Moving into hour number three, I am Jim Rome. Nice to have you here. All right. So hit me up.

Phone lines are open until the after hour. And then they'll still be open because we don't take phone calls in the after hour.

But T. Bob Abe and I will chop it up. 1-800-636-86. I know he's all about Lucas return to Dallas this evening. I opened up the program

by talking about what happened last night when Luca got ejected for talking junk to a fan.

Not a ref, but to a fan. The ref show assumed it was directed at the ref show, so the refs show couldn't wait to run him out.

It was a really important game, too.

I mean, can we just stop right there?

It was a one-point game with under eight minutes to go between the one seed and a seed, or a team trying to get the three seed, and it was one of the better games of the year.

And the refs show quickly went to the hook when he was not directing any of that at the

ref show.

How very refs show of them.

My point is John Ireland was not having any of that.

So my blame is on the ref show, and I'm not here just to pile on the ref show because it's so easy.

It's so convenient.

But that's on the ref show.

Because if you see the video, clearly he was not directing that at the ref show.

So it's on the ref show for throwing a star out of a game this late in the

year that matters that much. But secondarily, Luca is not without blame. Again, I need some

situational awareness. You have a tea already because of course you do. You're Luca. If you know you have a tea and you know the

ref show already doesn't like you and it's just looking for a reason to tee you up again because

that's how they are. Don't give it to them. Don't give it to them. And if your response is, I wasn't talking to them.

I get that.

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