1PM - Brian Batko on Steelers quarterback options, if Jalen Ramsey will be back; Brian has heard good things about Brian Angelichio at OC
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It's the fourth and final hour of the Pomp and Show show, and we are very, very happily joined here by one man who knows a lot about the Pittsburgh Steelers. He covers them for the Post-Gazette. Mr. Brian Batko joins us right now on the video feed, looking very intimidating there with that, it's almost like a James Harden beard. Would you not say there, Austin? He has that look. Fear the beard, Mr. Batko.
It's got to go. It's got to go soon. It's getting too itchy, too unwieldy. It's going to be leaving very soon. Let's get one last look at it, guys.
I like it. I mean, it's a serious beard. You're right up there. I think Brett Kiesel would be proud of that one, quite frankly.
Kiesel, Harden, those are definitely two of the best beards, I guess, in sports history, right? Any obvious ones come to mind that we're missing?
Those are the two that stand out to me. Who else? Oh. Any Penguin playoff beards stand out? No, they don't do those. Especially younger guys. I remember when Crosby stalled and those guys tried to grow and it was just sporadic.
How about Brian Wilson, the Giants closer? Remember his?
Yeah, yeah. That was a pretty good beard. Yours is better. So, Brian, we've been talking a lot about different things here. Of course, you heard how that last hour ended. Not necessarily going to get back into that unless you have advice for Austin, too.
Well, I was just going to say, I don't have any dating advice for Austin, but I have a date tonight with an old flame. We look to recapture the magic. We want to rekindle what we once had. And I'm talking about college basketball, Bob. I'm going to Pitt Duke tonight. And I used to go all the time. and I used to be a huge college basketball fan. I actually grew up liking both of these teams. I like Duke because of Grant Hill, but the sport has lost a lot of luster over the years, I think, but I'm going to go tonight, 9 PM tip off. I'm going to regret it tomorrow morning when the kids get up at 6 AM, but I want to see this Duke team coming in here. And that's kind of the reason that I can get up to, to drive to Oakland at that time of night.
And, Watch a Pitt team that is struggling right now.
And never before in the heyday was there a point spread like this one. If there was, it was Pitt giving the points. Tonight it's Duke giving 17.5 points to Pitt. So I was there on Saturday to watch SMU, which I really liked. This kid, Boopie Wilson, was really good. They have a guy, Jerron Pierre, who was really good. Pitt couldn't match up. How are they going to match up against Duke, I wonder? This is a team especially coming off a loss to North Carolina, the way it happened down there at Chapel Hill.
The big Turkish guy played well for SMU too.
Yes, he did. I can't even say his name. I mean, I saw that he had more vows than anyone I've ever seen.
And now they get an easier name to say, but an even tougher guy to defend. And Cam Boozer, Carlos Boozer's son, who's got a chance to be the number one pick in the NBA draft. So I want to see him as well. Duke is like when Notre Dame comes for football, but probably even magnified because of the one and dones and the talent. I remember I went to pit Duke the Zion Williamson year and I covered it. It might have been our pals at Panther Lair, but Jay-Z was there. Do you remember that?
Yeah, I was there that night, too, and I couldn't believe it.
And Kenny Pickett was a big deal at that time.
Yeah, I do remember that, and you never see Jay-Z at a Pitt basketball game, but there he was. That was incredible. Sitting down there right on the court. Well, hopefully it'll be a good game. I want to see Pitt compete in this, but I just don't see how that's possible unless Duke is coming off a down game against it, and they let it affect them, but I don't think they will. You've got to get some hot shooting.
Remember two or three years ago, was it Blake Hinson? That was at Duke, though, I think. He hit a bunch of threes, and he stood on the scorer's table and and they knocked off the mighty Blue Devils. I just – to go back to the overall – the overarching point, I mean, college basketball is – I was a diehard for the longest time, and I still do follow it and like it, but I don't watch it nearly as much as I once did because, you know, in the old – I say old days, but in pre-transfer portal and NIL going crazy –
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