Rooting Against America, Busted Brackets & Bulls Winning Again!
Dan Bernstein Unfiltered
312 Sports
4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
0:00 WBC
35:00 Illinois - NCAA
48:38 Bulls
55:07 Suzuki
58:50 Aiden Holloway
It’s a loaded show at 312 Sports, and somehow the Bulls still managed to make it worse.
We kick things off with the World Baseball Classic Championship, where Team USA faces Venezuela—and the room is officially split. Dan is pulling for Venezuela, because a win would mean everything to the players and an entire country. Matt agrees it would be massive for Venezuelans everywhere, but he’s still riding with Team USA, even with Nolan McLean getting the start (which… yeah… we’re not feeling great about).
Then it’s March Madness season, the brackets are out, and we’re officially launching the 312 Sports Busted Bracket Challenge. Can Illinois make a deep run in the tournament, or are we setting ourselves up for heartbreak early like usual?
In Chicago Bulls news: they did the worst thing possible—they won again. This team can’t even tank correctly, and we’re breaking down why that might actually be the most Bulls outcome imaginable.
Plus:
🚨 No Seiya Suzuki news, which we’re choosing to interpret as bad news
🤦♂️ An unfortunate and bizarre story involving Alabama basketball player Aiden Holloway, who’ll miss the tournament after being arrested for marijuana possession—despite already making NIL money. We ask the obvious question: why is he selling drugs?
And why this is something that probably shouldn’t be illegal anywhere in the first place
Smart takes, real arguments, Chicago energy, and just enough chaos to keep it honest.
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| 0:00.0 | Dan Bernstein unfiltered, unfiltered on 312 sports. |
| 0:07.4 | It's DBU on 312. |
| 0:10.8 | Happy St. Patrick's Day. |
| 0:12.5 | Happy 24th birthday to my daughter, Zoe. |
| 0:17.4 | 24, almost a quarter century. |
| 0:20.2 | That's, wow. |
| 0:22.4 | Young. |
| 0:24.0 | That's what that is. |
| 0:24.7 | Yeah, but it doesn't mean I am, but... |
| 0:27.2 | No, you're old. |
| 0:27.9 | Every time St. Patrick's Day rolls around, this is... |
| 0:31.3 | I got the Christmas one. |
| 0:33.2 | I got the St. Patrick's Day one. |
| 0:35.0 | Because somebody was making some sort of giant cosmic joke against me, |
| 0:39.1 | because it's all about me, of course. Well, because it really, it interferes with your St. Patrick's Day celebration. Oh, because you know. You can't get rip-roaring drunk anymore. And Zoe's birthday. Basically, I'm rip-orring, drunk, and singing all day. Yes. It's all I'm doing. And slow cooking my corn beef and singing old Danny boy at the top of my lungs. |
| 0:58.5 | To yourself. |
| 0:59.4 | Hey, go Venezuela. |
| 1:02.6 | Go Venezuela. |
| 1:03.2 | I know they're not likely to win. |
| 1:05.9 | I know the U.S. is likely to win. |
| 1:08.7 | But what I'm really happy about, and by the way, we are here on DBU, |
| 1:12.8 | we're brought to you in partnership with My Bookie and today by our friends at Omaha Stakes as well. |
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