Local Hour: A Little Love For Rick Weaver

as people age, I think, very often they get much worse.

Sure, they do. Learning some of the technological things that are advancements.

“So I ask you very innocently and curiously, do you know what Waymo is?”

Have you heard the phrase, Waymo, do you have any idea what I'm talking about? It's when I like something very much and I say, "I won't waymo with that." Isn't that it? I saw that one coming. Did you?

Yes, I did. I know Roy's not coming. Oh, my little way. I don't know what Waymo is. What is it?

It sounds like a company, like a place where you would get insurance or something.

Well, it does sound like a company and I would say actually what it is makes me feel like if we've been in the 80s or 90s, it's what I give a company name that's going to in the future destroy us. Like I'd say, the evil company Waymo, even though I don't think necessarily that Waymo is evil, what it is is these driverless cars.

Have you pulled the up next to any of these cars that have all of these cameras but don't have a driver and a ride share thing? I got to think that whoever's driving taxis these days has to feel like they're in big trouble. Just in general, like they thought they were in big trouble with Uber, but now they're

just cars making their way through the streets that don't have any drivers. And yesterday they on 395, there was a two hour delay because one of them just stopped on an exit ramp and nobody could get it to move.

They're mostly, they're like 99% they are all automated but somewhere there's somebody

with a joystick that can get both these things and the little cars that are delivering food that you've seen over the city. And we're not ready for any of it, like it's not quite advanced enough that it doesn't come without great error and so every once in a while these things are being like hit by a bright line because they're getting stuck in places they shouldn't get stuck.

Yeah, I have seen them in downtown Miami leaving the studio. In fact, I was, you know, a couple of them I had no idea what they were called but I'm anti that. Well, they're, there are two different things way modes of driverless car. The other thing is just something that's, there's little cars that are delivering food.

I'm seeing those two, I'm anti those as well. I don't like it. I'm going with the little delivery car, you know, bringing my food but the waymo, I'm not it. I don't even like if I sit on the road, I'm, I'm changing lanes.

I get, I get a lane further away from those. I agreed. Asked you about how the little delivery car did for him yesterday. I saw him tracking it down on foot.

“Oh man, you should have been using one on the street.”

Why do you want to be doing out here? You were out here on the unbiscating Boulevard, chasing one down the street? Literally, yes. I was disheveled. I didn't have my bun up.

I was just searching the streets in the frantically, I ran in the frist on our way. So did you find it like where was it? It took an hour and a half, bro, for me to get a burger and fries from down the street. It's probably tough. You can't like, yo, hey, over here.

It's not gonna know. You're scared of these? The waymo? Oh, I don't like it. I'm, I'm gonna get in a car, there's no driver.

I'm just here I am, take me to where I'm supposed to go. Car without a driver. I don't like that. All right, we're gonna get you to do this tomorrow. We're gonna put you in one of them.

We're gonna put you in one of them and see where it takes you. I want more details on what Judeo was doing, physically chasing it down the street. Where were you at? That's because I, I, as he's terrified of something, put a camera in his face, do it tomorrow. This is the down-lebra partial with his two-gots-bott-cast.

There are a few things here locally that I want to get to that include inner Miami going to the White House, but not a parade. The Panthers at the Trade Deadline. I'm assuming they're going to be sellers and they're going to be some popular players who leave a controversy that surprised me yesterday.

People really mad on behalf of Tua and his feelings that the organization did not wish him a happy birthday yesterday, and the University of Miami Basketball Team being legitimately good. I'm still not used to the University of Miami Basketball Team being legitimately good.

“But a local icon, I think I didn't ask you this.”

I don't think when we were going through Zazlo, the South Florida Sports Broadcasting Legends. But Tommy Hutton classifies, correct as a broadcasting legend locally, and he announced yesterday that this is going to be his last season with the Marlins, and also the scene of this to me was symbolic, just cold-sender blockroom with like a few, a few straggling

baseball doesn't produce a lot of legendary things. So here's Tommy Hutton saying this is going to be his final season as a Marlins broadcaster. So I guess I'm supposed to start before I'm asked questions. This has been in the planning for a while, and I just decided, and people have asked me why I've decided to make this my last year.

And the best answer I can give is that it's just time, I'm healthy, I feel good, I have

“an opportunity to, to make the decision myself, I think, is part of it.”

So look forward to this year, I've had great years here, and again, just because everybody

always asks, "Well, how come you decided to retire at this time?"

The answer is, in my mind, it's time, and so that's the answer, go ahead, ask some questions. I'll be easier. So I've got a number of things to say here. I do believe that he gets the rare qualification of being a legend even though he might

be the most critical broadcaster that there's been in a home market that I can think of. My English would get really mad during the radio broadcast. But I think that, well, Tommy Hutton is the only one locally who went away for a while because he was so critical that ownership didn't want it, and then they brought him back because he's beloved because he's honest.

Mike was the best, I remember on those broadcasts, I'll be sitting right next to Mike, they're going to a time out, like, clippers on a big run here, he's in big trouble, he'd buy 11, minute half to go. It's like, what's up, 11, 11 minutes left? Great American.

Oh man, he is the best.

Who is the most critical sports broadcaster we have ever had down here?

Is it English? Is it Hutton? What else would you go with? Yeah, yeah, English is very critical of the team when, you know, they needed the criticism and certainly very critical of the referees, you know, I don't know, Tommy, I don't think

Tommy was ever overly critical, like, I would say Mike was overly critical sometimes. Yeah, I don't think Tommy was really critical. Tommy is the only one I ended up losing his job over the criticism, and that may have more to do with the sensitivities of Jeffrey Loria, but those two stick out, they're to adhere of themselves, and then there's everybody else.

So what, who do you put in the everyone else, Greg? If I tell you, you got to choose five all-time, your history and the market, your somebody

“who has covered the market since the 70s, so you have to, you have sports broadcasters”

for how old is he? How old is Tommy? He's turning 80 in April. Is he that old? Yeah.

Wow, I thought he was younger than me. He looks younger than me. Okay. He doesn't everyone. Well, no, he does, we should put on the screen, then next to each other and just ask the

question, who looks older, Tommy, I think that's surprising to learn that he is 80 years old, is a bit surprising there. I've said this before, the baseball schedule, the travel schedule, is an insanity. I would not want to be doing it if I was 80 years old, a fellow Ramirez would be in this category of local legend, and he was doing it into his 90s, and it seemed like an insanity

to be traveling that way. Tommy Hutton did stop traveling, I believe, a couple seasons ago. He's been doing mainly home games for a couple seasons, but we're definitely going to miss him. And I know he's had a huge drive to the games too.

“I think he lives in West Palm, and he drives down now it's a little event.”

Yeah. I knew he lived in Palm Beach County, I wasn't sure where. I would put T-Hot at the top of the list only because it cost him his job. Oh, we're doing goat of South Florida broadcasters, I'm in on this.

No, no, I think he's doing it most critical, most critical.

I think anybody who says something that gets him fired from his job, I'm also into that way on the top. And you should be into that one, too. No, I'm not going to do the sponsored read for most critical broadcasters. Right.

Let's do the sponsored read for best sports broadcaster in the history of South Florida. Okay. So you're including play by play guys. I'm just saying broadcasters, any broadcasters, so yes you are. Well, I'll say Hank Goldberg.

He's not on that list? He's no. Oh, wow. I'm going to do a game broadcast, but we are broadcasting us. Joe Rose has been pretty critical of the team the last few years.

He's been, he's been, he's been picked off for a, for a, he has created someone on the broadcast. Now that you mentioned that. Eric reads my goat. If we're doing local broadcasters, give me Eric read my me.

Eric read of the my me, he'd kill out where with the rebound, he's now 17th on the all-time list of heat rebounders per minute. He's averaging almost 0.68 rebounds per minute. Galloway. I like to nominate the round.

Roundburn. That is that. That's a nominee. That's a nominee. I know that.

I don't believe that is a nominee. I just said greatest in South Florida history, I like Brett Rombers my God, you know what you

I'm sorry to do this to you, but I don't know.

I'm, I'm, my rappel A, two minutes, sport came out of your mouth. Just like to tell everyone, it's an honor to be nominated. That's a good one. That is a good one. Is it good one?

Is it good one? Is it good one? Yes. Three in the list before I knew that we were explaining it to wall types of broadcasters. I put together my top five personal favorite color commentators, color comment in the history

of the South Florida market, number five. Wasn't that long that he was doing in Miami games, but he's a goat, and when it comes to soccer, color commentary Ray Hudson, rocky Ray, number four, I put Tommy Hutton, number three, I put Randy Mowler, number two, I put the mad dog, Jim Mandich. And number one, my all-time favorite, local color commentator, and quite possibly my favorite

hoops color. Get it right. It's all-time. Yes, Ramsey. He got it right.

Thunder. That's right.

On the undisputed number one color analyst in the history of our market as doctor.

This goat conversation is presented by Franks Red Hot, make every dish the greatest. Eat the goat. I am stunned that Tommy Hutton is 80 years old. He does not look 80 years old. I'm thinking that a lot of people looking at this are saying there's no way that that

human being is 80 years old.

“But as we were celebrating him, Chris Cody did something that I believe was both cruel.”

And also something Chris Cody notices because these sensitivities are something that he has, Chris Cody, in my ear, took out one of the reporters who could not have liked the angle that he was featured in while sitting next to or standing next to Tommy Hutton. Chris Cody was making fun of, uh, it's just, I'm not making fun of any person more just the shirt and the angle of the stomach.

I can relate to this. I feel bad already. We've gone too far. It was supposed to be a private show just for you, um, but yes, that's not a great angle there.

That's my colleague there, Jordan McPherson does a great job. Thank you for naming me. You're the one who named him. Yeah, you're the one who named him. Yeah, you're the one who named him.

Yeah, you're the one who named him. Yeah, you're the one who named him. Yeah, you're the one who named him. Yeah. Not that we're on that topic.

Jordan knows exactly what he did. Yeah, it's the shirt.

“Oh, if you remember the top 25, you remember the top 25 disaster AP vote?”

That's not a great shirt. He's trying to highlight the biceps there and sometimes we lose sight of the belly. Well, I'm highlighting that he ranked Notre Dame ahead of Miami that one time. The salmon color with the weight is really just a combo that makes me a little queasy. Tommy was great with two things.

He was great at chastising the metz fans whenever the metz were here, especially if the marlins were winning and the metz fan would leave the game early. He was great at speaking for the fan when it came to chastising the metz fan and he was also great whenever whenever there was a situation where like a marlin player gets hit by a pitch and you got, you got to stand up enough enough enough all right.

Like he was he liked when when there would be a fight in a situation like that. You can't just allow them to throw it our guys eventually enough enough and you got to do something about it. Let's put back up here to our Jordan McPherson. Let's put this back up here and notice that the veteran next to him, the veteran next

to him is preventing anyone from seeing whether he's got anything going on over the belt that he does not want seen. He is hiding behind his hands there to make sure that a bad angle doesn't catch him. You're awful man. This is a cruel.

You're the one who mentioned him though. You can't say it's cruel. I'm giving him a prayer for being a great reporter. This is all my fault. That would have been a waste line looks like anything in Dan's ear.

So this is all Chris's fault. Dr. Jack Ramsey when you mention him, the goat locally is Eric Reed. Correct. Eric Reed. Correct.

Yeah. Eric's the goat. He's been around how long. Eric Reed's the last time. Tell us Eric, very first year.

88. I remember Grant long when he was with a heat. That was an all round player right there in and out of the starting lineup.

But you could always count on Grant long.

You know, Eric Reed's first year. He was the color analyst for the heat. Not play by really. I can't picture him as a color analyst. I'm so Eric Reed is a color analyst just doesn't make any sense at all.

That's not what I wanted. That's all right, Chris.

“I think we've expired what your dad has in this particular bucket.”

His Eric Reed has also gotten worse with age. It's less nasally. It's not quite as good as it used to be. We should highlight that Goldie had been a long time South Florida broadcasts around the airways.

TMN did it the hard way and when it came to his climb over at the Florida Panthers and since then has been the voice of this golden era panther hockey and has an incredible signature call. Also, can you give a maybe an oil eye, Danny Potvin? Yeah, no doubt.

Jeff Rimmer. Well, all of these though, I think have to take a back seat to molar. Do they not?

Each franchise isn't going to have one of these long time legends.

“So you get Eric Reed and Jack Ramsey, and that's the list, right?”

I don't think that Mike English would crack the list of best South Florida sports broadcasters ever. Yeah, baby. Tony Fiorentino does not belong on this list. You cannot have him on this list.

Don't live a TARD. You don't remember the idea. I was probably like that kind of thing. Something okay. No, the home run call was that kind of swing, that kind of thing.

Two gods. Oh. It's a good call. Thank you.

“And plus, it doesn't matter who's hitting it, like you're not tailoring it to a particular”

team. You know, all that jazz, you know, you don't kind of do that. You just don't know. Very cool. That kind of thing.

That kind of thing. This is the Don't live a TARD show with his two gods. I like to nominate a two time champion, do two time champions belong on this list or not. Because I know one in my own personal record book, Jonathan Zaslow, thank you to you, Jim.

Thank you for recognizing. Were you waiting? He was raising his fist before he even said his name, this guy, because I knew unbelievable. How about a little love for Rick Weaver, the original goal. The play by play man of the Miami Dolphins, when they were winning Super Bowl back in

the 19th century. Rick Weaver, who had such an ego, he had a vanity plate on his car that said the voice. I mean, you know, the 19th century is the 1800s, all right. Yeah, but when you put that detail in, when you put the detail, he just gave us somebody in the 1970s was driving around with a license plate that said he was the voice and you

could pull up and cars had drivers back then. Yes, they did. You could pull up next to Rick Weaver and the voice would be right there. You are the only one around here old enough to remember none of you, none of you remember

he never heard that name, right?

Roy, do you even remember Rick Weaver? No sir. What? Really? I mean, the voice.

Roy doesn't remember. He would have been done.

“He would have been finished in about the 80s, right?”

He would have been out of a job in the 80s. What do we do with PA's? Because Mike B. Amante gives a heat of third. There's only one known PA. - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

I do remember, I don't remember the detail, so he brought a glove, and the entire game he was furiously for playing catch with himself, this guy was in his fifties at the time, looking ridiculous, and he was sitting next to a woman, and I was right behind them for this game, and he threw the ball with such force into his own mid, that it hit the lady next to him, and legitimately hurt her, he had to buy her a bunch of soda pop and get up and

leave. That tracks, like if you had asked me what to do in sports is now in the most ridiculous circumstance, what is Jim Harble doing at a baseball game, it's bringing his own glove and playing catch with himself so ferociously that he injures the woman next to him, I can't in fiction, make up something better than what it actually was. Speaking of Tommy Hutton, the marlins of our teams down here have had the best resume of broadcasters,

like by far, right, we're talking show angel, table, Brian, book, Shambi, Len Casper, Rich, Waltz, this is by far, you're saying by far, but it's because the heat had had only the one, like he won't give up the job. They're probably, yeah, because it's such a trance and job, either the administration doesn't like them or they get better opportunities because they're so good, but you're right, pound for pound, they keep putting out winners.

The dolphins have had a ton as well. I mean, the dolphins have had a ton of, I mean, Hank Goldberg was doing broad, Larry King. That's right, not Larry King, not a lot of people lying. Yeah,

Larry, catch one of them. I never lie. No, he's right, Larry King. Put it on the pole at

laboratory show. Did you know that Larry King was a dolphins broadcaster. Larry King also was famous for owing people money throughout South Florida when he was a broadcaster back then. He was notorious for Hank Goldberg used to make fun of him mercilessly as far as that, the dark side of Larry King. That was funny. By the way, people, grown men, grown adults who

what are you going to show up in a full uniform next? Come on, it's a kids game. Let the kids bring a glove. Quister on foul balls from the kids with your big giant mitt. I'm with you on taking the balls from the kids, but you got to, you got to bring a glove for

“safety. Why? What if I'm with my kid and a screamer comes at me? You should sit in”

behind a net and I'm not saying he, I'm just saying he's saying anyone in the stadium should not be allowed to bring gloves and not be allowed. No, shouldn't be allowed. If you don't like the glove, how do you feel about Harba coming to a recruiting visit and being in full football cleats on mahogany floor? Again, that's against it. He could have said just against it, but he decided to do it with an apostrophe in just an

end for some reason. I'm like, it's quicker. You get through my age. You try to save your breath. Yeah, way more with that. Mike mentioned earlier, top 25, and something I have not celebrated yet is that the University of Miami basketball team is now ranked. Duke seems a lot better than everybody. I mean, they beat up Michigan and home. They just dragged Virginia. They gave Notre Dame their worst home loss since 1898. And now Duke

has been ranked number one, a record 149 times. I don't think Miami's never been ranked

number one. Correct. That's nice. We've ever been as number two. When was that? Shane Larkin? Okay. Impressive ranked victory is, and I do think like the Tim James

“team. I don't know where they peaked. I think they were top 10. Oh, they may have gotten”

his eyes like three of them. Yeah, because yeah, because they were trading wins with dice of like a really good Saint John's and you can. Did you mean that Larkin team was number two overall or a two seed? They were both. They were not two in the nation and ended up being a number two seed that lost in the second round. I believe to Wisconsin. How high did the final 14 get from a few years ago? We actually did that from like an eight

nine spot really. Yeah. Yeah. We weren't really respected in that, but I'm starting to get used to Miami being good at basketball. It's crazy that the amount of momentum they just immediately nuked the team after they went to the final four had an NBA player and Keith Sean George. Yeah. They lost the ACC player the year and they won, but they they reloaded it. They re-tooled and a lot of those guys came back and they just threw

up a fort over there, but they they burned it up in two years and here they are J. Lucas totally reshaping the team, not a single player or coach was on this team last year and here they are ranked number 22 in the nation playing for seeding. Do you have sour feelings toward Larenega because of all that? Um, no Larenega is a legend. He just had his name hung up on the rafters. I can't believe he caught lightning in the bottle the way that he did

with us at that time because by then NIL had started taking hold over the sport and there was already a change in the sport. It was just crazy how how intune he was with that team and it was a very same guys and he just lost it. It's crazy. The most impressive game that I've seen Miami play over the last seven, they've won six of the last seven is the loss. They went to Virginia and had a game they could have won at Virginia, a very difficult

place to play Virginia. Are they a top 10 team right now or are there still a close to a Virginia team? I got to admit like this is a really difficult sport to follow. It really is. It happens when there's a whole bunch of other big sports going on like you've got to either be all about college basketball or a serious D-gen if you know the entire landscape.

“You have to do a lot of reading. Most of the college basketball that I follow is on a second”

or third screen. So while I'm watching Michigan, Lucid Duke in Washington, D-C, I'm not really

getting much of the player's names or much from it. So I kind of need somebody to help me bone up on this because this is March. You're not alone though because I just had this conversation last week with Barkley where he's like I didn't study like this at Auburn. I didn't go to he's like I've got every year I've got to get ready and I'm like but all you've got to do is be Barkley. What do you have to do but he feels the need to know what it is that he's talking

about when it's impossible to know it's impossible to be doing what he's doing and then also be following college basketball the way you need to this time of year. But what you have happening so you've got the two Miami's Iraq now. Miami of Ohio's undefeated and Bruce Pearl is fighting with Miami of Ohio's athletic director because Bruce Pearl says they'd be the bottom of the SEC because they've got I think their schedule is close to 300 in terms of how easy their schedule is

but they are undefeated okay so if they if you're winning all of your games people should notice that and the athletic director for Miami of Ohio like dragged Bruce Pearl because he was so insulted by that but when you mentioned the University of Miami locally they so rarely have pros.

You mentioned Tim James. Tim James was drafted by the heat and the first round that team was one of

but the University of Miami does not produce many pros in basketball. No I mean that final four team Jordan Miller and Norchettlemeer they had to go through the Glee. It's James Jones the best of this like not Rick Barry not counting with Barry but James Jones the best. Yeah you would rate him higher than Bruce Brown. I mean Bruce Brown in terms of like actual impact within the series. I mean Bruce Brown was pretty important to that Denver run but I mean that's open for debate

but now within I L look I mentioned a really disappointing team after the final four Kishan George turned himself into a decent NBA player that has a lot of value in this year you look at players like

Sheldon Henderson first up I just learned he was Eric Dickerson's nephew had no idea he was a

five star that we took from Duke and he's going to be in the league he's got an NBA body the shot needs to be a little bit more consistent but you day renew like these guys are going to make

“the league I think Uday is going to be a curious example but defensively he can keep up with”

perimeter guys away that traditional bigs can. It might be got some pros on this team right now. I don't think Uday is a pro but that's because of his limits offensively this team though would be considered championship worthy if they get gotten boozer like they were close they finished second they finished we were close they finished very close and and Duke is pounding people because

cam boozer it's not just what he does in the post scoring is he's just a great passer out of

the post as a freshman he's been better than Cooper Flag was for them he's awesome and they came so close to getting him I really did think uh when you're named after Cameron in there the close did they get that they got they got they got close if the move to J Lucas happened a year earlier like a probably should have the boozer twins would be in Miami I think I mean it's just like Jeremiah Smith like you had guys believing but they wanted to see it in action they wanted proof

of concept they didn't want to just jump in and and trust that the process was going to work the way that they did I get it one goes so Ohio State that I mean you want a national championship it worked out but Miami's already better than them now you saw and boozer the same way Roy how are you feeling about the Panthers are you of the belief that Bob Rosski I know it's been a disappointing season okay but uh this is not a bad hockey team and all the other times that I

feel like we've talked about the Panthers being uh six or five points out of the final playoffs spot it's not because they're an above 500 team it's not because they're winning more than they're losing the the strength of the playoff teams in hockey make it so that a two-time defending champion can't you know like I know you guys are frustrated with what this season has been but under the circumstances this has been a really good season for this team and if you told

me with those injuries this is where they'd keep things I would have had some optimism the problem is that there're just too many good teams above them well they wouldn't know where some conference there would be a playoff team yeah that's not good the east is just to give you that

“night's division the only thing I disagree with you on Dan is that Bob has just been so bad”

yeah I don't think I think even with the injuries I thought this season was going to go better and and by a pretty decent margin I'm I'm really disappointed how how far Bob is swollen off well a lot of injuries man I get it but Bob has nothing to do with that this is just a guy that might be losing it. Dan Lebatard he has been great he's made great hires I said all we've said it on every one of you this great everything you're saying it's all been said okay you

gotta understand one thing two gods me maximum that's right I say it has been said okay understand that I say it this is done Lebatard show with his two gods I felt the day that Bob went down I know everybody talked about that this team has had has and granted like lost that all throughout the season because everyone continues to get hurt but I thought the moment that bar called went down it was going to be difficult to make the playoffs and yeah like Friday is going to be super

interesting now because this is a really well-run team and a well-run team is going to understand they're going to be some difficult but necessary decisions to make before Friday which means that you probably have some guys maybe our fourth line guys who could be super useful for a team

“that wants to make a push and get some depth and I think there's going to be some names that we”

like that are going to wind up being traded on Friday I know Bob Barovski is like the juicy

name that's being thrown around but here's the thing all right there's no real reason for the

when he get up the money and I don't know why a Stanley Cup contender would trade for Bob Barovski

you know when he's having literally the worst year of his career really well I don't know that Bob Barovski's going to be moved and I hope for sentimental purposes that he's not moved because I'd like the panther's be the last team he ever plays I actually think the panthers have had a better than expected season given and Barov his stature in this market has grown in his absence you know Barov was so valuable to that team and then they missed a chuck for two thirds of the season and

then he he takes a while to get back and form those are arguably there are two best players

“and and you just can't abide those losses I think that to be above 500 in that conference”

I think it's been a good job by Maurice and not only the depth I'm not an expert on on fourth lines but I can tell you last year they had a fourth line that was better than this year Barovski Roy what do you think is going to happen here you think a good organization gets rid of popular players yeah the entire season just based off of long-term injury reserve and having to get that money back on the cap I thought they were they were going to make a move way before the

deadline uh play like uh make you sound a scavenger or even an even right regas were probably been traded just to make the cap uh more feasible for them you know so once they get a chuck and possibly bark off back in the lineup but that doesn't seem like that's going to be the case anyone I think they should probably just rest bark off oh baby are you guys going to be hurt by any of the trades that they made are you going to be emotionally wounded by anything that happens

“this year you win a championship in the market and guys like AJ career all of a sudden become”

beloved we saw this with Ryan Lombard where you know you would look in the stands and it was disproportionate like how many long bird ninety four jerseys would you still see them I was here they're not when you consider his actual impact there but a guy like Evan Rodgerig ever be sad when they move Rodgerig is yeah they will move Rodgerig is there two time changing help someone winning players yeah and that's exactly like the prototypical deadline deal that that a team is looking

to get over the hump let's bring in a veteran that we can plug and play in any line like he make a lot of sense and he was one of the names identified before they came up with this solution to put Chucky on the long-term injury list that I don't really have to get away from him is there anyone else let's say Bob Ross he doesn't get moved I don't think he's going to I don't think there's anyone else they're Mackie Mackie would disappoint me like that doesn't help money wise he's a

“young player I'm getting that's I mean just they they don't want to pay him and like let's”

get a little something fun like I'm not going to be upset if they move Mackie but yeah I don't think Mackie comes back because of the cap situation he Rodgerig will be tough he Rodgerig will be tough uh get me the sound of Charles Barkley trying to say Bob Rossky as Charles Barkley has gone into hibernation to try and learn a little more about college basketball quickly we do have a college basketball expert with us here in Trista perhaps she could get us up to speed because we are going

to do that live stream where we combine both selection uh Sunday and also the Oscars correct we're going to do both of those things are at an end-work and Samsung coming down here in Tuxedo's to help us do both the Oscars and selection Sunday because I need some help here in terms of getting caught up to uh what it is that's been happening in college basketball this season efforting and hopeful efforting I like that word efforting it's what I say when Dan says something on the air that he

probably shouldn't have got it got it five storylines Dan's already taken a couple of them but we'll just do them again um yep just pre-show making it to po-show or in the show I didn't hear any of that you didn't hear my very obvious and honest at all man I wish I could have a refresher no it was tough it was a tough one but then we started talking to you Rod yeah I know it was a hard pivot in hockey I was like I guess it's just dead all this work man can anybody help me with

some headlines I know you never do that either you're an expert on all things number one um Duke

number one overall seed for the second year in a row blue devils have the naysmith player of the year runaway favorite for the second year in a row freshman for a second year in a row um we can go on that headline Miami Ohio is the one that you stole they are undefeated former Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl doesn't think that they should make a turn make the turn of it at all uh but his son coaches his former team um and they are on the bubble so I don't know what we should make of that

um Mike said he's all in on the top four teams everyone is talking about Duke Michigan Arizona and Florida who obviously won the tournament last year but I actually think that there's a team that's better than they were when they won the tournament a few years ago in yukon I can give you the

reasons why the player who may go number one in the draft may not actually get out of the first round

at least 15 points which is on pace to be the most in division one history why do you like yukon more than Florida I love the way Florida plays I love their speed uh the speed the pace that

they play at is something that I enjoy watching why do you like yukon more than Florida well first

involved do we see the way that yukon got screwed against Florida last year when they were not as talented

“as they are even this year like they probably should have beat Florida remember I could say the”

effort on the show yes or no remember Dan Riddly's like we got right like we got abs and he lost his goddamn mind we got Chris Chris that is terrible executive producer sometimes judgeman need a bunch is say it again is what you decided to do that was your contribution to judgment and leadership on the show is to say say it again I agree it was bad judgment because I kind of stepped over it and we need a clean for the club go ahead the third time we got

yeah that's better oh whoa whoa Mike you got to go my or penalty to me but now you can use it in the club personal and foul i thought it was great anyway yukon uh is better offensively than they were in 22 23 slightly below structurally than the team that was just an absolute monster better pick and roll offense better decision making the guards are able to deal with centers that end up dropping

“and coverage this team is just an absolute monster I think in a bunch of different ways and I think”

that they will surprise people so in terms of a team that is not lumped in with that traditional four you're going yukon what do you do with Houston I think the problem with Houston is that they

continuously have the same formula year after year which is defense first and I love Calvin

Samson but I just think they get so stuck in the mud offensively and we saw that in the tournament last year we've seen it in multiple other years they keep trying to get more potent offensively but I just don't think Calvin wants to play that way so I think there are a sneaky team I do want to ask you guys though about this Arizona they are considered soft and Tommy Lloyd went on yesterday and say hey just because we're on the west coast doesn't mean we're soft do you think that

“the west coast is fairly considered soft as someone who's from work they drag Houston Arizona”

drag Houston that was like the talent disparity in that game everybody keeps talking to be about Houston and Arizona seemed to me to be good good deal better than Arizona but when you talk about the softness of the west coast and you talk about angry coaches like Hurley it makes

me think of McCronon we've got some new McCronon sound McCronon is always agitated he's always

filled with people at UCLA are pretty done with him representing the school this way you got a win more than this if you're going to behave this way always with reporters listen to what McCronon had to do what he did do a reporter who asked him about teams traveling out west as opposed to UCLA traveling somewhere else so much has been made about you guys going east you just came back from prolonged east coast trip I'm wondering have you seen anything from the teams that

have to come out here and stay out here is there any kind of balance with that in terms of the wear and tear and just what you've seen on there is that joke please tell me that isn't even comparable as I said have you ever looked at the NBA stats of the gamblers and all those people do on west versus east talk to Eric Musselman asking that question who coached in the NBA good luck west going east we have to go back four times oh oh the big 10 teams get to come to Los Angeles

where it's 70 degrees one time a year they don't even have to switch hotels we're in the same we're 12 miles apart are you kidding me please tell me you're kidding me I did know you I mean is this a plan is this a plan a question I mean you cannot be serious with that and me well we've we've seen the iPhone tower or we've seen the natural liberty twice in the last three weeks by we were landing you can't possibly just stop I'm going to you can I mean he's asked me if you'll sorry because I went to come down late for a few days you can't be serious

you're on which people vacation here just I get a lot of friends I have to tell them no I'm focused everybody from back at the Cincinnati wants to come out here all the time I have to ration them out okay nobody wants to be back there I will house the weather in Iowa City yeah yeah yeah comedians