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You know it's my favorite time of year. You know why because your O and O. The White Sox are O and O. That's true, because we'll we'll get to a fun little stat about them in a minute, a little numbers, fun with numbers. But day baseball, man, I love April Day baseball. You get up out of a nap. That's the way life works in the Harmon household. And you got some early East Coast games getting it on, and then we're in studio for when the Dodgers are playing late or watching those five people watch the Angels.
It'll be great.
Now, let let's start here because I got my Big Bowl prediction picks for MVP for both leagues.
Oh okay, let's before we get to that.
I got a question for you because this is the This is the first time I can remember asking this question where it's actually where I actually had to think about it before I made my choice.
If you if I said to.
You, if if this was like the movie, this is like TV show twenty four or some kind of thriller, We're I had a gun to your head and I said, okay, you gotta.
Do this or die yes, the Mets will miss the place. Stop.
We're gonna win ninety games. For going to the playoffs, I'll see you in the NLCS. If I said to you, you have to, you have to make a bet to win the World Series. You can take the Dodgers or the field, because I would always take the field, and I still will take the field now. Not change because so many things have to happen. Number one, if you take the field, you're guaranteed to have have fifty percent chance of winning. Right because no matter what somebody not named the Dodgers making the World Series.
Well to win the World.
Series, okay, taking it from a right, but your two teams won give two men enter one man.
It's still one versus twenty nine, you know or whatever when we actually do the numbers.
Yeah, but you're but you're you know, you're guaranteed. And also, so many things have to happen for a team to win the World Series. The Dodgers have to navigate injuries, which which always could be something that comes up because slumps bad starting pitching, injuries to starting pitching. That that'll sink you, right if if stuff like that happens, like oh, hopefully Mookie bets is okay, but my god, the guy's so thin now, I mean he's hopefully over his stomach. Bob, you know, he said, yeah, I mean, there's so many things that can happen to a team. I would never even think about taking one team over the field, at least this year when I when I thought about this today, I said, yeah, make me think a little bit, because the Dodgers have no weaknesses, right, usually at least the bullpens wit. Nope, Dodgers got three guys that can close. Everything is wonderful. But the Dodgers are gonna have starting pitching injured. Yeah, they got eleven starting pitchers who have all won Cy Young Awards. Right, that's what they did over the course of the last year and a half. Like, there is zero weakness on this team. I'm still taking the field because it's just too hard of a bet to say, Okay, well, you never know who can get hot in a short playoff series. It happened, But the Dodgers are so overwhelmingly favorites. For the first time, this is a question that I really had. You got to think and say, Okay, you're really okay taking the field over a team that likely is gonna, you know, cruise really really fun. Maybe cruise all the way to the championship again.
Yeah, right, now, you can get odds of plus two hundred for any team from the state of California to win the World Series.
Ah, the California World Series.
Okay, all right, that's fine. Yeah, so Countciezo.
By the way, the A's still county down, I'll tell you that much. He's still playing California yet.
New York at plus four forty, Pennsylvania, Philly in Pittsburgh at ten to one, Texas at eleven to one, Ohio at twenty five to one, Illinois twenty seven to oneh Well, we don't drag the odds down any further. Missouri at thirty thirty two, and then Florida at thirty eight. How about this for the NL West the Dodgers. You'd have to bet seven hundred dollars to win one hundred dollars.
I mean, that's easy money. It looks and is seven hundred. I know that every year.
We look at teams and say, what could possibly go wrong? Nothing could go wrong. The Dodgers are built to withstand everything. They weren't this good last year and they won the World Series pretty easily, right, The Mets beat him a couple of games in the NLCS. Why when the Dodgers said, yeah, it's gonna be our bullpen games, well, okay, yeah, or okay, we think they can win the other ones. All right, that's fine. Worried about the Yankees? Nah, why Dare's gonna throw up on themselves, lazy Yankees. Oh, they win the World Series in five, I mean, and they're much better this year. They they all their weaknesses from a year ago. They were able to shore up deeper starting pitching and a better bullpen.
That was it.
And the bullpen was pretty good in the playoffs last year. It wasn't as lights out as they have now. To tell you, guys like Vesia and Banda who can come in and just you know, eat innings. And Dave Roberts can have seven relievers pitching a game because he can. It's like his biggest dream of his managerial career. Seven guys a night. No one's gonna care. Like the two biggest things the Dodgers had last year, death that started pitching. No, we saw those, and now we're just as good starting pitching top to bottom as anybody else just as good a bullpen top to bottom as anybody else.
I mean, come on, man.
So you're making the full argument to bet the Dodgers. No, I still really want to know everything that could go wrong? Did They're getting this mysterious voodoo illness out of the way with Mookie bets before opening day? Scary stuff, man, But really, he's finally able to hold down some solid food, becomes a top news I on the local evening news. What do you got, Frostper?
Do you want to make money? Guys? Yeah, I want to make money. You gotta like the Dodgers winning the World Series and the Mets missing the playoffs. You say, there's a certainty, here's a lot of money's gonna science. Well, here's the question science I gave you. Science line.
Do you are you the fourth or fifth pitcher in the rotation? That comes from producer slash editor slash Dodgers insider bow Benson.
Oh, I can I can still throw.
I can come in and throw like seventy maybe not seventy maybe now I'm my fastballs down to about six. I can throw about eighty at my height at my peak, but now probably my fastballs around seventh. No, No, No, I have a fastball that's not very fast, but I make up for it.
By having no movement on it.
So it's you watch, they're gonna They're gonna sit back and go what is this guy throwing? One time through the don't give me two times through the order, forget it, but one time through the order.
Yeah, I'm all good. What did you like Kenny Powers when he took that guy's eye out. I've got my pitch back. I've got my pitch back. Uh bow in the back. It's Craig Robinson in the eye. Yes he did. He knocked his eye on. Craig Robinson's yelling on the ground at will Fare.
You did pretty good show with Craig Robinson when he was a stickcatcher.
I'm blanking out. You're blanking in the Kenny Power story. All right.
So you've got the Dodgers against the field. Dodgers are plus two thirty, next favorite the Braves at plus eight fifty, and then your Mets along with the Phillies at plus eleven hundred.
Iswon Soto pitching? He is actually he's actually gonna start game two until mon like I do enjoy that.
You know your squad is the Sports Illustrated cover, and there's lots of fun stuff in what they're doing in terms of ballpark ballpark fun and excitement and food and everything else. But legitimately you're starting. Rotation is a problem.
It was a problem going into last year. And to turn into a huge strength the Mets pitching lab turn look turns Sean and I into a hey, one year wonder into a I'm parlaying that into a three year, seventy five million dollar contract. Luis Areno got seventy million dollars from the A's to go play baseball.
The A's had to spend money to get to the floor. The Mets don't like any money they spent this offseason. Yeah, but no, I feel great for the guys that collected those checks, while I feel wonderful for those guys that made those paydays. Lawrence Butler and company fantastic stuff.
That was a all right, you're on the squad. What does it say?
We gotta get to damn it, keep spending roll some more off, dude.
The Mets are fine. They have a lot of innings eaters. They're gonna get Manya back. Montes will come back and he coming up Brandon. Fine, Yeah, I'm worried that he says, I have no problem. I mean, I mean, I mean, I'm throwing harder than Edwin d has in the spring. And he says, no, I'll be fine, dude, you're throwing like ninety miles a or like, what the hell.
Is going on? Do you have any movement? Oh?
Yeah, he's got a lot of movement. When the ball goes out of the park. Boy, that ball moved out of the park really fast.
Like Lawrence Tyranny was yelling in reservoir dogs.
You don't need proof when you got in, dude, you don't need velocity when you got movement.
So when it comes to MVP, right bull Bridge right here, But just think about that dodge of the field. You have to really think about it. That's how overwhelming. This is the best roster I've seen them a BA ball team in over thirty years. But that's why it's such a question.
The only answer. Okay, Now, but here's the thing.
If you're going someone other than show Hey for MVP, that would be stupid. Okay, but but I'm to say, but for for the plus Samir, you're missing the point.
Of the exercise.
Okay, uh is you have to go somebody not named show Hey, because maybe show Hey doesn't have that great a year, maybe he sits, maybe he is Overwhell, or maybe the Dodgers lineup is so good show Hey sis. Because remember, he's got to have a fifty to fifty kind of season to win the MVP again, right, he already set the bar really high. But since he's the overwhelming favorite, let's just say it's the non Otani pick for MVP. And I'm gonna go a little untraditional, but you want someone with a storyline coming in, Yes, clearly Wan Soto has that storyline coming in, But I'm not going with Wan Soto. I'm gonna give you Paul Skeins because the attention on him every fifth day is what it kind of is for show Hey Otani, but maybe even more so because Otani, you know you're getting him every day schemes, you know you're getting him once every fifth day, and the attention on him is through the roof. And you saw the season he had last year as a bleep and rookie. Okay, he could have one of those Jacob de Gram type years, whereas Era dances between one and one point two five for most of year. Maybe he starts the year and it's sub one for the first month or month and a half. If you're talking about a guy that can take the headlines and take the storylines, the one guy that can take those way, yes one Soto can, but you know, Otani will probably put up better numbers than Sodo because Otani is the best player in the game, as great as Sodo is. But the one guy that can take those headlines away and come and combat against Otani from a completely different perspective, Yes, Otani dominates as a batter here doing X, Y and Z. Well, look at what Schemes does as a pitcher. He's my non Otani pick for MVP.
I gotta dig it seventy five to one. If you want to get in on that action.
That's some sweet action.
Right.
Well, look, you know how you spend your money. I mean that's if it's a small, small interest, then maybe it costs you a burrito. Okay, go the burrito for potentially a stack of them.
Okay, all right, I seventy times big I could for. Don't make it any bigger than it needs to be, like twenty six. It's just just a small burrito.
That's all. It's a big burrito. That's a good.
Questions about pre Son.
Oh yeah, i'd have orange slices at halftimes.
Oh absolutely, there's no question about it. All Right, I'm gonna go a little deeper down. I'm gonna go to a man who's on the comeback trail, uh and who is on none that Atlanta squad.
Acuna Junior is currently at thirty to one.
Oh.
If he wins, I'll be so mad at you. I'll be so mad.
At ninth, the ninth favorite, behind your guy Lindor at twenty to one, Acuna Junior at thirty to one, by Freddie Freeman at thirty five, tied with Marte of Arizona and Chario and Tario at thirty five to one.
Yeah, no, no, I think he's interesting. Yeah. Yeah. The Brewers, I don't think they're gonna win enough games.
Noah.
That's the thing is they they need to they need to win the division. I don't know that they're quite there yet. It's I think it's going to be a step backwards before they take a big step forward. But uh no, he's terrific player.
Man.
Since Ron this vein, Let's have a little fought up top. Okay, so obviously Otani and Soto are your leaders in the clubhouse. Third on the you know in the bronze slot is Tatist Junior, followed by Mookie Betts, Bryce Harper, your guy Elie Dela Cruz. But sandwich between Harper and Dela Cruz. Kyle Tucker of the Chicago Cubs. Wow, Kyle sucks team to one.
Wow.
I don't win like forty games, I know, I know, Well, I think that's only done.
But they don't play the Dodgers forever.
Yeah, but I think they do get to play the rest of the teams of their division.
Well, I think maybe that was out there because they want to do something some kind of solid for Tucker because the guy they traded for him is making the Astros, right, the guy that you hayes jumping up and making the Astros good luck, exit up out a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Live the TIREC dot Com studios. Be sure to check out the Fox Sports Radio YouTube channel. Just search Fox Sports Radio on YouTube. You'll see a whole bunch of video highlights smart shows. Be sure to subscribe so you never miss our very best Fox Sports Radio videos on YouTube. Well, coming up next, does John Paul Morosi, MLB Network insider share our enthusiasm for our MLB MVP picks, Dodgers or the field. Your final MLB season preview from our most treasured MLB guest is next right here. Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio. All right, drum roll, Mike Harmon, give me a drum roll, drum roll, drum roll. Nearly thirty five is the answer. What's the question? How many pounds have you and Mike each lost on PhD weight loss. Both of us have been doing this now since the beginning of the year. We lose between two to four pounds a week. PhD weight loss has been a phenomenal thing for both of us. We feel better. We've been dropping big pounds. You'll drop big pounds. The first week I drop, I lost eight pounds the very first week. I couldn't believe when I looked at the scale. You'll feel bigger, You'll feel you'll get results that are bigger and healthier. Trust me, discipline, will power, accountability. PhD weight loss will do all of that for you. You'll learn how to eat, which is how you'll drop the fat weight and maintain weight loss. It's sustainable. You'll hit your goal and keep it off. It's better than ozepic. And here's a big offer for you thanks to PhD Weight Loss on us. Here on the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon. Mention Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio and get two free weeks added to your weight loss program. Right so, mention Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. Get two free weeks added to your weight loss program. And when you fully commit, you'll get fifteen percent off your weight loss program and fifteen percent off your energy supplement bundle. And your program will be getting backed by PhDs. Get results or get your money back guarantee. Here's the phone number special phone number for listeners to the show just for you. Eight six four five oh two one seven seven seven. That's eight six four five oh two one seven seven seven myphdweight looss dot Com. That's my phdweight loss dot Com. Go there, get the information the phone number eight six four five oh two one seven seven seven eight six four five oh two one seven seven seven eight six four five oh two one triple seven.
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We are a little less than thirty six hours away from the MLB season beginning, Part two, the Real One where everybody plays. Joining us now on the hotline for all the big storylines MLB Network Insider extraordinayor Fox Sports Radio Insider. He's on Twitter at John Morosi. It is the Pope, John Paul Morosi. What's happening, man?
How are you?
I am outstanding? And while I appreciate my traditional walk up music here on this opening week, I did smile that we had some Jimmy Hendrix coming back from break because my father, who saw a great many amazing rock and roll shows in Detroit back in the nineteen sixties. While I have covered the World Series many times, the one thing that I have not seen that he saw, and that I am very jealous of him, is that he saw Jimmy Hendrix play in person and light his guitar on fire at the Masonic Theater in Detroit. Kids do not try that at home, but that is something my father saw with his own two eyes, Jimmy Hendrix performing on a flaming guitar in Detroit.
That happened.
Well, you wait until one Soto does that. His first at bat for the Mets way. Do you see John.
Paul walks out to the plate with a flaming bat, then you call me immediately, Remember you call my dad. That is probably the one person that we could get on the air that could actually be able to accurately compare mister maroussy. What was more impressive? Was it Jimmy Hendrix with the flaming guitar or one so with the flaming bat? Again called GINO will give you a good recommendation on that one.
All right, well give us your recommendation on this. We talked about this top of the hour, and this is the first time I can remember ever thinking about taking the team. If you ever said to me, hey, who would you take to win the World Series? Team A or the field, I'll always take the field because so many things have to happen. But this is the first year because of the Dogs, this is the best lineup I've seen in baseball in over thirty years on paper, John Paul top to bottom, line up, starting pitching, relief pitching.
If I said to.
You the Dodgers to win the World Series or the field, and you had to bet on one of those, what do you think the field?
The field because the odds. I agree with everything you've said about the quality the Dodgers, but we have to remember they were one game away from being knocked out in four games in the Division Series last year, so we have to remember that winning the World Series is very difficult and can be undermined by any number of pitching situations. And yes, they appear to be the most prohibitive favorites that we have seen. But I look at a number of teams in the National League right now as being legitimate threats. I think there are a few of them in the National League. East matt Sphilly's Braves all I believe are legitimate World Series teams. I think the Braves in particular. I know, Jason, I'm sorry that I'm not saying your Mets right now, but the Braves are a team that they had so many injuries and adversity last year and they still made the playoffs. If they just have a normal amount of adversity, there's still a really good team with a Kunya with a healthy strider. So I've got the Braves being probably the biggest threat to the to the Dodgers, But I also look at teams in the Central I love the way that the Brewers are built. I think the Cubs have a legitimate chance. Again, the Dodgers still have the best individual chance of anybody in the National League. I will grant you that, But what I'm saying is that number is under fifty percent, and I will take the field.
Yeah, And look, you don't need to be beholden to me. It's when your former college roommate David Sterns called. You got to say, hey, just want to let you know why I didn't.
Pick the Mets. Dave, Hey, Da, let's just want to.
Let you know to understandings, there's a whole reason behind why.
Now you got to answer to him. That's okay, I do.
And that may be the end of the Sternsy and the Pope show if he gets hold of this audio of me saying that his team doesn't have the best chance of winning of even his own division. But they are. And in fairness, the Mets have had some pitching injury issues that they've had to deal with here this spring. So's that's all very real, and even McNeil too. So I think injuries in a lot of ways have been the story of spring. And look for the teams that are relatively healthy to be those that get off to the best start.
Well, as we look at that JP, you know, we talked about the Mets and injuries, and I'm trying to calm my friend down since they're on the cover of all sorts of magazines as the team to be the upstart upset squad here.
You know, it's all want so to all the time.
When we look at the Central it's rare that we see the Cardinals being predicted to be a back end, bottom feeding kind of squad when we're talking about Pittsburgh and Milwaukee rising past them.
Well, it is interesting, and the Cardinals are a team. Yes, I believe that Arnada will have a better season this year, but they are a team that I have not heard really anybody predicting to be a division winner, and I think that that's honestly appropriate based on where they're pitching. Is the continued search for what their everyday outfield ought to be. I am a big fan of Mason Wynn. I think that they have some younger bats like Alec Burlison, who I think have a chance to make an impact on the lineup with more consistent work. Nolan Gorman as well, but part of the reason that they were looking to trade Arnato this winter is they wanted to have greater clarity about who they were going to be as an everyday club, and I don't think they've gotten there yet. They may not be quite as bad as some of the dire projections have them being, but they're not, in my estimation, a playoff contender candidate in really any scope, and they've effectively acknowledged as much with some of the moves that they have made. Very much future focused. So I think this will be either the Cubs or the Brewers at the top of the division, and I like both teams. The Pirates, of course, they've got schemes, but some tough news there on Jones here where he's going to begin the year on the il. The Reds I like. I just don't quite think they have as much as the Brewers of the Cubs do. And the Cubs, you know, a tough start obviously facing the Dodgers back to back losses in Tokyo, but I think once they get settled in Tucker as a as a really unique free agent to be I look for the Cubs to have a very solid year, and from their perspective, I think they they're probably the greatest beneficiaries right now of of the Cardinals down cycle.
John Paul Morose the MLB Network Insider, where it's Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, lot from the tirerac dot Com studios. All right, so we go to the American League, John Paul, the team that you think will be facing the Dodgers Slash Brave slash Mats in the World Series will be who Boston.
I've got the Red Sox winning the league. That line have a really good line and a lot of youth. And for me, when I make my predictions, not that they tend to be right all the time, but I do my best this time here, I am most comfortable attaching my mind to those teams that have really deep farm systems and that I believe can add to their group as the season goes along. The Red Sox have that the Yankees don't, from what I can tell, at least not on the same level of the Red Sox. So the Yankees' depth has already been tested. Of course, Stanton is on the il Cole has gone for the year. Soto was a met I think that there's just not enough of a reliable group for me in terms of what could impact that club coming up from Triple A. To feel confident in the Yankees relative to what Boston has. I actually think Toronto's had a pretty solid spring and that they are close enough to being a a playoff team. I think Baltimore's had some injuries the Yankees, as we mentioned, I've had some injuries the Rays now with McClanahan being being out for a while, that's a big concern for them. So I think that Boston, with the minor asterisk of the issue about what exactly Devers's role is going to be, that has to be a little bit concerned. But in general, I do like the way the Red Sox are built, and with Meyer and with Anthony and some others there in the minor leagues that they have the ability to I think if they're in a tight race, that the deadline really puts some open water between themselves and everybody else.
Now, I'm not going to waste a lot of breath on the White Sox plus two fifty to win the AL Central, Well would.
Probably say they're underdogs, is what I would say.
Five hundred to one to win it all, Let's go to the AL West where are you for the ninth straight year looking at the boy favorite team, Oh Boys, to rise up and play some postseason baseball? Is it all predicated on Julio Rodriguez once again donning that trident at the end of every game we.
Have We have some some loyal listeners of the show who tonight have have tuned in strictly to hear this portion of our conversation, which is Will MOROSEI picked the Mariners again, and and much to the dismay of my brother in law and Seattle and all my friends out there, the answer is yes, I'm picking them. Let's go, especially especially my goodness, now that the the Astros have lost some of their veteran talent and the Rangers have had some injuries before their rotation. If you thought I was going to abandon the Mariners now now that that actually seems logical to predict.
The division, they could win the division.
Now this is a layoff right now in terms of how I'm viewing this division. So I think if Julio has a normal type year for him, which is which would be an improven over last year. Still love their pitching with Kirby on the IL and they just signed cal rally to that extension today or they're finalizing it. I think he's a really important player for them over the long term. So for a lot of reasons, I'm very confident in my pick, more than ever before, which again is right now sending the wire services completely just they're scrambling to put this news out on the wires there in Seattle. The Morosi has picked the Maritors again, which of course is bad news for the local nine.
All right, so last pick here, John Paul I said this earlier this hour, Agree or disagree if I have to give you a non O Tani pick for NL MVP. Someone who can combat the Hey who's better from a completely different aspect Paul Skeins can dominate the headlines, can dominate the storylines. We pay attention to him every fifth day, like we watch Otani. It can be doesn't need to well won so doos having a great year. But is he as great as Otani from a completely different perspective schemes versus Otani. He's the guy I can see winning MVP if he has one of those Degram like years, which clearly he can because.
He's just that good.
Interesting. I think that they would have the Pirates would have to be in the in the hunt for a playoff Berth for that to become a realistic possibility. I think the other, the other interesting one would be if if Tucker in his contract year, vaults the Cubs into a into a playoff Berth. I could see him being a legitimate threat. I could see also a Kunya. That's that's the one thing we have. You know, Akunya is is an all round talent in a different way than Otani is. Of course, he's he's a two way threat. He can steal bases. We have We have not yet seen Otani and a Kunya at full strength in the same league, competing for the same award, and that, to me is the one variable here. So there are players capable of taking Otani's thunder away, and I would actually put I would put Akunya and Soto and Tucker all ahead of schemes in terms of the likelihood of someone who's not Otani winning that award.
All right, now, I forgot one more prediction, because you've been red hot with this over the first weekend. Michigan wins both games. Michigan Auburn. John Paul in this Sweet sixteen your final score is.
So Donaldson finds the way to beat his former team, Michigan wins but then falls to the Spartans in the elite age and tom Izzo, who was on fire today at his media availability for everything I've seen, So tom Izzo, my fellow Italian uper from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I'm gonna say the nod goes to tom Izzo and he gets the Spartans back to the final four.
John palm Rosi must have a dinner in East Lansing.
He wants to attends on Twitter at John Morosi, that is, at John Morosi MLB Network. John Paul is always appreciated. Next time we talk to you, we'll have real live games to break down.
Have fun, real live games Thursday, Open to day and also the first day at the NCAA Hockey Tournament. I've got Michigan State beating Cornell three to one in the opener.
There ooh Andy Bernard not happy to see Cornell go down there.
All right, take it easy, buddy, We'll talk to some pot.
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Let's start with Baseball Show as we have the exhibition finale complete in Anaheim. The Dodgers, for what it's worth, beat the the Angels four to one and held them to one hit this evening. Notable news wise, the Dodger shortstop Mookie Bets finally returned after an illness, zero for three at the plate, but says he's fine for Thursday's opener. Monday, he was finally able to keep some solid food down. The Mariners did give catcher col Rawley a six year extension worth over one hundred million dollars. Last season, he battedges two twenty but had thirty four homers and one hundred RBIs.
And the news about the.
Pirates pitcher Jared Jones is no torn ligaments in the elbow, no surgery reportedly needed, but he will go six weeks without throwing. Alfielder Camsmith made the Houston roster less than a year after being drafted in the first round by the Cubs. He had about three forty in spring. Reliever Ryan Johnson makes the Angels roster. He was drafted in the second round just last summer. He's never pitched in the miners. Texas outfielder Evan Carter was sent to Triple A. He batted one fifty four in Spring one eighty eight last season. The Rangers are confident the shortstop Corey Seger will play in the Thursday opener after missing these final three exhibitions with a sore calf. Arizona pitcher Jordan Montgomery will have Tommy John surgery. Veteran lefty Eraalda Chapman will start the season as the Red Sox closer. The New York Giants are giving quarterback Russell Wilson a one year deal. The Patriots are signing wide receiver Stefan Diggs. Stanford fired football coach Troy Taylor. NHL overtime win for Winnipeg three two over Washington. The Winnipeg Jets have clinched a playoffs.
Jets, Yo, Jets have clinched the playoffs. The Jets are going to the playoffs.
I think he heard half of that. What a David Justin Fields. The Jets are going to the playoffs. There are two late games in.
The NBA, late third quarter Thunder leading seventy nine sixty seven at Sacramento. If the Thunder take this, their record will be sixty and twelve. Cavaliers holding on eighty four to seventy eight at Portland late in the third quarter, wins for Memphis and Houston. Wins for Detroit and Orlando. The Knicks beat Dallas one twenty eight, one thirteen, Ogan and Obi thirty five points. Two teammates had triple doubles, both Anthony Towns and Josh Hart, and Miami defeated Golden State, holding Jimmy Butler to eleven points one twelve eighty six the final. And we did, by the way, in the NIT tournament tonight, we did start the quarterfinals. Chattanooga wins sixty seven sixty five at Bradley North, Texas wins at Oklahoma State sixty one fifty nine.
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But speaking of the tournament, how about we.
Celebrate getting ready for the Sweet sixteen the best way we know how with another edition of True TV or Not TV.
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Sweet sixteen is here. Hey, we celebrate the Sweet sixteen.
The best way we can by playing the greatest radio game ever, True TV or Not TV.
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Yes, often imitated, never duplicated, Like a lot of our ideas, often imitated, never duplicated.
How do we play well?
True TV is a channel the first two weeks of the college basketball postseason that you watch because they have the games.
Got games on this week? Right? You got to see the spillover on True TV.
And it's a crazy ass channel that has all kinds of crazy ass programming on it. So to celebrate, we play True TV or Not TV. Now, I give you the name of a show and a show, and you tell me if that is an actual True TV show or completely made up by me playing right now myself, Mike Carmen, Steve de Sager, Sir Rokie Susaki Frostburg, Yes, Sir, Mary.
Mack, are you ready?
Let's get it on all right? Not your mom's Laverne and Shirley. Not your mom's Laverne and Shirley A DOCU reality series following actress Laverne Cox and Garbage lead singer Shirley Manson as they travel throughout Europe together. Not Your Mom's Laverne and Shirley docu reality series following actress Laverne Cox and Garbage lead singer Shirley Manson as they travel throughout Europe.
Well, I gotta say first off, the title can potentially take you down a deep dark hole.
Just go leave it there. I like this conceit.
Actually, I don't think it's a show, but I'd green light it.
Okay, all right, okay, all right, there we go. Okay, Steve, I think that's a great mismatched duo. Let's go. Yeah. I find it to be a good attempt.
No, really, okay, all right, all right, not not you, not your parents, Laverne and Shirley Frostburg.
What you got definitely not a show? Not a show? You sure that's it's a great show, all.
Right, all right, Mary Mack love my girl Laverne. But no, Laverne was so great and origin of the New Black Oh my god. Okay, both of you are saying, no, not your parents, Laverne and Shirley is.
Not a show on your TV.
But I would watch that, especially if Shirley Manson would sing like stupid girl or something, or do a song at the end of every years stupid Girl, darn Darner, Okay. Snake in the mass Snake in the Mass a reality show surrounding the day to day operations of Serpentine Springs, a snake breeder located in man Socket, Massachusetts. Snake in the Mass a reality show surrounding the day to day operations of Serpentine Springs, a snake breeder located in man Socket, Massachusetts. The scary part is that is a real town, isn't it?
Take my money? Man? It Israel.
Serpentine Springs come in all right, Harmon's in to Sagre.
It's a tough one, it is, I could see.
I'll say no, all right, Frostburg, Man Socket, Yo, a Mary Mack.
What do you got? I'm gonna go with you. Snake in the Mass I like it. I like it. That is not a show on true TV.
I thought it was also going to be Snake Handler, like in the Religious.
When I was when I was going up, when I was making this one up, I asked, AI, give me the name of what a great snake breeder farm would be and it came up with serpentine springs. So I'm like, yeah, somebody use serpentine springs. Who says AI is going to be the doubt fault of the United States of America in the world serpentine serpentine, Well, serpentine serpentine.
I like big huts and I cannot lie.
I like big huts, and I cannot lie a reality competition show where teams battle to build the best beach huts made only out of items that naturally exist on a beach, wood, grass, and sand. I like big huts, and I cannot lie.
To watch the music video.
Battle to build the best beach huts made on items that naturally exist on a beach, wood, grass, and sand.
I mean there are mountains in that video. There are mountains, no question in awe.
Well, now we start saying a little Joe Cocker, wh I'm gonna say no, But I do love the concept, all right, Steve.
Don't think it will work unless the professor from Gilligan's Island is involved.
Build the radio, take it off the dam island. We'll have the we'll have the uh the whatever, the stationary bicycle to power up the radio and we're gonna they wound up with the car by the end of that. Yeah they did, they did. Yeah, And I like that.
I think what goes over and not appreciate enough is that the Howls traveled with their money, like they had suitcases full of money.
For a three hour tour. Yes, all right, sir, Rokie Sasaki Frostburg.
Yeah, not a show. Not a show, Okay, we got to be a show. I like Big Huts and I cannot lie. Is not a true TV show, not a true It's a good show though, right you'd watch that people build.
You can do a lot of stuff with that.
Oh yeah, sure, I don't know actually, because you can add an old MTV spring break kind of elements.
Harry Mac telling me man, true TV sit there going. That's three good ideas for someone. Call Laverne Cox and Shirley Manson right now, get him on the phone, right now.
Let's get that show going.
But the Big Huts, it's really the best, not the biggest, would win.
It depends it's judged. You have people judging. I like Big Huts and I cannot lie. Maybe bigger is better, maybe not not always, not always. Coming up next we got a big story out of the NFL, actually two big stories, as two big stars have found homes in the last few hours.
