April 2, 2025 • 38 mins
Sports announcer, Ian Eagle joins the show ahead of the Final Four of March Madness! How impressive has it been to see Duke going from Mike Krzyzewski to Jon Scheyer, and much more. Jessamyn joins in on the fun as Marc heads to the airport to catch a flight to San Antonio for the Final Four! Kidd catches up w/ Ian Furness as he shares what he has planned on his show!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He might not even be the best played by play
broadcaster in his own household. Nonetheless, we'll get to that
coming up as well, but he is the voice of
March Maddness and basically the face of CBS Sports. The
great Iron Eagle joining us right now on the Beacon
Plumbing hotline.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Iron.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Great to have you back on. You were my first
guests on my first or second show here. I'll never
forget my first and you will certainly not be the last.
But it's good to have you back on again. And
here we are for the second time in March Madness history.
Four number one seed. You couldn't I mean, the suits
at the network couldn't have got anything better. Florida Auburn
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Duke Houston on Saturday, an excellent job with Grant Hill
and Bill Raftury in the South Regional in Atlanta over
the weekend.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Stan, I think mark the four best teams in college basketball.
So it's not just chalk chalk, chalk chalk. Yeah, it's
actually the four highest quality teams that we have in
the nation right now. So it's always a double edged sword.
We love upsets, we love Cinderella stories, but you don't
love them as much when it goes deeper into the
tournament and you get lopsided games in the Sweet sixteen,
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or blowouts in the Elite eight, or someone that's out
kicked their coverage in the Final four. Here we got
a level playing field. You got two teams that know
each other really well, Florida and Auburn out of the SEC.
And then you've got the top offense in the country
and Duke the top defense in the country in Houston.
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Duke's defense is legit. They've bought in under John Shire,
and houston offense is better than people probably give them
credit for. So I think it's sizing up to be
a fantastic Final Four. And the hope is we get
some really entertaining basketball down in San Antonio.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
What did you see as you got to see Auburn
go through the entire state of Michigan over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
First Michigan and when they.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Were losing into the second half, they made a resounding
comeback guy in and then on Sunday, a very tough
game against uh you know, a really tough tom Izzo team.
He said it wasn't one of his best teams, but
they came out. Jace Richardson and but too much. Jeni
Broom and I was doing some research. I in Auburn
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has an older starting lineup than the stars on the
Detroit Pistons. No literally though, Like you're talking Kate Cunningham,
Jalen Durham, Jayden Ivy, and Ron Holland they're older than
those guys.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
No, I was shocked. When I did my research, I
realized that Janni Room went to high school with Bill Raftery.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Wow, it was really.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
The reality for Auburn is that they are a really
loose group. If you go to their practices, you'll be
blown away how loose they are. They're always smiling, they're
always cracking jokes. There's a lot to that. When it works.
When it doesn't, When you get into the heat of
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battle and now you can't flip the switch and you
can't get into that serious mentality, that's when it becomes
a problem. But I think Ruthtral has a tremendous handle
on his team. The way that he described it to us,
these guys were not McDonald's all Americans, they were not
blue Chippers. All of them have a story behind them.
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They've all come from somewhere else other than Pettiford. Basically
everybody on this team was somewhere else Juco D two
Mid Major, and they've come together and there's a certain
gratitude that they all have to be a part of
this and to feel like there's a real team concept
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to who they are. Their guard play is really good.
Denver Jones and to Hot Pettiford make a bunch of
game winning plays. And then Broom and card Well bring
the maturity. They bring the experience, and they bring the muscle.
They can control the interior. They are third in America
and block shots. Cardwell's one of the best rebounders in
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the country. Broom is a double double machine. And then
they have an X factor in Baker Mazara who he
could get it rolling where he's seven of nine from
the field and make five threes, or he could be
two of eleven and take another bat shot after another
bat shot. You're not quite sure what you're gonna get
with him, day in and day out.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Iron Eagle the voice and face of March Madness on CBS.
Here on MJ in the Midday by from Jimmy zah
First and the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. You know this is
also a monumental moment. This is the first time in
Final Four history three Jewish coaches have made it to
the head coaches have made to the Final four, the
great Bruce Pearl, Todd Golden and John Shire. So that
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should not be that cannot be overstated enough, which is awesome.
I gotta tell you though about Todd Golden Iron. You
look at this guy and you know, you remember the
game against Yukon where I really thought Dan Hurley was like, listen,
you want the throne, come get it, and I thought
Yukon had him dead to water. And it's like they
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did that rope adult Muhammad Ali thing with I think
it was against George Foreman. They took Yukon's best punches
for thirty eight minutes and they came out swinging and
sort of it was almost like the same thing that
happened against Texas Tech on Saturday, and they did it.
And here the Florida Gators are going back to their
first Final Four since Billy Donovan in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Yeah, it tremendous story. It's funny how the personal side
comes into play. You start in my position remembering certain
instances calling the NCAA tournament nineteen ninety eight was my
first year, so we're talking about twenty seven years of
doing this event, and Todd Golden was a player on
Saint Mary's. I vividly remember doing my prep for the
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NCAA tournament and writing in the name Todd Golden and
even thinking in the moment, man, what a what a
cool name. There's a lot to do with that. If
he plays a big role in the Saint Mary's ended
up getting clipped that year, then he becomes a coach.
He crossed pads with Bruce Pearl. He's his first director
of basketball operations at Auburn because he had been an
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assistant at Columbia. They had had some connection with the
Macabea games in Israel and there was a real relationship there.
And that was just the beginning of this coaching journey
for Golden, who ends up at San Francisco as the
head coach. Again. You start drawing on personal experiences for
me and you catalog all these moments. I had them
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in the tournament just a few years ago. Three years ago,
they played Murray State in the first round. It was
a tremendous game. It goes to overtime. The winner was
going to play Saint Peter's, who upset Kentucky, so it
looked like either team is gonna have a chance to
go to the Sweet sixteen. They end up losing the
game in Oteam or State loses the Saint Peter. Saint
Peter's beats Perdue in the Sweet sixteen, and then they
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get crushed by North Carolina in the Elite eight in Philadelphia.
But all of these things that bounce around in your
head and now boom, he's in Florida and he's rebuilt
this thing really quickly. This is year three for Todd Golden.
Florida was a little bit of an afterthought in the SEC.
We know they have some great history and you mentioned
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Billy Donovan, but recent years the success had not been there.
So for him to do this very similar in the
Auburn mentality. These are mostly guys that team from other places.
Will Richard and Walter Clayton Junior, and Elijah Martin and
Ruben Chittingalude. They're all from other places. And that is
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where we are in college basketball. You have to evaluate
talent and you have to bring them to get a
find a collaboration, and Todd Golden has done that.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
No question about it.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Iron Eagle very well said, the voice of March madis
on CBS right here on mj in the midday of
ninety three to three KJR coming to you live from
Jimmy's on first the SEC was able to get fourteen
teams in the tournament, able to get seven of the
final sweet sixteen, and now they've got two fifty percent
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of the final four. Now, the Big East back in
the day in nineteen eighty five had Georgetown, villanoven Saint John's.
So it's not like it's unprecedent to get two teams
in the final four. But overall, what has been your
thoughts all season long? Did the SEC live up to
the hype I in in this tournament?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yeah? They did. They did. There's no doubt about it.
They were the best team in the country, a best
conference in the country this year. There's always questions when
you get to the NCAA tournament where they just kicking
the stuffing out of one another, or are for a
really top level teams that will show themselves come Mark
and I think it was the latter. Even the other
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day the old Miss game that I did to me
that also shows you the depth of the Conference. Ole
Miss a team that easily could have pulled off the
win and advanced. They had Michigan State on the ropes
in the second half. They would have emerged in their
first ever Elite Eight, but it was not meant to
be for Chris Beard in company. But it did remind
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you that the SEC was the real deal. A Big ten.
I'm not sure there was a respect level this year
compared to previous years. I think the Big ten Dill
did a quit itself pretty well in the grand scheme
of things with Michigan and Michigan State and Purdue and
Maryland before all of the drama took place with the
coaching change. And look, the Big twelve. I think we'll
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get to it. I'm sure with Houston and they're carrying
the mantle right now. But I think there was quality
in the Big twelve. And I think all of these
teams Duke would not necessarily qualify because the conference wasn't
as good the ACC. But I still believe all four
teams are battle tested coming into this Final four, even Duke.
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What they did at a conference and what we've seen
during this tournament so far. The Blue Devils, you can't
say that well, we're just not sure yet. No, there
really could. They're elite offensively, and I think their defense
is what has got them here, to be perfectly honest,
because if the offense goes on a certain day, they
can still lean on their defense. It's been that high
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quality throughout the year, and I know John Shire really
preached it prior to the season, and they one hundred
percent bought in Ian.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You mentioned John Shire. Who would ever have thought to
replace arguably the goat Mike Krzyzewski and and really there's
been no drop off. I mean they're in you know,
you know coach k and his final soare he got
to the final four. They lost to North Carolina three
years ago, but here they are back in the final four.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
They always say you never want to replace the guy.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Well, Shire's done it, and some people can even argue
maybe he's even improved it considering you know, Duke over
the course of the last three or four years after
the zion Our J Barrett team.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Yeah, I think Mark it's one of the more underrated
things in this sport. When you have someone that is
so connected and associated with a program, it's not a
simple fix. It's not easy. Syracuse is going through it
right now in the post Jim Beheim era. There are
other programs that you could look towards the drop off
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after you had a Hall of fame coach leave North Carolina.
Hubert Davis did an excellent job, brought them to the
NCAA Championship. There was a drop off this year, and
he'll feel some heat, but I think North Carolina will
always be considered a blue blood and they'll still get
guys to go down there and be a part of
that program. But you can't snap your fingers and assume
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Duke would be great because of the name value. And
it just shows you John Schier, how smart he is,
how I think he understood the dynamic, How do you maneuver,
how do you handle Mike Skrzyzewski still living there, still
a part of it, and how do you embrace it
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without not falling into the shadows of him and his aura.
And it just sounds like he's balanced it out perfectly.
He's been his own person while also acknowledging that coach
k is still a big part of what Duke basketball
is all about. Last year we had them during their run,
they got to the Elite Aid, they caught a break
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when Jamal Sheched went down with an injury, the injured ankle,
and the Sweet sixteen against Houston, they won that game,
So we're seeing a rematch of last year's Sweet sixteen.
Duke recognized that they were not ready for a national championship,
and I think John Shire recognized it, not only going
out and getting Cooper Flag, but putting the right pieces
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around Flag and then dipping into the transfer portal in
a smart fashion. Role players not necessarily stars, not guys
that were the best team, best players on their teams.
If you look at it the transfers that they have,
these were not the highest scorers on their respective teams,
but they fit what Duke needed. Seon James and Malik
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Brown and Mason Gillis, they're all bringing a little something
that would help back up the likes of Flag and
Can Nipple and Malo Watch and the play of Proctor.
Everything has gone the way that John Shire visualized it
could go, and that's why they're one of the four
teams left standing.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Iron Eagle the voice of March Madness here on CBS Sports,
you know, And there was something which my boss alerted
me to that was making the rounds on social media
that your offspring, your son, and I can call him great,
especially after his performance in the Olympics last summer along
with Dwayne Wade.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Noah.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
There there's a thing where Noah, when he was really young,
was doing an imitation of his dad.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
For everybody out there here, it is.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
I would get home and it would be clean your room,
and I would say not today, and he would say
breakfast denied, and I'd say I want some eggs, and
then he would say.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Broken ankles and yolks.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
And I would say I'm not hungry, and then I'd
get grabbed.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
That's usually how I would go.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Was that true.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Yeah, that's a very fair depiction of completely. I never
denied the kid breakfast. Ever, there was a breakfast denied.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Ever.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
I've never never done that or said that in my life. No,
and the other part, No, it was a very nice kid.
He did not get grounded.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Oh well, well, I think he may.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
He may have overdramatized it.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Just a tad that by the way, he sound just
like you.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I mean, it was just oh, man, I thought I
was listening to you imitate you, which was just oh,
that is just.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Too much man. You gotta be so proud.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Hey, I also got to ask you that this is
your certainly not your second March Magic, but this is
your second one as the voice that you took over
for jim Nants. A year ago. Jim Nants had been
doing it. He had replaced Brent Musburger. After Musburger, I'll
never forget this after the UNLV beating Duke by thirty
in the National Championship Game in Denver, and I'll never
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forget Musburger with the late great Billy Packer goes.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I'll see you down the road, folks.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And now jim Nants took over, did an unbelievable job.
Here you are, does it ever? Do you ever just
stop it? Do you ever for one minute and they
gonna walk into you, know, like either last year or
you're going to walk into the Dome in San Antonio
on Saturday, Just for a second and pinch yourself and
just say, I can't believe that I am in this position.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Yeah, it's funny you bring it up because someone sent
me a picture last year that they just happened to
take as I was walking through the tunnel for the
Final Four in Phoenix, and it's me with my large
bag I have my entire life in that bag. When
you're on the road as much as I am, you
got to have a lot of stuff just in case.
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And I'm tugging this bag along and I'm walking up
the tunnel area and you can see the court and
some of the stands in the background, and it took
me back. I just happened to look at this picture
and showed it to my wife earlier today, and it
did take me back to a year ago and the
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excitement and the anticipation. And here's the thing mark for
me that will never change. I just have a sense
of one in doing this job. And I know I've
had people close to me and say, man, you do
so many games, why why? What take off? I love
the games. I enjoy the process. I like the preparation.
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I like the performance. I like being around arenas. I
like the sounds. I like all of it. It's a festival,
and I think if you can bring that to each broadcast,
it doesn't matter if it's a Final Four game or
if it's the Nets and Wizards on a Tuesday night.
I want to be there and I hope it comes
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across when I do the job. Jim Nantz did it
for thirty three years. That is unparalleled. No one will
ever touch that he was so closely associated with this event.
What I realized last year before the Final four began
was a reminder to myself, A. Enjoy it, b do
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it your way, don't try to be somebody else. Don't
try to change your style based on the fact that
the stage is bigger. Do it the way that you've
been doing it, and at the end of it, look
back and gain joy from it. Don't go in tight,
don't go in stressed, don't feel the weight of the
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world on your shoulders. Quite the opposite. So I have
a very gen like approach last year, and I imagine
that I'm gonna have the same approach this year.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Last thing I want to hit you with, so hypothetically,
Houston Duke, Florida Auburn Windsy, do you have sort of
of a precontrived thing that you're gonna say if like
the Gators take the chump out of San Antonio, I mean,
obviously something better than that. But or you know, in
the memory of five slam a Jema, you know the
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cougars cut down the nets for the first time. Do
you have something just on standby in case, you know,
for one of those four things that could happen Monday night.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, I'll keep going. I'll just start run down this
is a good fodder for me. The answer is no,
I don't, but I'll have some things marinating in my head.
I'll have some ideas and synopsis firing. I think it's
always a combination of things. You can have a sense
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of what you'd like to say, but you really can't
script it out or it's going to come across in
a very stilted manner. Even last week, once we knew
that the three number one seats were going to San
Antonio and the game that we were working was a
one versus two. So what's the word that kept popping up?
Chalk chalk, chalk chalk. So obviously I had that word
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in my head, and then I started thinking about San Antonio.
I was like, Oh, the river Walk. That rhymes there's
something there on the riverwalk, chalk on the riverwalk. So
if indeed Auburn won the game, I didn't think it
would be the front end of the call because the
headline is Auburn's going to the Final Four. But the
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secondary part of the call in my mind, something that
could be memorable and something that would resonate in some
way is wordplay. And if it's a rhyme, if it's
a literation, so to me, that's just made a lot
of sense. It's gonna be all chalk at the river Walk.
And that's what came out of my mouth.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
That was great.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Well, we can't wait to see what organic thing will
come out of your mouth on Saturday too. Great games.
I will be down there, thanks for the fine folks
at Westwood One. Headed down there right over to Sea
Tech Airport right now as we speak, and so I
appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I look forward to seeing you down there.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
And boy, you bring out a side that I haven't
seen with Grant Hale. You, him and Rath are just
like I feel like I speak on behalf of the
audience that we're in in a sports bar and we're
just sitting next to you guys, and you guys are
letting us in and that's what you'll love. So I
can't wait for the games, and uh, I will see
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you in San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
My friend. Always appreciate you making time.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Yeah, Mark, you save your best compliment for the last.
That one really hits home. That means a lot. Really
appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
All Right, Therery is the great Iron Eagle right here
on MJ in the midday. And I mean it too.
I mean there's uh, I truly mean it. It's just different.
It's just different. So uh, all right, we'll give away
some tickets. I hope, by the way, is ian around
ian Forness.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Chris, I haven't seen him yet.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Oh okay, so maybe here's a fa fae fail safe plan.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Uh my Earl Thomas is.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Softy, so if I if ian Forness is not there,
I got Softy here to take over. So we'll be
good either way here. Oh, by the way, hold on
a second. Here he comes, Harry comes. All right, let's
I don't know which one I gotta unmute, so let's
let's just do this.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Uh you know all right? Oh hold on?
Speaker 4 (21:59):
All right?
Speaker 7 (21:59):
Is that it?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
You got it too? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
So I'm your Earl Thomas.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
You're my Earl Thomas, you're my failed safety. So Chris
knows this. You know, Earl Thomas had to free him.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
With his brother, right.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
No, I did not know that. I did not know that. Yeah,
let's not do it.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
The Earl Thomas comparison anymore Brandon Browner, because if Brandon
Browner is in jail, I believe, Okay, all right, Kenny easily,
Kenny easily. But he's good, he's good, but he's not
doing too well these days. Yeah, he's all right. But
he's a hero though.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Man.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
But all right, I would right, that's fine, easily, that's fine,
Dave brown whatever. But I don't want to imagine you
and me is Seth and Earl Thomas.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Let's do that. That's not I wasn't thinking of it
like that.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, yeah, all right, So Chris, this is the kind
of Seattle history we have to teach this guy, right,
he's gonna he's gonna make sense on the air.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
We gotta figure out what the hell he's talking about. Well,
is kid working for you today? By the way, Oh
he's there? Is he there?
Speaker 7 (22:51):
He is there?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Okay, Yeah, he's there? Is he paying attention? He is?
I like I believe three two one, Hello.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Chris, did not have my Bengal card that Earl Thomas
had a threesome with his brother today?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Not have that one on the big olds on the web.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
It's all true. The listeners can can confirm four nine
four five win. Did Earl Thomas have a three some
of his brother Seth? Yes or no to fotnite four
five one? All right, all right, phenomenal guy by the way.
All right, so either uh I Fordess it's gonna just
said iron Eagle in Fordess are softy or both of
them will be back next for.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, You're not going anywhere. I am. You're not going anywhere.
I I.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I am enjoying a little uh, a little tito soda
here and Jimmy's maybe a little crack and rum when
I'm done.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
There's no chance I'm going.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Talk all right?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
All right, Well, somebody will be on there and will
give away tickets because we still have a couple of
tickets to give away for this game. One man. People
will never forget this one, all right, MJ The Midday
three kJ RM.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Welcome back to the Mark James Show. Mark James out
of here. But you know what, I have someone cool
in the building to join me for this last two segments.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
You flatter me.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Oh, I tried, and we're drawn by Jessamin. If you
didn't know that voice is Jessamine. We're gonna read text
from your listener. So I appreciate all the texts that
I've come in. Oh, they are plenty since ten am.
I guess we could start with a ten am one,
just because it was setting up the Mariners discussion that
kind of started the show off with, because as you
all know, second straight game one hit. I think I'll
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be honest, I'll probably get a bunt. I mean I'll
probably get hit.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
I could get hit. I could take a pitch, like
I mean, at least I get on base. I think
that would be my contribution and it would also make
a lot of people laugh if I just took one
in the keyster.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
All right, well, let's get rolling with some of these texts.
This first one we got us from the four two five.
My buddy said he had tickets to the mayor Who's
game last night? He found it more Satis factory walking
his dog then going to the m's game.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
You know what, back in the day, I would say,
this is like the mid twenty teens, I had a.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Wait, way way wait, did you just sayah, twenty fifteen,
twenty sixteen, so gross? But continue?
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Oh no, okay, So around twenty sixteen seventeen eighteen, and
in that time I had a dog and I was
working on an afternoon drive show, so I would walk
him right after the show, and that would be at
the beginning of the Mariner game, and so i'd listen
to it and they do phenomenally, and I would come
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back inside and all of a sudden, the opponent would
tied up and I'd take Benson out again.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
And the Mariners would win.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
So my dog was the happiest person on earth for
those for that entire season, because I just would walk
him for the entire Mariner game. And it was I'm
a little superstitious, and maybe I'm very stitious, but I
am super stitious.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
But I actually it worked.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
It worked, so I could see walking a dog being
more satisfactory than going to that game. Okay, I hear it,
Except it didn't work for that Texter. It didn't work.
You didn't have the dog walking magic that I did.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
This one is from the two six. Y'all two are
so funny, so positive. As the season started, good vibe.
Now reality hits and you guys forgot about the last
forty years screw the MS.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Yeah, I can imagine it's not going to get better.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
I don't think it's not going to get better until
it gets extremely better.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
You know, people have lost their faith.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
They have lost their faith in this team, and they
won't believe it until they see it. And it's gonna
have to be a big leap before they do. You know,
they're sitting at five hundred. People are still going to
be skeptical.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
From our guy the two six, Kyle from Kenmore, Hey kid,
some thing still stays the same. John and Jerry are cowards.
He's been doing this for a year. I'm proud of Kyle.
He I wonder if he actually just copied and pasted
or he actually types out every single word. I know
because that's the second time he said, hey kid. But
(27:16):
after that, John and Jerry cowards. I wonder if you
just copy and paste it. Because he is on it.
He hasn't missed it a day, I don't think.
Speaker 8 (27:22):
I mean, that is a true believer in what he's saying.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
This next one from the two five three? Who is Gerard?
Isn't his name Jerry? Did he change his name? Is
Gerard Dipoto?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (27:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
But he did?
Speaker 8 (27:37):
He like go but yeah, I mean that's the same.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
As I did not know his name was Jerry, or
I didn't either until I googled it and there was Gerardo.
I said, what what a J with the G?
Speaker 8 (27:52):
It is with the okay, but he goes by Jerry.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
With a J. That's interesting, even more intrigue.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
I mean, but I mean, I mean they're you know,
guy's named John go by Jack, but they're still J's.
I'm trying to think of other William H. Bill, so
that one's different. So there's some names out there. Dick exactly, Yeah,
Dick Moore.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
I said that to him, and his face was like,
I hate you, Chris, but he also had the face of.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
That was good.
Speaker 8 (28:22):
That was a good dig You are a good digger.
I'll give you that. You you snipe me quite often.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
It's keep that behind closed door. Shall we run the
two oh six? If Gino Smith is a norths from
Rack quarterback, the Manners have a say this Army Ownership Group,
well play on words there from the two o six that.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
Is uh yeah, Salvation Army Ownership Group. Wow, yeah, that
is u.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
I mean, this is the way people feel right now
though about the team. I get it, and I get it,
and the Manners have not done anything yet to turn
you away from believing in your skepticism.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
From the nine to seven to one. You have to
try to be this bad.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
I mean the team is trying not to win, not
to be defensive over because it has not been a
pretty start. But yeah, sometimes I say that when I
go over, like at my picks, and then I'm like,
oh wow, like I should have won a prize for that,
because that was harder to do than actually winning everything
when it comes to well, let's see the NCAA tournament
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and then Saint John's belief and yeah, if you get
at least in one of the pools I'm in. If
you get last place, you win your entry feedback.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Wet take that last one for me from the two six.
The Mariners optimists aren't wrong. It's early. I mean we
were only a year and six games into the lousy
excuse for a lineup. You have to give these things time.
I love it.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
Oh that's fair. The only thing I don't want to
see is this rotation. Get feeling. That's all I want
is to not have that happen.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Well, I got pretty close yesterday, didn't they.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Well, look, Logan struck out ten.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
What more could you ask?
Speaker 8 (30:12):
He struck out ten?
Speaker 5 (30:13):
And yeah, sure he gave up three runs that should
not be prohibitive to a win.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Well, we do know the Mayor's coming up next. Thank
you Jessman for jumping in.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
You got it my pleasure, kid.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
We will we'll talk to the Mayor see what he
thinks on the Mariners. I'm sure he can't wait to
talk about the MS for the next hour or two.
Is it going to be a special day for you guys?
At one o'clock it.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
Will be.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
A six game recon and we'll do it well. But
we also have a lot of football. He'll tell you
all about it.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Perfect. Mayor's coming up next on ninety three point three
kjr FM. Alrighty, welcome back to the Mark James Show
on ninety three point three kjr FM. We are now
joined by Low one, the Only, the Great Mayor, Ian Furness. Mayor,
what is going on?
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Go Irish?
Speaker 9 (31:04):
Let's go an all Irish all WSU segment here with
my man Chris Kidd.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Hello, Hello, how are you?
Speaker 3 (31:10):
I am? Good man? I got a question for you, Mayor?
Speaker 7 (31:12):
What he got?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Did you get a chance to see any of that
double overtime game between the Nuggets and the Tea Wolves
last night?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
No?
Speaker 9 (31:19):
I did not what was I watching last night? I
was baseball. I was watching baseball, and then on the laptop,
I was watching Evertt in Seattle hockey. And yeah, so
I did not. I'll be honest with you, man, I
have and you and I talked about this before.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
Man, I have lost all. I've lost all juice for
the NBA this year.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
And that's why I was hoping you lost. You saw
last night because.
Speaker 7 (31:42):
I saw the Joker scored like sixty or something.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Well he scored sixty, but it was how he did it.
It just reminded you of old school ball. Obviously not
shooting the threes as much, but he got to the
foul line I want to say twenty four times.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
So he was She loved his game, man, I love
his game. I love let's and come NBA playoffs. I
kind of all immerse myself back into it.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
That's fair when it gets real, Yeah, I.
Speaker 9 (32:07):
Have the old man yelling at clouds and me is
really turned off by you know, load management, not knowing
who's going to play. You know, when I hear Mark,
who's betting every day, Chris, Like, honestly, what cracks me
up is like it's always take the over yep and
the reason it's always take the over is because nobody
wants to play defense.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
It's hard.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
It's like it's like it is hard. It's like it's
a difference.
Speaker 9 (32:31):
It's honestly, I think, okay, outside of the skill level obviously, right,
like I mean to be an NBA. I mean that
there's probably twenty twenty five guys the most that'll be
an NBA rotation next year from college basketball, right, maybe
that you know, from this year's college basketball in the
NBA next year. So the skill level is obviously very,
very different.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
We all understand that. But I think what jumps out at.
Speaker 9 (32:54):
Me is in college guys will play hard at both
ends because they don't coaches. The coaches are the star
in college basketball for the most part, Right, what's your
name's you know, Jenni Broom or or you know Kipper
Flag or something like that. But you'll get taken out
if you don't play defense, and they so they play
harder at both ends. I just don't think you see
(33:15):
that in the NBA. Now, come playoff time, it's a
little bit different game, There's no doubt about it. But
but that all that said, the joker's fun to watch
man it's like watching you know who was it the
other day, Chris It was saying that Jannis would score
a thousand points and that.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Was that was Lebron. He made the company. He said,
don't act like Jannis would not score two hundred points
in the seventies game. And you know what, I hear you.
But we have to respect every era. That's that's how
I phrase it. Just respect.
Speaker 7 (33:44):
That's the problem we have, right, is that we don't.
Speaker 9 (33:47):
That's a great line. We've got to respect every era.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
We do because love that. Because of think about this, Mayor,
when i'm your age, seventy eighty ninety, whatever age I am,
I'm gonna think.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
Whoever I want to seventy, by the way, That's what That's.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Why I kept going, because I realize you're not appreciated.
Mayor looks about forty five, maybe fifty.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
I'll take that.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
But the point I was gonna make is that as
I get older, I'm gonna think these guys are the
best of my time. Meanwhile, grandkids whatever, young kids might
look at me and say that era was so weak,
they didn't do this, this, and this, Just as some
people that are my age look at the era and
the seventies and eighties and say, oh, well, Jordan was
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playing against guys that were farmers in the offseason. It's like,
each time it's gonna someone is going to view it differently.
So I think if we just realized that for the
time pier that they were in, they were great, It's okay.
We don't have to we don't have to say anything else.
It's fine, And.
Speaker 7 (34:41):
We can't compare it because there's no way too compared.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
It's impossible. It's impossible.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
Yeah, I mean, guys, are you know, they're ninety or
they're eighty or dead or whatever, exactly compare it. No.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
I think the one thing in sports that you know,
and I'll bring this up with other sports, the globalization
of sports has changed. And what I mean by that
is Will Chamberlain played against Americans, that's all he played against, yep,
And and there wasn't the weight training and the nutrition
that we have now. You know, when the late great
Slick Watts passed away, you know you read his his
(35:13):
oh bits, I mean he you know, he topped out it.
What was he making maybe one hundred grand a year
or something that the most you know had to work
as a school teacher after that.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
You know.
Speaker 9 (35:22):
And so these guys all had second jobs. Nowadays, if
you're if you're a pro athlete, you know you don't
need it. Well, I guess, w NBA, you need a
second job, rain you need a second job. But really,
for the most part, you know you you don't need
a second job. And so these guys job year round
is to train. So I think its athletes are bigger,
they're stronger, they're faster, they just are. That's that's indisputable
(35:45):
that the athlete himself, and I you know, I think
maybe that's what Lebron is getting at.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
There was like, well, yeah, that was his point, But
I just don't think we even do that.
Speaker 9 (35:53):
No, and I don't th either, because the eras were
different for reasons, you know what I mean. There's good
you know, the NFL is the best example.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
And guys my height were playing mister Mayer, can you
believe that?
Speaker 9 (36:04):
And you could be a two hundred and fifty pound
dominant offensive lineman exactly, But you don't see, like I
just watched four years of Division III college football, and
if there was an offensive lineman under two ninety like
and and like no, like it's just different. Like the
world's different. And I think the globalizations changed things too,
because like you didn't you wouldn't have had a Joker
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in the league or a Giannis in the league twenty
years ago.
Speaker 7 (36:30):
No, you wouldn't have. You wouldn't have those guys in
the league. They weren't.
Speaker 9 (36:32):
You know, the basketball has globalized to the point now
where it's a worldwide game. Hockey's the same way. Like
I hear, you know the Ovechkin comparisons to to Gretzky,
and you know, there's a lot of people if you
take the politics of a Vechkin out of it, and
you know, putin and all that stuff, just like the comparisons. Well,
I love Wayne Gretzky man, huge fan of his. As
a player. Wayne didn't play against Russians that I mean
(36:55):
as much. They were starting to come over towards the end.
But you know, there weren't you know, all these other
countries represented. Baseball is the best example, right, that's the
most global game there is.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Golf.
Speaker 7 (37:06):
Is Jack better than Is Jack better than Tiger?
Speaker 9 (37:10):
Majors say yes, I would argue Tiger had a lot
bigger talent pool to compete against on a weekly basis.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Well, you mentioned what you were watching last night and
how you missed the crazy NBA game. So what do
you have going on for your show this afternoon?
Speaker 9 (37:24):
And by the way, I'm gonna I'm gonna come to
you once the NBA playoffs start.
Speaker 7 (37:27):
I hate the play in thing.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Man.
Speaker 7 (37:28):
By the way, do you like the playing thing? Sorry?
Speaker 3 (37:30):
May We're gonna have a discussion about that, but I
do like to play in.
Speaker 7 (37:32):
We have that mark and I can have If you're
the eighth seed, you're the eight seed, You're in. I
screw you.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Is that you yelling at the clouds, Mayor.
Speaker 7 (37:39):
That's me yelling at the clouds. You're the eight seed,
You're done, You're in.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (37:44):
Yeah, We're gonna to Corbus Fisco to join us at
one twenty today and then we got a Chrischigan like
this two o'clock New Seahawk wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
River Craycraft, Oh Gokoog's there we go and he.
Speaker 9 (37:55):
Will be on at the same time as his quarterback
fulk from get it, who was the backup to Sam
Darnold in with the Jets. So we'll get Luke to
tell us about Sam Darnold and uh and River to
talk about why he is coming to Seattle.
Speaker 7 (38:09):
Will do that at two o'clock. Should be fun segment.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
There you have it, folks, Mayor Ian Fornesz coming up
with Anderson and Jessemin. I got a bunch of stuff
to go down for you guys. I hope you guys
enjoyed the show today. Mark and I will be back.
He'll be live from wherever he's flying to save travel
from Mark. But I'll talk to you guys tomorrow. You
guys have a great date. Ian Fornez coming up next
on nineteen point three KJRFM. Recent your pre sip do
(38:31):
Suth the Indu?
Speaker 1 (38:32):
I think
He might not even be the best played by play
broadcaster in his own household. Nonetheless, we'll get to that
coming up as well, but he is the voice of
March Maddness and basically the face of CBS Sports. The
great Iron Eagle joining us right now on the Beacon
Plumbing hotline.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Iron.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Great to have you back on. You were my first
guests on my first or second show here. I'll never
forget my first and you will certainly not be the last.
But it's good to have you back on again. And
here we are for the second time in March Madness history.
Four number one seed. You couldn't I mean, the suits
at the network couldn't have got anything better. Florida Auburn
(00:40):
Duke Houston on Saturday, an excellent job with Grant Hill
and Bill Raftury in the South Regional in Atlanta over
the weekend.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Stan, I think mark the four best teams in college basketball.
So it's not just chalk chalk, chalk chalk. Yeah, it's
actually the four highest quality teams that we have in
the nation right now. So it's always a double edged sword.
We love upsets, we love Cinderella stories, but you don't
love them as much when it goes deeper into the
tournament and you get lopsided games in the Sweet sixteen,
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or blowouts in the Elite eight, or someone that's out
kicked their coverage in the Final four. Here we got
a level playing field. You got two teams that know
each other really well, Florida and Auburn out of the SEC.
And then you've got the top offense in the country
and Duke the top defense in the country in Houston.
(01:33):
Duke's defense is legit. They've bought in under John Shire,
and houston offense is better than people probably give them
credit for. So I think it's sizing up to be
a fantastic Final Four. And the hope is we get
some really entertaining basketball down in San Antonio.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
What did you see as you got to see Auburn
go through the entire state of Michigan over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
First Michigan and when they.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Were losing into the second half, they made a resounding
comeback guy in and then on Sunday, a very tough
game against uh you know, a really tough tom Izzo team.
He said it wasn't one of his best teams, but
they came out. Jace Richardson and but too much. Jeni
Broom and I was doing some research. I in Auburn
(02:18):
has an older starting lineup than the stars on the
Detroit Pistons. No literally though, Like you're talking Kate Cunningham,
Jalen Durham, Jayden Ivy, and Ron Holland they're older than
those guys.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
No, I was shocked. When I did my research, I
realized that Janni Room went to high school with Bill Raftery.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Wow, it was really.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
The reality for Auburn is that they are a really
loose group. If you go to their practices, you'll be
blown away how loose they are. They're always smiling, they're
always cracking jokes. There's a lot to that. When it works.
When it doesn't, When you get into the heat of
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battle and now you can't flip the switch and you
can't get into that serious mentality, that's when it becomes
a problem. But I think Ruthtral has a tremendous handle
on his team. The way that he described it to us,
these guys were not McDonald's all Americans, they were not
blue Chippers. All of them have a story behind them.
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They've all come from somewhere else other than Pettiford. Basically
everybody on this team was somewhere else Juco D two
Mid Major, and they've come together and there's a certain
gratitude that they all have to be a part of
this and to feel like there's a real team concept
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to who they are. Their guard play is really good.
Denver Jones and to Hot Pettiford make a bunch of
game winning plays. And then Broom and card Well bring
the maturity. They bring the experience, and they bring the muscle.
They can control the interior. They are third in America
and block shots. Cardwell's one of the best rebounders in
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the country. Broom is a double double machine. And then
they have an X factor in Baker Mazara who he
could get it rolling where he's seven of nine from
the field and make five threes, or he could be
two of eleven and take another bat shot after another
bat shot. You're not quite sure what you're gonna get
with him, day in and day out.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Iron Eagle the voice and face of March Madness on CBS.
Here on MJ in the Midday by from Jimmy zah
First and the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. You know this is
also a monumental moment. This is the first time in
Final Four history three Jewish coaches have made it to
the head coaches have made to the Final four, the
great Bruce Pearl, Todd Golden and John Shire. So that
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should not be that cannot be overstated enough, which is awesome.
I gotta tell you though about Todd Golden Iron. You
look at this guy and you know, you remember the
game against Yukon where I really thought Dan Hurley was like, listen,
you want the throne, come get it, and I thought
Yukon had him dead to water. And it's like they
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did that rope adult Muhammad Ali thing with I think
it was against George Foreman. They took Yukon's best punches
for thirty eight minutes and they came out swinging and
sort of it was almost like the same thing that
happened against Texas Tech on Saturday, and they did it.
And here the Florida Gators are going back to their
first Final Four since Billy Donovan in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Yeah, it tremendous story. It's funny how the personal side
comes into play. You start in my position remembering certain
instances calling the NCAA tournament nineteen ninety eight was my
first year, so we're talking about twenty seven years of
doing this event, and Todd Golden was a player on
Saint Mary's. I vividly remember doing my prep for the
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NCAA tournament and writing in the name Todd Golden and
even thinking in the moment, man, what a what a
cool name. There's a lot to do with that. If
he plays a big role in the Saint Mary's ended
up getting clipped that year, then he becomes a coach.
He crossed pads with Bruce Pearl. He's his first director
of basketball operations at Auburn because he had been an
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assistant at Columbia. They had had some connection with the
Macabea games in Israel and there was a real relationship there.
And that was just the beginning of this coaching journey
for Golden, who ends up at San Francisco as the
head coach. Again. You start drawing on personal experiences for
me and you catalog all these moments. I had them
(06:50):
in the tournament just a few years ago. Three years ago,
they played Murray State in the first round. It was
a tremendous game. It goes to overtime. The winner was
going to play Saint Peter's, who upset Kentucky, so it
looked like either team is gonna have a chance to
go to the Sweet sixteen. They end up losing the
game in Oteam or State loses the Saint Peter. Saint
Peter's beats Perdue in the Sweet sixteen, and then they
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get crushed by North Carolina in the Elite eight in Philadelphia.
But all of these things that bounce around in your
head and now boom, he's in Florida and he's rebuilt
this thing really quickly. This is year three for Todd Golden.
Florida was a little bit of an afterthought in the SEC.
We know they have some great history and you mentioned
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Billy Donovan, but recent years the success had not been there.
So for him to do this very similar in the
Auburn mentality. These are mostly guys that team from other places.
Will Richard and Walter Clayton Junior, and Elijah Martin and
Ruben Chittingalude. They're all from other places. And that is
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where we are in college basketball. You have to evaluate
talent and you have to bring them to get a
find a collaboration, and Todd Golden has done that.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
No question about it.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Iron Eagle very well said, the voice of March madis
on CBS right here on mj in the midday of
ninety three to three KJR coming to you live from
Jimmy's on first the SEC was able to get fourteen
teams in the tournament, able to get seven of the
final sweet sixteen, and now they've got two fifty percent
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of the final four. Now, the Big East back in
the day in nineteen eighty five had Georgetown, villanoven Saint John's.
So it's not like it's unprecedent to get two teams
in the final four. But overall, what has been your
thoughts all season long? Did the SEC live up to
the hype I in in this tournament?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yeah? They did. They did. There's no doubt about it.
They were the best team in the country, a best
conference in the country this year. There's always questions when
you get to the NCAA tournament where they just kicking
the stuffing out of one another, or are for a
really top level teams that will show themselves come Mark
and I think it was the latter. Even the other
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day the old Miss game that I did to me
that also shows you the depth of the Conference. Ole
Miss a team that easily could have pulled off the
win and advanced. They had Michigan State on the ropes
in the second half. They would have emerged in their
first ever Elite Eight, but it was not meant to
be for Chris Beard in company. But it did remind
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you that the SEC was the real deal. A Big ten.
I'm not sure there was a respect level this year
compared to previous years. I think the Big ten Dill
did a quit itself pretty well in the grand scheme
of things with Michigan and Michigan State and Purdue and
Maryland before all of the drama took place with the
coaching change. And look, the Big twelve. I think we'll
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get to it. I'm sure with Houston and they're carrying
the mantle right now. But I think there was quality
in the Big twelve. And I think all of these
teams Duke would not necessarily qualify because the conference wasn't
as good the ACC. But I still believe all four
teams are battle tested coming into this Final four, even Duke.
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What they did at a conference and what we've seen
during this tournament so far. The Blue Devils, you can't
say that well, we're just not sure yet. No, there
really could. They're elite offensively, and I think their defense
is what has got them here, to be perfectly honest,
because if the offense goes on a certain day, they
can still lean on their defense. It's been that high
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quality throughout the year, and I know John Shire really
preached it prior to the season, and they one hundred
percent bought in Ian.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You mentioned John Shire. Who would ever have thought to
replace arguably the goat Mike Krzyzewski and and really there's
been no drop off. I mean they're in you know,
you know coach k and his final soare he got
to the final four. They lost to North Carolina three
years ago, but here they are back in the final four.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
They always say you never want to replace the guy.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Well, Shire's done it, and some people can even argue
maybe he's even improved it considering you know, Duke over
the course of the last three or four years after
the zion Our J Barrett team.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Yeah, I think Mark it's one of the more underrated
things in this sport. When you have someone that is
so connected and associated with a program, it's not a
simple fix. It's not easy. Syracuse is going through it
right now in the post Jim Beheim era. There are
other programs that you could look towards the drop off
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after you had a Hall of fame coach leave North Carolina.
Hubert Davis did an excellent job, brought them to the
NCAA Championship. There was a drop off this year, and
he'll feel some heat, but I think North Carolina will
always be considered a blue blood and they'll still get
guys to go down there and be a part of
that program. But you can't snap your fingers and assume
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Duke would be great because of the name value. And
it just shows you John Schier, how smart he is,
how I think he understood the dynamic, How do you maneuver,
how do you handle Mike Skrzyzewski still living there, still
a part of it, and how do you embrace it
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without not falling into the shadows of him and his aura.
And it just sounds like he's balanced it out perfectly.
He's been his own person while also acknowledging that coach
k is still a big part of what Duke basketball
is all about. Last year we had them during their run,
they got to the Elite Aid, they caught a break
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when Jamal Sheched went down with an injury, the injured ankle,
and the Sweet sixteen against Houston, they won that game,
So we're seeing a rematch of last year's Sweet sixteen.
Duke recognized that they were not ready for a national championship,
and I think John Shire recognized it, not only going
out and getting Cooper Flag, but putting the right pieces
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around Flag and then dipping into the transfer portal in
a smart fashion. Role players not necessarily stars, not guys
that were the best team, best players on their teams.
If you look at it the transfers that they have,
these were not the highest scorers on their respective teams,
but they fit what Duke needed. Seon James and Malik
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Brown and Mason Gillis, they're all bringing a little something
that would help back up the likes of Flag and
Can Nipple and Malo Watch and the play of Proctor.
Everything has gone the way that John Shire visualized it
could go, and that's why they're one of the four
teams left standing.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Iron Eagle the voice of March Madness here on CBS Sports,
you know, And there was something which my boss alerted
me to that was making the rounds on social media
that your offspring, your son, and I can call him great,
especially after his performance in the Olympics last summer along
with Dwayne Wade.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Noah.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
There there's a thing where Noah, when he was really young,
was doing an imitation of his dad.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
For everybody out there here, it is.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
I would get home and it would be clean your room,
and I would say not today, and he would say
breakfast denied, and I'd say I want some eggs, and
then he would say.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Broken ankles and yolks.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
And I would say I'm not hungry, and then I'd
get grabbed.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
That's usually how I would go.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Was that true.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Yeah, that's a very fair depiction of completely. I never
denied the kid breakfast. Ever, there was a breakfast denied.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Ever.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
I've never never done that or said that in my life. No,
and the other part, No, it was a very nice kid.
He did not get grounded.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Oh well, well, I think he may.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
He may have overdramatized it.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Just a tad that by the way, he sound just
like you.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I mean, it was just oh, man, I thought I
was listening to you imitate you, which was just oh,
that is just.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Too much man. You gotta be so proud.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Hey, I also got to ask you that this is
your certainly not your second March Magic, but this is
your second one as the voice that you took over
for jim Nants. A year ago. Jim Nants had been
doing it. He had replaced Brent Musburger. After Musburger, I'll
never forget this after the UNLV beating Duke by thirty
in the National Championship Game in Denver, and I'll never
(15:44):
forget Musburger with the late great Billy Packer goes.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I'll see you down the road, folks.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And now jim Nants took over, did an unbelievable job.
Here you are, does it ever? Do you ever just
stop it? Do you ever for one minute and they
gonna walk into you, know, like either last year or
you're going to walk into the Dome in San Antonio
on Saturday, Just for a second and pinch yourself and
just say, I can't believe that I am in this position.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Yeah, it's funny you bring it up because someone sent
me a picture last year that they just happened to
take as I was walking through the tunnel for the
Final Four in Phoenix, and it's me with my large
bag I have my entire life in that bag. When
you're on the road as much as I am, you
got to have a lot of stuff just in case.
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And I'm tugging this bag along and I'm walking up
the tunnel area and you can see the court and
some of the stands in the background, and it took
me back. I just happened to look at this picture
and showed it to my wife earlier today, and it
did take me back to a year ago and the
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excitement and the anticipation. And here's the thing mark for
me that will never change. I just have a sense
of one in doing this job. And I know I've
had people close to me and say, man, you do
so many games, why why? What take off? I love
the games. I enjoy the process. I like the preparation.
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I like the performance. I like being around arenas. I
like the sounds. I like all of it. It's a festival,
and I think if you can bring that to each broadcast,
it doesn't matter if it's a Final Four game or
if it's the Nets and Wizards on a Tuesday night.
I want to be there and I hope it comes
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across when I do the job. Jim Nantz did it
for thirty three years. That is unparalleled. No one will
ever touch that he was so closely associated with this event.
What I realized last year before the Final four began
was a reminder to myself, A. Enjoy it, b do
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it your way, don't try to be somebody else. Don't
try to change your style based on the fact that
the stage is bigger. Do it the way that you've
been doing it, and at the end of it, look
back and gain joy from it. Don't go in tight,
don't go in stressed, don't feel the weight of the
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world on your shoulders. Quite the opposite. So I have
a very gen like approach last year, and I imagine
that I'm gonna have the same approach this year.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Last thing I want to hit you with, so hypothetically,
Houston Duke, Florida Auburn Windsy, do you have sort of
of a precontrived thing that you're gonna say if like
the Gators take the chump out of San Antonio, I mean,
obviously something better than that. But or you know, in
the memory of five slam a Jema, you know the
(18:51):
cougars cut down the nets for the first time. Do
you have something just on standby in case, you know,
for one of those four things that could happen Monday night.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, I'll keep going. I'll just start run down this
is a good fodder for me. The answer is no,
I don't, but I'll have some things marinating in my head.
I'll have some ideas and synopsis firing. I think it's
always a combination of things. You can have a sense
(19:20):
of what you'd like to say, but you really can't
script it out or it's going to come across in
a very stilted manner. Even last week, once we knew
that the three number one seats were going to San
Antonio and the game that we were working was a
one versus two. So what's the word that kept popping up?
Chalk chalk, chalk chalk. So obviously I had that word
(19:44):
in my head, and then I started thinking about San Antonio.
I was like, Oh, the river Walk. That rhymes there's
something there on the riverwalk, chalk on the riverwalk. So
if indeed Auburn won the game, I didn't think it
would be the front end of the call because the
headline is Auburn's going to the Final Four. But the
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secondary part of the call in my mind, something that
could be memorable and something that would resonate in some
way is wordplay. And if it's a rhyme, if it's
a literation, so to me, that's just made a lot
of sense. It's gonna be all chalk at the river Walk.
And that's what came out of my mouth.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
That was great.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Well, we can't wait to see what organic thing will
come out of your mouth on Saturday too. Great games.
I will be down there, thanks for the fine folks
at Westwood One. Headed down there right over to Sea
Tech Airport right now as we speak, and so I
appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I look forward to seeing you down there.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
And boy, you bring out a side that I haven't
seen with Grant Hale. You, him and Rath are just
like I feel like I speak on behalf of the
audience that we're in in a sports bar and we're
just sitting next to you guys, and you guys are
letting us in and that's what you'll love. So I
can't wait for the games, and uh, I will see
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you in San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
My friend. Always appreciate you making time.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Yeah, Mark, you save your best compliment for the last.
That one really hits home. That means a lot. Really
appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
All Right, Therery is the great Iron Eagle right here
on MJ in the midday. And I mean it too.
I mean there's uh, I truly mean it. It's just different.
It's just different. So uh, all right, we'll give away
some tickets. I hope, by the way, is ian around
ian Forness.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Chris, I haven't seen him yet.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Oh okay, so maybe here's a fa fae fail safe plan.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Uh my Earl Thomas is.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Softy, so if I if ian Forness is not there,
I got Softy here to take over. So we'll be
good either way here. Oh, by the way, hold on
a second. Here he comes, Harry comes. All right, let's
I don't know which one I gotta unmute, so let's
let's just do this.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Uh you know all right? Oh hold on?
Speaker 4 (21:59):
All right?
Speaker 7 (21:59):
Is that it?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
You got it too? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
So I'm your Earl Thomas.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
You're my Earl Thomas, you're my failed safety. So Chris
knows this. You know, Earl Thomas had to free him.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
With his brother, right.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
No, I did not know that. I did not know that. Yeah,
let's not do it.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
The Earl Thomas comparison anymore Brandon Browner, because if Brandon
Browner is in jail, I believe, Okay, all right, Kenny easily,
Kenny easily. But he's good, he's good, but he's not
doing too well these days. Yeah, he's all right. But
he's a hero though.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Man.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
But all right, I would right, that's fine, easily, that's fine,
Dave brown whatever. But I don't want to imagine you
and me is Seth and Earl Thomas.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Let's do that. That's not I wasn't thinking of it
like that.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, yeah, all right, So Chris, this is the kind
of Seattle history we have to teach this guy, right,
he's gonna he's gonna make sense on the air.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
We gotta figure out what the hell he's talking about. Well,
is kid working for you today? By the way, Oh
he's there? Is he there?
Speaker 7 (22:51):
He is there?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Okay, Yeah, he's there? Is he paying attention? He is?
I like I believe three two one, Hello.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Chris, did not have my Bengal card that Earl Thomas
had a threesome with his brother today?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Not have that one on the big olds on the web.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
It's all true. The listeners can can confirm four nine
four five win. Did Earl Thomas have a three some
of his brother Seth? Yes or no to fotnite four
five one? All right, all right, phenomenal guy by the way.
All right, so either uh I Fordess it's gonna just
said iron Eagle in Fordess are softy or both of
them will be back next for.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, You're not going anywhere. I am. You're not going anywhere.
I I.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I am enjoying a little uh, a little tito soda
here and Jimmy's maybe a little crack and rum when
I'm done.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
There's no chance I'm going.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Talk all right?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
All right, Well, somebody will be on there and will
give away tickets because we still have a couple of
tickets to give away for this game. One man. People
will never forget this one, all right, MJ The Midday
three kJ RM.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Welcome back to the Mark James Show. Mark James out
of here. But you know what, I have someone cool
in the building to join me for this last two segments.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
You flatter me.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Oh, I tried, and we're drawn by Jessamin. If you
didn't know that voice is Jessamine. We're gonna read text
from your listener. So I appreciate all the texts that
I've come in. Oh, they are plenty since ten am.
I guess we could start with a ten am one,
just because it was setting up the Mariners discussion that
kind of started the show off with, because as you
all know, second straight game one hit. I think I'll
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be honest, I'll probably get a bunt. I mean I'll
probably get hit.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
I could get hit. I could take a pitch, like
I mean, at least I get on base. I think
that would be my contribution and it would also make
a lot of people laugh if I just took one
in the keyster.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
All right, well, let's get rolling with some of these texts.
This first one we got us from the four two five.
My buddy said he had tickets to the mayor Who's
game last night? He found it more Satis factory walking
his dog then going to the m's game.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
You know what, back in the day, I would say,
this is like the mid twenty teens, I had a.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Wait, way way wait, did you just sayah, twenty fifteen,
twenty sixteen, so gross? But continue?
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Oh no, okay, So around twenty sixteen seventeen eighteen, and
in that time I had a dog and I was
working on an afternoon drive show, so I would walk
him right after the show, and that would be at
the beginning of the Mariner game, and so i'd listen
to it and they do phenomenally, and I would come
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back inside and all of a sudden, the opponent would
tied up and I'd take Benson out again.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
And the Mariners would win.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
So my dog was the happiest person on earth for
those for that entire season, because I just would walk
him for the entire Mariner game. And it was I'm
a little superstitious, and maybe I'm very stitious, but I
am super stitious.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
But I actually it worked.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
It worked, so I could see walking a dog being
more satisfactory than going to that game. Okay, I hear it,
Except it didn't work for that Texter. It didn't work.
You didn't have the dog walking magic that I did.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
This one is from the two six. Y'all two are
so funny, so positive. As the season started, good vibe.
Now reality hits and you guys forgot about the last
forty years screw the MS.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Yeah, I can imagine it's not going to get better.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
I don't think it's not going to get better until
it gets extremely better.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
You know, people have lost their faith.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
They have lost their faith in this team, and they
won't believe it until they see it. And it's gonna
have to be a big leap before they do. You know,
they're sitting at five hundred. People are still going to
be skeptical.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
From our guy the two six, Kyle from Kenmore, Hey kid,
some thing still stays the same. John and Jerry are cowards.
He's been doing this for a year. I'm proud of Kyle.
He I wonder if he actually just copied and pasted
or he actually types out every single word. I know
because that's the second time he said, hey kid. But
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after that, John and Jerry cowards. I wonder if you
just copy and paste it. Because he is on it.
He hasn't missed it a day, I don't think.
Speaker 8 (27:22):
I mean, that is a true believer in what he's saying.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
This next one from the two five three? Who is Gerard?
Isn't his name Jerry? Did he change his name? Is
Gerard Dipoto?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (27:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
But he did?
Speaker 8 (27:37):
He like go but yeah, I mean that's the same.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
As I did not know his name was Jerry, or
I didn't either until I googled it and there was Gerardo.
I said, what what a J with the G?
Speaker 8 (27:52):
It is with the okay, but he goes by Jerry.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
With a J. That's interesting, even more intrigue.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
I mean, but I mean, I mean they're you know,
guy's named John go by Jack, but they're still J's.
I'm trying to think of other William H. Bill, so
that one's different. So there's some names out there. Dick exactly, Yeah,
Dick Moore.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
I said that to him, and his face was like,
I hate you, Chris, but he also had the face of.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
That was good.
Speaker 8 (28:22):
That was a good dig You are a good digger.
I'll give you that. You you snipe me quite often.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
It's keep that behind closed door. Shall we run the
two oh six? If Gino Smith is a norths from
Rack quarterback, the Manners have a say this Army Ownership Group,
well play on words there from the two o six that.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
Is uh yeah, Salvation Army Ownership Group. Wow, yeah, that
is u.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
I mean, this is the way people feel right now
though about the team. I get it, and I get it,
and the Manners have not done anything yet to turn
you away from believing in your skepticism.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
From the nine to seven to one. You have to
try to be this bad.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
I mean the team is trying not to win, not
to be defensive over because it has not been a
pretty start. But yeah, sometimes I say that when I
go over, like at my picks, and then I'm like,
oh wow, like I should have won a prize for that,
because that was harder to do than actually winning everything
when it comes to well, let's see the NCAA tournament
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and then Saint John's belief and yeah, if you get
at least in one of the pools I'm in. If
you get last place, you win your entry feedback.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Wet take that last one for me from the two six.
The Mariners optimists aren't wrong. It's early. I mean we
were only a year and six games into the lousy
excuse for a lineup. You have to give these things time.
I love it.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
Oh that's fair. The only thing I don't want to
see is this rotation. Get feeling. That's all I want
is to not have that happen.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Well, I got pretty close yesterday, didn't they.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Well, look, Logan struck out ten.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
What more could you ask?
Speaker 8 (30:12):
He struck out ten?
Speaker 5 (30:13):
And yeah, sure he gave up three runs that should
not be prohibitive to a win.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Well, we do know the Mayor's coming up next. Thank
you Jessman for jumping in.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
You got it my pleasure, kid.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
We will we'll talk to the Mayor see what he
thinks on the Mariners. I'm sure he can't wait to
talk about the MS for the next hour or two.
Is it going to be a special day for you guys?
At one o'clock it.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
Will be.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
A six game recon and we'll do it well. But
we also have a lot of football. He'll tell you
all about it.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Perfect. Mayor's coming up next on ninety three point three
kjr FM. Alrighty, welcome back to the Mark James Show
on ninety three point three kjr FM. We are now
joined by Low one, the Only, the Great Mayor, Ian Furness. Mayor,
what is going on?
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Go Irish?
Speaker 9 (31:04):
Let's go an all Irish all WSU segment here with
my man Chris Kidd.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Hello, Hello, how are you?
Speaker 3 (31:10):
I am? Good man? I got a question for you, Mayor?
Speaker 7 (31:12):
What he got?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Did you get a chance to see any of that
double overtime game between the Nuggets and the Tea Wolves
last night?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
No?
Speaker 9 (31:19):
I did not what was I watching last night? I
was baseball. I was watching baseball, and then on the laptop,
I was watching Evertt in Seattle hockey. And yeah, so
I did not. I'll be honest with you, man, I
have and you and I talked about this before.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
Man, I have lost all. I've lost all juice for
the NBA this year.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
And that's why I was hoping you lost. You saw
last night because.
Speaker 7 (31:42):
I saw the Joker scored like sixty or something.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Well he scored sixty, but it was how he did it.
It just reminded you of old school ball. Obviously not
shooting the threes as much, but he got to the
foul line I want to say twenty four times.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
So he was She loved his game, man, I love
his game. I love let's and come NBA playoffs. I
kind of all immerse myself back into it.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
That's fair when it gets real, Yeah, I.
Speaker 9 (32:07):
Have the old man yelling at clouds and me is
really turned off by you know, load management, not knowing
who's going to play. You know, when I hear Mark,
who's betting every day, Chris, Like, honestly, what cracks me
up is like it's always take the over yep and
the reason it's always take the over is because nobody
wants to play defense.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
It's hard.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
It's like it's like it is hard. It's like it's
a difference.
Speaker 9 (32:31):
It's honestly, I think, okay, outside of the skill level obviously, right,
like I mean to be an NBA. I mean that
there's probably twenty twenty five guys the most that'll be
an NBA rotation next year from college basketball, right, maybe
that you know, from this year's college basketball in the
NBA next year. So the skill level is obviously very,
very different.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
We all understand that. But I think what jumps out at.
Speaker 9 (32:54):
Me is in college guys will play hard at both
ends because they don't coaches. The coaches are the star
in college basketball for the most part, Right, what's your
name's you know, Jenni Broom or or you know Kipper
Flag or something like that. But you'll get taken out
if you don't play defense, and they so they play
harder at both ends. I just don't think you see
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that in the NBA. Now, come playoff time, it's a
little bit different game, There's no doubt about it. But
but that all that said, the joker's fun to watch
man it's like watching you know who was it the
other day, Chris It was saying that Jannis would score
a thousand points and that.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Was that was Lebron. He made the company. He said,
don't act like Jannis would not score two hundred points
in the seventies game. And you know what, I hear you.
But we have to respect every era. That's that's how
I phrase it. Just respect.
Speaker 7 (33:44):
That's the problem we have, right, is that we don't.
Speaker 9 (33:47):
That's a great line. We've got to respect every era.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
We do because love that. Because of think about this, Mayor,
when i'm your age, seventy eighty ninety, whatever age I am,
I'm gonna think.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
Whoever I want to seventy, by the way, That's what That's.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Why I kept going, because I realize you're not appreciated.
Mayor looks about forty five, maybe fifty.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
I'll take that.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
But the point I was gonna make is that as
I get older, I'm gonna think these guys are the
best of my time. Meanwhile, grandkids whatever, young kids might
look at me and say that era was so weak,
they didn't do this, this, and this, Just as some
people that are my age look at the era and
the seventies and eighties and say, oh, well, Jordan was
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playing against guys that were farmers in the offseason. It's like,
each time it's gonna someone is going to view it differently.
So I think if we just realized that for the
time pier that they were in, they were great, It's okay.
We don't have to we don't have to say anything else.
It's fine, And.
Speaker 7 (34:41):
We can't compare it because there's no way too compared.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
It's impossible. It's impossible.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
Yeah, I mean, guys, are you know, they're ninety or
they're eighty or dead or whatever, exactly compare it. No.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
I think the one thing in sports that you know,
and I'll bring this up with other sports, the globalization
of sports has changed. And what I mean by that
is Will Chamberlain played against Americans, that's all he played against, yep,
And and there wasn't the weight training and the nutrition
that we have now. You know, when the late great
Slick Watts passed away, you know you read his his
(35:13):
oh bits, I mean he you know, he topped out it.
What was he making maybe one hundred grand a year
or something that the most you know had to work
as a school teacher after that.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
You know.
Speaker 9 (35:22):
And so these guys all had second jobs. Nowadays, if
you're if you're a pro athlete, you know you don't
need it. Well, I guess, w NBA, you need a
second job, rain you need a second job. But really,
for the most part, you know you you don't need
a second job. And so these guys job year round
is to train. So I think its athletes are bigger,
they're stronger, they're faster, they just are. That's that's indisputable
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that the athlete himself, and I you know, I think
maybe that's what Lebron is getting at.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
There was like, well, yeah, that was his point, But
I just don't think we even do that.
Speaker 9 (35:53):
No, and I don't th either, because the eras were
different for reasons, you know what I mean. There's good
you know, the NFL is the best example.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
And guys my height were playing mister Mayer, can you
believe that?
Speaker 9 (36:04):
And you could be a two hundred and fifty pound
dominant offensive lineman exactly, But you don't see, like I
just watched four years of Division III college football, and
if there was an offensive lineman under two ninety like
and and like no, like it's just different. Like the
world's different. And I think the globalizations changed things too,
because like you didn't you wouldn't have had a Joker
(36:27):
in the league or a Giannis in the league twenty
years ago.
Speaker 7 (36:30):
No, you wouldn't have. You wouldn't have those guys in
the league. They weren't.
Speaker 9 (36:32):
You know, the basketball has globalized to the point now
where it's a worldwide game. Hockey's the same way. Like
I hear, you know the Ovechkin comparisons to to Gretzky,
and you know, there's a lot of people if you
take the politics of a Vechkin out of it, and
you know, putin and all that stuff, just like the comparisons. Well,
I love Wayne Gretzky man, huge fan of his. As
a player. Wayne didn't play against Russians that I mean
(36:55):
as much. They were starting to come over towards the end.
But you know, there weren't you know, all these other
countries represented. Baseball is the best example, right, that's the
most global game there is.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Golf.
Speaker 7 (37:06):
Is Jack better than Is Jack better than Tiger?
Speaker 9 (37:10):
Majors say yes, I would argue Tiger had a lot
bigger talent pool to compete against on a weekly basis.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Well, you mentioned what you were watching last night and
how you missed the crazy NBA game. So what do
you have going on for your show this afternoon?
Speaker 9 (37:24):
And by the way, I'm gonna I'm gonna come to
you once the NBA playoffs start.
Speaker 7 (37:27):
I hate the play in thing.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Man.
Speaker 7 (37:28):
By the way, do you like the playing thing? Sorry?
Speaker 3 (37:30):
May We're gonna have a discussion about that, but I
do like to play in.
Speaker 7 (37:32):
We have that mark and I can have If you're
the eighth seed, you're the eight seed, You're in. I
screw you.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Is that you yelling at the clouds, Mayor.
Speaker 7 (37:39):
That's me yelling at the clouds. You're the eight seed,
You're done, You're in.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (37:44):
Yeah, We're gonna to Corbus Fisco to join us at
one twenty today and then we got a Chrischigan like
this two o'clock New Seahawk wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
River Craycraft, Oh Gokoog's there we go and he.
Speaker 9 (37:55):
Will be on at the same time as his quarterback
fulk from get it, who was the backup to Sam
Darnold in with the Jets. So we'll get Luke to
tell us about Sam Darnold and uh and River to
talk about why he is coming to Seattle.
Speaker 7 (38:09):
Will do that at two o'clock. Should be fun segment.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
There you have it, folks, Mayor Ian Fornesz coming up
with Anderson and Jessemin. I got a bunch of stuff
to go down for you guys. I hope you guys
enjoyed the show today. Mark and I will be back.
He'll be live from wherever he's flying to save travel
from Mark. But I'll talk to you guys tomorrow. You
guys have a great date. Ian Fornez coming up next
on nineteen point three KJRFM. Recent your pre sip do
(38:31):
Suth the Indu?
Speaker 1 (38:32):
I think
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