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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Picking the Entire Bracket With Doug Gottlieb, Metta Sandiford-Artest on Kobe Stories and the Art of Defending, Plus an Infamous Marlins Anniversary

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Russillo remembers the Miami Marlins heist (0:33). Then Ryen is joined by Doug Gottlieb of Fox Sports to fill out an entire bracket for the NCAA men's basketball tournament (9:35). Then Ryen talks with Metta Sandiford-Artest about playing for St. John's in the late '90s, his NBA mentors, executing a team style of play, stories from playing with Kobe Bryant, guarding Allen Iverson, Paul Pierce, and more (39:35). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:20:19). Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Doug Gottlieb and Metta Sandiford-Artest Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today's podcast, this is going to be a lot of fun.

0:14.0

We've got Doug Gottlieb picking the entire bracket for you.

0:18.0

So if you don't know what you're doing with the brackets, Doug Gottlieb and I go through

0:20.7

every single pick.

0:22.6

And then Metta Sanniferd our test, his career, little Johnny's talking there as well and

0:29.4

how we see some of the players of today and life and place.

0:33.4

We're going to talk a little baseball today.

0:35.9

You guys know I love a good CBA discussion and congrats to the players and sort of owners

0:41.7

working this out.

0:42.7

As you can see, it's very clear the owners were going for it, hoping the players would

0:48.1

give in, players didn't.

0:49.8

And so some of those earlier projections, they definitely moved towards the players'

0:54.0

favor.

0:55.0

But like in any negotiation, you just ask for something ridiculous and then you come to

0:57.4

the middle, which the middle of maybe is what you always wanted if you were the owners.

1:01.0

It feels like some kind of win for the players.

1:02.7

And I've seen different arguments, the players could have got more, they should have held

1:05.2

out even longer.

1:06.2

Again, it was a lockout, so it was owner-induced labor strife.

1:11.3

But in this case, those of us that still love baseball, we get baseball back and we're

1:15.2

not going to miss much time.

1:16.2

It's ever since spring training.

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