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Totally get it. All right. Good stuff. Bill Simmons. That was a long interview for us. We don't do that very often, but there's a lot of stuff to cover. He's obviously an interesting cat and I appreciate that. Yeah, yeah, Think about that. They had that absolutely awful Len Bias tragedy. That could have been another, you know, he was out of Maryland. If you didn't see Len Bias playing college number 34, there was just nothing like it. It was a little Dominique Wilkins, little David Thompson. Just wildly, if I could compare him to a football player, it would be Adrian Peterson. Like just bigger, stronger than other players of his generation. Just didn't look the same or play the same. The tragedy and his early death. Or they could have had another long run. We all need routines that bring us calm in a chaotic world. For millions of Americans arming their SimpliSafe home security systems, the moment of peace. Go to simplisafecollen.com 50% off. 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So, you know, you can, you can add new members. One of my favorite bands of all time was the Eagles. Right, right. Okay. And they, you can, you can add people to the band, but you know, Don Henley had the voice. Like in the end, you can add a lot of bad members and the warriors can add Jimmy Butler, and Jimmy Butler makes them better. But it is Steph's team. And last night was a great example because Jimmy Butler returned to Miami, to the Heat, where he got him to the finals. And he has been great. He has been great. When Butler and Steph play together, warriors are 15 and three. But last night's the difference between the two. Steph didn't play, Jimmy did. And the offense dried up. The starters for the warriors at half had 10 total points. And LeBron and Steph are transformational all time players, top 10 players. Luca got traded for a reason. Remember, LeBron left Miami on his terms. Jimmy was traded out of town. Right. So Luka's a great score, but the team's not as good defensively because he doesn't share the ball as much. And in the NBA, if I don't touch it, I'm. I'm not playing. D on the other end. And Steph between iq, eq, off ball, on ball, scoring culture, building leadership. I love Jimmy Butler, but he's combative. He's a bounce around the league guy. He's a super grinder. He's a more offensively skilled Draymond Green. But Steph's the entire package. LeBron's the entire package. You can love Keith Richards, it's Mick's band. You can love Butler, it's Steph's band. You can love Luca, it's LeBron's band. And you saw it last night, is that without Steph, this looked like the team pre Butler, nobody could score. The movement's not as good. They're not talking as much. And the Heat in the Mavs, listen, both got to finals, right? The Heat got to the finals, but when they did with Jimmy Butler, Jimmy was overwhelmed. And Luca got to a finals. But do you remember that finals? He was out of shape, he was gassed. LeBron James with Matthew Della Badova can lose the finals. He's not out of shape, he's not gassed. He just doesn't have enough combatants on his side. So it's, it's. I can, I can absolutely love Jimmy Butler. And you can add players to teams, even like B plus, A minus guys. I've said this. Everybody's got this. Hey, Luca guarantees this. Luka gets worked on the defensive end. We talked about this with Rick Bucher yesterday. When LeBron sat out and he didn't play with Luca, they not only lost, they were getting boat raced by bad teams because Luka sort of reverts back to who Luka is and why it wasn't always great chemistry with the Mavericks. Guys are sitting around watching, they don't touch the ball. And this was Buker yesterday talking about the LeBron Luka dynamic. When LeBron stepped out, it became the Luca show and it looked like Dallas. And the reason that you had everybody defending as hard as they were, because they were touching the ball. They knew that if they ran the floor, the ball is going to be passed ahead and I might get a fast break layup. And that doesn't happen much when LeBron's out. So here it's interesting. I had said this. I gave baseball about 15 years off. I didn't talk much about it. The game got really slow. There was no urgency. The emergence of the iPhone, people are distracted and the stars were not in the right places. Ohtani was down with the Angels, who feel, you know, invisible here in LA county, which neighbors Orange County. And then Bryce Harper goes to the Gnats and Aaron Judge becomes a star and Ohtani is now a Dodger. And all of a sudden you look up and baseball speeds the game up. The defensive shift is eliminated, the bases are bigger, there's more bas runners, more stolen bases. And baseball the last two years, ratings up, attendance up. So Rob Manfred as a commissioner of baseball on in one hour, he's always got a battle. The purists. Baseball is like half amusement park, half museum. And, and the museum crowd, the old school people, they're grumpy. The sky is falling with any change. So yesterday was a great example of that. So Jeff Passon was on, he's very popular. Baseball writer for the Other Place. He was on a podcast and he said, you know, baseball's in an incredible place right now. They cannot have a work stoppage and all the seam heads come out of the woodwork. Nobody can compete. Oh, good Lord. The minute the Dodgers, Yankees make a World Series, the sky is falling crowd. Nobody can compete. We need a salary cap. Baseball's never going to have a salary cap. Union's too strong. And do you know, nobody is repeated in baseball to win the World series since 2000. That is the longest streak of any pro league in America and the longest streak in baseball history. In fact, last year I looked it up this morning. The Guardians, Orioles, Royals, Tigers and Brewers all made the playoffs. In fact, Detroit won a playoffs. There's. They're all in the bottom half of the league in payroll. The leagues never had more parity. Never. But speed up the game of the pitch clock. The purists didn't like it. The change in extra innings, the larger bases. Good God. They suggested the golden at bat. Used once a game where a star can bat out of order. People freaked out. Baseball's in an incredibly, incredibly healthy place. But no sport has more ninnies and whiners than baseball. I looked it up this morning. So you had last year you had six guys sign a hundred plus million dollar contract. Six guys. They must have been all Dodgers. Nope. One was a Yankee, one was a Dodger, one was a Diamondback, one was a Met, one was a Red Sox, one was San Francisco. Six different places. They haven't had a repeat champ. But the minute the Dodgers and the Yankees get in, the sky is falling. The purists are outraged. You have parody all over the sport now. I will say this Dodger team is insane. But we've all had somebody in our social circle. Hopefully you've eliminated them. Where you know, you go up and say, man, what a beautiful day. And they say, well, it could rain tomorrow. That is baseball purist. The sport's great. There's all sorts of bottom payroll teams. I mean, in the NBA you have eight teams that feel like perpetually the Wizards, they're just not watchable. They had John Wall and they weren't watchable. They can't compete. They had Beale and Wall in their prime. They can't compete in the East. So I mean, yeah, the A situation's ugly. But the NFL several years ago had the Raiders change where they were playing. The Chargers moved, they had three. St. Louis moved out to LA. There was a real bumpy two year stretch in the NFL. Where like franchises were moving all over the country. Yes, the A situation's a mess, but this idea, it is just, you know, look, I gave baseball 15 years off, the first eight years here and the last eight at the other place. I just didn't talk it much last year and a half. Baseball's been unbelievable. All the stars in the right place. The game is faster, more base runners, more stolen bases, more activity. In fact, one of my questions now is I think there's parity in baseball. The place where you lack parity is pitcher and hitter. Not enough teams can hit 265 to 270 as a team because the mound pitchers are bigger, stronger, faster, throwing 100 miles an hour. And batters, even good ones, can be overwhelmed in this sport. That's where you lack parody. The pitchers against the hitters, the sports fine. And as I've said, who pays 40% of baseball's bills? TV networks, they don't care about parity. They want six really good teams, preferably in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, L.A. and Philadelphia and maybe Houston. That's where they want the good teams and that's where they are right now. So, J. Mac, we got a lot of stuff, you know, it's, it's interesting. People are pins and needles on what Aaron Rodgers is going to do. And, and I've said he's a slightly better version of Russell Wilson. So Russell Wilson signed with the Giants yesterday and it landed with an absolute nothing break. Well, I, I don't think I, I, that is a third to fourth place team, right? Well, certainly, but is it possible that the Giants got wind that, hey, Shador Sanders ain't going to be there with three guys? He's not, he's gonna be gone. You better grab a quarterback before you get nothing. Right. What if Russell Wilson went to, I don't know, another team? Then they would have no quarterback at all. So I think some draft stuff leaked out and that's why the Patriots went and got digs. Is Travis Hunter going to be there at 4? Colin? I don't know. Yeah. So the Patriots probably heard Travis Hunter is gone at 4 because the Giants are going to have to select him because the Browns are taking a quarterback. Yeah. So, you know, there, there's nobody can keep a secret. I mean, let's be honest. In the NFL, you get close to the draft, you got, you got scouts that have worked for multiple teams. You got people who have been fired. Right. Like so you can't keep secrets anywhere. If you want to keep a secret, don't say anything to anybody. So I think what happened yesterday is a bit of a domino. The Giants find out Cleveland's taking a quarterback. The Patriots find out, oh, we better than sign Stefan Diggs because we're not getting Travis Hunter. Right. That that's probably what's happening. And Neighbors and Travis Hunter is kind of spicy on the outside for the New York Giants. They got a quarterback who just throws deep balls. That's all Russ does. He doesn't want to go over the middle. He just wants to throw the the go routes to Pickens and Pittsburgh, remember? And it worked. Now you get neighbors and Hunter that that's moderately interesting with Brian Dable as your head coach. 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It's hour two all fired up live in Los Angeles. It's the Herd. Wherever you may be in Howard, however, you may be listening. Thanks for making us part of your day. Just flying through shows Rob Manfred, baseball commissioner, on yesterday baseball season weirdly, you know, kind of starts tonight and then with the tournament. So it's weird. I don't remember that being the case where usually you would start baseball yesterday. So I don't love like opening night necessarily being on March Madness night because I want to watch John Calipari in Duke, in Arizona and whatever. I will say there's a story this morning that the Cleveland Browns with the number two pick will not take Shador Sanders. Adam Schefter says they're probably gonna get Abdul Carter, who's a super good player, excellent kid at Penn State, probably the second most gifted player in the draft to Travis Hunter. And this is not a shot at Schefter. I think it could be a smokescreen. You get lied to a lot in the last three or four weeks before the draft. I've been told that for years. But but what. What is interesting is if Kevin Stefanski did pass on Shador Sanders now Aaron Rodgers dropped in the draft and so did Dan Marino. It can happen to anybody. Lamar Jackson, it can happen to anybody, right? So. But he is a pocket quarterback who's accurate and won't be very expensive. That is what Stefanski wants. So if it's right in his lap and he doesn't take him, that does make you wonder if there's a real and then after that the Patriots don't need the Giants could use a quarterback and if they passed on him, like what are we looking at here? Maybe New Orleans goes and gets him. So my take on Shedeur is to be that accurate with no running game, a mostly abysmal offensive line for two years is really hard to pull off. 74% accuracy is really hard to pull off. It'd be one thing if you're Will Howard at Ohio State and you've got two first round receivers, two running backs who will get drafted early and above average O line, that's a different ballgame. It's different. If Quinn Ewers did that at Texas, we're talking battle line, no run game, 74% completion percentage. That's damn impressive. So yesterday Julian Edelman talked about what he worries about with Shador Sanders. My number one thing with Shador is can he break down the protections. He's not a mobile guy, he's a pocket passer. We all keep on saying he's a pocket passer. So for me, if I'm a general manager, if I'm a team, I want to see how good he is with his protections.
