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I don't hate to say I told you so, but I'm gonna say I told you so. I'm gonna glout a little bit. I guess I have all four final four teams correctly. I missed three picks in the entire NCAA tournament, and for the record, I'm again I'm the radio host, just like as a basketball coach, I'm gonna be the most honest guy in America. I've watched less high major basketball this year than ever in the twenty five years since I played college basketball. I watch it. It's on. We got it one in my office. I have it on at my house. I'll watch it on my computer. There's a company called Synergy, which most people in my coaching business we live by, which is you can pull up and watch any collegiate or professional player ever everywhere in anything. They do possessions, pick and rolls, catch and shoot, jump shots, defensive possessions, whatever you want. So I watch Synergy all the time, but I don't. I've watched Auburn play two or three times. I watched Duke play three or four times. I've watched Florida play two or three times. Houston I've seen play a good amount because being a Big twelve alum, I watched Big twelve basketball. I can't tell you that I've watched anybody. I've watched every possession of Duke basketball. I can. But I'm my own team to coach, and yet I picked why Well because they're the mixture of really well coached really well, supported a ton of nil money. And then yeah, the matchups, I guess work for them. Don't get me wrong. Texas Tech had Florida dead to rights beat okay, up ten no, uh, Texas Tech had Florida dead to right speed in the Elite eight. You know they're they're up ten with five and changed to go and they lost that game. And and look, Florida made I want to say, four maybe five straight threes. They intentionally fouled Texas Tech twice with a lot of time remaining, kind of playing the analytics game. One time they filed Darren Williams, who's they didn't want to file. He's eight percent, but he missed the front of a one to one. Then they fouled top and who's a sixty percent free throw shooter. The analytic rules are below sixty five percent. You foul once you get in the one on one bonus. That's what they That's what it says. That's what the book says. So Florida did a lot, but Florida's got an awesome team. Florida's got an expensive team. Florida's been a three year build for Todd Golden and I picked Florida and I've I've never had this much success in the bracket and I get it, Like if you go back a couple of years ago, we had Florida Atlantic and San Diego State, Like that wasn't a great Final four either because it was the variance. It was so much the other way in terms of the Cinderella. But this is it's really interesting. Everything that we told you and even the NCAA told you would happen if you went for if you went to what's basically you want to call it, a free market system, completely unregulated free market, ultimate capitalism system has happened. It's it's fascinating to me. You get people who I'll just pick on Jay Billis who's worked for and as I say all the time, j BILLI is a friend of mine. But he always wants to point out that the portal is always open for college coaches. Yeah, because they have two three, four five million AR buyouts where if you want to switch schools, and it happens in terms of coach going from one school to the next, right, it happens, I don't know, probably twenty five to thirty times per year. There's three hundred and sixty four schools in Division one basket ball, so less than ten percent of the time, Probably five percent of the time a sitting head coach at a high major level takes a sitting sitting like you're talking about five or six that's what happens. But probably five percent of time, maybe less, does a sitting head coach of a high major school take a sitting head coaching job, take an open head coaching job at a high major school. And yet in the portal we have over twelve hundred players I believe currently in the portal remembers three hundred and sixty teams. There's thirteen scholarships on a team. You do the math in terms of percentage of players that are leaving, and they leave year after year after year after year, and there's no buyout, there's no clause to keep them there. They none none. But everything they told you, and what happened was there are people who work in the media who work in the me. NJ's one of them, But there are plenty of people who laughed when they said, hey, if we open up anil, it will kill competitive balance in college athletics. And the only reason it didn't kill competitive balance in college football well, one it really did was two, they didn't have all the SEC teams in the college football playoffs, which they should have if they were searching for the twelve best teams, right. I mean, you could say whatever you want about the NCAA tournament and how it was previously. Every tournament, every playoffs is different unto itself. March Madness is known as much for the Cinderella as it is for who actually wins the national championship. And we used to say all the time, it's a terrible way to decide a champion because there's the randomness of it. But it's a style of selecting a champion that everybody likes. Right, the bracket and the upsets what everybody likes. Now does that mean you always watch after an upset? You don't. But from Sister Jean to Brad Stevenson Butler to VCU to George Mason to Saint Peter's to Herald the Show Arsenal to Lee High beating Duke, these are things that, if the current climate continues, will never happen again, never happen again. And they literally told you, like everybody kills the NCAAA kills them, and don't get me wrong. I work for an nca school. Okay, there are dumb rules. I'll give you one. I just had a player visit here. He literally is just concluding his visit. He's an unbelievable kid. We think he's a really good player. We think he's a really good fit. He'd never been to Green Bay, Wisconsin before. I am not allowed to buy a cheesehead and leave it on his bed in his hotel room and say, hey, become a cheesehead, come join us in Green Bay. It is against the NCAA rules. It is not against the NCAA rules for me to pay him money. I could pay him ten million dollars if I had ten million dollars, ten million dollars for him to come to player, But you know I can't do. I cannot leave a cheese head on his bed. That makes no sense. So there's lots of things the NCAA has done. And the NCAA, by the way, is a collection of schools that have voting rights. So that's all it is. When we say like we act like there's this it's big brother always watching you. Really, it's just your member institutions. And the problem is that I think we've said this before. It's more like the Senate than is the House of Representatives. That you have schools with a fraction of the budget. We have the same voting rights in the NCAA as the university was continent. Madison University's continent Madison matters more, makes more money. It's almost it's sort of different than the sport that we're playing, especially financially, so that can be remedied. So I'm not telling you that everything the NCAA, the collection of schools vote upon rules they've had makes a whole hell of a lot of sense, because there's a lot of old rules that they got unwined with with the new rules and how they're working. But but you can go through all of our hosts on Fox Sports Radio, you can go to any of the stations, you can go to all the TV shows and by and large, outside of this show, they scoffed, They laughed at the idea that opening it up an il which is really pay for play to all the schools would kill a competitive balance. Kill competitive balance. Google it if you don't believe me. There's articles written in like the NCAA, what a phony defense. It won't kill competitive balance. It makes it so anybody can compete. No, it doesn't, No, it doesn't. Anybody can compete who has a ton of money. Ton of money. And if you don't have the players that you want, that's okay. You wait till this time of year and somebody else who's put there put all their effort into helping a player become a star. Then they lose their players with no ramification, no buyout, no non compete clause, no transfer sit out rule. So if you don't have to sit out when you transfer, if you can transfer up and then remember, now, you guys, there's plenty of guys that are getting an extra year because they played Juco or Naia because of one player's lawsuit. If that is the case, and the highest bidder gets the best players, no more Saint Peter's, no more UNBC, no more Green Bay beating cow back when Jeff Norgard took down Jason Kidd, Could you win a game? Yeah, I think you can win a game. You know, the winner of our league, Robert Morris. They got a tough draw. They gave Alabama a good game. If they weren't, they weren't a fifteen seed. If they if they worked their way if we can find a way to get to a thirteen seed, I think a Horizon League team could definitely win a game in the instrument to get to the Final four, as Lula Chicago did, as VCU did, at George Mason did, as Butler did two times in a row. No chance, not happening. Can you win a game? You can win a game. You catch a team when they lose a player, you catch a team that has bad chemistry of the year. You catch a team that, especially a high major team where everybody knows, everybody's leaving, and you were fine but not necessarily good. So you got you know, a four or five seed. Can you beat him? Sure? But four games, no shot. None. At some point somebody outside of me is going to say this, if you laughed at the NCAA, NCAA saying that opening up pay for play, which is what NIL truly is. If you open it up to you with didn't have any sort of you know, barriers or restrictions that it would kill competitive balance. It is on you over the next week to post on social media, I was wrong. I was wrong.

I don't hate to say I told you so, but I'm gonna say I told you so. I'm gonna glout a little bit. I guess I have all four final four teams correctly. I missed three picks in the entire NCAA tournament, and for the record, I'm again I'm the radio host, just like as a basketball coach, I'm gonna be the most honest guy in America. I've watched less high major basketball this year than ever in the twenty five years since I played college basketball. I watch it. It's on. We got it one in my office. I have it on at my house. I'll watch it on my computer. There's a company called Synergy, which most people in my coaching business we live by, which is you can pull up and watch any collegiate or professional player ever everywhere in anything. They do possessions, pick and rolls, catch and shoot, jump shots, defensive possessions, whatever you want. So I watch Synergy all the time, but I don't. I've watched Auburn play two or three times. I watched Duke play three or four times. I've watched Florida play two or three times. Houston I've seen play a good amount because being a Big twelve alum, I watched Big twelve basketball. I can't tell you that I've watched anybody. I've watched every possession of Duke basketball. I can. But I'm my own team to coach, and yet I picked why Well because they're the mixture of really well coached really well, supported a ton of nil money. And then yeah, the matchups, I guess work for them. Don't get me wrong. Texas Tech had Florida dead to rights beat okay, up ten no, uh, Texas Tech had Florida dead to right speed in the Elite eight. You know they're they're up ten with five and changed to go and they lost that game. And and look, Florida made I want to say, four maybe five straight threes. They intentionally fouled Texas Tech twice with a lot of time remaining, kind of playing the analytics game. One time they filed Darren Williams, who's they didn't want to file. He's eight percent, but he missed the front of a one to one. Then they fouled top and who's a sixty percent free throw shooter. The analytic rules are below sixty five percent. You foul once you get in the one on one bonus. That's what they That's what it says. That's what the book says. So Florida did a lot, but Florida's got an awesome team. Florida's got an expensive team. Florida's been a three year build for Todd Golden and I picked Florida and I've I've never had this much success in the bracket and I get it, Like if you go back a couple of years ago, we had Florida Atlantic and San Diego State, Like that wasn't a great Final four either because it was the variance. It was so much the other way in terms of the Cinderella. But this is it's really interesting. Everything that we told you and even the NCAA told you would happen if you went for if you went to what's basically you want to call it, a free market system, completely unregulated free market, ultimate capitalism system has happened. It's it's fascinating to me. You get people who I'll just pick on Jay Billis who's worked for and as I say all the time, j BILLI is a friend of mine. But he always wants to point out that the portal is always open for college coaches. Yeah, because they have two three, four five million AR buyouts where if you want to switch schools, and it happens in terms of coach going from one school to the next, right, it happens, I don't know, probably twenty five to thirty times per year. There's three hundred and sixty four schools in Division one basket ball, so less than ten percent of the time, Probably five percent of the time a sitting head coach at a high major level takes a sitting sitting like you're talking about five or six that's what happens. But probably five percent of time, maybe less, does a sitting head coach of a high major school take a sitting head coaching job, take an open head coaching job at a high major school. And yet in the portal we have over twelve hundred players I believe currently in the portal remembers three hundred and sixty teams. There's thirteen scholarships on a team. You do the math in terms of percentage of players that are leaving, and they leave year after year after year after year, and there's no buyout, there's no clause to keep them there. They none none. But everything they told you, and what happened was there are people who work in the media who work in the me. NJ's one of them, But there are plenty of people who laughed when they said, hey, if we open up anil, it will kill competitive balance in college athletics. And the only reason it didn't kill competitive balance in college football well, one it really did was two, they didn't have all the SEC teams in the college football playoffs, which they should have if they were searching for the twelve best teams, right. I mean, you could say whatever you want about the NCAA tournament and how it was previously. Every tournament, every playoffs is different unto itself. March Madness is known as much for the Cinderella as it is for who actually wins the national championship. And we used to say all the time, it's a terrible way to decide a champion because there's the randomness of it. But it's a style of selecting a champion that everybody likes. Right, the bracket and the upsets what everybody likes. Now does that mean you always watch after an upset? You don't. But from Sister Jean to Brad Stevenson Butler to VCU to George Mason to Saint Peter's to Herald the Show Arsenal to Lee High beating Duke, these are things that, if the current climate continues, will never happen again, never happen again. And they literally told you, like everybody kills the NCAAA kills them, and don't get me wrong. I work for an nca school. Okay, there are dumb rules. I'll give you one. I just had a player visit here. He literally is just concluding his visit. He's an unbelievable kid. We think he's a really good player. We think he's a really good fit. He'd never been to Green Bay, Wisconsin before. I am not allowed to buy a cheesehead and leave it on his bed in his hotel room and say, hey, become a cheesehead, come join us in Green Bay. It is against the NCAA rules. It is not against the NCAA rules for me to pay him money. I could pay him ten million dollars if I had ten million dollars, ten million dollars for him to come to player, But you know I can't do. I cannot leave a cheese head on his bed. That makes no sense. So there's lots of things the NCAA has done. And the NCAA, by the way, is a collection of schools that have voting rights. So that's all it is. When we say like we act like there's this it's big brother always watching you. Really, it's just your member institutions. And the problem is that I think we've said this before. It's more like the Senate than is the House of Representatives. That you have schools with a fraction of the budget. We have the same voting rights in the NCAA as the university was continent. Madison University's continent Madison matters more, makes more money. It's almost it's sort of different than the sport that we're playing, especially financially, so that can be remedied. So I'm not telling you that everything the NCAA, the collection of schools vote upon rules they've had makes a whole hell of a lot of sense, because there's a lot of old rules that they got unwined with with the new rules and how they're working. But but you can go through all of our hosts on Fox Sports Radio, you can go to any of the stations, you can go to all the TV shows and by and large, outside of this show, they scoffed, They laughed at the idea that opening it up an il which is really pay for play to all the schools would kill a competitive balance. Kill competitive balance. Google it if you don't believe me. There's articles written in like the NCAA, what a phony defense. It won't kill competitive balance. It makes it so anybody can compete. No, it doesn't, No, it doesn't. Anybody can compete who has a ton of money. Ton of money. And if you don't have the players that you want, that's okay. You wait till this time of year and somebody else who's put there put all their effort into helping a player become a star. Then they lose their players with no ramification, no buyout, no non compete clause, no transfer sit out rule. So if you don't have to sit out when you transfer, if you can transfer up and then remember, now, you guys, there's plenty of guys that are getting an extra year because they played Juco or Naia because of one player's lawsuit. If that is the case, and the highest bidder gets the best players, no more Saint Peter's, no more UNBC, no more Green Bay beating cow back when Jeff Norgard took down Jason Kidd, Could you win a game? Yeah, I think you can win a game. You know, the winner of our league, Robert Morris. They got a tough draw. They gave Alabama a good game. If they weren't, they weren't a fifteen seed. If they if they worked their way if we can find a way to get to a thirteen seed, I think a Horizon League team could definitely win a game in the instrument to get to the Final four, as Lula Chicago did, as VCU did, at George Mason did, as Butler did two times in a row. No chance, not happening. Can you win a game? You can win a game. You catch a team when they lose a player, you catch a team that has bad chemistry of the year. You catch a team that, especially a high major team where everybody knows, everybody's leaving, and you were fine but not necessarily good. So you got you know, a four or five seed. Can you beat him? Sure? But four games, no shot. None. At some point somebody outside of me is going to say this, if you laughed at the NCAA, NCAA saying that opening up pay for play, which is what NIL truly is. If you open it up to you with didn't have any sort of you know, barriers or restrictions that it would kill competitive balance. It is on you over the next week to post on social media, I was wrong. I was wrong.

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What ap butch at Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio coming to your life from San Antonio, Texas side of the Final four Bar nineteen nineteen, where you get your whiskey Neat, I love a little nisky. We need you sound much cooler when you say I want it. Neat, please Neat. Anyway, we're coming to you from the tyrat dot Com studios tyrat dot com. When we get there, unmatched selection, fast free shipping, free runs protection where ten thousand recommended dollars, tirat dot COM's way tire buying should be Hey, I hope you're doing well. We have don't call to Throwback Thursday coming for you in a second. And I always I do want with this segment, Jason to explain why he selected the year that he selected. But we'll talk more about the tournament, more about tonight's game between the Lakers and the Warriors. Obviously we're all waiting, which I feel like we have a conclusion that it's gonna be Aaron Rodgers to the Steelers, and it's gonna be on Pat McAfee's show going into next week. I feel that way. I was the first one to spread that malicious internet rumor, not the malicious internet rumor that Pat McAfee spread anyway. So we'll get to that this hour. But let's let's play the little game play every Thursday. It's called don't call it a throwback.

What ap butch at Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio coming to your life from San Antonio, Texas side of the Final four Bar nineteen nineteen, where you get your whiskey Neat, I love a little nisky. We need you sound much cooler when you say I want it. Neat, please Neat. Anyway, we're coming to you from the tyrat dot Com studios tyrat dot com. When we get there, unmatched selection, fast free shipping, free runs protection where ten thousand recommended dollars, tirat dot COM's way tire buying should be Hey, I hope you're doing well. We have don't call to Throwback Thursday coming for you in a second. And I always I do want with this segment, Jason to explain why he selected the year that he selected. But we'll talk more about the tournament, more about tonight's game between the Lakers and the Warriors. Obviously we're all waiting, which I feel like we have a conclusion that it's gonna be Aaron Rodgers to the Steelers, and it's gonna be on Pat McAfee's show going into next week. I feel that way. I was the first one to spread that malicious internet rumor, not the malicious internet rumor that Pat McAfee spread anyway. So we'll get to that this hour. But let's let's play the little game play every Thursday. It's called don't call it a throwback.

Don't call it a throwback Thursday.

Don't call it a throwback Thursday.

Jay Stu, why did you select two thousand and five?

Jay Stu, why did you select two thousand and five?

Thank you, Doug. I'll take it from here. We have been doing this for many weeks.

Thank you, Doug. I'll take it from here. We have been doing this for many weeks.

We have been doing this for many weeks, and for many weeks I've been saying to Sam, please don't do drops while I'm talking because I have one functional ear. So we've been doing it for what twenty five weeks, and we're running out of years. So the short answer to your question is we're running out of years. But thankfully for us, this is the twentieth anniversary of the two thousand and five Final four. Did you have any qualms about two thousand and five or do you want me to continued Doug.

We have been doing this for many weeks, and for many weeks I've been saying to Sam, please don't do drops while I'm talking because I have one functional ear. So we've been doing it for what twenty five weeks, and we're running out of years. So the short answer to your question is we're running out of years. But thankfully for us, this is the twentieth anniversary of the two thousand and five Final four. Did you have any qualms about two thousand and five or do you want me to continued Doug.

Two thousand and five was Illinois North Carolina in the National Champion Game, wasn't it?

Two thousand and five was Illinois North Carolina in the National Champion Game, wasn't it?

I was just going to recap that was it.

I was just going to recap that was it.

Sis Saint Louis and that was Illinois shot forty threes. I believe that was what made everybody lose their mind because they shot forty threes and almost pulled off an upset against North Carolina.

Sis Saint Louis and that was Illinois shot forty threes. I believe that was what made everybody lose their mind because they shot forty threes and almost pulled off an upset against North Carolina.

It's the age old.

It's the age old.

It was the age old question back then on sports talk radio as I was working on the Jim Rome Show, do you want to go undefeated into the tournament or do you want to kind of lose a game and get it over with and then kind of start the tournament and Bruce Webers fighting a line. I were undefeated until very late in that season. Now, remember well the.

It was the age old question back then on sports talk radio as I was working on the Jim Rome Show, do you want to go undefeated into the tournament or do you want to kind of lose a game and get it over with and then kind of start the tournament and Bruce Webers fighting a line. I were undefeated until very late in that season. Now, remember well the.

Year before, Saint Joe's was undefeated in the regular season, lost in the first game of the A ten tournament, and then they were upset by Oklahoma State in the Elite eight on John Lucas's last second shot. So it was eerie similarities between the two.

Year before, Saint Joe's was undefeated in the regular season, lost in the first game of the A ten tournament, and then they were upset by Oklahoma State in the Elite eight on John Lucas's last second shot. So it was eerie similarities between the two.

Illinois lost to Ohio State in the at the end of the regular season. Matt Silvester hit a three for Ohio State to knock the ilane from the ranks of the house. Watching that game, I'm sure you were too, Dan.

Illinois lost to Ohio State in the at the end of the regular season. Matt Silvester hit a three for Ohio State to knock the ilane from the ranks of the house. Watching that game, I'm sure you were too, Dan.

Illinois had a three headed monster at the time, Luther Head, d Brown and Darren Williams. Now, you hear a lot about guard play this time of year. Those were the best guards in the country, all collected on the same team. Darren Williams would go on to the NBA make a lot of money play for the Olympics, but UNC was the real team to focus on. Because if I'm not mistaken, you guys correct me. This is Roy Williams first national title. Correct after going so many times with Kansas and coming up short. He had the legs of Seawan May, He had the legs of Marvin Williams, Raymond.

Illinois had a three headed monster at the time, Luther Head, d Brown and Darren Williams. Now, you hear a lot about guard play this time of year. Those were the best guards in the country, all collected on the same team. Darren Williams would go on to the NBA make a lot of money play for the Olympics, but UNC was the real team to focus on. Because if I'm not mistaken, you guys correct me. This is Roy Williams first national title. Correct after going so many times with Kansas and coming up short. He had the legs of Seawan May, He had the legs of Marvin Williams, Raymond.

Felton Williams as a as a rookie, as a fresh member. Right, weren't they beaten that year really badly by Florida State? Dan, I want to say like they lost.

Felton Williams as a as a rookie, as a fresh member. Right, weren't they beaten that year really badly by Florida State? Dan, I want to say like they lost.

By they may have been. I was more locked in because that's when I was in Madison, so I was doing Wisconsin basketball, so I was locked into the Big Ten. So I know that Big Ten trio with that Illinois trio that you mentioned. But they may have They may have lost to Florida State.

By they may have been. I was more locked in because that's when I was in Madison, so I was doing Wisconsin basketball, so I was locked into the Big Ten. So I know that Big Ten trio with that Illinois trio that you mentioned. But they may have They may have lost to Florida State.

Actually they lost the opener to Santa Clara, then they lost to Wake Forest mid season, than Duke and then Georgia Tech I think in the a SEC tournament.

Actually they lost the opener to Santa Clara, then they lost to Wake Forest mid season, than Duke and then Georgia Tech I think in the a SEC tournament.

So no, So you're.

So no, So you're.

Okay, answers, that's two thousand and five college hoops. What else happened in two thousand and five, boys, I.

Okay, answers, that's two thousand and five college hoops. What else happened in two thousand and five, boys, I.

Can tell you a couple of things. If also had that, I'll give you golf. In the second Illinois had the comeback against Arizona in the Elite eight, where I think Ben Mallard said that he was going to walk to Tucson if Arizona blew that. I believe that was that's a five. I don't think he ever did, but there was there was something along those lines. Because it was also the summer that I moved to California in two thousand and five, so there's a lot that stands out. I mentioned Marvin Williams, and the reason that I remember him coming off the bench was because he was possibly going to be the number one overall pick in the NBA Draft that year, which was owned by the Milwaukee Bucks, and instead of taking Darren Williams, Chris Paul, or Marvin Williams Andrew Bogan, the Bucks took Andrew Boget number one, which at the time was the correct pick. I believe as we look back on it, maybe Chris Paul would have been the better option, but that happened in two thousand and five with the Bucks winning the NBA lottery.

Can tell you a couple of things. If also had that, I'll give you golf. In the second Illinois had the comeback against Arizona in the Elite eight, where I think Ben Mallard said that he was going to walk to Tucson if Arizona blew that. I believe that was that's a five. I don't think he ever did, but there was there was something along those lines. Because it was also the summer that I moved to California in two thousand and five, so there's a lot that stands out. I mentioned Marvin Williams, and the reason that I remember him coming off the bench was because he was possibly going to be the number one overall pick in the NBA Draft that year, which was owned by the Milwaukee Bucks, and instead of taking Darren Williams, Chris Paul, or Marvin Williams Andrew Bogan, the Bucks took Andrew Boget number one, which at the time was the correct pick. I believe as we look back on it, maybe Chris Paul would have been the better option, but that happened in two thousand and five with the Bucks winning the NBA lottery.

If you if you were able to archive and pull back, you know, look, I've made some misjudgments in the NBA draft. If you go back, I did say that Chris Paul should at an abode overall pick say he's too small, and the NBA there's an EXPRESSI if you're cana make a mistake, make a big mistake. Andrew Bugger wasn't a mistake, a big mistake, but that has there has been big mistakes made in the past. Hey, go back to when you moved to California. Did you drive from Madison? From Madison to California?

If you if you were able to archive and pull back, you know, look, I've made some misjudgments in the NBA draft. If you go back, I did say that Chris Paul should at an abode overall pick say he's too small, and the NBA there's an EXPRESSI if you're cana make a mistake, make a big mistake. Andrew Bugger wasn't a mistake, a big mistake, but that has there has been big mistakes made in the past. Hey, go back to when you moved to California. Did you drive from Madison? From Madison to California?

I did, I drove. I remember a car. It was a Nissan Ultima two thousand and one Nissan Ultima.

I did, I drove. I remember a car. It was a Nissan Ultima two thousand and one Nissan Ultima.

Hey, where did you stop?

Hey, where did you stop?

So the first night I drove from I drove from Madison. I stopped at Field of Dreams in Iowa. But I made it all the way to Lincoln, Nebraska. Then the next the distance. The next day I drove to Denver and took in a Rockies Reds game. It was a Friday night. There were tornado warnings. Storms moved through the Reds pulled Ken Griffey Junior from the lineup. Nobody played. I left in the third inning, but I did walk around course field. And then Saturday was the big day. I was actually west of Denver where I stayed Breckenridge. It snowed on June third, and yes, it was crazy. I was in shorts and flip flops. It was June. I thought, all right, I walked to my car snow on it. That's when I made the like fifteen hour drive to Rancho Cucamonga.

So the first night I drove from I drove from Madison. I stopped at Field of Dreams in Iowa. But I made it all the way to Lincoln, Nebraska. Then the next the distance. The next day I drove to Denver and took in a Rockies Reds game. It was a Friday night. There were tornado warnings. Storms moved through the Reds pulled Ken Griffey Junior from the lineup. Nobody played. I left in the third inning, but I did walk around course field. And then Saturday was the big day. I was actually west of Denver where I stayed Breckenridge. It snowed on June third, and yes, it was crazy. I was in shorts and flip flops. It was June. I thought, all right, I walked to my car snow on it. That's when I made the like fifteen hour drive to Rancho Cucamonga.

Can I make Can I make the classic dad joke that everybody makes.

Can I make Can I make the classic dad joke that everybody makes.

Ha.

Ha.

You know they say about Denver, if you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes. It's true, but they say that everywhere except for California, although it.

You know they say about Denver, if you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes. It's true, but they say that everywhere except for California, although it.

Is apropol and Colorado because you could get like an eighty degree day like in some you know.

Is apropol and Colorado because you could get like an eighty degree day like in some you know.

Day after getting snow. Okay, yes, and then it milts truly okay, so awesome.

Day after getting snow. Okay, yes, and then it milts truly okay, so awesome.

But but you did skip a lot of the details that actually matter to me. Okay, you're rolling in the Ultima two thousand and one Ultima Jay stud do we think this is the CD player in the front. But that was probably when they had the six CD changer in the front, not in the trunk, right.

But but you did skip a lot of the details that actually matter to me. Okay, you're rolling in the Ultima two thousand and one Ultima Jay stud do we think this is the CD player in the front. But that was probably when they had the six CD changer in the front, not in the trunk, right.

It sat on my Actually, I can't remember if it's if I had the discman that played, or if it was actually in the car.

It sat on my Actually, I can't remember if it's if I had the discman that played, or if it was actually in the car.

I think it's in the car because at the first that you had, if you had the ten disc, it was in the trunk, and then eventually they had the sixth disc, which could be and it would rotate in the.

I think it's in the car because at the first that you had, if you had the ten disc, it was in the trunk, and then eventually they had the sixth disc, which could be and it would rotate in the.

I never had a multidisc player in my car, right.

I never had a multidisc player in my car, right.

Okay, do you know any of the discs that were being played, because this is two thousand and five.

Okay, do you know any of the discs that were being played, because this is two thousand and five.

Yes, so well, I remember I had I think it's Eminem's third album that was out. I can't remember which one that it was, but I listened to that a bunch when I ended up driving out. I do remember, I do remember that truck. As just said, it was a long drive. You had a lot of CDs. By the way. In golf, Tiger Woods won the Masters in the Open Championship, Michael Campbell ended up winning the US Open, and philm Michelson won the PGA Championship.

Yes, so well, I remember I had I think it's Eminem's third album that was out. I can't remember which one that it was, but I listened to that a bunch when I ended up driving out. I do remember, I do remember that truck. As just said, it was a long drive. You had a lot of CDs. By the way. In golf, Tiger Woods won the Masters in the Open Championship, Michael Campbell ended up winning the US Open, and philm Michelson won the PGA Championship.

I have no idea if Michael Campbell was sitting right next to me and he said, I'm Michael Campbell, I won the Masters or what do you win in the US Open?

I have no idea if Michael Campbell was sitting right next to me and he said, I'm Michael Campbell, I won the Masters or what do you win in the US Open?

Yes?

Yes?

You won the US Open at Pinehurst, Dan, can I ask you a question? Here?

You won the US Open at Pinehurst, Dan, can I ask you a question? Here?

Was it the Marshall Mathers LP that was his third album came out in two thousand?

Was it the Marshall Mathers LP that was his third album came out in two thousand?

Okay, maybe maybe it was I can't use his fourth album. Maybe it's a little newer. Yeah, it could have been. I just and again, I'm not the huge music guy, but it was. It wasn't like one of the first ones. It was maybe third or fourth.

Okay, maybe maybe it was I can't use his fourth album. Maybe it's a little newer. Yeah, it could have been. I just and again, I'm not the huge music guy, but it was. It wasn't like one of the first ones. It was maybe third or fourth.

You know, he was Yeah, go ahead.

You know, he was Yeah, go ahead.

Did you hear this song on the way up to californ Yeah?

Did you hear this song on the way up to californ Yeah?

That's I was waiting for us Tina.

That's I was waiting for us Tina.

This is Gwen Stefani. I want to say it's her first solo. Yeah.

This is Gwen Stefani. I want to say it's her first solo. Yeah.

After Leaving No Doubt in two thousand and five, was second on the Billboard charts by the end of the year, only topped by this song, Dan, Did you listen to this one all the way out to California?

After Leaving No Doubt in two thousand and five, was second on the Billboard charts by the end of the year, only topped by this song, Dan, Did you listen to this one all the way out to California?

I could totally see Dan Rocker rule Utah, throwing things, crying, trying to I know a little bit of it, but I don't.

I could totally see Dan Rocker rule Utah, throwing things, crying, trying to I know a little bit of it, but I don't.

I didn't have this this in Constant Rotation.

I didn't have this this in Constant Rotation.

Movies No. Five. There was a Harry Potter out of Fire right, but Wedding Crashers was two thousand and five. Wedding Crashers two thousand and five. Have any of you guys ever crashed a wedding?

Movies No. Five. There was a Harry Potter out of Fire right, but Wedding Crashers was two thousand and five. Wedding Crashers two thousand and five. Have any of you guys ever crashed a wedding?

Negative?

Negative?

No, no, No.

No, no, No.

I'm kind of excited. Two assistant coaches of mine are getting married this summer. I was working and I couldn't. I should have, but I could have gone to Jackson Holiday's wedding last a year ago, January or something Florida. So while since your boy went to a wedding, kind of, I don't know. I'm excited, although I'm a lot like what are the grumpy guys up in the balcony at the Muppets for the Muppets one of those guys' names, and they know I'm a little bit like that at a wedding right out.

I'm kind of excited. Two assistant coaches of mine are getting married this summer. I was working and I couldn't. I should have, but I could have gone to Jackson Holiday's wedding last a year ago, January or something Florida. So while since your boy went to a wedding, kind of, I don't know. I'm excited, although I'm a lot like what are the grumpy guys up in the balcony at the Muppets for the Muppets one of those guys' names, and they know I'm a little bit like that at a wedding right out.

I know that the Peanut Gallery guys, right, yeah, but they have.

I know that the Peanut Gallery guys, right, yeah, but they have.

Six months give it six months, six months, six months, six years years. No way, I'm the cynic. I won't be the cynic. I mean other Jordan lived. They'll make it the distance, beautiful couple. I don't know about my boy denbo and Molly denbo Is. He's he's he's always grumpy. It's always grumpy. I don't know how that works in the marriage.

Six months give it six months, six months, six months, six years years. No way, I'm the cynic. I won't be the cynic. I mean other Jordan lived. They'll make it the distance, beautiful couple. I don't know about my boy denbo and Molly denbo Is. He's he's he's always grumpy. It's always grumpy. I don't know how that works in the marriage.

But the crumpy muppets are named Statler and Wolldorf. I would have never guessed that. You know, what happened in sports in two thousand and five, people remember that that the White Sox broken eighty eight year drought. But what I remember, right, yeah, I remember calling drop calling a bunch of reuters And to go on record.

But the crumpy muppets are named Statler and Wolldorf. I would have never guessed that. You know, what happened in sports in two thousand and five, people remember that that the White Sox broken eighty eight year drought. But what I remember, right, yeah, I remember calling drop calling a bunch of reuters And to go on record.

Was two thousand and five.

Was two thousand and five.

Ters like the news service guys on roids.

Ters like the news service guys on roids.

Rafael Palmer First of all, it was it was classic. I love the Sammy Sosa. All of a sudden, Samy so is like, you know, abling less so So is the best. They're like, uh, Sammy would like to ask you about your steroid use? Is like, I know, speaking English, I know speaking English. And then they go Rafael Palmarow, who's like, he looks right in the end of the camera and he's like, I never ever used steroids, pointing at Congress ever period. What happened the next baseball season, Raphael Palmaro pop for steroids. It was classic.

Rafael Palmer First of all, it was it was classic. I love the Sammy Sosa. All of a sudden, Samy so is like, you know, abling less so So is the best. They're like, uh, Sammy would like to ask you about your steroid use? Is like, I know, speaking English, I know speaking English. And then they go Rafael Palmarow, who's like, he looks right in the end of the camera and he's like, I never ever used steroids, pointing at Congress ever period. What happened the next baseball season, Raphael Palmaro pop for steroids. It was classic.

I do remember that NFL season. That was the season the Seahawks ended up going to the super Bowl, but it was a great regular season. Super Bowl obviously happened in two thousand and six for.

I do remember that NFL season. That was the season the Seahawks ended up going to the super Bowl, but it was a great regular season. Super Bowl obviously happened in two thousand and six for.

The first time, so true bettis from Detroit.

The first time, so true bettis from Detroit.

I did know that, but that regular season was a It was a great regular season for the Seahawks leading up to their Shawn Alexander was the MVP, wasn't he, Yes, yes he was that. Matt Hasselbeck has was the quarterback. It was Encore, so it would have been Eminem's fifth album, so I apologized, but it was Encore. I ended up looking it up. Sam, Okay, that was the That was the album.

I did know that, but that regular season was a It was a great regular season for the Seahawks leading up to their Shawn Alexander was the MVP, wasn't he, Yes, yes he was that. Matt Hasselbeck has was the quarterback. It was Encore, so it would have been Eminem's fifth album, so I apologized, but it was Encore. I ended up looking it up. Sam, Okay, that was the That was the album.

Okay. So, Jay stew if you were going to drive from Madison to Red Joe Kuckamonga even today, and we actually discussed this on the podcast yesterday a radio show I don't remember, Pearl Jam ten would be one of your albums if you had a six disc change.

Okay. So, Jay stew if you were going to drive from Madison to Red Joe Kuckamonga even today, and we actually discussed this on the podcast yesterday a radio show I don't remember, Pearl Jam ten would be one of your albums if you had a six disc change.

That's fifty two minutes of the twenty eight hours of driving.

That's fifty two minutes of the twenty eight hours of driving.

So I mean, but the question is if you had a six six disc changer, right, not the iPods we have now or the iPhones we have now, where you have, you know, thousands and thousands of songs, you can only have six albums. Jay stew Will those six albums.

So I mean, but the question is if you had a six six disc changer, right, not the iPods we have now or the iPhones we have now, where you have, you know, thousands and thousands of songs, you can only have six albums. Jay stew Will those six albums.

Be Rumors by Footwood Mac, the greatest album of all time, Purple Rain by Prince I think ten would be in there. Let's see, I'm gonna of all the Smith's albums, I'll probably go Meet his Murder. Then I would go probably something more recent, which is a I don't know if you could do this, but anything by Kendall Lamar off of the Damn Album, And then I would I would go lay Back and anything off of Sergeant Pepper, Lonely Heart Club band that makes six albums, six of the most amazing albums of all time.

Be Rumors by Footwood Mac, the greatest album of all time, Purple Rain by Prince I think ten would be in there. Let's see, I'm gonna of all the Smith's albums, I'll probably go Meet his Murder. Then I would go probably something more recent, which is a I don't know if you could do this, but anything by Kendall Lamar off of the Damn Album, And then I would I would go lay Back and anything off of Sergeant Pepper, Lonely Heart Club band that makes six albums, six of the most amazing albums of all time.

And yes, I am a music snob.

And yes, I am a music snob.

Yeah, I know you are.

Yeah, I know you are.

Yeah, that's why I hesitate to talk about music as well. I don't want to offend Jason sense.

Yeah, that's why I hesitate to talk about music as well. I don't want to offend Jason sense.

I'll judge not offending. He's just very, very negative terse. It's like talking Star Wars with Ryan, you know, like, well I like that movie. It's oh it's crap. It's crap, like Brian, I mean, I liked it, but this is inarguable that I liked it.

I'll judge not offending. He's just very, very negative terse. It's like talking Star Wars with Ryan, you know, like, well I like that movie. It's oh it's crap. It's crap, like Brian, I mean, I liked it, but this is inarguable that I liked it.

Oh, we have we have some audio from Ryan Smith.

Oh, we have we have some audio from Ryan Smith.

It's a complete crap, exactly exactly what he says.

It's a complete crap, exactly exactly what he says.

I do enjoy Coldplay, and my favorite album of theirs is X and Y. It came out in two thousand and five.

I do enjoy Coldplay, and my favorite album of theirs is X and Y. It came out in two thousand and five.

Oh, look at how you brought it back to the actual segment.

Oh, look at how you brought it back to the actual segment.

Yes, so that's that's also like, you know, like when you have a summer like song that you like remember from back in the day and like where that summer was. As they said, I had moved out to California and so and I bought that album across the street at the Tower Records that is no longer at the Galleria, and I listened to it when I first moved out here A ton Doug, what are.

Yes, so that's that's also like, you know, like when you have a summer like song that you like remember from back in the day and like where that summer was. As they said, I had moved out to California and so and I bought that album across the street at the Tower Records that is no longer at the Galleria, and I listened to it when I first moved out here A ton Doug, what are.

Your six albums?

Your six albums?

It's a great question.

It's a great question.

It's like one of those awesome Instagram or TikTok kind of challenges.

It's like one of those awesome Instagram or TikTok kind of challenges.

Like or the one that I would completely scroll pasted right away.

Like or the one that I would completely scroll pasted right away.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. It's weird though. When you do lists, it gets like so many more download and so many more views. Right, you do a list, listicles, listicles. Okay, this is a question to the music.

Yeah, yeah. It's weird though. When you do lists, it gets like so many more download and so many more views. Right, you do a list, listicles, listicles. Okay, this is a question to the music.

Stop Jason, you're on your cross country drive?

Stop Jason, you're on your cross country drive?

Am I allowed to do greatest hits?

Am I allowed to do greatest hits?

I mean it's it's pretty unimaginative, but go ahead.

I mean it's it's pretty unimaginative, but go ahead.

No, no, no, it's Okay, I mean then I I honestly wouldn't know, Like, uh, the first two short album I ever had, I think It's Too Short Life Is would be there because I just honestly brings me back to my teenhood. Life is too Short. Uh. The first baby Face album that had Tender Lover on it and had whip appeal that would be on it. I think it's just Babyface Babyface. Maybe it's baby Face Tender Lover. I'm not sure. My problem with my Billy Joel albums is like, I have a live album that he played on like Y two K, and it's amazing. Other than that, I would I don't know his different albums, but I do think for cruising a Billy Joel album would be amazing. Pearl jam Ten would absolutely like it's the iconic alternative grunge album. You have to have it period.

No, no, no, it's Okay, I mean then I I honestly wouldn't know, Like, uh, the first two short album I ever had, I think It's Too Short Life Is would be there because I just honestly brings me back to my teenhood. Life is too Short. Uh. The first baby Face album that had Tender Lover on it and had whip appeal that would be on it. I think it's just Babyface Babyface. Maybe it's baby Face Tender Lover. I'm not sure. My problem with my Billy Joel albums is like, I have a live album that he played on like Y two K, and it's amazing. Other than that, I would I don't know his different albums, but I do think for cruising a Billy Joel album would be amazing. Pearl jam Ten would absolutely like it's the iconic alternative grunge album. You have to have it period.

Stop.

Stop.

Uh what else I like to do? All the different genres? Go ahead?

Uh what else I like to do? All the different genres? Go ahead?

I'm sorry, No, I was just gonna. I was gonna say something. I actually think greatest hits should be allowed, but I feel that sometimes when you take a greatest hits, like Jason will have a lot of deep cuts from his artists. But I think Journey's greatest hits is that that would be great album definitely in my six But I can't give you fifty Journey songs, but I know those fifteen that are on that album. Yeah, I absolutely love so legends like.

I'm sorry, No, I was just gonna. I was gonna say something. I actually think greatest hits should be allowed, but I feel that sometimes when you take a greatest hits, like Jason will have a lot of deep cuts from his artists. But I think Journey's greatest hits is that that would be great album definitely in my six But I can't give you fifty Journey songs, but I know those fifteen that are on that album. Yeah, I absolutely love so legends like.

Bob Marley's with that. For me, I could on Legend.

Bob Marley's with that. For me, I could on Legend.

Yes, yes, yes, A Queen has.

Yes, yes, yes, A Queen has.

The greatest hits.

The greatest hits.

It's a blue and a one that's blue, one that's Burgundy, and there's like twenty tracks on each.

It's a blue and a one that's blue, one that's Burgundy, and there's like twenty tracks on each.

Hey, how can they like that?

Hey, how can they like that?

How come when they play we Will Rock You on the radio they also play we Are we are the Champions.

How come when they play we Will Rock You on the radio they also play we Are we are the Champions.

Because they were they were made together and together kind of like was it Zeppelin, Living, Loving made? And then there's the second song they.

Because they were they were made together and together kind of like was it Zeppelin, Living, Loving made? And then there's the second song they.

I can't remember that, Yeah, I didn't know that.

I can't remember that, Yeah, I didn't know that.

Yeah, it's kind of like the on the on Beatles on Abbey Road. Everyone knows carry that weight, but it's a part of the Golden Slumbers. You can't hear Golden Sumbers without carry that weight.

Yeah, it's kind of like the on the on Beatles on Abbey Road. Everyone knows carry that weight, but it's a part of the Golden Slumbers. You can't hear Golden Sumbers without carry that weight.

You need to have You need to have a Beatles discussion with Darius Rucker because Darius will go into his The Beatles are the most influential UH music group of all time. Is not wrong like you in any album you will ever hear has something from the Beatles in it. And he has a new album which is coming out this summer, and he recorded in London, and I was like, these you recording London because of the Beatles, and he goes a little bit of inspiration. But anyway, uh, the year was two thousand and five. Don't call it a throwback.

You need to have You need to have a Beatles discussion with Darius Rucker because Darius will go into his The Beatles are the most influential UH music group of all time. Is not wrong like you in any album you will ever hear has something from the Beatles in it. And he has a new album which is coming out this summer, and he recorded in London, and I was like, these you recording London because of the Beatles, and he goes a little bit of inspiration. But anyway, uh, the year was two thousand and five. Don't call it a throwback.

Don't call it a throwback.

Don't call it a throwback.

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App's a Doug gott Leave show. Fox Sports Radio. Express employment professionals can provide contract workers to flex up for peak seasons without having to raise your core workforce headcount. Manage your workforce differently. Visit expresspros dot com today, that's expresspros dot com. You know, we all get a chance to say my bad, I'm sorry. Sometimes we do it in church, sometimes we do it in our head, sometimes we do it to our friends, but very few do it before a live national radio audience. Dan Byer is one of the very few. He gives us buyers remorse.

Some have remorse.

Some have remorse.

I'm deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior I engage.

I'm deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior I engage.

Come on, but there's nothing quite like buyer's remorse, Doug.

Come on, but there's nothing quite like buyer's remorse, Doug.

I could start out with lawn care, because that's my true remorse is I'm trying to do my front yard, trying to redo the grass on it. I did not like the grass that I previously had, and I midway through the project and I'm realizing that it's going to take a little bit more elbow grease and maybe some equipment that I don't have on hand to do unbelievable. So a little bit more of the projects that I maybe i'd bit off, a little bit more that I could chew. Just don't tell my wife. I think everything will look great in the end, but I needed I think I need to till some of the dead grass spots that I killed off. I thought I could just throw some round up kill it. No, then to thatch it.

I could start out with lawn care, because that's my true remorse is I'm trying to do my front yard, trying to redo the grass on it. I did not like the grass that I previously had, and I midway through the project and I'm realizing that it's going to take a little bit more elbow grease and maybe some equipment that I don't have on hand to do unbelievable. So a little bit more of the projects that I maybe i'd bit off, a little bit more that I could chew. Just don't tell my wife. I think everything will look great in the end, but I needed I think I need to till some of the dead grass spots that I killed off. I thought I could just throw some round up kill it. No, then to thatch it.

No.

No.

I wanted to you one of those marketing catchers.

I wanted to you one of those marketing catchers.

You can't throw the round up on Did you throw round up on stuff? Well?

You can't throw the round up on Did you throw round up on stuff? Well?

Well, yeah, yeah, the grass is dead. It needed to be killed, I know.

Well, yeah, yeah, the grass is dead. It needed to be killed, I know.

But if you throw round up on it, nothing grows on it.

But if you throw round up on it, nothing grows on it.

That is not true. You have to wait a certain time if you get the if you get the kind that's like four month round up or the heavy strength stuff, that is true. But I should be able to plant seed within the next couple of weeks here as it's been a few weeks. But I took my neighbor's to Thatcher and Scarifire. Some call it scarrify. I go with Scarifire and it did a great job. But there's still these base roots in my lawn that I did the job rid of. It's fine when I'm trying to talk Sam, I don't want to be doubled up with myself on I leave the rops, okay, then back covers up the point that I'm trying to make Grant. I also I also have a problem, and it's not more of my remorse, Doug, it's more with the NC double A did a great job in realizing their error from years back and having quarts look the same. Then comes Sweet sixteen and Elite eight action this weekend. The only thing that was different was the mid court out of bounds by the scores table that was either blue or gray. And again they didn't even span out to have four different expand out. They have four different colors. They just had two of them. All of the courts again looked the same and something that we talked about a lot here on Fox Sports already on the Doug Gottlieb Show. These great NC DOUBLEA tournament moments are usually to find out where they play, and the NC Double A this time around just went to two courts that basically looked exactly alike four courts, and it was I was very, very disappointed in the NC Doublea's decision with that cannon. One blue, one red, one green, one gray. I mean, mix it up, That's what every morse over.

That is not true. You have to wait a certain time if you get the if you get the kind that's like four month round up or the heavy strength stuff, that is true. But I should be able to plant seed within the next couple of weeks here as it's been a few weeks. But I took my neighbor's to Thatcher and Scarifire. Some call it scarrify. I go with Scarifire and it did a great job. But there's still these base roots in my lawn that I did the job rid of. It's fine when I'm trying to talk Sam, I don't want to be doubled up with myself on I leave the rops, okay, then back covers up the point that I'm trying to make Grant. I also I also have a problem, and it's not more of my remorse, Doug, it's more with the NC double A did a great job in realizing their error from years back and having quarts look the same. Then comes Sweet sixteen and Elite eight action this weekend. The only thing that was different was the mid court out of bounds by the scores table that was either blue or gray. And again they didn't even span out to have four different expand out. They have four different colors. They just had two of them. All of the courts again looked the same and something that we talked about a lot here on Fox Sports already on the Doug Gottlieb Show. These great NC DOUBLEA tournament moments are usually to find out where they play, and the NC Double A this time around just went to two courts that basically looked exactly alike four courts, and it was I was very, very disappointed in the NC Doublea's decision with that cannon. One blue, one red, one green, one gray. I mean, mix it up, That's what every morse over.

What do you think about the court though Doug, me.

What do you think about the court though Doug, me.

Dan and I have discussed this before, we both truthfully think they should go back to the hometown court, right, make him different. I'm a court snob, Okay, There's lots of things like I our court gets redone every year, and I'm like, we need to peel that sucker way back. I want the wood lightened like the white maple of Galagheriba. But we have lighter wood on our practice court and our court at the Rest Center. I want the crest to be lighter. I want the State of Wisconsin outline logo Gigantic and then Green Bay. I don't just want Green Bay and the GB in the middle. I want to say Green Bay. So you know, again, I'm a court snob, so I agree with most of his sentiment, but at the at the court just like, let him have the local courts. I think that's a really cool thing.

Dan and I have discussed this before, we both truthfully think they should go back to the hometown court, right, make him different. I'm a court snob, Okay, There's lots of things like I our court gets redone every year, and I'm like, we need to peel that sucker way back. I want the wood lightened like the white maple of Galagheriba. But we have lighter wood on our practice court and our court at the Rest Center. I want the crest to be lighter. I want the State of Wisconsin outline logo Gigantic and then Green Bay. I don't just want Green Bay and the GB in the middle. I want to say Green Bay. So you know, again, I'm a court snob, so I agree with most of his sentiment, but at the at the court just like, let him have the local courts. I think that's a really cool thing.

Heck, they make a new court for the arena for those games. Yep, you could just do it in the colors of that city or that school that's hosting it, whatever the case may be, but would at least add some variety.

Heck, they make a new court for the arena for those games. Yep, you could just do it in the colors of that city or that school that's hosting it, whatever the case may be, but would at least add some variety.

And that Spider's remorse. It's the Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio, and anytime we need baseball and in this case hitting technology. I've never met anyone who's more invested in the sport than my boy Matt Holliday, seven time All Star, four time Solar Slugger, and a producer of current and future baseball stars as well. He joins us in the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio. The torpedo bat, Have you used it?

And that Spider's remorse. It's the Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio, and anytime we need baseball and in this case hitting technology. I've never met anyone who's more invested in the sport than my boy Matt Holliday, seven time All Star, four time Solar Slugger, and a producer of current and future baseball stars as well. He joins us in the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio. The torpedo bat, Have you used it?

No?

No?

So this offseason, Orioles sent Jackson a bat that is similar in theory, wasn't as torpedo ish, but the weight had been moved lower in the bat, which is, you know, sort of the reason to have this torpedo bat as the slide the sweet spot down closer to the hands as opposed to the end of the bat UH to take some of the weight and move it around a little bit. So he had a bat that that basically was the same concept in his hands this offseason.

So this offseason, Orioles sent Jackson a bat that is similar in theory, wasn't as torpedo ish, but the weight had been moved lower in the bat, which is, you know, sort of the reason to have this torpedo bat as the slide the sweet spot down closer to the hands as opposed to the end of the bat UH to take some of the weight and move it around a little bit. So he had a bat that that basically was the same concept in his hands this offseason.

Hit with it some in the cage.

Hit with it some in the cage.

I didn't, and feeling the bat it is is not noticeably different. Obviously I didn't take any swings with it. But so I think that the teams have been onto this sort of theory with a lot of the analytical people starting to look into the different ways to to sort of modify the bat and how they can optimize each guy's you know, sort of profile and what kind of bat fits them best based on analytics and the data that they have. So I don't think this is necessarily super new, but I do think the the visual of the more uh or pito ish bat, if you will, is caught people's eye.

I didn't, and feeling the bat it is is not noticeably different. Obviously I didn't take any swings with it. But so I think that the teams have been onto this sort of theory with a lot of the analytical people starting to look into the different ways to to sort of modify the bat and how they can optimize each guy's you know, sort of profile and what kind of bat fits them best based on analytics and the data that they have. So I don't think this is necessarily super new, but I do think the the visual of the more uh or pito ish bat, if you will, is caught people's eye.

Is there a way to adjust how you pitch to somebody based upon these beats?

Is there a way to adjust how you pitch to somebody based upon these beats?

And I don't think it's that big of a deal.

And I don't think it's that big of a deal.

I don't think this is we're going to require sort of a chess match of if you do this, we do that.

I don't think this is we're going to require sort of a chess match of if you do this, we do that.

I don't think it's this big.

I don't think it's this big.

I mean, obviously the Yankees hitting a ton of home runs this you know, this series, But I think that has more to do with the Brewers and the fact that Aaron Judge is a monster than necessarily uh, this torpedo bat being the cutting edge new sort of I don't think this is. I think it has more to do with that. So I don't think that there's going to be a well, they're using this bat that's closer to the hands, so we need to pitch the ball away more to have them hit it off the end of the bat, and and and so I don't I don't think so. I don't think that there's any I don't think it's that big of an adjustment. I think it's a it's more hype meet for me than necessarily substance.

I mean, obviously the Yankees hitting a ton of home runs this you know, this series, But I think that has more to do with the Brewers and the fact that Aaron Judge is a monster than necessarily uh, this torpedo bat being the cutting edge new sort of I don't think this is. I think it has more to do with that. So I don't think that there's going to be a well, they're using this bat that's closer to the hands, so we need to pitch the ball away more to have them hit it off the end of the bat, and and and so I don't I don't think so. I don't think that there's any I don't think it's that big of an adjustment. I think it's a it's more hype meet for me than necessarily substance.

Matt Holliday joined US year Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio. You mentioned Brewers pitching and how bad it appears to be. I mean, this is a team that, with all kinds of injuries last year, still made it to the playoffs this year, it looks like they have they have no shot. It's very early. How fixable are their pitching issues.

Matt Holliday joined US year Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio. You mentioned Brewers pitching and how bad it appears to be. I mean, this is a team that, with all kinds of injuries last year, still made it to the playoffs this year, it looks like they have they have no shot. It's very early. How fixable are their pitching issues.

Well, a lot of them are injured and not currently pitching, and they have Santana who they finned late, who's going to be probably a little bit more time to ramp up to the pitch count of the starter. So I don't think this is the staff that you're going to see even in probably two to three weeks. But I do think it's concerned. I do think that they aren't as last year. They had a lot of angles and different types of pitchers in their bullpen, which is effective because they they're not very They weren't they weren't stocked. You know, there aren't arms and angles that you.

Well, a lot of them are injured and not currently pitching, and they have Santana who they finned late, who's going to be probably a little bit more time to ramp up to the pitch count of the starter. So I don't think this is the staff that you're going to see even in probably two to three weeks. But I do think it's concerned. I do think that they aren't as last year. They had a lot of angles and different types of pitchers in their bullpen, which is effective because they they're not very They weren't they weren't stocked. You know, there aren't arms and angles that you.

See every day, so they can be effective.

See every day, so they can be effective.

And guys are not used to different angles and pitch types. But I do think it's concerning, But I think it's too early to sort of judge their their capabilities, you know, moving forward for the entire season.

And guys are not used to different angles and pitch types. But I do think it's concerning, But I think it's too early to sort of judge their their capabilities, you know, moving forward for the entire season.

Stuck got lib show here on Fox Sports Radio. In college basketball, and I frankly think in college football, I think they screwed up the bracketing. But there's just there's just the haves and the have nots. And you know, forever in baseball you've had, you know, teams like Tampa that have been able to compete despite the factive or Oakland been able to compete, just not as much, not as often in the playoffs. Of course, there are a couple of years ago when the Dodgers won the World Series in during the COVID year. They they made it all the way to you know, to the World Series. It's happened before. It does feel like the Dodgers and maybe the Yankees are close to figuring that out. That just a level of dominance because they have so many more resources. Is that real or is it still baseball? So anyone still can win this thing?

Stuck got lib show here on Fox Sports Radio. In college basketball, and I frankly think in college football, I think they screwed up the bracketing. But there's just there's just the haves and the have nots. And you know, forever in baseball you've had, you know, teams like Tampa that have been able to compete despite the factive or Oakland been able to compete, just not as much, not as often in the playoffs. Of course, there are a couple of years ago when the Dodgers won the World Series in during the COVID year. They they made it all the way to you know, to the World Series. It's happened before. It does feel like the Dodgers and maybe the Yankees are close to figuring that out. That just a level of dominance because they have so many more resources. Is that real or is it still baseball? So anyone still can win this thing?

Well, I think it definitely guarantees you into the playoffs. I mean, I think when you have this kind of roster, the Dodgers, you know, probably the easiest bet that they're going to make one of those spots. So they're they're you know, they're they're going to get into the playoffs. Now, once the playoffs start, you know, teams can get hot. You can run into a you know, the Dodgers could run into a hot team that you know, wins the first game, and now there's pressure on the Dodgers and anything can happen again, so that kind of thing can happen. I do think these kind of roster talent depths. I do think that they they all but guarantee you into this current playoff situation because there are, you know, two more wild cards and opportunities to get in. So I think it does guarantee you that. I think in the Dodgers case, probably more so than the Yankees, they went out and signed and bullpen guys that other teams were using as closers, and now they're pitching in the sixth and seventh inning for the Dodgers, which I think gives them a distinct advantage over the rest of the league that they can spend that kind of money on their sixth and seventh inning relievers and they can go out and get guys to come in and fill those roles that are used to being closers because they can afford to overpay or not maybe not overpay, but maybe pay those salaries to pitch in those innings. So I think that that's an advantage. I think the Dodgers do a tremendous job of developing their own talent too.