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Good morning, everybody.

Good morning.

We are a toucher and hearty, Town Fair Tire Studio 617-7790985.

Danny Roach is in for hearty today, who is in Las Vegas, Nevada.

If you were listening to the overnight show, you would hear that information.

I was blind, Scott called the dollar and told him that he was the robber hearty pool.

And then Ben Mahler said, we had his number, which I don't have.

But maybe Robbie Pool does, as he traips around Las Vegas.

Do you know what he's doing in Las Vegas?

I think it's just a weekend off.

I don't think it's anything in specific.

Not that I remember.

Twelve?

I don't think it's anything specific that he's doing.

I think I believe they have friends they're meeting up with out there and they're going

to do some things.

I'm sure there will be golfing.

I'm sure there will be video poker as those two things always happen.

Definitely video poker.

I can tell you that's a lot.

Probably golf, right?

Yeah.

And a gas station burrito.

No, but his wife is going.

He likes it.

Yes.

But he'll still probably play golf.

He loves golf very, very much.

And so...

Is any host of golf show?

Oh, yeah.

And that's coming up soon.

98-5, the golf club.

The best part about that is he was seriously thinking about stopping this year.

And I'd like to think I kind of had a hand in shaming him into keep going.

You know?

The master says, coming up, you can't do it and then people started to email in, people

started to call and say, I listen to you every Sunday, you got to keep going and there

would be routinely a time where Hardy would put his head in his hands, you know, rub his

eyes like he always does.

And like, I'm right.

I have this conversation with him all the time.

And I understand it is that radio is a perilous business and you can't usually, as evidence

when they started the sports hub in Hardy, he didn't keep a job.

He was a part-time and he had just had kids, you know, he had a little, I don't even

know if his son was born yet.

He certainly had his daughter who was a little kid.

He might have just had his son when we go on the year, 2009, so in August 2000, he didn't

even have a son yet.

His daughter was like a one-year-old or something.

He auditioned me.

So yeah.

So when they switched, like, I knew I had a job.

I knew the sports hub was, that the station was flipping before almost anyone else.

And I still felt it was very perilous.

I certainly no one thought that we would keep our jobs after they thought they were just

letting us run out of our contract, which would have been so dumb, which is one thing

for whoever the day that they told you.

Yes.

Oh yeah.

It was your reaction.

I was psyched.

My partner wasn't.

But I was psyched.

And the thing was, like, I could understand the audience going like, oh, these guys don't

know anything.

They're just going to run out their contract, thinking that radio contracts were like

these incredible albatrosses that the big companies couldn't get out of.

And that, I understood.

But when people in the industry, a lot of people in the industry were poking around under

the assumption that they were letting us just run our contract out, which would have

been so stupid.

So they would have flipped the station in a major top 10 market.

At the time, a huge move, national news, and they would have kept the morning show

in honor, in order to save six months worth of salary, yeah, yeah, six months, or something

of that nature, like, I mean, they resigned us, but like the six months, it was absolutely

ridiculous.

Did they resign you right away, or did they let the contract go?

You know what I mean?

Like did they tell you guys it's going to go all sports and we're going to renew your

contracts as well, rip up the, or add onto the day, they certainly didn't rip anything

up.

And paid a lot of money, I just, I know that we had some contractual security, like

I, there was something, yeah, like they weren't flipping it to get rid of us.

They weren't keeping us just to turn around and get rid of us.

They wouldn't have done that.

That would have been really stupid.

Because your first six months as a station is rather important, you know, like, and the

morning shows kind of an important day part, they obviously had a plan with many, many

meetings.

Many meetings.

I mean, yeah.

And you don't understand anything.

Yeah.

What are you talking about?

It wasn't something that, it was daily, it was what we had daily meetings for a year.

Yep.

After every show, we had, and not a show meeting, we had to go meet with the program director,

which wasn't a bad idea, but we just had to do it.

I mean, they had the, the guy from CBS, the, I forget his name, the head guy.

Turn off.

Yeah.

Turn off.

They had turned off in town, like it was like a big deal.

So in, in John's right, like we, I mean, there was hours and hours of meetings and days

of meetings, months of meetings, like it wasn't something that they were just doing on

a whim.

Things are a little bit different now, like when there was the change with the morning

show this time, there was really nothing.

It was just like, hey, let me do whatever I wanted.

So that was nice in comparison, but the idea that they weren't going to keep us was nuts.

But anyway, Hardy didn't have that security.

And so he had to scramble, and you know, he was doing a show with Truppiano, and he was

doing weekends, and he was doing production, and he was doing all this stuff.

So he was picking up all these other jobs.

So he had the job with Sirius, and he had the golf club, and he had all this stuff.

And then he ended up getting the update job on mid days, but he kept all these other

gigs.

And these other jobs don't pay any money.

Because I remember, I went to my age in one time, because it might have been because

of Hardy.

I was like, hey, you know, all these people are on satellite radio, and I hear it's very

quick.

Should I be doing something on satellite radio, like DJing on satellite radio, and my

agent said, it wouldn't be worth the setting up the equipment.

Really?

Yeah.

Because I don't mean this to disparage Hardy.

I mean, this in that it proves my point.

Hardy feels the obligation to take every job that is offered to him.

And part of that is he's a very midwestern dad type between the golf, and everything

else and the way he dresses and everything that he's a very midwestern dad type.

And part of that personality is that he needs to take every job.

So I have had discussions with him on a couple of occasions saying, you know, you can stop

this.

He's up a little bit.

Yeah, like if this is a pain in the ass, you can stop this.

But the golf club lives on.

Like I didn't even know he still went and did TV.

Like I had no idea he still went and did TV because I don't see it, but they put, like

he'll come in and he'll go, I did TV last night, like on Friday night, when you went out

on Friday night to do TV, right?

Okay.

Like, you know, like, I mean, it doesn't pay a lot of money, you know, it's not like you

need that exposure.

It's a pain in the ass to get to.

Well, it's a need.

I'm now still used to be a huge part of your DNA, too, you know, I think you just feel

like an obligation to, I have to do this.

I have to keep going.

I have to do this.

Well, in his case, this isn't true, but in some cases, it's better for your career not

to do all of that stuff.

It's not, that's not what I'm saying about him, but just in some cases, more is not necessarily

better.

We'll see what happens with Stephen A Smith.

There is a point, there is a point where there is a line of over exaggeration and over

exaggeration, especially with the internet.

You know, I don't know if it's the best, we'll see, but I, and this isn't hardy, but just

in terms of like, people that are national, I don't know if it's a good idea to constantly

be being consumed.

I think that that there's a, there has to be a burnout rate with that, but who knows?

But hardy, he loves Las Vegas.

I believe he met his wife in Las Vegas.

Isn't that right, Adam?

They met in Las Vegas for the meeting Albuquerque.

No, I believe they met in Las Vegas.

Right.

Yeah.

So, I mean, the two of them, maybe a second marriage.

Was it like to hang over?

I don't think it was like, well, I'm sure there were moments of Hardy's time in Las Vegas

that were similar to the hangover from the stories that he tells.

Right.

You, Kirk, as well.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What are the chances that Adam and Hardy both worked in Albuquerque, New Mexico?

Yeah.

Same station.

Together?

That's what makes it crazy.

Like two years apart, he was there from like 96 to 98 and I got there in 2000.

Wow.

And like worked with people he worked with who would tell stories and they'd be like,

Oh, I'm going to Vegas for the week.

I'm going to go visit Hardy.

I was like, who's Hardy?

Oh, he used to work here.

He kind of had your job before you were here.

Yeah.

And they both here.

Yeah.

Albuquerque, New Mexico.

That's pretty cool.

Like a nothing city.

Market 72, baby.

Yeah.

It couldn't be more far removed from anything else because it's not like a hard

herd.

No.

Or something like that.

A fraction drive six hours and that's what you get to what's next.

Like six hours in North is the Denver six hours, you know, west to the Grand Canyon.

Like it's not near anything.

Right.

So like you couldn't be a more random city and the two of them who now work for the

same show work that the same station at different times in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Yeah.

That is.

Yeah.

I mean, I worked in Lawrence with other people had worked there like Stevie Holman's in

town.

You know, does the hawks.

He learned a hawks.

I he worked there before I worked there up in Lawrence, but that's like, but Lawrence

doesn't count as the job because like I worked in coming Georgia, but that doesn't really

count.

Albuquerque is like a job that you move for.

Yeah.

And that you're like working at like a real radio station.

That's an Albuquerque because I've only really worked in Atlanta in Boston.

Like a hotshot.

Yeah.

You only made your markets.

Yeah.

It's pretty cool.

Yeah.

Let's make you special.

Work around over there in Albuquerque got to drive by highland high where beavers and

butthead went to high school highland high.

They were supposed to be in Albuquerque.

I had no idea.

Is that right?

It's it's that's where my judge is from.

No, I thought he was from Austin.

No, I think I forget that it's it's one of the other where either it was in spot.

He grew up in Albuquerque, but like the fictional town is some mix of Albuquerque and

some what some Texas town.

Did you guys take great pride in that?

Oh, all the time.

Now everybody, anybody I tell that I lived there who's breaking bad as like, yes, I've

watched breaking bad.

Yes.

Oh, they make that connection.

I asked great.

Yeah.

But yeah, I know where that is.

I'm breaking bad.

I lived there.

Oh, no, he's from Albuquerque.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

My judge is from Albuquerque.

So like the fiction, I think the fictional town of whatever Texas town that beavers and

butthead are in his base primarily on Albuquerque.

Oh.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now, did you meet your wife in Albuquerque?

No.

No, we met before then and we moved out there together.

Oh, that's nice.

She moved to Albuquerque with you.

Yeah.

That's so sweet.

That had to be dedication.

That had to be.

That's a big thing.

That had to be a tough, tough ask.

It was.

Although it's for when I, when I was offered the job, I actually, I was like, all right.

So this looks like it's going to be a good job.

And she had a friend of the time who lived in Boulder, Colorado.

So I was like, why don't you fly out and spend a weekend there and see if it's a place

you could stand to live for a couple of years.

And she did.

Her friend came down and they hung around.

She actually came back.

She's like, I already got us in a apartment.

I was like, what'd you do there?

She was in marketing.

Wow.

Yeah.

She had a really good job.

And so you did that and then you entered a contest to be a WBCN DJ.

That's right.

That's right.

DJ search bit night through my hat on the ring for that, which was interesting.

And then I'm getting the job for that.

So.

Did any other names of no participating in that that you beat out?

Yes.

I'm not going to remember who they were.

They were not.

No, no.

Well, let's say they did.

Let's say they had like 60 people like circle through that, you know, kind of guest

DJ thing.

There were a dozen of us that were actually in the industry working that had a shot

to get the job.

Also, it was like local celebrities, local musicians and stuff like that.

Who was like, who is a local celebrity?

Oh, Peter Wolf, who apparently won't get up early to come in and do our show was,

I think one of the guest DJs there.

I think they got another, like, just like the Boston music scene type people, comedians

and such.

I know they had a few comedians going and do shows when he Clark probably did one.

Oh, I find that hard to believe, right?

No.

Well, maybe not because, you know, he's tight with home and Hillman said, no, no, you don't

get to go.

I went to Clark's and he didn't care, but yeah, it is funny.

The story that every time I see Lenny Clark, he'll go like, ah, I love the show, but, you

know, I can't do it because I'm friends with Hillman and I'm like, no one asked you to

do that.

I was just going to say, I didn't know we were calling you, sir, like, I appreciate

that you like the show or you're saying that you like the show, but I, but this, you are

not denying a appearance across, we just happen to be in the same room.

Um, you know, Peter Wolfe, I'm, I'm of the mind, Dan was at the Newton public library

a couple of weeks ago.

Really?

Well, I was there waiting for my daughter.

Yes.

He had a, he was dressed like a rocker guy, you know, like a, kind of like a black suit,

but like a rock suit with like a scarf or something.

That undeniable rock star.

Right.

And he had like, you know, Cheggy black hair, obviously, the man would dye his hair.

He's a, a former rock star and a hat, like a rock hat, like a bluesy hat, but he had

a black like COVID mask and I went, oh my God, that, that, I think that's Peter Wolfe.

And he was looking at the, the magazines and I was sitting in a chair and he turned and

he looked at me and he, we made eye contact.

And then he gave a second look, like, there was almost a, like, you knew who you were?

No, maybe not that he knew he was, but that he thought we had met before or something

that my, my face, like, struck something, a spark of recognition, a spark of recognition.

And I, and I looked back at him and then he walked away because he knew he's old.

He's 58.

No, no.

Peter Wolfe is like 80 days easily.

Oh, he's a different Peter Wolfe.

We look at what, what, what Peter Wolfe, are you looking at an exhibition and songwriter?

So he's 58.

So when Love Stings came on in 77, he was seven.

Seven years old.

All right.

Actually, you know what?

Okay.

Okay.

Seven year old probably could have written that song.

Easy.

Yeah.

Love Stings.

All right.

Easy, everybody.

I'm just a fillet.

He's 58 years old.

Peter Wolfe.

Right.

Remember, they did centerfold when he was 12 and he was headlining the garden with the J.

Osman when he was three years old.

I saw him in the garden.

Yes.

I'm sure you did.

That's a, wow.

How about that?

Uh, but if he was at the Newton library, I would highly encourage, I would, I'd highly

encourage him.

I would like him to come in and listen to these, these listeners submitted songs.

It would be great if he came in.

I've, I've struck out Kay Hanley's on the West Coast.

Bill Janovitz can't do it.

Um, I've, I've reached out.

Who's the guy from, uh, the guy who ended up singing for Boston for a while, but saying

in, uh, you mean Van Halen, Gary Sherron?

No, no, yes.

Yes.

But there's another one.

The, the first guy.

Striper.

Is that who we wanted again?

Oh, Matthew sweet.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That, that was a no, uh, uh, uh, uh, Michael sweet.

I think it is.

He said no.

Yeah.

That was, uh, no ghosted.

Nothing.

But I did reach out to Gary Sherron yesterday to see if he'll come in.

I haven't heard anything back yet.

That wouldn't be bad.

I just kind of want like a random rock guy.

I mean, I'm not going to make fun of him or anything.

Yeah.

I just, I just thought that that would be fun.

I think it's a great idea.

I just, it's, it's a little, it's a little disappointing that everybody is either too busy

or can't do it or can't make it work in their schedules.

I don't know.

Yeah.

But they live in town.

Yeah.

Like everybody were reaching out to his local, like I'm pretty sure Gary Sherron's on the

North Shore.

You know, we know Peter Wolf is local.

Janivitz is local.

Janivitz sells, uh, really, he's a real steak.

I know.

Very successful and still does.

And he's from Buffalo.

Tom.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And he said no.

Yeah.

Well, he, I, because he had an open house.

I mean, what's the problem?

That's what I was saying.

I'm like, I don't know these.

No, no, open house.

And 9 a.m.

But, you know,

because I, which pumps me out, because like I'm a huge fan of that band and of him.

And if I'm not, I would like to have had him come in.

So if it was the guy from Buffalo, Tom, I'd almost be disappointed, which makes it doubly

insulting.

Because I would have been, if it was the Buffalo, I don't even know if I know a song by Buffalo

Tom.

Yeah.

You know, we, we play, uh, uh, one of the songs of soda jerk as a rejoin.

Yeah.

But that doesn't necessarily mean that I know the song.

I would know it as a rejoin, but not as the actual song.

Right.

I've heard the band Buffalo Tom, I've heard of the band Buffalo Tom, but they're, it's

very possible.

I've not heard one of their songs.

I didn't listen to college radio.

They weren't a band that any of my friends liked.

I'm not from around here.

So I mean, you have to understand that it's quite possible, but I did not know who Buffalo.

I knew the band's name.

Well, you know extreme.

So hold on.

That I know.

And so hold out hope that your own gets back and says, yes, other than that, I don't

know, man.

Like that's a half a dozen that we've tried to get to get to come on and, because I

could get obviously esoteric, but he, he, we have him on all the time and I, I mean,

he's great.

Yeah.

And then, you know, I, I still know him from the dropkick Murphy's.

We're not like really friends anymore, but I still know him.

I could ask him.

You hadn't brought up esoteric before that actually makes sense because we haven't had him

on in a while.

I know.

It just, I was thinking that it would be kind of funny.

It was more like to have Peter Wolff on, like I just thought that that would be kind

of interesting.

I get it.

And I agree.

And it's not because like he's a bigger, it was really Peter Wolff.

Like I'd rather have esoteric kind of than the guy from Buffalo Tom.

But even Kay Hanley, just because we've never had her on.

Yeah.

And she would have been great.

Yeah.

And it's just like such a random like artist to like have on like I just, you know what

I'm saying?

He one knows that song, right.

You know, Buffalo Tom didn't have a song like that, especially since he's not doing it.

Now I won't have even if he says no, I won't have a big red socks face.

Oh, you don't say I moved here and as soon as my, my space was invented, I knew that

she was a big red socks fan because you writers and television sports guys couldn't get

enough of her.

That's right.

Sorry.

Well, I thought it was quite frankly a little sexist.

Well, there's others that are rock stars that are red socks fans that I like to.

Yeah.

You didn't name them just now.

Peter Wolff.

The guy from England, who's only 58.

Okay.

It's very good.

By the way, I might have, by the way, like in the 80s, he saw them in the 80s and he still

thought that he was 50.

All right.

So I didn't put two and two together for it.

Sorry.

You were actually older than me on a Friday morning.

Yeah.

You know, sorry.

What is attack like you?

What?

Well, you had to work for it.

What's your idea?

I'll tell it.

Adam Lee.

I'm coming in.

We're going to break here anyway.

You can't say it on the year.

No.

Why not?

Why not?

I'm trying to help you guys.

You want to help you not?

What if you say it on the year?

It's going to blow it.

Maybe.

Look, if you got something for us to do Monday, I'm all ears and we're looking to fill

blocks here.

So I'll come in.

Wait.

Who?

Huh?

Who are you talking about?

The audience is.

It won't stop me.

I don't know.

About what?

About maybe helping you guys get somebody in here, studio.

What are the people we've just named?

Are you a musician or someone?

Yeah.

Peter Wolfe?

No.

Who's he?

It's not K-Han.

James Taylor.

The other Peter Wolfe.

I love James Taylor.

There you go.

That'll be awesome.

Let's get James Taylor in here.

I've talked to James Taylor.

He's in here.

He's around.

Really funny.

Call James Taylor.

Wait.

Oh, there haven't James Taylor on it.

We wouldn't even be talking to him about anything like important.

We just be like, hey, listen to these songs.

Yeah.

There's your idea of Fred.

Let's workshop that.

James Taylor is around noon.

So I mean, I've talked to James Taylor before.

All right.

Like the James Taylor or another James Taylor.

The James Taylor.

I cared about just as much as any other James Taylor when I met him.

Nice guy.

But I mean, I didn't care about James Taylor.

He's terrible.

Oh, yes.

He is.

I love him.

Oh, no, you don't.

I do too.

I don't believe.

I don't believe you.

I don't believe you.

You know why?

No.

You have a penis.

I don't believe you.

Well, here we go.

Oh, always comes back to that.

Taylor with you, Fred.

Yes.

That thing that half the population has.

It's very difficult.

I didn't mean to get so sexual so early, Dan.

I apologize.

Don't do parents in their cars.

Right.

But they're kids.

Because now you have to address to your kid that kids.

Sorry.

Some people are penises.

And this is.

I mean, and that's a naughty thing.

And you should be ashamed.

That's good.

That's serial killer down the street.

Oh, man.

That's good.

Blashing out out of shame.

Okay.

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Alright, it was opening day.

Yes, it was opening day.

More specifically, opening day for the Red Sox Fred,

they began their regular season yesterday in Cincinnati against Terry Francona's Reds.

Gary Crochet made his second consecutive game one start for the Sox against Lefty Andrew Abbott,

who believe it or not, made the All-Star game last year and posted an ERA of under three for the Reds last season.

Sox had threats in the first two winnings, but this was a scoreless game all the way into the bottom of the sixth.

With one out, the Reds loaded the bases off Crochet with a walk at a pair of singles.

Crochet was nearing his pitch limit for the day and had to face a Hennios Suarez,

who had 49 homers last season and Spencer Steer.

These were the five and six hitters in the Reds lineup, scoreless game, Crochet nearing 80 pitches.

He's got a couple of swing and misses from Steer,

whatever he feels best about as far as throwing a strike here.

Here's the payoff pitch.

Swine in a mess, struck him out.

Cutter.

A cutter at 90 to fan him and a leave of loaded as Crochet strikes out Suarez and Steer.

Three to pitch, 90 by an hour cutter, top of the zone and Crochet got out of it and kept the game scoreless.

And that worked really well because in the top of the seventh Marcelo Mayor led off with a pinch hit,

double to the gap and left center.

He was bunded to third and that brought up Sadan Ruffiello, who had a count of one and two.

Up the middle base hit.

The run is in.

Myers scores.

Stayed on an opening day.

Does what he did so often last year.

Comes up with a very meaningful hit and a red socks are on the board, one to nothing.

They took that one nothing lead.

Justin Slayton came on in relief.

He shut out the reds in the seventh.

Garrett Whitlock stranded a runner at second in the eighth by striking out Suarez again.

And we went to the ninth with the socks still up, one nothing.

And here's where the ABS system came in handy.

Marcelo Mayor, single to lead off.

But after that came two quickouts.

So Roman Anthony came up Fred in a big spot.

He worked a three and two count.

He was called out on strikes,

appealed it by touching his helmet.

And ABS found that the pitch was less than a foot low.

About five inches low.

So instead of the inning being over and the socks with a one nothing lead,

they were two runners on for Trevor Story.

And a line driving a base into the left.

Here comes Meyer. He will score.

Almost stumbled around third base,

but he is in to make a two to nothing and a giant run driven in by Trevor Story.

Reds socks two in the reds nothing.

And coming with two down in the ninth.

Jaren Durand singled in another run right after that.

Or all this chap and got the side in order in the bottom of the ninth.

And the red socks win the opener three to nothing.

I thought it was a, you know, again, that's as good as you can get.

When it comes to if you're a red socks fan watching that game,

that's exactly how you want it to play out.

You got crochet to come up big when he needed to be big.

And that final inning there with the two strikeouts with the bases loaded.

That's why he's your ace.

Then you had the bullpen behind you to get it down with slate and Whitlock.

And then closing it out with Chapman.

And then on offense, you got just enough Roman Anthony.

The thing we keep saying many, many times over and over again about Anthony is just that,

you know, he's kind of the your face of the franchise now.

And if you look at all the statistics around his day,

it's it's pretty remarkable.

Most recent players to reach base four plus times on opening day at the age of 21 or younger.

And the list includes Roman Anthony, Joe Maurer, Ken Griffey Jr.,

Delano de Shields, Roberto Alamar, Gary Carter.

How many of those are Hall of Famers?

So everything you saw, you had to like from that game.

And then we saw the ABS challenge system.

That's why it's in place.

If you're a baseball fan, it's easy.

It's quick.

Instead of, you know, having a one nothing lead going into that ninth inning,

what have you get out of there with the three nothing lead?

Thanks to the reversal call by Anthony.

And a couple of hits later from story in Durand, you had your ballgame.

So that's why everything fell into place.

It's one game, yes.

But it's certainly a nice start if you're a Red Sox fan.

Dan, I have to ask you a question.

And Fred, I find this very odd.

Dan, when he goes to games, we'll score those games.

And, you know, he's got a whole folders worth of it.

But as I look at Dan, and I look at his work directly in front of me,

he's got a scorecard.

And he scored the game yesterday.

I see all the scribbles over there.

You weren't at the game.

The game was in Cincinnati yesterday.

Dan, why did you score the game?

You know, two couple of things.

I knew I was coming in here today.

So I'd like to have that as a reference.

But I'd like to do that.

Where else would you find out what happened?

When I'm at work, I just like to have it.

You know, I had done my story for the day that was already going to run at 545.

And I just was sitting there saying, you know, it's a good day.

It's opening day.

I like to follow along here.

So I just did the lineup and wrote my notes and everything else.

He's the evil thoughts out.

You know, that's that's one theory.

Yeah, he occupies his mind.

Yeah, he had done it.

I'm not the only one in your audience that kept scoring.

He did.

You're one of the one of the, there might be a dozen.

It might be three.

Yes.

Right?

If you're sitting at home scoring the game, I love on the announcer.

Say that too.

If you're scoring at home, they say it's by yourself.

Yes.

They say sarcastically, but they did.

Yes.

Yes.

But there is something you, you're obviously fleeing from something mentally.

It's how you get into a meditative state.

Are you, do you save that?

Are you laminating that?

Or is that not a toss?

No, he's going to toss it.

It served its purpose, which was to keep the bad thoughts away for the two and a half hours.

But F9, F9, F9.

Yeah, it's right.

Sam still loves me.

F9, F9, F9.

So he had his, he already had his report done for 545.

So he's like, now, now life has no meaning.

Pam, I'll be home when I can.

Let's pretend to stay through the selection.

Let's pretend that I have an encyclopedia, I have to have an encyclopedia

acknowledge of what happened during game one of 162.

All right.

So the red socks.

That's good.

Red socks, tracking.

Red shoes too.

Five, three, three, three nothing.

Was it a slider?

Was it a slider?

Can we get some clarification on that?

You're saying cutter, but I don't know.

Oh, man.

The teams have today off.

They'll put, they'll play again tomorrow and Sunday.

Sonny Gray against the reds tomorrow afternoon.

We get time for a little bit of more baseball here.

Look, can I ask Fred a one quick question?

Yeah, sure.

That I think timely.

I've had more people come up to me and just criticize the heck out of Sonny Gray.

Tell me what red socks fans are going to see in Sonny Gray, Fred.

What is their criticism?

They think these socks.

Why?

I don't know.

No, he doesn't look up his numbers.

Look, he had to adapt these older, he's not a flamethrower anymore.

But he's got, he's a durable control.

He's got, he's a professional pitcher.

He was the opening day starter for the Cardinals last year.

You got an opening day starter, who is your second or third starter?

What's the problem?

I don't understand why.

He was, he's been an all-star like, if not last year, not in a terribly long time ago.

He's got like eight pitches, too.

I thought he, yeah, he, that's what he does.

He's an older guy who, who pitches on savvy, which in a lot of ways is a good thing for a team

that's looking to make a playoff run because I don't believe he's, he's not likely to get injured.

He's not likely to fade down the stretch.

And he's a professional pitcher.

You know, pinpoint control.

He's, like you said, he's a master of quite a few pitches.

I don't, I don't understand, is it because he's not 22 throwing 100 miles an hour.

I mean, he gets by on Guile, which is more dependable than a guy that throws 100 miles an hour and his arm is going to fall off.

Crochet is great, but you know, Crochet could fade down the stretch.

Crochet could, I mean, these are, you got two guys that you went out and traded for and got in free agency that you would hope, or healthy all season.

So I don't know, I don't know what to, there was a lot of pushback on sunny gray.

I don't think that's necessarily fair.

Look, he's not here at Crochet, right?

But you traded for him.

And he's not, you know, a young star pitcher because they're not available.

Ryan wasn't available.

The twins traded everyone off their team, but they wouldn't trade him.

So you got sunny gray.

Who, if you pitch for the Cardinals again this year, would have been the opening day starter for the Cardinals.

And they're not very good, but he's, it's a one of 30 teams and he was the opening day starter.

I mean, yeah, there's been a lot of that.

I don't understand why.

I don't understand why he's people don't like him more, but there you go.

You want to stop here?

You want to do a little bit more baseball?

We don't have to do the whole thing because we got basketball, but suffices to say,

skiing's got roughed up yesterday.

He only made it two thirds of an inning because of two badly misplaced flyballs by O'Neal Cruz.

He wasn't as bad as the numbers would indicate.

He wasn't as bad as the numbers would indicate, but he wasn't good.

No, the real story of this game was actually before it.

The match brought in Christopher Jackson from Broadway show Hamilton to sing the national anthem.

Here's what it sound like.

So proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming.

Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight.

What so proudly we hailed were so gallantly streaming.

This guy is a Broadway performer.

You'd figure he has some experience singing live in front of an audience.

He's 50 years old too.

It's not like he has that youth excuse.

It's one of those times where your brain completely locks up and you freeze.

I don't know.

I was at spring training and they do the national anthem and then they do America the beautiful.

And they stopped serving food during those times.

And people take their hats off and put them on their chest.

And I'm like, I get it for the national anthem.

You don't get to with these.

Like keep the commerce going.

Okay, why does that bother you?

Because it's like think about that.

You're at spring training.

It's a relaxed atmosphere.

People pay respect to that.

You can't do two songs.

How long is America the beautiful?

You can do whatever you want.

You can play as many songs you want, but business should still keep going.

I just paused for a minute Fred.

Did you have to have your hot dog then?

Yes.

I wanted to walk around.

I didn't want to be looked upon as anti-American because I walked around.

I mean, who even knew they were going to play it?

By the way, Sonny Gray was second and say young voting two years ago in the NL.

That's what I asked you for.

I knew you'd come through.

I listen.

I know you don't think so, but I listen.

So I don't know.

I really don't know what the problem is.

Yeah.

And it's not like it's like that he was, you know, getting it up there.

I don't know.

You know, he's the same guy as he was then.

He wasn't throwing hard then.

He was throwing hard when he was a kid, but not for a while.

All right.

Very good.

You had a 2.790 R.A.

I mean, he's pretty good.

All right.

That guy should have franked Rebendant, right?

Right.

All the bombs at the end.

I don't know, Dan.

Why'd you leave your headphones on while he was playing that?

Why'd you?

A little sense into this morning.

Fred, coming through it back at you.

Just because you said it and everyone else has to think it's gospel.

No, I challenged you.

We'll be back.

This is going to be good.

Seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven.

I don't know why you went in the tag.

First one, okay.

That's not right.

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These countries are bunch of buffoons that don't know rules.

You ready to hit the sports app?

Dan was really letting me have it in the break.

It's gonna be weird the whole show now.

I know.

No, you're giving me the business about not stopping walking during America the beautiful.

And thinking that they should still serve sodas and food during America the beautiful.

Who you explaining that was being played on a boom box over a crappy PA system.

Yeah, I thought it was a bit much.

Maybe we could keep we could keep moving here.

Next break we'll talk more.

Keep the keep.

Listen, if you don't want tax money pouring in, I mean, we are at war.

We could use some of that tax money.

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All right.

Tonight's the big night for the NCAA, but they did play last night.

Sweet 16 began last night with four games to a piece in San Jose in Houston.

The true Cinderella, this tournament was 11 C Texas.

They battled from a spot in the first four to get themselves to a game with Purdue.

And Cinderella.

Texas.

Cinderella.

From the first four Fred from the first four under last team's added.

Last program's added to the tournament, but yes.

Yes, this one tied in the closing seconds.

Smith working against Weber dribbles right puts up a run or right of the lane.

Thanks.

Off tip by coffin.

Red is good.

Point seven to go.

79 77 Purdue.

Senior forward trade.

Coffman ran tipped in a Braden Smith miss with 0.7 seconds left Purdue escaped with a

79 77 wins.

So they are so until you lead eight odd coaching during these games.

We'll get to one.

But so Texas has got a big kid.

That big center, but he can't he've been struggling at the free throw line.

But I'm not sure how the last possession played out, but he was off the court.

The Matas vocal legadillas or whatever the hell his name is.

He was off the court during that.

Mm-hmm.

And that was a put back by Purdue.

Yes.

So you would think now they were Texas was getting out rebounded all night, but you would think

that they would have the big man in there.

First thing Charles Barkley said when they went to in the studio.

The very first thing I said.

Well, terrible coaching.

You should have had the big guy in there.

How about I swear to God I didn't see that.

True.

I swear to God I did not say that I analyze.

I did not see him analyze it.

Maybe I wouldn't have said it if I saw him analyze it.

Because I would just thought I was just mimicking him.

Now you've ruined it for me.

Okay.

No, but he wasn't on the court and they were getting out rebound.

I watched this game.

They were getting out rebounded all night.

And I don't I can't I don't produce not very good.

That's the thing.

I know they won the big 10 tournament.

And I know they were preseason number one.

But they haven't looked good in this tournament.

But yet here they are squeaking by.

They're going to get destroyed.

Well, here's the thing.

They're through to the elite eight.

They'd play either Arizona on the top seed or Arkansas.

The Wildcats ended this game.

A perfect 15 and 0 a non conference play.

They had won nine straight.

They had only one loss all season in regulation.

And they also had no trouble with John Calipari's Arkansas razor back.

He's into the front court.

Up top it goes to Pete.

Need to let the traffic clear.

Get it to court.

Shake off court.

Shake off back to Pete.

Driving on the right side of the win for the two hand slam.

Arizona didn't just beat Arkansas.

They ran them off the floor.

They beat them 109 88.

No contest.

So Purdue should lose that game based on what we've seen.

You know, Purdue is going to get absolutely destroyed.

It obliterated.

So on the other side, ninth seeded Iowa,

who beat defending champion Florida by one point in the two of the tournament.

Real powerhouse matchup.

They played Nebraska in a game that everyone yawned at just by reading.

Who the two teams are playing for a birthday elite eight.

However white people.

Yes.

No shortage of white people on the board.

This game.

But this game was interesting for one reason.

Iowa led 71 68 with just under a minute to go.

They had the ball.

And they beat Nebraska.

And 77 71.

But listen to this.

Marcus Lawrence.

You put all that.

Look at this pass.

Oh my goodness.

What happened?

Well, that was a major defensive play.

But there was a reason for that.

Iowa with that dunk went up by five.

And Nebraska never recovered.

The reason Iowa got that dunk by Volgaris is because Nebraska had only four players on the floor.

Fred Hoyberg did send out a fifth player.

It's inexcusable.

That's really inexcusable.

That's there's not even a re obviously a reason for that.

And I couldn't be happier.

Nebraska beat Michigan State at home.

Yeah.

And stormed the court afterward.

You're in the big 10.

Yep.

They were undefeated at the time.

Like what Michigan State is.

They're in the same conference.

Now if you're like Oakland, not even Oakland should do that.

I get like if you're.

I don't know.

I can't even think of like Adrian College or something in Michigan.

You just stormed the court.

Yeah.

Nebraska your big 10 team.

The coach after in fairness.

The players in the coach after the game in the press conference were like could you stop doing that?

Like you know, we are a program that now Nebraska never won a tournament.

Never won a tournament game.

Right.

In basketball.

That's almost unfathomable with the size of that universe and the endowments that they get.

It's almost unfathomable.

So good for them for making it this far.

But at very JV operation going on over there.

The thing that is obvious as we move throughout this tournament and by the way Houston lost to Illinois 6555.

Another win for another big 10 school.

There are now 12 teams left in this tournament.

Five of them are from the big 10 Michigan and Michigan State play later today or later tonight.

So you have three big 10 teams in one last night.

There are still two big team 10 teams left.

I mean, this is what this tournament has turned into.

The big 10 is far and away the best conference in the country.

Yeah.

And Iowa was not a very good team in the big 10 either.

And they move on.

And now tonight is obviously the two marquee games.

St. John's against Duke and Michigan State against Yukon.

Both those games in Washington DC and our buddy I and Eagle gets to call both games.

That seems apropos.

We're going to watch it.

That is what I'm going to watch it at home on.

I guess on my phone.

No.

I'm going to go down to the I'm going to go down to the drugstore and watch the ticker tape.

I'll be watching WBZ television tonight.

But those are two excellent games.

Duke, Duke, St. John's and I take it.

It's very difficult.

It's a real Sophie's choice there.

Between Duke and St. John's because you have Rick Patino and then you have Duke.

John's collective.

Yeah.

I don't know how good a coach John Shire is.

And then he can recruit.

I'll tell you that.

Yeah.

Well, Duke can recruit.

That's NIO money.

You're not recruiting anything.

I don't think the bonds have went to.

Well, they said that he went to BYU because of the coach, but I don't know.

One other thing.

Duke or not.

I'm not anything.

I'm not anything.

I'm just a man.

I'm not a son.

And that's a gun me a hell of a game.

I guess Danny hurley.

Tom is in the coach.

From you.

You see all the dick that coaches.

You see on the cronon are all on the same are on a text chain.

Are they really?

That makes sense.

Like they all

Yeah.

But they put it all caps.

But is so does insane.

I love is so much is those my favorite coach of any sport of all time maybe.

And I love him.

Like he cries and I love it like everything he does.

If anyone else would do it, I would hate it.

But he doesn't seem like his big a prick as those two other guys.

No, you hear behind the scenes like he's a great guy.

Yeah, he doesn't seem like miserable.

Danny Hurley seems the most miserable out of the three.

He comes off as tortured and that's just by watching him, I mean, and he is.

His wife has done interviews saying, I have to keep him under wraps.

I have to constantly remind him that things aren't that bad.

I had this conversation with a guy and I'm over vacation.

Like those kids' childhoods, the Hurley boys, like,

broken up in New Jersey with that dad.

That couldn't have been any fun.

And then when you're Danny Hurley and you're in college and they're all chaining your

brother's name.

By the way, I mean, there's a, like, it's just all of them angry.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, you could just put him in like a year's worth of just therapy and just see where

you come out with.

You watch, you watch Bobby coach.

He's worse than Danny.

And I'll tell you, I have an experience with this.

Danny was the head coach at Wagyu, played in Bryant's conference.

So I saw Danny and Bobby together on the sideline when Wagner would come to Bryant.

The two of them never stopped screaming.

And Bobby, you just got fired at Arizona State after seven or eight years, screams more

than Danny does.

He's worse.

That's surprising.

Oh, my God.

He's awful.

That's surprising because Danny Hurley looks like he's gonna, I don't know why you'd

want to play for.

I'm sure it's, he's not.

There's got to be a way he's a good coach, but I don't know why you'd want to play

for.

He's not Bobby night, but I don't know why you want to play for Bobby night.

I don't know why anyone played for him.

But then you'll get like dads that are like, er, he's the greatest.

All right.

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