# S4 E12 - March Madness Tourney of Generations Influential Sports Figures + It's BASEBALL SEASON!

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Podcast: [Generations (Talking 'bout My Sports...)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/generations-talking-bout-my-sports-6576448)
Published: 2026-04-04T19:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

⚾🏀 Final Four Bracket Showdowns + Barry Bonds Is a Cheat Code | Generations S4 We're in the Final Four of our Influential Sports Figures Tournament, baseball season is officially underway, and Barry Lamar Bonds is breaking everyone's brain with numbers that shouldn't be legal. Jonathan, Steve, and Mark cover it all across three generations of sports memory — and somehow make walks, intentional walks, and a father-son home run coincidence sound like must-listen radio. 🏆 THE BRACKET: Final Four Preview Our four remaining contenders heading into the semifinals: Willie Mays (UConn #2 seed) — representing the East Jim Brown (Illinois #3) — holding it down in the South Babe Ruth (Arizona #1) — the West's last hope Tom Brady (Michigan #1) — the Midwest's golden boy Plus the guys dissect the Boozer twins' costly miscue in the Duke-UConn thriller, and Steve draws a devastating comparison to Chris Webber's famous timeout. Kids will be kids — even when millions are watching. 🏀 BIG EAST NOSTALGIA ALERT Growing up in Sacramento somehow meant Saturday morning Big East basketball, and Jonathan is not apologizing for it. The crew pays tribute to the era when conferences had identities — East Coast grit, West Coast finesse, Big Ten fundamentals — and why today's Final Four teams all kind of look the same. Georgetown's suffocating defense. Syracuse's zone. Seton Hall's toughness. PJ Carlesimo. Ewing to Mutombo to Iverson. Steve remembers all of it, and it sounds glorious. ⚾ BARRY BONDS: THE NUMBERS EPISODE Opening Day just dropped, and Jonathan comes loaded with trivia that puts Bonds' career in genuinely jaw-dropping perspective: All-time career walks leader with 2,558 — nearly 400 more than #2, achieved in 700 fewer plate appearances than Ted Williams 2004 season : 232 total walks. 12…

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