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That is your really good win by the Yankees last night.
Little later on today. Guess who's going to roll in,
bro? Bro, That's right, Joe B.
Now, unfortunately, the Mets had a little weather out in
Colorado, so the Mets weren't able to lose, but I'm pretty
sure we'll find a way to to ratchet up the emotions with
Joe. You don't really have to try too
hard with Joe. So what we're going to do is
we're going to play this at 2:00 today as a premiere for the
channel. So he won't be on the live
stream, but Joe and I would imagine I'll have Joe for a good
hour. You know, obviously a lot of
Mets stuff, some Jet stuff and, and really like what I did with
Michael and what I did with Don, what I did with Stephen A, what
I've done with all my guests here.
It's conversation. And you know, I've known Joe for
a long time. I, I was texting with his wife
Terry yesterday because you text Joe and generally Terry is the
one who gets back to you. Hey, send me the, if she's the
best, send me the e-mail. Want to make sure everything's
good. So she basically loads it up for
Joe and then just Joe and then Joe just pops in front of the
camera and then Joe is just Joe. So it's going to be an awesome
day. Let's go.
I'm fired up about the Knicks. I do realize it is really hot in
my home for some reason. I don't know why I'm wearing
this like like it's like it's 13° out of wearing this.
I can't even take it off. So I got nothing under it.
I just got bare skin. I got J Rod.
It's hot in here. My wife's not feeling.
Cashmere hoodie out. It is.
It's actually, it's a good one. My wife's not feeling well.
She's got the fireplace on, she's got the heat on, but she's
smoking me out of my own home here, which probably is not by
accident, but it is. It is all good now.
Yeah. You're good by the way, Jay,
Let. Me, just get out of the.
Way J Rod. Good.
I'm good. You good?
Yeah. Oh, yeah, I'm good.
You recovered from the ousting of yourself.
Fix everybody okay like. Yeah, I mean, listen.
You're healing. I've I've I've definitely what's
the word? I've healed from my wounds.
I've recovered my wounds have recovered.
However, yesterday I was thinking I was like, dude, this
guy would have hated if I did this.
Like I was like, imagine if on Monday I came through with like
a Celtic shirt. I ripped it off and put the
Knicks shirt on. I was like, I can't do that.
I was like, you would have hated that.
I would. Have crushed you.
No, listen, I'll, I'll bowl for a heel turn.
I'm all for a little fun. You can do whatever you want.
But you're a Celtics guy, man. You don't need to change for the
show. You're a Celtics guy, albeit a
Celtics guy without a team to currently root for.
But now that would have not got CJI wouldn't want you to do that
because you've garnered a lot of respect in the short time that
you have really been introduced to the world as as my producer
here. Big time.
Yeah. And listen, that there's one of
the things about about the unleashed brand and one of the
things about me, you know, right or wrong, crazy opinions, you
know, miss a story by a mile. I mean, it happens to everybody.
But like one of the characteristics that that is not
negotiable for me is authenticity.
And that would be the exact you know.
Antithesis. Well, yeah, it would be the
antithesis, the opposite. Look at you start chart, trying
to church things up a little bit and get the shit right.
Yeah, Yeah. So we can't have that.
So remain true to who you are. Oh, by the way, before I get
into the Yankee stuff, you were telling me something.
I think it was after. Yes.
No, I guess it would have been Monday's show where you were at
Yankee Stadium over the weekend and something happened to you
that that really has never happened before.
No. Before you tell me.
And before you tell us, I can't tell you how excited he was when
he was telling me. Go ahead, J Rod, hit it.
Dude, I mean, I was telling all my friends last night too.
So on Monday during the show, somebody messaged me and was
like, yo, Jay, I saw you at the Yankee game Sunday.
I'd you know, I didn't want to bother you.
And I was like, dude, please bother me.
Please come up and say something.
First time getting a little unleashed recognition and we
what's better than that? A little ego boost on a on a
Monday that's. Great.
Now you've got to learn, you got to have the game to parlay that
into stuff downstream. I'll tell you, I'll tell you a
very quick aside, right? I didn't even think I would say
this, but I'm just thinking about, you know, when people
start to I'm married, so I'm done.
But you're not, you're just starting.
You can really parlay this if you if you have if you have
things lined up. So this was, oh God, what was
the year? I guess it would have been.
And ironically, I used to listen to Joe every single early
morning. I was doing like a paid
internship at Fox 5. Good day, New York, right?
And it was Jim Ryan was there, Maria Maria Gennaro, who was
great. Anyway, just an awesome
experience. And I, I made very little money,
but it was really a good chance to see the business.
Like I was running scripts up to them on the set and brought me
on camera a couple times. I was doing some research,
helping with some stories, you know, bringing all the the A
listers or you know, sometimes C listers into the green room.
I had a blast, right? So I remember, I guess it would
have been 99 and Joe was doing overnights there and I was still
living at home. I was just a year or so out of
college, didn't have any money, didn't have any any full time
job yet. I was trying to break into the
industry as as you would imagine, which is not easy,
especially back then. Anyway, I'm driving in, I think
I was getting up at like 2:00 in the morning in Brooklyn driving
in. And of course I'm listening to
my guy Joe B. I'm trying to find a parking
spot and I'm listening to Joe. So so it is kind of funny that
Joe's coming on today that this trigger triggered the story,
which I don't think I've even thought about this in so long
and I have to find this. So what happened was at that
point, the Yes network was not born yet.
I believe that the Yankees were still on MSG and obviously still
on some Pix stuff. So they they started a deal.
They were on Fox 5 a couple of years, right?
And Timba Carver was part of the broadcast team, right?
And I liked him letting Yankee fans in.
I loved them anyway because it was the same building.
Good day, New York, Fox 5, all that stuff.
They're like, hey, you know, we have an idea.
You know, I was, I was pretty much just done playing college
baseball. They're like, we think that you
can be in the Yankee promos. I'm like, this is a true story.
I swear to God. I'm like, what?
Yes. So they give me like 300 bucks
and even though I had a bunch of Yankee jerseys, I had to get
like the official 1. So like I go to the Yankee team
store in Manhattan and I get a Yankee jersey and I had
pinstripe pants from the summer team that I was playing on.
I get an authentic Yankee lid cuz I had a lot of different
ones. And I get blue socks, like blue
stirrups kind of deal. And, and I go and I shoot this.
It must have taken 4 hours where I've got the green screen and
I'm swinging a bat. True, swear to God, swinging the
bat, fielding ball, like throwing all cool thing.
So say if Paul O'Neill would hit a home run.
This used to happen all the time, right?
But I don't have it. I and I and I've looked for a
couple of years ago, I can't even find it right.
So say, if O'Neill hits a home run, there would be this little
2 second transitional video where you would actually see me
and it would have like a blue, you know, instead of the green
screen, like the nice blue background Yankee logo.
And you would see my face a little taking a swing.
Or if somebody made a great like I was that little video real
transition. So, you know, talking about
somebody doing it was wild. So all my boys could recognize
me. But I remember being in bars
like when I was young and I'm like, yo, that's you know,
that's that's me up there, by the way, you know, so as you get
your little taste of of fame, you know, somebody recognize
you. Imagine that.
Imagine being in the hand to Bible.
Imagine being in New York City bars.
And I was going out all the time back then because I was young
and I was single and being in a bar and trying to get your back
on and talking or just hanging out with your boys.
Yeah. Like, yo-yo.
Oh, wait. Tito just said a home run.
Hold on. I should be coming up pretty
soon. That is too cool.
I. Can't.
Find it. I know you need to like go to
the archives. Probably no, no, I did to the
point where because I wanted, I didn't want it for me anymore.
I wanted to really show my kids and and about God, they must
have. It's probably about five years
ago. I went, I contacted Fox and you
know, hey, is there any way you can retrieve this from the video
library? Because I know the video library
because I used to have to pull stuff when they would do like a
couple of minutes of sports on the morning show.
They couldn't find it and I don't have it.
It's not on YouTube. It is nowhere, but that is true.
How funny is that? That is so cool.
That must be found. It has to be.
It has to be, dude, I was. So I was having so much fun.
All right, the 2026 Yankees are different, all right?
They are different. And there's a characteristic
that's beginning to develop within this team that's going to
seem pretty basic, but only the great ones have it.
And I'm not prepared to say the Yankees are a great team yet.
You know, first, let's get Ben Rice back in the lineup.
Let's see. I know Roldan and Cole got
knocked around in their rehabs last night, but I'm not too
worried about that. You just kind of, you know,
working on the fastball, whatever.
And they've got to come back and and things need to work out the
way that I think that they will. And then we'll see what happens
when certain players transition to the bullpen, certain starters
right now. We'll see what happens with
Volpe. We'll see what's up with
Stanton's calf. I mean, he hasn't even run yet.
So Dominguez, a little runway here and his athleticism has
played well. He's actually hit pretty well
for the right side. Either way, what you're
beginning to see with this Yankee team is that they detest
losing. And that seems so basic like,
well, what? What pro team?
We don't what athlete doesn't hate losing?
You'd be surprised how many guys just don't care.
I mean, we are in the early stages of May and I can promise
you there's already, depending upon how young some of the teams
are, because if you're young, you're trying to establish
yourself. But I can promise you there's a
there's at least 789 situations where it's already not healthy
in the locker room. It's already like, you know,
start to punch the clock a little bit.
They know they have no shot. They know they've got no upside.
See, the thing that I always loved, aside from the great
players, Bernie was great, Tina was great, Jeter was one of the
best, MO was phenomenal, was the best Petit.
I mean, all this and even their secondary players like Brosius
and maybe a Tim Raines or Chili Davis or Ruben Sierra or a guy
like that. Dave Justice when he came here
after that trade, though, like those Yankees, while they were
just overflowing with in certain years, all time talent.
And I'm not saying that this team quite has that.
I'm not saying that. But the common denominator was
they refused to quit. They were they just they they
they loathe losing. They despised it.
And what you start to see now from this team, I thought the
reason why I'm talking about this now is it really hit me
last night. So I'm watching the game and my
son had, I think he may have had a basketball game the first time
that Elmer Rodriguez pitched, right.
And I got to watch more of the game than he did.
And my daughter had something last night and he had something.
And usually we split time. So anyway, I took him last night
and I had to miss one of her games.
Whatever. So we get back a little bit
early and we're really locked in on the couch.
I'm like, I want to watch this kid pitch.
You know, I'm sure he was a little nervous last time out in
Texas. Kind of interesting your second
starts against the team that you went against in your first
start. Not exactly a real advantage,
but real intrigued to see what he had.
And he had nothing like the first inning was about as
laborious of an inning that a Major League pitcher can have.
Now. It wasn't being like the hits
weren't on the barrel yet. A couple little bleeders to
write feel. But I was telling my son, I'm
like, man, it is rare like that. A pitcher is this off that he
just can't command anything like when you can't throw a four
seamer or or a power sinker, which he has, let alone get to
your wipeout slider, which is which is his best pitch.
It's got 18 or 18 inch horizontal brake.
You're going to have problems. And last night, because the
Yankees had won a bunch in a row, and I know Tampa is feisty
and I respect him, but Yankees had every reason last night to
say, yeah, you know what, one of those nights, not going to.
Probably not. Probably not there.
It's baseball. We got 162 of these things and
you know, you just kind of not that you give up, but you lose a
little focus, you lose a little purpose, you lose a little
direction and before you know it, after 9 innings, you
actually lose the game. What do the Yankees do?
The Yankees grind, the Yankees are bat and and the best
illumination of that is Ryan McMahon.
All right, you see, you know, first pitch change up misses it
by a mile from the Grum. We're not talking about some
scrub. We're talking about one of the
best righties I've ever seen, you know, Then another change up
whiffs, misses by a mile, foul ball, foul ball, quality of bad,
good take foul ball, foul ball hangs a curve, bang home run.
To me. There are very early signs,
granted, the, the operative term there is, is very early, but
there are very early signs with this team that they've got Adna,
that they've got a, a, an unquenching desire to win more
than any of these other recent Yankee teams since 2009.
The Baby Bombers were fun. It was a lot of fun with Soto
and Judge, but the other components weren't there.
You watch this team battle the way they won that the way they
run the bases. And now I'm going to do
something that I really never thought that I would do.
I'm going to give Brian Cashman a world of credit.
You know, if, if you think about anything that I've ever said
about Brian over the years, I've always said he's a Hall of
Famer. I want to make sure I give
respect and he is a Hall of Famer.
But like, there's an expiration point on, all right, you did
this, you know, 25 years ago when he took the baton, more
than that from Bob Watson and 20 years ago.
And you know, 16 years ago, whatever it was when you won a
championship. Like I, I, I don't want to hear
that forever. Not with the payroll, not with
the expectations, not with the brand of the Yankees.
So I have been very outspoken and very forward.
And I've even said this to Aaron Boone, which is part of the
reason why I've always defended Boone more than many of you,
because I don't think he's been given a good enough roster to
win and and win big. And one of the, I'm not saying
Boone's perfect, but I've always stood by that, that premise,
which I just said. And to me, you know, those of
you who have wanted to run Aaron Boone out of 10, forget about
it. I'll get back to cash in a
moment. But for those of you who have
wanted to run Aaron Boone out of town for years, I'm like, OK,
that's your prerogative. I get it.
There's an expiration point on everything.
But point to me, the year that the Yankees were supposed to win
that they didn't. And to me, inherently there in
lies the problem. That's been the core issue, the
crux of the matter with the Yankees every year they go in
and there's band aids and there's unknowns and there's,
you know, defenders in the wrong position.
And you're relying on guys who are either hurt or just
underachieving to a point where it's clearly time to cut bait
with certain players. And you know, the names.
We've done this dance a million times.
The Hicks's the Donaldson skies like that, right?
I'm not going to do a whole referendum on the Yankee on, on,
on the, on the, on the, you know, on, on the last 25 years.
But you cannot tell me that it doesn't look different, that it
doesn't feel different. And you know, if you close your
eyes and you think about some of the drops from the Morning show,
you've heard me say this a million times.
Brian Cashman has not earned the right to rebuild the Yankees the
way the Yankees need to be rebuilt.
I said it. I meant it.
I stood by forever. But like the Knicks, who now,
and I'll get to them later, who look entirely different the last
month. Plus different role for Cat,
less monopolizing the ball by Brunson, Bridges playing with
some fire, OG playing the best of his career, a better bench.
You know, just a different approach to basketball.
The Knicks very happily that have forced me to change how I
evaluate their ceiling, which is why I fully expect the Knicks to
dismantle the Sixers team, you know, in 5 ended quick and then
get to the Eastern Conference finals and then reboot and let's
go. And if they continue to play
like this, I will expect them to win no matter who they play.
And I would imagine it'll be the Pistons who won last night.
So the, the anger and the, the anger and confusion and just
tired regurgitation of the same issues with the Yankees.
I, I honestly don't know. I swear, I don't know if there's
anything that I've enjoyed less like talking about less than the
Yankees the last couple of years because it's the same shit.
It is literally always the same conversation now, not this year.
So I'm pushing this year aside, but think about it.
It's the constant grinding. It's the constant.
Well, you got Judge. Hopefully Judge could carry a
all right, hopefully cold before he got hurt.
All right, Hopefully Stanton can stay healthy.
Hopefully he's hopefully he's healthy by October.
And it's always the constant who's playing first, who's
playing second, who's playing third too long the least for
Volpe. What's going on in left field
note Like we know the dance that we've done at its exhausting.
There is nothing nothing more frustrating than talking about
the same. I don't care if it's with a
friend, a spouse, a Co worker, a boss, no matter what it is right
If you continue to talk about the same stuff and the same
things continue to remain a problem.
I mean, at some point I just got to say I'm fucking done with
this. I don't want to talk about it
anymore, and I'm done. So the 2026 Yankees, or at least
early or, are going to absolutely run away and hide
from everybody in the American League.
The Yankees will win 100 games this year.
I had them coming in at 94 and I had the Mets at 91.
I am going to very quickly, without flinching, tack on at
least six more to the Yankee total.
Now, listen, I'm not trying to beg on the Mets, but they're not
winning 91. They're lucky if they get to 81,
which I wouldn't bet that they would.
But the point is I would have to adjust that negatively and
adjust the Yankees favorably. Now, where did this all change?
Well, Bellinger's back, so that's not really different.
Grisham's back, You know, much of the chagrin of many of us,
right? McMahon's back, same thing.
Wells is still catching. OK.
You know, obviously judges here, like what's really different?
Well, there's a couple of things #1 Ben Rice's emergence is
massive. It's massive, and it's not only
massive for now, but it's massive down the road because
he's turning into one of the best hitters in baseball and
he's making $800,000 a year, which allows the Yankees to do
so much down the road. But I don't want to get too far.
I'm talking about now. But that is a big, like, the
residual impact of that is huge. All right #1 Ben Rice's
emergence. Now, the other thing.
And this where I get right back to Cashman during the trade,
trade deadline last year. And I was, I was actually at
lunch with a rod when this was going down, when the Yankees
were starting to make some moves.
And particularly when they brought in a bunch of pictures,
many of whom have not really worked out.
You start to see a little, little flicker from Bird, which
is good. Bednar is good, but he makes you
sweat a little bit. But OK.
And then the vile and, and many of the other guys have have done
nothing but the entire energy, the energy of the Yankees
changed with the addition of Caballero.
And then the ability for Boone to mix and match and have some
weapons off the bench with Rosario against lefties has
really given this team a different look.
So I think the easiest thing is, and I to me, this is like, I'm
not going to do this. I don't think that this is fair.
You know why I don't think it's fair?
Because I don't think it's applicable anymore.
And I'll tell you what I mean, so many years and I've been
guilty, guilty of this on occasion.
But I'm done doing this, not doing it anymore.
Yeah, wake me up in October. See if the Yankees win.
Who says you can't enjoy the regular season?
Like who? We're not talking about the
Dodgers who have gone back-to-back.
We're talking about the Yankees will not won since 2009.
Who the hell are you or who the hell am I?
And who the hell are we to just, you know, advance past five
checkpoints? Regular season doesn't matter.
Well, number one, it does matter because if you have a shitty
one, you're done after 162. And even if you play 163 and
beyond, if it doesn't look a certain way, usually, I know
there's randomness in baseball. Look at the Mets from a couple
of years ago now, 87 wins, almost got to the World Series.
I get it, Understood. But usually if there's too much
up and down, up and down inconsistency issues that you
know will surface in October against better pitching and
better teams, generally your our instincts with this team has
been right. OK.
You know, the only year that I thought World Series was really
in play and they got there was when they got Soto.
You have not heard me once. Go find the tape.
Everybody likes to pull up with all of us, right?
These erroneous takes all what I said, Timmy Boyle can spin it.
I mean, that was that was all time idiotic.
So I will I will happily own that you got to laugh at
yourself. I mean, that was the hell you
talking about Timmy Boyle can spin it.
Dude, get a grip. I mean, I know that The Jets
have fucked you up, but relax, right.
So we all have these stupid, you know, predictions that really
don't mean anything and but I would like you to I'm I'm going
to give you a challenge. Go out there and find one in the
last XM outside of Soto year where I was on the air either
with Sal or with Tiki, and I'm saying there's a World Series
team. Just Google my name and Yankees
or my name and Cashman. Matter of fact, one of the
things I said a couple of years ago when they were going through
their usual early summer swoon, and I do not think that that
will happen. I know that many of you have
pushed back already. We've seen this before.
I get that Yankees start out red hot and then they play 8090 a
hundred games and they play 500 bowl and then they kind of
figure things out a little bit at the end and then they go on a
little run and they pull short. I get it.
Like that is the script. I'm telling you just what I
feel, what I see. This feels different.
It looks different. There's a better bench, there's
better energy, there's better speed, there's more defensive
versatility. There is absolutely better
starting pitching and there will be better bullpen help once some
of the starters go to the pen. So, you know, I remember the one
thing that I said the year before they got Sodo, I'm like,
listen, I hope that the Yankees bleed out.
That was the actual term I was with tiki.
I'm like, I hope the Yankees bleed out.
Because this nonsense, this daily dance of, you know, 90
wins and, you know, try to find out whether it's a couple of
lefty hitters or all the things that they were consistently
looking for over the last X amount of years, really since
09, that has led me to be very critical toward Brian Cashman.
I don't see that this year. I don't see that.
Like now there are things that they're going to have to
navigate. You know, if Lombard, crush
Lombard was playing second last night, that was interesting.
So that he's not a second baseman.
I do think they're messing that up.
I I like that they're going to have him play a little third, a
little second in the minors. Lombard's a shortstop.
He's not a second baseman. Anthony Volpe's a second
baseman. Based on his lack of arm
strength, he should be playing second base, not Lombard.
All right, now, if you want to mix and match, that's fine.
But lump, I don't love Lombard playing second.
But if Lombard Rakes at the AAA level, that's an option this
year. Dominguez looks a little more
polished this year. That's an option.
You know, when Volpe comes up, if he earns it and then he earns
playing time. Well, if he's not playing well,
there's Caballero, which was an option the Yankees never had
before Caballero got here, which is a credit to Cashman.
You know, you got a couple of guys coming off the bench now
that can, you know, force the manager to re evaluate what
they're doing and that's a Rosario, lesser extent
Goldschmidt. He'll give you quality of bat
against the lefty, but not going to have a lot of pop even though
we hit one last night. So the bench looks better.
The starting pitching has a chance to be among the the best
the Yankees have had this century for sure.
I think the best you've got Judge, who's going to bang 55
home runs again. You've got the blossoming young
great and I don't throw that word great around.
You know that. The blossoming young great Ben
Rice as a lefty, you know, little sidekick there to to
Aaron Judge. I know it's not perfect.
I like a more conventional lead off hitter.
I know they're dumping Grisham down the bottom of the order
against lefties. You know, I don't, I don't want
to see Goldschmidt up there. I, I, I, there's, I'm not saying
it's perfect. This to me is the best Yankee
team in years, All right? And the characteristic that I
see that is transferable from the glory days, the dynasties to
now, I'm not calling him a dynasty.
Relax. But what's what's present every
night is their reluctance, their refusal to tap out and say,
yeah, we'll get them tomorrow. Derek Jeter despised losing to
anybody. It could be June.
It could be May, let alone October.
And that was a tone that was said that all the other grinders
that they had, Tino was a grinder, Posada was a grinder,
Bert Brochus was. And that translates.
And it just seems like right now the Yankees are in a very
healthy spot. They've got a really good
roster. I think one through 25, it's the
best roster for sure that they've had in quite some time.
And now you still got to do the job.
You got to finish the job here. And there's a long way to go.
But listen, I've got to give you opinions based on like the like
where I am now, like I did with the Knicks over the course of
the winter when I did not like the way that they looked.
And if again, if you've been a fan of mine, if you even if
you've been a detractor of mine, but maybe you listen to my
previous shows because of the partner that I had either Sal or
Tiki and you just you heard me. You will know that I have not
said this about the Yankees. I never once said it on WFAN and
nationally I was pounding them as well.
So I love where the Yankees are. I really, really love the way
the Yankees are cycle Dan Dash Li the main weakness in the
Yankees that have too many 200 hitters.
The lineup has a lot of holes. That being said, Grish,
Bellinger, McMahon have been filling those holes nicely as of
late. Yeah, you know, I'll tell you
Jesus, I I I almost, I almost have to get a new shirt.
I'm sweating my ass off in here. What's going on when they can't?
I mean we can take like a. Got to.
I can't. I can't sit here for another
hour doing this. We can take the 1:00.
Where's I got to shut the fireplace off?
It's May. Why is the fireplace on you Talk
for a minute. I got AT.
I'll be right back there. I I.
Can't, I'm not. I got.
Too much to say. I got to get to the Knicks.
I got to. I got to be.
I'll be right back. All good unleash, fam how we
doing today any questions get those chats up get those
thoughts up Let's see Yankee game last night was sick I mean
listen, that jazz bomb was fucking great.
My boy was at the game. Yeah, let's take AT.
I'm back, man. We back all right, I mean.
What were you? Doing when I was gone.
Why why did you take yourself off the screen Listen, I talked
for like 30 seconds and then I was like, all right, what kind
of time out music can we toss up?
back. Music Why would you?
I was giving you a chance to. Wow.
I mean, listen, I have been. I'm a sweater a little bit
anyway, just because I get the bald head and I get worked up.
Sure. I don't.
I don't sweat in my own home. I just looked at the thermostat
at 77° and the fireplaces. Rose in Boca Raton right now.
Oh my goodness. Man, oh man, that was absolutely
brutal. So I love it.
I love it and they are a pleasure to watch, You know, and
I remember Boone, you know, my buddy Boone, he's going to be on
the show next week, either either Monday or Tuesday early
next week, Aaron Boone will be on Unleashed here.
You know, we, we talk a little bit on the phone and then we're
talking the other day. I didn't bring it up.
I'm I'm going to have to give him credit on this little bit
here, but he was telling me over the winter and I'm, I'm like,
you know, I don't want to be disrespectful, but I'm like,
yeah, I don't see it, man. I mean, I did tell him I'm like,
I don't know, man. It seems a little ambitious to
think that. And he was telling me that they
really believe that there is a lot more in the tank for Ryan
McMahon. And I'm sitting there saying, I
mean, all right, short ports A lefty.
I, I, I get it. If you want to sell out and try
to crank thirty home runs and hit 190, I'm sure that that
could happen. But he's like, no, he's like
we've we've actually seen some mechanical things where, you
know, he's going to go to school during the offseason, you know,
get in the lab a little bit and tweak some stuff there.
And you know, I'm like, yeah, I mean, if, if if you're talking
about Dominguez or Volpe, who's still young or even Ben Rice
last year or what, Austin Wells to an extent now, like, OK,
they're young, formative stages of their career.
I'm like, I've watched Ryan McMahon play against the Mets
basically for a decade in Coors Field and he had an OPS that was
slightly below league average basically every single year,
maybe except one high strikeout guy, low average guy, low OPS
guy. But even what he was telling me
then is beginning to take root now.
And that is like, that's the one thing about even whether it's a
young kid or or major leaguer, when you try to implement
something new in your swing, it is it is not easy.
It does not have I mean, think about I think the the more
relatable thing would be think about tweaking your golf swing.
You know, because none of us are getting ready to dig in on on 99
mile per hour, 4 seam fastball up in the zone.
But many of us do try to whack the ball around right.
And whether it's a weak rib versus a strong rib, whatever it
might be, whatever it might be, whatever little tweak, if it's a
putting stroke, something that it took a couple lessons, maybe
somebody observed on the range. You got to love the people on
the range too. Hey, do this, do that, dude.
I'm just trying to hit the ball in the air, get lost.
Yeah. I I really don't want to hear it
because it doesn't work. If I thought it was going to
work, I'd sit down. I'd let you lecture me for an
hour. Doesn't matter what you tell me.
It's been playing golf for 20 years.
I'm a circus. Let me just let me just, you
know, wallow in my own misery, which I've actually learned to
not really wallowing anymore. I'm just happy to get out there
and play. But the point is, you know,
anything could be a little putting it it's it's not easy.
It feels foreign. You know, it's funny.
We were just going through this. I was doing this with my son.
So yeah, he had a, he had a lesson yesterday.
And one of the things as a young hitter, you know, you really
want to fire the hips, obviously, but you know, it's,
it's not always there. It's not easy, especially when
kids are throwing 70 miles an hour from 50 feet away with a,
with a, with change up. Like, you know, it's baseball's
hard. So in his lesson yesterday that
they were really fixating on, you know, almost like stomping
out an Ant with that back foot, like really?
Because the more you turn the back foot, the more the hips
will will unlock and unleash, unleash and really fire.
And you want to, you know, you want to have basically your
entire chest, that impact facing the pitcher if it's an outside
pitch is different. But that's the point.
And you know, it wasn't very natural to him.
He's like, yeah, it doesn't. I'm like, yeah, it, it doesn't
feel natural because you don't always do it.
I promise you, you know, if you stay in the land.
And then he knocked on my door at 6:45 this morning to go
practice, which was great. And he was doing it looked a
little more natural. I mean, we'll see what happens
this weekend against real pitching.
But the point is it takes a while to incorporate stuff.
And you know, if the way McMahon picks it, I mean, if he could
just be at least a serviceable 9 hitter and, and and not be an
automatic out, I mean, that's a big win for the Yankees too.
So I'm very curious. Usually J Rod, I've got a really
good sense of where, especially with the teams that I root for
and and even like the Mets and and the Giants, teams that don't
necessarily root for but but covering and have followed my
entire life. I usually have a really good
sense of what the fan base is thinking.
And I don't structure shows like I'll never do a show to have
people agree with me or purposely put out content for
people to disagree because you get more clicks.
Like I mean it, it needs to happen naturally.
Like I'm not here to be a hot take artist.
I'm here to give you some depth, some thought, some opinion, you
know, bridge things out. I don't know.
I really don't know. If I had to take a guess what,
what the Yankee fans, how they interpret what I'm saying and
how I feel, I'd say it's I I would think it would be slightly
more with me than not, but I don't think that it's
overwhelming. I'd say maybe 6040 because the
40% they would probably they have such animosity toward
Cashman some boon as well. Grisham and center 2009.
We've seen this before quick starts, then the early summer
swoon, which is the real thing, by the way.
I'm just saying I feel like it looks different and and it has
been different so far. So I'm very optimistic about the
Yankees team. And the best thing is they've
got big reinforcements coming like they're winning and
Stanton's not even playing like, you know, the years of hopefully
Stanton can play 100 games and hit thirty home runs as
insurance behind Judge. Like, I'm not saying that you
don't want Stanton particularly against lefties, but I mean, you
don't really need them. And there was a play the other
night where where Dominguez scored.
Was that on the contact play? I think it was.
And there is no way that Stanton Stanton has and he just beat the
throw in Dominguez, one of the faster Yankees, Jazz, Dominguez,
Caballero. There is no way that Stanton
does that. So there's a different element
of speed. But I, I am curious.
So if any any of the chats fire up any of the calls and Yankee
fans want to jump and certainly want to get to that today, I
would say 6040 with me. But still many of you fairly
reticent to to stamp this team different.
I believe they're different and time will tell with the time
will tell. You know I mean I.
Yeah. I was speaking to my roommate
about it yesterday and you know, he is kind of part of that 40%
category who, you know, he's maintained his his skepticism.
He's getting ready for, you know, the June swoon for what's
to come and there. You go.
And so there, yeah. So he's kind of part of that 40%
camp, I guess. I.
Was calling it all right now he's he's obviously around your
age. So 2009.
I mean, he was kind of still kind of young.
He hasn't seen the Yankees win the the way I have.
So we so that works two ways. He doesn't have much to compare
it to outside of historical context like video and and and
stories being passed down Yankeeographies.
If he checks in on that. Sterling was great on that man,
on those. I I love Sterling with that.
I mean, I just love John Sterling.
It's just still thinking about him, you know.
And by the way, the Yankees did a phenomenal job.
We talked a lot about John the day that he passed a little bit
yesterday, my buddy Michael K with a great tribute.
You know, it is high. It is far.
It is gone. The Mets radio booth, Keith Rad.
The Mets win. Yeah.
The.
The Mets win. The Mets win.
I thought it was great. The White Sox announcer did it
as well. But kind of what and really the
entire sport stop to genuflect a little bit at the greatness and
the the last thing legacy and impact that John had on the game
right. But I think wood got lost in the
details a little bit just how quickly the Yankees had to turn
stuff around like it's I know that we think that it's easy.
All right, somebody passes away. You got to have now some like TV
networks. This is this is morbid, but this
is the way it is. You know, they will have things
already ready for people who are older, older presidents so that
when they do pass, they can just, they could just go and and
not just have to scatter around to try to throw something
together. But you know, whether it's
getting and, and I know A Bronx company stepped up with the
embroidery embroidering of the the J and the S on the hat.
Like that's got to happen quick, man.
I know it seems the Yankees, they could do it.
Not as easy as you think. And then the tributes and the
videos and the social media, you know, content that the Yankees
put out, which is absolutely phenomenal.
So tip of the cap to the Yankees for that.
And you know, once again, rest in peace to the great John
Sterling. All right, so I want to get to
the Knicks a little bit here. I want to squeeze in two more
baseball related items. I do want to get some chats up
there. I'd like to get a couple of the
Yankee calls as well. Jay, I know that I know that you
saw I'm going to have Jay Rod do this because I want to explain
this first. There's two things.
There's MLB realignment, which I'll hit in a moment.
And then there's the the group of first year players that are
eligible for Cooperstown Baseball's Hall of Fame.
All right, so my, now this isn't perfect and it doesn't always
work, but most of the time for me it does.
So I'm going to have J Rod, we'll get it up on the screen.
J, you can pop it up there, bud. There's a lot of names here, but
what 1215, whatever it is. And we're going to run through
them all 481271619. We're going to run through these
names. And the reason I like to do
this, I'm not going to give you any stats or any real.
I'm going to give you no commentary actually.
But number one, think about how this is a sad state of the game.
And I feel like this is happening more and more and more
with baseball where it's less obvious, but yet the rope is
still being lowered to get non Hall the Famers in.
And to me, this is a great litmus test if I hear.
And again, you have to be an ardent fan to really.
Have this immediate reaction, but when I hear a name, I'm
going to give you my immediate reaction.
And I've always done this. Now, there's a couple of
situations overtime where I'm like, you know, I'll give you a
quick yes or a quick no, but I'm going to want to substantiate
that a little further with stats.
I won't do that here, but look at how, no disrespect, but and
we're talking about the Hall of Fame.
Look at how weak this is. All right, RIP through each
name. I'll give you a yes or no.
All right, Perfect. Jake Arietta, No.
Jay Bruce No. Castrubal Cabrera No Starlin
Castro, No Wade Davis No Dexter Fowler No Todd Frazier No Brett
Gardner. I will tell you, Todd Frazier's
got a really good club team, the Southsiders.
I've seen him at a lot of he's coaches and older team.
I got some good ball players. So shout out to Todd doing his
thing with youth baseball. But it's all and a good player,
no? All right, Brett Gardner.
No. JA Knapp.
No. Hap.
Sorry. Yeah.
Sorry. It was a little too small.
Scott Cashmere, No. John Lester?
No. Andrew Miller?
No. Mitch Moreland?
No. Buster Posey?
Yes. Erwin Santana?
No. Kyle Seeger?
No. Joaquim Soraya, No.
Soraya. Ryan Zimmerman?
Nope. Jordan Zimmerman?
No. 19 names. One yes, One yes.
Buster Posey. Now, the Buster's interesting in
the sense that he he didn't, he didn't really pile up those
numbers for sure, but he won the rookie of the year.
He won three World Series. I was out there, I was working
in San Francisco, and they won two of them with Bochy and the
Panda. Pablo Sandoval.
Who else? Timmy Lincecum, Matt Kane, that
was a pretty good teammate. Crawford was the shortstop, he
was coming up. Buster Posey, rookie the I don't
even have the stuff in front of me.
Rookie of the Year 3 MVPS, I'm sure a couple of Silver
Sluggers. But like, if you just look at
the numbers you like, I don't know, But if you watched
baseball in the 20 tens, first of all, it was the first, you
know, West of the Mississippi championship for the Giants
since they left New York. And then they got another and
then they got another. And he was really essential
theme for that. Brandon Belt was their first
baseman for the most part. What was that dude?
Why am I forgetting his name? Hunter Pence, John Charlie, the
guy who looked so unsmooth but was a good player.
So Brian Wilson was the closer. I think that Buster Posey is a
Hall of Famer because I don't really know how you write the
the 20 tens. You know that baseball legacy
kind of a thing. And don't look at Buster Posey
as pretty much, I don't know if he was officially the captain,
but certainly the pseudo captain, a grinder, a gamer,
highly productive, three time champion as a catcher with some
pop at a good defensive catcher. I don't know how you look at
that and say that's not a Hall of Famer, You know, and, and at
this point, I don't even know if he's going to get in.
I mean, I would hope he gets in at some point, but you know, I'm
going to do real fast. Let's pop up his numbers real
quick here. I just want to make sure I'm not
missing anything either way. My first instinct is absolutely
he is a Hall of Famer. That's what I believe.
I just want to see. I know he's got the three
championships. I know he's got the Rookie of
the Year and all that stuff that I said.
All right, that's right. He won the MVP as well.
Rookie of the Year, MVP, three time World Series champion, four
time Silver Slugger, 7 All Stars, won a batting title as
well. That's right, He won the batting
title when I was out there. So all right, comes up and at
the age of 23, when's the Rookie of the Year?
11th in the MVP, that's 2010 and then he wins the MVP in 2012.
He had a WAR of almost eight man, that's big.
He had 336. I mean that's that that's
catcher. And then some of his other
numbers. Again, you've got to look at
this within the context of catchers, you know, 15 and 7222
and 8919 and 9580 RBI's, you know, and then it, and it did
tail ball fast, even though we made a couple of All Star teams
at the end. If you also remember, he opted
out of the COVID season, so put up no stats there.
And then he retired at the pretty early age.
He was 33 or 34 years of age. Buster Pose, he's a Hall of
Famer. But everyone of those other
guys, I mean, I, I would look maybe maybe a little more deeply
at Jon Lester's, you know, with the Cubs.
I mean, again, historical context, Red Sox, I get it.
Maybe. But to me, there's one and that
is a referendum on, on a lot of things #1 just the dearth of,
of, of all time greats that the game is produced.
I don't know lately that it's produced.
I don't know if this because I was younger and I looked at
these guys differently. I don't, I don't know, I'm sure
that that's part of it more, more impressionable, formative
stages of being a fan. But I felt like, you know, when
I was young, I, you know, I felt like every single night, like it
didn't matter who the Yankees were playing and it didn't
matter who the Mets were playing on Channel 9, their opponent,
you know, not really the Mets. And you know, some of the years,
not even the Yankees. I feel like I was watching the
Hall of Famer. I mean, all right, Mets are
playing the Phillies. Mike Schmidt, greatest third
baseman of all time, who's pitching tonight.
Steve Carlton, one of the best lefties of all time.
You know, they're playing the the Cubs, the Ryan Sandberg,
rest in peace, one of the great second baseman of all time.
You know, you go back to some of those earlier Mets teams, even
before that when I was watching, you know, they're playing the
Reds and all right, I mean, really at the back end.
But wow, Johnny Bench, I mean, he's not nearly what he was, but
greatest catcher of all time. You know, most people believe
that. I didn't see Yogi, didn't see
Elston Howard, didn't see a few of those.
Pudge was really good too. But I saw, you know, Bench.
Oh, there's Dave Parker for the Pirates.
You know, look at him or you're playing the let me see, play the
Astros. Nolan Ryan's pitching tonight,
all time great. What, 7-8, no hitters.
You know, all the strikeouts, Yanks are playing the A's.
There's Ricky. Oh, Ricky's on the Yankees.
Oh, OK. Dave Winfield's on the Yankees.
Hall of Famer. I, I, I don't know.
I I really Alan Trammell, you know, Jack Morris, that was a
different evaluation for Jack. I always thought he got hosed
for a long time, but Burp Blylevin eventually got in
right. And and that's debatable as
well, but 280 something strikeouts, one of the best
curveballs in the history of baseball.
But I remember watching Burt more specifically planted twins.
There's Kirby Puckett, the great, the great rest in peace,
the great Kirby Puckett who gave Don Mattingly the nickname.
So we respect Kirby the person. We respect Kirby the player
greatly and the competitor, but we really respect her because he
hooked up with one of the best nicknames of all time, Dotty
Baseball. That was all Kirby Puckett.
Yanks are playing the Royals. There's George Brett, you know
what I mean? So was it because I was younger
and I process it differently? I don't know.
I mean, maybe it's cyclical. Maybe I'm just, maybe I'm a
little bit off on this and, and I know there's great players now
as well. Maybe they're just not quite as
revered as they were. Maybe they get the way the game
is looked at is a little different.
Don't know the answer, but I just know that pretty much every
time I watch baseball and I watch it every night, oh,
there's Pete Rose. He's not the same as he was, but
it's Pete Rose. You know, there's Ozzie Smith
picking up for the Cardinals, greatest defensive shortstop of
all time. He's right there.
Mark Bollinger, you know, I didn't see him play, but I know
he was great for the Orioles. Couldn't hit, but a great
defensive shortstop. Anyway, I wanted to get that
out. I don't want to belabor that.
I want to get some mixed up as well.
Joe Beningo, A2 today on the channel.
So can you get this up as well? You know, we've heard a lot of
different variations here. Let's keep this up for a little
bit. Potential MLB realignment.
I mean, first of all, the names are pretty wacky.
AL Mid-Atlantic, AL Great Lakes. I don't mind it.
AL SE AL northeast. Like as much as I'm a
traditionalist and in the sense and a, you know, I pride myself
in being a bit of a purist. Like I love interleague.
Thank God I don't have to watch these shitty pitchers try to hit
anymore. Just bunt or get on base and put
the jacket on like they did in the 80s.
Remember that up get the satin jacket.
God forbid he runs the bases and his arm gets cold.
You know, I just remember that all the time.
What are we doing? So I, I, I think I've evolved.
I think I've, I think I'm rooted in, in, in, in some purist
traits, but I am not married to things that I, that I now
believe are antiquated myself, right?
I like the pitch clock. I like the ghost runner during
the regular season. Save some arms, save some time,
all those things, right? NL Midwest, NL Central, NL
Southwest, NL Northwest. I don't, I don't care what you
call them. My biggest thing here is look at
the competitive disadvantage. Now, this works both ways here.
Would I love, oh, I would freaking love this.
Would I love the Yankees and the Mets in the same division?
I would love it. Now a lot of Yankee fans are,
are, are are with me on that. There's a lot of Met fans who
don't want it. You know, maybe that's changing
a little bit if the Mets ever get their act together.
But like, if you're a Mets fan up until, you know, really the
last, even though this year's been horrendous, but the last
couple of years, why would you want to be in the division with
the Yankees? You can get your brains beat in.
And the Wilpons were, you know, pinching nickels and throwing
them around like manhole covers. So I wouldn't want to be in the
Yankees division if I was the Mets either.
But the point is, keep this up, Jay.
Look at the divisions and you know, whether the Mets figure
this out, whatever, whether Mendy's here in three years,
whatever, whether Soto's happy or what opts out, I don't know.
But look at the Northeast, the Yankees massive payroll, the
Mets a higher payroll, the Phillies massive payroll and the
Red Sox always an incredibly competitive payroll.
How is that not now contrast this to the Great Lakes.
And again, like from a just a logistical travel point of view,
proximity. I think that this makes some
sense and you'll have the two expansion teams, which I'll hit
on in a moment. But if you're Toronto and the
Rogers group, which is the first or I'd actually, I think they I
think they have more than the Dodgers.
I think their net worth is actually a little bit more than
I know it's more than Cohen. I believe it's more than the
Dodgers. And if it's not, it's two.
Imagine the rate. Pardon me, the Jays in a
division with the Twins, the Guardians and the Brewers, none
of whom spend any money. That is a massive competitive
advantage for the Jays. So like I'm less intrigued by or
less there's less of a pushback for me for say, wow, I don't
want the Yanks and the Mets to play each other X amount of
times. It takes away from the I don't
know the the, the, you know, just the magnitude of the Subway
Series that you get twice a year or man, I don't, I don't know.
Listen, you're not losing Yankees Red Sox, you're gaining
Yankees Mets. And I think that, you know, and
the Mets keep the Phillies, which is cool and Yankees
Phillies would be hot, but it's just not equitable here like
that. That's the problem.
I mean, even go to the NL W the Midwest, I mean Cubbies when
they want to spend money, they could, you know, the Cardinals,
they don't really spend a lot. The Reds really can't spend a
lot. And the White Sox are a
disaster. You know, I mean, the central,
you throw the Rockies from the Midwest in the middle of the
country with, you know, Texas and Kansas City and a little
down South with with Houston. I'm not saying it's perfect.
And then the two expansion teams you're getting, you know,
getting what is that Charlotte that's so freaking small.
Who are the expansion teams? I know Portland and Charlotte,
right? Yeah, it says Charlotte and
Portland. Yeah.
OK, Geez, that small. Keep that up there.
I actually believe, please, I actually believe that Montreal
is going to get a franchise again.
I would not give Portland A-Team.
That's just me. I would absolutely give
Charlotte A-Team. Yes, I would look into
Nashville. I would not touch Mexico.
There's been all sorts of stuff out there.
Like to me, if I'm the commish and I and I've got to go to two
to make all this stuff even, I would go, I would get another
team up in Canada because I believe the Expos could work if
it's done properly, because it used to work the Expos and I
would probably either go Nashville or Charlotte.
Those are the two most viable ones.
I'm not, again, not touching Mexico.
I've been there a couple of times on vacation.
Great. Not putting MLB baseball in
Mexico. That's me.
And and I'm not, I'm not doing it to Portland, you know, even
if it's a Dome, I'm just not going up to Portland.
I'm not doing that myself. So that's the that's the
realignment. Thought it was interesting.
I know if you guys like that stuff, what you're married to,
but Yankees Mets to me would be bonkers.
I mean, it would be absolutely. Just imagine, you know, imagine.
And again, I know we get the Subway Series.
The Subway Series still has a spark.
You're not like it quite did when it was first born, but it's
I still enjoy it. I I really do.
But now think about the perverse pleasure.
The perverse pleasure that you can take as a fan of either one
of those two teams where, you know, hey, think about this.
Yanks and the Mets coming up in a couple of weeks here.
And and my son says last night's I would have squashed the Mets.
They're terrible. I'm like, I mean, yeah, I mean,
they're not very good and the Yankees look awesome, but it's
baseball, Susan, so things could be very random.
He's like, no, I know you're right.
You're right. I'm like, you never know, Yanks
are going to funk. Mets could get hot.
It's not like, you know, you playing against the team that
you're supposed to beat or that you just can't beat because
they're better or worse. Like, it's not Little League and
he's got some major leakers here.
So it's a little different. But imagine being, you know, at
least the context of this season.
Mets are hanging by a thread. Who knows?
Maybe they finish up well in Colorado.
Maybe they win another series, which would be, I believe their
first back-to-back series wins of the season, if I'm not
mistaken, right, and they kind of limp into the Subway Series
and you sweep them. And that's just, oh, I mean, the
level of toxicity. Maybe that's reason not to do
it. I think people would actually
try to kill each other. Not not literally, but I mean,
whether it's hosts, whether it's Colders, I mean, it would be
absolutely bonkers. My goodness.
But I'm Ford. I think it looks all right.
Jay, get a couple of, get a couple of messages up there real
quick if you can. Yes, Sir, we've also got a
couple callers waiting. Oh, we do.
Get them up soon. Yes, Sir.
OK, so there are they ready now or not yet?
Just a SEC, you'll see them pop. I got you.
Hey BSBT, is realignment being seriously discussed for the this
pending CBA or is this all still rumors?
No, it's far past the rumor stage.
Realignments absolutely going to happen because expansion is
absolutely going to happen. There is no doubt about that.
Expansion is going to happen in the NBA.
It's already happened in hockey, you know, years ago going out to
Arizona, Utah, you know, I mean, it's greed.
It's, it's also being opportunistic.
It's also about evening things out logistically, whether it's
in terms of proximity to other cities to, you know, offset and
mitigate some of the travel, which, which is a real thing by
the way, or just evening out divisions to make that just to
change the, the, the presentation.
I got no problem with it. I I, I really don't.
But the one thing that I would really push back on that is just
inherently unfair to the Yankees, the Mets, the Red Sox
and the Phillies. Not one of can you get that up
once more? Not one of those other.
I know you're doing a lot of things with the Coles.
Thank you, Jay. None of those other teams have
multiple, you know, big, big, big, big spenders like, you
know, the Orioles, the Pirates don't spend.
You know, the Guardians don't spend.
The Nats don't spend. I already hit the Great Lakes
there. The Braves spend a little bit
there, but the Marlins never spend.
The Rays never spend. Who knows what the expansion
team would do, but they wouldn't be good for a while because
they'd have, you know, the expansion draft and all that
stuff. Now, the Southwest would be, you
know, I don't want to skip over that.
My bad. Dodgers spend a ton.
Padres spend a ton. The Angels aren't, you know, as
low as some of the other lower teams.
Not high, but not embarrassingly low.
Seattle spends. I think the A's will start
cranking things up when they get to Vegas.
The Giants spend. Problem is, nobody good wants to
take the Giants money now. The Rockies don't spend.
The Royals don't spend. The Rangers spend a little bit,
the Astros, part of the reason they got rid of a lot of their
guys, they don't want to spend their owner.
That was a mandate. So that that to me is just
inherently unfair. That's a that is a stark
competitive disadvantage. And if you're OK with that,
well, I mean, it would be incredible to watch.
It would be incredible. And then the other thing too
now, like when, when the Mets get Soto from the Yankees,
right, it's like, OK, you got to see him twice in the Subway
Series. And the Yankee fans, like they,
I can promise you that Aaron Boone does not care what Juan
Soto's doing in Queens. Not one you didn't give a rat's
ass. Now, some fans are still
preoccupied with that and consumed with that foolishly,
but some of you still are. You know that.
But imagine now think about those big spenders and think
about every year when and there might be a salary cap so the the
economics will change, floor ceiling, blah, blah, blah.
But imagine those four teams going after the same dudes every
year in the offseason and then if you lose out, you got to face
them X amount of times. That's another byproduct that I
I think is interesting, but also a little bit unfair.
All right, J Rod, how about a couple of calls?
I want to get some mixed up here.
We got Joe B today. Who do we got there?
Jay yes. Sir, we've got Benny from DC.
All right, Benny. Benny from the Bronx.
Benny up in the Bronx. Benny.
What's going on? Benny.
Hey, what's going on BT? Can you guys hear me?
We got you loud and clear, Benny.
Thanks for making the call. What's up?
Oh, of course, no, no, I just, you know, like echoed.
I call you. I called you a couple weeks ago
and I listened to you on my drive home after after it's
recorded on my long drive home from from Maryland to DC.
But I just thought echoed again, thank you for all you do and I
love listening to your show. But no, I just wanted.
To I just? Want to talk a little bit about
the Knicks and how? Yeah, I'm getting to them.
You can get us going though. No.
No, I know you're getting to them.
I just, you know, I just, I'm, I'm pumped up right now and I'm
feeling really good about about tonight and I just want to hear
real quick, what do you think is going to happen tonight?
Game 2 at the Garden, coming off that, coming off 3 blowouts, I
mean base and and yeah. No, not.
Not. Basically, No, Benny.
The Knicks have won three in a three in a row.
Three playoff games in succession by 25 points or more
never happened in the history of the NBA.
Blowouts is an understatement. They're demolishing people.
Keep going. No, you're absolutely right and
no, I just want to hear your thoughts for tonight in Game 2
after, like I said, after these three blowouts and how we're
feeling tempering expectations. But I just want to make sure
that we, you know, the Knicks just keep this rolling.
But I just really want to see that.
I would love to see the Knicks sweep this series.
But man, I would. I mean, Knicks in five would be
I'm with you with the Knicks in five.
I don't, you know, sweep. I'm like, you know, I, I do
think the Knicks will win in five there.
But before I give you my spiel, what do you think?
You confident? Are you worried?
I mean, do you do you feel good about tonight?
Let me get a little. Bit I'm I'm beyond confident
there. You go well, OK, Well, that
could be dangerous. I don't know.
About it now, just about this thing, I was just about to say
I'm a little, I got a little Bandingo in me, you know, I'm a
Mets fan, I'm a Jets fan, I'm a Jets fan, I'm a Jets fan.
I'm. A Knicks fan.
I'm never confident. What do you mean?
You got a little, You got no. You're telling me you're really
confident Joe never thinks anything good is going to
happen, by the way, Joe later on the show.
So you know anti Joe B. Which I can't.
I can't wait. I can't wait for listen to Joe B
on the show. Later, he's he's.
Asking minds can. Be great and.
You know what, I think you said it on your show yesterday.
This is this. This team has all the
intangibles to do what they did in 73 and bring a championship
to New York. And like I said, I want to, I am
very confident, but at the same time, I'm also, you know, hey,
this is the Knicks. They got to get over that hump.
And I think I'd mentioned it last week where the Knicks
always create a villain. And they almost created one at
CJ McCollum in the first round. Well, they kind of did there for
a little bit when they lost those two in a row.
Yeah, I wasn't worried about the column.
Respect him, but I wasn't worried.
But keep going. Right.
But, you know, it was like that mindset.
Well, here we go again. The F you.
Yeah, that you. Know what that was, Benny?
I don't mean to interrupt you. I'm going to let you finish.
To me, that was a lazy story picked up by the you know, it's
always like the Knicks play there was going to be a villain.
It goes back to Reggie, you know, Pippin stepping over your
wing. Oh, here's Zoe and Larry Johnson
swinging. Like it doesn't always have to
be a villain like that was for CJ McCollum, who I've got
immense profound respect for. That man is a baller and there's
no nonsense and he's not wrapped up.
And all the other stupid social oh, look at what I'm wearing
walking into the stadium. Look at me looking like a clown
with a sweater that's 9 sizes too big in a pocketbook.
Like the guy just just comes to play ball.
He's like, I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm a competitor.
We'll see what happens. I've got great respect for CJ
McCollum. But the way that was force fed
like up the next, the next, next Knicks villain, the heck out of
here, nobody thought that was going to last.
Who was? No, you're right.
And you know what, forget the villain talk.
It was the way he closed that game out in Game 2 and the way
we just choked the game away. How the Knicks have trouble
recovering from games like that in playoffs past.
So for them to get over that hump and just respond with two
just blowouts makes me think that this team truly is
different. I love it has a path, you know,
clear path to the finals, all that, this, that and the other.
So yes, my confidence is is very high.
And I think the Knicks are going to, you know, weigh the lumber
down again tonight at the at the Garden.
Vibes obviously can be through the roof.
And I can't wait to watch it. But CTV baby, let's go next.
Good call, Benny. Awesome.
Enjoy the game tonight. Fantastic.
So listen, I think the Knicks going to win tonight.
I did notice. I remember saying yes 6.
I looked it up during the show. I wasn't sure but the Knicks
were 6 1/2 point favorites. Not that this means anything,
but it's maybe indicative of something.
Knicks were 6 1/2 point favorites yesterday.
It's been bet up to 7 1/2. I don't know if you get late
money the other way. I think if anything you get late
money on the Knicks, maybe bump it up to 8.
I mean a point, excuse me, a point and a half rise in a day
and 1/2 is pretty big for a semi final game.
But I think that I think the Knicks are in a fantastic spot.
And you know, before I even get into some of the analysis here,
prayers to Nick Nurse. I mean, the guy buried his
brother. Yes, I know that many of you
know the story. Nick Nurse, of course, the the
coach of the Sixers won a championship with the Raptors.
Good coach. Just been dealing with a lot of
stuff there. And I know he left the team.
They believe he's going to be back for the game.
Just horrible. So it it, you know, when you
look at it on a human level that it does ZAP away, you know, a
little bit of the like, you know, screw you, Philly, because
that is just that that's unspeakable.
I don't know how old his brother was, but Nick is not not an old
man at all. And so I would imagine it was it
was definitely tragic, at least some element of tragedy there.
So hopefully, you know, prayers up to Nick nurse.
I don't really know what else to say, but just prayers to him and
prayers to his family. I want to make sure I said that.
All right, so you've got Joel Embiid.
I mean, I am, I am just hunting him.
He is on my radar scope the moment I come out for the layup
line, I am going at him from the opening tip like they did the
other night. And I'm going to let him prove,
by the way, he's probable. So he's already a little bit
jacked. He's going to play, but he is on
the injury report. He's already diminished
physically. He's got a hip contusion.
He had the the appendectomy surgery and you know, Bridges
gave him a little pot, a little shot there.
Play with basketball is what it is.
You were dirty with me tough. And now he's got a bum ankle.
Oh, well, things happen. So I got a great stat for you.
And I gave this to J Rob before the show.
So in game one, the Knicks put Joel Embiid in 27 ball screen
situations. All right, Of the 27 times he
had the fifth worst result in his career in which he's been
targeted 25 times or more in those screen situations, you
know you're going to drop off. Here's Brunson floater.
Here's Brunson, pull up. I'm going to go buy you whatever
we're going to do. Are you going to come up on me a
little bit? You can try to do something
different. Bang, there's OG in the corner.
Boom, there's Bridges. Oh, yeah, by the way, there's
Cat. Now, hopefully Cat doesn't pick
up the two fouls like it did early.
I'm very curious to see what Mike Brown does.
I don't know if he's going to have to make an adjustment
because I think the adjustment was already made.
It will be different if Cat doesn't have foul issues.
You put Cat back out there and just play Cat 3839 minutes if
you have to, to go up a commanding 2O lead at that
point. But with the two fouls with the
Cat and then Mitch had fouls and then the first two possessions
that Mitch was in, it was hack a Mitch and it was Clank miss and
then it was Brick Clank O for 4M.
Brown's like enough of this hot 40.
Let's go now if again, if cat doesn't have those two fouls,
it's it's it's a different you're gonna you're gonna you're
gonna hit that differently that situation.
But if I'm if I'm Nick nervous, I'm gonna keep doing that.
It in theory, it should stagnate the Knicks offense like it just
becomes very not disjointed, but it lacks flow with the constant
stoppages, the balls out of Jalen Brunson's hand.
That's obvious stuff. Now the one thing I would expect
the Sixers to be a lot better at this aspect of the game Philly
was they what was the number? They were 8th, 8th fewest
turnovers in the NBA this season.
I mean, that's that's a really low number.
Your top ten, that's great. You protect the ball.
And the other game, game one, they had 25 points allowed off
turnovers. I think they had 19 turnovers
either inordinately high for them and 25 points off turnovers
for any NBA team, especially in the playoffs.
You're not winning, all right now, you know, the fact that the
Knicks were able to navigate some things, like you see the
final score, like if you didn't watch the every second of the
game like most of us did, but if you weren't able to, you jump in
when the Knicks are up and they're playing downhill and
then they, you know, up by 30 and then they just annihilate
them when it's all said and done.
You know, there were points in that game if if shots were
dropping, whether it's Edgecomb, whether it's Maxi who cannot hit
a bucket early, whether it's Embiid was one for six and he
was making his money at the strike.
You know, one for six from the field and then early on 6 for
six from the free throw line. You know, it it it could have a
very different presentation tonight.
You know, Jalen Brunson got red hot, fired off 11 straight
points. He had, I think it was 16, you
know, quick. And then there was, you know, in
terms of him scoring, there was a drop off.
He didn't need to. And then he comes in and he
drops 11 within a couple of minutes and he finishes.
I think he had 27 in the first half.
So I I think that every game is going to be different.
Obviously, you know, I mean, does the urgency remain there
for the Knicks? That I believe will be non
negotiable. I think the Knicks are so
connected and so locked in. Like, I'm not worried about the
Knicks suddenly reverting back to what worried me at points of
the season. Little soft, little sloppy
little ball dominant Jaylen Brunson.
I think it's very clear that the Knicks know how they want how
they want to play. I think it's very apparent that
the Knicks have found the way to get to their optimal level, and
not just by Brunson dropping 40, even though he almost did the
other night. He didn't have to because he
didn't have to play as much. But they have found the way to
maximize everybody's strengths. And listen, it's pro sports and
the other teams got good players, But so it's not going
to be a, you know, you're not going to win by 25 every night
and sweep them, I don't think, although the way they look now,
maybe they will. But that is all attributable to
outstanding adjustments by Mike Brown.
That's why I gave Mike Brown a ton of credit.
You know, even just putting Hot Porty in there.
Just Mitch can't can't, I can't. We can't have this.
Sit down. You're at 38%.
You know, I, I no, we're not getting points.
We're not getting possessions. We're stagnating the game
enough. And Hot Porty did a pretty
decent job and Alvarado was great.
You know what I think is going to be very interesting?
Well, there were two things that were said yesterday, Ubre.
And he didn't seem to be smiling.
So this will be interesting. You know, he was asked like,
yeah. What's it like defending Jaylen
Brunson? And I don't know, I don't think
I don't think that they're boys. I mean, they didn't go to the
same college. I I I don't I don't know their
relationship, but it didn't seem like ubery, ubery, Kelly ubery
that what whatever. I can't even say his name.
I got I got the Linux on my whatever.
Kelly Ubery his name and he's a good player.
I respect him, but I don't think he was joking around.
He's like he's got a big head. So when you when you try to lean
in on him, you know, you got to bang heads, that's a problem.
Then he talked about the braids, which which I can actually see
to an extent. You know, his haircut, the way
he wears his hair. If I'm up on somebody and I'm
I'm in their grill and those things are flopping around, you
know, you kind of swat and flies.
You try to visually it's a distraction and and could be a
deterrent. So it was an interesting take
that I never really thought of, but it didn't seem like he was
joking. So all right, kind of and he's
the kind of guy that if there's a little dust up tonight, a
little scrap, I can see Kelly Ubrey being in the middle of it.
Now the other thing that was said was by Jolene B and he was
asked if he thought that Mikhail Bridges is shot to the stomach
was dirty. Now I do and I got no problem
with it because that's the same dude who was dirty with Mitch
and we know the story. So tough.
I mean, if you want to be that guy and you want to be dirty and
you want to be on the floor, then you want to grab at
somebody's ankle that you know was already jacked up.
I'm sorry, but when I were skinny, small forward plants, a
forearm in your stomach. I don't care that you had
appendectomy surgery. I couldn't care less.
That's on you. That is a you thing, not us.
That's the way you got to play with a championship and I love
it. I absolutely love that he did
that, but M beads response was and it was pretty measured
because he knows he plays dirty. He knows he flops, he knows and
he's a hell of a player when he's healthy.
But the back part of that, he did say, I don't know if it was
dirty. So I want to be fair to Embiid.
He didn't say it definitely was. I'll say it for him it was, but
that's OK. But then he said, hey, listen, I
guess we're just going to have to do what we have to do or, you
know, we're going to have to play the same way.
Something like that. OK, OK, let's see who.
Let's see who delivers the first hard foul.
And I'll tell you what, if the Knicks are really as serious as
I think that they are, if I'm the Knicks, I'm the one who's
coming out and dropping that first hammer because let them
catch them retaliating. If they do something, you know
the refs are going to be on heightened alert.
This is the way it works, right? They go back and they look at
whether it's foul shots, if there was a massive discrepancy
one way or the other and there was and Nick's didn't need it,
but there was. And I'm not talking about this
year's in general. They will go, but they got to
follow their game report. The league will weigh in.
Hey, you missed that, You missed this.
Hey, these guys have a history. Watch this, You know, have a
tight whistle early between those dudes so it doesn't get
out of hand. They want to have a fight,
right? That's just the way the NBA
works. So the NBA will be on guard with
anything slightly below board early.
Why wouldn't why wouldn't you be the first one to do it?
I I don't mean that you crack somebody in the face.
I'm not talking about that, but somebody's rolling through on a
screen stick that shoulder out catch him in the jaw.
So what do it do it, you know, because what's going to happen?
The sixer will respond and they will get pinched.
Advantage, Nicks advantage twofold.
Nick sent the first shot, which is also a message, and now
Philly has been whistled for the retaliation.
Now, it could be a double foul thing.
I get that it might not work out exactly like that, but I'm not
taking the chance. And again, understand, I am
making a clear and obvious distinction between being dirty.
I'm not saying you take somebody heads off with somebody's head
off like Kurt Rambis when he got fouled on the layup years ago
with the Celtics and the Lakers. You know, I'm not saying you do
what Jr. Reed when the refs aren't
looking, you smoke somebody in the no, we're not.
I don't mean that you play basketball, but you push it as
far as you can and if they catch you a little bit, that's fine.
You know, just make sure it's not a flagrant too where you
getting bounced, but do it early.
All right, next call. What do we got there, Jay?
Got our buddy Frank in Monroe. Frankie up in Monroe Unleashed.
What's up, Frankie? Good morning, Brandon.
How are you? I'm good.
And what's happening? And JB, thank you for your
patience, man. I'm terrible.
I'm at the get off my lawn stage of my life, so doing things on
the phone and the computer makes my fucking brain bleed anyway.
But Frank, hold on, hold on. J Rod walked you through.
He made sure you were OK. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
boy right there. Listen, you know, I would like
to invite our listeners to go to Wikipedia and look up Sterling's
resume, his body of work, and then tell me why he didn't win a
Ford Fricker. He's not in the Hall of Fame.
Unbelievable. Joke Frank, I think I'm going to
I'm going to give you time to talk, I promise.
But I did this yesterday and it bothers me so much.
If you guys missed it, it's an individual.
We started to individualize the segment.
So what you're looking, if you're not watching the live,
what you're looking for is there just that it's about 9 minutes
and, and I went deep on it and it, it's really unfair.
And it's not just John Sterling, it's others.
Like he's 87. He didn't, God forbid, drop dead
of a heart attack at the age of 64, which is incredibly young.
He's 8. He's almost 90 years old.
I mean, I mean, to be a finalist for five, to win 5 championships
and had the final out, to have the final out for seven pennants
to call. Joe Torre's first win, his last
one, Jeter's first at bat, his last one, Matty Lee's only world
playoff appearances. What are we doing?
And. And Brandon?
Egregious missed by the Hall of Fame.
Everything he did before he got to the Yankees was unbelievable.
Yeah, but that does go over. Yeah, but but Frank, I I get it.
I the Hawks, I understand the Braves.
Well, the Braves came true, true.
The the Islanders, The Nets. But that's not the Baseball Hall
of Fames, you know. No, no, no, no.
But. But it's a Ford Frick.
No, it's radio. I thought, I thought Ford Frick
was just for baseball. I could.
Be wrong, OK, I'm pretty sure it's just baseball.
OK, OK. And then the other thing is I'm
the guy that called. I lived out in Vegas for 10
years. So yeah, yeah, yeah.
When I when I got there in O seven, the first couple of the
years that I was there that the affiliate played the Yankee
games on Saturday and Sunday. Right.
So it was great while I was driving around town or, or you
know, I had John Sterling and Susan on Saturday and Sunday.
It was like having my mother's Rigatoni and meatballs on
Sunday, being so far away from home, right?
It was like my little my little piece of home.
Yeah, my mom ate some meatballs ads and by.
The way aren't you out there when when they did that on
Saturday and Sunday weren't didn't you live out there?
Living in Las Vegas, I moved out there in well, I'll tell you
exactly. I I moved out there in 99.
Like, literally. December 15th, I had to actually
get out there. I had to agree to these terms.
And I'm like, yeah, I'm, I'm going anywhere to get on the
radio, to get on a bigger St. And I drove from Brooklyn all
the way to Las Vegas, and I stopped in.
Did that. Did that.
Drive 3 times. Oh my God.
I think it was Nashville, TN. I got a hotel down then in in
Texas. Oh, you went to.
You went 40. You.
You I. Went to Southern, Yeah, 'cause I
want to go through the Rockies, get hammered by the snow, you
know, And then I spent the night in Flagstaff, AZ Point.
I was out there for Y2K, so when, when that whole thing was
supposed to be a big deal. So that's how I was there. 99
until really 2000 and 2001, I don't remember.
I mean, I watched the Yankees because we had illegal cable on,
like my TV's with me and my roommates there, but.
And I was always betting games so I could get any game I wanted
at the casino. But no, I don't really.
I'd be lying if I said I remember listening to the
Yankees on the radio when I lived there.
I think it was the FAN affiliate for for O 7 and then probably
until 2010, then they stopped doing it, which was really
upsetting because it was like a piece of home.
I love having that on Saturday and Sunday was great, no
question. But anyway, that's my story,
dude. And, and, and just look up
Sterling's body of work. It's unbelievable.
I don't need to, I already know it, but no for the.
Listeners. I mean, for the listeners,
listeners, it's like unbelievable it that, you know,
it's it's crazy that he's not in the Hall of Fame all time
anyway. All right, thanks, Brandon.
I appreciate your time brother. My pleasure, Frank.
Good call. Thank you very much, buddy.
What do we got next? Who's up next, Jay?
We've got our man talking some Knicks, Benji.
Got to be Benji, a little Upper East Side action.
Benji, I know you're going tonight, buddy.
I know you're ready. Of course we're going 122 of the
last 144. What's it going to take to get
you out to the Knicks? Do the Knicks need to win by 95
points to get you? 1st, we need the formal invite.
You told me game one you were taking your wife.
I've got, you know, tonight. I've, I've got things, you know,
before my son's got a game tomorrow.
My daughter's got a game. Like I'm navigating a lot here
and I love it. But they're young ones.
So I, I don't want to miss anything, man.
I'm certainly not missing Nick playoff games on the TV, you
know, and I'd love to go to the Garden, although I got to tell
you, Benny. So maybe maybe the Eastern
Conference finals, if you're kind enough, I would take you up
on that. But this nonsense, that's just
the quick aside outside of the Garden.
It's getting dangerous, man. And all these cloud chasers with
the with the Instagram and the clicks.
Look at me, it is they they've got to start policing that area
more. And I'm all for having fun.
Trust me, I have been in the middle of some craziness after
Yankee World Series wins in the Bronx and draws.
I I've been young and I've been nuts.
But this is bordering on now a little dangerous here.
It really is. I'm with you, BT I'm, I'm
usually in and out of there. I'm a raving.
Don't get me wrong. I'm a raving lunatic within the
building. I am screaming like crazy.
But I'm, that's why I don't take my, my, my, my sons to the to
the games because it's just too vicious out there.
So I'm with you. Yeah, I'm with you.
I take them to regular season games but not playoff games.
Did you see the video and what I'm really referring to?
Did you see the video of the Sixer fan having the jersey
ripped off his off his back? Did you see that?
I did, yeah. It's it's it's getting, it's
getting ugly beyond it's. Disgraceful.
I mean, really, I don't care if you've been a Nick fan since
Bernard King. If you do that, number one, it's
it's borderline criminal intent and activity and you, you got to
look in the mirror. You've got to be a better
person. I don't care how much how many
gummies you took or how many vape hits you took or how many
surf sides or vodkas you drank. How about you police yourself a
little self restraint? What kind of animal are you?
Why? What are we doing?
You can now, even if the Sixer fan was walking out there, he's
like, oh, Nick suck. And like, even if he was the
antagonist, you don't put your hands on somebody.
It really is disgraceful. It's I wish that guy, I actually
wish that that guy was like a four tip black belt and he just
levelled 3 or 4 people. You just don't do that to
somebody. I'm totally with you.
You know, I'll yell at people just in the spirit of the game,
like Sixers fans, like hit the road, like get out of here.
You know, that's everything. But.
But yeah, when you, when you're taking to, to, to to grabbing
somebody or any violence, of course, inexcusable, not
acceptable. As far as the game tonight, you
know, I'm feeling great, but part of me just has to expect
that the Sixers are going to play better cause 'cause Maxi
had about as bad a game as he could have had.
B looked like, you know, he was his foot was dipped in in, in
quicksand. But I I don't think.
That part's going to change. He's really hobbled.
I love it. I relish it as well.
What I said before I called on Monday, I said the two keys were
the foul trouble. What happened 5 minutes into the
game? Cat gets two OK, we were lucky
to avoid any issues with that. Cat played another terrific game
threading the needle. Great pass to Alvarado back door
on that one play. That's.
Beautiful. Yeah, a little reverse layup
that was. Great, great pass to Mikhail for
a layup as well. And I mentioned the other thing
I said, the Sixers bench is horrifically bad.
Quentin Grimes is an absolute embarrassment.
His pump shaking. He looks like he sees spazzing
on the floor. He's pathetic.
And Kelly Ubrey, you shouldn't be surprised at all.
I can't speak to his character. That's the tsunami, Poppy.
That guy's a joke. We we, we, we will.
We will discard these guys in four or five games.
BT I'm not worried about it at all.
Let's trounce him again, send another message.
I love all the positive attention and it's like been
basically been 10 days of non-stop praise of the Knicks.
They've earned it. This this has been well plus 135
over the last four games. We're doing stuff that no other
teams have done. I know, same game plan OG.
My last point OG this might this might be the best I I don't
think I've seen a Knick play better in a in a playoff stretch
than I've seen with OG shooting. 63% from the field, about 60%
from three. He's averaging 21 and eight.
He's been absolutely, breathtakingly good.
The same goes for Cat, who's basically reinvented himself as
another version of Jokic but a better shooter.
It's incredible. It's a good way to look at that.
That's an interesting way to look at it.
Little Jokic to his game. And you know, even though we can
always shoot with Minnesota, you're hitting three.
He's good foul shooter. Yeah.
I mean, he is. He is morphed and he's expanded
his game and it's made a more dangerous and by extension, it's
made the Knicks a lot more dangerous and a lot less
predictable. That is a massive win for the
Knicks. Everybody bought in.
Mike Brown had some some subsets to the way that he initially
wanted to play. It took a little while for guys
to figure out their role. Bronson had to at least change
things a little bit. Massive credit for just not
pounding the rock. And everybody stepped up.
And it just seems like a team. I mean not only see they look
like a team that is is ready to go on a championship run and a
lot of twists and turns I'm sure coming, but I do not expect the
Sixers series to be one of them. So enjoy the game tonight bro.
Thanks. You got it.
All right, one more call. Who's up there?
What do you got there? We got our buddy Joe D from
Staten Island. Joe, What's going on, Joe?
Oh, Joe. Oh, not, not in tune.
But you might not even be there. You might just be in the living
room with the like. You might not be out of the
living room with just the TV on. I was.
Just chilling, all right? Anybody else or no?
No one right now, all right. We gotta wrap it up soon anyway
cuz we're gonna do Beningo. And wait, I've gotta say, did
you see, I know you know, you just, you know, did the Little
Mix thing on the fans outside. Did you see the video of Jr.
Smith as well? I did, yeah.
That's part of the yes, dude, yeah.
Trampling one of your own? Not legends, but come on, he's
pretty. Jr.
Is notable. Good dude, man.
I like Jr. Smith.
Great guy offer too. Yeah, I just the problem is even
if the intentions aren't evil, when you have that massive
humanity that hopped up on many different substances.
And I get it, you young have fun.
And then you have phones and you just have this uncontrolled
energy and you've got TV cameras and, and, and, and it's like an
it's, it's an invitation to step outside of your normal
behaviour. And it is.
It is dangerous. I mean, I mean, the phone is
definitely the biggest substance in all of it.
Just the the potential fame and glory you could get from going
viral at one of these Nicks. Like did you see the movie Marty
Supreme? No.
So one of the side characters, this is crazy.
He's a really big dude. He goes by Fatrick Ewing.
Winner at center at 7 feet from Georgetown #33 Co captain
Fatrick Ewing. Wait, let me find this guy.
He so he was exactly. What what they would say that is
word for word? So this guy, he was discovered
in one of those in one of those Nick's videos and he became like
the side character in one of those in like the movie Marty
Supreme. Are you serious?
One of those the lead characters.
Maybe, maybe people should still, you know, keep messing
around. Maybe you get your big break.
But that's, I guess there's just like, yeah, there's like a sense
of just glory chasing with it. I think.
I know. And it's really, you know, I
don't want to impugn the fandom of everybody out there because I
know that that's not the case. But it's really even hard to
just differentiate between who really is a Knick fan and who's
just trying to get some clicks. I don't.
Know. Let's see, Tiki just texted me
here. Oh, nice.
Tiki's going to. Come on.
Let's go. Absolutely.
Yeah. Hey, brother.
Absolutely. Let me know when you want to do
it. Yeah, he was.
I sent up a text I think yesterday and he was down with
his daughters who were great. They are like national.
I think that the name of their team is JBAI.
Remember when I was working with Teague, they were just starting
his daughter Brooklyn, right? She's the oldest and she's
great. Both girls are really good and
they they're like they traveled everywhere.
A lot of Orlando like Disney like these massive cheer.
Huts. And it's not like, oh, yeah,
yeah, yeah. I mean, it's like the
choreographed nature and the athletic ability of these young
ladies, these young, I think Brooklyn's probably now about
12. Oh no, wait.
Keep going. Keep going.
Yeah, no. Anyway, so he's, you know, he
just texted me and he's like, dude, sorry for not getting
back. He's like, I was travelling.
I'm like, yeah, so we'll get Tiki on.
We'll set that up for next week at some point.
A lot of giants just kind of catch up a little bit, get Tiki
on a leash. That's going to be awesome.
Looking forward to having My God I.
Didn't know. So I knew our buddy Benny
Planner. I knew he was in Uncut Gems.
He, you know, he, he's got a little.
That's great in that. That's one of my favorites.
I didn't know he was in Marty Supreme as well.
Sessa was in there. Really.
You. Don't you don't remember
Francesa? In, oh, in on good gems.
Yeah, yeah, of course. He was good there too.
He played super basically himself, you know?
Oh my God. Was he the yo?
He was. He was one of the gambler dudes,
right? Like he was one of the
auctioneers. Everything were at a restaurant.
Remember when Adam went into the restaurant?
Yes, Mike was good there. Mike's been in a lot of that
stuff, man. Wow, YouTube.
I've seen old commercials of Mike with Bill Parcells, like
steakhouse stuff. I mean, my goodness.
Yeah, it's Mike Princess. So that's that's what you're
going to get. That's the guy.
But no. So our our other guy was in that
movie. Yeah, Ben.
Benji Kleiner, our boy. Hey, listen, I was in a movie.
So you think I'm not that impressed here, man.
I was in a did you know that? I was in a movie?
Did You Know? That I still need to see it.
It's the baseball movie you got to see.
It dude, it's called Rally Caps. Rally Caps.
That's the name of the movie I'm checking.
That. Hey, you know, listen, you know
that I, I like to weave in some youth content, youth sports
content, right? If you are a parent, young kids,
totally clean, not a single curse.
Good soundtrack. Think of a mixture between like
Stand by Me and The Sandlot. Yo, a little bit of a hybrid
there. Yeah, it's it's I'm only in at
the end. I'm playing myself.
I'm announcing the big championship game with my guy.
I'm watching this right now. Oh it's great with Coach Ball
Game who's massive on. The Oh yeah, no, I know who he
is. Are you really comment on?
I mean, he comments on a lot of your posts, so I've just kind of
become tapped in. Yes, he's #1.
He's. He's so good with the youth
stuff and he played baseball at Brown Ivy League or brilliant,
great guy. And, and I remember when I
filmed the when I filmed the scenes, it was a Saturday and it
was at a camp up in up in New York.
So my nephew, who's the star of the movie, that's why they asked
me literally the the star of the movie.
His name is Carson, like a legitimate Hollywood actor and
more importantly, a great young man.
Like he still plays ball. He's not one of these Hollywood
kids, like very grounded. His parents do a great job.
His name is Carson. I'm going to get him on the
show. And he was in that He was in
Stranger Things. He was in some stuff with Justin
Timberlake. He Disney voice over like a
legitimately accomplished actor since.
He was just with my look alikes bro.
He's, he's out here with Stranger Things in JT, all
right. That's right.
So he was the star and and the the director and the producer of
the project is a upstate New York based director.
And he happened to be a fan of mine.
Like he was a fan of my work from when I was on 10:50 and
then obviously National. And when he found that, I don't
even know how it came up, but I think Carson went to shoot and
'cause he was, he was at this camp for like months, 'cause
they were, he literally was the star.
So he was shooting every day. And I think they just asked my
sister-in-law, hey, would you know, would BT be interested in
if I wrote in a role for him? I'm like, hell yeah, man.
And I probably made, I probably lost money, to be honest with
you, on gas. Like, I mean, I didn't make any
money. I was doing it just for my, my
nephew and for the family. My kids are in it.
They're they're little, they're so young, they're in the stands.
And my you could see like as well.
And I remember after driving back, racing back because I had
to go up. The kids were up there, but then
I had to go back another day and I'm racing from upstate New York
to get to I think it was our eight U playoff game in the fall
that I did not want to miss because I coach and it was so
much fun. And I remember when they put me
in coach ball game up there, there was no script.
They're like, listen here, here's the sequence.
You know, base hit left field, so and so scores.
So just write down the names and do whatever you guys want.
Riff, just go. And the cameras were rolling and
everything that we said literally every.
And it's a good 20 minute sequence.
Like I'm, I'm not just one word. Like he and I are really at the
end of it. And I mean, we're, you know, we
were riffing for hours and the way they edited and cut it, cut
it, they did a great job. So anyway, it's a good feel good
movie for kids, you know, for parents with your kids.
It's called Rally caps Check it out.
It's really it was a lot of fun. It was good.
You know, maybe the next movie I can actually make some money,
you know, enjoy the movie here, especially now.
But. Dude, I thought I mean I I've
had some crazy thoughts, but this is this is so mad.
I was like, imagine you did like a Curb Your Enthusiasm type show
or movie about doing a sports podcast.
Like I don't even know some something funny there.
Not you necessarily. Could be.
I guess it should. Be why not me?
What are you saying? I'm not funny it.
Should be you I guess in this scenario hey do.
Us a favor Jay hold on. I love the the mentality and
every forward thinker. Let's let's kind of conceal some
of these ideas, you know, because now they're out for the
whole world to steal them. Oh, yeah.
Wait, no, you're right. You're right.
I gotta get a patent on this. Well, it's too late.
These are things that that you and I got to discuss off the air
down the line. And, you know, then we could
maybe find a way to implement some different stuff.
You know what I mean? Great idea.
I love it. I love it.
Curb was awesome. I thought Curb was so much
better than my. #2 #2 all times. No no, Curb is my #2 show all.
Time. Well, I'm saying, what's number
one? Seinfeld.
Sopranos. Sopranos.
OK, OK, I bet you meant in the in the in the comedy genre.
So did you like Seinfeld? I'm a little split.
It's because I think it doesn't, it doesn't play as much into the
idea of like the jester and like the absolute clown that Curb
Your Enthusiasm does like it. It just doesn't have that huge
hero aspect that I think I really love about Curb.
Curb is I just think it's better, you know, and I mean,
listen, Jerry's a legend to me. I don't know.
I when it was like on, I don't know at what point of it's
running. I was still in college.
I was toward the end of college and like, everybody would sit
around and, you know, hammer back beers before we'd go out.
And I'm like, I'd rather watch friends.
I want to look at Rachel. I want to watch Rachel.
No. That's actually funny because
oh, I love it's super, you know, it's pretty corny.
I still think, oh, it's a little corny.
I mean, they kind of pioneered the laugh track sitcom thing.
No, I think 3's company kind of. Piped Oh, wait, OK, yeah, well,
you definitely, you definitely have that all.
Too young for that. That was really good.
I loved Friends. I listen, it's subjective, so I,
I hear you. I never thought Friends was
corny. I I just thought Friends was
really well written. I thought it was witty because
Ross was smart. Yes, very smart.
Joey was, you know, a clown in a good way.
You know, Rachel was just an absolute smoke show.
You know, they rolled in. You know, I'm a Burt, not Burt
Reynolds top top not what the hell TomTom Selleck think about
some of the guests they had on there.
I mean, just rolled in for a minute.
You know, Courtney Cox was I love the show.
So I mean, it's just it was awesome.
The coffee shop scenes. I love that it was fun.
If I see it now, I keep it on. You can't turn it off.
I don't turn it off. No, I don't.
No way. Because, yeah, like I that's, I
guess it is to me. It was like it is a kind of
corny show, at least to me. To me.
I got you. But.
It's. Very wholesome and like heart
warming and like kind of like slightly funny in a way that
like I've always enjoyed friends.
Oh, yeah, I think it's really witty.
And, and Chandler was, to me, what had some of the best, some
of rest in Peace, man, some of the best comedic timing of
anybody in the history of television.
Easily he, he. Was now I know he got very thin
and he was, he had his demons and kind of changed, but early,
early him and even when he was battling his demons, I mean his
timing was phenomenal. The way he delivered his line,
just witty, on point and he had the mannerisms too.
He was almost like the only guy who was like breaking the 4th
wall, like not fully breaking the 4th wall, but like he was
really his own character within the show like it was.
Just well, so was Joey. Joey Trippi, Come on.
How you doing? I remember when I was first
watching it, I was originally all about Courtney Cox.
She was my favorite. She's beautiful the first
season, and then Rachel comes back with the different hair,
with the highlights. I'm like, it's Rachel.
And it never stopped after that. It was Rachel forever and it
still is. All right, man, let me bounce.
We got Joe B coming up at 2:00 today, so that will be a
premiere on the channel. We'll cut this up.
J Rod's going to get a bunch of the stuff out, the Yankees, the
Knicks stuff, obviously different segments.
So if you guys are just jumping in now, you could watch what you
watch when you want to watch it. That was really not that I'm
surprised, but really good to hear back from Tiki.
So we will get Tiki on next week.
Welcome him to the family, welcome him to the show.
My old partner of Wow, jeez, 10 years on the network level and
about a year and a half or so on WFAN, maybe a little more than a
year and a half maybe about that.
So we'll have some fun with the Giants and he's adjusted really
well. And he'll tell you too.
Like when we started together, he didn't know baseball.
He didn't care about baseball. Knowing, you know, I know him
better. I know Evans got to know him
very well too, clearly. And Sean, I know Tiki better
than anybody in the building 'cause I was with him so long,
you know, and we both had kids at the same time.
Like you go through that with somebody in the same room, you
talk about everything and you know, he to see he's he's worked
really hard to, you know, to to to button up some of the
baseball holes that he had. Admittedly, like he says it.
I'm not talking at a school. And it doesn't surprise me
because he he really is one of the smartest people I know.
Like there's no fake intellect, no bullshit.
Tiki is as well read about a variety of topics as she's about
anybody that I know, maybe other than my sister, who is the
smartest person that I actually do know.
So Teak will be on next week. Aaron Boone will be on next week
today, Joe Beningo, like it, subscribe it, get it out there.
More traction, more. The algorithm says, Yep, we want
to get this out there. The better we do, the better we
do, the more we could do. So Jay, Rod, I will talk to you
in a little bit. Enjoy the Knick game tonight.
I don't think the neck, the Knicks stop them.
I'm going to say the Knicks, Knicks will win.
I'm going to say the Knicks win. I'm going to go 113 one O 5.
I think it's going to be a little bit tighter.
I think they pull away a little bit late, not necessarily at the
buzzer, but I think the Knicks win by about 8:00 or so, which
is interesting because the spread is up to 7 1/2.
I wouldn't even won't even factor in that.
But enjoy the Knicks, enjoy the Yanks, see what the Mets can do
in Colorado. And I will see you later with
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