Pretty safe to say that the Yankees oh, Aaron Judge a little
something, right? I find this incredibly
interesting. Sometimes Tommy just works for
you. So yesterday's show was about
obviously Aaron Judge reacting to the offseason for the
Yankees. And, you know, basically, I
said, hey, I wish Aaron would have gotten into that earlier
because it could have been maybe a little kick in the behind for
the Yankees to actually go out there and do something more than
just, for the most part, run it back.
Well, every once in a while, the baseball God smiled down on you.
This is a gift from the heavens that is slowly developing.
Not in Philly because they're down South now in Clearwater,
but you know what I mean. And that is what appears to be
the possibility of an imminent divorce for Bryce Harper and the
Phillies. Now, the short version, what's
going on? I mean, that was a Bryce didn't
have a phenomenal year last year.
Dave Dombrowski said that. And anytime, anytime a
superstar, anytime a transcendent player gets called
on the corporate by a general manager, you know, I'd make
basically anybody other than the manager somebody in the front
office. There is real resentment there.
And and I believe that this is a fracture between Harper and the
Phillies that the Yankees simply have to pound on and pounce on
and just go for and take the massive swing and just go for
it. All right, I'm on the phone
already. If I'm Brian Cashman, I am
already planting seeds. I'm throwing names out there.
I'm trying to get this thing done in the next year.
I want Bryce Harper on the Yankees.
All right, So everything that we talked about for so long, right?
Not that this is 1 move that would, you know, change
everything that plagues the Yankees.
They're still not perfect. But how do you think that Bryce
Harper would look in pinstripes? Number one, that should have
happened, what, 6-7 years ago when Cashman fumble that and he
wanted to be a Yankee. But of course, the Yankees
dragged their feet being a little cheap.
Whatever Say what Machado this is, this is not about rectifying
the past or, you know, full circle moment.
This is about maximizing the whatever remains of Aaron
Judge's prime. Now what I that's the easy
thing. Anybody else could go out there
and say, well, sure, go and get Bryce Harper.
Why wouldn't you want Bryce Harper, you know, batting 2 and
Aron Judge 3 or Judge 2 and you know Bryce Harper three.
Everybody understands that, but what I don't think enough people
understand is that there's actually really a financial Ave.
to do this. All right, So I went.
If you look at a lot of these Yankee contracts, you know,
Volpe's making peanuts, Caballero's making peanuts, Ben
Rice is making peanuts, Wells, Clark, Schmidt, Will Warren, you
got a lot of guys. Rosario's making 2,000,000
bucks, even big mad at 16, whatever.
Not a lot of money there. Now, obviously you have some
higher end contracts which are preventing the Yankees from
doing stuff now, at least in their way.
Like it wouldn't stop me if I own the Yankees, but clearly an
impediment and a speed bump for how to go all for it.
Now, how do you work around this?
Like, so it can't be Delusionville?
Like, I'm not just going to do a show and say, get Bryce Harper
and do whatever it takes and give up whom, whatever you want
and, you know, take out all the money.
I've got to at least work within the framework of what of what I
think how Steinbrenner would be willing to do.
Like, I can't make this fantasyland show.
I've got to give you. I've got to lace it with with
some some some real possibilities and like some,
some things that really need to be woven into the situation.
And I've done that for you and I'm going to do it right now for
you on the air. All right, The Yankees basically
have 123456 excluding Aaron Judge, 6 contracts that have to
really work around anytime you hear about the luxury tax or we
shouldn't have to spend $300 million to be a champion.
All that stuff that has been espoused for years by Hal.
And then obviously, Cashman's followed suit as the Lieutenant,
right? All that stuff goes out the
window with what I'm about to present to you, right?
So first of all, now, no real order.
I was doing this last night, no order, although I am going to
save Bellinger for last year. So Giancarlo Stanton, obviously
tough to work around. You got to deal with whatever
remains on his contract. Well, first of all, we are now
officially at the point of Giancarlos Stanton no longer
being an albatross of a contract.
So this year, Marlins paying $10 million, OK, Next year, the
Marlins paying $10 million. The year after that, all right,
which is a team option. It's a $10 million buyout by the
Marlins. So the Marlins are footing the
bill for a contract that's not even that exorbitant at this
point for a guy who's going to hit 25 to 30 home runs when he's
healthy, whatever and have a ridiculous OPS and obviously
missed 30 to 40 to 50 games. You know, the standard
experience, but it is not money that should be impediment here
for the Yankees, number one, number one, number two, Gerrit
Cole. And and why I'm doing this is
because if you do make a trade for Bryce Harper now there was a
wacky trade that was presented and I'll get to that later.
Like I have limits as to what I'm willing to give up for Bryce
Harper because this is not 3-4 years ago.
He's a little bit of a different player.
So I've got some names, I've got some ideas, I've got some
reconfigurations for you. But I I think that those of you,
I don't, I don't know anybody who wouldn't want Bryce Harper
on the Yankees. We could have a debate who you
be willing to give up, which as, as I said, I'll get to.
But to make this happen, to make this a plausible, realistic
discussion, what would the Yankees really like?
What would they have to do contractually with some of these
things? When would when would contracts
expire? Because I understand, I
unfortunately, I think we all know that the Yankees are just a
sure, you know, we'll give you up what we'll give you our three
top modern league prospects, you know, I guess excluding Lombard
and we'll absorb all the money like that.
That's that's fairy tale. And that's why I've got to set
this up and let you know why I think that there's still a way
to thread the needle. So the Stanton thing, I know
that Stanton's got a no trade and I know that the Yankees
really like him and I know that they respect him.
I know he's one of the Ogs in there with Judge, and everybody
loves Giancarlo Stanton. So do I, but #1 if you convince
him that there's maybe a better fit, better situation, Dodgers
somewhere out West, whatever the Giants, he's from out there.
There is a way to do this. There is a plausible path
financially. And as the Marlins pay the $10
million, who says the Yankees couldn't kick in two or
$3,000,000 if they had to, to entice the team that we're not
even thinking about? I don't know, like the Pirates,
like the Reds, there's ways to do this.
You'd have to convince Stanton to wave his.
No trade doable #1 #2 Carlos Rodon.
When's his contract up? He's got three more years to go,
26272028 at $36 million each. I really like Carlos Rodon.
He's not quite the ace that I thought that they were getting
last year, though, was really, really good.
Playoffs aside. I think he's, he's a horse.
He's going to eat up some innings.
He's going to win. And you know, again, the money's
a little heavy. I'm not looking to get rid of
him. So he stays put.
And I would look to move Stanton more than I would look to move
Rodon. And even again, it's the timing
of this stuff, guys. If you were to make a bold move
for once, be bold. Yankees for once.
Been a long time since the Yanks have been bold.
And if the Yankees are going to be bold, we're going to have to
work around these numbers here, which is why I'm telling you
where the numbers are. Garrett Cole.
All right now. Garrett Cole.
Yeah. Rolled down 27.8 each year for
the next 3. Garrett Cole.
Thank God the Yankees showed some restraint a couple of years
ago when he was threatening to opt out.
Yeah. OK.
Go ahead and opt out. Have fun.
We're not, you know, we're we're not biting here.
And that was a very smart move by the Yankees, OK, Especially
given the Tommy John surgery. Anyway, Garrett Cole's got three
more years this year, 2027 and 2028.
Big money. 36A year. He's a horse.
He stays. Max Freed stays.
This is where you could really start to shave some numbers and
look down the stream and say, OK, if the Yankees were to do
this and they can put together a package that entices the
Phillies from a prospect perspective or a young pitcher
who's already shown something. Not talking about Cam Schlittler
in the major leagues here. Well, you know Ryan McMahon, are
you telling me? I know he's a really good
fielder, but he's making 16 this year, He's making 16 next year.
Are you telling me that you couldn't eat 3 or $4 million,
trade him somewhere, put Rosario and Caballero with third base
and just add Bryce Harper to the light up.
So you shave, you shave off money with Harper.
So pardon me with with McMahon. And it kind of offsets any
addition with Harper. Now, listen, in a perfect world,
I would just like to say it doesn't matter what you do.
Go out there get Bryce Harper at the five or six years he's got
to go on the contract and get Aaron Judge some studs like this
is what I'm saying the Yankees oldest to Aaron Judge now next
year there might not even be baseball.
All right so if the Yankees are worried about 2-3 years down the
road, Aaron Judge, his age, the money and this.
I just laid out a pretty clear path as to why the finances and,
and at least the ability to maneuver around some of these
finances is not nearly the stranglehold that they present
you to think that it is. It's not.
There's a way to do this. You just got to be willing to do
it. You've got to be proactive.
You've got to be aggressive. You got to go for it.
Like you've got to take a massive swing right now and you
got to make this happen. Because I think Bryce Harper who
was saying the right things and I respect that.
You know, one thing that Bryce said, he really is a class act.
I, I like the way he's comporting himself because would
have been very easy When a general manager says, well, he
was an elite last year, I'd be saying, dude, I'm a two time MVP
to myself. I'm a two time MVP.
I've made the All Star team 8 times.
I mean what you know, I understand you've had a good
executive run as well. What are you doing though?
I and, and, and he was told when he signed with the Phillies that
all this stuff would be kept in house.
And he said that yesterday. He's like, you know, when I came
here, I thought that this was, it was presented to me in a way
that anytime something would flare up, we would talk about
this behind closed doors. That's that's how we would
handle business. Well, Dombrowski now, yeah, he
just can't. He ran him over and you're a
star. You're a superstar like Bryce
Harper. Even if you're a scrub, you have
an ego, let alone one of the transcendent figures in the
game. So I believe there is a
vulnerability here. I'm not saying that Bryce
Harper's banging on Dombrowski's door right now in Clearwater
saying Get Me Out of here. I know that that's not the
situation, right? But it doesn't mean that there
isn't a little crack in the foundation.
It's up to the Yankees to take a sledgehammer and smash the wall
to smithereens and make it really up to a point where the
Phillies can't turn it down. Now, the other deal, right?
And Bellinger here, right? So you want to play this out and
you know, any money that you are going to accrue if you acquire
Harper and the pre-existing contract here, you know, again,
it's not nearly as bad as you think.
Like I know the Yankees have a high payroll and they've been
handcuffed by some of these contracts stamped and some of
the other ones I mentioned. But these are all ready to
expire. There's a way to circumvent this
stuff. There's a way to be creative.
Hey, do what the Mets did. You know what I mean?
The Mets didn't want McNeil, all right.
The Mets didn't want Memo. They ate a couple $1,000,000.
They got rid of Brandon Nimble. They got themselves a better
team. Now, I'm not saying that the
Mets are better than the Yankees, but the Mets took a
step up. The Mets addressed weaknesses.
And the way they did that was they were willing to eat a few
$1,000,000. And if Hal Steinbrenner is ever
willing to do that again, you know, like his pops used to.
And like, how did you know early on to an extent.
Well, there is, there is a pathway where we could be
sitting here every night watching Bryce Harper and Ara
Judge or Judge and Harper in succession.
Now it won't quite be you know, Judge and Soto because, you
know, Harper's never really been quite that you know, and he did
a little diminished stats, you know, stats were down a little
bit last year, but I think he would be so revitalized playing
for the team that he always wanted to play for.
I mean, I think that you would ride this thing to, you know,
must watch Broadway show terrific tandem dynamic duo,
however you want to frame it. You just have to make this
happen. You or at least you have to try.
I mean, in business, you can't force somebody to do something
they don't want to do. I get that.
So I to be fair to the Yankees, and I'm not going to sit here
and say, well, the Yankees never got Bryce Harper.
What are you doing? Like, you've got to present
something that's incredibly appealing to the Phillies, and
you've got to give them reason to flinch.
And once they flinch, then you've got to entice some more.
You're playing poker. Keep flinging some chips in the
middle of the table. You want Bryce Harper or no, you
can make this happen. You, you can make this happen.
Now do I have great confidence that they will?
I don't, I really don't. And by the way, the Bellinger
contract, even though it's big, big money for this year, 42 and
a half million dollars and then 27 and 28 same thing 42,
although 28 oddly goes down to 25.8.
He can opt out of that. So even think about the big
addition that the Yankees had this offseason, right Bellinger
it's basically one year guaranteed again for pretty
exorbitant money, 42 plus that's a lot of loot, especially for a
guy who's not a forty home run, you know, 950 OPS guy.
But I'm happy he's back. But that's a lot of money, all
right? But after one year, he could
very well opt out. And I would imagine that he
probably will because that third year goes down to 25.8.
The 4th year is $25.8 million. If you get Trent Grisham getting
$22 million on AQO this year, you can't tell me that, you
know, downstream in a couple of years Bellinger isn't going to
be able to opt out. He's still fairly young,
defensive versatility, all that stuff where he can't squeeze out
two or three more years from somebody.
You know, I, I, I think that that's very, very not even
possible. I think it's very probable.
I think he's going to opt out. So it's not like the Yankee, if
the Yankees side Bell think about this, if the Yankees side
Bellinger to a six year and I did not want them to go for six
years. You guys know that.
Six years what, 40 * 6 what 240? He was never getting 240.
That's ridiculous. Six years, 215, which was off
the charts, never in play. But I'm just saying, well, then
I think I've got to have a different energy here because
then I would say, I mean, you know, well, then you still have,
you know, a bunch of years of free and a couple years rode on
and a couple years of coal and you haven't yet gotten rid of
Stanton and McMahon. Still $32 million over a couple
of years, like, but that's not what happened.
It's one year. Like, I don't know how many more
times I can look into a camera here on a leash or for years on
the fan touching a microphone. He's running out of time.
He's not 27 years old, guys. He ain't 28, not 29.
He's not 30, not 31. He's not 32.
Time is ticking, even for the great Aaron Judge.
And so understand this as the clock continues to tick, Chris
Berman, tick. Tick, Tick.
Tick, Tick, tick. As the clock ticks, understand,
there might not be baseball next year.
There really might not be. Like, I'm not trying to be an
alarmist here, but now with Tony Clark, I mean, Tony, wait.
I mean, come on, buddy. What are you doing?
Tony? I don't understand.
This is a little quick. Asylum. 22nd time out, by the
way, Hopefully everybody's good today.
Welcome to the show. Yeah, I'm fired up today.
I saw this. I'm like, I can't wait to do
this. So, Tony Clark, you know, you
just never know. Here I am all these years
thinking, oh, this distinguished, you know, you
know, it just he just projects morality, doesn't he?
Tony Clark like that very stately beard and the, you know,
the very professional presentation.
He's he's banging his sister's wife.
He's banging his wife's sister. What?
So he is now no longer part of it.
He's no longer running the union.
So whatever little teeny weeny, tiny, infinitesimal traction
they made from a labor point in terms of having everything laid
out, they basically got to start over.
So when somebody texted that yesterday on the show, you know,
what do you think of Tony Clark getting, you know, bailing out
or, I don't know, stepping down or getting voted out, whatever
the term is leading the players union.
I'm like that. Whatever.
Like it didn't, I didn't really care.
Number one, I was wrapped up in some good content and it it
didn't really move me too much to really get into it.
But then when I got off the air and I saw what happened, I mean,
listen, I, you know, I'm not here to judge anybody.
I'm really not. Do what you want to do as long
as it's of consent. Do what you want to do.
I mean, but I mean, hooking up with your with your wife's
sister. I mean, there's there's got to
be a little there's got to be some rules amongst thieves,
right? I mean, jeez, what are you
doing? Tony, you dog.
Come on, man. All right.
So, J Rod, how you feel today, brother?
What's going on, everybody? J Rod.
BT what's up? What's up?
Fired up, Fired up on a beautiful Wednesday morning,
ready to get after it. Woke up this morning, got myself
a gun. Yep, it's a good morning man.
Got a lot going on today, Jay. Yeah, no, I mean this, this news
is crazy. I was just kind of like peeling
through some of the articles last night, kind of seeing,
seeing what's up. I know like an another article
came out 20 minutes ago saying that they were predicted to not
to trade them to the Yankees, but predicted 2 part ways with.
It whoa. OK, Well, that's listen, that
just fuels what I'm saying here. If there are, that doesn't mean
that that prediction is going to come to fruition.
But the more industry speculation that you get, the
more informed sources that you get, you know, kind of planting
these seeds, I think the more vulnerable the situation becomes
like it. And that's where you got to
pounce. That's where you got to prey on
the suit, like the the instability of the situation.
That's where you got to really, you know, maximize that
leverage. Like right now, the Phillies
don't have any leverage. If Bryce Harper says, you know
what? I don't think I could work here
anymore. I don't trust this guy.
He just shit on me publicly. I I want out.
What are they going to do? No, I guess they could say no J
Rod, but you'd have to think it could be bad for business.
Now, let me get to some other items here.
And I saw a report yesterday. I'm not even a report.
I'm going to call it a story. And again, there is a
difference, you know, like to me, John Heyman has a report, to
me, Joel Sherman has a report, yet passing has reports, Buster
only reports. I'm leaving others that I
respect out unintentionally, but you know what I mean?
And then there's a story where somebody who's entrenched in the
game, but he's just kind of, you know, extrapolating from one
situation and piercing something together.
It's not necessarily rooted in in Intel.
It's more projecting things forward.
And those are interesting. And I think that yesterday was
more of that rather than a report, right?
But the one story that I saw, and this is where I'm tapping
the brakes. And even if the Philly said
we'll eat, we'll eat some of his salary.
There was a report that said that the Phillies and the
Yankees can make a trade happen. Yankees get Bryce Harper.
You ready for this? This funny?
The Phillies get Dominguez. All right, That's fine.
All right. He's going to make the team
anyway. So take Dominguez, right?
Ben Rice and Cam Schlittler. Are you out of your mind?
There is click. Goodbye.
Now that's that's me talking is Brian Cashman.
I wouldn't and I want Bryce Harper.
You're not getting Ben Rice, who I think is a true potential, you
know, 342345 hitter for the next 6-7 years for the Yankees.
That's how much I think Ben Rice is going to explode.
I think his ascent is going. It's already identifiable.
Like if you don't see it, I don't know what to tell you.
His advanced numbers in terms of how he barrels the ball and exit
below and walk rated just a, he is just a blossoming stud.
So I'm looking to keep Ben Rice, not get rid of Ben Rice and Cam
Schlidler to me, you know, like McClain over in Queens.
I think those two guys, they stay healthy.
They're Cy Young type of pitcher.
So you know, you want you want Dominguez, you want Jones, you
want a Will Warren, you want a Clark Schmidt, you want one some
of those other young guns that are coming up that will make the
team in the in the in the bullpen, Rodriguez and and
Legrand. However you say that guy,
everybody messes his name up. Whatever his name is that guy,
take him. You know, you can you can have
those guys. You ain't getting your hands on
both Ben Rice and Cam Schlidler. That's not happening.
So now let let's let's attack this because this is really,
really important. Aaron Judge is what 343334 and
Aaron Judge is under contract this year 2027 there might not
be baseball 20/28/2020 9:30 and 31.
You just know that, you know, going backwards, 2031 and 2030,
I mean, those are going to be just kind of years where he's
hanging on and he's chasing benchmarks.
You know, hopefully, let's see he'll get to 4 this year.
You know, hopefully by then like maybe 6 and like 1500 ribbies.
And at that point maybe he'll have bagged like four or five
MVPS, who knows? I mean, what he's going to have
by that GS, I mean another two batting titles.
Suddenly Aaron Judge is, you know, this, this superhero with
power and he's turning into like Rod Carew and Wade Pods with a
batting average as well. It's insane how he's morphed
into this all the round, incredibly buttoned up surgical
like hitter. It's it's it's a beautiful thing
to see. So anyway, and you knew that
when you signed him, much like with soda with the Mets and all
these other long term deals, probably even Max Freed the last
year or two, probably going to be an issue for the Yankees.
It's the price of doing business.
And if you can't handle that price well, you shouldn't own a
team and you certainly shouldn't go out and try to get those kind
of guys. If you can't absorb it on the
back end, then you're in the rogue business.
The Yankees could absorb it. It'll it'll be fine.
And the other reason why I ran through all those contracts
because as Aaron Judge's contract and he's nowhere near
it yet, but eventually it's going to morph into kind of a
bad contract. Unfortunately, it just is.
And when that happens, Stanton's long gone, Rodana's long gone,
McMahon's long gone, Bellinger's long gone.
Garrett Cole is long gone. Now there'll be other imports
and maybe Lombard's a young stud.
And at that point, I'm sure Ben Rice gets paid if he's still
here. You know, I, I understand
somebody else is going to take the place to make money, like
the Yankees won't have this 193 dollar, $193 million payroll
whenever Judges is aging out. But it's a lot more doable than
I think many of you think here. And I'm going for it.
I'm not wasting time. I'm not letting somebody jump in
front of me at the table. I want Bryce Harper.
Yankees need them. Yankees should get them and
that's it. And if they don't, well, if they
don't now, if they don't get them, that's one thing you
again, you can't force somebody to trade you a player that you
want. You can only make them think and
re evaluate the deal and just keep going back to the well to a
point where you you know, once you pass the irresponsible part,
like like a Cam and a Rice and A and a Lombard, well, now you tap
out, right? But you got to keep going and
you got to keep funding those chips on the table playing the
long game. And eventually somebody is going
to fold, right? And if it's the Yankees, that's
fine, as long as they make a move, right?
As long as they try. Like, could you like, that's the
first thing that popped into my mind even before I saw the story
about, you know, the, the Rice and the Schlittler and the
Dominguez Yankee possibility. When I, because Dombrowski said
this a while ago, when Dombrowski said that I'm like,
that's pretty interesting. And then I was very curious
what, what, what, what Bryce was going to say when he showed up
to Clearwater and what he said, what he said, I'm like, OK,
windows open, step through it. Let me get Madonna Mia, Madonna
Mia. All right.
I, I doubt they did Stanton. And after he was like the number
one guy in the postseason for so many years, I don't see them
doing that to him. They're keeping him for any big
push. Well, then I mean, then they're
just OK, then it's business as usual.
Then just forget everything I just said.
And you know, because Giancarlo Stanton's hit a couple of big
home runs and because he hits the ball as hard as anybody in
baseball when he actually plays. Let's just keep them around
forever. You know, why don't you forget
about, you know, the the player, but forget about the team
option. Keep them for that.
Maybe you can extend them. I mean, what are you what are
you talking about? Any big push?
They don't want to do that to him.
Hey, business is business, man. The Yankees are paying Giancarlo
Stanton well, and John Carlos Stanton didn't do a damn thing
in the playoffs last year. Nothing, you know, can't run,
can't throw, can't field. And I like Giancarlo Stanton,
but when you start weaving that into the conversation, Yanks are
good to do him dirty. Well, how about not doing your
captain dirty? And I know the Judge loves
Stanton. I know it too bad.
Do you want to win or do you want to, you know, have your boy
next to you? Because who do you think's going
to give the Yankees a better chance to win?
Would you rather have Bryce Harper up there, 8th inning, 9th
inning, Toronto, in Baltimore, in Boston, in the Bronx, in
Detroit, wherever you are, in Houston in a playoff game, Bryce
Harper now batting for the Yankees.
Bryce Harper walking up to that plate, having a plan, knowing
you're going to work to count deep, almost knowing you're
going to get on base and really feeling good that if the pitcher
makes a mistake by an inch, that ball's smashed 420 feet.
Now, I know that Stanton can obviously handle a mistake, but
do you think that he's going to give you that quality at bat
time and time again? The answer is no.
Bryce Harper does because that's what Bryce Harper does.
That's why he's Bryce Harper. So that's easy now, if you can
find a world where you could keep Santon Shore, I'm not
looking to give the man away, and I'm certainly not looking to
disrespect him. But it is about winning a World
Series. It's not about emotion or, oh,
remember the home run he hit against the Guardians?
A couple of Fantastic. Did you win the World Series?
No, we lost to the Dodgers. Well, it doesn't mean as much,
you know, Doesn't mean as much. Yeah, man, this is, I think that
this is real in terms of they're like a crack in the Harper
Phillies Foundation. It's why I'm so juiced up about
this. Like, you know, listen, one
thing, I think I'll get to that in a SEC.
Hold on there, Jared. I know that you guys, or I hope
that you know, this amount be by now like I've been wrong a ton.
We all have. But I'm not just going to get on
the air and say shit, make stuff up, stupid stuff, bluster, hot
air, hot takes. I really hope and I believe that
you do. Many of you.
Not maybe not all of you, but the majority of you.
I believe that most of you trust my sporting sensibilities.
It's rooted in homework. It's rooted in experience.
It's rooted in practicality. It's rooted in sensibility.
Like I am not just going to fire up this show and throw out some
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You have something. Get 20,000 likes.
That's not how I'm going to operate.
I'm never going to operate that well.
Although by the way, and I didn't do this on purpose.
J Rod, Did you see the amount of the amount of views on the
Providence St. John's yeah, that was wild.
I mean shit, I guess I could update this a.
Pertinent topic like that would be my thought was just like a
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I also think it's your take saying I mean I this got kind of
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look at our screen right now and ignore the two lights you know
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What else looks wrong with the screen?
I mean, I there's just a light side and a.
Dark side? No, no, no.
Well, there's always a light side and a dark side in life,
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I can put up with a lot of stuff.
I One thing that I cannot tolerate is to have J rod 5
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See lower that CJ rod like kick. I present like I told you, I
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We present to you, King J. There we go.
I mean, come on, man. There we go.
If anything, I got to Jack my seat up down and you're still
too high. Give it another wrench.
I don't think we could go another.
Inch. That's what she said.
That's that's much better. All right, that's cool.
Yeah. I mean, I I think that this
Bryce Harper stuff is really, really potentially legitimate.
And and the Yankees, it's incumbent upon the Yankees to do
something about this. Because while we're sitting
here, I said yesterday on the show that I think of Aaron Judge
is healthy. He's going to win the MVP again.
Like this guy very well might bag 5 MVPS.
You should already have the one more that Altube stole during
the Astros cheating scandal. And and I just look at every
offseason by the Yankees and it's like, hey, not that I don't
appreciate Max Reed. I do.
He was terrific. And I know that that was a big
investment. I do appreciate the return of
Bellinger. But it's like dribs and drabs
and little, you know, crumbs. All right, hey, you know, let's
connect the dots here. Just go for it.
Will you go for it? Will you get off your behinds
and go for it? This guy is not happy.
This is a marriage that could be exploited in your favor.
Now you say all right there, genius, You've identified the
fact that Bryce might be a little pissed at Dombrowski.
There might be a little crack in that in that armor out there in
Philadelphia. Let's say you get Bryce Harper.
Where is he going to play? Well, I got answers for you.
I got I listen, do you really think that I I'm going to
present this to you without without options without.
It's what we do on unleashed. Don't you know that by net?
You know that so since there's no way in hell I'm giving up Ben
Rice. No chance, right, Nor am I
giving up. You want Dominguez, Dominguez
Jones, whatever, I'm keeping Cam and I'm keeping Ben rice.
So what I would strongly contemplate doing is offering
them Austin wells now I don't I I know that they retain their
catcher for two years. He's getting older.
Whatever real Muto, but he's a good player.
But the if I'm Philly, all right, small ballpark, I'm
sitting there saying nice guys in his mid 20s.
He's he's a good receiver for the ball, good framer.
You know, maybe he could play a little first base, maybe catch
twice a week here, lefty pop. Maybe we can see him hitting
thirty home runs, which I could. I mean, it wouldn't surprise me
if he hits 30 at some point. So I would be willing to move on
from Austin Wells and I would be willing to make Ben Rice the
full time catcher. That's that's the first starting
point, one of the first things I would do because he's already
catching, you know, and, and the Yankees like him.
I, I remember when Boone told us, told me and Sal, I Remember
Me and Sal look at each other like, I don't know if I'm with,
I don't know if I agree with you this Skip.
He actually thinks that that well, that that Rice is a better
catcher than he is a first baseman.
Then now, this was a year ago and he's obviously put more work
in and he's, you know, scraping away the rust.
And I think you'll see at least a a somewhat competent first
baseman defensively in bed Rice this year.
I do All right. But you know, when this was a
year ago when when Boone, he was talking to us, he said, no, he's
he's a pretty good catcher. And I'm like, he just doesn't
look like a catcher. Like, I almost feel like he's
that kid in whatever level way beyond way, way before the
majors or, you know, major college baseball.
Like, all right, he's got a good bat and he's got a good arm and
he's he's big thrown behind a plate.
And you're like, yeah, but does he, does he really move like a
catcher? Does he really frame it like a
catcher? And at first I'm like, no, I
don't think he does. The more I've watched Ben Rice
as the catcher, I think he's fine.
I think he's, I mean, he's not a punch.
I'm just not Thurman Munson. I got it.
But he's functional. So that's one option and
certainly one solution there. And you know, the other thing
that you could do is you can trade Grisham.
You can trade Grisham, and you can put Bellinger in Center for
a year, right? And then he just have the
corners of Bryce Harper and Aaron Judge.
Now, doesn't that seem like the kind of outfield that Aaron
Judge has earned to be part of, right.
I know he's got love for Grisham, but I know Grisham had
30 plus home run. Yeah, whatever.
He ain't Harper. So I trade him in a minute.
And when you sign somebody to the QO, you can trade them.
Like if that's unclear to anybody, you can.
So I would think the way the market went for a lot of teams
this offseason and a lot of teams that didn't get quite what
they thought they might get with free agency.
Are you telling me early on ish in spring training that if Trent
Grisham was made available to a especially a smaller market
that's trying to keep that budget, you know, 181922230 like
100 million less than the big boys?
You telling me that they wouldn't be interested in a in a
center fielder who had 34 home runs who's a good outfielder on
a one year deal? It's like you're bringing in
five years of baggage. There's ways to do this and I
just gave you 2. Rice the catcher, Harper first
trade, Grisham Bellion center, Harper left.
What's the problem? What's the problem?
I mean, I would even go so far you want to start constructing a
roster here. You know, if you've had some
unconventional lineups like I'm trying to do the now, I don't
really care about this as much Like lefty, righty, lefty,
righty, lefty, righty. You know, ideally you'd have a
another switch hitter or two that can kind of, you know,
soften things up and give the manager something to think about
the other dugout like Bernie God, that's why that there's
such value there. Mark Teixeira back in O9 when
he, yeah, he fizzled out. But Mark's first couple of years
were phenomenal with the especially his first year.
So if I if the Yankees were to get Bryce Harper, where would he
hit? Well, you know, I don't like
Grisham. Let's say, let's say Grisham's
here. I could, I would strongly
consider putting Harper 1, Harper one.
I got to find that right here. I mean, I'm of course you can go
Judge. I mean, Harper 1, Judge two.
OK, here we go. Bellinger 3 Stanton for Ben
Rice, 5I mean and now you get Grisham in a place where I
believe he should be bottom third of the order, not lead off
hitter for a team that's strong with championship as I've been
complaining about forever forever.
So as you can tell, I'm jacked up today, man.
I always wanted Bryce Harper. I was Luke warm, but shot on
there. Whatever, sink Seger and
whatever. I know the Yankees have kind of
looked the other way with some of these big ticket items.
Bryce Harper was the dude that I always wanted because not only
is Bryce Harper the kind of guy you want up late, you know he's
never going to get cheated. He's going to think about some
of the upper deck home runs that guy would hit at the stadium.
He plays with a grit and an old school toughness and energy that
I think any team, let alone the Yankees, can absolutely use.
Oh, by the way, I guess Ray Muto got the three-year deal.
All right, my bad. What do I say?
2 years? All right, there you go.
How about at BSc TCF-7, the Z 50?
Think I'm talking to a robot? Maybe I am.
Who knows? Did BT say the Dodgers might
take Stanton? Ha ha.
They might not ever take Garrett Cole.
They might not even. I guess you mean even.
Hey, what J Rod? Could you interpret that, buddy?
What does that mean? Did the Dodgers ever wait?
Toss it up one more time. Did the Dodgers say, did BT say
the Dodgers might take Stanton? Ha ha, they might not ever take
G Cole. OK, so my guess is what he's
saying is, I mean, I I didn't pick this up necessarily, but
maybe he was thinking you were saying that the Yanks would
maybe trade Stanton to the Dodgers.
And and again, again, for those who don't know and or those who
just tuned in, well aware, no trade.
Stanton would have to grant the Yankees permission.
He would have to acquiesce. Keep going, Jay Rod.
And then I'm presuming he's saying that the Dodgers would
never even take Garrett Cole. Yeah, I mean, all right.
I I mean, I, I'm not looking to get rid of Garrett Cole.
By the way, Charlie, thank you for that.
Jay. Charlie F 6675.
Who are you going to give up is the hardest question.
Phil. He's not interested in Stanton.
I I know that they don't want Stanton.
I I wouldn't think they would want Stanton and Wells, in my
opinion. Are you giving up some big dogs
here? Well, I mean, yeah, we can
examine the the viability here of just how much prime Bryce
Harper has. I mean, am I giving up Lombard?
No, I'm going to hold on to Lombard.
I mean, now, now, now this is where I've got to be fair to the
situation because I remember saying this to colder so many
times over the years. Not just the fan my whole career
like, you know, so and so the Yankees or the Knicks or the
Mets should go out and get so and so.
I'm like, yeah, no, I I agree. Who you giving up?
Give them and like they name a fourth outfielder, the 5th
starter in the rotation and a middle relief arm.
I'm like, dude, you got to at least construct a trade that is
somewhat appealing to the other team.
Like this business is a two way St., you know, so unless there's
a situation where one of the teams is economically broken and
they just need to get rid of players contracts, well, that's
when you take advantage. That's not the decision.
Phillies got plenty of money. They spent a ton of money.
They fill out the the stadium all the time.
They've got good revenue stream there.
They are very healthy financially.
All right, so as I say that, you know, I'm not giving up Ben Rice
and I'm not giving up Cam Schlittler and I'm not giving up
Lombard. So, you know, maybe there is not
an absolute path to make the trade actually happen.
But that's different from me saying go out there and let's
start investigating the possibilities of having
something come to fruition and let the let the Phillies throw
names out there. See, here's the thing, when you
talk about talent, right? It's the height of subjectivity.
I mean, it just is like I look at and everybody's different and
I've said this a lot. Like I look at Cam Slitler and I
look at Nolan McClain and I see if knock on wood, if they're
both healthy and their bodies hold up.
I mean, I see guys with school bull like stuff.
I mean, maybe not quite 100% of school bull 90 something percent
like potential sign young winners if they're healthy, 7-8
All Star appearances, big games, you know, closing out series,
putting up zeros on the road in in the in the championship
series. Like that's my interpretation.
Others might look at a wind up flaw or a lack of another pitch.
Again, there's there's many ways to evaluate this stuff, so I
don't take it as gospel. I'm just telling you how I feel
about certain players. Maybe maybe that, which I don't
believe that this is true at all because I've spoken to the
Yankees about this, but just for the, for the sake of, of
conversation, like say if the Yankees warn as high on Ben Rice
as I am, like again, I've been saying for a while #2 #3 #4 #5 I
don't even think number 62345. I think that's where he's going
to be hitting for the next X amount of years.
Well, maybe the Yankees are 70% there and they really like them,
but they're watching them play first and they're like, and they
haven't said it, but they're like, I don't know or I don't
know. Is he going to really hit
lefties? What, what, what, Which I think
he will. I'm just saying whatever they
might be thinking, which they're not, but counter to what you
know, I believe he will become well, then maybe they're more
willing to trade them. So when I sit here and say I'm
not giving up Bryce, I'm not giving up Schlittler, I'm not
giving up this guy. I'm not giving up Lombard.
Maybe they are. I mean, it's not like Lombard's
numbers jumped off the page last year in the minors.
I know he's he going kid. Hey, do me a favor.
J Rod, what's up? Can you let's see where I want
you to go. Which database for this?
Can you just type in George Lombard LO MB ARD All right,
George Lombard and I would go to baseball cube, not reference,
not savant, because he's in the minors.
Baseball cube. That's got all the by the way
he's looking it up. Baseball cube.
You want to get lost. You have an hour or so to kill
at some point kids asleep and wipes out whatever.
Look at baseball cube and type in any of your old favorite
players. Like of course, I've done
Mattingly. You know that I remember typing
in Ricky Henderson. You can see what Ricky Henderson
did in the minors in like 1976. It's absolutely wild.
So you have Lombard's minor league numbers up there, bud.
Yeah, I got it pulled up. OK, so now last year he split it
at 2 spots, right a ball and double.
AI believe so yeah, give me. Now, now they'll they'll have
the breakdown. Give me in totality.
So just where it says 2025, give me his OPS.
What was his? I think it was 7 in the high
sevens. 695. No, not for the whole season.
Oh, I. See.
Come on, we got to train this kid.
Hold on, hold on. I got you, it's all good.
I'm just messing with you. Wait OPS, but not for the whole
season. No for the whole season, meaning
not for just one team. Cuz he played.
I believe he played it too. Low.
I see. OK, it's I'm gonna have to do
some math here, so just a second I'll do.
It myself, you knucklehead. I'll get this in one answer man,
I don't even but I don't know if I could do this because if I if
I do this and I do it on my laptop, I, I, I'm, I'm fearful
it's gonna mess with the actual stream here.
All right, we're going to teach you once you learn, it's all
good. We're we're we're teaching you
some stuff here. Once you learn this, you will
never. Oh wait, .718.
There we go. Thank you.
OK, thank you. All right.
So, so basically 720. I mean, how many home runs did
he hit again in totality for the whole year?
In totality, let's see totals home runs 223, it says or.
That wouldn't be right. Hello.
Yeah, I'm here. Jay, 220. 3 so.
He had 223 home runs last year. All right, we'll keep them
moving here. It's all good.
I got we got teach the young buck.
You have to go to summer school on this one, buddy.
My point is it it's all good. My point is, is that somebody
like Lombard, it's not like he hit 341 in the minors with an
OPS of 912 and and stole 31 bases and got thrown out four
times. His numbers are pretty
pedestrian as it now. I know he's young.
I I get that he's a young, young, young player and I think
this will be the year I would imagine that he'll start to
really take off offensively. But you know, maybe the Yankees
doing their deep dive analytically and look at all the
numbers and of course the eye test seen him in the minors.
Maybe they don't view him to be the prospect that that I still
do and that most around baseball do.
And if that's the case, well, maybe that's a way to entice
Philly to trade Bryce Harper. So how about a how about a
Lombard? And you want to how about this?
How about a Lombard and say a Clark Schmidt?
I know Clark Schmidt's not pitching right away.
He's young, he's controllable and he's good.
You know, I would even mess right.
You want will Warren? I I would certainly think about
that as well. You can't tell me there's not an
Ave. for dialogue. That at least gives the Phillies
pause in terms of, you know, as they process what they may or
may not do with Bryce Harper. All right, let me get to these
guys here. What's going on, BT Been a
minute. Yeah, we've been there.
Robert. Robert, who went with this?
Where's Robbie been? I say let's get Harper run the
gauntlet. Let's take the shot while Judge
is still elite. Exactly, Dude, This is what I'm
saying. If it doesn't work out, be, you
know, so be it. Go for it.
Yes, that is my point. You know the old song, Go for
it, Go, go, go for it in Rocky. Was that Rocky Ford?
I think when he's teaching his son that, no, I guess that would
have been Rocky Ford. What am I saying?
Rocky Ford? My bad.
That was blasphemous. I don't think you can get that
wrong that much by that. It was Rocky 5 when he's
teaching his son how to fight, right.
Son's getting picked onto the schoolyard.
He's wearing the earring. He thinks he's a punk smoke in
the heater and is he's with Tommy Gunn and and then his
son's like, you know, dad, teach me how to fight and I believe go
for it was the song the montage to when when he was trying to
and then he lit up that fat little punk in the schoolyard.
He took his jacket my rings outside.
You knocked him down. Why don't you try knocking me
down now, huh? What's up, J Rod?
It's so it's nine home run 748 OPS.
There we go. There was a site, there's
another site. MILB it.
Yes, minor League Baseball. It gives you just a straight up
just 2025 stats. There you go.
Well, well. Then then for you, you can use
the MILBII know that that's the minor league database.
I just love going to to to like obviously for the current player
Savant gives you if you love numbers, everything that you
want and then the baseball cube is great.
You know what I love the the thing.
This is where I found out a baseball about the baseball
cube. There were a lot of guys that I
played against in couple in high school and a couple in college.
Actually, even with a few players in college, like my
buddy Georgie, Georgie Santiago was drafted by the Mets are
shortstop, My buddy Coot was playing independent ball.
So anyway, I wanted to see I'm like, I wonder if they have like
their stats, you know, and they actually do.
That's how I found it. I stumbled upon it.
So if there's somebody that you grew up with that was a stud and
you know, obviously played beyond high school and you're
like, I wonder whatever, you know, so and so never made the
bigs, but he was amazing in high school and when he was 12, he
was the best around. If you ever wonder about and we
all have those players, right, that we grew up with.
It's a great database. You just type their name in and
if they played, even if it's one at bat in the miners could be
the independent league, whatever it might be, it it will it will
be up there. So that's how I stumbled upon
it. All right, we'll get back to the
Harper stuff. I want to yes, it was a lot of
fun with the, we had three really good topics yesterday.
Judge spoke, Cohen spoke obviously as well and the Breeze
Hall stuff, which was absolutely money.
But J Rod, let's take care of a little business here, buddy.
Time for the Johnny's report. That is right, the Johnny's
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action tonight. They were playing Marquette.
It's a late tip, you know, 9:00. I might even do a I'll tell you
about this after, but I might do a, a, a first half live watch
party tonight as a soft launch. I'll get back to that.
But they are playing late. It's on TNT.
St. John's are they're 202513 and
one in the Big East here. Obviously that massive game up
in stores coming up, that's going to really determine who's
the number one seed in the Big East.
Last time Saint John's lost was January 3rd to Providence.
They have ripped off 11 straight wins since then.
Dylan Darling has just exploded. Obviously, Zoobies having a
massive season, lot of contributions.
Pitino took him a while to figure out the screw, but they
certainly have. And after tonight against
Marquette A-Team, they should be very, very able.
Like Marquette's not going to stop him defensively.
I'm not taking this for granted. Johnny's a big favorites, but a
team like Marquette with a coach like Shaka, it's not Kim
English. She was a disaster up in
Providence. Shaka smarts a real coach like
he's a great coach. So Marquette could score.
They just don't have the athletes to stop St.
John's. So I would think eventually,
maybe a tight first half, maybe even tight first couple of
minutes into half #2 I think eventually St.
John's is tough this at they'll impose their will and they
should be able to bag another win here, which will be #21 of
the season. But now this sets up, all right,
Saturday at the Garden versus Creighton, another team they
should beat up. And then a week from tonight up
in stores, St. John's, UConn #5 of the country
last night, by the way, And, and really the last couple of games,
some of these top 25 teams that have been in front of St.
John's, they've been knocked off.
So I would think that if St. John's handles business tonight
and I'm more concerned about, I would say I'm really concerned,
but more concerned about tonight than I am about Saturday.
If St. John's goes to an O, given some
of the volatility of the movement in front of them in the
AP poll, I would think St. John's would have a real jump,
real chance to jump from 17, which where they are now to
about, you know, maybe 1314, which is kind of where I think
they should be. As I've said, I, I thought Saint
John's was wildly overranked coming in.
I think they're a little under ranked now, but whatever.
At the end of the day, rankings beat nothing.
I mean, just keep winning, keep playing well, Johnny's looking
good. I'll go to campus tomorrow.
I'll shoot the TV show with Rick, of course, the Red Storm
report every Friday and Saturday on MSG and the things are
looking good. Before you know it, the regular
season finale is coming up March 6th at Seton Hall.
I'll be doing that game with the Mink Man.
Shout out to Minky and let you guys know about the Zubi Edge of
Four, recently named to the Naismith Defensive Player of the
Year watch list. And both Zubi and Dylan Mitchell
are both right now projected to be drafted.
Zubi right around that 30 to 36th threshold.
I think he's going to be late first round.
I think he does squeeze into the first round.
And Dylan Mitchell, who I mean, once he learns to shoot a little
bit, his game translates to the NBA.
He is also thought to be a second round pick.
So good stuff there. Johnny's red hot and keep it
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All right, J Rod, so tonight, what do you think about this?
It's a long day. Geez.
So today's one. Today's going to be one of the
longer days I've had. Let me, let me lay out my day
for you. What time is it?
All right, about 11:00 or so, I will have got about another half
hour ish, something like that. And then today's workout day.
So jump down to the basement, throw around some weight, you
know, not a ton, but I'll get after it as much as I do.
And then my son, we have for one of his travel team that I do
coach, I don't coach his club team.
Obviously that's different. We've got practice from 4:30 to
6:00 and then I'm jumping on with Sal from from 8:00 to 9:00
on Sal's podcast. And then I'm thinking about
messing around with a little watch party here, Saint John's,
Marquette for the first half. Now, I don't even know if you're
available tonight. So if and you know, we have our
contracts. So it is.
I don't expect you to show up and work for for nothing.
But how would I do this if you're not around?
I mean, listen, I certainly could be around just to
obviously hit the record for you if you want to.
I also, you know, there's also just like a it's pretty easy to
like end the stream or do it by yourself.
But listen, let me know. I can cut up some graphics like
we could do like a little Johnny's watch party instead of
subscribe to BT Unleash you. You kind of do something like
that right there. And then?
You know, I guess kind of similar to however, however you
were cooking up the the lives before.
Just throw them up that mug. That mug is so nice.
Yeah, I know they're coming. All right.
OK. So that's interesting.
Now I need you to do some. Not yet.
So you guys know that these freaking lights are on my last
nerve. Like I, you know, I didn't want
to go too nuts yesterday because the kids were here school.
They didn't have school yesterday.
And when I started the show, I didn't want to sound like an
unhinged, unhinged lunatic with both my kids home.
But if you saw me the night before running to the hardware
store because those stupid chintzy whatever the hell I paid
for from wherever the hell I got them from, they like they fell.
They're just cheap as shit. Wait, waste of money, right?
Took them down. Then I'm like, God, let's get
old school creative. Then I took like cardboard and I
taped them and then they the tape fell down.
Now it's like 9:00 at night. I'm like, let me go to the
hardware store if they're still open.
Let me try to get something to just kind of conceal the light.
Like I'm really, it's really pissing me off right?
And I'm thumbtacking them into my, the home's only six years
old. It's a pretty new home we built
and I'm sticking thumbtacks like I'm living in college, like in a
dorm. So anyway, so I know I got to
fix the lighting I'm thinking about as I've watched a lot of
the a lot of the shows, a lot of the shorts incorporating the
feedback. I love the logo.
The logo is going nowhere. I love the logo.
I was just thinking I want to show our BT Unleashed fan this
year and I want your honest opinion.
Don't know for sure if I'm going to do this beginning the
beginning, the process of contemplating doing this going
from something Now again, the lights ruin what's behind me,
but and I'd have to get it less glossy and I'm working on that.
I'm like, you know, of course I mean the logo's dope.
We all know the logo's tight, right.
But if we were to do something like this, pop it up there, J
Rod and this was behind me. How we feeling about this?
I got to tell you, man, I'm digging this.
I am really digging this and maybe there's keep it up there,
Jay. Maybe there's ways to like if
you look at the brick there maybe in maybe just a tick
darker around the the perimeter, you know, maybe make those those
little indentations where the bricks are maybe slightly more
noticeable and identified. Like we can always like, you
know, streamline it a bit and make this thing look even
better. I don't know, man.
I I'm looking at this and I'm saying this thing is going to
pop like a monster on social media.
J Rod, what do you think, buddy? What's your first reaction?
Oh yeah, here they come. First reaction, Yeah, yeah.
I mean, you can kind of see what the people are thinking right
there. Yeah.
I mean, I think it looks good. I think it looks clean.
And I think what the white brick allows you to do is it allows
you to also build off of that in the future.
So let's say, OK, you've got the plain white backdrop, but then
you can also kind of put some other stuff around and it kind
of gives it a more natural feel. So yeah, rather than I'm into
it. Rather than just like, jammed in
there on a black wall. The bat.
Cave. Yeah, the BT cave.
Yeah. I mean, yes, I'm looking at the.
It's certainly not J rods. Well, it's no one's fault.
I mean, if anything, I guess I'll take the L even though it's
not really my fault. But it's it's my show, so I've
I've got to own it. I'm looking at the shorts out
there. I'm like, this looks horrible
and it's again, it's not his fault.
It's just so freaking dark. I'm like, I don't know, I don't
know about this, like the concept.
And again, I love love the way the beats.
Is this is this Rosemary Rosemary Team Tierney S1R?
Is that in relation to you? I could be, I don't know, love
the brick background. Is that Mama chiming in here?
I don't know. Mama always supports.
She was at the BT and Sal live show.
She always watches so and Mom's always honest there so.
I I didn't. I didn't.
Really know that you I didn't know she had a YouTube.
I honestly, I don't know if it's her, I really don't.
Know that's so funny? I don't know, but if it is
what's happened to mom, you know, I love you The the white
just and then we can and, you know, and then maybe there's a
way like superimpose, like what if it's a jet state?
Like have like, yeah, put that back up for a SEC.
Yeah, imagine this now. Now this would be like green,
green screen. Like this is next level.
I got to actually make some money doing this before I
actually start doing all these bells and whistles.
But like if say we're talking Yankees, like superimposed like
a spray painted NY Yankee logo or Jets or Knicks, like topic
oriented there, There's a a way to incorporate some other stuff.
I don't want to make it too busy.
Like to me, this is really clean and really pops and you know,
it. It's almost more like graffiti,
which I love. I used to actually do graffiti.
I think I mentioned that once or twice back in the day.
I used to actually do graffiti. I loved it, man.
That's. So sick.
I loved it. It's like something that's
completely died out with, I think my generation, like no one
my age does graffiti. You know, Jay, I, I thought that
as well. I thought that as well.
But like, I'm very observant. Like when I used to go to the
fan all those years and same building 13 years, my route was
I'd eventually get to the Holland Tunnel and that's where
it would really slow down. And I would and I would always
look at all the graffiti and I would see a lot of new graffiti.
Like, yeah, I don't, I don't think it's as quite as common as
it was back in the day. Like there was a point and even
this where I was like, God, man, this might be, this might be
pushing the limits a little bit too much.
Like I admit, I was afraid doing this.
I did it, but I was afraid. So I was probably, I definitely
was not in high school yet. I think I was in the 7th grade.
And anybody who's got an Italian mom like I do worries about
everything. You know, the Jewish mom, the
Italian mom, the Puerto Rican mom, like there's certain moms,
they just worry about everything, right?
And, and she was always worried. And a lot of my friends where I
grew up, their moms didn't worry, right?
They just kind of did whatever they wanted.
So I would always have to like try to be really sneaky and like
these kids can stay out, you know, till 10:00 at night.
There was no way in hell. I'm talking about in 6th, 7th
grade. There's no way that was going
down with my dad and my no chance.
So I had AI had a lie a lot, you know, and where you going?
Oh, I don't know. I'm going to shoot hoops,
whatever. And like I would come home and
my dad would actually look at my fingers to see if there was any
remnants of spray. Yeah.
Oh yeah. Couple times not not with
incredible frequency, but a couple times.
And I remember this one time, yeah, I like, I can remember the
five kids I was with. I'm not going to name them, but
I can see it like it was yesterday, and this is a million
years ago. We went to the Q train on Kings
Highway, actually jumped down on the tracks and walked along and
was spray painting or like he was like, what was it?
Kings Highway, Ave. H, You get to like Newkirk
Avenue. I mean, we didn't walk that far.
Then eventually Prospect Park like that with Church Ave., that
was the route Flatbush. And yeah, man, I used to love
it. Love it sick.
And I got a good old school. You'll love this movie.
I got a little homework for you. Little homework.
Laying on me. If, if there weren't trademark
and copyright things, I'd play this song for you now.
But I don't want to mess around, get in trouble here.
I got to figure this stuff out. Still, I don't want the channel
to get shut down. Go and see the movie or or go
and watch the movie Beach St. EE AT Street.
It is an old school. I'm going to say if you can look
it up and check out what year it was.
If I had to throw a guest down, I'm going to say Beach St. was
about 84, exactly 84. OK, 84.
Now you look at like the origin of rap and graffiti.
You know, you're talking Uptown in in the mid 70s as as you and
I have talked about like Grandmaster Flash even before
cool hurric like before. So it, it goes back, it goes
back a minute. But this to me was the first
film. And then there was electric
boogaloo, electric boogaloo, which and then there was like a
second one like turbo and Ozone. And I just thought that one was
corny. Beach St. to me was a gritty,
real depiction of inner city 80s, not not Gangalite, not
there wasn't like nobody was hurting each other.
It was just a pure, you know, hey, let's go out there.
Let's get our name up on the subway.
Let's let's get our hustle on like gritty.
And the music was awesome, dude. Absolutely.
I'm talking it out. You're going to love it, I
promise. I'll watch it.
You're going to and you're going to love it, I promise you there.
So what's the if you had to say, Jay?
I know we saw the first 3 or 4 that said they love it.
Then we saw, you know, is it overwhelming?
They like the They're feeling that.
Yeah, yeah, it seems overwhelming.
Lighter background looks much better.
Mama knows best. This was the one I really like.
Avery Summit, our guy. Brick by brick is your motto.
So the bricks are a subtle nod to that.
And I was like, yeah, that's cool.
Dude, that's that's witty right there that I like that way to
way to piece it to get way to bring home Avery.
Yeah, brick by brick, click by click.
Wow, BT unleashed there. I do like that, that that's very
strong. I like that.
What else DT? About to produce ATV show about
is you. Listen, there's certain, let me
just tell you this, like one day, I, I, I, I joke around with
some of my buddies, right? Like every year we go on a golf
trip and we used to for years go down to Myrtle Beach.
We'd fly and we'd stay there for a week.
This is like pre kids, pre marriage and we probably went to
Myrtle Beach for a good 15 years, right even into marriage
and even early into kids, right. And you know, maybe not some
guys wouldn't be able to get out for a week.
I, I, I'm going like my wife's, even when we were mad like that
came into the marriage like golf trip.
I'm going, she's cool, but I don't want to be gone from a
week because I don't want to miss big games for my kids.
So I even condense it on my end. Either way, we did that for a
long time. And then what we started to do
after COVID, you know, some of the wives, you know, ran a
tighter ship than others and they're like, oh, you're not
going anywhere, You're not doing this, you're not doing that.
So we had a couple of the wives, mine being one of them as well,
where instead of flying, which I understood, it was an unknown
period. I'm not knocking anybody.
I get it in hindsight, ridiculous, but in real time,
understood. And we said, hey, instead of
flying, let's rent the house. We got a nice spread on a lake
in the Poconos. We'd have a fishing contest.
We play 345 days, get banged up every night.
And one of my buddies has always said he's he always said he'd be
if you ever did a show, right, if you ever actually did a show
and and just told stories about the shit that you did, like the
actual, the real stories, like, you know, it, it you'd be a,
you'd be a billionaire, like people would eat.
But I can't, I can't do that kind of show because if I do
that kind of show, I don't know if there's another show.
Yeah, exactly. Who knows, I think what could be
fun would be listen, and also this is like to the unleashed
fam. If there's like any animators
out there, any like cartoon guys out there who kind of do stuff
like that. If you did like little shorts
where maybe you like told the story of your life and did like
a cartoon graphic of it with like you know you, I think that
would be sick. I think that would be sick,
honestly. We could start talking about
that. I mean, but I think that would
be cool. I, I mean, I've know other
channels have like kind of done very similar stuff.
I think that would be so much fun.
Like do like a little animated short like 2-3 minutes.
Something like that. I don't even know if you need 3
minutes. I mean, dude, that would be
phenomenal. And by the way, we'd give you,
we'd give you a full run. We'd play it on the show.
We'd get your handle out there. We'd get you some business.
That is it. That's one of your better ideas
now. I appreciate it.
But this is very ambitious. Like, you know, if somebody
wants to do the work, I'm all for it.
But I mean, even like a minute and a half, I mean, oh, wow,
that would be sick, dude. Yeah, Let me.
Let me start just like plotting more on this and then.
Yeah, it was just, it was just a different world, dude.
I mean it, it really was. I you know, I remember, I'll
tell you a funny story. I remember.
I'm going to contrast it, right. So during, I just mentioned
COVID, during COVID. So that was 2020.
We moved into our home December of 18.
All right, It's when we moved on.
It's supposed to be ready before that.
But there was some Stallings with the buildings, whatever
with the builders move in December 18.
And you know, we don't know anybody.
I'm not from here. You know what kids aren't really
in school yet. There's no sports yet.
So I don't really know anybody. So my son met to somebody.
Really, really. His name is Johnny.
Great kid at preschool, right? Good family, actually.
Big fans of sports radio. Like just good, cool people.
Haven't seen him in a while, but good people.
Anyway, we have them over when we're getting to know him early
on. We're in the backyard, Me and
the dad are having a beer, the wives are having a glass or
whatever they're having. And you know, we ordered some
food and like, we put a little tent up, make it nice, whatever.
And the boys start wrestling, right?
And like they start getting aggressive and getting
aggressive and get, I think they were probably about, I thought
about they were 5/5 and 1/2 and getting aggressive, right,
throwing each other around. And the moms like, oh, no, no,
no. And I'm sitting there literally
sitting there like this, you know, talking to the to the dad
with a beer, like they're fine, let them go.
And I remember just saying don't, don't punch it in.
No, punch it in the face, guys. Yeah, I remember saying that.
Right. So that's that's now like that.
The moms are like, oh, no. Meanwhile, they're just being
boys right now. Let's let's contrast that.
I'll never forget this. This was hysterical.
We're playing. We're playing in the street as
we always did. My buddy Tommy, who was a year
older. And when you were a year older
at that age, that makes a big difference.
So I was probably 8 and he was like 9 1/2, right.
A little stronger, you know, good athlete.
Anyway, we would play on the street and if the street, if you
got all you guys are obviously watching, although on Spotify
you can't see this. So I apologize, but I apologize.
But to the street go fairly narrow.
And like we had like first base, like first base, second base,
third base home. And then there was like house,
house, house, house, house, house.
And all the moms would sit around and drink coffee and you
know, this is the 80s, whatever they're doing, they're not a
worry in the world. Dude, you hear the ice cream
truck, you have a dollar you set for three hours, you get 2
drinks and piece of candy, you're good.
So anyway, I think I slid into second base on concrete like an
absolute knucklehead and my buddy, I may have told the story
once, so I'll get through it quick.
So just to contrast how different it is and I slide into
second and you know, me and Tommy always had to be on
different teams because we were the 2 best players on the
street. If we're on the same team, we
would never lose. Like not to be a jerk, but we
had to be on different teams. So I slide in and I don't even
remember if I was out or safe. Tags me hard.
I think I took a little issue with it.
Now he's like hanging on me and I probably push him off me.
He's my best friend, absolute best friend at the time, best
friend pushing him off me. And then he pushes me back and
we start beating the shit out of each other.
I mean, throwing punches, not like, oh, what do you, you know,
not like woofing like fake like most fights.
And I'm not a fighter. Like I'm not saying I'm a
fighter now, but like you fought back then.
You fought right, No weapons, fists till somebody gets
bloodied up and it gets broken up.
So the moms are sitting on the on the stoop, right, You know,
and they're like they're getting like now kind of like my wife
and and in the backyard with my son and his buddy coming years
ago. But no, not crazy.
Tommy's dad, who's a retired cop at that point and rest in peace,
he's he's passed away since he's catching that day and he just
walks up, takes his time. Yeah, I definitely did tell the
story. Takes his time, just grabs me by
the shirt, grabs Tommy by the shirt, throws us a.
Separate. Oh my.
Gosh, what do you do with knuckleheads that shit fight
over best friends 10 minutes later like that?
Like that's how it was addressed back then.
So if you can imagine like what we were doing, and this is the
point in front of parents, imagine what we were doing
without parents and without cameras.
Oh my gosh, it must have been. It must have been wild.
Honestly, sometimes I wonder how how I made it certain parts,
certain times like we did what here we are just wild, dude.
So I almost as as envious as I am on some level, like, you
know, you guys are younger and you got, you know, different
stage of life and all that beautiful thing.
You you really did get cheated in a lot of ways.
Like I think I was the last generation where you could kind
of do whatever you want. Yeah, I mean, I just think once,
you know, you were a kid and now all of a sudden you've got like
a phone on you all day. Like you kind of, you're always
tethered to something. You're always tethered to, you
know, a, a parent, a friend of like there's always something
calling you back. You're never really, you're
never just going out and exploring freedom.
There's always got to be like something behind it.
I think what has been like my growing up, like there's, I
mean, and granted, like, I guess in the times when, you know, I
was back home in Connecticut, just open air kind of that it
was more of a, you know, freeing, natural feeling.
But also just like, yeah, growing up in kind of this
generation, there really isn't that.
Let's go out and get wild. Kids my age are really trying
to, like, fit into a box almost. And like really, I guess it
seemed like not, you know, not trying to be the one who's going
out doing the graffiti, graffiti, going out doing the
kind of wild stuff because it's just like, it's more acceptable
to kind of just like be be just normal.
Don't express yourself in that. That's interesting.
And by the way, it's not a bad thing not going out there and
try to do. Crazy, exactly because.
Sometimes it really goes sideways.
But yeah, I, I don't, I don't know, man.
I, I think that even when you look at, I'm sure there's a lot
of people watching this who are getting ready to be parents or
are parents, but their kids are so like they're still babies,
babies. You'd be stunned.
Like now we're past that point. But I remember first hearing the
term play dates. I'm like, what the fuck is a
play date? What are you?
Doing, yeah. What play dates?
Like, Oh, yeah, so and so wants to have a play date.
They're nine years old. Like, go play.
Just go play in the yard, you know, play date.
Like the organization, J Rod, everything.
Yeah. And the structure, it's just,
you know, I get it And and I'm not trying to fight the world
and push back. There's a lot of good things
about it. But just think about that.
Like, no, no, generally you just kind of become friends with who
you become friends with. There's like this, it's almost
like a pre arranged marriage in in some circles, like, yeah.
And and it expires at a certain. I mean, if you're doing play
dates at the age of 13, you got something seriously wrong.
Even at the age of 11, there should be play dates.
No, but I do get it when you're a little younger.
But it you wait, wait, dude, wait until I'm see.
I'm curious what the next stage is.
That's what to me is very intriguing.
Like, you know, my dad's generation grow up, play
stickball, you know, just the radio, no CD's, you know?
No, but it's not like you went to college and like grew and and
then got an apartment in Manhattan with, you know, 2
buddies. True story.
My dad graduates high school now.
My dad, my grandfather on my paternal side worked in a sugar
factory, tough as nails Irish side, really good ball player,
played some modern League Baseball and was A and and
passed away unfortunately there I was very young.
I, I remember vaguely snapshots, but I, I don't really truly
remember spending a lot of time, but I just remember like this
tattoo anchor on his forearm for the Nate whatever.
I do remember sitting on an on his lap, seeing that big strong
hands, big strong guy, right. And my dad told me that when he
graduated high school, he's like, all right.
He's like, you got one week, enjoy yourself, have fun, do
whatever you want. Don't get in trouble after one
week. You have to get a job or you
join the Army. That, that was my, my dad was
born in the 40s. God bless him.
He's in his early 80s right now. He's the best, you know, you
know, you guys saw my or heard my pops when he called in on the
fan that day, my last show. He's a great man.
I, I, I love him beyond description and what he grew up
with. Same with my mom and what he
grew up with and what she grew up with.
It it was just, it was, it was so different.
Now you got think about that. Now that was also on the side.
He didn't have a lot of money and he was tough.
But not everybody grew up that way back in the day, but a lot
of people did. Now it's like, OK, forget about
graduating high school that you graduate.
Do you want to go on tour Europe for three weeks?
Yeah, here's $35,000 go and I don't begrudge it if you have
the money to go have. Fun.
Go find yourself, daughter. Go explore.
Go and see the world. That was the mandate.
That was that was that. What was it?
Hey, you got one week. Have fun.
If you, whether you're playing stickball or playing cards with
your buddies, figure it out and then get a job or join the Army.
That's what my dad was doing. Yeah.
Nowadays you get you get a year to you got a year to produce
podcast before you got to move out the house.
So man, times have changed. Times have changed.
My dad was 28 years old. I mean, it went way, way before
that. He was, you know, working 2
jobs. He's got a mortgage, he's got
two kids. Well, I think I was born when he
was 30, but now 28 year olds are still living at home and their
parents don't care. Yeah, no, it's insane.
I mean, it's almost times have changed.
We're living in Candy Land now, so.
Well, that's why J Rod, that's why I say like, I wonder what
the next step is. Like, I was going to say that
there's generally some sort of recalibration and kind of
historically, whether it's the stock market or even behavioral
patterns like a retreat to the mean, so to speak, if, if that
makes sense. But I don't really think that
that's going to happen pertaining to what we're talking
about now. Because really now the people
like you, your age and your generation, they're used to one
one way of life. And as they get married, that's
what they'll espouse to their kids and for their family.
And the old school roots are going to eventually die off.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, it I mean, it'll be interesting because
it's like with I guess our younger generation, you know, we
grew up like a lot of our free time was playing video games
with people like watching TV watching.
I'm just so curious as to what the entertainment for the future
generations will be, how they will spend their free time.
Is it just going to? It might just be in like a
virtual reality world or something, but come on, who
knows Who knows who knows who knows, who knows.
No stop, stop, stop. How about this at Ocean View
coffee shop? That looks like a very serene,
very calming backdrop. Sounds like they got the good
life there. Wouldn't want my kids doing what
I did. Damn straight.
Now they'll do different things that they don't want us to know
about because every kid finds a loophole to figure things out to
be a little sneaky. But yeah, I mean, how many times
do do you think about like, I lie, Like, no.
Well, it's certain things I lie. Like when it comes to sports,
I'm brutally honest. I tend to illuminate my bad
rather than my good from for my more so for my son because he's
very competitive. I don't want to think Daddy was
great. I mean, daddy had a lot of
struggles, you know what I mean? And, and I think if you were
real with that, I, I think it, it, it, it's a more relatable
experience. And, and I wanted to understand
like, no, no, daddy didn't, didn't grow up playing for the
Yankees. Daddy, you know, stumbled a lot.
So, you know, if you go over 4, it's fine.
You know, I, I think that the, you know, the, the middle of the
road there, though, was like being incredibly honest and
being completely mistruthful. Like there were the other day my
parents were over and my son said to to my dad what did he
ask him something about like me in school?
Oh dude it was a nightmare. Me in school, God almighty, and
I remember my my son's back was to me and I just kind of winked
at my dad. I'm like and so I basically I
lied whenever he I forget what he was asking him.
I'm like no, no dad, I would never do that.
Are you crazy? No way.
Like I was it was the exact opposite.
So yeah, of course you you know, you want to shield them from
certain things that you did, but at the end of the day, kids will
figure it out. We could talk about this stuff
all day. The bottom line is this.
I want Bryce Harper. That's the bottom freaking line.
There we go. Yeah, I want Bryce Harper, and I
want the Yanks to figure this out, and I want the Yanks to go
full throttle, and I want the Yankees to pounce on what I
perceive to be a very vulnerable position.
When Dombrowski says what he said about Harper, you can't
tell me Harper's not pissed. The Yankees have a couple of
more years of average judges prime.
There might not be baseball next year, or there's going to be a
truncated season. Whatever the hell is going to
happen with this labor mess? The Yankees, because they owe it
to Aaron Judge to do this. And it's I think the timing is
incredible because yesterday we talked about, you know, Aaron
Judge out there at the press conference saying, you know,
with the Yankees here, you know what's you know, And then he
again, he softened that. He parsed that.
We hit that yesterday. But there was a lot of truth in
that delivery. There was a lot of frustration
in that delivery. And, you know, I wish you would
have done it a month ago. Maybe it would have served as
more incentive for the Yankees to do more.
But that's not Aaron Judge's weight.
I'm certainly not going to to criticize him for being, you
know, a good soldier. I mean, he's just the the lowest
maintenance superstar in the history of superstar.
I mean, even Jeter, who was a low maintenance superstar and I
didn't care about this, but George did you know, George had
to call him in once or twice. All right, man, you getting a
little, you know, you're running around town and be careful to
hear. You don't even hear that about
Aaron Judge just had a baby. He's been married, quiet as a
mouse, doesn't do anything, hits 58 home runs every year and
keeps his mouth shut. He sees the best.
You owe that man more than you're giving him.
That's what I'm saying. So if you just tuned in the 1st
40 minutes, it was, it was basically a straight 40 minute
fire monologue. I mean, just no hesitation.
Full throttle all in. Laid it all out for you.
The contracts who I would trade, what I wouldn't do.
It is all there for you at Rich Squire 986.
Rich. What's going on, buddy?
Let's see. Cash been getting Harper now is
his MO. Well, yeah, true.
Older declining player on the cheap would be it.
Wouldn't be surprised there. Gallo, Gallo, Goldie and
Donaldson. Well, all right.
Now, this is where Richie, like many, takes it a little bit too
far to put Bryce Harper in the same category as Gallo.
I mean, but let's be a little fair here.
Or even Donaldson. I mean, Bryce Harper is still a
beast. He had a little bit of a step
back season, but I think he would be so revitalized here
with the with Judge and a different fan base and that
short porch and the pinstripes that, you know, that his dad
revered, which is why I thought he was going to be a Yankee
until the Yankees cheaped out. All those years ago.
So that's where I'm at with that.
All right, let me get cooking here.
I got a busy day. As I said, I'm going to hop on
with Sal tonight on Sal's channel.
So you guys going to have to find that.
All right, the Salakata show from AT8I.
I've got to find out about the possibility.
If I could do this on my own, I think I could.
I think it's pretty easy to figure out.
Maybe a little Saint John's first half watch party tonight
against Marquette. Listen, obviously get it out
there guys. All the likes, you know, I ain't
got to get those likes up, man. Get those comments flowing in.
You guys know that I see them. I think that, you know, by now
it's a very interactive channel. I mean, I, I, I respond daily.
I mean, a matter of fact, I actually carve out by design a
good 2530 minutes every day where I just go to the comments,
the good ones, the bad ones, whatever.
It's like I, you know, I don't need self glorification.
I'm not looking for that. I'm just looking for interaction
to let you guys know that I, I see what you write and you know,
a lot of continue the dialogue there.
So you guys doing a good job with that.
But the more we get to that, you know, the more the channels
going to explode there. So I appreciate those of you who
do it. Obviously follow me on
Instagram, keep the, the thoughts in on the possible
change of the background. Also, if you go to the YouTube
or if you navigate the YouTube channel, you're obviously there.
Now if you go to posts, I put a picture of it up there.
So if you didn't see it, it is up there for you guys to weigh
in. Do you like it?
You know, should we tweak it? Should we mess around still a
little bit in the experimental stage here with the logos and
the backdrops? And I heard Sal was making fun
of the battery. I'll tell you right.
Sal starts taking. Fun of the Yo, did you watch?
Did you watch? I'm going to light him up on his
own channel if he starts pulling that knot.
If Sal wants to make an enemy, he's He introduces me tonight,
wearing his King Cohen garb, talking shit about the logo.
Hey, that's that's the end of the friendship.
You got to watch out for booms. You got to watch out for booms
tonight. He could get on you.
Also. Brian Daley, I love you.
OK, all right, listen, I will say this.
I'm I'm sure I'm sure whatever booms throws my way, I think I
can handle. I I think you know, but I do
want to meet booms. I'm looking forward to it.
So that's tonight. I am.
I'll tell them you said what's up.
I want to get you guys cooking on a project at some point.
So J Rod, have an outstanding rest of your day.
Get those shorts up, buddy. Do what you do like it sub, get
the comments going, Instagram, Twitter, all that stuff.
Spread the word, get it out there, grow the family.
BT Unleashed, of course, Sal tonight at 8, possibly a
Johnny's watch party that either way, a big game for St.
John's. They've won eleven straight.
Try to keep this thing going and before you know it, Big East
tournament selection Sunday, see where they're going.
Spring training a little bit deeper and really, really good
time of the year. This is my favorite time.
You got the Masters around the corner.
Weather starts to thaw out. I saw this morning, at least
where I am in the northeast, it was raining a little bit.
Now it looks like the sun start to pop out.
So you start to see that snow recede a little bit more.
And you know what I'm thinking? I'm thinking fungo bat.
I'm thinking, you know, let's get out of the indoor facility.
Let's get on the turf, kids, little baseball and softball.
I know many of you thinking that as well.
So have a great Wednesday. Catch you guys with Sal tonight.
Peace. I'll see you.