1 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:12,160 leash. Are you listening? 2 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:13,080 Can you hear me? Hear me. 3 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:14,680 This is on leash. Are you listening? 4 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:15,600 Can you hear me? Hear me. 5 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:17,160 This is on leash. Are you listening? 6 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:18,080 Can you hear me? Hear me. 7 00:00:18,080 --> 00:00:19,680 This is on leash. Are you listening? 8 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,360 Can you hear me? This is on leash. 9 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:25,240 Are. You listening? 10 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:28,880 Love the music that is AJ Rod production. 11 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,720 What's going on everybody? BT unleashed on this Wednesday, 12 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:33,720 got a big day, got a big show for you. 13 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,120 Obviously Nixon, Sixers, a lot of Yankee stuff. 14 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:41,840 I am going to say stuff about Brian Cashman today that I 15 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:43,440 honestly never thought that I would say in my life. 16 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:45,480 So we're going to jump into. Got some Hall of Fame stuff as 17 00:00:45,480 --> 00:00:47,560 well. I don't know if you guys caught 18 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:50,600 this MLB realignment thing floating around will do that. 19 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:52,760 So let's jump into it. Let's get to it. 20 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,080 Today's show was always brought to you by my friends at Sullivan 21 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:56,800 Pepain. 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Bro, That's right, Joe B. 33 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,560 Now, unfortunately, the Mets had a little weather out in 34 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,920 Colorado, so the Mets weren't able to lose, but I'm pretty 35 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:37,840 sure we'll find a way to to ratchet up the emotions with 36 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:39,040 Joe. You don't really have to try too 37 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:40,760 hard with Joe. So what we're going to do is 38 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:43,840 we're going to play this at 2:00 today as a premiere for the 39 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:45,760 channel. So he won't be on the live 40 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:49,160 stream, but Joe and I would imagine I'll have Joe for a good 41 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:51,320 hour. You know, obviously a lot of 42 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:54,960 Mets stuff, some Jet stuff and, and really like what I did with 43 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,440 Michael and what I did with Don, what I did with Stephen A, what 44 00:01:58,440 --> 00:01:59,520 I've done with all my guests here. 45 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:02,600 It's conversation. And you know, I've known Joe for 46 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:04,640 a long time. I, I was texting with his wife 47 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:08,680 Terry yesterday because you text Joe and generally Terry is the 48 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:10,600 one who gets back to you. Hey, send me the, if she's the 49 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,000 best, send me the e-mail. Want to make sure everything's 50 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,120 good. So she basically loads it up for 51 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,680 Joe and then just Joe and then Joe just pops in front of the 52 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:21,280 camera and then Joe is just Joe. So it's going to be an awesome 53 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:22,040 day. Let's go. 54 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:25,720 I'm fired up about the Knicks. I do realize it is really hot in 55 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,560 my home for some reason. I don't know why I'm wearing 56 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:31,560 this like like it's like it's 13° out of wearing this. 57 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:33,840 I can't even take it off. So I got nothing under it. 58 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:35,920 I just got bare skin. I got J Rod. 59 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:38,160 It's hot in here. My wife's not feeling. 60 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:40,480 Cashmere hoodie out. It is. 61 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:42,960 It's actually, it's a good one. My wife's not feeling well. 62 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:45,800 She's got the fireplace on, she's got the heat on, but she's 63 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,800 smoking me out of my own home here, which probably is not by 64 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,880 accident, but it is. It is all good now. 65 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:54,800 Yeah. You're good by the way, Jay, 66 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:55,560 Let. Me, just get out of the. 67 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:56,960 Way J Rod. Good. 68 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:58,320 I'm good. You good? 69 00:02:58,560 --> 00:02:59,560 Yeah. Oh, yeah, I'm good. 70 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,520 You recovered from the ousting of yourself. 71 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,560 Fix everybody okay like. Yeah, I mean, listen. 72 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:10,280 You're healing. I've I've I've definitely what's 73 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,360 the word? I've healed from my wounds. 74 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,160 I've recovered my wounds have recovered. 75 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,200 However, yesterday I was thinking I was like, dude, this 76 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,040 guy would have hated if I did this. 77 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:23,600 Like I was like, imagine if on Monday I came through with like 78 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:25,880 a Celtic shirt. I ripped it off and put the 79 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,240 Knicks shirt on. I was like, I can't do that. 80 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:30,160 I was like, you would have hated that. 81 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:31,080 I would. Have crushed you. 82 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,320 No, listen, I'll, I'll bowl for a heel turn. 83 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:36,000 I'm all for a little fun. You can do whatever you want. 84 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,600 But you're a Celtics guy, man. You don't need to change for the 85 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:40,840 show. You're a Celtics guy, albeit a 86 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:43,240 Celtics guy without a team to currently root for. 87 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:46,600 But now that would have not got CJI wouldn't want you to do that 88 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,480 because you've garnered a lot of respect in the short time that 89 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:53,080 you have really been introduced to the world as as my producer 90 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:53,920 here. Big time. 91 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,480 Yeah. And listen, that there's one of 92 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:58,920 the things about about the unleashed brand and one of the 93 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:02,760 things about me, you know, right or wrong, crazy opinions, you 94 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,520 know, miss a story by a mile. I mean, it happens to everybody. 95 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,840 But like one of the characteristics that that is not 96 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,400 negotiable for me is authenticity. 97 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:13,560 And that would be the exact you know. 98 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:15,800 Antithesis. Well, yeah, it would be the 99 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,600 antithesis, the opposite. Look at you start chart, trying 100 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:20,800 to church things up a little bit and get the shit right. 101 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:22,360 Yeah, Yeah. So we can't have that. 102 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,080 So remain true to who you are. Oh, by the way, before I get 103 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,440 into the Yankee stuff, you were telling me something. 104 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:28,520 I think it was after. Yes. 105 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,960 No, I guess it would have been Monday's show where you were at 106 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,280 Yankee Stadium over the weekend and something happened to you 107 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:36,200 that that really has never happened before. 108 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:38,240 No. Before you tell me. 109 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:41,480 And before you tell us, I can't tell you how excited he was when 110 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:42,960 he was telling me. Go ahead, J Rod, hit it. 111 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,080 Dude, I mean, I was telling all my friends last night too. 112 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:50,120 So on Monday during the show, somebody messaged me and was 113 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:54,120 like, yo, Jay, I saw you at the Yankee game Sunday. 114 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:56,040 I'd you know, I didn't want to bother you. 115 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:57,880 And I was like, dude, please bother me. 116 00:04:57,880 --> 00:04:59,200 Please come up and say something. 117 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:03,360 First time getting a little unleashed recognition and we 118 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,720 what's better than that? A little ego boost on a on a 119 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:08,040 Monday that's. Great. 120 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:10,600 Now you've got to learn, you got to have the game to parlay that 121 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:12,640 into stuff downstream. I'll tell you, I'll tell you a 122 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:14,480 very quick aside, right? I didn't even think I would say 123 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,520 this, but I'm just thinking about, you know, when people 124 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:18,480 start to I'm married, so I'm done. 125 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:20,160 But you're not, you're just starting. 126 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:23,280 You can really parlay this if you if you have if you have 127 00:05:23,280 --> 00:05:26,840 things lined up. So this was, oh God, what was 128 00:05:26,840 --> 00:05:28,600 the year? I guess it would have been. 129 00:05:28,840 --> 00:05:33,440 And ironically, I used to listen to Joe every single early 130 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:35,320 morning. I was doing like a paid 131 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:37,720 internship at Fox 5. Good day, New York, right? 132 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,200 And it was Jim Ryan was there, Maria Maria Gennaro, who was 133 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:44,040 great. Anyway, just an awesome 134 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,440 experience. And I, I made very little money, 135 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:48,680 but it was really a good chance to see the business. 136 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,840 Like I was running scripts up to them on the set and brought me 137 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:54,040 on camera a couple times. I was doing some research, 138 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:56,800 helping with some stories, you know, bringing all the the A 139 00:05:56,840 --> 00:05:59,600 listers or you know, sometimes C listers into the green room. 140 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:04,840 I had a blast, right? So I remember, I guess it would 141 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:07,760 have been 99 and Joe was doing overnights there and I was still 142 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:09,560 living at home. I was just a year or so out of 143 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:13,400 college, didn't have any money, didn't have any any full time 144 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:14,760 job yet. I was trying to break into the 145 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:17,120 industry as as you would imagine, which is not easy, 146 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:20,960 especially back then. Anyway, I'm driving in, I think 147 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:24,360 I was getting up at like 2:00 in the morning in Brooklyn driving 148 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:26,040 in. And of course I'm listening to 149 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:27,880 my guy Joe B. I'm trying to find a parking 150 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,760 spot and I'm listening to Joe. So so it is kind of funny that 151 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,680 Joe's coming on today that this trigger triggered the story, 152 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,400 which I don't think I've even thought about this in so long 153 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:40,240 and I have to find this. So what happened was at that 154 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,840 point, the Yes network was not born yet. 155 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:47,280 I believe that the Yankees were still on MSG and obviously still 156 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:51,840 on some Pix stuff. So they they started a deal. 157 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:55,520 They were on Fox 5 a couple of years, right? 158 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:59,000 And Timba Carver was part of the broadcast team, right? 159 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:01,640 And I liked him letting Yankee fans in. 160 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:05,760 I loved them anyway because it was the same building. 161 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:07,840 Good day, New York, Fox 5, all that stuff. 162 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:10,840 They're like, hey, you know, we have an idea. 163 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,760 You know, I was, I was pretty much just done playing college 164 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:16,000 baseball. They're like, we think that you 165 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:20,640 can be in the Yankee promos. I'm like, this is a true story. 166 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,040 I swear to God. I'm like, what? 167 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:26,440 Yes. So they give me like 300 bucks 168 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,200 and even though I had a bunch of Yankee jerseys, I had to get 169 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:31,720 like the official 1. So like I go to the Yankee team 170 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:36,560 store in Manhattan and I get a Yankee jersey and I had 171 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:39,440 pinstripe pants from the summer team that I was playing on. 172 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:42,360 I get an authentic Yankee lid cuz I had a lot of different 173 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:44,400 ones. And I get blue socks, like blue 174 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,720 stirrups kind of deal. And, and I go and I shoot this. 175 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:51,720 It must have taken 4 hours where I've got the green screen and 176 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,280 I'm swinging a bat. True, swear to God, swinging the 177 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,360 bat, fielding ball, like throwing all cool thing. 178 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,840 So say if Paul O'Neill would hit a home run. 179 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:01,760 This used to happen all the time, right? 180 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,920 But I don't have it. I and I and I've looked for a 181 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:06,920 couple of years ago, I can't even find it right. 182 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,440 So say, if O'Neill hits a home run, there would be this little 183 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:15,400 2 second transitional video where you would actually see me 184 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:17,640 and it would have like a blue, you know, instead of the green 185 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:20,400 screen, like the nice blue background Yankee logo. 186 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,400 And you would see my face a little taking a swing. 187 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:27,280 Or if somebody made a great like I was that little video real 188 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:29,280 transition. So, you know, talking about 189 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:33,480 somebody doing it was wild. So all my boys could recognize 190 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:34,919 me. But I remember being in bars 191 00:08:34,919 --> 00:08:37,280 like when I was young and I'm like, yo, that's you know, 192 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,960 that's that's me up there, by the way, you know, so as you get 193 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,280 your little taste of of fame, you know, somebody recognize 194 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:45,120 you. Imagine that. 195 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,720 Imagine being in the hand to Bible. 196 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:49,840 Imagine being in New York City bars. 197 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:51,720 And I was going out all the time back then because I was young 198 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:54,760 and I was single and being in a bar and trying to get your back 199 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:56,760 on and talking or just hanging out with your boys. 200 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:57,840 Yeah. Like, yo-yo. 201 00:08:58,280 --> 00:08:59,640 Oh, wait. Tito just said a home run. 202 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:00,960 Hold on. I should be coming up pretty 203 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:02,600 soon. That is too cool. 204 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:03,200 I. Can't. 205 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:05,960 Find it. I know you need to like go to 206 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,840 the archives. Probably no, no, I did to the 207 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:11,960 point where because I wanted, I didn't want it for me anymore. 208 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:16,960 I wanted to really show my kids and and about God, they must 209 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:18,280 have. It's probably about five years 210 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,200 ago. I went, I contacted Fox and you 211 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,440 know, hey, is there any way you can retrieve this from the video 212 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,600 library? Because I know the video library 213 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:28,160 because I used to have to pull stuff when they would do like a 214 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:29,840 couple of minutes of sports on the morning show. 215 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:32,400 They couldn't find it and I don't have it. 216 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:35,720 It's not on YouTube. It is nowhere, but that is true. 217 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:37,760 How funny is that? That is so cool. 218 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:40,160 That must be found. It has to be. 219 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,720 It has to be, dude, I was. So I was having so much fun. 220 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:48,440 All right, the 2026 Yankees are different, all right? 221 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:51,280 They are different. And there's a characteristic 222 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:55,400 that's beginning to develop within this team that's going to 223 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:59,080 seem pretty basic, but only the great ones have it. 224 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:02,120 And I'm not prepared to say the Yankees are a great team yet. 225 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:04,600 You know, first, let's get Ben Rice back in the lineup. 226 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:06,560 Let's see. I know Roldan and Cole got 227 00:10:06,560 --> 00:10:09,240 knocked around in their rehabs last night, but I'm not too 228 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:10,640 worried about that. You just kind of, you know, 229 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:12,040 working on the fastball, whatever. 230 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:15,560 And they've got to come back and and things need to work out the 231 00:10:15,560 --> 00:10:18,400 way that I think that they will. And then we'll see what happens 232 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,040 when certain players transition to the bullpen, certain starters 233 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:22,640 right now. We'll see what happens with 234 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:24,200 Volpe. We'll see what's up with 235 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:26,360 Stanton's calf. I mean, he hasn't even run yet. 236 00:10:26,560 --> 00:10:29,640 So Dominguez, a little runway here and his athleticism has 237 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:31,840 played well. He's actually hit pretty well 238 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,720 for the right side. Either way, what you're 239 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:38,160 beginning to see with this Yankee team is that they detest 240 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:40,840 losing. And that seems so basic like, 241 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:42,920 well, what? What pro team? 242 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:46,120 We don't what athlete doesn't hate losing? 243 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:50,520 You'd be surprised how many guys just don't care. 244 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:55,200 I mean, we are in the early stages of May and I can promise 245 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,640 you there's already, depending upon how young some of the teams 246 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:00,200 are, because if you're young, you're trying to establish 247 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:02,600 yourself. But I can promise you there's a 248 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:07,280 there's at least 789 situations where it's already not healthy 249 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:09,480 in the locker room. It's already like, you know, 250 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:11,320 start to punch the clock a little bit. 251 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:14,200 They know they have no shot. They know they've got no upside. 252 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:17,720 See, the thing that I always loved, aside from the great 253 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:21,120 players, Bernie was great, Tina was great, Jeter was one of the 254 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:24,000 best, MO was phenomenal, was the best Petit. 255 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:27,960 I mean, all this and even their secondary players like Brosius 256 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:32,800 and maybe a Tim Raines or Chili Davis or Ruben Sierra or a guy 257 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:34,960 like that. Dave Justice when he came here 258 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:38,960 after that trade, though, like those Yankees, while they were 259 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:43,800 just overflowing with in certain years, all time talent. 260 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:45,520 And I'm not saying that this team quite has that. 261 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:48,640 I'm not saying that. But the common denominator was 262 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,520 they refused to quit. They were they just they they 263 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:56,440 they loathe losing. They despised it. 264 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:59,680 And what you start to see now from this team, I thought the 265 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:02,160 reason why I'm talking about this now is it really hit me 266 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:06,040 last night. So I'm watching the game and my 267 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:09,640 son had, I think he may have had a basketball game the first time 268 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:11,480 that Elmer Rodriguez pitched, right. 269 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:13,800 And I got to watch more of the game than he did. 270 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:18,040 And my daughter had something last night and he had something. 271 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:21,080 And usually we split time. So anyway, I took him last night 272 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:23,160 and I had to miss one of her games. 273 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:24,960 Whatever. So we get back a little bit 274 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,480 early and we're really locked in on the couch. 275 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:29,240 I'm like, I want to watch this kid pitch. 276 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:31,880 You know, I'm sure he was a little nervous last time out in 277 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:33,920 Texas. Kind of interesting your second 278 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:36,640 starts against the team that you went against in your first 279 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:38,520 start. Not exactly a real advantage, 280 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:41,200 but real intrigued to see what he had. 281 00:12:41,560 --> 00:12:44,520 And he had nothing like the first inning was about as 282 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:48,600 laborious of an inning that a Major League pitcher can have. 283 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:50,480 Now. It wasn't being like the hits 284 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,240 weren't on the barrel yet. A couple little bleeders to 285 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:56,480 write feel. But I was telling my son, I'm 286 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:01,200 like, man, it is rare like that. A pitcher is this off that he 287 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,440 just can't command anything like when you can't throw a four 288 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:08,240 seamer or or a power sinker, which he has, let alone get to 289 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:10,760 your wipeout slider, which is which is his best pitch. 290 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:14,080 It's got 18 or 18 inch horizontal brake. 291 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:17,440 You're going to have problems. And last night, because the 292 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,920 Yankees had won a bunch in a row, and I know Tampa is feisty 293 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:23,800 and I respect him, but Yankees had every reason last night to 294 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:27,040 say, yeah, you know what, one of those nights, not going to. 295 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:28,600 Probably not. Probably not there. 296 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:32,200 It's baseball. We got 162 of these things and 297 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,640 you know, you just kind of not that you give up, but you lose a 298 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:38,160 little focus, you lose a little purpose, you lose a little 299 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:41,120 direction and before you know it, after 9 innings, you 300 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:43,640 actually lose the game. What do the Yankees do? 301 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:47,760 The Yankees grind, the Yankees are bat and and the best 302 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,160 illumination of that is Ryan McMahon. 303 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:53,600 All right, you see, you know, first pitch change up misses it 304 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:56,000 by a mile from the Grum. We're not talking about some 305 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,600 scrub. We're talking about one of the 306 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:01,280 best righties I've ever seen, you know, Then another change up 307 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:05,200 whiffs, misses by a mile, foul ball, foul ball, quality of bad, 308 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:09,320 good take foul ball, foul ball hangs a curve, bang home run. 309 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:13,720 To me. There are very early signs, 310 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:18,200 granted, the, the operative term there is, is very early, but 311 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,320 there are very early signs with this team that they've got Adna, 312 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:27,200 that they've got a, a, an unquenching desire to win more 313 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:30,880 than any of these other recent Yankee teams since 2009. 314 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:34,440 The Baby Bombers were fun. It was a lot of fun with Soto 315 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:36,560 and Judge, but the other components weren't there. 316 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:40,640 You watch this team battle the way they won that the way they 317 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:43,560 run the bases. And now I'm going to do 318 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:45,880 something that I really never thought that I would do. 319 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:48,160 I'm going to give Brian Cashman a world of credit. 320 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:51,760 You know, if, if you think about anything that I've ever said 321 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:53,600 about Brian over the years, I've always said he's a Hall of 322 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:55,000 Famer. I want to make sure I give 323 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,520 respect and he is a Hall of Famer. 324 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:00,000 But like, there's an expiration point on, all right, you did 325 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,280 this, you know, 25 years ago when he took the baton, more 326 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,320 than that from Bob Watson and 20 years ago. 327 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:09,360 And you know, 16 years ago, whatever it was when you won a 328 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:11,560 championship. Like I, I, I don't want to hear 329 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:13,280 that forever. Not with the payroll, not with 330 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:15,560 the expectations, not with the brand of the Yankees. 331 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:20,360 So I have been very outspoken and very forward. 332 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:23,440 And I've even said this to Aaron Boone, which is part of the 333 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,880 reason why I've always defended Boone more than many of you, 334 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:29,400 because I don't think he's been given a good enough roster to 335 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:32,640 win and and win big. And one of the, I'm not saying 336 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:35,000 Boone's perfect, but I've always stood by that, that premise, 337 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,080 which I just said. And to me, you know, those of 338 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:40,240 you who have wanted to run Aaron Boone out of 10, forget about 339 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:41,160 it. I'll get back to cash in a 340 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:42,840 moment. But for those of you who have 341 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:46,760 wanted to run Aaron Boone out of town for years, I'm like, OK, 342 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:48,040 that's your prerogative. I get it. 343 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:50,120 There's an expiration point on everything. 344 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:54,480 But point to me, the year that the Yankees were supposed to win 345 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:58,360 that they didn't. And to me, inherently there in 346 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:01,920 lies the problem. That's been the core issue, the 347 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:05,400 crux of the matter with the Yankees every year they go in 348 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,640 and there's band aids and there's unknowns and there's, 349 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:11,120 you know, defenders in the wrong position. 350 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:14,080 And you're relying on guys who are either hurt or just 351 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:17,920 underachieving to a point where it's clearly time to cut bait 352 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:20,040 with certain players. And you know, the names. 353 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:21,840 We've done this dance a million times. 354 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:24,880 The Hicks's the Donaldson skies like that, right? 355 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:27,800 I'm not going to do a whole referendum on the Yankee on, on, 356 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:30,200 on the, on the, on the, you know, on, on the last 25 years. 357 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:34,640 But you cannot tell me that it doesn't look different, that it 358 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:37,680 doesn't feel different. And you know, if you close your 359 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:41,360 eyes and you think about some of the drops from the Morning show, 360 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:43,680 you've heard me say this a million times. 361 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:47,320 Brian Cashman has not earned the right to rebuild the Yankees the 362 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:49,240 way the Yankees need to be rebuilt. 363 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:51,080 I said it. I meant it. 364 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:55,480 I stood by forever. But like the Knicks, who now, 365 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:59,440 and I'll get to them later, who look entirely different the last 366 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:01,720 month. Plus different role for Cat, 367 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:05,359 less monopolizing the ball by Brunson, Bridges playing with 368 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:09,280 some fire, OG playing the best of his career, a better bench. 369 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:12,240 You know, just a different approach to basketball. 370 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:17,640 The Knicks very happily that have forced me to change how I 371 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:21,920 evaluate their ceiling, which is why I fully expect the Knicks to 372 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:26,839 dismantle the Sixers team, you know, in 5 ended quick and then 373 00:17:26,839 --> 00:17:29,240 get to the Eastern Conference finals and then reboot and let's 374 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:30,880 go. And if they continue to play 375 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:34,160 like this, I will expect them to win no matter who they play. 376 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:36,320 And I would imagine it'll be the Pistons who won last night. 377 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:44,720 So the, the anger and the, the anger and confusion and just 378 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:50,240 tired regurgitation of the same issues with the Yankees. 379 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:53,760 I, I honestly don't know. I swear, I don't know if there's 380 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:58,480 anything that I've enjoyed less like talking about less than the 381 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:01,480 Yankees the last couple of years because it's the same shit. 382 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:07,040 It is literally always the same conversation now, not this year. 383 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:09,680 So I'm pushing this year aside, but think about it. 384 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:12,720 It's the constant grinding. It's the constant. 385 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:15,720 Well, you got Judge. Hopefully Judge could carry a 386 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:18,160 all right, hopefully cold before he got hurt. 387 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:20,760 All right, Hopefully Stanton can stay healthy. 388 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:23,560 Hopefully he's hopefully he's healthy by October. 389 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,920 And it's always the constant who's playing first, who's 390 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,240 playing second, who's playing third too long the least for 391 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:32,360 Volpe. What's going on in left field 392 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:36,240 note Like we know the dance that we've done at its exhausting. 393 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:42,320 There is nothing nothing more frustrating than talking about 394 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:43,720 the same. I don't care if it's with a 395 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:49,880 friend, a spouse, a Co worker, a boss, no matter what it is right 396 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:54,760 If you continue to talk about the same stuff and the same 397 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:57,800 things continue to remain a problem. 398 00:18:58,120 --> 00:19:00,600 I mean, at some point I just got to say I'm fucking done with 399 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:02,320 this. I don't want to talk about it 400 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:10,680 anymore, and I'm done. So the 2026 Yankees, or at least 401 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:15,120 early or, are going to absolutely run away and hide 402 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:17,320 from everybody in the American League. 403 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:19,480 The Yankees will win 100 games this year. 404 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:23,520 I had them coming in at 94 and I had the Mets at 91. 405 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:28,600 I am going to very quickly, without flinching, tack on at 406 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:30,880 least six more to the Yankee total. 407 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:33,240 Now, listen, I'm not trying to beg on the Mets, but they're not 408 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:36,840 winning 91. They're lucky if they get to 81, 409 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:38,040 which I wouldn't bet that they would. 410 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:41,320 But the point is I would have to adjust that negatively and 411 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:44,520 adjust the Yankees favorably. Now, where did this all change? 412 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:47,120 Well, Bellinger's back, so that's not really different. 413 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,080 Grisham's back, You know, much of the chagrin of many of us, 414 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:52,360 right? McMahon's back, same thing. 415 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:54,600 Wells is still catching. OK. 416 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:58,200 You know, obviously judges here, like what's really different? 417 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:03,120 Well, there's a couple of things #1 Ben Rice's emergence is 418 00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:05,480 massive. It's massive, and it's not only 419 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:09,280 massive for now, but it's massive down the road because 420 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,600 he's turning into one of the best hitters in baseball and 421 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:16,680 he's making $800,000 a year, which allows the Yankees to do 422 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:18,800 so much down the road. But I don't want to get too far. 423 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:22,080 I'm talking about now. But that is a big, like, the 424 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:27,480 residual impact of that is huge. All right #1 Ben Rice's 425 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:29,440 emergence. Now, the other thing. 426 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:33,080 And this where I get right back to Cashman during the trade, 427 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:36,000 trade deadline last year. And I was, I was actually at 428 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,840 lunch with a rod when this was going down, when the Yankees 429 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:39,880 were starting to make some moves. 430 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:42,600 And particularly when they brought in a bunch of pictures, 431 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:44,400 many of whom have not really worked out. 432 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,480 You start to see a little, little flicker from Bird, which 433 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:50,400 is good. Bednar is good, but he makes you 434 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,040 sweat a little bit. But OK. 435 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,520 And then the vile and, and many of the other guys have have done 436 00:20:55,520 --> 00:21:01,720 nothing but the entire energy, the energy of the Yankees 437 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,400 changed with the addition of Caballero. 438 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:09,320 And then the ability for Boone to mix and match and have some 439 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:14,040 weapons off the bench with Rosario against lefties has 440 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:16,920 really given this team a different look. 441 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:22,160 So I think the easiest thing is, and I to me, this is like, I'm 442 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,040 not going to do this. I don't think that this is fair. 443 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:25,760 You know why I don't think it's fair? 444 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:27,520 Because I don't think it's applicable anymore. 445 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,680 And I'll tell you what I mean, so many years and I've been 446 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:32,600 guilty, guilty of this on occasion. 447 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,120 But I'm done doing this, not doing it anymore. 448 00:21:36,360 --> 00:21:38,640 Yeah, wake me up in October. See if the Yankees win. 449 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:41,480 Who says you can't enjoy the regular season? 450 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,280 Like who? We're not talking about the 451 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,760 Dodgers who have gone back-to-back. 452 00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:50,560 We're talking about the Yankees will not won since 2009. 453 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,280 Who the hell are you or who the hell am I? 454 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:57,160 And who the hell are we to just, you know, advance past five 455 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,960 checkpoints? Regular season doesn't matter. 456 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,520 Well, number one, it does matter because if you have a shitty 457 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:07,360 one, you're done after 162. And even if you play 163 and 458 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:10,960 beyond, if it doesn't look a certain way, usually, I know 459 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:13,120 there's randomness in baseball. Look at the Mets from a couple 460 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:16,120 of years ago now, 87 wins, almost got to the World Series. 461 00:22:16,120 --> 00:22:19,480 I get it, Understood. But usually if there's too much 462 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:23,000 up and down, up and down inconsistency issues that you 463 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:27,120 know will surface in October against better pitching and 464 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:32,840 better teams, generally your our instincts with this team has 465 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:34,120 been right. OK. 466 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:38,280 You know, the only year that I thought World Series was really 467 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,400 in play and they got there was when they got Soto. 468 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:44,880 You have not heard me once. Go find the tape. 469 00:22:45,120 --> 00:22:47,640 Everybody likes to pull up with all of us, right? 470 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:51,560 These erroneous takes all what I said, Timmy Boyle can spin it. 471 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:54,760 I mean, that was that was all time idiotic. 472 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,520 So I will I will happily own that you got to laugh at 473 00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,360 yourself. I mean, that was the hell you 474 00:22:59,360 --> 00:23:00,960 talking about Timmy Boyle can spin it. 475 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,400 Dude, get a grip. I mean, I know that The Jets 476 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:07,040 have fucked you up, but relax, right. 477 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:11,520 So we all have these stupid, you know, predictions that really 478 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:15,360 don't mean anything and but I would like you to I'm I'm going 479 00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:19,520 to give you a challenge. Go out there and find one in the 480 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:23,600 last XM outside of Soto year where I was on the air either 481 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,880 with Sal or with Tiki, and I'm saying there's a World Series 482 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:30,640 team. Just Google my name and Yankees 483 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,560 or my name and Cashman. Matter of fact, one of the 484 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:37,240 things I said a couple of years ago when they were going through 485 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,200 their usual early summer swoon, and I do not think that that 486 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:42,640 will happen. I know that many of you have 487 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,040 pushed back already. We've seen this before. 488 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:49,800 I get that Yankees start out red hot and then they play 8090 a 489 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,800 hundred games and they play 500 bowl and then they kind of 490 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,280 figure things out a little bit at the end and then they go on a 491 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:57,400 little run and they pull short. I get it. 492 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,080 Like that is the script. I'm telling you just what I 493 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,640 feel, what I see. This feels different. 494 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,920 It looks different. There's a better bench, there's 495 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,920 better energy, there's better speed, there's more defensive 496 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,960 versatility. There is absolutely better 497 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,680 starting pitching and there will be better bullpen help once some 498 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,880 of the starters go to the pen. So, you know, I remember the one 499 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:24,160 thing that I said the year before they got Sodo, I'm like, 500 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,480 listen, I hope that the Yankees bleed out. 501 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:28,320 That was the actual term I was with tiki. 502 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:30,320 I'm like, I hope the Yankees bleed out. 503 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:35,080 Because this nonsense, this daily dance of, you know, 90 504 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,000 wins and, you know, try to find out whether it's a couple of 505 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,080 lefty hitters or all the things that they were consistently 506 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,400 looking for over the last X amount of years, really since 507 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:48,800 09, that has led me to be very critical toward Brian Cashman. 508 00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:51,800 I don't see that this year. I don't see that. 509 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:55,160 Like now there are things that they're going to have to 510 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,440 navigate. You know, if Lombard, crush 511 00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,960 Lombard was playing second last night, that was interesting. 512 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:01,960 So that he's not a second baseman. 513 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:03,560 I do think they're messing that up. 514 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,960 I I like that they're going to have him play a little third, a 515 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,600 little second in the minors. Lombard's a shortstop. 516 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:10,840 He's not a second baseman. Anthony Volpe's a second 517 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:12,120 baseman. Based on his lack of arm 518 00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:15,000 strength, he should be playing second base, not Lombard. 519 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,600 All right, now, if you want to mix and match, that's fine. 520 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,280 But lump, I don't love Lombard playing second. 521 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:24,800 But if Lombard Rakes at the AAA level, that's an option this 522 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:26,840 year. Dominguez looks a little more 523 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,160 polished this year. That's an option. 524 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:33,560 You know, when Volpe comes up, if he earns it and then he earns 525 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,840 playing time. Well, if he's not playing well, 526 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,520 there's Caballero, which was an option the Yankees never had 527 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,880 before Caballero got here, which is a credit to Cashman. 528 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,760 You know, you got a couple of guys coming off the bench now 529 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:49,400 that can, you know, force the manager to re evaluate what 530 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,840 they're doing and that's a Rosario, lesser extent 531 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:54,320 Goldschmidt. He'll give you quality of bat 532 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,720 against the lefty, but not going to have a lot of pop even though 533 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,320 we hit one last night. So the bench looks better. 534 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,840 The starting pitching has a chance to be among the the best 535 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,080 the Yankees have had this century for sure. 536 00:26:05,360 --> 00:26:09,520 I think the best you've got Judge, who's going to bang 55 537 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,640 home runs again. You've got the blossoming young 538 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:14,600 great and I don't throw that word great around. 539 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,880 You know that. The blossoming young great Ben 540 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:21,600 Rice as a lefty, you know, little sidekick there to to 541 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,400 Aaron Judge. I know it's not perfect. 542 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:26,320 I like a more conventional lead off hitter. 543 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,840 I know they're dumping Grisham down the bottom of the order 544 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:30,800 against lefties. You know, I don't, I don't want 545 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,640 to see Goldschmidt up there. I, I, I, there's, I'm not saying 546 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,600 it's perfect. This to me is the best Yankee 547 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:43,400 team in years, All right? And the characteristic that I 548 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,960 see that is transferable from the glory days, the dynasties to 549 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:49,960 now, I'm not calling him a dynasty. 550 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,360 Relax. But what's what's present every 551 00:26:53,360 --> 00:26:58,480 night is their reluctance, their refusal to tap out and say, 552 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:03,480 yeah, we'll get them tomorrow. Derek Jeter despised losing to 553 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,200 anybody. It could be June. 554 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,240 It could be May, let alone October. 555 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,960 And that was a tone that was said that all the other grinders 556 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:14,280 that they had, Tino was a grinder, Posada was a grinder, 557 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,920 Bert Brochus was. And that translates. 558 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,880 And it just seems like right now the Yankees are in a very 559 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,280 healthy spot. They've got a really good 560 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,120 roster. I think one through 25, it's the 561 00:27:25,120 --> 00:27:28,440 best roster for sure that they've had in quite some time. 562 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:30,280 And now you still got to do the job. 563 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,720 You got to finish the job here. And there's a long way to go. 564 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:38,680 But listen, I've got to give you opinions based on like the like 565 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,880 where I am now, like I did with the Knicks over the course of 566 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,760 the winter when I did not like the way that they looked. 567 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,320 And if again, if you've been a fan of mine, if you even if 568 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,480 you've been a detractor of mine, but maybe you listen to my 569 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:56,440 previous shows because of the partner that I had either Sal or 570 00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:00,960 Tiki and you just you heard me. You will know that I have not 571 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:07,120 said this about the Yankees. I never once said it on WFAN and 572 00:28:07,120 --> 00:28:08,880 nationally I was pounding them as well. 573 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:13,480 So I love where the Yankees are. I really, really love the way 574 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:19,320 the Yankees are cycle Dan Dash Li the main weakness in the 575 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:20,960 Yankees that have too many 200 hitters. 576 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:22,840 The lineup has a lot of holes. That being said, Grish, 577 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:26,600 Bellinger, McMahon have been filling those holes nicely as of 578 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:28,440 late. Yeah, you know, I'll tell you 579 00:28:29,120 --> 00:28:31,720 Jesus, I I I almost, I almost have to get a new shirt. 580 00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:35,640 I'm sweating my ass off in here. What's going on when they can't? 581 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,680 I mean we can take like a. Got to. 582 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,200 I can't. I can't sit here for another 583 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,160 hour doing this. We can take the 1:00. 584 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:45,480 Where's I got to shut the fireplace off? 585 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:50,160 It's May. Why is the fireplace on you Talk 586 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:50,920 for a minute. I got AT. 587 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:52,080 I'll be right back there. I I. 588 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:53,280 Can't, I'm not. I got. 589 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:54,840 Too much to say. I got to get to the Knicks. 590 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,040 I got to. I got to be. 591 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,480 I'll be right back. All good unleash, fam how we 592 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,680 doing today any questions get those chats up get those 593 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:07,040 thoughts up Let's see Yankee game last night was sick I mean 594 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,240 listen, that jazz bomb was fucking great. 595 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:13,400 My boy was at the game. Yeah, let's take AT. 596 00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,840 I'm back, man. We back all right, I mean. 597 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:00,120 What were you? Doing when I was gone. 598 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,880 Why why did you take yourself off the screen Listen, I talked 599 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,520 for like 30 seconds and then I was like, all right, what kind 600 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,520 of time out music can we toss up? 601 00:29:55,880 --> 00:30:08,040 back. Music Why would you? 602 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:23,120 I was giving you a chance to. Wow. 603 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,440 I mean, listen, I have been. I'm a sweater a little bit 604 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,240 anyway, just because I get the bald head and I get worked up. 605 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:28,800 Sure. I don't. 606 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,400 I don't sweat in my own home. I just looked at the thermostat 607 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:36,840 at 77° and the fireplaces. Rose in Boca Raton right now. 608 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,960 Oh my goodness. Man, oh man, that was absolutely 609 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,880 brutal. So I love it. 610 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,640 I love it and they are a pleasure to watch, You know, and 611 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,160 I remember Boone, you know, my buddy Boone, he's going to be on 612 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:53,080 the show next week, either either Monday or Tuesday early 613 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,720 next week, Aaron Boone will be on Unleashed here. 614 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,400 You know, we, we talk a little bit on the phone and then we're 615 00:30:58,400 --> 00:30:59,680 talking the other day. I didn't bring it up. 616 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,320 I'm I'm going to have to give him credit on this little bit 617 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,000 here, but he was telling me over the winter and I'm, I'm like, 618 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,640 you know, I don't want to be disrespectful, but I'm like, 619 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,800 yeah, I don't see it, man. I mean, I did tell him I'm like, 620 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,200 I don't know, man. It seems a little ambitious to 621 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,760 think that. And he was telling me that they 622 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:19,840 really believe that there is a lot more in the tank for Ryan 623 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,400 McMahon. And I'm sitting there saying, I 624 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,320 mean, all right, short ports A lefty. 625 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,680 I, I, I get it. If you want to sell out and try 626 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,600 to crank thirty home runs and hit 190, I'm sure that that 627 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,360 could happen. But he's like, no, he's like 628 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,600 we've we've actually seen some mechanical things where, you 629 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,000 know, he's going to go to school during the offseason, you know, 630 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,200 get in the lab a little bit and tweak some stuff there. 631 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,560 And you know, I'm like, yeah, I mean, if, if if you're talking 632 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,920 about Dominguez or Volpe, who's still young or even Ben Rice 633 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,880 last year or what, Austin Wells to an extent now, like, OK, 634 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,120 they're young, formative stages of their career. 635 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,240 I'm like, I've watched Ryan McMahon play against the Mets 636 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:59,360 basically for a decade in Coors Field and he had an OPS that was 637 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,000 slightly below league average basically every single year, 638 00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:06,360 maybe except one high strikeout guy, low average guy, low OPS 639 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,160 guy. But even what he was telling me 640 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,440 then is beginning to take root now. 641 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,360 And that is like, that's the one thing about even whether it's a 642 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,400 young kid or or major leaguer, when you try to implement 643 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,720 something new in your swing, it is it is not easy. 644 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,720 It does not have I mean, think about I think the the more 645 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,880 relatable thing would be think about tweaking your golf swing. 646 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,200 You know, because none of us are getting ready to dig in on on 99 647 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,560 mile per hour, 4 seam fastball up in the zone. 648 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,160 But many of us do try to whack the ball around right. 649 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,360 And whether it's a weak rib versus a strong rib, whatever it 650 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,440 might be, whatever it might be, whatever little tweak, if it's a 651 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:45,120 putting stroke, something that it took a couple lessons, maybe 652 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,960 somebody observed on the range. You got to love the people on 653 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:49,840 the range too. Hey, do this, do that, dude. 654 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,320 I'm just trying to hit the ball in the air, get lost. 655 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:54,320 Yeah. I I really don't want to hear it 656 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,440 because it doesn't work. If I thought it was going to 657 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,120 work, I'd sit down. I'd let you lecture me for an 658 00:32:58,120 --> 00:32:59,800 hour. Doesn't matter what you tell me. 659 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:01,520 It's been playing golf for 20 years. 660 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,040 I'm a circus. Let me just let me just, you 661 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:07,320 know, wallow in my own misery, which I've actually learned to 662 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,080 not really wallowing anymore. I'm just happy to get out there 663 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:11,680 and play. But the point is, you know, 664 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,760 anything could be a little putting it it's it's not easy. 665 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,960 It feels foreign. You know, it's funny. 666 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,760 We were just going through this. I was doing this with my son. 667 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:22,840 So yeah, he had a, he had a lesson yesterday. 668 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,320 And one of the things as a young hitter, you know, you really 669 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,520 want to fire the hips, obviously, but you know, it's, 670 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,200 it's not always there. It's not easy, especially when 671 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,840 kids are throwing 70 miles an hour from 50 feet away with a, 672 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,200 with a, with change up. Like, you know, it's baseball's 673 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,200 hard. So in his lesson yesterday that 674 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,320 they were really fixating on, you know, almost like stomping 675 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,640 out an Ant with that back foot, like really? 676 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,800 Because the more you turn the back foot, the more the hips 677 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:54,640 will will unlock and unleash, unleash and really fire. 678 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:56,280 And you want to, you know, you want to have basically your 679 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,680 entire chest, that impact facing the pitcher if it's an outside 680 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:00,960 pitch is different. But that's the point. 681 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,320 And you know, it wasn't very natural to him. 682 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,600 He's like, yeah, it doesn't. I'm like, yeah, it, it doesn't 683 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,639 feel natural because you don't always do it. 684 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,280 I promise you, you know, if you stay in the land. 685 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,719 And then he knocked on my door at 6:45 this morning to go 686 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,120 practice, which was great. And he was doing it looked a 687 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,800 little more natural. I mean, we'll see what happens 688 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,040 this weekend against real pitching. 689 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,920 But the point is it takes a while to incorporate stuff. 690 00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:27,639 And you know, if the way McMahon picks it, I mean, if he could 691 00:34:27,639 --> 00:34:32,920 just be at least a serviceable 9 hitter and, and and not be an 692 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:36,400 automatic out, I mean, that's a big win for the Yankees too. 693 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:42,280 So I'm very curious. Usually J Rod, I've got a really 694 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:46,920 good sense of where, especially with the teams that I root for 695 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,760 and and even like the Mets and and the Giants, teams that don't 696 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,760 necessarily root for but but covering and have followed my 697 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,440 entire life. I usually have a really good 698 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,960 sense of what the fan base is thinking. 699 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,400 And I don't structure shows like I'll never do a show to have 700 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:05,600 people agree with me or purposely put out content for 701 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,720 people to disagree because you get more clicks. 702 00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:10,240 Like I mean it, it needs to happen naturally. 703 00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:11,800 Like I'm not here to be a hot take artist. 704 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,040 I'm here to give you some depth, some thought, some opinion, you 705 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,480 know, bridge things out. I don't know. 706 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,440 I really don't know. If I had to take a guess what, 707 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,800 what the Yankee fans, how they interpret what I'm saying and 708 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:28,080 how I feel, I'd say it's I I would think it would be slightly 709 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,640 more with me than not, but I don't think that it's 710 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,520 overwhelming. I'd say maybe 6040 because the 711 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:37,920 40% they would probably they have such animosity toward 712 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:43,280 Cashman some boon as well. Grisham and center 2009. 713 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,360 We've seen this before quick starts, then the early summer 714 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,000 swoon, which is the real thing, by the way. 715 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,760 I'm just saying I feel like it looks different and and it has 716 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,560 been different so far. So I'm very optimistic about the 717 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,400 Yankees team. And the best thing is they've 718 00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:00,600 got big reinforcements coming like they're winning and 719 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,200 Stanton's not even playing like, you know, the years of hopefully 720 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,600 Stanton can play 100 games and hit thirty home runs as 721 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,880 insurance behind Judge. Like, I'm not saying that you 722 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,920 don't want Stanton particularly against lefties, but I mean, you 723 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:13,920 don't really need them. And there was a play the other 724 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,760 night where where Dominguez scored. 725 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,720 Was that on the contact play? I think it was. 726 00:36:19,720 --> 00:36:23,760 And there is no way that Stanton Stanton has and he just beat the 727 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:27,240 throw in Dominguez, one of the faster Yankees, Jazz, Dominguez, 728 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:29,760 Caballero. There is no way that Stanton 729 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,160 does that. So there's a different element 730 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,200 of speed. But I, I am curious. 731 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:37,240 So if any any of the chats fire up any of the calls and Yankee 732 00:36:37,240 --> 00:36:39,880 fans want to jump and certainly want to get to that today, I 733 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:44,240 would say 6040 with me. But still many of you fairly 734 00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:46,640 reticent to to stamp this team different. 735 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,960 I believe they're different and time will tell with the time 736 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:51,720 will tell. You know I mean I. 737 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:53,840 Yeah. I was speaking to my roommate 738 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,880 about it yesterday and you know, he is kind of part of that 40% 739 00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:01,680 category who, you know, he's maintained his his skepticism. 740 00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:05,160 He's getting ready for, you know, the June swoon for what's 741 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:06,400 to come and there. You go. 742 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,120 And so there, yeah. So he's kind of part of that 40% 743 00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:10,800 camp, I guess. I. 744 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,960 Was calling it all right now he's he's obviously around your 745 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,400 age. So 2009. 746 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,640 I mean, he was kind of still kind of young. 747 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,160 He hasn't seen the Yankees win the the way I have. 748 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:25,880 So we so that works two ways. He doesn't have much to compare 749 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,880 it to outside of historical context like video and and and 750 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,480 stories being passed down Yankeeographies. 751 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,320 If he checks in on that. Sterling was great on that man, 752 00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,240 on those. I I love Sterling with that. 753 00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:38,480 I mean, I just love John Sterling. 754 00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,480 It's just still thinking about him, you know. 755 00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:43,440 And by the way, the Yankees did a phenomenal job. 756 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,120 We talked a lot about John the day that he passed a little bit 757 00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:49,760 yesterday, my buddy Michael K with a great tribute. 758 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:50,880 You know, it is high. It is far. 759 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,720 It is gone. The Mets radio booth, Keith Rad. 760 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,400 The Mets win. Yeah. 761 00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:56,160 Yeah. The. 762 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,280 The Mets win. The Mets win. 763 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:00,920 I thought it was great. The White Sox announcer did it 764 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,560 as well. But kind of what and really the 765 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:07,920 entire sport stop to genuflect a little bit at the greatness and 766 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:11,160 the the last thing legacy and impact that John had on the game 767 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,960 right. But I think wood got lost in the 768 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:17,600 details a little bit just how quickly the Yankees had to turn 769 00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:20,680 stuff around like it's I know that we think that it's easy. 770 00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:24,640 All right, somebody passes away. You got to have now some like TV 771 00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,360 networks. This is this is morbid, but this 772 00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:31,320 is the way it is. You know, they will have things 773 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:38,080 already ready for people who are older, older presidents so that 774 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,080 when they do pass, they can just, they could just go and and 775 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,160 not just have to scatter around to try to throw something 776 00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:44,720 together. But you know, whether it's 777 00:38:44,720 --> 00:38:47,680 getting and, and I know A Bronx company stepped up with the 778 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:51,000 embroidery embroidering of the the J and the S on the hat. 779 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:52,680 Like that's got to happen quick, man. 780 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:54,480 I know it seems the Yankees, they could do it. 781 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,440 Not as easy as you think. And then the tributes and the 782 00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:02,160 videos and the social media, you know, content that the Yankees 783 00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,680 put out, which is absolutely phenomenal. 784 00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:06,440 So tip of the cap to the Yankees for that. 785 00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:09,440 And you know, once again, rest in peace to the great John 786 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,560 Sterling. All right, so I want to get to 787 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,480 the Knicks a little bit here. I want to squeeze in two more 788 00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,720 baseball related items. I do want to get some chats up 789 00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:17,160 there. I'd like to get a couple of the 790 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:22,120 Yankee calls as well. Jay, I know that I know that you 791 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:24,560 saw I'm going to have Jay Rod do this because I want to explain 792 00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:25,600 this first. There's two things. 793 00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,280 There's MLB realignment, which I'll hit in a moment. 794 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:32,600 And then there's the the group of first year players that are 795 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:34,960 eligible for Cooperstown Baseball's Hall of Fame. 796 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:41,240 All right, so my, now this isn't perfect and it doesn't always 797 00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:43,840 work, but most of the time for me it does. 798 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,440 So I'm going to have J Rod, we'll get it up on the screen. 799 00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:49,040 J, you can pop it up there, bud. There's a lot of names here, but 800 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,600 what 1215, whatever it is. And we're going to run through 801 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:56,320 them all 481271619. We're going to run through these 802 00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,320 names. And the reason I like to do 803 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:00,920 this, I'm not going to give you any stats or any real. 804 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,000 I'm going to give you no commentary actually. 805 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:07,320 But number one, think about how this is a sad state of the game. 806 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,160 And I feel like this is happening more and more and more 807 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,760 with baseball where it's less obvious, but yet the rope is 808 00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:16,640 still being lowered to get non Hall the Famers in. 809 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,560 And to me, this is a great litmus test if I hear. 810 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,120 And again, you have to be an ardent fan to really. 811 00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:26,360 Have this immediate reaction, but when I hear a name, I'm 812 00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:28,240 going to give you my immediate reaction. 813 00:40:28,240 --> 00:40:30,800 And I've always done this. Now, there's a couple of 814 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,800 situations overtime where I'm like, you know, I'll give you a 815 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,520 quick yes or a quick no, but I'm going to want to substantiate 816 00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:37,880 that a little further with stats. 817 00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:42,400 I won't do that here, but look at how, no disrespect, but and 818 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:43,560 we're talking about the Hall of Fame. 819 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,080 Look at how weak this is. All right, RIP through each 820 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,200 name. I'll give you a yes or no. 821 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:50,840 All right, Perfect. Jake Arietta, No. 822 00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:55,240 Jay Bruce No. Castrubal Cabrera No Starlin 823 00:40:55,240 --> 00:41:01,360 Castro, No Wade Davis No Dexter Fowler No Todd Frazier No Brett 824 00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:02,920 Gardner. I will tell you, Todd Frazier's 825 00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,400 got a really good club team, the Southsiders. 826 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,200 I've seen him at a lot of he's coaches and older team. 827 00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:12,240 I got some good ball players. So shout out to Todd doing his 828 00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:14,200 thing with youth baseball. But it's all and a good player, 829 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,320 no? All right, Brett Gardner. 830 00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,280 No. JA Knapp. 831 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,000 No. Hap. 832 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,520 Sorry. Yeah. 833 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:22,800 Sorry. It was a little too small. 834 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:26,040 Scott Cashmere, No. John Lester? 835 00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:27,800 No. Andrew Miller? 836 00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:29,520 No. Mitch Moreland? 837 00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,320 No. Buster Posey? 838 00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,520 Yes. Erwin Santana? 839 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,840 No. Kyle Seeger? 840 00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,280 No. Joaquim Soraya, No. 841 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,280 Soraya. Ryan Zimmerman? 842 00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,080 Nope. Jordan Zimmerman? 843 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:46,520 No. 19 names. One yes, One yes. 844 00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:49,720 Buster Posey. Now, the Buster's interesting in 845 00:41:49,720 --> 00:41:55,000 the sense that he he didn't, he didn't really pile up those 846 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,720 numbers for sure, but he won the rookie of the year. 847 00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:01,600 He won three World Series. I was out there, I was working 848 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,320 in San Francisco, and they won two of them with Bochy and the 849 00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,040 Panda. Pablo Sandoval. 850 00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,960 Who else? Timmy Lincecum, Matt Kane, that 851 00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:12,000 was a pretty good teammate. Crawford was the shortstop, he 852 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,600 was coming up. Buster Posey, rookie the I don't 853 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:15,680 even have the stuff in front of me. 854 00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:19,160 Rookie of the Year 3 MVPS, I'm sure a couple of Silver 855 00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:21,080 Sluggers. But like, if you just look at 856 00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:25,240 the numbers you like, I don't know, But if you watched 857 00:42:25,240 --> 00:42:29,840 baseball in the 20 tens, first of all, it was the first, you 858 00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,600 know, West of the Mississippi championship for the Giants 859 00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,880 since they left New York. And then they got another and 860 00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,120 then they got another. And he was really essential 861 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:39,960 theme for that. Brandon Belt was their first 862 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:43,480 baseman for the most part. What was that dude? 863 00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:47,600 Why am I forgetting his name? Hunter Pence, John Charlie, the 864 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,400 guy who looked so unsmooth but was a good player. 865 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:57,320 So Brian Wilson was the closer. I think that Buster Posey is a 866 00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:59,920 Hall of Famer because I don't really know how you write the 867 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:05,000 the 20 tens. You know that baseball legacy 868 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,480 kind of a thing. And don't look at Buster Posey 869 00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,600 as pretty much, I don't know if he was officially the captain, 870 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,240 but certainly the pseudo captain, a grinder, a gamer, 871 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:19,240 highly productive, three time champion as a catcher with some 872 00:43:19,240 --> 00:43:22,240 pop at a good defensive catcher. I don't know how you look at 873 00:43:22,240 --> 00:43:25,480 that and say that's not a Hall of Famer, You know, and, and at 874 00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,160 this point, I don't even know if he's going to get in. 875 00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:30,600 I mean, I would hope he gets in at some point, but you know, I'm 876 00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:33,440 going to do real fast. Let's pop up his numbers real 877 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:34,640 quick here. I just want to make sure I'm not 878 00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:38,320 missing anything either way. My first instinct is absolutely 879 00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:41,320 he is a Hall of Famer. That's what I believe. 880 00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:43,040 I just want to see. I know he's got the three 881 00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:44,440 championships. I know he's got the Rookie of 882 00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:45,680 the Year and all that stuff that I said. 883 00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,120 All right, that's right. He won the MVP as well. 884 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:51,760 Rookie of the Year, MVP, three time World Series champion, four 885 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:55,040 time Silver Slugger, 7 All Stars, won a batting title as 886 00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:55,920 well. That's right, He won the batting 887 00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:59,680 title when I was out there. So all right, comes up and at 888 00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,040 the age of 23, when's the Rookie of the Year? 889 00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:07,240 11th in the MVP, that's 2010 and then he wins the MVP in 2012. 890 00:44:07,240 --> 00:44:09,080 He had a WAR of almost eight man, that's big. 891 00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:11,280 He had 336. I mean that's that that's 892 00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,120 catcher. And then some of his other 893 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:14,360 numbers. Again, you've got to look at 894 00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:18,280 this within the context of catchers, you know, 15 and 7222 895 00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:23,520 and 8919 and 9580 RBI's, you know, and then it, and it did 896 00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:25,880 tail ball fast, even though we made a couple of All Star teams 897 00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:29,400 at the end. If you also remember, he opted 898 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,400 out of the COVID season, so put up no stats there. 899 00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:34,280 And then he retired at the pretty early age. 900 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,800 He was 33 or 34 years of age. Buster Pose, he's a Hall of 901 00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:39,920 Famer. But everyone of those other 902 00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:45,000 guys, I mean, I, I would look maybe maybe a little more deeply 903 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,320 at Jon Lester's, you know, with the Cubs. 904 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,160 I mean, again, historical context, Red Sox, I get it. 905 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:52,880 Maybe. But to me, there's one and that 906 00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:57,480 is a referendum on, on a lot of things #1 just the dearth of, 907 00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:01,360 of, of all time greats that the game is produced. 908 00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,560 I don't know lately that it's produced. 909 00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,320 I don't know if this because I was younger and I looked at 910 00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:08,320 these guys differently. I don't, I don't know, I'm sure 911 00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:12,280 that that's part of it more, more impressionable, formative 912 00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:16,280 stages of being a fan. But I felt like, you know, when 913 00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:20,840 I was young, I, you know, I felt like every single night, like it 914 00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:23,680 didn't matter who the Yankees were playing and it didn't 915 00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:27,000 matter who the Mets were playing on Channel 9, their opponent, 916 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,120 you know, not really the Mets. And you know, some of the years, 917 00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:31,680 not even the Yankees. I feel like I was watching the 918 00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:33,240 Hall of Famer. I mean, all right, Mets are 919 00:45:33,240 --> 00:45:34,920 playing the Phillies. Mike Schmidt, greatest third 920 00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:36,880 baseman of all time, who's pitching tonight. 921 00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:39,600 Steve Carlton, one of the best lefties of all time. 922 00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:42,640 You know, they're playing the the Cubs, the Ryan Sandberg, 923 00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,840 rest in peace, one of the great second baseman of all time. 924 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,400 You know, you go back to some of those earlier Mets teams, even 925 00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:50,960 before that when I was watching, you know, they're playing the 926 00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:53,040 Reds and all right, I mean, really at the back end. 927 00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:56,160 But wow, Johnny Bench, I mean, he's not nearly what he was, but 928 00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:59,560 greatest catcher of all time. You know, most people believe 929 00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,360 that. I didn't see Yogi, didn't see 930 00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:02,800 Elston Howard, didn't see a few of those. 931 00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,440 Pudge was really good too. But I saw, you know, Bench. 932 00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:07,440 Oh, there's Dave Parker for the Pirates. 933 00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:12,280 You know, look at him or you're playing the let me see, play the 934 00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:14,280 Astros. Nolan Ryan's pitching tonight, 935 00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,480 all time great. What, 7-8, no hitters. 936 00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:19,360 You know, all the strikeouts, Yanks are playing the A's. 937 00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:21,320 There's Ricky. Oh, Ricky's on the Yankees. 938 00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:24,000 Oh, OK. Dave Winfield's on the Yankees. 939 00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:26,360 Hall of Famer. I, I, I don't know. 940 00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:31,600 I I really Alan Trammell, you know, Jack Morris, that was a 941 00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:34,560 different evaluation for Jack. I always thought he got hosed 942 00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:37,640 for a long time, but Burp Blylevin eventually got in 943 00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:39,560 right. And and that's debatable as 944 00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,280 well, but 280 something strikeouts, one of the best 945 00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:43,720 curveballs in the history of baseball. 946 00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:47,200 But I remember watching Burt more specifically planted twins. 947 00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:49,800 There's Kirby Puckett, the great, the great rest in peace, 948 00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:53,240 the great Kirby Puckett who gave Don Mattingly the nickname. 949 00:46:53,240 --> 00:46:57,080 So we respect Kirby the person. We respect Kirby the player 950 00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:00,760 greatly and the competitor, but we really respect her because he 951 00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:03,120 hooked up with one of the best nicknames of all time, Dotty 952 00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:04,840 Baseball. That was all Kirby Puckett. 953 00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:07,920 Yanks are playing the Royals. There's George Brett, you know 954 00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:11,040 what I mean? So was it because I was younger 955 00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,760 and I process it differently? I don't know. 956 00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,560 I mean, maybe it's cyclical. Maybe I'm just, maybe I'm a 957 00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:19,120 little bit off on this and, and I know there's great players now 958 00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,360 as well. Maybe they're just not quite as 959 00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:24,240 revered as they were. Maybe they get the way the game 960 00:47:24,240 --> 00:47:26,160 is looked at is a little different. 961 00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:29,160 Don't know the answer, but I just know that pretty much every 962 00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:31,880 time I watch baseball and I watch it every night, oh, 963 00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:34,000 there's Pete Rose. He's not the same as he was, but 964 00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:37,440 it's Pete Rose. You know, there's Ozzie Smith 965 00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,320 picking up for the Cardinals, greatest defensive shortstop of 966 00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:41,840 all time. He's right there. 967 00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,520 Mark Bollinger, you know, I didn't see him play, but I know 968 00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:46,800 he was great for the Orioles. Couldn't hit, but a great 969 00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,880 defensive shortstop. Anyway, I wanted to get that 970 00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:49,800 out. I don't want to belabor that. 971 00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:51,120 I want to get some mixed up as well. 972 00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,920 Joe Beningo, A2 today on the channel. 973 00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:58,080 So can you get this up as well? You know, we've heard a lot of 974 00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:00,880 different variations here. Let's keep this up for a little 975 00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:03,000 bit. Potential MLB realignment. 976 00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:05,480 I mean, first of all, the names are pretty wacky. 977 00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,240 AL Mid-Atlantic, AL Great Lakes. I don't mind it. 978 00:48:08,240 --> 00:48:11,600 AL SE AL northeast. Like as much as I'm a 979 00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:15,840 traditionalist and in the sense and a, you know, I pride myself 980 00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,520 in being a bit of a purist. Like I love interleague. 981 00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:20,920 Thank God I don't have to watch these shitty pitchers try to hit 982 00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:23,480 anymore. Just bunt or get on base and put 983 00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:25,320 the jacket on like they did in the 80s. 984 00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:27,480 Remember that up get the satin jacket. 985 00:48:27,720 --> 00:48:30,000 God forbid he runs the bases and his arm gets cold. 986 00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:31,840 You know, I just remember that all the time. 987 00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:35,720 What are we doing? So I, I, I think I've evolved. 988 00:48:35,720 --> 00:48:38,600 I think I've, I think I'm rooted in, in, in, in some purist 989 00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,920 traits, but I am not married to things that I, that I now 990 00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:43,560 believe are antiquated myself, right? 991 00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:46,280 I like the pitch clock. I like the ghost runner during 992 00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,840 the regular season. Save some arms, save some time, 993 00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:52,360 all those things, right? NL Midwest, NL Central, NL 994 00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:54,680 Southwest, NL Northwest. I don't, I don't care what you 995 00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:57,640 call them. My biggest thing here is look at 996 00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,200 the competitive disadvantage. Now, this works both ways here. 997 00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:03,480 Would I love, oh, I would freaking love this. 998 00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,320 Would I love the Yankees and the Mets in the same division? 999 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:11,280 I would love it. Now a lot of Yankee fans are, 1000 00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:14,000 are, are are with me on that. There's a lot of Met fans who 1001 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:15,960 don't want it. You know, maybe that's changing 1002 00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,760 a little bit if the Mets ever get their act together. 1003 00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:21,800 But like, if you're a Mets fan up until, you know, really the 1004 00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:23,840 last, even though this year's been horrendous, but the last 1005 00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,120 couple of years, why would you want to be in the division with 1006 00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:27,880 the Yankees? You can get your brains beat in. 1007 00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,440 And the Wilpons were, you know, pinching nickels and throwing 1008 00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:33,000 them around like manhole covers. So I wouldn't want to be in the 1009 00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:34,480 Yankees division if I was the Mets either. 1010 00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:36,480 But the point is, keep this up, Jay. 1011 00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:40,120 Look at the divisions and you know, whether the Mets figure 1012 00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:43,400 this out, whatever, whether Mendy's here in three years, 1013 00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:47,160 whatever, whether Soto's happy or what opts out, I don't know. 1014 00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:51,560 But look at the Northeast, the Yankees massive payroll, the 1015 00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:55,800 Mets a higher payroll, the Phillies massive payroll and the 1016 00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:58,920 Red Sox always an incredibly competitive payroll. 1017 00:49:59,240 --> 00:50:03,160 How is that not now contrast this to the Great Lakes. 1018 00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:07,520 And again, like from a just a logistical travel point of view, 1019 00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,400 proximity. I think that this makes some 1020 00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:12,360 sense and you'll have the two expansion teams, which I'll hit 1021 00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:15,240 on in a moment. But if you're Toronto and the 1022 00:50:15,240 --> 00:50:18,360 Rogers group, which is the first or I'd actually, I think they I 1023 00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:19,600 think they have more than the Dodgers. 1024 00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:22,520 I think their net worth is actually a little bit more than 1025 00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:24,960 I know it's more than Cohen. I believe it's more than the 1026 00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:26,440 Dodgers. And if it's not, it's two. 1027 00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:30,120 Imagine the rate. Pardon me, the Jays in a 1028 00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:35,640 division with the Twins, the Guardians and the Brewers, none 1029 00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:38,960 of whom spend any money. That is a massive competitive 1030 00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:42,800 advantage for the Jays. So like I'm less intrigued by or 1031 00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:47,760 less there's less of a pushback for me for say, wow, I don't 1032 00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:49,760 want the Yanks and the Mets to play each other X amount of 1033 00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:51,800 times. It takes away from the I don't 1034 00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:56,160 know the the, the, you know, just the magnitude of the Subway 1035 00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:59,520 Series that you get twice a year or man, I don't, I don't know. 1036 00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:01,840 Listen, you're not losing Yankees Red Sox, you're gaining 1037 00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:04,040 Yankees Mets. And I think that, you know, and 1038 00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:06,800 the Mets keep the Phillies, which is cool and Yankees 1039 00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,960 Phillies would be hot, but it's just not equitable here like 1040 00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:11,040 that. That's the problem. 1041 00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:14,520 I mean, even go to the NL W the Midwest, I mean Cubbies when 1042 00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,360 they want to spend money, they could, you know, the Cardinals, 1043 00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:20,000 they don't really spend a lot. The Reds really can't spend a 1044 00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:21,520 lot. And the White Sox are a 1045 00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:23,880 disaster. You know, I mean, the central, 1046 00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:25,960 you throw the Rockies from the Midwest in the middle of the 1047 00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,720 country with, you know, Texas and Kansas City and a little 1048 00:51:28,720 --> 00:51:31,800 down South with with Houston. I'm not saying it's perfect. 1049 00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:35,320 And then the two expansion teams you're getting, you know, 1050 00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:37,560 getting what is that Charlotte that's so freaking small. 1051 00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:41,000 Who are the expansion teams? I know Portland and Charlotte, 1052 00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:42,520 right? Yeah, it says Charlotte and 1053 00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:43,120 Portland. Yeah. 1054 00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:45,760 OK, Geez, that small. Keep that up there. 1055 00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:49,800 I actually believe, please, I actually believe that Montreal 1056 00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:51,280 is going to get a franchise again. 1057 00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:53,280 I would not give Portland A-Team. 1058 00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:55,760 That's just me. I would absolutely give 1059 00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:58,400 Charlotte A-Team. Yes, I would look into 1060 00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,920 Nashville. I would not touch Mexico. 1061 00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:02,600 There's been all sorts of stuff out there. 1062 00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:06,000 Like to me, if I'm the commish and I and I've got to go to two 1063 00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:10,360 to make all this stuff even, I would go, I would get another 1064 00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:13,960 team up in Canada because I believe the Expos could work if 1065 00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:17,680 it's done properly, because it used to work the Expos and I 1066 00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:21,320 would probably either go Nashville or Charlotte. 1067 00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:23,680 Those are the two most viable ones. 1068 00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:26,280 I'm not, again, not touching Mexico. 1069 00:52:26,720 --> 00:52:28,400 I've been there a couple of times on vacation. 1070 00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,440 Great. Not putting MLB baseball in 1071 00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:31,480 Mexico. That's me. 1072 00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:34,280 And and I'm not, I'm not doing it to Portland, you know, even 1073 00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:36,080 if it's a Dome, I'm just not going up to Portland. 1074 00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:38,560 I'm not doing that myself. So that's the that's the 1075 00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:40,400 realignment. Thought it was interesting. 1076 00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:43,960 I know if you guys like that stuff, what you're married to, 1077 00:52:44,240 --> 00:52:46,040 but Yankees Mets to me would be bonkers. 1078 00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:49,840 I mean, it would be absolutely. Just imagine, you know, imagine. 1079 00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:51,880 And again, I know we get the Subway Series. 1080 00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:54,440 The Subway Series still has a spark. 1081 00:52:54,880 --> 00:53:00,080 You're not like it quite did when it was first born, but it's 1082 00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:02,080 I still enjoy it. I I really do. 1083 00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:04,680 But now think about the perverse pleasure. 1084 00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:08,280 The perverse pleasure that you can take as a fan of either one 1085 00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:11,720 of those two teams where, you know, hey, think about this. 1086 00:53:11,720 --> 00:53:13,760 Yanks and the Mets coming up in a couple of weeks here. 1087 00:53:14,240 --> 00:53:16,800 And and my son says last night's I would have squashed the Mets. 1088 00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:19,240 They're terrible. I'm like, I mean, yeah, I mean, 1089 00:53:19,240 --> 00:53:21,560 they're not very good and the Yankees look awesome, but it's 1090 00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:24,920 baseball, Susan, so things could be very random. 1091 00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:25,880 He's like, no, I know you're right. 1092 00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:27,680 You're right. I'm like, you never know, Yanks 1093 00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:29,040 are going to funk. Mets could get hot. 1094 00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,800 It's not like, you know, you playing against the team that 1095 00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,000 you're supposed to beat or that you just can't beat because 1096 00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,120 they're better or worse. Like, it's not Little League and 1097 00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:37,600 he's got some major leakers here. 1098 00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:41,800 So it's a little different. But imagine being, you know, at 1099 00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:43,320 least the context of this season. 1100 00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:45,040 Mets are hanging by a thread. Who knows? 1101 00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:46,760 Maybe they finish up well in Colorado. 1102 00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:49,400 Maybe they win another series, which would be, I believe their 1103 00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:52,840 first back-to-back series wins of the season, if I'm not 1104 00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:57,960 mistaken, right, and they kind of limp into the Subway Series 1105 00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:00,800 and you sweep them. And that's just, oh, I mean, the 1106 00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:05,440 level of toxicity. Maybe that's reason not to do 1107 00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:06,720 it. I think people would actually 1108 00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:09,480 try to kill each other. Not not literally, but I mean, 1109 00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:11,840 whether it's hosts, whether it's Colders, I mean, it would be 1110 00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:13,120 absolutely bonkers. My goodness. 1111 00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:15,400 But I'm Ford. I think it looks all right. 1112 00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:18,480 Jay, get a couple of, get a couple of messages up there real 1113 00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:21,840 quick if you can. Yes, Sir, we've also got a 1114 00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:23,960 couple callers waiting. Oh, we do. 1115 00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:25,600 Get them up soon. Yes, Sir. 1116 00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:27,640 OK, so there are they ready now or not yet? 1117 00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:30,800 Just a SEC, you'll see them pop. I got you. 1118 00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:34,680 Hey BSBT, is realignment being seriously discussed for the this 1119 00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:37,120 pending CBA or is this all still rumors? 1120 00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:39,280 No, it's far past the rumor stage. 1121 00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:43,200 Realignments absolutely going to happen because expansion is 1122 00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:45,760 absolutely going to happen. There is no doubt about that. 1123 00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:47,960 Expansion is going to happen in the NBA. 1124 00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:51,960 It's already happened in hockey, you know, years ago going out to 1125 00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:55,880 Arizona, Utah, you know, I mean, it's greed. 1126 00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:57,920 It's, it's also being opportunistic. 1127 00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:03,680 It's also about evening things out logistically, whether it's 1128 00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:07,080 in terms of proximity to other cities to, you know, offset and 1129 00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:09,320 mitigate some of the travel, which, which is a real thing by 1130 00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:13,160 the way, or just evening out divisions to make that just to 1131 00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:15,120 change the, the, the presentation. 1132 00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:17,480 I got no problem with it. I I, I really don't. 1133 00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,840 But the one thing that I would really push back on that is just 1134 00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:24,280 inherently unfair to the Yankees, the Mets, the Red Sox 1135 00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:26,400 and the Phillies. Not one of can you get that up 1136 00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:28,680 once more? Not one of those other. 1137 00:55:28,720 --> 00:55:29,960 I know you're doing a lot of things with the Coles. 1138 00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,120 Thank you, Jay. None of those other teams have 1139 00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:36,520 multiple, you know, big, big, big, big spenders like, you 1140 00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:38,680 know, the Orioles, the Pirates don't spend. 1141 00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:40,240 You know, the Guardians don't spend. 1142 00:55:40,240 --> 00:55:42,120 The Nats don't spend. I already hit the Great Lakes 1143 00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:44,000 there. The Braves spend a little bit 1144 00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:45,400 there, but the Marlins never spend. 1145 00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:48,040 The Rays never spend. Who knows what the expansion 1146 00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:50,000 team would do, but they wouldn't be good for a while because 1147 00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:52,080 they'd have, you know, the expansion draft and all that 1148 00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:54,520 stuff. Now, the Southwest would be, you 1149 00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:55,600 know, I don't want to skip over that. 1150 00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:57,440 My bad. Dodgers spend a ton. 1151 00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:01,400 Padres spend a ton. The Angels aren't, you know, as 1152 00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:03,160 low as some of the other lower teams. 1153 00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:05,360 Not high, but not embarrassingly low. 1154 00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:08,360 Seattle spends. I think the A's will start 1155 00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:09,840 cranking things up when they get to Vegas. 1156 00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:12,160 The Giants spend. Problem is, nobody good wants to 1157 00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:15,520 take the Giants money now. The Rockies don't spend. 1158 00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:17,560 The Royals don't spend. The Rangers spend a little bit, 1159 00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:20,560 the Astros, part of the reason they got rid of a lot of their 1160 00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:22,200 guys, they don't want to spend their owner. 1161 00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,040 That was a mandate. So that that to me is just 1162 00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:27,680 inherently unfair. That's a that is a stark 1163 00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:30,960 competitive disadvantage. And if you're OK with that, 1164 00:56:31,240 --> 00:56:33,680 well, I mean, it would be incredible to watch. 1165 00:56:33,720 --> 00:56:35,720 It would be incredible. And then the other thing too 1166 00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:40,960 now, like when, when the Mets get Soto from the Yankees, 1167 00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,760 right, it's like, OK, you got to see him twice in the Subway 1168 00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:45,360 Series. And the Yankee fans, like they, 1169 00:56:45,720 --> 00:56:48,880 I can promise you that Aaron Boone does not care what Juan 1170 00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:51,360 Soto's doing in Queens. Not one you didn't give a rat's 1171 00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:53,280 ass. Now, some fans are still 1172 00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:56,560 preoccupied with that and consumed with that foolishly, 1173 00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:58,400 but some of you still are. You know that. 1174 00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:01,240 But imagine now think about those big spenders and think 1175 00:57:01,240 --> 00:57:04,680 about every year when and there might be a salary cap so the the 1176 00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:07,320 economics will change, floor ceiling, blah, blah, blah. 1177 00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:11,440 But imagine those four teams going after the same dudes every 1178 00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:14,800 year in the offseason and then if you lose out, you got to face 1179 00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:18,120 them X amount of times. That's another byproduct that I 1180 00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:20,960 I think is interesting, but also a little bit unfair. 1181 00:57:21,240 --> 00:57:22,680 All right, J Rod, how about a couple of calls? 1182 00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:24,080 I want to get some mixed up here. 1183 00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:26,360 We got Joe B today. Who do we got there? 1184 00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:29,560 Jay yes. Sir, we've got Benny from DC. 1185 00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:32,720 All right, Benny. Benny from the Bronx. 1186 00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:33,840 Benny up in the Bronx. Benny. 1187 00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:34,720 What's going on? Benny. 1188 00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:37,520 Hey, what's going on BT? Can you guys hear me? 1189 00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:38,960 We got you loud and clear, Benny. 1190 00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:40,200 Thanks for making the call. What's up? 1191 00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:43,720 Oh, of course, no, no, I just, you know, like echoed. 1192 00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:45,600 I call you. I called you a couple weeks ago 1193 00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:49,000 and I listened to you on my drive home after after it's 1194 00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:52,480 recorded on my long drive home from from Maryland to DC. 1195 00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:56,960 But I just thought echoed again, thank you for all you do and I 1196 00:57:56,960 --> 00:57:58,800 love listening to your show. But no, I just wanted. 1197 00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:00,960 To I just? Want to talk a little bit about 1198 00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:03,080 the Knicks and how? Yeah, I'm getting to them. 1199 00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:04,280 You can get us going though. No. 1200 00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:06,120 No, I know you're getting to them. 1201 00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:08,800 I just, you know, I just, I'm, I'm pumped up right now and I'm 1202 00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:12,640 feeling really good about about tonight and I just want to hear 1203 00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:15,640 real quick, what do you think is going to happen tonight? 1204 00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:20,000 Game 2 at the Garden, coming off that, coming off 3 blowouts, I 1205 00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:22,560 mean base and and yeah. No, not. 1206 00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:23,680 Not. Basically, No, Benny. 1207 00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:25,560 The Knicks have won three in a three in a row. 1208 00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:28,520 Three playoff games in succession by 25 points or more 1209 00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:30,240 never happened in the history of the NBA. 1210 00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:33,120 Blowouts is an understatement. They're demolishing people. 1211 00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:35,240 Keep going. No, you're absolutely right and 1212 00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:38,920 no, I just want to hear your thoughts for tonight in Game 2 1213 00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:41,600 after, like I said, after these three blowouts and how we're 1214 00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:44,280 feeling tempering expectations. But I just want to make sure 1215 00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:46,800 that we, you know, the Knicks just keep this rolling. 1216 00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:48,800 But I just really want to see that. 1217 00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:50,360 I would love to see the Knicks sweep this series. 1218 00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:52,280 But man, I would. I mean, Knicks in five would be 1219 00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:53,800 I'm with you with the Knicks in five. 1220 00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:57,120 I don't, you know, sweep. I'm like, you know, I, I do 1221 00:58:57,120 --> 00:58:58,240 think the Knicks will win in five there. 1222 00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:00,600 But before I give you my spiel, what do you think? 1223 00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:01,800 You confident? Are you worried? 1224 00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:03,160 I mean, do you do you feel good about tonight? 1225 00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:05,920 Let me get a little. Bit I'm I'm beyond confident 1226 00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:07,080 there. You go well, OK, Well, that 1227 00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:08,000 could be dangerous. I don't know. 1228 00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:10,480 About it now, just about this thing, I was just about to say 1229 00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:12,480 I'm a little, I got a little Bandingo in me, you know, I'm a 1230 00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:14,960 Mets fan, I'm a Jets fan, I'm a Jets fan, I'm a Jets fan. 1231 00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:15,440 I'm. A Knicks fan. 1232 00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:16,760 I'm never confident. What do you mean? 1233 00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:19,360 You got a little, You got no. You're telling me you're really 1234 00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:21,680 confident Joe never thinks anything good is going to 1235 00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:23,560 happen, by the way, Joe later on the show. 1236 00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:26,520 So you know anti Joe B. Which I can't. 1237 00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:29,080 I can't wait. I can't wait for listen to Joe B 1238 00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:29,800 on the show. Later, he's he's. 1239 00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:31,840 Asking minds can. Be great and. 1240 00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:34,440 You know what, I think you said it on your show yesterday. 1241 00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:36,480 This is this. This team has all the 1242 00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:39,840 intangibles to do what they did in 73 and bring a championship 1243 00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:42,840 to New York. And like I said, I want to, I am 1244 00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:45,680 very confident, but at the same time, I'm also, you know, hey, 1245 00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:47,800 this is the Knicks. They got to get over that hump. 1246 00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:51,000 And I think I'd mentioned it last week where the Knicks 1247 00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:53,640 always create a villain. And they almost created one at 1248 00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:56,320 CJ McCollum in the first round. Well, they kind of did there for 1249 00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:57,840 a little bit when they lost those two in a row. 1250 00:59:57,960 --> 00:59:59,440 Yeah, I wasn't worried about the column. 1251 00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:00,600 Respect him, but I wasn't worried. 1252 01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:01,640 But keep going. Right. 1253 01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:03,080 But, you know, it was like that mindset. 1254 01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:04,880 Well, here we go again. The F you. 1255 01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:06,520 Yeah, that you. Know what that was, Benny? 1256 01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:08,280 I don't mean to interrupt you. I'm going to let you finish. 1257 01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:11,320 To me, that was a lazy story picked up by the you know, it's 1258 01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:13,920 always like the Knicks play there was going to be a villain. 1259 01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:18,000 It goes back to Reggie, you know, Pippin stepping over your 1260 01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:20,640 wing. Oh, here's Zoe and Larry Johnson 1261 01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:22,640 swinging. Like it doesn't always have to 1262 01:00:22,640 --> 01:00:26,560 be a villain like that was for CJ McCollum, who I've got 1263 01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:30,640 immense profound respect for. That man is a baller and there's 1264 01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:32,560 no nonsense and he's not wrapped up. 1265 01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:35,200 And all the other stupid social oh, look at what I'm wearing 1266 01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:38,160 walking into the stadium. Look at me looking like a clown 1267 01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:41,600 with a sweater that's 9 sizes too big in a pocketbook. 1268 01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:43,280 Like the guy just just comes to play ball. 1269 01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:45,720 He's like, I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm a competitor. 1270 01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:47,880 We'll see what happens. I've got great respect for CJ 1271 01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:50,160 McCollum. But the way that was force fed 1272 01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:53,320 like up the next, the next, next Knicks villain, the heck out of 1273 01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:54,880 here, nobody thought that was going to last. 1274 01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:57,400 Who was? No, you're right. 1275 01:00:57,520 --> 01:00:59,280 And you know what, forget the villain talk. 1276 01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:02,400 It was the way he closed that game out in Game 2 and the way 1277 01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:05,400 we just choked the game away. How the Knicks have trouble 1278 01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:08,000 recovering from games like that in playoffs past. 1279 01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:12,320 So for them to get over that hump and just respond with two 1280 01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:15,880 just blowouts makes me think that this team truly is 1281 01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:18,320 different. I love it has a path, you know, 1282 01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:21,480 clear path to the finals, all that, this, that and the other. 1283 01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:23,840 So yes, my confidence is is very high. 1284 01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:26,240 And I think the Knicks are going to, you know, weigh the lumber 1285 01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:28,280 down again tonight at the at the Garden. 1286 01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:30,360 Vibes obviously can be through the roof. 1287 01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:33,880 And I can't wait to watch it. But CTV baby, let's go next. 1288 01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:35,920 Good call, Benny. Awesome. 1289 01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:37,560 Enjoy the game tonight. Fantastic. 1290 01:01:37,560 --> 01:01:40,080 So listen, I think the Knicks going to win tonight. 1291 01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:42,800 I did notice. I remember saying yes 6. 1292 01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:44,880 I looked it up during the show. I wasn't sure but the Knicks 1293 01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:47,400 were 6 1/2 point favorites. Not that this means anything, 1294 01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:49,480 but it's maybe indicative of something. 1295 01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:52,200 Knicks were 6 1/2 point favorites yesterday. 1296 01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:54,800 It's been bet up to 7 1/2. I don't know if you get late 1297 01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:57,120 money the other way. I think if anything you get late 1298 01:01:57,120 --> 01:01:59,000 money on the Knicks, maybe bump it up to 8. 1299 01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:04,160 I mean a point, excuse me, a point and a half rise in a day 1300 01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:07,880 and 1/2 is pretty big for a semi final game. 1301 01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:12,440 But I think that I think the Knicks are in a fantastic spot. 1302 01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:14,600 And you know, before I even get into some of the analysis here, 1303 01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:22,680 prayers to Nick Nurse. I mean, the guy buried his 1304 01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:24,040 brother. Yes, I know that many of you 1305 01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:26,000 know the story. Nick Nurse, of course, the the 1306 01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:28,360 coach of the Sixers won a championship with the Raptors. 1307 01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:31,080 Good coach. Just been dealing with a lot of 1308 01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:33,280 stuff there. And I know he left the team. 1309 01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:35,480 They believe he's going to be back for the game. 1310 01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:37,960 Just horrible. So it it, you know, when you 1311 01:02:37,960 --> 01:02:40,920 look at it on a human level that it does ZAP away, you know, a 1312 01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:44,360 little bit of the like, you know, screw you, Philly, because 1313 01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:46,760 that is just that that's unspeakable. 1314 01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:49,800 I don't know how old his brother was, but Nick is not not an old 1315 01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:52,440 man at all. And so I would imagine it was it 1316 01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:56,200 was definitely tragic, at least some element of tragedy there. 1317 01:02:56,200 --> 01:02:57,840 So hopefully, you know, prayers up to Nick nurse. 1318 01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:00,800 I don't really know what else to say, but just prayers to him and 1319 01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:03,560 prayers to his family. I want to make sure I said that. 1320 01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:07,880 All right, so you've got Joel Embiid. 1321 01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:09,760 I mean, I am, I am just hunting him. 1322 01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:12,840 He is on my radar scope the moment I come out for the layup 1323 01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:16,600 line, I am going at him from the opening tip like they did the 1324 01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:18,480 other night. And I'm going to let him prove, 1325 01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:20,360 by the way, he's probable. So he's already a little bit 1326 01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:22,080 jacked. He's going to play, but he is on 1327 01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:24,600 the injury report. He's already diminished 1328 01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:27,560 physically. He's got a hip contusion. 1329 01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:30,760 He had the the appendectomy surgery and you know, Bridges 1330 01:03:30,760 --> 01:03:32,520 gave him a little pot, a little shot there. 1331 01:03:33,320 --> 01:03:34,760 Play with basketball is what it is. 1332 01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:38,960 You were dirty with me tough. And now he's got a bum ankle. 1333 01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:42,680 Oh, well, things happen. So I got a great stat for you. 1334 01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:45,040 And I gave this to J Rob before the show. 1335 01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:50,840 So in game one, the Knicks put Joel Embiid in 27 ball screen 1336 01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:54,880 situations. All right, Of the 27 times he 1337 01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:59,800 had the fifth worst result in his career in which he's been 1338 01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:05,360 targeted 25 times or more in those screen situations, you 1339 01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:08,000 know you're going to drop off. Here's Brunson floater. 1340 01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:10,760 Here's Brunson, pull up. I'm going to go buy you whatever 1341 01:04:10,760 --> 01:04:12,160 we're going to do. Are you going to come up on me a 1342 01:04:12,160 --> 01:04:13,400 little bit? You can try to do something 1343 01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:15,200 different. Bang, there's OG in the corner. 1344 01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:18,040 Boom, there's Bridges. Oh, yeah, by the way, there's 1345 01:04:18,040 --> 01:04:19,880 Cat. Now, hopefully Cat doesn't pick 1346 01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:21,320 up the two fouls like it did early. 1347 01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:26,440 I'm very curious to see what Mike Brown does. 1348 01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:28,120 I don't know if he's going to have to make an adjustment 1349 01:04:28,120 --> 01:04:29,760 because I think the adjustment was already made. 1350 01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:32,440 It will be different if Cat doesn't have foul issues. 1351 01:04:32,440 --> 01:04:35,240 You put Cat back out there and just play Cat 3839 minutes if 1352 01:04:35,240 --> 01:04:38,120 you have to, to go up a commanding 2O lead at that 1353 01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:40,240 point. But with the two fouls with the 1354 01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:44,560 Cat and then Mitch had fouls and then the first two possessions 1355 01:04:44,560 --> 01:04:48,520 that Mitch was in, it was hack a Mitch and it was Clank miss and 1356 01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:51,320 then it was Brick Clank O for 4M. 1357 01:04:51,320 --> 01:04:52,880 Brown's like enough of this hot 40. 1358 01:04:52,880 --> 01:04:56,720 Let's go now if again, if cat doesn't have those two fouls, 1359 01:04:56,720 --> 01:04:59,120 it's it's it's a different you're gonna you're gonna you're 1360 01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:00,920 gonna hit that differently that situation. 1361 01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:03,560 But if I'm if I'm Nick nervous, I'm gonna keep doing that. 1362 01:05:04,160 --> 01:05:08,720 It in theory, it should stagnate the Knicks offense like it just 1363 01:05:08,720 --> 01:05:13,400 becomes very not disjointed, but it lacks flow with the constant 1364 01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:15,600 stoppages, the balls out of Jalen Brunson's hand. 1365 01:05:15,600 --> 01:05:18,120 That's obvious stuff. Now the one thing I would expect 1366 01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:21,520 the Sixers to be a lot better at this aspect of the game Philly 1367 01:05:21,520 --> 01:05:26,440 was they what was the number? They were 8th, 8th fewest 1368 01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:28,280 turnovers in the NBA this season. 1369 01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:30,160 I mean, that's that's a really low number. 1370 01:05:30,360 --> 01:05:32,360 Your top ten, that's great. You protect the ball. 1371 01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:35,920 And the other game, game one, they had 25 points allowed off 1372 01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:38,960 turnovers. I think they had 19 turnovers 1373 01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:42,840 either inordinately high for them and 25 points off turnovers 1374 01:05:43,040 --> 01:05:45,200 for any NBA team, especially in the playoffs. 1375 01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:50,160 You're not winning, all right now, you know, the fact that the 1376 01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:53,480 Knicks were able to navigate some things, like you see the 1377 01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:55,600 final score, like if you didn't watch the every second of the 1378 01:05:55,600 --> 01:05:59,560 game like most of us did, but if you weren't able to, you jump in 1379 01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:01,640 when the Knicks are up and they're playing downhill and 1380 01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:04,160 then they, you know, up by 30 and then they just annihilate 1381 01:06:04,160 --> 01:06:05,280 them when it's all said and done. 1382 01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:10,680 You know, there were points in that game if if shots were 1383 01:06:10,680 --> 01:06:13,480 dropping, whether it's Edgecomb, whether it's Maxi who cannot hit 1384 01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:16,720 a bucket early, whether it's Embiid was one for six and he 1385 01:06:16,720 --> 01:06:18,000 was making his money at the strike. 1386 01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:20,760 You know, one for six from the field and then early on 6 for 1387 01:06:20,760 --> 01:06:25,120 six from the free throw line. You know, it it it could have a 1388 01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:27,000 very different presentation tonight. 1389 01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:29,760 You know, Jalen Brunson got red hot, fired off 11 straight 1390 01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:32,400 points. He had, I think it was 16, you 1391 01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:34,800 know, quick. And then there was, you know, in 1392 01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:36,720 terms of him scoring, there was a drop off. 1393 01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:38,800 He didn't need to. And then he comes in and he 1394 01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:41,120 drops 11 within a couple of minutes and he finishes. 1395 01:06:41,120 --> 01:06:42,680 I think he had 27 in the first half. 1396 01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:45,720 So I I think that every game is going to be different. 1397 01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:50,040 Obviously, you know, I mean, does the urgency remain there 1398 01:06:50,040 --> 01:06:52,600 for the Knicks? That I believe will be non 1399 01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:54,080 negotiable. I think the Knicks are so 1400 01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:57,960 connected and so locked in. Like, I'm not worried about the 1401 01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:02,160 Knicks suddenly reverting back to what worried me at points of 1402 01:07:02,160 --> 01:07:04,840 the season. Little soft, little sloppy 1403 01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:07,240 little ball dominant Jaylen Brunson. 1404 01:07:07,520 --> 01:07:10,720 I think it's very clear that the Knicks know how they want how 1405 01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:13,360 they want to play. I think it's very apparent that 1406 01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:18,240 the Knicks have found the way to get to their optimal level, and 1407 01:07:18,240 --> 01:07:21,000 not just by Brunson dropping 40, even though he almost did the 1408 01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:22,120 other night. He didn't have to because he 1409 01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:24,920 didn't have to play as much. But they have found the way to 1410 01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:28,800 maximize everybody's strengths. And listen, it's pro sports and 1411 01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:31,120 the other teams got good players, But so it's not going 1412 01:07:31,120 --> 01:07:33,320 to be a, you know, you're not going to win by 25 every night 1413 01:07:33,320 --> 01:07:35,880 and sweep them, I don't think, although the way they look now, 1414 01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:40,160 maybe they will. But that is all attributable to 1415 01:07:40,240 --> 01:07:42,520 outstanding adjustments by Mike Brown. 1416 01:07:43,240 --> 01:07:44,840 That's why I gave Mike Brown a ton of credit. 1417 01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:47,200 You know, even just putting Hot Porty in there. 1418 01:07:47,200 --> 01:07:50,200 Just Mitch can't can't, I can't. We can't have this. 1419 01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:52,560 Sit down. You're at 38%. 1420 01:07:52,960 --> 01:07:55,920 You know, I, I no, we're not getting points. 1421 01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:58,120 We're not getting possessions. We're stagnating the game 1422 01:07:58,520 --> 01:07:59,960 enough. And Hot Porty did a pretty 1423 01:07:59,960 --> 01:08:02,280 decent job and Alvarado was great. 1424 01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:04,440 You know what I think is going to be very interesting? 1425 01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:07,760 Well, there were two things that were said yesterday, Ubre. 1426 01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:09,960 And he didn't seem to be smiling. 1427 01:08:10,080 --> 01:08:12,320 So this will be interesting. You know, he was asked like, 1428 01:08:12,320 --> 01:08:13,960 yeah. What's it like defending Jaylen 1429 01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:16,680 Brunson? And I don't know, I don't think 1430 01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:18,920 I don't think that they're boys. I mean, they didn't go to the 1431 01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:21,760 same college. I I I don't I don't know their 1432 01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:26,160 relationship, but it didn't seem like ubery, ubery, Kelly ubery 1433 01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:27,840 that what whatever. I can't even say his name. 1434 01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:29,720 I got I got the Linux on my whatever. 1435 01:08:29,720 --> 01:08:32,160 Kelly Ubery his name and he's a good player. 1436 01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:34,479 I respect him, but I don't think he was joking around. 1437 01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:39,000 He's like he's got a big head. So when you when you try to lean 1438 01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:41,840 in on him, you know, you got to bang heads, that's a problem. 1439 01:08:41,840 --> 01:08:44,359 Then he talked about the braids, which which I can actually see 1440 01:08:44,359 --> 01:08:46,479 to an extent. You know, his haircut, the way 1441 01:08:46,479 --> 01:08:48,960 he wears his hair. If I'm up on somebody and I'm 1442 01:08:48,960 --> 01:08:51,479 I'm in their grill and those things are flopping around, you 1443 01:08:51,479 --> 01:08:52,960 know, you kind of swat and flies. 1444 01:08:52,960 --> 01:08:55,960 You try to visually it's a distraction and and could be a 1445 01:08:55,960 --> 01:08:57,920 deterrent. So it was an interesting take 1446 01:08:57,920 --> 01:09:00,319 that I never really thought of, but it didn't seem like he was 1447 01:09:00,319 --> 01:09:02,319 joking. So all right, kind of and he's 1448 01:09:02,319 --> 01:09:05,240 the kind of guy that if there's a little dust up tonight, a 1449 01:09:05,240 --> 01:09:08,319 little scrap, I can see Kelly Ubrey being in the middle of it. 1450 01:09:08,319 --> 01:09:12,439 Now the other thing that was said was by Jolene B and he was 1451 01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:15,600 asked if he thought that Mikhail Bridges is shot to the stomach 1452 01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:19,200 was dirty. Now I do and I got no problem 1453 01:09:19,200 --> 01:09:21,640 with it because that's the same dude who was dirty with Mitch 1454 01:09:21,640 --> 01:09:23,399 and we know the story. So tough. 1455 01:09:23,399 --> 01:09:25,720 I mean, if you want to be that guy and you want to be dirty and 1456 01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:27,800 you want to be on the floor, then you want to grab at 1457 01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:29,920 somebody's ankle that you know was already jacked up. 1458 01:09:29,920 --> 01:09:32,680 I'm sorry, but when I were skinny, small forward plants, a 1459 01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:34,960 forearm in your stomach. I don't care that you had 1460 01:09:34,960 --> 01:09:37,000 appendectomy surgery. I couldn't care less. 1461 01:09:37,160 --> 01:09:39,760 That's on you. That is a you thing, not us. 1462 01:09:40,279 --> 01:09:43,040 That's the way you got to play with a championship and I love 1463 01:09:43,040 --> 01:09:44,840 it. I absolutely love that he did 1464 01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:49,359 that, but M beads response was and it was pretty measured 1465 01:09:49,359 --> 01:09:52,560 because he knows he plays dirty. He knows he flops, he knows and 1466 01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:54,320 he's a hell of a player when he's healthy. 1467 01:09:54,400 --> 01:09:57,920 But the back part of that, he did say, I don't know if it was 1468 01:09:57,920 --> 01:09:59,240 dirty. So I want to be fair to Embiid. 1469 01:09:59,240 --> 01:10:02,560 He didn't say it definitely was. I'll say it for him it was, but 1470 01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:06,000 that's OK. But then he said, hey, listen, I 1471 01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:07,640 guess we're just going to have to do what we have to do or, you 1472 01:10:07,640 --> 01:10:09,080 know, we're going to have to play the same way. 1473 01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:13,440 Something like that. OK, OK, let's see who. 1474 01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:16,040 Let's see who delivers the first hard foul. 1475 01:10:16,480 --> 01:10:20,440 And I'll tell you what, if the Knicks are really as serious as 1476 01:10:20,440 --> 01:10:23,880 I think that they are, if I'm the Knicks, I'm the one who's 1477 01:10:23,880 --> 01:10:27,000 coming out and dropping that first hammer because let them 1478 01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:30,720 catch them retaliating. If they do something, you know 1479 01:10:30,720 --> 01:10:32,080 the refs are going to be on heightened alert. 1480 01:10:32,080 --> 01:10:35,440 This is the way it works, right? They go back and they look at 1481 01:10:35,720 --> 01:10:38,440 whether it's foul shots, if there was a massive discrepancy 1482 01:10:38,440 --> 01:10:41,160 one way or the other and there was and Nick's didn't need it, 1483 01:10:41,160 --> 01:10:43,800 but there was. And I'm not talking about this 1484 01:10:43,800 --> 01:10:45,880 year's in general. They will go, but they got to 1485 01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:47,960 follow their game report. The league will weigh in. 1486 01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:49,400 Hey, you missed that, You missed this. 1487 01:10:49,680 --> 01:10:52,880 Hey, these guys have a history. Watch this, You know, have a 1488 01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:55,320 tight whistle early between those dudes so it doesn't get 1489 01:10:55,320 --> 01:10:56,560 out of hand. They want to have a fight, 1490 01:10:56,560 --> 01:10:58,160 right? That's just the way the NBA 1491 01:10:58,160 --> 01:11:00,960 works. So the NBA will be on guard with 1492 01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:03,560 anything slightly below board early. 1493 01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:06,640 Why wouldn't why wouldn't you be the first one to do it? 1494 01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:08,400 I I don't mean that you crack somebody in the face. 1495 01:11:08,400 --> 01:11:11,040 I'm not talking about that, but somebody's rolling through on a 1496 01:11:11,040 --> 01:11:13,240 screen stick that shoulder out catch him in the jaw. 1497 01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:19,080 So what do it do it, you know, because what's going to happen? 1498 01:11:19,440 --> 01:11:23,440 The sixer will respond and they will get pinched. 1499 01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:25,720 Advantage, Nicks advantage twofold. 1500 01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:29,280 Nick sent the first shot, which is also a message, and now 1501 01:11:29,280 --> 01:11:32,080 Philly has been whistled for the retaliation. 1502 01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:33,320 Now, it could be a double foul thing. 1503 01:11:33,320 --> 01:11:37,040 I get that it might not work out exactly like that, but I'm not 1504 01:11:37,040 --> 01:11:40,280 taking the chance. And again, understand, I am 1505 01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:45,240 making a clear and obvious distinction between being dirty. 1506 01:11:45,480 --> 01:11:47,680 I'm not saying you take somebody heads off with somebody's head 1507 01:11:47,680 --> 01:11:51,000 off like Kurt Rambis when he got fouled on the layup years ago 1508 01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:53,360 with the Celtics and the Lakers. You know, I'm not saying you do 1509 01:11:53,360 --> 01:11:54,840 what Jr. Reed when the refs aren't 1510 01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:56,720 looking, you smoke somebody in the no, we're not. 1511 01:11:56,720 --> 01:12:00,680 I don't mean that you play basketball, but you push it as 1512 01:12:00,680 --> 01:12:04,480 far as you can and if they catch you a little bit, that's fine. 1513 01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:06,800 You know, just make sure it's not a flagrant too where you 1514 01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:08,720 getting bounced, but do it early. 1515 01:12:08,920 --> 01:12:10,480 All right, next call. What do we got there, Jay? 1516 01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:15,960 Got our buddy Frank in Monroe. Frankie up in Monroe Unleashed. 1517 01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:18,080 What's up, Frankie? Good morning, Brandon. 1518 01:12:18,080 --> 01:12:19,400 How are you? I'm good. 1519 01:12:19,480 --> 01:12:21,840 And what's happening? And JB, thank you for your 1520 01:12:21,840 --> 01:12:23,520 patience, man. I'm terrible. 1521 01:12:23,520 --> 01:12:27,760 I'm at the get off my lawn stage of my life, so doing things on 1522 01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:31,440 the phone and the computer makes my fucking brain bleed anyway. 1523 01:12:31,440 --> 01:12:34,160 But Frank, hold on, hold on. J Rod walked you through. 1524 01:12:34,200 --> 01:12:36,760 He made sure you were OK. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 1525 01:12:36,760 --> 01:12:40,640 boy right there. Listen, you know, I would like 1526 01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:44,520 to invite our listeners to go to Wikipedia and look up Sterling's 1527 01:12:44,520 --> 01:12:49,320 resume, his body of work, and then tell me why he didn't win a 1528 01:12:49,320 --> 01:12:51,720 Ford Fricker. He's not in the Hall of Fame. 1529 01:12:52,160 --> 01:12:55,600 Unbelievable. Joke Frank, I think I'm going to 1530 01:12:55,600 --> 01:12:57,040 I'm going to give you time to talk, I promise. 1531 01:12:57,040 --> 01:13:01,120 But I did this yesterday and it bothers me so much. 1532 01:13:01,120 --> 01:13:03,000 If you guys missed it, it's an individual. 1533 01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:04,840 We started to individualize the segment. 1534 01:13:04,840 --> 01:13:06,680 So what you're looking, if you're not watching the live, 1535 01:13:06,840 --> 01:13:09,800 what you're looking for is there just that it's about 9 minutes 1536 01:13:09,800 --> 01:13:12,680 and, and I went deep on it and it, it's really unfair. 1537 01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:14,720 And it's not just John Sterling, it's others. 1538 01:13:14,720 --> 01:13:17,600 Like he's 87. He didn't, God forbid, drop dead 1539 01:13:17,600 --> 01:13:21,000 of a heart attack at the age of 64, which is incredibly young. 1540 01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:22,800 He's 8. He's almost 90 years old. 1541 01:13:22,840 --> 01:13:27,360 I mean, I mean, to be a finalist for five, to win 5 championships 1542 01:13:27,680 --> 01:13:30,600 and had the final out, to have the final out for seven pennants 1543 01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:33,320 to call. Joe Torre's first win, his last 1544 01:13:33,320 --> 01:13:37,400 one, Jeter's first at bat, his last one, Matty Lee's only world 1545 01:13:37,560 --> 01:13:39,440 playoff appearances. What are we doing? 1546 01:13:39,440 --> 01:13:40,640 And. And Brandon? 1547 01:13:40,640 --> 01:13:42,320 Egregious missed by the Hall of Fame. 1548 01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:47,040 Everything he did before he got to the Yankees was unbelievable. 1549 01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:49,800 Yeah, but that does go over. Yeah, but but Frank, I I get it. 1550 01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:53,000 I the Hawks, I understand the Braves. 1551 01:13:53,040 --> 01:13:54,600 Well, the Braves came true, true. 1552 01:13:55,160 --> 01:13:58,200 The the Islanders, The Nets. But that's not the Baseball Hall 1553 01:13:58,240 --> 01:13:59,760 of Fames, you know. No, no, no, no. 1554 01:13:59,880 --> 01:14:01,440 But. But it's a Ford Frick. 1555 01:14:01,440 --> 01:14:04,520 No, it's radio. I thought, I thought Ford Frick 1556 01:14:04,520 --> 01:14:05,720 was just for baseball. I could. 1557 01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:07,680 Be wrong, OK, I'm pretty sure it's just baseball. 1558 01:14:08,360 --> 01:14:11,320 OK, OK. And then the other thing is I'm 1559 01:14:11,320 --> 01:14:13,760 the guy that called. I lived out in Vegas for 10 1560 01:14:13,760 --> 01:14:14,840 years. So yeah, yeah, yeah. 1561 01:14:15,120 --> 01:14:18,840 When I when I got there in O seven, the first couple of the 1562 01:14:18,840 --> 01:14:21,680 years that I was there that the affiliate played the Yankee 1563 01:14:21,680 --> 01:14:24,400 games on Saturday and Sunday. Right. 1564 01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:28,760 So it was great while I was driving around town or, or you 1565 01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:32,200 know, I had John Sterling and Susan on Saturday and Sunday. 1566 01:14:32,200 --> 01:14:35,480 It was like having my mother's Rigatoni and meatballs on 1567 01:14:35,480 --> 01:14:38,360 Sunday, being so far away from home, right? 1568 01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:41,240 It was like my little my little piece of home. 1569 01:14:41,560 --> 01:14:46,720 Yeah, my mom ate some meatballs ads and by. 1570 01:14:47,240 --> 01:14:49,640 The way aren't you out there when when they did that on 1571 01:14:49,640 --> 01:14:51,960 Saturday and Sunday weren't didn't you live out there? 1572 01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:56,240 Living in Las Vegas, I moved out there in well, I'll tell you 1573 01:14:56,240 --> 01:14:58,960 exactly. I I moved out there in 99. 1574 01:14:59,280 --> 01:15:01,960 Like, literally. December 15th, I had to actually 1575 01:15:01,960 --> 01:15:05,080 get out there. I had to agree to these terms. 1576 01:15:05,080 --> 01:15:06,720 And I'm like, yeah, I'm, I'm going anywhere to get on the 1577 01:15:06,720 --> 01:15:10,200 radio, to get on a bigger St. And I drove from Brooklyn all 1578 01:15:10,200 --> 01:15:12,040 the way to Las Vegas, and I stopped in. 1579 01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:13,480 Did that. Did that. 1580 01:15:13,520 --> 01:15:15,360 Drive 3 times. Oh my God. 1581 01:15:15,520 --> 01:15:19,000 I think it was Nashville, TN. I got a hotel down then in in 1582 01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:20,480 Texas. Oh, you went to. 1583 01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:21,600 You went 40. You. 1584 01:15:21,720 --> 01:15:23,680 You I. Went to Southern, Yeah, 'cause I 1585 01:15:23,760 --> 01:15:27,600 want to go through the Rockies, get hammered by the snow, you 1586 01:15:27,920 --> 01:15:30,680 know, And then I spent the night in Flagstaff, AZ Point. 1587 01:15:31,600 --> 01:15:35,120 I was out there for Y2K, so when, when that whole thing was 1588 01:15:35,120 --> 01:15:37,800 supposed to be a big deal. So that's how I was there. 99 1589 01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:42,160 until really 2000 and 2001, I don't remember. 1590 01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:45,400 I mean, I watched the Yankees because we had illegal cable on, 1591 01:15:45,440 --> 01:15:48,160 like my TV's with me and my roommates there, but. 1592 01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:50,400 And I was always betting games so I could get any game I wanted 1593 01:15:50,400 --> 01:15:53,280 at the casino. But no, I don't really. 1594 01:15:53,280 --> 01:15:55,400 I'd be lying if I said I remember listening to the 1595 01:15:55,440 --> 01:15:57,640 Yankees on the radio when I lived there. 1596 01:15:58,040 --> 01:16:03,360 I think it was the FAN affiliate for for O 7 and then probably 1597 01:16:03,360 --> 01:16:07,600 until 2010, then they stopped doing it, which was really 1598 01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:09,840 upsetting because it was like a piece of home. 1599 01:16:09,840 --> 01:16:13,360 I love having that on Saturday and Sunday was great, no 1600 01:16:13,440 --> 01:16:16,560 question. But anyway, that's my story, 1601 01:16:16,560 --> 01:16:18,360 dude. And, and, and just look up 1602 01:16:18,800 --> 01:16:21,080 Sterling's body of work. It's unbelievable. 1603 01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:23,200 I don't need to, I already know it, but no for the. 1604 01:16:23,200 --> 01:16:24,880 Listeners. I mean, for the listeners, 1605 01:16:24,960 --> 01:16:27,160 listeners, it's like unbelievable it that, you know, 1606 01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:31,920 it's it's crazy that he's not in the Hall of Fame all time 1607 01:16:31,920 --> 01:16:33,360 anyway. All right, thanks, Brandon. 1608 01:16:33,360 --> 01:16:35,560 I appreciate your time brother. My pleasure, Frank. 1609 01:16:35,560 --> 01:16:36,840 Good call. Thank you very much, buddy. 1610 01:16:36,840 --> 01:16:38,360 What do we got next? Who's up next, Jay? 1611 01:16:38,920 --> 01:16:42,080 We've got our man talking some Knicks, Benji. 1612 01:16:42,080 --> 01:16:44,240 Got to be Benji, a little Upper East Side action. 1613 01:16:44,240 --> 01:16:46,200 Benji, I know you're going tonight, buddy. 1614 01:16:46,360 --> 01:16:49,160 I know you're ready. Of course we're going 122 of the 1615 01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:51,880 last 144. What's it going to take to get 1616 01:16:51,880 --> 01:16:54,840 you out to the Knicks? Do the Knicks need to win by 95 1617 01:16:54,840 --> 01:16:57,880 points to get you? 1st, we need the formal invite. 1618 01:16:57,880 --> 01:16:59,680 You told me game one you were taking your wife. 1619 01:17:01,040 --> 01:17:04,520 I've got, you know, tonight. I've, I've got things, you know, 1620 01:17:04,520 --> 01:17:06,240 before my son's got a game tomorrow. 1621 01:17:06,240 --> 01:17:09,760 My daughter's got a game. Like I'm navigating a lot here 1622 01:17:09,760 --> 01:17:11,360 and I love it. But they're young ones. 1623 01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:13,160 So I, I don't want to miss anything, man. 1624 01:17:13,160 --> 01:17:16,200 I'm certainly not missing Nick playoff games on the TV, you 1625 01:17:16,200 --> 01:17:18,560 know, and I'd love to go to the Garden, although I got to tell 1626 01:17:18,560 --> 01:17:20,400 you, Benny. So maybe maybe the Eastern 1627 01:17:20,400 --> 01:17:22,480 Conference finals, if you're kind enough, I would take you up 1628 01:17:22,480 --> 01:17:24,960 on that. But this nonsense, that's just 1629 01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:27,600 the quick aside outside of the Garden. 1630 01:17:27,960 --> 01:17:31,120 It's getting dangerous, man. And all these cloud chasers with 1631 01:17:31,120 --> 01:17:32,880 the with the Instagram and the clicks. 1632 01:17:32,880 --> 01:17:37,320 Look at me, it is they they've got to start policing that area 1633 01:17:37,320 --> 01:17:39,000 more. And I'm all for having fun. 1634 01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:43,080 Trust me, I have been in the middle of some craziness after 1635 01:17:43,080 --> 01:17:47,040 Yankee World Series wins in the Bronx and draws. 1636 01:17:47,040 --> 01:17:48,920 I I've been young and I've been nuts. 1637 01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:52,680 But this is bordering on now a little dangerous here. 1638 01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:55,880 It really is. I'm with you, BT I'm, I'm 1639 01:17:55,880 --> 01:17:57,800 usually in and out of there. I'm a raving. 1640 01:17:57,840 --> 01:18:00,200 Don't get me wrong. I'm a raving lunatic within the 1641 01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:02,840 building. I am screaming like crazy. 1642 01:18:03,200 --> 01:18:06,480 But I'm, that's why I don't take my, my, my, my sons to the to 1643 01:18:06,480 --> 01:18:08,320 the games because it's just too vicious out there. 1644 01:18:08,320 --> 01:18:11,160 So I'm with you. Yeah, I'm with you. 1645 01:18:11,160 --> 01:18:13,040 I take them to regular season games but not playoff games. 1646 01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:15,360 Did you see the video and what I'm really referring to? 1647 01:18:15,360 --> 01:18:18,240 Did you see the video of the Sixer fan having the jersey 1648 01:18:18,240 --> 01:18:20,520 ripped off his off his back? Did you see that? 1649 01:18:20,680 --> 01:18:22,680 I did, yeah. It's it's it's getting, it's 1650 01:18:22,680 --> 01:18:24,320 getting ugly beyond it's. Disgraceful. 1651 01:18:24,640 --> 01:18:26,680 I mean, really, I don't care if you've been a Nick fan since 1652 01:18:26,680 --> 01:18:29,080 Bernard King. If you do that, number one, it's 1653 01:18:29,240 --> 01:18:32,640 it's borderline criminal intent and activity and you, you got to 1654 01:18:32,640 --> 01:18:33,960 look in the mirror. You've got to be a better 1655 01:18:33,960 --> 01:18:35,480 person. I don't care how much how many 1656 01:18:35,480 --> 01:18:38,160 gummies you took or how many vape hits you took or how many 1657 01:18:38,160 --> 01:18:41,280 surf sides or vodkas you drank. How about you police yourself a 1658 01:18:41,280 --> 01:18:43,960 little self restraint? What kind of animal are you? 1659 01:18:43,960 --> 01:18:45,000 Why? What are we doing? 1660 01:18:45,280 --> 01:18:49,120 You can now, even if the Sixer fan was walking out there, he's 1661 01:18:49,120 --> 01:18:50,920 like, oh, Nick suck. And like, even if he was the 1662 01:18:50,920 --> 01:18:53,760 antagonist, you don't put your hands on somebody. 1663 01:18:54,040 --> 01:18:58,000 It really is disgraceful. It's I wish that guy, I actually 1664 01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:02,160 wish that that guy was like a four tip black belt and he just 1665 01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:04,960 levelled 3 or 4 people. You just don't do that to 1666 01:19:05,040 --> 01:19:07,880 somebody. I'm totally with you. 1667 01:19:07,880 --> 01:19:10,560 You know, I'll yell at people just in the spirit of the game, 1668 01:19:10,560 --> 01:19:13,680 like Sixers fans, like hit the road, like get out of here. 1669 01:19:13,680 --> 01:19:14,640 You know, that's everything. But. 1670 01:19:14,800 --> 01:19:17,520 But yeah, when you, when you're taking to, to, to to grabbing 1671 01:19:17,520 --> 01:19:20,200 somebody or any violence, of course, inexcusable, not 1672 01:19:20,200 --> 01:19:23,440 acceptable. As far as the game tonight, you 1673 01:19:23,440 --> 01:19:26,760 know, I'm feeling great, but part of me just has to expect 1674 01:19:26,760 --> 01:19:28,960 that the Sixers are going to play better cause 'cause Maxi 1675 01:19:28,960 --> 01:19:30,840 had about as bad a game as he could have had. 1676 01:19:31,640 --> 01:19:35,840 B looked like, you know, he was his foot was dipped in in, in 1677 01:19:35,840 --> 01:19:37,920 quicksand. But I I don't think. 1678 01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:40,800 That part's going to change. He's really hobbled. 1679 01:19:41,720 --> 01:19:43,720 I love it. I relish it as well. 1680 01:19:44,200 --> 01:19:47,360 What I said before I called on Monday, I said the two keys were 1681 01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:50,080 the foul trouble. What happened 5 minutes into the 1682 01:19:50,080 --> 01:19:52,720 game? Cat gets two OK, we were lucky 1683 01:19:52,760 --> 01:19:56,200 to avoid any issues with that. Cat played another terrific game 1684 01:19:56,200 --> 01:19:58,760 threading the needle. Great pass to Alvarado back door 1685 01:19:58,760 --> 01:19:59,560 on that one play. That's. 1686 01:19:59,720 --> 01:20:00,960 Beautiful. Yeah, a little reverse layup 1687 01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:03,000 that was. Great, great pass to Mikhail for 1688 01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:05,760 a layup as well. And I mentioned the other thing 1689 01:20:05,760 --> 01:20:08,280 I said, the Sixers bench is horrifically bad. 1690 01:20:09,280 --> 01:20:12,480 Quentin Grimes is an absolute embarrassment. 1691 01:20:12,800 --> 01:20:15,560 His pump shaking. He looks like he sees spazzing 1692 01:20:15,560 --> 01:20:16,840 on the floor. He's pathetic. 1693 01:20:18,080 --> 01:20:21,000 And Kelly Ubrey, you shouldn't be surprised at all. 1694 01:20:21,240 --> 01:20:24,600 I can't speak to his character. That's the tsunami, Poppy. 1695 01:20:24,600 --> 01:20:27,440 That guy's a joke. We we, we, we will. 1696 01:20:27,680 --> 01:20:30,400 We will discard these guys in four or five games. 1697 01:20:30,400 --> 01:20:32,600 BT I'm not worried about it at all. 1698 01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:35,600 Let's trounce him again, send another message. 1699 01:20:35,640 --> 01:20:38,360 I love all the positive attention and it's like been 1700 01:20:38,360 --> 01:20:41,360 basically been 10 days of non-stop praise of the Knicks. 1701 01:20:41,600 --> 01:20:45,440 They've earned it. This this has been well plus 135 1702 01:20:45,440 --> 01:20:47,600 over the last four games. We're doing stuff that no other 1703 01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:51,520 teams have done. I know, same game plan OG. 1704 01:20:51,960 --> 01:20:55,600 My last point OG this might this might be the best I I don't 1705 01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:59,600 think I've seen a Knick play better in a in a playoff stretch 1706 01:20:59,600 --> 01:21:03,920 than I've seen with OG shooting. 63% from the field, about 60% 1707 01:21:03,920 --> 01:21:06,360 from three. He's averaging 21 and eight. 1708 01:21:06,560 --> 01:21:09,200 He's been absolutely, breathtakingly good. 1709 01:21:09,200 --> 01:21:12,920 The same goes for Cat, who's basically reinvented himself as 1710 01:21:12,920 --> 01:21:15,360 another version of Jokic but a better shooter. 1711 01:21:15,600 --> 01:21:17,600 It's incredible. It's a good way to look at that. 1712 01:21:17,960 --> 01:21:19,320 That's an interesting way to look at it. 1713 01:21:19,680 --> 01:21:21,520 Little Jokic to his game. And you know, even though we can 1714 01:21:21,520 --> 01:21:24,120 always shoot with Minnesota, you're hitting three. 1715 01:21:24,120 --> 01:21:25,840 He's good foul shooter. Yeah. 1716 01:21:25,840 --> 01:21:28,120 I mean, he is. He is morphed and he's expanded 1717 01:21:28,120 --> 01:21:30,480 his game and it's made a more dangerous and by extension, it's 1718 01:21:30,480 --> 01:21:32,360 made the Knicks a lot more dangerous and a lot less 1719 01:21:32,360 --> 01:21:34,840 predictable. That is a massive win for the 1720 01:21:34,840 --> 01:21:36,320 Knicks. Everybody bought in. 1721 01:21:36,520 --> 01:21:39,920 Mike Brown had some some subsets to the way that he initially 1722 01:21:39,920 --> 01:21:42,240 wanted to play. It took a little while for guys 1723 01:21:42,240 --> 01:21:45,200 to figure out their role. Bronson had to at least change 1724 01:21:45,200 --> 01:21:47,160 things a little bit. Massive credit for just not 1725 01:21:47,160 --> 01:21:49,640 pounding the rock. And everybody stepped up. 1726 01:21:49,640 --> 01:21:53,040 And it just seems like a team. I mean not only see they look 1727 01:21:53,080 --> 01:21:56,960 like a team that is is ready to go on a championship run and a 1728 01:21:56,960 --> 01:22:00,440 lot of twists and turns I'm sure coming, but I do not expect the 1729 01:22:00,440 --> 01:22:03,320 Sixers series to be one of them. So enjoy the game tonight bro. 1730 01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:05,400 Thanks. You got it. 1731 01:22:05,480 --> 01:22:08,120 All right, one more call. Who's up there? 1732 01:22:08,120 --> 01:22:11,480 What do you got there? We got our buddy Joe D from 1733 01:22:11,480 --> 01:22:14,320 Staten Island. Joe, What's going on, Joe? 1734 01:22:16,200 --> 01:22:18,840 Oh, Joe. Oh, not, not in tune. 1735 01:22:18,840 --> 01:22:22,280 But you might not even be there. You might just be in the living 1736 01:22:22,280 --> 01:22:24,160 room with the like. You might not be out of the 1737 01:22:24,160 --> 01:22:25,920 living room with just the TV on. I was. 1738 01:22:25,960 --> 01:22:27,640 Just chilling, all right? Anybody else or no? 1739 01:22:28,080 --> 01:22:30,520 No one right now, all right. We gotta wrap it up soon anyway 1740 01:22:30,520 --> 01:22:32,720 cuz we're gonna do Beningo. And wait, I've gotta say, did 1741 01:22:32,720 --> 01:22:35,800 you see, I know you know, you just, you know, did the Little 1742 01:22:35,920 --> 01:22:39,280 Mix thing on the fans outside. Did you see the video of Jr. 1743 01:22:39,280 --> 01:22:41,120 Smith as well? I did, yeah. 1744 01:22:41,120 --> 01:22:42,920 That's part of the yes, dude, yeah. 1745 01:22:43,440 --> 01:22:47,600 Trampling one of your own? Not legends, but come on, he's 1746 01:22:47,600 --> 01:22:49,120 pretty. Jr. 1747 01:22:49,200 --> 01:22:50,680 Is notable. Good dude, man. 1748 01:22:50,680 --> 01:22:51,520 I like Jr. Smith. 1749 01:22:51,520 --> 01:22:55,480 Great guy offer too. Yeah, I just the problem is even 1750 01:22:55,480 --> 01:23:01,480 if the intentions aren't evil, when you have that massive 1751 01:23:01,480 --> 01:23:05,480 humanity that hopped up on many different substances. 1752 01:23:05,840 --> 01:23:07,240 And I get it, you young have fun. 1753 01:23:08,960 --> 01:23:11,840 And then you have phones and you just have this uncontrolled 1754 01:23:11,840 --> 01:23:15,960 energy and you've got TV cameras and, and, and, and it's like an 1755 01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:19,600 it's, it's an invitation to step outside of your normal 1756 01:23:19,600 --> 01:23:22,080 behaviour. And it is. 1757 01:23:22,280 --> 01:23:24,720 It is dangerous. I mean, I mean, the phone is 1758 01:23:24,720 --> 01:23:27,200 definitely the biggest substance in all of it. 1759 01:23:27,200 --> 01:23:31,200 Just the the potential fame and glory you could get from going 1760 01:23:31,200 --> 01:23:34,920 viral at one of these Nicks. Like did you see the movie Marty 1761 01:23:34,920 --> 01:23:36,320 Supreme? No. 1762 01:23:36,640 --> 01:23:39,680 So one of the side characters, this is crazy. 1763 01:23:39,680 --> 01:23:44,320 He's a really big dude. He goes by Fatrick Ewing. 1764 01:23:44,720 --> 01:23:48,600 Winner at center at 7 feet from Georgetown #33 Co captain 1765 01:23:48,600 --> 01:23:51,200 Fatrick Ewing. Wait, let me find this guy. 1766 01:23:51,440 --> 01:23:54,960 He so he was exactly. What what they would say that is 1767 01:23:55,040 --> 01:23:58,960 word for word? So this guy, he was discovered 1768 01:23:59,080 --> 01:24:04,320 in one of those in one of those Nick's videos and he became like 1769 01:24:04,440 --> 01:24:07,880 the side character in one of those in like the movie Marty 1770 01:24:07,880 --> 01:24:08,920 Supreme. Are you serious? 1771 01:24:08,920 --> 01:24:10,440 One of those the lead characters. 1772 01:24:10,520 --> 01:24:12,480 Maybe, maybe people should still, you know, keep messing 1773 01:24:12,480 --> 01:24:13,600 around. Maybe you get your big break. 1774 01:24:14,080 --> 01:24:16,720 But that's, I guess there's just like, yeah, there's like a sense 1775 01:24:16,720 --> 01:24:19,120 of just glory chasing with it. I think. 1776 01:24:19,280 --> 01:24:21,760 I know. And it's really, you know, I 1777 01:24:21,760 --> 01:24:24,240 don't want to impugn the fandom of everybody out there because I 1778 01:24:24,240 --> 01:24:27,000 know that that's not the case. But it's really even hard to 1779 01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:29,480 just differentiate between who really is a Knick fan and who's 1780 01:24:29,480 --> 01:24:32,160 just trying to get some clicks. I don't. 1781 01:24:32,160 --> 01:24:35,360 Know. Let's see, Tiki just texted me 1782 01:24:35,360 --> 01:24:37,600 here. Oh, nice. 1783 01:24:37,600 --> 01:24:38,480 Tiki's going to. Come on. 1784 01:24:39,440 --> 01:24:40,400 Let's go. Absolutely. 1785 01:24:40,840 --> 01:24:41,640 Yeah. Hey, brother. 1786 01:24:41,640 --> 01:24:43,080 Absolutely. Let me know when you want to do 1787 01:24:43,080 --> 01:24:43,840 it. Yeah, he was. 1788 01:24:43,880 --> 01:24:48,680 I sent up a text I think yesterday and he was down with 1789 01:24:48,680 --> 01:24:52,240 his daughters who were great. They are like national. 1790 01:24:52,440 --> 01:24:54,320 I think that the name of their team is JBAI. 1791 01:24:54,320 --> 01:24:57,240 Remember when I was working with Teague, they were just starting 1792 01:24:57,720 --> 01:24:59,840 his daughter Brooklyn, right? She's the oldest and she's 1793 01:24:59,840 --> 01:25:02,960 great. Both girls are really good and 1794 01:25:02,960 --> 01:25:05,000 they they're like they traveled everywhere. 1795 01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:08,120 A lot of Orlando like Disney like these massive cheer. 1796 01:25:08,200 --> 01:25:10,360 Huts. And it's not like, oh, yeah, 1797 01:25:10,440 --> 01:25:11,520 yeah, yeah. I mean, it's like the 1798 01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:14,920 choreographed nature and the athletic ability of these young 1799 01:25:14,920 --> 01:25:18,600 ladies, these young, I think Brooklyn's probably now about 1800 01:25:18,600 --> 01:25:21,360 12. Oh no, wait. 1801 01:25:21,360 --> 01:25:22,120 Keep going. Keep going. 1802 01:25:22,120 --> 01:25:24,160 Yeah, no. Anyway, so he's, you know, he 1803 01:25:24,160 --> 01:25:25,800 just texted me and he's like, dude, sorry for not getting 1804 01:25:25,800 --> 01:25:26,880 back. He's like, I was travelling. 1805 01:25:26,880 --> 01:25:28,560 I'm like, yeah, so we'll get Tiki on. 1806 01:25:28,560 --> 01:25:30,200 We'll set that up for next week at some point. 1807 01:25:30,280 --> 01:25:33,040 A lot of giants just kind of catch up a little bit, get Tiki 1808 01:25:33,040 --> 01:25:34,360 on a leash. That's going to be awesome. 1809 01:25:34,360 --> 01:25:35,560 Looking forward to having My God I. 1810 01:25:35,680 --> 01:25:38,520 Didn't know. So I knew our buddy Benny 1811 01:25:38,680 --> 01:25:40,800 Planner. I knew he was in Uncut Gems. 1812 01:25:40,800 --> 01:25:42,200 He, you know, he, he's got a little. 1813 01:25:42,200 --> 01:25:44,560 That's great in that. That's one of my favorites. 1814 01:25:44,560 --> 01:25:46,200 I didn't know he was in Marty Supreme as well. 1815 01:25:46,440 --> 01:25:48,360 Sessa was in there. Really. 1816 01:25:48,360 --> 01:25:49,160 You. Don't you don't remember 1817 01:25:49,160 --> 01:25:51,840 Francesa? In, oh, in on good gems. 1818 01:25:52,200 --> 01:25:54,160 Yeah, yeah, of course. He was good there too. 1819 01:25:54,280 --> 01:25:56,440 He played super basically himself, you know? 1820 01:25:57,120 --> 01:25:59,440 Oh my God. Was he the yo? 1821 01:25:59,640 --> 01:26:01,960 He was. He was one of the gambler dudes, 1822 01:26:01,960 --> 01:26:03,120 right? Like he was one of the 1823 01:26:03,120 --> 01:26:04,880 auctioneers. Everything were at a restaurant. 1824 01:26:04,880 --> 01:26:06,560 Remember when Adam went into the restaurant? 1825 01:26:07,400 --> 01:26:10,000 Yes, Mike was good there. Mike's been in a lot of that 1826 01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:12,000 stuff, man. Wow, YouTube. 1827 01:26:12,360 --> 01:26:15,800 I've seen old commercials of Mike with Bill Parcells, like 1828 01:26:15,880 --> 01:26:17,960 steakhouse stuff. I mean, my goodness. 1829 01:26:18,240 --> 01:26:20,200 Yeah, it's Mike Princess. So that's that's what you're 1830 01:26:20,200 --> 01:26:21,400 going to get. That's the guy. 1831 01:26:21,400 --> 01:26:23,400 But no. So our our other guy was in that 1832 01:26:23,400 --> 01:26:24,880 movie. Yeah, Ben. 1833 01:26:24,880 --> 01:26:28,760 Benji Kleiner, our boy. Hey, listen, I was in a movie. 1834 01:26:28,760 --> 01:26:30,280 So you think I'm not that impressed here, man. 1835 01:26:30,280 --> 01:26:31,640 I was in a did you know that? I was in a movie? 1836 01:26:31,640 --> 01:26:33,120 Did You Know? That I still need to see it. 1837 01:26:33,120 --> 01:26:34,760 It's the baseball movie you got to see. 1838 01:26:34,760 --> 01:26:37,960 It dude, it's called Rally Caps. Rally Caps. 1839 01:26:38,040 --> 01:26:39,760 That's the name of the movie I'm checking. 1840 01:26:39,800 --> 01:26:41,920 That. Hey, you know, listen, you know 1841 01:26:41,920 --> 01:26:44,880 that I, I like to weave in some youth content, youth sports 1842 01:26:44,880 --> 01:26:48,160 content, right? If you are a parent, young kids, 1843 01:26:48,160 --> 01:26:50,600 totally clean, not a single curse. 1844 01:26:51,680 --> 01:26:54,960 Good soundtrack. Think of a mixture between like 1845 01:26:55,600 --> 01:27:01,640 Stand by Me and The Sandlot. Yo, a little bit of a hybrid 1846 01:27:01,640 --> 01:27:03,880 there. Yeah, it's it's I'm only in at 1847 01:27:03,880 --> 01:27:04,880 the end. I'm playing myself. 1848 01:27:04,880 --> 01:27:08,040 I'm announcing the big championship game with my guy. 1849 01:27:08,080 --> 01:27:10,440 I'm watching this right now. Oh it's great with Coach Ball 1850 01:27:10,440 --> 01:27:13,440 Game who's massive on. The Oh yeah, no, I know who he 1851 01:27:13,440 --> 01:27:14,560 is. Are you really comment on? 1852 01:27:14,600 --> 01:27:17,200 I mean, he comments on a lot of your posts, so I've just kind of 1853 01:27:17,240 --> 01:27:20,280 become tapped in. Yes, he's #1. 1854 01:27:20,560 --> 01:27:23,320 He's. He's so good with the youth 1855 01:27:23,320 --> 01:27:27,320 stuff and he played baseball at Brown Ivy League or brilliant, 1856 01:27:27,320 --> 01:27:29,720 great guy. And, and I remember when I 1857 01:27:29,720 --> 01:27:34,320 filmed the when I filmed the scenes, it was a Saturday and it 1858 01:27:34,320 --> 01:27:36,320 was at a camp up in up in New York. 1859 01:27:36,320 --> 01:27:39,040 So my nephew, who's the star of the movie, that's why they asked 1860 01:27:39,040 --> 01:27:42,680 me literally the the star of the movie. 1861 01:27:42,680 --> 01:27:45,800 His name is Carson, like a legitimate Hollywood actor and 1862 01:27:45,800 --> 01:27:47,080 more importantly, a great young man. 1863 01:27:47,080 --> 01:27:49,360 Like he still plays ball. He's not one of these Hollywood 1864 01:27:49,360 --> 01:27:51,960 kids, like very grounded. His parents do a great job. 1865 01:27:51,960 --> 01:27:53,240 His name is Carson. I'm going to get him on the 1866 01:27:53,240 --> 01:27:55,640 show. And he was in that He was in 1867 01:27:55,640 --> 01:27:59,440 Stranger Things. He was in some stuff with Justin 1868 01:27:59,440 --> 01:28:01,920 Timberlake. He Disney voice over like a 1869 01:28:01,920 --> 01:28:04,320 legitimately accomplished actor since. 1870 01:28:04,360 --> 01:28:06,160 He was just with my look alikes bro. 1871 01:28:06,160 --> 01:28:08,760 He's, he's out here with Stranger Things in JT, all 1872 01:28:08,760 --> 01:28:09,640 right. That's right. 1873 01:28:09,880 --> 01:28:14,480 So he was the star and and the the director and the producer of 1874 01:28:14,480 --> 01:28:19,400 the project is a upstate New York based director. 1875 01:28:20,440 --> 01:28:21,880 And he happened to be a fan of mine. 1876 01:28:22,000 --> 01:28:24,560 Like he was a fan of my work from when I was on 10:50 and 1877 01:28:24,560 --> 01:28:27,360 then obviously National. And when he found that, I don't 1878 01:28:27,360 --> 01:28:30,760 even know how it came up, but I think Carson went to shoot and 1879 01:28:31,400 --> 01:28:33,320 'cause he was, he was at this camp for like months, 'cause 1880 01:28:33,320 --> 01:28:34,880 they were, he literally was the star. 1881 01:28:34,880 --> 01:28:38,400 So he was shooting every day. And I think they just asked my 1882 01:28:38,400 --> 01:28:41,120 sister-in-law, hey, would you know, would BT be interested in 1883 01:28:41,120 --> 01:28:43,600 if I wrote in a role for him? I'm like, hell yeah, man. 1884 01:28:44,200 --> 01:28:47,120 And I probably made, I probably lost money, to be honest with 1885 01:28:47,120 --> 01:28:49,400 you, on gas. Like, I mean, I didn't make any 1886 01:28:49,400 --> 01:28:50,800 money. I was doing it just for my, my 1887 01:28:50,800 --> 01:28:53,280 nephew and for the family. My kids are in it. 1888 01:28:53,280 --> 01:28:56,880 They're they're little, they're so young, they're in the stands. 1889 01:28:56,880 --> 01:28:58,720 And my you could see like as well. 1890 01:28:59,920 --> 01:29:05,000 And I remember after driving back, racing back because I had 1891 01:29:05,000 --> 01:29:06,480 to go up. The kids were up there, but then 1892 01:29:06,480 --> 01:29:09,480 I had to go back another day and I'm racing from upstate New York 1893 01:29:09,480 --> 01:29:12,520 to get to I think it was our eight U playoff game in the fall 1894 01:29:12,520 --> 01:29:15,120 that I did not want to miss because I coach and it was so 1895 01:29:15,120 --> 01:29:17,760 much fun. And I remember when they put me 1896 01:29:17,760 --> 01:29:20,840 in coach ball game up there, there was no script. 1897 01:29:20,840 --> 01:29:23,640 They're like, listen here, here's the sequence. 1898 01:29:23,640 --> 01:29:25,680 You know, base hit left field, so and so scores. 1899 01:29:25,680 --> 01:29:29,320 So just write down the names and do whatever you guys want. 1900 01:29:29,640 --> 01:29:32,680 Riff, just go. And the cameras were rolling and 1901 01:29:32,680 --> 01:29:34,320 everything that we said literally every. 1902 01:29:34,320 --> 01:29:36,600 And it's a good 20 minute sequence. 1903 01:29:36,600 --> 01:29:39,480 Like I'm, I'm not just one word. Like he and I are really at the 1904 01:29:39,480 --> 01:29:42,440 end of it. And I mean, we're, you know, we 1905 01:29:42,440 --> 01:29:45,880 were riffing for hours and the way they edited and cut it, cut 1906 01:29:45,880 --> 01:29:49,000 it, they did a great job. So anyway, it's a good feel good 1907 01:29:49,000 --> 01:29:52,720 movie for kids, you know, for parents with your kids. 1908 01:29:53,000 --> 01:29:54,600 It's called Rally caps Check it out. 1909 01:29:54,640 --> 01:29:56,560 It's really it was a lot of fun. It was good. 1910 01:29:58,040 --> 01:30:00,360 You know, maybe the next movie I can actually make some money, 1911 01:30:00,360 --> 01:30:02,960 you know, enjoy the movie here, especially now. 1912 01:30:02,960 --> 01:30:04,480 But. Dude, I thought I mean I I've 1913 01:30:04,480 --> 01:30:09,360 had some crazy thoughts, but this is this is so mad. 1914 01:30:09,360 --> 01:30:14,640 I was like, imagine you did like a Curb Your Enthusiasm type show 1915 01:30:14,640 --> 01:30:18,040 or movie about doing a sports podcast. 1916 01:30:18,360 --> 01:30:22,280 Like I don't even know some something funny there. 1917 01:30:22,280 --> 01:30:23,800 Not you necessarily. Could be. 1918 01:30:24,040 --> 01:30:25,400 I guess it should. Be why not me? 1919 01:30:25,400 --> 01:30:26,480 What are you saying? I'm not funny it. 1920 01:30:27,120 --> 01:30:29,480 Should be you I guess in this scenario hey do. 1921 01:30:29,560 --> 01:30:33,200 Us a favor Jay hold on. I love the the mentality and 1922 01:30:33,200 --> 01:30:36,320 every forward thinker. Let's let's kind of conceal some 1923 01:30:36,320 --> 01:30:38,400 of these ideas, you know, because now they're out for the 1924 01:30:38,400 --> 01:30:40,600 whole world to steal them. Oh, yeah. 1925 01:30:40,600 --> 01:30:41,760 Wait, no, you're right. You're right. 1926 01:30:41,760 --> 01:30:44,520 I gotta get a patent on this. Well, it's too late. 1927 01:30:45,040 --> 01:30:47,880 These are things that that you and I got to discuss off the air 1928 01:30:47,880 --> 01:30:49,320 down the line. And, you know, then we could 1929 01:30:49,320 --> 01:30:51,240 maybe find a way to implement some different stuff. 1930 01:30:51,240 --> 01:30:52,560 You know what I mean? Great idea. 1931 01:30:52,560 --> 01:30:54,480 I love it. I love it. 1932 01:30:54,480 --> 01:30:56,800 Curb was awesome. I thought Curb was so much 1933 01:30:56,800 --> 01:31:01,800 better than my. #2 #2 all times. No no, Curb is my #2 show all. 1934 01:31:01,800 --> 01:31:02,840 Time. Well, I'm saying, what's number 1935 01:31:02,840 --> 01:31:03,480 one? Seinfeld. 1936 01:31:03,480 --> 01:31:04,480 Sopranos. Sopranos. 1937 01:31:04,480 --> 01:31:08,280 OK, OK, I bet you meant in the in the in the comedy genre. 1938 01:31:09,320 --> 01:31:14,040 So did you like Seinfeld? I'm a little split. 1939 01:31:14,040 --> 01:31:18,240 It's because I think it doesn't, it doesn't play as much into the 1940 01:31:18,240 --> 01:31:23,080 idea of like the jester and like the absolute clown that Curb 1941 01:31:23,080 --> 01:31:26,520 Your Enthusiasm does like it. It just doesn't have that huge 1942 01:31:26,520 --> 01:31:30,280 hero aspect that I think I really love about Curb. 1943 01:31:30,440 --> 01:31:33,480 Curb is I just think it's better, you know, and I mean, 1944 01:31:33,480 --> 01:31:36,040 listen, Jerry's a legend to me. I don't know. 1945 01:31:36,040 --> 01:31:39,120 I when it was like on, I don't know at what point of it's 1946 01:31:39,120 --> 01:31:40,400 running. I was still in college. 1947 01:31:40,400 --> 01:31:42,720 I was toward the end of college and like, everybody would sit 1948 01:31:42,720 --> 01:31:45,080 around and, you know, hammer back beers before we'd go out. 1949 01:31:45,080 --> 01:31:47,040 And I'm like, I'd rather watch friends. 1950 01:31:47,040 --> 01:31:50,040 I want to look at Rachel. I want to watch Rachel. 1951 01:31:50,280 --> 01:31:51,640 No. That's actually funny because 1952 01:31:52,400 --> 01:31:55,360 oh, I love it's super, you know, it's pretty corny. 1953 01:31:55,600 --> 01:31:58,040 I still think, oh, it's a little corny. 1954 01:31:58,040 --> 01:32:02,000 I mean, they kind of pioneered the laugh track sitcom thing. 1955 01:32:02,120 --> 01:32:05,400 No, I think 3's company kind of. Piped Oh, wait, OK, yeah, well, 1956 01:32:05,400 --> 01:32:07,600 you definitely, you definitely have that all. 1957 01:32:07,640 --> 01:32:09,040 Too young for that. That was really good. 1958 01:32:09,360 --> 01:32:11,520 I loved Friends. I listen, it's subjective, so I, 1959 01:32:11,520 --> 01:32:13,560 I hear you. I never thought Friends was 1960 01:32:13,560 --> 01:32:15,160 corny. I I just thought Friends was 1961 01:32:15,160 --> 01:32:16,680 really well written. I thought it was witty because 1962 01:32:16,680 --> 01:32:19,160 Ross was smart. Yes, very smart. 1963 01:32:19,160 --> 01:32:21,800 Joey was, you know, a clown in a good way. 1964 01:32:22,840 --> 01:32:25,000 You know, Rachel was just an absolute smoke show. 1965 01:32:25,480 --> 01:32:30,120 You know, they rolled in. You know, I'm a Burt, not Burt 1966 01:32:30,120 --> 01:32:34,280 Reynolds top top not what the hell TomTom Selleck think about 1967 01:32:34,280 --> 01:32:35,640 some of the guests they had on there. 1968 01:32:36,360 --> 01:32:38,000 I mean, just rolled in for a minute. 1969 01:32:38,000 --> 01:32:40,360 You know, Courtney Cox was I love the show. 1970 01:32:40,680 --> 01:32:42,120 So I mean, it's just it was awesome. 1971 01:32:42,120 --> 01:32:44,520 The coffee shop scenes. I love that it was fun. 1972 01:32:44,520 --> 01:32:48,800 If I see it now, I keep it on. You can't turn it off. 1973 01:32:48,800 --> 01:32:50,720 I don't turn it off. No, I don't. 1974 01:32:50,800 --> 01:32:53,400 No way. Because, yeah, like I that's, I 1975 01:32:53,400 --> 01:32:56,680 guess it is to me. It was like it is a kind of 1976 01:32:56,680 --> 01:32:59,040 corny show, at least to me. To me. 1977 01:32:59,200 --> 01:33:00,520 I got you. But. 1978 01:33:01,200 --> 01:33:03,360 It's. Very wholesome and like heart 1979 01:33:03,360 --> 01:33:07,120 warming and like kind of like slightly funny in a way that 1980 01:33:07,120 --> 01:33:09,720 like I've always enjoyed friends. 1981 01:33:09,880 --> 01:33:12,080 Oh, yeah, I think it's really witty. 1982 01:33:12,360 --> 01:33:16,320 And, and Chandler was, to me, what had some of the best, some 1983 01:33:16,320 --> 01:33:20,000 of rest in Peace, man, some of the best comedic timing of 1984 01:33:20,000 --> 01:33:22,040 anybody in the history of television. 1985 01:33:22,320 --> 01:33:26,200 Easily he, he. Was now I know he got very thin 1986 01:33:26,200 --> 01:33:29,560 and he was, he had his demons and kind of changed, but early, 1987 01:33:29,560 --> 01:33:33,120 early him and even when he was battling his demons, I mean his 1988 01:33:33,120 --> 01:33:36,560 timing was phenomenal. The way he delivered his line, 1989 01:33:36,560 --> 01:33:39,880 just witty, on point and he had the mannerisms too. 1990 01:33:40,800 --> 01:33:44,360 He was almost like the only guy who was like breaking the 4th 1991 01:33:44,360 --> 01:33:47,520 wall, like not fully breaking the 4th wall, but like he was 1992 01:33:47,520 --> 01:33:50,760 really his own character within the show like it was. 1993 01:33:50,880 --> 01:33:53,840 Just well, so was Joey. Joey Trippi, Come on. 1994 01:33:53,880 --> 01:33:55,880 How you doing? I remember when I was first 1995 01:33:55,880 --> 01:33:59,080 watching it, I was originally all about Courtney Cox. 1996 01:33:59,160 --> 01:34:02,120 She was my favorite. She's beautiful the first 1997 01:34:02,120 --> 01:34:05,000 season, and then Rachel comes back with the different hair, 1998 01:34:05,000 --> 01:34:07,040 with the highlights. I'm like, it's Rachel. 1999 01:34:07,040 --> 01:34:10,000 And it never stopped after that. It was Rachel forever and it 2000 01:34:10,000 --> 01:34:12,240 still is. All right, man, let me bounce. 2001 01:34:12,400 --> 01:34:16,920 We got Joe B coming up at 2:00 today, so that will be a 2002 01:34:16,920 --> 01:34:18,800 premiere on the channel. We'll cut this up. 2003 01:34:18,800 --> 01:34:21,040 J Rod's going to get a bunch of the stuff out, the Yankees, the 2004 01:34:21,040 --> 01:34:22,720 Knicks stuff, obviously different segments. 2005 01:34:22,720 --> 01:34:25,680 So if you guys are just jumping in now, you could watch what you 2006 01:34:25,680 --> 01:34:29,640 watch when you want to watch it. That was really not that I'm 2007 01:34:29,640 --> 01:34:31,760 surprised, but really good to hear back from Tiki. 2008 01:34:32,000 --> 01:34:34,080 So we will get Tiki on next week. 2009 01:34:34,080 --> 01:34:36,200 Welcome him to the family, welcome him to the show. 2010 01:34:36,480 --> 01:34:40,680 My old partner of Wow, jeez, 10 years on the network level and 2011 01:34:40,680 --> 01:34:44,360 about a year and a half or so on WFAN, maybe a little more than a 2012 01:34:44,400 --> 01:34:46,040 year and a half maybe about that. 2013 01:34:46,400 --> 01:34:50,520 So we'll have some fun with the Giants and he's adjusted really 2014 01:34:50,520 --> 01:34:51,880 well. And he'll tell you too. 2015 01:34:51,880 --> 01:34:54,600 Like when we started together, he didn't know baseball. 2016 01:34:54,600 --> 01:34:57,520 He didn't care about baseball. Knowing, you know, I know him 2017 01:34:57,680 --> 01:34:59,040 better. I know Evans got to know him 2018 01:34:59,040 --> 01:35:01,680 very well too, clearly. And Sean, I know Tiki better 2019 01:35:01,680 --> 01:35:03,640 than anybody in the building 'cause I was with him so long, 2020 01:35:03,640 --> 01:35:06,080 you know, and we both had kids at the same time. 2021 01:35:06,080 --> 01:35:08,800 Like you go through that with somebody in the same room, you 2022 01:35:08,800 --> 01:35:13,160 talk about everything and you know, he to see he's he's worked 2023 01:35:13,160 --> 01:35:16,920 really hard to, you know, to to to button up some of the 2024 01:35:16,920 --> 01:35:19,160 baseball holes that he had. Admittedly, like he says it. 2025 01:35:19,160 --> 01:35:21,920 I'm not talking at a school. And it doesn't surprise me 2026 01:35:21,920 --> 01:35:24,120 because he he really is one of the smartest people I know. 2027 01:35:24,400 --> 01:35:26,160 Like there's no fake intellect, no bullshit. 2028 01:35:26,160 --> 01:35:32,040 Tiki is as well read about a variety of topics as she's about 2029 01:35:32,040 --> 01:35:34,920 anybody that I know, maybe other than my sister, who is the 2030 01:35:34,920 --> 01:35:36,800 smartest person that I actually do know. 2031 01:35:36,800 --> 01:35:40,280 So Teak will be on next week. Aaron Boone will be on next week 2032 01:35:40,280 --> 01:35:44,040 today, Joe Beningo, like it, subscribe it, get it out there. 2033 01:35:44,280 --> 01:35:47,160 More traction, more. The algorithm says, Yep, we want 2034 01:35:47,160 --> 01:35:49,320 to get this out there. The better we do, the better we 2035 01:35:49,320 --> 01:35:53,200 do, the more we could do. So Jay, Rod, I will talk to you 2036 01:35:53,480 --> 01:35:55,560 in a little bit. Enjoy the Knick game tonight. 2037 01:35:55,800 --> 01:35:57,800 I don't think the neck, the Knicks stop them. 2038 01:35:57,840 --> 01:35:59,560 I'm going to say the Knicks, Knicks will win. 2039 01:35:59,840 --> 01:36:04,680 I'm going to say the Knicks win. I'm going to go 113 one O 5. 2040 01:36:04,840 --> 01:36:06,280 I think it's going to be a little bit tighter. 2041 01:36:06,280 --> 01:36:08,600 I think they pull away a little bit late, not necessarily at the 2042 01:36:08,600 --> 01:36:11,440 buzzer, but I think the Knicks win by about 8:00 or so, which 2043 01:36:11,440 --> 01:36:13,440 is interesting because the spread is up to 7 1/2. 2044 01:36:13,440 --> 01:36:15,080 I wouldn't even won't even factor in that. 2045 01:36:15,080 --> 01:36:17,760 But enjoy the Knicks, enjoy the Yanks, see what the Mets can do 2046 01:36:17,760 --> 01:36:19,880 in Colorado. And I will see you later with 2047 01:36:19,880 --> 01:36:32,160 Joe B Peace. This is on leash Are you 2048 01:36:32,160 --> 01:36:33,160 listening? Can you hear me? 2049 01:36:33,160 --> 01:36:34,400 Hear me? This is on leash. 2050 01:36:34,440 --> 01:36:35,720 Are you listening? Can you hear me? 2051 01:36:35,720 --> 01:36:37,160 Hear me? This is on leash Are you 2052 01:36:37,160 --> 01:36:38,160 listening? Can you hear me? 2053 01:36:38,200 --> 01:36:39,680 Hear me? This is on leash Are you 2054 01:36:39,680 --> 01:36:40,680 listening? Can you hear me?