All these changes, all that they've done is made teams sign players to contracts that end up being bad contracts.

We're no closer to parity.

And now when teams buy out players who have bad contracts and those players then sign for somebody else, now all of a sudden that's a problem.

It's like we haven't fixed the initial problem of parity and we've made it worse.

So listen, I'm all for tweaking these rules.

But I think we need to be honest about the fact that the last time we tweaked the rules, we created all these unforeseen problems that made the initial problem worse.

100% but see, here's the thing.

So small market versus big market that this is basically what we're hitting on right.

With how the NBA is trending, is it even possible?

Use the word parity.

Is that even possible at this point?

By the time this pod reaches your eardrums, Gonzaga will either be the first national champion to go undefeated since Indiana 45 years ago or Baylor will have pulled off the upset.

Over the weekend, the stand for women won their first title since the end of the George H. W. Bush administration, despite a mighty effort from Erie McDonald and Arizona, the MLB.

Pulls the all-star game out of Georgia and Governor Camp in the GOP are mad about it.

May I suggest getting into lacrosse, guys?

Plus, writer and performer and now director, Trayvon Frey joins us to talk about his powerful, Oscar-nominated short two-distant strangers.

I'm Jason Kitsepsion.

I'm Renee Montgomery.

Welcome to take-line.

Let's go!

Okay, so Jason, I want to start off by talking about some big viewership numbers that came out of the college basketball tournament.

Woo!

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