And we are back, folks, here on the Big 1050 WTKA, online at the big 1050.com, Sam Webb, Mr. Ira Wyn, Tribe on the other side, and joining us as he does every single week, is our good friend, the mayor of Michigan Twitter. You find him on X, formerly known as Twitter, at S Bell 021. Such a great follow, and he has a great newsletter. Talk about Scott Bell. Scott, good morning. How are you?

Happy to be here as always.

Scott, you said something that I've been quoting all. I quoted all last week.

I thought it was one of your best takes and you have a lot of great takes,

which you called, you know, Michigan a democracy.

And, you know, we were talking at the time about YACs needing to be,

at times, you know, more of a, more of a monarch, more of a, more of a, a king, a guy who dominates and who takes over, and is that alpha.

And we saw that against Slu. I want to go back over both games to get your impressions from the opening weekend or opening

week of action for Michigan.

But I was struck by how in that S slew game, yeah, some of their parts

performed well, but really the alpha led the way in that contest. And I think that's going to be

a big key the rest of the way. Yeah, absolutely thrilled about that St. Louis game. I know

there are a nine seed, and they may not have the

name recognition of a lot of teams, but I think people saw what they did against Georgia

and how hot they came out against Michigan, really at the start of both halves. And for Michigan

to withstand that and be ready to counterpunch was really, really impressive.

So a lot of people made their contributions, but like you said, when it came to needing someone to step up,

Yax was that alpha, Yax was that monarch you're kind of looking for.

So the best thing about him is,

is he can be efficient and he can be that alpha without really taking everyone else out

of rhythm. He had his 25 points, but I think he still did it within the flow of eight or

nine shots from the field. So he, he came up big when you needed it.

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