00:00I mean, seeing Venezuela and Ronald Acuna and knowing what that means
00:05as maybe a prelude to a season where the Braves need him desperately.
00:12It's just such a fascinating Brave season in general.
00:15Coming out of spring, like, you know,
00:19whatever storyline we write for a regular season
00:23does not play out that way virtually 90% of the time.
00:27How do I know this?
00:28We've covered teams forever, Sandra and I, right?
00:31What did you not see coming last year?
00:34I don't know.
00:35Every single Braves pitcher in the starting rotation when the season started.
00:40Remember, we were getting guys back.
00:42But all five of them were on the, you know, IR at some point in the season.
00:47You'd have a disastrous season when we were, I think, after the Dodgers,
00:52like the number two favorite to win it all.
00:54And, like, just the storylines of struggles for Acuna and Michael Harris.
00:58Like, just a ton of things.
01:00Just, like, we don't know how this thing's going to play out.
01:02But you just have to like seeing us over there at Truist and seeing Ozzy and Ronald
01:11and Austin and Matt Olson, everything they have on the line,
01:15and Drake Baldwin and be like, are we really going to, you know, feel bad for ourselves?
01:19Spencer Strider and Chris Sale.
01:21Ronald Acuna.
01:22Ronald Acuna.
01:25So, tonight is going to be really interesting from a night to, you know,
01:30be around the whole sports world and to watch all that
01:34and to watch what a real baseball crowd is going to look and feel like in Miami.
01:38It was last night.
01:39It was as big as it was last night.
01:41That was unbelievable.
01:41They were down 2-1 in the seventh and Ronald Acuna with the game-tying RBI single.
01:47That place was as loud as any World Series I've ever been in.
01:50Yeah, and the run that Italy had, which was tremendous, was just awesome as well.
01:57Somebody tell me a St. Paddy's Day plan you have.
02:00Now, again, we're not the youngest, coolest audience in Sports Talk Radio.
02:04We understand that.
02:05But do you and your buddies have a thing on St. Paddy's Day, right?
02:10Like, Fadeau's been there a long time.
02:11We've been going to Fadeau for decades, right?
02:14So, you know, they've got something.
02:16Is there anybody, you have a golf shamrock classic today?
02:19I think there's a golf game today.
02:21There's got to be something.
02:22So give us a little, play a little Irish music.
02:26Give us your St. Paddy's Day plan.
02:28This is one of those man days, right, where there's all kinds of sports and stuff.
02:32404-726-0929.
02:35Give me somebody listening that has a St. Paddy's Day plan that happens every year.
02:41Are you a big corned beef and cabbage guy?
02:43Right.
02:43Is there any tradition that is happening that is being activated?
02:49And give us a phone call on that because we want to find out, like, you know, what the deal
02:53is on that end.
02:55We've been talking, obviously, about the stuff.
02:57I mean, it's been a lot of sports today, a little bit about this travel stuff.
03:01But we're here all week.
03:03We'll have Mike Griffith on our model, talk about Mike White in Georgia and what they have to do to
03:09at least go get it.
03:10The dub, it's not an easy team, St. Louis.
03:12That's a high-powered offensive machine that Mike White's got.
03:15And if you get the dub.
03:16And then they, if they win.
03:17Then they get Michigan, right?
03:19Mm-hmm.
03:19The one seed.
03:20Yeah.
03:22Purdue handled them.
03:23Michigan.
03:24Michigan's loaded.
03:25I mean, the number ones are frigging loaded.
03:27They are absolutely loaded.
03:29Arizona, Michigan, Duke, and who did I leave out?
03:34And Florida.
03:35Gators, right?
03:36Gators are, forget about it.
03:38What Todd Golden done with that team as well.
03:41And a lot of the number ones.
03:43I mean, this is this notion of upstarts making the NCAA Final Four is not really the thing anymore.
03:48And the Duke get paired up in the East with everybody that's in that bracket.
03:53St. John's is in there as a five, right?
03:55Yep.
03:56Yep.
03:57Kansas.
03:58Yeah, I mean.
03:59Michigan State.
04:00UCLA.
04:01UConn.
04:02Yeah, they have.
04:04UConn and St. John's are in the same, maybe I'm wrong about it.
04:07St. John's is not in the same.
04:08St. John's is a five.
04:09Yes, you're exactly right.
04:10And Connecticut is in there as a.
04:12They're a two.
04:13I'm looking at it.
04:14I mean, St. John's just handled them.
04:16Michigan State is a three.
04:18Yeah.
04:18Tom Izzo in the postseason.
04:19Four is Kansas, five is St. John's, six is Louisville, seven is UCLA.
04:26Yeah.
04:26I mean, that is not exactly taking care of them.
04:30But what did I tell you about Cam Booser?
04:31And by the way, his brother had a great tournament.
04:34He scored 16 in the last two games.
04:35Duke still has some injuries, but they are a loaded basketball team.
04:39John Shire has been a number one now two out of the four years since he took over Krzyzewski.
04:45They have not missed a beat at Duke.
04:47I mean, they have not missed a beat.
04:49And the ACC, we'll see how they do, man.
04:51They got eight teams in.
04:52So good for the ACC.
04:54Caleb Wilson being out is why North Carolina is now a five seed.
04:58Yeah.
04:58I mean, Carolina has no chance.
05:00Caleb Wilson's their best player.
05:02We know one thing about the NCAA tournament.
05:04Six seeds, excuse me.
05:05If you don't have your best player, you have absolutely no chance.
05:08Caleb Wilson's their best player.
05:10Isn't that the horror of the ups and downs of sports?
05:13Caleb Wilson, our holy innocence kid right up the street.
05:16You're a one and done.
05:18And you're having a spectacular year.
05:21Better year than I think a lot of people thought he was capable as a freshman in the ACC.
05:26And your career ends.
05:28Don't get to the tournament.
05:29Don't get to the ACC tourney.
05:31The one highlight you'll have is Carolina comes back and beats Duke in that game in Chapel Hill.
05:35But Caleb Wilson will be a proud North Carolina Tar Heel.
05:38But he'll do it in the NBA and wear those Carolina colors as not an alum, but as a guy
05:43that played ball there.
05:44But that's what sports is, man.
05:45It's not always a storybook deal, right?
05:49Kenyon Martin in Cincinnati.
05:50Remember years ago, 32-0.
05:53Kenyon Martin gets injured right before the postseason.
05:55I think Cincinnati never made the second weekend of the tourney.
05:59Injuries matter at this level.
06:00You have to have your stars.
06:01Of course, here's Craig on the south side trying to get us a little flavor for St. Paddy's.
06:11What's up, dude?
06:12How's it going there, Steak and Stranger?
06:14Y'all doing all right today?
06:15Awesome, thank you.
06:16You got a plan on St. Paddy's?
06:18Oh, yeah.
06:19I've been doing it for about eight years.
06:20It's not something you think of, but I started about eight years ago.
06:23I'm headed there now.
06:24I go to Krispy Kreme and buy my wife and her co-workers two dozen of the Green Donuts.
06:29Since I started eight years ago, I've got to do it every year.
06:31All right, that's a safe.
06:34We have a dozen out there in honor of Dylan's birthday.
06:37Dylan is our fabulous producer.
06:40Our proud Irishman, Dylan.
06:41And our morning show, three years today, to the date.
06:44Three years.
06:44Thank you for the call.
06:45Yeah, thank you.
06:46Anybody else got anything happening on St. Paddy?
06:48Where does Atlanta rank in the whole St. Paddy's Day deal?
06:51And who has been to Savannah for that?
06:57Any of your girlfriends been before?
06:58Yes, yes.
06:59Yes, a lot of folks went at that time.
07:01Is New Orleans a big one or no?
07:03You know, New Orleans, every holiday where there's alcohol that's attached to it in any
07:08capacity.
07:08New York, Chicago.
07:09Yes, New York.
07:10Huge St. Paddy's Day parade over the weekend.
07:12The green water in the...
07:14I don't think we work with any Irishmen, do we?
07:16We used to.
07:17Ryan Finneran's Irish.
07:19What's he up to today?
07:20It's going to be boring.
07:21Probably drinking green beer.
07:22Well, he has like 11...
07:23He's a grandfather for the fourth time.
07:25I was going to say, he's like 11 grandkids.
07:26He's the fourth one, baby.
07:27When did she have her...
07:28I believe Saturday, Friday or Saturday.
07:30So, congrats to Brian.
07:30How many?
07:31Four.
07:32It's all the same person having them all.
07:34Yeah.
07:34Right?
07:34Yeah, Bryn.
07:36I got it.
07:36One girl, three boys, just like Brian.
07:38Okay.
07:39Brian was all the...
07:40Brian had...
07:40Well, good to you.
07:41Here's our friendly Irishman.
07:42Yeah.
07:44We'll play three strikes when we come back.
07:46We'll tell you, there's one first-round series if the Hawks get it.
07:50We're only a game and a half away.
07:51There's a first-round series we are going to win if we can get there.
07:56The first-round series as the needle pointing in the right direction for the Hawks.
08:01We'll talk more about it.
08:01Sports Radio, 9829 The Game.
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