Hey, it's Tony. On today's show, we will talk to Brian Windhorst about the NBA playoffs

and also about Steve Kerr saying the league should do away with three-point shot.

And then Ron Flatter calls in to preview the Kentucky Derby.

But first, let's do some commerce, boys and girls.

Previously on the Tony Cornhazer show.

So walked in the clubhouse one day and saw him in the manager's office.

And he looks at me and he goes, you never make two batches of pilaf in one pan.

And I went, what?

So he, okay.

Peeloff is an Armenian delicacy, which I actually know how to make because my father's side was Armenian.

I said, how could you possibly know that?

And he goes, I'd live with an Armenian guy in Fresno, California. So that's how he said hello to me on a

certain day. Never make two loads of pilaf in one pot. This is General George Washington,

and you're listening to the Tony Cornhizer show.

So let's do some inside baseball about what Tim Kirkson was talking about.

Yesterday, Rob Thompson was fired by the Philadelphia Phillies.

I believe I had that the day before on the PTI show. I said, the first thing I thought about was how does the Mets guy keep his job? And the second thing I thought about... Because the Nats on the schedule. Right. It's Rob Thompson in trouble in Philadelphia. Okay, so he gets fired. So to me, that's the big story of the day yesterday. It's not the NBA playoffs. The NBA playoffs go on every night. There's three more games every single night. None of them are ever close. They're not good games. They're not good games, regardless of what Wilbon says. They're not good games. They're not exciting on any level. I'm talking to the hockey. We're not going to do the hockey because Wolfon and I don't know anything about hockey. Today we're going to have P.K. Suban on. He's great because he knows about hockey. Yeah, he's terrific. No, he's going to help us. So to me, the big story is that. And Kellerhurst says, I wasn't even going to put it in the A's. You know, because we just did it. The day before was Alex Cora. And it's true. Mike and I are going to say the same thing. This is pretty early. You fire this guy? Scott took you to the World Series. You're firing this guy? And we're not going to say anything new. We're really not going to say anything new. Now, there's some intrigue because Don Mattingly takes over, and Don Mattingly's son is technically the general manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, which is why Don't Madden was on the bench with Rob Thompson, who was an old friend of his. And the Nebraska quotes about, don't just assume that Corr is going to be the coach next year, while we have this fantastic filling guy who seems pretty confident with who he is within the game. So, but Mattingly's son, no, Dave Dombr does everything. Dave Dumbrowski is to baseball, what Lou Lamarillo is to hockey. He fires people whenever he feels like it. So I, I could have said all of that, but we had no room for it. I mean, the decision was made not to put it in the show. And the substitute story was actually a better story. It was Steve Kerr saying, let's get rid of the three-point shot in an interview with the New Yorker. So last night, I texted Remnick. And he said something about, I said, who did this? And he said, he gave the guy's name and wrote to me the Atlantic. And I said, the Atlantic. I thought it was the New Yorker. And he no Atlanta he got that wrong and it was in the New Yorker and I was thinking about putting

the guy on and and Remnick said me why don't you put Steve Kerr on which is the right question

for me it's a harder get yeah well it because of the time zone yeah you know you're not

can't ask Steve Kerr to get up at four o'clock in the morning and be on a podcast. You can't. But it was, that was a very interesting story to me. What a wonderful position that the time zone is the difficulty with getting Steve Kerr. Yeah, well, for me, I wouldn't even ask because it's just, it's too far away. We could. Anyway, so that was what was running through my head.

I thought you're going to give us, you know, instructions about how you cook rice.

I cook rice the way everybody cooks rice. I put it in the rice making machine and I wait for the light to go on. And that means the rice is done. How do you cook rice? No, I just, I feel like every time Curching comes on, I get one little piece of information that someone's going to share with him the next time they see him at Harris Teeter. Right. Something like that. Might be a kind of pit bull. It's another story we didn't do yesterday, and I don't know what to do with it. Damon Jones intends to plead guilty if he hasn't already pleaded guilty. Yes. I don't know what to do with that because for me, the next part of that is is Chauncey Billups going to jail. Wilbon loves Chauncey Billups. So a great guy, great coach. Well, have fun coaching in jail. You know, because if Damon Jones pleads guilty and you're named in all of these indictments, how are you getting out of this? Does not look good, no. No, how are you getting out? But that's conjecture, and we're not lawyers. So that was not something that we could do. I don't gamble. I've said this a hundred times. I mean, I get no thrill out of winning, and I hate losing. So I don't do it. My friends do it.

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