1 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:11,560 This is on leash. Are you listening? 2 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:12,480 Can you hear me? Hear me. 3 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:14,080 This is on leash. Are you listening? 4 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:15,000 Can you hear me? Hear me. 5 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:16,560 This is on leash. Are you listening? 6 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:17,480 Can you hear me? Hear me. 7 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:19,080 This is on leash. Are you listening? 8 00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:21,760 Can you hear me? This is on leash. 9 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:26,360 Are. You listening be relaxed about 10 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:27,960 Max freed. I'm not that worried I'm 11 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:31,120 actually not that worried what's happening everybody BT unleashed 12 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,240 on a Thursday. So let's jump into we got a lot 13 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:36,920 to get to tonight. Just give you a heads up with 14 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,240 the and a lot of the games have been leaked already The Jets 15 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:43,520 collective myself and and rich and Jake we will jump on right 16 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:45,800 at 8. So is that jets schedules 17 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:47,920 dropping now we know The Jets are going to play the Titans in 18 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:50,960 week 1. So it's the The Jets and Robert 19 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:52,600 Sala. Some of the giants games have 20 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:54,680 come out a lot of the national games have come out. 21 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,800 We'll get to that as well, but that is tonight. 22 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,720 OK, Looking forward to that. As always, today's show is 23 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,200 brought to you by Sullivan for Pain, my good friends at 24 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:06,760 sullivanpainseethemonline@triallaw1.com. That's trial law1.com. 25 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:08,400 Remember the name Sullivan for Pain. 26 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:11,960 And by Premio sausage, the best sausage, the way sausage should 27 00:01:11,960 --> 00:01:14,480 be. Find them at premiofoods.com or 28 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:18,800 in your local grocery store. Listen, I'm not going to, I'm 29 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:20,760 not going to front here. It was not a good day for the 30 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:23,240 Yankees yesterday. I obviously understand that. 31 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:25,520 I mean, poor Anthony Volpe, he's back. 32 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:28,280 And I mean, he, he basically looks like the same exact 33 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:30,000 player. We'll get to him in a minute. 34 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,640 We'll get to the Yankee offense, which has been beyond Dorman and 35 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:34,720 beyond embarrassing now for a while. 36 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:39,520 Max Freed, you know, we will we will get some update at some 37 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,360 point today. J Rod is feverishly, you know, 38 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,040 refreshing Twitter and making sure he's on top of this, 39 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:48,640 whether it's passing, whether it's, you know, Buster, only you 40 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,520 know, all that Joel Sherman, Heyman, everybody who covers the 41 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,520 the Yankees in Major League Baseball. 42 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:55,240 I'm actually not really worried about this. 43 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,960 I'm really worried about the Yankees offense, which I'll get 44 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,480 to. I'm not worried about Max Freed 45 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,160 for some reason. But I mean, the reason that I'm 46 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:07,120 not worried is because of the location of the pain. 47 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:09,960 Now, I'm not saying he's out there in a couple of days and 48 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:12,200 he's making his next start. Although let yesterday he did 49 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,560 say that he actually would hope to make his next start. 50 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:18,760 Listen guys, it, it's when you're dealing with the, the 51 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:22,840 outside part of the elbow, the triceps area, that's almost 52 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,200 never Tommy John. It's just not Tommy John. 53 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,920 You talk about the older collateral ligament that I've 54 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:31,280 got a nice little 6 inch gash here to prove it is on the 55 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:32,320 inside. All right. 56 00:02:32,640 --> 00:02:35,400 And when you think about obviously Tommy John and you 57 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:38,480 think about worst case scenario for a pitcher, you know, the, 58 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,880 the forearm tightness is generally a great precursor to 59 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:44,560 that. Usually that, you know, is, is 60 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,920 backed up by imaging. And, and that would really have 61 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:50,080 me alarmed. Like if he said that my forearm 62 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,720 doesn't feel right, then I'd say, you know, I, I almost 63 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:55,280 expect him to be on the operating table. 64 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:57,320 That's one. And then obviously, if you 65 00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:59,840 actually just feel acute pain right here, that's something 66 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:01,440 else. It's on the outside. 67 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,120 Now. I'm not going to play doctor, 68 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:05,880 even though I just did to a degree, but I think that that's 69 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:09,000 pretty much common baseball sensibility right there. 70 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:11,880 You know, I don't know. Is it a, is any floating loose 71 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:13,760 bone chip like Tarek Schuble had? 72 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,600 I, I honestly don't know he's the way he described it like a 73 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,880 hyperextension or almost like he banged it. 74 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:23,960 And you know, you, you definitely don't feel that when, 75 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,760 when you're going for Tommy John, when you have that, you 76 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:29,960 know that basically the kiss of death, at least for 18 months 77 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:32,360 for a, for a pitcher. That's, that's not the case. 78 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:36,160 So it is interesting though. I mean, man, oh man, This is why 79 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:37,800 you really, you try to plan things out. 80 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,560 You have 162 games. You think you have your line up, 81 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:43,280 you think you have your starting rotation, you think you have 82 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,080 your bullpen. And then, you know, hey, listen, 83 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:47,920 we're going to have to make some tough choices here. 84 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:51,000 Is it going to be Weathers or is it going to be, you know, who's 85 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,360 going to the bull, but will Warren? 86 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:55,840 So I do want to play this. Booty was on the show yesterday 87 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:59,360 and obviously this is before Max Free took the hill and before 88 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:02,560 Max Free left with injury. And we were talking about, you 89 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:05,120 know, who's best equipped to go to the bullpen. 90 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,040 What do you think? And the answer pretty 91 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,160 interesting. Here's Booty Weathers. 92 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:13,040 I mean, the way he's looked, he obviously looks like somebody 93 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,960 who deserves to be a starter. Same with, same with Will 94 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:18,240 Warren. Now, this is ultimately a good 95 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:20,839 thing, but ultimately you're going to have to have a very 96 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:23,800 tough conversation with one of those two men, unless it might 97 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:27,320 be somebody else, which I doubt. Are you already in your mind 98 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,600 playing this out? Like, do you have a sense of 99 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:34,480 those two guys who might right now be more equipped to go to 100 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:36,000 the bullpen? That's a tough call, man. 101 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:39,000 I try not to get too far ahead of myself with that because 102 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,800 ultimately we'll sit down if we have to make a decision and make 103 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,360 it. So the good thing, like you said 104 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:50,560 is you know, in in the case of the guys you mentioned, like 105 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,600 they're throwing great. They're they, they are really 106 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,960 good starting pitchers obviously, and a big part of 107 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,720 what we're doing. So if we have to make a 108 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,960 difficult decision when the time presents itself, which is still 109 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:07,120 a ways away, we'll make it. By the way, did you see how 110 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:09,880 piping hot his coffee was that I did? 111 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,720 A couple of comments from it because immediately when he 112 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,840 caught on, I was like, this guy got a smokestack next to him. 113 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:18,760 He's got a little bonfire. Who is booty lighting up a 114 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,960 blunt, banging back a Marlboro to start the day? 115 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,480 The Hell's going on? All right, so. 116 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:27,120 Things hot. Pretty interesting timing there. 117 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,800 Yeah, hot coffee's the worst. What I'll do is I, I made a cup 118 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,080 here, obviously, right, because it comes out of the of the 119 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:35,680 machine that we have in our home and it's pretty hot. 120 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,080 So I'll just drop an ice cube in there and then it'll say if it 121 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:42,480 goes, I, I don't think it's quite 100°, but if it goes from 122 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,200 say 100 to like 80 with the ice cube, you got to know how to 123 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:46,320 work this. I mean, boom, boom. 124 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:50,200 Seems like a a bit of a, a coffee rookie there and he was 125 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:51,520 wearing his head. That funny thing too. 126 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:52,840 If you guys missed the interview, it was great. 127 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:55,960 We had a lot of different stuff. And I appreciate Aaron coming on 128 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:59,200 obviously before a game late night the night before they 129 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,000 moved the game up. So he was great with the 130 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,280 schedule and, you know, logistically kind of moving some 131 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:07,000 things around. I first thing I said, I'm like, 132 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,640 dude, why are you wearing your hat like jazz? 133 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:11,560 You know, you look like a ballplayer, will you? 134 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:14,120 And we talked about jazz and we talked about a lot of other 135 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,240 stuff. All right, so I get it. 136 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:20,800 I I do understand the the fear for sure, but I do think a lot 137 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:25,360 of it is premature And I think I think now that, you know, in in 138 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,080 30 minutes, we can get the complete opposite and I'll look 139 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:30,000 like a dope. But I think that those fears 140 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,680 will will really go unfounded. You know, they will not be 141 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,440 proven true. I am not worried about any news 142 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:41,200 today with Max freed. Worst case scenario, Tommy John, 143 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:42,720 we'll see you in a year and a half. 144 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:45,880 Like I just don't expect that. And you know, listen, if that is 145 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:49,200 the case, well, that's a different level of evaluation. 146 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,400 I do think that the Yankees pitching is built to withstand a 147 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,040 lot. You know, I'd rather not see, 148 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:57,640 you know, Max Freed or one of the top of the rotation guys go, 149 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:00,400 you don't see anybody go down because their strength is the 150 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,000 surplus of above average pitchers that they have. 151 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:06,120 And when you have that you, you've got the ability to absorb 152 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:10,880 some dents and and some issues that are going to invariably pop 153 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,760 up at some point over the course of a six month season. 154 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:18,120 The biggest issue right now is this pathetic poultry, 155 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:23,080 disgraceful and disgusting and impotent New York Yankee 156 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:25,640 offense. I mean it really is the same 157 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,480 damn thing every day. If Ben Rice doesn't crank A2 run 158 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:32,440 shot, if Aaron Judge doesn't have a big night and a Bellinger 159 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:35,320 doesn't do something, I mean, the Yankees are running out 160 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:39,600 essentially 5 automatic outs. And, and I understand, you know, 161 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,280 you hear the term under the hood and I love the numbers and I do 162 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:46,640 believe there's value there, you know, guys hitting, you know, 163 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:50,320 2O2177. All right, let's see, is he 164 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:52,440 hitting into bad luck? What's the barrel rate? 165 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:54,400 What's the whiff rate? What's the chase rate? 166 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,240 What's the squared up rate? All those different rates that 167 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:01,000 that do tell you a more clear story as to whether or not 168 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,680 somebody's just been in in a bad luck streak or if they're just 169 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:06,160 really lost. Like I will at least say this, 170 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:08,560 even though I'm not a Grisham fan, Norm, I really a Grisham 171 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:10,560 believer certainly is a lead off hitter. 172 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:14,280 But if you look at Grisham's advanced analytics and you look 173 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:18,960 at Jazz Chisholm's, I mean, they are multiple planets apart. 174 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:22,360 I mean, Grisham has truly been victimized by some bad luck. 175 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:26,400 But and, and Grisham and and Jazz has just been an absolute 176 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:29,880 unmitigated disaster. And I'll get back to Jazz in a 177 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:34,200 little bit here, but the the reason why I don't lean too 178 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,480 heavily on some of these advanced numbers with Grisham, 179 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:40,960 you know, as as being maybe a foreshadow to to much more 180 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,159 favorable results is because there's just too many years of 181 00:08:44,159 --> 00:08:46,760 evidence where he's been a substandard hitter. 182 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:48,960 I mean, now he hasn't always played every day. 183 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:51,800 I get that. And last year he really was 184 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:54,640 good. Plus 800 OPS, 34 bombs. 185 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:57,200 I get it. He was good, But that was the 186 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:58,880 outlier. Like that proved to be the 187 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:01,160 anomaly here. And you look at these averages 188 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:05,760 and it's not, it's not April 10th or April 20th or May 1st. 189 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:06,720 I mean, we're in the middle of May. 190 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:09,240 We're getting ready for the first Yankees Mets Subway Series 191 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:11,760 And we'll get to the Mets in a bit with, with Benj with some 192 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:15,920 juice and, and Soto, Oh my God, I mean, Borois Soto's having a 193 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:19,040 rough go, but it looks like he avoided disaster with that foul 194 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:20,960 ball. We're getting ready for the 195 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:22,760 first Mets Yankees Subway Series. 196 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:26,480 And you got Grisham hitting $1.75, Jazz hitting two O 3, 197 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:30,640 McMahon hitting 196, and he's hitting 196 after a three-week 198 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:33,920 run where he's been pretty good. Volpe's, you know, Volpe's just 199 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:35,800 back. But until further notice, he's 200 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,920 still a mess. And Austin Wells just appears to 201 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:41,760 never be the kind of hitter that we either hoped or thought he 202 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:45,520 would be. So while many of you are are 203 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:48,960 fixated on Max Freed and and I understand that he's a terrific 204 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:50,640 pitcher. He's a workhorse. 205 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,080 He's one of the top 10 pitchers in the game, but he's healthy. 206 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:56,120 And when you pair that with Cam and then you pair that 207 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:59,440 eventually with the return of Gary Cole, you know, now you've 208 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:03,400 got a a rotation that's, as I've said many times, has a real 209 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:04,840 chance to be the best in baseball. 210 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:06,920 You got to put that on pause for a little bit. 211 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:10,520 But I, I get as I, as I unpack what's wrong with the Yankees, 212 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:15,440 to me, it's very apparent that it's really their offense and 213 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:17,800 it's crazy because they hit it. But I mean, this, this part, 214 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:20,120 we've seen a lot. They hit a lot of home runs. 215 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:22,520 And I know that boom. Like there's been a lot of talk 216 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:26,520 about like the, The Who is it the Rays and maybe the Brewers 217 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:30,840 and, and what other team, not the Dodgers, the Braves, the 218 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,960 Brewers, I guess it's the Braves, the Brewers and the 219 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:35,440 Philly up. What am I saying here? 220 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:42,240 The Rays, the Braves and the Brewers have, you know, among 221 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,280 the most singles in baseball. You know, now there's and and 222 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:48,680 the Yankees have like the fewest and they've got one of the worst 223 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:51,160 on base. We're batting average or both 224 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:54,280 really, with two strikes. Like those are all reflective of 225 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:58,720 a team that, you know, is going to struggle to push across that 226 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:01,160 extra insurance run, which they've done this year. 227 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:04,080 That's why they flushed a couple the gems down the chute last 228 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:07,160 weekend in Milwaukee the other day with Weathers when he went 229 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:09,640 basically threw a no hitter. And then, you know, Judge gets a 230 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:12,160 double belly, you know, round her to the right side, moves 231 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:14,120 over to 3rd. And what does Jazz do? 232 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:17,400 Swing it for the moon, Empty it bat Yankees leave what would 233 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:19,480 have been a very precious run on third base. 234 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:23,040 So these are things that have played the Yankees for a while. 235 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:26,720 Like if you look at and then every team and every season 236 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:30,440 obviously hasn't been the same, but really since 2009, one of 237 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:33,560 the common themes here is that the Yankees have been far too 238 00:11:33,560 --> 00:11:37,200 reliant on on certainly one guy Judge, sometimes 2. 239 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:40,520 And there's just been way too many dead spots in their lineup. 240 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,360 And, and like, it's one thing if you have guys that have like low 241 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,920 averages, which, which obviously is not ideal, but they're decent 242 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:51,320 on base guys, you know, and, and I know that Wells has cranked 243 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,400 out some walks and, you know, but you look at these other 244 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:56,920 dudes, it's just, it's, it's absolutely ridiculous. 245 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:59,080 You know, I mean, I got, I got to be real here. 246 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:02,120 I I really do think that the Yankees will be fine this year 247 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:05,840 unless we get awful news on Freed, which I'm not expecting, 248 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,960 but they're going to have to make trades or they're going to 249 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:12,280 have to get the young buck up here in Lombard. 250 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:14,160 Now this made some news yesterday. 251 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,200 I want to play this ass boon about Lombard. 252 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,680 Obviously, you know, he can come up today and play some defense. 253 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:22,560 What about the offense? Is there a chance we see 254 00:12:22,560 --> 00:12:25,960 Lombard, which would change a lot for this line up here in 255 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:27,600 2026? Here he is. 256 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:31,400 So somebody like Lombard, you could call them up today and he 257 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:33,360 can put them in 3rd. He'd be great. 258 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:36,040 Short grade, 2nd grade, probably throw them in left field. 259 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:38,800 Does he have a chance to be on the team at some point this 260 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:40,600 year? Walking a ton, he's hitting the 261 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:42,920 ball really hard. He's hitting some tough luck. 262 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:46,120 He can really defend. So absolutely, I think he could 263 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:49,160 be a factor for us this year. You know, we don't race him up 264 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:52,200 necessarily too quick because he's just getting to AAA and 265 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:55,120 he's 21 years old and he's not far away, I'll tell you that. 266 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,760 OK, so you look at the Yankees infield right now around the 267 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:02,640 around the horn, first, second, short, third. 268 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,640 Obviously Rice is going to play the lion's share of first base. 269 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:07,360 You get a little Goldie as well. Rice is the man. 270 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,880 You got Jazz at 2nd for now. Right now you got Volbeat short 271 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:12,200 and you got McMahon at third base. 272 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:18,320 I actually think that there is a real chance that of the that 75% 273 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:22,360 of the current Yankee infield is different in the playoffs. 274 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:25,520 Rice will remain at first. I think there's a chance either 275 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:27,800 they trade jazz or start platooning him. 276 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:31,000 And I asked Aaron about that straight up about, hey, I mean, 277 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,160 if this keeps going on with Jazz, would he possibly be a 278 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:37,440 platoon, a candidate here? And he didn't say no. 279 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:39,960 He talked about meritocracy, danced around it a little bit 280 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,520 because he doesn't want to, you know, railroad this guy Jazz. 281 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:45,480 But if you really listen to the response, you guys can find it 282 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:47,800 on the YouTube channel. I think you got the answer that 283 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:49,480 you were looking for. So I think that that is 284 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:51,600 certainly a real possibility. Yeah. 285 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:53,440 I mean, do I think Volpe's playing shortstop of the 286 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:54,840 postseason? Probably not. 287 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:58,640 And then obviously Lombard, if and when he's called up, could 288 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:01,680 impact third base, could impact shortstop, could impact second. 289 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:05,760 You know, I I don't really know, but here's what I do know, 290 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:07,800 right? And I really feel badly for 291 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:10,280 Anthony Volpe and it's one game and I don't want to go nuts 292 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:12,120 here. That was an easy ground ball. 293 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:15,040 Like the way he even the way he caught it. 294 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:19,400 You know, I don't want to get too, too coachy here on you, but 295 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:22,080 you know, that's it. It's almost like he he he looked 296 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:26,320 like a a young short stuff, a young kid playing shortstop 297 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,880 who's not really a shortstop and he's just trying to kind of box 298 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:32,640 the ball up and keep it in front of him. 299 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,440 And we started to see that last year when he went backwards 300 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:37,520 defensively. We saw a lot of time he was 301 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:40,080 going down to one knee. I mean, forget about the throws 302 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:43,000 that are kind of, you know, losing steam as they go across 303 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:44,560 the diamond that that's pretty obvious. 304 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:45,920 He doesn't have a really good arm at all. 305 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,000 And the numbers back that up. But it it was almost like he was 306 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,360 fielding grounders, like an outfielder going down on one 307 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,120 knee, trying to keep the ball in front of them on a hard hit, you 308 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:57,000 know, 2 hop rocket to the outfield. 309 00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:59,840 So I do, I feel terribly for him. 310 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:02,720 You know, he's wearing it, you know, and then here he just 311 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:05,240 comes back and think about the circumstances, right? 312 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,200 So Caballero's bowling. And the last thing that 313 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,480 Caballero says when he's leaving the clubhouse is I'm back in 314 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,960 nine days, you know, not that he's rooting against Volpe, but 315 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:16,800 that in his mind, that is his job. 316 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:18,880 That is his position. And Volpe knows that. 317 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,120 He knows that the grip on the positions already gone because 318 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:25,160 Caballero has been terrific. So, you know, you got a dog in 319 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:27,560 Caballero just itching again, who didn't even want to go on 320 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,880 the IL, who fought and kicked and screamed and protested. 321 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:33,800 And that's what Boone told me, and he told you guys as well. 322 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:37,000 So he's coming back and he's going to play shortstop, right? 323 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:41,320 Do I envision the the Yankees moving Volpe to second base at 324 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:42,560 some point this year? I don't know. 325 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:44,920 I mean, you're trying to get the kid in in the right spot 326 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:47,160 mentally in the batter's box. Now you're going to have him 327 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:49,920 learn a new position. I mean, that's that's a little 328 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:51,880 risky, although I wouldn't be averse to it. 329 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:53,800 I'm not sure if they will, if they will be. 330 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:57,240 And then, you know, obviously Lombard can play second, short 331 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:59,000 or third. So, and we've seen that in the 332 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,520 minors and in spring training. See the problem with Anthony 333 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:07,600 Volpe right And this was really my biggest concern now if you go 334 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,480 to my ex account and you go probably four or five, I was 335 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:11,840 actually tweeting quite a bit yesterday. 336 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:15,200 If you go down like four or five tweets, you'll see a video that 337 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,040 somebody had a Volpe strikeout and then you know, I sub tweeted 338 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:22,200 it and I and I weighed in right and it's about a 15 or a 16. 339 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,600 I can't play it now because of trademarks and all that other 340 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:26,560 stuff whatever. So I'll just describe it and you 341 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:30,240 don't even have to see it to know item number one, why Volpe 342 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:32,520 is just never going to be a consistent hitter until this is 343 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:35,440 addressed right. So it's a 15 or 16 second video, 344 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:38,880 2 seconds in, you see his front foot. 345 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:42,320 As you know, again, I'm not trying to get coachy, but as you 346 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,200 load and as you launch, think about this, right? 347 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:47,040 And it's hard to do for a young hitter. 348 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:49,640 But I mean, he was a first round pick and he he's been in the 349 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,400 bigs for a couple of years. This should be figured out and 350 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:54,840 this, this what I, I try to teach my son and you know what I 351 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:57,280 try to teach the kids I coach take a rubber band, right? 352 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:01,280 You if you take a rubber band and you pull it back like this 353 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:04,200 much and then you kind of fire it across the room, it's only 354 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:07,119 going to go so far. If you take the same rubber band 355 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:12,839 and you maximize the the stretch and then you release it, it's 356 00:17:12,839 --> 00:17:16,640 physics. OK, So when you when you load 357 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,000 and when you launch with your front foot, obviously you want 358 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,720 to stay back, but and you want to get your front foot on the 359 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:23,839 ground. All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna, 360 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:25,800 I'm gonna stop with the hitting coach stuff there. 361 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:28,079 But that's basic stuff. You got to load, you got to 362 00:17:28,079 --> 00:17:31,720 launch, you got to stretch and you got to be ready to just 363 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:34,880 unlike unleash that that rubber band. 364 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:38,480 And that's where the contact, the hard contact, the exit 365 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:40,720 velocity, those are the great hitters. 366 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:42,520 It almost doesn't matter what you do. 367 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:44,720 You know, you can stand like this eucalyptus. 368 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:48,760 It doesn't matter, Mattingly, you know, Carew, as long as you 369 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,680 get to there, you're going to hit and you can recognize 370 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:54,320 pitches, right? And then as soon as he starts 371 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:57,800 his load and his launch and gets his front foot down, his front 372 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:59,760 foot, you have to see this on my account. 373 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:04,880 His front foot starts to go toward the third baseline, third 374 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:09,560 base dugout right away. And if you are a Major League 375 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:15,760 pitcher and you see that, all you do is feed sliders away, 376 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:21,240 change UPS away, elevate once in a while, OK, just a little show 377 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:24,920 me fastball upstairs, out of the zone, something that you can't 378 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,480 get on top of it. I mean, when that ball is coming 379 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:29,480 in and it's letter high, it's like, oh, I got this. 380 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:31,920 But then when you actually try to get on top of it, it's really 381 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,920 hard to do, not only for Volpee, for anybody, right? 382 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:40,600 So to me, there is so much wrong with his swing and the reason 383 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,080 why and I'm rooting for him and I love him. 384 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:45,480 I really love him. I think he's a great kid. 385 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:48,120 I've become pretty good friends with his dad. 386 00:18:48,120 --> 00:18:49,440 I actually texted his dad the other day. 387 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:50,680 I said welcome back and all that stuff. 388 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:52,880 He got right back to me. I met his pops once. 389 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:56,080 Great guy, great guy used to listen on the fan came to the 390 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:00,640 came to our show at the Javits Center and I was waiting around 391 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,240 after me and Sal we're done and or during one of the breaks and 392 00:19:04,360 --> 00:19:06,560 one of one of our producers said, hey, you know, Mr. Volpe 393 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:09,200 wants to introduce himself. So I went over and I said hi to 394 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:12,400 him and and we really struck up a nice friendship and you know, 395 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:15,480 you could just he's a doctor. He's he's a great, great family. 396 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:19,960 Anthony's a terrific young man, well mannered, respectful of 397 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:22,520 great athlete in terms of speed and all that stuff. 398 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,960 But his swing is absolutely broken and busted. 399 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:31,120 And the problem with the surgery and the rehabilitation this 400 00:19:31,120 --> 00:19:34,080 offseason, see, when you've got a, when you've got a hole in 401 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:37,120 your game, the offseason is when you fix it. 402 00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:39,440 Yeah, you can try to tweak during the season, but if 403 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:41,840 there's a mechanical, whether it's shooting like Mitchell 404 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,720 Robinson with free throws, whatever it might be, when there 405 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:49,200 is a mechanical overhaul, it's got to be where there's a lot of 406 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:51,760 downtime and there's dead time. Because if you're trying to 407 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:54,760 figure things out and implement, I don't mean little slight 408 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:56,040 tweaks. Those guys are always messing 409 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:58,520 around with little things. I'm talking about a radical 410 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,160 overhaul to to how you swing the bat. 411 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:05,560 And if you're trying to do that in May or June against these 412 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:08,240 dudes at this level, it's good luck. 413 00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:09,480 It's just not going to work. And. 414 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:13,080 And and if it does work, it's not going to be consistently 415 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:14,960 there for you. It's just not all right. 416 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:20,640 So the problem with Volpe and why I just, I just, I just don't 417 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:24,600 think he's ever going to hit with any sort of consistency is 418 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:26,960 because the period that he could have used to get better, it's 419 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:29,280 not his fault he got hurt. But what should have been a 420 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:34,240 dedicated 3 month window to finally address what's wrong 421 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:38,040 with his swing, the hole in his swing, which for some reason the 422 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:40,480 Yankee coaches didn't find. Can somebody explain? 423 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:41,680 You got to take a little sidestep here. 424 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:45,920 Can somebody explain to me right who a guy me me and this I'm 425 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:49,840 like I'm talking about me, the guy who played mid major, not 426 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:55,200 even not SEC, not big 10, not back in the PAC 12, mid major 427 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:59,320 Division One baseball and struck out a lot more than I wanted to. 428 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:04,280 How can I watch a 16 second clip and within the 1st 2 seconds 429 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:07,080 tell everybody what's wrong with his swing? 430 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,720 And here we are year 4 drafted right, right around COVID. 431 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:16,080 It's 2026 and the Yankee organization has not fixed his 432 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,040 swing. How is that possible? 433 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:23,840 I don't understand it it now it's again, it's one thing if 434 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:26,880 you just don't have like the requisite bat speed or you just 435 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:28,720 can't recognize pitches. Maybe. 436 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,320 And I have said about Anthony and I believe this he was 437 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,320 overdrafted. You know, to me, Anthony Volpe 438 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,440 as a first round pick with the expectations, not to mention 439 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:40,640 being a jersey kid, Yankee fan pressure like that's all stuff 440 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,360 that just makes his life more difficult. 441 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:44,040 It's it's tough for the kid right. 442 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:49,240 But when you swing that way, you you're just not going to be a 443 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,240 reliable, consistent night to night hitter. 444 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,280 And this is not year one. He's not in high rookie ball 445 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,240 where they're like, all right, we knew we can run. 446 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:58,240 We knew we could pick it. He's got a little pop, he's got 447 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,120 a little juice. We got to just tweak this. 448 00:22:00,120 --> 00:22:03,040 We love the kids make up. He's a he's a great, great from 449 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:06,440 a great family. We know with our coaching that 450 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:09,760 we're going to unlock just that little 10/12/15 percent. 451 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:11,840 He's got to fix and he's going to be an All Star. 452 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:15,400 It is 2026. This is Year 4 for Anthony 453 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:19,560 Volpe, Year 4, and he's got the same exact swing. 454 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:23,320 The only thing that changes once in a while is, you know, they 455 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,760 like the arc on his swing. Sometimes it's a little flatter, 456 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:28,880 which is good. Sometimes he's, you know, he's 457 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:33,440 chasing, you know, he's chasing power and he's swinging from his 458 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,760 heels like it's just a broken swing. 459 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,680 And you know, when, when you are that vulnerable, I mean, man, 460 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:43,400 you step into a Major League batter's box and nowadays and 461 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,240 you're facing everybody's throwing 97, everybody's 462 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,040 throwing 98. Everybody's RPMS are just the 463 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,240 revolution. They're dropping off tables, 464 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,680 whether it's vertical, whether it's horizontal. 465 00:22:54,120 --> 00:22:57,440 I mean, what home plate? I think what 17 inches in, in 466 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:01,040 terms of width, there are pitchers in baseball who 467 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:04,800 actually have 1819 inches horizontal brake. 468 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,840 Think about that. Their brake is bigger than home 469 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:12,360 plate. So when, when Volpe steps in and 470 00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:15,080 they, they know he's going to, it's, it's kind of just stepping 471 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:16,920 in the bucket. It's like, you know, when you, 472 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,080 when you're coaching T-ball, hey, don't step in the bucket, 473 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:19,880 buddy. Come on now. 474 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:21,760 Let's get that front foot to the pitcher. 475 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:25,960 I, it, it is really one of the more confounding things, and 476 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:29,080 there's a lot of confounding things recently about, more than 477 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:34,600 recently about the Yankees. To me, that really might be #1 478 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:39,000 it is their organizational hitting approach. 479 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:43,320 I mean, it really is all right. Judge is, is obviously 480 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:45,440 different. Bellinger, who is their third 481 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,480 best hitter behind Rice. Rice and Judge. 482 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:49,640 Bellinger came from a different organization. 483 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:54,040 Ben Rice is is just a yeah, I think Ben Rice, the kind of kid 484 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,840 came out of the womb. He was mashing everybody else. 485 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:00,080 Like they they've got the same broken fundamentals like 486 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,280 Dominguez couldn't figure it out for the right side. 487 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,720 Spencer Jones strikes out 35% in the minors and they'll do the 488 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,440 same in the majors. You know, Anthony Volpe can't 489 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,760 hit, you know, I mean, all the, you know, all the Oswaldo 490 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,120 Cabrera and now suddenly he's pretty like all these other guys 491 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:19,120 that find success peraza, that find success elsewhere are are 492 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,960 are almost better when they leave it. 493 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:25,560 It really is amazing. So it is a massive problem at 494 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:29,960 shortstop. I don't expect much of an uptick 495 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,920 here because he has not been able to work on his biggest 496 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:36,680 issue. And it is a colossal 1 that just 497 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,040 even slightly above average major. 498 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,880 You don't have to be an elite pitcher, slightly above average 499 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,840 Major League pitching. You will exploit that because 500 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:49,280 it's so easy to exploit. He's giving away half the plate, 501 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:53,680 he's giving away half of the zone and that is like taking 502 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,760 candy from a baby. You're on the mound. 503 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,440 You're like, all right, man, let me just buzz 1 upstairs, 504 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:02,040 probably foul it back and then I'm just going boom, soft, soft, 505 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,480 maybe a show me fastball inside back them off an inch doop. 506 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,120 Let me drop the slider outside, bring them up. 507 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,240 He's either going to take it. He's either going to roll it 508 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:14,520 over to shortstop or he's going to, you know, just whiff and and 509 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:17,880 miss by be out in front of it. I I just, it really, really is 510 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,720 frustrating and it's really a shame because that is one thing 511 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,200 that the Yankees have proven to be very bad at. 512 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,040 That's just got to be said. I don't know what they're doing. 513 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:31,080 The moment that these young men are drafted and they go to 514 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:35,720 rookie or hi a or as as they progress through the system, 515 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:40,680 there's just no what what I whatever their organizational 516 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,440 offensive philosophy is, it stinks. 517 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,280 It stinks. It really just stinks. 518 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:53,200 So by the time they get to the show, it's it's almost too late 519 00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:55,400 in in a in a lot of circumstances. 520 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,360 You know, I'll tell you what I think is going to happen with 521 00:25:57,360 --> 00:25:58,880 Volpe in a minute, but I want to read this here. 522 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:04,040 It's the maid K star in the but usually it's the June swoon. 523 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,960 So it's starting early for the Yankees here. 524 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,320 All right, so we're getting the get the jokes out of the shoot. 525 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,680 Richie Squires 986 with a special guest appearance by 526 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,520 Anthony Volpe. I mean, listen, yeah, it really, 527 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,600 it couldn't start off worse. Routine Grounder bobbles it 528 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:22,160 strike out, you know, so and then listen, here's what I think 529 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,800 is going to happen to Volpe. I think that and I am rooting 530 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:26,840 for him. You guys know that. 531 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:28,680 I don't need to keep saying it. That's probably the last time 532 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:30,840 I'll say it. You know, I'm rooting like hell 533 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:35,320 for this young man. But you just get the sense that 534 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,920 that Anthony Volpe is going to have to find himself somewhere 535 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,200 else. You know, like he's going to be 536 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:46,680 a throw in at some point in in a trade, you know, like the only 537 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,280 way I don't see that because he's not playing shortstop. 538 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:50,880 Like Lombard's the shortstop period. 539 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,240 You know, Caballero's going to be the shortstop, but he's 540 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,440 healthy for the for most of the season. 541 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,320 And then it's the George Lombard Show and it's going to be a hell 542 00:26:58,320 --> 00:26:59,080 of a show. That guy. 543 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,640 That's one guy who the Yankees can't mess up. 544 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,320 I think he's different. I think he's built different. 545 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,720 I think his IQ is different. I think his feel for the game is 546 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:09,680 different. I think his skill sets 547 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,600 different. Like Lombard is going to be 548 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:16,320 phenomenal and Lombard is going to be the shortstop. 549 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,000 So, you know, a couple of things going to happen here. 550 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,280 He's either going to be, he's going to be the shortstop and 551 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:25,600 Caballero is going to move over to 2nd or if Volpe, you know, 552 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,480 shows that he can actually get the job done, you know, after 553 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,080 this year, you move on from McMahon, maybe Caballero plays a 554 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,880 little bit of third base. Maybe, you know, you punt Volpe 555 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,200 over the second. But it is absolutely gross 556 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,800 watching this Yankee, this Yankee line up here. 557 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,120 Everybody's worried about Max Freed. 558 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,840 To me, it's the offense even, you know, I'm not trying to 559 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:47,600 tempt fate here. And I don't think that this is 560 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,520 the case. But even if we got the worst 561 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:54,600 news possible for Max Freed today, right, the Yankees will 562 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:58,520 still be fine. It will still be fine whether 563 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:02,800 it's Rodriguez, whether it's Legron, Hay, Clark, Schmidt's 564 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,840 coming back. Roldan's fine at the back of the 565 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:07,120 bull, at the back of the rotation. 566 00:28:07,120 --> 00:28:10,560 Schlitzler's an ace, one of the best pitchers in baseball. 567 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,600 You know, you obviously there's a bit of a variable here. 568 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,840 You hope that Garrett Cole is still kind of close to being 569 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:17,800 Garrett Cole. And if he is, then everything's 570 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:19,680 good. Now, if he's not, you know, and 571 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:21,600 there's no Max Freed, all right, maybe that's that. 572 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,600 That not maybe that would be a different consideration, a 573 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:28,520 different level of fear. But you know, here we are and 574 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,560 you know, every night it's the same stuff. 575 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,200 There's Grisham. And I just don't want to hear 576 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,360 about Grisham. I'm like, that is one guy. 577 00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:38,920 I'm just not interested in hearing what's under the hood. 578 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,640 I don't care about his advanced analytics. 579 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:46,160 And this is coming from somebody who embraces and understands and 580 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:50,560 implements advanced analytics. In almost every show that I do, 581 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,200 at some point it comes up, some obviously a little bit more than 582 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:54,680 others. I just don't want to hear about 583 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,600 it with Trent Grisham, unless he's batting 7th or 8th. 584 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,440 That's different. Lead off, man, Not interested. 585 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:06,240 So here we are, the first little wrench J Rod in the New York 586 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,680 Yankee season. And again, just to finish the 587 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,640 thought on Volpe, Poor Volpe comes back. 588 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:13,560 Obviously Caballero's been bowling. 589 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,280 He said he's telling you, I'll be back in nine days, 8 days, 590 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:17,720 whatever. This guy's a dog. 591 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,920 And now you got to throw Volpe right in the middle of the 592 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:25,680 Subway Series with all that it's, you know, I mean, good 593 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:26,800 luck. Don't be rough. 594 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,960 It's. Going to be rough now. 595 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,560 I mean, I hope I don't know how you how it doesn't look like 596 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:33,640 it's. I don't know how it's going to 597 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:35,960 be anything other than rough. I really don't. 598 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:38,600 But I'm not really worried about Freed. 599 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:40,680 Have you been checking? Oh, I mean, I know you've been. 600 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,640 Checking. Yeah, I've been checking. 601 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,360 Haven't seen anything yet though. 602 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,960 Yeah, just people saying that's all I can think about today. 603 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:52,520 Yeah, you know, I will tell you that I didn't know what the hell 604 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,280 happened and I was watching the game. 605 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,800 Well, it has commands off and it's not the first like really 606 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,000 like 3 games in rows. Commands been a little bit off 607 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,080 there. So usually, like when it's a 608 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:07,400 real issue, usually there's a discernible drop in velocity. 609 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,080 Not the case. There's obviously in, in, in 610 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,440 inside pane rather than outside pane. 611 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,720 Not the case. And he didn't, you know, he 612 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:18,760 didn't just like leave in the middle of the game. 613 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,320 Not the case. I mean, he did, but he didn't 614 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,360 like walk off the mound holding his arm is what I mean. 615 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:27,720 And he didn't express, I didn't detect really an ounce of of 616 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:31,760 fear or trepidation in terms of what he thinks that that imaging 617 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,880 is going to spit back. So I'm not worried about Freed, 618 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,080 but it does go to show you, you know, that like just the 619 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,960 vulnerability of a baseball season. 620 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:42,880 He just. Things could change in a snap. 621 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,200 They do change in a snap. I mean, look at school now. 622 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,400 He'll be back, But look at school. 623 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,840 You know, really, the Dodgers have proven to be the only team 624 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,080 who have been able to absorb all these injuries. 625 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,400 It's like they seem to always get healthy at the right time. 626 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,960 It's almost like they planned this out, like they sit their 627 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,440 starters for a while, bring it back at the end of the year and 628 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,680 they're nice and fresh and ready to go on a run. 629 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,000 But this is I mean, this this has always been the case with 630 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,520 baseball. I think it's more amplified in 631 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:11,960 the last 2530 years. Like, I don't, I don't know, 632 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,400 maybe I'm misremembering this. And we, we have a tendency to do 633 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,640 this. Like we, we feel like we saw one 634 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,160 thing. But let me, let me take a step 635 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,320 back. Something today bothers us a 636 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,320 little bit. And then when we try to draw the 637 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:28,240 comparison to back in the day, we almost embellished like what 638 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:30,040 back in the day was, you know what I mean? 639 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:35,040 They're almost even unknowingly to justify our point about today 640 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,920 or our reservations about today. But like when I was growing up, 641 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,400 I don't know, man. I feel like Ron Guidry never 642 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,880 missed the start. You know, Steve Carlton never 643 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,800 missed the start and all he starts at Dwight Goodman was 644 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,240 when he was in drug rehab, you know, like Fernando. 645 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:51,560 I don't know. These guys just never missed 646 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,360 starts. It's absolutely it's it's weird, 647 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,080 dude. So, yeah, I'm in a I'm in a 648 00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:58,600 strange mood with the Yankees here. 649 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:03,960 Now, I will say this, what I said last week, I stand by, I 650 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,640 think that this Yankees team is different than the recent ones I 651 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,320 do now. It's a little harder to sell 652 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,960 today understood. Nobody wants to hear that today. 653 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,480 Understood. But it's still got to be about 654 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,520 the big picture. I know that I know, listen, I 655 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,720 know the game. I played the game in terms of 656 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,320 actual like the content game. I don't mean the actual game. 657 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,360 Play the game for a long time. I've done the dance for a long 658 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,760 time, right? I understand. 659 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:33,360 Even back in the day, Mariano, I remember Beau blew a couple of 660 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,920 saves against the Red Sox in April, whatever year that was, 661 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,880 and everybody was all over them, including me. 662 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:42,960 I'm like, huh, maybe this is the end of MO. 663 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,920 Like this is what we do, this is what we do, and this is who we 664 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,840 are. The micro analysis for baseball 665 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:54,880 is it's very unique to to a few cities, most of which are in the 666 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:56,800 Northeast there. And that's just part of the 667 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,360 deal. That's what that truth of the 668 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:00,800 matter is. That's why it's one of the big 669 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:06,200 reasons why I've been a a Boon supporter #1 they've won a lot. 670 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,520 But I also think when you, when you deal with the, the 671 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,480 day-to-day stuff, especially when you're the Yankees that 672 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,280 that are going, that's going to pop up, right? 673 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,240 And even back in the day, like Tori would handle that stuff 674 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,520 with a rod really well. You know, any little step, David 675 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:22,960 Wells, like, hey, whatever, we're just playing ball. 676 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:24,760 I'm going to, you know, we're going to get into it behind 677 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:28,480 closed doors and I'm the boss and like, if you have the right 678 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,400 guy in charge. And I do think that Boone and 679 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:35,040 and Tori are different in in terms of demeanor, but I think 680 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,960 Aaron Boone's greatest asset, and I've said this to him and 681 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,800 I've said this about him many times, is that he he very he is 682 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:45,400 very good at he actually, I think he's great at managing any 683 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:51,840 sort of smoke or or noise or flare up or anything that could 684 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,760 get in the way of a baseball conversation. 685 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,240 Like, listen, I get it. You want to criticize some of 686 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,080 the bullpen moves that's justified, whether it's Cortez 687 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,840 in the World Series or whether it's, you know, taking weathers 688 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,000 out the other day, which which I kind of agreed with some of you 689 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,639 didn't, or over the weekend in Milwaukee more specifically. 690 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,360 Yeah, that's always going to be fair game. 691 00:34:11,639 --> 00:34:15,480 But one thing about the Yanks is like it very rarely like a 692 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,760 story. It a story happens and then it 693 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,480 it's big and then it like seeps into the next day. 694 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,360 He just he cuts it off. And truth of the matter is, I 695 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:25,800 also think they have a pretty good clubhouse. 696 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,560 So there's not a lot of issues there. 697 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,679 So I think it's policed very well by by judge and and 698 00:34:30,679 --> 00:34:33,239 Stanton, who's hurt. But I think those guys said a 699 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,719 really good professional tone and and the and the guys follow 700 00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:39,080 suit. But you know, it's, it's a long 701 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,560 race and, and there's going to be some moments where you're 702 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,920 like, man, it's, it's going to flip. 703 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:45,639 The energy is going to flip immediately. 704 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,000 Like one thing about these Yankees, they are streaky like 705 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,320 that. I, I will say, and I didn't 706 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,000 think that they were going to be streaky this year. 707 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,080 They started playing great. Remember that? 708 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:57,000 And then they lost five straight and then they got red hot and 709 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,880 then they lost four in a row and they just went what, one in 710 00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:03,320 five, one in five, I think it was on the road trip here. 711 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,880 So they're showing this propensity to be a little up and 712 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,080 a little down. It's not because of the 713 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:10,720 pitching. It's not because they're kicking 714 00:35:10,720 --> 00:35:13,240 the ball all around the field. It's not because their base 715 00:35:13,240 --> 00:35:15,440 running is sloppy. It's not because Boone's not 716 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,080 doing a good job, because they're not hitting, which goes 717 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:22,160 back to my ultimate point. The Yankees just are not hitting 718 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,880 enough. Now a lot of my confidence in 719 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,160 the Yankees this year is derived from the belief that the team 720 00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:31,560 that were watching, you know, over the weekend and against the 721 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,640 Mets and yesterday against the Orioles and over the weekend 722 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,200 against the Brewers when they didn't hit much. 723 00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:38,360 I just don't think that that's going to be the same line up. 724 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,680 I I just don't you know, when it really matters. 725 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:44,800 And if it is, then guess what? I will not I will not believe 726 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:46,760 that the Yankees will win the World Series. 727 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,680 You know, I just like it really does come. 728 00:35:48,720 --> 00:35:51,600 You got to hit a little bit more man, you know, and and I know 729 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:55,440 that and I know I know that Jazz Chisholm, who's on my last 730 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,560 nerve. Jazz is going to have a month 731 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:03,440 where he hits three O 9 with nine home runs and twelve stolen 732 00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:07,520 bases and an OPS of 910. I understand he's going to look 733 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,040 great for a little bit. And like, unless the contract 734 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,720 really gets into his head and it just morphs into a disastrous 735 00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:17,080 season, which I don't really anticipate, Jazz is going to 736 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,280 flash. But then Jazz at some point, 737 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,840 probably at the most inopportune time, the playoffs is going to 738 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:26,080 morph back to the player and regress back to the player that 739 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:29,000 he too often has been. And that is somebody who is just 740 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,960 fundamentally sloppy and Askew and not emotionally and 741 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,760 physically reliable enough. So though that that's that's a 742 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,880 little bit of a of an updated state of the Yankees, though I 743 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:45,040 do still feel bullish on their chances to to do some big stuff 744 00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,920 this year because I'm I'm not really worried about Max Freed. 745 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,600 Do you think that I'm under selling this here with Free J? 746 00:36:51,240 --> 00:36:54,560 No, I mean, listen, based on like his post game interview, 747 00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,320 just his emotionality, I think, I think you're right. 748 00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,640 There wasn't a ton of nerves in it. 749 00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:02,200 But it's all really to be determined, I guess. 750 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,800 You know, it's still like in that weird period of up in the 751 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:06,680 air. But based on his reaction, you 752 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:10,240 know, it reminds me similarly to the OG thing a couple weeks ago 753 00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:13,680 where, yeah, this guy has dealt with a very serious injury to 754 00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:17,120 this area in the past, but because of that, they know that 755 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,440 this current situation is not as serious. 756 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,040 OK, All right, let's let me just reiterate this year. 757 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,240 Let me reiterate this year and tell you guys really what the 758 00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:27,120 biggest issue with the Yankees has been for a long, long time. 759 00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:30,440 And it it goes back to what I was saying about Volpe and some 760 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:31,760 of their other younger players, right? 761 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,160 We have had so many different conversations and so many 762 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,760 different versions of the conversations. 763 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:39,920 The Yankees are cheap. They're not. 764 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:43,000 But that's been said. The Yankees are the little 765 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,600 brother, OK? I mean, that's been said, but we 766 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,320 know that that's nowhere near being true. 767 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,000 The Yankees don't want to win the way that they used to want 768 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,840 to win with George. Maybe a little bit of a version 769 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:57,760 of of that is somewhat true. Cashman's lost his fastball that 770 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,080 I, I believe to an extent. Certainly with the offense, 771 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,560 right. The Yankees developed pitchers. 772 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,520 They don't develop hitters. The Yankees don't have enough 773 00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,720 enough good defenders. Like over the years, Yankees 774 00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:11,320 don't run the bases enough. Yankees strike out too much. 775 00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:13,720 Yankees are too reliant on the home run. 776 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:19,000 Like, there's been so many different causes for either 777 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,760 concern or alarm with the Yankees, but I got to tell you, 778 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:24,560 I I think I just nailed it before. 779 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:28,720 If you ask me, like, what is the big picture, You know, 50,000 780 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,520 feet from the sky macro snapshot. 781 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:33,640 What's the Yankees biggest issue? 782 00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:40,240 The Yankees just do not draft and develop enough good hitters. 783 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:44,680 They don't they don't do it. There's a reason why all went 784 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:46,400 through. I'm saying get Nico Horner, go 785 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,760 get him. You know, like these are things 786 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,440 that you got to do. These are players that you got 787 00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:53,000 to pump out. These are players that you have 788 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,160 to have at the top of the lineup who are just gritty. 789 00:38:56,240 --> 00:38:57,520 Look at the Brewers second baseman. 790 00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:01,480 I'm phenomenal as hey, you know, I mean, whether it's a walk off 791 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:04,000 over the weekend or being on base or just playing the right 792 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,800 way. How different would the Yankees 793 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,760 look if you had that guy won or even Nico Horn or somebody like 794 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,320 that? That guy won and then, you know, 795 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:16,360 Rice 2 and then Judge 3 and then Beldy 4 or some version of that. 796 00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,200 Like it's just a completely different feel. 797 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:23,480 And right now, I mean, I, I will, even though he drives me 798 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:27,080 nuts, I will put Jazz in a bit of a separate category here. 799 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:31,760 I I really will because he's got more of a track record than a 800 00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,760 lot of these guys. But I mean, I don't, I don't 801 00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:36,560 expect some amazing transformation to some buttoned 802 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:38,920 up baseball player, but he's going to be better than he's 803 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,360 can't be worse. He's going to be better at some 804 00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:43,000 point. There's a better version of of 805 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,400 Jazz that will come out. But what about the other guys? 806 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:49,160 Honestly, I mean, Volpe's going to hit 260 all of a sudden, 807 00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,920 really Austin Wells going to hit 250 all of a sudden. 808 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,920 Like this is going to happen with with with a much lower 809 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:56,600 strikeout rate. Why would that happen? 810 00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:00,000 You know, so we saw a little a little flicker of hope from Ryan 811 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,000 McMahon. I mean, even with that being 812 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,880 said, after a three-week hot streak, he said 1196. 813 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,480 That's going to change. You know, up Jazz has hit the 814 00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:11,760 ball hard, hit the ball all right, great. 815 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:16,840 I mean, Grisham, Grisham hit the ball hard hitting 175 and he had 816 00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:20,280 three seasons where he hit under 200 before he got here. 817 00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:22,800 So. I really just think, and I've 818 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,280 said this, and this is probably been my biggest point of 819 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,320 contention with Brian Cashman, right? 820 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,920 Which is why like this, this actually, if I put myself back 821 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:37,120 to the day that I said that with tiki on WFAN, the quote that 822 00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,240 many of you remember because they played on the morning show. 823 00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:41,600 I don't know if they still play it, but they did play it for a 824 00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:42,600 while. And you know, I've messed 825 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:43,560 around, had a little fun with it. 826 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,000 You know, Brian Cashman has not earned the right to rebuild the 827 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:47,800 Yankees the way the Yankees need to be rebuilt. 828 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,880 Well, I was talking about their lack of productive hitters that 829 00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,880 come through the organization. Like this has been going on for 830 00:40:54,880 --> 00:41:02,920 a long time and exhibit A, this won't be I I don't know how they 831 00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:09,240 didn't chain chain that young man to a hitting T and basically 832 00:41:09,240 --> 00:41:14,880 put, you know, a 50 LB weight on his front foot and say dude hit 833 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:18,440 the ball up the middle, hit the ball hard the other way, let it 834 00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:23,200 get a little deep and stop bailing with that front foot. 835 00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:27,280 So listen, if if you want to leave the door of possibility 836 00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,760 open and say that the Yankees have tried to do that and 837 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,480 Anthony Volpe's not receptive to coaching, I don't think that at 838 00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:33,680 all. I mean, I don't think that 839 00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:37,560 there's anybody on the team that wants to do better than Volpe. 840 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:39,680 I mean, a lot of guys want to win and they've got a lot of 841 00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:41,520 grinders on the team. So it's not a knock on the other 842 00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:43,280 dudes. But this guy grew up a Yankee 843 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,320 fan, first round pick, New Jersey shortstop. 844 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:50,760 I mean, his idol was Cheater Pops is a massive, massive 845 00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,640 Yankee fan. This has to be killing him. 846 00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:57,960 So I would imagine if the Yankees were instructing him to 847 00:41:57,960 --> 00:41:59,800 do something, that he's doing it. 848 00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,720 I just, I just don't think that they're instructing him to do 849 00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:04,320 it. And and I don't know. 850 00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,400 I don't, I don't know. I don't know why. 851 00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:10,720 All right. Are you excited about the 852 00:42:10,720 --> 00:42:13,880 schedule leaks here or no? I mean, I'm definitely, I'm 853 00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,600 certainly intrigued to see what's going to happen. 854 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,160 I'm not, I'm not like super locked in on it. 855 00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:21,280 But yeah, I mean, I'm looking for it. 856 00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:22,840 Well, hang on a SEC, hold that thought here. 857 00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:24,280 What does? This say I want, I want you to 858 00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:26,320 respond. To this virtual discourse, you 859 00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:29,040 will eviscerate Jazz but defend Volpe because you know the 860 00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:32,200 family. That is just an asinine, you 861 00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:35,680 know, how about this? How about call, call, you know, 862 00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:37,800 I'll respond to it, but how about you call? 863 00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:41,080 Get him on the phone. All right, I'm going to take 864 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:45,600 some calls today, call, get on the phone and and elaborate and 865 00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,960 explain yourself. No, the reason why I get on Jazz 866 00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:53,080 Chisholm is because he's in space and because half the time 867 00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,640 he acts like a clown. That's why. 868 00:42:56,080 --> 00:43:01,360 All right, Anthony Volpe, just as I've said many times, was 869 00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:03,800 likely overdrafted. You know, should not have been a 870 00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:07,120 first round pick. Probably needed the refinement 871 00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:09,280 of, you know, playing in the SEC. 872 00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,240 He was going to go to Vanderbilt with with his buddy lighter If 873 00:43:11,240 --> 00:43:12,640 he didn't get drafted by the Yankees. 874 00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,160 And who knows, maybe we'd have a totally different player. 875 00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,120 Maybe he'd be an outfielder, but maybe he'd be a left fielder. 876 00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:19,880 I don't know. He'd have a totally different 877 00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,360 approach. Has first of all, I just met 878 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:24,600 Volpe's family. I've never met his mom. 879 00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,840 I just met Michael Volpe last year. 880 00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:29,840 This is year 4 for Anthony Volpe. 881 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,840 No, it's it's you couldn't be more wrong. 882 00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:35,040 It's really not a bad. I mean, if that's what you take 883 00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:37,320 away from it, I mean, that's your opinion. 884 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,160 And but that's why I'm encouraging to call. 885 00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:41,520 I'd like to hear a little bit more than than just that. 886 00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:44,040 Like give me some evidence. Let's get into it, but pick up 887 00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:47,760 the phone and call. I mean, that's why we have this 888 00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:51,520 here. This is an outlet. 889 00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:53,960 Obviously, I'm going to start the show when I'm going to tell 890 00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:55,960 you what I think. And I've got a ton of ton of 891 00:43:56,000 --> 00:44:00,040 content things lined up. But listen, my favorite thing 892 00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,960 with all this stuff has always been the back and forth and 893 00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:09,520 anybody, anybody, anybody. I don't care if you work, you 894 00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:13,640 know, if you live in Detroit or if you listen to 1050 back in 895 00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:17,560 the day, or it was with Tiki or with I don't care who you listen 896 00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:22,040 to when you listen to me, I promise you I'll let you talk. 897 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,800 I'll let you go because that's what it's all about. 898 00:44:26,720 --> 00:44:28,000 But I don't think you're going to call. 899 00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:30,320 I don't think he's going to call Jay. 900 00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:32,480 I don't either. I don't either you. 901 00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:36,560 Know, and that's disappointing. We've got, I'm not sure if he's 902 00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:37,840 ready yet. He might be away. 903 00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:39,320 Yeah, I think he's away from the screen. 904 00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:42,920 But we've got our buddy St. who's trying to debate you later 905 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,280 in the show on your international football. 906 00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:47,320 I figured that, yeah, hopefully he's not offended. 907 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,280 Man, I stand by what I said, but yeah, we'll get my boy St. up in 908 00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:52,120 a little bit. I like a big fan out in London 909 00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:52,640 there. Yeah. 910 00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,880 I mean, listen, 9 international games and we'll give STA chance 911 00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:57,520 to speak. Nine international games is an 912 00:44:57,520 --> 00:44:59,960 absolute freaking joke. I mean, pretty soon the Super 913 00:44:59,960 --> 00:45:02,080 Bowl is going to be international and they just 914 00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,520 don't care about you. And Speaking of the some of the 915 00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:07,520 schedule stuff here, right? So we'll do the show tonight. 916 00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,400 As I said myself, Jake and Rich Samini, Jets collective going to 917 00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,680 be a lot of fun. So as soon as The Jets schedule 918 00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:15,520 drops, we'll dissect it. They're opening with Tennessee. 919 00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:17,640 That has already been leaked. We know that. 920 00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:19,640 So you got a little Robert Sala Week 1. 921 00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,960 You've got it looks like three of the first four games will be 922 00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:25,320 on the road, which I don't really love. 923 00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:28,200 Week 2 will be home to the Green Bay Packers, which is cool. 924 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,000 I'll be at that game. I was going to the Giants 925 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:32,920 schedule as well. Giants schedule seems pretty 926 00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:35,040 favorable. There is a chance for the Giants 927 00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,840 to to really get off to a very good start. 928 00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,880 Looking at the Saints in Week 6 and some of these other teams 929 00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:43,080 that they play. Obviously Dallas early, which 930 00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:44,880 you know, you never know. It's a good rivalry and stuff 931 00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:48,280 and Dallas should be able to put some points up, but I think that 932 00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:51,040 it's going to be a lot of fun with the schedule tonight. 933 00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:52,680 I I'm not sitting there with bated breath. 934 00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:55,480 I mean, if there was like I one thing I don't get like I'm I'm 935 00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,680 going to get the news right. I'm going to find out who's 936 00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:00,480 playing where. Now tonight's different only 937 00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:01,840 because I'm doing the jet show, right. 938 00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:06,040 But in years past, I'll just I'll find the schedule as soon 939 00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:07,920 as it's out. Like if you think that I'm now 940 00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:10,280 again, tonight will be fun because we'll dissect it and 941 00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:13,120 we'll talk about, you know, is it fair or maybe not? 942 00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:15,600 Is it fair? But is is it a is it a are there 943 00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,720 early wins? Is it a treacherous Rd. 944 00:46:17,720 --> 00:46:20,400 I mean, what do we think here to Aaron Glenn like there that'll 945 00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,440 be fun. But in all the other years when 946 00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:24,880 they started doing this on ESPN and the NFL Network when they 947 00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,720 release the schedule, like whatever, man, wake me up when 948 00:46:27,720 --> 00:46:29,400 it comes out. Like if I'm if you think I'm 949 00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:33,480 sitting there IA lot of times I do the I do the same with the 950 00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:37,120 NFL draft there like if if the if the Yankees now it's a little 951 00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,800 different, like Yankees and Mets in in obviously early in the 952 00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:42,680 year, but Knicks are playing a game and which which they were. 953 00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:44,880 You got a Knick playoff game. You got the NFL draft there. 954 00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:47,160 I mean, I'm I'm locked into the NFL draft. 955 00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,240 I'm pardon me, I'm locked into the NBA game. 956 00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:51,880 And then I'm just going to, you know, pop in, open up my phone. 957 00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,080 All right, now I will try to time it out. 958 00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:55,680 All right, Jets are picking giants picking. 959 00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:58,920 I know when they're picking so you can navigate that, but 960 00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,280 anytime and this came up with Jerry and it's funny, I don't 961 00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:06,360 know if you caught this. So the 8 DPHR and Rothenberg you 962 00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:08,160 see this this morning there, J Rod. 963 00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,480 Yes, Sir, someone commented about that too. 964 00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:15,560 They said DT because one of them said I think Dave said he wanted 965 00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:17,760 to come on unleashed. Is that what he said? 966 00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,080 Yeah, I think so. On it, definitely bring him on 967 00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:22,200 Unleashed, no question about it. I'd love to bring him on. 968 00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,360 I don't know him I but I've said I've been a fan of his work. 969 00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:28,840 He's a passionate fan. I think he's a great Giants fan. 970 00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,760 And you know, him and Jerry seem to have this little squabble 971 00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:35,080 back and forth. And I think it started I maybe 972 00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,240 I'm wrong, but I think I know there's a lot of mixed up there 973 00:47:37,240 --> 00:47:40,280 between those two guys, right? But I think it started with 974 00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:45,400 either Dave wasn't sure if he was going to watch like the 975 00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:47,680 Knicks or the draft. And I don't want to misrepresent 976 00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:49,840 the point. And, and Jerry was like nothing, 977 00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:51,840 you watch the game and then you just kind of figure out who's 978 00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:53,440 drafted. I think that was the origin of 979 00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:55,960 it. I think I'll definitely get Dave 980 00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,360 on the show there. I have no question about it, is 981 00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:00,920 that if he said that I don't have his number, so I'd have to 982 00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:03,840 get it from like the Greca or Kay or somebody. 983 00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:06,680 I mean, maybe, maybe I'll be the peacemaker instead of getting 984 00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:09,880 dragged into these beeps, you know, like I was two months ago. 985 00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:11,560 I will. Maybe I'll just, you know, I'll 986 00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:13,600 be the good guy and I'll make sure everybody's happy and 987 00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,600 friendly. Everybody's getting along. 988 00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:18,920 I would, I listen, I would genuinely listen to those guys 989 00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:20,480 in the morning. I would flip around. 990 00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,280 You know, I want, yeah, I'd want to get Jerry's update, which is 991 00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:26,160 always money. Jerry, of course, rat goes 992 00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:28,320 updates great. And then I would listen to those 993 00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:30,360 guys quite a bit. I think they do a really, really 994 00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:33,680 good job, so. Yeah, I have to. 995 00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:35,120 I'll watch through the whole video. 996 00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:38,280 But someone commented saying he wanted he he mentioned wanted to 997 00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:39,840 come on so. All right. 998 00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:41,280 I mean, we can we can make that happen. 999 00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:42,440 Yeah. I got never. 1000 00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:44,920 I don't even know if I've ever been in the same room as him. 1001 00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:48,400 I think the only time that I mentioned this the other day I I 1002 00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:51,600 met Rick and it was kind of in passing could do though, where 1003 00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:55,040 we were at a charity golf outing for our old boss, Tim McCarthy, 1004 00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,480 one of the great guys in our business. 1005 00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:01,640 Timmy ran ESPN Radio for basically 20 years and he's the 1006 00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:04,120 one who hired me. So I've got he's a good friend 1007 00:49:04,240 --> 00:49:07,680 and he's a great mind from a sales point of view, programming 1008 00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:10,040 one of the best people in our business, Timmy McCarthy, love 1009 00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:11,720 him. Shout out, talk to Timmy. 1010 00:49:11,720 --> 00:49:14,840 Great dude, man, wild man too. We had, we had some fun nights 1011 00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:19,800 and and his brother passed away years ago and he would do a 1012 00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:23,040 charity golf outing and we would all go and like Jim Layridge 1013 00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:26,000 would be there and a bunch of Yankees and everybody at the 1014 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:30,120 station. And that's when Allen and DPHR 1015 00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,160 were working together. I've known Allen forever. 1016 00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:36,400 Matter of fact, when Allen, when I was at 10:50 and Allen was 1017 00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:39,920 covering the Knicks for Newsday, I was getting, you know, and I, 1018 00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:42,120 I joke around like out where's my 10%? 1019 00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:43,760 I could use it now. I'm the one who put you on the 1020 00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,760 radio for the first time. Now he's on MSG. 1021 00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:48,840 Now he's doing games, now he's doing radio. 1022 00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:52,840 And I just knew he was good and and I loved his, his Nick 1023 00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:54,560 content and we had a great rapport. 1024 00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:56,000 And I'm, I'm pretty tight with Allen. 1025 00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,840 I know him really well. But I did meet DPH for that day 1026 00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:01,040 and and he was cool. But yeah, we'll get, we'll get 1027 00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:04,280 we'll get Roth on the show. I would love to do that. 1028 00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:07,240 But anyway, just to finish the thought here about the schedule 1029 00:50:07,240 --> 00:50:11,800 release, I mean, it's not appointment TVI think really The 1030 00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:15,000 Jets Collective will be, if you're a Jets fan, appointment 1031 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:16,720 watch because we're going to break it down. 1032 00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:20,000 Here's what we know so far. All right, so let me see. 1033 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,600 We got about 12 or 13 things, and then there's a lot of other 1034 00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,000 stuff that's kind of confirmed but not fully confirmed. 1035 00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:26,160 I'm not going to waste time on that. 1036 00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:29,200 Here's what we absolutely know. All right, Week 1. 1037 00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:31,880 So we know three-week one games. We got the Niners at the Rams, 1038 00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:34,720 that's in Australia. We got the Cowboys, Giants, 1039 00:50:34,720 --> 00:50:36,680 Sunday Night Football. That's going to be awesome. 1040 00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:40,640 Broncos at the Chiefs, Monday Night Football, great rivalry, 1041 00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:43,480 awesome Week 2 Lions at the Bills. 1042 00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:45,680 And that's when the Bills will open their new stadium. 1043 00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:48,480 I can't wait to see it. That's going to be really, 1044 00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:50,000 really good. That's Thursday Night Football. 1045 00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:55,960 Then the Week 3 matchup would be Ravens at the Ravens, Cowboys in 1046 00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:59,200 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, right? And then you've got the Colts in 1047 00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:01,400 the Commanders in London. That's Week 5. 1048 00:51:01,720 --> 00:51:04,040 You get the Eagles, Jags in London, now we get the London 1049 00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:07,280 Games, you get Texans, Jags, and then Week 7 you got steal their 1050 00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:09,520 Saints in Paris. I mean, whatever. 1051 00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:10,920 I don't. I really don't think I'll watch 1052 00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:12,680 a second of that game. I don't care what's going on. 1053 00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:16,320 Bengals, Falcons in Spain. OK. 1054 00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:19,480 I mean, maybe if Joe Burrow was on my fantasy team, sure. 1055 00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:22,560 What else? We got Pat's Lions Week 10 in 1056 00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:25,440 Munich, Germany. That, I mean, that could be a 1057 00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,320 game that you have to watch for a lot of reasons. 1058 00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:31,960 If Rabel's still there, which I'm not so sure he will be, and 1059 00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:33,440 I touched on that about a week or so ago. 1060 00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:36,080 If you guys missed the the segment, go check it out on the 1061 00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:38,960 channel Vikings and Niners Mexico City. 1062 00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:42,120 I mean, Vikings should stink depending upon what I'm doing. 1063 00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:45,280 We'll see if I watch that. But I'll tell you what, and I 1064 00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:48,360 know I've been all over the NFL, too many international games. 1065 00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:50,880 They don't care about you. It's all about the almighty 1066 00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:53,400 dollar, which we obviously know. But what are the limits of the 1067 00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:56,240 greed and the gluttony here? Like at some point, the people 1068 00:51:56,240 --> 00:52:00,000 who built the sport, us, our parents, their parents, you 1069 00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:04,120 know, I mean, the NFL used to be a distant, let's see, I would 1070 00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:10,040 say between baseball, between boxing, between horse racing. 1071 00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:14,440 I mean, the NFL, when the NFL was, was in its infancy, you 1072 00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:17,600 know, it was, it was just, I mean, it's kind of niche and 1073 00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:20,760 really what it was. So, you know, now I, I just, I 1074 00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:23,800 feel like I've got to defend the fans because there's only so 1075 00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:26,000 many voices that could do it. And, you know, a lot of the 1076 00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:29,560 people that are making good money and good for them, they 1077 00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:31,960 will never take shots at the NFL because they're, they're 1078 00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:34,800 basically in bed with the NFL. You have people on the NFL 1079 00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:36,720 Network shitting on international games. 1080 00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:38,640 He'll be off the channel in a heartbeat. 1081 00:52:38,720 --> 00:52:40,640 I mean, that doesn't work that way. 1082 00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:43,360 That's one of the beauties of being an independent contractor. 1083 00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:46,600 I say whatever I want. J Rod, you know, I wouldn't mind 1084 00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:48,080 that. I wouldn't mind that paycheck 1085 00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:50,480 though there. But no, the point is you just 1086 00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:52,760 don't have enough voices. I'm not saying there's none, but 1087 00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:54,760 you don't have enough voices who are keeping it real with this 1088 00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:56,320 international slate. It's crazy. 1089 00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:57,880 But I will give them credit here. 1090 00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:01,680 The Thanksgiving like wrap around is awesome. 1091 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:06,760 So Thanksgiving Eve, Packers at the Rams, Netflix awesome. 1092 00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:10,720 I mean, you know, you would think big NFC high seed 1093 00:53:10,720 --> 00:53:14,640 implications, you know, quarterbacks who can play, you 1094 00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:16,960 know, coaches, you know, Lafleur's, you know, not not 1095 00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:20,240 quite McVeigh, but you know, higher profile coaches, good fan 1096 00:53:20,240 --> 00:53:23,920 bases money right Then Thanksgiving and depending upon 1097 00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:25,160 the year, this would have been a shit game. 1098 00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:27,520 But Bears at the lions, it's going to be a good one. 1099 00:53:27,720 --> 00:53:28,960 It's going to be an important one. 1100 00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:31,480 Then you got the Eagles and the Cowboys that's obviously in 1101 00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:32,800 Dallas. Then you have the chiefs and the 1102 00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:36,520 Bills that's in Buffalo. That's going to be really good. 1103 00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:40,160 And then Black Friday, the Broncos and the Steelers, I 1104 00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:43,240 mean, really, of the five games that that one has the potential 1105 00:53:43,240 --> 00:53:45,240 to be the biggest snoozer potentially. 1106 00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,400 Not saying that it's going to be a completely, you know, useless 1107 00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:50,400 game, but you know, I don't I don't really know what to expect 1108 00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:52,960 from the Steelers this year. And I'm not even incredibly, 1109 00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:55,800 incredibly high, like massively high on the Denver Broncos. 1110 00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:57,920 But they did get that right. Like they say. 1111 00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:00,720 And I do like the Thanksgiving Eve game. 1112 00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:03,400 I have railed on the NFL like Christmas Day games. 1113 00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:07,600 I think that there's got to be, there's got to be limits, right? 1114 00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:09,920 This is my opinion. Some of you disagree with this 1115 00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:11,760 and I get it. Many of you do agree though, cuz 1116 00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:13,680 you get it. Cuz you, you have families. 1117 00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:17,880 I'm just not a fan of interrupting the family 1118 00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:20,120 structure to the extent in which they do. 1119 00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:23,400 I mean, it's if you already think about, I mean, I'm not 1120 00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:25,360 trying to get overly philosophical or, you know, 1121 00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:28,320 shove stuff down your throat here, but like, if you already 1122 00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:32,880 think about the way life has been speed up for so many 1123 00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:36,720 people, you know, I mean, those, those precious days, Christmas 1124 00:54:36,720 --> 00:54:40,160 morning, you know, the Thanksgiving, but that's 1125 00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:41,400 different. We've always been used to that 1126 00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:45,360 with football, you know, Saturday football late in 1127 00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:48,240 December, you know, dance recitals, basketball games, 1128 00:54:48,240 --> 00:54:50,680 youth football games. Like, you know, it's it's a 1129 00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:53,040 tough dance. But when, when we and I know 1130 00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:55,360 this is so long ago and I know that the world has changed and 1131 00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:57,560 I'm not trying to make it about me, but it's my only point of 1132 00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:00,840 reference. Like we never had that juggle at 1133 00:55:01,240 --> 00:55:04,480 all at all. Now, my sister played sports a 1134 00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:07,480 little bit much more of a, of an intellect. 1135 00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:11,200 Like she, her sport was reading and every textbook and homework. 1136 00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:15,280 She loved it, right. But like, like we never once 1137 00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:17,480 have because they, they didn't have baseball facilities. 1138 00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:19,360 I wish they did. They didn't have baseball 1139 00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:23,520 facilities for winter training. So like my winter schedule would 1140 00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:26,520 be all right. We got a CYO game at Saint Pat's 1141 00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:30,120 at 1:00 on Saturday or noon on Sunday and that was it. 1142 00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,520 You know, that was literally it. And then during, you know, 1143 00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:37,440 baseball season, I did play a fair amount of travel baseball. 1144 00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:39,560 Not to the extent that my son plays now. 1145 00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:41,440 It wasn't like that back then schedule wise. 1146 00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:47,080 But like now we are literally running around and racing around 1147 00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:48,800 coming home. Like last night, we walked in 1148 00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:52,320 the door at 9:25, you know, which means they had to eat 1149 00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:55,440 before, which means that's a little rushed, which means not 1150 00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:57,880 that you're rushing homework, but you know, you got to get it 1151 00:55:57,880 --> 00:55:59,200 done. And then if you don't get it all 1152 00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:01,560 done, you got to finish. And then, you know, again, if 1153 00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:05,160 you have young kids, even though they're not babies, but you'd 1154 00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:07,840 think that you would think that you're asking them to like try 1155 00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:10,640 to lift up a car and climb a mountain when you tell them to 1156 00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:14,400 go take a shower, you know, but it's like they, my daughter 1157 00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:15,960 doesn't do this. She's phenomenal with it. 1158 00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:19,960 But like my son comes in, he takes off 1 sock right after a 1159 00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:22,960 game, takes off off 1 sock, it's on the couch, takes off the 1160 00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:26,120 other sock, it's on the floor. You know, it's you know, he's 1161 00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:28,480 got a 3D printer, he's got a little business, like a little 1162 00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:31,000 fidget gadget business. So we so it, which is awesome. 1163 00:56:31,240 --> 00:56:34,160 He goes and he checks on no. He's into that stuff. 1164 00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:38,720 Yeah, that's sick, dude. I believe my generation had that 1165 00:56:38,720 --> 00:56:41,280 bro dude. He makes some great stuff and 1166 00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:42,920 he's made some what he doing. For sure. 1167 00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:46,760 Yeah, dude, my no, no. Good, good it. 1168 00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:50,600 Was it was just a small aside on the youth and 3D printers? 1169 00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:55,160 No, I mean my roommate's girlfriend's brother super into 1170 00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:58,680 it and we've got like we've got a little, I'll grab it and I'll 1171 00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:02,760 show it next time I'm on Cam. A Little Rock octopus, a 1172 00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:08,040 Roctopus. So it's an A 3D printed octopus 1173 00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:10,360 with Dwayne the Rock Johnson's face. 1174 00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:12,320 Are you serious? Yeah, wait, I'll, I'll show it 1175 00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:13,800 to you in a SEC. It's awesome, man. 1176 00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:15,160 You could do some wild stuff there. 1177 00:57:15,240 --> 00:57:18,600 He makes, he made a ball marker for my father-in-law, who's a 1178 00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:20,560 great golfer who was here this past weekend. 1179 00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:24,200 He's made again. Like I, I guess those fidgets 1180 00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:26,320 were made for, you know, kids, maybe with focus. 1181 00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:30,240 I'm, I'm not, I'm not really sure why fidgets were born. 1182 00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:33,480 I mean, jeez, but you know, he, he doesn't need them and my 1183 00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:35,720 daughter doesn't, but they make them. 1184 00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:37,680 He makes fidgets like Oreo cookies. 1185 00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:40,560 So he's black, then the white and then the black and you click 1186 00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:43,080 them. He, he, he really does. 1187 00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:44,720 And he's got the invoices he's got. 1188 00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:48,200 I told you the other day there, literally there were 300 boxes 1189 00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:50,480 dropped on my doorstep. 300 boxes. 1190 00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:53,400 God Dang, what? The fuck is this 300 boxes? 1191 00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:55,520 I'm like, what are we doing here? 1192 00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:57,920 I said. And so then I said get rid of 1193 00:57:57,920 --> 00:57:59,360 these, you got enough. Yep. 1194 00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:02,520 So he wrote a note and he put it on the door and he told it was 1195 00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:05,600 either UPS or USP or whoever it was, I don't know, you know, 1196 00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:07,840 please don't deliver anymore. Because I guess if you don't 1197 00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:10,440 tell them to stop delivering boxes, they just keep delivering 1198 00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:12,280 them. What the Hell's going on here, 1199 00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:14,640 man? Anyway, the point is, yeah, 1200 00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:17,880 it's, I appreciate the I was saying I respect. 1201 00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:19,520 The entrepreneurial spear, right? 1202 00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:22,160 So do I, so do I and he's got the little Venmo deal, but he's 1203 00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:24,720 got, you know, a couple of his buddies, like 1 is the, you 1204 00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:27,640 know, he's obviously the owner, but you know, like, like there's 1205 00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:29,520 different roles like marketing and some other. 1206 00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:31,280 It's, it's good. It's great for the mind, it's 1207 00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:34,720 great for the, for the mind and for, you know, critical thought 1208 00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:36,960 and, and working together and all that stuff and 1209 00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:38,640 responsibility because you got to get them done. 1210 00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:40,240 If you, you know, if you take the money, you got to get the, 1211 00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:43,440 got the, you got to build the product, which is something I 1212 00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:44,800 made sure. I'm like, dude, you better make 1213 00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:46,920 sure that these are going out. Like you can't have just people 1214 00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:49,480 pay you 8910 bucks to do this and then you don't send it. 1215 00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:52,720 I was like, my only concern early on anyway, there's a long 1216 00:58:52,720 --> 00:58:55,040 way of getting to this. There's just so much stuff going 1217 00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:59,400 on and and I really do think that the NFL has been a little, 1218 00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:04,440 not a little very cavalier in how they, you know, how they 1219 00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:07,120 just basically force fetus all this stuff. 1220 00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:10,720 But it has been happening more and more. 1221 00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:17,200 And like anything in life, once you start to get a little used 1222 00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:20,880 to it, even if you resist it, you know, vehemently kicking and 1223 00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:25,160 screaming early on, you will eventually conform. 1224 00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:27,880 And then you will eventually stop complaining. 1225 00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:30,320 And then you will eventually consume. 1226 00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:33,880 And then when you consume, you will eventually spend, right? 1227 00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:37,960 Like think about this like I remember, you know, like I don't 1228 00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:39,280 know why I had such an issue with it. 1229 00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:40,400 Probably because I was just lazy. 1230 00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:43,320 But you know, when EZ pass first came out and I'm not getting EZ 1231 00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:45,440 pass man. I'm just I'm used to it's like 1232 00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:47,920 long time ago when I obviously first started driving. 1233 00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:50,880 But I'm like, Nah, I'll just you know, I'll just throw the money 1234 00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:54,080 in the thing or, or whatever. Or you hand them dollars if it's 1235 00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:55,640 coins you flip them in or dollars. 1236 00:59:55,800 --> 00:59:58,040 You know, if you don't have the exact change you do it make the 1237 00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:01,040 transaction. I waited for that forever. 1238 01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:04,280 I I just waited forever. And then finally I acquiesced. 1239 01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:07,400 And you know, like I like I couldn't imagine my life without 1240 01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:09,560 EZ pass right now. Now I wish it wasn't as 1241 01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:11,160 expensive. We're getting bent over with 1242 01:00:11,160 --> 01:00:14,280 that. But you know, when I'm traveling 1243 01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:17,000 to whether it's Staten Island or Jersey, all these games and I 1244 01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:18,960 see people getting ready to pay. I'm like, you know, 1245 01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:22,200 conventionally with the with the money, I'm like suckers and I'm 1246 01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:24,400 just driving through you get used to it. 1247 01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:28,600 I mean every when the first streaming streaming. 1248 01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:32,680 Line or whatever came out, you know it was like confusing I'm 1249 01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:35,880 like oh man, I just want to kind of stick with regular TV and HBO 1250 01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:39,080 and TiVo and then all of a sudden I got Netflix, I got 1251 01:00:39,080 --> 01:00:43,120 Hulu, I've got the prime, you got everything and yeah, we 1252 01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:44,800 complained a little bit about it, right. 1253 01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:47,160 We complained a little bit about it, but then it becomes 1254 01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:49,320 normalized. Same thing with the phones. 1255 01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:52,640 Oh man, my bill is how much a month 100, whatever it like a 2, 1256 01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:54,960 I don't know an Apple, an iPhone is 1000 bucks. 1257 01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:58,240 Wow jeez 1000 bucks for a phone? What are we doing here? 1258 01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:00,680 Need a new phone? Here's 1000 bucks. 1259 01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:02,480 I know you can do trade insurance and all that stuff, 1260 01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:05,600 which I do, but when you first buy it like we are always 1261 01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:08,960 resistant to stuff early on. Same thing with the prices for 1262 01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:12,280 parking. 100 bucks to go watch The Jets and the Browns in the 1263 01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:14,920 rain, which is what I paid 100 bucks. 1264 01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:16,760 Guess what? I didn't make AU turn and go 1265 01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:18,840 home. I paid the 100 bucks, thank you 1266 01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:20,200 very much. May I have another? 1267 01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:23,760 And I sat in the rain and I watched two dog teams play. 1268 01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:25,840 Just played well, they had some special team touchdowns that 1269 01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:28,360 day. But anyway, it, it's, it's just, 1270 01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:33,400 it's my aversion to and it's my resistance to just letting these 1271 01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:35,440 leagues do whatever they want to do. 1272 01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:38,680 And and I realized that one voice is not going to change 1273 01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:40,760 everything, but by at least they're going to try. 1274 01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:48,600 Speaking of football right I'm I'm trying I really don't know 1275 01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:50,200 what to think about Malik neighbors. 1276 01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:51,720 I got to be very honest with you about this. 1277 01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:55,560 I don't know you know you saw the news yesterday you had a 1278 01:01:55,560 --> 01:01:58,280 second procedure. Malik neighbors all right, so 1279 01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:01,880 torn ACL obviously happened very early in this Jackson darts 1280 01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:06,480 first start and then we knew we had we had to wait a month 1281 01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:08,640 because of the swelling and a lot of people and this is 1282 01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:09,880 unfair. A lot of people like why is he 1283 01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:11,840 waiting so long? Because you can't operate with 1284 01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:14,000 swelling. It's actually very common now it 1285 01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:16,400 does delay the return, but you can't get in you can't get in 1286 01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:18,960 there surgically and probe around when they're swelling. 1287 01:02:18,960 --> 01:02:22,320 That's just basic stuff. So he has the torn ACL, then 1288 01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:25,560 he's got a a full meniscus repair, which obviously you 1289 01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:27,920 know, you're going to, you're going to heal, but it, it 1290 01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:30,640 complicates the recovery attacks on a little bit more time there. 1291 01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:34,840 And then we found out that what the surgery was delayed for 1292 01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:38,320 months with the swelling and then he had a second surgery a 1293 01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:41,720 7-8 months later. All right, So after the initial 1294 01:02:42,360 --> 01:02:48,000 one month wait for the torn ACL and the meniscus repair, there 1295 01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:52,480 was a second and you know, it was scar tissue and scar tissue 1296 01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:54,560 is painful, man. And it's funny, I was just 1297 01:02:54,560 --> 01:02:56,800 talking about Max Fried's, you know, and I don't think he's 1298 01:02:56,800 --> 01:03:00,640 going to be Tommy John. You know, I just, I feel pretty 1299 01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:03,800 good about that based on what he said and, and, and the optics of 1300 01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:05,040 it. But I remember when I, when I 1301 01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:10,520 had my Tommy John surgery about two years later, because I was 1302 01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:12,520 obviously done playing ball. Maybe if I was still playing, it 1303 01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:15,200 would have been a year later. But like 2 years later, I went 1304 01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:18,720 in and I had a second procedure, arthroscopic in and out, no big 1305 01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:21,840 deal on the same elbow because I had the scar tissue. 1306 01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:24,120 And the scar tissue, like when they're, if you ever, if you 1307 01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:28,200 ever had a surgery and they're breaking up the scar tissue, 1308 01:03:28,520 --> 01:03:31,480 it's actually more painful than, I mean, well, I mean, you're out 1309 01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:32,680 during the surgery, but you know what I mean? 1310 01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:35,280 Like breaking up a scar tissue is no joke. 1311 01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:37,160 I mean, it's, you are riding in pain. 1312 01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:39,600 Like you got to, you got to strap it and you got to suck it 1313 01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:41,160 up. And you just have to let the, 1314 01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:44,080 the orthopedic surgeon or, you know, usually that's who you go 1315 01:03:44,080 --> 01:03:46,880 to the orthopedic doctor, do what they have to do. 1316 01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:50,880 And then that's what the second procedure was to break up the, 1317 01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:52,440 the scar tissue. Because the scar tissue 1318 01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:55,440 basically just think of just like an inflammation that then 1319 01:03:55,440 --> 01:03:57,560 limits the ability to like move back and forth. 1320 01:03:58,080 --> 01:03:59,600 So full movement and all that stuff. 1321 01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:04,520 Now they say that the timeline is unaffected and they are 1322 01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:08,520 hopeful for week 1. Again, I'm I'm not trying to be 1323 01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:11,280 irresponsible with this. I'm not worried about Malik 1324 01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:15,640 neighbors of like eventually regaining all of his burst and 1325 01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:18,280 all of his cut and all of his explosion. 1326 01:04:18,280 --> 01:04:22,400 He's a wonderful athlete, man. He's just 1% of the athletes in 1327 01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:24,960 the world. But that was a little 1328 01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:27,040 disconcerting there. I I don't know how anybody could 1329 01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:28,520 just say, all right, no big deal. 1330 01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:30,960 You know, there, there could be in between. 1331 01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:32,960 Like, it doesn't have to be. Oh, my God. 1332 01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:35,040 Malik Neighbors had a second surgical procedure. 1333 01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:36,800 Wow, we're screwed. What are we going to do? 1334 01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:39,680 He's not going to be ready. He won't be back till October. 1335 01:04:40,080 --> 01:04:41,880 No, I don't think that that's going to be the case at all. 1336 01:04:42,200 --> 01:04:43,640 And then the opposite of that would be. 1337 01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:45,200 Yeah, he's fine. No big deal. 1338 01:04:45,560 --> 01:04:48,520 I mean, you know, listen, when you are young and they go in 1339 01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:52,080 there and they probe around with medical instruments, there is 1340 01:04:52,080 --> 01:04:57,480 some downstream residual impact to the body that might not pop 1341 01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:01,840 up right away but is going to eventually resurface. 1342 01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:04,520 My right elbow kills me, absolutely kills me. 1343 01:05:04,520 --> 01:05:09,600 I mean, to this day I just plow through it like an idiot. 1344 01:05:09,600 --> 01:05:11,920 Now I'm an idiot and I'm not a real athlete. 1345 01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:14,240 He is not an idiot and he is a real athlete. 1346 01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:18,480 So he's going to be fine. But you know, I mean, it's just, 1347 01:05:18,760 --> 01:05:22,720 it's, it's a very delicate thing and the advancement for knee 1348 01:05:22,720 --> 01:05:25,680 procedures, even like knee replacements and hip 1349 01:05:25,680 --> 01:05:29,520 replacements for older people, Tommy John surgery has become 1350 01:05:29,520 --> 01:05:32,200 much more advanced. As, as, as you know, as I know, 1351 01:05:33,440 --> 01:05:37,920 back surgery has been really the last one to really medically 1352 01:05:38,240 --> 01:05:40,320 take that big, big because it's so complex. 1353 01:05:40,320 --> 01:05:43,080 It's so hard to navigate the back with, with the nerves and 1354 01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:44,680 the spine. It's just a different type of, 1355 01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:49,880 of, of surgery and potential bad results. 1356 01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:51,760 But even that's gotten much better. 1357 01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:53,560 Like you look at Europe and they've, they've come up with 1358 01:05:53,560 --> 01:05:57,560 these, you know, these gel cushions when you're in between 1359 01:05:57,560 --> 01:05:59,720 the vertebrae, you can kind of stack them and you can kind of 1360 01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:02,520 regain some flexibility and take away the paint, all that stuff. 1361 01:06:02,520 --> 01:06:06,160 So even that has advanced tremendously. 1362 01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:10,040 But you know, I, I would say pertaining to Malik neighbors 1363 01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:14,280 here on a scale of 1 to 10, I mean, honestly, last week I was, 1364 01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:16,200 I was at a one. I'm like, he's fine, dude, he's 1365 01:06:16,200 --> 01:06:18,280 fine. I'm not saying I'm going to 1366 01:06:18,280 --> 01:06:21,280 sound the alarm over the top. I'd probably bring that up to a 1367 01:06:21,280 --> 01:06:25,160 three and seal and I'd say it's about a three 3 1/2 and and and 1368 01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:28,720 really just look at it and say, all right, all right, I'm going 1369 01:06:28,720 --> 01:06:31,800 to look at this just a little differently because when you 1370 01:06:31,800 --> 01:06:36,560 hear in the middle of May that the timeline is, is relatively 1371 01:06:36,560 --> 01:06:38,880 unaffected. All right, that's fairly 1372 01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:41,080 comforting now. But before you know it, it's 1373 01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:43,240 going to be training camp and you don't need him ready on the 1374 01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:45,840 first day coming out of burst and cutting out a dime. 1375 01:06:45,880 --> 01:06:48,680 He won't be doing that, but you you wouldn't like him ready for 1376 01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:50,760 the start of the season. And if he's not, it's not the 1377 01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:53,680 biggest deal in the world because the Giants aren't going 1378 01:06:53,680 --> 01:06:56,480 to win the Super Bowl this year. And, you know, Dart's a kid and 1379 01:06:56,840 --> 01:06:59,360 obviously he's a kid neighbors and you want to protect their 1380 01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:02,080 bodies. But interesting, you know, you 1381 01:07:02,080 --> 01:07:04,880 know, if if it's an offensive lineman, if it's a tight end, 1382 01:07:04,880 --> 01:07:09,280 you know, even if it's a safety, you know, it's like a linebacker 1383 01:07:09,280 --> 01:07:12,400 who's more of a tackler than a guy who's whose game is built on 1384 01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:14,440 burst. Less of a concern. 1385 01:07:14,720 --> 01:07:19,360 Torn ACL, full meniscus repair. Again, the swelling, not a big 1386 01:07:19,360 --> 01:07:20,640 deal. So you wait the one month and 1387 01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:24,120 then second surgery 7-8 months later. 1388 01:07:25,720 --> 01:07:29,520 So as I talk about the freed possibility there, Jay and I 1389 01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:31,440 talk about the neighbor's situation. 1390 01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:34,000 What do you feel about the neighbor's situation? 1391 01:07:34,640 --> 01:07:41,960 Listen, I'm not as concerned, but yeah, I mean, I don't 1392 01:07:42,080 --> 01:07:43,800 listen. I don't know too much about the 1393 01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:48,680 neighbors compared to the Freed injury, but either of them I 1394 01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:51,360 don't think are like too much of A cause for concern for either 1395 01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:54,600 team all. Right, doctor, that is. 1396 01:07:55,320 --> 01:07:57,200 You know what? I'm going to call you out to me. 1397 01:07:58,120 --> 01:07:59,520 What were you doing? What were you looking up? 1398 01:07:59,520 --> 01:08:00,880 I said. Fella, you were half listening 1399 01:08:00,880 --> 01:08:01,200 there. What? 1400 01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:03,240 Were you? Listen, I I caught the freed. 1401 01:08:03,240 --> 01:08:05,160 I didn't catch the neighbors. I got you. 1402 01:08:05,160 --> 01:08:06,600 I got you. I got you. 1403 01:08:06,600 --> 01:08:08,360 That's why I got to be. I got to be careful when I ask 1404 01:08:08,360 --> 01:08:10,000 you stuff because I know you're doing a lot of stuff back there. 1405 01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:12,120 It's all good, buddy. What happened to Joe B coming on 1406 01:08:12,120 --> 01:08:13,360 this week? I probably missed it when they 1407 01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:16,399 announced he wouldn't be on. When they announced he wouldn't 1408 01:08:16,399 --> 01:08:17,479 be on. What do you mean Charlie? 1409 01:08:17,479 --> 01:08:18,760 He was on last week. He was awesome. 1410 01:08:18,760 --> 01:08:20,960 Joe was great. He was After that, the numbers 1411 01:08:20,960 --> 01:08:22,880 were off the charts. The viewership was incredible. 1412 01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:26,240 Joe was was awesome. Oh, he went nuts on Stearns. 1413 01:08:26,359 --> 01:08:28,800 Check it out, Charlie. Yeah, check it out, Charlie. 1414 01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:31,600 He he did keep the politics to a minimum to make sure we didn't 1415 01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:33,800 get too much. You know, you listen to Joe, you 1416 01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:36,080 know that Joe is on a Saturday show. 1417 01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:37,880 Joe's always going to weave in some politics. 1418 01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:41,279 That's his right, you know, but we we made sure we you know, and 1419 01:08:41,279 --> 01:08:44,279 it was going to gloss over one or two things, but not over the 1420 01:08:44,279 --> 01:08:45,600 top. I'm not saying there was none of 1421 01:08:45,600 --> 01:08:48,439 it, but really it was a lot of sports up And really the thing 1422 01:08:48,439 --> 01:08:51,600 that was great about Joe and this what's so great about a lot 1423 01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:54,760 of these conversations here is that they're just it's not like, 1424 01:08:54,800 --> 01:08:56,279 oh, Joe, what do you think about David Stern? 1425 01:08:56,279 --> 01:08:58,960 We then what about the Mets chances to be a wild card team? 1426 01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:02,600 Joe, like when I get these people on the show, it's it's a 1427 01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:04,560 real conversation. That's one of the reasons why to 1428 01:09:04,560 --> 01:09:07,200 me, Rothenberg would be appealing because I don't know 1429 01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:10,760 anything about his background and I know his son was a pretty 1430 01:09:10,760 --> 01:09:13,000 good high school baseball player who hit some home runs. 1431 01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:15,560 I remember him talking about that, hearing that on the radio 1432 01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:17,000 a little bit. I'm not sure if he's done yet. 1433 01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:19,920 I'm not sure if he's playing collegiately, but obviously Dave 1434 01:09:19,920 --> 01:09:22,439 is a is a really proud dad. I'm very humble about it. 1435 01:09:22,439 --> 01:09:25,120 But I would hear that come up a little bit when when Rick would 1436 01:09:25,120 --> 01:09:26,880 bring it up or, or they would talk about it. 1437 01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:31,359 But I, I love the, the freedom and, and the, the ability just 1438 01:09:31,359 --> 01:09:34,640 to bounce from topic to topic. And Joe got, Joe got really deep 1439 01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:36,680 about his childhood. Like, I didn't know a lot. 1440 01:09:36,680 --> 01:09:40,279 And I know Joe well, like Joe's a friend and I, you know, I know 1441 01:09:40,279 --> 01:09:41,279 Terry. I love Joe. 1442 01:09:41,279 --> 01:09:43,880 I've known him for a long time. And some of those things I just 1443 01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:46,279 did not know. And then he's getting into acid 1444 01:09:46,279 --> 01:09:47,760 trips. You get, you just got the whole 1445 01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:49,560 Joe B experience. It was absolutely phenomenal. 1446 01:09:49,560 --> 01:09:53,960 Dude, it was, I just, I loved how free flowing it was and man, 1447 01:09:53,960 --> 01:09:57,240 dude, there's the picture of him like in front of the old school 1448 01:09:57,240 --> 01:09:59,440 TV with the broom with the broom. 1449 01:09:59,760 --> 01:10:03,240 Oh my God, I love it dude. Like he's still using the TV 1450 01:10:03,240 --> 01:10:04,880 from like 20. Well, you know. 1451 01:10:05,040 --> 01:10:07,600 What's funny and a lot and his a lot of people I guess were 1452 01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:10,120 clowning him on that and I love it. 1453 01:10:10,560 --> 01:10:13,400 Yeah, no, I know me too. But I know Samantha, his 1454 01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:17,680 daughter used felt compelled to kind of jump in and defend Joe 1455 01:10:17,680 --> 01:10:19,080 like Joe was getting hit for that. 1456 01:10:19,080 --> 01:10:22,040 Like I mean, what what kind of person? 1457 01:10:22,040 --> 01:10:24,920 I don't know, like what would compel somebody? 1458 01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:27,320 It's one thing if you joke around like Joe, I mean, you 1459 01:10:27,320 --> 01:10:29,200 know, how about getting a flat screen like, but it seemed like 1460 01:10:29,200 --> 01:10:31,680 it was pretty mean spirited where she felt like she had to 1461 01:10:31,680 --> 01:10:34,160 jump in and defend her pops a little bit, which I I respect, 1462 01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:37,600 you know, but Joe with the broom and Joe, you know, with, with 1463 01:10:37,600 --> 01:10:39,920 the shirt tucked in. That's another thing too. 1464 01:10:39,920 --> 01:10:43,000 One thing about I'm not saying Joe's old, but older people, 1465 01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:44,960 right? Why do they tuck the shirt in 1466 01:10:44,960 --> 01:10:46,760 like that? I've never understood that. 1467 01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:49,840 Everybody does that. My dad does it, my father-in-law 1468 01:10:49,880 --> 01:10:51,000 does. I I don't. 1469 01:10:51,520 --> 01:10:54,680 Even when I'm doing TV, true. Even when I'm doing TVI have 1470 01:10:54,680 --> 01:10:58,160 always been the guy. I don't tuck in until two or 1471 01:10:58,160 --> 01:10:59,680 three minutes before I go on the air. 1472 01:10:59,920 --> 01:11:02,720 Like, you know, when I was doing SNY for seven years, right? 1473 01:11:02,720 --> 01:11:04,720 We get makeup now. I don't even, I think they got 1474 01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:08,600 rid of the makeup artist for COVID and then, you know, the 1475 01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:10,400 business has changed, financial reasons, whatever. 1476 01:11:10,400 --> 01:11:15,240 But we had a full makeup artist back then and I would just go in 1477 01:11:15,240 --> 01:11:18,560 like, you know, and I would have my my dress pants and I would 1478 01:11:18,560 --> 01:11:21,200 have my shirt, you know, I wouldn't even have my tie on 1479 01:11:21,200 --> 01:11:22,480 yet. I would have like 2 buttons 1480 01:11:22,480 --> 01:11:25,440 open, my shirt untucked. And I would get makeup. 1481 01:11:25,440 --> 01:11:27,760 And then like I'd go in the green room, I'd shoot the shit. 1482 01:11:27,760 --> 01:11:31,240 And then like, you know, I was, I think my show was on at 5:30, 1483 01:11:31,240 --> 01:11:33,360 I think 5:30 or 6. I think it was 532. 1484 01:11:33,360 --> 01:11:35,080 Six. You know, 522. 1485 01:11:35,080 --> 01:11:36,800 All right, let's let let. Come on, Pharrell. 1486 01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:37,840 Come on, Moose. Come on. 1487 01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:39,880 Whoever's on the show with me. Let's go. 1488 01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:42,880 Then I would tuck in like you can't pay me to tuck in. 1489 01:11:43,080 --> 01:11:46,200 I hate it. I feel uncomfortable and but the 1490 01:11:46,200 --> 01:11:48,280 older. Generation they are tuckers. 1491 01:11:48,800 --> 01:11:53,680 Maybe it's like the the pant along, like the protruding gut, 1492 01:11:53,680 --> 01:11:55,680 like maybe that's more comfortable. 1493 01:11:56,080 --> 01:11:59,600 Like having like your. Joe's not built like that really 1494 01:11:59,840 --> 01:12:03,040 Joe like, but like, I don't know, like maybe that's more 1495 01:12:03,040 --> 01:12:06,240 comfortable to have like the pants around like your stomach 1496 01:12:06,240 --> 01:12:08,080 line rather than your waist like. 1497 01:12:08,080 --> 01:12:10,440 You pull the pants up. Yeah, well, but you can still do 1498 01:12:10,440 --> 01:12:12,000 that and just have the shirt hanging out. 1499 01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:14,600 Yeah, absolutely. You're totally right. 1500 01:12:15,480 --> 01:12:17,480 I don't know if it's as comfortable and Joe has no 1501 01:12:17,480 --> 01:12:19,280 protrusion. Joe was a runner for a long 1502 01:12:19,280 --> 01:12:21,080 time. Joe's in, you know, I'm, I'm not 1503 01:12:21,080 --> 01:12:23,640 saying he's out there lifting weights everyday, but Joe's out 1504 01:12:23,640 --> 01:12:26,000 there playing golf. He's in he's in pretty decent 1505 01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:29,040 shape, you know, but there is something about the, you know 1506 01:12:29,040 --> 01:12:31,840 what it is. It's probably more like of a, 1507 01:12:32,320 --> 01:12:38,360 you know, military, just a more conforming to societal dress 1508 01:12:38,640 --> 01:12:40,520 codes. I mean, even think about the 1509 01:12:40,560 --> 01:12:42,360 industry. Like what? 1510 01:12:42,360 --> 01:12:45,760 What I don't know, Are kids still suiting up for interviews? 1511 01:12:45,760 --> 01:12:47,560 Are they? I would hope so. 1512 01:12:48,360 --> 01:12:53,200 Dude, interviews now are different man, cuz you, I will 1513 01:12:53,200 --> 01:12:56,320 tell you right now, I've never done an in person interview 1514 01:12:56,320 --> 01:13:01,400 other than for like Guitar Center working like a retail job 1515 01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:04,440 for, for my podcasting stuff and any of this. 1516 01:13:04,520 --> 01:13:06,800 I've never done an in person interview. 1517 01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:09,480 So yeah, you're still kind of dressing up nice. 1518 01:13:09,480 --> 01:13:11,840 But dude, you could have freaking your Hanes underwear on 1519 01:13:11,840 --> 01:13:13,320 underneath and it doesn't matter. 1520 01:13:13,800 --> 01:13:17,400 Yeah, I know it's changed a lot, even like, you know, do you go 1521 01:13:17,400 --> 01:13:19,000 to a wedding? There's some people like dress 1522 01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:21,640 sneakers now. I've got into that probably well 1523 01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:24,400 over 10 years ago. That's always been big. 1524 01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:25,960 Like the Jordan. I'm not always. 1525 01:13:25,960 --> 01:13:28,960 That's certainly not always, not always in my lifetime. 1526 01:13:28,960 --> 01:13:32,200 I feel like the Jordan ones at the wedding have been like a 1527 01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:35,320 huge thing. Yes, even for, you know, like 1528 01:13:35,360 --> 01:13:39,560 any dude really like the Jordan ones, the 11 sometimes people 1529 01:13:39,560 --> 01:13:41,760 aware at the wedding. Oh yeah, yeah. 1530 01:13:42,280 --> 01:13:44,440 I'm pretty, yeah. I I've honestly been to some, I 1531 01:13:44,440 --> 01:13:46,960 don't know if I've been to a wedding, but I've been to some 1532 01:13:46,960 --> 01:13:50,320 formal events where like some of the main people, a part of it 1533 01:13:50,320 --> 01:13:52,200 were just wearing Jordans and stuff like that. 1534 01:13:52,200 --> 01:13:55,080 And they're like, yeah, that's what I listen, what I'm doing 1535 01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:56,400 with the Saint John's games, with Mink now. 1536 01:13:56,400 --> 01:13:58,800 Mink is Mink again. Mink's old school, right? 1537 01:13:59,160 --> 01:14:01,680 Mink is tucked in. Mink is suited up. 1538 01:14:01,680 --> 01:14:04,360 Mink's got the little, you know, little pin on his lapel. 1539 01:14:04,360 --> 01:14:07,240 Saint John's, you know, you know, always the company guy. 1540 01:14:07,240 --> 01:14:08,760 So am I me. Hell, I'm wearing Saint John's 1541 01:14:08,760 --> 01:14:09,880 today. You know, I love Saint John's, 1542 01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:12,080 but I mean he is the ultimate company guy. 1543 01:14:12,080 --> 01:14:15,880 He's got the tie fully shaved, the dress shoes, the dress 1544 01:14:15,880 --> 01:14:19,600 socks, the belt, the suit, all this stuff I shot me. 1545 01:14:19,600 --> 01:14:24,040 When I do games I wear jeans, nice jeans, brand new Jordans. 1546 01:14:24,040 --> 01:14:26,520 I got, you know, two pair black and, you know, always get 2 1547 01:14:26,520 --> 01:14:28,440 pairs for the season, Black and red. 1548 01:14:28,440 --> 01:14:31,040 Johnny's colors low cuts, right? Yeah. 1549 01:14:31,600 --> 01:14:35,480 The BT Classics. You know, those the ankle socks, 1550 01:14:35,520 --> 01:14:38,840 I wear ankle socks, right, But then and then I'll have on, you 1551 01:14:38,840 --> 01:14:41,360 know, a really nice shirt and you know, the blazer. 1552 01:14:41,360 --> 01:14:45,080 The blazer is my I've got a a nice collection of, you know, 1553 01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:47,360 really good Blazers. And then if I want to pop it 1554 01:14:47,360 --> 01:14:51,160 with like, you know, whether it's one of those little like 1555 01:14:51,280 --> 01:14:55,160 lapel, like those flower flowery, like lapel things which 1556 01:14:55,160 --> 01:14:58,200 are pretty popular, which kind of accent with the tie or bring 1557 01:14:58,200 --> 01:15:00,800 out certain colors in the blazer, or if I want to go 1558 01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:03,360 pocket square, probably got about 50 of those things. 1559 01:15:03,360 --> 01:15:06,600 But even up until the game, like I'm doing the pregame, I'm I'm 1560 01:15:06,600 --> 01:15:08,960 my shirt's not even tucked in. I just can't tuck in. 1561 01:15:09,320 --> 01:15:12,280 Like, that's something I'm surprised that that would be 1562 01:15:12,280 --> 01:15:15,600 either a good Seinfeld bit or a good Curb bit, right? 1563 01:15:15,720 --> 01:15:18,800 There, there, honestly, there could be. 1564 01:15:18,840 --> 01:15:21,280 I I just have to check it out, but not that I've seen. 1565 01:15:21,280 --> 01:15:22,840 That is a good, that is a good thought. 1566 01:15:23,200 --> 01:15:27,040 You know, something I've realized though, I, I think now 1567 01:15:27,040 --> 01:15:30,240 the sign of like not professionalism, but kind of the 1568 01:15:30,240 --> 01:15:35,440 sign of like wealth or the flex is wearing sweatpants instead of 1569 01:15:35,440 --> 01:15:38,200 a suit. Like I think due to wear it like 1570 01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:43,160 like the athleisure Lululemon sweatpants with like the quarter 1571 01:15:43,160 --> 01:15:46,000 zip top. Not that I I don't think that's 1572 01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:47,440 fresh in any sort. Of. 1573 01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:50,920 Context But I think those are the dudes who that's like, 1574 01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:54,160 that's how people kind of flex and explain themselves. 1575 01:15:54,160 --> 01:15:58,040 Is is I'm the kind of guy who I don't have to show up, dress 1576 01:15:58,040 --> 01:16:01,480 informally, I can show up anywhere, dressing in sweatpants 1577 01:16:01,480 --> 01:16:04,440 and anything, and it won't matter because I am who I am. 1578 01:16:04,880 --> 01:16:06,440 Give you a good example. I don't know if he's always 1579 01:16:06,440 --> 01:16:07,960 wearing sweats. And I know it's different now, 1580 01:16:07,960 --> 01:16:10,240 but like when Cuban bought The Mavericks, he was there in, 1581 01:16:10,240 --> 01:16:13,800 like, jeans and a Mavericks jersey or AT shirt. 1582 01:16:14,080 --> 01:16:16,600 Yeah. Yeah, that's kind of. 1583 01:16:16,600 --> 01:16:19,600 I guess that's kind of true. Hey, have you got into the show 1584 01:16:19,600 --> 01:16:21,200 on Is it Netflix? Hold on. 1585 01:16:21,320 --> 01:16:23,680 I think it is running point. Have you gotten into that? 1586 01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:25,160 I don't believe. So no, no. 1587 01:16:25,160 --> 01:16:27,720 About like this fictitious team that's supposed to be the Lakers 1588 01:16:27,720 --> 01:16:29,880 with Kate Hudson. Oh, I'll check that out. 1589 01:16:29,880 --> 01:16:32,720 Yeah, watch on. It's good and it's good because 1590 01:16:32,920 --> 01:16:36,080 and they they released it more in the old school way where it's 1591 01:16:36,080 --> 01:16:38,640 not like season after season. It like they they had one 1592 01:16:38,640 --> 01:16:40,680 season. I think there was 8 episodes and 1593 01:16:40,680 --> 01:16:42,640 I really like it's funny. It's a it's a light view. 1594 01:16:44,360 --> 01:16:46,880 It's not like it's deep thought, but it's well written and it's 1595 01:16:46,920 --> 01:16:48,800 it's comedically, it's on point. It's good. 1596 01:16:48,800 --> 01:16:51,240 And I'm a big Hudson fan. And then they had I had to wait 1597 01:16:51,240 --> 01:16:53,200 a year for season 2. Oh man. 1598 01:16:53,200 --> 01:16:55,280 And I was actually pumped. I'm like, when's it coming out? 1599 01:16:55,280 --> 01:16:56,840 When it it came out, I think late. 1600 01:16:56,840 --> 01:16:58,840 No way, Chet. Hanks is in this. 1601 01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:00,960 Yes, Oh my. Gosh, I need to watch this dude. 1602 01:17:01,760 --> 01:17:03,920 Oh my God, I love that dude. It's absolutely fun. 1603 01:17:04,120 --> 01:17:09,480 Dude I watched the the the roast and this is my main take away. 1604 01:17:09,480 --> 01:17:11,000 Like the roast? Kevin. 1605 01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:15,320 Hart Yep, dude, Tom Brady is the stiffest man and I'm a Pats fan. 1606 01:17:15,640 --> 01:17:18,400 He's the stiffest guy on planet Earth, dude. 1607 01:17:18,600 --> 01:17:22,800 Like it's like they walk out a robot with like human skin on it 1608 01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:25,360 and have it tell some jokes and stuff like that. 1609 01:17:25,360 --> 01:17:28,360 Like there's just something about him that just like hits me 1610 01:17:28,360 --> 01:17:33,120 as like it's so off. It's so Kardashian like, like 1611 01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:35,600 his vibe. I mean, not really, dude. 1612 01:17:35,640 --> 01:17:37,640 I don't, no. Just something about Tom Brady 1613 01:17:37,640 --> 01:17:41,480 just hits me as like he's an incredibly like stiff and like 1614 01:17:41,480 --> 01:17:45,320 very calculated guy. Like everything he says, like 1615 01:17:45,320 --> 01:17:47,080 you could tell he's thought about it. 1616 01:17:47,240 --> 01:17:49,240 Like there's just nothing off the cuff with him. 1617 01:17:49,240 --> 01:17:54,720 It just it's not natural. OK, I mean, I I don't get that. 1618 01:17:54,720 --> 01:17:58,680 I almost feel like the Tom Brady that we used to get was that 1619 01:17:58,680 --> 01:18:01,800 way, where I think this is more who he is. 1620 01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:05,400 I mean, he is a guy who is, I mean, we are, his level of 1621 01:18:05,400 --> 01:18:07,320 competitiveness is, is legendary. 1622 01:18:07,320 --> 01:18:11,440 But you know, dropping the F bombs and doing these roasts 1623 01:18:11,440 --> 01:18:14,760 here and, and just letting himself out there. 1624 01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:17,040 I, I think that that's more him. I I've seen him on a bunch of 1625 01:18:17,040 --> 01:18:19,200 podcasts where he's just chilling. 1626 01:18:19,640 --> 01:18:21,840 I don't think he's now you want to tell him he's had some work 1627 01:18:21,840 --> 01:18:23,440 done. I yeah, maybe that's a little 1628 01:18:23,480 --> 01:18:25,280 different. No, I don't know. 1629 01:18:25,560 --> 01:18:27,320 Yeah, I don't. Know if it's just that it's just 1630 01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:28,760 like something about him, he was just like. 1631 01:18:31,040 --> 01:18:32,320 Oh really? Like he's just. 1632 01:18:32,800 --> 01:18:35,200 Like kind of stiffish, like kind of robotic. 1633 01:18:35,320 --> 01:18:39,040 Little C3PO for you. Speaking of Tom Brady, let me 1634 01:18:39,040 --> 01:18:40,480 get into this first. I had this written down. 1635 01:18:40,480 --> 01:18:42,320 I want to get into it now here. I don't know if you guys caught 1636 01:18:42,320 --> 01:18:46,960 this, but the, the thought about Bill Belichick's been pushing 1637 01:18:46,960 --> 01:18:51,840 this for a while now about renaming the Lombardi Trophy, 1638 01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:56,720 the Tom Brady trophy. And it's when you first hear it. 1639 01:18:57,760 --> 01:18:59,880 Well, I don't, I don't know how you feel when you first hear it. 1640 01:18:59,880 --> 01:19:04,120 When I first hear it, I'm like, no, like, because to me, that's 1641 01:19:04,120 --> 01:19:06,560 just another example of trying to always change things. 1642 01:19:06,680 --> 01:19:09,240 You know, I don't know why we have to change anything. 1643 01:19:09,240 --> 01:19:11,440 Like, well, I mean, there's certain things in the world that 1644 01:19:11,440 --> 01:19:13,040 we have to change, understood, right. 1645 01:19:13,520 --> 01:19:16,440 And, and we have, but I think there's been too much 1646 01:19:16,480 --> 01:19:18,560 unnecessary change with certain things. 1647 01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:23,200 And you know, Lombardi, you know, if I, if you ask any 1648 01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:25,920 football fan, hey, who's the greatest coach of all time? 1649 01:19:26,560 --> 01:19:28,800 Now, depending upon how old they are, let me ask you, who do you 1650 01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:30,760 think the greatest coach of all time is in the NFL? 1651 01:19:31,120 --> 01:19:33,000 Who is it? And you got to see. 1652 01:19:33,040 --> 01:19:34,640 Belichick. I mean, yeah, I'm going 1653 01:19:34,640 --> 01:19:36,040 Belichick. You you have to. 1654 01:19:36,040 --> 01:19:38,040 From my experience, yeah. Yeah, yeah. 1655 01:19:38,040 --> 01:19:39,880 No, you should. From what I've seen, just for, 1656 01:19:39,920 --> 01:19:41,680 yeah, from what I've seen, I'm going Belichick. 1657 01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:45,000 Agreed. OK, Now I never saw Lombardi 1658 01:19:45,320 --> 01:19:49,280 obviously at all. And to me it's, it's Lombardi 1659 01:19:49,280 --> 01:19:51,680 and Belichick and it's Belichick and Lombardi. 1660 01:19:52,120 --> 01:19:54,320 You know, whatever order you want to put those guys in, I I 1661 01:19:54,320 --> 01:19:57,320 don't have an issue with it. And then I think after that, you 1662 01:19:57,320 --> 01:19:59,760 know, I've always put Parcells up there, like I've always said, 1663 01:19:59,760 --> 01:20:04,080 if I've got one team. And you know, I've got 1 coach 1664 01:20:04,080 --> 01:20:06,240 to win and, and like shape A-Team. 1665 01:20:06,240 --> 01:20:09,360 Parcells will be my guy. He is my all time favorite. 1666 01:20:10,360 --> 01:20:12,960 He might actually be my all time favorite coach in any sport. 1667 01:20:13,080 --> 01:20:16,200 You know, I'm really, I mean, I and I love Joe Torre, but you 1668 01:20:16,200 --> 01:20:19,400 know, Joe did not win early at all with the Mets and you know, 1669 01:20:19,480 --> 01:20:22,480 with the Cardinals and didn't want a little bit with the 1670 01:20:22,480 --> 01:20:24,280 Braves. But like he won with the Yankees 1671 01:20:24,280 --> 01:20:27,240 because he had amazing talent and he was able to, you know, 1672 01:20:27,240 --> 01:20:29,440 navigate Steinbrenner and all the New York pressure. 1673 01:20:29,440 --> 01:20:30,680 And you gave him a world of credit. 1674 01:20:30,840 --> 01:20:31,920 And I love Joe. Like Joe. 1675 01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:34,760 Joe and I, I mean, we're from the same area. 1676 01:20:34,760 --> 01:20:38,880 Like literally where I grew up and where Joe grew up is 1677 01:20:38,920 --> 01:20:41,960 probably 7-8 blocks away, literally across the park, 1678 01:20:42,120 --> 01:20:44,080 across Marine Park. He was just. 1679 01:20:44,640 --> 01:20:47,280 He was just on the other side, you know, and we played for the 1680 01:20:47,280 --> 01:20:49,800 same youth team growing up. He played for the Cadets and I 1681 01:20:49,800 --> 01:20:52,520 played for the Cadets. Anyway, I love Joe, like Joe's 1682 01:20:52,520 --> 01:20:54,880 the best, right? But I don't think like Joe's an 1683 01:20:54,880 --> 01:20:58,600 all time great manager myself. He's an all time great Yankee 1684 01:20:58,600 --> 01:21:00,960 based on the results. But if I think about like 1685 01:21:00,960 --> 01:21:05,320 tacticians, you know, I'm going to throw somebody like Miller 1686 01:21:05,320 --> 01:21:06,800 Huggins. I mean, just just based on the 1687 01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:08,280 research, obviously never saw him. 1688 01:21:08,560 --> 01:21:11,760 Tony Larussa. I think Sparky Anderson is up 1689 01:21:11,760 --> 01:21:16,440 there. I think that let's see here. 1690 01:21:16,480 --> 01:21:18,200 I mean, those are a couple of the names that I've always kind 1691 01:21:18,200 --> 01:21:21,880 of said and and I I just don't think Joe Torry's necessarily in 1692 01:21:21,880 --> 01:21:25,320 in Earl Weaver, Billy Martin, I think was a a better, much 1693 01:21:25,320 --> 01:21:28,720 better tactician than Joe Torry. Again, no disrespect to Joe 1694 01:21:28,720 --> 01:21:33,720 Torry, but when I think about football, I don't know how 1695 01:21:34,040 --> 01:21:37,280 Lombardi could have been better than Parcells. 1696 01:21:37,360 --> 01:21:40,480 Now you can tell me all right, championships, this that, and 1697 01:21:40,480 --> 01:21:42,520 obviously in terms of championships, Belichick's got 1698 01:21:42,520 --> 01:21:49,200 everybody beat. But I also look at Belichick's 1699 01:21:49,200 --> 01:21:53,360 accomplishments and I don't just go to the end result of the 1700 01:21:53,360 --> 01:21:55,560 championships. I look at the whole picture 1701 01:21:55,760 --> 01:21:57,960 where he didn't do much with the Browns. 1702 01:21:57,960 --> 01:22:02,120 Now he was getting it better before he got fired and he was 1703 01:22:02,120 --> 01:22:04,320 the DC for those great giant teams when they won the 1704 01:22:04,320 --> 01:22:08,080 championships with Bill. But see, to me, and maybe, maybe 1705 01:22:08,080 --> 01:22:11,560 this is the wrong way to look at it, I I almost give more points 1706 01:22:11,560 --> 01:22:15,840 to somebody who is a proven rebooter. 1707 01:22:16,200 --> 01:22:18,000 And Parcells. You always say it. 1708 01:22:18,240 --> 01:22:20,080 I do. You always say with Pitino, man, 1709 01:22:20,080 --> 01:22:22,560 you know what I say? Yeah, It's the adaptability, 1710 01:22:22,560 --> 01:22:23,800 bro. There you go. 1711 01:22:23,800 --> 01:22:26,240 I wasn't even going to use the word adaptability, but I always 1712 01:22:26,240 --> 01:22:28,880 do lean on that. But true, you know, and and like 1713 01:22:28,880 --> 01:22:33,160 the messaging, the adaptability, the the instincts. 1714 01:22:33,560 --> 01:22:36,560 Like I think the toughest thing to do is to walk into a room, 1715 01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:39,360 you know, a football locker room, 53 dudes. 1716 01:22:39,720 --> 01:22:43,320 And you know, for a team that's been moribund, not, not not 1717 01:22:43,320 --> 01:22:46,720 disciplined, a lot of penalties, an offensive line that gives up 1718 01:22:46,720 --> 01:22:50,720 a lot of sacks, a lot of turnovers like The Jets, I mean, 1719 01:22:50,720 --> 01:22:53,240 basically, you know, maybe outside of giving up the sacks 1720 01:22:53,240 --> 01:22:56,200 because the old line is good, but take a team like that and to 1721 01:22:56,200 --> 01:23:00,360 walk into that room and to immediately, I mean immediately. 1722 01:23:00,360 --> 01:23:03,720 And it's all documentable where you just what whatever you 1723 01:23:03,720 --> 01:23:06,560 espouse, whatever you teach, whatever you demand, whatever 1724 01:23:06,560 --> 01:23:09,240 you preach like it works immediately. 1725 01:23:09,600 --> 01:23:11,400 It worked. Now his his first year with the 1726 01:23:11,400 --> 01:23:13,840 Giants, I think he only won three games, almost got fired, 1727 01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:15,680 but then bang got fixed right away. 1728 01:23:16,160 --> 01:23:20,240 And then obviously, you know, he's with the Patriots and 1729 01:23:20,240 --> 01:23:24,440 they're in the Super Bowl and he won a very this I will use the 1730 01:23:24,440 --> 01:23:27,320 word adaptability because with the Giants, he wanted to run the 1731 01:23:27,320 --> 01:23:30,840 ball and he wanted to play great defense with his linebackers, 1732 01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:32,800 right? And that's how they won Lawrence 1733 01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:36,920 Taylor, etcetera. And then he goes to the Pats and 1734 01:23:36,960 --> 01:23:40,200 he's got Drew Bledsoe and he's letting Drew Bledsoe, who could 1735 01:23:40,200 --> 01:23:43,560 spin it, spin it, who could really throw it. 1736 01:23:44,040 --> 01:23:47,240 He'd let him throw 4550 * A game like that happened pretty 1737 01:23:47,240 --> 01:23:49,760 frequently. And he was adaptable there. 1738 01:23:49,760 --> 01:23:52,040 And then when he came to the end and the Patriots were down when 1739 01:23:52,040 --> 01:23:54,200 he went there and then he got him to the Super Bowl. 1740 01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:57,520 Then he bounces and then he comes to The Jets. 1741 01:23:57,880 --> 01:24:00,120 And before he gets to The Jets, they're 3 and 13. 1742 01:24:00,120 --> 01:24:03,000 They're one and 15. It's the Co tight circus and the 1743 01:24:03,000 --> 01:24:07,080 first year that he's with The Jets, they go nine and seven and 1744 01:24:07,080 --> 01:24:09,600 the first game that he ever coached for the New York Jets, 1745 01:24:09,920 --> 01:24:16,320 they won 40 to 6 at Seattle, coming off for one and 15 seats. 1746 01:24:16,320 --> 01:24:19,200 I remember because I had season tickets at that point, I 1747 01:24:19,200 --> 01:24:24,480 remember sitting in my first apartment with my buddy Rob and 1748 01:24:24,480 --> 01:24:27,120 watching the game and then like five guys and we had actually 1749 01:24:27,120 --> 01:24:29,800 had a grossly fun day. Like 5 spits came over cab. 1750 01:24:29,800 --> 01:24:33,160 We had a, we had a pretty good day and we didn't know what to 1751 01:24:33,160 --> 01:24:35,680 expect, man. Like The Jets were horrendous 1752 01:24:35,680 --> 01:24:41,280 the year before. One in 15-1 in 15 and they're up 1753 01:24:41,280 --> 01:24:45,680 in Seattle or over in Seattle and they win 40 or 43 to 6. 1754 01:24:45,680 --> 01:24:48,400 I'm like, what? Like that transfer? 1755 01:24:48,400 --> 01:24:50,640 And then they went nine and seven and that, and then they 1756 01:24:50,640 --> 01:24:53,160 went 12 and 4 the next year and they won the AFC East for the 1757 01:24:53,160 --> 01:24:55,280 first time ever. And then, you know, who knows 1758 01:24:55,280 --> 01:24:57,600 what would happen in 99 if he doesn't get hurt week one 1759 01:24:57,600 --> 01:25:00,400 against the Pats. The point is like the ability to 1760 01:25:00,400 --> 01:25:05,960 so quickly implement whatever you believe and whatever you're 1761 01:25:05,960 --> 01:25:10,520 non negotiable with right and toward and weed out the guys 1762 01:25:10,520 --> 01:25:12,600 immediately that that you know you cannot. 1763 01:25:12,600 --> 01:25:15,160 You can identify them a mile away. 1764 01:25:15,400 --> 01:25:18,680 Nope, not my kind of guy. Nope, not all in. 1765 01:25:18,760 --> 01:25:21,280 Nope. Little selfish, little soft, a 1766 01:25:21,480 --> 01:25:24,960 little dumb in terms of the football IQ, a little too 1767 01:25:24,960 --> 01:25:27,120 reckless off the field. And unless you're Lawrence 1768 01:25:27,120 --> 01:25:30,080 Taylor or a couple of others, we're not going to look the 1769 01:25:30,080 --> 01:25:32,440 other way because your talent doesn't, you don't have like, 1770 01:25:32,440 --> 01:25:33,520 you're just not going to get that. 1771 01:25:34,280 --> 01:25:36,040 You don't deserve it because you're not Lawrence Taylor. 1772 01:25:36,040 --> 01:25:39,640 You know, I just think he's the absolute master at that. 1773 01:25:40,040 --> 01:25:43,360 You know, I didn't see, I didn't see Belichick do that. 1774 01:25:43,360 --> 01:25:47,640 He didn't do that with Cleveland and he didn't really even do 1775 01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:50,920 that with the Pats. I mean, if you look at I'm going 1776 01:25:50,920 --> 01:25:52,720 to pop something up here real quick, I want to make sure that 1777 01:25:52,720 --> 01:25:56,200 I'm I don't miss anything. If you look at the Patriots, 1778 01:25:56,200 --> 01:26:02,560 this will take one SEC guys, Pat's year by year, year by year 1779 01:26:02,560 --> 01:26:06,040 record, all right, and then here you go. 1780 01:26:06,040 --> 01:26:09,000 And football. They want the verification. 1781 01:26:09,000 --> 01:26:11,680 Come on, man. All right, maybe this will be it 1782 01:26:11,680 --> 01:26:14,600 by the season. All right, What what year did 1783 01:26:14,600 --> 01:26:18,960 what was his first year there? Let's see No, he left The Jets 1784 01:26:19,320 --> 01:26:23,160 in so Al grow was in 2000. All right. 1785 01:26:23,160 --> 01:26:29,000 So if you go to 2000, so yeah, I think his first year was 5 and 1786 01:26:29,000 --> 01:26:34,440 11, right and then eleven wins 9/14/14 dynasty well off and 1787 01:26:34,440 --> 01:26:38,200 running right. But if you go to like a couple 1788 01:26:38,200 --> 01:26:41,320 of years before that, you know, they were eight and eight the 1789 01:26:41,360 --> 01:26:43,280 year before he got there competitive. 1790 01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:45,520 The year before that they were nine and seven. 1791 01:26:45,760 --> 01:26:47,800 The year before that they were ten and six. 1792 01:26:48,040 --> 01:26:50,480 And the year before that, I was with Parcells. 1793 01:26:50,480 --> 01:26:54,600 They were 11:00 and 5:00. So what he inherited with the 1794 01:26:54,600 --> 01:26:58,880 Pats was nowhere comparable to what Bill inherited with The 1795 01:26:58,880 --> 01:27:01,640 Jets. And like this is all about, I'd 1796 01:27:01,880 --> 01:27:03,880 say just tuning in, I started the conversation about what 1797 01:27:03,880 --> 01:27:06,640 Belichick saying about he thinks it should be the Tom Brady 1798 01:27:06,640 --> 01:27:10,120 trophy and and I get it. And there is merit to that. 1799 01:27:10,960 --> 01:27:14,880 But if nobody had the conversation, you know, about 1800 01:27:14,880 --> 01:27:18,960 turning it into the Joe Montana Trophy back then when Joe went 1801 01:27:18,960 --> 01:27:22,160 to four Super Bowls and never lost, you know, I don't think we 1802 01:27:22,160 --> 01:27:23,680 need to do it now with Tom Brady. 1803 01:27:23,960 --> 01:27:26,880 If you want to make another award after him, that's fine. 1804 01:27:27,240 --> 01:27:29,240 But it's got to stay the Lombardi Trophy. 1805 01:27:29,240 --> 01:27:31,960 That's my opinion on that. And I'm open, I'm open to the 1806 01:27:31,960 --> 01:27:34,880 conversation. I'm not so married to everything 1807 01:27:34,880 --> 01:27:37,200 from back in the day where I'm like, Nope, resistant, can't 1808 01:27:37,200 --> 01:27:39,720 listen to it, not interested. I'm interested. 1809 01:27:40,000 --> 01:27:42,320 I just don't think that that one, I want to say it doesn't 1810 01:27:42,320 --> 01:27:44,920 make sense because I think it does on certainly on some level. 1811 01:27:45,240 --> 01:27:47,240 I would not do it. And there's no way the NFL is 1812 01:27:47,240 --> 01:27:49,520 going to do it. Bill Walsh was thought of as the 1813 01:27:49,520 --> 01:27:51,480 best coach of his time by his peers. 1814 01:27:51,480 --> 01:27:54,680 Yeah, most dominant team in the 80s and the 90s era for sure. 1815 01:27:54,680 --> 01:27:57,040 Well, I mean, Dallas is pretty good as well with all those 1816 01:27:57,040 --> 01:27:59,600 championships. But yes, Charlie checks in there 1817 01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:03,600 what Bill Walsh was thought to be and and I would agree with 1818 01:28:03,600 --> 01:28:07,000 this was the most innovative. Like you still, when you you 1819 01:28:07,000 --> 01:28:09,400 think about the the West Coast offense and there's so many 1820 01:28:09,400 --> 01:28:13,760 variations of it now, like that's that's an innovative mind 1821 01:28:14,080 --> 01:28:16,560 that was able to really change the NFL. 1822 01:28:16,840 --> 01:28:20,240 Like if you think about and that's hard to do, like how many 1823 01:28:20,240 --> 01:28:24,400 coaches in any sport, there's a lot of great coaches, right? 1824 01:28:24,720 --> 01:28:26,320 Like you can tell me. I'm going to take Steve Kerr, 1825 01:28:26,320 --> 01:28:30,160 right. All right, Steve Kerr won a ton, 1826 01:28:30,200 --> 01:28:33,320 you know, all time dynasty for a couple years, Warriors, right? 1827 01:28:33,640 --> 01:28:35,280 But did Steve Kerr change the NBA? 1828 01:28:35,520 --> 01:28:38,880 No, Steph Curry changed the NBA in terms of shooting prowess, 1829 01:28:38,880 --> 01:28:43,120 right? Gregg Popovich, Popovich, great 1830 01:28:43,120 --> 01:28:46,280 coach Duncan, you know, all time one of the top three or four NBA 1831 01:28:46,280 --> 01:28:47,880 coach NBA coaches of all time, right? 1832 01:28:48,160 --> 01:28:51,600 Did he change the NBA? No, he didn't change the NBA. 1833 01:28:52,000 --> 01:28:57,200 But I think if you look at Bill Walsh, he changed the NFL. 1834 01:28:58,000 --> 01:29:01,040 I even think that, you know, the Buffalo Bills, what they were 1835 01:29:01,040 --> 01:29:03,000 running, even though they didn't have any championships there. 1836 01:29:03,440 --> 01:29:06,120 I, I think that, you know, in terms of innovation and how they 1837 01:29:06,120 --> 01:29:08,120 would spread things out the run and shoot offense. 1838 01:29:08,560 --> 01:29:11,280 I think they changed the outfit that you, the oil Oilers a 1839 01:29:11,280 --> 01:29:13,920 little bit. I can't really speak to the 1840 01:29:13,920 --> 01:29:16,320 hockey aspect of it. Baseball, that's really hard to 1841 01:29:16,320 --> 01:29:19,080 change. Maybe you want to look at who 1842 01:29:19,080 --> 01:29:22,000 really leaned on analytics first, which is pretty much 1843 01:29:22,000 --> 01:29:23,840 thought to be somebody like Tony Larussa. 1844 01:29:24,200 --> 01:29:27,840 But I think even that that's a stretch to to say and and and by 1845 01:29:27,840 --> 01:29:32,120 the way, so did so did Buck Showalter very reliant on the 1846 01:29:32,120 --> 01:29:34,800 binder and eventually as an extension of that, the numbers. 1847 01:29:34,800 --> 01:29:39,040 But I think, you know, as as I think about this out loud, you 1848 01:29:39,040 --> 01:29:44,000 know who who changed sport the most at the professional level. 1849 01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:46,960 I would even say that Walsh changed it more than Parcells, 1850 01:29:47,400 --> 01:29:51,520 who to me is the greatest coach I ever saw, changed it more than 1851 01:29:51,520 --> 01:29:53,480 Lombardi. I know that they had that one 1852 01:29:53,480 --> 01:29:55,000 running play that nobody could stop. 1853 01:29:55,000 --> 01:29:57,880 I get it. But, you know, no free agency. 1854 01:29:57,880 --> 01:29:59,200 The league was a little bit different. 1855 01:29:59,200 --> 01:30:01,280 Not trying to discredit Lombardi, but I think that that 1856 01:30:01,280 --> 01:30:06,440 matters. Belichick didn't change the NFL. 1857 01:30:06,880 --> 01:30:10,840 Yeah, I I think that he's the greatest offensive innovator. 1858 01:30:10,840 --> 01:30:15,960 Pioneer mind that the game's ever seen and you know he's 1859 01:30:15,960 --> 01:30:18,680 never been recognized on that level so I don't really think 1860 01:30:18,680 --> 01:30:20,560 Tom Brady should be recognized on that level but it's 1861 01:30:20,560 --> 01:30:22,240 interesting. That's interesting. 1862 01:30:22,560 --> 01:30:24,000 All right, Jay. What else do we have here today 1863 01:30:24,000 --> 01:30:26,160 Anything else, buddy? What do we got got our friend 1864 01:30:26,160 --> 01:30:31,840 STSTS in the house St. now I've heard that STS got some issues 1865 01:30:31,840 --> 01:30:36,000 with me checking in from London about my takes on the the 1866 01:30:36,000 --> 01:30:38,840 gluttony of the NFL with all these international games. 1867 01:30:38,840 --> 01:30:40,400 What's up man? We OK? 1868 01:30:40,400 --> 01:30:42,200 What's going? Yeah, I'm all good, brother. 1869 01:30:42,200 --> 01:30:43,360 How are you? I'm good. 1870 01:30:43,360 --> 01:30:44,800 No, I'm making sure you and I are OK. 1871 01:30:44,800 --> 01:30:46,240 We OK? We're good, right buddy? 1872 01:30:46,800 --> 01:30:49,920 Like, like I said this, I didn't want to debate you. 1873 01:30:50,080 --> 01:30:53,840 I just wanted to try to convince you and other people to kind of 1874 01:30:53,840 --> 01:30:56,480 look at it from a different lens. 1875 01:30:56,520 --> 01:31:00,760 And I know, I know that you got a move calls, but I'll try my 1876 01:31:00,760 --> 01:31:05,520 best because I listened to the snippet, the clip about five 1877 01:31:05,520 --> 01:31:07,680 times just to make sure I heard everything clear. 1878 01:31:07,680 --> 01:31:10,040 And you made a lot of valid points. 1879 01:31:10,040 --> 01:31:13,360 Just let me put that there. I think the best the genesis of 1880 01:31:13,360 --> 01:31:16,840 this conversation between us. BT I think I would say this is 1881 01:31:16,840 --> 01:31:18,640 very simple. You mentioned earlier in the 1882 01:31:18,640 --> 01:31:20,920 show that the NFL is quite niche. 1883 01:31:20,960 --> 01:31:22,760 My friend, that is niche no more. 1884 01:31:22,760 --> 01:31:27,360 Apart from you know, ultra processed fast food which we all 1885 01:31:27,360 --> 01:31:30,920 look, know and love. The NFL is the United States 1886 01:31:31,160 --> 01:31:37,000 greatest export and there's a reason why the NFL is the most 1887 01:31:37,360 --> 01:31:41,200 money making sports league on the planet even though it is not 1888 01:31:41,640 --> 01:31:47,280 globally consumed. You, you people ask why it costs 1889 01:31:47,360 --> 01:31:51,520 up in excess of seven to 10 million for a slot on the Super 1890 01:31:51,520 --> 01:31:53,080 Bowl. There's your there's your answer 1891 01:31:53,080 --> 01:31:53,520 why. Yep. 1892 01:31:53,840 --> 01:31:56,720 And I, and I just want to give you kind of a bit of insight 1893 01:31:56,720 --> 01:32:03,320 Like I've, I've, I've basically gone to damn near as much as I 1894 01:32:03,320 --> 01:32:05,920 can every NFL game in London. I know you love the London 1895 01:32:05,920 --> 01:32:06,560 Games. I do. 1896 01:32:07,280 --> 01:32:08,800 I do. Props you for that, I do. 1897 01:32:08,800 --> 01:32:10,040 But what? But what? 1898 01:32:10,160 --> 01:32:12,200 What? What you don't see or what you 1899 01:32:12,200 --> 01:32:16,120 may see is that you know, the the type of people that are 1900 01:32:16,120 --> 01:32:18,040 coming there. We're talking about people from 1901 01:32:18,080 --> 01:32:21,720 all over the continent. I've I've had plenty of beers 1902 01:32:21,720 --> 01:32:26,240 and conversations with people from Hungary, with people from 1903 01:32:26,280 --> 01:32:30,360 Deutschland, with people from even Italians are coming over 1904 01:32:30,560 --> 01:32:33,520 here like wanting to consume the NFL. 1905 01:32:33,560 --> 01:32:38,040 And, you know, the demand is so big that, you know, Goodell and 1906 01:32:38,280 --> 01:32:40,480 the powers that be had to rise above that. 1907 01:32:40,480 --> 01:32:43,640 I mean, people travel all over the world to see the NFL. 1908 01:32:43,680 --> 01:32:46,400 And the what's what's special about it is that you get the 1909 01:32:46,400 --> 01:32:50,400 diehards, that not everyone has the disposable income as you had 1910 01:32:50,400 --> 01:32:55,160 mentioned in your clip. But like, you know, some diehard 1911 01:32:55,160 --> 01:32:59,680 Steelers fans are going to flood Paris this year. 1912 01:32:59,960 --> 01:33:01,960 And the Marines are? Going to love it. 1913 01:33:01,960 --> 01:33:04,440 But you know. I I met, I met this older 1914 01:33:04,440 --> 01:33:07,600 couple. It was years ago when, you know, 1915 01:33:08,160 --> 01:33:10,640 you mentioned rivalry games, when it was The Jets, Dolphins 1916 01:33:10,640 --> 01:33:13,640 at Wembley, and we won. I remember they they, they, they 1917 01:33:13,680 --> 01:33:16,280 were like, yeah, Fitzpatrick went off. 1918 01:33:16,480 --> 01:33:17,200 Yeah. Yeah. 1919 01:33:17,800 --> 01:33:19,720 He's great. But they were, they were saying 1920 01:33:19,720 --> 01:33:21,120 to me, they're like. Oh, you know. 1921 01:33:21,520 --> 01:33:24,400 This was just another excuse for us to come to London and da da, 1922 01:33:24,400 --> 01:33:26,960 da, da, I was. It just brought like smiles to 1923 01:33:26,960 --> 01:33:28,960 my face. And they, what's his name? 1924 01:33:28,960 --> 01:33:32,840 Ryan Reinhard was his name from where is he from? 1925 01:33:32,840 --> 01:33:36,640 Frankfurt. The man just loves NFL and 1926 01:33:36,640 --> 01:33:40,640 that's why it is continued to go on and go further. 1927 01:33:40,640 --> 01:33:43,040 And you, you know, you mentioned they are greedy. 1928 01:33:43,040 --> 01:33:46,600 Like listen, we don't even have to talk about the money issue we 1929 01:33:46,600 --> 01:33:47,440 get. That's a given. 1930 01:33:47,480 --> 01:33:49,520 We all know. Yeah, we, we get it just as you 1931 01:33:49,520 --> 01:33:53,400 said my friend, but it's like, you know, I, I think about the, 1932 01:33:54,880 --> 01:33:57,960 the people, you know, that consume this sport a lot like 1933 01:33:58,120 --> 01:34:02,320 Sky Sports over here we have Dominican Sue is one of our main 1934 01:34:02,320 --> 01:34:04,720 broadcasters, Jason Bell over here. 1935 01:34:04,720 --> 01:34:07,840 These guys are getting paid to talk about the games that they 1936 01:34:07,840 --> 01:34:10,720 televised. But diehards like me have NFL 1937 01:34:10,720 --> 01:34:13,320 game Pass, so I got 4 screens on at the same time. 1938 01:34:13,640 --> 01:34:16,400 And of course, as you know, the NFL season never ends so I'm 1939 01:34:16,400 --> 01:34:19,760 always watching G Good morning football, so on and so forth. 1940 01:34:19,760 --> 01:34:22,800 I think what's, what's interesting about the Australia 1941 01:34:22,800 --> 01:34:26,320 game for me is that there are lots of Kiwis, you know, the All 1942 01:34:26,320 --> 01:34:30,880 Blacks, the rugby, they are like the most successful sport team 1943 01:34:30,880 --> 01:34:34,680 in history. They absolutely love the NFL. 1944 01:34:34,680 --> 01:34:37,600 And it's just a hop, skip and a jump for them to go consume that 1945 01:34:37,600 --> 01:34:41,000 in Australia. And I, I, I, it warms my heart 1946 01:34:41,000 --> 01:34:45,360 personally because it is literally my favorite sport. 1947 01:34:46,160 --> 01:34:48,920 I live, sleep, eat and breathe the NFL. 1948 01:34:49,240 --> 01:34:52,000 And to see it being embraced while, you know, when I first 1949 01:34:52,000 --> 01:34:55,280 moved to London, everyone's like, oh, egg ball, yeah. 1950 01:34:55,440 --> 01:34:56,400 Yeah, yeah. You know. 1951 01:34:56,400 --> 01:34:58,840 Every, everybody, every. It shouldn't be called football, 1952 01:34:58,840 --> 01:35:03,160 should be called egg ball. But now that everybody is just 1953 01:35:03,160 --> 01:35:06,120 loving it, I mean, you know, you go to Texas all the time with 1954 01:35:06,120 --> 01:35:09,440 your father-in-law. The the day FA game in Mexico, 1955 01:35:09,720 --> 01:35:12,600 in Mexico makes absolute sense because that is cowboy nation. 1956 01:35:13,120 --> 01:35:15,240 No, it is it is. They can't get enough of them 1957 01:35:15,240 --> 01:35:16,440 boys. So Yep, Yep. 1958 01:35:16,520 --> 01:35:18,440 Oh, let me just say one thing. It's SD all ahead, please. 1959 01:35:18,760 --> 01:35:20,520 Yeah, I talked a lot. No, no, it's all good. 1960 01:35:20,520 --> 01:35:22,440 The salient points. And I'm with you, obviously the 1961 01:35:22,440 --> 01:35:25,120 economic growth, all that stuff. And I wrote this down and you 1962 01:35:25,120 --> 01:35:26,840 said it pretty early. So I want, I wanted to be able 1963 01:35:26,840 --> 01:35:29,920 to get back because you said that the demand was there. 1964 01:35:30,240 --> 01:35:33,960 Well, when you say that I, the response has been there, I would 1965 01:35:33,960 --> 01:35:36,360 challenge you and say I don't think that the demand was 1966 01:35:36,360 --> 01:35:40,600 necessarily there because that means or you and you would be 1967 01:35:40,600 --> 01:35:45,360 insinuating that people were clamoring in Australia or Rio de 1968 01:35:45,360 --> 01:35:47,960 Janeiro or Paris. We want foot. 1969 01:35:47,960 --> 01:35:51,800 No, I think the NFL just took it, brought it there and they 1970 01:35:51,800 --> 01:35:54,600 have been receptive to it. But I don't saying that they 1971 01:35:54,600 --> 01:35:56,080 were screaming and begging for it. 1972 01:35:56,080 --> 01:35:58,440 So the demand, I wouldn't use the word demand. 1973 01:35:58,680 --> 01:36:02,040 I would it just myself. That's just my opinion. 1974 01:36:02,520 --> 01:36:04,240 You know what? And that makes sense. 1975 01:36:04,280 --> 01:36:07,880 And actually, there's no way I can prove that having heard you. 1976 01:36:07,880 --> 01:36:11,880 But don't you believe, because I know that Game Pass is 1977 01:36:11,880 --> 01:36:14,880 accessible in all of these countries in their currency, 1978 01:36:14,880 --> 01:36:18,240 Don't you think there's some metrics and analytics at the NFL 1979 01:36:18,240 --> 01:36:21,880 had kind of deeped over and say, right, these IP addresses are 1980 01:36:21,920 --> 01:36:23,640 consuming lots and lots of football? 1981 01:36:23,720 --> 01:36:26,320 To an extent, yeah. Yeah, to an extent. 1982 01:36:26,320 --> 01:36:27,040 I mean, that's. I agree. 1983 01:36:27,200 --> 01:36:28,760 I agree with you. I agree with you. 1984 01:36:28,760 --> 01:36:30,200 I just wanted to kind of push back. 1985 01:36:30,240 --> 01:36:33,040 On that I got you. And I think, I think when I say 1986 01:36:33,040 --> 01:36:36,440 demand, even though it might be the wrong word to use, it's only 1987 01:36:36,440 --> 01:36:39,600 based off of what I see when I see people from different 1988 01:36:39,600 --> 01:36:44,200 countries literally flocking to the NFL just to see games, You 1989 01:36:44,200 --> 01:36:47,720 know, when it wasn't 9 games, when it was only three and we 1990 01:36:47,840 --> 01:36:51,200 had all three of them. London, when I saw that, it was 1991 01:36:51,200 --> 01:36:53,480 just like, these guys get it, man. 1992 01:36:53,760 --> 01:36:57,880 It's like they get it, you know? And because you know, people not 1993 01:36:57,920 --> 01:37:01,400 not a lot of people are consuming baseball, I believe 1994 01:37:01,400 --> 01:37:07,120 say in Greece, but they are the NFL baseball over here in the UK 1995 01:37:07,120 --> 01:37:09,280 is actually getting is on the rise. 1996 01:37:09,320 --> 01:37:10,560 And I know it is. And I know. 1997 01:37:10,640 --> 01:37:13,160 And I, and I wish, you know, you talk about rivalry games. 1998 01:37:13,160 --> 01:37:16,480 Guess who was at London Stadium watching the Sox and the 1999 01:37:16,520 --> 01:37:17,600 Yankees? Oh, you went to that? 2000 01:37:17,600 --> 01:37:22,280 You know, yeah, and, and and the Cardinals and the Cubs, yeah, 2001 01:37:22,280 --> 01:37:24,680 man, those, I wish they would bring them back. 2002 01:37:24,680 --> 01:37:25,880 Almost. But I and the Mets and the 2003 01:37:25,880 --> 01:37:26,880 Phillies didn't. The Mets and the. 2004 01:37:26,880 --> 01:37:28,480 Phillies go out there as well. They did. 2005 01:37:28,560 --> 01:37:30,080 Yeah, you're right. Yeah, you're right. 2006 01:37:30,120 --> 01:37:34,120 Yeah, absolutely right. And I and you know, like the the 2007 01:37:34,120 --> 01:37:36,760 other thing is you know this guy, you might not know him 2008 01:37:36,920 --> 01:37:38,120 anyway. He plays for Wells. 2009 01:37:38,120 --> 01:37:41,840 He's a winger, Luis Reed Zammit. He loves the NFL. 2010 01:37:42,000 --> 01:37:45,600 He actually left, quit his international career and quit 2011 01:37:45,600 --> 01:37:49,240 his IT and quit his club career over in the Rugby Premiership, 2012 01:37:49,240 --> 01:37:51,840 the Gallagher Premiership over here to actually go to the 2013 01:37:51,840 --> 01:37:54,760 combine in the. NFL, I didn't know that yeah, 2014 01:37:54,760 --> 01:37:57,680 yeah, he got. He got signed, the Chiefs tried 2015 01:37:57,680 --> 01:38:03,200 to deploy him as AI, think was it wide out first, No running 2016 01:38:03,200 --> 01:38:05,040 back first because he's a winger. 2017 01:38:05,040 --> 01:38:06,880 So he's really, really slippery and fast. 2018 01:38:06,880 --> 01:38:08,840 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then they used him on special 2019 01:38:08,840 --> 01:38:10,360 teams, but then they cut him in the end. 2020 01:38:10,720 --> 01:38:14,840 I mean, obviously you would know that rugby and NFL football are 2021 01:38:14,840 --> 01:38:18,960 two different sports, but it just for for for an absolute 2022 01:38:19,080 --> 01:38:24,200 blazing young kid like this Zanet to like just fob off his 2023 01:38:24,200 --> 01:38:28,480 career in rugby to go chase his dream of playing in the NFL. 2024 01:38:28,880 --> 01:38:30,920 That's got to get. That's got to say something. 2025 01:38:30,920 --> 01:38:32,000 It does. It does. 2026 01:38:32,000 --> 01:38:34,640 But again and NST good call man. I'll check in. 2027 01:38:34,640 --> 01:38:36,120 Check back in. Good call. 2028 01:38:36,120 --> 01:38:38,520 Good things to chew on. I like the counterpoints. 2029 01:38:38,800 --> 01:38:41,080 We agree on a lot of the stuff, but I'm I'm happy you made the 2030 01:38:41,080 --> 01:38:42,960 call. Yeah, it's not about thank you 2031 01:38:42,960 --> 01:38:44,800 for doing that. It's not about the viability. 2032 01:38:45,080 --> 01:38:46,480 Those are two very different things. 2033 01:38:46,480 --> 01:38:49,800 When when I talked about this the other day, it's me pushing 2034 01:38:49,800 --> 01:38:55,440 back on how American fans are in my opinion, being penalized, not 2035 01:38:55,440 --> 01:38:59,880 that it's not working overseas and the globalization of the 2036 01:38:59,880 --> 01:39:03,520 game is a waste of time and it's not good and they're not making 2037 01:39:03,520 --> 01:39:08,160 money And you know in 1520 years even less that residually don't 2038 01:39:08,200 --> 01:39:11,680 they won't read the rewards of you know this early plan that 2039 01:39:11,680 --> 01:39:13,880 they've hatched to expand the game globally. 2040 01:39:14,120 --> 01:39:16,720 All those things are happening. I understand that that's very 2041 01:39:16,720 --> 01:39:21,680 easy basic stuff to comprehend. This goes back to, I guess, 2042 01:39:21,720 --> 01:39:24,280 what's the limit, man? Like, what's the limit? 2043 01:39:24,320 --> 01:39:29,480 And to me, when you take a game away from Lambeau Field or, you 2044 01:39:29,480 --> 01:39:36,280 know, Cowboy Stadium or Heinz Field or Arrowhead or some of 2045 01:39:36,280 --> 01:39:38,640 these, I mean, listen, you can take them from MetLife all you 2046 01:39:38,640 --> 01:39:41,800 want, but I mean, like some of the real good venues and great, 2047 01:39:41,880 --> 01:39:44,960 you know, fabled fan bases in the NFL. 2048 01:39:45,280 --> 01:39:47,400 To me now, you do what a disservice to the people who 2049 01:39:47,400 --> 01:39:49,640 built the league. And that that's all I'm saying. 2050 01:39:49,960 --> 01:39:51,760 And you know, I did this the other day, right? 2051 01:39:52,040 --> 01:39:55,080 The growth is it's impressive for sure. 2052 01:39:55,440 --> 01:39:57,720 And the response has been impressive for sure. 2053 01:39:58,280 --> 01:40:00,720 But I just wonder what the limit is because when they when they 2054 01:40:00,720 --> 01:40:03,640 broached the concept, this came up in the early 2000s where they 2055 01:40:03,640 --> 01:40:06,000 were thinking about this. And the first time they did this 2056 01:40:06,000 --> 01:40:08,400 was in 2005. They had one game and it was 2057 01:40:08,400 --> 01:40:10,680 obviously in London. And I'm like, oh, that's, that's 2058 01:40:10,680 --> 01:40:13,280 unique, that's cool, that's appealing. 6 hours from New 2059 01:40:13,280 --> 01:40:15,080 York. All right, logistically makes 2060 01:40:15,080 --> 01:40:15,800 sense. All right. 2061 01:40:16,040 --> 01:40:18,040 I like it. Football early on a Sunday, I'll 2062 01:40:18,040 --> 01:40:19,960 take it once in a while. Then the next year. 2063 01:40:19,960 --> 01:40:21,720 And I don't know the reason why there were none. 2064 01:40:22,080 --> 01:40:25,280 And then, you know, they were still very conservative in 2007. 2065 01:40:25,280 --> 01:40:31,080 They had won and then for the next 5 years, it was 208-0910, 2066 01:40:31,080 --> 01:40:35,040 eleven and 1222222. And again, they were just kind 2067 01:40:35,040 --> 01:40:37,800 of sticking their toe in it, you know, throwing a line out there, 2068 01:40:37,800 --> 01:40:41,160 seeing if you get a nibble, early stages, early phase of 2069 01:40:41,160 --> 01:40:43,520 rolling this out. And then they started to all 2070 01:40:43,520 --> 01:40:44,760 right, hey, listen, this is gone. 2071 01:40:44,760 --> 01:40:49,440 Well, let's try another one. And then in 2013 and 2014, they 2072 01:40:49,440 --> 01:40:52,320 had three international games. And guess what? 2073 01:40:52,400 --> 01:40:55,160 And 2015. So they had three straight years 2074 01:40:55,400 --> 01:40:57,360 where they went from 2:00 to 3:00. 2075 01:40:57,720 --> 01:41:00,160 Then what do you know? I mean, now it's like, hey, 2076 01:41:00,360 --> 01:41:03,600 let's push it to four, which is what they did in 2014. 2077 01:41:03,600 --> 01:41:05,360 But now we got four games, all right? 2078 01:41:05,360 --> 01:41:08,400 Now it's a little nuts here, in my opinion. 2079 01:41:08,720 --> 01:41:12,840 And then in 2017, they had five. And now it's like really a 2080 01:41:12,840 --> 01:41:15,360 little cavalier in my opinion. Again, not everybody shares that 2081 01:41:15,360 --> 01:41:17,640 opinion, but that's fine. And then for whatever reason, 2082 01:41:17,640 --> 01:41:20,840 they they regressed, they went back to three, then COVID hit. 2083 01:41:21,120 --> 01:41:24,480 Then they had, you know, a soft relaunch, if you will, where in 2084 01:41:24,480 --> 01:41:28,360 2021 they had two international games and then right away it 2085 01:41:28,360 --> 01:41:31,600 went to four. And then it's 2023 and 2024 went 2086 01:41:31,600 --> 01:41:35,760 to five and then it went to seven and now it's up to 9. 2087 01:41:36,000 --> 01:41:40,240 So my question is my only contention, my only problem with 2088 01:41:40,240 --> 01:41:44,240 this, you know, SD is not the economic viability or the growth 2089 01:41:44,240 --> 01:41:48,040 of the game, but at what point are the American consumers, 2090 01:41:48,040 --> 01:41:52,000 those who helped really truly build the sport, being penalized 2091 01:41:52,000 --> 01:41:56,160 to a point where it's unfair? And I believe we're crossing 2092 01:41:56,160 --> 01:42:00,240 that boundary when the Chiefs lose the home game or, you know, 2093 01:42:00,240 --> 01:42:02,920 you had the Eagles and the Packers playing Brazil. 2094 01:42:02,920 --> 01:42:06,080 I mean, come on. I mean, and then we're hold on. 2095 01:42:06,080 --> 01:42:07,600 And some of these other games, too. 2096 01:42:07,920 --> 01:42:10,320 The problem is that some of these other games are going to 2097 01:42:10,320 --> 01:42:15,120 really, you know, in large part, you know, determine, you know, 2098 01:42:15,400 --> 01:42:17,360 divisional supremacy. Where the hell is that? 2099 01:42:17,360 --> 01:42:18,440 I got so many. No, I can't find it. 2100 01:42:18,560 --> 01:42:23,200 But from the other day, you know, if you want to put like an 2101 01:42:23,200 --> 01:42:25,720 obscure match up out there just to kind of all right, you give 2102 01:42:25,720 --> 01:42:28,600 them something. Not that the fans of the teams 2103 01:42:28,600 --> 01:42:30,520 that don't matter wouldn't be pissed off. 2104 01:42:30,520 --> 01:42:33,200 They would. But you don't have to send them 2105 01:42:33,200 --> 01:42:38,520 like Chiefs, Chargers or, you know, Chargers, Raiders or 2106 01:42:38,720 --> 01:42:43,040 Niners Seattle or Niners, Rams, Niners, Rams going out to 2107 01:42:43,040 --> 01:42:46,080 Australia, right? Week one, Week 1, they've got to 2108 01:42:46,080 --> 01:42:50,480 go to or think about the logistical impact flying out and 2109 01:42:50,480 --> 01:42:52,800 the Niners based on their schedule and and what they've 2110 01:42:52,800 --> 01:42:55,480 got to do this year. Like the mileage count is just, 2111 01:42:55,840 --> 01:42:57,280 I don't think it's healthy on the body. 2112 01:42:57,280 --> 01:43:00,520 I mean, that's not really my concern, but it's an aspect of 2113 01:43:00,520 --> 01:43:02,440 it that they don't consider because they don't care. 2114 01:43:02,680 --> 01:43:06,080 That's why there's now 17 games and then they'll be 18 and 2115 01:43:06,080 --> 01:43:07,520 before you know what, there will be 20. 2116 01:43:07,880 --> 01:43:10,640 So this is me just just checking the NFL little bit. 2117 01:43:10,640 --> 01:43:12,000 You guys don't have to accept it. 2118 01:43:12,200 --> 01:43:14,960 You don't have to agree. I'm not trying to shove it down 2119 01:43:14,960 --> 01:43:17,000 your throat. All I'm merely doing is 2120 01:43:17,000 --> 01:43:19,400 illuminating. Understand what's happening to 2121 01:43:19,400 --> 01:43:22,280 you year by year by year by year. 2122 01:43:22,280 --> 01:43:25,080 Take a little more, take a little more, take a little more, 2123 01:43:25,080 --> 01:43:27,920 take a little more. And you're going to look up at 2124 01:43:27,920 --> 01:43:31,640 some point and it's really going to be barely recognizable. 2125 01:43:31,640 --> 01:43:34,320 It's going to be a shell of what it once was. 2126 01:43:34,560 --> 01:43:36,360 And if you're OK with that, that's fine. 2127 01:43:36,800 --> 01:43:39,080 I'm not here to convert you now. You do what you want. 2128 01:43:39,680 --> 01:43:40,880 I'm just telling you I don't like it. 2129 01:43:41,600 --> 01:43:43,760 I really don't. I really don't like it. 2130 01:43:44,560 --> 01:43:47,480 You know, if like are we going to get to a point now, 2131 01:43:47,480 --> 01:43:51,400 eventually my Jets will be competent and as you know, I 2132 01:43:51,400 --> 01:43:53,320 think they'll be a little bit more competitive this year. 2133 01:43:53,840 --> 01:43:55,520 They better win that first game against the Titans. 2134 01:43:55,520 --> 01:43:57,920 If they if you don't beat Robert Sala and Tennessee, who's not 2135 01:43:57,920 --> 01:44:00,800 going to be very good this year. I don't think that's going to be 2136 01:44:00,800 --> 01:44:02,120 a rough tone for the season, man. 2137 01:44:02,120 --> 01:44:05,600 But either way, like eventually The Jets will be good. 2138 01:44:06,440 --> 01:44:09,640 I mean, if The Jets were like really good now, like they if, 2139 01:44:09,640 --> 01:44:13,640 say, if they were the Bills and The Jets were playing the Bills 2140 01:44:13,640 --> 01:44:19,040 or the Pats or another really good AFC team, the Ravens, 2141 01:44:19,040 --> 01:44:25,320 somebody like that in Australia or in Greece or in Paris, I 2142 01:44:25,320 --> 01:44:28,680 mean, I would be incensed. Like this is tame right now. 2143 01:44:29,240 --> 01:44:32,840 I'm just trying to be the good guy protecting you, the American 2144 01:44:32,840 --> 01:44:36,480 football fan, while also seeing the global benefits. 2145 01:44:36,760 --> 01:44:42,240 But if this intimate when this intimately impacts me and I know 2146 01:44:42,240 --> 01:44:44,520 they played the Dolphins overseas and the Falcon, like I 2147 01:44:44,520 --> 01:44:47,320 know they've gone overseas, obviously, but they've been so 2148 01:44:47,320 --> 01:44:49,720 bad it hasn't mattered. You know, there's going to be a 2149 01:44:49,720 --> 01:44:52,680 year where The Jets have finally had their franchise quarterback 2150 01:44:53,040 --> 01:44:55,560 and are messing around and winning 1213 games and have a 2151 01:44:55,560 --> 01:44:59,960 chance to get to the Super Bowl. And if one of those games is Jit 2152 01:44:59,960 --> 01:45:04,920 Ho, 15 hours away, 6000 miles away, whatever it is, and just 2153 01:45:04,920 --> 01:45:08,160 throwing numbers out, I'm going to be pissed because it's going 2154 01:45:08,160 --> 01:45:10,040 to be a competitive disadvantage. 2155 01:45:10,400 --> 01:45:13,040 That's all. So I'm just separating the the 2156 01:45:13,040 --> 01:45:16,760 epic, the economic viability, which everybody can understand 2157 01:45:16,760 --> 01:45:19,800 because it's pure irrefutable mathematical data. 2158 01:45:20,240 --> 01:45:23,560 And in the other hand, I'm just like, yo, understand what 2159 01:45:23,560 --> 01:45:27,440 they're doing. Understand 7's going to be 9, 2160 01:45:28,160 --> 01:45:31,600 which it is, 9's going to be 1111's, going to be 15. 2161 01:45:31,880 --> 01:45:34,960 And then before you know it, there will be expansion and 2162 01:45:34,960 --> 01:45:38,240 there will be multiple non American teams. 2163 01:45:38,240 --> 01:45:41,320 And if you're OK with that, great, that's fine. 2164 01:45:42,800 --> 01:45:45,720 If you're OK with an international Super Bowl, fine. 2165 01:45:46,360 --> 01:45:49,320 You have more limits than me. I don't want to see that. 2166 01:45:49,320 --> 01:45:53,440 And I mean Jay. Straight up. 2167 01:45:54,200 --> 01:45:56,600 Straight up. We've got a couple more calls. 2168 01:45:56,760 --> 01:45:57,960 All right, let's get them up real quick. 2169 01:45:57,960 --> 01:45:59,560 I got a couple things. I got to take the kids to the 2170 01:45:59,560 --> 01:46:02,600 orthodontist today. Oh, I see no fun. 2171 01:46:04,680 --> 01:46:09,320 Yeah, let's get the calls, man. Yeah, toss it in. 2172 01:46:09,440 --> 01:46:11,800 And then they just got to. Toss it up, Toss it in. 2173 01:46:11,880 --> 01:46:13,520 Let me begin. Yep. 2174 01:46:13,520 --> 01:46:15,560 Who do we? Got We've got Charlie from Pearl 2175 01:46:15,560 --> 01:46:18,680 River, NY. Charlie and Pearl River, home of 2176 01:46:18,680 --> 01:46:21,040 the the Irish police officer right there. 2177 01:46:21,040 --> 01:46:24,440 Charlie, what's going on, man? How you doing, BT Great show. 2178 01:46:26,600 --> 01:46:29,280 Just wanted to say yeah, I was just listening to you talk about 2179 01:46:29,280 --> 01:46:32,080 the NFL going overseas and whatnot. 2180 01:46:32,080 --> 01:46:34,880 What do you I just wanted to ask what do you think the the 2181 01:46:34,920 --> 01:46:37,280 ultimate end goal is for the NFL? 2182 01:46:37,280 --> 01:46:39,640 Is it to is it to add teams overseas? 2183 01:46:39,640 --> 01:46:43,120 I know like the Jaguars, the Jaguar owner wanted to, you 2184 01:46:43,120 --> 01:46:44,240 know, was. Shot Khan. 2185 01:46:44,800 --> 01:46:47,640 Yes, I heard, you know, he's very interested in going to 2186 01:46:47,640 --> 01:46:49,160 London. Yes, absolutely. 2187 01:46:49,160 --> 01:46:52,920 And do they plan on doing that? And like you said, it's, you 2188 01:46:52,920 --> 01:46:56,960 know, right now with the way travel is and everything, and I 2189 01:46:56,960 --> 01:46:59,760 mean, that seems to be like a big disadvantage some for 2190 01:46:59,760 --> 01:47:01,640 certain teams. Well, think about this Charlie 2191 01:47:01,640 --> 01:47:02,520 and I'll let you finish. So. 2192 01:47:02,600 --> 01:47:04,840 So there is a disadvantage. What do I think my ultimate for? 2193 01:47:04,840 --> 01:47:06,800 A couple things here. What do I think the ultimate 2194 01:47:06,800 --> 01:47:08,760 goal of the NFL? I at this point, I think their 2195 01:47:08,760 --> 01:47:10,600 ultimate goal is to play a game on Mars. 2196 01:47:10,840 --> 01:47:15,200 That's what I'm starting to think #1 #2 like the travel and 2197 01:47:15,200 --> 01:47:18,440 the logistics, which is a competitive disadvantage is one 2198 01:47:18,440 --> 01:47:21,040 thing for whatever teams have. And the Jaguars will be 1. 2199 01:47:21,400 --> 01:47:24,960 I think that eventually, you know, move off American soil. 2200 01:47:25,320 --> 01:47:27,920 But what about the disadvantage in terms of attracting free 2201 01:47:27,920 --> 01:47:31,240 agents? Like, think about that now, you 2202 01:47:31,240 --> 01:47:34,560 might say some people might think it's glamorous, like, but 2203 01:47:34,560 --> 01:47:37,880 if, if I was born and raised, you know, where I was born and 2204 01:47:37,880 --> 01:47:40,320 raised and I was in the NFL, whether I was playing for The 2205 01:47:40,320 --> 01:47:43,960 Jets, the Giants or the Chiefs or the Raiders or or the Rams, 2206 01:47:44,480 --> 01:47:46,360 I, I think I'd want to stay in the United States. 2207 01:47:46,360 --> 01:47:49,120 I, I don't think that I would, you know, there's the kids 2208 01:47:49,120 --> 01:47:51,960 schools and there's just a lot to consider. 2209 01:47:52,280 --> 01:47:55,160 So I just think they're going to keep going and keep pushing. 2210 01:47:55,480 --> 01:47:58,520 I do think that there will be teams in, in Europe. 2211 01:47:58,960 --> 01:48:02,160 I do think there will be an international venue for a Super 2212 01:48:02,160 --> 01:48:03,800 Bowl. And I think that's just the 2213 01:48:03,800 --> 01:48:05,880 start of it. And I think other start of other 2214 01:48:05,880 --> 01:48:08,840 teams and other sports will start doing it more and we will 2215 01:48:08,840 --> 01:48:12,440 become ultimately desensitized to it where it becomes 2216 01:48:12,440 --> 01:48:14,800 normalized. So that's why I'm in the early 2217 01:48:14,800 --> 01:48:17,800 stages of pushing back just so people know where I stand. 2218 01:48:17,960 --> 01:48:20,120 But it's going to happen. Yeah, 100%. 2219 01:48:20,120 --> 01:48:22,200 I agree with you. And also just another thing too, 2220 01:48:22,200 --> 01:48:24,920 if they they expand to Europe, what about if they expand to 2221 01:48:24,920 --> 01:48:28,560 South America or Australia? I mean, now you're talking like, 2222 01:48:28,680 --> 01:48:30,760 you know, how, how could they possibly even do? 2223 01:48:30,760 --> 01:48:33,320 That I don't, I don't, I don't know that I mean to expand to 2224 01:48:33,320 --> 01:48:36,080 Australia. It seems to me while I guess 2225 01:48:36,080 --> 01:48:39,720 nothing's impossible with advancements in in travel. 2226 01:48:40,200 --> 01:48:41,920 I mean that seems incredibly far fetched. 2227 01:48:41,920 --> 01:48:43,960 But thanks for making the the call there, Charlie, but you 2228 01:48:43,960 --> 01:48:46,440 never know who knows what they're craft and appreciate it. 2229 01:48:46,440 --> 01:48:48,040 Who's up next there, Jay? Fire him up. 2230 01:48:48,040 --> 01:48:50,040 Buddy got our buddy. Benji. 2231 01:48:50,360 --> 01:48:55,080 Benji, Benji, What up, Benj? I think Benji, is your mic 2232 01:48:55,080 --> 01:48:58,000 muted? Sorry about that. 2233 01:48:58,000 --> 01:48:59,760 Hey BT, what's? Up, man. 2234 01:49:00,240 --> 01:49:02,480 Hey, I'm doing good, man. I think I spoke too soon on the 2235 01:49:02,480 --> 01:49:05,120 Yankee stuff with the Freed injury, but hopefully it's minor 2236 01:49:05,400 --> 01:49:06,480 and it's. Just I'm not too worried. 2237 01:49:06,800 --> 01:49:08,520 I'm not nothing yet, though today I'm not. 2238 01:49:08,600 --> 01:49:10,600 I'm not worried. I'm worried about the offense, 2239 01:49:10,800 --> 01:49:13,480 which is kind of gross to watch every day, but I'm not worried 2240 01:49:13,480 --> 01:49:16,120 about Freed. Yeah, even my kids know Jaycee 2241 01:49:16,120 --> 01:49:18,760 Ascara is kind of terrible. But yeah, I'm more worried about 2242 01:49:18,760 --> 01:49:20,960 Wells because he plays more. That's true. 2243 01:49:20,960 --> 01:49:24,160 He's been brutal this year. Well, he's got three home runs, 2244 01:49:24,160 --> 01:49:28,160 five RBI. He's terrible, but terrible on 2245 01:49:28,160 --> 01:49:32,360 our Knicks. So I what an amazing result last 2246 01:49:32,360 --> 01:49:34,880 night. Now if the Cavs can seal the 2247 01:49:34,880 --> 01:49:39,720 deal here and end this series on Friday, it it opens up so many 2248 01:49:39,720 --> 01:49:41,960 possibilities for me on a schedule level. 2249 01:49:42,280 --> 01:49:46,600 Like you, I'm a father. I've got 2 two boys it free it, 2250 01:49:46,640 --> 01:49:49,520 it just makes number one. I know I'll be there on Sunday, 2251 01:49:49,840 --> 01:49:51,880 which is glorious. So there's that's non 2252 01:49:51,880 --> 01:49:55,000 negotiable. And then #2 I'm heading out east 2253 01:49:55,640 --> 01:49:59,000 for Memorial Day, as I always do, to open up the summer. 2254 01:49:59,000 --> 01:50:03,000 And the Tuesday to Saturday break is glorious because it 2255 01:50:03,000 --> 01:50:05,400 creates no travel issues, no delays, and. 2256 01:50:05,400 --> 01:50:07,280 Well, what do you mean Tuesday to Saturday? 2257 01:50:07,280 --> 01:50:08,280 You're not off. You're not off. 2258 01:50:08,280 --> 01:50:10,040 Wednesday, Thursday. Oh, there are, yes. 2259 01:50:10,080 --> 01:50:11,400 That's true. I mean no. 2260 01:50:11,600 --> 01:50:13,800 You're right. That's the in, in, in both 2261 01:50:13,800 --> 01:50:15,040 possibilities here. Hold on. 2262 01:50:15,040 --> 01:50:16,480 I do have a screenshot. I wanted to. 2263 01:50:16,480 --> 01:50:18,040 I want to make sure we're buttoned up on this. 2264 01:50:18,040 --> 01:50:19,360 Hold on. I thought I sent it. 2265 01:50:19,360 --> 01:50:21,240 I had it somewhere. I had it last night. 2266 01:50:21,560 --> 01:50:25,080 I thought I sent it to myself. Here we go. 2267 01:50:25,720 --> 01:50:27,600 Thought I sent it to myself. Jared, did I sent it to you? 2268 01:50:28,440 --> 01:50:30,280 I, I had it. How did I send it? 2269 01:50:32,280 --> 01:50:35,080 Damn. Either way of the two scenarios, 2270 01:50:35,080 --> 01:50:38,480 because there's still 2 versions here, there's only one situation 2271 01:50:38,480 --> 01:50:40,480 where there would be and I don't like 3 days. 2272 01:50:40,480 --> 01:50:43,920 I know it seems to fit your schedule 3 days kind of getting 2273 01:50:43,920 --> 01:50:45,080 out of the flow a little bit there. 2274 01:50:45,080 --> 01:50:46,840 Give me the two days. Everything else is out. 2275 01:50:46,840 --> 01:50:48,960 It's one day, but then there would be the three days. 2276 01:50:48,960 --> 01:50:50,640 You're right. And one of the scenarios, yes, 2277 01:50:50,640 --> 01:50:52,120 it's. Perfect when when you're someone 2278 01:50:52,120 --> 01:50:55,320 like myself and it and it's and it's a whole journey in itself 2279 01:50:55,320 --> 01:50:58,520 just to get to watch the games. It that stuff is important. 2280 01:50:58,520 --> 01:51:02,200 But as far as the Cavs go, amazing match up for us. 2281 01:51:02,200 --> 01:51:04,640 I mean, look, we're gonna bludgeon whoever is in front of 2282 01:51:04,640 --> 01:51:07,120 us. But with the Cavs, I'm just not. 2283 01:51:07,120 --> 01:51:09,640 They never scare me. They scare me a little bit more 2284 01:51:09,640 --> 01:51:13,240 with Hardin versus Garland. But they they do have more 2285 01:51:13,240 --> 01:51:17,520 obviously offensive players that are that are that are worth 2286 01:51:17,520 --> 01:51:20,000 noting than Detroit, right? Detroit has nothing. 2287 01:51:21,080 --> 01:51:23,800 The Cavs have Struce that, you know, they have Merrill, they 2288 01:51:23,800 --> 01:51:25,240 have back. Struce from DePaul. 2289 01:51:25,240 --> 01:51:26,480 I remember watching him against St. 2290 01:51:26,480 --> 01:51:28,920 John's when he was at DePaul and and obviously with the Heat 2291 01:51:28,920 --> 01:51:31,200 before this team. But I'm like, this guy's an NBA 2292 01:51:31,200 --> 01:51:32,840 player. I remember he dropped 40 against 2293 01:51:32,840 --> 01:51:33,200 St. John's. 2294 01:51:33,200 --> 01:51:36,720 Like this guy's good. He say he saved the Cavs last 2295 01:51:36,720 --> 01:51:39,120 night and he makes key plays. As we know back in his Heat 2296 01:51:39,120 --> 01:51:43,080 days, he always tortured us. So, look, we're rolling, man. 2297 01:51:43,280 --> 01:51:47,000 It's an amazing matchup. The stars are aligning, all the 2298 01:51:47,000 --> 01:51:49,400 the Nick haters are getting their their scrapbooks out to 2299 01:51:49,400 --> 01:51:51,840 make the excuses. But whatever it is, we're going 2300 01:51:51,840 --> 01:51:53,240 to take care of business in front of us. 2301 01:51:53,400 --> 01:51:55,760 Now for Game 1. You know, my wife is for game 2302 01:51:55,760 --> 01:51:57,040 one. She's got the game ones. 2303 01:51:57,040 --> 01:52:00,720 She went to one of Atlanta, game one of of the Philly series, 2304 01:52:00,760 --> 01:52:02,720 both wins. I mean, she comes back for 2305 01:52:02,720 --> 01:52:04,160 Sunday, assuming they seal the deal. 2306 01:52:04,360 --> 01:52:10,600 Now, Tuesday, game 28P, likely an 8 PM 8:09 PM tip off. 2307 01:52:11,160 --> 01:52:17,360 I am summoning Brandon Tierney to join me here for a game two 2308 01:52:17,360 --> 01:52:18,520 of the Eastern Conference Finals. 2309 01:52:18,520 --> 01:52:20,560 Let's get this done. Oh my God, Bench. 2310 01:52:20,560 --> 01:52:23,480 Magical journey and let's roll. OK, here's what we're going to 2311 01:52:23,480 --> 01:52:25,000 do When you hang up, get your number. 2312 01:52:25,000 --> 01:52:26,760 First of all, give your phone number to J Rod. 2313 01:52:26,760 --> 01:52:27,400 Number one. Gotcha. 2314 01:52:27,440 --> 01:52:29,800 All right #2. Toss it in the private chat. 2315 01:52:30,200 --> 01:52:31,360 We're getting serious now. Yeah. 2316 01:52:31,360 --> 01:52:32,640 Don't put, don't chat it for the whole world. 2317 01:52:32,640 --> 01:52:34,560 Otherwise everybody's going to be knocking your door down, 2318 01:52:35,120 --> 01:52:36,600 trample me and they want to go with you. 2319 01:52:37,080 --> 01:52:38,240 Tuesday. What's the date on that? 2320 01:52:38,240 --> 01:52:40,160 I know what's coming up next. What's the exact date again? 2321 01:52:40,360 --> 01:52:44,920 It is May 19. It's either going to be a 7:00 2322 01:52:44,920 --> 01:52:47,680 PM or an 8:00 PM tip. Based on my experience, I think 2323 01:52:47,680 --> 01:52:51,680 it'll probably be 8:00 PM. Let's see, I'm looking at the 2324 01:52:51,680 --> 01:52:54,160 schedule. All right, practice. 2325 01:52:54,160 --> 01:52:58,280 This is all just for Tuesday. Practice, practice, basketball 2326 01:52:58,280 --> 01:53:01,160 game for my son. I'm not coaching that night, 2327 01:53:02,280 --> 01:53:04,800 that is. This might be happening dude. 2328 01:53:05,240 --> 01:53:07,120 This the cosmic might be happening. 2329 01:53:07,160 --> 01:53:09,960 Cosmic stars are aligning. All the Cavs have to do is win a 2330 01:53:09,960 --> 01:53:13,400 basketball game at home, get to the Eastern Conference finals, 2331 01:53:13,480 --> 01:53:15,920 and we're ready to get to the Finals ourselves and make this 2332 01:53:15,920 --> 01:53:18,040 magical journey continues. This is you. 2333 01:53:18,200 --> 01:53:19,880 You're the best man. Make sure you give him your 2334 01:53:19,880 --> 01:53:21,520 number and. Yeah, that number in the. 2335 01:53:22,160 --> 01:53:23,640 Chat got you. Yeah, not, not in the chat. 2336 01:53:23,640 --> 01:53:26,040 Not in the, not in the chat. Chat the private chat. 2337 01:53:26,160 --> 01:53:28,360 You know, private chat real quick. 2338 01:53:28,360 --> 01:53:29,840 Benj. And then you and I will hook up 2339 01:53:29,840 --> 01:53:31,080 all fair. He'll shoot me a number. 2340 01:53:31,080 --> 01:53:32,560 I'll shoot you mine. What? 2341 01:53:33,400 --> 01:53:36,560 Just give me an answer. Give me a number if if it's the 2342 01:53:36,560 --> 01:53:38,960 Cavs, Knicks win. In how many games in your 2343 01:53:38,960 --> 01:53:42,400 opinion fast go? I want to say 4 but I say 54. 2344 01:53:42,880 --> 01:53:47,440 Wow, if it's the Knicks, win in. I want to say 5, but it's going 2345 01:53:47,440 --> 01:53:48,560 to be 6. All right. 2346 01:53:48,560 --> 01:53:50,840 So you're a little more fearful, the Pistons, which I kind of 2347 01:53:50,840 --> 01:53:52,360 get. They're dirty. 2348 01:53:52,400 --> 01:53:54,200 They're dirty. Yeah, that's OK. 2349 01:53:54,200 --> 01:53:57,240 So we're dirty, too, man. Mitch could get in those weeds. 2350 01:53:57,240 --> 01:53:59,920 We can get a little dirty. Josh Hart, McHale Bridges, How's 2351 01:53:59,920 --> 01:54:01,840 that happened back to me? How's that feel there? 2352 01:54:01,840 --> 01:54:03,800 Indeed, we could be a little dirty as well. 2353 01:54:04,040 --> 01:54:06,280 But I hear you. They try to be dirty with my guy 2354 01:54:06,280 --> 01:54:08,760 cat and and get them frustrated, but that's not even going to 2355 01:54:08,760 --> 01:54:10,440 happen because the Cavs are going to close this out on 2356 01:54:10,440 --> 01:54:11,840 Friday and we're. Going to we just got to make 2357 01:54:11,840 --> 01:54:15,280 sure Cat gets back to not picking up all these fouls. 2358 01:54:15,280 --> 01:54:17,280 He's starting to go back into that routine and I'm not going 2359 01:54:17,280 --> 01:54:19,080 to start bagging on him because he's been great. 2360 01:54:19,080 --> 01:54:22,400 But I would like to see this trend end immediately. 2361 01:54:22,400 --> 01:54:24,040 Benji, I'll talk to you probably later. 2362 01:54:24,040 --> 01:54:25,120 I'll shoot you a text. All right. 2363 01:54:25,360 --> 01:54:27,400 Thanks BT appreciate it man. Thank you, man. 2364 01:54:27,520 --> 01:54:29,320 How awesome is that J Rod? What are you kidding? 2365 01:54:29,320 --> 01:54:30,960 Me. Come on now, get this. 2366 01:54:30,960 --> 01:54:32,360 Get this guy out of the ECFI used. 2367 01:54:33,080 --> 01:54:35,040 To go to Nick playoff games all the time with my dad. 2368 01:54:35,680 --> 01:54:39,560 Oh man, really? Yeah, Dang, yeah, I used to go. 2369 01:54:39,560 --> 01:54:41,840 We used to go. I mean, not just playoff games, 2370 01:54:41,840 --> 01:54:48,280 but I remember he'd always get tickets like, oh man, I would 2371 01:54:48,280 --> 01:54:52,840 say 5-6 games like December, January. 2372 01:54:53,400 --> 01:54:56,040 And I, I like remember seeing up on the little scoreboard at the 2373 01:54:56,040 --> 01:54:57,840 Garden. Like they would, I mean, it was 2374 01:54:58,120 --> 01:55:00,200 the older Garden. It was just like, you know, it 2375 01:55:00,200 --> 01:55:02,200 wasn't visually or aesthetically, you know, 2376 01:55:02,200 --> 01:55:04,600 beautiful like it is now, although back then it seemed 2377 01:55:04,600 --> 01:55:06,200 pretty futuristic. Either way, it would tell you 2378 01:55:06,200 --> 01:55:08,960 who's coming into town. Like, you know, Nick's warriors. 2379 01:55:08,960 --> 01:55:11,080 I'm like, oh, Mullins coming into town, you know, his only 2380 01:55:11,080 --> 01:55:13,960 trip here or Nick's Bulls. Oh, Dad, we got to get, we got 2381 01:55:13,960 --> 01:55:16,600 to go watch Jordan. You know, it's funny. 2382 01:55:16,600 --> 01:55:20,480 I, I used to go a lot and sometimes we had amazing seats. 2383 01:55:20,480 --> 01:55:22,800 We never had horrendous seats, but he always got pretty good 2384 01:55:22,800 --> 01:55:24,000 tickets. God bless him, man. 2385 01:55:24,400 --> 01:55:27,160 And I remember one time, I don't think I've ever told you the 2386 01:55:27,160 --> 01:55:28,360 story. I'm going to keep it short and 2387 01:55:28,360 --> 01:55:33,960 then I'm going to bounce. So Bill Cartwright, a big gangly 2388 01:55:34,880 --> 01:55:37,480 centre who was actually pretty good third overall pick out of 2389 01:55:37,480 --> 01:55:39,440 San Francisco back in the day for the Knicks, right? 2390 01:55:39,440 --> 01:55:43,080 Either way, and this is not him early, this is him right before 2391 01:55:43,080 --> 01:55:45,800 he was kind of dealt in that Oakley trade, Nick fans rolled 2392 01:55:45,800 --> 01:55:48,960 over him and his nickname was Medical Bill because he was 2393 01:55:48,960 --> 01:55:50,200 always hurt. Bill Carr. 2394 01:55:50,680 --> 01:55:52,120 Medical Bill was actually pretty witty. 2395 01:55:52,120 --> 01:55:53,840 I remember reading that in the papers when I was young. 2396 01:55:54,160 --> 01:55:57,800 So what I would do is like, and you could do this at the Garden 2397 01:55:57,800 --> 01:56:00,840 back in the day. You can't do it now because it's 2398 01:56:00,840 --> 01:56:03,080 just too much security. I, I would say I was probably 2399 01:56:03,080 --> 01:56:04,640 like 10-11. I'd say, Dad, I'm going to go 2400 01:56:04,640 --> 01:56:06,040 watch the layup line. I'll be right back. 2401 01:56:06,040 --> 01:56:07,160 He'd be like, yeah, go ahead, go ahead. 2402 01:56:07,160 --> 01:56:08,440 He didn't even worry about anything. 2403 01:56:08,840 --> 01:56:11,800 So I'd run down and I'd get pretty close to the court man. 2404 01:56:12,200 --> 01:56:15,760 And I remember like sometimes I get the occasional fist bump, 2405 01:56:15,760 --> 01:56:19,400 very rare once or twice. And then I I went back to the 2406 01:56:19,400 --> 01:56:23,280 seat and this one night the fans were just, I mean, all over him. 2407 01:56:23,280 --> 01:56:25,080 Cartwright would have having a rough game. 2408 01:56:25,080 --> 01:56:28,360 I think he picked up fouls, he missed a dunk, just a rough 2409 01:56:28,360 --> 01:56:30,800 night. And he really was a nice guy. 2410 01:56:31,160 --> 01:56:33,560 I kind of felt bad for him. Patrick was already there. 2411 01:56:33,560 --> 01:56:35,640 So he would they were trying to do that twin tower experiment 2412 01:56:35,640 --> 01:56:38,160 with Hubie Brown, which didn't work out either way. 2413 01:56:38,320 --> 01:56:41,000 Then what I would do at halftime is I would run to the tunnel 2414 01:56:41,160 --> 01:56:44,240 right, instead of the layup, I'd run to the tunnel right by the 2415 01:56:44,240 --> 01:56:48,240 Marty Glickman radio booth. And I would like really get high 2416 01:56:48,240 --> 01:56:50,960 fives, right? And then, you know, sometimes 2417 01:56:50,960 --> 01:56:53,040 like I'd lean over and I'd get a little bit too close. 2418 01:56:53,040 --> 01:56:55,920 And one time the cop was like, I, oh, I mean, actually more 2419 01:56:55,920 --> 01:56:57,200 than once. All right, kid, you know, you 2420 01:56:57,200 --> 01:56:58,960 get a little come on, come on, go back to your seat. 2421 01:56:58,960 --> 01:57:00,680 You have a ticket. No, all right, go back. 2422 01:57:01,120 --> 01:57:03,280 And, and I remember, so I was kind of used to the deal. 2423 01:57:03,280 --> 01:57:05,040 So whenever then of course I'm going to respect the officer. 2424 01:57:05,040 --> 01:57:06,600 I'd wait 10, you know, 10 more seconds. 2425 01:57:06,600 --> 01:57:09,320 But whenever he'd say, all right, kid, you got to go, I'd 2426 01:57:09,320 --> 01:57:10,480 string it out. Then I'd leave. 2427 01:57:10,480 --> 01:57:12,720 And this one time he's like, hey, you got to, you know, kid, 2428 01:57:12,720 --> 01:57:14,840 kid, kid. And I'm like, I know I'm going. 2429 01:57:14,840 --> 01:57:17,400 He goes, no, no, he goes this night where they were booing 2430 01:57:17,400 --> 01:57:19,280 Bill Cartwright. This is a true story, hand to 2431 01:57:19,280 --> 01:57:22,240 Bible. He goes, hey, he goes, this is 2432 01:57:22,240 --> 01:57:25,800 from Bill Cartwright and he throws me up Bill Cartwright's 2433 01:57:25,800 --> 01:57:31,480 white towel that he had on the Knick bench, bro, and it had a 2434 01:57:31,520 --> 01:57:34,360 NYK stamped on it. It was an official. 2435 01:57:34,360 --> 01:57:38,720 Towel for the Knicks and I, I don't I don't know how Bill 2436 01:57:38,720 --> 01:57:40,880 picked me. I don't know how that happened 2437 01:57:40,880 --> 01:57:43,520 because, yeah, I was 10 or 11, wasn't that loud. 2438 01:57:43,520 --> 01:57:45,720 I wasn't sitting on the court, that's for sure. 2439 01:57:46,080 --> 01:57:47,720 I don't even. It was like the mean Joe Green 2440 01:57:47,720 --> 01:57:50,120 commercial with the Coca-Cola with the kid in the in the 2441 01:57:50,200 --> 01:57:52,920 tunnel, the old one from like the late 70s, early 80s. 2442 01:57:53,320 --> 01:57:55,760 And can I tell you for like that, first of all, that entire 2443 01:57:55,760 --> 01:57:59,280 year, I would come out of a CYO game and I would wrap that towel 2444 01:57:59,280 --> 01:57:59,880 around my neck. Oh. 2445 01:58:00,200 --> 01:58:02,600 That's too cool. How great of a story is that? 2446 01:58:02,600 --> 01:58:04,400 That's great. True story. 2447 01:58:04,600 --> 01:58:07,360 Dude the only guy the only guy I've met out of game is I have a 2448 01:58:07,400 --> 01:58:10,480 pick from when I'm like 16 with scalabrini. 2449 01:58:11,200 --> 01:58:13,560 That's hilarious. Scalabrady Dang. 2450 01:58:13,920 --> 01:58:16,520 White Jesus Scalabrady. Yes. 2451 01:58:16,720 --> 01:58:17,560 Sir. Yes, Sir, man. 2452 01:58:17,560 --> 01:58:19,440 Jeez. What was his what was his other 2453 01:58:19,440 --> 01:58:20,240 nickname? Yeah, White. 2454 01:58:20,280 --> 01:58:21,800 Mamba. He's the white mamba. 2455 01:58:21,920 --> 01:58:23,240 No, that's what I say. White cheese. 2456 01:58:23,240 --> 01:58:25,240 No, white cheese. I knew that didn't sound white. 2457 01:58:25,440 --> 01:58:26,720 Yes. The white mamba. 2458 01:58:26,720 --> 01:58:30,320 That's right, the white mamba. Oh my God, he's funny. 2459 01:58:30,640 --> 01:58:33,120 He does a show with. Frankie Oh no red. 2460 01:58:33,120 --> 01:58:38,000 The red mamba was Matt Bonner. Matt Bonner from Florida. 2461 01:58:38,160 --> 01:58:40,560 Yeah, I played it you. Played for the play for the 2462 01:58:40,560 --> 01:58:41,680 Spurs. All I know is. 2463 01:58:41,680 --> 01:58:44,080 What I'm saying, but he right in collegiate he played for Gators, 2464 01:58:44,080 --> 01:58:45,720 I played for things, so I'm pretty sure he did. 2465 01:58:46,600 --> 01:58:48,560 He had a brother too, Bonner, right, didn't he? 2466 01:58:48,560 --> 01:58:51,880 What's his name? Yeah, I mean, neither of them 2467 01:58:51,880 --> 01:58:54,320 were, you know, stars of any probably. 2468 01:58:54,320 --> 01:58:57,520 I guess Matt Bonner did like that free throw line dunk during 2469 01:58:57,520 --> 01:59:00,200 the dunk contest. I don't even remember that, but 2470 01:59:00,200 --> 01:59:04,280 no, Brent Barry did that back. Oh, Brent Barry did that with 2471 01:59:04,280 --> 01:59:06,120 the Clippers. Yes, yes. 2472 01:59:06,280 --> 01:59:08,280 Yeah, no, not Bonner. I don't think Bonner was doing 2473 01:59:08,280 --> 01:59:10,280 that. Bonner's lucky if he's squeaking 2474 01:59:10,280 --> 01:59:12,080 one down. I I remember him dunking too 2475 01:59:12,080 --> 01:59:14,320 much. All right, man, let me bounce. 2476 01:59:14,920 --> 01:59:17,040 Hey, shoot me Benjy's number. I think I'm gonna have to. 2477 01:59:17,120 --> 01:59:20,400 He got me his e-mail, so I'll send you that. 2478 01:59:20,400 --> 01:59:22,520 I don't know if he's sending me the phone number, but we'll. 2479 01:59:22,720 --> 01:59:24,040 I got you. Take care of that. 2480 01:59:24,040 --> 01:59:25,360 I got you. Good. 2481 01:59:25,520 --> 01:59:27,400 Good job today, Jay. Rod, appreciate it, buddy. 2482 01:59:27,400 --> 01:59:30,400 If you guys missed the Aaron Boone interview, obviously you 2483 01:59:30,400 --> 01:59:32,960 know, some of the stuff is, is potentially a little dated. 2484 01:59:32,960 --> 01:59:36,560 I mean, unless, unless healed, pardon me, unless Max Freed is 2485 01:59:36,560 --> 01:59:39,480 really hurt because he talked a lot about Weathers and talked a 2486 01:59:39,480 --> 01:59:42,680 lot about, you know, Warren who who's more equipped to move to 2487 01:59:42,680 --> 01:59:45,600 the pen. You know any aversion to maybe 2488 01:59:45,600 --> 01:59:48,800 having 60% of rotation lefties, which is what you would have 2489 01:59:48,800 --> 01:59:52,400 with Freed, Rodon and Weathers if it is Warren to the pen, 2490 01:59:52,640 --> 01:59:55,920 Talked about Jazz, talked about Volpe, talked about Lombard. 2491 01:59:55,920 --> 01:59:57,040 You got to see this for yourself. 2492 01:59:57,040 --> 02:00:00,720 What he told me about George Lombard to me gives me no doubt 2493 02:00:00,720 --> 02:00:03,920 that Lombard will be in the Yu this year. 2494 02:00:04,160 --> 02:00:06,640 He will be playing for the Yankees and I believe he will be 2495 02:00:06,640 --> 02:00:09,600 playing in October. So if you missed Boone 2496 02:00:09,600 --> 02:00:12,320 yesterday, it was great. We had a lot of different stuff. 2497 02:00:12,880 --> 02:00:14,720 Go check it out. Some of the other stuff I know 2498 02:00:14,720 --> 02:00:16,440 Joe came up today. If you missed the Joe B 2499 02:00:16,440 --> 02:00:19,400 interview, check that out. I got to maybe follow up if 2500 02:00:19,400 --> 02:00:22,400 there's any interest on their on the Rothenberg angle, pop him on 2501 02:00:22,400 --> 02:00:24,000 the show, get to know him a little bit. 2502 02:00:24,360 --> 02:00:26,840 Try to squash the. Beef with Jerry and and 2503 02:00:26,840 --> 02:00:29,040 Rothenberg. So everybody have a great 2504 02:00:29,040 --> 02:00:32,840 Thursday. I am back tonight at 8:00 with 2505 02:00:32,840 --> 02:00:34,960 myself and Jake Asmin and Rich Simini. 2506 02:00:34,960 --> 02:00:38,840 The Jets Collective episode #8 breaking down the entire Jets 2507 02:00:38,840 --> 02:00:40,680 schedule. We know that they'll be in 2508 02:00:40,680 --> 02:00:43,440 Tennessee week one. We know, or at least we strongly 2509 02:00:43,440 --> 02:00:45,920 think they'll be home to the Packers Week 2. 2510 02:00:46,160 --> 02:00:48,520 And then all the other stuff, no international trips. 2511 02:00:48,520 --> 02:00:49,800 Thank God for The Jets this year. 2512 02:00:49,800 --> 02:00:52,320 But we'll flush through it. So check that out tonight. 2513 02:00:52,760 --> 02:00:54,480 Have a great day. Like it? 2514 02:00:54,480 --> 02:00:56,520 Subscribe, share it, get the word out. 2515 02:00:56,520 --> 02:00:57,680 I'll check you guys later. Bye bye. 2516 02:01:08,000 --> 02:01:09,640 This is on leash Are you listening? 2517 02:01:09,640 --> 02:01:10,520 Can you hear me? Hear me? 2518 02:01:10,560 --> 02:01:12,120 This is on leash. Are you listening? 2519 02:01:12,160 --> 02:01:13,080 Can you hear me? Hear me? 2520 02:01:13,120 --> 02:01:14,640 This is on leash Are you listening? 2521 02:01:14,640 --> 02:01:15,560 Can you hear me? Hear me? 2522 02:01:15,600 --> 02:01:17,160 This is on leash Are you listening? 2523 02:01:17,160 --> 02:01:17,800 Can you hear me?