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Got a big show for you today. 

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A lot of baseball yesterday we 
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The Mets standing pat with 
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dugout and today's going to be a
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A lot of Knicks for you as well.
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Sir, ready to roll? 
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guys to love and we'll get to 
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Get your calls As J Rod said 
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time, The Jets collective, we 
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entire draft recap, myself and 
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We'll hit all the picks and, and
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posing a little bit like what if
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All right, it's very rare. 
Like I listen, you know, I I 

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like my numbers. 
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in baseball, I believe 
analytics, you know, really does

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drive the engine. 
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sure, and I absolutely prefer a 
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trust my eyes, but the numbers 
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reinforce, you know what what 
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in a moment, but last night, 
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stats, right? 
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success or failure, but also 
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Got a couple things for you, 
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right, Max Freed now is 13 and 
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regular season starts after the 
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on that bone in terms of a 
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It's been very interesting. 
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coming off a loss since he got 
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That's great. 
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a lot of people have used this 
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And the Mets are not my focus 
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The Mets were my focus 
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But still, many of you, you 
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Here's the stat Ben Rice and 
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more stat for you. 
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a little bit. 
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vaunted long history of the 
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had 11 or more wins and have 
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the first 16 games on the road 
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the Blue Jays who were born in 
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Nineteen 171958 the last time 
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so. 
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you know what I was wailing 
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painfully going through the run 
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What are the Yanks going to do? 
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know, not going after Tucker, 
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with Toronto, although that kind
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extension the year before. 
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ton of money. 
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fear for me and at least an 
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was a good chance Bellinger 
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a decent chance, right. 
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Yankee offseason and I think I 
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thing that I was getting tired 
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that I, that I've had to say 
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flat out, they have failed Aaron
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first baseman and 2nd baseman 
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and 3rd baseman and catchers and
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just say everywhere and just 
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economical with my words 
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Outside of starting pitching, 
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Aaron Judge's run, the Yankees 
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position to win a World Series. 
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been very quiet where it's been 
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regular seasons he's had. 
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whether it's Bonds or Willie 
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small sample. 
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which Ted Williams didn't have 
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positioned as an old timer, 
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baseball great. 
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microscope is going to be wider.
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will cast is going to be wider. 
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emotionally the same guy. 
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early returns to the season. 
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American League is trash. 
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play, just to bring them in for 
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to further complicate the Mets 
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rails here if they ever do. 
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Better than the American League,
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So you look at this right now, 
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each league and 11 of the 15 in 
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worse. 
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only five of the 15. 
So 33%, which obviously is a 

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very low number. 
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lot of teams you got to jump 
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But why I even bring that up is 
because there are so many bad 

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teams throughout baseball that I
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the Yankees to finally take the 
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imploring them to swing, not 
80%, not 82%. 

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I mean, here's my chips, I'm 
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whatever it takes to try to win 
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time since 2009. 
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names that could be available. 
Padres are very good. 

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Christian Walker. 

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All right, who the Yankees? 
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hitter, really good fielding 
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even to I was going to say to a 
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So all this stuff right now 
about the start to the 2026 

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Yankees and and really the 2026 
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But pertaining to the Yankees, I
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very favorable circumstances. 
The Yankees pitching staff will 

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be the best in baseball. 
The Yankees. 

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I know they had it for one year 
with Soto, but the Yankees 

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finally have that night tonight,
consistent stud, and I will get 

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to the blossoming superstar that
Ben Rice now is in a minute, 

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reasons that I've already 
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When you look at the rotation 
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with Garrett Cole, and then 
eventually with Carlos Rodan, 

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and those guys are very close to
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Well, now Gil's already the 
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If we hear anything from Louis 
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it's found money. 
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He has not been the same guy 
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That's why the Yankees did what 
they did in terms of Ryan 

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Weathers and obviously, you 
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getting some run like the 
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And then what's going to happen 
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come back as well now through 
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can't throw strikes or will 
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that's going to define itself. 
What are those dudes along with 

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Schmidt is going to the bullpen,
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the bullpen. 
And then you've got 2 

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flamethrowers, obviously Legrand
Hay and obviously Elma 

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Rodriguez, who are just, I mean,
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and they are two of the most 
highly thought of pitching 

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prospects in baseball. 
So the Yankee staff is going to 

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be phenomenal. 
The Yankees to me, and I know 

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it's baseball and I know it's 
random and I know it's not like 

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the NBA. 
Oh, we got Curry and we got 

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Durant. 
We're going to definitely win 

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the championship. 
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Fully aware of that. 

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But the Yankees to me for the 
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have to throw in the Soto year 
when they got to the World 

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Series because it was Soto and 
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But outside of that, which was 
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That was the anomaly. 
That was the rare occurrence, 

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this Yankee team and the 
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League and the fact that 2027, 
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deprived of baseball. 
To what extent, I don't really 

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know. 
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the labour strife is going to be
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I remember I was seven years old

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in 81. 
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know, we in Brooklyn, everybody 
had these like those little 

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plastic pools that came up to 
your ankles, you know, like we 

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didn't have in ground pools. 
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things that you got for 19 bucks
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There was this toy store that I 
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it up with the hose and that was
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Like that was not that I'm, you 
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hood, but that was like the hood
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And, and I remember, I, I just 
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the image. 
I can only imagine what young 

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baseball fans will go through 
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I remember every day, every day,
because my mom would always have

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like 1010 wins on and and 
obviously music. 

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And I would say mom is the 
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Yet mom, because my dad was 
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Mom are the Yankees playing 
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tiny pool that we and the garden
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It was basically like going in 
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athletes do. 
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It was just painful. 
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remember the 80 season that 
much. 81, I was locked in. 

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And as I've told you many times,
that's really the first World 

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Series that I remember watching.
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And that's what 2027 is going to
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And I say all that because you 
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because who knows what's up in 
2027. 

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And because of his age, even 
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just bank on, well, Judge is 
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five more years. 
He's not going to be judged in 

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five years. 
He's not going to be judged in 

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four years. 
So there's two things at play 

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here. 
I'm going to get to Ben Rice now

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#1 the Yankees have as good a 
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been less bullish on the Yankees
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Like, I'm a realist with the 
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the baseball, when they got too 
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they don't have the requisite 
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big bat. 
And Judge. 

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You know, I'm going to tell you 
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that this team is not going to 
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And coming into the season, I 
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were a World Series team either.
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better. 
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lot better. 
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Yankees wouldn't be a playoff 
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I had the Yankees winning 94 
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That was my pre season 
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But the other element of the of 
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because the American League is 
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There is a really good. 
I know you got to stay healthy. 

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I know there's a million 
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even May 1st yet. 
I know, I know I'm talking about

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today. 
I could just worry about today, 

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all the other variables. 
Are you telling me like it if, 

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if things remain kind of the 
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going to by far have the best 
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which ensures home field 
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I mean that they should. 
At least that's my read today. 

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You get one more big bat, and I 
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trade deadline. 
I'm starting to hit a little bit

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and obviously has value as a 
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about Ryan McMahon. 
I'm not talking about Caballero 

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who suddenly can't steal the 
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He got thrown out four times in 
a row. 

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But he's he's he's obviously a 
very good addition. 

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I'm not talking about Rosario. 
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where the Yankees going to 
October or you want to tell me 

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the Dodgers are OK in terms of 
rotation and and the Dodgers in 

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totality, massive respect 
back-to-back champions until 

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anybody dethrones them. 
They are the team to be. 

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Obviously, that goes without 
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But are you telling me that with
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bullpen will look like 
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with Judge and one more monster 
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October for the first time 
really since Soto? 

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And then since then the first 
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maybe the Baby Bombers out of 
enthusiasm, thinking the Yankees

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are going to win to at least get
back to the World Series? 

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Because that's what I'm 
thinking. 

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That's where I'm at right now. 
I love I love the way things are

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lining up for this team. 
And again, you got to stay 

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healthy and it's easy for me to 
sit here on the show and tell 

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you when Cole gets back when Rd.
I I understand those are 

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variables I can't control, but 
they're both pitching in the 

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minors. 
Freed is amazing. 

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Schlitzler's already, you know, 
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a Co ace and then you throw Cole
3 Rd., Don four and Warren 

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Oregon, whomever five were 
weathers who was been really 

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good. 
I mean there's a lot to like 

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about this team. 
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The one thing that I'm not sure 
about is will how this is always

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a question you got to You 
shouldn't have to ask this 

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question, but sadly you do. 
Will how be the kind of you 

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know, is, is this the year where
he's like, you know what? 

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I am all in. 
I am doing whatever it takes for

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Aaron Judge to get back to and 
win a World Series so we can 

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finally be coordinated truly, 
even though in my eyes he is. 

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But by some you got to have the 
World Series to be an old time 

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great Yankee, which I inherently
disagree with. 

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But I'm not going to get into it
now because I've told you why 

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many times, right? 
But many of you think that many 

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of you subscribe to that and 
that's fine. 

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That's your prerogative. 
I think that that's almost too, 

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too shallow, especially the 
sport of baseball. 

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But that's where I stand. 
You got to love the way the 

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Yankees look right now. 
I mean, every night they go out,

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they're putting up 0 at the 
zero, at the zero at the One guy

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who didn't put up zeros the 
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the Miners, which is another 
aspect of this where I really 

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like. 
There seems to be a little bit 

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of a different edge. 
And I said this yesterday, a 

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little bit of a different 
accountability. 

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Like, all right, Louise Hill, 
you were trashed the other night

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and you've had too many wild 
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you've had too many fluctuations
where we don't know what we're 

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getting and we're not tolerating
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Go to the Miners, figure it out.
You get a little dip in the V 

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low, which by the way, was true 
the other night against the 

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Astros. 
You know, you don't trust your 

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secondary pitches. 
You got to go work on stuff 

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because you're currently getting
in the way of what we're trying 

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to do. 
That's number one. 

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Even some some things I don't 
think they would have done last 

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year or really even the year 
before, as they were a little 

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bit too married to analytics for
some. 

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Right. 
All right, hey, all right. 

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He's pitching Ryan McMahon's hit
No 70, but he's a lefty. 

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McMahon's going to play. 
No, he's not. 

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We're going to run Rosario out 
there. 

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We're going to reward him for 
play. 

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We're going to do things that 
are a little, you know, 

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analytically unconventional. 
So I am very, very bullish on 

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this Yankee team. 
And I'm going to be downright 

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giddy if they, you know, deliver
one of those names, Tatis, a 

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Walker, a Buxton. 
I know, I know, this seems like 

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a pipe dream, but it shouldn't 
be because the Yankees have the 

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money to absorb it. 
They've got the prospects. 

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And I'm not talking about 
Lombard. 

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And I'm not talking about 
Legrande or even Rodriguez. 

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I mean, I know you got to give 
up something here. 

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So maybe one of those arms has 
to go. 

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Lombards going nowhere because 
it's not that far fetched to 

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envision, you know, again, with 
the work stoppage next year, who

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knows? 
But you know, Judge Rice and 

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Lombard because he does look a 
little different. 

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But again, it's in the minor, so
I'm not going to go nuts. 

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I'm pumped up about my Yankees 
here. 

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J Rod, I am incredibly pumped 
up. 

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Let's go. 
Really AM. 

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And this is not manufactured 
hype. 

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I am a realist with the Yankees.
Like, I mean, I shit on the 

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Yankees a lot because the 
Yankees have given us a lot of 

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reasons to push back and 
criticize because they have 

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morphed further and further away
from what they used to be and 

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how they used to comport 
themselves from a business point

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of view. 
Oh, we didn't win the World 

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Series? 
Well, that's OK. 

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Now we're going out. 
We're getting this guy, that guy

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and this guy. 
They haven't done that for a 

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long time. 
And, you know, the the window is

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closing on Judge, but window is 
wide open in the America League 

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for the Yankees to basically 
bury everybody in the division. 

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I know Tampa's a game and a half
back, but I think they'll 

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eventually, you know, regress 
and respect for Tampa, but they 

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don't have the horses the 
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And then eventually, you know, 
cruise to 9899, maybe 100 wins 

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and have the best mark in the 
American League by 4-5 games. 

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And while everybody else is 
pitching the wild card in the 

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extra rounds and traveling Yanks
and chilling at home and they 

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got home field advantage 
throughout. 

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So that is a very real 
possibility. 

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Now get me up on the full 
screen, Jay, as good looking as 

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you are at Anthony Dash J AT6M, 
let's stop saying the Yanks 

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don't develop their own players.
Look at Rice, Cam and Warren. 

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Well, OK, you can keep that up. 
First of all, let's 

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differentiate between pitching. 
I have always said I anybody who

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says the Yankees don't develop 
the players is an idiot. 

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You know, like in just in terms 
of New York Yankees, you have to

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you have to provide the context 
and it's most people do, but 

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some are lazy and don't. 
You've got to differentiate 

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between developing pitchers. 
And developing position players 

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because it's a massive 
difference. 

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I mean, even though Louise Hill,
he's had some injuries, but it's

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back in the Miners. 
He did win the rookie of the 

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year. 
I mean, Will Warren had the 

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second most strikeouts of any 
rookie last year in baseball. 

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I mean, Cam Schlittler looks 
like if knock on wood, if he's 

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healthy, yeah, but this guy's 
going to be a 567 time All Star.

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He's absolutely filthy, right? 
And then not to mention a lot of

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bullpen arms and others, couple 
of minor leaguers that I really 

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believe are going to be on the 
scene very soon. 

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Pitching is not the problem with
the Yankees, even though, you 

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know, last year against Toronto 
in the playoffs, it was Freed 

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got knocked around, Rodon got 
smacked, the Louis Hill got 

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tattooed. 
I'm not saying that it's 

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perfect, but the Yankee 
pitching, you know, anyone say 

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factory, that's ridiculous. 
But that aspect of the 

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organization is really, really 
good. 

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What has been problematic is 
that they've developed no 

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position players outside of 
Aaron Judge. 

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So every year you've got to 
like, you got to take swings on 

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free agents or you got to kick 
the tires and and shake the tree

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and hope, Hey, maybe Aaron Hicks
could be that guy. 

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Maybe Joey Gallo could be that 
guy. 

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Maybe Ryan McMahon could be that
guy because we don't have 1/3 

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baseman, you know, And then you 
know, Volpe showed some early 

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promise. 
He's regressed. 

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And I'm, I can't wait to see 
Volpe play this year, man. 

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I am really, I don't know what 
to expect, but I am really 

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rooting for Volpe big time, man.
You know, you couldn't develop a

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second baseman, so you got to go
out there. 

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You got to trade for Jazz. 
You know, you couldn't develop a

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center fielder, so you got to 
make sure you get back Grisham 

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in the in the Soto trade, you 
know, no left fielders. 

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Let's sign Bellinger, who's 
really good. 

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I mean, come on, we, we all know
the deal. 

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The Yankees have been basically 
an F at position players. 

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Well, I mean, maybe that's 
unfair because Judges is great, 

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so his greatness offsets the F. 
So like you CC minus D plus 

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whatever it is. 
But Ben Rice is now changing 

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that. 
Ben Rice is changing that. 

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So Ben Rice is now officially a 
star. 

447
00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:01,320
That's it. 
If you don't believe it, I don't

448
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,200
know what to tell you. 
Ben Rice is an absolute. 

449
00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:05,440
So I'm going to take it a step 
further. 

450
00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:07,640
Ben Rice is a superstar as a 
hitter. 

451
00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,240
I told you before the start of 
the season, Ben Rice will be top

452
00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,200
ten in the MVP voting. 
Now obviously Judge will take 

453
00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,160
votes away, but I'll stand by 
that even more today. 

454
00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:20,640
Obviously I told you before the 
start of the season that Ben 

455
00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:24,000
Rice would be an All Star and 
some of you felt it and 

456
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,880
something a little bit early for
that. 

457
00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,520
I remember talking to Aaron 
Boone. 

458
00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,720
I was driving to Walgreens to 
pick up medicine for one of my 

459
00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,880
kids, and he called me right 
before he went down to Tampa. 

460
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,240
You know, we're just shooting 
the breeze about the roster and 

461
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,200
you know, just catching up. 
Seen how has seen how the new 

462
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,120
show is going, which by the way,
there's a chance booty will be 

463
00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:45,560
on this week. 
We were texting about that. 

464
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:47,240
Yes, I'm trying to get him on 
this week. 

465
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,840
OK, it's in the works and we're 
going to actually talk about it 

466
00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:51,520
today. 
He said he'll call me after the 

467
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,880
show. 
Hopefully that happens and it's 

468
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,280
going to happen soon. 
But I remember him calling me 

469
00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,680
and we're just bouncing around. 
I'm like, man, and hopefully you

470
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,280
guys, I mean, I'm honest with 
him, you know, because when we 

471
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,200
had him up on stage with me and 
Sal, you know, we both say the 

472
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,120
same thing. 
Like we can't stand Grisham as a

473
00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:09,640
lead off hitter. 
That's not a World Series team. 

474
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:11,920
And he always pushes back. 
Then he gets annoyed at us. 

475
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:13,960
But it is what it is. 
That's how I feel. 

476
00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,080
I've told them straight up, if 
you guys give Jazz Chisholm a 

477
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:19,920
long term extension, you're 
absolutely nuts. 

478
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,440
And they won't, by the way, he 
didn't say that, but I'm telling

479
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,600
you they won't. 
I'm very honest about how I 

480
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,520
assess his players. 
And I remember telling him as 

481
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,680
I'm driving to the drugstore, 
Ben Rice is going to have a 950 

482
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,400
OPS this year. 
He's like he's like I love him, 

483
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:35,720
man. 
That's a little aggressive. 

484
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,480
I'm like, no, it's not No, it's 
not. 

485
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:39,720
And I said you know, you should 
know that more than me. 

486
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:43,040
He goes I I do, but you know how
hard it is to have a 950. 

487
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,360
Opsi know I know, and I very 
rarely say that about young 

488
00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:48,320
players. 
I'm saying it about Ben Rice 

489
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,880
because it's going to happen. 
So we're going to geek out a 

490
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,000
little bit here. 
All right, if you follow and 

491
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,920
then we'll get the calls going, 
we'll get the chat going. 

492
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:57,320
I got some mixed stuff for you 
as well. 

493
00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,360
Hopefully everybody's having a 
great Tuesday. 

494
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,400
Let's get a little read up here.
If you follow, you know, 

495
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,800
baseball savant and deeper 
analytics. 

496
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,720
Red is good, blue is bad. 
So J Rod, do me a favor first 

497
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,040
very quickly, and I want you can
take it down. 

498
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:16,200
What I tell you, slap up 2025 
Baseball savant. 

499
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,240
Oh God, look at that red. 
Oof. 

500
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,760
Look at that red. 
And now, if you would be so kind

501
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:26,880
there, J Rod, please slap up 
2026 baseball savant. 

502
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,360
Oh my God, look at that red. 
All right, leave that up for a 

503
00:24:30,360 --> 00:24:31,400
while. 
All right, leave that. 

504
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:33,680
I'm never going to do this 
again. 

505
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,280
I'm going to do this because it 
furthers my point about the 

506
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,000
great young Ben. 
Well, he's he's 27, but the 

507
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,880
great Ben Rice. 
All right, so you see all those 

508
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:45,360
XS and Bell, what the Hell's in 
there? 

509
00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:47,800
Some of you of course, know what
this means, but many of you 

510
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,920
don't. 
Now, before I get into this, and

511
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:52,640
this is not going to happen 
because it's just not, but his 

512
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,520
projected stats based on what 
he's done so far and based on 

513
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:59,360
the amount of games that remain 
right now, Ben Rice is projected

514
00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:04,000
to hit 56 home runs, have 128 
RBI's, 45. 

515
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:05,720
I mean, this is Madding. 
It's not even madding. 

516
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:12,680
Mattingly never hit 5645 double 
s, 117 walks and 145 runs. 

517
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,600
Now, again, not going to happen,
but if you get 80 something 

518
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,440
percent of that, he's top ten in
the MVP, which I told you he 

519
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,520
would be and he will be. 
Now those, what do they mean? 

520
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:25,040
What is XWOBA? 
What the hell does that mean? 

521
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,720
That isn't expected weighted on 
base average. 

522
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,400
Very simply, it mean it measures
the hitter's performance based 

523
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:36,240
on the quality of contact rather
than the outcome in, in layman's

524
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:40,040
terms, it removes defense and it
removes luck. 

525
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:45,640
Look at that number next. 
One, 99 percentile xba, this 

526
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:49,920
simple expected batting average,
likelihood that a batting ball, 

527
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,600
a batted ball becomes a hit 
based on the exit below in the 

528
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:54,720
launch angle. 
So it's a mathematical 

529
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:58,480
calculation based on factors 
that drive many of you nuts, the

530
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,360
launch angle to be low. 
I get it. 

531
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,400
But he's in the 94 percentile, 
meaning keep the subject, 

532
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,920
meaning what he's doing is not 
by accident. 

533
00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:10,280
All right, expected at slugging.
What does that mean? 

534
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:14,560
Well, measure the hitter's power
production based on the quality 

535
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:16,760
of contact rather than the 
outcome. 

536
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:21,120
You could have A320 hitter whose
soft contact, a little lucky you

537
00:26:21,120 --> 00:26:22,760
can come. 
And this happened Ben Rice early

538
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:24,160
last year. 
Remember talking about this and 

539
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,400
remember Boone saying this where
the numbers like, and the 

540
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,920
numbers are low, but he's 
hitting the ball on the screws 

541
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,360
all the time. 
So these are real tangible 

542
00:26:32,360 --> 00:26:37,200
things. 97 percentile. 
All right, average exit below. 

543
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:38,960
That's basic stuff. 
If you don't know what that is, 

544
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,480
I don't know if you're not a 
baseball fan, but just so you do

545
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:45,720
know the subtext, Major League 
Baseball average is 88 to 89 

546
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,280
mph. 
Anything at 92 or 93 is 

547
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:53,280
considered elite. 
He is at the 99 percentile 

548
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,120
barrel percentage. 
This one's a little confusing, 

549
00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:57,560
right? 
A little bit. 

550
00:26:57,760 --> 00:26:59,640
It seems basic, but it's not. 
So. 

551
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,720
Barrel percentage is a metric 
that defines basically, an 

552
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:08,880
optimally struck ball at least 
98 miles an hour at a specific 

553
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:10,920
launch angle. 
I know, I'm really geeking out. 

554
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,040
I'll never do this again. 
And the the launch angle is 

555
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:19,440
between 26 and 30°. 
He's in the 98 percentile hard 

556
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:24,040
hit percentage and it's a simple
any ball struck at 9595 miles an

557
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,880
hour or more, 100%. 
This guy hits the ball hard 

558
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:31,040
every time. 
The the launch angle sweet spot,

559
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:36,040
LA sweet spot percentage. 
It measures the frequency that a

560
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:41,000
hitter produces a battered ball,
right at a launch angle of 

561
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:46,040
eight, between 8 and 32°. 
He's in the 95 percentile. 

562
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,240
I mean, if this was my son or my
daughter's grades, I'd be the 

563
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,800
happiest dad in the world. 
He's squared up then. 

564
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,160
They actually do pretty well, 
but they don't hit not 90 eights

565
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,120
and 90 nines all the time, 
that's for damn sure. 

566
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:01,440
Squared up percentage measures 
how effectively A hitter 

567
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,200
transfers. 
This is this is I didn't even 

568
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:07,600
know this one transfers their 
swing speed to the ball, 80 

569
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,040
percentile and he's on base all 
the time. 

570
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:14,160
Walk rate 97 percentile. 
Look at that. 

571
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:16,360
You could get it down there. 
Jay, thank you very much. 

572
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,120
Now, couple of things need to 
happen here. 

573
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,800
Number one, you need to 
understand that Ben Rice is that

574
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,520
dude, pure and simple. 
We showed you 25 all red. 

575
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,040
Showed you 26, all red. 
Not an accident, not a 

576
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,080
coincidence. 
It's not early. 

577
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,520
He's not lucky. 
He's a freaking stud. 

578
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,040
And that's why I told you before
the start of the season that Ben

579
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,880
Rice should be the three hitter.
He should be the three hitter 

580
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,440
every single night. 
And when Boone sat him against 

581
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,320
and I love booty, but when he 
sat him against lefties, you 

582
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,360
know, I I went nuts. 
No, he's got to play and you 

583
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,720
want to drop him to the five 
hole against a tough lefty. 

584
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,600
All right, I could even live 
with that. 

585
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:59,240
I really could. 
But the and they said this on 

586
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,000
the broadcast, like very astute 
point. 

587
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,320
Kay and Coney were talking about
this where, you know, generally 

588
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,440
when you and I know he's 27, so 
he's not 22. 

589
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,400
So I guess I have to stop saying
young, young ish, right? 

590
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:15,160
But usually like a hitter that's
in front of Aaron Judge or like 

591
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:19,280
a pool holes back in the day or 
a Mickey Cabrera or an A rod, 

592
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,120
like those type of those type of
hit Soto, right? 

593
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:26,720
The guys before those type of 
players, those transcendent 1 

594
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,880
percenters in baseball. 
Well, generally the guy before 

595
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,360
him is going to get fed 
fastballs, right? 

596
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,880
And he's going to benefit. 
And Coney was. 

597
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:37,840
It was a really astute 
observation. 

598
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:39,640
They don't do that with Ben 
Rice. 

599
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:45,040
They respect Ben Rice so much 
that they nibble with Ben Rice, 

600
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,680
meaning, all right, they're a 
little bit more afraid of Aaron 

601
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,280
Judge, and they should be. 
But they know if they don't 

602
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:56,000
really high, low dirt, go deep 
in a sequence, reverse pitching 

603
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,280
patterns, If they don't do that 
stuff to Ben Rice, Ben Rice is 

604
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:03,440
going to hit 350. 
Like the league knows he's that 

605
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,280
dude. 
So here's what I would do. 

606
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,880
I would within the next week or 
so, this won't happen. 

607
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,640
But here's what I would do if I 
own the Yankees, I would give 

608
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,680
Ben Rice a new contract today. 
I would do it. 

609
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,920
It would happen. 
It would happen today. 

610
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,600
All right, maybe a couple days. 
dot the IS cross the T's 

611
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,320
lawyers, you know, agents are 
fine. 

612
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,800
That's why I say weak. 
But conceptually today, here you

613
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:28,840
go. 
Here you go. 

614
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:35,800
Here's five years at, I don't 
know, five years at you want to 

615
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,680
give 20 million a year. 
Obviously you want to escalate 

616
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,560
this thing, right? 
Because Ben Rice right now is 

617
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:45,040
making $880,000, which is, which
is nice money, but it's not nice

618
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:48,480
when you got scrubs in baseball 
making 1012151820. 

619
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:50,240
And then obviously well beyond 
that. 

620
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,240
Now I also get it. 
You're a product of, you know, 

621
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,880
when you're drafted, when you're
called up your age and he's 

622
00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:01,000
still pre ARB and the the Major 
League minimum. 

623
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,680
What is it? 
It's 780. 

624
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:08,000
He's making $100,000 more than 
the guys are just called up who 

625
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,680
are happy to be on a Major 
League roster. 

626
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:11,720
You know, whether it's from the 
start of the season or it's 

627
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,480
prorated if they get called up 
once the season starts. 

628
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,600
So you got to do right by this 
guy and they they won't because 

629
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:18,840
they don't, they don't really do
that. 

630
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,120
They did that. 
They've only, I think they did 

631
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,440
that with Sevy and they did that
with Hicks and Hicks came back 

632
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,040
to bite him and you know, 
Severino had some injuries. 

633
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,720
So it's generally against no, 
not, it's pretty much always 

634
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,240
against their business 
principles, the way they, the 

635
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,360
way they conduct business. 
So what? 

636
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,120
There's always somebody that 
should force you to change your 

637
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,880
mindset. 
I'm going to bestow this young 

638
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,320
man with something that he 
really can't say no to. 

639
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:47,520
And I'm going to also win 
downstream. 

640
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,280
Now, again, I'm just throwing 
numbers out. 

641
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:50,760
You know, you want to worry 
about opt outs. 

642
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:52,880
I who knows? 
It seems like Ben Rice loves 

643
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,600
being a Yankee. 
He's a lefty, he's a stud. 

644
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,400
You know, the opt outs are new 
modern business. 

645
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:00,960
So I don't know, but I maybe 
doesn't want them, whatever. 

646
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:05,640
But I'm just thinking in a 
older, maybe more conventional 

647
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:10,080
contract construction, five 
years escalating up, you know, 

648
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:15,880
next year get him up to 13, then
the next year 17 five, then 20.5

649
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:20,280
and then 20 set by just go to a 
point where ages, you know, 

650
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:24,560
2829303132. 
This young man's making some 

651
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:28,240
bank because he's going to be a 
multi time All Star. 

652
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:32,640
He's going to be a multi time 
top 10 MVP performer and he's 

653
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,720
just going to be the juice along
with judge in the in the middle 

654
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,680
of the batting order. 
He is that good. 

655
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,360
Ben Rice is is just I love him. 
I love his approach. 

656
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,880
I love everything about him. 
So I know I really geeked out by

657
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,360
the way, look at that really 
geeked out with this. 

658
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,000
I mean, talk about putting some 
time into it. 

659
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,280
And I just wanted to make sure 
that you guys understand this 

660
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,960
like I am. 
Listen, man, I know that 

661
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,240
baseball savants not for 
everybody. 

662
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:58,360
I get it. 
You want to crack some jokes BT 

663
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:00,440
with his analytics. 
I don't really throw many 

664
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:02,800
analytics at you. 
I don't throw much of that at 

665
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,880
you because I know that number 
one, you know, you're either 

666
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,440
into it or you're not. 
And if you're into it, you don't

667
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,280
necessarily need me to teach you
about it because you're into it.

668
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,520
And if you're not into it, then 
you just not into it and you 

669
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,640
probably don't care. 
Like if I, if I gave this to my 

670
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:20,160
dad, he would get a zero. 
And my dad knows baseball as 

671
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,680
well as anybody that I know 
because he taught me baseball, 

672
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:24,440
right? 
That's how much I respect my 

673
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,720
dad's baseball acumen. 
But and, and certainly the 

674
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:28,920
history of the game, but it's 
more rooted in, you know, 

675
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:32,080
conventional statistics, batting
average, you know, stuff like 

676
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:35,320
that, right? 
Old time players and the context

677
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,080
of the history. 
He wouldn't know any of this 

678
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,560
stuff except maybe hard hit 
percent that you can figure out.

679
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,760
So I, I only do that. 
So if there's a few of you who 

680
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:48,000
are scared, I don't mean scared 
and like afraid, but I mean 

681
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,920
reluctant, you know, reticent, 
confused. 

682
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,760
Maybe it's a better way of 
confused by some of these deeper

683
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:58,040
analytical numbers. 
I just do that to really 

684
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:02,760
illuminate and understand what 
you are watching in the early 

685
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:06,200
stages of Ben Rice. 
You can take this to the bank as

686
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,320
long as he is healthy. 
There will be no regression 

687
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:13,719
where Ben Rice is a 262 hitter 
with a 790 OPS. 

688
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,280
It's not happening. 
It's not happening. 

689
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:18,440
I'm not saying Ben Rice won't 
have a bad month. 

690
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,639
I'm not saying Ben Ben Rice 
won't go 2 for 20. 

691
00:34:21,639 --> 00:34:24,040
It's baseball, Susan. 
Everybody does. 

692
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:28,440
But everything about this young 
hitter screams. 

693
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,600
And it screamed it last year. 
Many of you were just too 

694
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,159
ignorant to understand the 
numbers. 

695
00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:35,280
And don't take that the wrong 
way, but you are. 

696
00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:38,320
Or you were. 
Or you were just, you know, 

697
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,120
maybe if if ignorant doesn't fit
you, maybe you were just not 

698
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:43,520
interested. 
All right. 

699
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:44,760
You just look at the batting 
average. 

700
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:46,679
Yeah, he's good. 
He's he's interesting. 

701
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:51,040
No, he's well beyond that. 
And the Yankees had the Batman 

702
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,239
or the Robin. 
Pardon me, the Robin to to their

703
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,719
Batman. 
Now they've got that other dude 

704
00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:01,040
every single night that when you
sit in a the way it goes, guys, 

705
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,520
you get to a stadium, right? 
And you stretch, you hang out in

706
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,760
the locker room, all that stuff.
And then the positional groups 

707
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:09,120
they, they, they meet right. 
And it's it's obviously digital 

708
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,400
and it's deeply analytical. 
Clearly for them, even if you 

709
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:16,440
don't like it, this is what they
do, I promise you, because the 

710
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,200
whole league knows about Aaron 
Judge at this point, what he 

711
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,560
what whatever little weakness he
might have and what mistakes 

712
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,840
he's going to crush. 
So that's basic stuff that I 

713
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:29,120
really believe that the focal 
point of all of these pitching 

714
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:33,480
meetings, every time the Yankees
play whomever, it is almost all 

715
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,520
about Ben Rice because the, you 
know, Judge is 34. 

716
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,560
He's played for a while. 
He's the man. 

717
00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:42,160
Everybody knows who he is. 
Everybody knows Ben Rice's 

718
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,840
special. 
The Royals know it, the Twins 

719
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:48,840
know it, the Blue Jays, every 
team in baseball that has scouts

720
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:52,920
and eyes on numbers and players 
knows that this is not a mirage.

721
00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:57,400
Yanks got their second star and 
if they ever want to take a real

722
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:01,000
big swing and if Hal wants to, 
you know, I I hate it when we 

723
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,760
talk about George. 
I don't really do it that much 

724
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,440
just because it's it's so long 
ago. 

725
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,560
Not that I hate George, but you 
know, pertaining to Hal, it's 

726
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,360
lazy. 
It's it's just a constant 

727
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,640
regurgitation of the same stuff.
And I'm so far beyond that. 

728
00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:15,080
He's never going to be George, 
is basically what I'm saying. 

729
00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:18,560
So why waste energy, you know, 
clamoring for him to be 

730
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,920
something he's never going to 
be, you know, but maybe get a 

731
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:23,200
give it. 
That's why I gave you all the 

732
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:27,400
circumstances, the Yankees 
rotation, the fact that 2027 at 

733
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:31,360
the very least is going to be a 
truncated baseball season, You 

734
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,040
know, and, and and and all the 
other circumstances, the 

735
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,360
American League stinks. 
The Yankees should have the best

736
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,680
record when it's all said and 
said and done, unless there's 

737
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:43,040
catastrophic injuries across the
board, like you could now lay 

738
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:49,800
the foundation for a team that 
really looks like a World Series

739
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:51,800
team. 
I'd take it even a step further.

740
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:53,720
I'd find no Jazz is starting to 
wake up. 

741
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,640
I would try, I would trade Jazz.
I would find somebody who's just

742
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,840
more reliable. 
You know, I, I just would. 

743
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:00,200
I'm not even going to get into 
Jazz now. 

744
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,600
But it just paints a bigger 
picture downstream. 

745
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,040
The components are there, all 
right. 

746
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:08,400
And I think that Yankee fans are
feeling it rather than try to 

747
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,760
conjure up that energy like many
of you do. 

748
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,280
But I don't do that. 
Like, I just watch the Yankees 

749
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,640
and I and I tell you not it not 
it not don't have it. 

750
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:20,200
And there's still elements of 
the roster that are going to, 

751
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,200
you know, have to answer some 
questions. 

752
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:25,560
I mean, Volpe's coming back this
week. 

753
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,120
How long did they run Volpe out 
there? 

754
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,920
You know, now Caballero's 
hitting 350, whatever it is over

755
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,480
the last 15 days. 
Suddenly he can't steal a base, 

756
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,520
which is odd. 
And by the way, the play last 

757
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:39,920
night when he got thrown out and
Seeger, you know, tagged him and

758
00:37:40,240 --> 00:37:41,760
his his all you see this all the
time. 

759
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:43,880
His hand slid past the bag, 
right. 

760
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,440
I I mean, I first of all, I'm 
good, very good friends with 

761
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,560
Michael and I love Kony. 
I thought they were really off 

762
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,600
base that talking. 
I actually think Michael's going

763
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,080
to be on the show tomorrow. 
We're going to try to do it 

764
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,680
today, but can't do it today, 
probably tomorrow. 

765
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,360
And and I thought they were just
pushing it too forward in the 

766
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:01,880
direction that I just didn't 
agree with. 

767
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,640
Like they kept saying, like 
Seeger pushed him off the base. 

768
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:09,280
I mean, his glove, you know, 
tagged caballeros, that would be

769
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,160
his left hand with the sliding 
MIT. 

770
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:14,120
And it's, it was a natural tail.
Like they made it seem like 

771
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,520
they, you know, like he 
physically pushed him off the 

772
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:17,680
base. 
I thought that was a clean 

773
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:19,600
baseball player. 
I didn't see it the way they 

774
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,760
described it at all. 
And they challenged it because 

775
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:24,840
he was a nun. 
He was initially rung up. 

776
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,360
They challenged it. 
He was out because he came off 

777
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,000
the base and Seeger kept the 
leather on him. 

778
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,600
What you taught to do? 
I I just did. 

779
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:33,840
I didn't see that at all. 
I really disagreed with 

780
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,480
respectfully the way they were 
talking about that. 

781
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:38,760
And the other thing too, about 
these sliding mitts. 

782
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:41,280
And my son's guy, he don't 
really wear it. 

783
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,240
He's got a good one, but he's 
got like the Bruce bolt one 

784
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:47,040
never wears it, but most of the 
kids do, right? 

785
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:48,880
So and he always goes head 
first. 

786
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:50,560
I'm like, dude, just wear it. 
You're going to break a finger, 

787
00:38:50,720 --> 00:38:52,280
but he doesn't wear it. 
Whatever you want to listen to 

788
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:55,120
dad with that, that's fine. 
But when you slide with an oven 

789
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:59,840
man, you can't manipulate your 
hand to grab onto the corner of 

790
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:02,520
the base. 
And if you're going to wear 1 

791
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:04,960
like you want to do a swim move 
and you got you have access with

792
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:08,600
this, that's fine. 
Caballero wears 2, which to me 

793
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:12,880
is it's ridiculous. 
You've got to be the force in 

794
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:16,920
which these guys, I don't know 
mph because as you go ahead 

795
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:20,800
first, you actually and physics 
proves this out you decelerate. 

796
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,800
That's why they say don't go 
ahead first into first base 

797
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,360
because when you go ahead first,
you're slowing yourself down. 

798
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:30,360
You're decelerating, run through
the bag, but obviously second, 

799
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,120
third or home. 
Well, home you can second or 

800
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:33,560
third. 
You can't run through the bag. 

801
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,400
So it's a means to decelerate 
whatever and then get low and 

802
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:40,080
then do all the the modern swim 
techniques and and arm and hand 

803
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,440
manipulation. 
But when you've got two of those

804
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:45,520
mitts on, you can't grab 
anything because this is the 

805
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,480
oven Mitt. 
If you have that hand free, 

806
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:52,240
think hold on to the corner. 
Seeger could drop kick you. 

807
00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:53,720
You're probably going to stay on
the base. 

808
00:39:53,720 --> 00:39:56,600
So anyway, the Yankees look 
really, really good. 

809
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:58,600
I know they've beaten up on some
bad teams. 

810
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:03,040
I get it. 
And I understand that there's 

811
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:07,120
going to be a month, maybe more,
because the Yankees do do this 

812
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,920
historically under Boone. 
You know, they play well to 

813
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,920
start, then they hit that little
swoon and they play a broad 

814
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:17,040
scope of baseball that it's 
fairly uninspiring. 500 for a 

815
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:21,560
good 708090 game run. 
But you know, the start sets 

816
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:27,400
them up for a big finish and as 
coal rehabs, as Rodon rehabs, as

817
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,000
rice explodes. 
Got to love the way they look. 

818
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:31,880
All right, J Rod, let's get some
calls. 

819
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:33,600
They got a little nick stuff for
you later on as well. 

820
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:34,640
What do we have? 
First up, go. 

821
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:35,400
Ahead. 
Yes, Sir. 

822
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,560
We've got Bobby midnight. 
Bobby. 

823
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:40,040
Bobby. 
Bobby. 

824
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:41,360
Midnight. 
What up there, Bobbo? 

825
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:41,800
How are you? 
How? 

826
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:46,000
You doing you doing good today. 
Yeah, I'm doing well, Thank you.

827
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,520
How about you? 
I have to agree with Ben with 

828
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:49,680
you. 
I'm Ben Rice. 

829
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,000
I always liked him since last 
year. 

830
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:56,200
And also I think we need a bet 
like you said you were right on 

831
00:40:56,200 --> 00:41:01,320
that to get we got the money 
while use it right so we could 

832
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,440
go to win another championship. 
I don't think too much, by the 

833
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:06,520
way, about yeah, Yankees have 
the Yankees don't have as much 

834
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,240
money as people think because I 
saw this the other day. 

835
00:41:09,240 --> 00:41:12,840
The evaluation was like, I think
Hal was like Hal in terms of 

836
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,280
ownership was like 1.6 billion. 
And you've got Cohen, you've got

837
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,880
the Dodgers, you've got the 
Rogers Group like, and they were

838
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,320
like 21st. 
Hal was like 21st or 22nd in 

839
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:23,120
baseball. 
Very surprising for those who 

840
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,360
don't follow the finances. 
I do, but I didn't even think 

841
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,680
that they were that low. 
They but they've still, they've 

842
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:29,800
got the money. 
I think that the impediment 

843
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:33,680
could come maybe is their 
reluctance to eventually part 

844
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:36,000
with some higher level 
prospects. 

845
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:37,440
And I'm not talking about 
Lombard. 

846
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:41,320
I am not trading in for anybody.
I'm not doing unless the Royals 

847
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,840
want a straight up wit for which
they never would wit for 

848
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:45,800
Lombard. 
Yep, we'll make OK, fine, we'll 

849
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:47,160
do that happily. 
We'll do it. 

850
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:51,720
But Schlittler stays, Lombard 
stays like the other guys, you 

851
00:41:51,720 --> 00:41:54,240
know, Elmer Rodriguez and some 
of these young LeBron. 

852
00:41:54,240 --> 00:41:56,520
Hey, I I don't know if they 
would part with them. 

853
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:59,320
So that's the one thing that you
at least have to factor in 

854
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,200
there, Bobby, you know? 
And I want to just tell you 

855
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,280
you're awesome. 
Thanks, dude. 

856
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,320
I appreciate it, Bobby. 
Thanks for calling. 

857
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,200
Thank. 
I always like calling you to 

858
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:10,240
your show. 
I appreciate that, thank you. 

859
00:42:10,240 --> 00:42:11,800
Where now? 
Where are you calling in from 

860
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:13,720
though? 
I'm from Omont. 

861
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:17,400
Remember Me Bob from Omont? 
I'm trying to you talking about 

862
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:21,360
when you called on the fan. 
Yeah, with you and Evan, Evan 

863
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:22,920
Robertson. 
No, I never worked with EV. 

864
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:23,680
You get. 
Confused. 

865
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:26,120
Here. 
Craig. 

866
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,440
I never worked for Craig either.
All right, Bobby, thanks for the

867
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,560
call there. 
But no, no, no, I never worked 

868
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:34,200
whatever Craig talk about tiki 
or Sal, those are my partners at

869
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:35,200
the fan. 
Thanks for the call. 

870
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:38,960
I I listen, I'd be lined up. 
I said I, I specifically 

871
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:40,840
remember your call. 
We would we would take a lot of 

872
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:44,280
calls, but thank you for making 
that call. 

873
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:48,000
I believe the way you may have 
remembered him, he called from 

874
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,480
like a pizza place. 
I know he he, he and noted that 

875
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,880
last time you called in. 
I don't remember that either. 

876
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:56,520
And I have a pretty good memory 
with this stuff. 

877
00:42:58,040 --> 00:42:59,880
And let's try to diss the guy. 
Don't think it the wrong way, 

878
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:02,120
Bobby. 
You know, how about that stat, 

879
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:05,600
though, You know, and I see it 
all over social media and like, 

880
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:10,840
you know, even on the channel, 
you know, where I'll read the 

881
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:15,960
comments and I it's like some 
Yankee fans and listen, Mets 

882
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:19,040
fans are guilty of this as well,
but like, not now because 

883
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:21,360
there's nothing to chirp about 
now for if you're a Mets fan. 

884
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,760
But like Yankee fans, I don't 
know why they feel this 

885
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:28,040
incessant need to still talk 
about Soto. 

886
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,520
Why? 
Like we're talking about, you 

887
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:32,960
know, whether it's a Yankee clip
or even a Met clip, right? 

888
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:36,880
Oh, Soto's miserable, You know, 
Soto took the bag and he sold 

889
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,600
his soul. 
Who gives a shit? 

890
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:43,720
Who cares? 
He made his decision. 

891
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:47,480
Year one, not good. 
Oh for one, he was good. 

892
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:52,440
But big picture, Oh for one. 
Year 2 so far a resounding OH 

893
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:57,320
for two, you know, and we'll see
eventually if year two turns and

894
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,600
what year 345 and maybe opts 
out. 

895
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,280
Who knows at that point, maybe 
the Mets are like, you know, go 

896
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,480
because they can't control him 
if he opts out after Year 5 by 

897
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:09,240
attacking on 4 or 4 1/2 more 
$1,000,000 where he's not a lot,

898
00:44:09,240 --> 00:44:11,960
kind of like with the Yankees 
have with Gerrard, Cole and and 

899
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:14,520
some others along the way. 
So I don't know. 

900
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,960
I just don't get it though. 
I, I, it just seems so petty and

901
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:21,120
it always seems so petty to me. 
You know, that's why. 

902
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:22,920
And I'm not saying I'm above 
pettiness. 

903
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:26,200
I mean, jeez, but I understand 
the fandom and, and the jabs and

904
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,960
stuff, but I, I just, some of 
you are just ridiculously 

905
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:33,240
consumed with from, if you're a 
Yankee fan, what the Mets are 

906
00:44:33,240 --> 00:44:35,680
doing, the Mets are drowning. 
That's what the Mets are doing. 

907
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:39,720
And if you're a Mets fan, some 
of you are still ridiculously 

908
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:43,440
consumed with what the oh, this 
isn't real or all this we got 

909
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:45,160
Soto. 
You know what? 

910
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:48,240
What's the term rent free, rent 
free wants. 

911
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,160
Rent free wants. 
The Mets are supposed to be the 

912
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,280
penthouse right now. 
The Mets are a bad week away 

913
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:57,480
from living at a cardboard box 
by Central Park. 

914
00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:58,960
Rent free. 
What? 

915
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:04,200
You know, Jay Rod Celtics did 
bounce back. 

916
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:05,400
I was a little worried about 
that. 

917
00:45:05,720 --> 00:45:07,600
You know, they're up 31 going 
for the clothes tonight. 

918
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:09,400
We got some basketball. 
We got the Knicks tonight. 

919
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,560
Can't wait for the Knicks. 
And how, Jay, how about. 

920
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:14,160
And by the way, This is why it's
a big game tonight. 

921
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:16,160
Number one, it's Game 5 for the 
Knicks. 

922
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:19,840
But when the when the Sixers won
early in that series, I'm like, 

923
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:22,320
oh, oh, OK. 
And then the Knicks lost early 

924
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:24,280
in their series. 
I'm like, here we go. 

925
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:27,000
Knicks will be playing a long, 
long series and the Celtics will

926
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,760
sweep them. 
That's why I thought they would,

927
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:33,400
you know, going in and then the 
Sixers won a game and early and 

928
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,440
I'm like, oh, OK, but now 
Celtics aren't messing around. 

929
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:37,960
They're going to close this 
thing out tonight. 

930
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,480
And five, I firmly believe 
they're just so much better. 

931
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,000
And I believe that the Knicks, I
believe the Knicks are going to 

932
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,160
pound the Hawks tonight. 
I believe they're going to smack

933
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:46,960
them. 
Knicks are 6 1/2 point 

934
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,120
favorites. 
But yeah, I mean, this is a it's

935
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,760
a big night in basketball and 
last night was too. 

936
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:54,840
What in the world? 
I know you watch this stuff. 

937
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,080
What the hell is going on with 
the Pistons? 

938
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:01,360
It's disgraceful, dude. 
I mean, it's literally Cade 

939
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:03,840
ball. 
Jalen Duran has turned into. 

940
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,200
I don't even Celtic Shaq, he's 
turned into. 

941
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:10,120
Jalen Duran has turned into a 
figment of a player. 

942
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:13,440
Like he's not even he's not a 
real basketball player anymore. 

943
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:15,880
They're thinking about just who 
are, who are they running? 

944
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:18,960
They were saying like, run 
Isaiah Stewart to start or 

945
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,680
something like that. 
I said he'd say, so just 

946
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:23,760
completely falling off. 
And it's funny. 

947
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:27,920
I saw a tweet and it was like 
the Orlando Magic treat Jalen 

948
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,240
Suggs as if he's the best player
on their team. 

949
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:33,720
He's not. 
He just like keeps the ball in 

950
00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:35,160
his hand. 
He puts him up. 

951
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,400
Some nights he has 20. 
Some nights he doesn't. 

952
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:40,240
But yeah, I mean, absolutely 
balled out. 

953
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:44,080
And man, I think this Celtics 
Knicks series. 

954
00:46:45,240 --> 00:46:48,800
Hypothetically. 
Let me temper, let me temper 

955
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:52,480
expectations God damn 
hypothetical Celtics Knicks 

956
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:56,560
series next round will be the 
determining factor as to who 

957
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:58,320
makes the. 
NBA And think about the spice. 

958
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:01,080
I mean, the the show's already 
spicy, but think about the spice

959
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:04,680
it's going to bring to the show.
Me and you for 10 straight days.

960
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,040
Yeah, just going at it. 
Let's go. 

961
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:08,080
We need it. 
We need it. 

962
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:12,440
You going down, sucker? 
Can you please confirm? 

963
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,000
Is that true? 
I mean, Avery Summit's always 

964
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,200
reliable. 
Billy's just whacked Thompson. 

965
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:17,840
I mean, I'm not surprised. 
I just want to make sure it's 

966
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,040
true before I react to it. 
So he goes Mattingly, the 

967
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:22,760
interim manager. 
What's is that true? 

968
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:29,960
Billy's Thompson boom boom news.
Oh my gosh, true. 

969
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:32,680
I'm only seeing things from like
17 out. 

970
00:47:32,720 --> 00:47:35,360
Yep, Yep. 2 minutes ago. 2 
minutes ago. 

971
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:37,320
True. 
All right, all right. 

972
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:40,800
Well, yeah, I know that. 
Breaking news, not thanks to 

973
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,080
you. 
Breaking news thanks to Avery. 

974
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:46,360
Here's the thing, you know, you 
guys know Mattingly's my all 

975
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:47,560
time favorite. 
Anything. 

976
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:51,200
I mean, that I've have, I've got
a few others that are are, you 

977
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:53,960
know, close. 
But he's a planet away from 

978
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:58,120
like, Mullen and Ewing and 
Crabet and all my other all time

979
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:00,400
Wesley Walker Jets, all my other
all time favorites. 

980
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,880
Mark Jackson, Right? 
It's Mattingly in his own 

981
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:06,080
universe. 
And This is why, you know, I 

982
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:08,920
really never want Don Mattingly 
to become the manager of the 

983
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:11,320
Yankees. 
I admit it, I don't. 

984
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,400
I'm happy that he's getting 
another chance in Philly. 

985
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:17,440
I didn't think he wanted to 
necessarily do that. 

986
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:20,440
I, you know, Daddy was not sure 
he was going to come back. 

987
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:22,600
And even Coach, remember that 
last year when Bichette was 

988
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:25,520
hugging him in the Toronto 
dugout after the World Series 

989
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:27,560
when they lost. 
And, you know, to me that was 

990
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:30,120
symbolic of, you know, a gamer, 
even though Bouchette's been 

991
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:31,120
awful. 
Bouchette's got to start 

992
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:33,160
catching more heat. 
By the way, everybody's talk 

993
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:36,840
talking about Mendi and Soto's 
Cafe and Landor's out and 

994
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:39,720
Prientos this and the line up 
stinks and Beatty and then 

995
00:48:39,720 --> 00:48:41,200
Alfred. 
Yo, Bouchette, you going to 

996
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,200
start hitting a little bit? 
And I love Beau Bouchette, you 

997
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:45,000
got to wake up. 
He's done nothing. 

998
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,760
He might be the most culpable, 
really, when you think about it,

999
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,840
but I still love him as gamer 
and I still do think he's going 

1000
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:53,640
to wake up. 
It might be too late when he 

1001
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:56,600
wakes up for the Mets. 
But Bichette, I remember that 

1002
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:58,600
was very powerful. 
I really, you know, showing 

1003
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:01,000
Donnie appreciation. 
I think that everybody thought 

1004
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:03,800
that Donnie was done with 
baseball and now here he is back

1005
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,240
at the dugout when he was the 
hitting coach for the Yankees. 

1006
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:10,840
That was one thing like, you 
know, I don't ever want to see 

1007
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:13,400
Don Mattingly as the manager of 
the Yankees. 

1008
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:16,800
I couldn't take it because I 
just, I mean, you got to do your

1009
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:18,920
job right. 
But I, I, that's, I think that's

1010
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:21,080
the one guy like I'm, I'm 
friends with Boone. 

1011
00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:23,680
I forgot. 
Great admiration for Boone, 

1012
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,720
first and foremost, the man and 
Aaron Boone, the baseball lifer.

1013
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:31,040
But you know, I didn't grow up 
with Aaron Boone posters on my 

1014
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:33,560
bedroom wall. 
I didn't even, I didn't really 

1015
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:36,360
give Aaron Boone any thought 
until the game, you know, except

1016
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,280
respecting the Boone name and 
his dad, his grandfather, and 

1017
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,720
then obviously hitting that big 
home run off Tim Wakefield, rest

1018
00:49:41,720 --> 00:49:44,560
in peace, Tim Wakefield. 
And then, you know, I've gotten 

1019
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:46,480
to know him and he's just a 
great person and I think he's a 

1020
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:48,760
good manager, better than many 
of you do, but he ain't 

1021
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:52,360
Mattingly like so I I can't like
sit and Ben Rice to get lefties.

1022
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:55,160
I get all over him, you know, 
running out both be every single

1023
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,880
day got all over him last year. 
That's going to be interesting 

1024
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:00,120
to watch. 
What kind of leash does Volpe 

1025
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:02,360
get needed to happen? 
Phillies or putrid? 

1026
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:04,120
Thompson was lifeless, no 
energy. 

1027
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:07,080
I mean, aren't we kind of saying
the same thing about Mendoza at 

1028
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:08,960
Virtual Discourse? 
Let me ask you a question. 

1029
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:12,240
You tell me who the better 
franchise has been in the last X

1030
00:50:12,240 --> 00:50:14,600
amount of years, the Phillies or
the Mets, right? 

1031
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:16,960
So just parallel these two 
things. 

1032
00:50:17,720 --> 00:50:19,520
The records are basically the 
same. 

1033
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:23,840
Both had high expectations, both
have massive payrolls, both have

1034
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,120
store names, right? 
You got Harper, you resigned 

1035
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:29,080
Schwarber, you got some others. 
And the Phillies, as they get 

1036
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,200
ready to go into May, looked at 
their situation, they're like, 

1037
00:50:32,240 --> 00:50:34,920
no way unacceptable, you're 
fired, get out. 

1038
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:37,280
Because they got to change 
something and the Mets did 

1039
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:39,240
nothing. 
And you want to bring in the Red

1040
00:50:39,240 --> 00:50:42,360
Sox, who have more championships
this century than the Yankees, 

1041
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:45,640
let alone the Mets. 
And because the Mets haven't won

1042
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:48,680
forever. 
And very similarly now, a lot of

1043
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:50,680
people criticize that move. 
And I think he's a very good 

1044
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:52,640
manager and he's going to get 
hired very soon. 

1045
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:54,720
But if he wants back in right 
away. 

1046
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:57,520
But the Red Sox said, but what 
are we doing here, man? 

1047
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,040
And we can't hit. 
We have 19 home runs as a team. 

1048
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:03,400
We look lifeless with Dorman. 
And this is unacceptable. 

1049
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:04,920
All right? 
And what did they do? 

1050
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:08,480
The Red Sox fired their manager.
So right now, and I'm not 

1051
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:10,520
talking about a Rockies team, 
even though the Rockies just 

1052
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:14,000
swept the Mets, I'm not talking 
about like a younger team with a

1053
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:17,640
lower payroll. 
When you are a big market team 

1054
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:21,360
that is expected to be really 
good and you look the way the 

1055
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:24,840
Red Sox, the Phillies and the 
Mets have looked, two teams did 

1056
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:26,840
something about it and one is 
doing nothing. 

1057
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:30,880
Tells you a lot. 
Tells you a lot. 

1058
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:34,560
You know, I see that coming a 
mile away. 

1059
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:38,840
Let me just look at the 
standings here real quick, man. 

1060
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:41,440
I'm going to read that text. 
That's I'm going to read that in

1061
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:42,080
a SEC. 
Hang on. 

1062
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:47,080
So I was giving you some of the 
stats, how there's only five 

1063
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:52,840
teams in the NL at 500 or lower,
and there's eleven teams out of 

1064
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:57,160
15 in the American League who 
are at 500 or lower, you know? 

1065
00:51:57,160 --> 00:52:00,360
But you look at the National 
League here, I mean, the 

1066
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,760
Phillies and the Mets have the 
same exact record, 9 to 19. 

1067
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:06,760
You know, it's crazy. 
And one manager's gone and one 

1068
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:09,320
guy looks like he's no problem 
here. 

1069
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:10,520
We're good. 
Yeah. 

1070
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:12,520
Why would we fire our manager? 
We look good. 

1071
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:17,320
We play well, we run the bases, 
we hit, you know, we catch the 

1072
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:18,800
ball. 
We got no problems here. 

1073
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:22,200
Or we fire anybody. 
Yeah. 

1074
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:23,080
Anyway. 
All right. 

1075
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:27,080
So at John Horvath, 9542. 
Thank you, John. 

1076
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:30,240
With managers, do we put too 
much stock into what they bring 

1077
00:52:30,240 --> 00:52:32,280
to the game each day? 
Thompson took over the Phillies 

1078
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:35,840
mid season after Girardi was 
fired and brought them to the 

1079
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:37,800
World Series. 
Now he is gone. 

1080
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:39,960
Well, listen, I do think there's
a lot of truth to that. 

1081
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:41,520
I'm not saying it's all 
Mendoza's fault. 

1082
00:52:41,720 --> 00:52:44,000
It's not all Thompson's fault. 
Was it all Cora's fault? 

1083
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:46,480
See, but I mean, eventually you 
got to do something. 

1084
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:49,560
And I'm not a big proponent of 
just doing something for the 

1085
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:52,880
sake of doing something. 
Why I say you got to do 

1086
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:57,080
something is because sometimes, 
sometimes that's something can 

1087
00:52:57,080 --> 00:53:00,520
be the impetus to spark change, 
whether it's emotional or 

1088
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:03,080
whether it's a slightly 
different lineup or it's 

1089
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:06,160
different, you know, usage of 
the bullpen or it's just a 

1090
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:08,840
different demeanor at a 
different, I mean, you know, 

1091
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:10,600
some things you can't 
necessarily quantify. 

1092
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:14,880
I get it. 
You know, like to me, excuse me,

1093
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:22,160
to me, I think that I think in 
some circles, Mendoza has been 

1094
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:27,640
like everything's dropped at his
doorstep for some now. 

1095
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:31,080
I think the real rational way to
look at look at it this way is 

1096
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:35,440
Sterns was abysmal this 
offseason and Mendoza is just 

1097
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:38,240
continuing what he continued 
last year when he was not a good

1098
00:53:38,240 --> 00:53:41,440
manager for the New York Mets, 
indisputable and not just 

1099
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:45,000
because they only won 83 games. 
The bullpen and the things that 

1100
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:47,840
we've talked about, which I 
talked about real time last 

1101
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:51,720
year, Mendoza was a, to me, a 
negative as a manager. 

1102
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:54,040
You know, I'll tell you a good 
story. 

1103
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:57,080
I remember talking to Jack 
Morris. 

1104
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:59,680
This is one of my all time 
favorite baseball stories, 

1105
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:03,600
right? 
I was in Lakeland, FL where the 

1106
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:07,280
Tigers train Joker Marching 
Stadium and this before the 

1107
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:08,640
refurbishments, it looks really 
good. 

1108
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:11,120
Now. 
This was in like 2002, you know,

1109
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:13,240
I was working in Detroit and I 
would go down for spring 

1110
00:54:13,240 --> 00:54:15,920
training, do my old midness a 
million years ago, do my old 

1111
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:19,000
midday show from one of our 
sister stations. 

1112
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:21,800
And then you know, like get 
interviews and like Phil Garner 

1113
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:24,280
was the manager. 
Jack Morris was, was he on the 

1114
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:26,920
staff? 
Was was he a roving instructor? 

1115
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:28,320
He may have been on the staff 
that year. 

1116
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:32,280
Tiger's were awful. 
Either way, I was young and Jack

1117
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:35,080
Morris was one of those guys. 
Like I was very new in the 

1118
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:38,240
business and Jack was one of 
those guys that was like a 

1119
00:54:38,240 --> 00:54:40,680
staple of the 80s. 
And like, you know, I was 

1120
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:44,280
mesmerized as strong, but 
definitely a little reluctant to

1121
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:46,600
just go up to him and introduce 
myself and and whatever. 

1122
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:48,600
And then forget. 
I was with my producer, Marty. 

1123
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:51,120
She was awesome, man. 
She was such a good producer. 

1124
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:53,560
So cool. 
And, you know, they played the 

1125
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:56,480
game and these guys are extra 
work on the field, whatever. 

1126
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:59,560
And Jack Morris and she and I 
are getting ready to walk out of

1127
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:02,520
the stadium and Jack Morris is 
sitting on a bench in the 

1128
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:05,000
bullpen and we're basically 
getting ready to pass them. 

1129
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:06,640
I'm like, I got to talk to Jack 
Morris. 

1130
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:10,760
So Long story short, short story
made long by BTI. 

1131
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:14,840
Sit there. 
I introduce myself and we wind 

1132
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:16,720
up talking for about 2530 
minutes. 

1133
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:18,880
Pure bait. 
Had this massive chew in. 

1134
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:21,240
I'm like, this is this is 
baseball heaven, man. 

1135
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:24,040
Like you see Jack Morris on the 
montage for this week in 

1136
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:25,360
baseball. 
I mean, come on. 

1137
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:29,120
I remember the quick aside. 
I remember coming home from a 

1138
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:34,320
Little League game in 84, the 
year the Tigers started 35 and 

1139
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:38,440
five and won the World Series. 
All right, And they play the 

1140
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:40,120
Padres. 
That's when Garvey hit the big 

1141
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:43,360
home run and raised his arm when
he was as a Padre, not a Dodger.

1142
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:46,520
Anyway, they start 35 to 5:00 
and I come back to my Little 

1143
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:48,360
League game and it was like, it 
was always tradition. 

1144
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:50,760
My dad would get the cold cuts 
and we would make a sandwich and

1145
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:52,440
we watch the game of the week in
the basement. 

1146
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:55,720
I loved it, man. 
Awesome, awesome Saturdays and 

1147
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:58,880
the game of the week. 
That week the Tigers were 

1148
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:01,920
playing, I forget who they were 
playing, but Jack Boars threw a 

1149
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:04,240
no hitter. 
And I remember watching 

1150
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:06,600
basically the entire game 
because when I got home from my 

1151
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:09,000
game, it was kind of coinciding 
with the start of the game of 

1152
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:14,320
the week with with Garagiola and
Ben Scully and Joe Garagiola and

1153
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:16,800
Burke. 
Dave Berkman was like some bit 

1154
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:18,800
role player who was a first 
baseman. 

1155
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:20,640
And I don't even think it was a 
very good defensive first 

1156
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:22,000
baseman. 
Like you didn't really wasn't a 

1157
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,040
very good player, didn't really 
even play that much. 

1158
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:26,800
Made a diving. 
I just remember making a diving 

1159
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:29,840
stop to preserve the no hitter. 
Anyway, that was just a little 

1160
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:32,000
flashback that popped into my 
head about Jack. 

1161
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:35,120
So you can see why I was, you 
know, a little maybe a little 

1162
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:36,160
nervous to go up and talk to 
him. 

1163
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:38,400
And he said, we're talking about
managers, right? 

1164
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:40,920
I don't know how that wasn't the
first thing we touched on, but 

1165
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:42,680
we got into it. 
And he said, let me tell you 

1166
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:45,560
something about managers, dude. 
He said manage. 

1167
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:49,760
Most managers do nothing. 
Like I break it down into 33 

1168
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:53,560
basic categories. 
The good manager is responsible 

1169
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:59,760
for about five wins a year. 
The rest of the, you know, 15 

1170
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:03,640
ish managers who are just 
average really have 0 impact on 

1171
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:07,440
the roster meet, meaning no 
tangible up or or down though 

1172
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:11,320
two or three wins or -1 or two. 
The bad managers, like the guys 

1173
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:13,800
who really aren't good, they're 
going to probably lose your five

1174
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:14,960
to seven games. 
I'm like wow. 

1175
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:17,040
And that always stuck with me 
right now. 

1176
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:20,400
Do I think that Carlos Mendoza 
has lost the Mets five to seven 

1177
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:21,880
games this year? 
No, I don't. 

1178
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:23,640
Do I think that he did last 
year? 

1179
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:27,920
I do. 
That's my opinion, but while 

1180
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:31,760
it's not all his fault and it's 
a wacky, awfully constructed 

1181
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:35,880
roster, which I kind of did like
going into the season, but it 

1182
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:39,280
ain't working. 
They're not losing because of 

1183
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:43,800
him, but there's such a lack of 
energy and passion and 

1184
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:47,600
fundamentals that at some point 
you got to make change to make 

1185
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:49,800
to just to to try to jolt the 
cage. 

1186
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:52,360
Wake up. 
That's why I said what I said 

1187
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:55,200
yesterday, and I stand by it. 
I would have moved on from 

1188
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:58,400
Carlos Mendoza yesterday. 
I would have elevated Correa. 

1189
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:01,240
And listen, if they don't play 
well against the Nats, if they 

1190
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:03,600
lose 2 out of three, you'd have 
to think that that's on the 

1191
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:05,720
table. 
Even if they win 2 out of three 

1192
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:07,680
and they start playing good 
teams again, these were bad 

1193
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:08,520
teams. 
They were playing. 

1194
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:10,960
They played the Rockies and then
they played the Twins. 

1195
00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:13,360
Now, I know the Nats could hit a
little bit and they actually 

1196
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:16,440
lost that first Twins game, but 
I, I don't think that this is 

1197
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:19,120
going to change much the noise 
around Mendoza because I don't 

1198
00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:23,720
think they're good enough to RIP
off like 9 or 10 straight or 15 

1199
00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:25,680
of 17. 
And like at some point they're 

1200
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:27,720
going to have to do that to get 
back in the equation. 

1201
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:30,200
Because just based on the math, 
which I gave you yesterday 

1202
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:33,000
during the show, Mets are going 
to have to play 65% winning 

1203
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:36,120
baseball to be an 8788 win team 
to get to the wild card. 

1204
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:38,960
I mean, just do they look like 
they're capable of doing that 

1205
00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:41,120
now? 
I mean, they're barely capable 

1206
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:43,680
of scoring a run. 
Half of their games they've had 

1207
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:47,440
two runs or less. 
So it's, it's not a hit piece on

1208
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:49,360
Mendoza. 
It wasn't yesterday. 

1209
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:52,080
It's never going to be that. 
I'm not into hit pieces. 

1210
00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:54,760
I'm not into character 
assassinations unless you're a 

1211
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:58,720
bad person, you know, And Carlos
Mendoza, by all the counts, is a

1212
00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:02,920
good person and a good man and a
good baseball man. 

1213
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:05,320
But you can't just keep rolling 
the shit out every day and do 

1214
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:06,680
nothing about it. 
You just can't. 

1215
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:09,520
I mean, you could, that's not 
how I would run my team. 

1216
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:12,440
So I just wanted to kind of back
that up a little bit. 

1217
00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:16,280
And by the but but but 
reinforced by the notion that I 

1218
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:20,640
do believe myself strongly that 
he was responsible for X amount 

1219
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:24,120
of losses last year. 
Like, if he was, if I perceived 

1220
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:27,680
him to be a different type of 
manager, like a really good one,

1221
00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:30,480
rather than somebody who I 
believe is slightly below 

1222
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:33,640
average, if not more, well, then
I would give him more rope to 

1223
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:36,760
figure things out this year. 
But this is spilling over from 

1224
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:39,880
last year, and now you're 
presenting yourself as a 

1225
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:43,760
substandard manager over not one
season, but now over 2. 

1226
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:45,560
That's my thought process behind
that. 

1227
00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:47,920
Let me get at PG. 
What was that, P? 

1228
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:50,480
What's that, PG? 
17 on the score, 89. 

1229
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:53,400
If Volpe struggles for a month, 
the Yankees should look to 

1230
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:55,960
movement. 
Let Lombard come up and prove 

1231
00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:56,840
himself. 
Yeah. 

1232
00:59:56,880 --> 01:00:00,240
I mean, listen, the Volpe thing 
is going to be really 

1233
01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:02,600
interesting, man. 
I mean, it would, that wouldn't 

1234
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:06,040
really help the Yankees if 
Caballero was hitting 119, but 

1235
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:08,520
it would, it would, it would 
help their from a team point of 

1236
01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:11,560
view because he's been pretty 
instrumental in some of these 

1237
01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:14,280
wins here. 
But it would help the decision 

1238
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:17,840
or the ability to run Volpe out 
there repeatedly. 

1239
01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:21,600
And just like I told you that 
when Dominguez was called up, he

1240
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:24,360
was going to play. 
Yankees are facing 3 righties 

1241
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:26,600
against and three good ones too.
I mean, at least, you know, 

1242
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:29,360
lighter, lighter. 
Man, I thought he was going to 

1243
01:00:29,360 --> 01:00:30,840
be better his second overall 
pick. 

1244
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:32,640
Hope he's teammate at Dale 
Barton. 

1245
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:35,400
You know, supposed to be better 
than this and we all love his 

1246
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:38,080
pops and the lighter family. 
He's not what he was supposed to

1247
01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:42,160
be. 
Just not, you know, but you're 

1248
01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:44,520
going to run Dominguez out there
against these right-handed 

1249
01:00:44,520 --> 01:00:46,760
pitchers, even though his 
right-handed stats and the 

1250
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:48,960
miners were pretty good this 
year, which is his weaker side, 

1251
01:00:48,960 --> 01:00:50,880
even though it's his natural 
side either way. 

1252
01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:53,600
And I you're not going to call 
Volpe up and sit them. 

1253
01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:56,800
You're going to play them and 
Caballero was going to go back 

1254
01:00:56,800 --> 01:01:00,080
to that super sub role. 
And I think, you know, now Jazz 

1255
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:01,680
is getting hot again. 
So you're going to keep rolling 

1256
01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:04,200
Jazz out and roll them out there
and and run that hot streak, 

1257
01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:05,440
right. 
But you can see a little 

1258
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:07,880
Caballero with third because 
he's a better fielder than 

1259
01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:10,920
Rosario for sure and see a 
little Caballero with shortstop.

1260
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:13,960
If Volpe maybe because you're 
coming back from rehab, maybe 

1261
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:16,200
you play a couple of games in a 
row, then you sit, then he get 

1262
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:19,400
back in there. 
You see a little caballero with 

1263
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:22,400
second, maybe a little caballero
and right, you know with Judge D

1264
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:23,640
agent a little bit in the left 
here. 

1265
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:25,240
So he's going to play a little 
bit. 

1266
01:01:26,080 --> 01:01:31,120
I think that the Yankees are 
going to give Volpe, you know, I

1267
01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:36,280
would say I think into early 
June at the least to to see 

1268
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:38,080
where he's at. 
You know, his swing did look a 

1269
01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:39,880
little flatter. 
You know, I don't, I'm not a 

1270
01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:41,800
hitting coach, even though I 
love these numbers and stuff. 

1271
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:43,320
So I'll stay in my lane a little
bit. 

1272
01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:46,080
It did look a little flatter. 
It has produced more line 

1273
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:47,680
drives. 
Is the Miners all right? 

1274
01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:51,840
Although we did face Zach 
Wheeler, so you can see a little

1275
01:01:51,840 --> 01:01:54,120
tweak there at the arm is what 
it is. 

1276
01:01:54,120 --> 01:01:55,680
He just has a weak arm at 
shortstop. 

1277
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:59,040
You watch Lombard flip it from 
his side and it's a rocket. 

1278
01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:01,160
You know, you look at Volpe, 
who's got to be perfect 

1279
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:04,040
positioning and very quick 
release to get rid of the ball 

1280
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:05,880
to beat guys running down the 
line. 

1281
01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:06,800
Like that's never going to 
change. 

1282
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:08,800
He's always going to be a 
deficient thrower of the ball. 

1283
01:02:09,040 --> 01:02:12,280
But I do think he's got great 
hands and and I do think he 

1284
01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:15,840
rectified the defensive issues 
from a year ago, which tells me 

1285
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:17,600
he's got some metal, he's got 
some moxie. 

1286
01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:19,400
And I'm not surprised because 
he's a Jersey kid. 

1287
01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:21,200
You know, I don't think he's 
going to melt. 

1288
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:22,640
I just don't know if he's good 
enough. 

1289
01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:24,760
And they need to get that 
answer. 

1290
01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:26,560
Like there's no, I don't think 
under. 

1291
01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:29,200
My son asked me this. 
Actually, he didn't even ask me.

1292
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:32,400
He said it last night because we
were watching the Yankee game in

1293
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:33,880
the head. 
We've got back from his game and

1294
01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:37,240
my daughter's game. 
We got back from from that and 

1295
01:02:37,240 --> 01:02:40,160
we were watching the Yankees for
a little bit and they had the, 

1296
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:42,880
you know, Volpe this picture and
hey, you know, coming back 

1297
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:44,200
Wednesday or whatever it might 
be. 

1298
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:47,400
And he's like, this is it. 
It wasn't even a question. 

1299
01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:50,680
You know, this is my 11 year old
son, my 11 year old saying he's 

1300
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:52,360
got to play well this year, 
otherwise he's going to be off 

1301
01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:54,640
the team next year. 
And I'm like, Yep, that's true. 

1302
01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:57,840
Because then you get into a 
situation where you know, 

1303
01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:01,520
Lombard's really going to be 
ready and you know, maybe the 

1304
01:03:01,520 --> 01:03:06,760
one caveat would be, you know, 
if he shows just enough where 

1305
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:10,440
you're like one more year, you 
know, Jazz moves on. 

1306
01:03:10,440 --> 01:03:14,000
Maybe a pun Volpe to second 
maybe, which I actually like. 

1307
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:16,000
I I don't know if they would do 
that. 

1308
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:19,320
I do think there gets a point of
expiration when you're a first 

1309
01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:23,760
round pick and you repeatedly 
get chances and you don't show 

1310
01:03:23,760 --> 01:03:27,760
any palpable growth on base or a
batting average, which is 

1311
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:30,160
antiquated. 
But obviously on base and OPS 

1312
01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:33,600
and the strikeout rate is just 
unacceptably high. 

1313
01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:35,240
You don't have to move on from 
that play. 

1314
01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:37,240
It's just going to be the noise 
is going to be loud. 

1315
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:40,040
When you're a first round pick 
and you're from here and you're 

1316
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:43,920
playing for the Yankees, there's
only so much tarmac you can hit.

1317
01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:47,080
Let me get the blind beard. 52 O
6. 

1318
01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:49,120
Philly's fire manager can get 
rid of ours. 

1319
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:51,480
I mean, I mean, you heard the 
show yesterday. 

1320
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:53,240
I yeah, that's what I've been 
saying. 

1321
01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:56,400
Very surprised. 
I think it's a very interesting 

1322
01:03:57,640 --> 01:04:01,640
comparison the way these big 
market teams are are reacting to

1323
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:07,720
horrendous, sloppy starts. 
Like when you start the way the 

1324
01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:12,200
Red Sox, the Phillies and the 
Mets have started and you know, 

1325
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:15,160
the ticket prices aren't cheap 
and you've got big payrolls and 

1326
01:04:15,480 --> 01:04:17,800
bloated expectations and some 
big names. 

1327
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:20,480
I mean, the fan base isn't just 
going to be like, yeah, it's 

1328
01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:22,800
early, even though it is kind of
early in the grand, you know, 

1329
01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:26,360
context of 162 game season. 
They're going to be freaking 

1330
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:30,160
pissed and that translates to 
calling up all the radio shows 

1331
01:04:30,160 --> 01:04:32,400
and maybe not showing up to 
games. 

1332
01:04:32,720 --> 01:04:34,800
And, you know, there's recourse 
there. 

1333
01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:37,360
And two of the three teams did 
it and the Mets have not. 

1334
01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:40,840
And, and I'm, you know, I, I'm 
not surprised the Mets haven't 

1335
01:04:40,840 --> 01:04:44,440
fired Mendoza. 
I'm not surprised by that. 

1336
01:04:45,240 --> 01:04:48,200
But I don't believe it's the 
right move or it's the right non

1337
01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:49,760
move. 
You guys know where I stand on 

1338
01:04:49,760 --> 01:04:52,520
that. 
You know, Oh, J Rod, by the way,

1339
01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:55,080
'cause we get we jumped into 
back to the baseball stuff here.

1340
01:04:55,360 --> 01:04:58,200
I wanted to say one thing I'll 
do a Little Mix here. 

1341
01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:00,920
We get the calls going as well, 
get the chat going like it sub 

1342
01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:03,440
all that stuff all right, so we 
hit a I'm like, what's wrong 

1343
01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:05,560
with the magic? 
Well, let me give you a direct 

1344
01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:08,760
answer. 
So you know, first of all, and 

1345
01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:12,160
you and I know this because we 
follow the NBA, the magic, we're

1346
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:13,960
never going to be an easy out 
for anybody. 

1347
01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:17,280
They're just not right now. 
They'll get an easy match up in 

1348
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:20,080
the next round, the Magic and 
the winner. 

1349
01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:23,000
You know, if the Knicks and when
the Knicks move on and if the 

1350
01:05:23,040 --> 01:05:26,160
Celtics and when the Celtics 
move on, whomever advances from 

1351
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:30,960
the Knicks Celtics series is, 
you know, the Magic are not 

1352
01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:33,560
going to be as easy as you 
think, but it will be the Magic.

1353
01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:35,040
There's no way the Magic would 
lose that. 

1354
01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:36,520
They're going to smoke. 
Who meant whether it would be 

1355
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:38,520
the Raptors? 
Or the Cavaliers. 

1356
01:05:38,520 --> 01:05:40,880
You think you think the Magic 
smoke the Cavs? 

1357
01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:43,880
I think they I think that they 
would smoke the Raptors. 

1358
01:05:43,880 --> 01:05:45,800
I think that they would beat the
Cavs in six. 

1359
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:49,080
I think the Cavaliers. 
So maybe good way to check me. 

1360
01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:52,200
Smoke is unfair to the Cavs. 
They I believe they would 

1361
01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:56,120
absolutely beat them myself. 
Personally, OK, I'm taking magic

1362
01:05:56,120 --> 01:05:57,560
over Raptors. 
Yeah. 

1363
01:05:57,640 --> 01:06:00,520
There's something inside me, and
I know I don't trust him in the 

1364
01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:03,360
playoffs either. 
There's something inside me that

1365
01:06:03,360 --> 01:06:08,400
tells me James Harden would not 
even this James Harden would not

1366
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:11,640
lose to A to this magic team in 
the playoffs. 

1367
01:06:11,840 --> 01:06:14,040
But I mean anything could. 
Happen. 

1368
01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:15,760
Yeah. 
I'm just not a huge James Harden

1369
01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:18,760
guy, you know? 
To me he is I'm just not, you 

1370
01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:22,440
know, he to me is a real 
illustration of of and I know 

1371
01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:24,560
he's a great scorer. 
So I'm not I'm not crushing the 

1372
01:06:24,560 --> 01:06:27,680
guy here, but to me he's just 
too much of of what's wrong with

1373
01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:33,040
the NBA 0 interest in defense, 
you know, Gunner and and and 

1374
01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:36,640
more directly when you look at 
his prime, I mean, countless 

1375
01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:41,560
moments against the warriors 
coming up small and and not only

1376
01:06:41,600 --> 01:06:44,240
like it's one thing to have a 
bad game and aversion to 

1377
01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:45,960
shooting. 
You remember those nights where 

1378
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:49,320
you know what I'm? 
Saying that and the, you know, 

1379
01:06:49,320 --> 01:06:53,000
his series on the Nets versus 
the Bucks and all the Bucks 

1380
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:55,000
where you know, they just didn't
get it done. 

1381
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:57,440
He just didn't get it done. 
He's not, he's not a playoff 

1382
01:06:57,440 --> 01:06:59,840
performer. 
There's just a little, I don't 

1383
01:06:59,840 --> 01:07:01,920
know, there's a little something
just telling me. 

1384
01:07:02,240 --> 01:07:05,120
He wouldn't lose. 
Listen, I mean, he is one of the

1385
01:07:05,120 --> 01:07:07,280
great scores of all time. 
I mean, he's a three level 

1386
01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:08,680
scorer. 
When he was in his prime, he 

1387
01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:11,280
really was. 
Anyway, so the Magic are in 

1388
01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:13,720
great shape up 3 to 1. 
And how about this? 

1389
01:07:13,720 --> 01:07:19,040
So the NBA started charting 
turnovers in playoff games, like

1390
01:07:19,040 --> 01:07:24,200
actually keeping records of 
turnovers in 19781979. 

1391
01:07:24,560 --> 01:07:28,320
It's a long time ago, right? 
A couple of years after the ABA 

1392
01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:29,440
folded. 
Think about that. 

1393
01:07:29,440 --> 01:07:31,720
And I believe it was the year 
before the three-point shot. 

1394
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:36,360
Yeah, because the three-point 
shot was in 79 and this was for 

1395
01:07:36,360 --> 01:07:40,200
the 7879 season by the way. 
You know, I would I would do 

1396
01:07:40,200 --> 01:07:43,520
this a lot on the fan. 
Like just do me a favor. 

1397
01:07:43,520 --> 01:07:46,720
Just double check this. 
I believe that Chris Ford was 

1398
01:07:46,720 --> 01:07:49,920
the was the first made 3 point 
shot in the history of the NBA 

1399
01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:52,080
when he was a Celtic. 
Can you confirm that for me? 

1400
01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:54,800
Yep, it was right. 
Is it Chris Ford? 

1401
01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:59,200
Chris Ford, first ever, 3 
October 12th, 1979. 

1402
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:00,600
It's an early start to the 
season. 

1403
01:08:00,600 --> 01:08:03,800
Yeah, I told you for 79. 
So anyway, so some of these even

1404
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:05,960
like blocked shots and some of 
these other things like there's 

1405
01:08:05,960 --> 01:08:10,120
just not unlike baseball. 
It's just the the statistical 

1406
01:08:10,120 --> 01:08:14,600
written account is even Steel's 
is is not as lengthy. 

1407
01:08:14,640 --> 01:08:18,040
So the turnovers go back to 
7879. 

1408
01:08:18,279 --> 01:08:22,880
Do you know that Kate Cunningham
has set an NBA record over a 

1409
01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:27,040
three-game playoff span with the
most turnovers in the history of

1410
01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:30,640
the NBA 24? 
24. 

1411
01:08:32,040 --> 01:08:35,640
Yeah, man. 
God, Oh my gosh, how about that?

1412
01:08:35,840 --> 01:08:38,880
Get the ball out of his. 
Dang, give it to Dennis Jenkins.

1413
01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:43,720
Come on. 
I mean seriously BT you cut out.

1414
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:45,120
I'm no, I'm here. 
I should. 

1415
01:08:45,120 --> 01:08:45,600
Be here. 
You're here. 

1416
01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:46,640
You're here. 
You're Cam. 

1417
01:08:46,680 --> 01:08:48,200
Yeah, I think your camera might 
have cut. 

1418
01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:50,399
Are we good now? 
You're good, You're good. 

1419
01:08:50,479 --> 01:08:51,680
You're good. 
All right. 

1420
01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:52,560
We're straight. 
I don't know. 

1421
01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:56,120
A momentary disturbance. 
In the Force. 

1422
01:08:57,040 --> 01:09:01,680
Yes, no, wait. 
That stat is absolutely horrific

1423
01:09:02,120 --> 01:09:05,840
because I remember in 2024, 
Tatum set the record. 

1424
01:09:05,840 --> 01:09:09,720
He probably still holds it for 
most turnovers in an NBA playoff

1425
01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:12,000
run. 
I mean, it's easily in the 100 

1426
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:16,640
something, but wow, 24 and three
games. 

1427
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:20,359
I mean, you're not going to win 
and four, you know, you're not 

1428
01:09:20,359 --> 01:09:23,880
going to even give yourself a 
chance to win 4 basketball games

1429
01:09:23,880 --> 01:09:25,200
if that's how you're. 
Doing No. 

1430
01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:26,479
Yeah, I want to make sure I'm 
reading it right. 

1431
01:09:26,479 --> 01:09:27,040
Yeah, he's got. 
I know. 

1432
01:09:27,040 --> 01:09:29,960
He's got 24 last three games, 
most of the three-game span of 

1433
01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:34,000
the playoffs since 7778, when 
turnovers were initially tracked

1434
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:37,240
in the NBA. 
This is research you got to do 

1435
01:09:37,240 --> 01:09:38,640
if you want to have a show here 
buddy, come. 

1436
01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:41,040
On I mean you, you would think 
you would think this stuff. 

1437
01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:42,880
I got a little Steve. 
I got a little Steve Summers 

1438
01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:45,399
here now. 
I don't read it, but you know, I

1439
01:09:45,399 --> 01:09:48,760
love my notes, man. 
I love the preparation. 

1440
01:09:48,840 --> 01:09:52,319
I, I've always been, I've always
enjoyed that. 

1441
01:09:52,439 --> 01:09:55,200
And it's even easier now 
because, you know, obviously I'd

1442
01:09:55,200 --> 01:09:57,920
have to drive into WFAN and I 
would always get there early and

1443
01:09:57,960 --> 01:10:00,880
I would have, I would get there 
like 830 for 10:00 show. 

1444
01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:02,680
And I would, I would like a 
little time by myself to get 

1445
01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:05,240
things ready. 
But I got a couple, my wife 

1446
01:10:05,240 --> 01:10:07,400
picked me up a little Starbucks.
I haven't had Starbucks in a 

1447
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:09,840
while. 
A little Venti Pike, you know, 

1448
01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:12,360
got a little coffee. 
I got the office going. 

1449
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:16,640
I got my notes. 
I just ordered a new slab of 20 

1450
01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:19,880
legal pads from Amazon because 
I've already burned through 15 

1451
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:21,160
or 16 of them. 
Yeah, Yeah. 

1452
01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:24,320
What else? 
Oh, let me answer this year. 

1453
01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:28,000
How about tell the Yankees Brian
Barrett, 732? 

1454
01:10:28,320 --> 01:10:30,520
Is the pen the weakest link to 
the Yankees team? 

1455
01:10:30,520 --> 01:10:33,080
Seems like they're going to need
some major help to keep runs off

1456
01:10:33,080 --> 01:10:36,240
the board in October. 
Well, yes, that's the answer for

1457
01:10:36,240 --> 01:10:39,040
right now. 
But you've got to understand and

1458
01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:40,840
listen, I, I have been ahead of 
this. 

1459
01:10:40,840 --> 01:10:42,880
I, I think as much as anybody. 
I, I really do. 

1460
01:10:42,880 --> 01:10:46,040
I'm not trying to pat myself on 
the back, but you have to look 

1461
01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:50,680
at like what the roster will 
eventually look like when it's 

1462
01:10:50,680 --> 01:10:54,360
go time for the Yankees and you 
have to incorporate the guys who

1463
01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:56,760
are on the way back. 
Well, but they're starting 

1464
01:10:56,760 --> 01:10:57,800
pitchers. 
What does that do for the 

1465
01:10:57,800 --> 01:11:00,520
bullpen? 
I've told you 1,000,000 * 2 of 

1466
01:11:00,520 --> 01:11:02,480
those guys that are doing a 
pretty good job in the starting 

1467
01:11:02,480 --> 01:11:07,080
rotation now will go to the 
bullpen, you know, and then not 

1468
01:11:07,080 --> 01:11:09,280
to mention you don't need a five
man rotation, the playoffs. 

1469
01:11:09,280 --> 01:11:10,920
You could conceivably even go 
with three. 

1470
01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:15,160
So I mean, in a perfect world, 
everybody's healthy, everybody's

1471
01:11:15,160 --> 01:11:18,240
on top of their game, 
everybody's, you know, dialed 

1472
01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:23,840
in, Freed, Schlittler, Cole, 
Rodon, and then you could take a

1473
01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:27,080
Weathers and a Warren and a 
Schmidt. 

1474
01:11:27,760 --> 01:11:29,640
You have Bednar who's always 
going to make you sweat a little

1475
01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:30,960
bit, but I, I, I still trust 
him. 

1476
01:11:32,200 --> 01:11:36,080
Legrande and Elmer Rodriguez. 
And then maybe you make and Tim 

1477
01:11:36,080 --> 01:11:38,880
he'll he'll listen. 
Hill's an interesting guy. 

1478
01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:42,920
He just like I'm I'm, I'm not 
dissing him at all. 

1479
01:11:42,920 --> 01:11:44,600
I mean, but like he just 
doesn't. 

1480
01:11:44,840 --> 01:11:47,080
His look never gives me 
confidence. 

1481
01:11:47,080 --> 01:11:50,920
He he doesn't throw hard. 
He's got that wacky looking 

1482
01:11:50,920 --> 01:11:53,800
mustache like, you know, it's 
just a bean pole. 

1483
01:11:54,160 --> 01:12:00,280
You know, the uniform saggy, you
know, but the guy does his job 

1484
01:12:00,480 --> 01:12:03,120
really, really well. 
I saw stat I meant to take a 

1485
01:12:03,120 --> 01:12:06,880
screenshot of it this morning 
and I and I forgot to do it or 

1486
01:12:06,880 --> 01:12:09,080
no, I didn't forget. 
I when I went back to find it, I

1487
01:12:09,080 --> 01:12:10,360
couldn't find it. 
So I'm like, yeah, whatever. 

1488
01:12:10,840 --> 01:12:14,120
But somebody put together all of
his numbers as a Yankee. 

1489
01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:16,200
I mean, I can obviously do and 
just go to baseball reference, 

1490
01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:19,920
but and they're phenomenal. 
Like he is really distinguished 

1491
01:12:19,920 --> 01:12:24,120
himself as a very, very reliable
bullpen arm. 

1492
01:12:24,120 --> 01:12:27,640
Got to use them in the right 
spot obviously, and Boom does 

1493
01:12:27,880 --> 01:12:29,280
because the numbers suggest 
that. 

1494
01:12:29,560 --> 01:12:34,160
So it's a fair question. 
I know what you mean right now, 

1495
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:38,800
you know, because Cole and Rodan
are in the minors and with Clark

1496
01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:40,360
Schmidt is even further away, 
etcetera. 

1497
01:12:40,760 --> 01:12:43,080
Like it's easy to say. 
I think if you say right now, 

1498
01:12:43,080 --> 01:12:45,360
big picture, what's the two 
biggest issues with the Yankees?

1499
01:12:45,360 --> 01:12:50,880
Well, you would say bullpen and 
you would say you're going to 

1500
01:12:50,880 --> 01:12:54,480
need one more real bat. 
And that's why I started the 

1501
01:12:54,480 --> 01:12:58,120
show talking about whether it's 
a Tatis or Bryce Harper or 

1502
01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:01,480
Christian Walker, like there's 
things that they could do they 

1503
01:13:01,640 --> 01:13:04,200
and there's things that quite 
they they need to do for Aaron 

1504
01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:07,560
Judge, as I've already 
chronicled today and in the past

1505
01:13:07,560 --> 01:13:09,720
here. 
And if you get one more big bat,

1506
01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:13,520
now you've got Ben Rice and 
Judge and Ben Rice is that dude.

1507
01:13:13,720 --> 01:13:15,560
That's really what you know, the
meat of the show was at the 

1508
01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:17,520
beginning. 
You know, now, you know, I know 

1509
01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:19,720
you got to get a little bit 
lucky here, but there's nobody 

1510
01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:23,320
who could tell me if that stuff 
happens that the Yankees can't 

1511
01:13:23,320 --> 01:13:26,440
win the World Series and at the 
very least get there. 

1512
01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:29,560
You know, So it's exciting. 
All right, J Rod, let's get back

1513
01:13:29,560 --> 01:13:30,440
to the phones. 
Who's up? 

1514
01:13:31,240 --> 01:13:33,360
We've got our friend Will from 
Long. 

1515
01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:36,240
Beach, Willie. 
Long Beach. 

1516
01:13:36,400 --> 01:13:38,560
Hey, what's up, guys? 
What up Will? 

1517
01:13:38,880 --> 01:13:40,080
How are you? 
I'm good man. 

1518
01:13:40,080 --> 01:13:41,480
How are you doing? 
I'm good. 

1519
01:13:41,480 --> 01:13:43,680
I just have a couple quick 
points and then I'll hang up and

1520
01:13:43,680 --> 01:13:45,560
listen. 
No, Whoa, whoa, whoa, no. 

1521
01:13:45,560 --> 01:13:48,320
Here's what we do. 
All this go Will you know, we 

1522
01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:50,920
don't hang up and listen. 
It's not that kind of show. 

1523
01:13:50,920 --> 01:13:53,200
What we do is we have a 
conversation. 

1524
01:13:53,200 --> 01:13:54,720
Will. 
OK, all right, brother. 

1525
01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:56,920
And, and think about this. 
And I, I would say that 

1526
01:13:56,920 --> 01:13:59,880
sometimes throughout my radio 
career, like I would say, no, no

1527
01:13:59,960 --> 01:14:02,160
number one, I've heard it for 30
years. 

1528
01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:05,520
I'm getting tired of you hang up
and listen #1 #2 I don't want 

1529
01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:08,360
you to hang up and listen 
because then like if, if I say 

1530
01:14:08,360 --> 01:14:11,800
something that you disagree 
with, we can't go back and 

1531
01:14:11,800 --> 01:14:13,240
forth. 
And to me that's the fun. 

1532
01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:15,200
I want to go back and forth. 
Let it RIP. 

1533
01:14:15,600 --> 01:14:18,360
Understood, I'm a first timer so
maybe I'm just a little nervous.

1534
01:14:18,600 --> 01:14:21,320
Hey, dude, all good. 
I'm not coming at your heart. 

1535
01:14:21,320 --> 01:14:22,800
I'm just letting everybody know 
the rules. 

1536
01:14:22,880 --> 01:14:25,240
I want to, I want to converse, 
so it's all good. 

1537
01:14:25,240 --> 01:14:27,040
Go ahead. 
Appreciate that We actually met 

1538
01:14:27,040 --> 01:14:29,760
at Borrelli's that time I was 
telling you about my kid and. 

1539
01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:32,920
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 
Borrelli's matter of fact, my 

1540
01:14:32,920 --> 01:14:37,040
guy Mike, when I was texting 
with Mikey yesterday and we are 

1541
01:14:37,040 --> 01:14:39,240
setting something up for a 
little Yankee Met watch party 

1542
01:14:39,240 --> 01:14:40,840
over at Borelli's. 
Nice. 

1543
01:14:40,840 --> 01:14:41,920
I'll be back up there. 
Yeah. 

1544
01:14:42,240 --> 01:14:43,640
If I'm not at the game, I'll be 
there. 

1545
01:14:43,720 --> 01:14:44,920
Nice. 
Dude, love. 

1546
01:14:44,920 --> 01:14:49,400
It so my 2 points one's about 
Mendoza and then the final one 

1547
01:14:49,400 --> 01:14:52,440
about Stearns, which is a weird 
one, but I'll I'll hear your 

1548
01:14:52,440 --> 01:14:56,720
take on that go ahead Mendoza. 
You know, granted, the the, the 

1549
01:14:56,720 --> 01:15:00,120
play on the field is totally on 
the players, but he's done some 

1550
01:15:00,120 --> 01:15:03,640
things in my opinion that are 
definitely questionable. 

1551
01:15:03,640 --> 01:15:07,280
And for a team that's supposed 
to be going places, it's not 

1552
01:15:07,440 --> 01:15:10,320
it's not mistakes that a guy in 
his position should be making. 

1553
01:15:10,440 --> 01:15:12,520
I agree. 
The first one would be in 

1554
01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:14,120
Chicago with the intentional 
walk. 

1555
01:15:14,200 --> 01:15:16,280
That was with Nico Horner. 
Ridiculous. 

1556
01:15:16,360 --> 01:15:18,320
I mean that that's, that's 
pathetic. 

1557
01:15:18,440 --> 01:15:22,520
I mean that is baseball one O 1.
But to me, even worse than that 

1558
01:15:22,520 --> 01:15:24,280
was his answer about it after 
the game. 

1559
01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:27,840
I know, I know. 
So to me like that strike one 

1560
01:15:27,960 --> 01:15:30,680
and then, well, a strike one of 
of many, but. 

1561
01:15:30,720 --> 01:15:33,160
Yes, of this year. 
Yeah, but but last week also 

1562
01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:36,160
with with Brazeban coming in the
game when he wasn't supposed to 

1563
01:15:36,960 --> 01:15:39,480
like you, you can't be making 
those kinds of mistakes at this 

1564
01:15:39,480 --> 01:15:41,600
level. 
This isn't, this isn't college, 

1565
01:15:41,600 --> 01:15:44,000
this isn't even a minor league 
game. 

1566
01:15:44,040 --> 01:15:48,280
This is a team that's supposed 
to be going places and and we 

1567
01:15:48,280 --> 01:15:51,520
have things that don't really 
happen at the professional level

1568
01:15:51,520 --> 01:15:54,440
that that I've ever seen. 
I don't disagree. 

1569
01:15:54,440 --> 01:15:57,920
Not to mention, you know, 
Vientos running through the stop

1570
01:15:57,920 --> 01:16:00,040
sign with no, no repercussions. 
None. 

1571
01:16:00,600 --> 01:16:02,160
Well, that that drives me nuts 
too. 

1572
01:16:02,160 --> 01:16:05,480
And then, you know, Vientos 
yesterday, unrelated on 

1573
01:16:05,480 --> 01:16:08,080
Instagram is, you know, posting 
how great his life is, which, 

1574
01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:10,280
you know, read the room. 
Yep, Yep. 

1575
01:16:10,440 --> 01:16:11,640
I'm going to get to that in a 
minute. 

1576
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:12,760
That's actually what I'm looking
up. 

1577
01:16:13,040 --> 01:16:15,600
Go ahead. 
And then and then finally with 

1578
01:16:15,600 --> 01:16:17,920
with Stearns. 
This is a weird one, but hear me

1579
01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:21,880
out. 
During his press conference when

1580
01:16:21,880 --> 01:16:25,960
he was hired, he had some crazy 
story about how he used to sneak

1581
01:16:25,960 --> 01:16:29,360
into Shea Stadium as a kid. 
Now. 

1582
01:16:29,920 --> 01:16:31,560
Nonsense. 
Why? 

1583
01:16:31,720 --> 01:16:33,800
Why? 
Would you even say anything like

1584
01:16:33,800 --> 01:16:34,280
that? 
Just. 

1585
01:16:34,280 --> 01:16:35,360
Don't say. 
Anything. 

1586
01:16:35,560 --> 01:16:37,960
You know, and nobody snuck into 
a stadium. 

1587
01:16:38,160 --> 01:16:40,520
My dad snuck into Ebbets Field 
in the 50s. 

1588
01:16:40,520 --> 01:16:42,600
I know nobody's doing that. 
It's just. 

1589
01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:45,360
No, that's exactly. 
My point a rich. 

1590
01:16:45,520 --> 01:16:50,080
Kid in a post 911 world, I'm 
supposed to believe David 

1591
01:16:50,080 --> 01:16:52,560
Stearns is slipping his way 
into? 

1592
01:16:52,800 --> 01:16:55,200
Not exactly. 
Now I know he's brilliant, but I

1593
01:16:55,240 --> 01:16:57,320
mean, if somebody's going to 
find their way into a stadium, 

1594
01:16:57,320 --> 01:16:59,320
it's got to be somebody who grew
up on the streets and has a 

1595
01:16:59,320 --> 01:17:01,520
little St. smarts. 
You tell me that he's the one 

1596
01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:04,360
who's going to do it, not pull 
BS on that nonsense. 

1597
01:17:04,680 --> 01:17:07,360
And I'm just curious, why do you
think the media kind of gave him

1598
01:17:07,360 --> 01:17:08,800
a free pass with something like 
that? 

1599
01:17:08,800 --> 01:17:11,320
Is it because that everybody was
just excited he was here at the 

1600
01:17:11,320 --> 01:17:14,400
time, so. 
It would fits, you know what it 

1601
01:17:14,400 --> 01:17:15,480
is. 
Will fits the narrative. 

1602
01:17:15,520 --> 01:17:17,440
And I'm not even like, I'm just 
reacting to it. 

1603
01:17:17,440 --> 01:17:20,920
Like, I remember that when it 
happened and I didn't really 

1604
01:17:20,920 --> 01:17:22,920
give it much thought. 
You bring it back up. 

1605
01:17:22,920 --> 01:17:24,400
That's why I react the way that 
I did. 

1606
01:17:24,400 --> 01:17:27,800
Like, I'm much more aware that 
he is constructing one of the 

1607
01:17:27,800 --> 01:17:30,080
worst baseball teams I've seen 
in a long time. 

1608
01:17:30,080 --> 01:17:31,480
And the Mets have had a lot, a 
lot of them. 

1609
01:17:31,480 --> 01:17:34,440
This team's awful. 
So that's that's the main focus 

1610
01:17:34,440 --> 01:17:36,200
here. 
But you bring it up and I'm 

1611
01:17:36,200 --> 01:17:38,680
like, yeah, it's nonsense, man. 
Like, and maybe the media didn't

1612
01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:41,600
follow up because, again, it was
cute fit the fit the narrative. 

1613
01:17:41,920 --> 01:17:44,080
But just look at the timeline 
here. 

1614
01:17:44,320 --> 01:17:46,280
Like, you know, just look at the
timeline. 

1615
01:17:46,520 --> 01:17:49,920
How old's David Stearns, 39? 
How old's he, 39 for what? 

1616
01:17:50,320 --> 01:17:53,440
I think he's by age and I'm 42. 
I'm pretty sure we're the same. 

1617
01:17:53,440 --> 01:17:55,760
OK, all right, so he's 42. 
So what? 

1618
01:17:55,960 --> 01:17:58,560
So he's born in what? 
Give me, you know, 83. 

1619
01:17:59,520 --> 01:18:01,040
So. 
So he's born in 83. 

1620
01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:04,240
Come on, man. 
So you're telling me that he, I 

1621
01:18:04,240 --> 01:18:05,880
just, I don't buy it. 
I mean, you do the math. 

1622
01:18:05,880 --> 01:18:08,000
I mean 911. 
Obviously everything is so 

1623
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:10,520
different in terms of security. 
And you want to tell me he was 

1624
01:18:10,520 --> 01:18:13,560
doing that before sneaking in? 
What is he scaling gates, 

1625
01:18:13,560 --> 01:18:16,280
sneaking in? 
I mean, how do you sneak in? 

1626
01:18:16,320 --> 01:18:18,880
I don't buy. 
It I just thought it was a weird

1627
01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:21,760
thing to say and and but but 
again, I'm I'm a guy who is 

1628
01:18:21,760 --> 01:18:25,760
never and and you've railed on 
me this before, but that's OK. 

1629
01:18:26,320 --> 01:18:28,120
I was never a Stearns guy to 
begin with. 

1630
01:18:28,160 --> 01:18:29,920
I don't want my team to be the 
Brewers. 

1631
01:18:29,920 --> 01:18:33,680
I don't want I don't want that 
kind of mentality the city. 

1632
01:18:33,840 --> 01:18:38,520
But and again, he's made he's 
made some moves, but you know, 

1633
01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:40,480
those were basically my points. 
I just wanted to hear what you 

1634
01:18:40,480 --> 01:18:42,160
said and and I appreciate 
everything you guys have been 

1635
01:18:42,160 --> 01:18:43,280
doing. 
Thank you, Will. 

1636
01:18:43,280 --> 01:18:44,680
I'll see you soon at Borelli's, 
man. 

1637
01:18:44,680 --> 01:18:46,480
All right, shout out. 
Love that place. 

1638
01:18:47,080 --> 01:18:48,720
Love it. 
Great relationship with my 

1639
01:18:48,720 --> 01:18:51,800
friends out there, My buddy 
Jeremy Cecil, who I went to high

1640
01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:53,760
school with, Mike Quinn, who 
owns the joint. 

1641
01:18:53,760 --> 01:18:55,840
They've treated me very well. 
I love going there. 

1642
01:18:56,200 --> 01:18:57,920
And so, yeah, we were just 
texting yesterday about setting 

1643
01:18:57,920 --> 01:19:00,600
something up for the Yankees and
the Mets Subway Series. 

1644
01:19:01,880 --> 01:19:03,560
Yeah. 
I mean, the the thing about 

1645
01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:07,840
Bientos, too, And it's amazing 
how some Met fans missed the 

1646
01:19:07,840 --> 01:19:09,240
mark. 
Like, I saw some of the comments

1647
01:19:09,240 --> 01:19:10,880
on the show. 
Yes, not all of you obviously, 

1648
01:19:10,880 --> 01:19:13,640
but because the overwhelming 
percentage of you are 

1649
01:19:13,640 --> 01:19:19,320
disenchanted and disgusted with 
everything, owner, GM, manager, 

1650
01:19:19,360 --> 01:19:22,240
store players, the guys who were
shipped out, like, I don't know,

1651
01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:25,200
a Met fan who's happy about 
anything, then you shouldn't be.

1652
01:19:25,760 --> 01:19:30,560
But I do think, and it speaks 
whether it's an age thing or a 

1653
01:19:30,560 --> 01:19:32,560
competitive thing. 
I I don't know what I I don't, I

1654
01:19:32,560 --> 01:19:35,360
don't even really need to 
theorize, but I noticed a lot 

1655
01:19:35,360 --> 01:19:39,560
yesterday, 2 days ago when I 
when I had to take on Vientos 

1656
01:19:39,560 --> 01:19:41,720
where his ass should have been 
on the bench when he ran. 

1657
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:43,160
And I know he won the game 
later. 

1658
01:19:43,480 --> 01:19:46,880
That's not the point, right? 
And he runs through the stop 

1659
01:19:46,880 --> 01:19:50,080
sign and then he said what he 
said post game and in some of 

1660
01:19:50,080 --> 01:19:51,880
the comments was like, yeah, Oh 
yeah, but what are you talking 

1661
01:19:51,880 --> 01:19:53,320
about? 
He wound up he won the game the 

1662
01:19:53,320 --> 01:19:56,880
next later on that night with 
with a blue pit Dude, you can't 

1663
01:19:56,880 --> 01:19:59,120
be more wrong. 
You want to talk about missing 

1664
01:19:59,120 --> 01:20:02,800
the mark, so. 
Because it's not about the 

1665
01:20:02,800 --> 01:20:07,320
result, it's about the process. 
It's about the expectations. 

1666
01:20:07,560 --> 01:20:10,080
It's it's about the culture. 
That's the thing. 

1667
01:20:10,080 --> 01:20:12,280
That's not a word that we use a 
lot with the Mets. 

1668
01:20:12,520 --> 01:20:14,520
We keep talking about like the 
roster and all that stuff. 

1669
01:20:14,840 --> 01:20:17,360
And we did talk a little bit 
about the culture, or at least 

1670
01:20:17,360 --> 01:20:19,600
the dynamic of the core of the 
core players. 

1671
01:20:20,040 --> 01:20:23,120
But like, can somebody tell me 
what is the Mets culture? 

1672
01:20:23,120 --> 01:20:25,360
What is the culture? 
That's that little culture. 

1673
01:20:25,960 --> 01:20:27,720
And if they do have a culture, 
it's a bad one. 

1674
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:32,960
They've got no real leadership 
and their young players are so 

1675
01:20:32,960 --> 01:20:35,880
emboldened where they think they
can do whatever they want and 

1676
01:20:36,120 --> 01:20:38,640
like the Viento stuff. 
And I was looking that up and 

1677
01:20:38,640 --> 01:20:41,160
he's right. 
And again, I don't get wrapped 

1678
01:20:41,160 --> 01:20:44,600
up on what guys tweet, you know,
or it or, or post on IG. 

1679
01:20:44,600 --> 01:20:48,240
Like if it was up to me, all of 
these knuckleheads walking in 

1680
01:20:48,240 --> 01:20:51,640
with whatever the hell there was
space suits going to play in the

1681
01:20:51,640 --> 01:20:55,000
NBA playoffs, right? 
Oh, let's get the NBC camera. 

1682
01:20:55,160 --> 01:20:57,400
Let's get the team, whatever the
ESPN camera. 

1683
01:20:57,640 --> 01:21:04,080
Oh, here's the, you know, Kuzma 
with a sweater that's 3737 XL. 

1684
01:21:04,360 --> 01:21:08,040
That's down to his that's, you 
know, down to his ankles, you 

1685
01:21:08,040 --> 01:21:10,000
know, and this guy wearing a 
pocketbook. 

1686
01:21:10,760 --> 01:21:13,320
What what is going on? 
You know, so that's the, I 

1687
01:21:13,320 --> 01:21:15,960
couldn't be less interested in 
that stuff. 

1688
01:21:16,240 --> 01:21:21,160
But this, this and it is, you 
know, it's fashion and I'm older

1689
01:21:21,320 --> 01:21:23,440
and I'll you couldn't pay me to 
dress like that. 

1690
01:21:23,600 --> 01:21:25,480
You couldn't pay me to dress 
like that. 

1691
01:21:25,680 --> 01:21:29,040
But I also understand I'm 2530 
years older than a lot of these 

1692
01:21:29,040 --> 01:21:30,320
people. 
All right, so I get it. 

1693
01:21:30,800 --> 01:21:33,720
There were things that I wore 
that my dad couldn't stand. 

1694
01:21:33,920 --> 01:21:36,600
Like when I first got an 
earring, you know, he couldn't 

1695
01:21:36,600 --> 01:21:39,280
stand it. 
When I got my only tattoo, he 

1696
01:21:39,280 --> 01:21:42,120
basically flipped out. 
He didn't like when I wore gold 

1697
01:21:42,120 --> 01:21:43,520
chains. 
You know, I would try to wear 2 

1698
01:21:43,520 --> 01:21:46,320
when I was playing baseball. 
That's just, that's not my dad. 

1699
01:21:46,560 --> 01:21:50,600
He couldn't stand when I wore 
the Adidas shell tops with the 

1700
01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:53,480
fat laces, you know, which I 
wore all the time, couldn't 

1701
01:21:53,480 --> 01:21:56,200
stand them, right? 
So I get it, it's a generational

1702
01:21:56,200 --> 01:21:58,600
thing, right? 
But this is not a generational 

1703
01:21:58,600 --> 01:22:01,200
thing, all right? 
This is Mark Deantos on 

1704
01:22:01,200 --> 01:22:04,560
Instagram. 
And this was yesterday, right? 

1705
01:22:04,840 --> 01:22:07,360
And it says energy is 
everything. 

1706
01:22:07,800 --> 01:22:10,920
That's what it says, right? 
And there's a picture of him 

1707
01:22:10,920 --> 01:22:12,760
with his shirt off. 
All right. 

1708
01:22:13,200 --> 01:22:16,000
Then there's a picture of him 
walking in, I guess the City 

1709
01:22:16,000 --> 01:22:17,840
Field parking lot with a little 
briefcase. 

1710
01:22:18,080 --> 01:22:19,720
He's well dressed. 
He's he's good looking dude. 

1711
01:22:19,720 --> 01:22:22,120
He's sure he does well in that 
department. 

1712
01:22:22,360 --> 01:22:26,560
And then there's a picture of a 
bunch of Mets with the OMG sign.

1713
01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:29,520
Oh, everybody's got big smiles. 
By the way, it's Marte. 

1714
01:22:29,520 --> 01:22:34,320
So it wasn't even this year and 
it says energy is everything. 

1715
01:22:34,520 --> 01:22:37,600
And then the Mets, they're 
verified. 

1716
01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:39,080
I mean, listen to what we're 
talking about. 

1717
01:22:39,360 --> 01:22:43,160
The Mets verified Instagram 
account puts the 2 fire emojis 

1718
01:22:43,160 --> 01:22:45,920
fire. 
I mean wait the only fire that 

1719
01:22:45,920 --> 01:22:48,960
should have been yesterday was 
your manager getting shipped out

1720
01:22:49,280 --> 01:22:52,280
and the next fire that should 
happen is this clown getting 

1721
01:22:52,280 --> 01:22:56,960
banished to the miners fire Yeah
wow what a fuck Whoa what an 

1722
01:22:56,960 --> 01:23:01,720
amazing Instagram post by our 
substandard hitter who doesn't 

1723
01:23:01,720 --> 01:23:05,000
even have a position. 
I mean, this is what you post 

1724
01:23:05,120 --> 01:23:08,680
when you what if they lost 17 of
19 games the New York Mets. 

1725
01:23:08,680 --> 01:23:11,120
I got AI mean this is the more I
wasn't even going to bring this 

1726
01:23:11,120 --> 01:23:14,240
up like, but the more don't tell
me if you were out. 

1727
01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:17,920
There's no way it did. 
The more I think about the like 

1728
01:23:18,360 --> 01:23:22,440
the the the ineptitude of the 
New York Mets like that is 

1729
01:23:22,440 --> 01:23:26,040
actually offensive to actually 
do that right. 

1730
01:23:26,920 --> 01:23:29,560
The hell is it right? 
Hold on. 

1731
01:23:30,480 --> 01:23:33,920
It was Dominguez. 
That was since Stevie Cohen's 

1732
01:23:33,920 --> 01:23:36,160
tweet. 
Lost, lost, lost, lost, win, 

1733
01:23:36,160 --> 01:23:38,280
win, lost, lost. 
That hasn't helped out here. 

1734
01:23:38,280 --> 01:23:38,880
It is. 
Thank you. 

1735
01:23:39,720 --> 01:23:41,720
All right, pays to be diligent 
here. 

1736
01:23:42,120 --> 01:23:48,520
So this guy thinks it's a smart 
move to glamorize himself, all 

1737
01:23:48,520 --> 01:23:53,280
right, when the team has the 
worst OPS in baseball, 626 

1738
01:23:53,280 --> 01:23:57,400
literally dead last. 
Ben Rice and Aaron Judge have 

1739
01:23:57,400 --> 01:24:00,960
more home runs combined than 
your entire team does, dude. 

1740
01:24:00,960 --> 01:24:03,480
All right, what else we got 
here? 

1741
01:24:03,480 --> 01:24:05,720
Here's some more scintillating 
facts about the Mets. 

1742
01:24:06,160 --> 01:24:08,960
Two runs or less. 
In half of the games they 

1743
01:24:08,960 --> 01:24:14,960
played, they played 28 * 14. 
They've scored two or one when 

1744
01:24:14,960 --> 01:24:16,800
done. 
They've been shut out five 

1745
01:24:16,800 --> 01:24:18,640
times, which is the most in 
baseball. 

1746
01:24:18,880 --> 01:24:22,440
They've got the fewest RB is the
lowest on base percentage, and 

1747
01:24:22,440 --> 01:24:25,480
they got a payroll of 380. 
And he got this dude parading 

1748
01:24:25,480 --> 01:24:29,480
around with no shirt and a man 
purse and an OMG sign. 

1749
01:24:29,520 --> 01:24:31,480
What's wrong with the Mets? 
Nothing. 

1750
01:24:31,680 --> 01:24:33,040
There's nothing wrong with the 
Mets. 

1751
01:24:33,160 --> 01:24:37,160
Everything's good here. 
Come on in, come on down. 

1752
01:24:37,280 --> 01:24:42,400
It's the 2026 Mets. 
If this was my team, I would 

1753
01:24:42,400 --> 01:24:46,160
destroy them. 
It like, and I just did a little

1754
01:24:46,160 --> 01:24:49,360
bit, but it would be it would be
beyond. 

1755
01:24:49,360 --> 01:24:50,640
I don't even know what I would 
say. 

1756
01:24:51,120 --> 01:24:55,960
Like it's one thing to lose, OK,
we don't have the right team. 

1757
01:24:55,960 --> 01:24:58,840
The rosters not good. 
Oh, Mike Brown can't figure out 

1758
01:24:58,840 --> 01:25:01,920
how to use Kat and Brunson. 
Brunson's taking too many shots.

1759
01:25:01,920 --> 01:25:03,600
Like those are sports related 
things. 

1760
01:25:03,800 --> 01:25:09,040
When you get to a point where 
the emphasis now is on me, like 

1761
01:25:09,360 --> 01:25:12,360
he's he's willingly putting 
himself out there on Instagram. 

1762
01:25:12,600 --> 01:25:16,520
Dude, if I if, if, if, if I 
caught the baseball the way you 

1763
01:25:16,520 --> 01:25:21,000
don't, if I ran the way you 
can't, and if my team lost the 

1764
01:25:21,000 --> 01:25:24,680
way that you do, I would pay 
people not to put me on 

1765
01:25:24,680 --> 01:25:26,880
Instagram. 
What are we doing? 

1766
01:25:27,720 --> 01:25:29,200
What? 
What's wrong with the Mets? 

1767
01:25:29,440 --> 01:25:32,000
I don't know. 
How about everything? 

1768
01:25:33,760 --> 01:25:36,440
There you go, J Rod clip. 
That brother just made your life

1769
01:25:36,440 --> 01:25:39,080
very easy. 
Sir, bro, I mean it's true. 

1770
01:25:39,080 --> 01:25:40,080
What are you thinking this 
ain't? 

1771
01:25:40,520 --> 01:25:41,760
Exactly. 
Are you kidding me dude? 

1772
01:25:42,240 --> 01:25:44,440
I mean, just think of any team 
that you root for. 

1773
01:25:44,760 --> 01:25:47,760
Imagine if the Celtics. 
That's your favorite team. 

1774
01:25:47,760 --> 01:25:50,000
Jayson Tatum with massive 
respect. 

1775
01:25:50,240 --> 01:25:52,520
Great player. 
Warrior coming back from the 

1776
01:25:52,520 --> 01:25:54,480
injury. 
Bowler champion. 

1777
01:25:54,480 --> 01:25:59,680
Mad respect for him, right? 
Imagine the Celtics with massive

1778
01:25:59,680 --> 01:26:01,960
expectations, which they have 
the last couple of years, 

1779
01:26:02,160 --> 01:26:05,600
starting the season 3 and 17. 
I don't know if that's quite the

1780
01:26:05,600 --> 01:26:07,120
equivalent. 
Something like that. 

1781
01:26:07,360 --> 01:26:11,480
And then this guy posting what 
Mark Vientos is posting on what 

1782
01:26:11,480 --> 01:26:13,840
the. 
Shirtless, posted up going life 

1783
01:26:13,880 --> 01:26:17,880
is good, life is good. 
What I mean it just shows a 

1784
01:26:17,880 --> 01:26:22,000
clear absolute disconnect to 
1:00. 

1785
01:26:22,160 --> 01:26:24,600
Not only the way you should be 
come hell out of here. 

1786
01:26:24,600 --> 01:26:29,400
This is the word you like 
compartmentalizing yourself as a

1787
01:26:29,400 --> 01:26:32,240
baseball player. 
I mean, an absolute disconnect 

1788
01:26:32,360 --> 01:26:35,960
also, you know, and this is one,
this is more of a modern day 

1789
01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:37,680
thing. 
It's just a disconnect from the 

1790
01:26:37,680 --> 01:26:39,520
fans, man. 
Like what do you think these 

1791
01:26:39,520 --> 01:26:42,240
guys are going to think? 
Wow, man, it's really great that

1792
01:26:42,240 --> 01:26:44,160
Vientos, he's taking some time 
off. 

1793
01:26:44,160 --> 01:26:47,560
He's taking some time to relax, 
to chill out, you know, get it. 

1794
01:26:47,840 --> 01:26:50,360
What? 
Like come on, man, if you're to 

1795
01:26:50,360 --> 01:26:52,920
post anything, it should 
literally be pictures of you. 

1796
01:26:53,280 --> 01:26:55,600
Like, like, let's go into NBA 
terms. 

1797
01:26:55,600 --> 01:26:59,280
Like sitting, sitting courtside 
with the coach, folks looking at

1798
01:26:59,280 --> 01:27:02,760
the iPad, sitting in the dugout 
with the coach looking at the 

1799
01:27:02,760 --> 01:27:05,840
iPad. 
If you're posting anything, it 

1800
01:27:05,840 --> 01:27:09,080
should be that, not relaxation. 
That's it. 

1801
01:27:09,080 --> 01:27:13,080
Oh. 
Man, that was fun. 

1802
01:27:14,640 --> 01:27:16,280
What do you think my Knicks do 
tonight, buddy? 

1803
01:27:16,720 --> 01:27:17,800
I said. 
I think they win big. 

1804
01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:19,400
Oh, we're going. 
I think they win big. 

1805
01:27:19,400 --> 01:27:21,600
We're going to win. 
You didn't seem. 

1806
01:27:21,600 --> 01:27:23,960
To share that that enthusiast 
win big. 

1807
01:27:24,400 --> 01:27:28,000
Win big. 
I mean, OK, back in New York 

1808
01:27:28,120 --> 01:27:31,200
they, you know, absolutely 
manhandled them last game. 

1809
01:27:31,240 --> 01:27:34,560
I'm going to go 12 point win. 
So that's pretty big. 

1810
01:27:34,560 --> 01:27:38,520
A sizable victory, a hand in 
victory, not a blowout 12 point 

1811
01:27:38,520 --> 01:27:43,000
win. 
OK, what are we looking for 

1812
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:44,000
here? 
Hang on a SEC. 

1813
01:27:48,240 --> 01:27:52,400
God Almighty. 
I got The Jets collect. 

1814
01:27:52,400 --> 01:27:54,720
I got a busy day today. 
Got The Jets Collective show. 

1815
01:27:56,240 --> 01:27:57,200
Yeah, I got to show you 
something. 

1816
01:27:57,600 --> 01:27:58,880
Look at you I don't need. 
Yeah, there you go. 

1817
01:27:58,960 --> 01:28:00,320
I'll toss it up. 
Thank you. 

1818
01:28:00,360 --> 01:28:01,800
That's coming up. 
And actually you can throw it 

1819
01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:03,960
up, keep it up a little longer. 
It's coming up today at 2. 

1820
01:28:04,600 --> 01:28:07,160
Myself and Jake Aspen, Rich 
Simini full. 

1821
01:28:07,480 --> 01:28:09,240
Literally we're going through 
each player. 

1822
01:28:09,320 --> 01:28:11,960
So a full draft recap. 
And we wanted to do it 

1823
01:28:11,960 --> 01:28:14,520
yesterday, but Rich teaches a 
course up at Syracuse where he 

1824
01:28:14,520 --> 01:28:16,800
went, so he couldn't do it. 
So we had to work around the 

1825
01:28:16,800 --> 01:28:20,560
schedule, which obviously did he
teach I, I guess some like 

1826
01:28:20,560 --> 01:28:22,120
broadcast journalism, something 
like that. 

1827
01:28:22,200 --> 01:28:23,400
No way. 
Yeah. 

1828
01:28:23,520 --> 01:28:26,040
I mean, I, that was my freshman 
year program. 

1829
01:28:26,080 --> 01:28:28,240
I, I wonder if I guess it was 
COVID. 

1830
01:28:28,240 --> 01:28:30,560
So he, he would have never done 
anything at that time. 

1831
01:28:30,760 --> 01:28:34,400
But Dang, that's cool. 
Yep, and he was telling us that 

1832
01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:39,880
he actually drives the day of 
the show, day of the the day of 

1833
01:28:39,880 --> 01:28:42,520
the class, and then drives back 
home. 

1834
01:28:42,760 --> 01:28:45,960
Doesn't get Oh my gosh, I'm 
like, wait, so you commute? 

1835
01:28:46,120 --> 01:28:49,320
So he does, but he does an 8 
hour commute basically on these.

1836
01:28:49,320 --> 01:28:51,040
Yeah. 
And I'm like, what time is your 

1837
01:28:51,040 --> 01:28:52,240
course? 
And I think he said at night, 

1838
01:28:52,240 --> 01:28:54,200
which is why obviously we 
couldn't do it at night, which 

1839
01:28:54,200 --> 01:28:57,320
we usually do. 
And he was saying something like

1840
01:28:59,440 --> 01:29:03,640
something like, I don't know, 7 
maybe or 8. 

1841
01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:05,440
I'm like, well, what time to get
there? 

1842
01:29:05,440 --> 01:29:07,360
Like, you know, 5 because it's 
like you have an office. 

1843
01:29:07,360 --> 01:29:09,520
I don't think, well, maybe you 
do it if you're an adjunct 

1844
01:29:09,520 --> 01:29:11,840
professor, maybe you have, you 
probably have access to 

1845
01:29:11,840 --> 01:29:13,800
something for sure. 
But he's like, yeah, I get there

1846
01:29:13,800 --> 01:29:15,520
like 11:00. 
I'm like in the morning. 

1847
01:29:15,520 --> 01:29:17,840
What do you do all day? 
He's like, well, right. 

1848
01:29:17,840 --> 01:29:19,200
I'm like, God bless you, man, 
That. 

1849
01:29:19,200 --> 01:29:21,280
That's awesome. 
It's insane, dude. 

1850
01:29:21,280 --> 01:29:24,040
Yeah, I mean, the flight up 
there is 30 minutes, but the 

1851
01:29:24,040 --> 01:29:26,920
drive is horrific. 
So what is this now? 

1852
01:29:26,920 --> 01:29:29,760
Everybody's saying that that was
an old Instagram post from 

1853
01:29:29,760 --> 01:29:30,960
Vientos. 
What's going on? 

1854
01:29:30,960 --> 01:29:33,640
That's all right. 
Let's see Well, now with 

1855
01:29:33,640 --> 01:29:37,240
Instagram now they have the sort
of thing where you can pin a 

1856
01:29:37,240 --> 01:29:41,200
post as your top. 
Yeah, like your thing up here 

1857
01:29:41,200 --> 01:29:41,880
first. 
Let's. 

1858
01:29:41,880 --> 01:29:44,840
Yeah, so he pinned it though, so
still. 

1859
01:29:46,560 --> 01:29:47,320
Oh no. 
So the. 

1860
01:29:47,320 --> 01:29:51,560
Pinned one that says energy is 
everything is from 2024. 

1861
01:29:51,600 --> 01:29:53,520
I know it's pinned, but when 
they pin. 

1862
01:29:54,320 --> 01:29:57,040
It the pin? 
I'm not sure but I think the 

1863
01:29:57,040 --> 01:30:00,440
ones people are getting on him 
for are the ones from yesterday 

1864
01:30:00,440 --> 01:30:03,640
where it's just like pictures of
him, like taking weird pictures.

1865
01:30:03,640 --> 01:30:04,960
Of yeah, you know, I saw those. 
Too. 

1866
01:30:04,960 --> 01:30:06,080
Yeah, yeah. 
So. 

1867
01:30:06,320 --> 01:30:08,360
So it still checks out. 
It still checks out. 

1868
01:30:08,720 --> 01:30:11,840
No, I know it does. 
He buttoned up on. 

1869
01:30:11,840 --> 01:30:13,640
That checks out. 
He honestly checks out even 

1870
01:30:13,640 --> 01:30:15,320
more. 
The energy is everything. 

1871
01:30:15,320 --> 01:30:17,320
No, I know. 
At least he's on a baseball 

1872
01:30:17,320 --> 01:30:19,200
field. 
And the one he posted yesterday,

1873
01:30:19,240 --> 01:30:20,840
you know, I mean, he's praying, 
you know? 

1874
01:30:20,880 --> 01:30:22,280
Well. 
No, I got, I'm not going to 

1875
01:30:22,320 --> 01:30:24,360
knock that. 
I mean, listen, if you're 9 and 

1876
01:30:24,360 --> 01:30:27,160
18 and you're not praying, you 
better start buying something 

1877
01:30:27,160 --> 01:30:30,280
wrong. 
Pray to whomever you've got. 

1878
01:30:30,280 --> 01:30:34,360
Is Tesla just tweeted 
interesting times anybody can 

1879
01:30:34,360 --> 01:30:36,720
have? 
Well, I got a question about did

1880
01:30:36,720 --> 01:30:40,600
if you saw something yesterday. 
Hold on, let me read this. 

1881
01:30:40,600 --> 01:30:43,320
Francesca just tweeted 
interesting times. 

1882
01:30:43,360 --> 01:30:45,600
Anybody can have a podcast. 
Well, that's true, Mike. 

1883
01:30:46,240 --> 01:30:47,840
It's not going to be as 
successful as his. 

1884
01:30:47,840 --> 01:30:51,640
But even unknowns who have never
accomplished anything in our 

1885
01:30:51,640 --> 01:30:53,240
business. 
End Quote. 

1886
01:30:54,240 --> 01:30:56,080
Who may he be talking about? 
I don't know. 

1887
01:30:56,080 --> 01:30:57,560
You know I'm not going to get 
pulled into something. 

1888
01:30:57,560 --> 01:31:02,440
Else, I mean, to me that's like 
it's just a kind of a vague sort

1889
01:31:02,480 --> 01:31:05,680
of broad statement that, you 
know, everyone will go, hey, 

1890
01:31:05,800 --> 01:31:07,280
he's right. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

1891
01:31:07,360 --> 01:31:09,280
Well, he was. 
He was away for a couple of 

1892
01:31:09,280 --> 01:31:10,360
weeks. 
I was actually worried about 

1893
01:31:10,360 --> 01:31:12,560
him. 
He didn't do a show for like NFL

1894
01:31:12,560 --> 01:31:15,920
Draft didn't do a show and he 
loves that stuff. 

1895
01:31:16,480 --> 01:31:19,160
He was out for a couple of weeks
and I don't listen. 

1896
01:31:19,160 --> 01:31:20,920
I don't have the relationship 
with Mike where I'm going to 

1897
01:31:20,920 --> 01:31:23,000
text him, although I actually 
did think about texting like, 

1898
01:31:23,240 --> 01:31:25,440
hey, you OK. 
Not that we've never texted. 

1899
01:31:26,440 --> 01:31:28,080
He actually texted me something 
about St. 

1900
01:31:28,080 --> 01:31:31,280
John's about a month or so ago. 
Well, a little bit more during 

1901
01:31:31,280 --> 01:31:34,160
the tournament. 
And I saw him at the Big East 

1902
01:31:34,160 --> 01:31:37,080
tournament and, or maybe that 
was the Yukon. 

1903
01:31:38,240 --> 01:31:40,360
I saw him toward the end of the 
season, was one of his sons. 

1904
01:31:40,360 --> 01:31:42,480
Both of his sons are really, 
really good young men. 

1905
01:31:42,480 --> 01:31:45,360
And one of them plays college 
football, I think at Hamilton. 

1906
01:31:45,360 --> 01:31:48,760
I think he's a tight end and 
just very respectful, good, good

1907
01:31:48,760 --> 01:31:50,840
kids. 
And I asked Mike, I said, hey, I

1908
01:31:50,840 --> 01:31:52,200
said, do me a favor. 
I said, you want to come on the 

1909
01:31:52,200 --> 01:31:57,320
podcast and and he's like, he's 
like not talking anything about 

1910
01:31:57,320 --> 01:31:59,040
FAN. 
He's like, I was like, no, I get

1911
01:31:59,040 --> 01:32:00,440
it. 
I'm like, that's the first thing

1912
01:32:00,440 --> 01:32:02,000
he dropped. 
He's like, I never talk about 

1913
01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:04,920
FANI said I don't need you to. 
I said I've been doing enough 

1914
01:32:04,920 --> 01:32:09,200
for that, You know, I said, but 
I would love to have you on and 

1915
01:32:09,200 --> 01:32:11,160
just talk sports. 
He's like, yeah, he's like, I'll

1916
01:32:11,160 --> 01:32:12,400
do it at some point. 
So cool. 

1917
01:32:12,600 --> 01:32:14,760
We'll get Mike on the show here.
I have a question. 

1918
01:32:14,840 --> 01:32:17,160
Yeah. 
Did you see last night? 

1919
01:32:17,160 --> 01:32:20,160
I mean, I don't know how tapped 
in you are to this, the NBA 

1920
01:32:20,160 --> 01:32:24,800
radio thing with Frank Izola, 
Frank Isolo and I know Frank, 

1921
01:32:24,800 --> 01:32:26,920
Frank, Frank, Frank. 
Isola OK, I said it right. 

1922
01:32:26,920 --> 01:32:28,160
I used to work with Frank. 
I I. 

1923
01:32:28,720 --> 01:32:31,000
I had Brian Scalabrini. 
No. 

1924
01:32:31,040 --> 01:32:33,720
What'd they get in a fight? 
It was crazy argument. 

1925
01:32:33,720 --> 01:32:36,800
No, no, no, not even that. 
So there's a YouTube. 

1926
01:32:36,880 --> 01:32:38,800
I'm not sure if you're super 
familiar with him. 

1927
01:32:38,800 --> 01:32:40,800
He does a lot of the NBA stuff 
now. 

1928
01:32:40,800 --> 01:32:43,520
House of Highlights stuff now. 
King of the fourth quarter, 

1929
01:32:43,800 --> 01:32:46,600
Kenny Beecham. 
Kind of like a younger black 

1930
01:32:46,600 --> 01:32:48,800
dude. 
I've been watching his videos 

1931
01:32:48,800 --> 01:32:49,960
since. 
I yeah, no disrespect. 

1932
01:32:49,960 --> 01:32:51,360
I I just, I don't, I don't know 
but go. 

1933
01:32:51,720 --> 01:32:53,240
Ahead. 
Well, you're like Frank then. 

1934
01:32:54,200 --> 01:32:58,560
So this guy, this kid is huge. 
He easily has over 3,000,000 

1935
01:32:58,560 --> 01:33:01,160
Subs on YouTube. 
Like he's, he's huge. 

1936
01:33:01,160 --> 01:33:03,600
I mean, he talks basketball. 
He's my, you know, I love this 

1937
01:33:03,600 --> 01:33:04,640
kid. 
OK. 

1938
01:33:05,200 --> 01:33:08,400
And so and Frank is on NBA 
radio. 

1939
01:33:08,400 --> 01:33:12,000
And so NBA radio just announced 
that this guy Kenny just got 

1940
01:33:12,000 --> 01:33:16,400
took an hour out of his and 
Scalabrini shows and now he has 

1941
01:33:16,400 --> 01:33:21,920
to do a promotional read for the
Dude Kenny show and he goes, aw,

1942
01:33:22,240 --> 01:33:25,840
no, he's Scalabrini. 
And he's like Scalabrini. 

1943
01:33:25,880 --> 01:33:28,960
Who even is this kid? 
Does anyone even know who this 

1944
01:33:28,960 --> 01:33:32,640
is? 
And Scalabrini's like, yes. 

1945
01:33:32,920 --> 01:33:35,000
And Frank is like, and this was 
The funny thing. 

1946
01:33:35,000 --> 01:33:37,600
He was like, he was like, what? 
You're telling me he's more 

1947
01:33:37,600 --> 01:33:40,840
popular than you? 
And Scalabrini just goes, yeah, 

1948
01:33:40,840 --> 01:33:44,160
definitely, dude, are you Frank?
And then Frank goes, what? 

1949
01:33:44,160 --> 01:33:46,240
You're telling me he's more 
popular than me? 

1950
01:33:46,360 --> 01:33:49,480
And Scalabrini just goes, I'd 
he's like, I'd really watch what

1951
01:33:49,480 --> 01:33:50,760
you're saying right now. 
I'd really. 

1952
01:33:50,920 --> 01:33:53,000
Really. 
I'd recommend you checking this 

1953
01:33:53,000 --> 01:33:54,880
kid out. 
King of the fourth quarter. 

1954
01:33:54,880 --> 01:33:56,240
His video. 
Shut that down, man. 

1955
01:33:56,640 --> 01:33:59,000
King of the fourth quarter. 
Wow. 

1956
01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:01,400
So did Frank, Did Frank look 
bad? 

1957
01:34:01,400 --> 01:34:03,720
No. 
It was, it was a really rough 

1958
01:34:03,720 --> 01:34:05,880
look on it. 
And I recommend you watching it 

1959
01:34:05,880 --> 01:34:08,960
because it was just like, dude, 
like this kid is like the 

1960
01:34:08,960 --> 01:34:12,120
biggest, you know, one of the 
biggest talkers in, in 

1961
01:34:12,120 --> 01:34:15,360
basketball media. 
You're on the NBA radio platform

1962
01:34:15,360 --> 01:34:17,760
and you're just like, and it 
was, it was embarrassing. 

1963
01:34:17,760 --> 01:34:19,880
It was like, wow, yeah, it was 
crazy. 

1964
01:34:19,880 --> 01:34:21,520
It was. 
Yeah, no, I used to see Frank a 

1965
01:34:21,520 --> 01:34:25,880
lot when we were both doing SNY.
He was on, there used to be a 

1966
01:34:25,880 --> 01:34:30,640
show called Daily News Live, I 
think from 5:00 to 5:30, if that

1967
01:34:30,640 --> 01:34:34,520
was the right time. 
And it was like Raisman was a 

1968
01:34:34,520 --> 01:34:38,720
guest a lot. 
I stole a Baningo like Daily 

1969
01:34:38,720 --> 01:34:41,480
News writers, right. 
And then from 5:30 to 6:00 I had

1970
01:34:41,480 --> 01:34:44,160
the wheelhouse show that I did 
for about, I don't even know if 

1971
01:34:44,160 --> 01:34:46,040
you know about that Jay, but I 
did it for like 7 years. 

1972
01:34:46,040 --> 01:34:49,960
I would see Frank a lot in the 
green room and you know, always 

1973
01:34:49,960 --> 01:34:52,280
cool, always talk. 
I, I, I mean, I haven't seen him

1974
01:34:52,280 --> 01:34:56,080
nor have I spoken to him 
probably in well over a decade. 

1975
01:34:56,800 --> 01:34:58,840
I don't, I don't think. 
But no, I got to check that out 

1976
01:34:58,840 --> 01:34:59,840
my. 
Goodness, yeah, no, it's it's 

1977
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:01,720
it's just a good clip. 
It's a crazy clip. 

1978
01:35:01,960 --> 01:35:07,080
Also just this because I so I 
have, I don't, I don't rock them

1979
01:35:07,080 --> 01:35:10,440
very often anymore, but I've 
like, I've considered, you know,

1980
01:35:10,440 --> 01:35:13,000
pulling up to the episode with 
it, but I'm like, is this dude 

1981
01:35:13,000 --> 01:35:14,760
going to clown me? 
Is he going to clown me? 

1982
01:35:14,920 --> 01:35:16,760
The earrings? 
Yeah, if I had him in. 

1983
01:35:18,360 --> 01:35:20,160
I'm not going to clown you bro, 
Be you man. 

1984
01:35:20,280 --> 01:35:21,920
There we go, 20. 
Something years old, man. 

1985
01:35:22,840 --> 01:35:24,160
Yeah. 
This is the BT Should put the 

1986
01:35:24,160 --> 01:35:25,600
earring back on. 
David. 

1987
01:35:25,840 --> 01:35:27,960
David. 
The Connick, I think is at 499. 

1988
01:35:28,280 --> 01:35:30,520
You know what's funny? 
Where the hell were we? 

1989
01:35:31,960 --> 01:35:33,480
Shit. 
When did I do this? 

1990
01:35:33,480 --> 01:35:34,080
We. 
They were. 

1991
01:35:34,080 --> 01:35:39,160
Oh, oh, we went to one of our 
friends in town. 

1992
01:35:39,560 --> 01:35:45,600
This was last or this past fall.
I think it was in October and it

1993
01:35:45,600 --> 01:35:51,440
was somebody's 40th birthday. 
And when I tell you it, it was 

1994
01:35:51,440 --> 01:35:55,400
probably about a $500,000 party.
No joke. 

1995
01:35:55,520 --> 01:35:59,520
It was, I'm not going to get the
free pop to the venue in 

1996
01:35:59,520 --> 01:36:02,920
Manhattan. 
Just think though, East Side 

1997
01:36:03,040 --> 01:36:05,440
water. 
Ridiculous. 

1998
01:36:05,640 --> 01:36:07,680
Got it. 
And it was an 80s theme. 

1999
01:36:07,680 --> 01:36:10,560
And they actually brought an 80s
like that impersonators like 

2000
01:36:10,560 --> 01:36:12,840
Cher. 
We could, I'm like, is that a, 

2001
01:36:13,120 --> 01:36:14,240
is that a woman? 
Is that a man? 

2002
01:36:14,240 --> 01:36:18,720
I it was, oh, she was so good, 
you know, And then there was 

2003
01:36:18,720 --> 01:36:21,360
some band. 
Oh God, I don't remember that 

2004
01:36:21,360 --> 01:36:24,000
all the women loved it. 
Shit. 

2005
01:36:24,960 --> 01:36:27,960
Pretty popular group and they 
had like a Bon Jovi impersonated

2006
01:36:27,960 --> 01:36:32,040
and they actually came and 
performed like an 80s band. 

2007
01:36:32,040 --> 01:36:36,280
So it, it was just a wild night 
and I remember I was telling my 

2008
01:36:36,280 --> 01:36:37,280
buddies, so I knew we're going 
to be there. 

2009
01:36:37,280 --> 01:36:39,480
I'm like, dude, I'm going to 
bust out the earring because I 

2010
01:36:39,480 --> 01:36:40,280
still have the hole there. 
Oh. 

2011
01:36:40,280 --> 01:36:41,480
So it works. 
Oh. 

2012
01:36:41,720 --> 01:36:44,920
Yeah, so I got, no, I'm not 
trying to sound corny here, but 

2013
01:36:44,920 --> 01:36:49,480
I got my wife really big diamond
earrings like, well, well, each 

2014
01:36:49,480 --> 01:36:52,000
one well over a carrot a while 
ago, right? 

2015
01:36:52,880 --> 01:36:56,400
And and I rocked it and when I 
tell you it's like it's it's 

2016
01:36:56,400 --> 01:36:58,360
huge, dude. 
And I and I walked in, I had the

2017
01:36:58,360 --> 01:37:00,920
big diamond earring, you know, I
did. 

2018
01:37:00,920 --> 01:37:04,440
I actually had two earrings I 
had and I used to really wear 

2019
01:37:04,440 --> 01:37:06,240
more of the hoops because when I
was in college, that's. 

2020
01:37:06,240 --> 01:37:08,200
My thing. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 

2021
01:37:08,360 --> 01:37:10,320
Now do you have one in each ear?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

2022
01:37:10,320 --> 01:37:12,000
I mean, I did it when I was like
18. 

2023
01:37:12,000 --> 01:37:14,080
Like one of my friends did it. 
It was just like, it was just 

2024
01:37:14,080 --> 01:37:18,520
like at school. 
Well, yeah, I mean, I got both. 

2025
01:37:18,720 --> 01:37:20,600
I brought both. 
Yeah, I was, I was a huge 

2026
01:37:20,600 --> 01:37:22,360
earring guy. 
I really was, man. 

2027
01:37:22,400 --> 01:37:25,240
And I remember when I got my 
earring, oh, my dad was so 

2028
01:37:25,240 --> 01:37:30,320
pissed, man, because I, I think 
you had to be 16 to get it done.

2029
01:37:30,800 --> 01:37:33,560
And, and I'm like, not that my 
mom let me do whatever I wanted,

2030
01:37:33,560 --> 01:37:35,760
but she knew like, you know, 
kids were starting to do it and 

2031
01:37:35,760 --> 01:37:37,200
like, all right, it's a big 
deal, you know? 

2032
01:37:37,680 --> 01:37:39,680
And she took me to the mall 
because I think if you were 

2033
01:37:39,960 --> 01:37:42,640
maybe, maybe I was 15, like if 
you were under 16, you had to be

2034
01:37:42,640 --> 01:37:44,640
with a parent to sign something 
like consent. 

2035
01:37:45,120 --> 01:37:47,640
It's called the Piercing Pagoda.
You ever see that thing at the 

2036
01:37:47,640 --> 01:37:47,920
mall? 
No. 

2037
01:37:48,160 --> 01:37:51,960
Dude, of course I was ready. 
My boy went like when he, when 

2038
01:37:51,960 --> 01:37:54,280
we were like a little older, 
like he did at the mall. 

2039
01:37:54,280 --> 01:37:56,200
I was, I, I like him and I were 
just hanging out. 

2040
01:37:56,200 --> 01:37:58,160
He's like, I'm going to do it. 
I used to love that place, 

2041
01:37:58,160 --> 01:38:00,400
right? 
So I went and then they inject, 

2042
01:38:00,400 --> 01:38:02,280
you know, the little gun and 
like they give you a little gold

2043
01:38:02,280 --> 01:38:04,160
ball and then eventually you 
want to put the hoop in 

2044
01:38:04,160 --> 01:38:05,920
whatever. 
But because I went to an old 

2045
01:38:05,920 --> 01:38:09,080
boys private school, you're not 
allowed to wear earrings. 

2046
01:38:09,080 --> 01:38:12,520
I had to wear suit, tie, blazer.
Your hair could not touch your 

2047
01:38:12,520 --> 01:38:15,360
collar. 
I I didn't have to worry about 

2048
01:38:15,360 --> 01:38:17,240
it because I didn't even have to
shave in high school, believe it

2049
01:38:17,240 --> 01:38:20,600
or not, but like if you did, 
they literally had razors and 

2050
01:38:20,600 --> 01:38:22,240
shaving cream. 
If there was any growth semi 

2051
01:38:22,240 --> 01:38:26,080
military, any growth, you had a 
shave at school at school. 

2052
01:38:26,360 --> 01:38:27,800
This is no messing around, bro 
right? 

2053
01:38:28,440 --> 01:38:31,120
And definitely no earrings, no 
hats, none of that stuff. 

2054
01:38:31,720 --> 01:38:35,880
And So what I did was in my own,
you know, wisdom. 

2055
01:38:36,280 --> 01:38:41,000
I took a a Band-Aid, flesh 
colored and I put it over 

2056
01:38:41,000 --> 01:38:43,320
because you have to keep the 
Arian for like 2 weeks otherwise

2057
01:38:43,320 --> 01:38:45,120
the hole's going to close. 
And I wanted to get the hoop 

2058
01:38:45,200 --> 01:38:46,680
right because summer was coming 
up. 

2059
01:38:47,120 --> 01:38:52,280
I want to start macking it. 
And I remember like I got away 

2060
01:38:52,280 --> 01:38:53,560
with it for a couple days at 
school. 

2061
01:38:53,560 --> 01:38:55,400
I have no idea how. 
I really don't know. 

2062
01:38:55,400 --> 01:38:57,920
How they caught the bump 
eventually. 

2063
01:38:58,600 --> 01:39:03,520
My biggest fear, it was my dad 
and the way we sat at the dinner

2064
01:39:03,520 --> 01:39:07,920
table like I was here, my dad 
was to my right, my mom was in 

2065
01:39:07,920 --> 01:39:09,760
front of me and my sister was to
my left. 

2066
01:39:10,040 --> 01:39:11,960
So my dad can only see my right 
ear. 

2067
01:39:12,240 --> 01:39:15,000
So for like 3 or 4 days I was 
making sure and when we're 

2068
01:39:15,000 --> 01:39:17,520
eating dinner it's fine. 
But when I was making sure he 

2069
01:39:17,520 --> 01:39:21,880
couldn't like I had, I couldn't 
turn because he would see it and

2070
01:39:21,880 --> 01:39:24,640
then he finally saw it and he's 
like you're an idiot like that. 

2071
01:39:24,640 --> 01:39:27,080
Even when he saw the tattoo, 
he's like you're an idiot. 

2072
01:39:27,080 --> 01:39:29,840
That's what he said both times. 
But so you. 

2073
01:39:30,080 --> 01:39:33,280
Only have the left. 
I only have the left, OK? 

2074
01:39:33,280 --> 01:39:35,560
I only have the left. 
I had two on the left, yeah. 

2075
01:39:36,080 --> 01:39:38,560
Oh, you had the mode? 
I did, yeah. 

2076
01:39:38,560 --> 01:39:41,840
OK, because that's what I've 
been considering getting still. 

2077
01:39:41,840 --> 01:39:45,240
Yeah, dude, I don't know. 
Why not Listen, some some days 

2078
01:39:45,240 --> 01:39:47,160
you just get some days you just 
get bored. 

2079
01:39:47,200 --> 01:39:51,200
And I was like, I kind of want 
to get like the second up top on

2080
01:39:51,200 --> 01:39:52,640
the left. 
But then I have that thought 

2081
01:39:52,640 --> 01:39:55,320
where this I think this is the 
reason I haven't gotten attacked

2082
01:39:55,320 --> 01:39:57,760
yet, where I'm just like, all 
right, I'm 23. 

2083
01:39:57,760 --> 01:40:00,480
What am I doing, bro? 
Like, yeah, like, like it almost

2084
01:40:00,480 --> 01:40:04,920
feels like I've crossed that 
first benchmark of, like, when 

2085
01:40:04,920 --> 01:40:08,640
you would have gotten like, a 
tattoo, you know, granted, 

2086
01:40:08,640 --> 01:40:10,280
obviously like something 
impactful could. 

2087
01:40:10,280 --> 01:40:11,520
Happen. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 

2088
01:40:11,720 --> 01:40:13,000
God willing it doesn't. 
But. 

2089
01:40:13,240 --> 01:40:15,200
You know what I mean? 
You know I know like a name. 

2090
01:40:15,360 --> 01:40:16,080
I know. 
I know what you. 

2091
01:40:16,080 --> 01:40:20,800
Mean but like, but you know, 
that's why for me, like I don't 

2092
01:40:20,800 --> 01:40:22,760
think I've gotten a tattoo up to
this point. 

2093
01:40:22,760 --> 01:40:25,240
It's just, I think you reach 
like a certain age threshold. 

2094
01:40:25,240 --> 01:40:28,760
I think it's 21 or just when you
graduate college. 

2095
01:40:29,280 --> 01:40:30,840
I'm. 
Done with the body 

2096
01:40:30,840 --> 01:40:33,280
modifications. 
I got mine in college like a 

2097
01:40:33,280 --> 01:40:36,280
complete idiot so. 
Wait, what is your tattoo? 

2098
01:40:36,280 --> 01:40:37,800
It's like a if you don't mind me
asking. 

2099
01:40:37,920 --> 01:40:40,200
It's like a Jaguar. 
It's so stupid, man. 

2100
01:40:40,200 --> 01:40:42,360
Wait, That's sick. 
Yeah, No, I know. 

2101
01:40:42,360 --> 01:40:46,200
But it just looks like a big 
black BLOB of ink, like, because

2102
01:40:46,200 --> 01:40:48,000
it's so long ago. 
Yeah. 

2103
01:40:48,120 --> 01:40:50,080
You know, like. 
And I was funny. 

2104
01:40:50,080 --> 01:40:52,040
I was thinking about a couple of
variations. 

2105
01:40:52,040 --> 01:40:53,880
I was. 
So I went to Maristas, you know,

2106
01:40:53,920 --> 01:40:57,400
and the mascot was the red fox. 
So I was. 

2107
01:40:57,560 --> 01:41:00,000
And I'm not an artist, but I'm 
like, maybe I'll get like the 

2108
01:41:00,000 --> 01:41:04,680
red fox, like kind of leaning on
a baseball bat, flipping a ball 

2109
01:41:04,680 --> 01:41:06,120
up with my number. 
I don't know. 

2110
01:41:06,120 --> 01:41:07,480
So I was thinking something with
baseball. 

2111
01:41:07,480 --> 01:41:09,040
Thank God I didn't get that. 
Yeah. 

2112
01:41:09,320 --> 01:41:12,120
I mean, I was thinking about and
a lot of my friends got like the

2113
01:41:12,160 --> 01:41:14,280
the Chinese and the like the 
symbols. 

2114
01:41:14,280 --> 01:41:18,600
Like I I wasn't the Asian the 
yes like I was. 

2115
01:41:19,000 --> 01:41:20,760
Were they your Asian friends or 
were they your? 

2116
01:41:20,760 --> 01:41:23,640
Wife friends. 
No, no, no, no, no, no. 

2117
01:41:23,680 --> 01:41:25,680
I mean, I had a couple of Asian 
friends, but no, these were just

2118
01:41:25,760 --> 01:41:27,800
Irish dudes and I was 
knuckleheads. 

2119
01:41:27,840 --> 01:41:29,440
I love it. 
You know, I didn't even I don't 

2120
01:41:29,440 --> 01:41:31,080
know if they knew what it meant,
but that was the trend, the 

2121
01:41:31,120 --> 01:41:35,280
other trend and Pam Anderson had
this, but also like the barbed 

2122
01:41:35,280 --> 01:41:37,200
wire. 
I'm like like for the steroid 

2123
01:41:37,200 --> 01:41:40,480
dudes back then, I'm like, I'm 
not getting mad, dude. 

2124
01:41:40,520 --> 01:41:43,560
I mean, thank God because. 
You OK? 

2125
01:41:43,600 --> 01:41:46,280
You certainly hit me as one of 
those guys who would never have 

2126
01:41:46,280 --> 01:41:47,920
that tattoo. 
But you're trying. 

2127
01:41:47,920 --> 01:41:51,520
To have that build where it 
would make like it would make 

2128
01:41:51,520 --> 01:41:53,840
sense with your luck. 
Yeah, maybe like the. 

2129
01:41:53,960 --> 01:41:57,200
Vin Diesel barbed wire but. 
Dude, the meathead. 

2130
01:41:57,200 --> 01:42:00,120
Yeah, listen, if I would have 
if, if, if I, if I would have 

2131
01:42:00,120 --> 01:42:03,080
taken the steroids like I almost
did, I've told that story like 

2132
01:42:03,080 --> 01:42:04,680
then I maybe I would have gotten
that. 

2133
01:42:04,680 --> 01:42:06,720
But I mean, I was in good shape.
I, I wasn't yoked. 

2134
01:42:06,720 --> 01:42:09,920
Like some of these crazy, 
freaky, you know, steroid heads 

2135
01:42:09,920 --> 01:42:14,000
in the 90s, you would see a. 
Completely different man in my 

2136
01:42:14,000 --> 01:42:16,120
eyes. 
If you have that tattoo dude. 

2137
01:42:16,160 --> 01:42:16,960
I mean what? 
What? 

2138
01:42:16,960 --> 01:42:20,360
What else was popular? 
The the lettering, the barbed 

2139
01:42:20,360 --> 01:42:24,400
wire and animals, right. 
And so I got I got this like 

2140
01:42:24,400 --> 01:42:29,600
Jaguar crawling on my back and 
what I and I, what I really 

2141
01:42:29,600 --> 01:42:32,800
would like to do the prop. 
See the problem is it is it's 

2142
01:42:32,800 --> 01:42:34,560
not incredibly and it's on my 
left shoulder. 

2143
01:42:34,840 --> 01:42:37,680
So nobody sees it unless I want 
them to, right? 

2144
01:42:38,800 --> 01:42:42,320
So it's probably about this big,
you know, like the claws and 

2145
01:42:42,320 --> 01:42:44,720
like the little blood dripping 
whatever. 

2146
01:42:44,720 --> 01:42:48,120
So is it kind of like Tony 
Soprano, Tiger? 

2147
01:42:48,320 --> 01:42:49,520
Kind of fish. 
OK. 

2148
01:42:50,320 --> 01:42:52,120
Kind of. 
I love that one. 

2149
01:42:52,240 --> 01:42:57,520
Kind of, yes, yes, only much 
blacker and darker and 'cause 

2150
01:42:57,560 --> 01:42:59,080
his was really faded, if you 
remember. 

2151
01:42:59,360 --> 01:43:01,440
And what I've thought about 
doing a couple of times, number 

2152
01:43:01,440 --> 01:43:03,440
one, I've thought about just 
getting it removed, right. 

2153
01:43:03,800 --> 01:43:08,000
All right, I could tolerate the 
pain, whatever, but then, you 

2154
01:43:08,000 --> 01:43:13,440
know, I I like I would like to 
get across a Celtic, A Celtic 

2155
01:43:13,440 --> 01:43:17,800
cross and like my kids initials 
and and I actually went where I 

2156
01:43:17,800 --> 01:43:21,480
had, you know, artists, you 
know, render concepts of it, how

2157
01:43:21,480 --> 01:43:24,680
they could do it the only and 
they could do it, but the they 

2158
01:43:24,680 --> 01:43:28,040
would have to make it so big 
because it's such a concentrated

2159
01:43:28,040 --> 01:43:31,760
area of blackness that the cross
wouldn't be able to be as 

2160
01:43:31,760 --> 01:43:33,440
defined as you would want it to 
be. 

2161
01:43:33,960 --> 01:43:35,760
And I'm like, I'm trying to get 
away from this. 

2162
01:43:35,760 --> 01:43:38,480
I'm going to make this thing 
like this massive on my back 52 

2163
01:43:38,480 --> 01:43:39,200
years. 
What are we doing? 

2164
01:43:39,200 --> 01:43:42,720
We're going backwards at that 
mean we're going backwards. 

2165
01:43:42,720 --> 01:43:46,920
J Rod No, but I I used to and 
the reason why the earrings, I 

2166
01:43:46,920 --> 01:43:49,320
mean, you can laugh. 
It's corny now, but like 9 O 

2167
01:43:49,320 --> 01:43:52,400
21-O was so and I love the show.
I couldn't wait for that show to

2168
01:43:52,400 --> 01:43:54,360
come on every week. 
I would watch it on campus. 

2169
01:43:54,400 --> 01:43:56,640
I was the best. 
Kelly was my favorite. 

2170
01:43:56,640 --> 01:43:59,720
Yeah, it was great. 
And they all had earrings, you 

2171
01:43:59,720 --> 01:44:00,760
know? 
And then I went. 

2172
01:44:00,840 --> 01:44:03,000
First I got the stud, then I had
the hoop, then I got another 

2173
01:44:03,000 --> 01:44:05,880
one, and then I was rocking the 
two hoops, like the little small

2174
01:44:05,880 --> 01:44:07,480
hoop and then the bigger hoop. 
What an idiot. 

2175
01:44:08,120 --> 01:44:11,840
My God, what else we got? 
Going on J Rod, get a neck. 

2176
01:44:11,840 --> 01:44:14,880
Tat bro trying to do? 
Ruin my life here. 

2177
01:44:15,800 --> 01:44:20,000
I mean Jesus, my mom would 
literally put me in. 

2178
01:44:20,200 --> 01:44:22,800
Put me in the cell. 
Everybody would be afraid of you

2179
01:44:22,800 --> 01:44:25,360
though, Jay. 
Dude, maybe that'd be yeah, I I 

2180
01:44:25,360 --> 01:44:29,520
get a little that that could be 
like a boost, like a boost to 

2181
01:44:29,520 --> 01:44:31,720
some, some fear. 
Put some fear in you. 

2182
01:44:31,760 --> 01:44:33,360
If I had a neck tat. 
Here's I don't know though. 

2183
01:44:33,360 --> 01:44:35,960
Here's what you have to do. 
Let's see how dedicated you are 

2184
01:44:35,960 --> 01:44:39,160
to to the growth of the channel.
Now I know that you're all in. 

2185
01:44:39,160 --> 01:44:40,800
I get that. 
But now we'll really test the 

2186
01:44:40,840 --> 01:44:43,280
the limits. 
So what if you really want to we

2187
01:44:43,400 --> 01:44:45,680
and we will, but we'd like to 
get there sooner rather than 

2188
01:44:45,680 --> 01:44:48,120
later. 
Eventually we will celebrate one

2189
01:44:48,120 --> 01:44:50,200
100,000 Subs on this channel. 
We will. 

2190
01:44:50,200 --> 01:44:53,640
It's not going to happen 
tomorrow, but we will get there 

2191
01:44:53,640 --> 01:44:55,040
right as we build this thing 
out. 

2192
01:44:55,480 --> 01:44:59,280
If you shaved your head and got 
like a Bam Bam Bigelow head 

2193
01:44:59,280 --> 01:45:02,240
tattoo, you know? 
Wait that's someone literally 

2194
01:45:02,240 --> 01:45:04,760
just commented that. 
You should. 

2195
01:45:05,120 --> 01:45:07,080
Get a head tattoo like Bam 
Bigelow. 

2196
01:45:07,080 --> 01:45:08,800
I swear to God, I did not see 
that. 

2197
01:45:09,160 --> 01:45:10,400
I swear to God. 
That's funny. 

2198
01:45:10,400 --> 01:45:12,520
All right, I. 
Swear to God, I swear to God. 

2199
01:45:13,440 --> 01:45:14,720
What else? 
Wait, keep going. 

2200
01:45:14,720 --> 01:45:16,360
Keep going. 
Well, that's what you got to do 

2201
01:45:16,360 --> 01:45:20,920
because people out of out of 
sheer morbid, morbid curiosity, 

2202
01:45:20,920 --> 01:45:22,920
they'd be, even if they don't 
like what I'm doing, they're 

2203
01:45:22,920 --> 01:45:25,760
like, who the hell is this 
lunatic that just broke out of 

2204
01:45:25,760 --> 01:45:27,720
jail? 
We got to watch this show and 

2205
01:45:27,720 --> 01:45:30,280
then maybe we'll get the 100 by 
the 4th of July, 100,000. 

2206
01:45:30,280 --> 01:45:32,600
There we go. 
Yeah, I just got a football. 

2207
01:45:34,920 --> 01:45:37,560
Wait, what's this? 
Do you see the Ripoli interview 

2208
01:45:37,640 --> 01:45:39,640
on McAfee? 
I saw highlights of it. 

2209
01:45:40,120 --> 01:45:41,320
I saw highlights of it. 
Yeah. 

2210
01:45:41,840 --> 01:45:43,800
Mike Ripoli. 
I finally got to meet Mike like 

2211
01:45:43,840 --> 01:45:47,720
I, you know, I finally, I like 
he's like one or twice, once or 

2212
01:45:48,120 --> 01:45:49,720
once or twice. 
I would see him at a St. 

2213
01:45:49,720 --> 01:45:51,360
John's game and give him like, 
like I was moving. 

2214
01:45:51,360 --> 01:45:52,480
He was. 
I'm not going to bother him. 

2215
01:45:52,680 --> 01:45:54,360
Give him like a quick, like a 
very quick. 

2216
01:45:54,360 --> 01:45:57,040
DAP finally got to talk to him. 
I told you we were having 

2217
01:45:57,040 --> 01:45:59,360
breakfast at the team hotel in 
San Diego and he was. 

2218
01:46:00,640 --> 01:46:03,840
And like Mink and I would go 
when kind of when the players 

2219
01:46:03,840 --> 01:46:05,680
were leaving just to give them 
their solitude. 

2220
01:46:05,680 --> 01:46:07,840
You know, that's kind of the way
the team wants it. 

2221
01:46:08,120 --> 01:46:10,160
Everybody's different. 
Like back in the day with Lavin,

2222
01:46:10,400 --> 01:46:12,720
I could eat with the team, with 
Mullen, I would eat with the 

2223
01:46:12,720 --> 01:46:14,040
team a little different with 
Rick. 

2224
01:46:14,040 --> 01:46:16,360
And that's all good. 
So we would go later. 

2225
01:46:17,480 --> 01:46:19,520
And Mike was there with Eddie 
Cole. 

2226
01:46:19,520 --> 01:46:21,160
The St. 
John's AD was great. 

2227
01:46:21,440 --> 01:46:23,640
And you know, a bunch of, you 
know, big money boosters and 

2228
01:46:23,640 --> 01:46:26,520
friends of the program. 
And actually Mink wasn't even 

2229
01:46:26,520 --> 01:46:27,880
there. 
I was just by myself and I was 

2230
01:46:27,880 --> 01:46:31,280
kind of sitting by myself and 
there was like 6 of them and I 

2231
01:46:31,280 --> 01:46:34,000
know Eddie really well and he 
introduced me and we just 

2232
01:46:34,000 --> 01:46:35,840
started bullshitting about 
whatever. 

2233
01:46:35,840 --> 01:46:39,800
And then when they play Duke and
just a really good conversation,

2234
01:46:40,280 --> 01:46:42,240
crazy energy. 
Like that guy's energy is 

2235
01:46:42,240 --> 01:46:43,560
ridiculous. 
I'm like, what drugs do you 

2236
01:46:43,560 --> 01:46:44,560
want? 
He's like none. 

2237
01:46:44,840 --> 01:46:47,960
His energy is through the roof. 
And then he was sitting behind 

2238
01:46:47,960 --> 01:46:49,680
me with the same crew for the 
Duke St. 

2239
01:46:49,680 --> 01:46:52,880
John's game in DC and like every
time there was a bucket, like 

2240
01:46:52,880 --> 01:46:54,760
I'm literally there right behind
the broadcast booth. 

2241
01:46:54,760 --> 01:46:57,200
I'm like, oh, get, you know, 
dapping them up and going nuts 

2242
01:46:57,200 --> 01:46:59,840
and then lost. 
But what else? 

2243
01:47:00,240 --> 01:47:05,240
Hey, by the way, we so I 
mentioned this earlier, how good

2244
01:47:05,240 --> 01:47:07,600
of a guy is Michael Kay? 
So I text Michael yesterday. 

2245
01:47:07,600 --> 01:47:10,480
I'm like, hey, would really love
to get you on get you on again. 

2246
01:47:10,480 --> 01:47:13,520
Not like 2 hour long format, 
20-30 minutes. 

2247
01:47:13,520 --> 01:47:15,560
Really talk about what we've 
seen from the Yankees the first 

2248
01:47:15,560 --> 01:47:18,040
month Dominguez back, both 
people down, blah, blah, blah. 

2249
01:47:18,680 --> 01:47:23,720
And this was yesterday. 
And I'm like, how about tomorrow

2250
01:47:23,720 --> 01:47:26,280
meeting today. 
He's like tomorrow's impossible.

2251
01:47:26,280 --> 01:47:31,160
He's like, because travel day 
game. 

2252
01:47:31,480 --> 01:47:33,280
Yeah, they just logistically 
could. 

2253
01:47:33,280 --> 01:47:35,320
I'm like, dude, I get it. 
He writes me back. 

2254
01:47:35,320 --> 01:47:38,560
He's like, how about tonight 
meeting last night when I get 

2255
01:47:38,560 --> 01:47:41,960
back to the team hotel after the
Rangers and the Yankees game? 

2256
01:47:41,960 --> 01:47:44,040
I'm like, dude, that's a lot of 
work for you, man. 

2257
01:47:44,080 --> 01:47:47,280
I yeah, yeah, I appreciate you 
even offering that, but I'm not 

2258
01:47:47,280 --> 01:47:48,440
going to even take you up on 
that. 

2259
01:47:48,640 --> 01:47:51,600
Let's see if we could do 
Thursday so or or or Wednesday. 

2260
01:47:51,880 --> 01:47:53,720
So hopefully we'll get K on this
week. 

2261
01:47:54,520 --> 01:47:56,440
And I'm going to talk. 
I'm going to talk to Boone 

2262
01:47:56,440 --> 01:47:57,560
today. 
Text me yesterday. 

2263
01:47:57,560 --> 01:48:00,240
Says he's going to give me a 
shout at some point after the 

2264
01:48:00,240 --> 01:48:03,480
show and we'll lock in Boone. 
Got to get a rod. 

2265
01:48:03,520 --> 01:48:04,560
A rod? 
Not that I've really been 

2266
01:48:04,560 --> 01:48:06,720
texting him, you know, I know 
he's busy. 

2267
01:48:06,720 --> 01:48:10,040
A little, little evasive there. 
A rod's pumping out that youth 

2268
01:48:10,040 --> 01:48:11,680
content. 
Speaking of, I mean, I've seen 

2269
01:48:11,680 --> 01:48:14,600
his vids. 
Speaking of youth content, can I

2270
01:48:14,600 --> 01:48:18,720
show you guys something? 
That is the coolest thing. 

2271
01:48:19,480 --> 01:48:22,840
If this doesn't make your day, 
then I don't know what will. 

2272
01:48:22,840 --> 01:48:23,960
Hold on. 
All right, hang on. 

2273
01:48:26,320 --> 01:48:29,600
So this was last night before my
daughter's little travel team 

2274
01:48:29,600 --> 01:48:32,440
played, right? 
And I've never seen them do 

2275
01:48:32,440 --> 01:48:34,920
this. 
They got in a huge circle. 

2276
01:48:35,640 --> 01:48:37,960
Look at this like this is what 
it's supposed to be about. 

2277
01:48:37,960 --> 01:48:41,440
Not all the nonsense about who's
winning scholarships when you're

2278
01:48:41,440 --> 01:48:51,800
nine years old. 
Not so fun, dude. 

2279
01:48:55,760 --> 01:48:57,520
So my daughter's the one with 
the red helmet watch. 

2280
01:48:57,520 --> 01:49:01,080
She's going to jump in soon. 
They went out of order. 

2281
01:49:07,640 --> 01:49:16,200
Dude that's too funny. 
Oh my God, breaking it down with

2282
01:49:16,200 --> 01:49:18,040
the hug. 
Little breakdance move. 

2283
01:49:18,400 --> 01:49:21,360
Yeah, that was crazy. 
How great is that man? 

2284
01:49:22,000 --> 01:49:24,400
I mean, that's that, you know, 
that's like you said, dude, 

2285
01:49:24,400 --> 01:49:27,920
that's exactly what it's about, 
you know, and it's just for me, 

2286
01:49:27,920 --> 01:49:30,600
like, I mean, so I was a camp 
counselor for a while. 

2287
01:49:30,600 --> 01:49:32,880
So was I. 
Oh dude, that's awesome. 

2288
01:49:32,880 --> 01:49:34,880
OK, multiple summers. 
You ever talked about this? 

2289
01:49:35,120 --> 01:49:36,680
Did you do overnight or did you 
do dance? 

2290
01:49:36,680 --> 01:49:39,520
Sleep. 
Away did I? 

2291
01:49:39,520 --> 01:49:41,520
Was I ever a day camp counselor?
I don't know. 

2292
01:49:41,520 --> 01:49:44,120
I I was a sleep away camp 
counselor for a few years. 

2293
01:49:44,120 --> 01:49:47,360
I only I only did day but but go
ahead. 

2294
01:49:48,200 --> 01:49:50,880
No, I mean, I was just going to 
say like, it's just great when 

2295
01:49:50,880 --> 01:49:55,160
you can see kids having fun with
no screen, no phone insight. 

2296
01:49:55,360 --> 01:49:57,240
Like it's just like, all right, 
we're still good. 

2297
01:49:57,280 --> 01:50:00,280
We're still good like. 
I don't think any of those girls

2298
01:50:00,280 --> 01:50:01,600
have. 
I know my daughter, she's 9. 

2299
01:50:01,600 --> 01:50:03,080
They she definitely wasn't a 
phone yet. 

2300
01:50:03,120 --> 01:50:06,520
But like, no, I don't think 
anybody on the team does. 

2301
01:50:06,760 --> 01:50:09,000
Like they got like the Apple 
watches and ways to connect to 

2302
01:50:09,000 --> 01:50:10,480
mom and dad. 
Just, you know, just make sure 

2303
01:50:10,480 --> 01:50:12,960
everything's good. 
But you know, and they've been 

2304
01:50:12,960 --> 01:50:14,920
on like they've been together 
for a couple years. 

2305
01:50:14,920 --> 01:50:17,440
I've never seen them do that. 
And I'm like, this is and then 

2306
01:50:17,440 --> 01:50:19,120
they went out and they won 20 to
6. 

2307
01:50:19,720 --> 01:50:20,960
I'm like, we were ready to play 
tonight. 

2308
01:50:20,960 --> 01:50:23,440
I don't coach that team. 
So I just sit there and because 

2309
01:50:23,440 --> 01:50:25,600
it's their travel, I'll coach 
her tonight in wreck. 

2310
01:50:26,120 --> 01:50:28,360
She's begging me to pitch. 
No, she's not a pitcher. 

2311
01:50:28,360 --> 01:50:31,160
She's you know, it's 4th and 5th
grade and she's in the 4th 

2312
01:50:31,160 --> 01:50:33,520
grade, but she keeps so it's, 
you know, we have a couple of 

2313
01:50:33,520 --> 01:50:36,080
girls in the league and one girl
on our team, 2 girls who throw 

2314
01:50:36,080 --> 01:50:39,800
absolute cheese because they 
play club and they take lessons.

2315
01:50:39,800 --> 01:50:42,440
And she's really showing it. 
She's like dad, can you, you 

2316
01:50:42,440 --> 01:50:45,400
know, she's like, and I told 
her, I said you, I'm dad, but 

2317
01:50:45,400 --> 01:50:47,720
I'm coach, you know, at the 
field. 

2318
01:50:47,960 --> 01:50:50,560
You can't say at the field, Dad,
can I pitch? 

2319
01:50:50,880 --> 01:50:54,200
So last night I'm going to try 
to get, I'm going to try to get 

2320
01:50:54,200 --> 01:50:56,680
in for an inning tonight because
we practiced a couple times. 

2321
01:50:56,680 --> 01:50:58,960
She's showing that initiative. 
And then she even said last 

2322
01:50:58,960 --> 01:51:02,240
night when we got back from 
after her game and then my son's

2323
01:51:02,240 --> 01:51:06,120
game, she's like, she's like, 
dad, I'm not asking if I could 

2324
01:51:06,120 --> 01:51:08,200
pitch. 
She framed it well. 

2325
01:51:08,280 --> 01:51:09,240
She got. 
She's. 

2326
01:51:09,400 --> 01:51:11,960
Like, I'm not asking if I could 
pitch, but if there's a 

2327
01:51:11,960 --> 01:51:16,600
situation, you know, maybe, 
maybe you, you can consider it 

2328
01:51:16,600 --> 01:51:19,080
with and with the other coaches.
I'm like, how do I not get her 

2329
01:51:19,080 --> 01:51:20,920
out on the mound tonight? 
I got news for you, though. 

2330
01:51:20,920 --> 01:51:22,440
If it's two to one game, you 
ain't pitching, honey. 

2331
01:51:22,440 --> 01:51:26,080
Daddy still wants to win. 
You're not ready for that smoke 

2332
01:51:26,080 --> 01:51:27,080
yet. 
Oh, man. 

2333
01:51:27,600 --> 01:51:29,280
All right, all right, let me get
out of here. 

2334
01:51:30,080 --> 01:51:32,520
Yankees today, Mets tonight, 
Knicks tonight. 

2335
01:51:32,520 --> 01:51:34,080
I'm going to give you a Little 
Mix here. 

2336
01:51:34,360 --> 01:51:40,480
I'm going to go Knicks 113 and 
I'm going to go, no, I'm going 

2337
01:51:40,480 --> 01:51:41,840
to go a little higher than that.
Actually. 

2338
01:51:42,200 --> 01:51:47,760
I'm going to go Knicks 117 and 
I'm going to go Hawks one O 4. 

2339
01:51:47,800 --> 01:51:50,080
I think the Knicks pulled away. 
I think they win by double 

2340
01:51:50,080 --> 01:51:52,880
figures. 
If it is anything that what we 

2341
01:51:52,880 --> 01:51:55,440
saw the other night, at least 
initiating the offense through 

2342
01:51:55,440 --> 01:51:57,720
cat to see if the Atlanta Hawks 
were able to make some 

2343
01:51:57,720 --> 01:52:00,720
adjustments when he basically 
threw the ball around like Magic

2344
01:52:00,720 --> 01:52:04,280
Johnson throwing Dimes left and 
right, cutting guys on baseline 

2345
01:52:04,280 --> 01:52:06,560
and dunks and like that's got to
happen. 

2346
01:52:06,560 --> 01:52:09,200
If that doesn't happen, then I'm
going to have a lot for Mike 

2347
01:52:09,200 --> 01:52:12,440
Brown tomorrow. 
But you know, and then based on 

2348
01:52:12,440 --> 01:52:15,480
how Atlanta react, got to 
anticipate them knowing that 

2349
01:52:15,480 --> 01:52:17,400
that's how you would probably 
play tonight. 

2350
01:52:17,760 --> 01:52:19,440
And then you got to have some 
subset to that. 

2351
01:52:19,440 --> 01:52:23,000
So it's all about the reaction 
to the adjustments. 

2352
01:52:23,000 --> 01:52:24,680
And I want to see what Mike 
Brown cooks up there. 

2353
01:52:24,680 --> 01:52:26,080
I want to see the rotation a 
little bit. 

2354
01:52:26,880 --> 01:52:29,200
I want to see what kind of 
minutes Alvarado gets, who had 

2355
01:52:29,200 --> 01:52:31,080
some nice impact on the last 
game there. 

2356
01:52:32,000 --> 01:52:34,800
See what's up with Chamet. 
I'd like to see Mitchell. 

2357
01:52:34,800 --> 01:52:37,040
I know it's not a great matchup 
and they don't play well 

2358
01:52:37,040 --> 01:52:38,560
together. 
I like to see Mitchell Robinson 

2359
01:52:38,560 --> 01:52:40,280
start doing a little bit more. 
You're going to need a next 

2360
01:52:40,280 --> 01:52:41,360
series when the Knicks get 
there. 

2361
01:52:41,360 --> 01:52:44,720
So I do feel good about the 
Knicks tonight. 

2362
01:52:44,720 --> 01:52:49,440
I'm going to take a 13 point 
win, 117 one O 4 and I just 

2363
01:52:49,440 --> 01:52:52,680
don't want to see that like 26 
to 12 shot discrepancy between 

2364
01:52:52,680 --> 01:52:55,600
Brunson and by Cat. 
It's taking a long time. 

2365
01:52:55,600 --> 01:52:59,520
Hopefully the other night was 
just a good reminder of what the

2366
01:52:59,520 --> 01:53:03,080
Knicks should look like when 
they become the best vision and 

2367
01:53:03,080 --> 01:53:05,840
the best version really, of what
they could become. 

2368
01:53:05,840 --> 01:53:08,760
So enjoy the Knick game. 
Crazy that the Pistons are in 

2369
01:53:08,760 --> 01:53:10,080
the spot that they are. 
J Rod. 

2370
01:53:10,080 --> 01:53:13,520
Enjoy the Celtics, my man. 
Good luck to you guys handle biz

2371
01:53:13,520 --> 01:53:15,360
and I think you guys win pretty 
easy as well. 

2372
01:53:16,240 --> 01:53:18,760
I do and and that's about it. 
Rapper. 

2373
01:53:18,760 --> 01:53:20,800
All right, now we're gonna wrap 
that. 

2374
01:53:21,120 --> 01:53:25,400
Yep, hopefully K tomorrow, if 
not the next day, hopefully boom

2375
01:53:25,400 --> 01:53:28,640
this week and and that's it. 
So I appreciate you guys. 

2376
01:53:28,640 --> 01:53:30,440
Thanks for liking, thanks for 
subbing. 

2377
01:53:30,680 --> 01:53:33,040
Get it out there traction 
Yesterday was a good day. 

2378
01:53:33,240 --> 01:53:35,840
Numbers continue to grow more 
Subs yesterday. 

2379
01:53:36,160 --> 01:53:38,200
Lot of views. 
You know, the way it's funny, 

2380
01:53:38,200 --> 01:53:41,680
like when we first started the 
channel, you know, it's even 

2381
01:53:41,680 --> 01:53:45,120
before J Rod, you know, and and 
I don't mean my first show after

2382
01:53:45,200 --> 01:53:49,320
FAN, which got like, I don't 
know, 20 23,000 views, the 

2383
01:53:49,320 --> 01:53:51,760
first, first thing ever. 
You know, when we were just 

2384
01:53:51,760 --> 01:53:55,360
building this thing out, you 
know, you get like 8000 views 

2385
01:53:55,360 --> 01:53:59,200
during Christmas 9000, you know,
and then the stuff with Gio was 

2386
01:53:59,200 --> 01:54:00,880
just through the roof, 
ridiculous with all that 

2387
01:54:00,880 --> 01:54:02,560
nonsense. 
But then, you know, we're 

2388
01:54:02,560 --> 01:54:05,320
starting to grow now where 
everything is, you know, north 

2389
01:54:05,320 --> 01:54:09,320
of 25 N of 3035, some 40s, some 
low 40s. 

2390
01:54:09,560 --> 01:54:11,320
So the content, it's it's it's 
great. 

2391
01:54:11,320 --> 01:54:13,000
I don't mean to say the contents
great. 

2392
01:54:13,000 --> 01:54:16,120
I'll let you guys determine 
that, but the response and the 

2393
01:54:16,200 --> 01:54:20,120
the growing like the the ability
to quantify the growth with 

2394
01:54:20,120 --> 01:54:22,880
numbers is there. 
So that's because of you, not 

2395
01:54:22,880 --> 01:54:26,120
necessarily because of me. 
Have an awesome Tuesday, J Rod 

2396
01:54:26,120 --> 01:54:29,600
catch you later on, brother. 
2:00 PM today, Jets collective 

2397
01:54:29,600 --> 01:54:33,400
live myself and Jake and Rick 
Simini, every single Jets draft 

2398
01:54:33,400 --> 01:54:36,480
pick and the question, what if 
The Jets are actually good this 

2399
01:54:36,520 --> 01:54:38,160
year? 
So have a great rest of your 

2400
01:54:38,160 --> 01:55:04,280
Tuesday. 
you listening?