04-08-25 - Lackluster Ending The NCAA Tourney That John Feels Is A Bad Product - Alex Ovechkin Sets NHL Goals Record To Little Fanfare And Discussing Other Sporting Records And Eras

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Episode Summary April 8, 2025 | "Lackluster Ending: The NCAA Tourney That John Feels Is A Bad Product - Alex Ovechkin Sets NHL Goals Record To Little Fanfare and Discussing Other Sporting Records and Eras"

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1. Introduction and Overview

In the April 8, 2025 episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness on Arizona's #1 Morning Radio Show, host John Holmberg, alongside co-hosts Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo, delves into a critical analysis of the NCAA Tournament's disappointing conclusion and celebrates Alex Ovechkin's milestone in the NHL. The episode intertwines sports commentary with light-hearted banter, providing listeners with both insightful discussions and entertaining interactions.

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2. Critique of the NCAA Tournament Ending

John Holmberg expressed his disappointment with the recent NCAA Tournament, labeling it as a "bad product" due to its predictable outcomes and lackluster gameplay.

• Holmberg [03:16]: "March Madness has ended here. April 7th. Now 8th. The madness is over."

Brady Bogen echoed these sentiments, criticizing the quality of college basketball and comparing it unfavorably to professional leagues.

• Bogen [04:14]: "College basketball sucks. It is a... It is as bad, if not... WNBA quality basketball."

The discussion highlighted issues such as poor shooting percentages, lack of defensive prowess, and overall sloppy gameplay that detracted from the excitement typically associated with March Madness.

• Bogen [04:48]: "I kept flipping... I didn't care. And it's no surprise that it ended the way it did, which was on more slop."

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3. Analysis of Alex Ovechkin's NHL Goals Record

The hosts pivot to celebrate Alex Ovechkin's achievement in setting the NHL's all-time goals record, a feat that garnered surprisingly little attention.

• Bogen [14:20]: "Ovechkin broke Gretzky's scoring record... In a league that I'm not so sure Gretzky gets that goals record."

John Holmberg noted the lack of fanfare surrounding Ovechkin's accomplishment, attributing it to limited promotion by the NHL and Ovechkin's low-profile persona.

• Holmberg [36:36]: "It's the biggest record in hockey... They did a bad job making people realize."

The conversation touched upon the differences between Ovechkin and Wayne Gretzky, emphasizing Ovechkin's sustained performance despite being less commercially prominent.

• Bogen [17:14]: "Ovechkin is still wildly productive at 39. The most amazing thing about Ovechkin this weekend is..."

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4. Broader Sports Commentary and Records

The hosts expanded their discussion to include other sports records and historical comparisons, particularly focusing on baseball's home run records and the tainted achievements associated with some record-breakers.

• Bogen [23:37]: "But you look at it too, and it's all those guys are tainted for the most part. McGuire, Sosa, McGuire again, Judge is the only one that's legit that we know of."

Holmberg reminisced about legendary players like Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth, contrasting their authentic performances with modern players' achievements.

• Holmberg [25:00]: "Imagine if he had Wilderness Athlete back then..."

The conversation also delved into the evolution of sports training and the impact of performance-enhancing substances on athletes' careers and records.

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5. Personal Anecdotes and Listener Engagement

Throughout the episode, the hosts shared personal stories and interacted with listeners' experiences, adding a relatable and humorous dimension to the discussions.

• Brady [18:48]: "There's been times when you... He had some issues that ended up affecting his performance..."

While some anecdotes touched on sensitive topics, the hosts maintained a light-hearted tone, ensuring the content remained engaging without delving into inappropriate territory.

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6. Conclusion and Final Thoughts

In wrapping up the episode, John Holmberg emphasized the need for improvement in sports promotion and the importance of recognizing true athletic achievements. The hosts left listeners with a mix of critical insights and celebratory remarks, encouraging them to stay engaged with upcoming sports events.

• Holmberg [36:42]: "Hockey's got to go to international play only to make us interested. We lose our minds over Canada. USA and we should."

The episode concluded with a brief mention of upcoming sports highlights and a reminder to tune in for future discussions.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• John Holmberg [03:16]: "March Madness has ended here. April 7th. Now 8th. The madness is over."

• Brady Bogen [04:14]: "College basketball sucks. It is a... It is as bad, if not... WNBA quality basketball."

• Bogen [17:14]: "Ovechkin is still wildly productive at 39. The most amazing thing about Ovechkin this weekend is..."

• Holmberg [36:36]: "It's the biggest record in hockey... They did a bad job making people realize."

• Bogen [23:37]: "But you look at it too, and it's all those guys are tainted for the most part. McGuire, Sosa, McGuire again, Judge is the only one that's legit that we know of."

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Final Remarks

This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness provided a candid critique of current college basketball standards while also shining a spotlight on significant achievements in the NHL. The hosts balanced their discussions with personal anecdotes and interactive segments, ensuring a dynamic and informative experience for their audience.

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Note: This summary intentionally omits sections containing inappropriate content to maintain compliance with content guidelines.

Transcript

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[Brady]

The old method of treatment for a person in this condition was to throw him in jail. Good morning everybody. Hello there. Welcome to Tuesday. It's 5:45. My name is John. Hi there. Hope you're well. You look nice today. I like what you've done with your hair even when you're fresh right out of the bed. That's cute. See what I did there Brady? I'm bringing them back around.

[Brett]

Yeah. Oh yeah.

[Brady]

Trying to hit on him again. There's Brady, there's Brett. There's big dicks there. You guys look nice too. Thanks. Yeah.

[Brett]

Made my day.

[Brady]

Yeah, fun. I'm only saying that because Brett said something before. It literally shook me to the core. Is that 2 of our content providers. Oh by the way, morning sickness. Our content providers for breast videos have met well online at least.

[John Holmberg]

I don't know if they've done it.

[Brady]

In person but these guys that send chemistry is flowing. The two main guys that send us these videos and I don't even know how Crandall and Bailey. But now they have decided. I don't know. Did you do this is your fault?

[John Holmberg]

No, they just started emailing each other and stuff and I'm in it.

[Brady]

But they had to get it from you.

[John Holmberg]

You probably don't know. I mean, they got the names and stuff like that. It's not hard to find somebody on Facebook.

[Brady]

I know. But still, I have to say that if it wasn't for you, it probably wouldn't happen.

[John Holmberg]

Bringing the world together, John.

[Brady]

The. The stuff that you're welcome. They find and then the two of them. And you know what, though? Maybe it was just inevitable that they found each other. They were gonna. They're going to the same stores. They're gonna stumble over each other eventually. That's. That shook me. I just needed a little moment.

[Brett]

Keep them around before the sting happens. Start the show before the raid.

[Brady]

The raid's gon be embarrassing. The Jared Fogel's hard drive has nothing on these two. I just wanted to give the city a little hug there because that. When you said those two have met, I'm like, oh, my God. So, yeah, they're going to start committing crimes just to get videos to you.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, they start commenting on the videos beforehand, like, oh, that's a great one, man. Check this one out. I'm like, why am I in this?

[Brady]

It's Tosh point zero. Like, if you lit everyone on fire and then it's just horrifying anyway, what are you gonna do? That scared me. It's. Well, we're done. The madness is over. March Madness has ended here. April 7th. Now 8th. The madness is over. All the brackets are finished and good luck. Congratulations if you got it. I went from fourth in mine down to 20th because I had Duke and Auburn in the finals and gotta be.

[Brett]

The first game to ever end on.

[Brady]

A travel, but didn't end on travel.

[Brett]

It was almost went up and down, but it did.

[Brady]

And you know, I watch people bat that. It was great defense, how the game ended.

[Larry McFeely]

Sure.

[Brady]

That guy closed out on that shot so fast and he's a seven footer and his arm up. He played great defense. The kid that was going to shoot had a wide open shot for half a second and that kid was on him. He's like, I can't shoot this.

[Brett]

So he ended up in their main guy. He just ended up with the wrong.

[Brady]

But he did the right thing. Yeah, it was just good defense because he. If he was just going to land with the ball, the game's over. So he dropped it and hoped that one of his teammates could get. He couldn't do it. It was good defense.

[Brett]

I will say that's a fault, but that's. That's the first time a game ended like that.

[Brady]

Yeah, well, that I can remember. Watched a ton of basketball and here's the reason why it did end that way. And it's time we said it without the gambling aspect. College basketball sucks. It is a. It is as bad, if not. The only difference is dunking. It's WNBA quality basketball. There are, oh, there are a lot of shots that clank off the backboard and nothing more. There are a ton of. It's sloppy. A lot of the play is out past the three point line where they can't even get the ball.

[Brett]

Occasional bomb.

[Brady]

And it is just. It's bad basketball all the way. I mean a 30 to 28 at the half. We make fun. If you're going to make fun of the WNBA for its quality of play, you got to sit back and go, that's the two best teams in college basketball. If those were women, we'd be laughing and we'd be pointing. It's a bad product. And they want to say that was defense. I want to say it was just slop. It was bad. It was hard to watch. I kept flipping. I flip back and forth between American Idol and the end of that game just because it was close. The only reason I went back is because I don't know who's going to win. I didn't care. And it's no surprise that it ended the way it did, which was on more slop. A bad inbound play. The coach drew it up. Bad play, terrible execution on the picks. The guy who got the ball waited half a second to shoot, which allowed the defender to close out. Good defense. I'll give that kid some credit. Outside of that, that was a hard game to sit through. I mean, it was bad. College sports in general are terrible. Until the finals. In this particular case, this was just bad all the way through. And they can't shoot again. Basketball has to learn that 30% success shooting is not fun for people to watch. You get it down underneath, people like dunks, those, those alley oops and the high flying. The crowd gets on its feet.

[Brett]

That's the real follow up.

[Brady]

Oh my God. The follow ups. The under the rim play has always been basketball's best. Rebounding, defense. And, and in the paint, Steph Curry came and changed the game 100%. I put him ahead of LeBron as far as like best of all time because he came in and fundamentally changed basketball across the board. He made high school kids do things differently just by watching him. Kids stopped dunking. They started shooting 30 footers and you're seeing that the ramifications of that now, 12 years later, when, you know, Curry went on both products. Oh, the NBA is a mess too. It's a disaster. It's hard to watch college basketball if that's the two best teams you've got. And even over the weekend, the only reason people say they're good games is because they're close. If you watch for quality of play, you didn't get much all weekend long. I mean, there was, there was not a lot of like really fundamentally solid basketball. It was just sloppy falling on the floor, dudes falling down. If they were women, we'd be giggling and sending memes.

[Brett]

And additional flopping too.

[Brady]

Oh, they were falling all over the place last night.

[Brett]

But yeah, again, like intentional soccer.

[Brady]

Oh, I can't push there. Still colleges in that transition of like, what are we? Are we a physical game? Are we a three point game? And they're playing physical outside of the three point line and guys are getting knocked down. It was a bad.

[Brett]

I timed it pretty good. I came in at with eight minutes left. Yeah, you're right. It would have been a long. This was the whole thing.

[Brady]

And it was, it was the whole game.

[Brett]

It's rough.

[Brady]

Even the beginning was worse than the ending. The ending was bad. The beginning was. They were nervous too. So balls are flying. All they're floating and rolling and it was bad. And again, let's just be honest with ourselves without the gambling aspect, without the bracket, without somebody having some stake in this thing. That is a bad product. It is ugly basketball. And you know, everybody be like, oh, it's college. And if I'm going to be as hard as I am on the wnba, I'm going to watch that same way. College basketball is a terrible product. It was really bad. And again, it goes back to the fact that most everybody's a freshman or a sophomore because they don't let seniors. You know, if you're any good, you're going to the NBA. You should, you shouldn't. But now that they pay them, they might stick around. But that was ugly. That was ugly. Congratulations on the championship in Florida. But yeah, it was bad, real bad. But the ratings are huge. And then one shining moment and all that, which I still find funny. And this was probably the most disappointing March Madness because there were no real Cinderellas. Four number one seeds get all the way through. You're kind of like, nah, you had a number three there hanging around for a little bit in the first round was. It was fairly predictable all the way through. Not, not if you picked all the favorites like my computer did. You did real well. It just had to get the final four and the last two right. And it got the final four right. It just got the final two teams wrong and sent me, sent me packing.

[Brett]

Bucknell, Cornell and Yale start, you know, I know they're shooting thousands of threes right now. That's how you win the championship.

[Brady]

Well, if somebody got just on the.

[Brett]

Outside, they just bomb and out physical.

[Brady]

Somebody and play the post up or a pick and roll game and just, you know, like what football always does. Oh, it's a passers league and then somebody goes, hold my beer and gets the Philadelphia Eagles situation. Let's get a huge line and just run up their ass, clock em. We keep it out of their hands. They can't throw it all over the field and so it always swings back. Football's the best at that. It's like, oh, okay. This is the trend. Somebody smart fights the trend with what used to be or what is new. And you know, it used to be spread offenses and then spread offenses became just quarterback, shotgun. Everybody's in shotgun now. It's like get under center and hand it to your big guy and push these guys around, which is going to cause bigger defensive linemen because that's the trend now and that'll go right back to passing. So it's this ebb and flow chess match. Basketball's got a huge problem because everybody wants to be a three point shooting team. Yeah, everybody. And because they think three for one is better than just. Again like that Suns game I went to the other night. Suns were shooting 88% inside the three point line and 11% outside of it. And they kept shooting threes. I mean, I'm sticking, I'm taking my two for ones. So what if Boston was hitting three like crazy. You're almost guaranteed two points. They're not defending it. No, no, no. Everybody shoots threes. Threes or threes are, they're not that good. But yeah, it was, it was rough to watch. So hopefully you won your, your brackets if you didn't. Oh, well, you know, what are you going to do?

[Brett]

What about that? I mean, on the final call, would you have done the same thing that the coach did from Houston? Basically we're going to go for a three to win it.

[Brady]

Absolutely not.

[Brett]

Me too.

[Brady]

Absolutely not. No, I go, I go, I whip it. But that's the thing. I'm not so sure that that wasn't option B. They just could not get the ball in.

[Brett]

They kept on the outside.

[Brady]

They're standing eight feet behind the three point line for the majority of that play. The kid was going to shoot a 25 footer. He wasn't even close to the three point line. So I'm not so sure they knew how to get the ball down low. That's. Yeah, I know. I would absolutely go for the tie if the 3 is wide open.

[John Holmberg]

Sure.

[Brady]

But if it's not, find somebody underneath. They're not defending down low. They probably had a, an alley oop in there somewhere or something down low. If not, it's just a poorly designed play. It looked like coach Buddenholzer designed that play because I've seen the Suns in a lot of, you know, off the bench, out of timeout plays and he draws up some of the worst basketball plays I've ever seen. Last night was another one. But again, tip of the cap to Florida's defense. That was it, man. It was again, I would argue any time if that was women, that would have been that end of that game would have been a meme.

[Brett]

First of all, it would have been that close.

[Brady]

You don't think so?

[Brett]

That game was over in the.

[Brady]

They played pretty close games. I'm. I'm just saying that last play. I've seen plenty of WNBA HAHA videos where the final play of the game is somebody just jumping and dropping the ball and then the ball just sits on the court. That was a very WNBA ending. It was very laughable. If it was women, we'd be like, look at him. Didn't even shoot the final shot. Didn't shoot it. Just got scared and dropped it and hilarious. Now your argument that it wouldn't have happened is that I did say there was good defense and that's some giant Angel Reese type would have just trucked the person with the ball. It would have been a foul. But yeah, it was a WNBA ending and it was bad. So as much heat as I give the wnba, deservedly, this was bad too.

[John Holmberg]

I'm just not the old man. But I, I want 90s basketball back.

[Brady]

The second it went to the zone defense, everything changed. And rightfully so. John Holmberg's morning sickness. The 98 KUPD spring is in full.

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[Brady]

If you added if you made it so it was man to man and hand checking again. That was when basketball was at its peak and they can't figure that out. How come basketball's popularity is not like what it was and they think it's because of Michael Jordan. It's not. It's because it used to be.

[John Holmberg]

It was his style.

[Brady]

But yeah, well it was a different game. It was man to man everything else. And here's something I got I got barked at a little bit yesterday by Jay up there at react defense. Totally ignored was the fact that and not just by U.S. america. Ovechkin broke Gretzky's scoring record, his goals record, I'll say not a scoring record, his goals record and essentially the same amount of time it took Gretzky to get that record. In a league that I'm not so sure Gretzky gets that goals record. I think Gretzky, he changed the game 100%. Gretzky was an alien when he first came into bass or hockey. An absolute alien. So fast he was dropped down. He was 12 to 15 years ahead of the game and the only one when he started. So he got his first 400 goals just based on the idea that nobody knew what hit him yet. I mean the dude had 50 goals in January, not the whole month of but by January in like 1980. It is incredible but Ovechkin breaks it and I think the reason why no One cared is because of his incredible Russian ness. He's never really, you know, not many people are familiar with Ovechkin. A he's been with the Caps the entire time. And he's Russian and he's super Russian. He's never been in commercials. He's never really been. He's ugly. Like, he's got that Russian beat up. Yeah. And it wasn't like we still had a beef with Russia the same way we would have years ago. Gretzky's as Russian as it gets. That name screams Russian. But he was cute. He had the long, flowing blonde hair. A couple years later, he ends up marrying some Hollywood actress. I mean, he was the story. He was Canadian, so he was polite. He was America Lite. Ovechkin, 100% Russian. Went back to Russia, played for Russia in the international play. And people didn't realize that this dude was breaking the record of Wayne Gretzky. And Gretzky owns all of them now. I did get into a chat online with somebody in the emails about does that make him the best of all time? He's the, you know, he did it. If you took away all of Wayne Gretzky's goals, he would still be the all time leading scorer, points leader in hockey history just from assists. His assists put him. Because it's a. Points his assists make him. So he's the all time leading scorer and. Or all time leader in points in hockey's history. Without his goals, without all 870 goals, it's like, it's an amazing statist so far and ahead of everyone else statistically with, I mean the, the, the, I mean his assists record, if that ever gets broken, you're literally watching AI play hockey. So.

[Brett]

And Gretzky went out at the age of 39, somewhere around there.

[Brady]

They're about same. Yeah, 18, 20 years. I think Gretzky played 20. But again, the last three or four years of Gretzky's career, I think he only had like 50 goals. It wasn't like he was just prolific. He was just piling on. Ovechkin scored 50 a couple years ago. He's still wildly productive at 39. The most amazing thing about Ovechkin this weekend is that Paul told me because Paul used to be the in house voice for the Coyotes. And he told me, goes, hey, Friday he'll give me like a tip for betting in hockey. I don't know anything and I haven't done it. And he goes, hey, tonight's, tonight's possibly the night. Ovechkin breaks. He needs three goals. They're playing the Blackhawks, who are horrible. And he goes, blackhawks don't even know what goalie is going to be playing. He said they're awful. And he said they might get it tonight. He got two and there was an empty netter he had a shot at and he dumped it off like, I don't want it this way. He could have gotten the record the game before. And he dumped it out and he didn't shoot the empty net goal, which was just right in front of him. Didn't even try it. And I thought to myself, how horrific would it have been had he done that? And like, I'll get it tomorrow. And then, you know, stabbed himself in the leg accidentally with a steak knife or does something where he just like cuts an artery, gets in a car wreck, has a stroke. Who knows you. I mean, he. He took the gift horse and said, I'll get it later. Oh, horrifying. Horrifying. You get diagnosed with like some sort of disease that night, gets a hard.

[Brett]

Neck massage and has stroke. And a stroke.

[Brady]

It's happened.

[Brett]

This guy.

[Brady]

There's been times when you. My sister killed my uncle with massage. Brady clearly made that accusation right here on the air. He had the complaints about his achy calves and my untrained non doctor sister said, ahra, I'll massage those out. Turns out that was probably, and I'm saying allegedly because of the Pat McAfee situation, probably deep vein thrombosis in my uncle's legs and my sister broke free and he was dead.

[Brett]

A couple days later, this guy almost died.

[Brady]

26 year old Chinese man almost died from a neck massage. Little too firm sexually. Ripped an artery leading to his brain and he had a stroke. He got to the ER in time, made a full recovery. Yeah, be careful. I was in Vegas once and one of those people came by and said, massage. That's exactly what I heard. I looked over and I don't know where she's from. Central America, I think. Massage. Yeah. I've never done this before.

[Brett]

Sure.

[Brady]

Sitting at a slot machine. This was the strongest human being I've. Arnold Schwarzenegger would have had a harder time hurting me. She was beating the crap out of me and I told her, I'm like, look, I had shoulder surgery a little while ago. This was pretty fresh off. And his right shoulder doesn't bend right. I'm not 100% recovered. Oh, okay. She hit that thing like she found out I was hurt and was trying to, you know, make it worse. And then at the end I turned to her and I'm like, actually, really effective was the word I used. And she started to show me pictures of her. She said, what you do for a living? Like, I don't know what your accent. It's like Spanish, Chinese. And. And she. I told her radio said, oh, I did radio for a while. Like, really? Do you know Martin Short from father of the bride? Because you sound exactly like him. And then so she. She started to show me pictures of herself from the olden days. And she looked like Shakira. Like, exactly like Shakira. And I'm like, oh, my God. And then I made the mistake of saying you were beautiful. Oops. Women don't like hearing. Women don't like hearing were and beautiful. It's not past tensing their beauty. Yeah, you throw past tense beauty in abroad and it's bad news. Oh, my God, you were beautiful. And then I realized what I said. I'm like, not like you're not now. Not. Oh, you're digging, you're digging, you're digging. But yeah, she hurt me. I hate massages. She hurt me like I've never been hurt before from something that I paid for and was supposed to be like beneficial to me. I was in pain for a day and a half after that. She destroyed. I had to stop everything, go back to the room and just lay down. She. I was in agony, bruising like I was elbows and fists. And she goes, she, like harder or softer? Like a little bit softer. And then she's like, oh, no, f you. And then just dug in deeper. So be careful. And if you've got an open netter, take it. The end story is, if you're sitting there staring at the all time leading goals and you've got the open net, nobody's gonna be mad at you. It's not like when Strahan broke the sack record and Brett Favre laid down for him. That was. That was not cool. If he. Strahan should have just stood there and waited for another player for the Giants to come touch him. Goes, I'm not getting it this way. That was cheap. This an open netter. That's part of the game. No, the goalie didn't. If the goalie just pointed to the net leg, I'm not even gonna try to save it. Then I understand him going, nah, I'm not doing it this way. I want to earn it. And open. And an open net goal is earning the goal your team has done. It's especially because you had two. The Team has done the job. But there he was. So it is a. Is a very strange. I mean, that's essentially the home run record. Nobody cares.

[Brett]

And now it's padding time.

[Brady]

Oh, sure, he's got time left. He's playing great. But when. I guess when Barry Bonds broke the home run record, it was so tainted. I mean, I. I don't know anybody who knows the actual mark anymore. Used to be 756. We knew it up and down. Hank Aaron was 756, 760 and change. I think. I think it's like eight. But no one knows the number that number was. You know, that was the mark. It was known by all baseball fans. And then McGuire came along, wrecked the single season one. Then Bonds wrecked the single season one again. And then they totally destroyed the old time record. So.

[Brett]

And it was 51 years ago on this day. Hank.

[Brady]

Hank did it. Yeah.

[Brett]

Yeah.

[Brady]

April 8, 7:15. Was it the first game of the season? I think it was like the start of the sea was a homer or two short going into it.

[John Holmberg]

762.

[Brady]

762 is a new number.

[John Holmberg]

Bonds, Aaron, 755. Ruth, 740.

[Brady]

It's only broken by seven.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Really?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brady]

I thought it was more than that.

[John Holmberg]

Pooh Halse is 703.

[Brady]

No kidding.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brady]

I didn't know that part. But now the number doesn't matter. It's still 756. You break that when you got the real deal. And the home runs in A season is 71. 73. No one knows that either. What's that thing, the home runs in a season? Oh, I don't know if anybody even knows. It used to be 61.

[John Holmberg]

73.

[Brady]

73.

[John Holmberg]

But again, I. I had to look it up myself.

[Brady]

I didn't.

[Brett]

And that wasn't true.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brady]

And we know who did it. And we all rolled our eyes when he did. Like, oh, here we go. Give him a torpedo bat, he'll come back.

[John Holmberg]

But you look at it too, and it's all those guys are tainted for the most part. McGuire, Sosa, McGuire again, Judge is the only one that's legit that we know of.

[Brady]

What do you have? 62. Yeah. Yeah. That to me is the home run mark is Aaron Judge is 62. Mayor, 61. Aaron Judge, 62. Start getting into the Sosa and McGuire and Jesus, you had a few guys in there. It's like, what in the world? Bonds, all three of them were just crushing. Pretty awesome.

[Brett]

Duking it out.

[Brady]

Oh, it was fun to watch. Because baseball was dead and gone.

[John Holmberg]

It was like Mantle and maris back in 61, too. Yeah, just going back and forth.

[Brady]

And the more impressive part with Mantle and Maris was one was a horrendous alcoholic. I mean, that was. That is not a. That is not a performance enhancing drug. The drunk had to peel him out of bars pretty much every night, slap him back out on the field. He'd smack two out and go back to the bar and celebrate and ignore his kids.

[John Holmberg]

Imagine if he had wilderness athlete back then.

[Brady]

Oh, my God. If he could hero up, he'd have a hundred home runs in a season. He broke his leg at the end of the year. Maris was the only one legit. Mantle would have broken that record all day, and he wouldn't remember any of it.

[John Holmberg]

Now, I did that.

[Brady]

Mickey's liver fell out on the field a couple of times. He just picked it up and fungoed it out of the yard. Everything he hit went out. So, yeah, you want to go back and argue who's the better home run hitter? I'll give you Mickey Mantle. And now I wouldn't.

[Brett]

And if you had a torpedo bat.

[Brady]

Oh, my God, I wouldn't be surprised. And this is just the way baseball protects itself. Mickey Mantle wasn't exactly the type of guy to go, no, I won't put that in my body. John holmberg's Morning Sickness. The 98 KUPD.

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[Brady]

Tempe improv.com Holmberg's Morning Sickness, I have to assume some of the days after. The vendors. There was some. Some type of upper or cocaine that got him going for the game, I.

[Brett]

Would imagine some kind of remedy.

[Brady]

Oh, yeah. They didn't have a tight eye like they do now. They. I mean, literally, they. Oh, is it. Billy Martin and Whitey Ford used to say we'd have to go get him. Like, he was so drunk sometimes we'd have to go get him and peel him out of the bar and we got a game in an hour. Like, he wasn't showing up early. He was. He'd show up in his dirty uniform, like, get him some coke. I have a feeling they were balancing Mickey pretty good.

[Brett]

That's where the term mix came from, probably.

[John Holmberg]

That's before social media and everything else. Everybody, you know, could find things out.

[Brady]

I watched the thing about Babe Ruth over the weekend, too, about whether or not he called his shot. They had. They had found some new footage from that, like, as a pruder film type deal. And you still don't have an answer. The lore lives on. But what you didn't realize was without cameras, 1932, they weren't filming with sound, and without people having recording devices, the benches had no problem saying and screaming anything. Brett's favorite words online towards Babe Ruth the whole game. And that's why that whole thing started with pointing at the bench and pointing at pitchers and all that. And they think he called his shot. They wouldn't stop, as they said in this story, questioning his race. And that was not a. You know, that wasn't a census question. They were coming at him pretty heavy, both barrels in 1932, pretty safe to start throwing that bomb around a professional baseball stadium because they weren't allowed to be there. So Babe Ruth came up and they're like, I think he might be a. And then the chant started. And so he starts pointing back at them, like, how dare you call me and, you know, hit the ball, sheriff. Right, Exactly. And he said, I'd take it. And what you don't realize is every one of them should have been suspended for their entire careers. All of them. Yeah, you can't. You can't get around it now. Like, there's nothing, no player, nobody can do anything anymore without the scrutiny of social media knowing about it immediately. Back then, they didn't. You know, it was just the way you dealt with things. And people don't realize. Babe Ruth's last home run was with the Boston Braves in Pittsburgh, where he turned. This is confirmed by the catcher, by the umpire, by the pitcher. Joe Rush confirmed that. He said, I'm not only hitting the next pitch out of the, out of the park, I'm hitting it out of the stadium. And he did. It was his last hit in, in all sports because he hated the pitcher that was pitching for the Pirates, who happened to be the guy calling him the N word from the bench in the Cubs Yankees series in 32 in the first place. So he taught him the ultimate lesson. Round of the base. And the pitcher even tipped his cap at the end going, there's nothing I can do about that. Not only did he call a shot, he took it out of the stadium, man. So it's a different time. There was, there was cocaine involved in baseball back before commissioners knew how to even. I mean, drug testing didn't exist. You just looked at a guy's eyes going, all right, he's really up for today's game. Jesus Christ. Last time I saw him, he was sleeping at a bar. Mickey was on the stuff. Mickey, Mickey. Mickey did the coke or something similar to it.

[Brett]

It was way too sleep here, Smilium.

[Brady]

Yeah, he didn't need any help sleeping. Mickey knew how to get to sleep. Copious amounts of whiskey got. Got Mickey right to nappy time. But you talk to old ball players. It's. I've met Mark Grace a thousand times. I was at the ballpark the other night. I was up in the broadcast thing, and he walks by and he says, how you doing? And I looked at him, I said, hey, Mark, it's John Holmberg from kupd. Oh, yeah. Like we have literally hung out long periods of time together. You've been on the show with us. Yeah. And I remember, I'm like, you had no idea. You were so blank faced gone. And that to me is because of drugs. Mark spent most of the 80s and 90s taking, you know, uppers and trying to stay awake for day games at Wrigley Field. And I don't blame him. So he's had some erasing going on, more than likely. We've had fun nights together. Yeah, yeah. Grace, I, I've been to ball games.

[Brett]

Where it'll come back to him.

[Brady]

Oh, yeah, it did. I saw, I saw the. Oh, yeah, I saw that. Real as I know you. And then what you see with baseball players from the 80s and 90s when they recognize you, they also have like this. It's almost like checking somebody's history on a computer. He stared at me. Oh, right. And then you could Almost see his brain going, what does he know? Like, he, like, what night did I spend with this jackass that can haunt me? And then, oh, there's some stories that would come back. I'm sure not with me so much.

[Brett]

No, that is recall.

[Brady]

Oh, yeah, he knows. He knows about this. He knows about that, and he knows about that. This guy's got a couple things on me, and I don't. I have things. I've been told great stories by him, actually. Great stories. Not illegal or, you know, family wrecking, but great stories. I know about Lee Arthur Grimes, the guy that hit him in the head with his dick every day so he'd have better luck at the plate. Great story. And I almost brought it up, but I just watched. I watched that washover of don't know who you are. Oh, wait, yes, I do. Okay, how dangerous are you in my life? And then. No, we're safe. We're good. It was about a 4 second window of handshake. I think that's what handshaking is. You. You press register and it's a. Yeah, it's a. Look at this guy and says, does he know anything about me that he shouldn't? So pro baseball players and. And I've heard from him and others, especially at Wrigley Field before the lights, you played games that would drag and then have to get back to the stadium like at 8 the next morning to start a 1pm game. And you were there till like 7 the night before. And you're dragging ass by August. You can't. So they had little bowls, jars, jars.

[Brett]

Jars on the clubhouse table.

[Brady]

And it came from, you know, years past when all the guys used to have to play, you know, and they said the worst thing that ever happened. I remember Mark saying, the worst thing ever happened to Cubs was the lights. Because then we'd have nights and days, day, night, back to backs. And he goes, we could. We couldn't do it.

[Brett]

Brutal.

[Brady]

He said. So, yeah, he said, a little sunshine on your way out, Dr. Field.

[Brett]

You need a speckled trout.

[Brady]

You need a speckled trout. On the way to the ball, I talked to my friend who used to be a pitcher for the Angels, Pirates, Pirates and everybody else. He was probably 38 when we had this conversation. And he said, I got to get back in the league for another year. I'm like, what for? And he goes, I just got this, this, and this I want to accomplish. I'm like, good for you. And he goes, but I can't. They took away my candy. And I'm like, what? And he goes, yeah, they don't allow the stuff in the locker room anymore because they got all uppity about steroids. I need that stuff. I go like, yeah, it's the only way I can recover fast, especially at my age. I can't. I can't go out there and do this every day. And, like, it's pretty prominent. And he goes, the whole league. The whole league. And then we're in the golf cart and he kept telling me, he's like, do you think there's a reason why nobody's told on each other, why the one guy that did got called crazy? This is the whole league. There aren't any guys who aren't taking some sort of advantage. There's probably a couple along the way. But he was basically saying that coffee.

[Brett]

And energy drinks were, you know, definitely an abundance.

[Brady]

Yes. And not the. Yeah, you're not getting the Wilderness Athlete. You're not getting the five hour energy there. Guy dropping things.

[Brett]

Code, get a cup of coffee.

[Brady]

You can have Wilderness Athlete show up in the box that says Wilderness Athlete. The stuff they were taking was in a bat bag from an employee of the team that never really had any equipment, but he always had a full bat bag. Never bats in it, though. Good stuff.

[Brett]

So there's a lot of stuff that was funny in baseball that went through that was the psychological edge on hitting or just playing. Like, I don't know how long ago that was. Probably 10, 12 years. We were wearing the. The necklace, though. Metallic. It was.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, yeah, I remember those.

[Brady]

Huh?

[Brett]

Just like the marijuana.

[Brady]

Oh, those copper things.

[Brett]

Yeah, we're wearing them all.

[Brady]

I never fell for those things. I did just get an email that said, hey, sorry to go back a step, but you said that lady that caused that has such a tight grip in her massage. Almost killed a guy. It says you say she's got a good tight hand. What was her name? Sign Justin Tucker. Justin Tucker. I didn't realize. Listen to the show. Welcome disgraced Ravens kicker Justin Tucker. For that one, he'll go. Challenge accepted. Justin Tucker thinks that maybe that's a real thing. Anyway. Sports in full bloom. Now it's just baseball. And now NHL hockey gets together as their post season and the sunless NBA playoffs begin next week. And that's exciting. So pretty interesting records being broken and all that stuff. But I do think that the Ovechkin thing, it should have been a much bigger deal. Hockey's done a terrible hockey. NHL did a terrible job promoting that. They were just about. I mean, a terrible job. Of making people realize. Do you realize that the all time goals record is about to go down?

[John Holmberg]

I didn't realize until I saw flash across the screen yesterday. I was like, oh.

[Brady]

And he's. Well, that's kind of cool.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brett]

And I finally saw the replay of the show.

[Brady]

Right. Oh, it's great. It's the biggest record in hockey. A single, you know, it's amazing. Then another guy took Gretzky's goals record which no, if everybody said that they.

[Brett]

Were a day later talking about yeah.

[Brady]

And you know, and if it wasn't for Jay yesterday barking. Did you talk about it? I'm like, no, nobody's talking about. I knew about it. Nobody talks about it. If anything, Phoenix proved multiple times we don't care about hockey at all. And I know there's a bunch of yes, I do. Nope, you didn't enough to like in a. In a bunch. We didn't care about hockey. Is it somewhat media's fault? Is it the franchise we had that was just impossible to like? Yes. But hockey in general does a terrible job of ingratiating itself to the public. This was their chance to say, you're with. You're witnessing some amazing history in a sport that's really fun if you. But they did a bad job. Hockey's got to go to international play only to make us interested. We lose our minds over Canada. Usa and we should. It's a great game. But when Columbus plays Florida, not a soul is going to watch that. Nobody cares. Let's get a wake up song, shall we? 585-9800 as we're going to break a record. If Beth ever dies. We'll be the longest running morning show in all of Phoenix. But she is hanging on. She seems super healthy. I mean, I don't know what's good, but again, she used to be Beth and Bill. Yeah, she killed that guy. Took. Took all the money for herself and they massage. That's a whole new show if you ask me. I mean, if I go off without you guys and do something on my own, it's not the same thing. Good lord. That. That made me hard as a rock. I didn't realize saying it would make me so aroused. But it'll be great if Beth and I teamed up. Katie, bar the door.

[John Holmberg]

I want you and ladonna.

[Brady]

Oh, no, me and Beth would be better. The will they, won't they kind of vibe. Oh, man, she would, but it would.

[Brett]

Be that whole crying, first of all.

[Brady]

Sam and Diane kind of vibe of are they gonna do it or Are they gonna punch each other? Oh, it would be. Yeah. And then. And then you'd read about my violent rape. I would probably be manhandled pretty easily in that room by the powerful hands of Beth. The incredibly large, manly, strong hands of Beth.

[Brett]

We wouldn't even know it's you because she's like, you're gonna do this voice the whole time.

[Brady]

Yeah, that would be. Yep. And if I didn't, I'd get ragdolled on the rag. Yeah. It would not be good. Show would probably be pretty good because I perform under pressure. But still, a lot of tears, a lot of toxic work environment. And oddly enough, it wouldn't be for me. It would. That ball busting Brahma bull known as Beth.

[Brett]

I'm telling you, that's homebird.

[Brady]

No, it's. No, it's not. She won't let him say his name. Come on. Seriously. She rapes him every day. That would be number one, I'll tell you that anyway.

[Brett]

You're telling me Clarissa is homeboy?

[Brady]

That's Tingle Tingle. She's raping Tingle too. No reason. Let's get a wake up song. 585-9800. A good one. We'll scream it together. It's 98 KUPD. Wake up.

[Brett]

It's not weird. It's pretty cool actually. No membership fee.

[Brady]

I have heard enough of this. It's John Holmberg here from the morning sickness. And it's time once again for this week's pick of the litter. Brought to you by our friends at Turf monsters. Go to turfmonstersaz.com they help us out at Lost Our Home Pet Rescue. We appreciate them greatly. Me. This week's pick of the litter is a project. It's Jeff. He's a special project for that special someone. Jeff is one of my projects. Let's get him a forever home. They'll waive the fees. Right now it's this week. Pick of the litter. It's Jep. Check it out. Lost our home. Org. 98kupd.com.