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the U.S. Venezuela is the 2026 WBC champions. Yeah, it was great atmosphere there. That's what

you want. And you're watching Team USA and I know it's probably a big blanket to throw over this. I don't know how much it meant to Team USA. Like this wasn't, you know, the United States against Canada and hockey. In that moment, it just felt like Venezuela it meant everything to them. And I don't know if you can make somebody care more. I mean, Aaron Judge, Bryce Arperm, sure they wanted to win. By the way, Aaron Judge getting roughed up on social media. I can't play

big in the big games there. But, you know, it was just, it was a good jump start to the season. That's the way I viewed this. A good jump start. And, you know, you could take inventory and know who some of these players are or maybe attach to their countries as we move on. So I thought it was a really good couple of weeks for baseball. Now we go into a little more spring training and then opening day is around the corner. There's going to be talk, John Smoltz yesterday

was saying, Hey, why don't we do this and have a final four at the All-Star game and then have a championship. You have the All-Star game. And then you'll have Cooper's town with the Hall of Fame induction ceremony. I get it. But I would rather let my players play in spring training than in the middle of the season. They want to play in the All-Star game. Okay. Normally, you'll get guys who play maybe just a couple innings. But we're trying to, we're trying to make it bigger

“than I think what it can be. And keep this in mind, the next WBC is in 2030. So there's no real”

All-next year or the year after that. You got the Olympics coming up as well. So this momentum that we have to now let's do something different. Look, 2030. That's a long way away. Yeah. So it doesn't happen next year. And then you're going to have the Olympics coming up. And then I think it's 2030, the next time we have the WBC. Yes, Marvin. Are we going to do the show from the next WBC? I don't know. I'm going to be retired. What a reunion. No, no, not for that. No, not for that.

We only got back together for that. For the WBC. Yeah. You know, what's the event that could bring you back? Just for a one-off. The WBC. It would kind of be awesome. Really. No, it wouldn't. No. But congratulations to Venezuela. Yeah. But they did care. I mean, you had those guys sobbing. They're singing their country's anthem. They're getting their medals. Although you could tell

“where Kyle Schwarber, Mason Miller, I think they got their silver medal. And they're like, no,”

we're not. It's like, you know, when they gave out teddy bears at the Olympics to Canada, I mean, you got these tough guys there. And they give you a teddy bear. Like, oh, man, don't think we need to do teddy bears. Yes, Todd. At least in Wimbledon, you know, there's a trophy and there's a play to both of them or decent looking trophies. You want the, you know, you don't want the play. You want the trophy. But, you know, either don't give anything

after a second play, so I make it something a little more substantial. And you have these moments,

Bryce Harber had one of those moments last night where it's a two run home or to tie the game. But how many times have we seen these big moments get forgotten? Harpers moment will be forgotten. How about German curse in the Super Bowl against the Patriots Super Bowl 49 that unbelievable catch? Julio Jones is catching against the Patriots Super Bowl 51. Raj Davis, the Indians, came seven home run against the Cubs in the world series. Kind of forgot about that as well.

And then I mentioned Aaron judge. So his struggles continue in big moments over for four with three strikeouts last night. You go back to the 2024 World Series where he batted 22, four for 18, seven strikeouts and five games against the Dodgers. I'll take him, you know, if you don't want him, I'll take him. I'm pretty good. Certainly in the regular season, but stepping up in the moment, Bryce Harper had his moment last night with a two run homeer.

“But sure if he didn't do anything. I think he had four strikeouts or if it's they like to”

say punch out and then Aaron judge as well. All right, pull question for the first hour of the

program seat and it's going to be one. We got a couple of options for you here. The World Baseball Classic should be, it should stay in the preseason or it should be part of the All Star Break.

And the season is long and this is July and I'm fine with spring training.

But once again, we're not going to be playing for four more years with this format.

“And I think that's why in everything that we have with this, it's going to dissipate.”

And we're going to forget like, man, who won the last time? Oh, you know, Venice, Venice away. All that's right. But it's four more years. Like Japan vows out. Now we start the regular season. Yeah, see. But they sometimes it's harder when you have something great on your hands. It's more difficult or the bigger problem is knowing what to do with it. You know, I mean, it's clearly causes, gets generates some excitement, gets some momentum for the game,

which is, which is great. Now it's like, Dan, what the hell do we do with this?

No, you can't do anything. You could problem. You can talk about it. You know, Buster Olnie, the great writer with the mothership. He talked about he echoed what John Smoltz pointed out. But once again, this is four years down the road. I think people think this is an every year occurrence. And it's not going to be. And then you have this situation with Mason Miller. Okay, you're not coming in unless it's a saved situation. You got to negotiate, you know, the

Venezuela had to negotiate with the Cubs. You know, when their closer came in, Mason Miller with the Padres and then you're negotiating. Hey, he can only come in in a saved situation.

How long are you going to be able to pitch? You know, and that changes the game.

So we got to kind of be all in on this. Like, I love the four nations. But I love that because the United States and Canada, you know, that rivalry and you're dropping the gloves and you're fighting and it really meant something there. You can't tell hockey guys to go, it's a good easy, you know, hey, he's only going to play four shifts tonight. That ain't happening. It's going to be, hey, we're playing, we're winning. Yeah, Paulie. It was interesting last night. Night

thinning, they need their best clothes or Mason Miller. And Mark DeRosa goes with a Whitlock,

“the reliever out of Boston, I think. And clearly, that's a second tier guy in compared to Mason”

Miller. You know, could you have gone the other way and said, I'm not coaching this team in four hours. I can't be fired for this. No, you can't do that. Yeah, you can't. What if you asked Mason Miller? No, you can't. Because you have an agreement with the Padres and you can't, now I think players in other countries, if they had the opportunity, like the closer for a Venezuela, who's the Cubs closer, uh, when does it plancy? Yeah, Daniel Polenzi. Okay, he's, he's fun.

I get the feeling if it wasn't a safe situation. If it was reversed and it was the Mason Miller situation, he probably would have said, I'm coming in. Because if you look at his teammates, look at how emotional they were. Like, this wasn't just a, hey, this will be fun. This was, oh my god, we got a chance to win. And I get to feeling he probably would have said, hey, I'll take the heat from the Cubs. I'm going to be in that game. Yeah, see. And I, I feel like,

you know, looking ahead four years from now, when you have Venezuela winning and Japan, United States and Dominican Republic underperforming, those are built in storylines heading into, that next one that are really great. But you don't know how many players who played in this year as WBC will be there in 2030. Like you'd like to have that boy, he's going to get a chance at redemption, or, you know, Aaron Judge, Kyle Schworber probably won't be playing. Bryce Harper,

probably won't be playing in four years. But yeah, I mean, it, it's disappointing that you can't capitalize on this because you had a moment. It was fun enthusiasm. And I love the spirit of these other countries. You know, we get caught up in, you know, play the game the right way and they, you know, they celebrate differently. Bad flips, all of that. It, it meant more to them. The spirit of the game, the passion of the game, was very, very evident. There's no room for that.

And yeah, we're, we got, what is with this excitement? Play the game the right way. You know, just run the bases and sit back down. I used to be, I used to be, uh, come on. And then you, I love passion. Now, if you're down, you know, nine one and you hit a home run and you do a bad

“flip, then you should be smacked. But I love the passion. Yes, Martin. It is wild when, why are you”

having fun playing a child's game? This is crazy. Like you've been there before. They haven't been

Like your hand Santana is the pitching coach and you saw Miguel Cabrera. You saw Andy Petta. I was the Andy Petta since. I mean, I don't say the last time I saw him. But I mean, it's been a while. He's a Ken Murphy Jr. was there last night. Gary Sheffield was there last night. So it was a great TV production. Also, Albu Pujols. I know. They've been making her a public. It probably goes, and there's a guy in the dugout who looks like Albert Pujols. And I said,

“it's Albert Pujols. He goes, oh, I keep going. Is that, that guy looks like Albert Pujols?”

I took me seven at it. All right. Give me a fair. All right. But yeah, it was fun to see it. But, you know, trying to figure out what to do with this energy. I just think it's a great jump start for the seat. Like I'm excited for opening day. Yes, you. Yeah. I really thought that was Bryce Harper's moment. Yep. I really did. I thought that whole house like gosh, that's his career. Right there. That is the exclamation point on his career. What a moment.

Has he been in the major leagues for 15 years? Yeah. He started at 19 in that amazing. Yep.

He's going into year 15, 2012 and he's 19. He was rookie of the year. I think he's got seven all star appearances. Two MVP's and a bunch of average years that he also has an NLCS MVP. Okay. Four gone conclusion. Hall of Fame right now. Two time MVP. Washington won a world series after they traded him. Yes, a point. This is a two-part discussion. And we used to discuss this with the 11. Bryce Harper's

going to the Hall of Fame. You make seven eight all star games. You have two MVP's. You're going. But you could also make the case at was his career. Everything it was meant to be or predicted to mean. Those are two different topics. Well, he was the chosen one. He was on the cover sports illustrated just like LeBron when he was what 15. Not exactly the LeBron of major league baseball, but you know, a very good career. Yeah. Yeah. Or you just say that one much confidence.

Yeah, that doesn't sound like Hall of Fame. No, I don't think he's the first ball at Hall of Famer.

“But he's going to be a Hall of Famer. I think he's at times been a great player,”

but there are dips in his career. Yeah, Pauling. That's exactly right. He's had three great seasons. He's had about 10 good season. Yeah. And some of those seasons he hit, you know, 249 with 34 homers. There's nothing wrong with that. But not when you're expected to be one of the greats of the game. Yeah, he had two MVP's and they were six years apart. Yeah. That's pretty good. That's not like he had two or two really great seasons out of three or something. He showed a certain

amount of sustained excellence. That's Hall of Famer. Yeah. Okay. But that's kind of what I'm saying. It's Hall of Famer. You put a Y on the end. You know what I mean? I'm just for the sake of the

conversation. I don't know that I'm a die hard first ball at Hall of Famer. I'm just saying that two

MVP's six years apart is feels Hall of Famish. If you don't match your exceed wild expectations, I don't think you get ding to the point where you don't belong in Cooper's town. It's something you'll have to live with as a person. As an athlete that I could have been much better than was expected and made. But you still, you know, you still get into the hall. Even if it takes a little while. Yeah. I get it. We're the one that put the expectations on him. Well, Sports Illustrated,

“putting him on the cover. Yes, Todd. Do you think he would take a lot of lustre off the WBC?”

If they did it like the Ryder Cup and did it to every two years instead of every three or four years. Like we were saying, some of these guys may not even be on the team. But they'd be more likely as far as with the storylines if they were playing two years from now as opposed to waiting for and just keep that momentum going a little bit in a half way. You know, let me take a break. Think about that. I see what you're saying. He's a bull. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Yeah.

Thank you, Todd. Look. Okay. Every what's it about? Surprise the group. About we take a break just getting started. Phone calls coming up. We'll talk some football, our good buddy Nick Wright will tell us why the Kansas City Chiefs getting Justin Fields. That's a great move for them. At least I'm going to ask him the question. I assume he's going to be fine with Justin Fields as his quarterback to start this season. We'll take a break. We're

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great Heisman trophy winner. I guess somebody may be a recruiting coordinator. USC ask if he would allow them to unretire his jersey. Number 11 at USC. And he said, no. And why do we retire a jersey? Can we, can we honor a jersey? Do we have to retire? You know, the Yankees have retired 22 numbers, including one through 10. Now, I don't know if Matt Liner will unretire. You know, as he said, hey, I'm going to unretire my jersey and get, you know, what more than play

that, then we'll get to Nick Wright. So here is Matt Liner being asked to unretire his jersey at USC. When I was at USC, I got my number retired. There's been multiple times where people at USC have asked me if I would unretire my jersey for some five star prospect. And do you want to know what

I told those guys straight up? Absolutely. Fucking not. I have never gone to unretire my jersey

for some random dude who, by the way, now could wear number 11 in transfer after year. The only person that will ever wear my USC number 11 would be Cole. Okay. Cole being his son. We apologize for that. That slipped by the goal either. Yes, Paul. Which bothers you if anything. Matt Liner saying no or Matt Liner being asked. A recruit saying, hey, I want that jersey number. Yes, this Liner said, hey, somebody may come in. They might be here for a year. I'm going to unretire

“my jersey number. And if you win a high school at USC, I think you get your jersey retired. But”

we can honor like the Cowboys. Don't they honor numbers? They don't retire them? Yes, Tom. But Matt and no one else, the that situation should be asked directly and put on the spot. And I had absolutely no problem with him saying no. There was, it was retired. That's the number no one gets to wear. And it's multiple times that he was asked. Yes, he. Yeah, you know, I don't know that I've ever really thought about the concept of retiring numbers is not being a good idea.

But that, you know, a ring of honor is makes way more sense than retiring them.

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with Nick Wright, you can find it on YouTube wherever you get your podcast. To me again, please. What now? Because I'm sitting here listening to just a chorus of bad takes and my Mike's not on. And I can't fix any of it. I don't know what every take I heard there was was bad. The first of all, retiring jerseys is awesome. And you're like all of the Yankees. They've retired 22 numbers. Well, luckily, we're not running out of numbers. Luckily, we got plenty

more to come. So we're fine. That's first of all. Second of all, it's not the recruits fault for asking the recruit that wasn't born when Matt Liner was playing for USC. He doesn't know every school that's recruiting and the list of retired numbers. It is the school's fault

“for then asking Liner. Like you can't put it on it. Because I remember something I would”

Steve large in C Hawks number and they went and asked his family. No, if you make it should there should be gravity to retiring a number. And then you can't then retroactive. Like, didn't have one Lawrence Taylor and Abdul Carter. You can't then go ask the guy to unretire it. I had another take here, but I forgot it. There's just so many bad takes in there. Oh, no, I don't have a take. I have a very, very, we had a hold on, hold on, what Paul? Okay, Nick, let's say the New York

Giants football team. They've retired 14 jerseys and 100 years. Unless the earth ends in 400 years, they're going to run out of numbers at some point. Based on this pace. Right, I understand, which is why it is now now the threshold to have your number retired only raises. It becomes much much harder as it should. And so I'm fine with that. Also, you're anticipating Paul of 400-year future where we don't where it's still there is a taboo on three digit jerseys numbers. Who's to say

that world doesn't exist? That's all of sudden, number 154. There's not the wrong with that. Can I tell you a quick Matt Lionard anecdote? I'm going to. Two years ago, I'm at Yankee Stadium for the World Series, walking through the concourse. And I'm walking, and I see someone who's a little taller than the crowd who I don't instantly recognize except and I'm walking by myself. And I'm

Patrick and crew. And in my brain, my inner monologue is that might be the most gorgeous person I've ever seen in my life. Just standing almost like a sending past the crowd. And then I'm like, wait, this person is walking towards me. Wait, this person is extending a hand and then I realize, oh, that's Matt Lionard, who I've worked with. But I was just so disarmed by just seeing him in

“the wild and his natural beauty. Did you tell him that? I, uh, I think I told him on the air,”

the way I told you guys maybe I didn't mention being come from my sexuality part of it. I want to make them uncomfortable. Well, you haven't been around Brady Quinn then. So you know, you know, not my type. Brady Quinn is CGI, you know. Speaking of bad takes, you're Matt Lionard. Okay. Did you want my college basketball top five? You got one? Well, I feel like there are three must include. Okay. Well, we're going to do players you saw. Oh, no, I can't do it. Okay. I don't have

that ready. Okay. Um, Kareem is my five. Lou Alcender. Walton's my four. I'm going to play on both and I think they'll figure it out. And pistols might too. There is a debate at point. Oscar magic.

“I'm going to go Oscar and then there is, uh, not a hole, but the only hard position to fill is your”

three. And you have a different ways you could go with it. I lean Larry Bird. I would listen to you on if you think I am being too much of, you know, a slave to the history and that the youngest guy on my team is Larry Bird. That does seem a little odd I'm being honest. Um, but I don't, uh, I don't know that anyone else comes to mind. And it is the greatest college basketball

players of all time, unlike almost any other ranking, are going to always be these old timers because

nobody is going to play three or much less four years moving forward. So like you'd have to go to like a Doug McGerman type and he's not, he doesn't make my team with respect. Well, you could have Grant Hill in there over Doug. I was, so I thought about Grant Hill. I wanted to find a way for my guy, Jerry McNamara and his greatest biggest tournament ever to find at least at least somewhere beyond the roster. Um, I did not have a, you know, a Tim Doug, the greatest college basketball

players I've seen. I'm going to, handsboro, handsboro would be better remembered if he never played in the NBA. He was such a dominant college. Yeah, but you've got to put lateiner in there over Tyler Handsbro. And this is going to make you, uh, I didn't see lateiner. Well, you didn't see Oscar. No, but I was just saying guys that I've, I was doing a new list where I did guys that I've seen. Wait, you didn't see later. As born in 84, so technically I saw him, but I have no

memory. Okay. Like the first college basketball team that I have vivid memories of is the AI

Georgetown team. Okay. So, you know, so like 96 90 something, um, Tim Duncan to the greatest college basketball player that I, you know, that I watched start to finish. And I, you know, Jerry McNamara, you know, is a, of really, of my lifetime, mellow have the best season. I'm a, I'm a Syracuse guy, but mellow have the best season. Durant probably was the most dominant. If you don't care about the winning portion of it in college, like the most dominant single season of, you know,

this century in my opinion, talking to Nick Wright. You can check him out on YouTube, wherever you get your podcast, what's right with Nick Wright. And of course, Monday through Friday, first things first on Fox Sports 1. Help me understand the logic of the Miami Dolphins here. Oh, you know,

“I actually support what they're doing. And I think that just taking your medicine and saying,”

we're not going to do a half measure here. We made some very, very aggressive moves thinking, we were championship contender. We weren't. And rather than peace mealing it, we are ripping it

down in a way, not, I mean, $300 million salary cap, $150 million in dead money. And by the way,

still 45 million in dead money coming a year from now on to his deal, we're going to deal with that.

answer to that is Jeff Hathley has, you know, familiarity with them. In order to evaluate any of,

“I assume they're going to draft a receiver, like young players on the roster, you need to have a”

level of competency at quarterback. And if they end up having the number one pick, but they think despite that, Malik shows them enough, then they can really supercharge the reload by flipping that number one pick. And if he plays well enough for them, not to have the number one pick, then they sign the right guy. And if not, it's not like they signed them to a five year huge guarantee. So it, and even if they get the number one pick and draft a quarterback, you still might be like,

okay, but Malik, you start next year. And then maybe he's a trade chip if he plays well. So I think what they're doing logically, if I was, if you said Nick, you're taking over the dolphins, I would have done a lot of the same things. Like, let's take our medicine right now, and then try to move forward. But they are going to be the worst team in the league by a lot, by a lot next year. Who's more all in the Broncos or the Rams? Oh, the Rams. I don't,

“I don't necessarily view the Broncos as all in. I think that they made a smart trade.”

I like the Waddle trade. He's only 27. He's on a reasonable contract. Like, I usually don't like

trading first round pick plus for aging player, but he's not really aging. He doesn't make a ton of money.

The Rams are, again, there's, there's not a lot of franchises that I think are, you know, run well and by, well, I mean the way I would do it. But the Rams recognizing, we have the oldest excellent quarterback in the league. So let's, let's not treat 2029 as valuables 2026. I think it's super smart. The Broncos saying our window is opening. So we don't want to go all in, but we also want to take advantage of the moment. And it's a very interesting thing with the

dispersement of receivers across league. I would argue right now this moment. There's more talented receivers than any other time in NFL history, but there's also two divisions that don't have any of them. The AFC West and the AFC East, where Jail and Waddle walks in and he's the best receiver in the division by a lot. DJ Moore who I don't love, but walks into the AFC East and he's the best receiver in the division by a lot. When neither one of those guys would be the fourth best receiver

“in the AFC North, so to speak. So they, you know, I think that was a smart move by Denver.”

Moore surprising that the Chiefs brought in Justin Fields or Travis Kelsey came back. I, right after the Super Bowl, I thought Travis was going to be done. As the AFCs and went on, I then came to believe he's going to run it back another year, so I wasn't by the time we got to the announcement, I wasn't surprised. I was surprised that there were folks, some friends of mine in the NFL media that were willing to be like

breaking news. Travis Kelsey listening to other teams, no he wasn't. Like I've never, like there,

there was a zero percent chance he was going to play for anybody else and I think everybody knew that. I really like the field's addition because they, they gave up nothing. So he's price wise, very cheap for a backup, 3 million bucks. Gardner mentioned it was the Chiefs back of last year, it's got paid 7 million. You can say, well, they traded the sixth, but because the NFL's weird comp pick formula had they signed a backup, they would have lost

a seventh, so they ended up essentially getting him for nothing, and I wanted the Chiefs four years ago, Dan, to sign Cam Newton, so we can run quarterback sneaks again and maybe have just make teams when they play the Chiefs, spend 10 minutes of practice that week, dealing with the wildcat quarterback run package, and so now Cam is still available, Nick. I know, and I pitched into Cam, but, you know, Cam's building his media empire. So if you were to tell me, Patrick is going to

miss the first month of the season, which I do not think is going to happen. I would have rather

had Kirk Cousins as my backup quarterback. If you were to tell me, Patrick's going to be there in week one, I would rather have just in fields because once Patrick is back in healthy, Kirk Cousins serves no utility. I think fields can get on the field, even once Patrick is back

I mean, he was in a bad situation. I thought he played okay in Pittsburgh, and maybe he does that,

you know, reclamation on the 13, Sam Darnold, like, uh, and gets an opportunity to, like, Malik Willis did in Green Bay. For him, this is the either Kansas City or the Rams, would be the two places I would want to go if I were him, where it's like you don't, you know, I know you might have to play in the beginning for Kansas City, but get a year under that coach, learning at that quarterback's feet, and then see if you can recharge your career. Can I,

I don't know how much time we have? Can I ask you a favor? Yeah. Because you are, you know, I am friendly with Charles Barkley. At least I was the last time I saw him. He maybe he's maybe not anymore. I would hope I am still. No reason not to be you are legitimate friends with him.

“The next time you see him, can you, can you ask him, does he still like the NBA?”

Like, listen. I think I can share a question, I just have a question. And I want to be clear. I think Charles is the greatest in the history of the world at what he does, and I think a lot of people have failed trying to be Charles Barkley when you, there's only one Charles Barkley. And I'm not acting like we get this compliment a lot, but the greatest compliment

that I ever receive about the TV show first things first is when people say it reminds me of

inside the NBA, which again, I'm not saying we have that compliment a lot, but whenever we get it, it means a lot to me. That's one of it, not the greatest sports TV show ever. But man, oh, man, I wish they liked basketball still. I think, well, the difference is you guys do research on first things first. Like, you guys are still studying it. I think Charles and Chuck, I don't know if they really care. I think, you know, they're jaded with this. And now that we've allowed them to do

it, you know, it's not like Charles is all like, like, with Charles with March Madness. I'm like,

“don't put him on March Madness. But so here's the thing though, at least with March Madness,”

he's excited and like, what he's not going to do with March Madness is be like,

why are we talking St. John's? They're not winning the championship. Like, the Chuck's almost vendetta against the Lakers, which actually seems like his media criticism of how the media talks about the Lakers is to mean misplaced because if we want to say listen, Celtics Thunder spurs, everyone else can't win the championship, that's probably correct. Like, that's, I think the vast majority of times, one of those three teams wins the title. But after those three,

the Lakers are looking eye to eye or looking down on every other team in the league. And so to then dismiss them, it's like, well, then we're dismissing Denver. We're dismissing the next. We're dismissing the pistons. And that to me is misplaced, given what they've done over the course of the year. In my, my humble opinion, and again, I say it on the front end. Really, I'm not really afraid of any enemies, but I do want to be friends with Charles Barkley one day. And so I just want to talk

about how much I love and respect him, but I just don't like that. I'll see if I can broker a deal there. That would be great. You think you mean Chuck one day could gamble together? I don't gamble. What if I what if what if what if I buy you in? No. You won't. It's it. No. It's a gateway drug. And I don't, I don't, I don't, I used to be it. Yeah, but it, but it, your age, what are you worried? Like they're like, but I don't need the money.

It's, you know what, oddly, and I think Chuck would back me up on this. Sometimes it's not even, not only is it not about needing the money, sometimes it's not even about winning. Sometimes it's

“you need the loss. You need to feel a lot. No, no, no, no, no. You need to walk out of there and be like,”

you know what, that's good. I'm going to trust your opinion. I, I don't need to find. I don't need to feel it myself. What's the, what's the biggest loss you ever suffered? Like where you go, that, well, and I can bring me to tears. Oh, this is a great March madness story. This is great, because this is not, you know, as you get older and make more money, the dollar amounts, you know, shift, but the biggest loss as a percentage of my net worth was the 2008 NCAA tournament final,

Kansas Memphis, right? Memphis is a three and a half point favorite. I am fresh off being on who wants to be a millionaire and winning 50 grand and gambling all the time and, like,

convince him, I was like, listen, I hit this true story. I was like, I had a dream that Memphis won by three. And I don't want to bet Kansas plus three and a half. I want to bet Memphis minus two and a half, because I want to root for Memphis, but they're going to win by three. And I was like, so set me a price. So I had to lay one for, I had to lay minus 140. So I laid, I bet, literally, net worth, which, you know, I, I, I, I, I think, is 14 grand is what I had left of the 50.

To win 10 biggest bet of my life by a mile and Memphis is up three with a second left.

And Chalmers hits the shot. And then they, they admit that was the Derek Rose Miss free throws. Chalmers hits the shot. Kansas wins in overtime. And I, and I went from being the only person in the world who was going to bet Memphis in one time back in zero. That's what, that's what it was. But I felt

“the live, Dan, I remember that story 18 years later. That's a little tear comes to mind. I think about it.”

I'll work on the Charles Barkley thing. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That's Nick Wright, host of first things first on Fox Sports 1 every afternoon. I'm going to do through Friday. What's right with Nick Wright on YouTube, wherever you get your podcast. Yeah. All of our takes were bad on Matt Liner. We'll come back and discuss that after this. Bad ass convict. Right. Just finished five years. I'm going to have cookies and milk. Yeah.

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