making enough money. He wanted to have like a Christmas party with
17:41his team. And he was told no, because they didn't have enough money for it. And he also apparently
17:46allegedly hates the football program because we have this coach named Mike Locksley who they made
17:50like the face of athletics, but he fucking sucks at coaching. So our football program
17:56stinks. Our basketball coach is begging for more money and they're telling him no. So now Maryland
18:01Twitter is just in a tizzy because it's just our, our entire school is falling apart. And the best
18:07part of the whole thing is two days ago, the university president tweets huge announcement
18:12coming tomorrow. And everybody's like, Oh, we were wrong. Like, we're so sorry. Willard's coming
18:18back. We're such pieces of shit. We're so sorry. You know what the big announcement was? Kermit,
18:23the frog is the commencement speaker. I mean, we, we, we throw around the phrase, like read the room
18:31or like tone deaf bro tweeted huge announcement coming tomorrow. And then they released a video
18:37of Kermit the fucking frog. Wow. That's a pretty big get. That's true. That's a big get.
18:46I didn't know he had that in his bag Kermit. I didn't, I didn't know he was a commencement
18:50speaker. So that is a decent get. But yeah, I, my bigger take on this is like, I'm more surprised.
18:56I mean, I know Villanova basketball is like, you know, legendary, but to me, like, especially in
19:01the NIL world, like I'm surprised that that's viewed as an upgrade where like Maryland is a
19:05huge big 10 school, pretty small school in Pennsylvania. I know they only focus on basketball,
19:12but like, I think, I think some of it is ego from Willard. And I think that's why he hates
19:17the football program is who be the man at Villanova. If they're good when you're in the big
19:2310 and you're funneling. And also football makes the lion's share of the money, even if you're
19:29Maryland and you're not a very good football program, you're, I mean, we did go to a couple,
19:33three straight bowl games. That's a lot of money. You get big 10 network money.
19:38So you can be the man at Villanova. If I think at Maryland, he wanted to be the man. And they
19:44were like, no football is the man. Cause they make all the money. And he's like, well, Oh,
19:48the snaky part. I forgot about that is he makes all these demands about, I need more money,
19:54blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The rumor is Maryland's like, Hey, you're right.
19:57Like we do need to give you more. We'll give you everything you want. And then he was like,
20:02Oh, I'm still going to leave anyway. And that's what people, I left that part out. That's what
20:08people are most mad at. It's like, we gave him what he wanted. He then trashed the university
20:12and he was never planning on staying. And we have the biggest game in a decade while this is all
20:17going on. So the, that part is why I could understand like the vitriol. It's like, you
20:23kind of get stuck with it, caught with your hand in the cookie jar or something like that.
20:26But at the same point, like the other word you can use for Maryland after that Kermit,
20:30it's an unserious franchise, right? Like, Hey, as a Mets fan, we had years and years of this,
20:35the Knicks, same thing. The giants are doing this as well. A lot of my teams and you you're like,
20:40you guys are reaching rock bottom at a alarming pace. It's college football. College football
20:45ruined everything back in the day. We had the big East. We cared about college basketball.
20:49Now no one gives a about it. And every football programs just run everything. You guys are in
20:55the big 10 Syracuse is in the fucking ACC. Nothing makes sense. Just give me back the
21:00nineties early two thousands, big East ACC lines made sense. All the football made sense. Now the
21:06SEC is a hundred teams. It's fucking garbage. I don't like it. I don't like it. I'm very against
21:11the realignment too. I can't keep track of who's in what fucking conference. It's Tommy, Arizona,
21:15Oregon, not being a PAC 12 battle last week was like, what? So do you know who won the big 10
21:23in football last year? Tommy Ohio state, Oregon. Oh, right. Right. Like it's great teams in the
21:32big 10. Now UCLA, Washington, USC, Oregon. Like it does not make, and then all the rest of Rutgers,
21:40Minnesota, Iowa, et cetera. It's it's ridiculous. Who won the Nash? Oh, I'll have to say one last
21:47Ohio state. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oregon went nine to no in big 10. Right. Right.
21:53Nate dog. There's, I feel like there's one person that could fix all your ills,
21:58but I don't think he has any interest. I do think there's one person, the one guy that
22:02couldn't make everything. All right. If SVP became like the GM of the athletic director
22:07or whatever the fuck that would be considered. I feel like he has like the rationale for it.
22:10People respect him. He knows his shit, but I don't, I think he's pretty fucking happy with
22:14his ESPN deal. Yeah. So we've been kind of a cluster fuck since we, so we were a bankrupt
22:20university. So we had to join the big 10, leave the ACC, join the big 10. Cause there's so much
22:24more money in big 10 than ACC. We did that. And it's like, all right, if you're going to do that,
22:29you can at least make the programs better. We just have it been better at anything academically,
22:37actually very good academic school academically have gotten better, but sports, the things that
22:42actually matter, uh, not better. And there's been no real leadership at the top. It's just been
22:47one mistake after the next. And you're, if we get a guy like SVP to write the ship, I,
22:54it would immediately like, just bring credibility back to everything. They honestly need to do a
23:00huge splash like that, like a coach K, you know, like it has to be like a ginormous splash.
23:07Otherwise we're just in purgatory forever. And the thing is, so you guys are in the fucking
23:12sweet 16. I was going to say like, it could be worse. Oh, it's a, he's going to take three
23:18players with him to Villanova. And we don't even have an athletic director to hire a new coach.
23:22Also the fact that the portal and coaching carousel is open while the tournament is still going on
23:28is insanity. Like, but I mean, that's the case for all sport, like NFL happens during,
23:33they got to change it. They got to change it. Tommy that we're, we, we need a new head coach
23:38as of a week ago, and we're still playing basketball and every other coach is being
23:42scooped up. And we're just over here with no AD, a coach coaching a game tonight.
23:48Who's already signed a contract with another school. That's not official, right? I mean,
23:54the ink is not dry yet because he's still under contract at Maryland. The rumors are he didn't
23:59even go to team dinner last night. That's awesome. That's fucking awesome. It's crazy.
24:04It's madness. So listen, I've kind of hated college sports ever since they killed my beloved
24:09big East. And I'm someone who kind of loves to see the chaos all happen in these. I was always
24:13hoping that like the, when they, the BCS it's like, or the, the, the playoffs was four. I'd
24:18always want the 15 to be like under like Florida state last year was like, it was perfect for me.
24:23I loved it. And all the chaos that ensued, this is kind of like the college basketball version of it.
24:27A guy who is gone. It just shows how broken the system is at its core, right? There's no reason
24:33this should ever happen. And the fact that it's happening is it's completely fucked. It's
24:36incredible. Like what if you guys make the final four? No, I like everybody in the world should
24:42be rooting for a Maryland win tonight. So we can get another week of this. It's like, it's great.
24:48And it's, it's, he brought it on himself by doing the press conference last week. He's not like,
24:55but I can side with him a little that something must have happened for him to say it publicly.
25:02And if not, he's the biggest piece of shit ever. If he really just wanted to trash the university
25:09right before the tournament, just so like Villanova, I mean, so people are saying he
25:15wanted a reason to publicly be like, this is why I left to go to Villanova, but there was the timing
25:21is just a dickhead move. You can do that press conference. After you finish coaching the team,
25:26you don't have to do it before the tournament. And now Villanova, they're not even bringing
25:30in people to interview. People are saying, how do we know he's actually leaving?
25:33They haven't interviewed a single fucking coach. That's how we know.
25:38That's like, um, the, the Providence coach a couple of years ago where like,
25:42he was at his house on the market. He's like, dog, I'm happy here.
25:47Yeah. It's like spotted at the Philadelphia airport. It's it's the, it's the fucking thing.
25:53So yeah. Uh, we play tonight against, uh, the Florida Gators.
25:58Get your part of my cheese steaks, sit back, relax, and enjoy some Torney, uh, action.
26:02I, I, it does. I mean, we're already under, obviously Florida is really good and we're
26:07already under dogs. Oh, wind would just be so awesome for so many reasons. Uh, like,
26:13I, what do you even do? Like he's gone and he's just going to coach. I don't know. The
26:18whole thing's crazy. Wasn't there a coach last year who was like fired and he kept coaching
26:22the team and they made the tour. There was something weird like that too. I remember.
26:25Yeah. I think it was like a mid-major or something. Yeah. Yeah. It was a mid-major.
26:28Um, so any kind of quirky shit like that, I always get behind. So yeah, by far the most
26:32entertaining scenario is Maryland somehow making the final four, the goddamn championship,
26:37the guy, well, they win it all and he goes to Villanova. Cause I think at this point it's
26:41broken. There's, I don't think anything you can do to keep him around. He's probably just like,
26:44fuck you guys. Because of something that he just has a shitty boss. He doesn't like his boss.
26:48And he'd rather go somewhere where he likes his boss and has a better setup.
26:51Nothing wrong. What's crazy too, is he's coached for like 18 years.
26:56The best he's done is this year. Once it's like one sweet, he's not even that good of a coach.
27:01I mean, I think he's better now with NIL. He's like one of those type of people who like,
27:05he's better buying players and stuff. The whole thing is crazy.
27:08Then to his point, strike while the iron's hot. Like if this is his best year.
27:11Yeah, right. It's just the way he went about it. Like I'm never going to like completely
27:17hate someone for taking more money somewhere else. It's his trashing of the university
27:21while still coaching the team. That's the crazy part.
27:25The team dinner is wild if that's true.
27:27That's true. It's cool now that we have someone to like really hate, like having someone you
27:34really, really hate is good for a university. Like something to rally around. Like we all just
27:40hate this guy now. So that's cool. Chief said it, bring hate back. Like when the
27:44Yankees and Red Sox, when that rivalry was cooking, it was a beautiful thing. And instead,
27:48now you have all this grab ads. Look at the modern sports world, unfortunately.
27:52Yeah. So that's your Thursday rundown basketball all weekend. Rico, the Rico bet still going on.
28:00Rico against BYU. If you don't know it, if Alabama makes the final four, Rico flies first
28:06class to the final four in San Antonio. If Alabama does not, he takes a 50 hour bus ride.
28:12I think he quits halfway. Like 50 hour bus ride to San Antonio is hell on earth.
28:19Opening day is today. Yankees, Mets. I'm sure. I mean, this is Frank the Tank's time to shine.
28:25He's in a he's in a very good mood today. Let me tell you that.
28:29Like a lot of confident fans out there. And I don't know about Clem, but Clem are walking
28:34around the office today like trash in the Yankees, as if like the Mets are like,
28:38obviously the Mets will be good, but like he's actually there. The Dodgers, the Yankees and Mets
28:41are in somewhat similar spots. I mean, our failed closer is their opening day starter. So I don't
28:47know how many shots Clemmer could be taking at the Yankees, but they are. That's all right. We'll see
28:51how Juan Soto's hamstrings hold up this year. Tommy, how do you explain Clemmer trash talk?
28:56Because it's not like busting balls with the boys. It's like way too serious, way too quick.
29:02Yeah, he's he's so literal and serious about everything that it's he's impossible to argue
29:09with because he just dismisses anything you say. He's yeah, I don't know. Me and time you're in
29:17a Yankees group chat together. So I do root for the Yankees because I like talking Yanks ball
29:24with Tommy and hubs. Hubs does not like that. I'm a Yankees fan now, but Tommy seems to not mind it.
29:32If you have a Mets chat, I can hop into Clem. I would love to root for the Mets as well.
29:37Then you're out of the Yankees.
29:39Yeah, you can't be both. We have the we got to believe chat, which it's usually just me asking
29:43me feel like different things that I don't. Oh, I don't want to be in that. No, you don't
29:46do with me. OK, fair enough. That's too much. That's too much. I bet that group chat is just
29:51buzzing all night. He's like, hey, you see this six, four, three double play in the Padres game.
29:58We do have it. I mean, there's confidence on the Mets side. Maybe me like I. I think I think I
30:05predicted the most wins out of it. But like I was like, is it World Series or bus for the Mets?
30:09I'm like, how can it be World Series or bus when you're to get to World Series? You'd be the
30:13greatest team in the history of sports, according everyone with the Dodgers. And then our division
30:17is, I'd say, easily the best in baseball with the Phillies and the Braves in there as well.
30:21So and the Nats, the baby Nats are nice. And the Marlins are just straight up a fake team with
30:26creative players, but they always give the Mets trouble. So it's like you really can't win no
30:30matter where it is in the division. I have to say I have noticed a lot more ever since the Soto
30:34signing. There's been a lot of Yankees fans who were like, if I reply to something, I'm getting
30:38in like in like a like you just get like sucked in and they're just fucking shitting on the Mets,
30:43shitting on Juan Soto. It just is what it is. It's fun, though. Again, eight is a good thing
30:48with sports. So I have to say the Yankees fans are starting to act a little more like the Mets
30:52fans where we would talk about them without them bringing us up. But that's just what happened.
30:58I mean, the Juan Soto thing was a fucking size. I've always talked about the Mets without them
31:02bringing me up. So that's true. Yeah. My hate will never go away. Nick, you know, my favorite
31:07thing about this is that Tommy Smoke's mom is a Mets fan. I met her at the festival. Yeah,
31:13he hides that. No, I don't. So actually, funny story. The other day, my mom and dad,
31:18they're down in Florida and they took three of my little cousins to the Yankee Mets spring
31:22training game in Port St. Lucie. They had like front row seats like they're on TV. And in one
31:27of the clips, my dad made like my little cousin yelling, you are a traitor to Juan Soto. And you
31:32can like hear it in one of the clips SNY post. He's like, I had them boo when I had them calling
31:38a traitor. So that, you know, teaching the youth young. That's good. No, no guy ever took more
31:43money to go to the Yankees over another team. Right. It's it's it's incredible. He's a despicable
31:4831 year old lying scumbag. But I mean, they don't let him talk to your boy. Your boy brought you a
31:54World Series. Don't let him talk to our guy like that. The funniest thing to me about Juan Soto
31:59is the fact that he has won a World Series with the Nationals and has now played on like
32:04seven more teams since then. It's like he's already a World Series champ. He was so good,
32:10so young. And he's just he he has zero loyalty whatsoever to anybody. But he's a man. Is he
32:18already a billionaire? Is he just like already? It's not he's not 31. He's like, so what? Twenty
32:24five. He's lying about his age. He's he's 26. Everyone was like, oh, I don't know if I trade
32:29this prospect for Juan Soto or that prospect back when he was going to move on from the Nets.
32:33And I was like, the prospects you guys want to trade are like a year older than Juan Soto is
32:37right now. Like, that's just the way it is. He's that young. He's 26 years old. Birth certificates
32:42real as as can be. Thirty thirty one. What's your official official World Series prediction?
32:50I said Dodgers and I'm going over the Mariners. I always kind of pick the Mariners as my sleeper
32:54team. That rotation is just so good. And the AL is so wide open that I feel like if they get to
32:59the playoffs, that's a tough rotation to beat. Picking against the Yankees. Interesting. I would
33:03I don't like to pick them to the World Series. I don't know. Just superstition,
33:06although I guess it doesn't matter because when you text your dad, when you text your dad,
33:10you don't pick the Yankees. We email and no, but we send notes. I would like to get.
33:17Yeah, I say, can I be in that group chat, too? No, I'll try to read some of them.
33:21Do you text your mom when something bad happens to the Mets? Like, oh,
33:23that's a shame. Like if they blow a lead or they only starts it.
33:29So does she start with you? She'll call. Yeah, she'll start with me sometimes.
33:32I love that. I can't. Can we make a bet? You guys can work out a bet that if Clem wins the bet,
33:39Mama Smokes goes on, we got to believe. No.
33:44Well, just come on. Most wins for the season. Mets versus Yankees. I think that's fair.
33:48Marty is like trash in the Mets. I saw that. Yeah. You know, he's just ripping the Mets apart.
33:52It's like, all right, whatever. Like, again, everyone's like, if you really think the Mets
33:56are gonna be terrible, just bet the Mets and then you can throw your slip. I bet the Yankees under
34:00no problem doing that. Like, I think that's a good bet. So if Marty thinks all that,
34:04he can just bet it. Speak with your wallet. By the way, I'm taking the Reds over the Yankees
34:09in the World Series. All right. All right, baby. Terry Tito 1976 or something.
34:17The big red machine. Yep. Yep. We're back. So back. So and you know what? Let's take this
34:25baseball matter. Baseball was real when the Reds held opening day, 1 p.m. or 12 p.m.
34:30The president would throw out the first pitch. Our beloved red stockings.
34:34Ozzie Smith doing backflips. That's the baseball. I remember. That's the Cardinals. But
34:46no difference between those teams. I guess the Cardinals are like a blue Cardinals or
34:50a blue blood. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Just like the Nats. All right. And that was talking
34:56baseball. All right. I'm in on baseball this year. I'm in. I'm in. It's a shame Garrett Cole went
35:02down, but it is a massive shame. We'll recover. We have we have Dominguez. We'll be fine.
35:09I think like I don't think he's screwed. I actually I think they'll be a lot better than
35:13people think or they'll have such a bad year that it sends the franchise back and they overhaul the
35:18entire organization, which if it means getting rid of Boone getting rid of Boone and Cashman,
35:23then fine. I'll take a year sacrifice. I agree. Cashman Boone. See you later.
35:30Got to get rid of them. All right. That is the March 27th rundown. We will be back on Monday.