Eddie Defends Duke's Meltdown & Big Cat Places Banana Bread Bet
The Stretch
Barstool Sports
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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On today's episode of The Stretch, we begin the show by recapping the first weekend of the 2026 MLB season and how there's no need to worry about the Cubs despite 2 losses. Big Cat and White Sox Dave place a bet on the over/under of total wins for the Chicago White Sox - if WSD wins he gets $1000. If Big Cat wins Dave must bake him Banana bread once a week for the rtest of the year. Later, we get into Eddie trying to defend Duke's Elite 8 melt down loss and the rest of the panel roasts him for his Duke fandom and more. SUPPORT THE SHOW Fast Growing Trees - Get 20% off your first purchase at https://FastGrowingTrees.com/STRETCH when using the code STRETCH at checkout DraftKings - GAMBLING PROBLEM? CALL 1-800-GAMBLER (MI/NJ/PA/WV) OR VISIT WWW.1800GAMBLER.NET (WV). HELP IS AVAILABLE FOR PROBLEM GAMBLING, CALL (888) 789-7777 OR VISIT CCPG.ORG (CT). 21+. Physically present in CT/MI/NJ/PA/WV only. Void in ONT. Eligibility restrictions apply. 1 per new customer. Opt-in req. Min. $5 in wagers req. Max. 500 Flex Spins issued for choice of Select Games. Spins issued as 50 Spins/day upon login for 10 days. Spins are non-withdrawable and expire 24 hours after choosing Select Game. $0.20 per Spin. Game availability may vary. Terms: casino.draftkings.com/promos. Ends 5/3/26 at 11:59 PM ET. Sponsored by DK. Education Hub: dkng.co/HowToPlay. Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 0:39 - Baseball Opening Weekend 21:24 - Caleb Williams Ice Man Trademark 25:34 - Duke'sCollapse 37:55 - College Basketball Preview 47:41 - Did Eddie Snitch on Rico Bosco?
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| 1:12.5 | See terms at casino.draftkings.com slash promos and's May 3rd at 1159 p.m. Eastern Time. There's a lot going on here. Bad opening weekend for both baseball teams. The Illini are in the Final Four. Now there's an ice man controversy. Where do you want to start with? The Illini, the Cubs? I think we knock out March Madness. Yeah, I mean, baseball shouldn't even be back. Baseball, today should be opening day. Yes. Today feels like opening day. I've been complaining about this for like the last few weeks. You shouldn't be playing baseball in March. I agree 100%. Next year I looked, April 1st is opening day. |
| 1:44.3 | But yeah, it's like, it just was too early. |
| 1:46.6 | This is the week. |
| 1:47.4 | The week between the elite eight and the final four is exactly when opening day should be. |
| 1:54.0 | I actually like it after the national championship. |
| 1:56.8 | That's fine too. |
| 1:57.4 | But this is exactly where it feels like naturally that it should. |
| 2:00.7 | Yeah. |
| 2:20.4 | You shouldn't have to worry about getting home to watch the Sweet 16 games. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And then like opening day can exist in that period after the tournament and before the NHL and playoffs where they can kind of like dominate. Own the space. For a couple of weeks. And then yeah. I was in I was in Arizona. That's why I was out last week, got to go to the Cubs facility. |
| 2:18.9 | I was there for the last cubs spring training game which was crazy |
| 2:23.9 | that it was uh the you know like it was crazy again that it was like march 25th and they were |
| 2:29.0 | they were heading back chicago but awesome time um tons of stooleys the Cubs. They're all coming up. |
| 2:34.8 | All of them are. |
| 2:35.4 | It seems like, yeah. |
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