Pardon My Take
Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
Fri, 14 Mar 2025
We recap an awesome day of college hoops (00:00:00-00:26:29). Talk some Players Championship and national sports podcast news plus Oldie the Canadian is back in the booth with the boys (00:26:29-00:53:53). The legendary Bill Raftery joins the show to talk about March Madness, his career, being a legend of the late night game, the genesis of Onions and more (00:53:53-01:34:46). We finish with Fyre Fest of the week (01:34:46-02:00:25).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/pardon-my-take
Chapter 1: How was the day of college hoops?
On today's part of my take, we have the legendary Bill Raftery. Great interview with him talking about his career, March Madness, some of the awesome stories from the road. Kind of a bucket list interview because he is someone that we just is synonymous with March and all the big moments. We are going to talk about some college basketball. Incredible day of hoops.
And we have our good friend Oldie back in studio sitting next to Max. So we're going to have some good vibes as well. And it's all brought to you by our friends at DraftKings. Who's scoring big in the NBA this season? You are with the all-new ways to get in on the action at DraftKings Sportsbook and official sports betting partner, the NBA.
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Chapter 2: Who is Oldie and why is he back with the boys?
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There were so many awesome games, so many awesome finishes. My eyes feel like they're going to fall out of my head, but it was awesome.
When God made the calendar, he made February two days shorter so we could have more March. That's a fact. And thank you for doing that, dear Lord. And also, thank you to Oldie. He's back. Because Oldie's back. He's in the booth right now. Oldie's picks were red hot today. Yeah. What, five and one?
Four and one.
Four and one. Fired out of the gate.
I went four and oh. We had a bit of a crumbler at the end of there.
Yeah, we'll get to that. He knows ball. Yeah, we'll get to that. Yeah, good job. Oldie is back. Oldie, what were your impressions from the gambling cave today? Because this was your first time being around us in these high stakes situations.
And we should say that if you missed the episode after the All-Star game, the NHL All-Star game, Oldie is our Canadian. You're representing the entire nation on part of my take.
And he kind of belongs to us because of the whole tariff situation.
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Chapter 3: What were the highlights of the basketball games?
This is why I wish... Better safe than sorry. I wish players could stay longer. And I know that it wouldn't matter because he's just a freshman, but... When Cooper Flag got hurt today, if that were Grayson Allen or any other Duke players that I hated, I would have reveled in it. I didn't really feel anything because I kind of feel bad for Cooper Flag. He's an awesome player to watch.
I hate Duke, but I wanted to have more hate, and I didn't have it. Well, I don't think he's that hateable of a guy.
Right. Even for a Duke player.
Because he's not there. He's not there.
couple more years you know he'd start kicking guys in the ball yes that would be very funny we'd see him cry in the march madness tournament yes we'd get the hate they're just so it's so transactional they're in and out that i just don't even have it for him i agree if this was a mick roberts if this was a plumley yeah we'd be like shout out our guy also now but he's no longer duke yeah so we like him
But Flag, yeah, it was a tough look in the wheelchair. I get that it was a long way to the training room. Yeah. That's their explanation for it. I hope he gets better. Hey, I want to send a message, though, to Cooper Flag. Cooper. This is why you got to go to the NBA. Yeah. No matter who drafts you, no matter who is in position to lottery, you're risking injury if you come back.
I know you could get NIL if you came back, but this is the chance to earn life-changing money for you and your family. If the Wizards get the first lotto pick, don't even think twice. Go to the NBA. Yeah. Don't listen to Andy Staples. He doesn't have your best interest in art. He's got his best interest in art because he's a college guy.
Also, you could have a chance to play with Wemby because I don't know if you guys saw, but who got hurt today? Fox. Yeah, Fox. He's having pinky surgery, which just reads, we're trying to tank.
yeah just cut it off we're tanking this whole thing pinky surgery all right so that was duke duke survived but i want to see cooper flag in the tournament that would suck if he i agree misses extended time uh but the wheelchair was the story uh st john's rolled good job rick patino uh byu is a shocker i know that wasn't like uh you know they're they're a very good team but they were underdogs and iowa state was having a good season so byu the mormons we also
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Chapter 4: How did Rory McIlroy react during the Players Championship?
It is great, man. This is such a fun time to just sit on your ass and watch sports. Watch so much sports.
Oh, we got the Kentucky. Oh, that overdone. Sorry. PFT. It's okay.
DePaul with almost the upset of the day that they just fought their asses off but we knew it they just couldn't survive double overtime if you're buying stock in any program right now I feel like you could do worse than DePaul yeah if Chris Holtman stays yeah now if he leaves then I guess that's the risk that you take but this is a great penny stock this is a great shit coin to invest in yes we should actually make Holtman shit coins someone probably already did
I also want to give a special shout out to Middle Tennessee because I watched every second of that game. Absolute war. I don't know if I've ever seen that where Middle Tennessee hit a buzzer beater to end the game, but he got the shot off in time for it to be a buzzer beater, but it was late on the shot clock violation.
There was one second left. So you had some of the orange on the backboard light up, and then a half second later, the rest of the backboard lit up.
They started the possession with 31 seconds left, and he got it off for a buzzer beater, but it was shot clock violation.
Now, if that was the Chiefs' plan, they would have just turned off the shot clock, right?
Yes.
That's how it worked with them?
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Chapter 5: What is the controversy involving Bill Belichick's emails?
Dixon went 2-for-15 from the field. And how many points did he need to get the record? He needed 16 points to break the all-time scoring record at Villanova. And he's the highest scoring player. And he's the leading scorer in the country, went 2-for-15 in a way that ended their season, ended his career, and most likely ended the career of the head coach of Villanova, Kyle Knipp.
Which is good. Not his career.
His Villanova career. Villanova career.
But that's good.
You wanted that. Good guy. So who do you want, Max? I don't know. I don't know. The coach of Vandy, JMU. JMU coach who then went to Vandy. That's probably number one on my big board. Okay. I'm seeing a lot of the VCU coach, which... Byington?
What? For the Vandy coach. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
You want Spradlin? The coach of JVU?
What about Jay Wright? Jay Wright would... I miss those days. That's a good point. I miss those days, and I'm sorry for yelling. No! My mom, I'm going to get a stern talking to from my mother tomorrow morning. She doesn't like when I say sucking dick.
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Chapter 6: What unique sports trades have happened recently?
I had a couple things as well. Rory McIlroy is the worst. I don't really know what's going on. Did you guys see the clip of him taking a fan's phone? No, I didn't see that. You didn't? I didn't think that was that bad. Hank, that was some... Golfers are so soft. So here's what happened, PFD. Rory McIlroy is in the Players' Championship this weekend. On Tuesday, he's playing a practice round.
He hit one into the water. The guy said, oh, just like the Masters in 2011. He goes and re-tees, hits his second shot. This is a practice round. Then goes and takes the guy's phone and just starts walking off with him.
I'm looking at it right now, yeah.
That's soft, Hank. Yeah, it's soft. That's insanely soft. Like, it's a practice round.
It's true.
If he can't take that type of heat, I mean, yeah, the guy might be a dick. You could be like, oh, that guy's kind of a dick. Like, why would you say that? But still... That's soft. It looked like he was also typing something on the phone. I think he was trying to delete the video. But then he's got to then go to the next person who took the video of the video.
This isn't the Masters. You're allowed to have a phone at Sawgrass.
And it's also a practice round. Like, I would understand if this was a Sunday. He's competing for it's the fifth major competing to win. Then it's like, all right. Yeah, that's a fucked up thing. It's a practice round.
So apparently it was a collegiate golfer that did it. Rory had him removed by tour security.
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Chapter 7: What are Oldie's impressions of Chicago?
Wait, but hey, even now you're like, yeah, he should have talked about it afterwards. And then we said he shouldn't have done it. And you're like, yeah, I guess. What... What is it? What's going on, Hank? What's going on, Hank?
It's not that serious. He shouldn't have done it. But when I saw the video, I wasn't shocked. I wasn't like, how could he have done this? I could understand how he was pissed off in that moment.
Could you ever see Max Homa doing this? No. Could you ever see Brooks doing this? No.
I would have done it.
You would have done it? Well, if it was Bosco.
I get angry. You said seeing red. He just kept saying seeing red. I was like, sometimes you see red.
You could easily just walk away.
You walk away, and again, if he posts that, he's the loser. You can walk away, or you can squeal your tires and drive away out of control. Rory, also very good at doing that. He can easily do that.
All right, Kentucky's about to inbound the ball. By the way, they were up 80-72 with 119 left. Holy fuck. Jeremiah Fears just took over. Oh, man. Oh, Kentucky. Oh, wait, there's .5 seconds. Okay, Kentucky-Bama. Yeah, Kentucky-Bama. All right, you were right. I got to correct my tweet because I said Cal would have won this game. Now I'm going to have to say Cal would have lost this game.
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