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All right, so let's move into our number two. Again, my thanks to Kurt Warner.

When you've done this as long as I've done this, and I think back over the years,

and I used to interview him when he first started playing the NFL, and there was your Cinderella,

right? There may not be any Cinderella's down in the NCAA tournament. But he was the ultimate

Cinderella story back then, and was so amazing and was always so humble and always so smart.

And always so good. And all these years later to still have these kind of relationships and

conversations is why I still do this. It's awesome. Kurt is as good as they get. I love that response

too because I really was curious because I see guys try to come at him on X. Like everybody comes

at everybody on X, but not everybody has been a two time NFL MVP. So whenever I see somebody

questioning Kurt Warner on an NFL or a quarterback take, I'm like, what are you doing? I mean,

of all the guys, because I've interviewed him so many times and talked football with him so many times

and watched him his entire career and he's a hall famer and a Super Bowl winner and a Super Bowl MVP

and a two time league MVP. But Joe Blow over there of nine followers is going, yo man.

What do you know? You suck. That takes sucks. I'm like, Kurt, I just gotta know. What do you think?

And then classy is ever. He says, people do ask me that. Why would you lower yourself or respond

to somebody with 23 followers? And his response is, I'm not. I'm not. I'm responding to this question

to a much larger audience and we're just talking ball. And I'm just trying to educate folks and share

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online and I look at it and I think to myself, that's fake. That's not real. Anytime I see anything

that just seems a little bit off or too good to be true or too different, immediately my mind goes

to that's fake, which is a terrible way to live, man. I hate that that's where we are right now.

But that's where we are right now. AI clicks and everything else. Oh, that over there. That's fake

like this except that it's Yahoo sports and other credible outlets that are reporting it. This

just in Tiger Woods was involved in a roll over crash on Friday on Jupiter Island in South

Florida. Martin County Sheriff's Office announced the extent of woods as injuries is unknown.

So I, I'm not going to do what you clones do. I'm not going to rush to some stupid joke. I'm

not going to rush to any kind of judgment because I want to know more. Now, when I see something

like that initially, I think to myself, here we go again, Tiger in a roll over crash, doubt that.

But apparently this did happen. The extent of his injuries is unknown at this point. So I am going

to lay out and I'm going to wait and I want to see what details emerge from that.

But that's not stopping some of you who already got out in front of it like this guy,

haunted horse. Hey Jim, what do Tiger Woods and the stock market have in common? They are both

crashing again. Hey horse, let me ask you something. What if it's a serious crash? What if he's

seriously injured? Are you going to regret sending me that? I know I'm going to regret

receiving that because like a moron, you hashtag did Jim Roman X like somehow I approve of that

message. That's the problem. I've got nobody to blame for that put myself when we first got on

X. I wanted you to hashtag everything Jim Roman X. I should have put an end to that right away

because that will look like I approve of that message or the message actually came from me when

it didn't. SA sports honk. Rome holy crap. Even I think Tiger needs to give up driving

sincerely at the piano man. All right. You see what I'm saying? I'm not making these jokes.

I'm being the adult in the room. I reported what has been reported or I stated what has been

reported. Quote key phrase. Two key phrases involved in a roll over crash key phrase number one

key phrase number two. The extent of woods is injuries not known. So I'm just going to wait.

I'm going to lay out. I want to see that this guy's okay before we engage in this kind of

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news. Tiger Woods involved in another roll over car crash. This time on Jupiter Island in

South Florida. We will monitor that. ABC news. Quote. Just in Tiger Woods involved in a roll

over crash in Jupiter Island Friday or Florida on Friday afternoon. His condition was not

immediately clear. We don't know. So this is official. This happened.

Yahoo sports. ABC news. Chef D posted on it. So we'll see. V in the fiasan. Did you say if you

give Iowa a crack? They'll bust through. Heck, if I see a crack, I'm always ready to bust

two scientists of ours. All right. So here's the thing.

I've tried to have this conversation with you many times. I'm not gonna spend a lot of time on

this. I just want to give you an analogy. So I used to train for a minute and I mean that a

minute. It was not a long minute, but I used to train for a minute with a guy by the name of James

Lightning Wilks. He's an awesome guy. One of my favorite guys. And Lightning was a former

professional MMAer. And I remember when I started to work with him, he told me initially,

I'm very careful and choose you about who I work with because what I'm teaching can be lethal.

And I want to make sure it does not end up in the wrong hands. You know, in other words,

he didn't want a bunch of criminals having this skills. Like they might be able to acquire these

skills or learn these skills, but not from him. He wanted to be very, very responsible

with who he worked with and who he taught what to. You're kind of like that, V. Like V, you have

these skills, but you're using them for the wrong reasons. Like you're using your skill set for

evil V. You don't need to be that guy. In fact, we don't want you on the streets with that kind of

skill set V. Don't don't be that guy. It's like somebody taught V or maybe V was born with those

skills, but bro, you're using them to the wrong effect. Stop being that guy, dude, please.

Stop hitting me up with Tavaris. It's you James Kelly and four morons that find that amusing.

I'm trying to do a talk show here V. Why won't you let me? All right, so let me just reset things.

Morris.

That guy right in the butt. That guy. That's who he's talking about.

Alvi. Alvi. Alvi, whose side are you on? Mine or V? You have to choose a side, Alvi.

Alvi, whose side are you on? Mine or V's? Or better yet? Alvi.

Alvi, you need to make a choice right now. Me or Tavaris.

Alvi. Alvi. Me or Tavaris. All right, he's pointing at me, but he's playing the

sounder from the show. Okay. Me or Tavaris.

1-800-636-8686. All right, so I'm going to need some time to set up powder and tanking.

LSU is going to LSU. Man, they're LSUing so hard. Man, you want to talk about leaning into it.

You want to talk about leaning into it. A cell report that LSU is committed now $200 million

on coaching salaries and coaches that they owe money to that they broke off. 200 mill. 200 mill.

So LSU is all in. We keep talking about all in. LSU is all in and LSU is LSUing hard and will

wait. Triumph in return to LSU is like the most LSU thing I've seen since, well, lane showed up

and Kim Mulkey showed up. We'll talk about LSU. J and L.A. rights. Romy, this is the year,

our Dodgers eclips the regular season win record. Not to go full old school radio on you,

but could you play Dino sucks? Much appreciated. Oh, no, I'm Casey Casey. No, I'm taking requests.

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J and L.A. wants to hear Dino suck. Dino suck. Dino sucks. Dino sucks. I don't stay in

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of your records in your Jew box. Quote, James, I'm not an Fing Jew box was one of Alibi's all time

great lines. It says, hey, Rome, I'm a huge fan. Been listening since my father in 98. He's

passed the torch down to me. So I'm turning up, listening to you always. War, University of NM,

Albuquerque, think short of legend, bro. Thank you for being an inspiration to me. I love that,

dude. I love it when fathers pass the show on to their offspring. That makes me happy. You know,

fathers should pass baseball on to their kids. I love when the show is generational like that.

Julian, good looking out. Appreciate you. And you know, I love Albuquerque. I love Albuquerque.

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Welcome back. Listen, here's the deal. If you can make it better, I'm going to put you on.

You can't just call and assume that you're going to make it better and then knock it on and say,

hey, Rome, the hell, I've been on hold. And that's where you're going to stay,

unless you hang up. If you can make it better, you're going to get on. If you're on hold and you

haven't gotten on yet, you probably in my mind are not making it better. See if that works.

We'd love to have you here. I'm not trying to keep you out of the process. I'm trying to get you

in the process. All right. So with that in mind, imagine hitting a three run bomb in an opening day

win in your own ballpark. But nobody's talking about that because instead, everybody's talking about

your lawsuit against your own parents. If you're out of bone, you don't have to imagine it.

You're already living it. Now, I have to admit, I did not expect the biggest story to come out

of MLB opening day to be the Philly's third baseman suing his own parents, like that came out of

nowhere. But there it was in the Philly inquirer yesterday afternoon at Philly inquirer, quote,

the Philly's Alec Bome sues his parents alleging they mismanaged his finances.

That's not good. Not good. That's unfortunate. Obviously, we don't know exactly what happened,

but I do know this. As I mentioned, parents are supposed to do everything in their power to

protect their children at all costs, not steal their money allegedly. It's a pretty believable

accusation though, because you have to imagine that this is the last thing that Alec Bome wants

to admit publicly. The last thing he wants to do is deal publicly with the perception that his

own parents ripped him off for millions of dollars. Why would that guy want that out there?

Bad enough that about have happened, even worse than everybody would know about it.

Now again, we don't know exactly what happened. Here's what we do know. We know his parents live

in an RV. Now that's not evidence of anything at all. I've watched Dateline in 2020 and 48 hours

enough to know that their attorneys would certainly say just because we live in an RV does not

mean we stole millions of dollars from our rich professional athlete's son. You can't make that

leap. Now the optics are not great, but it doesn't mean they did it. Just like it definitely doesn't

look great that back in January, he said, quote, he asked his parents to provide him with information

about his holdings, including account statements and electronic logic information or log in

information. And his parents responded by opting to quote engage counsel. Okay, now we're talking

through our lawyers. Now we're engaging with our parents through our lawyers about money.

That's not good. Mom and pop manage your money, but when you ask mom and pop for your login

info, for your bank accounts, you get an answer back from their attorney or an answer from them to

engage with the attorney and no log in information. Not sketchy at all. Not the reddest flag of all.

Now for the record, the parents do categorically deny it. They, as you might imagine, I mean,

who couldn't have written this statement up, but they quote are deeply saddened by the allegations

made against them in this lawsuit and the sensational false narrative painted here, which they believe

are entirely without merit and a quote, keep in mind, keep in mind.

This is not somebody off the street that is looking to sue somebody to get over.

They're saying, when they make a statement like that, these allegations are sensationally

without merit, sensational false narrative painted here. You're calling your son a sensational

false ass liar. It's your son. All right. This is not somebody you don't know who's coming at you

that you met in a club that may or may not be making it up. This is your own blood.

So I wonder what they have to say. There's that. I wonder what they have to say about the part

of the Philadelphia Inquirer report where they allegedly threatened to build their son for quote

all the time they spent to administer Alex affairs end of quote at a rate of $50 per hour,

$50 an hour. So now you want now you want to have all these billable hours that have accrued,

but at $50 an hour. How far back does this go? Back to when you were giving him an allowance.

Does that count as managing his money too? My man, I'm not really sure why you entrusted your

finances to these people. That's a whole different conversation, but they want to charge him

$50 an hour and get all these billable hours back. Look, I have a pretty good idea of what people

who manage money make. It's a lot more than $50 an hour. $50 an hour. I mean, with all due respect

and I love this guy and he does amazing work. In fact, I feel like I'm getting over. I feel like I

pay the guy who does my mobile car wash $50 an hour. And by the way, if that guy were to hit me

up for like 150 an hour, I'd probably give it to him. He's that good at it. $50 an hour.

Kevin, Kevin and no cow dored ashing makes that. Sorry, bro, but don't you?

In reality, you are when you call me, you sound like you make $50 a week, Kevin.

Anyway, this is what you say you want for your major league baseball playing son.

And you're overlooking millions of dollars, but you want 50 an hour?

How great is it? The not only did they allegedly rip off their own kid,

they even had the brass to threaten to charge him for it. Like, we're stealing your money and now

you can pay us for stealing your money allegedly. Yeah, yeah, yes, son. We've been siphoning off

your cash from your accounts that we will not give you log in information for allegedly,

but by the way, we haven't charged you for it. But if this is how it's going to be, all right,

you owe us, you owe us money for stealing your money or managing your money. We want our 50 bucks

an hour. And by our calculations, it's eight million hours. Get out your calculator.

Multiply 50 by eight million and then write us a check. You're welcome.

There they are again. We keep showing them. Yeah, thanks mom. Thanks dad. Well, thanks mom. Thanks, Pa.

Good to know you have my best interest at heart.

Yeah, I didn't think this would be the biggest story coming out of opening day, but this has

been the biggest story at coming out of opening day. Man, this dude. So I don't think that

relationship is that healthy. I don't think that relationship is that strong. Of course,

Alec declined to comment after the game. Only to say I'm not going to discuss personal matters

right now. And obviously he can't really talk about an active lawsuit anyway, but I feel for

this dude. This dude hits a three run jack on opening day. And he's got to stand at his locker

and answer questions about his parents allegedly ripping him off. Is there anything lower than that?

Now, I know there are a lot of Hollywood parents that have pulled this off or a lot of Hollywood

parents that have tried to pull this off, but is there anything lower than ripping off your own

kid under the guise of helping them manage their money? I mean, it's one thing to live

vicariously through your kid, right? We've seen that over and over and over again.

Parents whose lives did not work out the way they had hoped. Parents lives and dreams dashed.

So what are they going to do? They're going to live through their kids or even worse,

gravy train their kids, but even worse, steal from their kids. And under the guise of

we are managing your money allegedly. Man, that's bad. That's really bad. But then again,

I've never heard of stealing from your own kid and then trying to charge them for it too.

Like it's not enough that he allegedly is funding their lifestyles, keeping them alive and that

they've got millions of dollars from him. That's what he's alleging. But then once they're accused

of that, they're going to pretend that they're so shocked by it. But if that's the way it's going

to be, then all right, we have been managing your money. We've been doing it for free because we

love you and we are a parent, we're your parents. But if that's the way it's going to be, you can go

ahead and pay us now 50 an hour for siphoning or managing. That is our siphoning or money managers

fee $50 an hour. You can't make this up. Of course, it's like, what do you mean? What do you mean? We

gave him the family rate 50 bucks an hour. If we were managing anybody else's money and we could

because we're really good at it, we would be charging a hell of a lot more than 50 an hour. But because

it's Alec, he gets the family rate, the discount rate. And by the way, man, he should be thanking us.

It's only $50 an hour. We basically have been stealing your money for free, son, or managing your

money for free, son. But okay, the free rides are over. Those days are over. Now you can pay us.

All right. You graduated, all right? You got to pay your way. Give us our 50 an hour.

Man, this is bad. You mentioned this guy saying, I need a mom, dad. I need my log in information.

I need to see the accounts. Yeah, no, no, you're good. We got this. Yeah, no, I'd like to see

how much money I have. I'd like to see my accounts. Talk to our lawyer. No, listen, give me my freaking

passwords. All right, for these accounts. Okay, we'll do that when you give us the 50 dollars

an hour that we haven't charged you all these years. Wow. All right. I guess we're going public

with this. Man, I feel for this guy. Again, a three runner on opening day should have been an

awesome day. And everybody's at his locker going, yo, Alec, how about your parents, man?

What's going on? How much money did they steal from you anyway? Allegedly.

I don't know. Why don't you go find them? They're tooling around somewhere and an RV that I

undoubtedly bought for them. Allegedly. Man, that's wild. If you can't trust your parents,

who can you trust? Remember, parents are supposed to do everything in their power to protect you.

But then again, you know, I remember here in this line, I don't buy this per se, but when we

first had kids, I remember somebody telling me, hey, just remember, you're, you're a new dad.

Remember, there are no bad kids, only bad parents. Actually, there's some bad kids.

There's some bad kids and then they grew up and they become bad people.

But there are some really bad parents too. There's both. There's both.

And again, I'm not telling you how to raise your kids because I don't want you to tell me how to

raise my kids. But I know this, you have my word. I can look you dead in the eye. I can look

you dead in the camera and tell you, I have never, ever, ever siphoned money from either Jake

or Logan. Now, those two kids have siphoned a lot of money from me. Except I don't call it siphoned.

Like, like, why would Alec make that up? Do you really think that that guy, if money is so personal,

right? You don't ask people how much they make. You don't ask people how much did that cost?

You know, I mean, people do really uncouth, unclassy, baggy people do. But here's what you don't do.

You don't say, hey, man, nice watch. How much that run you? Hey, bro, nice house. Now,

I'm just to set you back. How much? Hey, bro, how much do you make anyway? Yo, dude, how much money

do you got in the bank? You don't ask people questions like that. Not if you have any sense or any

logic or any class. So my point is the last thing in the world this dude wants to do is have a public

conversation about his money. That's why I tend to believe his side. One thing even,

doubt that it's just your contract, but that's public knowledge, right? That gets out and that's

part and parcel. But I don't think this dude wants to have this conversation about his money. And

especially this conversation about this money, that's why I tend to believe. And I don't know,

I don't know all the facts, really any of the facts other than what's been reported. And they may not

be facts. It just seems to me, I don't know why this guy would make this up. Who would bring this

on themselves? Because if I'm having a 15 minute international conversation about this,

imagine how many other people are having the same conversation. Maybe not as well as I'm doing it

but I don't think that guy wants that out there. Everywhere he looks, he walks,

people are going to look at him like, yo bro, your parents, man, the hell is up.

So anyway, I'm going to side until further notice, I'm leaning towards Alex side.

Man, what a drag for this guy. 1-800-636-86-86-86. When you think that if you had a three-run

bomb on opening day, may you be like, come on, media, bring it on. I know you're not coming

for me today, filling media. Yes, we are. And he can do it. The second that guy crossed home plate,

he knew they're not going to ask me about this. They're not waiting for this game to end,

to ask me about that home run. They're waiting for this game to end, to ask me about

Mon Pa in the RV. Alright, when we come back, who knows this Friday, we're going in lots of

different directions. I'll be keeping it in the back of your head. I do want those prize picks.

I need those prize picks. Although, I'll tell you what, James Kelly and I booked it

role last night. James Kelly and I went different directions but both went three and one in the four

games. Suck us. Fade us if you want. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Stay tuned.

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What is your beef? 1-800-636-86-86. All right, so I want to move on to the next thing.

I see your reaction and I'm going to get to your reaction but I want to get to another topic.

I'm just going to pound through this stuff today. Now you know what I think would be great.

Something would be really great. If a large portion of the NBA stop losing games on purpose,

I think that that much we can all agree on. There's not much that we can agree on anymore

but I think a lot of you are not the biggest fans of the association anyway but I think we can

all agree that. Everybody actually trying to win is so much better than a chunk of the league

going out and trying to lose on purpose every single night. Is there anybody that disagrees with

that? That might be the one thing that we can all agree upon. That everybody trying to win every

single night is much better than a giant chunk of the league trying to lose every single night.

If you think otherwise, I would love to hear you defend that point.

Now even Adam Silver knows this. He definitely knows this. This is why powder is so

fixated on this very issue as he should be obviously. So many tanking teams is a ridiculous

and continuing problem for the NBA. It's bad for business, it's bad for optics,

it's bad for the reputation of the league, it's bad for the fans, it's bad for their partners,

it's just bad. Plain bad for everybody. I mean they're out here charging top dollar for tickets,

parking, concession grub, merch and then sitting their top players putting out an ass product

and literally stealing from their own fans, mugging their own fans. Is that a problem?

And again, how about the networks? How about the streamers that are paying crazy jack

for the broadcast rights? They can't be any happier about any of this either. Tanking.

Now there's your problem. What is the solution? How do we stop it? How do we stop teams from losing

on purpose because they seem to love doing it and they're good at it. And worst of all,

it actually kind of works sometimes. I mean to work for OKC. So what do we do to shut this down?

Apparently now the NBA has more ideas, lots of new ideas. I'll give them that much. There is

never any shortage of ideas. None of them seem to work, but they keep coming up with ideas. But

instead of tightening and honing these ideas into one cohesive plan, the league decided to do

the opposite and just give their board of governors their entire brainstorm. Check out this absurd

update on powder's plan to end tanking in the NBA. Now bear with me. This is going to sound like

another language altogether, but it is actually English, but it's going to sound like a cross between

Greek and calculus. You've been warned. Shoms quote, the NBA presented three comprehensive

anti-tanking concepts to its board of governors on Wednesday with modifications expected to each

before a formal vote in May per ESPN sources. Number one, 18 teams in draft lottery,

seed 7 through 15 in each conference, flattened odds with bottom 10 teams having an 8% chance

the remaining 20% odds distributed in decreasing order for 11 through 18 and a lottery drawing for

all 18 picks. You got all that? Did you get all that? No, of course not. Nobody got all that. Nobody

on this planet understands what the hell any of that meant. But here's the good news. There are

two more proposals in case you didn't like or understand that one. So strap in. Number two,

22 teams in lottery using two year record seeds 7 through 15 plus the four playoff first round

exits in both conferences. Lottery teams would reach a minimum win total floor in each season,

such as 25 wins. If a team falls short of the floor, it gets slotted to meet the floor,

top four drawn apart as part of a lottery or as is currently. I mean, I'm reading it and I can't

even read it. Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. If you graduated from MIT with a degree

in chemical engineering, then it makes sense. Oh, wait, there's more. This is fun. Here's another one.

Number three, 18 teams in a five by five lottery bottom five teams have equal odds for the top

pick with the lottery form for picks one through five bottom five teams have a floor at 10. Those

did fall out of the top five gets sorted in a separate drawing. Oh, okay, that one I understand.

That one I get the hell I do. Really helpful stuff, powder. Yo, powder, quick question. Do you have

a cutting room floor at the league office? Another question for you, powder. Have you ever seen the sun?

I mean, seriously, does any idea get left behind in the league office? I mean, this mess makes the

in season tournament seem brilliant by comparison. Why do I need a degree in chemical engineering to

understand all your anti-taking proposals? Damn powder. You really only have two things in life

that you have to get done. One, end tanking. Two, experience sunlight. And for some reason,

you can't do either. Why the hell not? I get that you can't do a damn thing about your ears.

But man, it is your job to fix tanking. It's your job to fix tanking and to step outside the house.

Getting direct exposure to the sun is not nearly as hard as you're making it, man.

Fix tanking and the hue of your skin. Fix tanking and your complexion. It's not that hard, bro. You

have two things to do. Fix tanking and get sunlight. Teams are going to have to have their

analytics departments hire new analytics departments just to analyze your anti-tanking proposal.

Seriously, like I'm having these high school flashbacks, the high school chemistry. My brain is

just not wired to understand any of this bleep. Like your predecessor, powder, he was a bad guy.

But at least he left the freaking house. At least he didn't hide from the sun.

I mean, damn dude, pretty much everybody agrees at this point that some daily exposure to the sun

to get your daily dosage of vitamin D is imperative. So how do you go your entire life without

leaving the house? Speaking of life powder, you're just lucky that you ran off Donald Sterling

for life for life. Otherwise, even more people would be on your powdery backside. Lucky for you

that bag sterling as sick as he was deposited a bunch of free goodwill into your bank account.

The problem is you've been drawing on that ever since and now you're nearly broke. Stop acting

like we are all Matt Damon, the genius janitor in goodwill, honey, solving those long ass

equations. And for the love of God powder, please come up with a practical and simple way to end

tanking and teams to stop ripping off their own fans on the nightly. Oh, and load management. Go

to work on that too because these same fans are not getting refunds when the stars and their idols

sit out for no good reason at all. And most of all, dude, please leave the freaking house.

If not, if you're not going to get actual sunlight, if you're not going to leave the house for that,

actual sunlight, at least hit a strip mall and fake bake. At least it'll look like you tried to

get some sun. It just doesn't seem like the job is that hard. End tanking and load management get

some sunlight. Dude, how is it that your bad guy predecessor is able to absorb more sunlight

six feet under the ground than you are above ground?

There aren't that many things you have to do in life powder. End tanking and load management

get sunlight. You should start every day with those three things to do on your to do list.

I'm not saying that the two, the first two are really easy to accomplish clearly because you

can't, but you're supposed to be the best and brightest in the room. Not the best and powderiest

in the room. That's the third thing's easy, dude. Walk outside and look that way. Some light.

Every special assessment man 15 minutes a day is really healthy. You can do that.

But don't work on the other two, please.

All right, when we come back, bacon might be next on our radar and I'm still waiting for an update on Tiger Woods.

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