Kansas Beats Houston, Spurs Are A Problem + Best Connors In Sports | Mostly Sports EP 594 | 2.24.26

Hey Barstool listeners, you can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Bar Stool Sports. Bar Pytin. Brandon Walker. Mostly Sports. Evo, you're not going to be a stupid bitch today, okay? You're not. That'd be the upset of the century. Are these mics on? No. Welcome to Mostly Sports. I'm Mark Titus. He's Brandon Walker. It's Tuesday, February 24th. Are you down, Trud? We're live from Chicago. I just, it's been, it's been almost 48 hours since we won a cold night. Yeah, yeah. Kind of, just keep looking at my watch saying like, I'm fainting it for some gold. Are we going to do it again, or what? You know? Gold medal withdrawals. I would imagine we're going back to back, right? you gotta think yeah but they're not gonna hold it this week I don't think they should I wish every day I could win a I'm ready for some hockey we're flying out tomorrow morning to go to the hockey game tomorrow night in Winnipeg maybe is there a hockey game tomorrow when does the NHL start back tomorrow night I think but there's only one game or two games oh I have no idea I just made it up on the spot cause we were invited to go to the let's see Wednesday Wednesday, Wednesday. There's a lot of games tomorrow. Oh, I'll be goddamn. Everybody's playing. Huh. Huh. Yeah. Everybody's back tomorrow. We're going to celebrate the victory, the U.S. victory at Winnipeg and Vancouver. Winnipeg plays at Vancouver? That's right. Okay. That's where we're going to go have our gold medal ceremony. Loser bowl. That would be trying to think of the best place to be in Canada. Would that be it, I guess? Vancouver? Toronto? If we were trying to rub it in, where would we go? Toronto? Toronto. Toronto cares the most, I think. Toronto is where the most – I believe they believe they're the most passionate hockey fans. Now, I'm sure Winnipeg and everywhere in Alberta is passionate too. But Toronto is going to be the most people, right? Yeah. So if we're going to go with our American flags and our cocks in our hands, we'll go straight to Toronto. We've got to have our cocks in our hands. We've got to have our cocks in our hands. If we don't have our cocks in our hands, what's the point of any of this? And listen, we can have – like I can hold my cock, I can hold your cock. It doesn't matter. We just have to have cocks in our hands. We have to have cocks in our hands, and we're going to show them. We're going to show how stupid they look as we show up cocks in hand. At the saddle dome. Oh, man. What do you want to talk about, Brandon? Okay, so last night was Big Monday, correct? Big Monday. Bill Self, 41-0 at home all time on Big Monday. Maybe the dumbest thing I've ever heard. That doesn't mean anything to you. No, no, no, no. Maybe the dumbest thing in the sense of how impressive. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, hey, you're at Kansas, so you're going to win a lot of home games. got that right but b like 39 and 2 is reasonable that's worth 39 and 2 is worth bringing up that stat right he almost never loses 30 30 and 11 and you're like all right well he's got the most talent he's got the most talent why is he what's he doing losing 11 games 41 and 0 is like what what no that's not yeah they didn't have one slip up but then the weird part is they're losing on Saturdays this year, right? Yes. They lose every Saturday and they win every Monday. So it seems arbitrary that he's 41-0 at home on Big Monday and it's like who cares that it's on Monday? What about Tuesday? What about Wednesday? But I do think it might mean something because all these teams are playing on Saturday and then there's a quick turnaround on Monday. Yeah. And he's ready and nobody else is. Is it just as simple as like everyone that they play on Big Monday had played on Saturday and they had to travel quickly after their game and they're tired and they don't have the juice, whereas Kansas just gets to stay home. Well, the number one factor is usually Kansas is fucking loaded and the other team is not as good. And they have the hardest place to play. This year, Kansas is good, but they're not like miles above everybody else in the Big 12, not at all. No. But they've beaten Arizona on Big Monday, right? That's right. They beat Houston last night. They beat Texas Tech on the road on Big Monday, did they not? But I guess this is a home stat. Yeah, this is a home stat. But then, yeah, I mean, on Saturday they lost to Cincinnati by a million. At home. Yeah, Cincinnati's like basically 500. We're going to intersperse some basketball, some college basketball and pro basketball here in this segment because I wanted to tell you something because last night you had me fired up for Big Monday. And I was watching a little bit of North Carolina, Louisville, and it was fine. It was fine, but I was like, this isn't great. This is just fine. And I started wondering. my eyes started wandering and I looked over and, you know, which office episode's on the marathon right now? Oh, okay, well, it's, you know, I don't know, Chair Lady. I'm not going to watch Chair Lady. I've watched Chair Lady enough. And then, you know, Family Guy's on seven channels and I just don't go in there. And finally, I land on NBA TV and it was the middle of the first quarter. I watched the Pistons and the Spurs. Now, I made a goal this week to make sure I lock into the NBA as we now we're past the All-Star break, and I want to get up to speed, and I want to watch all the teams and get where I want to be with the NBA when the playoffs start in a couple of months. So that's my goal. I watched the Pistons and Spurs. Pistons number one in the East. Spurs, I believe, number two in the West. Two very good teams. Are they that good? The Spurs are two. You know what? I might be speaking out of school. I think they're around two or three. They're up there. They are up there. They're up there. They're very good. They're not a potential team. They're here. No, they're good. I believe you're correct. They're very good. It's very tight from 3-0. And I think they started the season 3-0 against the Thunder. They're very, very, very, very, very good. So I've watched the Pistons and the Spurs. Anybody, Mark, anybody, Mark, that will say to you, I don't watch the NBA because they don't play hard. I challenge you to watch these two teams. It was like a college basketball desperation. They were just going at each other, like contact. It was crazy. And I wanted to confirm your worst fears. This is the first time this calendar year that I've really sat and watched a 48-minute Wimby game. The market's the most terrifying thing I've ever seen. Yeah, yeah. He doesn't – you know how a shot blocker – Evo, you were on this earlier, maybe two years ago when you said Wimby's about to break defense and he's about to break the defensive player of the year or whatever. I don't think he's won one yet because he kept getting hurt. But he's going to win the next 15 defensive players of the year. You know how a shot blocker shuts down the immediate area around the rim and you just can't get there? Yeah. He shuts down the 15 feet around the rim. It's crazy. I've never seen anything like it. He's helping, and there will be somebody will go for a dunk and he'll block it from like six feet back, or then they'll stop and take a 12-foot bank shot. He'll just go up and block. It's the most stunning fucking thing I've ever seen. Last night he had 21, 17 rebounds, and six blocks. And it is amazing. And then around him, they got – is it Vassell? Vassell? How do I say it? Vassell? Devin Vassell? Vassell, yeah. They've got like four players that just shoot the fucking eyes out of it. They were alarming to watch how good they were. Do you think they could win the championship this year? I bet it last night plus 11. Really? Yes. Yes. I watched them one time, and I'm like, they're winning the championship. I haven't paid much attention. And the Pistons are very good. Yeah. Are the Pistons – can the Pistons win the championship? My read on it, and this is a guy that has – I'll tune in after March Madness. Yeah. I'll dive in. But my read on it was like both of these teams are like setting the stage for maybe next year or the year after. All right. You get the feeling that like maybe it's now. They're on the come up. Yeah. I think for the Spurs it's now. For the Pistons it might be now too. They're number one in the East. K didn't play well last night because of that defensive fucking monster that's on the Spurs. Five of 26 from the field. Yeah, he was awful. but he can't be comfortable because you get within 18 feet of the basket and you're shooting over a mountain it's the goddamnedest thing I've ever seen in my life and people need to be warned about it. The way that Steph Curry created gravity on the basketball court like we started talking about how much attention he attracts Wemba Nyama's the inventor of anti-gravity he shuts down the airspace he shuts down all of it and then I was bothered, I was disturbed And I was texting the group chat. Nobody else was watching that game. I was legitimately disturbed last night. Yeah, that's what I – You've been warning me. Yeah. You've been warning me. You've been saying it's coming. Yeah. And it's here. It's horrifying. It's the most breathtaking thing I've ever seen. And if he was ours, I'd probably feel a lot differently, but he's not. This is like China has an atom bomb, you know. You're just like, that's not good. Yeah. I'm not going to sleep that well at night. Yeah, I would rather they not. I would rather – yeah, I'm definitely worried about – Victor Wimbanyama just fucking rubbing his nuts on our face. Is that what happens in basketball? But here's my – Did I use that term correctly? Yeah, a little teabag. Here's my 24 hours in teams that can win the NBA championship. Okay. We're 24 hours into the season? 24 hours into my season. 24 hours into Brandon Walker's NBA season. 24 hours into my season. Because I watched the Rockets and the Jazz after. Do you know Kevin Love was playing for the Jazz? I did know that only because it is one of those things that once you see, you're like, oh, and then there's sticks in your brain. What the fuck? So, yeah, I had seen that somewhere along the lines. I do like doing overreaction Monday to the first day of the NBA season in February. I mean, on a Tuesday. At the tail end of February. The Thunder obviously can win the NBA championship. The Spurs can win the NBA championship. The Pistons can win the NBA championship. They got a toughness to them, too. They were fighting last night. I liked it. I like seeing the boys scrapping out there. And then the Celtics are the team I'm going to have to talk myself into. Did y'all see how good they looked against the Lakers the other night? They looked fantastic. But can they win without Jason Tatum in the playoffs? Is he going to come back? Is he going to be – I don't know. There's a real chance that they have the best basketball mind ever at GM. The Celtics? Oh. Oh, yeah. Steven? I mean, he discovered you, right? Yeah, he did. That's a fact. And then you taught Joel Embiid how to shoot basketball, so I'll credit him for that. That's true. And then they just kind of piece guys together that they think are undervalued. He kind of plays a little bit of money ball this year, and they're fucking awesome. I feel like that's – I mean, granted, he did get a bunch of high picks in the draft, but still. I feel like that's the actual story of the NBA right now. These teams that are pieced together rosters of well-placed draft picks over the last – that's kind of what the Thunder are. They got the MVP-level guy, and then they have the next nine guys they got are perfect for what they want to do, and they're just great players. And then the Pistons are kind of the same way, and the Spurs are kind of the same way. They got the Wimby centerpiece, and then around them it's just five or six guys that know how to fucking play basketball the way they want to play basketball. It was a fascinating game, and I hate to – I don't want to be that guy like, oh, Brandon discovered the NBA last night. But I did really watch it and really like – the Spurs were so fucking impressive, And that's what I want to talk about. Coincidentally, Brad Stevens was at Allen Fieldhouse last night. Oh, really? To watch Bill Self go 41-0, yeah. Was that the only reason he was there? I don't know. The Celtics aren't going to have a good draft pick, so I wonder if he was. Yeah, they never do, but they still figure it out. I guess you still have to scout people. When we talk about the draft, we always focus on the guys at the top. I guess the good teams still need to do their jobs as well, right? Do you think Brad Stevens is starting his offensive? He's there and he's like, it's Darren Peterson. is a fruitcake. You don't want to pick him. Yeah, let him slip to us. It is kind of weird if you're going into a draft and you know you have the 25th pick, how do you scout that draft? You just ignore the top guys. But then if you fall in love with a guy too much, he's probably not going to be available. Yeah, but ironically, the guys picking 25th are usually the guys that know what they're doing the most. Yeah, exactly. They're the guys that built the teams. But I'm asking, what are they doing? How do you do that? How do you look at a crop of players? So do you go to the Combine, and as the main game's going on with all the top ten prospects, you're just looking over, like, who's warming up the best? Yeah. Who's getting – And then, like, you draft your guy and you bring him in, and you're like, we had you pegged the whole time. You're like, but wait a second, you had the 25th pick. You're like, yeah, we know. Uh-huh. You were 25 on our pick. You were the guy we were picking number one at 25. At 25. I don't know. The rest of us, because, you know, the rest of us just focus on – Does that mean you knew the other 24 were better? So you focused on that? Yeah. Nope. Not. Hmm. Interesting. We knew 2014. Like, I am genuinely curious who was Brad Stevens looking at last night. Probably. Who was he watching? Probably like. Kingston Flint. He's not watching. Probably like Tuggler. Kingston Flint. Yeah, Joe Tuggler. I don't know. Yeah, who can I sign in free agency? Does Sharp fit the mold of, like, he's been coached by Kelvin Sampson for four years. Oh, he absolutely played. Yeah, Emmanuel Sharp. I know he's going to play hard. I guess, yeah, I guess I'm only thinking of the first round, too. There's probably – I don't know what the Celtics are going to do in the second round. I feel like the Houston Cougars, the way they play basketball, it's just if you just – if you have the 25th pick and you just take their best guard every year, if he's available, you're fine. You're good. Yeah. Because you know he's going to play hard. You know he's going to be able to shoot. Last time Kansas lost on Big Monday, so conference home game – or conference home game 2001 to Iowa State by two. No, that's – you're lying. They are since 1995-79-1 in home conference games. On Mondays. Yes. It used to be, but it's not a bad conference. In fact, it's an elite conference. Yeah. And they're still going. They beat Arizona earlier this year without their best player. Last night they started. I felt like Houston was controlling that game through, what, 15 minutes, and then all of a sudden Houston couldn't do nothing. Yeah. Houston's offense just fell apart. I do think maybe – find me – Go back to 1960? Yeah. Give me something. Give me something to work with here. Well, I wonder, is what I said earlier in effect here, that all these teams are playing – I guess it would be true of – I'm trying to – I'm thinking. I'm thinking. I'm thinking. Yeah, get your thoughts out. I'm thinking, but I've got to talk at the same time while I'm thinking. I can't do both. I can't do both. It's an improvisation. Because other teams host games on Big Monday. It's not just Kansas. No, other teams are going to play. And they are the only team that seems to be unstoppable. But it's like you said, Brandon, Kansas usually has one of the best teams in the country. They usually have one of the best atmospheres in the country. Sure. You put those two together, it's hard to win there under normal circumstances. But hard to win means you win one out of every ten. But now, on top of that, you have teams that are playing on Saturday, and they have a 36-hour, a 48-hour, whatever it ends up being, turnaround to get to play on Big Monday. In this case, Houston had to go from getting up for Arizona. Right. That's what I'm saying. Losing. That's what I'm saying. And then traveling. And they don't have time to lick their wounds. You've got to immediately get to Lawrence, Kansas, and get ready to play the Jayhawks. Licking their wounds. Maybe that's what's going on. You don't have time to feel bad for yourself? Yeah. Licking their wounds. Well, why do we adopt that? Dogs do that, but humans don't lick their wounds. Do you lick your wounds? No. Depends. When have you ever licked your wound? The raw meat and honey on it. Kansas has played a disproportionate amount of home conference game on Mondays compared to the rest of the conference. Because they're the tentpole team in the conference. Yeah, they are big Monday. Oklahoma State, they have 46 since 2000. Oklahoma State is next. Well, Texas is next with 31, but they don't. Not a big 12 anymore. Oklahoma State, 28. But they have a massive gap in winning percentage. Of active members, Baylor is next closest. They have 22 games. They're 16-6 in those games. Can I ask you a question? And I was watching last night. You know, North Carolina, solid tournament team, I guess. Their best player is out still, right? Yeah. Louisville, I guess, you know, solid tournament team. But let's say 15 years ago. I'm going to go back 15 years, okay? What's the best? So hold on. So that's 1995. 15 years is actually 2011. 1995, yeah. Yeah. So 2011, if I ask you what the best conference is in the country, you're going to say the ACC or the Big East, right? Right, yeah. But ACC from like mid-90s through the 2000s was the – hey, Spider. Well, come on in, Spider. Yeah, come on in. Spider has a – look at this fit you got going on. What? Spider has a gift for me, he said. All right, Spider has a gift. Can you turn it and let me – Tell the people what this is. So I have recently purchased a Dale Earnhardt Senior one-of-one signed Polaroid. I found it on eBay. It came out of this pack where they have celebrities sign Polaroids. And I saw there was a one-of-one Dale Earnhardt. So I got on a bidding war on eBay. It was authenticated this past week and it arrived this weekend. So I told Mark with his blessing I would put it on display here at the Dale Earnhardt Museum on loan. I would love to do that. Absolutely. Thank you. In fact, you could put it anywhere you want, Spider. Well done, Spider. Wherever you feel like it deserves a spot. That's a good spot. There you go. That's a damn good spot. Yes. We love you, Spider. Well done, Spider. We love you, Spider. We'll take great care of it, Spider. To other Barstool employees, I would like to lift this man up as an example who has walked in here and loaned us a gift for our set. This is pure class. Pure class. Thank you, Spider. You're the fucking man, Spider. You're the man, Spider. Favorite guy we got. But you would say the ACC was the best conference in the country in 2002, 2011. And I'm going to get the timeline a little wrong here, but the ACC was the best conference in the country. Then they added Syracuse, basketball superpower. They added Pitt, basketball power for the 2000s. They added Louisville. They added all these incredible basketball teams. And you thought, my God, the rich get richer. Now here we are 15 years later, and it's Duke and everybody else. What went wrong? A little bit, yeah. But I also think the ACC is still better than they get credit for. Okay. I think what went wrong. But it's not unquestionably the best conference in the country. I think what went wrong is ACC is not good at football. The ACC doesn't have good television deals. The ACC plays a lot of their games on the CW. The country doesn't pay attention to the ACC. When the tournament rolls around, the ACC teams actually are pretty good. Okay. Like NC State making the Final Four a couple years ago. And then they sneak up on you, and you're like, where did this come from? Okay. I think that's – and I'm getting that feeling from the ACC this year. Like Miami is unranked and Miami is not awesome. I'm not arguing that they're like Final Four caliber. But Miami is like a team that you're just like – you watch them and you're like, holy shit, this team's really good. And if you – you could pay attention to college basketball all year and not hear a single word about Miami. You know, I say that. Plus it's the other Miami. I say the ACC has done whatever. But if you look over the last ten years, you know, Virginia won a national title. Miami made a Final Four, correct? NC State made a Final Four. Clemson made a deep, deep, deep run. Right. So maybe it's just the teams like Syracuse, Pitt, and Louisville that when they came in I thought they were going to take this thing to the next level, and they kind of fell apart. You know what I think really might have happened for your perception? Notre Dame as well. Notre Dame was always a consistent program. They just fell apart when they got to the ACC. What might have happened for your perception is Duke, for the longest time, had all the horses. They had all the five stars. but they wouldn't win the league. Mike Krzyzewski never won the regular season ACC title, and now they do. Now Duke pulls it together in the regular season and then creates that gap, and then it does feel like it's Duke and everybody else. But everybody else is still pretty good. So we go through the year a couple years ago, and we're like, oh, my God, Duke is loaded. And then I'm just going to say a team for an example. Wake Forest wins the ACC. They're like, God damn. Yeah. But now it's just Duke's got all the horses, and they just win it. I mean, 2019 Duke. Let me look this up. Let me make it. And that was, I assume, Virginia won it that year. 2019 Duke was the Zion team, which was one of the recent teams that cut through the zeitgeist, we'll say. He had everybody talking about that Duke team. They finished third in the ACC. Virginia and North Carolina tied for the ACC win, and Duke finished two games behind both of them in 2019. So that's an example of, I think, that was going on. where you're like, Duke is the best team by far in the country this year, and they're third in the ACC, and you'd say things like that. And now it's like, Duke is the best team by far in the country, and they're killing everybody in the ACC. So I think that might factor into it, but you're right. The ACC isn't hitting like it used to, though, I think, for most of the country. No, it feels like every single big game, and this is a credit to their conference and what they put together, it feels like every huge game is in the Big 12. it feels like every single one and listen they were smart when they added they knew listen football drives the bus but we can put together one fucking hell of a basketball league and they did and the teams that came in have held up there into the bargain Arizona's held up there into the bargain you know all these teams Houston has been there a little longer but they've like it's just I don't know the Big 12 has built what I thought the ACC was always going to be yeah it also sucks seeing the at least when I was growing up, Pitt-Syracuse, those should be college basketball powerhouses in my brain. Agreed. And they're just not. Yeah. You know what it is, though? Pitt and Syracuse, and this is a tale as old as time, and we do it in football, and it's no use crying over spilled milk. But Pitt and Syracuse belong on Monday or Tuesday nights playing Georgetown and UConn. Right. And that's who they should be playing. I should be watching Syracuse and St. John's twice a year, and we don't, you know, for whatever reason, money, we just don't get that. And that's okay. Yeah, the bloated conferences, we've talked about it with football a little bit, but, I mean, it happens in basketball too that when you have more conferences, you have more conference champions. You have more teams that are finishing in the top three in their conference, which then feels like there's some success around it. Now all of a sudden – Teams have more weight to them. Yeah. But now conferences have 18 teams. Yeah. And, you know, like UCLA might be as good as they were five to ten years ago, but now they're in the middle of a massive conference instead of being like second or third in the pack 10 or 12, you know. And that's college basketball. And then it feels, yeah. So the perception of how good of a season they're having is very different. Not that that's Syracuse's problem. Syracuse just sucks. There's a round-robin problem too, especially in college basketball. Yes. Massive round-robin. You know what? This will blow your mind. I'm supposed to be the expert. I'm supposed to know these things, Brandon. Had no idea. Blew my fucking mind. Miami, the aforementioned Miami Hurricanes. Sure. Having a pretty good year. Unranked, but what's their record? 20-something and five or six? They've won 20 games already. They don't play Duke at all. They just don't play Duke. Because I was watching Virginia-Miami, and those are two teams that are pretty good in the ACC. They're under the radar, but they're both pretty good ACC teams. And I think the winner of that game was Virginia. It was to be second in the conference. It was Duke and then whoever won that game was going to now take over second place So I was like as far as I know neither one of these teams that played Duke is there a chance where they could knock off Duke and maybe win the ACC Let me look at their schedule I'll be goddamn, Miami just does not play Duke. How is that possible? This is where the bloated conferences kind of ruin things because, especially in basketball, football is tough, but in basketball, you've got to play every team in your conference. Yes. You've got to make one swing through the whole thing. You've got to play everybody. and in football it created Duke winning the fucking ACC because Miami and Duke didn't play. And in basketball there's no fucking excuse. There's no excuse. They play enough games where you ought to be able to get everybody on the fucking schedule. Crazy. What are you nodding at, Connor? I concur. Oh, I thought you had something. No, no, no, no, no. I thought you had something really, really good right there. The only other college basketball thing I have is that Miami of Ohio plays tonight and I'm very excited. Boy, that conversation is really ratcheting it up, huh? Are you getting on the bandwagon, Connor? I've been on the bandwagon. It hurts me when people like Mark Titus say that they suffer a loss they're not in. I don't know who tweeted it. I don't know who tweeted it. It was yesterday. I saw somebody. I believe it was either a national or regional college basketball guy. He's like, all this conversation about Miami of Ohio, stop. They've won every game they've played. They're clearly one of the best teams in the country. And I thought, that doesn't mean anything. If you don't play any of the other good teams in the country or any good teams in the country, you can't really claim to be the best team in the country. But that conversation's going to be a fucking whirlwind over the next three weeks, huh? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And everybody's working on the assumption Akron's just going to kill them. I think they are going to be in. I think it's ultimately going to be not that close. I think they're going to be, if they lose to Akron, they'll be like a 10 seed and be comfortably in and not really. The way we're talking about it, though, is it's going to be a coin flip at the buzzer, you know? And I don't think it will be. I think they'll be comfortably in. It's just a matter of whether they should be. If they go 30-0 and then they win a couple conference games and they go 32-0 and then 32-1, it'd be silly for them not to be in, right? I understand. It would look silly. How about that? It would look silly. It would look silly, yeah. But under the slightest bit of scrutiny, you'd be like, oh, okay, that actually makes sense. I mean, if you see the NIT, the NIT is very different these days. Oh, boy, what are you about to throw out? I'm asking, would the NIT see them as a one seed in NIT? No. Maybe. I don't know. The NIT, because the crown makes things. My understanding of what the NIT is, no. But now the NIT is like the third tournament. Yeah, what would the CBI be? I don't even know who the NIT takes now. Because. I believe it's like automatic conference champions, right? Like regular season champions. But the crown has like fucked up everything kind of. Yeah, the crown kind of picks off the bubble. Yeah. The big crown, guys. So what are we doing with our NIT watch parties this year? The crown takes all the bubble teams. and then the conference champions go to the NIT. We're crowned guys. We are crowned guys. All right. Yes, you guys aren't eligible. You guys are still going to compete in my NIT bracket? The NIT bracket? Yeah. We're going to do the NIT bracket challenge? For $200,000. Yeah, I'll do it. Sure, yeah, I'll do it. The buy-in is $200,000? Buy-in. Oh, shit. Okay. Can you spot me? Huh? Yeah, I can see you. You're right there. I think the best way to handle it, Brandon, is just put Miami in the first four in Dayton. we're working under the assumption if they lose obviously if they win they belong in if they win their conference tournament they belong in but uh i'm not arguing otherwise but if they lose in in humiliating fashion yeah in the mac tournament i still think they should be in put them in the first four have them play ohio state and dayton who says no to that well maybe you guys because are you not puff your chest out right now because right now is this lunardi i'm looking at i assume it's lunardi uh you guys are in the last four by oh i don't say no oh i don't Oh, we're in? You're in the last four buys. You're in the last four buys. You don't need to fuck with Dayton. I was just trying to get us in the tournament. She already has us in. You're not even in the last four in right now. The last four buys are UCF, Texas A&M, Auburn, and Ohio State, and then the last four in are Santa Clara, Mizzou, UCLA, and USC. Never mind. I don't. Yeah. I can't do four years of the bubble, dude. I just can't. I can't. The bubble has. I'm exhausted. I know we're on the bubble, but I can't. Four straight years of just like every morning waking up and refreshing and seeing where we're at, I can't do it this year. That just means you're a bubble program. Yeah, I can't do it this year. So I've opted out. Like, just tell me my fate. Just fast forward to Selection Sunday and shoot me or don't. Delphi's going first four out. Oh, boy. That is the only bracketology we accept on this show. That is true. It's too stressful, man. That's from February 20th. It's too stressful. Oh, that's dated. You go into the under eight timeout in the first half, and you're refreshing your phone, and you're like, we're up six. Does that mean we're in now? Oh, shit, they went on a 7-0 run. Are we out now? Yeah. I can't do it, Brandon. And yet, I have to do it. So we've done a good job talking basketball for 30 minutes now. We have buried the lead on today's show. Oh, yeah. Connor? Hello. Hello. Hello. It's a pleasure to be with you all. You got ConPom? I do have ConPom. You got ConPom? Yes, the first ever ConPom rankings. How thorough are they? They're quite. Quite? Quite. Quite thorough? Yes. Spent a decent amount of time last night cracking the numbers. Do you have a website yet? No, but that will be next up. Now, remember, we said it's Con or Con or Con, correct? Yes. So that brings in Con Knipple. So I assume he's in ConPom. I don't know. You don't? I might have to start a newsletter. I might have to start a compom sub stack I actually love that idea yeah people could just get on your uh on your sub stack yeah list just if they want to subscribe email blasts yeah so what we'll see what we constant compom updates yeah so as of right now the the it does say on the compom rankings that it is a monthly thing every 24th of the month will be will be compom day but we could change that for the subscribers maybe we put it behind a paywall and we get people if they want to subscribe pay some money they could get on a daily basis yeah show your barstool gold membership yeah scan it and email it to us yeah and we will allow you access you get uh barstool gold you get access to con palm yep and you get uh weekly videos from barstool greg whatever you Shout out Barstool Greg, man. Shout out Barstool Greg. Fucking Missouri last four in. And from what I heard, you said you don't want to be in the tournament if Barstool Greg's not in it. That's right. I want Barstool Greg. I do think Ohio State versus Missouri in Dayton. And I go to the game with Barstool Greg would be, I mean, think of the content. Yeah. Are you thinking of the content, Connor? I am. Think of it. That'd be really good. He responded to my TikTok about preheating the oven before you put in pizza. So I respected that a whole lot. He's always on. He's on my side. He says you always put the pizza in ASAP. Anyway, we have the compound rankings. You made a TikTok about how you don't preheat oven? Yeah. It's so very easy to preheat an oven. You can make anything on TikTok and throw it out there and it's whatever. By the way, you are preheating the oven no matter when you put it in. Yeah, but you're also preheating the pizza with it. So it shrinks the amount of time that you're cooking the pizza. Yeah, but you make a soggy. It's not preheating. You're eating soggy pizza, dude. It's not soggy, dude. I know how to eyeball a pizza. I can figure out when it's good and when it's not. Do you really need to preheat an oven? All right, let's say this. I have a frozen pizza here. I'm about to put it into the oven. This is my dinner for the night. I'll do this about once a month. And when I do do this, people ask me one or two questions. A, Connor, you're 26 years old. Why are you still eating frozen pizza? Go get yourself a real pizza. You can afford it. To that I say, I still think this tastes pretty good. We don't need to be snobs here. And B, people say, Connor, why don't you preheat the oven when you put the pizza in, to which I say, I think it's unnecessary. For a frozen pizza, you don't have to, it says right here, preheat oven to 400 and then bake pizza for 18 to 21 minutes. So we'll do 20 minutes, whatever the case is. You don't need to wait for the oven to get to an even 400 degrees. You're waiting regardless. Let's say that takes 10 minutes on this oven. So it would take 30 minutes total between preheat and then putting the pizza in there. Why don't you just put the pizza in there as the oven is technically preheating? because as the oven gets hotter and hotter, the pizza is going to get hotter and hotter, and then it will already have some heat to it before you get to the 400. And then that way it probably shaves off, I don't know, four or five minutes. So instead of 30, it could be only 25. You don't need to preheat an oven for frozen pizza. And people, they get so enraged when I say that. I can eyeball it. I know what a good frozen pizza looks like. Why do you want to eyeball it? You don't have to eyeball it because I want the food. If you follow the answer, that's it. I'm going to put that right in there, a little slide in. Just a cold-ass oven. I haven't set anything up here yet, but I'm going to set it to 400 right now. And then I'm going to press start, and I'm just going to let it sit. Bottom rack? It's a dirty stove top. I apologize. No, nothing. You don't need it. And here we are. Get it out when it's ready. I eyeballed it a little bit. I mean, that's a perfect pizza. I like it a little bit crispy. Well, let me tell you something. That is a good-looking pizza. That's exactly what we needed. Exactly what we needed. You've got to have those brown edges. All right. Yeah, so everybody say, oh, it's soggy. No, it's not. Why do you eyeball it? What does that mean? That's exactly it. It means I want the food faster, so I don't want to wait the full 30. So it means you go over. I'll be like, listen to what he's about to say. It means that you put the pizza in the oven. You go do something. You come back and check on it. It's not done, so you go do something. Then you come back and check on it. You're eyeballing. Yeah. You're eyeballing. You're in motion constantly. No, no, no, no, no. Okay, now it's done. Or, set, put it in, go do some shit for 15 minutes, and buzzer goes off, go get your pizza and eat your pizza. No, you have to go back, then put the pizza in, then go do some shit. Correct. So you're already getting multiple trips, and I think you guys are looking at it from a convenience standpoint. Oh, yes, yes. I'm looking at it from a time standpoint. I'm looking at it from, I don't want to wait for 30 minutes. What's the difference of convenience and time? I don't do it for the full 30 minutes. I'm only in there for 24, 25. It's the exact same time. No, it is not. The oven takes the same amount of time to heat up. I think we need to have a race. Are we trying to race here, or are we trying to make a good pizza? We should have a pizza race. It's a double-pronged speed plus taste. Anyway, I would love that. Compound rankings. You don't have to eyeball it. I want to, though, because I want the food fucking faster. They tell you how to do it. Exactly. Leave it to the experts. Do you know more than the Red Baron? Do you think you know more than the Red Baron? That's a good question. The ego that you have to believe that you know more about pizza than Red fucking Baron. Red fucking Baron. Red Baron's been doing this for decades. Decades, Connor. Generations. Red Baron. He's figured it out. Our dads and grandfathers were making Red Baron. You think you've come along and fixed this? I know better than Red Baron. I understand that Mr. Baron probably does have the formula down. Oh, look at Mr. Totino over here. I understand that. I will accept a marginal level down in taste just so I can get it faster. And it's marginal. I want to have a side conversation here. I just want to take their car, exit a little bit, but also stay on the same highway. Totino's Pizza. When I was 19, 20 in college, played Madden all night, sun comes up, I make a Totino's Pizza. maybe I'm playing all day making Totino's pizza they were a buck buck 99 at the store now you go to the frozen pizza aisle Mark there are brands and options aplenty there's a whole ass aisle nothing but pizza you're talking home run in you're talking Red Baron you're talking Newman's own you're talking everybody in the world's got a pizza right are you in the Totino's generation at all with me I only know Tottenham. Little bitty pepperonis. I thought they were the rolls. They had those. That's how I know Tottenham. I'm talking about the red pizza box. I didn't know they made real pizza. They had a red pizza box. Now they're gone. I don't see them anymore. I know them as the rolls. I knew them as the pizza. I just throw them in and just ate. I think it was like eight to ten minutes for them. I only know rolls. And then. Never seen a pizza. You've never seen a Tottenham? Party pizza? Yeah. 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Stella Blue Coffee, the presenting sponsor today of ConPom. I like that. How do we want to do it? Do we just want to rattle off one of the nine or do we want to go? No, I don't want to preheat this oven. Just go. Okay. Fucking go. I don't want to wait. Yeah, you should be through. In fact, make this as fast as possible. Sure, okay. Make this as fast as possible. We're hungry, dude. We don't care how good it is. TJ, could you pull up the DM that I sent you? We're hungry for some ConPom. Here we go. ConPom.com, advanced analysis of people in sports named Conor, Conor, Conor. Freeze it right there. Conor, Con, Conor, Con. Okay. So ConPom, C-O-N-P-O-M. So already it's exclusionary of Con Knipple, whose name was K-O-N. Because Conor's name is Con. Yeah, that's how you spell my name, so that's what I went off of. But as I say, there's like nine different versions of Conor that can be advanced analysis, and these are my comprehensive rankings as of Tuesday. All right, this is advanced analysis of people in sports named Conor, Conor, Conor, Conor, Con, Con, or Con. Yes. Okay. ConPom. Number one. So not Genghis Khan. No, he is not. What about Tony and Nick Khan? No, out. Why not? Why are they out? Because I think that's a different iteration. Well, yeah, we would take it up with a board. A little bit. There's a racial bias. Write the think pieces. I'll say this right now. Only white dudes on this list. So, yeah, we can maybe change that. Number one, Connor Hallibuch. Easy. Obviously. Captain America. Mr. Agoli. Mr. Everything. Net rating of 37.46. Bass Fisherman. Yes. Then we go Con Knipple right after that. Oh, there actually are numbers to this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I spent a lot of time cracking this formula last night. All right. Con Knipple might be Rookie of the Year. Uh-huh. Yep. Also, playing in Chicago tonight was booked as a guest on Mostly Sports. Canceled. Unfortunately. Sure. Conceled. Conceled. Would have been great. 34.89 is his rating. You should have put him at one so he would have come in. Nah. Well, you canceled it. Damn it. We would have had Knipple here for the first con pom. I will say him agreeing to do it in the first place was crazy because he was on a time crunch. Sure, sure, sure. I think he tried. He's an incredible – We're not anti – We're not hating. We're not hating. He was doing us a favor just by saying yes. And for the record, I would have driven him over an hour to – So he's number two on the list. He's number two. Could be number one by the time we get to the next one. Right. Connor Griffin, the baseball player with the Pirates, who Bryce Harper said yesterday is going to be an absolute stud. He is 33.15. could potentially be higher, but he just hasn't played a regular season game. Then we have Connor Story from LGBTQ Hockey. He is 27.22+. That's his category, LGBTQ plus hockey? Yes. What is that hockey league? I'm not familiar. LGBTQ Hockey? Yes. This is the guy from fucking... Yes. The guy from that show? He's the gay hockey player, and he arrived. Let me stop you there. Can I say something? I think you're only looking at it on a spreadsheet. I don't think you watch his game. No. You're not watching the game. He's hot in the streets. He's going to be hosting SNL this week. That's fine, but you've got him over Conor Bedard. He's a real hockey player. Is that the actor's name? That's the actor's name who plays the guy in Heater Rivalry. Okay. Can I get eyes on Conor Story? Of course. There he is. Oh, yeah. All right. Conor Story. Look at the glow up that this guy had. Well, then. Yeah, a handsome fella. Oh. Oh. Okay. There he is. Uh-huh. Yeah, he's a handsome fella. Yeah, you get why he's number four on the list. I still think I ranked Conor Bedard ahead of him. Conor Bedard didn't even get the Olympic nod. Yeah, exactly. He hasn't been doing anything. He's fresh. He's been chilling in Chicago. He's getting ready for the playoff push. Okay. Well, he's next up on the list. He's number five with a net rating of 25.61. Now, I noticed you don't have qualifiers for his version of hockey. That's just hockey. Shouldn't you put... Oh, you're saying so LGBT plus is not hockey. That doesn't count as hockey? That's different hockey? Is that... Right. Conor Bedard's version of hockey is hockey. Yeah. Any other version is LGBTQ? No, no, because for Conor's story, it's fictional gay hockey. Yeah. And then in the real world. Well, why didn't you put fictional? Why didn't you put factual straight hockey? Factual straight. That was an oversight by me. Real life, straight ass hockey. You're only inviting him because you get an each if you didn't. Why don't you do that with Conor Bedard? Yeah. Real life, straight. Actual straight hockey. Straight, and then put in parentheses after straight, not gay. Okay. When we post this, this will be amended and it will be updated. Okay. So he's five. What do we do then? Could be gay. If a Conner comes along who's in actual straight hockey and he's gay. That's where the wires get crossed. What are we going to do then? I don't know. All right, all right. I don't know. Kyle Conner, number six. Let me stop you there. Yes. You know, I think you disavowed Tony Conn, Nick Conn, all the Conns because that's their last name. But Kyle Conner is sitting right there and it's his last name. Con is a different Iteration it seems like it's a A branch Not connected to the Connor tree Yeah Brandon I don't think you're reading this part right here Yeah Connor Connor Connor Connor Connor Con Connor Con Right so not But you could just add the last con But it's not in that list Let him hang himself because I do think that the think piece is coming I do think that There will There will be blogs about this It will be a New York Times opinion article on the racial bias of con. Well, I mean, also the sexual bias. He's made clear delineations of LGBTQ hockey and straight hockey, and now it sounds like if you're brown skinned, you are not eligible. This being the thing to finally take down Conor would be something. Listen, by marking LGBTQ, that's not being homophobic. That's bringing representation to the con-pom rankings in terms of sexual identity. but clearly we have to work on the racial identity, which will be factored into the next one. Okay, all right. Yes. But with that, I think you need to make sure that if you're going to point out the race of other people, you need to point out the race of the white people as well. Okay. You need to be consistent because what you're doing right now is you're saying all these people are normal, but the others aren't. All right. I will work hand-in-hand with a DEI team. Okay. We will have them consulted for the next one. We have plenty of time. White basketball. White, straight-ass, not-gay basketball. We have plenty of time before we get to the next one. I will make sure that it is peaceful enough. Anyway, next one. Connor Hellebuck is just America. He's not even a sport. That's just America. Same with Kyle Connor. I would have put him higher, but he was a healthy scratch in the last couple games. White America. Conor McGregor comes at a number seven. Bit of a drop-off. Sure. But 19.82. He's been hyping up Gavin McKenna a lot. He's on the Penn State hockey train. That's the only reason why I put him on there. Conor McGregor is? Yeah. Why? Because Gavin McKenna, when he had eight points the other night against Ohio State. This punch unlocked Gavin McKenna. Like, he was playing. Oh, I put the connection together now. He got the felony charge drops. I see. Yeah. I get it. He had an eight-point game. Eight points, one goal, seven assists. He did the McGregor. And then he did that. I see. And then McGregor saw it. Stop right there. I hate everything about Penn State's approach to uniforms. Those are sick. Yes. Those are sick. Hockey's got really good uniforms. Agreed. They're beige. But anyway, Conor McGregor. I don't know. Is he coming back? Is he? That seems pretty vital to the list. The White House card. They're doing a UFC event on the lawn of the White House for Trump's birthday. Oh, okay. And there's rumors about a once-in-a-lifetime main event for that, which would only have to be a McGregor fight. But they've been rumoring that he's coming back for four years. He's on your list because he supports one of your hockey players. No, he's on the list because he's still got that swag to him. Okay. Yeah, she just popped up on my timeline. Dude, if Trump beat the shit out of Conor McGregor. Hasn't fought in a couple years. But he, I mean, hasn't fought in a couple years, but for the previous few years before that, he was like the number one Conor. So he still deserves a spot on the list. Long time, long time Conor, Conor Con stud here. Yes, and he will absolutely be invited to the Con. Anyway. You followed his workout regimen when that picture came out of him with that dumbbell too, right? Yeah. What? Huh? His penis was out? Yeah. He had his penis. Conor McGregor had his penis. It sounds like you followed it. Conor McGregor hanging a dumbbell off of his erect penis. Yeah. Just rocking out with his cock out That impressive All right Number eight This is a new one There is another Connor Griffin I had no idea Where does he play He plays for Binghamton He's a college baseball player. No way. And he is from the Electric City, Scranton, Pennsylvania. Technically Clark Summit. But he throws 100 gas easily. That's a lot of gas. Wow. 100 gas. Connor Griffin. He's 6'5". He went to Abington Heights. Shout out Abington Heights. Wow. All right. As a sophomore, he made 16 relief appearances, struck out 23 in 18 innings. That's pretty good. You know, 6-2-7 ERA, that's not, but sounds like he's doing better. Minus is too tough. Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. 11 walks. Yeah. Okay. So, big gas thrower. Yes. Wow. I'm keeping an eye on this guy. Okay. And this Connor Griffin, this guy who had a 6.27 ERA for Binghamton last year. He currently has a 10-1. Is a better Conor than Conor McDavid currently. Conor McDavid checks in at number nine. Yeah, it says right there. Simply because he just loses a lot. He's a loser. And Mark, listen, and you know whenever you rank things, you always do a top nine. Top nine. Yes. It's pretty standard. Yeah. That's the main thing with the Con-Pom rankings. I took, there are six letters in Conor, the way I spell it, and then there are three letters in Con. And so I put those together. I put together a top nine. but then there's five letters and connor which is one end but you're mis you're misinterpreting this is what you're getting hung up on yes it encompasses all of the different conners and the cons and whatnot but it's based solely off of how right but there's six letters in connor with two o's and then there's there's another letter that comes in with connor with an e so that's actually seven letters that comprise the two but you're not you're not getting that this is all my fucking operation and you can shut the fuck up yeah that's a good point top nine that's what we're rolling also nine is one of my favorite numbers i used to wear nine growing up playing baseball i thought top nine would be nice can we make some adjustments we need we need i think as any compound we need a luck rating correct titus i agree with that we need pace we need yeah luck rating the schedule because he was showing us the ratings yeah i think this is this is rudimentary and we're gonna you're gonna expand on it i i assume uh do you not have the further numbers for us i would like we're expanding on it how much does like their attractiveness factor in because i would like to see that as one of the okay well what was the only thing that matters we put together the the penis rating for the pitchers was that or for baseball players yeah well i could throw in some this show's so fucking stupid i don't even remember what was the penis rating for baseball pitchers expected oh that's right nine inning starts yeah success nine inning success yeah it's just expected nine innings we should we should put out our penis preview soon yeah so yeah we'll build this out we'll add some more metrics in there we'll make it more of a diverse it's a good start more diverse in terms of the numbers and in terms of just the numbers yeah yeah just the numbers probably yeah yeah listen if there are connie's out there i think Connie could be an amendment. All right, now you're being. I did look for if we want to be more inclusive. There's no Connor that has ever touched the NBA floor in the history of the NBA. No one named Connor has ever played NBA basketball. Not one Connor. Not a second. Certainly the last name Connor's, though, right? Connors, yeah. Hey, we got an Evan on the Stanley Cup finally. Right? Wasn't that something? We got to get a Connor on the NBA floor. Yep. If I hadn't gone to student radio, it probably could have happened, but they were just calling my name. Student radio was. Yeah, I said NBA, student radio. How many people have faced that decision in college, NBA or student radio? I also want you to put yourself on the list. I can't. You could. I want to see where you fall, where you think you fall. Hypothetically right now, well, if you're not going to do it, can we just look at it? Sure. Yeah, let's take a peek. So right now, I think you might be between Bedard and Kyle Conner. Yeah, I was thinking somewhere in there. Definitely above McGregor. Definitely above McGregor. Absolutely above McGregor and McDavid. No question about that. Maybe right behind Conner Story. Right behind him. Right behind him. Right behind him. Like, it's never – we've never seen too close. But then back up, but then go back in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Right on his ass. Yeah, you're right. Right on his ass. I think you're right. Yeah. That's right. And then maybe, I don't know, if you keep getting better as a Conor, maybe you and him switch positions and you go back and forth. Maybe. Who knows? And sometimes I could be on top of him or he could be. Right behind him. Yeah. He could be on top. I could be below. Whatever the case is. Yes, Ebo? Thoughts? You guys do your sick potty jokes. Do your show. Ebo's out of cans to crack, so I got no more pants. I'm out. I will say all these people, inauguralists, they are invited to ConorConnerCon, and then we'll see who else we can pick up along the way. I've got to be honest. Listen, ConorConnerCon, no bigger supporter than me. Me and Mark are going to fund the whole thing. Right. A convention with nine guys, is the invitation open to all Conners everywhere, or are we going to have a nine-guy convention here? I want to keep the list somewhat exclusive. There were more people that were left off of this list. And we were part of the envisioning of this. We thought of a fucking blowout. Like Conners everywhere. Like, way too many people out there. You're out on the basketball court and there's just too many people. Think of Lollapalooza. Yeah. And think of every person in the crowd being named Connor. That's what I had in mind. Now, if you have a different vision, we can talk about it. I want there, if we are going to do that, I do want there to be like a class system at least where there is like VIPs. Right. And then there could just be general admission, but there needs to be a clear separation between these are better. These are better Conners. You have separated. In ConnerCon, you've separated people by race, by sex, and now by class. Status, yes. That's right. That's right. Yeah, I think you're onto something. Stay away from religion, I'd say. Religion was not factored into this. I don't know the religion of anybody. All right, well, you're going to do this every 24th of the month? Every 24th of the month, yes. 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We are the favorites. Japan's the favorite. We're the favorites. And all the guys are playing. All the – what was the team we were worried about? I know we looked at the rosters. Puerto Rico? Puerto Rico. We looked at the Dominican lineup. Dominican lineup is nasty. Wasn't one of the lineups decimated by insurance claims or something? Puerto Rico. That was Puerto Rico, yeah. The Dominican lineup is disgusting. And their baseball ability. Yes. Yeah, I'm not – it's me talking, not Connor. Yeah, yes. I don't need that qualifier. We do have a significant edge in the pitching category over the Dominican Republic. So we got – but Scoobles – They're trying Johnny Cueto out there. Didn't Scoobles say yesterday he's only pitching once? Yeah, that's very like PO travel baseball. So we got Scoobles, we got Otani, we got – we got who? Sammy Sosa, I think he's American. Sure, sure. Mark McWire. No, I think Bobby Witt. Gunnar Henderson. You said pitching. Who's our pitching staff? We've got Scooble. We've got Skeens. Skeens is pitching. Scooble and Skeens at the top? That's pretty good. Like my chances. Pretty good, Brandon. Mark, can I throw it out to you? We've already got one leg out of the way. Do we go for the Triple Crown this year? We've got World Baseball Classic, World Cup. Is it 11? Oh, it's right now. Wow. So we win the hockey goal. We win the hockey goal. Got it. Check. World Baseball Classic. Coming up? World Cup. All in one year? I think America would be fixed. I think everything about America would be fixed if we did it. Oh, my God. Pull up World Cup odds. We're going to talk ourselves into it. I'm going to talk myself into it. I would say we're probably 15th in odds. What do our odds need to be for you to be able to delude yourself and to believe that we have a chance? I think if we're anything under 20 to 1. Yeah. I think same. Yeah. I think same. Anything under 20-1. Which I don't think we're going to be under 20-1. I think we're going to be like more than 50-1. 50-1 maybe? 40-1 feels about right. I can't say I've done a lot of soccer betting, so I don't know if their odds are because those games are so – I imagine that you can bet on a future who will win the World Cup. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Plus whatever, right? Yeah. Who would you say? Like France, Germany. Germany, Brazil always. Brazil always. Argentina still. Argentina defending champs, correct. England always has pretty good odds, even though they never really win. England's like, yeah. England's never the best odds, but they're always up there. They're always top five or six. All right, here we go. Spain. Spain. Spain's another one that we should have thought of. Okay. Spain, England, France. Okay, so I'm going to stop you right there. France, to me, plays in the final every time. Is that not correct? Yeah, they pretty much do. Are they not as good this time? Although, I guess they're third in odds. That's still pretty good. I don't know why they fall off. France, Brazil, Argentina, defending champs, Portugal. Wow, England is second. That is crazy. Germany, Netherlands. France has played in three finals since 2006. Now, Mark, I do see us. Germany, Belgium, Norway, Italy, Colombia, Morocco, and then there we are, 65. 65 to 1. 65 to 1. 65 to 1. So much worse than coming home. But if you think about it, Mark. But. Yes, we're 65-1, but we're only behind in odds like 12 teams there. If we can get some of those others out of the way. And we get the momentum going. Once we win the World Baseball Classic, we're going to have all the momentum. The ball's going to be in our court. Why not just park the bus? You want to park the bus? Let's just park the bus. What if USA comes out every game and we just park the bus? Immediately. We just park it. We just fucking park that bus. You can't beat us unless you score a goal. And then when we get to extra time, we just start going crazy? Park the bus. Keep parked. We get to the shootout, park the bus. Just park the fucking bus. So if we can get through this tournament by parking the bus on five straight shootouts. I'm fine with that. If we can just park the bus for. Let's park the bus. How many minutes of parking the bus would that take to win the World Cup? A lot. Hours and hours and hours of parking the bus. I think we could do it. We would get parking fines at that point. I was like to know the origin of that turn of phrase. All right. There are several. Okay, so we kind of dive bomb into some of these sports, right? And he's watched a lot more soccer than I have, but I will say the phrase park the bus and act like I know what I'm talking about. I don't know where it came from, and I want to throw one more in here. When we dive into hockey, and I'm like, yeah, he's standing on his head. I just say it because I know they say it. You know what park the bus means in soccer, right? So it means getting all 11 back and just playing defense. Don't even worry about going home. Have everybody basically stand in front of the goal. Flutter it up. Yeah, muck it up. If they can't score, they can't beat us. Yeah. And we're fine with – I always picture the Greeks doing it. I always picture the Greeks get one sloppy goal like 20 minutes into the game. Didn't Italy do it? Italy will do it. The Greeks get up 1-0, and they're just like, fuck you, we're parking the bus. What did I do? You can't even come close to scoring a goal against us. Yes. The term park the bus is less than 25 years old. Whoa. We came up with a 25-year... It's only in the 2000s. It's like a... In the year that started with 19, nobody ever said park the bus. The 0-2 World Cup, it debuted? A Chelsea-Tottenham 2004 game. Whoa. Someone said park the bus. Jose Mourinho said park the bus. Wow. As we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and left the bus in front of the goal. So he actually never said park the bus. He never said park the bus, but the idea was put out there. I'll throw an idea at you. Hey, we're on home turf, are we not? Let's drive the actual bus out there. Let's just park the fucking bus. Be like, hey, we haven't been to Kansas City before. We didn't know. We thought this was the parking spot for the bus. What are they going to say? Why not? Just add stoppage time. What's Ecuador going to say to us? And then you foul your way through stoppage time, and you're good. That's right. Yeah, you dribble the ball to the corner, post up by the flag, kind of like do that, and you're like boxing out guys as you're like doing like that. And then they kick it and you fall down and hold your face. Let's – They kick it from you and you fall down and you hold your face for some reason. Let's focus on our group. And I think if we do that, we could win the World Cup. Everybody knows our group is, of course, us. And then – Well, we watched it live on the app. We did. We did watch it. Connor, who's the – I want to say Algeria. I think it's Tegucigolpa. Paraguay Paraguay Galapagos Islands Australia Is it my guessing? I'm reading it UEFA Path Sea winner who is The winner of Slovakia, Kosovo and Turkey, Romania That'll certainly be Turkey Oh it's Turkey I didn't listen to the whole list I answered before When do they sort that out? March 26th and March 31st. Let's take our bus over there. Yeah. Let's try to affect that thing. That feels a bit egregious that there's still teams having to qualify. Yeah. I agree. They should have told us already if they're in or not. Yeah, Italy's still not in. At least on the bubble. Blutman. Blutman. I know that a goalie standing on his head means he's playing a hell of a game. He's incredible. Where did we come up with that? We called Mark Blotman the breakfast before. I was going to say we have called Mark Blotman. And he told us. It was at breakfast? Yeah. Yeah. He was eating pancakes at the time. Yeah. And explained to us what standing on his head means. And we don't remember. It just means like you're doing everything. I believe he invented that phrase while on a date with Vanna White once. Did you see the Photoshop that Blake made of the 246 pucks? Yes. Yeah. You co-scored. Yeah. Your daughter could have scored as well. Good for her. Yeah, she could have. Do you want us to acknowledge UCLA women's basketball? Is that why you keep wearing the UCLA hat? I keep wearing the beanie because it's cozy. Okay. Congratulations. UCLA won the Big Ten, the women. Yeah, I mean, powerhouse. We got the AT&T commercial for this March, so that's a big deal. It is huge. UConn's ranked number one. Are they undefeated? Yeah. You like UConn? Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. I saw a highlight of that on TV on Sunday night, and Gino is looking weathered. Gino is getting old. How are the Gino heads? That was my first time really seeing him, I guess. The Gino heads are up. A couple years. Yeah. I see a quote on this prep sheet. I want to throw it at you, okay? Because I'm not a Cubs fan. I'm sniffing a little kizzy on the quote. I'm smelling the quote, and I'm being like, there's some kizzy there. And I don't know. Let's see. It looks like he was talking to Chicago Magazine. Okay. This is Pete Crow Armstrong, the exciting young player, young stud baseball player for the Cubs. And he's talking about Dodgers fans. And he says, Cubs fans give a shit. They aren't just baseball fans who go to the game like Dodgers fans to take pictures. They are paying attention. Now, I would argue, I'm not disagreeing with PCA, I think the shot at Dodgers fans is probably warranted. They are a famously late-arriving crowd, are they not? he's an LA kid too so I think that was like a him speaking from personal experience growing up I would say he plays in Wrigley Field where his fan base and the people who go to Wrigley Field are the most picture taken people in the world that's your read on the you're really just trying to you're a Brewers guy I'm not a Brewers guy you fucking love the Brewers I see what you're doing, you're planting the seeds early I think a lot of people go to Wrigley get their picture and then they're happy. That's what I think. I think it's the most picturesque park in the world. Yeah, and we're supposed to apologize for that? I didn't say you had to apologize. I didn't say you had to apologize. Can you have a picturesque place and also care about the game? What about Allen Fieldhouse? Would you say the same about Kansas fans? I would say Dodgers fans care about the game. You'd say about Kansas basketball? They have great fans. You know, Dodgers Stadium is also picturesque. It's there in Chavez Ravine. It's a beautiful place. It has great sunsets. Everybody knows LA has great sunsets. So they have reason to take pictures. Well, at Wrigley, probably have the number one reason to take pictures in the entire league. and the fans are there. You're sitting there, and you know me. I sit in those high dollar seats. God damn it, do I sit in those high dollar seats. So I got my feet up on the dugout, and there are people constantly coming down and saying, hey, can you take my picture? Can you take my picture? That's all they care about, Mark. I can see what's happening. I can see what's happening right here, and I'm actually kind of excited for it. You have been soft-launching this idea of being a Milwaukee Brewers fan for a few years now, but you've yet to fully commit. You've yet to fully dive in. and I think this is the season where you just say fuck it I'm all in on the Brewers and fuck the Cubs and fuck yeah because you think it's when I rip the problem is the problem is you want to say you're a Brewers fan but if you do that then you can't go to Wrigley Field and you know that Wrigley Field is a far superior experience than going to that shithole in Milwaukee so you want to keep that door open because you don't want to go to to Wrigley Field and have all the Cubs fans boo you so you want a warm welcome at Wrigley when really you're a Brewers fan and you're just too scared to say it and i think this is the year you say it hey hey this is the year you finally just say fuck it hey i love the milwaukee brew hey i think milwaukee is one of the most underrated cities in this country is a phenomenal city uh and yeah their stadium wish you could see it when you go to the stadium their stadium you gotta drive their stadiums out downtown but guess what they got parking out there they got they got amenities out there it's a beautiful stadium you get inside you feel like you're a part of something yeah it's not a bad place to go to a baseball game god forbid You got a piss during the game. You're not going to see any of it. You're not going to hear any of it. No TVs. Oh, I'm sorry. We're going to see. You're going to go down to Wrigley. Wrigley's a concourse. You can't see anything there either. They got the TV. They got Pat and Ron on the fucking radio at least telling you what's happening. Pat and Ron on the radio. I'm not saying. I love Wrigley Field. Wrigley Field is stunning to look at. It is beautiful. But it is the most picture-taking ballpark in the world outside of maybe Fenway. Those two, those are the picture ballparks we got. You take your picture before the game. What the fuck do you want? And then you lock in on the game. I think there's a big distinction between the picture taken that's going on at Wrigley versus the picture taken that's going on at a place like L.A. Because picture taken at Wrigley, it's because of how historic the venue is. And you want to document it. Dodger Stadium is also historic, guys. No, but L.A. has an influencer crowd. It's Graham. Connor, picture taken in Chicago, we use this camera. Picture taken in L.A., they use this one. Yeah. And that's – you just lost right there, Brandon. Mmm, Coke-O-Mark. Coke-O-Mark. Is that the show? We got more. How many more minutes? Fuck. Can I sit here for 20 minutes? It would be really cool to get in our bathrooms here radios of the show that might be, like our show could theoretically be broadcast. That's a great idea. In the bathroom. I don't hate that idea. But it's a radio broadcast. Mincy already watches PMT in the bathroom. Come on, man. Come on. Come on, man. Jack Wiper listens to our show with no headphones while he shits. Yeah. That's a fact. Remember? He texted me. He said he agreed with the preheating debate. Oh, my God. Today? That's not an ally you want. He said you don't have to preheat. I'm a Wiper guy. Yeah, but he's a dumbass. Yeah, but all of us are. Yeah. But. Again, I just feel like you're. But, I mean, like, you can't. You're kind of a dumbass. You're sitting there. You're paranoid, first of all, because you're like, all you Cubs fans are like, oh, everybody's got to be a Cubs fan because Wrigley's the best place on earth. I just see what you're doing. There's never been any better place. And if somebody comes in here, if somebody comes in here and they're not automatically a Cubs fan, they're not automatically over the moon about everything, they're like an enemy to you. And I'm not an enemy. You think you're slick. PCA didn't say anything about your beloved Brewers. I didn't say anything about the Brewers. And you got a big dump in your pants because PCA said, I like playing. I'll have you know, I invested today in Braves Vision, and I'm going to have Braves vision this year and I'm going to watch all the Braves games. So how can I be a fan of Milwaukee because the Braves ain't got nothing to do with Milwaukee? Brandon Walker will find a way. You'll find a way. There's no connection between Milwaukee and the Braves whatsoever. That's good stuff. That's good stuff. Can I say something about PCA since we're on the topic? Sure, sure. I'm really, really worried he's just going to suck. I'm really worried that he's – there's just like a massive regression. I think his baseline is pretty good. He's got a skill set. Defensively, he'll be fine. Defensively, he'll be fine. Even if offensively he comes back to a normal level, defensively he's a star. And if you have a defensive cocky star, that goes a long way. And base running, he'll be fine. Base running, he'll be fine. That's not going away. Yeah, I think he'll – even if he doesn't hit 30 home runs again, which would be tough for him to do. Just the second half of the season was – The play discipline is a massive issue. It was a problem. And the people... He was young. Yeah, but like... People at Wrigley... You kind of know early if a guy knows the zone. They thought they were helping. People at Wrigley thought they were helping by chanting PCA when he would come to bat. And it's the worst thing that could happen. I don't want you to boo him either. I don't want you to be Philly fans. I think the best thing to do when PCA is batting Wrigley Field is be dead silent. Take your pictures. Treat it like golf. Take your pictures. Start taking your pictures then. Yeah. That's when you take your pictures, when PCA is up. Because you start chanting PCA, he's like, oh, you guys want to show? Oh, yeah. Oh, you guys are here to see me hit a homer? Yes, I'm going 450. Watch this. And then he swings at everything. Because a guy like Yelich in Milwaukee just does it naturally. Like Yelich is a guy that's just a natural hitter and just gets the offense going. I see where you're going with this. Did I get ball sacked, or is Rajon Rondo actually one of the best flag football quarterbacks in the world, or at least in this country? Am I getting ball sacked? If you're getting ball sacked, I'm getting ball sacked. I've seen this story a handful of times. Is he actually trying to play in the Olympics and be our quarterback? And also, follow up, what happened to the guy whose name I don't remember that said, I'm better than Patrick Mahomes, he can't do what I do? I thought he was going to be our quarterback I was just going to ask What were you going to ask About this guy I don remember his name What he up to Yeah He has to be furious You saw this tweet, I'm assuming? Well, no, I saw it. There was one that actually said he is now the number one quarterback. Yeah, was it? No. There's one that literally officially says he is the number one flag football quarterback in the country. I saw something that looked like an actual report. Yeah. By ML football? Yeah, this is an ML football. This could just be nonsense. Okay, so y'all have to give us a list of the ball sacking accounts. Dove Climbing, ML football. Again, I've never seen any of the video. But this is on them, Mark. Yeah. Because you even started this by saying, am I getting ball sacked? I did. And then he says, ah. Don't do the ah noise. They're not a ball sack account, but they're like an aggregator. They're like AI. Yeah, Dove Climbing and ML football. Don't come across my timeline. Again, I never saw any of these tweets, so I don't know what I saw. I saw someone. They're in the ball-sacking tree, though, the coaching tree. So Rajon Rondo just played a game of flag football. And that's all that happened. It's like all the exact same. But, again, it keeps coming back up. Like, I feel like for a while we've been hearing Rajon Rondo is this great flag football quarterback. Here's a podcast. Why won't the story die? Why wasn't it just a ha-ha and then we move on? I got a text message about a week ago about possibly being an Olympics 2020. Yeah. Flag football guy. Go ahead. Huh? Let's get you out there slinging that pill. So what's going on? A lot of people don't know you loved football growing up. I did. Thanks to my big bro over here. Okay. Tell me everything I know as far as football and the game. Like I always wanted to be ahead of the curve, whether it was him teaching me early on math problems or being on the football field, being number one. So I always had an early love for it. I actually thought I was going pro in football at a younger age. So to be able to go back and play flag football this past summer has been fun. But I had to stop playing because my shoulder started hurting. Did it? You had to work, huh? Yeah, you got to really put the work in. I'm going to take some time off. You might catch me out here in the 2028 Olympics. I was about to say, what if they give you a Tommy John right now and have you ready for 28 to be out there slinging that thing? Nah, but hopefully I'm going to head coach somewhere by 2028. But like I said, I can't do it all. But like I said, I do like to keep my options open. And I love, like I said, just exploring new things. Did the NFL flag hit you up or anybody hit you up when they kind of saw that? Yes, they did. I got the text message about a week ago about possibly being an Olympics 2028. Really? Trying out. So that's what they're going to give you a chance. They asked me if it was available in June, July, I think, of 26 next year. So we'll see if I take that. If I don't have a call from an NBA team back then. The highlights we just saw. That's not the number one. Yeah, he doesn't look that good. No, right? I mean, I watched you. Yeah, I don't want to glaze you, Mark, but I think you look better. Go ahead. Should I play? I mean, we watched you play cornerback very effectively. I think we could cook up a Mark Tyus looks like the number one ranked. You should do that. Y'all want to ball sack everybody? I'll do that. I mean, Gruden would back it up. Mincy, number one ranked flag football tight end. Mark, you had like an Aaron Rodgers flick to your throw. Thanks, man. It was very impressive. It means a lot. I got Gruden's respect and that's all I really wanted Gruden came up to me He came on the show on Friday He was just like Man you were slinging it He had respect for both of us Gruden flag football QB camp Mark Tyus, Rajon Rondo That one guy Darrell Doucette is the Patrick Mahomes Of flag football What's he doing still playing flag football I assume Yeah I think they call him Hoosh What his full-time job? Why don't they call him Douche? Hoosh. His name's Doucette. He's calling him Douche. What's he doing on LinkedIn? Darryl Hoosh Doucette. Oh, his profession is just national football. He's 36 years old. There's got to be a 23-year-old stud flag football quarterback somewhere. No? I agree. Oh, this is interesting. He worked at Delta and quit to become a full-time flag football player. He looks like T.J. Houshmandzada. That's why he got his nickname. I saw him in San Francisco and completely bundled the interaction. Hushmanzada or Dadoosh? TJ Hushmanzada. How'd it go? I had lost my voice at that point in the week. I tried to go, what up, TJ? And I just didn't have a voice at all, and he didn't see me or look at me or anything, and he was just gone. But that doesn't sound like you botched it. It sounds like you just whiffed on the opportunity. He wasn't embarrassed for you. I didn't fuck it up, but it didn't go well. Yeah, he didn't even know that you said anything, so it's fine. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't even count as an attempt. No. No, you didn't get it on the board. It wasn't a shot on goal. Yeah. Do we have another? Oh, you know what we need to do? You know what we need to do that you wanted to do yesterday that we didn't do? What? Is talk golf? Yes. Talk about the golf tournament that happened. Every time I do this, every time I do this, I am worried that it's going to get back to him and he is going to think we are mocking him or making fun of him. I legitimately love looking at golf through the eyes of Dan Rapoport. Rapoport used to work for Foreplay. I don't know if he fit here because he wasn't an asshole. He was just a pure fucking golf lover. He just fucking loves golf and is a pure-ass dude. And Barstool didn't quite get his hooks in him and ruin him like it does so many people like me. Anyway, so we had the Genesis. What was it called? It was Genesis of Riviera. And Bridgerman won? Jacob Bridgman, the Clemson man, four mil richer. He had a six-stroke lead going into the last round. He dicked around all day and won by one stroke. Yep, Rory didn't take advantage. So anyway, he ends up winning. So Rappaport is now doing these reaction videos. Instead of just the tweets. We love his tweets about golf, how serious they are. So he's doing these reaction videos. And the tweet said, I believe. You won't get this reaction on the broadcast. Yeah, check this out. He went crazy. You won't get this reaction on the broadcast. Let's see that right now. I surely would love to see it. All right, Rory on 12. Had to fly it all the way there. Oh, go in, go in. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Rory holds out from the bunker. That was like a 30-yard bunker shot. That gets him to 15 under, and I'm going to say it. Game on. Game on. Now he's got a little bit of juice going. Sometimes you need something crazy to happen to jumpstart a round, and there it is from Rory McIlroy. Holds out a bunker shot from 34 yards. That was not an easy bunker shot at all. And as soon as he hit it, you knew it was perfect. Wow, Rory. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. What a holdout from Rory McIlroy. I surely would love to see it. All right, Rory on. You could definitely see a reaction like that on the broadcast, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. He didn't go crazy at all. He looked like Liam Blutman when USA scored. He was completely unglued. That was your standard broadcast reaction. I got more hyped up about the Rory hole out in the Bonefish Grill restaurant at the Broward County Airport than that, where I sat there for four hours waiting for Rory to win. Does he record those after the fact? I don't think so. No, I think that's a lie. That's definitely a lie, but there is like a small section of the internet that do the fake. The library. We'll watch the game back. It feels like that. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. The worst ones are the ones that break their TV after a fake reaction. I broke my $73 TV with a chainsaw. How is there even a $73 TV? Oh, you were just saying the guy who did it, yeah. What was it in fact game on? No, we ended up finishing. He finished tied for second. He had a 30-foot birdie on 18, but he missed countless number of 6 to 12 feet birdie putts the entire day. Well, they only play 18 holes, so it's certainly not countless. It was countless. He lost by a stroke. Even if he missed two a hole, that's just 36. So he lost by one stroke. That's game on. But it wasn't really game on. I think he was well off the lead there, right? But that means game on because he's coming. He birdied 18 to lose by a stroke. Well, I mean, Dan himself said it was game on. The only way for it to truly be game on is if Bridgman yanked his par putt on 18. I disagree. I agree. I think if you make a 30-yard and you just start acting like you can go up the lead board at all, it's game on. But it wasn't game on because there was never – What do you think game on means? Tie game? No, game on means there's potential that Bridgman's actually going to blow up. But he finished tied for second. Yeah, sure, but the odds never had Bridgman lesser than minus six. When does the game go on? A game on just using odds would indicate Bridgman probably dropped from the minus 1,000s he was all day to somewhere around minus 250. You're wrong. You're wrong. Game on has nothing to do with Bridgman. It has to do with Rory getting going. That's game on. Rory didn't get going after that. But he did get going. It was game on. He did not get going. If Rory got going, you wouldn't be missing six-foot birdie putts, Brandon. You won't get this reaction on the broadcast. Wow. What a debate. Was game in fact on. Game on just means he's coming. Game on was Rory in the presser saying, oh, they asked him, hey, Rory, how do you feel about seeing that putt finally drop on AT? A putt finally drop for you. And he just goes, for $500,000, Richard, it doesn't hurt me. You don't know what game on means. That was game on. You don't know what game on means. That was game on for Rory to his bacon count. You think game on means tie game or something like that? It just means he's coming. This is spoken like a fellow who didn't watch the golf tournament. I know what game on looks like. then you would have known that was not game on. If Rory had... Wow. I don't remember what he birdied and then birdied. Wow. If Rory had like... What a debate. You were in the Broward County Airport. At Bonefish Grill watching intently on my phone with it charged and laid up on a candle. You didn't even have it on TV? No, because they wouldn't put it on TV. Because they had the Olympic ceremonies on. Boy, oh boy. I feel like we had a good run of golf tournaments. February 1st through the Masters is fucking immaculate. This week is a down week. Everyone with Drew this week, there's not a top 25 player in the field. What is this week? Cognizant. What's next week? There must be a big one next week. Next week's good API. That's Bay Hill. Next week's going to rock. And Sawgrass is coming up. Chris Goddard up Masters? Yeah. Chris Goddard up. Players is rocking all the OU merch, though. Fuck! Yeah. Sheffler did not figure it out. Sheffler doesn't know that events start on Thursday is a big issue. This is becoming a legitimate. Did he get, he got better as the tournament went on? He was 11 under in round three and four. He finished top 12. Oh, did he? Yeah. Well, I mean, I, he had the one bad round and we talked about it on Friday and then. And then he had to make a hard cut to make the cut. Ibo, you said he was still the favorite to win the tournament. He said, yeah, very short-eyed swing. Yeah, and then I didn't see him up at the top of the leaderboard, so I just assumed. Oh, wow. Um. Wow. That's what it's all about, baby. We got one logo. Wow. That's a good fit. I got Neil Shipley, which is cool. He and Titus both have Neil. I got an LPGA player. Really? Yeah, that's cool. What does that mean? Neil Shipley, the kind of heavier set dude that hits the ball really far, long hair. What do you mean I have him? He was a JMU grad. His grad year, he went to Ohio State. Oh, really? He's a genius. Yeah. He's the star of his own commercial. I got a French PGA player and then a pretty good LPGA player. Penn State, anybody? No. They even have golf? Yeah, they got golf. Nah. I have a non-golf question. I have a college basketball question from Mark Tyson. I want to make sure it gets asked. Darren Peterson. Yeah. Is this Cam Thomas 2.0? If you really think about it. Are we looking at it? Is this Cam Thomas? Go on. Is this Cam Thomas with... Don't just repeat it. Is Darren Peterson Cam Thomas, except Darren Peterson has maybe overbearing parents and a bad agent? You think – I still don't understand the Cam Thomas comparison. Cam Thomas don't pass. Cam Thomas only shoot. Darren Peterson don't pass. Darren Peterson only shoot. Yeah. Darren Peterson a bit – not a bit, probably very, very, very selfish. Self-centered player. Yeah. I saw him try to take himself out after an R3 yesterday and Bill Self. No, no, no. Yeah. Could be, yeah. But I don't think this was like a problem he had in like high school according to people that followed him. so I don't know where this came from. I don't know why he's doing it this way. But, yeah, it could be. You know what? Speaking of Darren Peterson, can I do like a mini rant real quick? Please. Everybody keeps pointing out Ben Simmons, like Darren Peterson is Ben Simmons. That's the comparison they make. You know, this reminds me a lot of Ben Simmons, what I'm seeing out of Darren Peterson. Ben Simmons played every single game at LSU. Ben Simmons averaged like 35 minutes a game. Ben Simmons put up absolutely eye-popping numbers. In fact, TJ, I'm going to ask you to pull up the Ben Simmons sports reference college basketball. You want our eyes to pop? I want your eyes to pop out of your head. It's disrespectful to Ben Simmons. Now, I know what happened to Ben Simmons after that. But if you're going to make the comparison to a college player, you have to keep it college. That's the only – because everybody's like, Darren Peterson reminds me of Ben Simmons when he was at LSU, and Ben Simmons did. Now, I will say, Ben Simmons was outwardly like, I don't want to be here. Ben Simmons didn't go to class. He'd get asked about it. He's like, they're making me do this. I don't want to do this. But when Ben Simmons played basketball, and there were times on the court, like the Marquette game comes to mind earlier in the season when he had the – I think they were down one and he passed the ball and everyone was like, doesn't have the dog in him, Ben Simmons I'm talking about. There were times where you would be like, I wonder if he's fully engaged. Ben Simmons played a lot of fucking minutes, played every single game. And look at these numbers, Brandon. This was Ben Simmons. Let's see. Go to his per-game numbers. Yeah, go over. Go to his per-game numbers. Go down. Where's the per-game? Per-game probably at the top. Yeah, right there. So 19.2 points a game. 35 minutes a game. 12 rebounds a game. He averaged 19 and 12 with five assists. With five assists and two steals. And a block. Yeah. And everybody now because Darren Peterson plays 20 minutes. First-team All-American. Darren Peterson will play 20 minutes. We'll hit a three and ask out of the game. and everyone would be like, that's exactly what Ben Simmons did at LSU. And I'd say, no, it's not. And there you go. Ben Simmons was fucking awesome at LSU. 35 minutes a game. Yeah. Anyway, I hate that comparison. You know what? You're right. It happens in sports when a college guy does something. We like to compare him to the pro version of somebody. And the college version of Ben Simmons was pretty incredible. Yeah. He was great. It was only when he got to Philadelphia and realized, He's like, I'd rather fucking do anything on planet Earth than make these people happy. These fans have ruined my choice for basketball. That's when he lost his love for basketball. Biggest mental collapses we've ever seen. That's exactly right. Just an asshole fan base. Yeah, hundreds of millions of dollars and fishing every day for a living. Yeah, sounds like he's doing pretty good. I guess you could say Ben Simmons conned Philadelphia. Ha, ha, ha, ha. That was good, Blumman. All right. All right, let's do a grid. My college basketball question was con related. Oh. Uh-oh. Are we doing Oricon at McNeese State again this year? I don't want to go back. Go back. He transferred back. No. Wait. Didn't he try to go to NC State? I thought he was at NC State. He was at NC State. They did an inline boom box, and he transferred back midseason. There's no way. There's no way. I think a guy like this gets one year. Yeah. You get one year. Are we doing Oricon again? Let's find our next guy, man. Let's find our next guy. This is what's wrong with the transfer portal. Yeah. Are we doing Oricon again? No, I'm not. I'm out. I pass. Yeah. You opting out. But Connor, you have to put him on the list. Right. No, he's a con. You got to consider. I know. That's what I'm saying. That's why we talked to Connor. We got to put cons like this on the list. Way down. There's a lot of cons out there, man. I'm going to say no. What about Sinead? You're going to say no what? Sinead is not on the list. Is she eligible? What is Sinead? O'Connor. That's Sinead. She eligible? She's dead. She's dead, dude. Oh. Come on, Ibo. Jesus Christ. How about Connie Chung? Would have just totally ruined it, dude. God bless, Ibo. God damn it, Ibo. What the hell was that? Fucking Ibo. Just do a hockey grid, put yogurt in the middle, and get out of here. Let's go get our salad. Yesterday was tough. Yesterday was tough. We might have left some points on the board yesterday, if we're being honest. We wouldn't have gotten it, though. We would have gotten eight. We probably would have gotten eight. Flames, Penguins. Yeah, there's not enough. Abbs, Abbs, Bruins. Bruins on here every goddamn day. Why are the Bruins on here every day? You could get so many on here. Shut up. You can. Shut up. Shut the fuck up. Shut up. Shut up. He's one of us. Shut up. He's one of us. Sit down. Knock it off. Knock it off. Shut the fuck up. I believe in you guys. All right. Abbs. Joe Sakic. Joe Sakic. Joe Sakic. Sakic. Middle right. Middle right. Middle right. Sack itch. Okay. All right. I mean. Jerome. Yager top right? Yager top left? Yager top left. Yager. What's going to be harder to find? We can get Jerome McGinley, right? For top right? 1,000 right. 1,000 plus career points. Well, let's do Jerome McGinley, and then we'll backfill Yager. Jerome McGinley top right? Mm-hmm. Okay. Right? Yeah. That crazy? You spell Jerome weird with an A. J-A-R-O-M-E You're not allowed to help Fair Nice And now Yarmir Yager Now we do Yarmir Yager Although we could put him Pretty much anywhere On that left side Couldn't we I think that's probably The best spot Okay Alright We can hold off We can hold off Let's plant our Yager Um Yeah Alright Plant Yager right there Do we want to burn the Yager I got one after Hold on Hold on Hold on Do we want to burn Yager We're going to have to use him anyway I know Remember Connor's Jeff Carter debacle in San Francisco? But Connor don't know any of this shit. No, I think Mark Recchi. Where? I'm always confused if it's Recchi or Recchi. I think he would work for Bruins Pens. All right, get out of there. Get out of there. Get out of there. We can always come back to Yager. Yeah. Bruins. So bottom left, Recchi. Right? Yeah. Mark. No, I'm Brandon. Yes. Okay. Mark. I think that's right there. Mark Recchi. Mark. Jesus. Mark. Right. That guy. Yeah. Top. Okay. All right. All right. All right. Okay. The fucking bag. Now, Mark, you're our L.A. guy. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So L.A. Kings, they're a hockey team. They have fucking. He's off. Me's off. Peef off. They've got an off. They've got an off. What about Quick? Is he a guy? Yeah. I just don't know if he's played for another team. What about... Noseface. Marchand. What about... Bergeron. What about... Just thinking of him. Champs-y. Avs-Penguins. Thousand. Avs-Penguins we should be able to get. Avs-Penguins is easy. Somebody say an answer. Enjoy this. Yager? Do Yager top left. Let's get another one on the board. I mean, you want to do – we can do bottom right. Yeah, is that – so could that be Ray Bork who played forever? Could it be – who's been their best – is Marshawn 1,000 points? No, probably not. Yeah, maybe. I'd have to see the years that he's played. Ray Bork wasn't a goalie? No. Oh. But he might have been a defenseman. I thought he was a goalie. Has Bobby Orr burned us on this before? Hasn't that burned us on this before with goals? He was goals, but points. Points. Bobby Orr played forever. 3,000 years of hockey, Brandon. He's got to be Bobby Orr. You know what? And if it's not Bobby Orr, fuck this grid. Yeah. Fuck this grid. If you kill me with Bobby Orr, I'll take the bullet. Or not. What the fuck? All right. That's how balls die. Apparently Bobby Orr fucking sucked. Bobby Orr fucking sucked it hot. You could have used, if they allowed duplicates, that was the Aguinla Yager grid. But they don't allow them. They don't allow the dupes. You just gotta say words. You're out of line. Uh, Connor. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Outro Music Well done. You ready for this one? Oh, God. What you need ibuprofen for when you have a perk. I'm Luke Combs and you're listening to Mostly Sports. Family.