1 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:29,520 Pretty safe to say that the Yankees oh, Aaron Judge a little 2 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:31,280 something, right? I find this incredibly 3 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,320 interesting. Sometimes Tommy just works for 4 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:35,520 you. So yesterday's show was about 5 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,800 obviously Aaron Judge reacting to the offseason for the 6 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:41,960 Yankees. And, you know, basically, I 7 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,160 said, hey, I wish Aaron would have gotten into that earlier 8 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:46,320 because it could have been maybe a little kick in the behind for 9 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:49,240 the Yankees to actually go out there and do something more than 10 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:50,640 just, for the most part, run it back. 11 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:55,000 Well, every once in a while, the baseball God smiled down on you. 12 00:00:55,080 --> 00:01:00,000 This is a gift from the heavens that is slowly developing. 13 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,000 Not in Philly because they're down South now in Clearwater, 14 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,680 but you know what I mean. And that is what appears to be 15 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:11,760 the possibility of an imminent divorce for Bryce Harper and the 16 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:14,160 Phillies. Now, the short version, what's 17 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:15,960 going on? I mean, that was a Bryce didn't 18 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:17,560 have a phenomenal year last year. 19 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:21,880 Dave Dombrowski said that. And anytime, anytime a 20 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:25,320 superstar, anytime a transcendent player gets called 21 00:01:25,320 --> 00:01:29,080 on the corporate by a general manager, you know, I'd make 22 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,760 basically anybody other than the manager somebody in the front 23 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:34,840 office. There is real resentment there. 24 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:40,320 And and I believe that this is a fracture between Harper and the 25 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:44,120 Phillies that the Yankees simply have to pound on and pounce on 26 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:48,760 and just go for and take the massive swing and just go for 27 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:50,280 it. All right, I'm on the phone 28 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:52,360 already. If I'm Brian Cashman, I am 29 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,240 already planting seeds. I'm throwing names out there. 30 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:58,040 I'm trying to get this thing done in the next year. 31 00:01:58,040 --> 00:01:59,600 I want Bryce Harper on the Yankees. 32 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:03,960 All right, So everything that we talked about for so long, right? 33 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:06,840 Not that this is 1 move that would, you know, change 34 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:08,919 everything that plagues the Yankees. 35 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,800 They're still not perfect. But how do you think that Bryce 36 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,800 Harper would look in pinstripes? Number one, that should have 37 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:18,400 happened, what, 6-7 years ago when Cashman fumble that and he 38 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,360 wanted to be a Yankee. But of course, the Yankees 39 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:21,800 dragged their feet being a little cheap. 40 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:25,800 Whatever Say what Machado this is, this is not about rectifying 41 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:29,160 the past or, you know, full circle moment. 42 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:33,240 This is about maximizing the whatever remains of Aaron 43 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,880 Judge's prime. Now what I that's the easy 44 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:37,160 thing. Anybody else could go out there 45 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:38,960 and say, well, sure, go and get Bryce Harper. 46 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,840 Why wouldn't you want Bryce Harper, you know, batting 2 and 47 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:45,880 Aron Judge 3 or Judge 2 and you know Bryce Harper three. 48 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:50,080 Everybody understands that, but what I don't think enough people 49 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,240 understand is that there's actually really a financial Ave. 50 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,080 to do this. All right, So I went. 51 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:59,680 If you look at a lot of these Yankee contracts, you know, 52 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:04,080 Volpe's making peanuts, Caballero's making peanuts, Ben 53 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:08,400 Rice is making peanuts, Wells, Clark, Schmidt, Will Warren, you 54 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,760 got a lot of guys. Rosario's making 2,000,000 55 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:12,520 bucks, even big mad at 16, whatever. 56 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:16,400 Not a lot of money there. Now, obviously you have some 57 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,400 higher end contracts which are preventing the Yankees from 58 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:21,800 doing stuff now, at least in their way. 59 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:24,440 Like it wouldn't stop me if I own the Yankees, but clearly an 60 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:27,960 impediment and a speed bump for how to go all for it. 61 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:30,000 Now, how do you work around this? 62 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,960 Like, so it can't be Delusionville? 63 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:36,040 Like, I'm not just going to do a show and say, get Bryce Harper 64 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,000 and do whatever it takes and give up whom, whatever you want 65 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:41,320 and, you know, take out all the money. 66 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,360 I've got to at least work within the framework of what of what I 67 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,080 think how Steinbrenner would be willing to do. 68 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,560 Like, I can't make this fantasyland show. 69 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:52,400 I've got to give you. I've got to lace it with with 70 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:57,080 some some some real possibilities and like some, 71 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:59,880 some things that really need to be woven into the situation. 72 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,640 And I've done that for you and I'm going to do it right now for 73 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,240 you on the air. All right, The Yankees basically 74 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:10,400 have 123456 excluding Aaron Judge, 6 contracts that have to 75 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:14,600 really work around anytime you hear about the luxury tax or we 76 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,360 shouldn't have to spend $300 million to be a champion. 77 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:21,800 All that stuff that has been espoused for years by Hal. 78 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:24,760 And then obviously, Cashman's followed suit as the Lieutenant, 79 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:26,720 right? All that stuff goes out the 80 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:28,560 window with what I'm about to present to you, right? 81 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:31,000 So first of all, now, no real order. 82 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,520 I was doing this last night, no order, although I am going to 83 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:38,000 save Bellinger for last year. So Giancarlo Stanton, obviously 84 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,360 tough to work around. You got to deal with whatever 85 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,280 remains on his contract. Well, first of all, we are now 86 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:48,160 officially at the point of Giancarlos Stanton no longer 87 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:50,120 being an albatross of a contract. 88 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:54,640 So this year, Marlins paying $10 million, OK, Next year, the 89 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:58,320 Marlins paying $10 million. The year after that, all right, 90 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:01,760 which is a team option. It's a $10 million buyout by the 91 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,040 Marlins. So the Marlins are footing the 92 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:07,080 bill for a contract that's not even that exorbitant at this 93 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:10,360 point for a guy who's going to hit 25 to 30 home runs when he's 94 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,880 healthy, whatever and have a ridiculous OPS and obviously 95 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,680 missed 30 to 40 to 50 games. You know, the standard 96 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:20,000 experience, but it is not money that should be impediment here 97 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,360 for the Yankees, number one, number one, number two, Gerrit 98 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:25,880 Cole. And and why I'm doing this is 99 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,320 because if you do make a trade for Bryce Harper now there was a 100 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,200 wacky trade that was presented and I'll get to that later. 101 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:35,240 Like I have limits as to what I'm willing to give up for Bryce 102 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:37,600 Harper because this is not 3-4 years ago. 103 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:39,280 He's a little bit of a different player. 104 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:41,960 So I've got some names, I've got some ideas, I've got some 105 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:47,280 reconfigurations for you. But I I think that those of you, 106 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:49,560 I don't, I don't know anybody who wouldn't want Bryce Harper 107 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:51,920 on the Yankees. We could have a debate who you 108 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:54,160 be willing to give up, which as, as I said, I'll get to. 109 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:58,920 But to make this happen, to make this a plausible, realistic 110 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:02,120 discussion, what would the Yankees really like? 111 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:04,920 What would they have to do contractually with some of these 112 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:07,120 things? When would when would contracts 113 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,960 expire? Because I understand, I 114 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:13,160 unfortunately, I think we all know that the Yankees are just a 115 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,960 sure, you know, we'll give you up what we'll give you our three 116 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,440 top modern league prospects, you know, I guess excluding Lombard 117 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:21,440 and we'll absorb all the money like that. 118 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:23,600 That's that's fairy tale. And that's why I've got to set 119 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:27,000 this up and let you know why I think that there's still a way 120 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:29,280 to thread the needle. So the Stanton thing, I know 121 00:06:29,280 --> 00:06:31,960 that Stanton's got a no trade and I know that the Yankees 122 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,080 really like him and I know that they respect him. 123 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:36,840 I know he's one of the Ogs in there with Judge, and everybody 124 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:41,160 loves Giancarlo Stanton. So do I, but #1 if you convince 125 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:44,440 him that there's maybe a better fit, better situation, Dodgers 126 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,080 somewhere out West, whatever the Giants, he's from out there. 127 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,160 There is a way to do this. There is a plausible path 128 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:53,160 financially. And as the Marlins pay the $10 129 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:56,320 million, who says the Yankees couldn't kick in two or 130 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:59,640 $3,000,000 if they had to, to entice the team that we're not 131 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,200 even thinking about? I don't know, like the Pirates, 132 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,280 like the Reds, there's ways to do this. 133 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:06,400 You'd have to convince Stanton to wave his. 134 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:10,960 No trade doable #1 #2 Carlos Rodon. 135 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,920 When's his contract up? He's got three more years to go, 136 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:20,440 26272028 at $36 million each. I really like Carlos Rodon. 137 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:23,080 He's not quite the ace that I thought that they were getting 138 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:25,440 last year, though, was really, really good. 139 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:28,240 Playoffs aside. I think he's, he's a horse. 140 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:29,640 He's going to eat up some innings. 141 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:32,560 He's going to win. And you know, again, the money's 142 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:34,400 a little heavy. I'm not looking to get rid of 143 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:35,840 him. So he stays put. 144 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:38,520 And I would look to move Stanton more than I would look to move 145 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:41,280 Rodon. And even again, it's the timing 146 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:44,400 of this stuff, guys. If you were to make a bold move 147 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,400 for once, be bold. Yankees for once. 148 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:49,480 Been a long time since the Yanks have been bold. 149 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,040 And if the Yankees are going to be bold, we're going to have to 150 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,040 work around these numbers here, which is why I'm telling you 151 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:57,000 where the numbers are. Garrett Cole. 152 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:59,080 All right now. Garrett Cole. 153 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:03,040 Yeah. Rolled down 27.8 each year for 154 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:04,360 the next 3. Garrett Cole. 155 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:06,920 Thank God the Yankees showed some restraint a couple of years 156 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:08,360 ago when he was threatening to opt out. 157 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:09,120 Yeah. OK. 158 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:10,640 Go ahead and opt out. Have fun. 159 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:12,720 We're not, you know, we're we're not biting here. 160 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:15,960 And that was a very smart move by the Yankees, OK, Especially 161 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:18,920 given the Tommy John surgery. Anyway, Garrett Cole's got three 162 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:22,600 more years this year, 2027 and 2028. 163 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:24,920 Big money. 36A year. He's a horse. 164 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:26,520 He stays. Max Freed stays. 165 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:29,480 This is where you could really start to shave some numbers and 166 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:33,440 look down the stream and say, OK, if the Yankees were to do 167 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,640 this and they can put together a package that entices the 168 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:40,360 Phillies from a prospect perspective or a young pitcher 169 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:43,159 who's already shown something. Not talking about Cam Schlittler 170 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:47,400 in the major leagues here. Well, you know Ryan McMahon, are 171 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:48,840 you telling me? I know he's a really good 172 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:52,920 fielder, but he's making 16 this year, He's making 16 next year. 173 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:57,160 Are you telling me that you couldn't eat 3 or $4 million, 174 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:01,200 trade him somewhere, put Rosario and Caballero with third base 175 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:03,320 and just add Bryce Harper to the light up. 176 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,680 So you shave, you shave off money with Harper. 177 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:09,880 So pardon me with with McMahon. And it kind of offsets any 178 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:12,840 addition with Harper. Now, listen, in a perfect world, 179 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:15,640 I would just like to say it doesn't matter what you do. 180 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:19,280 Go out there get Bryce Harper at the five or six years he's got 181 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:23,680 to go on the contract and get Aaron Judge some studs like this 182 00:09:23,680 --> 00:09:26,640 is what I'm saying the Yankees oldest to Aaron Judge now next 183 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:28,520 year there might not even be baseball. 184 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:33,000 All right so if the Yankees are worried about 2-3 years down the 185 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,120 road, Aaron Judge, his age, the money and this. 186 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:41,600 I just laid out a pretty clear path as to why the finances and, 187 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:45,080 and at least the ability to maneuver around some of these 188 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:48,600 finances is not nearly the stranglehold that they present 189 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:50,760 you to think that it is. It's not. 190 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:53,080 There's a way to do this. You just got to be willing to do 191 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:54,680 it. You've got to be proactive. 192 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:56,640 You've got to be aggressive. You got to go for it. 193 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:00,280 Like you've got to take a massive swing right now and you 194 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,280 got to make this happen. Because I think Bryce Harper who 195 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:05,840 was saying the right things and I respect that. 196 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:09,000 You know, one thing that Bryce said, he really is a class act. 197 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,160 I, I like the way he's comporting himself because would 198 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:14,360 have been very easy When a general manager says, well, he 199 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:16,920 was an elite last year, I'd be saying, dude, I'm a two time MVP 200 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:18,880 to myself. I'm a two time MVP. 201 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:20,360 I've made the All Star team 8 times. 202 00:10:20,680 --> 00:10:22,360 I mean what you know, I understand you've had a good 203 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:24,440 executive run as well. What are you doing though? 204 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:29,120 I and, and, and he was told when he signed with the Phillies that 205 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:31,080 all this stuff would be kept in house. 206 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:34,080 And he said that yesterday. He's like, you know, when I came 207 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,480 here, I thought that this was, it was presented to me in a way 208 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:39,320 that anytime something would flare up, we would talk about 209 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:41,720 this behind closed doors. That's that's how we would 210 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,480 handle business. Well, Dombrowski now, yeah, he 211 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:46,880 just can't. He ran him over and you're a 212 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:49,200 star. You're a superstar like Bryce 213 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:51,480 Harper. Even if you're a scrub, you have 214 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:53,960 an ego, let alone one of the transcendent figures in the 215 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:56,400 game. So I believe there is a 216 00:10:56,560 --> 00:10:59,000 vulnerability here. I'm not saying that Bryce 217 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,240 Harper's banging on Dombrowski's door right now in Clearwater 218 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:04,880 saying Get Me Out of here. I know that that's not the 219 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:08,000 situation, right? But it doesn't mean that there 220 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:09,800 isn't a little crack in the foundation. 221 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:13,680 It's up to the Yankees to take a sledgehammer and smash the wall 222 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:17,880 to smithereens and make it really up to a point where the 223 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:20,840 Phillies can't turn it down. Now, the other deal, right? 224 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:24,760 And Bellinger here, right? So you want to play this out and 225 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:28,920 you know, any money that you are going to accrue if you acquire 226 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:32,440 Harper and the pre-existing contract here, you know, again, 227 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:34,320 it's not nearly as bad as you think. 228 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:37,440 Like I know the Yankees have a high payroll and they've been 229 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:39,960 handcuffed by some of these contracts stamped and some of 230 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,120 the other ones I mentioned. But these are all ready to 231 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:44,480 expire. There's a way to circumvent this 232 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:45,920 stuff. There's a way to be creative. 233 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:47,640 Hey, do what the Mets did. You know what I mean? 234 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:49,480 The Mets didn't want McNeil, all right. 235 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,560 The Mets didn't want Memo. They ate a couple $1,000,000. 236 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:54,640 They got rid of Brandon Nimble. They got themselves a better 237 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:56,240 team. Now, I'm not saying that the 238 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:58,280 Mets are better than the Yankees, but the Mets took a 239 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:01,520 step up. The Mets addressed weaknesses. 240 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:05,440 And the way they did that was they were willing to eat a few 241 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:08,400 $1,000,000. And if Hal Steinbrenner is ever 242 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,480 willing to do that again, you know, like his pops used to. 243 00:12:11,560 --> 00:12:14,560 And like, how did you know early on to an extent. 244 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:18,520 Well, there is, there is a pathway where we could be 245 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:21,840 sitting here every night watching Bryce Harper and Ara 246 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:24,760 Judge or Judge and Harper in succession. 247 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:30,880 Now it won't quite be you know, Judge and Soto because, you 248 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:35,440 know, Harper's never really been quite that you know, and he did 249 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:39,240 a little diminished stats, you know, stats were down a little 250 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:43,280 bit last year, but I think he would be so revitalized playing 251 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:45,040 for the team that he always wanted to play for. 252 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:48,080 I mean, I think that you would ride this thing to, you know, 253 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:53,200 must watch Broadway show terrific tandem dynamic duo, 254 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,200 however you want to frame it. You just have to make this 255 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,720 happen. You or at least you have to try. 256 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:02,200 I mean, in business, you can't force somebody to do something 257 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:04,240 they don't want to do. I get that. 258 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:06,960 So I to be fair to the Yankees, and I'm not going to sit here 259 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:09,440 and say, well, the Yankees never got Bryce Harper. 260 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:12,400 What are you doing? Like, you've got to present 261 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:16,320 something that's incredibly appealing to the Phillies, and 262 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:19,120 you've got to give them reason to flinch. 263 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:22,280 And once they flinch, then you've got to entice some more. 264 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:24,680 You're playing poker. Keep flinging some chips in the 265 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:27,440 middle of the table. You want Bryce Harper or no, you 266 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:31,240 can make this happen. You, you can make this happen. 267 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:34,840 Now do I have great confidence that they will? 268 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:39,080 I don't, I really don't. And by the way, the Bellinger 269 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:42,040 contract, even though it's big, big money for this year, 42 and 270 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:46,160 a half million dollars and then 27 and 28 same thing 42, 271 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:49,280 although 28 oddly goes down to 25.8. 272 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:52,560 He can opt out of that. So even think about the big 273 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:55,920 addition that the Yankees had this offseason, right Bellinger 274 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:58,840 it's basically one year guaranteed again for pretty 275 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,800 exorbitant money, 42 plus that's a lot of loot, especially for a 276 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:06,000 guy who's not a forty home run, you know, 950 OPS guy. 277 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,440 But I'm happy he's back. But that's a lot of money, all 278 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,040 right? But after one year, he could 279 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,120 very well opt out. And I would imagine that he 280 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,360 probably will because that third year goes down to 25.8. 281 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:20,520 The 4th year is $25.8 million. If you get Trent Grisham getting 282 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:24,080 $22 million on AQO this year, you can't tell me that, you 283 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:27,000 know, downstream in a couple of years Bellinger isn't going to 284 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,400 be able to opt out. He's still fairly young, 285 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,600 defensive versatility, all that stuff where he can't squeeze out 286 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:34,280 two or three more years from somebody. 287 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,200 You know, I, I, I think that that's very, very not even 288 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:40,080 possible. I think it's very probable. 289 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:42,800 I think he's going to opt out. So it's not like the Yankee, if 290 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:46,280 the Yankees side Bell think about this, if the Yankees side 291 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:50,400 Bellinger to a six year and I did not want them to go for six 292 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:51,160 years. You guys know that. 293 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:56,400 Six years what, 40 * 6 what 240? He was never getting 240. 294 00:14:56,400 --> 00:15:01,160 That's ridiculous. Six years, 215, which was off 295 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:04,840 the charts, never in play. But I'm just saying, well, then 296 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:06,640 I think I've got to have a different energy here because 297 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:10,080 then I would say, I mean, you know, well, then you still have, 298 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:12,520 you know, a bunch of years of free and a couple years rode on 299 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:15,000 and a couple years of coal and you haven't yet gotten rid of 300 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,240 Stanton and McMahon. Still $32 million over a couple 301 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,080 of years, like, but that's not what happened. 302 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:23,160 It's one year. Like, I don't know how many more 303 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:27,920 times I can look into a camera here on a leash or for years on 304 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:31,320 the fan touching a microphone. He's running out of time. 305 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,960 He's not 27 years old, guys. He ain't 28, not 29. 306 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:39,240 He's not 30, not 31. He's not 32. 307 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:43,560 Time is ticking, even for the great Aaron Judge. 308 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:47,880 And so understand this as the clock continues to tick, Chris 309 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:49,240 Berman, tick. Tick, Tick. 310 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:52,680 Tick, Tick, tick. As the clock ticks, understand, 311 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:54,360 there might not be baseball next year. 312 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:56,920 There really might not be. Like, I'm not trying to be an 313 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:01,400 alarmist here, but now with Tony Clark, I mean, Tony, wait. 314 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:03,560 I mean, come on, buddy. What are you doing? 315 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:05,360 Tony? I don't understand. 316 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:09,280 This is a little quick. Asylum. 22nd time out, by the 317 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:10,560 way, Hopefully everybody's good today. 318 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:12,960 Welcome to the show. Yeah, I'm fired up today. 319 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:14,840 I saw this. I'm like, I can't wait to do 320 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:19,160 this. So, Tony Clark, you know, you 321 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:21,560 just never know. Here I am all these years 322 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,280 thinking, oh, this distinguished, you know, you 323 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:27,360 know, it just he just projects morality, doesn't he? 324 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:30,840 Tony Clark like that very stately beard and the, you know, 325 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,000 the very professional presentation. 326 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:35,240 He's he's banging his sister's wife. 327 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:37,960 He's banging his wife's sister. What? 328 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:41,000 So he is now no longer part of it. 329 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,520 He's no longer running the union. 330 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:47,240 So whatever little teeny weeny, tiny, infinitesimal traction 331 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:50,280 they made from a labor point in terms of having everything laid 332 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:52,360 out, they basically got to start over. 333 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:55,080 So when somebody texted that yesterday on the show, you know, 334 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:57,320 what do you think of Tony Clark getting, you know, bailing out 335 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:59,880 or, I don't know, stepping down or getting voted out, whatever 336 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:02,240 the term is leading the players union. 337 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:03,080 I'm like that. Whatever. 338 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:04,440 Like it didn't, I didn't really care. 339 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:07,520 Number one, I was wrapped up in some good content and it it 340 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:10,560 didn't really move me too much to really get into it. 341 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:14,200 But then when I got off the air and I saw what happened, I mean, 342 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:16,599 listen, I, you know, I'm not here to judge anybody. 343 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:19,880 I'm really not. Do what you want to do as long 344 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:22,400 as it's of consent. Do what you want to do. 345 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:26,000 I mean, but I mean, hooking up with your with your wife's 346 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,400 sister. I mean, there's there's got to 347 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:31,600 be a little there's got to be some rules amongst thieves, 348 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:33,400 right? I mean, jeez, what are you 349 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:34,600 doing? Tony, you dog. 350 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,320 Come on, man. All right. 351 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:41,520 So, J Rod, how you feel today, brother? 352 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:43,080 What's going on, everybody? J Rod. 353 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:44,320 BT what's up? What's up? 354 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:48,720 Fired up, Fired up on a beautiful Wednesday morning, 355 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:53,840 ready to get after it. Woke up this morning, got myself 356 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:56,320 a gun. Yep, it's a good morning man. 357 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:59,960 Got a lot going on today, Jay. Yeah, no, I mean this, this news 358 00:17:59,960 --> 00:18:01,600 is crazy. I was just kind of like peeling 359 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:04,320 through some of the articles last night, kind of seeing, 360 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:07,080 seeing what's up. I know like an another article 361 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:10,920 came out 20 minutes ago saying that they were predicted to not 362 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:14,680 to trade them to the Yankees, but predicted 2 part ways with. 363 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:16,520 It whoa. OK, Well, that's listen, that 364 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:20,040 just fuels what I'm saying here. If there are, that doesn't mean 365 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:21,680 that that prediction is going to come to fruition. 366 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:25,200 But the more industry speculation that you get, the 367 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:28,520 more informed sources that you get, you know, kind of planting 368 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:32,040 these seeds, I think the more vulnerable the situation becomes 369 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:33,720 like it. And that's where you got to 370 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:35,800 pounce. That's where you got to prey on 371 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:38,720 the suit, like the the instability of the situation. 372 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:41,200 That's where you got to really, you know, maximize that 373 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:42,440 leverage. Like right now, the Phillies 374 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:44,600 don't have any leverage. If Bryce Harper says, you know 375 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:45,720 what? I don't think I could work here 376 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:46,960 anymore. I don't trust this guy. 377 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,560 He just shit on me publicly. I I want out. 378 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:53,400 What are they going to do? No, I guess they could say no J 379 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:56,000 Rod, but you'd have to think it could be bad for business. 380 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,080 Now, let me get to some other items here. 381 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:00,320 And I saw a report yesterday. I'm not even a report. 382 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:02,400 I'm going to call it a story. And again, there is a 383 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:05,680 difference, you know, like to me, John Heyman has a report, to 384 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:09,240 me, Joel Sherman has a report, yet passing has reports, Buster 385 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:10,800 only reports. I'm leaving others that I 386 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:13,640 respect out unintentionally, but you know what I mean? 387 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:17,320 And then there's a story where somebody who's entrenched in the 388 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:21,240 game, but he's just kind of, you know, extrapolating from one 389 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,200 situation and piercing something together. 390 00:19:23,360 --> 00:19:26,720 It's not necessarily rooted in in Intel. 391 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:28,880 It's more projecting things forward. 392 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:31,400 And those are interesting. And I think that yesterday was 393 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:33,240 more of that rather than a report, right? 394 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:37,560 But the one story that I saw, and this is where I'm tapping 395 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:39,840 the brakes. And even if the Philly said 396 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:41,560 we'll eat, we'll eat some of his salary. 397 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:44,240 There was a report that said that the Phillies and the 398 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:47,600 Yankees can make a trade happen. Yankees get Bryce Harper. 399 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:48,800 You ready for this? This funny? 400 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:51,560 The Phillies get Dominguez. All right, That's fine. 401 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:53,440 All right. He's going to make the team 402 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:54,840 anyway. So take Dominguez, right? 403 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:59,120 Ben Rice and Cam Schlittler. Are you out of your mind? 404 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:00,680 There is click. Goodbye. 405 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:02,800 Now that's that's me talking is Brian Cashman. 406 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:05,120 I wouldn't and I want Bryce Harper. 407 00:20:05,360 --> 00:20:09,480 You're not getting Ben Rice, who I think is a true potential, you 408 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:15,000 know, 342345 hitter for the next 6-7 years for the Yankees. 409 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,240 That's how much I think Ben Rice is going to explode. 410 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:21,120 I think his ascent is going. It's already identifiable. 411 00:20:21,120 --> 00:20:22,640 Like if you don't see it, I don't know what to tell you. 412 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,000 His advanced numbers in terms of how he barrels the ball and exit 413 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:30,520 below and walk rated just a, he is just a blossoming stud. 414 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,880 So I'm looking to keep Ben Rice, not get rid of Ben Rice and Cam 415 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,840 Schlidler to me, you know, like McClain over in Queens. 416 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:39,000 I think those two guys, they stay healthy. 417 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:40,320 They're Cy Young type of pitcher. 418 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,240 So you know, you want you want Dominguez, you want Jones, you 419 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:45,640 want a Will Warren, you want a Clark Schmidt, you want one some 420 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:47,920 of those other young guns that are coming up that will make the 421 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:51,360 team in the in the in the bullpen, Rodriguez and and 422 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:53,320 Legrand. However you say that guy, 423 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,960 everybody messes his name up. Whatever his name is that guy, 424 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:57,680 take him. You know, you can you can have 425 00:20:57,680 --> 00:20:59,400 those guys. You ain't getting your hands on 426 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:01,680 both Ben Rice and Cam Schlidler. That's not happening. 427 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:06,680 So now let let's let's attack this because this is really, 428 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:12,640 really important. Aaron Judge is what 343334 and 429 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:16,720 Aaron Judge is under contract this year 2027 there might not 430 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:21,040 be baseball 20/28/2020 9:30 and 31. 431 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:26,040 You just know that, you know, going backwards, 2031 and 2030, 432 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,120 I mean, those are going to be just kind of years where he's 433 00:21:29,120 --> 00:21:31,960 hanging on and he's chasing benchmarks. 434 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:35,240 You know, hopefully, let's see he'll get to 4 this year. 435 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:41,200 You know, hopefully by then like maybe 6 and like 1500 ribbies. 436 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,440 And at that point maybe he'll have bagged like four or five 437 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,680 MVPS, who knows? I mean, what he's going to have 438 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:48,760 by that GS, I mean another two batting titles. 439 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:52,720 Suddenly Aaron Judge is, you know, this, this superhero with 440 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,000 power and he's turning into like Rod Carew and Wade Pods with a 441 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,240 batting average as well. It's insane how he's morphed 442 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:04,000 into this all the round, incredibly buttoned up surgical 443 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,560 like hitter. It's it's it's a beautiful thing 444 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:10,440 to see. So anyway, and you knew that 445 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,720 when you signed him, much like with soda with the Mets and all 446 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,680 these other long term deals, probably even Max Freed the last 447 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:17,400 year or two, probably going to be an issue for the Yankees. 448 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:19,000 It's the price of doing business. 449 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:21,720 And if you can't handle that price well, you shouldn't own a 450 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,560 team and you certainly shouldn't go out and try to get those kind 451 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:25,840 of guys. If you can't absorb it on the 452 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:27,680 back end, then you're in the rogue business. 453 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:29,640 The Yankees could absorb it. It'll it'll be fine. 454 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,680 And the other reason why I ran through all those contracts 455 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:36,080 because as Aaron Judge's contract and he's nowhere near 456 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,760 it yet, but eventually it's going to morph into kind of a 457 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,440 bad contract. Unfortunately, it just is. 458 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:46,000 And when that happens, Stanton's long gone, Rodana's long gone, 459 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,560 McMahon's long gone, Bellinger's long gone. 460 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:53,400 Garrett Cole is long gone. Now there'll be other imports 461 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,360 and maybe Lombard's a young stud. 462 00:22:55,360 --> 00:22:58,280 And at that point, I'm sure Ben Rice gets paid if he's still 463 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:00,240 here. You know, I, I understand 464 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,360 somebody else is going to take the place to make money, like 465 00:23:03,360 --> 00:23:07,800 the Yankees won't have this 193 dollar, $193 million payroll 466 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,960 whenever Judges is aging out. But it's a lot more doable than 467 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,440 I think many of you think here. And I'm going for it. 468 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,040 I'm not wasting time. I'm not letting somebody jump in 469 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,600 front of me at the table. I want Bryce Harper. 470 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,160 Yankees need them. Yankees should get them and 471 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,160 that's it. And if they don't, well, if they 472 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,480 don't now, if they don't get them, that's one thing you 473 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:30,360 again, you can't force somebody to trade you a player that you 474 00:23:30,360 --> 00:23:32,120 want. You can only make them think and 475 00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:35,800 re evaluate the deal and just keep going back to the well to a 476 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,640 point where you you know, once you pass the irresponsible part, 477 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:42,160 like like a Cam and a Rice and A and a Lombard, well, now you tap 478 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:45,000 out, right? But you got to keep going and 479 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,960 you got to keep funding those chips on the table playing the 480 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:49,920 long game. And eventually somebody is going 481 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:51,560 to fold, right? And if it's the Yankees, that's 482 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,480 fine, as long as they make a move, right? 483 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:57,240 As long as they try. Like, could you like, that's the 484 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:01,200 first thing that popped into my mind even before I saw the story 485 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,680 about, you know, the, the Rice and the Schlittler and the 486 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:08,200 Dominguez Yankee possibility. When I, because Dombrowski said 487 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,640 this a while ago, when Dombrowski said that I'm like, 488 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:13,520 that's pretty interesting. And then I was very curious 489 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,160 what, what, what, what Bryce was going to say when he showed up 490 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:20,360 to Clearwater and what he said, what he said, I'm like, OK, 491 00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:26,320 windows open, step through it. Let me get Madonna Mia, Madonna 492 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:26,920 Mia. All right. 493 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,920 I, I doubt they did Stanton. And after he was like the number 494 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:33,280 one guy in the postseason for so many years, I don't see them 495 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,120 doing that to him. They're keeping him for any big 496 00:24:36,120 --> 00:24:38,360 push. Well, then I mean, then they're 497 00:24:38,360 --> 00:24:40,280 just OK, then it's business as usual. 498 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:42,200 Then just forget everything I just said. 499 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,920 And you know, because Giancarlo Stanton's hit a couple of big 500 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,840 home runs and because he hits the ball as hard as anybody in 501 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:51,200 baseball when he actually plays. Let's just keep them around 502 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:52,920 forever. You know, why don't you forget 503 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,520 about, you know, the the player, but forget about the team 504 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,040 option. Keep them for that. 505 00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:59,560 Maybe you can extend them. I mean, what are you what are 506 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,400 you talking about? Any big push? 507 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:04,080 They don't want to do that to him. 508 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:08,280 Hey, business is business, man. The Yankees are paying Giancarlo 509 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:12,080 Stanton well, and John Carlos Stanton didn't do a damn thing 510 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,240 in the playoffs last year. Nothing, you know, can't run, 511 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,440 can't throw, can't field. And I like Giancarlo Stanton, 512 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,880 but when you start weaving that into the conversation, Yanks are 513 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,200 good to do him dirty. Well, how about not doing your 514 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,560 captain dirty? And I know the Judge loves 515 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,240 Stanton. I know it too bad. 516 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,360 Do you want to win or do you want to, you know, have your boy 517 00:25:31,360 --> 00:25:33,280 next to you? Because who do you think's going 518 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:34,800 to give the Yankees a better chance to win? 519 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:38,760 Would you rather have Bryce Harper up there, 8th inning, 9th 520 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:43,440 inning, Toronto, in Baltimore, in Boston, in the Bronx, in 521 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:48,200 Detroit, wherever you are, in Houston in a playoff game, Bryce 522 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,040 Harper now batting for the Yankees. 523 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:55,200 Bryce Harper walking up to that plate, having a plan, knowing 524 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,040 you're going to work to count deep, almost knowing you're 525 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:01,840 going to get on base and really feeling good that if the pitcher 526 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:06,360 makes a mistake by an inch, that ball's smashed 420 feet. 527 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,680 Now, I know that Stanton can obviously handle a mistake, but 528 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,920 do you think that he's going to give you that quality at bat 529 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,600 time and time again? The answer is no. 530 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,840 Bryce Harper does because that's what Bryce Harper does. 531 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:24,080 That's why he's Bryce Harper. So that's easy now, if you can 532 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:26,680 find a world where you could keep Santon Shore, I'm not 533 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,400 looking to give the man away, and I'm certainly not looking to 534 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,920 disrespect him. But it is about winning a World 535 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,160 Series. It's not about emotion or, oh, 536 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,040 remember the home run he hit against the Guardians? 537 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,280 A couple of Fantastic. Did you win the World Series? 538 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,880 No, we lost to the Dodgers. Well, it doesn't mean as much, 539 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:49,840 you know, Doesn't mean as much. Yeah, man, this is, I think that 540 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:57,840 this is real in terms of they're like a crack in the Harper 541 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,520 Phillies Foundation. It's why I'm so juiced up about 542 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,040 this. Like, you know, listen, one 543 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:03,240 thing, I think I'll get to that in a SEC. 544 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,720 Hold on there, Jared. I know that you guys, or I hope 545 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,840 that you know, this amount be by now like I've been wrong a ton. 546 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,440 We all have. But I'm not just going to get on 547 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:16,040 the air and say shit, make stuff up, stupid stuff, bluster, hot 548 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,760 air, hot takes. I really hope and I believe that 549 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,080 you do. Many of you. 550 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,400 Not maybe not all of you, but the majority of you. 551 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:28,120 I believe that most of you trust my sporting sensibilities. 552 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:32,640 It's rooted in homework. It's rooted in experience. 553 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,880 It's rooted in practicality. It's rooted in sensibility. 554 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:40,600 Like I am not just going to fire up this show and throw out some 555 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,640 nonsensical, stupid trade proposal just to get something. 556 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:46,480 You have something. Get 20,000 likes. 557 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:47,880 That's not how I'm going to operate. 558 00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:49,440 I'm never going to operate that well. 559 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,560 Although by the way, and I didn't do this on purpose. 560 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,400 J Rod, Did you see the amount of the amount of views on the 561 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,560 Providence St. John's yeah, that was wild. 562 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,080 I mean shit, I guess I could update this a. 563 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,080 Pertinent topic like that would be my thought was just like a 564 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,960 lot of people are kind of checking the Duncan Powell. 565 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:09,240 I also think it's your take saying I mean I this got kind of 566 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,760 got people talking saying he should be banned for the whole 567 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,000 season. Well, he should be. 568 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:17,040 So, you know, definitely dude and got the people talking. 569 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,360 It's profound. I know and I'm not even trying 570 00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:21,960 to like that just kind of happened that was woven within 571 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,400 the framework of the show. It wasn't it wasn't even it was 572 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,320 actually burning questions or two by Sullivan propane. 573 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,440 What are the segments on Monday Great sponsor Sullivan love 574 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,200 those guys TJ and big Saint John's fans. 575 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,880 I'll do the John's report later. It is up to 86,000 views on 576 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,920 Instagram 86 man now that's good. 577 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,480 All right here's one other thing I I I meant now I'm I'm happy 578 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,280 that I pulled you in here. One thing has to change here. 579 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,720 Now can you look at the screen and no, no, no, no, no, no, yes, 580 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:53,120 look at our screen right now and ignore the two lights you know 581 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,000 that are shining through the logo. 582 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,040 What else looks wrong with the screen? 583 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,320 I mean, I there's just a light side and a. 584 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,240 Dark side? No, no, no. 585 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,240 Well, there's always a light side and a dark side in life, 586 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,040 but no, not that. Is it like the split? 587 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:12,040 No, you know where near it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 588 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:13,680 I can put up with a lot of stuff. 589 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:17,440 I One thing that I cannot tolerate is to have J rod 5 590 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,760 inches higher than me. Oh, I. 591 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:24,960 See lower that CJ rod like kick. I present like I told you, I 592 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:26,760 went to Medieval times the other night. 593 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,360 We present to you, King J. There we go. 594 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,600 I mean, come on, man. There we go. 595 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:36,040 If anything, I got to Jack my seat up down and you're still 596 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:37,480 too high. Give it another wrench. 597 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:39,800 I don't think we could go another. 598 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:44,240 Inch. That's what she said. 599 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:47,560 That's that's much better. All right, that's cool. 600 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,520 Yeah. I mean, I I think that this 601 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,680 Bryce Harper stuff is really, really potentially legitimate. 602 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,080 And and the Yankees, it's incumbent upon the Yankees to do 603 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,280 something about this. Because while we're sitting 604 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,680 here, I said yesterday on the show that I think of Aaron Judge 605 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:02,920 is healthy. He's going to win the MVP again. 606 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:05,680 Like this guy very well might bag 5 MVPS. 607 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,320 You should already have the one more that Altube stole during 608 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:12,360 the Astros cheating scandal. And and I just look at every 609 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,640 offseason by the Yankees and it's like, hey, not that I don't 610 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,280 appreciate Max Reed. I do. 611 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,080 He was terrific. And I know that that was a big 612 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,400 investment. I do appreciate the return of 613 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,200 Bellinger. But it's like dribs and drabs 614 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,520 and little, you know, crumbs. All right, hey, you know, let's 615 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,240 connect the dots here. Just go for it. 616 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,320 Will you go for it? Will you get off your behinds 617 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,880 and go for it? This guy is not happy. 618 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:40,320 This is a marriage that could be exploited in your favor. 619 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:44,560 Now you say all right there, genius, You've identified the 620 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,960 fact that Bryce might be a little pissed at Dombrowski. 621 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:51,000 There might be a little crack in that in that armor out there in 622 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,680 Philadelphia. Let's say you get Bryce Harper. 623 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,400 Where is he going to play? Well, I got answers for you. 624 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,240 I got I listen, do you really think that I I'm going to 625 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,720 present this to you without without options without. 626 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:05,200 It's what we do on unleashed. Don't you know that by net? 627 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:09,360 You know that so since there's no way in hell I'm giving up Ben 628 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,320 Rice. No chance, right, Nor am I 629 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,000 giving up. You want Dominguez, Dominguez 630 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,640 Jones, whatever, I'm keeping Cam and I'm keeping Ben rice. 631 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:20,720 So what I would strongly contemplate doing is offering 632 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,600 them Austin wells now I don't I I know that they retain their 633 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:24,960 catcher for two years. He's getting older. 634 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:26,960 Whatever real Muto, but he's a good player. 635 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:33,680 But the if I'm Philly, all right, small ballpark, I'm 636 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,440 sitting there saying nice guys in his mid 20s. 637 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,880 He's he's a good receiver for the ball, good framer. 638 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,960 You know, maybe he could play a little first base, maybe catch 639 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,960 twice a week here, lefty pop. Maybe we can see him hitting 640 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,080 thirty home runs, which I could. I mean, it wouldn't surprise me 641 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,200 if he hits 30 at some point. So I would be willing to move on 642 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,480 from Austin Wells and I would be willing to make Ben Rice the 643 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,000 full time catcher. That's that's the first starting 644 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,960 point, one of the first things I would do because he's already 645 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,680 catching, you know, and, and the Yankees like him. 646 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:05,520 I, I remember when Boone told us, told me and Sal, I Remember 647 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,000 Me and Sal look at each other like, I don't know if I'm with, 648 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,280 I don't know if I agree with you this Skip. 649 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:14,080 He actually thinks that that well, that that Rice is a better 650 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,400 catcher than he is a first baseman. 651 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,560 Then now, this was a year ago and he's obviously put more work 652 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,360 in and he's, you know, scraping away the rust. 653 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,400 And I think you'll see at least a a somewhat competent first 654 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,240 baseman defensively in bed Rice this year. 655 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,640 I do All right. But you know, when this was a 656 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:32,080 year ago when when Boone, he was talking to us, he said, no, he's 657 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,120 he's a pretty good catcher. And I'm like, he just doesn't 658 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,200 look like a catcher. Like, I almost feel like he's 659 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:41,400 that kid in whatever level way beyond way, way before the 660 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,080 majors or, you know, major college baseball. 661 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,200 Like, all right, he's got a good bat and he's got a good arm and 662 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:48,960 he's he's big thrown behind a plate. 663 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,160 And you're like, yeah, but does he, does he really move like a 664 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:53,920 catcher? Does he really frame it like a 665 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:58,200 catcher? And at first I'm like, no, I 666 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,840 don't think he does. The more I've watched Ben Rice 667 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:02,640 as the catcher, I think he's fine. 668 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:04,800 I think he's, I mean, he's not a punch. 669 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,440 I'm just not Thurman Munson. I got it. 670 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:13,080 But he's functional. So that's one option and 671 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,840 certainly one solution there. And you know, the other thing 672 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,440 that you could do is you can trade Grisham. 673 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,000 You can trade Grisham, and you can put Bellinger in Center for 674 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,080 a year, right? And then he just have the 675 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,400 corners of Bryce Harper and Aaron Judge. 676 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,880 Now, doesn't that seem like the kind of outfield that Aaron 677 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,120 Judge has earned to be part of, right. 678 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,560 I know he's got love for Grisham, but I know Grisham had 679 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,160 30 plus home run. Yeah, whatever. 680 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,320 He ain't Harper. So I trade him in a minute. 681 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,560 And when you sign somebody to the QO, you can trade them. 682 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:44,560 Like if that's unclear to anybody, you can. 683 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,720 So I would think the way the market went for a lot of teams 684 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:52,200 this offseason and a lot of teams that didn't get quite what 685 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,840 they thought they might get with free agency. 686 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:58,760 Are you telling me early on ish in spring training that if Trent 687 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,160 Grisham was made available to a especially a smaller market 688 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:07,280 that's trying to keep that budget, you know, 181922230 like 689 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:08,920 100 million less than the big boys? 690 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,239 You telling me that they wouldn't be interested in a in a 691 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:15,320 center fielder who had 34 home runs who's a good outfielder on 692 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,000 a one year deal? It's like you're bringing in 693 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,840 five years of baggage. There's ways to do this and I 694 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,080 just gave you 2. Rice the catcher, Harper first 695 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,960 trade, Grisham Bellion center, Harper left. 696 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,040 What's the problem? What's the problem? 697 00:34:28,639 --> 00:34:30,800 I mean, I would even go so far you want to start constructing a 698 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,159 roster here. You know, if you've had some 699 00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:37,880 unconventional lineups like I'm trying to do the now, I don't 700 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,360 really care about this as much Like lefty, righty, lefty, 701 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,280 righty, lefty, righty. You know, ideally you'd have a 702 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,880 another switch hitter or two that can kind of, you know, 703 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,159 soften things up and give the manager something to think about 704 00:34:48,159 --> 00:34:50,800 the other dugout like Bernie God, that's why that there's 705 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,480 such value there. Mark Teixeira back in O9 when 706 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:56,040 he, yeah, he fizzled out. But Mark's first couple of years 707 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,080 were phenomenal with the especially his first year. 708 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:03,160 So if I if the Yankees were to get Bryce Harper, where would he 709 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,000 hit? Well, you know, I don't like 710 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,600 Grisham. Let's say, let's say Grisham's 711 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:11,960 here. I could, I would strongly 712 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:18,560 consider putting Harper 1, Harper one. 713 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,480 I got to find that right here. I mean, I'm of course you can go 714 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,440 Judge. I mean, Harper 1, Judge two. 715 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:36,360 OK, here we go. Bellinger 3 Stanton for Ben 716 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:42,400 Rice, 5I mean and now you get Grisham in a place where I 717 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,360 believe he should be bottom third of the order, not lead off 718 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,960 hitter for a team that's strong with championship as I've been 719 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,560 complaining about forever forever. 720 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:57,840 So as you can tell, I'm jacked up today, man. 721 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,040 I always wanted Bryce Harper. I was Luke warm, but shot on 722 00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:02,720 there. Whatever, sink Seger and 723 00:36:02,720 --> 00:36:04,480 whatever. I know the Yankees have kind of 724 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:06,320 looked the other way with some of these big ticket items. 725 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:09,920 Bryce Harper was the dude that I always wanted because not only 726 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,800 is Bryce Harper the kind of guy you want up late, you know he's 727 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,080 never going to get cheated. He's going to think about some 728 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:18,080 of the upper deck home runs that guy would hit at the stadium. 729 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:23,720 He plays with a grit and an old school toughness and energy that 730 00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:29,320 I think any team, let alone the Yankees, can absolutely use. 731 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,160 Oh, by the way, I guess Ray Muto got the three-year deal. 732 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:32,400 All right, my bad. What do I say? 733 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:33,920 2 years? All right, there you go. 734 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:38,360 How about at BSc TCF-7, the Z 50? 735 00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:43,040 Think I'm talking to a robot? Maybe I am. 736 00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,440 Who knows? Did BT say the Dodgers might 737 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,640 take Stanton? Ha ha. 738 00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:51,160 They might not ever take Garrett Cole. 739 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:52,720 They might not even. I guess you mean even. 740 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,760 Hey, what J Rod? Could you interpret that, buddy? 741 00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,520 What does that mean? Did the Dodgers ever wait? 742 00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:05,320 Toss it up one more time. Did the Dodgers say, did BT say 743 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:09,360 the Dodgers might take Stanton? Ha ha, they might not ever take 744 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,880 G Cole. OK, so my guess is what he's 745 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,040 saying is, I mean, I I didn't pick this up necessarily, but 746 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,240 maybe he was thinking you were saying that the Yanks would 747 00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:20,800 maybe trade Stanton to the Dodgers. 748 00:37:21,240 --> 00:37:24,120 And and again, again, for those who don't know and or those who 749 00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,520 just tuned in, well aware, no trade. 750 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:28,440 Stanton would have to grant the Yankees permission. 751 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,320 He would have to acquiesce. Keep going, Jay Rod. 752 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:34,080 And then I'm presuming he's saying that the Dodgers would 753 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:37,920 never even take Garrett Cole. Yeah, I mean, all right. 754 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,240 I I mean, I, I'm not looking to get rid of Garrett Cole. 755 00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:42,440 By the way, Charlie, thank you for that. 756 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,040 Jay. Charlie F 6675. 757 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,240 Who are you going to give up is the hardest question. 758 00:37:47,240 --> 00:37:48,600 Phil. He's not interested in Stanton. 759 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,000 I I know that they don't want Stanton. 760 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,040 I I wouldn't think they would want Stanton and Wells, in my 761 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:54,960 opinion. Are you giving up some big dogs 762 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,040 here? Well, I mean, yeah, we can 763 00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:01,680 examine the the viability here of just how much prime Bryce 764 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:05,640 Harper has. I mean, am I giving up Lombard? 765 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:07,520 No, I'm going to hold on to Lombard. 766 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:09,960 I mean, now, now, now this is where I've got to be fair to the 767 00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,680 situation because I remember saying this to colder so many 768 00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:15,680 times over the years. Not just the fan my whole career 769 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,880 like, you know, so and so the Yankees or the Knicks or the 770 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:20,480 Mets should go out and get so and so. 771 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,080 I'm like, yeah, no, I I agree. Who you giving up? 772 00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,200 Give them and like they name a fourth outfielder, the 5th 773 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,480 starter in the rotation and a middle relief arm. 774 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:32,080 I'm like, dude, you got to at least construct a trade that is 775 00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:34,400 somewhat appealing to the other team. 776 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:39,880 Like this business is a two way St., you know, so unless there's 777 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:44,840 a situation where one of the teams is economically broken and 778 00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,960 they just need to get rid of players contracts, well, that's 779 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:49,400 when you take advantage. That's not the decision. 780 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,320 Phillies got plenty of money. They spent a ton of money. 781 00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:53,360 They fill out the the stadium all the time. 782 00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:54,800 They've got good revenue stream there. 783 00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:56,600 They are very healthy financially. 784 00:38:56,640 --> 00:39:02,400 All right, so as I say that, you know, I'm not giving up Ben Rice 785 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,040 and I'm not giving up Cam Schlittler and I'm not giving up 786 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:08,880 Lombard. So, you know, maybe there is not 787 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:12,160 an absolute path to make the trade actually happen. 788 00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:16,840 But that's different from me saying go out there and let's 789 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,400 start investigating the possibilities of having 790 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:23,160 something come to fruition and let the let the Phillies throw 791 00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,280 names out there. See, here's the thing, when you 792 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:29,280 talk about talent, right? It's the height of subjectivity. 793 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:33,800 I mean, it just is like I look at and everybody's different and 794 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,960 I've said this a lot. Like I look at Cam Slitler and I 795 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:40,120 look at Nolan McClain and I see if knock on wood, if they're 796 00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:41,680 both healthy and their bodies hold up. 797 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,920 I mean, I see guys with school bull like stuff. 798 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:49,520 I mean, maybe not quite 100% of school bull 90 something percent 799 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:53,000 like potential sign young winners if they're healthy, 7-8 800 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,760 All Star appearances, big games, you know, closing out series, 801 00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:00,000 putting up zeros on the road in in the in the championship 802 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,240 series. Like that's my interpretation. 803 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:07,080 Others might look at a wind up flaw or a lack of another pitch. 804 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,600 Again, there's there's many ways to evaluate this stuff, so I 805 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,440 don't take it as gospel. I'm just telling you how I feel 806 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,560 about certain players. Maybe maybe that, which I don't 807 00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,600 believe that this is true at all because I've spoken to the 808 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,640 Yankees about this, but just for the, for the sake of, of 809 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:26,480 conversation, like say if the Yankees warn as high on Ben Rice 810 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:31,760 as I am, like again, I've been saying for a while #2 #3 #4 #5 I 811 00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,720 don't even think number 62345. I think that's where he's going 812 00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:36,320 to be hitting for the next X amount of years. 813 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:40,960 Well, maybe the Yankees are 70% there and they really like them, 814 00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,560 but they're watching them play first and they're like, and they 815 00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,560 haven't said it, but they're like, I don't know or I don't 816 00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:47,400 know. Is he going to really hit 817 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,480 lefties? What, what, what, Which I think 818 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,400 he will. I'm just saying whatever they 819 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:55,960 might be thinking, which they're not, but counter to what you 820 00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:59,560 know, I believe he will become well, then maybe they're more 821 00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:02,320 willing to trade them. So when I sit here and say I'm 822 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,320 not giving up Bryce, I'm not giving up Schlittler, I'm not 823 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:05,840 giving up this guy. I'm not giving up Lombard. 824 00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,440 Maybe they are. I mean, it's not like Lombard's 825 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:10,520 numbers jumped off the page last year in the minors. 826 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,560 I know he's he going kid. Hey, do me a favor. 827 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:17,800 J Rod, what's up? Can you let's see where I want 828 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:19,480 you to go. Which database for this? 829 00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:24,800 Can you just type in George Lombard LO MB ARD All right, 830 00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:29,200 George Lombard and I would go to baseball cube, not reference, 831 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:30,680 not savant, because he's in the minors. 832 00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:34,000 Baseball cube. That's got all the by the way 833 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,520 he's looking it up. Baseball cube. 834 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,120 You want to get lost. You have an hour or so to kill 835 00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:41,560 at some point kids asleep and wipes out whatever. 836 00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:46,240 Look at baseball cube and type in any of your old favorite 837 00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:47,560 players. Like of course, I've done 838 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,440 Mattingly. You know that I remember typing 839 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,280 in Ricky Henderson. You can see what Ricky Henderson 840 00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:56,240 did in the minors in like 1976. It's absolutely wild. 841 00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,760 So you have Lombard's minor league numbers up there, bud. 842 00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:03,360 Yeah, I got it pulled up. OK, so now last year he split it 843 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,560 at 2 spots, right a ball and double. 844 00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:12,280 AI believe so yeah, give me. Now, now they'll they'll have 845 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,000 the breakdown. Give me in totality. 846 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:18,400 So just where it says 2025, give me his OPS. 847 00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:20,680 What was his? I think it was 7 in the high 848 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:25,960 sevens. 695. No, not for the whole season. 849 00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:27,120 Oh, I. See. 850 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,440 Come on, we got to train this kid. 851 00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:32,040 Hold on, hold on. I got you, it's all good. 852 00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:35,400 I'm just messing with you. Wait OPS, but not for the whole 853 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,400 season. No for the whole season, meaning 854 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,520 not for just one team. Cuz he played. 855 00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:41,120 I believe he played it too. Low. 856 00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:44,160 I see. OK, it's I'm gonna have to do 857 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:47,240 some math here, so just a second I'll do. 858 00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:51,440 It myself, you knucklehead. I'll get this in one answer man, 859 00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:55,520 I don't even but I don't know if I could do this because if I if 860 00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:59,760 I do this and I do it on my laptop, I, I, I'm, I'm fearful 861 00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,480 it's gonna mess with the actual stream here. 862 00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,080 All right, we're going to teach you once you learn, it's all 863 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:06,560 good. We're we're we're teaching you 864 00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:08,880 some stuff here. Once you learn this, you will 865 00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:11,720 never. Oh wait, .718. 866 00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,000 There we go. Thank you. 867 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,120 OK, thank you. All right. 868 00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:20,280 So, so basically 720. I mean, how many home runs did 869 00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:22,240 he hit again in totality for the whole year? 870 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:29,200 In totality, let's see totals home runs 223, it says or. 871 00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:33,080 That wouldn't be right. Hello. 872 00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:35,480 Yeah, I'm here. Jay, 220. 3 so. 873 00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:40,120 He had 223 home runs last year. All right, we'll keep them 874 00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:40,840 moving here. It's all good. 875 00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:42,520 I got we got teach the young buck. 876 00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:44,840 You have to go to summer school on this one, buddy. 877 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:49,920 My point is it it's all good. My point is, is that somebody 878 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:54,680 like Lombard, it's not like he hit 341 in the minors with an 879 00:43:54,720 --> 00:43:58,800 OPS of 912 and and stole 31 bases and got thrown out four 880 00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,200 times. His numbers are pretty 881 00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:04,000 pedestrian as it now. I know he's young. 882 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:08,920 I I get that he's a young, young, young player and I think 883 00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:11,160 this will be the year I would imagine that he'll start to 884 00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,200 really take off offensively. But you know, maybe the Yankees 885 00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,840 doing their deep dive analytically and look at all the 886 00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:18,960 numbers and of course the eye test seen him in the minors. 887 00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:22,760 Maybe they don't view him to be the prospect that that I still 888 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:24,720 do and that most around baseball do. 889 00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:29,400 And if that's the case, well, maybe that's a way to entice 890 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:33,480 Philly to trade Bryce Harper. So how about a how about a 891 00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:36,160 Lombard? And you want to how about this? 892 00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,640 How about a Lombard and say a Clark Schmidt? 893 00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:41,680 I know Clark Schmidt's not pitching right away. 894 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,200 He's young, he's controllable and he's good. 895 00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:45,760 You know, I would even mess right. 896 00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,880 You want will Warren? I I would certainly think about 897 00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:49,840 that as well. You can't tell me there's not an 898 00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,280 Ave. for dialogue. That at least gives the Phillies 899 00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:56,400 pause in terms of, you know, as they process what they may or 900 00:44:56,400 --> 00:45:00,760 may not do with Bryce Harper. All right, let me get to these 901 00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:03,120 guys here. What's going on, BT Been a 902 00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:04,200 minute. Yeah, we've been there. 903 00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:05,960 Robert. Robert, who went with this? 904 00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:08,760 Where's Robbie been? I say let's get Harper run the 905 00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:10,480 gauntlet. Let's take the shot while Judge 906 00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:13,960 is still elite. Exactly, Dude, This is what I'm 907 00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,520 saying. If it doesn't work out, be, you 908 00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:18,120 know, so be it. Go for it. 909 00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:22,480 Yes, that is my point. You know the old song, Go for 910 00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,440 it, Go, go, go for it in Rocky. Was that Rocky Ford? 911 00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,080 I think when he's teaching his son that, no, I guess that would 912 00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:29,080 have been Rocky Ford. What am I saying? 913 00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:30,520 Rocky Ford? My bad. 914 00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:32,720 That was blasphemous. I don't think you can get that 915 00:45:32,720 --> 00:45:35,560 wrong that much by that. It was Rocky 5 when he's 916 00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:37,120 teaching his son how to fight, right. 917 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:38,840 Son's getting picked onto the schoolyard. 918 00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:40,800 He's wearing the earring. He thinks he's a punk smoke in 919 00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:46,480 the heater and is he's with Tommy Gunn and and then his 920 00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:48,840 son's like, you know, dad, teach me how to fight and I believe go 921 00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:52,600 for it was the song the montage to when when he was trying to 922 00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:55,400 and then he lit up that fat little punk in the schoolyard. 923 00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:59,680 He took his jacket my rings outside. 924 00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:01,320 You knocked him down. Why don't you try knocking me 925 00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,040 down now, huh? What's up, J Rod? 926 00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:08,120 It's so it's nine home run 748 OPS. 927 00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:11,080 There we go. There was a site, there's 928 00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:13,240 another site. MILB it. 929 00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:16,160 Yes, minor League Baseball. It gives you just a straight up 930 00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,880 just 2025 stats. There you go. 931 00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:20,800 Well, well. Then then for you, you can use 932 00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,440 the MILBII know that that's the minor league database. 933 00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:27,960 I just love going to to to like obviously for the current player 934 00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,320 Savant gives you if you love numbers, everything that you 935 00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:34,960 want and then the baseball cube is great. 936 00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:36,080 You know what I love the the thing. 937 00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:38,600 This is where I found out a baseball about the baseball 938 00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:40,360 cube. There were a lot of guys that I 939 00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:44,760 played against in couple in high school and a couple in college. 940 00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:47,720 Actually, even with a few players in college, like my 941 00:46:47,720 --> 00:46:50,960 buddy Georgie, Georgie Santiago was drafted by the Mets are 942 00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:55,120 shortstop, My buddy Coot was playing independent ball. 943 00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,080 So anyway, I wanted to see I'm like, I wonder if they have like 944 00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:00,360 their stats, you know, and they actually do. 945 00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:01,960 That's how I found it. I stumbled upon it. 946 00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:07,320 So if there's somebody that you grew up with that was a stud and 947 00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:10,520 you know, obviously played beyond high school and you're 948 00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:12,640 like, I wonder whatever, you know, so and so never made the 949 00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:16,280 bigs, but he was amazing in high school and when he was 12, he 950 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:19,080 was the best around. If you ever wonder about and we 951 00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:20,960 all have those players, right, that we grew up with. 952 00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:23,680 It's a great database. You just type their name in and 953 00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:26,120 if they played, even if it's one at bat in the miners could be 954 00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:29,560 the independent league, whatever it might be, it it will it will 955 00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:31,480 be up there. So that's how I stumbled upon 956 00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:32,400 it. All right, we'll get back to the 957 00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,120 Harper stuff. I want to yes, it was a lot of 958 00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:39,200 fun with the, we had three really good topics yesterday. 959 00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:43,360 Judge spoke, Cohen spoke obviously as well and the Breeze 960 00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:45,600 Hall stuff, which was absolutely money. 961 00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:48,280 But J Rod, let's take care of a little business here, buddy. 962 00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:51,920 Time for the Johnny's report. That is right, the Johnny's 963 00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,040 report. My good friends over there at 964 00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:56,640 Sullivan Propane get fired up with Sullivan Propane at every 965 00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:58,760 St. John's home game this season at 966 00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:00,880 the Garden. Remember the name Sullivan 967 00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:03,560 Propane, a winning team on the court, in the courtroom. 968 00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:07,120 Find sullivanpropane@triallaw1.com 969 00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:11,520 triallaw1.com. Remember the name Sullivan 970 00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:13,160 Propane. All right, Johnny's back in 971 00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:15,160 action tonight. They were playing Marquette. 972 00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:18,480 It's a late tip, you know, 9:00. I might even do a I'll tell you 973 00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,840 about this after, but I might do a, a, a first half live watch 974 00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:24,400 party tonight as a soft launch. I'll get back to that. 975 00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:26,880 But they are playing late. It's on TNT. 976 00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:29,760 St. John's are they're 202513 and 977 00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:33,160 one in the Big East here. Obviously that massive game up 978 00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:35,680 in stores coming up, that's going to really determine who's 979 00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:37,320 the number one seed in the Big East. 980 00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:41,880 Last time Saint John's lost was January 3rd to Providence. 981 00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,000 They have ripped off 11 straight wins since then. 982 00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:48,000 Dylan Darling has just exploded. Obviously, Zoobies having a 983 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,000 massive season, lot of contributions. 984 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,840 Pitino took him a while to figure out the screw, but they 985 00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:56,120 certainly have. And after tonight against 986 00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,520 Marquette A-Team, they should be very, very able. 987 00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:01,400 Like Marquette's not going to stop him defensively. 988 00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:05,160 I'm not taking this for granted. Johnny's a big favorites, but a 989 00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:08,560 team like Marquette with a coach like Shaka, it's not Kim 990 00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:10,120 English. She was a disaster up in 991 00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,600 Providence. Shaka smarts a real coach like 992 00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:15,040 he's a great coach. So Marquette could score. 993 00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:16,760 They just don't have the athletes to stop St. 994 00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:18,440 John's. So I would think eventually, 995 00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:21,400 maybe a tight first half, maybe even tight first couple of 996 00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,440 minutes into half #2 I think eventually St. 997 00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:26,320 John's is tough this at they'll impose their will and they 998 00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,080 should be able to bag another win here, which will be #21 of 999 00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,920 the season. But now this sets up, all right, 1000 00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:35,240 Saturday at the Garden versus Creighton, another team they 1001 00:49:35,240 --> 00:49:37,920 should beat up. And then a week from tonight up 1002 00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:41,520 in stores, St. John's, UConn #5 of the country 1003 00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,680 last night, by the way, And, and really the last couple of games, 1004 00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,600 some of these top 25 teams that have been in front of St. 1005 00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:49,400 John's, they've been knocked off. 1006 00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:53,320 So I would think that if St. John's handles business tonight 1007 00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:56,240 and I'm more concerned about, I would say I'm really concerned, 1008 00:49:56,240 --> 00:49:59,320 but more concerned about tonight than I am about Saturday. 1009 00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:02,480 If St. John's goes to an O, given some 1010 00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:04,440 of the volatility of the movement in front of them in the 1011 00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,440 AP poll, I would think St. John's would have a real jump, 1012 00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:12,360 real chance to jump from 17, which where they are now to 1013 00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:17,520 about, you know, maybe 1314, which is kind of where I think 1014 00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:19,720 they should be. As I've said, I, I thought Saint 1015 00:50:19,720 --> 00:50:22,000 John's was wildly overranked coming in. 1016 00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:24,360 I think they're a little under ranked now, but whatever. 1017 00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:25,800 At the end of the day, rankings beat nothing. 1018 00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,520 I mean, just keep winning, keep playing well, Johnny's looking 1019 00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:29,960 good. I'll go to campus tomorrow. 1020 00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:32,800 I'll shoot the TV show with Rick, of course, the Red Storm 1021 00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:36,760 report every Friday and Saturday on MSG and the things are 1022 00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:38,360 looking good. Before you know it, the regular 1023 00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,040 season finale is coming up March 6th at Seton Hall. 1024 00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:43,080 I'll be doing that game with the Mink Man. 1025 00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:46,360 Shout out to Minky and let you guys know about the Zubi Edge of 1026 00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:49,840 Four, recently named to the Naismith Defensive Player of the 1027 00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:53,680 Year watch list. And both Zubi and Dylan Mitchell 1028 00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:57,080 are both right now projected to be drafted. 1029 00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:00,120 Zubi right around that 30 to 36th threshold. 1030 00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:02,080 I think he's going to be late first round. 1031 00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:04,000 I think he does squeeze into the first round. 1032 00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:07,640 And Dylan Mitchell, who I mean, once he learns to shoot a little 1033 00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:10,280 bit, his game translates to the NBA. 1034 00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,000 He is also thought to be a second round pick. 1035 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:15,360 So good stuff there. Johnny's red hot and keep it 1036 00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:17,280 moving here. And again, that is the Johnny's 1037 00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:19,000 report. Brought to you by my friends at 1038 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:22,080 Sullivan Propane. I was chatting with my my guy TJ 1039 00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:23,880 McManus yesterday. All fired up. 1040 00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:27,920 I mean, Saint John's fans are absolutely so excited about this 1041 00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:31,720 and I'll blame him. So again, trial law1.com, that's 1042 00:51:31,720 --> 00:51:36,240 where you find sullivanpropanetriallaw1.com.com. 1043 00:51:36,240 --> 00:51:39,160 Sullivan Propane. Remember the name Sullivan 1044 00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:41,640 Propane. That is the Johnny's report now. 1045 00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:44,400 All right, J Rod, so tonight, what do you think about this? 1046 00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:45,760 It's a long day. Geez. 1047 00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:49,360 So today's one. Today's going to be one of the 1048 00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:51,480 longer days I've had. Let me, let me lay out my day 1049 00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:53,720 for you. What time is it? 1050 00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:58,000 All right, about 11:00 or so, I will have got about another half 1051 00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:03,040 hour ish, something like that. And then today's workout day. 1052 00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:05,920 So jump down to the basement, throw around some weight, you 1053 00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:08,240 know, not a ton, but I'll get after it as much as I do. 1054 00:52:08,720 --> 00:52:13,480 And then my son, we have for one of his travel team that I do 1055 00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:15,320 coach, I don't coach his club team. 1056 00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:18,440 Obviously that's different. We've got practice from 4:30 to 1057 00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:23,880 6:00 and then I'm jumping on with Sal from from 8:00 to 9:00 1058 00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:27,320 on Sal's podcast. And then I'm thinking about 1059 00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:30,600 messing around with a little watch party here, Saint John's, 1060 00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:34,880 Marquette for the first half. Now, I don't even know if you're 1061 00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:37,680 available tonight. So if and you know, we have our 1062 00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:38,840 contracts. So it is. 1063 00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:40,800 I don't expect you to show up and work for for nothing. 1064 00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:43,840 But how would I do this if you're not around? 1065 00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:48,120 I mean, listen, I certainly could be around just to 1066 00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:51,000 obviously hit the record for you if you want to. 1067 00:52:51,240 --> 00:52:55,000 I also, you know, there's also just like a it's pretty easy to 1068 00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:56,760 like end the stream or do it by yourself. 1069 00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:59,280 But listen, let me know. I can cut up some graphics like 1070 00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:02,120 we could do like a little Johnny's watch party instead of 1071 00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:05,240 subscribe to BT Unleash you. You kind of do something like 1072 00:53:05,240 --> 00:53:07,040 that right there. And then? 1073 00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:10,080 You know, I guess kind of similar to however, however you 1074 00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:12,200 were cooking up the the lives before. 1075 00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:15,240 Just throw them up that mug. That mug is so nice. 1076 00:53:15,240 --> 00:53:16,480 Yeah, I know they're coming. All right. 1077 00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:17,480 OK. So that's interesting. 1078 00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:19,760 Now I need you to do some. Not yet. 1079 00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:24,960 So you guys know that these freaking lights are on my last 1080 00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:27,680 nerve. Like I, you know, I didn't want 1081 00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:30,200 to go too nuts yesterday because the kids were here school. 1082 00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:31,360 They didn't have school yesterday. 1083 00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:33,920 And when I started the show, I didn't want to sound like an 1084 00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:36,720 unhinged, unhinged lunatic with both my kids home. 1085 00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,240 But if you saw me the night before running to the hardware 1086 00:53:40,240 --> 00:53:42,720 store because those stupid chintzy whatever the hell I paid 1087 00:53:42,720 --> 00:53:46,600 for from wherever the hell I got them from, they like they fell. 1088 00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:49,400 They're just cheap as shit. Wait, waste of money, right? 1089 00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:51,720 Took them down. Then I'm like, God, let's get 1090 00:53:51,720 --> 00:53:55,320 old school creative. Then I took like cardboard and I 1091 00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:57,640 taped them and then they the tape fell down. 1092 00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:00,280 Now it's like 9:00 at night. I'm like, let me go to the 1093 00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:01,680 hardware store if they're still open. 1094 00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:04,200 Let me try to get something to just kind of conceal the light. 1095 00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:06,200 Like I'm really, it's really pissing me off right? 1096 00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:10,640 And I'm thumbtacking them into my, the home's only six years 1097 00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:12,200 old. It's a pretty new home we built 1098 00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:15,000 and I'm sticking thumbtacks like I'm living in college, like in a 1099 00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:19,080 dorm. So anyway, so I know I got to 1100 00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:22,640 fix the lighting I'm thinking about as I've watched a lot of 1101 00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:26,680 the a lot of the shows, a lot of the shorts incorporating the 1102 00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:27,720 feedback. I love the logo. 1103 00:54:27,720 --> 00:54:29,720 The logo is going nowhere. I love the logo. 1104 00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:32,920 I was just thinking I want to show our BT Unleashed fan this 1105 00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:35,080 year and I want your honest opinion. 1106 00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:37,680 Don't know for sure if I'm going to do this beginning the 1107 00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:41,480 beginning, the process of contemplating doing this going 1108 00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:45,320 from something Now again, the lights ruin what's behind me, 1109 00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:48,400 but and I'd have to get it less glossy and I'm working on that. 1110 00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:50,640 I'm like, you know, of course I mean the logo's dope. 1111 00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:52,120 We all know the logo's tight, right. 1112 00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:54,560 But if we were to do something like this, pop it up there, J 1113 00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:58,000 Rod and this was behind me. How we feeling about this? 1114 00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:01,320 I got to tell you, man, I'm digging this. 1115 00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:04,520 I am really digging this and maybe there's keep it up there, 1116 00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:07,680 Jay. Maybe there's ways to like if 1117 00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:11,400 you look at the brick there maybe in maybe just a tick 1118 00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:15,960 darker around the the perimeter, you know, maybe make those those 1119 00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:20,680 little indentations where the bricks are maybe slightly more 1120 00:55:20,720 --> 00:55:23,760 noticeable and identified. Like we can always like, you 1121 00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,560 know, streamline it a bit and make this thing look even 1122 00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:28,560 better. I don't know, man. 1123 00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,280 I I'm looking at this and I'm saying this thing is going to 1124 00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:33,200 pop like a monster on social media. 1125 00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:36,160 J Rod, what do you think, buddy? What's your first reaction? 1126 00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:39,920 Oh yeah, here they come. First reaction, Yeah, yeah. 1127 00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:42,320 I mean, you can kind of see what the people are thinking right 1128 00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:44,280 there. Yeah. 1129 00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:46,880 I mean, I think it looks good. I think it looks clean. 1130 00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:50,920 And I think what the white brick allows you to do is it allows 1131 00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:54,480 you to also build off of that in the future. 1132 00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:57,520 So let's say, OK, you've got the plain white backdrop, but then 1133 00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:00,560 you can also kind of put some other stuff around and it kind 1134 00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:03,680 of gives it a more natural feel. So yeah, rather than I'm into 1135 00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:05,600 it. Rather than just like, jammed in 1136 00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:07,360 there on a black wall. The bat. 1137 00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:10,240 Cave. Yeah, the BT cave. 1138 00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:12,640 Yeah. I mean, yes, I'm looking at the. 1139 00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:14,960 It's certainly not J rods. Well, it's no one's fault. 1140 00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:17,280 I mean, if anything, I guess I'll take the L even though it's 1141 00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:19,440 not really my fault. But it's it's my show, so I've 1142 00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:21,560 I've got to own it. I'm looking at the shorts out 1143 00:56:21,560 --> 00:56:22,720 there. I'm like, this looks horrible 1144 00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:24,040 and it's again, it's not his fault. 1145 00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:27,720 It's just so freaking dark. I'm like, I don't know, I don't 1146 00:56:27,720 --> 00:56:30,320 know about this, like the concept. 1147 00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:32,840 And again, I love love the way the beats. 1148 00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:38,440 Is this is this Rosemary Rosemary Team Tierney S1R? 1149 00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:43,280 Is that in relation to you? I could be, I don't know, love 1150 00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:47,200 the brick background. Is that Mama chiming in here? 1151 00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:49,400 I don't know. Mama always supports. 1152 00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:51,160 She was at the BT and Sal live show. 1153 00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,400 She always watches so and Mom's always honest there so. 1154 00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:56,000 I I didn't. I didn't. 1155 00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:57,800 Really know that you I didn't know she had a YouTube. 1156 00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:00,760 I honestly, I don't know if it's her, I really don't. 1157 00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:04,200 Know that's so funny? I don't know, but if it is 1158 00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:07,040 what's happened to mom, you know, I love you The the white 1159 00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:10,240 just and then we can and, you know, and then maybe there's a 1160 00:57:10,240 --> 00:57:14,920 way like superimpose, like what if it's a jet state? 1161 00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:17,080 Like have like, yeah, put that back up for a SEC. 1162 00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:20,480 Yeah, imagine this now. Now this would be like green, 1163 00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:22,200 green screen. Like this is next level. 1164 00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:24,640 I got to actually make some money doing this before I 1165 00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:26,400 actually start doing all these bells and whistles. 1166 00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:30,000 But like if say we're talking Yankees, like superimposed like 1167 00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:35,120 a spray painted NY Yankee logo or Jets or Knicks, like topic 1168 00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:37,880 oriented there, There's a a way to incorporate some other stuff. 1169 00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:39,160 I don't want to make it too busy. 1170 00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:43,560 Like to me, this is really clean and really pops and you know, 1171 00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:45,440 it. It's almost more like graffiti, 1172 00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:47,840 which I love. I used to actually do graffiti. 1173 00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:49,960 I think I mentioned that once or twice back in the day. 1174 00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:52,560 I used to actually do graffiti. I loved it, man. 1175 00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:53,720 That's. So sick. 1176 00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:56,440 I loved it. It's like something that's 1177 00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:59,560 completely died out with, I think my generation, like no one 1178 00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:03,040 my age does graffiti. You know, Jay, I, I thought that 1179 00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:04,600 as well. I thought that as well. 1180 00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:08,000 But like, I'm very observant. Like when I used to go to the 1181 00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:12,120 fan all those years and same building 13 years, my route was 1182 00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:14,440 I'd eventually get to the Holland Tunnel and that's where 1183 00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:16,760 it would really slow down. And I would and I would always 1184 00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:19,960 look at all the graffiti and I would see a lot of new graffiti. 1185 00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:23,280 Like, yeah, I don't, I don't think it's as quite as common as 1186 00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:26,240 it was back in the day. Like there was a point and even 1187 00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:29,320 this where I was like, God, man, this might be, this might be 1188 00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:30,600 pushing the limits a little bit too much. 1189 00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:32,080 Like I admit, I was afraid doing this. 1190 00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:37,440 I did it, but I was afraid. So I was probably, I definitely 1191 00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:39,760 was not in high school yet. I think I was in the 7th grade. 1192 00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:44,200 And anybody who's got an Italian mom like I do worries about 1193 00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:45,640 everything. You know, the Jewish mom, the 1194 00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:48,160 Italian mom, the Puerto Rican mom, like there's certain moms, 1195 00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:50,080 they just worry about everything, right? 1196 00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:53,200 And, and she was always worried. And a lot of my friends where I 1197 00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:55,040 grew up, their moms didn't worry, right? 1198 00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:56,720 They just kind of did whatever they wanted. 1199 00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:02,240 So I would always have to like try to be really sneaky and like 1200 00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:04,360 these kids can stay out, you know, till 10:00 at night. 1201 00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:06,200 There was no way in hell. I'm talking about in 6th, 7th 1202 00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:07,680 grade. There's no way that was going 1203 00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:09,600 down with my dad and my no chance. 1204 00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:13,440 So I had AI had a lie a lot, you know, and where you going? 1205 00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:14,480 Oh, I don't know. I'm going to shoot hoops, 1206 00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:17,240 whatever. And like I would come home and 1207 00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:19,800 my dad would actually look at my fingers to see if there was any 1208 00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:21,440 remnants of spray. Yeah. 1209 00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:23,640 Oh yeah. Couple times not not with 1210 00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:25,480 incredible frequency, but a couple times. 1211 00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:28,960 And I remember this one time, yeah, I like, I can remember the 1212 00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:30,760 five kids I was with. I'm not going to name them, but 1213 00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:32,920 I can see it like it was yesterday, and this is a million 1214 00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:35,360 years ago. We went to the Q train on Kings 1215 00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:41,360 Highway, actually jumped down on the tracks and walked along and 1216 00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:44,120 was spray painting or like he was like, what was it? 1217 00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:49,160 Kings Highway, Ave. H, You get to like Newkirk 1218 00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:51,200 Avenue. I mean, we didn't walk that far. 1219 00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:54,240 Then eventually Prospect Park like that with Church Ave., that 1220 00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:59,120 was the route Flatbush. And yeah, man, I used to love 1221 00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:01,080 it. Love it sick. 1222 01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:04,680 And I got a good old school. You'll love this movie. 1223 01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:07,720 I got a little homework for you. Little homework. 1224 01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:10,520 Laying on me. If, if there weren't trademark 1225 01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:12,320 and copyright things, I'd play this song for you now. 1226 01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:13,760 But I don't want to mess around, get in trouble here. 1227 01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:16,160 I got to figure this stuff out. Still, I don't want the channel 1228 01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:19,800 to get shut down. Go and see the movie or or go 1229 01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:24,520 and watch the movie Beach St. EE AT Street. 1230 01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:27,760 It is an old school. I'm going to say if you can look 1231 01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:29,440 it up and check out what year it was. 1232 01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:32,680 If I had to throw a guest down, I'm going to say Beach St. was 1233 01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:37,040 about 84, exactly 84. OK, 84. 1234 01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:41,240 Now you look at like the origin of rap and graffiti. 1235 01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:44,520 You know, you're talking Uptown in in the mid 70s as as you and 1236 01:00:44,520 --> 01:00:47,160 I have talked about like Grandmaster Flash even before 1237 01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:50,000 cool hurric like before. So it, it goes back, it goes 1238 01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:53,360 back a minute. But this to me was the first 1239 01:00:53,360 --> 01:00:54,840 film. And then there was electric 1240 01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:59,120 boogaloo, electric boogaloo, which and then there was like a 1241 01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:02,320 second one like turbo and Ozone. And I just thought that one was 1242 01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:05,880 corny. Beach St. to me was a gritty, 1243 01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:12,280 real depiction of inner city 80s, not not Gangalite, not 1244 01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:13,840 there wasn't like nobody was hurting each other. 1245 01:01:13,880 --> 01:01:16,600 It was just a pure, you know, hey, let's go out there. 1246 01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:18,200 Let's get our name up on the subway. 1247 01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:20,640 Let's let's get our hustle on like gritty. 1248 01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:23,080 And the music was awesome, dude. Absolutely. 1249 01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:25,400 I'm talking it out. You're going to love it, I 1250 01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:26,640 promise. I'll watch it. 1251 01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:28,680 You're going to and you're going to love it, I promise you there. 1252 01:01:28,920 --> 01:01:31,000 So what's the if you had to say, Jay? 1253 01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:34,520 I know we saw the first 3 or 4 that said they love it. 1254 01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:37,080 Then we saw, you know, is it overwhelming? 1255 01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:39,080 They like the They're feeling that. 1256 01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:42,480 Yeah, yeah, it seems overwhelming. 1257 01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:44,520 Lighter background looks much better. 1258 01:01:44,720 --> 01:01:49,840 Mama knows best. This was the one I really like. 1259 01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:53,160 Avery Summit, our guy. Brick by brick is your motto. 1260 01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:55,040 So the bricks are a subtle nod to that. 1261 01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:56,480 And I was like, yeah, that's cool. 1262 01:01:56,680 --> 01:01:59,600 Dude, that's that's witty right there that I like that way to 1263 01:01:59,880 --> 01:02:01,760 way to piece it to get way to bring home Avery. 1264 01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:03,640 Yeah, brick by brick, click by click. 1265 01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:07,080 Wow, BT unleashed there. I do like that, that that's very 1266 01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:08,640 strong. I like that. 1267 01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:12,840 What else DT? About to produce ATV show about 1268 01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:15,440 is you. Listen, there's certain, let me 1269 01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:20,480 just tell you this, like one day, I, I, I, I joke around with 1270 01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:23,720 some of my buddies, right? Like every year we go on a golf 1271 01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:28,320 trip and we used to for years go down to Myrtle Beach. 1272 01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:31,200 We'd fly and we'd stay there for a week. 1273 01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:35,480 This is like pre kids, pre marriage and we probably went to 1274 01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:38,520 Myrtle Beach for a good 15 years, right even into marriage 1275 01:02:38,520 --> 01:02:43,000 and even early into kids, right. And you know, maybe not some 1276 01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:44,720 guys wouldn't be able to get out for a week. 1277 01:02:44,720 --> 01:02:47,800 I, I, I'm going like my wife's, even when we were mad like that 1278 01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:49,480 came into the marriage like golf trip. 1279 01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:52,920 I'm going, she's cool, but I don't want to be gone from a 1280 01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:55,440 week because I don't want to miss big games for my kids. 1281 01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:58,640 So I even condense it on my end. Either way, we did that for a 1282 01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:01,040 long time. And then what we started to do 1283 01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:03,600 after COVID, you know, some of the wives, you know, ran a 1284 01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:05,360 tighter ship than others and they're like, oh, you're not 1285 01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:07,000 going anywhere, You're not doing this, you're not doing that. 1286 01:03:07,640 --> 01:03:10,320 So we had a couple of the wives, mine being one of them as well, 1287 01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:14,000 where instead of flying, which I understood, it was an unknown 1288 01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:15,400 period. I'm not knocking anybody. 1289 01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:18,080 I get it in hindsight, ridiculous, but in real time, 1290 01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:20,440 understood. And we said, hey, instead of 1291 01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:23,840 flying, let's rent the house. We got a nice spread on a lake 1292 01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:25,760 in the Poconos. We'd have a fishing contest. 1293 01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:28,160 We play 345 days, get banged up every night. 1294 01:03:28,520 --> 01:03:32,480 And one of my buddies has always said he's he always said he'd be 1295 01:03:32,480 --> 01:03:36,520 if you ever did a show, right, if you ever actually did a show 1296 01:03:36,520 --> 01:03:41,320 and and just told stories about the shit that you did, like the 1297 01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:46,920 actual, the real stories, like, you know, it, it you'd be a, 1298 01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:49,200 you'd be a billionaire, like people would eat. 1299 01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:53,400 But I can't, I can't do that kind of show because if I do 1300 01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:56,440 that kind of show, I don't know if there's another show. 1301 01:03:56,600 --> 01:04:00,560 Yeah, exactly. Who knows, I think what could be 1302 01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:04,800 fun would be listen, and also this is like to the unleashed 1303 01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:06,920 fam. If there's like any animators 1304 01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:09,880 out there, any like cartoon guys out there who kind of do stuff 1305 01:04:09,880 --> 01:04:12,080 like that. If you did like little shorts 1306 01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:14,800 where maybe you like told the story of your life and did like 1307 01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:18,520 a cartoon graphic of it with like you know you, I think that 1308 01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:20,400 would be sick. I think that would be sick, 1309 01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:22,960 honestly. We could start talking about 1310 01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:24,560 that. I mean, but I think that would 1311 01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:26,280 be cool. I, I mean, I've know other 1312 01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:29,000 channels have like kind of done very similar stuff. 1313 01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:31,360 I think that would be so much fun. 1314 01:04:31,360 --> 01:04:35,080 Like do like a little animated short like 2-3 minutes. 1315 01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:37,240 Something like that. I don't even know if you need 3 1316 01:04:37,240 --> 01:04:38,800 minutes. I mean, dude, that would be 1317 01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:41,160 phenomenal. And by the way, we'd give you, 1318 01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:43,640 we'd give you a full run. We'd play it on the show. 1319 01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:46,120 We'd get your handle out there. We'd get you some business. 1320 01:04:46,120 --> 01:04:48,040 That is it. That's one of your better ideas 1321 01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:49,080 now. I appreciate it. 1322 01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:52,840 But this is very ambitious. Like, you know, if somebody 1323 01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:54,200 wants to do the work, I'm all for it. 1324 01:04:54,560 --> 01:04:57,600 But I mean, even like a minute and a half, I mean, oh, wow, 1325 01:04:57,800 --> 01:04:59,720 that would be sick, dude. Yeah, Let me. 1326 01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:02,680 Let me start just like plotting more on this and then. 1327 01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:06,160 Yeah, it was just, it was just a different world, dude. 1328 01:05:06,200 --> 01:05:09,480 I mean it, it really was. I you know, I remember, I'll 1329 01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:12,880 tell you a funny story. I remember. 1330 01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:17,240 I'm going to contrast it, right. So during, I just mentioned 1331 01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:20,960 COVID, during COVID. So that was 2020. 1332 01:05:21,080 --> 01:05:24,280 We moved into our home December of 18. 1333 01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:25,600 All right, It's when we moved on. 1334 01:05:25,600 --> 01:05:27,400 It's supposed to be ready before that. 1335 01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:29,320 But there was some Stallings with the buildings, whatever 1336 01:05:29,480 --> 01:05:31,720 with the builders move in December 18. 1337 01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:33,640 And you know, we don't know anybody. 1338 01:05:33,640 --> 01:05:35,840 I'm not from here. You know what kids aren't really 1339 01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:37,240 in school yet. There's no sports yet. 1340 01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:42,160 So I don't really know anybody. So my son met to somebody. 1341 01:05:42,800 --> 01:05:44,160 Really, really. His name is Johnny. 1342 01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:48,360 Great kid at preschool, right? Good family, actually. 1343 01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:51,360 Big fans of sports radio. Like just good, cool people. 1344 01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:52,960 Haven't seen him in a while, but good people. 1345 01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:55,840 Anyway, we have them over when we're getting to know him early 1346 01:05:55,840 --> 01:05:57,160 on. We're in the backyard, Me and 1347 01:05:57,160 --> 01:05:59,160 the dad are having a beer, the wives are having a glass or 1348 01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:02,320 whatever they're having. And you know, we ordered some 1349 01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:05,000 food and like, we put a little tent up, make it nice, whatever. 1350 01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:07,080 And the boys start wrestling, right? 1351 01:06:08,760 --> 01:06:10,800 And like they start getting aggressive and getting 1352 01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:16,040 aggressive and get, I think they were probably about, I thought 1353 01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:19,360 about they were 5/5 and 1/2 and getting aggressive, right, 1354 01:06:19,560 --> 01:06:22,720 throwing each other around. And the moms like, oh, no, no, 1355 01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:25,840 no. And I'm sitting there literally 1356 01:06:25,840 --> 01:06:29,160 sitting there like this, you know, talking to the to the dad 1357 01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:31,760 with a beer, like they're fine, let them go. 1358 01:06:32,080 --> 01:06:34,240 And I remember just saying don't, don't punch it in. 1359 01:06:34,240 --> 01:06:36,960 No, punch it in the face, guys. Yeah, I remember saying that. 1360 01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:39,400 Right. So that's that's now like that. 1361 01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:41,800 The moms are like, oh, no. Meanwhile, they're just being 1362 01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:44,600 boys right now. Let's let's contrast that. 1363 01:06:44,680 --> 01:06:46,600 I'll never forget this. This was hysterical. 1364 01:06:47,960 --> 01:06:50,520 We're playing. We're playing in the street as 1365 01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:52,280 we always did. My buddy Tommy, who was a year 1366 01:06:52,280 --> 01:06:53,720 older. And when you were a year older 1367 01:06:53,720 --> 01:06:55,840 at that age, that makes a big difference. 1368 01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:59,480 So I was probably 8 and he was like 9 1/2, right. 1369 01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:01,920 A little stronger, you know, good athlete. 1370 01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:07,040 Anyway, we would play on the street and if the street, if you 1371 01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:09,440 got all you guys are obviously watching, although on Spotify 1372 01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:11,480 you can't see this. So I apologize, but I apologize. 1373 01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:13,600 But to the street go fairly narrow. 1374 01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:17,160 And like we had like first base, like first base, second base, 1375 01:07:17,160 --> 01:07:20,280 third base home. And then there was like house, 1376 01:07:20,280 --> 01:07:21,960 house, house, house, house, house. 1377 01:07:22,440 --> 01:07:25,480 And all the moms would sit around and drink coffee and you 1378 01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:27,920 know, this is the 80s, whatever they're doing, they're not a 1379 01:07:27,920 --> 01:07:29,840 worry in the world. Dude, you hear the ice cream 1380 01:07:29,840 --> 01:07:32,960 truck, you have a dollar you set for three hours, you get 2 1381 01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:34,680 drinks and piece of candy, you're good. 1382 01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:39,320 So anyway, I think I slid into second base on concrete like an 1383 01:07:39,320 --> 01:07:42,120 absolute knucklehead and my buddy, I may have told the story 1384 01:07:42,120 --> 01:07:43,280 once, so I'll get through it quick. 1385 01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:47,160 So just to contrast how different it is and I slide into 1386 01:07:47,160 --> 01:07:49,120 second and you know, me and Tommy always had to be on 1387 01:07:49,120 --> 01:07:50,960 different teams because we were the 2 best players on the 1388 01:07:50,960 --> 01:07:52,680 street. If we're on the same team, we 1389 01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:54,640 would never lose. Like not to be a jerk, but we 1390 01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:57,600 had to be on different teams. So I slide in and I don't even 1391 01:07:57,640 --> 01:08:00,280 remember if I was out or safe. Tags me hard. 1392 01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:02,040 I think I took a little issue with it. 1393 01:08:02,040 --> 01:08:04,600 Now he's like hanging on me and I probably push him off me. 1394 01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:07,480 He's my best friend, absolute best friend at the time, best 1395 01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:10,720 friend pushing him off me. And then he pushes me back and 1396 01:08:10,720 --> 01:08:13,120 we start beating the shit out of each other. 1397 01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:16,840 I mean, throwing punches, not like, oh, what do you, you know, 1398 01:08:16,840 --> 01:08:19,439 not like woofing like fake like most fights. 1399 01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:21,000 And I'm not a fighter. Like I'm not saying I'm a 1400 01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:23,359 fighter now, but like you fought back then. 1401 01:08:23,359 --> 01:08:27,040 You fought right, No weapons, fists till somebody gets 1402 01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:28,240 bloodied up and it gets broken up. 1403 01:08:28,399 --> 01:08:31,920 So the moms are sitting on the on the stoop, right, You know, 1404 01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:34,760 and they're like they're getting like now kind of like my wife 1405 01:08:34,760 --> 01:08:37,520 and and in the backyard with my son and his buddy coming years 1406 01:08:37,520 --> 01:08:39,640 ago. But no, not crazy. 1407 01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:44,720 Tommy's dad, who's a retired cop at that point and rest in peace, 1408 01:08:44,800 --> 01:08:48,000 he's he's passed away since he's catching that day and he just 1409 01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:51,600 walks up, takes his time. Yeah, I definitely did tell the 1410 01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:54,120 story. Takes his time, just grabs me by 1411 01:08:54,120 --> 01:08:56,800 the shirt, grabs Tommy by the shirt, throws us a. 1412 01:08:57,000 --> 01:08:57,600 Separate. Oh my. 1413 01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:00,279 Gosh, what do you do with knuckleheads that shit fight 1414 01:09:00,279 --> 01:09:03,359 over best friends 10 minutes later like that? 1415 01:09:03,359 --> 01:09:05,720 Like that's how it was addressed back then. 1416 01:09:06,040 --> 01:09:09,319 So if you can imagine like what we were doing, and this is the 1417 01:09:09,319 --> 01:09:13,200 point in front of parents, imagine what we were doing 1418 01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:15,680 without parents and without cameras. 1419 01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:18,399 Oh my gosh, it must have been. It must have been wild. 1420 01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:23,200 Honestly, sometimes I wonder how how I made it certain parts, 1421 01:09:23,319 --> 01:09:27,760 certain times like we did what here we are just wild, dude. 1422 01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:31,319 So I almost as as envious as I am on some level, like, you 1423 01:09:31,319 --> 01:09:34,479 know, you guys are younger and you got, you know, different 1424 01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:35,960 stage of life and all that beautiful thing. 1425 01:09:36,640 --> 01:09:39,240 You you really did get cheated in a lot of ways. 1426 01:09:39,279 --> 01:09:42,000 Like I think I was the last generation where you could kind 1427 01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:45,000 of do whatever you want. Yeah, I mean, I just think once, 1428 01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:48,240 you know, you were a kid and now all of a sudden you've got like 1429 01:09:48,240 --> 01:09:51,960 a phone on you all day. Like you kind of, you're always 1430 01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:55,000 tethered to something. You're always tethered to, you 1431 01:09:55,000 --> 01:09:58,880 know, a, a parent, a friend of like there's always something 1432 01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:01,280 calling you back. You're never really, you're 1433 01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:04,080 never just going out and exploring freedom. 1434 01:10:04,080 --> 01:10:06,120 There's always got to be like something behind it. 1435 01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:10,680 I think what has been like my growing up, like there's, I 1436 01:10:10,720 --> 01:10:13,520 mean, and granted, like, I guess in the times when, you know, I 1437 01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:17,720 was back home in Connecticut, just open air kind of that it 1438 01:10:17,720 --> 01:10:20,200 was more of a, you know, freeing, natural feeling. 1439 01:10:20,240 --> 01:10:22,800 But also just like, yeah, growing up in kind of this 1440 01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:25,000 generation, there really isn't that. 1441 01:10:25,240 --> 01:10:28,600 Let's go out and get wild. Kids my age are really trying 1442 01:10:28,600 --> 01:10:32,400 to, like, fit into a box almost. And like really, I guess it 1443 01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:35,680 seemed like not, you know, not trying to be the one who's going 1444 01:10:35,680 --> 01:10:38,240 out doing the graffiti, graffiti, going out doing the 1445 01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:41,640 kind of wild stuff because it's just like, it's more acceptable 1446 01:10:41,640 --> 01:10:45,200 to kind of just like be be just normal. 1447 01:10:45,200 --> 01:10:48,120 Don't express yourself in that. That's interesting. 1448 01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:50,720 And by the way, it's not a bad thing not going out there and 1449 01:10:50,720 --> 01:10:52,000 try to do. Crazy, exactly because. 1450 01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:53,320 Sometimes it really goes sideways. 1451 01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:55,640 But yeah, I, I don't, I don't know, man. 1452 01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:59,000 I, I think that even when you look at, I'm sure there's a lot 1453 01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:02,800 of people watching this who are getting ready to be parents or 1454 01:11:02,840 --> 01:11:05,480 are parents, but their kids are so like they're still babies, 1455 01:11:05,480 --> 01:11:07,320 babies. You'd be stunned. 1456 01:11:07,320 --> 01:11:12,000 Like now we're past that point. But I remember first hearing the 1457 01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:14,920 term play dates. I'm like, what the fuck is a 1458 01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:15,920 play date? What are you? 1459 01:11:16,040 --> 01:11:17,760 Doing, yeah. What play dates? 1460 01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:20,560 Like, Oh, yeah, so and so wants to have a play date. 1461 01:11:21,040 --> 01:11:22,560 They're nine years old. Like, go play. 1462 01:11:22,960 --> 01:11:25,280 Just go play in the yard, you know, play date. 1463 01:11:25,680 --> 01:11:28,600 Like the organization, J Rod, everything. 1464 01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:32,200 Yeah. And the structure, it's just, 1465 01:11:32,240 --> 01:11:35,120 you know, I get it And and I'm not trying to fight the world 1466 01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:36,920 and push back. There's a lot of good things 1467 01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:40,200 about it. But just think about that. 1468 01:11:40,200 --> 01:11:43,760 Like, no, no, generally you just kind of become friends with who 1469 01:11:43,760 --> 01:11:45,720 you become friends with. There's like this, it's almost 1470 01:11:45,720 --> 01:11:49,120 like a pre arranged marriage in in some circles, like, yeah. 1471 01:11:49,440 --> 01:11:51,680 And and it expires at a certain. I mean, if you're doing play 1472 01:11:51,680 --> 01:11:54,280 dates at the age of 13, you got something seriously wrong. 1473 01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:57,200 Even at the age of 11, there should be play dates. 1474 01:11:57,200 --> 01:11:59,720 No, but I do get it when you're a little younger. 1475 01:12:00,160 --> 01:12:02,720 But it you wait, wait, dude, wait until I'm see. 1476 01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:04,640 I'm curious what the next stage is. 1477 01:12:05,120 --> 01:12:07,520 That's what to me is very intriguing. 1478 01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:11,480 Like, you know, my dad's generation grow up, play 1479 01:12:11,480 --> 01:12:17,040 stickball, you know, just the radio, no CD's, you know? 1480 01:12:17,040 --> 01:12:20,320 No, but it's not like you went to college and like grew and and 1481 01:12:20,320 --> 01:12:23,200 then got an apartment in Manhattan with, you know, 2 1482 01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:24,240 buddies. True story. 1483 01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:27,440 My dad graduates high school now. 1484 01:12:27,440 --> 01:12:30,840 My dad, my grandfather on my paternal side worked in a sugar 1485 01:12:30,840 --> 01:12:35,720 factory, tough as nails Irish side, really good ball player, 1486 01:12:35,720 --> 01:12:40,600 played some modern League Baseball and was A and and 1487 01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:43,200 passed away unfortunately there I was very young. 1488 01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:47,360 I, I remember vaguely snapshots, but I, I don't really truly 1489 01:12:47,360 --> 01:12:50,240 remember spending a lot of time, but I just remember like this 1490 01:12:50,720 --> 01:12:53,320 tattoo anchor on his forearm for the Nate whatever. 1491 01:12:53,320 --> 01:12:56,760 I do remember sitting on an on his lap, seeing that big strong 1492 01:12:56,760 --> 01:13:01,400 hands, big strong guy, right. And my dad told me that when he 1493 01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:03,560 graduated high school, he's like, all right. 1494 01:13:03,760 --> 01:13:07,920 He's like, you got one week, enjoy yourself, have fun, do 1495 01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:10,400 whatever you want. Don't get in trouble after one 1496 01:13:10,400 --> 01:13:12,480 week. You have to get a job or you 1497 01:13:12,480 --> 01:13:17,000 join the Army. That, that was my, my dad was 1498 01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:18,880 born in the 40s. God bless him. 1499 01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:21,160 He's in his early 80s right now. He's the best, you know, you 1500 01:13:21,160 --> 01:13:24,080 know, you guys saw my or heard my pops when he called in on the 1501 01:13:24,080 --> 01:13:26,400 fan that day, my last show. He's a great man. 1502 01:13:26,400 --> 01:13:30,400 I, I, I love him beyond description and what he grew up 1503 01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:31,760 with. Same with my mom and what he 1504 01:13:31,760 --> 01:13:33,520 grew up with and what she grew up with. 1505 01:13:33,520 --> 01:13:38,200 It it was just, it was, it was so different. 1506 01:13:38,480 --> 01:13:42,520 Now you got think about that. Now that was also on the side. 1507 01:13:42,520 --> 01:13:44,120 He didn't have a lot of money and he was tough. 1508 01:13:44,560 --> 01:13:48,240 But not everybody grew up that way back in the day, but a lot 1509 01:13:48,240 --> 01:13:51,280 of people did. Now it's like, OK, forget about 1510 01:13:51,280 --> 01:13:52,800 graduating high school that you graduate. 1511 01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:54,960 Do you want to go on tour Europe for three weeks? 1512 01:13:54,960 --> 01:13:58,800 Yeah, here's $35,000 go and I don't begrudge it if you have 1513 01:13:58,800 --> 01:13:59,880 the money to go have. Fun. 1514 01:14:00,880 --> 01:14:03,680 Go find yourself, daughter. Go explore. 1515 01:14:03,840 --> 01:14:06,480 Go and see the world. That was the mandate. 1516 01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:08,040 That was that was that. What was it? 1517 01:14:08,040 --> 01:14:10,120 Hey, you got one week. Have fun. 1518 01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:12,600 If you, whether you're playing stickball or playing cards with 1519 01:14:12,600 --> 01:14:16,000 your buddies, figure it out and then get a job or join the Army. 1520 01:14:16,120 --> 01:14:18,080 That's what my dad was doing. Yeah. 1521 01:14:18,080 --> 01:14:21,720 Nowadays you get you get a year to you got a year to produce 1522 01:14:21,720 --> 01:14:23,960 podcast before you got to move out the house. 1523 01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:27,120 So man, times have changed. Times have changed. 1524 01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:30,640 My dad was 28 years old. I mean, it went way, way before 1525 01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:32,640 that. He was, you know, working 2 1526 01:14:32,640 --> 01:14:34,440 jobs. He's got a mortgage, he's got 1527 01:14:34,440 --> 01:14:36,200 two kids. Well, I think I was born when he 1528 01:14:36,200 --> 01:14:40,560 was 30, but now 28 year olds are still living at home and their 1529 01:14:40,560 --> 01:14:42,760 parents don't care. Yeah, no, it's insane. 1530 01:14:42,840 --> 01:14:46,360 I mean, it's almost times have changed. 1531 01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:48,720 We're living in Candy Land now, so. 1532 01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:51,840 Well, that's why J Rod, that's why I say like, I wonder what 1533 01:14:51,840 --> 01:14:54,920 the next step is. Like, I was going to say that 1534 01:14:54,920 --> 01:14:58,800 there's generally some sort of recalibration and kind of 1535 01:14:59,720 --> 01:15:03,120 historically, whether it's the stock market or even behavioral 1536 01:15:03,120 --> 01:15:06,320 patterns like a retreat to the mean, so to speak, if, if that 1537 01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:08,520 makes sense. But I don't really think that 1538 01:15:08,520 --> 01:15:10,440 that's going to happen pertaining to what we're talking 1539 01:15:10,440 --> 01:15:14,160 about now. Because really now the people 1540 01:15:14,160 --> 01:15:18,080 like you, your age and your generation, they're used to one 1541 01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:20,520 one way of life. And as they get married, that's 1542 01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:23,000 what they'll espouse to their kids and for their family. 1543 01:15:23,280 --> 01:15:25,840 And the old school roots are going to eventually die off. 1544 01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:29,200 Yeah, I mean, yeah, it I mean, it'll be interesting because 1545 01:15:29,200 --> 01:15:32,280 it's like with I guess our younger generation, you know, we 1546 01:15:32,280 --> 01:15:35,440 grew up like a lot of our free time was playing video games 1547 01:15:35,440 --> 01:15:37,880 with people like watching TV watching. 1548 01:15:38,000 --> 01:15:42,040 I'm just so curious as to what the entertainment for the future 1549 01:15:42,040 --> 01:15:44,600 generations will be, how they will spend their free time. 1550 01:15:44,760 --> 01:15:47,400 Is it just going to? It might just be in like a 1551 01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:50,200 virtual reality world or something, but come on, who 1552 01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:52,560 knows Who knows who knows who knows, who knows. 1553 01:15:52,560 --> 01:15:56,160 No stop, stop, stop. How about this at Ocean View 1554 01:15:56,160 --> 01:15:58,800 coffee shop? That looks like a very serene, 1555 01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:01,560 very calming backdrop. Sounds like they got the good 1556 01:16:01,560 --> 01:16:03,120 life there. Wouldn't want my kids doing what 1557 01:16:03,120 --> 01:16:04,600 I did. Damn straight. 1558 01:16:04,680 --> 01:16:08,880 Now they'll do different things that they don't want us to know 1559 01:16:08,880 --> 01:16:11,840 about because every kid finds a loophole to figure things out to 1560 01:16:11,840 --> 01:16:15,000 be a little sneaky. But yeah, I mean, how many times 1561 01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:18,400 do do you think about like, I lie, Like, no. 1562 01:16:18,440 --> 01:16:20,920 Well, it's certain things I lie. Like when it comes to sports, 1563 01:16:20,920 --> 01:16:24,320 I'm brutally honest. I tend to illuminate my bad 1564 01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:29,800 rather than my good from for my more so for my son because he's 1565 01:16:29,800 --> 01:16:31,520 very competitive. I don't want to think Daddy was 1566 01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:33,000 great. I mean, daddy had a lot of 1567 01:16:33,000 --> 01:16:35,520 struggles, you know what I mean? And, and I think if you were 1568 01:16:35,520 --> 01:16:39,320 real with that, I, I think it, it, it, it's a more relatable 1569 01:16:39,320 --> 01:16:41,800 experience. And, and I wanted to understand 1570 01:16:41,800 --> 01:16:43,920 like, no, no, daddy didn't, didn't grow up playing for the 1571 01:16:43,920 --> 01:16:45,880 Yankees. Daddy, you know, stumbled a lot. 1572 01:16:46,120 --> 01:16:48,360 So, you know, if you go over 4, it's fine. 1573 01:16:48,360 --> 01:16:52,840 You know, I, I think that the, you know, the, the middle of the 1574 01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:58,200 road there, though, was like being incredibly honest and 1575 01:16:58,200 --> 01:17:02,640 being completely mistruthful. Like there were the other day my 1576 01:17:02,640 --> 01:17:07,480 parents were over and my son said to to my dad what did he 1577 01:17:07,480 --> 01:17:10,480 ask him something about like me in school? 1578 01:17:11,080 --> 01:17:16,440 Oh dude it was a nightmare. Me in school, God almighty, and 1579 01:17:16,440 --> 01:17:20,760 I remember my my son's back was to me and I just kind of winked 1580 01:17:20,760 --> 01:17:22,720 at my dad. I'm like and so I basically I 1581 01:17:22,720 --> 01:17:24,880 lied whenever he I forget what he was asking him. 1582 01:17:25,160 --> 01:17:26,640 I'm like no, no dad, I would never do that. 1583 01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:27,680 Are you crazy? No way. 1584 01:17:27,680 --> 01:17:29,520 Like I was it was the exact opposite. 1585 01:17:29,960 --> 01:17:32,360 So yeah, of course you you know, you want to shield them from 1586 01:17:32,360 --> 01:17:34,480 certain things that you did, but at the end of the day, kids will 1587 01:17:34,480 --> 01:17:36,600 figure it out. We could talk about this stuff 1588 01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:38,640 all day. The bottom line is this. 1589 01:17:39,160 --> 01:17:41,640 I want Bryce Harper. That's the bottom freaking line. 1590 01:17:41,640 --> 01:17:44,680 There we go. Yeah, I want Bryce Harper, and I 1591 01:17:44,680 --> 01:17:47,320 want the Yanks to figure this out, and I want the Yanks to go 1592 01:17:47,320 --> 01:17:49,880 full throttle, and I want the Yankees to pounce on what I 1593 01:17:49,880 --> 01:17:53,440 perceive to be a very vulnerable position. 1594 01:17:53,560 --> 01:17:56,840 When Dombrowski says what he said about Harper, you can't 1595 01:17:56,840 --> 01:17:59,560 tell me Harper's not pissed. The Yankees have a couple of 1596 01:17:59,560 --> 01:18:01,280 more years of average judges prime. 1597 01:18:01,480 --> 01:18:04,040 There might not be baseball next year, or there's going to be a 1598 01:18:04,040 --> 01:18:06,400 truncated season. Whatever the hell is going to 1599 01:18:06,400 --> 01:18:10,120 happen with this labor mess? The Yankees, because they owe it 1600 01:18:10,120 --> 01:18:14,400 to Aaron Judge to do this. And it's I think the timing is 1601 01:18:14,400 --> 01:18:18,160 incredible because yesterday we talked about, you know, Aaron 1602 01:18:18,160 --> 01:18:20,680 Judge out there at the press conference saying, you know, 1603 01:18:20,880 --> 01:18:22,600 with the Yankees here, you know what's you know, And then he 1604 01:18:22,680 --> 01:18:24,040 again, he softened that. He parsed that. 1605 01:18:24,040 --> 01:18:27,360 We hit that yesterday. But there was a lot of truth in 1606 01:18:27,360 --> 01:18:29,720 that delivery. There was a lot of frustration 1607 01:18:29,960 --> 01:18:32,320 in that delivery. And, you know, I wish you would 1608 01:18:32,320 --> 01:18:35,040 have done it a month ago. Maybe it would have served as 1609 01:18:35,040 --> 01:18:36,960 more incentive for the Yankees to do more. 1610 01:18:37,160 --> 01:18:38,320 But that's not Aaron Judge's weight. 1611 01:18:38,320 --> 01:18:40,840 I'm certainly not going to to criticize him for being, you 1612 01:18:40,840 --> 01:18:44,200 know, a good soldier. I mean, he's just the the lowest 1613 01:18:44,240 --> 01:18:46,960 maintenance superstar in the history of superstar. 1614 01:18:47,200 --> 01:18:50,680 I mean, even Jeter, who was a low maintenance superstar and I 1615 01:18:50,680 --> 01:18:53,160 didn't care about this, but George did you know, George had 1616 01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:55,320 to call him in once or twice. All right, man, you getting a 1617 01:18:55,320 --> 01:18:58,160 little, you know, you're running around town and be careful to 1618 01:18:58,160 --> 01:18:59,920 hear. You don't even hear that about 1619 01:18:59,920 --> 01:19:02,240 Aaron Judge just had a baby. He's been married, quiet as a 1620 01:19:02,240 --> 01:19:05,120 mouse, doesn't do anything, hits 58 home runs every year and 1621 01:19:05,120 --> 01:19:06,920 keeps his mouth shut. He sees the best. 1622 01:19:07,200 --> 01:19:11,040 You owe that man more than you're giving him. 1623 01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:14,600 That's what I'm saying. So if you just tuned in the 1st 1624 01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:17,360 40 minutes, it was, it was basically a straight 40 minute 1625 01:19:17,360 --> 01:19:21,560 fire monologue. I mean, just no hesitation. 1626 01:19:21,600 --> 01:19:24,480 Full throttle all in. Laid it all out for you. 1627 01:19:24,480 --> 01:19:27,120 The contracts who I would trade, what I wouldn't do. 1628 01:19:27,360 --> 01:19:31,080 It is all there for you at Rich Squire 986. 1629 01:19:31,080 --> 01:19:32,200 Rich. What's going on, buddy? 1630 01:19:32,440 --> 01:19:34,400 Let's see. Cash been getting Harper now is 1631 01:19:34,400 --> 01:19:36,120 his MO. Well, yeah, true. 1632 01:19:36,480 --> 01:19:38,960 Older declining player on the cheap would be it. 1633 01:19:38,960 --> 01:19:41,760 Wouldn't be surprised there. Gallo, Gallo, Goldie and 1634 01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:43,000 Donaldson. Well, all right. 1635 01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:45,600 Now, this is where Richie, like many, takes it a little bit too 1636 01:19:45,600 --> 01:19:51,120 far to put Bryce Harper in the same category as Gallo. 1637 01:19:52,800 --> 01:19:54,600 I mean, but let's be a little fair here. 1638 01:19:54,880 --> 01:19:58,440 Or even Donaldson. I mean, Bryce Harper is still a 1639 01:19:58,440 --> 01:20:00,680 beast. He had a little bit of a step 1640 01:20:00,680 --> 01:20:04,600 back season, but I think he would be so revitalized here 1641 01:20:04,920 --> 01:20:08,280 with the with Judge and a different fan base and that 1642 01:20:08,280 --> 01:20:11,440 short porch and the pinstripes that, you know, that his dad 1643 01:20:11,440 --> 01:20:13,560 revered, which is why I thought he was going to be a Yankee 1644 01:20:13,840 --> 01:20:16,920 until the Yankees cheaped out. All those years ago. 1645 01:20:17,200 --> 01:20:18,440 So that's where I'm at with that. 1646 01:20:18,440 --> 01:20:21,800 All right, let me get cooking here. 1647 01:20:22,040 --> 01:20:23,800 I got a busy day. As I said, I'm going to hop on 1648 01:20:23,800 --> 01:20:26,800 with Sal tonight on Sal's channel. 1649 01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:28,000 So you guys going to have to find that. 1650 01:20:28,040 --> 01:20:31,400 All right, the Salakata show from AT8I. 1651 01:20:31,400 --> 01:20:34,720 I've got to find out about the possibility. 1652 01:20:35,360 --> 01:20:36,840 If I could do this on my own, I think I could. 1653 01:20:36,840 --> 01:20:38,040 I think it's pretty easy to figure out. 1654 01:20:38,600 --> 01:20:41,160 Maybe a little Saint John's first half watch party tonight 1655 01:20:41,160 --> 01:20:44,000 against Marquette. Listen, obviously get it out 1656 01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:46,200 there guys. All the likes, you know, I ain't 1657 01:20:46,200 --> 01:20:49,000 got to get those likes up, man. Get those comments flowing in. 1658 01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:52,040 You guys know that I see them. I think that, you know, by now 1659 01:20:52,040 --> 01:20:56,120 it's a very interactive channel. I mean, I, I, I respond daily. 1660 01:20:56,120 --> 01:21:00,520 I mean, a matter of fact, I actually carve out by design a 1661 01:21:00,520 --> 01:21:04,360 good 2530 minutes every day where I just go to the comments, 1662 01:21:04,800 --> 01:21:06,800 the good ones, the bad ones, whatever. 1663 01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:09,280 It's like I, you know, I don't need self glorification. 1664 01:21:09,280 --> 01:21:13,120 I'm not looking for that. I'm just looking for interaction 1665 01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:15,800 to let you guys know that I, I see what you write and you know, 1666 01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:17,920 a lot of continue the dialogue there. 1667 01:21:18,200 --> 01:21:20,040 So you guys doing a good job with that. 1668 01:21:20,040 --> 01:21:22,760 But the more we get to that, you know, the more the channels 1669 01:21:22,760 --> 01:21:25,200 going to explode there. So I appreciate those of you who 1670 01:21:25,200 --> 01:21:27,120 do it. Obviously follow me on 1671 01:21:27,120 --> 01:21:29,840 Instagram, keep the, the thoughts in on the possible 1672 01:21:29,840 --> 01:21:32,800 change of the background. Also, if you go to the YouTube 1673 01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:35,800 or if you navigate the YouTube channel, you're obviously there. 1674 01:21:35,800 --> 01:21:39,280 Now if you go to posts, I put a picture of it up there. 1675 01:21:39,520 --> 01:21:42,600 So if you didn't see it, it is up there for you guys to weigh 1676 01:21:42,600 --> 01:21:43,600 in. Do you like it? 1677 01:21:43,600 --> 01:21:46,600 You know, should we tweak it? Should we mess around still a 1678 01:21:46,600 --> 01:21:49,000 little bit in the experimental stage here with the logos and 1679 01:21:49,000 --> 01:21:51,520 the backdrops? And I heard Sal was making fun 1680 01:21:51,520 --> 01:21:52,600 of the battery. I'll tell you right. 1681 01:21:52,600 --> 01:21:55,440 Sal starts taking. Fun of the Yo, did you watch? 1682 01:21:55,880 --> 01:21:58,200 Did you watch? I'm going to light him up on his 1683 01:21:58,200 --> 01:22:00,200 own channel if he starts pulling that knot. 1684 01:22:00,640 --> 01:22:04,680 If Sal wants to make an enemy, he's He introduces me tonight, 1685 01:22:04,760 --> 01:22:08,920 wearing his King Cohen garb, talking shit about the logo. 1686 01:22:09,200 --> 01:22:10,840 Hey, that's that's the end of the friendship. 1687 01:22:10,840 --> 01:22:14,160 You got to watch out for booms. You got to watch out for booms 1688 01:22:14,160 --> 01:22:15,520 tonight. He could get on you. 1689 01:22:15,880 --> 01:22:19,080 Also. Brian Daley, I love you. 1690 01:22:19,560 --> 01:22:23,120 OK, all right, listen, I will say this. 1691 01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:28,840 I'm I'm sure I'm sure whatever booms throws my way, I think I 1692 01:22:28,840 --> 01:22:32,200 can handle. I I think you know, but I do 1693 01:22:32,200 --> 01:22:33,720 want to meet booms. I'm looking forward to it. 1694 01:22:33,720 --> 01:22:35,720 So that's tonight. I am. 1695 01:22:35,720 --> 01:22:36,680 I'll tell them you said what's up. 1696 01:22:36,680 --> 01:22:38,800 I want to get you guys cooking on a project at some point. 1697 01:22:38,800 --> 01:22:41,200 So J Rod, have an outstanding rest of your day. 1698 01:22:41,200 --> 01:22:44,640 Get those shorts up, buddy. Do what you do like it sub, get 1699 01:22:44,640 --> 01:22:46,920 the comments going, Instagram, Twitter, all that stuff. 1700 01:22:46,920 --> 01:22:49,520 Spread the word, get it out there, grow the family. 1701 01:22:49,520 --> 01:22:52,920 BT Unleashed, of course, Sal tonight at 8, possibly a 1702 01:22:52,920 --> 01:22:55,920 Johnny's watch party that either way, a big game for St. 1703 01:22:55,920 --> 01:22:57,320 John's. They've won eleven straight. 1704 01:22:57,320 --> 01:23:00,520 Try to keep this thing going and before you know it, Big East 1705 01:23:00,520 --> 01:23:03,160 tournament selection Sunday, see where they're going. 1706 01:23:03,320 --> 01:23:07,440 Spring training a little bit deeper and really, really good 1707 01:23:07,440 --> 01:23:09,520 time of the year. This is my favorite time. 1708 01:23:09,560 --> 01:23:11,240 You got the Masters around the corner. 1709 01:23:11,720 --> 01:23:14,440 Weather starts to thaw out. I saw this morning, at least 1710 01:23:14,440 --> 01:23:18,520 where I am in the northeast, it was raining a little bit. 1711 01:23:18,520 --> 01:23:20,280 Now it looks like the sun start to pop out. 1712 01:23:20,280 --> 01:23:23,520 So you start to see that snow recede a little bit more. 1713 01:23:23,520 --> 01:23:25,720 And you know what I'm thinking? I'm thinking fungo bat. 1714 01:23:26,040 --> 01:23:28,680 I'm thinking, you know, let's get out of the indoor facility. 1715 01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:31,600 Let's get on the turf, kids, little baseball and softball. 1716 01:23:32,040 --> 01:23:33,320 I know many of you thinking that as well. 1717 01:23:33,320 --> 01:23:36,760 So have a great Wednesday. Catch you guys with Sal tonight. 1718 01:23:37,000 --> 01:23:38,000 Peace. I'll see you.